{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_13907/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_13907","id":"gutenberg_13907","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13907","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Sociology","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"{pg 193}\nThe American Missionary\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nJuly, 1888.\n\nVolume XLII.  No. 7.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nCONTENTS\n\n  EDITORIAL.\nPresident of the Association.--Paragraphs\nIndian Problem.--an Outrage\nWade Hampton\nMr. Cable's Pamphlet\nMrs. Ware\nThree Commencements\n\n  THE SOUTH.\nNotes in the Saddle, By District Secretary Ryder\nGregory Institute, Wilmington, D.C.\nA Day at Tougaloo\nWhich will be the Under Dog in the Fight\nValued Appreciation\n\n  THE CHINESE.\nSchool Life In China\n\n  BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\nWoman's Temperance Work in the South\n\n  OUR YOUNG FOLKS.\nChildren's Day at Talladega\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\n{pg 194}\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\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\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\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, in\ntrust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the person\nwho, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 'American\nMissionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied, under the\ndirection of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its\ncharitable uses and purposes.\" The Will should be attested by three\nwitnesses.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n{pg 195}\nThe American Missionary.\n\nVOL. XLII.  JULY 1888.  No. 7.\n\nAmerican Missionary Association\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nIt gives us great pleasure to announce that, at a recent meeting of\nour Executive Committee, Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., Pastor of the\nBroadway Tabernacle, New York, was elected President of the American\nMissionary Association.\n\nThe death of our late honored President, ex-Governor Washburn,\noccurred so short a time before our last Annual Meeting, that no\nattempt was there made to elect his successor, but the matter was\nreferred according to the Constitution, to the Executive Committee.\nAfter mature deliberation and with great unanimity, Dr. Taylor was\nelected. A brief extract from his letter accepting the position will\nindicate his sympathy with our work, and his heartiness in\nco-operating with us in this new relation.\n\n\"Your Association, alike by its history in the past and its work in\nthe present, has a strong hold on my heart. It is doing a work much\nneeded; one, too, which is intimately connected with the welfare of\nthe nation, as well as with the future of the races among whom it\nspecially labors. It has always been a joy to me to plead for it with\nmy people from my pulpit, and I regard your selection of me as your\nPresident, as one of the highest honors of my life.\"\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWe are glad to be able to mention, also, the election of Mr. Charles\nA. Hull as a member of our Executive Committee, in place of the\nhonored and respected A.S. Barnes, deceased. Mr. Hull was formerly a\nmember of the committee, but was compelled to retire on account of\npressure of business. He now returns to his place cheerfully and to\nour great satisfaction.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n_Who reads Missionary Magazines?_--We are glad to know that THE\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY has appreciative readers with quick eyes. From the\nlast numbers we have noticed extracts and quotations in the _New York\nObserver_, the _Religious Herald_, the _Advance_, the _New York\nTribune_, and the _New York Times_. We are more than willing.\n\n{pg 196}\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nTHE INDIAN PROBLEM.\n\nA good deal of ingenious ciphering has been done in endeavoring to\nsolve this problem, and, withal, there has been a good deal of honest\nand efficient work. The Government has largely increased its\nappropriations from year to year, the Dawes Bill and other valuable\nlegislation have been secured, so that steps looking towards the\ncitizenship of the Indian have been attained. Appropriations have been\ngranted to aid him in farming and other industrial pursuits, and it is\nnot unlikely that in a short time provision will be made for the\neducation in the common English branches of every Indian child.\n\nBut all this is not sufficient. The Indian may have lands and\ncitizenship and an English education, and yet, if he has no strong\nimpulse towards civilization, no motive in his heart impelling him to\nbe an industrious, self-supporting citizen--in short, if he has not a\nnew heart looking to a new life as a citizen and a man, he will become\na vagabond on the land granted him, and a skeptic in the school in\nwhich he is taught. The next few years will constitute a crisis in the\nrapidly changing condition of the Indian, and it is precisely at this\npoint where the vital element of the Christian life must be infused\ninto his character. To the Christian public, all other questions\nsubordinate themselves to this, and this needs, not speculation, but\nhard work; legislation cannot do it, the church must; time will not do\nit, Christian teaching and example alone can. The vernacular question,\nso much agitated recently, is important only as it may hinder this\npractical work.\n\nThe Indian problem is not perpetual. The Indian must soon be merged\ninto the American, and whether this shall be for good or for ill, the\nchurch must decide, and decide speedily. We trust, therefore, that our\nconstituents will aid us to extend, as rapidly as possible, that part\nof the work entrusted to us. We do not ask for expensive buildings or\ncostly plant. We ask for the means to push forward with the teacher\nand the preacher among these uncivilized people till, when they come\nforth from their present anomalous condition, they shall come forth\npractical Christians, as well as intelligent and industrious citizens.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nAN OUTRAGE.\n\nProf. G.W. Lawrence, teacher of our school at Jellico, Tenn., a\ngentleman of quiet and unobtrusive manners, was brutally assaulted by\na man of that place, and was shot in three places; one ball entered\nthe wrist and followed up the arm, coming out near the shoulder, a\nsecond went into the back of the shoulder, and a third is probably\nlodged in the lungs. The assault occurred May 18th, in the church in\nwhich Mr. Lawrence was holding the school, in the presence of his wife\nand scholars. The only provocation {pg 197} alleged, was that he had\ngone the night before to ask for the tuition of one of his scholars.\nHe was met in an angry way by the woman, and the next day the husband,\nwho does not live with his wife, came to the school and fired the\nshots. Prof. Lawrence is the brother-in-law of our highly esteemed and\nactive Christian worker, Rev. A.A. Myers, who has not only done so\nmuch in promoting school and church work in Kentucky and Tennessee,\nbut who has also been so zealous in promoting the cause of temperance.\nProf. Lawrence sympathized and co-operated with Mr. Myers in this good\nwork, and it is believed that liquor and liquor influence had much to\ndo in inspiring the deed. As all the parties in this transaction were\nwhite, it is not at all probable that the color-line question had\nanything to do with it.\n\nThe community was moved with intense indignation, and the assassin was\nspeedily taken to the county jail to escape a lynching. A large\nmeeting was subsequently held in the Baptist Church, and a committee\nwas appointed to prosecute the perpetrator. Mr. Lawrence at this\nwriting is in a very critical condition, but hopes are entertained of\nhis ultimate recovery.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWADE HAMPTON.\n\nWe opened the June number of the _Forum_ with the confident\nexpectation that the article on \"_What Negro Supremacy Means_,\" by\nSenator Wade Hampton, would furnish some well-considered and\nstatesmanlike views on that important topic. We expected to find a\nfair, if not an encouraging, statement of the changes that twenty\nyears have wrought in the educational and property qualifications of\nthe Negro. But we confess our utter disappointment, in finding that\nSenator Wade devotes his entire article to details of the Acts of the\nSouth Carolina Legislature, from 1868 to 1876, in other words, to the\nreconstruction or carpet-bag period. He adds, it is true, a quotation\nfrom an address of Abraham Lincoln, but that dates back into the still\nremoter past, 1859. Mr. Lincoln learned something better before he\ndied.\n\nWe make no defence of that carpet-bag Legislature, but does not\nSenator Wade recognize the change that has taken place in the\ncondition of the Negro--a change that is going on at an increased\nratio? Would an article be worth much on \"What _Anglo-Saxon_ Supremacy\nMeans,\" based on extracts from Roman histories in regard to the\nancient Germans? True, the comparison is an extreme one, but it must\nbe remembered that more progress is now made in human civilization\nin one year, than in a century then. But let us confine ourselves\nto the facts as they now stand. The present generation of Negroes\nin the South has had the aid of the public schools, limited and\ninadequate as they are, and it has had the still more valuable aid\nof schools sustained by Northern benevolence, supplemented in some\ncases {pg 198} by aid from the Southern States, that have furnished\ninstruction of the best quality in all ranges of study, from primary\nto college and professional. From Hampton, Va., to Austin, Texas,\nthese schools, supported by various religious denominations, with\ncarefully selected and thoroughly competent teachers from the North,\nhave been sending forth their graduates as teachers, preachers,\nprofessional and business men. These schools of all grades number more\nthan two hundred, and a large per cent. of their graduates become\nteachers who are giving a mighty uplift to their people. A colored\neditor could say truthfully two years ago, \"We have preachers learned\nand eloquent; we have professors in colleges by hundreds, and\nschool-masters by thousands; successful farmers, merchants, ministers,\nlawyers, editors, educators and physicians.\" To all this it may be\nadded that careful estimates place the amount of property on which the\nNegroes in the Southern States pay taxes, at one hundred millions of\ndollars. Surely this race could now furnish legislators more\nintelligent and more interested in the assessment of taxes than in\n1868, and the number and quality will be rapidly increased every year.\nSenator Hampton might have looked around and ahead, and not backward\nonly! His article, as it stands, stamps him as a veritable Bourbon;\n\"he has forgotten nothing and he has learned nothing.\"\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nMR. CABLE'S PAMPHLET.\n\nA COLORED MAN'S VIEW OF IT.\n\n    Mr. Cable's Pamphlet, \"The Negro Question,\" was sent to an\n    educated Christian colored man in the South. We make some\n    brief extracts from his letter acknowledging the receipt of\n    the pamphlet. He says:\n\nI have read \"_The Negro Question_,\" by Geo. W. Cable, and appreciate\nit highly. It is the ablest treatment of the subject intellectually,\nmorally and judicially that I ever saw. Mr. Cable has dealt with that\n_great question_ with the insight of a statesman and a thinker, and\nthe candor of a true Christian. Oh, how I am vexed and do smart when I\nthink of the wicked treatment I and my people are subjected to on\naccount of the God-given color, and by a people claiming and\nprofessing to be Christians! I can hardly believe that any other\npeople ever bore the names freemen and citizens, and at the same time\nwere shut out from so many of their rights and liberties as we are.\nOur manhood is outraged, our civil and political rights are abused,\nour women are robbed of their womanhood and their chastity is\ninsulted, our aspirations are banded and proscription is held up to\nour eyes wherever we go, and enforced against us with Egyptian\nexactness and Spartan severity, and the most vexatious and grievous\nfact of all is, that the strong arm of the law of the land loses its\npower when it comes our turn to receive justice. The law either plays\ntruant, or openly acknowledges that it has no power to defend us. But\nthe God of law and {pg 199} justice, who broke down one form of\nslavery, will break down this, too. Still, there is a part for us to\ndo. On this line, as on others, the man who needs help must help\nhimself while he asks for help.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nMRS. WARE.\n\n    We honor the memory of the early and self-denying workers\n    among the Freedmen. They were ostracised at the South, and\n    were scarcely appreciated at the North. Many of them have laid\n    down their lives in the service, others were compelled to\n    return home on account of ill-health, but others still are\n    toiling on, seeing the fruits of their labors in the new\n    impulse given to the Negro in his great race struggle. Among\n    the earliest and most efficient of these workers was President\n    Ware, of Atlanta, now gone to his reward. Mrs. Ware is still\n    at the post of duty, and, though in feeble health, clings with\n    undiminished interest to her chosen life-work.\n\n    At the recent anniversary of the Atlanta University, the\n    meeting of the Alumni, (May 28th), was made pleasant and\n    memorable by the presentation to Mrs. Ware of a large portrait\n    of herself. It was wholly unexpected to her, and her impromptu\n    acknowledgment of the gift was made in the vein of her\n    characteristic vivacity and kindness. Among the addresses made\n    at the presentation, was one by Mrs. Chase, herself one of our\n    earliest and most honored laborers. From this address we are\n    permitted to make a few extracts.\n\nIt is very significant that at any time during these twenty years of\nyour life here, it would have been just as delightful to meet and say\nthe pleasant words that leap to our lips, as it is to say them to-day.