{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_20093/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_20093","id":"gutenberg_20093","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20093","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"The American Missionary -  Volume 50, No. 4, April 1896\n\n\nby Various\n\n\n\n\nEdition 1, (December 12, 2006)\n\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\nEditorial\n   Jubilee Year Fund.\n   Our Industrial Work.\n   The School and Church.\n   The Year of Jubilee.\n   A Jubilee Fund of $100,000 in Shares of $50 Each.\nThe South.\n   Notes by the Way.\n   A Home Mission Work Little Understood.\n   Talladega College, Ala.\n   Lincoln Academy, All Healing, N.C.\n   A Gracious Revival\nObituary.\n   HON. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT.\n   MISS EVELYN E. STARR.\nBureau of Woman\u2019s Work.\n   COLORED WOMEN\u2019S WORK.\n   WORK AT McLEANSVILLE, N. C.\nRECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1896.\n\n\n\n\n\nNEW YORK:\n\nPUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\nBible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York.\n\nPrice, 50 Cents a Year in advance.\n\nEntered at the Post Office at New York N. Y., as second-class mail matter.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n\nPRESIDENT, MERRILL E. GATES, LL.D., MASS.\n\n_Vice-presidents._\n\nREV. F. A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.\nREV. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo.\nREV. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass.\nREV. HENRY A. STIMSON, D.D., N. Y.\nREV. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, D.D., Ohio.\n\n_Honorary Secretary and Editor._\n\nREV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._\n\n_Corresponding Secretaries._\n\nREV. A. F. BEARD, D.D., REV. F. P. WOODBURY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._\nREV. C. J. RYDER, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._\n\n_Recording Secretary._\n\nREV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._\n\n_Treasurer._\n\nH. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _Bible House, N. Y._\n\n_Auditors._\n\nGEORGE S. HICKOK.\nJAMES H. OLIPHANT.\n\n_Executive Committee._\n\nCHARLES L. MEAD, Chairman.\nCHARLES A. HULL, Secretary.\n\n_For Three Years._\n\nSAMUEL HOLMES\nSAMUEL S. MARPLES,\nCHARLES L. MEAD,\nWILLIAM H. STRONG,\nELIJAH HORR.\n\n_For Two Years._\n\nWILLIAM HAYES WARD,\nJAMES W. COOPER,\nLUCIEN C. WARNER,\nJOSEPH H. TWICHELL,\nCHARLES P. PIERCE.\n\n_For One Year._\n\nCHARLES A. HULL,\nADDISON P. FOSTER,\nALBERT J. LYMAN,\nNEHEMIAH BOYNTON,\nA. J. F. BEHRENDS.\n\n_District Secretaries._\n\nREV. GEO. H. GUTTERSON, _21 Cong\u2019l House, Boston, Mass._\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D., _153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill._\n\n_Secretary of Woman\u2019s Bureau._\n\nMISS D. E. EMERSON, _Bible House, N. Y._\n\n\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\n\nRelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretaries; letters for \"THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY,\" to the\nEditor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the finances, to the\nTreasurer; letters relating to woman\u2019s work, to the Secretary of the\nWoman\u2019s Bureau.\n\n\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\n\nIn drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent\nto H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York; or, when more\nconvenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House,\nBoston, Mass., or 153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty\ndollars constitutes a Life Member.\n\nNOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the \"address label\" indicates the time\nto which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on label to\nthe 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made afterward the\nchange on the label will appear a month later. Please send early notice of\nchange in post-office address, giving the former address and the new\naddress, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers may be\ncorrectly mailed.\n\n\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\n\"I give and bequeath the sum of ---- dollars to the \u2019American Missionary\nAssociation,\u2019 incorporated by act of the Legislature of the State of New\nYork.\" The will should be attested by three witnesses.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\n\n\nVOL. L.\nAPRIL, 1896.\nNo. 4.\n\n\n\n\nJubilee Year Fund.\n\n\n                  of the American Missionary Association\n\n\n*It is now fifty years since the **AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION** was\norganized. Its work and history are before the churches. We have reason to\nrejoice in the accomplishment of the past. We are grateful to God for this\nministry of grace to His needy ones. We have come now to the\nsemi-centennial year of the Association. We propose to celebrate the\nFiftieth Year, and to acknowledge the goodness of God to us in the past.*\n\n*But we find ourselves in this present time in distress. Our work has been\nseverely affected by the adverse times. Our mission schools and churches\nare suffering. For the last three years our average current receipts have\nbeen $93,000 less per year than during the previous three years. The work\nhas been cut $184,000 during these three years. If it had been fully\nmaintained the debt would have been three times as great as it is.*\n\n*We are now confronted with the question of further and more disastrous\nreductions, for our obligations must be met. The $100,000 borrowed for\nmission work must be paid. We do not believe that the churches wish this\nto be done by closing more schools and church doors against the poorest of\nour countrymen throughout the Southern lowlands and mountains, amid the\nDakotas and Montana, from California to Florida.*\n\n*The Association has come to the last half of its fiscal year. Up to this\ntime it has made no special plea for help. It has waited fraternally until\nkindred organizations have received the aid they** so greatly needed. This\nvast Christian service in the most necessitous fields of the continent is\nas distinctively the trust of the churches as any of their enterprises\nare. Shall it not now have the same equitable relief as has been given to\nothers? Has not the time now come for helping this suffering work? Will\nnot those who have charged the Association with this burden of service now\nconsecrate anew their benevolence to its relief and make this a Year of\nJubilee, to wipe out the last vestige of debt?*\n\n*It is proposed to raise during the next six months a special Jubilee Year\nFund of $100,000 in shares of $50 each, with the hope and expectation that\nthese shares will be taken by the friends of missions without lessening\nthose regular contributions which must be depended upon to sustain the\ncurrent work.*\n\n*The plea is urgent because the need is urgent. Will not all friends of\nthis great work, pastor and people, now heartily unite in one special\nChristian endeavor to raise this American Missionary Association Jubilee\nYear Fund?*\n\n*Charles L. Mead,*\n* Samuel Holmes,*\n* Samuel S. Marples,*\n* William H. Strong,*\n* Elijah Horr,*\n* William Hayes Ward,*\n* Lucien C. Warner,*\n* James W. Cooper,*\n* Joseph H. Twichell,*\n* Charles P. Peirce,*\n* Charles A. Hull,*\n* Albert J. Lyman,*\n* Addison P. Foster,*\n* Nehemiah Boynton,*\n* A. J. F. Behrends*\n\n*Executive Committee of the*\n* AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.*\n\n\n\n\nOur Industrial Work.\n\n\nWe publish in this number of THE MISSIONARY an article copied from _The\nTalladega College Record_, giving a detailed account of the industrial\nwork carried on in that institution. We invite attention to it as showing\nthe wide range of those industries, and of their thorough and systematic\narrangement.\n\n\n\n\nThe School and Church.\n\n\nAs is the school and church in any nation or community, so are the people.\nThe Chinese for ages with universal education, such as it is, and the\nreligion of Confucius, are a superstitious, stagnant, and an unheroic\nrace. Europe in the middle ages, with no schools and an ambitious\nhierarchy, became ignorant and war-like, oppressed in Church and State. In\nthese United States, their abundant educational facilities and a free\nchurch have developed largely the most intelligent and free people on the\nearth. But we said \"largely,\" for there are millions of people in this\nnation that are still in the lowest grades of ignorance and superstition.\nThere are four millions of colored people who can neither read nor write,\nand have not yet escaped from the degrading effects of centuries of\nslavery. There are among the mountaineers of the South two millions of\npeople, descendants of a noble race, who have for more than a hundred\nyears been largely without schools or intelligent churches, and they have\nfallen far below the intelligence and enterprise of their fathers. Our\nAmerican Indians, though comparatively a handful, still need our care.\nMore than half their school population is without education or industrial\nhabits.\n\nIt is among these unfortunate races that the American Missionary\nAssociation is doing its great work. It comes to them with its schools and\nchurches--its schools religious and its churches intelligent--and\nthroughout the wide range of its work, lifting them up in knowledge and\nthe industries of life, and in all these directions it has accomplished\ngreat results, planting wisely with good seed, and is beginning already to\nreap large and continually enlarging harvests.\n\nWe print in this number of the MISSIONARY two articles written by\nSecretaries of the Association, which give reliable statements touching\nthe deplorable needs of some of these people, and yet of the cheering\ntransformations made in their condition by our schools and churches. We\ninvite attention to these two articles.\n\n\n\n\nThe Year of Jubilee.\n\n\nAPPEAL FOR RELEASE FROM DEBT AND LIMITATIONS.\n\n\n\n\nA Jubilee Fund of $100,000 in Shares of $50 Each.\n\n\nWe have come to our Year of Jubilee. Fifty years ago the American\nMissionary Association had a darker outlook than it has to-day. It saw\n4,000,000 of people, children of a common Father, who were born under the\nskies of our common country, in a land of churches and Bibles, and saw\nthem, not only with no legal rights, but not even the rights of persons,\nchattels under the law, bought and sold as things, in sin and degradation,\nand without hope in the world. That was a dark outlook.\n\nBut God\u2019s providence came, and now the country, which the Association\ncould not so much as enter, is dotted with our schools, and with ten\nthousand other schools, and with churches, which stand for the truths\nwhich the Congregational churches of our land believe in and teach. Has\nanything more wonderful occurred in the wonderful fifty years, now gone\nby, than this change of conditions in the South, or any more demanding\nduty come to our churches than the work which has grown out of these\nchanged conditions?\n\nIt belonged to no man fifty years ago to foresee the magnitude of our work\nin the South. Add to this that among twenty tribes of Indians, and our\nmissions in the highlands of the South among the whites, and that which\nhas been so greatly blessed of God on the Pacific Coast, and who could\nhave foretold it all fifty years ago?\n\nIn all this we are not engaged in a merely philanthropic work; we are\ndoing more than to educate people in industries, _though we are doing\nthis_. We are building on a foundation which no other can lay than is\nlaid, Jesus Christ. In the schoolroom, in the teachings of agriculture and\nmechanics, the various trades and industries, as well as in our churches,\nthis is our foundation. We are bringing salvation to the peoples who need\nit, knowing well that salvation includes this life, as well as that which\nis to come. Our supreme thought is to hasten on the time when there shall\nbe a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. This has been, and this is,\nour work. Now we need to meet our indebtedness. It is a distressing load\nto carry. We are seeking to pay our obligations this Jubilee Year. We have\nnot pressed our grievous burden upon the churches as urgently as we would\nhave done, because our sister societies, in like distress, were in the\nfield with their special appeals. Our hearts are now gladdened by the\ngracious providences that have come to them. Now, will not the churches\ngenerally engage in a special effort to lift the burden of our debt and\nrestore prosperity to this work, which the churches and our individual\ngivers have been, and are, doing through this Association?\n\nIn view of these facts, we most earnestly urge as the call of this Jubilee\nYear:\n\nFirst. That measures be taken in each church to make full and regular\ncontributions to sustain our _current_ work. It has been sadly reduced.\nDuring the last three years the receipts of the Association have been less\nthan in the previous three years by about $93,000 a year, and but for our\nretrenchments this would have made a debt three times as great as it is\nnow. If this reduction of receipts is to continue it will mean a ruinous\nincrease of debt or an equally ruinous retrenchment of the work.\n\nSecond. So great is our sense of the need of sustaining our present work\nthat if regular contributions are not adequate we urgently appeal that the\neffort be made to secure it by largely increased contributions or by a\nspecial collection.\n\nThird. That our friends and all interested in this work now so imperiled\n_will take shares in the Jubilee Fund of $100,000_. _This fund is divided\ninto 2,000 shares of $50._ We would have each of these fifty years in the\nAssociation\u2019s history stand for a special contribution of a dollar, the\nwhole fifty years being signalized by a Jubilee subscription of $50 and\nthe semi-centennial made memorial by raising the money for the Jubilee\nFund.\n\nOnly six months are left of the present fiscal year. We come to all who\nbelieve in our work to help the Association and to help it now, so that we\nmay at the great convocation at the Jubilee convention in Boston next\nOctober celebrate not only the heroic faith of the fathers, but the\nsteadfast zeal and purpose of their children.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n\n\n\nNotes by the Way.\n\n\nSecretary A.F. Beard.\n\nIn making my rounds among the schools of the Association and of the\nchurches I find new experiences in old paths and new incidents by the way.\nWithin the limitations of \"an article\" I cannot recall them, but I invite\nmy readers to visit with me some of the places _en route_.\n\n             [[Illustration: FARM BUILDINGS, ENFIELD, N. C.]]\n\n                      FARM BUILDINGS, ENFIELD, N. C.