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No. 5.\n\n THE\n\n AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n * * * * *\n\n \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n MAY, 1878.\n\n _CONTENTS_:\n\n EDITORIAL.\n\n PARAGRAPHS 129\n IN A NUT-SHELL\u2014OUR FINANCES 130\n OUR NEW CARTRIDGES 131\n THE BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS 132\n KING DAVID AND KING SOLOMON 133\n GEN. O. O. HOWARD 134\n NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES 135\n NOTES: FREEDMEN 136\n INDIANS 137\n THE PRESS.\n CONSECRATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS. Rev.\n James Powell 137\n\n THE FREEDMEN.\n\n TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, MISSISSIPPI 139\n VIRGINIA: The Church and School at\n Franklin\u2014Beginnings and Results 140\n GEORGIA: A Large Sunday\n School\u2014Faithful Teachers\u2014A Temperance S.\n S. Concert.\u2014The Old Midway\n Church\u2014Returning Courage and\n Prosperity.\u2014Interest in Church and\n Sunday-School.\u2014Needs of this\n Field.\u2014Ogeechee 141\n ALABAMA: The Alabama Conference\u2014Science and\n Religion 143\n LOUISIANA: Part of a Day Among the Poor 145\n KENTUCKY: Temperance and Evangelistic\n Work 146\n\n THE AFRICAN MISSIONARIES.\n\n THE FREEDMEN\u2019S MISSIONS AID\n SOCIETY\u2014A Public Meeting in Liverpool 147\n WANTED\u2014Cloth, Bibles and School-books 148\n\n THE INDIANS.\n\n S\u2019KOKOMISH AGENCY, W. T.:\n Sunday-School Progress\u2014An Indian\n Festival\u2014Temperance and Order 148\n GREEN BAY AGENCY: Education Among the\n Menomonee Indians 149\n\n THE CHINESE.\n\n A REBUKE AND A RESPONSE 150\n\n THE CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE 151\n\n RECEIPTS 152\n\n WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c. 156\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 A. Anderson, Printer, 23 to 27 Vandewater St.\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 THATCHER, 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. MAY, 1878. No. 5.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\n_American Missionary Association._\n\n\n * * * * *\n\nWe are glad to recognize in the columns of papers friendly to our\nwork, articles, items and condensations from the pages of the\nMISSIONARY. It is a matter of far less moment to us to\nbe credited than to be copied. What we want is, to have the minds\nof the American people filled with the facts which may lead them\nto appreciate the importance of the work in which we are engaged.\nFurther than that, we shall be glad to have them use the A. M.\nA. as the almoner of their charities, so far as they may prefer\nthis channel. But, above all, we want the general work to be known\nand prosecuted. Use us, then, friends\u2014use us freely\u2014we feel\nno cuts, even of sharpest scissors, if you insert us into your\nown circulation. Only, when it will serve your ends, as well as\nours and the common good, add at the end: \u201cFor particulars, see\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\nOne of our missionaries in the South, who has had long experience\nin the work, and has made close observations, writes thus in\nrespect to the need of a female missionary:\n\n\u201cBROTHER STRIEBY: I feel that it is necessary to have a\nfemale missionary in this city. There is work to be done which only\nsuch a worker can do\u2014a work in the homes of the people, with the\n_women_, young and old. We are not reaching the women as we should.\nA man cannot do the needed work. The women of the North want to\ndo something for their colored sisters of the South. Here is an\nopportunity for them. The homes of these people must be reached.\nAs many of them are, morality is well-nigh impossible. The vice\nthat is engendered in them is frightful. Do, my brother, give me a\nmissionary. Do beg the Christian women of the North to help in this\nmatter. Oh, the fearful degradation and ruin that stream from some\nof the homes of these people!\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\nRev. Mr. Cutler, of Chattanooga, Tenn., desires to acknowledge,\nthrough us, the receipt of one dollar, from \u201cTennie\u2019s Yankee\nFriend,\u201d West Medway, Mass. Mr. C. has received from various\nsources, in response to his plea for this poor girl, sums amounting\nto about seventy-five dollars.\n\nWhile temperance revivals, under various auspices\u2014of men and\nwomen, of ribbons red and blue\u2014are noted through the land, our\nSouthern field is not neglected. Our readers will see, in a\nmajority of the communications from our schools and churches in\nthis number, references to the increase of a temperance sentiment,\nand an abstinence practice; here in a church, and there in a\nschool; here in the reformation of dissipated lives, and there\nin the preoccupation of the minds of the young. Intemperance is\na giant evil South, as well as North, among the colored people\nand the Indians, as well as with the whites. Thank God for every\nvictory. Pray God for wisdom and patience with which to withstand,\nand then to stand.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nIN A NUT-SHELL.\n\nThe only caste-oppressed races in America are the Negroes, Indians\nand Chinamen.\n\n\u2014The quarrels of the white people in America over the negro have\ncaused more bloodshed, and wasted more treasure, than all other\ncauses combined, and we are not yet at peace among ourselves about\nhim.\n\nThe South contains a little more than one-third of the population\nof the country. It has 3,550,425 persons over ten years old who\ncannot read; the West has only 409,175. The South has 1,137,303\n_voters_ who cannot read their ballots; the West has only 217,403.\nHave _patriots_ no duties here?\n\nThe Negroes in the South are more accessible to the Gospel than any\nother people on earth; they welcome it; they are near us, speak our\nlanguage, their fervency will add a warmer element to our piety,\nand they seem called of God to carry the Gospel to the land of\ntheir fathers. Have _Christians_ no duties to them?\n\n\u2014The American Missionary Association bears to these\ncaste-oppressed races the help they need in education, practical\nmorality and piety. It has founded or fostered permanent\neducational institutions for training ministers and teachers. In\nits forty-five schools are 6,962 scholars, and its former students\nare now teaching 100,000 pupils.\n\nIts church work lays sure foundations. Sixty-two churches are under\nits care, with 4,127 members\u2014an average of sixty-six\u2014nearly\nall the growth of fifteen years. It has seventy-four theological\nstudents in training; has prepared many ministers of the colored\nrace, and has sent out nine colored missionaries to Africa.\n\nSeldom, if ever, has so much been accomplished in so short a time\nat so small a cost.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nOUR FINANCES.\n\nWe have reached the half-way station in our annual journey. The\nstatement of receipts, in this number of the MISSIONARY,\nis the sixth since the last annual meeting. Our friends and patrons\nnaturally desire to know how we have weathered the stormy seas, and\nwhat the prospect is of reaching port in good condition, and we\ndesire to tell them frankly and fully. We might refer them to the\nmonthly report, but we know that many of them are too busy to keep\naccounts for us, their agents.\n\nWe know too well how the financial pressure of the year has\ncrippled one and another of them. Their letters\u2014not empty,\neither\u2014have told us, in confidence, from time to time, of their\nlosses, and we know that their gifts this year have testified to\nunusual self-denials, and to deepening convictions of the greatness\nof their work through us. And the best of it all is, that these\ngifts have not diminished from either of the classes from which\nour work is supported, the living or the dead. For the ability\nto make this statement, and in times like these, we thank you,\ngenerous friends, and we thank Him whose money you are permitted to\nadminister. We take courage, and congratulate the poor for whom we\nlabor, and whose hope is in your remembrance of them.\n\nIn addition to the receipts above mentioned, we have received,\ntowards the payment of our debt, to April 1st, $8,921.72, and\nalso pledges, for the same purpose, of $6,950, the most of which\nis conditioned on the payment of the whole debt within the year.\nThese figures encourage us to hope that our friends will go on, in\nthe same quiet and inexpensive way, until our whole debt shall be\nentirely extinguished, and our hands unloosed for a more earnest\ngrapple with the great task of lifting up the needy and ignorant,\nand yet hopeful races, for which we labor in America and in Africa.\n\nBrethren, we may not be thought politic by all, but we believe in\nperfect frankness with our donors and the whole public. We have a\ndiminishing debt, curtailed expenses, and an increasing revenue.\nWhat, then? Shall any one withhold a dollar designed for us on\nthat account? By no means. Rather continue to endorse our policy\nof economy and thrift. You are showing your confidence; do not\nwithhold it. And the need? The work is pressing on us from all\nsides. We have to plan continually how to make each dollar do the\nwork of two.\n\nThe facts given in this number of the MISSIONARY, and\nthose of the past few months, show some of the wants which crowd\nupon us continually. A new and commodious building must be erected\nat Tougaloo, Miss., to accommodate the overflow of students, whose\nbeds have crowded into recitation rooms and out-buildings, and who\nare now sheltered in temporary barracks of rough boards. A new\nbuilding is greatly needed at Atlanta, to accommodate its enlarged\nwork, and to meet the just expectations of the State Legislature,\nwhich has granted it $8,000 a year, for several years, for current\nexpenses. The finishing of the church at Golding\u2019s Grove, and the\nenlargement of the school building there, are absolute necessities.\nThese are but specimens of the claims of this sort pressing upon\nus. Added to these, is the imperative demand for the extension of\nour church work in new and promising fields, stretching down to\nthe farthest limits of Texas. The enlarged African work is making\nincreasing demands upon our treasury. Besides all this, the three\ncoming months will witness the return of our Southern workers, when\nthe payment of their last bills and traveling expenses must be met.\nWith such an outlook before us, we are compelled, while uttering\nour gratitude for the liberality of our friends, to entreat them\nnot to forget the pressing wants near at hand.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nOUR NEW CARTRIDGES.\n\nWe have prepared with much care, and have in hand, a series of\npamphlets, to which we desire to attract the attention of our\nreaders.\n\nNo. 1 is a brief history of the origin and growth of the A. M. A.\nIt is contained in sixteen pages; shows the Providential opening\nup of the work on this side and on that, and serves to answer many\nquestions\u2014_e.g._, how we came to have a mission in Africa\u2014many\nof our friends, even, being ignorant of the fact that this was our\nfirst work, and that we have a permanent fund set apart by its\ndonor for this very purpose. The same is shown to be true, in part,\nas to the work among the Indians and Chinamen; while the demands of\nthe freedmen, and the opportunities after emancipation, are their\nown vindication in the statement of the facts.\n\nNo. 2 is the African pamphlet, and contains (1) a history of the\nMendi Mission, carefully compiled by Dr. Dana, now of Minnesota. It\nis much more full and detailed than that read by him at Syracuse,\nand printed in the December MISSIONARY. The valuable\nsuggestions at the close of the paper are repeated only in their\nheadings. (2) A brief supplement brings the history down to the\ndeparture of the second party of colored missionaries, Feb. 23rd,\n1878. Large extracts are given (3) from the sermon by Dr. Scudder,\nof Brooklyn, full of information, quaintly put, as to the land,\nits products and its people; (4) from an address by Dist. Sec.\nPike, on \u201cThe Relation of the Freedmen to Tropical Africa\u201d; (5)\nfrom Secretary Strieby\u2019s address, before the National Council, on\n\u201cAmerica and Africa\u201d; and (6) from a paper by Dr. Bevan, of the\nBrick Church, New York, on the \u201cRelations of England and America\nto Africa\u201d. The history, the present aspects, and many important\nrelations of the African Mission, are set forth with great fulness\nin this pamphlet of forty-eight pages.\n\nNo. 3 contains the address by Rev. Joseph Cook, at the Annual\nMeeting in Syracuse, revised and corrected by him. Those who heard\nit will not need to be reminded how vividly, in his own inimitable\nway, he set forth the perils to the nation from the three despised\nraces, if suffered, by neglect, to remain in ignorance and\ndegradation.\n\nNo. 4 is on the educational work of the Association. Its contents\nare excerpts from various papers, sermons and addresses. (1) \u201cThe\nNegro and his Needs,\u201d by Gen. S. C. Armstrong, of Hampton, Va.;\n(2) \u201cWho are Affected?\u201d by Rev. Dr. Brown, of Newark, N. J.;\n(3) \u201cCan he Care for Himself?\u201d by Dr. Noble, of New Haven, Ct.;\n(4) \u201cThe Weapons of our Warfare,\u201d by Rev. Washington Gladden,\nof Springfield, Mass.; (5) \u201cSouthern Attitudes,\u201d by Dr. Rankin,\nof Washington, D. C.; (6) \u201cA Southerner\u2019s Approbation,\u201d by Col.\nPreston, of Virginia; (7) \u201cRome in the South,\u201d by Dist. Secretary\nPowell, of Chicago; and (8) \u201cThe Special Needs of the A. M. A.,\u201d by\nSecretary Strieby.\n\nThese four pamphlets are not intended for indiscriminate\ndistribution, nor for a temporary need. Rather, we have prepared\nthem to serve as fixed ammunition, to be drawn upon by requisition,\naccording to need. They are cartridges which will fit any gun,\nanywhere. If sent to individuals from our office, it will be always\nwith a purpose, and for an end. But they will be most gladly sent\nin answer to requests from pastors, or from friends who may be\nseeking information on the special departments of our work. If we\nfind these useful, and in demand, we may hasten the publication of\nother four, which are in process of preparation; on (5) The Church\nWork in the South; (6) The Chinese Work; (7) The Indian Work; and\n(8) Systematic Beneficence.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTHE BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS.\n\nThe Ninth Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners is full of\ncondensed information and valuable suggestion.\n\nThe tabulated results of the peace policy during nine years\nappeared in the MISSIONARY for March. In view of these\nfigures, the Report says:\u2014\n\n \u201cThese results in industry, education, and Christianity in the\n short space of nine years confirm our belief, often expressed in\n former reports, that the peace policy is the only right policy,\n and there should be no longer any doubt as to its continuance as\n the permanent policy of the government. And yet every year the\n proposal is renewed to recommit the management of Indian affairs\n to the War Department, and abandon the work of civilization\n so well begun. The grounds upon which the transfer is urged,\n namely, greater economy, a more honest purchase and distribution\n of Indian supplies, more complete protection of the frontier\n settlers from Indian massacres, and a more effectual prevention\n of Indian wars\u2014these are repeated year after year, in Congress\n and in the public press, and as often patiently answered and\n fully refuted.