{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_16154/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_16154","id":"gutenberg_16154","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16154","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: History - Modern (1750+)","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Sociology","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\nSEPTEMBER, 1889.\n\nVOL. XLIII. NO. 9.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\nEDITORIAL.\n\n  ANNUAL MEETING\n  THE TREASURY\n  AS TO \"METHODS\"\n  FIVE QUESTIONS\n  A MID-SUMMER LEAF OF THE A.M.A. CATECHISM\n  THE CARS, THE CHURCH, THE COURTS\n  THE WORK OF THE A.M.A. AND FOREIGN MISSIONS\n  ROME AND THE NEGRO\n  NOTES BY THE WAY, _Dist. Sec'y C.J. Ryder_\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n  HAND FUND\n  HOWARD UNIVERSITY\n  TILLOTSON INSTITUTE\n  EXTRACT\n  MISSIONARY VISITS\n  A CALL FROM AUNT MARY\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n  LETTER FROM OAHE SCHOOL\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n  EVANGELISTIC WORK AT PETALUMA\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\n  STATE ORGANIZATIONS\n  PARAGRAPHS\n  VISIT TO A MISSIONARY SUNDAY-SCHOOL\n\n\nOUR YOUNG FOLKS.\n\n  THE FRESH DRINK.\n  LETTER FROM AN INDIAN BOY.\n\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  Rev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n_Recording Secretary._\n\n  Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n_Treasurer._\n\n  H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n_Auditors._\n\n  PETER McCARTEE.\n  CHAS. P. PEIRCE.\n\n\n_Executive Committee._\n\n  JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.\n  ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary.\n\n\n  _For Three Years._\n\n  J.E. RANKIN,\n  WM. H. WARD,\n  J.W. COOPER,\n  JOHN H. WASHBURN,\n  EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.\n\n  _For Two years._\n  LYMAN ABBOTT,\n  CHAS. A. HULL,\n  CLINTON B. FISK,\n  ADDISON P. FOSTER\n  ALBERT J. LYMAN.\n\n  _For One Year._\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 Sheet, Chicago._\n  Rev. C.W. HIATT, _64 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio._\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\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       *       *       *       *       *\n\nVOL. XLIII.      SEPTEMBER, 1889.     NO. 9.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe next annual meeting of the American Missionary Association will be\nheld at Chicago, Ill., in the New England Church, commencing at three\no'clock Tuesday afternoon, October 29. Rev. R.R. Meredith, D.D., of\nBrooklyn, N.Y., will preach the sermon. On the last page of the cover\nwill be found directions as to membership and other items of interest.\nFuller details regarding the reception of delegates and their\nentertainment, together with rates at hotels, and railroad and steamboat\nreductions, will be given in the religious press and in the next number\nof the MISSIONARY.\n\nA meeting of exceptional interest is expected, and we trust our friends\nwill be present in large force.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE TREASURY.\n\nIt will encourage the contributors to the great work entrusted to us, to\nknow that the friends of the A.M.A. are enabling us to make a very\nhopeful report up to this date.\n\nIf those who have not shared in the work of the Association as yet, this\nyear, will make a corresponding effort with those who have done so, we\nshall have reason to hope that we can go to our Annual Meeting in\nChicago, owing no man anything but love and good will.\n\nBut those who have waited are many, and we are waiting and depending on\nthese. Those who have not taken their contributions have the power to\nconvert our hopes into realities.\n\nWe appeal, therefore, to the pastors whose collections for this fiscal\nyear have not been taken to take their collections and forward them to\nour treasury before the close of September.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAS TO \"METHODS\".\n\nWe have been thinking that the methods of Christ were divine as well as\nhis truth, and that when the Christian world will use Christ's methods\nin the propagation of truth there will be a great advance upon some\nfeatures of the present. Dr. Parkhurst has some very suggestive\nsentences in this line of thought in a sermon on \"The Regenerative Force\nof the Gospel.\" His words are: \"Christ never patches. The Gospel is not\nhere to mend people. Regeneration is not a scheme of moral tinkering and\nethical cobbling. In the Gospel, we move into a new world and under a\nnew scheme. The Gospel does not classify with other schemes of\namelioration.\"\n\nThis accords with our thought of the methods of Christ. The way to meet\nthat which is wrong, is to meet it as a wrong. We shall not do well to\nameliorate it. If we may not expect those who have been \"raised\" amid\nprejudices and ignorance to be leaders for the absolute rectitude of\nthings, those who have not lived where this excuse is available should\nbe the leaders. If some do not lead, none will follow. Where principles\nwere at stake, Christ never gave way to prejudices. He never yielded to\nthat which was in itself wrong. If those to whom he ministered could not\ncome up to his standard, then he waited, but he never compromised. That\nwhich is right should not yield to that which is wrong.\n\nIt may take a right hand. It may take an eye. But \"If thy right hand\noffend thee, cut it off,\" and \"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it\nout.\" He would not \"cut it off\" by amputating the finger and gradually\ndisjointing it up to the mark; and plucking out the offending eye is not\nto bandage it so that it temporarily does not see the evil to which it\nis attracted. No, the Gospel is not a system of repairs. It is not here\nto temporize, but to make all things new, and it strikes at the heart of\nevil and not at its surface.\n\nIt was not Christ's method to ignore an evil which confronted him. He\ndid not evade or get around issues. He met them. He answered them. He\nwas an \"incarnate conscience\" in the land. He knew what was in man. His\nfollowers cannot fail when they walk closely with him in the path which\nhe has made plain.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFIVE QUESTIONS.\n\n1.--If the Georgia Association had been without any colored members in\nit, would the Georgia Conference ever have been formed?\n\n2.--If the Georgia Association had been without any colored members,\nwould the Georgia Conference have declined to unite with it, on some one\nof the terms submitted by the Georgia Association?\n\n3.--If the Georgia Association had been without any colored members,\nwould this curious and ingenious scheme of \"co-ordinate and equal\nbodies,\" \"to elect delegates\" to visit each other now and then ever have\nbeen concocted?\n\n4.--Is it worth while to \"darken counsel with words\" as to methods, when\nit is evident that the purpose is, not to form any union which would be\nother than humiliating to a colored man, and contrary to the heretofore\nheld principles of the Congregational Churches?\n\n5.--Why these arguments to show \"how not to do it,\" when to do it would\nbe so simple and so evidently Christian?\n\n_N.Y. Independent._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA MID-SUMMER LEAF OF THE A.M.A. CATECHISM.\n\nQ. _When are Home Missions properly so called?_\n\nA. When they are ordained to save the unevangelized people of the land\nin which they dwell.\n\nQ. _When are missions properly called Foreign Missions?_\n\nA. When they are missions to foreigners in a foreign country.\n\nQ. _Are missions among the Indians in this country, Foreign Missions?_\n\nA. They are not, though the Indians have been treated as foreigners,\nwhich has been the source of great wrongs and many sorrows.\n\nQ. _Are missions to the Chinese in this country, Foreign Missions?_\n\nA. They are not, though the Chinese are refused the privileges accorded\nother foreigners. The missions of the A.M.A. on the Pacific Coast are\nmost fruitful and hopeful, and, since these foreigners return to China,\nthere is an interblending of Home and Foreign Missions here, that is\nfull of promise.\n\nQ. _Are the missions of the A.M.A. in the South, Foreign Missions?_\n\nA. They are not, though they have been successful in exciting interest\nfor Africa among the students of their schools. Some of these are now\nforeign missionaries; others are preparing to go; but the missions of\nthe A.M.A. in the broadest sense are Home Missions, for they minister to\nwhite and black as to citizens of a common country, who alike need the\nGospel. The A.M.A. is planting white churches (so called) every year,\nand has added several this year, though none of them would refuse\nmembership to a man because he is black, and is planting colored\nchurches (so called), none of which should be excluded from State\nAssociations merely because of color.\n\nQ. _Should the missions of the A.M.A. be called Foreign Missions because\nits schools and churches cannot win the co-operation of the Christians\namong whom they live?_\n\nA. They did not at once win the co-operation of Christians among whom\nthey went, but confidence has been growing with the years until the\ncases are exceptional where they do not have the co-operation of\nenlightened and broad-minded Christians. In most cases, the schools and\nchurches of the A.M.A. have won both confidence and gratitude throughout\nthe South. Southern men are among the trustees of its institutions, and\neverywhere its Field Superintendents and Secretaries are greeted with\ncordiality. A prominent editor of a Southern political paper--white and\ndemocratic--testifies this month: \"_Yours is the most practical\nmissionary work ever undertaken by a Christian body, and should have the\nhearty and unstinted support of all Christians._\" The cases are few\nwhere good will does not exist between its teachers and ministers and\nthe white people among whom they live.\n\nQ. _Does not social ostracism show that the white teacher is engaged in\na Foreign Mission?_\n\nA. Social ostracism is gradually giving way among the more intelligent\nChristian people. Nothing, however, dies so hard as prejudice, and\nnothing is so cruel; but missions do not cease to be Home Missions,\nbecause they may be where there is sinful prejudice and dense ignorance.\n\nQ. _What would be Foreign Missions in the South?_\n\nA. Missions in the South which would treat an entire race as foreigners\nand aliens because in God's wisdom he has seen fit to make them black,\nwould be foreign to the spirit of the Gospel: \"For He is our peace who\nhath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition\nbetween us. Through Him, we both have access by one Spirit unto the\nFather. Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but\nfellow citizens with the saints and of the general household of God, and\nbuilt upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ\nhimself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building, fitly\nframed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord.\" Missions in\nthe South which exclude pastors and delegates from Associations and\nConferences, would be foreign to the Gospel. Missions in the South\nfounded upon an aristocracy of skin, would be foreign to the spirit of\nthe Gospel. Missions which would preach against caste in India, and\nperpetuate it in America, would be foreign to the methods of Christ, and\nto Christian methods in foreign lands.\n\nQ. _Does the A.M.A. believe in mixed churches of white and black\npeople?_\n\nA. The A.M.A. does not regard it as at all probable that such churches\nwill exist to any great extent. Race tastes and race affiliations will\nmake for churches essentially white and essentially black. \"But to close\nthe door on any Christian is in so far to make it an unchristian church.\nTo go into the South and establish white churches from which, whether by\na formal law or by an unwritten but self-forcing edict, men are excluded\nbecause God made them black, is to deny one of the fundamental tenets of\nChrist. There is no need to attempt to corral all men of all races in\none enclosure, but for any church, especially a church of the Puritans,\nto enter upon a missionary work in the South and initiate it by refusing\nto fellowship a black man because he is black, is to apostatize from the\nfaith in order to get a chance to preach the faith.\" The doors of every\nChristian church ought to stand wide open to men of every race and\ncolor, and in all representative bodies these churches should be one.\n\nQ. _Is this the position of the Roman Catholic Church in its Southern\nwork?_\n\nA. It is: The Roman Catholic Church would not for a moment recognize any\ncolor-line in its assemblies or priesthood.\n\nQ. _Does the A.M.A. believe in the social equality of the races?_\n\nA. The A.M.A. has never seen any social equality anywhere, and believes\nand teaches nothing about it. It believes in the Fatherhood of God and\nthe brotherhood of man.\n\nQ. _Is the A.M.A. agitating the color-line question?_\n\nA. It is not. It always has proclaimed its principles for the interests\nof the oppressed, and always has championed the cause of God's poor,\npleading for the right because it is right.\n\nQ. _Why is the A.M.A. in the South doing its work in schools and\nchurches among white and black?_\n\nA. Because the Lord has said; \"Behold, I have set before thee an open\ndoor, and no man can shut it.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CARS, THE CHURCH, THE COURTS.\n\nOur esteemed brother, Rev. G.C. Rowe, pastor of the Plymouth\nCongregational Church, Charleston, S.C., and his associates, on their\nreturn from the meeting of the Joint Committee on the union of the\nGeorgia Association and the Georgia Conference, were forcibly\ntransferred to an inferior car on the Georgia Railroad. They were not\ndriven from the train, they were allowed to ride, and the car in which\nthey rode was connected with the cars containing the white passengers.\nThey were simply separated from the others and that only because they\nwere colored persons.