\n\n\nIt is not a long journey from New York to Enfield, N. C. We will not find\na New England village there when we leave the Weldon and Wilmington\nRailway. It is quite another part of the world. A ride of four miles among\nplantations and cotton fields brings us to the latest-born school of the\nAssociation. Here are a thousand acres of arable land, which ought to be a\nfortune to its owner and has been in years gone by. Now, however, cotton\nand corn have ceased to be kings, oftentimes they are more like beggars.\nThus it came to pass that this noble plantation became the property of a\nbenevolent lady in Brooklyn, N. Y., who made it a splendid gift to the\nAssociation, with sufficient money to build the fine brick building which\nstands in the center of this great farm, the beginning of the \"Joseph K.\nBrick Normal, Agricultural, and Industrial School.\"\n\nIs it needed? We will say it is when we have acquainted ourselves with the\ncondition of the colored people in these parts. I know not what could have\nbeen their condition in slavery. Except for the buying and the selling, it\ncould not have been worse than we find it here to-day. Rags, ignorance,\npoverty, and degradation indescribable are in the cabins. Have the\nchildren been taught in any school? No. Can the parents read? No. Shall we\nfind a Bible in the cabins? No. Weak, wicked, and absolutely poor, in dumb\nand stolid content with animalism and dirt, here families are herding like\ncattle, in windowless and miserable cabins of one room. The children who\nfail to receive the benignity of death grow up here and exist and suffer\nin this dreadful life. Yet we can ride by this plantation and in sight of\nit any day on our way to Florida, and never see what is so near.\nNevertheless, here it is a reality much worse than it reads, for ten times\none are ten and ten times ten are one hundred.\n\nIn such environment and conditions is our \"Agricultural and Industrial\nSchool\" now half way through its first year.\n\n               [[Illustration: PRINCIPAL T. S. INBORDEN.]]\n\n                        PRINCIPAL T. S. INBORDEN.\n\n\nIf the principal of it should tell the story of his life, how he walked\neight miles every day for three months of the year to learn to read and\nwrite; how he worked for 20 cents a day to raise enough money to get away\nfrom his limitations for an education; how he became bell-boy at a hotel\nuntil he earned enough to buy a grammar, an arithmetic, and a dictionary;\nhow he found himself at last at Fisk University with $1.25 with which to\ncontinue his studies for eight years before he could graduate; how he\nworked his patient way along teaching in vacation, pulling himself up hand\nover hand, it would pay one to stay over a day for it. There were only a\nfew times during the eight years in Fisk when he had money enough to stamp\na half dozen letters at once. This story, however, differs only in its\nincidents from that of other students at all of our colleges. The story of\ntheir struggles is the story of their strength.\n\n  \"Shock and strain and struggle are\n  Friendlier than the smiling days.\"\n\nAll of the teachers at Enfield are graduates of Fisk University, and they\neach have their own story how heavy-weighted with poverty, they kept\n\"inching along\" with a resolute faith that had divinity in it. Are they\nnot the very ones to help upward the poor boys and girls about them who,\nuntil this year of grace, never had one chance in life, and never dreamed\nof one? We will keep our eyes on the school at Enfield.\n\n            [[Illustration: YOUNG MEN\u2019S HALL, ENFIELD, N.C.]]\n\n                     YOUNG MEN\u2019S HALL, ENFIELD, N.C.\n\n\nNext accompany me to Beaufort, N. C.. It is a place to visit. After we\nhave gone as far as the land holds out, we set sail for a queer little\ntown as far into the sea as it could get; but when once we have arrived\nthere we are repaid for any temporary discomfort on the waters. We find at\nBeaufort, \"Washburn Seminary\" with its excellent industrial plant--a\nschool of much merit--and a church that gives us who are watching and\ncaring for churches through their weaknesses and doubtful times, much\nencouragement. A few years ago it was a question if the church would\nsurvive. Now it lives and stands for not a little and has strength of its\nown. Here, at the time of our visit, a young man, whose only educational\nprivileges had been those of \"Washburn Seminary,\" preached his first\nsermon to a congregation which crowded the church. It was a most\ncreditable discourse in method, matter, and manner. The best of it is\nthat, among those who have always known him, there is the common testimony\nthat the young preacher lives his faith. Such incidents as this are not\nsingular in the history of our schools and churches, but they are\nsignificant. They represent the evolution that is going on.\n\nOf our visits at Wilmington, Greenwood, Athens and Marietta, Atlanta and\nAnniston, we make no record.\n\nWe will come to Talladega. President DeForest, with his hearty grip and\nwhole-souled voice, gave me good welcome to Talladega. We were in old\ntimes classmates and friends at Yale, when we called ourselves boys. \"You\nmust not stop in the Hall this time, but come to my home and we will talk\nover what Talladega is doing and what we ought to do,\" he insisted.\nPrecious days were those, as I now recall them, with this scholarly man,\nso instinct with faith, so earnest and hopeful in his work, so happy in\nhis family, and so full of plans for the time to come. We talked together\nof the interests of the institution which, within seventeen years, he had\nled on from a normal school to a college. Together we went through the\nvarious classrooms and heard the recitations; the mathematics cultivating\nthe reasoning powers, the geography giving correct views of the world, the\nhistory widening the vision of it, the astronomy unfolding God\u2019s love of\norder and truth. We heard together the lessons in language, in ethics, in\nmental philosophy, and saw the students taking on strength and character,\nwhom he had watched from grade to grade, from year to year. Not only in\nthe theological department, where students were intent upon their calling,\nbut in the farm work, in the industrial classes, everywhere, and on\neverything, was the stamp of earnest Christianity. So, through president\nand teachers, the highest ideals had been constantly held before the\nstudents. It was inspiration to me to meet once more the devoted teachers\nof the College, and the students, greedy for knowledge and willing to work\nfor it, on the farm, in the industries, and in whatever way they could\nearn enough to help themselves through the year. When the time came for\nthe \"Goodbye,\" with the hearty invitation \"come again,\" he did not know,\nnor I, that before a month should pass I should \"come again\" to look my\nfarewell upon my silent friend who could no more welcome me. He had no\nword for me but I heard a word, \"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord,\nfor they rest from their labors and their works do follow them.\" Surely\nthe works of this man of God will follow him. The slow procession on that\nfuneral day moved out of sight, and the next day the usual College work\nwent on, but the days for Talladega have been sad.\n\nI would that I might extend the invitation to continue and visit a score\nof places with schools and churches on this journey, each of which gave to\nme its own suggestions. There is the unique and fruitful school at Cotton\nValley, with its record of transformations; there are Selma and Tougaloo,\nJackson, New Orleans, Mobile, Thomasville, Albany, Marshallville,\nAndersonville, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Knoxville, Jonesboro, and\nothers, where schools and churches, hand in hand, are saving the needy\npeoples. I can only say that as I visited these and other places I was\nconstantly cheered both by the fidelity of the workers and by the\nefficiency of their work. The story of these workers together with God\nwill never be fully told.\n\nIn many places I found deepest poverty. The greatest luxury of the poor\npeople is the \"schooling\" of their children. Parents will go hungry for\nthis. Many of the children trudged along barefooted for miles when ice was\non the pools by the roadside. I found, as I have before, churches and\nschools leavening their communities with more intelligent manhood and\nwomanhood, with better homes, with wiser industries and economies, with\nstronger and truer characters. Many times I said: \"If the good people who\nhave ordained and sustained this work until now could only see it and know\nit as it actually is, our distressing debt would vanish within half a\nyear. Our Jubilee would come, and we should \u2019arise and shine and give God\nthe glory.\u2019\"\n\n\n\n\nA Home Mission Work Little Understood.\n\n\nSecretary Frank P. Woodbury.\n\nThose who have visited only the cities and towns of the South have not\nseen the black South. In the six Southern states containing what has been\ncalled the Black Belt there are four millions of negro people. Less than\nhalf a million of these live in the cities, towns, and villages, while\nmore than three millions and a half of them dwell on the plantations of\nthe country. Mr. Bryce in his work on America has called attention to the\nenormous difference between the colored churches of the cities and those\nof the poor negro districts, in some of which not merely have the old\nsuperstitions been retained but there has been a marked relapse into the\nObeah rites and serpent worship of African heathenism. The rank\nsuperstitions, the beliefs in necromancy and witchcraft, the wild orgies\nof excitement, the utter divorce between the moral virtues and what is\ncalled religion, which obtain among the millions of the plantation negroes\nof the South, are but little understood. By one who knows it, the Black\nBelt has been called the great Dismal Swamp, the vast black malarial\nslough of the American republic.\n\nGladstone has frequently emphasized an ancient saying, \"The corruption of\nthe best thing is the very worst thing.\" This is emphatically true of much\nwhich has been called Christianity in the plantation churches of the\nSouth. The testimony which comes to us of the moral and religious\ncondition of many communities in the Black Belt, is startling. One negro\nwitness who has been in direct association for many years with ministers\nin this part of the South, says, \"three-fourths of those who are now\nacting as preachers in all this region, are absolutely unfit to preach the\ngospel. It is rare that one can find in the country districts where the\nmasses of the people dwell, a minister who is both intelligent and morally\nupright.\"\n\nIt is not long since the \"Wilderness-Worshiper\" excitement swept through a\nregion of the South like a prairie fire. The excitement of expectancy for\nthe immediate coming of Christ added fire to the hearts of the people.\nHugh pyres of pine logs were rolled together and lit into flame as the\ndarkness of night came on. These great fires were to light the way for the\nSaviour when He should come. Men rolled their bodies through the forests\nin a kind of pagan ecstasy of self-sacrifice to meet Him. So credulous are\nthe negroes of the Black Belt, says a resident white lawyer, that if a\nfellow with a wig of long hair and a glib tongue should appear among them\nand say he is the Christ, inside of a week the turmoil of the\nWilderness-Worship would be outdone.\n\nNow, a great awakening is beginning among these dark masses of people. Dr.\nCurry has well said: \"Freedom itself is educatory. The energy of\nrepresentative institutions is a valuable school-master. To control one\u2019s\nlabor, to enjoy the earnings of it, to make contracts freely, to have the\nright of locomotion, and change of residence and business, have a helpful\ninfluence on mankind.\" Many of these people are calling for better\npreachers; preachers who are earnest and virtuous men and know their\nBibles. \"We used to listen,\" said a negro man at a recent meeting, \"to\nthese whooping and hollering preachers who snort so you could hear them\nover three hundred yards, and we would come home and say, \u2019That\u2019s the\ngreatest sermon I ever heard.\u2019 But now we want men who can teach us\nsomething.\" \"Our preachers are not what they ought to be,\" said one woman.\n\"We have got too many gripsack preachers--men who go around from church to\nchurch with a gripsack, not full of sermons, but of bottles of whisky,\nwhich they sell to the members of their congregation.\" Great masses of\nnegro people are beginning to feel that what they have called religion is\nnot really religion at all.\n\nIt must be remembered that every man or woman of these millions who has\nreached middle life was born a slave. The great bulk of the population\nhave been brought up practically in the environment of a servile life.\nWhile there was much that was tender and pathetic and strong in the mute\nfaith with which thousands of them lived through the dark trials of\nslavery, looking unto Christ as their deliverer, still the superstitions\nand degradations of slavery, its breaking of all home ties and life, could\nbut infect the current religion of the black people. At its best, in\nmultitudes of cases, it is but a form of physical and sensational\nexcitement. The deep work of regenerating the soul and the life, which is\nthe vital need of these people, is not done; it is not even attempted in\nthe vast majority of the negro churches of the Black Belt. \"The problem of\nthe Kanaka in my native Hawaiian Islands,\" General Armstrong once said to\nme, \"is one with that of the Southern negro. The Sandwich Islander,\nconverted, was not yet rebuilt in the forces of his manhood.\" On the side\nof his moral nature, where he is weakest, the black man of the South has\nstill to be girded and energized. In him are still the tendencies of his\nhereditary paganism, the vices of his slavehood. These will sink him\nunless his whole nature is regenerated by the ministration of a pure and\nvital Christianity.\n\nThe black man needs what every human being needs, help from above. It is\nfutile to say, he is free, let him alone. Mere freedom never yet saved a\nhuman soul. The gospel of Christ is not a mere declaration of freedom; it\nis regeneration and help from above. The more deeply a race is sinking in\ndegradation and sin, the more imperative is its call for saving power from\non high.\n\nFrom what element of our population is this cry of distress and need more\nagonizing than from the poor black man of the South? He is sinking in a\nquicksand of ignorance, poverty, and vice. There is nothing beneath to\nsupport his feet. He must go down unless he can get help from above. Those\nwho are nearest to him, and can see and feel most deeply his desperate\ncondition, plead most strongly in his behalf. \"The definition is very\nclear, sharp, and simple,\" says an honored white minister of the South,\n\"that the negroes are making a tremendous struggle to get an education and\nbe religious; but despite this struggle, the bottom strata of the race are\nbeing sucked into crime and ruin with unprecedented and increasing\nrapidity. But, wherever the efforts of white Christians to aid them are\nregular, steady, and strong, this destruction and debasement are stayed to\na marvelous degree. Here, then, are conditions that seem to leave no room\nfor either neglect or delay, so far as we are concerned. Delay is sin to\nus, and death to them.