\u201d\n\nAs to economy, a tabular comparison is published, which shows that\n\u201csupplies contracted for and furnished to military posts have cost\nmuch more\u2014in some cases thirty-eight to seventy-eight per cent.\nmore\u2014than at the neighboring Indian agencies.\u201d\n\nIt is asserted that the quality of goods supplied, as well as\nthe prices paid, command the approval of all competent and\ndisinterested judges, while the vigilance exercised over the\ntransportation and delivery of these supplies has been productive\nof most satisfactory results in securing for the benefit of the\nIndians the appropriations made in their behalf.\n\nThe Report refers to the conclusion of the wars with Sitting Bull\nand Joseph, and calls attention to the fact that, though it may\nhave appeared as though the disturbances had been quite general, in\nfact only a few hundreds, even of the Dakotas and Nez Perces, have\nbeen engaged in them. The wars of the last nine years (of the peace\npolicy) have been more limited, and have cost far less than in any\nother equal period of our history as a nation. During the forty\nyears preceding 1868, the direct cost of the Indian wars averaged\ntwelve and a half millions a year. Even the war with Joseph\ndemonstrated the effect of civilizing agencies, in its freedom from\nthe barbarities to women and children, which have attended such\noutbreaks in former years.\n\nCivilization and ultimate absorption into the body politic should\nbe the one purpose steadily pursued. Military means cannot\naccomplish it. \u201cCivilizing agencies must come from civil life.\u201d The\ntestimony is that the influence of military posts in or near Indian\nreservations is generally prejudicial to good morals, good order,\nand progress in civilization. To teach Indian children to read and\nwrite, or Indian men to sow and reap, are emphatically civil and\nnot military occupations.\n\nThe summary of recommendations, which are not new, but none the\nless worthy of consideration on that account, is as follows:\n\n 1st. Government of Indians by law.\n 2d. Division of reservation lands and homestead rights.\n 3d. Larger appropriations for the support of schools.\n 4th. Consolidation of agencies, and reduction of expense.\n 5th. Gradation of salaries on an equitable basis.\n\nIn view of the excellent results, and the greater promise _of\nthe peace policy_, and of the imminent danger of the speedy\ntransfer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the War Department, it\nbehooves every friend of the red man, who hopes for his ultimate\ncivilization and citizenship, to bring every legitimate influence\nto bear upon our legislators to prevent the consummation of this\nscheme.\n\nReader, do you know the mind of your senator and representative\nupon this subject? If you do not, will you not find it out, and do\nall that you can to make him a minister of peace, and not of war,\nto these poor people?\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nKING DAVID AND KING SOLOMON.\n\nThe fourth article in _Scribner\u2019s_, for April, is entitled \u201cKing\nDavid.\u201d That regal personage proves to be only David King\u2014a\nlong, lank, awkward, shy, near-sighted Yankee, who, up among the\nNew Hampshire hills, felt an inward call to go South and teach\nthe blacks. He was a man not much missed from his old home, and\nnot warmly welcomed at his new one. He was good, but not wise\nnor practical. The blacks came to him, young and old, in flocks,\nto learn to read, and he taught them morning, noon and night.\nBut all the while the white planters \u201cregarded the schoolmaster\nas an interloper, a fanatic, a knave or a fool, according to\ntheir various degrees of bitterness.\u201d He tried the experiment of\noffering work to the idle blacks, but with little success. And now\na Northern carpet-bagging politician, of the baser sort, came into\nhis vicinity, and finding him an honest man, with some influence\nover the poor freedmen, set himself to overthrow it by offers\nof whiskey and promises of power. And poor David, innocent, and\nignorant of human nature, makes weak and ineffectual fight with\nhim, as he had before with haughty planters and ignorant negroes,\nyields the ground and goes home again, baffled and discouraged.\n\nThis charmingly told story has but one fault, and that, probably,\nis without intention. It may give the impression that King David\nis a fair sample of the Northern teachers in the South, and that\nhis ill-success is the record or the prophecy of their general\ndisaster and defeat. The true lesson of the story, and that which\nmay have been, if any, in the writer\u2019s mind, is only this: That\nthis David was no Solomon. That goodness, unsupported by wisdom,\nis not sufficient capital for educational work. That a man who is\na failure at home, amid favorable surroundings, will not be likely\nto succeed abroad, alone, with everything against him. That the\nlame, the halt and the blind do not make good recruits for the war\nagainst ignorance and sin.\n\nJust to offset this story, which has doubtless had its counterpart\nin Southern as in Northern schools and villages, we give the\nstory of one of our teachers in the State of South Carolina,\nas written to us by himself only a few months ago. Its simple,\nstraight-forward truthfulness will, we think, make amends for its\nlack of the spiciness and crispness of expression, which give so\ndelicate a literary flavor to the story of King David:\n\n\u201cI was born in Western New York, and, as all my friends continue\nto reside there, I still call it my home. I have been a member of\nthe Household of Faith since 1859; I have been engaged in teaching\nthe freedmen since the fall of 1866, and, for the greater part of\nthe time, my salary has been quite small; but I love the work, and\nexpect my reward hereafter.\n\n\u201cI came to this place in 1872, and organized a Normal school, and\nam still at its head. I met with much opposition, but I put my\ntrust in God, and went on doing what I thought was right, and soon\nsaw a change coming over the people. Students began to come in from\nneighboring counties, and those who had talked most against me now\ncame to visit me. I organized the first temperance society for the\ncolored people in this part of the State, and thus got quite a hold\non the people. The organization is still continued, and is doing\nmuch good. Several of our students, who are out teaching, have\norganized similar societies, and I hear good reports from them.\n\n\u201cEarly last fall, a couple of young men from another county, asked\nme if they could not stay in a vacant room in the building and do\ntheir own cooking. I, of course, gave them permission, and did\nwhat I could to assist them in preparing the room. I had some old\nlumber in the wood-shed, and from it we made a bedstead and table;\nhad boxes for chairs and newspapers for window shades. It was soon\nreported that we had good accommodations for boarders, and, before\nwinter had fairly set in, there were nineteen men living in the\nroom, which measured 30 x 22. We had only enough lumber for four\nbedsteads, and on these the nineteen men slept for four months.\nA part of them would retire at 8 o\u2019clock, and sleep till after\nmidnight; then arise and let the others take their places. They all\ndid their own cooking, and, as we had but one cooking vessel, they\nwere all night doing their cooking for the next day. Those who sat\nup the fore-part of the night spent the time in cooking, and while\nthey were asleep the others were cooking in the same room.\n\n\u201cTwenty-three of our students are teaching in three counties, and\nover 700 pupils are under their care. One of these closed his\nschool for a week, and walked sixty miles, in order to be present\nat our closing exercises in June.\n\n\u201cWe have a weekly prayer-meeting, which is well attended, and is\nvery interesting. We also spend an hour and a half each Sabbath\nafternoon in reading and explaining the word of God.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nGEN. O. O. HOWARD.\n\nWe wish to add our congratulations, to the many which have already\nbeen given, to Gen. Howard, upon his final release from the legal\ndifficulties that have so long perplexed him. It is not easy to\nunderstand the reasons for the persecutions heaped upon Gen.\nHoward\u2019s head. His Christian life, so kind in its spirit, and so\nefficient in its activities, should not, in this day, provoke\nenmity. His record as a soldier, making one among the bright pages\nin the history of our Civil War, and his recent campaign among the\nIndians, in which he was conspicuous for his active energy, as well\nas for his courtesy to a brother officer, do not find critical\ncensors. It is in his connection with the Freedmen\u2019s Bureau that\nthe rock of offence is found. We claim to know something about\nthat Bureau, and, therefore, speak the more freely. We believe\nthat no appropriation made necessary by the results of the\nrebellion was more wise, nor has any trust under the Government\nbeen more conscientiously executed than that of Gen. Howard in\nits administration. So far as any part of the sum was used to\nrelieve physical suffering, it was divided impartially; and, in\nthe appropriation of the larger part of it to the education of\nthe colored people, there was the clearest comprehension of their\nhighest wants. The money was appropriated with just reference to\nthe claims of the different religious bodies co-operating with the\nGovernment, and the educational institutions founded by it will be\nperennial sources of blessing to this people, and will bear their\ntestimony more and more distinctly, as the years roll on, to the\nwisdom of the Government in its bestowment, and of Gen. Howard in\nits disbursement.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nNEWS FROM THE CHURCHES.\n\nRALEIGH, N. C.\u2014\u201cAbout twenty united with the church April\n6th. Seven were members of the choir.\u201d\n\nWOODBRIDGE, N. C.\u2014\u201cA wave of the Gospel temperance\nrevival has reached Woodbridge. Brother Peebles printed two large\npledges, one for the \u2018Band of Hope,\u2019 and the other the \u2018Murphy\nPledge.\u2019 He also promised to print all the names that would sign\neither pledge, and to-day there are upon the chapel walls the names\nof eighty under the Band of Hope pledge, and it is expected soon\nto have fifty names under the other. Already more than half that\nnumber have signed.\u201d\n\nMACON, GA.\u2014The church and Lewis High School have, after\nan interval of a little more than a year since their buildings were\nburned, a home again, in a substantial brick building, together.\nThe upper story is for the church. The hall will seat about 450\npersons, and is neat and tasteful. It was dedicated a few weeks\nago, with appropriate services. Rev. S. S. Ashley, of Atlanta,\npreached the sermon. A description of the lower part of the\nbuilding, which is designed for the High School, we hope to furnish\nin our next issue.\n\nSAVANNAH, GA.\u2014Church building needs to be enlarged. One\nhundred and eighty scholars present in Sunday-school, and good\nteachers, \u201cas faithful as Moses and as zealous as Peter,\u201d always on\nhand in time.\n\nEAST SAVANNAH, GA.\u2014Will be recognized by council\nvery soon. Three united with the church March 17th. Has eighty\nSunday-school scholars.\n\nWOODVILLE, GA.\u2014\u201cStill in the midst of a revival. Nine\nschool children and four adults received to church membership April\n7th. Six were baptized by immersion in the Savannah River\u2014nearly\n500 people were present; and one was baptized by sprinkling in the\nchurch\u2014the edifice could not hold the people. All the persons\nbaptized are members of Twichell School, held in the church.\u201d\n\nOGEECHEE, GA.\u2014Received five members March 10th.\nSunday-school doubled in last four months.\n\nLOUISVILLE and BELMONT, GA.\u2014Numbers and interest\nincreasing.\n\nMARION, ALA.\u2014Mr. Hill writes: \u201cThe work is increasing\nin interest. Our Sunday-school has more than doubled since we\ncame, numbering seventy-one. Twelve or fifteen had never been in a\nSunday-school or church before. Last Sabbath I visited a mission\norganized, about a year since, by one of our church members, four\nmiles from here. The average attendance is forty. I found an\naudience of seventy-five crowding the little school-house.\u201d\n\nATHENS, ALA.\u2014A larger number of scholars than heretofore\nis reported, and a deepening religious interest. Several have\nprofessed faith in Christ, and many more have been seeking the Lord.\n\nSAND MOUNTAIN, ALA.\u2014The church has no pastor, and only\nabout a dozen members, but meets every Sunday, and a sermon is read\nby one of the members. The Sunday-school is also kept up.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nNOTES\u2014FREEDMEN.\n\n\u2014There are in the State of Georgia 81,164 colored voters, who own\n457,635 acres of land, valued on the tax list at $1,244,104, and\ncity property valued at $1,790,525, and about $1,000,000 worth\nof horses, cattle, etc., and $2,100,000 on other property not\nenumerated.\n\n\u2014The Atlanta _Republican_ asserts that a Campbell county negro\nfarmer raised, last year, seventeen bales of cotton and thirteen\nhundred bushels of corn on nine acres of land, his only help being\na bob-tailed yearling.\n\n\u2014A Kentucky law orders the sale of certain convicts for a term of\nservitude to the highest bidder. A negro was sold for six months\nthe other day at Hickman. It seems to many that the aim of the law\nis altogether at the colored people. Is it not a dangerous weapon,\neven if constitutional?\n\nThe General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in 1874, decided,\nafter thorough discussion, to continue its Freedmen\u2019s Committee,\nas then located and constituted, for five years (_i.e._, until\n1879), \u201cduring which period its affairs shall be conducted with the\nview to the final merging of the Committee with the Board of Home\nMissions, the churches to be transferred as soon as possible to the\nBoard.\u201d During this fourth year of the proposed five, this last has\nbeen done; all the missionaries exclusively engaged in preaching,\nand their churches are thus transferred. Evangelical work is still\nretained by the Committee.\n\n\u2014The shrinkage in value of real estate has reduced the income of\nthe Peabody Educational Fund from $100,000 in 1876, to $60,000 in\n1877. It may be still less this year.\n\n\u2014The Congressional Committee on Education recommend that the\nproceeds of the sale of all public lands be set apart as a fund for\nschool purposes, the income for the first ten years to be divided\namong the States on the basis of illiteracy.