{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_26996/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_26996","id":"gutenberg_26996","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26996","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Karen Dalrymple, and the\nOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net\n(This file was produced from images generously made\navailable by Cornell University Digital Collections.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: The American Missionary]\n\nMAY, 1896\n\nVOL. L\n\nNo. 5\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\nEDITORIAL.\n\n  THE JUBILEE YEAR FUND,                                           145\n  ARREST OF OUR TEACHERS IN ORANGE PARK, FLA.,                     146\n  PARAGRAPHS--JUBILEE FIELD DAYS IN THE INTERIOR,                  147\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n  THE OPENING CHURCH MISSIONS (Illustrated),                       150\n  GRACIOUS REVIVAL IN SELMA, ALA.,                                 155\n  COTTON VALLEY, ALA.,                                             156\n  IMPARTIAL TESTIMONY,                                             157\n  WHAT OUR GRADUATES ARE DOING,                                    158\n  ALL HEALING, N. C.--PLEASANT HILL, TENN.,                        160\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n  PONCA, NEB.--FLYING BY'S VILLAGE,                                160\n  HUT AND HEAVEN,                                                  161\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n  LOS ANGELES MISSION,                                             162\n\n\nWOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS,                                       164\n\nSHARES OF THE JUBILEE YEAR FUND,                                   166\n\nRECEIPTS,                                                          167\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNEW YORK:\n\nPUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION\n\nBible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPrice, 50 Cents a Year in advance.\n\nEntered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class mail\nmatter.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n\nPRESIDENT, MERRILL E. GATES, LL.D., MASS.\n\n\n_Vice-Presidents._\n\n  Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.\n  Rev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D.D., Mass.\n  Rev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo.\n  Rev. HENRY A. STIMSON, D.D., N. Y.\n  Rev. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, D.D., Ohio.\n\n\n_Honorary Secretary and Editor._\n\n  Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._\n\n\n_Corresponding Secretaries._\n\n  Rev. A. F. BEARD, D.D., Rev. F. P. WOODBURY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._\n  Rev. C. J. RYDER, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._\n\n\n_Recording Secretary._\n\n  Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._\n\n\n_Treasurer._\n\n  H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _Bible House, N. Y._\n\n\n_Auditors._\n\n  GEORGE S. HICKOK.\n  JAMES H. OLIPHANT.\n\n\n_Executive Committee._\n\n  CHARLES L. MEAD, Chairman.\n  CHARLES A. HULL, Secretary.\n\n  _For Three Years._\n\n  EAMUEL HOLMES,\n  SAMUEL S. MARPLES,\n  CHARLES L. MEAD,\n  WILLIAM H. STRONG,\n  ELIJAH HORR.\n\n  _For Two Years._\n\n  WILLIAM HAYES WARD,\n  JAMES W. COOPER,\n  LUCIEN C. WARNER,\n  JOSEPH H. TWICHELL,\n  CHARLES P. PEIRCE.\n\n  _For One Year._\n\n  CHARLES A. HULL,\n  ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n  ALBERT J. LYMAN,\n  NEHEMIAH BOYNTON,\n  A. J. F. BEHRENDS.\n\n\n_District Secretaries._\n\n  Rev. GEO. H. GUTTERSON, 21 _Cong'l House, Boston, Mass._\n  Rev. JOS. E. ROY, D.D., 153 _La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill._\n\n\n_Secretary of Woman's Bureau._\n\n  Miss D. E. EMERSON, _Bible House, N. Y._\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nRelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretaries; letters for \"THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY,\" to\nthe Editor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the finances,\nto the Treasurer; letters relating to woman's work, to the Secretary\nof the Woman's Bureau.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nIn drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be\nsent to 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\nthirty dollars constitutes a Life Member.\n\n\nNOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the \"address label\" indicates the\ntime to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on\nlabel to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made\nafterward the change on the label will appear a month later. Please\nsend early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former\naddress and the new address, in order that our periodicals and\noccasional papers may be correctly mailed.\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\"I GIVE AND BEQUEATH the sum of ---- dollars to the 'American\nMissionary Association,' incorporated by act of the Legislature of the\nState of New York.\" The will should be attested by three witnesses.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\n\nVOL. L.     MAY, 1896.     No. 5.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE JUBILEE YEAR FUND.\n\n\nIn the last number of THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY we published the plea of\nthe Executive Committee of this Association for an offering to relieve\nthe Association in its financial necessities. We present below the\nworking point of that document in these words:\n\n     It is proposed to raise during the next six months a special\n     Jubilee Year Fund of $100,000, in shares of $50 each, with the\n     hope and expectation that these shares will be taken by the\n     friends of missions without lessening those regular\n     contributions which must be depended upon to sustain the\n     current work.\n\nAs the means of securing these gifts we subjoin the blank form of a\npledge, which, when signed by individuals or officers of churches, may\nbe sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York. When the\namount pledged is paid our treasurer will send as a receipt a neatly\nprinted certificate. On another page will be found a list of pledges\nalready made.\n\nWe solicit especial attention to the closing paragraph of the sentence\nquoted above, asking that these special gifts _shall not lessen the\nregular contributions_, upon which the Association must depend to\nsustain the current work.\n\nWe send forth this appeal under a deep sense of responsibility. We\nknow that business is still depressed and that many of the friends to\nwhom we make this plea have responded generously to the calls of\nsister missionary societies. But we feel that it is a duty we owe to\nGod and to the needy peoples for whom we labor to attempt the relief\nof this Association in its embarrassing and hindering liabilities. We\nconfidently believe that many of the churches and generous\nindividuals to whom we make this plea, feel as we do, a sense of duty\nand responsibility in this important matter. Some to whom this may\ncome may be able to respond at once with a pledge of _one_ or _more_\nshares. But to those who cannot, we urge that they lay by in store as\nGod may prosper them the means for as prompt a response as possible to\nour call.\n\n\n  Share, $50.                        $100,000\n\n  THE JUBILEE YEAR FUND\n  OF THE\n  AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n  I hereby take ...... shares (Fifty Dollars each) in the Jubilee Year\n  Fund of the American Missionary Association, to be paid before the\n  close of the fiscal year, Sept. 30, 1896.\n\n  _Name_ .....................................\n  _P. O. Address_ ............................\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nARREST OF OUR TEACHERS IN ORANGE PARK, FLORIDA.\n\n\nRev. T. S. Perry, of Limerick, Me.; Mr. O. S. Dickinson, of West\nGranville, Mass.; Principal B. D. Rowlee, of East Woodstock, Conn.;\nMrs. B. D. Rowlee; Miss Edith M. Robinson, of Battle Creek, Mich.;\nMiss H. S. Loveland, of Newark Valley, N. Y.; and Miss Margaret Ball,\nof Orange Park, Fla., with two patrons of the school (white) residing\nin Orange Park, were all arrested by the Sheriff at Orange Park, Fla.,\non Friday the 10th of April, charged with the crime of teaching young\npeople of two races under the same roof. They were not taken to jail,\nbut were given until Monday--the intervening days of Saturday and\nSunday--to procure bail. This esteemed pastor of the Congregational\nChurch in Orange Park, the most worthy teachers and the patrons are\nawaiting trial for this crime! and are only saved from jail by the\nbail which has been procured for them. This is as far as the State of\nFlorida has descended in its shame at present.\n\nThis enactment, which we have been careful not to call a law, was\npronounced by the National Council to be \"not only repugnant to\nChristian principles, but also opposed to the civil rights guaranteed\nby our Constitution,\" and the Association was called to persistently\nresist it with all legal measures.\n\nSenator Hoar of Massachusetts writes of it: \"I am amazed that even in\nFlorida such things can be done. I think that this cannot stand a\nmoment before the Courts of the United States.\"\n\nArrests of Christian teachers because they instruct a few white\nchildren under the same roof with colored children will not only call\nthe attention of the Nation to the gross darkness which dwells in the\nminds of those who could make such an enactment, but it will bring\nabout a public opinion which will hasten the progress of the State\nfrom its present low condition faster than almost any other agency.\n\nMeanwhile Florida remains in shame.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Hamilton Club has added the name of a colored man to the list of\nits members. It is the first of the leading men's social organizations\nin Chicago to abolish the color line. This special honor was conferred\nupon Adelbert H. Roberts. The name passed the test of posting and the\ndirectors were unanimous in his favor.--_Chicago Times-Herald._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nHORSE NEEDED.--A faithful minister in our mountain field has great\nneed of a horse. He reaches half a dozen preaching-stations among\nthese Highlanders, often going on foot. Fifty dollars would purchase\nhim a good horse, and if any friend will respond to this appeal it\nwill increase the efficiency of an earnest missionary very greatly. If\na larger amount than this is received it will be expended in the work\namong these mountain people.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nREV. H. E. PARTRIDGE, of Pomona, Tenn., will be glad to write full\nparticulars concerning an opening for a Christian merchant in a store\non the Cumberland Plateau.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nJUBILEE FIELD DAYS IN THE INTERIOR.\n\nSECRETARY CHARLES J. RYDER.\n\n\nA reduction in the secretarial force of the American Missionary\nAssociation, in order to cut down current expenses and decrease the\ndebt, has resulted in a serious loss in the effectiveness of the\ncollecting field. The office at Cleveland, together with a most\nefficient and acceptable district secretary, was discontinued for\neconomy's sake. The expenses, however, had to be cut down in some way,\nand so the burden was placed upon one of the secretaries in the New\nYork office. With multiform duties already upon the hands of each one\nin the administration of the mission field, and almost constant Sunday\nservice among the contributing churches, it seemed almost impossible\nto take up this new burden of work, which in some societies involves\nthe constant labor of a large number of secretaries. To accomplish an\nundertaking which seemed almost impossible the pastors were conferred\nwith, and cordially and generously promised all the assistance within\ntheir power for the American Missionary Association in its depleted\ncondition. Right royally did these good brethren redeem their pledge.\n\nA series of Jubilee Field Days was planned and carried out with great\nsuccess and interest, largely through the co-operation of these\nfaithful brethren in the ministry of the churches in the interior.\n\nJust a word concerning the plan adopted. A campaign of five weeks was\nplanned. Jubilee Field Day Rallies were to be held twice every weekday\nexcept Saturday, and as many times on the Sabbath as possible. Ohio,\nMichigan, and Indiana were the States to be reached.\n\nThe purpose of the campaign was to instruct and stimulate the churches\nand congregations reached. It was also hoped that the collections\nwould pay all the expenses of this effort to scatter missionary\ninformation and enthusiasm, and that the regular collections of the\nchurches would be largely increased.\n\nThe speakers consisted of the pastors of the several churches and\nmissionaries from the fields, and the writer of this article. Just a\nword in reference to these friends who presented the work to the\nchurches. The value of the address of the pastor in each case was very\ngreat. Standing on the vantage ground that an honored and beloved\npastor occupies in any church and community, his indorsement and\nearnest and discriminating commendation carried greatest weight. I\ndesire thus publicly to recognize the service of those generous\nbrethren in the ministry to the American Missionary Association. That\nservice was large.\n\nThe colored work was represented by Rev. George V. Clark, pastor of\nthe Congregational Church at Memphis, Tenn. Born a slave, rescued by\nan American Missionary Association missionary from the degrading\ninfluences of a saloon into which he drifted as a lad when freedom\ncame and no other opening was before him, his testimony and earnest\nappeal stirred the deepest convictions of his hearers. The quaint old\nslave melodies, which Mr. Clark sometimes heard as a boy in slave\ntimes, and often since by those who are freemen now, he rendered with\npeculiar effect. The weird and quaint pathos of these songs coming\noriginally from the crushed and bleeding hearts of slaves, held the\nlarge audiences in hushed and sympathetic attention. Is there anything\nin the world like these slave songs sung by those who have known the\nbitterness of slavery?\n\nFrom far-away Dakota Miss Dora K. Dodge brought the message to these\nseveral gatherings, of the discouragement and want, the hopefulness\nand progress, of the Christian work among the Indians. Her mission,\nseventy-five miles out on the prairie, with only Christian\nIndians--John Bluecloud and his wife--for associates, is of unique\ninterest and importance. No one could have told the story of this\nwonderful movement among the red people of the prairie with more\nsimple and earnest eloquence than did Miss Dodge.\n\nRev. W. G. Olinger, a native mountaineer, presented the work \"Among\nthe American Highlanders.\" Born in the humble cabin of the\nmountaineer, stirred from his earliest boyhood with the great desire\nfor education and improvement, he struggled up through great\ndiscouragements, until to-day he can stand on any platform with\ninterest to those who hear and with honor to himself. His manly\npresence is the illustration of the wonderful possibilities of these\nmountaineers; and his story is their agonizing cry for the light and\nopportunities which only an intelligent gospel and educational\nprivileges such as the American Missionary Association is bringing,\ncan satisfy.\n\nThe secretary, who had charge of the campaign, presented \"The Claims\nof the American Missionary Association on this Jubilee Year.\"\n\nThe immediate results of this series of Jubilee Field Days were most\nencouraging. Nearly twenty thousand people gathered in the various\naudiences. Lincoln Memorial Day, celebrated at Oberlin, was most\ndelightfully spent. Every service during the day, including\nSunday-school, Mission Circle, Endeavor Society, as well as church\nservices, was an American Missionary Association rally.\n\nOn the Sabbath large churches and towns were reached. During the week\nimportant centers were selected, and many surrounding churches sent\npastors and delegates to the Jubilee Field Day services.\n\nFrom a financial standpoint the result was also encouraging. More than\nthree times as much was gathered as the campaign cost, and pastors and\nchurch members everywhere testified that the meetings were resultful\nin spiritual uplift and blessing, as well as in stimulating interest\nand greatly increased gifts.\n\nThe general feeling seemed to be that this was American Missionary\nAssociation year, and that during this Jubilee season the specials\nshould float into this treasury and the regular contributions should\nbe greatly increased. While _en route_ the joyful message came to us\nthat the Board and the Home Missionary Society were both out of debt.