{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_29165/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_29165","id":"gutenberg_29165","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29165","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: History - Religious","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD, and the Online\nDistributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This\nfile was produced from images generously made available\nby Cornell University Digital Collections.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  The American Missionary\n\n  January, 1884.\n\n  VOL. XXXVIII.\n\n  NO. 1.]\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n                                                           PAGE.\n\nEDITORIAL:\n\n    ANOTHER YEAR--THIS NUMBER                                  1\n    PAMPHLET--AMERICAN MISSIONARY--JOINT COMMITTEE             2\n    ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY                                 3\n    PARAGRAPHS                                                 4\n    WANTED--BENEFACTIONS--GENERAL NOTES                        5\n    TRAVELING IN AFRICA (CUT)                                  6\n    CHINESE WOMEN (CUT)                                        8\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK:\n\n    THE INDIAN WOMAN, BY MRS. A. L. RIGGS                      9\n    THE CHINESE, BY MRS. W. C. POND                           11\n    MOUNTAIN WHITE WORK IN KENTUCKY, BY MRS. A. A. MYERS      12\n    COLORED PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH, BY MISS IDA M. BEACH         16\n    REPORT OF THE SECRETARY                                   19\n    FORM OF CONSTITUTION--THE BUREAU IN THE WEST              21\n\n\nCHILDREN'S PAGE:\n\n    CHRISTMAS GIVING AT MYSTIC, CONN.                         23\n    CHILDREN BEARING CHRISTMAS GIFTS (CUT)                    24\n\nRECEIPTS                                                      26\n\nCONSTITUTION                                                  30\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNEW YORK:\n\nPUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nRooms, 56 Reade Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPrice 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.\n\nEntered at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class\nmatter.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n\nPRESIDENT.\n\n  Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, LL.D., Mass.\n\n\nVICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n  REV. C. L. GOODELL, D.D.;\n  REV. F. A. NOBLE, D.D.;\n  REV. A. J. F. BEHRENDS, D.D.;\n  REV. J. E. RANKIN, D.D.;\n  REV. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D.\n\n\nCORRESPONDING SECRETARY.--REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street,\n  N. Y._\n\n\nTREASURER.--H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\nAUDITORS.--WM. A. NASH, W. H. ROGERS.\n\n\nEXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n  JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman;\n  A. P. FOSTER, Secretary;\n  LYMAN ABBOTT,\n  A. S. BARNES,\n  J. R. DANFORTH,\n  CLINTON B. FISK,\n  S. B. HALLIDAY,\n  EDWARD HAWKS,\n  SAMUEL HOLMES,\n  CHARLES A. HULL,\n  SAMUEL S. MARPLES,\n  CHARLES L. MEAD,\n  S. H. VIRGIN,\n  WM. H. WARD,\n  J. L. WITHROW.\n\n\nDISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n  Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, D.D., _Boston_.\n  Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_.\n  Rev. JAMES POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields, to\nthe District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the \"American\nMissionary,\" to Rev. G. D. 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A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\"I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- dollars, in\ntrust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the person\nwho, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the\n'American Missionary Association' of New York City, to be applied,\nunder the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to\nits charitable uses and purposes.\" The Will should be attested by\nthree witnesses.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n[Illustration: COUNT RUMFORD.]\n\nHORSFORD'S\n\nACID PHOSPHATE.\n\n(LIQUID.)\n\nFOR DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION, NERVOUSNESS,\nDIMINISHED VITALITY, URINARY DIFFICULTIES, ETC.\n\n\n  PREPARED ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTION OF\n  Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass.\n\n\nThere seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical authority\nof the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has ever been\noffered to the public which seems to so happily meet the general want\nas this.\n\nIt is not nauseous, but agreeable to the taste.\n\nNo danger can attend its use.\n\nIts action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to\ntake.\n\nIt makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only.\n\nPrices reasonable. Pamphlet giving further particulars mailed free on\napplication.\n\n\n  MANUFACTURED BY THE RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS,\n  Providence, R. I.,\n  AND FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMANHATTAN\n\nLIFE INS. CO. OF NEW YORK,\n\n_156 and 158 Broadway._\n\n\nTHIRTY-THIRD YEAR.\n\n\nDESCRIPTION--One of the oldest, strongest, best.\n\nPOLICIES--Incontestable, non-forfeitable, definite cash surrender\nvalues.\n\nRATES--Safe, low, and participating or not, as desired.\n\nRISKS carefully selected.\n\nPROMPT, liberal dealing.\n\n\nGENERAL AGENTS AND CANVASSERS WANTED in desirable territory, to whom\npermanent employment and liberal compensation will be given.\n\nAddress\n\n  H. STOKES, President.\n\n  H. Y. WEMPLE, Sec'y.\n  S. N. STEBBINS, Act'y.\n  J. L. HALSEY, 1st V.-P.\n  H. B. STOKES, 2d V.-P.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\nVOL. XXXVIII.     JANUARY, 1884.     NO. 1.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAnother year. Are we ready for it, ready to work and to win? The\nharvest is still plenteous and every increase of store is precious.\nWho can measure such privilege? And what of opportunities? The\nswift-winged events of our civilization are continually hurrying us\ninto the midst of them. It is a day of speedy rewards. Christ comes\nquickly in these times. The business of the Church is helped as\nabsolutely as secular business by the development and use of material\nagencies for advancement. What is wanted is the good seed of the\nword. It is that--the light which shines forth from _that_--which\ngives life and growth and masterly power. We want faith in the\npromises. It shall be said, \"The kingdoms of this world are become\nthe kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ.\" The truth of it is not to\nbe doubted or eclipsed. We want power from on high, and that is\nneither distant nor subject to unseasonable delay. What the year\nshall be is for us, under God, to determine. Let us labor and pray\nthat the word of promise--the divine imbuement--may make rich and\nfruitful, and place the great religious interests of our land on the\nfoundation of God which standeth sure.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe devote considerable space in this number of the _Missionary_ to\nthe papers and reports presented at the Woman's Meeting held in\nconnection with our Annual Meeting in Brooklyn. The topics considered\nrelated to the wide range of work conducted by this Association. They\nwere treated by persons having much experience in our mission fields,\nand will be welcomed not only as interesting reading, but as\nfurnishing authoritative data for the encouragement of the friends of\nour work. The constitution proposed at the meeting, for Women's\nco-operative societies is given, and is commended to the attention of\nthose ladies who desire to aid mission work in our own country.\n\nThe valuable Paper on \"Woman's Work in Modern Charity and Missions,\"\nread by Rev. A. H. Bradford at our Annual Meeting, not published\nelsewhere, has been put in pamphlet form, with a view to general\ndistribution. We will be pleased to furnish copies gratuitously, in\nsuch numbers as may be desired, to those wishing it for the promotion\nof woman's work.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe are happy to report that the practice of paying for subscriptions\nfor the _American Missionary_ is becoming more general year by year.\nThis is as it should be. We try to make the _Missionary_ worth the\nprice, which is fifty cents annually. We believe the information it\ncontains is of value to all, and that most of it cannot be found\nelsewhere. Will not our friends kindly aid us in its circulation,\nremitting to our treasurer at once what may be gathered for that\npurpose?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nJOINT COMMITTEE.\n\n\nThe Joint Committee appointed by the American Home Missionary Society\nand the American Missionary Association for the consideration of the\nrelation between the two societies, met by adjournment at\nSpringfield, Mass., Dec. 11. The committee on the part of the A. H.\nM. S. consisted of Rev. J. E. Twitchell, D.D., Rev. Lyman Abbott,\nD.D., Rev. Geo. L. Walker, D.D., Rev. C. L. Goodell, D.D., and A. S.\nBarnes, Esq. The Committee on the part of the A. M. A. consisted of\nRev. J. L. Withrow, D.D., Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., Rev. D. O.\nMears, D.D., Prest. S. C. Bartlett, and Rev. W. H. Ward, D.D. All\nwere present except Dr. Goodell, and his place was filled by Mr. S.\nB. Capen. A letter from Dr. Goodell was read. Dr. Barrows,\nrepresenting the Home Missionary Society, and Dr. Strieby,\nrepresenting the American Missionary Association, were also present\nby invitation.\n\nIt was manifest that the members of the Committee were equally\nfriends of both societies and sought only their greatest efficiency.\nNo partisan feeling found utterance. The members of the Committee are\nmen of independent views and judgment, and examined the subject\nbefore them from different standpoints, and yet reached in the paper\npresented below a remarkable degree of unanimity--every item\nreceiving a unanimous vote. The result will command and deserves the\nattention of the churches. The following is\n\nTHE ACTION OF THE COMMITTEE.\n\nConsulting the principle of comity between the two societies--the A.\nH. M. S. and the A. M. A.--and that traditional policy of\nCongregationalists which ignores caste and color lines, and also in\nview of the present relative position and strength of the two\nsocieties, we, the Joint Committee, give as our judgment:\n\n1. That, as heretofore, the principal work of the American Home\nMissionary Society should be in the West, and the principal work of\nthe American Missionary Association should be in the South.\n\n2. Whatever new work may be called for in any locality should be\nunder the charge of the society already occupying the ground. No\nexception to this rule should be allowed unless it be by agreement\nbetween the two societies.\n\n3. Concerning work already established by either society, we would\nrecommend that if either comity, economy or efficiency will be\nadvanced by it, such a transfer of the work should be made as shall\nbring the work of the societies into harmony with the preceding\nrecommendations.\n\n4. We would recommend to the two societies to consider the\npracticability of using a common superintendent in those portions of\nthe field where an economical and efficient administration will be\nsecured by it.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nONE THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY.\n\n\nWhat can be done with it? We can sustain efficiently our current work\nof educating teachers and preachers and the planting of churches. In\nthe progress of development, more requires more. If the Association\ndid not need increased receipts it would be evidence of lack of\ngrowth. There is no such lack. New demands are springing up at every\npoint, and it is wise economy to meet these demands. They are simply\nthe healthy development of legitimate missionary work.\n\nJust now there is urgent demand for the increase of facilities for\npromoting industrial education. The South is arising into a new life.\nNew fields of labor are rapidly opening. Skilled workmen are wanted.\nThe possibilities of agricultural prosperity are becoming better\nunderstood. The aspiring youth of both sexes are comprehending their\nopportunities, and the industrial departments in connection with our\ninstitutions are patronized as never before. We ought to make the\nmost of them now.\n\nWe need more means for supplying the minds of those hungering for\nknowledge with good reading. The colored people have few, if any,\nbooks or periodicals. We ought to have the means at once for\nfurnishing fifty libraries and reading-rooms at as many different\npoints. Such help to those willing to help themselves to some extent\nshould be provided.\n\nThe students leaving our schools to go forth as teachers may be\nnumbered by thousands. These explore the dark places of the land.\nThey open schools in such buildings as can be found, or, finding\nnone, teach out of doors. We need means to aid many such with\nsupplemental support, making it possible for them to continue their\nschools longer than the few months provided for by the limited State\nappropriations. Thousands of dollars could be used wisely in this\nway. The opportunity now for temperance work is more promising than\never. A temperance wave has been sweeping some portions of the South.\nOur students are thoroughly indoctrinated in the principles of total\nabstinence. They make the best advocates of the cause that can be had\nfor many localities. It is a crucial period. The time to do this work\nis now--now, while the great questions at issue are being agitated\nand settled. We ought to have means for extending our efforts to the\nutmost in this direction.\n\nOf more importance still is evangelistic work, supplemental to the\nlabors of our pastors. This is coming into more than usual\nprominence. Our students have had thorough training for it, and no\nlittle experience in it during their course of study. A score of them\nin every Southern State could be set to work with profit, if we had\nthe money for such outlay. Nothing could do more for immediate\nresults in developing a pure Christianity among the untaught and\nunsaved poor of the South.\n\nWe might also, with a thousand dollars a day, do more than we have\never done to foster the growth of right and permanent institutions in\nall our fields of labor. This is the great and urgent necessity. Out\nof Christian churches and schools will flow all the benefits demanded\nby a Christian civilization. For this especially we emphasize our\nappeal. To what better use can the Christians and patriots of our\ncountry devote a thousand dollars a day?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA friend, noting the annual average addition of churches as five or\nsix, raised the question whether the time had not come for doubling\nthat rate. The Association is glad to recognize this worthy\naspiration and itself to avow the spirit of it, and still further to\nremind the friends that the disposition of leaders on the field to\nmagnify the work of each year is also in the same line. Nevertheless,\nwe find that those who become in some sense responsible for the\nnurture and support of these ecclesiastical children born to us\nbecome conservative instead of becoming rash, as is sometimes\naverred. Yet we are able to give assurance that the Field\nSuperintendent and his associates, with their eyes upon the whole\nfield, watching the germs and their unfolding, are only anxious to\nset out these plants of the Lord's house as fast as is at all\nconsistent. We also see, in no far-away future, a large church work\nfor us as the fruitage of our school work.