{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_15666/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_15666","id":"gutenberg_15666","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15666","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Journals","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, Charles Aldarondo\nand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe American Missionary\n\nOCTOBER, 1894.\nVOL. XLVIII.  NO. 10.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\nEDITORIAL.\n\nANNUAL MEETING, 345\nLOWELL, 346\nFINANCIAL STATEMENT, 347\nCAPITAL AND LABOR, 348\nTHE ALASKA MISSION, 349\nDEATH OF HON. A.C. BARSTOW AND OF REV. GEO. S. SMITH, 350\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\nTHE WALDENSES AT VALDESE, N.C., 351\nNOTES FROM THE MOUNTAINS, 354\n\"NOLICHUCKY JACK'S\" DESCENDANTS, 355\nPROMISING OPENINGS FOR SCHOOL AND CHURCH, 356\nSOUTHERN FIELD NOTES, 357\nCAPPAHOSIC'S SIXTH COMMENCEMENT, 359\nPRAYERFUL AND INDUSTRIOUS FAMILY, 361\nA VISIT TO UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, 362\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\nMISSION SERVICES AT TWO KETTLE VILLAGE, 363\nINDIAN MISSION COLLECTIONS, 366\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\nTHE PRESENT DISTRESS, 366\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\nANNUAL MEETING--A FEW WORDS TO BOYS, 368\nWOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS, 371\n\nRECEIPTS, 373\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNEW YORK:\nPUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\nBible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPrice, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\nEntered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPRESIDENT, MERRILL E. GATES, LL.D., MASS.\n\n\n_Vice-Presidents._\n\nRev. F.A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.\nRev. A.J.F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y.\nRev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D.D., Mass.\nRev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo.\nRev. HENRY A. STIMSON, D.D., N.Y.\n\n\n_Corresponding Secretaries._\n\nRev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._\nRev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._\nRev. F.P. WOODBURY, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._\n\n\n_Assistant Corresponding Secretary._\n\nRev. C.J. RYDER, 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.\nRICHARD S. BARNES.\n\n\n_Executive Committee._\n\nCHARLES L. MEAD, Chairman.\nCHARLES A. HULL, Secretary.\n\n\n_For Three Years._\n\nCHARLES A. HULL,\nADDISON P. FOSTER,\nALBERT J. LYMAN,\nNEHEMIAH BOYNTON,\nA.J.F. BEHRENDS.\n\n\n_For Two Years._\n\nSAMUEL HOLMES,\nSAMUEL S. MARPLES,\nCHARLES L. MEAD,\nWILLIAM H. STRONG,\nELIJAH HORR.\n\n\n_For One Year._\n\nWILLIAM HAYES WARD,\nJAMES W. COOPER,\nLUCIEN C. WARNER,\nJOSEPH H. TWICHELL,\nCHARLES P. PEIRCE.\n\n\n_District Secretaries._\n\nREV. GEO. H. GUTTERSON, _21 Cong'l House, Boston, Mass._\nRev. JOS. E. ROY, D.D., _151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill._\nRev. W.E.C. WRIGHT, D.D., _Cong'l Rooms, Y.M.C.A. Building, Cleveland, Ohio._\n\n\n_Secretary of Woman's Bureau._\n\nMiss D.E. EMERSON, _Bible House, N.Y._\n\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; letters relating to woman's work, to the Secretary of the\nWoman's Bureau.\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 Congregational\nRooms, Y.M.C.A. Building, Cleveland, Ohio. A payment of thirty dollars\nconstitutes a Life Member.\n\nNOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the \"address label,\" indicates the\ntime to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on\nlabel to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made\nafterward, the change on the label will appear a month later. Please\nsend early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former\naddress and the new Address, in order that our periodicals, and\noccasional papers may be correctly mailed.\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\"I GIVE AND BEQUEATH, the sum of ---- dollars, to the 'American\nMissionary Association,' incorporated by act of the Legislature of the\nState of New York.\" The Will should be attested by three witnesses.\n\nTHE\n\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nVOL. XLVIII.     OCTOBER, 1894.        No. 10\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nANNUAL MEETING.\n\nOur annual meeting at Lowell, Mass., October 23d to 25th, promises to be\nan occasion of great interest. A large proportion of the addresses will\nbe from missionaries. The work throughout the year has been greatly\nblessed, despite the difficulties it has had to meet from lack of\nadequate means. The meeting opens at three o'clock, Tuesday afternoon,\nand the annual sermon will be given by Rev. Charles H. Richards, D.D.,\nof Philadelphia, in the evening, followed by the communion service.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nARRANGEMENTS FOR OUR ANNUAL MEETING.\n\nA partial and tentative programme of our Annual Meeting has been\nprepared. Times are provided for open discussion or the \"free\nparliament.\" But it is deemed necessary to secure some able writers and\nspeakers to prepare reports and deliver addresses on special and\nimportant topics.\n\nWe are happy to announce that at this writing a number such have\npromised attendance. Among these we may name the President of the\nAssociation, Merrill E. Gates, LL.D., President of Amherst College; Rev.\nChas. M. Lamson, D.D., Hartford, Conn.; Rev. DeW. S. Clark, Salem,\nMass.; Rev. Dr. McKenzie, of Boston; Dr. Lyman Abbott, of New York; Hon.\nFrederick Douglass, of Washington; and his Excellency, Governor\nGreenhalge, of Massachusetts. Some others have been invited from whom\nfavorable answers are expected.\n\nA marked feature of this meeting will be the unusual number of\nmissionaries and workers from the field, who will give living pictures\nof things as they are. Following the happy precedent of other years,\neach of the co-operative Congregational societies will be represented by\na speaker chosen by itself. These addresses will be brief, and will\nmanifest the feelings of harmony and comity existing between these\nsocieties.\n\nThe meeting promises to be an interesting and valuable one. The topics\ndiscussed are of vital importance to the work, and the addresses will be\nworthy of the topics. Lowell is accessible, and its welcome will be\ncordial.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nLOWELL.\n\nThe city of Lowell has long enjoyed a national, even world-wide\nreputation, as the leading center for the manufacture of cotton fabrics.\nAnd, while this industry offers employment to something like 25,000 men,\nwomen and children, there are also enterprises in great variety that do\nnot use cotton fibre in any way, yet find work for ten to fifteen\nthousand more toilers. The principal corporations are the Lawrence,\nTremont and Suffolk, Merrimack, Boott, Massachusetts, Hamilton and\nAppleton, beside the Middlesex, where shawls are made, and the carpet\nmills, where the famous Lowell carpets are woven. While the city is a\nveritable beehive of industry, yet the people find time for recreation,\nand have wisely provided breathing places in different parts of the\ncity, where they can recuperate mind and body. The prominent pleasure\nresorts are Fort Hill park, the North and South commons, Park Garden,\nthe boulevard--extending three miles along the bank of the Merrimack\nRiver--and Lakeview, an attractive watering-place some five miles out\nfrom the center. This latter place is reached by means of the Lowell and\nSuburban Street Railway, an electric line, which also connects the\nneighboring villages of North Chelmsford, Dracut, North Billerica and\nChelmsford Center. A ride to any one of these places costs but twenty\ncents for the round trip, and the Lakeview line is especially\ninteresting at its terminal.\n\nThe city's moral and educational interests are also well provided for,\nas evidenced by the following: 30 churches, 47 primary schools, 10\ngrammar and 1 high school, besides a training school for teachers, and a\nmanual training-school for boys; also a prospective State normal school.\nWe also have three or four hospitals, an old ladies' home, and a home\nfor young women and children. The police protection consists of a chief,\nhis deputies, captains and sergeants, and about one hundred patrolmen.\nThe fire system of the city is excelled by none in the country, and is\nwell worthy a careful inspection.\n\nLowell is not favored with a great many pretentious edifices on her\npublic streets, but the most prominent are the new City Hall, High\nSchool, Memorial Building, State Armory, St. Anne's Church and the\nFederal Building. The city is already furnished with a thorough water\nsystem, but, desiring a better quality of water than that taken from the\nMerrimack River, she has had a large number of artesian wells driven,\nand they now furnish about 3,000,000 gallons of water per day. All the\nprincipal streets are well lighted by electric lamps, and the\nresidential portion by gas.\n\nThe Merrimack River affords a means of enjoying aquatic sports, there\nbeing rowing boats, canoes, sail boats and steamers in abundance. Two\nvery enchanting spots up the river are Tyng's Island and Harmony Grove,\nand if one desire a longer trip by water he may ride to Nashua, N.H., by\nsteamer or other boat.\n\nThe population of Lowell is probably about 80,000, and excepting in\nspecially hard times there are few persons to be found in want of a\nsituation. These are only a few of Lowell's salient points, but enough\nis here given to convey to the visitor a very fair idea of the city's\nmake-up.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFINANCIAL STATEMENT.\n\nWe wish to present to the friends of the American Missionary Association\na full statement of its financial affairs, its debt, its retrenchments;\nits still greater debt and the still greater retrenchments that will be\ninevitable unless during the coming year its receipts can be greatly\nincreased. It is not our aim to make a startling cry for transient\nrelief, but for a steady increase of receipts to remove debt and insure\nthe stability of the work.\n\nAt the close of our last fiscal year, September 30th, 1893, we reported\na debt of $45,028.11. In that year we received aid from the Government\nfor Indian work. During the eleven months of this year we have received\nno aid from the Government, but our receipts from other sources have\nincreased over those of last year, and we have cut down our\nexpenditures, so that if we had received the Government aid as last year\nour debt on the eleven months of the current year would be only\n$5,409.80, but with that loss the actual indebtedness of these eleven\nmonths is $23,937.10, which added to that of the last year makes the\ntotal debt August 31st $68,965.21. From present indications we can\nhardly hope for any material reduction of this amount during the current\nmonth, and hence the prospect is that this sum must be reported at our\nannual meeting.\n\nA grave contingency confronts us as we enter (October 1st) on the new\nyear. Our great work, which has lifted thousands of young men and women\nfrom ignorance and poverty into hopeful and useful lives, and which has\nbrought cheer and help to multitudes of homes where poverty has reigned,\nmust be carried forward; and our debt, which has hung as a weight upon\nthis work, must be wiped out. A constantly increasing debt must be\navoided at any cost. The next six or eight months (the harvest months\nfor collections) must decide the question. If pastors of churches will\nlay the matter to heart and secure regular and increased collections,\nand if benevolent friends of these struggling races will bear them in\nremembrance by special contributions, an uplift of hope and help will be\ngiven where now they are threatened with discouragement in their great\nconflict with poverty, ignorance and race prejudice.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCAPITAL AND LABOR.\n\nCapital and labor are twin brothers, but they have been alienated almost\nfrom childhood, and the strife between them waxes warmer and warmer,\nand, like all other vexed questions, will never be settled till it is\nsettled right.\n\nThere are various forms of these troubles--now in the coal mines, now on\nthe railroads, and now in the shops--but there are aspects of the\nstruggle which put on national traits and overthrow empires. The French\nRevolution was a struggle between capital and labor. The capitalists\nwere the aristocracy, and they monopolized also intelligence and power.\nWith these advantages they ground down labor till patience was changed\nto implacable rage, and the reaction brought forth the most serious and\nterrible massacres recorded in history.\n\nOur great civil war of 1861-65 developed one aspect of the conflict\nbetween capital and labor. The slaveholders were the capitalists, and\nwith them also were the intelligence and power. These levers were used\nto crush down the laborer into the severest form of slavery known among\nmen. Labor was patient, but large sympathy was developed in the North in\nfavor of the slave. This alone would not have brought on the war.