{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_16118/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_16118","id":"gutenberg_16118","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16118","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Donald\nPerry and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at\nhttps://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\n\nMay, 1889\n\nVOL. XLIII. NO. 5.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\nEDITORIAL.\n  FINANCIAL\n  CENTENNIAL\n  CONGREGATIONALISM IN GEORGIA\n  NOTES FROM THE SOUTH\n  ILLUMINATED SPOTS\n  THE GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIANS\n  NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND\n  WHAT THE WORLD SAYS\n  PARAGRAPHS\n  SOUTHERN ECHOES\n  BOOK NOTICE\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n  THE GEORGIA CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION\n  EVANGELISTIC LABORS\n  THOMASVILLE, GA.\n  DEATH OF MRS. BENNETT\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n  PERILS OF MISSIONARY LIFE\n  FIRST FRUITS\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n  LOS ANGELES CONGREGATIONAL CHINESE MISSION\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n  WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION\n  ALABAMA ASSOCIATION\n  THREE NEW ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SOUTH\n\nOUR YOUNG FOLKS.\n  HOW THE PENNIES GREW\n\nRECEIPTS\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNEW YORK:\n\nPUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nRooms, 56 Reade Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPrice, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.\n\nEntered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n\nPresident, Rev. WM. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., 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\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  _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  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\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n\nVOL. XLIII.        MAY, 1889.          NO. 5.\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFINANCIAL.\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY presents its greetings for the month of May. Six\nmonths of our fiscal year are now in the past. The half year which we\nanticipate includes the summer time, when many of the friends of the\nignorant millions to whom we are sent, are absent from their churches.\nThe months of May and June ought to swell the stream of love and service\nagainst the season when the demand will continue and income will be\nsmall.\n\nWe appealed last month for an increase of the contributions in _church_\ncollections. We renew and emphasize that appeal, for these collections\nare the steady streams on which we rely to keep in motion the wheels of\nthe large and ever enlarging work of the Association. We believe that\nthe interest in this great work is on the increase. We rejoice that \"the\nmost prolific missionary field ever opened to any Christian people--\nright here at our doors,\" is gaining upon the interest and benevolence\nof the churches year by year. Never were the friends of the cause mote\nresponsive; never was the work more hopeful. The work enlarges, and the\npeople's faith enlarges. Their gifts to Christ for his poor were never\nfreer.\n\nWe have been greatly favored with special gifts. Every one of them is\nneeded. It is a blessed thing that one can plant his benevolences in\nsome special institution or feature of work, and know that the\ninfluences are to follow on after the giver has gone to a higher world.\nBut we do hope that the CHURCHES OF CHRIST, AS CHURCHES, will not fail\nto keep step with the providences of God in their church contributions.\n\nIt is also true that some fear that the day of LEGACIES is to come to an\nend. Indeed, there are those who take a solemn comfort in bewailing and\nfearing that everything is to come to an end. They mix a pound of\nforebodings with an ounce of faith. If, for some unseen reasons in the\nmovements of life and death, legacies do not appear with the regularity\nof insurance tables, they think the day of legacies is dead.\nNevertheless legacies will continue as long as Christians pass from\nearth to heaven. There will always be faithful souls who will remember\nChrist and his cause in their wills. There will always be those who may\nnot be able to divide their estates and to dispose of portions of them\nwhile they live, who will yet provide that they may see their works\nfollowing them, when they shall look down from a world redeemed, to a\nworld for whose redemption Christ lived and died. There will always be\nlegacies, and the American Missionary Association, so long as it follows\nin the steps of Christ in such mission as it has, will not be forgotten.\nThe legacies will come, because they ought to come. The people of God\nwill remember this work in their wills because they ought to do this,\nand God will take care that what Christian stewards ought to do, shall\nbe done.\n\nWe thank God for SPECIAL GIFTS. We thank God for LEGACIES. We also thank\nGod for the ability and faith and sacrifices of those who cannot plant\ninstitutions or build or endow schools, but who live and give that which\nprovides for the unceasing CURRENT EXPENSES. Almost every one can do a\nlittle more, and it is the many littles that make the difference between\na debt with a crippled work, and freedom from debt with healthful\ngrowth. All along the lines, the calls for help are so urgent, that it\nis painful for us, in the name of the church, to be constantly saying\n\"No!\"\n\nOUR RECEIPTS for the past six months (ending March 31) are as follows:\n\nChurch contributions                       $95,843.37\nEstates and legacies                        15,194.10\nTuition from schools                        18,781.58\nIncome from invested funds                   4,829.21\nIncome from the United States Government     9,540.87\n\n                                           ----------\n\nTotal                                     $144,189.13\n\nOUR PAYMENTS for the past six\nmonths are                                $171,237.64\nOUR DEFICIT is                              27,048.51\n\nThe churches can easily take this out of the way if they will. We\nbelieve that they will.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCENTENNIAL.\n\nThese pages will come before our readers amid the enthusiastic\nrejoicings of a great nation celebrating the one hundredth anniversary\nof its Constitution--a Constitution that has been tried and found\nworthy.\n\nThe greatest strain to which this great charter has been subjected in\nthe past hundred years has been occasioned by slavery. The crisis cost\nuntold blood and treasure. The great strain of the next hundred years\nwill be what slavery has left behind it--a vast and growing black\npopulation, and an imbittered race prejudice.\n\nThere is but one way to meet this strain of the coming century, and that\nis by the education of the blacks. The task is great, but if the\nAmerican people will awake to its urgency and put forth the needed\neffort, the crisis may be averted. We call upon all Christian people,\nand upon all patriots, to begin this new century with the purpose to\nincrease their contributions for this great object. We ask them to begin\nat once and to continue steadily--in church contributions, in personal\ngifts, and, not to forget the object in the making of wills.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONGREGATIONALISM IN GEORGIA.\n\nOur readers are aware that there are two Congregational Organizations in\nthe State of Georgia. The Georgia Congregational Association was\norganized in 1878, and is composed of about a dozen colored churches,\nsome of their pastors being white and some colored. The United\nCongregational Conference of Georgia was formed a little more than a\nyear ago, is a much larger body, and is composed of white pastors and\nchurches. With a view to a possible union of these two organizations,\ncommittees have been appointed by each, and, in another column, we lay\nbefore our readers the propositions to that end, made by the Committee\nof the Georgia Association. We cannot withhold our expression of\nsatisfaction with the Christian spirit exhibited in this document, and\nthe readiness to accept any possible alternative to secure the union.\nThe Congregational Churches of the country will feel an interest in\nmarking the progress of these negotiations, and will hail with delight a\nconsummation that will relieve the denomination from the embarrassment\nof sanctioning two organizations in the same State that seem to be\nseparated only by the color-line.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNOTES FROM THE SOUTH.\n\nBY SECRETARY A.F. BEARD.\n\nOnce more in Nashville. There is no question in my mind but that\nNashville is the educational leader in the South. It is a city of hills\nwhich are crowned with institutions for white and black. These are the\nbeginnings of greater and better days for this part of \"our country.\" My\nduties have taken me to Fisk University. It is a college which has\njustly won very high praise. Jubilee and Livingstone Halls are\nsignificant names. One speaks of an historic event, and the other of an\nhistoric person, but the work that goes on in both these large buildings\ndoes no dishonor to one name or the other.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWhen Congressman Kelley, of Pennsylvania, was in Nashville, he visited\nFisk University. He afterwards told me that he could not conceal his\nsurprise at what he saw and heard and only with difficulty his emotion\nwhen he arose to address the students.\n\nI have now visited Fisk several times. I am each time more impressed\nwith the fidelity and quality of the work on the part of the students,\nand the patient enthusiasm of the professors and of the teachers. If\nthere were to be no other or greater results than those of the past and\nthe present, all that has been done for Fisk University would be\njustified.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFrom Nashville to Sparta, Tenn., and then a rough, tough ride up the\nmountain side, \"rattling the bones over the stones\" until at length we\nhave climbed the Cumberland Plateau. We arrive at no-where in\nparticular, which is named Pleasant Hill. Here are a neat church, which\nis both church and school, and a sightly building of two stories with a\nthird under the mansard roof, which will accommodate forty boys. A few\nhouses are visible from the top of this building, but no one could guess\nwhere forty mountain boys and as many girls might be living.\nNevertheless they have been discovered, and it was none too soon.\nMissionary Dodge did not locate in Pleasant Hill before the time. He\nrealized this. He looked about him and looked up and down. He saw things\nwhich were invisible. He saw castles in the air. It must be confessed\nthat the office at Reade Street, fearing lest it might \"trust the\nchurches\" too much, had not the faith which could take hold of these\ncastles in the air and anchor them to the soil of Pleasant Hill; but\nBrother Dodge got his grapples out and pulled down a church building\nfrom the heavens. Well done; now surely he should rest from his labors\nand give himself and us time to breathe. No; a visible church only\nstimulated his faith, it did not satisfy it. This church was a place in\nwhich he could read the eleventh chapter of Hebrews every Sunday. The\nresult was the \"Hall\" for young men and for the teachers. Now we are in\nit and are glad. The Massachusetts Principal gave us welcome, the\nOberlin Vice-Principal endorsed it, while the Matron materialized the\nspirit of welcome in a way calculated to excite gratitude, from the fact\nthat missionaries cannot live absolutely on faith.\n\nNext the young men were introduced. One of them was seized with\nundisguised curiosity to behold a minister whose theological system some\ninstitution had found it necessary to doctor. It is, perhaps, the first\ninstance on record in modern times where these semi-lunar fardels have\nbeen looked upon with respect and curiosity. When \"Brother Dodge\" came,\ncongratulations were in order over his Church, his School and his Hall,\nbut he would have none of it. He was seeing another building floating in\nthe clouds, and could only talk of the invisible. It will, however, soon\nbe among things visible, for the missionary has his grapples out. It is\nto be a Boarding Hall and Industrial Home for girls who will come into\nit and learn to live and to be. \"But, Pleasant Hill is not a town, it is\nnot a village, it is only by courtesy a hamlet. Where are your pupils?\"\n\"The woods are full of them and they will come from near and from far,\"\nreplies their young missionary of more than three score and ten years.\nOn Sunday, the church was filled; on Monday, the school was full; and\nour heart was full of thanksgiving that God had come to these mountain\npeople, that hope would enter their lives and their cabins, and that\nthese boys and girls would now step up in Christian manhood and\nwomanhood.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOne of the impressive thoughts which a visit to an institution like Fisk\nUniversity is sure to excite, is the relation of all this work to the\nfuture. Apropos of this, the Rev. J.O.A. Clark, D.D., LL.D., of Macon,\nGa., has just written a little tract of fifty pages on \"The Future of\nthe Races.\" He does not vote in New England, nor is he a Yankee; but he\nis a good and true witness. He says, that the Races are running races\nalong the paths of knowledge and up the hills of science. These are his\nwords (pages 19 and 20): \"Have they\" [the colored people] \"availed\nthemselves of the educational facilities? Have they profited by them? We\nanswer that they have been incalculably benefited. They have shown not\nonly that they can receive education, but education of a high order.\nTheir improvement has been so astonishing as to silence doubt and\ncaviling. Our Southern eyes have been opened to see it. Southern candor\nis free to admit it. There are none who do not admit it but the\nhopelessly prejudiced. I am persuaded that the _average_ examinations in\nthe colored schools are better than the average in the white schools,\nfor teachableness is the basis of all education, and this universally\ndistinguishes the negro.\" Dr. Clark is not saying that the white boy may\nnot learn more easily and master more rapidly, but rather is telling how\nthe hare came out second in the race with his competitor not so fleet of\nfoot, but which had the gift of patient continuance in well-doing. Still\nhe accentuates the fact that \"their improvement is astonishing.