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No. 7.\n\n THE\n\n AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n * * * * *\n\n \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n JULY, 1878.\n\n\n\n\n _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n EDITORIAL.\n\n PARAGRAPHS 193\n PERMANENT, INTEREST-BEARING INVESTMENTS.\u2014THE CLAIM OF\n NEED 195\n \u201cTHESE STUPID BLACKS.\u201d\u2014AN AGED MINISTER\u2019S ENTHUSIASM 197\n THREE EXTRACTS 198\n OBITUARY.\u2014ITEMS FROM CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS 200\n CHINESE ITEMS.\u2014GENERAL NOTES 201\n\n\n THE FREEDMEN.\n\n COMMENCEMENT AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE 203\n FISK UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT 205\n KENTUCKY: Then and Now 206\n GEORGIA: Religious Life in Atlanta University.\u2014A\n Photograph with Lights and Shades 207\n ALABAMA: Dedication of Emerson Institute.\u2014The Church\n and the Literary Club.\u2014Montgomery\u2014Swayne School\u2014A\n Year\u2019s Work\u2014Closing Exercises.\u2014A Surprise Party in\n a Southern Church\u2014Another Female Missionary Needed.\u2014A\n Blessed Work 210\n\n\n THE CHINESE.\n\n JEE GAM\u2019S LETTER 215\n\n\n THE CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE 216\n\n\n RECEIPTS 218\n\n\n CONSTITUTION 221\n\n\n WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c. 222\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\n\n _American Missionary Association_,\n\n 56 READE STREET, N.Y.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n PRESIDENT.\n\n HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\n VICE PRESIDENTS.\n\n Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n Rev. JONATHAN BLANCHARD, Ill.\n Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.\n Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.\n Rev. SILAS MCKEEN, D. D., Vt.\n WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.\n Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, Mass.\n Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.\n Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.\n Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. Y.\n Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.\n Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.\n Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n Rev. D. M. GRAHAM, D. D., Mich.\n HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich.\n Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H.\n Rev. EDWARD HAWES, Ct.\n DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.\n Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.\n SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y.\n Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Ct.\n Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.\n Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon.\n Rev. EDWARD L. CLARK, N. Y.\n Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.\n Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.\n DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J.\n Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.\n Rev. W. L. GAGE, Ct.\n A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.\n Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio.\n Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn.\n Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn.\n Rev. GEORGE THACHER, LL. D., Iowa.\n Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.\n Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.\n Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.\n Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.\n S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n Rev. H. M. PARSONS, N. Y.\n PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n Dea. JOHN WHITING, Mass.\n Rev. WM. PATTON, D. D., Ct.\n Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct.\n Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.\n Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.\n Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng.\n WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y.\n J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.\n\n\n CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_. REV.\n 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\n\n THE\n\n AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n * * * * *\n\n VOL. XXXII. JULY, 1878. No. 7.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\n_American Missionary Association._\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nWe are happy to state that the \u201cNew Cartridges\u201d are in frequent\ndemand, and from sources which insure their best and most judicious\nuse. By the way, that name, which was used quite casually, appears\nto have clung to them, so that they are called for under that title\nmore than as the Pamphlets. One brother writes: \u201cI am the only one\nin our religious society that fires the American Missionary gun\nat the mission meetings, and I want cartridges to suit.\u201d Another\nsays: \u201cI will fire them at my people in the course of a month or\ntwo, and you shall have the game.\u201d And a third: \u201cI hope they will\nkick enough to have you feel the effect.\u201d We refer any who may not\nunderstand these allusions to the list of new Pamphlets on the last\npage of the cover. We send them free to all who will use them and\nlet us \u201chave the game.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe question is frequently asked, especially at our Boston\noffice, \u201cWhat is the price of the Questions and Songs prepared\nfor Sunday-school concerts?