{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_30459/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_30459","id":"gutenberg_30459","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30459","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"The American Missionary\n\nMARCH, 1885.\n\n  VOL. XXXIX.\n  NO. 3.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n                                                            PAGE.\n\nEDITORIAL.\n\n  THE FIGURES--FINANCIAL                                           67\n  DEATH OF REV. G. D. PIKE, D. D.                                  68\n  PARAGRAPHS                                                       69\n  TILLOTSON CHURCH--WORD TO MINISTERS                              70\n  THE TEST APPLIED                                                 71\n  RELIGIOUS CULTURE OF THE SLAVES BEFORE THE WAR                   74\n  A TEACHER'S APPEAL                                               75\n\nADDRESS AT ANNUAL MEETING.\n\n  PREACHING THE MAIN FEATURE IN MISSIONARY WORK                    76\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n  ITINERARY FROM AUSTIN TO CORPUS CHRISTI                          79\n  VIEWS IN TEXAS                                                   81\n  WEEK OF PRAYER                                                   82\n  LETTER FROM STUDENT                                              84\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n  LOU QUONG AT HIS HOME IN CHINA                                   84\n  BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM WORSHIPING ANCESTORS (cut)                  86\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\n  WOMAN'S SOCIETIES                                                86\n  LETTER FROM LADY MISSIONARY                                      87\n  MONTHLY REPORT OF A TEACHER                                      88\n\nCHILDREN'S PAGE.\n\n  VIC'S LILIES                                                     88\n\nRECEIPTS                                                           89\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\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPRESIDENT, Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, LL. D., Mass.\n\n\n_Vice-Presidents._\n\n  Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo.\n  Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.\n  Rev. A. J. F. BEHRENDS, D. D., N. Y.\n  Rev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D. D., Mass.\n  Rev. D. O. MEARS, D. D., Mass.\n\n\n_Corresponding Secretary._\n\n  Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n_Assistant Corresponding Secretary._\n\n  Rev. JAMES POWELL, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n_Treasurer._\n\n  H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n_Auditors._\n\n  W. H. ROGERS,\n  PETER McCARTEE.\n\n\n_Executive Committee._\n\n  JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.\n  A. P. FOSTER, Secretary.\n\n  _For Three Years._\n\n  LYMAN ABBOTT.\n  A. S. BARNES.\n  J. R. DANFORTH.\n  CLINTON B. FISK.\n  A. P. FOSTER.\n\n  _For Two Years._\n\n  S. B. HALLIDAY.\n  SAMUEL HOLMES.\n  SAMUEL S. MARPLES.\n  CHARLES L. MEAD.\n  ELBERT B. MONROE.\n\n  _For One Year._\n\n  J. E. RANKIN.\n  WM. H. WARD.\n  J. L. WITHROW.\n  JOHN H. WASHBURN.\n  EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.\n\n\n_District Secretaries._\n\n  Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, D. D., _21 Cong'l House, Boston_.\n  Rev. CHARLES W. SHELTON, _112 West Washington Street, Chicago_.\n\n\n_Field Officers._\n\n  Rev. J. E. ROY, D. D., _Field Superintendent_.\n  Prof. ALBERT SALISBURY, _Superintendent of Education_.\n\n\n_Bureau of Woman's Work._\n\n  _Secretary_, Miss D. E. EMERSON, _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\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 \"American Missionary,\" to\nthe Editor, at the New York Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nMay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,\nor, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21\nCongregational House, Boston, Mass., or 113 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. 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_Advertisements._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBelow is a fac-simile of the Bottle of\n\nTHE GENUINE\n\nBROWN'S GINGER.\n\n(SIZE REDUCED ONE FOURTH.)\n\n\nSEE THAT THE STRIP OVER CORK IS UNBROKEN.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nFrederick Brown, Philadelphia----Established 1822.\n\n\n--FOR--\n\nCRAMPS, COLIC, STOMACH-ACHE, INDIGESTION, ETC.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAyer's\n\nCherry Pectoral\n\nShould be kept constantly at hand, for use in emergencies of the\nhousehold. Many a mother, startled in the night by the ominous sounds\nof Croup, finds the little sufferer, with red and swollen face,\ngasping for air. In such cases Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is invaluable.\nMrs. Emma Gedney, 159 West 128 st., New York, writes: \"While in the\ncountry, last winter, my little boy, three years old, was taken ill\nwith Croup; it seemed as if he would die from strangulation. Ayer's\nCherry Pectoral was tried in small and frequent doses, and, in less\nthan half an hour, the little patient was breathing easily. The\ndoctor said that the Pectoral saved my darling's life.\" Mrs. Chas. B.\nLandon, Guilford, Conn., writes: \"Ayer's Cherry Pectoral\n\n  Saved My Life,\n\nand also the life of my little son. As he is troubled with Croup, I\ndare not be without this remedy in the house.\" Mrs. J. Gregg, Lowell,\nMass., writes: \"My children have repeatedly taken Ayer's Cherry\nPectoral for Coughs and Croup. It gives immediate relief, followed by\ncure.\" Mrs. Mary E. Evans, Scranton, Pa., writes: \"I have two little\nboys, both of whom have been, from infancy, subject to violent\nattacks of Croup. About six months ago we began using Ayer's Cherry\nPectoral, and it acts like a charm. In a few minutes after the child\ntakes it, he breathes easily and rests well. Every mother ought to\nknow what a blessing I have found in Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.\" Mrs.\nWm. C. Reid, Freehold, N. J., writes: \"In our family, Ayer's\nmedicines have been blessings for many years. In cases of Colds and\nCoughs, we take\n\n  Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,\n\nand the inconvenience is soon forgotten.\"\n\n  PREPARED BY\n  Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.\n  Sold by all Druggists.\n\n\n  Happiness\n\nresults from that true contentment which indicates perfect health of\nbody and mind. You may possess it, if you will purify and invigorate\nyour blood with Ayer's Sarsaparilla. E. M. Howard, Newport, N. H.,\nwrites: \"I suffered for years with Scrofulous humors. After using two\nbottles of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, I\n\n  Found\n\ngreat relief. It has entirely restored me to health.\" James French,\nAtchison, Kans., writes: \"To all persons suffering from Liver\nComplaint, I would strongly recommend Ayer's Sarsaparilla, I was\nafflicted with a disease of the liver for nearly two years, when a\nfriend advised me to take this medicine. It gave prompt relief, and\nhas cured me.\" Mrs. H. M. Kidder, 41 Dwight st., Boston, Mass.,\nwrites: \"For several years I have used Ayer's Sarsaparilla in my\nfamily. I never feel safe, even\n\n  At Home\n\nwithout it. As a liver medicine and general purifier of the blood, it\nhas no equal.\" Mrs. A. B. Allen, Winterpock, Va., writes: \"My\nyoungest child, two years of age, was taken with Bowel Complaint,\nwhich we could not cure. We tried many remedies, but he continued to\ngrow worse, and finally became so reduced in flesh that we could only\nmove him upon a pillow. It was suggested by one of the doctors that\nScrofula might be the cause of the trouble. We procured a bottle of\n\n  AYER'S\n  Sarsaparilla\n\nand commenced giving it to him. It surely worked wonders, for, in a\nshort time, he was completely cured.\"\n\n  Sold by all Druggists.\n  Price $1; Six bottles, $5.\n\n  Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell,\n  Mass., U. S. A.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\nVOL. XXXIX.     MARCH, 1885.     NO. 3.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n$365,000\n\nNEEDED FOR THE CURRENT YEAR.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nYour Committee are convinced that not less than a THOUSAND DOLLARS a\nday are imperatively demanded to perfect the admirably organized\nplans of the Association, even for the present, to say nothing of the\npressing needs of the early future.--\n\n[FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT ADOPTED BY ANNUAL MEETING AT SALEM.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE FIGURES.\n\n           _Receipts:_            Col. & Don.     Estates.      Total.\n\n  Oct. 1, 1884, to Jan. 31, 1885   $66,078.97    $9,605.91    $75,684.88\n  Oct. 1, 1883, to Jan. 31, 1884    69,941.52     9,809.35     79,750.87\n                                    ---------    ---------     ---------\n    Decrease                        $3,862.55      $203.44     $4,065.99\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWhere the color-sergeant plants the standard, there the soldiers are\nexpected to rally. The Finance Committee at the Salem meeting\ninscribed on the A. M. A. standard $365,000 needed for 1884-5, and\ncalled upon the churches to advance to the support. _The Figures_\nshowing receipts of our treasury indicate just how far the churches\nhave come up in response to the call. Had we received the $1,000 a\nday recommended, our total receipts would be $123,000, as against the\n$75,684.88 now reported. Will not the captains of our church hosts\nrally the forces to an immediate advance? One-third of our fiscal\nyear has already passed. The showing is not what we had hoped, but\ntime enough remains to make up for the deficiency.\n\nWill our friends please bear these things in mind?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nDEATH OF REV. G. D. PIKE, D. D.\n\n\nIn the death of Dr. Pike, which occurred in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 29,\nthe American Missionary Association has lost a most earnest and\nsuccessful worker. Repeated and protracted attacks of throat and lung\ntroubles during the last two or three years, terminating in an\nillness that confined him to his room for three months, gave warning\nto his friends of the approach of death. But with the hopefulness\npeculiar to the disease, and especially characteristic of himself, he\nentertained almost to the last the expectation of recovery. Yet death\nhad no terror; on the contrary, while he wished to live for the sake\nof his family and the Association, he personally welcomed death with\nthe most joyful feelings.\n\nDr. Pike was born in Topsfield, Mass., Aug. 6, 1831, graduated from\nDartmouth College in 1858, and from Andover Theological Seminary in\n1861. He was ordained associate pastor with Rev. Austin Richards, D.\nD., of the Olive Street Congregational Church, Nashua, N. H., April\n23, 1862, and remained in that position till May 1, 1865. He was\nacting pastor at East Hampton, Conn., from 1865 to 1867, and during\nthe latter year he entered the service of the Association as agent,\nresiding in Rochester, N. Y. In 1870 he became District Secretary, a\nposition which he filled till his death, and to which he devoted the\nbest energies of his life. His peculiar gifts fitted him for some\nspecial services. During the years 1872-4 he accompanied the Jubilee\nSingers in a tour through the United States and Great Britain. They\nwere welcomed by the royal family and by the nobility, and by large\nand enthusiastic popular audiences. Their success, in its pecuniary\nresults, finds a fitting monument in the substantial and commodious\nJubilee Hall, at Nashville, Tenn.; and the untiring industry, the\nskill and tact and energy of Mr. Pike as business manager contributed\nin a large measure to this gratifying result. Before returning to\nAmerica he made a rapid trip through Egypt and Palestine. In 1881 he\nassumed the editorship of the _American Missionary_, and brought to\nthat service a degree of variety and breadth that gave a new impulse\nto the usefulness of the magazine. He devoted much thought and\nresearch to the condition of Africa, and became so well acquainted\nwith it that editors of leading journals in this city and pastors of\nchurches sometimes sought information from him in regard to it. He\nwrote two volumes on the History of the Jubilee Singers, which have\nhad a very wide circulation.\n\nDr. Pike was eminently social and was blessed with unusual\nconversational powers, and gave to others and won from them to\nhimself strong personal friendships. As a public speaker he was\nearnest, animated and eloquent, and was gladly welcomed in the pulpit\nand in the meetings of Associations and Conferences. His leading\ncharacteristic was that of an organizer. He was perpetually devising\nplans for active work and was diligent and untiring in his efforts to\ncarry them out. He was a man of prayer and of faith in God, which\nsustained him in his constant labors, in his days of trial and in his\nsickness and death. At his own request his mortal remains rest in\nNashua, the scene of his first pastorate, and his long sleep will be\nwith those whom he loved. By the generosity of Mrs. O. A. Woodbury a\nportion of a cemetery lot was given for his burial, on which an\nexpensive monument is erected, and on one face of which will be\ninscribed his name.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSince writing the above we have learned that a special memorial\nservice was held Sunday evening, February 1st, in the Chapel of Fisk\nUniversity. This was in every way appropriate, in consequence of the\nintimate relations of Dr. Pike's life to the upbuilding of that\ninstitution. With considerable feeling, President Cravath referred to\nthe fact that twenty years ago E. P. Smith, Dr. Pike and himself\nentered upon the work of the American Missionary Association, and\nthat he was now left alone, adding that in the death of Brother Pike,\nFisk University had lost one of its warmest friends.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe notice the death of Mrs. Dr. L. B. Lane, of St. Charles, Ill. She\ndied on the 14th of January last, at the age of sixty-two years. Mrs.\nLane and her husband were ordained missionaries of the Am. Miss.\nAssoc. to Siam in 1848. They returned in 1855, since which time they\nhave resided in this country. She was a good and true servant of\nChrist when in the foreign field and no less so in her own land. Her\ndeath came suddenly, but found her thoroughly prepared to go.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFew men in this country have had more experience in addressing\nchildren, or greater success in winning them to Christ, than Rev. E.\nP. Hammond. The result of this experience he has condensed in an\ninteresting and instructive little volume, entitled \"Conversion of\nChildren.\" It will prove helpful and encouraging to parents and\ninteresting to children. We thank Mr. Hammond for the gift of fifty\ncopies of his book, which we have distributed among our missionaries\nin the South, by whom they are appreciated and found useful in their\nwork.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSome time ago a Southern paper, in speaking of Dr. Roy, referred to\nhim as a colored man. At the time we thought the writer was mistaken,\nbut since looking over his itinerary, which our readers will find in\nanother part of the magazine, we have been led to feel that we shall\nhave to modify somewhat our opinion. The doctor himself explicitly\ndeclares that at one point in their journey he and his companions\nwere all of the same color. At any rate he is not ashamed to call\nthem _brethren_, and we may also add that they are not ashamed of\nhim.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Tillotson, at Austin, Texas, has taken to itself a church\norganization. This was effected on the first Sabbath of the year--a\nvery interesting occasion. Superintendent Roy and Rev. Jeremiah\nPorter, spending his second winter in Austin, were present to assist\nthe pastor, Rev. J. H. Parr, who, with his wife, united in the\norganization. It consisted of twenty members, half of them teachers\nand half students. Principal W. L. Gordon and wife presented their\ntwo little children, born in the Institute, for baptism. Mr. Gordon\nand Mr. R. F. Ferrell, a student, were ordained as deacons by prayer\nand the laying on of hands. Mr. Porter offered the prayer of\ninstitution, and broke the bread at the communion table. This\nvenerable servant of God had just passed his 80th birthday. His\ngolden wedding will come next June. His multitude of friends will be\nglad to know that the United States Government, having put him upon\nthe retired list as chaplain, is continuing his salary. Mrs. Porter\nis assisting the special missionary, Miss M. J. Adams, Professor\nDean, and other teachers and scholars, in supporting two mission\nschools contiguous to the Institute. Miss Rose M. Kinney, a veteran\nin the service, is matron and preceptress. The Tillotson is moving on\nthis year smoothly and successfully. A church in connection with\nthese main chartered institutions is essential to their best\nChristian result.