\nWhen announced from various pulpits by American Missionary Association\nspeakers, this glorious fact met with cordial applause. All the more\ndid it seem incumbent upon the churches to take hold of the American\nMissionary Association, still burdened with its debt, and lift it out\nof the slough of financial despond. This, however, is only the\nreflection of the feeling among the churches throughout the land. The\ndetermination to lift the debt of the American Missionary Association,\nand to make it possible to continue at least its depleted work, is\nuniversal. Special collections, regular contributions, and hundreds of\nindividuals taking the fifty-dollar shares in the Jubilee fund, will\naccomplish this most desirable result.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe South.\n\nTHE OPENING CHURCH MISSIONS.\n\nBY SECRETARY F. P. WOODBURY.\n\n\nThe Eureka Church-Arbor, shown below, sheltered the opening service of\nthe new plantation missions in Southern Georgia. The people came under\nthe shadows of the piney woods from every quarter. The first mission\nchurch was organized under this rude booth. There the meetings\ncontinued until the cold and rainy months of winter. Now, by the help\nof a grant from the Church Building Society, a small church building\nwill speedily become the home of a beneficent church and school work.\n\n[Illustration: THE EUREKA CHURCH-ARBOR.]\n\nThis church of the forest took its start from the earnest convictions\nof its pastor, Rev. J. B. Fletcher. After long study of the New\nTestament, with the help of few other books than his tattered Greek\nlexicon, he resigned his ecclesiastical connection because he had\nfound, as he thought, the free church polity on Bible principles. His\ndiscovery was substantially the Congregational system. He called his\nfirst church \"Eureka.\" It now has nine other churches associated in\nthe same work. A mission preacher, a devoted man residing near, a man\nwho is highly respected by all the people, has immediate charge of\nthe Eureka work and holds the Sunday-school and other services.\n\n[Illustration: A PASTOR'S HOME.]\n\nThe abodes of many of the plantation preachers are as simple and\nhumble as those of their people. We give an illustration of one of\nthese homes. Usually there is a division into two or perhaps three\nrooms. Sometimes a small lean-to is built at the side or end, for use\nas kitchen. The chimney, erected on the outside, is often constructed\nof clay bound with sticks. It starts in a broad fireplace of stone,\nwhich warms the whole building. Some of these cabins have small glass\nwindows; others of them have only openings for windows, with wooden\nshutters. In such dwellings there reside vast numbers of the\nplantation preachers, and some of our own mission preachers, at the\nearly stages of mission work in the back country.\n\n[Illustration: MARIETTA CHURCH AND PARSONAGE.]\n\nThe picture given herewith of the church, parsonage, and school, in\nMarietta, Georgia, illustrates very many of the American Missionary\nAssociation church missions in the South. A neat church, a plain but\ncomfortable house, with its adjoining school-room, are the type of the\nimproving influences in both religious and educational service, which\nwe seek to carry among these shadowed and suffering millions.\n\nIn both the Carolinas, as well as in Georgia, there is an awakening in\nthe hearts of the colored people, both in the towns and in the\ncountry, for a better church life. This is inciting movements from the\ncentralized forms of church government, with their arbitrary methods\nand hard taxation, into independency. Often the poverty of the people\nprevents their attaining anything beyond present and scanty shelter\nfor their new free churches. The accompanying photograph is an\nillustration of such a chapel among the plantations of South Carolina.\n\n[Illustration: A SOUTH CAROLINA CHURCH.]\n\nIn very many parts of the plantation South, the very idea of a church\nfree from outside control and allied to education and morality, is\nutterly unknown. Neither education nor morality form any constituent\nelement of the common church life. Their introduction is looked upon\nwith suspicion by the masses, and is met by hostility in every\npossible form of persecution by many of the old-time preachers and\ntheir personal adherents.\n\n[Illustration: SCHOOL IN ANDERSONVILLE, GA].\n\nNothing more contributes to the introduction of better forms of\nchurch life than do those mission schools which awaken the desire for\nsomething better in religion than the senseless and corrupt \"old-time\"\nways. Such a school as that in Andersonville, Ga., is the initiative\nof a church mission. School education is of little advantage unless it\nis linked with moral training; and there is no moral training\ncomparable with that of a pure and true Christian church. Our mission\nschool teachers call for and need the re-enforcement of gospel\npreaching on the Lord's day, and the faithful work of a pastor during\nthe week. A great deal of hard work in the school would be frittered\naway and lost without the distinctive church work which must\nsupplement, and confirm it. To send the pupils back into the Egyptian\ndarkness of most plantation and country churches is, for vast numbers,\nto throw away all that has been done for them. That they feel this is\nshown by the frequent and earnest appeals which come from them to have\nvirtuous and educated ministers sent for the starting of better\nchurches among their homes.\n\n[Illustration: SCHOOL AT KING'S MOUNTAIN]\n\nWhile this is the narrow and local influence of our smaller schools,\nit is also the broader and deeper influence of our larger schools,\nlike that at All Healing, N. C. (King's Mountain P. O.) Here the\nreligious life is intensified. A number of devoted teachers supplement\neach other's work. A unique Congregational church has been formed, its\npastor being the principal of the school, who adds this work to all\nhis other services. The influence of the constant religious work done\nin this church-school and school-church is felt a hundred miles\naround. Young men and young women go out with higher ideals, and they\nawaken a demand in their home neighborhoods for both religion and\neducation of a higher character. It is not too much to say that such\nwork as that of Miss Cathcart and her fellow teachers at King's\nMountain tends toward a general advance of the communities from which\nher pupils come.\n\n[Illustration: HAGAN COUNC'L.]\n\nIn Georgia, after the Eureka church movement was noised about, Mr.\nFletcher received and now receives calls from every side, chiefly from\nthe plantation people. At Piney Grove, a preaching station was begun\nin an old dwelling house, and a little church of twelve members is the\nresult. At Shady Grove, ten miles away, a small church building is\ngoing up for the brotherhood there. The ground was given and the work\nof building is carried on by a respectable colored farmer of the\nneighborhood, who with many of his neighbors welcomes a church\nfellowship which stands for education and pure religion. At Alford, in\nthe adjoining county, there is now a membership of thirty-two, for\nwhose use a comfortable church building is furnished by the white\npeople. This, with Nellwood as an out-station, will probably soon\nreceive an excellent pastor, trained in our Congregational ways and\nprinciples. A beginning has been made at Portal, twelve miles beyond.\nIn the next county westward, the church work began at Swainsboro with\ntwenty-nine members, at Kemp with seventeen members, near Garfield\nwith thirteen members, and at Pilgrim with twenty-three members.\n\nWord comes to us that Mr. Fletcher, who is covering three counties in\nhis work, has lost his faithful horse. This quite disables him from\nservice. His fields lie at distances which make walking impossible,\nbeing from ten to fifty miles apart. The same day with this loss a\nmember of the family, a young man, was brought home suffering from a\nbroken leg. Are there not means which can reach us in the form of a\nspecial gift for the emergency of this faithful pioneer worker?\nAnything received beyond the immediate stress of need, will be placed\nto the support of his work.\n\nThe Hagan Council, called for the orderly recognition of these poor\nstruggling pioneer churches, met in an old half-ruined school-house,\nas shown in the picture given herewith. It was a humble place, and\nthey were humble bodies of poor people who thus asked recognition from\nthe Congregational churches of the land. But it is not for us to\ndespise the poor. Has not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in\nfaith, and heirs of the kingdom? That little group in front of that\npoor old school-house may become historic as the precursor of a great\nmovement of blessing to millions among the poorest of the poor in our\nnation.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nGRACIOUS REVIVAL IN SELMA, ALA.\n\nBY REV. A. T. BURNELL.\n\n\nYou will be interested to hear of the gracious revival we have had the\npast three weeks under the lead of the English Evangelist, Rev. James\nWharton. Over 400 have professed Christ, and of these 140 were\nenrolled in Burrell School. To the very end of the meetings,\n\"mourners\" came forward, once in the church as many as fifty; but this\nwas exceeded in immediate results at two schools where as many as\nfifty accepted Christ, after the briefest address. Following the\nOberlin plan, I offered prayer with each class one day; the next, I\nsuspended my recitations for a continuous prayer-meeting, permitting\npupils to elect this instead of a class or study-period (certain\ngrades, certain hours). At another time, instead of chapel the\ngrade-teachers retained the Christians while the rest were addressed\nin the chapel,--the majority falling to their knees for prayer to rise\nin peace. Of course we have had regular prayer-meetings, with\nvolunteer room gatherings at noon and like groups in the yards at\nintermission. When, on account of the late meetings each night, it\nseemed best to close at noon, most of the school gathered for a\nmeeting in the chapel; and, with several after meetings, large numbers\nspent that half-holiday in the building, praying for and laboring with\nclassmates. A member of Grade Eleven, for whom special effort had\nbeen made, came out at this time.\n\nSome of the converts have made detailed confession of sins (stealing,\n_e.g._); some who have been neglectful of school privileges have\nreturned to get the religious impetus; and at least two that had been\ndismissed for meanness have experienced a change of heart. We shall\nlook for permanent results, and work to that end with hope; yet this\npeople are so emotional and so stolid! so ready to move along a\ncertain line in a body, but indifferent to duty when it leads along an\nuninteresting path of individual effort. Indeed, the home life of many\nis unfavorable to genuine Christianity; some being persecuted, even,\nbecause they have not seen a vision, till they are made to believe\nthey \"have got nothing.\"\n\nMr. Wharton preaches the pure and simple gospel plainly and vividly;\nis attractive in person and of commanding presence. At his departure\nthere were many expressions of regard and grateful remembrance, and he\nwill always have a warm place in the affections of Selma people, who\nhave been impressed in so short a time by the life and words of this\nman of God.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCOTTON VALLEY, ALA.\n\nBY A TEACHER.\n\n\nI have been asked to tell something of the work and school in Cotton\nValley. Hence I send a little description of it as it appears to a new\nteacher, just having entered the missionary field.\n\nThere are many features about the work here that make it a most\ninteresting one. First, it is situated in a dense black belt, where\nthe people are anxious to improve, and are appreciative of all that is\ndone for them. Next, Cotton Valley is quiet and retired, being forty\nmiles from Montgomery, nine from Union Springs, and thirteen from\nTuskegee; so that, while we are enabled to teach without interruptions\nthat break into school life in cities, we are yet not so far removed\nas to be incommoded when business necessitates our going to a city.\n\nDoubtless Miss Lilla V. Davis, the pioneer, founder, and principal of\nour school is well known to most of the friends and helpers of the\nAmerican Missionary Association, but, for the sake of those who are\nnot so well informed, and because hers is a story worthy of being told\nanew, I will say a word of her whom all Cotton Valley delights to\nhonor. She, ten years ago, left her home in Boston, Mass., and coming\ndown here under the most adverse circumstances, and in the midst of\nthe lowest humanity, established this school. Her teaching in those\ndays was not so much from books, but she went into the homes of the\npeople and made them feel that she was one of them. She talked and\nread to them, taught them the rules of decency and virtue, and that\ncleanliness is next to godliness. Thus, step by step has she been\nleading them on until now, instead of a valley of ignorance, it is \"as\na city set on a hill, whose light cannot be hid,\" for instead of a\none-room-log-cabin we have a nice, comfortable school building,\nplanned and furnished in modern style. I mean by this, that what we\nhave is up-to-date and not that we have all we need, for our largest\nroom, the one we call and use as our chapel, needs settees,\nblackboards, maps, and lights; and last but not least, we need a\npiano, as at present our only musical instrument is a baby organ,\nwhich is now so nearly worn out that many of the reeds instead of\nresponding to the touch of the solicitous performer sit in silence,\nconsidering themselves too aged to jump up and down, and take part in\nsuch active service.\n\nOur school this year is larger than ever, and our students, I think,\nwould compare well with those of more favored schools in cities. The\npresent enrollment is nearly two hundred, and when the weather is\ngood, and all are in, we find the work rather heavy, as there are only\nthree teachers, and we all believe in thorough work.\n\nWe have a large and interesting Sunday School to which the parents as\nwell as the children come; also a Christian Endeavor Society, and a\nCircle of King's Daughters.\n\nPerhaps it would be interesting to say, that the relation of the white\npeople of the settlement to the school is most friendly. They respect\nMiss Davis to the highest degree, and are willing and glad to show any\nfavors to her or her teachers.\n\nThus far, I have shown you only the favorable side of the picture, but\nI would beg my readers to remember that it has also a painful side.\nThose we are teaching are the children of ancestors who have lived for\ncenturies in darkness and ignorance, with only eleven years of light;\nand there is still a great work to be done here. We find it necessary\nto instruct them, not only in books, but along the lines of all the\nvirtues which go to make a man a man, and a woman a woman.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIMPARTIAL TESTIMONY.\n\nBY REV. VINCENT MOSES, NEWBURY, MASS.\n\n\nMy wife and I recently spent about four weeks in New Orleans, La.\nWhile we were there, Straight University was constantly under our\nobservation; and, without suggestion from any one, it comes to mind\nthat testimony to the efficiency of American Missionary Association\nwork in Straight would be welcome to you.\n\nWe not only attended more than once the general morning devotional\nexercises in the \"Daniel Hand Preparatory School\" and the \"Central\nBuilding,\" but were also present during a recitation to nearly every\nteacher in the Preparatory, Grammar, Normal, College Preparatory,\nCollege and Theological Departments. The departments of music,\nwoodworking, sewing and printing, and also the Boarding Department\ncame under our observation.\n\nThe impression made upon us throughout was most favorable. The claims\nof the catalogue are fully sustained in every particular. We have been\nfamiliar with work in all these grades in the schools of several\nNorthern States; but we have never seen more thorough work, never a\nschool on the whole more satisfactory in deportment and scholarship.\nWe cannot compare this with other American Missionary Association\ninstitutions. This is the only one we have visited. So we are glad to\nlet this represent them all, and confess to a surprise in finding that\nwe had never known better schools.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWHAT OUR GRADUATES ARE DOING.\n\nFROM GRADUATES OF STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS.\n\n\nI.\n\n     \"I am principal of the public schools of Vicksburg, Miss. I\n     have been teaching fourteen years, having had charge of my\n     present work nine years. I have under my present charge eight\n     hundred pupils, all the school can accommodate. Several hundred\n     have been turned away.