\" I am\nsure that no one can visit Fisk University without having all his doubts\ndispersed as to the future of the negro race. It is to have a future.\n\nThis leads me to quote the closing words of Dr. Clark's significant\npamphlet (page 52): \"All Africa stretches out her hands to God; to the\nwork of delivering her fatherland from heathenism. God is calling the\nblacks of these Southern States. They are to be the chief instruments in\ngiving the Gospel of Christ to the benighted land of their fathers.\nWherefore, let the work of Christian, and so sanctified, education go\non.\"\n\nAll this is true, and it means that in our American Missionary\nAssociation the ministerial education must now be made more prominent.\nWhen white missionaries can say, as one whose bones are in the soil of\nthe Dark Continent did say, \"Let a thousand fall before Africa shall be\ngiven up,\" the children of Africa must respond, \"Africa shall be\nevangelized by Africans.\" That is, we must have more and better\ntheological schools for the Negro people. The demand for educated Negro\nministers, who know what religion is, and what purity is, will be\ngreater and greater.\n\nThe demand for _missionaries_ of the negro race who can realize that\n\"Christianity is a missionary religion,\" will be greater, also. We can\nscarcely expect that those who came out of Egypt will become\nmissionaries to Egypt. The apprehension of missionary responsibility\ncomes with a developed Christianity. The missionary sense came to the\nApostles themselves very slowly. It came to the Christian Church slowly.\nThe African people in America, I trust, will seize upon it more rapidly,\nfor they have a large emotional nature and great faith. What they now\nneed is education and intellectual character, and those qualities which\ngive shape, and tone, and persistence, to the forces which direct and\ncontrol events.\n\nMen who have been slaves may not take on this, and their children may\nnot in great numbers. But their children's children are coming on\nmultitudinously, and from them must go those who shall preach the Gospel\nto their own race in Africa. For psychological as well as physiological\nreasons this must be. Not only because they can live, and whites cannot,\nin Africa, but because, other things being equal, they can do this work\nbetter with their own race. Said Christ, \"Go home to thy friends, and\ntell what great things the Lord hath done for thee.\"\n\nAll of which says that the Fisk must now add to its great work a\nthorough theological school, and must urge its students to listen to the\nvoice of God and to answer when God calls, \"Speak, Lord, thy servant\nheareth.\" More and better ministers are needed both for Africa in the\nUnited States and Africa across the sea. He will give wisely who will\ngive quickly for this.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nILLUMINATED SPOTS.\n\nA Northern visitor in the South, writing in a recent number of _The\nAdvance_ speaks of the rapid improvement of the Negroes in that\nlocality. He says that the Negro is prosperous; that commercially he is\nhonest; that one house has had no less than thirteen hundred names of\ncolored people on its books, each having a credit from a few dollars to\nforty or more; that the Negro respects education--even if he is unable\nto read himself, he wants, with all the determination of his soul, that\nhis children shall be educated; that the merchants say that they are\nbuying better and better goods, are learning the value of money, are\nexercising wiser judgment, are becoming farmers and mechanics, are\nbecoming better men.\n\nThese items, taken from a long article, show the bright light glowing in\nthat locality. Of course the writer gives some dark touches to the\npicture, and thus modified, it may be repeated of thousands of places\nthroughout the South. Some of our friends, we fear, look too much upon\nthe dark side. There _is_ a dark side, and it is dense. But if we can\nonly continue and enlarge the sphere of these bright spots, and kindle\nothers in new localities, the time will come when the light will\ndisplace the darkness and the dawn of a new era will come. Friends of\nthe Negro race, patriots and Christians! furnish the oil for these\nbright spots and help to multiply them.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIANS.\n\n     On the 13th of March, some of the Secretaries of the missionary\n     societies, and others interested in the welfare of the Indians,\n     had an interview with President Harrison and with Secretary\n     Noble, of the Interior Department. We were kindly received, and\n     the Secretary solicited information from us as to the methods in\n     which he could aid in furtherance of Indian civilization. A\n     number of suggestions were made in response, and the following\n     outline is given as a summary of the points presented to the\n     Secretary:\n\n1. That the appointment or retention of all officers and employes in the\nIndian service of the Government shall be on the sole ground of\nfitness--that ability, integrity and an interest in the welfare of the\nIndians, shall constitute the only required conditions. We are not\nignorant of the difficulties involved in securing such persons,\nespecially with the low salaries paid to some of these employes; and we\nshall be abundantly satisfied with the purpose of the Government to\nreach the nearest attainable success in this direction.\n\n2. That the Government shall make adequate appropriations for the\nestablishment and maintenance of suitable schools for the education of\nall Indian pupils--whether these schools be sustained and controlled\nwholly by the Government or in co-operation with missionary societies.\nThe millions of dollars now due to the Indians by treaty stipulations,\nfor educational purposes, should not be idle in the National Treasury,\nbut should, as rapidly as possible, be devoted to their legitimate\npurposes, and they should be supplemented as far as need be by direct\ngrants from the Government.\n\n3. That the co-operation of the Government with the missionary societies\nin what are known as _Contract_ schools should be continued and\nenlarged. We believe that no better teaching has been afforded to the\nIndians than that given in these Contract schools. The educational\nqualifications of the teachers, together with their disinterested and\nself-denying characters and their religious influence and instruction,\nrender them pre-eminently fit for their places and successful in their\nwork. The experience of the past and the testimony of all unprejudiced\npersons bear witness to this fact.\n\n4. That compulsory education of Indian pupils be enforced, with liberty\nof choice to the parents in the selection of the schools to which their\nchildren shall be sent. The Indians are generally averse, or\nindifferent, to the education of their children. The withholding of\nrations in case of failure or neglect is usually an all-sufficient\nmotive for prompt compliance. Then, too, the parent, if a Christian and\nintelligent, should be allowed to select the school for his child, and\nnot be compelled to send it to a Government school simply because that\nmay happen to be nearest.\n\n5. The Government should adopt a liberal policy in regard to the use of\nthe vernacular in the Indian schools. We are all agreed that the English\nlanguage should be brought into use among the Indians at the earliest\npracticable period. But the experience of all the past, in Indian\ncivilization among the ruder tribes, has shown that Christian influences\nhave been most successfully brought to bear by the use of the\nvernacular, in giving them the knowledge of the Word of God, in teaching\nthem a practical morality, and in preparing them for civilized life. We\nask, therefore, that no restrictions be placed upon Christian people in\ntheir efforts for this great object.\n\n6. We ask that the Government exercise an absolute impartiality in\ndealing with the different denominations of Christians, in the\ndistribution of appropriations, in the granting of lands for missionary\nuses, and in the appointment of officers, agents, teachers and employes.\nWe ask no favors in these respects, and we desire that none shall be\ngranted to others.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.\n\nBY REV C.J. RYDER, DISTRICT SECRETARY.\n\n\"_Miss_ ----:\n\n\"DEAR MADAM: I understand you have got the school, but I can't possibly\nboard you, as social equality is not custom in this country. I don't\nthink it would be pleasant for you nor for us, either. I wrote this in\norder for you to look out some other place. You need not depend on\ngetting board with us.\n\n\"FEBRUARY 2, 1889.\"\n\nThis letter was written to a cultivated Northern young lady who had\ngraduated at one of the best high schools in the country and held a\nspecial recommendation, besides her diploma, on account of her\nexcellency as a student and practice teacher. She went South to help\nthese people in their great need. It was for Christ's sake and in \"His\nname\" that she entered this field. She secured board of a white family,\nbut when they learned that she was going to teach the blacks and seek to\nlead them to Christ, this letter was sent her. Every door was closed\nagainst this Christian woman because she was trying to save the poor and\nignorant! And it is eighteen hundred and eighty-nine of the Christian\nera and in free America!\n\nBut this plucky Yankee girl did not so give up her school. She found a\nboarding place in the home of one of our missionaries, two miles away,\nand she tramps across these two miles twice a day, patiently putting in\nher best services, to bring light into the dense darkness of the very\ncommunity whose doors were closed against her!\n\nIn connection with this incident of narrow prejudice read these words\nfrom Dr. Haygood's \"Pleas for Progress.\" \"In all truth and common sense\nthere is no reason for discounting in any respect a white man or woman\nsimply for teaching negroes. It is absurd. I believe it is sinful.\"\nThese earnest words were spoken by the eloquent divine to his Southern\nbrethren, August 2, 1883, six long years ago. If they only carried the\nconviction of the people to whom he appealed! How strangely they sound,\nstanding so close to this letter refusing board to a young lady because\nshe is teaching these very negroes! \"How long, O Lord, how long?\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe semi-annual meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Association met\nin the Beneficent Congregational Church, or \"Old Round Top,\" as the\nstreet car conductor called it, Providence, April 3d. The weather was\nextremely unfavorable, as New England weather has been lately, as a\nrule, but there was a good attendance and deep interest. All the\nmissionary societies of the Congregational churches which do work in\nAmerica were represented. The field work of the Woman's Association has\npassed into the control of the national societies. The future looks very\nbright for its increasing usefulness.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAnd now Pleasant Hill, Tenn., rejoices in the sweet music of one of the\nSmith organs. Mr. S.D. Smith is making many schools happy and adding\ngreatly to their efficiency by his generous gifts of organs.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWHAT THE WORLD SAYS.\n\nBLACK SAINTS AND WHITE.\n\nDo colored folks retain their complexion when they go to heaven? This is\na question of some importance to the members of the Diocesan Convention\nof the Protestant Episcopal churches of Charleston, S.C. Not long ago\nthe Convention appointed a special committee to consider and report upon\nthe subject of the admission of negro clergymen and laymen as members of\nthat body. Their action was taken with the view of bringing the\nCharleston churches, if possible, into harmony with the other Episcopal\ncongregations of the State. In 1887, the former had seceded in\nconsequence of the adoption of a resolution which the Charleston\nbrethren regarded as a virtual obliteration of the color-line.\n\nThursday, the report of the committee was made public. It proposes a\nseparate convocation for the colored churches under the ministration of\nthe bishop, and consents to the admission to the Convention of colored\nclergymen who have been associated with the church for twelve months\nprior to May, 1889. If the report is adopted, three negro ministers will\nsit as members, but no lay delegates will be eligible. The committee\nwere willing to forego their prejudice out of deference to the holy\noffice. They felt that the color of a clergyman's skin, although it was\nno doubt a very serious ground of objection when it happened to be\nblack, should not overcome the respect due to the sanctity of his\nofficial calling. His cloth, so to speak, saved him, and what would have\nbeen denied to the man it was possible to concede to the priest.\n\nUnder these circumstances the gravity of the question, \"Do colored folks\nretain their complexion when they go to heaven?\" is obvious. The\nconcession which the committee of the Diocesan Convention make is but a\nre-affirmation of the Charleston brethren's aversion to anything that\nsmacks of an approach to association of the two races on terms of\nequality. If there are colored saints in Paradise, it will be utterly\nimpossible for the Charleston white saints of the Episcopal denomination\nto feel at home there. The only chance of reconciling them to a heaven\nso liberally disposed would depend on the adoption of some such plan as\nthat recommended by the committee as a _modus vivendi_ in the church on\nearth. That is to say, if the colored saints were corraled by\nthemselves--if their convocations were separate from the convocations of\nthe white saints--if they were not admitted to the white circles of\ncelestial society as equal partakers of the privileges of the heavenly\nkingdom--the Caucasian angels from Charleston might be willing to pass\ntheir eternity in such a place.\n\nIt is very essential for them, therefore, to know whether there are in\nfact any colored saints in heaven; and, if there are, whether the\ndivisions of the Father's house into \"many mansions\" admits of an\narrangement whereby the angelic brunettes may occupy one set of quarters\nand the Charleston blondes another. Until these problems are solved to\ntheir satisfaction, we do not see how our Christian friends of the chief\ncity of South Carolina can contemplate a future life with any degree of\nequanimity. Their faith may be equal to the removal of mountains and\ntheir virtues may entitle them to all the felicity of the spirits of\njust men made perfect, but if it is the rule of the \"happy land, far,\nfar away\" that a black saint is just as good as a white one, how much\nmore rational it would be for them to prefer annihilation to\nimmortality.