{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_16103/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_16103","id":"gutenberg_16103","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16103","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Journals","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Sociology","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Donald\nPerry and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at\nhttps://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\n\nMarch, 1889\n\nVol. XLIII.  No. 3.\n\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n\nEDITORIAL.\n\n  TO THE PASTORS AND CHURCHES\n\n  A CALL FOR ENLISTMENT\n\n  PARAGRAPHS\n\n  SUPREMACY OF THE WHITE RACE IN THE SOUTH\n\n  TRAINING OF COLORED STUDENTS FOR THE EPISCOPAL MINISTRY\n\n  A MONTHLY CONCERT AND SUPPLEMENT\n\n  NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND\n\n  ENGLISH AS IT IS NOT TAUGHT--CLIPPINGS\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n  REVIVAL AT LEMOYNE INSTITUTE\n\n  EVERY-DAY LIFE\n\n  CROWDED SCHOOL-ROOMS\n\n  PARAGRAPHS--DEATH OF MRS. HATTIE B. SHERMAN\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n  LOO QUONG'S APPEAL\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\n  PARAGRAPHS\n\n  CHRISTMAS AT FORT YATES\n\n  MISS COLLINS\n\n\nFOR THE CHILDREN.\n\n  OUR SCHOOL GIRLS--JOSIE MIKE--POLLIWOG\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\n\n\n  NEW YORK:\n  PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n  Rooms, 56 Reade Street.\n\n  Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.\n  Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n\nPRESIDENT, Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., LLD., N.Y.\n\n\n_Vice-Presidents._\n\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\n_Corresponding Secretaries._\n\n  Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n  Rev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n_Recording Secretary._\n\n  Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n_Treasurer._\n\n  H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n_Auditors._\n\n  PETER McCARTEE.\n  CHAS. P. PEIRCE.\n\n\n_Executive Committee._\n\n  JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.\n  ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary.\n\n\n  _For Three Years._\n\n    J.E. RANKIN,\n    WM. H. WARD,\n    J.W. COOPER,\n    JOHN H. WASHBURN,\n    EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.\n\n  _For Two Years._\n\n    LYMAN ABBOTT,\n    CHAS. A. HULL,\n    J.R. DANFORTH,\n    CLINTON B. FISK,\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER.\n\n  _For One Year._\n\n    S.B. HALLIDAY,\n    SAMUEL HOLMES,\n    SAMUEL S. MARPLES,\n    CHARLES L. MEAD,\n    ELBERT B. MONROE.\n\n\n_District Secretaries._\n\n  Rev. C.J. RYDER, _21 Cong'l House, Boston_.\n  Rev. J.E. ROY, D.D., _151 Washington Street, Chicago_.\n\n\n_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._\n\n  Rev. CHAS. W. SHELTON.\n\n\n_Field Superintendents._\n\n  Rev. FRANK E. JENKINS,\n  Prof. EDWARD S. HALL.\n\n\n_Secretary of Woman's Bureau._\n\n  Miss D.E. EMERSON, _56 Reade St. N.Y._\n\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nRelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretaries; letters for \"THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY,\" to the\nEditor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the finances, to the\nTreasurer.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nIn drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be\nsent to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when\nmore convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational\nHouse, Boston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment\nof thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.\n\nNOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the \"address label,\" indicates the\ntime to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on\nlabel to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made\nafterward, the change on the label will appear a month later. Please\nsend early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former\naddress and the new address, in order that our periodicals and\noccasional papers may be correctly mailed.\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST\n\n\"I 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\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n\nVOL. XLIII.       MARCH, 1889.        No. 3.\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTO THE PASTORS AND CHURCHES\n\n_Who take Collections for the A.M.A. in March, April and May._\n\nDear Brethren: The work of this Association requires $1,000 per day. The\nreceipts for the first four months of our fiscal year have been only\nabout $800 a day. Here is the germ of a debt. Unless it is chilled and\ndestroyed in the vigorous months of March, April and May, when the\nchurches are full and active, it will, during the hot summer months,\nwhen the audiences are thin, grow rapidly, and develop its bitter\nfruit--a great deficit. The coming three months will be the test. We are\nthe servants of the churches and are doing their work, and we are\nconfident that they intend to give us the means to carry it forward.\n\nWe, therefore, appeal to the pastors whose collections come during these\nthree months, or whose collections can conveniently be brought within\nthese three months, to lend us their great help by emphasizing our needs\nwhen the collections are taken, and we appeal to our patrons that they\nwill, both in their church collections or by their special donations,\ncome to our aid in a time when that aid will be so beneficial.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA CALL FOR ENLISTMENT.\n\nPerhaps we never shall cease our urgent appeals for the \"sinews of war.\"\nThe growing work of this Association requires increasing funds to meet\nthe enlarged demand. But we are beginning to feel the need of a greater\nforce in the field. We sound forth the bugle note calling for recruits\nfor the army of the Lord in our glorious warfare. We appeal to students\nin theological seminaries, colleges, normal schools and female\nseminaries, to consider the claims of this great work. We make this\nappeal with special urgency to the Congregational institutions of the\nland, for it is from this body of Christians that we receive nearly all\nthe funds with which we carry on our work, and there is a special\nfitness that the sons and daughters of these churches should enter the\nfield for which the funds are contributed.\n\nBut we wish to make a distinct announcement in connection with this\nappeal. We wish only to \"get the best.\" The needy people for whom we\nlabor have suffered such privations, and such absolute destitution of\nall adequate religious instruction, that we feel they are now entitled\nto as good as can be given them. We send no teachers to the field that\nare incompetent and without adequate experience. We do not believe that\neverybody is qualified to teach the Negroes, at least it is not fair to\nthem, that we should employ those who cannot find occupation anywhere\nelse. Good health, good training, good powers of discipline, a\nmissionary spirit and a membership in some evangelical church, are the\nabsolute essentials for all persons that we employ. We call for\nrecruits, but we ask for only those that are well equipped, courageous\nand ready to endure hardness as good soldiers of Christ.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe treasurer of a church in the West, who had been an officer in a\ncolored regiment during the war, in remitting the contribution of the\nchurch to which he belongs, thus expresses his reason for his interest\nin the welfare of the colored people:\n\n\"I was an officer in the 5th United States Colored Troops, the first\ncolored regiment raised west of the Alleghenies, just before the\nmassacre of colored troops at Fort Pillow, and knowing so much of the\nfidelity and valor and good service of those troops in the war to the\nNation, to which they then owed so little, I have special interest in\nthe enlightenment and uplifting of the colored race in the South.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIn the last month's _Missionary_, we published some statements showing\nthat persons declined to contribute to our treasury because we had been\nso enriched by the Daniel Hand Fund. It gives us pleasure to know that\nall our patrons do not take this view of the matter, as will be seen\nfrom the following extract from the letter of a practical business man:\n\n\"If A.M.A. means _A Million Accepted_, I hope you will be able to write\nit once a year till you can build churches, school-houses and colleges\nall through the South, but not enough to take away from the churches of\nthe North and East the privilege of helping the poor and needy till they\nare able to take care of themselves.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n     Rev. Chas. H. McIntosh has for some months assisted Dr. Roy in\n     collecting funds for the Association, using a stereopticon as a\n     means of illustrating his lectures on the varied phases of our\n     work.\n\nPastor Leeper of Red Oak, Iowa, writes: \"We were much pleased with\nBrother McIntosh's lecture and exhibit. He does well, and makes in every\nway a good impression. The lantern works promptly and makes clear\npictures. That mode of presenting the work is the best I have seen. The\npeople will not soon forget what they saw and heard. They were surprised\nto know that the A.M.A. is doing so extensive a work. I had often\npreached on the subject, but pictures make the facts stand out so much\nmore vividly. We had crowded houses.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nRev. J.B. Chase, of Hull, Iowa, wishes to complete his files of the\n_American Missionary_ to have them bound for a public library. If any of\nour readers have the numbers for August and September, 1880, and April,\n1878, that they can spare and willingly give, it would be a favor to us\nif they would mail them to the above address. Our edition for those\nmonths is exhausted.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE SUPREMACY OF THE WHITE RACE IN THE SOUTH.\n\nNever since the days of reconstruction and of the adoption of the\nFourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, has the question of the equal\nsuffrage of the races in the South awakened public attention as it does\nnow. In many quarters, some of them very influential, the right of the\nNegro to a fair vote and a fair count is strenuously advocated. On the\nother hand, the supremacy of the whites as the ruling race in the South\nis set forth by leading Southern men more distinctly than ever before.\n\n\nWHITE SUPREMACY.\n\nCol. Grady, of Atlanta, in his famous speech at Dallas, Texas, urges\nthis in these emphatic terms:\n\n     Standing in the presence of this multitude, sobered with the\n     responsibility of the message I deliver to the young men of the\n     South, I declare that the truth above all others to be worn\n     unsullied and sacred in your hearts, to be surrendered to no\n     force, sold for no price, compromised in no necessity, but\n     cherished and defended as the covenant of your prosperity, and\n     the pledge of peace to your children, is that the white race\n     must dominate forever in the South, because it is the white\n     race, and superior to that race with which its supremacy is\n     threatened.\n\nHon. W.C.P. Breckinridge, member of Congress from Kentucky, and many\nother prominent men in the South, express the same sentiment, so that\nthis may be regarded as the ultimatum of Southern popular requirement.\n\n\nHOW THIS SUPREMACY IS TO BE ATTAINED.\n\nThe most _obvious_ way is that which is in use at present, the\nintimidation of the colored man and the manipulation of the ballot-box.\nBut against this the sober second thought of the South itself begins to\nrevolt. Thus a paper so thoroughly Southern as the Charleston _News and\nCourier_ utters this salutary and emphatic protest:\n\n     \"It appals thinking men to know and see that the present\n     generation and the rising generation of white men in the South\n     are taught in practice that republican institutions are a\n     failure, and that elections are to be carried, not by the honest\n     vote of a fair majority, but by campaigning, which begins with\n     rank intimidation and ends with subterfuge and evasion. The\n     white people suffer more by the trickery and malfeasance by\n     which they score victory than the colored people suffer. The\n     supremacy of what, for convenience, is called Anglo-Saxon\n     civilization, though there is little of the Anglo-Saxon manner\n     or of civilization in the mode of securing it, must and will be\n     maintained, but it can be maintained without sectional divisions\n     in politics and without the maintenance of radical lines at\n     elections.\"\n\nAs these old methods are beginning to find little favor with the South\nitself, a multitude of other schemes are brought to the front.\n\nThe _Age-Herald_, of Birmingham, Ala., claims a patent (which it says\nothers are infringing) for the scheme which it thus sets forth:\n\n\"The Negroes could be induced to emigrate to a Western Territory, if it\nwere set apart for their especial use without any force being used to\ncompel them to go.\"\n\nA writer in the Richmond _Dispatch_ proposes that the Negroes in the\nSouth be induced to voluntarily emigrate to Brazil, Mexico or other\ncountries where they are wanted, and even the old plan of fifty years\nago, to return them to Africa is again brought forward. To this last\nsuggestion, the _Yonkers Statesman_ replies:\n\n     The notion that the black can be successfully re-shipped to\n     Africa dies hard; but there are few things plainer than that he\n     has no desire and no purpose to be thus disposed of, but regards\n     this land as being as much his as it is the white man's. It\n     would be hard to dispute his title, grounded as it is in age and\n     effective service. The Negro believes he belongs here, and here\n     he means to remain; and the prospect that his mind can be\n     changed is certainly not very cheering.\n\nThe _Times-Democrat_ of New Orleans thinks that the true solution is\nwhite immigration, but the _Daily Express_ of San Antonio, Texas,\nreplies: \"The principal objection to this scheme is that the Negro will\nnot go till the white immigrants come, and the white immigrants will not\ncome until the Negro goes.\"\n\nCongressman Oates, of Alabama, advocates the disfranchisement of the\nNegroes, or rather as a Democrat he suggests that the Republicans do it.\nHe says that as the Republicans gave him the ballot, the South would\ncheerfully acquiesce if they should take it away from him. But it is not\nlikely that the Republican administration will lead off in such a\nmovement. Indeed, from present appearances, the new President is looking\nin exactly the opposite direction.\n\n\nWISER VIEWS.\n\nThere are men, however, in the South, wise, conscientious and \"to the\nmanner born,\" who take entirely different views of this great problem.\nThe Hon. J.L.M. Curry, once a General in the Confederate Army,\nsubsequently the efficient Secretary of the Peabody Fund, more recently\nour Minister in Spain, and now again at his post as Secretary of the\nPeabody Fund, utters himself in this forcible language:\n\n     \"I want to say to you, in perfect frankness, that the man who\n     thinks the Negro problem has been settled is either a fanatic or\n     a fool. I stand aghast at the problem. I don't believe\n     civilization ever encountered one of greater magnitude. It casts\n     a dark shadow over your churches, your government of the future.\n     It is a great problem which will tax your energies. Your\n     ancestors and mine a few years ago were cannibals and pagans.