\nYou, whom we delight to honor this afternoon, have held the same post\nof honor all these years, but many of us do not know how delightfully\nyou hold that place, so I, who have known you so long, am asked to\nexplain, and if this hasty sketch seems too flattering to be given in\nyour presence, I fear you alone are responsible. If you had put less\ninto your life for us to admire, we could put less into our expression\nof admiration.\n\nWe know how you lost early a good mother, and that your father was\ntaken when you were only eighteen; but the missionary spirit of that\nfather was repeated in the daughter. We know of your being discouraged\nby a missionary Board because applying so young, but of your being\nfinally accepted, and going to Hampton, reaching that now famous\nschool even before the veteran--General Armstrong.\n\nThen came the year of teaching at Charleston, a year so full of\nprivations in those pioneer days, that though repeated calls came to\nyou from Florida and Georgia, as well as the old fields, you shrank\nfrom farther hardships and decided to remain at home, till one Sunday\nmorning in Connecticut, twenty years ago, these words were unfolded in\na sermon, \"Simon, Son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Yea, Lord, thou\nknowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my Lambs.\" How easy\nit is for us now to see the beautiful Providence of those wonderful\nwords finding a swift response in your heart and bringing you at once\nto Atlanta. There are those before me now that greeted you then in\nStorrs School. How {pg 200} much we might say of that eventful year\nwhen you worked beyond your strength to fit the \"A\" class for Atlanta\nUniversity. We can hardly see how it could have been otherwise than\nthat the next year you should come to us, the bride of our beloved\nPresident. But position brought no exemption from hard work to either\nof you royal workers.\n\nWe shall never forget what hosts of friends have been won for the\nschool by your ready pen and stirring words. And during those sixteen\nmemorable foundation years of our school, which are so rapidly passing\ninto history, who can ever know how much of their grand success was\ndue to you for your devotion to him who created Atlanta University,\nand made it what it is? We may know in that \"day when He makes up his\njewels.\"\n\n           *     *     *     *     *\n\nTHREE COMMENCEMENTS.\n\nBY A VISITOR.\n\nIt has been my privilege to attend in succession the anniversary\nexercises at Hampton, Va., Atlanta, Ga., and Howard University,\nWashington, D.C. Hampton, as usual, welcomed a crowd of visitors, and\namong these a number of distinguished men--Governor Lee of Virginia,\nand Senator Dawes, being those most widely known. The visitor sees\nhere the magical touch of genius in these large and commodious\nbuildings, the schools, the shops, the houses, the cottages, and,\ncrowning all, the stately chapel. The plat of the village in which\nthese are congregated realizes the words,\n\n    \"A mighty maze and not without a plan.\"\n\nThe effect of the whole, threaded by winding roads, shaded by trees,\nand interspersed with gardens and shrubs, is picturesque and\npractically convenient. The main value of Hampton, however, is found\nin what is done _within_ these buildings--the teaching, the\nindustries, the making of character.\n\nThe graduating exercises were the great attraction. The addresses and\npapers of the pupils did not, perhaps, as a whole, quite come up to\nwhat we have heard in other years, but all were good and some of them\nof great excellence. One is always impressed at Hampton with the tone\nand local coloring of the addresses. They are tinged and touched by\nthe work done here, and the races for and by whom it is done. The\ntitles of some of the pieces show this: \"What is expected of a Hampton\nGraduate.\" \"Hampton Girls.\" \"Mission Work in Tennessee.\" \"Way down in\nGeorgia.\" \"Progress of the Oneidas.\" Of the same sort was the closing\ntableau, \"The Great Father and his Children,\" a representation by\nIndian students, with the implements or products of the industries\nthey have learned, applying to the Great Father for admission to his\ncountry. The exercises were closed by eloquent addresses, given by\nRev. Dr. Parkhurst, of New York, one of the Trustees, Governor Lee, of\nVirginia, and Senator Dawes.\n\n{pg 201}\nAtlanta University now welcomes its visitors to its\nbeautiful green lawns and fields, which were once red clay washed into\ndeep gullies. The buildings are convenient and well-kept. The\nBaccalaureate sermon, delivered by Professor Francis, was very\nappropriate and touching. The commencement exercises were held on\nMonday, May 28th, and were attended by a vast concourse of people,\nmany going away because the building, though large, could not give\nthem room. The aisles were crowded through all the services. The\naudiences were, as usual, made up mostly of colored people.\nHeretofore, at times, the dignitaries of the State and city have\ngraced the platform, but Governor Gordon was out of town, and,\nperhaps, if he had been at home, he would not have attended. The\nrecent excitement about the Glenn Bill, and the withdrawal of the\n$8,000, the annual grant of the State, have left the relations\nsomewhat strained. There is, however, no excitement on that subject.\nThe State authorities have not yet decided what to do with the fund,\nand in the meantime, the University goes quietly forward with its\nwork. Prof. Bumstead has just succeeded in raising the $16,000\nnecessary to meet the current expenses of the year.\n\nAt the anniversary exercises there were no graduates from the college\ndepartment this year. Thirteen pupils, all girls, from the normal\ndepartment, read their essays and received their certificates of\ngraduation. The number of the class is supposed to be unfortunate,\nbut there was nothing amiss in the quality of the essays they read.\nThey were all good, but the absence of any male voice left the class\nsomewhat in the condition of a choir without a baas. There was a\nnoticeable difference in one respect between the essays on this\noccasion and those at Hampton. Here there was no local or race\ntone. If I had closed my eyes, I might have thought myself at the\nanniversary of a Ladies' Seminary at the North. Scarcely a word or\nallusion indicated that these girls belonged to the colored race, and\nfor that matter their faces scarcely showed it, for the white blood\nlargely preponderated in most of them. I can well understand why these\npupils should prefer to stand forth not as a distinct race, but as\nAmerican and Christian girls. Perhaps that is the higher wisdom, but\nit makes the anniversary less distinctive, and inspires less sympathy\nand enthusiasm. These girls were plainly dressed, and in that respect\nwould differ greatly from the graduating class in a Northern Female\nSeminary, but they would have no occasion to shrink from a comparison\nwith their Northern sisters, if propriety of deportment, and\nexcellence and force of writing were considered.\n\nAt the Howard University, we had the opportunity of attending only the\nexercises of the graduating class in college. This institution has a\ngood claim to its title as a University, for it has collegiate,\nmedical, theological, law and normal departments. The anniversaries of\nthe theological and medical departments had been held a few days\npreviously in {pg 202} churches down in the city, and were attended,\nas we understand, by large audiences. The college anniversary, on the\nother hand, was held in the college chapel, which, while it was well\nfilled, contained a relatively small audience, and this was made up\nmostly of colored people. We hardly appreciate this discrimination as\nto the places of holding these anniversaries, for the orations in the\nchapel were of a high order, and might well have attracted the\nattention of members of Congress and of the numerous visitors in the\ncrowded city. The graduating class consisted of six persons, one being\na lady and she the only one of the class without apparent admixture of\nwhite blood. The addresses were all orations, and resembled somewhat\nthe essays in the Atlanta school in presenting almost no touch or\ntone of race or local surroundings, the lady's being almost the\nonly exception. I could not avoid the conviction, that if these\nwell-trained minds had thrown themselves into topics more nearly\nrelated to their own life and race struggle, there would have been\nmore fervor in the oratory. But some of these graduates will yet be\nheard from as useful laborers in some fields of active Christian work.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\nNOTES IN THE SADDLE.\n\nBY REV. C.J. RYDER, DISTRICT SECRETARY.\n\nI promised, in my February \"Notes in the Saddle,\" to give a brief\naccount of the mountain campaign which had then just closed. It was\nfull of most interesting experiences. We began the series of meetings\nin the Congregational Church, Jellico, Tenn. The Association was\nrepresented by one of its Corresponding Secretaries, a District\nSecretary, and the writer. Beside these brethren from abroad, the\nlocal force of A.M.A. workers was large, and several neighboring\nchurches of our Congregational faith sent their pastors.\n\nAt Jellico, the A.M.A. has planted both a church and a school, and\nbuilt a meeting house. The interesting series of meetings, which began\nat Jellico, was for the purpose of dedicating the neat Congregational\nchurches recently built by the Association along this line of\nrailroad. Preaching services were held every afternoon and evening,\nthe company of ministers taking turns, as they pushed on from one\nchurch to another. These churches are at Jellico, Pleasant View,\nSouth Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Woodbine, Rockhold and Corbin.\nCongregationalism, through the A.M.A., has taken possession of this\nwhole region in the name of Christ. We can easily hold it in the\ninterests of broad and evangelical Christianity, if our older\nCongregational churches in the East and North arouse themselves to\nmeet the pressing exigencies, and realize the splendid {pg 203}\npossibilities that lie before them in this field _to-day_, but which\nwill be denied them in the near future.\n\nOne very interesting feature of these meetings was the dedication of\na chapel which has been recently added to the Williamsburg church,\nand which is used for the infant class of the Sunday-school. This\nclass had outgrown all the accommodations of the church, in connection\nwith the other departments of the Sunday-school. It had become a\nSunday-school of itself. This chapel was, therefore, built and\npublicly set aside for the service of these little folks.\n\nDuring these meetings, our honored Corresponding Secretary and\nDistrict Secretary pushed through the storms and forded mountain\nstreams together with the other brethren, that they might keep the\nappointments which had been made for them. Dr. Roy's stereopticon\nviews, which have interested and instructed so many audiences in the\nNorth, he used with great profit during this mountain campaign.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nTwo men called upon Brother Myers, our general missionary in this\nmountain region, and requested that he and the writer visit the field,\nsome fourteen miles away, from which they had come that morning. They\ntold a thrillingly interesting story of how God's Spirit had entered\ntheir hearts, and stirred them up to desire better things for their\nchildren and their community than they had enjoyed. One of them was a\nson of a French Catholic mother, and had early adopted her faith. His\nlife had been wild and reckless, until he found the Saviour in a\nmeeting led by an A.M.A. missionary. He was an intelligent man of some\neducation. He found others ready to join him in a movement for the\nelevation of the people. They established a church and organized a\nSunday-school. We pushed over the mountain on horseback, after the\nother visiting brethren had left the mountain region, to inspect\npersonally this field. We found it even as the men had represented it\nto be. A little church had been organized and Sunday-school gathered.\nI could learn of no other Sunday-school in that region. I heard\nafterwards, that one of the old-time preachers warned the people\nagainst the Sunday-school, saying, \"It war a heap worse than a dancing\nplace.\" This same preacher had a vision, and gave an account of it to\nhis people. \"Two devils,\" he said, \"had been in that country getting\nup some sort of an institution that they called a church.\" He warned\nhis people against them.\n\nThe two men who visited us at Jellico, together with others who had\njoined with them in this effort to Christianize and educate this\ncommunity, we found busy on a hillside, laying the foundations of the\nnew \"church house.\" They were enthusiastic in this new movement, which\npromised so much to their community. They had drawn up a confession of\nfaith and covenant, which were evangelical and Congregational. They\nreported {pg 204} three thousand people living in the coves and\nvalleys radiating from the point upon which they had planted their\n\"church house,\" absolutely without intelligent Christian instruction\nof any kind. There were hundreds of square miles without a church\nbuilding of any denomination. This little company had been stirred up\nby God's Spirit, and were almost starving for spiritual food. There\nwas a pathos even in their peculiar mountain vernacular, as one of\nthem said to me, \"I don't understand scarcely a word you uns say. I'm\ntoo old to larn now. I'se done left. But I does want my chilluns to\nknow somethin'. I tell you, I'd sell my old farm down in the cove so's\nto help my chilluns to know somethin'.\" What a tremendous appeal this\nis from the very heart of our country! All they asked was one hundred\ndollars, to help them build this Congregational \"church house\" by the\nside of Hickory Creek.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWhile writing these \"Notes,\" there comes flashing over the wires,\nthe news of this horrible crime committed upon the person of Prof.\nG.W. Lawrence, at Jellico. I remember a conversation I had with Mr.\nLawrence during this campaign of which I have been writing. He had\njust been offered an important and lucrative position as teacher in\nthe North. He was a young man of only limited means, and felt almost\nthat he _must_ go. I told him we could not offer him _financial_\ninducements to remain, but it seemed to me that the Lord had called\nhim to that work, and I did not know where we could find a man to fill\nhis place. \"Very well,\" he replied, \"I will remain.