\n\n_Brooklyn Daily Eagle._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPARAGRAPHS.\n\nWe would continue to remind pastors and churches of our Leaflets, which\nwe will be happy to furnish, on application, to those taking collections\nfor our Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe _Daily Standard-Union_, of Brooklyn, is a good judge. It says:\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY for April, published by the American Missionary\nAssociation, New York, is full of information useful and edifying to all\ninterested in domestic missions.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe \"Student's Letter\" found on another page is worth attention. The\nwriter, Rev. Spencer Snell, gives a modest and yet vivid picture of his\nstruggles for an education, and he is now--we say it for him, as he does\nnot--the able and acceptable pastor of our growing church in Birmingham,\nAlabama. We wish in a quiet way to suggest to our friends in the North\nthat \"it pays\" to spend money to educate such men.\n\nRev. James Wharton, the evangelist, who has been efficiently preaching\nto the American Missionary churches in the South this winter, has left\nthis country for England, where he will remain until the first of\nOctober, when he will return again to his specific work in which the\nchurches have been greatly blessed. The churches which he has visited,\nand which have added to their numbers through his ministration, are\nLouisville, Ky., Sherwood, Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., Athens,\nFlorence, Mobile and Montgomery, Ala., Jackson and Tougaloo, Miss., and\nNew Orleans, La.\n\nMany prayers will go with him across the sea, and many welcomes will\ngreet him on his return.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSOUTHERN ECHOES.\n\nPRAYERS OF WOMEN AT THE MEETING OF FAREWELL TO A MISSIONARY.\n\n\"O! Lord, thou knowest how I love her. Thou knowest how I have run to\nher in every trouble, as a chicken does to its mother.\"\n\n\"O! Lord, you know what she has been to me in the greatest trouble I\never had. You know I think more of her than of any being in the whole\nworld, except my husband. Will you please to be with her when she gets\nready for the train, and when she goes from the house to the train, and\non the train, and when she goes to the house from the train, and bless\nher all the time.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMrs. W----, an old lady, said: \"My old man ax me every night when he\ncome from work if there be a meeting up yonder. He do like to go to\nmeeting. He think a heap of that young preacher up yonder. Last\nWednesday night after meeting, he say to me, 'Mary, I'll be good to you\nafter this,' and I say the same to him. It do me a heap of good to go up\nyonder. I learn more than I ever knowed before. I knows what the texts\nmeans now.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSATISFACTORILY EXPLAINED.--A few days since, during a recitation in\ngeography, a teacher was endeavoring to explain the subject of\nelectricity in the lesson on \"Thunder and lightning.\" It had been stated\nthat when a flash of lightning darts to the earth it is said to\n_strike_. A precocious lad of twelve summers (winters included), raised\nhis hand and upon recognition said: \"Do _people_ have any electricity?\"\nUpon being informed that every one possessed the subtle force in a\ngreater or less degree, his dusky, good-natured face lighted up, and he\nadded, \"Then is that the reason why some people always want to strike?\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBOOK NOTICE\n\n_Pleas for Progress._ By ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD, D.D. Publishing House of\nM.E. Church South, Nashville, Tenn. Price, $1.00.\n\nDr. Haygood is a Southern man who stands with his face toward sunrise\nand not sunset. As a writer, he is interesting and vigorous. He\nsometimes forgets to take off his \"Titbottom spectacles\" when he looks\nsouthward, but he puts in tremendous blows against the wrong which he\nsees. This volume before us contains papers and addresses delivered at\nvarious times and places, both North and South. It is a very valuable\nbook for those who desire to learn what the really Christian people of\nthe South think on these great National problems that the American\nMissionary Association is helping to solve.\n\nThe lecture on \"The Education of the Negro,\" delivered at Monteagle,\nTenn., and published in this volume, is a sample. Dr. Haygood states\n\"four root objections\" to negro education: 1--Ignorance; 2--Stinginess;\n3--Prejudice; 4--Fear that education will \"spoil the negro as a laborer\"\nand bring him into \"social equality\" with the whites. The author shows\nthe absurdity of all these objections.\n\nThe volume is full of statistics and will prove a valuable mine of\nfacts. The discussions are clear and generally convincing. We commend\nthe book highly.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE GEORGIA CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION.\n\n_Rev. S.C. McDaniel and others, Committee of the United Congregational\nConference of Georgia._\n\nDEAR BRETHREN.--Having been appointed by the Georgia Congregational\nAssociation as a committee to confer with you in reference to a union of\nthe two bodies represented by you and us, we desire to express to you\nour gratification at the receipt of your request for such a conference,\nand our earnest desire that such a union should be consummated. With\nthis end in view, we would respectfully submit for your consideration\nthe following propositions:\n\n1. We cordially invite the churches composing the United Congregational\nConference to become members of the Georgia Congregational Association.\nUpon the acceptance of this invitation by the United Conference, we\nagree to recommend to the Association the passage of a vote immediately\nplacing upon the roll of the Association the names of all the churches\nof the United Conference.\n\n2. In case the foregoing proposition should not be acceptable to you, we\npropose that each of the bodies represented by us should pass a vote\ndisbanding its organization, with the understanding that all the\nchurches of both bodies should then come together and form a new\norganization. Upon the agreement of your committee to recommend to the\nUnited Conference the adoption of this proposition, we agree to make a\nsimilar recommendation to the Association.\n\n3. If neither of the foregoing propositions should be acceptable to you,\nwe propose that the United Conference place upon its roll the names of\nall the churches and ministers of the Georgia Association. Upon the\nagreement of your committee to recommend such action to the United\nConference, we agree to recommend to the Association the adoption of a\nvote declaring its organization disbanded as soon as the churches\ncomposing the same are received by the United Conference.\n\nWith reference to the foregoing propositions we would say further:\n\nIt is our conviction that any union between the organizations\nrepresented by our respective committees should be as comprehensive and\nthorough as possible, and that to this end the churches of the Georgia\nAssociation should be enrolled as members of the District Conferences,\nin fellowship with the United Conference within whose respective\nboundaries the Association churches may be located. And the foregoing\npropositions are made with the understanding that a vote shall be passed\nby the United Conference recommending the District Conferences to\nreceive the Association churches as hereby suggested.\n\nOf these three proposed methods of union, our own preference is for the\nfirst. As the Georgia Congregational Association is the older body and\nrepresents the historic Congregationalism of the State, going back not\nonly to the early years succeeding the Civil War, but even, in the\nrecord of one of its churches, to the colonial period preceding the\nRevolution, we feel that a respect for the traditional usages of our\npolity would suggest the absorption of the newer churches by the\nAssociation as being the older State organization. But as in our opinion\nthe result to be achieved is of more importance than the method by which\nit shall be achieved, we would not insist upon the method of our choice.\nIf more acceptable to you, we should gladly form a union on the basis of\neither the second or the third proposition already stated. Our chief\ndesire is for a complete and hearty union, in which, acknowledging the\nfatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, we may live and work\ntogether in the love of Christ, the Elder Brother of us all. That our\nHeavenly Father may graciously help us all in perfecting and maintaining\nsuch a union, is our earnest prayer.\n\nYour brethren in Christ,\n\nGEO. V. CLARK, HORACE BUMSTEAD, GEO. C. ROWE, L.B. MAXWELL, EVARTS KENT,\nFLOYD SNELSON, C.F. SARGENT.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nEVANGELISTIC LABORS.\n\nREV. JAMES WHARTON.\n\nYou last heard of my work, I believe, from Memphis, Tenn., where God\nrevealed his gracious power among the students of LeMoyne, and also at\nthe Congregational church. Altogether, some one hundred and thirty-four\nprofessed a hope in Christ during my visit there. I then went to\nJackson, Miss., to hold services in the new church there; a pretty\nlittle building, situated in a very central and prominent part of the\ncity. For eleven nights, I preached to not a very large, but to an\ninteresting congregation. Twelve professed conversion, their conversion\nproving a source of great joy, not only to themselves, but to their\nfriends and acquaintances.\n\nI also visited Tougaloo University and spoke to the students. Between\nfifty and sixty at the close of the address arose for prayer. I feel\nsure if I could have spent a few days with them, that most of them would\nhave decided for Christ, but they remain under the good and wise\ninstruction of the President, Rev. F.G. Woodworth. I hope to visit them\nagain.\n\nI then went to New Orleans, to find the Central Congregational Church\nrecovering itself under the leading of the pastor, Rev. Geo. W.\nHenderson. We believe that it will steadily grow, and be a great\ninfluence for good in that large and wicked city. At Straight\nUniversity, I found the religious interest going on quietly and steadily\nunder the care of Professor Hitchcock and Rev. W.L. Tenney, some cases\nof conversion taking place during the week of prayer.\n\nI came to Montgomery three weeks ago, and a revival there has surpassed\nany I have seen for the last thirteen years among the colored folks of\nthe South. In fact, many of the old-time people say they never saw such\na deep interest manifested in this city. The third night the church was\nfilled to overflowing, and hundreds were outside the door who could not\nget in. The power of God came down upon the people in such a way that at\nthe close of the preaching the seekers fairly ran to the front benches,\ntaking them by storm. All around the front they sat or knelt. We placed\nchairs in rows on the platform, and the crowd was so thick I could\nscarcely get a place to stand. The pastor, Rev. R.C. Bedford, and the\nChristians, worked hard among the unconverted, and now at the close of\nthe three weeks' services, more than two hundred are rejoicing in a new\nfound hope.\n\nOne case was that of a young man, the son of a Methodist preacher, both\ndeaf and dumb, who gave reasonable evidence of conversion as the love of\nGod filled his heart, and another was a young man who had been a wild\nyoung fellow, who had at the time of his conversion a five barrel loaded\nrevolver in his pocket, and which I now have. One whole family is now\nrejoicing that God has brought salvation to that house; father, mother,\nson and four daughters are among the converts. Another father rejoices\nover four of his sons and daughters converted. Husbands and wives have\nstarted together on the road to Zion. On the streets and wherever you\ngo, the people are talking about, and rejoicing over, the conversion of\nsome of their friends or relations.\n\nThis finishes another winter's work among the dear colored people, which\nhas been one of the happiest and most successful I have known for many\nyears.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.\n\nThe Connecticut Normal and Industrial School, Thomasville. Ga., closed\nits winter term, for a few days' vacation, on March 26th, with\nappropriate exercises. The _Thomasville Daily Times_ says, \"The growth\nand management of the school is very gratifying to our people, and\neveryone wishes it continued success and prosperity.\" The _Thomasville\nEnterprise_ speaks of \"the results of the seven sweet-faced patient lady\nteachers,\" and adds, \"If yesterday's exhibition was a fair sample of\nwhat the pupils can do, the American Missionary Association, and the\ncorps of teachers it has employed, have not labored in vain; that a\ngreat deal of hard, honest work has been done, was fully exemplified.\"\n\nAgain we are reminded that _Thomasville_ is not _Quitman_, and also of\nthe fact that Southern people are generally quite generous in their\nappreciation of the work and the methods of our Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMRS. LYDIA HERRICK BENNETT.\n\nOn Saturday, March 16, the great household at Fisk University was\nsuddenly saddened by the announcement of the death of Mrs. Bennett, who,\nafter an illness of four weeks, was called to her rest.\n\nIn 1867, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett gave up their work in a pleasant Northern\nparish, and came to Fisk University, where they have labored together\nfor almost twenty-two years. During these years, Mrs. Bennett has been\nnot only an efficient helper to her husband and a wise and tender mother\nto her children, but has contributed much to the work of the school. Her\nstrong mind and fine intellectual tastes especially fitted her for life\nin an institution of learning. During the last few years, she gave much\ntime and labor to the preparation of a botanical collection for the\nScientific Department of the University.\n\nMrs. Bennett was also the warm personal friend of the young people.