{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_15362/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_15362","id":"gutenberg_15362","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15362","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Sociology","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Josephine Paolucci and the Online\nDistributed Proofreading Team.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\n\nMARCH, 1890.\nVOL. XLIV. No. 3.\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\nEDITORIAL.\nREMOVAL\n\"KEEP PEGGING AWAY\"\n$500,000--CALLS FOR ENLARGEMENT\n\nNOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND\n\nTHE SOUTH.\nREVIVALS--A WATCH NIGHT MEETING\nA DIFFERENT WATCH NIGHT MEETING\n\nTHE INDIANS.\nTHE RAMONA SCHOOL\n\nTHE CHINESE.\nTHE UNBELIEVING WIFE SANCTIFIED IN THE BROTHER\n\nADDRESS.\nTHE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO IN OUR COUNTRY, BY C.H. RICHARDS, D.D.\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\nPARAGRAPHS--CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE IN HUMBLE LIFE\nWOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS\n\nRECEIPTS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNEW YORK:\n\nPUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\n\nBible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York.\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\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPRESIDENT, Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D. LL.D., N.Y.\n\n\n_Vice-Presidents._\n\nRev. A.J.F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y.\nRev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D.D., Mass.\nRev. F.A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.\nRev. D.O. MEARS, D.D., Mass.\nRev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo.\n\n\n_Corresponding Secretaries._\n\nRev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._\nRev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._\n\n\n_Recording Secretary._\n\nRev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._\n\n\n_Treasurer._\n\nH.W. HUBBARD, Esq., _Bible House, N.Y._\n\n\n_Auditors._\n\nPETER McCARTEE.\nCHAS. P. PEIRCE.\n\n\n_Executive Committee._\n\nJOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.\nADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary.\n\n\n_For Three Years._\n\nS.B. HALLIDAY,\nSAMUEL HOLMES,\nSAMUEL S. MARPLES,\nCHARLES L. MEAD,\nELBERT B. MONROE.\n\n\n_For Two Years._\n\nJ.E. RANKIN,\nWM. H. WARD,\nJ.W. COOPER,\nJOHN H. WASHBURN,\nEDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.\n\n\n_For One Year._\n\nLYMAN ABBOTT,\nCHAS. A. HULL,\nCLINTON B. FISK,\nADDISON P. FOSTER\nALBERT J. LYMAN.\n\n\n_District Secretaries._\n\nRev. C.J. RYDER, _21 Cong'l House, Boston, Mass._\nRev. J.E. ROY. D.D., _151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill._\nRev. C.W. HIATT, _64 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio._\n\n\n_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._\n\nRev. CHAS. W. SHELTON.\n\n\n_Secretary of Woman's Bureau._\n\nMiss D.E. EMERSON, _Bible House, N.Y._\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nRelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretaries; letters for \"THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY,\" to the\nEditor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the finances, to the\nTreasurer.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nIn drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be\nsent to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York, or, when more\nconvenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House,\nBoston, Mass., 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill., or 64 Euclid Ave.,\nCleveland, Ohio. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\nNOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the \"address label,\" indicates the\ntime to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on\nlabel to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made\nafterward, the change on the label will appear a month later. Please\nsend early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former\naddress and the new address, in order that our periodicals and\noccasional papers may be correctly mailed.\n\n\nFORM 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 who,\nwhen 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\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nVOL. XLIV. MARCH, 1890. No. 3.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nREMOVAL.\n\n\nThe Rooms of the American Missionary Association are now in the Bible\nHouse, New York City. Correspondents will please address us\naccordingly.\n\nVisitors will find our Rooms on the sixth floor of the Bible House,\ncorner Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue; entrance by elevator on Ninth\nStreet.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Association opened its office first in humble quarters in Spruce\nstreet, and since then it has occupied rooms in Beekman, John and Reade\nstreets. These down-town locations have served some valuable purposes.\nThey were accessible to the teachers and workers in passing to and from\nthe South, and in the shipment of goods to the South and to Africa--once\na large item in our business. In the change now made, we shall gain the\nadvantage of more convenient rooms, of association with our brethren of\nthe other missionary societies and more frequent opportunities of\nfraternal greetings with pastors and friends coming to the city.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"KEEP PEGGING AWAY.\"\n\n\nAbraham Lincoln packed into these homely words the expression of his\nheroic faith and indomitable perseverance. When victory forsook our\narmies, when elections at the North pronounced against the\nadministration, and when timid and disloyal people were clamoring for\n\"peace at any price,\" this great man, discerning clearly that only by\narms could the rebellion be crushed, acted upon this motto. He did not\nmean by this that a mere idle pretense of doing something should be\nkept up; he meant a steady pressure growing constantly more intense and\neffective; when volunteering flagged, he offered bounties; when bounties\nfailed, he resorted to drafting. The army _must be_ kept up and it must\nbe fully equipped, and never did a more splendid army tread the earth,\nand never was money poured out with so lavish a hand. The end came, and\nit was worth all it cost.\n\nThe war settled two things--the unity of the nation and the freedom of\nthe slave. One thing it did not settle--the future of the Negro. That\nquestion must be settled by his Christian education. This is just as\nplain to thoughtful men as it was to Lincoln that military force only\ncould save the nation. But now as then, there are men who are\ndiscouraged and who say that this process of education will take a long\ntime, and so, once more, the air is full of impracticable remedies--to\ntake the ballot from the Negro--to transport him to Africa, to the West,\nto the North! The cry is, \"the white man's supremacy\" at any price. Now,\nagain, is the time for Lincoln's motto, \"keep pegging away,\" and that\nnot merely in a perfunctory way, but by pushing more and more\nvigorously. In this moral warfare, volunteers must be encouraged. There\nis no need of special bounties, nor of drafting; only furnish the means\nto meet the meagre salaries, and the recruits will crowd to the field in\nabundance, but their numbers _must be_ greatly enlarged. Hence the great\nneed, as in the dark days of the war, of multiplying the means of\nequipment. The money should be poured out with a lavish hand to sustain\na vastly enlarged working force. Money can never be spent at a better\ntime, nor for a better purpose.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n$500,000.\n\n\nThis is the sum recommended for the use of this Association by the\nNational Council, and by our own Annual Meeting. These figures have not\nonly these indorsements, but also the far greater one of the needs of\nthe field. Some of our schools are packed to overflowing and scholars\nare turned away because there is no room, places are opening for\nenlarged church work which we ought to have the means of entering, and\nindustrial facilities should be increased. The need for such enlargement\nis illustrated in part by the items which follow.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCALLS FOR ENLARGEMENT.\n\n\nOur schools, with scarcely an exception, are asking for more teachers\nfor their over-crowded rooms, and two or three pulpits stand vacant\nbecause we have not suitable pastors for them. We are able to report\ngreat enthusiasm along every line of our work and a spirit of uncommon\nconsecration among all our teachers this year. We are having a noble\nyear of thorough work.\n\nFrom Greenwood, S.C., comes this word: \"For the last month we have had\nover two hundred and thirty students, and have refused between\nseventy-five and one hundred applications for admission because there\nwas not one inch of room for them.\"\n\nOur school at Meridian has outgrown the building erected for it, and has\noverflowed into the church. It is another illustration of the fact that\nthe children of the emancipated freedmen are as earnest for education as\nwere their fathers and mothers when they swarmed into the temporary\nschools provided for them.\n\nA letter from Wilmington, N.C., says: \"Without another teacher, I do not\nknow what to do, unless it be to send away about twenty-five pupils.\nThis I would be very sorry to do, as I would hardly know which ones to\nsend and there would be no school for them to re-enter, as the public\nschools are full to overflowing; besides, many would consider it a\ncalamity to be thus dropped out.\"\n\nWe have just opened anew the Storrs school, which was not re-opened in\nOctober with the other schools. The Principal writes us: \"The joy of the\npeople at witnessing the preparations is extravagant. One old man said\nto-night, 'There will be seven hundred scholars there when you open.'\nThese are not 'the words of soberness,' probably, but the enthusiasm\nwith respect to the re-opening of school is beyond all expectation.\"\nFive teachers have been sent and more are called for.\n\nOur teachers in Troy, N.C., write us: \"Can you not send us a pastor?\nThere is such an earnest need of one. We really do not think the work\nhere can prosper unless we have a pastor. We do the best we can. The\nprayer meetings are all well attended, but it makes one's heart fail, to\nthink of these 'sheep without a shepherd.' The work is very absorbing.\nIs there no one you could send here, if only for a time?\"\n\nThrough certain interferences with one of our schools at the South, on\nthe part of some ambitious people there, it seemed at one time that we\nshould feel it a necessity to reduce the grades and place two or three\nteachers in some other schools which are calling on us for help. We\ntelegraphed them to remain, however, and the result is thus given: \"Your\ntelegram came this afternoon and the children were half wild when they\ngot out of the school-house, running up and down the streets to tell the\ngood news. A company of them met the chairman of the local school board,\nwhom they did not regard as altogether friendly, and they shouted to\nhim, 'We have got our teachers! We have got our teachers! The man says\nthey can stay.' One old auntie came this afternoon to say, 'I'se heerd\nhow they is trying to get the teachers away and I prayed and prayed to\nthe good Lord to keep 'em.' Some of the boys are waist-deep in the water\nafter clams to get their fifty cents for their week's tuition. It has\nbeen a great joy to me to see the character of the people when the\nunfriendly ones tried to break us up. They have shown much thought and\nability, and they win our hearts by their faith in God.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.\n\nBY REV. C.J. RYDER, DISTRICT SECRETARY.\n\n\nAn exceedingly good plan for increasing the collections for benevolent\nobjects has been hit upon by some members of a Boston church. They have\nwhat they call an \"Extra Cent-a-Day Band.\" Each member pledges himself\nto lay aside one cent each day for some benevolent object. They elect a\ntreasurer and put into his hands this \"Cent-a-Day\" fund, as they please,\nsome paying frequently, others waiting until considerable has\naccumulated. At a given time each month they divide the accumulated\ncontributions among the different societies as they may elect. The\nAmerican Missionary Association has occasion to be grateful for this\n\"Extra Cent-a-Day\" plan in the pledge of about thirty dollars to its\ntreasury. I pass it along in these \"Notes,\" as these friends hold no\npatent right upon the method, and would gladly see it adopted in many\nchurches.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThere seems to be a great localization of patriotic Christian thought in\nNew England upon the Southern problem now, as there has not been since\nthe war closed. I bought recently one of the leading magazines on the\ntrain, and the leading article in it was on the Southern problem. I\npicked up the _Forum_, and the leading article was on the Southern\nproblem. Mr. Grady comes from the South to address the business men of\nBoston, and turns aside from questions which would naturally be\ndiscussed to speak of the Southern problem. At a recent meeting of the\nOld Colony Congregational Club at Brockton, Massachusetts, they invited\ntwo Secretaries to speak upon this Southern problem, and listened with\npatience to two long addresses. The discussion which followed indicated\nthat the churches represented in that large and intelligent club were\nmost earnestly pondering this Southern problem. In its importance, it\novertops every other consideration before the citizens and churches of\nAmerica to-day! Thoughtful people are coming more than ever to realize\nthis. The processes of thought through which they have passed already,\nand the facts they have settled in their own minds, indicate a very\nhopeful condition of things. In the first place, they are sure that this\nis not a local or sectional question. It is a National question, and\nwill involve the whole country in anarchy and misrule, unless the\nanarchy and misrule of the Southern whites are stopped. New England's\nvoice will be heard in solemn and earnest protest, unless there is a\nradical change in the conduct of the dominant race of the South very\nsoon. Such outrages as those at Barnwell, S.C., and Jackson, Miss.,\nwhich are only types of many such, must be stopped.\n\nAnother fact that has been settled in the minds of the people here, is\nthat the education and moral elevation of the Negroes is a matter of\npainful exigency; that the forces employed by the American Missionary\nAssociation in that field must be largely multiplied. The President of\nthe Old Colony Club summed up the discussion of the evening by saying\nmost earnestly that all this meant that the contributions to the\nAmerican Missionary Association must be largely increased among the\nchurches represented in that Club, if we would solve this terrible\nSouthern problem, and save our country from this threatened danger.