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA prize of $75 is given annually to the best male Greek scholar in\nthe High School at Newport, R. I. The best examination this year was\nby the daughter of George Rice, the colored steward of the steamer\nPilgrim. As she was not eligible to the award a gentleman from New\nYork sent her $75 in gold.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWANTED!\n\n\n--We greatly need a new school building, for the lower grades at\nTougaloo University, a two-story building with school rooms below and\na chapel above. Who will give $3,000 for ---- Hall at Tougaloo?\n\n--We need also a steam engine for the Industrial Department at\nTougaloo, a portable engine of ten or twelve horse-power. Who will\ngive it, or the money needful?\n\n--We need twenty or more sets of carpenters' tools for schools of\ncarpentry at Talladega and elsewhere. Who will give one or more sets?\n\n--We need illustrated books and magazines for our Reading Rooms. Who\nwill give us subscriptions to _Wide Awake_, _St. Nicholas_, etc., or\nmoney to buy such books as will help to create the reading habit?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\n\nRutgers College has received $1,000 toward an endowment fund from Mr.\nR. H. Ballentine, Newark, N. J.\n\nMayor Low, of Brooklyn, has given the city of Salem, Mass., $7,500,\nthe income of which is to be applied in aid of needy students in\ncollege.\n\nIllinois College has recently received a gift of $1,000 from Mr. E.\nW. Blatchford, of Chicago, who was a member of the class of '65.\n\nMr. George W. Dixon, of Bethlehem, Pa., has given $20,000 to Linden\nHall Female Seminary, to build a Gothic chapel in memory of his\ndaughter.\n\nMr. Roland Mather, of Hartford, Conn., has given $10,000 to Olivet\nCollege, Mich.\n\nJoseph Dean, of Minneapolis, has placed in the hands of the trustees\nof Hamlin University $25,000 to increase the endowment of that\ninstitution.\n\nMrs. Robert L. Stuart has given $150,000 to Princeton College to\nendow the department of philosophy and pay the salaries of professors\nin logic, ethics and psychology.\n\n_Among the wants specified in the report of the Executive Committee\nof the A. M. A. for the coming year was $10,000 for a new hall for\nthe Edward Smith College, at Little Rock, Ark. It is proposed that\nthe donor of the amount name the hall at his discretion._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n--Among the Belgians no less than six commercial societies have been\nconstituted to explore the Congo.\n\n--The Livingstone Inland Mission has founded a new station at Ngoma's\nTown, one hundred kilometers up the river from Stanley Pool.\n\n--The merchants of Lisbon have constituted a company for the\nnavigation of the Quanza. They have constructed to this effect in\nEngland a steamer, the Serpa Pinto, which was to be delivered in\nSeptember.\n\n--The Scotch Presbyterian Church have decided to furnish a steamer\nfor the use of the Old Calabar Mission. The young people throughout\nthe church have been requested to take up the matter and secure the\nmoney by the time the steamer is ready.\n\n--According to a dispatch from Sierra Leone the Queen of Massah, with\nthe consent of the native chiefs, has authorized the annexation of\nthe neighboring territory of Sherbro to the English possession, which\nwill thus extend without interruption from Sierra Leone to Liberia.\n\n[Illustration: TRAVELING IN AFRICA.]\n\n--The fever of speculation reigns at Axim and in the districts of the\nGolden Coast. From the climate and the conditions of exploration, the\nworking of the mines proceeds slowly. Commander Cameron, director of\nthe West African Goldfields Company, has introduced upon his grant\nthe hydraulic processes employed in California.\n\n--The _Journal_ of Geneva announces that the International African\nAssociation is occupied at present in seeking colonists who will\nreceive gratuitously land in the countries of the Congo, of which\nStanley has taken possession. It is negotiating to attract the\nGermans, and already the Prussian journals speak of the creation of a\nGerman Consulate.\n\n--Flegel has offered to the African German Society to make a new\nexploration in a region entirely unknown, which extends to the Congo;\nor, if they choose, to return toward the west to Mount Cameroon. The\nGovernment of the German Empire has granted a sum of 50,000 francs\nfor this exploration. On the other hand, some private individuals of\nLagos, where Flegel has resided since his last voyage, have furnished\nhim funds with which to conduct an exploration to the basin of the\nNiger and to Benoue, in the advancement of science and commerce.\n\n--Mr. Petersen and Dr. Sims have founded at Stanley Pool a new\nstation for the Livingstone Inland Mission. Dr. Sims very quickly\ncommenced to heal the sick, which gained him the confidence of the\nnatives. These latter do not labor hard enough to produce from their\nland the provisions necessary for the number of Europeans established\nat Stanley Pool, and the price of provisions has greatly increased.\nThe steamer, Henry Reed, destined for the Upper Congo was to start\nout the first of August.\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n--Of the 6,000 Pi-Utes it is said that there are never more than 600\non their reservation at one time. Not more than fifty attend the\nagency school.\n\n--The National Indian Association, an organization composed\nexclusively of ladies, has for its object to obtain for the Indians\nthe rights of citizens, and to induce the Government to allow them to\nown farms.\n\n--The General Council of the Choctaw Nation, recently closed,\nappropriated $100,000 for the erection of a new council house, the\nold one to be used as a manual-labor school for the education and\ntraining in industrial pursuits of fifty orphan boys.\n\n--The ceremony of receiving Sitting-Bull into the Catholic Church at\nFort Yates has been indefinitely postponed because Sitting-Bull\ncannot make up his mind which of his two wives he will let go. Bishop\nMarty has had him under his care for several months, and his\ninstructions were being rapidly absorbed by the Chief; but separation\nfrom his wives proved too much, and he will probably return to\nheathenism.\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n--The missionaries in China, to the number of 231, have presented\nanother petition to the House of Commons against the infamous opium\ntraffic.\n\n--There is a Chinaman at work in Tahiti, in the South Sea Islands,\nwho is said to be a whole Bible society in himself, expending twenty\ndollars a month out of a salary of twenty-five dollars, for Bibles to\ndistribute among his countrymen there.\n\n--The largest bell in the world is in Kiota, Japan. It is 24 feet\nhigh and 16 inches thick at the rim. It is sounded by a suspended\npiece of wood, like a battering ram, which strikes it on the outside,\nand its booming can be heard for miles. Nobody knows when or by whom\nit was cast, and though its surface is covered with characters, no\nscholar has yet been able to translate them.\n\n--The _Foreign Missionary_ says the great secret of success in\nteaching the Chinese in America lies in the direct personal influence\nof the teacher over the pupil. Generally each pupil is provided with\na teacher, and the chances of spiritual benefit are in direct\nproportion to the cordial sympathy and manifest kindness evinced. The\nfirst important revelation that dawns upon the Chinaman is that there\nare those in this land who are not hoodlums, and that brutality is\nnot the universal law in America; that Christianity is higher and\npurer than the enactments of Congress, and that Christ is the friend\nof all men, and has died for Chinamen as well as \"Melicans.\"\n\n[Illustration: CHINESE WOMEN.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\nMISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPAPERS READ AT THE WOMAN'S MEETING IN BROOKLYN.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE INDIAN WOMAN.\n\nBY MRS. A. L. RIGGS.\n\n\nTo describe an Indian woman is no easy task for one who lives among\nthem, for every peculiarity becomes so familiar, and so interwoven\nwith our common everyday experience, that we forget how strange and\nunlike white women she appeared to us at first. But she is a woman,\neven though she wears her shawl over her head and carries her baby on\nher back.\n\nHow uninteresting, you must think, and she probably thinks the same\nof you. She does not know that you care for her. She feels that she\nis different in some way, and most likely if you smile upon her she\nwill not know it, for she is too modest even to look at you; but\nspeak to her in a pleasant tone and offer to shake hands with her and\nnotice her baby, and she begins to think that _you_ are a woman. In\nher no trace of dignity nor Pocahontas beauty are discernible, but\nshe is untidy in person and attire, her movements are decidedly\nlackadaisical. An uninteresting object, indeed, to one who does not\ncare to help her. But _we_ believe that she has a woman's heart; and\nmore than that--she has a soul.\n\nHer aspirations for herself are limited, but she wants her child to\ngrow up in the white people's way. Yet how small her conception of\nhow this is to be accomplished!\n\nShe is a heathen--hemmed in on every side by fear and superstition.\nHer gods are gods of fear. She believes in witchcraft, is afraid of a\nworld full of evil spirits. Under a pagan religion her place is next\nto the mere animals. She goes with her husband to the hunt, not as a\ncompanion, but as the drudge, the human pack-horse; she prepares the\nfood, and her husband devours it regardless of her needs; he may\nboast of his \"old woman\" as being \"nina mimi heca\" (swift or good to\nwork) for that is the only accomplishment required in his selfish,\negotistical mind. \"The Indian woman comes into the world under a\nspecies of protest--every Indian parent desiring to have boys, rather\nthan girls, hence she grows up into a condition of servitude.\" \"In\nthe Indian nation to purchase a wife is the honorable way, all other\nways are dishonorable, and the man having bought his wife, although\nthe custom of the country does not allow him to dispose of her to\nanother, yet he may put her away, or leave her, at his pleasure. He\nmay also whip her and beat her, for she is his money.\" I never shall\nforget one poor woman who came to me soon after we went to the Indian\ncountry. She showed me her back covered with the marks where her\nhusband had beaten her.\n\nNow I have given you a brief description of the Indian woman _as we\nfind her_. What can be done for her? What would _you_ do for her?\nThere is only one thing. _Help her to become a Christian._ This is\nnot to be accomplished in a hurry, for she is in bondage to her\nhusband--to her religion. But faith and prayer, together with a\ngenuine interest in the Indian home, can accomplish much. Desolate\nand comfortless though that home may be, it can be transformed, and\nthe husband even can be made to see that there is something more\nreal, something that is more satisfying, something that is more\ncomforting than this life of fear and bondage to his heathen gods.\n\"The man has more to give up than the woman if he becomes a\nChristian. If a woman changes her gods and her religion, no one cares\nvery much; it is 'only a woman.' But a man must abandon his ancestral\nfaith, which binds him more strongly than the woman, for the very\nreason that he is a man, and has been inducted into manhood through\nthe ceremonies of his religion.\"\n\nHe can be led to see that his wife is worth more to him than his\nhorse or his dog; and he begins to see that he can do some of the\nwork which she has been obliged to do, and thus she is enabled to\nmake home more attractive. With the dawn of Christianity comes the\nfirst effort toward civilized ways. The husband now brings the wood\nand water, and little by little a few household conveniences appear,\nsuch as chairs, a table, a few dishes; also knives and forks are used\ninstead of fingers; even lambrequins are sometimes seen--hung,\nhowever, in the most absurd way, outside the shades--and we are\nastonished to see in some of the houses white counterpanes and\nruffled pillow-shams. Also a U. S. T. D. blanket is often spread down\nfor a carpet, and the rude, rough walls are covered with pictures cut\nfrom illustrated newspapers.\n\nWe find them ready and anxious to be taught many simple and needful\ndomestic arts, such as making light bread and preparing wholesome\ndishes of food for the sick. The teaching of making light bread\nbecame quite an important part of my duties as a missionary's wife,\nand for the Indian women to take lessons in bread-making became quite\nfashionable.\n\nThen she shows a desire to dress like white women, and instead of the\nbroadcloth skirt tied around her waist with a string and the short\ncalico sack, and moccasins upon her feet, she appears with a kilt\nplaiting around her dress skirt, and, what probably in her mind is an\nimprovement upon white woman's taste, the plaiting is headed with two\nor three rows of bright worsted skirt braid. As she admires the thin\nand lightly covered head of the white baby, she closely clips her own\nbaby's hair so as to have it as nearly like a white baby as possible.\nBut all this is the mere outside of life--one benefit which\nChristianity brings to her personally. She begins to show that she\nhas become a missionary at heart and that she has a desire to send\nthis great blessing which has wrought such a change in her home into\nother homes; and as others like herself, near at hand, have been\ntreasuring up the blessed words of the Lord Jesus, \"Go ye and preach\nmy gospel,\" they begin to think that they can do something to send\nthe good tidings to those who are in the darkness which so recently\nsurrounded themselves.\n\nNow, in the Dakota mission, we have thirteen churches, and in every\none a woman's missionary society, and the money raised is used to\nsupport native missionaries--that is, Christian Indians are sent out\namong the heathen Indians as missionaries, and are supported by\nIndian societies. The Indian woman's society is conducted very much\nlike any sewing society among white women. Some woman is appointed to\nlead the devotional exercises, and we have our officers appointed\nannually. They make children's clothing after the white woman's\nfashion, and many useful articles similar to those usually made in\nsewing societies. Those women who are able make articles after their\nown styles, such as moccasins, pretty bags handsomely ornamented with\nporcupine, bead or ribbon work. These articles are gifts to the\nsociety, and we have no difficulty in disposing of them to those who\nwish specimens of Indian woman's skill in fancy work, or who may wish\nto help this native missionary work which is being so nobly carried\non. Some of these women are really wonderful in their zeal and\nfaithfulness, walking six, seven, or eight miles to the meeting every\nweek. I could tell you many things about these faithful Christian\nIndian women, but do you wish any better proof of the hold\nChristianity has upon Indians?\n\nAs I said before, an Indian woman's aspirations for herself are\nlimited, but she wants her child to grow up in the white people's\nway. Now, if we are to elevate the Indian nation, let us plant in the\nhomes the desire for the Gospel, and as we do it gather the children\nas fast as they are old enough to leave their mother's care into\nChristian training schools. Now out in the Indian country we are all\nthe time carrying on missionary work in the homes, planting schools,\norganizing churches, and sending out native missionaries.