{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_12118/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_12118","id":"gutenberg_12118","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12118","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"{115}\n\nThe American Missionary\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nVol. XLII. May, 1888. No. 5.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nCONTENTS\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n       FINANCIAL\n       PARAGRAPHS\n       THE VERNACULAR IN INDIAN SCHOOLS\n       THE TIME FACTOR IN THE SOUTHERN PROBLEM. By Rev. A.H.\n         Bradford, D.D.\n  THE SOUTH.\n       SOUTHERN TESTIMONY\n       OUR WORK AS A GRADUATE OF FISK UNIVERSITY SEES IT\n       A PASTOR'S FIRST VIEW\n       TALLADEGA FRUIT\n       THREE PICTURES FROM LE MOYNE SCHOOL\n       THE EVANGELIST AT WORK\n  THE CHINESE.\n       LETTER FROM REV. W.C. POND\n       FOUR MONTHS OF EVANGELISTIC WORK\n       CHIN GAING IN CHINA\n  BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n       SPARE OUR TEACHERS\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{116}\n\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nPRESIDENT,\n\n------ ------\n\n_Vice-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\n_Corresponding 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\n_Treasurer._\n\nH.W. HUBBARD, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.\n\n_Auditors._\n\nPETER MCCARTEE.\n\nCHAS. P. PEIRCE.\n\n_Executive Committee._\n\nJOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.\n\nADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary.\n\n_For Three Years._\n\nLYMAN ABBOTT,\n\nA.S. BARNES,[1]\n\nJ.R. DANFORTH,\n\nCLINTON B. FISK,\n\nADDISON P. FOSTER,\n\n_For Two Years._\n\nS.B. HALLIDAY,\n\nSAMUEL HOLMES,\n\nSAMUEL S. MARPLES,\n\nCHARLES L. MEAD,\n\nELBERT B. MONROE,\n\n_For One Year._\n\nJ.E. RANKIN,\n\nWM. H. WARD,\n\nJ.W. COOPER,\n\nJOHN H. WASHBURN,\n\nEDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.\n\n_District Secretaries._\n\nRev. C.J. RYDER, _21 Cong'l House, Boston._\n\nRev. J.E. ROY, D.D., 151 _Washington Street, Chicago_.\n\n_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._\n\nRev. CHAS. W. SHELTON,\n\n_Secretary of Woman's Work._\n\nMiss 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{117}\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\n                     Vol. XLII. May, 1888. No. 5.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\n American Missionary Association.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nSix months of our fiscal year have come to a close. It may be of\ninterest to our readers to know how our treasury compares with the\nsame period of time last year. During this half-year, there has been\nan increase in _collections_ of $6,250.73, a decrease in the amount\npaid in from _estates_ and _legacies_ of $2,880.05, making a balance\nin the total receipts, of $3,370.68 in advance of those of the\npreceding year for the corresponding period.\n\nThis, however, does not mean that we are in advance of our\nexpenditures. All life predicates growth. When there is no growth, the\nbody has begun to die. Those who will read the able paper of Dr.\nBradford in this magazine, will doubtless conclude with him, that the\nimperative demand is for increased life, and for multiplied efforts to\nsave those to whom Providence has manifestly called us. The natural\nand necessary growth of life has been upon us. While we have cut and\ntrimmed and pinched with an economy that the most careful might think\nan unwise policy, there has yet been growth. Success necessitates\ndevelopment. Good schools will enlarge. One church creates another.\nOne foothold secured in a missionary region opens districts to many\nwho swell the cry of need to the heart of Christian compassion \"_come\nover and help us_,\" so that with all our pruning the work has grown\nbeyond the slight increase of funds from our churches.\n\nWe ought to push our work. Ignorant millions need the truth which we\nhave. They need the knowledge which we have. They need salvation, and\nif we have it and have the spirit of Christ's compassion, we will see\nthat they are not left in darkness. There is enough and to spare in\nthe hands of the disciples of Christ for this vast and increasingly\nurgent work. \"Why,\" says George W. Cable, \"if you knew the national\nvalue of this work, to say nothing of its gospel value, you would\nquadruplicate it before the year is out,\" He calls it \"the most\nprolific missionary field that was ever opened to any Christian\npeople,\" \"right here at your doors.\"\n{118}\n\nWhile then we have the right to thank God and his people, and reason\nto take courage, we should be false to the churches and to ourselves\nshould we fail to accentuate the necessities of our work, and the\ndemand upon those in whose name we stand. Brethren, is not ours the\nappeal of Christ to you for his neglected and his needy ones? Bring\nyour thank offerings to God and make enlargement for this enlarging\nwork.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nWe are thankful for our receipts from legacies. They are testimonies\nthat speak, from those whose lips are sealed in death, for the gospel\nof Christ and its elevating and saving power when it is applied to the\nlow-down and the poor and the wronged. In these legacies, those who\nare dead yet speak the word of life to those whom they have\nremembered.\n\nOur work, however, should be planned, not upon the uncertainties of\nlegacies, but upon the ability and faith of those who live and give.\nIt cheers us to know that our living donors are increasing and are\nentering with us the doors of opportunity which God has so manifestly\nopened and which no man can shut.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nWe congratulate the American Home Missionary Society that it closes\nits year, not having realized its fears even if it has not absolutely\ncompassed all its hopes. We are grateful, for its success. Our\ncongratulations also are hearty that our great Foreign Missionary\nSociety, the A.B.C.F.M., reports itself at the end of its fiscal\nhalf-year $78,000 in advance of what was received for the same period\nlast year.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nBut do not forget the great work which the churches have put upon us.\nSee nearly eight millions who went from barbarism into slavery, and\nfrom slavery came out the poorest of the poor, the most ignorant of\nthe ignorant, the most dependent of the dependent, without true\nreligion and with no opportunity to know what true religion is unless\nwe tell them. Africa is in America, China is in America, the barbarous\nheathen Indian is in America, and two millions of white people in the\nmountain region in four hundred counties, where ignorance is solid,\nare in America. These all look to the American Missionary Association.\nWill it not be our turn next to receive from the churches their\nincreasing Godspeed on this work in such measure that we may carry the\ntruth and the life to those who ought to have it.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nThe Connecticut Normal Industrial School previous to the brief spring\nvacation was visited by many northern friends at Thomasville, Ga.,\nupon the occasion of its closing exercises. The _Thomasville Times_\ncalls sympathetic {119} attention to the work and adds \"That the boys\nand girls are being carefully taught and trained will be apparent to\nany one who will go to the Institution and see its workings. The\nattendance has averaged over two hundred.\" Thomasville is not far\nremoved from Quitman geographically but, in point of intelligent\nregard for its own interests and the interests of the Negro, the\ndistance is incalculable. As Joseph said to his brethren, we can say\nto the school incendiaries of Quitman, \"Ye meant it for evil but the\nLord meant it for good.\"\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nAn attractive and interesting four-paged weekly journal called the\n_Chinese Evangelist_ comes to us. It is the first number of a\ncuriosity in the way of a newspaper, being printed half in the English\nand half in the Chinese language. Its editor is Mr. J.S. Harper, son\nof Rev. A.F. Harper, of Canton College, and the manager is Guy Maine,\na Christian Chinaman and member of the Broadway Tabernacle Church. The\naddress of the editor is No. 117 West 87th St., New York, and of the\nmanager, No. 15 University Place. It is intended for all workers in\nChinese Sunday-schools, and every teacher of Chinese Sunday-school\nscholars would do well to send a dollar and secure this invaluable aid\nfor a year. Its column of items is named \"Tea Leaves.\" We would\nsuggest that the motto for this bright little paper be \"_Tu doces_.\"\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\n  THE VERNACULAR IN INDIAN SCHOOLS.\n\nBY SECRETARY STRIKEY.\n\nThis question is not settled. One thing that has kept it unsettled has\nbeen the uncertain use of the term \"missionary schools\" in the Orders\nof the Indian Department. What is precisely a missionary school? Let\nme try to explain. There are three kinds of schools in the\nnomenclature of the Indian Office, based on the sources of their\nsupport.\n\n1. _Government_ Schools, supported wholly by Government\nappropriations--such as those at Carlisle, Genoa, etc. These may be\nleft out of the account in this discussion, for no one objects to the\nGovernment's directing the studies in them.\n\n2. _Contract_ Schools, so called because the missionary societies\nwhich sustain them receive under _contract_ with the Government a\ncertain amount of money in aid of their support. The school at Santee,\nNebraska, and the school at Yankton, Dakota, are specimens of this\nclass. But these are _mission_ schools, for the societies which\nsupport them would not continue to do so for a day except for their\nmissionary character; and yet these schools are classed by the\nDepartment not as missionary but as contract schools.\n\n3. _Missionary_ Schools, which are supported wholly by missionary\nfunds, the Government contributing nothing. Here, again, in the recent\n{120} order, the Department employs the confusing use of terms,\nspeaking in general terms of \"missionary schools,\" and then of\nmissionary schools under the charge of \"native Indian teachers,\" and\nat remote points; the inference being that the white teacher of a\nmissionary school, though it may be in a place so remote that neither\nthe pupils nor the people can understand the English language, cannot\nteach in the vernacular.\n\nWith these explanations we present, under date of Feb. 11, 1888,\n\n THE LATEST ORDERS OF THE DEPARTMENT.\n\n1. No text-books in the vernacular will be allowed in any school where\nchildren are placed under contract or where the Government\ncontributes, in any manner whatever, to the support of the school; no\noral instruction in the vernacular will be allowed at such schools.\nThe entire curriculum must be in the English language.\n\n2. The vernacular may be used in missionary schools only for oral\ninstruction in morals and religion, where it is deemed to be an\nauxiliary to the English language in conveying such instruction; and\nonly native Indian teachers will be permitted to otherwise teach in\nany Indian vernacular; and these native teachers will only be allowed\nso to teach in schools not supported in whole or in part by the\nGovernment and at remote points, where there are no Government or\ncontract schools where the English language is taught. These native\nteachers are only allowed to teach in the vernacular with a view of\nreaching those Indians who cannot have the advantage of instruction in\nEnglish, and such instruction must give way to the English-teaching\nschools as soon as they are established where the Indians can have\naccess to them.\n\n3. A limited theological class of Indian young men may be trained in\nthe vernacular at any purely missionary school, supported exclusively\nby missionary societies, the object being to prepare them for the\nministry, whose subsequent work shall be confined to preaching unless\nthey are employed as teachers in remote settlements, where English\nschools are inaccessible.\n\n4. These rules are not intended to prevent the possession or use by\nany Indian of the Bible published in the vernacular, but such\npossession or use shall not interfere with the teaching of the English\nlanguage to the extent and in the manner hereinbefore directed.