{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_15647/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_15647","id":"gutenberg_15647","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15647","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Josephine\nPaolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\n\nMAY, 1890 VOL. XLIV. NO. 5.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n  BALLARD NORMAL SCHOOL, MACON, GA.\n\n  TEACHERS' HOME AND GIRLS' DORMITORY, MACON, GA.\n\n  REMOVAL--FINANCIAL\n\n  OUR MISSION IN ALASKA\n\n  SOUTHERN NOTES\n\n  FACTS ABOUT BALLARD SCHOOL\n\n  BALLARD NORMAL SCHOOL AND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, MACON, GA.\n\n  INTERIOR OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDING\n\n  CHRISTIAN NEGRO LEADERS\n\n  CONFERENCE OF EDUCATORS\n\n  A PRIZE POEM\n\n\n  THE SOUTH.\n\n  NOTES IN THE SADDLE\n\n  THEN AND NOW\n\n  CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION\n\n  \"SIX DAYS SHALT THOU LABOR\"\n\n  ENCOURAGED AND THANKFUL\n\n  TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY\n\n  DEATH OF ELI TAPLEY\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n  A JANUARY TRIP\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n  OUR CHINESE WORK\n\n\n  BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\n  NOTICE OF MEETING OF STATE UNIONS\n\n  LETTER FROM A SOUTHERN LADY\n\n  WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS\n\n\n  RECEIPTS\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\n_American Missionary Association_.\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. Rev. F.A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill. Rev. ALEX.\nMcKENZIE, D.D., Mass. Rev. D.O. MEARS, D.D., Mass. Rev. HENRY HOPKINS,\nD.D., Mo.\n\n\n_Corresponding Secretaries_.\n\nRev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._ Rev. A.F. BEARD, D.D.,\n_Bible House, N.Y._ Rev. F.P. WOODBURY, 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. CHAS. P. PEIRCE.\n\n\n_Executive Committee._\n\nJOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman. ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary.\n\n\n_For Three Years._\n\nS.B. HALLIDAY, SAMUEL HOLMES, SAMUEL S. MARPLES, CHARLES L. MEAD, ELBERT\nB. MONROE,\n\n\n_For Two Years._\n\nJ.E. RANKIN, WM. H. WARD, J.W. COOPER, JOHN H. WASHBURN, EDMUND L.\nCHAMPLIN,\n\n\n_For One Year._\n\nLYMAN ABBOTT, CHAS. A. HULL, CLINTON B. FISK, ADDISON P. FOSTER, ALBERT\nJ. LYMAN.\n\n\n_District Secretaries._\n\nRev. C.J. RYDER, 21 _Cong'l House, Boston, Mass._ Rev. J.E. ROY. D.D.,\n151 _Washington Street, Chicago, Ill._ Rev. C.W. HIATT, 64 _Euclid Ave.,\nCleveland. 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\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[Illustration: BALLARD NORMAL SCHOOL, MACON, GA]\n\n[Illustration: TEACHERS' HOME AND GIRLS' DORMITORY, BALLARD SCHOOL,\nMACON, GA]\n\n\n\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nVOL. XLIV. MAY, 1890. No. 5.\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 accordingly.\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\nFINANCIAL.\n\n\nThe first six months of our fiscal year have passed. The receipts for\nthis period are from collections $101,509.44; from estates, $101,179.63;\nfrom income, $4,262.91; from tuition, $22,729,32; and from the United\nStates Government for Indian Schools, $8,946.07. Total, $238,627.37.\n\nThe meaning of these figures is clear. We rejoice in the enlarging\nbeneficence of the living and of the dead, who live unto God. The\ntremendous pressure of our providential work is nearer to being felt and\nmet by the American people than ever before. What the Association has\ndone hitherto is no measure of what it has constantly been called to do\nand is now called to do. It can now meet a few more of the immediate\ndemands urged upon it from its vast and necessitous field. As between\nfaith and fear, we do not hesitate to take the way of faith. We thank\nGod and take courage. Hitherto the Lord hath helped us; He will bless\nus.\n\nTo our living friends we must say: Our work, like all living things,\neither grows or decays. Those who have been called hence, within these\nsix months, have left us, by their legacies, their bidding to go\nforward with a growing work. Except by your support, this growth will\nmean swift, subsequent decay. Our largest work is in a field teeming\nwith great dangers and yet with great possibilities of success. The\nsuccess depends upon prompt, vigorous and permanent increase. It is\nyours to empower us to meet in some good degree the call of the hour and\nof God.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOUR MISSION IN ALASKA.\n\n\nWe have undertaken to establish a mission school among the Arctic Eskimo\nIndians of Alaska. The location is to be at Point Prince of Wales at\nBehrings Strait, the westernmost point of the mainland of America and\nnearest to Asia. Its distance from the North Pole has not yet been\nascertained. The inhabitants are described by Capt. Charles H. Stockton,\nof the United States Navy, as \"the boldest and most aggressive people of\nall the Arctic coast. They are such a turbulent crowd that the whalers\nare afraid to visit them and consequently give them a wide berth. It is\nboth the worst people and the most prosperous settlement in that region.\nThey ought to have a mission station.\"\n\nDr. Sheldon Jackson, the Secretary of the Territorial Board of\nEducation, says: \"On account of the character of the people, I think it\nwould not be safe to send a woman there, at least the first year. I\nfavor the sending of two men at first. If difficulties arise, they will\nbe a mutual strength, and if the teacher gets sick, there will be some\none to attend him. From the time that the revenue cutter passes south in\nAugust and the whalers in September, these men will be shut up with the\nnatives and thrown upon their own resources and God's protection until\nthe following June or July. I would advise that the missionaries be\nlarge men physically, as size impresses the natives favorably, and there\nmay be times when they will need to remove a turbulent man from their\nroom by physical force.\"\n\nWe have sent out our call for the missionaries. It is obvious that none\nneed nor will apply who are not Christian heroes, and who have not in\nthemselves the stuff of which martyrs are made. But this mission will\nnot be alone. In that region, but at vast distances apart, will soon be\nestablished Presbyterian, Episcopal, Swedish and Moravian missions.\n\nThe Government will refund the $3,000 necessary for the erection of the\nbuilding, and one church in Connecticut has provided a little over\n$2,000 to defray current expenses for the first year. This sum will\nscarcely be adequate for this year, and that generous church, as well as\nothers, must be relied upon to meet future expenses. We believe the hero\nmissionaries will be found, and that a generous support will be given to\nan enterprise at once so bold, so needed and so promising.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSOUTHERN NOTES.\n\nBY SECRETARY A.F. BEARD.\n\n\nIn the relationship of the races we are accustomed to speak of the\n\"color prejudice.\" We know very well that there is a most assertive\nprejudice against colored people. Rev. Dr. Wright, in his admirable\naddress at Chicago, said, \"The cause is this: All free-born people in\nevery age and clime have a contempt for slaves. The sole reason of the\npersistence of the caste feeling is that the black man belongs to a race\nwhich has been enslaved.\" The inference is, \"therefore your character is\na servile character.\"\n\nThe common judgment has been that the prejudice is against color. A\nlittle observation, however, will show that Southern people have no\nprejudice against color as such. Color ceases to be repugnant when it\nceases to be unfamiliar.\n\nI have been led to conclude that a great part of what is called the\ncolor prejudice, may be charged up to the fact of feature. The features,\nin the people of every race, are offensive when they are coarse and\ncarnal. For example, among a class of the Irish peasantry long ignorance\nand lowdown life have given to the children an heredity of ingrained\ncoarseness. It is visible in a certain stamp of the features. Education\nand elevation will gradually reduce the animalism of the face. With good\nbreeding, in generations the lips grow thinner; the face takes on\ncharacter and even changes in shape.\n\nThe Negro condition at present is one of immaturity. The Uncle Rastus\nside of Negro character and life may be seen every day in the Southern\nNegro. The immaturity of the race and its revelation and expression in\nfeature and in character, repel more than color does. The antipathy\nagainst color in the South is reduced to its very lowest terms, as facts\nprove.\n\nThe way to destroy the prejudice which exists both by association with\nthe ideas of bondage and by features which are not refined, is a common\none. Education is the only way. I have been surprised to see how rapidly\neducation, especially religious education and the refining influence of\ngood associations, are eliminating both the idea that color is a badge\nof a servile mind, and the inherited coarseness of features. The\neducated children of educated parents are in many instances already\nshowing in their faces the mettle of their pasture. There is a\nperceptible growth away from immaturity and coarseness of feature, along\nwith the growth away from immaturity of mind.\n\nTwenty-five years, indeed, is a short time for a study of this sort. It\nis hardly to be counted in the history of a race. A century is but a\nunit in the problem of a people's history. We have no right to form our\njudgments yet, as to the place the Negro people may take. What three or\nfour centuries may do for the race is to be settled too remotely for us\nto testify.\n\nA distinguished educator lately said that he had been disappointed in\nthe intellectual ability and resources of the Negro. The race had not\nshown itself to be hopeful. I reply, if in twenty-five years we have the\nfew remarkable instances of advancement and attainment which appear,\ntogether with a very large general uplift in education and character,\nmay not these facts be the prophecies and pledges of a future that shall\nnot be inferior.\n\nEven now the difference between the uneducated and the educated black\nman is very striking. The crudeness and the unrefinement in feature are\nnot necessary accompaniments of color. Thick lips do not inherently\nbelong with a dark skin. Coarseness of feature belongs to white people,\nlong degraded, as well, and is to be eliminated in them also by the\nevolution which takes place in schools and churches.\n\nHere is a race from original heathenism which has come through two\nhundred years of the darkness of slavery, set free in exceedingly\nunhelpful conditions, and shut in for the most part to association with\nilliteracy, bad manners, bad morals and bad habits. Only exceptionally\ncan colored people come near enough to those who are high and good to\nget much good by seeing what goodness is and how it lives.\n\nYet, notwithstanding this, history reveals nothing more wonderful than\nwhat we see in those who have come from homes which are not homes and\nfrom previous degrading influences, as they pass through a term of years\nin our schools.\n\nWhen the generations to come from these shall have had for a century the\nimpartial blessings of an intelligent and pure Christianity, the\nquestion as to the Negro's place among the races will be nearer\nsolution.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFACTS ABOUT BALLARD SCHOOL\n\n    We present to our readers four pictures giving different views of\n    the Ballard Normal School at Macon, Ga., and add here a\n    description copied from the _Ballard Record:_\n\n\nBallard Normal School has this year entered upon the fruition of many\nearnest hopes and desires, in the opening of the boarding department, in\nconnection with the day school. We have now a large family of boarding\npupils living in the beautiful new dormitory, erected last summer\nthrough the interest of Mr. Ballard, who gave us our commodious school\nbuilding one year ago. As memory goes back to the \"early days,\" from\n1865 to 1868, when this school was in its infancy, and was taught in\nvarious barns, dwelling houses and churches, and as we recall the loss\nby fire of three buildings in 1876, and the subsequent use of the church\nand our present carpenter shop for school-rooms, we dwell with gratitude\nupon the ministrations of friends in past years, and especially upon\nthat visit of Mr. Ballard, which resulted in these handsome buildings.