\n\nWe have at Santee Agency, Neb., a large school of advanced grade,\nwell established for the education of children and youth. So well\nknown is this school among Christian Indians that our accommodations\nhave become very limited, and last year we were obliged to refuse\nmany who wished to come. I think you cannot know how hard it is for\nus to say, We cannot take you.\n\nThe great Dakota nation is ready to receive the Christian religion.\nWe have the Bible in the Dakota language--a monument grand and\nbeautiful to one who has just gone to his reward. Years of patient,\nquiet toil were spent in translating the precious words from the\nGreek and the Hebrew into the language of over fifty thousand\nsavages. Then what hinders the work? We have hymns in the Dakota\ntongue. Who will go and sing these precious words to those who never\nheard them? There are those who are ready to go, but where is the\nmoney to send them? If you cannot go, what hinders you from sending\nsome one? To be sure, this is a work of difficulty, for how can we\nexpect a few years of training to so revolutionize a savage's live\nthat he can withstand the heathenism which still permeates his native\nhome? But we have those whom we can trust, and who are filling places\nof responsibility and usefulness. Besides those who have gone out as\nmissionaries and teachers, we have in our school at Santee native\nteachers, and our own children are taught by them. One of our pupils\nis assistant matron in the Dakota Home. One who has been under our\ncare is in the little city of Pierre, D. T., giving music lessons to\nwhite pupils. I give only a few instances, to show that we are\nbeginning to see the results of our work.\n\nThen give the free Gospel of the love of Christ to this great heathen\nnation right here so near us. Here is the Bible, here are the hymns;\nwho will provide the means to scatter them, and who will go to carry\nthem? We are preparing those who will go with you as assistants and\ninterpreters. We hear of those who wish to get rid of the Indians;\nthe surest way to do it is to educate them and Christianize them.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\nEXTRACT FROM ADDRESS OF MRS. W. C. POND.\n\n\nI will not waste time upon an introduction. I will only say that I am\nglad to be among you; glad that you are interested in the Chinese\nwork, with which we have been connected so many years in California.\nWe feel that we are greatly privileged in having these dark souls\nwithin our reach. We can obey our Saviour's last command, \"Disciple\nall nations,\" without having to go far from our homes and native\nland. They are with us and we have but to open our hearts and our\nchurches to them and they will come in. They _are_ coming in; not in\nlarge numbers but one by one. In the church of which my husband has\nbeen the pastor for nearly ten years there are over seventy Chinese\nmembers--about one-third of our whole membership.\n\nMany inquire how Chinese converts are tested. They join the Christian\nAssociation on probation and after a test of six or eight months are\nrecommended to the church. Then they come before a committee of the\nchurch and are examined, and after studying the articles of faith, in\ntheir own language, for several weeks they are propounded for church\nmembership, and if they prove satisfactory are baptized and come into\nfull fellowship with the church. They are not hurried into the church\nand are themselves timid and prefer to wait.\n\nWe have no work among the Chinese women that we can call our own.\nBoth Presbyterians and Methodists have such a work in San Francisco,\nand it divides into very little sections what can be at best but a\nsmall work, because there are only three or four hundred Chinese\nwomen in San Francisco, and not a tenth of these accessible. But if\nmeans would allow we would be glad to attempt a work among the women\nat Sacramento, where nothing is done for them. With our very limited\nresources we can save more by working among the thousands of men and\nboys.\n\nBut we have much work _by women_ of whom I would like to make\nmention. Patient and heroic, prayerful and soul-saving have been\ntheir efforts among the Chinese. I would like to tell you of one who\nhas recently gone to her reward. Before leaving my home two months\nago I called upon her and found her strength failing. But she was\nhopeful respecting her recovery, and the strongest incentive she had\nto get well was that she might have more opportunities to tell the\nstory of Jesus to her boys, as she called those in the Chinese\nschool. And when death came to her, six Chinese acted as pall-bearers\nat her funeral, at her own request. The church was more than half\nfilled with Chinese, and the scene was touching in the extreme, as\none by one they went to look upon her face for the last time.\n\nYou are all, doubtless, more or less familiar with the _American\nMissionary_, and read from time to time Mr. Pond's reports found\ntherein. I will give a few statistics quoted from my husband's\nreport, read recently before the General Association of California,\nconvened in Santa Cruz. They are as follows:\n\nNineteen schools, as against 15 the last year; total enrollment of\nscholars, 2,823, as against 2,567 the former year; 40 teachers, of\nwhom 14 were Chinese, as against 31 teachers the previous year, of\nwhom 11 were Chinese; number of those who have professed to cease\nfrom idolatry, 175, as against 156 the year before; number of those\nwho have given evidence of conversion, 121, as against 106 the former\nyear, and the whole number of those who have turned to Christ during\nthe history of the Mission, 400, who are scattered over the United\nStates and in China. We hear of many of them who are doing good work\nfor the Master and for the salvation of their countrymen.\n\nToward the expense of the Mission during the past year the Chinese\nthemselves have contributed $730.05.\n\nI would like to have you remember the name of our church. It is\n\"Bethany.\" Remember us in your prayers, for God has laid a great work\nupon us. We started in much weakness, but God has been with us and\nblessed us. We have felt His presence in our Bethany as Martha and\nMary of old did in theirs. We have heard the Master's voice saying\nunto us frequently, \"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the\nleast of these, My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMOUNTAIN WHITE WORK IN KENTUCKY.\n\nBY MRS. A. A. MYERS.\n\n\nThere is an unnoticed class of people dwelling almost in the very\ncentre of the settled portion of the United States. \"Our brother in\nblack\" has been held up to the view of two continents for the last\nfifty years. And what is America going to do with him and for him,\nhas been a question which has interested the whole civilized world.\nThis same question for a still longer time has been propounded in\nregard to the red man of the forest, and in later years concerning\nthe Chinese. And right nobly has the Christian brotherhood evidenced\nits purpose to make men of these degraded classes. But until recently\nit has escaped the notice of these Christian workers that we have\nanother class as needy perhaps as any. No spice of romance is\nconnected with them. No barbarous tale of cruelty could be told to\nawaken sympathy in them. They are simply poor people, who during\nslavery were unable to obtain large plantations and so were driven by\nthe arrogant Bluegrass slaveholder on the one side, and the greedy\ncotton-planter on the other, back into the mountains, where they are\nshut away from the rest of the world by mountain barriers, and still\nmore hopelessly by the haughty caste spirit of the slave-holding\nmonarchs, who disdain to have anything to do with them except to seek\ntheir votes.\n\nThese people are not really poor. Most of them own farms of three or\nfour hundred acres; and the soil, if properly tilled, would be quite\nproductive. Their plowing is done in the most primitive manner. A\nsingle horse attached to a little shovel plow simply tears the sod a\nlittle, enough so the weeds spring up luxuriantly, and the women and\nchildren must work hard in the hot sun to destroy them, while the\nlord of the home saddles his horse and rides to town, to sit on store\nboxes and tell low stories. This people, especially the male portion,\nseem to have a natural distaste for labor. They would be aristocratic\nif they could. In days of slavery they had their household servants,\nand tried to imitate the more wealthy slave-owners by living in\nidleness, and they still look upon labor as degrading.\n\nThey make no effort to get themselves homes. The large majority live\nin log cabins, with no windows. The doors stand open winter and\nsummer. The women in cool weather always sit with a little shawl\naround them and a sunbonnet on.\n\nThere are generally two rooms to each house, usually with a chimney\nor open hall between them, so you have to go out of doors to pass\nfrom one to the other. In the kitchen (which also serves as\ndining-room) is a large fireplace and a cook stove, if they are the\nhappy possessors of one.\n\nThe other is the sitting and sleeping-room. You will often see three\nbeds and one or two trundle-beds in a single room. Here the whole\nfamily and all the visitors sleep. We have sought to rest with\nthirteen of us in a room, perhaps 15 by 20 feet, and not a window in\nit and the doors shut. Fortunately the large-mouthed fireplace gave a\npittance of ventilation. No carpets are used, and furniture is very\nlimited. I believe nine-tenths of the people could put all their\ngoods on a couple of loads and be ready to move at an hour's notice.\n\nFamilies are large, numbering twelve, fifteen or even nineteen\nchildren. Girls marry young, and seem to be entirely satisfied with\ntheir condition. You seldom hear a desire expressed for anything they\ndon't possess. Give them a box of snuff and a stick to chew it with\nand you never hear a murmur escape their lips. Tobacco is\nindispensable. Old and young, male and female, are wedded to it. I\nhave known of an old gentleman working all day for fifty cents and\nspending forty cents at night for tobacco for himself and wife and\nnine children.\n\nThey seem to be without a standard in the land. They live so\nisolated, and have measured themselves by themselves until they have\nlost all idea of accurate judgment. Morality and sobriety are hardly\nlooked for, even among church members and ministers. \"Religion may be\nup to fever heat, while morality is down to zero.\" People \"confess,\"\nas they call it, and join the church, and in their entire life\nthereafter you could never know any difference.\n\nThey are satisfied if their names are on the church book. I don't\nthink they ever question their eternal salvation after they are once\ninside a church. If a person dies without having joined a church his\nfriends frame some theory on which they rest their hope of his\nsalvation. A young man was shot a little while ago in a drunken\nbroil. As he fell mortally wounded he cried, \"Oh, Lord!\" His mother\nis sure he is safe because he called on the Lord. They have no\nconception of _living_ religion. They have no prayer or conference\nmeetings. Aside from our own I doubt if there is a prayer meeting\nnearer than Berea, seventy miles away. There is no family prayer in\nall the land. I asked my class of boys, twenty or more in number, how\nmany had ever heard their mothers' voice in prayer. Not one of them\ncould raise a hand. At another school I asked a still larger class\nthe same question, and only one girl raised her hand. There is no\ngathering of the little home nestlings together and instructing\nthem--no Bible instruction given in the family. It has ceased to be a\nwonder to me, to ask nearly grown boys some of the most simple Bible\nquestions, and hear them answer, \"I don't know.\"\n\nAn M. E. minister in one of his pastoral visits took occasion to\ndwell with some stress on the blessedness of _walking in the light_.\nThe mother showed how she literalized by promptly remarking, \"Yes;\nI've told John I wanted a hole sawed in this end of the house, but he\nwon't do it.\" During the same call he asked a young lady if she was\npreparing to go to judgment. She replied, \"No, I reckin I won't go.\nIf I do I'll have to walk, for we hain't got but two nags, and Rachel\nand Becky always ride them.\"\n\nThe prevailing churches are the Reform or Campbellites, the\nMethodists, and the Missionary and Anti-Missionary Baptists. The\nlatter church is strong all through the mountains. They are bigoted\nand ignorant, and boast that their knowledge comes direct from the\nthrone, and they have nothing to do with man-made theories, as they\ncall education. Their preaching is a sort of canting reiteration of\nthe text and what few Scripture verses they chance to know and some\nhackneyed expressions. They are great on arguing, and it would be\nlaughable if it was not so pitiful to hear the profound questions\nthey discuss. Last season one of these preachers nearly broke up one\nof our mission Sunday-Schools, which we could attend only each\nalternate Sabbath. In the passage that reads \"And anon they tell\nHim,\" he contended that A-non was an angel, and _they_ referred to\nthe angel A-non. Each Sunday when we were not there that important\nquestion had to be discussed.\n\nOne of these same preachers took his children from school because\nthey were taught the heresy in geography that the world is round.\nThey do all they can to prejudice the people against our work. They\ncall our religion railroad religion. They are great barriers in our\nway. Still we have been cheered this year to see that their hold on\nthe young people is loosening, and we are getting their hearts in\nspite of the protests of their parents. One of our mission\nSunday-Schools, which has averaged this season one hundred, is\ncomposed almost entirely of young people and children, seldom ever a\nparent there.\n\nThe Smith American Organ Co. have honored God and themselves, and\nwill ever be held by some hearts in grateful remembrance by their\ngift to that society of a new organ. I have some times thought, as I\nhave heard the young voices ring out with such enthusiasm, that,\nthough critics might smile at our endeavor, Heaven would not disdain\nour offering of praise. The dingy low walls, the glass-less windows,\nthe tobacco besmeared floor, become transformed to a holy temple,\nwhere God deigned to make visible His presence, and it has been a\nsacred place. Our hope of this people centres largely in the young.\nIf it were not for them, we could not feel it right to stay among\nthem.\n\nAnother barrier to be overcome is their habits of worship. They have\nmeetings but once a month during the summer and none at all during\nthe winter. When they have service it is more for a visit than\nworship. Their churches are rough log houses, and so small that the\ngreater part of the congregation remain out of doors. Four or more\nministers are always in attendance, and all must preach. The\ncongregation expect a tiresome time, and from the first are restless.\nThey go out and come in, and they keep a constant march to and from\nthe water pail, which usually sits on the desk in front of the\nspeaker. Several grown people at a time will be standing waiting on\neach other at the pail. The speaker seems to be used to such things,\nand not at all disconcerted. Nearly all their services are funeral\nservices for those who may have been dead for years. They bury their\ndead the same day or the day following death. They have no religious\nservice, except a prayer at the grave, if there chance to be a\nminister present. Generally about a year after death, but often from\nfive to fifteen years after, they have the funeral sermon preached.