\n\nThe gravamen of the objections urged in all this controversy is that\nthe _Government has no right to interfere with these mission schools_;\nin the first place, in excluding all use of the vernacular in contract\nschools, even for religious instruction, and in the next place, in\ncontrolling the studies of the mission schools _supported wholly by\nmissionary money_ and in excluding white teachers from vernacular\nschools. The missionary societies have found by long experience that\nthese mission schools in which the vernacular is taught, especially in\nremote places, are the most effective, and in many cases the only\nmodes by which the people can be reached by the Gospel. The pupils are\ntaught to read the Bible and it is carried by them to their homes. Now\nwe ask, is it the function of the Government of the United {121}\nStates to dictate in matters so purely religious and to override the\nChristian churches in the choice of their most approved methods of\ndisseminating the Gospel?\n\n PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S LETTER.\n\nThe President, under date of March 29, 1888, in response to some\nresolutions adopted by the Philadelphia M.E. Conference, writes a\nletter on this subject, which deserves careful and candid\nconsideration, both for what it concedes and for what it does not\nconcede. We present the portion of the letter bearing upon the points\nat issue.\n\n\"Secular teaching is the object of the ordinary Government schools,\nbut surely there can be no objection to reading a chapter in the Bible\nin English, or in Dakota if English could not be understood, at the\ndaily opening of those schools, as is done in very many other\nwell-regulated secular schools. It may be, too, that the use of words\nin the vernacular may be sometimes necessary to aid in communicating a\nknowledge of the English language, but the use of the vernacular\nshould not be encouraged or continued beyond the limit of such\nnecessity, and the \"text books,\" the \"oral instruction\" in a general\nsense, and the curriculum certainly should be in English. In\nmissionary schools moral and religious instruction may be given in the\nvernacular as an auxiliary to English in conveying such instruction.\nHere, while the desirability of some instruction in morals and\nreligion is recognized, the extreme value of learning the English\nlanguage is not lost sight of. And the provision which follows, that\nonly native teachers shall \"otherwise\" (that is, except for moral or\nreligious instruction) teach the vernacular, and only in remote places\nand until Government or contract schools are established, is in exact\nkeeping with the purpose of the Government to exclude the Indian\nlanguages from the schools as far as is consistent with a due regard\nfor the continuance of moral and religious teaching in the missionary\nschools, and except in such cases as the exclusion would result in the\nentire neglect of secular or other instruction.\"\n\nOn this letter let me remark:\n\n1. That it concedes what has not heretofore been granted, the reading\nof the Bible in the vernacular in contract schools and its use in\nexplaining the English. We accept this concession with gratification.\n\n2. But it makes no concession whatever (beyond that made in the order\nof the Commissioner) in regard to the use of the vernacular in schools\nsupported wholly by missionary funds, or in the employment of white\nteachers in vernacular schools in remote districts. Until concessions\nare made on these points, the controversy will go forward.\n\nThe aim of the Government is _expedient_, in trying to secure\nultimately the use of the English language among the Indians. The aim\nof the missionary societies is to fulfil an imperative _duty_, in\ntrying to reach the Indians with the Gospel in the most effective\nmethods. There should be mutual respect for these aims; the Government\nshould yield to the conscientious conviction of the missionary\nsocieties as to methods for giving religious {122} instruction, and\nthe missionary societies should co-operate with the Government in\nintroducing the English language as rapidly as possible consistently\nwith their higher aim. I venture to suggest an outline of Regulations\nthat would probably attain both these objects and meet other\nobjections to the ruling of the Department that are not removed by the\nPresident's letter.\n\n DETAILS OF PROPOSED REGULATIONS.\n\n1. No text-books in the vernacular will be allowed in any Government\nschool, supported wholly by the Government; no oral instruction in the\nvernacular will be allowed at such schools. The entire curriculum must\nbe in the English language.\n\n2. In contract schools supported in part by missionary societies, the\nvernacular may be used only for the reading of the Sacred Scriptures,\nand for oral instruction in morals and religion and where it is deemed\nto be an auxiliary to the English language in conveying such\ninstruction.\n\n3. In all \"missionary schools\" supported entirely by missionary or\nbenevolent funds, no restrictions will be put upon the use of the\nvernacular, with the understanding, however, that the English language\nshall be introduced as rapidly as those conducting these schools shall\ndeem compatible with the higher aim--religious teaching; and that when\nthese schools shall be prepared to use the English language wholly,\nthe Department will give them a place on the list of contract schools\nrather than to establish others in their stead. If new mission schools\nare established they must be so located as not to interfere with\nexisting Government or contract schools.\n\n4. That any religious denomination shall, at its discretion and\nentirely at its own cost, be allowed to conduct special classes in the\nvernacular for the training of teachers and preachers. As it is\ndesirable that those teachers and preachers should be taught in\nEnglish studies as well as in the vernacular, these classes may be\nconducted in connection with contract schools, yet so as not to\ninterfere in any way with the regular curriculum in the English\nlanguage.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\n\"Ramona Days,\" is the title of a neatly printed pamphlet of\nforty-three pages, being the January number of a quarterly, published\nby the Indian Department of the University of New Mexico. This Indian\nschool is named in honor of Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, who has rendered\nsuch valuable services to the Indians in setting forth in thrilling\nterms their wrongs, and in pleading so pathetically for their rights.\nThe Ramona school is under the efficient supervision of Pres. H.O.\nLadd, and is aided in part by the American Missionary Association.\n\nThe pamphlet is not a catalogue of the school, but contains a variety\nof interesting matter on Indian affairs, the titles of some of the\narticles being; \"Wiser Methods,\" \"Famous Apache Chiefs,\" \"Treaty\nObligations to the Navajoes,\" \"A Recent Movement Toward Indian\nCivilization,\" \"Ramona Memorial,\" etc., etc. There are also letters\nfrom the teachers, and two cuts, one representing the proposed\nMemorial Building, Ramona. Mr. Ladd's {123} work lies largely among\nthat remarkably promising race of Indians, the Apaches, and those who\nwish to know more about them would do well to have the pamphlet. It\ncan be had by addressing Rev. H.O. Ladd, Santa Fe, New Mexico;\nsubscription price, 50 cents for the four numbers.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\n  THE TIME FACTOR IN THE SOUTHERN PROBLEM.\n\nBY REV. A.H. BRADFORD, D.D.\n\nThe supreme question in English politics is the unity of the empire.\nThe problem of the mother country is, How may the scattered colonies\nbe joined in one body whose heart shall be London? All the other\nquestions of the island-empire are but parts of this. This in turn is\nforced into prominence by the under-current of the world's aspiration\nfor larger liberty. \"The world no longer for the few, but for the\nmany,\" is the watchword of an increasing number in all the nations.\nHow to maintain the manhood of her subjects, and yet not to force the\ndismemberment of the empire, is the question uppermost in old England.\n\nWith us, the problem is not one of scattered colonies but of divergent\npeople. There is in the United States the double problem of how to\nconsolidate and preserve the interests of a nation with a long area\nnorth and south, and with the most diverse elements of population ever\ngathered under one flag. This is complicated by other factors. Our\nstudy is confined to those which touch what is known as the Southern\nquestion. The problems of English and American political and religious\nlife are identical in that both are inspired by the watchword of the\nrising multitudes, \"The world for the many.\"\n\nThe Southern problem is but part of the larger one of area and races.\nConsider a few facts. The South is peopled chiefly by two classes,\nnative whites and native blacks. Both whites and blacks are there to\nremain. More whites leave the South than blacks, and the population is\nincreasing. Emigration avoids the States chiefly inhabited by blacks.\nIt is not probable that the exodus of whites will be very great. The\npopulation of the future will probably be of the same classes,\nalthough the proportion is rapidly changing. Native whites and native\nblacks, unless signs fail, will possess the land.\n\nThe Negro race is appallingly fertile. It shows no sign of decadence.\nIt is multiplying faster than any other. The number of blacks in the\nUnited States has risen from four millions to nearly eight millions\nsince the war. That has been entirely by natural reproduction. The\nincrease of whites during the decade from 1870 to 1880 was twenty-nine\nper cent.; of blacks thirty-five per cent. If, now, we allow nine per\ncent. for the increase of the whites by immigration, we find that the\nincrease of blacks over the whites by natural order is about fourteen\nper cent. Here, then, is a {124} simple problem in arithmetic. If the\nblacks increase on an average fourteen per cent. faster than the\nwhites, and to the South there is little immigration, how long will it\nbe before the blacks preponderate? They will go neither to Africa, to\nMexico, nor to the West Indies. They are here to stay. They are\nmultiplying faster than their white neighbors. They are growing in\nconsciousness of power faster than in intelligence. What is the sure\nresult of conscious but blind power? The story of Samson answers. The\nproblem is the new-birth of a rapidly increasing race. How long it\nwill take may possibly be imagined from the questions which follow.\n\nI. How long will it require for race-prejudices to go? I put that\nquestion to an intelligent colored man who had been a slave. His\nanswer was, \"Until the present generation is dead.\"\n\nThe conflict between classes in the South will last until they\nrecognize that they have an identity of interests, or that they are\nbrethren. Prejudice is neither dead nor fast dying. There is a change\nin the cities, but it does not reach far inland. In how many Southern\nStates are the same privileges extended to both races in schools? in\ncars? in hotels? in churches? This prejudice is in the blood. Heredity\nand training have both fostered it. Race prejudices die slowly. For\ncenturies the contest between Patrician and Plebeian was carried on in\nancient Rome. The subject-class never affiliated with the\nmaster-class. Two or three hundred years ago a new people was\nintroduced into the north of Ireland. The north is essentially\nScottish. Its inhabitants are Protestant and phlegmatic. In the south,\nthe religion is Romanist, and the people are mercurial. They are of\nthe same color. They have had the same history for centuries. For\nnearly five hundred years, the Turk has been a disturbing factor in\nEurope. The Turk is Asiatic. He is surrounded by European life. How\nrapidly has the antipathy between races disappeared where the Turk has\npower? The race-lines are as distinct as if the waters of a white\nriver and a black ran in the same channel. The Hebrews are found in\nall parts of the world. They are industrious, and as decent as the\naverage man; they mingle with other people, and yet almost everywhere\nthe prejudice against them is constant and bitter. How long before\nProtestant Orangemen and Catholic Irishmen will walk arm and arm in\nthe same procession? How long before the German and Russian and\nEnglishman will recognize the Jew as a brother? In the South, the\nantipathy is between black and white, between a master-class and a\nsubject-class, between oppressed and oppressor. How long before this\nprejudice will disappear?\n\nII. How much time will be required for the consciousness of having\nbeen wronged to wear from the breast and the blood of the black man?\nThis consciousness of having been wronged is not a race-prejudice, and\nyet it may become one. It is hard to eradicate. It is aggravated when\nthe same feelings are in many hearts. This is a complicated factor.\nSome of {125} the blacks seem incapable of sentiments of revenge. They\nare too lighthearted to cherish grievances. But all are not so. The\npure blacks who carry with them the consciousness of having been\ndeeply injured, are many. What will you say of the mulattoes? A man\nwho knows his father, and knows that his father ignores his existence,\nmay keep it to himself, but he cannot smother his feeling. He who sees\nhis brothers and sisters pass him on the street in carriages, living\nin comfort and honor, while he is poor, and nothing to them, will, in\nproportion as he is a man, hate the social order in which they live.