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nJust a word with our ministerial readers. The heavy mail that daily\ncomes to this office brings us occasionally a letter with some such\nwords as these: \"I preached to my people last Sunday an A. M. A.\nsermon, and as a result I send you a contribution which is larger\nthan the church ever gave this cause before.\" Exactly, brother; let\nthe people know what is wanted and why it is wanted, and then let\nthem have a chance to give and they will meet the responsibility\nevery time. Another letter brings us this: \"A few weeks ago I\npreached a sermon on the work of the A. M. A. My congregation were so\ndeeply interested in what I said they requested my manuscript for\npublication. Thinking you might be interested I send you a copy of\nthe published sermon.\" Exactly, again. We were interested, and long\nbefore we had finished reading the discourse we understood full well\nwhy the people were interested. Another letter: \"The Missions of the\nA. M. A. occupied our attention last monthly concert. I gave a bird's\neye view of the whole field and then selections were read from the\npapers and addresses given at Salem. By this time the brethren were\nquite ready to turn on the streams of their own thought. We found it\ndifficult to bring the meeting to an end. It was a great success. I\npropose to follow it up.\" Again, exactly. Missionary information when\nproperly brought forward will make a meeting that for interest cannot\nbe surpassed. It is one of the strangest things in the world that so\nmany people have gotten the impression that a missionary meeting must\nbe dull, and that a missionary discourse must be uninteresting. It is\nan impression that ought not to exist. Let sermons be preached. Let\nthe thrilling, soul-inspiring facts that go to make up the history of\nmissions be made known and the impression will soon be driven out of\nexistence.\n\nBrethren, we invite you to glean in the great field of the American\nMissionary Association. There will be rich returns for you and your\npeople and golden returns for us.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE TEST APPLIED.\n\n\nWhen Berea College was started, in 1858, its students were all\nwhite. The following year the question was raised, \"What if colored\nstudents should apply?\" One teacher voiced the sentiment of all when\nhe said, \"If any one made in God's image comes to get knowledge which\nwill enable him to understand the revelation of God in Jesus Christ,\nhe cannot be rejected.\" The simple declaration of that sentiment had\nthe effect to make most of the students leave at the end of the term,\nnever to return. The John Brown raid, happening soon after, rendered\nthe school still more unpopular, and the war following a little\nlater, the school had to suspend altogether. But when the war ended\nand, in 1865, the college opened its doors again, there being no\nlonger slavery, the question of color soon came up for consideration.\n\nIn one of the by-laws to the constitution of the college was this\nstatement: \"The object of this college shall be to furnish the\nfacilities for a thorough education to all persons of good moral\ncharacter.\" Three colored youths applied for admission. On\nexamination they were found to be \"persons of good moral character.\"\nThere was only one thing to do. They were promptly admitted. What\nfollowed? There were at the time seventy-five students in the\ncollege, and we are told, \"the morning that those three harmless\nyouths walked in, half the school walked out.\"\n\nBut some one will say: \"That was at the close of the war, when the\nfeelings of our white brethren at the South were naturally very\nsensitive; that time, however, has passed away. We can now plant\nschools and churches on an anti-caste basis, with open doors and\nwelcome hands for colored people, _if they choose to come_. No such\nexhibition of race prejudice would now be made.\" _Well, let us see._\n\nFor several years past we have had our attention turned to the\nterrible destitution of the people in the mountain region of Kentucky\nand places adjacent. Two years ago we sent a special missionary to\nlabor among these people. He made his headquarters at Williamsburg,\nthe county seat of Whitley County, Kentucky. The town was sixty-seven\nyears old, yet it never had a church edifice; nor had the county,\nwith a population of fourteen thousand, ever had a church edifice\nfinished and dedicated to the worship of Almighty God. There were\nvery few schools, and what few there were could not be considered\nschools by intelligent people. Our missionary went to work. The\npeople heard him gladly. A new life came into their famished souls.\nThey rallied round him. They built a beautiful church edifice. An\nacademy, too, was erected; able and skilled teachers were put in\ncharge. The missionary did not confine himself to the town merely.\nFor miles up and down the valley he traveled, preaching as he went.\nWherever he came the people were roused and steps taken to have\nchurches and schools planted.\n\nBut the church and the academy above referred to must be dedicated.\nAt the dedication this Association was represented by Assistant\nCorresponding Secretary Powell, by Field Superintendent Roy and by\nRev. Dr. Wm. H. Ward, of the Executive Committee. And dedicated they\nwere to the glory of God for the maintenance and spread of a _free_\ngospel and Christian learning. Special emphasis was placed upon the\nfact that over the entrance to these temples was written, _Whosoever\nwill may come_. Does some one ask why that was specially emphasized?\nBecause we were in a country where popular sentiment said, Into white\nchurches and white schools there was a certain class who, on account\nof the color of their skin, would not be admitted. When you are in a\ncommunity that publicly indorses a wrong, silence regarding that\nwrong is complicity. Under such circumstances, to say nothing about\nit is the same thing as to sign your name to a document affirming the\nthing to be right. To dedicate a Christian church in New York City\nand say nothing about the evils of Mormonism would be nothing\nstrange, but to dedicate a Christian church in Salt Lake City and be\nsilent as to what the teaching and the practice of that church was to\nbe in regard to polygamy would be _treason_ to the Gospel. We\ntherefore made specially prominent at the dedication the broad\nprinciples on which our mission rested. Some said they were sorry to\nhear such things proclaimed; others said nothing, but feared; while a\nfew said, That is right. It is just as it ought to be.\n\nThe school started off with bright skies above and a broad distant\nview around. The bell rung out its pealing calls, and bright-eyed,\nrosy-cheeked children and youth clambered up the hill side to enjoy\nsuch educational privileges as that country had never known. All was\npeace and prosperity. School was crowded, and everybody was happy.\nBut suddenly the whole heavens were overcast. From horizon to horizon\na deathly pall enshrouded the entire sky--and the cloud large enough\nto do all this was only the size of a black child's face! _Whosoever\nwill may come_, we had said. Did we _mean_ it? Oh, yes, _but_ it is\nhardly right to sacrifice the feelings of that whole school merely to\ngratify the wish of--_a nigger_. Did we mean it? Oh, yes, but it is\nhardly right to imperil the very existence of the school merely to\ntake in that one poor, despised and uninfluential colored child! Did\nwe mean it? Oh, yes, but is it right, is it wise, to receive _one_\nwhen you know that by so doing you will lose twenty--perhaps more--to\nreceive one whom you will have to help, and lose twenty--or perhaps\nmore--who can help you? Did we mean it? Oh, yes, certainly, but would\nit not be better to reason with the applicant and show her that while\nwe ourselves have no objection, yet things being as they are, she\nwould really do more for her people by staying away than by insisting\nthat she should be received? Why not take some such position as that?\nWe will have peace and harmony and prosperity. We shall be able to\ntell our friends in the distance we are getting along swimmingly. We\nare true to our principles. _Whosoever will may come._ We have no\ntrouble with the negro question. We simply let it alone. Our dear\nbrethren down South are perfectly delighted to receive us. We have no\ntrouble with them whatever, and the cause is going forward\ntriumphantly.\n\n_Is_ that the way to meet the responsibility? Imagine the Lord Jesus\nChrist at the door of that school when that black child came asking\nadmission. What would have been His answer? Say, reader, imagine what\n_would_ have been His answer. Put on your thinking cap. Summon to\nyour aid all the help that quibbling and dodging and sophistry can\ngive, and after you have gone through it all, what do you think would\nhave been His answer? Well, here is the answer the American\nMissionary Association sent as quickly as the telegraph could carry\nit: _Admit all applicants irrespective of color._ And then what\nfollowed? Nearly half the scholars picked up their things and left!\nThis happened a few weeks ago. We had about a hundred students. We\nhave now about fifty, and we may lose even those. Letter writing is\neasy. Talk is cheap. Even _Buncombe_ is not a lost art. But actions\nspeak louder than words. Let us know what follows when _the test is\napplied_, and then we shall know just what profession of loyalty to\nprinciple signifies. Berea stood by its guns, and it has steadily\ngrown in favor with God and man ever since. And it will win in the\nend. Then what a glorious triumph! No regrets for having played the\nhypocrite, no regrets for having played the part of a time server, no\nregrets for having played the part of a trimmer, no regrets for\nhaving played the part of a special pleader, no regrets for having\nconcealed its colors behind its back in shameful silence as to its\npast history, no regrets for having turned away one of Christ's\nlittle ones for whom He died, no regrets for having counseled it,\nwhile professing friendship, to go elsewhere. What a glorious\ntriumph!\n\nAnd we, too, shall win--and our triumph shall be glorious. Let us go\nforward preaching the Word, and when the time comes let there be no\nattempt to postpone its issue--but let the test be applied. Better go\ndown standing on our principles than live with our principles denied\nand dishonored.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nRELIGIOUS CULTURE OF THE SLAVES BEFORE THE WAR.\n\n\nThe _Independent_ of Feb. 5 has an exceedingly interesting article on\nthe above subject from the pen of Rev. Dr. J. E. Edwards, Danville,\nVirginia.\n\nHe says that at an early period in this century Southern Methodists\nsent missionaries to labor with the slaves on the rice and cotton\nplantations. In 1845 Southern Methodism had in church fellowship\n124,000 slaves. At one time the Methodist membership in Charleston,\nS. C., was in the proportion of five colored to one white. Blacks and\nwhites worshiped in the same house and were ministered to by the same\npastor.\n\nOne of the early reports of the South Carolina Board has the\nfollowing: \"We claim it best, as a general rule, to include the\ncolored people in the same pastoral charge with the whites, and to\npreach to both classes in one congregation, as our practice has been.\nThe gospel is the same for all men, and to enjoy its privileges in\ncommon, promotes good will.\"\n\nWe read so far and stopped. That language has the marks of the gospel\nof Jesus Christ all over it. \"All ye are brethren.\" So says the\ngospel, and this report says the same. But how would it do to take\nthe language above quoted into a Southern white Methodist Conference\nnow! Just let the above report, without comment and without\nexplanation, be introduced to-day into such a Conference, and what an\nexplosion would follow!\n\nIt is too bad to quote the rest of the report, because it mars\nsomewhat the beauty of what goes before; but here it is: \"That when\nthe galleries or other sittings are insufficient, we consider it the\nduty of our brethren and friends to provide the necessary\naccommodations that none may make such a neglect a plea for absenting\nthemselves from public worship.\" \"_Galleries or other sittings._\"\nThere is the fly in the ointment. Of course, at communion, the master\nclass was served first and the slave class afterward.\n\nThe Church of Christ is His body. But does Christ allow His followers\nto decide that distinctions shall be made at His table on account of\nthe hue of the skin? When a Temple is erected in which Christ's\ndisciples are to meet for worship, is there anything in the gospel\nthat warrants a division of seats so that here superiors shall sit\nand there inferiors? Where is the word that warrants it? and what is\nthe analysis that will find it in the spirit of the gospel? All honor\nto the slave-holders who furnished the means of the gospel to the\nslaves. All honor to the men and women who pointed the sin-burdened\nnegroes to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world. We\nhave no doubt but that as Dr. Edwards says, \"Multiplied thousands\nupon thousands of the sons of Ham will rise up in judgment to bless\nthe faithful men of the South for their long-continued labors in\nteaching the benighted negro the way of life.\" We have no doubt of\nit; but in the resurrection will the whites put in an appearance\nfirst and the blacks second? In the day of judgment will the whites\nlead and the blacks follow? Will there be galleries with hard seats\nin Heaven for negroes and ground floors easy of access with soft\nseats for Caucasians? Will the great chorus of Heaven be divided into\ntwo parts, a white division and a black division? And will the\nHallelujah Chorus as sung by the white choir be more acceptable to\nGod than that sung by the black choir?\n\nYes, the slave-holders did a great deal for the religious training\nand the spiritual welfare of the slaves, and in consequence of what\nthey did, with God's blessing, the colored people of our country are\nalmost immeasurably lifted above their benighted heathen brethren in\nAfrica. Yes, that is all so. Does Dr. Edwards ask us to praise them\nfor it? We do. But, brethren, we must also add, \"These ought ye to\nhave done and not to leave the other undone.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA TEACHER'S APPEAL.\n\n\nWe publish the following from F. A. Chase, Professor of Natural\nScience in Fisk University. He pleads, of course, for Fisk, yet his\nplea holds good for all our higher institutions. We commend it to our\nfriends. The American Missionary Association could make good use,\nsay, of a \"_One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund_\" for the scientific\ndepartments of its mission schools. It may be that some one whom God\nhas blessed with riches is waiting for just such an opportunity as\nthis particular branch of our great field opens. Special funds for a\ndesignated institution, to be used for the promotion of Christian\nscience, as outlined by Prof. Chase, are earnestly solicited:\n\n     Are there not some friends of the work among the Freedmen\n     who can appreciate the need of a teacher for a _complete\n     scientific outfit_?\n\n     The race has been kept during slavery from all knowledge\n     of science. Their trades and occupations being of the\n     roughest, and having ignorant parentage, nothing has been\n     learned from the business of life, nor in answer to the\n     questioning of childhood and youth. There is no race now\n     admitted to the privileges of liberal education so barren\n     of scientific ideas and so lacking in scientific spirit.\n     Those who know this people solely from their fine\n     literary and oratorical abilities have no conception of\n     their great deficiency in science. It does not need to be\n     said that, until this is remedied, they cannot be\n     expected to hold their own in a scientific age, and in\n     competition with a scientific race.