\nIt was thought that our new brick school-house, with seven school-rooms,\none recitation-room, and office, would furnish accommodations to all\npupils for several years to come. But already, just one year from its\ndedication, it is found necessary to open an additional school-room in\nan adjacent building. The enrollment for this year is five hundred and\neighty-four. An unusual number of young men and women from neighboring\ncounties, are availing themselves of the opportunities here offered to\nacquire an education.\n\n[Illustration: BALLARD NORMAL SCHOOL AND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, MACON,\nGA]\n\n[Illustration: INTERIOR OF BALLARD INDUSTRIAL BUILDING, MACON, GA.]\n\nWe have large classes in sewing and carpentry, and small classes in\nprinting and wood-carving. Classes in cooking will be organized as soon\nas the industrial kitchen is fitted up.\n\nSeveral students are working and earning their entire board and tuition.\nMany more are earning half of their board by working for the\ninstitution, and paying the remainder, four dollars per month, from\nmoney earned last summer. We are obliged to refuse many applicants, who\nwould be glad to work for half of their board. Any of our friends\ndesiring a \"good investment\" of benevolence can be supplied with\nparticulars by applying to us.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCHRISTIAN NEGRO LEADERS.\n\n\nWe conscientiously believe that educated _Christian_ Negroes are to be\nthe safe and trusted leaders of their people in the crisis which is\ncoming in the South. Their wisdom and Christian character will\ncounterbalance the rash and reckless impulses of others of their race,\nand instead, therefore, of its being unwise to educate the Negro, as\nsome Southern white people believe, the Christian education of these\ncolored people will be the sheet anchor of safety to both whites and\nblacks in the South. As a specimen of the counsel given by the\ninfluential Christian Negro, we clip the following from the _Christian\nRecorder_ of Philadelphia, the organ of the African Methodist Episcopal\nChurch:\n\n    While we believe in all men being courageous, we encourage none to\n    be rash. We are at the mercy of a powerful class. It is always\n    best to remember this and apply the ounce of preventive to save\n    the fifteen ounces of cure. Our brethren must be very careful in\n    respect to the position taken on all subjects. Take no position\n    from which you are likely to be forced to your disadvantage. In\n    all writing and speaking forget not that discretion is the bitter\n    part of valor.\n\nWe append, as germane to the subject, the following piece of sensible\nadvice given by Rev. J.C. Price of Salisbury, N.C., to his brethren:\n\n    I have no faith in the doctrine of assimilation. The blacks may\n    say their color is against them. If that could only be changed,\n    all would be well. I believe that color has nothing to do with the\n    question. Black is a favorite color. A black horse we all admire.\n    A black silk dress is a gem. A black broadcloth suit is a daisy.\n    Black only loses its prestige, its dignity, when applied to a\n    human being. It is not because of his color, but because of his\n    condition, that the black man is in disfavor. Whenever a black\n    face appears, it suggests a poverty-stricken, ignorant race.\n    Change your conditions; exchange immorality for morality,\n    ignorance for intelligence, poverty for prosperity, and the\n    prejudice against our race will disappear like the morning dewdrop\n    before the rising sun.\n\nThe _Southern Congregationalist_ gives the following hopeful statement:\n\n    One of the most distinguished representatives of our Baptist\n    brethren, whose name is a household word in that communion\n    throughout the South, expressed a common view among us when he\n    said in our office not long since:\n\n    \"We once thought that Negroes were incapable of education, but we\n    have found ourselves mistaken, and now favor the education of the\n    race, trusting that with better edification better ideas will\n    come.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCONFERENCE OF EDUCATORS.\n\nBY REV. GEO. W. MOORE.\n\n\nThe first Conference of Educators of Colored Youth, which met in\nWashington, D.C., March 25-27, was a large and interesting meeting, and\nthe results were very gratifying. Representative instructors were\ngathered from various parts of the country--chiefly from the Southern\nStates--at the invitation of the College Alumni of Howard University, to\nreview the educational progress of the past twenty-five years; to\ncompare views of the status and needs of the work, and to consider plans\nfor the future. It was felt that there were certain questions and\nspecial needs arising out of the condition of the colored people in this\ncountry, which required earnest consideration, the solution of which\nrests largely with the Negro himself. The presence of so many colored\nmen and women who had graduated from the institutions of learning they\nnow seek to foster, including Presidents of colleges and normal schools\nand principals and teachers of public schools, professors of Greek,\nLatin, mathematics and theology, physicians, lawyers and ministers, was\nan object-lesson of the educational progress of the race.\n\nAble papers were read on practical subjects of all phases of educational\nwork. Industrial work, normal training and higher education, were\nfruitful topics of discussion. While each had its advocates, it was the\nconsensus of opinion that each of these departments has its place, and\nthat all were needed in the education of our colored youth. Judge\nTourgee addressed the Conference on National Aid to Education; and Hon.\nW.T. Harris, the Commissioner of Education, advocated the higher\neducation of the Negro. National Aid to Education was strongly advocated\nby the Conference, and is emphasized in their address to the country.\nThat address commends itself to the thoughtful consideration of the\nfriends of education. The report closes with the following appeal in\nbehalf of the institutions that have been established in the South: \"A\ncrying need at the present hour is the making permanent of the larger\nand more central institutions of learning for colored youth in the\nSouth, through permanent endowments, by private contributions. Many of\nthem have struggled along for a quarter of a century, doing much good,\nit is true, but greatly hindered in their progress because of the\nuncertainty of their financial support. We appeal to the wealthy and\nphilanthropic everywhere to contribute of their means to such\nendowments.\"\n\nFour college Presidents were in attendance, and took part in the\nConference--Rev. Dr. Simmons, of Kentucky State University; Rev. Dr.\nBrackett, of Storer College, Harper's Ferry; Rev. Dr. Bumstead, of\nAtlanta University and Rev. Dr. Rankin of Howard University. Prof. J.M.\nGregory of Howard University was elected President, and Prof. S.G.\nAtkins of Salisbury, N.C., Secretary of the Conference. The next meeting\nwill be held at Atlanta, Ga., January 1, 1891.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA PRIZE POEM.\n\n\nA publishing house in North Carolina offered \"a handsome prize for the\nbest poem, not less than sixteen nor more than twenty-four lines, on any\nNorth Carolina subject.\" Twenty or more poems were received, and\nsubmitted to a committee who did not know the names of the writers; on\ncomparison with the numbers it was found that the poem to which the\nprize was awarded was written by Mrs. A.W. Curtis, of Raleigh, N.C., a\nmissionary of this Association. We print the poem not only for its\nmerit, but as an honor conferred upon one of our valued workers among\nthe colored people of the South.\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA.\n\nBY MRS. A.W. CURTIS.\n\n    Thou sittest like a queen with coronal\n  Of dazzling beauty on thy sunny brow;\n  The glorious mountains for thy lofty throne,\n  The grand old Ocean lying at thy feet;\n  Thy jewels are the healing springs, that lie\n  Like gleaming pearls upon thy bounteous breast.\n  From far and near, earth's weary pilgrims come,--\n  A long procession, sad, and heavy-eyed,--\n  To win anew the priceless boon of health,\n  From thy Bethesda, angel-stirred and blest.\n  Deep in the bosom of thy mighty hills,\n  Dame Nature brews the elixir of life,\n  And pours it lavishly through riven rocks,\n  In basins carved by no weak, human hand;\n  And here and there, deep down the woodland glens\n  She sets her moss-rimmed chalices, where those\n  Who quaff with fevered lips the cooling draught,\n  Find health and vigor stealing through their veins.\n  O, queenly State! lift up thy fair, proud head,\n  The while thy sons and daughters honor thee,\n  And shine a pure white star, whose light shall be\n  Undimmed, through all the ages yet to come!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe are very happy to acknowledge the gift of one hundred copies of the\n\"People's Commentary on the Gospel according to St. Luke,\" by Edwin W.\nRice, D.D., from the American Sunday-school Union, at Philadelphia,\nPenn. These books will be sent to our schools in the South, where they\nwill be of great benefit to the teachers in the Sunday-schools, and to\nthe graduates as they go forth to fresh experiences in the country\nsummer schools.\n\nA man told one of our Indian pupils, that he was not like other men,\nthat he helped others and went to church, etc., and as she told the\nstory she said, \"Yet he is a Republican and sinner, I think.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNOTES IN THE SADDLE.\n\nBY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER.\n\n\nA little girl in the Sunday-school at Quincy, Mass., when asked what a\nmissionary was, replied: \"A missionary is a man who comes around to get\nour money.\" That expresses with a good degree of accuracy the object of\nthe missionary's trip through New England, and it is wonderful what\nlarge sums of money come from these generous churches in response to the\nappeals of our different Societies.\n\nIt was pleasant to turn aside for a few weeks and mount again into the\nsaddle, and visit the field into which these contributions go, and where\nso many earnest and godly missionaries are putting in their life work.\nThere were evidences of progress in these mission stations on every\nside.\n\nLincoln Memorial Church at Washington have greatly improved their house\nof worship, expending upon it $1,500, collecting through their own\nmembership almost this entire sum. Industrial classes are held regularly\nin the same building, taught by the pastor's wife. A kindergarten, in\nwhich a large number of little children are regularly taught, is also a\ndepartment of this missionary work. I noticed among the other children a\nbright little French boy in this kindergarten school.\n\nWhile waiting for a train in the depot at Washington, I noticed an old\ncolored man very busy reading a book. Looking over his shoulder, I found\nthat he was studying Barnes' Notes on Matthew! No white man was better\nemployed than this. And this incident is typical of the desire of the\ncolored people to learn, especially that which throws light upon God's\nword.\n\nExcitement ran high in Florida over the murder of United States Marshal\nSaunders. A Southern man on the street, not knowing that any Northern\nman was present, remarked to a friend as follows: \"I would not give $250\nto any man to shoot a United States Marshal, but I would give $500 to\nhelp defend any man that shot him.\" The colored people were agitated\nover this murder, for it hinted at the possibility of general outrage\nand murder, in which they would be sufferers. I heard in a colored\nchurch in St. Augustine the following prayer: \"O Lord! overcome those\nwho oppress us, not by sword and bayonet and blood, but by the power of\nthe Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.\" When the spirit that that prayer\nbreathes becomes the spirit of the whole people of the South, black and\nwhite, the present desperate condition of things will come to an end.\n\nThe Girl's Industrial School at Thomasville, Ga., is crowded with\npupils. The dormitory accommodations provide room for only forty pupils,\nand forty-two are already there. One feature of the work in this school\nis especially worthy of mention; and that is, the thorough study of the\nBible. This is systematic and comprehensive. It does not consist in\nlearning and repeating, in a parrot-like way, different dates and names.