{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_16036/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_16036","id":"gutenberg_16036","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16036","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: History - Religious","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, Erika\nQ. Stokes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at\nhttps://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\nThe American Missionary\n\nJune, 1890.\nVOL. XLIV. NO. 6.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\nEDITORIAL.\n\n  Removal\n\n  Dr. Storrs on the Negro Problem\n\n  Missionaries to Alaska\n\n  In a Nutshell\n\n  Higher Education of the Colored People\n\n  Spring Conferences\n\n  Mississippi Immigrants\n\n  Notes from New England\n\n  Music's Mission\n\n  Items\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n  Our School Work\n\n  Our Church Work\n\n  Revival at Wilmington, N.C.\n\n  Ballard School, Macon, Ga.\n\n  Dreary Picture of Place and People\n\n  Report from Mountain Schools\n\n  The King's Daughters Society\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n  Our S'kokomish Mission\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n  Jottings\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\n  Paragraphs--State Missionary Unions\n\n\nOUR YOUNG FOLKS.\n\n  Letter from a Teacher\n\n  Woman's State Organizations\n\n\nRECEIPTS.\n\n\n\n\nNEW YORK:\n\nPublished By The American Missionary Association\n\nBible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York.\n\n\nPrice, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\n\nEntered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\nPresident, Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.\n\n_Vice-Presidents._\n  Rev. A.J.F. Behrends, D.D., N.Y.\n  Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D., Mass.\n  Rev. F.A. Noble, D.D., Ill.\n  Rev. D.O. Mears, D.D., Mass.\n  Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo.\n\n_Corresponding Secretaries._\n  Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._\n  Rev. A.F. Beard, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._\n  Rev. F.P. Woodbury, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._\n\n_Recording Secretary._\n  Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._\n\n_Treasurer._\n  H.W. Hubbard, Esq., _Bible House, N.Y._\n\n_Auditors._\n  Peter McCartee.\n  Chas. P. Peirce.\n\n_Executive Committee._\n  John H. Washburn, Chairman.\n  Addison P. Foster, Secretary.\n\n  _For Three Years._\n    S.B. Halliday,\n    Samuel Holmes,\n    Samuel S. Marples,\n    Charles L. Mead,\n    Elbert B. Monroe.\n\n  _For Two Years._\n    J.E. Rankin,\n    Wm. H. Ward,\n    J.W. Cooper,\n    John H. Washburn,\n    Edmund L. Champlin.\n\n  _For One Year._\n    Lyman Abbott,\n    Chas. A. Hull,\n    Clinton B. Fisk,\n    Addison P. Foster,\n    Albert J. Lyman.\n\n_District Secretaries._\n  Rev. C.J. Ryder, _21 Cong'l House, Boston, Mass._\n  Rev. J.E. Roy, D.D., _151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill._\n  Rev. C.W. Hiatt, _64 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio._\n\n_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._\n  Rev. Chas. W. Shelton.\n\n_Secretary of Woman's Bureau._\n  Miss D.E. Emerson, _Bible House, N.Y._\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nRelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretaries; letters for \"THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY,\" to the\nEditor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the finances, to the\nTreasurer.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nIn drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent\nto H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York, or, when more\nconvenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House,\nBoston, Mass., 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill., or 64 Euclid Ave.,\nCleveland, Ohio. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\n\nNOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the \"address label,\" indicates the\ntime to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on\nlabel to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made\nafterward, the change on the label will appear a month later. Please send\nearly notice of change in post-office address, giving the former address\nand the new address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers\nmay be correctly mailed.\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\"I bequeath to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- dollars, in\ntrust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the person who,\nwhen the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 'American\nMissionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied, under the\ndirection of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its\ncharitable uses and purposes.\" The Will should be attested by three\nwitnesses.\n\n\n\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n  Vol. XLIV.\n  June, 1890.\n  No. 6.\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nREMOVAL.\n\n\nThe Rooms of the American Missionary Association are now in the Bible\nHouse, New York City. Correspondents will please address us accordingly.\n\nVisitors will find our Rooms on the sixth floor of the Bible House,\ncorner Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue; entrance by elevator on Ninth\nStreet.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nDR. STORRS, ON THE NEGRO PROBLEM.\n\n\nNot long since Rev. R.S. Storrs, D.D., preached a sermon in his own\npulpit, presenting the claims of the American Missionary Association for\nthe annual collection in its behalf from the Church of the Pilgrims,\nBrooklyn, N.Y. This sermon appeared in print in one of the daily papers,\nand attracted the attention of a benevolent gentleman deeply interested in\nthe Christian education of the colored people, who was so impressed with\nthe great value of the address, that he has furnished the Association with\nthe means to print a large edition for general circulation. This we have\ndone, and we presume that already, many of our readers have had the\nopportunity of reading this eminently wise and timely utterance on one of\nAmerica's greatest problems. Should any one desire an extra copy, we will\ngladly furnish it on application.\n\nAlthough the discourse has had large circulation, we cannot resist the\ntemptation to extract a few of its forcible utterances on some very\nimportant points.\n\n     Permanent popular liberties have their only sure foundation in\n     sound moral conditions practically universal. We must secure\n     these among those to whom we have given the ballot, and who are\n     to be henceforth citizens with ourselves. Otherwise, we are\n     building our splendid political house on the edges of the\n     pestilential swamp from which fatal miasmatic odors are rising\n     all the time. Yes, we are building our house on piles driven into\n     the thick ooze and mud of the pestilential swamp itself. We are\n     building our cities, which we think are so splendid, and which\n     are so in fact, as men built Herculaneum and Pompeii, on a shore\n     which ever and anon trembled with earthquake, over which was hung\n     the black flag of Vesuvius, and down upon which rolled, in time,\n     the lava floods that burned and buried them.\n\n     We have got to meet this immense problem, which is not far off,\n     but right at hand; which is not a problem of theory, or of\n     distant history, but of practice and fact; and which concerns\n     not the well-being alone, but the very life of the nation. Noble\n     men and women at the South are engaged in it already, with all\n     their hearts; and we must help, mightily! It would be the\n     craziest folly of the age for us to be indifferent to it.\n\n     Some men may say, perhaps, \"But this is a work that cannot be\n     done. It is too radical and vast to be hopefully attempted.\"\n     Nonsense! There is no work for the kingdom of God and the glory\n     of His name, which cannot be done! With the Gospel in our hand,\n     we can do everything.\n\n     There has been a good beginning made already. This Society, to\n     which we are to contribute to-day, the American Missionary\n     Association, has four established colleges, three of which are\n     entirely supported by itself, have been founded by it and are\n     carried on by it; and the fourth very largely so. It has\n     multitudes of high schools, normal schools and primary schools.\n\n     First of all, we want men trained, and women too, in the\n     knowledge of the truth as it is in Christ, and then to have them\n     teaching others. And that is precisely the line along which the\n     Society to which we are to contribute to-day, as we have done\n     gladly and largely heretofore, is carrying its incessant\n     operation.\n\n     Now I affirm absolutely that if ever there was a work of God on\n     earth, this is his work! If there was ever anything to which the\n     American Christian people are called, they are called to this. If\n     there was ever a great opportunity before the Christian church,\n     here it is.\n\n     Ah, my friends, don't say \"It is too great a work.\" It is going\n     to be done! You and I may do or may not do our part in it. It is\n     going to be done!\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMISSIONARIES TO ALASKA.\n\n\nAs announced in the last number of the MISSIONARY, we have appointed\ntwo men as missionary teachers for the new station to be opened at\nPoint Prince of Wales, Alaska. The names of these brethren are H.R.\nThornton, of Hampden Sydney, Virginia, and W.T. Lopp, of Valley City,\nIndiana. The credentials furnished by these young men are very\nsatisfactory, and they enter upon the field with the full realization\nof its difficulties and even dangers, and yet, cheerfully trusting\nthemselves to the hand of God, are ready to go forward with undaunted\nfaith. We bespeak for them the prayers of God's people. It is expected\nthat they will leave home about the middle of May and sail from San\nFrancisco June 1st. Dr. Sheldon Jackson and Dr. Pond will aid them in\nproviding materials for the building and the necessary outfit. They\nwill, therefore, be well provided for, though long months must elapse\nbefore they can again have communication with the civilized world.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIN A NUTSHELL.\n\n_WHICH IS THE WISER WAY?_\n\n\nThere are some people who seem to see only the ignorance and vice of\nthe Negro, and the inveterate race-prejudice against him; or at least\nthey appear to be so occupied in dilating upon these hindrances that\nthey have no time to devote to their removal, and, so far as their\ninfluence goes, they discourage others from doing anything.\n\nOn the other hand there are those who, while they see all these\ndifficulties, only find in them the strongest incentives to the most\nearnest efforts to relieve the Negro from them. Which of these two\nclasses is the wiser?\n\nSome persons propose as the solution of the race problem,\ndisfranchisement; and they point to the bad legislation of the blacks\nin South Carolina and Louisiana a quarter of a century ago, when\nscarcely any of them could read, and almost none owned property. On the\nother hand, there are those that are industriously trying to educate\nthe blacks and inspiring them to the acquisition of property, and not\nin vain. More than two millions of the blacks can now read, and more\nthan two hundred million dollars' worth of property is now owned by\nthem. They are thus being prepared to vote wisely.\n\nWhich of these two classes of persons is solving this problem to the\nbest purpose?\n\nThere are other persons, in Congress and out, urging the deportation of\nthe blacks to Africa, a thing impossible to be done, and, if possible,\nit would be harmful to those that were sent, as well as useless to\nbenighted Africa. On the other hand, there are those who are training\nthe colored people of this country in education, industrial habits and\nstable Christian character, thus preparing them as missionaries to\nAfrica.\n\nWhich of these two classes has the wiser theory?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nHIGHER EDUCATION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE.\n\n\nThe eagerness of our colored population for education is strikingly\nshown in the reports given on another page from our institutions in the\nSouth--reports of over-crowded rooms, and students dismissed by scores,\nand even hundreds, for want of accommodations.\n\nWe call special attention to the report from Fisk University, in\nreference to the higher grades of education. It will be seen that, even\nin that place, a relatively small number are in the higher classes, and\nyet there is a sufficient number of these to indicate that some of the\npupils are seeking what is absolutely essential to the race, to wit,\nthat some should have the best education attainable.\n\nWhile it is true of this race as of all others, that the masses can\nreceive only primary training in letters and in industry, there must be\nsome of their number who can be leaders in thought and influence. No\nrace can make progress without such leaders, who can command the line\nof march. There must be the inspiration that comes from the success of\nthe leaders. Hooker's men did not ascend Lookout Mountain in a steady\nline. There were some far ahead of others, cheering and encouraging\nthose following at greater or less distances, till at length the whole\narray stood on the brow, and thus won their position.\n\nThe warfare is different, but human nature is the same. The Negroes are\nno more of equal capacity than white men, and there is just the same\ncall for differences in their attainments in scholarship and in general\ninfluence. And if those advanced in scholarship shall have Christian\ncharacter as well as education, it will render their leadership all the\nmore safe for their people and the nation.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSPRING CONFERENCES AND CHURCH WORK.\n\n\nFive of our Conferences in the South have held their spring meetings.\nThe reports we have had from them indicate that they were of unusual\ninterest. Almost without exception they are pronounced to have been\nthe best ever held. The high character of the sermons, addresses and\ndiscussions shows that these ministers are fit leaders of the people.\nTheir reports of the progress of the work among the churches is\nencouraging. On another page of the MISSIONARY will be found some brief\nsketches of revival scenes and of individual experience and effort.\nThis branch of the work of the Association deserves and will receive\nincreased attention and assistance.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMISSISSIPPI IMMIGRANTS.\n\n\nWe alluded in a recent number of the MISSIONARY to the attractive\nadvertisements of railroad and immigrant companies in the South, and we\nexpressed the fear that many colored people might find the change to be\ndisappointing. But the process goes on, and the rich bottom-lands in\nthe State of Mississippi are attracting many hundreds and thousands of\nnew settlers. Perhaps there is no better place to which they can go,\nfor there are no better lands in the South. The great point is whether\nthese people shall be herded together in rude homes, tilling the soil\nwithout skill, and rearing their children in ignorance and vice. It is\nthe part of Christian wisdom and the duty of the Christian churches of\nthis land to see that the people in this densely-packed and fertile\nregion shall be promptly met with the means of Christian education. Our\nschool at Tougaloo should be enabled to meet in some degree the\nopportunity it has to prepare and furnish preachers and teachers for\nthis growing population; and schools and churches should be multiplied\nto meet the emergency.