{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_13641/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_13641","id":"gutenberg_13641","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13641","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Sociology","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"The American Missionary\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nOctober, 1888.\n\nVolume XLII No. 10.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nContents\n\nFinancial. Annual Meeting\nVoting Members--Paragraphs\nQualifications Of Candidates For Mission Work\nImmigrants And Negroes\nBook Review\nGift Of Books From Mr. Willey\nThe Unconscious Influence Of Our Missionaries\nExpulsion Of Negroes From Marion, Ark\nExtracts\nSchool Echoes\nRome And The Freedmen\n\n  THE SOUTH.\nVacation Echoes\nExtract From A Graduating Essay\n\n  STUDENT'S LETTER.\nThe Blue-Jacket Teacher\n\n  THE INDIANS.\nMr. Moody's Missionary Meetings\n\n  THE CHINESE.\nConfucius And Christ\n\n  BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\nSketch Of Mission Life On The Frontier\n\n  RECEIPTS\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nNEW YORK:\n\nPUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\n\nRooms, 56 Reade Street.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nPrice, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.\n\nEntered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second class matter.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nThe American Missionary\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nPresident, Rev. WM. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.\n\nVice-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\nCorresponding 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\nTreasurer.\n\nH.W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.\n\nAuditors.\n\nPeter McCartee.\nChas. P. Peirce.\n\nExecutive Committee.\n\nJohn H. Washburn, Chairman.\nAddison P. Foster, Secretary.\n\nFor Three Years.\n\nLyman Abbott,\nCharles A. Hull,\nJ.R. Danforth,\nClinton B. Fisk,\nAddison P. Foster,\n\nFor Two Years.\n\nS.B. Halliday,\nSamuel Holmes,\nSamuel S. Marples,\nCharles L. Mead,\nElbert B. Monroe,\n\nFor One Year.\n\nJ.E. Rankin,\nWm. H. Ward,\nJ.W. Cooper,\nJohn H. Washburn,\nEdmund L. Champlin.\n\nDistrict Secretaries.\n\nRev. C.J. Ryder, 21 Cong'l House, Boston.\nRev. J.E. Roy, D.D., 151 Washington Street, Chicago.\n\nFinancial Secretary for Indian Missions.\n\nRev. Chas. W. Shelton.\n\nSecretary 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,\nin trust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the\nperson who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the\n'American Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied,\nunder the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to\nits charitable uses and purposes.\" The Will should be attested by\nthree witnesses.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nThe American Missionary.\n\nVOL. XLII. OCTOBER, 1888. No. 10.\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nFINANCIAL--THE DEBT.\n\nOur receipts for the eleven months ending August 31st show an increase\nfrom collections of $14,452.76; a decrease in legacies of $5,195.52;\nwith a net increase of $9,257.24 over the corresponding months of last\nyear. On the other hand, the expenditures for these eleven months have\nbeen $31,835.70 more than those of last year, and hence a debt of over\n$22,000 is impending. The explanation is to be found in the fact that\nan unusually large per cent. of our collections this year is in\nspecified gifts for special objects, and could not, therefore, be used\nto meet appropriations for current work; and the added expenditures\nhave been absolutely required by the natural and healthful growth in\nour varied industrial, school and church work in all parts of our\nextended field.\n\nAs our friends have had occasion to know, we are making an earnest\nappeal for special help to avert this threatened debt. The responses\nthus far are encouraging, but not such as to leave the question beyond\ndoubt. This magazine will reach most of our readers before the last\nSunday of the month. We urgently appeal to our friends to make a grand\nrally on that day for our relief.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nANNUAL MEETING.\n\nThe forty-second Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association\nwill be held at Providence, R.I., Oct. 23-25. The meeting will open\npromptly at 3 o'clock, Tuesday P.M., Oct. 23. On Tuesday evening, the\nannual sermon will be preached by Rev. Arthur Little, D.D., of\nChicago. Those purposing to be present and wishing entertainment are\nrequested to write to Mr. G.E. Luther, Secretary of Committee of\nEntertainment, Providence, R.I. (See the last page of the cover.)\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nVOTING MEMBERS.\n\nBy our Constitution it will be observed that the following persons are\nentitled to vote at the annual meetings of this Association: Members\nof evangelical churches who have been constituted life members by the\npayment of $30 into its treasury, with the written declaration at the\ntime or times of payment that the sum is to be applied to constitute a\ndesignated person a life member, such membership beginning sixty days\nafter the payment; delegates chosen to attend the annual meeting by\nevangelical churches which have within a year contributed to the funds\nof the Association, such churches being entitled to send two delegates\neach. Each State Conference or Association is also entitled to send\ntwo delegates. Such delegates are members of the Association for the\nyear for which they were appointed.\n\nWe sincerely urge our patrons to avail themselves of the opportunity\nthus afforded to participate in the management of the trusts of this\nAssociation, hoping that by so doing they will share more fully in the\nresponsibility of its work and become more helpful in furthering its\ndevelopment in years to come.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWe are happy to announce the return of Rev. Dr. Beard. He attended the\nLondon Missionary Conference, as the delegate of the American\nMissionary Association, and presented a paper on \"History of Missions\namong the North American Indians.\" He was called by a telegram to\nFlorence to the sick bed of two of his children, one of them very\nseverely ill. Both recovered and he now returns to America, himself\nand family in excellent health. During his absence, he preached in his\nformer pulpit in the American Church in Paris, and met many of his\nformer parishioners. He had become greatly attached to that church and\nmuch interested in the very successful McAll Mission, to which he was\ngreatly helpful. We welcome him once more to his chosen field in the\nwork of the A.M.A., where he will find ample room for the exertion of\nhis best energies.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nThe executive committee of the American Missionary Association has\nunanimously appointed the Rev. Frank E. Jenkins a Field\nSuperintendent, to examine and report upon the work of our schools and\nchurches in our Southern field. Mr. Jenkins is a graduate of Williams\nCollege, Massachusetts, and has had some years' experience as a\nprincipal of advanced schools. He is a graduate of Hartford\nTheological Seminary, and has been engaged successfully in our work in\nthe South. Some parts of the field are already well known to him, and\nwith others he will make immediate acquaintance. We commend him to our\nmissionary teachers and preachers in the field, as a beloved Christian\nbrother whose heart is in full sympathy with our work. We\ntrust that the relationships which will be established, will be\nfruitful in helpfulness. His residence will be in Chattanooga, Tenn.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nThe prevalence of yellow fever at Jacksonville, Fla., and the danger\nof its spreading into the towns and cities of the southeast, will make\nit wise for us to delay for a time the opening of a few of our schools\nin that region. In former years some of our teachers, while at their\nposts, were caught by this malignant scourge and they faced the danger\nbravely--some of them laying down their lives and others permanently\nimpairing their healths, by taking care of the smitten ones. Such\nheroism is demanded when the danger comes, but it does not seem best\nto seek the danger. A little delay in some places, we hope, will be\nall that is necessary.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nBy the time these pages reach our readers, most of our workers will\nhave resumed their labors in the South. Many of the ministers and a\nfew of the teachers have remained at their posts all summer, but the\nschools have been closed. Work in the cotton fields has called for the\nyounger pupils, the summer schools have given employment to the older\nones, while rest and a change of climate have been required by the\nwhite teachers from the North. But now activities will be resumed, and\nwe contemplate the work with joy and hope.\n\nThese workers, and others like them, are the hope of the South. They\ngo not arrayed and armed for bloody battle-fields; they go not as\ncommercial travelers to sell the wares of the North; they go not as\ncapitalists to start the whirling spindles or to kindle the fires in\nthe smelting furnaces; they go not as politicians to speak for or\nagainst tariffs, nor to build up or break down parties. Their work is\nquieter and deeper than all this. They reach the mind and heart. As\nChrist aimed not so much at once to tear down or build up the outer,\nbut to reach the inner springs of the soul, so these workers aim to\nmake character, intelligent, pure, active, and thus to impel to all\nthat is noble and honest in life, that stimulates to industry,\neconomy, thrift--to making the home pure and all outer things\nprosperous and right. But, as Christ was misunderstood and rejected,\nso are these laborers ostracized. We rejoice to find a growing\nrecognition of their worth and work, and trust that the day is coming\nwhen they will be fully appreciated and welcomed. In the meantime they\ntoil on uncomplainingly, and for their sakes and for the work's sake\nwe invoke, not perfunctorily but earnestly, the prayers of God's\nministers and people in their behalf.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nOn another page will be found a review of two books by the well-known\nauthor, Edmund Kirke (J.R. Gilmore), who has made a special study of\nthe white people of the Mountain regions of the South. Mr. Kirke has\nat our invitation prepared a paper to be read at our Annual\nMeeting, in connection with the Report on our Mountain Work. We have\nbeen permitted to read it. It is replete with racy incidents and\ndelineations of quaint yet noble characters. If the tears and smiles\nwhich the reading of the paper drew from us are any test, then we can\npromise a treat to those who may hear it at the meeting in Providence.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nQUALIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATES FOR MISSION WORK.\n\nMany of our missionaries who are engaged in their devoted and\nself-denying labors in the South, have been compelled by the nature of\nour work to take their summer vacations. The educational work of the\nAmerican Missionary Association is through and through a missionary\nwork. It is begun with a missionary purpose and is carried on in the\nname of Christ to disciple the people, that they may know Him who is\nthe Way, the Truth and the Life. All of our teachers are sent to be\nmissionaries. Many are returning now to their fields of service with\nwhich they are well acquainted, and some are going for the first time.\nAmong these, questions are raised as to the requirements needed in\nthose who are to go. We have thought that a few suggestions given to\nthe candidates for the China Inland Mission by Hudson Taylor, might be\nproperly repeated here for those who are to take upon themselves these\nresponsible Christian duties. He says:\n\n    First of all, it is absolutely essential that those desiring to be\n    missionaries should have a deep love for Christ, a full grasp of His\n    plan of salvation, and be wholly consecrated, in their inward lives,\n    to Him. Mission work is not preaching grand sermons, or witnessing\n    marvellous baptisms; it is a patient Christ-like life, day by day,\n    far from external help, far from those we love; a quiet sowing of\n    tiny seeds, which may take long years to show above the ground,\n    combined with a steady bearing of loneliness, discomfort and petty\n    persecution. The work demands of every worker very real and manifest\n    self-sacrifice and acts of faith. It aims at, and ought to be\n    satisfied with, nothing less than the conversion of the people to\n    God. Not witness-bearing merely, but fruit-bearing is the end in\n    view. Anything short of the salvation of souls is failure.