\n     They have become what they are, not by virtue of white skin, but\n     by improving government and good laws. You let the Negro\n     children get an education where yours do not, let the Negro be\n     superior to you in culture and property, and you will have a\n     black man's government. Improvement, cultivation, education is\n     the secret, the condition and guarantee of race supremacy. I\n     will astonish you, perhaps, by saying that if the Negro develops\n     and becomes in culture, property and civilization, superior to\n     the white man, the Negro ought to rule. You see to it that he\n     does not become so. The responsibility rests with you.\"\n\nRev. A.G. Haygood, D.D., Secretary of the Slater Fund, closes a review\nof Senator Eustis's recent paper in these earnest words:\n\n     Whatever political theory men form or oppose; whatever their\n     speculative opinions about the origin of races; whatever their\n     notions concerning color or caste; whatever their relations\n     heretofore to slavery and what went along with it, this is\n     absolutely certain: no question involving the rights and wrongs\n     of men, civilized or savage, white or black, was ever yet\n     settled so that it would stay settled by any system of mere\n     repression. And to those who believe in Jesus Christ it is\n     equally certain that nothing can be rightly settled that is not\n     settled in harmony with the teachings of the Sermon on the\n     Mount. If there be a Divine Providence no good man need be\n     afraid to do right to-day; nay, he will fear only doing wrong.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE TRAINING OF COLORED STUDENTS FOR THE EPISCOPAL MINISTRY.\n\nA very interesting discussion occurred in the Missionary Council of the\nEpiscopal Church, held in Washington, D.C., November 13th and 14th, in\nregard to the education of colored students for the ministry in the\nEpiscopal Church. The motive for not educating them in the existing\nEpiscopal Seminaries appeared to be simply the caste-prejudice, and some\nmarked utterances and facts were given on that subject, which we wish to\npreserve.\n\nThe Bishop of Kentucky, whose generous feelings toward the colored race\nwe have had occasion to notice heretofore, quoted from another, and\nendorsed for himself, the declaration: \"The white man is not fit to\nstudy for the ministry who is not ready to have his black brother sit by\nhim in the class room,\" and he subsequently added: \"I believe I can\nspeak for my brothers, and I say out of my heart I would just as soon\nsit by the side of a black man if he were in the House of Bishops, as\none of my white brothers.\" But yet the Bishop suggested and endorsed the\nplan for the separate education of colored students, for two reasons:\n(1) \"The power of heredity is not to be overthrown in a day nor an\nhour... This subtle spirit of caste is perhaps the demon hardest to cast\nout of the human spirit, the one that requires the most prayer and\nfasting, without which it will not go out,\" and (2) \"It is certainly\ntrue that the colored men themselves do not want to go there. It is just\nas true that the white men do not want to have them there.\"\n\nAs to the first point, it is to be regretted that the good Bishop did\nnot give himself to fasting and prayer to cast out this malignant demon,\nrather than to yield to it, and that he did not heed the words which\nJesus uttered when his disciples could not cast out a demon, \"_Bring him\nhither to me._\" If bishops and churches will only bring this demon of\ncaste to Jesus, the work will be done.\n\nThe Bishop's second point, that the colored people desired the\nseparation, was pointedly answered by Dr. Crummell (rector of St. Luke's\nColored Church, Washington,) who was invited to speak on the subject.\nDr. Crummell said: \"I do not think that any man in this country has seen\nany statement by any number of black men or black students that they\nwanted to be by themselves. I do not think such an utterance can be\nfound among the race. I myself never heard such a thing, and wherever\nthey have had entrance to other schools they have gone to them.\"\n\nThe decision reached by the Council was to erect, in connection with\nsome of the colored universities in the South, a hall under Episcopal\ncontrol for colored Episcopal students for the ministry, who should also\nattend the college classes in the University. So far as the principle is\nconcerned, we regret this decision. How much better if the wealthy and\nintelligent Episcopal Church in this country had lent its vast influence\nin repudiating the spirit of caste by introducing colored theological\nstudents into its own excellent seminaries.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA MONTHLY CONCERT AND SUPPLEMENT.\n\nBY REV. EDWIN N. ANDREWS.\n\nDo they say the monthly concert is dull? If so, it is likely owing to\none or two causes like the following, (1) Perhaps only two or three\nfamilies take any missionary Magazine, hence but little information can\nbe expected. People are not interested in what they know nothing of. Or,\n(2) there is a lack of preparation and purpose to make the meeting\ninteresting on the part of those to whom the leader ought to look for\nhelp.\n\nHowever, our last meeting took a rather interesting turn. It had been of\nthe average sort only, when towards the close one of the ladies spoke of\na call among the Freedmen for dolls and clothing, (not clothing for\ndolls). The pastor suggested that we gather together, from the families,\nvarious contributions, such as partly-worn garments, toys, books,\nreligious papers, etc., and make a New Year's donation to the people to\nwhom such things would be a god-send and good as new.\n\nThe suggestion was favored, and the animated countenances and talk that\nfollowed betokened an after-meeting of unusual interest, and certainly\nthe most practical if not the best part of our conference. Something to\ndo, then and there, had been suggested; tongues were somehow set loose;\neach one seemed to have a new-born interest, each held common stock in\nthe enterprise. Dr. Roy was consulted by the pastor as to a proper and\nresponsible party. Meanwhile the goods began to come in, often sent by\nthe boys or girls, who thus began to do missionary service, The pastor's\nwife and daughter did the packing. Picture cards were pasted in cloth\nfolios for the little ones; old hats were trimmed; coats and vests went\nin, shawls, Bibles, toys, etc., till a barrel, a large sugar barrel,\ntake notice, was crammed.\n\nAfter awhile there came the address of a colored graduate of Tougaloo\nUniversity, living at or near Chattanooga, whose name was marked on one\nend of the barrel, and the freight sent forward. After some delay, the\nletter of acknowledgment came, saying, \"The barrel came safe. The things\nare just what so many of the people need, and they will go to those most\nin need. Accept our thanks.\"\n\nThis letter will be read at our next concert, which should be a\nthanksgiving occasion for the opportunity of doing something for the\ndestitute, and for the discovery of a way to make a monthly concert\ninteresting.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.\n\nBY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER.\n\nHere comes a gift of five dollars from an aged friend ninety-one years\nold! He has contributed to the A.M.A. every year for a generation. Who\nwill step into the place of these grand veterans when they are called\nfrom the ranks? Such examples ought to thrill younger men and untie\ntheir purse strings.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAt a recent visit to Wellesley College, the great company of students\nlistened patiently more than an hour to the story of the \"American\nHighlanders; where they are, who they are, and what the A.M.A. is doing\nfor them.\"\n\nThis interest on their part is characteristic of the intelligent people\nthroughout New England. The churches are asking for information\nconcerning these most interesting mountaineers, and are prayerfully\nconsidering their duty toward them. In view of this general interest, I\ngive in these notes this month the following review of a book which I\nhave been requested by several New England pastors to present in THE\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n_The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee._ By Thomas William Humes, S.T.D.\nOgden Brothers & Co.: Knoxville, Tenn.\n\nAnother interesting book on the Mountain people of the South. Those who\nare familiar with the mountain missions of the A.M.A. will hail this new\nvolume with special delight. Those who read it will understand better\nthe magnitude and importance of this great field into which the A.M.A.\nhas pushed out its vanguard, and the necessity of following up these\nadvances with a solid phalanx of intelligent and enthusiastic\nmissionaries. This historical sketch brings prominently before us the\nheroic manhood of these American Highlanders during the years of bitter\nand systematic persecution by the rebel government. There is stuff in\nthese Highland chieftains and their clans!\n\nThree facts that stand out from the pages of this history must intensify\nour interest in these American Highlanders. One, the systematic and\nbrutal outrages inflicted upon them by the rebel authorities and their\nheroic endurance; second, their unimpeachable and unswerving loyalty to\nthe country; third, the tremendous debt the loyal Christian people of\nthe North owe them. Take the following order issued by J.P. Benjamin,\nSecretary of War, November 25, 1861, which appears on the 140th page of\nthis book;\n\n\"_First._ All such as can be identified in having been engaged in\nbridge-burning are to be tried summarily by drum-head court martial,\nand, if found guilty, executed on the spot by hanging. It would be well\nto leave their bodies hanging in the vicinity of the burned bridges.\"\n\nThe State had voted in February, by sixty thousand majority, to remain\nloyal to the Union. These Highlanders had sought to save their section\nof the State from rebellion, and to defend their cabin homes from\noutrage and butchery. In doing so, they had burned bridges, and for this\nthe government at Richmond deliberately instructs its army officers to\nhold a mock trial, to hang, and to brutally expose the bodies of those\nwho had been executed, so that surviving friends would have to look upon\nthese sickening horrors! It seems almost impossible that any man could\ndeliberately perpetrate such monstrous cruelties. But the order was\nissued by the rebel government and carried into effect. Indeed, the\nbrutalities went even farther than this. In December, 1861, two men by\nthe name of Harmon, father and son, were hanged. Only one gallows was\nprovided, and the authorities compelled the father to stand by and see\nhis own son pass through the horrors of strangulation while awaiting his\nown execution. (Page 151).\n\nThe diary of Parson Brownlow, from which abundant quotations are given\nin this volume, furnishes many similar instances of cruelty perpetrated\nagainst these loyal mountaineers; but they were true to the flag from\nbeginning to end. They left their homes, and camped in the forests and\n\"down the coves\" of their own wild mountains. Parson Brownlow encamped\nfor days in concealment in Tuckaleeche and Wear's Coves in the great\nSmoky Mountains. Had fair and honorable means been used, these loyal\nmountaineers would have saved Tennessee from that disgraceful chapter in\nher history which records the dark story of her treason. This book must\nstir the patriotism and Christian enthusiasm of every one who reads it.\nIt ought to lead us to make genuine sacrifices to show our appreciation\nof their supreme devotion to the country by sending to this Mountain\nWork, opened by the A.M.A., generously of men and of means.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nENGLISH AS IT IS NOT TAUGHT.\n\nHe didn't crack a smile.\n\nI feel many gratitudes to you.\n\nHis forgiven name is John.\n\nHelp us to bring forth meats for our repentance.\n\nI won't fool with the Lord no more.\n\nHelp us to pray as the Republican did, \"God be merciful to me a sinner.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAt one of our schools, students had been learning the Beatitudes to\nrecite at the table, and one Sunday they were asked to write the meaning\nin their own language. One wrote, \"To be poor in spirit means weak but\nwilling.\" Another, \"Poor in spirit means that a person who has religion\nand don't make a great to-do over it, has as much as one who cuts up\nover theirs.\" (\"Cutting up\" means the noisy demonstrations in meeting).\n\nA pupil gives us the following insight into the precise appearance of\nthe beings of the future world. \"An angel is two lines which intend to\nmeet,\" in response to the question, \"What is an angle?\"\n\nAccording to one of our growing historians here, Gen. Gage, of\nRevolutionary fame, didn't altogether believe in the then existing\nstyles, for we were told the other day, that, \"Gage, learning that there\nwere millinery stores at Concord, at once sent a force to destroy them.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCLIPPINGS\n\nFROM PAPERS EDITED BY COLORED MEN.\n\nThe only colored daily paper in America is printed at Columbus, Ga. It\nis a four column folio, neat in make-up and well edited.\n\n\nCOLORED EXHIBITIONS TO THE FRONT.--At the recent Virginia Exposition Mr.\nJ.C. Farley, the colored photographer, was awarded the first premium for\nhis work, for which he is to receive a diploma and medal. Our esteemed\ntownsman has entered a new field and ascended to the topmost round of\nthe ladder at one bound.\n\n\nA COLORED PRIZE WINNER.--Give a colored man a fair show and he is\ncertain to give a good account of himself. One of the notable college\ncontests in Illinois is known as the Swan Oratorical Contest, and is\nheld annually at Lombard University, at Galesburg. This contest was held\nThursday night of last week. The first prize was awarded to Burt Wilson,\na colored student, who lives at Galesburg, and is one of the most\npromising scholars in the university. His oration is said to have been\nan unusually brilliant effort.\n\n\nWHAT THE NEGRO HAS DONE.--In the South there are now 16,000 colored\nteachers, 1,000,000 pupils, 17,000 in the male and female high schools,\nand 3,000,000 worshipers in the churches. There are sixty normal\nschools, fifty colleges and universities, and twenty-five theological\nseminaries. The colored people pay taxes on nearly $200,000,000 worth of\nproperty valuation. This is a wonderful showing for a race that has two\nhundred years of slavery and four thousand years of barbarism back of\nit; it needs no silent sympathy or patient waiting, when in twenty years\nit makes such a showing. American generosity has done for the South in\ntwenty years what statesmanship has failed to do in over a century; but\ngenerosity should not be depended upon, as even that can reach a limit.\n\n\nSUCCESSFUL IN BUSINESS.--North Carolina has a colored man whose business\nsuccess is hard to find surpassed by even the white people. The Concord\n_Times_, a white journal, gives the following interesting sketch of his\ncareer:\n\nHe was born a slave, and until he was twenty-one years of age, never had\na copper of his own. Possessed of a keen and adaptable mind, he has by\nhis energy and untiring efforts accumulated a competency, equalled by\nfew of his race in the South.\n\nWarren Coleman commenced business here in 1879. He has lost everything\nby fire three times,--one time meeting with a loss of $7,000 and no\ninsurance. Various purses of money were made up and sent him at this\ntime, all of which he very nobly returned. But by pluck and energy he\nrose again.