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.\n\nBY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER.\n\n\nNothing stimulates to good deeds more effectively than good deeds\nthemselves. I copy the following notice, which was circulated on a\nneatly printed sheet among the members of a certain church in Boston:\n\n     The \"Felice\" circle of \"King's Daughters\" will hold a sale for\n     the benefit of the Williamsburg Academy, established for the\n     education of the \"Mountain Whites\" in Kentucky, on Friday,\n     March 21, from 8 to 10 P.M., and on Saturday, March 22, from 3\n     to 10 P.M., at Miss Maxwell's, 37 Allen Street, Boston.\n     Admission 10 cents.\n\nThe enthusiastic leader of this circle of \"King's Daughters\" thought\nthat possibly she might raise $30 and so constitute one of their number\na Life Member of the American Missionary Association. Imagine our\nsurprise and delight when, as the result of this effort, $125 were\nbrought in, as their splendid offering to this work!\n\nTake another fact of unusual interest in the religious life in New\nEngland. Five leading pastors here in Boston chose a particular\nSabbath, upon which they would each preach upon the Negro Problem.\nSeveral sermons were reported at length in our daily journals, and\naroused much interest and comment. One found its way down into the\nSouth, and was commented upon by a Southern editor in true Southern\nstyle. Hard words were used with the recklessness that characterizes\nSouthern editors, and often Northern as well. The funny thing about it\nwas, that two gentlemen of the same name, who are both ministers and\nreside in Boston, were confused in this comment. The one, who had\nrecently been South, but who did not preach the sermon, was read a\nsevere lecture, because after partaking of the hospitality of the\nSouthern people, he had spoken in so severe terms of them. It was an\namusing blunder, but illustrates the fact that more and more even the\nSouthern editor is coming to feel the importance of Northern criticism.\nIt is a very hopeful sign. It is sometimes said that time will settle\nthese monstrous inequalities that prevail in the South, but time never\nsettles anything. Mischievous forces only increase in power, the longer\nthey are permitted to operate. There must be set in operation\nbeneficent forces, in order to make the element of time useful.\nAgitation is needed, patriotic, prayerful agitation, and such united\neffort as was made in these Boston pulpits, helps in this agitation.\n\nThe new book which comes from the pen of G.W. Cable, under the title\nof \"The Negro Question,\" puts old truth in a new dress, and renders it\nmore attractive and presentable. If any man has the right to write\nupon this \"Negro Question,\" it is Mr. Cable. If I had to prepare a\nliturgy for the Congregational churches, I would put in it the\nfollowing petition: \"From the superficial views and misleading\nstatements of tourists through the South, or those who reside in a\nsingle locality, good Lord, deliver us!\" Mr. Cable is not of either of\nthese classes. He speaks from an intimate acquaintance with, and a\nlong residence in, the South; better than this, he is familiar with\nthe whole territory, and not with a single locality simply. This\nlittle book ought to be in the hands of every conscientious student of\nthis Southern problem. Take a single quotation:\n\n\"To be governed merely by instincts is pure savagery. All civilization\nis the result of subordinating instinct to reason, and to the\nnecessities of peace, amity and righteousness. To surrender to\ninstinct, would destroy all civilization in three days. If, then, the\ncolor-line is the result of natural instincts, the commonest daily\nneeds of the merest civilization require that we should ask ourselves,\nis it better or worse to repress or cherish this instinct, and this\ncolor-line?\" There are forces at work, regenerative and ennobling, that\nwill lead the Southern white people to be ashamed of their attitude\ntoward the Negroes, and not the least of these are the life and works\nof Mr. Cable.\n\nA letter came into my hand, when I was in the South, which is not only\na commentary, but also throws a ray of sunlight where there is much\ndarkness. It was a letter from an old mistress to her former slave. He\nis now a successful business man in Chattanooga. This earnest,\nChristian woman, rising above her prejudices, wrote her former slave a\ncordial invitation to visit her in her home. Her husband, his old\nmaster, had died in the Confederate service. She had seen her servants\ntaken away from her through the success of the Union armies. Her\nproperty had been depleted, and her fertile plantation overrun by the\nloyal troops. It must have been with great sadness and a bitter heart,\nthat she looked out upon this ruin, wrought as she believed, throughout\nthe invading of the sacred soil of Virginia. But in these years that\nhave passed, this bitterness has largely gone, and this sweet,\nChristian letter comes to her former slave. The ex-slave told me with\ntears in his eyes that he paid her this visit, and that she welcomed\nhim, not to the Negro quarters, nor to the kitchen-chamber, but to her\nbest guest-chamber, and said: \"I want you to feel that you are welcome\nto the best hospitality of my home.\" \"And she treated me almost as\ntenderly as she would one of her own sons,\" said the colored man. And\nso light is coming, little by little.\n\nDr. Haygood expresses a regret that the white women of the South are so\nslow to appreciate the importance of the moral elevation of the\nNegroes, and so slow to join hands with their Northern sisters in his\neducation. But such facts as this kind, Christian letter furnishes,\nlead us to hope and to believe that better times are coming, and that\nthe Southern Christians, interested as they are in the Negro in Africa,\nwill, little by little, appreciate and minister more and more to the\nterrible need of the Negro in South Carolina and Alabama.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMUSIC'S MISSION.\n\nBY REV. E.N. ANDREWS, HARTFORD, WIS.\n\n\nSuggested by the following words by Rev. B.A. Imes in the May\nMISSIONARY:\n\n     \"The Mozart Society at Fisk treated us to an excellent\n     rendering of Haydn's great oratorio, 'The Creation.' Many came\n     over from the city (Nashville),--whites from the \"best\n     families,\" all crowding in, listening, wondering, enjoying!\n     How the music of those well-tuned instruments and voices\n     caught us up and carried us away! Color-line melted and faded\n     out. How we wished the politicians all might have been brought\n     under that magic spell of solos and choruses!\"\n\n\n          O Music, with thy wand celestial, touch\n          The hearts of men, and by thy alchemy\n          Divine, resolve, remelt, aye, e'en recast\n          The thought and very being! Selfish man,\n          So filled with prejudice and hate hath need,\n          O heavenly messenger, of all thy aid.\n\n          And as thy votaries in anthems sing\n          With the immortal Haydn, and do praise\n          Creative Wisdom, Who, of one blood made\n          All Nations for to dwell on earth in love,\n          Then let celestial fires descend and burn\n          Complete, the offering of the lips, and purge\n          The dross of caste and hate from every soul!\n\n          This do, for Satan hath his spectrum set\n          Before the door of human hearts and cast\n          Upon the screen the separated lines\n          Of black and red and yellow--white forsooth,\n          While these should mingle in that glorious Sun\n          That shines alike on all, impartially.\n\n          Then come, O Music, re-resolve the lines,\n          These color-lines, and let the sun's pure ray\n          Beam forth in unobstructed light and love,\n          Transmuting, by his touch, these human hearts,\n          Till they shall mirror forth the Golden Rule.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nITEMS.\n\n\nEverywhere the colored contestants in Civil Service examinations\nsucceed admirably in their work. In March just past, there was a\ncompetitive examination held in the Custom House at Newark, N.J., for\nclerkships. Out of forty-three contestants, Mr. J.N. Vandewall, a well\nknown young colored man, stood No. 1, 96 per cent. There was only one\nother colored contestant, Mr. G.W. Harris. He stood fifth, with an\naverage of 86 per cent.\n\nMr. A.C. Garner, our colored representative in the Chicago Theological\nSeminary, passed an excellent examination last week, and received\npraise not only from his Professors but from his student friends as\nwell. Out of a class of forty, he was one of seven chosen by the\nProfessor of Elocution to represent the class in oratory at the closing\nexercises held last week.\n\nDuring the recent illness of one of our teachers in the South, the\npastor of the Church called every Sunday for volunteers as watchers\nduring the week. There was always a ready response from the church\nmembers. The teacher relates that before leaving him in the morning,\nthese watchers would almost invariably kneel down by his bedside and\noffer up earnest, fervent prayers for his recovery. He was impressed\nwith the simple faith and trust in God of these colored Christians,\ntheir belief in prayer and the contrast between them and an equal\nnumber of white brethren under the same circumstances.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n\nOUR SCHOOL WORK.\n\nPROGRESS--OVER-CROWDING.\n\n\nFrom Wilmington, N.C.--Instead of sixty pupils as a year or two ago,\nwe now have over ninety, and next year the number will be fully one\nhundred or more, if we have room. The classes are very large.\n\nFrom Grand View, Tenn.--The classes are full and the accommodations\ninadequate. The school numbers one hundred and eleven. It is necessary\nto crowd four boys into each room of the Boys' Hall. Four boys are\nboarding themselves in a shackly log building at the foot of the hill.\nTheir grit is admirable.\n\nFrom Tougaloo, Miss.--Both the dormitories are crowded. The Ladies'\nHall is supposed to accommodate seventy-five girls. One hundred and six\nare crowded into it to-day. We have turned away nearly one hundred more\nbecause we had not room for them. Every indication is that the crowd of\napplicants will be greater next year than ever. Already applications\nare coming in. The American Missionary Association has the lead in\nMississippi to-day.\n\nFrom Marion, Ala.--We need another grade established. Our primary has\nnumbered nearly or quite one hundred pupils. The average attendance has\nbeen large and the school-room over-crowded. Three grades are now\nvirtually working in the primary department. We may look for a large\nincrease of attendance in all grades next year.\n\nFrom Florence, Ala.--We need a building if the school is to be\ncontinued. We are now inconveniently crowded, one hundred and sixty\nchildren in a 20 x 40 room, with all the teaching to be done in the same.\nTo fail in giving us a building will certainly narrow our usefulness in\nthis field. Our school is constantly increasing in popularity. We can\nsafely count on an enrollment of over two hundred next year, with\nsomeplace to accommodate them.\n\nFrom Meridian, Miss.--The work of the school is hindered by lack of\nroom. We have enrolled this year two hundred and thirty two pupils, and\nmany have been turned off because we could not seat them. We opened in\nDecember of 1888 with twenty-eight pupils. A school for more advanced\npupils is needed in this part of Mississippi. We have thirty young\npeople in school who come from the five adjoining counties. They are\nboarding in good families and I have every reason to believe that they\nhave used their time and opportunities well; most of them are this\nsummer to teach.\n\nFrom Straight University, N.O.--It has been a golden year for Straight\nUniversity. Financially it has been our best year. A larger proportion\nof students able to pay came to us. We want to grow, and have every\nopportunity to do so save that our quarters are too small. We have\nturned away during the year probably two hundred applicants, many of\nthem for the boarding department. We have had to put cots in nearly all\nthe rooms, packing them too full for comfort, as it was very hard to\nsay No! to young people who came hundreds of miles and begged tearfully\nfor admission. The school has grown during the last eight years from\ntwo hundred to six hundred, and only is not one thousand because we had\nno room for them. Our graduates are filling important positions all\nover the South. Several are Superintendents in Texas, Kansas,\nMississippi and Louisiana. One holds an important office in Honduras;\nothers are doing good work in Cuba and Mexico. Eight are filling\nimportant positions in this city. We have no trouble in getting\npositions for our young people. Indeed, we cannot supply as fast as\ndemanded. Often as many as twenty are called for when we have none to\nsend.\n\nFrom Fisk University, Nashville.--The evidence of progress in the\neducational department of the University is found in the very marked\nincrease of numbers in the first year of our normal course and of our\ncollege preparatory department. Last year there were fifteen in the\nfirst year of the latter department; this year there are thirty-one.\nLast year there were thirteen in the first year of the normal\ndepartment; this year there are thirty-one. Last year there were in the\nnormal, college, preparatory and college departments, one hundred and\nforty-five students; this year there are one hundred and seventy-six.\nAt the coming Commencement, we expect to graduate twelve young men, and\nfrom the normal ten young women and one young man; making a total of\ntwenty-three. This is a little more than one-sixth of the entire number\nof present graduates from these departments.\n\nFrom a Teacher in the Tennessee Mountains:--Let me tell you of the\ngeneral interest manifest in several of the counties west and north of\nus in attending this school. One of our students visited many cabins\nover the mountains during his vacation, and found that school\nadvantages were very scarce and poor. He found poverty and ignorance of\nthe world and of books. Some of the people are still using the old-time\nmethod of kindling their fires by flint and steel instead of matches.\nHe met many young people who were thirsting for books and schools, also\nnumbers who had struggled up through the darkness to become teachers in\nthe neighborhoods. These almost invariably wish to come to our school,\nand say they shall be here as soon as their schools close. Many are too\npoor to come. This is true of a large number of young girls, who would\ncome if they could work for their board or in any possible way pay for\nit. Whoever will provide funds to meet the expenses of these neglected\ngirls, and place them at our school, and prepare them for the future\nduties of life, will be doing an angelic work, and in the end will do\nthe greatest good that can be done to this people. Very much of the\nmoney spent for this mountain people will be the same as thrown away,\nif this effort is not made to educate the girls.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOUR CHURCH WORK.\n\n\nA letter from Rev. F.R. Sims of the Medway Congregational Church,\nMcIntosh, Ga., reports that seventy persons have been added to that\nchurch on confession of faith, within the last four months.