\"\n\nII.\n\n     \"Am editor of the _Southwestern Christian Advocate_, and\n     practicing physician and minister. Have taught school in\n     Alabama and Louisiana.\"\n\nIII.\n\n     \"My present occupation is clerk in the War Department,\n     Washington, D. C. I have taught three years in New Orleans. I\n     graduated as doctor of medicine, April 13, from the medical\n     department of Howard University.\"\n\nIV.\n\n     \"I am principal of the Harper Industrial Institute, Baton\n     Rouge, La. Have taught almost continuously since graduating in\n     1879. For the American Missionary Association I entertain a\n     feeling of the greatest possible gratitude. What little I am I\n     owe to the training of dear old Straight.\"\n\nV.\n\n     \"I have been until last spring principal of the colored schools\n     of Manhattan, Kansas, since 1885.\"\n\nVI.\n\n     \"The very name of the dear old institution is sweet to me, and\n     while those who guarded the old mother in the memorable past\n     have somewhat vanished, the purposes for which she was\n     instituted are being vigorously pushed and great good\n     accomplished. Many of her sons and daughters can be found\n     throughout this Southland engaged in the various pursuits of\n     life, doing a grand work for Christ and humanity. All honor to\n     the American Missionary Association for this excellent school,\n     and incessant praises to Him who guides and directs her\n     efforts.\"\n\nVII.\n\n     \"I am instructor of ancient languages in Wiley University,\n     Tex.; have been since 1887. I am a member of the Louisiana\n     Conference.\"\n\nVIII.\n\nThe following extract is of special importance as showing the breadth\nand completeness of the system of instruction of Straight University\nand the economy upon which it is based:\n\n     \"I am always glad to do whatever lies in my power that will in\n     any way be beneficial to Straight University, my _alma mater_.\n     I am, as you know, a normal graduate of 1891. Though I had\n     never before taken the first thought of learning anything about\n     wood-working, I thought I would go into the shop the first day\n     anyway; and I shall always be heartily thankful that I did so.\n     From that day to the end of my course, without interruption to\n     my studies, I worked in the carpenter shop, and acquired such a\n     knowledge of carpentry that I am now able to support myself by\n     following that trade. Still more, from the knowledge I gained\n     of making pieces of furniture, such as center-tables,\n     washstands, etc., I think I could be useful in the cabinet\n     trade.\"\n\nIX.\n\nThe following gives some idea of what the department in theology is\ndoing:\n\n     \"Having a desire to do something for Christ and humanity, I\n     began the study of theology and other studies at Straight, that\n     I might be thoroughly equipped, 'a workman that needeth not to\n     be ashamed.' I was compelled to give up for two years, and it\n     seemed to me that there was no use of my trying further, when\n     just then through the dark cloud the sun shone again, and I\n     hope now, if life lasts, to keep on till I finish the course.\n     All that I am, or ever expect to be, is due to Straight\n     University. May God bless her and the many friends who have\n     made it possible for us to attend.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nALL HEALING, NORTH CAROLINA.\n\n\nDuring the summer about forty of our pupils taught in the public\nschools; some had eighty or ninety scholars. In this way our school\nreally influences many whom we cannot reach. It is so good to see the\ninterest our young teachers take in their work and how, when they find\na bright boy or girl, they always try the first thing to induce that\none to come to school. Then, too, we see a growing desire among the\nscholars to come into school early in the fall, and we rejoice in a\nfamily of fifty-seven six weeks earlier than we had the same last\nyear.\n\nThe richest blessing of the year has begun to fall upon us, the\npresence of the Holy Spirit leading souls to Christ. During this month\nfive have felt that God had forgiven their sins. Is not that enough to\ncompensate us for anything we may give up to engage in the work?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPLEASANT HILL, TENNESSEE.\n\n\nA boy we could not receive, although we would have been glad to have\ndone so, said he had worked all summer for his share of a crop which\nwas about 100 bushels of corn. He would have about twenty bushels of\nthe corn left after he had bought himself a few clothes, which he must\nhave if he came to school, and he thought he ought to help his mother\na little. It was his only chance to get what he so much desired. He\nrealized that twenty bushels of corn, worth only about $5.00, was very\nlittle for him to do for himself. He would try to prove himself worthy\nof any help we could give him.\n\nStill another boy writes: \"It is not much I can do for myself, for I\nhave not been able to find anything to do to get any money, although I\nhave tried hard. But a friend has just given me a chance to assist him\nin his school for a couple of months. I don't know how much he will\npay me, but you shall have _every cent_ I _do_ get. I do want to come\ninto school, I need the education so much; I want to make a true man.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Indians.\n\n\nThere has been an interesting revival at Ponca Church, Nebraska, under\nthe direction of Rev. James Garvie, our Indian pastor.\n\nThe friends who attended the annual meeting of the Association at\nLowell will remember Mr. Garvie very pleasantly, as he was one of the\nspeakers on that occasion. He is as successful in the great work which\ncomes to him, as the pastor of one of our churches on the prairie, as\nhe was in telling the story of the work among his people to Eastern\ncongregations.\n\nEven the building of a barn at the prairie mission may be turned to\nthe spiritual advantage of the Indian people, as is proved by the\nexperience of Miss Mary P. Lord at Flying By's Village, N. D. The\nfollowing extract, from a recent letter of hers, tells the story most\ninterestingly. Frank and Daisy are her horses, who are really\nfour-footed missionaries. Miss Lord writes: \"On Sunday the ponies took\nme twelve miles to conduct service at Oak Creek Sub-Agency, where my\npeople were gathered for the Monday morning issue of rations. Service\nover at noon, a drink of water and a feed of grain, and then two hours\nand a half later we were twenty miles away to attend afternoon service\nat Little-Eagle's village, where I played the organ for the English\nsinging of the boarding-school children there. Yesterday they brought\nme to Fort Yates, thirty miles.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nHUT AND HEAVEN.\n\nBY REV. C. L. HALL, FT. BERTHOLD, N. D.\n\n\nThree years ago in our visit to the Indian homes, we found\nNetkuschiripas (Little Eagle) on his bed unable to get out of the\nhouse. Mary, his wife, washed for white people, hoed corn, and\ntenderly cared for him. He told me he believed in Jesus and would join\nus as soon as he could come out. It did not seem that he ever would\nget better then, but his faith put new life into his body, and two\nyears and a half ago he was baptized in church, and got about to do a\nlittle work now and then. This fall his working days came to an end.\nHe could only lie on his bed or sit in the sun at the door. Mary had\nto haul the firewood and nurse him, as well as work out. For a while\nthey stayed at a neighbor's house, but an old Indian woman insisted\nthat he should wear his beads and other heathen adornments. He refused\nto do so, saying that now he was a different person. As this annoyance\nwas kept up he and Mary left and stayed by themselves in a dug-out on\nthe south side of a bank on the edge of a willow bottom. His bed was a\nfew boards with a straw mattress and a few quilts. The room was\nlighted by a single sash--the rude shelter of two of God's children.\nWhen he felt himself sinking, he said: I do not know what God's will\nfor me is, but whatever it is I am ready. I have no fears. The day\nbefore he died he said: I have one heart. I trust only in Jesus; I\nhave said this to you often. We laid him away just after the morning\nmeeting last Sunday. This is not extraordinary; we are glad so many\nare like John and Mary. Twice the gates have opened this winter for\nus, and now part of our church gather above and part here. Five more\nare to confess their faith at the next communion. Pray for these\nlittle ones.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Chinese.\n\nTHE LOS ANGELES MISSION.\n\nBY. REV. WM. C. POND, D.D.\n\n\nAn interesting letter from Mrs. Rice, wife of Rev. O. V. Rice, who has\ncharge of our mission at this prosperous and ambitious metropolis of\nSouthern California, prompts me to give my space this month to a\nreview of our work there. It had already begun when, twenty-two years\nago, I became superintendent. I tried to visit it in the spring of\n1874, but a severe storm on our usually placid Pacific delayed our\nsteamer so long that I could spend only a few hours there. This was\nsufficient, however, to show me that we had a good teacher and some\nvery promising pupils, but an indifference to contend with on the part\nof American Christians which was both surprising and painful.\n\nA few months after this I heard that Rev. Ira M. Condit, a missionary\nrecently returned from China, able to talk the Chinese language\nfluently, and a very estimable brother, had gone to Los Angeles to\nestablish a Presbyterian mission. I did not hear of it by letter from\nhim nor from any one connected with the Presbyterian work in this\nState. Denominational comity just then had not reached in the minds of\nour Presbyterian brethren sufficient dignity to call even for a bow in\nrecognition. But I waived this matter, and believing that, with his\nmanifest advantages, he could do better work than we, and that there\nwas not room enough in the field, as it then was, for two missions, I\nturned over to him our whole school--pupils, teacher, and whatever\nconveniences or good-will we had gathered--and retired from the\nlocality. It was about two months only when I heard of six or eight\nconversions in the Presbyterian Chinese mission of Los Angeles, but\nthey were the very ones of whom our teacher had spoken hopefully to me\non my visit to the city.\n\nAn interval of several years occurred. The great boom came, and Los\nAngeles sprang to the front among the inland cities of the State and\nboasted that before long San Francisco would be one of its suburbs.\nThe Chinese population increased to about 6,000. Among these were many\nof our own brethren and several who were members of my own church.\nThey pleaded for a Congregational mission, and showed that because the\ntwo Presbyterian missions were at one end of the Chinese quarter, and\nthere was nothing of the sort at the other end, nearly a mile distant,\nthere was a large field for us where we would come into no\ncompetition, and where all that we might do would be a distinct\naddition to the work done for Christ among their countrymen. We\nyielded to their persuasions and found their prediction amply\nverified. Our school became at once the largest and our work the most\nactive and fruitful in the city. In the four months ending with\nAugust 31, 1888, 133 pupils were enrolled, and the average membership\nmonth by month was 69. Street-preaching, hand-to-hand evangelistic\nwork, and the skillful, faithful labor of our teacher, Mrs. Sheldon,\nand our enthusiastic helper, Loo Quong, were used of God for the\nconversion of many souls.\n\nBut as in other specially delightful places for homes, persons\nmultiplied who desired to enter into this missionary work. Instead of\nthree, there came to be six or eight missions there. Competition\nensued. Our school, though comparing well with any, was reduced in\nsize and influence, and as we began to be straitened for funds and\nthere were many points where no one was caring for Chinese souls, our\naid was withdrawn and I supposed the work would cease. Not so. Our\nChinese brethren clung to each other and to their own mission work.\nThey rented quarters neither spacious nor comfortable, but cheap, and\ncontrived, with the aid of one true-hearted Christian woman, to keep\nup their school, maintain their Association, add four members to it as\nconverts to the Christian life, and present seven of their number to\nthe First Congregational Church for baptism. We felt that a mission\nwith such \"grit and grace\" deserved to live. _Long may it live!_\n\nThree persons converted at this mission have been brought into our\nwork as missionary helpers. Many have testified for Christ in their\nown land.\n\nAt present it is in excellent working order and our Christian Chinese\nare enthusiastic, generous, and at peace among themselves. Let me copy\na few sentences from a letter from one of them who was temporarily at\nwork at Pasadena. \"I am very sorry for I left our school. Pray God for\nme that I may be back to it again. You will be kind and teach our\npeople; that is such good work for you. God will want thus such person\n[_i.e._, God wants persons who do as you do.--W. C. P.] You very much\ninterest our people. May God reward it to you! Before I went to the\nmission school I never thought to be a Christian; now I did do it. I\nam very thankful God has direct me out from the superstition to find\npathway about the truth, God and Heavenly Father. Now I am feel such\ngood comfort in my mind, but I do not satisfy [I am not satisfied] to\nknow the salvation alone, but needed you pray for my countrymen that\nthey all find life in Jesus Christ.\"\n\nAnd now for an extract, briefer than I desired to make, from Mrs.\nRice's letter: \"Last night we gave a farewell reception to our\nbrother, Yon Mon, who is about to leave for China. The brethren seized\nthis opportunity to present to a lady from Norristown, Pa., who has\nkindly helped our work, a very nice letter of thanks with their names\nsigned to it. A gentleman who came to the city with her, and who is\nabout to open a fine store here, attended her to the mission house,\nout of courtesy but very reluctantly, for he was bitterly opposed to\nChinese and to any and all efforts made for them. The brethren took\nhim for a friend and when introduced shook hands. He said it 'was as\nmuch as his life was worth' to extend his hand in response to theirs.\nBut the same sense of courtesy constrained him to come with his friend\na second evening, and at its close he asked if he might be permitted\nto say a word 'just to the boys.' Whereupon he expressed his pleasure\nat all he had seen since coming into the school, and advised the boys\nto keep right on doing right. They would meet bitter enemies among the\nAmericans, but not to mind them but go right forward. Then he\nannounced that if by February 5 we would have thirty regular pupils,\nhe would make the school 'a handsome present.' I wish some of the\nother opponents of our work could in like manner be _compelled_ to see\nour schools. Seeing would be believing, would it not?\"\n\nThe latest contribution of our Los Angeles Mission to our general work\nis Jue See, who has come to take Yip Bow's place (Yip Bow also having\ncome from the same mission) as helper in Oakland and at the West\nSchool in this city, while Yip Bow goes to Sacramento. I am greatly\npleased with him. He will, when trained for the work (and we train for\nwork mainly _by working_), make one of the best of our Chinese\nhelpers.\n\nI add just one word of good news. Our teachers are _all_ paid in full\nfor last year's work. Their faith has not been put to shame. Two of\nour Chinese helpers still lack something, and two other creditors will\nprobably have to make large donations in order to square their\naccounts, but I _know_ that _one_ of them will not complain, and the\nother will be doing only what she promised, and while I fear it may be\na hardship, it is no greater hardship than almost every landlord or\nlandlady, in these days of pressure, has been forced to undergo. So I\nfeel like singing the Doxology!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS\n\n\nMAINE.\n\nWOMANS'S AID TO A. M. A.\n\n  State Committee--Mrs. Ida Vose Woodbury, Woodfords;\n    Mrs. A. T. Burbank, Yarmouth;\n    Mrs. Helen Quimby, Bangor.\n\n\nNEW HAMPSHIRE.\n\nFEMALE CENT INSTITUTION AND HOME MISS. UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth.\n  Secretary--Mrs. N. W. Nims, 16 Rumford St., Concord.\n  Treasurer--Miss Annie A. McFarland, Concord.\n\n\nVERMONT.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION\n\n  President--Mrs. J. H. Babbitt, W. Brattleboro.\n  Secretary--Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.\n\n\nMASS AND R. I.