\n\nThe reception these honored ministers of Christ met in the Joint\nCommittee was very much of the same sort. The white brethren did not\ndeny them their place in the church--nay, the two bodies, white and\ncolored, were to be connected together, but these colored brethren were\nto be kept separate and that only because they were colored persons.\n\nAn appeal will be made to the courts, but the interesting question is:\nwhich will be first to recognize the equal manhood of the colored man--\nthe cars, the courts or the church? Would it not be a shame to the\nchurch and a dishonor to the Christian name if the church should be the\nlast?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSpeaking of the race problem, in his baccalaureate sermon at Vanderbilt\nUniversity, recently, Bishop Galloway, of Mississippi, of the Methodist\nChurch, South, startled his hearers by the following vigorous\ndeclaration: \"It is a travesty on religion, this disposition to canonize\nmissionaries who go to the dark continent, while we have nothing but\nsocial ostracism for the white teacher who is doing a work no less noble\nat home. The solution to the race problem rests with the white people\nwho live among the blacks, and who are willing to become their teachers\nin a missionary spirit.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE WORK OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION AND FOREIGN MISSIONS.\n\nBY REV. FRANK B. JENKINS.\n\nThe American Missionary Association has done both home and foreign\nmissionary work. There is nothing in its constitution or traditions to\nprevent its doing the same again.\n\nProvidence, however, seems to indicate clearly that its work at present\nbe within the United States. While in this sense it does home missionary\nwork, the peculiar conditions of the people among whom it mostly labors\nrequire largely the methods of foreign missions. It must supply the\nschool, as well as the church; industrial training as well as that which\nis intellectual and moral. It must create a native ministry and develop\nnative workers of all kinds. In fact, it would be hard to find on\nforeign mission fields a single kind of activity which is not duplicated\nin the fields of the American Missionary Association.\n\nHome missions aid foreign missions by creating the conditions of more\nincome and more missionaries for foreign fields. The work of this\nAssociation has done this already to some extent; without doubt it is to\ndo it to a far greater extent in the future.\n\nIn taking people from the ignorance and poverty of slavery and savagery,\nit could not be expected to form them at once into large givers or\nefficient workers for foreign fields; but who can say, after the marvels\nof the past twenty-four years, what the future shall show, when the\ncoming millions shall arise and, out of gratitude for what they have\nreceived, give of their increasing means and send forth their sons and\ndaughters to tell the glad story of freedom, truth and love.\n\nIt has been a favorite idea of many that the Negroes of America should\nevangelize Africa. Perhaps some have been disappointed that so few of\nthem have gone to Africa as missionaries; but such, I am sure, have\nfailed fully to consider the facts. A people who had received only the\ndegrading tuition of slavery could not produce at once many who should\nhave the reliable qualities and the intellectual and moral training\nneeded for the responsible and, to a large extent, the unsuperintended\nwork of a foreign missionary. Then, every capable preacher, teacher and\nleader has been needed in a hundred places at home. They could scarcely\nbe justified in leaving their own brothers and sisters in heathenism and\nwithout the truth within their reach, to go to the heathen abroad.\n\nYet a few have gone forth and proved themselves capable, faithful and\nsuccessful. A former slave of Jefferson Davis is not only a successful\nmissionary in Africa, but has proved himself such a level-headed man\nthat he has been chosen treasurer of one of the missions of the American\nBoard. Such as he are an earnest of what shall be, when the colored\npeople shall be more fully evangelized and the appeal for Africa can be\nmade strong to their hearts and consciences. Then there will be such a\ngoing forth as will astonish the Christian Church.\n\nThe bearing of the work for the one hundred thousand Chinese in this\ncountry on foreign missions can be clearly seen. Christian work for them\nis missionary work for China--it sends them back to become missionaries\nto their native land. The fruitfulness of this work for foreign missions\nhas been fully demonstrated.\n\nThe possibilities of the influence of the evangelization of the Indians\non foreign missions is a topic which I do not remember having seen or\nheard mentioned. Yet it seems to me worth thinking about.\n\nMexico has four million Indians; Central America, one million five\nhundred thousand, and South America seven million. Here is a foreign\nmission field of twelve and a half million souls. How can it be\notherwise than that, when once the Indians of our land shall come to\nhave and appreciate the blessings of a Christian civilization, their\nhearts shall be stirred by the needs of their brethren according to the\nflesh, and that they will go to them with the gospel story?\n\nThere remains one other field--the whites of the South and especially\nthe \"Mountain Whites.\" As a class, they are poor, ignorant and needy in\nevery way--materially, intellectually, morally and spiritually, but\n_they are not the \"poor, white trash\" of the South_. As good blood flows\nin their veins as in the veins of the Northern people. A wrong start and\ntheir surroundings have made them what they are. Give them schools and\npure and enlightened churches and they will awake into new life as fast\nas any people ever did. They will show in years what missionary work can\nusually show only in decades. In Williamsburg Academy, Ky., nearly every\nboy in the higher classes is expecting to prepare for the ministry, and\nthat school is only a little over half a dozen years old and is the\nfirst one opened in our mountain work.\n\nGive these mountain boys and girls a chance, and the people who gave the\nnation a Lincoln will give it ministers and missionaries, not only for\nthe seven mountain States, but also for other home mission fields and\nfor foreign lands.\n\nIf the Congregational churches will listen to the call of Christ and\nappreciate the opportunity which he has placed before them, there may be\nin these mountains, filled with their marvellous mineral wealth,\nCongregational churches which shall be not only self-supporting, but\ngive generously for the advancement of Christ's kingdom throughout the\nearth. The most generous giver I know, is a native of the mountains and\na member of one of our missionary churches.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nROME AND THE NEGRO.\n\nOne of our most interesting exchanges is an \"_Illustrated Roman Catholic\nQuarterly_ edited and published by the Fathers of St. Joseph's\nMissionary Society of the Sacred Heart,\" its \"Record of Missions among\nthe Colored People of the United States.\"\n\nWe need not say that we have no sympathy with Romanism and its errors,\nnor with the \"Missionary Society of the Sacred Heart,\" and its efforts\nto plant Romanism among the colored people of the South.\n\nWe can, however, but admire the fidelity of the church to its doctrines,\nand the Christian example it gives to all missionary societies in its\nrecognition of man as man. The quotations which we make from the Roman\nCatholic Quarterly will account for the strong hold that Romanism is\nbeginning to secure upon the negro race.\n\nThe following, for example, is a Roman Catholic tribute to John Brown:\n\n     On the 2nd of December next, thirty years will have passed\n     since John Brown, in his sixtieth winter, ascended the scaffold\n     and gave his life for the colored race.\n\n     Connecticut gave the hero birth--from heroes; New York, in her\n     Adirondack recesses, developed in him that spirit of liberty\n     which Ohio had nurtured, and is forever honored by his grave;\n     while Virginia, \"building better than she knew,\" bestowed the\n     martyr's crown. It was necessary that one man should die for the\n     people (John xviii, 14), and God arranged that he who is likewise\n     one of the great benefactors of the human race as well as of his\n     native land should crimson and beautify with his blood the soil\n     that gave a cradle and a tomb to the Father of his Country.\n\n     Grand indeed is the greatness of the rock-ribbed Adirondacks\n     where John Brown lived, prayed, thought out his great\n     life-thought, and made his first trials in the work of emancipation,\n     but grander is the stone there that marks the grave of him whose\n     mighty spirit is still \"marching on;\" for the greatness of that\n     soul invests the tomb with moral grandeur, and calls \"all the\n     astonishing magnificence of unintelligent creation poor.\"\n\n     Fair indeed are the banks of the Shenandoah, and beautiful the\n     landscape on which the dying eyes of the hero rested, but more\n     lovely far the death of him and of his sons and comrades,--\"even\n     in death they were not divided\" (2nd Kings i, 19), because the\n     most beautiful thing in the world or out of it is love, and he\n     and they died of love for their brethren, God's children. It is\n     truly fitting, therefore, that they who were rescued by him from\n     bondage should love and honor his glorious name, and that we all\n     should chant the praises of the man who was the chosen instrument\n     of Providence in destroying out of our country the inhuman custom\n     of human slavery.\n\nThe _Southern Congregationalist_, published in Atlanta, does not have a\nhigh opinion of such men as John Brown. We quote:\n\n     There are men who never are mistaken. If your opinion or plan, no\n     matter how well sustained, differs from theirs, they solemnly\n     greet you: \"Our conscience is our monitor: we can make no\n     concessions of principle.\" The case is ended. You may as well\n     make your humble bow and pass on, leaving them in their lofty and\n     superior place. Such men are of little use in the world. They may\n     have a few satellites, but that is all. It is noticeable how\n     uniformly the conscience and principles of these men agree with\n     their prejudices, salaries and other interests, and with changed\n     circumstances how \"concessions\" distill from them gently as the\n     dew.\n\nWe quote again from the _St. Joseph's Advocate_, as to the color line:\n\n     Man was created in God's own image and likeness. This image and\n     likeness is, however, not a physical one, it is a spiritual or\n     soul likeness. The likeness and image of the operation of the\n     human soul--the mind--through the material, physical medium of\n     the brain, is not only similar, but substantially and formally\n     alike in every division of the human race. It thus follows that\n     fundamentally there is an identity of mental or soul activity and\n     action in all the human race. Neither color, nor form, nor\n     feature, nor clime, operates a change on the formal and\n     fundamental identity of human thought as evolved by the human\n     mind....\n\n     It follows that the negro race, thinking the same thoughts, have\n     the same apprehension of the perfect, good and true, and,\n     thinking in the same lines as the Caucassian race, must needs be\n     of the same order of creation, in the image and likeness of their\n     Maker, although physically different in color, yet in mind and\n     soul the same. This, too, removes the theory of the inferiority\n     of races, and relegates it to the lumber room of the mere\n     physicist or corporal anatomist, who, because he cannot find life\n     in death any more than thought, would deny life as he would deny\n     the soul, even as La Place would not admit a Creator--God--\n     because he could not see him at the end of his telescope....\n\n     Naturally working for and under white men, their industry,\n     versatility and submissiveness have made many people think they\n     were an inferior race. This cannot be. Give them a fair chance in\n     life's battle, train their minds, fill their immortal souls with\n     worthy conceptions of the truth as only presented by the Roman\n     Catholic Church, and you will make of the negro race a kind,\n     charitable, intelligent, worthy Christian people, as full of love\n     for the country of their former enslavement as the best patriot\n     descendant of the Revolutionary fathers. Tried in peace and in\n     war when they have received but half the training of the white\n     race, they have not been found wanting, but have proven\n     themselves worthy of offices of trust and honor in every sphere\n     of life and as good Christians as God has ever granted His divine\n     grace to. His promises are for all nations and for all times, and\n     necessarily for the negro as for the white man, all of whom in\n     their souls are created in His own image and likeness from the\n     beginning.\n\nApropos of Romanism among the colored people, Archbishop Janssens,\nof New Orleans, writes:\n\n     Last year there were baptized 3,705 colored children and 297\n     colored adults, which I estimate forms a population of about\n     75,000 Catholics in this Diocese.\n\n     We have six convents of colored Sisters, of which four are\n     schools, one an asylum for 74 girls, and the other an asylum, for\n     21 old women. There are, besides, nine schools conducted by white\n     Sisters, and eleven schools conducted by lay teachers--in all,\n     twenty-four schools with 1,330 scholars. It is not bad.\n\nAt Emmetsburg, Maryland, the Roman Catholics report the following:\n\n     _The Sisters are putting up a large and fine edifice_ which will\n     be ready for business in September, and will accommodate all the\n     Catholic children, both white-colored and black-colored in the\n     town and vicinity. I am curious to know if this is the first\n     instance in which children of both the dominant races will be\n     educated under one roof.\n\nSays the editor: \"How quickly the color-line disappears in the Catholic\nChurch.