\n\n    It is generally found that when people are of no use at home, they\n    are of no use in the mission field. The bright, brave, earnest\n    spirit, ready to face difficulties at home, is the right spirit for\n    the work abroad. A patient, persevering, plodding spirit, attempting\n    great things for God, and expecting great things from God, is\n    absolutely essential to success in missionary efforts. Those will\n    not make the best missionaries who are easily daunted by the first\n    difficulty or opposition, but those whose strength is equal to\n    waiting upon God, and who fight through all obstacles by prayer and\n    faith. The spasmodic worker, frantic in zeal one month, and at\n    freezing-point another, will be weary long before the station has\n    been reached: while in the strength of Christ the weakest of us need\n    not draw back, nor say, \"I am not fit,\" yet nothing less than\n    burning love to Christ, and in Him to perishing souls, will survive\n    and overleap the difficulties and disappointments of the work.\n\nThese are royal words, and we believe that our teachers and\nmissionaries engaged in this most glorious work of saving needy souls\nwill take with them this spirit, and be blessed in the communication\nof their blessing to others.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nIMMIGRANTS AND NEGROES.\n\nThe Immigrant question challenges attention. Shall immigrants be\nwelcomed, restricted or prohibited? In the early days of the Republic,\nwhen the revolutionary war had welded the people together and our\nboundless territory begged for occupancy, we welcomed the oppressed of\nall nations. Later, the welcome has been responded to by such a\nrushing, heterogeneous and even dangerous mass that we are compelled\nto pause. Restriction is talked of, but the line of discrimination is\nhard to be fixed. No committee at Castle Garden can detect anarchists,\ncriminals, or even the poor, if that line should be chosen.\nProhibition--exclusion is talked of--nay, is enacted stringently\nagainst the Chinese. If need be, it may extend to all. So there is a\nway of averting this evil.\n\nBut the Negro question cannot be put away. The Negroes are here. They\noutnumber the immigrants that have come to our shores in the last\nthirty years, and have a foothold upon the soil as valid as the Aryan\nrace, whether we consider the date of their coming or the labor they\nhave put upon the land.\n\nThere is a strange disposition to shrink from the Negro question. Some\navoid it by flippantly denying the danger; others turn from it because\nthey are appalled by it. Thus an able writer on Immigration in a\nrecent number of the Century passes the topic with this awe-stricken\nremark: \"This problem (of the Negro) cannot be touched practically;\nancient wrongs bind the nation hand and foot, and its outcome must be\nawaited as we await the gathering of the tempest--powerless to avert,\nand trembling over the steady approach\" (The italics are ours.) This\nis not wise; it is not manly. Why try to avert the evils of\nimmigration, or any other, if we are meanwhile only to await\ntremblingly the doom that is to come on us from the conflict with the\nNegro?\n\nThere is a strong disposition to gather hope from the newly-developed\nmanufacturing interests in the South. But this is delusive. The South\nis essentially a rural population; the new industries will necessarily\nbe confined to a few localities, and will reach but slightly the wide\nagricultural region, and will scarcely touch the Negroes. And more\nthan all this, these industries will only be importing into the South\nthe struggle between labor and capital, which so vexes us at the\nNorth. Instead, therefore, of solving the old difficulties at the\nSouth, they will add a new one.\n\nThe danger of a war of races is scouted at the North; it is not at the\nSouth. This is natural. The North is not in immediate contact with the\ndanger; the South is. When the war of the rebellion was impending, the\nNorth refused to believe in its coming; and when it came, one of the\nwisest statesmen of the North, Mr. Seward, predicted that it would\n\"not last sixty days.\" No such delusion prevailed in the South. Many\nof the best men there, nay, nearly all the border States, dreaded its\ncoming and held back as long as possible, but they were swept\ninto the flood they foresaw and could not avert.\n\nThoughtful men at the South now have no rose-colored views about the\nNegro problem. They fear the impending conflict. With them the\nsupremacy of the white race is the settled point, but they see in the\ngrowing numbers, intelligence and restlessness of the Negroes an\nincreasing danger that will only be aggravated by delay. Why should\nnot the North and South alike manfully face the question of a war of\nraces? What will it mean? What will be its end? If the whites and the\nblacks of the South alone engage in it, the blacks will be\nexterminated. Nothing less will meet the case. If the North mingle in\nthe struggle, it must be to help the whites or the blacks. If to help\nthe whites, that will mean the more rapid defeat and slaughter of the\nblacks; if the North help the blacks and save them from destruction,\nthen we shall be worse off than we are now, the two races will be\ntogether with enmities aroused a thousand fold!\n\nBut why not face the more hopeful question: Is there a remedy? There\nis! The teacher and the preacher, the spelling-book and the Bible, the\nsaviours of men, the reformers of society, the uplifters of races, are\nspreading over the South. They go to the manufacturing towns--the\nBirminghams and the Annistons--they go to the large cities with their\ncommon and normal schools, their medical, law and theological\nseminaries. When the pupils become teachers, they go into the smaller\ntowns, they go into the rural districts, on the small farms,\neverywhere instructing, encouraging and stimulating the people,\nleading them to more intelligent industries, to economy, to the\npurchase of land, the erection of better houses, to a higher aim in\nlife, and to the formation of a right character. Of such stuff men are\nmade, citizens, Christians; men who can use the ballot, who own\nproperty that must be protected by the ballot; men who have homes that\nmust be refined and pure, churches where God is worshipped\nintelligently and where a practical morality is taught and attained.\nSuch a people will be safe, for they will be bone and muscle of the\nSouth, they will be needed in its wide expanse of fertile soil, needed\nin its practical trades, needed for the accumulated wealth,\nintelligence and cultivated piety they will bring into all the walks\nand avocations of life.\n\nBut it will be some time before these educational and religious means\nreach all the blacks, and in the meantime much patience and toil will\nbe needed. To the blacks we would say: You won the admiration of men\nand the blessing of God by your patience under the yoke of slavery\nwhen there seemed to be no hope; now win both again by bearing in like\nspirit your lesser present ills, while hope dawns and help is near.\n\nTo thoughtful men North and South we urge: Take hold of this work like\nmen. If a thousandth part of the self-sacrifice and money spent in the\nwar were devoted to this work, the evil might be averted. Why stand\nover-awed at a threatened flood that if met in time may not only be\naverted but be turned into fertilizing waters over the broad lands?\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nBOOK REVIEW.\n\n    THE REAR GUARD OF THE REVOLUTION. By JAMES R. GILMORE (Edmund\n    Kirke). D. Appleton & Co.: New York. 1.50.\n\n    JOHN SEVIER AS A COMMONWEALTH BUILDER. By JAMES R. GILMORE (Edmund\n    Kirke). D. Appleton & Co.: New York. 1.50.\n\nJust one hundred years before the rebellion of the Southern States,\nDaniel Boone cut on a beech tree near Jonesboro, Tenn., the following\nwords, which are still legible:\n\n     D. Boon\nCilled    A BAR     on\n        THE     Tree\nin        YEAR  1760\n\nThe same year that Daniel Boone \"cilled\" (killed) this \"bar,\" William\nBean, a former companion of Boone's, settled in the valley of the\nWatauga River, in what is now Eastern Tennessee. The two volumes whose\ntitles are given above trace the history of this mountain settlement\nfrom the time that this pioneer crossed the Alleghenies down to the\ndeath of John Sevier, Sept. 24, 1815. These books are of much more\nthan ordinary interest to the readers of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\nJames R. Gilmore (Edmund Kirke) has put the same power of graphic\ndescription, the simple yet thrilling narrative, which held us\nspell-bound to the last chapters of Among the Pines.\n\nOur limited space does not permit an extended review of these volumes.\nWe only call attention to them here because they touch upon great\nmissionary problems, and throw a flood of light upon these interesting\nMountain people among whom the A.M.A. has so extensive and important a\nwork. The first of these volumes in chronological order is the Rear\nGuard of the Revolution. The colony of the Mountain people in the\nWatauga Valley, led by John Sevier and James Robertson and Isaac\nShelby, constituted this \"rear guard.\" No better blood ever mingled in\nthe veins of a people than that which flows in this Mountain people.\nFrench Huguenot, Scotch-Irish Presbyterian and Welsh Presbyterian were\ntheir ancestors. With such leadership as these three men furnished,\nthe early Mountain colonists ought to have been heroes, and they were.\n\nIn the author's own words, \"These three men, John Sevier, James\nRobertson and Isaac Shelby, * * * were like Washington and Lincoln,\n'providential men.' They marched neither to the sound of drum nor\nbugle, and no flaming bulletins proclaimed their exploits in the ears\nof a listening continent; their slender forces trod silently the\nwestern solitudes, and their greatest battles were insignificant\nskirmishes never reported beyond the mountains; but their deeds were\npregnant with consequences that will be felt along the coming\ncenturies.\"\n\nThey were, and they held themselves to be, \"providential men.\" Whether\nreading the Bible by the light of the great pine fires, or burning the\ncabins of the Cherokees, or driving the marauding\nChickamaugas into their lair at \"Nick-a-Jack\" cave, or beating the\nBritish at King's Mountain, these men felt themselves called of God to\nmaintain for the people a free government.\n\nThere was the same reckless administration of punishment that still\ncharacterizes these Mountain people. A tory appeared in the road one\nday near the home of Colonel William Campbell, of the \"Backwater\nsettlement.\" The Colonel at once gives him chase; after a brief\nabsence he returns to his home, and his wife eagerly asks \"What did\nyou do with him?\"\n\n\"Oh, we hung him, Betty, that's all.\"\n\nThese early settlers did not immediately plant churches and\nschool-houses, as the settlers of New England did. Still they were not\naltogether illiterate. A public document still in existence has the\nsignature of 112 out of 114 of their number who signed the paper, two\nonly making their X.\n\nIn 1779, the first Court House was built at Jonesboro. At about the\nsame date, the author informs us, \"The school mistress was to be found\nat nearly every cross-road in the older settlements. She occupied a\nsmall log-house, generally about sixteen feet square, and often\nwithout floor or windows.\" The author might have added that she, or\none like her, occupies the same school-house to-day.\n\nIn 1779, the first \"church-house\" was erected, and Rev. Tidence Lane\nbecame the \"first settled minister beyond the Alleghenies.\"\n\nTo those of our readers who have recently followed the missionary work\nof the A.M.A. in this Mountain region, these books will be of great\ninterest.\n\nCHAS. J. RYDER.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWe have received from Rev. Austin Willey, author of \"THE HISTORY OF\nTHE ANTI-SLAVERY CAUSE IN THE STATE AND NATION,\" a gift of one hundred\ncopies of the book for gratuitous distribution among our workers in\nthe South. We gave a brief review and a warm commendation of the\nvolume in the AMERICAN MISSIONARY for June, 1886, and we renew our\nendorsement, and tender our thanks to the author for his benefaction.\nOur field workers will be interested in this candid sketch of the\nearly anti-slavery struggle, and we believe that many of our white\nfriends in the South will be glad to read in the light of these quiet\ndays the sayings and doings of a class of people whom they then\nmisunderstood.\n\nThe book may be had of B. Thurston, Portland, Me., or of C.T.