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIn this connection I was interested the other day in making an\ninvestigation as to the per cent. of church membership in the South and\nNorth. I discovered the following rather surprising comparison. The per\ncent. of church membership in some of the New England States as compared\nwith that in the Southern States is as follows, not including the Roman\nCatholics: Massachusetts, 13 per cent.; Connecticut, 20 per cent.; New\nHampshire, 19 per cent.; South Carolina, 32 per cent.; Georgia, 28 per\ncent.; Florida, 25 per cent.\n\nIt is evident from the comparisons that a larger percentage of the\npopulation in these Southern States are members of Protestant churches\nthan in the Northern States. Notwithstanding this, this horrible system\nof persecution goes on. There are noble and true men who protest against\nit, but if the churches united in condemning it, we all know it would be\nstopped. What they need is not more churches, but better churches, those\nwho emphasize the brotherhood of man as well as the fatherhood of God in\nthis Southern portion of the land.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe stereopticon lectures which are being delivered by Rev. S.E.\nLathrop, are attracting much attention and receiving general\ncommendation. Last Sunday, at Peabody, the people were so enthusiastic\nthat they took a special collection of nearly one hundred dollars. Many\nchurches in New England have enjoyed this treat, and receive the\ninspiration which the facts of the American Missionary Association must\nalways give when really known and understood. Brother Lathrop is on his\nway into New Hampshire and Maine, where arrangements have been made in\nmany churches.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSome benevolent New England friends who have been in Florida, and have\nseen the destitution of the colored people there, have put into our\nhands five thousand dollars for the establishment of anew school in one\nof the destitute regions of that State. The good friends who are\ninterested so largely in this move desired that the Secretary should go\nfrom New England with Secretary Beard, to determine just where this\nschool should be located.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE SOUTH\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nREVIVALS.\n\n\nA gracious revival in Straight University, New Orleans, brings us glad\ntidings of the hopeful conversion of about fifty students.\n\nInteresting reports from Talladega College give us information of a\nrevival of religious interest in the school and church there. The\ncollege is looking forward to an enlargement of its theological study\nand Faculty.\n\nRev. Sterling N. Brown writes from Washington, D.C.: \"We are in the\nmidst of a most precious awakening. Forty-six souls have accepted the\nSaviour. Our meetings have been quiet, orderly and heart-searching. The\nMaster is leading us.\"\n\nProfessor Payson E. Little, of McIntosh, Ga., reports an interesting\nwork of grace in connection with the church and school at McIntosh. This\nis the place where the pretended Christ last summer appealed to the\nsuperstitions of the Negroes advanced in age and ignorant. It is\npleasant to know that nearly all of those who were brought under the\ninfluence of this crazy fanatic, have now returned to their churches\nthoroughly ashamed of their experience.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA WATCH-NIGHT MEETING.\n\n\nThe very interesting sketch given below shows that the \"old-time\nreligion\" in the South has not passed away, for this scene took place in\none of the large cities and where schools have been sustained for years.\nThe picture of the honored and worthy old preacher stands out\nconspicuously in the midst of this confused worship.\n\n\nAfter the New Year's entertainment in our own church, we thought it\nwould be interesting to some of the new teachers on our force to attend\na watch-meeting at one of the churches near, so we started for a large\nbarn-like structure bearing the imposing name of ----. We found the\nbuilding filled to its utmost, and instead of slipping into some seats\nin the rear unnoticed, as we had hoped, we found ourselves forced to the\nfront bench where the stewards held posts of honor, which were\nimmediately vacated for the \"teachers.\" Many of these men then went\nbehind the railing and stood in solemn state around the pastor as he\nexhorted the people in most earnest words to get their records clean\nbefore the opening of the new year.\n\nI wish I could picture him to you as he stood before us that night, his\nhair just turning gray, indicating in one of this race extreme old age;\na real \"Uncle Tom\" in appearance, and in character, I think; his history\ntaking in much of slavery and of life as Presiding Elder. Many times has\nhe stood on guard between Northern teachers and Ku Klux Klans. He told\nus that night that the grace of God in a man's heart would make him\nshine all over; he had seen it make a man who had not combed his hair\nfor a year, grease his boots and his hair too, and then what a shining!\nAnd so on through his talk were the most earnest exhortations with his\nstriking illustrations.\n\nOne of the members there once in praising a sister to me spoke of her\nhaving the ability to \"groan so beautifully,\" and that night it seemed a\nspecial gift bestowed upon all. All through the pastor's exhortation the\naudience were keeping up a sort of rhythmic accompaniment with both body\nand intonations. Their responses during the prayers certainly have the\nvirtue of fervency, if not of intelligence. At some times so great was\nthe noise it was almost impossible to distinguish any leader whatever.\nOne old \"Father in Israel\" seemed to be specially delegated to encourage\nthe praying ones by calling out above all the din, \"Come on, son, come\non,\" right in the midst of the prayer. One woman near us \"got the power\"\nand went off into spasms. Then the pastor gave the invitation for all\n\"mourning ones\" to come to the altar, and about sixty answered the call.\nThen the groans and ejaculations became more intense, until at least\nthree whom we could see were in religious spasms or frenzies. I know not\nhow many others had the \"power,\" that is, were able to scream above all\nthe groaning at certain intervals.\n\nAt midnight a hush fell upon all, and the pastor's prayer told us a new\nyear had begun. Then all started up an old-time plantation song, the\nonly words being \"A Happy New Year\" in all its changes, and we found we\nwere expected to shake hands with everyone, and not any ordinary shaking\nhands was it, but the tighter our hands were clasped, the better did it\nshow the individual's religious zeal. Before this, it had seemed as\nthough some of our teachers would get struck by the mourning ones as\nthey threw their arms around in their frenzy, but when the hand-shaking\nbegan and each one danced up to us, keeping time with the music and\nshook our hands in time, until the measure changed and they passed on to\nthe next, we realized that we had, indeed, been taken right in. Thus the\nmeeting closed, and many left--two, rigid in their spasms, lying on the\nbenches.\n\nBut we found that the more devoted ones were to stay longer still, and\nas one of the sisters came up and asked me to stay and see them get real\nhappy shouting, we did so. And now commenced a religious dance,\nperfectly indescribable, and as long as I have been in the South it was\nperfectly new to me. The leader started down one of the aisles chanting\na weird plantation song, and every joint in his body moving in time with\nthe measure; the sisters took it up and followed two by two until there\nwas a complete circle all around the church, all dancing in time with\nthe music. We were told that they would keep that up until morning.\n\nIt is rarely that we attend anything of this kind, but I think we had\nenough of the old-time religion to last us through 1890 at least. We\nhave a number of scholars from this church, and it makes my heart sad\nwhen I think how hard it will be for them to put what they are taught in\nschool with the example of their parents in this church. We have had\nmany inquiring ones in school lately, and it is difficult for them to\nsee how simple is the entrance to the narrow way contrasted with all the\nexcitement in their church religion.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA DIFFERENT \"WATCH NIGHT\" MEETING.\n\nSince the foregoing article was in type, we have received the following\nsketch of a \"Watch Night\" meeting in one of the churches of our\nAssociation.\n\n\nIt is quite a custom among the colored people to hold \"Watch Night\"\nmeetings. These meetings are largely attended and are full of fervor and\ninterest. Our \"Watch-Night\" was a very precious one--it was held from 10\nto 12 o'clock: it was divided into four half-hour services, viz:\n1--Prayer and praise; 2--Bible reading; 3--Address by pastor, and 4--A\ntestimony meeting. The last five minutes was spent in silent prayer, and\nat 12 o'clock, when the New Year was announced by booming of cannon and\nthe ringing of bells throughout the city, we united in singing our song\nof New Year greeting, \"What a Happy New Year,\" while extending to one\nanother the right hand of fellowship. At the close of the service all\npresent pledged themselves, by standing, to abstain from the use of\nintoxicating liquors as a beverage during 1890.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE RAMONA SCHOOL.\n\nBY DIST. SEC. J.E. ROY.\n\n\nI had the pleasure, in Santa Fe, January 13th, of attending an\nentertainment given by the Ramona pupils in honor of Miss Platt, one of\ntheir teachers. Gov. Prince and his wife, and several of the citizens,\nwere present as invited guests. After the singing of several songs, and\na statement made by Prof. Elmore Chase, the Principal, fourteen of the\nscholars rendered, in the action of nature and the speaking of English,\nMrs. Bentley's dialogue, \"The Old Year's Vision and the New Year's\nMessage,\" as found in the January number of _The Youth's Temperance\nBanner_. One of the large boys first came in as an old man, clad in a\nmantle and trembling on a staff, to repeat the \"Old Year's Vision.\" Then\ncame in, one after another, a dozen boys and girls, to recite the\ngreeting of the several months. It was a temperance exhibit, and so each\none had a testimony for that cause. January, bearing a New Year's card\nin hand, declared: \"I've promised that not a drop of wine shall touch\nthese temperance lips of mine.\" February bore a fancy valentine, with an\nappropriate motto. March lifted aloft a new kite, with \"Kites may sail\nfar up in the sky, but on strong drink I'll never get high.\" July,\nbearing a flag and a bunch of fire-crackers, declares:\n\n\"I tell you I mean to celebrate, with something that won't intoxicate:\"\nwhile December resolves: \"No brandy fumes in my Christmas pie; no\nwine-sauce in my pudding, say I.\"\n\nThen comes in a beautiful maiden, clad in white and crowned with\nflowers, to be greeted by a chorus of voices: \"The king is dead; long\nlive the queen!\" and then to recite the \"Message of the New Year.\"\n\nThen comes another song in English, and then the second unloading of the\nChristmas tree, which has kept its place in the chapel since its proper\nday of Christmas cheer. Then the whole occasion is honored by an address\nfrom the Governor, in simple words, with smiling face and transparent\ngood feeling. It is not every children's holiday that has a Governor at\nhand to grace the occasion. As the President of the Board of Trustees\nwhich, under the A.M.A. fosters the Ramona, and as Governor of a\nterritory which has nineteen Pueblo villages and the reservations of the\nNavajoes and the Mescalero and Jicarilla Apaches, he is a faithful\nfriend of the Indians. This is apparent from his first report just made\nto the Secretary of the Interior. The 21,000 of the Navajoes he reports\nas possessing 250,000 horses, 500 mules, 1,000 burros, 5,000 cattle,\n700,000 sheep and 200,000 goats. Their wool-clip the last year reached\n2,100,000 pounds. Here is a grand field for a mission.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"THE UNBELIEVING WIFE SANCTIFIED IN THE BROTHER.\"\n\nI Cor. vii: 14. (Revision.)\n\n\nOur Chinese brethren have their full share in the family feeling which\nfor ages has been nurtured in their race. This feeling is even\nintensified by their new life in Christ. They long for what they hope to\nmake a Christian home, and greatly desire to perpetuate themselves in\nchildren who may follow them in following Christ. But what are they to\ndo for wives? Many live in a virtual celibacy that is hopeless, because\nenforced by the betrothals made for them in China by their parents or\nelder brothers. These are accounted sacred, and are honored by our\nbrethren with an oblivion of their own fancies or affinities that will\nbe adjudged to be either stolid or heroic, according as the person\njudging is disposed to think kindly or unkindly of this people. Many\nhave returned to China for the express purpose of consummating this\nbetrothal in marriage. They remain a few months with their wives, and\nthen return to California to find work and provide for them. Such\npersons are obliged by their principles to live in virtual celibacy.\n\nSome greatly desire to send for their wives, but not only does the\nRestriction Law bar the entrance, but the father in China will probably\nraise effectual objection. A son is as much the property of his father\nat sixty as at six, and all he has, not only in property, but in wife\nand children as well, is under the father's control. The\ndaughter-in-law, if strong and willing, is a very serviceable person\nabout the old homestead in China, and the appeals of the son for the\nenjoyment of his wife's society in California are answered with the\nadvice to get him another wife here. One in China and one in America\nseems to them a very safe arrangement. Eight thousand miles of ocean\nintervene and assure against domestic broils.\n\nSome, however, of our brethren have in one way or another been set free\nfrom these early betrothals, and are at liberty to seek wives for\nthemselves. Such are very glad if among the inmates of the mission-homes\nfor Chinese women they can find a Christian for a help-meet. But this is\noften impossible. There are not enough Chinese Christian women to meet\nthe demand. And therefore it has seemed to me not to be my duty\nstrenuously to insist on the restriction placed on union with\nunbelievers, but rather when such a union has been arranged for, and is\nto be consummated, to hold out a hope that the unbelieving wife may be,\nnot only in form and in her relation to the church--which seems to be\nthe sense of the text cited--but in truth and fact sanctified in the\nbrother.