\n\n[A]WOMANS'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION\n\n  President--Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 9 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Mass.\n  Secretary--Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, 32 Congregational House, Boston.\n  Treasurer--Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32 Congregational House, Boston.\n\n\nCONNECTICUT.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New Britain.\n  Secretary--Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St., Hartford.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St., Hartford.\n\n\nNEW YORK.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Green Ave., Brooklyn.\n  Secretary--Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St., Syracuse.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, 230 Macon St., Brooklyn.\n\n\nNEW JERSEY.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF THE N. J. ASSOCIATION.\n\n  President--Mrs. A. H. Bradford, Montclair.\n  Secretary--Mrs. R. J. Hegeman, 32 Forest Street, Montclair.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. J. H. Dennison, 150 Belleville Ave., Newark.\n\n\nPENNSYLVANIA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. J. W. Thomas, Lansford.\n  Secretary--Mrs. C. F. Yennie, Ridgway.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. T. W. Jones, 511 Woodland Terrace, Philadelphia.\n\n\nOHIO.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. Sydney Strong, Lane Seminary Grounds, Cincinnati.\n  Secretary--Mrs. J. W. Moore, 836 Hough Ave., Cleveland.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. G. B. Brown, 2116 Warren St., Toledo.\n\n\nINDIANA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, Indianapolis.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. A. H. Ball, Dewhurst.\n\n\nILLINOIS.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. Isaac Claflin, Lombard.\n  Secretary--Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette.\n\n\nMISSOURI.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes Street, Kansas City.\n  Secretary--Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave., Kansas City.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave., Kansas City.\n\n\nIOWA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. T. O. Douglass, Grinnell.\n  Secretary--Mrs. H. H Robbins, Grinnell.\n  Treasurer--Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave., Des Moines.\n\n\nMICHIGAN.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. J. M. Powell, 76 Jefferson Ave., Grand Rapids.\n  Secretary--Mrs. C. C. Denison, 132 N. College Ave., Grand Rapids.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.\n\n\nWISCONSIN.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. E. G. Updike, Madison.\n  Secretary--Mrs. A. O. Wright, Madison.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. C. M. Blackman, Whitewater.\n\n\nMINNESOTA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Miss Katherine W. Nichols, 230 East Ninth Street, St. Paul.\n  Secretary--Mrs. A. P. Lyon, 17 Florence Court, S. E., Minneapolis.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.\n\n\nNORTH DAKOTA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. W. P. Cleveland, Caledonia.\n  Secretary--Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.\n\n\nSOUTH DAKOTA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. A. H. Robbins, Bowdle.\n  Secretary--Mrs. W. H. Thrall, Huron.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. F. H. Wilcox, Huron.\n\n\nBLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. J. B. Gossage, Rapid City.\n  Secretary--Mrs. H. H. Gilchrist, Hot Springs.\n  Treasurer--Miss Grace Lyman, Hot Springs.\n\n\nNEBRASKA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. D. B. Perry, Crete.\n  Secretary--Mrs. H. Bross, 2904 Second Street, Lincoln.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. James W. Dawes, Crete.\n\n\nKANSAS.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. F. E. Storrs, Topeka.\n  Secretary--Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. E. C. Read, Parsons.\n\n\nCOLORADO.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette Street, Denver.\n  Secretary--Mrs. Chas. Westley, Box 508, Denver.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. B. C. Valantine, Highlands.\n\n\nWYOMING.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. P. F. Powelson, Cheyenne.\n  Secretary--Mrs. J. A. Riner, Cheyenne.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs.\n\n\nMONTANA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. O. C. Clark, Missoula.\n  Secretary--Mrs. W. S. Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave., Helena.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. Herbert E. Jones, Livingston.\n\n\nIDAHO.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.\n  Secretary--Mrs. E. A. Paddock, Weiser.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. D. L. Travis, Pocatello.\n\n\nWASHINGTON.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. A. J. Bailey, 1614 Second Ave., Seattle.\n  Secretary--Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K Street, Tacoma.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. J. W. George, 620 Fourth Street, Seattle.\n\n\nOREGON.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. F. Eggert, The Hill, Portland.\n  Secretary--Mrs. George Brownell, Oregon City.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. W. D. Palmer, 546 Third Street, Portland.\n\n\nCALIFORNIA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.\n\n  President--Mrs. E. S. Williams, 572 12th Street, Oakland.\n\n  Secretary--Mrs. L. M. Howard, 911 Grove Street, Oakland.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison Street, Oakland.\n\n\nSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. Warren F. Day, 253 S. Hope St., Los Angeles.\n  Secretary--Mrs. W. J. Washburn, 1900 Pasadena Ave., Los Angeles.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library, Riverside.\n\n\nNEVADA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. L. J. Flint, Reno.\n  Secretary--Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno.\n  Treasurer--Miss Mary Clow, Reno.\n\n\nUTAH (Including Southern Idaho).\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. Clarence T. Brown, Salt Lake City, Utah.\n  Secretary--Mrs. W. S. Hawkes, 135 Sixth Street, E., Salt Lake City, Utah.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. Dana W. Bartlett, Salt Lake City, Utah.\n  Secretary for Idaho--Mrs. Oscar Sonnenkalb, Pocatello, Idaho.\n\n\nNEW MEXICO.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. C. E. Winslow, Albuquerque\n  Secretary--Mrs. E. W. Lewis, 301 So. Edith Street, Albuquerque.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. H. W. Bullock, Albuquerque.\n\n\nOKLAHOMA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. J. H. Parker, Kingfisher.\n  Secretary--Mrs. L. E. Kimball, Guthrie.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. L. S. Childs, Choctaw City.\n\n\nINDIAN TERRITORY.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. John McCarthy, Vinita.\n  Secretary--Mrs. Fayette Hurd, Vinita.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. R. M. Swain, Vinita.\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. S. S. Sevier, McLeansville.\n  Secretary and Treasurer--Miss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Avenue, Atlanta.\n  Secretary--Mrs. H. A. Kellam, Atlanta.\n  Treasurer--Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.\n\n\nFLORIDA.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville.\n  Secretary--Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. M. A. Dillard, Selma.\n  Secretary--Mrs. J. S. Jackson, Montgomery.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.\n\n\nTENNESSEE, KENTUCKY AND ARKANSAS\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION.\n\n  President--Mrs. G. W. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Univ., Nashville.\n  Secretary--Mrs. E. J. Lewis, 15 Echols Street, Memphis.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. J. E. Moreland, 216 N. McNary Street, Nashville.\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Avenue, Meridian.\n  Secretary--Mrs. Edith M. Hall, Tougaloo Univ., Tougaloo.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. L. H. Turner, 3012 12th Street, Meridian.\n\n\nLOUISIANA.\n\nWOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. C. M. Crawford, Hammond.\n  Secretary--Mrs. Matilda Cabrere, New Orleans.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, Straight Univ., New Orleans.\n\n\nTEXAS.\n\nWOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.\n\n  President--Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.\n  Secretary--Mrs. H. Burt, Lock Box 563, Dallas.\n  Treasurer--Mrs. C. I. Scofield, Dallas.\n\n\n[Footnote A: While the W. H. M. A. appears in this list as a State\nbody for Mass. And R. I., it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nShares of the Jubilee Year Fund.\n\n\n  CHARLES L. MEAD, Esq., New York.\n  H. W. HUBBARD, New York, two shares.\n  JAMES H. FOY, New Haven, Conn.\n  THEODORE BLISS, Philadelphia, Pa., two shares.\n  H. SHELDON, Canton, Pa.\n  Mrs. L. H. SPELMAN, New York.\n  W. P. HUBBARD, Bangor, Me.\n  Rev. J. B. SEWALL, South Braintree, Mass.\n  Mrs. E. W. SOUTHWORTH, Springfield, Mass.\n  Mr. S. R. HEYWOOD and wife, Worcester, Mass., two shares.\n  Rev. G. S. F. SAVAGE, D.D., Chicago, Ill., two shares.\n  Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., New York, two shares.\n  Rev. A. F. BEARD, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y.\n  Rev. F. P. WOODBURY, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y.\n  Rev. C. J. RYDER, D.D., Stamford, Conn.\n  Rev. JAMES F. CROSS and wife, Rosebud Agency, S. D.\n  HENRY GAYLORD, Cheshire, Conn.\n  Rev. W. E. WHEELER and wife, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.\n  Rev. J. W. COOPER, D.D., New Britain, Conn.\n  Dea. SAM'L HOLMES and wife, Montclair, N. J., two shares.\n  Rev. A. J. LYMAN, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y.\n  Rev. WM. H. WARD, D.D., Newark, N. J.\n  Rev. NEHEMIAH BOYNTON, D.D., Boston, Mass.\n  Hon. D. L. FREEMAN, Central Falls, R. I., two shares.\n  Misses D. E. and S. L. EMERSON, New York.\n  LUCIEN C. WARNER, M.D., New York.\n  CHARLES A. HULL, Esq., New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nRECEIPTS FOR MARCH, 1896.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_THE DANIEL HAND FUND_\n\n_For the Education of Colored People._\n\n  Income for February                                  $ 4,197.35\n  Previously acknowledged                               27,110.00\n                                                       ----------\n                                                       $31,307.35\n                                                       ==========\n\n\nCURRENT RECEIPTS.\n\n\nMAINE, $623.96.\n\n  Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 8; Cong. Ch., Y. P. S.\n    C. E., 2                                               $10.00\n  Auburn. Saml. J. M. Perkins                               10.00\n  Bath. Mrs. M. A. Fiske, _for Indian M., Independence,\n    N. D._                                                   2.00\n  Biddeford. Second Cong. Ch.                               30.20\n  Boothbay Harbor. Second Parish Cong. Ch.                  20.00\n  Brewer. Manly Hardy (50 of which _for Pleasant Hill,\n    Tenn._)                                                 90.77\n  Calais. First Cong. Soc.                                  20.00\n  Elms. Mrs. M. C. Bean                                     10.00\n  Farmington. First Cong. Ch.                               35.64\n  Farmington. Y. P. S. C. E., Box Papers _for Nat,\n    Ala._\n  Freedom. Y. P. S. C. E. and Sab. Sch., _for Cal.\n    Chinese M._                                              1.00\n  Green's Landing. Cong. Ch.                                 4.75\n  Hallowell. Mrs. Stimson, _for Moorhead, Miss._             5.00\n  Hampden. First Cong. Ch.                                   4.54\n  Island Falls. Mrs. T. S. Alexander, _for Student Aid,\n    Fort Berthold, N. D._                                    1.00\n  Lewiston. \"Busy Workers\" of Pine St. Cong. Ch., 8;\n    Junior Soc., 8; Mr. and Mrs. Matthews, 8, _for\n    Wilmington, N. C._                                      24.00\n  Ligonia. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.                               1.15\n  Mount Desert. William Kittredge                          200.00\n  North Waterford. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.\n    Day Offering                                             1.00\n  Phippsburg. Cong. Ch.                                      7.00\n  Portland. \"A Friend,\" _for Student Aid, Talladega C._     40.00\n  Portland. West Cong. Ch.                                  14.00\n  Portland. Mrs. M. T. W. Merrill, _for Indian M.,\n    Independence, N. D._                                     5.00\n  Portland, Prim. S. S. Class, by Lizzie C. Fuller,\n    Bundle _for Wilmington, N. C._\n  Rockland. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Talladega C._              10.00\n  Searsport. First Cong. Sab. Sch., 5; Y. P. S. C. E.,\n    2; Givers and Gleaners, 5, _for Student Aid,\n    McIntosh, Ga._                                          12.00\n  Skowhegan. Bloomfield Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss Lizzie\n    M. Allen, Sec.                                           1.50\n  Skowhegan. Ladies of Cong. Ch. Box Hats _for S.\n    Inst., Blowing Rock, N. C._\n  South Berwick. \"H.\"                                       10.00\n  South Berwick. Sab. Sch. Class, _for Indian M.,\n    Independence, N. D._                                     2.25\n  South Freeport. Miss Fannie E. Soule, Box C. _for\n    Moorhead, Miss._\n  South Gardiner. Jr. C. E. Soc., B. of C. _for Marion,\n    Ala._\n  Westbrook. Mrs. Ellie Adams, _for freight to\n    McIntosh, Ga._                                           1.50\n  West Woolwich. Bbl. C. _for S. Inst., Blowing Rock,\n    N. C._\n  Winterport. Mrs. M. B. Manter                             10.00\n  York. First Cong. Ch.                                      4.51\n\n  Maine Woman's Aid to A. M. A., by Mrs. Ida V.\n    Woodbury, Treas.:\n      Portland. Second Parish Aids              20.00\n      Waterville. Ladies of Cong. Ch.            5.15\n      Waterville. Cong. Ch., Willing Workers    10.00\n                                              -------       35.15\n\n\nNEW HAMPSHIRE, $615.85.\n\n  Acworth. Cong. Soc.                                        3.75\n  Alstead Center. Dish Towels _for Blowing Rock, N. C._\n  Andover. Bbl. Of Bedding _for King's Mountain, N. C._\n  Berlin Mills. Mrs. J. B. Carruthers, _for Student Aid,\n    Fort Berthold, N. D._                                   10.00\n  Chester. Y. P. S. C. E. and Others, _for enlargement of\n    building, Memphis, Tenn._                               10.00\n  East Andover. Bbl. Of Bedding, etc., _for King's\n    Mountain, N. C._\n  Exeter. First Cong. Ch., adl.                              1.50\n  Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.54\n  Hebron. Pkg. Aprons, etc., _for S. Inst., Blowing Rock,\n    N. C._\n  Hill. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  11.00\n  Hillsboro Center. Cong. Ch.                                9.07\n  Hudson Center. Cong. Ch., 20.90; Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., 2   22.90\n  Keene. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., to const. AUSTIN\n    ELLIS, Mrs. MYRTIE TYLER, EUGENE ALDRICH, FLAVEL BEAL,\n    Mrs. HERBERT WOODWARD, and CLINTON SMITH L.M's         180.00\n  Keene. Cong. Ch., Mrs. H. I. Buckminster, Bbl. C. _for\n    Wilmington, N. C._\n  Lempster. Helen Bingham and Marianna Smith                 1.00\n  Littleton. First Cong. Ch.                                25.56\n  Manchester. Y. P. S. C. E., First Cong. Ch.                5.00\n  Manchester. Bbl. C. _for S. Inst., Blowing Rock, N. C._\n  Mason. Cong. Ch., Miss L. E. Goodwin, Bbl. C., _for\n    Wilmington, N. C._\n  Milton. Cong. Ch., 25c. adl.; Y. P. S. C. E. of Cong.\n    Ch., 2.50                                                2.75\n  Newfields. Miss H. L. Fitts, _for Wilmington, N. C._      44.75\n  Northampton, Cong. Ch.                                     5.00\n  Rochester. Cong. Ch.                                      38.86\n  Troy. Trin. Cong. Ch.                                     15.15\n  Westmoreland. \"A Friend\"                                   5.00\n  ----. \"L. F. B.\"                                         170.00\n\n  New Hampshire Female Cent. Inst. and Home Miss'y Union,\n    Miss A. A. McFarland, Treas.:\n      Wilton. Aux. Mite Boxes                                6.33\n                                                          -------\n                                                          $573.16\n\nESTATE.