\n\nIn regard to healthfulness of our mountain home, we have felt\nsomewhat disappointed. Up so high, with nice springs and spring\nstreams, one would expect a healthy climate. On the contrary, almost\nevery one is ailing. Coughs and colds are universal. It is no wonder\nthe natives are unhealthy; their habits of living would seem to\nprohibit health. They eat corn bread or hoe cake and bacon; some have\nflour, but it is always made up into hot biscuit, shortened with\nlard. They have this, with little variation, three times a day, 365\ndays in a year. In summer, green beans cooked with bacon is added to\nthe bill of fare. Of course the blood becomes impoverished, and\nalmost every one has scrofula. Calomel and pills are the great\npanacea for all their bodily ills. Pills are brought on by the quart,\nand sold by the merchants like any other commodity. Cleanliness of\nthe person is an unheard of luxury; I doubt whether they ever bathe.\nChildren come to the table with unwashed faces. They are put to bed\nwith the same clothes they wear during the day. Then add to all this\nthe fact that tobacco is used almost from the cradle, and whiskies\nand toddies from the time the poor child opens its eyes to this\nworld, and it's no great marvel that gray-haired men are exceedingly\nrare, and it's the \"_old man_\" and the \"_old woman_\" when one has\nreached the age of twenty-five.\n\nNow comes the question, What are we doing for the people? We have\nbeen with them nearly two years, and this has been our effort from\nthe first, to get them to see that religion is a life rather than a\nsectarian belief. We have sought to impress upon them that joining a\nchurch is not Christianity. We have succeeded in getting a few to\ntake part in our prayer meetings, and we have the assurance that\n_all_ the people are awaking to the fact that God has some demands\nupon them. We have from the first kept up regular Thursday night\nprayer meetings; have had good attendance, but often only Mr. Myers\nand myself to take part in them except as others read Scripture\nverses.\n\nOn the Sabbath we have Sunday-school at 9:30. Average attendance,\n100; preaching at 11. I hasten home, saddle my horse, and ride six\nmiles to the next railroad station (Pleasant View). Here I have met\n100 or more young people. I have been surprised that in a land where\na woman isn't expected to _know_ anything, or _be_ anything but a\ndoll or a drudge that there has been so little prejudice against my\nschool. Some, of course, have thought a woman entirely out of her\nsphere to undertake such work and have taken occasion to remark to my\nfriends: \"Why, Mrs. Myers opens the school by prayer, just as Mr.\nMyers would. I don't know but it's all right, but it don't seem just\nthe proper thing for a woman to do.\"\n\nMr. M. has a mission in South Williamsburg or the mills, where\nnumbers of children are growing up in the midst of gambling and\nshooting. Prof. W. has, about the same hour, a school two miles out\nin another direction. At night we have services again in\nWilliamsburg. At these services we have more than can get into the\nhouse, and many are obliged to leave for lack of accommodation.\nTuesday nights we go to Pleasant View and help them learn the Gospel\nSongs. Each alternate Wednesday evening, church socials; each\nalternate Friday afternoon, Band of Hope; Saturday evening, choir\ndrill; Covenant Meeting once a month on Saturday afternoon.\n\nMr. Myers has preached during the year beginning with Oct. '82, one\nhundred and forty-two sermons. The services, together with the other\npublic services just mentioned, have amounted to three hundred and\nforty. Have attended fifty or more meetings conducted by others. We\nspend all the remaining time our strength will permit in calling at\nthe homes.\n\nWe have a neat modern church nearly finished, and so far without\nforeign help. But no one knows what an effort has been required. Mr.\nMyers would announce a working bee to draw stone or any such work;\nwould try to enthuse the people as he has so often done in the North.\nBut when the time would come he has worked all day alone. We have\nlearned at last that this people don't enthuse.\n\nWe are hard at work in our high-school enterprise. We have Prof. and\nMrs. W. and Miss G., all from the North, with us. We hope to get a\nschool, the good influence of which will never die out of these\nmountains.\n\nThese are peculiar people. What I have said of them has reference to\nthe _general_ class of society. But there are some who seem of better\nstock, who are shrewd, keen, far-sighted people. You cannot find\ntheir superiors in _native_ ability in any country. Though often\nlacking in culture and morality, they still hold a wide influence\nover the rest, so that something besides goodness is required in\nthose who wish to come among them as helpers. There must be ability\nto adapt oneself to these widely diverse conditions. One needs wisdom\nand tact to get along with the shrewdest, and such a love for souls\nthat he can come with a helping hand to the most degraded, nor be\ndiscouraged if, with a heart brimful of sympathy, he reaches the hand\na long time only to see it rejected by those most in need.\n\nThe work is a work of time. The majority of the people are unstable,\nthriftless improvident and ignorant. Slavery left its blight of\nimpotency and profligacy upon them. They come and go as did their\nfathers a hundred years ago. Their tools and utensils are the same\ntheir great-grandparents used, and they are content with them. We\nnever worked harder and saw less result in the conversion of sinners\nthan while in Kentucky, and yet never felt more satisfied that we\nwere where God wants us, and doing an important work. Unless these\npeople have help they will prove a fretting leprosy in our nation.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWORK AMONG THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH.\n\nBY MISS IDA M. BEACH.\n\n\nNo small part of the work undertaken by the A. M. A. is that among\nthe colored people of the South. Perhaps we may judge something of\nhow vast this work is in itself, and how far-reaching in its results,\nif we consider for a few moments the numbers and condition of the\ncolored people. Twenty years ago about 4,000,000 people were\nliberated from bondage, with all the evils resulting from the system\nof slavery resting upon them. There was great rejoicing among lovers\nof freedom when the Proclamation of Emancipation was issued. The\nslaves themselves, wild with joy, shouted, \"We're free! We're free!\nThe year of jubilee has come!\" Free! yes, free! but with the burdens\nof manhood and womanhood suddenly thrust upon them. Freedom brought\nthe right and opportunity of establishing homes. Glorious privilege!\nBut do we not all know how much good judgment and wisdom and thought\nand planning it takes to maintain a _true home_? Freedom gave them\nthe right of keeping their little ones and seeing them grow to\nmanhood and womanhood, but oh! how much of patience and God-given\npower it requires to train the little feet to tread the right way!\n\nFour million people, half civilized, uneducated, untrained, with the\njudgment and reason of children, hitherto knowing little of the ways\nof the outer world, suddenly brought into life's conflicts! What an\namount of instruction they needed!\n\nRight here the American Missionary Association stepped in and assumed\nthe work of training these people. Christian men and women, filled\nwith love for the Master, went down among these lowly ones. They\ncarried the Gospel of Jesus Christ, established schools and churches,\nteaching in the open air, or in rude huts and deserted cabins. For\ntwenty years this work has been carried on, and much good has been\ndone in the name of the Lord. But to-day there are between six and\nseven million colored people in our Southland. The work of the A. M.\nA., together with all done by other societies and by students going\nforth from the colleges as teachers, as yet scarcely begins to reach\nthis great number.\n\nTheir first need is to be Christianized, for this alone lifts them up\nand gives a desire for better things. It is the religion of Jesus\nChrist alone which has given to us our high estate. How much we owe\nto the training of Christian mothers! Let us pity and stoop to lift\nup these ignorant ones. Send out those who can carry the glad tidings\nand point to the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world.\n\nLet us do all we can to teach them what the pure religion is. But we\ncannot stop here. We must teach them how to use it. \"Woman's work for\nwoman,\" surely, for this must be done in the homes.\n\nFreedom gave them the _right_ to establish homes! They did the best\nthey knew how, many of them, but they needed teaching--they need it\nto-day. They must be taught thrift and industry, and cleanliness and\norder. They want someone to come to them and help them to transform\ntheir huts into homes. Could you see their rags, their ugly,\nmisshapen garments, you would agree with me that the women and girls\ngreatly need to be taught the use of the needle.\n\nOf course Christian schools need to be multiplied among them, where\nthe rudiments of an English education shall be thoroughly given,\nwhere sewing and cooking, the care of the house and the care of the\nsick shall be carefully taught the girls, where the boys may learn\nthe use of tools and all that pertains to good farming.\n\nOur stronghold is the children. We can never eradicate the evils\nexisting among the older generation. Slavery left too much ignorance\nand superstition to ever be driven from the minds of those who lived\nunder its sway. But we are responsible for the coming generations.\n\nThe American Missionary Association aims to reach the young and meet\ntheir needs by the workers sent out.\n\nPerhaps our work in Savannah will be illustrative of that done in\nmany other parts of the field. We have there established a church and\nschool. There are now in school over 200 pupils. The majority of\nthese remain long enough with us to obtain a good common-school\neducation. We have also a normal grade, where methods of teaching are\ntaught those who desire to fit themselves for teachers. Besides this\nwe have fitted up a sewing-room, where the girls learn every part of\nsewing and repairing, cutting and basting. Many schools have shops\nfor boys; we look forward to the time when we may be able to have\nthem, too.\n\nWe are just establishing a reading-room. Those who have read Prof.\nSalisbury's article in the November MISSIONARY understand how much\nthis is needed. In our present circumstances we arrange it so that\nall pupils of higher grades have a daily reading hour, with teacher\nto direct. Then once in two weeks the older pupils meet for a social\nreading.\n\nIn our devotional exercises and school prayer meetings we aim to\nassist them in a knowledge of true religion. Last year we observed\nthe Week of Prayer, and in the daily meetings held for several weeks\nsome found the way to Christ and Christian life. Our Church and\nSunday-School work reaches many who are not connected with our\nschool. We have a devoted missionary who spends her time in visiting\nthe parents and children in their homes, ministering to the wants of\nthe sick and needy, and holding Bible and Missionary meetings.\n\nThis is a bare outline of our work. I presume many of you are saying.\n\"Have there been no results during these last twenty years?\" Oh yes,\nwe have a bright side to the picture. When we are tired and\ndiscouraged, and wonder if harvest time will never come, we go to\nsome of the pleasant homes where great changes have been wrought. We\npoint to a scholar and tell her past history, and then thank God that\nthe seed sown found a lodging place and good soil.\n\nIn the cities when the large schools are, and where there are fair\npublic schools--where there is constant contact with civilized life,\nmany of the colored people live well. Yet there may be a neat, cosy\nhome just across the street, and a few doors beyond, a wretched\nhovel.\n\nIn the country, when the \"Teachers' Home\" and little school house are\nbuilt beside their log cabins, they catch a glimpse of better things\nthan they have known. The modest house, freshly painted, with the\nneat, cosy rooms inside--very simple and plain to us--seems like a\npalace to them. They begin to want the same. The children go to\nschool and come home with wonderful things to tell. Faces and hands\nbecome clean, the woolly heads are more carefully combed, rents are\nmended, the girls put on clean collars.\n\nThe missionary shows the women how to fashion home-made lounges and\nstools, they are covered with some bright calico, the floor is\nscrubbed white, and they begin to live. The teacher says that they\nmust work if they want to have homes, money begins to be saved, and\nbefore you know it little frame houses are going up beside the old\ncabin. A good horse or mule, with a bright shiny buggy, takes the\nplace of the old steer and cart.\n\nYes, indeed, much has been accomplished. But we had very few workers\nin the early days among four million people, although just as many as\ncould be supported with the means furnished, and to-day, among nearly\nseven millions, we have but 336 workers.\n\nMillions sit in darkness right here in our own land. A mighty work is\nto be done, and the work in Africa must be done largely by these\npeople, too.\n\nWe need more money; Christian men and women to go forth, and\nChristian men and women who are willing to send them. \"The harvest\ntruly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the\nLord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into his\nharvest.\" \"He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto\nlife eternal.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nREPORT OF THE SECRETARY.\n\n\nThe information from the field, to which you have listened, explains\nto you the necessity for the organization of a Bureau of Woman's\nWork. It was organized in April, 1883, for the purpose, as was then\nstated:\n\n1. To give information to the ladies in the churches of the variety\nof work sustained by the Association and to assist in devising plans\nof help.\n\n2. To promote correspondence with churches, Sabbath-schools,\nmissionary societies or individuals who will undertake work of a\nspecial character, such as the support of missionaries, aiding of\nstudents, supplying clothing, furnishing goods, and meeting other\nwants on mission ground.\n\n3. To send to the churches, conferences or associations desiring it,\nexperienced and intelligent lady missionaries to address them, giving\nfuller details of our methods of work.\n\nIt was believed that the growing interest on the part of the ladies\nof our churches, and their evident disposition to aid more\neffectively in the elevation of women, particularly the women of the\nSouth, called for such a department. Already the ladies of one State\nhad organized the \"Woman's Aid to the A. M. A.,\" that they might have\ntheir definite line of work in the support of lady missionaries, and\ninquiry had been made by many how best to assist in this work.\n\nIt was recognized that in no other way could a general interest be\nawakened and maintained so well as by giving direct information from\nthe field, and the twenty years' experience of the Association in the\nSouth, during which time more than 3,000 different ladies had been\nemployed as missionaries and teachers, the knowledge gained of the\npeculiarities of the field and best methods of reaching the people,\nand the thorough organization of the different departments of labor\nin home, school, and church, prepared us to bring before the ladies\nthe information necessary, and to offer most excellent opportunities\nfor special work for women. The ready response to this movement\nconfirms the wisdom of the step, and we trust that ere long the\nBureau will open new avenues of usefulness to the ladies of the\nchurches, and give enlargement and efficiency to the work in the\nfield.