\n\n     Though our course of study is brought down to the very\n     minimum of college work, and the instruction is of a\n     most elementary character, still there are eight sciences\n     to be taught. But this teaching, to be successful,\n     requires the use of illustrative material. With the\n     general introduction of illustrations in our modern\n     schools began the rapid progress in science that\n     distinguishes our age. All true teachers of science\n     affirm with one voice that this aid is indispensable even\n     with the most favored races.\n\n     In botany, zoology, mineralogy and geology we need\n     specimens--the great type examples on which\n     classification is founded. In physiology and anatomy we\n     need, in default of _material_, cheap models. In natural\n     philosophy, chemistry and astronomy we need\n     apparatus--not the costly instruments of precision, but\n     plain, cheap pieces, that are fitted to illustrate and in\n     some cases demonstrate the many and various principles\n     that are taught.\n\n     In the pressure of the growing work upon the society,\n     beyond a small sum for incidental expenses, most of the\n     money appropriated for schools goes for the payment of\n     salaries. Our land and our buildings have come from other\n     sources. But our outfit of school requisites has been for\n     the most part overlooked. Some fine instruments have been\n     presented to us, much more costly than we would have\n     selected for ourselves; but their value would be\n     increased many fold by accessory and supplementary\n     apparatus. Are there not those who can, by special gifts,\n     make up this lack also? Must _we_, of all other teachers\n     of science, be left to make bricks without straw? What\n     answer should be made to those who depreciate the negro's\n     mental capacity? Is it not a pitiful waste of the\n     opportunity, that a factory building should be put up,\n     workmen hired, materials supplied, but no _machinery_ put\n     in? Yet this has been going on with class after class for\n     ten years.\n\n     Three-fourths of our graduates follow teaching as a\n     profession, and are more or less teachers of science.\n     They should not only learn that which apparatus alone can\n     teach, but also how to use it themselves. Should a master\n     workman be expected to teach the theory and practice of a\n     trade through the use of _pictures_ of tools and\n     machines?\n\n     We have not neglected our opportunities in respect to\n     making collections of specimens about us, and\n     constructing cheap forms of apparatus. We have learned\n     new trades and toiled early and late and often through\n     whole vacations. But, without workshop appliances, part\n     of that accomplished is unsatisfactory, and the major and\n     more difficult part remains untouched. But where one has\n     a great pressure of outside duties incidental to such a\n     work as this, how utterly inadequate such driblets of\n     time as can be spared are for such a task can easily be\n     imagined.\n\n     Is there any lover of science and friend of the freedmen\n     who can understand our condition and give us ten thousand\n     dollars for an outfit, and if possible an additional sum\n     as an endowment for annual expenses?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nADDRESS AT ANNUAL MEETING.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPREACHING THE MAIN FACTOR IN MISSIONARY WORK.\n\nREV. GEORGE R. LEAVITT.\n\n\nIt is a fact of history that the preaching of the Word has been the\ngreat missionary agency. The Bible is a missionary book. The great\nfigure in the Old Testament history was the preacher of\nrighteousness--Enoch, Samuel, Elijah, Isaiah, the great line of\nprophets--they were missionary preachers. In the beginning of\nChristianity, the great figure was the preacher--John the Baptist,\nthe Apostles, our blessed Lord Himself. The salient feature in the\nNew Testament may be said to be a succession of great missionary\nsermons which are expositions of the Gospel. In the history of the\nChristian Church the great figure has been the preacher. The Church\nof God is the body of Jesus Christ. As such she is the eye and ear,\nshe is the hands and feet of the Lord, but especially she is the\nvoice of the Lord. Doth not wisdom cry in all time? Did not the\nSpirit when sent forth lift the voice declaring the great Gospel\nmessage? And when the Church has had that possession of the Spirit,\nhas it not been especially her inspiration to cry out with the Gospel\nmessage? The great figure in this Association work in the past has\nbeen the teacher. We have had a gifted line of men and women in this\nwork, and to them all honor be given. It would be impossible for us\nto give them the honor which is their due; but in the future the\ngreat figure is to be the missionary preacher, the man who can reach\nmasses of men with the Gospel message. We are lifting this race, and\nwhat has been true in the past will be true in the future.\n\nPerhaps I can not better exhibit this subject in the little space\nallowed me than in noticing some of the traits which should\ncharacterize the missionary preacher, and while the truth is general\nand applicable to all parties, I trust that we may be under the\ndirection of the Spirit and take to heart these great traits we shall\nbe looking for in the preacher of the future in the South.\n\nThe missionary preacher is a man who, to be effective, should be a\nman of spiritual morality, a man of irreproachable character. I\npresume the colored man has been maligned in the South, as his\ncharacter has so often been brought out among us. One of our\nenthusiastic teachers was asked, \"How many Uncle Toms do you find in\nthe South?\" And she replied, \"About as many as there are in the\nNorth.\" A truth was there that we ourselves may very well take.\n\nThere are three ways in which the Gospel is published. One is in the\nbook, one is by the voice, and the third by the life. The voice lies\nbetween the book and the life, and the life is the great publication\nof the message, and unless we have a voice of a man who is\nspiritually qualified by a holy life, we have not a competent Gospel\npreacher. In speaking of this matter of morality, we should have\nsomething more in view than natural morals--there is a spiritual\nmorality. We want the higher. A man who has in himself the Spirit of\nGod, produces this type of morality. We can not canvass this subject\nby the motives of worldliness. It takes two crosses to save the\nworld--the cross of Christ and the cross of the believer. A\nministerial brother said, in speaking of certain ones, that they had\nundergone a deplorable religious transformation, that at one time\nthey held the Gospel of regeneration, but they had come to love the\nGospel of recreation. Ah, what a transformation has come over too\nmany of our churches and the community in loving this form of\nworldliness!\n\nIt is a matter of great satisfaction that our schools in the South\nare doing such efficient work in this direction, as reports indicate,\nand as private information shows. I quite lately had information from\nGeneral Armstrong touching this point of high morality that is\ndeveloped in the school. The young men and young women, he said,\ncompare well with the young men and young women in our Northern\nschools. This is a matter of great satisfaction, because the preacher\nof the future is to come out of these schools.\n\nThe second essential in the missionary preacher, if he is to be\nsuccessful, is a mind which is spiritually illuminated, a man who is\nintelligent in the truth. I presume the great characteristic of the\nold-time preacher in the South is his ignorance, and if we should\nselect one point at which a change needs to take place, it is at this\npoint of instruction. He needs to be intelligent.\n\nNow, to these things ought to be added training in all branches of\nknowledge, just as widely as possible, but we must fix our attention\nespecially upon one source of knowledge, namely, the Word of God.\nThe missionary preacher needs to be a man established in the\nScriptures. John the Baptist grew in grace. Our blessed Lord Himself\ngrew in grace. The man who is to be effective as a preacher in\nelevating the world is a man who grows in grace. What is grace? It is\nthe undeserved favor of God exhibited in the plan of salvation for\nthe redemption of man. And the first truths of that grace say simply,\nbut how grandly, \"grow in grace;\" we are to be \"ministers of grace;\"\nto be \"masters of grace.\" The minister in the South is to be a master\nof grace. Do you know how far it is away? It seems but a step, but\noh, what a work when we begin to comprehend the great things of God!\nDo you know the height, depth and length of the great salvation of\nthe love of God? Ezekiel tells us of the depth of the stream when he\nfirst came to it, that to his apprehension the water came up to his\nfoot, but, as he advanced, it came to the ankle, and the knee and the\nloin, and then it was water to swim in, a river that could not be\npassed over. Oh, my brethren, we need to understand these great\nthings of God, so that we may become masters of grace, for if we do\nnot, the missionary preacher that comes up under our influence will\nnot be thoroughly qualified for his duties.\n\nThen there is another quality; the missionary preacher, to be\neffective as a missionary, must be, not only a \"shining,\" but like\nJohn also a \"burning light.\" Then nothing shall be concealed. What\ndoes the Scripture say in that psalm? \"There is nothing hid from the\nlight?\" No; \"There is nothing hid from the heat thereof.\" We want a\nGospel preacher among those people who has a Gospel heat from which\nnothing can be hid. How many things we can say of this fuel! We have\nspoken of the Word of God. The Word of God is the light, and it is\nthe fuel for a fire. Our blessed Saviour when He was on the way to\nEmmaus with the Disciples enkindled their hearts, not by his personal\npresence; but when he opened the Scriptures, then they testified,\n\"Did not our hearts burn within us?\" That was what took place at\nPentecost. The Holy Spirit did not bring the fuel that day, but they\nhad been gathering it as they spoke of Christ, and as they came\ntogether to offer prayers, the Holy Spirit came, and the Word was a\nfire in their bones; then fire came and kindled them, and then came\nthat wonderful effect.\n\nSir James Herschel tells us in a little story, in fragments of his\nbiography, how after his telescopes became famous they were\ndistributed quite widely through Europe, and when he published his\ngreat discovery, he began to receive complaints. Men said to him, in\nangry letters, \"We do not see what you see.\" In his response to them\nhe said: \"Perhaps you do not take the care in your observations that\nI do,\" and he spoke of one particular thing that is carefully noted.\n\"Do you take care,\" he said, \"of the matter of temperature? The\ninstrument with which I examine the stars must be of the temperature\nof the stars as nearly as may be, and when I observe on a winter\nnight I place my glass on the lawn at Greenwich, and let it stand\nthere until the instrument comes to be of the temperature of the air.\nBut beyond that,\" he said, \"not only must my instrument be of the\nright temperature, but I must be. Oftentimes,\" he said, \"I have been\nout in the winter air for two hours before I would open my glass,\nbecause I must come to be of the same temperature as the instrument\nitself.\" What a spiritual truth there is here! God's Word the\ninstrument, and the temperature that of the heavens. But we must be\nof the temperature of that Bible and that heavens! Oh, for the heat\nof the Gospel to be in the minister of Christ wherever he stands, and\nthen there will be nothing hid from its searching power.\n\nI think this subject is often presented in a way to confuse it. We\nspeak of heat in a way not to comprehend precisely what we want; and\nlet me touch upon the point which shows what I mean. When the Saviour\nwas at the well with the woman, it was the love in His heart from\nwhich she could not be hid. What a lesson Peter learned that day when\nour Saviour, in His great interview by the sea, asked him: \"Lovest\nthou me?\" and said, \"Feed my sheep and my lambs.\" There was a lesson\nburned into his heart of the personal love of Christ.\n\nI heard Mr. Sankey sing last week \"The Ninety and Nine,\" and he\nprefaced it by saying that the old hymn was worn out. I was sorry to\nhear him say that, but there was one accent he gave in singing which\nwas very affecting. When one expostulates with the shepherd that he\nhas ninety and nine with him, he cries out: \"It is my sheep.\" I fancy\nwhen Peter came to Pentecost and saw those great crowds before him\nthere was one element of preparation he needed, and the Saviour had\ntaught him how to feed his sheep and feed his lambs, and it lived so\nin his heart that nothing could be hid from it.\n\nI am speaking too long on this matter. But it is a great subject.\nThis Association has a glorious opportunity. There is no cause that\ncomes to us that touches our inspiration and consecration like this\nsociety, and the opportunity is such as, in my judgment, the\nChristian Church never had.\n\nNow, we say this, we cannot do this work by any other form of service\nbut by preaching the Gospel, with at least these elements in it I\nhave mentioned. We speak of the hand work for Christ, but we want the\nnet work for Christ. When I was in Japan, I saw all over the bay, in\nthe night, little boats of fishermen. The men were in the boats two\nand two, one holding a torch. They were busily engaged the night\nthrough. I asked one, \"Is this your mode of fishing?\" and I was shown\na great seine net that lay upon the shore, and I was told, \"This is\nhere especially for day fishing.\" When I stood before the young men\nin the school at Kioto I referred to this. I said \"It seems to me in\nJapan you are doing the night fishing now; it is fishing in the night\nwith a torch, but, young men, there is a morning coming when the\ngreat net is to be cast, your hands are to be upon it, and you are to\nhave the privilege of a great cast for God.\" It has come this year,\nand those young men went out preachers of righteousness, clothed with\npower to reach the masses of men, and they have drawn in hundreds,\nand there is hope of the thousands, and that is what we want in this\nwork, men who can go to those Southern fields, to those five millions\nof whom we have heard, and cast the great seine net of the Gospel;\nand they are coming.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D. D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT.\n\nPROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nITINERARY FROM AUSTIN TO CORPUS CHRISTI.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.\n\n\nJAN. 4, Sunday.--Assisted in organizing at the Tillotson Institute a\nchurch of twenty-one members. Lord's Supper. Prof. W. L. Gordon's two\nchildren baptized.\n\nJAN. 5, Monday.--At Austin depot. Waited for train five hours to 8 P. M.\n\nJAN. 6, Tuesday.--Arrived in San Antonio at 1 A. M. Departed for\nFlatonia at 8 A. M., arriving at noon. Looked up the folks. Preached\nat night for Pastor T. E. Hillson, whose second child was baptized,\nas the first had been by the same hand at the dedication in Luling,\nhis alternate church.\n\nJAN. 7, Wednesday.--Up at 4 and off to Luling, arriving by daylight.\nOff then, by livery rig, 45 miles to Riddleville.\n\nJAN. 8, Thursday.--On to Helena, 15 miles. Ride out with freedman, 3\nmiles, to our Colony Church. Lecture at night for Pastor Thompson.\n\nJAN. 9, Friday.--Half a day of writing. Visited at another freedman's\nhome, taking supper. Preached at night.\n\nJAN. 10, Saturday.--Brother Thompson, with another colored man and\nmyself, start for Corpus, 80 miles, reaching Goliad, 35 miles, at\nnight. We are entertained at Pastor T. Benson's.\n\nJAN. 11, Sunday.--In the morning, Sunday-school, preaching and\ncommunion. At night, preaching. Conferring all day, at the intervals,\nwith \"parties,\" being called upon even after retiring at night.\n\nJAN. 12, Monday.--Up and off before daylight, without breakfast. But\nMrs. Benson has provided for us a grand lunch box that lasts us three\nfor the two days through to Corpus. No place on the way, to put up;\nno chance to buy eatables. Our boss has planned to reach the half-way\nspot on the Popolota for camping. The day wears away, and it is 10\no'clock before we come to the halting-place. For the last three hours\nBrother Thompson had led the way lantern in hand, splashing through\nthe mud and water. We turn under a live oak, take out and feed the\njaded horses, and eat our snack, and commit ourselves to the Heavenly\nFather, and at 11 o'clock turn in for the night, Brother Thompson on\nthe ground, _under_ the hack, and Brother Eding and I _in_ the hack,\ndoubled like a couple of jackknives into our four feet square of\nspace, being all of a color. By our side the ponies through the night\ncrunch their corn; and, by turn, we jump up to drive off the cows\nfrom stealing their hay. But we sleep, and snore, and rest some.