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No. 1.\n\n THE\n\n AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n * * * * *\n\n \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n JANUARY, 1878.\n\n\n\n\n _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n EDITORIAL.\n\n 1877-1878. 1\n LARGE GIFTS AND LARGE GIVERS 2\n CHANGES IN THE MAGAZINE 3\n WOMAN\u2019S WORK FOR WOMAN 4\n THE JUBILEE SINGERS\u2014A GOOD USE OF NEGRO\n SUFFRAGE 5\n PARAGRAPHS 6\n NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES\u2014SOUTHERN EXODUS NOTES 7\n INDIAN NOTES 8\n CHINESE NOTES 9\n BOOK NOTICE 10\n\n THE FREEDMEN.\n\n NORTH CAROLINA: Revival in Church and School.\n GEORGIA: Revival in Atlanta University 11\n ALABAMA: Church Organized\u2014A New Pastorate 12\n TENNESSEE: Le Moyne Normal School 13\n \u201c State Teachers\u2019 Institute 14\n TWO SIMPLE RULES. J. P. Thompson, D. D. 15\n DR. PATTON\u2019S INAUGURAL 16\n\n THE INDIANS.\n\n FORT BERTHOLD, D. T. 17\n\n THE CHINESE.\n\n ANNUAL MEETING\u2014GENERAL ASSOCIATION\u2014THE WORK 18\n\n COMMUNICATIONS.\n\n PROTECTION BY DEVELOPMENT. Rev. C. H. Richards 19\n EDUCABILITY OF THE BLACKS. A Virginia School\n Superintendent 21\n CAMPAIGN IN CONNECTICUT. Dist. Sec\u2019y, Powell of\n Chicago 22\n\n THE CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE 24\n\n RECEIPTS 24\n\n CONSTITUTION 27\n\n WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c. 28\n\n * * * * *\n\n NEW YORK:\n\n Published by the American Missionary Association,\n\n ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n * * * * *\n\n Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\n\n\n\n\n _American Missionary Association_,\n\n 56 READE STREET, N. Y.\n\n * * * * *\n\n PRESIDENT.\n\n HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\n VICE PRESIDENTS.\n\n Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n Rev. JONATHAN BLANCHARD, Ill.\n Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.\n Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.\n Rev. SILAS MCKEEN, D. D., Vt.\n WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.\n Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, Mass.\n Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.\n Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.\n Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. Y.\n Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.\n Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.\n Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n Rev. D. M. GRAHAM, D. D., Mich.\n HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich.\n Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H.\n Rev. EDWARD HAWES, Ct.\n DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.\n Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.\n SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y.\n Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Ct.\n Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.\n Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon.\n Rev. EDWARD L. CLARK, N. Y.\n Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.\n Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n EDWARD SPAULDING, M.D., N. H.\n DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J.\n Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.\n Rev. W. L. GAGE, Ct.\n A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.\n Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio.\n Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn.\n Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn.\n Rev. GEORGE THACHER, LL. D., Iowa.\n Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.\n Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.\n Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.\n Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.\n S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n Rev. H. M. PARSONS, N. Y.\n PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n Dea. JOHN WHITING, Mass.\n Rev. WM. PATTON, D. D., Ct.\n Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct.\n Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.\n Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.\n Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng.\n WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y.\n J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.\n\n\n CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_.\n REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago, Ill._\n\n EDGAR KETCHUM, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._\n H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Assistant Treasurer, N. Y._\n REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.\n\n\n EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n ALONZO S. BALL,\n A. S. BARNES,\n EDWARD BEECHER,\n GEO. M. BOYNTON,\n WM. B. BROWN,\n CLINTON B. FISK,\n A. P. FOSTER,\n AUGUSTUS E. GRAVES,\n S. B. HALLIDAY,\n SAM\u2019L HOLMES,\n S. S. JOCELYN,\n ANDREW LESTER,\n CHAS. L. MEAD,\n JOHN H. WASHBURN,\n G. B. WILLCOX.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the business of the Association may be addressed to\neither of the Secretaries as above.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when\nmore convenient, to either of the branch offices, 21 Congregational\nHouse, Boston, Mass., 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill.\nDrafts or checks sent to Mr. Hubbard should be made payable to his\norder as _Assistant Treasurer_.\n\nA payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.\n\nCorrespondents are specially requested to place at the head of each\nletter the name of their Post Office, and the County and State in\nwhich it is located.\n\n\n\n\n THE\n\n AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n * * * * *\n\n VOL. XXXII. JANUARY, 1878. No. 1.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\n_American Missionary Association._\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n1877-1878.\n\nYear after year the work of the American Missionary Association\ngoes on with steady increase. We glide from one year to another\nnoiselessly, and take up on the New Year\u2019s Day the same tools we\ndropped when the signal came that the working hours of the old year\nwere ended. One seems very much like the other, and yet, as we look\nback, we find that each year has, to some extent, a character and\na work of its own. Changes come unheralded, proportions vary; each\nphase is now conspicuous and now in almost eclipse, while the whole\nwork goes on.\n\nA few years ago it was the large number of our common school\nteachers sent from the North to the just-opened Southern\nfield; then came the era of Normal instruction, as the States\nopened schools for the colored children, but could not furnish\nschoolmasters fit to teach them. The facilities for higher\neducation, and, especially, for training for the ministry, came in\nthen for our care\u20141877 saw what seemed to be the beginning of the\nend in this direction, in the sending of three men, trained in our\nschools, for missionary work to Africa.\n\nWhat shall be the peculiar work of 1878? There is no portion of the\nwhole which those who work through us are willing to have dropped.\nAmong the Indians, what little we have done we must continue to do,\nuntil some Providence as plain as that which gave it to our hands\nshall discharge us from the duty. We cannot withdraw our help from\nthe churches on the Pacific Coast, in their endeavors to lead the\nChinaman through the knowledge of the English language to the God\nof the English-speaking people. We cannot close the Normal school,\nfor the intelligent Christian teacher is yet the greatest want of\nthe Southern Freedmen. To the young men who desire to preach Christ\nJesus and Him crucified to their own people, we cannot deny the\ninstruction in the word of God and in the truths of religion which\nthey ask of us. All these, which are distinctively departments of\nChristian effort, must be kept up, and, especially, this work among\nthe negro youth of the great South.\n\nWhat we should be glad to make the great and characteristic work\nof the new year, is the Southern church work. We have now more\nstudents in our three theological schools than we have churches in\nthe entire South. Of course, this does not limit the opportunity\nof these young men. It does not altogether destroy our influence\nthrough them. They will go out and preach the Gospel, but they\nmust go into other ecclesiastical relations to fill churches of\nother orders, and, as we feel, many of them to do far less telling\nwork for God and good than they might in churches founded anew by\nthem under our care. This direct evangelizing and church work is\nvery dear to those to whom the management of this Association is\nentrusted. Shall 1878 be for us the year of church extension?\n\nThere are favoring conditions in more respects than one. The\ncomparative freedom of the South from political agitations gives\nthe opportunity for undisturbed effort for the enlargement of this\nwork. The impulse given by the Syracuse meeting will be felt long\nby us and by all connected with the Association. The diminution of\nthe debt already relieves for use in active service nearly $3,000 a\nyear, which was absorbed by its imperative demands.\n\nIf this debt can be wholly put behind us we may add this to the\nachievements of the coming year.\n\nIt is easier to write prophecy than history, and yet the pen will\nglide lightly over the paper, and the press will resound with a\nmore cheery clatter than in other days, if a year from now, they\nshall be able to make it known that the churches in the South have\nbeen largely increased in numbers and efficiency, and that the debt\nof the Association has every cent of it been paid.\n\nWith a \u201chappy new year\u201d all round the circle, officers,\nmissionaries, teachers, contributors, let us to the work!\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nIn the fall of 1866, Mr. Warren Ackermann gave to the Foreign\nBoard of the Reformed Church of America $55,000 in one gift, thus\nentirely extinguishing its debt, and leaving it a fund of nearly\n$10,000 for expenditure upon the field.\n\nLast spring the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions was on\nthe point of reporting a debt of $50,000, when a like gift, by\nthe liberality of Mrs. John C. Green, of New York, freed them\nfrom that necessity, and enabled them to close the year without a\ndeficit. The Methodist Episcopal Missionary Committee, by special\neffort during the last year, paid off over $100,000 of their large\nindebtedness. None of us have forgotten the noble spontaneity of\nthe successful movement this fall at Providence, resulting in the\ncomplete liberation of the American Board from their debt of nearly\n$50,000, and we cannot fail to notice with rejoicing every success\nof \u201cthe finangelist\u201d (as he has been called), Mr. Kimball, in\ncasting the mountains of church debt into the sea of solvency.\n\nAll these things encourage us to hope and pray and labor for\ngreat things. Our debt is diminished already from $93,232.99 to\n$57,816.90. This is quite within the average of the sums named\nabove. Not one of these societies or churches but will say: \u201cThese\ngifts, to deliver us from the bondage of debt, have proved the\ngrandest helps to our forward work.\u201d Let no one think that money\nthus given does not tell upon the work. It does tell: not this year\nalone, but every year it puts money in our purse to be expended in\nthe directest furtherance of our mission to carry the Gospel of\nlight and love to the poor and neglected races. It is in effect a\npermanent fund, the interest of which we have for yearly use.\n\nIs there not some one, or may there not be more far-sighted men, to\nwhom the Lord has entrusted a liberal share of His gold and silver,\nwhom these examples and this opportunity may stimulate?\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nIn accordance with the decision at the last Anniversary Meeting of\nthe American Missionary Association, the printing of this paper\nwill be done hereafter in New York City.\n\nIn parting with General Armstrong and his printers at Hampton, it\ngives us pleasure to bear our warmest testimony to their uniform\ncourtesy and to their untiring efforts to relieve, as far as\npossible, the unavoidable difficulty of printing at so great a\ndistance from these rooms. Of the excellence of the work done at\nthe Hampton office, we need use no words of commendation, for each\nsuccessive number has carried to our readers its best evidence.\n\nDuring the past year, as we learn from General Armstrong, it has\ngiven help to eight young colored girls who, as folders, have been\nable to earn enough to materially assist them in meeting their\nschool bills; it has given steady employment to two young men who,\ntwelve years ago, were enrolled in the first schools opened at\nHampton by the Association. From little bright-eyed pickaninnies\nthey have grown to be competent printers; they are now a help to\ntheir parents and are growing up to be among the solid men of\nHampton.\n\nExtra help being needed, a very worthy colored mechanic in\nLitchfield, Conn. was engaged. He not only worked on the\nMISSIONARY, but having rented a house in a region destitute of\nworkers, he at once gathered the young and the old, and every\nSunday morning during the summer a motley crowd of about fifty in\nnumber was collected in his verandah. Seated on boxes, tubs, pails,\netc., they received excellent instruction from Mr. Rowe, through\nwhose good work we hope that some who were blind can now see.\n\nThe officers of the Hampton Institute bear testimony to the decided\nbenefits received from the printing of the MISSIONARY at Hampton.\nIt has been of no small advantage as an aid to the Industrial\nDepartment there, which is the peculiar and difficult feature of\nthe Institute.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nWith this number, then, the MISSIONARY returns wholly to this\noffice and its vicinity for preparation. As our readers have\nalready noticed, the advice of the Annual Meeting has been followed\nin restoring it to its old form, which many of its familiar\nfriends think more becoming than the perhaps sprightlier, but less\ndignified manner of the last year. We trust they will not like it\nless because it has a little more of body than formerly, and is\nattired in a new, and, we trust, not inappropriate dress. A few\nof its additional pages are given to advertisements by the same\nadvice. We shall be glad to serve and be served by our friends,\nwho know our circulation and constituency, in opening to them this\nchannel of communication with one another.\n\nIt is our hope to make the MISSIONARY of certainly as much, and,\nif possible, of more value than in former years. We should be glad\nto do what we can to dissipate the impression that an exposition\nof Christian opportunity and a record of Christian work is of\nnecessity dry reading\u2014of use mainly by way of fitting preparation\nfor a Sunday afternoon nap. We know that the opportunities, if\nrealized, are full of encouragement and stimulus, and that the work\nitself is intense in its earnestness and interest. We know that\nthe considerations which enforce its claims are among those which\nappeal most irresistibly to thoughtful men, and stir their deepest\nfeelings. If the presentation, then, be dry, it must be the dulness\nof those who write, or the indifference of those who read. We will\ntry to prevent this at one end if our friends will at the other.