\nSince her death, many tender expressions from present and former\nstudents bear witness to appreciation of her quiet, earnest, Christian\ncharacter, as manifested both in her own life, and in her ministry to\nothers. Why such a life, apparently so indispensable to her husband and\nchildren, and so helpful to a large body of young people, should be thus\nsuddenly terminated we cannot understand. We can only accept the\ndispensation of Him \"Who doeth all things well.\"\n\nH.C.M.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSTUDENT'S LETTER.\n\nHOW I WAS EDUCATED, LED TO CHRIST AND INTO THE MINISTRY.\n\nBY REV. SPENCER SNELL.\n\nMy first lessons from books I received in night school. At this time I\nwas employed as dining-room servant by a family in Mobile. I did my work\nduring the day, taking a little time here and there for study as best I\ncould, and went to school at night. I was first employed at $3.50 per\nmonth. Fifty cents of this I took each month to pay tuition. The tuition\nin this school was one dollar per month, but I was receiving such small\nwages that a woman who was employed in the same yard, and who went to\nthe same school, persuaded the teacher to let me go for fifty cents. I\nremained with this family about four years, and went to night school\nmuch of the time. I suppose they considered my services more and more\nvaluable as I became more enlightened, for, during the four years, my\nwages were increased from $3.50 to $10 per month. As my wages increased,\nI had more tuition to pay also, for during my study in the night school\nI had several teachers and paid some of them as much as two dollars per\nmonth, and so anxious was I to acquire an education that I would have\npaid five dollars had it been required, even at a time when it would\nhave taken all my wages to do so. While I was a student in one of these\nnight schools, I chanced one day to see a newspaper which a colored man\nwho knew me had thrown into the yard for me. In this paper I read an\narticle telling about Emerson Institute, a school of the American\nMissionary Association, and the commencement exercises soon to occur\nthere. The school had been in Mobile for several years, but I had heard\nnothing of it till now. As soon as I read of these exercises, I\ndetermined to see them, for I had never heard of such exercises before.\nWhen the time came, I went one night, accompanied by a few of my fellow\nnight-school students. We were well pleased with what we saw, and I said\nto them that I meant to enter that school when it opened the next fall,\nand that I meant to be an educated man if I could. I soon began to carry\nout my purpose, for in a few weeks I left my employment in that family\nand went back into the country, from whence I had gone to Mobile, and\ntook the examination and began teaching public school. By this means, I\nearned money enough to go back to Mobile and become a pupil of Emerson\nInstitute, not in the fall of 1873, as I had hoped to do, but in the\nspring of 1874. I shall ever feel grateful to the man who threw over the\nfence for me the article from which I learned about that good school,\nfor I am sure I am quite a different man to-day from what I would have\nbeen but for reading that article. Precious to me is the memory of those\ndays during which I took tuition in the night-school, where the key was\nput into my hand and the door of knowledge was opened to me.\n\nNext to God I am grateful to the American Missionary Association for\nhaving received training in a Christian school, where I was led to\nChrist and felt called to the Christian ministry. When I lived on the\nplantation, before I went to Mobile and received instruction in the\nChristian school, I had heard the uneducated colored ministers preach\nand they had endeavored to lead me to Christ, but I could not accept\nChrist in the way they had presented Him to me. I remember well how they\ntold us that in order to find Christ we must fast and pray for a number\nof days. I remember, too, the unsuccessful attempt which I made to give\nmyself to Jesus in this way. I was a farm boy and was plowing hard every\nday, and it was hard work for a boy of my age to follow the mule all day\nin the tough grass, and I always felt like eating when meal time came,\nbut still I tried to become a Christian by doing as the minister said I\nmust, and so for a few days I ate no breakfast, no dinner, and no\nsupper, though I worked on. They told us, also, that we must not go to\nbed at night, for if we did the wicked one would make us sleep all night\nand we would fail to pray through the night, and they said we must pray\nall night. For several nights I did not go to bed at all, but would lie\ndown upon the doorstep that I might get up often through the night and\ngo down the hill to pray, for we were instructed to \"go down in the\nvalley.\" Of course after a few days I became tired, sleepy and\ndiscouraged, and gave up. I did not make another attempt till I became a\nstudent in Emerson Institute. One of the lady teachers in that school\nbecame interested in my soul's salvation. She read the Bible to me,\ntalked to me, and prayed for me, and made the way of life and salvation\nseem so plain and simple that it was not long before I accepted the Lord\nJesus as my Saviour.\n\nMy heart overflows with gratitude to that Christian lady whenever I\nthink of my conversion. There is no favor which one person can do for\nanother so great as that of leading him to Christ.\n\nSoon after I was converted I felt inclined to enter the ministry, and\nwas advised to go to Talladega College and there take a theological\ncourse. I wanted to go but did not see any way to get there, to say\nnothing of how I was to stay there, but a lady from the North had been\nvisiting one of our lady teachers at Mobile, and heard me deliver an\noration in a prize contest. She said she liked it, and after she went\nback home she sent me $25 to help me in my education. I had been praying\nthat a way might open for me to go to Talladega, and I felt that the $25\ncame in answer to prayer. I used up the money in getting ready and in\ngoing to Talladega. I wrote Dr. G.W. Andrews, who has for a number of\nyears been instructor in theology there, that I was anxious to go and\nenter his department, but I had no money, and he wrote me, if I had\nmoney enough to get there, to come on. Thank God that I went, and that a\nway was provided for me to stay there and finish the course of study;\nand now I am out in the ministry and trying to do something for Him who\nhas so wonderfully led me and blessed me.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPERILS OF MISSIONARY LIFE.\n\nRev. T.L. Riggs, our missionary at Oahe, Dakota, thus describes the loss\nof a team and the peril of his fellow missionary, Rev. J.F. Cross:\n\n\"I wished to cross my team on the ice to the west side of the Missouri\nand keep it there for use during the breaking up of the river. Being\nvery busy with some writing, I asked Mr. Cross to take my team over when\nhe started to return to the White River, sending a man with him. Mr.\nCross's team went over safely, but mine, which Mr. Cross himself was\ndriving, broke through and were drowned, in spite of every effort of the\ntwo men. Mr. Cross had a narrow escape. He managed to save the wagon,\nbut the horses went down with harness on as they were driven. Mr. Cross\ntook the loss so to heart, that together with the strain and agony of\nthe moment, it quite prostrated him. He started for White River in a day\nor two after, though I felt that he was hardly fit to go.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFIRST FRUITS.\n\nREV. C.L. HALL, FORT BERTHOLD, DAK.\n\nIn the fall of 1879, a young Gros-Ventre Indian named _Dahpitsishesh_,\n\"The Bear's Tooth,\" began to attend the day school at Fort Berthold, and\nalthough he was over twenty years old and not very quick to learn, he\nsurpassed the younger pupils by his industry. He attended the day\nschool, in the day time or in the evening, quite regularly during the\nwinter, and became a help to the missionary in translating parts of\nScripture into the Gros-Ventre language.\n\nHe wore his long hair braided behind, and banged and plastered with clay\nin front so that it stood upright, and he dressed in blanket, breech\nclout, leggings and moccasins, and the lower joints of several of his\nfingers were cut off in accordance with the Indian custom of mutilating\nthemselves at the burial of a friend. His first appearance to a new\nteacher who came the following spring caused her no little trepidation,\nbut she soon learned to prize him as her best pupil, and the next year\nthe influence of God's word upon him was seen by his saying, after\nrecounting some of his Gros-Ventre religious fables, in which his belief\nhad been shaken; \"I have been coming to school now more than a year.\nSince reading these books about God and angels I cannot sleep at night,\nbut have had dreams. I think some harm will come to me. I am poor and\ncannot help myself, but I pray God to keep me from harm, and I want to\ntrust him.\"\n\nFrom that time on, we hoped he would take a decided stand for Christ. As\nyet, none among his people had been converted. A few passages of the\nBible and a few words of song had been given to the Gros-Ventres in\ntheir own tongue, and every Sabbath there were attentive Indian\nlisteners, but would there ever be a Gros-Ventre convert? \"The Bear's\nTooth\" continued to come to us, and learned to understand quite fully\nthe requirements of our faith. He became a trusted helper in charge of\nthe mission cattle and the milking, working regularly as few Indians\nwould do at Berthold, and he soon had stock of his own in which he took\ngreat pleasure. He read the Bible on Sabbath afternoons with one who was\nsoon called to her reward; it was almost her last prayer that he might\nbe saved. He came in spite of dissuasions, jeers, and even persecutions\nfrom his people, and yet he took no stand for Christ. Three years after,\nthere were Indian inquirers, and he helped to explain to them the\ndemands of Christ, but they all felt that \"the way was too hard for\nthem\" and \"went away sorrowful.\"\n\nSome of the young people who had been taken away to school and removed\nfrom the opposition of their people had confessed Christ, but there were\nnone to face it here and say that they loved him. \"The Bear's Tooth\"\ntook a wife in the Indian way, unwilling to marry, and removed, as it\nseemed, away from our influence, to a claim forty miles up the river\nfrom our mission station.\n\nBut God dealt with him and afflicted him in the loss of his babes, and\nof his stock, so that he said, \"It seems as though I could acquire\nnothing. Explain it to me; the Indians say it is because I follow your\nteaching.\" I taught him from the book of Job, and the words of Christ.\nHis soul was hungry, and when he came once in two weeks for his\ngovernment rations, he sought the bread of life at the mission. Finally,\nafter nearly eight years, one summer day he came and sat on a bench in\nthe shade of the house in a little flower garden, and after we had\ntalked awhile, he said to the missionary: \"Good Voice, now I can; I will\nbe faithful to my own wife, I will keep Sunday, I will pray and avoid\nthe dances and other heathen customs; when you think best I will come\ndown and be received into the church.\" That was a glad moment. To clasp\nthe hand of the first Gros-Ventre brother in Christ, won through a\nstrange tongue and from a people who had sat in darkness for eighteen\nhundred years since the great light shone in Galilee!\n\nI said, \"Bring your wife and friends with you to Christ.\" He went home\nbut soon returned, saying sorrowfully: \"My wife and my friends are none\nof them willing. If I join I think it must be alone.\" \"Well,\" I said,\n\"let it be so,\" and it was. His clothes were second-hand and old, and he\nhad no natural attractiveness of appearance; but in a simple, manly,\ndetermined way, he made his confession and was baptized before an\naudience of Indians in the little mission chapel, (July, 1887), a poor\nIndian, but another Daniel standing alone.\n\nThen, as the man of Gergesa, he went home to tell his neighbors what God\nhad done for him. He had a Bible in Dakota, of which language he\nunderstood something, and a few Gros-Ventre translations in writing, and\nsome attempts at hymns, and some pictures. With these he preached, in\nneighbors' houses, and then he would report to me of his reception, and\nask me questions about the Christian life. A veritable man \"Friday\" had\ncome to me; I was no longer alone. Then why did his health fail, and he\nforty miles away where I could not see him? But so God willed. Soon they\nbrought me the word: Your friend has gone. I gathered up his last words,\nquestioning his wife and lame old father. He wanted to see _his friend_\nand tell him some things. He thought he did see him come in and then go\nout before he could speak. He said, \"I thought it was difficult, but I\njoined with those who pray, and I find now it is only a _short_ way. I\nam going above.\" With his last breath and his Bible open, he asked to be\nshown the way, that he might go in it.\n\nThe influence of a genuine life is strongest at home, and so it comes\nthat the wife is seeking to follow her husband. There are other converts\nwith us now, but we shall never forget this first Gros-Ventre \"friend,\"\n(madakina); and although the story of his life is not a peculiar one to\nwhite men, nay for that very reason, we are glad to write this record of\na once lowly, but now glorified, believer.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLOS ANGELES CONGREGATIONAL CHINESE MISSION.\n\nBY REV. ROBERT G. HUTCHINS.\n\nOur First Church has recently enjoyed two peculiarly impressive\noccasions; one the anniversary on the 17th of last month, of the Chinese\nschool, established by Dr. Pond; the other the reception, on the 3d\ninstant, of six Chinese brethren to church membership. To appreciate the\nsignificance of these scenes, one must remember how contemptuous is the\nprejudice which prevails on this coast against these inoffensive\nstrangers.\n\nNine or ten young Chinamen delivered addresses at the anniversary. They\nspoke with remarkable simplicity, perspicuity and accuracy of English\npronunciation. In view of their perfect self-possession and propriety of\nmanner in the presence of the crowded congregation, one could scarcely\nrealize that nearly all of them were utterly inexperienced in public\nspeaking. The success of these humble representatives gave a hint of the\npossibilities of a Christianized China. One of the speakers gave an\naccount of the conversion, sickness, death and Christian burial of a\nmember of the school, a youth of eighteen. The heathen relatives and\nfriends had attributed the illness to the boy's desertion of the\nreligion of his fathers, and had begged him to allow the burning of\nidolatrous incense. But he had calmly resisted their appeals, and, in an\nalien land, far from his father and mother, had pillowed his dying head\non the breast of the Saviour of mankind.