\n\nFrom Knoxville, Tenn.:--Our attendance at preaching services has been\nlarge and attentive. On the second Sabbath of March the members and\nfriends made special efforts for collection and raised $30. There has\nbeen a happy increase in the Sunday-school and the prayer meetings.\n\nFrom Dudley, North Carolina;--It gives me much pleasure to write you\nthat the Lord has abundantly blessed us in our work at this point.\n\nFor three weeks a revival, with much success, has been going on in my\nchurch, the Lord has been with us disturbing the slumber of the\nsleeping Christians and bringing sinners unto repentance. We have ten\nconverts and ten more seeking the Lord. We are all very much encouraged\nand are now looking forward for a brighter and more encouraging future.\n\nFrom Macon, Ga.--At our last communion we baptized and received four\ninto our fellowship on confession of faith. They were all young people\nwho are in school and full of promise. Others are expected to unite\nwith us next month. There have been seventeen additions to the church\nin the last eleven months. There has been some real progress made by\nthe church in all directions. I find in our church meetings a much more\ngentle spirit between the members than when I first came here, and I\nfeel that this outward improvement is due to inward spiritual growth. I\ncan see this growth in the prayers and testimonies of the weekly prayer\nmeetings.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nREVIVAL AT WILMINGTON, N.C.\n\nPROFESSOR GEORGE A. WOODARD.\n\n\nThe revival which took place in this church the latter part of the\nwinter was, in some respects, a model one.\n\nAt the close of one of the Wednesday evening prayer meetings, our\npastor spoke to us with the view of ascertaining if the church were\nready for special work; then he appointed another prayer meeting for\nFriday night. With faith, and resting upon the promises of God, the\nwork was begun the next week. At first the attendance was small; but,\nas the meetings continued, the interest increased, and it became\nnecessary to move into the large hall of the school.\n\nIt was evident throughout that God was in the work and that the Holy\nSpirit was striving mightily with sinners. A deep, quiet emotion\npervaded the meetings, in strong contrast with the revivals held in\nmany of the colored churches of the city, where the excitement becomes\nintense, and the confusion great. Their meetings are often continued\nuntil long after midnight, in a crowded, unventilated room, whereas\nours never closed later than ten o'clock.\n\nAs a result of our revival, although other revivals were going on\namongst the colored people at the same time, upwards of forty were born\ninto the Kingdom, for some of whom, many, many prayers had been offered\nup; and all was done in answer to prayer. Among these were several\ncases of interest, two of which I will mention. One is that of an\nintelligent young man employed by the leading dentist of the city, for\nwhom he does the mechanical work, which previously had to be sent\nNorth. Although of excellent character, he was a skeptic, reading the\nwritings of Ingersoll, Paine, and others. For years, our teachers had\ntaken a special interest in him laboring with him and praying for him,\nthat he might come into the light He was induced to attend these\nmeetings, and was finally led to believe that these things are so and\nto accept of the Saviour. He has gone earnestly to work to bring in\nother young men, teaches in the Sunday-school and is ready for any\nChristian work.\n\nThe other is that of a brawny brick mason, a great sinner, who, while\nearning excellent wages, often failed to bring home sufficient to feed\nand clothe his children; and when remonstrated with by his wife, would\nanswer; \"They are your children, you take care of them.\" All is changed\nnow. He gets up early Sunday mornings, assists in getting the children\nready for church, where the family, all neatly dressed, can be seen\nregularly every Sunday; and in the prayer meeting his voice is usually\nheard.\n\nAs a further result of this revival, the church has been greatly\nquickened, the members have been brought closer together in brotherly\nlove, and God has given a fresh outpouring of his spirit.\n\nOn Easter morning, when a special communion service was held,\ntwenty-nine of the new converts were received into our church, amidst\nthe most touching and impressive services. But the revival has not\nstopped with the special meetings. After every Sunday evening service,\nan after-meeting has been held, in which several have been led to give\ntheir hearts to God. All of these meetings have been marked by the\nearnestness with which the church has labored for the salvation of\nthose who were yet without, and more fervent prayers never ascended to\nthe throne of grace.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFACTS ABOUT BALLARD SCHOOL, MACON, GA.\n\n\nThe opening of the New Year saw manifestations of the Holy Spirit in\nour midst, and during the week of prayer there appeared to be a deep\ninterest among the pupils. Our prayers seemed to take a new meaning,\nand we felt that they were about to be answered.\n\nNothing but God's Spirit could have laid the burden of souls upon so\nmany hearts at once, or have bidden us speak to different ones, while\nour movements were almost unknown to one another.\n\nIn the meetings that were held in the different rooms, and those\nconducted in the High School, which were attended by some of the pupils\nfrom other grades, a large number expressed a desire to become\nChristians; and there were about sixty who gave their hearts to Christ.\nWe rejoice greatly over the work of the Spirit, and have the assurance\nthat \"there is joy in the presence of the angels of God.\"\n\nThe study of the Bible is an important feature in the school work. One\nhour each week is set apart for it. A visitor, passing from the lower\ngrades up, on Friday afternoon, would find Bible work going on in every\nroom. The work of the little ones is largely memorizing. The older ones\nhave a systematic course. The outlines of Bible history are first\ncarefully studied, then the more important events and characters in\ndetail. Work in map-drawing is done in connection with all the lessons.\n\nA short time ago, a middle-aged woman applied for admission to our\nschool. She had been teaching for several years, but wanted to prepare\nherself for the teachers' examination by taking a short course of\nstudy. She was permitted to try the sixth grade examination and failed;\nthen the fifth with like results; finally she was placed in the fourth\ngrade, where it was discovered that she did not know the multiplication\ntables, and evidently had never heard of division. Her knowledge of\nspelling would not exceed that of an average third grade pupil, and she\nis called one of the best colored teachers in the county from which she\ncame.\n\nIn the Industrial Department nearly two hundred and fifty girls sew\nfrom a half hour to an hour every day. Excellent work is being done and\nthey are very much interested, some of them begging for the privilege\nof sewing at other times than those designated for that purpose. The\nindustrial teacher finds difficulty in keeping the supply of work equal\nto the demand.\n\nFriends have kindly sent us donations of work, and much more will be\nacceptable. Sheets, pillow cases, underclothing or patchwork, basted\nready for sewing, will be very thankfully received. The work in the\nsewing classes includes patchwork, the making of dresses, all kinds of\nother garments, and quilting.--_From the Ballard Record._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA DREARY PICTURE OF PLACE AND PEOPLE.\n\nBY AN A.M.A. WORKER.\n\n\nThe country is low and flat, with here and there a small elevation on\nwhich is a house or log cabin. For miles and miles the country is\ndreary and monotonous. The swamps have a funereal aspect as one looks\nupon the live-oak and cypress, hung with long Spanish moss swaying to\nand fro in the gentle breeze.\n\nBack in these pine woods are hundreds who have never seen the railroad,\na boat, carriage, or even a mail-bag. Sometimes a few will go to the\nlittle obscure station on Saturdays and stand gazing at the train as it\ngoes thundering by, and many comical remarks are made, as: \"Dat am de\ntrain 'pon which no darkies nor crackers kin ride; dat am all de heben\ndat dem buckra want and am gwine ter git.\"\n\nMost of the people own their homes, which are poorly constructed of\npine poles with clapboards to cover the cracks, through which the\ndampness and cold winds make it uncomfortable for the occupants, who\nare seated before a clay chimney and a great lightwood fire. Very few\nof the houses have any windows. A lightwood torch furnishes the light\nby day and by night. Some of them are improving each year, but the most\nof them are satisfied with a roof, and a few acres under cultivation.\n\nThe country people seem to be naturally religious, as they are all\nchurch members, are so from childhood, and are great believers in the\n\"sperit,\" which must be the evil one. They are not denominational in\nthe sense in which enlightened people are. The church which allows the\ngreatest number of privileges, and the minister who will just be\npreacher and make the most noise and have the greatest number of \"big\nmeetings,\" are the most popular. They have a burial service, and\nseveral months or a year after, they have a funeral service, which is\nalways a big time.\n\nCaesar is considered the best preacher that has ever been in ----. He\ncomes once a month, and cannot read a chapter; \"nor need you expect me\nto get the one-thousandth part of the ingrejience out of this text,\" is\nhis introduction to every sermon, but he can get up steam enough to be\nheard half a mile. One of the preachers wanting to be known as a\nlicentiate, said in meeting: \"I want you to know that I am a licentious\npreacher,\"--which is the truth.\n\nOur work has done an amount of good, even among those outside, and our\nschools and the two churches have done more good in the country than\nall other work combined. The recent fanaticism in the county did not\nget one believer from our church.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nREPORT FROM MOUNTAIN SCHOOLS.\n\n\nOur year's work is rapidly drawing to an end. The older scholars are\ndoing well and are remaining with us through the year. They certainly\nare gaining in this direction. They become very restless as soon as it\nis \"put in crap time.\" They sigh for the fields and \"shovel plow,\" and\noften look from the school-room windows with a longing for the log\ncabin and the ground surrounding it. In many cases we have to be\n_very_ persuasive to have them remain, yet they seem thankful for\nthe advice and remain. The older scholars seem to manifest an earnest\nambition to obtain situations through the summer, so that they may\nprocure clothing and help pay their tuition. We try as far as possible\nto obtain situations for our girls. The better class of the people will\ncome to us for help, feeling that our girls have been educated in the\nhome and kitchen.\n\nIn our temperance meeting last Friday, I asked the question, \"What\nwould you do if you were forced to take whiskey?\" A little girl rose\nand said, \"My father asked me to take some and said 'you must.' I said,\n'I can't. God would not be pleased.' He said, 'Well, I 'lows how you're\n'bout right.\" What a happy girl she was. She knows if she will keep on\nrefusing, he will give up strong drink. Our greatest hope is in the\nchildren.\n\nA poor woman had some articles of clothing to take home with her. I\noffered to wrap her parcel in newspaper. She said, \"If you don't care,\nI would like to have that ar paper.\" She never has a piece except what\nis given her by some kind person. She utterly refused to have the\nparcel wrapped. The people use the papers to keep the cold out. I have\nseen pieces of paper four inches square and parts of letters pasted on\nthe boards. We save all the papers we receive, and have assisted in\nmaking many poor homes comfortable.\n\nThere is a good Sunday-school in a neighboring town. The people listen\nvery attentively, and seem to be thankful for the Sunday-school and\nchurch services. The average attendance for the last five Sundays has\nbeen forty-two. The thought of leaving this school during the summer is\na _cross_. There are fathers and mothers who are present every\nSabbath. The children show the need of a good school.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFROM MISS M.A. BYE.\n\n\nOur Christian Endeavor Society interests me very much, as I have given\nmore time and thought to that than to anything else outside of school\nwork. It has increased in numbers, and the members have for the most\npart gained a great deal in interest and courage, and this term quite\na number of associate members have become Christians. We are working\nnow to send a delegate to the St. Louis Convention, and I anticipate\ngreat pleasure in watching the effect upon our delegate of the\nenthusiasm of the Convention and the sight of the city, and think it\nwill be worth the year's work to be with him, for we hope to send one\nof the boarding boys.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE KING'S DAUGHTERS SOCIETY.\n\n\nAbout a year ago, ten or fifteen girls might have been seen sitting in\ntheir teacher's room, at Tougaloo University, while she spoke to them\nof forming a society. The members of this society, she said, were to do\nall the good they could in every way they could.\n\nNow, of course, we want a name for our society. If we are going to do\nall the good we can, we are worthy to be called followers of Christ,\nand as he is a King, we call ourselves \"King's Daughters.\" When our\nsociety began, we had but eight or ten members, but at almost every\nmeeting there was some one who wanted to join. The meetings were\ncarried on every Sunday evening, and some one of the members was\nappointed to lead the next meeting. During the week we try in every way\nto do something definite to please our King; to go to no place in which\nwe would be ashamed to have our King see us, and to keep no company\nwith which we would be ashamed to have him see us. Our society\ncontinued to grow and prosper, and finally the young men concluded to\norganize a King's Sons Society. During the summer the two societies\nheld joint meetings. New members were continually joining. As the\nmeetings were new to us when we first began, they were not as\ninteresting as they grew to be at a later date; but generally the time\nwas all occupied. Some one would read a portion of Scripture and offer\nprayer, after which a story would be read or told by one of the\nmembers, who had prepared it during the week. Then we would tell how we\nhad kept our pledge, or in what way we had been helped by being King's\nDaughters. Sometimes, when we had broken our pledge, we would leave off\nour badge for a week.\n\nThe first Sunday in every month we have what we call our consecration\nmeeting. The President calls the roll and each one answers by giving a\nverse of Scripture, or her experience as a King's Daughter. The third\nSunday in every month we elect the officers who are to serve during the\nnext month. These consist of President, Vice-President, Secretary, a\nsick committee, whose business it is to visit and help any who are\nsick, and a committee on invitation, whose business it is to find out\nwho would like to join our society. They report the names at the next\nmeeting. Sometimes we have a question-box into which we put questions\nregarding the society. These are written on small slips of paper and\nread by one of the members. If they are directed to a particular one,\nthat person answers them; but if not, any one in the Society answers\nthem.