\n\nTUESDAY, Jan 13.--Up and off by daybreak. We camp for breakfast\nlunch. We camp for dinner lunch. As we consume the fragments, how we\ndo bless Mrs. Benson. When, at her own table, we had praised her\nbaking and cooking, she responded: \"Oh, I learned that at Talladega\nCollege.\" Then I had to tell Dr. Strieby's story of the native\npreacher, who thanked him for the good wife who had been trained in\none of the American Missionary Association schools, saying that he\nhad gotten more than he had anticipated--a good cook and housekeeper.\nOn, on we trudge through the heavy mud. Night has come, and we are\nyet seven miles from Corpus, and the cold, \"wet norther\" that has\nbeen drizzling upon us all day, as we had been fearing, has at last\nbroken upon us. Again Brother Thompson is on the lead, with lantern\nin hand, through the slush, and he has walked more than half the way\nthrough the day. The black-waxy is heavy for the wheels, and slippery\nfor the poor old freedman ponies that have no shoes. Pastor J. W.\nStrong, who for four years has manfully held this extreme\nsouthwestern outpost of Congregationalism, having learned of our\napproach from a dashing country rider, comes along in the dark, one\nmile out to meet us, in Oriental style. After our salaams, he gallops\nback to town to make the final arrangement for our entertainment. It\nis now 8.30 P. M., too late for the preaching; and, for once, the\npreacher is glad that the storm has kept the people away from the\nappointment. But the next night they make it up, and the preacher\ntries to make it up, too. When Mr. Thompson brought me down, six\nyears ago, we came straight through by fording, belly-deep to the\nhorses, across the reef, three miles long, that forms the nexus\nbetween the Nueces Bay and the Corpus Christi Bay. On either side was\ndeep water or miring sand. Once, since that, he has had to _tote_ his\npassengers out on his back. The reef has been washed out in spots.\nLo! this time we go up around the head of the bay, ten miles farther.\nBrother Thompson claims that he can endure such jaunts without wear\nor much weariness, because he is so abstemious as not to drink tea or\ncoffee nor to eat meat. And everybody knows him to be a true, pure\nand high-minded Christian minister who, though he has had but\nlittle schooling, has been so taught of God in the Word, that after\nthese eleven years in the same parish, that at Helena, he is yet\nconfided in there as an able pulpit teacher. In old times, his people\nwere Presbyterians. Blood will tell; and doctrine, too.\n\n[Illustration: VIEWS IN TEXAS]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWEEK OF PRAYER.\n\n\nNASHVILLE, TENN.--The week of prayer was observed here this year as\nusual, a meeting being held each day. Notwithstanding the bad\nweather, the attendance was fair and the interest good, although not\nof a revival kind. Before that time special efforts had been made in\nconnection with the labors of Rev. Mr. Field, the evangelist, and\ntwenty-five professed conversions took place. A pleasant state of\nfeeling in religion has existed since then. In the circumstances the\norder of subjects for prayer was closely observed, except that the\nsubject of missions was postponed until Sunday evening, that being\nthe regular time for our monthly missionary meeting. The occasion was\none of unusual interest. The special subjects considered were the\nCongo territory, the Congo conference, the mission to Bih\u0102\u00a9 and that\nto Umzila's kingdom. In the last mentioned mission we here have a\npeculiar interest, as two of our former students, Mr. and Mrs.\nOusley, have been sent there as missionaries by the American Board.\nBoth are graduates of our college course and Mr. Ousley has since\nstudied theology at Oberlin. A letter from him, written at Cape Town,\nAfrica, was read at our meeting. Since then one has been received\nfrom Mrs. Ousley, dated at Durban, Natal, which they had reached in\nsafety and good health and spirits. They were about to sail the next\nday for Inhambane, their final destination. So as to locate them\nbetter we had at the meeting, on our board, a map of that station.\nOur society writes them once a month. They are very dear to us and we\nhope they will do much good in Africa. Mr. Ousley dedicated himself\none Sunday in the summer of 1878 to that field of labor and has never\nswerved from his purpose. The last part of the meeting was devoted to\na season of prayer for Secretary Pike in consideration of his serious\nillness.\n\n  A. K. SPENCE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMEMPHIS, TENN.--Our church, as formerly, observed the week of prayer,\nwith, however, nothing of special note in the way of outward results.\nThe stormy weather from the first until the middle of the week\ngreatly hindered the attendance. There was, notwithstanding, for\nthose who came, a blessed realization of spiritual benefit.\n\nThere were no special meetings at the Le Moyne School, the teachers\nattending the night meetings at the church.\n\nWe were quickened by the thought that even a few souls gathered in\neach of many places, make up a great company in supplication before\nGod. The topics presented for each evening came to our minds with\nmore than ordinary freshness and force, and the weight of all\naccumulated to the last. I trust that we were duly impressed with a\nsense of the obligation incurred by thus confessing to the truth and\nimportance of those themes, and by coming with them to the Lord.\nThose members of church who, unhindered by other things, come to\nmeeting in stormy weather are more clear in their testimony that it\npays, in direct returns of spiritual strength and joy in the\nfellowship of Christ.\n\nThe spirit of our meetings at the close was just such as warrants a\ncontinuance of effort, but the winter has been unusually cold and,\nunlike the custom North, it would be an extraordinary excitement\nwhich would secure a general interest and attendance now.\n\n  B. A. IMES.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSAVANNAH, GA.--The week of prayer was a spiritual feast to those who\nattended the meetings, held each night in the Congregational Church,\nand the results still continue to appear. Topics assigned by the\nAlliance followed.\n\nTo our church the week of prayer was largely a season of review, the\nwhole cycle of blessings, needs and hopes passing in prayerful\nreview. The meeting for thanksgiving, on Monday night, was a goodly\nremembrance of special blessings during the past year, and the\nexercises were chiefly supplications, experiences and rejoicings of\nthose who one year ago had no Christian hope. By count, more than\none-half of the persons present were, as one said, only \"yearlings.\"\nThe ready use of Bible promises at this meeting measured well the\nvalue of our special missionary's Bible work. Two mothers, each with\nher family about her, testified in word and deed that the one year of\nChristian life had created home forces and blessings of infinite\nworth. The time of confession and consecration lasted the whole week,\nand proofs of genuineness are not wanting. Said one: \"The new year\nshall not be so dull as the old one.\" Another: \"The new year I give\n_all_ to my Master, Jesus.\" And kindred promises were frequent and\nfervent.\n\nResults of week of prayer: Church much encouraged and quickened, new\nconsecration to work, one convert, a number of interested souls, but\nchiefly the quickened desire for growth of individuals in all that\nmakes Christian character; and, more than all, the growth of\nmissionary spirit shown in the earnest prayers for the conversion of\nthe world to Christ.\n\nAt the close of the \"Missionary night\" meeting, one of the oldest\nmembers of the Church called at the pastor's study and asked for the\nMissionary magazines, saying: \"I am just beginning to hear God's call\nto missionary work, and I want to know more of what the A. M. A. is\ndoing for our people, and to have my part in it.\" Seed _will_ grow.\n\n  DANA SHERRILL.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSANTEE AGENCY, NEB.--We remembered the week of prayer by services in\nthe chapel every evening, except on Thursday and Saturday, when we\nheld the meetings in the afternoon for the convenience of our Indians\nwho live at a distance from the Mission. The spirit of prayer rested\nupon all of our several school boarding halls, and we felt that the\nmercy seat had come near.\n\nThe line of instruction in these meetings was concerning the Holy\nSpirit as enlightening the mind, convicting of sin, revealing Christ\nto the soul, and abiding with the believer.\n\nOur young men very generally took part in prayer. And their prayers\nshowed a clear understanding of the truths spoken, and deep feeling\nwith regard to their own needs and the wonderful revelation of the\nmercy of Christ. And they seemed to open their hearts to the ministry\nof the Spirit.\n\nThe same spirit of tender prayerfulness and devotion to the Master\nwas manifest among the girls, a number of them coming out as\ncandidates for church membership and eagerly forming a class for the\nstudy of the Catechism.\n\nIn the middle of these days of prayer, we were startled by the word\nthat came from a brother missionary's family, the Rev. J. P.\nWilliamson, at Yankton Agency, Dakota, that his children were all\nsick with scarlet fever, that one was dead and another dying. We took\ntheir burden on our hearts in prayer. And the merciful Father spared\nthe one on the borders of death.\n\nBy this I was called away from Santee for two days to attend the\nburial of the dear missionary child that was taken. But I found no\ninterruption of interest when I returned. Thus, all in all, the\nexperiences of this week have been very precious, and we believe that\nlarger fruits of it are yet to appear.\n\n  ALFRED L. RIGGS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nLETTER FROM A STUDENT.\n\n\n  ----, Miss., January 18, 1885.\n\nDEAR PROFESSOR: As I only wrote you a few days ago, you will no doubt\nbe surprised somewhat to receive this letter so soon after. But it is\non a matter of great importance that I write you. I think I told you\nin my letter previous to this that I found no Sabbath-school here,\nand that I had formed a little class among my day pupils.\n\nThis is my second Sabbath here, and we met this morning in our little\nschoolroom for the first time. How happy it made me feel to meet with\nsuch a pleasant little band of children, all eager to talk and learn\nof Jesus. But I was greatly pained to find that the teachers who\nrecently taught here failed to have Sabbath-school. I inquired of\nthose present this morning how long since they had Sabbath school\nhere, and was informed, \"three years.\" I then asked what the teachers\ndid who previously taught free school here; the answer which came\nfrom many was, \"They visited on Sundays.\" I don't see how they could\ncontent themselves at doing nothing in a place like this, when there\nis so much work to do. I have not in all my experience of school\nteaching found a place so pitifully neglected and needful as this.\nWhat I want to say, Professor, is this: We have no Sabbath-school\nliterature of any kind.\n\nHave you anything that you could send me, Professor, for my little\nSabbath-school? If so, please send it at my expense. I shall be glad\nto get anything that I could interest them with; I mean to have them\ncome to my room Sunday afternoons, that I may read to them and talk\nwith those who are not Christians, and perhaps you can find something\nthat would be good for that purpose. We shall be glad of anything.\nThere is so much work here, and I shall be so glad if I can do any\ngood. Now, Professor, if you can find ANYTHING to send us, do send it\nat once. Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain your pupil and\nfriend,\n\n  ---- ----.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nLOU QUONG AT HIS HOME IN CHINA.\n\nBY REV. W. C. POND.\n\n\nOur brother Lou Quong, for several years the Chinese Helper in our\nWest School in this city, has recently returned from a visit to his\nnative land. I was so greatly interested in his account of his\nexperience as a Christian, thrown back into the heathen associations\nof his childhood, that I asked him to write it out for me, and I give\nit to the readers of THE MISSIONARY with only a few corrections of\nhis English,--respecting which, during his absence, he has lost some\nground:\n\n\"I came to California in 1876, and lived in the city of San\nFrancisco. In the day-time I worked in a family, but in the evenings\nI attended the Mission school. In 1877, I became a poor Christian\namong our countrymen here. The schools were cared for by all the good\nChristian friends that are in this free country, and even by some\nfrom England and other nations. They were looked after by Rev. W. C.\nPond, pastor of Bethany Church--the same church that all our Chinese\nbrethren go to, to take the Lord's Supper, once in two months.\n\nLast September I paid a visit to my home--the home that I had left\nfor so long a time. But before I go I make up my mind to stand up for\nJesus, who has kindly given His life for my soul. At first my heart\nwas some troubled about going back to my heathen country, but I pray,\nand kept praying that Jesus would go with me. So He heard my humble\nprayers. He was going before me, and made everything smooth for me. I\ngot home Oct. 9th, at noon. In a few moments there came all the\npeople of my village, both young and old, women and men, asking me\nabout California. I answered them the best I could. Some of them try\nto get a look on my head at first, to see if my hair is all right,\nfor they believed Christian Chinese have their queue cut off, and\nbelong to California. He is no more Chinaman. For this cause they\ntrouble me many days.\n\nI met Rev. C. R. Hager at Hong Kong, when first I got there. We fell\nto talking of the Mission work among our people.\n\nWhen I was at home, as soon as my father worshiped the ancestors or\nthe idols, he sent one of my little sisters to call me to join the\nworship; but my mother, who has a better spirit, told my father that\nI would not worship them any more, \"for (as she said) he have told me\nthat he did thank God _in his heart_, and that he love us the same.\"\nThus, my mother stopped the calling for the worshiping of the\nancestors ever since. I thank God for this first.\n\nDuring the time I was at home there were seven or eight brethren\ncalled at my house and did shake hands with me. Some of them I knew\nin California, but the rest I knew not and never saw them before; yet\nthey could find their fellow-brethren in Christ, and came from far\nto do so. Some of them are Bible-sellers; some are preachers. They\nshow their brotherly love and Christian faith by bringing candy and\noranges for my sisters. And my father was also glad to see them, each\ntime they call. Some of them did take dinner with us in our family.\nRev. Mr. Jones also call, and he preached to the people in my\nvillage. He can use the chop-sticks, and did eat our food. In the\nevening, with the moon shining, and in the day-time he asked me to\ntake him to the market-place, to tell the people the same thing in\nChinese as we preached here in California. He was astonished that the\npeople treated him so well, and did not say a bad word to him about\nit.\n\nNow comes the hardest thing for a Chinese Christian to bear; that is,\nthe marriage day. I was married on March 28, 1884. I had been engaged\nby my parents when I was fourteen years old to a girl who was only\nnine, and lived four miles away. When she come to our house to live\nwith us, then she begin to ask me why I did not worship the ancestors\nwith her on the marriage day; and I begin with my lesson to her in\nsimple things, telling her why I don't worship those things any more.\nWhen I make a prayer to God before I go to bed she laugh at me\nbecause I pray to nothing--no God that I can _see_. But I told her\nthat she must bow her head too when I pray, and must keep still. So,\nafter this, she pay more attention to what I tell her about this\ngreat God that I have found in California.