\nSouthern capitalists gloried in their power, and, accustomed to absolute\ndomination over their slaves, assumed the same attitude of superiority\nover their fellow-citizens of the North. They ruled in Congress,\ndominated over the press and the pulpit, and, ambitious to extend their\ndominion, demanded larger territory for the extension of the slave\nsystem. When this was refused, they set up an independent standard and\nbrought on the war. The end was disastrous to the South. The capitalists\nwere well-nigh ruined and the slaves were set free.\n\nOn this same plain, growing out of the embers of that same conflict,\nanother and almost as threatening a struggle is rising up before us. The\nwhite race in the South still largely controls capital, intelligence and\npower, and these forces are again used to hinder the impoverished\nlaborer. The white man holds office, from which the black man is\nexcluded, who is denied opportunities and privileges which crush his\nmanhood. The contest is again unequal, and the outcome must take one of\ntwo forms. Either the oppressed laborer will rise in rebellion--and\nwhatever may be the ultimate result the conflict will be dreadful--or,\non the other hand, the laborer, denied education, a comfortable home and\na chance to accumulate property, will sink into an utterly hopeless\ndegradation, a curse to himself and to the whole South.\n\nWhat is the remedy for all this? There is a remedy, and if applied\npromptly may save the nation from either of the catastrophes we have\nnamed, and that is: Give the black man a chance to acquire property,\neducation and power equal to his white neighbor, and the elements of the\nstruggle are gone. This is the work the American Missionary Association\nis attempting to do. It meddles not with theories, or parties, but aims\nquietly to give the needed help to the Negro.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOUR ALASKA MISSION.\n\nLetters received from Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson and Mr. Lopp give us the\ngratifying assurance that the mission is by this time opened under\nfavorable auspices. Dr. Jackson found on reaching Alaska that Mr. Lopp\nhad visited the mission at Cape Prince of Wales this spring and\ndiscovered that the buildings, furniture and supplies were in good\ncondition. Mr. Lopp, in response to our request, has consented to return\nto the Cape and re-open the mission. He greatly regrets that an ordained\nminister was not sent, and expresses the earnest hope that another\nseason this necessary addition will be made, but he consents to return\nand do the best he can. He has little fear of violence from the natives,\nfinding them completely intimidated by the threats of the captain of the\nrevenue cutter \"Bear.\"\n\nThe experiment of introducing the reindeer into Alaska is thus far very\nencouraging. Mr. Lopp has had a herd under his care at Port Clarence,\nand although the winter has been unusually severe one hundred and fifty\nfawns were added to the herd. The Government has promised to our mission\nat Cape Prince of Wales this season one hundred reindeer, and Mr. Lopp,\nwith adequate help, will have the care of them. The ultimate success of\nthis experiment with reindeer in Alaska is one of great promise. It\nindicates a food and clothing supply for the natives, with increased\nfacilities for transportation, thus laying the foundation for growth in\npopulation and in civilization.\n\nIt will be remembered that of the three men connected with the horrible\nmurder of Mr. Thornton, two were at once arrested by the natives and\nshot. The third, Titalk, who was the leader, escaped for the time. Mr.\nLopp thus describes his death: \"After the 'Bear' had left for the South,\nTitalk came back to the cape, and his uncle, Te-ed-loo-na led him up on\nthe hillside near the grave of Mr. Thornton, and asked him how he should\nput him to death, strangle him, stab him or shoot him. The boy preferred\nto be shot, so he commanded him to hold his head down and then shot\nhim.\"\n\nMr. Lopp furnishes another evidence of the disposition on the part of\nthe leading natives to guard the interests and property of the mission:\n\"On one occasion during the winter Chief Eliguok heard that a boy had\nbroken into the school-house, and he announced his intention to kill the\nboy, but upon investigation it was found to be a false report.\"\n\nWe trust that in the good providence of God, this mission will be made\nprosperous and be greatly enlarged, that its missionaries will be\npreserved in safety, that the natives will become more orderly, that the\ninfluence of the school and mission may bring to them peaceable fruits\nof civilization and Christianity.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nHON. A.C. BARSTOW.\n\nWe record our tribute of sorrow at the death of Hon. A.C. Barstow, which\noccurred September 5th. He was for many years intimately and usefully\nconnected with the growth and prosperity of the city of Providence,\nR.I., which was his home and where he died. He was a man of wide\nsympathies in Christian and patriotic work, having held responsible\noffices in his native State, and was connected with other public\nmovements, like that of the Board of Indian Commissioners, of which for\na time he was president. He was a devoted Christian man, active in the\nchurch of which he was a member, and deeply interested in the missionary\nand benevolent boards of the Congregational churches. He was for a long\ntime a vice-president of our Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nREV. GEORGE S. SMITH.\n\n\"Servant of God, well done!\n  Rest from thy loved employ!\nThe battle fought, the victory won,\n  Enter thy Master's joy!\"\n\nThis may be fittingly said of Rev. G.S. Smith, who for thirteen years\nwas pastor of the Congregational Church at Raleigh and McLeansville,\nN.C., and who entered into rest on the 12th of last August. Memorial\nservices were held on the 26th of August in the church where he had long\nand faithfully conducted the worship of his people. Addresses were made\nby those who had been intimately associated with him in his work, which\ntestified to the earnestness and success of his ministry. The best proof\nof his work is to be seen in the intelligence and virtue of the\ncommunity in which he labored.\n\nOur field missionary in a recent visit speaks in this way: \"It is very\nrare to find colored people under such discipline and so orderly and\nintelligent in meetings. The faces of the old people are sunny and\nsweet, they are so attentive and appreciative and so responsive. The\nyoung people were at the meeting in large numbers. It will give you an\nuplift from your work to spend a day or two with the people of this\nplace in meetings such as they now hold.\"\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE WALDENSES AT VALDESE, N.C.\n\nSECRETARY C.J. RYDER.\n\nThis new field of work, which was reported for the first time at our\nannual meeting last year, is one of unique and especial interest. Two\nyears ago the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm arrived in New York with one\nhundred and sixty-six Waldenses among her steerage passengers. These\npeople came from the Piedmont valley and mountain regions of Italy.\nTheir purpose in coming to America was to establish for themselves homes\nin our own mountain region of the South. This little company that came\ndown from the deck of the Kaiser Wilhelm were the pioneers in the\nestablishment of their colonies in this new land. They were rather the\nPilgrim Fathers of this Waldensean movement. Before the actual colonists\nhad come, Rev. Chas. A. Tron, D.D., pastor of the Waldensean Church, and\nmember of the Board of Evangelization in Italy, had been to the mountain\nregions of North Carolina, and after careful investigation had purchased\na tract of land for these Waldensean colonists.\n\nSoon after the coming of these Waldenses, correspondence was opened with\nthem by the American Missionary Association. The colony was to be\nplanted in the midst of our great mountain field, and we had every\nconfidence that the coming of these conscientious and devoted Christian\ncolonists would be of real helpfulness in our work there. Rev. C.M.\nProchet, D.D., whose name is well known to the readers of this magazine,\nand to the Christian public generally, came to look after the interests\nof the Waldensean colony not long after their first settlement. In\nconference with Drs. Tron and Prochet, and after learning thoroughly the\ncondition of their colony, an appropriation was voted by the Executive\nCommittee to assist them in the beginning of their work, as they were in\ngreat need of such help.\n\nThese Waldenses have begun their settlement in America in a wise and\nsensible way. Let us notice their business-like arrangement before\nspeaking of the interesting educational and religious work which has\ndeveloped among them with the assistance of the Association.\n\nThey have purchased five thousand acres of land. In dividing this land,\nthey first set aside a portion for a church and manse, together with a\nsmall farm for the use of the pastor. Then they set aside a good,\ncommodious site for the school-house. After this a considerable portion\nof the land, three thousand five hundred acres in extent, is divided\ninto farms of fifty acres each.\n\nIn addition to this first company who came on the Kaiser Wilhelm, others\nhave come at various times until there is a considerable colony there.\nThese people are poor. They come from the splendid stock of Waldenses\nwho have been so potent a factor in freeing thousands in France and\nItaly from the degrading superstitions of Romanism. As all our readers\nknow, the Waldenses have stood for religious freedom from first to last\nThe fibre of their character has been tested through many a conflict.\nDr. Edward Everett Hale, who told the story of the Waldensean heroism\nand devotion in the beautiful legend \"In His Name,\" brings out the noble\nfeatures of their character in soft, yet bright colors. It is most\nfitting that our Congregational churches through the Association should\nwelcome this new colony and extend to them the right hand of Christian\nfellowship. This they have done.\n\nAs soon as the colony was established and the people were felling the\nforests and building their humble homes, they applied to us for\nassistance for the support of the pastor and teacher. The colonists\nthemselves made large sacrifices, and only asked us to assist them in\nthe support of their religious and educational leaders.\n\nRev. Enrico Vinay, a native of Italy, was their first pastor. Mr. M.A.\nJahier, was selected as their teacher. Mr. Jahier, together with Dr.\nTron, was in conference with us in New York, and the simple, Christian\ncharacter and progressive educational ideas of the Waldensean teacher\ncharmed and impressed us all. He went into the field and opened a school\nand Sunday-school at Valdese, as the colonists call their mountain\nvillage.\n\nThe Rev. Enrico Vinay remained with the people for nearly a year, being\nin regular correspondence with the officers of this Association. He was\nthen called to another field, and Rev. B. Soulier was chosen as their\npastor. Mr. Soulier is also a native of Italy. He is a thoroughly\neducated young man, and speaks English readily. He was educated in his\nown school in Italy, and completed a course at Edinburgh University in\nScotland. His work is proving most successful.\n\nSuch is the interesting and providential beginning of our work in\nconjunction with these Waldenses in this field. We have this new problem\nupon our hearts and treasury. Who can say that God has not led us into\nthis work, and opened this opportunity for helpful and sympathetic\nco-operation with these earnest Christian people who have settled in our\nsouthern mountains?\n\nIn the reports which have been regularly received from this field, very\nmany items of great interest have been recorded. The Waldenses, above\neverything else, are Christian patriots. They love the fatherland and\nthey love also America, the land of their adoption. In one of the\nreports from Mr. Jahier, the following interesting information is given:\n\n\"Sunday, June 24th, I preached to a good and attentive congregation. I\nhad the Sunday-school at half past eight and the preaching at ten in the\nmorning, and prayer-meeting at four in the afternoon. At this last\nservice I went to a farm called Baziglia. It is named for a place in one\nof the valleys of Piedmont--a place which is noted as a fortress during\nthe persecutions of the Waldensean Church. It was the refuge of the\nWaldenseans when they reconquered their native country after their exile\nin Switzerland, Germany, etc., and in memory of that famous place, two\nor three families gave to their farms the same name. The Fourth of July\nwas celebrated here at the school-house. There were forty-four children.\nI spoke to them of the independence of the United States of America, its\nfounders, its Declaration of Independence, etc. For July and August it\nis impossible to have the day school; it is too hot, but I will continue\nthe night school, D.V., at least for two or three nights a week. The\nSunday-school will go on as usual--no vacation for the Sabbath school.