\n\nWe shall try to procure the freshest and most recent news from\nthe field, in regard to the general progress and the particular\nincidents of the work, by diligent application to our missionaries\nand teachers\u2014remembering ourselves, and reminding others, that\nthey are busy men and women, far more intent on doing the work than\nin telling about it. We shall endeavor to give, in condensed form,\na record of the current events, religious, social and sometimes\npolitical, which affect the various departments of our work. We\nhope to arrange for special presentation of the nature and needs of\nour larger institutions in successive numbers. So we shall try to\nbring within the range of our readers\u2019 vision the stars of larger\nand of lesser magnitude which gem our Southern and Western sky,\nonly regretting that our, like other telescopes, can only bring\nfar-off things a little nearer\u2014can by no means reveal them as they\nare.\n\nWith the old form we return, of necessity, to the old subscription\nprice\u201450 cents a year. Will our good friends remember that if each\nof our 25,000 magazines should bring us in a half a dollar, they\nwould be a source of income to the Association, beside the valuable\nservice which it does us indirectly? If this suggestion impresses\nany one favorably, please let the money be inclosed, and the letter\nsealed and directed at once before it can be forgotten.\n\nIn accordance with the further recommendation of the Annual\nMeeting, Rev. George M. Boynton, of Newark, N. J., who, as a member\nof the Executive Committee, is familiar with the work, and whose\npen has contributed freely to our columns during the last year, has\nbeen associated with us in the editorial charge of the MISSIONARY.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nWOMAN\u2019S WORK FOR WOMAN.\n\nSpecific missionary work by devoted women, among the colored women\nand girls in the South, is one of the many interesting departments\nof our enterprise. \u201cWoman\u2019s work for woman\u201d has not been neglected,\nalthough it has not been made prominent before the public by the\nAssociation. It is enough to say that more than three-fourths of\nour missionaries have been women, and the majority of our church\nmembers and pupils, females, to make it evident that much work of\nthis kind must have been done; still it has not been singled out\nand magnified as _the_ work to which, as an association, we had\ngiven ourselves. It has all along been a matter of deep regret\nthat we could not make more of this branch of our work. We have\nnoted the inexpressibly sad condition of the colored woman in\nthe South\u2014no future before her, public opinion giving her no\nrecognized standing of respectability, dooming her to an evil\nreputation, whether in character she was deserving it or not, and\nthis, too, in a Christian country\u2014these things we have noted and\nfelt; but our receipts were all swallowed up in the current demands\nof our general work. We are glad to be permitted to record that a\nstep has recently been taken, promising relief in this direction.\nA lady in one of the Western States, who has been for years known\nas an indefatigable worker for Christian missions, has had the\nelevation and salvation of the colored women of our country on\nher heart and mind for years. She has made herself thoroughly\nacquainted with the fact that if anything is done, it must be _in\naddition_ to what the ordinary receipts of the American Missionary\nAssociation would warrant. Self-moved, she said to our Executive\nCommittee a few months ago, \u201cIf you will commission a competent\nand devoted woman missionary and assign her to one of your mission\nstations, to give herself _entirely_ to the work of visiting the\nhomes of the colored women, for the purpose of saving them by the\nuse of every method her enlightened judgment may suggest as wise, I\nwill become personally responsible for her support, and will pledge\nthat what I do shall not in any way interfere with the general\nreceipts of the Association.\u201d The Executive Committee thankfully\naccepted the proposition. A lady missionary was appointed and sent\nto Memphis, Tenn., in November. She entered at once upon the field,\nand the beginnings of her work are full of promise, and already\nassure us of the usefulness of her mission.\n\nWe hear from Memphis the week after her arrival of the favorable\nimpression made, and of the rejoicing on the part of our teachers\nthat there is help for them in the homes of their pupils and in\nmothers\u2019 meetings, etc. One teacher says, \u201cI hope to visit with\nher a little, especially to take her to the homes of our girls.\u201d\nAnother writes, \u201cWe regard her being sent here as a special\nProvidence in our favor. I think there is no place where she could\ndo more.\u201d\n\nWe trust that many such workers may be sent by the Christian women\nof the North to these their needy sisters in the South.\n\nThe _Advance_ mentions the Church Sewing Circle as the medium, and\nthe spring as the most convenient time, to carry out the following\nsuggestion. In this way, it says, there need be no friction between\nwhat is done for the A. M. A. and other missionary work:\n\n \u201cThere was a time, directly following the war, when the American\n Missionary Association was wonderfully aided in its work by\n the special efforts of the philanthropic women. There has\n been nothing finer done in the way of immediately urgent but\n far-reaching influence, by the Christian women of America,\n either before or since. Every one rejoices in the helpfulness of\n the Woman\u2019s Boards, creating and fostering as they do a mighty\n interest on behalf of their benighted sisters in heathen lands,\n and we will not believe the Christian women in our American\n churches incapable of again inaugurating some similar work,\n equally worthy of them, toward meeting the inexpressibly urgent\n moral necessities of their sadly darkened and depressed sisters\n nearer home.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTHE JUBILEE SINGERS AT THE IMPERIAL COURT OF GERMANY.\n\nThe Jubilee Singers have recently gone to Germany to continue the\nwork they have for the last six years been so successfully doing in\nthe United States, Great Britain and Holland, in the interests of\nthe education of their race at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.\n\nWithin a few days of their arrival at Berlin, they had the\nhonor of appearing before the Imperial family of Germany under\ncircumstances of peculiar interest. They were invited by their\nImperial Highnesses, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, to sing\nsome of their slave songs at the New Palace, Potsdam, on Sunday\nafternoon, Nov. 4, and on presenting themselves at the appointed\nhour they found, to their joy, that they stood in the presence of\nHis Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of Germany, as well as in the\npresence of the Crown Prince and Princess, with their children\ngathered around them. Thus three generations stood together in the\nhome circle, listening to this little company of emancipated slaves\nfrom the United States, as they sang the songs of the days of their\nbondage. And never did their strange, touching songs produce a\ndeeper impression, or call forth heartier expressions of sympathy\nfor, and interest in, the work they are laboring to do for their\nrace in America and in Africa.\n\nHis Majesty, the Emperor, made many inquiries of the President of\nthe University respecting the Singers, and their personal history,\nand the work they had accomplished, while the Crown Prince and the\nCrown Princess conversed freely with the Singers, making inquiries,\nand expressing great delight in the singing. It was especially\ngratifying to learn from the Crown Princess that four years ago,\nwhen the Jubilee Singers had the honor of singing before her Royal\nMother, the Queen of England, she had received a long letter\nspeaking of the Singers and their mission. The Crown Prince said,\n\u201cThese songs, as you sing them, go to the heart\u2014they go through\nand through one.\u201d\n\nThe first public concert was given in Berlin, at the Sing\nAcademy, on the 7th of November, and was greeted with such hearty\ndemonstrations of approval, that success in Germany seems quite\nwell assured.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nA GOOD USE OF NEGRO SUFFRAGE.\n\nAn article of two and a half columns in an Augusta, Ga. paper,\nbegins thus: \u201cThe Superior Court room in the City Hall was crowded\nlast evening with the colored voters of the county who had\nassembled to listen to addresses from Hon. Jos. B. Cumming, the\nDemocratic nominee for Senator, from the Eighteenth Senatorial\nDistrict, and Hon. H. Clay Foster, Independent candidate for the\nsame position. Both these gentlemen were present by invitation\nof the colored people themselves.\u201d Then follow abstracts of the\nspeeches of the two candidates, wherein each attempts to show the\ncolored voters that he has a stronger claim upon them than his\ncompetitor. This political gathering was peculiar in several\nrespects. The audience was composed of Republicans, while the\nspeakers were both avowed Democrats. The assemblage comprised\na distinct class in the Senatorial district. This class was\ncomposed of those who during most of their lives had enjoyed\nfewest opportunities to obtain knowledge and learn how to vote\nintelligently. And what is most vital, they, as the speakers seemed\nto tacitly acknowledge, held the balance of power. In other words,\nthey, whatever their standing might be in society, and whatever\nqualifications they might possess or lack, were to decide which of\nthe two candidates should represent the PEOPLE of the Eighteenth\nDistrict in the State Senate.\n\nWhether or not it was humiliating to the pride of \u201chigh-bred\u201d\ncitizens of the Empire State of the South to vie with each other\nthus publicly in soliciting the votes of their former servants, is\nof little consequence. Neither is it a matter of very great import\nthat a political gathering of \u201cniggers\u201d (negroes would be more\nelegant, but less pointed,) was respectfully addressed by Southern\nwhite men, and respectfully referred to by a Georgia Democratic\npaper. That all the colored voters of that district will be urged\nand helped to pay their taxes, and thus for one year at least avoid\ndisfranchisement, and will have an opportunity to vote unmolested,\nthough a good reason for congratulation, is nothing worthy of\nvery great consideration. But the prominent and startling feature\nof this incident is the fact that those who, through no fault of\ntheirs, are least qualified for the responsible trust, hold the\nbalance of power and cast the decisive vote. In this instance, no\ngreat issues are involved, and if, under the influence of wise and\nvirtuous leaders of their own race, our colored friends always\nsee as clearly what is really for their good, the danger will\nbe lessened. As an indication of what is now uppermost in their\nminds upon such occasions, and for the encouragement of those who\ncontribute to the funds of the A. M. A., I will quote the questions\nthey put to the candidates:\n\n\u201c1. Are you in favor of the States levying a tax for educational\npurposes\u2014the benefit to be equally enjoyed by all classes?\n\n\u201c2. Are you in favor of the State continuing the annual\nappropriation of $8,000 to the Atlanta University for the higher\neducation of the colored youth?\n\n\u201c3. Are you in favor of the law known as the \u2018Laborers and\nMechanics\u2019 Lien Law\u2019?\u201d\n\nSuch danger coupled with such encouragement ought to nerve the\narms of A. M. A. laborers, and stimulate the alms-giving of its\ncontributors.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nWe are rejoiced to hear of the increasing prosperity of Howard\nUniversity under the presidency of Dr. W. W. Patton. The attendance\nand attention of the students to their work, is, we are informed,\nmost gratifying and encouraging. Dr. Patton, in addition to his\npresidential duties, fills an important chair in the Theological\ndepartment, the maintenance of which department our Association\nshares with the Presbytery of Washington. On another page, we give\nsome extracts from the thoughtful Inaugural address of the new\nPresident, which we are sure will interest our readers.\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe barque \u201cJasper,\u201d which sailed from the port of New York,\nSeptember 24th, carrying the missionaries Snelson, James and\nWhite, with their families, to reinforce the Mendi Mission in\nNorth-western Africa, was reported in the New York _Herald_ of\nSaturday, Dec. 1st, as arrived at Sierra Leone. The date of arrival\nwas not given. A note just received from Mr. Snelson, dated Nov.\n20, then at Freetown, assures of the health and safety of the\nparty. The same Hand which we trust has delivered them from the\nperils of the sea is able also to deliver them from perils by land\nand from perils by their own countrymen. We hope before our next\nissue to receive the account of their voyage, and their first\nimpressions of the field they go to cultivate.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nNEWS FROM THE CHURCHES.\n\nRev. J. E. Smith has accepted the pastoral charge of the Midway\nChurch, Liberty Co., Ga., succeeding Rev. Floyd Snelson, who has\ngone to the Mendi Mission in Africa.\n\nRev. Wilson Callen has gone to the churches at Belmont and\nLouisville, Ga.\n\nRev. J. G. Kedslie, from Jamaica, West Indies, to McLeansville, N.\nC. He reports an increasing religious interest there.\n\nRev. J. H. H. Sengstacke is with the church at Woodville, Ga.\n\nMr. J. R. McLean, a student at Talladega, is preaching at Ogeechee.\n\nRev. William Ash has gone from Providence, R. I., to the church at\nMobile, Ala.\n\nTwo brethren from the North have recently gone to take charge of\nchurches in the Southern field: and Rev. Fletcher Clark, son of\nRev. Rufus W. Clark, D. D., of Albany, N. Y., to Selma, Ala., and\nRev. Geo. E. Hill, recently of Southport, Conn., to Marion, Ala.\n\nA church of twenty-one members was recognized by Council, Nov. 12,\nat Marietta, Ga. It has been gathered under the labors of Rev. T.\nN. Stewart, formerly of the African Methodist communion. Rev. S. S.\nAshley preached, and Revs. H. S. Bennett and J. Q. A. Erwin bore\nother parts in the service. The place is a beautiful town of three\nor four thousand inhabitants, with a large colored population.\nSeveral young men have joined the new enterprise, and seem very\nmuch interested in it.\n\nThe Central South Conference of Congregational Churches met Nov.\n9th in Atlanta, Ga. The meeting was very spirited, though the\nattendance was not large. The narrative of the state of religion\nwas, on the whole, very encouraging. Prof. Bennett, of Fisk\nUniversity, occupied one evening in giving an account of the\nNational Council at Detroit, and the Annual Meeting of the A. M.\nA. at Syracuse. Mr. Clark, referred to above, was ordained in\nconnection with the meeting of conference.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nSOUTHERN EXODUS NOTES.\n\nThe enrolment still goes on; 65,000 in South Carolina, 69,000 in\nLouisiana, and large numbers in North Carolina, Alabama, Florida,\nArkansas and Mississippi. In South Carolina, five commissioners\nhave been appointed to visit Liberia and make arrangements for\nemigration; and a joint stock company has been formed to issue\n30,000 shares at $10 each\u20142,000 shares already taken.\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe appeal is made especially in South Carolina and Louisiana, on\nthe ground of the changed political situation, which is interpreted\nto signify a denial of the rights of the negro citizen, and a risk\nof future oppression and even of a future restoration of slavery.\nAfrica is pictured as \u201ca land flowing with milk and honey, with\nno white man to molest or make afraid.\u201d Names are enrolled on\nimpulse, and with little consideration, and speedily swell to large\nproportions. It is much easier to write a book of Exodus than to\ncross the sea and go through the wilderness.