\n\n\u2014The Kentucky Legislature propose to make of their share an\nendowment for the State University, against which the colored\nteachers of Fayette County protest, as a gross injustice to the\ncommon-schools, in the following resolutions:\n\n \u201cWHEREAS, The _per capita_ for each colored child in\n this Commonwealth is only forty-five cents, while that of a white\n child is at least four times as great; and, whereas, the passage\n of the proposed education land bill by Congress presupposes the\n granting of equal school facilities to all; therefore, be it\n\n \u201d_Resolved_, That we regard the attempt, both of the Legislature\n of this State and the friends of Kentucky University, to maintain\n that institution at the expense of the colored common-school\n system of Kentucky, as an act unjust to the colored people of\n this Commonwealth, unworthy of the chivalry of the age, and as an\n act deserving the execration of a generous and magnanimous people.\n\n \u201c_Resolved_, That we urge the friends of humanity in Congress to\n defeat the bill now pending in the Senate of the United States,\n unless it can be so modified as to render futile all efforts of\n the enemies of the colored common-school system to misapply the\n aforesaid funds.\u201d\n\n\u2014At a meeting held in Baltimore, March 3d, under the auspices\nof the P. E. Board of Missions, it was stated that there are in\nthe South thirty-seven chapels for colored worshippers of that\ndenomination, fifty-seven clergymen and teachers (five of whom are\ncolored) and one colored evangelist.\n\n\u2014In this Assembly it was held that of the 5,000,000 colored\npeople, one-third had, since the war, risen to a higher\ncivilization and a higher life; one-third had gone down to a lower\nplane, and one-third were left victims of circumstances. If this\nlast estimate be correct, the upper third will work more and more\neffectually upon the lower two-thirds to lift them to its level.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nINDIANS.\n\n\u2014General Howard testified the other day, as the result of his\npersonal observation among the Indians, that \u201cwherever there has\nbeen faithful teaching of the Scriptures, there have been most\nabundant and remunerative results in civilization.\u201d\n\n\u2014The representatives of the Five Nations, in the Indian Territory,\nin their memorial to Congress, opposing the transfer of the Indian\nBureau to the War Department, appeal to the history of the more\nthan half century in which that department had complete control of\nthe Indian affairs. After setting forth the evils connected with\nthat period, they say, \u201cMay God spare us, and our race, from even\nthe possibility of ever again witnessing the recurrence of such\nscenes.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE PRESS.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nCONSECRATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS.\n\nBY REV. JAMES POWELL.\n\nNot long since, I spent a Sabbath in a well-known Ohio town, where\nare two of the largest Congregational Churches in the State. In\none, the annual offering to the work of the American Missionary\nAssociation was made that day. But, before the contribution\nwas taken, the pastor offered a prayer that both impressed and\ninstructed me. It was a prayer of special consecration of the\nofferings that were about to be made. He prayed that the people\nmight give thoughtfully and intelligently; that God\u2019s blessing\nmight rest upon the gifts, accompany them to the treasury, and\nout upon the mission field of the society. No mere formality was\nthis petition, but a glowing, heartfelt prayer for the object\nin view. I am quite prepared to hear that many other pastors\nare equally thoughtful to publicly consecrate the benevolent\ncontributions of their congregations, although my observation leads\nme to believe that such fidelity is exceptional. But why should\nit not be the rule? Indeed, when one comes to think of it, the\nwonder is that it is not. So large and important are the interests\ninvolved\u2014interests connected with the extension of Christ\u2019s\nkingdom; so sacred are many of the gifts\u2014the devising of generous\nhearts and the fruits of self-denial\u2014surely very tender should be\nthe spirit of the occasion when the offering is made.\n\nYet not only on account of this should consecrating prayer be\noffered when church contributions are taken, but also on account\nof the money that is thoughtlessly, and often unwillingly, thrown\ninto the contribution box. It would be an interesting revelation\nto have placed before us just what proportion of the so-called\nbenevolent contributions is consciously given as an offering to\nthe Lord. I fear it would be startlingly small. Now, all this\nmoney that is thrown into the Lord\u2019s treasury, by givers who have\nno higher prompting than that which governs them when they toss a\nnickel to an organ-grinder on the street, needs to be consecrated.\nIt is rather sarcastic to couple the word \u201cbenevolent\u201d with such\ncontributions; they sadly need prayer before they go out on their\nmission of benevolence.\n\nConsecrating prayer would tend to correct this great evil by\ninspiring thoughtfulness. \u201cHow much owest thou thy Lord?\u201d would\nhave a recognized place in deciding the amount to be given. The\nLord is a party in the transaction. In the persons of the poor\nand the perishing, He stands over against the treasury, and\nrightfully asks for evidence of loyalty to His cause. Are crumbs\nthat fall from an over-supplied table, are drops that trickle\nfrom an overflowing cup, a sufficient evidence? Christ knows the\nheart. Think of what it is to bring to Him the mere waste of our\nplenty, and call that charity. There is a possibility of actual sin\nhere, whose guilt is but increased by explanation. It was given\nthoughtlessly\u2014no reference to the debt owed, no reference given\nto the needs of the cause to be aided\u2014thoughtlessly! That is\nprecisely where the Christian conscience should sting most keenly.\nFor thoughtlessness in what is paid to Christ, is a most aggravated\nform of sin. Grocery bills, clothing bills, rent and taxes shall\nbe paid with thoughtful reference to what is justly due, and the\nworld shall label him dishonest who tries even to quibble about the\npoint; but upon this transcendently higher plane of obligation,\ninvolving the question of what the soul owes its God and Saviour,\nmany Christian men will do what, on the lower plane, they would\nscorn as highly dishonorable. Prayerful thoughtfulness will work\nreform in this respect, and develop a more genuinely benevolent\nChristian character.\n\nThe money, too, that comes from unwilling hands needs consecration.\nMany of the dimes and quarters that keep the deacons so long after\nthe service laboriously counting, had they voices and permission to\nspeak, would tell a story complimentary neither to the generosity\nnor benevolence of their donors. They would say: \u201cWe are here\nchiefly because the contribution box was passed, and our donors did\nnot like to appear niggardly. The hand that dropped us was so held\nthat the man passing the box could not see us had he wished to, but\nwe made quite a noise as we clinked down into our places, and by\nour clatter produced an impression that there was a good deal more\nto us than there is.\u201d The hypocrisy entering into this portion of\nthe contribution needs casting out by prayer.\n\nAnother good would be secured by the offering of a consecrating\nprayer when benevolent offerings are made in the churches. The\ncontribution box would be held in worthy esteem as a genuine\nmeans of grace. By many it is so held; it should be by all. It\nis no intruder in the sanctuary; it has the sanction of Divine\nappointment, and is the necessary outgrowth of \u201cpure religion\nand undefiled\u201d in the heart. Its visits to the pews should be\nhailed with delight, for it brings even a greater blessing to the\ngiver than it carries away to the receiver. Still, it is not thus\nwelcomed by every one. Indeed, such an aversion have some people to\nit that an announcement a week beforehand that it is to be used, is\nto make certain that Sunday will find them sick. The nature of the\ncontribution-box sickness need not be particularly inquired into,\nbut \u201cindisposition\u201d is a good-sounding word with which to designate\nit, and it is so elastic in meaning withal, that it can be made\nto stretch over into the domain of conscience. Yet a very serious\nsickness it is, and should be so regarded. Next to willingness\nand ability, is opportunity to do good. To turn away from the\nopportunity is to confess unwillingness; and such confession, the\nApostle James unqualifiedly affirms, is denial of having love to\nGod. Indisposition, therefore, means, on apostolic authority, that\nthe love of God dwells not in the heart.\n\nI desire to commend the example of the Ohio pastor to all\npastors who desire to increase the benevolent contributions of\ntheir churches. Let the contributions be consecrated by special\nprayer. It interferes with no method that may be in use to take\ncontributions. It will impart new power to all.\u2014_Advance._\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, MISSISSIPPI.\n\nREV. G. STANLEY POPE.\n\nGeneral View.\n\nThis is one of the youngest of the A. M. A. schools. Some of our\nsister institutions have the advantage of us by four or five years.\nNone have had such frequent changes in managers and instructors.\nAt the commencement of the present year, there was almost an\nentire change in the workers. In the face of many discouragements,\nthere is a remarkable degree of confidence on the part of the\npupils. This is manifest in the increased attendance, which, in\nthe Normal and Intermediate Departments, is sixty per cent. larger\nthan last year, and this without special effort on our part. The\nladies\u2019 hall is full, and some are compelled to occupy a room in\nthe mansion. The young men\u2019s dormitories have been more than full,\nso that we have been obliged to put up some rough barracks, for\nthe accommodation of twenty young men. Before the building could\nbe finished, half the rooms were taken. Recitations are heard\nin Professor Miner\u2019s office and private sitting-room, as well\nas in the public sitting-room at the ladies\u2019 hall. Letters are\ncontinually coming in, asking for work with which to pay board. It\nseems more like the first two or three years after the surrender\nthan anything I have since seen. One young man walked fifty miles,\ncarrying his trunk on his back, to get here. There ought to be\nmeans furnished us to help all such \u201ctramps.\u201d\n\nThe school will accomplish the work intended by its founders, when\nit shall send out each year a class of well-trained teachers, who\nwill build up good schools and churches. It is not proposed, at\npresent, to enter upon a higher course of training than is given in\nour best Normal schools.\n\nOur location could not well be bettered, being almost in the very\ncentre of the State, and upon the great through line from New\nOrleans to Chicago. The place is both beautiful and healthful. The\nground is high and rolling, and the great oaks, with their heavy\nhanging moss, lend a grandeur and charm to the place. There are\nonly two schools of similar grade in the State open to colored\npeople\u2014Alcorn, in the extreme south-west, and Shaw University,\nin the extreme north. The field is before us. Mississippi, with\nher 350,000 souls, over sixteen years of age, who cannot read\nand write, is calling for our teachers. Chicago and New Orleans\nare ready to consume our berries and hay just as soon as we can\nproduce them in sufficient quantity to ship. The farming community\naround us is calling for shoes and harnesses. But our buildings are\nentirely inadequate. The _immediate need_ is a plain, substantial\nthree-story brick building, that will cost $12,000, the first floor\nfor recitation rooms, and the second and third for dormitories\nfor young men. We ought to have it before our opening next year.\nThe ladies\u2019 hall must also be enlarged, for we cannot put the\nyoung women into barracks as we have the young men. There is every\nindication of greatly increased attendance another year. We must\nnot close our doors. Will the readers of the MISSIONARY\ngive us the means to open them wide? The demand is for a forward\nmovement. Shall the demand be met?\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe Farm.\n\nPROF. D. I. MINER.\n\nSince the present school year commenced it has been a matter\nof a good deal of study with us, who are now in charge of this\ninstitution, how to so employ the labor of the students as to have\nit a source of _some_ income to the school. During the past year,\nthe farm brought in very little revenue, owing to drought and other\nunfortunate circumstances, and we have been compelled to purchase\nlargely some things which the farm ought to produce in _excess_ of\nour needs.\n\nWe are expecting to cultivate seventy or eighty more acres than was\nattempted last year, and, with better cultivation and the blessing\nof God, it is hoped we shall produce as much corn, hay, potatoes\nand vegetables as we consume during the year, even if there should\nbe no surplus to sell. On April 1st we had over sixty acres of corn\nplanted.\n\nDuring the winter term we have had forty-six young men working for\nhalf their board. The principal work in January and February was\npreparing wood for a year to come; but since the 1st of March, the\nfarm and garden have taken all the labor. And this will be true for\nthe remainder of this school year, which closes in June, when our\nheaviest crop (corn) will be \u201claid by.\u201d\n\nWe are hoping gradually to work into crops which will occupy less\nground, and still be more remunerative than corn and potatoes. To\nthis end, last fall, we commenced in a small way with strawberries\nby setting some two thousand plants, which are doing remarkably\nwell. From these, we expect to increase till we have several acres\nin strawberries. Being on the line of the Illinois Central and New\nOrleans Railroad, we have direct communication with a good Northern\nmarket for such fruit.\n\nThe prime want of the farm is fences. During the war, and the\nfew years immediately succeeding, the fences in this part of the\ncountry were nearly annihilated, in consequence of which the\nplantations are almost all connected together, with no line of\nfences between them. We need at least four hundred rods of fence\nto divide this farm from neighboring plantations. If there was\n_rail timber_ on the place, we would soon have the fences; but such\ntimber is scarce here, and lumber must be obtained for this purpose\nfrom the pine region, fifty or sixty miles south of us. Much is\nlost every year, in consequence of the exposed condition of our\ncrops.\n\n * * * * *\n\nIndustrial Department for Girls.\n\nMRS. G. S. POPE.\n\nWe deem it of the greatest importance that the girls be taught how\nto do all kinds of housework and sewing, neatly and thoroughly. So\nour house and laundry work is nearly all done by the girls, their\nwork being changed every month, as for example: a girl who was last\nmonth in the laundry is in the sewing-room this month, the next\nis sweeping and dusting, the next washing dishes, etc. Our sewing\ndepartment has only been in existence a part of the year, and we\ncan hardly tell how it will pay financially. The girls have made\nsome bedding and done other sewing that was needed; have made and\nsold some shirts. If materials are donated for sewing, I know we\ncan accomplish very much. One of the girls said the other day:\n\u201cWell, I have learned to make button-holes this month, any way.