\nDillingham, 678 Broadway, N.Y. Price, 1.50, postpaid.\n\nThe reference to Father Willey and his book is suggestive. He is one\nof the \"old, original\" abolitionists. Men who were once denounced and\nare now scarcely honored, for lo! to the amazement and amusement of\nsome of us, we find that everybody was an abolitionist and always had\nbeen, that everybody learned to hate slavery on the mother's lap, and\nwas always opposed to it! We who in those early days were treated as\noutcasts by \"gentlemen of property and standing,\" and mobbed\nby the rabble at their bidding, are led to wonder what has become of\nall those who thus disagreed with us! One marked exception occurs to\nus. A prominent professor in a theological seminary, when the question\nwas put to him ten years ago: \"Professor, when did you become an\nAbolitionist?\" replied, with a merry twinkle in his eye: \"When it\nbecame popular.\" We have found few, however, who are so frank or so\nwitty.\n\nM.E. STRIEBY.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nTHE UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE OF OUR MISSIONARIES AT THE SOUTH.\n\nIn a recent number of The Nineteenth Century, Sir William W. Hunter,\nan eminent authority, reporting the influence of the missionaries in\nIndia, says that among the people to whom they have gone they have\nbuilt up the most complete confidence and implicit faith in the purity\nand unselfishness of their motives. He declares that he regards the\nmissionary work of the English as an expiation for wrong-doing, and he\nbelieves that the missionary instinct forms the necessary spiritual\ncomplement of the aggressive genius of the English race. Sir William\nalso claims that the advance of missionaries in the good opinion of\nnon-Christian peoples is a most striking evidence of their high\ncharacter and intelligence, and that no class of Englishmen has done\nso much to make England respected in India as the missionaries, that\nno class has done so much to awaken the Indian's intellect and to\nlessen the dangers of transition from the old state of things to the\nnew.\n\nAfter this much of condensation of that profound article by the\nChristian Union, we quote from the author:\n\n    \"The careless onlooker may have no particular convictions on the\n    subject, and flippant persons may ridicule religious effort in India\n    as elsewhere. But I think that few Indian administrators have passed\n    through high office, and had to deal with the ultimate problems of\n    British government in that country, without feeling the value of the\n    work done by missionaries. Such men gradually realize, as I have\n    realized, that the missionaries do really represent the spiritual\n    side of the new civilization, and of the new life which we are\n    introducing into India.\"\n\nNames and places being changed, it is coming to appear that the whole\nof this can be said of the Christian workers from the North among the\ncolored people of the South. Besides all of their work that can be\ntold by statistics, and besides all of that in building up character\namong the Negroes and awakening their intellect and their aspiration\nfor thrift in every sense, they have exerted a profound unconscious\ninfluence upon the white people of that Southland. They, too, have\nbuilt up among the whites a confidence in the purity and unselfishness\nof their motives. At first they were suspected as emissaries of a\npolitical party. By many even of the best people there they were held\nas necessarily persons of low-down condition and character to be\nwilling to do that \"low-down work.\" \"With our views of the case, how\ncould we believe anything else?\" was the answer to the\nremonstrance against the current mode of treatment. Gradually this\nfeeling has been giving way to one of growing confidence, until for\nseveral years such men as Rev. Dr. A.G. Haygood and Mr. G.W. Cable,\nand such papers as the Memphis Appeal, and such a State Board of\nExaminers as that of the Atlanta University have been publicly\ndeclaring the high intellectual quality and moral standing of these\nonce despised teachers, while many of the most respectable citizens\nare privately saying the same thing, and multitudes believe it, though\nmaking no announcement of the same.\n\nBy this crucifixion of feeling through which those workers have\npassed, and by their self-denying endurance of hardness, they too, in\nno small sense, have been making expiation for the wrongs done the\nslaves. Their missionary instinct also forms the necessary spiritual\ncomplement of the aggressive genius of the Puritan civilization which\nis now taking possession where its sword had cleared the way. Their\nadvance in the good opinion of the best people of the South is also a\nstriking evidence of their high character and intelligence. No class\nof Northern people going South have done so much to make the North\nrespected as the missionaries, and none are doing more to lessen the\ndanger of transition from the old state of things to the new. Going,\nnot as \"carpet-baggers,\" but as citizens, to be identified with the\nmoral reconstruction of the South, they translate there the real\nspirit of the North, and represent the spiritual side of the new life\nwhich is going into that fair portion of our own dear country. By the\npeculiar people to whom they especially go, and who prove to have a\nnatural affinity for Puritan ideas and institutions, they are doing\nmore than any others to set up, not a New England in the South, but a\nNew South, wherein shall be rejuviant the principles of that\ncivilization which was planted at Plymouth Rock.\n\nJOSEPH E. ROY.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nEXPULSION OF NEGROES FROM MARION, ARKANSAS.\n\nIt is not our custom to publish details of alleged outrages upon the\ncolored people at the South. We have no wish to stir up strife by\nrecalling memories of the past, or by giving incidents of recent\naggression against the helpless. But this case in Marion is free from\nbloody details and is a simple illustration of the determination of\nthe white people to maintain their sway in the South.\n\nThe simple facts in the case are, that in Crittenden County, Arkansas,\nof which Marion is the county town, the population is chiefly colored,\nthe ratio being seven negroes to one white man. For several years the\noffice of Judge of the County and Probate Court, and the Clerk and\nunder officers of the court, were colored men. The more important\ncounty offices were held by white men. On a given day, fifty or more\nheavily-armed white men appeared at the county seat and drove from\ntheir offices and homes the colored officers named above, together\nwith the colored local doctor, the lawyer, the schoolmaster\nof the colored school, the editor of the colored newspaper and a\nnumber of other prominent colored citizens.\n\nThe farther details of the transaction are given in a thoughtful and\ncalm article in a recent number of The Independent by Rev. B.A. Imes,\nthe colored minister of the church at Memphis, Tenn., under the care\nof this Association. We give below all of the article that relates to\nthe facts:\n\nTHE CRITTENDEN COUNTY OUTRAGE.\n\nBY THE REV. B.A. IMES.\n\nFrom the bluff at Memphis we look across the river, where along the\nwestern shore stretch the forests of Crittenden County, Arkansas, and\nMarion, about fourteen miles from Memphis, is the county-seat. The\nstory of the recent banishment of fifteen prominent colored\noffice-holders, professional men and farmers has gone to the world.\n\nThe whites, well armed, took their game by surprise, bagged and\nshipped it without bloodshed. Now the \"empire is peace\" they say,\nalthough for a time terror reigned among the startled colored people.\n\nWith a Negro population six or seven times as large as the white, it\nis not strange that the County Court Judge, the County Clerk and his\ndeputy should be Negroes, nor that they should aspire to other places\nin public life.\n\nUnfortunately, as all witnesses agree, Judge Lewis and Clerk Ferguson\nwere given to drinking habits, which brought them under accusation\nbefore the courts for drunkenness. It was probable that they would\nhave been convicted; but without awaiting the tardiness of the law, a\nshorter process was found.\n\nIn palliation of their hasty banishment it is claimed that anonymous\nletters were sent to some of the leading white citizens, warning them\nto leave the county. These letters it is asserted--not proved--must\nhave proceeded from Clerk Ferguson's office, although not written by\nhimself. The object was to intimidate those who would be most\nefficient in convicting and deposing the unworthy officials.\n\nFurthermore, there are two opposing factions of colored Baptists at\nMarion, and it is surmised that one of these factions, regarding these\nprominent characters as their enemies, had something to do with the\nletter-writing in order to bring down wrath upon them. Still another\ntheory is, that the whites have only been awaiting their chance, and\ntaking advantage of favorable conditions, knew when and whence the\nsaid letters would be issued. It was all arranged beforehand. At all\nevents, the time was very short, after the delivery of the letters,\nuntil Winchester rifles and shot-guns were in the hands of some scores\nof white citizens, and fifteen Negro men, including Lewis and\nFerguson, York Byers, a deputy sheriff and well-to-do farmer, Dr.\nStith, a successful young physician, and others, were speedily sent\nacross the river to Memphis.\n\nClerk Ferguson found himself surrounded by a squad of these brave\nmen, who, with rifles presented, demanded that he sign without\nceremony a resignation. He signed. Byers escaped through the swamps,\nmade his way to the river, and came to Memphis in a sorry plight. The\nother victims were put upon the train with orders to go and never\nreturn. Byers was to be violently dealt with, had they caught him.\n\nSandy S. Odom, living on his farm about six miles from Marion, I am\ninformed, refused to leave his home, when waited upon and ordered to\ngo. Said he. \"All I have is here--wife, child and farm--I can't go\naway.\" For a time his pluck seemed to be respected. His fault was that\nof being a friend of the Marion officials. He had once served at\nLittle Rock as a legislator from his district, but, like Cincinnatus,\nhad since resumed the plow.\n\nAccording to the latest by the Memphis Appeal, Odom has decided that\ndiscretion is the better part of valor, and will be off for a safer\nplace as soon as his business affairs can be arranged.\n\nThe Governor of Arkansas has refused to interfere, because the Circuit\nCourt Judge at Marion has solemnly charged the grand jury as to their\nduty toward the writers of threatening letters, and also toward those\nwho unlawfully drove citizens from their homes, etc. But this solemn\npart of the proceeding was enacted, in spite of the fact that the\nsheriff of Crittenden County was one of the leading spirits in the\noutrage upon the defenceless black men, and the judge and grand jury\nand all Crittendon County are far from expecting to hear of any white\nman being arrested.\n\nBut last Sunday, Dr. Stith, one of the exiles, went back to Marion on\nthe morning train. He had heard that his wife was sick, and he said:\n\"If I am a man I must go to her.\" He was promptly arrested by the\npatrol force at Marion and lodged in jail, where he is likely to\nremain until next January meeting of court before he can have a trial.\nThere is nothing brought against him aside from his having been once\nassociated with the \"offensive partisans.\" He had at one time been an\nactive politician, but more recently has devoted himself to his\nprofession, and was already known as a successful physician. Like\nOdom, his character is not assailed: but he was educated, and\ninfluential among the people.\n\nTwo young ladies, teachers from Memphis, one of whom had taught last\nyear at Marion, went thither soon after Dr. Stith's arrest, to make\ninquiry about a situation for teaching.\n\nThey were closely watched, and in an interview were warned by a\nreporter of the Memphis Appeal that it was not safe for them to remain\nin Marion. They had reason to think that they were being watched as\nspies in the interest of the banished; hence their stay was very\nbrief.\n\nWhen the Clerk Ferguson had vacated, a \"white citizen\" was at once put\ninto that office. It is a remarkable fact that, aside from a few hints\nabout the necessity of maintaining order and proceeding according to\nlaw, the general tone of the press here is to the effect that this\noccurrence, though unfortunate on account of its effect at the North,\nwas really justifiable.