\"\n\nAnother minister of the South, whose services for the black man as well as\nthe white man, have been those of a philanthropist, has said, \"In our\nextremity we look to wise and just people in the Northern states to help\nus, to help both races; without Northern co\u00f6peration things will go from\nbad to worse.\" Yet the old hard word is still uttered by many and thought\nby many more, \"The negro is free, leave him to himself. We have done\nenough for him in taking off his slave chains.\" Are we then to expect from\nhim more than we do from the white element of our American populations,\nnative or foreign? Do we refuse them the gospel of home missions, and\ndemand from them self-extrication from sin and its degradations?\n\nOur churches have not yet awakened to the vastness and promise of the home\nmission fields which they have put in charge of the American Missionary\nAssociation. They have not yet recognized the peculiar fitness of our\nfree-church system for the people who have so lately come into personal\nfreedom that the very word is indescribably precious to them. This\nAssociation ought now to have not only the means for a more ample support\nof its educational service, but also for the broadening of its distinctive\nchurch missions. The day has come for the planting of free Congregational\nchurches among the shadowed millions of the South.\n\nIn the upbuilding of their minds and hearts, our fundamental work of\nChristian education has been developed into remarkable fruitage, and is\nsteadily doing this imperative and successful service. This education has\nbeen broad enough to make intellectual and moral leaders. It has not been\nconfined to those who can become only manual laborers. With prominent\nemphasis upon industrial training, as is evinced by the farms and gardens\nand workshops of our institutions all through the South, we have not shut\nthe door against the higher training.\n\nThe Association has never given in to what may be termed the Southern\ntheory of negro education, its confinement to the manual handicrafts, and\nthe rudiments of primary school instruction. Nothing is more popular in\nthe South than the practical limitation of educational opportunities for\nthe negro people to the lines of manual training and the reserve of all\nthe possibilities of a higher education to the white, dominant race. A\nprominent Southern journalist has expressed this view in the following\nterms: \"A little education is all the negro needs. Let him learn the\nrudiments--to read, and to write, and to cipher, and be made to mix that\nknowledge with some useful labor. His only resource is manual labor.\" But\none of the foremost colored men in the South has well said: \"There is no\ndefence or security for any, except in the highest intelligence and\ndevelopment of all. If anywhere there are efforts tending to curtail the\nfullest growth of the negro, let these efforts be turned into stimulating,\nencouraging, and making him the most useful and intelligent citizen.\"\n\nThe American Missionary Association, in addition to its general and\nindustrial school training, has opened the doors of a higher education to\nall who seek to enter in. The fruition of this opportunity now appears at\nthe very juncture when a call is coming from among the millions of the\nback country for free churches, pure churches, churches which emphasize\nvirtue and intelligence. Our great schools are bringing to us young men\nand young women thoroughly fitted to go preaching and teaching among these\nmillions. But how shall they go, except they be sent?\n\n\n\n\nTalladega College, Ala.\n\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT.\nAGRICULTURE.\n\nEdgar A Bishop, B.S., Superintendent.\n\nThe work in the Agricultural Department the past year has been the most\nsatisfactory of any in its history. The young men of the Junior\nPreparatory and Normal classes with several special students have taken\nthe classroom work, using Gulley\u2019s \"First Lessons in Agriculture\" as a\ntextbook. Among the topics considered are the following:\n\nOrigin, formation, and composition of soil. Composition of the plant. How\nplants feed and grow. Fertilization of the seed, and improvement of\nvariety. Plant food in the soil and how developed. Preparing land for the\ncrop. Cultivation of crop. Principles of drainage and irrigation. Manures\nand commercial fertilizers. Rotation of crops. Special diversified\nfarming. Farm economy. Food and manure value of crops. How to propagate\nplants--pruning, grafting, budding, etc. Stock breeding: feeding and care;\nhow to select for special purposes, detect unsoundness, determine age,\netc.\n\nThe classroom work has been re\u00ebnforced by practical talks and\nillustrations at the barns and in the field.\n\nThirty-five boys have had employment in the department this year. Six of\nthese have worked by the month to accumulate a credit with which to enter\nthe day school next year, meanwhile attending our night school. The others\nwork after school hours and on Saturdays, and are paid by the hour at\nvarying rates.\n\nThe work on the farm has been largely the production of those crops needed\nfor consumption in the institution, the support of animals for work, beef,\nmilk, pork, etc.\n\nThe general improvement of the land and the increase in the value of the\nproperty have been kept constantly in view. Our fields are becoming more\nfertile, and better crops are being raised every year.\n\nAn orchard of several hundred trees, consisting of pears, plums, peaches,\nand cherries, has been set out. Other varieties have been added, also\nquinces, mulberries, figs, and grapes. This year one each of the Japanese\nwalnut, giant chestnut, and paper shell pecan are being started; also half\na dozen varieties of the raspberry, some currants, rhubarb and garden\nplants, with a view to propagate those that prove valuable. Twenty of the\nstandard varieties of strawberries have been grown. Grasses and forage\nplants have also received their share of attention. One-half acre is being\ndevoted to a trial of three Japanese millets in comparison with our German\nor golden millet. Several varieties of corn and sorghum have been grown\nand their characteristics carefully noted.\n\nInquiries are often received from persons in this and other States\nregarding certain crops and methods of stock feeding. A creditable\nbeginning has been made in rearing live stock, and it is our purpose to\nextend this branch of the work. To introduce some of the improved breeds\nbest adapted to this section early occupied our attention, and we have met\nwith encouragement beyond our expectation. Hundreds of pigs of good\nbreeding have been sold all through the State to form the nucleus of\nbetter herds. Our herd of cattle is headed by a thoroughbred Jersey and\ncontains several registered and many high-grade animals. It is increasing\nin quality and value each year.\n\nBesides the work already mentioned, an annual farmers\u2019 convention is held\nat the college, while meetings in some of the beats of the county have\nbeen held during the year. Much enthusiasm has been raised, and a\ndetermination evinced by many for better homes, better schools, stock,\ncrops, etc. Widespread and systematic work along this line is planned for\nthe ensuing year. In this way not only is the Agricultural Department\nstriving to be a help to the people by practicing and advocating better\nmethods of farming and living, but the College is becoming more widely and\nfavorably known among all classes of people.\n\n\n\nCooking.\n\n\nMiss Ruth K. Kingsley, Teacher.\n\nOne of the most important arts, though often neglected, is that of\ncookery. The kitchen is so necessary a part of the boarding school and of\nthe home that its equipment and regulations should be such as to make the\nwork therein both easy and successful.\n\nThrough the kindness of friends we have been able to purchase an excellent\nrange and many of the improved cooking utensils now in use. Our girls\nenjoy working with these modern appliances, and they are taught the\nnecessity of having appropriate places for them in the drawers and\ncupboards with which the room is supplied.  One of the first requirements\nis--a tidy kitchen.\n\nWe have given attention to the preparation of the dishes found on the bill\nof fare of the average family, and have made much of healthful and proper\nmethods of cooking. We do not propose to make professional cooks, but we\nhope that our girls will acquire skill sufficient to do all that is\nnecessary in plain and wholesome family living. The class has been\nstimulated in its endeavor by the fact that the product of their daily\nwork has found its way to the dining-tables of the boarding hall.\n\n\n\nThe Laundry.\n\n\nThe building in which the laundry work is done was erected by\nstudent-labor under the supervision of the Mechanical Superintendent. The\nwashing and ironing are performed in the main by our night-school girls,\nwho are looking forward to attendance upon the day school from current\nearnings. Here also the day-school occupants of the girls\u2019 dormitory do\ntheir own laundering, or assist after their daily recitations in the\ngeneral work of the college.\n\n\n\nNursing.\n\n\nMiss A.B. Chalfant, Teacher.\n\nThe course of instruction is designed to extend through two years, the\nfirst being devoted to the sick room--care of the bed; moving and bathing\nthe patient; different kinds of food for the invalid, with its\npreparation; making and application of poultices; rubbing, and the\nadministration of simple remedies.\n\nIn the second year more attention is given to the symptoms and the\ndiagnosis of disease, with something of its treatment; and the proper\ncourse in emergencies, as in cases of burns, wounds, loss of blood,\nsun-strokes, drowning, and poisoning.\n\nThe pupils have been chiefly from the Normal grade, though some who are\noutside of the college family have been glad to avail themselves of the\nopportunity to enter the class, and they have proved apt and faithful\nstudents. Early in the beginning of this school year the instructor\noffered to organize a class among the young men, and to meet them at an\nhour not to conflict with other studies. Six persons responded and a high\ndegree of interest has been manifested.\n\nThe value of this department is increasingly manifest, not only in the\nvaried service rendered by the nurse teacher, but in the assistance given\nby pupils of both dormitories at the bedside of the sick, by mothers in\nthe neighborhood who have been in the classes, and by the prophecy of\nbetter things for many homes where the influence of this work is felt.\n\n\n\nPrinting.\n\n\nThe college has maintained a printing office with but few interruptions\nsince 1877.\n\nA number of the young men were put through a course of training by one of\nthe officers of the institution, and for some time the printing has been\nin the hands of those thus instructed, and with but little supervision.\nThe department has done a large share of our job work, and during the\nschool year has issued a monthly paper called the _Talladega College\nRecord_.\n\n\n\nSewing.\n\n\nMiss A.B. Chalfant, Teacher.\n\nWhile it is believed that all industrial training develops both mind and\nbody, yet special attention is given to the work among the girls, that it\nshall be in the line of improving their future homes. With this object in\nview, sewing is by no means an unimportant factor. It holds an important\nplace in the curriculum of this school. Beginning in the third grade it\nextends through the seventh. Over two hundred pupils have received\ninstruction this year.\n\nIn the lower classes, felling, hemming, and making of button holes are\ntaught; in the intermediate, cutting and making plain garments; in the\nhigher grade the girls cut and make dresses. Instruction is given in\nmaking garments from old clothes and also in mending--two important\naccomplishments in most homes.\n\nSome of the girls are able during the school year, but especially in\nvacation, to earn enough by their sewing to materially aid themselves in\nmeeting their school expenses. Considerable sewing is done for the\ninstitution, such as making bedding and work aprons, hemming towels and\ntable linen. Custom work is attempted to some extent also, and by this\nmeans sufficient income has been derived not only to keep the Department\nstocked with material, but also to supply it with appropriate furniture\nfor preserving the work of the pupils and displaying the finished product.\n\n\n\nWoodworking and Drafting.\n\n\nGeorge Williamson, Instructor.\n\nThe best method of Industrial Education is to keep the technical idea\npre\u00ebminently in view, and to teach, first, those principles which will be\nof real and practical use in an industrial life or profession. It is\nevident that the great mass of the people must be industrial workers in\nsome form; and to teach them those principles of construction and drawing\nwhich govern all the mechanical trades is to give them preparation for a\nuseful and successful life.\n\nWe want to teach them how to express intelligently by means of drawing\ntheir own ideas or the ideas of others, and then to embody them in\npermanent and useful construction; so that at least they may have the\nstart and impetus toward something better than a life of blind mechanical\ndrudgery.\n\nThe extent to which we can do this is limited by our time and opportunity.\nAt present our instruction in the Slater shop is confined to woodworking\nand mechanical drafting. We have a course of lessons in woodworking for\nthe boys, of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, illustrating\nprogressively the common principles of construction in wood, and designed\nto develop familiarity with and dexterity in the use of tools. In each\nlesson the student receives a blue-print to work from; so that he learns\nto measure by scale, and interpret a draft. At the same time he is shown a\nperfect model to give him an ideal of good workmanship in the finished\nproduct. He is not allowed to use the model as a working copy, because\nthat would counteract the influence of the drawing. The course is designed\nto teach progressively the common principles of good construction, each\nprinciple being repeated in different exercises so as to show its varied\napplication.\n\nAs far as possible we have a fourfold purpose in each exercise, viz.: To\nillustrate a principle of construction; to develop a knowledge of tools\nand skill in their use; to teach the use of working drawings and scales;\nto sustain the interest of the pupil.\n\nOf course there are a number of other indirect results attained at the\nsame time in the general development of the faculties, and the training in\nhabits of accuracy, patient perseverance, neatness, and order.