\nUntil this consciousness of having been injured and degraded vanishes,\nthe Southern question will disturb political and social life.\n\nIII. Closely allied to the consciousness of degradation is the lack of\nmanly feeling. Appreciation of manhood is a condition of improvement.\nHe who thinks himself only an animal will live like one. Does this\ncondition exist at the South? It could not be otherwise. Any one who\nhas travelled there must have his faith in the evolution of some men\nfrom the lower animals immeasurably strengthened. Rev. Dr. Taylor, of\nNew York, has said that he knows that the Darwinian theory cannot be\ntrue, because, if it were, \"an Englishman's right arm would have\ndeveloped into an umbrella long ago.\" But Dr. Taylor would find faces\nin the South which, from their resemblance to lower orders of life,\nmight weaken his faith in his demonstration.\n\nThe black race is no more degraded than our own would be under similar\ncircumstances, but its condition is appalling. How long will it take\nto develop the consciousness of manhood where all the tastes, and all\nthe tendencies, and almost all the environment, are low and in the\nopposite direction? The colored people have not the help of higher and\nrefining influences. Their tendencies have been downward, and present\nenvironment increases the tendency. Regeneration or reform is not the\nwork of a year or a generation. The change will come only by the\ncreation of new and higher conditions, and with the birth of a more\nself-respecting stock.\n\nIV. How long will be required for the education of the colored people\nand the poor whites?\n\nThe author of \"An Appeal to Caesar\" says, \"The Southern man, black or\nwhite, is not likely to be greatly different to-morrow from what he\nwas yesterday. Generations may modify; years can only restrain. The\nquestion is not whether education, begun to-day and carried on however\nvigorously and successfully by the most approved agencies, would\nchange the characteristics of to-day's masses. Not at all. The\nquestion is whether it would so act upon them _as they are_, would so\nenlighten and inform their minds, as to convince them of the mutual\ndanger, peril, disaster, that must attend continual oppression or\nsudden uprising. We cannot expect to make intelligence instantly\neffective in the elevation of individual citizenship, or the exercise\nof collective power. Little by little that change must come.\"\n{126}\n\nAbout ninety per cent, of the whole colored population of the South,\nand about forty-five per cent. of those above ten years of age, are\nilliterate. In 1880, nineteen per cent., or about one in every five,\nof the white people of the South, and seventy-three per cent. of the\ncolored people, could neither read nor write; and this estimate is far\ntoo large. After fifteen years of the ballot, seventy-three per cent.\nof the colored race of the South could neither read nor write. Much is\nbeing done to promote education by schools and charities, but what are\nthese among so many? To meet the ignorant condition of things, the\nGovernment is doing nothing. The State governments are doing only a\nlittle. In the Southern States previous to the war there was no system\nof common schools. After the war there were not even old foundations\nto build upon. Everything had to be started _de novo_ by those who had\nnothing with which to start. \"We must remember,\" said Dr. Mayo, \"that\nnine men out of ten of the South never saw what we call a good public\nelementary school. It has been said that the public school-buildings\nof Denver alone exceed in value all the public school-buildings of the\nState of North Carolina.\"\n\nThe average school year throughout the South, in 1880, was less than\none hundred days; the average attendance less than thirty per cent. of\nthose within school age. In a belt of States where seventy-three per\ncent., and probably ninety per cent., of the population are\nilliterate, where they are too poor to do much except keep up the\nstruggle for existence, where there are no traditions of culture,\nwhere it has been a crime for a black man to read, where the Nation is\ndoing nothing, and where the State, when it does its best, provides\ninstruction which reaches only thirty per cent. of those of school age\nfor one hundred days in a year, and where the population is increasing\nso rapidly that in 1900 the blacks will be in a decided majority,\ncharity and religion are doing--what? The progress under the\ncircumstances is amazing, but how long will it take to educate the\nnineteen per cent. of Southern whites, and seventy-three per cent., of\nSouthern blacks? There is more illiteracy now than at the close of the\nwar, because education has not kept pace with the increase of the\nrace.\n\nV. How long will be required for the _moralizing_ of the lower classes\nof the South? Ability to make moral discriminations grows slowly.\nAbility to appreciate moral motives grows still more slowly. These\npeople were trained in a school in which virtue was ignored. They have\nlived under conditions which have put a premium on theft. Slavery\nalways makes thieves. The heredity of the passion for stealing is just\nas clearly marked as the heredity of the Roman nose or the faculty for\nmusic. The transmission of the tendency toward the gratification of\nthe animal propensities is as definite as, and stronger than, the\ntendency for insanity and consumption to reproduce themselves. These\npeople come into life blind, {127} and find little but darkness around\nthem. Here you have about eight millions with an ancestry which began\nin heathenism and has had two centuries of slavery--a people\ninheriting all the evils of slavery; a people who have never been\ntrained to make moral discriminations, and whose ancestors for unknown\ngenerations have been trained still less than they; a people who have\nnone, or at least but little, of the inspiration toward a higher moral\nlife which comes from a healthy environment; a people whose religion\nis almost all emotional; who can soar on the wings of imagination and\nenthusiasm to heights which would make an archangel dizzy; who from\nparoxysms of anguish at the condition of those whose burning bodies\nare lighting the fires of hell, will go off and commit adultery or rob\na hen-roost as complacently as if to do so were a part of their\nreligion. This is not fiction. Religion has not meant chastity, for\nslavery made that impossible; it has not meant justice, for injustice\nforged their chains; it has not meant generosity, for they had\nnothing; it has been simple emotion. The ethical element has been\nabsent, and it was through no fault of the black man.\n\nIn 1860, President Hopkins said that a greater proportion of the\nSandwich Islanders could read than of the people in New England. They\nwere educated but not moralized. There were three hundred thousand of\nthem a century and a half ago; in 1883, there were forty-nine\nthousand. Education without morality is no safeguard.\n\nProf. Gilliam shows, from census reports, that if the population of\nthe Southern whites increases for a century, as at present, in 1985,\nthere will be ninety-six million whites in the Southern States, and in\n1980, one hundred and ninety-two million blacks. Statistics may lie;\nbut there is enough truth in these to give terrible emphasis to the\ninquiry, How long before the colored people will be sufficiently\neducated to need no help? How long before they will have sufficient\nmoral discrimination to know what the commandments require? When we\nrealize how difficult is the task of inducing men with the environment\nof Christian influence at the North, and in England, to live even\ndecent lives, the wonder is that the freedmen do as well as they do.\nHow long before we can expect a race with such antecedents and\nenvironments to be fitted to be left to themselves? What answer must\nbe given? I am not exaggerating the picture. I am only hinting at\nconditions of heathenism which exist. I am least of all blaming these\npoor and needy people; but none the less clear and strong comes the\nappeal for their moral and intellectual emancipation. The moralizing\nof a race which has such a history, how long will that require? No\npeople ever rose more rapidly in the world's history. That shows what\nis possible. It does not tell us when our work will be finished. So\nlong as one-half of the American republic is inhabited by those whose\ninterests are alien to the other half, there can be no permanent\nprosperity. It has been said that there are three essentials to the\n{128} permanent unity of a nation; viz., unity of language, unity of\ninterest and unity of religion. There is a common language between the\nblacks and whites, but the unity of interest is not recognized, and\nagreement in religion is only in name. The religion of the poor whites\nin the South is mechanical, and unintelligently doctrinal; the\nreligion of the blacks is emotional and fantastic; and the religion of\nboth blacks and whites is lacking in the ethical element. The process\nof political reconstruction has been progressing for twenty years and\nmore, and is still incomplete. That is an easy work compared with what\nmust be created intellectually, and socially, and morally. Before the\nSouthern problem will be solved, a new stock must take the place of\nthose who were reared in slavery; the old traditions must fade, and\neducation, and an ethical type of Christianity, must do their work.\nHow long will be required for that, none can tell. In the meantime,\nnew complications may arise. The principles of socialism and anarchy\nare not unlikely to pervade the South, and if the masses of blacks are\never exploited by a central, unknown and irresponsible committee of\nagitators, the results must be a new reign of terror. The labor\nagitators are moving southward. It has been said that colored people\nhave no tendencies toward socialism and anarchy. I am no prophet, but\nI will hazard the prediction that it will not be long before the\nsocialistic agitator will stir up a commotion at the South that will\nmake employers of labor and people of wealth tremble.\n\nThe sentiment has sometimes been whispered, that the work of this\nAssociation, and those akin to it, was about accomplished. That\nsentiment has selfishness or ignorance at the bottom of it. How long\nmust this work be kept up? Until all that mass of darkness which fills\nthe Southern horizon be shot through and through with shafts of light.\nHow long must it be kept up? Until the last trace of prejudice that\nseparates brother from brother shall have been removed. How long will\nthis thing be kept up? Until the black man feels that he is a man;\nuntil he can vote intelligently, and live wisely, and until he has the\nability and the will to discriminate carefully in matters of morals.\nHow long must it be kept up? Until no man can plead ignorance, or want\nof opportunity, for rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ. The Eastern\nquestion has been a live question in European politics for more than\nfour centuries. It is no more puzzling than the Southern question is\nwith us. There is an experiment in physics that is typical of this\nwork. An iron bar is suspended in the air and then a tiny cork, hung\nfrom a string, is thrown against it. At first no impression is made,\nbut the blows are repeated, until, by and by, the bar begins to\ntremble, then to vibrate, then to swing to and fro. The repeated\nimpacts of the little cork at last move the mass. It will not be by\nany great rush that the Southern problem will be solved. It will yield\nat last to the constancy, and fidelity, of the great multitude of\nthose who love their brother because they love their Lord; who are\ncontent to work in secret, {129} and many of whom already rest in\nunmarked graves. That mass of ignorance, wretchedness and wrong will\nswing and disappear at last before the multitudinous strokes of\nindividual gifts and individual prayers.\n\nAll the problems which are vexing the older nations are essentially\nsocial problems, and the watchword of all the movements that are\nundermining thrones and caste, and the wicked social order, is, \"The\nworld no longer for the few, but for the many.\" In America the _many_\nare already in possession, and the problem with us is, How may our\nrulers--the people who can never be dethroned--be rendered competent\nto rule? That is the question to which the American Missionary\nAssociation is devoting itself; and its answer is the only true one:\nBy making the people intelligent, and Christian. And how long before\nthat will be accomplished? A Scotchman once asked an Irishman, \"Why\nwere half-farthings coined in England?