\n\n  Milford. Estate of Caroline B. Harris, by J. E.\n    Foster, Ex.                                             42.69\n                                                         --------\n                                                          $615.85\n\n\nVERMONT, $319.00.\n\n  Barre. \"A Friend\"                                          1.00\n  Benson. Cong. Ch., 5; C. E. Soc. of Cong. Ch. 1            6.00\n  Burlington. College St. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._                                            6.00\n  Chelsea. Cong. Ch.                                         9.57\n  Dorset. Y. P. S. C. E., by Marcia K. Gray, _for\n    Student Aid, Pleasant Hill Acad., Tenn._                 9.00\n  East Hardwick. Mrs. Geo. P. Byington, 3; Ladies'\n    Soc., Bbl. C., _for Marshallville, Ga._                  3.00\n  Essex. Cong. Ch.                                           3.33\n  Georgia. Cong. Ch.                                         5.00\n  Johnson. First Cong. Ch.                                  33.00\n  Morrisville. First Cong. Ch.                              13.05\n  North Bennington. Cong. Ch.                               57.05\n  Northfield. Cong. Ch.                                     25.95\n  North Pomfret. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., Lincoln\n    Mem. Day Offering                                        4.50\n  Peacham. Cong. Ch.                                        14.36\n  Randolph. \"A Friend\"                                      10.00\n  Rupert. Cong. Ch.                                         24.25\n  Rutland. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._      25.00\n  Townsend. \"A Friend\"                                       5.00\n  Victory. Geo. A. Appleton                                 15.00\n  Wallingford. \"Friend\"                                      1.00\n  West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch.                               15.00\n  Westfield. C. E. Soc., by Mrs. Chas. Chaffee, Treas.      10.00\n  Westminster. C. E. Day Off. Y. P. S. C. E., _for\n    Central Ch., New Orleans, La._                           5.00\n  Westminster West. Mission Band, by Stella A.\n    Goodell, Sec., _for Cal. Chinese M._                     1.00\n\n  FOR McINTOSH, GA., by Prof. Fred. W. Foster,\n    Brownington Cong. Ch., Bbl. C.\n      Chelsea. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for\n        Student Aid_                            11.94\n      Peacham. H. M. U., Bbl. C., Freight Pd.\n      Worcester. Mrs. Sophia Hobart, _for\n        Student Aid_                             5.00\n                                              -------       16.94\n\n\nMASSACHUSETTS, $5,610.41.\n\n  Amesbury. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Bbl. C. _for Talladega,\n    Ala._\n  Amherst. \"A Friend\"                                       10.00\n  Amherst. Colored Sab. Sch., Mrs. E. Tuckerman, Bbl. C.\n    _for Wilmington, N. C._\n  Ashfield. Cong. Ch.                                       33.10\n  Auburndale. Miss A. C. Strong, \"Teacher's Helps\" _for\n    Straight U._\n  Auburndale. Annie Strong, Bbl. C. _for Pleasant Hill,\n    Tenn._\n  Belchertown. First Cong. Ch.                              30.76\n  Boston. Old South Ch., in part               237.74\n    Old South Ch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._   75.00\n    Park St. Ch., adl.                          25.00\n    Y. W. C. A., by Miss Edson, 2; Mrs.\n      Kendall, 1; \"Friends,\" Bbl.C.; Misses\n      Lamson, Fiske, Thompson, and others, 2\n      Bbls. C. _for Marshallville, Ga._          3.00\n    Brighton. Y. P. S. C. E., by F. W.\n      Dickerman, _for Sch., Grand View,\n      Tenn._                                    10.00\n    Brighton. Jr. End. Soc. of Cong. Ch.         1.50\n    Dorchester. Elisha B. Worrell, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                     50.00\n    Second Cong. Ch.                            25.00\n    \"A Friend,\" Second Cong. Ch.                20.00\n    Jamaica Plain. Mrs. Ednah D. Cheney,\n      _for enlargement of building,\n      Memphis, Tenn._                           20.00\n    Roxbury. \"A Friend,\" _for Indian M.,\n      Independence, N. D._                      10.00\n    Mrs. Susan E. Parker, _for Student Aid,\n      Marshallville, Ga._                        5.00\n    Mrs. Parker and Miss Parker, 2 Bbls. C.,\n      etc., _for Marshallville, Ga._\n                                               ------      482.24\n\n  Boxboro. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n  Boxboro. Y. P. S. C. E., by L. C. Hager, Cor. Sec.,\n    _for Cal. Chinese M._                                    1.00\n  Boxford. Ladies' Ben Soc., Bbl. Bedding _for Talladega,\n    Ala._\n  Cambridgeport, R. L. Snow                                 25.00\n  Cohasset. Cong. Ch.                                        1.74\n  Dalton. First Cong. Ch., to const. E. L. BROWN, PERRY\n    HELMS, ELLA BELLOWS, EFFIE M. CHURCH, MINNIE D.\n    BRAGAW and Mrs. J. W. FLANSBURG L.M's                  191.03\n  Danvers. First Ch. C. E. Soc., _for Joppa, Ala._           5.66\n  Dedham. Islington Cong. Ch.                                2.20\n  East Charlemont. Cong. Ch.                                10.75\n  Easthampton. First Cong. Ch.                              53.90\n  Easthampton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student\n    Aid, Tougaloo U._                                       23.00\n  East Longmeadow. First Cong. Ch.                           6.26\n  Easton. Evan. Cong. Ch.                                   23.50\n  Everett. W. C. Levett, _for Gloucester Sch._               1.60\n  Fairhaven. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day\n    Offering                                                 7.52\n  Foxboro. Bethany Cong. Ch.                                22.18\n  Framingham. \"A Friend,\" _for Indian Schp._                17.50\n  Georgetown. First Cong. Ch., 11.18; First Cong. Ch. Sab.\n    Sch., 10                                                21.18\n  Gill. Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss Jessie S. Moore, Sec.,\n    _for Central Ch., New Orleans_, and a bal. to const.\n    MRS. WM. C. MARVEL L.M.                                 13.70\n  Gill. Mrs. E. L. S. Moore and Lyman Hale, _for Indian\n    M._                                                      2.00\n  Globe Village. Free Ch.                                    6.10\n  Grandville Center. Rev. Geo. A. Beckwith, _for Cal.\n    Chinese M. Building Fund_                                2.00\n  Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.                              46.42\n  Groton. \"A Friend\"                                       100.00\n  Hanson. Cong. Ch.                                          7.09\n  Hatfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                           8.75\n  Haverhill. Calvary Bap. Ch., _for Gloucester Sch._        25.00\n  Haverhill. ----                                           20.00\n  Haverhill. \"M. L. C.,\" Jubilee Offering                    5.00\n  Holyoke. First Cong. Ch.                                  42.74\n  Huntington. First Cong. Ch.                                4.00\n  Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch.                                35.70\n  Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Ch.                                 6.95\n  Lawrence. \"Scatterers of Sunshine,\" Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n    _for Student Aid, Fort Berthold, N. D._                  5.00\n  Lawrence. Box of bedding, etc., _for Marshallville,\n    Ga._\n  Longmeadow. First Ch. of Christ                           71.30\n  Lowell. Ellen W. Mace (5 of which _for Indian M., Fort\n   Yates, N. D._)                                           10.00\n  Lowell. Mrs. Mary C. Stetson                               5.25\n  Malden. \"Two Friends,\" 3; Mrs. T. D. Goodhue, 1            4.00\n  Mansfield. Cong. Ch., Ladies' M. Soc.                     10.00\n  Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      15.00\n  Marlboro. Union Cong. Ch., 140, and Sab. Sch., 10;\n    Y. P. S. C. E. of Union Ch., 10; T. B. Patch, 1        161.00\n  Millbury. Miss C. C. Waters, _for Wilmington, N. C._       5.00\n  Mill River. Y. P. S. C, E., by W. H. Rhodes, Treas.        2.00\n  Milton. H. O. Apthorp, _for Gloucester Sch._               5.00\n  Mittineague. Southworth Co., Case paper _for Tillotson\n    C._\n  Milford. Y. P. S. C. E., by Maria P. Westcott, Treas.,\n    _for Student Aid, Grand View Acad. Tenn._, and to\n    const. HUBBARD L. HUNT L.M.                             30.00\n  Natick. Mrs. R. Eugene Bowers, _for S. Inst., Blowing\n   Rock, N. C._                                              5.00\n  Neponset. Mrs. Arthur A. Windsor                          10.00\n  Newton. Sab. Sch. Eliot Cong. Ch.                         18.00\n  Newton Centre. A Friend, _for King's Mountain, N. C._      1.00\n  Newbury. First Cong. Ch.                                  16.50\n  Newburyport. Belleville. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Sch.\n    building, Grand View, Tenn._                            25.00\n  Newburyport. The Misses Ridgway, _for Straight U._         5.00\n  Newburyport. Jr. C. E. Soc. of Prospect St. Ch.            1.00\n  Northampton. A. L. Williston                             300.00\n  Northampton. Sab. Sch. First Ch. of Christ                50.00\n  Norwich. Ladies of Park Ch., Bbl. C.; Mrs. E. A. Coit,\n    Freight 2, _for S. Inst., Blowing Rock, N. C._           2.00\n  Pittsfield. Mrs. Mary E. Sears, 10; \"A Friend,\" 2.50       12.50\n  Reading. Cong. Ch.                                        18.00\n  Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.                                        5.17\n  Rosendale. Children's Mission Band, _for Thomasville,\n    Ga._                                                     4.00\n  Salem. South Ch., Y. P. S. C. E.                          20.00\n  Somerville. Broadway Cong. Ch., 25.66; Franklin St.\n    Ch., 3.59                                               29.25\n  Somerville. Miss M. S. Higgins, Box of Books; Miss\n    Lydia Hayes, Box of Books _for Straight U._\n  Southampton. Cong. Ch.                                    20.28\n  Southampton. \"Sunshine Band,\" _for King's Mountain,\n    N. C._                                                   3.00\n  South Braintree. Rev. J. B. Sewall, _for Share Jubilee\n    Fund_                                                   50.00\n  South Braintree. Cong. Ch.                                15.43\n  Southbridge. Brookside Mission Circle, _for Wilmington,\n    N. C._                                                  16.00\n  South Hadley. Mount Holyoke, Col. by Miss Sarah Worden,\n    _for Student Aid, Lexington, Ky._                        5.00\n  South Hadley. \"A Friend\"                                   1.00\n  South Hadley Falls. \"In His Name\"                         15.00\n  South Hadley Falls. Y. P. S. C., _for Straight U._        10.00\n  South Natick. Y. P. S. C. E., John Eliot Ch.               5.00\n  South Sudbury. Memorial Cong. Ch.                         60.55\n  South Weymouth. H. B. Reed, _for Straight U._             10.00\n  South Weymouth. Cong. Ch., Mrs. C. Fogg, Bbl. C., _for\n    Wilmington, N. C._\n  Spencer. Mrs. E. W. Norwood's Sab. Sch. Class, _for\n    Wilmington, N. C._                                       3.25\n  Springfield. Mrs. E. W. Southworth, _for Share Jubilee\n    Fund_                                                   50.00\n  Springfield. Miss E. W. Southworth, _for Gloucester\n    Sch._                                                   15.00\n  Springfield. Olivet Cong. Ch.                              6.00\n  Stoneham. Miss Mary A. Peffers, _for Straight U._          2.00\n  Sutton. Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day Offering               2.00\n  Townsend. Cong. Ch.                                        7.26\n  Turner's Falls. Cong. Ch. (1 of which _for Central Ch.,\n    New Orleans, La._)                                      20.00\n  Turner's Falls. First Cong. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Central\n    Ch., New Orleans, La._                                   8.00\n  Wakefield. Primary Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.                    15.00\n  Wareham. C. E. Society, Bbl. C. _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n  West Barnstable. Cong. Ch.                                 5.00\n  West Brookfield. First Cong. Ch.                           4.77\n  Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. Primary S. S. Class, _for\n    Wilmington, N. C._                                       2.00\n  Westhampton. Cong. Ch.                                    27.13\n  West Newbury. First Cong Ch., 15; Y. P. S. C. E., 3; Jr.\n    Y. P. S. C. E., 1; Mr. Goodrich, 1, _for Straight U._   20.00\n  West Richfield. Emma, David and Esther Alger, _for\n    Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                                   10.00\n  Weymouth and Braintree. Union Ch.                         46.50\n  Winchester, Cong. S. S. (Estate of S. A. Holt)             5.00\n  Wollaston. Cong. Ch.                                      80.00\n  Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                             46.86\n  Worcester. Immanuel Ch., Bbl. Bedding, etc., val. at 20,\n    _for Beach Institute_\n  Worcester. Cent. Cong. Ch., Mrs. S. K. Price, Box C.\n    _for Wilmington, N. C._\n  Yarmouth. E. D. Payne, _for Freight to Raleigh. N. C._     1.00\n  ----. \"A Friend,\" _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._           5.00\n  ----. C. Mfg. Co., Case of Paper _for Greenwood, S. C._\n\n  FOR McINTOSH, GA., BY PROF. FRED W. FOSTER:\n    Arlington. Mrs. E. T. Hillard, _for\n      Freight_                                   2.00\n    Dalton. Mrs. Zenas Crane, Bbl. C.\n    Dorchester. Harvard Ch., Bbl. C.\n    Dorchester. Mrs. Mary Houston, _for\n      Student Aid_                               2.00\n    North Adams. Braytonville Y. P. S. C. E.,\n     _for Student Aid_                          18.00\n    Northhampton. Edwards Ch., Prof. Wood's\n      Bible Class, _for Student Aid_             6.43\n    Warren. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Student Aid_    8.00\n    West Roxbury. Mrs. Myra French, _for\n      Student Aid_                               4.00\n                                               ------       40.43\n\n  Woman's Home Missionary Association of Mass. and R. I.,\n    Miss Annie C. Bridgman, Treas.:\n      _For Salaries of Teachers_               340.00\n      Roxbury. Walnut Ave. Ch. Aux.              7.00\n                                               ------      347.00\n                                                        ---------\n                                                        $3,252.26\n\n  ESTATES.\n\n  Lowell. Estate Leonard Worchester, by Samuel A.\n    Chase, Executor                                        100.00\n  Reading. Estate of Ruth L. Pratt, by Joseph H.\n    Gleason, Executor                                      300.00\n  Sharon. Estate of Margaret J. Tolman, by William\n    R. Mann, Adm'r                                           8.00\n  Somerville. Estate of Ephraim Stone, balance by\n    Lorenzo K. Lovell, Adm'r, 2,525.15, less expenses,\n    575                                                  1,950.15\n                                                        ---------\n                                                        $5,610.41\n\n  CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.\n\n  Gray, Me. Rev. H. O. Thayer, Bbl. of C., etc., _for\n    Saluda, N. C._\n  Yarmouth. Mass. E. D. Payne, Bbl. of C. _for Raleigh,\n     N. C._\n\n\nRHODE ISLAND, $161.62.\n\n  Barrington. Cong. Ch.                                     69.25\n  Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch.                          59.22\n  Providence. Central Ch. and Sab. Sch., 16, and 3\n    Boxes C. _for Raleigh, N. C._                           16.00\n  Providence. Social Circle, Pilgrim Cong. Ch., Bbl.\n    and Box C. _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n  Woonsocket. Globe Cong. Ch.                               17.15\n\n\nCONNECTICUT, $5,242.50.\n\n  Bantam. Mrs. Ella M. Grannis                               6.00\n  Berlin. Sab. Sch. Second Cong. Ch., _for Tougaloo U._     35.00\n  Bethel. Friends by Claire F. Luther                        3.00\n  Branford. Cong. Ch., 29; H. G. Harrison, 10               39.00\n  Bridgeport. \"Warren\"                                      25.00\n  Bristol. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.                              