\n\nDuring the school year of 1888, we made a box of clothing to send to\nthe Indian mission school in Dakota. We would meet every Saturday\nevening and sew until we had made enough to fill our box. Whenever one\nof us finished a piece we would write our name and pin it on. One of\nour girls wanted to sew a little on every article, so as to have her\nname on all of them. Well, when we had finished our box of presents, we\neach wrote a letter and put into it. We intended to make this a\nChristmas present, but severe snow-storms prevented it from reaching\nits destination in time. They received it about a month after\nChristmas, and the things were divided among the Indian girls. Some of\nthem wrote to us, thanking us for the presents which they had received.\nAfter our society grew to about twenty or thirty, we were divided into\ntens. Each ten had a name given it, such as the Truthful Ten, the Judge\nNot Ten, the Do Without Ten and the Polite Ten. Most of us find it\nhardest to be Judge Not Tens and Truthful Tens.--_From the Tougaloo\nQuarterly._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE INDIANS\n\n\nOUR S'KOKOMISH MISSION.\n\nBY DISTRICT SECRETARY J.E. ROY.\n\n\nThe S'kokomish Reservation is at the extreme southwestern corner of the\nPuget Sound, where the S'kokomish River empties in, and is three miles\nsquare, with five thousand acres, embracing rich bottom land and\nmountain timber land, the river and the sound furnishing the best means\nof transportation to the market. On the place I measured the stumps of\nred cedar that were eight, ten and twelve feet in diameter. The waters\nat hand are of the best for fishing. As we--Mrs. Roy was with me--were\ngoing up from the river where we had been set across after a ten-mile\nmountain drive from Shelton, we saw a Mr. Lo lugging a three-foot\nsalmon into the missionary home; and at Olympia, the capital, and\nanother point on the sound, the fishmonger told us they did not sell\nsuch fish by the pound, but by the piece, twenty-five cents each. When,\nin 1855, this reservation was set apart by the treaty, it was for the\nthree bands of this tribe and for the Clallams up at the entrance of\nthe Sound, who, because of variance with one of the other bands, never\nleft their ancestral habitation to go to the selected spot. The people\nbelonging to the Reservation now number about six hundred and twenty.\n\nThe handling of the Indians here was one of the first fruits of\nPresident Grant's Peace Policy, by which the agencies were assigned to\nthe several missionary societies, which were to nominate their\nrespective agents. This was one of those which were assigned to the\nAmerican Missionary Association. In 1871 the Association nominated to\nthis Agency Edwin Eells, Esq., the eldest son of Rev. Gushing Eells,\nD.D., who was one of the mission band that crossed the Rocky Mountains\nin 1838, under commission of the American Board, to be associated with\nDr. Marcus Whitman's series of Indian Missions. Here is an illustration\nof the wisdom of that policy, which has secured a highly successful\nmanagement in all the secular, educational and religious affairs of the\nAgency, and one that has been continued on through the changes of\ngovernmental administration, and also one that has resulted in repeated\npromotions, until now Agent Eells has charge of five of the seven\ndistinct Reservations in the State of Washington. His present\nheadquarters are at the Puyallup Agency, near Tacoma, where he has just\ncompleted an eight thousand dollar building to displace an old one, for\nthe Government Boarding School. In all these five reservations, lands\nhave been secured in severalty to the Indians, and largely through his\npersistent devotion to their welfare. For two or three years his father\nhad care of the S'kokomish Mission under the American Missionary\nAssociation, and in 1874, his brother, Rev. Myron Eells, was appointed\nto the same work, in which he still abides. Besides the preaching, the\ncare of the Sunday-school and the prayer meetings and the pastoral\nwork, in which he gets around among his people as often as once in a\nmonth, he has also the charge of the Indian Church among the Clallams,\nnear New Dunginess, the brethren of that station, in the pastor's\nabsence, maintaining stated worship. The people at S'kokomish have\ngotten beyond Government payments; they live on their own allotted\nlands, in cabins or frame houses, wearing citizens' dress, and doing\nbusiness as white men do it. One of Pastor Eells's first Sundays at the\nmission was noted for the celebration of Christian marriage on the part\nof seven or eight couples who had been living together under their\nheathen way of taking up. So they have been shuffling off their\npolygamy. While we were there, a man of middle life came to the\npastor's house with his first wife, to be married to her after the\nChristian form, having made a satisfactory pecuniary arrangement with\nthe second, who was a sister of the first. In this case there were no\nchildren to complicate settlement. After I had addressed the church\nupon their duty of doing more for the support of their pastor, even as\nI had betimes had to do before in white home missionary churches, the\nseveral responses were as decorous and assuring as could be desired.\n\nAs another advantage of this Grant plan, the Government School and the\nMission are found to be in entire harmony, the principal, Mr. Foster,\nand his assistants and the industrial teacher all being Christians and\ncaring for the moral advancement of their pupils. Nor does the\nmissionary administration come in any way to overlie the governmental.\nFrom the herd of cows kept for the service of the boarding school,\nneither is one set aside for the pastor's family, nor is he allowed to\nbuy their milk. He gets his supply from outside. Nor does the preacher\nuse from Uncle Sam's wood pile. He buys from the Indians.\n\nSome may wonder how a man in such a field can keep from drying up. Come\nwith me into this missionary study. The first thing that strikes you is\na growth of English ivy, from its root in the earth outside creeping\nthrough a crack in the siding and climbing up one corner and then\naround the upper corners of the four sides of the room. That evergreen\nwreath is a symbol of the fresh intellectual life in that study, which\nhas all the air and fix of a workshop. On the shelves, besides the\nordinary outfit, there is an extensive geological collection, which\nin its classification and nomenclature shows scientific investigation.\nThen there is a fine cabinet of Indian relics and curios, appropriate\nto the calling of the incumbent: and there is a supply of Indian\nliterature, historic and scientific, out of which this student is\ntransmuting the essential elements of the Indian problem of the Pacific\nNorthwest. And so it is a small library of his own that has thus been\nelaborated. The first is a \"History of Indian Missions on the Pacific\nCoast,\" published by the American Sunday-school Union; and the second\nis \"Ten Years at S'kokomish,\"--1874-1884--published by our own\nCongregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society. These books would\nmake an enrichment of any Sunday-school library, giving the very\nessence of romance and of heroism along with Christian instruction. The\nothers are monographs, among them the following:\n\n\"Marcus Whitman, M.D.: Proofs of his Work in Saving Oregon to the\nUnited States, and in promoting the immigration of 1843;\" \"Justice to\nthe Indian;\" \"Indian Traditions as to Religion;\" \"Hand of God in the\nHistory of the Pacific Coast;\" \"Papers on the Anthropology of the\nIndians of Washington,\" as published in the Smithsonian Report of\n1886-7. Another such monograph he now has ready for the press--\"God's\nHand in the Missions to the Indians beyond the Rocky Mountains,\" a\npaper read at the recent fiftieth anniversary of the organizing of Dr.\nWhitman's church. And beyond all this literary work is the occasional\nsupply of destitute white congregations round about, and service as a\nTrustee of the Pacific University in Oregon, and of the Whitman\nCollege, at Walla Walla, Washington. Surely in literary work, to the\nnames of Jonathan Edwards among his Stockbridge Indians, and John Eliot\namong his Naticks, and S.R. Riggs among the Dakotas, and not a few\nothers, maybe added this of Myron Eells among the S'kokomish.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\nJOTTINGS.\n\nBY REV. W.C. POND, D.D.\n\n\nIf I were to attempt to place before the readers of the MISSIONARY, in\nsuch setting as would be needed for a comprehension of them, all the\ninteresting minor facts and scenes that pass under my observation in\nour work, there would be no room on its pages for anything else. Let me\ngive a few examples of these.\n\nA young Chinaman is being examined with reference to baptism, and is\nasked why he decided to turn from the worship of idols. \"God is\n_true_\" is the reply, a very simple reason,--a trite one possibly;\nbut there was something in the tone and emphasis of it which thrilled\nme. I saw the emptyness of heathen worship at a point from which I had\nnever looked at it before. A God that is _true_, that can be\nabsolutely trusted! Where will you find one in any heathen Pantheon?\nConceive now a thoughtful, honest man passing from the timorous worship\nof such gods to the rest and comfort and courage which come from\nknowing and trusting Him who is true, and you will begin to realize\nwhat that simple answer meant.\n\n\"What are your people making such a noise for?\" was asked of a Chinese\nbrother at Ventura, during the Chinese New Year's Festival. \"To scare\naway the evil spirits,\" was the reply. \"And why don't _you_ scare\nthem away?\" was the next question, for all was quiet at our little\nmission house, \"Evil spirits stay away when Holy Spirit comes,\" was the\nreply. I am not confident that I recall the exact words, but I have\ncertainly given the idea, and it meant emancipation for the man that\nuttered it, an entrance into the liberty wherewith Christ makes us\nfree.\n\n\"When I get discouraged, as I often do,\" writes a teacher, \"I think of\nthe five who are studying the Testament, and of a remark one of them\nmade to me, 'I love Jesus more all the time when I read about him.'\"\nThis brother took his religion with him to China, and brought it back\nunharmed.\n\nOne of the brethren worked in a hotel where to specially toilsome\nservice was added a treatment far from kind. He said to his teacher\nthat he remembered how much Jesus had to bear and so he \"had patient.\"\nThe wages received he spoke of as the \"hardest money\" he had earned\nsince coming to California, and _so_ he took part of it to buy a\nnice Bible. An American said scoffingly to him: \"Are you one of the\nChristian Chinamen?\" \"Yes,\" he replied. \"I love Jesus; I am not ashamed\nthat I love Jesus.\"\n\nOne of our Santa Barbara brethren rents quite a tract of land, much of\nwhich he devotes to the culture of small fruits. On a visit to his\nplace a year or two ago, friends saw strawberry plants heavily laden\nwith luscious looking fruit so arranged in front of our brother's door\nas to spell out this sentence, \"God loves the earth.\"\n\n\"It seems,\" said Jee Gam once, \"as though I could recall his very\nwords, and hear the tones of his voice as he prayed for the conversion\nof his countrymen.\" It was the closing prayer of a gospel service among\nthe Chinese in Oakland. The brother who offered it was a Chinese\nmerchant of that city. Two days afterwards he was shot in his own store\nby a Chinaman because he refused to submit to blackmail. A policeman\nhastened to the spot and saw him die, and testified in court that his\nlast words were those of prayer to our true God; this testimony, though\ngiven probably by an ungodly man, being such as to draw tears from many\nwho listened. Yet some say there are no real Christian Chinamen; that\nyou can't convert a Chinaman; that they are throughout a race of\nhypocrites.\n\nIt may not be safe to say _every_ month without exception, though\nthat is the impression made upon me, but it is certainly safe to say\n_almost_ every month brings some report to me of pupils beginning\nto believe in Jesus and professing their faith in him. This extract\nfrom a letter will serve as an example: \"I have some very good news for\nyou concerning my scholars. Two of them have promised to join the\nAssociation [i.e. of Christian Chinese] next week. One of them I have\nbeen praying for especially, for nearly a year.... There are three\nmore who, I trust, are born of God, but are not yet brave enough to\ntake a stand for him. One says his brother will kill him if he joins in\nChrist's name.\" And here is a word from another teacher: \"Five of the\nbrethren unite with the church at the coming communion. I do not feel\nthat this is through my effort, as I have not known how to work\nindividually. It is the Lord that 'giveth the increase.' Two of them\nhave been ready to come into the church for a long time. The others\nshow their conversion by face and manner as well as by testimony and\nprayer.\"\n\nI fear that I have exhausted my space, though I am far from the end of\npossible \"jottings.\" I will close with a few sentences from a letter\nreceived from a Chinese Christian living at a roadside tavern beyond\nOroville. \"Since I am determined to be a Christian, has very much\nsurprised my elder brother. When he heard about I join the Association\nhe make a great deal of trouble to me. Then I ask our brothers to pray\nfor that matter, till one day I go and entreat him; also, tell him all\nabout the gospel of Christ how good for us and redeem us from our sins.\nThen he said, 'Do not talk such things to me; we are Chinese; must keep\nour customs.' I say, 'I cannot keep anything wrong; idol worship is\nagainst God. Four thousand years ago our Chinese population have no\nidol to worship. Don't you search a thing before you keep it?' Then he\nanswer: 'If good then you keep it,' and then I received baptism; then\ndo no more persecution to me afterwards.\" This extract merely hints at\nfacts which, if related, would show that for our Chinese Christians at\nleast, the days that _try_ men's souls are not yet past.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\nMISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n\nThe thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union of\nAlabama met with the Congregational Church in Marion, March 31. This\nUnion has contributed during the year to the A.M.A. for Indian work, to\nthe A.H.M.S. for Bohemian work, besides aiding a missionary in China,\nand one in South Africa. All the auxiliaries have also done good work\nin aiding the churches and the poor in their respective localities. The\nmeeting was pleasant and profitable, and the Union starts upon another\nyear with the prospect of adding greatly to its strength and\nefficiency.\n\nThe first Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Missionary Union, held at New\nOrleans, April 3, was also full of encouragement. The new interest\nawakened, simply by the gathering together to report the progress of\nthe year, indicates how much can be accomplished. Not only will the\nmissionary cause receive direct benefit, but there will be a reflex,\nhealthful influence upon the churches thus represented.\n\nThe first Annual Meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union of the Central\nSouth Association, held in Nashville, Tennessee, April 5, was in all\nrespects encouraging. One of the peculiar features of these Southern\nUnions is that the State Association is always likely to meet at a\nschool centre, as in this case at Nashville, Tennessee, and the older\nstudents thus are enthused and stimulated to missionary purpose and\nactivity, whether in the ordinary experiences of church life at home,\nor as special missionaries.