\n\nOnce she ask me why I don't take Mr. Ying's example, and do just like\nhe do to please all men. For Mr. Ying was living in the same house\nwith us, and had come back from California at the same time with me;\nand though he had been in our Mission schools for two or three years,\nyet he will not take Jesus as his Lord. So when he got back to China,\nhe do things just as free as any heathen. So I ask her: \"Well,\nsuppose a man who served his ancestors, and all the dead and all the\nidols with all his heart; yet he would not take care of himself and\ngo about smoking opium, gambling, throwing away his money in\nfoolishness, and leaving his whole family uncared for. Now, how do\nyou like that?\" Then she said, without delay, \"I will not like such a\nman. I rather take a man that is called a Christian, and have him do\ngood, than to have him serve ancestors and gods and do bad things.\"\nThough she was a heathen, yet I think she see a little light now. I\nleft home to come here again, Oct. 29, but I still pray God to keep\nher on the right way; and may she become a Christian woman by the\nLord's power alone! Thus the Lord blessed me. May He bless all the\nworkers in His vineyard.\"\n\n[Illustration: BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM WORSHIPING TABLETS OF DECEASED\nANCESTORS.]\n\nI have exceedingly interesting accounts from the new fields: Alturas,\nModoc Co.; Tulare, Tulare Co., and San Diego. In Sacramento where\nRev. Mr. Jones is engaged in special services, we hear of crowds\ngathering about him in the street when he speaks there, and following\nhim into the mission house till it is completely packed. We hear also\nthat some hearts seem to have been touched; and that the hope is\ncherished that some who were far off have been brought nigh. Space\nfails me to go into details; but I bespeak the earnest prayers of all\nwho love this cause and love our Lord, that this evangelistic work\nmay yield us the glad harvests for which we have been wrestling with\nGod.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\nMISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe are glad to notice that the ladies of Connecticut have recently\norganized a State Missionary Society to co-operate with the leading\nbenevolent societies for work in our own country. Nothing in these\ndays can be accomplished without organization. What is everybody's\nbusiness is nobody's business, and causes whose support is left to\nthose who merely happen to have an interest in them are very likely\nto be neglected. We wish that in every State of the Union, ladies'\ndomestic missionary societies might be organized. The great work\nwhich our Association is called upon to perform among women needs to\nbe specially brought to the attention of the Christian ladies in our\nchurches. This information can only be effectually disseminated\nthrough organized and systematic effort. We are prepared to furnish\ninteresting missionary material to all who will ask for it. We invite\ncorrespondence with missionary societies, promising to give careful\nattention to any inquiries they may make. With gratitude do we record\nthe fact that the interest in the woman's department of the American\nMissionary Association's work is steadily enlarging.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nLETTER FROM A LADY MISSIONARY.\n\n\n----, Ga., January, 1885.\n\nDEAR FRIENDS: As I take my pen to write my mind goes back to the\ngeneral letter that I wrote. Can I tell you of any improvement among\nthose with whom we have to do, since that time? Watching the progress\nof our school from day to day the upward tendency seems slow, but\nlooking back a year a marked improvement can be seen. While they\nlearn readily they remember well, and the homes of those who come in\ncontact with our church and school are different. Last Saturday was\nthe coldest day of the winter, but Miss Robertson and I, according to\na previous appointment went to the Dunwoody settlement to hold a\nwoman's meeting. I think I wrote you about a similar meeting one year\nago; this is the third one that I have held, and the meetings have\ngained in interest. In that settlement, before they commence\nplanting, the people have a fast day; they neither eat, wash their\nfaces nor perform any ordinary duties from one sunset to the next.\nThey pray in their homes and unitedly for God's blessing upon the\nlabor of their hands. It reminds me of the way fast days used to be\nkept in the early history of New England. I am inclined to think they\ncaught the idea from the people who came from New England here. I do\nnot know that such a custom is observed except in this settlement. I\nasked the women if a blessing followed their prayers? They answered\ndecidedly, \"Yes,\" and said that while the people all about them had\nsuffered for the necessities of life, in that settlement they had\nnever since freedom bought corn, rice or potatoes, but had raised\nsufficient for their needs. In their simplicity they take God at His\nword, \"Ask and ye shall receive.\"\n\nLast Sabbath another couple entered upon the \"_matrimonial sea_,\"\nthis time young people. The gorgeous attire of the wedding party can\nbe better imagined than described. We see few tokens of love and\naffection among this people. In the Sunday-school lesson of last\nSabbath the questions and remarks of our pupils led us to think that\nit was almost a missing link in their lives; it seemed impossible for\nthem to understand why the people should fall on Paul's neck and kiss\nhim; it is a rare sight to see a kiss exchanged among them.\n\nYesterday, after school, the parson went with me over the swamps to\nthe homes of some of our scholars. We passed through several ditches,\nwhere the water was up to the hubs of the buggy wheels; there was a\nlog for a foot-path over these places. It was very muddy all along\nthe way, and yet these children are seldom absent from school.\nTo-day, the clouds are heavy and dark, and the rain has come down in\ntorrents, yet many have come into school from these long distances,\nto our surprise, one boy having the promise of being promoted into\nthe second reader came at least six miles, bringing a chicken and six\neggs to pay for his book; when he arrived he was wet to his skin.\nTwo-thirds of our school were present to-day. I realize as never\nbefore the effort these children are making for themselves. Oh! I\nremember how freely money was given and the young men from our homes\nthat freedom might be obtained for this people; then the women must\nwait and pray at home, but now the way is open for women to teach the\nyoung of this vast race that the future may not disclose a nation\nwithin a nation, hostile to the good and true of a Christian people.\nShall there not be volunteers among our New England girls, who shall\nsay: \"Here am I. Send me\" to the work?\n\nVery cordially yours,\n\n  E. P.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSome of our hard-worked sisters at the North may wish to enter the\nservice of the A. M. A., that they may get a little rest and find\ntime for literary culture. We commend to such a careful perusal of\nthe following report.\n\nMONTHLY REPORT BY MISS H.\n\nDays taught during the month, 25; Hours taught, 150; Scholars\nclassified, 73; Tuition collected, $54.75; School books sold, 111;\nBook money, $24.00; School programmes, 10; Slates corrected, 1,250;\nArithmetical examples (oral), 325; Words written on the blackboard,\n225; Spelling words (oral), 450; Reading lessons, 50; Golden Texts,\n4; New song taught, 1; Five-minute talks, 10; Conducted chapel\nexercises, 4; Conducted home devotions, 5; Tuesday evening public\ntalk, 1; Interviewed mothers of refractory scholars, 5; Notes to\nparents, 10; Postal cards (absent scholars), 20; Written examination,\n1; Choir meetings, 4; Whipped scholar, 1; Attended woman's prayer\nmeeting, 4; Church services, 20.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCHILDREN'S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nVIC'S LILIES.\n\n\nSchool was dismissed, and the boys and girls came rushing out with\nmerry shouts and laughter. The voices had a musical ring and the\nintonation peculiar to uncultivated colored lads and lassies. They\nwere a comely, thrifty-looking set, and the instinctive hopefulness\nof their race looked from the bright eyes and shone in the cheery\nfaces. Life had gone hard with some, but had failed to quench their\nfaith in the good time yet to come.\n\nAs they neared the corner of the street and came in sight of a large,\nhandsome white house, a girl's voice called, \"Hush! hush!\"\n\n\"Lor', now, Vic!\" her brother Phil remonstrated, \"what nonsense!\" But\nin spite of the remonstrance every voice took a lower tone, and the\nhouse was passed almost in silence. The blinds of the house were\nclosed, and from the door-knob hung the black-and-white token of\nmourning. Vic was saying, \"Yes, sick jest two days; taken Sunday and\ndied this morning. When I tol' teacher, she said, 'Death loves a\nshining mark.'\"\n\n\"I'm awful sorry,\" said Nan; \"he was a mighty peart little 'un, and\nhe al'ays looked up and smiled when we passed. But if I'd knowed he\nwas really goin', I'd sent a message to sister Fan. Don't you think\nshe'd like to know about the Christmas tree, Vic?\"\n\n\"You're a green un,\" said Phil. \"You don't s'pose that little pink\nand white chap has gone to our heaven, do you? He'll see Fan a heap\nsight! She's off in a little cubby-hole with all the rest of the\ndarkies. All the first-class 'commodations b'longs to the white\npeoples, ye know.\"\n\n\"Hush, Phil,\" said Vic; \"you shan't stuff Nan so. Everything will be\nall right, honey, when we gets up dere. Shouldn't be s'prised if Fan\nknew all 'bout the tree. And p'rhaps the good Lord will let her help\ntake care of the little fellow till his po' mother comes. Ole Dinah\nsays she's awfully cut up--his mother, you know. You see they're\nstrangers here, came for the mammy's health; and Frankie, he was the\nonly chile. 'Pears like I want to comfort the po' mammy. My lily has\nthree blossoms. I mean to take them all to her.\"\n\n\"'Pears like you'd better min' your own business. She may be a dog-on\nwhite lady, if she do come from the Norf. Like as not she'd turn up\nher nose at your lilies. I'll 'low the little un was a brick, but\nyou'd better let his mother 'lone.\" This was Phil's advice.\n\nBut although Victoria Porter had a black skin, she had a tender,\nloving heart, and she had pored over the Christ-life until she had\nunconsciously imbibed its spirit. She was always yearning to comfort\nsome one. Later in the day she stood at the door of the white\nmansion, holding her precious lilies. \"They're for his mother,\" she\nsaid to Dinah. \"Tell her we chil'ens loved Frankie, and we're all\nmighty sorry.\"\n\nIt was a simple message and a simple offering, and the giver was a\npoor little black girl; but behind the gift was sincerity and love,\nand the heart of the poor, sorrowing mother was touched and\ncomforted.\n\nAnd Vic's lilies had a mission of which she knew not. They preached a\nlovely sermon on the high privilege and duty of comforting others. We\nmay be poor, and very humble may be our station in life; but if we\ntry, we may make life brighter and sweeter to someone. What a glad\nsurprise it will be to Vic when the Saviour honors her many kind acts\nby the words--\"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of\nthese my brethren, ye have done it unto Me.\"\n\n  E. E. B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nRECEIPTS FOR JANUARY, 1885.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMAINE, $714.22.\n\n  Andover. \"Friends\"                                        $9.50\n  Bangor. \"Little Women\" and \"Busy Bees\" of Bangor, and\n    Ladies of Hampden, Bbl. of Christmas Presents, _for\n    Wilmington, N. C._\n  Bath. Central Ch. and Soc., 32.50; Winter St. Ch., 47.15  79.65\n  Brunswick. 2 Bbls. and 1 Box of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n  Centre Lebanon. \"A Friend\"                                10.00\n  Cumberland Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     21.00\n  Cumberland Mills. Warren Ch. to const. STEPHEN A.\n    CORDWELL and PETER W. FILES, L. M's                     68.31\n  Elliot. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 3.50\n  Ellsworth. Cong. Ch.                                      34.47\n  Farmington. Rev. C. E. Pope's S. S. Class, _for Student\n    Aid, Talladega C._                                       5.00\n  Gardiner. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._, 3.20 _for\n    Freight_, by Miss S. E. Adams                            3.20\n  Gorham. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._, 2 _for Freight_,\n    by Miss M. E. Smith                                      2.00\n  Limington. \"A. B.\"                                         2.00\n  New Castle. Mrs. Chas. D. Crane, _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U._                                                     30.00\n  New Castle. Mrs. C. D. Crane, _for Selma, Ala._            8.00\n  North Bridgeton. By Miss Proctor's Sch., _for Student\n    Aid, Wilmington, N. C._                                  1.00\n  Orland. Mrs. S. T. Buck and Daughters                     35.00\n  Orono. Bbl. and Box of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._\n  Portland. High Street Ch.                                 90.50\n  Portland. Brown Thurston's Class, High St. Sab. Sch.,\n    _for Student Aid, Hamilton N. & A. Inst._               25.00\n  Portland. Miss A. Partridge, Bbl. of C., _for\n    Wilmington, N. C._, 59c. _for freight_                    .59\n  Searsport. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      11.00\n  Searsport. 2 Bbls of C., _for Selma, Ala._, 4 _for\n    freight_, by Mrs. C. T. Hawes                            4.00\n  South Berwick. Mrs. MATILDA BURLEIGH to const. herself\n    L. M.                                                   30.00\n  Union. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n  Woolwich. Mrs. E. M. Gardner.                               .50\n                                                        ---------\n                                                          $474.22\n\n  LEGACY.\n\n  Castine. Estate of Mrs. Lucy S. Adams, by Rev. Geo.\n    M. Adams, Ex.                                         $240.00\n                                                        ---------\n                                                          $714.22\n\n\nNEW HAMPSHIRE, $755.21.\n\n  Alstead Centre. Cong. Ch.                                 12.24\n  Antrim. \"Friends\" by John E. Hastings                     26.50\n  Candia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                15.00\n  Candia. Frank E. Page                                      5.00\n  Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               20.00\n  Concord. South Ch. Sab. Sch.                               8.99\n  Derry. Woman's Miss'y Soc. (one share)                    20.00\n  East Alstead. Cong. Ch.                                   13.63\n  Exeter. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., 20 _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._; Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. _for\n    Talladega C._, 1 _for freight_                          21.00\n  Exeter. Mary E. Shute                                     15.00\n  Exeter. Miss A. E. McIntire, Bbl. of C. _for Wilmington,\n    N. C._, 50c. _for freight_                                .50\n  Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                     14.28\n  Francestown. Cong. Ch.                                    25.00\n  Hampstead. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                12.20\n  Hanover. Cong. Sab. Sch. (one share)                      20.00\n  Harrisville. Mrs. L. B. Richardson                        10.00\n  Hillsborough Bridge. Mrs. J. Gerry                         1.00\n  Hollis. \"A Friend\"                                         1.00\n  Hudson. Bbl. of C., _for Dudley, N. C._\n  Keene. First. Cong. Sab Sch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n    U._                                                     70.00\n  Keene. Second Cong. Sab. Sch.                             46.30\n  Keene. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Second Ch., _for freight_    2.50\n  Lebanon. Cong. Soc., _for Atlanta U._                     40.00\n  Lisbon. \"A Friend\"                                         2.00\n  Londonderry. Chas. S. Pillsbury                            1.00\n  Lyme. Cong. Ch., to const. Dea. W. S. BALCH L. M.         30.00\n  Manchester. Franklin St. Church                           70.50\n  Mason. Box of C., _for Dudley, N. C._; 1.60 _for\n    freight_                                                 1.60\n  Milford. \"Willing Workers,\" _for Student Aid, Tougaloo\n    U._                                                     50.00\n  Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          25.96\n  Nashua. Bbl. of C., _for Dudley, N. C._\n  New Boston. Presb. Ch. and Soc.                            6.75\n  New Ipswich. Leavitt Lincoln                              50.00\n  Newport. Cong. Ch.                                        42.52\n  Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson                            5.00\n  Penacook. JEREMIAH C. MARTIN, to const. himself L. M.     30.00\n  Salisbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              5.30\n  Temple. Cong. Sab. Sch., 28.03; Rev. Geo. Goodyear, 5     33.03\n  Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ad'l                        1.41\n\n\nVERMONT, $678.67.