\n\nThis hope was fulfilled some years ago in the home of our oldest\nmissionary helper, Jee Gam. His father having at last yielded to the\nson's entreaties and sent his wife to him, the narrow quarters in our\nCentral Mission House to which the bride was brought became at once a\nsanctuary, and the Family Altar was established and the Family Saviour\nrecognized and worshiped. When a son was born to them, he was brought in\ndue time to our Bethany to be baptized, the heathen mother consenting\nand attending. It was not long after that the mother herself stood with\nus to enter into covenant and be baptized, and since then,--though\npreferring to live in her home in a seclusion which American ladies\nwould regard as imprisonment and torture,--she has sought there to do\nservice to her Master in bringing up her children in the nurture of the\nLord. In her husband's absence from home she takes his place at the\nfamily altar, and many an American mother might well pattern after her\nfidelity in teaching her children the good and right way.\n\nSeveral years ago, one of our steadfast Chinese brethren in Sacramento\nrequested me to come and conduct his marriage service. He had procured\nthe bride in Marysville, purchasing her (I suppose) of her parents after\nthe Chinese custom. I obeyed the summons; obtained for him the necessary\nlicense, and then at the Mission House awaited the coming of the bride.\nThat which at length arrived resembled more a moving package of rich\nand brilliant dry-goods of Chinese manufacture than a bright and\nblushing bride. Something could be seen of the shoes she wore, and when\nat length, in the course of the service, I somewhat firmly insisted on a\njoining of hands a hand was made to appear, but there was no bridal\nkiss, nor any sight or semblance of a face beneath the quadrupled or\nquintupled veils. However, the marriage was effected in a Christian way,\nand the next morning there came to me an invitation to call upon the\nbride. I found her to be the most beautiful Chinese girl I had ever\nseen, with manners all the more pleasing because so very shy. Her\nhusband had prepared quarters for her which, as compared with the\naverage Chinese home, were almost palatial, and everything seemed to\npromise a future peaceful and joyous.\n\nAfter a few months the mother-in-law made her daughter a visit as she\npassed through Sacramento on her way back to her native land. What\npassed between mother and daughter we do not know, but a few days after\nher departure, Fong Bow returning to his home was shocked to find his\nlittle wife suspended by the neck in an attempt at suicide. He rescued\nher, and when she was restored asked for the reason. She acknowledged\nthat she had a good home and a kind and generous husband, but there was\nno shrine in the house, no ancestral tablet, no Joss, and she was\nconvinced that some great evil must be impending from spirits thus\nneglected and provoked. She preferred to sacrifice her present comfort\nrather than incur the woes approaching,--all the more dreadful in her\napprehension because utterly unknown. Whereupon Fong Bow told her that\nwhile he himself could not worship such things, and knew that an idol\nwas \"nothing in the world,\" he did not and would not forbid her to do\nwhat she thought right, and thus she provided herself with a shrine and\ngods and was comforted.\n\nMeanwhile, the husband lived a Christian life before her, and she\nherself was willing to receive instruction from Mrs. Carrington and\nothers. It is not improbable that she saw the difference between a home\neven half Christian, like her own, and those where heathen customs made\nof a husband less a protector than a lord. Doubtless she thought much in\nsilence before coming to the decision which changed the current of her\nlife. It is singular that the crisis came in consequence of her\nobserving at a marriage of Chinese persons making no profession of\nChristian faith, the absence of the rites which had been, in her view,\nthe only safeguards against evil. This brought her to decision. With her\nown hands she removed the shrine she had erected, and then declared her\npurpose to worship her husband's God. Those who know her--both Chinese\nand Americans--see in her the tokens of a real and radical change; and\nit was with great joy that I heard, some weeks ago, that she had been\nbaptized and welcomed to the Congregational Church in Sacramento, to\nwhich her husband has belonged these many years.\n\nWM. C. POND.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO IN OUR COUNTRY.\n\n_Address at the Annual Meeting in Chicago_,\n\nBY THE REV. C.H. RICHARDS, D.D.\n\n\nDeeper than the question, what shall we do with the Negro, lies the more\nfundamental question: What does God mean to do with the Negro in our\ncountry? Many a so-called solution of the \"race problem\" has been a\nforedoomed failure, because it ran counter to the Providential plan.\nSome have hoped that time would settle the burning question; if people\nwould only stop talking about it, especially meddlesome people far away\nfrom the real pinch of the trouble, they fancy that somehow the mere\nflight of years would adjust differences and secure to all their rights.\nOthers think the short way to peace is by force, keeping the Negro down\nwith a strong hand, and keeping the Anglo Saxon on top by any vigorous\nmeans that may be needed. Others, again, think there never can be any\nsolution of the problem so long as the two races occupy the same\nterritory, and they propose some mammoth scheme of colonization to take\nthe blacks away to some quarter of the world where they can be by\nthemselves. But these and other remedies are utterly futile, because\nthey are in collision with God's plan, as indicated by certain manifest\nfacts. Meantime, while men are so busy trying to get around the\ndifficulty instead of solving it in a straightforward way, the problem\ngets a little bigger every year. The caste question agitates our great\nreligious assemblies. The spoliation of the civil rights of the Negro is\none of the most menacing features in our politics. Bitter race\nprejudices keep Southern cities in a ferment, and even break out in\ndreadful massacres. This race problem will continue to be one of the\nmost momentous and disturbing questions in American public life, until\nsomehow we learn how to get into line with Providence, and find some\nsolution that harmonizes with the great movements that have the hand of\nGod in them.\n\nIt is time to ask then, with searching inquiry, What is the divine plan\nwith regard to the Negro here, or, in other words, What is to be the\nfuture of the Negro in America? In certain significant facts and\ntendencies of his past and present, we may see the finger of Providence\npointing on to that future. Let us look at some of these facts and their\nbearings.\n\nFirst of all, the Negro is here, and that not of his own consent. He has\nnot forced himself upon the country; he has been forced to make this his\nhome against his will. We of the white race are responsible for his\npresence. We invited him here in the most pressing manner, and would not\ntake \"no\" for an answer.\n\nAnd he is here to stay. All the ingenious schemes for settling this\ntroublesome question by taking up the black race bodily and dropping it\nin some roomy region far away from all possible contact with white\npeople, are utterly delusive. The Negro does not want to go elsewhere.\nHaving been compelled to make his home here for two centuries, he is\ndomesticated here, and has as good a right to remain as the white man.\nMoreover, he can see as well as any one that this is the best country in\nthe world to live in--the land offering greatest opportunity for\nadvancement, the poor man's Paradise. Brought by force, he will not\nrelinquish his rightful hold here except by force. And we may be sure\nthat our National Government will never undertake the chimerical\nexperiment of deporting him to some other land, and pay the enormous\nexpense of it out of the National Treasury. Having been brought by the\nprovidence of God to expiate its former wrongs to the black man at such\nimmense cost of treasure and blood, the Nation will be slow to tax\nitself enormously to do him another wrong.\n\nMoreover, it is not necessary that the races should be separated in\norder to settle the difficulty that now disturbs us. All the Negro asks\nis to be treated with justice and equity, and to be given a fair chance\nin life. We have simply to apply the elementary principles of our common\nChristianity to the problem and deal with the Negro in the spirit of the\nGolden Rule and the whole difficulty vanishes. It looks as though God\nhad made this a polychromatic country--red, black, white and yellow--on\npurpose that we might give a gospel illustration of the essential unity\nof all races, and show how these rainbow tints are to be blended in the\nwhite light of Christian brotherhood.\n\nNor is it desirable that the black man should leave us, even if he\nwanted to. It would impoverish us in no small degree and cripple us in\nour advancement. He is the natural laborer of the South, and has added,\nas we shall see, immensely to its prosperity since the war, and he is to\nbe one of the chief factors in securing the future wealth of the\ncountry. These reasons combine with overwhelming force to show that an\nexodus is undesirable and impossible, and that the Negro is here to\nstay.\n\nAnd he is to be here in greatly increased numbers. The fecundity of the\nrace is remarkable. The 4,000,000 blacks that were freed by the\nemancipation proclamation are 8,000,000 now. They multiply by births\nalone 7 per cent. faster than the whites by births and immigration\ncombined. It is estimated that they are increasing at the rate of 500 a\nday and that their numbers are now doubling every twenty years. This may\nbe a little exaggerated, but it is not far out of the way. If they are\nincreasing and continue to increase at this rate, in twenty years they\nwill be 16,000,000 strong, or nearly as many as the entire population of\nthe whole country in 1840; by 1930, they will number 32,000,000, or more\nthan we had of all races here at the outbreak of our Civil War; by the\nmiddle of the next century they will number 64,000,000, or more than our\npresent population within the borders of the Republic. Discount this\nestimate as much as you please, the increase in the colored race is sure\nto be tremendous, and it is plain that the race problem will increase in\ndifficulty and in momentous consequences to the Nation until it is\nsettled on Christian principles. And the work of settling it admits of\nno delay.\n\nThe Negro is to be a very important factor in promoting the future\nprosperity of the country. Already it is manifest that his value to the\nSouth as a freed man is far greater than the price formerly set upon him\nas a chattel. The unrequited toil of the slave is seen in the light of\nhistory to be the dearest kind of labor. It was frequently said after\nthe war that the emancipated Negro would be worthless as a laborer; that\nhe was naturally lazy, shiftless, and a shirk, and that he would relapse\ninto a vagabond. But, as a matter of fact, far more good work has been\ndone in the South since the war than before, and for the most part the\nNegro has done it. Great crops of cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, corn,\nand other staples have been raised and marketed; mines have been\ndeveloped, railroads built, manufactories established, and hundreds of\nother industries opened and pushed in the new era of prosperity which\nhas dawned in the South; and while the capital and brains for this have\nbeen furnished by the whites, and largely from the North, the manual\nlabor has been done mainly by the blacks. They have made the New South\npossible. Take the single item of the cotton they have raised: The\ntwenty-one cotton crops from 1841 to 1861, raised by slave labor,\namounted to 58,500,000 bales; the twenty-one cotton crops from 1865 to\n1885, raised by free labor, amounted to 93,500,000 bales. There was a\ngain, with free labor, of nearly 35,000,000 bales, worth $2,000,000,000,\nor about the full estimated value of all the slaves set free by the war.\nThese facts show the value of the Negro to the South simply as a common\nlaborer.\n\nBut his importance as a factor in securing a National prosperity is much\nenhanced when we note his remarkable capacity for improvement. Grant\nthat the great bulk of these eight millions are still in a pitiable\ncondition, poor, ignorant, sometimes vicious, the victims often of\nbarbaric superstitions, living often in hovels rather than houses,\nwithout thrift or cleanliness, in crying need of kindly hands to help\nuplift them to a better life. Yet, granting all this physical and moral\ndestitution among them, it must be said that history gives no record of\na race, stripped and stranded so completely as these freedmen were in\n1865, that has shown such marvelous progress in a quarter of a century.\nThey have responded wonderfully to every effort made to elevate them,\nand have shown in themselves such versatility and vigor of intellect as\ngive high promise for their future.\n\nTheir own advancement in material prosperity is an indication of this.\nNever was there a people left in worse plight than they were at the\nclose of the war. In a country ravaged and denuded by a long and\ndestructive conflict, themselves penniless, with none of the knowledge\nand training that would fit them for competition with shrewder and abler\nclasses, there seemed small hope of their getting more than a bare\nlivelihood. But ambition, mother wit, and a rare aptitude for learning\nhave helped them on till the gains they have made for themselves are\nquite astonishing. Not long ago the New York _Independent_ made\nextensive inquiries through the Southern States with regard to this\nmatter, and the replies showed that the disposition to accumulate\nproperty was very strong among the colored people, and that industry and\neconomy and forecast for this purpose were virtues rapidly developing\namong them. A large proportion of them are owners of their own homes,\nthe proportions differing widely in different localities, ranging from\n10 per cent. in North Carolina, to 20 per cent. in Virginia, 50 and 60\nper cent. in some parts of Georgia, and 75 per cent. in some parts of\nFlorida. A writer from Montgomery, Ala., even claimed 90 per cent. of\nhome-owners among his acquaintances.\n\nMany, also, are coming into the ownership of land. Mr. Morris stated\nfour years ago that colored people owned 680,000 acres of land in\nGeorgia, and 5,000,000 acres in the whole South. Dr. Haygood estimates\nthat they own about $10,000,000 worth of taxable property in Georgia,\nand it is stated that \"within twenty-five years the colored people of\nsixteen Southern States have accumulated real and personal property\nestimated at more than $200,000,000.