\n\n * * * * *\n\nMeanwhile, the question of emigration is being, of necessity,\ninvestigated. Among intelligent colored men, some press their right\nto the country in which they have been born, and for which they\nhave shed their blood; others suggest that the wealthy inhabitants\nof the rich Republic of Liberia send over vessels to transport them\nthere, so proving their ability; others, less wise and prudent,\nhave sold out everything and gone to Charleston, expecting to find\nspeedy transportation, and have returned chagrined and disappointed.\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe United States Government has issued a report of the condition\nof Liberia, showing the dangers of the sea shore climate to the\nhealth of immigrants; that Liberia has never produced sufficient\nfood for her own consumption, and that provisions are very\nhigh; that while the interior is fine and healthy, it is almost\ninaccessible, and thoroughly inhospitable from the jealousy of the\npetty kings.\n\n * * * * *\n\nRev. Dr. Dana, of Norwich, Conn., who has given no little time to\nthe study of Africa, in a recent letter to the New York _Herald_,\non the other hand, makes the following statements: That the\ncountry in the interior east of Liberia is healthy, productive\nand accessible. Boporo, 75 miles inland, is elevated, with an\ninvigorating climate and a productive soil. \u201cThe exhibit of\nLiberian products at the Centennial was sufficient to set beyond\nall question the richness of the country, and the returns it makes\nto average industry.\u201d A beginning of manufacturing has been made.\nThe government sustains primary schools, and five higher schools\nare managed by missionary societies, and a college. The war with\nthe natives of Cape Palmas has terminated and a treaty been made.\nThe Methodist, Episcopal, Baptist and Presbyterian Churches are\nrepresented there, and have made efficient progress. Iron ore is\nfound there, and coffee plantations are a source of wealth. The\nnatives, both Pagan and Mohammedan, are represented by Dr. Blyden\nas anxious to have Christian settlers occupy the beautiful hills\nand fertile plains in their neighborhood. Dr. Dana concludes: \u201cA\ngeneral exodus to Liberia of the colored people of the South need\nnot be apprehended, but it is anything but commercially wise or\npolitically just to disparage the condition or speak derisively of\nthe prospects of the African Republic.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe American Colonization Society has sent to Liberia, since the\nclose of the war, 3,137 colored persons. It is now preparing to\ndispatch another expedition on the 2d of January next. The number\nof emigrants will depend, to a considerable extent, on the means\nyet to be contributed for the purpose. The society is constantly\nreceiving urgent applications for passage and settlement. These,\nwith other movements, especially in South Carolina and Florida,\nrepresent, it is estimated, a quarter of a million of men, women\nand children.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nINDIAN NOTES.\n\nNotwithstanding the successful termination of the Nez Perc\u00e8s war,\nin which General Howard so happily vindicated both his valor and\nhis courtesy, there is no settled and general peace among the\nIndian tribes. Some 1,700 Sioux broke away while being removed\nfrom the Red Cloud agency to their new agency on the Missouri\nRiver, and are now on the war path. They have since been committing\ndepredations in the immediate vicinity of Deadwood, Dakota. They\nnumber about two hundred lodges, a number not sufficient in itself\nto render operations against them on a large scale necessary, but\nprobably quite large enough to keep our small available force\n(exhausted as it is by the long campaign against the Nez Perc\u00e8s)\nfully occupied should the Indians open hostilities. Although a\ngeneral Indian war is not considered to be imminent, such an event\nis not impossible as the outcome of the present troubles, and may\nbe deemed almost probable.\n\nThe most serious feature of the situation lies in the probability\nthat the many roving bands who live in the country north and west\nof the Black Hills, and who are thought to be in sympathy with\nSitting Bull, and to have experienced more or less injustice at\nthe hands of the whites, will join with the small band which is\ncreating the present alarm at Deadwood, and thus bring about an\noutbreak which it would be quite beyond the power of our present\nreduced military establishment to suppress. The opinion is\nexpressed by officers at the War Department, that the removal of\ntroops from the Black Hills region to the Texas border, may result\nin the protection of people in the latter section, at the expense\nof the lives of those who are exposed to much greater danger.\n\nMeanwhile, the Ponca Indians have sent a deputation to Washington,\nto remonstrate with the President against their removal to a new\nreservation. They are a peaceful and civilized people, who cannot\nbear to leave the houses, schools and churches they have built and\nmaintained. The assurances which they received of restitution for\ntheir losses, and protection in their new homes, though liberally\nmade and with honest intent, were a poor comfort to them in their\nenforced removal.\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe Sitting Bull Commission report that that doughty chief will\nnot return to this country at present from his retreat across\nthe Canada border. His camp, however, keeps up communication\nwith hostile tribes, stimulating dissatisfaction, and inciting\nhostility; it furnishes an asylum, also, to fugitives from\njustice\u2014one hundred of the defeated Nez Perc\u00e8s are now there. The\ncommission suggests, as required by international comity and usage,\nthat they be removed so far into the interior of the neutral State\nthat they can no longer threaten in any manner the peace and safety\nof our citizens.\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe Senate Committee on Indian Affairs has reported a bill for\nenabling Indians to become citizens of the United States. The\nconditions of admission to citizenship are that the Indian shall\nbelong to some organized tribe or nation having treaty relations\nwith the United States, and that he shall appear in a United States\nCircuit or District Court and make proof to its satisfaction that\nhe is sufficiently intelligent and prudent to control his own\naffairs and interests, that he has adopted the habits of civilized\nlife, and has for the last five years been able to support\nhimself and family, and that he shall take an oath to support the\nConstitution of the United States. The bill also provides that the\nIndian shall not, by becoming a citizen, forfeit his distributable\nshare of all annuities, tribal funds, lands, or other property.\n\n * * * * *\n\nIn his Annual Report, the Secretary of the Interior says that,\nrespecting the Indians, the great difficulty in dealing with them\nis that there is no longer any frontier line; they are divided\namong the whites who are constantly spreading over the Western\ncountry. The immense region allotted them, and the strict dividing\nline between them and the whites, in British America, is the reason\nthe English Government is enabled to manage them so easily. We\ncan make no such restriction, with our growing population. The\nreport recommends as progress toward civilization that the Indians\nbe gathered in smaller reservations and taught agriculture and\ncattle raising; that small tracts be deeded each one, so that they\nmay have fixed homes; that hunting be discouraged; that proper\ntribunals of justice be established; that schools be introduced,\nand attendance by youth made compulsory; that farmers be employed\nto teach Indians agriculture, and that Indian labor be employed on\nall reservations.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nCHINESE NOTES.\n\nGovernor Irwin, of California, has urged the Legislature of that\nState to memorialize Congress that it is the duty of the United\nStates Government to prevent unlimited Chinese immigration. The\nState Senate has forwarded such a document. The Memorial says, that\nthe 180,000 Chinamen constitute one sixth of the population of\nCalifornia, pay less than one-four-hundredth of the State revenue,\nand send back to China $180,000,000 annually ($1,000 each); that\nthey have no families here; that not one has been converted to\na Christian faith or way of living; that the cheapness of their\nlabor, owing to their cheap living, stops American and European\nimmigration, and interferes with the development of the State; that\nif not interfered with, they will ultimately drive out white labor,\nand leave only masters and serfs on the Pacific Coast.\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe \u201cChinese Six Companies\u201d make a representation on their own\naccount, calling attention to the fact that, since the treaty,\nthe United States Government has received from China nearly\n$800,000 indemnity for outrages on American citizens and their\nproperty, while in not one case in fifty of similar offenses\nagainst themselves have the perpetrators been brought to justice.\nIn the July riots in San Francisco, when upward of thirty Chinese\nlaundries and dwellings were raided, some burned, one Chinaman\nkilled, and his body thrown into the flames, not one arrest was\nmade by the authorities, State or municipal. They say that for\ntwenty-five years the emigration has not averaged over 4,000\nannually. They reiterate what they said to the chairman of the\nlate Chinese Congressional Commission, the late Senator Morton,\nin a communication addressed to him\u2014\u201cThat if the restricting the\nemigration of our people to this free country would have a tendency\nto allay the fears of the timid, and protect our people in their\njust rights, we would give our aid and countenance to any measure\nto that end.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\nIf the assertion of the California Senate, in its memorial to\nCongress, that \u201cthere is no evidence that a single Chinaman has\nbeen converted to Christianity, or has been persuaded to adopt\nChristian manners and habits of life,\u201d is a fair sample of the\ntruthfulness of the statements of that document, it offers a very\nweak foundation on which to base a legislative enactment. This we\nknow to be false. Those who have read our monthly letters from\nMr. Pond will not need to be reminded that more than a hundred in\nour schools alone are now giving convincing evidence that they\nare Christian men, and that not simply in name, but in deed and\nin truth; and that a large number have united to establish and\nmaintain a Christian home for the expressed purpose of adopting\nChristian manners and habits of life. We are regretfully compelled\nto doubt the familiarity of California Senators with the progress\nof Christian missions in their own State. Are their other \u201cfacts\u201d\nno truer than this?\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nBOOK NOTICE.\n\nETHIOPIA, _or Twenty Years of Missionary Life in Western Africa_.\nBy Rev. D. K. Flickinger.\n\nAs indicated in the title, the author of this modest volume has had\nlong experience as a missionary of the United Brethren to Africa.\nTheir mission station is near our own, and its story sheds light\non our work. With no pretension to literary or artistic merit, a\nvery simple and vivid description is given of the people of the\nnorth-western coast, their homes, their houses, their food, their\ndress (or lack of it), their sleep, their work, their war, their\nplay. The grossness of their polygamy, the superstition of their\nfaith in gree-grees, and their Purrow society (an Oriental Ku Klux\nKlan) are exposed.\n\nWe extract the account of the legend current among the Mendi tribe,\nas to the order of the creation of the races, and their explanation\nof their differences. The story runs thus:\n\n\u201cGod made white man early in the morning, and take plenty time to\nshow him book palaver [how to read], and God palaver [a knowledge\nof the Gospel], and how to make plenty fine things. Then he tell\nhim go. Next he make Mohammedan man, and show him little book\npalaver, and how to make some fine things, and then he tell him\ngo. After this he make Mendi man, and showed him how to farm, make\ncountry cloth, mats, canoes, and such like things; and then he tell\nhim go. In the last place, he make Sherbro man; and when he get him\ndone, the sun go down, and he had no time to show him anything but\nmake salt and catch fish, but promised to come back and show him\nmore things. But he forgot to do it, and that the reason Sherbro\nman know so little.\u201d\n\nOver against this we quote an old negro\u2019s prayer:\n\n\u201cO God, you must remember me. You must make my heart clean; make me\nno hate nobody; you made me; all my mind then to you. Please God,\nyou must show me how for pray, because I don\u2019t know how.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA.\n\nRevival Work in Church and School.\n\nMISS E. W. DOUGLASS, MCLEANSVILLE.\n\nI must tell you the good news. Our protracted meeting is over,\nand it has, indeed, been a glorious time. Never did I witness\nanything like it before. I was so busy talking with inquirers,\nthat I could not keep any account of the number converted. I can\nnow think of twenty. Last Sabbath Mr. Welker was with us, and we\nhad our communion season. Twenty-seven were added to the church,\nand two others were restored who have been wandering. Fifteen were\nbaptized\u2014of these, eight were recent converts. The others were\nfruits of a previous revival. One woman who wished to join us last\nSabbath could not, as she desired to be immersed. She is to be\nbaptized next Sabbath.\n\nAfter sermon at each meeting, the inquirers were invited to go into\nmy rooms for instruction, while the meeting continued in the large\nroom. My rooms were filled every night, and many were weeping who\ncould not go in for want of room. As soon as one was converted and\ncame out, another took the place. There were very few unmoved in\nthe house.\n\nOutsiders came in and made the meetings too noisy at times, but\nwe had less confusion than usual when such crowds gather. Our own\ncongregation were willing to abide by our rules, and they helped to\nrestrain others.\n\nTen of those who united with the church were from my Sabbath-school\nclass. Fourteen others were heads of families. Seven infants were\nbaptized, all from those families. Mr. Ingle was with us all the\nweek, and had no outside help except last Sabbath. He came over and\npreached again last night.\n\nThere are many little ones who are interested; and I feel that the\nLord has given me much work in caring for these lambs.\n\nThe fame of this place has gone abroad, and I think a good teacher\nwill draw a large school this winter. Who are coming? When will\nthey come? The church is in a better state now than it has been for\nyears. Those who needed discipline have most of them come back to\nduty.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nRevival in the University.\n\nREV. C. W. FRANCIS, ATLANTA.\n\nWe have never had more occasion for thanksgiving in this school\nthan in the season just past, on account of the work of the Lord\namong us. A deep solemnity has pervaded the school since the\nopening of the term, and every week some have been coming to\nChrist. On account of the closing of schools in South Carolina,\nquite a number of the young men from the University were led to\nunite with college classes here this year, and nearly all these\nhave been converted. May we not believe that it was by special\nDivine leading that they were brought to this place at this time?