\" The Christian\nhero that he was, he went patiently forward in this self-sacrificing\nlabor. Now, he has fallen by the hand of a brutal assassin! This awful\ncrime emphasizes the importance of this work, and calls aloud to us to\nsend _more_ Christian missionaries into this field, until Christian\nlight shall displace the darkness of semi-barbarism.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nTurning a moment from the field in which our missions are planted,\nto that from which they are supported, I give three interesting\nincidents. In a New England church two young girls came forward after\nhearing the story of the A.M.A. work in the dark places of our\ncountry, and pledged fourteen dollars, which they had themselves\ngathered by the sale of articles which they had made. A good example.\n\nAnother little girl, not ten years old, had one dollar which she had\nbeen saving for sometime. It was her total bank credit. When she heard\nof our pressing needs, she slipped her dollar into my hand, asking\nthat it be spent for the poor children in our field.\n\nA woman, for years an A.M.A. teacher, but now a bed-ridden invalid,\npledges $100 to the work of the Association. What can we not do when\nthere is so much of Christian self-sacrifice in both departments of\nour field?\n\n{pg 205}\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nANNIVERSARY EXERCISES AT GREGORY INSTITUTE.\n\nWILMINGTON, N.C.\n\nOur anniversary really began May 18, for on the evening of that date\nwere held the public exercises of the \"Gregory Band of Hope.\" There\nare at least 160 members of this Band and they hold fortnightly\nmeetings.\n\nOne of the principal lessons which has to be impressed upon these\nchildren, is the sacredness of the pledge. We feel sure that much has\nbeen gained in this direction the past year. There were those who\nwould come forward and manfully confess when they had violated any\ncondition of the pledge. But the good done to the children is not the\nonly benefit. Through these children, the parents become interested in\ntemperance. One little boy said, \"Since I joined the Band of Hope I\ngot my papa and mamma to join the pledge too.\" Many families were\nrepresented by either father or mother, and in many cases by both.\nThis topic is destined very soon to be of paramount importance in the\ntraining of the colored people.\n\nThe week beginning May 21 was given up to examinations. The pupils\nhave in the main done well. Many of them in advancement and aptness\nwill compare well with white children. By reason of a re-arrangement\nin the course of study, there was no graduating class this year.\nHowever, on the evening of May 25, we had an exhibition given by the\nscholars. The stage at the back was prettily draped with the national\ncolors, and flowers were scattered in profusion everywhere. At the\nappointed hour the room was filled with the parents of the pupils and\nother friends of the schools. The programme was a miscellaneous one,\nmade up of tableaux, songs, dialogues and recitations. Some of these\nreflected great credit upon the pupils and their teachers. I say\n_some_ of them, because some parts were rendered so excellently as to\nastonish one who did not expect anything _very_ good from negro\nscholars. One beautiful scene was, \"Winding the May Pole,\" by twelve\nlittle girls dressed in white. Another striking piece was, \"What\nAlcohol has done for the Nations.\" Different persons in appropriate\ncostume represented the various nations of Europe and one represented\nAfrica, each in a short speech stating what havoc alcohol had made.\nOne young lad caused a good deal of merriment in declaiming \"Theology\nat the Quarters,\" in which he drew a picture of the candidate for\nheaven being subjected to a close examination before he could be\nadmitted through the \"_Alaplaster_ gate.\" \"The questions,\" said the\ndeclaimer, \"you must answer mighty straight. And de _watermillion_\nquestion gwine to cause a heap o' trouble.\" When one of these colored\npeople declaims in the Negro dialect, it is a treat. There is nothing\nartificial about it.\n\nThe year has been a prosperous one. The school-rooms have been crowded\nto their utmost capacity. 312 different pupils have attended during\nsome part of the year, and average daily attendance has been 230.\n{pg 206} Excellent progress has been made. Another teacher is needed.\nMore and more are the colored people awakening to their real\nneed--deliverance from the bonds of ignorance. You older people in the\nNorth gave your sons to free the slave from human task-masters. We who\nhave arisen since the war look upon that as the noblest sacrifice\nwhich the history of our country presents. But there still remains the\ngreat problem of freeing the black man from the slavery of ignorance,\nsuperstition and sin. The work increases upon our hands. The South is\nstruggling to rise. It has this problem of illiteracy to settle. We\nwho have grown since the war could not carry a musket in '62, but we\nare willing to carry the Speller and the Bible now, and we do not\nconsider this work one whit less honorable or necessary than the art\nof war. Do you?\n\nWilmington is a city with a population of 25,000. It is estimated that\n14,000 of this is colored. Business is increasing fast and population\nis gaining proportionately. How what is the import of all this? Large\nnumbers of colored people will be attracted here. It will be an\nobjective point for educational work among them. If we already have\n300 pupils, the opportunity will then be enlarged many fold. But even\nnow we need more help. Cannot the friends at home enter upon a course\nof self-denial to extend us a little aid?\n\nG.S.R.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nA DAY AT TOUGALOO.\n\n_Special Correspondence of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat._\n\nJackson, Miss., May 26.--While the white Mississippians were laying\nthe corner stone of a Confederate monument at Jackson, the black\nMississippians were holding the closing exercises of their university\nat Tougaloo, only seven miles away.\n\nTOUGALOO TO-DAY.\n\nFor a wonder the war spared Tougaloo. Less pretentious houses within\nsight of it were fired and destroyed by roving squads. But the\nmansion, in the midst of a grand grove of oaks, stood intact. When the\nwar was over, the American Missionary Association acquired 500 acres\nof the estate, including the mansion.\n\nAt the beginning the building afforded accommodations for both\nteachers and students. But at present the mansion is used for the\noffices of the institution and for class rooms. Tougaloo has developed\ninto one of the largest institutions for colored youth in the South.\nThe mansion, which was the nucleus, is now only one of half a dozen\nlarge structures. To the north of it is Strieby Hall, a long\nthree-story brick structure. The clay was dug, the brick made, and the\nwalls laid, chiefly by student labor. To the south is another\nthree-story dormitory. Another notable {pg 207} structure in the\ngroup is the Ballard School Building, every nail in which was driven\nby the students. About these larger buildings are grouped the Ballard\nIndustrial shops and cottages.\n\nThree hundred and twenty-six students were enrolled at Tougaloo the\npast year. The steady growth in the attendance more than keeps pace\nwith the increase in accommodations. They come from all parts of\nMississippi, Yazoo County of terrible memories furnishing a\nrepresentation notable for its numbers. Arkansas, Louisiana and\nTennessee are represented.\n\nA MISSISSIPPI MYSTERY.\n\nNowhere in the South is the negro so totally a nonentity in politics\nas in Mississippi, and yet nowhere in the South is there a colored\ninstitution so heartily commended as is Tougaloo University by the\nwhite Mississippians. This seems odd, hardly credible. Tougaloo is not\na State institution. Mississippi has a system of instruction including\na normal school and other departments for colored youth. And yet every\nLegislature makes an appropriation for Tougaloo. The institution's\nmanagement reports the use made of the money, and the Governor\nappoints a Board of Visitors. This is the extent of State supervision,\nand still Mississippi continues to make biennially an appropriation\nfor the university. The last Legislature cut down the amount somewhat,\nbut it cut some of the white institutions worse than it did Tougaloo.\n\nPerhaps a stronger evidence of the esteem in which this university is\nheld by white Mississippi is the social consideration bestowed upon\nthose connected with the institution. The prejudice which ostracises\n\"a nigger teacher\" and which is so pronounced in most communities\nwhere there is a colored institution, is rarely observable here. On\nthe Board of Visitors are men of the highest standing, like Col. J.L.\nPower, for almost a lifetime the head of the _Clarion_; Oliver\nClifton, the Clerk of the Supreme Court, and F.A. Wolfe, the former\nSuperintendent of Education. Mr. W.S. Lemly, one of the leading\nbusiness men of Jackson, is a member of the Board of Trustees. To\nvisit Tougaloo is not to lose caste in Jackson society, but is\naltogether a proper thing to do.\n\nOf course there is an explanation for this. White Mississippians are\nmuch like white Georgians or white Carolinians in their views on the\nrace problem and on negro education. Tougaloo's peculiar relation to\nthe white people must be accounted for by the features in which it\ndiffers from other colored institutions maintained by Northern\nsocieties.\n\nTHE SECRET OF IT.\n\nThe Rev. Frank G. Woodworth, President of the university, was asked\nhow he accounted for the exceptional esteem in which Tougaloo is held.\nHis reply was: \"I think the attention which we give to industrial\neducation has a great deal to do with it. That, and the preparation of\nteachers, {pg 208} are two things which we make most prominent in our\nwork. The white people can see the good effects of the training we\ngive so plainly that they feel the work we are doing is good.\"\n\nThis view of President Woodworth was abundantly confirmed by\nsubsequent inquiries among white Mississippians. It is the industrial\neducation the negroes are receiving there which so thoroughly commends\nthe university to the dominant race. The shops are considered fully\nas important as the class rooms at Tougaloo. Carpentry, painting,\ntinning, blacksmithing and wagon-making are taught, not only the\nrudiments, but to the extent of turning out finished workmen. The\nshops were built by the students and are admirably equipped with\ntools. Wagons from the Tougaloo apprentices sell for $60 in Jackson,\nand are preferred to the product of first-class wagon-makers.\n\nThe desk at which I sit, and which will compare with skilled work\nanywhere, was made by one of our students. In the blacksmithing and\nwagon-making they learn to take iron and wood in the rough and turn\nout a good, substantial wagon. The value to the colored youth of such\ntraining can hardly be over-estimated. They are trained to do skilled\nwork, to be self-reliant and self-supporting.\n\nTHE FARM SCHOOL.\n\nBut teaching the trades is but part of the system of industrial\neducation at Tougaloo. Each boy is required to work at least one hour\na day on the university farm. For all work over that hour the student\nreceives pay, the highest allowance being 7c. an hour. The farm is not\nrun to make money, but to educate. The idea is to make the operation\nof the farm an object lesson to the students in the better methods of\nagriculture and stock raising. Several students, enough to take care\nof the steady and continuous farm work, are employed all day on the\nfarm and attend the night school, but the bulk of the farm labor comes\nfrom the students, who give from one to several hours to it outside of\nschool. Last year the farm was run with but one man outside of the\nstudent help. The boys, while getting their book learning, tilled\neighty-five acres of corn, fifteen acres of oats, with a second crop\nof peas, seventeen acres of cotton, eight acres of peas, three acres\nof sorghum, two acres of garden and five acres of berries and orchard.\nThe stock cared for included 100 head of blooded cattle, forty sheep\nand forty swine. The farm furnished the boarding department 14,000\npounds of beef and pork, 84,476 pounds of milk, and other products in\nproportion. The university farm stock has a reputation State-wide, and\nthe exhibits are features of the annual fairs held at Jackson. While\nevery boy in the institution has to do some daily work on the farm,\nthere is set apart for the ninth grade a special course of a year in\nagricultural instruction designed to make good, practical farmers of\nthose who take it. So much for the boys.\n\n{pg 209}\nThe girls get their full share of industrial training at Tougaloo.\nThey have daily instruction in some branch of household duty, ranging\nfrom dish-washing to canning and preserving. Sewing is taught from the\nplain darning and mending to fitting and dressmaking according to the\nlatest fashion plates. It has come to be well understood that the\nMississippi lady of a house who gets one of the trained students from\nTougaloo has \"a perfect treasure.\"\n\nTHE STUDY OF HOUSEKEEPING.\n\nOne of the latest additions to the system of industrial training\nfor girls at the university is a novelty. A cottage has been set\napart--four girls are assigned to it for a month at a time. There they\n\"keep house\" in all details. They not only sweep and clean and cook,\nbut they buy their supplies, keep account of all household expenses,\nand manage as they will have to do when they get homes of their own.\nA matron looks closely after the cottage feature, which is intended\nto teach neatness and economy and to develop executive ability.\n\nWith Tougaloo doing such a work as this, how could the white\nMississippians feel otherwise than kindly toward her. The cry has been\nthat \"education ruins the nigger.\" It has been asserted over and\nover--so many times that most Southerners believe it as true as\ngospel--that higher education makes a negro too proud to work. But\nhere is an education the very central idea of which is work--work with\nthe hands and the eyes. Here is a university which gives to the State\nskilled mechanics vastly superior to those who \"pick up\" their trades;\nfarmers who can make two bolls of cotton grow where one grew before;\nstockraisers who know all the fine points of the various breeds.