\n\nImmediately following the organization of the Bureau, Miss Rose\nKinney, of Oberlin, O., for many years engaged in the Southern work,\nand recently located in one of the dark corners of the field,\nMcIntosh, Ga., was detailed for service in the North. She spent about\nsix weeks in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Iowa, addressing ladies'\nmeetings at the General Associations, and with good results. In June\nthe Secretary of the Bureau was present at the State Conferences of\nVermont and Maine, and gave information of the work in the field,\nresulting in the appointment of a State Committee of ladies in\nVermont, to secure funds for the support of a missionary. Early in\nSeptember Miss Anna M. Cahill, for nine years connected with Fisk\nUniversity, Nashville, Tenn., was detailed for special service, and\nhas recently attended a series of meetings in Michigan and Illinois.\n\nIt is our purpose thus to bring the work before the ladies whenever\nand wherever opportunity is given, through different teachers and\nmissionaries whom we may be able to spare temporarily from the field.\n\nWithin the year just closed, Sept. 30, the Association has had\nspecial aid from ladies North in the support of seven missionaries,\nas follows:\n\n  Ladies of Maine, support of Miss Lunt at Selma, Ala.,\n    and Miss Farrington at Wilmington,  N. C.                  $675.00\n  Ladies of First and Second Cong. Churches, Oberlin, O.,\n    support of Miss Stevenson at Atlanta, Ga.                   387.00\n  Ladies of Illinois, support of Miss Clark at Mobile, Ala.     214.46\n  Ladies of Wisconsin, support of Miss Jillson at Montgomery,\n    Ala.                                                        254.33\n  Ladies of Congregational Churches, Chelsea, Mass., support\n    of Mrs. Steele at Chattanooga, Tenn.                        488.81\n  Ladies of Iowa, support of Miss Gerrish at New Orleans, La.   406.45\n                                                             ---------\n    Total                                                    $2,426.05\n\nIn this connection we would mention also that a lady missionary, Miss\nClary, at Beaufort, S. C., was sustained to the amount of $300 by the\nSunday-school of the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn.\n\nSupplies in the furnishing of Mission Homes and dormitories have been\nrecently furnished, and there is very marked increase of aid in the\nfurnishing of clothing, both new and second-hand, for the benefit of\nstudents who are struggling in the greatest poverty to obtain an\neducation.\n\nWhile, therefore, but a few months have elapsed since the\norganization of the Bureau of Woman's Work, its advantage is already\nmanifest.\n\nSince the field of missionary operations in our own country is large\nand diversified, and three leading societies exist, each having its\ndistinct and important work,--viz.: The New West Education\nCommission, the American Home Missionary Society, and the American\nMissionary Association--no effort has been made by the American\nMissionary Association to organize local societies auxiliary to\nitself; but that a society should exist in every church, able to\nco-operate directly with this Association in its great work for the\nChinese, the Indians, the negroes and the needy whites of the South,\nseems apparent.\n\nTo this end we urge upon the ladies, organization, as helpful to\nsystematic giving, and to facilitate such movement we present a form\nof constitution for a co-operative society, that may be open to the\ncall from all parts of our country. This we greatly prefer as\navoiding complication and preserving fellowship and unity in the home\nwork. Such is the pressure of claims upon us, however, through the\nneeds of our field, that except as such opportunity is afforded for\naid to the Am. Miss. Assoc., we feel that we may be constrained to\nask for organization auxiliary to the A. M. A. exclusively--for the\nwomen and children of 6,000,000 of colored people of the South alone\npresents a field for missionary work in the elevation of women, which\nwe must not ignore, from the responsibility of which we cannot\nescape.\n\nWe are just now entering upon a new year of work. Of the 175 ladies\nappointed to the various departments of missionary labor, twelve are\nengaged for special home visitation among the people. You can see at\na glance that this number is insufficient for that line of duty.\nAlthough our teachers are missionaries, and accomplish much through\nthe schools and various agencies set at work for the elevation of the\npeople, yet we ought to have at least one experienced and efficient\nwoman at every mission station, whose entire time should be given to\nspecial work in the homes of the people. Not only do we desire this,\nbut the most urgent appeals are sent us from the field for help of\nthis kind, not instead of that which we are doing in school and\nchurch, but supplementary to it, as necessary in securing the results\nwe seek. Already fifteen applications are before us for lady\nmissionaries to work in the homes, and we wait only for the women of\nthe North to furnish us the necessary funds. As fast as we receive\npledges of support the missionaries will be sent out.\n\nMay the heart of every Christian woman be quickened to new impulse\nfor the development of womanhood in those in our own land, so\ndegraded and helpless!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFORM OF CONSTITUTION OF WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.\n\n\nART. 1. This Society shall be called the Woman's Co-operative\nMissionary Society, ---- Church.\n\nART. 2. Its object shall be to co-operate with the established\nmissionary societies of the Congregational churches of America, in\ndiffusing missionary intelligence, increasing interest in prayer, and\nin raising funds for missionary work in this country.\n\nART. 3. The officers of this Society shall be a President, a\nVice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Executive Committee\nof ---- members. The Treasurer shall keep separate accounts for the\ndifferent societies co-operating, or, if preferred, a Treasurer may\nbe appointed for each.\n\nART. 4. Contributors to this Society may designate to which branch of\nmissionary work they wish their contributions applied. Undesignated\ncontributions may be assigned by vote of the Executive Committee.\n\nART. 5. Any lady may become a member of this Society by contributing\na sum not less than one dollar annually, or ten cents monthly.\nGentlemen elected at any regular meeting may become honorary members\nby the payment of ---- dollars.\n\nART. 6. ---- members present at any regularly called meeting shall\nconstitute a quorum for business.\n\nART. 7. Meetings shall be held monthly, at which the Secretary shall\ngive information of the work of the various societies assisted.\nSpecial meetings may be called by the officers and Executive\nCommittee. Meetings shall be opened by devotional exercises.\n\nART. 8. A vote of two-thirds of the members present at any regular\nmeeting shall be requisite for making any change in this\nconstitution.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE BUREAU IN THE WEST.\n\nBY MISS ANNA M. CAHILL.\n\n\nOne main object of the Woman's Bureau, as stated at the time of its\norganization, is to diffuse information among the ladies of our\nchurches, as to our work in its various departments.\n\nThe carrying out of this purpose led to my eight weeks of itineracy\namong the conferences and churches of Wisconsin and Michigan.\n\nIf I went to inform I went also to learn--to see how fares our cause\nin these churches. Especially I sought to learn how strong a hold the\nwork of the American Missionary Association has upon the sympathy and\neffort of the Christian ladies of that section, what organized system\nof helpfulness they already have in this line, or what in their\njudgment can be done and will be done toward incorporating this work\nin their regular plan of missionary operations for each year.\n\nAs I expected, I found the interest in our cause in various stages of\ndevelopment. It is not strange that in some places the ladies did not\neven so much as know that there was a Woman's Bureau. The Bureau is\nin its infancy, and the fact of its existence has not yet taken hold\nof us all in any practical way. In many churches--not by any means\nalways the larger ones--I found an intelligent appreciation of the\nneeds and claims of the South.\n\nWe have had many workers from these States of the West, or rather of\nthe Interior, and when I had the pleasure of going into a community\nthat had sent out one or more to the work in some part of our field,\nI found always an enthusiastic interest and a warm response to my\nappeals.\n\nMy introduction to the warm-hearted Christian people of Wisconsin was\nat the State Association, met at Racine Sept. 24. Finding on my\narrival a large representation of ladies gathered to celebrate the\nanniversary of their Foreign Missionary Society, I felt sure that\nthere must be also an active sympathy for the work in our own land,\nand I was not disappointed. On the following day, at a special\ngathering of the ladies, a State society was organized, whose range\nof objects should include all the benevolent societies of our\ndenomination, working in this country, leaving conferences and local\norganizations at liberty to contribute through one treasurer or\nseveral treasurers, to any of these societies.\n\nAfter attending this \"gathering of the tribes\" it was my privilege to\ngo by invitation to a few of the towns in southern Wisconsin. Of\ncourse the State organization has not yet stretched out its arms over\nthe State in the formation of local societies. I can but think that\nBeloit, Whitewater, Geneva and Kenosha will be among the first to\ntake definite steps in this direction. Wisconsin has by special\ncontributions from her ladies supported a missionary in the South for\nseveral years and is still doing so. When through regular channels of\norganization they shall make this a part of their regular yearly\ncharity, the arrangement can be more permanently relied upon by the\nWoman's Bureau. Many, I think, will endorse the sentiment of a\nprominent lady in Michigan who said to me: \"I think the ladies of\neach one of these Western States ought to support one or more\nteacher-missionaries under the Association.\"\n\nOn the 9th of October, at Grand Rapids, I joined the representative\nof the Woman's Department of the American Home Missionary Society,\nwith whom the longer tour of six weeks was to be made in Michigan. We\nwere then on our way to the Grand River Conference at Allendale,\nwhere we found a hearty welcome. In this Conference there is a branch\nof the State Woman's Home Missionary Society, a society already more\nthan a year old and organized on the same broad platform as that\nadopted in Wisconsin.\n\nBefore the meeting of the Southern Michigan Conference we were able\nto visit, in rapid succession, the churches at Middleville,\nVermontville, and Olivet, in all of which an evident sympathy in the\nvarious forms of our work led me to hope that increased effort might\nresult from this new presentation of our needs.\n\nIn the Southern Conference we found also a branch organization, union\nin its character, and so efficiently officered that all is likely to\nbe done that can be accomplished through it. Nowhere did I find\nstancher friends for our Christian educational work in the South than\nin this conference.\n\nAt this point a short break occurred in our Michigan tour. A rapid\njourney brought us to Lake City in time to spend one day at the\nMinnesota State Association--just to grasp the hands of our Minnesota\nfriends and be assured of their continued helpfulness. The Woman's\nHome Missionary Society voted that at the next annual meeting the\nconstitution should be reconsidered, with a view to enlarging its\nborders and including all the benevolent societies of our home work.\nThe giving of a year's notice before any change can be made is\nrequired by the constitution itself.\n\nWe took up the work in Michigan again at St. Joseph, and from there\nwent to the Kalamazoo Association. We found here, as elsewhere, that\nthese autumn conferences are generally held with the smaller and less\naccessible churches, where the attendance of ladies is necessarily\nlimited, and we must, therefore, give our message to the pastors,\ncharging them with the responsibility of carrying it to the ladies of\ntheir churches.\n\nBefore the next conference we were able to take in our plan the\ncentral points, Jackson, Ann Arbor, Flint and Lansing, and when we\nwent up from there to Nashville to the Marshall Conference we felt\nthat we were meeting old friends in the pastors and people, at whose\nhomes we had already been.\n\nAnother tour through Kalamazoo, Allegan, Owosso, Port Huron, St.\nClair, Detroit, Union City and Chelsea brought us much the same\nexperiences as before.\n\nWe came finally to the large Eastern Conference, which was to be our\nlast place of labor in Michigan. The ladies of this Conference,\nthough not yet organized for home work under the State society, for\nseveral years supported a missionary in the South, largely through\nthe personal effort of one active lady, who made this special\ncollection her care. With the closing of this Bureau visit to the\nladies of Michigan the work is left in their hands--not to be\nforgotten by them, but to be developed and strengthened until there\nshall be a rich annual fruitage of effort and practical result.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCHILDREN'S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCHRISTMAS GIVING AT MYSTIC, CONN.\n\nREV. CHARLES H. OLIPHANT.\n\n\nThe Editor has asked me to give some account of the way our\nSunday-school behaves itself at Christmas-time.\n\nThere are two ideas about the Church; and as parents feel and think\nabout the Church the children will be pretty sure to think and feel\nabout the Sunday-school. One conception of the Church is that it is a\nkind of receptacle for pious people. When one becomes \"good enough\"\nhe is expected to get into this receptacle and there be acted upon by\nthe means of grace. It is one of the mischiefs of this notion that it\nseems to excuse laymen from any active part in Christian work, if\nonly they are regular attendants upon divine service. So, many people\ncome to the preaching and the praying as if there were nothing for\nthem to do, nothing either great or small. Such members may be said\nto be found in the \"passive voice.\"\n\nThe other and better notion is that the Church is not a receptacle,\nbut an engine; not a box for Christians to get into, but a \"body\" for\nthem to operate, and through which Christ can act upon the world of\nto-day. According to this view, the minister is not the only member\nwhom the Master has called into His vineyard, the ideal Church is not\nso much a company of sheep as a company of soldiers; the congregation\ncomes together not simply to \"hear Mr. ----,\" but to organize for\nwork. This may be called the Church's \"active voice.\" I cannot\n(within the verbal limits assigned me) measure the miles of distance\nwhich lie between these two views.\n\nThe same confusion of thought prevails in the Sunday-school. We know\nhow the small boy finds that Sunday-school the most attractive (and\nthat teacher the \"nicest\") whose Christmas-tree pays the largest\ndividend.