\n\nThe cruel wrong inflicted upon those who have no crime laid to their\ncharge, no personal reproach of character, is treated as though it\nwere but little more than a joke. If the two officials were guilty of\ndrunkenness no one doubts that they could have been legally removed\nfrom office. If the colored people at Marion are divided into\nfactions, then the whites could the more easily combine forces against\nthe officials in question, or any political ring which may have\nexisted. But there was a general Negro uprising threatened, and in\norder to save their own lives the whites made haste to get into the\nfield first. This is the avowed excuse. But it is certain that no one\nbelieves there was serious danger of a Negro uprising. The men\narrested and banished were unarmed, and taken by surprise. If they\nwere in any sense desperate or dangerous characters they turned\ncowards suddenly, making no resistance. Indeed, there is but one\nexcuse for their bloodless surrender. They display to the world the\nutter groundlessness of the charge of a conspiracy. No dynamite bombs,\nno loaded weapons, no evidence of organized bands were discovered.\n\nIn all the history of the shot-gun policy and the unnumbered outrages\ncommitted, there are on record few, if any, cases of conspiracy\nagainst life and property on the part of the Negro. But the true\nanimus of the Crittenden County affair, I think, is found in the\ncurrent declaration which is used at Marion on the part of the brave\nmen who drove out these exiles, viz.: \"We don't want any educated\nniggers, and won't have 'em here, not even to teach school.\"\n\nIt should not be overlooked, that in this instance there is fully\nrevealed that singular idea which so widely prevails at the South,\nviz.: A Negro is in his place only and always as a subordinate. It is\nassumed that to educate him unfits him for his mission in life, unless\nthat education looks simply to some hand service.\n\nWith this fact before us, we can explain the dead silence of the\npulpit and the press of the South as touching the first principles of\njustice.\n\nThe end justifies the means when \"Negro rule\" is to be prevented, and\nto protest against this bold subversion of the great principles of\ncitizenship in the Republic, is to \"wave the bloody shirt.\" We will\nadmit that it is by no means desirable that a mass of illiterate\npeople should hold sway, but we claim that the Southern white people\ncan break the \"color line\" if they will, by admitting frankly the\nrights of the Negro, and by encouraging him to aspire to an\nintelligent and worthy manhood.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nEXTRACTS.\n\nFifty years ago there was a boy in Africa who was taken prisoner in\none of the fierce wars between the tribes, and was carried away from\nhis home to be sold as a slave. First he was sold for a horse. Then\nhis buyer thought him a bad exchange for the horse, and compelled his\nmaster to take him back. Then he was sold for so much rum.\nThis was called another bad bargain by the man who had bought him, and\nagain he was returned, to be sold for tobacco with the same result.\nNobody wanted the poor, miserable slave-boy, who was on the point of\ncommitting suicide when he was bought by a Portuguese trader and\ncarried away in a slave ship. How little that wretched boy knew what\nthe future had in store for him as he lay chained in the hold of the\ncrowded slave-ship! But one of England's war ships that were clearing\nthe high seas of the slavers bore down upon the Portuguese vessel,\nrescued the captives, and the African boy was placed under Christian\ninfluences, baptized and educated, and to-day he is Bishop Crowther,\nEngland's black Bishop in Africa.--The Gospel in all Lands.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nA very obliging Indian.--Dr. C.A. White, Professor of Paleontology in\nthe Smithsonian Institution, relates this pleasing incident. Being in\nthe Ute country a year or so ago, in pursuit of scientific facts, he\nfound himself on one occasion encamped some fifty miles from Uintah\nAgency. Being desirous of sending a letter to his wife in Washington,\nhe entrusted it to an Indian who, he learned by signs, was on his way\nto the agency. He was not sure that the Indian understood what he\ndesired him to do with the letter, but took the risk of that. His wife\nreceived the letter and was surprised at finding it postmarked Salt\nLake City. The Doctor afterward learned that the Indian arrived at the\nagency just after the mail had gone, and knowing that it would be a\nmonth before another mail would be sent out he actually carried the\nletter to Salt Lake City, a distance of 225 miles, for this white man\nwhom he had never met before, and whose name he did not know.\nDoubtless the Indian thought the letter of great importance, but where\nis the white man who would have done as much for his best friend,\nwithout the hope of reward or even thanks?--Council Fire.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nSCHOOL ECHOES.\n\nIn 1864 in Memphis, in a refugee school that I visited while chaplain\nin the army, the Bible lesson was John xv., \"I am the vine and my\nfather is the husbandman.\" One little fellow recited it thus: \"I am\nthe vine and my father is a married man.\"\n\nWhat for we come to this school.--We come for to intelligent about the\ncivilization ways, and we want to American write, we want to American\nhome, and we want friendly each other with the white people. We are\ncommence learning discretion and we are works our own hands. My\nconscience has cried because our Indian they can not do nothing with\ntheir hands and when I look back our old Indian ways I am great sorry,\nbut when I looked future I have examined with careful attention, and I\nvery great pleasure. Last summer I went home. I worked at harness, but\nI don't know some about measure length and wide, cut off I\nknow but not perfectly, so I come back to school again, because I want\nto learn perfect all things about harness make without anybody help\nme.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nROME AND THE FREEDMEN.\n\nWe present below two articles on this subject. The first is from a\nLondon paper and the second is from one of the many able papers edited\nby colored men. As to the facts alleged we have no definite\ninformation. When the slaves were emancipated the Roman Catholics made\nvery decided efforts to win them. It was supposed by Protestants that\nthe grand ceremonials, the gaudy vestments, the music, and especially\nthe welcome which the Papal Church was said to give to all men\nirrespective of riches, race or color, would attract the Freedmen. But\nthe expectation was not met; the Freedmen were not attracted, and soon\nthe special efforts seemed to cease. But Rome never surrenders, and\nthose efforts may now be resumed. We invite attention to the two\narticles.\n\nFrom \"THE CHRISTIAN.\"\n\nRomanism is spreading among the colored people of the American\nContinent, and it is said that several Negroes are now in training in\nRome and elsewhere to become priests. The American Roman Catholic\npapers say that the cause is not far to seek, the Roman Catholic\nChurch being 'the only one on this continent offering the Negro\ncommunion on terms of equality.' If this is not true all round, it\ncertainly is the fact that outbreaks of the so-called\n'color-prejudice' have been of but rare occurrence among the\nRomanists, and that they are apparently reaping the result in a large\naccession of numbers.\n\nFrom \"THE NEGRO AMERICAN.\"\n\nFew persons are aware of the rapid spread of Catholicism among the\ncolored people of this country. From the American Catholic Tribune,\nthe organ of the colored Catholics of America, we obtain facts that\nare truly startling. Young colored men are now in Rome and in the\nCatholic schools and colleges of the United States, preparing for work\namong their people in America, and Africa as well, while to-day\nmissionaries are everywhere busy, sowing the seeds of Catholic belief\nand worship. These teachings are eagerly accepted by the colored\npeople. The cause of this success among them is not far to seek. The\nCatholic Church, of all which are ruled by whites on this continent,\nis the only one offering the Negro communion on terms of equality.\nWhile the Southern Protestants are setting up separate synods,\ncouncils, presbyteries and conferences for the Negro, and the\nY.M.C.A., with the same narrow spirit, is refusing colored men seats\nin its councils, while Northern Protestants are either neutral in this\nmatter of caste or only half-hearted in crying down upon the\nsin of it; the Catholics alone have accepted in a full and liberal\nsense the command, \"preach my gospel to every creature,\" and have\nextended fellowship to all, regardless of race, color or condition. It\nmatters not what their motive is. The fact stands boldly out. True,\ninstances are occurring of outbreaks of color-prejudice among the\nCatholics, but the policy of the church is openly and boldly against\ndiscrimination of whatever sort among its members. The fear of \"social\nequality,\" that shadow of a something that never did, and never can,\nexist, that bug-bear of illiberal minds and narrow culture, does not\nstand guard at the doors of this church to drive away the colored\nworshipper or compel him to sit at the second table at the Lord's\nfeast. Is it to be wondered at, then, that the colored people are\nflocking to the Catholic fold? This they will continue to do, so long\nas the spirit of caste dictates the policy, and governs the action, of\nthe white Protestants of the United States.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\nVACATION ECHOES.\n\nREV. G.S. ROLLINS.\n\nI wish some of our home friends who complain of dull, unprofitable\nprayer-meetings could step into one of the kind we have in our colored\nchurches. One soon loses sight of mispronunciation and wretched\ngrammar in listening to the sensible, meaty, forceful ideas which many\nof these negroes can express. You cannot go to a prayer-meeting\nwithout bringing something away.\n\nOne good old mother in Israel said to me lately, in regard to the\nweekly prayer-meeting: \"I begins in de mawnin' to lay my plans fur dat\nmeetin', an I don stop ter eat so's to get my work along froo de day.\nAnd I tinks and prays a heap about dat meetin' all day, I does.\"\n\nHow many of you at home do as much for your prayer-meeting as this\npoor old colored woman? No dull summer prayer-meetings when church\nmembers go prepared like this. I have said that these people have\nideas and can express them. At my last prayer-meeting before departing\nfor my vacation, one good brother prayed that the \"Lord would bless\nthe pastor in his absence and continue to fill him up with new things,\nso he can give them out to us.\" The pastor is filling up as fast as\npossible.\n\nOne of the questions most often asked is, \"Are the colored people\nimproving?\" One has to say, \"Of course they are.\" But are they\nprogressing rapidly? Yes and no. Yes, considering their antecedents\nand present advantages. No, if one were to measure their rate of\nprogress by our impatience. The surest progress is not the swiftest.\nSlow and sure is the rule by which we work. Statistics but feebly tell\nthe story of the improvement of the Freedmen since the war.\nThey can best testify concerning the advance who have been in the\nfield since the beginning of the work.\n\nBut even if it is slow, it pays well. There came into my church one\nSunday not long ago a poor old lady who was a comparative stranger in\nthe city. During the sermon she sat with mouth, eyes and ears open.\nAfter the service she came to me and said, \"I tank de Lord He bro't me\nyear. I done been gwine ter church dese fifty years, an I nebber heard\nde tex 'splained befo.\" This old lady has since united with our\nchurch, and when she is not there I know something serious is the\nmatter at her home. It is worth a year's preaching to have the\nprivilege of enlightening one benighted soul like this.\n\nI called recently on an old gentleman who had become generally\ndisgusted with \"dese yere churches roun year.\" I found him poring over\na big, well-worn Bible, the perspiration pouring down his shiny face,\nand with a big pair of spectacles resting on the tip of his nose. With\nan air of superior wisdom he surveyed me over the top of the\nspectacles, and then solemnly stated to the few who gathered around as\nI sat down on an old soap box, \"Dat a preacher? I kin tell a preacher\nthe fus question I ask him.\" Then taking off the spectacles and slowly\nclosing the big Bible, he went on: \"Now I'se gwine to put you all a\nquestion\" (looking at the others) \"an den I'se gwine ter ask de\npreacher, an I can tell whedder he'm a good one or not.\" \"Now,\" said\nhe, \"when we gits cold and wicked follerin' our own ways, how does de\nLord brung us back again to our senses?