\" This, certainly, is a most\nremarkable showing for a people of whom it was freely prophesied that\nthey would never be more than an indolent race of beggars. It shows that\nif they can only be given \"a white man's chance\" they will be as thrifty\nand prosperous as their Caucasian brothers, and that the wealth which\nthis rapidly increasing race will produce in the next half century will\nmuch of it be their own property. Poverty is no more an essential\ncharacteristic of the African than of the white American, and it looks\nas though the Negro was likely to win his fair share of our prosperity\nin the years to come.\n\nThe capacity for improvement is also indicated by the large variety of\noccupations which the Negro is successfully pursuing. It has been\nimagined by some that the work he could do is exceedingly limited in its\nrange, and that he must needs be a barber, a waiter, or a small farmer.\nBut at the New Orleans Exposition not long ago, an entire gallery across\none end of the building was assigned to the colored people, and they\nmore than filled it with an astonishing array of their products in all\nsorts of work. There were exhibits of mechanical, agricultural and\nartistic skill; specimens of millinery, tailoring, painting,\nphotography, sculpture; many useful inventions; models of engines,\nsteamboats, rail-cars; specimens of all kinds of tools, pianos, organs,\npottery, tinware, and so on. It was made manifest that the Negro can\nsucceed in any trade or occupation that the white man follows. They are\ndiversifying their labor more and more. They are physicians, lawyers,\nmaster-mechanics, bridge-builders. They edit, own and manage a hundred\nnewspapers.\n\nThe avidity with which they receive education, and profit by it, is\nanother indication of their capacity for advancement. True, there is\nstill an appalling illiteracy among them, some 70 per cent. of them in\nthe South being unable to write. But we must remember that hardly a\nquarter of a century ago it was a crime to teach one of them to read;\nthey were sedulously kept in compulsory ignorance, and since the ban was\nremoved, poverty, lack of schools and teachers, and other causes have\nprevented their advancement as rapidly as we may expect in future. But\nmuch has been done for them in this particular. Dr. Haygood estimates\nthat about $50,000,000 has been spent for the education of the Negro\nsince the war, nearly half of which has come from the benevolence of the\nNorth. Through the American Missionary Association alone some\n$10,000,000 has gone into the school and church work for the Negro, both\nalike educational. There are some 200 schools carried on in the South by\ndifferent benevolent organizations, having over 28,000 colored youth in\nthem. Of these, ninety are colleges or high schools, and furnish\nteachers and educated leaders for this race. Three-quarters of a million\ndollars a year flows southward from Northern generosity to this work.\nAnd besides this, is the work being done by the South itself for the\ncolored youth in its public schools. A million Negroes are in the 15,000\ncolored schools of the South to-day, being taught by 15,000 teachers of\ntheir own color, the best of whom have been educated in these schools\nnurtured by Northern benevolence. And what is the result? The illiteracy\nin this race diminished 10 per cent. between 1870 and 1880, showing the\neagerness of the people for improvement. It is estimated that two\nmillions of the blacks can now read the Bible for themselves. And the\nuniversities for higher education find the Negro as susceptible to the\nbest culture, as capable of receiving thorough discipline and of being\nhighly educated as the white boys and girls in our Northern colleges.\nThe time is not far distant when colored college graduates, instead of\nbeing reckoned by hundreds as now, will be numbered by thousands, and\nwhen we shall see some Mark Hopkins in ebony.\n\nThe time has gone by when intelligent men can talk about the inferiority\nof this race. When representative Southern men declare that they were\nmistaken in their former view, when such men as ex-Governor Brown, of\nGeorgia, convinced by the examinations of our Atlanta University,\npublicly declares, \"I was wrong; I am converted,\" that ought to be\nenough. But if not, the men of recognized ability and success among the\nblacks refute the old misrepresentation, now being revived in some\nquarters. When our Government sends its ministers abroad, Frederick\nDouglass and John M. Langston; when Senator Bruce and Representative\nLynch are regarded as peers of their white brethren in the political\narena; when college chairs are ably filled by such men as Professor\nGregory, of Howard University; when colored delegates captivate a\nNational council by their eloquence and ability; when Harvard University\nand Cornell University, by the choice of the students themselves, elect\ncolored men to be their representative orators, surely it is much too\nlate in the day to talk of the inferiority of the colored race. They are\nas well endowed by the Creator as any people in the world, and with\ntraining, culture, and a fair chance they will play their part in the\nworld as well as any. It is such a people that we may predict will have\na large share in adding to our National prosperity in the future.\n\nOur first duty is to aid the Negro to attain more of moral power.\nWhatever he wins in the future he must secure because he deserves to. It\nwill not come to him by favoritism nor by chance, but because he\nconquers the situation, and by his own ability and resolute endeavor\nfairly captures the prize of success. This the weak, degraded,\nuntutored, semi-barbarous Negro can never do. He must develop a strong,\nclean manhood, equipped with the virtues to which success is\nfore-ordained, if he would be master of the future in a large way.\nProvidence is helping him by the discipline of present exigences,\nmaking even the wrongs and hardships he is suffering a gymnastic to\neliminate weakness and develop moral power. His ambition is chastened,\nhis indolence is rebuked, his patience, courage, and persistence are\nbeing trained. But Providence waits for us to give him more direct\nassistance in this matter. We can re-enforce him in certain directions\nwhere he is now in great need of help. There are certain vices against\nwhich he needs to be armed and aided. In answer to the inquiry, What is\nthe greatest hindrance to the advancement of the colored race? the\nanswer comes promptly from several sources, \"Drink.\" This is one of the\nnew perils of his freedom, for in the old days of bondage it was a penal\noffense to sell liquor to a slave; but since the war, drunkenness has\nbeen a widespread curse among them, and to-day hangs like a mill-stone\nto the neck of many a Negro to prevent his rising. The sin of\nlicentiousness prevails also to an alarming degree in many quarters. And\nwherever intemperance and social immorality abound, you find also the\nkindred vices of dishonesty, lying and laziness. No people can possibly\nhave a great future in whose life these iniquities burn like a consuming\nfire. The manhood will be utterly burnt out of them before it can bear\nfruit in a large success. We need to send apostles of reform among them\nto turn them from their vices. We need to erect barriers of defense to\nprotect them from temptation. Above all, we need to teach them a\nreligion indissolubly joined with morality, a religion that means\ncharacter and virtue, whose daily experience will mean the constant\nincrease of moral power. The Negroes, like the Athenians of Paul's day,\nare very religious. They revel in camp meetings and fairly wallow in\nrevivals. But too often their piety is the mere gush of emotion, and in\nhideous conjunction with gross evils. They need an intelligent piety and\nan educated ministry. As Dr. Powell said, they ought to have 7,000\neducated ministers, when now in our sense of the word educated, they\nhave hardly 500. The church work of this Association is a powerful aid\nto their moral upliftment.\n\nOur next duty is to furnish the Negro plentifully with opportunities for\neducation. An ignorant race can have no future, save one of degradation\nfor themselves, and of increasing danger for the nation of which it is a\npart. The ignorant Negro must be abolished by the school-house. Training\nfor the mind, training for the hand, the development and drill of all\nthe powers of life are necessary to make the Negro no more a peril, but\na factor of immense value in securing the future prosperity of this\ncountry. We must do far more in this direction than has ever yet been\ndone. The South is still poor and cannot furnish adequately the means\nfor doing this work as it should be done. The benevolence of the North\nmust furnish still larger sums for education, that the colored race may\nbe made safe for us and for themselves.\n\nAnd, last but not least, we must secure to the Negro the full enjoyment\nof all his rights and privileges in church and State. He cannot attain\nthe measure of success and usefulness toward which Providence points, if\nhe is to be kept in a state of peonage. A black man is no better for\nbeing black, but he is none the less a man on that account. The simple\nthing to be insisted on is that he shall be treated as a man, entitled\nto the same rights as other men, and protected in his enjoyment of them.\nThis is no time to relax our emphasis on this point, when the bitterness\nof the caste spirit is venting itself in violence, and in assertion that\nwhite supremacy must be maintained by illegal means if it cannot be by\nlegal. We maintain that the only safety for the South, and the only way\nto its large prosperity, is by securing fair play to every man within\nits borders. There must not be one law for the white man and another for\nthe black. There must not be one standard of legal protection in the\nNorth and another in the South. Anarchy in Chicago is not a whit worse\nnor more dangerous than anarchy in the South, that defies law and rules\nby the mob in order to gratify race prejudice. Conspiracy to murder in\nChicago is not more outrageous and perilous than the conspiracy of men\nof one color in the South to get rid of obnoxious men of another color\nby the shot-gun. Injustice and wrong will always bring forth a harvest\nof disaster in any part of the country. Fair play for every man must be\nour motto. We must have no color-line in politics, no color-line in the\nchurch; but equal rights for all before the law, and in the church equal\nprivileges of Christian brotherhood.\n\nIt is for us to clear the way thus for Providence to carry out its wise\ndesigns for this race. And if we fulfill our part of the work\nfaithfully, what may not this people, educated and regenerated, add of\nblessing and benefit to our common country. If out of a race of slaves\nGod in the old time could raise up a Moses, if out of a rude race of sea\npirates and robber chiefs, who drank their mead from the skulls of their\nenemies, He could raise up a Shakespeare, what may He not develop out of\nthis long despised and defrauded people? Let us furnish freely the\nchannels through which God may work, that in His providence \"the weak\nthings of the world may become mighty\" for good to our land.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\n\nMISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n\nThe Iowa Woman's Union is working nobly toward the support of our school\nat Savannah, Ga., and the sympathetic bond between helpers North and\nhelpers South shows that the money contributions open the way to warmer\nmissionary impulse and more efficient service--the influence acting and\nre-acting, adding blessings both to him that gives and him that takes.\nOne of their teachers writes:\n\n\"Never have we had a more prosperous year, if we are to take numbers\ninto account. Every seat in school is taken, and we are obliged to\ndispose of about sixty more the best way we can. But these added numbers\nbring to us heavier cares and responsibilities, and as never before do\nwe turn to you this year for the help of your praying and trustful\nworkers. So many have come in who are professing Christians, and still\nit seems as though we had before us to teach them the rudiments of\nChristian living; and there are so many older ones with no knowledge of\nthe _Way_, that the heart almost grows faint at the outlook. The work is\nbefore us, but we are longing for the baptism of _fire_. Will you not\ncheer us with some assurance that _you_ with us are uniting in this\npetition?\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE IN HUMBLE LIFE.\n\nThe reports from our field work are not all made up of statistics. They\nsometimes touch the essence of genuine Christian experience and tell us\nhow life is lived and death is met among the lowly. The little sketches\ngiven below are of this sort.\n\n\n\"We are grateful for the memories of some who were with us last year,\nthirsting for knowledge, whom we are permitted to think of now as before\nthe throne of God, drinking from the 'living fountains of water.' One\nwas Oliver, a man in the middle age of life, a bricklayer by trade, and\na lay-preacher in the Baptist church. A part of two years he had been in\nschool. His progress was slow, and he could read but indifferently in\nthe Third Reader. His parting words to us at the close of last year\nwere, 'I shall be at the starting of the school next year, and I will\nstay till I go through the course.' His death, after an illness of two\ndays, was the first item of news carried to us from here after we had\nreached our Northern homes. We shall not soon forget how in the warm\nsummer days, at the noon recess, he was wont to sit in the shade of the\nhouse with his open Bible in his hand. Often we would overhear him, with\npainstaking repetition, studying a psalm of David, or some passage from\nthe 'Sermon on the Mount.' I heard him in the pulpit once when he\npreached a warning discourse, his theme that of John the Baptist,\n'Repent, and be baptized!' He was not a 'shouter' or a 'ranter,' but\nspoke and acted in a quiet, manly way. His sincerity was such that he\nthoroughly won our respect, and we revere his memory.\n\n\"The next to go hence was little Isaiah, or Iser, as the children called\nhim. He began school last year, and was so quick and bright that he was\nalways first in his class. He never forgot anything that he was once\ntold. Bible stories were his especial delight. Often he would beg to be\nallowed to have a Bible in his hands that he might read it for himself.\nHe often asked to be permitted to read the last chapter of Revelation.\nOne of the pictures on an old chart represented a lamb with feet bound\nlying on the ground, beside the altar of the temple, Jesus standing near\nwith upraised hand, talking to the people. How radiant was little Iser's\nblack face as he would tell the story in his own words, ending thus: 'He\ntold them they need not kill the lambs any more, for He was come to die\nfor the sins of the people.'