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNOTES BY THE WAY.\n\nBY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER.\n\nNot long ago, I met a Frenchman in the halls of the Congregational\nHouse, who was looking for Secretary Coit of the Massachusetts Home\nMissionary Society. He evidently had a very limited knowledge of the\nEnglish language, for he accosted me as follows:--\"You--eh, you\nsomewheres? Ah! I begs my pardon.\"\n\nThis amusing bungle of the French brother fairly represents my condition\nduring the past few weeks. I have not been altogether sure that I was\neven \"somewheres.\" Preaching one Sunday in Dover, N.H., the next in\nTalladega, Ala., the next at Santee Agency, Neb., the next on the\nCheyenne River, Dak., then enjoying a communion season with Brother Hall\nat Fort Berthold, and the next standing beside the pastor of a New\nEngland Church at the same Lord's table.\n\nThe days between these Sabbaths were filled with pleasant duties, in\ntalking over the great work of our Association with the earnest and\ndevoted missionaries. But many things are impressed upon one's thought\nby such a trip as this. We realize more than ever that the American\nMissionary Association is a great National Society, limited neither\ngeographically nor by any race restrictions; actually gathering in its\nschools and missions, Negroes, Whites and Indians, and Chinese and\nJapanese, and Hondurans and Cubans, and who knows how many other needy\nand destitute people! Another fact that must impress one, is the\nthoroughness of the work done. The examinations were thorough and\nexhaustive in the schools. This was true, not only in the lower grades,\nbut also in the advanced classes. Dr. Andrews conducted the examinations\nin Church History, at Talladega, which would have done credit to any of\nour Theological Seminaries. And Dr. DeForest's classes in Mental\nPhilosophy gave evidence of careful study and of assimilation of that\nwhich they had studied. They had not only eaten, but had digested their\nmental food. The same was true at Fisk. What a grand thing it would be,\nif the good friends of the Association in New England, and elsewhere in\nthe North, to whom our work is only presented through an appeal for\nfunds, might visit some of these grand institutions in the South and\nWest, and see just what is being done for these neglected people! The\nwork cannot be appreciated in its vast importance and magnificent\nresults, except after such a personal inspection of the field.\n\n\nThese large institutions are the centers of still larger missionary work\noutside. One professor in Talladega, a graduate of Harvard, has been\nespecially busy during the last year, developing the Sunday-school work\nin the surrounding districts. The following are some of the results:--\neight Sunday-schools enrolling about five hundred scholars; thirty\nteachers, all students in the College; two schools meet in buildings\nbelonging to the College, three in log churches, owned by other\ndenominations, not having Sunday-schools, two in log cabins. \"In one\nschool, teachers and scholars have to huddle together under umbrellas,\nif they have any, or go wet, if they haven't them, whenever it rains;\nand it is a sight which makes one long for better accommodations, that\nmore efficient work may be done,\" writes this self-sacrificing professor\nin a note just received. In one house, he found a family of white\nchildren, all of them very ignorant, and, so far as he was able to\ndiscover, there was not a single book of any kind in the cabin. He\ninvited the children to Sunday-school, where, like Robert Raikes, he\nteaches reading and spelling as well as the Bible, but the mother\nindignantly refused, saying that she \"didn't let her children go to\nschool with Niggers!\"\n\nThere are many evidences of heroic sacrifice on the part of the people\namong whom we labor, that one runs across in such a trip as this. Here\nis one: A small church in Alabama has recently voted to pay fifty\ndollars per month of their pastor's salary, that they may become\nself-supporting, and so let the funds which they have received go to\nother more needy fields. There are seventy-five persons in this church\nwho might be termed paying members; of all these, the pastor informed\nme, not more than fifteen receive over a dollar per day; sixty receive\nless than this. They pay, on an average, ten dollars per month for rent;\nthere are twenty-six working-days to the month, and they often lose at\nleast five of these, on account of weather or lack of work, making an\nincome of only twenty-one dollars per month. Ten dollars going for rent,\nleaves but eleven dollars for the support of the family. Pretty heroic\neconomy that!\n\nThe Annual Meeting of the Dakota Mission, the Convention of missionaries\nwho are at work in the Indian field under the direction of this\nAssociation, gathered at Santee Agency, Nebraska, Saturday, June 15, and\nwas full of interest. Sessions were held for three days, and continued\nlate into the night. Thrilling incidents of exposure on the prairie\nduring winter, swimming swollen and chilly streams, breaking through the\nice when crossing, which, in one case, resulted in the drowning of a\nteam of horses, seemed to be every-day incidents in the life of these\nheroic missionaries, who are carrying on this noble work among the\nIndians. The two Riggs brothers, whose heredity as well as personal\nconsecration fit them for large usefulness in the Indian work, were\nespecially rich in experience and inspiring in conference. One thing,\nespecially, impressed me in this Indian work, and that was, the\ndifference in character between the average teacher employed by the\nGovernment and those employed by this Association and other missionary\nbodies. Many noble men and women are at work under the Government in\nteaching the Indians, but the purpose of the Government-school at the\nbest is simply to make intelligent citizens. The purpose of the\nmission-school is to develop character, to inculcate purity, to create\nmoral earnestness, in other words, not simply to citizenize, but to\nChristianize. We need more mission schools among the Indians, for only\nthe mission idea can redeem a pagan people. I would like to speak of\nMiss Collins's work, gradually bringing the village of Running Antelope\non the Grand River into the knowledge of Christ, and of the developing\nwork at Fort Yates, and of the work among the Mandans, Rees and Gros\nVentres, and of the motley and picturesque crowd that gathered for\ncommunion in the little church at Fort Berthold; but the interesting\nfacts from these fields must be left for other notes.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE SOUTH\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Daniel Hand Fund is doing a noble work this first year in the\neducation of many students who would otherwise not have been able to\nattend school.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHOWARD UNIVERSITY, THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.\n\nThe anniversary of this department opened the commencement week of the\nHoward University at Washington, D.C., which extended from Friday, May\n24th, to Wednesday, May 29th. A crowded audience was in attendance at\nthe Asbury colored church. The graduating class of four was\nexceptionally small this year, having been less in number than usual on\nentering three years ago, and having been particularly unfortunate in\ndeaths and removals. The preceding graduating class numbered twelve, and\nthe succeeding one will number thirteen. But the addresses delivered by\nthe young men were of excellent quality, eliciting high approval from\nnumerous intelligent judges who were present. One general from the army,\nwho listened with great interest, came up afterwards to express thanks\nto one of the Professors for having invited him to attend the exercises.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTILLOTSON INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\nWednesday, June 5, witnessed the close of the eighth year in the history\nof Tillotson Institute. The closing exercises began on Thursday, May 30,\nwith the annual written examinations which, on account of the very large\nattendance of this year--greater than ever before--meant more work than\nusual for the teachers. These examinations cover the work of the entire\nyear, and are looked forward to with much apprehension by the students.\n\nFor the past three years, the last Saturday afternoon before\ncommencement has been set apart as \"Tillotson Day,\" and devoted to\nexercises appropriate to such an occasion. This year, Rev. W.H. Shaw,\npastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in this city, addressed the\nstudents in the chapel. This was followed by a pic-nic on the school\ngrounds.\n\nThe last Sunday in the school is rather a sad day to most of the\nteachers. There are many interests in these Sunday-schools which one\ncannot bear the thought of leaving for four long months. We can only\nhope that the good seed sown during the year has not fallen on stony\nground or by the wayside, and that it will survive the heat of the\nsummer.\n\nMonday and Tuesday were devoted to oral examinations. These were held in\nthe chapel and were attended by an unusually large number of the parents\nand friends of the students from the city and elsewhere. The classes\nacquitted themselves very creditably; especially good, however, were the\nexaminations of the seventh grade in geometry and the fourth grade in\ngeography.\n\nMore attention has been given this year to industrial training than ever\nbefore. In the recitation rooms, were specimens of the handiwork of the\nstudents in the various industrial departments. A class of little girls\ntold of the various forms of needlework, which was something more than\ntheory with them, as their samples of work on exhibition testified.\nThere was not a useless article in the entire collection; they have been\ntaught how to make serviceable garments. Very neat specimens of darning\nand mending were displayed, also.\n\nThe cooking classes exhibited samples of their skill. The disappearance\nof all the handiwork of this class in the course of inspection witnessed\nto its success. The classes in carpentry displayed specimens of their\nskill. This is the first year that this industry has been taught here.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, occurred the annual musical and rhetorical\nentertainment. A large audience is always expected on this occasion, but\nthis year it was larger than ever. Before eight o'clock, the chapel with\nthe adjoining halls and recitation rooms were filled, and\nnotwithstanding the efforts of the ushers to find room for every one,\nabout half the number were obliged to go away. One little boy who came\nespecially to see the dumbbell drill was found under the front steps,\nafter the close of the entertainment, fast asleep. He had taken refuge\nthere to await a chance to get a seat in the chapel later in the\nevening.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, an audience of much more manageable magnitude than\nthat of the previous evening assembled at 10 o'clock, to listen to the\nregular commencement exercises. These consisted of essays, orations,\nrecitations and declamations. Two young men, one of whom was graduated\nlast year from the elementary normal course, were graduated from the\nhigher normal course. The original productions presented this year were\nsaid to have been unusually good. A visitor, in an address made after\nthe presentation of the diplomas, in speaking of the excellence of the\norations said of one of them, \"It would be creditable on the platform of\nany school in the United States.\"\n\nThe year just ended has been one of hard work and great prosperity. The\nattendance has been not only larger than ever before, but constant, and\nthe result of such steady and persistent work is, as might be expected,\ngratifying progress in all departments.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nEXTRACT FROM A VALEDICTORY ADDRESS.\n\nAn account of the closing exercises of Avery Institute in South\nCarolina, was given in the MISSIONARY last month. A copy of the\nvaledictory address of one of the pupils has been sent to us, from which\nwe excerpt one or two passages to give the flavor of the occasion. We\nthink it would be creditable to any school of like grade in the country.\n\n     To-day we are to go forth. Is it strange that emotions deep and\n     solemn should pervade our hearts? Amid these emotions, gratitude\n     stands prominent--gratitude to the honored Association which has\n     placed within our reach these opportunities for the development\n     of intellect and of character that fit us to take our places in\n     life as intelligent men and women. In behalf of the class of '89\n     and of all our schoolmates, we return to THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\n     ASSOCIATION our heartfelt thanks, and invoke for it the richest\n     blessings of Him who maketh rich.... In bidding adieu to\n     school life, the thought which presses most forcibly is that we\n     are supposed now to be ready for our duties in life. Let us\n     rather remember that we have but caught a glimpse of the\n     knowledge which lies beyond and which beckons to us. May our\n     thirst for it be insatiable. Let us take care of each day and\n     each hour, and show to our Heavenly Father that we love his\n     precepts, and are seeking to live true and holy lives. Our places\n     here will soon be filled, but nothing will take away from our\n     hearts the memories of dear old _Avery_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSIONARY VISITS.\n\nBY MRS. A.W. CURTIS.\n\nWe were going out for a ride, a pleasure ride, a mission of mercy to the\nsick and afflicted, to carry them spiritual and physical comforts.