\n\nThere was a good representation of auxiliaries, and encouraging word of\nnew ones soon to be received. The interest in the meeting was intense,\nand the reports from the different societies showed a deep and\nheartfelt sympathy with the cause of missions. It was very interesting\nto note how anxiously some of those who represent a people burdened\nwith poverty, planned for the work of the coming year, taking for their\nfield--the world. Considering that this Union is only a year old, its\ngrowth seems remarkable.\n\nThe question is sometimes asked, whether the Mountain girls appreciate\nthe opportunity of education that is now afforded them. We reply by\ngiving extracts from the letter of a pupil obliged to leave school. The\nletter was written to a school-mate, and is but one of many instances\nof the kind.\n\n\"MY DEAREST FRIEND:--I would have written sooner, but I thought I might\nget a chance to go to school, and that is why I have delayed so long.\nIt is impossible for me to go now, the boys are preparing 'for to make\na crap,' and I can see how much they are needed at home. We have but\none horse, and I cannot go alone. Oh! how glad I would be to see my\nteacher. I know I shall never be able to reward her for her kindness to\nme, but the Lord will reward her. I never have met the people who were\nso kind to me as those people. I still have a desire to get an\neducation; sometimes I think I will not get to go to school any more,\nbut where there is a will, there is a way, and I know I have a good\nwill. My sisters all married before they were twenty. I am twenty-two\nnow. I want an education more than I want to marry. My folks tell me I\nhave enough education, but I think I know better than they. To be sure,\nI can read and write a little, but that don't satisfy me, I have a hope\nyet that I may still get higher, that is if the Lord is willing. We\ncannot do anything unless the Lord is willing and will help us. Give my\nlove to all the girls. Please write and tell me about the school.\nRemember me in your prayers.\n\nYour true friend, ---- ----.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOUR YOUNG FOLKS.\n\n\n_Dear Children_:--The first morning I entered my school-room\nSouth, such a mass of little dark faces as greeted me! At first it\nseemed so strange to me, they all looked alike, but in a short time I\nwas able to pick out Simon, and Tommy, and Mollie, and Janie. Most of\nthem want to learn, and are quite tidy in their appearance. One of the\nexercises they enjoy most is the singing. It would be hard to find a\ncolored boy or girl who does not sing, and many of them have very sweet\nvoices. They are able to sing the alto with very little practice. It\noften surprises me to find how well they keep their parts. One day we\nhad a very severe shower, and it was so dark we could not see the\nblack-boards or see to work, so I let them sing for nearly an hour. All\nover the building, if you could have visited the different rooms, you\nwould have enjoyed listening to them. One of their own pieces which\nthey like to sing, is \"Roll, Jordan, roll.\" They pronounce it \"Jurdon.\"\n\nMany of the parents are working very hard to give their children an\neducation, and I am glad to say that the children themselves are glad\nto learn. One little girl said, \"I've got on a _terrible_ bad\nlooking shoe, and the big girls out doors were laughing at me\nyesterday, but I thought I'd rather come to school with the bad shoe,\nthan stay away a day and not come at all. I pray every day that God\nwill help me to do right and be a good girl in school. Last night papa\nwas out of a job, and I prayed that he might get another one, and now\nhe's got another one.\" Then looking at her shoes, she said: \"I'd rather\nwear these ragged shoes than not to pay for my schooling at all.\"\n\nAnd now, children, will you come with me for a little drive? We are\ngoing in a phaeton with our good horse, Maud. We drive about a mile out\nof the city, cross a little bridge, and finally drive through a\ngateway. The ground is sandy, in some places so white that it almost\nreminds one of snow. The trees are still green. Our attention is\nattracted by a procession moving slowly forward. There is one carriage\nand the friends, men and women, are walking. The words they are\nchanting show it to be a funeral procession. Every one wears a green\nbadge, for most all the colored people belong to some order. Finally\nthey come to a stop and gather about the grave. The mourners break out\ninto a wail, and they begin to chant the words: \"And must my trembling\nspirit glide into a world unknown?\" The chant I can never describe, for\nthere is no music in it, and we cannot distinguish any tune. Then the\nminister preaches, and they begin another chant. Let us look around a\nlittle. I am sure you are already interested and surprised at what you\nsee. Here is a group of three little graves; on one, we find three\ndolls' heads, a quantity of shells, marbles, dishes and other toys with\nwhich the children used to play. On another, is a tin kitchen, a bell,\na doll in a chair, a marble under a sugar-bowl cover, and part of a\ntea-set. On another, that of a grown person, is a long pipe with a\npaper of tobacco, medicine boxes with powders. A little further away we\nfind one on which is a tooth-brush, ten medicine bottles, two lamps, a\nbasket filled with sand, vases, tumblers, a toy boat made out of bark,\nand pieces of glassware. Among other decorations we find a ball and\nbat, pitchers, bits of colored glass, pill boxes, teapots, etc. But it\nis already growing dark, and Maud is anxious to start; I think you have\nseen enough to make you wonder at the curious customs, and I am sure\nthat you want to help them to know a better way.\n\nOne day a little girl said to her teacher: \"I got religion last night.\"\nShall I tell you just here, something of what they mean by \"getting\nreligion?\" It means bad air, late hours, shouting, screaming, and\ngeneral excitement. Sometimes they sit for hours, and go night after\nnight saying over and over the same words. When they finally do \"get\nreligion,\" they jump up and shout, and run about the church, falling\ninto the arms of those standing nearest. I think the children are\nlooking for some strange experience. They expect, from what they are\ntaught, to see some vision, or hear some voice. I try to show them the\nsimple way of salvation by just taking Jesus at his word.\n\nAnd now let us turn to a brighter scene. One Sunday about a month ago,\nour pastor preached a sermon, which led us to feel that the Lord was\nespecially near us, and that we had only to do our part to receive an\noutpouring of God's Spirit. Some of us agreed to pray for this. Then we\nbegan to pray for our scholars, and to invite them to our meetings. At\nfirst only a few came, but more kept coming every night, and we kept\nbringing in seats, until the mission room was so full we had to change\nto the large hall up stairs. Every night some would rise for prayers,\nand we would stay and talk with them quietly, and try to show them the\nway to Jesus. I think there are about forty now, who have expressed a\ndesire to live a Christian life. Many of them are children and young\npeople. Four are boys in my Sabbath-school class. We have held prayer\nmeetings for this after school, and many are glad to come. About twenty\njoined our Christian Endeavor Society as active members, at our last\nconsecration meeting.\n\nAnd now, dear children, do you know that this is all given us in answer\nto prayer? We have simply asked and received. I knew that the home\nfriends were praying for us. Their prayers are a constant help. Will\nyou not pray this month that these little ones may be kept from\nfalling, and that they may grow to be bright and shining lights in the\nworld, to lead their own people out of the darkness of sin and\nignorance?\n\nSincerely your friend,\n\nMINNIE T. STROUT.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.\n\nCO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n\nMAINE.\n\nWOMAN'S AID TO A.M.A.\n\n  Chairman of Committee--Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.\n\n\nVERMONT.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. A.B. Swift, 167 King St., Burlington.\n  Secretary--Mrs. E.C. Osgood, 14 First Ave., Montpelier.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.\n\n\n[A]MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n  President--Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, Cambridge, Mass.\n  Secretary--Miss Nathalie Lord, 32 Congregational House, Boston.\n  Treasurer--Miss Ella A. Leland, 32 Congregational House, Boston.\n\n\nCONNECTICUT.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. Francis B. Cooley, Hartford.\n  Secretary--Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St., Hartford.\n\n\nNEW YORK.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., Brooklyn.\n  Secretary--Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 6 Salmon Block, Syracuse.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. L.H. Cobb, 59 Bible House, New York City.\n\n\nOHIO.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President Mrs. J.G.W. Cowles, 417 Sibley St., Cleveland.\n  Secretary--Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. F.L. Fairchild, Box 932, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.\n\n\nINDIANA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. C.B. Safford, Elkhart.\n  Secretary--Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. C. Evans, Indianapolis.\n\n\nILLINOIS.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, 409 Orchard St., Chicago.\n  Secretary--Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Champaign.\n\n\nIOWA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  Presidents--Mrs. T.O. Douglass, Grinnell.\n  Secretary--Miss Ella E. Marsh, Box 232, Grinnell.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. M.J. Nichoson, 1513 Main St., Dubuque.\n\n\nMICHIGAN.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. George M. Lane, 47 Miami Ave., Detroit.\n  Secretary--Mrs. Leroy Warren, Lansing.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Greenville.\n\n\nWISCONSIN.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. H.A. Miner, Madison.\n  Secretary--Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. C.C. Keeler, Beloit.\n\n\nMINNESOTA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.\n\n  President--Mrs. E.S. Williams, Box 464, Minneapolis.\n  Secretary--Miss Gertude A. Keith, 1350 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. M.W. Skinner, Northfield.\n\n\nNORTH DAKOTA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.\n\n  President--Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight.\n  Secretary--Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo.\n\n\nSOUTH DAKOTA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdle.\n  Secretary--Mrs. T.M. Jeffris, Huron.\n  Treasurer--Miss A.A. Noble, Lake Preston.\n\n\nNEBRASKA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. T.H. Leavitt, 1216 H. St., Lincoln\n  Secretary--Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 No. Broad St., Fremont.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. D.E. Perry, Crete.\n\n\nMISSOURI.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. A.W. Benedict, 3841 Delmar Ave., St. Louis.\n  Secretary--Mrs. E.H. Bradbury, 3865 Washington Ave., St Louis.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. A.E. Cook, 4145 Bell Ave., St. Louis.\n\n\nKANSAS.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.\n\n  President--Mrs. F.J. Storrs, Topeka.\n  Secretary--Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. J.G. Dougherty, Ottawa.\n\n\nCOLORADO AND WYOMING.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. J.W. Pickett, White Water, Colorado.\n  Secretary--Miss Mary L. Martin, 106 Platte Ave., Colorado Springs,\n       Colorado.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. S.A. Sawyer, Boulder, Colorado.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. W.L. Whipple, Cheyenne, Wyoming.\n\n\nWASHINGTON.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n  President--Mrs. W.E. Dawson, Seattle.\n  Secretary--Mrs. N.F. Cobleigh, Walla Walla.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. W.R. Abrams, Ellensburg.\n\n\nSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. Elijah Cash, 927 Temple St., Los Angeles.\n  Secretary--Mrs. H.K.W. Bent, Box 426, Pasadena.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. H.W. Mills, So. Olive St., Los Angeles.\n\n\nCALIFORNIA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.\n\n  President--Mrs. H.L. Merritt, 686 34th St., Oakland.\n  Secretary--Miss Grace E. Barnard, 677 21st. St., Oakland.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. J.M. Havens, 13239 Harrison St., Oakland.\n\n\nLOUISIANA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. R.C. Hitchcock, New Orleans.\n  Secretary--Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Hammond.\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. A.F. Whiting, Tougaloo.\n  Secretary--Miss Sarah J. Humphrey, Tougaloo.\n  Treasurer--Miss S.L. Emerson, Tougaloo.\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. H.W. Andrews, Talladega.\n  Secretary--Miss S.S. Evans, 2519 Third Ave., Birmingham.\n  Treasurer--Miss M.K. Lunt, Selma.\n\n\nFLORIDA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. S.F. Gale, Jacksonville.\n  Secretary--Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. L.C. Partridge, Longwood.\n\n\nTENNESSEE AND ARKANSAS.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION.\n\n  President--Mrs. E.M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn.\n  Secretary--Miss A.M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. G.S. Pope, Grand View, Tenn.\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Miss E. Plimpton, Chapel Hill.\n  Secretary--Miss A.E. Farrington, Raleigh.\n  Treasurer--Miss Lovey Mayo, Raleigh.\n\n\nTEXAS.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. S.C. Acheson, 149 W. Woodard St., Denison.\n  Secretary--Mrs. Mary A. McCoy, 122 No. Harwood St., Dallas.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. C.I. Scofield, Dallas.\n\n[Footnote A: For the purpose of exact information, we note that\nwhile the W.H.M.A. appears in this list as a State body for Mass.\nand R.I., it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.\n\nWe would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State\nMissionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association\nbe sent to use through the treasurers of the Union. Care, however,\nshould be taken to designate the money as for the American Missionary\nAssociation, since _undesignated funds will not reach us_.]\n\n        *        *        *        *        *\n\nRECEIPTS FOR APRIL, 1890.\n\n\nTHE DANIEL HAND FUND,\n\n_For the Education of Colored People._\n\nFROM\n\nMr. Daniel Hand, Guilford, Conn.\n\n\nIncome for April, 1890                                       $960.00\nIncome previously acknowledged                              7,489.85\n                                                           ---------\nTotal                                                      $8,449.85\n                                                           =========\n\n\nCURRENT RECEIPTS\n\n\nMAINE, $175.41.\n\nBangor. Central Ch., 10; Hammond St. Ch., 3.25,\n  for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.                                     