\n\nThe drawing classes are designed to carry on farther the same idea of the\nprimary importance of technical knowledge and skill. We have but one year\nof compulsory work for the boys of the ninth grade--which provides a\nthorough course in plane, geometric scale, and pattern drawing from the\nsame text-book that is used in the government science and art schools of\nGreat Britain. Our plan provides another year\u2019s work in drawing for the\npurpose of teaching the principles and details of building construction,\nand the art of drawing plans, elevations, sections, etc. The improvement\nof the students in the drawing class is most marked and encouraging, and\ntheir interest well sustained. They are strongly impressed with the\nnecessity and importance of absolute accuracy and truthfulness in their\nwork.\n\nThe classes in woodworking have about two hours per week--the first year\ndrawing, five hours per week; the second year two hours per week. We have\nbut one teacher in woodworking, and our work is limited in extent, but we\nare trying to do one thing well and systematically, and the results are\nmost encouraging.\n\n\n\n\nRevivals.\n\n\n\n\nLincoln Academy, All Healing, N.C.\n\n\nBy Rev. James Wharton.\n\nI wish to say a word about Lincoln Academy as I found it. For several\nweeks they had been expecting me to go and hold evangelistic services for\nthe students, whom I was glad to meet, and, I may say, a finer and more\npromising set of young people I have seldom met during the past twenty\nyears of my work in the South. They are to be the fathers and mothers of\nthe next generation, and will be just what we make them. They were all in\ngood condition and prepared to enter upon the work of the Lord under the\nleadership of the principal, Miss Cathcart, and the teachers, who are all\ndeeply interested in the spiritual welfare of each one under their care,\nand time after time one and another were taken to their rooms apart and\npleaded with at the throne of grace, and I need not say that their efforts\nwere signally blessed of God, for during the past week twenty-eight\nstudents have professed faith in Christ and are now living new lives.\n\nEvery one around this neighborhood speaks in the highest terms of praise\nof the school and the good which is being done. A lady said to me the\nother day it was easy to recognize \"Lincoln Academy\" students for their\ngood behavior and their manners. What a blessing to have such faithful\nhelpers to lead them. As a result we need not wonder that parents\nsometimes send spoiled and wayward children for training, while others,\nknowing of the good influence brought to bear upon the children, deny\nthemselves in every possible way that they may send their sons and\ndaughters that they may be fitted for future life in the world which they\nhave soon to face.\n\n\n\n\nA GRACIOUS REVIVAL.--Rev. Mr. Wharton, writes from Atlanta, Ga.: \"The Lord\nhas graciously blessed His work here, and the Gospel is still the power of\nGod unto salvation. I have held services at Storrs School, Atlanta\nUniversity, and the First Congregational Church, and during the last\ntwelve days over 200 have been converted. Some of the most prominent\ncolored citizens of this city and some of the most promising students of\nStorrs and also of the University have been reached and have decided for\nChrist, the future teachers and fathers and mothers of the next\ngeneration, who will come to the front, maybe, when we are silent in the\ngrave. The beauty of this work is, it does not stop with the converts, but\ndark homes and hearts are going to be reached, superstition is going to\ngive place to sound doctrine, and the whole country be benefited by such a\nrevival. Parents are rejoicing on every hand over sons and daughters and\nalso friends being converted. Truly \u2019God has done great things for us\nwhereof we are glad.\u2019 I go next to Selma, Ala., for Sunday. I would be\nthankful of your prayers for Selma.\"\n\nGOOD RESULTS OF NOON PRAYER-MEETINGS.--A teacher from Helena, Ark.,\nwrites: \"We suggested to the Christians among our pupils that they meet in\nthe chapel at noon recess each day for a prayer meeting, in the hope of\nbringing the unconverted members of our school to Christ. The suggestion\nwas carried out by them and the blessing came abundantly. The result of\nthese meetings has been the conversion of 25 of the 28 of our pupils who\nwere not Christians. I have learned one lesson, that we must prepare for\nthe outpouring of the spirit, and then expect great things.\"\n\nFROM TENNESSEE.--Home again. Shall we all meet again? O, must some parts\nof the work be dropped and other parts be crippled by the debt? This will\nnot be so if all our members are like the little Tallmadge girl. Only five\nyears old, lame and with suffering nerves she has earned a dollar this\nyear by washing dishes, and gives it to our school. So a little child may\nteach us self-denial and devotion. God speed His work and bless our\nefforts.\n\nATLANTA, GA.--\"We send you $1 as an offering of the Junior Society of\nChristian Endeavor of Storrs School. It is an offering of love and\ngratitude. The Little Sunshine Committee of the society were very active\nin gathering this. It is their second missionary effort, their first being\nfor the Indians at Fort Berthold.\"\n\n\n\n\n\nOBITUARY.\n\n\n\n\nHON. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT.\n\n\nIn the death of Mr. Straight the American Missionary Association and the\ncolored people of the South lose a firm and helpful friend. Mr. Straight\npassed away on February 21, 1896, in the 81st year of his age. When the\nAssociation in 1869 planted a school for the higher education of the\nNegroes in New Orleans, La., it found there a few persons of Northern\nbirth, but who had long resided in that city, and were men of established\ncharacter and of large influence, who took interest in the proposed\ninstitution and gave it their encouragement and support. Among these\npersons the Hon. Seymour Straight was most conspicuous for his deep\ninterest in the project, for his useful service on the Board of Trustees\nand for his large gift at the outset--in view of all which the institution\ntook his name.\n\nUnder Gen. Sheridan\u2019s laudable desire for good government in the city of\nNew Orleans, Mr. Straight was made a member of the City Council. In 1868\nhe was appointed by the Chamber of Commerce as a member of a committee in\nregard to improvements in the cities of the State. In 1872 he was\nappointed a member of the International Penitentiary Congress, to assemble\nin London, Eng., which appointment, however, he was unable to accept. He\nreceived other marks of the esteem in which he was held by his\nfellow-citizens. In 1869, at the incorporation of the Straight University,\nhe was appointed President of its Board of Trustees, which position he\nheld till the time of his death. A good man has gone and his works do\nfollow him.\n\n\n\n\nMISS EVELYN E. STARR.\n\n\nOur school at Greenwood, S. C., mourns the loss of one of its teachers,\nwho, though she had been but a few months in connection with the school,\nhad endeared herself to both teachers and pupils. Miss Evelyn E. Starr\ndeparted this life February 6, 1896. The principal of the school writes:\n\"She came to the work with a sincere love for it, was intensely in\nearnest, and devoutly Christian.\"\n\n\n\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\n\nMiss D. E. Emerson, Secretary.\n\n\n\n\nCOLORED WOMEN\u2019S WORK.\n\n\nWe often speak of the influence of the schools and churches of the\nAmerican Missionary Association, but perhaps it is not realized how marked\nthis is in the growth of a missionary spirit among the people. To\nillustrate this we call attention to reports of a few of the Women\u2019s\nMissionary Societies among the colored people.\n\nThe Woman\u2019s Union of Alabama reports as having raised by its auxiliaries\n$259.41, and the spirit of the auxiliaries is manifested in the following\nitems:\n\nAnniston.--A society of girls of the church, ranging in age from five to\nfifteen years. The object is to increase an interest in mission work. The\nmonthly fee is one cent. We hope to be able to do much more this year than\nwe did last.\n\nJenifer.--The chief object with the Jenifer Union is Africa. The meetings\nare held twice each month. Mothers\u2019 meetings are held every Friday, where\nfervent prayers are offered for all missionaries. Then a few minutes we\nspend in special prayer for Misses Fearing and Thomas, and Mr. and Mrs.\nSheppard, colored missionaries in Africa.\n\nMontgomery.--Our Union meets every Monday. We make articles for sale. The\nmoney obtained in this way is used in helping any good cause. We have sent\nfive dollars to the American Missionary Association for work among the\nIndians.\n\nTalladega.--We study the various mission fields, home and foreign. We have\na Dorcas meeting when we make and repair articles of clothing. The third\nmeeting of the month is the Mothers\u2019 meeting, where prayers are offered\nfor many households. We have expended during the year $13.60 for work at\nhome, $32.44 for American Missionary Association Indian work, $40.50 for\nforeign missions.\n\nThe auxiliaries of Union of the Tennessee Association report as follows:\n\nChattanooga.--The visiting and prayer-meeting committee have been\nunusually active. All classes of the sick and needy have been visited and\ncomforted, and consolation and financial aid carried to many homes. Amount\nraised for the year, $67.24.\n\nMemphis.--Our Union meets monthly, and usually discusses two or three\nsubjects on mission work. Our missionary cow is well, and its owner,\nSister Rachel, furnishes good milk and butter to the sick free of charge,\nand will walk two miles to sell five cents\u2019 worth for the benefit of the\nUnion. Amount raised during the year, $63.11.\n\nNashville, Howard Church.--Our women are united in all lines of church,\nmission and industrial work. We are gradually growing in membership and\nenthusiasm. Our small contributions are no indication of the interest and\nlabor shown. Amount raised for the year, $37.10.\n\nNashville, Jackson Street Church.--Our Union numbers about twenty members.\nWe have been blessed during the hard times in our effort to do church and\nmission work. Receipts for the year, $50.10.\n\nLouisville, Ky.--The outlook is bright for a steady progress in the\nuplifting of humanity. Amount raised for the year, $21.\n\nLittle Rock, Ark.--Our Society has been acting in the double capacity of\nchurch aid and missionary society. We have recently organized a Church Aid\nSociety in order that we may give the attention of our Union to mission\nwork proper at home and abroad.\n\nNorth Carolina.--The President reports a most cheering advance in interest\nand contributions, $223 having been raised by the women of the Union\nduring the year. This was done by very poor and hard working women. While\nmost of the money was spent for aid in their churches and to the sick and\nneedy about them, some of it was sent to the treasury of the Missionary\nBoard.\n\nA few words from Mrs. Ella Sheppard Moore, president of the Tennessee\nAssociation, tell the whole story. These once unhappy and largely idle\nwomen in practical Christian effort are now employed in Christ\u2019s name,\nintelligently, radiant in the joy of His salvation.\n\n\n\n\nWORK AT McLEANSVILLE, N. C.\n\n\nMRS. S. S. SEVIER.\n\nMcLeansville is not a great city like New York or Chicago, where\neverything seems to be in a rush, and everybody is wrapt up in business;\nneither is it a great railroad center; but merely a \"little flag-station.\"\nThe majority of the people here, both white and colored, earn their living\nchiefly by farming.\n\nEven though McLeansville is a humble little place, we have a very pleasant\nwork here, sustained mainly by the American Missionary Association. At the\nclose of the year 1894 our church building was very small, indeed; could\nnot hold more than sixty or seventy persons. A \"Woman\u2019s Missionary Union\"\nwas organized last August. The first work this Union wished to do was to\ntake steps toward enlarging our church. We accordingly planned to hold a\nfair to raise money for this purpose. The fair consisted mainly of\nclothing and fancy articles made by members of the Union. Some cloth was\ncontributed for this purpose by Northern friends. The Union felt much\nencouraged over the result, which was $50. This amount, with an especial\ntax upon the members of the church, has enabled us to make a very great\nimprovement upon our church. It is now almost twice as large as it was at\nthe end of last year.\n\nWe feel that our year\u2019s labor thus far has been greatly blessed. We also\nfeel that our little mission is a worthy work. The people seem to fully\nappreciate church and educational privileges.\n\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1896.\n\n\n_THE DANIEL HAND FUND_\n\n_For the Education of Colored People._\n\nIncome for February       $ 4,197.35\nPreviously acknowledged    27,110.00\n                          ----------\n                          $31,307.35\n                          ==========\n\n                            CURRENT RECEIPTS.\n\n         *MAINE*, $292.99.\nAuburn. High St. Cong.       $30.00\nCh.\nAuburn. Bbl. C. _for\nAndersonville, Ga._\nAugusta. \"A Friend\"           30.00\nBlanchard. Jacob               5.00\nBlanchard\nBrewer. Y.P.S.C.E. Cong.\nCh., Box Christmas Goods,\n_for McIntosh, Ga._\nBridgton. \"T\"                 75.00\nCastine. Mrs. C. M.            2.00\nCushman, _for Freight, to\nMcIntosh, Ga._\nCumberland Center.             2.00\nHelping Hand Soc., _for\nStudent Aid, McIntosh,\nGa._\nDennysville. Sab. Sch.         5.00\nCong. Ch.\nEliot. Cong. Ch., Lincoln      3.26\nMem. Day Off.\nGarland. Cong. Ch. and         7.00\nSoc., 5, and C.E. Soc.,\n2, Jubilee Off.\nHarrison, Cong. Ch.            2.65\nLimington. Cong. Ch.          14.00\nMachias. Center St. Cong.      4.22\nCh., Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff.\nMachias. ----, Bbl. C.\n_for Andersonville, Ga._\nNorth Bridgton. Sab. Sch.      4.25\nCong. Ch., _for Student\nAid, Talladega C._\nNorth Bridgton. Cong. Ch.      4.00\nNorth Gorham. Cong. Ch.,\nBbl. C. _for Wilmington,\nN. C._\nPortland. Sab. Sch.           20.00\nSecond Parish, Lincoln\nMem. Day Off.\nPortland. Williston Cong.\nCh., C. E. Soc., Box and\nBbl. Christmas Goods for\n_Lexington, Ky._\nSalsbury Cove. Mrs. M.         1.00\nRich, _for McIntosh, Ga._\nSanford Mills. Geo.            5.00\nGoodell, _for Wilmington,\nN. C._\nSearsport. First Cong.        14.21\nCh.\nSkowhegan. Island Av.         24.32\nCong. Ch.\nSouth Berwick. Ladies of       1.25\nCong. Ch., _for Freight\nto Blowing Rock, N. C._\nSouth Berwick. ----, Bbl.\nC. _for Andersonville,\nGa._\nSouth Penobscot. Bapt.         1.00\nCh., Bbl. C., Freight, 1,\n_for McIntosh, Ga._\nSouth West Harbor. King\u2019s\nDaughters, Bbl. C. _for\nMcIntosh, Ga._\nTopsham. ----, Bbl. C.