\" This question was put with\nvarious modifications to each in turn until it came to me. \"Now, what\ndoes you say?\" he said to me. I replied that my experience said\n\"Trouble.\" \"Yah! Yah! dat's it, Trouble. You's answered it, shore;\ndese yere ignorant niggers, dey don't know nuffin. Ise gwine up to\nhear you preach next Sunday.\" And sure enough, there he was the next\nSunday and his wife with him. This is about the way we gather them in,\none by one.\n\nA great many families are gathered in by getting their children\ninterested. A parent sends his little ones to our school and says: \"I\nnever had no chance to git learnin', but I wants my children to have\nit.\"\n\nThere, after all this rambling, I have reached the one idea which I\nbelieve ought to stick in the mind of every A.M.A. worker and every\nA.M.A. supporter--the children! If we can only teach them, save them,\nthe African in America and in Africa is saved. It seems to me this is\nthe solution of the problem. The longer one labors among the colored\npeople and learns them and their surroundings, the more difficult\nseems the solution of the negro problem. Tourists in the South and\npeople at a distance are very prolific in suggestions as to the best\nmethods for elevating the negro. Why! visitors who have spent hardly\ntwenty-four hours in a Southern city can write home marvellous letters\nas to the wonderful progress of the colored race, and prophesy a\nspeedy settlement of the matter of negro education and race prejudice.\nIt is a fact, however, that the longer one stays here the more\npuzzled he grows about these matters. An old A.M.A. worker said\nto me, \"The first year of your work you will think you understand the\ncolored people pretty well; the second year you won't know quite so\nmuch; the third year still less, and so on until by the tenth year you\nwill think you don't know anything about them.\" But we all come to one\nconclusion, that all the trouble arising from race prejudice will pass\naway as the negro rises. When he is able to intelligently exercise all\nhis rights, then the white man will have to acknowledge them. This\nresult is in the distance, and while due attention is given to the\nolder ones, yet the destiny of the colored race is wrapt up in the\nrising generation. They are terribly endangered, but they must be\nsaved if the race is saved. A new generation, who knew nothing of\nslavery but much of the dangers of freedom, are taking hold upon\nmanhood. They must be taught to read, to think, to work, to save and\nto love goodness for its own sake. If all this can be brought about I\nbelieve the Negro question will be settled. This must be done. I trust\nthat not all of the 1,500 who have lately signified a willingness to\nenter the mission field will suppose that all of the ignorant and\nneedy millions are on the other side of the globe. We hear a good deal\njust now about patriotism. Now, how can one better prove his\npatriotism than by giving his money or service to save his country\nfrom ignorance and degradation? It will pay you back in dollars and\ncents, to say nothing of the reward of learning that \"it is more\nblessed to give than to receive.\"\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nINTEMPERANCE.\n\n    The few lines below indicate the quality and flavor of the papers\n    read by the graduating class at Atlanta University.\n\nOne of the great causes of intemperance in our land is that lack of\nself-respect which the present state of society induces among the poor\nand laborious. Just as long as wealth is the object of worship and the\nmeasure of men's importance, and is regarded as the badge of\ndistinction, just so long will there be a tendency toward\nself-abasement and self-abandonment among those whose lot gives them\nno chance to acquire it.\n\nSuch naturally feel as if the great good of life were denied them.\nThey feel themselves neglected. Their condition cuts them off from\ncommunion with educated and refined people. They think they have\nlittle or no stake in the general weal of life. They feel as though\nthey have no character to lose, consequently intemperance takes\npossession of them.\n\nThis evil of intemperence is said by some to be the greatest of all\nevils. It is the cause of the ruin of some of our fathers and\nbrothers, and I am sorry to say it ruins some of the mothers. When we,\nthe temperance girls and boys, ask them to leave off their habit of\ndrinking, they tell us that it does them good. When cold it makes them\nwarm, when warm it makes them cold. When troubled, it cheers\nthem. When weak, it strengthens them. It is certainly killing them by\ndegrees.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nSTUDENT'S LETTER.\n\nTHE BLUE-JACKET TEACHER--FIRST SCHOOL EXPERIENCE.\n\nFrom youth I was impressed that the \"Yankee\" was the terror of the\nworld, capable of literally swallowing a small fellow, so it was with\ngreat difficulty that Judge M.J. S----, a Southern white man, induced\nme, in 1873, to enter Burrell Academy, then an A.M.A. school located\nin Selma, Alabama, and taught by some of those \"blue jacket\" beings\nwhose names did not always begin with \"blessed.\" The principal having\nsent me to Grade 2, I followed a little girl to the door of that room.\nShe passed in while I stood at the door and thought thus, \"Shall I go\nin here when one of those awful \"blues\" is there?\" Half doubting, half\nfearing, trembling throughout, I slipped shyly inside the first\nschool-house I ever entered, and lo! to my greatest surprise there sat\na woman who was anything but \"blue,\" whose face was as white and fair\nas any ever seen, whose hair was slightly golden, whose voice seemed\nmore sweet, mellow and musical than the softest flute note; she was\none whom all praised and loved. The only blue about her was her eyes,\nwhich marked her pure Saxon lineage.\n\nWhen I felt sure that no monster would suddenly spring from those\nqueer walls of white and black, I silently exclaimed, \"Why, that's a\nwhite woman!\"\n\nIn March, 1873, she began teaching me the alphabet, when I was\nthirteen years old. I had no mother and no home or friend, other than\nJudge S----, in whose family I served.\n\nIn 1874 he left the city, leaving me homeless. I vainly sought work\nbut was turned away with \"too small.\"\n\nPinched and pressed by hunger and want, I was despairing when that\nangel-like teacher, one of the purest and best of women, came to my\nrescue, and thenceforth with her own hands and earnings continued to\nhelp supply all my needs--material and spiritual. She taught me the\nalphabet of school, of life and of heaven; she influenced me to pray,\nand in answer to our prayers I was converted and joined the church in\n1875.\n\nIn May, 1879, finishing the course, I graduated from Grammar\nDepartment A, of Burrell Academy, and began teaching in Cato, Miss.,\nin 1880. In the autumn of this year, I entered the Normal and College\nPreparatory Departments of Talladega College, and graduated in May,\n1884.\n\nReturning to Preston, Ga., I resumed my school work, whence I was\ncalled to a position in Burrell Academy under Prof. Edwin C. Silsby,\nPrincipal. Upon the resignation of the above named gentleman,\nin 1885, I was finally chosen principal of that school. This position\nI still hold, striving to perform in the most faithful, earnest and\nsatisfactory manner the work of him that sent me.\n\nThe first money earned by me as teacher, went toward the purchase of\nthe home now owned and occupied by us. My good friend, who labors\nto-day in Beaufort, N.C., having helped me through college and seen me\nlaunch upon life's tide, seemed to say, \"My boy, do not drift, but\nsteer straight for heaven's port, and do unto others as I have done\nunto you.\" For me, her prayers still ascend, unto me, her wise counsel\nstill comes, and upon me, her benedictions still rest.\n\nIn conclusion I say God bless you, A.M.A. for sending such a laborer\ninto the field, for if there is, or shall be, in me anything of\nmanhood, worth or useful service to my country, my people and my God,\nthe credit is due to her.\n\nALEXANDER A. PETERS.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\nMR. MOODY'S MISSIONARY MEETINGS.\n\nREV. MR. SHELTON'S ADDRESS\n\n    Mr. Moody's Missionary Meetings have been a marvel in their\n    conception, in their remarkably large audiences and in the still\n    more remarkably able and interesting class of speakers--some of them\n    from distant mission fields. They show how broad and many-sided is\n    Mr. Moody's mind and heart.\n\n    At the meeting held August 8th, Rev. C.W. Shelton, the Financial\n    Secretary for Indian Missions of the American Missionary\n    Association, was invited to address the meeting. We condense from\n    the Springfield Union an outline of Mr. Shelton's stirring address,\n    and its effect upon Mr. Moody and others in attendance, with the\n    practical results.\n\nThe most stirring address of the morning was delivered by Rev. Chas.\nW. Shelton of New York City, on the Indian problem. He stated the\nproblem with simplicity and dignity, but when he got worked into his\ntheme, he became eloquent in his description of the position of the\nIndian people and their strong desire to receive the gospel. While he\nwas illustrating his argument with pathetic incidents in his\nexperience, there were many of his audience in tears.\n\nThe speaker described the Indians themselves; their first\ncharacteristic was the deep religious nature which swayed their whole\nlife. They prayed oftener and more fervently than Christians,\nworshipping everything that was unknown and mysterious; of which the\nsaddest thing was that the Indian's gods were all gods of anger,\ninvolving sacrifices. To show the extent to which the Indians would\nsacrifice themselves to appease their god's anger, a very touching\nstory was told of a boy torturing himself for the recovery of\nhis sick mother. At the close of the Mohonk Conference, two years ago,\nour committee went to President Cleveland to petition in regard to\nmethods. He said that he sympathized with all our methods and ideas.\n\"But,\" he said, \"gentlemen, you may do all you can at Mohonk, I may do\nall I can here in the White House, and Congress may do all that they\ncan over there, but,\" and he turned and picked up a Bible, \"gentlemen,\nafter all, that book has got to settle the Indian problem.\"\n(Applause.) And the President was right. Before you can do anything\nfor the preservation of the Indian you've got to give him a new hope,\na new salvation. I have studied many tribes, and have never found a\ntribe or village of Indians or a single Indian civilized before he was\nChristianized.\n\nThe speaker next considered the question whether the Christianization\nof the Indians was possible. This he answered by the case of the 400\nIndians taken captive in the Sioux war which followed the Minnesota\nmassacre of 1862. In the fall of that year, a missionary went to their\nprison, and in the next six months taught 392 to read and established\na church with 295 members. Subsequently President Lincoln pardoned all\nbut 39 and the survivors went among the Sioux, and the speaker\nconsidered the ten Christian churches and 2,000 Christians among the\n40,000 Sioux to be owing to this church of prisoners. In Dakota, every\none of the 40,000 Indians was ready to receive the gospel.\n\nOn Mr. Moody's asking how much he wanted, he said that it took $400 to\nstart a station, and $300 a year to keep it up. He then related a very\npathetic story of an old Indian who traveled 150 miles across the\nTerritory seven times to get a missionary sent among his people. The\ndifficulty in getting one arose from the society sending the\nmissionaries, whose debt was so large that the executive board had\nrefused to send out any more. (\"Board wants more faith,\" put in Mr.\nMoody.) The old man finally went back to his people, saying sadly:\n\"They must die in their darkness; the Christian people of America\nhaven't interest enough in the poor dying Indian to try and help him.\"\n\nMr. Moody, who had been apparently deep in thought ever since the\nspeaker had mentioned the sum necessary to start a station, now broke\nout, \"Got a mission started where that old man wanted it?\" in such an\nearnest way that it brought down the house. But Mr. Moody wasn't\nsatisfied till Mr. Shelton answered in the affirmative, and added that\nwhat he said of the Sioux was true of the other tribes, 68 of whom\nwere untouched by any missionary efforts. At this point, $300 was\nhanded to the platform to establish a station, and the audience grew\nenthusiastic. The speaker continued, illustrating the need of\nChristian work among the Indians and their willingness to receive it\nby telling a story of a little Indian girl who was converted while\ndying. She asked of her teacher: \"But, lady, how long have you known\nof this beautiful story?