\nIt is analytical, both in history and biography. It also includes\ncareful study of Biblical geography. I am sure those in the North who\nvisit this school will be especially gratified by the success in this\ndepartment of the school work.\n\nWhile looking for a friend in Tallahassee, Fla., I visited his office\ntwo or three times. The office-boy finally informed me that he had \"gone\nto Liberia.\" I asked him whether Liberia was a country or a town, and he\nreplied: \"Why, boss! it's de place dey reads books.\" He meant the\nlibrary. I related this experience to the barber at the hotel, and he\nturned to the porter and said, \"You make just such mistakes, porter.\"\nThe porter replied, \"Yes, I knows I makes _sentimental_ mistakes.\" He\nsupposed a sentimental mistake was one that was made in a sentence. Big\nwords never stumble them. And yet, little by little they are gaining in\nthe use of language, and naturally they are orators.\n\nIt gives a Protestant Christian a strange feeling when he observes the\nChristian bearing of the Roman Catholics toward the colored people in\nthe South, and the unchristian bearing of many Protestant denominations\ntoward them. Dropping into the Cathedral at St. Augustine, I saw\ngraceful white ladies kneeling side by side with black women, and\nworshiping together. At Pensacola I went into a Catholic church, and\nthere in a crowded audience were colored and white people sitting in\nadjoining pews with perfect freedom. I went from here into a Methodist\nchurch, and there was not a single colored person present. It would not\nbe strange if the Roman church gathered into its fold a large part of\nthe Negroes of the South. Whatever may be the superstition and errors of\ntheir church, they do recognize in every human being a child of God, and\noffer to all freedom in Christian service.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHEN AND NOW.\n\nBY MISS L.A. PARMELEE.\n\n\nTHEN.\n\nNearly twenty years ago a little company of Christians at Byron, Ga.,\ndecided to form a Congregational Church. Their place of worship was a\nbush arbor or \"bush harbor\" as it was usually called. Feeling the need\nof more frequent ministrations than the pastor of Macon could furnish,\nthey asked to have one of their own number licensed as a leader. A\nCouncil of churches was called at Andersonville, and the candidate\npresented himself for examination.\n\nHe was a working man in middle life; his personal appearance bespoke him\nbetter fitted for the blacksmith's forge than the pulpit. His literary\nqualifications reached their limit when he could slowly read from his\npocket Testament that \"God so loved the world,\" and \"Jesus Christ came\ninto the world to save sinners.\" In theology, he was prepared to\ndiscuss, with race shrewdness and quaint corn-field illustrations, the\ndoctrines of election and future punishment. His Congregationalism\ncomprised three points,--\"To live by the Bible, to have only one wife,\nand to not drink whiskey\"--good points for that time, and popularly\nsupposed to represent the new denomination.\n\nHis spirit was excellent, as, with genuine humility, he expressed his\nwish to serve the church only until it could command the ministrations\nof some one of better education and more general fitness for the\nposition. His personal experience of religion was satisfactory, as were\nalso the testimonials to his character, and so the Council licensed him\nto preach, Pastor Rogers, of Macon, giving him an earnest charge to be\nfaithful in the service of Christ.\n\n\nNOW.\n\nThe circumstance had faded from my mind, but suddenly was remembered two\ndays ago, when sitting in the congregation that had gathered in the\nchapel of Livingstone Hall, Fisk University, to listen to the\nexamination of ten young men who presented themselves to the Central\nSouth Association for license to preach. These candidates were\nphysically and mentally alert, active, strong. With a single exception\nthey were under thirty years of age.\n\nBesides the ordinary helps of Concordance and Bible Dictionary, more\nthan half of these young men in studying the Scriptures, can pick up\nfrom their study tables, Testaments in German, French, Latin and Greek,\nto gather the light these translations may throw upon any passage.\n\nTheir theology was clear, and showed acquaintance with the best thought\nupon the whole range of subjects. Their Congregationalism embraced two\npoints, independence and fellowship. The right of private judgment based\nupon intelligent study of the Word of God, apparently covered the ground\nof their church polity. They hold modern ideas regarding Christian work\nalong the lines of missions, temperance, Sabbath-schools, White Cross\nLeagues, Christian Endeavor Societies, Y.M.C.A. and similar\norganizations. All have had experience in some of these branches of\nwork. The Association licensed nine of them for one year, and ordained\nthe tenth to the regular work of a minister of the Gospel. Full of hope,\ncourage and zeal, they give promise of usefulness.\n\nThe day of the corn-field and blacksmith preachers, is past. Some of\nthem were good men. They have been exceedingly useful in holding the\npeople together in church organizations and maintaining the forms of\nworship, even where gross errors were allowed. The present generation\n_must_ have and can have intelligent preaching from the lips of men\nabove reproach.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION.\n\nBY REV. B.A. IMES.\n\n\nAnother \"best of all meetings\" has occurred. The Union Church at Fisk\nUniversity, Nashville, Tenn., together with the combined population of\nthat interesting institution, was \"our host,\" and was most cordial in\nthe entertainment of guests, from April 3d to 7th. Jonesboro, Knoxville,\nChattanooga, Sherwood, Memphis and Nashville, Tenn., with Louisville,\nKy., Sand Mountain, Florence and Athens, Ala., and Little Rock, Ark.,\nwere represented by from one to three delegates each, including pastors,\nexcept in cases of Louisville and Sand Mountain.\n\nRev. Samuel Rose of Jonesboro, gave the opening discourse--\"If ye love\nme, keep my commandments.\" Friday morning devotional meeting found a\ngood number of one accord in one place, asking for the renewed anointing\nof the Holy Spirit. The business session began with Brother Yancy B.\nSims, of Little Rock, as Moderator, Rev. S. Rose, Recording Secretary.\nAfter roll-call, the narrative of the state of religion in the churches\nshowed not any flattering condition of prosperity, but in general a\nstate of hopefulness. Some of the churches are evidently becoming\nestablished, while pastors, laboring amid all the trials incident to the\ncommon poverty, the want of general culture, and of experience in self\ngovernment, have occasion to walk by faith oftener than by sight. \"_To\npatience, experience_,\" is a phrase we are studying in the original.\n\n\"Christian Benevolences and their Administration,\" was the title of a\npaper presented by B.A. Imes of Memphis. The general discussion was\nanimated. It was agreed we should understand that contributions to the\ncause of religion are not gifts. When we offer to the Lord we only pay\nwhat we owe. Religion has too long been made to go a begging.\n\nProf. H.S. Bennett spoke on \"Ministerial Support.\"\n\nOn Friday night, members of the Association found themselves\n\"complimented\" with tickets, and crowded in the chapel of Livingstone\nHall, where Prof. Spence and the Mozart Society, of Fisk, treated us to\nan excellent rendering of Haydn's great oratorio, \"The Creation.\" Many\ncame over from the city, whites from \"best families,\" all crowding\nin--listening, wondering, enjoying! How the music of those well-tuned\ninstruments and voices caught us up and carried us away! Color-line\nmelted and faded out! How we wished the politicians all might have been\nbrought under that magic spell of solos and choruses! Next morning yet\nthey were ringing in our heads, and stirring our hearts with the praises\nof God.\n\nSaturday A.M. was largely spent in the able and effective presentation\nof the topic, \"The Holy Spirit, His Personality and Work,\" by Rev. R.B.\nJohns, of Nashville. We agreed to carry the discussion further on our\nknees before God. Saturday P.M. nine young men were examined for\nlicensure to preach. With few exceptions, their intelligent answers and\ngeneral clearness of thought were creditable indeed. These young men\nbelong to different college classes. They have taken instruction in\ntheology with Prof. Bennett, at times crowded in between regular work in\ntheir classes. With these was Brother J.D. Pettigrew, a former Fisk\nstudent, who returned recently from Paris, Texas, to be ordained. His\nexamination was conducted with something of scrutiny, and it was\napparent that a clear head, studious mind and consecrated heart afford\nreason to expect for him a useful career. He seems devoted and\nteachable.\n\nSunday at eleven A.M. Prof. Bennett gave the sermon from \"I magnify mine\noffice.\" Then followed the solemn act of ordination. Rev. Jos. E. Smith,\nH.S. Williams, Prof. Bennett, and B.A. Imes, the latter offering the\nprayer, laid their hands on the kneeling brother's head and \"set him\napart for the ministry.\" All present seemed impressed with the solemn\nceremony. The afternoon brought us to the Lord's table. Five young\npeople were taken into the church.\n\nAt night a service of song led by Prof. Spence and his \"sweet singers,\"\ntogether with addresses by Rev. George Smith, President Cravath, Rev.\nEugene A. Johnson and B.A. Imes closed the delightful day and another\nmeeting of the Central South.\n\nFlorence, Ala., is to be the next meeting place.\n\nRev. J.H. Frazee of Knoxville Pilgrim Church was received \"by letter\"\ninto the Central South Association. Also Rev. Lot Lake of the Welsh\nChurch, and Rev. F.E. Jenkins of New Decatur. The latter reported his\nchurch as expecting to join in the near future. The Plymouth Church\nKnoxville, was received in response to its application, by letter; the\ntwo delegates appointed, business men, were hindered from coming.\nHowever we have these tokens of the blessed Gospel spirit uniting these\nchurches in fraternal union, we hope in spirit as well as name, and\ncasting out from the Lord's people the demon of color-caste.\n\nNot the least interesting feature of our gathering was the presence of\nthe many bright and promising young people at Fisk University. And we\nrenewed our appeal for a Theological Seminary, which is greatly needed.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"SIX DAYS SHALT THOU LABOR.\"\n\n\nA superintendent in our Mountain Work writes:\n\nI left home on horseback last Wednesday, after dinner, rode twenty-one\nmiles to Crossville, stopping on the way to contract for some lumber,\narriving in Crossville in time for an eight o'clock supper; spent an\nhour after breakfast with brother Cameron, rode twenty-seven miles to\nDeer Lodge, half the way in a hard rain, getting pretty wet. The\nmonotony of the trip was broken, Thursday, by picking my way through the\nbrush rather than following the road. For ten miles before reaching Deer\nLodge, I followed closely the track of the storm, the week before. Trees\nwere torn up, houses and barns unroofed, the fragments, in some cases,\nbeing strung along the way for rods.\n\nThere were new roofs and one or two new houses along the road. The men\nhad been so busy fixing shelter for themselves and their neighbors that\nthey had done nothing toward cutting trees out of the way. I got through\nin time to dry out a little, take supper with brother Lusty and attend\nthe Christian Endeavor meeting with him. Twenty were present; they have\nnow twenty-six active members. Next morning, I examined the buildings,\nfound the church building injured but little, it having moved only two\nor three inches on its foundation. But the school-house was the next\nthing to an utter wreck. It will have to be rebuilt. After dinner I rode\nfourteen miles to Wartburg, making twenty-eight miles, Friday.\n\nSaturday morning, I rode twenty miles before dinner to Harriman, made\nseveral calls, led the Sunday-school teachers' meeting at night, and a\nbusiness meeting afterwards. I had charge of the Sunday-school the next\nmorning, heard a sermon by a Methodist brother in the afternoon, after\nwhich I completed the organization of our \"Pilgrim Congregational Church\nof Harriman.\" We organized with fifteen members. At night I led a praise\nservice, the room being packed full. Monday morning, I was in the saddle\nagain, calling at the new town of Cardiff, and getting home, after\nriding twenty-two miles, in time for a late dinner. This kind of work\ndoes not give me much time to enjoy (?) blue Monday!