\n\nLow Quong, who superintends the mission, and who is true-hearted,\nprudent and influential with his countrymen, showed with clearness, the\nrelation between the conversion of the Chinese in California and the\nevangelization of China. It was news to many of his hearers that the\nChristian Chinese of America are supporting native missionaries of their\nown in China.\n\nThe recitation by the school in concert of some of the sweetest and most\nfamiliar of the Psalms and Scriptural promises, melted the hearts of the\nhearers into sympathy. The old truths borrowed a new tenderness and\nemphasis from these voices accustomed to recite heathen prayers. The\npupils sang in solo, in duet and in chorus. When \"Over the Ocean Wave\"\nwas rendered, some of us queried in our minds on which side of the ocean\nwave God thinks the poor heathen live--the side from which these gentle\nfriends have come, or the side where their countrymen receive such\nunchristian welcome?\n\nNothing could more effectually knock in the head mean prejudice than the\ngrateful words and kind spirit which characterized this anniversary.\nWhatever may be the prospect of the Chinese over-running us, they\ncertainly _had_ us that Sunday evening. Mrs. Sheldon, who has had large\nexperience in the work, and Miss Watson, are devoting themselves to the\nmission with a beautiful fidelity and consecration.\n\nDr. Pond, who conducted the anniversary service, closed with an address\nonly too brief, but most felicitous and convincing. To the opponents of\nChinese immigration he is accustomed to reply: \"Can there be any better\nway of keeping the Chinese at home than to have it known among the\nfathers in China that their sons, if they come to this country, are\nlikely to be Christianized?\"\n\nNothing could be sweeter or more cordial than the spirit of welcome with\nwhich the six Chinese brethren were received into covenant. Not an\nofficer or member breathed an objection to their reception. Had there\nbeen in any heart any lurking Phariseeism concerning them, it would have\nbeen rebuked, if not exorcised, by hearing them sing with us at the\nLord's table, in broken accents, \"Rock of Ages,\" by observing their\ndevout bearing and by witnessing the affecting baptismal scene. These\nbrethren came to the church approved by Dr. Pond, by the Chinese\nmissionary, Low Quong, and by the vote of the Christian Association, and\nafter an examination by the pastor.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\nMISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\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, Mrs. C.A. Woodbury,\n  Woodfords, Me.\n\nVT.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry Fairbanks,\n  St. Johnsbury, Vt.\n\nVT.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Osgood, Montpelier,\n  Vt.\n\nCONN.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171\n  Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn.\n\nMASS. and R.I.--Woman's Home Miss. Association, Secretary, Miss Natalie\n  Lord, Boston, Mass.[1]\n\nN.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. William Spalding, Salmon\n  Block, Syracuse, N.Y.\n\nALA.--Woman's Missionary Union, Secretary, Miss. S.S. Evans, Birmingham,\n  Ala.\n\nMISS.--Woman's Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Sarah J. Humphrey. Tougaloo,\n  Miss.\n\nTENN. and ARK.--Woman's Missionary Union of Central South Conference,\n  Secretary, Miss Anna M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn.\n\nLA.--Woman's Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St.,\n  New Orleans. La.\n\nOHIO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal,\n  Oberlin, Ohio.\n\nIND.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort\n  Wayne, Ind.\n\nILL.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151\n  Washington St., Chicago, Ill.\n\nMINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Miss Katharine Plant, 2651\n  Portland Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.\n\nIOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh,\n  Grinnell, Iowa.\n\nKANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. G.L. Epps. Topeka,\n  Kan.\n\nMICH.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren,\n  Lansing, Mich.\n\nWIS.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead,\n  Wis.\n\nNEB.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. L.F. Berry, 734 N Broad\n  St., Fremont, Neb.\n\nCOLORADO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Packard,\n  Pueblo, Colo.\n\nDAKOTA--Woman's Home Miss. Union, President, Mrs. T.M. Hills, Sioux\n  Falls; Secretary, Mrs. W.R. Dawes, Redfield; Treasurer, Mrs. S.E.\n  Fifield, Lake Preston.\n\n     [Footnote 1: For the purpose of exact information, we\n     note that while the W.H.M.A. appears in this list as a\n     State body for Mass, and R.I., it has certain\n     auxiliaries elsewhere.]\n\nWe would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State\nMissionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association\nbe sent to us through the treasurers of the Union. Care, however,\nshould be taken to designate the money as for the American Missionary\nAssociation, since _undesignated funds will not reach us_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Woman's Home Missionary Association, which has its office in the\nCongregational House in Boston, held its semi-annual meeting in\nProvidence, April 3d, the first since it has come into co-operation with\nthe American Missionary Association in its administration and with the\nother national benevolent societies. Rev. G.A. Hood represented the\nCongregational Union, Rev. Joshua Coit, the American Home Missionary\nSociety, Rev. J.A. Hamilton, D.D., the College and Education Society,\nRev. C.J. Ryder, the American Missionary Association, and the Rev. G.M.\nBoynton, D.D., the Congregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society.\nThese all expressed their sympathy with the closer alliance of the\nWoman's Association with the national societies through which they have\nelected to work, and to which they have committed the administration of\ntheir benevolence in their respective fields. We cordially welcome the\nWoman's Home Missionary Association as the representative of the States\nof Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the sisterhood of co-operative\nsocieties.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAt the meeting of the Woman's Missionary Association of Alabama, held in\nconnection with the Congregational Conference at Mobile, April 1st, the\nConstitution was amended, enlarging the sphere of work to cover both\nhome and foreign missions, and thus we have the \"Woman's Missionary\nUnion of the State of Alabama.\" The actual working of this woman's\norganization had already been varied. It was most interesting at their\nmeeting to hear the reports of the auxiliaries. All reported aid to\ntheir respective churches and relief to the destitute in their parishes,\nand then their contributions took other directions--to the American\nMissionary Association for its Indian work; to the American Board for a\ngirl in Smyrna; for a Hindoo girl; for work in South Africa; to the Home\nMissionary Society for work in the West. Thus these churches in the\nSouth are being trained to a world-wide interest in missions.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHREE NEW ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SOUTH.\n\nA Woman's Missionary Union for the State of Louisiana was organized in\nconnection with the Congregational Association of the State. The meeting\nof ladies was well attended, and the interest was manifested in their\nhearty response in favor of joining the sisterhood of State Unions. The\nofficers of the Union were selected from both the white and colored\nchurches, the church at Hammond being thus represented.\n\nAt the annual meeting of the General Association of Congregational\nchurches of Mississippi, which met at Tougaloo, March 28th, a Woman's\nMissionary Union was organized. Mrs. A.V. Whiting was chosen President,\nMiss Julia Sauntry, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Miss S.J.\nHumphrey, Secretary. Although it is but a small beginning, we hope the\nday is not far distant when Mississippi will take her place with other\nStates in missionary work.\n\nThe Woman's Missionary Union of the Central South Conference was\norganized April 13th, at Knoxville, Tenn.; Secretary, Miss Anna M.\nCahill, of Nashville.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR YOUNG FOLKS.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHOW THE PENNIES GREW.\n\nNot the pennies that lay hidden away in the bank, nor the pennies that\nwere spent for candy. O no; but the honest, hard-working pennies that\nhad a work to do and the heart to do it.\n\nThese work-a-day pennies fell into the hands of a mission band called\n\"Willing Workers.\" It was in the summer-time when they began to stir\nabout and see what they could do for missions, and when winter came\nalong there was a pleasant little festival, and the pennies came\ntogether, and brought just as many with them as they possibly could.\n\nFor these were \"talent\" pennies, and they had been invested for the\nLord. One of the very pleasant features of the festival was the reading\nof little papers, telling how the pennies grew. And we are going to let\nthe children see some of these very papers. For all this is exactly\ntrue, and took place in a pleasant village in the State of New York.\n\nAbout ten dollars grew out of a little more than twenty pennies. We have\nnot room to publish all the little papers, telling how the pennies grew\ninto dollars, though all are of great interest. In some cases the\noriginal penny was invested, and then turned over and over. This is an\ninstance:\n\n\"With the original cent I bought some darning-cotton and darned\nstockings, some for a cent a stocking, but most of them for a cent a\nhole. I then bought thread and crocheted some lace which I sold for 25\ncents. I hemmed two aprons for 5 cents apiece, and some towels for one\ncent apiece. Afterward, I bought another card of darning-cotton. After\npaying for the thread and cotton, I have left the sum of one dollar.--\nPHEBE.\"\n\n\"Rosie,\" who brought in $1.66, says nothing about her penny, but tells\nhow she earned money, as: \"Hitching up horse for grandpa, 10 cents;\ntopping carrots, 12 cents; keeping the fowls off the wheat, 25 cents;\nsweeping, 17 cents,\" etc., all showing honest, hard work. But the penny\nstarted it all, perhaps.\n\nHere is \"Nellie's,\" with an idea in it:\n\n\"With my penny I bought a pen and holder, and sold it for 10 cents. I\ndug a pailful of potatoes for 3 cents, and mended a hole in grandpa's\nsock for one cent. I then bought a little chicken for 5 cents, and let\nit grow into a big chicken, and sold it for 36 cents, making a total of\n50 cents.\"\n\nWell done for Nellie!\n\nOnly one more of these charming little papers can we give in full,\nthough we should love to have our little readers see every one of them.\n\n\"The first thing I did with my penny, I made some edging which I sold\nfor 10 cents; then I sewed it on for 5 cents, which made 15. Then mamma\nsaid if I killed 15 flies she would give me a penny, and so I earned 14\ncents in that way. Then I had 29 cents. I then took away 25 cents and\nbought some ice-cream, and sold it for 8 cents a dish, and received 48\ncents for it. Now I had 52 cents. Then I took 8 cents away from it for\nsome linen, and 4 cents for some braid, with which I made some lace and\nsold it for 70 cents, which leaves me $1.11. Then I sold some flowers\nfor 14 cents, making $1.25. This is what I did with my penny.--LIBBIE.\"\n\n\"Freddie\" and \"Tusie,\" little brother and sister of Libbie, did well\nwith their pennies. Tusie increased hers to 35 cents, while Freddie's\ngrew to 48 cents. Each of these little people gathered all the string\nthey could find and made it up into balls, which they sold.\n\n\"Meda\" made a ruche for grandma, crocheted lace, and speculated in\nbutter, gaining in all 66 cents.\n\n\"Davie,\" Meda's brother, found a generous customer in grandpa, who\nbought a pen-holder and then gave it back to be sold over again. Davie\nalso speculated in tallow, and increased his penny to 50 cents.\n\n\"Helen\" invested in a penny tablet, sold it for 3 cents, and crept up by\ndegrees to the place where she could buy material for an apron which she\nsold for 35 cents. She made another apron and a tidy, and cleared 55\ncents.\n\n\"Lulu\" bought a penny rubber and sold it for 2 cents, bought darning\ncotton, pins, cloth for apron, etc., and increased her penny to 50\ncents.\n\nThe pennies have been growing, and that is good. But love has been\ngrowing too, in these young hearts, and that is better!\n\nMay the \"Willing Worker\" bands multiply all over our great land!\n\nS.S. ADVOCATE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR MARCH, 1889.\n\n\nMAINE, $179.96.\n\nCamden. David Fowler                            $1.00\n\nCastine. Prof. Fred W. Foster                    1.20\n\nEast Otisfield. Mrs. Susan Lovell, 5;\n  Rev. J. Loring, 2; Mrs. Millie Knight, 1;\n  Miss Sally Spurr, 1; Mrs. Caroline Turner,\n  1; Miss Hattie I. Loring, 1; Mrs.\n  Mary H. Jennings, 1                           12.00\n\nFarmington. First Cong. Ch.                     18.76\n\nGardiner. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n\nHiram. Sewing Material, _for Meridian, Miss._\n\nMadison. Cong. Ch., 27; Cong. Ch. of\n  North Anson, 5, to const. FRANK DINSMORE\n  L.M.                                          32.00\n\nPortland. \"A Friend.\"                            5.00\n\nPortland. High St. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud\n  Indian M._                                     5.00\n\nPortland. King's Daughters, Alpha Ten\n  Silver Cross, Package of Basted Work,\n  _for Selma, Ala._\n\nWaterford. Douglass Seminary by Miss\n  H.E. Douglass, _for Freight to Tougaloo\n  U._                                            5.00\n\nWest Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch., Bbl.\n  of C., _for Macon, Ga._\n\nWoodfords. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n\nYarmouth. First Parish Ch.                     100.00\n\n\nNEW HAMPSHIRE, $494.52.