{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_13584/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_13584","id":"gutenberg_13584","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13584","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"The American Missionary\n\n\n November 1888\n\n Volume XLII. No. 11.\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\nEDITORIAL\nNOT QUITE FREE--ENCOURAGING RESPONSES TO OUR APPEAL\nTHE MOHONK CONFERENCE\nORDINATION--THE YELLOW FEVER\nTHE SAMARITAN WOMAN\nGENERAL SURVEY\nOUR SCHOOLS--CHURCH WORK--MOUNTAIN WORK--THE INDIANS--THE\n CHINESE--WOMAN'S BUREAU--FINANCES\nSTUDENT'S LETTER\nSTRUGGLES IN THE \"LONE STAR STATE\"\nTHE CHINESE\nREVIEW OF THE YEAR\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK\nWOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS\nRECEIPTS\n\n\n\n NEW YORK:\n\n PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\n\n Rooms, 56 Reade Street.\n\n\n\n Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.\n\nEntered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second class matter.\n\n\n\n American Missionary Association.\n\n\n\nPresident, Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.\n\n_Vice-Presidents._\n\nRev. A.J.F. Behrends, D.D., N.Y.\nRev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D., Mass.\nRev. F.A. Noble, D.D., Ill.\nRev. D.O. Mears, D.D., Mass.\nRev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo.\n\n_Corresponding Secretaries._\n\nRev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., 56 _Reade Street, N.Y._\nRev. A.F. Beard, D.D., 56 _Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n_Treasurer._\n\nH.W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 _Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n_Auditors._\n\nPeter McCartee.\nChas. P. Peirce.\n\n_Executive Committee._\n\nJohn H. Washburn, Chairman.\nAddison P. Foster, Secretary.\n\n_For Three Years._\nLyman Abbott,\nCharles A. Hull,\nJ.R. Danforth,\nClinton B. Fisk,\nAddison P. Foster,\n\n_For Two Years._\nS.B. Halliday,\nSamuel Holmes,\nSamuel S. Marples,\nCharles L. Mead,\nElbert B. Monroe,\n\n_For One Year._\nJ.E. Rankin,\nWm. H. Ward,\nJ.W. Cooper,\nJohn H. Washburn,\nEdmund L. Champlin.\n\n_District Secretaries._\n\nRev. C.J. Ryder, 21 _Cong'l House, Boston._\nRev. J.E. Roy, D.D., 151 _Washington Street, Chicago._\n\n_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._\n\nRev. Chas. W. Shelton.\n\n_Secretary of Woman's Bureau._\n\nMiss D.E. Emerson, 56 _Reade St., 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 The American Missionary.\n\n VOL. XLII.\n November, 1888.\n No. 11.\n\nAmerican Missionary Association\n\n\n\nNOT QUITE FREE.\n\nIn the November MISSIONARY of last year, the financial statement bore\nthe simple and joyous heading \"FREE.\" This year we are compelled to\nprefix two qualifying words. Our books closed September 30, with a\nbalance of $5,641.21 on the wrong side. While we regret that there\nshould be any debt, we rejoice that it is no larger.\n\nThe receipts applicable to current expenses fell off somewhat during\nthe year, while the expenditures, owing to general growth and some\nspecial demands were greater than last year. The first of September,\ntherefore, found us confronting an impending debt. The appeal which we\nfelt constrained to make for September, and which was made under some\nspecial disadvantages as compared with last year, was met with so\nhearty a response in gifts and in expressions of interest in our work,\nas to move us to gratitude to God and thankfulness to our friends. A\nfew of the donors gave $1,000 each, but the larger share of the\nresponses contained remittances of less than $100. Many of the sums\nwere quite small, and some of them indicated great self-sacrifice on\nthe part of the donors. A few brief extracts, all that our limited\nspace will allow, from a small portion of the letters received, will\nbe found below.\n\nWe thank God and take courage. We believe that our friends who\nremembered us in the past will not forget us in the future, and that\nour wants in October, and in all the following months, will not be\nforgotten because they were so well remembered in September. One\nthousand dollars a day represents our needs for carrying on the work\nin its present development.\n\n _Encouraging Responses to our Appeal._\n\n\"I would like to send you more, but I send you the last dollar I have\n($71.00,) and must trust the Lord for means to support us until my\nnext month's payment, and for means to go to the meeting of the\nA.B.C.F.M., in case I attend.\"\n\n\"Twenty-five cents of this money was from a woman 82 years old. She is\nalmost helpless. The family in which she lives is very poor. She has\nnot a penny that she calls her own. She said to me, 'Here is the\nwidow's mite. I prayed that the Lord would send me something to give\naway. You please take it and send it where it will do the most good.'\nI send it to you trusting that with her prayers of faith, it may be\nuseful.\"\n\nThe writer of a letter enclosing a donation of $10 adds in a\npostscript in regard to the donor: \"Mrs. A---- was born May 5th, 1787,\nand is an _old contributor_.\"\n\n\"I have expended all my appropriation for charitable purposes this\npresent year, yet I can, perhaps, curtail in some directions and so\nremit to you $20 as a small tributary to swell the stream for meeting\nindebtedness. I hope your appeal will accomplish the results desired.\n\n\"Through abounding grace, my wife and I are once more permitted the\njoyful privilege of sending for the general work of the American\nMissionary Association, $100 enclosed herewith in draft to your order.\n(Their third contribution this year. Ed.) Say to the dear brethren in\nthe work of the Master: 'Be of good courage, fear not, for I am with\nyou'; _His_ own words enduring forever.\"\n\n\"Enclosed, please find check for $100. I am always glad to be\nremembered on special appeals when they are necessary, even if I\ncannot help. I do not know that I enjoy anything more than what I am\nable to give to the A.M.A. I trust your appeal will find many generous\nresponses.\"\n\n\"Your kind and thoughtful letter of the 13th, received. It affords me\nreal pleasure to respond to your call for our Association. The good\nLord has more or less blessed me with opportunity and ability to\nacquire money, and may He forbid that I should turn his blessings into\ncurses by hoarding the gifts of his providence, when the cry of the\npoor and down-trodden is heard. I enclose my check for $100 for the\ncause.\"\n\n\"It is a small contribution, but it comes from a small church.\nCertainly it represents a genuine interest in the work of your society\nand is accompanied with prayers for its success.\"\n\nAn executor, in remitting a legacy of $500 says: \"It is not due\naccording to the terms of the will till next spring, but you may find\nit useful at this time to help out the year.\"\n\nWe have received from Oaks, North Carolina, towards the extinguishment\nof our debt, a contribution from forty-nine different persons,\namounting to $5.66. This represents a degree of sacrifice, not\nsurpassed, perhaps, by any who have contributed. Seventy cents of it\nwere in cash; sixty-six cents were value in fodder; one dollar and\nthirty-four cents in potatoes and corn; one dollar and one cent in\nwork.\n\nThe missionary who is ministering to these very poor people says: \"If\nall who love the A.M.A. would do as well, according to their ability,\nyour treasury would be filled.\"\n\n\n\nTHE MOHONK CONFERENCE.\n\nThis Conference is unique in its character, and in the place where it\nis held. Lake Mohonk was born in a great earthquake that sunk it in\nits solid rocky bed, and piled up around it wonderful ranges of hills\nand vast splintered rocks. The splendid summer resort built on the\nmargin of the Lake is the work of Mr. A.K. Smiley, a man of creative\ngenius, and of kind manners and a warm heart. The house, or rather the\nrange of houses, is picturesque, and the walks among the hills and\ndown the rocky gorges, and the forty miles of excellent roads, give\nthe widest scope for walking and driving.\n\nThe Conference is the invention of Mr. Smiley. To it, he invites\nannually a hundred or more guests, giving them the freedom of the\nhouse; and three days are spent in the discussion of Indian affairs,\ninterspersed with afternoon drives amid the striking scenery. The\ninvitation is extended to those who are supposed to be intelligently\ninterested in the Indians; but within that limit there is the freest\nrange--men and women of all political parties and of all religious\ndenominations being included. The acts of the Conference, like the\nutterances of a Congregational Council, have only the authority of the\nreason that is in them; yet it is wonderful what an influence this\npeculiar body has had on public sentiment. Its utterances have been\ndiscussed and have had their weight in the pulpit, the press, in\nCongress and in the White House. The Indian and the Nation owe much to\nthe Mohonk Conference.\n\nThe Sixth Annual Conference, which closed September 28th, sustained\nthe interest of past years in the importance of the topics discussed,\nin the divergency of opinion at first, and in the complete harmony at\nthe end. The points agreed upon in the platform were arranged under\nfive heads. The first relates to the establishment of Courts of\nJustice in the Reservations and accessible to the Indians; the second\nto the important need of education, demanding that the Government\nshall undertake at once the entire task of providing primary and\nsecular education for all Indian children; the third urges that this\neducation shall be compulsory, under proper limitations; the fourth\nemphasizes the duty of the churches to furnish religious instruction\nto the Indians, and the immunity of their work from all governmental\ninterference where sustained wholly by missionary funds; the fifth\napproves of the co-operation of the Government with the missionary\nsocieties in contract schools during the present transitional\ncondition of the Indians. We append the last two items of the report.\n\n 4. In view of the great work which the Christian Churches have\n done in the past in inaugurating and maintaining schools\n among the Indians, and of the essential importance of\n religious as distinguished from secular education, for\n their civil, political and moral well-being, an element\n of education which, in the nature of the case, the\n National Government cannot afford, the churches should be\n allowed the largest liberty, not, indeed, to take away\n the responsibility from the Government in its legitimate\n sphere of educational work, but to supplement it to the\n fullest extent in their power, by such schools, whether\n primary, normal or theological, as are at the sole cost\n of the benevolent or missionary societies. And it is the\n deliberate judgment of this Conference that in the crisis\n of the Indian transitional movement the churches should\n arouse themselves to the magnitude and emergency of the\n duty thus laid upon them in the providence of God.\n\n 5. Nothing should be done to impair or weaken the agencies\n at present engaged in the work of Indian education. Every\n such agency should be encouraged and promoted, except as\n other and better agencies are provided for the work. In\n particular, owing to the anomalous condition of the\n Indians and the fact that the Government is administering\n trust funds that belong to them, what is known as the\n \"contract system\"--by which the nation aids by\n appropriations private and missionary societies in the\n work of Indian education--ought to be maintained by a\n continuance of such aid, until the Government is\n prepared, with adequate buildings and competent\n teachers, to assume the entire work of secular\n education. In no case should the Government establish\n schools to compete with private or church schools which\n are already doing a good work, so long as there are\n thousands of Indian children for whose education no\n provision is made.\n\n\n\nORDINATION AT NEW ORLEANS.\n\nA council of Congregational Churches was held in New Orleans, Sept.\n16th, for the purpose of ordaining Prof. Geo. W. Henderson, A.M.,\nB.D., to the Christian ministry. Rev. R.C. Hitchcock, President of\nStraight University, was chosen Moderator. Mr. Henderson sustained an\nexcellent examination, and was installed Pastor of the Central\nCongregational Church. The entire service was impressive, and Rev. Mr.\nHenderson enters upon a very responsible charge of a large church with\nmany encouragements and hopes of great success.\n\n\n\nOUR SCHOOLS AND THE YELLOW FEVER.\n\nWe have been extremely gratified with the manifestations of faith and\ncourage on the part of our lady teachers in the South during the time\nof fear and panic because of the yellow fever. Some were already at\ntheir stations and in their schools, and some were on the way, subject\nto the trials of quarantine. Not one hesitated in the path of duty.