20.00\n  Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Thomasville, Ga._      3.00\n  Canaan. Pilgrim Ch.                                       18.08\n  Cheshire. \"A Friend\"                                       1.00\n  Collinsville. Cong. Ch.                                   15.00\n  Coventry. Hattie E. Gilbert                                 .50\n  Cromwell. Primary S. S. Class, Cong. Ch., _for\n    Thomasville, Ga._                                        2.00\n  Darien. Mrs. N. C. Gleason                                  .50\n  East Hartland. Cong. Ch.                                   6.00\n  Ellington. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._      7.14\n  Essex. First Cong. Ch.                                    27.30\n  Fairfield. First Cong. Ch.                                54.49\n  Greenwich. Second Cong. Ch.                              176.85\n  Groton. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._    8.00\n  Haddam. Y. P. S. C. E., Miss Winifred M. Lewis, Cor.\n    Sec., _for Central Ch., New Orleans, La._                7.55\n  Hartford. Park Cong. Ch.                                 143.59\n  Hartford. Sab. Sch. Pearl St. Cong. Ch., _for\n    Industrial Work, Fisk U._                               40.00\n  Hartford. Mrs. E. R. Rexford, _for Indian M., Standing\n    Rock, N. Dak._                                          20.00\n  Hebron. Ladies' Soc., _for A. N. and I. Sch.,\n    Thomasville, Ga._, 12.25; Y. P. S. C. E., _for Sch.,\n    Grand View, Tenn._, by Mrs. G. A. Little, 5             17.25\n  Lakeville. Mrs. S. P. Robbins                              2.50\n  Manchester. \"E.\"                                           2.00\n  Mansfield. First Cong. Ch.                                14.15\n  Mansfield Centre. Chas. H. Learned                         5.00\n  Meriden. First Cong. Ch., \"A Friend\"                      10.00\n  Middlefield. Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., Lincoln Mem. Day\n    Offering                                                 1.15\n  Middletown. First Ch.                                     29.87\n  Milford. First Cong. Ch.                                  10.66\n  Naugatuck. Cong. Ch.                                     150.00\n  New Britain. Mrs. J. B. Smith, 2, _for Freight_; South\n    Cong. Ch. Bbl. C. _for Tougaloo, Miss._                  2.00\n  New Hartford. North Cong. Ch.                             19.12\n  New Haven. Davenport Cong. Ch., 89.62; \"A Friend,\" 5;\n    Chas. Sanford, 5                                        99.62\n  New Haven. James H. Foy, _for share Jubilee Fund_         50.00\n  New Haven. N. S. Bronson, 10; Pres. T. Dwight, D.D., 5;\n    Prof. Geo. B. Stevens, 5; Prof. A. Fairbanks, 5; Prof.\n    Arthur Hadley, 5; Judge L. W. Cleveland, 5; Dea. S. A.\n    Clark, 5; Hon. James Graham, 5; Mrs. F. S. Porter, 1    46.00\n  New Haven. Humphrey St. Y. P. S. C. E., 40.25; Howard\n    Ave. Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., 15; Miss Edith\n    Woolsey, 10, _for Central Ch., New Orleans, La._        65.25\n  New Haven. Miss Myrta A. Lyman, _for Student Aid,\n    Tougaloo. U._                                            5.00\n  New Milford. First Cong. Ch.                              15.22\n  New Preston. Village Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  129.21\n  Newtown. Cong. Ch.                                        11.20\n  Norfolk. Cong. Ch.                                       128.85\n  Norfolk. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n    Tougaloo U._                                            27.01\n  North Woodstock. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. _for\n    Moorhead, Miss._\n  Norwich. \"A Friend in First Ch.\"                         100.00\n  Norwich. Miss Ida E. Sutherland, 4 Boxes Books _for\n    Hillsboro, N. C._\n  Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch. Quarterly                         27.18\n  Orange. Cong. Ch.                                          8.87\n  Plainfield. First Cong. Ch. Y. P. S. C. E.                 6.03\n  Prospect. B. B. Brown                                     20.00\n  Ridgebury. Cong. Ch.                                       3.00\n  Rockville. Y. P. S. C. E., by Mrs. A. W. Annis, _for\n    Mountain Work_                                          10.00\n  Saybrook. Mrs. Geo. Dibble                                 5.00\n  Sharon. First Cong. Ch., Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Reed          10.00\n  Seymour. Mrs. Emma Francis, _for Marshallville, Ga._       4.00\n  Simsbury. _For freight to Fort Berthold, N. D._             .75\n  Somersville. Cong. Ch.                                     8.15\n  Sound Beach. C. E. Soc. of Pilgrim Cong. Ch., Bbl.\n    Papers _for Talladega C._\n  Southington. First Cong. Ch.                              18.32\n  South Manchester. L. B. Soc. First Cong. Ch., _for\n    Thomasville Ga._                                        22.00\n  Suffield \"Helping Ten\" Circle, King's Daughters, _for\n    Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                                   10.00\n  Stamford. Cong. Ch.                                       20.22\n  Stamford. Cong. Ch. Jr. C. E. Soc., Lincoln Mem. Day       5.00\n    Offering\n  Thomaston. First Cong. Ch.                                 9.38\n  Warren Cong. Ch.                                           8.00\n  West Haven. First Cong. Ch., 6.88; James Tolles, 5        11.88\n  West Haven. William H. Moulthrop, _for King's Mountain\n    and Blowing Rock, N. C._                                 5.00\n  West Suffield. Cong. Ch., to const. Miss ELLEN E.\n    THRALL L.M.                                             34.79\n  Wethersfield. Sab. Sch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._       15.50\n  Whigville. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Student Aid, Talladega\n    C._                                                      5.10\n  Winchester. Ladies' Sewing Soc., _for Indian M.,\n    Independence, N. D._                                     3.00\n  Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               47.04\n  Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch. Y. P. S. C. E.                   10.00\n  Winsted. Children's Mission Circle of First Cong. Ch.,\n    _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                               8.00\n  Woodbury. First Cong. Ch.                                 18.86\n  Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       14.85\n\n  Woman's Cong. Home Missionary Union of Conn., Mrs.\n    W. W. Jacobs, Treas.:\n      Hartford. First Ch. \"A Friend\"            25.00\n      Hartford. First Ch. Jr. Aux.              60.00\n      Kent. Furnace                             50.00\n      Naugatuck. Ladies' Aid Soc.               40.00\n      New Britain. South Ch., Ladies' Benev.\n        Soc.                                    46.50\n      Watertown. Aux.                           10.00\n      Winchester. L. B. S., _Jubilee Fund_       5.00\n                                                -----      236.50\n                                                        ---------\n                                                        $2,206.50\n\n  ESTATES.\n\n  Berlin. Estate of H. N. Wilcox                            30.00\n  Cornwall. Estate of Silas C. Beers                     1,443.00\n  Groton. Estate of Mrs. B. N. Hurlbutt                     63.00\n  New London. Estate Charles D. Boss, by Mrs. Elizabeth\n    M. Boss, Executrix                                   1,500.00\n                                                        ---------\n                                                        $5,242.50\n\n\nNEW YORK, $10,129.67.\n\n  Albany. First Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. C., and groceries,\n    _for King's Mountain, N. C._\n  Aquebogue. Cong. Ch.                                       8.80\n  Berkshire. \"Friend,\" _for Wilmington, N. C._               5.00\n  Bridgewater. C. E. Soc. Cong. Ch.                          5.00\n  Brooklyn. Church of the Pilgrims, 737.21; Tompkins Av.\n    Cong. Ch., 73.85; Puritan Ch., 22.00; Sab. Sch. Ch.\n    of the Pilgrims, 14.30; East Cong. Ch., 9.13           856.41\n  Brooklyn. Miss C. A. Johnson, _for Gloucester Sch._        2.00\n  Brooklyn. \"Penny Aid Soc.,\" 8 Towels _for Pleasant\n    Hill, Tenn._\n  Buffalo. Fitch Mem. Cong. Ch.                              2.20\n  Canandaigua. First Cong. Ch.                              38.85\n  Clifton Springs. \"Two Friends\"                            12.00\n  Corona. Union Evan. Ch. Sab. Sch., 2.89 and Box of\n    Literature _for Beach Inst._                             2.89\n  Deansville. Cong. Ch.                                      7.50\n  Eagle Harbor. M. P. Lyman                                  1.00\n  East Albany. Mrs. J. Buckman, _for freight to Pleasant\n    Hill, Tenn._                                             2.95\n  East Rockaway. Sab. Sch. Bethany Cong. Ch.                 3.58\n  Fairport. Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day Offering            10.00\n  Fairport. A. M. Loomis                                     5.00\n  Flushing. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._                12.72\n  Franklin. Cong. Ch.                                       17.48\n  Himrod. Mrs. Hester B. Ayers                               5.00\n  Honeoye. Cong. Ch.                                        21.50\n  Ithaca. Jun. Y. P. S. C. E., 4 and Sewing material,\n    _for King's Mountain, N. C._                             4.00\n  Kiantone. H. & F. M. Soc. by Alice L. Spencer, Sec.        2.75\n  Lisle. Mrs. F. P. Edminster, Bbl. C. _for McIntosh,\n    Ga._\n  Massena. Cong. Ch.                                         5.60\n  Mt. Morris Pres. S. S., 5; Pres. Ch., Bbl., _for\n    Moorhead, Miss._                                         5.00\n  Munnsville. Mission Circle, Box C. _for Skyland Inst,\n    Blowing Rock, N. C._\n  New York. Mrs. L. H. Spelman, _for Share Jubilee Fund_    50.00\n  New York. C. Irving Fisher                                10.00\n  New York. Dr. B. Lord, _for Gloucester Sch._               5.00\n  New York. M. E. Ch. Jr. C. E. Soc., by Miss G. L. Wood,\n    _for Indian M._                                          3.50\n  New York. Miss Lottie Hiskok, Box of Books _for Marion,\n    Ala._\n  New York. Miss Grace H. Dodge, Pkg. Pictures, Books,\n    etc., _for Beach Inst._\n  Northfield. Lucy and Alice Wood, _for McIntosh, Ga._       5.00\n  Oxford. Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day Offering              31.00\n  Pulaski. Cong. Ch.                                         5.00\n  Randolph. Cong. Ch., adl.                                  1.00\n  Rochester. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Ch., _for Indian\n    Schp._, bal. to const REV. WILLIAM F. KETTLE, DANIEL\n    R. CLARK and SAMUEL B. GRISWOLD L.M's                   25.00\n  Rome. Cong. Ch.                                            3.10\n  Sayville. Cong. Ch.                                       19.26\n  Schenectady. Y. P. S. C. E. of Cong Ch.                   15.00\n  Sherburne. \"Little Lights,\" _for Student Aid, Talladega   18.00\n    C._\n  Syracuse. W. E. Abbott, 5; Danforth Ch., 3.50              8.50\n  Syracuse. C. A. Hamlin, Box C. _for Hillsboro, N. C._\n  Tarrytown. \"A Friend\" (25 of which _for Gloucester\n    Sch., Cappahosic, Va.)_                                125.00\n  Troy. \"A Friend,\" 10; Miss S. A. Willard, 3, _for\n    Gloucester Sch._                                        13.00\n  Warsaw. \"Earnest Workers\" of Cong. Ch. Bbl. C. _for\n    Macon, Ga._\n  Wellsville. First Cong. Ch.                               30.00\n  West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch.                                34.25\n  West Bloomfield. Y. P. S. C. E., 5; Rev. and Mrs. N. W.\n    Bates, 2; Miss S. L. Brown, 1, _for Macon, Ga._          8.00\n  Westmoreland. First Cong. Ch.                             10.00\n\n  Woman's Home Missionary Union of N. Y. by Mrs. J. J.\n   Pearsall, Treas.:\n       Albany, Home Circle                       5.00\n       Aquebogue, L. S.                         10.00\n       Brooklyn. Central Ch. L. B. S., to\n         const. Mrs. W. C. PECKHAM L.M.         50.00\n       Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. East Ch.             20.00\n       Gloversville. L. B. A.                   30.00\n       Gloversville. Jun. C. E.                  5.00\n       New York. Broadway Tabernacle, S. W. W.  54.00\n       Poughkeepsie, L. H. M. S.                20.00\n       Schenectady. L. M. S.                    35.00\n                                               ------      229.00\n                                                        ---------\n                                                        $1,685.92\n\n  ESTATE.\n\n  Gloversville. Estate of Sarah B. Place. Specific,\n    1,000; Residue, 7,500, less Expenses, 56.25,\n    7,443.75, by Daniel B. Judson and Wm. H. Place,\n    Executors                                            8,443.75\n                                                       ----------\n                                                       $10,129.67\n\n\nNEW JERSEY, $217.10.\n\n  Dunellen. Mrs. Lane. Lamp _for S. Inst., Blowing\n    Rock, N. C._\n  East Orange. First Cong. Ch.                               2.00\n  Passaic. First Cong. Ch.                                  25.10\n  Princeton. Prof. Wm. A. Packard, _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._                                           10.00\n\n  Woman's Home Missionary Union of the N. J. Ass'n. Mrs.\n   J. H. Denison, Treas.:\n     Montclair. First Cong. Ch. W. H. M. S.                180.00\n\n\nPENNSYLVANIA, $235.67.\n\n  Arnot. Cong. Ch.                                           3.40\n  Braddock. Cong. Ch., 4.25; Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., 5.02       9.27\n  Canton. H. Sheldon, _for Share Jubilee Fund_              50.00\n  Germantown. Mrs. L. Smith, 1; Miss Dolphus, 1, _for\n    Gloucester Sch._                                         2.00\n  Philadelphia. Theodore Bliss, _for 2 Shares Jubilee      100.00\n    Fund_\n  Philadelphia. Burnham, Williams & Co., 25; R. C. Ogden,\n    25; Miss M. Blanchard, 10; A. F. Stevens, 5; Miss E.\n    W. Stevens, 5, _for Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, Va._   70.00\n  Pittsburg. I. F. Crawford, 50c.; W. E. Van Bownhorst,\n    50c., _for Gloucester Sch._                              1.00\n\n\nOHIO, $421.89.\n\n  Akron. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. _for Moorhead,\n    Miss._\n  Akron. Missionary Society of First Cong. Ch., Box\n    Bedding _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n  Amherst. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day\n    Offering                                                 3.60\n  Ashland. J. O. Jennings                                   10.00\n  Bellevue. First Cong. Ch.                                 12.23\n  Bellevue. First Cong. Ch., _Jubilee Offering_              6.73\n  Berea, Strongsville, and Rockport. Cong. Churches,\n    Union, _Jubilee Offering_                               17.00\n  Castalia. W. Story                                         1.00\n  Chardon. First Cong. Ch., 7.65; Y. P. S. C. E. of\n    F. C. Ch., 3                                            10.65\n  Cleveland. Union Cong. Ch.                                 5.00\n  Cleveland. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., Mrs. H. C. Beffenger,\n    Bbl. C., _for Wilmington, N. C._\n  Coitsville. Geog. Hall Mission, _for Student Aid,          3.75\n    Talladega C._\n  Collinwood. C. E. Society, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo      3.00\n    U._\n  Columbus. Sab. Sch. Plymouth Cong. Ch., 21;\n    Washington Av. Welsh Ch., 12; Mrs. F. W. Wallis, 1      34.00\n  Dover. Mrs. Arthur Weston, Bibles and Testaments,\n    _for Tougaloo U._\n  Jefferson. Cong. Ch. (1 of which from \"A Friend\")         13.05\n  Kingsville. Mrs. S. C. Kellogg, _for Mountain Work_,\n    10; Miss Eliza Stewart Comings, 10                      20.00\n  Mansfield. Mrs. J. Calhoun, _for Indian M.,\n    Independence, N. D._                                     5.00\n  Mantua. Miss Caroline M. Davis                             1.00\n  Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch., _Jubilee Offering_               56.00\n  Newark. Plym. Cong. Ch., 15.30, _Jubilee Fund_; L. M.\n    Soc. of Plym. Ch., 20.20                                35.50\n  New London. Cong. Ch.                                      3.43\n  Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                 27.14\n  Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. Miss'y Soc., Blouse Waists\n    _for S. Inst., Blowing Rock, N. C._\n  Oberlin. Wm. M. Mead, _for Mountain Work_                 10.00\n  Oberlin. Mrs. W. P. Kennedy, Bbl. _for Moorhead,\n    Miss._\n  Painesville. First Cong. Ch.                              25.05\n  Painesville. Miss M. Evans, _for Macon, Ga._               5.00\n  Painesville. \"Friends,\" Box C. _for Storrs Sch.,\n    Atlanta, Ga._\n  Rootstown. Mrs. C. N. Seymour                             10.00\n  Springfield. Lagonda Av. Cong. Ch., 2.50; Lagonda Av.