13.25\n\nBelfast. First Cong. Ch.                                       23.54\n\nBrewer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               22.40\n\nCastine. Y.P.S.C.E., 3.73, and Garments; Helen J.\n  Webster, 2; \"Rainbow Band,\" 1.25, and Sewing Bags,\n  _for Student Aid, Chandler Normal Sch._                       6.98\n\nFalmouth. Second Cong. Ch., _for freight to N.C._               2.00\n\nGorham. Childrens Miss'y Soc. in Cong. Ch., _for\n  Sherwood, Tenn._                                             12.25\n\nHiram. \"Friends,\" by Mrs. J.P. Hubbard, 10; Mrs J.P.\n  Hubbard, 5, _for Williamsburg, Ky._                          15.00\n\nSouth Berwick. Two Sab. Sch. Classes, by   Mrs. K.B.\nLewis, _for Indian M._                                          2.34\n\nWells. \"A Friend.\"                                              1.00\n\nWoman's Aid to A.M.A., by Mrs. C.A. Woodbury,\n  _for Woman's Work_: Alfred. Cong. Ch.,\n  to const. Mrs. Laura A. Littlefield L.M.          30.00\n\n  Portland. Ladies' Circle of Second Parish\n  Ch., _for Acres Memorial Room, Selma,\n  Ala._                                             46.65\n\n                                                    -----      76.65\n\n\nNEW HAMPSHIRE, $657.68.\n\nAmherst Cong. Ch.                                              17.30\n\nAtkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc., bal. to const Ambrose\n  D. Aldrich L.M.                                              22.47\n\nCanaan. Miss Mary A. George                                     5.00\n\nDurham. Cong. Ch., in part                                      7.00\n\nEpping. Cong. Ch., 30.42; Mrs. G.N. Shepard's S.S.\n  Class, 3.25.                                                 33.67\n\nEpping. Pansy Circle, Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid,\n  Williamsburg Academy, Ky._                                   15.00\n\nExeter. Second Cong. Ch.                                      234.00\n\nGorham. Cong. Ch.                                               5.00\n\nHopkinton. Mrs. M.G. Barnard to const. Mary E.\n  Barnard L.M.                                                 30.00\n\nHudson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                     11.00\n\nKeene. Dea. Metcalf's Sab. Sch. Class, First Cong. Ch.          5.00\n\nKeene. Mrs. K.C. Thayer, _for Pleasant Hill. Tenn._            15.00\n\nLaconia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                    50.27\n\nLittleton. Cong. Ch., 8.34; John Farr, 5                       13.34\n\nMeriden. Cong. Ch.                                             14.00\n\nMount Vernon. Cong. Ch.                                        15.00\n\nNashua. First Cong. Ch.                                        25.40\n\nPembroke. First Cong. Soc.                                     20.75\n\nPenacook. Jeremiah C. Martin.                                   5.00\n\nTilton. Cong. Ch.                                              25.00\n\nWest Concord. Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. C.F. Roper L.M.        34.00\n\nWest Concord. Y.L.M. Soc., by Mrs. Bertha R. Roper,\n  _for Storrs Sch._ and to const. Miss Hattie\n  B. Holmes L.M.                                               30.00\n\nWest Lebanon. Cong. Ch.                                        24.48\n\n\nVERMONT, $197.26.\n\nBethel First Cong. Ch., 3.37; Y.P.S.C.E., by Lucy M.\n  Graham, Treas., 1.75                                          5.12\n\nBrandon. Cong. Ch.                                             10.00\n\nBrattleboro. Central Cong. Ch.                                112.61\n\nBrattleboro. Mrs. F.C. Rice, _for Student Aid,\n  Talladega C._                                                10.00\n\nCornwall. _For freight to McIntosh, Ga._                        1.50\n\nDerby Center. Mrs. R.C. Drisko, Bbl. of C., Freight, 2.,\n  _for McIntosh Ga._                                            2.00\n\nDorset. Cong. Ch.                                              16.00\n\nEssex Junction. Cong. Ch., _for Freight to\n  McIntosh, Ga._                                                1.80\n\nEast Dummerston. Mrs. A.A. Dutton, Box of C. _for\n  Mclntosh Ga._\n\nJohnson. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 25 Hymn Books _for\n  Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nMontpelier. \"F.E.B.\"                                            1.00\n\nNewport. First Cong. Ch.                                       15.08\n\nPutney. Ladies' Aid Soc., Bbl of C., _for McIntosh Ga._\n\nSaint Johnsbury. Sab. Sch. Class, North Cong. Ch., _for\n  Indian Sch'p_                                                 5.00\n\nSwanton. C.C. Long                                             10.00\n\nWest Westminster. Mrs. H.A. Goodhue, _for Freight to\n  McIntosh, Ga._                                                1.15\n\nWilliamstown. \"A Friend.\"                                       6.00\n\nWorcester. James F. Smith, Box of S.S. Papers, _for\n  McIntosh, Ga._\n\n\nMASSACHUSETTS, $7,310.40.\n\nAmherst. Ladies, by Mrs. H.L. Hubbell, _for Student Aid,\n  Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                                   20.00\n\nAmherst. First Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_                   9.00\n\nAmherst. Mrs. J.C. Bryant, _for Atlanta U._                     5.00\n\nAndover. Phillips Academy, _for Pleasant Hill. Tenn._          25.00\n\nArlington. Ortho. Cong. Ch.                                    46.19\n\nBedford. H.B. Doland, _for Home, Wilmington N.C._              14.00\n\nBerlin. Cong. Ch., 8.50; Y.P.S.C.E., 7.50; Sab. Sch., 4.,\n  _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._                              20.00\n\nBoston. Central Cong. Ch.                                     948.20\n  Old South Cong. Ch., in Part                 310.59\n\n  \"Felice Circle of King's Daughters\" Mount\n    Vernon Ch., _for Williamsburg Academy,\n    Ky._ and to const. Miss Alma Holmes,\n    Miss Anna Norris, Miss Lucy Brown and\n    Miss L.H. Maxwell L.M.'s                   125.00\n\n  Chas. H. Rutan, _for Student Aid,\n    Pleasant Hill Academy, Tenn._               67.50\n\n  W.H.M.S., Park St. Ch. _for Student\n    Aid Straight U._                            54.00\n\n  Mrs. Susan C. Warren, _for Jewett\n    Memorial Hall, Grand View, Tenn._           25.00\n\n  C.A. Hopkins, _for Pleasant Hill,\n    Tenn._                                      36.75\n\n  Mrs. Woodbridge Odlin, _for Freight to\n    Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                        5.10\n\n  Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch.                 122.92\n\n  Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. F. Ch.              24.68\n\n  Miss Almira C. Wilkins, 5; Mrs. M.\n    Houston, 3, _for Girl's Hall,\n    Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                        8.00\n\n  Jamaica Plain. \"A Friend,\" _for Indian\n    M., Grand River, S.D._                       4.50\n\n  Roxbury. Immanuel Ch., 22; Walnut Av.\n    Cong. Ch., 13.50; _for Stoves,\n    Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._          35.50\n\n  Highland. Cong. Ch., _for\n      Williamsburg Academy, Ky._                15.30\n\n  West Roxbury. Sab. Sch. of South Evan.\n    Ch. _for Tougaloo U._ and to\n    const. Abner J. Nutter L.M.                 30.00\n\n  South Evan. Ch. and Soc.                      17.94\n\n                                                -----       1,830.98\n\nBrookfield. Cong. Ch.                                          12.49\n\nBrookline. Howard Cong. Ch.                                   104.34\n\nBrockton. Porter Cong. Ch.                                     15.00\n\nBrockton. Joseph Hewitt                                         5.00\n\nCambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                               87.79\n\nCambridgeport. \"Scatter Good Circle,\" of Pilgrim Ch.\n  _for Freight to Beaufort, N.C._                               2.00\n\nChelsea. First Cong. Ch.                                       20.00\n\nClinton. Cong. Ch. _for Academy, Williamsburg, Ky._            80.85\n\nColerain. Mrs. P.B. Smith.                                      5.00\n\nConcord. Trin. Cong. Ch.                                       26.47\n\nCotuit. Union Ch.                                              10.00\n\nDanvers. Webster F. Putnam.                                    68.54\n\nDedham. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid,\n  Straight U._                                                 25.00\n\nDighton. Miss M.F. Aiken, _for Girl's Hall, Pleasant\n  Hill, Tenn._                                                  5.00\n\nEast Dennis. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n  Fisk U._                                                      5.00\n\nEast Somerville. First Orthdox Cong. Ch.                       82.93\n\nEast Weymouth. Ladies, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._              25.00\n\nFall River. Central Cong. Ch., 33; Third Cong. Ch., 16.65.     49.65\n\nFall River. Y.W.C.T.U., Package Papers, _for\n  Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nFlorence. Florence Cong. Ch.                                   22.38\n\nFramingham. George Nourse.                                     10.00\n\nGeorgetown. \"S,\" _for Sherwood, Tenn._                         10.00\n\nGloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch., \"A Friend,\" by Rev. R.P.\n  Hibbard                                                      25.00\n\nGrafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              53.68\n\nGranby. Cong. Ch.                                              10.00\n\nGreenfield. Second Cong. Ch.                                   37.58\n\nGreenwich Village. Mrs. M.A. Sibley                             1.00\n\nHanson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                      7.99\n\nHolliston. \"Bible Christians.\"                                100.00\n\nHolliston. Mrs. S.E. Walker, _for Student Aid,\n  Fisk U._                                                      2.00\n\nHopkinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill,\n  Tenn._                                                       34.50\n\nHopkinton. Mrs. J.P. Crooks. B. of C. _for Williamsburg,\n  Ky._\n\nIndian Orchard. Willing Helpers, _for\n  Williamsburg, Ky._                                           12.00\n\nIpswich. First Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_                  23.32\n\nLawrence. Mrs. A.J. Doland, Table Spread, Val. 3, _for\n  Home, Wilmington, N.C._\n\nLeicester. First Cong. Ch.                                     17.70\n\nLeominster. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Ortho. Cong.\n Ch., 25; F.J. Lathrop, 5, _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._     30.00\n\nLowell. Sab. Sch. High St. Ch., _for Mountain Work,\n  support of a boy and girl_, and to const. Mrs. Frank\n  N. Chase and Mrs. Ephraim Brown. L.M.'s.                     60.00\n\nLowell. Eliot Ch. to const. Miss Helen A. Ward L.M.            44.19\n\nLynn. Central Ch., 31; Miss A.E. Knowles, 15c.                 31.15\n\nMilford. \"Friends,\" _for Student Aid, Talladega C._             4.00\n\nMillbury. First Cong. Ch.                                      45.12\n\nMonterey. Cong. Ch.                                            24.00\n\nNatick. Primary Dep't, Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., 10;\n  Cong. Ch., 8.05                                              18.05\n\nNewton. Eliot Ch., 150. First Cong. Ch., 83.30; Miss Mary\n  Calkins' S.S. Class, North Village Ch., 5.                  238.30\n\nNewton. J.W. Davis, _for Stereopticon Slides_                   5.00\n\nNorfolk. Union Cong. Ch.                                        3.00\n\nNorton. Mrs. E.B. Wheaton, to const. Arthur M. Round and\n  William E. Robbins, L.M.'s.                                  60.00\n\nNorthamptom. A.L. Williston, 300; First Cong. Ch., 226.92     526.92\n\nNorth Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     77.28\n\nNorth Brookfield. Union Cong. Ch., 7; Y.P.S.C.E., 5,\n  _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._                              12.00\n\nNorthfield. Miss'y Soc. of Northfield Sem., _for\n  Indian M._                                                   25.00\n\nPeabody. \"Friends.\" 3 Boxes Books, _for Lathrop Library,\n  Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nPeru. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                                    9.50\n\nPittsfield. South Ch. and Soc.                                 49.20\n\nPittsfield. Ladies, _for Girl's Hall, Pleasant\n  Hill, Tenn._                                                 10.00\n\nPittsfield. \"A Member of South Ch.\"                             5.00\n\nPittsfield. M.A. Bissell, 2; S.S. Bissell, 2; _for\n  Mountain Work_                                                4.00\n\nSalem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc.                                217.01\n\nShelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            14.25\n\nSomerville. Broadway Cong. Ch.                                 26.57\n\nSomerville. Young Ladies' Mission Circle of Franklin St.\n  Ch., _for Indian M., Santee Agency, Neb._                    20.00\n\nSouthampton. Mrs. Edwards, deceased, by her son,\n  Rev. H.L. Edwards.                                            5.00\n\nSouth Easton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                           16.80\n\nSouth Easton. Cong. Ch., 38.68; Young Men's Class, 30,\n  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   68.68\n\nSouth Framingham. Grace Cong. Ch., (50 of which _for\n  Williamsburg Academy, Ky._)                                 217.50\n\nSouth Framingham. Fred. Folger, 5; Ethel Cutler, Albert J.\n  Dutton, Jr., Mabel Sykes, 5; on \"True Blue\" card             10.00\n\nSouth Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch.                               25.50\n\nSpringfield. South Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg\n  Academy, Ky._                                                20.00\n\nTaunton. Union Cong. Ch.                                        8.48\n\nUpton. Cong. Ch., B. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._\n\nWaltham. Trinity Cong. Ch.                                     10.17\n\nWare. \"Little Sunbeams,\" _for Indian M. Birds Nest,\n  Santee Agency, Neb._                                         25.00\n\nWatertown. Phillips Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. Edward C.\n  Porter and Alfred E. Turner L.M.'s.                         107.08\n\nWest Boxford. Cong. Ch.                                         6.85\n\nWestford. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             19.50\n\nWest Medford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant\n  Hill, Tenn._                                                 30.00\n\nWest Medway. Second Cong. Ch., 9.25, and Sab. Sch., 7.70\n  (2 of which _for Student Aid, Fisk U._)                      16.95\n\nWest Medway. \"Friends,\" _for Student Aid, Fisk U._              8.00\n\nWest Newton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student\n  Aid, Fisk U._                                                10.00\n\nWestport. Cong. Ch.                                            20.00\n\nWilmington. Cong. Ch.                                          17.17\n\nWinchendon. George L. Beals and Nancy Norcross Beals,\n  deceased, by C.L. Beals and C.L.B. Whitney, _for\n  the establishment of Beals Library, Williamsburg,\n  Academy, Ky._                                               500.00\n\nWinchester. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._                   51.00\n\nWorcester. Central Cong. Ch., 136; Old South Ch., Dea.