\" \"Many years,\" replied the missionary. \"And\nhow long has white man known of this?\" \"Oh, very many years.\"\n\"Lady, if white man has known about God and about heaven so long, what\nfor, why has he not told poor dying Indian about this before? If I\ncould only get well, I would go and tell all my people this beautiful\nstory about Jesus and home,\" and with those words, \"Jesus and home,\"\nher eyes closed forever.\n\nIn answer to Mr. Moody's questions, he described the stations, little\nbuildings of three rooms, and the missionaries' life, at home, and\nteaching the Indians to cultivate the soil, as well as preaching to\nthem; his wife also teaching the women. The audience had become quite\nenthusiastic by the time he finished his eloquent appeal, and at this\nmoment Mr. Sankey offered $700 to start one station, and shortly after\nMr. Moody pledged an equal amount. A lady then handed in $400 to go\nwith the $300 subscribed during the address. Mr. Moody himself then\nmade a brief appeal, speaking of the Indian boys and girls in his\nschool and the high rank they had taken. He offered a short prayer and\nthen dismissed the audience, telling Mr. Shelton to \"make himself\nplenty\" around the buildings during the afternoon, and doubtless he\nwould receive more money.\n\n    Mr. Shelton did \"make himself plenty\" around the building, and the\n    result has been that nearly $3,000 were contributed either in cash\n    or in pledges that have since been redeemed. Still other\n    contributions are anticipated as the outcome of this fine address.\n    Three out-stations will be started at once in Dakota, one of them\n    bearing the name of Mr. Moody, another of Mr. Sankey, and the third\n    may be named Northfield or it may bear the name designated by the\n    donor.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\nCONFUCIUS AND CHRIST--A LETTER FROM HONG SING.\n\nIt would be presumptious, I fear, for me to assume that the readers of\nthe Missionary remember the little sketch I gave some years ago of one\nof our missionary helpers--Hong Sing. A very little man he is, in\n\"bodily presence weak\" and in speech, for lack of lungs, sometimes \"of\nno account.\" Yet, though near-sighted almost to blindness, and though\noften sick and always weary, in the intervals of work as a\nhouse-servant he gained what seemed to me a remarkable knowledge of\nthe truth as it is in Jesus. The Bible was (and still is, I doubt not)\nhis unfailing companion, and its study his choicest rest.\n\nSeveral years ago, his health became so precarious that he decided to\nreturn to his native land. A letter from him, under date of \"San Ning\nDistrict, July 9th, 1888,\" has interested me so much that I feel sure\nthat others will enjoy the reading of it. His English needs\nstraightening somewhat, for, while the words are ours, the idioms are\nsometimes decidedly Chinese. I confess, therefore, to having done a\nlittle correcting and even translating, yet, for the most\npart, the letter is just as our brother himself wrote it.\n\n\"Mr. Pond:--Dear Brother, I must tell you that I think of you many\ntimes and intended to write you many times, but some things prevented\nme. I go out to tell the old, old story of Jesus, and many questions\nhave been asked. I am not able to write all, but I tell you a little.\nSome ask: 'Do you believe our Confucius?' I said, 'I do.' 'Don't you\nthink his doctrine good?' I answer, 'Yes.' 'What was the matter, you\nbelieve in Jesus, the foreign doctrine, and why not for our Confucius;\nand what was the matter, you are entirely turned away from his\ndoctrine and not obey him; you think his doctrine not good enough for\nyou! He has taught us to worship the ancestors and also use a lamb for\nsacrifice, why don't you obey?'\n\n\"Ques.--'Your Jesus men, was there any difference between them and\nus?'\n\n\"Ans.--'No difference, our Jesus men wear hat just like your hat, wear\nclothes like your clothes, walk just like you walk, but only one thing\nwas not like you--in worship. You all worship the idol, our Jesus men\nworship the true God who is in heaven, and you all worship with meat\nand fruit, etc., but we mean to worship with true heart. We believe\nJesus that we may obey Confucius doctrine, in which he has taught us\nto be good. Those who are not Christians cannot obey what Confucius\ntaught. Before I became a Christian I was swearing and I speak evil\nwords, but since I believe in Jesus, these things I was entirely\nstopped of. I remember Confucius has written in his book, teaching us\nto be honest, and also say, vice things we must not look at, the vice\nway we must not walk, the vice word we must neither speak nor hear.\nHow rarely I hear of a man who believes Confucius and does what he\ntaught. They are swearing all the time, speak the evil word all the\ntime, go among the bad women all the time. So this attests that they\ndo not obey Confucius, but disobey and dishonor him. Once we do like\nthe same, but since we found Jesus and believe he is our Saviour, we\nstop to speak the bad word, stopped to gamble and smoke opium. Very\nseldom I hear or see those who study Confucius do as the Jesus men,\nfor these are they that obey Confucius doctrine and keep his word. Why\ncannot those disciples of Confucius be better men? Ah, Confucius only\na good man, he can only tell you the way how to be good man, but he\nhas no power to change your heart, and Jesus can if we trust in him.\nThis I know, for before I found Jesus I was always swearing and use\nthe bad language, but since I believe in Jesus and confess my sins and\nask him to forgive, I know that he has helped me to keep away from all\nvice and has converted my heart that I might be a better man.\nTherefore our Confucius was a man, but Jesus is God.'\n\n\"Another question they asked me: 'You say, whenever you pray to God,\nGod is there. Suppose you go to the stable to pray, do you think God\nwas there--such a dirty place--and hear your prayer?' I answer, 'Yes,\nfor God is everywhere. And though we call the place a dirty place, the\nheart that prays may be clean. You see the sun rise in the\nsky, its beams shine over all the world; God's eye the same, not only\nsee over the world but all through our hearts.'\n\n\"Mr. Hager (Missionary of the American Board in South China) has\nopened a school in our district, so that I found a good opportunity to\nspeak in the name of Jesus. The seed was sown into their ears, but I\ndo not know what the hardest will be.\"\n\nI have also received a brief but interesting note from another of our\nformer helpers--Wong Ock--a man of great fervency of spirit and a\ndiligent student of the Word. Years ago he joined the Salvation Army\nand was sent to London to be trained for Army work in China. We had\nlost sight of him, till this letter came. Though not connected with\nthe Army he is busy in Christian work, preaching in one of the Gospel\nHalls in Hong Kong under direction of Dr. Ernest J. Eitel. For some\ntime before he left California he declined to receive any salary as a\nhelper, believing that the Lord would provide, and he is working still\nupon this principle, and not without fruit. A note from Dr. Eitel\nspeaks of one of Wong Ock's hearers offering himself for baptism,\nthough the work had been in operation but three weeks.\n\nIn anticipation of the confirmation of the new treaty, the Chinese are\ncrowding upon us in larger numbers than at any time before for several\nyears. By hook or by crook they get in, finding no lack of American\nlawyers ready to smooth their way, and when one opening in the\nRestriction Act is closed to seek or make another. If well-supported\nrumors are to be believed, even customs-officials have not always been\nirresponsive to golden arguments. At any rate they come, and the\nCentral School in this city is crowded with pupils, the average\nattendance for last month being 113, and the number present often\nrising to 130 or 140. We are glad to welcome them, though with our\npresent force of teachers--which lack of means forbids us to\nincrease--the pressure for instruction in English interferes more or\nless with that gospel teaching which it is our chief aim and our\nsufficient reward to impart. Yet an earnest spirit pervades the\nschool, and, indeed in almost all our missions the outlook for harvest\nseems to me more hopeful than ever before.\n\nWM. C. POND.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\nMISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\nWOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.\n\nCO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nME.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, 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 Spalding,\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, Mary B. Warren, Lansing,\nMich.\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. Addison\nBlanchard, Topeka, 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\nA SKETCH OF MISSION LIFE ON THE FRONTIER.\n\nFORT YATES, DAK.\n\nI am alone once more, all my company have gone. The plasterer has just\nbeen here and I had to dismantle my house entirely for him; I am\ntherefore too tired to write. I have been putting up bulberry jelly\nand am trying to get ready for my company, which will come the first\nof September and stay until we all go together down to Oahe to the\nmeeting.\n\nI feel that aside from the pleasure so much company gives me it will\nhelp our work. This is the station farthest out in the wilderness, and\nnow that people know that soon the \"native wild man\" will be no more,\nthey all want to see him. I have two beds. When ladies come they fill\nthe bedrooms, and so if distinguished gentlemen come. I sleep either\nin the kitchen or laundry on a blanket or robes. Several times this\nyear my bedrooms have both been full and I have made \"down\" beds on my\nsitting-room floor for from two to six gentlemen. As I only have four\nvery small rooms, the kitchen floor is often covered, too, with beds.\nMy table is an extension table and my heart is an extension heart, but\nalas for my dishes and silver! When Prof. W---- of Oberlin was here\nthe dishes would not go 'round and had to be pieced out; but, after\nall, the guests have the best I can give them and have it freely, and\nI gladly give them my services, and they seem to enjoy it.\n\nI put up a log house for a work room and laundry; I helped an Indian\nboy to make a shutter to the door and window and I did all the\ndividing and helped lift the logs, and we put up a pretty good room,\nand it only cost me twenty dollars, I believe; and O! what would I\nhave done without it, with my big washings and ironings and\ninexperienced Indian woman to work! I secured a little lime from the\nplasterer and I am going to try to whitewash inside with a broom--I\nhave no brush. The Indians all came home without signing either paper\nfor the Commissioners. They will not sell their land. I am very sorry,\nfor I think it the best thing for them.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nRECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1888\n\n                    MAINE. $375.48.\n\nAuburn. Sixth St. Ch.                    8.50\n\nAugusta. Cong. Ch.                       9.35\n\nBangor. J.G. Blake, 5; Geo. P.          19.00\nJefferts, 5; J.H. Crosby, 2; H.A.\nMerrill, 2; J.R. Adams, 1; L.M.\nPhillips, 1; F.O. Buzzel. 2; Mrs.\nFisher, 1\n\nBlue Hill. Cong. Ch.                     7.00\n\nBrewer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.        15.75\n\nDennysville. Cong. Ch.                  11.08\n\nGardiner. Miss Sarah M. Whitman          5.00\n\nHallowell. A.F. Page, 25; Sylvanus      30.00\nSmith, 5\n\nLisbon Falls. Mrs. S.W. Coombs           1.00\n\nMachias. Sara Hills' Sab. Sch. Class.    1.25\nfor Ind. Student Aid, Santee Agency\n\nNewcastle. Second Cong. Ch.             59.22\n\nNorth Harpswell. Sab. Sch., 1.81:        5.70\nMission Band, 3.89; by Rev. J.\nDinsmore\n\nPortland. Seamen's Bethel Ch.           40.00\n\nPortland. J.J. Gerrish. Saint Lawrence  42.50\nSt. Ch., 17.50; for Indian M.\n\nSaccarappa. Cong. Ch.                   60.13\n\nThomaston. Cong. Ch.                    10.00\n\nYarmouth. First Parish Ch.              50.00\n\n\n\n            NEW HAMPSHIRE. $194.30.\n\nAcworth. Cong. Soc.                      8.80\n\nBethlehem. Cong. Ch.                    16.50\n\nConcord. G. McQuesten, 5; \"A Friend,\"   10.00\n5\n\nEpping. Miss Hannah Pearson, 5; Mrs.     8.00\nS.T. Billson, 3; for Indian M.\n\nExeter. Mrs. E.S. Hall                  20.00\n\nFrancestown. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.    24.00\n\nHanover. Cong. Ch., Dartmouth College,  55.00\n50; \"Susie's Birthday Gift, Aug.\n19th,\" 5\n\nHudson. Miss E.A. Warner, for Student   10.00\nAid, Talladega C.\n\nLyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                27.00\n\nMount Vernon. Dea. Wm. Conant.           