\nThere has been no interruption of regular work, and no special\nservices have been held, but the Lord has blessed richly the\nordinary means of grace, and in His own way has been gathering in\nthe precious harvest. Five members of the junior class have been\nbrought, as we hope, to Christ, and are seeking the best places\nand ways of serving Him. There are left only two or three, who are\nnot followers of Christ, while most of those in the higher classes\nhave already been brought in. We seek the continuance of this\nblessing all the year, and the ingathering of the whole school.\nThere was never a more auspicious time to work in this field, so\nfar as spiritual results are concerned, and \u201cthe regions beyond\u201d\nwere never more accessible or more needy than at present. May\nthe sympathies, aid and prayers of good people be continued and\nincreased!\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nA Church Organized\u2014Other Churches Revived.\n\nREV. E. P. LORD, TALLADEGA.\n\nI have thought for some time I would try to do less, and tell you\nmore about it. But the things to be done are nearer at hand and\nmore exacting.\n\nThe Sabbath before school opened I went into the country, eight\nmiles from here. One of the students had been working there during\nthe vacation, teaching day-school, without receiving enough to\npay his board, carrying on a very successful S. S., and holding\nmeetings. I believe twelve had shown a change of heart and life.\nNearly one hundred people met in and around a log schoolhouse\nhardly large enough to hold half the number. Those outside,\nhowever, were about as favorably situated as those within, for\nthe crevices between the logs were about as large as the logs\nthemselves. A Congregational church, of six men and women, was\norganized. Three others expected to unite with them, but were kept\naway that day. Four or five more will unite soon, and we have\nreason to expect a vigorous church there. It is one of the best and\nlargest neighborhoods in the region, and the people have already\nset to work upon a church building. The next Sabbath I was there\nagain, and baptized six persons.\n\nLast Sabbath I went up to Anniston, twenty-five miles away, where\nanother student is in charge of the Congregational church. There\nhave been twenty-one conversions in this church during the summer.\nI immersed nine, baptized nine by sprinkling, and received nineteen\ninto the church. The little church building was crowded to its\nutmost capacity in the evening, hardly room enough being left upon\nthe platform for the speaker. The church and parsonage adjoining,\nfinished and painted with taste, clean and tidy inside and out,\nas well as the energetic and faithful pastor and his wife, and\ntheir earnest, quiet, decorous people, remind one of a New England\nvillage church. The contrast with most of the neighboring churches\nis very marked.\n\nI go again next Sabbath to Childersburg, twenty miles south, to\nbaptize and receive into that church quite a number of converts.\n\nThe school is unusually full this term, and the spirit of the\npupils is marked by all of us.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nA New Pastorate\u2014\u201cPauses\u201d in Prayer Meetings not yet Introduced.\n\nREV. CHARLES NOBLE, MONTGOMERY.\n\nI have seen all my people in their homes now, and some of them\nrepeatedly, have had a crowded and very pleasant reception at the\n\u201cHome,\u201d and begin to feel as if I knew the ground. I see great\nreason for encouragement. We have 60 members on the ground whom I\ncan find, and who seem to be quite as consistent as the average\nchurch members at the North. This, out of a list of 77, seems to\nme a pretty good showing. Half of the absentee list is accounted\nfor by the former teachers who have not taken their letters,\nand students at Atlanta and Talladega. I have more reliable\n\u201cprayer-meeting\u201d members in proportion to our number than most\npastors enjoy. _\u201cPauses\u201d in the prayer meeting_ have not yet been\nintroduced. The majority of Christians who come to prayer-meeting\nat all seem to take it for granted that they must take an active\npart in carrying it forward; and the majority, male and female, do\nso with great acceptance. They are free from the \u201cShame-facedness\u201d\nof Northern Christians about religious activity; and have not\nyet fallen into any routine ways. Of course they are generally\nignorant; but I find their spiritual exercises very quickening and\nhelpful to me. In this respect the work is very delightful. We\nsustain two prayer meetings every week, at the church Wednesday\nevening, and from house to house Monday evening; and I have begun a\nyoung people\u2019s meeting Sunday evening half an hour before regular\nservice, which opens with good promise. The Lord has given us one\nsoul as a pledge of His readiness to bless. A bright, promising\nyoung girl has been seeking Christ for a long time, but has been\nhindered by the general superstitious notion that she must have a\n_vision_ or tangible evidence of God having heard her prayers. She\nhas finally been persuaded to trust God, and try to walk by faith,\nand has found peace in believing. So we can already set up our\nEbenezer, and go forward.\n\nOutside of the direct church work I am impressed with two things\nespecially. First, that a good number of the people are making\nsubstantial progress in material things. They show a very healthy\ntendency to seek the outskirts of the city, and to obtain homes\nof their own. Montgomery is girdled all around with little\ncottages (not very fine, to be sure, but a vast improvement on the\nplantation cabins), which they have built on land bought with their\nsavings since Emancipation. The Democratic Legislature a year ago\ntook advantage of this fact, and, by drawing in the city limits,\nchanged Montgomery from a Republican to a Democratic town, throwing\nout a thousand colored votes. This shows the extent of the movement.\n\nThe second thing which has struck me, is the improvement in the\nold churches; or rather the evident straining after something\nbetter. There cannot be _much_ change while the present generation\nof ignorant preachers survives; but the changes recently have all\nbeen for the better, and a new Baptist organization has just been\nstarted among the people themselves with no outside persuasion,\nwith the avowed purpose of securing an educated minister and\nmaintaining better discipline. It is an interesting fact that the\nleaders in this last movement are all men who have been in close\nrelations with our church and its work. I think our Northern\nfriends need have no fear of the effect upon our principles of\n_Southern kindness_ here in Montgomery. The white people let us\nseverely alone, unless they can make a little money out of us. The\nPresbyterian Pastor, Dr. Petrie, has, called upon me; but, besides\nthat, our only visits have been from business men who wanted\npatronage.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTENNESSEE.\n\nLe Moyne Normal School\u2014The Year Begins Well.\n\nMISS L. A. PARMELEE, MEMPHIS.\n\nThe first month of school has closed with a larger attendance than\nduring the corresponding month one year ago, while the class of\nstudents is much superior in every respect. This is especially true\nof the young men from other places who attend Le Moyne for the\nfirst time. They enter the advanced classes and have capacity for\nmore rapid progress than we have been accustomed to find.\n\nWe regret the absence of many girls, who prefer teaching to\nthoroughly fitting themselves for their work. With very limited\nqualifications, they secure positions in country schools, where\nthey doubtless do fair work for present needs. Some time, they will\nsee the mistake of not pursuing their studies further.\n\nOur Thursday evening family readings have been resumed. This week\nthe Alumni joined us. When two or three guests have come, it\nhas been the habit to have an author designated, but this time\nthe circle was so large it was thought best to invite each to\ncontribute any selection he chose. The first offering was Joseph\nCook\u2019s remarks upon uneducated suffrage in the South. It provoked\nvery earnest discussion. Every one was surprised at Mr. Cook\u2019s\nfamiliarity with the true condition of affairs. A young man who has\ntaught in the neighborhood, was inclined to dispute the educational\nstatistics. \u201cGo out into the country and you will find that most of\nthe children can read a little,\u201d was one remark. He admitted the\nignorance of the adults. He is certainly mistaken in applying his\nstatement to the country at large, however true it may be of the\nregion within a radius of thirty miles from this city.\n\nHis hopefulness concerning the children is an offset to the report\nof another young man teaching forty-five miles away, where the\nchildren in Sabbath School could not tell who betrayed Christ, or\nanswer similarly easy questions. I think it is the same place\nwhere the minister told his people, in a vivid description of the\nFlood, that \u201cthe rain drops fell as large as a flour barrel.\u201d\n\nOur student teachers have generally accomplished excellent\nwork during vacation. Some of the least promising have shown\ncapabilities which surprised us.\n\nWe commence the year with hope as to the intellectual progress to\nbe attained, and trembling over the spiritual condition of the\nschool. Several of the active Christians, heretofore leaders,\ndo not return to us. Their influence is missed. The new element\nis earnest and determined so far as lessons and deportment are\nconcerned, but indifferent towards higher interests. Yet, even as\nI write, there is a gentle movement, as if the south wind were\nblowing upon the garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTENNESSEE STATE TEACHERS\u2019 INSTITUTE.\n\nPROF. A. K. SPENCE, FISK UNIVERSITY.\n\nI think it may be a matter of interest to you and the readers of\nthe MISSIONARY to know that, last winter, an organization was\nformed here called the State Teachers\u2019 Institute. Its object is the\npromotion of education, and especially that of the colored people\nin Tennessee and adjoining territory. It embraces in its membership\nall those engaged in the work of colored education who may choose\nto join it. It unites all the forces so engaged in a general\neducational effort for lifting up the common schools, by improving\nthose who teach them. It operates in accordance with the views of\nthe State Superintendent of Education, by whom it is endorsed and\nto whom it reports.\n\nThe plan was first proposed by this institution, and the Methodist\nand Baptist institutions located here heartily responded. It thus\nforms a bond of union and a way of co-operation long felt to be\ndesirable on the part of schools of learning occupying the same\nground. It also unites these with the public schools, and combines\nall educational forces in the work among the freedmen.\n\nDuring the summer, sixteen local institutes were held in Tennessee\nand North Alabama, with a total attendance of five hundred\nteachers. These institutes continued two or three days each and\nvaried in attendance from fifteen to seventy-five each day. Two\nsessions were held in the day time, and one at night. The day\nsessions were for the professional instruction of teachers of\nschools. This was done by lectures, class drills and the like,\nadapting those exercises to circumstances and persons, aiming\nalways at practical benefit to the teachers present. The sessions\nat night were made popular gatherings in the interest of education\nand sought to reach the masses. Men of influence, both white and\ncolored, in the various localities, were invited to make addresses.\nGood music was provided when it was possible. One speaker called it\n_an educational revival_. This is what we sought to make it. This\nis what I think it was.\n\nAs you may suppose, there were many obstacles in the way of this\ngood work\u2014ignorance as to what an institute is, prejudice of\nwhite and colored, the sickly season of the year and the previous\nexhaustion of those who gave instruction. These were men who, in\nordinary circumstances, should have been resting after the toils of\nthe last school year in preparation for those of the year to come.\n\nAll sorts of misconception must be met. Frequently the lecturers\narrived at the place, and found almost no one there. Yet by singing\nand speaking and work generally, success would come at last, but\nwith an immense outlay of effort.\n\nIn other cases the house would be packed with people, but scarcely\na teacher there. They came on horseback and muleback and in wagons\nand on foot, bringing their children and dinners with them, to stay\nall day. The infants were passed from one to another as nurses grew\ntired, or were quietly palleted on the floor or toddled about among\nthe feet of the people.\n\nWhat should be done with an institute like that? Turn the people\naway? By no means. The teachers present were taught how to teach\nby seeing these people taught the alphabet, and how to count and\nthe like. One thing never failed\u2014rote singing. Oh, what a wealth\nof music in voice and ear lies in this people! And it was a study\nfor an artist to see those earnest dark faces, with their great,\ndreamy eyes, as they peered in at the portals of the temple of\nknowledge so long closed against them, and just got a glimpse of\nthe glory beyond, and knew, if they themselves could not enter,\ntheir children might. Many a parent vowed then that his child\nshould go to Fisk University or Central Tennessee College, or the\nBaptist Institute, as the crowded halls of these institutions,\nfilled almost to bursting, now testify. I think that some of these\nstrange, nondescript institutes were, perhaps, our best.\n\nOne case of zeal I may not omit. A man came seventeen miles across\nthe country, staid the first day, and at the close of the night\nsession, about eleven o\u2019clock, started for home, woke up his\nfriends and neighbors, and was back with them by nine the next\nmorning. And, oh, the hand-shakings, and the God-bless-yous! Who\nwould not be willing to re-enlist in so good a work?\n\nBut it was hard work. Night sessions could not begin till nine,\nor later, as the people could not be got together sooner, and so\nwe were up till eleven or twelve. Add to this the thermometer in\nthe nineties and up to a hundred, small rooms, impure air and many\nother things, and no wonder if nearly every one of the workers\nsuffered.\n\nAs to actual expenses for travel, &c., we expect to get them from\nthe Peabody Fund. They were only between two and three hundred\ndollars. We were, for the most part, kept free of expense,\nsometimes at hotels and sometimes in families, white or colored.\nThis we left for the colored people of the place to decide. They\ngenerally thought it best for the cause that we stop with white\npeople. We made some friends in that way whom it is pleasant to\nhave.\n\nWe let politics alone, but kept ourselves to education; still,\nbeing Christian educators, we often preached Jesus. In one case a\nrevival meeting was resumed each day at the close of the institute.\n\nI have written thus minutely, thinking that our experience may\nlead A. M. A. workers to go and do likewise in other States. Great\nmasses of our school teachers can never come to us. We must go to\nthem.\n\nBut, dear Secretary, do not work us so hard in our schools that\nthere will be nothing of us left for this or any other of the many\nthings we see to do about us, that need so much to be done.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTWO SIMPLE RULES.\n\n We welcome with peculiar pleasure the volume just issued by\n our old friend and co-laborer, Rev. J. P. Thompson, D.D., the\n former pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle. It consists of six\n lectures delivered in the leading cities of the continent during\n the Centennial year. It is entitled \u201cThe United States as a\n Nation.