\" Pat instantly replied, \"To\ngive Scotchmen an opportunity of contributing to missions.\" When will\nthis problem be solved? Never, if the Christians of America are like\nPat's Scotchman, but quicker than any of us dream, if all the\nChristians of America are like that woman in the New Testament who put\ninto the treasury two mites.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n  SOUTHERN TESTIMONY.\n\nWe insert the following from the _Southern Presbyterian_, as a recent\ntestimony to the views, principles and work of the American Missionary\nAssociation. It will be all the stronger from the fact that it was not\nwritten for a testimony, but as a setting forth of facts by a\nSoutherner to Southerners.\n\n  The old masters and the old slaves are now rapidly passing into\n  eternity. In ten years more no one of our people, white or black,\n  under _forty years_ of age, will know personally anything of\n  slavery. It then comes to this, that now and from this time\n  forward, we white Christians must be impressed with the fact that\n  we have here at our doors, in our houses, offices, stores and\n  kitchens, and on our farms, not slaves, but a race of people,\n  three-fourths of whom are but a little removed from savages in so\n  far as their knowledge of religion is concerned. They have among\n  them those whom they call preachers; they hold meetings, they\n  halloo, they shout, but no _saving truth_ is preached or heard from\n  that source. The result is great animal excitement, but no moral\n  elevation. Then many of them are receiving secular education. That\n  sharpens their intellects but gives no Christian character. It does\n  just the opposite; it fits them for rascality. They are increasing.\n  There are probably eight millions of them now, and there will be\n  many millions more. Those who are dying without Christ are dying\n  here in a Christian land without hope.\n\n  The statement of a Congregational missionary recently made, is\n  probably true, viz.: that \"one-fourth of the race is improving\n  rapidly,\" yet much the larger part of them are almost, if not\n  altogether, _heathen_. They are not across the ocean; under God's\n  providence they are here, where you can touch them with your\n  finger. Why here? {130} It will not do to say that nothing can be\n  made out of them. Go to Texas, to Tennessee, and come right here to\n  Atlanta now, and our most intelligent white men will tell you that\n  on the prohibition question, negroes, educated, smart and very\n  eloquent, have made, and are making, _ringing_ speeches. There have\n  been smart speakers on both sides. Some of their speeches would do\n  credit to any white orator in the South. Dr. Sanderson, our late\n  Professor at Tuskaloosa, stated on the floor of the Synod of\n  Alabama last week, that he had taught a good deal, and that a young\n  negro, twenty years of age, one of our divinity students at\n  Tuskaloosa, was as smart a pupil as he had ever seen; that if he\n  were in the State University he would be in its first rank of\n  students, and that he heard him recently preach a sermon on the\n  mediatorial work of Christ, such that he (Dr. Sanderson) would not\n  undertake to make a better one on that majestic theme. * * *\n\n  In Dallas Presbytery, Texas, recently, a black man was examined for\n  two days on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and on all that is required by\n  our Book of Government for ordination, and he did not falter once.\n  So the brethren there testify.\n\n  Then it comes to this: this race of people is here; the great body\n  of them are heathen. Can anyone doubt that it is the purpose of the\n  Almighty to prepare a large number of them, converted, educated and\n  civilized, to go back to Africa to redeem that continent for\n  civilization and for Christ? We are commanded to preach the Gospel\n  to every creature, to teach it to all nations.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\n  OUR WORK, AS A GRADUATE OF FISK UNIVERSITY SEES IT.\n\nBY WILLIAM A. CROSTHWAITE.\n\nThe American Missionary Association is doing more to quicken the hopes\nand aspirations of the Southern Negro, more toward arousing the\nSouthern white man to educate himself, and more toward bringing the\ntwo races to an acknowledgment of each other's rights, than any other\nsimilar institution in the country.\n\nIn the summer of 1884, near Leesburg, Texas, a well-appointed Negro\nschool was burned by the whites of that community. The colored people,\nseeing their hope of years in ashes, advertised their little holdings\nfor sale, and prepared to leave in a body. But the whites offered to\nsupplement the insurance on the former building and to re-build the\nschool, if the colored people would remain in the community. The terms\nwere accepted, and now _West Chapel_, which is the name of the school,\nis excellently furnished and has a $200 bell upon it, and is the best\nknown school in Northeast Texas. Previous to the burning of West\nChapel, the whites were continually distracted by factional fights.\nThere was general apathy with regard to improvement in any way\nwhatever. Their teachers were always of the inferior class. But, when\nthey found that the colored people would have a school, they decided\nto have one also. The colored people bought a bell. So did they. The\ncolored people had a foreign teacher. So must they have one, and they\npaid $750 a year for him. One of the white citizens of the locality\nsummed the situation up thus:--\"West Chapel is to the whites what a\ncoal of fire is on the back of a terrapin.\" This school was organized\nby a Fisk student and has ever {131} since been taught by students of\nFisk. Thus is the A.M.A. lifting up the Negro directly and the whites\nindirectly, and establishing friendly relations between the two.\n\nBut this is no isolated case. The story is the same wherever the\neducated Negro comes in contact with the whites. At one time, our\nschool was so far in advance of the white school, that I was told by\nmy school director that \"no high-learnt teacher was wanted to teach\n'Nigger Schools,'\" and I was actually driven from my school by threats\nof violence.\n\nThe North can better understand the work of the American Missionary\nAssociation, when it is fully understood that the presence of Fisk\nUniversity in Nashville brought about the existence of Vanderbilt\nUniversity. When Fisk began to send out her graduates as refined and\nupright gentlemen, and the newspapers were enthusiastic in their\naccounts of its literary and musical exhibitions, the white people\nsaid; \"We must have a university in Nashville also.\"\n\nIn the recent Prohibition campaign in Tennessee, the students of Fisk\nwere one of the chief factors. In the beginning of the movement, the\ncry; \"Where does Fisk stand on this question?\" went up from the good\npeople all over the State. Fisk was the first college to declare in\nfavor of the proposed Amendment, and one hundred young men and women\nwent from her walls and fought valiantly for the cause.\n\nIt is due the profound Christian spirit that characterizes the work of\nthe Association to say, that every student and alumnus of Fisk in the\nState of Tennessee was an ardent supporter of the cause, save two.\nDuring the campaign the most cordial feelings existed between the\nbetter elements of both races. Heretofore these things were almost\nunheard of.\n\nThere was a time when policy or political expediency had no effect\nupon the prejudices of the Southern whites, but the educational\nprocess inaugurated by the North is elevating a class of colored\npeople to a plane where they are respected as never before. No State\nor Federal aid can do for us what the A.M.A. is doing. Such aid as the\nBlair Bill proposed would meet a certain need, and enable the men that\nare educated by the A.M.A. to get at the masses; but the peculiar work\nof preparing honest and devout Christian leaders must be otherwise\nprovided for. The complete regeneration of the South is a thing of the\nfuture. The A.M.A. must remain among us to hasten on \"the harvest of\nthe golden year.\"\n\nThat the Christianization of the Negro must come from without his own\ninstitutions, will be clearly seen by looking at his present religious\ncondition. The new life that is developing cannot be crowded into the\nnarrow limits of his church. The moral element is almost entirely\nwanting in his creed and doctrine. Such is the condition of the church\nthat moral and spiritual growth are impossible. He must be educated\naway from the institutions that attended his enslavement; as far from\nthem as Canaan is from Egypt. Again, the pulpit, with comparatively\nfew honorable exceptions, {132} is filled with adventurers and impure\nministers. To a great extent this is true. But signs of a spiritual\nand moral exodus are everywhere manifest. The judgment of God rests\nheavily upon the Negro's temple-worship and the structure tumbles to\nthe ground. Within the last two years I have seen six of the largest\ncolored churches in Tennessee split on moral grounds, and the\ndiscontent with what is bad, grows among them. The old associations\nare losing their power over the rising generation. Intelligent men are\nseeking to supply their spiritual and moral wants. The A.M.A. has but\nto persist in the establishment of its school and church work among\nthe colored people, with good strong men as ministers, and it is sure\nto be the leaven of the church of the future for the Negro people.\n\nLast summer an old father, who had educated four children at Fisk\nUniversity and had himself been there on one Commencement occasion,\nsaid to me:--\"That Fisk school is the _buildin'-up-est_ place to our\npeople in the world. I never expect to have such a good time and\ntreatment again until I get to heaven.\" Thus are our hopes quickened\nand our aspirations for nobler things awakened.\n\nBut to one who understands the situation, the question of our\neducation is of serious moment. All our institutions of higher\nlearning are living from hand to mouth, with no endowment, and the\nNorth's purse-strings are growing tighter as the years go by. On the\nother hand, prejudice strikes savagely at our State appropriations.\nThis year, in the advanced State of Tennessee, the white State-student\ngets one hundred dollars while the colored gets only twenty-two\ndollars and a half. In his poverty what can the Negro student do with\nthis sum in the way of educating himself?\n\nI could take you in the homes of those whom you have educated, then\ncould you appreciate the wisdom of your investments. It is around the\nfireside, and in the conduct of the children, that your noble work is\nmanifesting itself so clearly. The intellectual, moral and spiritual\nlife found there are the true and only guarantees that old things are\npassing away.\n\nThe abject condition of the great body of Negroes appeals to Christian\nreligion and philanthropy for the help that must come to redeem their\nlost minds and souls. The South cannot give them a Christian\neducation. The cry goes up to the great, warm heart of the North. We\ncrave the crumbs that fall from your God-given, bountiful table.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\n  A PASTOR'S FIRST VIEW.\n\n  A pastor who was educated at the North and who was graduated at the\n  Hartford Theological Seminary, has for the first time made the\n  acquaintance of his race in the South. He had never met his own\n  people as a race until he entered into the service of the American\n  Missionary Association. His impressions and testimony have,\n  therefore, an additional interest.\n\nIn reference to the field: it is large and interesting, and requires\nmore {133} than ordinary attention, both to that part of it under\ncultivation and that which is not yet. I have arranged my visits in\nsuch a way as to make it practicable for me to do justice to both;\nvisiting church members the last week in each month (except in case of\nsickness), and using the rest of the time (apart from other necessary\nduties) for visits outside.\n\nI am thus brought into direct contact with our people and learn a\ngreat deal about their condition. In some places it does seem actually\nas if liberty and civilization are still mysteries to them.\n\nWhen I was in the North and heard or read descriptions of the\ncondition and mode of living of the colored people of the South, I\noften thought that those descriptions were very highly colored, but I\nam now perfectly cured of all my doubts. My visits furnish me with the\nmost plausible attestation of the facts. Squalor, with its long train\nof attendants, may be commonly seen in every direction, and perhaps\nnot confined to the lower-conditioned of our people either. The\ndesecration of the Lord's day is actually frightful. It is very\nliterally used as a \"day of rest from labor.