\n  Alfred Holden, 5.                                           141.00\n\nWorcester. G. Henry Whitcomb. _for Tougaloo U._                35.00\n\nWorcester. Ladies of Union Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_       13.00\n\nWorcester. Benev. Soc. Plymouth Ch., Box of C.; Sab. Sch.\n  Piedmont Ch., Books, Canned fruit, etc., _for\n  Jellico, Tenn._\n\nWorcester. Rev. T.W. Thompson, Box of Books, _for\n  Lathrop Library, Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nYarmouth. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 22.67; Rev. J.W. Dodge\n  and Wife, 12.33; Sewing Circle, 20; _for Pleasant\n  Hill, Tenn._                                                 55.00\n\n----. \"A Friend\"                                               25.00\n\nHampden Benevolent Association, by Charles Marsh,\n  Treasurer:\n    South Hadley Falls                          11.46\n    Springfield. South                          60.31\n    West Springfield. First, to\n      const. B.W. Colton L.M.                   40.00\n\n                                                -----         111.77\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Association, by Miss Ella A.\n  Leland, Treasurer, _for Woman's Work_:\n    _For Salary of Teachers_ (10 of\n        which bal. to const. Mrs.\n        Elizabeth K. Chapman L.M.)             440.00\n    Boston. Union Ch. Aux., _for\n      Sch'p, Tougaloo U._                      100.00\n    Newton. Mr. Cobb's S.S.\n      Class Eliot Ch.                            6.25\n\n                                                -----         546.25\n                                                           ---------\n\n                                                           $6,711.55\n\n\nESTATE.\n\nWeymouth. Estate of Dea. Jacob Loud, by John J. Loud, Ex.     598.85\n                                                           ---------\n\n                                                           $7,310.40\n\n\nCLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT THE BOSTON OFFICE.\n\nCambridgeport, Mass. \"Scatter Good Circle,\" Pilgrim Ch.,\n  2 Boxes, _for Beaufort, N.C._\n\nDorchester, Mass. Mrs. G.H. Guetin, 2 Boxes\n\nNewton, Mass. Eliot Ch., Mrs. M.T. Vincent, 2 Boxes;\n  Goodell Young Ladies Ass'n, 1 Bbl; Freedmen's Aid\n  Sewing Circle, Case and Package; _for Sherwood,\n  Tenn._ J.W. Davis, Books and Papers, _for Jellico,\n  Tenn._\n\nWilmington, Mass. \"Snow Birds,\" 1 Bbl., _for Gregory\n  Inst., Wilmington, N.C._\n\n\nRHODE ISLAND, $108.30.\n\nCentral Falls. Cong. Ch.                                       50.80\n\nProvidence. W.H.M.A. of North Ch., _for Indian M.\n  Santee Agency, Neb._                                         50.00\n\nProvidence. Y.P.S.C.E. of North Cong. Ch., _for\n  Grand View, Tenn._                                            7.50\n\n\nCONNECTICUT, $3,349.23.\n\nBantam. Miss Cornelia Bradley, _for Mountain Work_             10.00\n\nBlack Rock. Young Ladies' Guild, Box of C., _for\n  Thomasville, Ga._\n\nBridgeport. Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch., 25;\n  Y.P.S.C.E. of Park St Ch., 8.02.                             33.02\n\nBridgeport. Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch., _for Indian\n  Sch'p_                                                       17.50\n\nBridgeport. Ladies of South Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.\n  Val., 55.41, _for Santee Agency, Neb._\n\nBridgewater. Cong. Ch.                                         13.40\n\nBristol. Cong. Ch.                                             25.00\n\nCanaan. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                                      21.22\n\nChester. Cong. Ch.                                             16.65\n\nCollinsville. Mrs. M.A. Warren, _for\n  Charleston, S.C._                                             2.00\n\nColumbia. \"Friends,\" _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nDanielsonville. Thomas Backus (5 of which _for\n  Indian M._)                                                  10.00\n\nDarien. Cong. Ch.                                              32.00\n\nDurham. Cong. Ch.                                              10.85\n\nEast Hartford. First Ch.                                       20.00\n\nEast Haven. Cong. Ch.                                          12.00\n\nHartford. \"Friends\" In Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., _for\n  Indian M._                                                    5.00\n\nHarwington. Cong. Ch.                                          23.80\n\nHuntington. Ladies' Soc., by Miss Eleanor L. Wooster,\n  _for Conn. Ind'l. Sch. Ga._                                   7.50\n\nMansfield Center. Elliot H. Marsh, M.D.                        10.00\n\nMiddletown. Y.P.S.C.E. of Bethany Chapel, by\n  Edward P. Wilcox, Sec.                                        1.25\n\nNaugatuck. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n  Fisk U._                                                     25.00\n\nNaugatuck. Miss Maggie Platt, _for Tougaloo U._                 5.00\n\nNew Haven. Ch. of the Redeemer, 178.35; Rev. S.W.\n  Barnum, 5 Copies \"Romanism As It Is\"; Sab. Sch. Ch.\n  of the Redeemer, _for Indian Sch'p_, 20.                    198.35\n\nNew Haven. Prof. E.E. Salisbury                                50.00\n\nNew Haven. Young Ladies' Mission Circle of United Ch.,\n  _for Sch'p, Indian Sch., Santee Agency, Neb._                50.00\n\nNew London. First Cong. Ch.                                    55.86\n\nNew Preston. Cong. Ch.                                         42.50\n\nNorth Woodstock. Ladies and Sab. Sch., _for Conn.\n  Ind'l Sch., Ga._                                             17.50\n\nNorwich. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.                         21.72\n\nPlainville. Cong. Ch., to const. Miss Emily Dresser, Miss\n  Hattie Hough and Miss Daisy Crissey L.M.'s.                  95.00\n\nPlantsville. Cong. Ch.                                         79.41\n\nPoquonock. Cong. Ch.                                           35.21\n\nPutnam. Sab. Sen. of Second Cong. Ch., _for Student\n  Aid, Fisk U._                                                25.00\n\nPutnam. Second Cong. Ch.                                       11.38\n\nSomerville. Cong. Ch.                                          22.00\n\nSouth Coventry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       38.94\n\nSouthington. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._              50.00\n\nSouthport. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M., Cape Prince of\n  Wales, Alaska_                                             2010.00\n\nSuffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                   19.18\n\nTerryville. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_            17.50\n\nTolland. Lucy L. Clough.                                       10.00\n\nWapping. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._               10.69\n\nWashington. Cong. Ch. _for Mountain Work_                      18.00\n\nWethersfield. Mrs. M.S. Tillotson, Bbl. of Books, _for\n  Tillotson C. & N. Inst._\n\nWhitneyvllle. Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. C.A.\n  Dinsmore L.M.                                                45.52\n\nWillington. Cong. Ch.                                           2.00\n\nWindsor. First Cong. Ch.                                       25.00\n\nWoodstock. Miss F. Butler, Pkg. of C., _for\n  Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nWoman's Home Mission'y Union of Conn.,\n  by Mrs. D. Wilder Smith, Sec.,\n  _for Woman's Work_:\n    Chaplin. Ladies' Soc.                       15.00\n    Columbia. Mission Circle\n      _for Conn. Ind'l. Sch., Ga._             10.00\n    Griswold. Aux.                              10.00\n    Higganum. By Mrs. J.G.\n      Hubbard, _for Conn. Ind'l.\n      Sch., Ga._                                10.00\n    Kensington. Eunonean Soc.                    2.50\n    Suffield. Young Ladies M.C.                 12.50\n                                                -----          60.00\n\nESTATE.\n\nDarien. Correction.--Estate of Rev. Ezra D. Kinney, 100;\nack. in May number, should read \"for the benefit of those\nwho were lately slaves.\"\n\n\nNEW YORK. $2,913.16.\n\nAmsterdam. D. Cady                                             10.00\n\nAquebogue. Box of C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nBrasher Falls. Mrs. Eliza A. Bell, in memory of her\n  father, Elijah Wood, deceased                               243.53\n\nBrooklyn. The Church of the Pilgrims (of which W.F.\n  Merrill, 50; S.B. Chiltenden, 30; J.S. Stanton, 30.\n  to const. themselves L.M.'s., and Charles A. Hull,\n  30. to const. Miss Amelia H. Benjamin L.M.)                 780.51\n\nBrooklyn. South Cong. Ch., 63.97; Atlantic Av. Sab. Sch.\n  Miss'y. Ass'n. by A.C. Pohl, Treas., 25; Miss H.M.\n  Wiggins, 50 cents                                            89.47\n\nBrooklyn. Miss M.A. Hall's Bible Class, 10; Lee Av.\n  Cong. Sab. Sch., 7, and Infant Class, 10; Park Av. M.E.\n  Ch., 9; Miss Morrison, 4; Wm. Graham, 1; John\n  Writenoner, 1, _for Williamsburg, Ky._                       42.00\n\nBrooklyn. \"A Friend,\" _for Industrial work,\n  Lexington, Ky._                                               5.00\n\nBuffalo. \"R.W.B.,\" _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._               50.00\n\nChittenango. Mrs. Amelia L. Brown                               7.00\n\nEast Rockaway. Bethany Cong. Ch.                               12.00\n\nFillmore. L.L. Nourse                                           9.00\n\nFlushing. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for the Freedmen_           40.00\n\nFredonia. \"Friend,\" _for Williamsburg, Ky._                     5.00\n\nFredonia. Presb. Ch.                                            4.30\n\nJefferson. Mrs. S. Ruliffson                                    3.50\n\nLawrenceville. Lucius Hulburd                                   5.00\n\nLowville. Mrs. L.C. Hough, to const. Mrs. Salmon\n  Crandall L.M.                                                30.00\n\nMaine. First Cong. Ch.                                         13.71\n\nMarcellus. Mrs. L. Hemenway, to const. Josephine\n  Hemenway L.M.                                                31.00\n\nMarion. Cong. Ch.                                               5.00\n\nNewark Valley. Y.L. Miss'y. Soc., Box C., _for\n  Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nNew York. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 115.18; Mrs. Susie Dez\n  Arnauld, 30; Broadway Tabernacle, F.K. Trowbridge, 25;\n  Madison Sq. Presb. Ch. Mrs. Caroline L. Smith, 10; George\n  S. Hickok, 10                                               190.18\n\nNew York. Mrs. H.B. Spelman, _for Student Aid,\n  Atlanta U._                                                  25.00\n\nNew York. Sab. Sch. Class Broadway Tabernacle, by Miss\n  E. Agnew, _for Student Aid, Williamsburg Academy, Ky._        9.14\n\nNew York. Joseph Wild, Books, _for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nOswego Falls. \"Willing Workers\" Cong. Ch., _for Gregory\n  Inst., Wilmington, N.C._                                      3.50\n\nPekin. Abigail Peck                                            15.00\n\nSherburne. First Cong. Ch., to const Mrs. Frances A.\n  Morgan and Mrs. Maggie Buchanan L.M.'s                       60.00\n\nSuspension Bridge. First Cong. Ch.                             17.90\n\nSyracuse. Plym. Cong. Ch., 15; Mrs. Clara C. Clarke, 8.        23.00\n\nVerona. E. Day                                                 10.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H.\n  Cobb, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:\n\n  Albany. Ladies' Aux. Clinton Av.\n    Cong. Ch.                                    5.00\n\n  Brooklyn. Ladies' Willing Aid Soc.           100.00\n\n  Buffalo. First Cong. Ch.                      25.00\n\n  Brooklyn. Class 35, Sab. Sch. of\n    Puritan Ch.                                 12.00\n\n  Brooklyn. Boys' and Girls' Mission Band\n    Central Ch.                                 10.00\n\n  Clifton Springs. Mrs. W.W. Warner              1.00\n\n  Homer. Mrs. C. Hitchcock, 5;\n    Mrs. B.W. Payne, 5                          10.00\n\n  Honeoye. Ladies' Aux.                         20.00\n\n  Ithaca. Ladies' Aux. and Ch. Coll.            94.00\n\n  Jamestown. Woman's H.M. Aux, _for\n    Student Aid, Tillotson Inst_, and\n    bal. to const. Mrs. A.M. Towle L.M.         15.00\n\n  Newark Valley. Ladies' Aux.                   20.00\n\n  Oswego. Ladies' Aux.                          20.00\n\n  Poughkeepsie. Ladies' Aux.                    20.00\n\n  Syracuse. Woman's Christian Assn.,\n    Plym. Ch., to const. Mrs. M.E. Kendall\n    L.M.                                        50.00\n\n  Syracuse. Primary Dept. Plym. Ch.\n    Sab. Sch.                                   20.00\n\n  West Groton. Y.P. Mission Circle. _for\n    Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                   20.00\n\n  Westmoreland. Ladies' Aux 14.53;\n    Y.P.S.C.E., 6                               20.53\n\n  Woman's Home Missionary Union                122.29\n                                               ------         584.82\n                                                           ---------\n                                                           $2,323.56\n\n\nESTATE.\n\nWaverly. Estate of Phebe Hepburne                             589.60\n                                                           ---------\n                                                           $2,913.16\n\n\nNEW JERSEY, $163.90.\n\nBound Brook. \"Pilgrim workers,\" _for Indian M. Santee\n  Agency, Neb._                                                20.00\n\nLyons Parms. Fred W.C. Crane. bal. to const. himself L.M.      10.00\n\nNewark. Loyal Circle of King's Daughters, by Kate L.\n  Hamilton,_for Williamsburg, Ky._                              3.00\n\nOrange Valley. Cong. Ch.                                       80.90\n\nRoselle. \"A Friend.\"                                           50.00\n\nWestfield. Young People's Union, Box of Books\n\n\nPENNSYLVANIA, $505.00.\n\nPhiladelphia. Central Cong. Ch., to const. Amos J.\n  Boyden, J. Rockhill Claire, Mrs. Ellen E. Dexter,\n  Gilbert Elliott, Miss Lizzie Gorton, Miss Marian B.\n  Heritage, Miss Della C. Keyes, Mrs. Hannah E. McKnight,\n  Miss Mary F. Maxfield, George M. Randle, Paul S.\n  Richards, Mrs. E.B. Ripley, and Miss Annie B.\n  Stephens L.M.'s.                                            400.00\n\nPhiladelphia. M.H. Harrington                                 100.00\n\nRidgway. Bible Class, by Minnie J. Kline, _for\n  Oaks, N.C._                                                   5.00\n\n\nOHIO. $675.13.\n\nAkron. West Hill Cong. Ch.                                     37.75\n\nBrecksville. First Cong. Ch.                                    2.40\n\nByrn. S.E. Blakeslee                                            5.50\n\nEast Cleveland. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._\n\nKelloggsville. Mrs. P.F. Kellogg, 5; Eliza S. Comings, 1;\n  \"Little Frankie Kellogg,\" 50 cts., _for\n  Indian M., Grand River, S.D._                                 6.50\n\nKent. First Cong. Ch.                                           7.15\n\nMount Vernon. First Cong. Ch.                                  93.16\n\nNorth Benton. Simeon Hartzell                                   5.00\n\nNorth Ridgeville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 6; \"Friends,\"\n  Shoemaking Tools, Ladies Benev. Soc,. Bbl. of fruit, etc;\n  Miss Maria Lickorish, 4.25, _for Williamsburg, Ky._          10.25\n\nOberlin. Second Cong. Ch., (6.25 of which _for Jewett\n  Memorial Hall_)                                              45.42\n\nOberlin. Mrs. M.A. Spear, Box and Bbl. of C., 3 _for\n  freight, for New Orleans, La._                                3.00\n\nSaybrook. Franklin K .Hilbert                                   5.00\n\nOhio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. F.I.