\n\nWe have no missionary horse and buggy, and it was not an elegant\nequipage standing before our door. Our steed was a very lank, bony,\nlong-eared mule, and the vehicle a rather disreputable looking old\ndelivery wagon, kindly loaned to us by our grocer; but we were thankful\nfor anything that would take us safely. We soon came to a deep,\nugly-looking ravine, that must be crossed. I walked over the log that\nspanned it, while Dominie \"rattled his bones over the stones,\" down the\nsteep descent, and up the farther side in safety, thanks to the\nsure-footed mule. Just beyond was a small rude cabin. The old chimney had\ntumbled down, leaving nearly the whole of one side entirely open to the\nweather. Inside, upon a bed that nearly filled the small room, lay a woman\nwho was paralyzed. A little child was her only attendant. Some kind\nneighbor, however, had made her clean and comfortable for the day. The\npoor woman could not move, but her dark eyes beamed with delight at the\nsight of us, and the poor drawn face expressed the joy she could not\nspeak. We talked of the dear friend Jesus, whom she loved and trusted,\nsang together a song of faith, and commended her to heaven's mercy and\nkindness, in prayer.\n\nOn we went again, over the hills, the sun climbing higher and growing\nhotter every moment. Then we turned off into some dim cool woods,\npicking our way through rough ravines and blind tracks until we reached\nanother little cabin home. We had to bend low to enter the door of the\nrough, rude house, yet the one low room, with loft above, sheltered a\nfamily of nine persons.\n\nUpon a bed, the dear old grandmother was dying, but the dark cabin\nseemed illuminated by the shining face of the happy saint.\n\n\"You are almost home, Auntie?\"\n\n\"Yes chile, almost home!\"\n\n\"And you find Jesus dear and precious, now?\"\n\n\"Yes! yes! dear and precious.\"\n\nI held her cold, almost pulseless hands in mine, while her minister read\ncomforting words of hope from the blessed Word. Then we sang for her,\nclosing with--\n\n     \"Oh come, angel bands, come and around me stand,\n     Oh bear me away on your snowy wings\n     To my eternal home.\"\n\nHer dark face was fairly radiant. She lifted her hands toward heaven,\nand though our eyes were holden that we could not see, we _felt_ that\nthe Lord and his angels were glorifying that humble abode, making it the\ngateway of heaven. Holding fast to our hands as we knelt beside her bed,\nshe murmured responses to our prayers.\n\nWith uplifted hearts, we said our last good-bye, and went away rejoicing\nin her triumph over the terrors of death and at the thought of the glory\nthat awaited her. As we passed out of sight, she entered within the\ngates, with that radiant look upon her face; and the next day at sunset\nwe laid her away to rest.\n\n\nFrom this \"Beulah-land,\" we hastened on to visit a man who was in the\nlast stages of consumption. We had been for some time doing what we\ncould that he might be prepared for the great change that was drawing\nnear. In the low doorway, sat an old hag-like woman, who stared at us\nwith a look of rage, as we passed by her into the room where the sick\nman was. Sultry as was the day, there was a hot blaze in the cavernous\nfireplace. Over it hung an iron kettle, from which most sickening odors\nemanated. The sick man was in a heavy stupor. We tried in vain to arouse\nhim, even for a moment. His wife looked unusually cheerful, as she\nassured us that he \"was a great deal better; that he did not cough at\nall, and rested mighty easy.\"\n\nWe understood the situation at once. The poor woman was densely\nignorant, and believed her husband had been \"conjured.\" The old hag in\nthe doorway was \"a witch doctor,\" who had promised to cure him for ten\ndollars! How the poor wife with her five little children to support\nmanaged to raise it, God only knows; but she had done it, and was\npouring down that unconscious man's throat, hourly doses of a villainous\ncompound of most loathsome things, over which the old hag muttered her\nincantations, and worked her Satanic spells. She watched us with her\nevil eye as we looked pityingly upon the poor sufferer, and glared\nmenacingly when we told the poor wife that he was no better; that the\nend was near.\n\nThat very night the death-like stupor was broken by agonies of torture\nwhich racked the wasted frame for many hours. There was no respite for a\nprayer, or for a thought of the eternity into which his poor soul was\nhastening. The witch doctor fled in haste, unable to endure the sight of\nthe tortures she herself had invoked. It was an unutterable relief when\nthose shrieks of agony were hushed by the awful silence of death.\n\nTo us, there came an added burden of care as we realized how many of\nthis people are still in bondage to these heathenish customs and\nsuperstitions. Nothing but the light of a pure gospel and the elevating\ninfluences of education, will lift them out of their degradation. It\nwill take years of time, and patient labor, and will cost something; but\nthese souls are precious to God. They are \"the heathen at our door.\"\nThere are _millions_ of them! They will soon be a mighty power for good\nor evil in our nation. Which shall it be?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA CALL FROM AUNT MARY.\n\nAunt Mary is a member of one of our colored churches--a genuine daughter\nof Africa--possessing characteristics belonging rather to the rougher\nthan the softer sex--a peddler by occupation; peddling cast-off clothing\n(which she gets from white folks) among her colored sisters.\n\nThis business, together with her masculine performances and her\nqualification in plantation melodies, makes her exceedingly popular with\nthe colored people of the town.\n\n\"Hello! Hello!\" rang out from the highest key-note one morning just\nafter breakfast. Going to the door to see who it was, aunt Mary was\nstanding at the gate; she had come to make us a social and business\ncall.\n\n\"Dog bite?\" she asked. \"Yes,\" was the reply, \"but he won't bite you,\nopen the gate.\" Aunt Mary opened it and entered the yard. \"Mornin'\"\n(again at a high key). \"Good morning, walk in.\" \"I come roun ter see you\nall dis mornin'; I dun know if I am 'ceptable.\" \"Certainly, aunt Mary,\nyou are, walk in and take a seat by the fire.\"\n\nAunt Mary walked in, took a seat before the fire, placed her bag and an\nold hat-box on the floor by her side and for a moment looked around the\nroom, noticing everything. Then she took up the poker, commenced poking\nthe fire, as if she wanted more heat to enable her to explain the chief\nobject of her visit. The heat is now up to the degree required, the\npoker is laid aside, the old hat-box is in her lap, and aunt Mary is\nready to talk business. Opening the box, she said to Mrs. R., \"Sister, I\nhave something har I want ter show you; dun know if you want ter see\nit.\" \"What is it?\" Mrs. R. enquired. Here she pulled out a second-hand\nbonnet trimmed in high colors. \"A lady,\" she said, \"give me dis last\nnight to sell. I aint show it to no body yet; she say to take it to some\nof de preachers' wives be case it's too stylish for these yer common\nniggers.\" The hat was examined and returned with, \"I don't think I need\na hat just now, aunt Mary.\"\n\n\"Do you sell a great deal?\" \"Yes 'urn, but sometimes 'tis mighty hard\nto get money out ter our people. Dat ar ---- (naming the man) tuck a\ndress from me for his wife; can't get a nickel from him, and every time\nhe see me he dodge inter some corner.\" \"How do they pay? Cash?\" \"No, one\ndollar a week till dey finish payin.\" \"As a general thing I suppose they\ntry to meet you pretty promptly, don't they?\" \"Lors, no, honey! dey alus\nput me off; but I keep a runin' and runin' every week jis ter make dem\ntell lie.\"\n\nThe subject of the hat, etc., rested here, and aunt Mary took up some of\nher experience at church. \"Broder ---- (she said, calling the preacher\nby name) get so now-a-days he don't preach out ter de Bible no more. He\nalus (always) on de path, he aint got time ter look in de book. I aint\ngot nara larnin, but I kin tell if anybody is preachin out ter de Bible.\nWe had a meetin ter vote him out de other day and I was a sittin' near\nde stove; I hear dat ar ---- (calling the person's name) say, 'Broder A.,\nI don't want you to go 'way, I want you to stay,' and she was a sittin'\nright up under de preacher's coat tail; and who tell you she didn't\nwisper somethin ter him, then look at me and laugh?\" \"Is that so?\" \"Tis\nso, honey! and I jis tuck up de shovel and went for her.\" Aunt Mary was\nnow on her feet, poker grasped in her hand, and arm lifted above her\nhead. \"Laugh agin, says I, laugh agin, Miss Nigger, and I will stave\nyou down, who dar you to laugh at me, you unfogotten, hen-pecken,\nknow-nothin, off-scorn of the eart.\"\n\nWith this, aunt Mary slung her bag across her shoulder, took up her hat\nbox, bade good morning, and as she got through the gate, struck out at\nthe very top of her voice one of her favorite melodies.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThis bit of history was imparted in an examination in answer to the\nquestion, \"What were the Alien and Sedition Laws?\" \"Alien and Sedition\nwere members of Congress.\"\n\nDefinition of education: Education is the cultivation of the moral,\nbrain, intellectual and voice.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLETTER FROM OAHE SCHOOL, DAKOTA.\n\nBY MISS JULIA E. PRATT.\n\nA very sad incident came into our life as a school last winter, which\nhas accentuated anew the ignorance and the superstitious heathenism of\nthese Indian people.\n\nOne of our little boys was sent to the dormitory one morning to do some\nwork to which he objected, and, while pretending to obey, he took one of\nthe other little boys with him and ran away. Their absence was not\ndiscovered until it was too late to overtake them, and as their home was\nonly ten miles away, and we knew they were good walkers, as all Indians\nare almost from babyhood, we had every reason to believe they would\nreach home in safety. They had started before daylight, and without any\nbreakfast, and the little boy who was enticed away had no overcoat nor\nmittens, but had gone on the impulse of the moment without taking any\nextra clothing. About ten o'clock, it grew very cold, and as the little\nfellow had on shoes, to which he was unaccustomed, his feet became so\ncold and tired that he could not go on. Then the boy who had coaxed him\naway gave him his overcoat and mittens and went on, reaching home about\nnoon, telling that he had run away, and that he had left Jaran about\nhalf way. Jaran's father did not believe the story, and came back to us,\nten miles, to see if it were true. This made us very anxious, but\nnothing could be done but to await the issue. It seemed as if a series\nof unfortunate mistakes had combined to bring about this result; and to\nmake everything still more puzzling, Mr. Riggs, our superintendent, was\naway. He reached home that evening, and the next morning sent the\nsteward to learn the fate of the little runaway. He went on until he\nfound the little boy's cap and mittens, and the place where he had\nevidently lain all night. It was a bitter night, and we knew that he\ncould not possibly have survived, in his exhausted condition, and not\nknowing how to protect himself, even if he had had the means for so\ndoing. This, in itself, was a very bitter experience for us, but the\nworst was yet to come. Mr. Riggs found it impossible to get an Indian to\ngo to the assistance of these poor people. They were all _afraid_.\nRumors were afloat that the father was going to shoot anyone connected\nin any way with the school, Indian or white. When an Indian is\nsorrow-stricken over the death of a friend or relative, he alleviates\nhis suffering by killing some one else.\n\nAfter the little boy was buried, the family came to the school. The old\ngrandmother brought the clothes he had on when found--and which they had\ncut off,--spread them out before Mr. Riggs, and reproached him for\nsending a little boy out into a storm so insufficiently clad; to which\nMr. Riggs replied that we had no idea he was going out into the storm,\nthat he was dressed for the house, and had we known he was going on a\njourney, he would have been dressed for it. She would not be pacified,\nhowever, and after bitterly reproaching Mr. Riggs for the death of her\ngrandson, she _demanded pay_ for it, as if money would make up to them\nhis loss.\n\nThat afternoon, at the woman's meeting, we learned that they had given\naway everything they possessed, furniture, clothing, bedding, dishes,\nand were absolutely destitute of the barest necessities of life. This is\none of their customs. They reason thus: Our child is dead; our hearts\nare sad; life has no longer any attractions; take all we have. The\nChristian Indian women in our church each gave something out of her\nlittle property to help these poor heathen people, who in their\nsuperstitious ignorance had made their lot so wretched. Taking this,\nthey returned home and demanded of the family of the other poor boy a\ncow in _payment_ for the death of their child.\n\nAnd there came to me this question: Is it possible that in the midst of\nthis beautiful free land of ours, there lives a people so densely\nignorant, so darkly superstitious, sunk so low in heathenism, as this\nincident shows? And this is only one of many such incidents. May God\nhelp us when such things are possible in a Christian land.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHREE DAYS OF EVANGELISTIC WORK AT PETALUMA.\n\nBY JEE GAM.\n\nI reached Petaluma a little while before school began. The scholars soon\npoured in and the attendance was the largest the school ever had. In\norder to have a little preaching service, we hurried through the\nlessons. At the conclusion of school, two hymns were sung. I then\npreached to them of Jesus. They all listened very attentively and\nappeared interested. At the close, I asked them to come again the next\nevening and bring their friends. To my great surprise, the next evening\nnot only all the scholars came, but many outsiders; some of these had\nyears ago attended our school for some little time, but the majority of\nthem had never been inside our mission. I was informed, after the\nmeeting, that five or six of them were very highly educated in Chinese,\nand that they were chief officers of the Chinese Branch Masonic Society\nin Petaluma. I thought they came simply for curiosity and perhaps for\nargument. Just before the meeting commenced, I went into my room, knelt\ndown and said to God: \"Oh Lord, Thou art the Almighty God, Thou knowest\nthe motives of those who have come to this meeting; Thou knowest I am\nvery weak. I can do nothing without Thy help, so I beseech Thee to make\nme a good agent in Thy hand. Give me the right word to speak, fill me\nwith power.