\"\n\nThe old fortress of Baziglia witnessed many heroic efforts of the early\nWaldenses, both in defense and attack. The name is very dear to the\nchildren of the earlier heroes, who have established Valdese in this\nland, and so named some of their farms and homes Baziglia. The glimpse\ngiven us in the quotation above, of the life in this Waldensean colony,\nis an impressive picture and a most hopeful prophecy. These Waldenses\ncan not prove \"dangerous foreigners\" who come to our shores with earnest\nChristian plans and purposes, and read the Declaration of Independence\nto their children on their first Fourth of July in America!\n\nPhotographs of the buildings at Valdese were recently sent to our\noffice. Among others was one of the manse and one of the school-house.\nThese two buildings are of especial interest to our constituency,\nbecause we help the pastor and teacher. Over the school-house in which\nour pupils gather was floating the stars and stripes. These earnest\npeople who celebrate the Fourth of July, who read publicly our\nDeclaration of Independence, who plant the stars and stripes on the top\nof their school building, are the kind of foreigners that we need, and\nthey certainly merit our most cordial assistance in the beginning of\ntheir life in our land.\n\nIn church polity the Waldensean Church differs slightly from our\nCongregational sisterhood. The local church is independent in the\ndirection of its affairs. They have a \"Board of Evangelization\" which\nhas supervision of their churches. Dr. Tron, a member of this board and\npresident of the American branch, has properly great influence with the\nlocal church. The Waldensean Church naturally looks to Dr. Tron and Dr.\nProchet for counsel and direction. This church at Valdese recognizes\nitself as in fellowship with our great Congregational body, and\nespecially with the local churches of North Carolina.\n\nThis new and interesting field has opened more and more largely during\nthe past year, as additional colonists have come to our shores. Despite\nthe financial embarrassment of our treasury, we rejoice that we have\nbeen able to assist these brave and patriotic Christian people in\nestablishing themselves in this mountain region of the South. We believe\nthe opportunity of assistful co-operation with them is one that God has\nopened to us. We have every confidence that the descendants of Pilgrims\nand Puritans will rejoice in the privilege of assisting those in whose\nhearts there is the same passionate desire for religious freedom, and\nwho are the children of equally heroic stock.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNOTES FROM THE MOUNTAINS.\n\nBY MISSIONARY WALTON.\n\nIn one of my visits to a neglected home I found a little orphan boy of\nten years whom I invited to our mission Sunday-school, and he seemed\npleased to know he had a friend. I had told them, during my visits, of\nour little Sunday-school, and as I was leaving I gave him a little\nSunday-school card with a beautiful verse of scripture and asked him if\nhe could read, whereupon, he answered, \"No;\" then I asked his\nfoster-mother if she would teach him the text--she promised, as by this\ntime she too was getting interested. I left them seemingly glad for the\nlittle time I had spent with them in their home.\n\nSome time after this I was going down town, moving briskly along, when a\nsmall boy came plump up against me, saying, \"Hello, mister! don't you\nknow me? You're the Sunday-school man which was to our house. I know\nyou.\" \"O yes, I know you now,\" and I said, \"tell me about yourself.\" \"I\nhave been to Sunday-school four Sundays, and have a nice teacher, and\nenjoy going very much; we are in a little class and have lesson-picture\npapers, and I like it so much I want to go every Sunday and all the\ntime. I know a boy who does not go to Sunday-school, and he has promised\nto go with me next Sunday.\"\n\nSaturday evening, June 2d, it was my privilege to meet with the Mossy\nGrove Christian Endeavor Society. About forty-five young people were\npresent and took a hearty part in the meeting--quite a number joined in\nprayer during the twenty minutes' prayer service. This service was all\nthe more interesting because a work of our planting, and from a very\nsmall beginning has grown and is full of Christian earnestness.\n\nThis was the home of the \"unfortunate man\" I had found as I went through\nthe mountains. It was my privilege to look into that man's face and note\nthe change that had come to him. In the Sunday-school I was teacher of\nhis class. He seemed interested in the lesson and showed evidence of\nbeing a changed man. As I preached of the \"sprinkled blood\" he somehow\nappreciated all the more how he had been rescued. In the house-to-house\nwork among this people I found many encouraging results and think our\nwork there will develop until we have a church organization.\n\nIn one county I found a number of people off by themselves in a little\nnook of a valley, but not over two miles from Sunday-school and church,\nyet not attending. As I went into their homes and talked about their\nopportunities and duties, many promises were given that the future would\nfind them more active for themselves and children. One man who had not\nbeen in Sunday-school for four years made a humble confession, and\npledged that he would go to work. He spoke of his early life with its\nChristian activities, and now when he has a family he has neglected to\ntake them and go to the house of God. So many men are waiting for\nsomebody to lead them to their duty--they see it and know it--but have\nnot moral courage to go forward unless encouraged in some special way.\n\nOn Children's Day I was in Pleasant View, and am sure if our Northern\nfriends could have looked in and have seen the bright, happy children\nthat were engaged in their first Children's Day service they would have\nbeen encouraged and rejoiced. Of course the service was far from\nperfect, but while this was true they were having a new experience. I\nhad told them about Children's Day, and urged them to use our order of\nexercises, which they did, but the songs and recitations were too hard\nfor most of them; yet, as I saw the real effort and interest, I could\nnot restrain the \"well done.\" But this was not all; I was again to be\nsurprised when the names were called and the \"little envelopes\"\npresented with their \"little Children's Day offering.\" They were happy\nin the thought of doing something for the good people who had aided\nthem. They are very poor people and cannot do much, but a great change\nhas come over them since I first found them. Our Christian Endeavor\nmeeting that day was one of profit and help to all. One little boy about\nten years old led in prayer.\n\nDuring the month there have been two hopeful conversions and many\nevidences of spiritual strengthening and growth. On the other hand,\nhundreds are waiting for some one to help them \"while the water is\ntroubled.\" In all the meetings of the month there has been a marked\nevidence of spiritual interest.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"NOLICHUCKY JACK'S\" DESCENDANTS.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D.\n\nAfter I had preached recently at Naperville, Ill., Sunday morning, upon\nour mountain work, using the big map, a couple of ladies came forward\nand introduced themselves as descendants of John Sevier, the Huguenot\n\"commonwealth builder\" in the mountains of Tennessee, the hero of King's\nMountain, as I had represented him to be. One of the ladies was Mrs.\nKnickerbocker, her husband being one of the most respected citizens of\nthat place--his own stock being that indicated by his name. She is now,\nas she has been for many years, the lady principal of the college in\nthat town connected with the Evangelical Association Church. Her mother\nwas a Sevier and her father, Rev. John Cunningham, a Presbyterian\nminister from Jonesboro, East Tennessee, who came early to Illinois to\nget away from slavery, and who served acceptably that Congregational\nChurch of Naperville. She was a granddaughter of John Sevier. The other\ndescendant was Miss Sevier, a great-great-granddaughter, a cultivated\nyoung lady, who was a teacher in a college in Ohio.\n\nIt was at least a noticeable coincidence that out here upon these\nwestern prairies two of those worthy representatives should confront the\npreacher, who found his response to be, \"Well, I didn't say anything bad\nabout John Sevier, did I?\" What a grand coalescing of blood was that\nwhich in the gathering of our nation brought Knickerbocker and Huguenot,\nScotch, Irish and English and Germans, with congenial Danes and Swedes,\ninto our people's life. It was also a bond of union, North and South,\ntoo strong to be separated by civil strife. It is an element in the\nmake-up of the South that will ever be a conservative force in behalf of\ntheology, of law and order, of Puritan institutions.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPROMISING OPENINGS FOR SCHOOL AND CHURCH.\n\nFROM A MOUNTAIN MISSIONARY.\n\nI write to acquaint you with the facts concerning Columbus, N.C., both\nas regards church and school work. You are already aware of the good\nwork accomplished there by our Brother Olinger. Something like thirty\nyoung people were converted through his efforts, and now the call comes\nfor the organization of a church. The only church organization there has\nmonthly meetings only and a minister uneducated.\n\nThe County Commissioners have signified their willingness to turn over\nthe upper room in the Court House for church purposes, until some other\narrangement could be made.\n\nThe most active person in the new enterprise is a member of another\ndenomination, but is in favor of a Congregational church, as it would\nmost likely meet the wants of new-comers of different churches.\n\nAs regards the school matter, I understand that a friend proffers to\ngive to any church or individual who will establish and maintain a\ncollege an excellent site of ten acres, on a prominence affording a\nbeautiful view of the surrounding country; and it is further reported\nthat he will give, in addition to the site, one thousand dollars.\n\nColumbus is situated in a very thickly populated section of the country,\nand Mr. Stearns, of Cleveland, Ohio, has erected two school buildings\nsuitable for primary work, and already has employed two Congregational\nteachers at his own expense. The results obtained after two years' work\nare marvelous, thus showing that the mountaineers are extremely anxious\nto obtain an education; and in proportion to the increase of facilities\nfor so doing, the results would increase.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSOUTHERN FIELD NOTES.\n\nBY REV. GEORGE W. MOORE.\n\nThree thousand people were present at the Commencement exercises of\nLeMoyne Institute, Memphis. That vast audience paying an admission fee\non an inclement evening to attend the closing-exercises gives evidence\nof the strong hold LeMoyne Institute has on the people.\n\nThe essays and orations were thoughtful addresses on the practical\nquestions of the day. The meeting of the alumni association evinced the\nhigh regard in which Professor Steele and his corps of teachers are held\nby the graduates. The association expressed their intention to aid\nProfessor Steele to sustain departments of the industrial work that had\nto be given up on account of hard times.\n\nAn amusing and interesting incident, which illustrates the struggles of\nmany of the parents to educate their children as well as their faith in\nGod, occurred at the alumni dinner of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.\nAt the close of the Commencement, Rev. H.H. Holloway, of Turin, Ga., the\nfather of one of the graduates, was called upon for an after-dinner\nspeech. Mr. Holloway told of a letter he received from President Cravath\nwhen he felt compelled, owing to the hard times, to have his son John,\nwho had been in the University only four months, return home. Mr.\nHolloway, being unable to decipher the president's writing (the\npresident's chirography resembles that of the late Horace Greeley--ED.),\nasked a Southern minister of his village to read it. The minister read\nthe letter, and advised him not to waste his son's time with a college\ncourse; this did not prove good logic to Mr. Holloway, as he observed\nthat this minister's son was taking a college course of study without\nwasting his time.\n\nWe will let Mr. Holloway tell the rest of the story of the letter and\nhis prayer in his own words: \"Not being satisfied with the minister's\nadvice I went that night down into the woods and knelt beside a\nhickory-tree, with the letter spread out, and prayed as follows: 'Lord\nhere is a letter from Dr. Cravath; I suppose you know him. Here is his\nletter which I cannot read, but I am told that you can read as well in\nthe dark as you can in the light. Dr. Cravath says for me to do all I\ncan for my son, and look to you for the balance. Now I cannot do\nanything for my son; if he is to be aided you must do all, for one thing\nis certain I have no money; you have left none with me, and I do not\nknow with whom you have left it. Now, dear Lord, I leave this whole\nmatter with you. In your own way and time do for my son what seems best.\nI cannot do anything. I ask it all for Jesus' sake. Amen.' I repeated\nabout the same prayer the following night, and then left it all with the\nLord. In about two weeks I received a letter from my son stating that\nsome one had put two hundred and fifty dollars in the bank at Nashville\nto his account to aid him through college. I considered it the direct\nanswer to my prayer. This is the proudest day of my life to see my son\nJohn graduate from Fisk University. May the blessing of God rest upon it\nand upon the Association which founded and fosters it.