\u201d Among many valuable things which it contains, we select\n the following extract, giving from this life-long friend of the\n colored race his counsel as to their treatment by the government\n and their treatment of themselves:\n\n\u201c1. Let the general government refrain from all further legislation\nor interference on behalf of the negro as such. If riots arise that\nthe State authorities cannot quell, the National Government, duly\ninvoked, should interfere, to preserve the public peace; and also,\nif necessary, it should use the arm of power to sustain the courts\nin putting down injustice, outrage and wrong, by the arm of the\nlaw. But all this without making a point of caring for the negro in\ndistinction from any other man; for the best way of caring for the\nnegro is to cease to know him as a negro, and to treat him always\nand only as a man. Above all, should the government refrain from\nlegislating upon social customs, instincts and prejudices. A legal\ninjustice can be done away by law; a moral wrong, in the form of\novert action, can be dealt with by law; but a taste, a sentiment,\na feeling, an instinct, a prejudice\u2014these pass the bounds of all\nlegislation; and the attempt to rectify or regulate these by law\nserves only to irritate opposition. At these points human nature\nhas much in common with the porcupine.\n\n\u201c2. The black race should be taught that they are to depend upon\nthemselves. Having freedom, schools, the rights of citizens\nguaranteed by law, and the inducement to self-culture presented\nby opportunities of political action, they should be made to feel\nthat their future is in their own hands; that, if they would rise\nto a position of respect and of responsibility as men, they must\nshow themselves to be men. There is no other way for any race. If\nthey cannot do this, they must go under. If they will not do this,\nthey ought to go under. But no one who knows the negro race in\nAmerica can doubt, that with time on their side, and patience and\njustice toward them on the part of others, they will rise to the\nfull measure of their opportunities, and, with their capacity for\nwork, their docility, their kindliness, their adaptivity, their\nmirthfulness, their religious faith, will form as good a part as\nany in the social system of the future. Time, patience, justice,\nwill cause the friction of races to disappear in the working of the\nAmerican system of harmonized humanity.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nEXTRACTS FROM DR. PATTON\u2019S INAUGURAL ADDRESS.\n\nAs \u201cthere is no royal road to learning\u201d to suit dullards of kingly\nbirth, so no peculiar and accommodating pathway to wealth and\npower, to civilization and culture, opens before those of African\ndescent. Their own expectations, and the efforts of those who would\nassist them, must be based simply on their manhood. It is only as\nthis shall be developed and brought to bear upon life\u2019s duties\nand opportunities, that progress can be made in outward condition\nand in the estimation of mankind. There are no sudden results\nto be secured by artificial means. Neither special legislation,\nnor military protection, nor favor extended by those in power,\nnor the peculiar regard and effort of philanthropists, will, of\nthemselves, avail to procure the abolition of caste-feeling, and\nthe elevation of the colored people to an entire equality with the\nwhites. The effects of ages of slavery are not to be removed in a\nday, by a mere legislative vote. An amendment to the Constitution\nalters no fact of ignorance, of poverty, of moral debasement.\nThe prejudices of the whites, descending through generations,\nimbibed by individuals in infancy, and strengthened by universal\nsentiment, practice, and association of ideas, cannot be easily\nand soon overcome, and are not, so far as feeling is concerned,\nwholly within the power of volition, so as to be annihilated at\nwill. They will vanish gradually in the presence of increasing\nevidence of a noble manhood. Developed intellectual power, the\nhigher education, success in industrial pursuits, the acquirement\nof wealth and culture and character, will cause them to disappear\nas the sun does the heavy, chilly, obscuring mists which night\ngenerates in the valleys. When I deposit a gold coin on the table,\nit commands a certain degree of respect. No one is obliged to argue\nin its behalf. It speaks for itself. Having intrinsic value and\nthe added stamp of the national mint, it represents so many grains\nof precious metal and their equivalent in whatever money will buy.\nHence everybody welcomes it, and looks upon it with regard. Will\nthe result not be analogous, when the colored man shall be seen to\nhave an intrinsic value equal to that of the white man? When one\nshall no longer associate with him the ideas of bondage, pauperism,\nand barbarism, but those of freedom, prosperity, intelligence, and\nculture; when he shall not only carry in his person the stamp of\nAmerican citizenship, but shall come out from a university training\na scholar and a gentleman, like a glittering coin from the die?\n\n * * * * *\n\nEvery case which is at all parallel, confirms the validity of our\nreasoning. The classical scholar will, perhaps, remember that\nCicero, in writing to one of his friends, advises him, when he\nhas occasion to purchase a slave, not to buy one of those stupid\nBritons. Doubtless, after the Roman wars in Britain, thousands of\ncaptives had been sent to Italy and exposed for sale, according\nto ancient custom; and those who bought them had learned that\nthey were intellectually inferior to slaves obtained from other\nsources. Why does a Briton no longer bear such a reputation?\nBecause generations of favorable influences have brought him out of\nthe barbaric condition in which he then was, and have educated him\ninto the representative of civilization.\n\n * * * * *\n\nThere can be no reasonable doubt that educational forces, rightly\nbrought to bear upon the colored people, will in time work a change\nin the matter of prejudice; which is only partially an incident\nof difference of feature and complexion, and is principally a\nmanifestation of caste-pride.\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe only certain corrective for this evil is general and\nspecial education, which shall raise the average intelligence\nof the masses, so as to make them more capable and independent\nin their judgments of men and measures, and which shall also\nprovide appropriate leaders, worthy of their confidence, from\namong themselves. These leaders must be such as naturally come\nto the front in organized and cultivated society\u2014the men in\nall professions and pursuits who to native talent add superior\neducation. There must be a speedy addition of cultivated mind to\nthe colored population if it is to be saved from follies which will\nbe fatal. That grade of mind must operate not only directly and\npurposely through public addresses and by the press, but in all\nthose quiet, incidental, and unconscious ways of daily and hourly\nintercourse, which are equally, or even more, effective. Hence we\nmust have colored lawyers, physicians, editors, authors, clergymen,\nartists, statesmen, and teachers, whose attainments shall be equal\nto those of white men in similar occupations, and whose expressed\nopinions shall have just weight with their race, on the various\nmooted questions which may arise in Church and State.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nFORT BERTHOLD, DAKOTA TERRITORY.\n\nA Discouraging First View. School Teaching and Brick Making.\nIncreasing Hope.\n\nE. H. ALDEN, INDIAN AGENT.\n\nMy work here since January has been incessant, and unprecedented\nin trial and difficulty in all my experience. I can labor on the\nwild frontier of Minnesota, organize Sunday-schools and churches,\nand labor with my own hands in the erection of meeting houses,\nwith the mercury more than 30\u00b0 below zero. But harder still it\nis to have the burden of care for 1,200 savages, bowed down by\nsuperstition and sin, through whom the rough ploughshare of the\nmost degraded and vile white civilization has been driven for the\nlast fifty years. With the prejudice of Indians against all agents\nto overcome, the strife arising from the desire to _make money_, in\nconflict with the desire to promote the highest and best welfare\nof the Indian, in our very midst, the underground whiskey traffic,\nwith the vilest of all whites to encounter\u2014these were barriers\nrequiring time and pluck to overcome. Added to this, the red-tape\nof the department, making one always feel the force of the Latin\nwords\u2014\u201c_Incidet in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim._\u201d\n\nThe time for forwarding my report for your anniversary came when\nthis deep, dark gulf of difficulty first opened to my view, and the\nletter that I then wrote, but did not send, had scarcely a gleam of\nhope for these savages. I am glad it was not sent. Since then, I\nhave been laboring to overcome the difficulties, and I believe it\nis possible to do what I then thought was impossible. I have just\ncome in from visiting our school of 40 Indian boys and girls, in\nthe new schoolhouse we have built this summer. It was a pleasant\nsight. Miss Briggs has care of the Arickarees, and Miss Calhoun,\nMissionary of the A. B. C. F. M., has care of the Grosventres and\nMandans, both excellent Christian young ladies, who guarantee\nsuccess. Not far away is a new building for Indian supplies,\n120\u00d720; and at the new agency a barn 400\u00d722, just completed. And\nnear by is a pile of superior brick, which the Indians have aided\nin manufacturing, in the face of obstacles to overcome in the clay,\nprobably unprecedented in the history of brick making.\n\nWhile I am writing, \u201cSon of the Star,\u201d chief of the Arickarees, an\nintelligent, sensible man, comes in and gives me the shake of his\nfriendly hand\u2014one of the great majority of all the tribes who now\nlook up to me with confidence as their friend and \u201cchief.\u201d All this\nassures me that the Indian can be civilized and Christianized.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\u201cCALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\u201d\n\nAuxiliary to the American Missionary Association.\n\nPRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L.\nStone, D. D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon.\nF. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S.\nH. Willey, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D.,\nJacob S. Taber, Esq.\n\nDIRECTORS: Rev. George Moor, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. W. E.\nIjams, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, E. P. Sanford,\nEsq., H. W. Severance, Esq.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\n\nREV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nBy virtue of a tacit understanding, a place is given, year by year,\nin the course of the meetings of our General Association, for the\nAnniversary of \u201cThe California Chinese Mission.\u201d This meeting was\naccordingly held this year at Sacramento, October 12th. It shared\nwith the American Home Missionary Society the evening service. A\nlarge congregation was present. Rev. J. K. McLean, D.D., president\nof the mission, occupied the chair, and conducted the devotional\nexercises. The reports of the Treasurer and of the Directors, (some\nof the main points of which may be found in the Annual Report of\nthe A. M. A.), were read by the Secretary, and stirring addresses\nwere made by our helper, Mr. Fung Affoo, and by Rev. Joseph Lanman,\nof Woodland, and Rev. Martin Post, of Stockton. A very satisfactory\ntoken of the interest of the meeting appeared in the goodly number\nand generous amount of the offerings received.\n\n\nTHE GENERAL ASSOCIATION ON THE CHINESE QUESTION.\n\nThe action of our General Association on the Chinese question has\nexcited attention and surprise among our Eastern friends. I am not\nprepared to defend it, and do not believe that it is defensible.\nYet it was not so bad as to the spirit that prompted it, nor so\nbad in itself as to our Eastern friends it will naturally seem\nto be. The mistake was in meddling with a question on which we\ncould scarcely speak at all without being misunderstood. The\nresolutions adopted were three: the first, in emphatic terms,\nrebuked lawlessness and riot; the second, in terms equally\nemphatic, endorsed the missionary work among the Chinese; the third\nset forth the perils attending Chinese immigration, and urged some\nmodification of the Burlingame treaty and the adoption of any other\njust measures which may restrict this immigration. The fault and\nthe danger is, not so much in what was really said, as in what will\nnaturally and easily be inferred. For the first two resolutions\nwill be taken as practically meaningless;\u2014designed simply to\nsmooth the way for the last: while the last will be interpreted as\na surrender on the part of Christian people to the hoodlum element;\na cowardly backsliding of Congregationalists in California from\nthe position as up-holders of the liberties and rights of men,\nwhich our churches here and elsewhere held so bravely in the years\ngone by. The following extracts from a paragraph in the _Pacific_,\ntruthfully represents, as I believe, the real sentiments of the\nAssociation:\n\n\u201cChristians in all parts of our land have long felt that, if any\n\u2018_just_\u2019 method could be found of restricting immigration, whether\nEuropean or Mongolian, our country\u2019s future would be less full of\nperil. But they have not felt that, for this purpose, it could be\nsafe to violate the inalienable rights of men, or contradict those\ntruths which our forefathers declared to be _self-evident_, and\nwhich constitute the very vitals of our body politic. And in this\nview, as we humbly believe, our General Association would be found\nin unanimous accord with Christian people elsewhere in our land.\u201d\n\n\nTHE WORK.\n\nThe story of hindrance from cruel race-antipathies has been so\noften told of late, that to continue it would be tedious. But the\nhindrance still exists, and what with the meetings of so-called\n\u201cworkingmen,\u201d held every evening to nurse a mob-spirit, and the\nperpetual droppings of venom from our daily press, we cannot tell\nwhen it will be removed. \u201cNevertheless, the foundation of God\nstandeth sure, having this seal: The Lord knoweth them that are\nHis.\u201d And while the attendance on our schools is diminished, and\none of them is for the time suspended, still the Spirit finds and\nsaves His own. At our next communion in Bethany Church, we are\nexpecting to baptize and welcome to membership five Chinese; and\nseveral others, as I understand, will soon present their names to\nthe First Church in Oakland. We do not hasten this step. All who\nare thus received, have been on probation in the Association of\nChristian Chinese, for six months or more, and they come before the\nchurch only when recommended by vote of their brethren. Meanwhile,\nothers are listening; and we hope to reap our harvests even in\nthe midst of the storm. Mrs. Denton, writing from Sacramento,\nsays: \u201cOur school has been one of unusual interest this past month\n(October). \u2018He leadeth me,\u2019 seems to be the choice song of my\npupils. After singing it last evening, I explained it to them:\u2014how\nGod leads us by his word and love, through care, sickness, sorrow,\ndeath, on towards heaven. All were _so attentive_, that I felt\nsorry to see the hour-hand pointing to nine. The harvest truly is\nripe.