\n_for Andersonville, Ga._\nWestbrook. Cong. Ch.          14.18\nWestbrook. King\u2019s D.,\nCong. Ch., Bbl. C. _for\nMcIntosh, Ga._\nWilton. Sab. Sch. Cong.       11.12\nCh., Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff.\nWhitneyville. Cong. Ch.,       4.00\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nWoodfords. L. M. S.            8.53\n(Thank offering), 5; Sab.\nSch. Cong. Ch. in part,\n3.53\nWoodfords. Bbl. C. _for\nAndersonville, Ga._\n\nRECEIVED AT SKYLAND INST., BLOWING ROCK, N. C.\nActon. Cong. Soc., Bbl. C.\nAuburn. ----, Bbl. C.\nHarpswell Center. Cong. Soc., Bbl C.\nIsland Falls. Cong. Soc., Bbl. C.\nMachias. Cong. Ch., Box and Bbl. C.\nSkowhegan. Cong. Soc., Bbl. C.\n\n      *NEW HAMPSHIRE*, $1,715.92\nAmherst. Sab. Sch. Cong.           6.04\nCh.\nBennington. Cong. Ch.,             7.91\n3.56, and C. E. Soc.,\n4.35\nBerlin Mills. Cong. Ch.           15.22\nDerry. Sab. Sch. First            10.00\nCong. Ch., Lincoln Day\nMem. Off.\nEpping. \"A Friend for the         40.00\nDebt,\" in Memory of Rev.\nJ. H. Stearns, D.D.\nEpping. \"Two Friends,\"            10.00\nCong. Ch.\nExeter. First Cong. Ch.          133.08\nFrancestown. M. C.                  .50\nWillard\nGilmanton. Sab. Sch.               2.43\nCong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.\nOff.\nHillsboro Bridge. Sab.             2.91\nSch. Cong. Ch., Lincoln\nMem. Day Off.\nJaffrey. Ladies, First             1.50\nCong. Ch., _for Freight\nto Joppa, Ala._\nLaconia. Mrs. H. F.                3.83\nSmith, _for Saluda, N.\nC._\nManchester. First Cong.           41.40\nCh. and Soc.\nMilford. Pilgrim Ch., Jr.          1.00\nY. P. S. C. E., _for\nIndian M._\nMilton. Cong. Ch.                  7.25\nNashua. Y. P. S. C. E. of         10.00\nFirst Cong. Ch.\nNorth Hampton. Cong. Ch.          22.50\nPembroke. Sab. Sch. Cong.         14.30\nCh.\nPenacook. Sab. Sch. Cong.         10.00\nCh., _for McIntosh, Ga._\nPenacook. Y. P. S. C. E.           4.00\nCong. Ch.\nStratham. Cong. Ch. and           11.75\nSoc.\nTemple. Sab. Sch. Cong.            5.38\nCh.\nWolfborough. Cong. Ch.             4.92\nand Soc.\n\n RECEIVED AT SKYLAND INST., BLOWING ROCK, N. C.\nAlstead. Cong. Ch., Bbl.\nC.\nAcworth. Mrs. W. Neal,\nBbl. C.\nChester. Cong. Soc., Bbl.\nC.\nEpping. First Cong. Soc.,\nBbl. C.\nHancock. Ladies\u2019 Soc.,\nBbl. C.\n                                          -------\n                                          $365.92\n\n             *ESTATES.*\nNew Ipswich. Estate Dea.       50.00\nLeavitt Lincoln, by Rev.\nGeo. F. Merriam, Trustee\nPembroke. Estate of Mrs.    1,000.00\nSarah C. Fellows, by\nJacob E. Chickering,\nAdm\u2019r.\nPlaistow. Estate of Mary      300.00\nS. Kelly, by Louis G.\nHoyt, Adm\u2019r.\n                           ---------\n                           $1,715.92\n\n         *VERMONT*, $2,330.21.\nBerlin. Cong. Ch.                  20.00\nBrattleboro. Mrs. Mary L.          26.00\nHadley\nBridgeport. Mrs. Chapman,           2.50\n_for Athens, Ala._\nBrownington. S. S.                  7.00\nTinkham\nBrownington. Ladies\u2019                1.50\nCong. Ch., Freight to\nMcIntosh, Ga.\nBurlington. Mrs. W. J.             15.00\nVan Patten, _for\nWilliamsburg Acad., Ky._\nCambridge. Madison                 10.00\nStafford\nCharlotte. Cong. Ch.               33.00\nEast Corinth. Cong. Ch.             8.75\nEssex Junction. Oppor\u2019y\nCircle, Bbl. C. _for\nMcIntosh, Ga._\nGreensboro. Sab. Sch.               1.55\nCong. Ch.\nFlorence. \"Friends,\" _for            .87\nFreight to McIntosh, Ga._\nManchester. E. J. Kellogg           5.00\nManchester. Y. P. S. C.             5.00\nE. of Cong. Ch. _for Knox\nInst., Athens, Ga._\nManchester. W. H. M. S.,            1.65\n_for Freight to McIntosh,\nGa._\nMcIndoes Falls. Cong.\nCh., 2. Bbls. C. _for\nMcIntosh, Ga._\nMorgan. Lucy Little                  .50\nNewbury. First Cong. Ch.           26.30\nNewbury. Mrs. Anna E.              10.00\nKeyes, Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff.\nNewport. Woman\u2019s Aux.,              1.15\nFreight to McIntosh, Ga.\nPawlet. A. Flower                    .50\nRochester. Mrs. L. E.               5.00\nMartin, _for Wilmington,\nN. C._\nSaint Johnsbury. Jr. C.\nE. S. North. Ch., Box C.\n_for McIntosh, Ga._\nStrafford. Cong. Ch., 10;          16.00\nSab. Sch., 2; Y. P. S. C.\nE. (thank off.), _for\nMountain Work_, 4; by\nRev. Henry Cummings\nTownshend. Mrs. H. P.                .50\nHolbrook\nWeston. Mrs. C. W.                  2.00\nSprague\nWoman\u2019s Home Missionary\nUnion of Vt., by Mrs.\nRebecca P. Fairbanks,\nTreas., for Woman\u2019s Work:\nW. H. M. U.                        25.00\nBarton. Children\u2019s                  3.74\nMission Band, _for Indian\nSchp._\nChelsea. Ladies\u2019 Benev.            10.00\nSoc.\nEast Fairfield. Jun. C.             5.00\nE., _for Indian Schp._\nCoventry. Busy Bees, adl.           5.00\nEast Hardwich. Jun. C.              1.75\nE., _for Indian Schp._\nHartland. Jr. C. E., _for           2.00\nIndian Schp._\nJericho Center. Sab. Sch.            .90\nMilton. W. H. M. S.                 5.00\nNorwich. S. S., _for                2.50\nIndian Schp._\nRutland. Jr. C. E., _for            5.00\nIndian Schp._\nSaint Johnsbury. Miss               2.55\nMargaret Hazen\u2019s S. S.\nClass, _for Indian Schp._\nSherburne, Miss Lena A.             1.00\nRound\u2019s S. S. Class, _for\nIndian Schp._\nWestford. Homeland Aux.             6.00\nWestminster.  Mrs. C. W.            5.00\nThompson\n---- \"A Friend\"                    25.00\n---- \"A Friend\"                    25.00\n                            ----- 130.44\n                                 -------\n                                 $330.21\n\n             *ESTATE.*\nWest Brattleboro. Estate    2,000.00\nof Mrs. Elvira Stedman,\nby D. B. Stedman, Adm\u2019r.\n>                          ---------\n                           $2,330.21\n\n      *MASSACHUSETTS*, $8,145.15.\nAbington. First Cong.               5.00\nCh., Peter Talbot\nAndover. Sab. Sch. West            39.28\nCong Ch., _for Freedmen_\nAndover.  Rev. C. C.                3.00\nStarbuck, _for Student\nAid, Talladega C._\nAmherst. Amherst College          158.83\nCh. (60 of which from\nPresident M. E. Gates to\nconst. MISS MARY L. SNELL\nand MISS SABRA C. SNELL\nL. M.\u2019s)\nAshfield. \"Taylor Family\"           5.00\nAthol. Ladies\u2019 Immanuel\nCh., Bbl. C., Freight\npaid _for McIntosh, Ga._\nAuburndale. Y. P. S. C.            20.00\nE. Cong. Ch.\nBallardvale. Union Cong.            6.14\nCh., Y. P. S. C. E.\nBerkely. Cong. Ch.                 27.50\nBlackstone. Cong. Ch., 7;          10.00\nY. P. S. C. E., 2, and\nJr. Y. P. S. C. E., 1\nBlanford. Harriet M.               25.00\nHinsdale, _for Straight\nU._\nBoston. Park St. Ch., Y.           10.00\nP. S. C. E., _for C. E.\nHall, McIntosh, Ga._\nAllston. Mrs. R. H. Bird,           5.00\n_for Indian M._\nDorchester. Second Cong.           58.00\nCh., Mrs. Wm. Wales, to\nconst. MISS E. A. WALES\nL. M. 30; B. C. Hardwick,\n25; \"A Friend,\" Lincoln\nMem. Day Off., 3\nRoxbury. Mrs. S. A.                50.00\nDwight, _for Orange Park,\nFla._\nHighland Cong. Ch.                 13.50\nHighland Cong. Ch., Extra          25.00\nCent-a-day Band\n                            ----- 161.50\nBoxborough. \"A Friend\"             20.00\nBrockton. Olivet Mem.              16.00\nCh., _for Wilmington, N.\nC._\nBrockton. \"Friends,\" _for           2.25\nStudent Aid, Fisk U._\nBuckland. \"Life Member\"             2.00\nCambridgeport. Pilgrim             22.32\nCong. Ch.\nCambridgeport. Wood                 3.00\nMemorial Y. P. S. C. E.,\n_for Central Ch., New\nOrleans, La._\nCambridgeport. ----, Box\nC. _for Andersonville,\nGa._\nCampello. \"Friends,\" _for          27.00\nStudent Aid, Fisk U._\nCharlemont. Y. P. S. C.            10.00\nE., First Cong. Ch., _for\nC. E. Hall, McIntosh,\nGa._\nChelesa. Central Cong.             77.15\nCh.\nChester Center. Cong.               4.51\nCh., Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff.\nChicopee. First Cong. Ch.          11.00\nChicopee Falls. Second             31.30\nCong. Ch.\nDalton. Zenas Crane, 100;         200.00\nW. M. Crane, 100, _for\nTougaloo U._\nDouglas. Sab. Sch., 1.55;           5.00\nY. P. S. C. E., 1.75; Jr.\nS. C. E., _for Evarts,\nKy._, 1.70, Lincoln Mem.\nDay Off.\nDudley. Miss Nichols,               6.00\n_for Student Aid,\nMeridian, Miss._\nEasthampton. C. E. Soc.,            6.25\nof Payson Ch.\nErving. L. B. Soc., Y. P.           6.00\nS. C. E. and King\u2019s\nDaughters of Cong. Ch.\nEverett. Mrs. Andrew                4.00\nAllen, 4; Mrs. Geo. W.\nFitz, Bbl. C., _for\nEnfield, N. C._\nFall River. Y. P. S. C.            25.00\nE. of Central Cong. Ch.,\n_for Student Aid, Fisk\nU._\nFall River. Clinton                 2.00\nRemington, _for Indian\nM._\nFoxboro. Primary S. S.              7.00\nClass, _for Moorhead,\nMiss._\nFramingham. Plymouth               51.21\nCong. Ch.\nGill. Y. P. S. C. E., by           20.00\nJessie S. Moore, Sec.,\n_for Central Ch., New\nOrleans, La._\nGlobe Village. Evang.              10.88\nFree Ch.\nGranville Center. Y. P.             2.50\nS. C. E. of Cong. Ch.\nGreat Barrington. First            12.00\nCong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E.\nGreenfield. Mrs. Dwight            12.00\nR. Tyler\nGreenwich. Ladies M. S.,            5.00\nBbl. C., Freight, 5, _for\nMoorhead, Miss._\nHampden. Ladies\u2019 Soc.               1.60\nCong. Ch., _for Freight\nto Greenwood, S. C._\nHaverhill. Algernon P.             13.00\nNichols, 10; Mrs. Clark,\n3, _for Indian M._\nHolyoke. \"The Ladies\u2019               5.00\nPrayer Circle\" of Second\nCong. Ch., _for Student\nAid, Macon, Ga._, bal. to\nconst. MRS. JOHN HALLE L.\nM.\nHyannis. Y. P. S. C. E.             3.00\nof Cong. Ch.\nHyde Park. \"Friends,\"              20.00\n_for Student Aid,\nTalladega C._\nIpswich. First Parish              11.00\nCh., Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff.\nLawrence. Sab. Sch.                12.00\nTrinity Ch., _for Macon,\nGa._\nLeominster. Ortho. Cong.           79.00\nCh.\nLittleton. Ortho. Cong.            14.30\nCh.\nLowell. Pawtucket Cong.             2.00\nCh.\nLunenburg. E. C. Ch.,               3.00\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nLynn. Sab. Sch. Cong.\nCh., Bbl. C. _for\nWilmington, N. C._\nMarlboro. Cong. Ch.                15.00\nMedfield. Cong. Ch.                11.00\nMedford. Mystic Ch., _for            .50\nIndian M., Fort Yates, N.\nD._\nMelrose. Ortho. Cong. Ch.         105.36\nMelrose Highlands. Cong.           23.03\nCh.\nMethuen. Mission Band,\nBox Christmas Gifts _for\nThomasville, Ga._\nMiddleboro. Thomas P.               1.00\nCarleton, for Gospels,\n_for Indian M._\nMilford. Y. P. S. C. E.             6.15\nCong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.\nDay Off.\nMittineague. Southworth\nPaper Co., Box\nStationery, _for\nLexington, Ky._\nNewburyport. Powell\nMission Circle, North\nCh., Bbl. C. _for\nEnfield, N. C._\nNewton. Cong. Ch., Bbl.\nC. _for Pleasant Hill,\nTenn._\nNorth Amherst. ----, Bbl.\nC. _for King\u2019s Mountain,\nN. C._\nNorthampton. Mrs F. A.             55.00\nClark, 30; H. G. Maynard,\n25\nNorth Andover. Cong. Ch.,          17.28\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nNorth Billerica. Mrs. E.            2.00\nR. Gould, _for Gloucester\nSch., Cappahosic, Va._\nNorth Middleboro. Cong.            44.44\nCh.\nNorth Newton. Cong. Ch.             3.00\nNorton. Aux. of Woman\u2019s            25.00\nBoard of Missions, _for\nIndian Schp._\nOxford. L. M. Band, by              1.25\nMrs. A. E. F. Childs,\n_for Freight to Savannah,\nGa._\nPittsfield. Mrs. H. A.             50.00\nCampbell, _for Tougaloo\nU._\nPittsfield. Sab. Sch.              17.62\nFirst Cong. Ch., 10;\nSecond Cong. Ch. and Sab.\nSch., Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff\u2019s., 7.62\nPlymouth. Ch. of the               31.11\nPilgrimage\nReading. Jr. C. E. Soc.            10.00\nCong. Ch., _for Mountain\nWork_\nRockland. \"Friends,\" _for           2.00\nStudent Aid, Fisk U._\nSalem. Y. P. S. C. E.              75.00\nSouth Ch., _for Student\nAid, Big Creek Gap,\nTenn._\nSalem. Sab. Sch.                   30.00\nTabernacle Ch., Lincoln\nMem. Day Off. to const.\nHORACE M. BROWN L. M.\nSalem. Sab. Sch.                   25.00\nTabernacle Ch., _for\nCentral Ch., New Orleans,\nLa._\nSalem. Grandma Pierce, 5,           7.00\n_for Teacher_; Primary\nClass S. S. South Ch., 2,\n_for C. E. Hall,\nMcIntosh, Ga._\nSalem. Miss M. T. Strout,           4.50\n_for Wilmington, N.C._\nSharon. Cong. Ch., to              33.42\nconst. MRS. MARY L.\nHIXSON L. M.\nShelburne. Cong. Ch., to           38.50\nconst. HARDY DAVIS L. M.\nShelburne. Ladies\u2019 Circle           1.25\nCong. Ch., Bbl. C.,\nFreight 1.25, _for\nMcIntosh, Ga._\nSangus. \"A King\u2019s                   6.00\nDaughter,\" _for Tougaloo\nU._\nSomerville. Prospect Hill          82.49\nCong. Ch., to const. A.H.\nHINES, WILLIAM BURROUGHS\nand W. G. HALLOCK L. M.\u2019s\nSomerville. Highland               20.00\nCong. Ch.\nSouthampton. Sab. Sch.             23.48\nCong. Ch., 22.48; \"A\nFriend,\" 1\nSouthbridge. Mrs. B. U.            20.00\nBugbee, _for Student Aid,\nTalladega C._\nSouth Deerfield. Ladies\u2019\nSoc. Cong. Ch., Bbl. C.\n_for Greenwood, S. C._\nSouth Framingham. Grace           360.16\nCong. Ch. (\"100 of which\nto reduce the Debt\")\nSouth Hadley. Miss Mary            60.00\nF. Leach\nSouth Hadley Falls. Cong.          13.11\nCh.\nSouth Weymouth. Mrs. Wm.           25.00\nDyer, _for Student Aid,\nA. N. and I. Sch.,\nThomasville, Ga._\nSpencer. First Cong. Ch.          194.22\nand Soc.\nSpencer. S. S. Class, by           10.25\nGeo. H. Marsh, _for\nIndian Boys_\nSpringfield. First Cong.           40.00\nCh.\nSpringfield. Ladies\u2019 M.\nS., Bbl. _for Moorhead,\nMiss._\nSpringfield. North Ch.,\nBbl. C. _for Talladega\nC._\nStoughton. \"A Friend\"               1.00\nTopsfield. Boys\u2019                   20.00\nMissionary Class, 10; Y.\nL. M. Circle, 10; _for\nWilliamsburg Acad., Ky._\nWalpole. Sab. Sch. Second           8.09\nOrtho. Cong. Ch.\nWaltham. Cong. Ch., Jr.             3.00\nC. E. Soc.\nWare Center. Ladies\u2019\nCong. Ch., Bbl. Papers,\nFreight pd. _for\nMcIntosh, Ga._\nWarren. Y. P. S. C. E.,             4.00\n_for Student Aid,\nMcIntosh, Ga._\nWendell. Cong. Ch.                  1.00\nWest Boxford. Cong. Ch.\nAid Soc., 20 Bibles _for\nLexington, Ky._\nWest Groton. Evan.                 30.00\nChristian Union Ch., _for\nMountain Work_, and to\nconst. CLIFFORD E. BIXBY\nL. M.\nWest Hatfield. Ladies\u2019\nAid Soc., Bbl. C. _for\nPleasant Hill, Tenn._\nWest Hawley. Cong. Ch.              5.20\nWestminster. ----                   5.00\nWest Newburyport. Rev. H.           1.00\nV. Moses, _for Straight\nU._\nWest Springfield. First            22.25\nCong. Ch., Jubilee Off.\nWilliamsburg. Cong. Ch.            40.00\nWilliamsburg. Mrs. O. P.            5.00\nSpellman, _for\nWilliamsburg Acad., Ky._\nWorcester. Summer St.             142.23\nCong. Ch., 60, to const.\nEDWARD L. SMITH and\nARTHUR WHIPPLE L. M.\u2019s;\nSab. Sch. Plym. Ch.,\n47.26; ----, 30 to const.