\n\nHe owns four farms, amounting in all to some 300 acres of land, and\nemploys on them twenty regular hands. He is the owner of ninety-eight\ntenement houses and is still adding to the list, having in his employ at\nthis time twenty carpenters and eight or ten brick masons, laborers,\netc.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREVIVAL AT LE MOYNE INSTITUTE.\n\nPROF. A.J. STEELE.\n\nIt has been my privilege and my great joy to write you often during my\nnearly twenty years of continuous service under the Association, of\nGod's blessing upon our work. We are now in the midst of one of the most\ngracious visitations that I have ever experienced, and I recall \"times\nof refreshing\" not a few. In 1875, the first great revival in connection\nwith this school saw over a hundred and twenty-five of our pupils\nhopefully converted to Christ, and the young converts, by their\nfaithfulness, overcame all the fixed notions and ways of the old\nchurches on the subject of early conversions.\n\nI have since that time, year by year, followed many of these young\npeople, and know that the great majority of them have proven faithful\nfollowers of the Saviour, and many have lived lives of exceptional\ninfluence and usefulness. Since that notable year in the history of the\nschool, but one year has passed without most evident tokens of God's\ngracious presence in the conversion of pupils attending the school. In\nsome years the number has been large, and in others not so many have\nmade open profession of faith in Christ. I think I am safe in saying\nthat not a year, nor a month, has passed in which the school has not\nbeen markedly under the influence of the Spirit, giving guidance and\ninstruction, and drawing, as with cords of love, many of our pupils to\nsee in the religion of the cross a peace and joy to be found nowhere\nelse. To this influence, the school owes all its success in every\ndirection. For myself I can truly say that in the midst of the sorrow\nthat has been my constant and only companion, besides my Saviour, the\njoy of this work and the consciousness of its acceptance with God have\nalone held me to the task laid upon me these years. I rejoice now, with\nall my fellow workers, that we are in the midst of another season of\nreaping, after months of sowing precious seed.\n\nDuring the past week, two members of the senior class, young men,\nprofessed their faith in Christ in the quiet prayer meeting of the\nschool, as did also a young lady of a lower class, and now, this week,\nBrother Wharton is with us, and to-day, at the first meeting led by him\nin the school, sixteen of our students, three more of the senior class,\nquietly but hopefully profess to become followers of the Master, with\nscores more earnestly seeking to enter in.\n\nSince writing the above, two days of great but quiet interest have\npassed in our work. Between thirty and forty of our scholars, including\nfive of the seniors and nearly every pupil of the other higher classes,\nhave learned the joy of Christian experience, and there are yet others\nto follow.\n\nThe night meetings at the church are very interesting and in them\nconversions are occurring in considerable numbers. The class work of the\nschool has not been interrupted, as half-hour meetings only have been\nheld, morning and noon. We rejoice greatly in this work that crowns and\nconfirms all the other work of the school.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nEVERY-DAY LIFE.\n\nMRS. A.W. CURTIS.\n\nPut on your best glasses, dear friends, and take a peep at the regular,\nevery-day life of some of the workers among the colored people South.\n\nRap, rap, rap.\n\n\"Come in!\"\n\nIt is a toil-worn, sad-faced woman, with hard, bony hands, and that look\nof patient endurance that is so pathetic. She is poorly clad, with only\na thin bit of an old shawl around her shoulders, and a hat so\ndisreputable that she instantly removes it, and drops it behind her on\nthe floor. After a few kindly words of greeting, she tells her story. A\nsickly husband, deranged for the last nine years of his life, whom she\nhad to support and care for; a daughter who married a wretch who treated\nher so cruelly that she, too, lost her mind, when he left her entirely,\nwith their child. She kept the daughter confined to bed or chair, while\nshe worked out as cook, to support them all. She had several other\nchildren. Finally the crazy daughter got away, and she does not know\nwhether she is dead or alive.\n\nWhat had she come to us for? Money, old clothes, help of some kind?\n\nNo, indeed. She came to see if we would take her grand-daughter and her\nown daughter, both about twelve years old, into our school. She had\nnever been able to make them fit to go to any school, so they could not\neven read, but she would do her very best, if we would take them now. I\nwish Mr. Hand could have seen her shining face and tearful eyes, when we\ntold her of the kind friend who had provided so grandly for just such\ncases as these.\n\nA patter of small feet, a hasty rap at the door.\n\n\"Please ma'am, send little sister some medicine.\"\n\n\"What ails sister?\"\n\nThe little fellow looked puzzled for a moment, then confidently\nanswered, \"Her stomach has settled on her bowels!\"\n\nIt is a perplexing diagnosis, but a few skillful questions draw out the\nfact that she has a bad cold, and some chamomilla is sent at a venture.\nWord comes back the next day that \"Sister is well: that medicine did her\n_all_ the good.\"\n\nNext comes, one after another, a perfect rush of small boys and big\ngirls, with now and then a man or woman for variety, on various errands.\n\"Please ma'am, give me a settin' of eggs. Our old hen wants to set, and\nwe haint got no eggs.\" The great brown eyes grow round with astonishment\nwhen we tell them that the hens are A.M.A. hens now, and not ours, and\nthese hungry teachers eat every egg they lay. Two or three others, who\nhave been accustomed to rely on our good nature for their winter supply\nof greens and salad, receive the same reply, and it is evident that the\nnew order of things is very unsatisfactory and perplexing to them.\n\n\"Please ma'am, give me some castor oil for the baby; she's awful sick;\nDoctor says it's indigestion of the lungs.\"\n\nShe gets the castor oil, but soon comes back to say in most cheerful\ntones--\"Baby is dead. She died at ten o'clock, but she's better off, and\nplease, ma'am, give mother a black basque to wear to the funeral.\"\n\nHeartless? Oh no. There was great wailing and moaning at the funeral,\nand when the one carriage, with as many of the family as could crowd in\nbeside the poor little coffin, started for the cemetery, this same child\nstood in the doorway, waving her handkerchief, and shouting tragically,\n\"Fare thee well, baby! Fare thee well!\"\n\nA half-grown girl came up the steps with two tiny chickens about as\nlarge as pigeons, their legs tied together, their voices lifted up in\nshrill squawks.\n\n\"Father sent you these two chickens for a Christmas present, and says\nplease send him a coat and pair of breeches, and a vest, too, if you\ncan. And mother sent you these eggs for a present, and please send her a\nwarm underskirt and a pair of shoes!\" A modest request, surely.\n\nNext, a great girl, barefooted, though it was a raw, cold day that made\nus huddle gladly over a big fire, and with her a small boy, literally\nnaked so far as his bony little legs were concerned. A few fluttering\nrags that had once been pants depended from the remnant of what had once\nbeen a calico waist. An old bag was pinned around his shoulders, which\ncompleted his entire outfit. \"Please ma'am, mother says she'll send\nJohnny to school if you'll give him a coat and some breeches.\" Alas,\nthere is neither on hand, nothing for the boy except a thin cotton\nshirt, and a pair of thin overalls to make over, by a mother who is more\naccustomed to the use of a hoe than a needle, and who has seven children\nas ragged and miserable as poor Johnny.\n\nA messenger rushes in without knocking. \"Come quick--Mattie's baby\nburnt!\"\n\n\"Yes, I'll come. Wrap it in cotton and oil.\"\n\nAway flies the messenger. I seize the bottle of morphine and a hat, and\nfollow to the child's home. The floor is strewn with fragments of burnt\nclothing. A sickening odor of burnt flesh fills the room. The scorched\nhigh chair, in which the child was tied and put before the open\nfireplace, while the mother went to a neighbor's for milk, lay in a pool\nof water, and beside it, the burnt whisk-broom that an older baby had\nput in the fire, then dropped blazing under the baby's long clothes,\nthese told the whole sad story. They were all at the grandparent's house\nnext door--a crowd of screaming people. Upon the bed lay what was left\nof the poor child, moaning in conscious agony. A drop of water\ncontaining the precious anodyne which alone could ease it then, soon\nbrought blessed unconsciousness until death kindly bore the little soul\nto God. But oh! the heart-rending grief of that poor mother! God grant\nwe may never witness such suffering again. We tried to comfort her with\nour tearful sympathy and prayers, but God alone can ever heal her sore\nheart.\n\nA sad-faced man wants to see the minister. We know his pitiful story and\nhis errand before he speaks. A sick wife and six young children. The\ndesperate daily fight with the hunger-wolf at the door, spite of the\nlittle lifts we try to give them. Now the wife is dead, and he comes to\nask for money to buy a coffin and a place to lay her away. He has tried\nin vain elsewhere, so comes to us, and we cannot refuse. A few hours\nafter, the pitiful little procession passes by. The pine coffin in an\nold cart, the husband and children, the minister and a few friends,\nfollowing on foot. Such calls are frequent. Does the money ever come\nback? _Once_ it did.\n\nSo it goes on, day after day, twenty, thirty, sometimes forty calls, for\nall these incidents are actual facts, and fair samples of our daily\nexperiences and only a small part of our work. There is a large\nhousehold to look after, and between times there must be flying visits\nto the distant kitchen to see that everything is going on right there. A\nwatchful eye must look after the details of the dining room and see to\nthe comfort of the whole household. Supplies must be ordered; bills must\nbe paid; there are countless letters to write; there are sorrowful\nhearts to be comforted; wayward church members to look after; cold, dead\nprayer meetings to warm up; the Sunday-school to carry along; mother's\nmeetings and children's meetings and missionary societies. An unlimited\nstock of patience, tact and good nature must be constantly on hand to\nkeep all the machinery running smoothly, while the work is exhausting,\nwearing out body and soul far too soon.\n\nDoes it pay? _Yes!_ for slowly but surely this people is being lifted up\nto a higher life, and while we sometimes grow faint and heartsick and\ndiscouraged, still there are rifts in the clouds and bits of sunshine\nnow and then to cheer our hearts, and someday we hope to hear the Master\nsay, \"_Well done!_\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCROWDED SCHOOL-ROOMS.\n\nPerhaps some of our friends would be glad to hear a few words concerning\nBrewer Normal School, Greenwood, S.C. The work goes on, but we are\nhurried and crowded almost beyond endurance. We have only two\nschool-rooms and one recitation room. In one school-room fitted for\nfifty-eight scholars, there are ninety-seven. They are obliged to sit,\nthree in a seat made for two, on chairs, stools and even on the teacher's\nplatform. Classes are sent from this room, and their recitation room is\nthe teacher's kitchen and dining-room--not very pleasant for the teachers,\nbut a necessity. The teacher of these classes is the Principal's\ndaughter, who has been taken from her own school to aid in this\nemergency. In the other school-room, fitted for fifty-eight, there are\neighty-six--not quite as many as in the other room, but what is wanting\nin numbers is made up in size. There are several men six feet tall, and\none minister six and a half. In many instances, we are obliged to look\nup to our scholars.\n\nSome of our classes in this room number thirty-five or forty. The\nsmaller classes from this room recite in the recitation room. It is with\ndifficulty that some of our men, weighing two hundred, get into the\nseats in the school-room, but they bear the crowding and close packing\nwith great patience. The small boarding-houses in the yard are as badly\ncrowded as the school-rooms. In two small rooms, having two beds each,\nthere are twelve young men, six in each. Here they cook for themselves,\nsleep and study out of school hours. One can hardly find standing-room\namong the chairs, trunks, etc. Other rooms are crowded nearly as much.\nAnd still the scholars come. What shall we do with them? Our cry is\n_more room_. O, that God would put it into the heart of some one to give\nthe money needed for another building at Brewer!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPARAGRAPHS.\n\nThe congregation of Lincoln Memorial Church, Washington, D.C., rejoiced\nin a renovated and newly-furnished church edifice, Sunday, Jan. 6th. The\npastor, Rev. George W. Moore, preached an interesting sermon on \"The Law\nof Christian Growth.\" At the conclusion of the services a statement of\nthe cost of the recent improvements was read. The total cost was $1,500,\nabout $200 of which was given by contractors and workmen. Hon. A.C.\nBarstow, of Providence, R.I., presented the church with one of the large\nand beautiful stoves, and gave the other at the cost of manufacture. The\npresent membership of the church is one hundred, ninety of whom are\nresident members. The people have done nobly in their gifts and\nself-denials, and Pastor and Mrs. Moore have in their hands a great work\nwhich promises to be greater in the future.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFrom a pastor in a remote part of Georgia:\n\n\"I have seen more of the condition and wants of the people than ever\nbefore, but whiskey and tobacco are the great evils of this part of the\ncountry. The colored people are not very much in advance of what they\nwere twenty years ago, but the sad part of it is, that the leaders are\nno better than the people. I think almost every minister about here uses\nwhiskey and tobacco, as far as I can learn, and of course the members of\nthe churches can see no harm in doing what their minister does. This is\na sad picture, but it only shows the need of intelligent and consecrated\nleaders, such as the American Missionary Association is raising up for a\npeople who have been led by those who are neither intelligent nor\nconsecrated.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMrs. Hattie B. Sherman, the daughter of Rev. R.F. Markham, died January\n14th at her residence in Stockton, Kansas. For two years she was a\nmissionary of this Association at Beach Institute, Savannah, Ga., where\nshe rendered faithful and effective service in the education of the\ncolored people. We tender our sympathies to her father, who was for so\nmany years a useful missionary of the Association in the South, and to\nher husband, in their great bereavement.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLOO QUONG'S APPEAL.\n\n     Loo Quong is one of our Evangelistic Helpers. His special field\n     at present is Southern California. The appeal is not only\n     original, but spontaneous; written out of the anxious longings\n     of his own heart, and not upon any suggestion from me. I have\n     simply condensed it, to bring it within the limits of our space.\n     I ask for it a kind and responsive hearing.\n\nWM. C. POND.