\u201d Another teacher writes: \u201cTo those engaged in the work, every\nweek gives fresh proof of the power of the simple truths of the\nBible to reach the heart, and elevate and purify the life. They\nsay, \u2018I hear about God\u2019s love for us all\u2014how Jesus came to die to\nsave us\u2014that is something new. Then when I hear He with us all the\ntime, ready to hear and help us, I think it much better to pray to\nHim than to idols; and now I pray to Jesus; I _know_ He helps me.\u2019\nIt is the unanimous testimony, when asked what they pray for, \u2018I\npray Jesus help me do right\u2014to know more about the right way.\u2019 So\nwe are not disheartened, for surely they that be with us are more\nthan they that be against us.\u201d\n\nWords of cheer from other quarters might be cited, but I fear that\nI have trespassed already too much upon your space.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nPROTECTION BY DEVELOPMENT.\n\nBY REV. C. H. RICHARDS.\n\nThere are two methods of protection against dangers that threaten\nfrom without. One is the artificial method that builds up walls of\ndefence on the outside. The other is the vital and Divine method\nthat develops inward power enough to ensure safety. God braces the\noak against the storms, not by outward props, but by growth of\ninward strength. He gives a man successful life, not by providing a\nnurse to carry and feed him half a century, but by teaching him the\nart of self-development, which makes him capable and masterly.\n\nIn the great problem of Southern reconstruction, which is so\nslowly being solved, two parties feel themselves in danger. The\ncolored man finds himself at an immense disadvantage amid the\nprejudices, the ambitions, the wider experience, the superior\nknowledge and skill of the whites. The old yoke is removed, but\nhis new life is oppressed with a thousand petty exactions, which\nthe strong are always able to make upon the weak. With the ballot\nthrust into his hands, he hardly knows how to use it wisely, and\nsuspects that it may be snatched from him again.\n\nNow this outward guardianship of law and force has been needed;\njust as the transplanted flower needs special shelter and the\nupholding aid of the stick to which it is tied, _until_ its\nvital power can build it into independent strength. It is still\nnecessary, to a certain degree, though God\u2019s providence is fast\nshowing us that law and force can do but a transient work for the\nrace, and must soon be superseded by something better; and that\nsomething better is the development of the colored man himself into\nwisdom, and capability, and moral power.\n\nThe only permanent safety for the blacks is in their intellectual\nand religious education. A weak race, helpless in its ignorance and\ncorrupted by immorality, will always be kept down. The ambitious\nand intense desires of those who are wiser and stronger will\ntake advantage of its weakness, and will crowd it to the wall.\nNo legislation can prevent the working of this natural law in\nthe struggle for prosperity. But a strong race, with vigorous,\nwell-disciplined minds, balanced with virtue, will always hold its\nown in the world. Cobden used to say that he must see a Turkish\nship, wholly built, equipt and manned by Turks, sailing from a\nTurkish port, and freighted with genuine products of Turkish\nmanufactures; and then, and not till then, would he believe in\nPalmerston\u2019s dream of Turkish regeneration. So when the colored man\nshows by his deeds that he is able to do all that a white man can\ndo, he will hold his footing of equality secure. The race is to be\ntested by results.\n\nThe political safety and social elevation of the negro race depend\non the resolution, patience and enterprise with which it takes up\nthis work of self-development. And the only way the friends of\nthe black man can permanently protect him, is to help him gain\nthis inward power. The primer and the Testament, well used, will\nbe a better paladium than Congressional enactments. The grammar\nschools and colleges, the industrial and theological schools, and\nthe churches, where a more reasonable and sober religion may be\ntaught them, will do more to secure their rights as freemen than a\nstanding army can do.\n\nThe other party, looking out for \u201crocks ahead,\u201d is the nation\nitself. Victorious in the struggle for its very existence, it\nhas been ever since in constant perplexity as to the way of\nreadjustment which would make its future safe. For a dozen years\nthe Southern question has been one of commanding interest and\nmomentous importance. The wisdom of our statesmen has been taxed to\nthe utmost to avert calamities continually impending. But although\ntime, and the steady purpose of the North to have equal rights\nfor all recognized and enforced everywhere, and the new policy\nof pacification, have done much to change the perilous condition\nof things, and bring quiet, the danger is by no means gone. It\nhas changed its complexion, but it lurks there still. The dense\nignorance, the wide spread immorality, the pride of blood, the\nantagonism of races, the prevalence of mischievous notions about\ncapital and labor, the indolence and \u201cshiftlessness\u201d of great\nnumbers of the working class, the ambitions that will seize and\nmanipulate these diverse elements with shrewdness and trained\nskill, still exist all over the great South, and are likely to make\nit a turbulent caldron of contentious elements for years to come.\nRace conflicts and class feuds are likely to arise, and sectional\nhatreds are ready to break out again, with new danger to the whole\ncountry.\n\nHow can the nation protect itself against such dangers? Only by\nthis method of self-development. The South must become homogeneous\nin itself, and harmonious with the North by the spread of\nintelligence and right principles. Education and a reasonable\nreligion will bring all up to a higher level, break down walls of\ndifference, give broader and better ideas. They would so change\nthe whole structure of Southern society, and unify its various\nelements, that the causes of dissension that now exist would exist\nno longer.\n\nThe American Missionary Association, then, is giving to the colored\nrace its best and only permanent protection. It helps the black\nman to develop his inward power, so that his defence shall be in\nhimself. And its work is the nation\u2019s safeguard, for by promoting\nintelligence, integrity and moral power throughout the South, it\nincreases the elements that alone make a Republic safe. Every\nmotive of philanthropy and patriotism urges us to push forward its\nwork more earnestly.\n\nMADISON, WIS.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nEDUCABILITY OF THE BLACKS.\n\nBY A VIRGINIA COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT.\n\nThe great mistake most people make, in regard to the education\nof the negro, is that too much is expected in a short time.\nEducation in its broad sense is by no means confined to the study\nof text-books, however well these may be learned. It takes a\ngeneration to correct evil tendencies and predilections, and the\nfruits of a systematic course of instruction do not appear at once.\nIt takes time to do this; and not only is this true of the negro\nrace, but of all other races as well. The entire history of our\nforeign missionary efforts goes to prove this. It would be folly to\nargue that no effort should be made to enlighten and Christianize\nthe heathen, because the fruits were not apparent in a few years.\nThis is just the case with the negroes among us. Although they have\nbeen in contact (in a certain sense) with the white race for a\nconsiderable period, yet no systematic or general effort has been\nmade for instructing their minds or educating them in morals.\n\nHaving for the past six or eight years had abundant opportunity\nto compare the relative advantages of our system of public\neducation on the white and colored races, I am free to say that,\nconsidering the advantages of the former over the latter, I am as\nmuch encouraged to go on with the effort to instruct the blacks\nas the whites. It is true that where intellect is concerned, the\nwhite greatly excels, but it is not so with regard to memory. The\ncolored pupil memorizes as rapidly as the white, but lacks the\nfaculty of applying the things learned to everyday life; and I am\nof opinion that this will remain so for a considerable time\u2014till\nhabits of thought and individuality of ideas are educated. A great\ndeal depends upon home influences; and here the colored pupil is\ndecidedly at a disadvantage, and must remain so till home influence\nis changed to a great extent. These are general rules, to which\nthere are noticeable and valuable exceptions. Take, for instance,\nthe graduates of Hampton Normal School, and they make not only\nbetter men and women in a general sense, but better for every\nspecial calling in after-life. This, however, is due in a great\ndegree to the constant drill, the daily systematic exercises, the\nthoroughly qualified instructors, and to their separation for the\ntime from associations with the vulgar.\n\nIt is gravely contended by some, whose opinions are worth a good\ndeal, that the negro is below the white man because of deficiency\nof cerebral matter, and that an examination of the brain will\ndemonstrate this average deficiency by weight or cubic inches. I\ndo not know whether this is true or not, but this I have observed,\nand have had abundant evidence of, that the average colored pupil\nwill, and does, keep pace in learning with the average white, _if\nthe white associations are the same as the colored_, i.e., if the\nparents and kinsfolk or acquaintances of the white are as ignorant\nand ill-bred as the black. All things being equal, the black will\noutstrip the white in acquiring knowledge and applying it. I have\nnoticed a greater facility for rising above caste in the colored\nyouth than in the white.\n R. W. P.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nCAMPAIGN IN CONNECTICUT.\n\nDIST. SEC\u2019Y, POWELL OF CHICAGO.\n\nPerhaps it may interest some of the \u201cMISSIONARY\u2019S\u201d readers to learn\na little concerning the speaking campaign in which Rev. G. D. Pike,\nRev. Temple Cutler, of Chattanooga, and myself, have been engaged\nthe past few weeks in Connecticut. For the gratification of such I\nsend you the following sketch:\n\nOur first meeting was a convention\u2014Greenwich the place, and the\nafternoon of Tuesday, Oct. 30, the time. We met in the church; the\naudience was small but representative, and as our object was to\ntalk to people whose _weight_ rather than number was to be taken\ninto the account, we had no reason to complain of our send-off.\nFour churches greeted us in this meeting. Rev. Chas. R. Treat,\nson of the late revered Secretary of the American Board, gave us\ncordial welcome, and spoke words of hearty endorsement of our work\nand mission. At Norwalk we held a convention similar in character,\nand, so far as appearances went, similar in results. Rev. Messrs.\nHamilton, Dunning and Bradford were present, and despite a\nrain storm that had set in with violence and long continuing\ndetermination, we had a good audience. \u201cCome again,\u201d said the\nbrethren, \u201cand you shall have a rousing reception\u201d\u2014a remark which\nin substance we heard at many other places, and a remark which I\ninterpret to mean\u2014\u201cYou can count on us as co-workers with you in\nyour grand work.\u201d There is inspiration in such interpretation, and\nwith such co-workers as Norwalk and South Norwalk contain, we can\nrightfully jot down our visit to Norwalk as a success.\n\nOur next meeting was in Danbury, the home of the \u201cNews-Man.\u201d We\ndid not notice that he was present, and, for that matter, we could\nhardly see that there was any other man. Nobody was to blame. The\n_dryness_ of the news-man\u2019s jokes, I presume, has had such an\neffect upon the citizens of Danbury that they have not even the\nordinary love of mortals for wet weather; but, were it otherwise,\nthey were excusable for not coming out \u201cto hear about missions\u201d on\nthat particular night. Noah\u2019s Deluge was distantly suggested by\nthat terrible and incessant down-pour of rain. We went through with\nour meeting, however, and it did seem as though Brother Cutler,\nextracting courage out of desperation, was bound to do his very\nbest. The memory of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, beneath\nwhose frowning battlements stands his home at Chattanooga, must\nhave been vivid, for \u201che carried the night.\u201d Rev. Mr. Hough, just\nhome from Detroit and Syracuse, weary from the long journey, and\nsuffering from a severe cold, ought to have stayed at home, but his\ndetermination to give us at least an audience of _one_ brought him\nout, even at the peril of his health.\n\nOur first Sabbath was spent in New Haven. At nine o\u2019clock in the\nmorning we met the students of the Theological Seminary. Had I\nremained silent and Mr. Pike taken all the time, the students would\nhave had occasion to be under obligation to me. He was in good\ntrim, full of his subject, and effective in speech. Africa was his\ntheme, and he handled it in such a way as to hold the continuous\nattention of the young men. During the day we spoke in several\nof the pulpits, and in the evening held a \u201cUnion Meeting\u201d in the\nCenter Church, which was well attended. The venerable Dr. Bacon was\nin his chair in the pulpit, as the \u201cEmeritus\u201d pastor of the church;\nRev. Dr. Noble, the present pastor, and Rev. Dr. Hawes, of the\nNorth Church, were also on the platform, while the presence of Rev.\nMessrs. Todd, Williams and other ministers in the audience, showed\nthat it was really a union meeting. The work, needs and claims\nof the A. M. A., I think, were clearly presented and discussed;\nthough, judging from a report in one of the Monday papers, things\nwere rather mixed; for example, one of us was represented as saying\nthat \u201cthe colored people are going down to eternity, and if nothing\nis done by the people in the North they will drag the white people\nwith them\u201d\u2014a very alarming statement surely, and well calculated\nto fire the popular heart, but I cannot find that either of my\ncompanions acknowledges its authorship, and I don\u2019t quite like to\nassume it myself. The reporter must have been experimenting with\na telephone. On Monday, the ministers very kindly accorded us a\nhearing.\n\nWe were indulging the hope that at last we had entered upon\nthe favorable time for our meetings. New Haven had furnished\nus something of a field day, and strong desire, stimulated by\nencouragement, was shooting out into confidence; but that \u201cone\nswallow does not make a summer\u201d\u2014a trite old adage we are in danger\nof forgetting just when we should remember it, was forcefully\nbrought to our minds as we went to New Milford. The storm king came\nout in full force, with wind and rain, to give us welcome, and\nright pitilessly did he continue to rage all the night long. We\nhastily took back all we had thought and said about Danbury. There\nwe had merely a distant suggestion of Noah\u2019s Deluge\u2014here we had an\nadvance section of the genuine thing; yet so thoroughly had Rev.\nMr. Bonar advertised our coming, and so strongly urged his people\nto attend, that we had a goodly number out to hear us.\n\nWe struck Waterbury on election day; still the union of the two\nchurches, under the lead of Rev. Messrs. Beckwith and Anderson,\nfurnished us with a fine congregation and a profitable meeting.\nThese brethren are both in special sympathy with the work of our\nAssociation. At Norfolk, elevated thirteen hundred and sixty\nfeet above the level of the sea, we encountered the opposition\nof a minstrel troupe, which paraded the town with a brass band\njust about the time our meeting was to commence. It affected our\naudience very little, however, as the church-going people in that\nregion are not given to such things. A well filled house greeted\nus, and with the aid of Pastor Gleason, whose earnest words gave\nus welcome and introduction, we had what appeared to be a very\ninteresting meeting.