\n\nAmherst. \"L.F.B.,\" _for Storrs Sch.,\n  Atlanta, Ga._                                 20.00\n\nAtkinson. Joseph Grover                          8.00\n\nBerlin Mills. Parish Ch. of Christ               8.46\n\nConcord. \"A Friend.\" 5; \"C.L.\" 50c.              5.50\n\nDartmouth. Dartmouth Sab. Sch., 25;\n  Mrs. S.A. Brown, 5, _for Rosebud Indian\n  M._                                           30.00\n\nDumbarton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n  Mountain Work_                                21.00\n\nDumbarton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n  Wilmington, N.C._                             10.00\n\nDumbarton. Miss Lizzie F. Burnham,\n  (1 of which _for Indian M._)                   2.00\n\nEpping. Cong. Ch., 29.65, to const. DR.\n  FRANK W. SPAULDING L.M.; Mrs. J.N.\n  Shepard's S.S. Class, 3                       32.65\n\nExeter. Mary E. Shute, 50; \"A Friend,\" 35       85.00\n\nGreenville. Cong. Ch.                           17.00\n\nHanover. Cong. Ch. at Dartmouth College         10.00\n\nHanover. A.H. Washburn, _for Indian M._         10.00\n\nHudson. J.G. Proctor (3 of which _for Jellico,\n  Tenn._) 10; R.E. Winn, 2                      12.00\n\nKingston. Prof. A. Wood                         10.00\n\nLancaster. Mrs. A.M. Amsden                      5.00\n\nLondonderry. Chas. S. Pillsbury                  1.00\n\nMason. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Ind'l 'Sch.,\n  Thomasville, Ga._                              5.00\n\nNashua. Mrs. Annie D. Richardson's S.S.\n  Class, _for Rosebud Indian M._                 5.00\n\nNew Ipswich. Cong. Ch.                           4.15\n\nPembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, _for\n  Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._            21.00\n\nPenacook. Two Little Boys, Papers, _for\n  Savannah, Ga._\n\nPortsmouth. \"A Member of North Ch.\"            100.00\n\nTilton. Cong. Ch.                               35.00\n\nTroy. First Cong. Ch.                            6.76\n\nWest Concord. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., to\n  const. MRS. C.F. ROPER L.M., _for Storrs\n  Sch., Atlanta, Ga._                           30.00\n\n\nVERMONT, $967.31.\n\nBrandon. Mrs. L.G. Case,\n  _for Mountain Work_                            5.00\n\nBrookfield. Second Cong. Ch. 12.38; First\n  Cong. Ch. and Soc., 4                         16.38\n\nBurlington. Infant Class, College St.\n  Sab. Sch., on True Blue Card,\n  _for Indian M._                                1.00\n\nCornwall. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Indian M._                               30.00\n\nCornwall. Bbl. of C.; Cash 2,\n  _for McIntosh, Ga._                            2.00\n\nEast Thetford. Mrs. O.T. Pressey and\n  Mother                                         1.90\n\nFayetteville. Cong. Ch.                          5.00\n\nHartland. Cash, _for McIntosh, Ga._              2.00\n\nMarshfield. Lyman Clark                         15.00\n\nNewbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to\n  const. SIDNEY JOHNSON L.M.                    41.11\n\nNorth Bennington. Cong. Ch.                      7.74\n\nNorth Cornwall. Cong. Ch.                       48.20\n\nNorthfield. Mrs. J.D. Allen. 30, to const.\n  REV. WILLIAM S. HAZEN L.M.; Cong.\n  Ch. and Soc., 24.92                           54.92\n\nPawlet. A. Flower                                2.00\n\nRutland. Cong. Ch.                              18.00\n\nSaint Albans. Cong. Ch.                        125.00\n\nSaint Albans. F.S. Stranahan's S.S.\n  Class, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._             25.00\n\nSaint Johnsbury. Box of C.; Cash 2,\n  _for McIntosh, Ga._                            2.00\n\nSpringfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Indian M._                               50.00\n\nWest Brattleboro. Cong. Ch.                     13.06\n\nWeybridge. Bbl. of C.; Cash 2,\n  _for McIntosh, Ga._                            2.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                              $467.31\n\nESTATE.\n\nJericho. Estate of Mrs. Lucy Spaulding\n  by C.M. Spaulding                            500.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                              $967.31\n\n\nMASSACHUSETTS, $4,871.39.\n\nAdams. Mr. Kirk's Class, Cong. S.S.,\n  _for Indian M._                                5.00\n\nAmesbury. Main St. Cong. Ch.                     9.10\n\nAmherst. Amherst College Ch., 131.48;\n  North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30, to const.\n  MRS. MARY E. GRAVES L.M.; \"A Friend,\"\n  Thank Offering, 10                           171.48\n\nAmherst. First Cong. Ch., 20.42; \"A\n  Friend in First Cong. Ch., Thank Offering,\"\n  10; Mrs. Stearns' School, 8,\n  _for Indian M._                               38.42\n\nAndover. C.E. Goodell, 25; Rev. F.W.\n  Greene, 20                                    45.00\n\nAndover. Dorcas Mission, 2 Bbls C.,\n  _for Jellico, Tenn._\n\nBelchertown. By Mrs. C.F.D. Hazen,\n  _for Freight_                                  0.25\n\nAyer. Paper Mission Soc., Box Papers,\n  _for Tougaloo U._\n\nBeverly. Sab. Sch. of Dane St. Ch.,\n  _for Rosebud Indian M._                       10.00\n\nBoston. Henry Woods, 500; Mrs.\n    Susan C. Warren, 400;\n    Old South Ch., by Mrs.\n    Susan W. Hardy, 50;\n    J.A. Brown, 50; J.D.\n    Leland, 25, Chas. H.\n    Routaw, 25; Mrs. Withington,\n    5; Edwin S.\n    Woodbury, 10; Mrs.\n    E.P. Eayers, 10; H.M.\n    Bird, 5; Rev. R.B.\n    Howard, 2; \"Friend,\"\n    1; \"A Friend,\" 1, _for\n    Girls' Hall, Pleasant\n    Hill, Tenn._                             1,084.00\n\n  S.D. Smith, American\n    Organ, _for Pleasant\n    Hill, Tenn._                                75.00\n\nDorchester. Mrs. Walter Baker\n      of Second Cong.\n      Ch., _for Girls' Hall,\n      Pleasant Hill, Tenn._          25.00\n\n      Mrs. A.W. Torrey,\n        _for Marion, Ala._            5.00\n\n      Mrs. Houston, Pkg.\n        of Work, _for Selma, Ala._\n\nJamaica Plain. Nellie F. Riley.\n      Package Cotton Cloth,\n      _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nRoxbury. John H. Soren                1.75\n\n      Mrs. J.D. Proctor,\n        _for Freight,\n        to Atlanta, Ga._              1.50\n\n      Highland Cong. Ch.,\n        20; Mrs. Campbell,\n        2, _for Girls' Hall,\n        Pleasant Hill, Tenn._        22.00\n\nSouth Boston. Phillips Y.P.S.C.E.,\n    \"Thank Offering.\"                 5.00\n\n                                  --------   1,219.25\n\nBrimfield. Cong. Ch., Benev. Soc., 14.55;\n  Second Cong. Ch., 6.91                        21.46\n\nBuckland. Cong Ch., 23.96; Mrs. E.T.\n  Smith 1; Mrs. Z.C. Woodward, 50c.;\n  ----, 50c.                                    25.96\n\nCambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch., 77.60;\n  Pilgrim Ch., M.C. Coll, 6.66                  84.26\n\nCambridgeport. \"Friend,\" 25; Mrs. A.E.\n  Douglass. 10; Miss Lucena Palmer,\n  1, _for Girl's Hall,\n  Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                         36.00\n\nCambridge. Mrs. A.C. Thorpe, 10; Mrs.\n  Sara C. Bull, 5, _for Girls' Hall,\n  Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                         15.00\n\nCharlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc.              70.46\n\nCharlestown. Edward Graves                      10.00\n\nChesterfield. Cong. Ch.                          5.00\n\nDalton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch._         17.50\n\nDighton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Student Aid, Wilmington, N.C._            8.00\n\nEast Bridgewater. Union Cong. Ch. and\n  Soc.                                          10.27\n\nEast Charlemont. Cong. Ch.                       9.39\n\nEasthampton. First Cong. Ch.                    88.98\n\nEasthampton. Mrs. W.H. Wright's Sab.\n  Sch. Class, _for Indian M._                    5.00\n\nEast Weymouth. \"Individuals,\" 2.70;\n  \"Friend.\" 25c, _for Girls' Hall,\n  Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                          2.95\n\nEnfield. Cong. Ch.                              50.00\n\nErving. Rev. Ira A. Smith, _for Student Aid,\n  Wilmington, S.C._                              8.00\n\nFall River. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Indian Sch'p._                           17.50\n\nFoxboro. Orthodox Cong. Ch., 35.22;\n  Primary Class, Miss Ellen Jewett,\n  Teacher, 5                                    40.22\n\nFranklin. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Grand View, Tenn._                       30.00\n\nGeorgetown. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.            31.00\n\nGroveland. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch.               1.00\n\nHopkinton. Cong. Ch. ad'l.                      50.00\n\nHyde Park. First Cong. Ch.                      21.32\n\nIpswich. Linebrook Cong. Ch.                     8.75\n\nLowell. \"R.S.\"                                   5.00\n\nLynn. North Cong. Ch.                           50.00\n\nMalden. First Cong. Ch., (30 of which to\n  const. HERBERT PORTER L.M.)                  117.00\n\nMalden. First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Mountain Work_                            2.00\n\nMansfield. Ortho. Cong. Ch.                     14.85\n\nMarblehead. Miss H.A. Richardson. 5;\n  Miss Anna H. Dana, 5, _for Girls' Hall,\n  Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                         10.00\n\nNew Boston. Cong. Ch.                            4.00\n\nNewbury. First Ch., M.C. Coll                   20.34\n\nNewton. _For Student Aid, Marion, Ala._          4.00\n\nNorthampton. A.L. Williston, 103.15;\n  Geo. W. Cable, 25, _for Girls' Hall,\n  Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                        128.15\n\nNorth Amherst. Mrs. Henry Stearns                2.50\n\nNorth Brookfield. First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Indian M._                               10.88\n\nNorth Hadley. Second Cong. Ch., bal. to\n  const. DEA. JAMES SPEAR L.M.                  10.00\n\nNorth Leominster. \"Friends,\"\n  _for Rosebud Indian M._                        1.05\n\nNorton. Trin. Cong. Ch.                        112.50\n\nPhillipston. Mrs. Mary P. Estey                  5.00\n\nPittsfield. South Cong. Ch., Rev. Edward\n  Strong and wife                               40.00\n\nPittsfield. Mrs. S.H. Stevenson, _for Girls'\n  Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                    1.00\n\nQuincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                12.50\n\nReading. Cong. Ch.                              18.00\n\nRockport. Jun. C.E. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                     3.75\n\nSharon. Cong. Ch and Soc., to const.\n  E.J. MOSMAN L.M.                              30.66\n\nSpringfield. \"H.M.\"                          1,000.00\n\nSpringfield. Memorial Sab. Sch.,\n  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                    25.00\n\nSpringfield. Y.P.S.C.E. of Hope Ch.,\n  _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                    12.00\n\nSomerville. Sab. Sch. of Franklin St.\n  Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n  Santee Indian Sch._                           40.00\n\nSomerville. Young Ladies' Mission Circle\n  of Franklin St. Ch., _for Santee Indian\n  Sch._                                         20.00\n\nSomerville. Y.L.M.C. of Franklin St.\n  Ch., _for Freight to Santee Agency_            1.94\n\nSomerville. Dea. William Conant                  5.00\n\nSomerville. \"Friend\" _for Girls' Hall,\n  Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                          0.25\n\nSouth Braintree. Cong. Ch.                       8.00\n\nSouth Framingham. Sab. Sch. of South\n  Cong. Ch.                                     16.61\n\nSouth Farmington. G.M. Amsden                    5.00\n\nSouth Hadley. First Cong. Ch., 31;\n  Maria B. Gridley, 5                           36.00\n\nSouth Wellfleet. Cong. Ch.                       6.00\n\nTaunton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.               47.74\n\nTaunton. Young Peoples' Union, Trin.\n  Cong. Ch., 25; Y.P. Union of Broadway\n  Ch., 25, _for Indian M._                      50.00\n\nWare. First Cong. Ch.                           25.00\n\nWare. \"Little Sunbeams,\" for Bird's\n  Nest, _Indian M._                             25.00\n\nWare. Miss Hitchcock's Class, East Cong.\n  Sab. Sch. _for Indian Sch'p._                 17.50\n\nWendell. Mrs. E.H. Evans, 3, _for Mountain\n  Work_, 2 _for Chinese M._                      5.00\n\nWest Brookfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  5 _for Santee Agency_, 5 _for S.S. Work_      10.00\n\nWest Dennis Mrs. S.S. Crowell (1 of\n  which _for Chinese M._)                        1.50\n\nWest Gardner. Mrs. Nettle. M. Fairbanks'\n  S.S. Class and \"Other Friends,\"\n  _for Indian Sch'p._                           17.50\n\nWestport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    20.00\n\nWest Somerville. Day St. Ch.                     8.89\n\nWinchendon. Y.P.S.C.E, bal. to const.\n  MISS HATTIE M. WYMAN L.M.                     10.00\n\nWinchester. S. Elliott                          10.00\n\nWinchester. \"A Friend\" _for Girls' Hall,\n  Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                          2.00\n\nWollaston. Correction, Cong. Ch. and\n  Soc., 31, ack. in April number, should\n  read to const. REV. B.B. SHERMAN L.M.\n\nWorcester. Ladies of Union Ch.\n  _for Indian Sch'p_                            20.50\n\nWorcester. W.J. White                            5.00\n\n----. \"A Friend In Massachusetts\"               50.00\n\n----. \"A Friend.\"                                1.00\n\nHampden Benevolent Association, by\n  Charles Marsh, Treas.:\n\n    Chicopee. First                   5.25\n\n    Ludlow                           16.65\n\n    South Hadley Falls               15.48\n\n    Westfield. First Cong. Ch.\n      (of which 50 from Indian\n      Circle _for Santee Indian Sch._\n      Sab. Sch. 20, \"Friend\" 5,\n      \"Two little children\" 5,\n      \"Young Lady\" 1.50 _for\n      Rosebud Indian Sch._, \"Two\n      Friends\" _for Indian Work,_\n      15.)                          220.23\n\n  West Springfield, Park St.,\n    _for ed. of Indian Youth_        21.65\n\n                                 ---------\n\n                                               279.26\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                            $4,546.39\n\nLEGACY.\n\nPhillipston. Estate of T. Ward,\n  by James Watts, Ex.                          325.