\nGovernor Lowry could well say in his last message to the Mississippi\nLegislature:\n\n\"This university, by its successful management, commends itself to\nyour favorable consideration.\"\n\nAt the closing exercises of the year yesterday, Tougaloo took another\nstep forward. Instead of turning out a class of graduates, the\nmanagement increased the course and raised the standard. An\ninstitution which does that is certainly progressive.\n\nTwo of the notable things on the programme were an essay by Lucy\nJenkins, on \"What Tougaloo Does for the Girls,\" and an oration by\nJames Miller on \"Industrial Education.\" Both of them were well\nconsidered, well written and well delivered. The essayist and the\norator were black, not yellow. Their efforts would have done credit\nto Anglo-Saxons of corresponding age, North or South. As for the\nmusical part of the programme--ah, there was melody indeed.\n\nA negro boy named Scott, with all the features of the African strongly\nmarked, executed a difficult solo with an artistic appreciation which\nwould have brought enthusiastic plaudits from an audience of critics.\n\n{pg 210}\nA TRUE FRIEND OF THE RACE.\n\nAnd then the Rev. Dr. William Hayne Leavell, of Meridian, arose to\ndeliver the annual address. What a contrast! Dr. Leavell is a South\nCarolinian by birth and a relative of the great Nullifier Hayne. He\ncomes of one of the proud old Southern families and has the highest\nsocial connections. He stands six feet high, a magnificent specimen of\nphysical manhood, and as chock full of moral courage as he is of blue\nblood. This man left his home, declined an invitation to participate\nin the Confederate corner-stone ceremonies, and devoted his birthday\nanniversary to Tougaloo. Dr. Leavell is a son-in-law of United States\nSenator George, of Mississippi. He is the man who delivered an address\nbefore the Mississippi Legislature last winter, and denounced as\ncowards, men who go about with pistols in their hip pockets. And when\nthe blank looks of amazement went round he rubbed his sentiments in on\nthe Mississippians and their folly, of making themselves walking\nshooting galleries. Coming before the students of Tougaloo yesterday,\nDr. Leavell said:\n\n\"My interest in you, in this whole work, grows out of a memory. Your\nfathers were the servants of my fathers. I remember that in 1861, when\nI was a very small boy, the sound of war went through this land. My\nfather, kinsmen and friends went forth to battle to keep your fathers\nin servitude. I remember that not a few of your fathers knew what that\nwar meant--that if my fathers succeeded, your fathers would be kept in\nservitude forever and my fathers would remain the master class. All\nthe men that could protect the women and children were away. The\nfathers and brothers and friends were away fighting. We were in the\npower of your fathers and of some of you gray-headed people that I\nsee. I remember that when they returned from that war your fathers\ngave back to mine the women and children without a hair of their heads\nhaving been harmed. I have remembered this with deep gratitude; and\never since that time I have felt a deep interest in you. It is\ntherefore, that I have come in response to the call to be here\nto-day.\"\n\nTHE ONLY LOGICAL RESULT.\n\nHe proceeded at considerable length with such earnest advice as he\nmight have given to the assembled students of a white university on\ncommencement day. After a time he touched upon the special condition\nwhich his audience presented.\n\n\"I know,\" said he, \"of no people who have ever lived with a more\ndifficult problem before them. You have before you the duty of saving\nyourselves. Mark what I tell you, no man of another race ever saved a\npeople. Some man of you, or of your race, has got to go with the\npillar of fire by night and the cloud by day, and, like Moses, lead\nyou.\n\n\"God knows many a man of my race has given his life and service for\n{pg 211} yours. And not only these men who fought at the end of a gun\nto make you free have given their lives for you, but some of us from\nthe South, who stood with breasts bared to the bayonets of those who\nwere marching forward to the support of a great principle. We are\nanxious now to do all we can for your advancement. But we of the white\nrace may do our best. After all we have done for you, it is as when\na man goes with a friend to the brink of the grave; he can go no\nfurther. There is a limit beyond which we cannot go for you, no matter\nhow great our interest in you. Some man with a skin darker than mine\nmust take up the work and carry it on.\"\n\nHe said not a word about politics, but later in the day the question\nwas put to him privately:\n\n\"Doctor, suppose these negroes to whom you talked awhile ago become\nwhat you urged them to be--useful, reliant, well-to-do citizens--what\nwill be their status politically? Will the white people, with all this\nprogress of the negro in education, in industry, in independence and\nin the acquisition of property, acknowledge his political rights?\"\n\n\"They'll have to, sir,\" was the prompt and emphatic reply. \"This\npresent condition of affairs can't go on. We know that. As the negro\nbecomes qualified we've got to admit him to full citizenship.\"\n\nW.B.S.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWHICH WILL BE THE UNDER DOG IN THE FIGHT?\n\nAs a member of a Boston Raymond Excursion in January last, I spent\nthree or four days in New Orleans. The President and a Trustee of\nStraight University visited our _side-tracked train_, and invited us\nto call at the University. Quite a number accepted the invitation, and\nin addition to being shown through the buildings, we were entertained\nby the students, under the supervision of the President and\nProfessors, with hymns, songs and plantation music, with explanation\nby the President of the course of studies and progress of the\nstudents. At the close of the reception, it fell to my lot to\nacknowledge the civility shown us, which I did in the following words:\n\nIn behalf of visitors from the Raymond Excursion, it gives me great\npleasure to express to the officers and students of Straight\nUniversity our thanks for the interesting reception we have received\nat their hands. We have come from a long way off, for sight-seeing,\nand the study of the country, but here we find something more than the\nwild mountains, and desolate plains, and border towns, that are to\nmake up so much of the interest of our journey. Through institutions\nlike this, a problem suggested to me in one of your streets will find\nsolution. I visited the Republican State Convention in session, to\nsee ex-Governor Kellogg, whom I had known in his boyhood among the\nGreen Mountains, and who was one of {pg 212} the officers of the\nconvention. While there I listened to several speeches from colored\nmen, which, for clearness of thought and pathos of oratory, would have\ndone credit to any public speaker in the country. I have since\nlearned, with great pleasure, that several of these gentlemen were\ngraduates of this University. On leaving the convention, when scarcely\na block away, I met a well-dressed gentleman, and naturally fell into\nconversation about the convention. The gentleman claimed to have\ninherited the blood of Boston, but had lived twenty years in New\nOrleans. With respect to the convention, he said: \"I tell you, sir,\nthe white people here will never consent to be governed by a lot of\nignorant Negroes, like those in that convention!\" I have thought on\nthis statement, and coming here, I find its solution. Knowledge is\npower, whether its possessor be white or black, and unless the white\npeople of the South make the education of their children more of a\nparamount interest than heretofore, they will find the learning and\nmuscle, the precedents of wealth, combined in the colored race. The\nrural population will find that they need for themselves and their\nchildren a better knowledge than can be acquired from the court-house,\nsaloon, or the village tavern.\n\nIt is an interesting thought, that these students will go from this\ninstitution back to their low-down homes on the borders of rice fields\nand cotton plantations, where their fathers and mothers have toiled in\nslavery, and by an inspiration that is divine, will dissipate the dark\nmemories of the past, and will show, by precept and example, that\nsanctification of spirit and purity of life will shape the destiny of\ntheir race for coming time. Again we thank you for this interview.\n\nJOHN M. STEARNS\n\n            *     *     *     *     *\n\nVALUED APPRECIATION.\n\n    B.M. Zettler, Esq., who for many years has been in charge of\n    the public schools of Macon, Ga., and who has, therefore,\n    eminent qualifications for pronouncing judgment in regard to\n    schools and school work, has written the following in\n    reference to the Lewis Normal Institute of Macon. We are\n    always glad to welcome the inspection of our schools by our\n    Southern friends, and are specially gratified with their\n    approval of our work.\n\nHaving had this year for the first time since Lewis School was placed\nunder your charge, an opportunity to see the institution \"from the\ninside,\" I desire to place in your hands a brief statement of my\nimpressions concerning the school and its work. And while I do this\n(without solicitation) for the encouragement of yourself and\nassociates, I have no objection to the use of the statement in any way\nthat you may see fit. I confess I was not prepared to see so many\npractical, common-sense features in the school. I refer especially to\nthe well conducted industrial departments, and the prominence given to\nmoral training.\n\n{pg 213}\nThe teachers impressed me as being not only qualified, zealous and\nskillful, but as possessing a genuine interest in their work that is\nas inspiring as it is beautiful and becoming. The results of their\nlabors as I witnessed them in the closing exercises were such as\nalways follow where skill, good judgment and zeal are brought to bear.\n\nI am satisfied that you, and the noble ladies associated with you, are\ndoing a good work among our colored people, and that, too, in a way\nthat leaves no room with fair-minded men for adverse criticism in any\ndirection. In leaving our city for the summer vacation, you take with\nyou my earnest wish that you may have a season of genuine rest and\nrecuperation and that a kind Providence may return you to us in the\nfall, to continue your \"labor of love\" in Macon.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n    Our missions in San Francisco observed their thirteenth\n    (public) anniversary on Sunday evening, May 30th, at Bethany\n    Church. The audience--partly American, partly Chinese--crowded\n    not the pews only, but most of the aisles. The service was\n    impressive and deeply interesting. Lack of space forbids my\n    attempting to describe it in detail, but I forward for the\n    readers of the MISSIONARY the following address, delivered by\n    Fung Jung, who has recently entered upon work as a missionary\n    helper.\n\n    WM. C. POND.\n\nSCHOOL LIFE IN CHINA.\n\nI suppose you would like to hear about the school life of the children\nin China. The girls are never sent to school, as the Chinese do not\nthink it is necessary for girls to be educated. Nearly every boy is\nsent to school at about the same age as your American boys, six or\nseven. From this time the boy's playing days are over. If the teacher\nsees or hears that any one has been playing after the school hour, he\nwould be severely punished. What would your American boys think of\nsuch treatment?\n\nSchool begins at the first dawning of light, and closes when we can\nsee to read no more. No intermission is allowed, excepting for the\npupils to go home to get their meals. The first thing in the morning\nwe begin to study the book of Confucius, all the pupils studying\naloud. We shall have to recite to the teacher very soon. When we go up\nto recite, we must hand the book to the teacher and turn our faces\nfrom him. This gives no chance to see which word comes next. This is\ncalled backing the book. The consequences will be very sad should we\nfail in reciting our lessons. A new lesson is then assigned if we\nrecite well. School dismisses for the pupils to go home for breakfast\nat 9 o'clock. The writing lesson begins as soon as we come back. We\nstudy again, and write again, {pg 214} and our copy books are\nexamined by the teacher. The nest time we recite, the teacher picks\nout ten of the hardest characters from our lesson to see if we\nrecognize them. We shall have much trouble this time if we miss. The\nteacher will inflict some curious punishment upon us and will say,\n\"You know this very well, I suppose, but the trouble is, you are too\nold to study your lesson, and I am afraid you cannot see; I will give\nyou a pair of spectacles for a present. Perhaps that may help you to\nsee.\" Then he takes some red ink and draws a large circle around both\neyes, and then we may go home for lunch. No one is allowed to clean it\ntill coming back to school. Hardly any one with such marks wishes to\ngo home for lunch; every one who saw you would know you had been in\ndisgrace.\n\nWe come back for our afternoon's work. The first part we spend in\nwriting, and the remainder of the day preparing our lesson for the\nnext morning. For the slightest offense the children are whipped\nseverely. The teachers are so strict, that it is no wonder the\nchildren run away from school; some go fishing, or else to the woods\nhunting birds' nests. If the boys see anybody not belonging to their\ncompany they will climb up a tree as high as the branch can hide them\nfrom view. All you boys will know the reason we are afraid any one\nshould see us. I remember running away from school once, but\nunfortunately my father sent my sister to the school for me to go home\non business. As she could not find me, my father knew I had not been\nto school that day. I went home for lunch about the time school\ndismissed. When I got home, the first question my father asked was,\n\"School dismissed?\" I answered, \"Yes sir.\" He then said, \"How did you\nget along with your lesson?\" I answered, \"First class.\" \"And who was\nthe first one in the class to-day?