\n\nWinsted favored us with another rainy reception, but a fair\naudience, while a well trained choir was present, which, by the\nexcellent rendering of an introductory anthem, as one of the\nnewspapers facetiously put it, \u201cgave tone to the meeting.\u201d\n\nNew Britain was the next place, and may be noted as the turning\npoint in the adverse circumstances attending the Connecticut\ncampaign. A pleasant evening and a large audience here greeted us,\nand an interest evoked that was decidedly manifest. From this time\nonward until the last day, which proved rainy, we had good weather,\nand, with only one or at most two exceptions, well-attended\nmeetings. What has been said regarding the co-operation we received\nfrom the ministers in the preceding places is true of all.\nEverywhere the ministers gave us cordial help, and to them is owing\nvery largely the success of our meetings. Milford, Manchester,\nGlastonbury, Southington, Colchester, Danielsonville, New London\nand Stonington are the remaining places visited on week days;\nBridgeport, Wethersfield, Hartford, Berlin, Wallingford and Meriden\non Sundays. In Bridgeport, we had a hearing in all four of the\nchurches, with a union meeting in the evening. In Hartford, three\nof the churches\u2014Pearl street, Fourth and Dr. Burton\u2019s\u2014gave us\naudience. Mr. Cutler spoke in the morning at Wethersfield, greatly\nenjoying the service by reason of the three-mile walk he took in\norder to reach the church, and yet he does not speak in favor of\nministers taking such walks. He thinks the Scripture is right in\nsaying that \u201cbodily exercise profiteth little.\u201d As just intimated,\nthe last day of the campaign in Connecticut, Sunday, Nov. 25, was\nrainy. The closing meeting was held in Meriden. It was a union\nmeeting of the First and Second Churches, Rev. Messrs. Hall and\nHungerford entering heartily into it. A good audience braved the\nstorm, and gave interested attention to our message.\n\nWe contemplate a short campaign in Massachusetts during the month\nof December, of which I may give some account in the future.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\nDEAR S. S. FRIENDS:\n\nThe other day I heard one of our teachers say, \u201cI\u2019d rather anybody\nwould be really blunt, if he means what he says, than ever so fine,\nif I cannot depend upon him.\u201d Yesterday, I heard another teacher\nsay, \u201cMrs. J. is not deceitful enough to be decent.\u201d\n\nNow I know I ought not to write you a sermon, but these two\nsayings, like texts, will stay in my mind when I think of you.\n\nA good many of you have been to school enough to study U. S.\nhistory, and you remember about the stern old Puritan who settled\nin New England and the Cavalier who settled in the South. Well, we\nPuritan Yankees, many of whom have been taught to feel that it is a\nsin even to greet an acquaintance with \u201cI\u2019m glad to see you,\u201d when\nfor some reason we cannot be glad at heart, are very much annoyed\nwhen we come South, by being so often deceived, because we cannot\ntell how much allowance to make for expressions which were intended\nonly to please. For instance, I explain a difficult problem,\nand ask if it is understood. \u201cYes, ma\u2019am,\u201d is the prompt reply.\nSurprised, as well as delighted, at the brightness of my pupil, I\nask, \u201cAre you sure you understand perfectly?\u201d \u201cYes, ma\u2019am,\u201d with as\nmuch assurance as before. The next day I assign the problem to the\nconfident pupil, and he knows nothing about it. Or, a pupil comes\nto me for assistance in a problem. I give it, and he replies: \u201cI\nstarted to do it that way, but thought it was wrong.\u201d Of course,\nsuch a strange thing as thinking we were wrong when we were right,\ncould not happen very often. But when the same words\u2014\u201cI started to\ndo it that way, but thought it was wrong,\u201d and other expressions\nequally suspicious, are often repeated, with what weight they come\nto fall upon our hearts, almost burying our hope and courage as we\nsee how hard it is to be simply true.\n\nSo you see there was some reason for my first friend\u2019s saying she\npreferred honesty to refinement.\n\nNow, perhaps some frank, brave little boy or girl is thinking\u2014I\u2019m\nnot deceitful; I always say what I think, whether people like it\nor not. My dear little friend, do not be too proud of that honest\ntongue! Does not the same Bible that teaches us to be truthful,\nalso say, \u201cBe courteous,\u201d and \u201cBe ye kind!\u201d Need I be either a\nsevere Puritan or an insincere Cavalier? You see we old people\ncannot help feeling that somehow these Puritans and Cavaliers\nhelped to make people believe that one must either be blunt and\nhonest or refined and deceitful. It is a great pity that we should\never think beautiful, lovely Truth, must always speak cold or\ncutting words.\n\nNow we ought not to fret because we cannot make everything straight\nin this crooked world, but should we not be a great deal happier if\nevery man and woman and boy and girl who speaks the truth, would\nalways speak it kindly and courteously; and if every one who is\ntruly polite would always be thoroughly truthful? When that time\ncomes, no one will ever think of making such a strange remark as\nmy second friend did yesterday\u2014\u201cShe is not deceitful enough to be\ndecent.\u201d\n\nMRS. T. N. CHASE.\n\nATLANTA, GA.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n MAINE, $186.92.\n\n Bangor. Hammond St. Soc. $53.18, and Sab. Sch.\n $25.; First Parish $16.19. \u201cA Friend\u201d $2.;\n Central Ch. Sab. Sch. $25 $122.17\n Belfast. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.50\n Dennysville. Peter E. Vose, Box of C., val. $40\n Machias. \u201cL.\u201d of Centre St. Ch. 10.00\n Milltown. Miss. F. M. A. 0.25\n Norridgewock. Hattie Boardman, Bbl. of C.\n Searsport. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00\n Woolwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $9; Mrs. J. P.\n Frott $2 11.00\n West Newfield. Samuel C. Adams 10.00\n\n\n NEW HAMPSHIRE, $632.53.\n\n Acworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00\n Amherst, L. & L. K. Melendy, _for Wilmington,\n N. C._ 300.00\n Centre Harbor. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.68\n Fisherville. J. C. Martin, $5.; Geo. S.\n Meseroe, $2 7.00\n Great Falls. First Cong. Ch. 47.00\n Keene. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. 50.00\n Lempster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00\n Milford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 60.00\n New London. Mrs. L. M. Trussell (deceased) by\n Mary K. Trussell, $10.; M. K. T. 25c. 10.25\n Plymouth. Cong Ch. and Soc. 14.26\n Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.87\n Salmon Falls. Cong. Ch., _for Wilmington, N.\n C._ 15.00\n Sanbornton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00\n Sullivan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00\n Temple. Cong. Sab. Sch. 22.70\n West Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.50\n Wilton. Second Cong. Ch. 6.27\n\n\n VERMONT, $1,489.96.\n\n Castleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. M.\n CASWELL, L. M. 32.65\n Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 42.24\n Danville. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00\n Essex Junction. E. T. M 1.00\n Johnson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l) 7.00\n Manchester. One case C.\n North Ferrisburgh. ESTATE of Sylvia Dean, by\n J. M. Dean, Ex. 15.00\n Pittsford. Mrs. Nancy P. Humphrey 10.00\n Roxbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $14., and Sab.\n Sch. $6 20.00\n Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 44.48\n Saint Johnsbury. \u201cFriends of Missions\u201d 1000.00\n St. Johnsbury. ESTATE of Erastus Fairbanks 250.00\n Saxtons River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $16.50, _for\n paper_, $1.50 18.00\n Waits River. J. F. W. 0.50\n West Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.25\n Woodstock. Hon. Frederick Billings $25; First\n Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5; Cong. Sab. Sch. $4.84 34.84\n\n\n MASSACHUSETTS, $3,556.17.\n\n Acton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00\n Andover. Hastings H. Hart 3.00\n Athol. Mrs. D. A. Bowker 5.00\n Auburndale. Rev. J. M. 0.50\n Belchertown. Cong. Sab. Sch. 15.00\n Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch. and Soc. $600.15;\n Mrs. N. B. Curtis $200; \u201cA Friend\u201d $5; Mount\n Vernon Ch. (ad\u2019l) $2 807.15\n Boston Highlands. Elliot Ch. and Soc. $68.85,\n Immanuel Ch. and Soc. $50 118.85\n Boxborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.50\n Boxford. Mrs. G. P. 0.25\n Boylston Centre. Ladies of Cong Ch., bbl. of\n C., and $1 _for freight_ 1.00\n Bradford. Young Ladies of Bradford Sem. $10\n _for Atlanta, Ga._; \u201cA Friend\u201d $5 15.00\n Brimfield. Mrs. P. C. Browning $10; J. A.\n Upham $3 13.00\n Cambridgeport. Ladies Aux. $19.25; J. S. P.\n 50c. 19.75\n Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 37.50\n Conway. Mrs. O. S. 1.00\n Dana. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00\n Dorchester. Mrs. R. M. L. 0.25\n Dracut. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00\n Fitchburgh. Cal. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $183 to\n const. REV. S. J. STEWART, L. M. 183.00\n Fitchburg. ESTATE of Deborah Snow 6.68\n Great Barrington. \u201cA. C. T.\u201d 1.00\n Hatchville. Mrs. V. H. 1.00\n Harvard. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 36.50\n Harwich Port. Rev. J. R. Munsell 5.00\n Hopkinton. Cong. Sab. Sch. $26, bbl. of C. 26.00\n Jamaica Plain. \u201cA Friend.\u201d 20.00\n Lynnfield Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.25\n Matfield. Mrs. S. D. Shaw 2.25\n Merrimac. John K. Sargent $3, Chas. N. Sargent\n $2 5.00\n Millbury. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $25, _for\n Student Aid_, M.D. Garfield $5 30.00\n Newbury. Ladies of First Parish, bbl. of C.\n _for Selma, Ala._\n Newburyport. Mrs. J. C. Cleaveland bbl. of C.,\n val. $60.50, _for Talladega_, and $3 _for\n freight_ 3.00\n New Marlborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.80\n Northampton. \u201cA Friend.\u201d 200.00\n Northborough. Ladies\u2019 Sewing Circle, bbl. of\n C. _for Atlanta, Ga._\n North Brookfield. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 63.87\n Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.00\n Phillipston. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., bbl. of C.,\n val. $33.60, and $3 _for freight_ 3.00\n Princeton. Mrs. James Pratt, p\u2019k\u2019g of papers\n Reading. Mrs. S. P. W. 1.00\n Rockland. Mrs. A. S. Reed, to const. MRS.\n HORACE W. STUDLEY, L. M. 30.00\n Royalston. Joseph Estabrook 10.00\n South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00\n South Deerfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n C. B. TILTON, L. M. 30.00\n South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 51.00\n South Natick. John Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00\n Templeton. Mrs. Marier P. Sabin and \u201cA Friend\u201d\n $5 ea. 10.00\n Wakefield. Mrs. A. S. 0.25\n Warren. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MYRON L.\n HENRY and GEORGE E. PUTNEY, L. M.\u2019s 68.40\n Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.54\n Watertown. Miss E. A. Linsley, by Corban Soc.,\n $10; E. S. P. 50c. 10.50\n Wenham. Dr. J. L. R. 0.25\n Westhampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.00\n Whitinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1,305.50\n Wilmington. Mrs. Susan Bancroft 8.00\n Winchendon. North Cong. Sab. Sch. 27.03\n Worcester. Union Ch. $114.10; Old South Cong.\n Ch. and Soc. $50; Piedmont Cong. Ch. $24.50;\n Rev. J. M. R. Eaton and wife $10; Mrs. John\n B. Gough, bbl. of C. 198.60\n\n\n RHODE ISLAND, $414.\n\n Central Falls. Cong. Ch. 289.00\n Providence. Beneficient Cong. Ch. 125.00\n\n\n CONNECTICUT, $675.19.\n\n Ansonia. \u201cJ. J.\u201d 1.00\n Bridgeport. Park St. Ch. (ad\u2019l) to const.\n PHILO J. PIERCE, MRS. WILLIAM MILLER and\n CALVIN H. STUDLEY, L. M.\u2019s 74.31\n Deep River. Cong. Soc. 16.25\n Durham. \u201cA Friend\u201d $5; Mrs. Olive Merwin $2;\n Gaylord Newton $5 12.00\n Ellsworth. Cong. Ch. 9.40\n Enfield. First Cong. Ch. 33.64\n Guilford. Third Cong. Ch. $50.26; \u201cA Friend\u201d\n $30, to const. MRS. LUCY E. DUDLEY, L. M. 80.26\n Mansfield. Second. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.33\n Morris. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00\n New Haven. \u201cA Friend in Centre Ch.\u201d $5; E. F.\n S. 50c. 5.50\n Norwalk. First Cong. Ch. 52.40\n Plainville. Cong. Sab. Sch. to const.\n CHAS. LAWRENCE, L. M. 30.00\n Preston City. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.50\n South Norwalk. Cong. Sab. Sch. $100; F. N. $1 101.00\n Southport. Rebecca Pennell 5.00\n Stonington. Cong. Ch. 64.72\n Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 55.38\n Washingten. \u201cA Few Friends\u201d 12.50\n Waterbury. \u201cA Friend\u201d 30.00\n Wethersfield. \u201cA Lady\u201d 25.00\n West Killingly. Isaac T. Hutchins 5.00\n Westport. Amsey Warren 5.00\n Windsor. Cong. Ch. 5.00\n\n\n NEW YORK, $802.31.\n\n Camden. \u201cA Friend\u201d 1.00\n Brasher Falls. Elijah Wood 15.00\n Brooklyn. Julius Davenport, $50; Mrs. Lewis\n Tappan $10 60.00\n Buffalo. W. G. Bancroft 200.00\n Elmira. Park Ch. Sab. Sch., _for the debt_ 60.00\n Evans. Individuals, _for mag._ 1.00\n Gaines. M. & B. H. 0.50\n Grandby Centre. J. C. Harrington 10.00\n Gouverneur. Eli Mix 15.00\n Hamilton. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for the\n debt_ 30.00\n Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. 8.87\n Kingsborough. J. W. 1.00\n Oriskany. Mrs. L. B. Porter $5; Rev. S. F. and\n L. H. Porter $5 10.00\n New York. Rev. L. D. Bevan, D.D., $50, _for\n the debt_; Mrs. Hannah Ireland $50; Rev.C.\n P. Bush, D.D., $5.00; \u201cA Friend\u201d $5,\n for rebuilding, and bundle of C. 110.00\n Parma. Ezekiel Clark, deceased, by Mrs. Clark 5.00\n Penn Yan. Chas. C. Sheppard 150.00\n Poughkeepsie. First Reformed Ch. 10.12\n Poughquag. E. W. S. 0.25\n Ransomville. John Powley 5.00\n Rodman. John S. Sill 5.00\n Saratoga Springs. Nathan Hickok 2.00\n Sherburne. First Cong. Ch. 59.57\n Spencerport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $17; Mary E.\n Dyer $10 27.00\n West Chazy. Rev. L. Prindle 5.00\n Westport. Mrs. A. M. S. 1.00\n \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend\u201d 10.00\n\n\n PENNSYLVANIA, $85.00.\n\n Clark. Mrs. Elizabeth and Miss Eliza Dickson 30.00\n Norristown. Mary W. Cook 10.00\n Pittsburgh. 6th Ward Mission Sab.\n Sch.,connected with Third Presb. Ch., _for\n Student Talladega C._ 15.00\n Washington. \u201cA Friend of the Freedmen\u201d 30.00\n\n\n OHIO, $206.49.\n\n Castalia. Cong. Ch. 10.43\n Berlin Heights. Cong. Ch. 4.00\n Brighton. Mrs. L. A. Strong 5.00\n East Toledo. Cong. Ch. 11.00\n Edinburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $16.50.;Mrs. A.\n Hayden $5 21.50\n Harmar. Cong. Ch. 60.06\n Harrison. John D. Bowles 10.00\n Mansfield. E. Sturges, Sen. 50.00\n Mechanicstown. Mrs. S. M. 0.50\n Nelson. Dea. Harvey Pike 10.00\n Windham. T. Wales 5.00\n Wooster. Daniel Bates 2.00\n Parisville. Welsh Cong. Ch. $15.30,\n incorrectly ack. in Dec. paper from\n Painseville.\n Pittsville. Cong. Ch. 4.00\n Sheffield. Cong. Ch. 13.00\n\n\n INDIANA, $2.00.\n\n Versailles. J. O. Nichols 2.00\n\n\n ILLINOIS, $1,465.23.