\n\n_Dear friends of the American Missionary Association_:\n\nWe, the Chinese, have appreciated the generous Christian acts of the\nmembers of this great Association, who not only have done good to other\nsouls of the United States, but have saved hundreds of poor sinners of\nour Chinese race, in which I, myself, was one of the lost and now am\nfound. It was through the generosity and God-loving heart of the\nAssociation that the Chinese found Jesus Christ the Saviour of the\nworld. And it was through the hard labors and patience of our\nSuperintendent of the California Chinese Mission that the Chinese have\nbecome partakers of the blessings of the gospel. Though it is here that\nthe good news is told, it has echoed back far away across the Pacific,\nwhere the four hundred millions of heathen Chinese are living. Just as\nour Lord said to his disciples, \"There is nothing covered that shall not\nbe revealed, neither hid that shall not be known. Therefore, whatsoever\nye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light, and that which\nye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the house\ntops.\" Luke 12: 2, 3.\n\nThose who have been converted in California and who have visited their\nhomes in China, have seen the necessity of Christianity for their\ncountrymen in China. Within these ten years there were hospitals\nestablished and missionary societies organized by native Christians and\nby those who have returned to China from California. Contribution books\nare often sent over to the United States to the different denominations\nof Christian Chinese to raise money and send back to support the\nhospitals and missionary societies in China. But this is not all; not\nlong ago the Congregational Association of Christian Chinese in\nCalifornia organized a missionary society to Southern China, from which\npart nearly all the Christian Chinese that are now in the United States\nhave come, and this is the most important part of China in which to do\nthe missionary work. There are now many native preachers and\nevangelists. This society proposes to buy property in China, for a\nheadquarters must be established in some of the middle cities in the\nsouth of China, and then to sustain some of those native preachers and\nevangelists.\n\nNow I must come back to our work in California among the Christian\nChinese. There are about one thousand Christian Chinese in California.\nYou may hear in our towns and cities Chinese preachers and Chinese\nevangelists preaching the gospel to their countrymen. The American\nMissionary Association has put three more Chinese missions in Southern\nCalifornia during the year 1888, one of them in Tuscon, one in San\nBuenaventura and one in Los Angeles. Each of these is doing good work.\nAs to our mission at Los Angeles, which was only opened April 1, 1888,\nit has twenty-five Christian members, and it has nearly one hundred\npupils who attend the evening schools and preaching service at the\nmission house from night to night. There are union meetings of all the\ndenominations of Christian Chinese at Los Angeles, and at San Francisco\nand Santa Barbara. These meetings occur once a month; Chinese preachers\nand speakers are appointed to address the meetings, a week beforehand.\nWe have found these meetings a great help to us. Street meetings were\noften held in the Chinese quarters in many cities and towns throughout\nthe State. Thousands of Bibles and tracts in Chinese were given away to\nChinese readers, and thousands of heathen have heard the blessed gospel\nof Jesus, and, perhaps, there are other thousands who may give their\nhearts to Christ through this operation. Surely God is hastening the\ntime when His will will be done in all parts of the earth, since the\nChinese themselves have summoned their people to Christ. And now I\nrespectfully and earnestly request of all the friends of the A.M.A., and\neven people of every name, race and creed of this Christian land of the\nUnited States, to follow the example of our Master who has given himself\nfor us all, and we do ask for your prayers both for the Chinese in your\ncountry and in China.\n\nLOO QUONG.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK\n\nMISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.\n\nCO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nME.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee,\n  Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.\n\nVT.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee,\n  Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt.\n\nVT.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\n  Mrs. Ellen Osgood, Montpelier, Vt.\n\nCONN.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\n  Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn.\n\nN.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\n  Mrs. William Spalding, Salmon Block, Syracuse, N.Y.\n\nALA.--Woman's Missionary Association, Secretary,\n  Mrs. G.W. Andrews, Talladega, Ala.\n\nOHIO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\n  Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin, Ohio.\n\nIND.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\n  Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne, Ind.\n\nILL.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\n  Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago, Ill.\n\nMINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary,\n  Miss Katharine Plant, 2651 Portland Avenue,\n  Minneapolis, Minn.\n\nIOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\n  Miss Ella E. Marsh, Grinnell, Iowa.\n\nKANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary,\n  Mrs. G.L. Epps, Topeka, Kan.\n\nMICH.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\n  Mrs. Mary B. Warren, Lansing, Mich.\n\nWIS.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\n  Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, Wis.\n\nNEB.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\n  Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 N. Broad St., Fremont, Neb.\n\nCOLORADO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\n  Mrs. S.M. Packard, Pueblo, Colo.\n\nDAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, President,\n  Mrs. T.M. Hills, Sioux Falls; Secretary, Mrs.\n  W.R. Dawes, Redfield; Treasurer, Mrs. S.E.\n  Fifield, Lake Preston.\n\nWe would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State\nMissionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association be\nsent to us through the treasurers of the Union. Care, however, should be\ntaken to designate the money as for the American Missionary Association,\nsince _undesignated funds will not reach us_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOne of the most encouraging signs of the times is found in the numerous\nletters that are now received at the Woman's Bureau of the following\nimport:\n\n\"We have started a 'Young Ladies' Missionary Society,' and are anxious\nto inform ourselves in regard to the different Indian Missions. Please\nforward whatever you have that relates to the past and present work.\"\n\n\"We have received the missionary letters you sent and are very anxious\nto learn more about the colored people of the South, and also the\nMountain Whites, of whom we have very little knowledge.\"\n\n\"Kindly send us all information at your command regarding the Chinese\nand Mountain Whites and the work of the Association among them. The\nladies of our Missionary Society are taking up these subjects as studies\nfor their meetings.\"\n\n\"The missionary letters are full of interest, and the ladies are always\nattentive listeners.\"\n\n\"We take pleasure in enclosing check for forty dollars toward the salary\nof Miss ----. The ladies of our society are much interested in her work\nand have also been sewing for the boarding hall.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIn response to inquiry from many who wish to sew, while also studying\nthe missions and contributing to the support of teachers, we give below\na list of standard needs in all our mission homes and boarding halls.\n\n_Furnishing._--Sheets and bed-ticks for double beds; pillow cases for\npillows twenty to twenty-two inches wide; bed spreads, large size;\nquilts of medium weight; tablecloths from three to five yards long;\nnapkins, kitchen towels; rugs or mats for the floor.\n\n_Garments._--Underwear for boys and girls of ages from twelve to twenty,\nespecially night wear, of strong, unbleached muslin; work aprons for\nstudents in industrial schools; dresses of all sizes, of print, gingham\nor wool; long-sleeved aprons for children.\n\n_Sundries._--Shoe bags, soiled-clothes bags, spool and thimble bags,\nwhisk broom cases, comb and brush cases, hairpin holders, pin cushions,\npaper and letter racks, bureau covers, stand covers, lamp mats, etc.\n\nWhatever a girl or boy may need away from home to maintain habits of\nneatness and order, and for refining influences, these students need in\nour boarding-schools. We can always assign special schools to those who\nwill render this form of help.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCHRISTMAS AT FORT YATES, DAKOTA.\n\n     Our readers will be glad to welcome Miss Josephine E. Barnaby to\n     her new field of work, and to a place in the pages of the\n     _Missionary_. She is of the Omaha tribe, was a student at\n     Hampton, then spent some time in a training school for nurses in\n     New Haven, Connecticut, and is now the assistant of Miss Collins\n     at the Grand River Station.\n\n     Miss Collins writes of her: \"Josephine is very much interested\n     in her work. She said to-day, 'I wish every one interested in\n     Indians could come here and stay long enough to see how the\n     foundation _ought to be laid_, and how much better off our\n     native teachers, Elias and Wakanna, are with the Bible knowledge\n     they have without the English, than the Indians are who speak\n     English and are without Christ.' She knows, for her people are\n     largely godless but English-speaking.\"\n\n_My Dear Friends_:\n\nWe have been so busy getting ready for Christmas that we have had no\ntime to write to our friends. Miss Collins told the Indians on Sunday\nlast that we were going to have a tree and wanted all the Indians to\ncome, the real old ones as well as the young men and women. She told\nthem of how our Saviour was born on Christmas day, how the people came\nand gave him gifts, and we, in remembering his birthday, would give them\nlittle gifts. The next day, a very old woman came to the school-house\nand told Mary (that is the native teacher's wife) that she heard we were\ngoing to have a \"Ghost feast\" and give away everything we had, so she\nthought she would come and ask for one of the school-room lamps for fear\nshe might not get it if she waited, as there would be so many people to\nget the things, and she needed a lamp very much.\n\nDoesn't that sound like an Indian? I was very sorry the poor woman did\nnot get the lamp.\n\nYesterday morning, while Miss Collins pinned the names on to the\npresents, I went up to the school-house, and by the help of two native\nteachers planted the tree in a cracker-box and put the little colored\ncandles on. In the afternoon, we took the presents up and hung them on\nthe tree; we put up a curtain to hide the tree, and then in the evening\nput out several Japanese lanterns on the corners of the house and over\nthe door, and rang the bell; while the bell was ringing, you could see\nthe Indians coming from all parts of the village. It was a pretty sight.\nThe ground was covered with snow, it was just between the light and\ndark, and a few bright stars were shining through the clouds.\n\nThe room is not very large, so Miss Collins proposed that they should\nstand. It was well they did, for they were packed tightly together, the\nmen and boys on one side, the women and girls on the other.\n\nAfter all came, we sang \"Joy to the World,\" in Dakota, with several\nother hymns; they all sang very loud. Then Wakanna told them about\nChrist's birthday, then we lighted the little candles and took the\ncurtain away, and you can imagine there were some wide-open eyes and\nbig, smiling faces. There were over two hundred, and each one received\nsomething; as one man came to day and said to Miss Collins, \"Why,\nWinona, you did not forget the little babies; their names were read out\nthe same as the old men.\" The tree was very pretty, and it would be\nuseless for me to tell what each one received, but the boys were\ndelighted with their tops as much as the girls were with their pretty\ndolls; the old men received feather fans and were delighted. After they\nhad their gifts, we passed refreshments; we then had the fireworks; the\nred light was wonderful to them--the first they had ever seen. They went\nhome seeming very happy.\n\nWe want to thank our friends who were so kind as to send us those pretty\nthings for the Christmas tree.\n\nI myself have never before spent such a happy Christmas, because\npreviously all my kind friends have always tried to make me happy, and\nthis time I worked hard to make some one else happy, and I find that is\nthe best kind of happiness.\n\nMy benches were almost crowded to-day in school, as I had so many\nchildren; married women come with the children; they are all very\nanxious and earnest to learn to read and write. I ask you to pray, my\ndear friends, that there may be some good seed sown each day, that may\nspring up and bring forth fruit for His service.\n\nTruly your Indian Friend,\n\nJOSEPHINE E. BARNABY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISS COLLINS.\n\n     Our friends will recollect Miss Collins's visit to the East, and\n     many will cherish a very pleasant remembrance of her addresses\n     at Lake Mohonk and elsewhere. We give below extracts from a\n     letter received from her, presenting a vivid picture of her\n     experience in crossing the Missouri River with the ice breaking\n     up, the loss of her clothing, and her subsequent labors among\n     her people at home.\n\nI was so late in returning from the meetings at Oahe, though I hurried\nas fast as possible, that the river was frozen, detaining us nearly\nthree weeks. The ice broke, letting the wagon with all my winter\nsupplies go down. My trunks with all my clothing also went down. It\nwholly ruined all the clothing which could not be washed. My best dress\nwas a frozen block of ice when I took it out--can never be worn again,\nand, in fact, all my clothes were ice. I was so thankful that no lives\nwere lost that it hardly seems worth speaking of. I find myself poorer,\nif not wiser. I am worked down at present. Have kept \"open house\" now\nfor two weeks, and my head refuses to be worked any further. Miss\nEmerson must wait for my letter. After Christmas I can write. I have so\nmany patients, and so much work to take care of spoiled clothes and\nprovisions, and to look out for winter supplies again, that I am not in\na condition to write.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFOR THE CHILDREN.\n\nA few weeks ago, I stood by my window watching the children gathering\nfor school. My attention was attracted to three girls coming up the\nstreet, one carrying a bundle done up in a handkerchief in one hand and\nbooks in the other, while the other two carried a trunk between them. As\nthey turned toward the house, I ran down to meet them; they came with\nsmiles, saying they had come to school. As I bade them welcome, my eyes\nfilled with tears, and a prayer went up to God that he would bless those\ngirls and make them a blessing. Susan, Angeline and Emma have proved to\nbe intelligent, pleasant girls and very appreciative.\n\nI have had one hundred and seven girls in sewing, this quarter; they\nseem as interested in their work as ever. Some of the older girls are\ndoing well in cutting and basting. We hope to have a class in\ndressmaking soon. The little ones are very happy to have sewing days\ncome. I am often met with the question, \"Is us going to sew to-day?\" I\nmeet these forty little ones in a large sunny room, (that is to be our\nparlor some day, I hope) for an hour and a half each week. Their eyes\nbrighten at the sight of the basins of water and the work basket. They\napply themselves as demurely as their elder sisters; they love to sing\nlittle sewing songs and hear stories while they ply the needle.