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nENCOURAGED AND THANKFUL.\n\n(From a Lady Teacher in the Mountains.)\n\n\nWe have been greatly encouraged in our work. A marked earnestness has\nbeen expressed by our scholars. The industrial building has afforded\nwork for a number. Our boys enjoy their work much and are so thankful\nthey \"can git to go to school.\" Many of the older scholars who enter our\nschool have never had any advantages, or, as they express it \"pow'ful\nbad chance of gittin book-larnin.\"\n\nThey are willing to take their places with the small children. It is\nreally pitiful to see the embarrassment of a young man of nearly thirty\nyears, when he cannot read a single sentence in the Second Reader. Two\nyears ago, a young man entered my department who had not attended school\nin fourteen years. He actually knew nothing; one week he did nothing but\nlisten. He was ashamed; he thought he could not stand it. He was a\nChristian young man, and asked God to help him. His progress has been a\nwonder. To-day, he stands at the head of his grade and conducts one of\nour out-station Sunday-schools every Sabbath. He has an excellent\ninfluence among his people, seeing their needs, and his great desire is\nto carry the blessed news of the gospel among his own people. The\npossibilities of our girls and boys God only knows.\n\nDuring our vacation a number of our scholars went home. One girl visited\nher home, a distance of about fifteen miles. Her brother, a rough\nmountain boy, came for her with his \"wag.\" She was a happy girl, for her\nlove for her mother is great. She did not return, and we thought she had\nleft us. To-day she appeared, bounding in and crying for joy. 'I just\nstruck out and walked, and I'm nigh plumb giv out.' The change in these\ngirls is often very encouraging. We feel greatly our cramped room, but\nwe have strong faith in God, and look for more room, better buildings\nand greater success in our work.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.\n\n\nTougaloo University, established in 1869, located at Tougaloo, Miss., on\nthe Illinois Central Railroad, is one of the chartered schools of the\nAmerican Missionary Association. Its enrollment is now over four\nhundred, with seventeen teachers. Accessible from all parts of\nMississippi and adjacent States, no school of the American Missionary\nAssociation is better located for effective work among the Negroes. In\nthe four nearest counties, the colored population which was, in 1880, a\nlittle over 87,000, is now probably more than 100,000, none of it more\nthan thirty-five miles from Tougaloo. Within a radius of seventy-five\nmiles there are not far from 450,000 Negroes. By the last census,\nMississippi's colored population was 650,291. The lowest estimate of the\npresent number is 800,000. At least seventy per cent. of this population\nis illiterate. Tougaloo is thus in the very midst of America's Africa.\nJust at hand, also, is the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, into which Negroes\nare pouring from other States. Here they are gaining homes and\nestablishing communities. Their numbers are expected continually to\nincrease. It will probably be as prosperous and influential a Negro\nsection as any in the land. Tougaloo is the nearest school of high grade\nto this Delta region. From lower Arkansas, central and upper Louisiana,\nTougaloo is drawing increasing numbers of pupils each year. With such a\nlocation the only limit to the growth of Tougaloo in numbers and\ninfluence will be that set by the means which Christian beneficence\nprovides for its support. Tougaloo aims to give a thoroughly practical\neducation to colored youth of both sexes. A colored minister well\nexpressed it when he said: \"It is the aim of the teachers of Tougaloo to\nenable the Negro to have the grace of God in his heart, knowledge in his\nhead, and money in his pocket.\"\n\nIs there not in this work a rare opportunity for an investment that will\nreturn an ever increasing rate of interest? Enlightened patriotism,\nphilanthropy, Christianity, all urge the prompt and generous support of\nsuch a work as this.--_Tougaloo University Reporter._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nRev. Eli Tapley, pastor of four of our churches in Mississippi, died\nMarch 2, in Lowndes County. He was born in the same County and State in\n1839. When he was eight years old, his parents moved to Alabama. At\nseventeen years of age he was converted, and immediately entered with\nzeal upon the active duties of a Christian life. Uniting with the\nMethodist church, he was soon appointed class leader and Sunday-school\nteacher. Afterwards as exhorter and licensed minister he labored without\nsalary, as he had opportunity, both among white and colored people. In\n1869, he removed to Lowndes County, Miss., united with the\nCongregational Church there and was ordained to preach, and for many\nyears he continued his work under the Christian Commission for Free\nMissions, of Wheaton, Ill. He was often the subject of great\npersecution, because he labored among the colored people and refused to\ntake any part in the Civil War. In 1881, he began labors under the\nAmerican Missionary Association, which he continued until his death,\nfilling the pastorates of Salem, Piney Grove, New Ruhamah and Pleasant\nRidge Churches in Mississippi. He was an earnest and true man. One of\nhis latest rapturous exclamations, with face beaming with smiles as if\nin full view of the Celestial City, was, \"Heaven through Christ.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA JANUARY TRIP.\n\nBY REV. JAMES F. CROSS.\n\n_Missionary among the Indians in Dakota._\n\n\nOn the 8th of January, I started from home at the Agency to visit\nNorthfield and Park Street Church Stations. A snow, heavy for this\nregion, had fallen, and I thought a sled would run easier than a buggy,\nso I made a sled. I had counted on the road being broken, as fifty\nwagons had gone over it only a day or two before. Here was my first\ndifficulty. Only a few hours before I started a heavy wind arose and\nfilled up every track. So for every step of the thirty miles I had to\nbreak a new road. Most of the way it was knee deep, and in some places\nit was entirely impassable and it was necessary to go half a mile or\neven a mile to cross a ravine forty feet wide. In one place where the\nroad seemed plain, the snow was particularly deep. The crust was just\nthick enough to hold a horse until he began to pull. Then down he would\ngo. Finally one horse could not reach the ground and rolled over on his\nside, and left me not yet halfway up the hill. I unhitched the horses,\ntramped the snow down so they could stand, drove them out and around\nperhaps forty rods, and then took in the situation. There was the sled\nhalf way up the hill. To pull it up was impossible; to turn it round the\nsame, to back it down by hand the same. The only thing left was to haul\nit down. Here is where a picket line is the best kind of a missionary.\nIt will often help a man out of a hard place, or unto a hard place, as\nin this case. Making a turn of a rope around the sled and hitching the\nteam on forty feet down the hill we were soon on solid ground. After\neleven hours of hard work I reached Black Pipe Creek, where our\nNorthfield Station is situated. In ordinary weather the trip would take\nfive or six hours and not worry a team. But the longest road generally\nleads to a warm house and the coldest drive is forgotten when your team\nis in a warm stable and the prospects are good for a hot supper.\n\nSpotted Bear, who is the native teacher and preacher at Northfield\nStation, has gone to work with earnestness and enthusiasm. Here is a\nlarge community, perhaps fifty houses, heathen to the core. Reuben Quick\nBear, a Carlisle student, lives here. Beyond him few know anything of\nChristianity. Spotted Bear has an evening school of twenty or more young\nmen. He teaches Dakota, and as much English as he can. A few can read.\nThese he puts into a Bible class. The New Testament is the text book. On\nSunday he holds two or three services, and the house is always full. A\nlarger room is needed at once. To build this will be my first spring\nwork. The value of just such work as this cannot be overestimated.\nSpotted Bear himself got his education in just such a school. As soon as\nMrs. Ellen Spotted Bear had given me a supper, cooked as carefully and\nnicely as any woman could, and served on neat dishes, figured, and with\nplated knives, forks and spoons, Spotted Bear asks me for the _Iapi\nOaye_--the news and religious paper published in Dakota. He opens the\npaper and he and his wife read it. One item of news is the change of\nGovernment in Brazil. He asks me just where Brazil is; why they change\nthe Government. He reads of the fire in Boston and Lynn. He inquires\nwhere Lynn is. Being a Congregationalist he knows Boston as a Jew knows\nJerusalem and a Mohammedan knows Mecca. Then he reads the church and\nY.M.C.A. news.\n\nHere is a man, who by his life is denying what nine out of every ten men\nin the United States are saying: \"It is no use to work among the adult\nIndians.\" He was twenty-five and over before he commenced study of any\nkind. He is now a citizen, Republican, Prohibitionist, church officer,\nteacher, preacher, all of which require a fair amount of intelligence\nand information.\n\nHis work, too, is invaluable if the aim is to change the Indian to an\nAmerican citizen. In this village this one room only is the opening to\ncivilization. Some of the young men are tired of Indian ways. They think\nthe dance is something that ought to be thrown away. These young men now\nhave a place to spend their evenings, beyond the dance house. These\nhouses and native helpers break down more superstition and Indian life\nthan any other influence on the reservation. In the matter of dress it\nis the same. Here is an Indian woman who is not ashamed to wear a dress\nlike a white woman. The teachers in the day schools complain that they\ncannot get the girls to wear the civilized dress when they leave school.\nAnd Indian dresses mean Indian dirt and carelessness. One Indian woman\nadvocating \"dress reform\" by example, will do more than any teacher on\nthe reservation.\n\nFrom Black Pipe I go to Park Street Church Station. Here I have a road\nof twenty-five miles and not a mile of snow. Instead of a four hour\ndrive I have ten hours of dragging along. But the end comes at last.\n\nAt Park Street Station considerable progress is made. The school\nattendance is more regular. The children are cleaner; they wash their\nfaces and comb their hair more frequently. They take more interest in\nstudy. The older ones, too, are picking up reading. In two houses I\nfound children teaching their parents to read.\n\nThe Christians here are holding on and others are coming to their side.\nSome have reached the second stage of Christian life. The first is\nleaving their heathen ways and accepting Christianity. The second is\ngiving testimony in public. Wherever you go young Christians give the\nsame testimony. In Jerry McAuley's mission in New York, testimony like\nthis was given: \"Boys, ye knowed me. I used to drink and fight and beat\nmy wife and spend all my wages for liquor. It ain't so now; I've got\nJesus, we're pals now. D'ye see this coat? I bought it--it's new. I\ndidn't buy it at Uncle's. There's my wife, she smiles, now we're happy,\nthis is the right way.\" Two young men gave testimony like this: \"My\nfriends, you all know me. I used to dance and paint. I am a Dakota. I\nhave thrown these things away. I have my hair cut, I don't paint. I have\ngiven the dance up. I believe in God, I believe in Jesus my Saviour, I\nwant you to know God and Jesus, I want you to be his children. It is\nhard for me to talk to you; but I know this is the right way; it is\nGod's way.\"\n\nThe school-room is open every evening in the week. A substitute is\noffered for the dance and heathen amusements. If the work is slow it is\nsure. When a young man gives up the dance, paint, long hair, right at\nhis home, it costs something, and because it costs something he puts\nsome value upon it.\n\nAfter spending ten days at Park Street, I started back in the deep snow\nand coldest weather of winter. In one place I spent almost seven hours\ngoing thirteen miles. And right in sight of home about ten o'clock at\nnight I ran into an enormous drift. The horses sank almost out of\nsight, and then I had to work. But after an hour of tramping snow and\npulling out with a rope I was on the road again and soon at home. Such\nis missionary work at this season of the year.