\nREV. RUFUS TAFT L. M.;\nMrs. Sarah K. Goddard, 5\nWoman\u2019s Home Missionary\nAssociation of Mass. and\nR. I., Miss Annie C.\nBridgman, Treas., _for\nWoman\u2019s Work_:\nW. H. M. A., _for                 340.00\nSalaries of Teachers_\n                                --------\n                               $3,344.41\n\n             *ESTATES.*\nAndover. Estate of Calvin    2,329.19\nE. Goodell, by S. H.\nBoutwell, Executor\nPittsfield. Estate of        1,228.36\nMrs. Hannah M. Hurd, by\nJames A. Burbank,\nExecutor\nWalpole. Estate of Mrs.      1,243.19\nMary B. Johnson, by\nFrederic Gould, Executor\n                            ---------\n                            $8,145.15\n\nCLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.\nGray, Me. Rev. H. O. Thayer, Bbl. and Box C. _for\nSaluda, N.C._\nSouth Berwick, Me. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. C.\n_for Blowing Rock, N. C._\nJaffrey, N. H. Ladies\u2019 First Cong. Ch., Box C.\n_for Joppa, Ala._\nAshfield, Mass. Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. _for\nMarshallville, Ga._\n\n       *RHODE ISLAND*, $57.59.\nLittle Compton. United           23.29\nCong. Ch. (18.09 of which\nfor Freedmen)\nProvidence. Central Cong.        15.00\nCh., 9.70, _for Indian\nM., Fort Yates, N. D._;\nEdward Moore, 5.30, _for\nIndian M._\nProvidence. Elmwood               3.65\nTemple, Y. P. S. C. E.,\n2; Y. P. S. C. E., North\nCh., 1.65\nProvidence. Ladies\u2019\nCircle Plymouth Ch., Bbl.\nC., etc., _for Knoxville,\nTenn._\nRiver Point. Cong. Ch.,          10.65\n_for Student Aid, Grand\nView, Tenn._\nThornton. Sab. Sch. Cong.         5.00\nCh., Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff.\n\n       *CONNECTICUT*, $9,683.74.\nAshford. \"A Friend\"                5.00\nBethlehem. Cong. Ch. L.\nB. Soc., Bbl. C. _for\nThomasville, Ga._\nBridgeport. Ladies\u2019 Soc.,\nBbl. C. _for Pleasant\nHill, Tenn._\nBristol. Lena J. Upson,           40.00\n_for Tougaloo U._\nChester. Cong. Ch.                16.80\nClinton. Cong. Ch.                 5.91\nCromwell. Cong. Ch.               91.80\nDanbury. \"Little                   3.00\nWorkers,\" _for Central\nChurch, New Orleans, La._\nDarien. Sab. Sch. Cong.            6.46\nCh., _for Mountain Work_\nDeep River. Cong. Ch.             16.02\nEast Hampton. Mrs. S.             30.00\nSkinner and Others, _for\nTheo. Dept. Talladega C._\nEast Hartford. Alice               2.07\nWorth\u2019s S. S. Class, _for\nCentral Ch., New Orleans,\nLa._\nEast Windsor Hill.                 3.00\n\"Friends,\" _for Student\nAid, Fisk U._\nFalls Village. Cong. Ch.           3.00\nFarmington. First Cong.          155.50\nCh.\nFarmington. Y. P. S. C.           16.61\nE., Jubilee Off., by Miss\nMary J. Hart\nGlastonbury. J. B.               100.00\nWilliams, _for Touglaloo\nU._\nGoshen. Elisabeth Wadhams          5.00\nGuilford. Cong. Ch. and\nC. E. Soc., one and\none-half Bbls. C. and\nTable Linen _for Storrs\nSch., Atlanta, Ga._\nHadlyme. J. W.                    60.00\nHungerford, 50; R.E.\nHungerford, 10\nHartford. Second Ch. of          150.00\nChrist, 100; Asylum Hill\nCong. Ch., \"A Friend,\" 50\nHartford. Ladies\u2019 B.\nClass, Bbl. C. _for\nWilmington, N.C._\nHebron. Y. P. S. C. E. of         17.00\nCong. Ch.\nHebron. Y. P. S. C. E. by          5.00\nMrs. G. A. Little, _for\nGrand View, Tenn._\nHebron. Cong. Ch., L. B.\nSoc., Bbl. C. _for\nThomasville, Ga._\nIvoryton. Mrs. E.A.              100.00\nNorthrop, _for Tougaloo\nU._\nKent. Y.P.S.C.E., Cong.            8.40\nCh.\nKillingly. Y.P.S.C.E., by          9.00\nMiss Maud W. Deverell,\n_for Tougaloo U._\nLebanon.  First Cong.             81.48\nCh., to const. CHAS. A.\nPERKINS L. M., 56.48; \"A\nFriend,\" 25\nLedyard. Mrs. Anna                 0.30\nGallup, _for Freight to\nMcIntosh, Ga._\nLedyard. Y.P.S.C.E.,              10.00\nCong. Ch., _for C. E.\nHall, McIntosh, Ga._\nLitchfield. First Cong.           40.36\nCh.\nMadison. Miss E. T. Nash,\nBbl. C. _for Blowing\nRock, N. C._\nMeriden. Mrs. M. P.                0.50\nBradley\nMeriden. First Cong. Ch.,          5.00\n\"I. H. N.,\" _for Mountain\nWork_\nMilford. Sab. Sch. Cong.\nCh., Bbl. C. _for\nWilmington, N. C._\nNew Britain. South Ch.,\nBox C. _for Williamsburg\nAcad., Ky._\nNew Haven. C. E. Soc.,            25.00\nCh. of the Redeemer, _for\nCentral Ch., New Orleans,\nLa._\nNew Haven. Sab. Sch.              17.50\nCenter Ch., _for Schp.,\nSantee Indian Sch., Neb._\nNew Haven. Mr. and Mrs.           12.00\nW. B. Johnson, 8.10; Mrs.\nE. Banton, Col, 3; Mrs.\nE. Gates, 90c., _for\nGloucester Sch.,\nCappahosic, Va._\nNew Preston. \"E. C. W.,\"           2.00\n_for Allen Normal Sch.,\nThomasville, Ga._\nNorfolk. \"A Friend\"                5.00\nNorth Branford. Sab. Sch.         15.00\nand Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong.\nCh., _for Central Ch.,\nNew Orleans, La._\nNorwalk. First Cong. Ch.          23.70\nNorwich. First Cong. Ch.          69.77\nNorwich.  Miss Rossiter,           4.50\n_for Athens, Ala._\nNorwich. Miss Barbara              4.00\nMcDowell\u2019s S. S. Class,\nadl., _for McIntosh, Ga._\nNorwichtown. Miss Mary             2.00\nPerkins, _for Student\nAid, McIntosh, Ga._\nOrange. S. S. Classes of           5.00\nMrs. C. H. Russell and\nMiss Sperry, Cong. Ch.,\n_for A. N. and I. Sch.,\nThomasville, Ga._\nPomfret. Cong. Ch.                35.85\nPutnam. Hattie E. Clark\u2019s          4.00\nS. S. Class, _for Student\nAid, A. N. and I. Sch.,\nThomasville, Ga._\nSalisbury. Mrs. Burrall\u2019s          3.00\nS. S. Class, _for Grand\nView, Tenn._\nSaybrook. Cong. Ch. and           14.10\nSoc.\nSimsbury. Y.P.S.C.E., by           7.00\nCaroline F. Pattison\nSimsbury. Y.P.S.C.E.,              7.00\nCong. Ch., _for Student\nAid, A. N. and I. Sch.,\nThomasville, Ga._\nSouth Canaan. Cong. Ch.            8.35\nSouth Glastonbury. Cong.           6.89\nCh. and Sab. Sch.\nSouth Manchester. Sab.            10.78\nSch. Cong. Ch.\nSouth Norwalk. Sab. Sch.          20.00\nCong. Ch.\nSouth Windsor. First              23.48\nCong. Ch.\nSound Beach. Jr. C. E.             6.77\nSoc., Pilgrim Ch., 3.40;\nC. E. Soc., Pilgrim Ch.,\n3.37\nStamford. Y.P.S.C.E. of           55.56\nFirst Cong. Ch.\nStamford. Cong.                    5.00\nY.P.S.C.E. _for Central\nCh., New Orleans, La._\nStratford. Cong. Ch.              10.00\nY.P.S.C.E.\nTalcottville. Mrs. S. A.           6.00\nTalcott, _for Student\nAid, A. N. and I. Sch.,\nThomasville, Ga._\nTerryville. Heirs of R.           45.38\nD. H. Allen, by Charles\nI. Allen, Executor, _for\nthe Freedmen_\nTerryville. Mrs. Lois             10.00\nGridley\nThomaston. First Cong.             9.90\nCh.\nThompson. Cong. Soc., 2\nBbls. C. _for Blowing\nRock, N. C._\nTorrington. Sab. Sch.             25.00\nThird Cong. Ch., _for\nStudent Aid, Fisk U._\nTorrington. Mrs. Ida E.           11.00\nF. Burr, 10; Mrs. Lyon,\n1; _for Central Ch., New\nOrleans, La._\nTrumbull. Cong. Ch. and           10.07\nSoc.\nWaterbury. \"A Friend\".           100.00\nWestminster. Cong. Ch.             2.00\nWeston. Norfield                   5.00\nY.P.S.C.E., by Anna E.\nFitch, Sec.\nWest Torrington. W. M.             5.60\nCircle, by H. M. Hayes,\nTreas.\nWestville. The Misses              4.00\nOgden, _for Wilmington,\nN. C._\nWest Winsted. Geo. M.              5.00\nCarrington\nWilton. Cong. Ch.                 17.41\nWindsor. First Cong. Ch.,         38.42\n28, and Sab. Sch., 10.42\nWinthrop. Mrs M. A. Jones          5.00\n----. \"A Friend in Conn.\"        100.00\nWoman\u2019s Cong. Home\nMissionary Union of\nConn., Mrs. W. W. Jacobs,\nTreas., _for Woman\u2019s\nWork_:\n           Cheshire. Aux.   25.00\nNorwich. Greensville Ch.,   10.00\nL. H. M. S., _for Student\nAid, Dorchester Acad._\n    Trumbull. W. H. M. U.   25.00\n    Wallingford. L. B. S.   50.00\n                     ----        110.00\n                               --------\n                              $1,900.24\n\n             *ESTATES.*\nHebron. Estate of              500.00\nBenjamin A. Bissell, by\nJ. Henry Jagger, Executor\nNew Britain.  Estates of     7,283.50\nSophia and and Cordelia\nStanley\n                             --------\n                            $9,683.74\n\n         *NEW YORK*, $1,507.49.\nAlbany. Miss A. Van                  1.00\nVranken, _for Gloucester\nSch., Cappahosic, Va._\nAquebogue. Class of Boys,            1.25\n_for Williamsburg Acad.,\nKy._\nAshville. Y.P.S.C.E. of              2.00\nCong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.\nDay Off.\nBethel. Cong. Ch.                    3.86\nBrooklyn. Rev. A. F.                20.00\nBeard, D.D., _for Theo.\nDept. Talladega C._\nBrooklyn. Rev. S. B.                39.14\nHalliday, 20; Park Cong.\nCh., 15.83; Rochester Av.\nCong. Ch., 3.31\nBrooklyn. Primary Class              4.00\nBethany S. S., _for\nWilliamsburg Acad., Ky._\nBrooklyn. Y.P.S.C.E.,\nPark Av. Ch., Bbl. C.\n_for Pleasant Hill,\nTenn._\nBuffalo. Pilgrim Cong.              14.00\nCh.\nBuffalo. Int. C. E. S.\nDel. Av. Bapt. Ch., Box\nC. For McIntosh, Ga.\nCamden. L. H. M. S.  of\nCong. Ch., 2 large Boxes\nC. _for Hillsboro, N. C._\nCandor. Cong. Ch.                    6.25\nCanandaigua. Mrs. Fitch,             0.50\n_for Student Aid, King\u2019s\nMountain, N. C._\nClayville. Cong. Ch.                 3.00\nClifton Springs. Miss                5.00\nTappan\nCorona. Y.P.S.C.E., by               1.25\nMrs. Wm. J. Peck, Box\nToys, C., etc.; 1.25 _for\nFreight_, also 2 S. S.\nRolls _for Beach Inst.,\nSavannah, Ga._\nDe Kalb. Rev. R. C. Day              2.00\nFairport. Sab. Sch. Cong.           10.50\nCh., _for Central Ch.,\nNew Orleans, La._\nFlushing. First Cong.               41.03\nSoc.\nHamilton. Cong. Ch.                 19.00\nHancock. Cong. Ch.                   3.50\nHarpersfield. Sab. Sch.              1.01\nCong. Ch.\nHopkinton. Cong. Ch., 40            64.72\n_for Mountain Work_; 10\n_for Indian M._; 9.72\n_for Alaska M._; 5 _for\nChinese M._, and to\nconst. MRS. JOHN HARRON\nand MISS A. POST L. M.\u2019s\nLisle. Cong. Ch.                     3.42\nMaine. Cong. Ch., Member            21.00\nMount Hope. Christ Cong.             5.50\nCh.\nMount Morris. Soc.\nChristian Workers, Presb.\nCh., Bbl. _for Moorhead,\nMiss_.\nMount Vernon. First Cong.           17.31\nCh.\nNew Lots. V. P. M. Soc.,            25.00\n_for Williamsburg Acad.,\nKy._\nNew York.  The Virginia             45.00\nLend-a-Hand Club, _for\nGloucester Sch.,\nCappahosic, Va._\nNew York.  Mrs. A. B.               30.00\nWoodford, _for Student\nAid, Fisk U._\nNew York. \"A Friend,\"                6.00\n_for Student Aid, Beach\nInst., Savannah, Ga._\nOrwell. Cong. Ch.,                   2.00\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nOswego Falls. First Cong.            6.12\nCh.\nOwego. Sab. Sch. Cong.               5.00\nCh., _for Central Ch.,\nNew Orleans, La._\nOwego. Cong. Ch.                    10.00\nParis. Cong. Ch.                     7.62\nPortland. Young Ladies,\nBbl. C., _for King\u2019s\nMountain, N. C._\nRandolph. Cong. Ch.                  7.86\nRemson. Cong. Ch.                    3.00\nRensselaer Falls. Sab.               2.50\nSch. Cong. Ch., Lincoln\nMem. Off.\nRochester. Plymouth Cong.           29.75\nCh.\nRochester. South Cong.               9.00\nCh., _for Central Ch.,\nNew Orleans, La._\nRushville. Rev. F. T.\nHoover, Bbl. Potatoes\n_for Greenwood, S.C._\nSalamanca. Cong. Ch.                 4.57\nSaratoga Springs. G. F.\nHarvey, Box C. _for\nTalladega C._\nSayville. Sab. Sch. Cong.           16.58\nCh., 14.58; Cong Ch.,\nadl. 2\nSmyrna. Y. P. S. C. E.               5.00\nSpencerport. ----, Bbl.\nBedding _for Meridian,\nMiss._\nSyracuse. Plymouth Cong.            18.20\nCh.\nSyracuse. Jr. Y. P. S. C.            5.00\nE., Danforth Cong. Ch.\n_for Central Ch., New\nOrleans, La._\nTroy. S. Tappin, _for                1.00\nGloucester Sch.,\nCappahosic, Va._\nWalton. First Cong. Ch.             74.57\nWest Brook. Sab. Sch.                3.55\nCong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.\nDay Off.\nWestfield. Miss S. S.               10.00\nPatterson, _for\nGloucester Sch.,\nCappahosic, Va._\nWestfield. Sab. Sch.                 1.50\nPresb. Ch., _for Tougaloo\nU._\nWest Winfield. Cong. Ch.             5.00\nWoodhaven. Mrs. Wheat\u2019s              2.00\nS. S. Class, _for Saluda,\nN. C._\nWoodside. Y. P. S. C. E.,            5.00\nby Fannie Jones, Sec.\nWoman\u2019s Home Missionary\nUnion of N. Y., by Mrs.\nJ. J. Pearsall, Treas.,\n_for Woman\u2019s Work:_\nBrooklyn.  Tompkins Av.     3.50\nCong. Ch., S.S. Class G,\n_for Student Aid, Lincoln\nAcad._\n   Middletown. First Ch.,   20.00\n   Ladies Guild\n   Newark Valley. \"M.S.,\"   10.00\n   _for Central Ch., New\n   Orleans, La._\n     New York. Broadway     276.00\n     Tabernacle Soc., for\n     Women\u2019s Work\nPoughkeepsie. L. H. M. S.   15.00\n      Poughkeepsie. C. E.   10.00\n                            ------ 334.50\n                                    -----\n                                  $965.56\n\n            *ESTATES.*\nLewiston. Estate of          500.00\nAbigail Peck, by George\nE. Wilcox, Executor\nNew York.  Estate of J.       41.93\nF. Delaplaine\n                          ---------\n                          $1,507.49\n\n       *NEW JERSEY*, $1,068.20.\nEast Orange. First Cong.          67.00\nCh.\nFreehold. Dr. J. S. Long,         10.00\n_for Indian M._\nGlen Ridge. Cong. Ch. (10        179.22\nof which _for Grand View,\nTenn._)\nJersey City Heights. Mrs.          5.00\nHenry O. Ames\nMontclair. L. M. Soc., by          1.00\nMrs. J. L. Snyder\nMontclair. Cong. Ch., Lot\nof Bedding _for Talladega\nC._\nMorristown. Monroe Miss.\nSoc., Bbl. C. and\nLiterature _for Savannah,\nGa._\nNewark. Belleville Cong.         192.00\nCh. (30 of which from\nMrs. E. P. Denison), 142;\nC. S. Haines, 50\nPlainfield. J. A.                 12.00\nRobinson, 10; Miss A. E.\nManktilow, 2, _for\nCentral Ch., New Orleans,\nLa._\nWestfield.  Ladies\u2019 Soc.,\nCong. Ch., Bbl. C. _for\nGreenwood, S. C._\nWoodbridge. Y. P. S. C.           10.00\nE., First Cong. Ch., _for\nCentral Ch., New Orleans,\nLa._\nWoman\u2019s Home Missionary\nUnion of the N. J.\nAss\u2019n., by Mrs. J. H.\nDenison, Treas.:\n Bound Brook, N. J. Cong.   10.00\n Ch., W. H. M. S.\n Philadelphia, Penn.        6.00\n Central Cong. Ch., W. H.\n M. S.\n  Washington, D. C. First   25.00\n  Cong. Ch.\n                            ----- 41.00\n                                  -----\n                                $517.22\n\n            *ESTATES.*\nEnglewood.  Estate of       467.48\nRev. Geo. B. Cheever,\nD.D., by Rev. Henry T.\nCheever, Executor\nHammonton. Estate of         83.50\nAlbert D. Whitmore, by\nMrs. E. L. Whitmore\n                             -----\n                         $1,068.20\n\n       *PENNSYLVANIA*, $214.50.\nChester. Mrs. T. I.               5.00\nLeiper, _for Gloucester\nSch., Cappahosic, Va._\nGermantown. Mrs. B. R.           16.00\nSmith, 6; Mrs. E. B.\nStork, 5; Rev. Chas.\nWood, D.D., 5, _for\nGloucester Sch.,\nCappahosic, Va._\nNew Wilmington.  Faulkner         5.00\nSch., _for Lexington,\nKy._\nNew Wilmington.