5.00\n\nRindge. \"A Friend\"                      10.00\n\n\n\n                  VERMONT. $228.07.\n\nBenson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   26.55\n\nBrownington. M.S. Stone                       5.00\n\nCastleton. Cong. Ch., for Prof.               7.93\nLawrence\n\nCharlotte. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                26.45\n\nFairlee. \"A Brother,\" for Atlanta U.          8.00\n\nGranby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc.        6.37\n\nJohnson. First Cong. Ch.                     13.00\n\nNew Haven. Miss A.W. Kent, for Atlanta       10.00\nU.\n\nPost Mills. \"Friends,\" by Rev. L.E.           1.50\nTupper\n\nQuechee. Cong. Ch.                           14.85\n\nShoreham. Cong. Ch.                          17.18\n\nWallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.              50.00\n\nWaterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                11.24\n\nWestminster. \"Mission Band.\" for              5.00\nMcIntosh, Ga., by Mrs. Ellen D.\nWild\n\nWorcester. Ladies of Cong. Ch., for           5.00\nMcIntosh, Ga.\n\n----. Mrs. J.N. Moore                        20.00\n\n\n            MASSACHUSETTS. $4342.84\n\nAbington. First Cong. Ch.                    43.65\n\nAmherst. Amherst College Ch., 132.63;       140.38\nSecond Cong Ch., 7.75\n\nAmherst. First Cong. Ch., for Mountain       30.00\nWhite Work\n\nAndover. West Cong. Ch.                       8.32\n\nArlington Heights. E.M. Juchan                1.00\n\nAthol. Evangelical Ch.                       78.45\n\nAttleboro. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.         75.00\n\nBarre. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Parish            60.55\n\nBernardston. Miss M.L. Newcomb, for         100.00\nChinese M.\n\nBoston. J.W. Davis, for Oahe Indian          75.00\nSch.\n\nBoston \"Union Workers.\" Union Ch.,           10.00\nfor Atlanta U.\n\nBoston Rev. Geo. F. Stanton, for              5.00\nProf. G.W. Lawrence\n\nBrighton. F.G. Newhall                       47.90\n\nDorchester. \"A Friend\"                        1.40\n\nJamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch.             50.00\n\nRoxbury. Walnut Av. Cong. Ch.               244.05\n\n                                            ------\n\n                                            433.35\n\nBradford. First Ch. and Soc.                 36.81\n\nCambridge. Miss M.E. Smith's Sab. Sch.        9.32\nClass. First Ch., for Student Aid,\nAtlanta U.\n\nCambridgeport. Miss Hannah E Moore            8.00\n\nCharlemont. Frank Eddy, for Indian M.         1.00\n\nConway. Cong. Ch.                             4.00\n\nCurtisville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,         22.46\nfor Oaks, N.C.\n\nDedham. \"P.O. Box 61,\" for Prof. G.W.        10.00\nLawrence\n\nEasthampton. Ladies' Benev. Soc., 2\nBoxes of Books, etc, for Sherwood,\nTenn.\n\nEast Granville. Y.P.S. of C.E.                2.65\n\nFalmouth. First Ch.                          48.00\n\nFitchburg. H.M. Francis                      15.00\n\nFramingham. Plymouth Cong. Ch. and           64.89\nSoc.\n\nGardner. First Cong. Ch., to const.          30.00\nMRS. RUTH H. GREENWOOD L.M.\n\nGroton. Union Cong. Ch.                     148.00\n\nGroton. \"A Friend,\" 35 for Indian M.,        55.00\n10 for Chinese M., 10 for Mountain\nWhite Work, and to const. M.E.W. a\nL.M.\n\nHawley. Cong. Ch.                             6.17\n\nHingham Center. Cong. Ch., for               10.00\nTougaloo U.\n\nHinsdale. Miss S.A. Newhall, for              5.00\nIndian M.\n\nHolbrook. Winthrop Ch.                       35.00\n\nHolliston. Cong. Ch., 81.43; \"Bible         131.43\nChristians of Dist. No. 4.\" 50.\n\nHyde Park. Minnie Farwell, .30; Gracie\nCampbell, .25; for Oahe Indian Sch.\n55\n\nLakeville. Home Miss'y Soc., for             17.50\nIndian Sch'p\n\nLawrence. South Cong. Ch.                    13.58\n\nLongmeadow. \"A Friend of Mission,\" 1          2.00\nfor Indian M. and 1 for Chinese M.\n\nMarshfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.        126.32\n\nMedway. \"Friends,\" 2 Boxes of C.,\netc., for Sherwood, Tenn.\n\nMittineague. Southworth Paper Co., Box\nof Paper, etc., for Sherwood, Tenn.\n\nMittineague. Miss Mary Houghton, for          2.00\nIndian M.\n\nMilford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for         25.00\nAtlanta U.\n\nMillbury. \"A Friend,\" 30, to const.          36.00\nC.E. HUNT L.M.; M.D. Garfield, 5;\nLizzie M. Garfield, 1\n\nMonterey. \"For work of the A.M.A.\"            5.00\n\nNewton Center. Sab. Sch. First Cong.         32.03\nCh., for Rosebud Indian M.\n\nNewburyport. Mrs. Julia M. Balch, for        10.00\nIndian M.\n\nNorth Abington. Rev. Chas. Jones              1.00\n\nNorth Amherst. Mrs. Geo. E. Fisher,          25.00\nfor Indian M.\n\nNorthampton. \"Friends,\" for Indian M.        10.00\n\nNorthboro. Sab. Sch. Evan. Cong. Ch.,        10.00\nfor Mountain White Work\n\nNorthfield. Ira D. Sankey, for Indian       700.00\nM., New Station\n\nNorfolk. Wm. E. Mann, for Indian M.          10.50\n\n\nNorth Weymouth. Miss Edith M. Bates           2.00\n\nPittsfield. Second Ch. and Sab. Sch.,\na fine Bell and val. Box of\nArticles, for Fort Yates Indian M.\n\nPlymouth. Sab. Sch., Ch. of the              30.00\nPilgrims, for Rosebud Indian M.\n\nRandolph. Miss Abby W. Turner                20.00\n\nShirley. \"A Friend\"                           1.00\n\nSouthbridge. \"Friends,\" for Talladega         3.00\nC.\n\nSouth Hadley Falls. H.W. Taylor, for         10.00\nIndian M.\n\nSouth Weymouth. Sab. Sch. Class, by          10.00\nL.M. Pratt, for Talladega C.\n\nSpringfield. \"H.M.,\" 10.00; \"A             1011.00\nFriend,\" 10; Mrs. H.M. Smith, 1\n\nSturbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.               40.60\n\nTaunton. Sab. Sch. of Winslow Ch., for       20.00\nAtlanta U.\n\nTownsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 21.44\n\nUpton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.              63.00\n\nWare. Sab. Sch. East Cong. Ch., for          25.00\nSantee Home, Indian M.\n\nWest Boxford. Cong. Ch.                       8.35\n\nWest Brookfield. \"W.\"                         1.00\n\nWest Newton. Second Cong. Ch.                46.53\n\nWest Somerville. Mrs. N.B. Wilder, for\nProf. G.W. Lawrence. 50\n\nWinchester. First Cong. Ch.                  21.07\n\nWoburn. Mrs. Eckly Stearns.                  10.00\n\nWorcester. N.W. Green, Pkg. Books, for\nSherwood, Tenn.\n\nUxbridge. John Williams                       5.00\n\nHampden Benevolent Association, by\nCharles Marsh, Treas.:\n\nMonson                                       36.94\n\nSouth Hadley Falls                           12.00\n\nSpringfield. Mrs. Ed. Clarke                  5.00\n\n                                             53.94\n\n                                            ------\n\n                                          4,042.84\n\n                  ESTATES.\n\nAmherst. Estates of Mary Clark and          150.00\nAchsah Smith. 75 each, by E.W.\nClark.\n\nWinchester. Estate of Mrs. Harriet N.       150.00\nJackson, by A.C. Tenney, Ex.\n                                            ------\n                                         $4,342.84\n\n\n\n             RHODE ISLAND. $261.99.\n\nBristol. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,       38.57\nfor Student Aid, Fort Berthold\nIndian Sch.\n\nNewport. Mrs. S.L. Little.                    3.00\n\nPeace Dale. Cong. Ch.                        80.87\n\nProvidence. Beneficient Cong. Ch.,          139.55\n119. 55: N.W. Williams, 20.\n\n\n\n            CONNECTICUT. $1,977.47.\n\nBarkhamsted. Cong. Ch.                        3.50\n\nColebrook. Cong. Ch.                          6.25\n\nDerby. \"A Friend,\" 20; Miss S.E.             22.00\nSwift, 2, for Student Aid,\nTillotson C.& N. Inst.\n\nEast Hartford. Y.P.S.C.E. of South           40.00\nCong Ch. (Hockanum), for Indian M.\n\nEnfield. Mrs. S.S. Wood's S.S. Class,        15.00\nfor Indian Sch'p\n\nEnfield. Daniel H. Abbe                       5.00\n\nFairfield. Mrs. Jonathan Sturges, for        25.00\nIndian M.\n\n\n\nFarmington. Edward Norton, for Student       20.00\nAid, Tillotson C.& N. Inst.\n\nGlastonbury. D.W. Williams, for Native       75.00\nIndian Miss'y.\n\nGlastonbury. Helen S. Williams, for           0.25\nRosebud Indian M.\n\nGreeneville. Cong. Ch.                       17.00\n\nHartford. Sab. Sch., Pearl St. Cong.         34.22\nCh., for Rosebud Indian M.\n\nHartford. Newton Case, for Jewett Mem.        5.00\nHall, Grand View, Tenn.\n\nIvoryton. \"A Friend,\" for Prof. G.W.          5.00\nLawrence\n\nKent. Miss M.A. Hopson, for Indian M.         1.00\n\nLitchfield. Mrs. Joseph Adams, for           70.00\nIndian Sch'p.\n\nLitchfield. John O. Coit, for Indian M.       6.00\n\nLisbon. Cong. Ch.                            23.25\n\nLyme. Grassy Hill Cong. Ch.                   7.93\n\nMonroe. \"Friends of the Cause\".              10.00\n\nMonroe. Rev. H.M. Hazeltine, for              1.00\nFreight\n\nNew London. \"Trust Estate of Henry P.       200.00\nHaven,\" for Tillotson C.& N. Inst.\n\nNew Milford. Sab. Sch. First Cong.           70.00\nCh., for Sch'p, Hampton N.& A.\nInst.\n\nNorfolk. \"A Friend,\" for Indian Sch'p.       10.00\n\nNorfolk. \"J.B.E.,\" for Jewett Mem.           10.00\nHall, Grand View, Tenn.\n\nNorth Guilford. Mrs. Eben F. Dudley,          5.00\nfor Indian M.\n\nNorth Stamford. \"A Friend\".                   5.00\n\nNorwich Town. \"Cash,\" for Jewett Mem.         2.00\nHall, Grand View, Tenn.\n\nOld Lyme. First Cong. Ch.                    25.00\n\nOxford. Cong. Ch.                            23.29\n\nPlantsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,         18.24\nfor Indian M.\n\nPlantsville. Miss Jennie Smith, for          17.50\nIndian Sch'p.\n\nPlymouth. J.M. Wardwell, 20; Mrs. J.M.       57.00\nWardwell, 20; W.W. Bull, 10; B.B.\nWells, 7, for Jewett Mem. Hall,\nGrand View, Tenn.\n\nProspect. Cong. Ch.                          14.00\n\nRedding. Cong. Ch.                           23.63\n\nRidgebury. Cong. Ch.                          2.60\n\nRidgefield. Cong. Ch.                        18.92\n\nRockville. J.N. Stickney, for Indian M.      10.00\n\nSalem. Cong. Ch.                             10.00\n\nSharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   64.17\n\nSomersville. Mrs. Orpha P. Smith, for         5.00\nBeach Inst.\n\nSouth Britain. Sab Sch. of Cong. Ch.         10.31\n\nSouth Windsor. Sab. Sch. of Second           15.68\nEccl. Ch., 10.28; First Cong. Ch.,\n5.40.\n\nStanwich. Mrs. Chas. Brush.                 500.00\n\nThomaston. Young Ladies' Mission            100.00\nCircle, 20; Aaron Thomas, 20; Mrs.\nGeo. W. Gilbert, 10; Geo. C.\nGilbert, 5; C.H. Gilbert, 2; Mrs.\nC.H. Gilbert, 1; Geo. B. Gilbert,\n1; Chas. H. Gilbert, 1; W.\nWoodruff, 10; T.J. Bradstreet, 10;\nC.E. Thomas, 5; L.A. Morse, 5; Geo.\nA. Stoughton, 5; Geo. H. Stoughton,\n2; Mabel Freeman, 2; Mrs. J.S.\nEastwood, 1; for Jewett Mem. Hall,\nGrand View, Tenn.\n\nThomaston. Cong. Ch.                         10.56\n\nTolland. Lucy L. Clough                      20.00\n\nWashington. Cong. Ch.                        57.22\n\nWaterbury. \"A Friend,\" for Indian M.         10.00\n\nWaterbury. Mrs. Mary A Brooks                 5.00\n\nWest Chester. Ladies of Cong. Ch., for       12.00\nConn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.\n\nWest Haven. Mrs. E.C. Kimball                 5.00\n\nWethersfield. Cong. Ch.                      59.50\n\nWindham. Cong. Ch.                           21.95\n\nWindsor. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for         70.00\nRosebud Indian M.\n\nWinsted. D. Strong, 20; C.B. Hallet,         96.50\n10; J.L. Griswold, 10; Henry Gay,\n10; \"A Friend,\" 10; Mrs. R.E.\nHolmes, 5; M.B. Dudley, 5; J.J.\nWhiting, 5; L.W. Tiffany, 5; H.H.\nKelsey, 3; Chas. Moore, 2; E.B.\nGaylord, 2; Miss N.D. Camp, 1; W.J.\nGarvin, 1; \"Cash,\" 1; \"Cash,\" 1;\n\"Hosiery Hands,\" friends of W.F.\nTaylor, 5.50; for Jewett Mem. Hall,\nGrand View, Tenn.\n\n                NEW YORK. $5,078.18\n\nBrooklyn. S. Ballard, for School           1200.00\nBuilding, Macon, Ga.\n\nBrooklyn. \"A Friend.\" by S. Ballard,        500.00\nfor Macon, Ga., to Purchase Land.\n\nBrooklyn, E.D. Mrs. J.M. Hyde                 1.00\n\nChenango Forks. John B. Rogers.              10.00\ndeceased, 5; Cong. Ch. and Sab.\nSch., 5; by Emma W. Ely, Treas.\n\nComstock. Russell Ranney.                    20.00\n\nDeansville. Mrs. L.A. Peck.                   1.00\n\nEaton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    10.00\n\nEast Bloomfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong.          81.64\nCh., for Santee Indian Sch.\n\nEast Otto. Cong. Ch.                          5.00\n\nElbridge. Cong. Ch.                           3.00\n\nFairport. Mrs. Garry Brooks, for             10.00\nStudent Aid, Tillotson C. and N.