\n\n  Barnet. Cong. Ch.                                         72.00\n  Bennington. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. Dea. G. A.\n    WATTLES, HENRY G. ROOT and Miss E. M. HUBBARD L. M's    53.20\n  Bennington Centre. First Cong. Ch.                        16.25\n  Cambridge. Madison Safford                                 5.00\n  Chester. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  30.62\n  Hartford. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 14.06\n  Ludlow. \"A Friend\"                                         5.00\n  Manchester. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for\n    Atlanta U._\n  Marshfield. Lyman Clark                                   20.00\n  Montpelier. Mrs. L. C. Bowen                              10.00\n  New Haven. \"P. M.\"                                       100.00\n  New Haven. Ladies' Aid Soc., 2 Bbls. C., _for Oaks,\n    N. C._\n  Quechee. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   9.36\n  Saint Albans. Henry E. Seymour                             5.00\n  Saint Johnsbury. South Cong. Ch., 54.72; \"A Colored\n    Man,\" 2                                                 56.72\n  Saint Johnsbury. Mrs. Franklin Fairbanks, _for Student\n    Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n  Springfield. Mrs. F. Parks                               100.00\n  Stowe. Cong. Sab. Sch. (Part share)                        8.00\n  Wallingford. Cong. Sab. Sch.                              10.00\n  West Randolph. Miss B. Nichols                              .50\n  West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch.                               11.69\n  West Randolph. Susan E. Albin                              7.00\n  West Randolph. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Woman's Work_         5.00\n  Williston. Cong. Ch.                                      16.00\n  Woodstock. Cong. Ch.                                      19.00\n  By Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, _for McIntosh, Ga._; Johnson,\n    Sab. Sch., $13.67; Chelsea, Ladies' Soc., $10;\n    Pittsford, Cong. Sab. Sch., 20; Montpelier, Ladies,\n    $10                                                     53.67\n\n\nMASSACHUSETTS, $5,202.67.\n\n  Amherst. William M. Graves, 20; \"A Friend,\" 10            30.00\n  Amherst. Young People of Cong Ch., 10; Mrs. T. P.\n    Huntington, 2, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._           12.00\n  Andover. Free Christian Ch. and Soc., 80.82; \"A\n    Friend,\" 30                                            110.82\n  Andover. Ladies' Union H. M. Soc. (70 of which _for\n    Student Aid, Talladega C._)                             72.00\n  Andover. Mrs. Blake, _for Fort Sully, Dak._                5.00\n  Andover. West Parish Juv. Miss'y Soc. (One share)         20.00\n  Ashburnham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., bal. to\n    const. CLIFTON E. STOWE L. M.                           10.00\n  Ashland. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  10.56\n    Boston. Mount Vernon Ch. and Soc., 279.14; Rev.\n    MORTON DEXTER, 40, to const. himself L. M.; Mrs. E.\n    C. Parkhurst, 20; Mrs. M. B. Adams (one share), 20;\n    Miss Harriet N. Kirk, 15; \"Mrs. W.,\" 1.--Brighton.\n    Cong. Ch. and Soc., 50.--Brookline. Harvard Ch. and\n    Soc., 88.48.--Cambridge. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for\n    Student Aid, Fisk U._, 6.25.--Cambridge. \"A\n    Friend,\" 4.--Cambridgeport. Prospect Ch. and Soc.,\n    87.55.--Cambridgeport. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of\n    Pilgrim Ch. to const. Mrs. E. D. LEAVITT L. M.,\n    30.--Dorchester. Young People's Mission Circle of\n    Second Ch., by Edith L. Mansfield, Treas., 40, _for\n    Two shares_, and 8 _for Student Aid, Wilmington, N.\n    C._--Dorchester. Mrs. Wm. Wales, 6.--South Boston.\n    Phillips Ch. and Soc., 68.29                           763.71\n  Bedford. \"M. E. R.\"                                        5.00\n  Braintree. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       22.53\n  Brimfield. Benev. Soc. of First Cong. Ch. to const.\n    MINER H. CORBIN L. M.                                   37.77\n  Brimfield. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n    Chattanooga, Tenn._                                     31.12\n  Campello. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              50.00\n  Charlton. Cong. Ch., 12.26 and Sab., Sch., 1.64           13.90\n  Chelsea. Ladies' Union Home Mission Band, _for\n    Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._                         60.00\n  Chelsea. Central Ch. and Soc., 21.24; Miss E.\n    Davenport, 5                                            26.24\n  Chicopee Falls. Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for\n    Talladega C._\n  Clinton. Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n, to const. Mrs.\n    JULIA M. DAKIN L. M.                                    30.00\n  Clinton. Mrs. R. N. Ingalls, _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._                                           25.00\n  Clinton. By Marion E. McPhail, Treas., _for Student\n    Aid, Talladega C._                                      20.00\n  Clinton. Miss'y Soc., _for Talladega C._, _freight_        2.40\n  Clinton. 2 Bbls. of C., _for Kittrell, N. C._\n  Cotuit. Union Ch.                                         14.25\n  Curtisville. Frances M. Clarke                             3.00\n  Dalton. Mrs. James B. Crane                              100.00\n  East Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch., _for Student\n    Aid, Talladega C._                                      25.00\n  East Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch., Bbl. of C., _for\n    Talladega C._; 2 _for Freight_                           2.00\n  East Douglas. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. Miss\n    NELLY M. KEMP L. M.                                     41.90\n  Easthampton. ----, _for Reading R., Talladega C._          4.00\n  East Medway. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      8.00\n  East Weymouth. Cong. Soc.                                 16.00\n  Edgartown. Cong. Ch.                                      10.00\n  Fall River. First Cong. Ch., 80.70; Third Cong.\n    Ch., 10.20                                              90.90\n  Falmouth. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n    Atlanta U._                                             10.00\n  Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n    Aid, Fisk U._                                           40.50\n  Framingham. Plym. Ch. and Soc., 48.86; and Sab.\n    Sch., 13.19; Mrs. S. N. Brewer, 10; \"G. N.,\" 5; \"A\n    Friend,\" 10                                             87.05\n  Gardner. First Cong. Ch.                                  19.31\n  Globe Village. Union Ch. Sab Sch.                         25.00\n  Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. And Soc., 98; Mrs.\n    Nancy E. Brooks, 10                                    108.00\n  Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch. (Bal. Share)             5.00\n  Grafton. Bbl. of C., _for Dudley, N. C._\n  Granby. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. CHESTER KELLOGG\n    L. M.                                                   30.00\n  Hadley. First Ch. and Soc., 12.37; and Sab. Sch.,\n    9.48                                                    21.85\n  Hardwick. E. B. Foster                                     5.00\n  Haverhill. West Cong. Sab. Sch., Dea. EBENEZER\n    WEBSTER'S Class, to const. him L. M., 30; Mrs.\n    Appleton's Class, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._,\n    5; Perry Elliott's Class, 3.41                          38.41\n  Holliston. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,\n    _for Talladega C._\n  Huntington. Second Cong. Ch.                               6.37\n  Ipswich. Linebrook Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      5.69\n  Lawrence. Lawrence St. Cong. Ch.                         176.95\n  Lee. Elizur Smith                                        100.00\n  Leeds. E. L. Clark                                         5.00\n  Lenox. F. Augustus Schemerborn, 25; Richard\n    Goodman, 15; Henry Sedgewick, 10                        50.00\n  Lowell. Kirk St. Cong. Ch. (2 of which _for Indian\n    M._), to const. Rev. C. A. DICKINSON and Mrs. C. A.\n    DICKINSON L. M's                                       200.00\n  Lowell. John St. Cong. Ch                                 41.62\n  Lowell. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for\n    Wilmington, N. C._\n  Malden. \"Two Friends,\" 2; \"A Friend,\" 1                    3.00\n  Maplewood. Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._\n  Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       7.00\n  Marlborough. Young People's Mission Circle of Union\n    Ch., _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                      25.00\n  Matfield. Mrs. W. S. E. Shaw, Box of C., _for\n    Macon, Ga._; 5 _for Freight_                             5.00\n  Merrimac. Cong. Ch.                                       25.00\n  Methuen. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U._                                                     30.00\n  Middlefield. \"A Friend\"                                    5.00\n  Milford. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls.\n    of C., _for Talladega C._; 2.50 _for Freight_            2.50\n  Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        58.45\n  Millbury. Second Cong. Ch., 12.36; First Cong. Sab.\n    Sch., 20, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                 32.36\n  Monson. Miss Sarah E. Bradford                             4.00\n  Natick. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n    Straight U._                                            50.00\n  Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          20.00\n  Needham. Evan. Cong. Ch.                                   3.50\n  New Bedford. Mrs. I. H. Bartlett, Jr.                     30.00\n  New Bedford. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n    Fisk U._                                                25.00\n  Newton. Eliot Ch. and Soc.                               123.85\n  Newton. \"A Friend,\" _for Talladega C._                     3.00\n  Newton. Ladies' Aid Soc., Box of C., _for Macon, Ga._\n  Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   94.26\n  Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.15\n  North Billerica. Mrs. E. R. Gould, _for Macon, Ga._        4.00\n  Northbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           10.00\n  North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., bal. to\n    const. WILLIAM WRIGHT and LUTHER K. SNELL L. M's        45.00\n  North Brookfield. Mrs. W. H. Montague, _for Student\n    Aid, Fisk U._                                            5.00\n  North Hadley. Mt. Holyoke Sem., Miss L. W. Shattuck,\n    5; Miss Anna C. Edwards, 5, _for Student Aid,\n    Straight U._                                            10.00\n  Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. Mrs.\n    DAVIS GREGORY and EDWIN FREEMAN L. M's                  71.31\n  Oxford. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                             20.33\n  Oxford. Ladies' Miss'y Circle, _for Kittrell, N. C._       6.00\n  Palmer. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._      25.00\n  Pepperell. 2 Bbls. of C., _for Dudley, N. C._\n  Petersham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              2.59\n  Pittsfield. James H. Dunham, 50; First Cong. Ch.,\n    25; Second Cong. Sab. Sch., 5                           80.00\n  Raynham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         14.64\n  Reading. Bethesda Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._   40.00\n  Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              75.00\n  Royalston. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n    Tougaloo U._                                            15.00\n  Royalston. Mrs. H. M. Estabrook                            5.00\n  Salem. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           86.28\n  Salem. Crombie St. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._                                           25.00\n  Somerville. E. Stone, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._          50.00\n  Somerville. \"M\"                                           50.00\n  Southbridge. Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C., _for\n    Wilmington, N. C._; 3.05 _for Freight_                   3.05\n  South Wellfleet. \"A Life Member\"                           1.00\n  South Weymouth. Sec. Cong. Ch., Miss Grover's S. S.\n    Class, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                    10.00\n  Spencer. Mrs. G. P. Ladd's S. S. Class, _for\n    Student Aid, Talladega C._                               2.01\n  Springfield First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., 20;\n    \"Friends\" 5.60, _for Oaks, N. C._                       25.60\n  Stockbridge. Cong. Ch.                                    48.96\n  Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              23.00\n  Sunderland. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               40.39\n  Sunderland. \"The Acorns,\" _for Student Aid, Fisk U._       7.73\n  Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             53.39\n  Walpole. Or. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 43; Mrs. C. F.\n    Metcalf, 1; Miss L. J. Gould, 1                         45.00\n  Walpole. Mr. Johnson, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._           1.00\n  Watertown. Mrs. M. Fuller, _for Student Aid,\n    Tougaloo U._                                            10.00\n  Watertown. Phillips Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n    Aid, Tougaloo U._                                       10.00\n  Watertown. Mrs. J. Q. A. Pierce                            1.00\n  Wayland. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Kittrell, N. C._            5.50\n  Wellesley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            100.46\n  Wellesley Hills. Cong. Ch.                                74.75\n  West Attleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                9.78\n  Westborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           12.54\n  West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       30.25\n  West Dennis. Mrs. Sarah S. Crowell                         1.50\n  Westfield. Miss E. B. Dickinson, 50.10; Mrs. C. W.\n    Fowler, 5                                               55.10\n  Westfield. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Second Ch., Bbl. of\n    C., val. 66, _for Straight U._; 1.65 _for Freight_       1.65\n  West Newbury. J. C. Carr                                   1.00\n  West Springfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n    Atlanta U._                                             10.00\n  Williamsburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (5.20 of which\n    _for Hampton N and A. Inst._)                           95.20\n  Winchester. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n    Aid, Fisk U._                                           55.00\n  Woburn. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._       75.00\n  Woburn. William Temple                                     5.00\n  Worcester. Union Ch. and Soc., 209.16; Piedmont Ch.\n    (ad'l), 50.77; Rev. C. M. Lamson, 5; \"A Friend,\" 2\n    Dictionaries (Greek and Latin)                         264.93\n  Worcester. Collected by Mrs. C. M. Lamson, of Salem\n    St. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                     25.00\n  Worcester. \"A Friend,\" _for Kindergarten, Storrs\n    Sch., Atlanta, Ga._                                     25.00\n  Worcester. Ladies' Miss'y Circle, by Mrs. H. B.