\u201d\nAnother thought she could go to work and make a shirt all alone.\nThey are all willing and anxious to learn, and to work to help pay\ntheir board.\n\nA great deal yet remains to be done for the girls of Mississippi.\nThey need our help. We must throw about them such influences as\nwill restrain them from the terrible evils around them, and lift\nthem into a better life.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nVIRGINIA.\n\nThe Church and School at Franklin\u2014Beginnings and Results.\n\nMISS M. A. ANDRUS, CARRSVILLE, VA.\n\nTen years ago, the 10th of last month, I was sent by the American\nMissionary Association to Franklin, Va. The building I occupied\nthey called their church. It was a slab building, without any\nwindows, so that the light had to be admitted by an open door. The\nschool was large, having, I think, some sixty scholars, and was the\nfirst school ever taught there for the freedmen. After teaching two\nsessions, I was providentially called to another place.\n\nIn the building spoken of, I also taught my first Sunday-school in\nthe South. Soon a revival of religion followed, and a number were\nadded to the church, many of whom are members still, though some\nhave gone to their reward. One of these converts, after living\nthree years a happy Christian life, said, to those around his dying\ncouch: \u201cAs a little child rests in the arms of its mother, so I am\nresting in the arms of Jesus,\u201d then sweetly fell asleep.\n\nSome three weeks ago, God in his providence brought me again to\nFranklin. Instead of the old slab building, there was a new church,\nwell lighted, lathed, plastered, comfortably seated (they sat on\nboards when I went there), and nicely warmed with two large stoves;\nand a minister, to whom they pay $400 a year.\n\nI had the privilege of being in the Sabbath-school. After the\nlessons were over, the superintendent said, \u201cThe founder and first\nteacher of the school is with us this morning, and we should all\nbe glad if she would address the school.\u201d I arose and spoke to\nthem some words of encouragement, then took my leave. I there\nsaw some who were once my little ignorant scholars, now teachers\nin the Sabbath-school. The superintendent himself was under my\ninstruction, and the preacher also. I commenced while there a\nWoman\u2019s Prayer-meeting, which is still continued, and in which,\nlast winter, began a revival, the largest they have ever had.\n\nThe day-school is now taught by Miss Delia Irving, a young woman\nwho graduated last June at Hampton, and received the first prize,\nawarded to her by the hand of Mrs. President Hayes.\n\nAnd now, in looking back upon these events and scenes, we behold\nsome of the little streams which have flowed out of the American\nMissionary Association, and which are designed, no doubt, to widen\nand deepen, through time and through eternity.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nA Large Sunday-School\u2014Faithful Teachers\u2014A Temperance S. S.\nConcert.\n\nMRS. R. F. MARKHAM, SAVANNAH.\n\nFor several months past, our Sabbath-school has been gradually and\nsteadily increasing in numbers and interest. Last Sabbath morning\nthere were one hundred and eighty-six present. We have a very\nfaithful and efficient class of teachers\u2014twelve in number. They\nare scarcely ever absent. We as much expect to see all our teachers\nin their places each Sabbath morning as to see the minister in the\npulpit, and we are almost never disappointed. And their hearts are\nevidently in the work. We suggest the example (not boastingly)\nas worthy of imitation by some schools at the North, where the\nsuperintendents must, every Sunday, apply to the Bible-classes for\nsubstitutes to fill the places of absent teachers.\n\nLast Sunday evening the school gave a temperance concert. The\nprogramme contained many passages of Scripture condemning the use\nof wine and strong drink, also showing the terrible effects and the\nfinal consequences of its use. In addition to the Bible showing of\nthe matter, we had declamations, dialogues, recitations, music, and\nremarks by the pastor, all pertaining to the same subject.\n\nAll our classes (except one of very little children) were\nrepresented. We were almost proud of our scholars, they performed\ntheir parts so well, and we had given them very little time for\npreparation. We had a crowded house, many stood about the doors,\nand many others left, unable to gain admittance. The audience\ngave marked attention, and evinced much interest during all the\nexercises, and excellent order was maintained, though the house was\ncrowded. During some of the performances there were indications\nof rather noisy demonstrations of delight, which, however, were\nreadily restrained. The music contributed much to the interest of\nthe occasion.\n\nWe hope that good may result from the effort, as intemperance\npresents formidable obstacles to the progress of our work here.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n_McIntosh, Liberty County._\n\nThe Old Midway Church\u2014Returning Courage and Prosperity.\n\nSILAS DANIELS, GOLDING\u2019S GROVE.\n\nWhen Brother Floyd Snelson was first taken from us to go to Africa,\nwe almost believed that we should have to strike camp in the\nwilderness. It gave us much pain to have him go, and the church\ndid become very feeble at one time. Since Brother Jos. E. Smith\ntook the place, we have had fresh courage, and have been going\nforward again. Yesterday was our Communion Sabbath. As usual, we\nhad about 500 persons at the church. One young man was received to\nits membership. At the three communions since Brother Smith came,\nnine persons have joined the church. The people are coming up to\ntheir church duties with much zeal, and becoming more and more\nattached to their minister, and he is doing a good work among them.\nOur Sabbath-school, also, has been re-organized, and, with four\nteachers added, has an average of twenty-three or more scholars in\neach class. We have for the first time introduced the International\nSunday-school Lessons, and all seem to be very much delighted with\nthem.\n\nWe have a large church built by the A. M. A. that can seat five\nhundred persons comfortably, and it is pretty well filled every\nSunday with people from all denominations, anxious to hear the true\nGospel preached.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nInterest in Church and Sunday-School.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. SMITH.\n\nAs the weather grows warm, and the wet, muddy roads become dry,\nthus favoring travel, the people from all directions flock in great\ncrowds to the house of God, eager to hear the \u201cwords of eternal\nlife.\u201d I preached to a crowded house on last Sabbath, and many\nwanted to know what they \u201cmust do to be saved.\u201d God is with us.\nEvery Sabbath brings new signs for encouragement. There are marked\nevidences of a growing interest on the part of the people to learn\nof God through His Word. Especially has this been true since the\n\u201cInternational Lessons\u201d were introduced in our Sabbath-school. It\nmakes a peculiar impression upon one to see persons fifty, sixty,\nseventy, and sometimes eighty years of age, whom slavery has worn\nout, sitting in their Sunday-school classes, with white heads\nand bent over bodies, with their dim, sunken eyes fixed on the\nteachers, and sometimes lips and throat moving as if to swallow\nevery word. None of them can read, and it is quite amusing at times\nto watch them trying to recall the kings of Judah in their order,\ntelling who the good ones were, and naming some of the good things\nthey did. The joy and satisfaction which one shares, in being an\ninstrument in God\u2019s hands for the revealing of His Word unto such\nbabes, are inestimable.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nNeeds of this Field.\n\nREV. S. S. ASHLEY.\n\nNot only is this field needy, but promising. A majority of\nthe people, and those living about the old Midway Church, are\nnearly all colored. Many of the white landed proprietors are\nnon-residents. Rice culture is the principal employment. The\ncolored people are rapidly becoming land owners, and are remarkably\nsuccessful in making their payments. Just now, their means are\nmostly consumed in this effort, consequently they can expend very\nlittle in improving their habitations; yet there is improvement\nin this respect. They are beginning to come out of the swamps and\nbuild by the roadside. As slaves, they were not allowed to dwell\nnear the \u201cbig road\u201d; therefore, the woods and the swamps seem to\nthem more like home than the roadside. But without instruction they\nwill not achieve much domestic improvement. In fact, they need\ninstruction in every direction\u2014in house-building, in road-making,\nin agriculture, in domestic economy, in the improvement of time, in\nbusiness, as well as in schools and churches. A missionary to this\npeople should be an Oberlin. An Oberlin\u2019s work will pay richly. The\nwhole field is accessible to missionary labor. Very many desire\ninstruction. They listen eagerly to kind, plain, Christian advice,\nand will travel many miles for the privilege. Certainly these are\nthe marks of a good missionary field.\n\nBut to energize this prosperity, the meeting-house should be put\ninto comfortable condition. It is a large but unfinished structure.\nIn damp and chilly weather, it is uncomfortable\u2014so much so, that\nthe pastor doubts about the propriety of holding, in the winter,\nmeetings at night. The place of Divine worship should be, not only\ncomfortable, but refining and elevating. The people who have good\nmeeting-houses will have good dwelling-houses. The meeting-house\nshould be a teacher of neatness, care, attention, thrift and\nreverence. Unless the house is attractive, attractive preaching is\nwell-nigh impossible.\n\nAgain, the school-house should be removed to the road, beside the\nmeeting-house, and enlarged. Its present situation is out of the\nway, and it is too small to accommodate the pupils.\n\nThese are my impressions concerning the A. M. A. work in\nLiberty County. Brother Smith is succeeding well, but he needs\nthe improvements I have mentioned. I hope that you can aid in\ncompleting the meeting-house. If the building stands a year longer\nwithout attention, it will require repairs as well as finishing.\nA portable _saw-mill_ would be a grand civilizing and missionary\nagency.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nOgeechee.\n\nREV. JOHN K. MCLEAN.\n\nRejoice with me, for the Lord has answered our prayer for an old\nman, who has spent sixty-five years in the service of Satan, but is\nnow rejoicing in the great grace and love of a forgiving Saviour.\nIt is quite a change in the old man, to see him in Sunday-school\nand at preaching service, and to hear him using his tongue in\ntelling how good God has been to him, instead of taking His name in\nvain, as he used to do. But while we rejoice with this one, there\nare others for whom we are praying, and for whom we ask an interest\nin your prayers, that they may be brought into the fold of Christ.\n\nI hope to be able to help a few of the young people, but the way\nseems dark at present. One of our Northern friends, who is here in\nthe work, said to me not long ago, \u201cThe people North know nothing\nof the real condition of the people here; it is so unlike anything\nthere, that they cannot realize just how it is. Before I came here\nI had heard a great deal about the state of things, but had no\nthought of finding the people in the condition in which they are.\u201d\nI know that what she said is true, and that many of our friends\nNorth, and in England, have but little idea of the real condition\nof our people.\n\nI am sure that if the representations that Christ and His disciples\ngave of the Christian life be true, there must be a much greater\nand deeper work among the people here before the Spirit of God\ncan make them His. I have thought and said often, and I say it\nyet, that the work of the A. M. A., or a work of the same kind, is\nthe only thing that will save the people of the South. Nine out\nof every ten know but little or nothing of what it is to live an\nupright life, and, therefore, they have no real communion with God,\nsuch as all His true children do have.\n\nIf the people here could be made to see the wrong there is in rum,\nand to put it down, there would be some hope for them; but so long\nas rum takes their labor, their money, their brains, and their\nGod from them, there is no hope for them, and but little chance\nof doing them good. This is saying a great deal, but the truth\nis light, and that is what we want. Fourteen persons have been\nreceived into the church since I came here, and more are expected\nto come in with us. I am sure the Lord is waiting to bless this\nplace.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTHE ALABAMA CONFERENCE.\n\nPapers, Reports, Sunday-School Convention, Theological Institute.\n\nREV. CHARLES NOBLE, MONTGOMERY.\n\nThe Alabama Conference met Friday evening, March 29th, in the\ncollege chapel at Talladega; the exercises opening with the annual\nsermon, by Rev. Mr. Ash, of Mobile, and an address of welcome to\nthe delegates, by Prof. Lord. Rev. Mr. Andrews read a paper of very\ngreat interest, on the \u201cMission of Congregationalism in the South.\u201d\nHe first dwelt upon the history of Congregationalism, especially\nin its freedom from complicity with slavery, its prominence in\nthe anti-slavery movement, and its comparative freedom from the\nsect spirit, as peculiarly indicating its call to work among the\nfreedmen. He then brought out the peculiar features of the polity,\nindependence and fellowship, and showed how they tend (1) to\ndevelop and sustain republican institutions, and to fit the church\nmember for his duties as a citizen; (2) to promote intelligence;\n(3) to sustain an unshackeled pulpit, and (4) to develop personal\npiety, including moral reform and revivals. This is a very bare\nabstract of an essay which aroused great interest, and tended to\nencourage and cheer on the workers very much. Other papers were\nread, on \u201cHow to Develop Benevolence in our Churches,\u201d by Rev.\nFletcher Clark, of Selma; on the \u201cRelation of Talladega College\nto our Church Work,\u201d by Prof. Lord; and on the \u201cMission of the\nYoung Ministers in the South,\u201d by Rev. P. J. McEntosh\u2014himself one\nof those young colored men who have gone out from Mr. Andrew\u2019s\nteaching to work among their own people.\n\nThe reports from the churches showed a very encouraging condition\nof things. One new church has been organized during the year,\nmaking a total of thirteen within the bounds of the State. All are,\nat present, supplied with ministers. Almost all reported additions\non profession of faith, and evidence of the special presence of\nthe Spirit. Though it has not been a year of remarkable revivals,\nit has been one of hopeful and vigorous growth. The feeling seemed\ngeneral and strong, that these little churches have \u201ccome to stay\u201d\nin Alabama, and have no idea of dying whatsoever. A great deal\nof missionary activity was reported. Talladega College sustains\ntwenty-five Sabbath-schools; Montgomery and Selma, four each; and\nothers are not behind, according to their means and opportunities.