\n    Cong. Ch. L. M. Soc., 1; \"Jubilee Offering,\" 1           4.50\n  Sweden. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Morris                          2.00\n  Vermillion. Jr. C. E. Soc.                                 1.15\n  Wellston Cong. Ch., by H. Bevan, Sec., Lincoln Mem.\n    Day Offering                                             1.30\n  Willoughby. F. A. Page                                     2.00\n  Windham. Ladies' Helping Hand Soc., of Cong. Ch.,\n    Bbl. C. and freight 75 cts., _for Pleasant Hill,          .75\n    Tenn._\n  Youngstown. Elm St. Cong. Ch.                              5.00\n  ----. \"Friend in Ohio\" _for Indian M._, Jubilee\n    Offering                                                 1.70\n\n  Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. G. B. Brown,\n    Treas.\n      Akron. W. M. S.                           20.00\n      Austinburg. W. M. S.                       5.00\n      Brecksville. W. M. S.                      3.00\n      Cleveland. Euclid, Y. L. M. S.             5.00\n      Madison. W. H. M. S.                      15.00\n      Marietta. Harmar, W. H. M. S., _for\n        Indian Schp._                           15.00\n      Oberlin. Second Ch. Sab. Sch.              7.50\n      Oberlin. First, L. A. S.                   5.00\n      Toledo. Central Ch., W. M. U., 5; Busy\n        Bees, 1                                  6.00\n      Toledo. Boys' Home                         3.86\n                                               ------       85.36\n\n\nINDIANA, $6.80.\n\n  Andrews. Cong. Ch. Lincoln Mem. Day Offering               2.00\n  Ridgeville. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.                            3.80\n  Versailles. Mrs. B. N. Rebuck, for Mrs. J. D. Nichols,\n    deceased                                                 1.00\n\n\nILLINOIS, $694.89.\n\n  Albion. Mrs. James Green, 3; Mrs. P. W. Wallace, 1         4.00\n  Aurora. New Eng. Cong. Ch., 17.60; New Eng. Ch., W. M.\n    S., 29.78                                               47.38\n  Aurora. First Cong. Ch. Y. P. S. C. E., _for King's\n    Mountain, N. C._                                        18.00\n  Champaign. First Cong. Ch.                                43.36\n  Chandlersville. Cong. Ch.                                 52.96\n  Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 57.11; South Ch., W. H. M.\n    U., 49.40 (30 of which to const. MRS. J. L. McKEEVER\n    L.M.); D. S. Munger, 10; Ch. of the Redeemer C. E.\n    Soc., 5                                                121.51\n  Chicago. Mrs. F. E. Cutler, 4; Miss Susan R. Cutler,\n    4, _for Theo. Student Aid, Talladega C._                 8.00\n  Chicago. Prof. F. R. Nichols, _for enlargement of\n    building, Memphis, Tenn._                                5.00\n  Chicago. Bundle Blankets _for Moorhead, Miss._\n  Earlville. \"J. A. D.\"                                     25.00\n  Englewood. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., _for\n    Student Aid, Williamsburg Acad., Ky_                    10.00\n  Englewood. North Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., etc., _for\n    Beaufort, N. C._\n  Forest. Cong. Ch.                                          9.66\n  Geneseo. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n  Griggsville. Cong. Ch.                                     9.31\n  Hyde Park. Mrs. H. C. Gould                                 .50\n  Jacksonville. Woman's Miss'y Soc., _for Macon, Ga._       14.00\n  Jacksonville. Mrs. George L. Roberts                       5.00\n  Lawn Ridge. By Geo. M. Sims, Treas., Cong. Ch.              .75\n  La Salle. Mrs. F. X. Kilduff. Box C. _for Tougaloo,\n    Miss._\n  Maywood. C. E. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,            10.00\n    Tillotson C._\n  Metropolis. Trinity Cong. Ch.                              2.65\n  Oglesby. E. T. Bent, 10; Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Bent, $15,\n    _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                          25.00\n  Ottawa. Sab. Sch., Cong. Ch.                               5.90\n  Paxton. Mrs. J. B. Shaw, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._        5.00\n  Richmond. Cong. Ch.                                        3.97\n  Rock Falls. Cong. Ch.                                      7.28\n  Saint Charles. Cong. Ch.                                  11.00\n  Summer Hill. Cong. Ch.                                     4.00\n  Sycamore. Hon. Henry Wood, _for Austrian Crown_, given\n    by little Marie Kuchera, of Bohemia                     10.00\n  Waukegan. German Cong. Ch.                                 5.00\n  Woodburn. A. L. Sturgess                                  10.00\n  Yorkville. Cong. Ch., 6.76; Cong. Sab. Sch., 1.68          8.44\n  Yorkville. Miss Elizabeth J. Lane, Jubilee Offering        5.00\n\n  Illinois Woman's Home Missionary Union, Mrs. L. A. Field,\n    Treas.:\n      Atkinson. W. M. S.                        20.00\n      Champaign. Jr. Y. P. S. C. E., _for\n        Central Ch., New Orleans, La._          10.00\n      Chicago. New England W. M. S.             20.00\n      Chicago. Lincoln Park W. M. S.             5.25\n      Chicago. Bethlehem W. M. S.                2.00\n      Evanston. W. M. S. (10 of which Bequest\n        of Mrs. Chloe B. Wells)                 28.00\n      Glencoe. C. E. Soc.                       17.15\n      Jacksonville. Jr. C. E. Soc., _for\n        Hospital, Fort Yates, N. D._             2.50\n      La Salle. C. E. Soc.                       5.00\n      Marshall. W. M. S.                         2.00\n      Oak Park. W. M. S.                         9.20\n      Odell. W. M. S.                           10.00\n      Rockford. Second Ch. W. M. S.             33.10\n      Rockford. First Ch. W. M. S.              21.46\n      Waukegan. W. M. S.                        10.00\n      Waukegan. C. E. Soc.                       1.36\n      ----. Clara and Edward Doocy                .20\n                                                -----     $197.28\n\n\nMICHIGAN, $554.69.\n\n  Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch.                                43.35\n  Calumet. First Cong. Ch.                                  61.33\n  Chassell. Cong. Ch.                                       11.00\n  Clinton. Y. P. S. C. E., by E. A. Carney, Treas.          12.50\n  Detroit. First Cong. Ch., Ladies' Soc., Bbl. C. _for\n    Greenwood, S. C._\n  Grand Haven. Miss Margaret Lewis, _for furnishing new\n    hall, Tillotson C._                                      4.25\n  Greenville. Mrs. R. C. Ellsworth, 10; \"A Friend,\" 1       11.00\n  Marshall. Mrs. J. S. Stout                                 5.00\n  Olivet. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., 15; Benev. Soc. of Cong.\n    Ch., 5, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                 20.00\n  Olivet. Y. W. C. A., _for Student Aid, Lexington, Ky._     4.00\n  Port Huron. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day\n    Offering                                                10.00\n  Ransom. Cong. Ch.                                          4.48\n  Scio Centre. Sab. Sch., by Robt. G. Lyon, Sec.             2.76\n  Stanton. Jubilee Offering, by Rev. W. C. Burns             4.44\n  West Bay City. John Bourn, _for Alaska M._, and to\n    const. REV. J. G. GRABIEL and THOMAS R. SHAVER L.M's   100.00\n\n  Woman's Home Missionary Union of Michigan, by Mrs. E. F.\n    Grabill, Treas.\n      Allegan. W. M. S.                          2.50\n      Armada. L. A. S.                            .50\n      Benton Harbor, Y. P. S. C. E., _for\n        Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch._         4.00\n      Cheboygan. W. H. M. S.                     3.50\n      Kalamazoo. Jr. Y. P. S. C. E., _for\n        Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch._         2.50\n      Lansing. Plymouth, Y. M. Guild, _for\n        Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch._         4.18\n      Manistee. Young Woman's Guild, _for\n        Indian Schp._                           25.00\n      Maybee. L. A. S. and W. H. M. U.            .15\n                                               ------       42.33\n                                                          -------\n                                                          $336.44\n\n  ESTATE.\n\n  Niles. Estate of Dr. James Lewis                         218.25\n                                                          -------\n                                                          $554.69\n\n\nIOWA, $392.01.\n\n  Algona. King's Daughters, 10; Mrs. H. E. Stacy, 6,\n    _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              16.00\n  Atlantic. Mrs. W. Sanford _for Student Aid, Fisk U._      25.00\n  Belle Plain. Mrs. Winterstein, Bbl. of C. _for\n    Marion, Ala._\n  Burlington. Cong. Ch., 111.50; Miss Mercy Lewis, 50c.    112.00\n  Cedar Rapids. Mrs. J. C. Brocksmit                         5.00\n  Cedar Rapids. \"Willing Workers,\" _for Student Aid,\n    Beach Inst._                                             2.00\n  Corning. Rev. and Mrs. A. M. Beeman, _for Student\n  Aid, Fisk U._                                             25.00\n  Davenport. Mrs. E. J. Rowell, _for Indian M.,\n    Independence, N. D._                                     5.00\n  Decorah. First Cong. Ch.                                  22.48\n  DeWitt, First Cong. Ch.                                    5.25\n  Eldora. Rev. and Mrs. Evarts Kent, _for Student\n    Aid, Tougaloo U._                                        5.00\n  Eldora. C. M. Duren, Pkg. Sewing Material _for\n    Beach Inst._\n  Fort Dodge. Cong. Ch.                                     26.00\n  Garner. Cong. Ch.                                          8.55\n  Grinnell. W. H. M. U., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._    10.00\n  Grinnell. Y. P. S. C. E. of Cong. Ch.                      1.00\n  Independence. Cong. Ch.                                   10.00\n  Independence. S. S. Class of First Cong. Ch., 4, by\n    Miss Grace Potwin; Mrs. E. M. Potwin, Pkg. Sch.\n    Cards, _for Student Aid, Beach Institute_                4.00\n  Le Grand. Miss L. M. Craig                                 9.07\n  McIntire. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., _for freight\n    to Savannah, Ga._                                        1.50\n  Postville. Jr. C. E. Soc., _for Student Aid, Beach\n  Inst._                                                     2.00\n  Postville. Bbl. C. _for Meridian, Miss._\n\n  Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, Miss Belle L.\n    Bentley, Treas.:\n      Cedar Rapids. First, W. M. S.              5.25\n      Central City. W. M. S.                     5.00\n      Charles City. Y. P. S. C. E.              20.00\n      Creston. L. H. M. Circle                  10.00\n      Des Moines. Plymouth, W. M. S.             4.15\n      Earlville. W. M. S.                       10.00\n      Eldon. Y. P. S. C. E.                      1.17\n      Grinnell. W. H. M. U.                     21.59\n      Magnolia. W. H. M. U.                      3.50\n      Ottumwa. Jr. C. E.                         3.00\n      Tabor. L. H. M. S.                         3.50\n      Victor. W. H. M. U.                       10.00\n                                               ------       97.16\n\n\nWISCONSIN, $324.33.\n\n  Appleton. First Cong. Ch.                                  7.00\n  Delavan. Cong. Ch.                                        29.42\n  Genesee. Cong. Ch.                                         7.50\n  Hartland. Mrs. Mary LeRoy, Box C. and Papers _for\n    Tougaloo, Miss._\n  Ironton. O. C. Blanchard                                   5.00\n  Kenosha. Thomas Gillespie, M.D.                           10.00\n  Liberty. Cong. Ch.                                         2.50\n  Menasha. Rev. S. T. Kidder                                 5.00\n  Milwaukee. Sab. Sch. North Side Ch.                        2.00\n  Milwaukee. Robert P. H. Millard, _for Moorhead, Miss._     1.00\n  New Richmond. First Cong. Ch.                             40.45\n  Norrie. Cong. Ch.                                          1.71\n  Peshtigo. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n  Pine River. Miss Mary B. Spencer, _Jubilee Offering_       5.00\n  Raymond. Cong. Ch., _for Cal. Chinese M. Building_         1.90\n  Ripon. Mrs. C. H., _for Moorhead, Miss._                    .50\n  Spring Green. L. H. M. S., by Mrs. C. B. Pearson           6.25\n  Washburn. Cong. Ch.                                       10.00\n  Wausau. Jr. C. E. S., _for Moorhead, Miss._                1.65\n  Whitewater. \"Friends,\" 117; State Normal Sch., 35;\n    \"Friend,\" 15. _for enlargement of building, Memphis,\n    Tenn._                                                 167.00\n  Windsor. Cong. Ch.                                        15.45\n\n\nMINNESOTA, $64.78.\n\n  Ada. Cong. Ch.                                             7.14\n  Chowen. Rev. E. E. Rogers, _for enlargement of building,\n    Memphis, Tenn._                                          2.00\n  Graceville. Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day Offering           5.50\n  Minneapolis Lyndale Cong. Ch., 15; W. H. Norris, 15;\n    \"Rodelmer,\" 2.50                                        32.50\n  Minneapolis. Jr. E. Soc. of Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 5; A. B.\n    Brickett, 2.10, _for Indian M., Independence, N. D._     7.10\n  Minneapolis. Como Ave. Ch., _for freight to Fort\n    Berthold, N. D._                                         2.00\n  Minneapolis. Willing Workers, Park Av. Sab. Sch., _for\n    Marion, Ala._                                            1.00\n  Northfield. Carleton College, Box Pictures _for S. Inst.,\n    Blowing Rock, N. C._\n  St. Charles. Cong. Ch.                                     2.69\n  Sauk Center. E. A. Smith, _for Student Aid, Fort\n    Berthold, N. D._                                         2.00\n  Stillwater. Grace Cong. Ch.                                2.85\n\n\nMISSOURI, $532.71.\n\n  Cameron. Rev. D. E. Todd, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._   5.00\n  Kansas City. Clyde Cong. Ch.                              24.82\n  St Louis. Hope Cong Ch.                                    8.80\n  Sedalia. First Cong. Ch.                                  27.93\n\n  Woman's Home Missionary Union of Mo., by Mrs. K. L. Mills,\n    Treas.:\n      Bevier. Cong. Ch. Jr. C. E. S.             1.00\n      Bonne Terre. Cong. Ch. L. H. M. S.        10.00\n      Brookfield. Park Ch. L. H. M. S.          15.00\n      Brookfield. Park Ch. Y. P. S. C. E.        5.00\n      Carthage. Cong. Ch. L. H. M. S.           31.75\n      Hamilton. Cong. Ch. L. H. M. S.            6.75\n      Joplin. Cong. Ch. L. H. M. S.             10.00\n      Kansas City. First Ch. Y. P. S. C. E.,\n        _for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky._,\n        7.20; First Ch. Y. L. M. S., 25; First\n        Ch. Ladies' Union, 7                    39.20\n      Kansas City. Clyde Ch. Ladies' Union,\n        52.35; Clyde Ch. Y. P. S. C. E.,\n        11.35; Clyde Ch. Sab. Sch. (two\n        classes), 2.50                          66.20\n      Kansas City. S. W. Tabernacle Y. P. S.\n        C. E., 10; Southwest Tabernacle L. H.\n        M. S., 14; S. W. Tabernacle Jr. C. E.\n        S., 5                                   29.00\n      Kansas City. Olivet Ch. L. H. M. S., 5;\n        Y. P. S. C. E., 2.50                     7.50\n      Neosha. Cong. Ch. L. H. M. S.              6.00\n      New Cambria. Cong. Ch. L. H. M. S.         6.25\n      New Cambria. Cong. Ch. Y. P. S. C. E.      5.00\n      Nichols. Cong. Ch. L. H. M. S.             5.00\n      St. Joseph. Tabernacle Ch. L. H. M. S.    12.50\n      St. Louis. Central Ch. L. H. M. S.        26.00\n      St. Louis. Plymouth L. H. M. S.           16.50\n      St. Louis. Pilgrim Ch. L. H. M. S.\n        (30 of which to const. MRS. JOHN\n        McCULLOGH L. M.), 62.85; Pilgrim Jr.\n        Y. P. S. C. E., 15                      77.85\n      St. Louis. First Ch. L. H. M. S., 21;\n        First Ch. Y. L. M. S., 45.32            66.32\n      St. Louis. Olive Branch L. H. M. S., 2,\n        and Y. P. S. C. E., 1.50                 3.50\n      St. Louis. People's Tab. Y. P. S. C. E.    2.50\n      Sedalia. First Ch. Ladies' Union          20.86\n      Springfield. First Ch. Y. P. S. C. E.     10.00\n      Webster Groves. Cong. Ch. L. H. M. S.     11.00\n                                              -------\n                                              $490.68\n        Less expenses                           24.52\n                                              -------      466.16\n\n\nKANSAS, $164.72.