\"\n\nThere was an unusual number of the parents of the graduates at this\nCommencement. Some of the addresses and scenes recalled the words of the\naged Simeon when our Lord was presented in the temple. There were\nfathers and mothers who at great sacrifice had come from Alabama,\nGeorgia, Kentucky, Missouri and other States to see this famous school\nand witness the graduating exercises of their children. They spoke out\nof hearts full of gratitude to their Northern friends for making it\npossible for their children to fit themselves for their life-work in the\nschools of the American Missionary Association.\n\nAn ordination service of special interest was held at Atlanta, Ga., in\nJuly, when Mr. H.H. Proctor was ordained to the gospel ministry as\npastor of the First Church. He is twenty-five years old, one of \"Uncle\nTom's\" sons, and is a graduate of Fisk University and Yale Divinity\nSchool. This was the first ordination held in this church, and the first\nNegro pastor to serve it, as all the former pastors were Northern men.\nAlready all departments of the church have taken on new life, and the\nfuture is full of hope. This is one of our largest and most influential\nchurches of the South, and starts out auspiciously with Pastor Proctor,\nas a self-supporting church.\n\nThe Second Church of Memphis, Tenn., which has been self-supporting for\na number of years, reports a year of prosperity under its new pastor,\nRev. George V. Clark. The building has been renovated, and over fifty\npersons added to the church. The church at Chattanooga, Tenn., with Rev.\nJos. E. Smith as pastor, has made heroic struggles during these hard\ntimes as a self-supporting plant. At times the struggle has seemed\ngreater than they could bear, but in the midst of all they have been\ncheered and sustained by the Lord. The new parsonage at Marietta, Ga.,\ngives Pastor Lane a pleasant home. Our church at this point is near the\nKenesaw Mountains, where Sherman shouted to his soldiers, \"Hold the\nfort, for I am coming.\"\n\nThe people at Louisville were glad to have the field missionary expound\nour New Testament polity to them at the second anniversary of the\ndedication of their chapel. Pastor Harris has some earnest workers in\nhis church. Dr. Whedbee, the superintendent of the Sunday-school and the\npresident of the Christian Endeavor, is a graduate from Howard\nUniversity. He has an excellent practice, and is a devoted Christian\nworker.\n\nI must close these notes with an example of church work that shows what\ncan be done in our Southern field when pastors and people have a wise\ndirection and a mind to work. I find the following record in the minutes\nof the Tennessee Association for 1893. \"Nashville, Howard Chapel. The\nchurch is not prosperous. Services have been discontinued. An effort,\nhowever, is to be made to revive and develop the life and power of the\nchurch.\" This effort took form in the appointment by the Association of\nRev. J.E. Moorland, of Washington, D.C., as pastor last October. The\nappointment was made for ten months, with a view of continuance if the\nwork proved fruitful. What has been the result of these ten months just\nended? The church has been revived, its membership increased to\nseventy-five, congregations large and growing, a nourishing\nSunday-school and mission school, two preaching services on the Lord's\nday, and a vigorous Y.P.S.C.E.; a wide-awake mid-week service, a woman's\nmissionary society, and a sewing-school for girls. The church edifice\nhas been renovated at a cost of three hundred dollars, and a parsonage\nis being erected. For intelligence, Christian character and progressive\nwork, this church is considered the best among colored people in the\ncity.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCAPPAHOSIC'S SIXTH COMMENCEMENT.\n\nBY DEACON SAMUEL HOLMES.\n\nMay 31st was a proud day for Gloucester County, Va., for not only was\nHon. Frederick Douglass to give the annual address, but the new\ndormitory called \"Douglass Hall\" was to be used for the first time. With\nonly the roof on and but partially covered, still the lower story had\nbeen temporarily floored and seated so that a thousand persons could be\naccommodated. Although the previous twenty-four hours had been dark and\nrainy the crowd had been gathering all the time--many of whom\naccompanied the Holly Grove Brass Band in early morning to escort Mr.\nDouglass and other visitors from the river to the school building.\n\nAfter breakfast the school went on with its regular forenoon work,\ninteresting the visitors, who also inspected the barn, the workshops and\nfarm. By noon the campus and vicinity was a wonderful sight, while the\noutskirts reminded one of an old-fashioned general training in\nConnecticut, with its booths and tables. An official count of teams on\nthe campus as reported to me was, 357 horse, 7 mule teams, and 1 ox\nteam. Many of these had driven fifty or sixty miles, and generally\ncarrying the fodder behind or tied under the wagons. There were from\n1,500 to 2,000 people on the grounds and vicinity.\n\nAt 1:30 p.m., after a well prepared lunch for the trustees and invited\nguests, they were escorted by the school, headed by the band, to the new\nhall, which was soon filled to its utmost capacity. With excellent music\nby the school and band, followed by prayer, came not the least important\npart of the programme, the collection and pledges towards completing the\nbuilding. Including the admission fee of twenty-five cents from\noutsiders, the money raised was over three hundred dollars, besides over\neight hundred dollars in good pledges, of which two hundred and fifty\ndollars were from Mr. Douglass and his relatives present. Then followed\nan address on \"Self Help,\" by a young man graduate, and another by a\nyoung woman on \"A New Picture,\" contrasting the present surroundings\nwith the time when she first entered the school in its beginnings under\nMr. Weaver, in a small log-house with one door and two windows. These\naddresses would have done credit to many older institutions.\n\nMr. Douglass then followed with his incomparable lecture on \"Self-Made\nMen.\" One could but feel in seeing his magnificent physique and his\nmanly bearing as he proceeded, that he was a most notable example of his\nsubject, while to report his lecture, with its impromptu sallies of wit\nand wisdom, would be almost impossible. He instanced many men as\nillustrations and especially interested his audience with stories of\npersonal interviews with Lincoln, Seward, Greeley, Stanton, Grant and\nothers during and after the war.\n\nBut most thrilling was the story of a slave boy and his following him\nfrom his early years, his learning to read and write, his conversion and\ndesire to become a preacher, praying for three or four years, every\nmorning, noon and night, that God would set him free, and how that his\nprayers were not answered till he prayed with his heels. At about\nseventeen years he ran away, reaching Massachusetts, where he publicly\ntold his story, till, hearing that the slave catchers were after him, he\nfled to England, where he lectured till his English friends purchased\nhim from his late master for $750, when he returned to his native land\nand worked in the anti-slavery cause till by the war every bondman was\nfree. He has since served his country as U.S. Minister to Hayti, U.S.\nMarshal at Washington, and in other positions of trust, and also tried\nto serve his race to the best of his ability. It needed not that he\nshould further identify himself, but if so he could do it by the scars\non his back and the \"bill of sale\" of himself in his pocket.\n\nMr. Douglass believed most heartily in Cappahosic, and has two very\nefficient granddaughters there, one at the head of the culinary\ndepartment, and the other as teacher.\n\nShort addresses followed by Rev, Mr. Spiller, of Hampton, Va., Mr. Lewis\nDouglass, and the editor of the _Afro-American_, Rev. M. Alexander, of\nBaltimore, Md. The writer told of, and is glad here to bear witness to,\nthe noble, self-denying labors of Mr. and Mrs. Weaver and their corps of\nteachers and scholars during these struggling years, as also to the\ngrowing and earnest help of the people around them in sustaining the\nschool to so large a degree. They appreciate most highly the fostering\ncare and help of this Association, and hope that within a few years they\nmay be able to take the entire pecuniary burdens upon themselves.\n\nMr. Holmes told of the breaking of the ground for the new building last\nwinter, under very trying difficulties, with little to draw upon but\ntheir oft-proved Bank of Faith and Prayer, and of Mr. Weaver's coming\nNorth for help, and his return, telling his wife he hardly ever felt so\ndiscouraged. She handed him a letter which came in his absence. On\nopening it, he exclaimed, \"Bless the Lord! here is a check for $250.\"\nReading the letter, he shouted, \"Praise the Lord! it is $2,500,\" and he\nhas been praising Him ever since and praying for more, for he needs\nabout twice as much to complete and furnish the building, which is 70x46\nfeet, and three stories high.\n\nThe people of Gloucester and adjacent counties have taken about a dozen\nrooms to finish and furnish at a cost of $50 to $100 each, and yet there\nwill be many more wanted by the boys for the coming winter. All the\nwork, including the plans and supervision, has been done by colored men,\nassisted quite largely by the boys of the school. Who will supplement\nthe magnificent gift of Mrs. Powers of Philadelphia by small or large\namounts?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA PRAYERFUL AND INDUSTRIOUS FAMILY.\n\nOne of our deacons is the father and grandfather of a large number of\npeople among whom he lives, and by whom he is greatly honored. He and\nhis aged wife, who is good as can be, like himself, toil for their\nliving all the week, and walk six miles Sunday morning to church.\nSometimes she fails, for she is not quite so strong as her husband, but\nhe is seldom absent. One of his sons-in-law, who has himself a son in\nTalladega College, is the most prompt and regular attendant the church\nhas, and he comes the same six miles. These are not only faithful in\nchurch attendance, but are also to be counted among the truest of\nupright, honest, pure, industrious people.\n\nBetween twenty and twenty-five years ago, when they did not have homes\nof their own, they rented of a man, who, like Shylock, would hold them\nclose to their bargain. One year the \"destroyer\" came, and crops were\nshort everywhere. When the day was at hand for the landlord to come with\nhis wagons for his share of the crop, they were greatly distressed.\nActing upon the advice of a Christian woman, who was among them as their\nfirst teacher, they observed a day of rigid fasting and earnest prayer.\n\"They were heard in that they feared.\" The dreaded day arrived; the man\ncame with his wagons. In fear and trembling they turned everything over\nto him, but to their surprise he kindly said that he knew it had been a\nbad year. His crops, also, had been ruined. He loaded up a little, but\nleft them enough for seed another year, and something to live on\nbesides, and drove most of his wagons home empty.\n\nFor twenty-one or twenty-two years on the anniversary of that fast day\nall work has stopped, and a fast as rigid as the first, with special\nreligious services, has been kept, and on June 21st a day of\nthanksgiving. On the first, which is in February, they ask for God's\nspecial blessing on the seed about to be planted, and on the work of\ntheir hands for the year, and on the day in June they praise the Lord\nfor what prosperity they have enjoyed in the past. It was my privilege\nto attend both of these anniversaries this year. I found the people\nearnest, intelligent and _strictly moral_. These people appreciate the\nAmerican Missionary Association and her work in their behalf. It would\nbe long before they could themselves sustain such institutions as the\nAssociation has placed among them, but they are disposed to do so as\nrapidly as they become able.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA VISIT TO UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.\n\nBY J.W. HOLLOWAY, OF TURIN, GA.\n\n(_Graduate of Class of 1894, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn._)\n\n  On a hillside near a turnpike,\n    Just a mile or so from town,\n  In a double room log-cabin,\n    Lives a hero of renown.\n  There beneath a shady maple,\n    Summer evenings warm and fair,\n  You may find my swarthy hero\n    Calmly smoking, in his chair.\n\n  You've heard of Uncle Tom, most likely,\n    And his old log-cabin, too;\n  But for fear you've nothing recent,\n    I proceed to enlighten you.\n  \"Ah!\" say you, \"I've heard the story\n    As it's told by Mrs. Stowe,\n  That old man is dead and buried,\n    Must be years and years ago.\"\n\n  Prithee, check your swift conclusion,\n    What you say can scarce be so,\n  For I know that this one's living\n    That I saw two hours ago.\n  Old and gray, and slightly stooping,\n    Black as ebony in hue,\n  He's a type of times departed,\n    Tho' he still survives the new,\n\n  Talks as if he owned a quarry,\n    Where they hew out slabs of gold,\n  Tho' to-day he gathered berries,\n    Which he took to town and sold.