\"\n\nI arose from prayer and felt that God was with me. I went into the\nmeeting and announced my subject. It was on Daniel being cast into the\nlions' den. I noticed the marked interest they all seemed to feel. At\nthe close, I again asked all present to come the next evening (Sunday\nevening) and bring more friends.\n\nThe Sabbath evening meeting came. Sunday-school began at six o'clock.\nNot only the scholars and every one of the outsiders who had attended\nthe meeting of the night before came, but many others besides, so that\nwe had to bring in extra benches, and yet we lacked room.\n\nMy subject this evening was Daniel, third chapter, the three Hebrew\nchildren cast into the fiery furnace, being a continuation of my Bible\nreading of the previous evening. I endeavored to bring home to my\ncountrymen three things: 1st.--That this was the true God, and he was\nthe Supreme Ruler mentioned by our Confucius, Mencius and other sages.\n2d.--He was all-powerful and not like the golden image which\nNebuchadnezzar had set up, nor like the idols that we Chinese serve.\n3d.--He was able to save all those that put their trust in Him. He is\n_just as able_ and as _willing_ to _save_ us _to-day_ as He was when He\nsaved Daniel and his three countrymen, provided we are willing to trust\nin Him, as these men did, for He is the same yesterday, to-day and\nforever. The golden image could not protect from the dangers of the fire\nthe king's mighty men that cast Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into the\nfurnace. And why? Because it was simply an image, the work of men's\nhands. And now, what are our Chinese idols? Are not they the works of\nmen's hands too? We all say that they are true gods and are very\npowerful; yet, you all well know that we have a common saying: \"Though\nthe gods are powerful, yet they are not able to protect an _unfortunate_\nman.\" So let us seek, believe and worship the only true God, and Him\nalone.\n\nI had to come away the next day, and felt that perhaps I might never\nhave another chance to speak to them. The opportunity, too, was one of\nthe best that any preacher could desire, for they all seemed hungering\nfor more of the truth. Therefore I went on to tell them that the Son of\nGod whom Nebuchadnezzar saw in the fiery furnace was this same Jesus\nthat we Christians believe in and preach to-day. At the conclusion, I\nurged all to accept Him as their Saviour. I said: \"Of course I cannot\ntell you all about Jesus in one evening, for nearly every one of the\nthirty-nine books of the Old Testament and every one of the twenty-seven\nbooks of the New Testament speak of Jesus,--his birth, his life, his\nteaching. All these you can find out by reading the Chinese translation\nof the Bible, and therefore we earnestly invite you all to read it for\nyourselves.\"\n\n\"One of our proverbs says: 'Genuine gold never fears the hot furnace\nfire.' So the Bible never fears examination. The more you try it, the\ntruer you will find it to be. You are all acquainted with the ways of\nthe Tanist priests. They deceive the people and you all know their\ndoctrines and tricks will not bear inspection. For example, the manner\nin which they pretend to catch demons; they go to the house with their\ngongs, cymbals, etc., and pretend to catch the ghost and place him in a\njar. After they have caught him, they will not _allow you_ to open the\njar to view him. Why? The Bible you see is as true as the broad\ndaylight, for it has borne the inspection of centuries. The doctrines of\nthe Tanist priests differ in this respect. Their teaching will not stand\ncriticism nor examination, while the Bible stands the tests of all\ntimes, and it is fast becoming the standard book of the nations of the\nworld.\"\n\nThe meeting was then closed with a prayer. I said to them, \"I shall be\nhappy to have any one ask questions about Jesus and I will endeavor to\nanswer.\" But no question was asked, so I gave each a tract to take home\nto read. After they had left, a Chinese laundryman and two of his\nemployees came. I learned that they had come before and found the room\nso crowded that they could not enter. I had a very pleasant visit from\nthem. I talked to them both of their spiritual and temporal welfare.\n\nMay God bless the seed sown there and grant that all the Petaluma\nChinese may find salvation in Jesus Christ, our Lord.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDEATH OF LEUNG KEE.\n\nBY MRS. C.A. SHELDON.\n\nLeung Kee was but 16 years old and was in a store with his uncle, a\nheathen, but a fine-looking man and one whose character is worthy of\nrespect. He had just joined our Christian Association when he was taken\nsick. His uncle thought his sickness came because he had become a\nChristian, and he begged of him to go back to his old religion, but he\nsaid \"No,\" he would trust in Jesus. Just as he died, his uncle again\nasked him if he should not burn incense, but he still said \"No,\" and\nasked the Christian brethren to pray with him. As soon as we heard of\nhis death, Miss Watson and I called. The uncle was very courteous, told\nus that Leung Kee was a Christian boy, and he wanted us to do just what\nwe thought best. Our pastor, Dr. Hutchins, attended the funeral with us\nand made some very touching remarks. We had singing by the Christian\nbrethren and others who were there. The uncle was attentive, and more\nthan once tears were in his eyes. At the grave we sang a hymn. Chung Moi\nprayed in Chinese; all joined in the Lord's prayer in Chinese, then we\nsang again, \"O think of the home over there.\" The uncle came and thanked\nus for our kindness to his boy; said it was his brother's son, but just\nlike his own; I wish all who think the Chinese have no heart could have\nheard the tremor in his voice and seen his quivering lips and his eyes\nfull of tears. One of the Christian brethren told us that he said\nafterwards that he would join the Christian Association himself if he\nwere not so old. So I think perhaps our young brother's early death may\ndo more for his countrymen than his life would have done. I pray that it\nmay be so.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\nMISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\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.,\n  Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.\n\nVT.--Woman's Home Miss. Union,\n  Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Osgood, Montpelier, Vt.\n\nCONN.--Woman's Home Miss. Union,\n  Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn.\n\nMASS. and R.I.--Woman's Home Miss. Association,\n  Secretary, Miss Natalie Lord, Boston, Mass.[1]\n\nN.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union,\n  Secretary, Mrs. William Spalding, Salmon Block, Syracuse, N.Y.\n\nALA.--Woman's Missionary Union,\n  Secretary, Miss S.S. Evans, Birmingham, Ala.\n\nMISS.--Woman's Miss. Union,\n  Secretary, Miss Sarah J. Humphrey, Tougaloo, 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,\n  Secretary, Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans, La.\n\nFLA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union,\n  Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park, Fla.\n\nOHIO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union,\n  Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin, Ohio.\n\nIND.--Woman's Home Miss. Union,\n  Secretary, Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne, Ind.\n\nILL.--Woman's Home Miss. Union,\n  Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St, Chicago, Ill.\n\nMINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society,\n  Secretary, Miss Katharine Plant, 2651 Portland Avenue,\n    Minneapolis, Minn.\n\nIOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union,\n  Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh, Grinnell, Iowa.\n\nKANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society,\n  Secretary, Mrs. G.L. Epps, Topeka, Kan.\n\nMICH.--Woman's Home Miss, Union,\n  Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren, Lansing, Mich.\n\nWIS.--Woman's Home Miss. Union,\n  Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, Wis.\n\nNEB.--Woman's Home Miss. Union,\n  Secretary, Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 N Broad St., Fremont, Neb.\n\nCOLORADO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union,\n  Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Packard, Pueblo, Colo.\n\nSOUTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union,\n  President, Mrs. T.M. Hills, Sioux Falls;\n  Secretary, Mrs. W.B. Dawes, Redfield;\n  Treasurer, Mrs. S.E. Fifield, Lake Preston.\n\nNORTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Soc.,\n  President, Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight;\n  Sec., Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood;\n  Treas., Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo.\n\n     [Footnote 1: For the purpose of exact information, we note that\n     while the W.H.M.A. appears in this list as a State body for Mass.\n     and R.I., it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.]\n\nWe would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State\nMissionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association\nbe sent to 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\nNow is the time to plan to attend our A.M.A. Woman's Meeting in\nconnection with the Annual Meeting at Chicago, where you may see and\nlisten to some live missionaries. We hope to see one or more lady\nrepresentatives from every church.\n\n       *       *      *       *       *\n\nThe Woman's state home missionary unions will also hold a meeting upon\nthis occasion, with a full and good programme. See notice of time and\nentertainment on cover. Particulars will be given in our next number.\n\nMrs. Regal's valuable paper, \"The Local Society--its Management and\nMembership,\" also the paper \"The Relation of the State Unions to the\nAmerican Missionary Association,\" are published as pamphlets, and may be\nhad of any officer of the State Unions, or of the American Missionary\nAssociation, 56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA VISIT TO A MISSION SUNDAY-SCHOOL.\n\nBY MRS. L.S. HITCHCOCK.\n\nOne Lord's day, I went out to look after a Sunday-school in which one of\nour missionaries had become interested, and where she labored part of\nthe year. The day was excessively warm. The distance was two miles, and\nthe horse cars would only take me half the way, leaving a walk across\nthe fields for the rest of the trip. There was no road, and much of the\nway not even a footpath, and the fields were partly covered with water\nfrom the frequent showers. I got along quite well during the first half\nof my walk by picking my way, now and then elongating steps, or jumping,\ngenerally with satisfactory results. Presently a place appeared where\nthe water seemed too wide to venture with safety. There was no\npossibility of jumping this time, and I was ready to give up in despair,\nwhen I discovered at some little distance a log laid across the narrow\npart of the stream. I commenced the tight rope walk and was just\ncongratulating myself upon my heroic adventure which, with one step\nmore, would have landed me safely on the other side, when the log tilted\nand off I went, my knees plowing into the mud making a hole as big as\ngrandma's workbasket. I lost no time in getting up. As I arose, I saw my\n_best_ parasol and big palm-leaf fan floating along leisurely in the\nmuddy stream. These were secured later, but with much trouble, and my\nportmanteau was fished from the hidden deep at the peril of crabs and\nother biters who make such places homes of retreat.\n\nI called at the nearest cabin, and found \"Auntie\" with a kind heart\nready to undertake the job of \"cleaning me up.\" She took in the\nsituation at once, ejaculating, \"Lor', honey! specs Is'e goin ter let\nyer go ter Sunday-school wid dem ar close all spilt? Sam, take dem ar\nshoes and wash em clar fru for Missus.\"\n\nIn a short time she said, \"You's fine,\" and I started for the little\nchurch close by, arriving just five minutes before the Sunday-school\nclosed. I was greeted with \"Howdy\" by the pastor, who is superintendent,\nand was requested to speak to the children, while the whole Sunday\nschool, including twenty-six boys and girls, and seven fathers and\nmothers, rose to their feet, indicating their delight to see me.\n\nI was in time to observe one little boy standing on tiptoe to reach up\nto the Bible which the minister held open on the table and was teaching\nhim to read. It was his custom, as he was the only teacher, to call each\none separately, and teach him to read, as well as his ignorance would\nallow. This is in advance of their old way of conducting Sunday-school.\nFormerly, all the instruction received was from Webster's \"blue back,\"\nand, for the closing exercise, they counted from one to a hundred. The\npastor attended school at Straight University during the past year and\ncan read a little, but not intelligently. He looks as if he had seen\nsixty years or more, and I believe him to be a good man who tries to do\nfaithful work for the Master so far as he is able. He has built a little\nchurch, mostly with his own hands and out of his own scanty earnings. It\nis made of rough boards, but it has a good foundation and the roof is\nwell shingled. There are no glass windows, but boards like a barn door\nhung on hinges serve to let in the light or shut out the cold in winter.\n\nThe people are ignorant beyond description. Most of them live in little\nhuts or cabins on the banks of the canal, getting a scanty living by\nworking out as they can find places.