\n    Merriman (one share)                                    20.00\n  Worcester. Mrs. H. L. Stearns' S. S. Class, _for\n    Student Aid, Talladega C._                               5.00\n  ----. \"Mount Holyoke,\" _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._      8.00\n  ----. \"A Friend\"                                           2.00\n  By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass'n:\n    Springfield, First, 26.96; South, 81.81; Blandford,\n    6; Palmer, Second, 50; Mittineague, 28                 192.77\n                                                        ---------\n                                                        $5,198.63\n\n  LEGACY.\n\n  Lancaster. Estate of Miss Sophia Stearns, by Wm. W.\n    Wyman, Ex.                                               4.04\n                                                        ---------\n                                                        $5,202.67\n\n  CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE: NEW\n    HAMPSHIRE, Keene Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Second Ch.,\n    1 Bbl., _for McIntosh, Ga._; Walpole, Ladies of\n    Cong. Ch., 1 Bbl. _for Dakota Home_. MASSACHUSETTS,\n    Dorchester, Mrs. James Foster, \"The Family\n    Library,\" etc.; Mrs. R. L. Prouty, Pkg.\n    \"Congregationalists\"; Fitchburg, Herbert H. Dole,\n    Pkg. \"Youth's Companion\"; Harvard, Woman's Benev.\n    Soc. of Ev. Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. C., _for Wilmington,\n    N. C._, val. 35; Lawrence, Ladies' Benev. Soc. of\n    Lawrence St. Ch., 1 Bbl., val. 75, _for Talladega\n    C._; Templeton, Elizabeth C. D. Shattuck, Bundle,\n    val. (in part) 3.16, _for Chattanooga, Tenn._;\n    Revere, Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls., _for Chattanooga,\n    Tenn._; Watertown, Ladies of Phillips Ch., 1 Bbl.\n    RHODE ISLAND, Westerly, Cong. Ch., 1 Bbl., _for\n    Savannah, Ga._\n\n\nRHODE ISLAND, $1,684.77.\n\n  Barrington. Cong. Ch. (ad'l)                              17.40\n  Central Falls. Cong. Ch.                                  65.00\n  Newport. \"A Friend\"                                       10.00\n  Pawtucket. Cong. Ch.                                      77.14\n  Providence. Union Cong. Ch.                              785.23\n  Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n    Student Aid, Talladega C._                              50.00\n  Seekonk and East Providence. Cong. Ch., to const.\n    ROBERT R. PEARSE and ALBERT M. FINNAMORE L. M's         60.00\n                                                        ---------\n                                                        $1,064.77\n\n  LEGACY.\n\n  Providence. Estate of Anthony B. Arnold, by John H.\n    Cheever and Wm. Knight, Exrs.                          620.00\n                                                        ---------\n                                                        $1,684.77\n\n\nCONNECTICUT, $4,766.91.\n\n  Bethel. Cong. Ch.                                        107.08\n  Bethel. \"Willing Workers,\" _for Talladega C._             20.00\n  Black Rock. Cong. Ch.                                     11.54\n  Branford. Cong. Ch.                                        9.13\n  Bridgeport. Children of North Ch. Infant Class, _for\n    Cal. Chinese M._                                        20.00\n  Bridgeport. Miss Wood, Box Books, etc., _for Talladega\n    C._\n  Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  20.00\n  Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            15.63\n  Canterbury. Westminster Cong. Ch.                          9.07\n  Collinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          17.84\n  Cromwell. Cong. Ch.                                       78.00\n  Danielsonville. Case of C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n  Fair Haven. Miss H. L. Rice, _for Indian M._               1.00\n  Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                     57.80\n  Goshen. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                12.00\n  Greenville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n    Straight U._                                            32.94\n  Hadlyme. Joseph W. Hungerford                            100.00\n  Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch. (5 of which _for\n    Indian M._)                                            281.65\n  Hartford. Second Ch. of Christ, 150; Gilbert G.\n    Mosely, 10                                             160.00\n  Jewett City. Cong. Ch.                                     9.04\n  Kensington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            26.65\n  Lakeville. Mrs. M. H. Williams                            25.00\n  Ledyard. Cong. Ch. and Soc. and Sab. Sch.                 24.78\n  Lyme. First Ecc. Soc.                                     34.47\n  Middletown. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Indian M._          30.00\n  Milton. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n  Montville. First Cong. Ch.                                10.15\n  Mount Carmel. W. W. Woodruff, _for Tillotson C. and\n    N. Inst._                                               25.00\n  Mystic Bridge. Cong. Ch.                                  12.50\n  Naugatuck. Cong. Ch.                                      80.00\n  New Britain. South Cong. Ch.                             198.41\n  New Hartford. Bible Class, by Rev. F. H. Adams, _for\n    Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   10.00\n  New Haven. Nelson Hall, 50.; College St. Cong. Ch.,\n    36.65, and Sab. Sch., 11; Mrs. Sylvia Johnson, 30,\n    to const. Miss LUCIE J. HARRISON L. M.                 127.66\n  New Haven. Young Ladies' Mission Circle of United Ch.,\n    _for Dakota Home, Santee Agency_                        50.00\n  New Haven. L. M. Law, 25; Miss Julia Leek, 1, _for\n    Indian M._                                              26.00\n  Newington. Miss Agnes Belden, Bbl. of C., _for\n    Talladega C._\n  New London. Second Cong. Ch., 595.24; \"A Friend,\" 1.50   596.74\n  Newtown. Cong. Soc.                                       20.00\n  Northford. Cong. Ch.                                      15.08\n  Norwich. Second Cong. Ch., 217.10; Miss Sarah M. Lee,\n    25                                                     242.10\n  Norwichtown. \"First Ch.\"                                  21.00\n  Old Lyme. First Cong. Ch.                                 15.00\n  Orange. Cong. Ch., _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._          35.00\n  Plainville. \"A Friend\"                                   100.00\n  Pomfret. First Cong. Ch.                                  55.00\n  Rockville. J. Edwards Banta, Box papers, etc., _for\n    Macon, Ga._, 1, _for Freight_                            1.00\n  Salisbury, Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             52.70\n  South Britain. Cong. Ch.                                  15.41\n  Staffordville. Cong. Ch.                                   5.00\n  Talcottville. Sarah T. Avery                               5.00\n  Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             29.66\n  Thompsonville. D. Pease                                     .50\n  Tolland. Mrs. Lucy L. Clough, 50, _for Indian M._, 25\n    _for Chinese M._ and 25 _for Freedmen_                 100.00\n  Torrington. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Cask of C.,\n    etc., _for Talladega C._, 4, _for freight_               4.00\n  Wallingford. First Cong. Ch.                              35.33\n  Wapping. Cong Ch.                                         16.75\n  Waterbury. Second Cong. Ch.                              196.00\n  Watertown. Dr. John De Forest, _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._                                          200.00\n  West Hartford. A. Chappell, 10; Cong. Ch. (ad'l), 8.02    18.02\n  Wilton. Cong. Ch.                                         66.41\n  Windsor Locks. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Dormitory,\n    Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                               195.00\n  Winsted. Mrs. M. A. Mitchell, _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._                                           20.00\n  Winsted. Elias E. Gilman, 10; Mrs. Emily W. Case, 10      20.00\n  Woodbury. Mrs. E. L. Curtiss                              10.00\n                                                        ---------\n                                                        $3,739.04\n\n  LEGACY.\n\n  Ellington. Estate of Maria Pitkin, by Edwin Talcott,\n    Ex.                                                 $1,027.87\n                                                        ---------\n                                                        $4,766.91\n\n\nNEW YORK, $2,739.93.\n\n  Baldwinsville. Howard Carter                              25.00\n  Binghamton. Sheldon Warner                                 5.00\n  Brooklyn. Clinton Av. Cong. Ch., 531; Plymouth Ch.,\n    464.51; South Cong. Ch., 50; Ch. of the Covenant\n    Sab. Sch., bal. to const. Mrs. JULIETTE H. MACKAY\n    L. M., 20; Mrs. M. L. Hollis, 2; Rev. E. P. Thwing,\n    Pkg. Books                                           1,067.51\n  Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Santee\n    Agency_                                                 37.50\n  Canastota. E. B. Northrup                                100.00\n  Churchville. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     28.53\n  Ellington. Mrs. H. B. Rice, 10; Mrs. E. Rice, 4;\n    A. C. Rice, 2                                           16.00\n  Flushing. Cong. Sab. Sch., 10, _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._; Miss C. T. Gilman, 2.30, _for\n    freight_                                                12.30\n  Gaines. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30.84, and Sab. Sch., 6.25    37.09\n  Groton. Cong. Ch., 18.08; Mrs. Kesia Bostwick, 7.; Dr.\n    Clark Chapman, 5                                        30.08\n  Himrods. Mrs. G. L. Ayres, _for Woman's Work_              5.00\n  Homer. Sab. Sch. Class, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._    1.00\n  Hudson. Mrs. D. A. Jones                                  15.00\n  Keeseville. Enos Barnes                                    1.50\n  Lockport. First Cong. Ch.                                 18.06\n  Lockport. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._      14.00\n  Marcellus. Mrs. L. Hemenway                                3.00\n  Middlesex. Lester Adams                                   20.00\n  Morristown. First Cong. Ch.                                8.00\n    New York. S. T. Gordon (of which 100 _for Little\n    Rock, Ark._; 100 _for Wilmington, N. C._; 100 _for\n    Tougaloo, Miss._; and 100 _for Tillotson C. & N.\n    Inst._), 500                                           500.00\n  New York. Roswell Smith, 250; By \"Aunt Patience,\" 1      251.00\n  New York. The Century Co., 50 cop. \"Songs of the\n    Church\" (second hand), _for Marion, Ala._\n  North Walton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                         35.90\n  Owasco. Mrs. A Stewart                                     1.00\n  Oswego. Primary Pub. Sch., Box Books _for Oaks, N. C._\n  Port Richmond. Captain Stephen Squier                      5.00\n  Salamanca. Rev. Wm. C. Scofield                            7.00\n  Saratoga. Cong. Ch., Ladies Soc., Bbl. of C., _for\n    Talladega, C._\n  Sinclairville. E. Williams                                 3.00\n  Syracuse. ----                                             5.00\n  Syracuse. Mrs. Caroline B. Curtis, Box Papers, etc.,\n    _for Macon, Ga._; 1.70 _for Freight_                     1.70\n  Walton. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                             35.67\n  Warsaw. Cong. Ch.                                         20.34\n  Waterville. Mrs. Winchel, 5; Mrs. J. Candee, 5            10.00\n  Westmoreland. Miss C. M. Miller                             .75\n  West Salamanca. \"A Friend\"                               419.00\n\n\nNEW JERSEY, $26.73.\n\n  Jersey City. First Cong. Ch.                               6.73\n  Montclair. Mrs. J. F. Pratt's Sab. Sch. Class, _for\n    Student Aid, Talladega C._                               8.00\n  Perth Amboy. Friday Afternoon Class, by Miss E. W.\n    Martin, Bdl. S. S. Papers\n  Raritan. Miss S. Provost, Case of Books and Papers\n  ----. \"Heart's Content\"                                   10.00\n  ----. \"A Friend,\" _for Santee Agency, Neb._                2.00\n\n\nPENNSYLVANIA, $50.50.\n\n  Guy's Mills. Cong. Ch., 18.50; Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 5;\n    Children's Miss'y Soc., 5                               28.50\n  Kingston. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                 10.00\n  Philadelphia. Sarah Furber                                 1.00\n  Sewickley. \"E. H. T.,\" _for Indian M._                     2.00\n  Stony Creek. Charles E. Webster                            9.00\n\n\nOHIO, $544.11.\n\n  Ashland. Mrs. Eliza Thompson                               2.28\n  Brownhelm. Cong. Ch.                                      11.00\n  Cleveland. Mrs. A. Scott (_one share_)                    20.00\n  Cleveland. Franklin Av. Cong. Ch.                         15.00\n  Cincinnati. Geo. S. Gray, 18 Anthem Books, _for\n    Talladega C._\n  Delaware. Wm. Bevan                                        5.00\n  Greenwich. Anna M. Mead                                    1.50\n  Geneva. \"H. A. W.\"                                         1.50\n  Kingsville. Myron Whiting                                250.00\n  North Benton. Mrs. M. J. Hartzell                          2.50\n  Oberlin. First. Cong. Ch., 87.88; E. P. Barrows, 10;\n    Mrs. C. C. Wheat, 1                                     98.88\n  Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch., _15 for furnishing room\n    and 10 for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky._              25.00\n  Oberlin. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 5; Mrs. M. J. P.\n    Hatch, 1, _for Reading-room, Lexington, Ky._             6.00\n  Oberlin. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Student Aid,\n    Tougaloo U._                                             1.50\n  Painesville. First Cong. Ch., 51.64, to const. N. O.\n    LEE L. M.; Mrs. E. Hickok, 5                            56.64\n  Painesville. \"O. W. H. M. U.,\" by Mrs. Wm. Clayton,\n    Treas.                                                   4.76\n  Painesville. Sab. Sch. Class, by M. M. House, _for\n    Santee Agency, Neb._                                     3.00\n  Radnor. Edward D. Jones                                    5.00\n  Ravenna. Cong. Ch.                                        23.55\n  Savannah. George Mackie                                    1.00\n  Saybrook. Mrs. A. M. Messenger, 2; Dea. D. Maltby, 1       3.00\n  Tallmadge. Rev. Luther Shaw, 8 Bibles\n  Unionville. Mrs. E. F. Burnelle                            2.00\n  Windham. Wm. A. Perkins                                    5.00\n\n\nINDIANA, $22.00.\n\n  Elkhart. First Cong. Ch.                                  15.00\n  Indianapolis. Rev O. C. McKullock, Box Books, etc.,\n    _for Macon, Ga._; 5 _for Freight_                        5.00\n  Sparta. John Hawkswell                                     1.50\n  Versailles. John D. Nichols                                 .50\n\n\nILLINOIS, $837.99.\n\n  Atkinson. First Cong. Ch., Box S. S. Papers, _for\n    Talladega C._\n  Batavia. Cong. Ch.                                        65.00\n  Belvidere. Mrs. M. C. Foote                                5.00\n  Brimfield. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n  Champaign. Cong. Ch.                                      45.55\n  Chicago. N. E. Cong. Ch., 198.53; South Cong. Ch.,\n    39.26; Mrs. J. H. McArthur, 5                          242.79\n  Chicago. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of N. E. Cong. Ch., _for\n    Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                               47.10\n  Chicago. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U._                                                     25.00\n  Chicago. South Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._                                           13.00\n  Elgin. Cong. Ch.                                          32.48\n  Elgin. Mrs. E. E. C. Borden (20 of which _for Hampton\n    N. & A. Inst._)                                         30.00\n  Galesburg. First Church of Christ                         37.10\n  Galva. Theodora Miss'y Soc., Bbl. and Box of C., _for\n    Talladega C._\n  Geneso. Cong. Ch.                                        116.30\n  Geneseo. Young Ladies' Soc., Bbl. of C., etc., _for\n    Talladega C._\n  Hamlet. Levi Cooper                                         .50\n  Ivanhoe. Miss Mary Cowdry, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo\n    U._                                                      5.00\n  Lyndon. Mrs. H. Deming                                      .50\n  Lombard. First Cong. Ch.                                   9.50\n  Malden. Cong. Ch.                                         13.00\n  Maywood. Woman's Co-operative Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch.     5.00\n  Millburn. Cong. Ch.                                       10.00\n  Moline. Mission Circle of Cong. Ch., 23.50. Incorrectly\n    ack. in Nov. number from Hartford, Ct.