\n  Never was a hinder hostess\n    Than his old wife, Mary Ann,\n  And her baking is delightful\n    (To a very hungry man).\n\n  Thither went I in the gloaming,\n    For a night with Uncle Tom;\n  In the yard we \"took it easy\"\n    Till the supper time was come.\n  In a home-made crib beside him\n    Cooed a yearling partly dressed;\n  'Round his chair a dirty dozen\n    Whooped and yelled like all possessed.\n\n  \"Lord a' mercy! Here's de teacher!\n    Chil'en run and fetch a chair;\n  'Fo' you come back dress yourselves,\n    An' git the keards and com' yer hair.\"\n  Sweeping over, children scattered,\n    Dogs and cats sent to the rear,\n  Uncle Tom, his pipe resuming,\n    Once more settled in his chair.\n\n  \"I laid off to come to see ye\n    During o' de week dat's passed;\n  Must be scorin' de chil'en heavy,\n    Kase dey're learnin' pow'ful fast.\n  I believe in edication\n    When you teach it wid a pole;\n  Den you make 'im wise but humble,\n    Ruin his back out save his soul.\n\n  \"Some folks b'lieve in pettiu' chil'en;\n    But I've raised enough to know,\n  Sho's you spare de rod you spile 'em.\n    Don't the Good Book tell you so?\"\n  \"Yes; but Uncle Tom,\" I quoted,\n    \"Love will win where force will fail;\n  Men are honest made by trusting\n    In their honor\"--\"Dat's a tale;\n\n  \"Never ketch me trustin' people,\n    Do dey're deacons in de church;\n  Folks dat trust in human nature\n    Allus git left in the lurch.\n  Der's some migh'y funny things put up\n    In dese packages called men,\n  And good folks do mighty bad things\n    Sometimes, jest bekase dey kin.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  \"Mr. Teacher, come to supper,\"\n    (And the chimney piece struck nine)\n  \"After dat we'll drive to meetin',\n    'Viding you are of de min'.\n  Tell me you are Congregationan;\n    First I ever heard de name;\n  Must be like de Presbyter'an--\n    Name sounds very much de same.\"\n\n  An the simple meal proceeded,\n    Quickened by the savory food,\n  Uncle Tom, from cynic terseness,\n    Fell into a happier mood.\n  \"I was overseer in slave time,\n    And a mean un, so dey say,\n  Strapped Ma' Ann so much, ha! ha!\n    She married me to git away.\n\n  \"In dem times we done some _talkin'_,\n    But this _writin'_ business--shaw!\n  I have seen de time, I tell ye,\n    I could talk a lady so\n  She would pull her fan to pieces\n    Barely answering 'Yes' or 'No.'\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  Then I talked while he sat silent,\n    Gave a lecture broad and deep;\n  Hark! what sounds from the dim corner?\n    Ah! my host has fallen asleep.\n  Asleep! And his slumber is that of contentment,\n    Dreaming and smiling o'er memories fond.\n  Asleep! And he slumbers in ignorance blissful\n    Of the great busy world his cabin beyond.\n\n  How small is the light that illumines his pathway,\n    And his noonday how like to the darkness of night;\n  Yet he keeps in the beam directing his footsteps,\n    So must his intent be accounted for right.\n  I would not, I dare not, sit in Judgment upon thee,\n    Tho' the light on thy path be less bright than on mine,\n  But rather come to the fulness of duty\n    In my life as thou hast so well done in thine.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMISSION SERVICES AT TWO KETTLE VILLAGE.\n\nBY MISS M. M. LICKORISH.\n\nThe church at Two Kettle Village on the Cheyenne was dedicated May 19th.\nI was delighted to receive an invitation from Mr. Riggs to accompany the\nparty from Oahe. We crossed the Missouri River in a boat, and on the\nother side took the carriage that had to be sent around by Pierre, an\nextra distance of thirty-two miles, in order to cross on the bridge.\nDoctor and Mr. Frederick Riggs, from Santee, now joined us, and the day\nbeing pleasant, the prairie covered with the wild flowers so abundant\nhere, we had a most delightful drive.\n\nAbout one o'clock we met missionaries and delegates from all parts of\nthe Indian field at a place previously agreed upon, and there spent a\nmost agreeable hour in social chat, and discussing the contents of our\nlunch boxes. A ride over the prairie is an excellent appetizer, and\nmissionaries so exiled most of the time from all but a few of their own\nrace, find these occasional meetings most pleasant, but having a long\nride still before us, and a river to ford before dark, we were soon\nagain on our way. About sundown we came in sight of the memorial church.\nIt is situated on a little hill, and facing the Cheyenne River, and a\nlovely, picturesque valley, rendered more attractive just now by the\nnumerous Indian tents scattered singly or in groups over the grass near\nthe river.\n\nJust before our party reached the ford, two of our missionaries, Mrs.\nGriffiths and Miss Dodge, were driving across, and the river being very\nhigh, the horse stumbled into a hole, but some Indians watching them\nfrom the bank went quickly to their assistance. They were soon taken\nashore in another conveyance, but not before getting thoroughly drenched\nand gaining the admiration of the Indians for their courage. Reaching\nthe camping-ground tired and hungry, it was pleasant to find a large new\ntent, made and erected by the Indian women, for the use of the white\nwomen of our party. Mr. Riggs's larger one, near by, was used by the\nmen. The tents were all the round kind, used by Indians, with poles\nprojecting from the top, and an opening left for the smoke of our little\nfire in the center, for the cool evenings made a fire very desirable.\nThe opening for a door is a little more than three feet high.\n\nThe wife of the native pastor, Mrs. Phelps, had an abundant and\nappetizing supper ready for us. Our white ladies could but express their\nadmiration for the composure and quiet dignity with which this Indian\nwoman, who could not speak or understand English, entertertained, from\nSaturday until Monday, about thirty-five white people and natives at her\ntable, and in a house of one room. She was a Martha we might emulate in\nthis, for though careful for the needs and comfort of all, even the\ngroup of Indian women and children, whom she fed sitting on the floor in\none corner of the room, while her table was surrounded by her most\nhonored guests, she never seemed troubled and anxious, and received\noffered help quietly, never letting her extra duties keep her from the\nmeetings. Before we spread our blanket beds in the tent, the women\nbrought us dry grass to make them more comfortable, and we were all\ninvited into the house each evening for worship before retiring.\n\nOn Sunday morning early we gathered in the neat little white chapel,\nmade bright with numerous bouquets of wild flowers from the prairie. The\ngrave of Elizabeth Winyan, that noble Indian woman whose life was spent\nin earnest missionary work among her own people, is near by, and the\nchurch is a fitting memorial. The Indians came from far and near, and\nfilled the church till some had to sit on the floor for lack of seats,\nbut this they did not mind, for, judging by the long hair and Dakota\ndress, we know many were but little used to the customs of civilized\nlife.\n\nThe dedicatory prayer was offered by Doctor Riggs, and then followed the\nexamination of two candidates for the ministry--Edwin Phelps, the son of\nElizabeth Winyan, and her nephew, Elias Gilbert. The services and\nexaminations were all in the Dakota language, but the intense interest\nand earnestness of the audience, as well as of those taking part, made\nthem very impressive, even to those who hearing could not understand.\n\nAfter a short intermission for dinner the council convened, and Dr.\nRiggs, acting as interpreter, so all might understand, the examination\nwas concluded, and the two men who have been working so acceptably for\nthe Master for some time were ordained to the Christian ministry, and\nreceived the right hand of fellowship, extended by Rev. C.F. Reed, of\nPierre. Then followed the double wedding of two couples, who wished the\nsanction of Christian marriage to unions entered into according to the\ncustoms of their people in the past, but which are rapidly passing away\nbefore the enlightenment of the present. Several children were then\nbrought forward for baptism, and the sacred promises of Christian\ntraining were made by parents who desire much for their children, but\nwho are so unfit to lead, knowing but dimly the way themselves.\n\nOh, that we might gather more into Christian schools, that intelligent\nas well as earnest Christians may be the leaders among these people in\nthe future. Seven members were received into the church, and then we\ngathered a happy Christian congregation of two races, but one spirit,\naround the table of our Lord. It was a fitting ending to the delightful,\nhelpful services of the day.\n\nBut a little later, there was still another meeting in the evening that\nwill not soon be forgotten by those who were present. After the sun went\ndown, in the long twilight that lingers so late here, the women gathered\nin a large circle on the green grass for a women's meeting. There were\nabout forty women present, including those who formed a row outside, who\nwore the Dakota costume, and wished only to see and hear from outside,\nand come in at last to the feast. The meeting was led by Mrs. T.L.\nRiggs; portions of Scripture were read, prayers offered, and remarks\nmade by the Dakota women. All entered heartily into the singing, which,\nlike all the services, was in Dakota. Then each of the white women\npresent spoke a few words of kindness and encouragement to the women,\nand their remarks were interpreted by Mrs. Riggs. After the close of\nthis meeting the men were escorted to the center of the circle, and\nsoup, which had been preparing in numerous kettles near by, was served\nto all.\n\nWe were glad to sit in the circle with those Indian mothers and speak to\nthem of their children, our love for them, and how we were trying to\nhelp them. One could not be in such a typical gathering of Indians\nwithout noting the intelligent faces and strength of character depicted\nin them. One is continually surprised, not at the depravity of this\npeople, but with their many good traits, and the progress they are\nmaking in the face of so many obstacles.\n\nOn Monday morning the council listened to reports from the field, and\nthen adjourned. We were now soon on our way home. About sundown we\nreached the river opposite Oahe, but it was very much swollen and rapid.\nWhile we sat on the bank and ate supper from what remained in our\nprovision boxes, we saw the young man who was to bring a boat across for\nus, struggling against the current. As he seemed unable to cross, we\nbegan preparations for spending the night there under the clear sky, but\nat last he succeeded in crossing in a little boat, and by much hard work\nand skillful rowing, taking two each time, Mr. T.L. Riggs was able\nbefore midnight to land most of us on the other side in safety, though\nthe swift current and much driftwood made this somewhat hazardous. The\nrest made themselves as comfortable as possible without tents, and came\nover in the morning.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nINDIAN MISSION COLLECTIONS.\n\nNot long ago a collection for benevolent purposes was taken among the\nIndians in the church at Fort Berthold. Supt. Hall, of the American\nMissionary Association, writes the following:\n\n\"The collection amounts to $15.02, and will be increased by\nout-stations. There were about twenty Indians in the congregation, and\nas all were not there a messenger was sent to have another collection\ntaken in the evening at the meeting at Deacon Many Bears' house. Our\npeople are always ready to give what they can. The boys and girls of the\nschool, thirty-eight in number, all took a hand, giving of their\nallowances or earnings. Little lame Bertha wrote her name down for\neleven cents, which was the 'widow's mite' with her. The names of some\nof the Indian contributors are: Red Fox, Strieby Horn, Little Eagle,\nAndrew Crow, Fighting Bear, Mrs. Two Bears, Mrs. Rough Horn, Mrs. Jack\nRabbit and Louisa Crow Tail.\n\n\"The Sunday was a cold one, ten degrees below zero, and some of our\nleading members were camping out on their way with food supply from\nMinot, sixty miles north over a trackless waste of snow. One Monday\nmorning Andrew Crow came in on horseback, with the result of the\nprevious evening's contribution. We get little change here, so we put\ndown the amount to be given on paper, and settle the account as we can\nby exchanges or work. We do not have many unpaid subscriptions.\"\n\nSuch facts as these abundantly prove that our Indian Christians are\nrealizing the responsibility upon them to assist with their means in\nthese great missionary movements. If all the churches in the land would\ngive according to their ability as generously as did this Indian church\non the prairie, not one of our benevolent societies would need suffer.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"THE PRESENT DISTRESS.\"\n\nBY REV. W.C. POND, D.D.\n\nIt is everywhere, and if in our little corner we feel the first impulse\nto murmur, we hear, forthwith, from the great apostle: \"There hath no\ntrial taken _you_ but such as is common to man.\" And yet the trial is\nnone the less severe, the distress is none the less intense, because it\nis universal. It may be that \"misery likes company,\" though I could\nnever see why, but in this instance I can truly say, would that we\nsuffered alone!