\n\nTheir homes are filthy and uninviting. How much good a missionary could\naccomplish by going into their homes and teaching them the true\nChristian way of living! The mothers with whom I talked seemed willing,\nand even anxious, to know better ways. Any instruction in housekeeping\nwould be gratefully received, and a sewing class, where cutting and\nmaking plain clothing were taught, would be eagerly accepted. A mothers'\nmeeting once a week would be more helpful to those barren minds than\nwords can express. The work is right there, all ready and waiting for\nsome loving, self-denying Christian woman to take up. Who in the far-off\nNorthland will say, \"Lord, here am I, send me,\" and who will reach deep\nin their pockets and say, \"I will give a tenth, yea, even more,\" for\nthat which is more is the only true giving? May God open the hearts of\nthose who have an abundance and to spare, to give liberally for the\nuplifting of our colored brothers and sisters.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR YOUNG FOLKS.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE FRESH DRINK.\n\nA missionary teacher to the mountain whites, who was laid aside\ntemporarily from teaching, on account of illness, writes of one of the\nchildren of her charge:\n\nI must tell you of the little native girl who lived with us, and of her\npractical application of a Scripture text. It was my custom to teach her\nfrom the Bible every Sabbath afternoon. I had been reading from the\nninth chapter of Mark, where it speaks of the child-like spirit our dear\nSaviour wants us to possess.\n\nShe listened very attentively, and seemed especially interested when we\ncame to the forty-first verse, \"For whosoever shall give you a cup of\nwater to drink in my name, ... he shall not lose his reward.\"\n\nShe left me a few moments, but presently came back saying: \"Won't you\ntell me about that verse again?\" I gladly complied; then came the\nquestion, \"Does it mean me--can I do something for Jesus?\"\n\nThat evening, there came a gentle rap on my door, and to my \"Come in,\"\nMinnie entered, bearing a glass of water.\n\nComing near, she placed the water on a little stand by my bedside.\nNoticing that she stood as though she would speak, I said, \"What is it,\nMinnie?\" She hesitated a moment, then replied: \"I was thinking about\nwhat you said about the 'cup of water,' and I wanted to give you\nsomething 'cause you was sick, but I didn't have anything, so I thought\nmay be you might like a fresh drink of water, for it's all I've got.\"\n\nIndeed, my heart was touched by this poor girl's beautiful application\nof the lesson learned; nor was it forgotten--every evening during my\nillness came the \"fresh drink\" from the hands of the little beginner,\nwho wanted to do something for Jesus.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLETTER FROM AN INDIAN BOY.\n\nJUNE 5th, 1889.\n\n_Friends at the East:_\n\nIt is summer over here now and every thing looks green and nice. The\nroses are red and beautiful, so every day everybody has a bouquet on his\ncoat. There are lots of more flowers, some of them are white, blue, red,\nyellow; so everything looks nice.\n\nThe girls always decorate the church on Sunday. They get lots of flowers\non the hills and down in the bottom. The days have been nice for about\ntwo weeks. The sun shines every day, and the wind has not blown for a\nlong time, but to-day the wind blows just a little but not much.\n\nWe always play ball, and have nice times playing. But some times we get\nhurt. The Perkins Hall boys always play ball with the Whitney Hall boys,\nbut the Whitney boys always get beaten.\n\nEverybody on the Reservation has ploughed his field and planted corn,\npotatoes, onions, squashes, beets, turnips, wheat, oats, flax, beans and\nmelons, so everything is just coming out, and after a while they will\ngrow big and good to eat.\n\nMr. Lawson went away in May, and the boys had to work up there alone.\nThey worked all right, and when he came back he found that all papers\nwere ready to be printed. He came back with some galley-holders and some\ncases. After he had been back about two weeks, another machine came; it\nis the paper cutter. It is a nice machine for the printing office. Seven\nboys work in the morning and six in the afternoon, so we are getting\nalong first rate.\n\nWe always go after tipsina on the hills; some of the people call them\nwild turnips. They are very good to eat. If you don't know them, you\nlose something in your life. You don't know how they taste unless you\nhave eaten some. They have dark-blue flowers on them which stand about\nfour or five inches from the ground. They are easy to find out, and when\nwe find them, we have to dig them. When we come back, we always get so\ntired that we lay down under the trees.\n\nYour friend, JOHN BROWN.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR JULY, 1889.\n\n\nDANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR COLORED PEOPLE.\n\nIncome for July, 1889, from investments       $832.50\n\nPreviously acknowledged                     30,469.86\n\n                                           ----------\n\nTotal                                      $31,302.36\n\n                                           ==========\n\n\nMAINE, $463.22.\n\nBangor. Hammond St. Ch. and Soc.                70.46\n\nBangor. Sab. Sch. of First Parish Cong.\n  Ch., _for Atlanta U._                         10.00\n\nBangor. Sab. Sch. Central Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Rosebud Indian M._                        1.00\n\nBlanchard. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                7.00\n\nBrownsville. \"A.\"                                1.00\n\nBucksport. Sab. Sch. of Elm St. Cong.\n  Ch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._               25.00\n\nMachias. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                 10.00\n\nPortland. State St. Ch., 150; Mrs.\n  Mary C. Ingalls, 2.50                        152.50\n\nPortland. \"King's Daughters,\"\n  Box basted work, _for Selma, Ala._\n\nSaccarappa. Westbrook. Second Cong. Ch.         27.15\n\nSkowhegan. Cong. Ch.                            12.00\n\nSouth Berwick. Miss Ella Ricker's S.S.\n  Class, 2.08; Miss Lene Ridley's S.S.\n  Class. 1.03, _for Indian Sch'p._               3.11\n\nWells. \"A Friend.\"                               1.00\n\nWoodfords. Cong. Ch.                            73.00\n\n----. \"Friend,\" _for Indian Sch'p._             70.00\n\n\nNEW HAMPSHIRE, $308.06.\n\nBath. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         3.89\n\nBennington. Cong. Ch.                            8.63\n\nBethlehem. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    5.25\n\nDerry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 46.62\n\nDover. \"Busy Bee\" Soc. of First Cong.\n  Ch., _for Library Books and Case,\n  Wilmington, N.C._                             65.00\n\nEpping. Miss Hannah Pearson, 5; Mrs.\n  Sarah P. Billson, 3, _for Indian M._           8.00\n\nManchester. C.B. Southworth, to const.\n  MISS NELLIE M. SENTER L.M.                    50.00\n\nMeredith Village. Cong. Ch.                     14.50\n\nNashua. First Ch.                               18.45\n\nPembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson                  5.00\n\nTroy. Trin. Cong. Ch.                            3.47\n\nWalpole. First Cong. Ch.                        22.25\n\nWinchester. A.L. Jewell                          7.00\n\n                                              -------\n\n                                              $258.06\n\nESTATE.\n\nAuburn. Estate of Benjamin Chase, by\n  Miss Louise C. Emery, Executrix               50.00\n\n                                              -------\n\n                                              $308.06\n\n\nVERMONT, $893.71.\n\nBarnet. Rev. Jos. Boardman, 34 vols,\n  _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nBarre. Cong. Ch.                                23.73\n\nCastleton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Indian M._                               25.00\n\nCornwall. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Indian M._                               20.00\n\nJohnson. First Cong. Ch.                        20.00\n\nJohnson. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., for tools,\n  _Industrial Building, Williamsburg, Ky._      25.00\n\nLower Waterford. Cong. Ch., 4.05, and\n  Sab. Sch., _for Indian M._, 7.06              11.11\n\nLyndon. First Cong. Ch.                         23.00\n\nManchester. Miss Ellen Hawley,\n  _for Student Aid, Talladega C._               70.00\n\nNew Haven. Mrs. E.A. Doud's S.S. Class,\n  _for Savannah, Ga._                            5.00\n\nSouth Royalton. Mrs. Susan H. Jones             25.00\n\nTunbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   14.00\n\nWest Brattleboro. Cong. Ch.                     13.10\n\nWeston. Cong. Ch.                                3.50\n\nWoodstock. Cong. Ch.                           115.27\n\n                                              -------\n\n                                              $393.71\n\nESTATE.\n\nHartford. Estate of Albert Buell,\n  by Nancy M. Buell                            500.00\n\n                                              -------\n\n                                              $893.71\n\n\nMASSACHUSETTS, $10,017.79.\n\nAlford. Rev. J. Jay Dana, to const.\n  NATHAN B. CURTIS L.M.                         30.00\n\nAmherst. First Cong. Ch.                        30.00\n\nAmherst. Y.P.S.C.E. First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Indian Sch'p_                            17.50\n\nAndover. Mrs. Phebe A. Chandler, _for\n  Chandler Normal Sch., Lexington, Ky._      2,000.00\n\nAndover. \"Friend,\" _for Girls' Dormitory,\n  Macon, Ga._                                1,378.99\n\nAndover. Chap. Ch. and Cong.                    39.00\n\nAthol Center. \"Friend.\"                         10.00\n\nBallardvale. Mrs. G.S. Butler, _for Storrs\n  Sch., Atlanta, Ga._                            5.00\n\nBarre. Sab. Sch. of Evan. Cong. Ch.              7.06\n\nBelchertown. Cong. Ch.                          31.50\n\nBeverly. Dane St. Ch. and Soc.                 192.01\n\nBrookline. Harvard Ch.                          89.48\n\nBrimfield. Cong. Ch.                             7.14\n\nBuckland. \"Friends,\" _for African M._            0.70\n\nByfield. Cong. Ch.                              58.43\n\nBoston. C.A. Hopkins, ad'l,\n      _for Girls' Hall,\n      Pleasant Hill, Tenn._         250.00\n\n    Union Ch.                       148.40\n\n    Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n,\n      _for Indian M._                54.00\n\n    Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,\n      2 Lithograph Portraits,\n      Whittier and Longfellow,\n      _for Library,\n      Sherwood, Tenn._\n\n    Berkeley Temple                  21.20\n\n  Dorchester. Second Ch.            119.66\n\n  Dorchester. Miss Mary A. Tuttle,\n      _for Indian M._                 1.00\n\n  Jamaica Plain. Cen. Cong. Ch.\n    ad'l                             10.00\n\n  West Roxbury. South Evan Ch.       25.19\n\n                                    ------     629.45\n\nCambridge. North Av. Cong. Ch.                  88.19\n\nCambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.               114.34\n\nChelsea. First Cong. Ch.                        10.00\n\nCummington. Cong. Ch.                           11.39\n\nDalton. Zenas Crane, 100; W.M. Crane,\n  100; O.B. Hayes, 2: Mr. Strong, 1;\n  W.H. Woodworth, 50c; \"A Friend,\" 50c;\n  L.M. Stanton, 50c; _for Tougaloo U._         204.50\n\nDalton. Sab. Sen. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Indian Sch'p._                           17.50\n\nDuxbury. Mrs. Rebecca R. Holmes                  1.50\n\nEast Cambridge. Miss Mary F. Aiken,\n  _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._       15.00\n\nEasthampton. First Cong. Ch., 37.28, _for\n  Indian M., 37.28 for Chinese M._              74.56\n\nFitchburg. Rev. and Mrs. J.M.R. Eaton           10.00\n\nFlorence. A.C. Estabrook and Sab. Sch. Class    10.00\n\nFramingham. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                    50.00\n\nFramingham and Auburndale. \"Friends,\"\n  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                    50.00\n\nGloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.            50.00\n\nHarwich (Cape Cod). Miss Tamesin\n  Brooks, 50; Miss Sarah G. Brooks, 50,\n  ad'l, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill,\n  Tenn._                                       100.00\n\nHaverhill. Center Cong. Ch. and Soc.           100.00\n\nHaydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 25.00\n\nHolliston. Bible Christians of Dist. No. 4      50.00\n\nHubbardston. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.           16.50\n\nLawrence. Mrs. T.C. Whittemore,\n  _for Indian Sch'p_                            12.00\n\nLeicester. First Cong. Ch.                      36.71\n\nLenox. Cong. Ch.                                22.50\n\nLexington. Hancock Ch.                          20.00\n\nLittleton. Cong. Ch.                            11.16\n\nLunenburg. Evan. Cong. Ch.                       6.38\n\nMedway. Village Ch.                             50.00\n\nMelrose. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Rosebud Indian M._                        3.30\n\nMerrimac. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. to\n  const JOSEPH W. NICHOLS L.M.                  50.00\n\nMilton. E.P. Dutton, _for Ch. building,\n  Athens, Ga._                                   5.00\n\nMonterey. Cong. Ch.                             15.00\n\nNewton. Eliot Ch.                              125.00\n\nNewton Center. First Cong. Ch.                  79.99\n\nNewton Center. Maria B. Furber Soc.,\n  _for Woman's Work_                            20.00\n\nNewton Highlands. Cong. Ch.                     99.90\n\nNorfolk. William E. Mann, _for Indian M._        5.00\n\nNorth Abington. Rev. Chas Jones                  1.00\n\nNorth Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.      54.93\n\nNorth Brookfield. Bbl. C.,\n  _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nNorthfield. Miss'y Society of Northfield\n  Sem., _for Indian M._                         25.00\n\nNorth Leominster. \"Mission Band,\" _for\n  Indian Sch'p_, and to const., MISS JESSIE\n  O. RICE and MISS E.C. ALLEN L.M's             70.00\n\nOxford. First Cong. Ch.                        100.00\n\nPeabody. South Cong. Ch.                        66.00\n\nReading. Cong. Ch., ad'l., to const DEA.