\nMany teachers from the different parts of the North were ready to go\nwhen the reports of the pestilence were most alarming, but not one of\nthe teachers who had previously been in the work, failed to await\ninstructions to go forward whenever we should speak the word. We have\nbeen grateful to God during all these days of the autumn for the\nsplendid qualities of consecration and courage which have come out of\nour correspondence with our honored teachers. Never did their fathers\nor brothers, years ago, when deadly war called them to face the perils\nof battle, show higher courage or a larger sense of duty. Almost all\nof our Southern schools are now in session, and begin with increased\nattendance.\n\nSCHOOL ECHO.--A teacher writes: \"One of my pupils who had been\nteaching during the summer came to me in despair over a sum, saying:\n\"I can't understand _sympathizing fractions_.\"\n\n(When we went to school years and years ago, \"sympathizing fractions,\"\nmeant broken candy. We understood, but the teacher didn't. Times\nchange, and we change with them.)\n\n\n\nTHE SAMARITAN WOMAN.\n\n BY REV. C.J. RYDER, BOSTON.\n\n \"And they marveled that he talked with the woman.\"\n\nWhy? She was a sinful woman. But these disciples must even thus early\nin Christ's ministry have learned that he had come to call sinners,\nnot the righteous, to repentance. She was a Samaritan! That was a\nlarger reason for their marvel. They could rise above their hatred for\nsin more easily than their race prejudice; so can we. The Samaritans\nwere an inferior people. Degraded they were. They had been degraded\nfor centuries. The Jews shunned them. Socially our Lord was making a\ngreat blunder, perhaps a fatal blunder, in talking to this Samaritan\nwoman. His cause was in its infancy. The hand of social prejudice\nwould surely throttle it. Why antagonize the existing order of\nsociety? How much better to utilize it for the establishment and\nenlargement of the great and glorious kingdom of our Lord! This cause\nneeded the influence of Jewish leaders. Why risk this potent influence\nfor the sake of one miserable Samaritan woman, or, for that matter,\nfor a whole race of Samaritans? It seemed very poor management of a\ncause, new in that country. \"Far be such unwisdom from thee, Lord,\" we\ncan hear the impassioned and worldly-wise Peter exclaim. But our Lord\nchose to sacrifice the temporary success of his kingdom that he might\nbe true to the eternal principles of that kingdom; and so he talked\nwith this sinful woman of this despised race just as considerately as\nwith Nicodemus. He invited her to his discipleship just as cordially,\nand to the same discipleship. There is not a hint that the Good\nShepherd built another fold for the Samaritan sheep, lest some of the\nJewish flock should jump over the fence, if they were put into the\nsame fold.\n\nThese Samaritans were not only degraded and despised socially, but\nthey were also superstitious in their religious beliefs, and\nsemi-heathen in their forms of worship. It would take generations to\nbring them up to a level with the Jewish Christians. They could not\ncomprehend much of the intelligent preaching that Christ addressed to\nthe Jews. Why not appoint a special missionary for them, and then\nquietly exclude them from the ordinary gatherings? This course would\navoid criticism; it would not violate the established ideas of social\nand religious propriety. Nothing need be said about it. It would not\nbe best to put it on parchment; just let it be quietly whispered about\nthat the disciples thought it was better for the Samaritan Christians\nnot to meet with the others. The disciples were surrounded by\nprejudiced people, to be sure, but these prejudices were very old;\ntime would correct all these social and race inequalities. The\ndisciples thought it better to ignore them, and just organize and\ncarry on their work with no reference to these degraded and\nsuperstitious Samaritans. Such seems to have been somewhat the\nreasoning of these timid disciples. It was not our Lord's reasoning;\nthe doors of his blessed kingdom opened to all. It required no magic\nsesame of race respectability to throw back these gates of pardon and\nhope. Sin must be left outside, but the sinner of every race and tribe\nwas welcomed to all the privileges of this kingdom. We now see the\nwisdom and the divinity of our Lord's course.\n\nHad these marveling disciples had their way, the sect of the\nChristians would have been added to the sects of the Herodians and the\nSadducees, and been buried in the same grave centuries ago. The voice\nthat talked with this Samaritan woman is heard round the globe now,\nand every century only adds greater authority to its divine utterance;\nand it is heard because it spoke with this despised Samaritan woman.\nOur Lord did not ignore this race prejudice; he rebuked it. And so\nthese timid disciples, realizing only the temporary danger that\nthreatened, marveled that he talked with this woman. God pity them!\nBut how human they were. So to-day, in India, the missionaries of the\ncross, true to their Lord's great example, talk with pariah and\nBrahmin, and welcome them both to equal privileges in the kingdom of\nhis grace--and men marvel. And so in Alabama and South Carolina, the\nmissionaries of the cross, true to the same divine example, talk with\nblack and with white, and welcome them both to the same privileges in\nthis kingdom--and even some timid disciples marvel. But the principles\nof this divine kingdom do not change; the Lord of that kingdom, who\ntalked with the sinful, weary, despised Samaritan woman, would, if\nhere in bodily presence now, talk with the sinful, weary, despised\nblack woman, no matter how much his worldly-wise disciples might\nmarvel. His kingdom is built upon this eternal truth of human\nbrotherhood, and it will endure because it is. Nothing short of this\nis of his kingdom, but will crumble to dust.\n\n_The Congregationalist_\n\n\n\nForty-Second Annual Report Of The Executive Committee,\n\n FOR THE YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1888.\n\n\n\nGeneral Survey.\n\n\n\nThe field of missions is the world which lieth in darkness. We have to\ndo with that part of it for which we are doubly responsible. It is in\ndarkness and it is our own.\n\nWe look upon our own land, with its States equal in extent and\ncapacity to foreign kingdoms. When we know that they hold the\ncertainty of a future influence of which their past power has been but\na prophecy, our fears press hard upon our hopes.\n\nNor are our work and our fears an intrusion. When the pestilence which\nwalks in darkness brings the destruction which wastes at noonday, it\nis our call to feel deeply the distresses of those who are stricken.\nBut plagues consuming human lives are less grevious than those which\nabide, and which, walking in the intellectual and moral darkness of a\npeople, waste the lives of men and the hopes of souls. This is our\ncall.\n\nRemember that it is our own country where, in twelve great States,\nlike empires, forty per cent. of the population cannot read, where,\nto-day, three-fourths of the illiteracy of the whole nation exists;\nwhere the darkness is increasing more rapidly than it is being lighted\nup; where much which passes for religion even among those who preach\nit, is a travesty upon Christianity, openly divorced from relationship\nwith truth, purity, integrity and intelligence.\n\nOur survey takes in questions that are painful; disturbing questions\nthat are not in the North, nor in the West. They are difficult to\nmeet. They are near, and the troubles which the questions hold are\nnear. They come close to the heart of Christianity. They are close to\nthe life of the churches. They are close to the first principles of\nhuman rights. They are questions that can have only one final\nsolution, which may be so remote that fearful dangers will culminate\nin terrible disasters before the only remedy can do its work. There\nare now nearly eight millions of a Negro population, from four\nmillions twenty years ago. There are more than two millions of\nmountain people in the South, one-half of whom cannot read. These\nbenighted people live where there has never been a public-school\nsystem even for the more highly favored race, and where this more\nhighly favored race deliberately assigns those who are not of its\ncolor to a permanent inferiority. The laws of caste are to be\ninflexibly enforced against all people of color who would rise from\ntheir low-down conditions. This is our Southern mission field, which\nGod has committed to us, according to our faith and opportunity.\n\nThose of our own race in the South could not do this work, which is\nupon our consciences and hearts, if they would. They do not see what\nwe see. They would not if they could. They do not feel what we feel.\n\nWe are sent, not as philanthropists who hear the cry of the poor and\nneedy, nor as patriots who realize the perils that overhang the State,\nbut as missionaries of Jesus Christ who believe that salvation takes\nin the whole man, including philanthropy and statesmanship, and\nwhatever builds up man for time and for eternity.\n\nWe have, however, no other charter for our work than that of missions.\nWe have no other errand than that of the messengers of Christ. Only as\nwe go in his name and with his spirit do we ask the churches to listen\nand hear with us, and with us to look and see.\n\n OUR SCHOOLS.\n\nOur missionary work has been largely in schools. It was God's\nprovidence. But these were always missionary centres.\n\nTheir number at the present time is ninety-three; seventeen of these\nin the Southern States are Normal Schools from which a large\nproportion of the pupils go forth as teachers. It is computed that of\nthe 15,000 Negro teachers in the South instructing 800,000 pupils,\n13,500 became teachers from missionary schools, and that a great army\nof more than 7,000 of these teachers received their education in the\ninstitutions of the American Missionary Association. Thus the faith of\nthe churches multiplies and accelerates itself.\n\nThese Normal Schools are located in WILMINGTON, N.C., CHARLESTON and\nGREENWOOD, S.C., ATLANTA, MACON, SAVANNAH, THOMASVILLE and MCINTOSH,\nGA., MOBILE, ATHENS and MARION, ALA., MEMPHIS, JONESBORO, GRAND VIEW\nand PLEASANT HILL, TENN., LEXINGTON and WILLIAMSBURG, KY., to which\nmust be added the large Normal and Industrial School at Santee Agency,\nNebraska, the Oahe Industrial School and the Fort Berthold Industrial\nSchool, both in Dakota, and all three for the Indians, making\naltogether 20. The Association provides also the entire teaching force\nat the Ramona Indian School at Santa F\u00e9, New Mexico. To these Normal\nSchools, we may add the six normal departments in our colleges with\ntheir superior normal instruction. From nearly all of these, strong\nappeals for enlargement have come to meet the demands of a healthy\ngrowth. We have cut, trimmed and denied, with a resolution that has\nbeen painful both in the office and in the field, and yet the growth\nis upon us. Without pushing our work, it is pushing us.\n\nWhile ignorant millions need the truth and knowledge which we have,\nand there are resources in the hands of the disciples of Christ enough\nfor this vast and increasingly urgent work, the necessity of denying\nthe provisions for the development of success becomes well-nigh\noppressive.\n\nAT PLEASANT HILL, TENN., an important centre in our Mountain work, we\nhave now, in addition to the new church, a school building unequalled\nin that region. A second building for a dormitory and boarding hall is\nnearly completed.\n\nTHE GRAND VIEW ACADEMY in the Mountain region, has also increased its\nschool accommodations, and the look forward is to a large institution\nwith far-reaching influence in the valley of the Cumberland and on the\nplateau. If we are to hold this region, we must take possession now.\n\nWe have also reassumed charge of a school at Beaufort, N.C. The people\nare already appealing to us in the accents of their own sacrifices for\nits immediate enlargement.\n\nProvidentially, and without our solicitation, a generous giver, of\nBrooklyn, N.Y., who had already added to many large benevolences in\nthe South, the fine building known as Ballard Hall and the excellent\nshops for industrial training at Tougaloo, made a proffer of $11,500\nto erect at Macon, Ga., a school building of brick, capable of\naccommodating six hundred pupils. This successful school had grown\nuntil it had taken possession of the church building for school\npurposes. This noble gift, bestowed after a personal inspection on the\npart of Mr. Ballard, and upon personal conviction of its immediate\nnecessity, could not be refused, and the substantial and spacious\nbuilding, with its furnishings, is now nearly ready for occupancy. It\nwill call for increased contributions from the churches.\n\nDORCHESTER ACADEMY, at McIntosh, Ga., is in a rice region remote from\ncivilization and educational privileges, among thousands of Negro\npeople very ignorant and poor. It cannot receive the pupils who beg\nfor admission. Children are punctual at school from a distance of\neight miles, lest they shall lose their privileges by tardiness or\nabsence. Africa itself could scarcely send out a cry of greater need.\nWe had decided to increase the capacity of this school, but are\ncompelled to wait.