\nNeshannock Presb. Ch., 3\nBbls. and 1 Box C. and\nChristmas Gifts _for\nLexington, Ky._\nOgontz School. 2 Boxes C.\n_for Blowing Rock, N. C._\nPhiladelphia. John H.           100.00\nConverse, _for Straight\nU._\nPhiladelphia. Mrs. W. H.         33.00\nKemble, 15; Mrs. E. H.\nFarnum, 5; G. J. Simmons,\n5; H. A. Chase, 5; D. W.\nHunt, 2; Col. John McKee,\n1, _for Gloucester Sch.,\nCappahosic, Va._\nScranton. Plymouth Cong.         25.00\nCh.\nWaring. M. T. Donaldson           5.00\nWest Philadelphia. Mrs.          20.00\nRebecca White, _for\nGloucester Sch.,\nCappahosic, Va._\n----. Miss E. Scott, _for         0.50\nGloucester Sch.,\nCappahosic, Va._\nWoman\u2019s Missionary Union,\nof Penn., Mrs. T. W.\nJones, Treas., _for\nWoman\u2019s Work_:\n  Guy\u2019s Mills.  W. M. S.,   5.00\n  _for Straight U._\n\n           *OHIO*, $339.90.\nAkron. Sab. Sch. West             15.00\nCong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.\nOff.\nAkron. First Cong. Ch.,           11.75\nadl.\nAurora. Sab. Sch. Cong.            2.00\nCh.\nAustinburg. Ladies\u2019 Soc.,\nBbl. C. _for Pleasant\nHill, Tenn._\nBurton. First Cong. Ch.,          40.00\nto const. REV. E. O. MEAD\nL. M.\nClaridon. Sab. Sch Cong.          10.00\nCh., by P. C. Spencer,\nTreas.\nCleveland. \"A Friend,\"            32.66\n25; Lakewood Cong. Ch.,\n7.66\nCleveland. Mrs. Mary F.            5.00\nWillard, _for Freedmen\nand Indian M._\nCleveland. L. S. U.,               5.00\nArchwood Av. Cong. Ch.,\n_for Student Aid,\nTalladega C._\nCreston. W. H. M. S.,\nJackson Presb. Ch., Bbl.\nC. _for McIntosh, Ga._\nEagleville. Y. P. S. C.            2.51\nE., by Mrs. F. G. Peck,\nChm.\nFort Recovery. Cong. Ch.,          3.50\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nKent. Mrs. S. O.                   2.25\nHathaway, S. S. Class of\nBoys, _for Moorhead Sch.,\nMiss._\nMarion. Mrs. Mary B.               1.25\nVose, _for Wilmington, N.\nC._\nMedina. First Cong. Ch.,          30.57\nJubilee Off. to const.\nREV. W. G. OLINGER L. M.\nOberlin. Miss Calista             20.00\nAndrews, _for Student\nAid, Fisk U._\nOberlin. Sab. Sch. First          20.00\nCh., 10; Mrs. E. B.\nClark, 10\nOberlin. Mrs. A. B. Reed,          5.00\n_for Student Aid,\nMcIntosh, Ga._\nOberlin. Percy Pond, _for          1.00\nMoorhead Sch., Miss._\nOberlin. Second Cong.\nCh., Bbl. C. _for\nWilmington, N. C._\nPainesville. \"Friends,\"            8.00\n_for Straight U._\nPainesville. \"Friends,\"            3.00\n_for Macon, Ga._\nPainesville. W. H.                 1.00\nStocking\nPerrysburg. S. P. Tolman          20.00\nPittsfield. Cong. Ch. and         12.00\nSab. Sch., Lincoln Mem.\nDay Off.\nRavenna. C. A. Newton              5.00\nRichfield. Ladies\u2019 Soc.\nCong. Ch., Bbl. C. _for\nGreenwood S. C._\nRootstown. Miss Fanny              5.30\nParson\u2019s S. S. Class,\n_for Pleasant Hill,\nTenn._\nSenecaville. Rev. Evans            1.00\nThompson\nSouth Salem. Daniel S.             5.00\nPricer\nSpringfield. First Cong.           7.42\nSab. Sch., 7.32; First\nCong. Ch., bal. _for\nCampton, Ky._, 10 cts\nToledo. Birmingham Cong.           2.05\nSab. Sch.\nWest Mill Grove. Sab.             10.14\nSch. First Cong. Ch.,\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nWilloughby. Miss Jennie\nSharpe, 3 Pkgs. S. S.\nPapers _for Lexington,\nKy._\nZanesville. Sab. Sch.\nSecond St. M. E. Ch., 50\nGospel Hymns _for Mobile,\nAla._\nOhio Woman\u2019s Home\nMissionary Union, Mrs.\nGeorge B. Brown, Treas.,\n_for Woman\u2019s Work_:\nAndover. W. M. S.                  3.79\nAndover. J. C. E.                  2.21\nChatham Center                     6.00\nCleveland. Euclid, W. H.           2.00\nM. S.\nColumbus. Eastwood, \"A            25.00\nFriend\"\nEdinburg.                          1.50\nSandusky. W. M. U.                10.00\nToledo. Second.                    2.00\n                            ----- 52.50\n\n        *INDIANA*, $51.47.\nBrimfield. Miss Mary           3.00\nHuston, _for Pleasant\nHill, Tenn._\nElkhart. Cong. Ch., 6.85;     16.85\nSab. Sch. Cong. Ch., 10;\nLincoln Day Mem. Off.\nFort Wayne. Y. P. S. C.        9.77\nE. of Plymouth Cong. Ch.,\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nLiber. Cong. Ch., Lincoln      2.33\nMem. Day Off.\nMichigan City. First          16.00\nCong. Ch.\nTerre Haute. Sab. Sch.         3.52\nFirst Cong. Ch., Lincoln\nMem. Day Off.\n\n          *ILLINOIS*, $794.77.\nBrimfield. Cong. Ch.                8.50\nCambridge. Cong. Ch.                4.00\nChapin. Mission Band,\nQuilt, Patchwork, Scrap\nBooks, _for Moorhead,\nMiss._\nChicago. \"Cash,\" 100;             130.75\nLeavitt St. Cong. Ch.,\n8.87; Pacific Ch., 8.07;\n\"A Widow,\" 5; Tabernacle\nC. E., 4.81; Mrs. Carrol\nCutler, 2; Miss Susan R.\nCutler, 2\nCobden. Sab. Sch. Class,            0.67\nCong. Ch., by May Wright,\nTeacher\nConcord, \"A Few Friends,\"           5.00\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nEarlville. \"J. A. D.,\"             38.40\n25; Cong. Ch., 13.40\nElmhurst. Bbl. _for\nMoorhead, Miss._\nGalena. Mrs. A. Bean                2.50\nHighland. Cong. Ch.                 4.90\nHinesdale. Cong. Bible             75.00\nSch., _for Theo. Student\nAid, Talladega. C._\nJacksonville. Cong. Ch.,           37.45\n_for Student Aid,\nTalladega. C._\nLa Salle. E. C. Hegeler,           10.00\n_for Tougaloo U._\nLincoln. Miss Ellen E.              1.00\nRobbins\nMorrison. William Wallace          10.00\nOak Park. Cong. Ch., adl.           3.00\nOak Park. L. B. S., Bbl.\nC. _for Blowing Rock, N.\nC._\nPeoria. Mrs. John L.              100.00\nGriswold, _for Student\nAid, Fisk U._\nPeoria. Plymouth C. E.              3.62\nPeru. First Cong. Ch.,             16.51\n11.51; Y. P. S. C. E. of\nFirst Cong. Ch., 5\nPrinceton. Mrs. S. C.              30.00\nClapp\nPlymouth. Cong. Ch.                 5.04\nProvidence. Cong. Ch.              25.00\nShabbona. Cong. Ch.                31.50\nSheffield. Cong. Ch.               54.71\nThawville. Cong. Ch.                4.38\n----. Bbl. Comforts,\netc., _for Moorhead,\nMiss._\nIllinois Woman\u2019s Home\nMissionary Union, Mrs. L.\nA. Field, Treas., _for\nWoman\u2019s Work_:\nAvon. W. M. S.                      1.00\nChicago. Union Park W. M.         100.00\nS.\nChicago. Covenant W. M.            13.40\nS.\nChicago. Lincoln Park W.            6.00\nM. S.\nChicago. Mrs. J. W.                 2.00\nWillard\nGodfrey. W. M. S.                  10.00\nGriggsville. W. M. S.               1.00\nJacksonville. Y. L. M. S.          23.50\nJoy Prairie. W. M. S.              10.00\nMcLean. W. M. S.                   10.00\nRavenswood. W. M. S.               10.12\nMarseilles. W. M. S. _for           5.00\nMoorhead, Miss._\nRollo. Mission Band, _for           0.82\nMoorhead, Miss._\n                            ----- 192.84\n\n         *MICHIGAN*, $342.91.\nAlmont. Cong. Ch., 2.83;           7.98\nY. P. S. C. E., 5.15, by\nSarah Durham, Treas.\nAlmont. ----, Box\nChristmas Goods _for\nLexington, Ky._\nBaldwin. Sab. Sch. Cong.           2.50\nCh., Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff.\nBenton Harbor. \"A Friend\"          2.00\nBenton Harbor. Ladies\u2019\nCong. Ch., Bdl. Quilts\n_for Moorhead, Miss._\nBenzonia. Jr. C. E. Soc.,\nBox Christmas Goods _for\nLexington, Ky._\nBreckenridge. Cong. Ch.            2.00\nCharlotte. ----, Box C.\n_for Athens, Ala._\nChief Lake. Mrs. S. A. B.          1.00\nCarrier\nDetroit. Fort St. Cong.            2.75\nCh. Y. P. S. C. E., Box\nToys, etc., and 2.75,\n_for Medicines for\nGreenwood, S. C._\nDetroit. Little Dorothy            2.00\nConant Carson, by Mrs.\nSam\u2019l Carson\nDetroit. ----, Bbl.\nChristmas Goods _for\nAthens, Ala._; Miss\nMallory, Bbl. C. _for\nBlowing Rock, N. C._;\nLadies\u2019 Soc., Brewster\nCh., Bbl. C. _for\nGreenwood, S. C._\nEaton Rapids. Sab. Sch.\nCong. Ch., Box S. S.\nPapers, _for Lexington,\nKy._\nEwen. First Cong. Ch.              4.17\nGrand Rapids. Cong. Ch.           25.00\nGrand Rapids. Smith Mem.\nCh., Bbl. _for Moorhead,\nMiss._\nLeslie. Sab. Sch. First            2.50\nCong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.\nDay Off.\nLowell. ----, Bbl. C. for\nAthens, Ala.\nLuddington. Willie\nHammond, Cards _for\nAthens, Ala._\nMuskegon. ----, Bbl. C.\n_for Athens, Ala._\nPontiac. L. H. M. U., 2\nBbls. C. _for Blowing\nRock, N.C._\nRepublic. Miss Mary Erwin         20.00\nRondo. Y. P. S. C. E., by          0.69\nMrs. C. H. Hoffman,\nLincoln Mem. Off.\nSaginaw. Mrs. A. M.                4.00\nSpencer\nWheatland. Cong. Ch.              19.00\nWyandotte. Dr. Weaver,\nBox C. _for Athens, Ala._\nWoman\u2019s Home Missionary\nUnion of Michigan, by\nMrs. E. F. Grabill,\nTreas., _for Woman\u2019s\nWork_:\nAlpena. W. H. M. S.                5.00\nAthens. Ladies\u2019 Dime Soc.          0.25\nChurche\u2019s Corners. W. H.           3.50\nM. U.\nDetroit. First Ch. Sab.           47.27\nSch., _for Student Aid,\nSantee Indian Sch.,\nNeb._, 23.04, and _for\nStudent Aid, Pleasant\nHill Acad., Tenn._, 24.23\nGrand Rapids. Smith                1.00\nMemorial Ch., W. M. S.\nGrape. W. H. M. S.                 0.25\nGrass Lake. W. H. M. S.            3.00\nGreenville. S. S., _for            9.05\nStudent Aid, Santee\nIndian Sch., Neb._\nHighland Station. W. H.            3.00\nM. U.\nKalamazoo. Y. P. S. C.             2.50\nE., _for Student Aid,\nSantee Indian Sch., Neb._\nMuskegon. First Ch., W.           15.00\nH. M. S., 5; First Ch.,\nY. P. S. C. E., 10\nStockbridge. Mrs. E. W.            5.00\nWoodward, _for Student\nAid, Santee Indian Sch.,\nNeb._\nYpsilanti. W. H. M. S.             2.50\n                            ----- 97.32\n                                -------\n                                $192.91\n\n             *ESTATE.*\nBenzonia. Estate of Amasa    150.00\nWaters, by L. P. Judson,\nAdm\u2019r.\n                            -------\n                            $342.91\n\n           *IOWA*, $263.45.\nAlbia. Mrs. Mary A. Payne          5.00\nAvoca. Rev. John Single            2.50\nBellevue. Cong. Ch.                4.35\nBelmond. Y. P. S. C. E.            5.00\nof Cong. Ch., _for A. N.\nand I. Sch., Thomasville,\nGa._\nBelmond. Miss Linck, S.\nS. Class, Box Christmas\nGifts _for Thomasville,\nGa._\nCedar Rapids. Y. P. S. C.          5.00\nE. First Cong. Ch., _for\nStudent Aid, McIntosh,\nGa._\nCorning. First Cong. Ch.,         17.00\n14; C. E., 2; Sab. Sch.,\n1\nCresco. Y. P. S. C. E.,            8.00\n_for Wilmington, N. C._\nDecorah. S. S. Class, E.           5.00\nJ. Riley, Teacher, _for\nMoorhead Sch., Miss._\nDes Moines. Bentley &             10.00\nOlmstead, _for Talladega\nC._\nDe Witt. Y. L. S. Class,           5.00\n_for Mountain Work_\nEldora. Cong. Ch. (37.50          42.75\n_for Student Aid,\nTougaloo U._)\nGlenwood. Cong. Ch.               16.00\nGrand View. Cong. Ch.              3.00\nMonticello. Y. P. S. C.            5.00\nE. of Cong. Ch.\nMontour. Jr. C. E. Soc.,           1.50\n_for Moorhead Sch.,\nMiss._\nMortimer. Jr. C. E. Soc.,\nQuilt and Roll Material\n_for Sewing Sch., Beach\nInst._\nMoville. Cong. Ch.                 4.04\nNashua. C. E. Soc., Cong.         15.00\nCh. _for Student Aid,\nTalladega C._\nPilgrim. Cong. Ch.                 5.00\nPostville. Sab. Sch.              18.30\nCong. Ch., Self-Denial\nOff., _for A. N. and I.\nSch., Thomasville, Ga._\nRockford. Mrs. J. B.\nParmenter, Bbl. C. _for\nThomasville, Ga._\nWaterloo. Mr. and Mrs.            10.00\nEmmons Johnson, _for\nTalladega C._\nWaucoma. Cong. Ch.                 6.00\nIowa Woman\u2019s Home\nMissionary Union, Miss\nBelle L. Bentley, Treas.,\n_for Woman\u2019s Work_:\nCreston. L. H. M. Circle           6.00\nDecorah. Y. P. S. C. E.            5.00\nDes Moines. North Park L.         10.00\nM. S.\nFairfield. L. M. S.                0.50\nFort Dodge. L. M. S.              10.00\nGenoa Bluffs. L. M. S.             2.00\nMcGregor. W. M. S.                 8.90\nNewell. L. M. S.                   5.00\nRed Oak. L. M. S.                 15.00\nTabor. Y. P. S. C. E.              1.33\n                            ----- 63.73\n                                -------\n                                $257.17\n\n           *ESTATE.*\nFontanelle. Estate of      6.28\nAlex. M. Gow\n                        -------\n                        $263.45\n\n        *WISCONSIN*, $10,391.07.\nEdgerton. Sab. Sch. Cong.           1.60\nCh.\nElkhorn. Cong. Ch.                 10.00\nKoshkonong. Cong. Ch.               7.25\nMadison. Ladies\u2019 Home\nMiss\u2019y Soc., Box\nFurnishings _for Home,\nMobile, Ala._\nMenasha. Jr. C. E., _for            1.00\nSkyland Inst., Blowing\nRock, N. C._\nMenomonie. Mrs. V. A.             100.00\nKnapp\nMilwaukee. North Side               4.00\nCong. Ch.\nOakland. S. S. Class, by            0.50\nMrs. L. S. N. Allen,\nTeacher, _for Moorhead\nSch., Miss._\nPeshtigo. Rev. E. W.               15.62\nAndrews, 5; Ethel D.\nAndrews (thank offering),\n5; Cong. Ch. and Sab.\nSch., Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff., 5.62\nRipon. First Cong. Ch.             63.00\nSpring Prairie. Mrs.                1.00\nJames Brierly\nSun Prairie. Cong. Ch.             10.00\nViroqua. Cong. Ch.                 12.00\nWaukesha. Cong. Ch.                30.00\nWhitewater. Cong. Ch., 2\nB. of C. _for\nThomasville, Ga._\nWisconsin Woman\u2019s Home\nMissionary Union, Mrs. C.\nM. Blackman, Treas., _for\nWoman\u2019s Work_:\nBeloit. First W. M. U.             10.10\nBrandon. W. M. S.                   5.00\nElkhorn. W. M. U., 25;             30.00\nMiny Hand, 5\nMadison. W. M. U.                  30.00\nMilwaukee. Grand Ave., W.          25.00\nM. U.\nMilwaukee. Pilgrim, W. M.          18.00\nS.\nMilwaukee. Hanover St.,            10.00\nW. M. S.\nWauwatosa. W. M. U.                 7.00\n                            ----- 135.10\n                                 -------\n                                 $391.07\n\n              *ESTATE.*\nTrust Estate, by Trustee    10,000.00\n                           ----------\n                           $10,391.07\n\n         *MINNESOTA*, $226.65.\nAudubon. Cong. Ch.                  1.50\nBeaver Creek. Jr. C. E.,\nBox C. _for Blowing Rock,\nN. C._\nGlyndon. Ch. at Glyndon,            6.18\n_for Alaska M._\nHawley. Union Ch.                   3.50\nKasson. Mrs. J. G. Van\nFrank, Bbl. C. _for\nPleasant Hill, Tenn._\nLake Park. Cong. Ch.                6.50\nLake Stay. Ethel Chase              1.00\nand Alma Nelson, _for\nMoorhead Sch., Miss._\nLitchfield. Miss M.                 5.00\nWeeks, 5; ----, Bbl. C.,\n_for Student Aid,\nMeridian, Miss._\nMinneapolis. Sab. Sch. of          12.50\nPilgrim Cong. Ch., bal.\nto const. MISS NETTIE M.\nGETCHELL L. M.\nMinneapolis. \"A Friend,\"            0.50\n_for Moorhead Sch.,\nMiss._\nMinneapolis. Primary S.             1.00\nS. Park Av. Ch., _for\nMarion, Ala._\nMinneapolis. Plymouth Ch.\nH. M. S., Box C. and\nBedding _for King\u2019s\nMountain, N. C._\nNew York Mills. Cong. Ch.           1.37\nNorthfield. Sab. Sch.              42.02\nCong. Ch., _for Theo.\nStudent Aid, Talladega\nC._\nNorthfield. ----, Box\nPictures _for Skyland\nInst., Blowing Rock, N.\nC._\nRochester. Cong. Ch.               26.45\nSaint Cloud. Cong. Ch. L.