\n\nI foresaw almost six months ago that the universal stringency would\nbring us an empty treasury long before the close of our fiscal year. It\nseemed due in justice to our workers to forewarn them of this. I told\nthem that I would do my best for them, but that for the months of June,\nJuly and August this might amount to nothing; that I was not allowed,\nand ought not to be, to use the resources of the new year to meet any\ndeficits from the old one, and that I was under solemn pledge to one of\nour chief benefactors never to let the mission run in debt. Consequently\nI could not and would not blame them if they ceased work and closed the\nschools. I am proud to say that not one teacher was found to accept my\nproposal. One of them wrote: \"I am very sorry you are so short of funds.\nI feel sure that\n\n'In some way or other,\n  The Lord will provide.'\n\nAt any rate I shall not join the strikers, but keep right on.\" Another\nsaid: \"Whatever stops, the work must not stop; pay or no pay, I shall\nkeep up the school.\" Gin Foo King wrote from San Bernardino, with a sort\nof lofty contempt of the unbelief that could stop work for lack of pay:\n\"God will take care of us; why should we fear?\" Joe Dun, the latest\naddition to our force of helpers, and one from whose work for Christ I\nexpect glad fruitage right along, replied to my message of deep regret\nthat I could forward no salary to him for June services: \"You need not\nsend money; I have rice.\" Rice with water to boil it in, is good enough,\nsome think, for any Chinaman. Perhaps it is. At any rate Joe Dun thinks\nthat if that is all God gives it must be all he needs. Nevertheless our\nhelpers, especially in the beginnings of service, must work the brain\nhard, and ought to have brain nutriment. And unless I can send something\nto him now, even his rice will fail.\n\nWhat is thus expressed by some in words has been expressed in acts by\nall. It is a great relief to know that the work is going on, and at some\npoints better than ever at this season of the year. It is a relief to\nknow that there are no broken promises, and no accumulation of debt,\ninvolved in my failure to remit. But for this, the distress would be\nintolerable; the trial greater than I could possibly bear. But when I\nbring up the case of some of our most faithful and successful workers,\nand realize the fact, which I know to be a fact, that they are dependent\non the little salaries they are wont to receive from me for very\nsubsistence, my forewarning passes out of remembrance, and the whole\nburden rolls down upon my heart. God knows what he is doing, and I cast\nmy care upon him and rest. But it seems to me that from somewhere the\nfew hundreds of dollars--not more than $500 needed in addition to what I\nhave reason already to hope for--_must come_.\n\nWhenever it has been possible I have thrown the responsibility of\nsustaining the missions upon the localities in which they are situated.\nAnd in many cases this responsibility has been assumed with a\ncheerfulness and a generosity, considering the times, which has been\ngreatly encouraging to me. And I cannot but hope that herein will be\nfound one of the compensations for our anxiety and pain--a deeper and\nmore general interest on the part of Christian people in this branch of\nthe service of their Lord. One of the teachers, giving an account of a\nmeeting which she held in the interest of her mission, anticipates such\na result and says: \"I feel sure that my hard, lonesome times are over,\nand that after this I shall have more help and sympathy. Isn't it\nwonderful how doing a hard duty will sometimes straighten out so many\ntangles?\"\n\nI venture to close this little sketch of hard heartwork with another\nquotation from this same teacher: \"I sympathize with you in not being\nable to pay us teachers as you would like to do when you know how we\nwork. But don't worry any more over me, for I shall manage splendidly\n(as I always do?). I guess you feel a good deal worse over it than we\nteachers do. Sacrifice is in order for missionaries and preachers, but\nwe get pay that the world knows not of--rewards as much above money as\nheaven is above earth.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\nMISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nANNUAL MEETING.\n\nThe Woman's Meeting will be held on Thursday afternoon, October 25th, as\none of the regular sessions of the American Missionary Association\nAnnual Meeting, at Lowell, Mass. The programme will include reports from\nthe State Unions, and missionary addresses by Miss Kate La Grange, from\nthe mountains of Tennessee; Miss Mary P. Lord, associate of Miss Collins\nin the Indian work; and missionaries from the South.\n\nWe hope for a large attendance from ladies' and young people's\nsocieties. Do not limit your attendance to this woman's day. Come to the\nopening meeting Tuesday, and attend all the sessions. The secretary of\nthe Woman's Bureau will have a room at the church for a rallying point,\nwhere the ladies and missionaries can meet for mutual acquaintance and\ninformation. Notice of entertainment and railroad rates will be found on\nlast page of cover.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA FEW WORDS TO BOYS.\n\nThe American Missionary Association needs the help of _every boy_. Send\nto the Bible House, New York, for leaflets that will tell what the\nAmerican Missionary Association is, and what it is trying to do,\nespecially for the Indians.\n\nRead the following letter, by Miss Mary P. Lord, our missionary among\nthe Sioux Indians, and let us know what you will do to help teach Indian\nboys how to become good men:\n\n_Dear Boys:_\n\nNo doubt you are already interested in Indians, from stories you have\nread of them. And perhaps you think they are very strange people, quite\nunlike white people. In some ways they are. But if you could come out\nhere to our little Indian village (Little Eagle Village it is called),\non the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota, I think you would very soon\nbe playing with the Indian boys just as merrily as you do now with your\nboy friends at home. Perhaps Ben Black Dog would show you some of the\nlittle gumbo images that he made when the mud was soft, and then it grew\ndry and hard, as the clay does that some of you use in school; and\nperhaps he would show you how he makes his life-like horses and riders,\nand buffaloes, and dogs, and all the rest.\n\nOne day I saw some boys playing with their gumbo figures, and heard one\nof the boys say \"akicita,\" which is the Dakota word for \"soldier\"; so I\nsuppose little Indian boys \"play soldier,\" too! Then every Indian boy\nfrom the time he is a baby has his pony. One ten-year-old boy was\ntelling me the other day what good care he tried to take of his pony,\nand I was very glad he thought about it, and knew that his \"Charlie\"\nought to be well cared for. All the boys like to ride, but sometimes\nthey forget that their ponies ought to be kindly treated, and to have\nproper food and rest. Indian boys have their favorite games, too, just\nas white boys do, only their games are different. One is throwing long,\nslender sticks, which they make in a certain way; but in order to know\njust how they make and throw them, you may have to come and see them do\nit. I am afraid I cannot tell you.\n\nAnd they like to run, and jump, and play together very much as you do,\nonly (shall I say it?) I think they are more quiet in their playing than\nmany white boys I have seen and _heard_. They are not all alike any more\nthan white boys are. Some are naturally very bright and quick to think\nand to act, and others not as much so. Some of the boys and men are\ndiligent and hard workers, while others are lazy. Some like to study,\nand others like better to play. A large new Government boarding-school\nhas been lately built in our little village for the Dakota boys and\ngirls. One very cold day, a boy, perhaps fourteen years old, came\nwalking fifteen miles, without overcoat or mittens, and alone, to ask if\nhe might be received as a pupil in the new school. I think he must be\none of the boys who likes to study, and who wants to learn. Such boys\nget ahead. Some Indian boys are naturally very gentle in their manner,\nand although their clothing may be ragged and dirty, and the homes in\nwhich they live are not nearly so bright and attractive as perhaps your\nfather's stable is, yet these boys appear as gentlemanly as if\naccustomed to the little courtesies of the parlor in civilized life. One\nverse in the Bible says: \"As he thinketh in his heart, so is he,\" and I\nthink it is the gentle thoughts in the hearts of these Indian boys that\nmake some of them so truly _gentlemen_, notwithstanding their\nsurroundings and lack of training.\n\nSome things that they say and do are very funny. After one of our\nvillage boys had been to the new boarding-school two or three weeks, he\ncame to our house one day of an errand. While he waited, he said to\nWinona (that is Miss Collins) \"Do you sleep on a bed the way we do at\nschool?\" She told him that she did, and then he said: \"A long time ago,\nwhen I was little and not very wise, I used to come here to your house,\nand I always thought you slept on that table [the dining-table] but, now\nI am beginning to see clearly.\"\n\nThe same ten-year-old friend gave me a lesson one day in digging\npotatoes. And another time when he had ridden the pony Bessie to drink\nat the river, his younger brother came to the house with him. The two\nare as devoted brothers as any that I know, and when I reached out Ben's\npay toward him, he motioned me to give it to Daniel instead. Very likely\nit was shared afterward, but at least I thought it showed a generous\nspirit of brotherly love.\n\nFourth of July and Christmas are great days here as well as among our\nwhite friends in the East. This year I had the pleasure of attending two\nChristmas-tree celebrations. The first was at our little church\nChristmas evening. The house was full, some of the boys and young men\nbeing obliged to sit on the edge of the little platform and on the\nfloor, and everybody seemed happy. The next evening I drove about six\nmiles, to the Oak Creek Station, to share in the festivities at Cross\nBear's house. There, too, they had a tree, and a Santa Claus dressed up\nin a big, shaggy, fur coat, a very tall hat decorated with Indian\ndesigns, and in his hand he carried a stout staff on which he leaned, as\nif he felt the burden of many winters. He was just as funny as your\nSanta Claus, as he stood bowing and bowing, and making his little\nspeech.\n\nIndians like to have a good time all together, whether it is Fourth of\nJuly, or Christmas, or a prayer-meeting, or a feast. And we are very\nthankful that now they enjoy meeting in these ways, instead of having\nthe old-time heathen dances. We are thankful that when we speak of\nIndians now, we do not mean a race of people who are only waiting for a\nchance to scalp us. They are our friends, as we are theirs.\n\nGod has been revealed to them, and they are coming out of their heathen\ndarkness into His light, and they are learning how to live purer and\nbetter lives, to think new thoughts, and to be Christian men instead of\nheathen savages. We who have always known of God, and heard His word,\nmust help them \"in His name.\" Think, dear boys, if there is anything\nthat you can do.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.\n\nMAINE.\n\nWOMAN'S AID TO A.M.A.\n\n_State Committee_--Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords;\n  Mrs. A.T. Burbank, Yarmouth;\n  Mrs. Helen Quimby, Bangor.\n\n\nNEW HAMPSHIRE.\n\nFEMALE CENT INSTITUTION AND HOME MISS. UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. Joseph B. Walker, Concord.\nSecretary--Mrs. John T. Perry, Exeter.\nTreasurer--Miss Annie A. McFarland, Concord.\n\n\nVERMONT.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. J.H. Babbitt, W. Brattleboro.\nSecretary--Mrs. M.K. Paine, Windsor.\nTreasurer--Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.\n\n\nMASS. AND R.I.\n\n[1]WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. C.L. Goodell, Boston Highlands, Mass.\nSecretary--Miss Anna A. Pickens, 32 Congregational House, Boston.\nTreasurer--Miss Sarah K. Burgess, 32 Congregational House, Boston.\n\n\nCONNECTICUT.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New Britain.\nSecretary--Mrs. C.T. Millard, 36 Lewis St., Hartford.\nTreasurer--Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St., Hartford.\n\n\nNEW YORK.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Green Ave., Brooklyn.\nSecretary--Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St., Syracuse.\nTreasurer--Mrs. J.J. Pearsall, 230 Macon St., Brooklyn.\n\n\nNEW JERSEY.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF THE N.J. ASSOCIATION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. A.H. Bradford, Montclair.\nSecret'y--Mrs. Wm. O. Weeden, Upper Montclair.\nTreasurer--Mrs. J.H. Dennison, 150 Belleville Ave., Newark.\n\n\nPENNSYLVANIA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. A.H. Claflin, 191 Franklin St., Allegheny.\nSecretary--Mrs. C.F. Yennee, Ridgway.\nTreasurer--Mrs. T.W. Jones, 211 Woodland Terrace, Philadelphia.\n\n\nOHIO.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. J.G.W. Cowles, 417 Sibley St., Cleveland.