\n\nAT GREENWOOD, S.C., the interests are so great and the appeals were so\nreasonable, that it was voted to enlarge the facilities for the\ngrowing institution; but at the last we could not do this, and the\nlaborers there continue their prayers and their hopes.\n\nTHE LINCOLN NORMAL INSTITUTE at Marion, Ala., was established in the\nyear 1868, by the A.M.A. In the year 1874, the State of Alabama asked\nto assume the school, which had won a good name, and to increase its\nfacilities for the education of the Negro. This was done. Last year,\nthe work was deserted by the State and came anew into our hands. This,\nalso, is an enlargement upon our schedule of work.\n\nAt LEXINGTON, KY., our Normal School has grown to such a degree that\neven the vestibules and halls of our insufficient building were\ncrowded with eager pupils. Teachers were teaching, and pupils were\nstudying, in conditions that none but missionary teachers would\naccept. For lack of room, industrial training has been impossible. The\nlocality, meanwhile, has been surrounded by saloons, and houses that\nare worse. A benevolent lady who became acquainted with these facts\noffered $2,000 to purchase four acres of land for school and\nindustrial purposes, and to give money sufficient for a new brick\nedifice with eight large school-rooms and all needful appointments and\nfurnishings; the gift amounting to $15,000.\n\nWe believe that we were not wrong in accepting this trust in your\nbehalf, even though it means more teachers and increased expenditures.\nWe are confident that your Christian faith would not decline this\nChristian benevolence. Hence the plans for Chandler School are in the\nhands of the builders. Could some like-minded wealthy steward of the\ngrace of God visit Williamsburg, Ky., in our Mountain White work, we\nmight be compelled to face another such dilemma.\n\nAT MERIDIAN, MISS., where Christian parents have besought us for\nyears, past to open a missionary school, through which their children\nmight be saved to morality and integrity of character during the\nformative periods of their lives, we have at last seen our way to\nanswer their pathetic appeal in part. A day school with an industrial\ndepartment is ready for the opening, the building having been\nconstructed during the months of summer. For valuable aid in sympathy,\ncounsel and influence in Meridian, we and the people to whom we are\nsent are greatly indebted to Rev. Wm. Hayne Leavell, of Meridian.\n\nWHITNEY HALL, for the Indian boys at Santee Agency, is another noble\ngift of large Christian faith for our Normal School in Nebraska. We\nsummoned our courage to take this, also, with what the enlargement\nincludes.\n\nThese are the chief additions to our system of schools, though there\nhave been less marked enlargements in other places. They are simply\nthe growths of strong faith and strong life. They are the free and\nspecial gifts which came to us through the convictions of others who\nhad realized the need.\n\nThe common schools, 35 in number, in eight different Southern States,\nare in the hands of faithful teachers.\n\nThere are six Chartered Institutions, behind which we have stood the\nyear past.\n\nTALLADEGA COLLEGE in Talladega, Ala., has had a year of exceptional\ninterest. The college work is developing and the theological school\nwas never better. The industrial departments in agriculture and the\nmechanic arts offer fine advantages. The institution increases in\npopular favor and is full of students.\n\nATLANTA UNIVERSITY in Georgia, under the temporary presidency of Prof.\nFrancis, who was also college preacher and pastor, has moved on in its\nusual course. Through the successful solicitation of Prof. Bumstead,\nwith our cordial and constant endorsement, sufficient Christian money\ncame into the treasury to meet the deficiency caused by the withdrawal\nof $8,000 from the State of Georgia. The Association was able in its\ngrants to share in this satisfactory result. At the last meeting of\nthe Trustees, Prof. Bumstead was elected President for the ensuing\nyear, and Prof. Chase, in view of a removal to New Mexico, resigned\nthe professorship which he had ably held many years.\n\nSTRAIGHT UNIVERSITY at New Orleans, located in the most influential\ncity of the Southwest, draws its students from refined Creole homes\nand from the rude cabins of the remote plantations. An interesting\nreport gathered from twenty-two of its students who taught school\nduring the summer vacation, tells us that they instructed 1,398 pupils\nin day schools and organized thirteen Sunday-schools, in which were\ntaught 1,574 children, most of whom were absolutely unreached before.\nThis summer record of Straight University students is a partial\nillustration of what is going forth from it year by year; and not from\nStraight only, but from all of our higher schools. The theological\nwork in Straight is of incalculable importance.\n\nTILLOTSON INSTITUTE, at Austin, Texas, has invigorated its normal\ncourse and has inaugurated a hopeful college preparatory department.\nThe recipient of a special gift, it was enabled to complete a new\nindustrial building, in which has begun a course of industrial\ntraining. It greatly needs a second dormitory hall for young women,\nand were not the institution so remote, some prophetic giver would see\nthe urgency and the strategy of such a gift, and would make it. If,\nwithout the sight, some one shall be led to do this for Tillotson, he\nwill reap the blessing of those who do not see and yet believe.\n\nTOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, near Jackson, Miss., is an institution of\nexceeding interest. It has a department of Biblical instruction added\nto its course of study, in which students are prepared to preach the\ngospel. Its industrial facilities are excellent, both for agricultural\nand mechanical training. The students can take the timber from the\ntree, and the iron in the rough, and make wagons and carriages\nsufficiently good to compete with the best makers in the State. The\nschool in all of its parts is controlled by the missionary spirit.\nRev. F.G. Woodworth, of Connecticut, last year assumed the Presidency.\n\nFISK UNIVERSITY, at Nashville, Tenn., is one of the oldest and most\ncomplete of all our Southern colleges, and has no superior among all\nthe institutions in the country devoted to the education of the Negro.\nGiving relatively less attention to the industries, it models itself\nafter our Northern colleges, and emulates them in the rigor of its\nintellectual studies and in the thoroughness with which it seeks to\nmake good teachers and preachers; educators in the larger way for the\nrace. It also has a department of theology. It has made its place,\nwhich it holds with enthusiasm and fidelity. If some one would give\nus, or leave us, money to endow this institution, he could scarcely\nsend his influence further down the centuries than in this way. It\nwould tell upon the race and upon the Nation.\n\nIn this glance at our schools, we see Christian schools. But they are\nmore, they are missionary schools. We are bearing the torch of Christ\ninto places of darkness. We teach the industries to them because they\ncan be made tributary to the salvation of the people. They are the\nleaves of the tree of life, and the leaves of the tree are for the\nhealing of the people.\n\nWe may not close this review of our school system without remembering\nthose institutions now standing alone; great Hampton, in whose rich\ngifts we rejoice, and Berea, another child of the A.M.A., now grown to\nstrength.\n\nTO HOWARD UNIVERSITY, at Washington, also, we extend the sympathy of a\ncommon purpose, together with such financial aid as we may for the\nsupport of its theological course.\n\nWe point to these great institutions which have been planted and\nfostered by the A.M.A., together with those which are still upheld by\nus, with a feeling akin to that of the renowned Cornelia when she\nsaid, \"Behold my jewels.\"\n\n Total Number of our Schools South 58 Indian 18 76\nTotal Number of our Instructors South 266 Indian 50 316\n Total Number of our Pupils South 9,896 Indian 580 10,476\n Theological Students South 87 Indian \u2014\u2014 87\n Law Students South 73 Indian \u2014\u2014 73\n College Students South 68 Indian \u2014\u2014 68\n Preparatory College Students South 105 Indian \u2014\u2014 105\n Normal Students South 836 Indian 10 846\n Grammar Grade Students South 1,996 Indian 43 2,039\n Intermediate Grade Students South 2,998 Indian 108 3,106\n Primary Pupils South 3,831 Indian 419 4,250\n\nWe have, in addition, 17 Chinese Schools on the Pacific Coast, with 39\nteachers.\n\n CHURCH WORK.\n\nWe turn now to our Church Work.\n\nIn every school we have an incipient church; in many of these are\norganized churches. From all of them there is a continual going forth\nof a predisposition towards Congregational Churches, which will make\nfor churches in the future.\n\nThe statistics are as follows:\n\n Number of Churches South 131 Indian 5 136\n Number of Missionaries South 102 Indian 13 115\n Number of Church members South 8,065 Indian 397 8,452\n Added during the year South 937 Indian 35 972\nAdded by profession of faith South 721 Indian 30 750\n Scholars in Sunday-schools South 16,023 Indian 1,091 17,114\n\nFour new Churches have been organized during the year. These are at\nDecatur, Ala., Crossville, Deer Lodge and Pine Mountain, Tenn. A fine\nchurch edifice has also been erected in Ironaton, Ala., which is soon\nto be dedicated. The members have sacrificed nobly to secure it. The\nchurch at Meridian has united with the Association in the\nerection of a beautiful house of worship which, with the new school\nand the teachers' home, will be ready in a few weeks for occupancy.\nThe church at Knoxville has been enlarged and is practically new. It\nwill soon be re-dedicated. The church at Pine Mountain is a year old;\nis already the center of four Sunday-schools, with an attendance of\n415 children, only 10 of whom had ever been in a Sunday-school before.\n\nRevivals of religious interest have been reported from our churches in\nWashington, Wilmington, Charleston, Talladega, Mobile, Athens, Marion,\nSelma, Birmingham and New Orleans. Those of the churches which are\nside by side with our educational institutions are most hopeful; but\nwherever we have planted churches, they stand forth to represent the\nethics of Christianity, the purity and truth of character which must\nbe contained in a worthy discipleship. A large proportion of our\npastors are children of the A.M.A. Parsonages have been built for our\nchurches in Mobile, Ala., and in Dallas, Texas.\n\n MOUNTAIN WORK.\n\nThis year has laid great emphasis on the fact that we have entered, in\nthe Southern mountains, a missionary field of vast importance,\npressing needs and unbounded hopefulness. We have in this region,\nwhere a few years ago there was nothing, two normal schools, two\nacademies, five common schools, and twenty churches.\n\nIn a territory five hundred miles long, and more than two hundred\nmiles broad--twice the size of all New England--are at least between\nthree and four hundred counties with a population greater than that of\nMaine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut combined,\nwithout schools worthy of the name, without Sunday-schools, without\nprayer meetings, without an educated, spiritual, or even moral\nministry, without a weekly Sabbath religious service of any kind, or\nany of the institutions of the gospel which really elevate them. They\nhave a religion which is not a pure Christianity and which does not\neven involve morality.\n\nThe Christian work, lately introduced and already done among them,\ndemonstrates that they are capable of a rapid and radical change, when\nonce the vivifying touch of the gospel has reached their hearts.\n\nInstead of twenty Congregational churches among them, there is room\nfor a thousand, and instead of nine Christian schools, if there were\ntwenty-five normal schools, it would be only one to each hundred\nthousand people; and if there were a hundred common schools, there\nwould be one to each three or four counties for models. There should\nbe one good college. If there were Congregational churches in this\nregion in the same proportion as in New England there would be a full\nthousand. If they were in the same proportion as Connecticut, there\nwould be twelve hundred churches; as New Hampshire, thirteen hundred;\nas Vermont, sixteen hundred.\n\nCongregationalism goes to these people as the representative of pure,\nintelligent and progressive Christianity. We can gather them into\nschools, Sunday-schools and churches, anywhere where we can put a\nChristian worker. Our only limit is consecrated workers and the\nsupport for them. The field is as ripe this very day for a thousand as\nfor a score. But the school and the church must go together.