\n  GEORGE H. DAMON and DEA DEAN\n  PEABODY L.M's                                 18.00\n\nReading. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., to const.\n  MISS HATTIE S. TEMPLE L.M.                    30.00\n\nSalem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc.                 113.62\n\nSandwich. Mrs. Robert Tobey,\n  _for Mountain Work_                            4.00\n\nSheffield. Cong. Ch.                            13.00\n\nSouth Hadley. \"Friends in\n  Mount Holyoke Sem,\"                           25.00\n\nSouth Natick. John Eliot Ch.                    20.29\n\nSpencer. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for\n  Indian M._                                    50.00\n\nSpencer. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Church,\n  _for Mountain Work_                           50.00\n\nSpringfield. North Ch., _for Straight U._       11.45\n\nStoneham. Cong. Ch., by Miss Abbie Wood\n  (20; of which _for Mountain Work_)            40.00\n\nSturbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  31.55\n\nSunderland. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. _for\n  Indian Sch., Santee Agency, Neb._             25.00\n\nTownsend. Cong. Ch.                             30.53\n\nWakefield. Cong. Ch.                            57.59\n\nWalpole. Ortho. Cong. Ch. and Soc.              30.00\n\nWaltham. Trin. Cong. Ch.                        14.20\n\nWare. Miss S.R. Sage, _for Indian M._           37.50\n\nWare. Mrs. Hitchcock's Class, East Cong.\n  Sab. Sch., 25; Sab. Sch. East Cong. Ch.,\n  25, _for Indian M._                           50.00\n\nWareham. Miss Wing and Mrs. Bodfish,\n  _for Straight U._                              7.50\n\nWaverley. Mrs. Daniel Butler, to const.\n  ROBERT ROCKWELL L.M.                          30.00\n\nWellesley. Miss F.E. Lord. 5; Miss Lord,\n  5; \"Friend,\" 5, _for Rosebud Indian M._       15.00\n\nWellesley Hills. Miss Lillie C. Clement,\n  _for Indian M._                                5.00\n\nWest Brookfield. Cong. Ch., 30;\n  H. Barnes, 50c.                               30.50\n\nWestford. Cong. Ch.                             12.25\n\nWilliamstown. First Cong. Ch., ad'l to\n  const. ROBERT R. CLARK L.M.                   21.29\n\nWorcester. Union Church, 179.71;\n  Plymouth Ch., 120; Piedmont Ch. (5.20 of\n  which for _Berea C._) 65.20;\n  Salem St. Ch., 18.70                         383.61\n\n----. \"A Massachusetts Friend,\" _for\n  Native Missionary, Indian M._                100.00\n\nHampden Benevolent Association, by\n  Charles Marsh, Treasurer:\n\n    Chicopee. Second, to const.\n      REV. W.G. POOR and MRS.\n      HATTIE POOR L.M's              60.00\n\n    Mittineague                      24.70\n\n    South Hadley Falls               15.41\n\n    Springfield. South               66.58\n\n         Do.     North               31.49\n\n         Do.     First               18.00\n\n    Wilbraham                        14.45\n\n                                    ------     230.63\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                            $8,001.12\n\nESTATES.\n\nCambridge. Estate of A.E. Hildreth, by\n  Trustees, _for Freedmen_                     500.00\n\nFramingham. Estate of Mary F. Cutler,\n  by Geo. E. Cutler, and Chas. P. Cutler,\n  Executors                                    816.67\n\nNorth Brookfield. Estate of Daniel Whiting,\n  by William P. Hasten, Executor               700.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                           $10,017.79\n\n\nRHODE ISLAND, $7.60\n\nProvidence. Children in Central Cong.\n  Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._                   2.60\n\nProvidence. C.H. Bachellor                       5.00\n\n\nCONNECTICUT, $4,931.85.\n\nBantam. Miss Cornelia Bradley                   10.00\n\nBerlin. A few Ladies, by Mrs. W.W.\n  Woodworth, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._        15.00\n\nBristol. Cong. Ch.                              25.27\n\nBroad Brook. Cong. Ch. 12.50, and Sab.\n  Sch. Birthday box 9                           21.50\n\nCanaan. \"A Friend.\"                              2.00\n\nCenterbrook and Ivoryton. Cong. Ch.,\n  to const. CLEMENT M. PARMELEE L.M.            57.52\n\nChester. Cong. Ch., 44; C.N. Smith, 5           49.00\n\nColchester. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.               7.46\n\nCornwall. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._                   33.13\n\nDanielsonville. Westfield Cong. Ch. 29.57;\n  Mrs. Sarah A. Backus, 6                       35.57\n\nEast Hartford. South Cong. Ch. 25.25;\n  Mrs. E.M. Roberts, 5                          30.25\n\nEnfield. Cong. Ch. 5., and Sab. Sch. 18.75\n_for Straight U._                               23.75\n\nEnfield. Daniel H. Abbe                          5.00\n\nFairfield. Sab. Sch of Cong. Ch.\n  _for Indian M._                               25.00\n\nFarmington. First Cong Ch., 138.90; (Dea.\n  Henry D. Hawley, 200. to const. REV.\n  GEO. L. CLARK L.M.)                          338.90\n\nGlastonbury. D.W. Williams, 150; Mrs.\n  Nancy W. Goodrich, 100. _for Indian M._      250.00\n\nGoshen. Cong. Ch.                               43.50\n\nGreenfield Hill. Cong. Ch.                      10.00\n\nGreenville. Cong. Ch.                           20.00\n\nGuilford. Geo. W. Hill                           5.00\n\nHadlyme. R.E. Hungerford, 100;\n  Cong. Ch., 3.48                              103.48\n\nHartford. Roland Mather, 500;\n  First Ch., 387.20                            887.20\n\nHartford. Woman's Conn. Home Miss.\n  Union, _for Ind'l Sch., Williamsburg, Ky._    50.00\n\nHartford. Sab. Sch. of Pearl St. Ch.,\n  _for Rosebud Indian M._                       26.97\n\nHartford. Ladies' Soc. Cong. Ch. Bbl. C.,\n  _for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nHuntington. Ladies' H.M. Soc.,\n  _for Williamsburg, Ky._                        5.00\n\nKillingly. E. Frances Jenks                      5.00\n\nLebanon. First Cong. Ch.                        34.51\n\nLyme, (Grassy Hill). Cong. Ch.                  21.30\n\nManchester. Second Cong. Ch., to const.\n  J.D. PICKLES, L.M.                            62.44\n\nMellington. Cong. Ch.                            1.00\n\nMiddlebury. Cong. Ch.                            8.33\n\nMiddletown. Mrs. E.R. White, 10; Geo.\n  T. Much, 5., _for Indian M._                  15.00\n\nMonroe. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. by Mrs. H.L.\n  Curtis, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._           10.00\n\nNew Haven. Dwight Place Ch.                    121.84\n\nNew Haven. Sab. Sch. of College St. Ch.,\n  _for Rosebud Indian M._                       15.00\n\nNew London. First Church of Christ              53.10\n\nNew London. _Correction._ Henry R. Bond\n  for Tillotson C. and N. Inst. 200., ack. in\n  August number, should read Trust\n  Estate of Henry P. Haven\n\nNorfolk. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Rosebud Indian M._                       52.73\n\nNorth Branford. Cong. Ch.                       19.39\n\nNew Britain. Ladies' H.M. Soc., Box C.\n  _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nNorthfield. Cong. Ch.                           46.14\n\nNorwich Town. First Ch. \"*\"                     24.00\n\nPlainville. \"King's Daughters\" _for Student\n  Aid, Talladega C._                             4.00\n\nPomfret. Two classes boys, Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n  by Miss Mathewson, _for Pleasant Hill,\n  Tenn._                                        15.00\n\nPomfret. S.S. Papers _for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nPreston. Long Soc. Cong. Ch.                     8.00\n\nPutnam. Second Cong. Ch., 24.43;\n  Mrs. A.S. Fitts, 17.50                        41.93\n\nRidgefield. First Cong. Ch.                      9.22\n\nSalisbury. Cong. Ch.                            15.99\n\nSimsbury. Cong. Ch.                             62.26\n\nStonington. Anna W. Hill's S.S. Class,\n  _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                8.00\n\nStony Creek. Cong. Ch.                           3.00\n\nSouth Glastonbury. Wm. S. Williams             100.00\n\nSouthington. Cong. Ch.                          23.19\n\nSouthington. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Rosebud Indian M._                       10.00\n\nSouthport. \"Friends\" _for Indian M._             1.90\n\nTerryville. \"Soldier of Christ,\"\n  _for Mountain Work_                            5.00\n\nThomaston. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Indian Sch'p_                            17.50\n\nThomaston. Cong. Ch.                            11.01\n\nTorrington. \"Valley Gleaners,\"\n  _for Indian Sch'p._                           53.47\n\nWallingford. Cong. Ch.                          40.81\n\nWaterbury. Mission Circle of Second\n  Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._                70.00\n\nWaterbury. Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._       70.00\n\nWatertown. Mrs. F. Scott's Class, 10.00;\n  Primary Class Cong. Sab. Sch., 7.00,\n  _for Indian M._                               17.00\n\nWest Chester. Ladies of Cong. Ch., by\n  Mrs. E. Brown, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._    12.00\n\nWestford. Cong. Ch.                              7.00\n\nWest Hartford. Mrs. Mary A. Hutchinson,\n  deceased, by A. Chappell                     200.00\n\nWest Hartford. A. Chappell                      10.00\n\nWestport. Ladles' Bible Class, Cong. Ch.,\n  by Mrs. Edw. Wakeman, _for Conn. Ind'l\n  Sch., Ga._                                    15.00\n\nWestport. Saugatuck Cong. Ch.                   27.00\n\nWest Winsted. Second Cong. Ch, (50 of\n  which from MISS MARTHA. E. BEARDSLEY\n  to const. herself L.M.)                      126.78\n\nWinchester. Cong. Ch.                            2.00\n\nWoodstock. First Cong. Ch.                      33.51\n\nWoodstock. Miss F. Butler, P'k'g. C.,\n  _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of\n  Conn., by Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, Treas.\n\n    Cromwell. Ladies of Cong.\n      Ch. _for Conn. Ind'l\n      Sch., Ga._                     21.00\n\n    Enfield. Mrs. Emily M. Abbe,\n      10.00; Mrs. Horace Patten,\n      5, _for Freedmen_              15.00\n\n    Hartford. Infant Dept. of\n      First Ch. Sab. Sch.             5.00\n\n                                 ---------      41.00\n\n                                            $3,631.85\n\nESTATES.\n\nHamden. Estate of Medad A. Bassett by\n  Lyman H. Bassett, Ex.                       $100.00\n\nNorth Branford. Estate of Mrs. Nancy W.\n  Rose, by Charles Page, Executor            1,000.00\n\nWatertown. Estate of Eliza Marsh, by\n  H.M. Hickcox, Adm.                           100.00\n\nWest Hartford. Estate of Miss Mary A.\n  Butler, by F.G. Butler, Ex.                  100.00\n\n                                             --------\n\n                                            $4,931.85\n\n\nNEW YORK, $1,116.35.\n\nBergen. First Cong. Ch.                         15.50\n\nBinghamton. \"A Friend\"                          10.00\n\nBridgewater. Cong. Ch.                          12.06\n\nBrooklyn. South Cong. Ch.                       50.00\n\nBrooklyn. Lee Av. S.S., \"King's Daughters,\" 5;\n  Carrie Strong, 1; Flossie Bingham, 1,\n  _for Williamsburg, Ky._                        7.00\n\nChenango Forks. Cong. Ch.                        5.00\n\nClifton Springs. Mrs. W.W. Warner               10.50\n\nEast Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 35.60;\n  Mrs. Eliza S. Goodwin. 5;                     40.60\n\nEden. Mrs. H. McNett                             2.00\n\nFulton. Mrs. O. King                             5.00\n\nHamilton. O.S. Campbell, 5; \"A Friend,\" 5       10.00\n\nHomes. B.W. Payne                               10.00\n\nJefferson. Mrs. Susannah Ruliffson.              2.50\n\nLima. Mrs. Abby E. Minor                         2.00\n\nLowville. Mrs. L.C. Hough, to const. REV.\n  J.W. EARNSHAW, L.M.                           30.00\n\nMarcellus. Mrs. L. Hemmingway, bal. to\n  const. WILLYS G. FRANCIS. L.M.                20.00\n\nNew York. S.T. Gordon, 100;\n  \"A Friend,\" 100                              200.00\n\nNew York. Wager Swayne, _for Talledega C._     120.00\n\nNew York. Joseph Wild,\n  _for Conn. Ind'l Sab. Sch., Ga._              10.00\n\nNew York. B.B. Adams, Jr., Package C.\n\nNorthville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.               5.00\n\nNorwich. First Cong. Ch.                        27.00\n\nNorwich. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Rosebud Indian M._                       11.30\n\nNorwich. \"Friends\" in First Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Indian M., Native Missionary_,\n  and to const. MISS CORNELIA M. MARTIN,\n  JOSEPH H. LATHAM, WILLIAM E. REED,\n  WILLIAM P. CHAPMAN, T. DE WITT MILLER\n  and GEORGE H. STONE L.M's                    170.00\n\nOswego. Cong. Ch.                              125.89\n\nRensselaer Falls. Cong. Ch.                      5.00\n\nSyracuse. Plymouth Ch.                          26.00\n\nWarsaw. \"Earnest Workers\" of Cong. Ch.\n  _for Student Aid, Talladega C._               50.00\n\nWest Groton. Cong. Ch.                          14.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y.,\n  by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas.,\n  _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Canandaigua. Ladies' Aux.                   70.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                            $1,066.35\n\nESTATE.\n\nPerry Center. Estate of Mrs. Laura A.\n  Sheldon, by Miss D.E. Sheldon,\n  _for Fort Berthold Indian M._                 50.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                            $1,116.35\n\n\nNEW JERSEY, $171.05\n\nArlington. Mrs. G. Overacre                      2.00\n\nBernardsvile. Mrs. M.K. Roberts                 40.00\n\nJersey City. Mrs. C.L. Ames                      5.00\n\nNewark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch.                76.05\n\nNutley. S.O. Rusby, P'k'g Papers.