\nSecretary--Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin.\nTreasurer--Mrs. G.B. Brown, 2116 Warren St., Toledo.\n\n\nINDIANA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. W.A. Bell, 221 Christian Ave, Indianapolis.\nSecretary--Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne.\nTreasurer--Mrs. F.E. Dewhurst, 28 Christian Ave., Indianapolis.\n\n\nILLINOIS.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. Isaac Claflin, Lombard.\nSecretary--Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago.\nTreasurer--Mrs. L.A. Field, Wilmette.\n\n\nIOWA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. T.O. Douglass, Grinnell.\nSecretary--Mrs. V.H. Mullett, Clinton.\nTreasurer--Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave, Des Moines.\n\n\nMICHIGAN.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. George M. Lane, 179 West Alexandrine Ave., Detroit.\nSecretary--Mrs. J.H. Hatfield, 301 Elm Street, Kalamazoo.\nTreasurer--Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Greenville.\n\n\nWISCONSIN.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. E.G. Updike, Madison.\nSecretary--Mrs. A.O. Wright, Madison.\nTreasurer--Mrs. C.M. Blackman, Whitewater.\n\n\nMINNESOTA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Miss Katherine W. Nichols, 230 East Ninth Street, St. Paul.\nSecretary--Mrs. C.F. Fullerton, 3016 Harriet Ave., Minneapolis.\nTreasurer--Mrs. M.W. Skinner, Northfield.\n\n\nNORTH DAKOTA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. W.P. Cleveland, Caledonia.\nSecretary--Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.\nTreasurer--Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo.\n\n\nSOUTH DAKOTA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdle.\nSecretary--Mrs. W.H. Thrall, Huron.\nTreasurer--Mrs. F.H. Wilcox, Huron.\n\n\nNEBRASKA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. J.T. Duryea, 2402 Cass Street, Omaha.\nSecretary--Mrs. S.C. Dean, 636 31st Street, Omaha.\nTreasurer--Mrs. G.J. Powell, 30th & Ohio Sts., Omaha.\n\n\nMONTANA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. O.C. Clark, Missoula.\nSecretary--Mrs. W.S. Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave., Helena.\nTreasurer--Mrs. Herbert E. Jones, Livingston.\n\n\nMISSOURI.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes St., Kansas City.\nSecretary--Mrs. E.C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave., Kansas City.\nTreasurer--Mrs. K.L. Mills, 1525 Wabash Ave., Kansas City.\n\nKANSAS.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. F.E. Storrs, Topeka.\nSecretary--Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka.\nTreasurer--Mrs. D.D. DeLong, Arkansas City.\n\n\nOREGON.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. John Summerville, 108 Second Street, Portland.\nSecretary--Mrs. George Brownell, Oregon City.\nTreasurer--Mrs. W.D. Palmer, 546 Third St., Portland.\n\n\nWASHINGTON.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. A.J. Bailey, 323 Blanchard St., Seattle.\nSecretary--Mrs. W.C. Wheeler, 434 South K St., Tacoma.\nTreasurer--Mrs. J.W. George, 630 Fourth St., Seattle.\n\n\nCALIFORNIA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.\n\nPresident--Mrs. E.S. Williams, Pacific Grove.\nSecretary--Mrs. L.M. Howard, 911 Grove St., Oakland.\nTreasurer--Mrs. J.M. Havens, 1329 Harrison St., Oakland.\n\n\nNEVADA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. L.J. Flint, Reno.\nSecretary--Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno.\nTreasurer--Miss Mary Clow, Reno.\n\n\nINDIAN TERRITORY.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. John McCarthy, Vinita.\nSecretary--Mrs. Fayette Hurd, Vinita.\nTreasurer--Mrs. R.M. Swain, Vinita.\n\n\nMEW MEXICO.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. C.E. Winslow, Albuquerque.\nSecretary--Mrs. E.W. Lewis, 301 So. Edith St., Albuquerque.\nTreasurer--Mrs. A.W. Jones, Albuquerque.\n\n\nLOUISIANA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Miss Bella Hume, corner Gasquet and Liberty Sts., New Orleans.\nSecretary--Miss Matilda Cabrere, New Orleans.\nTreasurer--Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Welsh.\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. C.L. Harris, 1421 31st Avenue, Meridian.\nSecretary--Miss Edith M. Hall, Tougaloo Univ., Tougaloo.\nTreasurer--Mrs. L.H. Turner, 3012 12th Street, Meridian.\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. H.W. Andrews, Talladega.\nSecretary--Mrs. T.N. Chase, Selma.\nTreasurer--Mrs. H.S. DeForest, Talladega.\n\n\nFLORIDA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. S.F. Gale, Jacksonville.\nSecretary--Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.\nTreasurer--Mrs. W.D. Brown, Interlachen.\n\n\nTENNESSEE, KENTUCKY AND ARKANSAS.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. G.W. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Univ., Nashville.\nSecretary--Mrs. Jos. E. Smith, 304 Gilmer Street, Chattanooga.\nTreasurer--Mrs. J.E. Moreland, 1214 Grundy St., Nashville.\n\n\nCOLORADO.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. J.W. Pickett, White Water.\nSecretary--Mrs. Chas. Westley, Denver.\nTreasurer--Mrs S.A. Sawyer, Boulder.\n\n\nWYOMING.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. G.S. Ricker, Cheyenne.\nSecretary--Mrs. W.C. Whipple, Cheyenne.\nTreasurer--Mrs. H.N. Smith, Rock Springs.\n\n\nOKLAHOMA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. J.H. Parker, Kingfisher.\nSecretary--Mrs. L.E. Kimball, Guthrie.\nTreasurer--Mrs. L.S. Childs, Choctaw City.\n\n\nUTAH, (Including Southern Idaho).\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. Clarence T. Brown, Salt Lake City, Utah.\nSecretary--Mrs. W.S. Hawkes, 135 Sixth St., E., Salt Lake City, Utah.\nTreasurer--Mrs. Dana W. Bartlett, Salt Lake City, Utah.\nSecretary for Idaho--Mrs. Oscar Sonnenkalb, Pocatello, Idaho.\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. J.W. Freeman, Dudley.\nSecretary and Treasurer--Miss A.E. Farrington, High Point.\n\n\nTEXAS.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. J.M. Wendelkin, Dallas.\nSecretary--Mrs. H. Burt, Lock Box 563, Dallas.\nTreasurer--Mrs. C.I. Scofield, Dallas.\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. H.B. Wey, 253 Forest Ave., Atlanta.\nSecretary--Mrs. H.A. Kellam, Atlanta.\nTreasurer--Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.\n\n\nSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\nPresident--Mrs. Emma Cash, 1710 Temple St, Los Angeles.\nSecretary--Mrs. H.K.W. Bent, Box 443, Pasadena.\nTreasurer--Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library, Riverside.\n\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.,\nit has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.]\n\nRECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1894.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE DANIEL HAND FUND.\n\n_For the Education of Colored People._\n\nIncome for August ...$4,197.35\n\nPreviously acknowledged ...45,942.35\n\n----------\n\n$50,139.70\n\n==========\n\n\nCURRENT\n\nMAINE, $355.13.\n\nAlfred. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nBangor. Gertrude H. Denio, Treas., Women's Indian Ass'n,\n  _for Hospital, Fort Yates, N.D._ ...50.00\n\nBrewer. First Cong. Ch. ...19.50\n\nPortland. State St. Cong. Ch., 150;\n  St. Lawrence St. Cong. Ch., 10 ...160.00\n\nWarren. Second Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\n-------\n\n$249.50\n\nESTATES.\n\nAndover. Estate of Huldah E. Poor,\n  by Frederick F. Hall, Executor ...5.63\n\nCumberland Center. Estate Mrs. Mary E.M. Rideout,\n  by Silas M. Rideout ...100.00\n\n-------\n\n$355.13\n\n\nNEW HAMPSHIRE, $3,270.66.\n\nAcworth. Cong. Ch. ...7.03\n\nBath. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...12.40\n\nBoscawen. Sarah E. Allen ...1.00\n\nConcord. \"Friend.\" ...5.00\n\nDerry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. JOHN FOLSOM L.M. ...33.68\n\nHanover. \"Susie's Birthday Gift,\" Aug. 19 ...5.00\n\nHanover Center. Y.P.S.C.E., by Anna R. Foss, Treas.,\n  _for Building Douglas Hall, Cappahosic, Va._ ...5.29\n\nHopkinton. Cong. Ch. ...14.00\n\nKeene. Prim. Dept. Second Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n  _for Children's Miss'y, McIntosh, Ga._ ...5.00\n\nLyme. Cong. Ch. ...38.00\n\nMilford. Mrs. Lovell Harris, deceased ...3,000.00\n\nNelson. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nPembroke. First Cong. Ch. ...33.44\n\nPeterboro. Union Evan. Ch. ...16.34\n\nPortsmouth. North Cong. Ch. ...84.48\n\n\nVERMONT, $252.24.\n\nBarton. Cong. Ch. ...63.51\n\nCharlotte. Cong. Ch. ...17.00\n\nChester. Mrs. M.S. Piper ...5.00\n\nDerby. Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\nDummerston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...11.00\n\nEssex. A.A. Slater ...1.00\n\nLudlow. Cong. Ch., 9.60;\n  Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch., 5 ...14.60\n\nNorwich. Cong. Ch. ...15.00\n\nRochester. First Cong. Ch. ...14.46\n\nRoxbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...13.52\n\nSaint Johnsbury. Mrs. E.D. Blodgett, 25;\n  Mrs. T.M. Howard, 25 ...50.00\n\nSaint Johnsbury. \"Friends,\" _for Central Ch., New Orleans_ ...8.00\n\nTownshend. Miss Ellen Ballard ...20.00\n\nVershire. Cong. Ch. ...4.15\n\nWest Randolph. \"A Friend\" ...10.00\n\n\nMASSACHUSETTS, $2,837.23.\n\nAmherst. Cong. Ch. ...20.00\n\nAshfield. H. Taylor and Family ...6.00\n\nAshland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...15.00\n\nBerkley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...21.00\n\nBoston. Miss Cornelia Warren ...100.00\n\n    Walnut Av. Cong. Ch. ...86.10\n\n  Dorchester. Second Ch. ...25.00\n\n------   211.10\n\nBradford. First Cong. Ch. ...23.48\n\nBraytonville. \"Earnest Workers,\" by Eliza M. Harrison,\n  _for Needy Student Girl, Dorchester Acad._ ...5.00\n\nBrimfield. Mrs. P.C. Browning, 12;\n  Mrs. J.S. Webber, 2;\n  Cong. Ch., 13.95 ...27.95\n\nCohasset. Mrs. R.W. Sankey ...50.00\n\nCurtisville. Cong. Ch. ...28.00\n\nCurtisville. \"A Friend,\"\n  by Miss Jennie Curtis, _for McIntosh, Ga._ ...5.00\n\nDalton. Mrs. Louisa F. Crane, 100;\n  Miss Clara L. Crane, 75,\n  _for Girls' Ind'l Cottage, Tougaloo U._ ...175.00\n\nEasthampton. First Cong. Ch. ...63.72\n\nEasthampton. Y.P.S.C.E. First Cong. Ch., _for Tougaloo U._ ...3.00\n\nEverett. \"A Friend.\" ...10.00\n\nFalmouth. First Cong. Ch. ...34.24\n\nFitchburg. Rev. and Mrs. John Wood ...5.00\n\nFoxboro. Mrs. Mary Y. Phelps ...50.00\n\nFramingham. \"A Friend,\" _for Indian M._ ...5.00\n\nGilbertville. Cong Ch. ...11.04\n\nGreat Barrington. Miss Lottie Adsit,\n  by Miss Jennie Curtis, _for McIntosh, Ga._ ...1.00\n\nHolliston. Cong. Ch. ...39.86\n\nHousatonic. Primary Class Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n  _for Student Aid, Dorchester Acad._, by Miss Jennie Curtis ...2.00\n\nHuntington. First Ch. ...2.00\n\nIpswich. South Ch. ...33.00\n\nLexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. ...33.50\n\nMalden. Mrs. Ellen M. Wellman, to const. MRS. ABI T. HUNTLEY\n  and MRS. ELEANOR F. HOWELL L. Ms ...100.00\n\nMalden. Miss M.F. Aiken ...5.00\n\nMarshfield. First Cong. Ch. ...28.38\n\nMiddleboro. Thomas P. Carlton,\n  _for Gospels for Fort Yates, N.D._ ...1.00\n\nMill River. Y.P.S.C.E., by Miss Cora H. Adams, Treas. ...4.68\n\nMonson. Cong. Ch. ...17.67\n\nMonterey. Cong. Ch. ...14.29\n\nNorthbridge Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...17.00\n\nNorth Middleboro. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...20.50\n\nRandolph. Miss Abby W. Turner ...20.00\n\nRockdale. Cong. Ch. ...6.00\n\nRockland. Cong. Ch. ...20.00\n\nRochester. S.S. Class of Three Girls,\n  by Mrs. G.H. Gerrish, _for Indian M._ ...1.00\n\nSharon. Cong. Ch., 35, to const. DR. C.A. LESLIE L.M.;\n  Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., 10 ...45.00\n\nShelburne Falls. GEO. D. CRITTENDEN, to\nconst himself L.M. ...30.00\n\nShutesbury. \"K.,\" _for Thunderhawk M._ ...2.00\n\nSouth Deerfield. Cong. Ch. ...17.00\n\nSpringfield. White St. Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\nSpringfield. Mrs. James D. Litchfield, _for Mountain Work_ ...1.00\n\nSpringfield. ---- ...1.00\n\nTownsend. \"Thank Offering, from a Friend,\"\n  to const. WILLIAM KIMBALL HAYES L.M. ...30.00\n\nWenham. \"A Friend.\" ...20.00\n\nWest Medford. Sab. Sch. Classes Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...10.00\n\nHampden Benevolent Association, by George K. Bond, Treas.:\n\n    Chicopee. Second ...35.43\n\n    Holyoke. Second ...75.64\n\n    Springfield. South ...40.00\n\n-----   151.07\n\n---------\n\n$1,513.23\n\nESTATES.\n\nGranville. Estate of Clement Holcomb,\n  by M.J. Rose, Executor ...25.00\n\nNatick. Estate of Rev. John P. Norton,\n  by D.W. Farquhar, Adm'r ...300.00\n\nNorthampton. Estate of Geo. W Hubbard,\n  by L. Clark Seelye and J. Whittlesey, Trustees ...1,000.00\n\n---------\n\n$2,837.23\n\n\nRHODE ISLAND, $95.82.\n\nCentral Palls. Cong. Ch. ...34.35\n\nPace Dale. Cong. Ch. ...16.47\n\nProvidence. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. ...45.00\n\n\nCONNECTICUT, $1,344.92.\n\nAvon. Cong. Ch., 18; Y.P.S.C.E., 2 ...20.00\n\nBloomfield. \"Friends,\" by Mrs. N. Bidwell, _for Thomasville, Ga._ ...9.00\n\nBridgeport. Second Cong. Ch. ...90.30\n\nBrooklyn. Trin. Ch. and Sab. Sch., bal. to const.