\n\nThis is one of the richest of the mineral regions of the world. Great\nforests of black walnut, poplar, and other valuable timber, are\nawaiting the woodman's ax and the lumberman's mill. Railroads are\neither built, building or planned for every part to carry away its\nwonderful natural resources. The people are poor, but the land is\nrich, and a few years hence will see wealth in the place of poverty,\nin the hands of either the natives, or those who will have displaced\nthem. All the motives which urge the establishment of the church and\nthe school for the incoming population of the West, press us to build\nthem in this great empire of the South; and they become doubly\nimperative when we take into account the fact that a population of\nbetween two and three millions is already in the land and needs to be\nsaved now. The motives for home and foreign missions are thus\ncombined, and impelling us for Christ's sake, for humanity's sake, and\nfor our country's sake, to give the gospel to this people.\n\nWe are not building pauper institutions in this mountain country to be\nforever a dead weight for the Northern churches to carry, but\ninstitutions which will very speedily take care of themselves, and\ngive to others as they have received.\n\nThis is a portion of the South where slavery scarcely existed. When\nwar came, it was loyal to the Union almost to a man. This fact shows\nthat they have a natural affiliation with \"Northern ideas.\" The caste\nspirit is among them--as it is indeed in the North to some extent--but\nit much more readily yields to reason and loving teaching than in\nother portions of the South. Vigorous and extensive missionary work\ncan and will mould the ideas and sentiments of this whole region, and\nthus establish no-caste churches and schools, where they would\ndemonstrate to the South that they do not carry with them social\ndisorder and every baleful influence.\n\nAmid the success, joy and hopefulness of the year's work, came the\naffliction of the shooting of Prof. George Lawrence, while about his\nduties in our school in Jellico, Tenn. It was the work of a miserable\ncreature whose brain was fired with whiskey, and who was urged on by\nthe saloon element as a retaliation for earnest temperance work. After\nlong and anxious weeks of intense suffering, a brave fight against\ndeath proved successful, and we now hope that our missionary's life is\nspared for many years of usefulness. Nearly a hundred men have been\nshot already in this one place, and the place itself is not more than\nsix years old. Is it strange that these mountain people who have a\nglimpse of better things, are appealing to us every week of the year\nto plant institutions among them? Is it not the voice of Christ\nclearly commanding us to possess and subdue this land, and to\ntransform it into a part of his peaceful and beneficent Kingdom, which\nshall join hands with us to pass on the torch of Christ to others yet\nin darkness?\n\n THE INDIANS.\n\nThe people of America are determined to press the Indian problem to a\nspeedy solution. Provision has been made for giving lands in\nseveralty, and the next great movement should be to induce the\nGovernment to provide secular education, and the churches to furnish\nreligious instruction to all the Indians. The American Missionary\nAssociation, during the year, has responded to this new impulse by\nenlarging its work--in the opening of new stations, in the erection of\nnew buildings, and in the appointment of more missionaries and\nteachers.\n\nAt the Santee Agency, Nebraska, our oldest mission station and school\nhas had marked prosperity in its normal, theological and industrial\ndepartments, and, better than all, in a deep and wide-spread religious\ninterest that has pervaded the school and the church. The new\nbuilding, named Whitney Hall--from its giver--has been erected,\naffording accommodations for twenty-two of the larger and more\nadvanced pupils, and furnishing rooms for the treasurer's family. A\nliberal gift from Mrs. Henry Perkins, of Hartford, Conn., provides,\nfor the present at least, for the running expenses of the Boys' Hall,\nand, in appreciation of the gift, and of the interest in the school\nwhich the gift implies, the building will hereafter be called Perkins\nHall.\n\nAt Oahe, Dakota, on the beautiful Peoria Bottom, both the school and\nchurch have prospered. The school is crowded to its utmost capacity\nand a greater number of pupils has been granted in the contract with\nthe Government. A new building is urgently called for. The closing\nexercises of the school were attended by a picturesque group of three\nor four hundred Indians, who were encamped around the station. Some of\nthese came a hundred and twenty-five miles to attend the exercises.\n\nOne marked feature in the enlargement of the work has been the opening\nof two more Central Stations: one at Rosebud Agency, the other located\nat Fort Yates, near the junction of the Grand River with the Missouri.\nThe new mission house has been built, and by the aid of special gifts\nfrom benevolent friends at the East, a commodious building has been\nerected for a hospital.\n\nA peculiar and very interesting feature of our Indian work is the\nout-stations, located remote from the Central Stations. These\nstations, numbering twenty-one, have been hindered and also enlarged\nduring the past year. The hindrance came from the interference of the\nGovernment. In its well-intended zeal for the introduction of the\nEnglish language, it surpassed the limits which experience had fixed,\nby requiring that the vernacular should not be taught, nor even\nspoken, in any Indian schools on the Reservation including these\nmission stations, which were wholly sustained by benevolent funds.\nUnder this ruling, thirteen stations were closed from September to\nJanuary. But the remonstrances coming from almost every denomination\nof Christians in the land induced the Government to modify its orders,\nand the schools have all been re-opened.\n\nSome new buildings have been erected on this part of the field--a new\nhouse for dwelling and school on the Grand River, and a cheap\nstructure at the Cheyenne River Agency, in which religious services\nare held at the times for the disbursement of the rations, when large\nnumbers of the Indians assemble and remain for many days. A new\nimpulse has been given to this out-station work by contributions\nreceived at one of the missionary meetings in Northfield, Mass. Four\nnew stations were provided for at that time by the contribution of\n$400 for a building at each station, and $300 for the support of the\nteacher. One was the gift of Mr. Moody, another of Mr. Sankey, whose\nnames these two stations will bear.\n\nFort Berthold, in the northern part of Dakota, has authorization from\nthe Government for a larger number of pupils under contract than last\nyear. But our exigencies require for this only a few and inexpensive\nrepairs and additions to be made on the buildings.\n\nThe Skokomish mission continues its stable progress. The missionary,\nRev. Myron Eells, has been tempted during the past year by several\ncalls to enter more lucrative fields of service, but his attachment to\nthe work, begun by his most honored father, and continued by himself,\nis so great that he prefers to remain with his people, and to aid them\nin their progress in civil and Christian life.\n\nThe Indian school at Santa F\u00e9, New Mexico, has had some changes, but\nthe arrangement between the Association and the trustees is continued,\nand the school, under the charge of Prof. Elmore Chase, maintains its\nuseful service in the training of the children of the Apaches, one of\nthe most hopeful and promising tribes of Indians on the continent.\n\n THE CHINESE.\n\nThe special interest of the year centres in the evangelistic work that\nwas commenced early in the winter. Of our 39 workers reported,\nfourteen are Chinamen, who have been converted in our schools. Two of\nthese brethren were set apart last December as special evangelists,\none going to our missions in Southern California, and the other to our\nmore Northern missions. Subsequently another one entered the field.\nThe intention was to give one month of service at each mission, and\nthe gratifying experience has been that at no point has this one month\nbeen deemed sufficient. At the end of five months the harvest reported\nwas forty souls brought to repentance.\n\nThree new missions are upon our list this year; those at Los Angeles,\nSan Buenaventura, and Tucson. At Los Angeles no less than 75 pupils\nwere enrolled the first month, and at all these places Christian\nAssociations have been formed.\n\nA minister on the Pacific Coast not in connection with our schools,\nafter giving a sketch of work accomplished which could not be\ntabulated, says: \"Socially, intellectually, spiritually, the Chinese\nmission school does its beneficent work. But everything is made but\nthe means to the spiritual end. The whole drift of the teaching, the\nsongs, the pictures, the Scripture text, is to make known Christ.\nEvery evening's lesson ends with worship. In no year, may I add, have\nthere been so many conversions among the Chinese on this coast as in\nthe one just passed.\"\n\n WOMAN'S BUREAU.\n\nThere are thirteen Woman's State Organizations which co-operate with\nus in our missionary work. These are in Maine, Vermont, Connecticut,\nNew York, Alabama, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,\nIowa, Kansas and South Dakota. Other States, also, not yet organized,\nare assisting in definite lines, as Massachusetts and New Hampshire.\nOur Bureau of Woman's Work has for many years proved its wisdom. The\nstate of black womanhood and girlhood taken together is pitiful. The\npermanent and uplifting Christianization and civilization to be\nengrafted on the Negro race in this land, can come only as the\nwomanhood of that people is imbued with right principles and led to\nright practices. Unless the life of the woman is reached and saved,\nthere can be no true religion, family life, or social status. Hence\nour industrial and boarding schools for the training of girls in\ndomestic work, in the trades of dressmaking and such like, in the art\nof cooking, the cultivation of small fruits and flowers, so that the\nsacred influences of Christianity shall circle around the thousand\nfiresides where now everything is coarse, and ignorant, and senseless.\nWith our large corps of lady teachers, the Woman's Bureau, as an\nintermediary between the Woman's State Association and their sisters\nwho are teaching in the field, and the women and girls to whom they\nare sent, has proved during the year its increasing efficiency.\n\n FINANCES\n\nThe receipts have been, $320,953.42, which with the balance on hand,\nSeptember 30th, 1887, of $2,193.80, makes a total of $323,147.22. We\nhave received in addition to this $1,000 for an Endowment Fund. The\ntotal disbursements for the year have been $328,788.43. The churches\nthrough the National Council have asked us to keep abreast with the\nprovidence of God. \"It is our duty,\" said the Ohio State Association,\n\"to see that this great work in which we have borne so large and\nhonorable a part, halt not, nor slacken in its energy because of our\nfailure to keep its treasury replenished and its faithful laborers\nre-enforced and supported by our gifts and our prayers.\"\n\nSaid our good friend, the _Congregationalist_, in an editorial after\nour inspiring meeting at Portland in October last: \"Never did the\nmagnitude of the field, and the complex character of its labors,\nappear in such startling lines. Either of the four departments of\nlabor demands the money and the force which is distributed among all.\nBut, in the providence of God, this society is called upon to\nprosecute this fourfold work. It cannot abandon a single field and\nmust not be asked to. It can do in the next five years a work for\nChristianity and for Congregationalism in the South and West which\nwill tell on the coming century. As Christians, and as Congregational\nChristians, we must see to it that it be not obliged to pinch its\nworkers and to turn away from promising openings in order to keep free\nfrom debt the coming year.\"\n\nThus charged, we have yet gone within our instructions. We have made\nevery dollar do more than its work. We have gathered up the fragments\nthat nothing be lost; and yet to-day our payments anticipate our\nreceipts by the sum of $5,641.21. We do not regret the anxiety and\npain which it has cost us to effect what we have. The generous words\nof sympathy and confidence that have come to us of late, with noble\ngifts, large and small, repay the solicitude and incessant care. We\nthank God and his people, and hold firmly our faith in Him who said,\n\"Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.\" He opened the door. Our\nfaith is in Him who also said, \"Ask, and ye shall receive.\"\n\n\n\nThe year opened with the Association bereft of its honored President.\nWe come to this new year happy in our choice of the Rev. Wm. M.\nTaylor, D.D., of New York, to fill this most important position. In\nhis acceptance we congratulate the Association.\n\nSince the year began, the churches have missed the stirring appeals of\nour beloved Secretary Powell, who had the especial oversight and\nburden of the collecting fields. Such a life as that of James Powell\nis not common. It was a grand sacrifice of undeviating love for those\nwhose poverty made him a debtor to them. His consecration will not be\nforgotten.