\nIt is certainly a suggestive and encouraging fact that, in the\nvery heart of Alabama, a body of men could come together so full\nof enthusiasm for Puritan ideas, and should, without exception,\nreport that their hold upon the communities in which they labor is\nmanifestly strengthening.\n\nThe Sunday-school Convention opened Monday night, with an address\non \u201cThe Object of Sunday-school Effort, Winning Souls,\u201d by Rev.\nGeorge E. Hill, of Marion; followed by a lecture on the \u201cGeography\nof the kingdom of Judah,\u201d by Rev. G. W. Andrews. Tuesday, Mr.\nClark, of Selma, gave a Bible Reading on Faith; Prof. Lord taught\nthe lesson for the following Sunday; Mr. Hickok opened the question\nbox, and gave a variety of helpful answers; and the delegates from\nthe different Sunday-schools made their reports. These showed that\nthe work of our churches rests on a good foundation, in numerous\nlive, growing Sabbath-schools; and that, in trying to save as many\nas possible of the present generation, the men and women of the\nnext thirty years are not being forgotten.\n\nTuesday night, the Theological Institute began with a very\nelaborate paper on the \u201cRelation of Mental Philosophy to Theology,\u201d\nby Rev. D. W. Hickok. Wednesday, we were treated with examinations\nin Smith\u2019s O. T. History, and the Psalms, conducted by Prof.\nAndrews and Mr. Hickok, and a paper on \u201cFuture Punishment,\u201d by\nRev. Mr. Hill. Thursday, there were plans of sermons offered for\ncriticism by Mr. Clark and Mr. Hickok; a paper on \u201cJoseph Cook,\u201d by\nMr. Noble; and an examination on the \u201cPatriarchal Period,\u201d by Mr.\nAndrews; closing with a free conference of workers in the evening.\n\nEven more interesting to many of us than the proceedings of\nConference, was our observation of the work of Talladega College.\nThe Conference met Prof. Lord, for formal consultation in regard\nto the College work by a committee; and that committee\u2019s report\nwill be published. We met the students and faculty constantly at\ntable, and in the meetings; had a very pleasant picnic gathering in\nthe woods of the College Farm, and listened to a very entertaining\nconcert by the \u201cMusical Union.\u201d I cannot forbear expressing, what I\nfeel sure was the _universal_ feeling, interest and admiration for\nthe good work Prof. Lord and his co-laborers are doing. Many of us\nwere specially interested in the \u201cIndustrial Department,\u201d and wish\nthe brethren of the College the greatest success in that effort to\nbuild up manly, womanly, _self-reliant_ characters in the pupils.\n\nMy visit at Talladega, and my intercourse with the workers there,\nhave made me feel more deeply interested in the work than ever. I\ncould not ask a happier lot than to be permitted to give my life to\nthis field. It seems to me so _unmistakably_ the work of Christ.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nScience and Religion.\n\nREV. G. W. ANDREWS, TALLADEGA.\n\nThe Theological Department of Talladega College has just been\nfavored with a special course of lectures on the \u201cRelation of\nScience to Religion,\u201d by the Rev. D. L. Hickok, recently of\nKingsville, Ohio. The lectures were full of instruction, and\nawakened a great deal of interest among our pupils. Mr. Hickok is\nan able thinker, and an inspiring and enthusiastic speaker.\n\nSkepticism has little footing here, and will have still less now\nthat we have such a flood of light thrown upon what was before\nmysterious, and supposed to be known only to the scientist. Let the\nscientist give us the \u201cliving\u201d from the \u201cnot living\u201d if he can, and\nlet him bridge the frightful chasm between different species of\nthe animal kingdom, before our faith in his new theories is much\nstrengthened. We believe in Mr. Cook, and wish we could see him\nface to face to thank him a thousand times for his three published\nvolumes. We hail with joy these lectures by Mr. Cook, and mean to\ndo our part to reflect the light he is shedding, until it finds its\nway, as it is sure to do, into the hearts of the masses, to bless\nthem with the \u201crest of faith.\u201d His powerful arguments are taking\nstrong hold of us all.\n\nRev. Mr. Hickok is an original thinker, and has done us a good\nservice by his lectures. It is such men, of commanding influence\nand power, that we need in this work of peculiar difficulties among\nthe freedmen. We wish other and similar institutions might be\nfavored as we have been.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nLOUISIANA.\n\nPart of a Day Among the Poor.\n\nMISS JOSEPHINE PIERCE, NEW ORLEANS.\n\nIn the rear of St. Charles Avenue you may enter and see an old man.\nHe says he has been converted since he was ninety years of age.\nThe Psalms are all his delight. There has not been a chip of wood\nnor a grain of coal in his room all this winter. With the strength\nof a hundred years in his muscles, he grasps a crust of bread, and\nasks for more. His daughter replies: \u201cFather, you should put your\nmind on the Lord, and then you wouldn\u2019t be so hungry; people that\npray all the time don\u2019t have such an appetite.\u201d As if this were not\nenough, in this same room, the worse than fatherless baby, Leopold,\nhas come into New Orleans life, with that stain upon his birth,\nwhich all the waters in the ocean cannot wash away. For these four\ngenerations, from the great-grandfather to the babe of yesterday,\nonly one woman\u2019s frail hands to keep the wolf from the door, and\nhers held from going out to work, by the sickness that cannot spare\nher from home. With all Father H\u2019s ever-flowing liberality, there\nhave been weeks in succession, this winter, when there has not been\ntwenty-five cents\u2019 worth of corn-meal to give the old man; for if\nhe had it, Aunt Deborah, who has seen General Washington many and\nmany a time, would have to go without; and if she had it, blind\nAunt Bagatelle would have to go without; and if she had it, blind\nAunt Milly would have to go without.\n\nPerhaps it will be easier to breathe in the next house. Over the\nway, as the mother\u2019s hand is clasped in greeting: \u201cYou miss your\nboy?\u201d \u201cYes, James is dead. He wanted white sugar in his tea, and I\ncouldn\u2019t get it for him. He wanted medicine, and I couldn\u2019t get it\nfor him. He was hungry-like. So it\u2019s good the Father has taken him;\nI gave him the medicine your minister sent him. I put a spoonful of\nthe medicine that didn\u2019t need sweetening into the medicine that did\nneed sweetening. It seemed to do him good.\u201d\n\nLet us go to the sunny side, three miles away. \u201cGod bless you, my\nchild,\u201d was all the mother\u2019s gift to Baby Vasa. A foster-mother\nwelcomed the orphan to her heart and her home. As she stands by\nthe tub\u2014\u201cI have no bonnet,\u201d she says; \u201cbut we have the baby.\nWe used to have milk in the family, but since the baby came we\nhaven\u2019t stopped the cart. I don\u2019t know how to make clothes for him,\nbut I think I can learn.\u201d God bless thee, Baby Vasa, for all the\nunselfish love thy little fingers work out in the daily life about\nthee! A can of milk for Baby Vasa brought a never-to-be-forgotten\nlight into the foster-mother\u2019s eyes.\n\nHere is a house without a number. As you lift the wooden latch,\nyou feel that some one is waiting for a coming step. \u201cI was sick\nlast night,\u201d Aunt Jemima says. \u201cI thought the angels would come for\nme; I sometimes think they will come very soon.\u201d Her bed is under\nthe rafters, just at the head of those narrow stairs. The room,\nwithout a door, is the only thoroughfare for another family. There\nis no sheet on the bed; cotton was given for it, but was saved for\nsomething else. She goes on: \u201cPeople won\u2019t come in one of these\nmornings, and say, \u2018Aunt Jemima\u2019s dead, and she\u2019s very poor, and\nwe\u2019ll have to go right out and buy her some clothes,\u2019 for I have\na skirt and a white dress, and a pair of new stockings.\u201d \u201cBut the\nstockings were given to you year before last\u2014ar\u2019n\u2019t they worn out\nyet?\u201d \u201cOh, no! you don\u2019t think I would ever put them on. When\nthe sun shines, I hang them on that pole to air them.\u201d A piece\nof sugar-cane is in the ashes for fuel. The old limbs failed the\nlast time they went out to Lake Pontchartrain for drift-wood. A\nsatisfied smile lights up the whole face\u2014the ear bends close to\nthe lips, and they murmur: \u201cI am rich; when the angels come for me,\nI have a pair of new stockings.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nKENTUCKY.\n\nTemperance and Evangelistic Work.\n\nREV. JOHN G. FEE, BEREA.\n\nFor more than two months we have had weekly meetings on the subject\nof temperance, attended by large audiences, and securing more\nthan a thousand names to the Murphy Pledge. The moral effect of\nthe movement is strengthened by the fact that each pledge is made\nwhilst invoking the assisting grace of God, and is accompanied by\nreading the Scriptures, and Christian song. Taking this one step in\nthe right direction is a preparation for a complete surrender to\nChrist.\n\nDuring a part of this time Brother Myers, from Hillsdale, Mich.,\nhas been here preaching at night. Our chapel is occupied during\nthe day as a recitation room, and though the weather has been\npeculiarly unfavorable, yet a goodly number have been in attendance\neach night, with some nineteen or twenty conversions, and many\nother persons deeply impressed.\n\nEach day brings to us fresh grounds of hope, and enlarged prospects\nfor usefulness. At no other time since its organization has Berea\nCollege had so hopeful a prospect as now. Once or twice we have\nhad as many pupils, but at no other time so many of high moral\nworth and social influence. Daily, the prejudice against a school\nof colored and white pupils is subsiding; and young men and young\nwomen of good habits and character are coming in, and such as\nappreciate an education, in connection with just and righteous\nsentiments. We feel that the demonstration here\u2014that God leads and\nis over us for good\u2014is important for society and our country. We\nhave an abiding conviction that our heavenly Father approves, and\nthat we may, in faith, ask for grace and means.\n\nWith the people around us, our association is free and pleasant.\nWith many of the neighboring towns and congregations, exchange of\nlaborers and speakers is frequent, and to mutual advantage. What we\nneed is good men, discreet, self-sacrificing and earnest; and this\nland will be brought under the power of the Gospel, and of a Jesus\nwho loves all impartially.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE AFRICAN MISSIONARIES.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN\u2019S MISSIONS AID SOCIETY.\n\nA Public Meeting in Liverpool.\n\nOn the evening of March the 8th, a large congregation came\ntogether in the Great George street church (formerly Dr. Raffles),\nto welcome to Liverpool four colored missionaries, ex-slaves,\nfrom Fisk University, and also to bid them farewell on the eve\nof their departure; under the care of the American Missionary\nAssociation, for the Mendi Mission, on the west coast of Africa.\nThe missionaries were very cordially greeted by many of the old,\nand also the new, friends of the African race.\n\nWilliam Crosfield, J. P., a life-long friend of the oppressed race,\npresided. After an appropriate hymn, prayer was offered by the Rev.\nStanley Rogers. Then the chairman said: \u201cIt gives me great pleasure\nto preside at such a meeting of this society. These missionaries\nbefore you are the first-fruits from the Fisk University, which was\nestablished at Nashville, Tenn., for the education of those who\nwere freed from slavery by the late Civil War in America. And now,\nhere they are ready for work in that great mission field of Africa.\nIt is a vast field. And it is to be hoped that the British people\nwill do their part in the aid of this most important enterprise.\nFisk University was introduced to the English people a few years\nago by the Jubilee Singers, who have done wonders towards its\nsupport.\u201d The chairman then turned and added: \u201cWe must not forget\nthe wives of these young missionaries; we must give them a shake of\nthe hand, as a token of our interest in them.\u201d\n\nThe Rev. Dr. O. H. White (one of the secretaries of the Freedmen\u2019s\nAid Society), then gave an interesting statement of the origin of\nthe American Missionary Association, of its plan and work for the\nAfrican race, and of the formation of the Freedmen\u2019s Missions Aid\nSociety, with the Earl of Shaftesbury as President, to be auxiliary\nto the Association in New York. And he stated that the united\nsocieties are now making a special effort to send missionaries from\namong the freedmen to that dark and long-plundered continent beyond\nthe sea\u2014Africans to teach and to save Africans!\n\nThe Rev. Andrew Jackson, one of the missionaries, then spoke, and\ngave a very interesting account of their call to the work, and of\nthe great increase of the missionary spirit in Fisk University\nduring the year, and of the great self-denial on the part of the\ncolored parents and of pupils, that larger numbers may get an\neducation, and so be prepared for a greater usefulness among their\nown benighted people.\n\nThe chairman then called on the Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, pastor\nfor many years of the Myrtle street Baptist Church. He stated his\ngreat interest in the Jubilee Singers, and in the efforts making\nto send the Gospel to that long-neglected Africa, which is now\nso wonderfully opening up to trade and commerce, and especially\nto Christianity. He expressed his strong hope that these young\nmissionaries would be brought safely to their field of labor, and\nthat they might be greatly successful in their work, and that many\nmore might follow their example, and go forth to that great African\nfield.\n\nRev. Albert Miller (a true type of the African race), then\naddressed the meeting, with the warmth and glow peculiar to the\nsable children of the summer and more genial climes. He spoke of\nthe depressed condition of his people in America, and of the need\non that dark continent, to which he and his associates were now\ngoing, under the Divine lead. He expressed the desire of his heart\nthat all Christians should pray and give for the evangelization of\nthe benighted millions of Africa.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Pearson, M. A., pastor of the church, next spoke,\nin the most cordial manner, of his great pleasure in welcoming\nthese young missionaries and the freedmen\u2019s cause to that ancient\nhistoric church. He commended the plan for sending educated\nAfricans to that great work to be done in those vast fields, which\nhave proved so fatal to Anglo-Saxon life. He said the British\npeople had special reasons for taking part with the American people\nin this effort to redeem Africa from the darkness and doom of the\npast centuries. If the work so well begun was followed up, as it\nought to be, the time was not distant when we should see a far\nbetter day for that dark continent with its millions of people.