\n  Fairchild, Treasurer, _for Womans Work_:\n\n    Columbus. High St. Ch. Y.P.M.S.             10.00\n\n    Cuyahoga Falls. L.M.S.                       7.00\n\n    Fredericksburg. H.M.S.                       5.00\n\n    Harmar. Oak Grove Mission Band               4.00\n\n    Hudson. L.H.M.S.                             5.00\n\n    Lindenville. W.H.M.S.                        5.00\n\n    Lock. Y.L.M.U.                               2.00\n\n    Madison. Central Cong. Ch.                   8.00\n\n    Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. Aid Soc.           75.00\n\n    Williamsfield. H.M.S.                        3.00\n\n    Wellington. Benev. and H.M.S.               15.00\n\n    York. Cong. Ch. L.M.S.                      15.00\n\n                                                -----         154.00\n\n\nESTATE. $375.13\n\nJersey. Estate of Lucinda Sinnett, by J.B.\n  Metcalf, Executor                                           300.00\n                                                             -------\n\n                                                             $675.13\n\n\nINDIANA, $1.00.\n\nLiber. Thomas Towle                                             1.00\n\n\nILLINOIS, $355.45.\n\nAltona. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.                                    14.56\n\nAurora. Mrs. N. Lanes    5.00\n\nAvon. Cong. Ch.                                                 5.00\n\nChicago. South Cong. Ch., 45.45; Leavitt St.\n  Cong. Ch., 71 cts                                            46.16\n\nEarlville. \"J.A.D.\"                                            25.00\n\nEvanston. First Cong. Ch., to const. George T. Stone,\n  W.J. Young, Joseph Hubbart and Lorado Taft L.M.'s           139.27\n\nFarmington. Cong. Ch.                                          49.30\n\nLawn Ridgs. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                            10.00\n\nLowell. \"V.G.\"                                                  2.00\n\nNaperville. Cong. Ch.                                          20.00\n\nOak Park. \"Friends,\" _for Freight to Sherwood, Tenn._           5.00\n\nOdell. Mrs. H.E. Dana.                                         10.00\n\nProvidence. Cong. Ch.                                          13.16\n\nSeward. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Lizzie Short, _for\n  Woman's Work_                                                 7.00\n\nThomasboro. H.M. Seymour                                        3.00\n\nTolona. Mrs. L. Haskell                                        10.00\n\n\nMICHIGAN, $150.94.\n\nArmada. Cong. Ch., 10.55. and Sab. Sch, 3.20                   13.75\n\nCanandaigua. Cong. Ch.                                          4.00\n\nGrand Rapids. E.M. Ball                                        30.00\n\nIrving. Cong. Ch.                                               1.84\n\nMorenei. Cong. Ch.                                              6.00\n\nSouth Haven. Clark Pierce                                      10.00\n\nThree Oaks. Mrs. H.E. Crosby, deceased, to const.\n  Josiah Birney Crosby and John Abbott\n  Crosby, M.D., L.M.'s                                         60.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Mich., by Mrs. E.F.\n  Grabill, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Cadillac. W.H.M.S.                           2.00\n\n    Chelsea. W.H.M.S.                            2.35\n\n    Detroit. W.H.M.S., Trumbull Av.\n      Cong. Ch.                                  5.00\n\n    Detroit. Ladies' Union First Cong. Ch.       3.00\n\n    Eaton Rapids. Y.P.S.C.E.                     5.00\n\n    Tipton. W.M.S.                               3.00\n\n                                                 ----          25.35\n\n\nWISCONSIN, $187.67.\n\nBeloit. \"Whatsoever Ten,\" of King's Daughters, _for\n  Sherwood, Tenn._                                             20.00\n\nBerlin. \"Young Conquerors\" Mission Band, _for\n  Librarian of Fisk U._                                         2.46\n\nBristol and Paris. Woman's Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C.,\n  etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nFootville. Cong. Ch.                                            7.18\n\nGenesee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                     5.00\n\nMadison. First Cong. Ch.                                        6.96\n\nMadison. Mrs. A.E.H. Deyon, Bbl. and Box of C., _for\n  Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nMilwaukee. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                                   52.29\n\nRosendale. Daniel Clark                                         5.00\n\nWhitewater. Cong. Ch.                                          22.50\n\nWisconsin Woman's Home Missionary Union, _for\n  Woman's Work_:\n\n    Arena. W.H.M.S.                              1.69\n\n    Brodhead. Mrs. C. Matter                     5.00\n\n    Eau Claire. W.H.M.S.                         3.50\n\n    Milwaukee. W.H.M.S. Grand Av.               25.00\n\n    Milwaukee. W.H.M.S. Grand Av.                6.00\n\n    Plattsville. W.H.M.S.                         .75\n\n    Waukesha.    \" \" \" \"                         1.50\n\n    Whitewater.  \" \" \" \"                        12.75\n\n    Whitewater. S.S.                             9.69\n                                                -----          65.28\n\n\nIOWA, $84.97.\n\nCresco. Cong. Ch.                                              13.25\n\nDes Moines. Sab. Sch. Class, by Mrs. A.Y. Rawson,\n  _for Sch'p, Indian Sch., Santee Agency, Neb._                25.00\n\nDes Moines, Y.P.S.C.E. of North Park Cong. Ch.                  3.13\n\nDubuque. Sab. Sch. of German Cong. Ch.                         10.00\n\nMuscatine. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n  Talladega C._                                                15.00\n\nMuscatine. German Cong. Ch.                                     4.00\n\nRound Grove. Z. Banks                                           5.00\n\nWaverly. Cong. Ch.                                              9.59\n\n\nMINNESOTA, $59.01.\n\nFairmont. \"Whatsoever Band\" Cong. Ch.; B. of C., _for\n  Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nFreeborn. Cong. Ch.                                             3.20\n\nMankato. Cong. Ch.                                              6.05\n\nMinneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                                43.62\n\nRochester. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Crockery, _for\n  Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nSaint Paul. Y.P.S.C.E. St. Anthony Park Cong.\n  Ch., 2.75, and Bbl. of C., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._             2.75\n\nSleepy Eye. Union Cong. Ch.                                     3.39\n\n\nMISSOURI, $24.00.\n\nGarden City. W.B. Wills, 10; P.J. Wills, 1; F.P.\n  Morelan, 1; A.C. Wills, 1                                    13.00\n\nIronton. Mrs. C.E. Markham                                      1.00\n\nKansas City. M. Marty                                          10.00\n\n\nKANSAS, $99.55.\n\nAtchison. Cong. Ch.                                             8.12\n\nHighland. Miss Annie Kloss, _for Student\n  Aid, Fisk U._                                                 8.00\n\nTopeka. First Cong. Ch.                                        76.42\n\nWabaunsee. First Church of Christ                               7.00\n\n\nNEBRASKA, $48.15.\n\nBlyville. Cong. Ch.                                             2.90\n\nClarks. John Parker                                             4.00\n\nGreenwood. Mrs. C.A. Mathis, 10; Cong. Ch., 2.90               12.90\n\nHastings. Cong. Ch.                                            14.00\n\nSutton. First Cong. Ch.                                        14.35\n\n\nNORTH DAKOTA, $25.00.\n\nFort Abercrombie. \"Thank Offering\"                             25.00\n\n\nSOUTH DAKOTA, $36.13.\n\nFaulkton. Rev. Pliny B. Fisk and Wife                           3.00\n\nHuron. First Cong. Ch.                                         25.87\n\nLake Preston. Cong. Ch.                                         7.26\n\n\nWASHINGTON, $10.00.\n\nWalla Walla. Pres. A.J. Anderson                               10.00\n\n\nOREGON, $3.50.\n\nMyrtle Point. C.C. Stoddard                                     2.50\n\nSalem. Joseph Fry                                               1.00\n\n\nCALIFORNIA, $100.00.\n\n----. \"A Friend in California,\" to const. Charles H.\n  Abernethy and Miss Helen Abernathy L.M.'s                   100.00\n\nSaratoga. Women's Missy Soc. First Cong. Ch., Pkg.\n  Patchwork, _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\n\nDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $288.28\n\nWashington. First Cong. Ch.                                   188.28\n\nWashington. \"A friend,\" _for Theo. Dept. Howard U._           100.00\n\n\nKENTUCKY, $12.00.\n\nLexington. Prof. Fred W. Foster, 5; \"A Friend\", 5;\n  Miss Lena V. Lowell, 2                                       12.00\n\n\nTENNESSEE, $95.09.\n\nHarriman. \"Friends,\" by Rev. G.S. Pope                         24.48\n\nNashville. Manager Jubilee Singers, _for Fisk U._              32.00\n\nPleasant Hill. \"Two Friends,\" by Rev. B. Dodge, _for\n  Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                           33.00\n\nPleasant Hill. Cong. Ch.                                        5.61\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA, $86.11.\n\nHigh Point Cong. Ch.                                            1.00\n\nNalls. Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                1.38\n\nWilmington. Cong. Ch.                                          68.73\n\nWilmington. Miss M. Lewis, _for Home, Wilmington, N.C._        15.00\n\n\nGEORGIA, $19.84.\n\nThomasville. Sab. Sch. of Normal and Industrial Sch.,\n  _for Indian M., Fort Berthold, N.D._                         18.50\n\nWoodville. Pilgrim Ch., 64c.; Mrs. Sengstacke's\n  Miss's Band, 70 cents                                         1.24\n\n\nALABAMA, $12.46.\n\nTalladega. Cong. Ch.                                           12.46\n\n\nFLORIDA, $2.00.\n\nGeorgiana. Mr. & Mrs. F.W. Munson                               2.00\n\n\nLOUISIANA, $21.85.\n\nNew Orleans. Straight University Ch., 11.85;\n  Watson Jones, 4                                              15.85\n\nWoman's Missionary Union of La., by Mrs. C.S.\n  Shattuck, Treasurer, _for Women's Work_:\n\n    New Iberia. Belle Place Aux.                 1.00\n\n    New Orleans. University Ch. Aux.             5.00\n                                                 ----           6.00\n\n\nTEXAS, $2.50.\n\nDallas. Cong. Ch.                                               2.50\n\n\nHOLLAND, $10.00.\n\nRotterdam. G.P. Ittman, Jr., _for Gymnasium, Fisk U._          10.00\n\n\nEAST AFRICA, $4.00.\n\nKamdini. Miss Nancy Jones, _for Fisk U._                        4.00\n                                                          ----------\n\nDonations                                                 $16,305.52\n\nEstates                                                     1,488.45\n                                                          ----------\n                                                          $17,794.97\n\n\nTUITION, $4,740.42.\n\nLexington, Ky. Tuition                         228.75\n\nWilliamsburg, Ky. Tuition                      223.45\n\nAthens, Tenn. Tuition                            3.50\n\nCrossville, Tenn. Tuition                       42.50\n\nDeer Lodge, Tenn. Tuition                       23.72\n\nJellico, Tenn. Tuition                          39.90\n\nJonesboro, Tenn. Tuition                        11.82\n\nMemphis, Tenn. Tuition                         513.75\n\nNashville, Tenn. Tuition                       647.08\n\nPine Mountain, Tenn. Tuition                    61.65\n\nPleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition                    33.15\n\nChapel Hill, N.C. Tuition                        5.50\n\nTroy, N.C. Tuition                              18.00\n\nWilmington, N.C. Tuition                       159.50\n\nCharleston, S.C. Tuition                       262.00\n\nGreenwood, S.C. Tuition                         96.30\n\nAtlanta, Ga. Storrs Sch., Tuition              153.75\n\nMacon, Ga. Tuition                             412.35\n\nMcIntosh, Ga. Tuition                           46.66\n\nSavannah, Ga. Tuition                          166.00\n\nThomasville, Ga. Tuition                        68.45\n\nAnniston, Ala. Tuition                          60.00\n\nAthens, Ala. Tuition                            75.10\n\nMobile, Ala. Tuition                           220.92\n\nSelma, Ala. Tuition                             82.85\n\nTalladega, Ala. Tuition                        170.70\n\nMeridian, Ala. Tuition                          90.50\n\nTougaloo, Miss. Tuition                        146.50\n\nNew Orleans, La. Tuition                       489.50\n\nAustin, Tx. Tuition                            186.57\n\n                                              -------       4,740.42\n\n\nUnited States Government for the Education of Indians       4,275.38\n\nTotal for April                                           $26,810.77\n                                                          ==========\n\n\nSUMMARY\n\nDonations                                                 117,815.96\n\nEstates                                                   102,668.08\n                                                         -----------\n\n                                                         $220,484.04\n\nIncome                                                      4,262.91\n\nTuition                                                    27,469.74\n\nUnited States Government for the Education of Indians      13,221.45\n                                                         -----------\n\nTotal from Oct. 1 to April 30                            $265,438.14\n                                                         ===========\n\n\nFOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\nSubscriptions for April                                       $45.34\n\nPreviously acknowledged                                       537.38\n                                                             -------\n\nTotal                                                        $582.72\n                                                             =======\n\n\nH.W. 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Mark all of your own personal\nwardrobe which has to be washed. If this were invariably done, a\ngreat deal of property would be saved to owners, and a great deal\nof trouble would be spared those who 'sort out' clean pieces.\"\n\nKATE UPSON CLARK.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n[Illustration]\n\nMENEELY & COMPANY,\nWEST TROY, N.Y., BELLS.\n\nFor Churches, Schools, etc., also Chimes\nand Peals. For more than half a century\nnoted for superiority over all others.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nJOSEPH GILLOTT'S\nSTEEL PENS\n\n_GOLD MEDAL PARIS EXPOSITION 1878._\n\nNos. 303-404-170-604.\n\nTHE MOST PERFECT OF PENS.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 44, No. 06, June, 1890","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":17257}