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                            $4,871.39\n\n\nCLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.\n\nWaterford, Me. Douglass Seminary, Box\n  _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n\nAndover. Mass. Miss Mary B. Mills, Box\n  Magazines, _for Lexington, Ky._\n\nAuburndale, Mass. By Miss Norton of\n  W.H.M.A. Large Bundle Magazines\n\nBelchertown, Mass. By Mrs. C.F.D. Hazen,\n  Bbl. and Box, _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nCambridge. Mass. Miss Fannie W. Bowen.\n  Choice Scrap Album\n\nHubbardston, Mass. Package, for \"Aunt\n  Rachel,\" _Tougaloo, Miss._\n\nMarblehead, Mass. Hon. J.J.H. Gregory,\n  Box Seeds, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n\nSomerville, Mass. Young Ladies' Mission\n  Circle, Bbl. _for Dakota Home, Santee, Neb._\n\nYarmouth, Mass. First Cong. Sewing Circle,\n  Box, _for Marion, Ala._\n\n\nRHODE ISLAND, $47.03.\n\nLittle Compton. United Cong. Ch.                22.03\n\nProvidence. Mrs. Sarah L. Danielson,\n  _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._       25.00\n\nProvidence. Mission Band Beneficent Ch.,\n  Papers, _for Savannah, Ga._\n\n\nCONNECTICUT, $6,623.06.\n\nAvon. \"Friend\" _for Mountain Work_               5.00\n\nBristol. Mrs. Nancy Adams                        2.00\n\nBristol. Mrs. Peck's Class Cong. S.S.,\n  _for Indian Sch'p._                           15.00\n\nBuckingham. Cong. Ch.                            2.00\n\nCanaan. Pilgrim Ch.                             16.63\n\nCanton Center. \"Cherry Blossom Miss.\n  Band,\" _for Williamsburg, Ky._                 9.00\n\nCornwall. Sab. Sch, of Cong. Ch. Christmas\n  Offerings, _for Ind'l Sch.,\n  Thomasville, Ga._\n\nCromwell. G.H. Butler,\n  _for Rosebud Indian M._                        1.00\n\nDurham. Cong. Ch.                               10.73\n\nEast Hartford. Mrs. N.S. Nash, Box C.,\n  _for Williamsburg, Ky._, 1 _for Freight_       1.00\n\nEnfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Ballard Normal Sch., Macon, Ga._         18.00\n\nEssex. Cong. Ch.                                20.90\n\nFair Haven. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong.\n  Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._               15.00\n\nGreenwich. Second Cong. Ch.                     62.50\n\nGuilford. First Cong. Ch., to const.\n  EMELINE S. LEETE, L.M.                        30.00\n\nGuilford. Hattie E. Seward,\n  _for Sherwood, Tenn._                          1.00\n\nHartford. Roland Mather, _for Dakota\n  Home, Indian M._                             100.00\n\nHartford. Sab. Sch. of Asylum Hill Cong.\n  Ch., _for Chinese M._                         15.00\n\nLebanon. Goshen Ch. and Soc.                    32.00\n\nMilford. Plymouth Ch.                           39.39\n\nNew Hartford. Cong. Ch.                         34.14\n\nNew Haven. Church of the Redeemer,\n  133; Mrs. Nelson Hall, 50. to const. EVA\n  A. JUDSON L.M.; Prof. E.E. Salisbury,\n  50; Howard Av. Ch. 25.03                     258.03\n\nNew Haven. Sab. Sch. of First Cong, Ch.\n  17.50: Mrs. W.M. Parsons, 4\n  _for Indian M._                               21.50\n\nNew London. \"X.Y.Z.\" _for Indian M._            50.00\n\nNew Milford. Mrs. Geo. Hine                     2.00\n\nNew Preston. Mrs. Betsey Averill,\n  _for Indian M._                               10.00\n\nNorfolk. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Indian M._                               15.00\n\nNorth Greenwich. Miss Amy Downes                 1.00\n\nNorth Stonington. \"A Friend\"\n  _for Indian M._                               25.00\n\nNorwich. Park Cong. Ch.                       2743.97\n\nNorwich. Sab. Sch. of Park Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Indian M._                               12.50\n\nNorwich. Second Cong. Ch, _for Jewett\n  Memorial Hall, Grand View, Tenn._             16.86\n\nOld Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                         26.40\n\nOld Saybrook. The \"Seaside\" Band of\n  Young Girls, by Miss Grace A. Paine,\n  Treas., _for Sherwood, Tenn._                  5.00\n\nPlantsville. Cong. Ch., 97.74; Sab. Sch.\n  of Cong. Ch., 19.84                          117.58\n\nRidgefield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Indian M._                               10.00\n\nSalisbury. Cong. Ch.                            14.06\n\nSouth Killingly. Rev. W.H. Beard, Papers,\n  _for Savannah, Ga._\n\nStafford Springs. Cong. Ch.                     14.85\n\nTerryville. James Woodruff,\n  _for Indian M._                               50.00\n\nTerryville. Cong. Ch.                           32.00\n\nWarren. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      14.80\n\nWashington Depot. \"S.\"                          10.00\n\nWaterbury. First Cong. Ch.                     120.00\n\nWaterbury. Primary Class Second Cong.\n  Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud Indian M._        30.00\n\nWaterbury. Mrs. M.R. Mitchell,\n  _for Sherwood, Tenn._                          5.00\n\nWaterbury. Sunshine Circle, Papers,\n  _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nWestford. Cong. Ch.                              6.72\n\nWest Suffield. Cong. Ch.                        13.28\n\nWethersfield. Mrs. J.C. Francis' S.S.\n  Class, to const. CHAS. HOWARD WELDON\n  L.M., _for Rosebud Indian M._                 30.00\n\nWethersfield. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Mountain\n  Work_, by Minnie A. Havens, Treas.             5.00\n\nWindsor. First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Miss Collins' Indian Work_               10.00\n\n----. \"A Connecticut Friend,\"\n  _for Indian M._                              300.00\n\n----. \"A Friend,\" _for Williamsburg, Ky._       10.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of\n  Connecticut, by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec.:\n\n    Essex. The Whatsoevers\n      Miss. Circle, by Miss A.\n      Parker, Sec., _for Conn. Ind'l\n      Sch., Ga._                      5.00\n\n    Naugatuck. Ladies' Aid\n      Soc., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch.,\n      Ga._                           25.00\n\n    New Haven. College St. Ch.,\n      by Mrs. Luman Cowles, _for\n      Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._         35.00\n\n                                  --------\n\n                                                65.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                            $4,475.84\n\n\nLEGACY.\n\nCollinsville. Estate of Mrs. Margaret\n  McNary Spencer, by Sam'l N. Codding, Ex.   2,147.22\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                            $6,623.06\n\n\nNEW YORK, $1,566,68.\n\nAmsterdam. S. Louise Bell                        4.50\n\nAquebogue. Six Little Boy's by Miss\n  Mamie Benjamin, 6; Miss A.H. Benjamin,\n  Box C., etc., _for Williamsburg, Ky._          6.00\n\nAstoria. Miss Frances W. Blackwell,\n  _for Indian M._                                5.00\n\nBrooklyn. Stephen Ballard, _for Ballard\n  Normal Sch., Macon, Ga._                     900.00\n\nBrooklyn. Clarence F. Birdseye,\n  _for Indian Sch'p._                           17.50\n\nBrooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Presb, Ch., 2 Bbls.\n  C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nBuffalo. First Cong. Ch., _for Freedmen\n  and Indian Work_ and to const. MRS. AGNES\n  B. EARL, MRS. EMMA D. KINSLEY\n  and MISS AGNES DICK L.M's                    100.00\n\nBuffalo. Wm. W. Hammond,\n  _for Indian M._                                2.00\n\nCanandaigua. King's Daughters of Cong.\n  Ch., _for Indian M._                          25.00\n\nFlushing. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Oaks, N.C._                              40.00\n\nGranby Center. Mrs. J.C. Harrington             10.00\n\nHoneoye. Cong. Ch.                               7.15\n\nLowville. \"E.\"                                   9.50\n\nMount Sinai. Cong. Ch.                           6.00\n\nMount Vernon. Y.P.S.C.E. of Reformed\n  Ch., by Miss C. Pearson                        5.53\n\nNew York. Miss S.R. Kendall, 24,\n  \"Friend,\" 5, _for Chapel, Santee\n  Indian M._                                    29.00\n\nNew York. Mrs. L.H. Spelman, _for Student Aid,\n  Atlanta U._                                   25.00\n\nNew York. Mrs. E.B. Monroe, _for Ind'l\n  Sch., Thomasville, Ga._                       20.00\n\nNew York. A.P. Blevin, _for Girls' Hall,\n Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                          10.00\n\nNew York. Mrs. O.M. Scripture                    0.50\n\nParis. Cong. Ch.                                12.00\n\nPerry Centre. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Rosebud Indian M._                       18.56\n\nRichford. Mrs Lucy E. Allen                      4.00\n\nSherburne. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.         20.94\n\nWalton. Y.P.S.C.E., by Mary S. Colton,\n  Sec., _for Ballard Normal Sch.,\n  Macon, Ga._                                   10.50\n\nWestmoreland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.       2.00\n\nWilmington. Allie M. Bell, on \"True\n  Blue\" Card                                     1.50\n\nWoodstock. Miss F. Butler, Package C.,\n  _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y.,\n  by Mrs. L H. Cobb, Treas.,\n  _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Brooklyn. Ladies' Benev.\n      Ass'n of Central Cong. Ch.    225.00\n\n    Geddes. Ladies' Aux.              5.00\n\n    Homer. \"Band of Hope.\"            3.50\n\n    Jamestown. Woman's Aux.\n      to const. MRS. S.E. WOODIN\n      L.M.                           30.00\n\n    Napoli. Ladies' Soc.             11.00\n\n                                   -------\n\n                                               274.50\n\n\nNEW JERSEY, $315.89.\n\nArlington. Mission Band _for Student Aid_        0.75\n\nEast Orange. F.W. Van Wagenen, _for\n  Student Aid, Marion, Ala._                     8.50\n\nMoorestown. A.S. and H.F. Carter,\n  _for Sherwood, Tenn._                          5.00\n\nMurray Hill. Dr. S.H. Bassinger                 10.00\n\nNutley. Miss Lydia M. Story,\n  _for Indian M._                                5.00\n\nOrange Valley. Cong. Ch.                       205.64\n\nParsippany. Mrs. M.F. Condit                     1.00\n\nRoselle. \"A Friend,\" _for Girls' Hall,\n  Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                         50.00\n\nSalem. W. Graham Tyler, to const.\n  KATHERINE L. TYLER L.M.                       30.00\n\n\nPENNSYLVANIA, $56.50.\n\nCarbondale. Rev. D.L. Davis                      2.00\n\nDriftwood. F.E. Blackwell, _for Student\n  Aid, Fisk U._                                  5.00\n\nPhiladelphia. \"A Friend\" _for Girls' Hall,\n  Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                         20.00\n\nPhiladelphia. Susan Longstreth, Pkg.\n  Books; Miss R.C. Sheppard, 2,\n  _for Sherwood, Tenn._                          2.00\n\nPittsburg. Mrs. Hannah B. Rea, _for Ind'l\n  Sch., Thomasville, Ga._                        1.50\n\nRidgway. First Cong. Ch.                        26.00\n\n\nOHIO, $545.41.\n\nAtwater. \"A Friend.\"                           105.00\n\nBrookfield. Welsh Cong. Ch.                      4.00\n\nBryan. S.E. Blakeslee                            5.50\n\nCastalia. First Ch. and Sab. Sch.                6.00\n\nCincinnati. Ladies of Central Ch., Box\n  C., _for Fisk U._\n\nCleveland. T.W. Low, 10; Mrs. C.A.\n  Garlick, 1.50                                 11.50\n\nCleveland. Rev. M.L. Berger, D.D.,\n  _for Student Aid, Talladega, Ala._             6.00\n\nCleveland. \"Young People.\" by Miss E.A.\n  Johnson, _for Mountain Work_                   1.50\n\nCleveland. Mrs. A.J. Smith, Box Papers,\n  etc., _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nElyria. Ladles' Soc. of Cong. Ch., 8\n  _for Wilmington, N.C. and for Freight_ 80c.    8.80\n\nHudson. Cong. Ch.                               10.00\n\nKingsville. Ladies' M. Soc. of Presb. Ch.,\n  Bbl. of C., Cash 2.50, and _for Freight\n  1.89, for St. Augustine, Fla._                 4.39\n\nMadison. Central Cong. Ch.                      20.00\n\nMedina. Miss Fannie Thomson's S.S.\n  Class, 5: Rev. Norman Plass' Class, 5, on\n  True Blue Cards                               10.00\n\nMedina. Cong. Ch., Cards, by Miss Hard;\n  Papers by May Woodward, _for Savannah, Ga._\n\nNorwalk. Cong. Ch.                              11.00\n\nSandusky. First Cong. Ch.                       12.20\n\nOhio Woman's Home Missionary Union,\n  by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas.,\n  _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Burton. \"A Friend\"                           2.00\n\n    Lodi. H.M.S. _for Miss Collins'\n      Indian Work_                    5.00\n\n    Madison. Center Ch. W.H.M.S.     10.00\n\n    Medina. W.M.S., Cong. Ch.        10.00\n\n    Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch.        75.00\n\n    Oberlin. L.S., Second Ch.        18.77\n\n    West Williamsfield. Woman's\n      Aux. _for Mist Collins'\n      Indian Work_                    6.15\n\n    West Williamsfield, Willing\n      Workers, _for Miss Collins'\n      Indian Work_                    2.60\n\n                                   -------     129.52\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                              $345.41\n\n\nLEGACY.\n\nPaddy's Run. Estate of Mrs. Mary A.\n  Davies, by Abner Francis                     200.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                              $545.41\n\n\nILLINOIS, $1,069.88.\n\nAurora. First Cong. Ch.                         23.19\n\nBelvidere. Mrs. M.C. Foote, 5, _for Tillotson\n  C. & N. Inst._, 3 _for Woman's Work_           8.00\n\nCamp Point. S.B. McKinney                       10.00\n\nChenoa. Mrs. E.M. Pike, _for Mobile, Ala._       8.90\n\nChicago. First Cong. Ch., 83.45; W.E.\n  Sanford, 25; New England Cong. Ch.,\n  86.12; W.H.M.U. South Cong. Ch., 15          209.57\n\nChicago. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Leavitt\n  St. Cong. Ch., _for Sch'p End't Fund,\n  Fisk U._                                      30.00\n\nChicago. Mrs. E.C. Hancock and Friends,\n  Bbl. C., etc.; Mrs. C.E. Stanley, Box\n  remnants, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nCrete. Mrs. A.D. Reed                           25.00\n\nCrystal Lake. Cong. Ch.                          2.00\n\nDanville. Mrs. A.M. Swan, Package Cotton\n  Cloth, _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nEarlville. \"J.A.D.