\n\nFrom a teacher in Beach Institute, Savannah:\n\nOne of my new pupils has a name much longer than himself. It is Ulysses\nVirginia Lee, and in addition, the surname Smith. Another new boy is\nJosie _Mike_, and I think it might well be changed to \"Mite,\" because he\nis such a small specimen. He could not tell his age, and we thought him\ntoo much of a baby to come, but took him for a week on trial, and as he\nis rapidly learning the ways of the school, we shall let him stay. Last\nFriday, while trying to impress upon him that only good behavior would\ninsure him a desk in my room, I wrote some of his sayings. \"Why do you\nwant to come here to school?\" \"To larn something.\" \"What if you are\nnaughty and we send you away?\" \"Go to other school.\" \"Why did you leave\nthat other school?\" \"They won't teach me nothin.\" In answer to the\nquestion what kind of a boy he intended to be, instead of saying \"good\"\nas I expected, he replied, \"I'll be a Beach boy.\" So he was ready with\nan answer to every question, and I am only sorry that I cannot reproduce\nfor you his little face and the funny inflections of his voice, as he\nlooked me right in the eye, his own little eyes just dancing with fun.\n\nOne of the little Indian girls whose name is Polly has just come in to\nask, \"Miss D., what is a wog? One white boy called me a polliwog, and I\nthought a wog must be something bad.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR JANUARY, 1889.\n\n\n\nMAINE. $1,161.38.\n\nAuburn. High St. Cong. Ch., (of which\n  131.70 _for Freedmen_; 40.77 _for\n  Indian M._ and 9.26 _for Chinese M._)       $247.00\n\nBangor. Central Ch., _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._       5.00\n\nBath. Central Ch. and Soc.                      46.45\n\nBluehill. Mrs. A.D. Hinckley on _True\n  Blue Card_                                     5.00\n\nBrunswick. Bbl. and Box of C. Mrs. E.\n  Lincoln, 2, _for Selma, Ala._                  2.00\n\nCastine. Class 9, Trin. Sab. Sch. _for\n  Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                      1.70\n\nCastine. Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington N.C._\n\nCumberland Mills. Warren Ch., to const.\n  WINGATE C. TITCOMB and HUGH M.\n  WOODSIDE L.M.'s                               89.29\n\nCumberland. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for\n  Selma, Ala., 2 for Freight_                    2.00\n\nDennysville. Cong. Ch.                          12.75\n\nFalmouth. Second Cong. Ch., _for Freight\n  to Macon, Ga._                                 2.00\n\nFryeburg. Cong. Ch.                              6.30\n\nGorham. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._; 3.04\n  _for Freight_                                  3.04\n\nGorham. Miss E.B. Emery, _for Freight\n  to Sherwood, Tenn._                            2.00\n\nHampden. Mrs. R.S. Curtis                        3.00\n\nHarpswell Center. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n\nLimerick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    18.00\n\nLimington. Cong. Ch.                            12.00\n\nNorridgewock. Missionary Sewing Class,\n  by Woman's Aid to A.M.A.                      30.25\n\nNorth Bridgeton. ----, _for Wilmington, N.C._   10.00\n\nNorth Bridgeton. Ladies of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Freight to Tougaloo, Miss._               2.00\n\nOquinquit. B. Maxwell                           25.00\n\nOrland. \"Friends,\" 23, \"A Friend,\" 1            24.00\n\nPatten. Members Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,\n  _for Emerson Inst., Mobile, Ala._\n\nPortland. Second Parish Ch., bal. 161.01;\n  State St. Cong. Ch., 150.00; High St. Ch.,\n  108.30; Sab. Sch. High St. Ch., H.W.\n  Shaylor's Class, 8; Williston Ch., adl.\n  78.83, to const. DEA. JOHN H. TRUE, DEA.\n  N.W. EDSON, DEA. S.R. WILCOX, DEA.\n  SAMUEL PETERS and GEO. F. THURSTON\n  L.M.'s                                       506.14\n\nPortland. Brown Thurston's S.S. Class\n  in High St. Ch., _for Hampton N. and A.\n  Inst._                                        15.00\n\nRockland. Cong. Ch.                             16.59\n\nSaccarappa. Second Cong. Ch., Westbrook         60.16\n\nSkowhegan. Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C., _for\n  Selma, Ala._\n\nSouth Berwick. Miss Ricker's S.S. Class,\n  1.52; Miss Brooking's S.S. Class, 42c;\n  Mrs. Lewis 45c, _for Wilmington, N.C._         2.39\n\nSumner. _For Freight to Wilmington, N.C._        2.00\n\nUnion. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n\nWaterford. Cong. Ch., 3.85 and Sab, Sch.\n  6.47, _for Mountain Work_                     10.32\n\nWaterville. Bbl. of Merchandise, _for\n  Meridian, Miss._\n\n\n\nNEW HAMPSHIRE, $515.35.\n\nBedford. Presb. Ch.                              2.56\n\nBrookline. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                4.00\n\nCamden. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      16.25\n\nChester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     10.00\n\nConcord. Granite Mission Band, 10;\n  Frank Coffin's S.S. Class, 10, _for\n  Wilmington, N.C._                             20.00\n\nConcord. \"Light Bearers,\" by Mrs. Alice\n  M. Nims, _for Santee Indian M._               10.00\n\nExeter. Mrs. John L. Lovering, _for Freight\n  to Jellico, Tenn._                             1.00\n\nEast Derry. First Ch., adl.                      2.03\n\nFarmington. Cong. Ch.                           12.22\n\nHanover. \"Friend,\" 20; \"Friend\" 10;\n  Brewster Pelton, 1; Miss Mary Pelton,\n  1; Children's Offering, 2, _for\n  Rosebud Indian M._                            34.00\n\nHanover Center. Cong. Ch.                        1.80\n\nHarrisville. Mrs. L.B. Richardson               10.00\n\nKeene. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 120,\n  to const. DEA. HARVEY PHILLIPS, WILLIAM\n  H. JONES, HERBERT E. FAY and\n  WILLARD I. BISHOP L.M.'s; Sab. Sch. of\n  Second Cong. Co., 43.31                      163.31\n\nManchester. Franklin St. Ch., adl.              27.70\n\nMilford. First Cong. Ch., (1 of which _for\n  Mountain Work_), to const. MRS. N.W.\n  ROBINSON, SUSIE H. KIMBALL and ROYAL\n  MANSFIELD L.M.'s                             100.00\n\nMilton. \"A Lady.\"                                1.00\n\nNashua. First Cong. Ch.                         19.45\n\nPembroke. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., 25.85;\n  Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, 5                      30.85\n\nPenacook. Cong. Ch.                             21.18\n\nSouth Newmarket. Cong. Ch. and Soc.              8.00\n\nSouth Newmarket. Miss H.L. Fitts, 2\n  Bbls. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._\n\nStoddard. Pkg. material for Sewing\n  Class, etc., _for Meridian, Miss._\n\nWest Lebanon. \"Children's Band,\" by\n  Mrs. C.E. Havens, _for Storrs Sch.,\n  Atlanta, Ga._                                 20.00\n\n\n\nVERMONT, $614.96.\n\nBarnet. Cong. Ch., 50.66 and Sab. Sch.,\n  18.12; Alexander Holmes, 20                   88.78\n\nBarton. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nBarton Landing. Children's Miss'y Soc.,\n  _for Santee Indian M._, adl                    5.00\n\nBethel. Mrs. Laura F. Sparhawk                   5.00\n\nBrattleboro. \"A Friend.\"                         5.00\n\nBrownington. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._;\n  5 _for Freight_                                5.00\n\nCambridge. Mrs. Charlotte Safford, Bbl.\n  of C., etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nCharlotte. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._; 1\n  _for Freight_                                  1.00\n\nCharlotte. Minerva E. Wing, _for Marion, Ala._   1.00\n\nChester. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                 26.00\n\nCoventry. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nDerby. Ladies of Cong. Soc., _for McIntosh, Ga._ 3.00\n\nEast Burke. Pkg. Christmas Cards, _for\n  McIntosh, Ga._\n\nEast Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.          58.26\n\nEnosburg. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nFairlee. Mrs. P.C. Blodgett                      2.00\n\nGeorgia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     14.40\n\nGranby. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., Infant\n  Class, _for Rosebud Indian M._                 1.02\n\nJonesville. Union Soc.                           9.60\n\nManchester. \"A Friend.\"                          5.50\n\nMarlboro. Rev. O.F. Thayer                       1.00\n\nMcIndoes Falls. Cong. Ch.                       10.00\n\nMontpelier. Bethany Sab. Sch., _for McIntosh,\n  Ga._                                          13.26\n\nNewport. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._; 2\n  _for Freight_                                  2.00\n\nNorth Craftsbury. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh,\n  Ga._; 3 _for Freight_                          3.00\n\nNorth Thetford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.               5.00\n\nPittsford. Mrs. Nancy P. Humphrey               10.00\n\nRichmond. Cong. Ch.                             20.00\n\nRutland. Young Ladies' Miss'y League,\n  _for Indian Sch'p_                            70.00\n\nRutland. King's Daughters, Pkg., _for McIntosh,\n  Ga._\n\nSaint Albans. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Student\n  Aid, Fisk U._                                 50.00\n\nSaint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch.                30.00\n\nSaint Johnsbury. Sab. Sch. of South\n  Cong Ch., _for McIntosh, Ga._                 30.00\n\nSaint Johnsbury. \"Friend,\" _for Marion, Ala._    5.00\n\nSouth Royalton. Mrs. Susan H. Jones             25.00\n\nWaterbury. Cong. Ch.                             9.20\n\nWest Brattleboro. Cong. Ch.                     24.81\n\nWest Brattleboro. Ladies of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Freight to McIntosh, Ga._                 5.00\n\nWestminster West. Bbl. of C.,\n  _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nWest Randolph. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                8.00\n\nWindsor. \"A Friend,\" 25; Cong. Ch. and\n  Soc., 6.75; Cong. Ch., Mrs. John E.\n  Freeman, 3, to const. ALONZO KENT L.M.        34.75\n\nWoodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   16.38\n\n----. \"Friends,\" _for Freight to\n  McIntosh, Ga._                                 1.00\n\nVermont Woman's Home Missionary\n  Union, by Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks,\n  Treas., _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Pittsford. Sab. Sch. of Cong.\n      Ch., _for McIntosh, Ga._       20.00      20.00\n\n                                           ----------\n\n                                              $623.96\n\nESTATE.\n\nJericho. Estate of Hosea Spaulding,\n  C.M. Spaulding, 10; A.K. Spaulding, 5;\n  K.J. Spaulding, 3; Nellie M. Percival, 3      21.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                              $644.96\n\n\n\nMASSACHUSETTS, $11,013.71.\n\nAbington. Mrs. H.F. Peirce, _for Cal.\n  Chinese M._                                    2.00\n\nAdams. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                    22.25\n\nAmherst. Mrs. Wright, 5; Mrs. Wm.\n  Bangs, 2; Mrs. Lucy Bentley, 2; Miss\n  Jennie Kendricks, S.S. Class, 1;\n  Cong. Ch., Bbl. and Box of C.,\n  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                    10.00\n\nAndover. West. Cong. Ch., adl, 46.78;\n  South Cong. Ch., adl, 56.20                  102.98\n\nAndover. Juvenile Mission Circle of West\n  Cong. C., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._          25.00\n\nAshby. Cong. Ch.    13.25\n\nAshfield. \"Ishi,\" _for Indian M._                2.00\n\nAshland. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                 11.37\n\nBedford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     25.00\n\nBeverly. Washington St. Cong. Ch.               17.57\n\nBoston. Shawmut Cong. Ch.           472.83\n\n        Union Ch.                   190.55\n\n        Park St. Homeland Circle,\n         by Isabella H. Hobart,\n         Treas., 100, _for\n         Tougaloo U._; 54,\n         _for Student Aid,\n         Straight U._;\n         30, _for Mountain Work_,\n         and 6, _for Indian M._     190.00\n\n        S.D. Smith, Organ            75.00\n\n        Y.P.S.C.E., of Park St.\n        Ch., _for Indian Sch'p,\n        Oahe, Dak._                  50.00\n\n        W.H.M. Ass'n,\n        _for Santee Indian M._       10.83\n\n        Rev. C.J. Ryder, _for\n          Sch'p Endowment Fund_      10.00\n\n        \"Cash.\"                       1.88\n\nDorchester. Second Cong. Ch.        104.31\n\n        Mrs. Eleanor J.W.\n          Baker, _for Student Aid,\n          Fisk U._                   60.00\n\n        Thos. Knapp's S.S.\n          Class, 8; B. Wilkins's\n          S.S. Class, 8,\n          _for Wilmington, N.C._     16.00\n\n        Mrs. Mary A. Tuttle,\n          _for Indian M._            10.00\n\n  Jamaica Plain. Nellie F. Riley,\n    _for Sherwood, Tenn._             2.00\n\n  Roxbury. Immanuel Cong. Ch.       102.43\n\n     Sab. Sch. of Immanuel Cong, Ch.,\n     _for Indian M._                 50.00\n\n     South Boston. \"A Member of\n       Phillips Ch.\"                 50.00\n\n     West Roxbury. South Evan.\n       Cong. Ch.                     22.14\n\n                                   -------   1,417.97\n\nBrockton. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C.,\n  _for Marion, Ala._\n\nBrookline. Harvard Cong. Ch.                   189.27\n\nBrimfield. First Cong. Ch.                       7.40\n\nCambridge. Margaret Shepard Soc.,\n  _for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga._                9.00\n\nCambridgeport. Prospect St. Ch., 131.01;\n  Pilgrim Ch., 37.45                           168.46\n\nCampello. Mrs. Allen Leach                       0.50\n\nChelsea. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                    25.00\n\nChelsea. Miss E. Davenport,\n  _for Mountain Work_                            5.00\n\nClarendon Hills. Cong. Ch.                       9.00\n\nCohasset. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.             10.91\n\nConcord. Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt                     5.00\n\nCurtisville. Geo. E. Dresser, 6;\n  Mrs. Frances M. Clarke, 5                     11.00\n\nDalton. Mrs. James B. Crane                    100.00\n\nDedham. Allen Evan Sab. Sch. of First Ch.,\n  _for Student Aid, Straight U._                13.76\n\nEasthampton. \"S.R.,\" _for Rosebud Indian M._     1.00\n\nEast Marshfield. Mrs. C.T. Prior's S.S. Class    5.00\n\nEaston. Cong. Ch., 16.60; Sab. Sch. of\n  Evan. Cong. Ch. (30. of which special,\n  from one class, _for Lady Student_)\n  71.72, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._             88.32\n\nEnfield. Mrs. F.S. Wood's S.S. class,\n  _for Indian Sch'p_                            15.00\n\nFall River. Central Cong. Ch.                  169.47\n\nFall River. First Cong. Ch. (of which 24.60\n  _for Indian M._)                              86.82\n\nFall River. Mary L. Holmes,\n  _for Indian M._                               10.00\n\nFitchburg. William Leathe,\n  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                    10.00\n\nFramingham. Plymouth Ch. and Soc.               74.28\n\nGardner. Members of First Cong. Sab.\n  Sch. Christmas Offering                        8.57\n\nGilbertville. Cong. Ch., to const.\n  REV. ARTHUR TITCOMB L.M.                      40.28\n\nGloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch.                     64.00\n\nGreenwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    7.27\n\nGroveland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   11.00\n\nHardwick. Calvinistic Ch.                        4.45\n\nHaverhill. Center Cong. Ch. and Soc., 106;\n  Proceeds of Harvest Festival West Cong.