\n\nHis sudden departure--our great bereavement--made necessary the\ntransfer of the Rev. C.J. Ryder from the field to the District\nSecretaryship of the Eastern District in New England, who has brought\nwith his energy and zeal such an experience, and personal knowledge of\nthe entire field, as to insure him the most hearty welcome and\nco-operation on the part of our pastors and churches.\n\nThe Rev. F.E. Jenkins, a graduate of Williams College and of Hartford\nTheological Seminary, for some time earnestly engaged in our Southern\nwork, has been appointed a field superintendent for personal\nexamination and supervision of our churches and schools, and has\nalready entered upon his duties.\n\nThe Association, with its Superintendents continually in the field,\nwho report every fact to the Secretaries at the office, who in turn\nsubmit the entire work to the churches, is thus continually made\nbetter prepared to direct the sacrifices of the benevolent in ways\nthat shall not be irresponsible or unwise, than those which are\nsubject to no such scrutiny or supervision, and are held to no\nresponsibility. Much less money would be diverted from this authorized\nand recognized servant of the Congregational Churches, and far greater\nefficiency would be secured, if our friends would remember that their\nown ordained agency can open as many missions as they will make\npossible, which shall have, at least, one advantage over independent\nand unsupervised work, in that, through us, they shall be under your\nown constant Christian watch and care.\n\nWe may not close this review of our year's work and attendant\nsuggestions without remembrance of our indebtedness to the American\nBible Society, for its grant of Bibles; to the Congregational\nSunday-school and Publishing Society for the help given to our\nstruggling churches and Sunday-schools in its grant of books and\nlesson helps. We rejoice in the unity of our societies, which make all\none in the blending of the parts for the great common purpose of\nredeeming the lost and gathering them into the family of Christ.\n\n\n\nStudent's Letter.\n\n\n\nStruggles In The \"Lone Star State.\"\n\n BY A.C. GARROTT.\n\nMy home, Marion, Ala., was also the location of the Lincoln Normal\nInstitute, and fortunately I had attended that school for several\nyears. Being next to the oldest of eight children, my parents decided\nto take me from school in '83, that I might earn something. I had\noften heard of Talladega College, and wanted very much to enter there,\nbut my father being only a poor carpenter, it was impossible for me to\nget the means to accomplish my desires.\n\nHowever, by the aid of Northern friends I entered the above named\nschool, October 2d, 1883. Evenings and Saturdays I worked by the hour\nto help defray my expenses. Unable to obtain a school, I could be\nfound at the college, during the summers of '84 and '85, working about\nthe buildings or on the farm. The money earned there was used for\nschooling. During my last year in school I had job work--sweeping and\ncaring for lamps. This work was done early in order that I might have\ntime for study. And each morning, before day, my broom could be heard\nmoving through the corridors. At the close of school, I had paid by\nwork, and a prize gained in speaking the year before, about $52.75. It\nwas agreed that the balance should be paid after leaving school. In a\nclass of ten I received a diploma from the normal department, June 17,\n1886. My time during the summer was occupied in working with my father\nat the carpenter's trade.\n\nTexas was said to have good public-schools, and it was my plan to try\nthe \"Lone Star State.\" I was working to secure means to pay the fare,\nbut father failed in being paid promptly, and this forced me to borrow\nmoney for the purpose. Many tried to discourage me in my plan as it\nwas what is sometimes termed as a \"wild goose chase.\" I remarked,\nthough, that if no schools could be found, there were other things to\nbe done--cotton to be picked; wagons to be driven; and ditches to be\ndug. So the work-clothes were not forgotten when my trunk was packed.\n\nOn September 30, 1886, I arrived in Henderson, a stranger to all save\none, and with a very small purse. Then commenced my trials. I was in\nmy twenty-first year, but had a young appearance, and the trustees of\nmost schools objected to me for that reason. I walked many miles in\nsearch of work, and it was not till the middle of November that my\nfirst school opened.\n\nOwing money for schooling, for fare to this State, and for board after\ncoming here, caused me to start far below the surface in pecuniary\nmatters. As I had made large plans, that was quite discouraging.\n\nThe school proceeded nicely and a Sabbath-school was organized in\nconnection. The latter was quite small, though there was a large\nattendance in the day school. At the close of school, March 23, 1887,\nall expressed a willingness for me to teach the next session, but\nthere was a trouble ahead which changed their views. The question of\nprohibition was to be decided by the people in August. I am sorry to\nsay the majority of our people were on the wrong side. But most of the\nteachers and preachers fought with an untiring energy against the\nsaloons. For this act of ours, many refused to give us work. Some even\nsneered at the \"prohib. teachers,\" as we walked along the streets.\nThose were days of discouragement as our labor seemed to be in vain.\n\nMy summer's work lasted only a month, and being an independent school\nthe returns were quite small, $6.00 only. Having to aid my parents,\nand a two months' sickness, caused me to be below the surface again at\nthe opening of my school, November 14. This work continued for six\nmonths. A Sabbath-school was organized; and, unlike the previous year,\noutnumbered the daily attendance.\n\nIt has been said that it is better to turn up something than to wait\nfor something to turn up. So I bought a small outfit for making\nphotographs. It is incomplete, but enough to get an idea of the art.\nAfter looking at some of my work, our county Judge was heard to say.\n\"That's a good picture for that nigger.\" My summer school was nine\nmiles away, and I came here every Friday evening, that I might\npractice at my new trade. To save the hire and feed of a horse, I\nalways walked here and back. The way at times seems dark, but I take\ncourage from the fact that roads to success must lead through\nhardships.\n\n\n\nThe Chinese.\n\n\n\nReview Of The Year.\n\n BY REV. W.C. POND, D.D.\n\nThe fiscal year of our missions closed Aug. 31. I desire to set before\nthe readers of the MISSIONARY a statement of the year's work, made as\ncomplete as the space at my command allows:\n\n1. _Seventeen_ missions have been sustained during a part or the whole\nof the year. Ten of these have had no intermission whatever, except\nfor a day or two at the holidays, and in one instance a fortnight's\nvacation. Of the remaining seven, three are new missions, viz: Los\nAngeles, San Buenaventura and Tucson. The work at these points is full\nof interest and hope, and has indeed already begun to yield what seem\nto us saving results.\n\n2. _Thirty-nine_ workers have been engaged. Of these, fourteen are\nChinese brethren, converted in connection with our missions, and\ntrained to the work in the work itself. The aggregate number of months\nof service is 295.\n\n3. In comparison with the record of the previous year, but little\nchange can be noted. The total number enrolled is 1,131, being larger\nby 87, but on the whole one record is about the equivalent of the\nother. Indeed, it seems to me that in both years we reached very near\nto the _outmost limit_ of what is possible with the means at our\ncommand. The special interest of this year's history centers in the\nattempt to do, and to learn better _how_ to do, evangelistic work.\nThree of our brethren have been set apart to this, and have been\nfollowed from place to place by the prayers of many. They had much to\nlearn when they started forth and have much yet to learn. It is by no\nmeans clear to me that we have hit upon the wisest methods, and I know\nthat we have not yet entered into the fullness of power, either with\nGod or man. Yet I can see that these brethren are stronger and braver\nand more eager in this work than they were a year ago. And the\nblessing of God on their labors has been such as enables us to believe\nthat full sixty of their countrymen have been led to Christ. This\ncarries the whole number concerning whom this hope has been cherished,\nsince the beginning of our work, above 700.\n\n4. THE FINANCES. Our expenditures have been: For salaries of workers,\n$6,403.00; for rents of mission houses, $2,066.00; for incidental\nexpenses, $1,150.15; total, $9,619.75. Our resources have been: From\nthe parent society, $6,100; balance from previous year, $45.50;\nofferings made through the treasury of this auxiliary, $2,590.80;\ntotal, $8,736.30. This leaves a deficit of $882.85, a part of which\ncan be met from our Permanent Property Account, but fully $500.00\nneeds yet to be secured if we are to provide things honest in the\nsight of all men. Thus far in the history of our mission, the account\nof no year has closed with the blot of a deficit upon it. The account\nof the year just ended is held open for awhile in the hope that the\ngood precedent of the past may be still maintained. And, oh, if we\nmight be a little less hampered by poverty;--if we might be set free\nto enter opened doors, and to make the most possible of our\nopportunities, how great would be the privilege and joy of showing in\nblessed experiment that the truest economy is a wise and careful\ngenerosity.\n\n\n\nBureau Of Woman's Work.\n\n MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n\n\nWoman's State Organizations.\n\n CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nME.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A. Woodbury,\nWoodfords, Me.\n\nVT.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry\nFairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt.\n\nVT.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Osgood,\nMontpelier, 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. William Spaldlng,\nSalmon Block, Syracuse, N.Y.\n\nALA.--Woman's Missionary Association, Secretary, Mrs. G.W. Andrews,\nTalladega, Ala.\n\nOHIO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal,\nOberlin, Ohio.\n\nIND.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Rogers, Michigan\nCity, Ind.\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, 2750\nSecond Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn.\n\nIOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh,\nGrinnell, Iowa.\n\nKANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs, G.L. Epps,\nTopeka, Kan.\n\nNEB.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, President, Mrs. F.H. Leavitt, 1216 H\nSt., Lincoln, Neb.\n\nSOUTH DAKOTA,--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.E. Young,\nSioux Falls, Dak.\n\n\n\nSpecial fields have been assigned to Ladies' Societies contributing to\nthe work, and missionary letters will be sent to all who desire such\nreports. If any fail to receive the letters, they can get them by\nnotifying Miss Emerson, at the New York office. The ladles will be\ninterested in the following list:\n\nMaine Missionaries--Miss Lunt, of Selma, Ala., Miss Farrington, N.C.\nMrs. Hubbard, Williamsburg, Ky., Mrs. Hall, Fort Berthold, Dak.\n\nVermont sustains the McIntosh School, Miss Plimpton continues in\ncharge, assisted by Misses Ayer, Kuhl, and Head.\n\nMassachusetts ladies are contributing to the Girl's Department of the\nboarding school at Tougaloo, Miss. Letters are written by the teachers\nin turn, thus reporting the different phases of work.\n\nThe industrial School, at Thomasville, Ga. appeals especially to\nladies of Connecticut. Mrs. Gordon and Miss Knapp will continue their\nmonthly letters, with occasional communications from other teachers.\n\nThe auxiliaries of the New York Union are entitled to letters from\nMiss Edith Leonard, (in place of Miss Haynes,) for the Indians, Mrs.\nMyers for the Mountain Whites, and Miss Evans for the Negroes.\n\nThe Ohio Ladies provide for Miss Collins of Dakota, and also for Miss\nStevenson of Atlanta, Ga.\n\nThe Illinois missionaries are Miss Kinney of Austin, Texas, and Miss\nPingree of Mobile.\n\nThe Michigan ladies find large opportunity to work for the blacks,\nthrough the Trinity School, at Athens, Ala. So, also, the Minnesota\nladies, whose chosen field is the school at Jonesboro, Tenn.\n\nMany others are working in definite lines and becoming better\nacquainted with the needs and how to meet them.\n\n\n\n RECEIPTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1888.\n\n\n MAINE, $551.62.\nBangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., 75; First Cong. Ch.,\n30; Sab. Sch, First Parish Ch., 14; W.P. Hubbard, 10 129.00\nBath. Winter St. Ch. 100.00\nBelfast. First Cong. Ch. 15.00\nBethel. Second Cong. Ch. 14.00\nBuxton Centre. Mrs. M.G. Hill, _for Indian M._ 2.00\nBrownville. Cong. Ch. 8.30\nCamden. \u2014\u2014 10.00\nCherryfield. John W. Coffin 30.00\nCumberland Center. Cong. Ch. 32.00\nEastport. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.50\nFoxcroft and Dover. Cong. Ch. 10.00\nFryeburg. Cong. Ch. 10.00\nGorham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30.92; Mrs. Hunt, 5; Mrs. H.