\" On every hand the people\nare seen resting--resting from labor in the houses, on the stoops and\non the streets, instead of being in the house of God. In very many\ninstances, however, we succeed in getting some of them to attend\nchurch, but the work is somewhat uphill. I trust that this abnormal\ncondition to which slavery has reduced them will eventually succumb to\nthe effective educational weapon that is being brought to bear upon\nthem, that of the American Missionary Association especially, and may\nthe time soon come for the South when the Holy Spirit working in and\nthrough the various missionary Boards, and also other agencies, shall\nspread righteousness and education and the true art of living, among\nthese benighted people. I am praying, others are praying, and you,\ntoo, must help us to pray and to wait for the quickening influences\nand a fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\n  TALLADEGA FRUIT.\n\nBY MISS E.B. EMERY.\n\nThe missions of the American Missionary Association at the South are\nlike orange trees, perennial, evergreen, and continually bearing\ngolden fruit, and of these there is none more abounding in vitality\nthan Talladega. All the year round the foliage glistens, the\nblossoming sheds its fragrance, and every winter there is an ample\nharvest. Sometimes one from abroad comes in to shake the tree and\ngather the fruit, and sometimes not; but however that may be, the soil\nis previously and thoroughly prepared by these consecrated\nmissionaries, the tree is watered and nourished and tended the year\nround, and the harvest _expected_, and it comes.\n\nAre there no spiritual frosts to blight? They are impossible, if the\n{134} spiritual atmosphere be kept clear, and the Holy Ghost be a\ndaily and hourly companion and friend.\n\nIt is by no means unusual in Talladega for every unbelieving pupil in\nthe boarding department to be converted. This year there were over\nforty hopeful conversions, and Rev. James Wharton, an English\nevangelist, by his earnest preaching was of very great assistance. It\nis noticeable that if any who have had little _previous_ training are\nconverted through the preaching of an evangelist, they are not likely\nto hold out well.\n\nOn the first Sunday in March, twenty-seven of the converts were\nreceived into the college church, with two from the Baptist Church.\nMore will come later as the fruits of the revival, while a few will\njoin other churches. Eighteen of the number were young men, and among\nthem were the two sons of Pres. DeForest, one fourteen, the other\nnine, years of age.\n\nProf. G.W. Andrews, D.D., the pastor this year, conducted the\nservices; there was no sermon proper and no time for any, but there\nwas much of the beautiful music of these colored people; they sing out\ntheir fervid souls with their rich and powerful voices. Nearly all\nwere baptized, and much more was made of the right hand of fellowship\nthan is usual in any Northern church. And it is needful for these\nchildren, for they will call for constant help months and years to\ncome. With few exceptions, they are not reared in Christian homes, are\nnot educated from the cradle in the Christian faith. The services were\nboth solemn and joyful, and very tender and touching.\n\nSuch an avowal is the most significant of all things, anytime,\nanywhere, but here we know that every life is to be one of toil and\nbitter struggle, a fight in which the odds are, to appearances, all\nagainst them; more than all, that this young man, that young woman,\nwith the dusky face, the mellow voice and the eager spirit, now in\ncovenant with us, is to be a missionary to the heathen, and of his own\npeople. What may he not accomplish? What may she not do for Christ?\nAnd these heathen are in our own country; they are our own people.\nThese young missionaries are very peculiarly ours, and it is through\nthe Northern churches that they are trained for their work. Shall not\nthen those churches adopt them in their hearts, carry them in their\nprayers, and let them suffer no lack in their preparation? Their work\nin the future for the Master's kingdom will depend very much upon us\nChristians of the North.\n\nTalladega College is exceedingly prosperous. The day-school is very\nlarge; the Sunday-school packs the chapel, and the Sunday congregation\nis much too crowded for health or comfort in a room seating but two\nhundred and fifty. The college is working all the time, for a church,\nearning many small sums. The result, with some gifts, amounts to about\n$400. Where is the man or the woman to aid in this godly enterprise?\nto share in this work so essential and so abundantly fruitful?\n{135}\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\n  THREE PICTURES FROM LE MOYNE SCHOOL, MEMPHIS, TENN.\n\nBY MISS ESTHER H. BARNES.\n\nI would like to bring before you three pictures which I saw this week.\nThe first is the interior of a single room. The tattered, soiled bed\nand the fireplace took up a large part of the room, and the rest was\nnearly filled with the confusion of odds and ends that make up the\nbelongings of such a home. A feeble fire rested on the uneven bricks\nof the fireplace, and the chimney above was covered with newspapers in\nthe last stages of dilapidation and dirt. There was no window, but a\nlittle sliding shutter, moved aside a few inches, admitted light\nenough to make the darkness visible as it fell on the smoke-stained\nboards, and the dusky faces of the inmates seated close to the fire on\nold chairs and boxes. A home more forlorn than this little pen, which,\nwith a smaller back shed, is the only residence of at least five human\nbeings, I can hardly conceive.\n\nNow for a more cheering picture. It is a cozy sitting-room, papered\nwith taste and furnished in harmony. Everything looks neat, from the\nsnowy bed-spread to the pretty clock on the mantel, and the dainty\nbunch of pansies on the wall above. Open doors give glimpses of other\nrooms as well ordered as this, while intelligence and kindness beam in\nthe dark faces of gentle mother and cheery bright-eyed daughters. When\npeople ask us how we can bear to teach \"niggers,\" they generally have\nin mind those tattered, lazy persons, who are most wont to show\nthemselves on the street corners, and so make the deepest impression\non the average white mind.\n\nBut look at my third picture, and you will see both how we can like\nour work, and what is one of the things that make a difference between\nthe second home I have described and the first. The large school-room\nis filled. More than one hundred and twenty-five students are arranged\nin classes, most of whom are standing in their places ready to pass to\nrecitation rooms. One of their number is at the piano. Another stands\nat the desk to give the word of command. Now he strikes the bell and\nthe pupils in long file pass out, marching with their heads up. Not a\nteacher is in sight. Everything is orderly and is running of itself,\nas it does every day. This is nothing wonderful, of course, though I\nknow some white schools which could not be trusted to this degree to\nthe control of monitors. But it is only a sign of the influences that\nhere lead to self-reliance and self-control. Every year a new set of\nuncouth and undeveloped young people come shambling in, looking around\nwith bewildered eyes. But they soon begin to straighten up and fall\ninto step. Their vague ideas get settled, and their minds, slow at\nfirst, wake up. In a few years they will be made over new, not\nperfect, but vastly improved. They will be out teaching, spreading\nlight from scores of new centres, and sending new pupils to \"Old Le\nMoyne.\"\n{136}\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\n  THE EVANGELIST AT WORK.\n\nThe last night of the three weeks' series of meetings at Marion was a\nmemorable one. Every night the church, which was a large-sized\nbuilding, was well filled with an attentive congregation, hungering\nand thirsting for the bread and water of life. After singing and\nprayer and hearing the testimonies from the young converts present,\nwho told with unmistakable clearness how they had given their hearts\nto God, a few words were spoken, especially to them, showing what God\nrequires of them now they have become Christians. Afterwards the\ngospel was preached to the unconverted and an invitation given for\nthose who wished to become Christians to signify their desire. A\nnumber responded, including an old man supposed to be at least ninety\nyears of age. The old man had long thought of being a Christian, but\nnever could get to the point of decision until now. He looked back\nupon his long life of sin; he wept, he prayed, he arose and confessed\nthat he had then and there taken Christ as his Saviour. Was not he a\nbrand plucked from the burning?\n\nIt was most encouraging to see a young lady bringing along to the\npastor's house nearly every day some two or three of her school\ncompanions or friends, to be prayed for and spoken with about the way\nof salvation. The Christians worked faithfully visiting the houses of\ntheir friends to pray and speak with them and to bring them out to the\nmeeting at night.\n\nAt Mobile, although the first week it rained six days in succession,\nyet the people came out well and were repaid for their faithfulness.\nEvery night for the past three weeks large numbers of all classes have\nbeen personally interested, and with the exception of one service, we\nhave had cause to thank God for conversions. Fathers and mothers are\nrejoicing over sons and daughters brought to Christ. A large number of\nyoung people from the Sabbath-school as well as from the day-school\nhave started on the new life. The teachers say that a marked change is\nobservable and that the young converts seem to be trying their very\nbest to live up to their profession. Forty-six were received into the\nchurch and will have the instruction that is so much needed by young\nconverts.\n\nOne of the teachers and myself, while visiting some of the converts,\nfound five young women in one house rejoicing in the pardoning love of\nGod. \"Truly,\" said the old grandmother, \"salvation has come to this\nhouse.\" We found that, some years ago, three mothers had died and left\nfive orphan children, who were taken by the grandmother and who had\nnow grown into womanhood. Two sisters first became Christians and the\nothers soon followed. One said, \"I used to be so fond of going to the\ntheatre, but now I have no heart for that sort of thing; I mean to\nlive a good Christian life and do all I can for my Saviour.\" They were\nall received into church, and joined as well the Young People's\nSociety of {137} Christian Endeavor, which is a good thing for young\npeople, as it trains them for future work, and to be active and useful\nin the service of Christ.\n\nJAMES WHARTON.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n  LETTER FROM REV. W.C. POND.\n\nOur anniversary was an occasion of much interest. The attendance was\nlarge, and our brethren acquitted themselves well. The _Record-Union_,\nthe principal daily of Sacramento, published both the addresses in\nfull.\n\nWe have good news from our evangelists. They are doing great good, if\nwe can judge at all by what we see: and they are in training, I\nbelieve, for larger and better service in the years to come. I shall\nhave much to write about this for the _next Missionary_, much more\nthan I can crowd into the space allowed me.\n\nThe new work at San Buenaventura opens finely. It is already one of\nour largest interior schools; and two or three, possibly _four_, of\nthe Chinese have already been led to believe; so that before Low Quong\nreturns he expects to organize an Association and get Christian work\ninto systematic operation.\n\nI am greatly pleased also with the reports from Tucson. Yong Jin, who\nhas done excellent evangelistic work at Santa Cruz, goes to Tucson\nnext week. He is an earnest Christian, and though somewhat deficient\nin English is better educated in Chinese and is an excellent preacher.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\n  FOUR MONTHS OF EVANGELISTIC WORK.\n\nBY LOW QUONG.\n\nIn January last I was asked to do some evangelistic work in the\nNorthern part of this State. The first place I visited was Oroville.\nThere we have a branch mission with a fine mission house, or, we might\ncall it a Chinese church and school combined. The church has a\nmembership of about fifteen. The evening scholars were usually about\ntwenty or more. This school has a faithful teacher, and all together\nmakes a fruitful mission. Although I was there only about a month--yet\nI enjoyed the work very much, and my acquaintance with the brethren\nthere and their kindness to me I can never forget. I will now give you\nsome little incidents of my work there. The town has about three\nhundred Chinese inhabitants, and most of our brethren and scholars\nlive in the town, but there were also a good many outside of the town.