\"                             25.00\n\nFarm Ridge. B.U. Heister and Sister             25.00\n\nFarmington. Geo. W. Little, 15; Mrs.\n  Theodore Tarleton, dec'd, 10                  35.00\n\nForrest. Cong. Ch.                              17.32\n\nGalena. Mrs. Ann Bean                            2.50\n\nGeneseo. First Cong. Ch.                       105.25\n\nHinsdale. Cong. Ch., bal. to const, J.W.\n  BUSHNELL and FLETCHER LINSLEY L.M's           34.00\n\nHyde Park. Classes in S.S. by Miss Comstock,\n  3, A.W. Cole, 2, Olin family, 1,\n  _for Marion, Ala._                             6.00\n\nKewanee. Cong. Ch. to const. DEA. WILSON\n  A. MINNICK, SAMUEL BENNISON and\n  MRS. MARTHA M. PRATT L.M's                    83.08\n\nLisbon. Dr. G. Kendall                           1.00\n\nLyndon. Cong. Ch.                                7.00\n\nLyonsville. L.B.S., _for Miss Collins'\n  Indian Work_                                   3.80\n\nNew Windsor. L.M.S.                              5.00\n\nOak Park. Mrs. Elizabeth Durham,\n  _for Chinese M._                               5.00\n\nOdell. Mrs. H.E. Dana                           10.00\n\nPeoria. First Cong. Ch., to const. REV.\n  D.K. NESBIT, L.F. HOUGHTON, MRS.\n  SARAH P. HOWE, MRS. MARGARET R.\n  SCHIMPFF and MISS SARAH F. LINES, L.M's      151.82\n\nPrinceton. Mrs. P.B. Corss                       8.00\n\nRio. Y.P.S.C.E., by Mary Hall, Sec.             11.65\n\nWashington Heights. Bethany Sab. Sch.,\n  _for Mountain Work_                            6.22\n\nWyoming. Y.P.S.C.E.                              4.67\n\n----. \"Friends in Illinois,\" _for Sch'p\n  End't Fund, Fisk U._                         120.96\n\n\nMICHIGAN, $375.38.\n\nAlpena. Cong. Ch.                               25.00\n\nAlpena. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Wilmington, N.C._                        10.00\n\nAnn Arbor. First Cong. Ch.                      63.00\n\nBenzonia. Amasa Waters                          20.00\n\nCanandaigua. Cong. Ch.                           1.90\n\nClinton. Cong. Ch.                              20.00\n\nDetroit. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.           38.23\n\nDetroit. Mrs. A.T. Twiss, _for Student Aid,\n  Fisk U._                                       5.00\n\nGrand Ledge. Miss E. Beckwith                   12.00\n\nMorenci. Cong. Ch.                               5.10\n\nNew Baltimore. Cong. Ch.                        15.65\n\nPort Huron. First Cong. Ch.                     44.50\n\nRichland. Alice Harvey, _for Student Aid,\n  Memphis, Tenn._                                5.00\n\nRomeo. Cong. Ch.                                27.00\n\n----. Friends in Michigan, _for Sch'p\n  End't Fund, Fisk U._                          83.00\n\n\nIOWA, $248.14.\n\nAtlantic. Allie McCarthy,\n  _for Rosebud Indian M._                        0.50\n\nBear Grove. Cong. Ch.                            2.00\n\nBelmond. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Box of\n  Books, _for Savannah, Ga._\n\nCharles City. Cong. Ch.                         16.00\n\nChester Center. Cong. Ch., 13.96;\n  Christian Endeavor Soc., 2.08                 16.04\n\nDanville. S.H. Mix                               5.00\n\nDavenport. Mrs. M. Willis,\n  _for Sherwood, Tenn._                          0.75\n\nDes Moines. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                  11.00\n\nDe Witt. Y.P.S.C.E.                              2.25\n\nEldon. Sab. Sen. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Rosebud Indian M._                       10.00\n\nFontanelle. Y.P.S.C.E.                           3.75\n\nIowa City. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                8.13\n\nJefferson. Rev. D.B. Ells                        5.00\n\nLewis. Cong. Ch.                                 8.00\n\nMitchellville. Cong. Ch. adl.                    2.45\n\nNew Providence. \"A Friend.\"                      5.00\n\nNewton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch, _for Sch'p\n  End't Fund, Fisk U._                          10.80\n\nNewton. Cong. Ch. adl.                           3.70\n\nTipton. Mrs. M.D. Clapp                          4.50\n\nShenandoah. Cards and Papers by Mrs. Todd,\n  _for Savannah, Ga._\n\nWaverly. Cong. Ch.                               5.32\n\nIowa Woman's Home Missionary Union,\n  _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Algona                           11.60\n\n    Anamosa. W.M.S.                   8.00\n\n    Chester Center. W.H.M.U.          1.25\n\n    Council Bluffs. W.M.S.           10.00\n\n    Denmark. L.M.S.                   5.00\n\n    Dubuque. S.S.                     8.60\n\n    Farragut. W.M.S.                 10.00\n\n    Mount Pleasant. L.M.S.            3.50\n\n    Riceville. L.M.S.                 1.00\n\n    Waucoma. L.H.M.U.                19.00\n\n                                   -------     $77.95\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                              $198.14\n\nESTATE.\n\nGrand Junction. Estate of John Thompson         50.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                              $248.14\n\n\nWISCONSIN, $614.33.\n\nClinton. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Box and\n  Bbl. of C., _for Marion, Ala._\n\nFulton. Cong. Ch.                               10.07\n\nHartford. Mrs. R. Freeman, \"in\n  Memory of Mary L. Freeman.\"                   10.00\n\nHartland. G.W. Henderson and Friends,\n  Box Clothing, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nJanesville. Rev. Lewis P. Frost and Wife         5.00\n\nKenosha. Thomas Gillespie                       25.00\n\nLake Geneva. G. Montague                         4.00\n\nParis and Bristol. \"Friends.\" Bbl. C.,\n  _for Thomasville, Ga._, 2.24 _for Freight_     2.24\n\nPrairie du Sac. Sewing Material,\n  _for Meridian, Miss._\n\nPotosi. Cong. Ch.                                4.02\n\nUnion Grove. Cong. Ch., 15; Cong. Sab.\n  Sch., 5                                       20.00\n\nWaukesha. \"Friends in Cong. Ch.,\" _for\n  Student Aid, Fisk U._                         24.00\n\nWaukesha. Vernon Tichenor                        5.00\n\nWest Salem. Mrs. E.W. Jenney,\n  _for Indian M._                                5.00\n\nWhitewater. Sewing Material\n  _for Meridian, Miss._\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                              $114.33\n\nESTATES.\n\nMilwaukee. Estate of William Dawes,\n  by J.H. Dawes, Executor                      500.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                              $614.33\n\n\nMINNESOTA, $91.25.\n\nAlexandria. \"A Friend.\"                          3.00\n\nCannon Falls. Cong. Ch.                         15.00\n\nGlenwood. Cong. Ch.                              2.58\n\nGlyndon. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Basted\n  Patchwork, _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nGrand Meadow. T. Skyberg, Package S.S.\n  Papers, _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nHastings. D.B. Truax                             5.00\n\nLake City. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  Package Easter Exercises,\n  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nLittle Falls. Cong. Ch.                          3.75\n\nMinneapolis. Plym. Ch.,\n  _for Hampton Inst._                            5.00\n\nMinneapolis. Open Door Cong. Ch.                 2.65\n\nMinneapolis. Mrs. E.F. Murdock,\n  7 Basted Gingham Aprons,\n  5 Handkerchiefs and Cases\n\nOwatonna. First Cong. Ch.                       12.08\n\nPlainview. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  Box of S.S. Books, _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nRochester. Cong. Ch.                            31.59\n\nRushford. Cong. Ch.                              5.05\n\nWorthington. Union Cong. Ch.                     5.55\n\n\nMISSOURI, $29.50.\n\nGarden City. W.B. Wills, 10; P.M. Wills, 1;\n  A.C. Wills, 1                                 12.00\n\nHannibal. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                     17.50\n\n\nKANSAS, $148.07.\n\nAnthony. Cong. Ch.                               3.00\n\nBlue Rapids. \"Blue Rapids Junior Soc.\"           2.85\n\nTopeka. First Cong. Ch.                        136.22\n\nTopeka. Band of Hope S.S. Class, 50\n  Copies \"Water Lily\" _for Meridian, Miss._\n\nWhite City. \"Willing Workers\" Mission\n  Band of Cong. Ch.                              6.00\n\n\nNEBRASKA, $159.73.\n\nArborville. Cong. Ch.                            6.10\n\nBeatrice. Cong. Ch.                              5.10\n\nBlair. Cong. Ch.                                 9.00\n\nFairmont. Cong Ch. adl.                          6.80\n\nFranklin. Cong. Ch. adl.                         1.56\n\nGreenwood. Cong. Ch.                            14.17\n\nLinwood. Cong. Ch.                              10.00\n\nLong Pine. First Cong. Ch.                       6.00\n\nSantee Agency. S.L. Voorhees, 50; H.A.\n  Brown, 30                                     80.00\n\nWaverly. Cong. Ch.                              11.00\n\n\nDAKOTA, $53.86.\n\nHarwood. Cong. Ch.                               1.08\n\nHuron. First Cong Ch.                           42.58\n\nDakota Woman's Home Missionary Union,\n  by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas.,\n  _for Woman's Work_\n\n    Ashton. W.M.S.                    3.20\n\n    Fire Steel. W.M.S.                2.00\n\n    Sioux Falls. W.M.S.               5.00\n\n                                   -------      10.20\n\n\nUTAH, $5.00.\n\nOgden. Ladies' Miss'y Soc.                       5.00\n\n\nCALIFORNIA, $122.58.\n\nGrass Valley. Cong. Ch.                        122.58\n\n\nDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $10.19.\n\nWashington. Lincoln Memorial Ch.                10.19\n\n\nKENTUCKY, $1.66.\n\nWoodbine. Rev. E.H. Bullock                      1.66\n\n\nVIRGINIA, $3.20.\n\nHerndon. Cong. Ch.                               3.20\n\n\nTENNESSEE, $22.50.\n\nDeer Lodge. Cong. Ch.                            2.50\n\nGrandview. Cong. Ch.                            10.00\n\nJonesboro. Cong. Ch.                            10.00\n\nSherwood. \"Unknown Friends,\" 5 Packages\n  Patchwork, etc., _for Sewing Sch._\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA, $7.25.\n\nTroy. S.D. Leak                                  4.25\n\nNalls. Cong. Ch.                                 1.00\n\nHillsboro. Mrs. C.E. Jones                       2.00\n\n\nGEORGIA, $1.55.\n\nCypress Slash. Cong. Ch.                         1.55\n\n\nALABAMA, $13.53.\n\nMarion. Cong. Ch.                                5.53\n\nMobile. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch.         6.00\n\nSelma. Cong. Ch.                                 2.00\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI, 60c.\n\nPiney Grove. By Rev. E. Tapley                   0.60\n\n\nCANADA, $5.00.\n\nMontreal. Charles Alexander                      5.00\n\n\nTURKEY, $10.00\n\nMardin. Mrs. Ellen Ainsle, 5 _for Chinese M._\n and 5 _for Mountain Work_                      10.00\n\n\nEAST AFRICA\n\nKambeni. Rev. B.F. Ousley, _for Theo.\n  Dept., Fisk U._                               10.00\n\n                                           ----------\n\nDonations                                  $14,948.73\n\nEstates                                      3,722.22\n\n                                           ----------\n\n                                           $18,670.95\n\n\nINCOME, $455.00.\n\nAvery Fund, _for Mendi M._          355.00\n\nC.F. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._    50.00\n\nGeneral Endowment Fund,\n  _for Freedmen_                     50.00\n\n                                   -------     455.00\n\n\nTUITION, $4,810.18.\n\nLexington, Ky., Tuition             881.23\n\nWilliamsburg, Ky., Tuition          109.30\n\nGenesis, Tenn., Tuition               3.12\n\nGrand View, Tenn., Tuition           35.00\n\nJellico, Tenn., Tuition              70.33\n\nJonesboro, Tenn., Tuition            27.15\n\nMemphis, Tenn., Tuition             468.95\n\nNashville, Tenn., Tuition           650.15\n\nPleasant Hill, Tenn., Tuition        28.65\n\nBeaufort, N.C., Tuition Pub. Fund    32.20\n\nWilmington, N.C., Tuition           122.60\n\nCharleston, S.C., Tuition           212.37\n\nAtlanta, Ga., Storrs Sch.,\n  Tuition                           239.20\n\nMacon, Ga., Tuition                 294.70\n\nMcIntosh, Ga., Tuition               55.40\n\nSavannah, Ga., Tuition              197.25\n\nThomasville, Ga., Tuition            74.25\n\nAthens, Ala., Tuition                74.65\n\nMarion, Ala., Tuition               112.06\n\nMobile, Ala., Tuition               193.40\n\nTalladega, Ala., Tuition            139.45\n\nMeridian, Miss., Tuition             75.85\n\nTougaloo, Miss., Tuition            177.25\n\nNew Orleans, La., Tuition           338.50\n\nAustin, Texas, Tuition              197.27\n\n                                  --------   4,810.18\n\nUnited States Government for the\n  education of Indians                       5,254.02\n\n                                            ---------\n\nTotal for March                            $29,190.15\n\n                                           ==========\n\n\nSUMMARY.\n\nDonations                                  $95,843.37\n\nEstates                                     15,194.10\n\n                                          -----------\n\n                                          $111,037.47\n\nIncome                                       4,829.21\n\nTuition                                     18,781.58\n\nUnited States Government appropriation\n  for Indians                                9,540.87\n\n                                          -----------\n\nTotal from Oct. 1 to March 31             $144,189.13\n\n                                          ===========\n\n\nFOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\nSubscriptions for March                         76.14\n\nPreviously acknowledged                        532.99\n\n                                              -------\n\nTotal                                          690.13\n\n\nDANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR COLORED PEOPLE.\n\nIncome for March, 1889, from investments     1,500.00\n\nPreviously acknowledged                      7,354.86\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                            $8,854.86\n\n\nH.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n56 Reade St., N.Y.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 43, No. 05, May, 1889","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":16794}