\n\n\"His grandmother sits alone in her lowly cabin. She had hoped for a prop\nand stay in her advancing years. The little boy was always active, kind\nand helpful. Her tears fall as she speaks of her loss, yet with an\nupward glance she says: 'He's gone to a better worl'. There's nary\nnight, nor sin, nor sickness. Pie use to read to me all about it, an'\nI'se gwine to see him fo' long, an' my three children thet's thar! Bress\nthe Lawd!'\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.\n\nCO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n\nMAINE.\n\nWOMAN'S AID TO A.M.A.\nChairman of Committee--Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.\n\n\nVERMONT.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. A.B. Swift, 167 King St., Burlington.\nSecretary--Mrs. E.C. Osgood, 14 First Ave., Montpelier.\nTreasurer--Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.\n\n\nMASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND.\n\n[1]WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\nPresident--Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, Cambridge, Mass.\nSecretary--Miss Nathalie Lord, 32 Congregational House, Boston.\nTreasurer--Miss Ella A. Leland, 32 Congregational House, Boston.\n\n[Footnote 1: For the purpose of exact Information, we note that while\nthe W.H.M.A. appears in this list as a State body for Mass. and R.I., it\nhas certain auxiliaries elsewhere.]\n\n\nCONNECTICUT.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. Francis B. Cooley, Hartford.\nSecretary--Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford.\nTreasurer--Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St., Hartford.\n\n\nNEW YORK.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., Brooklyn.\nSecretary--Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 6 Salmon Block, Syracuse.\nTreasurer--Mrs. L.H. Cobb, 59 Bible House, New York City.\n\n\nOHIO.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. J.G.W. Cowles, 417 Sibley St., Cleveland.\nSecretary--Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin.\nTreasurer--Mrs. F.L. Fairchild, Box 932, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.\n\n\nINDIANA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. C.B. Safford, Elkhart.\nSecretary--Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne.\nTreasurer--Mrs. C. Evans, Indianapolis.\n\n\nILLINOIS.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, 409 Orchard St., Chicago.\nSecretary--Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago.\nTreasurer--Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Champaign.\n\n\nIOWA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. T.O. Douglass, Grinnell.\nSecretary--Miss Ella E. Marsh, Box 232, Grinnell.\nTreasurer--Mrs. M.J. Nichoson, 1513 Main St., Dubuque.\n\n\nMICHIGAN.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. George M. Lane, 47 Miami Ave., Detroit.\nSecretary--Mrs. Leroy Warren, Lansing.\nTreasurer--Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Greenville.\n\n\nWISCONSIN.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. H.A. Miner, Madison.\nSecretary--Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead.\nTreasurer--Mrs. C.C. Keller, Beloit.\n\n\nMINNESOTA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.\nPresident--Mrs. E.S. Williams, Box 464, Minneapolis.\nSecretary--Miss Gertude A. Keith, 1350, Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis.\nTreasurer--Mrs. M.W. Skinner, Northfield.\n\n\nNORTH DAKOTA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.\nPresident--Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight.\nSecretary--Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.\nTreasurer--Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo.\n\n\nSOUTH DAKOTA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdle.\nSecretary--Mrs. T.M. Jeffris, Huron.\nTreasurer--Mrs. S.E. Fifield, Lake Preston.\n\n\nNEBRASKA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. T.H. Leavitt, 1216 H. St., Lincoln.\nSecretary--Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 No. Broad St., Fremont.\nTreasurer--Mrs. D.E. Perry, Crete.\n\n\nMISSOURI.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. C.L. Goodell, 3006 Pine St., St. Louis.\nSecretary--Mrs. E.P. Bronson, 3100 Chestnut St., St. Louis.\nTreasurer--Mrs. A.E. Cook, 4145 Bell Ave., St. Louis.\n\n\nKANSAS.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.\nPresident--Mrs. F.J. Storrs, Topeka.\nSecretary--Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka.\nTreasurer--Mrs. J.G. Dougherty, Ottawa.\n\n\nCOLORADO AND WYOMING.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. J.W. Pickett, White Water, Colorado.\nSecretary--Miss Mary L. Martin, 106 Platte Aye., Colorado\n  Springs, Colorado.\nTreasurer--Mrs. S.A. Sawyer, Boulder, Colorado.\nTreasurer--Mrs. W.L. Whipple, Cheyenne, Wyoming.\n\n\nSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. Elijah Cash, 927 Temple St., Los Angeles.\nSecretary--Mrs. H.K.W. Bent, Box 426, Pasadena.\nTreasurer--Mrs. H.W. Mills, So. Olive St., Los Angeles.\n\n\nCALIFORNIA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.\nPresident--Mrs. H.L. Merritt, 686 34th St., Oakland.\nSecretary--Miss Grace E. Barnard, 677 21st. St., Oakland.\nTreasurer--Mrs. J.M. Havens, 1329 Harrison St., Oakland.\n\n\nLOUISIANA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. R.D. Hitchcock, New Orleans.\nSecretary--Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans.\nTreasurer--Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Hammond.\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. A.F. Whiting, Tougaloo.\nSecretary--Miss Sarah J. Humphrey, Tougaloo.\nTreasurer--Miss S.L. Emerson, Tougaloo.\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. H.W. Andrews, Talladega.\nSecretary--Miss S.S. Evans, 2612 Fifth Ave., Birmingham.\nTreasurer--Mrs. E.J. Penney, Selma.\n\n\nFLORIDA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. S.F. Gale, Jacksonville.\nSecretary--Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.\nTreasurer--Mrs. L.C. Partridge, Longwood.\n\n\nTENNESSEE AND ARKANSAS.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE CENTRAL\nSOUTH ASSOCIATION.\nPresident--Miss M.F. Wells, Athens, Ala.\nSecretary--Miss A.M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn.\nTreasurer--Mrs. G.S. Pope, Grand View, Tenn.\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Miss E. Plimpton, Chapel Hill.\nSecretary--Miss A.E. Farrington, Raleigh.\nTreasurer--Miss Lovey Mayo, Raleigh.\n\n\nWe would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State\nMissionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association be\nsent to us through the treasurers of the Union. Care, however, should be\ntaken to designate the money as for the American Missionary Association,\nsince _undesignated funds will not reach us_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nRECEIPTS FOR JANUARY, 1890.\n\n\nTHE DANIEL HAND FUND, _For the Education of Colored People._\n\nFROM\n\nMr. DANIEL HAND, GUILFORD, CONN.\n\nIncome for January, 1890 ...$832.50\n\nIncome previously acknowledged ...960.00\n\n--------\n\nTotal ...$1,793.50\n\n========\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCURRENT RECEIPTS.\n\n\nMAINE, $1,173.21.\n\nAndover. 2 Bbls. _for Raleigh, N.C._; 3.60, _for Freight_ ...3.60\n\nBangor. Central Cong. Ch., 50.; Hammond St. Ch. and Soc., 6 ...56.00\n\nBangor. Central Cong. Ch., 50; Dea. Wm. S. Dennett, 10; Rev. G.W. Field,\n2; _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...62.00\n\nBangor. Hammond St. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill Academy, Tenn._ ...2.50\n\nBangor. Mrs. Coe, 7; Central Ch., 5, _for Oahe Indian M._ ...12.00\n\nBangor. Dr. Hanson, _for Tougaloo U._ ...5.00\n\nBangor. \"Friends,\" Pkg. of C., _for Macon, Ga._\n\nBingham. Cong. Ch. ...1.25\n\nBrunswick. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n\nCalais. Bbl., 1.36, _for Freight, for Raleigh, N.C._ ...1.36\n\nCastine. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 5; Rev. Alfred E. Ives, 2 ...7.00\n\nDennysville. Cong. Ch. ...10.36\n\nEast Sumner. Bbl., by Mrs. Hubbard; 2 _for Freight, for Raleigh,\nN.C._ ...2.00\n\nFarmington. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n\nFryeburg. Mrs. J.E. Dinsmore, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...4.00\n\nHallowell. Miss Annie F. Page ...30.00\n\nLewiston. High St. Cong. Ch. (100 _of which for Freedmen_, 85 _for\nIndian M._, _and_ 15 _for Chinese M._) ...301.90\n\nLewiston. Mrs. E.S. Davis ...1.00\n\nMontville. Miss A.L. McDowell, _for Selma, Ala._ ...1.00\n\nNorth Bridgton. Children's Mite Box, Sab. Sch. of First Cong.\nCh. ...6.00\n\nNew Gloucester. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._ 2.80 _for Freight_ ...2.80\n\nOrland. H.T. and S.E. Buck, 20; A Friend, 1 ...21.00\n\nOrrington. Bbl.; 2. _for Freight, for Raleigh, N.C._ ...2.00\n\nPortland. State St. Cong. Ch., 200; Williston Ch., 177.65; High St. Ch.,\n110.74; Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 79.81 ...568.29\n\nPortland. Mrs. L.R. Farrington's Class, Seamen's Bethel S.S., _for\nIndian M._ ...10.00\n\nPortland. Williston Ch., Y.P.S.C.E., Bbl., 1.24 _for Freight, for\nRaleigh, N.C._ ...1.24\n\nPortland. 2 Bbls. and Package, 1. _for Freight, for Raleigh,\nN.C._ ...1.00\n\nPortland. Payson Memorial Ch., Box Bedding, _for Selma, Ala._\n\nPortland. \"Alpha Ten,\" Half-Bbl., _for Selma, Ala._\n\nPownal. Perez Chapin ...10.00\n\nSaccarappa. Westbrook Cong. Ch. ...25.50\n\nSidney. Miss A. Sawtelle ...4.50\n\nSkowhegan. 3 Bbls. of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n\nUnion. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n\nWells. B. Maxwell ...20.00\n\nWest Falmouth. Mrs. M.E. Hall, Pkg. Basted Work and Thread, _for Selma,\nAla._\n\nWoodfords. Mission Band, Box of C., _for Lexington, Ky._\n\n\nNEW HAMPSHIRE, $703.57.\n\nAmherst. First Cong. Ch. ...3.00\n\nBedford. Cong. Ch. ...5.37\n\nChester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...10.00\n\nConcord. The Light Bearers, by Mrs. C.P. Bancroft, _for Student Aid,\nWilliamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...21.00\n\nConcord. Dea. F. Coffin's S.S. Class, _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...10.00\n\nConcord. \"Light Bearers\" of South Ch., _for Santee Indian M._ ...5.00\n\nDublin. Mrs. R. Eaton ...15.00\n\nEpping. Ladies of Cong. Ch., B. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._\n\nFarmington. Cong. Ch. ...9.14\n\nFranklin. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nGreat Falls. First Cong. Ch. ...20.00\n\nGreat Falls. Mrs. A.P. Dixon, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill,\nTenn._ ...10.00\n\nGreat Falls. Home M. Soc., Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta, Ga._\n\nHampstead. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., to const. REV. ALBERT WATSON\nL.M. ...32.50\n\nHancock. Cong. Ch. ...25.00\n\nHarrisville. Mrs. L.B. Richardson ...10.00\n\nLebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...50.00\n\nLempster. Helen Bingham & Marianna Smith ...3.00\n\nLondonderry. Chas. S. Pillsbury ...1.00\n\nKeene. Miss M.A. Wheeler and Mrs. K.L. Wright's S.S. Classes, Second\nCong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...35.00\n\nKeene. Second Cong. Ch. ...28.16\n\nManchester. Franklin St. Cong. Ch. ..188.60\n\nManchester. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fort Berthold Indian\nSch., North Dak._ ...70.00\n\nNashua. First Cong. Ch. ...22.14\n\nNashua. Y.P.S.C.E. of Plym. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...35.00\n\nNashua. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Charleston, S.C._ ...11.25\n\nNashua. \"Friends,\" Bbl. of C., 1. _for Freight, for Greenwood,\nS.C._ ...1.00\n\nNew Ipswich. Cong. Ch. ...1.50\n\nNorthumberland (N.H.) & Guildhall (Vt.), Box of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nOrford. John Pratt ...15.00\n\nPembroke. Cong. Ch., 13.66; Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, 5 ...18.66\n\nPembroke. Rev. A. Ward, _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...10.00\n\nPenacook. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nPenacook. Bbl. of C., etc, _for Macon, Ga._\n\nPittsfield. \"Friends,\" by Miss Sue G. French, 2 Bbls. of C., etc., _for\nMarion, Ala._\n\nRindge. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., 1.60 _for Freight, for Atlanta,\nGa._ ...1.60\n\nSouth Newmarket. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...10.63\n\nSouth Newmarket. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C., _for Wilmington,\nN.C._\n\nTemple. R.R. Goodyear ...1.00\n\nTilden. Seminary and Mission Band of Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta, Ga._\n\nTroy. Trin. Cong. Ch. ...4.02\n\nWest Concord. Young Ladies' Soc, Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta, Ga._\n\n\nVERMONT, $531.45.\n\nBarton. W.H.M. Soc. and Girls' C.H. Soc., B. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nBennington. Second Cong. Ch. ...39.76\n\nBethel. Y.P.S.C.E., Bbl. of C., 2. _for Freight, for McIntosh,\nGa._ ...2.00\n\nBrownington. B. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nBrownington. _For McIntosh, Ga._ ...5.00\n\nCalais. A.H. Howard, Papers and Cards, _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nCastleton. Cong. Ch., 25. _for Santee Indian Sch._; 20.95 _for Indian\nM._; 20.95 _for Freedmen_ ...66.90\n\nDerby. Industrial Circle, Box of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nEast Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. ...43.00\n\nGeorgia. Cong. Ch. ...11.15\n\nManchester. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nMilton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...6.95\n\nMilton. L.M. Dougherty, Pkg. Christmas Cards, _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nMontgomery. Dea. Heman Hopkins ...3.00\n\nNewport. Ladies' Social Union, Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nNorth Thetford. Cong. Soc. ...5.71\n\nPittsford. Cong. Ch., 42.64; Mrs. Nancy P. Humphrey, 10 ...52.64\n\nRutland. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Scholarship, Fisk U._ ...50.00\n\nRutland. \"The Fortnightly,\" _for McIntosh, Ga._ ...10.00\n\nSaint Albans. Mrs. F.S. Stranahan, Box Christmas Gifts, _for McIntosh,\nGa._\n\nSaint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. ...127.50\n\nSharon. \"Three Friends\" ...3.00\n\nSouth Newbury. Mrs. M. Brush, Material, _for Sew. Sch., Meridian, Miss._\n\nStowe. \"Whatsoever Mission Circle,\" Pkg. Needle Books, _for McIntosh,\nGa._\n\nVergennes. B. of C., 2. _for Freight, for McIntosh, Ga._ ...2.00\n\nWaitsfield. Opportunity Club and Home Circle, Bbl. of C., 2. _for\nFreight, for McIntosh, Ga._ ...2.00\n\nWest Brattleboro. Cong. Ch. ...45.40\n\nWoodstock. ---- ...17.41\n\n----. \"A Friend\" ...4.00\n\n\nMASSACHUSETTS. $11,013.98.\n\nAmherst. First Cong. Ch., 30; Wm. M. Graves 20; \"A Friend,\" 15; South\nCong. Ch., 8 ...73.00\n\nAmherst. Mrs. Henry L Hubbell, 2 B. of C.; A.B.H. Davis, Christmas\nCards, _for Austin, Texas._\n\nAndover. Mrs. Phebe A. Chandler, _for Chandler Normal Sch. Building,\nLexington, Ky._ ...346.91\n\nAndover. South Cong. Ch., 62; West Cong. Ch., 50; Sab. Sch. of West\nCong. Ch, 39.41; \"In Memoriam,\" 1.50; Miss S.E. Jackson, 1 ...153.91\n\nAshby. Cong. Ch. ...12.61\n\nAshburnham. Hosea Greene ...5.00\n\nAshfield. Mrs. Daniel Williams, _for Freight to McLeansville,\nS.C._ ...1.16\n\nAttleboro. Second Cong. Ch., 16.50; Primary Dept. Second Cong. Sab.