\n\n  Clay Centre. Clarence Eastman Cong. Mem. Ch.               5.35\n  Kensington. Cong. Ch., _Jubilee Offering_                  7.00\n  Paola. Cong. Ch.                                          11.00\n  Paola. Cong. Ch., Box C. _for Saluda, N. C._\n  Wabaunsee. First Ch. of Christ                             3.50\n\n  Woman's Home Missionary Union of Kansas, by Mrs. E. C.\n    Read, Treas.:\n      Antrim. Lena Gibbs and Sister              2.00\n      Atchison                                   5.00\n      Centralia                                  5.00\n      Chapman                                    5.00\n      Douglass                                   2.00\n      Dover                                      5.00\n      Emporia                                   10.00\n      Kansas City. Pilgrim Ch.                   3.00\n      McPherson                                  3.50\n      Olathe                                     2.00\n      Ottawa. Y. P. S. C. E.                     2.50\n      Ottawa                                     5.00\n      Paola                                     12.50\n      Parsons                                    5.00\n      Russell                                    5.00\n      Sabetha                                    5.00\n      St. Mary's                                 6.00\n      Sedgwick                                   5.00\n      Seneca                                    15.00\n      Smith Center                               4.00\n      Topeka. Central Ch. (16.50 of which\n        Thank offering)                         26.68\n      Topeka. First Ch.                          1.00\n      Wellsville                                 5.50\n                                              -------\n                                              $140.68\n        Less expenses                            2.81\n                                              -------      137.87\n\n\nNEBRASKA, $25.10.\n\n  Ashland. Cong. Ch.                                        15.40\n  Kilpatrick. Cong. Ch.                                      1.65\n  Maple Creek. Cong. Ch.                                     4.05\n  Santee Agency. Miss Edith Leonard, _for Laboratory,\n    Santee_                                                  3.00\n  Santee Agency. Jr. Endeavor Soc., by Grace Lawson,\n    Treas.                                                   1.00\n  Tecumseh. Mrs. L. S. Chittenden, Pkg. Sewing Material\n    _for Lexington, Ky._\n\n\nNORTH DAKOTA, $74.92.\n\n  Caledonia. Jr. End. Soc., by Jane Clark, Treas., _for\n    Cal. Chinese M._                                         1.50\n  Cando. Cong. Ch., 3.60; Cong. Sab. Sch., 2.04              5.64\n  Fargo. Miss Curtis's Sab. Sch. Class, 3; Mission Band,\n  First Cong. Ch., 3, _for Indian M., Independence, N. D._   6.00\n  Fort Berthold. A. R. Creighton, _for Indian M.,\n    Independence, N. D._                                     5.00\n  Fort Berthold. Mrs. Susan W. Hall, _for Dakota Home_       5.00\n  Fort Yates. Grand River Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day Offering     4.00\n  Harwood. Mission Band, _for Indian M., Independence,\n    N. D._                                                   4.45\n  Independence. Miss E. Kehoe, _for Indian M.,\n    Independence, N. D._                                    15.00\n  Standing Rock. Cong. Ch., 11.70; Cannon Ball, Branch\n    Cong. Ch., 6; Grand River Ch., 10.63, by Rev. G. W.\n    Reed, Lincoln Mem. Day Offering                         28.33\n\n\nSOUTH DAKOTA, $73.87.\n\n  Oahe. Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day Offering                23.62\n  Sioux Falls. First Cong. Ch.                              14.74\n  Webster. Cong. Ch.                                         8.00\n\n  Woman's Home Missionary Union of South Dakota, Mrs.\n    F. H. Wilcox, Treas., _for Indian Schp., Santee N. T.\n    Sch., Neb._:\n      Armour. W. M. S.                           2.00\n      Ashton. W. M. S.                           1.76\n      Badger Lake. W. M. S.                      8.00\n      Burnside Academy. W. M. S.                 1.25\n      Chamberlain. W. M. S.                      1.25\n      Columbia. W. M. S.                         1.50\n      Deadwood. W. M. S.                         2.25\n      Henry. W. M. S.                            1.50\n      Huron. W. M. S.                            2.00\n      Iroquois. Infant Class, Birthday Box        .25\n      Pierre. W. M. S.                           2.50\n      Santee, Neb. W. M. S.                      3.25\n                                               ------       27.51\n\n\nCOLORADO, $25.83.\n\n  Grand Junction. First Cong. Ch.                           12.00\n  Highland Lake. Ch. of Christ                               1.28\n  Otis and Hyde. Cong. Chs.                                  3.00\n  Pueblo. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                                  9.55\n\n\nUTAH, $37.00.\n\n  Park City. First Cong. Ch.                                37.00\n\n\nCALIFORNIA, $122.00.\n\n  Belmont. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Reed, 10; By Mrs. E. L.\n    Reed, 2                                                 12.00\n  Monrovia. Mrs. H. T. Clapperton                            5.00\n  Pasadena. \"G. L.\"                                         10.00\n  Pomona. \"Mrs. L. H. P.\"                                   10.00\n  California Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Mary\n    M. Smith, Treas.:\n      Highland. W. M. S.                         5.00\n      Los Angeles. First Ch. Y. L. M. Soc.\n       (75 of which from Mrs. A. A. Mayhew)     80.00\n                                               ------       85.00\n\n\nWASHINGTON, $7.30.\n\n  Colfax. Y. P. S. C. E., Plym. Ch.                          3.25\n  Roy. Cong. Ch.                                              .65\n  Yelm. Cong. Ch.                                            1.00\n\n  Woman's Home Missionary Union of Washington, by Mrs.\n    J. W. George, Treas.:\n      Fairhaven. W. M. S.                                    2.40\n\n\nDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $46.00.\n\n  Washington. People's Cong. Ch.                             5.00\n  Washington. Plymouth Ch., 8.29; W. M. Circle, 3, and C.\n    E. Soc. of Plym. Ch., 4.71; Lincoln Mem. Day Offering   16.00\n  Washington. \"A Jubilee Offering,\" _for Student Aid, Nat,\n    Ala._                                                   25.00\n\n\nMARYLAND, $30.00.\n\n  Baltimore. MRS. M. R. HAWLEY, to const. herself L.M.      30.00\n\n\nVIRGINIA, $5.50.\n\n  Gloucester. Miss F. Lancaster, 1; H. W. Smith, 1; C.\n    Holmes, 50c.; The Grove Bap. Sab. Sch., 3, _for\n    Gloucester Sch._                                         5.50\n\n\nKENTUCKY, $19.28.\n\n  Lexington. Chandler Sch., 5.33; Hand Sch., 2.67; Chandler\n    Mission S. S., 1; Hand Mission S. S., 1                 10.00\n  Lexington. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_                    2.83\n  Pioneer. Cong. Ch.                                         2.00\n  Pleasant View. Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day Offering        2.45\n  Red Ash. Cong. Ch.                                         2.00\n\n\nTENNESSEE, $244.08.\n\n  Deer Lodge. Cong. Ch. (result of a Birthday Party), 10;\n    Cong. Ch. 1                                             11.00\n  Grand View. Rev. Henry W. Webb, _Jubilee Offering_         1.00\n  Jonesboro. Lincoln Mem. Day Offering, by Rev. S. A.\n    Paris                                                    1.44\n  Knoxville. Miss Ida F. Hubbard                             4.13\n  Memphis. Students of Le Moyne Institute, _for\n    enlargement of building, Memphis, Tenn._               103.00\n  Memphis. John B. Clough, 25; J. S. Menken, 25; Dr. D.\n    T. Porter, 25, _for enlargement of building, Memphis,\n    Tenn._                                                  75.00\n  Mill Creek. Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day Offering           1.76\n  Nashville. Howard Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day Offering          25.00\n  Nashville. Union Ch., Fisk U., 10; Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n    Fisk U., 4.20; Miss'y Soc., Fisk U., 7.55               21.75\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA, $14.50.\n\n  Blowing Rock. \"A Friend,\" _for Blowing Rock_               1.00\n  Chapel Hill. Cong Ch. and Sab. Sch.                        1.00\n  Enfield. M. M. Jackson, 1; Ella M. Thomason, 1             2.00\n  High Point. Miss S. E. Edwards, _for Gloucester Sch._       .50\n  Strieby. Cong. Ch. (of which Edmon Potter, 25c.; Leala\n    Tyson, 15c.), Lincoln Mem. Day Offering                  2.00\n  Troy. Cong. Ch.                                            4.00\n  Wadesboro. Little Mills Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day\n    Offering                                                 4.00\n\n\nSOUTH CAROLINA, $12.45.\n\n  Columbia. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                                1.45\n  Greenwood. Greenwood Sch. and Ch.                         11.00\n\n\nGEORGIA, $22.04.\n\n  Andersonville. Cong. Ch.                                   2.35\n  Macon. Miss Mary Simons, 4; Mrs. Alfred Marsh, 1, _for\n    Macon, Ga._                                              5.00\n  Macon. Miss E. B. Scobie, Pkg. Patchwork _for Helena,\n    Ark._\n  McIntosh. Prof. Fred W. Foster, _for Student Aid_          5.00\n  Rutland. Rutland Ch., 3.66; Sab. Sch., 62c., and Y. P. S.\n    C. E., 22c.; Byron Ch., 2; Lincoln Mem. Day Offering     6.50\n  Woodville. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. (1.75 of which Lincoln Mem.\n    Day Offering), 2.14; Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke, 1.05      3.19\n\n\nALABAMA, $41.06.\n\n  Athens. Sab. Sch. and C. E. S., Lincoln Mem. Day\n    Offering                                                 1.77\n  Birmingham. Cong. Ch., 2.80; Sab. Sch., 60c.; Ladies'\n    Missionary Soc., 7.14; Abraham Lincoln Cent. Soc.,\n    1.45; Y. P. S. C. E., 70c.; Lincoln Mem. Day Offering   12.69\n  Fort Payne. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._                  1.00\n  Ironaton. Rev. P. O. Wailes                                3.00\n  Nat. From Unknown Source, Box Books and Pictures\n  New Decatur. People's Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day Offering      20.80\n  Shelby. Cong. Ch.                                          1.00\n  Talladega. Rocky Mount Mission Sab. Sch.                    .80\n\n\nLOUISIANA $64.00.\n\n  New Orleans. University Cong. Ch. (35 of which from\n    \"Students and their friends\") to const. ALFRED LAWLESS\n    and ARMAND V. BOUTLE L.M's, _Jubilee Offering_          60.00\n  New Orleans and Chacahoula. Morris Brown Ch. and Zion\n    Ch.                                                      2.00\n  Thibodeaux. First Cong. Ch.                                2.00\n\n\nFLORIDA, $36.20.\n\n  Daytona. First Cong. Ch.                                  20.80\n  Martin. Teachers and Pupils of Union Sch., by Miss\n    Mattie J. Brydie, _Jubilee Offering_                    15.40\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI, $55.00.\n\n  Meridian. \"A Friend,\" _for Student Aid_                   10.00\n  Tougaloo. Miss C. E. Parkhurst, _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._                                           15.00\n  Tougaloo. Miss M. P. Roberts, _for Tougaloo, Miss._       15.00\n  Tougaloo. Frank H. Ball, 10; Mrs. L. M. Sisson, 5, _for\n    Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                               15.00\n\n\nTEXAS, $10.95.\n\n  Austin. Tillotson Ch. of Christ, 4.55; C. E. Soc. of\n    Tillotson C., 1.40, _for Jubilee Offering_               5.95\n  Helena. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n\n\nCANADA, $5.00.\n\n  Montreal. Chas. Alexander                                  5.00\n                                                       ----------\n\nDonations                                              $13,185.84\n\nEstates                                                 14,098.84\n\n                                                       ----------\n                                                       $27,284.68\n\n\nINCOME, $2,223.46.\n\n  Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                   195.02\n  De Forest Fund, _for President's Chair,\n    Talladega C._                                3.87\n  Hammond Fund, _for Straight U._                5.45\n  Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._            13.67\n  Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._            5.45\n  Income, _for Talladega C._                 2,000.00\n                                            ---------    2,223.46\n\n\nTUITION, $4,682.32.\n\n  Cappahosic, Va. Tuition                       10.00\n  Evarts, Ky. Tuition                           22.85\n  Lexington, Ky. Tuition                        99.67\n  Williamsburg, Ky. Tuition                    122.15\n  Jonesboro, Tenn. Public Fund                 175.00\n  Jonesboro, Tenn. Tuition                      12.50\n  Knoxville, Tenn. Tuition                      52.90\n  Memphis, Tenn. Tuition                       494.00\n  Nashville, Tenn. Tuition                     506.90\n  Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition                  55.67\n  Beaufort, N. C. Tuition                       17.50\n  Blowing Rock, N. C. Tuition                   26.75\n  Chapel Hill, N. C. Tuition                    16.05\n  Hillsboro, N. C. Tuition                      25.09\n  King's Mountain, N. C. Tuition                30.00\n  Saluda, N. C. Tuition                        105.74\n  Troy, N. C. Tuition                            2.00\n  Whittier, N. C. Tuition                       20.98\n  Wilmington, N. C. Tuition                    168.00\n  Charleston, S. C. Tuition                    274.15\n  Greenwood, S. C. Tuition                     121.70\n  Albany, Ga. Tuition                          120.00\n  Atlanta, Ga. Storrs Sch. Tuition             160.00\n  Macon, Ga. Tuition                           211.41\n  Marietta, Ga. Tuition                          7.50\n  Marshallville, Ga. Tuition                     3.50\n  McIntosh, Ga. Tuition                         60.35\n  Savannah, Ga. Tuition                        163.51\n  Thomasville, Ga. Tuition                      50.80\n  Woodville, Ga. Tuition                         2.85\n  Joppa, Ala. Tuition                            3.91\n  Marion, Ala. Tuition                          57.45\n  Mobile, Ala. Tuition                          78.20\n  Nat, Ala. Tuition                             56.25\n  Selma, Ala. Tuition                          108.45\n  Talladega, Ala. Tuition                      219.59\n  Meridian, Miss. Tuition                       65.75\n  Tougaloo, Miss. Tuition                      123.75\n  New Orleans, La. Tuition                     480.05\n  Martin, Fla. Public Fund                      19.00\n  Orange Park, Fla. Tuition                     59.25\n  Helena, Ark. Tuition                         156.40\n  Austin, Texas. Tuition                        85.25\n                                              -------    4,682.32\n                                                       ----------\n\nTotal for March                                        $34,190.46\n                                                       ==========\n\n\nSUMMARY.\n\n  Donations                                            $87,099.78\n  Estates                                               66,936.42\n                                                      -----------\n                                                      $154,036.20\n  Income                                                 6,352.76\n  Tuition                                               23,491.00\n                                                      -----------\n\n  Total from Oct. 1 to March 31                       $183,879.96\n                                                     ============\n\n\nFOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n  Subscriptions for March                                  $43.10\n  Previously acknowledged                                  315.68\n                                                         --------\n  Total                                                   $358.78\n\n\nENDOWMENT FUND.\n\n  New York, N. Y. Estate of Olivia P. Atterbury, balance\n    in full of $5,000, by Anson P. Atterbury, Executor,\n    _for the education and preparation of colored persons\n    as Missionaries to Africa_                            $250.00\n\n\n  H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,\n  Bible House, N. Y.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 50, No. 05, May, 1896","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":16942}