\n  Sab. Sch., 30; Class No 2, 11.30; Class\n  No. 4, 8.09; to const. F.A. RUSSELL L.M.;\n  West Cong. Ch., 10                           165.39\n\nHaverhill. Mrs. Geo. Gleason, Bbl. of C.,\n  _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nHaydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 13.72\n\nHolbrook. Sab. Sch. of Winthrop Ch., _for\n  Student Aid, Tillotson C. and N. Inst._,\n  in part                                       41.52\n\nHolliston. \"A Friend.\"                         100.00\n\nHolyoke. F.B. Towne, 9.50, _for Macon, Ga._,\n  (incorrectly ack. in January number\n  from F.B. Jones)\n\nHopkinton. Cong. Ch. in part 66.84;\n  Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Primary Class. 5;\n  \"A Friend,\" 50c                               72.34\n\nHopkinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Mobile, Ala._                             4.00\n\nHuntington. First Cong. Ch.                      5.00\n\nHyde Park. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.               23.83\n\nIpswich. South Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._,\n  10; Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch.,75;\n  _for Student Aid, Ramona Sch., Santa Fe._     85.00\n\nIpswich. First Ch. and Soc., _for Ramona Sch.,\n  Santa Fe, N.M._                                0.05\n\nIslington. \"An old time friend,\n  81 years old.\"                                 5.00\n\nLakeville. \"A Friend.\"                           4.50\n\nLawrence. Lawrence St Cong. Ch.                193.93\n\nLeicester. First Cong. Ch.                     122.31\n\nLexington. Hancock Ch.                          10.16\n\nLinden. \"A Friend\" for L.M., and\n  _for Mountain Work_                           30.00\n\nLongmeadow. Thomas P. Carleton,\n  _for Testaments, Fort Yates, Indian Boys_      2.00\n\nLowell. Kirk St. Cong. Ch.                     125.80\n\nLudlow. Mission Circle, by M.E. Jones,\n  Bbl. of C., _for Macon, Ga._\n\nLudlow. Mission Circle, Bbl. of C., etc.,\n  _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nMarshfield. _For Freight to Wilmington, N.C._    1.45\n\nMelrose. \"A Lady Friend.\"                        5.00\n\nMiddlefield. Cong. Ch.                          18.00\n\nMilton. Mrs. T.E. Ruggles' Mite Box              3.16\n\nMonson. Sarah E. Bradford                        4.00\n\nNatick. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.            60.00\n\nNewburyport. Mrs. Ann P. Bassett, 10;\n  Foster W. Smith, 5                            15.00\n\nNewton. Eliot Ch.                              231.09\n\nNewton Center. J.M.E. Drake, _for Rosebud\n  Indian M._ and to const. J.M.E.\n  DRAKE, DURANT DRAKE and STELLA\n  DRAKE L.M.'s                                 100.00\n\nNewton Center. First Cong. Ch.                  92.25\n\nNewton Center. Maria Furber Miss'y Soc.\n  First Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._         2.00\n\nNorfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      5.00\n\nNorth Adams. Cong. Ch.                         190.41\n\nNorth Amherst. Mrs. Johnson's S.S.\n  Class, 20; Mrs. C.H. Bentley's S.S.\n  Class, 10; Mrs. G.E. Fischer, 15,\n  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                    45.00\n\nNorth Amherst. Bbl. of C., _for Fisk U._\n\nNorthampton. \"C.\"                              170.00\n\nNorth Brookfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong.\n  Ch., _for Student Aid, Santee\n  Indian Sch._                                  25.00\n\nNorthfield. Trin. Cong. Ch.                     15.00\n\nNorth Weymouth. Pilgrim Ch.                     18.27\n\nNorwood. First Cong. Ch.                       108.50\n\nOtis. Rev. S.W. Powell                           5.00\n\nOtis. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch, _for Sabbath\n  School Work, Beach Inst, Savannah, Ga._        3.47\n\nOxford. Sab. Sen. of First Cong. Ch.            23.33\n\nPeabody. \"Friend,\" _for Marion, Ala._            5.00\n\nPeabody. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch. 3\n  Boxes of C., etc. _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nPittsfield. James H. Dunham                     50.00\n\nPittsfield. \"Friends,\" Bbl. and Box of C.,\n  _for Marion, Ala._\n\nPittsfield. Mrs. H.M. Hurd, Bbl. C., etc.,\n  _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nPrinceton. Cong. Ch., Box of C.,\n  _for Wilmington, N.C._\n\nQuincy. Rev. E. Norton, _for tuition of a\n  little boy, Gregory Inst.,\n  Wilmington, N.C._                              8.00\n\nReading. Cong. Ch.                              18.00\n\nRehoboth. Cong. Ch.                              4.50\n\nRockland. Cong. Ch.                             30.00\n\nRockland. Miss C. Chase, _for freight to\n  Nashville, Tenn._                              1.35\n\nSalem. South Cong. Ch., 67.41; Crombie\n  St. Ch. and Soc, 62.19                       129.60\n\nSomerville. E. Stone,_for Student Aid,\n  Fisk U._                                      50.00\n\nSomerville. Day St. Cong. Ch., 16.13; W.E.\n  Valentine of Day St. Ch., 1.15                17.28\n\nSouthbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 77.07\n\nSouthbridge. Miss N. Vinton, _for Freight\n  to Wilmington, N.C._                           1.00\n\nSouth Weymouth. Ladies of Second Cong.\n  Ch., Bbl. and Box of C., _for\n  Wilmington, N.C._\n\nSpencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.              149.39\n\nSpencer. W.H.M.S., _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._        10.00\n\nWakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. in part           55.63\n\nWaltham. Trin. Cong. Ch.                        29.03\n\nWaltham. \"Friend,\" _for Marion, Ala._            5.00\n\nWare. Mrs. Wm. Hyde and Miss S.R.\n  Sage, _for Native Indian Missionary_         225.00\n\nWare. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., H.B. Anderson's\n  Class, 85; East Cong. Sab. Sch., 25,\n  _for Indian M._                               60.00\n\nWare. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of First Cong.\n  Ch., 15; Wm. L. Brakenridge, 5                20.00\n\nWarren. L.H.M.S. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._               70.00\n\nWarren. Cong. Ch.                               30.00\n\nWebster. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.               17.00\n\nWellesley. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 170.34;\n  Miss Mary A. Stevens, 10                     180.34\n\nWest Attleboro. First Cong. Ch.                  7.87\n\nWestboro. Evan. Cong. Ch.                      108.09\n\nWestboro. Young Ladies' Benev. Soc., by\n  Miss E.L. Howard, _for Mountain Work_         20.00\n\nWest Brookfield. Cong. Ch.                      47.00\n\nWest Newbury. J.C. Carr                          4.00\n\nWhitinsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for School Work, Meridian, Miss._            75.00\n\nWilliamsburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to\n  const. REV. HENRY SPEKE SNYDER L.M.           50.70\n\nWilmington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n  Student Aid, Straight U._                     13.00\n\nWinchester. First Cong. Ch. (5.92 of which\n  _for Indian M._)                             119.61\n\nWoburn. First Cong. Ch. 155.66; North\n  Cong. Ch., 19.98                             175.64\n\nWoburn. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Mountain Work_                           15.00\n\nWoburn. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  6.20; Mrs. Susan T. Greenough, 5              11.20\n\nWorcester. Piedmont Ch., 96.64; Salem\n  St. Ch., 19.28; \"Friend,\" 25                 140.92\n\nWorcester. Mrs. Geo. M. Price, _for Sch'p,\n  Santee Indian Sch._                           35.00\n\nWorcester. \"Friend,\" 9; Central Ch.,\n  Bbl. of C. and Christmas gifts,\n  _for Marion, Ala._, 2.40 _for Freight_        11.40\n\nHampden Benevolent Association, by\n  Charles Marsh, Treas.:\n\n    Blandford                         5.00\n\n    Chicopee, First                   4.56\n\n    East Longmeadow                  19.00\n\n    Holyoke, Second                  53.19\n\n    Palmer, Second                   27.00\n\n    South Hadley Falls               16.00\n\n    Springfield, First               90.69\n\n    Springfield, South               92.02\n\n    Westfield. Sab. Sch. of\n      First Ch., _for Sch'p,\n      Hampton Inst._                 70.00\n\n    Westfield, _for Jewett Mem.\n      Hall, Grand View, Tenn._       50.00\n\n                                   -------     427.46\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                            $7,503.71\n\n\nESTATES.\n\nCambridge. Estate of C. Thayer Reed,\n  by W. Minot, Jr., Trustee                  1,000.00\n\nGreenfield. Estate of Martha O. Farrand,\n  by Mrs. Ellen M. Russell                     200.00\n\nPhillipston. Estate of Trowbridge Ward,\n  by James Watts, Ex.                        1,300.00\n\nPittsfield. Estate of Asaph D. Foot, by\n  Joseph Foot, Ex.                           1,000.00\n\n                                           ----------\n                                           $11,003.71\n\n\nCLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.\n\nFalmouth. Me. Second Cong. Ch., Bbl.\n  _for Macon, Ga._\n\nGorham, Me. Miss E.B. Emery, Bbl.\n  _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nNorth Bridgeton, Me. Ladies of Cong. Ch.,\n  Bbl., _for Tougaloo U._\n\nExeter, N.H. Mrs. John L. Levering, Bbl.\n  and Case, _for Jellico, Tenn._\n\nHollis, N.H. Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. _for Storrs\n  Sch., Atlanta, Ga._\n\nMason, N.H. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl.\n  _for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nBoston, Mass. Miss H.H. Stanwood, Fine\n  Steel Engraving of the Lord's Prayer,\n  _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n\nBrimfield, Mass. Ladies' Union of Second\n  Ch., Bbl., _for McLeansville, N.C._\n\nCambridgeport, Mass. Miss L, Palmer,\n  Box basted patchwork, _for Tougaloo U._\n\nRockland, Mass. Ladles' Sew. Circle of\n  Cong. Ch., Bbl. Val. 61.60, _for Fisk U._\n\nSpringfield, Mass. A Gift of Webster's\n  Unabridged Dictionary through Mrs. N.B.\n  Wilder, of Somerville, _for Pleasant\n  Hill, Tenn._\n\nWare, Mass. East Ch., Bbl., _for Birmingham, Ala._\n\nWinchester. Mass. E.D. Chapin, Bbl.\n  _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n\n\nRHODE ISLAND, $967.08.\n\nCentral Falls. \"Mission Workers,\" Cong.\n  Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._                      68.50\n\nCentral Falls. Cong. Ch.                        62.25\n\nProvidence. Mrs. Mary White, _for Jewett\n  Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._                  5.00\n\nProvidence. Union Cong. Ch. (39.75 of\n  which _for Indian M._)                       796.16\n\nNewport. United Cong. Ch. adl., 25.17;\n  \"A Friend,\" 10                                35.17\n\n\nCONNECTICUT, $4,602.55.\n\nBantam. Cornelia Bradley                        10.00\n\nBethel. Cong. Ch., 47.03; \"A Friend,\" 5         52.03\n\nBozrah. Cong. Ch.                               10.00\n\nBristol. Mission Circle, Bbl. of C. and\n  Box of Christmas Gifts,\n  _for Charleston, S.C._\n\nBroad Brook. Cong. Ch.                          13.55\n\nBrooklyn. \"In Memoriam\" of Dr. Wm.\n  Woodbridge, by Mrs. Wm. Woodbridge           200.00\n\nCentral Village. Cong. Ch.                       6.00\n\nCollinsville. Mission Circle, by Mrs. Warren,\n  Bbl. of C., 1.10 _for Freight,\n  for Charleston, S.C._                          1.10\n\nColumbia. Cong. Ch.                             26.92\n\nCornwall. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  Christmas offerings, _for Conn.\n  Ind'l Sch., Ga._                              19.50\n\nCromwell. Cong. Ch.                            140.23\n\nDanielsonville. Ladies of Westfield Cong.\n  Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Marian, Ala._,\n  10 _for Freight_                              10.00\n\nDanielsonville. Westfield Cong. Ch. and Soc.     9.06\n\nDarien. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn.\n  Ind'l Sch., Ga._                              10.00\n\nDurham. Cong. Ch.                               17.17\n\nEast Hampton. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._        38.75\n\nEast Hartford. First Ch.                        57.51\n\nEast Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.              10.00\n\nEnfield. First Cong. Ch.                        75.00\n\nEnfield. Primary Dept. Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n  _for Freight to Macon, Ga._                    0.75\n\nFair Haven. Second Cong. Ch.                    54.03\n\nFarmington. First Cong. Ch.                    104.73\n\nGreeneville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Student Aid, Straight U._                 7.62\n\nHadlyme. R.E. Hungerford, 100; Cong.\n  Ch., 2.36; J.W. Hungerford, 100              202.36\n\nHartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch.                276.30\n\nHartford. First Cong. Ch., 50; C.A.\n  Jewell, 25; Miss C.A. Jewell, 25;\n  Henry Roberts, 25; John C. Parsons, 10;\n  Rev. Wm. Thompson, D.D., 10;\n  Miss Fannie H. Wells, 5, _for Tougaloo U._   150.00\n\nHartford. Sab. Sch. of Park Ch., 15; Sab.\n  Sch. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., 10,\n  _for Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._     25.00\n\nHartford. Girls Circle, Sab. Sch. of Fourth\n  Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n  Grand View Normal Sch._                       25.00\n\nHarwinton. \"A Friend,\" to const. DEA.\n  A.W. BUELL L.M.                               30.00\n\nHigganum. Cong. Ch.                             15.00\n\nJewett City. Second Cong. Ch.                   19.83\n\nKensington. Cong, Ch., to const. THERON\n  UPSON L.M.                                    42.55\n\nLakeville. Sab. Sch. Class, by Mrs. Geo.\n  Burall, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._           10.00\n\nLakeville. Mrs. S.P. Robbins                     5.00\n\nLedyard. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     21.00\n\nLitchfield. Miss Phoebe F. Benton,\n  _for Indian M._                                1.00\n\nLyme. First Cong. Ch.                           42.45\n\nMadison. First Cong. Ch. (5 of which from\n  Mrs. A.D. Lee, _for Mountain Work_)            9.00\n\nManchester Center. Ladies' Benev. Soc.\n  of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._     22.00\n\nMeriden. A.W. Gardner, _for Jewett Mem.\n  Hall, Grand View, Tenn._                       1.00\n\nMiddlefield. John O. Couch, 85; Rev. A.\n  Winter, 10, _for Jewett Mem. Hall,\n  Grand View, Tenn._                            35.00\n\nMiddleton. Miss Williams, 50; John N.\n  Camp, 25, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._      75.00\n\nMilford. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Ch.,\n  _for Bird's Nest, Santee Agency_              24.54\n\nMystic Bridge. Cong. Ch.                        16.00\n\nNew Britain. Sab. Sch. of First Ch., _for\n   Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._         25.00\n\nNew Haven. College St. Cong. Ch.                56.85\n\nNew Haven. Dwight Place Cong. Ch., Bbl.\n  of C., _for Fisk U._\n\nNew London. Second Cong. Ch.                   664.80\n\nNew London. Mrs. J.N. Harris, _for\n  Indian M._                                    20.00\n\nNew Preston. Mrs. Betsey Averill\n  (5 of which _for Mountain Work_)              10.00\n\nNewtown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     15.00\n\nNorthfield. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._    8.00\n\nNorfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    159.85\n\nNorfolk. \"Friend,\" _for Indian Sch'p._          17.50\n\nNorth Greenwich. Cong. Ch.                      69.82\n\nNorwich. Second Cong. Ch., ad'l. 208.70,\n  to const. MISS HENRIETTA LANZ, MRS.\n  LOUISE M. WOODMANSEE, MRS. MARGARET\n  J. PARKS, JOHN P. HUNTINGTON,\n  WILLIAM JARDINE, MISS MABEL A. UNDERWOOD,\n  MRS. MARTHA A. ROATH, EVERARD\n  P. BRIGDEN, and WM. SMITH WILSON L.M.'s;\n  First Cong. Ch., 7.98                        216.68\n\nNorwich. R.D. Jones, _for Jewett Mem. Hall_,\n  _Grand View, Tenn._                            1.00\n\nNorwich Town. Miss Grace McClellan              24.00\n\nOld Lyme. Cong. Ch.                             15.70\n\nOrange. Cong. Ch.                                8.74\n\nPlymouth. Cong. Ch.                              5.00\n\nPomfret. First Cong. Ch.                        21.75\n\nPomfret Center. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 2\n  Bbl's of C., etc., _for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nPutnam. \"A Friend.\"                             17.50\n\nRoxbury. Cong. Ch., 14.69; Sab. Sch., 5;\n  Mrs. D.H. Beardsley, 4.50                     24.19\n\nSalisbury. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._                    6.62\n\nScotland. Cong. Ch.                             24.25\n\nSimsbury. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Fisk U._                                 15.00\n\nSomers. Cong. Ch.                                3.00\n\nSouth Britain. Cong. Ch.                        14.09\n\nSouthington. Cong. Ch.                          29.67\n\nSouth Windsor. First Cong. Ch.                   8.65\n\nStafford Springs. Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Mountain Work_                            8.35\n\nTerryville. Cong. Ch.                           57.33\n\nThomaston. Cong. Ch.                            10.96\n\nThomaston. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._     10.00\n\nTolland. Mrs. Lucy L. Clough                     8.00\n\nWallingford. Cong. Ch.                          89.37\n\nWaterbury. Mrs. W.H. Camp, _for Indian M._      50.00\n\nWapping. Cong. Ch.                              18.07\n\nWest Avon. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                5.00\n\nWestchester. Cong. Ch.                          17.74\n\nWest Hartford. Anson Chappell                   10.00\n\nWest Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ad'l, to\n  const. W.L.G. PRITCHARD, NATHANIEL\n  V. PERRY, MISS WINNIE KENDRICK,\n  MISS ALICE J. WALKER L.M.'s                   66.00\n\nWestminster. Westminster Cong. Ch.,\n  (5.60 of which from Mrs. A.C. Greene\n  and her S.S. Class _for Rosebud M._)\n  _for Indian M._                               11.90\n\nWestport. Saugatuck Cong. Ch., 8.44;\n  Saugatuck Cong. Sab. Sch., 5.96               14.40\n\nWilton. Cong. Ch., 60;\n  Mrs. S.L. Adams, 5                            65.00\n\nWindsor. First Cong. Ch., _for Grand\n  View Normal Inst._                            30.00\n\nWindsor. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Indian Sch'p_                            18.03\n\nWinsted. Mrs. M.A. Mitchell,\n  _for Talladega C._                            25.00\n\nWinthrop. Mrs. M.A. Jones, 1.50;\n  Miss C. Rice, 1                                2.50\n\nWoodbridge. Cong. Ch.                           12.50\n\nWoodstock. Miss Frances H. Butler, Pkg.\n  of C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nWoman's Cong. H.M. Union of Conn.,\n  by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec:\n\n    Bridgeport. \"A Friend\"\n      of L.H.M.S., First Ch.,\n      _for Oahe Indian M._            5.00\n\n    Enfield. Ladies' H.M. Soc.,\n      Mrs. Horace Patton,\n      _for Santee Indian M._          5.00\n\n    Hartford. \"Mite Box,\" L.H.M.\n      Soc. Of First Ch., _for\n      Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._          1.00\n\n    South Coventry. Sab. Sch.\n      of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l\n      Sch., Ga._                      5.69\n\n                                    ------      16.69\n\n                                            ---------\n                                            $3,952.55\n\n\nESTATES.\n\nMeriden. Estate of Mrs. Betsey H.\n  Tuttle to const. JOHN TUTTLE HUBBARD L.M.,\n  by Chas. L. Taylor, Adm'r                     30.00\n\nNew Britain. Estate of Augustus Stanley,\n  by J.A. Pickett, Ex.                         500.00\n\nPomfret. Estate of Caroline D. Adams,\n  by C.M. Adams                                 20.00\n\nRocky Hill. Estate of Rev. A.B. Smith (in part)\n  by Rev. Elijah Harmon, Ex.                   100.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                            $4,602.55\n\n\nNEW YORK, $3,224.93.\n\nAlbany. Mrs. Electa M. Eames, 10,\n  Miss E. Maria Eames, 10                       20.00\n\nAlbany. Ladies' H.M.S., by Miss Celia\n  Jones, Sec., Bbl. of C.,\n _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nBinghamton. \"A Friend,\"                          5.00\n\nBrooklyn. Stephen Ballard, _for Ballard Sch.\n  Building, Macon, Ga._                      1,035.00\n\nBrooklyn. Stephen Ballard, _for Student Aid_    25.00\n\nBrooklyn. Clinton Ave. Cong. Ch., (100\n  of which from George E. Nichols,\n  _for Talladega C._)                        1,302.69\n\nBrooklyn. Atlantic Ave. Mission Sab.\n  Sch. Association, by A.C. Pohl, Treas.,\n  (30 of which _for Mountain Work_)             30.00\n\nBrooklyn. Lee Ave. Cong. Ch., 12.78;\n  Mrs. J.M. Hyde, 1                             13.78\n\nBrooklyn. Mrs. Rev. Geo. Hollis,\n  _for Mountain Work_                            5.00\n\nBuffalo. First Cong. Ch., _for Freedmen\n  and Indian M._, ad'l, to const. W.H. WASSON,\n  JOHN B. SQUIRE, FRANKLIN M. ERLENBACH,\n  MISS MAUDE DAVIS AND MISS\n  AGNES A. JUSTIN L.M.'s                       100.00\n\nCopenhagen. Cong. Ch.                           12.00\n\nFulton. Juv. Miss'y Band, Bbl of C.,\n  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nGoshen. Fannie E. Crane, _for Atlanta U._        1.00\n\nHudson. Mrs. D.A. Jones                         15.00\n\nHolley. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C.,\n  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nJamestown. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.          7.03\n\nLeRoy. Mrs. L.A. Parsons                         2.00\n\nLima. Mrs. M.D. Warner                           2.00\n\nLivonia. Mrs. William Calvert                   15.00\n\nLowville. Mrs. L.C. Hough, to const.\n  MRS. ANNA VERAH MERRILL L.M.                  30.00\n\nMarcellus. Mrs. L. Hemenway                      5.00\n\nMount Vernon. \"A Friend,\" _for Indian M._      100.00\n\nNew York. M.D. Herrick, by J. Dougall & Co.      1.00\n\nNew York. American Bible Soc., Grant\n  of Scriptures, Val.                        1,079.85\n\nNorth Walton. Union M. Soc. of Cong. Ch.        21.85\n\nNorwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 32.46;\n  H.T. Dunham, 10                               42.46\n\nOriskany. Mrs. R.W. Porter                       1.00\n\nOswego. Y.P.S.C.E., Rag Carpet,\n  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nPitcher. Miss Nancy Wire                         1.00\n\nRome. Welch Cong. Ch.                           10.00\n\nSherburne. Miss E.A. Rexford,\n  _for Mountain Work_                            5.00\n\nSyracuse. Plymouth Ch., ad'l, 35.19;\n  Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Ch., 15.71              50.90\n\nTroy. Mrs. E.C. Stewart                          0.50\n\nVernon Center. Rev. G.C. Judson                  1.00\n\nVolney. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.             3.80\n\nWalton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Mountain Work_                           66.68\n\nWarsaw. Cong. Ch.                               14.15\n\nWebster Station. Mamie Safford and\n  Others, Box of C., _for Athens, Ala._\n\nWest Brook. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.,\n  _for Indian M._                                5.00\n\nWest Winfield. Cong. Ch.                         7.50\n\nWhitesboro. Mrs. L. Halsey                      10.00\n\n----. \"A Friend,\" Communion Set,\n  8 pieces, _for Church in the South_\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y.,\n  by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas.,\n  _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Albany. Ladies' Aux.,\n    First Ch                         20.00\n\n    Camden. Ladies' Aux.             20.00\n\n    Northville. W.H.M.U.              8.00\n\n                                   -------      48.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                            $3,024.93\n\n\nESTATE.\n\nWaverly. Estate of Phebe Hepburne, by\n  Howard Elmer, Ex.                            200.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                            $3,234.93\n\n\n\nNEW JERSEY, $70.45.\n\nArlington. \"Mission Band,\" _for Student\n  Aid, Savannah, Ga._                            2.10\n\nBound Brook. Young Ladies' Mission\n  Band of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._            10.00\n\nMontclair. Bbl. of Table and Bed Linens,\n  _for Meridian, Miss._\n\nOrange. F.W. and Bleecker Van Wagenen,\n  25.50; F.W. Van Wagenen, 8.50,\n  _for Student Aid, Marion, Ala._               34.00\n\nOrange. \"Friends,\" Pkg. Christmas\n  Gifts, _for Marion, Ala._\n\nOrange. Miss M. Shoemaker                        4.50\n\nUpper Montclair. Sab. Sch. of Christian\n  Union Cong. Ch.                               15.85\n\nWoodbridge. First Cong. Ch.                      4.50\n\n\n\nPENNSYLVANIA, $35.67.\n\nEast Springfield. Mrs. C.J. Cowles               4.50\n\nFarmers Valley. E.C. Olds.                       0.50\n\nFranklin. M.E.S.S., Box of C., etc.,\n  _for Wilmington, N.C._\n\nPittsburg. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                   10.57\n\nRidgway. Y.P. Bible Class by Minnie J.\n  Kline, _for Oaks, N.C._                        5.00\n\nShenandoah. Welsh Cong. Ch.                     10.00\n\nWest Alexander. John McCoy and wife              5.00\n\n\n\nOHIO, $548.21.\n\nAkron. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Jewett\n  Memorial Hall, Grand View, Tenn._             25.00\n\nAshland. Mrs. E. Thomson                         2.28\n\nBelpre. Cong. Ch.                                7.30\n\nBerea. J.S. Smedley                              5.00\n\nCleveland. Dr. C.N. Cooper                      10.00\n\nCleveland. Young People, by Miss E.A.\n  Johnson, _for Williamsburg, Ky._               1.50\n\nCleveland. Young People, by Miss E.A.\n  Johnson, _for Mountain Work_                   1.50\n\nConneaut. H.K. Pond                              5.00\n\nDefiance. Mrs. Dr. J.L. Scott,\n  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                     5.00\n\nDover. Box of Christmas Gifts,\n  _for Athens, Ala._\n\nGeneva. \"A Friend.\"                              1.50\n\nHudson. Cong. Ch., (1.50 of which\n  _for Indian M._)                              12.00\n\nMadison. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch.         20.00\n\nMarietta. \"New Year Thank Offering,\"\n  _for Indian M._                                1.00\n\nMedina. Congregational Y.P.S.C.E.               12.45\n\nMount Vernon. Cong. Ch.                         31.00\n\nNorth Ridgeville. L.M.S., Bbl. of Preserved Fruit,\n  _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nNorwalk. Thomas Hagaman, 5;\n  Mrs. C. Lawrence, 50c                          5.50\n\nOberlin. First Cong. Ch., 61.15; Second\n  Cong. Ch., 30.53; Harris Lewis, 5;\n  Lyndon Freemen, 1.50                          98.18\n\nOberlin. Second Cong. Ch., _for Jewett Mem.\n  Hall, Grand View, Tenn._                       6.25\n\nPainesville. Cong. Ch.                          45.00\n\nTallmadge. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 15.73;\n  \"Friend of Missions,\" 9.50                    25.23\n\nToledo. Central Cong. Ch.                        7.52\n\nUnionville. Mrs. E.F. Burnell, 5;\n  Mrs. E. Stratton, 2                            7.00\n\nWindham. Wm. A. Perkins                          5.00\n\nOhio Woman's Home Missionary Union,\n  by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas.,\n  _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Columbus. Eastwood Ch.,\n      Mrs. P.L. Alcott, _for Indian\n      M._, and to const. MRS.\n      BEATRICE F. BUCKLAND L.M.      30.00\n\n    Columbus. Eastwood Ch.,\n      \"Mrs. P.A.C.,\" _for Indian\n      M._, and to const. KATHARINE\n      A. CRAFTS L.M.                 30.00\n\n    Hudson L.H.M.S.                   7.00\n\n    Oberlin. Sab. Sch. of Second\n      Cong. Ch.                      10.00\n\n    Olmsted. M.S., _for Fort\n      Yates Indian M._                5.00\n\n                                    ------      82.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                              $427.21\n\nESTATE.\n\nOberlin. Estate of Alonzo Bailey               221.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                              $648.21\n\n\n\nINDIANA, $2.00.\n\nSparta. John Hawkswell    2.00\n\n\n\nILLINOIS, $595.87.\n\nAurora. N.L. Janes                              20.00\n\nBatavia. Cong. Ch.                              41.00\n\nBone Gap. O.S. Rice                             20.00\n\nCanton. First Cong. Ch.                         30.60\n\nChicago. \"Hapland,\" 100; Sab. Sch. of\n  New England Cong. Ch., 50.61; Leavitt\n  St. Cong. Ch., 8.78                          159.39\n\nConcord. Joy Prairie Sab. Sch.,\n  _for Mountain Work_                           13.10\n\nDanville. Mrs. A.M. Swan, Box of C.,\n  etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nEnglewood. First Cong. Ch.                      29.32\n\nElmwood. Mrs. George Avery                      15.00\n\nGalesburg. First Cong. Ch., ad'l                 7.88\n\nHampton. Henry Clark                             5.00\n\nHyde Park. Harvey Olin, 1; A.W. Cole,\n  1; Class of S.S. Boys, Pres. Ch., 75c.,\n  _for Student Aid, Marion, Ala._; Sab. Sch.\n  of Pres. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C., _for Marion,\n  Ala._                                          2.75\n\nIvanhoe. Mrs. S. Sanford                         0.50\n\nKewanee. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C.,\n  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nMendon. Mrs. Jeanette Fowler, to const.\n  ARTHUR C. GARRETT L.M.                        40.00\n\nMorris. W.H.M.U. _for Woman's Work_             10.00\n\nNorth Monroeville. First Cong. Ch.               6.06\n\nOttawa. First Cong. Ch.                         45.47\n\nProvidence. Cong. Ch.                            7.80\n\nPrinceton. Cong. Ch.                            15.00\n\nRidge Prairie. Rev. Andrew Kerr                  2.00\n\nRockford. First Cong. Ch.                       42.10\n\nRockford. Blanche Goodall,\n  _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._                          3.00\n\nRoscoe. Mrs. A.A. Tuttle                         5.00\n\nSaint Charles. Cong. Ch., 16.86 and Sab.\n  Sch., 3.39                                    19.75\n\nShabbona. Cong. Ch.                             52.15\n\nShabbona. Mrs. E.J. Bouslough, Box of C.,\n  _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\n----. \"Friends.\"                                 3.00\n\n\n\nMICHIGAN, $303.81.\n\nAgricultural College. PROF. ROBERT C.\n  KEDZIE, to const. himself L.M.                30.00\n\nAnn Arbor. Mrs. Cady, Bbl. of C., etc.,\n  _for Athens, Ala._\n\nArmada. Cong. Ch., 15.30, and Sab. Sch., 2      17.30\n\nBanks. Cong. Ch.                                 8.35\n\nBenzonia. Cong. Ch., 13; W.J. Pettitt,\n  _Special_, 10; Mrs. L. Barnes, 40c.           23.40\n\nCharlevoix. Banks Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._     4.60\n\nDetroit. Trumbull Ave., Cong. Ch., 14;\n  Mrs. B.B. Hudson, 5                           19.00\n\nDetroit. Mrs. Leete, _for Student Aid,\n  Athens, Ala._                                  6.00\n\nDetroit. Sab. Sch., Trumbuil Ave. Cong.