\n\n[Illustration: CHILDREN BEARING CHRISTMAS GIFTS]\n\nWhen I came to my present field of work it had been the immemorial\ncustom to have a tree and a treat for the children of the school.\nAfter a year or two of competition with other schools in making it\n\"worth while\" for children to attend our own, we \"braced up\" and put\nthe question to vote whether we would make the Christmas festival a\nfeast for ourselves or a feast for others; whether we would have our\nschool at this time a dispenser of sweetmeats and ourselves the\nbeneficiaries, or dispense a gift instead to some more needy servants\nof the Master, who had no parental pocketbook to tap; no good things\nto give away. To the surprise of all the vote was unanimous against\nthe old, and in favor of the new, way. There was much misgiving as to\nresults. Many confidently predicted that the offerings (each class\nwas invited to bring its own in a sealed envelope) would be\nmicroscopic. It was distinctly understood that no money--not the\nsmallest sum--was asked from those who disapproved the plan. Teachers\nwere urged to dissuade their classes from perfunctory gifts.\nInquiring next for a suitable object, we were advised by the Home\nMissionary Society of a poor servant of theirs in a Western State,\nwhose poorer and more to be pitied wife was the mother of seven\nchildren. We put her to vote, and she was promptly and unanimously\nchosen. With the introduction into the plan of a personal element,\nenthusiasm began, and it became evident at once that there was to be\nsharp rivalry between the classes as to the size of their gifts. At\nlength came the Christmas Eve concert, and with it a bright, full\ncompany of children. They never looked so happy, and every one of\nthem knows that he never was so happy on such an occasion, as when,\nclass by class, the offerings were handed to the Superintendent. With\neach of these a passage of Scripture was recited. It became only too\nevident, as the pile within his hand increased, that the\nprognostications of those who were sure that an old Sunday-school\ncould not be taught new tricks were false. We are a small\nschool--only 80 scholars--but the class offerings on this occasion\nfooted up twenty-eight dollars and some cents. A letter was\naccordingly written and the money inclosed to the wife (this was the\nbest part of it, for we were sure that the minister could not then,\nas ministers will, mistake the remittance for a portion of his\nsalary), who was asked to purchase with the amount some article or\narticles of which she was individually in need. The letter which came\nback to us after a week made those who heard it read in open school\nclear their throats and wink away an inevitable tear. It revealed\n(among other things) the fact that this poor servant had hitherto\nmade all the clothing for seven children with the bare needle. Now\nshe has a sewing machine. We all think, but none more fervently than\nthe children, that the memory of a few oranges, more or less--oranges\neaten three years ago--would not compensate for the glad\nconsciousness that life is easier every day in at least one prairie\nhome. Thus we were led to translate the Beatitude pronounced upon the\n\"giver\" into our own experience, and we have its meaning in the\ncontinuous stream of happiness which many have felt at the\nremembrance of what our pennies wrought.\n\nWe have recently chosen an object for this year's offering; for the\npractice of giving and not receiving at Christmas-time is now\nhabitual with us. Dr. Pike has told us about Philip Page, the African\nlad now at Atlanta, seeking eagerly, but with insufficient means,\nsuch an education as will qualify him to go back to his people a\nmissionary. We shall send him enough for his support for one, and\nperhaps for two months.\n\nLet me urge those who may read these words to allow no seeming\nobstacle to prevent the putting in practice, in the schools to which\nthey belong, of the plan here described. Do not fail to give the\nchildren for their Christmas gift the happiness that giving brings.\nDo not delay to teach the young by so simple a lesson the difference\nbetween the blessedness of giving and that of receiving. Identify by\nall means the aims and methods of the Church and Sunday-school. Let\nit not, even in a figure, appear to the child that the Christian\nattitude is one of idle enjoyment. No matter how small the gift, it\nis the _giving up_ which makes us the Lord's disciples.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nRECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER 1883.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMAINE, $425.02.\n\n  Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      $250.95\n  Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Dakota M._        1.56\n  Brunswick. Young Ladies' Missionary Soc. of First\n    Parish, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                 15.00\n  Eastport. Central Cong. Sab. Sch.                          5.00\n  Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30; Second Cong.\n    Ch. and Soc., 7.20                                      37.20\n  Hiram. ----, _for Selma, Ala._                             1.75\n  Portland. State Street Cong. Ch., 50; Saint Lawrence\n    Street Ch. and Soc., 11.17                              61.17\n  Wells. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for\n    Wilmington, N. C._\n  Winthrop. Cong. Ch.                                       16.00\n  Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        15.39\n  York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            21.00\n\n\nNEW HAMPSHIRE, $715.46.\n\n  East Jaffrey. Cong. Ch.                                   20.68\n  Dover. Mrs. A. Fairbanks, 7; Mrs. S. Foye, 5, _for\n    Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                12.00\n  Great Falls. First Cong. Ch.                              39.12\n  Haverhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             15.63\n  Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 9.33; Cyrus Newhall, 1      10.33\n  Keen. Geo. E. Whitney                                      5.00\n  Keene. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Second Ch., _for McIntosh,\n    Ga._                                                     2.50\n  Lyme. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                     10.00\n  Marlborough. Freedmen's Aid Soc., 2 bbls. of C., val.\n    60, _for Talladega C._, 4 _for Freight_                  4.00\n  Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          29.43\n  New Ipswich. Children's 21st Annual Fair for benevolent\n    objects                                                 10.50\n  Pembroke. Cong. Ch. (ad'l), 5; Rev. D. Goodhue, 1          6.00\n  Pittsfield. Box of Goods, by Rev. G. E. Hill, _for Marion,\n    Ala._\n  Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 5.00\n  Tilton and Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 25.00\n  Walpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               20.27\n  West Lebanon. \"Children's Mission Band.\" Christmas Box,\n    _for Bird's Nest, Santee Agency, Neb._\n  West Lebanon. Bbl. of C., by Rev. T. C. Pease, _for\n    Marietta, Ga._\n                                                         --------\n                                                          $215.46\n  LEGACY.\n\n  Francestown. Estate of Mrs. Harriet F. Downes, By Geo.\n    E. Downes                                              500.00\n                                                         --------\n                                                          $715.46\n\n\nVERMONT, $175.05.\n\n  Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                48.13\n  Berlin. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. and Box of C.,\n    _for Talladega C._\n  Brattleborough. H. Halsey, _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._                                            5.00\n  Manchester. Mrs. A. C. Reed, Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta\n    U._\n  Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.00\n  Randolph. Mrs. Mary K. Nichols                             3.00\n  Rupert. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                11.25\n  Saint Johnsbury. Mrs. V. M. Howard, 25; Mrs. E. D.\n    Blodgett, 25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                50.00\n  Swanton. H. Stone, wife and daughter                       5.00\n  Vershire. Luella D. Carpenter                              1.00\n  Worcester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             10.55\n  West Randolph. Mrs. Susan E. Albin                         6.00\n  Westminster West. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      19.10\n  Windham. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   6.02\n\n\nMASSACHUSETTS, $2,795.19.\n\n  Abington. \"A Friend,\" to const. NAHUM FULLERTON L.M.      50.00\n  Amesbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              12.30\n  Amherst. \"A Friend,\" _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._         7.00\n  Andover, G. W. W. Dove, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._     25.00\n  Andover. Sab. Sch. of South Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U._                                                     20.00\n  Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 90.72;\n    incorrectly ack. in December number from Vt.\n  Auburn. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. SAMUEL D. HOSMER, L.M.  47.67\n  Boylston. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., Box of C., val. 16\n  Boston. Pilgrim Soc. of Phillips Ch., _for Student Aid,\n    Fisk U._                                                50.00\n  Boston. Mrs. D. C. Holden, Bbl. of C., _for Chattanooga,\n    Tenn._\n  Boston. \"Cash\"                                            10.00\n  Boxford. Cong. Ch.                                        37.87\n  Brookline. Mrs. Crafts, Books\n  Brimfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., _for Freight_       2.00\n  Brockton. Porter Ch. and Soc., \"A Friend,\" 20 (adl.)\n    to const. MRS. ALPHEUS GURNEY and EVERETT C. RANDALL\n    L.M's; Mrs. Mary E. Perkins, 5                          25.00\n  Brockton. Mrs. Baylis Sanford, Bbl. of C., 2 _for\n    Freight, for Tougaloo U._                                2.00\n  Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid,\n    Chattanooga, Tenn._                                    101.00\n  Billerica. Ladies of O. C. Ch., Chest of C., _for\n    Atlanta U._\n  Bridgewater. Central Sq. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40,\n    to const. ANNIE M. EDSON L.M.; Central Sq. Sab. Sch.,\n    15                                                      55.00\n  Brimfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of\n    C., _for Chattanooga, Tenn._, val. 34                    5.00\n  Cambridge. \"A tithing\"                                     5.00\n  Chelsea. Ladies' Union Home Mission Band, _for Lady\n    Miss'y, Chattanooga, Tenn._                             25.00\n  Chelsea. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         12.67\n  Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch.                                31.87\n  Clinton. Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n, to const. MISS\n    ANNIE C. PIERCE L.M.                                    30.00\n  Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         159.81\n  Dorchester. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., (ad'l)                 1.24\n  Duxbury. A. P. Ellison, Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta U._\n  East Bridgewater. Mrs. S. D. Shaw                          3.00\n  Florence. Florence Cong. Ch.                              15.81\n  Fitchburg. Calvinistic Ch. and Soc.                      160.87\n  Gilbertsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n    Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n  Hatfield. Cong. Ch.                                       58.00\n  Haverhill. Algernon R. Nichols, _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._                                           35.00\n  Haverhill. Sew. Soc. of No. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,\n    val. 75.37, _for Tougaloo U._\n  Holliston. \"Friends,\" 15.97; Missionary Concert, 4.03,\n    _for Student Aid_; \"Friends,\" Shoemaker's kit, val.\n    10, Shoe-lasts and clothing, _for Talladega C._         20.00\n  Hyde Park. Heart and Hand Soc., 25; First Cong. Sab.\n    Sch., 15 _for Straight U., furnishing_                  40.00\n  Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 9.31 and Bbl. of C.     9.31\n  Lawrence. \"E. F. E.\"                                       5.00\n  Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                      75.00\n  Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   26.45\n  Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc.                           24.75\n  Ludlow. Cong. Ch.                                         35.16\n  Malden. Trin. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U._                                                     25.00\n  Medfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., 3\n    _for Freight, for Savannah, Ga._                         3.00\n  Melrose. Orthodox Ch. and Soc.                            60.77\n  Middleboro. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    56.59\n  Monson. Cong. Ch. (12 of which from Mrs. H. Dewey's\n    class, _for Howard U._)                                 37.00\n  Newbury. First Parish, 2 Bbls. of C., _for Tougaloo U._\n  Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 36.83; Prospect\n    St. Cong. Ch., 29.50                                    66.33\n  Newton. Ladies' Freedman's Aid Sew. Cir., Bbl of C.,\n    _for Macon, Ga._\n  Newton Center. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n    Chattanooga, Tenn._                                    100.00\n  Newton Lower Falls. \"Friend,\" _for Student Aid,\n    Straight U._                                              .50\n  Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                6.75\n  North Amherst. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n    Atlanta U._                                             51.06\n  Norwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.14\n  Oxford. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Missionary, Topeka,\n    Kan._                                                   15.00\n  Oxford. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C., 2 _for Freight,\n    for Wilmington, N. C._                                   2.00\n  Palmer. Thorndike Cong. Ch.                                1.44\n  Pepperell. \"Friends,\" Bbl. of C., _for Avery Inst._\n  Pittsfield. Mrs. Hurd, Bbl. of C., 2.50 _for Freight,\n    for Talladega C._                                        2.50\n  First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (10 of which from Sab. Sch.,\n    _for S. S. work_)                                      143.00\n  Rockport. Busy Bee Soc., by Sadie W. Butman, _for\n    Student Aid, Talladega C._                               6.00\n  Rockport, \"Pastor's Class,\" _for Dakota M._                5.64\n  Rockport. First Cong. Sab. Sch., 2 Bdls. of S. S.\n    Exercises\n  Shirley Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        7.00\n  South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        50.05\n  Spencer. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              136.60\n  Spencer. Young Ladies' Mission Circle, Bdl. of C.