\nThese are mostly miners. But even these hard-working men, when they\ngot through their day's work, {138} came to town at night to attend\nour evening school; and on Sundays also, to hear the preaching of the\ngospel.\n\nAt the end of the month, when Mr. Pond came to Oroville, we had the\nLord's supper in our little Chinese church. It was held in the\nevening. One far-away brother was informed by letter, and he came over\na long, rough road to attend the Lord's table. It was about eight\no'clock when he reached the church. We asked him what time he started\nto walk; he said at one o'clock in the afternoon. He had walked fully\nseven hours just for the Lord's supper, and early in the morning he\nhad to walk back again to his place, while we took the train for\nMarysville. During my stay at Oroville, four members were added to the\nAssociation and one was baptized and received to the church. We would\nhave had two, but one had gone to work in a place sixty miles from\ntown. He had waited for Mr. Pond to come up for nearly a whole month,\nso he could be baptized, and he had gone only a week when Mr. Pond\ncame. Lately I have received a letter from him, that he has returned\nto Oroville.\n\nThe Chinese inhabitants at Oroville are very kind to the Christian\nChinese. They never trouble them and always send their boys to the\nevening school. I heard not long ago from their teacher, that the\nwhole mission house has been renovated and a new floor put down at the\nexpense of the brethren and scholars.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\n  CHIN GAING IN CHINA.\n\n[EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS IN ALAMEDA, CAL., BY CHIN GAING.]\n\nIt is over eleven years since I left my home in China. Near the end of\n1882 I began to attend the mission school in San Francisco. After\nbeing there about two years I joined the Christian Association, and\nsix months from then I was baptized and joined Bethany Church.\n\nTwo years ago I returned to China. My friends there knew that I had\nchanged my religion, and so, when I went back they asked me many\nquestions.\n\nMy relatives wanted to know about the people in this country, what\nreligion they had and what gods they worshiped. And whether the\nChinese who went there believed the same as the American people.\n\nI told them we believed in one God. They said, \"Which one?\"\n\nI answered, the one that created the heaven and the earth, and all\nthings in the world and the sea. The God who has all power and whom we\nought to worship.\n\nMy mother then came up and said: \"Do not talk such things; we are\nChinese and must keep our customs.\"\n\nI said I could not keep those which were against God. So they said:\n\"If you have anything good, then keep it.\"\n\nWhile in China I could not help seeing how much the people spent in\n{139} foolishness. They have so many idol processions, which cost a\ngreat deal of money. The people gladly give to keep up their worship,\nas they are in darkness and know not the name of Jesus, which is the\nonly name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.\n\nBut how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how\nshall they hear without a preacher?\n\nAnd so it is written, \"How beautiful are the feet of them that preach\nthe gospel of peace.\"\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nBUREAU 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.\nWoodsbury, Woodfords, 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, Brodhead,\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 B. 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. S.E. Young,\nSioux Falls, Dak.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\n\"Twenty-three unanswered letters look down upon me. Eighteen came\nto-day.\" Such is the burdened sigh of one of our earnest, self-denying\nmissionaries, who is upon the mission field that she may relieve the\nsuffering, teach the ignorant and save souls, and for whom the days\nare all too short for these duties alone.\n\nHave our readers ever felt the burden of unanswered letters? Pastors,\nSunday-school teachers, housekeepers--busy people that you are--have\nyou ever felt the twinge of unrest, almost discouragement, because\nsome friendly letter, which you enjoyed receiving, lay unanswered\nwaiting a spare hour? And have you ever had to \"brace up\" to what, in\na life of leisure might be a pastime, but in a life so full of care\nand responsibility becomes a task? Then you will surely be ready\nunselfishly to\n\n  SPARE OUR TEACHERS.\n\nHow can it be done? Not by withholding your letters from them. If any\nmissionaries anywhere need words of appreciation and good cheer they\nare those who year after year sacrifice social life and religious\nprivileges to mingle with the ignorant, uncultured--yes, and\nimpure--that they may lift them up into the healthful ways of\nrighteousness. Write to them, encourage {140} them, but do not ask for\na special letter for your next missionary meeting. Tell them _not to\nwrite_, that you have heard or can hear from them every month through\ntheir letters sent to the officers at New York and that you learn of\nthe work through the A.M.A. magazine. Thank them for making this\nmonthly missionary letter so full and interesting.\n\n\"But that monthly letter is a copied letter,\" some one answers, \"and\nwe wish our teacher to write to us, _to us alone, and in her own\nhand_.\" Yes, it is a copied letter in order that it may be sent to\nothers who are interested in, and helping, the same work, and that the\nmissionaries' time may be given to the work about them instead of\nbeing spent so largely in writing. But it is a fresh letter. It has\nthe latest monthly news and was written for you, and if not in the\nsame hand is as truly yours as a typewritten letter, which is the sort\nmost of us receive and give in the high-work pressure of now-a-days.\n\nWe provide _The American Missionary_, furnish our printed leaflets\nfreely, and will send the monthly missionary letters to all who desire\nto hear thus from their contributions--as we hope all do--thus giving\nthe very best information that the field affords; but we most\nearnestly hope the missionaries may be allowed their time for their\nmissionary duties pressing upon them. _The Missionary_ is the word\nfrom your missionary. Read it, and if you do not like it, write us,\nand we will try again next month.\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nRECEIPTS FOR MARCH, 1888.\n\n   MAINE, $146.84.\n\nAugusta. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. $21.45\nBangor. Sab. Sch. of First Parish Ch. 13.85\nBelfast. _For Wilmington, N.C._ 1.79\nBrewer. Mrs. C.S. Hardy, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 30.00\nBrewer. \"A Friend.\" First Ch., _for Indian M._ 10.00\nBrunswick. \"Little Folks,\" _for Indian Sch'p_ 25.00\nCastine. Prof. F.W. Foster 1.00\nCumberland Center. By Miss J.G. Merrill, Bbl. of C. for Selma, Ala., 2\n_for Freight_ 2.00\nLimington. By Rev. Chas. H. Gates, _for Freight_ 2.00\nMachias. Sarah Hills Sab. Sch. Class _for ed. Indian boy_ 2.50\nPortland. Fourth Cong. Ch. 15.00\nPortland. Mrs. W.W. Brown's S.S. Class, 10; Class in Bethel Sab. Sch.\n1.75; _for Rosebud Indian M._ 11.75\nSouth Berwick. Mrs. Lewis' S.S. Class, _for Wilmington, N.C._ 1.50\nSouth Paris. Cong. Ch. 7.00\nWoodfords. By Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, _for Freight_ 2.00\n\n   NEW HAMPSHIRE, $190.30.\n\nAlstead. Miss Eliza Gorham                                 1.00\nBedford. Milton B. George, _for Indian M._                 1.00\nConcord. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         28.35\nEpping. Mrs. Geo. N. Sheppard's S.S. Class, Cong. Ch.      4.00\nExeter. \"Friend\"                                          30.00\nHaverhill. Members Cong. Ch.                              18.30\nHudson. Cong, Ch. and Soc.                                $3.00\nLancaster. Mrs. A.M. Amsden                                5.00\nLyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  25.65\nMason. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  5.00\nPembroke. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Wilmington, N.C._   2.00\nPiermont. Cong. Ch. and Individuals                       15.00\nStratham. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                          10.00\nTilton. Cong. Ch., 40; Class of Boys _for Student Aid_, 2 42.00\n\n   VERMONT, $394.93.\n\nBarnet. Y.P.S.C.E. 1 _for Chinese M._ and 1 _for McIntosh, Ga._ 2.00\nBradford. First Cong. Ch. 30.02\nBrookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.50\nBurlington. Ladies of First Ch., _for McIntosh, Ga._ 40.00\nBurlington. Mission Band, _for Indian M._ 24.00\nBurlington. Sab. Sch. of College St. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._\n17.86\nCambridge. Madison Stafford 10.00\nCornwall. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._ 2 _for Freight_ 2.00\nEast Arlington. Cong. Ch. 7.00\nFairlee. Cong. Ch. 12.25\nGreensboro. Cong. Ch. 12.00\nLunenburg. Mrs. C.W. King, Easter offering 5.00\nNorth Bennington. Cong. Ch. 9.83\nNorth Ferrisburg. C.W. Wicker 10.00\nNorthfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.13\nNorwich. J.G. Stimson, for Church in Hartford, Vt., Extra 100.00\nOrwell. Ladies of Cong. Ch. _for McIntosh, Ga._ $17.57\nSouth Burlington. Eldridge Sab. Sch. 4.00\nWaitsfield. Box of C. for McIntosh, Ga., 2 _for Freight_ 2.00\nWest Brattleboro. Cong. Ch. 11.02\nWest Fairlee. Mrs. C.M. Holbrook 2.00\nWest Randolph. Miss Susan B. Albin 6.00\nWest Randolph. \"Mission Builders,\" First Cong. Ch., _for McIntosh,\nGa._ 6.00\nWeybridge. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for McIntosh, Ga._ 5.75\nWindham. Cong. Ch. to const., WAYLAND G. ADAMS L.M. 31.00\n\n   MASSACHUSETTS, $5,725.85.\n\nAmesbury. Union Evan. Ch. 10.80\nAndover. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., 100; Calvin E. Goodell, 25 125.00\nAshburnham. First Cong. Ch. 26.25\nAuburndale. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 31.07\nBoston. E.K. Alden, D.D., \"In fraternal remembrance of James Powell\"\n100.00\n\" \"C.A.H.\" _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 100.00\n\" B. Wilkins. Box of Goods, _for Wilmington, N.C._\n\" Samuel Ward & Co., Quantity of Stationary _for Wilmington, N.C._\nCharlestown. Sewing Circle of Winthrop Ch., _for Tougaloo U._ 20.00\nDorchester. Miss Mary A. Tuttle ad'l _for Marie Adlof Fund_ 1.25\nJamaica Plain. R.W. Wood 50.00\n\" Nellie F. Riley 4.50\nRoxbury. Mrs. A.W. Tuffts, _for Freight_ 2.24\n------- 277.99\nBoxford. Sab, Sch, of Cong, Ch., _for Jellico, Tenn._ 37.51\nBrimfield. First Cong. Ch. 6.20\nBuckland. Cong. Ch. 26.13\nChelsea. First Cong. Ch. 30.00\nChesterfield. Cong. Ch. 5.00\nChicopee. Eleanor Woodworth, _for Indian M._ 5.00\nChicopee Falls. Ladies Benev. Soc., _for Tougaloo, Miss._ 15.00\nClinton. C.L. Swan, _for Sch'p, Hampton N. & A. Institute_ 70.00\nClinton. Mrs. J.M. Dakin, _for Clinton Chapel, Talladega_ 10.00\nDalon. Cong. Ch., to const. PAYSON E. LITTLE and HEMAN MITCHELL L.M.'s\n75.86\nDouglas. \"Thank offering from a friend.\" 5.00\nEast Cambridge. Miss Mary F. Aiken, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 5.00\nEasthampton. First Cong. Ch. 65.18\nEnfield. Miss Lucretia Cary's S.S. Class, 6; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n4.05; _for Rosebud Indian M._ 10.05\nErving. Cong. Ch. 4.04\nFall River. Central Cong. Ch. 44.00\nFoxboro. Ortho. Cong. Ch. 73.45\nFoxboro. Cong. Soc. Bbl., of C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._\nFramingham. \"Friend.\" 40.00\nGranville. Mr. and Mrs. C. Holcomb 5.00\nHadley. First Ch. 12.00\nHadley. Sab. Sch. of First Ch. 11.00\nHaverhill. Bethany Ass'n of North Ch., _for Tougaloo U._ 25.00\nHolliston. \"Bible Christians of Dist. No. 4.\" 67.00\nHolliston. L.A. Claflin, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00\nHolyoke. Miss'y Soc. _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.50\nHyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00\nLancaster. Sab. Sch. of Evan. Ch. 16.78\nLexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc. $16.00\nLittleton. J.C. Houghton 4.00\nLowell. First Cong, Ch. to const. ALBERT J. DONNELL L.M. 32.00\nMalden. First Ch. (20 of which from Wm. L. Greene) 78.50\nMansfield. Ortho Cong. Ch. 11.36\nMansfield. Ladies Miss'y Soc., _for Wilmington N.C._ 4.00\nMaplewood. Ladies' Union, Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington N.C._, 1 _for\nFreight_ 1.00\nMedford. \"A Friend,\" bal. to const. MRS. ANNA C. FARNSWORTH L.M. 20.00\nMelrose. Ladles of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of material, _for Sewing Dept.\nTalladega C._\nMerrimac. Ladies Miss'y Soc., by Mrs. Nichols, Treas. 16.75\nMillbury. C.E. Hunt, to const. FREDERICK W. HUNT L.M. 30.00\nMittineague. Southworth Co., Case of Paper, _for Straight U._\nMontague. Cong. Ch. 9.00\nMontville. O.B. Jones, _for Indian M._ 2.00\nNew Bedford. Mrs. I.H. Bartlett, Jr. 30.00\nNew Boston. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. _for Indian M._ 3.72\nNewbury. First Ch. 17.05\nNewburyport. Harriet O. Haskell 2.00\nNewton Center. Ladies Benev. Soc. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student\nAid, Atlanta U._ 40.00\nNewton Center. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. _for Indian M._ 25.00\nNewton Center. Maria B. Farber Soc. Y.L., Bbl of C., etc., _for\nWashington, D.C._\nNorth Amherst. Mrs. Daniel Dickinson, deceased, by Chas. R. Dickinson,\nto const. ISABELLE M. PHELPS L.M. 30.00\nNorthampton. Primary Dep't Edwards Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud Indian\nM._ 15.00\nNorth Leominster. Leonard Burrage, _for Theo. Dept. Santee Indian\nSch._ 2000.00\nNorth Reading. Cong. Ch. 6.42\nNorton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 54.93\nPeabody. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00\nPittsfield. Sab. Sch. of First Ch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 27.14\nPlymouth. Ch. of Pilgrimage 85.22\nQuincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. 6.35\nRandolph. Miss Abby W. Turner, 50; Miss Alice M. Turner, 25; Mrs. John\nJ. Crawford, 25; _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 100.00\nReading. \"Friend in Cong. Ch.\" 2.00\nSalem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc., to const. GEO. A. CHANDLER, GEORGE S.\nROPES and JOHN R. SMITH L.M.'s 339.10\nShelburne Falls. A.N. Russell, 2.5O; Herbert A. Russell, 2.50 5.00\nSomerville. Broadway Cong. Ch. 15.80\nSomerville. Miss'y Circle of Franklin St. Ch., _for Freight_ 2.10\nSouthbridge. Cong. Ch. 49.88\nSouth Framingham. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Robbins, Tenn._ 16.06\nSouth Framingham. G.M. Amsden 5.00\nSouth Hadley. First Cong Ch. 29.25\nSpringfield. Y.P.S.C.E. First Cong. Ch., 50; Sab. Sch. of Memorial\nCh., 25; _for Fisk U._ 15.00\nSpringfield. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._\n4.50\nStoughton. Cong. Ch., bal. _for Freight_ 0.75\nTewksbury. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 15.00\nUpton. Bbl of C., _for Mobile, Ala._\nWaltham. Ladies of Cong. Ch. Bbl. of material _for Sewing Dept.,\nTalladega C._\nWare. Sab. Sch. of East Cong. Ch., _for Santee Indian M._ 25.00\nWellesley. \"Friends in Wellesley College,\" _for Indian M._ 9.00\nWestboro. Miss'y Soc., 3, and Pkg. Furnishings, by Miss Bixby, _for\nPleasant Hill, Tenn._ 3.00\nWest Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.05\nWest Medway. C. Albert Adams 10.00\nWest Medway. \"A Friend,\" _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 3.00\nWest Somerville. Mrs. Taplin, Bbl. of Goods, 1.30 _for freight, for\nPleasant Hill, Tenn._ 1.30\nWeymouth and Braintree. Cong Ch. 48.76\nWhitman. \"A Friend,\" to Const. MRS. LYDIA A. PRATT and MISS LIZZIE\nREED L.M'S. 60.00\nWollaston. First Cong. Ch. (10 of which _for Indian M._) 15.00\nWorcester. Union Ch., 214.75; Piedmont Ch., 65; \"A Friend\" 20; Salem\nSt. Ch., 17.75 317.50\nWorcester. P.E. Moen, 50; \"S.E.J.\" 25, _for Indian M._ 75.00\nWorcester. O.S. Mission C. of Old South Ch., _for Toughaloo U._ 16.00\nWorcester. \"Piedmont Ch., A Friend.\" _for Atlanta U._ 10.00\nWorcester. Benev. Soc. of Plym. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._\n5.00\n---- Massachusetts Indian Ass'n, _for Indian M._ 10.00\n---- \"A Friend,\" adl. _for Fisk U._ 31.42\nBy Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass'n:\nAgawam. _for Indian M._ 5.00\nEast Granville 10.00\nIndian Orchard 14.78\nLudlow 15.00\nPalmer. First 5.06\nSpringfield. South 66.62\nWestfield. First, to const. MRS. MARY E. RICHARDSON L.M. 100.87\nWest Springfield. First, to const. MRS. C.S. BEARDSLEE L.M. 34 00\n------ 251.33\n--------\n$5,375.85\n\n     LEGACIES.\n\nBeverly. Estate of John Lovett, by Chas. T. Lovett, Ex.    250.00\nSherborn. Estate of Oliver Barber, by J.W. Barber, Ex.     100.00\n                                                         --------\n                                                        $5,725.35\n\n     CLOTHING, ETC. RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.\n\nAndover, Mass. Mrs. Selah Merrill, 1 Bbl. _for Tougaloo U._\nGloucester, Mass. Mary Brooks, 1 Bdl. S.S. Papers\nGroton, Mass. Ladies Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch., 1 Bbl. _for Oaks, N.C._\nMalden, Mass. M. Kent, 1 Bbl., _for Kittrell, N.C._\nQuincy, Mass. Harriet S. Proctor, 1 Case\nRockport, Mass. 1 Bdl\nYarmouth, Mass. Sewing Circle of Cong. Ch., 1 Bbl., _for Atlanta U._\n\n   RHODE ISLAND, $90.02.\n\nBristol, \"Wide Awakes\" of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fort Berthold,\nDak._ 8.00\nLittle Compton. United Cong. Ch. 21.52\nPawtucket. \"Mission Workers\" _for Indian Sch'p._ 52.50\nProvidence. Hon. A.C. Barstow, 10; \"A Friend\", 1, _for Tougaloo U._\n11.00\n\n   CONNECTICUT, $3,249.58.\n\nAnsonia. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 4.00\nAshford. Mrs. C.S. Trowbridge 5.00\nBanksville. George Derby 1.00\nBranford. Rev. Henry P. Bake, 10; H.G. Harrison, 10; Cong Ch. 7.69\n27.69\nBridgeport. Infant Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian\nM._ 11.00\nBristol. Cong. Ch. (56 of which from Ladies, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch.,\nGa._) 93.66\nBristol. Mr. E. Peck's S.S. Class, _for Indian M._ 5.00\nCheshire. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 21.00\nDarien. Cong. Ch. 9.29\nEast Hampton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 5.00\nEast Windsor. Mrs. Sarah L. Wells 5.00\nEnfield. Sheffield C. Reynolds 1000.00\nEnfield. J.N. Allen, _for Indian M._ 100.00\nEnfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Straight U._\n25.00\nEssex. First Cong. Ch. 26.00\nGlastonbury. Cong. Ch. (of which 100.72 _for Indian Mission_) 308.12\nGlastonbury. J.B. Williams Co., _for Ind'l Building, Austin, Texas_\n250.00\nGlastonbury. Louise Williams, _for Rosebud Indian M._ 0.50\nGreenville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid. Straight U._\n15.62\nGreenwich. Second Cong. Ch. 31.17\nGuilford. First Cong. Ch., to const. DEA. JOHN W. NORTON L.M. 30.00\nHampton. First Cong. Ch., 24.08; \"Additional to Collection,\" 5 29.08\nHartford. Rodney Dennis, 25; Daniel R. Howe, 25, _for Tougaloo U._\n50.00\nHuntington. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch. Ga._ 11.00\nIvoryton. Mr. Northrup, 10; Mr. Rose, 50c., _for Tougaloo U._ 10.50\nKensington. Geo. W. Ford, 5; Miss F.A. Robbins, 5; Mrs. A.J. Benedict,\n5; Rev. A.J. Benedict, 2; Mrs. A.A. Hart, 1; _for Tougaloo U._ 18.00\nKensington. Edward Cowles 5.00\nKent. Cong. Ch. 28.86\nMeriden. Miss Alice Porter, _for Indian M._ 5.00\nMystic Bridge. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for Thomasville, Ga._ 2.35\nNew Britain. Rev. J.W. Cooper, D.D., _for Tougaloo U._ 5.00\nNew Canaan. W.H.M. Soc. of Cong. Ch. _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 5.00\nNew Haven. Church of the Redeemer, 100; Mrs. S.A. Thomas, 5 105.00\nNew Haven. L.M. Law, _for Indian Sch'p_ 25.00\nNew Haven. Mrs. Henry Farnam, 25; Mrs. J.F. Douglass, 3; Mrs. J.H.\nFog, 10; Mrs. R.W. Bolles, 5; _for Indian M._ 43.00\nNew Haven. Sab. Sch. of College St. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 15.00\nNew London. Sab. Sch. First Ch. of Christ, 56.97; Mrs. Anna H.\nPerkins, 50; Mrs. Lora E. Learned and Miss Learned, 15; J.C. Learned,\n10; _for Indian M._ 131.97\nNew London. Little Son of Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Chapbell, _for Rosebud\nIndian M._ 1.00\nNorfolk. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 35; \"A Friend,\" 18; _for Indian\nScholarships_ 53.00\nNorfolk. Miss Gertrude Cowles, _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.50\nNorth Canaan. Pilgrim Ch. 26.70\nNorwich. James Dana Colt, _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.00\nOld Saybook. Cong. Ch. 27.76\nPlantsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 21.05\nPutnam. Second Cong. Ch. 27.27\nRedding. \"A Friend\" 2.50\nRidgefield. Cong. Ch. 2.70\nSaybrook. Cong. Conference, by Rev. B. Paine 10.85\nSaybrook. Mrs. Giles F. Ward, Case of Books\nSouthport. \"A Friend\" 5.00\nStony Creek. Cong. Ch. 1.00\nTerryville. Cong. Ch. 47.00\nTerryville. Mr. and Mrs. A.S. Gaylord, _for Indian M._ 10.00\nThomaston. Mrs. H.H. Mitchell, _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 20.00\nThomaston. Cong. Ch. 18.50\nThompsonville. Sab. Sch. of First Presb. Ch., _for Student Aid,\nStraight U._ $22.13\nTolland. Mrs. J.L. Clough, _for Indian M._ 1.00\nTorringford. \"A Friend\" 1.00\nTrumbull. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.87\nWalllngford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for \"Bird's Nest\" Indian M._\n50.00\nWaterbury. Second Cong. Ch. 60.71\nWaterbury. Mrs. Mary L. Mitchell, 75; Israel Holmes, 5; _for Indian\nM._ 80.00\nWaterbury. H.W. Scoville, 10; Mrs. H.M. Peck, 6; Miss K.L. Peck, 5;\n_for Tougaloo U._ 20.00\nWauregan. Cong. Ch. 20.00\nWestchester. \"Christian Bees,\" Bbl. of C., _for Jellico, Tenn._\nWest Haven. Mrs. Emeline Smith 10.00\nWest Winsted. T.C. Davis, 5; Mrs. A.O. Davis, 5 10.00\nWethersfield. Sab. Sch. Class, by Frances S. Shedd, _for Indian M._\n10.00\nWethersfield. Emma L. Harris' S.S. Class, _for Rosebud Indian M._ 3.50\nWindsor. First Cong. Ch. 50.00\nWindsor Locks. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._\n25.00\n---- \"A Friend in Conn.,\" _for Beach Inst., Savannah, Ga._ 75.00\n---- \"Plantsville,\" _for Tougaloo U._ 20.00\nWomen's Home Missionary Union of Conn., by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec.\n_for Conn. Ind. Sch., Ga._:\nSheffield. Y.L.H.M. Circle, 12.13 12.13\n\n   NEW YORK, $3,371.16.\n\nAlbany. Chas. A. Beach 40.00\nAstoria. Miss Frances W. Blackwell, _for Indian M._ 2.00\nBrooklyn. South Cong. Ch. 60.09\nBrooklyn. Rossiter W. Raymond, 50; Mrs. H.P. Ludlam, 20; Mrs. G.W.\nTallman, 5; _for Atlanta U._ 75.00\nBrooklyn. Miss M.A. Hall's Sab. Sch. Class, 6.60 _for the poor_; 3\n_for Student Aid_; Mrs. Hall, 3; Miss Carrie Strong, 1; Miss Flossie\nBingham, 1; _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 14.60\nBrooklyn. Rev. S.B. Halliday, Pkg. Books, etc.\nBuffalo. Mrs. Wm. G. Bancroft, _for Indian M._ 100.00\nBuffalo. Miss Fannie Skinner, Box of C., _for Macon, Ga._\nCanastota. Rev. W.W. Warner 12.25\nDanby. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Goods, _for Jellico, Tenn._\nDeansville. Cong. Ch. 10.00\nFairport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 18.95\nFredonia. T.S. Hubbard, _for Lincoln Mem. Parish, Washington, D.C._\n25.00\nGloversville. Cong. Ch., ad'l. 11.00\nGoshen. \"A Friend,\" 1 _for Atlanta U._, 1 _for Marie Adlof Schp. Fund_\n2.00\nJamestown. Mrs. Julia Jones Hall, 2000, ack. in March Missionary,\nshould read _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst., Austin, Tex._\nJewett. \"Friends.\" Bbl. of C., _for Greenwood, S.C._\nKeene Valley. Cong. Ch. 1.12\nLivonia. Y.L.M. Soc. of Pres. Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 8.00\nMarcellus. Mrs. L.F. Hemenway 5.00\nMassena. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega, C._ 12.00\nMount Vernon. B.B. Adams, Jr., Pkg of C.\nNew York. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1000; Rev. D. Stuart Dodge, 100; D.\nWillis James, 100; Hamilton Walls, 60; Hon. John Jay, 25; J. Fred'k\nKernochan, 25; Chas. L. Meade, 25; _for Atlanta U._ 1,325.00\nNew York. Wm. E. Dodge Educational Fund, 300; Mrs. Melissa P. Dodge,\n100; _for Student Aid, Atlanta. U._ 400.00\nNew York. Gen. Wager Swayne, 120; Alanson Trask, 100; _for Talladega\nC_ $220.00\nNew York. John Dwight, 200; S.T. Gordon, 100; Hon. John Jay, 25 325.00\nPitcher. Cong. Ch. 17.50\nPoughkeepsie. Mrs. Anne S. Banfield, (12.25 of which for Indian M.)\n24.50\nPoughkeepsie. C.C. Moore, _for Talladega C._ 10.00\nRochester. McGuire Bible Class, Central Ch., S.S., _for Student Aid,\nTalladega C._ 5.00\nSag Harbor. Geo. B. Brown 1.00\nSherburne. Sab. Sch. of First Cong Ch., _for Talladega C._ 24.11\nSyracuse. Plym. Cong. Ch. 103.54\nWading River. Cong. Ch. 12.00\nWaverly. Mission Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00\nWest Camden. Miss Nancy Curtiss, 1.50; Miss Elizabeth W. Curtiss, 1\n2.50\nWestmoreland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 3.00\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., _for\nWoman's Work_:\nAlbany. Aux. 25.00\nBinghamton. H.M. Soc., to const. MRS. C.E. WELCH and MISS LIZZIE\nHAMILTON L.M.'s 60.00\nBrooklyn. Willing Aid Soc. of Puritan Ch., to const. MRS. LEROY T.\nSMITH and MRS. SARAH B. STANCHFIELD L.M.'s 60.00\nCanastota. Mrs. W.W. Warner 1.00\nNew York. H.S.C. 25.00\nRiverhead. Ladies' H.M. Soc. 25.00\nWarsaw. \"Earnest Workers\" 50.00\n-------- 246.00\n--------\n$3,121.16\n\n     LEGACY.\n\nNew York. Trustees Estate of Wm. E. Dodge, _for Theo. Student,\nTalladega C._ 250.00\n--------\n$3,371.16\n\n   NEW JERSEY, $193.39.