\nLeavitt, 5; Rev. and Mrs. G.W. Reynolds, 5; Mrs. T. Robie,\n2; Mrs. Crane, 2; Miss C. Frost, 2. 51.92\nKennebunkport. Mrs. E.M. Noyes, 10; Mrs. J.T. Agard, 10 20.00\nLitchfield Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00\nMachias. Centre St. Cong. Ch. 5.15\nNorth Anson. \"A Friend,\" 15.00\nPortland. State St. Cong. Ch. and Parish 50.00\nPresque Isle. C.F.A. Johnson 5.00\nRockland. Cong. Ch. 12.00\nScarboro. Cong. Ch. 12.00\nWeld. Mrs. Dorcas Russell, 1; \"Three Friends,\" 1 2.00\nWest Gorham. Mrs. Mary P. Files 0.75\n\n NEW HAMPSHIRE, $3,263.02.\nAmherst. \"L.F.B.\" 150.00\nAlstead Centre. Cong. Ch. 3.51\nAuburn, Cong. Ch. 10.00\nBrentwood. Cong. Ch. 6.35\nCenter Harbor. S.F. Emery and Sab. Sch. Class 5.00\nColebrook. \"E. & C.\" 2.00\nConway. Second Cong. Ch. 5.00\nDurham. Cong. Ch. 20.00\nEast Alstead. Cong. Ch. 2.49\nEast Andover. Cong. Ch. 1.50\nEast Derry. First Ch. 33.91\nEast Jaffrey. Cong. Ch. 13.98\nFranklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00\nGilmanton Iron Works. Cong. Ch. 6.50\nGoffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 57.63\nHampstead. Cong. Ch. 25.00\nHanover. Cong. Ch. Dartmouth College, 32.40; \"Friends,\"\nDartmought College Ch., 22 54.40\nHanover. Dartmouth Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 25.00\nHollis. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.17\nHopkinton. By Rev. M.W. Adams, Bbl. of C., etc., and 3\n_for Freight_ 3.00\nJaffrey. Wm. W. Livingston 15.00\nJefferson. Mrs. S.A. Bradbury 50.00\nLisbon. First Cong. Ch. 5.39\nManchester. Franklin St. Ch., 133.69; J.W. Johnston, 25;\nC.B. Southworth, 25 183.69\nMilford. Cong. Ch. 10.00\nMilton. South Cong. Ch. 15.00\nMount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.50\nMonroe. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00\nNashua. E. Spalding, M.D. 100.00\nNew Boston. \"A Friend.\" 50.00\nNew Market. Cong. Church 14.00\nNorth Hampton. Cong. Ch., 15; \"Mrs. A.P.G.,\" 10. 25.00\nOrford. John Pratt 50.00\nPembroke. Cong. Ch. 20.00\nPeterboro. Union Evan. Ch. 38.00\nRochester. Mrs. Mary E. Hidden 10.00\nTamworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00\nWalpole. \"Three Friends.\" 12.00\nWinchester. A.S. Jewell 7.00\nWest Rindge. Geo. G. Williams 9.00\n\u2014\u2014, for Moody Mission, _Indian M_. 600.00\n \u2014\u2014\n 1,713.02\n\n\n ESTATES\nAmherst. Estate of Miss Lucy W. Blunt, by E.O. Blunt, Ex. 1,000.00\nAmherst. Estate of Elizabeth G. Lawrence, by A.A. Rotch,\nEx. 500.00\nBennington. Estate of Rev. James Holmes, by James M.\nBurns, Ex. 50.00\n \u2014\u2014\n 3,263.02\n\n VERMONT, $1,577.71.\nAscutneyville. Newton Gage 10.00\nBarton Landen. Children's Missionary Soc., by Kate B.\nJoslyn, Treas. _for Share_ 13.00\nBridport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 5.00\nBurlington. First Ch. 165.78\nCambridge. First Cong. Ch. 29; Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n3.65 32.65\nCastleton. Rev. S.A. Barrett 5.00\nChelsea. Cong. Ch. 29.58\nChester. J.L. Fisher 5.00\nColchester. Cong. Ch. 15.00\nCoventry. Cong Ch. and Soc. 20.00\nEast Berkshire. Cong. Ch. 10.25\nEast Brookfield. Cong. Ch. 3.60\nEast Hubbardton. Mrs. James Flagg, 5; D.J. Flagg, 2.50 7.50\nEast Peacham, \"A Friend.\" 5.00\nEast Poultney. Cong. Ch., 5; Miss Jane P. Harris, 1 6.00\nEnosburg. First Cong. Ch. 25.00\nEssex Junction. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs. Ellen\nD. Wild 5.90\nEssex Junction. Rev. O.H. White, D.D. 13.00\nFairlee. \"A Brother,\" for _Atlanta U._ 8.00\nGuildhall. Cong. Ch. 5.00\nHardwick. Cal. Ch. 5.50\nHartford. E. Morris. 100.00\nMcIndoes Falls. Cong. S.S. 11.39, and Bbl. of C., _for\nMcIntosh, Ga._ 11.39\nMiddlebury. Mrs, Emma B. Stewart, _for Student Aid_,\n_Atlanta, U._ 25.00\nMontgomery. Cong. Ch. 9.62\nNewbury. \"A Friend.\" to const. MISS ELIZABETH L. DAME L.M. 30.00\nNew Haven. \u2014\u2014 5.00\nLowell. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. 5.00\nPawlet. \"A Friend,\" _for Indian M._ 5.00\nRoxbury. Rev. H.C. Howard 1.00\nRutland. Cong. Ch., to const. CHAS. P. HARRIS and JOHN W.\nTITCOMB L.M's 100.00\nRupert. Cong. Ch. 25.00\nSaint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. 379.80\nSaxton's River. Rev. G.F. Chapin 2.00\nSharon. \"Six Friends in Cong. Ch.\" 13.00\nSheldon. Dea. S.M. Hulbert, 5; Miss Emma Maynard, 1;\nMembers Cong. Ch., 4; Miss Maynard, 1 11.00\nSpringfield. Cong. Ch. (12 of which for _Avery Inst._) 386.68\nSpringfield. F.V.A. Townsend, to const. AMASA W. TOWNSEND\nL.M. 30.00\nWaterville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.11\nWest Brattleboro. Cong. Ch. 12.95\nWest Charleston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.50\nWestminster. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs. Ellen D.\nWild 5.00\nWindham. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 5.05\nVermont Women's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Wm. P.\nFairbanks, Treas., _for McIntosh, Ga._:\n Castleton, Ladies 4.85\n \u2014\u2014\n 4.85\n\n\n MASSACHUSETTS, $10,350.70.\nAlford. Rev. J. Jay Dana, 30, to const. PROF. JAMES D.\nCRAWFORD L.M.; Cong Ch., 5.34 35.34\nAmesbury. Union Evan. Ch. 12.70\nAmherst. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 62.85, to const. MRS.\nLIDA J. HASKINS and MISS BERTHA L. JOHNSON L.M's; Children\nNorth Cong. Sab. Sch., \"True Blue Cards,\" 32.15, to const.\nMISS ELLA W. DICKINSON L.M. 95.00\nAmherst. North Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian M._ 50.00\nAmherst. Rev. Julius H. Seelye, D D., 25; Mrs. Wm. A.\nStearns, 10, _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._ 35.00\nAmherst. Miss A. Dutton, _for Rosebud Indian M._ 5.00\nAndover. South Cong. Ch., 75; West Cong. Ch, and Soc., 27;\nMrs. John Smith, 10 112.00\nAshby. Cong. Ch. 12.43\nAuburn. Cong. Ch. 37.75\nBeechwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.50\nBelchertown. Cong Ch. 33.00\nBillerica. Cong Ch., 15, and Sab. Sch., 10 25.00\nBoston. Union Cong. Ch., Chas. P. Adams, to const. MISS\nHELEN F. BRIGHAM, MISS MARY M. BRIGHAM, MISS HELEN M.\nHALL, MISS FANNIE W. MERRILL, MRS. ELIZA S. MORSE, OLIVER\nCOBB, JOHN S. WINN, JOTHAM TWITCHELL and REV. WILLIAM\nCORNELL, D.D., L.M's 1,000.00\n Shawmut Ch., _for Indian M._ 500.00\n J.W. Field 100.00\n J.T. Bailey 100.00\n \"Friend\" 50.00\n T.D. Quincy 30.00\n \"R.,\" _for Indian M._ 25.00\n Mrs. S.E. Cooley, _for Indian M._ 25.00\n Olivet Cong. Ch. 10.00\n Rev. R.B. Howard 5.00\n Mt. Vernon Ch., add'l 5.00\n \u2014\u2014 5.00\nCharleston. Winthrop Ch. and Soc. 81.14\n Sab. Sch., First Parish, _for Gregory Inst._,\n_Wilmington, N.C._ 5.00\nDorchester. Second Cong. Ch. (30 of which from Mrs. Walter\nBaker), 151.31\n Mrs. Sarah A. Carruth 50.00\n Mrs. Eleanor J. Baker, _for Schp. fund, Tillotson C.\nand N. Inst._ 30.00\n Mrs. Eliza Bicknell 5.00\n Miss Mary A. Tuttle, _for Marie Adlof Schp. Fund_ 2.00\nJamaica Plain. R.W. Wood 100.00\n Friends in Central Cong. Ch. 25.00\n Central Cong. Ch., \"A Friend\" 20.00\nRoxbury. Eliot Ch. 71.94\n Mrs. Woodbridge Odlin, to const. MRS. ALMA O. ROBBINS\nL.M. 30.00\n Sab. Sch. of Immanuel Cong. Ch. _for Atlanta U._ 25.00\n \"Our Country A'ssn,\" _for Normal Inst._, _Grandview,\nTenn._ 22.00\nWest Roxbury. So. Evan. Cong. Ch. 24.14\n Sab. Sch. of So. Evan. Cong. Ch, add'l, _for McIntosh,\nGa._ 5.00\n \u2014\u2014\n 2,502.53\nBraintree. South Cong. Ch. 15.00\nBrimfield. First Cong. Ch., 8.25, and Sab. Sch., 10 18.25\nBrockton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.00\nBrookfield. Cong. Ch. 50.00\nCambridge. Member of North Av. Ch. 6.00\nCambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. 155.93\nCarlisle. Cong. Ch. 8.00\nCentreville. Cong. Ch. 10.00\nChatham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.75\nChelsea. First Cong. Ch. 30.00\nChicopee. \"Earnest Workers,\" Third Cong. Ch., _for Student\nAid_, _Fisk U._ 25.00\nConway. Cong. Ch. 9.00\nDalton. Mrs. Louisa F. Crane, 50, and Miss Clara L. Crane,\n50, _for Mountain White Work_ 100.00\nDanvers. First Cong. Ch. and Soc, to Const. HARRIET E.\nPRESTON, ISABEL B. TAPLEY and EDWARD A. GROVER, L.M'S. 97.08\nDouglas. Individuals in Cong Ch. 6.00\nEnfield. C.D. Haskell 5.00\nFall River. \"Friends in Central Ch.\" _for Indian M._ 15.00\nFalmouth. First Cong. Ch., 3.94; Susie E. Herendeen, 1 4.94\nFitchburg. Rollstone Cong. Ch., 75; D.B. Whittier, 10; \"A\nFriend,\" 10 95.00\nFlorence. Y.L. Mission Circle, _for Tougaloo U._ 20.00\nFoxboro. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 41.49; \"Two Friends,\" 10 51.49\nFramingham. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Ch. _for Atlanta U._ 25.00\nGloucester. Sab. Sch. of Evan. Cong. Ch., 53.05; \"Knight,\"\n50; Mrs. Nancy E. Brooks, 5 108.05\nGoshen. Cong. Ch. 22.00\nGreenfield. Miss Jeanette Thompson 5.00\nHadley. First Cong. Soc., 25; Miss Augusta A. Porter, 2 27.00\nHampden. Cong. Ch. 3.00\nHanson. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Tougaloo U._ 14.00\nHaverhill. Algernon P. Nichols 200.00\nHaverhill. Algernon P. Nichols, _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 100.00\nHaydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.00\nHolbrook. Geo. N. Spear, 20; Dea. Edward White, 10, _for\nTillotson C. & N. Inst._ 30.00\nHolland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00\nHolliston. Bible Christians of Dist. No. 4. 50.00\nHolyoke. Mrs. A.M. Childs 10.00\nHousatonic. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 62.00\nHyde Park. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant\nHill, Tenn._ 50.00\nHyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 38.59\nIpswich. South Ch. 50.00\nKingston. Mayflower Ch. 35.00\nLancaster. Cong. Ch. 38.65\nLanesville. Cong. Ch. 13.87\nLakeville. Mrs. Caroline L. Ward 25.00\nLee. First Cong. Ch., 120, and Sab. Sch. 100 220.00\nLeverett. Cong. Ch. 10.00\nLincoln. \"Two Friends.\" 12.50\nLinden. Union Cong. Ch. 8.00\nLowell. Mary E. Fletcher 2; John A. Hodge, Bdl. of C.,\netc. 2.00\nMalden. First Ch. 42.00\nMarlboro. Union Cong. Ch., to const. GEORGE F. NELSON,\nEMERSON G. GIBSON and WILLIAM F. BARNARD L.M's 93.47\nMedway. E.F. Richardson 100.00\nMelrose Highlands. Cong. Ch. 20.00\nMerrimac. Cong. Ch. 150.00\nMiddleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.76\nMillbury. First Cong. Ch., 50.70; Second Cong. Ch. and\nSoc., 38.29; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 25; Rev. Geo.\nA. Putnam, 3; Miss Louisa Spaulding, 2 118.99\nMilton. Arthur H. Tucker 5.00\nNatick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 150.00\nNeedham. Cong. Ch. 6.00\nNew Bedford. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.47\nNewburyport. Prospect St Ch., 25; Ann P. Bassett, 10 35.00\nNewton. Eliot Ch. 237.00\nNewton Center. Cong. Ch., 30; Miss H.S. Cousens, 3 33.00\nNewtonville. Central Cong. Ch. 35.00\nNorthampton. First Cong. Ch. 246.34\nNorth Andover. Cong. Ch., to const. CHARLES P. MORRILL,\nFRANK W. FRISBEE and ANNIE L. SARGENT L.M's 100.00\nNorth Brookfield. First Cong. Ch., 150, to const. ADA C.\nCLAPP, MARY M. BEMIS, HENRY A. COOKE, and LOYAL E. TARBELL\nL.M's; Union Cong. Ch., 100 250.00\nNorth Carver. Cong. Ch. 6.75\nNorth Chelmsford. Second Cong. Ch. 71.00\nNorfolk. Cong. Ch. 2.52\nNorthfield. Miss Mary C. Collins, 50; \"Friends,\" 23;\n\"Friend,\" 1, _for Indian M._ 74.00\nNorth Weymouth. Pilgrim Ch., _for Student Aid_, _Talledega\nC._ 8.00\nOxford. Cong. Ch. 40.00\nPaxton. Cong. Ch. 17.36\nPeabody. South Cong. Ch. 11.50\nPeabody. J.K. Cole, _for G.W. Lawrence_ 3.00\nPeru. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.81\nPittsfield. Rev. Edward Strong, D.D., 10; MRS. REV. EDWARD\nSTRONG, 50, to const. herself L.M. 60.00\nPrinceton. Cong. Ch. 20.00\nQuincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. 15; Washington St. Cong. Ch. 5 20.00\nRandolph. Evan. Cong. Ch., _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 139.70\nRandolph. \u2014\u2014, to const. ANNIE T. BELCHER L.M. 30.00\nRaynham. First Cong. Ch. 6.78\nReading. Cong. Ch., 18; Cong. Ch., \"Friend,\" 5, \"Friend,\" 2 25.00\nRochester. Mrs. Jane N. Leonard 5.00\nRockland. Elijah Shaw 50.00\nRockport First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.93\nSalem. Jos. H. Towne 100.00\nSandersonville. Cong. Ch., _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 10.00\nSharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 29; and Sab. Sch. 10, to\nconst. LORING M. MONK, L.M. 39.00\nShelburne Falls. L.M. Packard 5.00\nSherborn. Pilgrim Ch. 25.00\nSouthboro. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00\nSouth Framingham. South Cong. Ch. 100.00\nSouth Hadley Falls. \"A Friend.\" 5.00\nSouth Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. 27.00\nSouth Weymouth. Primary Dept., Sab. Sch. of Second Cong.\nCh., _for Student Aid_, _Storrs Sch. Atlanta, Ga._ 18.00\nSpringfield. Sab. Sch. of North Cong. Ch., _for Straight\nU._ 16.50\nSterling. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.00\nStockbridge. Cong. Ch., 86.12; \"Lady Member, Cong. Ch.\" 5 91.12\nStoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.53\nSwampscott. Miss L.A. Hopkins 15.00\nSutton. E.L. Snow 50.00\nTaunton. Winslow Ch. and Soc. 51.74\nTownsend. Cong. Ch., \"A Friend.\" 10.00\nUxbridge. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. REV. FRANK\nL. BRISTOL L.M. 40.00\nWareham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. DEA. HIRAM WEBSTER\nBARROWS L.M., 52.54, J.I.W. BURGESS, 30, to const himself\nL.M. 82.54\nWarren. Cong. Ch. 100.00\nWatertown. Phillips Ch. and Soc. 181.00\nWest Barnstable. Cong. Ch. 15.00\nWestboro. \"A Friend.\" 5.00\nWest Boylston. Chas. T. White 3.00\nWestfield. Charlotte W. Fowler, 3; H. Holland, 3 6.00\nWest Medford. Mrs. M.A. Fletcher 6.00\nWest Medway. \"A Friend.\" 2.00\nWest Newton. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 182.85, Sab. Sch.\nof Second Cong., Ch. 25, S.E. Howard, 5 212.85\nWest Springfield. Mrs. Lucy M. Bagg 200.00\nWest Stockbridge Center. Cong. Ch. 1.00\nWhately. Rev. Wm. C. Curtis 2.00\nWhitman. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 85.00\nWhitinsville. Mrs. Mary A. Batchelor 50.00\nWhitinsville. Mrs. Chas. P. Whittin, 40., Wm. H. Whitin,\n35., Edward Whitin, 35, _for Sch'p Fund, Tillotson C. & N.\nInst._ 110.00\nWilliamstown. First Cong. Ch. 12.25\nWilmington. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_,\n_Straight U._ 12.00\nWoods Holl. First Cong. Ch. 8.37\nWorcester. Union Cong. Ch., 223.67; Sam'l R. Heywood, 100;\nPlymouth Cong. Ch., 100; Piedmont Ch., 65; Samuel A.\nPratt, 50; \"A Friend,\" 20; Salem St., Ch., 17.50 576.17\nWorcester. \"A.N.X.\" _for Atlanta U._ 50.00\nWorcester. Geo. L. Newton, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 20.00\nWorcester. Easter Concert, Old South Ch., _for Hampton N.\n& A. Inst._ 11.62\nWorthington. Cong. Ch. 3.82\n\u2014\u2014. Mrs. H.C. Parish _for Indian M._ 10.00\nHampden Benevolent Association, by Charles Marsh, Treas.\n Chicopee. Third, (2.44 of which for Indian M.) 11.96\n Monson. E.F. Morris, 50.00\n Monson. E.A. Ward, 1.00\n Westfield. Second. 20.50\n \u2014\u2014\n 83.46\n \u2014\u2014\n 9,800.70\n\n\n ESTATES\nHaldey. Estate of Eleazar Porter, by J.E. Porter 500.00\nHatfield. Estate of J.B. Woods by R.M. Woods, Trustee 50.00\n \u2014\u2014\n 10,350.70\n\n\n CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC. RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.\nBaldwinsville, Mass. Hospital Cottages for Children, 2 Bbls.\nEast Cambridge, Mass. Miss Mary F. Aiken, Case of Chairs _for Pleasant\nHill, Tenn._\nFoxboro. Rev. A.E. Tracy, 2 Boxes; Mr. Barron, 1 bundle.\nNewton Highlands, Mass. Mrs. E.C. Wheeler, 1 Case.\n\n\n RHODE ISLAND, $1,289.76.\nArnolds Mills. Alice Walcott 20.00\nCentral Falls. \"A Friend\" 50.00\nNewport. United Cong. Ch. 48.00\nPawtucket. Cong. Ch., 104.76; Park Place Cong. Ch., 10 114.76\nTiverton. Ann E. Brown 3.00\nProvidence. Mrs. Geo. H. Corliss, Miss M.L. Corliss and\nMr. G.F. Corliss _in memorian Geo. H. Corliss_ 1,000.00\nProvidence. John McAuslan 50.00\nProvidence. \"A Friend,\" _for Indian M._ 4.00\n\n\n CONNECTICUT, $6,413.18.\nBerlin. A few Ladies, by Mrs. W.W. Woodworth, _for Conn.\nIndl. Sch., Ga._ 8.00\nBirmingham. Wm. E. Downes, _for Schp_, _Tougaloo U._ 70.00\nBirmingham. Cong. Ch. 27.00\nBrooklyn. Mrs. Wm. Woodbridge, 20; M.E. Ensworth, 10;\nFirst Trin. Ch., 21 51.00\nBristol. Mrs. J.T. Peck 10.00\nBuckingham. Cong. Ch. 2.50\nBuckingham. Ladies of Buckingham S.S. _for Conn. Indl.\nSch., Ga._ 5.00\nCheshire. \"A Friend\" 30.00\nClinton. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_, _Atlanta\nU._ 7.78\nDanielsonville. Thomas Backus 30.00\nDerby. Miss Sarah A. Hotchkiss 5.00\nEastford. \"The Gleaners,\" by Alice J. Carpenter, Sec.,\n_for Conn. Indl. Sch., Ga._ 10.00\nEast Hampton. First Cong. Ch. 32.64\nEast Hartford. \u2014\u2014 100.00\nEast Hartford. \"A Friend,\" to const. ROBERT E. OLMSTED\nL.M. 30.00\nEast Hartford. First Ch. 20.00\nEaston. Cong. Ch. 6.00\nFair Haven. Sab. Sch. Second Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Indian\nSch._ 10.00\nFarmington. Cong. Ch., _for Tougaloo U._ 10.50\nFranklin. Cong. Ch. 7.00\nGlastonbury. J.B. and W.S. Williams, 200; Mrs. N.W.\nGoodrich, 150; Geo. G. Williams, 100 450.00\nGlastonbury. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_, _Fisk\nU._ 50.00\nGlastonbury. Bernard T. Williams, _for Indian M._ 50.00\nGoshen. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 23.22\nGreen's Farms. Cong. Ch. 22.08\nGreenwich. Second Cong. Ch., 62.16; David Banks, 10 72.16\nGriswold. Cong. Ch., to const. JOSEPH TYLER GEER L.M. 35.00\nGuilford. First Cong. Ch, to const. MISS MINNIE M.\nGRISWOLD, L.M. 30.00\nHadlyme. R.E. Hungerford, 30.75; Cong. Ch., 5.25 36.00\nHampton. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 20.00\nHartford. Mrs. S.E. Perkins, _for Talladega C._ 200.00\nHartford. Newton Case, 100; Mrs. H.A. Perkins. 100; Asylum\nHill Cong. Ch., L.T. Frisbie, 25 225.00\nIvoryton. \"Friends,\" _for Tougaloo U._ 70.00\nIvoryton. Frank M. Rose and wife 10.00\nIvoryton. Miss Isabel Northrop and her S.S. Class, _for\nIndian M._ 12.50\nJersey City. Mrs. Julia D. Talcott, _for Indian M._ 50.00\nLedyard. \"A Friend\" 2.00\nLong Ridge. Cong. Ch. 5.00\nMiddlefleld. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. DEA. SETH E.\nMILLER and HENRY J. CAMP L.M.'s 70.12\nMiddletown. Edward Payne, 10; Chas. Boardman, 10; Geo. T.\nMeech, 5; W.H. Burrows, 5; Seth H. Butler, 5; Geo. A.\nCole, 5; J.H. Bunce, 10, _for Tougaloo U._ 50.00\nMeriden. First Cong. Ch. (50 of which _for Indian M._), to\nconst. MISS LYDIA E. GLADWIN, A.C. BUMPIS, GEO. S.\nHEMINGWAY, MISS ELLIE M. LINES, MISS MARY A.N. GILL and\nFRANK L. LAWTON L.M's, 300; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n50 350.00\nMeriden, Center Ch., 50; \"N.T.,\" 3 53.00\nMilford. First Cong. Ch. 100.00\nMoodus. Miss Mary E. Dyer 5.00\nMount Carmel. W.W. Woodruff, 25; Mrs. J.M. Swift, 10; bal.\nto const. ELLA L. DUNBAR L.M. 35.00\nNaugatuck. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_,\n_Fisk U._ 25.00\nNew Britain. First Ch. of Christ 200.00\nNew Haven. W.E. Downes, 100; Prof. E.E. Salisbury, 50;\nCollege St. Cong. Ch., 39.05; \"A Friend,\" 15; Alfred\nWalker, 10 214.05\nNew Milford. \"A Friend\" 2.00\nNewington. Cong. Ch. 67.24\nNewington. Mr. and Mrs. J. Deming, _for Tougaloo U._ 10.00\nNew London. \"Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven\" 100.00\nNew Preston. Mrs. Betsy Averill 10.00\nNew Preston. Mrs. Betsy Averill, _for Mountain White Work_ 5.00\nNorfolk. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 20.00\nNorfolk. Mrs. Mary A. Curtiss, _for Schp_, _Indian M._ 7.50\nNorth Guilford. Cong Ch. 17.50\nNorwalk. First Cong. Ch. 50.00\nNorwich. \"A Friend\" 1,000.00\nNorwich. First Cong. Ch., 75; Miss Sarah M. Lee, 25 100.00\nNorwich. Rev. W.S. Palmer, D.D., _for Tillotson C & N.\nInst._ 10.00\nOld Saybrook. Cong. Ch. 33.88\nPlainfield. First Cong. Ch. 26.41\nPlainfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud\nIndian M._ 11.22\nPoquonock. Thomas Duncan 50.00\nPreston City. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00\nPutnam. Second Cong. Ch., 19.46; Mrs. Mary A. Keith, 2 21.46\nRockville. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. JOHN G. BAIRD, MISS\nSARAH K. GELBERT, MRS. GUY P. COLLINS and GEORGE W. VINAL\nL.M.'S 140.11\nRockville. Dea. Geo. Maxwell, 100; J.N. Stickney, 5 _for\nTougaloo U._ 105.00\nSalisbury. Cong. Ch. 17.23\nSeymour. Cong. Ch. 12.06\nSouth Coventry. Mrs. Mary J. Bennett, _for Williamsburg,\nKy._ 20.00\nStafford. Mrs. T.H. Thresher 5.00\nStanwich. Cong. Ch. 5.00\nSouthport. Cong. Ch., 134, to const. SIMON C. SHERWOOD,\nHENRY C. BARNUM, WILLIAM MONTALON and SYLVESTER STRONG\nBLISS L.M's; \"A Friend,\" 70 204.00\nStonington. Rev. Chas J. Hill 12.00\nTerryville. O.D. Hunter, 50; N.T. Baldwin, 50, _for\nTalledaga C._ 100.00\nTerryville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian\nM._ 27.54\nTerryville. A.S. Gaylord 10.00\nThomaston. Dr. W. Woodruff, 10; E.C. Root, 5; Mrs. Geo.\nPierpont, 5; Mrs. Wm. Gilbert, 5; Mabel Freeman, 2; H.H.\nHotchkiss, 50c, _for Tougaloo U._ 27.50\nThomaston. Cong. Ch. 11.95\nTorrington. L. Wetmore, 150: Third Cong. Ch. and Sab.\nSch., 51.59 201.59\nTorrington. \"Valley Gleaners,\" _for Fort Berthold Indian\nM._ 50.00\nUnionville. First Ch. of Christ 14.30\nVoluntown and Sterling. Cong. Ch. to const. MISS MELINDA\nGALLUP L.M. 17.38\nWallingford. \"A Friend.\" _for Tougaloo U._ 5.00\nWatertown. \"Friends,\" _for Indian M._ 15.00\nWatertown. Mrs. Fred Scott's Class, _for Fort Berthold\nIndian M._ 10.00\nWebster. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00\nWestbrook. Cong. Ch. 44.53\nWestford. Cong. Ch. 7.25\nWest Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 54.98, Ladies' Mon.\nMiss'y Prayer Meeting, by Mrs. Emeline Smith, 15;\nMrs. Emeline Smith, 5; Mrs. E.C. Kimball, 2 76.98\nWest Torrington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Conn.\nInd'l Sch., Ga._ 5.00\nWillimantic. Mrs. E.G. Learned 4.00\nWindsor. First Cong. Ch. 50.00\nWolcott. \"A Friend,\" _for Tougaloo U._ 5.00\n\u2014\u2014 100.00\n\u2014\u2014 \"A Connecticut Friend,\" 30.00\n\u2014\u2014 \"A Friend in Conn.,\" 20.00\n \u2014\u2014\n 5,913.18\n\n\n ESTATES\nHartford. Estate of Mrs. Nancy H. Hills, by J.C. Hills,\nExecutor 500.00\n \u2014\u2014\n 6,413.18\n\n\n NEW YORK, $8,942.27.\nBrooklyn. Stephen Ballard, _for Ballard Sch. Building,\nMacon, Ga._ 2,500.00\nBrooklyn. E.C. Seecomb, 50; Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 20 70.00\nBrooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._,\n37.50; CLARENCE F. BIRDSEYE, _for Indian M._, and balance\nto const. himself L.M., 17.50 55.00\nBrooklyn. Lewis Av. Cong. Ch., Box of C., 1.30 _for\nFreight_, _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 1.30\nBrooklyn. Mrs. Sarah A.M. Kent, Pkg. of C.\nBrooklyn, E.D. New Eng. Cong. Ch. 10.00\nCambridge. \"Friends,\" _for Indian M._ 19.50\nCanandaigua. C.W. Dixon, 5; \"N.M.C,\" 5 10.00\nCopenhagen. Rev. W.J. Cuthbertson 5.00\nFairport. J.E. Howard 50.00\nJamestown. First Cong. Ch. 13.00\nKelloggsville. Miss Carrie Taylor 50.00\nLebanon. Thomas Hitchcock, 5; Ladies' Home Miss'y Soc., 5;\nMrs. S.G. Childs, 3; Alfred Seymour, 1.25; J.A. Head, 1;\nMrs. M. Day, 1; J.H. Wagoner, 1; John Fisk, 1; C.P. Day,\n1; G.G. Grosvenor, 50c.; Mrs. I. Lyon, 25c. 20.00\nLockport. First Cong. Ch. 10.00\nMalone. Mrs. H.R. Wilson 2.00\nMiddletown. First Cong. Ch. 35.00\nNew York. Z. Stiles Ely, 100; \"A Friend,\" 100; \"H.W.H.,\"\n100 to const. JOSEPH ANDREWS POWELL, JAMES THOMAS POWELL\nand GRACE KNOWLES POWELL L.M's; Wm. Ives Washburn, 25;\nHomer N. Lockwood, 25; Individuals, Tabernacle Ch., 21;\nRev. Stephen Angell, 10: B.B. Adams, Jr., 10 391.00\nNew York. Bethany Sew. Sch., _for Fort Berthold Indian M._ 43.00\nNorth Pitcher. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. 0.50\nNorth Walton. Cong'l Ch. and Cong., _for Mt. White Work_ 15.20\nPerkin. Miss A. Peck 25.00\nPerry Center. William Butler, 10; Mrs. Sarah Lillibridge,\n5; Miss Rachel Booth, 5; Miss Clara S. Cooper, 2 22.00\nPlattsburg. G.W. Dodds 5.00\nRochester. Geo. Thayer 20.00\nSilver Creek. W. Chapin 10.00\nSyracuse. Mrs. E.G. Washburn 5.00\nUnion Valley. Wm. C. Angell 5.00\nUtica. Plymouth Ch. 7.50\nUtica. Mrs. Sarah H. Mudge, _for Woman's Work_ 5.00\nVerona. E. Day 10.00\nWalton. Cong'l Ch. and Cong., _for Mt. White Work_ 72.45\n\u2014\u2014 \"Life Member.\" 12.00\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H. Cobb,\nTreas., _for Womans' Work._\n Arcade. Y.L. Mission Circle 15.00\n Churchville. Ladies' Aux. 50.00\n Copenhagen. Ladies' Aux., to const. HARRY MUNGER L.M. 50.00\n Homer. \"Band of Hope.\" 5.00\n Riverhead. Ladies' Aux. 15.00\n \u2014\u2014\n 135.00\n \u2014\u2014\n 3,684.45\n\n\n ESTATES\nBrooklyn. Estate of Alfred S. Barnes by Alfred C. Barnes,\nEx. 4,856.67\nFranklin. Estate of Mrs. Mary Parsons Foote, by David\nFoote, Ex. 451.15\n \u2014\u2014\n 8,942.27\n\n NEW JERSEY, $1,242.46.\nArlington. Mrs. G. Overacre, _for Mt. White Work_ 3.00\nBernardsville. Mrs. M.L. Roberts 30.00\nMontclair. J. Van Vleck, 100. Y.L.M. Soc. of First Cong.\nCh., by Effie A. Brown, Treas. 10.60 110.60\nNew Brunswick. J.P. Langdon 15.00\nPark ridge. Sab. Sch., of Cong. Ch. 8.86\nPaterson. P. Van Houten 5.00\nPlainfield. C.L. Goodrich 5.00\nSalem. W. Graham Tyler 20.00\nTrenton. Miss S.T. Sherman, 40, Mrs. E.B. Fuller, 5 45.00\n \u2014\u2014\n 242.46\n\n\n ESTATES\nMontclair. Estate of Winslow Ames, by W.W. Ames, Ex. 1,000.00\n \u2014\u2014\n 1,242.46\n\n PENNSYLVANIA, $242.50.\nCambridgeboro. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch. 10.00\nCanton. H. Sheldon 15.00\nPhiladelphia. Chas. Burnham 100.00\nPittston. Jas. Challenger 2.00\nRidgway. First Cong. Ch. 15.50\nWest Alexander. Mrs. Jane C. Davidson 100.00\n\n\n OHIO, $1,557.10.\nAshtabula. First Cong. Ch. 13.80\nAshtabula. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 25.00\nBerea. James S. Smedley, to const. F.S. SMEDLEY L.M. 30.00\nBrownhelm. Cong. Ch. 15.00\nBryan. S.E. Blakeslee 5.00\nBurton. Rev. S.W. Pierson 5.00\nCedarville. Mrs. M.E. Edwards 200.00\nChagrin Falls. Cong. Ch. 21.63\nCleveland. First Cong. Ch. 74.01; Mrs. F.W. Low, 20 94.01\nCleveland. H.H. Brown, _for Talladega C._ 100.00\nCleveland. Mrs. H.B. Spelman, _for Student Aid_, _Atlanta,\nGa._ 25.00\nColumbus. Eastwood Cong. Ch. 21.00\nDover. Cong. Ch. 17.60\nHarbor. Cong. Ch. 5.00\nKingsville. Myron Whiting 100.00\nLafayette. Cong. Ch. 7.50\nLorain. Mrs. A.D. Barber, (deceased,) 50; Rev. A.D. Barber\nand Daughter, 21; Mrs. Susan Beers, 5; Others in Cong.