\" I answered, \"I am, sir.\" Then I\nnoticed his voice seemed to have an angry tone, and he said, \"Are you\nsure you have been to school?\" I answered, \"Of course I did, do you\nthink I am a liar?\" I got terribly whipped this time, and when I went\nto school in the afternoon, I also got a whipping from the teacher. I\ndid not have any more chance for running away from school this year,\nfor I was too closely watched. The children of China, you see, have no\npleasant time as you American boys and girls.\n\nThe high schools are quite different from the primary. The students\nhave to lodge and board in the school-house. We get up in the morning\nbefore daybreak to study; the teacher and all the students go to the\nexplanation hall for our lesson. The teacher explains the meaning of\nthe lesson, and in the afternoon we are expected to recite and give\nthe explanation as given by the teacher. This is the hardest work of\nthe whole day. Our evening lesson is studying essays and poems by\nChinese Princes. About eleven o'clock school closes, and in a very few\nminutes I am sure you will find no one awake. In winter time we manage\nto get about six hours for sleep, but in summer only about four. We\ngenerally {pg 215} sleep a little while at the noon recess. It would\nnot be surprising if when the teacher could not see us, we try to take\na little nap in our seat. Each boy has a table to himself. None of the\nscholars sit erect as your American custom. Every boy leans his head\nupon his hands, so that he can manage to take a little sleep when the\nteacher is not looking.\n\nWe are allowed two meals a day only, and students cannot tell the cook\nto prepare any private lunch. We can have as much tea as we wish. The\nonly way we can get anything extra is to try and get the cook to buy\nit secretly, then it is very hard to get a chance to eat it without\nthe teacher seeing. I remember once my teacher made a visit to his\nfriends; usually he came back in about half an hour. When he was gone,\nI thought I could make a little lunch, and eat it before he came back.\nHe came sooner than I expected. When I saw him coming back, I ran to\nmy seat as fast as I could and left the lunch in the kitchen. When the\nteacher found out he told the cook to dish it up and he ate it. When\nhe finished, he came to us with a smile on his face and said, \"Whose\ncooking is this? If he tell me I will give him back the money.\" When I\nheard that, I thought it was true, and I never thought the teacher of\nthe high school would tell stories and deceive me. So I said, \"It is\nmine.\" After I said that, he walked slowly back to his seat. I thought\nhe was going to give me back the money. I did wonder he did not ask me\nhow much it cost. So I watched him and saw him take up the bundle of\nrattans. I guessed what was coming, and I guess I need not tell you\nthe result. The children of Christian lands have much to be thankful\nfor. I earnestly hope that soon the children of China will enjoy _all_\nthe privileges which the Gospel brings.\n\n       *     *     *     *     *\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\nMISS D.K. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\nWOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.\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\nCONN.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171\nCapitol Ave., Hartford, Conn.\n\nN.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.C. Creegan,\nSyracuse, N.Y.\n\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\nILL.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151\nWashington St., Chicago, Ill.\n\nMICH.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren,\nLansing, Mich.\n\nWIS.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead,\nWis.\n\nMINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. H.L. Chase, 2,750\nSecond Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn.\n\nIOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh,\nGrinnell, Iowa.\n\nKANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. Addison\nBlanchard, Topeka, Kan.\n\nSOUTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.E. Young,\nSioux Falls, Dak.\n\n{pg 216}\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWOMAN'S TEMPERANCE WORK IN THE SOUTH.\n\nWe regret that the color-line is rigidly drawn in some parts of the\nSouth, at least, in the woman's work for temperance. Too much praise\ncannot be given to the white women in the South for their zeal in this\ngood cause. The day will probably come when they will extend the hand\nof fellowship to their equally earnest sisters of the less favored\nrace, but at present they do not recognize them as fellow-workers in\nthe same societies. Some of the extracts given below tell this\nunpleasant story. All of them, however, show that the colored women,\nundeterred by this ostracism, are throwing themselves with zeal and\nsuccess into this good work.\n\nSTORRS SCHOOL, ATLANTA, GA.\n\nWe have a W.C.T.U., also a Band of Hope. Our Union has increased very\nmuch in interest, as well as in numbers, during the year. The Band of\nHope meets every Wednesday. It has a membership of _one hundred and\ntwenty-five_, and an average attendance of seventy-five or eighty.\nOccasionally one or two ladies from the white W.C.T.U. will visit\nours, but our Union is not recognized by the State Union. At one time\na lady, acting then as President of our Union, went to the white\nUnion, but she was so light that no one could know to what race she\nbelonged, unless they knew her personally. There were no questions\nasked, and I don't suppose any one thought of her being _colored_.\nOur colored members would _not_ be admitted. Our teachers _would_\nbe, _going by themselves_.\n\nTALLADEGA, ALA.\n\nWe have a W.C.T.U., also a Loyal Temperance Legion. Our Union is\nauxiliary to the Second W.C.T.U. of the State, and we are not\nrecognized by the First, or distinctively white organization. Colored\nmembers would not be admitted. Indeed I understand that the First\nUnion has withdrawn from the National, because colored delegates were\nreceived on the same basis as white.\n\nLOUISVILLE, KY.\n\nI endeavored when I first came to L----, to arouse an interest in\ntemperance work among the people. I visited members of the white\nW.C.T.U. They assured me of their interest, and a Y.W.C.T.U. No. 2\nwas organized among the colored women. They were not anxious to be\nassociated with the whites, but when the whites insisted that the name\ngiven them should be changed to _Colored_ Y.W.C.T.U., the colored\nwomen refused, and the Union disbanded, since which time it has been\nimpossible to arouse among them an interest in organized temperance\nwork, much as it is needed. Colored women would not be admitted as\nmembers of a white Union.\n\n{pg 217}\nWILMINGTON, N.C.\n\nWe have a Temperance Society of about eighty members, and a Band of\nHope of one hundred and sixty members, no W.C.T.U., and if there were,\nit could not have any co-operation with the white societies. Colored\nmembers would not be admitted to white societies.\n\nLETTER FROM A TEACHER IN ATLANTA.\n\nWhen, last November, Atlanta voted to bring the deadly saloon back to\nour quiet streets, she brought also startling revelations of woman's\npower. We are accustomed to the refrain of \"woman's sceptre,\" &c.,\nwith all its dulcet variations, but the wild threats of deluded wives\nif their sons or husbands voted for prohibition was a hitherto unheard\nof \"wail from the inferno.\" Many an earnest Atlanta woman dates her\nre-consecration to the temperance cause from that awful Saturday night\nwhen her frenzied sisters in the public streets joined in the\nBacchanalian revelries over the return of their cruel foe. Woman's\nChristian Temperance Unions at once sprang up in various parts of the\ncity. So much has been done by colored women here, I feel that other\nA.M.A. centres may be encouraged by an account of it.\n\nThe Woman's Christian Temperance Union of East Atlanta, formed in\n1885, is an inspiring gathering to visit, with a membership over\nfifty, and the programme of weekly meetings full and interesting.\nThere are three female physicians in the city who cheerfully address\nthe Union when desired. The pastor of the First Congregational Church,\nonce a month, gives up the mid-week prayer meeting entirely into the\nhands of this Union. Last week at the close of one of these meetings,\na young man told his sister it was the best prayer meeting he ever\nattended in his life. The Temperance Catechism has been thoroughly\ntaught and illustrated. Committees of women are appointed to visit\nhomes and solicit members or attendance on the Union. At the close of\nthe meetings the women have access to a box of leaflets on social\npurity, training of children, &c., which they read and return.\n\nAtlanta University has a Y.W.C.T.U., composed of over seventy girls in\nthe Higher Normal department. I wish our Northern friends could look\ninto their intelligent faces and watch their eager interest in this\nwork. A committee for visiting the poor reports every week; the press\nsuperintendent reports her work, and if there is time reads what she\nsent to the papers; the social purity superintendent gives a little\ntalk or has something read on the subject; and the most cheering thing\nof all is the report from our literature superintendents, who often\nreport as many as thirty books or leaflets read during the week from\nour little circulating library. This library cost about five dollars.\n\nEvery officer in all these four Unions is a Negro except one. They\npreside with such intelligence, grace and dignity, that our Southern\nwhite {pg 218} ladies who sometimes visit them are enthusiastic in\ntheir praise. The Unions plan for a mass meeting every three months in\nsome large church.\n\nIts forty departments of organized work give each a place where she\ncan do her best, and its opportunities for visiting the lowly are\nexcellent. To give our money is generous, but to give ourselves is\nChristly. House-to-house visitation and personal contact of the\nignorant and unfortunate with those who are only a _little_ wiser and\nbetter, even, is a mighty elevator. A W.C.T.U. visiting committee with\nshort terms of office, and so including a large number of women during\nthe year, can, in an _official_ capacity, call on a poor or wayward\nsister without antagonizing her or wounding her self-respect.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nOUR YOUNG FOLKS.\n\nCHILDREN'S DAY AT TALLADEGA.\n\nMRS. H.S. DEFOREST.\n\nA glorious sun ushered in the 29th of April, when for the first time\nChildren's Day was observed by the College Church. Deft fingers had\nadorned the white walls, the chandeliers and the rostrum, with living\ngreen, and from pulpit and organ glowed and burned the roses which\nblossomed in rare profusion for this happy day. Early, from every\nquarter, flocked the children, many with faces \"black, but comely,\"\nand all in attire neat and clean. Seats reserved for their use were\nspeedily filled, and as their voices rose in songs of praise, canary\nand mocking bird from swinging cages swelled the glad sound. An\nascription of praise to God by the choir opened the exercises, the\npastor following with appropriate Scripture and prayer, and a word as\nto the object of the decorations and special service--not for a picnic\nor celebration, but that the children might ever remember this day\nwith solemn and peculiar interest as their very own.\n\nAfter the chanting by the choir, soft and slow, of \"Suffer the little\nchildren to come unto me,\" twenty children were presented by their\nparents for baptism, two of the youngest belonging to officers of\nthe College. Parents brought two, and even three, little ones, that\nthe man of God might place upon their foreheads the seal of their\nconsecration, and in solemn and tender words they were reminded of the\nmeaning and obligation of the rite.\n\nA second exercise of unusual interest was the presentation of a Bible\nto each of the baptized children of the church between the ages of\nseven and twelve. To sixteen children, the day was thus made\nmemorable, the giving being prefaced with fitting remarks, and the\nhope being expressed that during the year the new Bible might be read\nentirely through. One recipient on reaching home immediately fell to\nwork, and on being remonstrated with for using his eyes too steadily,\nsaid, \"This is too good a {pg 219} Bible to stop reading.\" Doubtless\nall were appreciated in like manner, and will be sacredly treasured.\n\nShort and pertinent addresses, suitable to childhood, were made by\nchosen speakers, hymns familiar and appropriate were sung, and the\nbenediction, pronounced by a Baptist brother, closed a service unique\nand unusual.\n\nA grandmother to twenty-three children, of whom three were presented\nfor baptism, said to the writer, \"Oh! I am so happy. We never had\nanything like this before, and the children and parents, too, are\n_obleeged_ to remember it.\"\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nRECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1888.\n\n\n                    MAINE, $722.07.\n\nAugusta. Miss Alice Means S.S. Class,\n  for Student Aid, Talladega C.               3.55\n\nBangor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.             25.00\n\nBangor. Miss Wyman's S.S. Class, for\n  Oahe Indian Sch.                            5.00\n\nBangor. Mary F. Duren and others, for\n  Rosebud Indian M.                           0.60\n\nBath. Winter St. Cong. Ch., 157.75; Central\n  Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30                    187.75\n\nCalais. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   45.00\n\nFoxcroft. Mrs. D. Blanchard                   1.00\n\nHarpswell. Cong Ch., 18; Sab. Sch. of\n  Cong. Ch., for Indian M., 4                22.00\n\nPortland. King's Daughters, by Miss\n  Moniton, Sec., Box of Basted Work and\n  1 doz. thimbles, for Selma, Ala.\n\nSouth Berwick. Mrs. K.B. Lewis, 3.50;\n  \"A Lady in Neb.\" by John H. Plumer, 2       5.50\n\nUnion. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     7.00\n\nWinslow. S.S. of Cong. Ch.                   10.00\n\nYarmouth. A.H. Burbank, M.D.                 50.00\n\nYork. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.               6.00\n\n                                          --------\n                                            368.40\n\nLEGACY.