\n\n_From the Word-Carrier._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOUR CHINESE WORK.\n\nBY DISTRICT SECRETARY J.E. ROY.\n\n\nI have visited a dozen of our sixteen missions on this coast. I have\nseen them in their night schools, in their Sunday-schools and on their\nanniversary occasions. I have taught in some of the classes; I have\nspoken, through an interpreter, to many of them, I am only confirmed in\nthe admiration in which we have always held the administration of our\nSuperintendent, Rev. W.C. Pond, D.D., who adds this abounding service to\nthat of a city church in San Francisco, the Bethany. As he was upon his\nannual tour of inspection in Southern California, I met him at San\nDiego, the anniversary of whose mission at that time in the Tabernacle\nof the First Church I have already reported in the MISSIONARY. On that\ntour, he held four or five anniversaries, dedicating a new chapel at\nRiverside, setting in order the things that were wanting and doing the\ncognate work which only his practised eye saw needing to be done.\nEverywhere, confided in by the churches and looked up to affectionately\nby the Chinese, his coming is always anticipated with pleasure.\n\nI am delighted with the way in which our pastors and churches where\nthese missions are located are taking them under their own watch-care.\nIt is not simply to entrust the work to the California Chinese Mission\nand to the American Missionary Association to which it is an auxiliary,\nbut it is to take the Chinese Sunday-schools into their own\nSunday-school rooms, to furnish teachers for the same, along with the\nlady missionaries and native helpers, to receive the converted ones into\nchurch membership, and to recognize the local work as their own. These\nChristians seem to realize that whatever views may be held as to the\npolitical economy of exclusion, the duty is clear as to the\nevangelization of these whom God has brought to their doors. And this is\nnot only for the sake of these, but for the sake also of China, to which\nland so many of them are now returning.\n\nI am satisfied with the soundness of the work accomplished by this\nprocess in Christianizing these who had known the true God. I heard one\nman denying all such result and appealing to Dr. Pond. His answer was\nthat if it were not so, the fault was in the character of the Christ\nhimself, so profoundly persuaded was he that some of these had taken on\nhis spirit and character. One of the most intellectual of these men was\none whom Dr. Pond characterized to me as \"a saintly person.\" The number\nof seven hundred and fifty hopefully transferred from Confucius to\nChrist in these missions, is a most gratifying result. The work of the\nBaptists, the Presbyterians and the Methodists, is also of the same\nencouragement.\n\nI am profoundly grateful to God for the women who have addicted\nthemselves to this most self-denying of work for the Master's sake. As\nalways in such cases, they are most happy in their work. They see such\nprogress, such result in character, that they rejoice in their privilege\nof service. One of these pastors declared to me that for a long time he\nhad counted these women as his \"evidences of Christianity.\"\n\nThe missionary zeal of these young brethren is most gratifying. Besides\nthe furnishing of $860 toward the mission of the American Board at Hong\nKong, under Rev. Mr. Hagar, they have started their own missionary\nsociety here to operate in a self-supporting way in China under the\nadvice and assistance of Mr. Hagar. To this end they have sent the\nbrother Joe Jet over with $1,400 in hand to start the work. He is to be\none of a committee of three over there to direct the same. They have\nalso in hand enough to bring that sum up to $2,000. They are to build a\nchapel, to open free schools and start out evangelists. They will send\nout a missionary physician, educated after the American way, to\naccompany the preacher, and two wealthy Chinamen there furnish the means\nto support the doctor and supply the medicine.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\nMISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNOTICE OF MEETING OF STATE UNIONS.\n\n\nAn all-day meeting of the Woman's State Home Missionary Organizations\nwill be held in the Congregational Church at Saratoga, Tuesday, June 3.\nThe morning session will open at 9:45. This session is for State\nofficers only. It will be devoted to the transaction of business and the\ndiscussion of methods of work. The committee appointed at the meeting\nlast June to consider the question of a National Advisory Committee will\npresent their report and the subject will be fully discussed.\n\nA cordial invitation is extended to all women interested in Homeland\nWork to attend the afternoon session, which will open at two o'clock.\nPapers upon subjects of vital importance to the work will be presented\nby women from different States. The session will close with a\nconsecration service. It is hoped to make this meeting helpful and\ninspiring, as all the others have been.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA YOUNG COLORED GIRL sought admission into one of our boarding schools,\nbringing commendations as to her character. She was received, and an\nappropriation was made from the Hand Fund to assist her in her effort\nto secure an education. The letter below will explain itself. It gives\nan insight of the kindliness of many noble people South toward the\nNegro. It also reveals an attitude of mind toward our work in the South\nwhich quite disproves the idea that good people of the South are not in\nsympathy with our work. The cases are exceptional where the schools and\nthe churches of the American Missionary Association have not won both\nconfidence and gratitude from the intelligent and good among the white\npeople. This letter is but one expression among many, of the good will\nthat comes to us as unsolicited testimony to our work. The position and\ncharacter of the lady who sent the letter to one of our teachers makes\nthis graphic and pleasing testimony more valuable.\n\nDEAR MADAME:--I have seen several letters from your pupil A---- B----,\nin which she speaks in the highest terms of you, of your generous\nkindness and uniform courtesy to her. I am glad A---- has met with such\na wise lady, for she is in every way deserving of your good will. She\nlived with me for seven years, and I never saw any person more\ncompetent, more honest and upright. In all that time I never found fault\nwith any work she did for me, and she was as neat in her dress as she\nwas morally particular. Her family is in every way respected here by\nwhite as well as black, and A---- has always been a favorite with all\nclasses of people. I am a Southern woman, and before the war my father\nwas a planter who owned six hundred slaves and enormous tracts of land.\nI merely mention this to explain to you what follows. None of us have\never had any prejudice against colored people, and we try to help them\nwith purse and pen, and have always met with gratitude and respect in\nreturn. Of course these people are all freed now, but my sister and I\nstill own a great deal of real estate, and upon it will be found many\nfamilies of colored people who were our slaves. You will see from this\ninsight into my affairs that I am glad to know of the success of colored\npeople, and I wish it was so they could all go to school and be\neducated, for as a rule, where they _have been_ educated, they have done\nwell. Wishing you great success, and with personal regards and thanks\nfor your kindness to A----.\n\nVery truly yours, A.C.H.\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, 33 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\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. 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.E. 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.\nPresidents--Mrs. H.A. Miner, Madison.\nSecretary--Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead.\nTreasurer--Mrs. C.C. Keeler, 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.\nPresident--Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdle.\nSecretary--Mrs. T.M. Jeffris, Huron.\nTreasurer--Miss A.A. Noble, 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 Ave., Colorado Springs,\n  Colorado.\nTreasurer--Mrs. S.A. Sawyer, Boulder, Colorado.\nTreasurer--Mrs. W.L. Whipple, Cheyenne, Wyoming.\n\n\nWASHINGTON.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\nPresident--Mrs. W.E. Dawson, Seattle.\nSecretary--Mrs. N.F. Cobleigh, Walla Walla.\nTreasurer--Mrs. W.R. Abrams, Ellensburg.\n\n\nSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. Elijah Cash, 937 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, 1339 Harrison St., Oakland.\n\n\nLOUISIANA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. R.C. 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.\nPresidents--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 SOUTH ASSOCIATION.\nPresident--Mrs. E.M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn.\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\nTEXAS.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\nPresident--Mrs. S.C. Acheson, 149 W. Woodard St., Denison.\nSecretary--Mrs. Mary A. McCoy, 122 No. Barwood St., Dallas.\nTreasurer--Mrs. C.I. Scofield, Dallas.\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 MARCH, 1890.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE DANIEL HAND FUND,\n\n_For the Education of Colored People._\n\nFROM\n\nMr. DANIEL HAND, GUILFORD, CONN.\n\nIncome for March, 1890 ...$1,500.00\n\nIncome previously acknowledged ...5,989.80\n\nTotal ...$7,489.85\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCURRENT RECEIPTS.\n\n    MAINE, $411.49.\n\n    Alfred, Cong. Ch. ...$2.30\n\n    Auburn. High St. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Woman's Work_ ...25.00\n\n    Auburn. Sixth St. Cong. Ch. Box of C, etc., 1.85, _for Freight,\n    for Lexington, Ky._ ...1.85\n\n    Augusta. Sab. Sch. Classes, _for Student Aid, Talladega\n    C._ ...13.00\n\n    Bangor. First Cong. Ch. And Soc. ...40.00\n\n    Bangor. Mrs. Merill and Friends, Hammond St. Cong. Ch., Christmas\n    Bbl. _for Fairbanks, Fla._\n\n    Bluehill. By Miss C.J. Lord, _for Selma, Ala._ ...2.00\n\n    Calais. First Cong. Soc. ...38.00\n\n    Cumberland Mills. Primary Dept. Warren Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Indian\n    M._ ...3.75\n\n    Dennysville. Peter E. Voce, Box of new goods, 5, _for Freight_\n    ...5.00\n\n    Ellsworth. Cong. Ch. ...3.58\n\n    Falmouth. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Troy, N.C._\n\n    Farmington. New Old South Ch. ...$38.00\n\n    Gorham. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 15 _for Burrell Sch. Selma, Ala._,\n    3.04 _for Mountain Work_ ...18.04\n\n    Gorham. By Rev. Geo. Reynolds, 3. _for Selma, Ala._ ...3.00\n\n    Gorham. B. of C. _for Selma, Ala._\n\n    Hampden. Cong. Ch. ...3.72\n\n    Hapswell Center. B. of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n\n    New Gloucester. Weekly Papers, _for Selma, Ala._\n\n    Portland. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 187; \"A Friend,\" 10; George\n    H. Plummer, 3 ...200.00\n\n    Portland. Fourth Cong. Ch. (7.50 of which from Y.P.S.C.E.)\n    ...12.50\n\n    Woodfords. By Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, _for Selma, Ala._ ...1.75\n\n\n    NEW HAMPSHIRE, $546.56.\n\n    Amherst. \"L.F.B.\" (20 of which _for Storrs Sch. Atlanta, Ga.)\n    ...$170.00\n\n    Brentwood. Cong. Ch. ...5.23\n\n    Concord. First Cong. Ch. to const W.F. MASON, GEORGE L. HOOPER and\n    A.H. KNIGHT L.M's. ...106.34\n\n    Dover. Southern and Western Aid Soc. of First Parish, _for\n    Sherwood, Tenn._ ...25.00\n\n    Dunbarton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.16; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. _for\n    Student Aid, Wilmington, N.C._, 10 ...22.16\n\n    East Fremont. Cong. Sab. Sch. ...0.99\n\n    Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...7.05\n\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch., 6.28; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 10 ...16.28\n\n    Keene. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. to const. ELISHA AYER, LOREN\n    W. TOWNE, CHAS. E. WARD and MRS. MARY RIPLEY L.M's. ...120.00\n\n    Manchester. Ladies of Franklin St. Cong, Ch. Bbl. of C., _for\n    Greenwood, S.C._\n\n    Mason. Cong. Ch. ...3.85\n\n    Mason. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box of C., 1.50 for Freight _for\n    Thomasville, Ga._ ...1.50\n\n    Milford. By Miss F.L. Thomas, _for Stoors Sch. Atlanta, Ga._\n    ...0.25\n\n    Nashua. Pilgrim Cong, Ch., _for Mountain Work_ ...30.00\n\n    Nashua. Miss Carlton's Class First Cong, S.S., _for Rosebud Indian\n    M._ ...5.00\n\n    Nashua. \"Friends,\" Bbl. of C., 1.50 for Freight, _for Greenwood,\n    S.C._ ...1.50\n\n    New Ipswich. A.N. Townsend ...1.50\n\n    Piermont. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., to const. DEA. JOHN D. MARTIN\n    L.M. ..30.00\n\n\n    VERMONT, $4,362.32.\n\n    Barnet. Cong. Ch., _Williamsbury Academy, Ky._ ...7.00\n\n    Berlin. First. Cong. Ch. ...21.72\n\n    Brownington. S.S. Tinkham ...5.00\n\n    Burlington. \"Memoriam J.W.C.\" to const. GEORGE T. RICHARDSON L.M.\n    ...30.00\n\n    Burlington. Two Classes Sab. Sch. of College St. Ch., _for Rosebud\n    Indian M._ ...12.53\n\n    Burlington. First Cong. Ch. Benev. Soc. Bbl. and Box of C., 2.48\n    _for Freight, for McIntosh, Ga._ ...2.48\n\n    Cambridge. Madison Safford ...10.00\n\n    Chester. Mrs. J.N. Moore, 20; J.L. Fisher 10, Cong. Ch., 5.68\n    ...35.68\n\n    Cornwall. Mrs. Franklin Hooker, B. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\n    Essex Junction. Cong, Ch., B. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\n    Granby. Infant Class, _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...0.87\n\n    Greensboro. Cong. Ch. ...14.69\n\n    Jericho. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...4.06\n\n    Middlebury. Cong. Ch. ...14.25\n\n    Morgan. Miss Lucy Little ...0.50\n\n    Newfane. Cong. Ch. ...8.00\n\n    Newfane. Miss A.C. Merrifield, _for McIntosh, Ga._ ...1.50\n\n    North Bennington. Cong. Ch. ...13.28\n\n    Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (30 of which from a \"Friend\" to\n    const DEA. GEORGE H. BAILEY L.M.) ...50.85\n\n    Orwell. Cong. Ch. ...25.00\n\n    Pawlet. \"A Friend\" _for Indian M._ ...5.00\n\n    Pescham. Cong. Ch. ...37.00\n\n    Peru. Dea. Edmond Batchelder ...3.00\n\n    Poultney. Alice Field, _for Organ, for Fairbanks, Fla._ ...3.00\n\n    Rutland. W.H.M. Soc. and Circle of \"King's Daughters,\" B. of C.,\n    _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\n    Saint Albans. F.S. Stranahan's S.S. Class, _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U._ ...25.00\n\n    Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...10.00\n\n    Shoreham. Ladies of Cong. Ch., B. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\n    South Newbury. Mrs. M. Brock, Mrs. S. Brock and Mrs. L. Hale,\n    Sewing Material, _for Meridian, Miss_\n\n    Springfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. _for Indian M._ ...25.00\n\n    Strafford. Cong. Ch. and Y.P.S.C.E. (5 of which _for McIntosh,\n    Ga._) ...25.00\n\n    Townshend. Cong. Ch. ...12.16\n\n    West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch. ...12.50\n\n    West Westminster. Mrs. H. Goodhue, B. of C. _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\n    Weybridge. \"Coral Workers,\" _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...10.00\n\n    Woman's Home Missionary Union of Vt., by Mrs. William P.\n    Fairbanks, Treasurer, _for McIntosh, Ga._:\n\n    Berlin. Ladies ...11.25\n\n    Calais. L.A.B. and A.H.H. ...2.00\n\n    Castleton. W.H.M.S. ...5.00\n\n    Essex Junction. Ladies ...7.00\n\n    Granby. \"A Friend\" ...1.00\n\n    Lower Waterford. Mrs. A.R. Ross ...2.00\n\n    North Thetford. Miss Susan Dearborn ...1.00\n\n    Wells River, W.H.M.S. ...13\n\n    --------\n\n    42.25\n\n    --------\n\n    $467 32\n\n\n    ESTATES.\n\n    Newport. Estate of Mrs. Olive M. Robinson, by C.G. Goodrich, Ex.\n    ...75.00\n\n    Saint Johnsbury. Estate of Mary S. Durkee, by Daniel Carpenter,\n    Ex. ...3,820.00\n\n    --------\n\n    $4,362.32\n\n\n    MASSACHUSETTS, $21,540.38.\n\n    Amherst. Ladies of First Ch., Bbl of C., _for Fisk U._\n\n    Andover. Mrs. Phebe A. Chandler, _for Chandler Normal Sch.\n    Building, Lexington, Ky._ ...1,881.24\n\n    Andover. C.E. Goodell ...25.00\n\n    Andover. Y.P.S.C.E. of South Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._\n    ...15.00\n\n    Andover. Miss Susie Smith, 25; Miss Clara Boynton, 5, _for Organ,\n    for Fairbanks, Fla._ ...30.00\n\n    Andover. Mission Soc., Bbl. of C., _for Jellico, Tenn._\n\n    Ashfield. Mrs. Daniel Williams, _for Freight to McLeansville,\n    N.C._ ...1.16\n\n    Atlantic. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. ...6.75\n\n    Auburndale. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...103.51\n\n    Auburndale. Ladies' Benev. Circle, Bbl. of C., _for Austin, Texas_\n\n    Bedford. cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\n    Berlin. First Cong. Ch. ...11.00\n\n    Boston. \"A Friend\" _for Student Aid Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill,\n    Tenn._ ...27.00\n\n    HON. Rufus L. Frost, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...18.00\n\n    Wm. Q. Wales ...10.00\n\n    Rev. R.B. Howard ...2.00\n\n    Roxbury. Mrs. W.R. Nichols, _for Student Aid, Washburn Sem.\n    Beaufort, N.C._ ...2.00\n\n    --------\n\n    59.00\n\n    Braintree. South Cong. Ch. ...17.00\n\n    Brimfield. Rev. M.S. Richardson, 20; Second Cong. Ch., 8.44\n    ...28.44\n\n    Brockton. First Cong. Ch., 14; Sec. Cong. Ch., _for Williamsbury\n    Academy, Ky._ ...15.00\n\n    Brookfield. Coll. _for Williamsbury Academy, Ky._ ...14.59\n\n    Cambridge. Shepard Memorial Ch. ...301.24\n\n    Campello. Mrs. Allen Leach ...0.50\n\n    Charlestown. Sewing Circle of Winthrop Ch. _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n    ...20.00\n\n    Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. ...3.00\n\n    Clinton. Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...$15.00\n\n    Dalton. Cong. Ch. ...79.50\n\n    Dalton. Ladies' Sew. Soc. of Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls. of C., val.\n    (including freight) 98.10, _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\n    East Billerica. Mrs. A.R. Richardson ...5.00\n\n    East Bridgewater. Union Cong. Ch. ...9.80\n\n    East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. ...15.42\n\n    Easthampton. Sabbath-School of First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._\n    ...25.00\n\n    Easthampton. First Cong. Ch. ...76.84\n\n    Enfield. Cong. Ch. ...50.00\n\n    Enfield. Rev. Robert M. Woods and sister, _for Student Aid,\n    Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ ...30.00\n\n    Fall River. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._\n    ...17.50\n\n    Fitchburg. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Rollstone Ch., Box of C. val.\n    30, _for Straight U._\n\n    Foxboro. Orthodox Cong. Ch. ...20.63\n\n    Framingham. Miss Mary L. Brown, _for Indian M._ ...5.00\n\n    Gardner. Y.P.S.C.E., by Miss H.R. Heywood, Sec., _for Williamsburg\n    Academy, Ky._ ...100.00\n\n    Georgetown. First Cong. Ch., ad'l. ...0.25\n\n    Hadley. First Cong. Soc. ...12.14\n\n    Harwich. Miss S.G. Brooks, _for Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n    ...25.00\n\n    Hatfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n    Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ ...3.15\n\n    Holliston. \"Bible Christians\" ...100.00\n\n    Holyoke. \"Friend,\" _for Indian M._ ...1.00\n\n    Housatonic. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Student Aid, Avery Inst._ ...5.75\n\n    Ipswich, First Ch. and Soc. _for Ramona Sch., Santa Fe, N.M._\n    ...24.95\n\n    Lowell. Miss Ward's S.S. Class, for Student Aid, Avery Inst.\n    ...7.59\n\n    Lowell Mary K. Fletcher, 2; \"A Member of A.M.A.\" 1. ...3.00\n\n    Linden. Mrs. S.A. Dowse, _for Atlanta U._ ...20.00\n\n    Malden. First Cong. Ch. ...101.00\n\n    Malden. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Straight U._ ...25.00\n\n    Maplewood. \"Penny Band,\" _for Lexington, Ky._ ...0.50\n\n    Marshfield. Family of Rev. B. Alden, Bbl. _for Pine Mountain_, and\n    Bbl. _for Rockhold, Ky._\n\n    Millbury. Second Cong. Ch., 39.10; First Cong. Ch., M. Garfield, 5\n    ...44.10\n\n    Newton. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._ ...35.95\n\n    Newton. Mutual Bible Class in Eliot Sab. Sch., by Elizabeth Spear,\n    Sec., _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...20.00\n\n    Newton Center. \"Extra Cent a Day\" Band, of Cong. Ch., _for\n    Mountain Work_ ...25.00\n\n    Newton Center. Mrs. Luther Paul and \"Other friends\" _for Indian\n    Sch'p._ ...14.05\n\n    North Amherst. Mrs. G.E. Fisher, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._\n    ...15.00\n\n    Northampton. Ladies of First Ch., Box of C., Val. 110, _for\n    Washburne Sem., Beaufort, N.C._\n\n    Northfield. Cong. Sab. Sch., for Moody Station, Fort Berthold\n    Indian M., North Dak. ...66.96\n\n    Northfield. Miss Annie M. Wells ...5.00\n\n    North Weymouth. Y.P.S.C.E. of Pilgrim Ch., _for Jellico. Tenn._\n    ...12.00\n\n    North Wilmington. \"A Friend,\" _for Straight U._ ...1.00\n\n    Oakham. Cong. Ch. ...1.00\n\n    Peabody. South Cong. Ch. ...288.00\n\n    Pepperell. Ladies' Circle of Second Ch., B. of C., 2 for Freight,\n    _for Thomasville, Ga._ ...2.00\n\n    Pittsfield. Mrs. Mary E. Sears, _for Ind. M._ ...10.00\n\n    Quincy. Primary Dept. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_\n    ...10.00\n\n    Reading. Cong. Ch. ...18.00\n\n    Rutland. Cong. Ch. ...6.30\n\n    Somerville. Franklin St. Orthodox Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid.\n    Indian Sch., Santee Agency, Neb._ ...40.00\n\n    Somerville. Y.P.S.C.E. of Prospect Hill Ch., _for Straight U._\n    ...$5.00\n\n    South Deerfield. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Washburne\n    Sem., Beaufort, N.C._ ...8.00\n\n    South Framingham. Y.P.S.C.E., Grace Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._\n    ...52.50\n\n    South Framingham. Sab. Sch. Grace Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_\n    ...14.00\n\n    South Framingham. Mrs. A.M. Amsden, 5; G.M. Amsden, 5 ...10.00\n\n    South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. ...21.00\n\n    South Hadley Falls. John Gaylord ...15.00\n\n    Springfield. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Washburne Sem.,\n    Beaufort, N.C._ ...10.00\n\n    Spencer. \"A Friend,\" _for Jellico, Tenn._ ...20.00\n\n    Taunton. Sab. Sch. of Winslow Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...25.00\n\n    Wakefield. Cong. Ch., 17.50; Cong. Sab. Sch., 19.83; Cong. S.S.\n    Primary Dept., 10, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...47.33\n\n    Walpole. Sab. Sch. Orthodox Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_\n    ...13.93\n\n    Ware. Miss Hitchcocks' Class East Cong. S.S., _for Indian M._\n    ...50.00\n\n    Ware. Wm. S. Hyde, 10; Mrs. H.N. Hyde, 5: Miss S.R. Sage, 5; E.H.\n    Baker, 5; G.E. Tucker, 5; F.R. Clark, 3 ...33.00\n\n    Warren. Cong. Ch. ...115.00\n\n    Warren. Cong. Ch. _for Straight U._, and to const. PRESIDENT R.C.\n    HITCHCOCK L.M. ...30.00\n\n    Warren. Mrs. Joseph Ramsdell, 5 _for Chinese and 5 for Indian M._\n    ...10.00\n\n    Waverly. Mrs. Daniel Butler, _for Mountain Work_ ...10.00\n\n    Wendell. Mrs. E.H. Evans ...5.00\n\n    West Boylston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...9.00\n\n    West Brookfield. Cong. Ch., (5 of which from Mrs. R.R. Montague)\n    ...19.00\n\n    West Hawley. Rev. A.B. Peffers ...3.00\n\n    West Newberry. \"A Friend\" In First Ch., _for Academy, Pleasant\n    Hill, Tenn._ ...30.00\n\n    Weymouth. First Ch. and Soc., to const. REV. F.H. PALMER and B.F.\n    RICHARDS L.M.'s ...60.15\n\n    Whitinsville. Edward Whitin, 100; Wm. H. Whitin, 50; Arthur F.\n    Whitin, 20 ...170.00\n\n    Whitinsville. Ladies' Benev. Soc. by Lila S. Whitin, Box of C.,\n    Val. 120, _for Indian M., Ponca Agency, Neb._\n\n    Whitman. First Cong. Ch. ...25.81\n\n    Williamstown. Sab. Sch. First Cong., adl. _for Rosebud Indian M._\n    ...0.50\n\n    Winchendon. Y.P.S.C.E., by J.W. Beaman, bal. to const W.W. SMITH\n    L.M. ...4.00\n\n    Wollaston. Cong. Ch. ...22.42\n\n    Worcester. Union Cong. Ch., 180.73; \"A Friend\" to const. MISS MARY\n    JANE RUSSELL L.M., 30; Mrs. Ellen B. McClenning 1 ...211.73\n\n    Worcester. Piedmont Cong. Ch., (84.65 of which _for Williamsburg\n    Academy, Ky._) ...134.65\n\n    Worcester. Logan, Swift and Bingham Envelope Co., 2 Cases\n    Envelopes, _for Fisk U._\n\n    ---- \"E.W.W.