\nSch., 13.38, _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...29.88\n\nAttleboro. First Cong. Ch. ...7.62\n\nAuburndale. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...46.49\n\nAuburndale. \"Thank Offering,\" _for Indian M._ ...10.00\n\nAuburndale. \"Friend,\" _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...3.00\n\nBeverly, Washington St. Ch. ...65.81\n\nBeverly. Dane St. Cong. Ch., _for Grand View, Tenn._ ...50.00\n\nBoxford. \"The Gleaners,\" Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nBridgewater. Mrs. M.S. Dunham ...1.00\n\nBrockton. \"O.C. Club\" ...1.50\n\nBrookfield. Cong. Ch. ...68.69\n\nBrookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. ...298.38\n\nBrookline. Harvard Ch., _for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill Academy,\nTenn._ ...36.75\n\nBuckland. ---- _for Sherwood, Tenn._ ...10.00\n\nBoston. Mrs. Susan Warren, 300.; Miss Cornelia Warren, 200., _for Girls'\nHall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...500.00\n\nMrs. Susan Warren and daughter, _for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill Academy,\nTenn._ ...75.00\n\nUnion Cong. Ch. ...304.65\n\nUnion Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...60.71\n\n\"Union Workers\" of Union Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ ...10.00\n\n\"A Friend\" ...150.00\n\nPark St. Y.P.S.C.E., _for two Indian Sch'ps_ ...100.00\n\n\"Partial payment of the debt due from the North to the Colored race of\nthe South\" ...50.00\n\nMrs. Susan Hardy, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...50.00\n\n\"A Friend,\" _for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...27.00\n\n----, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ... 25.00\n\nEliot Ch. Y.P.S.C.E, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...15.00\n\n\"M.L.E.\" ...10.00\n\n\"R.M.\" ...10.00\n\nMarion Lawrence and Constance Somers. _for Birds' Nest, Santee Agency,\nNeb._ ...3.50\n\nHarvard Cong. Ch., Everett Sharpe, _for Pleasant Hill Academy,\nTenn._ ...3.00\n\n\"A Friend\" ...2.00\n\nHomeland Circle of Park St. Ch., _for Freight to Straight U._ ...2.00\n\nMt. Vernon Ch., ad'l ...1.00\n\n\"Lend a hand Club,\" Box of Christmas goods, _for Wilmington, N.C._\n\nY.W.C.A. Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._\n\nCong. Pub. Soc., \"Youths' Library,\" _for Raleigh, N.C._\n\nDorchester. Second Cong. Ch. ...92.57\n\nMrs. E.J.W. Baker, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...60.00\n\nVillage Ch. Sab. Sch., to const. MRS. MARY LOUISE SWAN L.M. ...54.65\n\nPilgrim Cong. Ch ...30.00\n\nB. Wilkin's S.S. Class, 8; Thomas Knapp's S.S. Class, 8, _for\nWilmington, N.C._ ...16.00\n\nMrs. Mary L. Houston, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...5.00\n\nHoward St. Ch., Mrs. M. Heusten, Box of C., _for Selman, Ala._\n\nHarvard Cong. Ch. ...2.40\n\nMiss M.E. Lapham's S.S. Class, Box Christmas gifts, 1 _for Freight for\nRaleigh, N.C._ ...1.00\n\nRoxbury. Immanuel Ch. Ladies' Benev. Soc., _for Girls' Dormitory,\nPleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...38.50\n\nBenev. Soc. Immanuel Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n\nMrs. Mary B Hooker ...25.00\n\n\"A Friend\" ...5.00\n\nEliot Cong. Ch. ...1.00\n\nSouth Boston. Philips Cong. Ch., ad'l ...25.00\n\nWest Roxbury. South Evan. Ch. ...24.51\n\n-------- 1779.49\n\nCambridge. North Av. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nCambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 78.82; Mrs. M.L.C. Whitney, 1 ...79.82\n\nCambridgeport. \"The Ten\" and \"A Friend,\" Half Bbl. of C., _for Pleasant\nHill, Tenn._\n\nCharlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...41.75\n\nChelsea. Miss E. Davenport, _for Mountain Work_ ...5.00\n\nChelsea. C.H. Keelar's S.S. Class, _for Student Aid, Oahe Indian\nSch._ ...3.75\n\nCheshire. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Macon, Ga._\n\nClarendon Hills. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...3.37\n\nConway. Cong. Ch. ...8.00\n\nCurtisville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Oaks, N.C._ ...28.53\n\nCurtisville. George B. Dresser ...5.00\n\nDalton. Zenas Crane, 100; Mrs. J.B. Crane, 100 ...200.00\n\nDedham. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Straight\nU._ ...25.00\n\nEast Douglas. Cong. Ch. ...42.04\n\nEast Longmeadow. \"A Friend\" ...1.00\n\nEast Weymouth. Cong. Ch. ...40.00\n\nEast Weymouth. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Pleasant Hill,\nTenn._\n\nEnfield. Cong. Ch. ...48.49\n\nEnfield. Woman's Miss'y Soc., by Mrs. J.E. Woods, 15 _for Indian and_ 15\n_for Chinese M._ ...30.00\n\nFall River. First Cong. Ch. (20 of which _for Indian M._) ...72.95\n\nFall River. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...17.50\n\nFitchburg. C.C. Ch., Mrs. E.M. Dickinson ...8.00\n\nFramingham. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...22.50\n\nFramingham. Mrs. S.N. Brewer ...6.00\n\nFranklin. Missionary Soc., _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...6.00\n\nGilbertville. Cong. Ch. ...61.70\n\nGeorgetown. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 10 _for Atlanta U._, 15 _for\nMountain Work_, 10 _for Hampton Inst._ ...35.00\n\nGloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 92; Mrs. Nancy E.\nBrooks, 10 ...102.00\n\nGoshen. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nGreat Barrington. \"A Friend\" ...5.00\n\nHadley. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. ...12.17\n\nHanover. Second Cong. Ch., on True Blue Card ...5.00\n\nHarvard. \"A Friend\" ...25.00\n\nHarwich. Cong. Ch. ...5.51\n\nHaverhill. Center Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...130.00\n\nHaverhill. Sab. Sch. of West Cong. Ch., Class No. 1, 10; Class No. 2,\n10.62; Proceeds Harvest Festival, 41; West Cong. Ch., 4 ...65.62\n\nHolden. Cong. Ch. ...10.50\n\nHolliston. \"Bible Christians\" ...100.00\n\nHolyoke. F.B. Towne, Case Blank Books; Parsons Paper Co., Case Paper,\n_for Macon, Ga._\n\nIpswich. Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Ramona Sch.,\nNew Mexico_ ...75.00\n\nIpswich. South Cong. Ch., (5 of which _for Ramona Sch., New\nMexico_) ...55.00\n\nLawrence. Lawrence St. Church ...34.29\n\nLawrence. Mrs. T.C. Wittemore, _for Indian M._ ...11.50\n\nLeicester. First Cong. Ch. ...38.14\n\nLeominster. Orthodox. Cong. Ch. ...39.45\n\nLeverett. Cong. Ch. ...15.60\n\nLexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...17.29\n\nLowell. Kirk St. Ch., 142.64; Mrs. Mary Stetson, 5.45 ...148.09\n\nLudlow. \"Precious Pearls,\" _for Student Aid, Sherwood, Tenn._ ...5.00\n\nLudlow. Mission Circle, Bbl. of C., _for Macon, Ga._\n\nMarlboro. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...25.00\n\nMarlboro. Union Cong. Ch., ad'l, _for Indian M._ ...10.00\n\nMarshfield. Rev. E. Alden, _for Freight to Williamsburg. Ky._ ...1.68\n\nMedway. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...8.70\n\nMerrimac. Cong. Ch. ...70.00\n\nMethuen. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...5.62\n\nMiddleboro. Miss Carrie Bryant, _for Atlanta U._ ...10.00\n\nMilford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ ...10.00\n\nMillbury. C.E. Hunt ...20.00\n\nMittineague. Southworth & Co., Case Paper, _for Atlanta Ga._\n\nMonson. Sarah E. Bradford, 4.50; An aged Lady, 1 ...5.50\n\nMonson. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_, 5; \"Spare Minutes\"\nSoc., Box of C., _for Jellico, Tenn._ ...5.00\n\nMonson. Cong. Ch., 2 B. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._\n\nNewton. Eliot Cong. Ch., 321.51; First Cong. Ch., 102.78 ...424.29\n\nNewton. \"The Mutual Bible Class,\" by Moses R. Emerson, Proceeds of Sale\nof Onyx Pendant, _for Troy, N.C._ ...30.00\n\nNewton Center. Mrs. Banesfield's S.S. Class, Pkg. Christmas Gifts, _for\nTougaloo, Miss._\n\nNobscot. \"A Friend,\" _for Mountain Work_ ...1.00\n\nNorfolk. Union Ch. ...2.50\n\nNorthampton. \"Mission Band,\" Smith College, _for Williamsburg,\nKy._ ...18.00\n\nNorthampton. Postal Note ...0.50\n\nNorthboro. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...8.65\n\nNorth Brookfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...15.00\n\nNorthfield. Trin. Cong. Ch. ...7.00\n\nNorth Weymouth. Cong. Ch., 21.14; Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 21 ...42.14\n\nNorwood. First Cong. Ch. ...192.16\n\nPepperell. Cong. Ch. ...18.94\n\nPittsfield. James H. Dunham ...100.00\n\nPittsfield. Mrs. H.M. Hurd, 2 Bbls. of C., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n\nQuincy. Cong. Ch. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...10.00\n\nRandolph. \"Sunshine,\" _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...5.00\n\nRandolph. Y.L.M. Soc., Half Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n\nReading. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ ...50.00\n\nReading. \"A Friend,\" \"In Memoriam\" ...5.00\n\nRehoboth. Cong. Ch. ...14.30\n\nRockland. Cong. Ch., to const. MISS AUGUSTA SMITH and MISS HELEN FICKEL,\nL.M.'s ...60.00\n\nRockland. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...25.00\n\nRoyalston. Charles F. Chase, _for Student Aid, Brewer Normal\nSch._ ...10.00\n\nSalem. South Cong. Ch. ...73.75\n\nSalem. Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill Academy, Tenn._ ...14.00\n\nSalem. Crombie St. Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._\n\nSomerville. Winter Hill Cong. Ch. ...17.60\n\nSouth Framingham. Cong. Ch., 10; \"Two Children,\" 5, _for Pleasant Hill\nAcademy, Tenn._ ...15.00\n\nSouth Hadley. Mrs. Maria B. Gridley ...5.00\n\nSouth Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._\n\nSouth Weymouth. ----, _for Student Aid, Ballard Normal Sch., Macon,\nGa._ ...20.00\n\nSpencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...318.42\n\nSpencer. \"Nickel Band,\" through W.H.M.A., _for Oahe Indian M._ ...10.00\n\nSpringfield. R.H. Clizbe ...18.00\n\nSpringfield. Olivet Ch., Y.P.S.C.E., _for Darling Mem. Chapel, Fort\nYates, Dak._ ...18.00\n\nSpringfield. \"Wide Awake\" Soc., South Ch., _for Student Aid,\nFisk U._ ...5.00\n\nStockbridge. Miss Alice Byington, _for Indian M._ ...30.00\n\nTaunton. Union Ch. ...44.73\n\nTewksbury. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...5.35\n\nTownsend. \"Mrs. L.H.S.\" ...10.00\n\nWakefield. Cong. Ch. ...66.74\n\nWakefield. Mon. Con. Cong. Ch., 17.50; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 19.83,\nand Primary Dept., 10, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...47.33\n\nWakefield. Mission Workers of Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ ...23.00\n\nWalpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...50.28\n\nWaltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. ...14.10\n\nWare. East Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Santee Home_ ...25.00\n\nWare. Miss L.A. Tucker's Class, East Cong. S.S., _for Rosebud Indian\nM._ ...12.00\n\nWarren. \"Friends,\" by W.R. Robbins, _for Straight U._ ...64.00\n\nWarren. Cong. Ch., add'l ...4.00\n\nWebster. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., (2 of which _for Mountain\nWork_) ...75.00\n\nWellesley. Cong. Ch. ...178.43\n\nWellesley Hills. Cong. Ch. ...63.00\n\nWentworth. Minnie H. Bridgeman, _for Sab. Sch., Meridian, Miss._ ...2.00\n\nWest Attleboro. Home M. Circle, B. of C., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n\nWestboro. Ladies' Freedmen's Ass'n, _for Woman's Work_, 20. and Bbl. of\nC. _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._; 20. _for Freedmen_ ...40.00\n\nWest Brookfield. Cong. Ch., 38.60; Class of Girls in Cong. Sab.\nSch., 6 ...44.60\n\nWestfield. Mrs. C.W. Fowler, _for Sewing Sch., Sherwood, Tenn._ ...3.75\n\nWestminster. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...16.15\n\nWest Newbury. Second Cong. Ch., 18.88; J.C. Carr, 4 ...22.88\n\nWest Newton. Ladies' H.M. Soc., Bbl. _for Savannah, Ga._\n\nWest Newton. Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta, Ga._\n\nWest Somerville. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nWest Springfield. Ladies' Mission circle of Park St. Ch. _for Pleasant\nHill, Tenn._ ...50.00\n\nWest Springfield. Mrs. L.M. Bagg, Pkg. Patchwork, _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nWeymouth and Braintree. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10; Ladies, Bbl. of C., _for\nWilmington, N.C._ ...10.00\n\nWhitinsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...30.00\n\nWilliamsburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...58.67\n\nWilliamstown. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. E.H. BOTSFORD L.M., _for\nRosebud Indian M._ ...30.00\n\nWinchendon. North Cong. Ch., 10; Five Cent Investment Fund, 6.88;\nY.P.S.C.E., 9.12; _for Girls' Dormitory, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...26.00\n\nWinchester. First Cong. Ch. (22.70 of which _for Indian M._) ...203.74\n\nWinchester. Y.P.S.C.E. and Friends, 3 Bbls. of C. and Christmas Gifts,\n_for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nWoburn. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...25.00\n\nWoburn. North Cong. Ch. ...10.18\n\nWorcester. Union Ch., 220.41; Piedmont Ch., 103.03; Old South Cong. Ch.\nand Soc., 52; Salem St. Ch., 18.06 ...393.50\n\nWorcester. P.L. Moen, _for Academy, Williamsburg, Ky._ ...200.00\n\nWorcester. Union Cong. Ch., 40; First Bapt. Ch., 15; Central Cong. Ch.,\n12; Plymouth Ch., 8; \"A Friend,\" 1, _for Pleasant Hill Academy,\nTenn._ ...76.00\n\nWorcester. Old South Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...38.14\n\nWorcester. Miss S. Wheeler, _for Girls' Dormitory, Pleasant Hill,\nTenn._ ...20.00\n\nWorcester. Central Ch., _for Jellico, Tenn._ ...25.61\n\nWorcester. Union Ch. Benev. Soc., Box of C., _for Mobile, Ala._\n\nWorcester. ---- Books, Papers, Christmas Toys, etc., _for Sherwood,\nTenn._\n\n----. \"A Massachusetts Friend,\" _for Native Missionary, Indian\nM._ ...50.00\n\nHampden Benevolent Association, by Charles Marsh, Treasurer:\n\nChicopee. Second, _for Tougaloo U._ ...5.00\n\nEast Longmeadow ...23.00\n\nHolyoke. Second ...41.87\n\nHuntington. Second ...7.99\n\nPalmer. Second ...75.00\n\nSpringfield. South ...93.86\n\n---- First ...64.94\n\n---- Hope ...56.86\n\n---- Memorial ...37.02\n\n\"Friend\" ...5.00\n\n-------- 410.04\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Association Miss E.A. Leland, Treas., _for\nWoman's Work_:\n\n_For Salary of Teachers_ ...440.00\n\nLowell. Aux. of Kirk St. Ch. ...100.00\n\nMattapoiset. Aux. ...10.00\n\nNewton. Sab. Sch. of Eliot Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...6.25\n\n-------- 556.25\n\n--------\n\n$9,513.98\n\nESTATE.\n\nWeymouth. Estate of Dea. Jacob Loud, by John J. Loud, Ex. ...1,500.00\n\n--------\n\n$11,013.98\n\n\nCLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.