\n  Springfield. Hope Cong. Ch.                               30.00\n  Sunderland. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., 3 _for\n    Freight, for Atlanta U._                                 3.00\n  Sutton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                49.83\n  Taunton. Union Ch. and Soc.                               13.54\n  Tewksbury. Ladies' Benev. Soc., _for Freight, for\n    Talladega C._                                            2.00\n  Townsend. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C., val. 22.50\n  Watertown. Young Ladies' Mission Band of Phillips Ch.,\n    _for Student Aid, Straight U._                          50.00\n  Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               50.00\n  Westborough. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch.                        50.00\n  Westborough. Freedmen's Mission Ass'n, Bbl. of C., 1,\n    _for Freight, for Atlanta U._                            1.00\n  West Medway. Cyrus Adams                                  10.00\n  West Newton. \"A Friend,\" Bbl. of C.\n  Weymouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         9.75\n  Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. MRS.\n    HARRIET BEMIS L.M.                                      30.00\n  Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. and Soc., 163.26; Salem\n    St. Ch., 94; \"E. C. C.\" 20                             277.26\n  Worcester. \"A Friend,\" _for Student Aid, Talladega C._   100.00\n  Worcester. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._                                            8.66\n  Worcester. Infant Class Piedmont Sab. Sch., _for Student\n    Aid, Atlanta U._                                        30.00\n  Worthington. \"An Aged Lady,\" by Rev. F. S. Huntington     10.00\n  Yarmouth. Ladies' Sew. C. of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of\n    C., _for Chattanooga, Tenn._\n  ----. \"A Friend\"                                          20.00\n\n\nRHODE ISLAND, $337.80.\n\n  Kingston. Cong. Ch.                                       22.91\n\n  LEGACY.\n\n  Providence. Estate of Sarah P. Phillips, by T.\n    Salisbury, Adm'r                                       314.89\n\n\nCONNECTICUT, $1,972.41.\n\n  Branford. Rev. C. P. Osborne                              10.00\n  Brookfield Center. Cong. Ch.                              14.81\n  Cheshire. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Sab. Sch. Work, Marion,\n    Ala._                                                   25.00\n  Coventry. First Cong. Ch.                                 41.93\n  Danbury. First Cong. Ch.                                  12.00\n  Derby. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson C. &\n    N. Inst._                                               10.00\n  East Hartford. South Cong. Ch., 15; Mrs. E. M. Roberts,\n    5                                                       20.00\n  East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        25.00\n  Ellington. Cong. Ch.                                      26.14\n  Guilford. \"A member of Third Cong. Ch.\" _for Student\n    Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                            2.00\n  Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch.                                     5.00\n  Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch.                             84.41\n  Higganum. Cong. Sab. Sch., 31.43, to const. JOHN H.\n    FREEMAN L.M.; Cong. Ch., 20                             51.43\n  Kensington. Cong. Ch.                                     35.73\n  Killingly. E. F. Jencks                                    5.00\n  Lakeville. Children's Mission Circle, _for Student Aid,\n    Atlanta U._                                             50.00\n  Litchfield. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._         50.00\n  Meriden. First Cong. Ch., to const. CATHARINE C.\n    HINSDALE, MRS. WM. HOMAN, JOSEPH U. PRATT, E. B.\n    COWLES, MARGARET LOGAN, LILLIAN B. SMITH, LUCY B.\n    GRISWOLD, SALLIE E. COLLINS, JOHN WARREN and MARSHALL\n    A. FOWLER, L.M's                                       300.00\n  Meriden. Center Cong. Ch.                                 50.00\n  Middletown. First Ch., 25.29; \"A Friend,\" 5               30.29\n  Milton. Cong. Ch.                                          7.13\n  Millington. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00\n  New Britain. South Cong. Ch.                               7.00\n  New Haven. \"A Friend, in commemoration of fiftieth\n    birthday,\" 50; Mrs. Sylvia Johnson, 10                  60.00\n  New London. Church of Christ                              49.90\n  New London. Mrs. B. P. McEwen, Bbl. of C. and Chest of\n  Books, _for Talladega C._\n  Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MISS MARY\n    McCALL L.M.                                             51.02\n  Norwalk. First Cong. Ch.                                  75.41\n  Norwich. Rev. W. S. Palmer                                 5.00\n  Norwich Town. Charles B. Baldwin                          10.00\n  Putnam. \"Missionary Workers\" of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n    Aid, Talladega C._                                      25.00\n  Stamford. First Cong. Ch.                                 44.69\n  South Coventry. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._                                           25.00\n  Stonington. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     98.00\n  Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      30.50\n  Thompsonville. First Presb. Sab. Sch., _for Straight U.,\n    Library_                                                 6.61\n  West Avon. \"A Friend\"                                     10.00\n  West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            12.91\n  West Hartford. Cong. Ch.                                   5.50\n  Wethersfield. Rev. G. J. Tillotson, _for Tillotson C. &\n    N. Inst., Land_                                         50.00\n  Westport. Amasa Warren                                     5.00\n  Winchester. Cong. Ch.                                      8.02\n  Vernon Centre. Cong. Ch.                                  31.98\n                                                       ----------\n                                                        $1,472.41\n\n  LEGACY.\n\n  New Britain. Estate of Mrs. Laura F. Stanley, by\n    Oliver Stanley, Ex.                                    500.00\n                                                       ----------\n                                                        $1,972.41\n\n\nNEW YORK, $891.01.\n\n  Adams Basin. Mrs. Ezekiel Clark                            5.00\n  Albany. Chas. A. Beach                                    25.00\n  Brooklyn. \"A Friend\"                                       2.00\n  Brooklyn. Estate of Chas. Wilbur, pkg. Bibles\n  Camden. Cong. Ch. & Sab. Sch., _for Talladega C._         28.00\n  Clinton. Miss Cynthia Chipman, _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U._                                                      5.00\n  Crown Point. Second Cong. Ch.                              5.00\n  Durham. \"A Friend\"                                         3.00\n  Ellington. George Waith                                    1.00\n  Fairport. First Cong. Ch.                                 79.11\n  Fredonia. Sab. Sch. of Pres. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n    Fisk U._                                                50.00\n  Gloversville. Cong. Ch. (100 of which from A. Judson)    127.00\n  Hamilton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n    Fisk U._                                                20.00\n  Homer. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Talladega\n    C._\n  Le Roy. Miss Delia A. Phillips, _for Lady Miss'y,\n    Topeka, Kansas_                                         10.00\n  Liverpool. \"A Friend,\" _for Student Aid, Fisk U._          1.00\n  Malone. First Cong. Ch.                                   32.20\n  Marion. Cong. Ch.                                         22.60\n  Morristown. Cong. Ch.                                     12.00\n  Munnsville. N. S. Hall, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.,\n    Reading Room_                                            5.00\n  New York. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 81.50, _for Talladega C._\n    and bal. to const. DR. JOSEPH F. LAND, EDMUND L.\n    CHAMPLIN and MRS. LOUISE S. AYRES L.M's; Gen. Clinton\n    B. Fisk, 30, to const. MISS FANNY GLEASON L.M.; \"A\n    Friend,\" 1; Harper & Brothers, 200 vols. School Books,\n    val. 100                                                112.50\n  New York. D. J. Carson, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._         50.00\n  New Haven. \"A Friend,\" to const. REV. FRANK N. GREELEY\n    and MRS. ANNA C. GREELEY L.M's                           60.00\n  Penn Yan. Chas. C. Sheppard                               150.00\n  Portland. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   8.60\n  West Chazy. Rev. L. Prindle                                 2.00\n  West Durham. Diantha Scoville                              10.00\n  Warsaw. Mrs. H. L. Booth, Pkg. of Papers\n  Waterville. Mrs. J. S. Hitchcock, _for Student Aid,\n    Fisk U._                                                  5.00\n  Whitestown. S. Hoxie, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._      10.00\n  ----. \"Yale 59,\" _for Student Aid, Talladega C._           50.00\n  ----. \"A Friend,\" Blacksmith and Shoemakers' tools,\n    val. 80.00, _for Talladega C._\n\n\nNEW JERSEY, $281.00.\n\n  Bernardsville. J. L. Roberts                              40.00\n  Elizabeth. Mrs. Hannah W. Page                             1.00\n  Jersey City. Tabernacle Sab. Sch., _for Indian Girl,\n    Santee Agency_                                          25.00\n  Montclair. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n    Hampton A. & N. Inst._                                  35.00\n  Paterson. P. Van Houten                                    5.00\n  Upper Montclair. Christian Union Cong. Ch. (10.50 of\n    which _for Dakota M._)                                 175.00\n  Raritan. Box of Papers\n\n\nPENNSYLVANIA, $35.00.\n\n  Clark. Mrs. Elizabeth Dickson                             15.00\n  Meadville. Miss Eliza Dickson                             15.00\n  North East. Mrs. M. K. Spooner                             5.00\n\n\nOHIO, $472.61.\n\n  Alliance. Welsh Cong. Sab. Sch.                            5.00\n  Andover. Cong. Ch.                                         7.25\n  Bellevue. Cong. Ch., Collection 10.35, S. W. Boise 25.,\n    to const. REV. W. G. ROBERTS L.M.                       35.35\n  Berea. Mrs. Fred Smedley, _for Lexington, Ky._             3.75\n  Cleveland. First Cong. Ch.                                24.29\n  Cleveland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student\n    Aid, Fisk U._                                           25.00\n  Cleveland. White Sew. Machine Co., Sewing Machine, _for\n    Straight U._\n  Farmer. E. M. Ensign                                      10.00\n  Geneva. Mrs. S. Kingsbury, \"in memory of her daughter\n    Madelin,\" to const. MISS EMMA A. JOHNSON L.M.           30.00\n  Huron. Theodore Alvord                                     1.50\n  Hudson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                43.16\n  Hudson. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._        5.00\n  New Lyme. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Straight U.,\n    Library_                                                 7.60\n  North Bloomfield. E. A. Brown, _for Theo. Dept.,\n    Talladega C._                                          100.00\n  Oberlin. \"A Friend\"                                       10.00\n  Peru. \"Friends,\" _for Student Aid, Talladega C._          63.75\n  Ruggles. First Cong. Ch.                                   6.23\n  Saybrook. Wm. C. Sexton                                    1.50\n  Strongsville. E. Lyman, bal. to const. MRS. JULIA A.\n    AVERY L.M.                                              10.00\n  Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed                                 5.00\n  West Andover. Cong. Ch.                                   17.46\n  Wellington. First Cong. Ch.                               59.27\n  York. Cong. Ch. (ad'l)                                     1.50\n\n\nILLINOIS, $663.80.\n\n  Cable. Maria B. Holyoke                                    2.00\n  Camp Point. Mrs. S. B. McKinney                           10.00\n  Chicago. New Eng. Cong. Ch., 40.53; Ladies' Miss'y Soc.\n    of New Eng. Cong. Ch., 9.10                             49.63\n  Dover. Cong. Ch.                                          25.31\n  Dover. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Lady Miss'y, Mobile,\n    Ala._                                                   10.00\n  Englewood. First Cong. Ch.                                10.00\n  Evanston. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 11.00\n  Farmington. Phineas Chapman                               50.00\n  Freeport. L. L. Farwell, _for Talladega C._               10.00\n  Galesburg. Infant Class First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n    Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   17.50\n  Galesburg. C. S. Halsey, case of medicines, _for\n    Talladega C._\n  Hampton. Cong. Ch.                                         4.00\n  Jacksonville. Cong. Ch.                                   49.30\n  Millburn. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Lady Miss'y Mobile,\n    Ala._                                                   25.00\n  Moline. First Cong. Ch.                                   55.39\n  Naperville. Cong. Ch.                                     17.40\n  Ottawa. First Cong. Ch.                                   41.00\n  Onarga. \"Gentleman\"                                         .50\n  Providence. Cong. Ch.                                     11.00\n  Rochelle. W. H. Holcomb, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._       90.00\n  Rochelle. \"A Friend,\" _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst.,\n    Reading Room_                                           50.00\n  Sheffield. Etta M. Kingburn                                3.27\n  Sparta. Wm. Rosborough, 5; Bryce Crawford, 5; D. P.\n    Barker, 2; P. B. Gault, 1; J. Hood, 1; S. Alexander,\n    1; J. Alexander, 1; R. H. Rosborough, 1; L. Fulton,\n    50c                                                     17.50\n  Sycamore. I. H. Rogers, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._       104.00\n\n\nMICHIGAN, $387.14.\n\n  Alamo. Ladies' Miss'y Soc.                                 5.00\n  Allegan. \"Friends,\" _for Student Aid, Fisk U._            50.85\n  Adrian. C. C. Spooner                                      5.00\n  Baldwin. Rev. S. B. Demarest                               2.00\n  Church's Corners. Cong. Ch., 13.40, and Sab. Sch.,\n    12.60; J. F. Douglass, 4; A. W. Douglass, 2; James\n    Robbins, 2                                              34.00\n  Clinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U._                                                      9.60\n  East Saginaw. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n    Fisk U._                                                34.00\n  Grand Rapids. Park Cong. Ch., _for Rev. J. H. H.