\n  Oglesby. T. T. Bent                                        5.00\n  Payson. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   16.60\n  Peoria. Rev. A. A. Stevens                                10.00\n  Plainfield. Mrs. Edward Ebbs                              10.00\n  Port Byron. Mission Circle of Cong. Ch. _for Missionary,\n    Mobile, Ala._                                           17.50\n  Princeton. Mrs. Polly B. Cross                            10.00\n  Rochelle. W. H. Holcomb, Sen.                              2.00\n  Roseville. Mrs. L. C. Axtell, Bbl. of C., etc., _for\n    Macon, Ga_.\n  Shabbona. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (30 of which from\n    \"A Friend,\" _for Student Aid, Fisk U._)                 46.57\n  Wilmette. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._     12.50\n\n\nMICHIGAN, $773.09.\n\n  Allendale. Cong. Ch., 4.15, and Sab. Sch., 1.85            6.00\n  Delhi Mills. \"A Friend\"                                    2.00\n  Dexter. Dennis Warner                                     20.00\n  Grandville. \"E. B.\"                                        2.00\n  Greenville. M. Rutan                                     500.00\n  Hancock. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Soc., _for Theo.\n    Dept., Talladega C._                                    25.00\n  Laingsburg. Cong. Ch.                                     10.85\n  Lake Lyndon. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._                                           20.00\n  Lansing. Plymouth Ch.                                      4.71\n  Northville. D. Pomeroy                                     5.00\n  Oakley. Ch. of Christ                                      1.00\n  Olivet. Cong. Ch.                                         96.92\n  Saline. Eli Benton                                        50.00\n  Three Oaks. Cong. Ch.                                     19.61\n  White Lake. Robert Garner                                 10.00\n\n\nIOWA, $637.35.\n\n  Burlington. Cong. Ch.                                     15.41\n  Davenport. Geo. W. Ells                                   10.00\n  Des Moines. Dr. H. L. Whitman, _for Talladega C._        500.00\n  Dubuque. Young Ladies' Benev. Soc., _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._                                           25.00\n  Dubuque. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for\n    Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           10.00\n  Grinnell. Cong. Ch.                                       30.29\n  Grinnell. By Miss Ella E. Marsh, _for Missionary, New\n    Orleans, La._                                           17.75\n  Grinnell. C. A. Taylor's Sab. Sch. Class, _for Talladega\n    C._                                                      7.35\n  McGregor. Woman's Miss'y Soc.                              6.30\n  New Hampton. Woman's Cent. Soc.                            2.25\n  Osage. Cheerful Giver's Mission Band                       8.00\n  Stuart. Woman's Miss'y Soc., _for Missionary, New\n    Orleans, La._                                            5.00\n\n\nWISCONSIN, $222.04.\n\n  Appleton. Cong. Ch.                                       81.57\n  Beloit. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n   Talladega C._                                            30.00\n  Elkhorn. Cong. Ch.                                        16.00\n  Fond du Lac. Cong. Ch.                                    13.00\n  Geneva. Cong. Ch.                                         10.73\n  Janesville. \"Busy Bees,\" First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n    Student Aid, Macon, Ga_.                                 3.00\n  New London. First Cong. Ch., Box of C., etc., _for\n    Macon, Ga._\n  New Richmond. First Cong. Ch.                             18.45\n  Nicollet. Mrs. D. D. Kellogg, Sewing Machine, _for\n    Macon, Ga._\n  Oshkosh. Mrs. Lucy Bartlett, Box Books, _for Library_,\n    and Box of C., _for Macon, Ga._\n  Racine. Mrs. D, D. Nichols                                  .50\n  Ripon. First Cong. Sab. Sch., 10.85; Do Good Soc., 95c.   11.80\n  Ripon. Do Good Soc., 6.80; First Cong. Sab. Sch., 5.19;\n    _for Macon, Ga._                                        11.99\n  Salem. First. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Williamsburg,\n    Ky._                                                    15.00\n  Sheboygan. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Macon, Ga._        10.00\n\n\nMINNESOTA, $406.63.\n\n  Excelsior. Cong. Ch.                                      12.00\n  Glyndon. Union Ch.                                         3.42\n  Hamilton. Cong. Ch.                                        4.00\n  Mankato. Belgrade Sab. Sch.                                1.65\n  Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch., 33.35; First Cong. Ch.,\n    11.15; The Open Door Cong. Ch., 3.15                    47.65\n  Northfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C.,\n    Freight_                                                 5.65\n  Rochester. G. H. Swasey                                    1.00\n  Saint Paul. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                            67.11\n  Worthington. Union Cong. Ch.                              14.15\n  ----. \"Friends,\" _for Atlanta U._                        250.00\n\n\nKANSAS, $15.95.\n\n  Atchison. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n    Atlanta U._                                              3.00\n  Topeka. Tuition                                           12.95\n\n\nMISSOURI, $97.71.\n\n  Kansas City. Clyde Cong. Ch.                               5.00\n  Saint Joseph. Tab. Cong. Ch.                               9.00\n  Saint Louis. First Cong. Ch.                              83.71\n\n\nNEBRASKA, $42.88.\n\n  Exeter. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 7.45; Children's Mission\n    Band, 3.55; First Cong. Ch., 7.80                       18.80\n  Wahoo. Cong. Ch.                                          20.80\n  Waverly. Cong. Ch.                                         4.00\n\n\nDAKOTA, $10.00.\n\n  Fort Berthold. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._                 10.00\n\n\nCALIFORNIA, $25.00.\n\n  San Francisco. Rev. J. Rowell                             25.00\n\n\nDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $15.00.\n\n  Washington. Mrs. Abby N. Bailey, 10; Lincoln Mission\n    Sab. Sch., 5                                            15.00\n\n\nMARYLAND, $4.00.\n\n  Federalsburg. Sarah Beals                                  4.00\n\n\nKENTUCKY, $106.14.\n\n  Lexington. Tuition, 38.40; Rent, 5.54                     43.94\n  Williamsburg. Tuition, 58; Rent, 1                        59.00\n  Williamsburg. Rev. J. T. Ford, _for Room_                  3.20\n\n\nVIRGINIA, $6.00.\n\n  Herndon. Cong. Ch.                                         6.00\n\n\nTENNESSEE, $712.21\n\n  Chattanooga. Miss L. M. Lawson                             1.00\n  Jellico. Tuition                                          29.00\n  Jonesboro. Tuition                                         5.50\n  Knoxville. Cong. Ch.                                      12.00\n  Memphis. Tuition                                         229.65\n  Nashville. Tuition                                       425.06\n  Nashville. Jackson St. Cong. Ch.                           5.00\n  Pleasant Hill. Cong. Ch.                                   5.00\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA, $221.01.\n\n  Kittrell. Tuition                                         14.00\n  McLeansville. Cong. Ch.                                    5.74\n  Wilmington. Tuition                                      188.27\n  Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                     10.00\n  Wilmington. By Miss Warner, _for Student Aid_              3.00\n\n\nSOUTH CAROLINA, $15.00.\n\n  Charleston. Plym. Cong. Ch.                               15.00\n\n\nGEORGIA, $612.47.\n\n  Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, 226.95; Rent, 3           229.95\n  Atlanta. Prof. T. A. Chase                                 5.00\n  Macon. Tuition                                           149.95\n  Macon. Cong. Ch.                                          10.00\n  Macon. Unknown Friends, 2 Boxes of C., _for Macon, Ga._\n  McIntosh. Tuition                                         43.36\n  Savannah. Tuition                                        174.21\n\n\nALABAMA, $925.76.\n\n  Athens. Tuition                                          168.70\n  Marion. Cong. Ch.                                         45.52\n  Mobile. Tuition                                          205.60\n  Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     30.00\n  Selma. Cong. Ch.                                          20.80\n  Talladega. Tuition                                       445.14\n  Talladega. Miss J. Lunt, _for Student Aid_                10.00\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI, $124.15.\n\n  Tougaloo. Tuition                                        112.15\n  Tougaloo. By Miss Mary A. Scott, _for Student Aid_        12.00\n\n\nLOUISIANA, $290.00.\n\n  New Orleans. Tuition                                     290.00\n\n\nTEXAS, $151.88.\n\n  Austin. Tuition                                          148.88\n  Helena. Rev. M. Thompson                                   3.00\n\n\nINCOMES, $895.00.\n\n  Avery Estate, _for Mendi M._                             570.00\n  Graves Library Fund, _for Atlanta U._                    150.00\n  Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._                       125.00\n  Plumb Scholarship Fund, _for Fisk U._                     50.00\n\n\nPERSIA, $10.00.\n\n  Oroomiah. Mrs. E. W. Labaree, by Charles Marsh,\n    Treas. H. B. A.                                         10.00\n\n                                                       ----------\n  Total for January                                    $24,342.98\n  Total from Oct. 1 to Jan. 31                          75,684.88\n                                                       ==========\n\n\nFOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n  Subscriptions for January                                274.10\n  Previously acknowledged                                  402.47\n                                                        ---------\n  Total                                                   $676.57\n                                                        =========\n\n\n  H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,\n  56 Reade Street, N. Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the growing\nwork. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and _larger_\ncontributions from the churches, the feeble as well as the strong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccommodate the increasing number of students; MEETING HOUSES for the\nnew churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and pious,\nfor these churches.\n\n3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers and teachers here\nand missionaries to Africa--a pressing want.\n\n4. FUNDS FOR INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENTS--to purchase farm implements,\nplows, harrows and cultivators; to erect shops and furnish tools and\nmaterials for instruction and use in the mechanic arts, for\ncarpenters, blacksmiths, tin-men, harness and shoemakers; and to\nsupply the girls' industrial rooms with sewing and knitting\nmaterials.\n\n5. Ten Thousand new subscribers for THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. All in\nfavor of indorsing this want will please send on their vote, making\nuse of the following:\n\n\nFORM OF BALLOT.\n\n  H. W. HUBBARD, _Esq., Treasurer_,\n\n  _56 Reade Street, New York_:\n\n  _Inclosed please find Fifty Cents, subscription for_ THE AMERICAN\n  MISSIONARY _for the year 1885._\n\n  _Sign with your Name and Address._\n\nWe are not afraid of a heavy vote. Roll up the majority!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n_Advertisements._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n[Illustration: CHILD'S CATARRH SPECIFIC]\n\n\n_Eighteen years_ of terrible headache, disgusting nasal discharges,\ndryness of the throat, acute bronchitis, coughing, soreness of the\nlungs, rising bloody mucus, and even night sweats, incapacitating me\nfrom my professional duties, and bringing me to the verge of the\ngrave--all were caused by, and the result of nasal catarrh. After\nspending hundreds of dollars and obtaining no relief, I compounded my\nCatarrh Specific and Cold Air Inhaling Balm, and wrought upon myself\na wonderful cure. Now I can speak for hours with no difficulty, and\ncan breathe freely in any atmosphere.\n\n  T. P. CHILDS.\n\n\nDANGER SIGNALS\n\nDo you take cold easily? Have you a cold in the head that does not\nget better? Have you a hacking cough? Is your throat affected? Are\nyou troubled with hoarseness? Soreness of the throat? Difficulty in\nbreathing? Have you pain in the head between and above the eyes? A\nsense of fulness in the head? Are the passages of the nose stopped\nup? Is your breath foul? Have you lost all sense of smell? Are you\ntroubled with hawking? Spitting? Weak, inflamed eyes? Dullness or\ndizziness of the head? Dryness or heat of the nose? Is your voice\nharsh or rough? Have you any difficulty in talking? Have you an\nexcessive secretion of mucus or matter in the nasal passages, which\nmust either be blown from the nose, or drop back behind the palate,\nor hawked or snuffed backward to the throat? Ringing or roaring or\nother noises in the ears, more or less impairment of the hearing? If\nso you have CATARRH.\n\n\n120,000\n\nCatarrhal cases have applied to me for relief. Many thousands have\nreceived my Specific, and are cured. We add a few of the many\nhundreds of unsolicited certificates which have been sent to us by\ngrateful patients--\n\n  My wife is entirely cured. I. V. COLLINS, Corcket, Tex.\n\n  Your remedy has cured me. M. ALSHULER, Mattoon, Ill.\n\n  Your treatment has cured my daughter of Catarrh, induced\n  by a severe attack of measles.\n  JOHN W. RILEY, U. S. Express Agent, Troy, O.\n\n  Your treatment did me great good. I have not lost a\n  day by sickness this year.\n  ABNER GRAHAM, Biddle Uni'sity, Charlotte, N. C.\n\n  I have used your Catarrh treatment, and am cured. A\n  thousand thanks to you for so sure a remedy.\n  FANNIE DEMENT, Dyer Station Tenn.\n\n  The medicine did for me all you represented.\n  T. H. MESSMORE, Cadillac, Mich.\n\n  My health is fully restored. The horrid and loathsome\n  disease is all gone. My lungs feel all right.\n  MRS. W. D. LINCOLN, York, Neb.\n\n  Your treatment has cured me; Your inhalers are excellent.\n  This is the only radical cure I have ever found.\n  E. S. MARTIN, M. E. Church, Port Carbon, PA.\n\n  I have so far recovered that I am able to attend church,\n  can walk half a mile, have a good appetite, and am gaining\n  all the time.\n  MRS. A. N. MUNGER, Detroit, Mich.\n\n  Now I am cured; head free; air passages all open, and\n  breathing natural. A thousand thanks to you for so sure\n  a remedy.\n  (JUDGE) J. COLLETT, Lima, Ohio.\n\n  I was thought to have had Consumption, and had suffered\n  many years with what was really Catarrh, before I\n  procured your treatment. I have had no return of the disease.\n  (MISS) LOUIE JAMES, Crab Orchard, Ky.\n\n\nChilds' Catarrh Specific\n\nWill effectually and permanently cure any case of catarrh, no matter\nhow desperate. The treatment is local as well as constitutional, and\ncan only be obtained at Troy, O. We especially desire to treat those\nwho have tried other remedies without success.\n\nChilds' Treatment for Catarrh, and for disease of the Bronchial\nTubes, can be taken at home with perfect ease and safety, by the\npatient. No expense need be entailed beyond the cost of the medicine.\nA full statement of method of home treatment and cost will be sent on\napplication.\n\nAddress REV. T. P. CHILDS, Troy, Ohio. _Mention this paper._","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 39, No. 03, March, 1885","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":19049}