\n  MISS FLORENCE A. SEARLES and J. WILLIAM HUNT L. Ms ...41.00\n\nClinton. Dr. W.H. Williams ...25.00\n\nCollinsville. Cong. Ch. ...22.00\n\nEast Hartford. Cong. Ch. ...7.30\n\nGoshen. First Cong. Ch. ...26.17\n\nHanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...25.00\n\nHartford. Hartford Seminary,\n  by G.H. Post, Treas. Students' Ass'n. ...24.43\n\nKent. Cong. Ch. ...8.34\n\nLisbon. Cong, Ch., bal. to const. MRS. O.H. IRONS L.M. ...20.00\n\nMadison. First Cong. Ch. ...13.33\n\nMiddletown. First Ch. ...58.12\n\nNewington. Cong. Ch. ...52.39\n\nNew London. Mrs. Chas. B. Tompkins ...25.00\n\nNew Milford. First Cong. Ch., 72.36; Mrs. Lucy M. Turrill, 10 ...82.36\n\nNorthfield. Cong. Ch. (30 of which to const. MRS. H.C. WOLCOTT L.M.) ...74.07\n\nNorwich Town.  \"A Friend\" (5.35 of Which _for Athena, Ga._) ...10.50\n\nOld Lyme. Cong. Ch. ...17.28\n\nSalisbury. Cong. Ch. ...16.62\n\nSouth Coventry. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch., _for Thunderhawk M._ ...15.00\n\nStamford. Rev. C.J. Ryder,\n  _for Rosebud Indian M., Cedar Butte, S.D._ ...10.00\n\nThomaston. First Cong. Ch. ...11.72\n\nTolland. Cong. Ch. ...17.00\n\nWashington. First Cong Ch., to const. MRS. MARY G. BRINSMADE, MISS MARY\n  NETTLETON, MISS BERTHA SECCOMB and CHARLES B. GIBSON L. Ms ...133.74\n\nWeathersfield Center. Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...10.00\n\nWillimantic. Mrs. Mary A. Williams ...20.00\n\n----. \"Nutmeg\" _for purchase of land at King's Mountain, N.C._ ...100.00\n\n----. \"A Friend in Conn.\" ...100.00\n\n----. \"A Friend in Conn.\" ...10.00\n\nWoman's Cong. Home Missionary Union of Conn.,\n  Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, Treas., _for Woman's Work_: ...0.00\n\n    Norwalk. \"Forget-me-not\" Circle of King's Daughters\n      of First Ch., _for Student Aid, Blowing Rock, N.C._ ...25.00\n\n---------\n\n$1,120.67\n\nESTATES.\n\nBerlin. Estate of Harriet N. Wilcox ...15.00\n\nGroton. Estate of Mrs. B.N. Hurlbutt ...109.25\n\nPomfret. Estate of Mrs. Zara G. Comstock,\n  by Wm. E. Tolman, Executor ...100.00\n\n---------\n$1,344.92\n\n\nNEW YORK, $773.24.\n\nAlbany. \"S.D.H.\" ...20.00\n\nAngola. First Cong. Ch., 12; A.H. Ame, 2 ...14.00\n\nAquebogue. Cong. Ch. ...17.75\n\nBuffalo. Pilgrim Miss'y Soc., F.A. Huntley, Sec.,\n  _for Talladega C._ ...5.00\n\nBuffalo. Pilgrim Cong. Y.P.S.C.E. ...0.65\n\nCortland. Dr. Jerome Angel ...2.00\n\nMiddle Island. Mrs. Jemina Randall, 2.15;\n  Miss Lizzie M. Swezey, 2;\n  Mrs. Edgar Swezey, 1, _for Thunderhawk M._ ...5.15\n\nNorth Walton. Y.P.S.C.E., by Wm A. Hoyt,\n  _for C.E. Hall, McIntosh, Ga._ ...20.00\n\nNorwood. C.E. Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._ ...5.20\n\nOrient. Cong. Ch. ...14.26\n\nOswego. Miss D.E. Sheldon, _for Alaska M._ ...50.00\n\nOswego. Cong. Ch. ...40.32\n\nPenn Yan. \"J.A.M.\" ...20.00\n\nPerry Centre. Rachel J. Booth, _for Reindeer, Alaska M._ ...5.00\n\nPoughkeepsie. Andrew Smith, 55;\n  Soc. of Friends, 5.50;\n  Cong. Ch., 4.90;\n  James Husted, 1, by Miss Jennie Curtis, _for McIntosh, Ga._ ...66.40\n\nPoughkeepsie. First Reformed Ch. ...16.61\n\nRochester. Mrs. Harriet Clark ...5.00\n\nSyracuse. Plym. Cong. Ch. ...21.00\n\n----. \"A Life Member.\" ...15.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y.,\n  by Mrs. J.J. Pearsall, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Albany. Sab. Sch., First Cong. Ch.\n      _for Sch'p Fund, Howard U._ ...10.00\n\n    Canandaigua. W.H.M.S. ...30.00\n\n    Moravia. Mrs. W.C. Tuthill ...50.00\n\n    Northville. W.M.S. ...5.00\n\n    Phoenix. ---- _for Sch'p Fund, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...18.00\n\n    Rutland. Aux. ...16.90\n\n-----  129.90\n\n-------\n\n$473.24\n\nESTATE.\n\nFort Covington. Estate of Adelia Bliss, John C. Grant, Ex. ...300.00\n\n-------\n\n$773.24\n\n\nNEW JERSEY, $15.59.\n\nLyons Farms. Presb. Sab. Sch., by F.W.C. Crane ...15.59\n\n\nPENNSYLVANIA, $3.00.\n\nEast Smithfield. W.H.M. Soc.,\n  by Miss Maria Perkins, Sec., _for Thunderhawk M._ ...3.00\n\n\nOHIO, $1,147.25.\n\nAkron. Mrs. W.H. Upson, _for Tougaloo U._ ...25.00\n\nAdams Mills. Mrs. M.A. Smith ...10.00\n\nAshtabula. Mrs. A.L. Case ...5.00\n\nBrunswick. Children's Day Offering,\n  by Mrs. Albert Aylard, Cl'k ...3.80\n\nCleveland. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. ad'l. ...90.00\n\nCleveland. Mrs. Fanny W. Low (2.50 of which _for Mountain Work_) ...5.00\n\nGarrettsville. Cong. Ch. ...22.40\n\nGustavus. Y.P. Bible Class, Cong. Ch. ...6.00\n\nOberlin. Mrs. E.B. Clark ...10.00\n\nRootstown. Cong. Ch. ...35.40\n\nTwinsburg. Cong. Ch. ...13.10\n\nOhio Woman's Home Missionary Union,\n  by Mrs. Geo. B. Brown, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Mount Vernon. W.M.S. ...14.00\n\n    Springfield. First, W.M.S. ...10.00\n\n-----   24.00\n\n-------\n\n$249.70\n\nESTATE.\n\nOberlin. Estate of Amanda Porter ...897.55\n\n---------\n\n$1,147.25\n\n\nILLINOIS, $307.30.\n\nBone Gap. Mrs. Lu Rice ...25.00\n\nCambridge. Junior C.E. Soc.,\n  by Daisy M. Gould, Supt., _for Children's Missionary_ ...5.00\n\nChesterfield. Cong. Ch. ...16.28\n\nElgin. \"A Friend,\" _for education of a girl_ ...5.00\n\nHinsdale. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid Talladega C._ ...75.00\n\nJoy Prairie. Cong. Ch. ...40.00\n\nMorrison. William Wallace ...10.00\n\nNaperville. Cong. Ch. ...20.00\n\nRidgeland. Cong. Ch. ...40.87\n\nRio. Children's Day Coll.,\n  by Mrs. H. Mansfield, _for Indian M._ ...2.00\n\nStillman Valley. Y.P.S.C.E. ...5.58\n\nIllinois Woman's Home Missionary Union,\n  Mrs. L.A. Field, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Chicago. New Eng. W.M.S. ...35.67\n\n    Englewood. Pilgrim Ch. ...7.00\n\n    Oak Park. W.M.S. ...15.90\n\n    Princeton. Jr. C.E. Soc. _for Sch'p Fund, Straight U._ ...4.00\n\n-----   62.57\n\n\nMICHIGAN, $310.36.\n\nAnn Arbor. First Cong. Ch. ...34.00\n\nBellaire. Cong. Ch. ...2.03\n\nCharlevoix. Cong. Ch. ...3.75\n\nDetroit. Brewster Cong. Sab. Sch., by C.A. Burr, Sec. ...2.75\n\nGrand Blanc. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nGrand Rapids. South Cong. Ch. ...12.51\n\nIronton. Cong. Ch. ...4.00\n\nKalkaska. Cong. Ch. ...2.85\n\nManistee. First Cong. Ch. ...12.00\n\nMarcelona. Cong. Ch. ...2.65\n\nNorthport. J.W. Bushnell ...5.00\n\nRochester. JOSEPH HAWLEY to const. himself L.M. ...50.00\n\nSaginaw. Mrs. A.M. Spencer ...4.50\n\nUnion City. Cong. Ch. ...32.91\n\nWhittaker. A.C. Childs ...5.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Mich.,\n  by Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Calumet. L.M.S. ...20.00\n\n    Stanton. W.H.M.U. ...6.41\n\n-----   26.41\n\n-------\n\n$210.36\n\nESTATE.\n\nNiles. Estate of Dr. James Lewis ...100.00\n\n-------\n\n$310.36\n\n\nIOWA, $142.21.\n\nCedar Rapids. First Cong. Ch. ...6.93\n\nChester Center. Cong. Ch. and Y.P.S.C.E. ...12.21\n\nDe Witt. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nDubuque. Ladies Miss'y Soc., Mrs. Ada M. Burgham, Sec.,\n  _for Beach Institute_ ...1.90\n\nEmmettsburg. W.H.M.U. ...3.00\n\nFarragut. Cong. Ch. ...37.09\n\nKeokuk. Cong. Ch. ...20.00\n\nNewton. Cong. Ch. ...11.00\n\nSpencer. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...10.00\n\nIowa Woman's Home Missionary Union,\n  Mrs. M.J. Nichoson, Treas., _for Woman's Work_: ...0.00\n\n    Alden. W.M.S. ...2.30\n\n    Atlantic. Y.P.S.C.E. ...2.26\n\n    Belle Plain. W.M.S. ...7.00\n\n    Decorah. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Sch'p Fund, Saluda, N.C._ ...8.50\n\n    Genoa Bluff. W.M.S. ...2.00\n\n    Grinnell. W.M.S. ...8.02\n\n-----   30.08\n\n\nWISCONSIN, $378.61.\n\nAshland. Cong. Ch. ...37.90\n\nClinton. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. F.N. DEXTER, L.M. ...43.45\n\nFootville. Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\nNorth Greenfield. Mr. and Mrs. O.W. Paine ...5.00\n\nWauwatosa. Cong. Ch. ...72.26\n\nWhitewater. Cong. Ch. ...15.00\n\n-------\n\n$178.61\n\nESTATE.\n\nMilwaukee. Estate of Hon. E.D. Holton, by O.W. Robertson,\n  W.E. Story, Executors, and L.C. Holton, Executrix ...200.00\n\n-------\n\n$378.61\n\n\nMINNESOTA, $5.45.\n\nLyndale. Cong. Ch. ...5.45\n\n\nNORTH DAKOTA, $3.50.\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of North Dakota,\n  by Mrs. Mary M. Fisher, Treas., _for Woman's Work_: ...0.00\n\n    Cummings. \"Christian Soldiers\" ...2.50\n\n    Spiritwood. Mrs. V. Craig ...1.00\n\n-----  3.50\n\n\nSOUTH DAKOTA, $29.50.\n\nHoward. Cong. Ch., _for Marion, Ala._ ...4.50\n\nHuron. Rev. J.E.B. Jewett,\n  _for new Sch. Building, Evarts, Ky._ ...25.00\n\n\nNEBRASKA, $16.09.\n\nAinsworth. Cong. Ch. ...7.13\n\nFranklin. Sab. Sch., Cong. Ch. ...1.96\n\nIndianola. First Cong. Ch. ...7.00\n\n\nCOLORADO, $10.10.\n\nDenver. Third Ch. ...10.10\n\n\nCALIFORNIA, $953.65.\n\nLodi. Cong. Ch. ...3.70\n\nRedlands. Lugonia Terrace Cong. Ch. ...8.00\n\nSan Francisco. Receipts of the California Chinese Mission\n  (see items below) ...941.95\n\n\nKENTUCKY, $4.00.\n\nRed Ash. Cong. Ch. ...4.00\n\n\nTENNESSEE, $3.00.\n\nDeer Lodge. Cong. Ch. ...3.00\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA, $2.25.\n\nHigh Point. Cong. Ch. ...2.25\n\nGEORGIA, $1.64.\n\nWoodville. Pilgrim Ch., 1.05;\n  Rev. J. Loyd, 34c.;\n  Rev. J.H.H. Sengstacke, 25c. ...1.64\n\n\nALABAMA, $2.77.\n\nAthens. Trinity Cong. Ch. ...2.27\n\nLincoln. ---- ...0.50\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI, $33.00.\n\nTougaloo. MRS. LAURA M. GOSS, to const. herself L.M. ...33.00\n\n\nCANADA, $5.00.\n\nMontreal. Chas. Alexander ...5.00\n\n\nHAWAIIAN ISLANDS, $5.00.\n\nHonolulu. Mrs. H.P. Green ...5.00\n\n\nINDIA, $10.00.\n\nMelur. Y.P.S.C.E. ...10.00\n\n----------\n\nDonations ...$9,166.08\n\nEstates ...3,152.43\n\n----------\n\n$12,318.51\n\n\nTUITION, $370.87.\n\nLexington, Ky. Tuition ...62.00\n\nCotton Valley, Ala. Tuition ...169.25\n\nMarion, Ala. Tuition ...0.75\n\nNat, Ala. Tuition ...95.87\n\nNew Orleans, La. Tuition ...38.00\n\nAustin, Tex. Tuition ...5.00\n\n-----   370.87\n\nTotal for August ...$12,689.38\n\n=========\n\n\nSUMMARY.\n\nDonations ...$173,273.45\n\nEstates ...80,539.19\n\n-----------\n\n$253,812.64\n\nIncome ...10,143.56\n\nTuition ...41,296.91\n\n-----------\n\nTotal from Oct. 1 to August 31 ...$305,253.11\n\n===========\n\n\nFOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\nSubscriptions for August ...$14.05\n\nPreviously acknowledged ...578.50\n\n-------\n\nTotal ...$592.55\n\n=======\n\n\nRECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION\n  from June 30th to Aug. 1st, 1894, William Johnstone, Treas.:\n\nFROM LOCAL MISSIONS:\n\nFresno. Chinese Mon. Off., 3.05;\n  Anni. Pledges, 18 ...21.05\n\nHanford. Chinese Mon. Off., 2.25;\n  Annual Memberships, 12 ...14.25\n\nLos Angeles. Chinese Monthlies, 3.40;\n  Anni. Pledges, 31.20 ...33.60\n\nMarysville. Chinese Monthlies, 7.25;\n  Anni. Pledges, 20.50 ...27.75\n\nOakland. Chinese Monthlies, 10;\n  Annual Members, 8 ...18.00\n\nOroville. Chinese Monthlies, 2;\n  Anni. Pledges, 2.50;\n  Cong. Ch. Y.P.S.C.E., 5 ...9.50\n\nPetaluma. Chinese Monthlies, 1;\n  A.B. Case, 6; Others, 14 ...21.00\n\nRiverside. Chinese Monthlies, 2.10;\n  Anni. Pledges, 10 ...12.10\n\nSacramento. Chinese Monthlies ...8.25\n\nSan Bernardino. Chinese Monthlies ...4.70\n\nSan Diego. Chinese Monthlies, 2.30;\n  Anni. Pledges, 12.15 ...14.45\n\nSan Francisco. Bethany Ch., Anni. Pledges, 5.50;\n  Mrs. Eliza Moran, 1;\n  Central Ch, Chinese Mon. Off., 6.05;\n  Annual Members, 31;\n  Rev. E.W. Stoddard and Friend, 1.50;\n  Barnes Ch., Chinese Mon. Off., 1.50;\n  Annual Members, 11;\n  West Ch., Chinese Mon. Offs., 2.75 ...60.30\n\nSanta Barbara. Chinese Mon. Offs., 3.15;\n  Anni. Pledges, 9;\n  First Cong. Ch., 13.50 ...25.65\n\nSanta Cruz. Chinese Mon. Off., 6.20;\n  Anni. Off., 37.70 ...43.90\n\nStockton. Chinese Mon, Off., 3.25;\n  Anni. Off., 27.50 ...30.75\n\nVentura. Chinese Monthlies, 2.25;\n  Annual Members, 20; ----, 1 ...23.25\n\n------   368.50\n\nFROM INDIVIDUAL GIVERS:\n\n---. James M. Haven, 25;\n  Giles H. Gray, 5;\n  Rev. Joseph Rowell, 5;\n  Mrs. Nellie M. Haskell, 5;\n  Mr. and Mrs. James Shinn, 10 ...50.00\n\nFROM EASTERN FRIENDS:\n\n  New Boston, N.H. Levi Hooper ...50.00\n\n  South Braintree, Mass. Rev. Jotham B. Sewall ...25.00\n\n  Stockbridge, Mass, Miss A. Byington ...81.00\n\n  Bridgeport, Conn. Miss Mary L. Blackley ...20.00\n\n  New Haven, Conn. Mrs. Henry Farnum ...100.00\n\n------   276.00\n\n-------\n\n$694.50\n\nRECEIVED FOR CHINESE WOMEN AND GIRLS:\n\n  Bangor, Me. S.S. Classes Hammond St. Cong. Ch., 11.30;\n      Y.P.S.C.E. of Hammond St. Cong. Ch., 10;\n      First Cong. Ch., 14.90 ...36.20\n\n  Belfast, Me, Miss E.M. Pond ...5.00\n\n  Bucksport, Me. Cong. Ch., 22;\n      and Sab. Sch., 10 ...32.00\n\n  Greenfield, Mass. Mrs. E.B. Loomis, 10;\n      Miss N.E. Russell, 5 ...15.00\n\n  Hatfield, Mass. \"The Real Folks,\"\n      by Mrs. C.K. Morton, Treas. ...25.00\n\n  Hatfield, Mass. ---- ...6.00\n\n  Marlboro, Mass. \"Three Friends.\" through Miss H.J. Alexander ...6.25\n\n  Stockbridge, Mass. \"Lend-a-Hand Circle\" King's Daughters ...5.00\n\n  Worcester, Mass. \"Friends.\" ...4.00\n\n  Albany, N.Y. Friends of the Chinese,\n      by Miss Janet McNaughton ...100.00\n\n  Colorado Springs, Colo. Ladies' M. Soc. ...5.00\n\n  Pacific Grove, Cal. Mayflower Ch. ...7.00\n\n  Luna, New Mexico. Miss Carrie B. Pond ...1.00\n\n-----   247.45\n\n-------\n\nTotal ...$941.95\n\n=======\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nH.W. HUBBARD, Treas.,\nBible House, N.Y.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 48, No. 10, October, 1894","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":16825}