\n\nBethel. Estate of Sarah J. Chapman, by\n  A.W. Valentine, Ex.                       353.67\n\n                                          --------\n                                           $722.07\n\n\n                    NEW HAMPSHIRE, $488.29.\n\nAmherst. Cong. Ch.                           37.15\n\nClaremont. Cong. Ch.                         10.50\n\nConcord. West Cong, Ch., 20: J.W.\n  Chandler, 1                                21.00\n\nDerry. Nutfield Mission, by Edna A.\n  Clarke, Treas., for Schp., Santee Indian\n  M.                                         50.00\n\nDunbarton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for\n  Student Aid, Wilmington. N.C.              10.00\n\nEast Derry. Mrs. M.G. Pigeon, to const.\n  MISS ABBIE M. CHOATE L.M.                  31.00\n\nExeter. Second Ch., 125; \"A Friend.\" 5      130.00\n\nExeter. \"A Friend,\" for Talladega C.          5.00\n\nHollis. Cong. Ch.                            16.25\n\nJaffrey. Children's Soc. \"The Lillies,\" for\n  Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.                   9.00\n\nKeene. Second Cong. Ch., 26.60; \"M.E.S.\" 10  36.60\n\nLittleton. \"The Hillside Gleaners,\" by Mrs.\n  Mrs. S.E. Clay, for Oahe Indian Sch.       40.00\n\nMount Vernon. J.A. Starrett                   5.00\n\nNashua. Ladles of Pilgrim Ch., Bbl. and\n  Box of C., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.\n\nNorthwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                14.00\n\nRindge. Cong. Ch.                             4.50\n\nWilton. Second Cong. Ch.                     15.50\n\nWinchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.               52.79\n\n\n                    VERMONT, $428.80.\n\nAlburg Springs. Cong. Ch. and Soc.            4.00\n\nBarton Landing. Children's Miss'y Soc.,\n  for Indian M., by Kate B. Joslyn, Treas.   12.00\n\nBellows Falls, Cong. Ch. and Soc., to\n  const. CHANCEY ADAMS, CHARLES SAWYER\n  and EDWARD G. OSGOOD L.M's                 90.48\n\nBellows Falls. Mrs. J.M. Dawes, Box\n  BOOKS, for Lathrop Library, Sherwood,\n  Tenn.\n\nBurlington. Ladies of College St. Ch., by\n  Mrs. G.G. Benedict, 8.60; Y.P.S.C.E. of\n  First Cong. Ch., 1.84, for McIntosh, Ga.   10.44\n\nClarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 5.00\n\nCornwall. Cong. Ch.                          56.64\n\nCoventry. Ladles of Cong. Ch., for McIntosh,\n  Ga.                                        15.00\n\nFairlee. \"A Friend\"                           5.00\n\nFairlee. Ladles, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks,\n  for McIntosh, Ga.                           5.00\n\nJericho. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.           11.74\n\nNorthfield. Mrs. Mary D. Smith                4.50\n\nPutney. \"A few members Cong. Ch.\" by\n  Mrs. A.C. Shattuck, for McIntosh, Ga.       8.00\n\nSaint Albans. Ladies of Cong. Ch., by\n  Mrs. M.A. Stranahan, for McIntosh, Ga.     20.00\n\nSaint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch.            100.00\n\nSaxtons River. Cong. Ch. and Soc.            20.00\n\nSpringfield. \"Splinters of the Board\"\n  Mission Circle, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks,\n  for McIntosh, Ga.                           5.00\n\nWaitsfield. Ladies, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks,\n  for McIntosh, Ga.                           7.00\n\nWest Randolph. \"A Friend,\" to const.\n  MRS. SIDNEY HOWARD L.M.                    30.00\n\nWeston. Cong. Ch.                             4.00\n\nWilliston. Sab. Sch. Children's Fund, by\n  H.O. Whitney, Treas.                        4.00\n\nWoodstock. Ladies, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks,\n  for McIntosh, Ga.                          11.00\n\n\n{pg 220}\n                    MASSACHUSETTS, $8,282.82.\n\nAmherst. South Cong. Ch.                      6.75\n\nAndover. Joseph W. Smith, 50; \"A\n  Friend,\" 10                                60.00\n\nAndover. Free Christian Ch., (of which\n  10 for Indian M. and 15 for Mountain\n  White Work)                               155.31\n\nAndover. Sab. Sch. of Free Christian Ch.\n  for Williamsburg, Ky.                      25.00\n\nAshfield. Cong. Soc.                         30.55\n\nBelchertown. Mrs. R.W. Walker                 2.00\n\nBoston. Ezra Farnsworth, 500; Miss\n  Ida M. Mason, 250; Miss E.F. Mason,\n  250; A Friend, 200; E.W. Harper,\n  100; Jno. Ritchie, 100; \"H.O.H.\"\n  100; Boston, Nat'l. League, 100; J.\n  Ingersoll Bowditch, 50; Mrs. Edna D.\n  Cheney, 50; \"A Friend,\" 25; \"A\n  Friend,\" 25; Miss Abbey W. May, 25;\n  Wm. C. Richardson, 25; Louis Prang,\n  5, for Atlanta U.              1,805.00\n\n\" Howard A. Bridgeman                7.50\n\n\" \"A Friend\"                         5.00\n\n\" Mrs. E.P. Eayes                    5.00\n\n\" Sab. Sch. Old So. Ch., for\n  Student Aid, Fisk U.              40.00\n\n\" A.S. Covel, for Student\n  Aid, Talladega C.                 25.00\n\n\" James H. Beal, for Hospital,\n  Indian M.                         25.00\n\nCharlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc.  73.23\n\nDorchester. Mrs. E.T.W. Baker, for\n   Hospital Indian M.               75.00\n                                 -------- 2,060.73\n\nBoxford. Earnest Workers for Indian M.       20.00\n\nCambridge. First Ch. and Shepard Soc.       242.25\n\nCambridge. Young Ladies, Mission Circle of\n  No. Av. Cong. Ch., for Schp. Oahe Indian\n  M., By Rosa E. Bennett, Treas.             25.00\n\nCambridge. Prof. J. Henry Thayer, D.D.\n  for Atlanta U.                             25.00\n\nCambridge. M.F. Aiken, for Pleasant Hill,\n  Tenn.                                       5.00\n\nCanton. Hon. Elijah A. Morse, for Atlanta    25.00\n  U.\n\nChelsea. First Cong. Ch., for Atlanta U.     50.00\n\nChelsea. Central Ch.                         17.73\n\nClinton. Cong. Ch.                           55.00\n\nClinton. Mrs. M. Haskell, for Talladega C.   25.00\n\nDedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.            169.05\n\nDedham. Allen Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  for Atlanta U.                             55.64\n\nEast Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch., for\n  Student Aid, Talladega C.                  12.50\n\nEast Weymouth. Mr. Totman, of Cong. Ch.,\n  for Petty, Texas                           20.00\n\nFitchburg. Miss Mattie D. Baldwin's S.S.\n  Class, for Atlanta U.                       5.67\n\nGeorgetown. Memorial Ch.                     44.32\n\nGeorgetown. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  (10 of which for Atlanta U.)               35.00\n\nHanson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   11.98\n\nHaverhill. Dr. John Crowell's S.S. Class,\n  Center Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U.       30.00\n\nHinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 84.40\n\nHolliston. S.S. Class of Young Ladies,\n  Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Talladega C.    5.00\n\nHyde Park. Cong. Ch., for Atlanta U.         50.00\n\nLawrence. Sab. Sch. of Trinity Cong. Ch.,\n  for Mountain White Work                    20.00\n\nLee. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                  75.00\n\nLeominster. Cong. Ch., (100 of which for\n  Indian M.)                                123.35\n\nLowell. High St. Ch. and Soc.               159.92\n\nLunenberg. Evan Cong. Ch.                     8.00\n\nMelrose. Ladies of Cong. Ch., for Talladega,\n  Ala., Freight                               1.37\n\nMillbury. Second Cong. Ch.                   72.93\n\nMillbury. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.,\n  for Indian M.                              50.00\n\nMillbury. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.,\n  for Student Aid, Atlanta U.                25.00\n\nNewburyport. Belleville Cong. Ch., 77;\n  North Ch., and Soc., 39                   116.00\n\nNewton Center. Hon. Robert R. Bishop, 25;\n  Arthur C. Walworth, 10; J. Caldwell, 5;\n  Bertie Morse, brother and sister, 19 ct.,\n  for Atlanta U.                             40.19\n\nNewton Center. Maria P. Furber Miss'y Soc.,\n  for Indian M.                              20.00\n\nNewton Center. Helen Pray, for Indian M.      0.10\n\nNorth Amherst. ----.                         10.00\n\nNorthampton. First Cong. Ch., 317.68;\n  Jared Clark, 20                           337.68\n\nNorthampton. Mary A. Burnham School,\n  for Hospital, Indian M.                   110.00\n\nNorthampton. A.L. Williston, for Pleasant\n  Hill, Tenn.                                21.00\n\nNorth Brookfield. First Cong. Ch., to const.\n  W.H. HOLT, FRANK HARRIS and JENNIE L.\n  DELAND L.M's                              100.00\n\nNorthbridge. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.        21.56\n\nNorth Leominster. Cong. Ch., to const.\n  MRS. FRANK FISKE, L.M.                     35.03\n\nPepperell. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for\n  Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.                  15.00\n\nReading. Cong. Ch.                           18.00\n\nRockland. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for\n  Pleasant Hill, Tenn.                       25.00\n\nSalem. Young Ladies M.C. of Tab. Ch., for\n  Schp., Santee Indian Sch.                  50.00\n\nShelburne Falls. \"American Missionary Aids\"\n  by Mrs. A.N. Russell                       11.91\n\nShrewsbury. Cong. Ch., for Indian M.         26.17\n\nSouth Framingham. So. Cong. Ch., (50 of\n  which for Atlanta. U. and 50 for Mountain\n  White Work, from R.L. Day)                232.63\n\nSouthington, Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., for\n  Rosebud Indian M.                           6.45\n\nSomerville. \"Friend in Day St. Ch.\"           5.00\n\nSouth Weymouth. L.M. Praying Circle of\n  Second Cong. Ch.                           17.35\n\nSpencer. Dr. E.W. Norwood, for Student aid,\n  Atlanta U.                                 10.00\n\nSpencer. Class of Boys, Cong. S.S., for\n  Student Aid, Talladega C.                   3.33\n\nSunderland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.               21.33\n\nWaltham. Ladies of Cong. Ch., for Talladega\n  Ala., Freight                               1.48\n\nWare. \"Friends,\" 75; Sab. Sch. East Cong.\n  Ch., Young Mens' Class, for Schp., 35;\n  Young Ladies' Class, 30, for Indian M.    140.00\n\nWare. East Cong. Ch., for Indian M. add'l.    1.00\n\nWest Acton. Rev. J.W. Brown                   5.00\n\nWest Boylston. Chas. T. White                 5.00\n\nWestfield. Sab. Sch. of Second Ch., for\n  Student Aid, Fisk U.                       66.72\n\nWestford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 17.00\n\nWest Springfield. Ladies Mission Circle of\n  Park St. Ch., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.     20.00\n\nWest Stockbridge. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  for Student Aid, Atlanta U.                 5.00\n\nWilmington. Cong. Ch.                        24.59\n\nWinchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n  (146 of which for Indian M.)              165.55\n\nWinchester. Mrs. B.F. Holbrook, for Pleasant\n  Hill, Tenn.                                 5.00\n\nWorcester. \"A Friend in Piedmont Ch.\"         5.00\n\nWorcester. Philip L. Moen, 100; Albert\n  Curtis, 50; E.G. Partridge, 50; Philip W.\n  Moen, 50; Stephen Salisbury, 25; Geo. L.\n  Newton, 25; \"S.E.J.,\" 25; Hon. P.E.\n  Aldrich, 10; Edw'd Hall, 5; A.G. Bullock,\n  5; H.D. Foster, 2, for Atlanta U.         347.00\n\nWorcester. Mrs, Abby S. Kimball and Other\n  Friends, 35; Mrs. Geo. M. Rice, 35;\n  for Sch'p's Indian M.                      70.00\n\nWorcester. Mrs. Abbey Coes, 50; \"A Member of\n  Union Ch.\" 5; for Rosebud Indian M.        55.00\n\nWorcester. Mr. Green, 2 Pkg's books, for Library,\n  Sherwood, Tenn.\n\nBy Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden\n  Benev. Ass'n:\n    East Granville                   6.00\n    Holyoke. Second                 48.60\n    Monson                          35.56\n    Springfield. First              20.00\n    Springfield. Olivet             36.68\n    Westfield. Second               14.46\n                                    -----   156.30\n                                         ---------\n                                         $6,232.82\n\n                    LEGACIES.\n\nMedfield. Estate of Mrs. Abigail Cummings,\n  (500 of which for Atlanta U.) by\n  Executors                                2000.00\n\nNewton Centre. Estate of Rebecca Parker Ward,\n  by Benj. W. Kingsbury                      50.00\n                                         ---------\n                                         $8,282.82\n\n{pg 221}\n                    CLOTHING, ETC. RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.\n\nBoston, Mass. Miss H.H. Stanwood, 21\n  Valuable Books, for Library, Macon,\n  Ga.\n\nFarmingham, Mass. 1 Bbl. for Kittrell,\n  N.C.\n\nHyde Park. Mass. Woman's H.M. Union of\n  Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls. Val. 150, for\n  Pleasant Hill, Tenn.\n\nLanesville. W.L. Saunders, 1 Box\n\nShrewsbury. Sab. Sch. of Cong Ch., 1\n  Box Books\n\n\n                    RHODE ISLAND, $11.00.\n\nProvidence. Rev. A.F. Keith                  10.00\n\nProvidence. Ed. R. Wheeler, for Talladega C.  1.00\n\n\n                    CONNECTICUT, $4,588.53.\n\nAnsonia. First Cong. Ch.                     36.50\n\nBethel. Young Ladies Mission Circle, for\n  Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.                      50.00\n\nBridgeport, Second Cong. Ch.                 80.50\n\nBridgeport. Young People of Park St. Ch.,\n  for Indian M.                               5.00\n\nBridgeport. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., Box\n  Bedding, etc., for Williamsburg, Ky.\n\nBridgewater. Cong. Ch. and Soc.              11.91\n\nBristol. \"A Friend\"                          75.00\n\nBristol. Ladies Soc., Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,\n  etc., for Thomasville, Ga.\n\nCanterbury. Rev. E.C. Haynes                  5.00\n\nCenter Brook and Ivoryton. Second Cong. Ch.\n  of Say Brook, to const. DEA. GILBERT F.\n  BUCKINGHAM, L.M.                           50.47\n\nColchester. W.C.T.U., Talladega, Ala.,\n  freight                                     1.38\n\nDarien. Ladies Soc., by Miss Ellen M. Nash,\n  for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.                  