\nCh., 27.85 103.85\nMadison. Central Cong. Ch. 29.47\nMedina. Cong. Ch., to const. DEA. C.E. CLARK, E.R. ROOT,\nand MISS CLARA STEEB L.M's 98.06\nMount Vernon. Cong. Ch., 68.63, Ladies' Miss'y Soc. 19;\nChas. Cooper, 15 102.63\nNewark. Plym. Cong. Ch. 6.00\nNorth Benton. Simon Hartzell 5.00\nNorth Bloomfield. E.A. Brown, _for Talladega C._ 100.00\nOberlin. Second Cong. Ch., 48.69; Dr. and Mrs. Homer\nJohnson, 8 56.69\nPainesville. E.E. Johnson 4.00\nRootstown. Cong. Ch., 19.56; W.J. Dickinson, 10 29.56\nSteubenville. First Cong. Ch. 5.60\nToledo. Washington St. Cong. Ch. 10.00\nWellington. \"A Friend,\" 20; Cong. Sab. Sch., 10 30.00\nWilloughby. Miss Mary P. Hastings 1.00\nWindham. First Cong. Ch. 13.46\nYork. Cong. Ch. 32.00\nOhio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Phebe A.\nCrafts, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:\n Chester. St. Paul's Mission Band 6.82\n Claridon. W.M.S. 10.00\n Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., H.M.S. 25.00\n Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., Y.P.S.C.E. 2.59\n Columbus. E.T.B. 2.00\n Columbus. Eastwood Ch., Mrs. P.L. Alcott 10.00\n Columbus. Eastwood Ch., \"F.M.B.\" 7.00\n Coolville. L.H.M.S. 17.81\n Kent. Ladies' Aux. 11.50\n Lindenville. Miss Ellen Jones 5.00\n Madison. Cong. Ch. W.H.M.S. 1.00\n Madison. Cong. Ch. W.H.M.S. 0.52\n Marysville. Aux. 12.00\n Medina. L.B.S. 25.00\n Mount Vernon. W.H.M.S. 5.00\n Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. L.A.S. 75.00\n Painesville. L.H.M.S. 25.00\n South Kirtland. Cong. Ch., L.M.S. 3.00\n \u2014\u2014\n 244.24\n\n\n INDIANA, $205.00.\nVersailles. Mrs. J.D. Nichols, (2.50 of which _for Indian\nM._) 5.00\n\n\n ESTATES\nAuburn. Estate of James Adams by D.Y. Husselman 200.00\n \u2014\u2014\n 205.00\n\n\n ILLINOIS, $1,302.34.\nAurora. N.L. Janes 10.00\nBelvidere. Mrs. M.C. Foote, 10, _for Mobile, Ala._ and 3\n_for Woman's Work_ 13.00\nBuda. J.B. Stewart, 100; Cong. Ch. 25.52 125.52\nChicago. Plymouth Cong. Ch., 120.25; New England Ch. \"A\nFriend,\" 100; D.H. Roe, 100; Rev. J.M. Williams, 50; Rev.\nJos. E. Roy, D.D. 30. to const. REV. S.J. HUMPHREY, D.D.,\nL.M; A.L. Cole, 25; Randolph St. Mission of First Cong.\nCh., 20 445.52\nChicago. Mrs. F.A. Noble, _for Student Aid Endowment\nFund_, _Fisk U._ 25.00\nCollinsville. J.F. Wadsworth 10.00\nDover. Rev. R.M. Sargent 5.00\nGalesburg. First Cong. Ch. 90.00\nGranville. Y.P. Miss'y Soc. 10.00\nHinsdale. J.W. Bushnell 5.00\nJoliet. Rev. S. Penfield 5.00\nLewistown. Mrs. Myron Phelps 25.00\nLisbon. Cong. Ch. 10.00\nMaywood. Cong. Ch. 20.00\nMorrison. William Wallace and Robert Wallace, to const.\nMRS. AGNES RALSTON, L.M. 60.00\nPark Ridge. Cong. Ch. 8.00\nPlainfield. Cong. Ch. 8.50\nPrinceton. Mrs. S.C. Clapp, 25; Mrs. P.B. Corss, 12; Cong.\nCh., 12 49.00\nQuincy. Lorenzo Bull, 50; Charles H. Bull, 50 100.00\nRavenswood. Cong. Ch. 22.90\nRockford. Thos. D. Robertson 50.00\nRockford. Miss Blanche Goodall, _for Oahe Indian Sch._ 2.00\nRockford. Mrs. E.W. Chandler, Box Papers, etc., _for\nSherwood, Tenn._\nRoseville. Cong. Ch. 11.38\nRutland. Rev. L. Taylor 2.00\nSandwich. Cong. Ch. 10.80\nSterling. Mrs. Catherine McKinney 10.00\nToulon. Cong. Ch., 23.18; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 5 28.18\nToulon. \"The Lamplighters,\" pkg. Patchwork, _for Sherwood,\nTenn._\nWauponsee Grove. Cong. Ch. 11.90\nWestern Springs. Union Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid\nEndowment Fund_, _Fisk U._ 9.00\nWinnebago. N.F. Parsons 10.00\nIllinois Woman's Home Missionary Union, Mrs. C.E. Maltby,\nTreas., _for Woman's Work_:\n Ill. Woman's H.M.U. (30 of which from Ladies of Lincoln\nPark Cong. Ch., to const. HENRY W. HOBART L.M.) 45.65\n Ill. Woman's H.M.U. (30 of which to const. MRS. J.E.\nPOOLE L.M.) 58.00\n Woman's Home Missionary Union 6.26\n \u2014\u2014\n 109.91\n\n MICHIGAN, $758.96.\nAgricultural College. Prof. R.C. Kedzie 10.00\nAlmont. Cong. Ch. 25.00\nAnn Arbor. First Cong. Ch., 41; First Cong. Ch., add'l, \"A\nFriend,\" 15; Mrs. Maria Wood, 2 58.00\nBenton Harbor. Rev. W.H. Brewster 3.00\nChelsea. First Cong. Ch. 21.00\nChurch's Corners. Cong. Ch. 30.36\nComstock. \"A Friend\" 138.10\nDetroit First Cong. Ch., 139.95; Sab. Sch. of First Cong.\nCh., 24.76; Woodward Av. Cong. Sab. Sch., 20 184.71\nEast Gilead. Cong. Ch. 2.00\nFlint. Cong. Ch. 21.86\nGreen Oak. John Thompson 5.00\nHomer. Mrs. C.C. Evarts 5.00\nIthaca. Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Norris 10.00\nKalamazoo. First Cong. Ch. 90.25\nManistee. B.M. Cutcheon 5.00\nNashville. \"A Friend\" 2.00\nNorthport. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 5.00\nPortland. Cong. Ch. 16.00\nRomeo. E.B. Dickinson, 10; Watson Loud, 10 20.00\nSaginaw City. Mrs. A.M. Spencer 2.00\nUnion City. \"A Friend\" 100.00\nWoman's Home Missionary Union, Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas.:\n Essexville. W.H.M.S. 3.82\n Essexville. Sab. Sch. 0.86\n \u2014\u2014\n 4.68\n\n WISCONSIN, $896.75.\nAntigo. Cong. Ch. 6.35\nAppleton. \"A Life Member\" 10.00\nBerlin. Cong. Ch. 20.00\nBeloit. Second Cong. Ch., Sab. Sch. 11.00\nBeloit. E.P. Wheeler, _for Oahe Indian Sch._ 10.00\nBristol. Cong. Ch. 40.00\nBurlington. Cong. Ch. 20.25\nClintonville. Cong. Ch. 6.00\nCooksville. E. Gilley 5.00\nFranksville. Cong. Ch. 4.00\nGreen Bay. First Presb. Ch. 45.10\nHayward. Cong. Ch. 15.10\nKaukauna. Cong. Ch. 8.00\nKenosha. Cong. Ch. 32.05\nKinnic Kinnic. Cong. Ch. 3.30\nLa Crosse. George H. Ray, 25; J.M. Holley, 5 30.00\nMadison. First Cong. Ch., 21.71; Sab. Sch. of First Cong.\nCh., 20 41.71\nMilwaukee. Grand Av. Cong. Ch., 139.16; Plymouth Ch., 30 169.16\nNecedah. Cong. Ch. 5.45\nNew Lisbon. Cong. Ch. 11.50\nOshkosh. Cong. Ch. 63.50\nRiver Falls. Cong. Ch. 41.00\nRiver Falls. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Fort Berthold\nIndian M._ 35.00\nSheboygan. Frank Stowe and Friends, Box Books, etc.; Sab.\nSch. First Cong. Ch., Box S.S. Papers, _for Sherwood,\nTenn._\nStoughton. Cong. Ch. 3.28\nWest Superior. Cong. Ch. 9.41\nWhitewater. Cong. Ch., 84.25, and Sab. Sch., 15.75 100.00\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Wisconsin, _for Woman's\nWork_:\n Appleton. W.H.M.U. 1.75\n Arena. W.H.M.U. 4.07\n Beloit. First Ch. W.H.M.U. 18.15\n Bloomington. W.H.M.U. 5.30\n Brodhead. W.H.M.U. 2.90\n \u2014\u2014 \"A Friend\" 50.00\n Eau Claire. W.H.M.U. 8.30\n Janesville. W.H.M.U. 3.50\n Madison. W.H.M.U. 24.72\n Milton. W.H.M.U. 7.40\n Milwaukee. W.H.M.U. 3.00\n New Lisbon. W.H.M.U. 3.00\n Platteville. W.H.M.U. 0.50\n Ripon. W.H.M.U. 7.00\n Stoughton. W.H.M.U. 1.00\n Wauwatosa. W.H.M.U. 4.00\n Whitewater. W.H.M.U. 6.00\n \u2014\u2014\n 150.59\n\n\n IOWA, $526.42.\nAmity. Cong. Ch. 17.30\nCharles City. First Cong. Ch. 40.07\nCherokee. First Cong. Ch. 15.82\nChester Center. Cong. Ch. 9.06\nDanville. Lee W. Mix, 3; S.H. Mix, 2 5.00\nDavenport. Julius A. Reed 15.00\nDecorah. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 7.00\nDecorah. Cong. Ch. 6.00\nDenmark. T.S. Taylor, 20; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 15 35.00\nDubuque. First Cong. Ch. 42.37\nGrinnell. Mrs. Geo. Magoun, _for Oahe Indian Sch._ 2.00\nIowa City. Rev. M.N. Miles 10.00\nKeokuk. Woman's Miss'y Soc., _for Woman's Work_ 14.50\nLawlen. Cong. Ch. 4.05\nManchester. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. 10.00\nMcGregor. J.H. Ellsworth 10.00\nMcGregor. \u2014\u2014 17.00\nNashua. Cong. Ch. 12.37\nPostville. Cong. Ch. 8.00\nQuasqueton. Cong. Ch. 3.21\nRed Oak. First Cong. Ch. 22.83\nTabor. Cong. Ch. 68.25\nTraer. Cong. Ch., 11.06; L.M. Soc. Cong. Ch., 6 17.06\nWaterloo. Cong. Ch. 15.12\nWinthrop. Cong. Ch. 50.00\n\u2014\u2014. \"Friends.\" _for Oahe Indian Sch._ 3.10\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa, _for Woman's Work_:\n Bellevue. L.M.S. 4.00\n Cedar Rapids. L.M.S. 21.30\n Council Bluffs. L.M.S. 10.00\n Le Mars. L.M.S. 4.35\n Mason City. L.M.S. 4.50\n Onawa. L.M.S. 6.00\n Rockford. L.M.S. 1.16\n Stuart. L.M.S. 5.00\n Sheldon. L.M.S. 1.00\n Shenandoah. L.M.S. 9.00\n \u2014\u2014\n 66.31\n\n MINNESOTA, $384.63.\nAitken. Cong. Ch. 2.24\nAnoka. Cong. Ch. 5.00\nLittle Falls. 3.10\nMankato. Cong. Ch. 6.50\nMinneapolis. Plym. Ch., 11; Vine Ch., 10.75 21.75\nNorthfield. First Cong. Ch. 88.96\nRochester. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. 30.61\nRose Creek. \"True Blue\" Card, by Mrs. Sarah Rounce 2.70\nSaint Paul. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 22.42\nMinn. Woman's Home Missionary Soc., _for Woman's Work_, by\nMrs. Clara N. Cross, Treas.:\n Austin. W.M.S. 15.88\n Brainerd. First Ch. S.S. 9.50\n Cannon Falls. \u2014\u2014 5.00\n Clear Water. Sab. Sch. and Nellie Baxter, Bessie\nBosworth, Sarah Whiting, on True Blue Cards, 5 each 15.62\n Cottage Grove. W.M.S. 8.00\n Glyndon. S.S. 1.18\n Marshall. W.M.S. 7.50\n Minneapolis. First Ch. W.H.M.S. 49.00\n Minneapolis. Plymouth W.H.M.S. 23.00\n Minneapolis. Second Ch. W.M.S. 7.50\n Minneapolis. Como Av. Ch., \"Seekers after Knowledge,\" 5.00\n Owatomie. W.H.M.S. 13.00\n Plainview. S.S. 1.64\n Plainview. W.M.S. 5.75\n Rochester. Y.L.M.S. 21.67\n Saint Cloud. W.M.S. 3.50\n Waseca. W.M.S. 2.00\n \u2014\u2014. \u2014\u2014 6.61\n \u2014\u2014\n 201.35\n\n\n MISSOURI, $111.20.\nLebanon. Cong. Ch. 11.10\nPierce City. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of First Cong. Ch. 5.00\nSaint Louis. First Cong. Ch. 50.00\nSedalia. Cong. Ch. 45.10\n\n\n KANSAS, $100.74.\nBrookville. Rev. S.G. Wright 5.00\nCouncil Grove. Cong. Ch. 15.00\nDover. Cong. Ch. 1.25\nHiawatha. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. 2.89\nLeavenworth. First Cong. Ch. 54.35\nOsawatomie. Cong. Ch. 10.00\nValley Falls. Cong. Ch. 12.25\n\n\n DAKOTA, $20.91.\nFort Bethold. Mrs. H.R. Floyd, _for Fort B. Indian M._ 6.00\nDakota Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Sue Fifield,\nTreas., _for Woman's Work,_\n Huron. W.M.S. 4.00\n Huron. W.M.S. 6.50\n Lake Henry. W.M.S. 4.41\n \u2014\u2014\n 14.91\n\n NEBRASKA, $53.50.\nCamp Creek. Cong. Ch. 10.00\nChadron. Cong. Ch. 5.00\nDewitt. Cong. Ch. 3.50\nIrvington. Cong. Ch. 15.00\nOmaha. Mrs. Reuben Gaylord, _for Indian M._ 20.00\n\n\n MONTANA, $2.50.\n\u2014\u2014. \"A Friend,\" 2.50\n\n\n ARKANSAS, $1.05.\nFayetteville. Cong. Ch. 1.05\n\n\n WASHINGTON TERR., $25.00.\nFidalgo Island. Pilgrim Ch. 10.00\nSkokomish. Cong. Ch. 15.00\n\n\n OREGON, $31.12.\nPortland. First Cong. Ch., 30. to const. C.F. HOLCOMB\nL.M.; Rev. E. Rogers, 1.12 31.12\n\n\n CALIFORNIA, $5.00.\nArcata. \u2014\u2014. 5.00\n\n\n DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $18,242.14.\nWashington. U.S. Government, _for Indian M._ 18,186.74\nWashington, Mrs. S.B.A. Robinson, of Cong. Ch., 30, to\nconst. JAMES FRANCIS ADAMS L.M.; B.N. and E.M. Seymour,\n15; Lincoln Memorial Ch., 10.40 55.40\n\n\n KENTUCKY, $143.10.\nWilliamsburg. Tuition. 143.10\n\n\n NORTH CAROLINA, $2.90.\nMcLeansville. Rev. A. Connet 0.40\nPekin. Cong. Ch. 1.50\nTroy. S.D. Leak 1.00\n\n\n SOUTH CAROLINA, $331.00.\nGreenwood. Tuition 331.00\n\n\n TENNESSEE, $3,507.93.\nMemphis. Slater Fund 1,500.00\nNashville. Slater Fund 1,500.00\nNashville. Tuition, 300.90; Rent, 18.35 319.25\nNashville. Mrs. H.H. Wright, _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 1.50\nPleasant Hill. Tuition, 135.20; School Fund, 47.50 182.70\nRobbins. Tuition 4.50\n\n\n GEORGIA, $529.04.\nAtlanta. Teachers and Students, Atlanta U., 20; Children's\nMiss'y Soc., by Mrs. E. Kent, 5, _for Indian Sch._ 25.00\nAtlanta. First Cong. Ch., Six Birthday Offerings 1.04\nMacon. Slater Fund 500.00\nMarietta. Ch. and Sab. Sch, 1.50 each 3.00\n\n ALABAMA, $1,423.55.\nTalladega. Slater Fund 1,400.00\nTallagega. Tuition 22.55\n\n\n MISSISSIPPI, $3,000.00.\nTougaloo. State Appropriation 500.00\nTougaloo. Slater Fund 1,500.00\n\n\n LOUISIANA, $1,000.00.\nNew Orleans. Slater Fund 1,000.00\n\n\n TEXAS, $900.00.\nAustin. Slater Fund 900.00\n\n\n INCOMES, $1,691.03.\nAvery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 1,570.03\nC.F. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._ 50.00\nGeneral Endowment Fund 50.00\nHammond Fund, _for Straight U._ 0.77\nHoward Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._ 7.98\nLuke Memorial Fund, _for Talladega C._ 0.68\nRice Memorial Fund, _for Talladega C._ 1.50\nTheo. Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ 0.18\nTheo. Endowment Fund, _for Fisk U._ 5.18\nYale Library Fund, _for Talladega C._ 4.71\n\n\n CANADA, $5.00.\nMontreal. Chas. Alexander 5.00\n\n\n CHINA, $5.00.\nTientsin. Rev. M.L. Stimson 5.00\n ========\n\n\nDonations 30,846.46\nEstates 9,107.82\nIncomes 1,691.03\nTuitions 1,484.75\nRents 18.35\nU.S. Government for Indians 18,186.74\nSlater Fund 8,300.00\n \u2014\u2014\n Total for September 69,635.15\n Total from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30 320,952.42\n ==========\n\n\n FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\nSubscriptions for September 35.77\nPreviously acknowledged 897.61\n \u2014\u2014\n Total 933.38\n ========\n\n\n\n H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n 56 Reade St., N.Y.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 42, No. 11, November, 1888","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":16710}