\n\nIn the absence of the Rev. Mr. Wech, M. A., who was expected to\nspeak, his Elder, John Patterson, Esq., was called to fill the\nplace. He spoke with the pith and pathos characteristic of those\nfrom the Emerald Isle. He recalled a little of the past history\nof Liverpool and contrasted it happily with the present state of\nthings, when so many, from the different denominations of the city,\ncould come together so harmoniously to greet the young missionaries\nfrom Fisk University, on their way to the west coast of Africa to\nteach the knowledge of the Gospel to the benighted of their race.\n\nThe Rev. Wardlaw Thompson, in a few words, cordially commended the\nFreedmen\u2019s cause to the hearts and to the pecuniary support of\nthe friends of Africa. He then led the congregation in an earnest\nprayer for the blessing of God upon the missionaries, in their\nvoyage to their distant home, and upon their work for many years\namong their own people.\n\nAn appropriate hymn was then sung, and the services, which had been\nhighly satisfactory, were closed with the Benediction.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nWanted\u2014Cloth, Bibles and School-books.\n\nREV. FLOYD SNELSON, SHERBRO ISLAND, W. AFRICA.\n\nI must \u201cstrike while the iron is hot.\u201d\n\nThere is very little of anything found here. Most of the children\nand parents go naked, with the exception of those who wear a\nhandkerchief or country cloth. When you ask them to send their\nchildren to school, they show a willingness, but render, as excuse,\nthat they have no clothes, and that they are unable to furnish\nthem. Cloth here is very high, and in most cases their excuse\nis reasonable. If some person would be so kind as to send out a\nquantity of cheap cloth, to be made up for clothing, it will prove\na blessing to many a suffering one.\n\nThe disadvantages and sufferings through which this people have\nto pass are indescribable. I have had many calls for Bibles, but\nregret to say I have been unable to honor any. We have a very\nflourishing Sabbath-school, and are in great need of Sabbath-school\npapers and tracts. The day-school is larger. Some of the scholars\nare unable to pursue their studies for want of books. We cannot\nkeep the number together we now have, unless this evil is removed.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nS\u2019KOKOMISH AGENCY, W. T.\n\nSunday-School Progress\u2014An Indian Festival\u2014Temperance and Order.\n\nREV. MYRON EELLS.\n\nOur Sabbath-school is accustomed to make a specialty of inducing\nthe children to learn the lesson in the Bible, believing that the\nBible is the best Sabbath instruction with which we can store their\nminds. Learning six verses places a child on the roll of honor,\nand reciting them perfectly gives him two credit marks. For four\nSabbaths during the past year there was no Sabbath-school, hence\nthe highest number which a child could receive was ninety-six.\nThat number was received by one Indian girl, and it is the best\nthat has ever been done in the school. Last year the highest number\nwas eighty-six, and that was better than the year before. Ten\nothers, out of about thirty who can read English, received over\nfifty credit marks.\n\nIn January and February, I was absent some three weeks at an Indian\nfestival, ninety miles from here. They are wholly heathenish, but\nthus far it has been about as impossible to prevent them as it is\nto prevent a river running down stream; hence, the next best thing\nis to guide them. Drunkenness at such places is one of their worst\ndangers, and the principal Indians are beginning to realize it.\nAbout 550 Indians were present, seventy-five of whom went from\nthis reservation. I have made the trip by canoe several times in\nthe summer, and in the winter by steamer, but the prospect was not\npleasant of traveling 180 miles in an open canoe; camping out when\nit might rain, snow or freeze all the time. But the chiefs there\nand here urged me to go, and assist in guarding against worthless\nwhite men and Indians. There was no one else to go, and it did seem\nthat if they should get on a \u201cbig drunk,\u201d and I should be asked\nwhy I did not go and try to prevent it, and should reply, because\nI was afraid it would be stormy, it would be a poor excuse. It\nwas a hard place to attempt to elevate the Indians, though I held\nseveral services with them, but there was a prospect that I might\nprevent their falling as deep into the pit as they would otherwise.\nThe result justified the work. One drunken Indian was arrested,\none drunken white man and wife were sent home; and it was plain\nthat, had I not been there, no one could have told where it would\nhave ended. Out of the seventy-five who went with me, I do not know\nof more than half a dozen who have been drunk within four years,\nalthough nearly all drank more or less previous to the adoption of\nthe present policy; and it is considerable to say that 550 Indians\nwere together for a week, and that there was only one case of\ndrunkenness, and only one of quarreling.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nGREEN BAY AGENCY.\n\nEducation Among the Menomonee Indians.\n\nJOS. C. BRIDGMAN, KESHENA, WIS.\n\nEducation among the Menomonee Indians is making very perceptible\nheadway. At the suggestion of Colonel E. C. Watkins, United States\nIndian Inspector, the three day-schools upon the reserve were\nmerged into a boarding-school, in September, 1876. This has proved\na success beyond our most hopeful expectations. No like school\namong white children, so far as my observation goes, shows more\nenthusiasm on the part of the scholars, more zeal on the part of\nthe teachers, or better progress, when the obstacles to success are\ntaken into consideration.\n\nIt is almost impossible to induce the children to talk English.\nOnly when forced to do so, will they speak in other than their\nvernacular tongue. Naturally very timid, a proper and pleasant\nfamiliarity with them is a sure inroad to their confidence, and the\nknowledge of them thus gained convinces us that they are capable\nof comprehending and grasping ideas of knowledge. We have no\ndifficulty in filling our limited accommodations; and, could they\nbe increased sufficiently, we should expect an average attendance\nof one hundred children. This tribe very enthusiastically voted\n$6,000 of their own funds, to be expended in the erection of a\nschool boarding-house; but the possibility of part of the tribe\nbecoming citizens within a few years, leads the Indian Bureau to\ndelay the building, so much needed and desired.\n\nThe Indian problem will never be satisfactorily solved until\neducation and citizenship are brought to the foreground, and take\nthe prominence they deserve.\n\nThis is strictly a government school. The two teachers are\nProtestants, the assistant matron a Catholic. When first\nestablished, the Romish priest attempted to break it up; but\nunderstanding the agent\u2019s aim, that it should be free from\nsectarianism on the part of both teachers and matron, he has kindly\nand wisely withdrawn all opposition, and is in pleasant harmony\nwith both agent and school.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\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\nA Rebuke and a Response.\n\nThe following communication is clipped from the San Francisco\n_Chronicle_. The club which expresses its mind after this sort,\nis a society of so-called (miscalled) \u201cworkingmen,\u201d followers\nof Dennis Kearney. Bernal Heights is in the immediate vicinity\nof Bethany Church, of which Rev. W. C. Pond is the pastor. The\nproduction has marked peculiarities, not only in moral tone, but in\ngrammar and rhetoric as well, and affords to our readers all the\nelements necessary for a correct and vivid picture of its authors:\n\n\n \u201cBERNAL HEIGHTS CLUB.\n\n \u201cThe Bernal Heights Club met last evening, in Ewald\u2019s Hall, J.\n Clancey in the chair. The following resolution was read and\n adopted:\n\n \u201cThe Committee on Chinese, in the discharge of the duties\n assigned them, do submit the following, with the recommendation\n that the same may be communicated to the parties addressed,\n either through the public press or by letter, as follows: To\n the Rev. Pond, pastor of the Bethel[A] Congregational Church\n Society, and members of the aforesaid society: We, the members\n of the Bernal Heights Club, having been informed that you, and\n the members of your society, are devoting your energies in the\n endeavor to teach and instruct Chinese in the English or our\n language, in order to Christianize them, and bring them up to\n our standard in all their requirements (a futile undertaking),\n knowing as we do that they consider their theory of spiritual\n economy and their doctrines concerning the soul\u2019s immortality,\n and such things, far superior to our own, and they treat us and\n all our endeavors to bring them over to the theory and belief\n with absolute contempt, should convince us, without doubt, of the\n fallacy, we take this method of expressing our disapprobation of\n the course that you are pursuing, in encouraging Chinese in this\n country. We do not object to your following the commands of our\n Divine Master. Where He enjoins you to go out to all the world\n and teach and preach, He did not command the whole world to come\n to you. He said go out to the world and preach. Therefore, if you\n must preach and teach Chinamen, go to China, and you will there\n find an opportunity to unburden your full load of Christianity\n for the heathen lepers. We tell you now, and we shall tell you\n again, in all earnestness and candor, that we shall and will\n handle this question without gloves, and that the Chinese must\n go. Our organization is perfecting to attain that end, and the\n beginning of the end is not yet. We tell you these facts in all\n friendship. Do not think that we array ourselves as enemies, but\n as friends of our race we will defend and protect you as far as\n we can, consistently with our obligation; but we tell you you\n must stop this Chinese business. If there is no other way to\n perpetuate Christianity in this country but through the medium\n of the Chinese, why, let Christianity slide; if you cannot get\n a society of your own race and kind to support you, without the\n help of Chinamen, quit the business you are at, and try something\n else. Do not think we have signaled out your especial case.\n Other similar Chinese Christian factories will receive their\n full share of attention in due time in their own districts. To\n expel the Chinese from our shores is a duty we owe to ourselves\n and to posterity, and we will not relent one particle until that\n end is attained; and, in our struggle to attain that end, we\n have a right to expect the sympathy of all. We have a sufficient\n guarantee to warrant us in asserting that every member of the\n Workingmen\u2019s Party of California will do his duty in this regard.\u201d\n\nJustice to San Francisco demands that we append to this deliverance\nof the club the following editorial response, which appeared the\nsame week in the _Mission Mirror_, a paper published in the\nsection of the city in which Bethany Church and Bernal Heights are\nlocated:\n\n\n \u201cMOBOCRACY.\n\n \u201cIf that Bernal Heights Club don\u2019t quit fooling with the bull,\n the first thing they know, that animal will turn and gore them.\n Their late pronunciamento against the Protestant Christian\n churches generally, and Rev. W. C. Pond in particular, for\n teaching the English language to the ignorant heathens in our\n midst, stamps the majority of that club as a body of men who, in\n point of civilization, stand away below the ignorant, helpless\n pagans at whom they profess to strike. No one for a moment\n believes them so reckless as to mob a Christian church. It is\n only another one of those little bluff games, for which political\n anti-Coolieites have become famous, and in which they propose to\n frighten somebody into their way of thinking. We greatly mistake\n the callibre of Mr. Pond if he is not more than a match for the\n whole mob. We agree with the great body of intelligent people on\n this coast that \u201cthe Chinese must go,\u201d but the course proposed by\n this club will only tend to prolong their stay in this country.\n There is, at least, abundant opportunity yet for the fool-killer,\n if not the hangman, to reap a rich harvest on Bernal Heights.\u201d\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] A mistake for _Bethany_.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\nALBERT, THE SLAVE BOY.\n\nMRS. A. K. SPENCE, NASHVILLE, TENN.\n\nTwenty-three years ago, in one of the northern counties of\nMississippi, there was born a little slave boy. No white blood\ncoursed in his veins. No one cared for his birth save, perhaps, his\nweary slave mother. Some one called him Albert, and that was all,\nfor slave children had only one name. No future opened before him,\nfor slave children had no future, but service to a master. He grew\nup to a life of poverty and toil and neglect, and early learned\nwhat it was to be cold and hungry and sorrowful.\n\nBy and by began the fierce struggle between slavery and freedom.\nThe slaves were sent from place to place, to prevent their escape\nto the Union army. Albert wandered about with them\u2014to Tennessee,\nto Texas, to Georgia\u2014till the close of the war found him back in\nTennessee, and near the city of Nashville. Here he picked up his\nletters, and, at the age of fourteen, learned to read. In 1869, he\nwent to a school taught by one of the first student teachers from\nFisk University, who encouraged him to look to something higher\nthan the spelling-book and reader.\n\nIn 1870 he entered that institution. Then began the long, hard\nstruggle for an education. For two years he groomed horses and did\nhousework. For two years more he took care of a drunken young man,\nthe son of wealthy parents in Nashville; and often might Albert\nhave been seen with his Greek or Latin book, far into the night,\nsitting in some saloon or grocery, waiting for the young man, whose\naged mother had made him promise that he would never leave her son\nin a saloon at night. Poor, awkward, and dressed out of missionary\nbarrels, often the recipient of student aid, sometimes well-nigh\ndisheartened, but always pressing on; once bought off by Mr. Spence\nfor the sum of ten dollars, when his father wanted him to work in\nthe field, he toiled slowly on, step by step, winning honor and\nrespect, and loved by his teachers as, perhaps, few students of\nFisk University were ever loved.\n\nAlways good in scholarship, always among the first of his class, in\nnine years he passed from the alphabet to within three mouths of a\ncollege diploma.\n\nHe was converted in 1872, and at once gave himself to the ministry.\nIn common with most students of Fisk University, he had thought,\nthough not very definitely, of missionary work in Africa.