10.00\n\nEast Granby. \"Ladies\" 3; Mission Band, 2;\n  by Mrs. E.H. Strong, for Conn. Ind'l\n  Sch., Ga.                                   5.00\n\nEast Haven. Cong. Ch.                        12.44\n\nEast Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.           20.00\n\nEnfield. \"Friends in Cong. Ch.,\" 56.88\n  ----, for Hospital, 15, \"Birthday Gifts,\"\n  9.70, for Indian M.                        81.58\n\nEnfield. Albert Abbe, for Student Aid,\n  Straight U.                                 7.00\n\nEssex. \"Friends,\" by C.S. Munger, for\n  Oahe Indian Sch.                            3.00\n\nFairfield. First Cong. Ch.                   36.10\n\nFair Haven. First Cong. Ch.                  42.00\n\nGilead. Cong. Ch.                            40.00\n\nGreenwich. \"A\"                               20.00\n\nGuilford. First Cong. Ch. to const. MISS\n  ETTA L. BULLARD L.M.                       30.00\n\nHampton. Henry G. Taintor, 5; Mrs. Henry\n  G. Taintor, 5; ---- 5                      15.00\n\nHartford. Mrs. Henry Perkins, for Boys'\n  Hall, Santee Indian M.                   1000.00\n\nHartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., 100; \"A\n  Friend,\" 100; Theodore Lyman, 50; Miss\n  Charlotte Jewell, 25; Atwood Collins, 25;\n  Rev. W.H. Moore, 20; Geo. W. Moore, 20;\n  Jona B. Bruce, 20; J.S. Wells, 10; Mrs.\n  Pliny Jewell, Sr., 10; Dea. B.E. Hooker,\n  10; G.M. Welch, 10; Chas. B. Whiting, 10;\n  D.W.C. Pond, 5; Mrs. Chas. F. Howard, 5;\n  Abel S. Clark, 5; Chas. E. Thompson, 5,\n  for Atlanta U.                            430.00\n\nHartford. Students Theo. Sem., for Indian\n   M.                                        35.00\n\nHebron. First Cong. Ch.                       9.38\n\nHigganum. Mrs. Susan Gladwin, for Indian M.   5.00\n\nKensington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 5, bal.\n  to const. MRS. IDA R. BENEDICT L.M.; Mrs.\n  M. Hotchkiss, 5                            10.00\n\nMiddletown. \"A.B.C.\"                          5.00\n\nMiddletown. Miss Susan C. Clarke, for\n  Atlanta U.                                 30.00\n\nMilton. Friends in Cong. Ch., by Mrs. G.\n Page, for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.              3.00\n\nNew Britain. Mrs. Louisa Nichols, (30 of\n  which to const. CHARLES JEWETT, L.M.) 50;\n  James W. Cooper, 10; D.N. Camp, 5; F.G.\n  Platt, 5; B.N. Comings, 5; Arthur Blake, 2;\n  John Wyard, 2; for Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand\n  View, Tenn.                                79.00\n\nNew Britain. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for\n  Tougaloo U.                                75.00\n\nNew Britain. L.B. Soc. of So. Cong. Ch.,\n  Bbl. of C., Miss M. Stanley, 1.37, for\n  Williamsburg, Ky.                           1.37\n\nNew Haven. United Cong. Ch., 211.11; E.\n  Woolsey, 5                                216.11\n\nNew Haven. Young Ladies M. Circle of Center\n  Ch., 75; Mrs. Julia Dickerman; 25; Alfred\n  Walker, 10; for Hospital Indian M.        110.00\n\nNew Haven. F.H. Hart, for Student Aid,\n  Talladega C.                               50.00\n\nNew Haven. S.J.M. Merwin, 20; \"E.H.B.\" 6;\n  John G. North, 5; W.A. Ives, 5; T.T.\n  Munger, 2; R.P. Cowles, 2; D.W. Shares, 2;\n  \"Cash\", 1; Rufus S. Picket, 1, for Jewett\n  Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn.               44.00\n\nNew Haven. Dwight Place Ch. Benev. Soc.\n  Bbl. of C., for Macon, Ga.\n\nNew London. Mrs. Martha S. Harris, for\n  Indian M.                                  20.00\n\nNew London. \"Friends\" Bbl. Table Linen, etc.,\n  for Talladega C.\n\nNew London. Henry R. Bond, 5; \"Cash,\" 5, for\n  Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn.        10.00\n\nNew Milford. Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Turrill       10.00\n\nNepaug. Cong. Ch.                             6.64\n\nNewington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Student\n  Aid, Atlanta U.                           103.08\n\nNorth Cornwall. Cong. Ch.                    47.35\n\nNorth Coventry. Cong. Ch.                    35.16\n\nNorfolk. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., for Indian M.  20.00\n\nNorwich. \"Cash,\" 13; W.H. Shields, 5; J.P.\n  Barstow, 5; Miss E.S. Gilman, 5; N.L.\n  Bishop, 3; W.S. Hempstead, 2; for Jewett\n  Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn.               33.00\n\nNorwich. \"A Friend,\" for Atlanta U.           5.00\n\nNorwich Town. Mrs. S.N. Yarrington, for\n  Indian M.                                   1.00\n\nPlainville. Cong. Ch.                        96.51\n\nPreston. Long. Soc., for Thomasville, Ga.     5.00\n\nRockville. First Cong. Ch.                  100.00\n\nRoxbury. Mrs. S.J. Beardsley, Pkg. Patchwork,\n  for Sherwood, Tenn.\n\nSharon. Birthday Box of Cong. Ch., for\n  Atlanta U.                                 12.08\n\nSherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  15.00\n\nSouth Manchester. Cheney Bros., for Atlanta\n  U.                                        300.00\n\nSouthport. Ladies' Soc. by Miss M.G. Petry,\n  for Conn. Ind'l Sch. Ga.                   20.00\n\nStafford Springs. Sab. Sch., of Cong. Ch.,\n  for Student Aid, Fisk U.                   25.00\n\nStonington. Mrs. Robert Eldred's S.S.\n  Class, 6.60; Mrs. Dr. Hyde, 2, \"Cash\" 1,\n  for Talladega C.                            9.60\n\nSuffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 22.73\n\nThomaston. Cong. Ch.                         12.35\n\nThompson. Cong. Ch.                          25.80\n\nUnionville. First Church of Christ           25.51\n\nWashington. Cong. Ch. for Mountain White\n  Work                                       38.21\n\nWashington Depot. \"S\"                        10.00\n\nWestville. Cong. Ch.                         19.00\n\nWindsor Locks. Cong. Ch.                     87.77\n\n----. \"Poor Widow in Conn.\"                   2.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Conn.,\n  by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec.:\n     Bridgeport. L.M. Soc. of North\n       Ch. for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga. 75.00\n     Fairfield. L.M. Soc. of First\n      Ch., for Indian M.             45.00\n     Griswold. Ladies M. Soc.,\n      for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.      10.00\n     Hartford. W.C.H.M.U., in memory\n      of Mrs. Charles Ray Palmer,    10.00\n                                    ------  130.00\n                                          --------\n                                         $3,988.53\n\n{pg 222}\n                    LEGACIES.\n\nNew London. \"Trust Estate of Henry P.\n  Haven\"                                    300.00\n\nRocky Hill. Estate Of Rev. Asa B. Smith,\n  by Rev. Elijah Harmon, Ex.                300.00\n                                          --------\n                                         $4,588.53\n\n\n                    NEW YORK, $6,978.25.\n\nAlbany. B.W. Johnson, Christmas Cards,\n  for Savannah, Ga.\n\nBrooklyn. Central Cong. Soc                1027.26\n\nBrooklyn, Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch.,\n  for Indian M.                              37.50\n\nBrooklyn. Thomas Stone, for Talladega C.     20.00\n\nBuffalo. Mrs. Sterling Ely, Box of C.\nEast Rockaway. Cong. Ch.                      8.00\n\nFairport. S.E. Dowd, Papers, etc., for\n  Savannah, Ga.\n\nFredonia. Martha L. Stevens                   5.00\n\nFranklin. Cong. Ch., 25; S.G. Smith, 5       30.00\n\nHavana. W.C.T.U., Box Books, etc., for\n  Avery Inst.\n\nHomer. B.W. Payne                            10.00\n\nLima. Miss Clara M. Janes                     1.00\n\nLisle. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 2 Pkgs\n  S.S. Papers, for Savannah, Ga.\n\nMount Carmel. W.C.T.U., 2 Bbls.\n  Books etc., for Avery Inst.\n\nNew York. S.T. Gordon                       100.00\n\nNew York. H.C. Hulbert, 25; John Gibb, 25;\n  S.B. Close, 3, for Talladega C.            53.00\n\nNew York. Sab. Sch. of Pilgrim Ch., for\n  Atlanta U.                                 10.00\n\nNorthville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.           12.00\n\nNorwich. Primary Dep't Sab. Sch. First\n  Ch., 2 doz. H'dkfs, for Savannah, Ga.\n\nOxford. E.L. ENRIGRO, M.D., 30; to const.\n  himself L.M.; Cong. Ch., 15                45.00\n\nPort Richmond. S. Squires                     5.00\n\nRochester. Plymouth Ch.                      52.63\n\nRochester. \"Do What You Can\" Mission Band\n  Central Pres. Ch. for Student Aid,\n  Talladega C.                                5.00\n\nSaratoga. Ladies of Cong. Ch., for Student\n  Aid, Talladega C.                          10.00\n\nSherburne. Box of Library Books, by D.W.\n  Teller, for Talladega C.\n\nSweden. Mission Band, Quilt, etc., for\n  Savannah, Ga.\n\nSyracuse. Plym. Cong. Ch.                    35.17\n\nUnion Valley. Wm. C. Angel                   10.00\n\nUtica. DWIGHT E. MARVIN, to const, himself\n  L.M.                                       30.00\n\nWest Bloomfield. Mrs. Sherrell and Friends,\n  for Student Aid, Fisk U.                   10.00\n\nYaphank. Mrs. Hannah M. Overton, for Oahe\n  Indian Sch.                                 5.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by\n  Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., for Woman's Work:\n     Berkshire. Daisy Band          13.67\n     Owego. Ladies' Aux.            21.00\n     Moira. Ladies' Aux.             5.00\n     Woman's H.M.U. of N.Y.        221.02\n     Lockport. W.H.M. Soc.          21.00\n     Aquebogne. W.H.M. Soc.          5.00\n     Canandaigua. W.H.M. Soc.,\n     (70 of which for Schp. Hampton\n     Inst.)                        170.00\n                                   ------   456.69\n                                         ---------\n                                         $1,978.25\n\n                    LEGACY.\n\nNiagara Palls. Estate of William H.\n  Childs, by Wm. F. Evans, Ex.             5000.00\n                                         ---------\n                                         $6,978.25\n\n\n                    NEW JERSEY, $90.35.\n\nCloster. Cong. Ch.                            9.35\n\nMontclair. Cong. Ch., ad'l                    1.00\n\nMontclair. Ladies' Missionary Soc. of\n  First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., for Washington,\n  D.C.\n\nNewark. Miss Bleecher, for Student Aid,\n  Marion, Ala.                               30.00\n\nRoselle. \"A Friend\" for Woman's Work         50.00\n\n\n                    PENNSYLVANIA, $10.00.\n\nPhiladelphia. Central Cong. Ch., ad'l        10.00\n\n\n                    OHIO, $1,362.59.\n\nAtwater. Cong. Ch. and Soc., bal. to const.\n  MISS FRANK BENJAMIN L.M.                   24.35\n\nAtwater. L.H.M.S. of Cong. Ch., for\n  Ponies                                      1.60\n\nAustinburg. Ladies' Soc., by J.C. Miller,\n  for Ponies                                  2.00\n\nBerea. Sab, Sch. First Cong. Ch., Box\n  Books, Etc., for Sherwood, Tenn.\n\nClaridon. Mrs. C.W. Eames, 5.50; Mrs. M.C.\n  Bruce, 2; Miss Olive Bruce, 2;\n  W.B. & A.L. Bruce, 2.50; for Student\n  Aid, Talladega C.                          12.00\n\nClaridon. Ladies' Soc., by Mrs. Mary C.\n  Bruce, for Ponies                           1.00\n\nCincinnati. Rev. W.H. Warren                  2.00\n\nCleveland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.      19.30\n\nCleveland. C.A. Post, for Student Aid,\n  Straight U.                                 5.00\n\nColumbus. First Cong. Ch.                   246.46\n\nColumbus. By Rev. Benj. Talbot, Bound Set\n  of \"New Englander\" from Yale Alumni,\n  for Talladega C.\n\nConneaut. H.E. Pond                           5.00\n\nCuyanoga Falls. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.       23.46\n\nDonnelville. Ella Purssell, for Student\n  Aid, Fisk U.                                5.00\n\nFredericksburg. First Cong. Ch.               6.00\n\nGreenwich. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Anna\n  M. Mead, Sec., for Ponies                   1.00\n\nKellogsville. By Rev. S.R. Dole, for\n  Student Aid, Marion, Ala.                   3.25\n\nMadison. \"From H.B.F.\" for Student\n  Aid, Talladega C.                         200.00\n\nMadison. W.H.M. Soc. of Central Ch.,\n  by Mrs. L.H. Kimball, for Ponies            5.25\n\nMansfield. F.E. Tracy, for Student Aid,\n  Tillotson C. & N. Inst.                     9.00\n\nMedina. W.M.S., by Mrs. O.H. McDowell,\n  Treas., for Ponies                          1.55\n\nNorth Bloomfield. \"Earnest Workers,\" for\n  Student Aid, Storrs Sch., Atlanta           9.00\n\nNew London. Mrs. C.E. Healy's S.S. Class,\n  for Ponies                                  1.00\n\nOberlin. Rev. C.N. Pond                       3.00\n\nOberlin. J.L. Burrell, for Indian M.        500.00\n\nPainesville. Pupils Lake Erie Sem., for\n  Ponies                                     15.00\n\nPierpont, By Rev. S.R. Dole, for Student\n  Aid, Marion, Ala.                           4.50\n\nStuebenville. Ladies' Soc., by Mrs. J.\n  Campbell, for Ponies                         .50\n\nTallmadge. First Cong. Ch.                   35.01\n\nWellington. Edward West                      20.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs.\n  Phebe A. Crafts, Treas., for Woman's Work:\n     Chardon. W.M.S.                 6.00\n     Cincinnati. W.M.S., of\n       Walnut Hills Cong. Ch.       15.00\n     Cleveland. L.H.M.S. of First\n       Ch., for Ponies              10.00\n     Elyria. L.H.M.S. of First Ch.   5.00\n     Hudson. L.H.M.S.                3.33\n     Oberlin. L.A.S. of First Cong.\n       Ch.                          78.20\n     Oberlin. L.S. of Second Cong.\n       Ch., for Ponies              17.30\n     Rootstown. L.H.M.S., for\n       Ponies                        5.55\n                                    ------  140.38\n\n\n{pg 223}\n                    ILLINOIS, $1,059.28.\n\nBuda. J.B. Stewart                          100.00\n\nChillicothe. R.W. Gilliam                    10.00\n\nChicago. E.W. Blatchford, for Atlanta U.    300.00\n\nChicago. Mrs. C.E. Stanley, Pkg. Books;\n  A.C. McClurg & Co., Pkg. Books, for\n  Lathrop Library, Sherwood, Tenn.\n\nEarlville. Cong. Ch.                         25.15\n\nEvanston. J.M. Williams, for Schp. Fund,\n  Fisk U.                                    50.00\n\nGriggsville. Cong. Ch.                       17.96\n\nLa Grange. Cong. Ch.                          8.30\n\nLyndon. Cong. Ch.                            10.00\n\nMcLean. Cong. Ch.                             5.80\n\nPeoria. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., for\n  Sch'p Fund, Fisk U.                        25.50\n\nPlymouth. Mrs. R.C. Burton                    5.00\n\nRantoul. W.M.U. of Cong. Ch.                  5.00\n\nRidge Prairie. Rev. Andrew Kern               2.00\n\nRockford. Second Cong. Ch.                  267.95\n\nShabbona. Cong. Ch.                          42.96\n\nSycamore. Cong. Ch.                          82.24\n\nWheaton. College Cong. Ch.                    5.00\n\nWoman's Home Miss'y Union of Ill., by\n  Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, Treas., for Woman's Work:\n     Galva. For Student Aid,\n       Talladega C.                 29.20\n     Lombard. W.H.M.U.               5.55\n     Rockford. First Ch. W.H.M.U.   11.67\n     Rockford. Second Ch. W.H.M.U.   2.00\n     Stark. W.H.M.U.                 6.00\n     Toulon. W.H.M.U.                5.00\n     Mobile. W.H.M.U.               25.00\n     Oak Park. L.B. Circle          12.00\n                                   ------    96.42\n\n\n                    MICHIGAN, $174.32.\n\nKalamazoo. Ladies' M. Soc., First Cong.\n  Ch., 2 Boxes Bedding, etc., for Talladega C.\n\nManistee. First Cong. Ch.                    21.60\n\nMattawan. First Cong. Ch.                     4.45\n\nSaint Clair. Cong. Ch.                       20.00\n\nVicksburg. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for\n  Student Aid, Athens, Ala.                   7.00\n\nWebster. Cong. Ch.                           11.27\n\nWoman's Home Miss'y Union of Mich., by\n  Mrs. B.F. Grabill, Treas.:\n     Bay City. W.H.M.S.              5.00\n     Reed City. W.H.M.S.             5.00\n                                    -----    10.00\n\n\n                    WISCONSIN, $260.95.\n\nArena. Cong. Ch.                              4.21\n\nBaldwin. Cong. Ch.                            3.00\n\nBeloit. Second Cong. Ch.                     12.75\n\nBlack Earth. Cong. Ch.                        5.00\n\nBrandon. Cong. Ch.                           18.21\n\nElroy. Cong. Ch.                              2.50\n\nLake Geneva. Y.P.M.S. of Cong. Ch., for\n  Student Aid, Fisk U.                       25.00\n\nMadison. First Cong. Ch.                     33.31\n\nRaymond. Cong. Ch.                            5.00\n\nRoberts. Cong. Ch.                            2.75\n\nUnion Grove. Cong. Ch.                       17.00\n\nWaukesha. First Cong. Ch.                    36.00\n\nWaukesha. Chas. W. Camp, for freight          2.50\n\nWoman's Home Miss'y Union of Wis., for\n  Womans Work:\n     Beloit. W.M.S., bal. to const.\n       SARAH A. COFFIN L.M.         19.40\n     Beloit. W.M.S. of Second Cong.\n       Ch.                           7.00\n     Arena. W.M.S.                   1.19\n     Eau Clair. W.H.M.S.             4.25\n     Green Bay. W.H.M.S.            11.00\n     Madison. W.H.M.S.               4.88\n     Milwaukee. W.H.M.S. of\n       Grand Ave. Cong. Ch.         25.00\n     Milwaukee. Plymouth Helping\n       Hands                        10.00\n     Whitewater. L.M.S.              5.00\n     Platteville. L.H.M.S.           6.00\n                                    -----    93.72\n\n\n                    IOWA, $381.00.\n\nAfton. H.W. Perrigo                          10.00\n\nChester Center. Cong. Ch.                     9.61\n\nDavenport. Mrs. M. Willis, Pkg. Patchwork,\n  for Sherwood, Tenn.\n\nDes Moines. Plymouth Ch., Bedding, etc.,\n  for Talladega C.\n\nFarragut. Lucy S. Chapin, Work Bag and\n  6 Hdkf's, for Savannah, Ga.\n\nGrinnell. Cong. Ch., 7.54; Sab. Sch. of\n  Cong. Ch., 70                              77.54\n\nJefferson. Rev. D.B. Eells                    5.00\n\nMason City. Cong. Ch.                         3.18\n\nMarshalltown. Cong. Ch., for Student\n  Aid, Straight U.                           16.81\n\nMonona. Cong. Ch.                             3.04\n\nMuscatine. Cong. Ch.                         54.45\n\nMuscatine. Dr. and Mrs. A.B. Robbins,\n  for Talladega C.                            7.50\n\nOttumwa. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  for Sch'p Fund, Fisk U.                    15.00\n\nTabor. \"A Friend,\" for Woman's Work           5.00\n\n-----. \"Friends,\" for Oahe Indian Sch.       14.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa,\n  for Woman's Work:\n     Alden                           1.70\n     Charles City. Y.P.S.C.E.        5.00\n     Chester Center.                10.00\n     Davenport.                     25.00\n     Dubuque. Y.P.B. Soc.           10.00\n     Des Moines. W.M.S. Plym. Ch.   14.76\n     Eldora. L.M.S.                 12.42\n     Fairfield.                      2.95\n     Grinnell                       11.30\n     Lansing Ridge.                  3.00\n     Le Mars. L.M.S.                 3.15\n     McGregor. W.M.S.                6.30\n     Montour.                        3.00\n     Magnolia.                       2.65\n     Marion. W.M.S.                 25.00\n     Mason City. L.M.S.              3.00\n     Osage. W.M.S.                   2.81\n     Rockford.                        .58\n     Sheldon.                        1.00\n     Tabor. W.H.M.S.                15.00\n     Wells.                          1.25\n                                   ------   159.87\n\n\n                    MINNESOTA, $92.80.\n\nAppleton. Cong. Ch., 4.12 and Sab.\n  Sch., .50                                   4.62\n\nAustin. \"A Friend,\" for Atlanta U.            5.00\n\nFreeborn. Cong. Ch.                           3.00\n\nGlyndon. Union Ch., 8.96 and Sab. Sch. 1      9.96\n\nMinneapolis. Plymouth Ch., 29.80; Pilgrim\n  Cong. Ch., 15                              44.80\n\nMinneapolis. W.M. Bristoll, for Student\n  Aid, Atlanta U.                            20.00\n\nSpring Valley, Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.         3.42\n\nWaseca. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Oahe\n  Indian Sch.                                 2.00\n\n\n                    MISSOURI, $9.35.\n\nSaint Joseph. James A. Canfield               1.00\n\nSt. Louis. Plymouth Ch.                       8.35\n\n\n                    KANSAS, $22.51.\n\nCora. Cong. Ch.                               8.50\n\nMelrose. Mrs. M.E.H. Keyes                    1.00\n\nMeriden. J. Rutty                             9.00\n\nNeosha Falls. S.B. Dyckman                    1.00\n\nPaola. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch.                3.01\n\n\n                    DAKOTA, $136.73.\n\nHuron. First Cong. Ch.                       53.08\n\nDe Smet. Phebe M. Weeks                      14.70\n\nOahe. Cong. Ch., 8.20; Miss Lindeman,\n  2.50, for Indian Sch.                      10.70\n\nOahe. Interest on Endowment, for Indian\n  Sch.                                       20.00\n\nSpringfield. Cong. Ch.                        1.25\n\nValley Springs. \"Cheerful Workers,\" by\n  W. Howard Watson                            4.00\n\nYankton. J.R. Sanborn                        25.00\n\nDakota Woman's Home Missionary Union,\n  by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas.,\n  for Woman's Work:\n     Esmond.                         1.00\n     Iroquois.                       1.00\n     Oahe. Shiloh Ch.                1.00\n     Sioux Falls. W.M.S.             5.00\n                                    -----     8.00\n\n\n{pg 224}\n                    NEBRASKA, $15.81.\n\nAten. Cong, Ch.                               1.81\n\nBeatrice. Mrs. Delia B. Hotchkiss            10.00\n\nBertrand. Cong. Ch.                           3.00\n\nLincoln. J.M. Denman                          1.00\n\n\n                    COLORADO, $5.10.\n\nDenver. Rev. R.T. Croas, 5; Judson\n  Cross, 10c., for Atlanta U.                 5.10\n\n\n                    UTAH, $6.00.\n\nSalt Lake City. Phillips Cong. Ch.            6.00\n\n\n                    ARKANSAS, $5.00.\n\nLittle Rock. Ladies M. Soc. of First\n  Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Talladega C.    5.00\n\n\n                    CALIFORNIA, $10.35.\n\nLugonia. Mary G. Hale                         5.00\n\nRiverside. C.W. Herron's Class in Sab. Sch.   5.35\n\n\n                    OREGON, $50.00.\n\nPortland. First Cong. Ch. 30, to const.\n  GEORGE H. HIMES L.M.; E. Charevoy, 5       35.00\n\nSalem. Cong. Ch.                             15.00\n\n\n                    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $48.83.\n\nWashington. Howard U., M.C. Coll's,\n  12.24; Lincoln Memorial Ch., 11.59         23.83\n\nWashington. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch.,\n  for Indian M.                              25.00\n\n\n                    VIRGINIA, $5.65.\n\nHerndon. Cong. Ch.                            5.65\n\n\n                    KENTUCKY, $163.16.\n\nWilliamsburg. Tuition                       163.15\n\n\n                    NORTH CAROLINA, $189.82.\n\nNalls. Rev. M.L. Baldwin                       .50\n\nOaks. Cong. Ch.                               1.12\n\nPekin. Cong. Ch.                              1.00\n\nTroy. Tuition, 13.25; By S.D. Leak, 1        14.25\n\nWilmington. Tuition                         157.70\n\nWilmington. Miss H.L. Fitts, 10.76; Miss\n  A.E. Farrington, 4.50, for Student Aid     15.25\n\n\n                    SOUTH CAROLINA, $210.50.\n\nCharleston. Tuition                         210.50\n\n\n                    TENNESSEE, $1,307.89.\n\nChattanooga. Loomis Hart & Co., for\n  Pleasant Hill, Tenn.                       29.00\n\nGlen Mary. \"Friends,\" by Rev. G.S. Pope       2.60\n\nGrand View. Tuition                          33.70\n\nJellico. Tuition                             35.00\n\nJonesboro. Tuition, 3; Rent, 1                4.00\n\nMemphis. Tuition                            381.00\n\nNashville. Tuition, 529.60; Rent, 6.50      536.10\n\nNashville. Cong. Ch. Fisk U, for Pleasant\n  Hill, Tenn.                                 8.64\n\nPleasant Sill. By Rev. B. Dodge. Mrs.\n  Rev. Houston, 10; \"A Friend,\" 2, for\n  Pleasant Hill                              12.00\n\nSherwood. Tuition, 239.75; \"Friends,\" for\n  Student Aid, 26.10                        265.85\n\n\n                    GEORGIA, $800.46.\n\nAtlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, 299.25;\n  Rent, 2; First Cong. Ch., 10 Birthday\n  Offerings, 2.71                           303.96\n\nAtlanta. Wm. A. Haygood, for Atlanta U.      15.00\n\nMacon. Tuition                              191.05\n\nMcIntosh. Tuition                            24.70\n\nMarietta. Cong. Ch. 50c. and S.S. 50c.        1.00\n\nSavannah. Tuition                           191.50\n\nThomasville. Tuition                         73.25\n\n\n                    ALABAMA, $619.22.\n\nAthens. Tuition                              62.50\n\nKymulga. Cong. Ch., for Talladega C.          1.25\n\nMarion. Tuition                             167.75\n\nMarion. \"Southern Friends,\" 7; \"C.W.L.,\"\n  1.85; for Sch. at Marion                    8.85\n\nMontgomery. Cong. Ch.                        40.00\n\nTalladega. Tuition                          119.07\n\n\n                    FLORIDA, $387.13.\n\nSaint Augustine. Pub. Sch. Fund, 287.75;\n  Rent, 82; Tuition, 17.75                  369.75\n\nWinter Park. W.H.M. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,\n  for Student Aid, Talladega C.              17.38\n\n\n                    LOUISIANA, $321.62.\n\nHammond. Cong. Ch.                            2.62\n\nNew Orleans. Tuition                        319.00\n\n\n                    MISSISSIPPI, $178.00.\n\nTougaloo. Tuition, 114; Rent, 54            168.00\n\nTougaloo. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 5, for\n  Chinese M. and 5 for Indian M.             10.00\n\n\n                    TEXAS, $137.75.\n\nAustin. Tuition, 131.25; Tillotson\n  Ch., 2.60                                 133.85\n\nDodd City. Pilgrim Ch.                         .90\n\nPetty. Bethel Cong. Ch.                       3.00\n\n\n                    INCOMES, $1,603.55.\n\nAvery Fund, for Mendi M.                     91.35\n\nDeForest Fund, for President's Chair,\n  Talladega C.                              353.85\n\nGen'l Endowment Fund                         30.00\n\nHammond Fund, for Straight U.                54.52\n\nHastings Sch'p Fund, for Atlanta U.          12.50\n\nHoward Theo. Fund, for Howard U.            517.02\n\nH.W. Lincoln Sch'p Fund, for Talladega C.    30.00\n\nLuke Mem. Fund, for Talladega C.             10.00\n\nLeMoyne Fund, for Memphis, Tenn.            171.81\n\nRice Mem. Sch'p Fund, for Talladega C.        9.00\n\nStone Fund, for Talladega C.                 25.00\n\nStraight U. Sch'p Fund                       72.50\n\nTalladega Theo. Fund                         21.00\n\nTuthill King Fund, for Berea C.              75.00\n\n  \"       \"   \"    for Atlanta U.           125.00\n\nYale Library Fund, for Talladega C.           5.00\n\n\n                    CANADA, $5.00.\n\nMontreal. Chas. Alexander                     5.00\n\n\n                    FRANCE, $10.00.\n\nParis. Warren K. Southwick, for Talladega\n  C.                                         10.00\n\n\n                    AFRICA, $5.09.\n\nBihe. Wm. H. Sanders                          5.00\n                                        ==========\n\nDonations                               $17,455.23\nLegacies                                  8,003.67\nIncomes                                   1,603.55\nTuitions                                  3,968.12\nRents                                       146.50\n                                        ----------\n\n           Total for May                $31,176.07\n           Total from Oct. 1 to May 31  190,097.27\n                                        ==========\n\n\n                    FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\n\nSubscriptions for May                      $ 38.02\nPreviously acknowledged                     713.18\n                                           -------\n\n        Total                              $751.20\n                                           =======\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nH.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n56 Reade St., N.Y.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n\n[Transcriber's Notes:\n CONTENTS: Wilmington, D.C. corrected to Wilmington, N.C.\n pg 219: Andover. Free Christain Ch. corrected to Christian Ch.]","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 42, No. 07, July, 1888","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":16812}