\" ...100.00\n\n    Yarmouthport. Ladies' Sew. Circle, _Freight to Raleigh, N.C._\n    ...2.00\n\n    Hampden Benevolent Association, by Charles Marsh, Treasurer:\n\n    Chicopee. First ...9.81\n\n    Holyoke. Second ...50.00\n\n    Ludlow ...13.87\n\n    Westfield. First ...65.30\n\n    \" \" _for Grand View, Tenn._ ...75.00\n\n    \" \" _for Sch'p Hampton N. and A. Inst._ ...70.00\n\n    \" \" _for Jewett Mem. Hall_ ...25.00\n\n    W. Springfield. Mittineague. ...3.32\n\n    \" Park St. Y.P.S.C.E. ...17.00 Ira Merril ...2.00\n\n    -------- 331.30\n\n    Woman's Home Missionary Association, Ella A. Leland, Treasurer,\n    _for Woman's Work:\n\n    _For Salary of Teachers_ ...440.00\n\n    _For Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky._ ...40.00\n\n    Newton. Mr. Cobb's S.S. Class _for Sch'p, Indian Sch., Santee\n    Agency, Neb._ ...6.25\n\n    -------- $486.25\n\n    --------\n\n    $6,040 38\n\n\n    ESTATES.\n\n    Greenfield. Estate of Ex-Gov. William B. Washburn, by W.N.\n    Washburn and F.G. Fessenden, Ex's, Additional ...10,000.00\n\n    Holliston. Estate of Dea. George Batchelder, by J.M. Batchelder,\n    for Ex's ...1,000.00\n\n    Swampscott. Estate of Miss Lucy A. Hopkins, by Miss Lucretia A.\n    Hopkins, Executrix ...1,000.00\n\n    Woburn. Estate of Miss Ruth M. Leathe, by S.H. Leathe and Wm. W.\n    Hill, Ex's ...3,500.00\n\n    --------\n\n    $21,540.38\n\n\n    CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC. RECEIVED AT THE BOSTON OFFICE.\n\n    Andover, Mass. Sab. Sch. West Cong. Ch., Box _for Gregory Inst.,\n    Wilmington, N.C._\n\n    Ashfield, Mass. Cong. Ch., Bbl. Val. 25, _for McLeansville, N.C._\n\n    Georgetown, Mass. Peabody Memorial Ch., Box, _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\n    Newton, Mass. Mrs. M.T. Vincent. Eliot Ch., Books and Magazines,\n    _for Library, Williamsburg, Ky._\n\n    Somerville, Mass. Y.P. Miss'y Circle of Day St. Church. Box, Val.\n    52, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n\n\n    RHODE ISLAND, $249.54.\n\n    Barrington. Cong. Ch., (5 of which from \"Little Parsonage\n    Builders,\") _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...100.00\n\n    Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch., 109.02; Free Evan. Cong. Ch., 25\n    ...134.02\n\n    Providence. Y.P.S.C.E. of North Cong. Ch., _for Grand View, Tenn._\n    ...6.02\n\n    Riverpoint, Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong, Ch., _for Indian M._ ...5.00\n\n    Westerly. Mrs. Mary T. Babcock, _for Mountain Work_ ...4.50\n\n\n    CONNECTICUT, $3,904.99.\n\n    Andover. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\n    Branford. First Cong. Ch, to const. EDWARD D. SHELDON L.M.\n    ...36.50\n\n    Bristol. E. Ingraham & Co., 6 Clocks, Bristol Mission Circle, Box\n    Sundries, _for Talladega C._\n\n    Bridgeport. Y.P.S.C.E. Park St. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._ ...22.75\n\n    Collinsville. Chas. Blair, 30; H.S. Collins, 10, _for Theo, Dept.,\n    Talladega C._ ...40.00\n\n    Columbia. \"Friends,\" _for Freight to McIntosh, Ga._ ...1.00\n\n    Darien. Ladies of Cong. Ch., by Miss Ellen M. Nash, _for\n    Thomasville, Ga._ ...10.00\n\n    Deep River. Mazie Bidwell, Pkg. Papers, _for Jonesboro. Tenn._\n\n    Durham. \"A Friend.\"...100.00\n\n    East Canaan. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 8; Members of Mrs. C.S.\n    Adams' Class, 2; _for Thomasville, Ga._ ...10.00\n\n    East Hampton. Mrs. Samuel Skinner, _for Student Aid, Talladega,\n    C._ ...5.00\n\n    East Woodstock. Ladles of Cong. Ch. by Mrs. Geo. T. Bixby, _for\n    Thomasville, Ga._\n\n    Enfield. First Cong. Ch., and to const. ALBERT ABBE, J.N. ALLEN,\n    HOMER W. PATTEN, T.I. PEASE, F.A. KING, MRS. HENRY C. WOODWARD and\n    MISS EMMA L. PARSONS L.M.'s ...50.00\n\n    Farmington. \"Friend,\" _for Indian M._ ...20.00\n\n    Franklin, Cong. Ch. ...6 32\n\n    Glastonbury. D.W. Williams, _for Indian M._ ...150.00\n\n    Greenwich. Second Cong. Ch. ...142.32\n\n    Hartford. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong. Ch. 10; Mrs. Edward Perkins,\n    10, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...20.00\n\n    Hebron. Cong. Ch. ...15.65\n\n    Ivoryton. \"Friend,\" _for Rosebud Ind. M._ ...100.00\n\n    Meriden. Y.P.S.C.E., by Miss Mary J. Benham, _for Mountain Work_\n    ...25.00\n\n    Middletown. South Cong. Ch. ...41.68\n\n    Middletown. Lucius R. Hazen ...4.75\n\n    Naugatuck. Cong. Ch., (70 of which _for Indian M._ and 100 _for\n    Tougaloo U_) ...240.00\n\n    New Britain. Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_\n    ...36.00\n\n    New Hartford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...39.00\n\n    New Haven. \"Golden Links.\" Dwight Place Ch., _for Student Aid,\n    Fisk U._ ...18.00\n\n    New Haven. Ladies of Dwight Place Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Fisk U._\n\n    New Haven. \"Friend\" in United Ch., _for Indian M._ ...2.00\n\n    New Haven. United Ch., adl. ...0.75\n\n    Newington. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...34.28\n\n    New London. Wing Sing, _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...1.00\n\n    North Branford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ ...20.00\n\n    Norfolk. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._ ... 16.61\n\n    North Haven. Cong. Ch. ...60.00\n\n    Norwich. Park Cong. Ch. ...1,804.18\n\n    Norwich Town. \"The Other Girls,\" by Fannie I. Williams, Sec., _for\n    Conn. Indl. Sch., Ga._ ...25.00\n\n    Oxford. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls. of C., 6 _for Freight, for\n    Marion, Ala._ ...6.00\n\n    Plainville. \"A Friend.\"...50.00\n\n    Saybrook. Mrs. Lucy B. Ward, 25; Old Saybrook Cong. Ch and Soc.,\n    24.19...49.19\n\n    Simsbury. Y.P.S.C.E., of Cong. Ch., _for Straight U._ ...15.25\n\n    South Canaan. Cong. Ch. ...5.77\n\n    Southport. \"A Friend.\"...25.00\n\n    Stafford Springs. Cong. Ch. ...28.49\n\n    Suffield. Mrs. G.H. Fuller, Box of C., _for Thomasville. Ga._\n\n    Terryville. Y.P.S.C.E. by Miss S. Lucy Arms, Treas., _for Student\n    Aid, Indian Sch. Santee Agency, Neb._ ...35.00\n\n    Thomaston. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Sch'p, Indian Sch., Santee\n    Agency. Neb._ ...35.00\n\n    Torrington. Helpmeet Circle of King's Daughters, Third Cong. Ch.,\n    Bbl. of C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\n    Washington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Indian Sch.,\n    Santee Agency, Neb._ ...25.00\n\n    Waterbury. Mission Circle, Second Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._\n    ...70.00\n\n    West Cornwall. Second Cong. Ch. ...39.00\n\n    Westford. Cong. Ch. ...4.00\n\n    West Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...13.00\n\n    Wethersfield. Miss J.C. Francis' S.S. Class, _for Rosebud Indian\n    M._, and to const. ARTHUR W. HOWARD L.M. ...30.00\n\n    ----. \"A Friend in Connecticut,\" _for Dining Hall, Indian Sch.\n    Santee Agency, Neb._ ...100.00\n\n    ----. ----, _for Hope Indian Station_ ...75.00\n\n    Woman's Home Mission'y Union of Conn., by Mrs. D. Wilder Smith,\n    Sec.\n\n    Naugatuck. Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ ...35.00\n\n    New Haven. College St. Ch., Mrs. Cowles, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch.,\n    Ga._ ...35.00\n\n    -------\n\n    70.00\n\n    -------\n\n    $3,804.99\n\n\n    ESTATE.\n\n    Darien. Estate of Rev. Ezra D. Kinney, by J.C. Kinney, Executor\n    ...100.00\n\n    --------\n\n    $3,904.99\n\n\n    NEW YORK, $858.98.\n\n    Binghamton, Mrs. J.L. Mersereau, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._\n    ...$50.00\n\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian M._ ...37.50\n\n    Brooklyn. Grand St Order of King's Daughters, Box of Books, _for\n    Troy, N.C._\n\n    Brooklyn. Lewis Av. Cong. Ch., B. of C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\n    Buffalo. First Cong. Ch., ..100.00\n\n    Canandaigua. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...12.80\n\n    Churchville. W.H.M. Soc., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...50.00\n\n    Ellington. Mrs. Anson Crosby ...1.00\n\n    Elmira. Mrs. Olivia L. Langdon ...100.00\n\n    Gloversville. Cong. Ch. ...4.00\n\n    Homer. Cong. Ch. ...20.29\n\n    Honeoye. Cong. Ch. ...31.50\n\n    Lima. Mrs. Louis D. Warner ...2.00\n\n    Lisle. Mrs. M.D. Osborn ... 15.00\n\n    Munnsville. Mission Circle, _for Student Aid, Tillotson C. and N.\n    Inst._ ...10.00\n\n    New Lebanon. Ellen C. Kendall ...4.00\n\n    New York. Wyckoff, Seaman & Benedict, _for Type Writer, Fisk U._\n    ...45.00\n\n    New York. A.D. Sturges _for Mobile, Ala._ ...5.00\n\n    New York. J.F. Land, M.D. ...5.00\n\n    New York. Mrs. John Lindley, Box of Books, etc., 2.05 _for\n    Freight, for Tougaloo, Miss._ ...2.05\n\n    New York. Cong. Sab. Sch., Christmas Box, _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\n    Norwich. First Cong. Ch. ...39.85\n\n    Rochester. \"King's Daughters,\" Bbl. of C., _for Macon, Ga._\n\n    Sherburne. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. ...33.32\n\n    Wellsville. Cong. Ch. ...25.96\n\n    West Bloomfield. M.J. Peck, _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ ...10.00\n\n    West Brook. Plymouth Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...7.00\n\n    Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas.,\n    _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Albany. Ladies' Aux. First Ch. ...20.00\n\n    Brooklyn. Ladies' Benev. Soc of Clinton Av. Cong. Ch. ...100.00\n\n    Brooklyn. The Lily Circle, Park Ch., _for Indian M., Santee\n    Agency, Neb._ ...40.00\n\n    Fairport. Ladies' Aux. ...27.61\n\n    Lockport. Ladies' Aux., _for Sch'p, Talladega C._ ...20.00\n\n    New York. Broadway Tab. Ch. ...20.00\n\n    Rome. Ladies' Aux. Welsh Ch. ...20.00\n\n    --------\n\n    247.61\n\n\n    NEW JERSEY, $120.00.\n\n    Closter. First Cong. Ch. ...7.00\n\n    Elizabeth. \"King's Daughters.\" 2; \"King's Sons,\" 2, _for Student\n    Aid, Washburn Sem. Beaufort, N.C._ ...4.00\n\n    Hackensack. \"King's Daughters.\" _for Student Aid, Washburn Sem.\n    Beaufort, N. C._ ...4.00\n\n    Jersey City. \"King's Daughters,\" by Miss A.M. Boyd, _for Student\n    Aid, Washburn Sem., Beaufort. N.C._ ...4.00\n\n    Montclair. Mrs. G.H. Mills ...1.00\n\n    Montclair. Woman's Home Miss'y Soc. of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of\n    Goods, _for Cypress Slash, Ga._\n\n    Newark. C.S. Haines ...50.00\n\n    Newark. Rev. J.W. Whiton, _for Prize, Talladega C._ ...5.00\n\n    Perth Amboy P. Kimball, 5 for 97th Christmas; 10 for 97th New\n    Years; 10 for 98th Birthday, March 5 1890 ...25.00\n\n    Princeton. Mrs. A.B. Woodford, _for Student Aid, Fink U._ ...15.00\n\n    Trenton. Geo. S. Grosvenor ...5.00\n\n\n    PENNSYLVANIA, $6.50.\n\n    East Springfield. Mrs. C.J. Coles ...$4.50\n\n    Philadelphia. Miss C.C. Hogan, _for Student Aid, Washburn Sem.,\n    Beaufort, N.C._ ...2.00\n\n\n    OHIO, $831.52.\n\n    Ashland. Mrs. F.G. Stauffer ...2.00\n\n    Austinburg. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\n    Brookfield. Welsh Cong. Ch. ...11.10\n\n    Chardon. Cong. Ch. ...5.64\n\n    Chatham Center. Cong. Ch., to const. WILLIAM E. RICE L.M. ...45.20\n\n    Chester Cross Roads. Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\n    Clarksfield. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\n    Cincinnati. Columbia Cong. Ch. ...24.00\n\n    Cleveland. Mrs. C.W. Hiatt, to const. ANNE A. JOHNSON L.M., 30;\n    Woodland Ave. Presb. Ch. 20 ...50.00\n\n    Cleveland. \"Whatsoever Band of King's Daughters,\" by Miss E.A.\n    Johnson, Teacher, _for Mountain Work_ ...3.00\n\n    Columbia. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian Student Aid_ ...25.00\n\n    Defiance. Dr and Mrs. Scott and \"Friend\" 20; U.P.S.C.E., 5, _for\n    Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...25.00\n\n    Elyria. E.W. Metcalf ...300.00\n\n    Hudson. Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\n    Ironton. Cong. Ch. ...18.00\n\n    Madison. Central Cong. Ch. ...32.75\n\n    Mansfield. Miss S.M. Sturgis, _for Student Aide, Fisk U._ ...3.00\n\n    Marietta. First Cong. Ch. ...70.40\n\n    North Ridgeville. Miss M. Lickorish, _for Williamsburg Academy,\n    Ky._ ...1.00\n\n    Oberlin. First Ch. ...50.40\n\n    Sandusky. First Cong. Ch., 13.45; Sab Sch. First Cong. Ch., 11\n    ...24.45\n\n    South Salem. D.S. Pricer ...5.00\n\n    Wadsworth. M. Jennie Hard ...1.00\n\n    West Andover. Cong. Ch. ...12.00\n\n    Rootstown. Cong. Ch. ...22.08\n\n    Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union. by Mrs. F.L. Fairchild,\n    Treasurer, _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Burton. L.S. ...5.00\n\n    Cincinnati. W.H.M.U., Central Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\n    Columbus. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of First Cong. Ch., Mrs. Otto\n    Arnold, Treas. _for Sch'p Fisk U_ and to const. Mrs. MIRA E.\n    PARSONS L.M. ...50.00\n\n    Springfield. W.H.M.S. First Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\n    West Williamsfield. \"Willing Workers\" ...5.50\n\n    --------\n\n    70.50\n\n\n    INDIANA, $10.00.\n\n    New Corydon. Geo. Stolz ...10.00\n\n\n    ILLINOIS, $566.63.\n\n    Aurora. Mrs. M.D. Greenfield, _for Ramona Sch., Santa Fe_, and to\n    const. MISS HATTIE A. STEVENS L.M. ...30.00\n\n    Aurora. Mrs. John McMacken, 5; Miss J.F. Harvey, 2, _for Student\n    Aid, Washburn, Sem., Beaufort, N.C._ ...7.00\n\n    Bunker Hill. E.W. Hayes ..19.96\n\n    Castleton. Mrs. J.H. Holgate, _for Willmington, N.C._ ...30.00\n\n    Chebansee. Cong. Ch. ...7.60\n\n    Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 92.59; Plymouth Cong. Ch. 36.45;\n    W.H.M.U. of South Cong. Ch., 5 ...184.04\n\n    Chicago. Mrs. Lyman Baird, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...80.00\n\n    Chicago. The Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Leavitt St. Cong. Ch., _for\n    Sch'p Endowment Fund, Fisk U._ ...7.43\n\n    Chillicothe. R.W. Gilliam ...10.00\n\n    Concord. James Joy Thorndike ...0.50\n\n    Englewood. Cong. Ch. ...$31.55\n\n    Galesburg. First Church of Christ ...47.95\n\n    Havana. Mrs. H.F. Jencks, Bbl. Sundries, _for Talladega C._\n\n    Morris. Cong. Ch. ...25.00\n\n    Morgan Park. Y.P.S.C.E., 4; Mrs. M. Thomson, 2; James A. Harvey,\n    2; Agnes Harvey, 2; Mrs. Baldwin, 2; _for Student Aid, Washburn\n    Sem., Beaufort, N.C._ ...12.00\n\n    Paxton. George L. Shaw ...5.00\n\n    Peoria. Mrs. John L. Griswold, _for Sch'p Endowment Fund, Fisk U._\n    ...100.00\n\n    Sterling. Mrs. William McKinney ...10.00\n\n    Tamarack. Miss Jane Stewart, 2; U.P. Prayer Meeting Soc., 2; Mrs.\n    A. Ferguson, 2; Mrs. John Gray, 1, _for Student Aid, Washburn Sem,\n    Beaufort, N.C._ ...7.00\n\n    Woman's home Missionary Union or Illinois, by Mrs. C.E. Maltby,\n    Treasurer, _for Woman's Work:_\n\n    Chebansee. ...1.00\n\n    Chebansee. Y.P.S.C.E. ...1.00\n\n    Kewanee. ...10.00\n\n    Mendon. ...4.00\n\n    Moline. ...1.00\n\n    Oak Park. ...14.75\n\n    Rantoul. _For Fisk U._ ...5.00\n\n    Roscoe. ...0.50\n\n    Sheffield. ...14.00\n\n    Wataga. ...0.25\n\n    --------\n\n    51.60\n\n\n    MICHIGAN, $304.03\n\n    Allegan. N.B. West, to const. DEA HERMON BASSETT L.M. ...30.00\n\n    Almira. Cong. Ch. ...2.00\n\n    Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch. ...56.75\n\n    Calumet. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C., _for Athens, Ala._\n\n    Detroit. First Cong. Sab. Sch ...25.78\n\n    East Saginaw. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._\n    ...12.50\n\n    Flint. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. ...1.76\n\n    Laingsburg. Cong. Ch. ...3.00\n\n    New Baltimore. Cong. Ch. ...8.20\n\n    Pleasanton. Cong. Ch. ...1.00\n\n    Port Sanilac. \"A Member Cong. Ch.\" ...0.50\n\n    Richmond. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._\n    ...2.54\n\n    Sault St. Marie. Dr. H.R. Floyd, _for Fort Berthold Indian M.,\n    North Dak._ ...10.00\n\n    --------\n\n    $154.03\n\n\n    ESTATE.\n\n    Leslie. Estate of Lucy Childs, _for ed. of Indian Youth, Hampton\n    N. & A. Inst._ ...150.00\n\n    --------\n\n    $304.03\n\n\n    WISCONSIN, $147.65.\n\n    Elkhorn. Box of Literature, _for Marion, Ala._\n\n    Fulton. Cong. Ch. ...12.00\n\n    Ironton. O.C. Blanchard ...5.00\n\n    Kenosha. Rev. Thomas Gillespie ...20.00\n\n    Lake Geneva. Y.P. Miss'y Soc., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...30.00\n\n    Madison. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. _for Atlanta, Ga._ ...25.00\n\n    Milwaukee. Plymouth Ch. ...6.30\n\n    Ripon. Mrs. C.T. Tracy ...5.00\n\n    Union Grove. Cong. Ch. ...14.35\n\n    Waukesha. Vernon Tichenor ...5.00\n\n    Whitewater. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., B. of C., _for Austin,\n    Texas_\n\n    Wisconsin Woman's Home Missionary Union, _for Woman's Work:_\n\n    Baraboo. W.M.S. ...2.00\n\n    Janesville. W.M.S. ...3.00\n\n    Menasha. Primary Dept. S.S. Birthday money ...3.00\n\n    Milwaukee. W.M.S. Pilgrim Ch. ...15.00\n\n    Ripon. Mrs. C.T. Tracy ...2.00\n\n    --------\n\n    25.00\n\n\n    IOWA, $178.29.\n\n    Afton. H.W. Perrigo ...$20.00\n\n    Bradford. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ ...5.45\n\n    Cedar Falls. \"King's Sons,\" _for Talladega C._ ...1.00\n\n    Chester Center. Cong. Ch. ...11.84\n\n    Clear Lake. Lakeside Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\n    Clinton. Sab. Sch, of Cong. Ch. ...12.00\n\n    Danville. Lee W. Mix ...5.00\n\n    Grinnell. Cong. Ch., adl. ...2.00\n\n    Maquoketa. Cong. Ch. ...3.00\n\n    McGregor. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\n    Manchester. Cong Ch. ...25.00\n\n    Oskaloosa. S.R. Pettitt ...3.00\n\n    Tipton. William Coutts ...5.00\n\n    Vancleve. Logon Cong. Ch. ...2.50\n\n    Washburn. H. Nelson, 9; J. Brown, 3; Washburn Sab. Sch. 3; D.W.\n    Tagget, S. Doxy, J. Bestch, J.M. Keller, Mrs. T. Foulk and Mrs. W.\n    Foulk, 1 each, _for Student Aid, Williamsburg Academy, Ky._\n    ...21.00\n\n    Wacoma. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ ...1.43\n\n    Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, _for Woman's Work:,_\n\n    Chester Center ...14 35\n\n    Fairfield. W.M.S. ...3.93\n\n    Genoa Bluffs. W.M.U. ...2.69\n\n    Le Mars. ...3.55\n\n    Miles. L.M.S. ...13.00\n\n    Rockford. L.M.S. ...0.50\n\n    Rock Rapids. W.M.S. ...6.50\n\n    Toledo. Y.P.S.C.E. ...0.55\n\n    --------\n\n    45.07\n\n\n    MINNESOTA, $310.14.\n\n    Hutchinson. Cong. Ch., 9.17; C.E., 5.71; Sab. Sch., 1.17 ...16.05\n\n    Lake City. Miss Sarah Manning, 5; Mrs. J. Manning, 4, _for\n    Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...9.00\n\n    Minneapolis. Bethel Mission Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._\n    ...50.00\n\n    Minneapolis. \"A Friend In Vine Ch.\", 15; Vine Cong Ch. and Soc.,\n    14.50; Miss Linda Jenne, 2. ...31.50\n\n    Paynesville. Cong. Ch. ...3.27\n\n    Rochester. Cong. Ch. ...50.14\n\n    Saint Paul. Miss C.P. Lewis, _for Student Aid, Washburne Sem.,\n    Beaufort, N.C._ ...2.00\n\n    Minnesota Woman's Home Missionary Society, by Mrs. M.W. Skinner,\n    Treasurer.\n\n    Austin. ...3.25\n\n    Duluth. Pilgrim. ...5.00\n\n    Elk River. ...3.65\n\n    Excelsior. ...2.71\n\n    Minneapolis. Lyndale, Cheerful Workers. ...1.25\n\n    Minneapolis. Park Ave. Mission Band. ...10.00\n\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth, to const. MRS. A.E. KINGMAN and MRS. ROSE\n    O. BRISTOL L.M's. ...61.00\n\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth, Y.L.S. ...18.19\n\n    Minneapolis. Park Av. ...12.00\n\n    New Richland. ...0.50\n\n    Owatonna. ...12.00\n\n    Rochester. Whatsoever Soc. ....7.00\n\n    Saint Anthony. Park. ...5.00\n\n    Wabasha. ...2.75\n\n    Waseca. ...2.88\n\n    West Dora. ...1.00\n\n    --------\n\n    148.08\n\n\n    MISSOURI, $9.00.\n\n    Brookville. Park Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\n    Woman's Home Missionary Union of Mo., by Mrs. A.E. Cook,\n    Treasurer:\n\n    Meadville. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Indian Sch., Dak._ 4.00\n    ...4.00\n\n\n    NEBRASKA, $18.93\n\n    Blair. First Cong. Ch. ...$4.44\n\n    Long Pine. Cong. Ch., 3.28; Y.P.S.C.E., 1.42 ...4.70\n\n    Omaha. Park Place Cong. Ch. ...5.34\n\n    Waverly. Cong. Ch. ...4.45\n\n\n    NORTH DAKOTA, $4.05.\n\n    Sanborn. Cong. Ch. ...4.05\n\n\n    SOUTH DAKOTA, $54.90.\n\n    Alexandria. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Indian Sch. Dak._\n    ...2.15\n\n    Drakola. Mrs. P.M. Weeks ...20.00\n\n    Huron. Ladies' Aid Soc., 6; Rev. J. Kimball, 2; Mrs. Fred Wilcox,\n    2. _for Student Aid, Wasburne Sem., Beaufort, N.C._ ...10.00\n\n    Pierre. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch. ...2.75\n\n    Rosebud Agency. Rev. J.F. Cross ...15.00\n\n    South Dakota Woman's Home Missionary Union, Miss A.A. Noble,\n    Treasurer. Sioux Falls 5.00 ...5.00\n\n\n    COLORADO, $30.19.\n\n    North Denver. Mrs. S.L. Norcross ...5.00\n\n    Greeley. Cong. Ch. ...25.19\n\n\n    OREGON, $15.00\n\n    Forest Grove. Cong. Ch. ...15.00\n\n\n    CALIFORNIA, $1,025.60\n\n    Berkeley. Mrs. L.P. Huggins ...10.00\n\n    Ventura. Cong. Ch. ...15.60\n\n    -------- $25.60\n\n\n    ESTATE.\n\n    San Bernadino. Estate of M.H. Crafts, H.C. Rolfe, Adm'r.\n    ...1,000.00\n\n    --------\n\n    $1,025.60\n\n\n    WASHINGTON, $15.00.\n\n    S'kokomish. Cong. Ch. ...15.00\n\n\n    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $5.00\n\n    Washington. First Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\n\n    KENTUCKY, $14.16\n\n    Berea. \"Ch. at Berea.\" ...14.16\n\n\n    TENNESSEE, $52.00\n\n    Jellico. By Mrs. A.A. Myers. 2 Boxes and 1 Bbl. of C. and Papers\n    from unknown sources ...\n\n    Nashville. Fisk U., _for Fisk U._ ...50.00\n\n    Pleasant Hill. Cong. Ch. ...2.00\n\n\n    GEORGIA, $1.33.\n\n    Thomasville. Mrs. Graves, Pkg. of Books and Papers\n\n    Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., 47c.; Rev. J.H. H. Sengstacke, 53c.; Mrs.\n    Sengstacke, Mission Band, 33c. ...1.33\n\n\n    ALABAMA, $25.00\n\n    Mobile. Woman's Miss'y Union, by Mrs. T.G. Ragland, _for Indian\n    M._ ...5.00\n\n    Selma, Cong. Ch., 7.25 and Sab. Sch., 2.75, _for Talladega C._\n    ...10.00\n\n    Shelby. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._ ...10.00\n\n\n    TEXAS, $68.00.\n\n    Dallas. Cong. Ch. ...68.00\n\n\n    TURKEY, $10.00.\n\n    Van. Dr. G.C. Reynolds. ...10.00\n\n\n    CHINA, $10.00.\n\n    Fen-cho-Fu, Shansi. Rev. J.B. Thomson, 5; Rev. M.L. Stimson, 5\n    ...10.00\n\n\n    JAPAN, $9.00.\n\n    Osaka. Miss Anna Vetter, _for Student Aid, Lexington, Ky. ...$9.00\n\n\n    EAST AFRICA, $20.50\n\n    Kambini. Rev. and Mrs. B.F. Ousley, 10 _for Theo. Dept._, 10.50\n    for _Alumni Endowment Fund, Fisk U._ ...20.50\n\n    --------\n\n    Donations ...$15,091.68 Estates ...20,645.00\n\n    --------\n\n    $35,786.68\n\n    INCOME, $574.60\n\n    Avery fund, _for Mendi M._ ...444.60\n\n    Belden Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...30.00\n\n    C.F. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._ ...50.00\n\n    General Endowment Fund, _for Freedmen_ ...50.00\n\n    -------- 574.60\n\n    TUITION, $4,981.95.\n\n    Lexington, Ky. Tuition ...221.90\n\n    Williamsburg, Ky. Tuition ...42.00\n\n    Rockhold, Ky. Tuition ...20.26\n\n    Troy, N.C. Tuition ...27.25\n\n    Wilmington, N.C. Tuition ...199.35\n\n    Charleston, S.C. Tuition ...257.49\n\n    Greenwood, S.C. Tuition ...119.50\n\n    Crossville, Tenn. Tuition ...42.50\n\n    Jellico, Tenn. Tuition ...47.25\n\n    Jonesboro, Tenn. Tuition ...7.50\n\n    Jonesboro, Tenn. County Fund ...50.00\n\n    Memphis, Tenn. Tuition ...521.50\n\n    Nashville, Tenn. Tuition ...814.32\n\n    Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition ...20.35\n\n    Atlanta, Ga. Storrs Sch. Tuition ...171.73\n\n    Cyprus Slash, Ga. County Fund ...86.00\n\n    Macon, Ga. Tuition ...378.45\n\n    McIntosh, Ga. Tuition ...68.98\n\n    Savannah, Ga. Tuition ...202.00\n\n    Thomasville, Ga. Tuition ...64.00\n\n    Anniston, Ala. Tuition ...58.50\n\n    Athens, Ala. Tuition ...83.65\n\n    Marion, Ala. Tuition ...61.55\n\n    Mobile, Ala. Tuition ...222.30\n\n    Selma, Ala. Tuition ...81.90\n\n    Talladega, Ala. Tuition ...178.80\n\n    Talladega, Ala. Tuition ...4.05\n\n    New Orleans, La. Tuition ...481.00\n\n    Meridian, Miss. Tuition ...100.25\n\n    Tougaloo, Miss. Tuition ...189.00\n\n    Austin, Texas. Tuition ...158.62\n\n    -------- 4,981.95\n\n    United States Government for the Education of Indians ...896.40\n\n    --------\n\n    Total for March ...$42,189.68\n\n    ========\n\n    SUMMARY.\n\n    Donations ...101,509.44\n\n    Estates ...101,179.63\n\n    --------\n\n    $202,689.07\n\n    Income ...4,262.91\n\n    Tuition ...22,729.32\n\n    United States Government for the Education of Indian ...8,946.07\n\n    --------\n\n    Total from Oct. 1 to March 31 ...$238,627.37\n\n    ======\n\n\n    FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n    Subscriptions for March ...$60.26\n\n    Previously acknowledged ...477.12\n\n    --------\n\n    Total ...$537.38\n\n    ========\n\n  H.W. 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