\n\n Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l) 17.00\n Chicago. New England Cong. Ch. (of which$5\n _for Straight U._) $127.42; Philo\n Carpenter$5; W. C. Grant $5, _for Atlanta U._ 237.42\n Crystle Lake. ESTATE of Simon S. Gates, by Wm.\n D. Gates, Ex. 1,000.00\n Bunker Hill. \u201cMrs. S. V. M. Q.\u201d 10.00\n Buda. Cong. Ch. 20.00\n Downer\u2019s Grove. J. W. Bushnell 5.00\n Farmington. Phineas Chapman 44.00\n Granville. First Cong. Ch. 80.26\n Griggsville. J. Green 5.25\n Ivanhoe. Mrs. L. C. S. 1.00\n Lee Centre. Cong. Ch. $13.30, and Sab.Sch. $3 16.30\n Ouargo. Mrs. L. C. Foster 100.00\n Rockford. Ladies\u2019 Soc. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n Student, Talladega C._ 12.00\n Sheffield. First Cong. Ch., _for Student\n Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00\n Wheaton. Cong. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., 2 bbls. and\n 1 box of C., val. $54.60, by Mrs.H. W. Cobb,\n _for Savannah, Ga._\n Woodburn. Cong. Ch. 2.00\n\n\n MICHIGAN, $998.35.\n\n Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. 2.00\n Clare. Mary E. Norris 5.00\n Covert. Cong. Ch. and Soc.; M. C. Coll. 2.62\n Detroit. First Cong. Ch. $337.24; Mrs. Z.Eddy,\n $10; Edith Eddy, Alice M. Eddy and Mrs. G. F.\n Milton $5 ea.: \u201cA Friend\u201d 50c.; Mrs. C. C.\n Foote $25, _for a Teacher_ 387.74\n Detroit, ESTATE of Mrs. Harriet Stewart 225.10\n Dorr. First Cong. Ch. 6.00\n East Riverton. Mrs. J. S. Barnes 3.00\n East Saginaw. Mrs. Miram Seymour 5.00\n Grand Blanc. Cong. Ch. $13; Cong. Sab.Sch.\n $20, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 33.00\n Greenville. Cong. Ch. 54.50\n Jackson. First Cong. Ch. 53.00\n Joyfield. Coll. by Rev. J. S. Fisher 10.20\n Kalamazoo. J. W. S. 0.25\n Lowell. Jeremiah Stanard 200.00\n Mancelona. Cong. Ch. 0.86\n New Haven. Cong. Ch. 3.60\n St. Johns. Cong. Ch. 4.72\n Union City. Mrs. L. Hungerford, bbl of C., val.\n $25, _for New Orleans_, and 60c. _for freight_ 0.60\n Westwood. Cong. Ch. 1.16\n\n\n WISCONSIN, $177.25.\n\n Appleton. Mrs. Minnie Pfenning $5; others$2,\n _for Atlanta U._ 7.00\n Barabos. Cong. Ch. 8.50\n Beloit. First Cong. Ch. 21.30\n Bristol and Paris. Cong. Ch. 20.00\n Dartford. Cong. Ch. 7.45\n Eau Claire. W. W. C. 1.00\n Fort Howard. Mrs. C. L. A. Tank 50.00\n Genesee. Cong. Ch. 8.00\n Janesville. L. P. L. 1.00\n La Crosse. First Cong. Ch. 30.00\n Milwaukee. E. B., _for Atlanta U._ 1.00\n River Falls. Wm. M. Newcomb $10; S.Wales $2 12.00\n \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend\u201d 10.00\n\n\n IOWA, $195.48.\n\n Belleplain. J. P. Henry $10; Rev. David Lane $5 15.00\n Castalia. W. H. Baker, to const. MRS.\n HARRIET P. CLARK, L. M. 45.00\n Cincinnati. Cong. Ch. 2.25\n College Springs. Cong. Ch. 8.20\n Corning. Cong. Ch. 3.00\n Council Bluffs. Cong. Ch. 22.72\n Denmark. Cong. Ch. 57.17\n Emerson. Mrs. E. H. D. F. 1.00\n Lewis. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.44\n Maquoketa. Missionary Soc. of Cong. Ch. 23.20\n Prairie City. First Cong. Ch. 4.50\n Waverly. Cong. Ch. 8.00\n\n\n MINNESOTA, $112.23.\n\n Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 17.47\n Northfield. Cong. Ch. 43.99\n Winona. First Cong. Ch. 50.77\n\n\n NEBRASKA, $32.\n\n Beatrice. Melinda Bowen 5.00\n Nebraska City. \u201cA friend\u201d $10; Woman\u2019s Miss.\n Soc. of First Cong. Ch. $5; K. U. S.S. Class\n $2, _for Cal. Chinese M._ 17.00\n Strahenburg. Pilgrim Ch. $5; \u201cA Friend\u201d$5 10.00\n\n\n OREGON, $20.\n\n Eugene. Mrs. L. W. Judkins 20.00\n\n\n DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $10.\n\n Washington. Mrs. A. N. Bailey 10.00\n\n\n TENNESSEE, $432.75.\n\n Memphis. Le Moyne School 101.00\n Nashville. Fisk University 281.75\n\n\n NORTH CAROLINA, $208.59.\n\n Raleigh. Public Fund $200; Washington Sch. $8.59 208.59\n\n\n SOUTH CAROLINA, $201.13.\n\n Charleston. Avery Inst. 201.13\n\n\n GEORGIA, $313.65.\n\n Atlanta. Atlanta University $91.40; Rev.Joseph\n Smith $25, _for Student Aid_ 116.40\n Macon. Lewis High School 47.25\n Savannah. Rent 150.00\n\n\n ALABAMA, $240.\n\n Selma. Rent $100; Cong. Ch. $3.20 103.20\n Talladega. Talladega College 136.80\n\n\n LOUISIANA, $79.50.\n\n New Orleans. Straight University 79.50\n\n\n DOMINION OF CANADA, $20.52.\n\n Toronto. J. Thorn ($10 of which _for\n Cal. Chinese M._) 20.52\n\n\n HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, $1,000.\n\n \u201cA Friend\u201d 1,000.00\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n Total $13,507.25\n Total from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30th $24.789.12\n\n H. W. HUBBARD,\n _Ass\u2019t Treas._\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nConstitution of the American Missionary Association.\n\nINCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\nART. I. This Society shall be called \u201cTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\nASSOCIATION.\u201d\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct\nChristian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a\nknowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries\nwhich are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent\nfields of effort.\n\nART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes\nfaith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the\npractice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds,\nmay become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty\ndollars, a life member; provided, that children and others who have\nnot professed their faith may be constituted life members without\nthe privilege of voting.\n\nART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of\nSeptember, October or November, for the election of officers and\nthe transaction of other business at such time and place as shall\nbe designated by the Executive Committee.\n\nART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular\nofficers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,\nand of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,\nand other co-operating bodies\u2014each body being entitled to one\nrepresentative.\n\nART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice\nPresidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,\nTreasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less\nthan twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be\nadvisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.\n\nART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting\nand disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining\nand dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and\nagents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the\ntransaction of all such business as usually appertains to the\nexecutive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies;\nthe Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the\nmissionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision\nof the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually\nchosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or\nmissionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.\n\nThe Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies\noccurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;\nto apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of\nincorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all\nofficers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the\nSociety; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and\nfor the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call,\nin all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and\ngeneral conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the\ndiffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous\npromotion of the missionary work.\n\nFive members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for\ntransacting business.\n\nART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing\nofficers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields\nof labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor\nparticularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the\nknown fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment\nthose who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.\n\nART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to\nthe principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain\nmissionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the\nagency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART. X. No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without\nthe concurrence of two thirds of the members present at a regular\nannual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been\nsubmitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in\nseason to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if\nso submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a\nbelief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a\nSaviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice\nof Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity\nof regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy\nobedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and\nthe retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the\nwicked, and salvation of the righteous.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\n_The American Missionary Association._\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with\nthe almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its\nmain efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens\nand Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely\nrelated to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE\nin America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane\nand Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in\nAFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 11;\nKy., 5; Tenn.,4; Ala., 12; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 4.\n_Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 2. Total, 62.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.\n_Chartered:_ Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta,\nGa.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; and\nAustin, Texas, 8; _Graded or Normal Schools:_ at Wilmington,\nRaleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta, Ga.;\nMontgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn., 11; _Other\nSchools_, 7. Total, 26.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS\u2014Among the Freedmen, 209;\namong the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign lands, 10.\nTotal, 252. STUDENTS\u2014In Theology, 74; Law, 8; in College Course,\n79; in other studies, 5,243. Total, 5,404. Scholars taught by\nformer pupils of our schools, estimated at 100,000. INDIANS under\nthe care of the Association, 13,000.\n\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the\ngrowing work in the South. This increase can only be reached by\n_regular_ and _larger_ contributions from the churches\u2014the feeble\nas well as the strong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES, for\nthe new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and\npious, for these churches.\n\n3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and\nmissionaries to Africa\u2014a pressing want.\n\nBefore sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.\noffice, as below.\n\n NEW YORK H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.\n BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21, Congregational House.\n CHICAGO Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington St.\n\n\nMAGAZINE.\n\nThis Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the\nMissionaries of the Association; To Life Members; to all clergymen\nwho take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of\nSabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries;\nto Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does\nnot prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year\nnot less than five dollars.\n\nThose who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in\ntheir last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the\nfollowing\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\u201cI BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of \u2014\u2014 dollars\nin trust, to pay the same in \u2014\u2014 days after my decease to the person\nwho, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the\n\u201cAmerican Missionary Association,\u201d New York City, to be applied\nunder the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association,\nto its charitable uses and purposes.\u201d\n\nThe Will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States\nthree are required\u2014in other States only two], who should write\nagainst their names, their places of residence [if in cities,\ntheir street and number]. 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I have not been able to examine the book with reference\nto the author\u2019s views upon the great doctrinal questions which\ndivide Christendom sufficiently to form a judgement as to those\nviews; his comment upon one or two doctrinal passages I have read,\nand I am lead to believe and hope that he has been too wise to\nwrite in the interest of any party. If I am correct in this, it of\ncourse adds much to the value of what Dr. Geikie has done. Hoping\nthat your enterprise may be crowned with success, believe me, most\nrespectfully,\n\n \u201cJOHN W. BECKWITH, _Bishop of Georgia_.\u201d\n\n\n _From Dr. John Hall._\n\n\u201cAssuming that Andrews, Ellicott, Neander, Lange, and others of\nthe same class, provide for the minute and curious inquirer, the\nauthor has aimed at producing a book of continuous, easy narrative,\nin which the reader may as far as possible, see the Saviour of men\nlive and move and may hear the words He utters with a most vivid\nattainable idea of His circumstances and surroundings. The result\nis a work to which Christian hearts will respond, and which will\nrender to its readers increasingly real the wonderful works and the\ngracious words of \u2018the Man Christ Jesus.\u2019\n\n\u201cThe value of the work is enhanced to scholars by a body of\n\u2018notes,\u2019 so placed as not to distract the attention of the general\nreader; and a good index facilitates reference. One must regard\nsuch issues of the American press with profound satisfaction.\n\n \u201cJOHN HALL, D.D.,\n \u201c_Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church_.\u201d\n\n\n _From Bishop Littlejohn, of Long Island._\n\n\u201cDr. Geikie has performed his task\u2014the most difficult in\nbiographical literature\u2014with great ability. His pages evince\nabundant and accurate learning, and, what is of even more\nconsequence, a simple and cordial faith in the Gospel narratives,\nwhich, while enabling him to profit by the best results of modern\ncriticism, shields him from the temptation to tone down or dilute\nthe supernatural and divine features of the character and ministry\nof Christ.\n\n\u201cThe work is noteworthy for certain special merits, when compared\nwith any previous treatment of the same theme. Its style is fresh,\nanimated and vigorous. 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Capitalization and punctuation in the\nReceipts section is inconsistent, and was retained as printed.\nThe remaining corrected punctuation changes are too numerous to\nlist; the others are as follows:\n\n\u201cTalledega\u201d changed to \u201cTalladega\u201d on page 7. (a student at\nTalledega)\n\n\u201csupersition\u201d changed to \u201csuperstition\u201d on page 17. (bowed down by\nsuperstition)\n\n\u201caccomodate\u201d changed to \u201caccommodate\u201d on page 28. (to accommodate\nthe increasing numbers of students)","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 32, No. 01, January, 1878","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":22909}