\nInst.\n\nGerry. Mrs. Mary A. Sears                   198.36\n\nGranby Center. J.C. Harrington,              10.00\ndeceased, by Jay C. Harrington\n\nJamestown. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,            9.18\n8.18; Mrs. J.L. Hall, 1.\n\nLockport. \"Friends,\" for Freight              1.50\n\nMexico. Mrs. M.A. Gould,.50; Mildred\nGould,.10. 60\n\nNew York. Mrs. J. Leaich, for Indian M.      50.00\n\nNew York. The Misses Collins, for            35.00\nHospital, Indian M.\n\nNew York. J.D. Taylor, 5; Wm. M.              6.00\nDenman, 1; for Jewett Mem. Hall,\nGrand View, Tenn.\n\nNorwich. \"Two Ladies of Cong. Ch.\"            4.00\n\nOneida. E. Loomis                             5.00\n\nOrient. Cong. Ch.                            14.98\n\nOwego. Cong. Ch.                              9.00\n\nPatchogue. First Cong. Ch.                   18.09\n\nPerry Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc.             30.66\n\nPerry Center. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,        12.75\nfor Rosebud Indian M.\n\nPerry Center. Sab. Sen. of Cong. Ch.,         6.25\nfor Indian M.\n\nSag Harbor. Chas. N. Brown, for Indian        5.00\nM.\n\nSing Sing. Mrs. Cornelia E. Judd, 20;        30.00\nMrs. Reuben Cole, 10\n\nSyracuse. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                 35.17\n\nUtica. Caroline E. Backus, for Indian         3.00\nM.\n\nWarwick. Mrs. Sarah Welling, for a New      300.00\nTeacher, Indian M.\n\nWestmoreland. Mrs. Sarah M. Dann and          2.00\nSister, for Indian M.\n\n                                            ------\n\n                                           2,578.18\n\n                  ESTATES.\n\nPerry Center. Estate of Simeon E.          2000.00\nBarber, in memoriam of Geo. K. and\nMrs. Martha B. Sheldon.\n\nPerry Centre. Estate of Simeon R.           500.00\nBarber.\n                                            ------\n                                          5,078.18\n\n\n\n               NEW JERSEY. $436.73.\n\nChester. Cong. Ch., 27.25; Sab. Sch.,        31.73\n4.48.\n\nJersey City Heights. Mrs. H.O. Ames           6.00\n\nMorristown. Mrs. S.G. Owen. 200: Miss       400.00\nM. Ella Graves, 200; for Teacher,\nIndian M.\n\n\n\n              PENNSYLVANIA. $24.75.\n\nBradford. Chas. E. Webster.                   5.00\n\nEast Springfield. Mrs. C.J. Cowles.           4.50\n\nScranton. Mrs. Jane L. Eynon, for            15.00\nIndian Sch'p.\n\nSewickley. Mrs. E.H. Wilkine, for             0.25\nIndian M.\n\n\n\n                     OHIO. $493.83.\n\nAdams Mills. Mrs. M.A. Smith.                10.00\n\nBerlin Heights. Cong. Ch.                     5.00\n\nCincinnati. Sab. Sch. Central Cong.          14.28\nCh.\n\nFreedom. Cong. Ch.                            8.00\n\nGreensburg. Mrs. H.B. Harrington.             9.00\n\nHarmar. Cong. Ch.                           127.69\n\nMansfield. Mrs. F.E. Tracy and Mrs.         100.00\nAvers, for Student Aid, Tillotson\nC. and N. Inst.\n\nNewark. Welch Cong. Ch.                      14.46\n\nOberlin. C.V. Spear, for Jewett Mem.         10.00\nHall, Grand View, Tenn.\n\nPittsfield. Cong. Ch.                         6.50\n\nOhio Woman's Home Missionary Union,\nby Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas.,\nfor Woman's Work:\n\n     Cleveland. Euclid Av. L.H. M.S.,         0.25\n     for Indian Sch'p Fund.\n\n     Columbus. High St. Ch. Y.L.H.M.S.,      10.00\n     for Indian Sch'p Fund.\n\n     Garrettsville. L.H.M.S                   5.00\n\n     Hudson. L.H.M.S.                         7.00\n\n     Hudson. L.H.M.S., for Indian Sch'p       2.65\n     Fund.\n\n     North Bloomfield, W.M.S.                 5.00\n\n     Oberlin. Second Ch., Ladies' Soc.       89.73\n\n     Painesville. L.H.M.S., for Indian        7.00\n     Sch'p Fund\n\n     Ravenna. Cong. Ch. L.H.M.S., for         5.25\n     Indian Sch'p Fund.\n\n     Ravenna. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., for        3.50\n     Indian Sch'p Fund\n\n     Sandusky. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.           22.69\n\n     Wellington. Cong. Ch. L.B.S.            15.00\n\n     West Williamsfield. W.M.S.              14.23\n\n                                            ------\n\n                                            187.30\n\n\n\n                 ILLINOIS. $584.44.\n\nAmboy. Cong. Ch.                             45.00\n\nAvon. Cong. Ch.                               4.80\n\nEnglewood. Sab Sch. of First Cong.\nCh., Box of S.S. Papers, for\nTalladega C.\n\nChicago. First Cong. Ch., 92.48;            205.03\nWestern Av. Branch First Cong. Ch.,\n1.20; New Eng. Cong. Ch., 80.57;\nLincoln Park Cong. Ch., 30.78\n\nChicago. South Cong. Ch. W.H.M.U., for       25.00\nWoman's Work\n\nChicago. -- Babbit, Chest of\nCarpenter's Tools, (val. 125) for\nTillotson C. and N. Inst.\n\nElgin. \"Three Friends,\" for Prof. G.W.        5.00\nLawrence\n\nGridley. Cong. Ch.                            6.65\n\nGriggsville. Mrs. Anna E. McWilliams.         5.00\n\nHomer. Cong. Ch.                              4.40\n\nJoy Prairie. Cong. Ch.                       35.25\n\nKewanee. Mrs. H.E. Kellogg.                   3.00\n\nMarseilles. Cong. Ch.                        41.02\n\nOntario. Cong. Ch.                            7.79\n\nPayson. J.K. Scarborough.                   100.00\n\nPecatonica. Cong. Ch.                         3.00\n\nPeru. J.W. Hopkins.                          50.00\n\nProspect Park. Cong. Ch.                     18.00\n\nQuincy. Joshua Perry.                        10.00\n\nRockton. Cong. Ch.                           10.00\n\nRidge Prairie. Cong. Ch.                      2.50\n\nThomasboro. H.M. Seymore.                     3.00\n\n\n\n                 MICHIGAN. $163.76.\n\nAddison. Cong. Ch.                            5.00\n\nAllegan. Cong. Ch.                           10.31\n\nAnn Arbor. Mrs. R.M. Cady                     1.00\n\nArmada. Mrs. M.A. Judson.                     4.50\n\nBig Rapids. Cong. Ch.                         4.45\n\nCalumet. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., for            20.00\nAthens, Ala.\n\nHillsdale. J.W. Ford.                         1.00\n\nHomestead. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.             7.50\n\nOlivet. --, for Indian M.                   100.00\n\nSaint Joseph. Ladies' Soc., 5; Sab.          10.00\nSch., 5, for Fisk U\n\n\n            WISCONSIN. $410.76.\n\nBeloit. First Cong. Ch.                     151.26\n\nFond du Lac. Cong. Ch. (30 of which to       70.00\nconst. MRS. JAMES BASS L.M.)\n\nFort Atkinson. P.T. Gunnison.                10.00\n\nKenosha. Dr. Thos. Gillespie.                25.00\n\nRosendale. Daniel Clark, W.T. Innis,         15.00\nO.M. Hoyt, Mrs. Carrie Parsons,\nDavid Jenkins and I.N. Woodruff.\n\nSturgeon Bay. \"Friends,\" Bbl. C.,\netc., for Sherwood, Tenn.\n\nViroqua. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., for             5.00\nSherwood, Tenn.\n\nWauwatosa. Cong. Ch., ad'l to const.         24.50\nMRS. GEO. ROGERS and Miss LILLY\nFOWLER L. M's.\n\n                                            ------\n\n                                            300.76\n\n                  ESTATES.\n\nMonroe. Estate of H, E. Boardman,           110.00\nM.D., by Mrs. S. C. Boardman, Execx\n                                            ------\n                                            410.76\n\n\n\n                      IOWA. $370.53\n\nAmes. Cong. Ch.                              15.00\n\nCharles City. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.          7.50\n\nDavenport. Edwards Cong. Ch.                  1.50\n\nFarragut. Cong. Ch.                          29.43\n\nGrinnell Cong. Ch.                           81.05\n\nHillsboro. John W. Hammond                    5.00\n\nIowa City. Cong. Ch.                         46.90\n\nKeokuk. Cong. Ch.                            53.94\n\nRed Oak. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 2 Bbls.\nC., etc., for Sherwood, Tenn.\n\nStorm Lake. Cong. Ch., 20; Jos. H.           22.00\nHoopes, 2.\n\nTraer. Cong. Ch.                              5.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa,\nfor Woman's Work:\n\n     Cedar Falls. L.M.S.                      6.64\n\n     Clinton. Ladies' Miss'y Soc.             5.00\n\n     Des Moines. L.M.S., North Cong. Ch.      6.26\n\n     Des Moines. W.M.S., Plym. Ch.           15.75\n\n     Marion. \"Gleaners\"                      40.00\n\n     Miles L.M. Soc.                         10.00\n\n     McGregor. L.M. Soc.                      8.58\n\n     Magnolia. W.H.M.U.                       2.65\n\n                                            ------\n\n                                            103.21\n\n\n\n                 MINNESOTA. $71.07.\n\nAustin. Cong. Union Ch.                      22.29\n\nBrownsville. Mrs. S. M. McHose.               5.00\n\nMinneapolis. Plymouth Ch., 14; First         18.32\nCong Ch., 4.32.\n\nOwatonna. Cong Ch.                            5.45\n\nSaint Anthony Park. Cong. Ch.                11.50\n\nSaint Paul. Class of Boys, for                1.50\nTalladega C.\n\nSpringfield. Cong. Ch. Children's Day         7.01\nColl., 520; Sab. Sch., 181.\n\n\n\n                  MISSOURI. $16.00.\n\nKidder. First Cong. Ch.                      10.00\n\nLaclede. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Seward,           6.00\nfor Mountain White Work\n\n\n\n                    KANSAS. $21.00.\n\nManhattan. Mrs. Mary Parker of Cong.         20.00\nCh.\n\nPlevna. Cong. Ch.                             1.00\n\n\n\n                    DAKOTA. $35.94.\n\n\nChamberlain. Cong. Ch.                        8.00\n\nElron. Cong. Ch.                              1.00\n\nOahe. Endowment Fund, for Oahe Indian        20.00\nSch.\n\nValley Springs. Miss'y Soc., by Mm J.         1.94\nK. Cook, Treas.\n\nDakota Woman's Home Missionary Union,         5.00\nfor Woman's Work, by Mrs. Sue\nFifield, Treas.; Sioux Falls,\nKing's Daughters\n\n\n\n                  NEBRASKA. $37.00.\n\nExeter. Young Ladies' Miss'r Soc., for        5.00\nWoman's Work.\n\nOmaha. Third Cong. Ch.                       24.00\n\nPrinceton. Ger. Cong. Ch.                     3.00\n\nSantee Agency. J. A, Chadbourne, for          5.00\nMountain White Work\n\n\n\n                    OREGON. $33.00.\n\nMyrtle Point. C. C. Stoddard.                 3.00\n\nPortland. First Cong. Ch., to const W.       30.00\nH. Holcomb, L.M.\n\n\n\n                   COLORADO. $30.00\n\nWest Denver. Cong. Ch., 15.11; Ladies'       30.00\nMiss'y Soc., 13.37; Y.P.S.C.E.,\n1.62, by Rev. R. T. Cross\n\n\n\n           DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. $11.00.\n\nWashington. Lincoln Memorial Ch.             11.00\n\n\n\n                    VIRGINIA. $5.30\n\nHerndon. Cong. Ch.                            5.30\n\n\n\n             NORTH CAROLINA. $3.10.\n\nHarrisville. Cong. Ch.                        1.60\n\nNalls. Cong. Ch.                              0.50\n\nTroy. S.D. Leak.                              1.00\n\n\n\n                  TENNESSEE. $12.00\n\nMacon. Tuition.                               1.00\n\nMarietta. Cong. Ch., 75c.; Sab. Sch.,         1.50\n75c.\n\n\n\n                MISSISSIPPI. $2.50.\n\nTougallo. Tuition                             2.50\n\n\n\n                LOUISIANA. $100.00.\n\nNew Orleans. S. B. Steere, for Theo.        100.00\nStudent Aid. Talladega C\n\n\n\n                 INCOMES. $100.00.\n\nAvery Fund, for Mendi M.                     50.00\n\nHayel Sch'p Fund, for Fisk U                 50.00\n\n\n\n                   ENGLAND. $10.00.\n\nChigwell. Miss S. Louisa Ropes.              10.00\n\n                                            ======\n\nDonations.                               12,413.04\n\nEstates.                                  2,901.00\n\nIncomes.                                    100.00\n\nTuitions                                     10.50\n\n                                            ------\n\n  Total for August                       15,433.54\n\n  Total from Oct. 1 to August 31        261,318.27\n\n                                            ======\n\n\n\n        FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\n\nSubscriptions for August                     23.60\n\nPreviously acknowledged.                    874.01\n\n                                            ------\n\n  Total.                                    897.61\n\n                                            ======\n\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nH.W. 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Pamphlet free.\n\nG. & C. MERRIAM & CO., Pub'rs, Springfield, Mass.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 42, No. 10, October, 1888","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":16508}