\n    Sengstack_                                              30.00\n  Greenville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n    U._                                                     25.00\n  Halloway. James Vincent                                   10.00\n  Hudson. Young People's Benev. Soc., _for Student Aid,\n    Fisk U._                                                25.00\n  Kalamazoo. Mrs. Henry Montague, 5; Mr. Reimer, 3, _for\n    Student Aid, Fisk U._                                    8.00\n  Lansing. Plymouth Ch.                                     21.74\n  Litchfield. Cong. Ch., 11.60; Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 11.20  22.80\n  Olivet. First Cong. Ch.                                    6.63\n  Salem. First Cong. Ch., _for Fisk U._                     10.00\n  Saint Clair. Cong. Ch.                                    42.37\n  Three Oaks. Cong. Ch.                                     35.65\n  Union City. J. R. Blake                                    5.00\n  Vienna. Cong. Ch.                                          4.50\n\n\nIOWA, $208.46.\n\n  Alden. Mrs. E. Rogers                                      2.00\n  Anamosa. Ladies Freedmen's Soc., Clothing, _for Straight\n    U._\n  Bellevue. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Miss'y, New\n    Orleans, La._                                            4.00\n  Chester Center. First Cong. Ch.                           40.00\n  Council Bluffs. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._             50.55\n  Decorah. Ladies' Soc., Bbl. of C., val. 40, _for Straight\n    U._\n  Des Moines. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls of C., _for\n    Talladega C._\n  Eldora. Cong. Ch.                                         11.71\n  Grinnell. First Cong. Ch.                                 16.00\n  McGregor. Young Ladies' Mission Band of Cong. Ch.         17.00\n  McGregor. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Miss'y, New Orleans, La._  18.00\n  Montour. Cong. Ch.                                        32.60\n  Onawa. Cong. Ch.                                          12.60\n  Staceyville. Miss P. D. Shattuck, bedding _for Straight\n    U._\n  ----. \"Hawkeye,\" _for Student Aid, Talladega C._           4.00\n\n\nWISCONSIN, $163.69.\n\n  Burlington. Plymouth Ch.                                  15.00\n  Cooksville. Edward Gilley                                  5.00\n  Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch.                                  13.50\n  Janesville. Cong. Ch.                                     10.32\n  Kan Kanna. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n  La Crosse. Mission Sch.                                   15.00\n  Milton. First Cong. Ch.                                    6.87\n  Madison. First Cong. Ch.                                  50.00\n  Platteville. Cong. Ch.                                    35.00\n  Shopiere. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Straight U._        8.00\n  Whitewater. Winchester & Partridge Mfg. Co., Corn and\n    Feed Mill, val. 40, _for Tougaloo U._\n\n\nMINNESOTA, $62.69.\n\n  Detroit. First Cong. Ch.                                   3.00\n  Glyndon. Union Ch.                                         8.17\n  Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 30.46\n  Rochester. First Cong. Ch.                                21.06\n\n\nKANSAS, $9.70.\n\n  Lawrence. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                               9.70\n\n\nNEBRASKA, $107.25.\n\n  Nebraska City. Cong. Ch.                                   7.25\n  York. Dr. Benjamin Bissell                               100.00\n\n\nARKANSAS, $6.00.\n\n  Little Rock. Tuition                                       6.00\n\n\nCALIFORNIA, $20.00.\n\n  Arcata. \"A Friend\"                                        20.00\n\n\nMARYLAND, $129.22.\n\n  Baltimore. First Cong. Ch.                               129.22\n\n\nKENTUCKY, $122.75.\n\n  Lexington. Tuition                                        87.50\n  Newport. F. W. C. Crane                                    5.00\n  Williamsburg. Tuition                                     30.25\n\n\nTENNESSEE, $2,195.53.\n\n  Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition. 886.93; Rent, 75            961.93\n  Knoxville. Cong. Ch.                                      12.00\n  Memphis. Friends _for Le Moyne Sch., Enlargement of\n    Building_                                            1,000.00\n  Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition                          221.60\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA, $232.10.\n\n  Raleigh. \"Friends,\" 2; Miss E. P. Hayes, 6 (of which 1\n    _for Freight_) _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._             8.00\n  Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition, 219.10; Cong. Ch., 5   224.10\n\n\nGEORGIA, $450.05.\n\n  Atlanta. Storrs' Sch., Tuition, 244.05; Rent, 3; First\n    Cong. Ch., 30                                          277.05\n  Macon. Cong. Ch.                                          10.00\n  Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 142, Rent, 10; Cong.\n    Ch., 10                                                162.00\n  Woodville. \"A Friend\"                                      1.00\n\n\nALABAMA, $458.15.\n\n  Athens. Tuition, 63.90, \"Student Aid,\" 20                 83.90\n  Marion. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00\n  Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, 295.85; Cong. Ch., 1.20  297.05\n  Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     20.00\n  Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, 37.20; Cong. Ch., 10    47.20\n\n\nLOUISIANA, $207.00.\n\n  New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                        207.00\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI, $1.00.\n\n  Jackson. Cong. Ch.                                         1.00\n\n\nTEXAS, $251.00.\n\n  Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst., Tuition                 251.00\n\n\n----, $25.00.\n\n  Port Arthur. Rev. H. H. Robins, _for Talladega C._        25.00\n\n\nINCOMES, $933.03.\n\n  Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               575.00\n  C. F. Hammond Fund, _for Straight U._                    125.00\n  De Forest Fund, _for President's Chair, Talladega C._     37.50\n  Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._                        85.53\n  Income Fund, _for Straight U._                            20.00\n  Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._                       50.00\n  Luke Mem. Sch. Fund, _for Talladega C._                   10.80\n  N. M. and A. Stone Fund, _For Talladega C._               25.00\n  Yale Library Fund, _for Talladega C._                      4.20\n                                                      -----------\n\n    Total for November                                 $14,734.11\n\n    Total from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30th                    29,977.09\n                                                      ===========\n\n\nFOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n  Subscriptions from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30                    76.07\n                                                      ===========\n\n\n  H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n  56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTO INVESTORS.\n\n$925 and accrued interest will buy a $1,000 6 per cent. gold coupon\nbond of the\n\n  EAST and WEST R. R. CO. OF ALABAMA\n\nThis is a strictly first class investment bond, secured by a first\nmortgage on an old road, fully built and equipped, that has always\npaid its interest, and earns a dividend on its stock besides. This\nbond will pay you $30 every six months. No taxes, no trouble, and a\nsafe investment. For sale by the\n\n  EAST AND WEST R. R. CO. OF ALA., 502 B'way, or\n  AMERICAN LOAN AND TRUST CO., 113 B'way, N. Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCONSTITUTION.\n\n\nART. I. This society shall be called the American Missionary\nAssociation.\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian\nmissionary and educational operations and diffuse a knowledge of the\nHoly Scriptures in our own country and other countries which are\ndestitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.\n\nART. III. Members of evangelical churches may be constituted members\nof this Association for life by the payment of thirty dollars into\nits treasury, with the written declaration at the time or times of\npayment that the sum is to be applied to constitute a designated\nperson a life member; and such membership shall begin sixty days\nafter the payment shall have been completed. Other persons, by the\npayment of the same sum, may be made life members without the\nprivilege of voting.\n\nEvery evangelical church which has within a year contributed to the\nfunds of the Association and every State Conference or Association of\nsuch churches may appoint two delegates to the Annual Meeting of the\nAssociation; such delegates, duly attested by credentials, shall be\nmembers of the Association for the year for which they were thus\nappointed.\n\nART. IV. The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held in the\nmonth of October or November, at such time and place as may be\ndesignated by the Association, or, in case of its failure to act, by\nthe Executive Committee, by notice printed in the official\npublication of the Association for the preceding month.\n\nART. V. The officers of the Association shall be a President, five\nVice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary or Secretaries, a\nRecording Secretary, a Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive\nCommittee of fifteen members, all of whom shall be elected by ballot.\n\nAt the first Annual Meeting after the adoption of this Constitution,\nfive members of the Executive Committee shall be elected for the term\nof one year, five for two years and five for three years, and at each\nsubsequent Annual Meeting, five members shall be elected for the full\nterm of three years, and such others as shall be required to fill\nvacancies.\n\nART. VI. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and\ndisbursing of funds, the appointing, counseling, sustaining and\ndismissing of missionaries and agents, and the selection of\nmissionary fields. They shall have authority to fill all vacancies in\noffice occurring between the Annual Meetings; to apply to any\nLegislature for acts of incorporation, or conferring corporate\npowers; to make provision when necessary for disabled missionaries\nand for the widows and children of deceased missionaries, and in\ngeneral to transact all such business as usually appertains to the\nExecutive Committees of missionary and other benevolent societies.\nThe acts of the Committee shall be subject to the revision of the\nAnnual Meeting.\n\nFive members of the Committee constitute a quorum for transacting\nbusiness.\n\nART. VII. No person shall be made an officer of this Association who\nis not a member of some evangelical church.\n\nART. VIII. Missionary bodies and churches or individuals may appoint\nand sustain missionaries of their own, through the agency of the\nExecutive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART. IX. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution except by\nthe vote of two-thirds of the members present at an Annual Meeting\nand voting, the amendment having been approved by the vote of a\nmajority at the previous Annual Meeting.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n[Illustration: VICK'S FLORAL GUIDE]\n\nFor 1884 is an Elegant Book of 150 Pages, 3 Colored Plates of FLOWERS\nand Vegetables, and more than 1000 Illustrations of the choicest\nFlowers, Plants and VEGETABLES, and Directions for Growing. It is\nhandsome enough for the Center Table or a Holiday Present. Send on\nyour name and Postoffice address, with 10 cents, and we will send you\na copy, post-paid. This is not a quarter of its cost. It is printed\nin both English and German. If you afterwards order seeds deduct the\n10 cents. VICK'S SEEDS ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD. The Floral Guide\nwill tell how to get and grow them.\n\nVICK'S Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 32 Pages, a Colored Plate in\nevery number and many fine Engravings. Price $1.25 a year; Five\nCopies for $5. Specimen numbers sent for 10 cents; 3 trial copies 25\ncts.\n\nAddress,\n\n  JAMES VICK,\n  Rochester, N. Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n[Illustration: (drawing of lamp)]\n\nThe Great Church LIGHT.\n\nFRINK'S Patent Reflectors give the Most Powerful, the Softest,\nCheapest and the Best Light known for Churches, Stores, Show Windows,\nParlors, Banks, Offices, Picture Galleries, Theatres, Depots, etc.\nNew and elegant designs. Send size of room. Get circular and\nestimate. A liberal discount to churches and the trade.\n\n  I. P. FRINK, 551 Pearl St. N. Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  SKIN HUMORS\n  CAN BE CURED BY\n  GLENN'S SULPHUR SOAP.\n\n\nSAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16, 1883.\n\n_Mr. C. N. Crittenton:_\n\nDEAR SIR: I wish to call your attention to the good your Sulphur Soap\nhas done me. For nearly fourteen years I have been troubled with a\nskin humor resembling salt rheum. I have spent nearly a small fortune\nfor doctors and medicine, but with only temporary relief. I commenced\nusing your \"Glenn's Sulphur Soap\" nearly two years ago--used it in\nbaths and as a toilet soap daily. My skin is now as clear as an\ninfant's, and no one would be able to tell that I ever had a skin\ncomplaint. I would not be without the soap if it cost five times the\namount. Yours respectfully.\n\n  M. H. MORRIS.\n  LICK HOUSE, San Francisco, Cal.\n\n\nThe above testimonial is indisputable evidence that Glenn's Sulphur\nSoap will eliminate poisonous Skin Diseases WHEN ALL OTHER MEANS HAVE\nFAILED. To this fact thousands have testified; and that it will\nbanish lesser afflictions, such as common PIMPLES, ERUPTIONS and\nSORES, and keep the skin clear and beautiful, is absolutely certain.\nFor this reason ladies whose complexions have been improved by the\nuse of this soap NOW MAKE IT A CONSTANT TOILET APPENDAGE. The genuine\nalways bears the name of C. N. CRITTENTON, 115 Fulton street, New\nYork, sole proprietor. For sale by all druggists or mailed to any\naddress on receipt of 30 cents in stamps, or three cakes for 75\ncents.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n[Illustration: (logo)]\n\n  J. & R. 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U. S. AMER.|FRANCE.|ITALY.|NETHERLANDS.\n\n\nThe Testimony of Musicians is Equally Emphatic.\n\n[Illustration: THE NEW WORLD SAYS\n\n\"MUCH THE BEST MUSICIANS GENERALLY SO REGARD THEM\"\n\nTHEO-THOMAS\n\nAND\n\nTHOUSANDS OF OTHERS.]\n\n[ILLUSTRATION: THE OLD WORLD SAYS\n\n\"MATCHLESS\"\n\n\"UNRIVALED\"\n\nFRANZ LISZT\n\nAND\n\nHUNDREDS OF OTHERS.]\n\n\nA NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FOR 1883-4\n\n(dated October, 1883) is now ready and will be sent free; including\nMANY NEW STYLES--the best assortment and most attractive organs we\nhave ever offered. ONE HUNDRED STYLES are fully described and\nillustrated, adapted to all uses, in plain and elegant cases in\nnatural woods, and superbly decorated in gold, sliver and colors.\nPrices, $22 for the smallest size, but having as much power as any\nsingle reed organ and the characteristic Mason & Hamlin excellence,\nup to $900 for the largest size. 50 styles between $100 and $200.\n_Sold also for easy payments._ Catalogues free.\n\n\nTHE MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO.,\n\n154 Tremont St., Boston; 46 East 14th Street (Union Square), New\nYork; 140 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 38, No. 01, January, 1884","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":18807}