\n  Ch., Miss Park's Class, _for Santee\n  Indian M._                                     5.00\n\nEastport. Cong. Ch.                              1.75\n\nGrand Haven. Cong. Ch.                           7.00\n\nGrand Rapids. Y.L.P. Soc., by Mary L. Elliott,\n  Treas., _for Indian M._                       10.00\n\nGrass Lake. Cong. Ch.                           11.40\n\nHancock. First Cong. Ch.                        46.87\n\nJackson. Mrs. R.M. Bennett                       2.50\n\nLaingsburg. Cong. Ch.                            3.50\n\nMilford. Mrs. Wm. A. Arms                        5.00\n\nRepublic. Mrs. S.A.B. Carrier                    1.00\n\nRomeo. Miss E.B. Dickinson, 50; Miss\n  Mary A. Dickinson, 30, to const. EDGAR\n  LATHROP GILLETT L.M.                          80.00\n\nSomerset. Y.P.S.C.E., Box of C.,\n  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nUnion City. Ladies' Home M. Soc.,\n  by Miss Emma Wemple, Sec.,\n  _for Athens, Ala._                             5.00\n\nUnion City. A. Lucas                             0.50\n\nWhite Lake. Robert Gerner                       10.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of\n  Mich., by Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas.,\n  _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Greenville. _For Trinity School,\n      Athens, Ala._                   5.64\n\n                                   -------       5.64\n\n\n\nIOWA. $552.15.\n\nAlbia. Mrs. Mary A. Payne                        2.00\n\nAlden. Mrs. E. Rogers                            2.00\n\nAlmoral. Cong. Ch.                               7.50\n\nAnita. Cong. Ch.                                16.00\n\nAtlantic. Cong. Ch., 37.30, and Sab. Sch.,\n  8.70, to const. DEA. R.D. McGEEHON L.M.       46.00\n\nAtlantic. Infant Class, Bear Grove Union\n  Sab. Sch., by Mrs. O.C. Warne,\n  _for Mountain Work_                            5.00\n\nBethel. Cong. Ch.                                2.31\n\nBurlington. Cong. Ch.    2.06\n\nCedar Rapids. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.             3.00\n\nDes Moines. Plymouth Cong. Ch., to\n  const. DEA. J.S. CLARK, DEA. M.H.\n  SMITH, DEA. W.G. WORK, DEA. HENRY\n  M. McFARLAND and DEA. ELLIOTT\n  S. MILLER L.M.'s                             157.81\n\nEarlville. Cong. Ch.                             9.90\n\nEldora. Birthday Gifts, Miss Fell's Class\n  Cong. S.S., _for Indian M._                    2.10\n\nEldora. C.M.K. Duren's S.S. class,\n  Birthday Gifts, _for Mountain Work_            1.70\n\nGrand View. German Cong. Ch.                     5.00\n\nHarlan. Cong. Ch.                                4.60\n\nJewell. Cong. Ch.                                2.30\n\nLa Moille. Cong. Ch.                             2.16\n\nLogan. Cong. Ch.                                 5.00\n\nMcGregor. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. C.A.\n  MARSHALL L.M.                                 65.00\n\nMaquoketa. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   28.15\n\nMarion. Cong. Ch.                               13.51\n\nNew Hampton. Cong. Ch.                          11.03\n\nNewton. Children's Mission Band, by\n  Mrs. Alice Hadley, _for Savannah, Ga._        20.00\n\nNewton. Wittenberg Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n  _for Beach Inst., Savannah, Ga._              14.15\n\nOgden. Cong. Ch.                                 4.00\n\nOldfield. Highland Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n  _for Mountain Work_                           11.53\n\nRed Oak. Cong. Ch.                              25.00\n\nShenandoah. Cong. Ch., 16.40, and Sab.\n  Sch., 1.72                                    18.12\n\nWaterloo. Box of C., _for Marion, Ala._\n\nWaucoma. Sab. Sch., Birthday Offerings,\n  _for Mountain Work_                            4.00\n\nVictor. Y.L. Miss'y Soc., Pillow Slips, etc.,\n  _for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nIowa Woman's Home Missionary Union,\n  _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Ames. Sab. Sch.                   4.60\n\n    Ames. Sab. Sch., _for Marie\n      Adlof Fund_                     0.40\n\n    Anamosa. Junior M. Sec            5.00\n\n    Cedar Falls. Ladies' Ass'n.       1.43\n\n    Des Moines. Plym. Ch. W.M.S.      8.88\n\n    Fairfield.                        1.85\n\n    Grinnell. W.H.M.U.                8.11\n\n    Le Mars. L.M.S.                   3.90\n\n    McGregor. W.M.S.                 15.00\n\n    Magnolia. W.H.M.U.                2.10\n\n    Marion. Y.L.M.S.                 15.00\n\n    Montour. Y.L.M.S.                 1.10\n\n    Osage. W.M.S.                     1.75\n\n    Wayne. L.M.S.                     5.00\n\n    Webster City. L.M.S.              9.50\n\n    Wentworth. Isabel Kimball's\n      S.S. Class                      8.10\n\n                                   -------      91.22\n\n\n\nWISCONSIN, $322.22.\n\nAppleton. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. JOHN\n  FAVILLE L.M.                                  52.50\n\nBeloit. E.P. Wheeler, _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._      5.00\n\nBeloit. Cong. Ch.                                2.00\n\nBerlin. Miss'y Soc., by Mrs. L. Waring,\n  Treas.,_for Austin, Texas_                     5.00\n\nColumbus. Cong. Ch., (15 of which\n  _for Indian M._)                              33.80\n\nEmerald Grove. Cong. Ch.                         6.00\n\nJohnstown. Cong. Ch.                             2.00\n\nLa Crosse. Cong. Ch.                            25.00\n\nLake Geneva. Mary J. Barnard, 15;\n  First Cong. Ch., 10.71                        25.71\n\nMadison. First Cong. Ch.                        10.83\n\nMenasha. William P. Rounds                      30.00\n\nRacine. Mrs. D.D. Nichols                        0.50\n\nRipon. First Cong. Ch.                          64.25\n\nSheboygan. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  12.55 and 2 Boxes Books, etc., _for Lathrop\n  Mem. Library, Sherwood, Tenn._                12.55\n\nSheboygan. W.M.S. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._               10.00\n\nWisconsin Woman's Home Missionary\n  Union, _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Arena. W.U.M.S.                   1.36\n\n    Brodhead. \"Willing Workers.\"      7.00\n\n    Eau Claire. W.U.M.S.              2.35\n\n    Evansville. Ladies' Birthday\n    Boxes                             3.05\n\n    Evansville. \"Little Gleaners.\"    2.45\n\n    Fond du Lac. W.U.M.S.             5.00\n\n    Lancaster. \"Willing Workers.\"     3.00\n\n    Lake Geneva. Photos of\n      Elizabeth Winyan, Sold          1.00\n\n    Madison. W.U.M.S.                 9.87\n\n    Ripon. Mrs. C.L. Tracy            2.00\n\n                                    ------     $37.08\n\n\n\nMINNESOTA, $156.99.\n\nAda. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.,\n  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._                         6.45\n\nLitchfield. Mrs. M.E. Weeks. 5;\n  Mrs. C.A. Greenleaf, 50c.                      5.50\n\nMazeppa. Cong. Ch.                               2.11\n\nMinneapolis. First Cong. Ch., 59.71;\n  Bloomington Ferry Sab. Sch., 5.18             64.89\n\nNew Richland. The Ladies Soc. and Sab.\n  Sch., Box of Christmas Gifts,\n  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nNorthfield. Woman's Home M. Soc. of\n  Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Christmas Gifts,\n  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nSaint Charles. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.            1.50\n\nWaseca. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._                          5.00\n\nWinona. First Cong. Ch.                         50.00\n\nWorthington. Cong. Ch.                          21.54\n\n\n\nMISSOURI, $143.72.\n\nLaclede. Miss Clara Seward, Pkg. Needle-books,\n  _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nMeadville. Ladles' Miss'y Soc.,\n  _for Indian M._, by Mrs. A.A. Myers, Treas.    7.00\n\nSaint Louis. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 74.42;\n  First Cong. Ch., ad'l, 52.30; Young People's\n  Miss'y Soc. of First Cong. Ch., 10           136.72\n\n\n\nKANSAS, $145.81.\n\nAtchison. Cong. Ch.                             14.15\n\nIndependence. S.P. Ingraham                      1.00\n\nKirwin. First Cong. Ch.                          6.00\n\nNeosha Falls. S.B. Dyckman                       3.00\n\nOsawatomie. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., 2.50;\n  \"S.L.A.,\" 2.50, _for Indian M._                5.00\n\n                                             --------\n\n                                                29.15\n\nESTATE.\n\nManhattan. Estate of Mrs. Mary Parker,\n  of Cong. Ch., deceased, by Rev. R.D.\n  Parker, Ex.                                  116.66\n\n                                             --------\n\n                                              $145.81\n\n\n\nDAKOTA, $31.02.\n\nIpswich. Rosette Park Ch., 1,\n  and Sab. Sch., 1                               2.00\n\nMeckling. Cong. Ch.                              1.57\n\nOahe. A. Ward, _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._             2.00\n\nPonca Agency. Ponca Mission, by Rev.\n  John E. Smith                                 10.00\n\nRedfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                 6.78\n\nDakota Woman's Home Missionary Union,\n  by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas.,\n  _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Highmore                          1.60\n\n    Huron                             3.00\n\n    Yankton                           0.50\n\n    Yankton. W.M.S.                   3.57\n\n                                   -------       8.67\n\n\n\nNEBRASKA, $31.56.\n\nCambridge. Cong. Ch.                             1.56\n\nLincoln. First Cong. Ch. ad'l                    2.65\n\nRising City. First Cong. Ch.                    27.35\n\n\n\nCOLORADO, $48.85.\n\nDenver. John R. Hanna                           25.00\n\nGreeley. Park Cong. Ch.                         23.85\n\n\n\nOREGON, 63c.\n\nEast Portland. First Cong. Ch.                   0.63\n\n\n\nWASHINGTON TERR., $40.00.\n\nSeattle. Plymouth Cong. Ch., to const\n  MRS. CASSANDRA E. GEORGE L.M.                 30.00\n\nSeattle. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Student Aid, Athens, Ala._               10.00\n\n\n\nMARYLAND, $5.00.\n\nFederalsburg. Sarah A. Beals                     5.00\n\n\n\nKENTUCKY, $1.66.\n\nWoodbine. E.H. Bullock                           1.66\n\n\n\nTENNESSEE, $6.24.\n\nDeer Lodge. Cong. Ch.                            3.63\n\nGrand View. By E.H. Davison, _for Freight\n  to Grand View, Tenn._                          2.00\n\nSunbright \"Friends,\"                             0.61\n\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA, $54.50.\n\nHillsboro. Carrie E. Jones                       2.00\n\nTroy. \"Friends,\" by Rev. S.D. Leak               2.50\n\nWilmington. Cong. Ch.                           50.00\n\n\n\nGEORGIA, $4.92.\n\nCyprus Slash. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.             1.00\n\nSavannah. M.R. Montgomery,\n  _for Student Aid, Savannah, Ga._               0.75\n\nThomasville. Sab. Sch. of Conn. Ind'l\n  Sch., _for Fort Berthold, Indian M._           3.17\n\n\n\nALABAMA, $52.06.\n\nMarion. Cong. Ch.                               19.04\n\nMontgomery. Rev. R.C. Bedford, _for Lathrop\n  Mem. Library, Sherwood, Tenn._                 5.00\n\nTalladega. Miss'y Societies, Talladega C.,\n  _for Indian M._                               20.00\n\nTalladega. Talladega College Ch.                 8.02\n\n\n\nFLORIDA, $12.75.\n\nAltoona. Mrs. J.S. Blackman                      5.00\n\nDayton. First Cong. Ch.                          7.75\n\nMontclair. Mrs. E.C. Downing, Basted\n  work for 3 quilts, _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI, $3.10.\n\nTougaloo. \"King's Daughters,\" _for Indian M._    2.00\n\nMeridian. Cong. Ch.                              1.10\n\nMeridian. Barker & Grandberry,\n  Material for Sewing Class,\n  _for Meridian, Miss._\n\n\n\nCANADA, $9.00.\n\nMontreal. Chas. Alexander                        5.00\n\nSweetsburg. Mrs. H.W. Spaulding,\n  _for Mountain Work_                            4.00\n\n\n\nAUSTRIA, $1.62.\n\nPrague. \"From the Children, _For little\n  Colored Children in the South_\"                1.62\n\n\n\nJAPAN, $20.00.\n\nKyoto. Mission Ch., by Rev.\n  D.W. Learned                                  20.00\n\n                                           ----------\n\nDonations                                  $20,711.01\n\nEstates                                      4,708.66\n\n                                           ----------\n\n                                           $25,419.67\n\n\n\nINCOME, $729.55.\n\nAvery Fund, _for Mendi M._          570.00\n\nGraves Library Fund                 150.00\n\nScholarship Fund, _for\n  Straight U._                        4.09\n\nYale Library Fund, _for\n  Talladega C._                       5.46\n\n                                   -------     729.55\n\n\n\nTUITION, $3,185.30.\n\nWllliamsburg, Ky., Tuition           36.63\n\nWilmington, N.C., Tuition           160.75\n\nCharleston, S.C., Tuition           217.60\n\nJellico, Tenn., Tuition              55.85\n\nJonesboro, Tenn., Tuition            10.85\n\nMemphis, Tenn., Tuition             376.25\n\nNashville, Tenn., Tuition           513.84\n\nPleasant Hill, Tenn., Tuition        16.25\n\nAtlanta, Ga., Storrs Sch.,\n  Tuition                           283.70\n\nMacon Ga., Tuition                  212.35\n\nSavannah, Ga., Tuition              208.65\n\nThomasville, Ga., Tuition            70.75\n\nAthens, Ala., Tuition                44.75\n\nMarion, Ala., Tuition                38.33\n\nMobile, Ala., Tuition               170.85\n\nTalladega., Ala., Tuition           265.45\n\nTougaloo, Miss., Tuition             70.00\n\nNew Orleans, La., Tuition           253.00\n\nAustin, Texas, Tuition              131.55\n\n                                   -------   3,185.30\n\nUnited States Government for the\n  education of Indians                       1,032.30\n\n                                           ----------\n\nTotal for January                          $30,366.82\n\n                                           ==========\n\n\nSUMMARY.\n\nDonations                                  $69,515.27\n\nEstates                                      9,599.95\n\n                                           ----------\n\n                                           $79,115.22\n\nIncome                                       4,344.21\n\nTuition                                      9,640.07\n\nUnited States Government appropriation\n  for Indians                                4,225.75\n\n                                            ---------\n\nTotal from Oct. 1 to Jan. 31               $97,325.25\n\n                                            =========\n\n\nFOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\nSubscriptions for January                      186.10\n\nPreviously acknowledged                        230.48\n\n                                            ---------\n\nTotal                                         $416.58\n\n                                             ========\n\n\nDANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR COLORED PEOPLE.\n\nIncome for January, 1889, from investments     832.50\n\nPreviously acknowledged                      2,325.00\n\n                                           ----------\n\nTotal                                       $3,157.50\n\n\n  H.W. 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JOHNSON, NEWBURGH, N.Y.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 43, No. 03, March, 1889","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":17650}