\n\nOn the 1st day of February, there came a call for two men for\nthe Mendi Mission. Albert had his plans. He hoped to graduate\nfrom college, a thing few colored youths have attained. He had\ntwo orphan brothers and a little sister, to whom he purposed to\ngive an education and Christian training. Perhaps he had also his\nambitions in the ministry, where educated colored men will soon\nrise so high; but he laid them all aside when God called, and with\na fellow-student, whose soul was mightily stirred by that call, he\nsaid, \u201cHere am I, Lord, send me.\u201d He said, \u201cHow I should feel, to\nhave God call, and I not be ready!\u201d\n\nHis last request to the students of Fisk University was that they\nwould make this its motto:\n\n _\u201cHer sons and her daughters are ever on the altar.\u201d_\n\nTo-day Albert Miller is on the shores of Africa. The prayers,\nthe tears, the affections of the institution, are with him. The\nprayers of the Christian heart of America will be with him, and his\ncompanions, in that distant land. Did not God, who chose Abraham\nand David, and Paul and Luther, choose him for such a time as\nthis, and make all the years of his slavery\u2014his privations, and\nhis discipline\u2014but the means to fit him for this great work of\ncarrying the Gospel to Africa?\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR MARCH, 1878.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n MAINE, $146.95.\n\n Andover. Mrs. E. P. 1.00\n Bangor. First Parish Sab. Sch. 6.00\n Bath. \u201cFriend\u201d $50; Mrs. J. C. 25c 50.25\n Bethel. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00\n Biddeford. J. N. A. 1.00\n Bluehill. M. E. Johnson. 5.00\n Brunswick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00\n Calais. First. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.55\n Castine. Lucy S. Adams. 20.00\n Kenduskeag. Rev. J. S. 1.00\n Machias. Centre St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.64\n Newport. M. S. N. 1.00\n Sweden. Cong. Soc. 7.00\n West Bethel. Mrs. E. C. 0.51\n\n\n NEW HAMPSHIRE, $967.54.\n\n Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $51.53.\u2014\u201cMemorial\n Union\u201d $20; _for Wilmington, N. C._ 71.53\n Bennington. Miss Emily Whittemore, _for a\n Student, Atlanta U._ 75.00\n Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.75\n Colebrook. J. A. H. 0.50\n Concord. C. T. P. 0.50\n Exeter. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.\n $72.11.\u2014Ladies of Second Cong. Parish $3,\n and bbl. of C. _for Wilmington, N. C._ 75.11\n Fitzwilliam. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.50\n Francestown. Young Men\u2019s Christian Ass\u2019n. 9.75\n Haverhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.67\n Keene. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. of 2d Ch., bbl. of\n C. and $3 _for freight_.\u2014Mrs. N. R. C. 50c 3.50\n Lebanon. Mary L. Choate. 5.00\n Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.94\n Marlborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.37\n New London. M. K. T. 0.25\n Orford. Ladies, bbl. of C. and 60c, _for\n freight_.\u2014Miss A. E. 50c 1.10\n Peterborough. Mrs. E. H. 1.00\n Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.94\n Portsmouth. ESTATE of Dea. Joshua\n Brooks, by Henry A. Yeaton, Ex. 500.00\n Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.10\n Troy. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.03\n \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d 100.00\n\n\n VERMONT, $205.41.\n\n Burlington. Third Cong. Ch. $32.02; Rev. D. G.\n $1 33.02\n Bridport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.25\n Cambridge. Dea. S. Montague 10.00\n Fayetteville. Individuals, by Austin Birchard 2.00\n Granby and North Victory. Cong. Ch. 2.00\n Ludlow. Mrs. P. M. $1; N. M. P. $1.20 2.20\n Marshfield. Lyman Clark 10.00\n North Waterford. S. E. H. 1.00\n St. Johnsbury. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.\n $99.44; W. W. T. 50c 99.94\n Strafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00\n Williamstown. Individuals, by R. D. Nichols 1.00\n \u2014\u2014 \u201cLife Member\u201d $9.50; Mrs. S. D. 50c 10.00\n\n\n MASSACHUSETTS, $1,232.07.\n\n Abington. Mr. Talbot 5.00\n Amherst. Second Cong. Ch. $17.75; E. T. S. 50c 18.25\n Ashfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.40\n Athol Centre. Mrs. Emily Eaton 2.00\n Belchertown. D. B. B. 0.50\n Boston. Mrs. E. C. Ford $25; Mrs. E. C.\n Parkhurst $20; L. F. H. 50c.; Smith Organ\n Co., 1 Organ, val. $100 45.50\n Brimfield. Benev. Soc. 41.00\n Cambridgeport. Ladies\u2019 Aux. of Pilgrim Ch.\n $40, to const. MRS. R. V. RUGG, L.\n M.; Mrs. I. J. 50c 40.50\n Clinton. MRS. MARTHA C. GIBBS, to\n const. herself L. M. 30.00\n Coleraine. Miss E. McG. 1.00\n Dana. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00\n East Douglass. Cong. Ch. M. C. Coll., to\n const. MRS. MARY JANE WILLIS, L. M. 30.22\n East Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $13; H. D. 50c 13.50\n East Woburn. Wm. Temple. 2.50\n Fall River. M. E. 1.00\n Fairhaven. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00\n Foxborough. Mrs. W. P. P. 0.50\n Fitchburgh. W. L. B. $1.\u2014Rollstone Benev.\n Soc. 1 box of Bedding, _for Atlanta U._ 1.00\n Florence. Two S. S. Classes of Cong. Ch.,\n \u201cLittle Pets\u201d $2.74; \u201cPilgrims\u201d $3.63 6.37\n Granby. Cong. Ch. 27.17\n Groveland. Mrs. M. A. R. 1.00\n Hanover. Mrs. McLauthlin and Mrs. Allen,\n bundle of C.\n Haverhill. North Cong. S. S. $50; John B. Case\n $5; Dea. J. Flanders $5 60.00\n Holden. Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._\n Hopkinton. Ladies 1.50\n Hyde Park. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Hampton\n N. and A. Inst._ 70.00\n Lancaster. Ladies of Trin. Cong. Ch., 1 bbl.\n of C., _for Atlanta U._\n Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch. 75.00\n Malden. \u201cA Friend\u201d $3; Mrs. C. F. B. 50c 3.50\n Mansfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.45\n Matfield. Mrs. O. Grover 2.00\n Melrose. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. $36.11;\n E. N. Chapin $4.50 40.61\n Monson. Miss E. A. W. 1.00\n New Braintree. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.10\n Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.74\n Newburyport. P. H. Lunt 25.50\n Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.28\n Newtonville. Mrs. A. W. G. 0.50\n Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 34.00\n Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $15; \u201cA Friend\u201d\n $10 25.00\n Norwood. Mrs. W. B. 0.50\n Pepperell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00\n Princeton. \u201cLadies\u201d 14.00\n Rehoboth. Cong. Ch. 25.00\n Rochdale. Miss A. G. L. 0.50\n Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 103.00\n Sandwich. Mrs. J. French $5; Robert Tobey $5;\n Silas Fish $3 13.00\n Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $16.55; Dr. Bacon\n $5.00 21.55\n Somerville. Broadway Cong. Ch. and Soc. $13;\n Prospect Hill Sab. Sch. $9 22.00\n South Dartmouth. Mrs. M. P. S. 1.00\n South Deerfield. Mrs. M. B. 0.50\n South Framingham. G. M. Amsden 5.00\n Tolland. Cong. Ch. $2.74; Rev. D. J. O. 50c 3.24\n Wakefield. H. L. H. 1.00\n Walpole. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00\n Waverly. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student,\n Atlanta U._ 17.72\n Westborough. E. J. G. 0.50\n West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.56\n West Dennis. Mrs. S. S. C. 1.00\n Westfield. Mrs. J. F. 1.00\n West Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.50\n Weymouth. ESTATE of Abby C. Pratt, by\n Henry Dyer, Ex. 193.56\n Weymouth and Braintree. Union Ch. _for Marion,\n Ala._ 45.35\n\n\n RHODE ISLAND, $1.\n\n Pawtucket. Mrs. G. W. K. and A. B. 1.00\n\n\n CONNECTICUT, $3,075.99.\n\n Bantam Falls. Miss C. B. 1.00\n Brooklyn. D. C. R and S. H. T. 50c. ea. 1.00\n Canton Centre. Mrs. S. B. H. 1.00\n Chester. Cong. Ch. 39.00\n Colchester. Mrs. H. T. Newton 5.00\n Cornwall Hollow. K. W. S. 0.50\n Derby. Cong. Ch. 25.00\n East Berlin. M. W. W. 1.00\n East Windsor Hill. Mrs. J. S. Clapp 3.00\n East Windsor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00\n Ellington. ESTATE of Mrs. Mary Pease\n Collins, by C. B. Pease, Ex. 566.82\n Fair Haven. Second Cong. Ch., to const.\n DEA. ALBERT ROWE, L. M. 49.27\n Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.00\n Glastonbury. Cong. Ch. 115.00\n Goshen. Cong. Ch. 30.36\n Greenwich. Second Cong. Ch. 61.88\n Hartford. Member of Asylum Hill Cong. Ch. 10.00\n Hebron. \u201cA few lady friends,\u201d by Mrs. Jasper\n Porter, bbl. of Bedding and $2 _for\n freight_, _for Tougaloo U._ 2.00\n Huntington. Mrs. Sarah A. Nichols 2.00\n Kensington. Cong. Ch. to const. SAMUEL\n UPSON, L. M. 39.00\n Meriden. Centre Cong. Ch. $38; C. H. Learned\n $30, to const. MRS. ELIZA G.\n LEARNED, L. M. 68.00\n Middle Haddam. Second Cong. Ch. ($10 of which\n from Dea. D. Dickenson) 30.00\n Middletown. First Ch. 22.10\n Morris L. J. W. 0.50\n Naugatuck. Cong. Ch. 130.00\n New Britain. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 150.16\n New Preston Village. Cong. Ch. $29.50; Mrs. B.\n A. 50c 30.00\n Newtown. Miss E. Leavenworth 5.00\n New Haven. First Cong. Ch. $200.63 (of which\n $25 from Rev. Wm. Patton, D.D., _for Howard\n U._)\u2014\u201cA Lady\u201d $3; B. P. $1 204.63\n New Haven. ESTATE of Elias T. Foote,\n by Gardiner Morse, Ex., to const.\n EMERSON L. FOOTE, ARTHUR H.\n FOOTE, EMMET L. CROSBY,\n SAMUEL F. CROSBY and AMELIA L.\n FOOTE, L. M.\u2019s 200.00\n North Haven. Cong. Ch. 50.00\n Norwich. Second Cong. Ch. 236.90\n Plainfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.95\n Plainville. \u201cA Friend\u201d 2.00\n Plantsville. Cong. Ch. $203.57\u2014Mrs. E. P.\n Hotchkiss $5, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 208.57\n Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 12.00\n Stanwich. Subscribers, by David Banks 3.00\n Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.00\n Warren. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 47.50\n Waterbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. (in part) 596.37\n Wapping. Mrs. H. S. 1.00\n West Killingly. Miss M. W. 1.00\n West Stafford. Cong. Ch. 6.48\n Windsor Locks. Mrs. L. P. Dexter 6.00\n Woodbury. Benj. Fabrique $20.\u2014Mrs. C. P.\n Churchill $3, _for Tougaloo U._ 23.00\n\n\n NEW YORK, $568.58.\n\n Albany. V. S. K. 1.00\n Albion. Primary Dept. Presb. Ch. Sab. Sch.,\n _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00\n Batavia. Mrs. A. D. L. 1.00\n Binghamton. \u201cA Friend\u201d $12.50.\u2014G. S. N. 50c 13.00\n Brooklyn. Miss E. Cutler 2.00\n Buffalo. E. J. Buttolph 2.00\n Camden. S. S. 1.00\n Canoga. ESTATE of S. Chatham, by B.\n M. Chatham and G. W. Bockoen, Ex.\u2019s 241.40\n Crown Point. Mrs. Loraine H. Page 25.00\n Dryden. Mrs. L. C. Phillips 10.00\n East Bloomfield. R. B. Goodwin 5.55\n East Palmyra. Mrs. Laura E. Dada, _for\n Tougaloo U._ 5.00\n Fayetteville. O. D. B. 1.00\n Flatbush, L. I. \u201cA Friend\u201d 5.00\n Fulton. S. C. R. 1.00\n Griffin\u2019s Mills. Cong. Ch. 6.00\n Hamilton. Cong. Ch. 5.88\n Hobart. Mrs. N. C. Blish 5.00\n Homer. \u201cA Lady\u201d 50.00\n Holley. Mrs. Matilda Huff, $5; Miss Columbia\n Harrison and Mrs. Laura Farwell $3 ea., _for\n Berea C._ 11.00\n Honeoye. Cong. Ch. $55, and Sab. Sch. $17 72.00\n Jefferson. S. Ruliffson 4.00\n Kiantone. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00\n Lebanon Springs. B. S. 1.00\n Le Roy. Mrs. S. Covert 5.00\n McDonough. C. Sawtelle 1.50\n Marcellus. H. B. 1.00\n Mexico. A. W. 1.00\n New Hamburgh. Miss S. H. S. 0.50\n New York. L. B. B. $1.\u2014Biglow and Main, 60\n copies \u201cFountain of Song,\u201d _for Atlanta U._ 1.00\n North Rose. G. A. 1.00\n Oneida. Stephen H. Goodwin $5; Edward Loomis $2 7.00\n Pulaski. S. C. 1.00\n Salem. B. C. 1.00\n Schenectady. A. W. V. 0.25\n Spencerport. \u201cA Presbyterian\u201d 10.50\n Strykersville. Cong. Ch. $5; Dea. M. W. 50c 5.50\n Troy. Mrs. E. C. S. 1.00\n Union Valley. Dr. J. Angel 10.00\n West Java. Cong. Ch. 9.00\n Whitney\u2019s Point. Presb. Ch. 8.50\n\n\n NEW JERSEY, $186.64.\n\n Newark. C. S. Haines 50.00\n Orange Valley. Cong. Ch. 65.88\n Paterson. Benj. Crane 20.00\n Rahway. Mrs. B. T. 0.25\n Salem. W. G. Tyler 20.00\n Summit. \u201cA Friend\u201d 30.00\n Westfield. Mrs. P. W. C. 0.51\n\n\n PENNSYLVANIA, $45.25.\n\n Candor. Miss I. C. 1.00\n Mount Jackson. A. N. 1.00\n North East. C. A. T. 1.00\n Pittsburgh. Rev. A. C. McC. 1.00\n Prentissvale. Rev. M. W. Strickland $20 and\n Mrs. C. A. B. Lovejoy $10, to const.\n MRS. NETTIE S. MORSE, L. M.; C. S.\n A. 25c 30.25\n Sharpsburgh. Joseph Turner ($5 of which _for\n Indian M._) 10.00\n West Elizabeth. J. W. 1.00\n\n\n OHIO, $320.74.\n\n Bellevue. J. S. 0.27\n Burg Hill. J. J. $1; Mrs. H. B. 75c 1.75\n Chagrin Falls. Cong. Ch. 11.20\n Chatham Centre. Cong. Ch. 27.00\n Cincinnati. Rent $98.92, _for the poor in New\n Orleans_.\u2014Sab. Sch. of Storrs Ch. $30, to\n const. MRS. HORACE WILSON, L. M. 128.92\n Clarksfield. Mrs. H. B. Fraser $8; W. A. A.\n and J. M. F., 50c. ea. 9.00\n Cleveland. F. M. S. 0.50\n Columbus. Miss M. E. H. 0.50\n Elyria. Presb. Ch., by Birdsey Nevins 5.00\n Four Corners. W. C. St. J. 0.50\n Hartford. S. C. B., Miss H. J. and A. N. $1\n ea.; Mrs. B. 50c 3.50\n Hubbard. Welsh Cong. Ch. 5.87\n Jersey. Mrs. Lucinda Sinnet $10; L. N. 25c 10.25\n Lake Breeze. M. L. R. 0.50\n Lorain. H. L. K. 1.00\n Lyme. Cong. Ch. 26.34\n Mansfield. Miss S. M. Sturges 5.00\n Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. 63.88\n Painesville. Ladies of First Ch. $5.26, and\n box of Bedding, _for Tougaloo U._\u2014Mrs. L.\n S. $1 6.26\n Rochester Depot. Mrs. W. S. and E. L. C. 0.50\n Savannah. J. A. Patterson 5.00\n Strongsville. Isaac I. Gifford 6.00\n Steuben. Levi Platt 2.00\n\n\n INDIANA, $10.\n\n Union City. Mrs. John Commons 5.00\n Wolcottville. Jonathan Law 5.00\n\n\n ILLINOIS, $3,231.05.\n\n Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l) 5.00\n Chicago. Lincoln Park Ch. $30; Bethany Ch.\n $7.74; New Eng. Ch. Mon. Con. Coll. $9.48 47.22\n Crystal Lake. ESTATE of Simon S.\n Gates $1,500, and $421.20 on account of\n Interest, by Wm. D. Gates, Ex. 1,921.20\n Dundee. Cong. Ch. 6.25\n Earlville. Cong. Ch., to const. MISS EVA\n SEELEY, L. M. 34.50\n Elgin. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n Fisk U._ 25.00\n Galesburg. E. A. Cooley 3.00\n Griggsville. Cong. Ch. 24.90\n Hutsonville. C. V. N. 1.00\n Mendon. ESTATE of Jireh Platt, by Rev. H. D.\n Platt, Ex. 346.53\n Mendon. Mrs. J. Fowler ($100 _for Florence\n Chapel_) 100.50\n Metamora. A. C. Rouse 5.00\n Millington. Mrs. D. A. Aldrich 5.00\n Morrison. John Roy $2; \u2014\u2014 $1;\u2014\u2014 $1 4.00\n Oak Park. Mrs. J. Huggins, _for Student Aid_ 10.00\n Ontario. Cong. Ch. 30.50\n Peoria. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Griswold, _for\n Student Aid, Fisk U._ 100.00\n Plainfield. Rev. Edward Ebbs 10.00\n Polo. Robert Smith 500.00\n Princeville. W. C. Stevens 5.00\n Quincy. Lucius Kingman 5.00\n Rockford. Ladies of First Cong. Ch. $25 _for\n Student Aid, Fisk U._\u2014Ladies of First Cong.\n Ch. $13, _for a Student, Talladega C._ 38.00\n Wyoming. Cong. Ch. 3.45\n\n\n MICHIGAN, $1,138.18.\n\n Adams. Julius Hackley 10.00\n Armada. Miss Lydia A. Jackman 5.00\n Calumet. Cong. Ch. 231.75\n Charlotte. Cong. Sab. Sch. 8.38\n Covert. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,\n Fisk U._ 12.00\n Dexter. \u201cA Friend\u201d 10.00\n Hadley. Mrs. L. H. 0.55\n Leland. Rev. G. T. 1.00\n Ludington. Cong. Ch. 8.00\n Memphis. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. $5.\u2014Cong. Ch.\n Sab. Sch. $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00\n Mount Morris. Amasa Currier 10.00\n Michigan City. Miss C. J. Parry, _for Student\n Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00\n Olivet. A. T. 1.00\n Port Huron. ESTATE of Mary J.\n Sweetser, by John P. Sanborn, Ex. 750.00\n Portland. Rev. J. L. Maile 4.00\n Royal Oak. Rev. C. S. C. 1.00\n Three Oaks. Cong. Ch. 15.00\n Unadilla. Mrs. Wm. S. Bird 5.00\n Union City. Mrs. L. B. Webber $2; Mrs. E. J.\n H. 50c 2.50\n Wheatland. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 42.00\n Ypsilanti. F. C. C. 1.00\n\n\n WISCONSIN, $80.75.\n\n Appleton. Ann S. Kimball $30; \u201cW. J. A.\u201d $2;\n A. C. B. 50c 32.50\n Mazo Manie. R. L. 1.00\n Oconomowoc. Cong. Ch. 12.00\n Racine. Individuals, by Mrs. S. B. Peck 7.00\n Ripon. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.25\n\n\n IOWA, $162.55.\n\n Atlantic. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.50\n Chester. Cong. Ch. 26.42\n Clinton. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Fisk U._ 15.00\n Dewitt. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n Aid, Fisk U._ 3.65\n Des Moines. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Student\n Aid, Fisk U._ 30.00\n Dubuque. Mrs. C. C. R. 0.50\n Green. R. L. 0.50\n Hillsborough. John W. Hammond 5.00\n Independence. S. W. N. 0.50\n Iowa City. Ladies\u2019 Sew. Soc., _for Tougaloo U._ 2.15\n Logan. Cong. Ch. 6.72\n New Hampton. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc. 1.50\n Osage. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n Aid, Fisk U._ 21.31\n Sibley. C. E. Jenney 5.00\n Tabor. Friends, by Julia E. Williams 6.50\n Waterloo. Mrs. W. W. T. 0.50\n Wittenburg. Cong. Ch. $24, and Sab. Sch.\n $2.80, to const. REV. SETH A.\n ARNOLD, L. M. 26.80\n\n\n MINNESOTA, $119.03.\n\n Afton. Cong. Ch. 4.50\n East Prairieville. Mrs. Mary Adams 5.00\n Litchfield. Mrs. S. B. Cathcast $2; W. E. C.\n 50c 2.50\n Marine. Cong. Ch. 2.04\n Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. $19.22; Plymouth Ch.\n Sab. Sch. $25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 44.22\n Northfield. Individuals 2.00\n Plain View. Woman\u2019s Cent. Soc. 8.00\n St. Paul. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00\n Winona. Cong. Ch. 25.77\n\n\n NEBRASKA, $3.\n\n Steele City. Cong. Ch. 3.00\n\n\n DAKOTA, $15.\n\n Fort Berthold. Rev. C. L. Hall 10.00\n Riverside. Rev. Lewis Bridgman 5.00\n\n\n CALIFORNIA, $515.90.\n\n National City. Theron Parsons $5; J. T. $1. 6.00\n \u2014\u2014 Receipts of \u201cThe California Chinese\n Mission\u201d 509.90\n\n\n OREGON, $31.00.\n\n Forest Grove. ALVIN T. SMITH, to\n const. himself L. M. 30.00\n Hillsborough. Rev. J. S. G. 1.00\n\n\n DELAWARE, $2.50.\n\n Felton. Talmon Dewey 2.50\n\n\n MARYLAND, $100.\n\n Baltimore. T. D. Anderson 100.00\n\n\n DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $0.50.\n\n Washington. H. N. F. 0.50\n\n\n KENTUCKY, $11.85.\n\n Berea. Cong. Ch. 11.85\n\n\n TENNESSEE, $186.53.\n\n Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. 144.25\n Nashville. Fisk University 42.28\n\n\n NORTH CAROLINA, $267.49.\n\n Raleigh. Public Fund $140; Washington Sch.\n $18.45 158.45\n Wilmington. Normal Sch. $94.05; Cong. Ch. $5.54 99.59\n Woodbridge. School 9.45\n\n\n SOUTH CAROLINA, $229.30.\n\n Charleston. Avery Inst. 229.30\n\n\n GEORGIA, $463.31.\n\n Atlanta. Atlanta University $122.50.\u2014Rev. S.\n S. Ashley $12, _for Student Aid_ 134.50\n Atlanta. Storrs School. 183.10\n Macon. Lewis High Sch. 64.55\n Savannah. Beach Inst. $77.16; First Cong. Sab.\n Sch. $3 80.16\n Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., _for Indian M._ 1.00\n\n\n ALABAMA, $717.75.\n\n Athens. Trinity School 33.75\n Long Island. Mrs. Chubbuck and Miss Standish\n 700 Apple Trees, _for Atlanta U._\n Mobile. Emerson Inst. 79.50\n Montgomery. Public Fund $440; First Cong. Ch.\n $75 515.00\n Selma. Rev. Fletcher Clark $9.55, _for Student\n Aid, Tougaloo U._\u2014First Cong. Ch. $8.10 17.65\n Talladega. Talladega College 71.85\n\n\n MISSISSIPPI, $91.40.\n\n Jackson. S. Lemley and Son, _for barracks,\n Tougaloo U._ 20.00\n Tougaloo. Tougaloo University $60.40.\u2014Rev. G.\n S. Pope $9, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 69.40\n Verona. Sab. Sch., _for Mendi M._ 2.00\n\n\n MISSOURI, $2.50.\n\n Index. F. P. M. $1; Others $1.50, by W. B.\n Wills 2.50\n\n\n LOUISIANA, $157.25.\n\n New Orleans. Straight University 157.25\n\n\n TEXAS, $1.\n\n Whitman. A. F. 1.00\n\n\n CANADA, $23.23.\n\n Montreal. John Dougall & Co. $8; A. Spaulding\n $5; Robert Dunn $5; P. H. Barton $3; R. W.\n Cowan $2; Premium 23c 23.23\n\n\n SCOTLAND, $5.89.\n\n Innellan. Young Women\u2019s Prayer-Meeting, by\n Mrs. P. Taylor, _for Cal. Chinese M._ 5.89\n\n\n AFRICA, $2.\n\n South Africa. Miss Emelia F. Brewer, _for\n Raleigh, N. C._ 2.00\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n Total 14,319.13\n Total from Oct. 1st to March 31st $85,752.83\n\n H. W. HUBBARD,\n _Ass\u2019t Treas._\n\n RECEIVED FOR DEBT.\n\n Keene, N. H. \u201cA Friend\u201d 0.50\n Cambridge, Vt. Madison Safford 10.00\n Dedham, Mass. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., M. C.\n Coll. 11.39\n Enfield, Mass. Edward Smith 300.00\n Newburyport, Mass. H. Lunt 25.00\n Salem, Mass. Joseph H. Towne 50.00\n \u2014\u2014 Mass. \u201cWorshiper at Indian Orchard\u201d 500.00\n Waterbury, Conn. Chas. Benedict, of Second\n Cong. Ch. 500.00\n Cazenovia, N. Y. Mrs. Mary Woodward 10.00\n Homer, N. Y. \u201cA Lady\u201d 50.00\n Spencerport, N. Y. \u201cA Presbyterian\u201d 10.00\n Hampton, Va. Helpers in Hampton N. & A. Inst.,\n by J. F. B. Marshall, Treas. 25.00\n Greenville, Mich. M. Rutan 500.00\n Ripon, Wis. Rev. H. W. Carter 5.00\n Danville, Iowa. Mrs. H. Huntington 5.00\n Index, Mo. W. B. Wills 4.00\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n 2,005.89\n Previously acknowledged Feb. receipts 6,915.83\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n Total $8,921.72\n\n\nReceipts of the CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION, E. Palache, Treasurer,\nfrom Sept. 26th, 1877, to March 20th, 1878:\n\n\n FROM AUXILIARIES, $64.20.\n\n Petaluma Chinese Mission. Chinese Pupils 30.70\n Santa Barbara Chinese Mission. Friends 20.00\n Stockton Chinese Mission. Mrs. M. C. Brown $6;\n Chinese $5 11.00\n \u2014\u2014 By D. W. C. Putnam, Treas. 2.50\n\n\n FROM ANNUAL MEMBERSHIPS, $68.50.\n\n 1876-1877. Paid at Annual Meeting 39.00\n 1877-1878. Paid at Annual Meeting 29.50\n\n\n FROM CHURCHES, $141.70.\n\n Benicia. Cong. Ch., Ladies $25, to const.\n REV. J. A. BANFIELD, L. M.; J. A.\n B. 50c 25.50\n Oakland. First Cong. Ch. 38.00\n Redwood. Cong. Ch. 8.30\n Sacramento. Cong. Ch. 11.20\n San Francisco. First Cong. Ch. $18.70;\n Plymouth Ch. $30 48.70\n Santa Cruz. Cong. Ch. 10.00\n\n\n INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS, $115.50.\n\n San Francisco. Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D., and\n C. T. Christensen, Esq., $25 ea., _for\n Barnes Mission House_.\u2014Rev. Joseph Rowell\n $20; Miss Ella M. Pinkham $2.50; Rev. W. C.\n Merritt (annual membership) $2 74.50\n Sacramento. Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D. $1; Cash\n $1 2.00\n Sonoma. Rev. F. B. Perkins $5; \u201cA Friend\u201d $5 10.00\n San Francisco. Chinese $13.50; Chinese at\n Central School $11 24.50\n Bethany. Chinese 4.50\n\n\n FROM EASTERN FRIENDS, $120.\n\n Bangor, Maine. Mrs. E. H. Coe (gold) 25.00\n Portland, Maine. State St. Cong. Ch. 40.00\n Boston, Mass. Mrs. James Means 5.00\n Granby, Mass. Cong. Sab. Sch. Mrs. John\n Church\u2019s class, $18; Mrs. R. H. Davis\u2019 class\n $12 30.00\n Norwich, Conn. Mrs. E. B. Huntington $20, bal.\n to const. REV. F. B. PERKINS, L. M. 20.00\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n Total $509.90\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\naccomodate 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\n Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.\n office, 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. 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We can therefore guarantee a _saving of from =20= to =40=\nper cent. of the usual cost of painting_.\n\n\u261e=The Contract for Supplying Paints for the Gilbert Elevated\nRailroad of New York City was Awarded to Us.= _This is the largest\ncontract ever made for painting any single structure in this\ncountry._ \u261c\n\n=_ROOF PAINT_= for tin and shingle roofs, iron work,\nagricultural implements, fences, out-buildings, etc. _We guarantee\nthis to be a better and more economical paint than has ever before\nbeen offered to the public for similar purposes._\n\n\u261e_This Paint was used with entire success, when all others failed,\nupon the roof of the =Exhibition Buildings at Philadelphia=, the\nlargest area of Tin Roofing in the world._ \u261c\n\n=_FIRE-PROOF PAINT_= for the protection of inside wood-work\nof factories, bridges, boiler rooms and other wooden structures in\ndanger of ignition from sparks, cinders or flames.\n\n\u261e_This Paint has been applied to more than four and a half acres of\nwood-work in the two immense Dry Goods Stores of_ =Messrs. 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In rolls ready for use; costs only\nhalf as much as tin; easily applied by any one.\n\n\u261e_The Asbestos Roofing is used in preference to all others by the_\n=Kingsford Oswego Starch Factory=, =Remington & Sons=, =Cheney\nBros.=, =Columbus Car and Wheel Works=, _and by the most extensive\nManufacturers, Builders, Railroad Companies, etc., in the United\nStates._\u261c\n\n\n ASBESTOS BOILER COVERINGS,\n\nConsisting of =ASBESTOS CEMENT FELTING=, to be applied like a\nmortar, and =ASBESTOS AIR CHAMBER COVERING=, in sheets and rolls,\nfor Hot Air and Steam Pipes, Boilers, and other heated surfaces.\nThe most durable, effective and economical appliances known for\npreventing Radiation of Heat; will save from =25= to =40= per cent.\nof fuel.\n\n Used by the United States Navy Department and in most\n extensive Public Buildings.\n\n Asbestos Steam Packing, Boards for Gaskets, Sheathings,\n Fire, Acid and Waterproof Coatings, Cements for Gas\n Retorts, Leaky Roofs, etc.\n\n \u261e_All these materials are prepared ready for use,\n and can be easily applied by any one._\n\n LIBERAL INDUCEMENTS TO GENERAL MERCHANTS, BUILDERS,\n AND LARGE CONSUMERS.\n\n Send for Samples, Illustrated Catalogues, Price Lists, &c.\n\n H. 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CASE & CO., Hartford, Ct.=\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n Young America Press Co.,\n\n 35 Murray St., New York,\n\nmanufacture a variety of hand, self-inking, and rotary printing\npresses, ranging in price from $2 to $150, including the\n=Centennial=, =Young America=, =Cottage=, =Lightning=, and other\ncelebrated printing machines. Our new rotary press, the =United\nStates Jobber=, for cheapness and excellence, is unrivalled. Other\npresses taken in exchange. Lowest prices for type and printing\nmaterial. Circulars free. Specimen Book of Type, 10 cts. A sample\npackage of plain and fancy cards, 10 cents.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n[Illustration:\n\n MARVIN\u2019S\n FIRE & BURGLAR\n SAFES\n COUNTER PLATFORM WAGON & TRACK\n SCALES\n _MARVIN SAFE & SCALE CO.\n 265 BROADWAY, N. Y.\n 627 CHESTNUT ST. PHILA._\n]\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n THE THIRTY-SECOND VOLUME OF\n\n THE\n\n American Missionary,\n\n ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.\n\n\n SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT.\n\nWe publish =25,000= copies per month, giving news from the\nInstitutions and Churches aided by the Association among the\nFreedmen in the South, the Indian tribes, the Chinese on the\nPacific Coast, and the Negroes in Western Africa. Price, =Fifty\nCents a Year, in Advance=.\n\nOUR NEW PAMPHLETS.\n\nNo. 1.\u2014=History= of the Association.\n\nNo. 2.\u2014=Africa=: Containing a History of the Mendi Mission, a\nDescription of the Land and the People, and a presentation of their\nclaims on America.\n\nNo. 3.\u2014=The Three Despised Races in the United States=; or, The\nChinaman, the Indian, and the Freedman. An Address before the A. M.\nA., by Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, Mass.\n\nNo. 4.\u2014=The Educational Work.= Showing the nature and reality\nof the black man\u2019s needs; the way to help him; the sentiment of\nSouthern men; the work of the Romish Church; the wants of the A. M.\nA.\n\n_Will be sent free to any address, on application._\n\n H. W. HUBBARD, Ass\u2019t-Treas., 56 Reade St., N. Y.\n\n\n ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.\n\nA limited space in our Magazine is devoted to Advertisements, for\nwhich our low rates and large circulation make its pages specially\nvaluable. Our readers are among the best in the country, having an\nestablished character for integrity and thrift that constitute them\nvalued customers in all departments of business.\n\nTo Advertisers using display type and Cuts, who are accustomed\nto the \u201cRULES\u201d of the best Newspapers, requiring \u201cDOUBLE RATES\u201d\nfor these \u201cLUXURIES,\u201d our wide pages, fine paper, and superior\nprinting, with =no extra charge for cuts=, are advantages readily\nappreciated, and which add greatly to the appearance and effect of\nbusiness announcements.\n\nWe are, thus far, gratified with the success of this department,\nand solicit orders from all who have unexceptionable wares to\nadvertise.\n\nAdvertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order\nto secure insertion in the following number. All communications in\nrelation to advertising should be addressed to\n\n J. H. DENISON, Adv\u2019g Agent,\n 56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n[Illustration:\n\n KINGSFORD\u2019S\n OSWEGO\n CORN STARCH\n \u2014FOR\u2014\n PUDDINGS | BLANC MANGE | CAKE, ETC.\n PURE AND DELICATE.\n PREFERABLE TO BERMUDA ARROW ROOT.\n \u261eInferior and spurious articles are often sold for =Kingsford\u2019s=.\u261c\n To avoid GROSS IMPOSITION, see that =T. KINGSFORD & SON=\n is on each =BOX= and on each =PACKAGE=.\n]\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\nPunctuation, spelling and grammar were changed only where the error\nappears to be a printing error. The punctuation changes are too\nnumerous to list; the others are as follows:\n\n\u201cour\u201d changed to \u201cfour\u201d on page 135 (doubled in last four months).\n\n\u201cthec ontribution\u201d changed to \u201cthe contribution\u201d on page 138 (the\ncontribution needs casting out).\n\n\u201cfa ar\u201d changed to \u201ca far\u201d on page 148 (we should see a far better\nday).\n\n\u201cCougregational\u201d changed to \u201cCongregational\u201d on page 156 (Room 21,\nCongregational House).\n\n\u201caud\u201d changed to \u201cand\u201d on page 160 (Hall Chairs and Hanging\nGlasses).","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 32, No. 05, May, 1878","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":22782}