\nM. S., Bbl. C. _for\nBlowing Rock, N. C._\nWadena. Cong. Ch. Y. L.            11.00\nM. Band, _for A. N. and\nI. Sch., Thomasville,\nGa._\nMinnesota Woman\u2019s Home\nMissionary Union, by Mrs.\nM. W. Skinner, Treas.,\n_for Woman\u2019s Work_:\nAustin.                             7.60\nBenson. S. S.                       0.80\nElk River.                          3.36\nElk River. Meadow Vale              2.00\nExcelsior.                          3.38\nLake City. C. E. Soc.              10.00\nMinneapolis. Plymouth,             52.74\n15.96; Park Av., 15;\nLyndale S. S., 10.51;\nFirst, 3.27; \"A Friend,\"\n8\nNorthfield. ----, _for             10.00\nStudent Aid, Talladega\nC._\nRobbinsdale.  Jr. C. E.             4.75\nSoc.\nSaint Paul. Bethany,                3.50\n2.50; South Park, 1\nSaint Paul. Plymouth C.            25.00\nE. S., _for Central Ch.,\nNew Orleans, La._\n                                 -------\n                                 $123.13\nLess expenses                      15.00\n                            ----- 108.13\n\n        *MISSOURI*, $18.88.\nIronton. Jesse Markham          1.00\nJackson. Ruth Gample and        0.25\nP. Lester, _for Moorhead\nSch., Miss._\nKansas City. Rev. S.            8.00\nPenfield, 6; Mary A.\nKendrick, 2\nLamar. Cong. Ch.                4.20\nSpringfield. \"Friends of        1.00\nMission Work,\" by Rev. J.\nF. Graf\nWebster Groves. Cong. Ch.       4.43\n\n        *KANSAS*, $3.90.\nLeavenworth. H. L.\nVarney, 6 Pkgs. S. S.\nPapers _for Lexington,\nKy._\nWabaunsee. S. S. Class,     0.50\nMrs. J. St. John,\nTeacher, _for Moorhead\nSch., Miss._\nWellington. Sab. Sch.       3.40\nCong. Ch.\n\n        *NEBRASKA*, $164.90.\nOmaha. Saint Mary\u2019s Ave.       37.34\nCong. Ch.\nSantee Agency. Miss Edith      50.00\nLeonard\nSantee. Pilgrim Cong.          62.31\nCh., Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff.\nWilcox. Rev. and Mrs. S.        5.00\nL. Unger\nWisner. First Cong. Ch.        10.25\n\n        *NORTH DAKOTA*, $87.49.\nDwight. Sab. Sch. of               5.54\nCong. Ch.\nFargo. Mrs. M. M. Fisher,          5.00\n_for Wilmington, N. C._\nFarmington. Dwight Cong.           2.50\nCh.\nFort Berthold. Cong. Ch.          60.00\nand Sab. Sch., Lincoln\nMem. Day Off., 50; W. M.\nSoc. of Cong. Ch., 10\nWoman\u2019s Home Missionary\nUnion, of North Dakota,\nby Mrs. J. M. Fisher,\nTreas., _for Woman\u2019s\nWork_:\nCummings. Mission Band             2.25\nLisbon. L. M. S.                   2.20\nWahpeton. L. M. S.                10.00\n                            ----- 14.45\n\n      *SOUTH DAKOTA*, $5.25.\nFaulkton. Cong. Ch.           2.00\nFort Pierre. Cong. Ch.        2.25\nWinfred. Cong. Ch.            1.00\n\n    *MONTANA*, $12.06.\nCastle. Cong. Ch.      5.00\nHelena. Cong. Ch.      7.06\n\n       *IDAHO*, $2.00.\nMount Home. Cong. Ch.     2.00\n\n      *OKLAHOMA*, $2.30.\nGuthrie. Cong. Ch.,         2.30\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\n\n        *ARIZONA*, $1.54.\nNogales. Jr. Y. P. S. C.       1.54\nE., by Olive C. Mix, Sec.\n\n        *COLORADO*, $30.50.\nBoulder. Cong. Ch.             7.50\nGreeley. Jr. Y. P. S. C.      23.00\nE., of Park Ch., _for\nScholarship, Santee\nIndian Sch., Neb._\n\n       *CALIFORNIA*, $256.61.\nEtna Mills. Scott Valley        14.61\nCong. Ch.\nNorth Berkeley. Cong. Ch.       12.50\nRedlands. Lugonia Terrace       10.55\nCh.\nSan Diego. Mrs. H. M.            1.00\nButler, _for Moorhead\nSch., Miss._\nSan Francisco. The             200.45\nCalifornia Chinese\nMission. William\nJohnstone, Treas. (see\nitems below)\nVacaville. Cong. Ch.             7.50\nSouthern Cal. Woman\u2019s\nHome Missionary Union, by\nMrs. Mary M. Smith,\nTreas., _for Woman\u2019s\nWork_:\nRedlands. First Cong. Ch.       10.00\nW. M. S.\n\n     *WASHINGTON*, $3.00.\nSultan. C. W. Mercer       3.00\n\n     *DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA*, $2.00.\nWashington. Miss C. L.               2.00\nFranklin, 1; Mr. and Mrs.\nL. B. Moore, 1; Lincoln\nMem. Day Off.\n\n        *MARYLAND*, $31.00.\nBaltimore. Wm. Wood, _for       1.00\nGloucester Sch.,\nCappahosic, Va._\nFederalsburg. L. J.            30.00\nDeming, to const. MISS\nJANE DEMING L. M.\n\n        *VIRGINIA*, $56.00.\nCappahosic.  Educational       50.00\nClub, _for Gloucester\nSch._\nHerndon Mrs. M. E.              5.00\nLeonhardt\n---- R. J. Pollard, 50c.;       1.00\nH. West, 50c. _for\nGloucester Sch.,\nCappahosic, Va._\n\n      *KENTUCKY*, $11.50.\nCorbin. Cong. Ch.,          2.25\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nEvarts. Cong. Ch.           5.25\nPioneer. Cong. Ch.          2.00\nRed Ash. Cong. Ch.          2.00\n\n        *TENNESSEE*, $135.12.\nBig Creek Gap. Cong. Ch.         1.00\nDeer Lodge. A. L. Ross          10.00\nKnoxville.  L. A. Soc.           5.00\nPilgrim Cong. Ch.,\nJubilee Off.\nKnoxville. Miss I. F.\nHubbard, 25 copies Gospel\nHymns _for Knoxville_.\nMemphis. J. S. Menken,         100.00\n_for Kindergarten,\nMemphis, Tenn._\nNashville. Jackson St.          10.12\nCong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.\nDay Off.\nNashville. Rev. F. A.            9.00\nChase, 5, and _for\nStudent Aid, Fisk U._, 4\n\n       *NORTH CAROLINA*, $51.80.\nBeaufort. Cong. Ch., _for          2.00\nStudent Aid, Talladega\nC._\nHigh Point. Cong. Ch.,            10.00\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nSalem. Cong. Ch.                   2.50\nSaluda. Rev. E. W.                30.00\nHollies and wife, to\nconst. MISS MARY C.\nPHELPS L. M.\nWilmington. Cong. Ch.,             2.30\nLincoln Mem. Day Off\nWoman\u2019s Missionary Union,\nMiss A. E. Farrington,\nTreas., _for Woman\u2019s\nWork_:\nOaks. \"Friend,\" 4; Y. P.           5.00\nS. C. E., 1\n\n      *SOUTH CAROLINA*, $20.32.\nCapello. Miss Cora B.\nLeach, Box C. _for\nGreenwood, S. C._\nCharleston. President,          20.32\nTeachers, and Students,\nAvery Normal Inst.,\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\n\n        *GEORGIA*, $76.72.\nAndersonville. Two Bbls.\nC. and Sewing Room\nSupplies from Unknown\nSource.\nAthens. Cong. Ch.,             2.68\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nAtlanta. Prof. Bumsted,\n50 copies Pamphlet speech\nof U. S. C. Harris, _for\nBeach Inst._\nCypress Slash. Cong. Ch.,      2.81\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nMacon. First Cong. Ch.,       10.00\n8.24; Sab. Sch., 1.05; Y.\nP. S. C. E., 35c.; Jr. Y.\nP. S. C. E., 36c.,\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nMacon. Mary E. Simonds,        4.00\n_for Macon, Ga._\nMcIntosh. Midway Ch. and      11.68\nSab. Sch., Lincoln Mem.\nDay Off.\nMcIntosh. Miss S.J.            8.00\nScott, 5; Prof. F. W.\nFoster, 3, _for Student\nAid, McIntosh, Ga._\nMarietta. Cong. Ch.,           6.00\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nSavannah. Sub. to\nMcClure\u2019s Mag. one year,\nfrom unknown source, _for\nBeach Inst._\nThomasville. Cong. Ch.,       30.55\n15.55; Students and\nTeachers Allen Normal\nSch., 15; Lincoln Mem.\nDay Off.\nWoodville. Pilgrim Ch.,        1.00\n75c.; Rev. J. H. H.\nSengstacke, 25c.\n\n        *ALABAMA*, $156.48.\nAnniston. Abraham Lincoln       5.00\nCent. Soc., by Rev. James\nBrown, Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff.\nBrewton. First Cong. Ch.,       3.00\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nChildersburg. Cong. Ch.,        7.03\n3.03; Rev. W. P.\nHamilton, 1; Rev. Miles\nHarris, 50c. John West,\n50c.; Mrs. J. West, 50c.;\nMiss Lucy Freeman, 50c.;\nMrs. Violet Jones, 50c.;\nMrs. Sallie Price, 50c.\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nFlorence. Cong. Ch.             3.00\nFort Payne. Cong. Ch.           6.30\nIronaton. Rev. P. O.            3.00\nWailes\nJenifer. Colored Cong.          8.50\nCh. and Sab. Sch.,\nLincoln Mem. Day Off.\nMobile. Cong. Ch., 8.57;       12.10\nA. L. Cent Soc., 1.46; Y.\nP. S. C. E., 1.07; Sab.\nSch., 1, Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff.\nSelma. Rev. A. T. Burnell      10.00\nSelma. W. M. U., _for           5.00\nIndian M._\nSylacauga. Cong. Ch.            1.75\nTalladega. Cong. Ch.           71.80\n(18.05 Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff.), 20.55; Sab. Sch.\nCong. Ch. (5.26 Lincoln\nMem. Day Off.), 20.50;\nAbraham Lincoln Cent.\nSoc. (5 of which from\nMrs. F. C. Rice,\nBurlington, Vt.), 29.25;\nAnnie Williams Mission\nSab. Sch. 1.50\nTalladega. E. A. Bishop,       15.00\n12; Miss F. A. Frew, for\nStudent Aid, 3, _for\nTalladega C._\nTalladega. E. C. Silsby,        5.00\n_for Theo. Dept.\nTalladega C._\n\n       *MISSISSIPPI*, $20.10.\nMeridian. \"An A. M. A.          10.00\nTeacher\"\nMoorhead. Pittsfield             0.10\nTougaloo. Mrs. L. M.            10.00\nSisson, _for Tougaloo U._\n\n         *LOUISIANA*, $82.67.\nAbberville. St. Mary              5.00\nCong. Ch., _for Straight\nU._, Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff.\nNew Iberia. Saint Paul            4.00\nCong. Ch.\nWoman\u2019s Missionary Union\nof La., by Mrs. C. M.\nCrawford, Treas., _for\nWoman\u2019s Work_:\nHammond. Aux.                     4.10\nHammond. Sab. Sch. Cong.          3.48\nCh.\nNew Iberia. Aux.                  1.04\nNew Orleans. Straight U.         34.00\nAux., to const. MISS\nJENNIE FYFE L. M.\nNew Orleans. Central Ch.         14.00\nAux.\nRoseland. Aux.                    7.00\nWelsh. Aux.                       2.00\nBy Mrs. L. St. J.\nHitchcock:\nBelle Place. Aux.                 3.60\nMorris Brown. Aux.                2.66\nNew Iberia. Aux.                  1.49\nThebodeaux. Aux.                  0.30\n                           ----- 73.67\n\n        *FLORIDA*, $19.50.\nCocoa, Mrs. J. S.              2.00\nBlackburn\nGeorgiana. Mrs. Mary C.       10.00\nMunson\nOrange Park. Union Cong.       5.00\nCh. Lincoln Mem. Day Off.\nOrange Park, C. E. Soc.,       2.50\nby Mrs. Fannie S. Baxter,\nSec.\n\n           *TEXAS*, $2.37.\nGoliad. Y. P. S. C. E.,          2.37\nby Mrs. G. B. Hallowell,\nSec., Lincoln Mem. Day\nOff.\n                           ----------\nDonations                  $11,496.59\nEstates                     27,183.43\n                           ----------\n                           $38,680.02\n\n          *TUITION*, $5,397.91.\nCappahosic, Va. Tuition              19.50\nLexington, Ky. Tuition               80.75\nWilliamsburg, Ky. Tuition           214.80\nGrand View, Tenn. Tuition            48.47\nKnoxville, Tenn. Tuition             50.50\nMemphis. Tuition                    880.95\nNashville, Tenn. Tuition            773.55\nPleasant Hill, Tenn.                 65.45\nTuition\nBeaufort, N. C. Tuition              16.00\nBlowing Rock, N. C.                  19.67\nTuition\nChapel Hill, N. C.                   15.05\nTuition\nEnfield, N. C. Tuition               18.00\nHillsboro, N. C. Tuition             26.14\nKing\u2019s Mountain, N. C.               34.00\nTuition\nSaluda, N. C. Tuition                42.75\nTroy, N. C. Tuition                   6.14\nWilmington, N. C. Tuition           181.25\nWhittier, N. C. Tuition              12.70\nCharleston, S. C. Tuition           349.80\nGreenwood, S. C. Tuition            134.64\nAlbany, Ga. Tuition                 136.00\nAtlanta, Ga. Storrs Sch.            180.70\nTuition\nAndersonville, Ga.                   17.50\nTuition\nMarietta, Ga. Tuition                 2.40\nMacon, Ga. Tuition                  226.20\nMcIntosh, Ga. Tuition               104.13\nSavannah, Ga. Tuition               169.73\nThomasville, Ga. Tuition             47.25\nWoodville, Ga. Tuition                2.25\nAthens, Ala. Tuition                 62.55\nJoppa, Ala. Tuition                  12.81\nMarion, Ala. Tuition                 64.85\nMobile, Ala. Tuition                 86.00\nNat, Ala. Tuition                    22.00\nSelma, Ala. Tuition                 107.00\nTalladega, Ala. Tuition             162.25\nJackson, Miss. Tuition              104.50\nMeridian, Miss. Tuition              70.50\nMoorhead, Miss. Tuition              18.15\nTougaloo, Miss. Tuition             117.25\nNew Orleans, La. Tuition            498.78\nMartin, Fla. Public Fund             20.00\nOrange Park, Fla. Tuition            59.65\nHelena, Ark. Tuition                 38.35\nAustin, Texas. Tuition               77.00\n                            ----- 5,397.91\n                                ----------\nTotal for February              $44,077.93\n                                ==========\n\n              *SUMMARY.*\nDonations                    $73,913.94\nEstates                       52,837.58\n                            -----------\n                            $126,751.52\nIncome                         4,129.30\nTuition                       18,808.68\n                            -----------\nTotal from Oct. 1 to Feb.   $149,689.50\n29\n                            ===========\n\n     *FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.*\nSubscriptions for                  $59.88\nFebruary\nPreviously acknowledged            255.80\n                                  -------\nTotal                             $315.68\nRECEIPTS OF THE\nCALIFORNIA CHINESE\nMISSION: William\nJohnstone, Treas., from\nJanuary 16 to February\n13, 1896.\nFROM LOCAL MISSIONS:\nFresno. Chinese Mon.                 5.60\nOffs.\nLos Angeles. Chinese Mon.            6.30\nOffs.\nMarysville. Chinese Mon.             7.45\nOffs.\nOakland. Chinese Mon.                6.00\nOffs.\nOroville. Chinese Mon.               1.25\nOffs.\nPetaluma. Chinese Mon.               2.25\nOffs.\nRiverside. Chinese Mon.              2.55\nOffs.\nSacramento. Chinese Mon.             6.50\nOffs.\nSacramento. Annual Membs             2.00\nSan Bernardino.                      6.00\nAnniversary Offs.\nSan Diego. Chinese Mon.              5.70\nOffs.\nSan Francisco. Bethany               2.00\nCh. Annual Membs.\nSan Francisco. Central.              6.55\nCh., Chinese Mon. Offs.\nSan Francisco. West. Ch.,            3.05\nChinese Mon. Offs.\nSanta Barbara. Chinese               7.95\nMon. Offs.\nSanta Barbara. Gir. Chow.            3.00\nSanta Cruz. Chinese Mon.             6.00\nOffs.\nVentura. Chinese Mon.                1.25\nOffs.\nWatsonville. Chinese Mon.            2.00\nOffs.\n                              ----- 83.40\nWOMAN\u2019S HOME MISSIONARY\nUNION OF SOUTHERN\nCALIFORNIA, Mrs. Mary M.\nSmith, Treas.:\nNorth Pasadena. Cong. Ch.           10.00\nW. M. S.\nPERSONAL GIFTS:\nLincoln, Cal. Rev. E. D.             6.55\nHale, Parsonage Mite Box\nBlue Rapids, Kansas. Mrs.            0.50\nBlanche Tibbetts\nFOR CHINESE MOTHERS AND\nCHILDREN:\nGreenfield, Mass. Mrs. W.           10.00\nB. Washburn\nStratford, Conn. Miss               20.00\nCordelia Sterling\nAlbany, N. Y. \"Friends,\"            70.00\nby Miss Janet McNaughton\n                             ----- 100.00\n                                  -------\nTotal                             $200.45\n                                  =======\n\nH. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,\nBible House, N. Y.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 50, No. 04, April, 1896","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":17507}