\n\nPassaic. First Cong. Ch.                        18.00\n\nPerth Amboy. Rev. Peter Kimball,\n  Thank Offerings: 5 for 96th Christmas,\n  5 for 96th New Year, 5 for 97th Birthday      15.00\n\nWestfield. Mission Band, by Miss M.C.\n  Alpers, _for Savannah, Ga._                    20.00\n\n\nPENNSYLVANIA, $48.92.\n\nNeath. Cong. Ch. 9.48 and Sab. Sch. 2.97        12.45\n\nRidgway. Y.P.B.C., of First Cong. Ch,\n  _for Oaks, N.C._                               5.00\n\nScranton. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                    31.47\n\n\nOHIO, $1,934.08.\n\nAshland. Miss Eliza Thomson                      2.28\n\nBerea. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., Box C., etc.,\n  _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nBrownhelm. O.H. Perry                           10.00\n\nCastalia. Mrs. I.W. Storey                       1.00\n\nCincinnati. Columbia Cong. Ch.                  14.80\n\nClark's Corners. Box Books, etc.,\n  _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nCleveland. \"A.E.W.H.\"                          500.00\n\nCleveland. Mrs. F.W. Low, 10;\n  Rev. J.G. Fraser, D.D., 50c.                  10.50\n\nCleveland. Mrs. H.B. Spelman,\n  _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                 25.00\n\nCleveland. Young People, by Miss E.A.\n  Johnson, _for Mountain Work_                   3.00\n\nDayton. Rev. I.W. Metcalf                        1.50\n\nHarmar. Cons. Ch. (100 of which to const.\n  MRS. D.F. HARRIS, MISS SUSAN DANIELS\n  and MISS KATE CISSLER L.M's)                119.85\n\nLodi. Cong. Ch.                                  9.46\n\nOberlin. First Ch., 62.65;\n  Second Cong. Ch. 29.54                        92.19\n\nParkman. Cong. Ch.                               6.00\n\nRootstown. W.J. Dickinson                       10.00\n\nSaybrook. Mission Band, by A.K. Hough            5.00\n\nToledo. First Cong. Ch.                         18.00\n\nOhio. Woman's Home Missionary Union,\n  by Mrs. Phebe. A. Crafts, Treasurer,\n  _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Cleveland. Euclid Av.\n    Cong. Ch.                        20.00\n\n    Garrettsville. L.M.S.            25.00\n\n    Hudson. L.H.M.S.                  5.50\n\n    Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch.,\n    L.S.                             90.00\n\n    Oberlin. Sab. Sch. Second\n      Cong. Ch., _for\n      Indian Sch'p._                 20.00\n\n                                    ------     160.50\n\n                                              -------\n\n                                              $989.08\n\nESTATES.\n\nGeneva. Estate of Bryant Hewins, by\n  H.W. Turner, Executor                        945.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                            $1,934.08\n\n\nILLINOIS, $1,733.81.\n\nAurora. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.             5.00\n\nBartlett. Cong. Ch.                             11.12\n\nChicago. C.B. Boughton, _for Sch'p\n  Endowment Fund, Fisk U._                      50.00\n\nChicago. Lincoln Park Ch., 17.61;\n  Western Av. Cong. Ch., 13.00                  30.61\n\nEarlville. Cong. Ch.                            19.75\n\nGranville. Cong. Ch.                            35.70\n\nGranville. Mrs. J.W. Hopkins                    25.00\n\nGreenville. Cong. Ch.                          15.00\n\nLyonsville. Cong. Ch.                            5.54\n\nMalden. Members Cong. Ch.                        7.80\n\nMillburn. Cong. Ch.                              7.70\n\nNaperville. A.A. Smith                           5.00\n\nPrinceton. Cong. Ch.                            15.00\n\nQuincy. First Union Cong. Ch.                  174.65\n\nRockford. Rockford Seminary Miss'y Soc.         14.25\n\nTonica. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Sch'p Endowment Fund, Fisk U._           15.00\n\nTonica. Cong. Ch.                               14.61\n\nWinnetka. Cong. Ch.                             41.58\n\nWoodburn. Cong. Ch, 4.03; Dea. A.L.\n  Sturges, 5                                     9.03\n\n                                              -------\n\n                                              $502.34\n\nESTATES.\n\nRockford. Estate of Lewis S. Swezey, by\n  J.G. Penfield, Ex.                         1,131.47\n\nYorkville. Estate of Mrs. Elvira H. Colton\n  (30 of which to const. R.D. CROFOOT,\n  Executor L.M.)                               100.00\n\n                                            ---------\n\n                                            $1,733.81\n\n\nMICHIGAN, $119.35.\n\nAnn Arbor. \"A Friend,\" bal. to const.,\n  ROBERT W.A. DUNCAN L.M.                       15.00\n\nClinton. Cong. Ch.                               6.75\n\nColumbus. Cong. Ch., 12.50;\n  Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., 2.50                     15.00\n\nGrand Blanc. Cong. Ch.                           8.57\n\nLake Linden. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n  Talladega C._                                 25.00\n\nOlivet. Cong. Ch.                               24.03\n\nRomeo. Watson Loud                              15.00\n\nWhite Lake. Robert Garner                       10.00\n\n\nWISCONSIN, $331.73.\n\nArena. Cong. Ch.                                 5.00\n\nEvansville. Cong. Ch.                           20.00\n\nKinnickinnic. Cong. Ch.                          2.60\n\nLake Geneva. First Cong. Ch.                    13.00\n\nMadison. First Cong. Ch.                        50.40\n\nMilton. Cong. Ch.                               14.78\n\nPlatteville. Cong. Ch., 15.45;\n  Y.P.S.C.E., 2                                 17.45\n\nRipon. First Cong. Ch.                          10.00\n\nSturgeon Bay. Mrs. Anna Packard and \"Friends,\"\n  Bbl. C., etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nWhitewater. First Cong. Ch.                     25.00\n\nWindsor. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Freight\n  to Sherwood, Tenn._                            2.25\n\nWisconsin. Woman's Home Missionary\n  Union, _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Arena. W.H.M.S.                   1.19\n\n    Baraboo. \"A Congregationalist\"    2.00\n\n    Beloit. W.N.M.U. Second Ch.       5.00\n\n    Boscobel. W.H.M.U.                2.00\n\n    Brandon. W.U.M.S.                 5.00\n\n    Brodhead. Mrs. Sherman,\n      10; Mrs. A.S. Moore, 2;\n      W.U.M.S., 30c.                 12.30\n\n    Eau Claire. W.U.M.S.              6.39\n\n    Fond du Lac. W.U.M.S             10.00\n\n    Green Bay. W.U.M.S.              20.00\n\n    Janesville. W.U.M.S.              5.25\n\n    Madison. W.M.S.                   7.64\n\n    Milton Junction. Misses\n      Chapman                         2.00\n\n    Milwaukee. W.U.M.S.\n      Grand Av. Ch.                  25.00\n\n    Sun Prairie. W.U.M.S.             2.98\n\n    Waukesha. Y.P.S.C.E.              5.00\n\n    Whitewater. Ladies                5.00\n\n    Windsor. W.M.S.                  10.00\n\n    Wyoming                           4.50\n      To const, MRS. H.A. MINER,\n      MRS. A.A. JACKSON, MRS. C.C.\n      MATTER, and MRS. C.C.\n      KEELER L.M's\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union,\n  by Mrs. H.A. Miner, Pres., _for\n  Miss Adams, Tillotson C. and\n  N. Inst._                          40.00\n\n                                   -------     171.25\n\n\nIOWA. $63.40.\n\nAlgona. A Zahlten                               15.00\n\nCedar Falls. Cong. Ch.                          16.00\n\nCharles City. Y.P.S.C.E.                         5.00\n\nDanville. S.H. Mix and Children                  3.50\n\nDurant. Mrs S.M. Dutton,\n  _for Library, Sherwood, Tenn._                 2.25\n\nTraer. Cong. Ch.                                 6.65\n\nTraer. Ladies of Cong. Ch.                      15.00\n\n\nMINNESOTA, $360.32.\n\nElk River. Union Ch.                             8.15\n\nFaribault. Cong. Ch.                            31.53\n\nMinneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 192.33;\n  Lynndale Cong. Ch., 26.43                    218.76\n\nMinneapolis. Sab. Sch. of First Cong.\n  Ch., _for Atlanta U._                         28.07\n\nRochester. Cong. Ch.                            45.68\n\nRochester. Y.P.S.C.E.,\n  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                    10.00\n\nSaint Cloud. First Cong. Ch.                     5.00\n\nSaint Paul. Atlantic Cong. Ch.                  13.13\n\n\nMISSOURI, $70.87.\n\nAmity. Cong. Ch.                                 9.00\n\nLebanon. Cong. Ch.                              26.32\n\nLebanon. Cong. Ch. ad'l                          0.25\n\nSaint Louis. Hyde Park Cong. Ch.                10.00\n\nSedalia. First Cong. Ch.                        25.30\n\n\nKANSAS, $18.32.\n\nNeosha Falls. S.B. Dyckman                       2.00\n\nPlevna. Cong. Ch.                                1.46\n\nValley Falls. Cong. Ch.                         13.61\n\nWakarusa Valley. Cong. Ch.                       1.25\n\n\nSOUTH DAKOTA, $12.12.\n\nLake Preston. Cong. Ch.                          7.25\n\nRosebud Agency. Rev. J.P. Cross,\n  _for Rosebud M._                              10.00\n\nPonca Mission. Ponca reserve,\n  _for Indian M._                                5.00\n\nSioux Falls. W.S. Bell                           5.00\n\nValley Springs, Cong. Ch.                        5.43\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of\n  South Dakota, by Mrs. Sue Fifield,\n  Treas., _for Woman's Work_:\n\n    Chamberlain. W.M.S.               2.00\n\n    Oahe. W.M.S. Shiloh Ch.           2.00\n\n    Valley Springs. W.M.S.            2.86\n\n    Yankton. W.M.S.                   2.58\n\n                                    ------       9.44\n\n\nNEBRASKA, $1.00.\n\nCreighton. Mrs. C.F. Pierce                      1.00\n\n\nCOLORADO, $125.22.\n\nDenver. Ladies' Aid Soc. of Cong. Ch. by\n  Mrs. Alonzo Rice, Treas.                     100.00\n\nDenver. Thomas S. Spyler,\n  _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                2.50\n\nWest Denver. Cong. Ch., Y.P.S.C.E., 9.72;\n  Sab. Sch., 2.50, by Rev. R.T. Cross           12.22\n\nWest Denver. Cong. Ch.                          10.50\n\n\nUTAH, $10.16.\n\nOgden. First Cong. Ch.                          10.16\n\n\nWASHINGTON, $42.60.\n\nBay Center. Rev. C.W. Matthews and Wife          5.00\n\nSkokomish. Cong. Ch., by Rev. M. Eells          30.00\n\nWalla Walla. First Cong. Ch.\n  _for Indian M._                                7.60\n\n\nVIRGINIA, $3.32.\n\nHerndon. Cong. Ch.                               3.32\n\n\nKENTUCKY, $28.75.\n\nWilliamsburg. Mrs. Hubbard, 24.50; Miss\n  Packard. 4.25, _for Williamsburg, Ky._        28.75\n\n\nTENNESSEE, $7.60.\n\nOakdale. \"Friends.\"                              0.95\n\nSherwood. Union Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.\n  Birthday Miss'y Box                            6.65\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA, $66.55.\n\nMcLeansville. Second Cong. Ch.                   0.50\n\nTroy. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., 2.00;\n  S.D. Leak, .50                                 2.50\n\nWilmington. Cong. Ch.                           59.80\n\nPekin. Cong. Ch.                                 0.75\n\nWilmington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n  _for Rosebud Indian M._                        3.00\n\n\nGEORGIA, $16.00.\n\nMilford. Rev. J.A. Jones, 4.50; Cong. Ch. .50    5.00\n\nThomasville. Conn. Ind'l Sab. Sch.              11.00\n\n\nFLORIDA, $1.47.\n\nWinter Park. W.H.M.U., _for Student Aid,\n  Talladega C._                                  1.47\n\n\nALABAMA, $10.00.\n\nBirmingham. Woman's Miss'y Soc.                 10.00\n\n\nTEXAS, $5.75.\n\nAustin. Tillotson Church of Christ               5.00\n\nDallas. Rev. R.S. Holloway                       0.75\n\n\nCANADA, $5.00.\n\nMontreal. Chas. Alexander                        5.00\n\n                                          -----------\n\nDonations                                  $16,862.88\n\nEstates                                      6,093.14\n\n                                           ----------\n\n                                           $22,955.97\n\n\nINCOME, $756.50.\n\nAvery Fund, _for Mendi M._          658.50\n\nC.F. Dike Fund, _for\n  Straight U._                       50.00\n\nEndowment Fund, _for Freedmen_       50.00\n\n                                  --------     758.50\n\n\nTUITION, $3,721.72.\n\nWilliamsburg, Ky., Tuition           54.75\n\nCharleston, S.C., Tuition           228.50\n\nJellico, Tenn., Tuition              15.75\n\nMemphis, Tenn., Tuition             442.80\n\nNashville, Tenn., Tuition           234.59\n\nMacon, Ga., Tuition                  36.30\n\nThomasville, Ga., Tuition            62.75\n\nMarion, Ala., Tuition                 2.00\n\nTalladega, Ala., Tuition            101.02\n\nSaint Augustine, Fla., Public\n  Fund                              450.00\n\nNew Orleans, La., Tuition           518.50\n\nTougaloo, Miss., State\n  Appropriation                   1,500.00\n\nAustin, Texas, Tuition               74.76\n\n                                   -------   3,721.72\n\n                                             --------\n\nTotal for July                             $27,436.19\n\n\nSUMMARY.\n\nDonations                                 $168,679.89\n\nEstates                                     56,214.68\n\n                                          -----------\n\n                                          $220,094.07\n\nIncome                                       9,073.21\n\nTuition                                     33,961.34\n\nUnited States Government\n  appropriation for Indians                 15,219.37\n\n                                          -----------\n\nTotal from Oct. 1 to July 31              $278,347.99\n\n                                          ===========\n\n\nFOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\nSubscriptions for July                          20.50\n\nPreviously acknowledged                        712.62\n\n                                             --------\n\nTotal                                         $733.12\n\n\n\n\nH.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n56 Reade St., N.Y.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 43, No. 09, September, 1889","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":16692}