\n\nSouth Berwick, Me. Ladies' Cong. Soc., Bbl., _for Raleigh, N.C._\n\nMason, N.H. Daniel Goodwin, Bbl., _for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nHollis, N.H. Rev. S.L. Gerould, Bbl., _for Birmingham, Ala._\n\nCambridgeport, Mass. Miss L. Palmer, 2 Boxes Patchwork, _for Pleasant\nHill, Tenn. and Tougaloo, Miss._\n\nNewbury. First Parish, Bbl., _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n\nNewton. Eliot Ch., Case Peloubet's Notes, _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nSalem. Pkg. Books., _for Birmingham, Ala._\n\n\"Friends In Mass.\" Box of C., etc., _for Jellico, Tenn._\n\n\nRHODE ISLAND, $249.55.\n\nBristol. First Cong. Ch. ...35.59\n\nNewport. Mrs. E.D.W. Thayer, 10; United Cong. Ch., ad'l, 19.41 ...29.41\n\nPawtucket. Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...17.30\n\nProvidence. Sab. Sch. of Union Cong. Ch. (25 of which _for Williamsburg\nAcademy, Ky._) ...75.00\n\nProvidence. Plymouth Cong. Ch, _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...37.25\n\nProvidence. James Coats, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill,\nTenn._ ...50.00\n\nProvidence. Central Ch., _for Pleasant Hill Academy, Tenn._ ...5.00\n\n\nCONNECTICUT, $2,846.26.\n\nBerlin. A.E. Hall's S.S. Class, 12.42; Miss Smith's S.S. Class, 2.80;\nMiss Rogers' S.S. Class, 1.33; _for Tougaloo U._ ...16.55\n\nBirmingham. ---- _for Indian M._ ...20.00\n\nBranford. Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ ...25.00\n\nBridgeport. Infant Class, First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud Indian\nM._ ...15.00\n\nBridgeport. South Ch., Box of Books, _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n\nBristol. Cong. Ch., 34.01; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 20 ...54.01\n\nBristol. Mrs. Peck's Class, Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...14.00\n\nBozrah. First Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nCanaan. \"For Woman's Work\" ...2.00\n\nCanton Center. Ladies' Soc., Box of C., _for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nChaplin. Cong. Ch. ...20.00\n\nChester. Cong. Ch. ...30.00\n\nChester. C.N. Smith, _for Mountain Work_ ...5.00\n\nColumbia. Mrs. W.B. Little, 6; Miss Eliza Hutchings, 1; _for McIntosh,\nGa._ ...7.00\n\nCornwall. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Christmas Box, _for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nCromwell. Cong. Ch. ...124.76\n\nEast Fair Haven. Sab. Sch. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\nFisk U._ ...10.00\n\nEast Haddam. \"A Friend\" ...5.00\n\nEast Hartford. First Ch. ...128.91\n\nEast Hartford. Miss'y Ten of King's Daughters, Box of Christmas Gifts,\n_for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nEast Woodstock. Cong. Ch. ...17.00\n\nFair Haven. Second Cong. Ch. ...52.99\n\nFarmington. First Cong. Ch. ...108.65\n\nGuilford. Miss Hattie Seward and Friends, Bbl. of C., etc., _for\nSherwood, Tenn._\n\nHadlyme. Richard E. Hungerford, 100; Cong. Ch., 2.85 ...102.85\n\nHartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch. ...309.50\n\nJewett City. Second Cong. Ch. ...12.12\n\nKensington. Miss F.A. Robbins, _for Tougaloo U._ ...5.00\n\nKensington. Mrs. Edward Cowles ...2.00\n\nLakeville. Mrs. S.S. Robbins ...5.00\n\nLedyard. Cong. Ch. ...22.43\n\nLyme. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nMeriden. E.K. Breckenridge ...5.00\n\nMiddletown. South Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian M._ ...25.00\n\nMiddletown. 2 Bbls. of C., _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nMilford. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M., Santee Agency, Neb._ ...38.76\n\nMillington. Cong. Ch. ...1.50\n\nMilton. Cong. Ch., Mrs. Ella Grannis ...5.00\n\nMorris. Cong. Ch. ...14.25\n\nMontville. First Cong. Ch. ...9.15\n\nMount Carmel. Cong. Ch. ...16.57\n\nMystic Bridge. Cong. Ch. ...16.00\n\nNaugatuck. Children's Band, Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...12.00\n\nNew Britain. First Ch. of Christ, 113.23; South Cong.\nCh., 15.16 ...128.39\n\nNew Canaan. Sab. Sch. of Cong, Ch., _for Indian M._ ...50.00\n\nNew Canaan. Woman's H.M. Soc. of Cong. Ch, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch,\nGa._ ...26.00\n\nNew Haven. Miss Caroline Ives, of Center Ch., 30, to const. MRS.\nELIZABETH TREAT KILDUFF L.M.; Mrs. M.H. Townsend. 25 ...55.00\n\nNew London. First Ch. of Christ ...57.54\n\nNew London. Friends in First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...21.00\n\nNew Preston. Circle of Girls, Box of Christmas Gifts, _for Thomasville,\nGa._\n\nNewtown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...15.00\n\nNorfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...204.24\n\nNorfolk. Miss Isabella Eldridge, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill,\nTenn._ ...10.00\n\nNorwich. Second Cong. Ch. ...145.82\n\nNorwich. First Cong. Ch., _for Jewett Memorial Hall_ ...15.00\n\nNorwich. James Dana Colt, _for Indian M._ ...1.00\n\nNorwichtown. \"First Cong. Ch.\" ...25.00\n\nOld Lyme. \"A Friend\" ...5.00\n\nOrange. Cong. Ch. ...18.00\n\nPlantsville. Ladies' Industrial Soc., _for Conn Ind'l Sch.,\nGa._ ...35.00\n\nPlainfield. Y.L. Mission Band, Box of C., _for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nPlymouth. George Langdon ...50.00\n\nPomfret. First Cong. Ch. ...29.40\n\nPomfret. Sab. Sch. Papers, _for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nPequonock. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Jewett Memorial Hall_ ...17.00\n\nPutnam. \"A Friend\" ...17.50\n\nRoxbury. Cong. Ch, 11.70; Sab. Sch., 10 ...21.70\n\nRocky Hill. Cong. Ch. ...7.24\n\nRockville. Union Cong. Ch. ...57.00\n\nSalisbury. Mrs. Clark's S.S. Class, Cong. Ch., _for Conn Ind'l Sch.,\nGa._ ...8.30\n\nSalisbury. Cong. Ch. ...7.00\n\nSalisbury. Mrs. Burralls' S.S. Class, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch.,\nGa._ ...5.00\n\nSalisbury. Mrs. Sarah J. Roraback's S.S. Class, _for Woman's\nWork_ ...2.00\n\nScitico. Mrs. Charles E. Stowe, _for Indian M._ ...1.00\n\nSouth Britain. Cong. Ch. ...12.40\n\nSouth Norwalk. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...75.00\n\nSouthington. Cong. Ch. ...26.84\n\nSouth Winston. First Cong. Ch. ...11.83\n\nSuffield. Inasmuch Circle of King's Daughters, _for Student Aid, Conn.\nInd'l Sch., Ga._ ...10.00\n\nTerryville. Cong. Ch. ...51.04\n\nThomaston. Cong. Ch. ...11.85\n\nTorrington. First Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\nUnionville. First Ch. of Christ ...40.00\n\nWallingford. First Cong. Ch. ...53.36\n\nWapping. Cong. Ch. ...20.52\n\nWaterbury. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...25.00\n\nWaterbury. Sew. Soc., First Ch., Pkg. of C., _for Tougaloo U._\n\nWatertown. Mrs. Fred. Scott's Class, _for Student Aid, Fort Berthold\nIndian School, North Dak._ ...9.00\n\nWestchester. Cong. Ch. ...17.49\n\nWethersfield. Cong. Ch., 15 _for Tougaloo U._, 8.75 _for Conn. Ind'l\nSch., Ga._ ...23.75\n\nWest Hartford. Anson Chappell ...10.00\n\nWestport. Saugatuck Cong. Ch. ...11.49\n\nWest Stafford. Cong. Ch. ...3.50\n\nWest Torrington. Ladies' Aux. of First Cong. Ch., 10. _for Mountain\nWork_; 10 _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ ...20.00\n\nWindham. Bbl., 3 for Freight, _for Raleigh, N.C._ ...3.00\n\nWindsor. Cong. Ch. ...2.06\n\nWindsor Locks. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ ...25.00\n\n----. ----, for Hope Station ...75.00\n\n\nNEW YORK, $2,320.80.\n\nAlbany. Chas. A. Beach, 50; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 10 ...60.00\n\nAngola. Ladles, Bbl. of C., _for Pine Mountain, Tenn._\n\nBaldwinsville. Howard Carter ...50.00\n\nBinghamton. \"A Friend\" ...10.00\n\nBinghamton. Cong. Bible Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...25.00\n\nBlodget Mills. Two Bbls. Papers, etc., 1 for Freight, by Miss E. Nason,\n_for Atlanta, Ga._ ...1.00\n\nBrooklyn. Clinton Av. Cong. Ch. ...1,137.38\n\nBrooklyn. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Lewis Av. Cong. Ch. ...14.25\n\nBrooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill Academy,\nTenn._ ...100.00\n\nBrooklyn. Stephen Ballard, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...40.00\n\nBrooklyn. Miss Ada F. Hendrickson, _for Woman's Work_ ...2.00\n\nBuffalo. Sab. Sch. of First Cong, Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...53.00\n\nCanandaigua. First Cong. Ch. ...16.96\n\nChurchville. Mission Band, Cong. Ch., _for Macon, Ga._ ...2.25\n\nCortland. Cong. Ch., H.M. Soc., Box of C., _for Mobile, Ala._\n\nDeansville. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Charleston, S.C._ ...10.00\n\nEast Bloomfield. Mrs. Eliza S. Goodwin ...4.50\n\nEllington. Cong. Ch., 1035; Christian Endeavor Soc., 4.25, _for Student\nAid, Fisk U._ ...14.50\n\nFredonia. Presb. Sab. Sch., (30 of which to const. WILLIAM McKINSTRY\nL.M.) _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...50.00\n\nGloversville. Cong. Ch., (100 of which from Mrs. U.M. Place) ...208.00\n\nGoshen. \"A Friend,\" _for Atlanta U._ ...1.00\n\nGreigsville. Mrs. F.A. Gray ...1.00\n\nMarathon. \"King's Daughters,\" Bbl. Books, etc., _for Savannah, Ga._\n\nMaysville. Mrs. Kilburn, 2 doz. Needle Books, _for Athens, Ala._\n\nMiddletown. First Cong. Ch. ...13.86\n\nNew York. Broadway Tabernacle Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fort Berthold\nIndian Sch., North Dak._ ...50.00\n\nNew York. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...33.52\n\nNew York. Mrs. L.H. Spelman, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ ...20.00\n\nNew York. \"M.C.H.\" ...3.00\n\nNew York. Mr. and Mrs. B. Van Wagenen, Fancy Boxes and Candy, _for\nChristmas, Marion, Ala._\n\nNorth Walton. Union Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch. ...23.65\n\nNorwich. \"A Friend\" ...20.00\n\nOrient. Cong. Ch. ...10.48\n\nPatchogue. First Cong. Ch. ...13.51\n\nPerry Center. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n\nRiverhead. Cong. Ch. ...20.00\n\nRome. Welsh Cong. Ch., 9; \"An old Friend,\" 5 ...14.00\n\nRome. Mrs. Jervise, _for Tougaloo U._ ...10.00\n\nSag Harbor. Geo. B. Brown ...1.00\n\nTroy. Mrs. E.C. Stewart ...0.50\n\nVernon Center. Rev. G.C. Judson ...1.00\n\nWalton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ ...50.90\n\nWalton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ ...17.54\n\nWestmoreland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. ...2.00\n\nWhitesboro. Mrs. L. Halsey ...10.00\n\nWoodville. W.H.M. Soc., Box of C., _for Jellico, Tenn._\n\n----. \"A Friend\" ...100.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., _for\nWoman's Work_:\n\nAlbany. Ladies' Aux. ...20.00\n\nChurchville. Aux., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...50.00\n\nHomer. Ladies' Aux. ...10.00\n\nSmyrna. Young Peoples' Miss'y Soc. ...25.00\n\n-------- 105.00\n\n\nNEW JERSEY, $102.90.\n\nBound Brook. Miss Roundy, _for Oahe Indian M._ ...3.15\n\nJersey City. Waverly Cong. Ch. ...11.25\n\nLakewood. Geo. Langdon ...5.00\n\nMontclair. Ladies' Aid Soc. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Macon, Ga._\n\nNewark. Loyal Circle of King's Daughters, _for Woman's Work_ ...2.00\n\nPhillipsburg. Mrs. A.E. Reiley, _for Straight U._ ...1.00\n\nRoselle. \"A Friend\" ...50.00\n\nTrenton. Miss S.T. Sherman, _for Woman's Work_ ...30.00\n\nVineland. Wm. McGeorge ...0.50\n\n\nPENNSYLVANIA, $34.00.\n\nLawrenceville. Presb. Sab. Sch., B. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nPhiladelphia. W.C. Stroud, _for Straight U._ ...25.00\n\nRichford. Cong. Ch. ...4.00\n\nRidgway. Y.P.B. Class, by Minnie Kline, _for Oaks, N.C._ ...5.00\n\nWattsburg. K.D. Soc., Box of Christmas Gifts, _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n\n\nOHIO, $513.24.\n\nAndover. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box of C., _for Jellico, Tenn._\n\nAshland. Mrs. Eliza Thomson ...2.28\n\nBerea. James S. Smedley ...5.00\n\nCanfield. Cong. Ch. ...6.66\n\nCincinnati. Mrs. Betsey E. Aydelott ...5.00\n\nCleveland. Madison Av. Cong. Ch. ...5.26\n\nColumbus. E.C. Dunham, _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...5.00\n\nCyclone. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. ...17.00\n\nDelaware. William Bevan ...5.00\n\nDonnellsville. Miss Ella M. Pursell, 5; Ella Pursell and Friends, Box of\nC. etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ ...5.00\n\nGeneva. \"H\" ...1.00\n\nHarmar. Mrs. Putnam, Patchwork, _for Athens, Ala._\n\nHudson. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nLenox. W.M.S. of Cong. Ch. ...12.42\n\nLorain. Y.P.S.C.E. and Friends, Box of Christmas Gifts, _for Tougaloo,\nMiss._\n\nLyme. Cong. Ch. ...19.97\n\nMadison. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch. ...20.00\n\nMallet Creek. Mrs. M.W. Bingham ...5.00\n\nMedina. \"Friends,\" _for Freight to Macon, Ga._ ...1.05\n\nNorwalk. Mrs. Calista Lawrence ...0.50\n\nOberlin. First Ch., 69; Mrs. Maria Goodell Frost, 5; Harris Lewis, 5;\nLyndon Freeman, 1.50 ...80.50\n\nOberlin. Second Cong. Ch., (6.25 of which _for Jewett Memorial\nHall_) ...36.43\n\nOberlin. Rev. C.V. Spear, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill,\nTenn._ ...50.00\n\nPainesville. First Cong. Ch., 72.84, to const. JOHN L. SHEPARD and Z.F.\nCASTERLINE L.M's; A Friend, 2; W.H. Stocking, 1 ...75.84\n\nRidgeville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ ...12.00\n\nSaybrook. Cong. Ch. ...9.39\n\nTallmadge. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...16.88\n\nToledo. Central Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\nUnionville. Cong. Ch. ...8.00\n\nWellington. First Cong. Ch. ...25.00\n\nUnionville. Rev. J.C. Burnell ...5.00\n\nYoungstown. \"A Friend\" ...2.00\n\nOhio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. L.E. Fairchild, Treas., _for\nWoman's Work_:\n\nAlexis. L.S. ...3.85\n\nAlexis. S.S. ...1.32\n\nBellevue. L.M.S. ...5.00\n\nColumbus. Eastwood Ch., W.M.S., _for Miss Collins, Indian M._ ...10.00\n\nGarrettsville. W.M.S., bal. to const. MRS. HENRY MERWIN L.M. ...5.00\n\nGarrettsville. W.M.S. ...6.00\n\nMansfield. First Cong. Ch., W.M.S. ...10.00\n\nToledo. Central Cong. Ch., W.M.U. ...15.00\n\nWilliamsfield. L.M.S., _for Miss Collins_ ...5.00\n\n-------- 61.17\n\n\nINDIANA, $3.00.\n\nFort Wayne. Plymouth Cong. Ch. ...3.00\n\nIndianapolis. Girls' Soc., Plymouth Ch., Box Dolls, _for Christmas,\nSherwood, Tenn._\n\nKingston. Box of Books, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\n\nILLINOIS, $1,203.64.\n\nBatavia. Wm. G. Coffin ...5.00\n\nCamp Point. Mrs. S.B. McKluney ...12.00\n\nCanton. First Cong. Ch. ...54.40\n\nChicago. Ezra A. Cook, _for Oahe Indian Industrial Sch._ ...100.00\n\nChicago. Millard Av. Cong. Ch., 25.19; Rev. G.S.F. Savage, 20; Sardis\nCong. Ch., 10; Sab. Sch. of New England Cong. Ch., 45; Leavitt St. Cong.\nCh., 3.82; Mrs. Hiram Hulburd, 1.50 ...105.51\n\nChicago. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., by Mrs. E.P. Goodwin, _for Indian\nM._ ...50.00\n\nChicago. Mrs. Lyman Baird, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...20.00\n\nChicago. David C. Cook, Papers, _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nChicago. Mrs. Skeels, Bbl. C., _for Macon, Ga._\n\nConcord. Ladies of Cong. Ch, Pkg. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._\n\nGalesburg. First Cong. Ch. ...100.00\n\nHinsdale. Cong. Ch. ...50.00\n\nHyde Park. Arthur Cole ...5.00\n\nKewanee. Mrs. H.E. Kellogg ...5.00\n\nKnoxville. H. Rowles ...5.00\n\nMoline. First Cong. Ch. ...150.97\n\nOak Park. Bible Class of Cong. Ch., Mason & Hamlin Organ, _for Primary\nDept. Normal Sch., Marion, Ala._\n\nOak Park. Ladies' Benev. Soc., First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. and Bbl. of\nBooks, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nOdell. Ladies of Cong. Ch. ...6.50\n\nPayson. Miss F.A. Spencer, Pkg. of Articles, _for Mobile, Ala._\n\nRockford. First Cong. Ch., _for Sch'p Endowment Fund, Fisk U._ ..10.00\n\nRockford. Miss M. Lena Todd, Box of Patchwork, _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n\nRoscoe. Cong. Ch. ...4.43\n\nSeward. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...5.13\n\nShabbona. Cong. Ch. ...28.36\n\nToulon. Ladles' Circle, First Cong. Ch., 2 Boxes of C., etc., _for\nSherwood, Tenn._\n\nTurner. Mrs. R. Currier ...5.00\n\nWyanet. Miss Brainard's S.S. Class, Pkg. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._\n\nWestern Springs. Cong. Ch. ...5.35\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Illinois, by Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Treas.,\n_for Woman's Work_:\n\nBuda. ----, _for Indian M._ ...3.00\n\nBuda ...2.00\n\nChicago. New England Ch. ...47.50\n\nChicago. Lincoln Park Ch. ...8.00\n\nElgin. First Ch. ...5.00\n\nMilburn ...5.50\n\nOak Park ...29.75\n\nPayson ...6.00\n\nRantoul ...5.00\n\nRockford. Second Ch., Y.M.H.M.U., _for Indian M._ ...11.00\n\nRockford. Second Ch. ...7.00\n\nWheaton. Wheaton College S.S. ...1.74\n\nWinnebago. ----, _for Mountain Work_ ...10.00\n\n-------- 141.49\n\n--------\n\n$869.14\n\nESTATE.\n\nAvon. Estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Churchill, by Rev. James D. Wyckoff and\nDr. S.S. Clayberg, Executors ...334.50\n\n--------\n\n$1,203.64\n\n\nMICHIGAN, $435.58.\n\nAdrian. B.S. Allen ...3.50\n\nBenzonia. Cong Ch. ...14.48\n\nCalumet. Robert Dobbie ...30.00\n\nComstock. \"A Friend\" ...245.79\n\nDetroit. Trumbull Av. Cong. Ch., 10; Miss Frances C. Hudson, 5; H.S.\nPingree, 5 ...20.00\n\nDetroit. Christmas Box, _for Athens, Ala._\n\nGreenville. Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\nJackson. Mrs. L.C. Nash and Daughter, 5; Mrs. R.M. Bennett, 2.50 ...7.50\n\nRomeo. \"Contributor\" ...50.00\n\nThree Oaks. Cong. Ch. ...36.00\n\nThree Oaks. Mrs. William Chamberlain, Bbl. of C., _for Pleasant Hill,\nTenn._\n\nWhite Lake. Robert Garner ...10.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Mich., by Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas.,\n_for Woman's Work_:\n\nThree Oaks. W.H.M.S. ...13.06\n\nThree Oaks. Infant Class ...0.25\n\n-------- 13.31\n\n\nWISCONSIN, $250.50.\n\nAppleton. First Cong. Ch. ...22.00\n\nBeloit. First Cong. Ch. ...11.00\n\nBeloit. Children's Mission Band, First Cong. Ch, Box Christmas Gifts,\n_for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nBrodhead. \"Willing Workers\" Miss'y Soc., Pkg. Christmas Gifts, _for\nAustin, Texas._\n\nClinton. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. W.J. CLARK and MRS. D.M. OLDS\nL.M'S ...65.05\n\nColumbus. Busy Workers, Pkg. Christmas Gifts, _for Austin, Texas_\n\nGreen Bay. Y.L. Miss'y Soc., Christmas Box, _for Austin, Texas_\n\nHartford. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., Bbl. of C., _for Troy, N.C._\n\nJanesville. Friends in First Cong. Ch., 3 Boxes of C., etc., _for\nSherwood, Tenn._\n\nLake Geneva. First Cong. Ch. ...10.92\n\nMadison. First Cong. Ch. ...17.91\n\nMilwaukee. ----, Patchwork, _for Athens, Ala._\n\nPlatteville. \"Pearl Gatherers,\" Christmas Box, _for Austin, Texas_\n\nRacine. Mrs. D.D. Nichols ...0.50\n\nRipon. First Cong. Ch. ...17.79\n\nSheboygan Falls. Sheboygan News Co., 2 Boxes Books, etc., _for Sherwood,\nTenn._\n\nWatertown. Cong. Ch. ...8.20\n\nSturgeon Bay. Hope Cong. Ch. ...1.50\n\nWest Salem. Mrs. Hayes, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...2.25\n\nWhitewater. Cong. Ch. ...48.09\n\nWindsor. Cong. Ch. ...13.78\n\nWisconsin Woman's Home Missionary Union, _for Woman's Work_:\n\nArena. L.M.S. ...1.26\n\nElkhorn. W.H.M.S., Thank Offering ...25.00\n\nPlatteville. W.H.M.S. ...1.75\n\nSun Prairie. W.H.M.S. ...3.50\n\n-------- 31.51\n\n\nIOWA, $353.20.\n\nAlmoral. Cong. Ch. ...8.00\n\nBelle Plaine. Juv. Soc. and Sab. Sch. ...3.08\n\nBurlington. Cong. Ch., 11.76; Y.P.S.C.E., 1.35 ...13.11\n\nCedar Rapids. Birthday Offerings, S.S. of Cong. Ch., 2.54; Birthday\nOfferings, S.S. of Cong. Chapel, 73c. ...3.27\n\nDes Moines. Mrs. D. Paterson ...1.00\n\nEarlville. Cong. Ch. ...14.80\n\nEldora. Birthday Gifts of Mrs. Hardin's Class, Cong. Sab. Sch. ...0.74\n\nEmmettsburg. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. ...3.74\n\nGenoa Bluffs. Cong. Ch. ...1.90\n\nGrinnell. Mrs. J.B. Grinnell, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...10.00\n\nLake City. E.P. Longhead ...0.50\n\nMaquoketa. Y.P.S.C.E., Box of C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n\nNashua. Y.P.S.C.E., Pkg. Christmas Gifts, _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nNew Hampton. First Cong. Ch. ...13.29\n\nNewton. Wittemberg Cong. Sab. Sch. ...20.27\n\nOtho. Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\nReinbeck. Cong. Ch. ...14.00\n\nRockford. Y.P.S.C.E., Cong. Ch., 1.75; L.M. Soc. and Y.P.S.C.E., Box and\nBbl. of C., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ ...1.75\n\nStacyville. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nTabor. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 10; Cong. Ch., 8.53 ...18.53\n\nWayne. Ladies' M. Soc., Bbl., _for Savannah, Ga._\n\nIowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, _for Woman's Work_:\n\nAlmoral. L.M.S. ...2.00\n\nBradford. Y.P.S.C.E. ...4.99\n\nCedar Falls. W.M.S. ...0.52\n\nCedar Rapids. W.M.S. ...3.53\n\nChester Center. W.H.M.U. ...1.00\n\nClinton ...2.50\n\nDavenport. Y.L.S. ...21.75\n\nDecorah. W.W.S. ...25.00\n\nDubuque. Y.P.S.C.E. ...15.20\n\nDubuque. S.S. ...5.47\n\nDes Moines. W.M.S. ...9.19\n\nFarragut. W.H.M.S. ...10.00\n\nLeMars ...3.77\n\nMarion. W.M.S. ...22.63\n\nMarion. \"Busy Gleaners,\" _for Santee Indian Sch._ ...20.00\n\nMarion. Y.L.S. ...25.00\n\nMagnolia. W.H.M.U. ...1.25\n\nMcGregor. W.M.S. ...21.00\n\nOttumwa. First Ch., W.M.U. ...3.44\n\nOsage. W.M.S. ...1.80\n\nRockford. L.M.S. ...1.68\n\nStuart. Sab. Sch. ...2.11\n\nSheldon. \"Thank Offering\" ...2.95\n\nSioux City. L.M.S. ...2.70\n\nToledo. Y.P.S.C.E. ...0.64\n\n-------- 210.12\n\n\nMINNESOTA, $293.09.\n\nAustin. Cong. Union Ch., to const. H.A. AVERY and G.C.\nADAMS L.M'S ...63.12\n\nCannon Falls. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nDodge Center. Cong. Ch. ...2.40\n\nExcelsior. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 2-1/2 doz. Thimbles, _for Jonesboro,\nTenn._\n\nFaribault. Cong. Ch. ...10.96\n\nGlenwood. Cong. Ch. ...2.22\n\nLake City. First Cong. Sab. Sch., (19.08 of which _for Williamsburg,\nKy._) ...38.16\n\nMazeppa. Cong. Ch. ...1.45\n\nMedford. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nMinneapolis. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 17.80; Mrs. A.D. Appleby, 2;\nSilver Lake Cong. Ch., bal., 1.04; Mrs. R. Laughlin, 1.50 ...22.34\n\nMinneapolis. \"Cheerful Workers,\" Pkg., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nMinneapolis. Box of Notions, _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n\nMorris. Cong. Ch. ...9.61\n\nNew Richland. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., Pkg. Table Linen, etc., _for\nJonesboro, Tenn._\n\nOwatonna. Cong. Ch. ...8.64\n\nRochester. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Pkg. Christmas Gifts, _for Jonesboro,\nTenn._\n\nSaint Paul. Mrs. M.D. Clapp ...4.50\n\nWabasha. First Cong. Ch. ...11.82\n\nWaseca. Cong. Ch. ...3.00\n\nWinona. First Cong. Ch. ...94.87\n\n\nMISSOURI, $133.50.\n\nBevier. Miss Luella J. Hudelson ...3.00\n\nSaint Louis. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. ...130.50\n\n\nKANSAS, $6.95.\n\nPleona. Cong. Ch. ...6.95\n\n\nNORTH DAKOTA, $5.00.\n\nBuxton. \"Pearl Gatherers,\" by Mrs. Mary M. Fisher, _for Williamsburg,\nKy._ ...5.00\n\n\nSOUTH DAKOTA, $49.84.\n\nChamberlain. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...2.84\n\nHuron. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Indian M._ ...40.00\n\nOahe. Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Indian M._ ...2.00\n\nTempleton. Cong. Ch. ...2.00\n\nSouth Dakota. Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. S.E. Fifield,\nTreas.:\n\nDeadwood. W.M.S. ...3.00\n\n\nNEBRASKA, $28.33.\n\nClark's. John Parker ...2.00\n\nCrete. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...21.60\n\nRed Cloud. First Cong. Ch. ...2.00\n\nTrenton. Ch. of the Redeemer ...2.72\n\n\nCALIFORNIA, $556.00.\n\nPomona. J.D. Dewey ...5.00\n\nSan Francisco. Receipts of the California Chinese Mission (see Items\nbelow) ...551.00\n\n\nOREGON, $4.73.\n\nEast Portland. First Cong. Ch. ...3.73\n\n----. \"Friend,\" _for Raleigh, N.C._ ...1.00\n\n\nWASHINGTON, $30.00.\n\nResario. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...4.85\n\nAnacortes. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...25.15\n\n\nDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.\n\nWashington. Cong. Ch., Box of Notions, _for Tougaloo U._\n\n\nKENTUCKY, $4.84.\n\nBerea. \"Church at Berea\" ...4.84\n\n\nMARYLAND, $5.00.\n\nFederalsburg. Sarah A. Beals ...5.00\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA, $69.31.\n\nHillsboro. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...0.35\n\nSalem. Cong. Ch. ...2.00\n\nWilmington. Cong. Ch. ...66.96\n\n\nGEORGIA, $12.30.\n\nMacon. Miss E.B. Scobie, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...5.00\n\nMcIntosh. Midway Cong. Ch. ...1.30\n\nThomasville. Conn. Industrial Sab. Sch., _for Fort Berthold Indian M.,\nDak._ ...6.00\n\n\nFLORIDA, $6.00.\n\nAltoona. Mrs. J.S. Blackman ...4.50\n\nTangerine. Wm. E. Cathcart ...1.50\n\n\nALABAMA, $93.73.\n\nAthena. New Year's Offering, Ladies' Miss'y Soc. Trin. Cong. Ch., _for\nIndian M._ ...6.00\n\nJenifer. Cong. Ch. 1.50; Sab. Sch. 1.50; Woman's Miss'y Union, 2 ...5.00\n\nTalladega. Miss S.J. ELDER, 30., to const. herself L.M.; Cong.\nCh., 9.23 ...39.23\n\nTalladega. Rev. H.S. DeForest, _for repairs, Talladega C._ ...23.50\n\nTalladega. Woman's Miss'y Union, 12.50; Mission Band, 5; Little Helpers,\n2.50; _for Indian M._ ...20.00\n\n\nTENNESSEE, $58.78.\n\nAthens. Cong. Ch. ...1.31\n\nChattanooga. Mr. Loomis, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill,\nTenn._ ...50.00\n\nNashville. Christian Endeavor Soc., Fisk U., _for Mountain Work_ ...2.00\n\nPleasant Hill. \"Friend,\" _for Pleasant Hill_ ...1.00\n\nSherwood. Birthday Box, Cong. Sab. Sch. ...4.47\n\n\nTEXAS, $3.00.\n\nAustin. Allen Bradley, 1 Shoat; Barnes & Scott, 25 lbs. Nuts; Nelson\nDavis & Co., 25 lbs. Candy; _for Austin, Texas._\n\nDallas. Cong. Ch. ...3.00\n\n----, $9.32.\n\n---- ---- _for Student Aid_, _Talladega C._ ...4.32\n\n---- \"Unknown Friend,\" _for Pleasant Hill Academy, Tenn._ ...5.00\n\n\nCANADA, $10.00.\n\nMontreal. Charles Alexander ...5.00\n\nSherbrooke. Mrs. H.J. Morey ...5.00\n\n\nEAST AFRICA, $48.20.\n\nKambina, Inhambane. Rev. B.F. Ousley, _for Student Aid,\nFisk U._ ...48.20\n\n========\n\nDonations ...$21,328.29\n\nEstates ...1,834.50\n\n--------\n\n$23,162.79\n\n\nINCOME, $282.16.\n\nAvery Fund, _for Mendi M._ ...28.00\n\nGraves Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...125.00\n\nHoward Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._ ...125.00\n\nScholarship Fund, _for Straight U._ ...4.16\n\n-------- 282.16\n\n\nTUITION, $4,028.33.\n\nLexington, Ky. Tuition ...124.65\n\nRockhold, Ky. Tuition ...33.40\n\nWilliamsburg, Ky. Tuition ...56.75\n\nChapel Hill, N.C. Tuition ...7.50\n\nTroy, N.C. Tuition ...12.00\n\nCharleston, S.C. Tuition ...249.88\n\nGreenwood, S.C. Tuition ...69.90\n\nWilmington, N.C. Tuition ...215.35\n\nCrossville, Tenn. Tuition ...12.50\n\nJellico, Tenn. Tuition ...48.75\n\nJonesboro, Tenn. Tuition ...6.00\n\nMemphis, Tenn. Tuition ...525.02\n\nNashville, Tenn. Tuition ...641.96\n\nPine Mountain, Tenn. Tuition ...17.10\n\nPleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition ...21.00\n\nSherwood, Tenn. Tuition ...40.00\n\nMacon, Ga. Tuition ...332.35\n\nMcIntosh, Ga. Tuition ...68.08\n\nSavannah, Ga. Tuition ...223.00\n\nThomasville, Ga. Tuition ...72.95\n\nAthens, Ala. Tuition ...71.85\n\nMarion, Ala. Tuition ...82.60\n\nMobile, Ala. Tuition ...213.65\n\nSelma, Ala. Tuition ...78.65\n\nMeridian, Miss. Tuition ...92.40\n\nTougaloo, Miss. Tuition ...137.00\n\nNew Orleans, La. Tuition ...411.50\n\nAustin, Texas. Tuition ...162.54\n\n-------- 4,028.33\n\nUnited States Government Appropriation for the Education of\nIndians ...615.29\n\n--------\n\nTotal for January ...$28,088.57\n\n========\n\n\nSUMMARY.\n\nDonations ...74,480.26\n\nEstates ...31,254.77\n\n--------\n\n$105,735.03\n\nIncome ...3,658.31\n\nTuition ...12,812.17\n\nUnited States Government for the Education of Indians ...5,684.47\n\n--------\n\nTotal from Oct. 1 to Jan. 31 ...$127,889.98\n\n\nFOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\nSubscriptions for January ...$166.04\n\nPreviously acknowledged ...206.85\n\n--------\n\nTotal ...$372.89\n\n========\n\n\nRECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION, E. Palache, Treasurer, from\nSeptember 1, 1889, to January 18, 1890.\n\nFROM LOCAL MISSIONS.--Los Angeles, Chinese Mon. Off's, 15.90; Loo Quong,\n2--Marysville, Chinese Mon. Off's, 23.05; Annual Member, 8.--Oakland,\nChinese Monthlies, 50.--Oroville, Chinese Monthlies, 12.05--Petaluma,\nChinese Monthlies, 14.15.--Riverside, Chinese Monthlies, 9.80; Annual\nMembers, 2--San Diego, Weekly Offerings, 25.20.--Sacramento, Chinese\nMonthlies, 18; Annual Members, 8.--Santa Barbara, Chinese Monthlies,\n11.45; \"A Friend,\" 5.--Santa Cruz, Chinese Monthlies, 30.25; \"A Friend,\"\n1.--Stockton, Chinese Monthlies, 13.35; Mrs. Whitman, 1.--Ventura,\nChinese Monthlies, 13.95 ...$264.65\n\nFROM CHURCHES--Ferndale, Cong. Ch., 5.--Los Angeles, Woman's Home Miss'y\nSoc. of First Cong. Ch., 66.80--Ontario, Cong. Ch., 1.--San Francisco,\nGreen St. Ch., Col. at Annual Meeting of the Mission, 22.65; Annual\nMembership, 2.--San Francisco, Bethany Ch., from Americans: Mrs. H.U.\nLamont, 4; Mrs. Kennedy, 3; from Chinese: Cong. Ass'n of Christian\nChinese, Bethany Branch, 21.60.--Central Mission, Monthly Offerings,\n16.05.--Barnes Mission, Monthly Offerings, 6.75.--West Mission, Monthly\nOfferings, 10.50;--Saticoy Cong. Ch., 2 ...161.35\n\nFROM INDIVIDUAL GIVERS.--Hon. Stephen Williamson, M.P., 100; Rev. W.N.\nMeserve, 5 ...105.00\n\nFROM EASTERN FRIENDS.--Boston, Mass., J.W. Davis, 5.--Cincinnati, Ohio,\nRev. A.B. Brown, 15 ...20.00\n\n--------\n\nTotal ...$551.00\n\n========\n\nH.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 44, No. 03, March, 1890","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":17736}