\n\nChester. \"A Friend\"                                 5.00\nEast Orange. F.W. Van Wagenen, _for Marion, Ala._  25.00\nManchester. Cong. Ch.                               6.00\nNewark. C.S. Halnes                                30.00\nNewfield. Cong. Ch.                                24.50\nOrange Valley. Cong. Ch.                          102.89\n\n   PENNSYLVANIA, $84.00.\n\nBradford. Charles E. Webster 4.00\nCambridge. First Cong. Ch. 5.00\nNeath. Cong. Ch. 5.00\nRidgway. Young People's Bible Class, by Minnie J. Kline, _for Oaks,\nN.C._ 5.00\nScrangon. Plym. Cong. Ch. 25.00\nScranton. Mrs. Jane L. Eynon, _for Indian Sch'p_ 40.00\n\n   OHIO, $264.36.\n\nAlliance. Sab. Sch. of Welsh Cong. Ch. 5.00\nBryan. S.E. Blakeslee 5.00\nCanfield. Cong. Ch. 6.13\nCastalia. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 9.32\nDover. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch., _for Fisk U._ 20.00\nElyria. Cong. Ch., 3, and Sab. Sch., 6, _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 9.00\nJersey. Mrs. Charlotte F. Slough and C. Fred Slough 5.00\nMadison. Central Cong. Ch. 48.00\nMansfield. F.E. Tracy, _for Student Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._\n37.05\nNorth Ridgeville. Cong. Ch. $5.87\nNorth Ridgeville. Miss M.M. Lickwish, _for Student Aid, Williamsburg,\nKy._ 4.25\nOberlin. Mrs. Maria Godell Frost 2.00\nRockport. Mrs. Carrie S. Bassett 4.50\nSandusky. First Cong. Ch., 19.05; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 17.73\n36.78\nToledo. W.M.U. Central Cong. Ch,. _for Woman's Work_ 20.00\nOhio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas.,\n_for Woman's Work_:\nColumbus. Eastwood Church L.M.S. 10.00\nConneaut. Cong. S.S. Mission Band, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00\nMedina. Primary S.S. Class 0.50\n-------- 15.50\n--------\n$233.40\n\n     LEGACY.\n\nOberlin. Estate of Henry Cowles, D.D., Royalty on Commentary    30.96\n                                                             --------\n                                                              $264.36\n\n   ILLINOIS, $718.14.\n\nAurora. First Cong. Ch. 47.31\nBatavia. Y.P. Miss'y Soc. 10.00\nChicago. First Cong. Ch. 153.81\nEvanston. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Fisk U. Schp._ 52.36\nForest. Cong. Ch. 16.70\nGalesburg. First Ch. of Christ, 46.14 and Sab. Sch., 13.44 59.58\nHarvard. Young People's Miss'y Soc. 7.05\nJoy Prairie. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 13.00\nLisbon. Gilman Kendall, 1; Mrs. L.M. Kendall, 1 2.00\nLombard. Ladies, _for Mobile, Ala._ 8.00\nPeoria. Mrs. John L. Griswold, 100; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n25.50; _for Fisk U._ 125.50\nPeoria. S.S. Class, _for Mobile, Ala._ 5.00\nPrinceton. Mrs. P.B. Corss 20.00\nRidge Prairie. Rev. A. Kern 1.00\nSummer Hill. Cong. Ch. 5.00\nThomasboro. \"R\" 3.00\nTolono. Mrs. L. Haskell 10.00\n---- \"Hapland\" 100.00\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Ill., Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, Treas., _for\nWoman's Work_:\nAlton. W.H.M.U. 9.00\nAshkum 0.94\nChicago. Leavitt St. Ch. 1.39\nMcLean. W.H.M.U. 10.00\nMorris 10.00\nOak Park. Ladies' Benev. Circle 16.00\nPayson 1.00\nProvidence 8.00\nRockford. Second Ch. 4.00\nRockford. W.H.M.U. of Second Ch. 2.50\nSycamore. W.H.M.U. 0.25\nToulon 0.75\nWaukegan. Miss Knight 3.50\nWilmette 1.00\n---- 78.83\n\n   MICHIGAN, $398.54.\n\nAnn Arbor. First Cong. Ch.                47.50\nAugusta. First Cong. Ch.                   2.33\nCalumet. Cong. Ch.                       169.83\nDetroit. Edward Hall, _for Athens, Ala._  10.00\nGalesburg. P.H. Whitford                 102.24\nNew Baltimore. Cong. Church               17.80\nOlivet. Cong. Ch.                         32.84\n\n   WISCONSIN, $470.58.\n\nBaraboo. Cong. Ch.                                     2.50\nClinton. Cong. Ch.                                     2.33\nFulton. Cong. Ch.                                      6.58\nColumbus. Cong. Ch.                                   $1.20\nElkhorn. Cong. Ch.                                    10.30\nFulton. Cong. Ch.                                      6.58\nGreen Bay. Pkg. Basted Work, _for Mobile, Ala._\nHartford. First Cong Ch. and Soc.                     40.00\nMenomonie. John H. Knapp                             300.00\nParis and Bristol. Cong. Ch., _for Freight_            0.70\nPlatteville. Cong. Ch., 26.35; Y.P.S.C.E., 2          28.35\nParirie du Chien. Cong. Ch.                            4.00\nRacine. E.B. Kilbourne                                15.00\nRio. Cong. Ch.                                         2.60\nStockbridge. Cong. Ch.                                10.00\nSun Prairie. Cong Ch.                                  3.67\nTomah. Cong. Ch.                                       1.00\nTrempealeau. Cong. Ch.                                 4.20\nUnion Grove. Cong. Ch.                                 2.78\nWaukesha. Vernon Tichenor                              5.00\nWaupun. Cong. Ch., 15.40; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 10  25.40\nWest Salem. Cong. Ch.                                  3.00\nWyocena. Cong. Ch.                                     1.97\n\n   IOWA, $319.31.\n\nAmes. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Savannah, Ga._\nAtlantic. Cong. Ch. 28.14\nBelle Plaine. JAMES P. HENRY, to const. himself L.M. 30.00\nCedar Rapids. Rev. C.H. Moore 2.00\nCherokee. \"A Friend,\" to const. J.A. RISLEY, G.T. FOSTER, JAMES O.\nDONNELL, JOHN P. DICKEY and W.T. BURROUGHS L. M's 150.00\nMiles. Cong. Ch. 12.05\nMoravia. Miss O. Hoffman 0.50\nNewton. First Cong. Ch., 17; Mrs. S.S. Derbyshire, 2 19.00\nRicevllle. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Freight_ 3.00\nWebster City. \"Friends,\" 4, and Bbl. of Goods, _for Pleasant Hill,\nTenn._ 4.00\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa, _for Woman's Work_:\nAnamosa. W.H.M.U. 10.00\nAlmora. W.H.M.U. 1.00\nCouncil Bluffs. W.M.S. 10.00\nDecorah. W.H.M.U. 25.00\nDubuque. S.S. 7.00\nMount Pleasant. W.H.M.U. 5.80\nRed Oak. L.M.S. 10.00\nRockford. W.H.M.U. 1.82\n-------- 70.62\n\n   MINNESOTA, $570.94.\n\nAda. Cong. Ch. 5.79\nCannon Falls. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._\n25.00\nHamilton. Cong. Ch. 15.85\nMinneapolis. Plymouth Ch., 66.53; Vine Cong. Ch., 16.95; Lyndale Cong.\nCh., 15.85 99.33\nPaynesville. Cong. Ch. 12.55\nRochester. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 4.85\nStillwater. Rev. Wm. Boutwell, _for Indian M._ 5.00\nZumbrota. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. J.B. LOCKE and A.B. FOLSOM L.M.'s\n17.10\n---- \"Minnesota Friends,\" _for Atlanta U._ 200.00\nMinnesota Woman's Home Missionary Society, by Mrs. C.N. Cross, Treas.,\n_for Woman's Work_:\nAustin. W.M.S. 2.95\nElk River. W.M.S. 8.25\nGlynton. W.M.S. 10.00\nMarshall. W.M.S. 14.00\nMinneapolis. W.H.M.S. of Plym. Ch., to const. MRS. S.R. SYKES and MISS\nSELMA JOHNSON L.M.'s 74.17\nMinneapolis. Y.L.M.S. of Plym. Ch. 8.60\nMinneapolis. W.M.S. of Como Ave. Ch. $1000\nMinneapolis. Children's M.B. of Pilgrim Ch. 2.50\nRochester. Whatsoever Club 15.00\nSaint Paul. W.H.M.S. of Plym. Ch. 25.00\n\" Lend a Hand Soc., Plym. Ch. 10.00\nWorthington. W.M.S. 5.00\n-------- 185.47\n\n   MISSOURI, $10.25.\n\nLamar. Cong. Ch.                 2.25\nSaint Louis. Hyde Park Cong. Ch. 8.00\n\n   KANSAS, $23.65.\n\nBoling. Prof. L.A. Stone 3.00\nOsawatomie. C.S. and M.E. Adair, 3, Rev. S.L. Adair, 2, _for Atlanta,\nU._ 5.00\nSedgwick. Plym. Cong. Ch. 1.00\nWabaunsee. First Ch. of Christ 10.65\nWakefield. Mrs. M.L. Mason 4.00\n\n   DAKOTA, $20.00.\n\nElk Point. Cong. Ch. 10.00\nSioux Falls. Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Johnson, _for Student Aid,\nWilliamsburg, Ky._ 10.00\n\n   NEBRASKA, $46.03.\n\nOmaha. First Cong, Ch., 38.79; Hillside Cong. Ch., 4.55 43.34\nNorfolk. Cong. Ch.                                       2.69\n\n   ARKANSAS, $11.30.\n\nLittle Rock. First Cong. Ch.                                         6.30\nLittle Rock. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._\n5.00\n\n   WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $25.00.\n\nSkokomish. Cong. Ch.                                15.00\nSeattle. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Athens, Ala._ 10.00\n\n   CALIFORNIA, $10.00.\n\nLos Angeles. \"R.P.A. and Wife\" 10.00\n\n   DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $17.00.\n\nWashington. Miss James, 5; Minnie S. Cook, 2, _for Lincoln Mem.\nParish, Washington_ 7.00\nWashington. Lincoln Mem. Ch. 10.00\n\n   KENTUCKY, $249.55.\n\nLexington. Tuition      213.55\nWilliamsburg. Cong. Ch.  36.00\n\n   TENNESSEE, $1,088.44.\n\nGrand View. Tuition                     60.00\nHelenwood. John Frye                     2.00\nJonesboro. Tuition, 23.10; Rent, 4.50   27.60\nMemphis. Tuition                       408.70\nNashville. Tuition. 577.14; Rent, 6.50 583.64\nPleasant Hill. From sale Bbl. of Holly   6.50\n\n   NORTH CAROLINA, $193.20.\n\nPekin. Cong. Ch.                                 1.00\nSalem. Cong. Ch.                                 4.70\nTroy. Cong. Ch.                                  1.00\nWilmington. Tuition                            176.50\nWilmington. Miss H.L. Fitts, _for Student Aid_  10.00\n\n   SOUTH CAROLINA, $227.50.\n\nCharleston. Tuition $221.50\nGreenwood. Brewer Normal Sch. 5.00\nMillitt. \"Little Children in Miss Osceola Pleasant's Sch.,\" _for Marie\nAdlof Sch'p Fund_ 1.00\n\n   GEORGIA, $1,160.09.\n\nAtlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition                        540.45\nAtlanta. \"Seven Birthday Offerings,\" First Cong. Ch.   1.14\nMacon. Cong. Ch., 1, and Sab. Sch., 1                  2.00\nMarietta. Cong. Ch., 1, and Sab. Sch., 1               2.00\nMcIntosh. Tuition                                     49.00\nSavannah. Tuition                                    214.00\nSavannah. Miss A.D. Gerrish                           23.50\nThomasville. Tuition                                  62.95\nWoodville. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                           2.60\n\n   ALABAMA, $510.90.\n\nAthens. Tuition                                  70.45\nMarion. Tuition                                 107.95\nMobile. Tuition                                 212.50\nSelma. Rent                                     100.00\nTalladega. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Indian M._  20.00\n\n   FLORIDA, $24.05.\n\nAltona. J.S. Blackman      3.00\nSaint Augustine. E. Sabin  5.05\nWinter Park. Cong. Ch.    16.00\n\n   LOUISIANA, $320.50.\n\nNew Orleans. Tuition 320.50\n\n   MISSISSIPPI, $149.85.\n\nSalem. Cong. Ch., Christmas Gift        1.00\nTougaloo. Tuition, 139.85; Rent, 9.60 148.85\n\n   TEXAS, $122.00.\n\nAustin. Tuition 122.00\n\n   INCOMES, $485.00.\n\nAvery Fund, _for Mendi M._                  355.00\nBelden Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._  30.00\nC.P. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._            50.00\nGeneral Endowment Fund                       50.00\n\n   BULGARIA, $8.00.\n\nSamokov. Pilgrim 8.00\n\n   AFRICA, $10.00.\n\nKambini, Inhambane. Rev. B.F. Ousley      10.00\n                                     ==========\nDonations                            $15,870.30\nLegacies                                 630.96\nIncomes                                  485.00\nTuition                                3,777.39\nRents                                    120.60\n                                       --------\nTotal for March                      $20,884.26\nTotal from Oct. 1 to March 31        130,976.15\n                                       ========\n\n   FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY,\n\nSubscriptions for March   $84.78\nPreviously acknowledged   562.50\n                        --------\nTotal                    $647.28\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nH.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n\n56 Reade St., N.Y.\n{146}\n\n  *     *     *     *     *\n\nTUXEDO TRADEMARK.\n\nEarly attention is called to our Knitted Suit, \"The TUXEDO,\" for\nLadies', Misses' and Children's wear. No other suit ever sold has, in\nso short a time, become so universal a favorite. These Knitted Suits\nare not only the most comfortable and pleasant to wear, but are the\nmost becoming and graceful in appearance.\n\nFor sale in New York only by\n\nJAMES McCREERY & CO.\n\nBROADWAY and ELEVENTH ST.\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\nwork that does not require an extra heavy coat, they can be thinned\n(with our Old Fashioned Kettle-boiled Linseed Oil) and still cover\nbetter than most of the mixed paints sold in the market, many of which\nhave so little stock in them that they will not give a good solid\ncoat.\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\n\nINVESTMENT CO.\n\nOF 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 deposit\nfor 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\n_Mailed for the Retail Price._\n\n_Oliver 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. 05, May, 1888","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":16965}