\u201d We answer: They are furnished\ngratuitously, and gladly, to any pastor or superintendent who will\nuse them as designed. Only send in your requests for them for this\npurpose, and you shall receive them free. The interest and the\ngifts which they incite pay us a hundred fold.\n\n * * * * *\n\nAt the Boston Anniversary, held May 23d, addresses were made by\nRev. George R. Merrill, of Biddeford, Maine, and by President\nBuckham, of the University of Vermont. The remarks of the latter\nappear in full in the _Congregationalist_.\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe season of the year has come again, when the schools are\nclosing, and teachers returning North for the summer. The year\u2019s\nwork being ended, the laborers must be paid. Just at this time the\nreceipts grow less, and the income is not so well adapted as at\nother times to the unusual outgo. If the churches which have taken\ntheir collections recently will forward them promptly, and if those\nwho are purposing to send us money soon will send it a few days\nsooner, we may be saved considerable embarrassment. We do not want\nto have a single teacher\u2019s or preacher\u2019s claim unpaid the day it\nbecomes due and is presented.\n\n * * * * *\n\nWe have referred recently more than once to special wants among our\nSouthern institutions, especially at Tougaloo and Talladega. Both\nof these, and Straight University as well, are in pressing need\nof new dormitories, to accommodate the students from abroad, who\ncome to them for instruction unless deterred by the well-known want\nof room. Several thousands of dollars have been pledged for the\nTillotson Normal School in Texas, an eligible site for which has\nbeen already secured; and it is important that this stock should\ngrow speedily to be a fruit-bearing tree. These special needs must\nbe kept in mind, and if there should be, during the summer months,\nsome special pleas for help in meeting them, we trust the friends\nof the freedmen will be ready to respond, if not waiting impatient\nto be asked. Some of these college presidents and professors will\nbe in the North before very long, and may think it worth while to\ntell the things they know and the things they have not got, which\nare often harder to bear than the things they have. The pleasantest\nway of all would be for their friends to lay by in store something\nfor them, that there be no gatherings when they come.\n\n * * * * *\n\nSpecial exigencies during the past year demanded of us that we\nshould have a special agent in the field. It was necessary that the\nburned buildings at Macon, Mobile, New Orleans and Savannah should\nbe replaced as speedily as it could be wisely and intelligently\ndone. It was not merely to rebuild, but to build better, both as\nto location and adaptation for the work, with a constant view to\neconomy and the limits of insurance money. The Executive Committee\npersuaded Prof. T. N. Chase to leave his chair, at Atlanta\nUniversity, temporarily, and undertake the general supervision\nof the educational work, and, especially, the oversight of these\nimportant measures for replacing, improving and enlarging the\nschool buildings. We have now gratefully to record the achievement\nof this latter work, in great part, and its forwardness so far\nas it is not yet fully done. Three of the locations have been\nchanged, involving the sale and purchase of lands. Plans have been\nmade, altered, adapted, in all cases, we believe, to the excellent\naccommodation of the schools and churches, and to the entire\nsatisfaction of the teachers and missionary pastors.\n\nAs Prof. Chase returns to his chosen and preferred work at Atlanta,\nwe desire to express our appreciation of the great value of\nhis services in this special work. Nor has his usefulness been\nlimited to the supervision of buildings alone. He has always\nhad more interest in the schools themselves than in their mere\nhabitations; and his suggestions in regard to them have been\nvaluable and practical, while in many other ways he has rendered\nimportant service to the executive officers of the Association. The\nwider acquaintance which he has made during his journeyings and\nsojournings with the work at large, will, we doubt not, increase\nhis usefulness to the institution with which he has been so long\nand honorably connected.\n\n * * * * *\n\nIt may be remembered that we said, at the beginning of the year,\nthat we should be glad to make the enlargement of the Southern\nchurch work the characteristic work of 1878. We have not done very\nmuch as yet in this direction, though the subject has constantly\nand increasingly received attention and earnest thought. And yet\nit is a matter which, for practical results, must be considered\nin detail, rather than at large; in the concrete, rather than in\nthe abstract; and in the field, rather than in the office. This\nconsideration, in part, as well as the frequent need of speedy\ncommunication with the various departments of our Southern work,\nhave led us to be on the lookout for a man peculiarly qualified\nfor the position of Field-Superintendent of the Southern work.\nProvidentially, in the changes going on in the Home Missionary\nSociety, the Rev. J. E. Roy, D. D., of Chicago, was at liberty to\nconsider the claims of this position, which was tendered to him.\nAnd we are glad to announce, as the weekly press has already done,\nthat Dr. Roy has accepted the position, and will enter speedily\nupon its duties, making his home at Atlanta, Ga., during the larger\npart of the year.\n\nIt must not be expected by our friends that there will follow this\nnew appointment a rapid and spasmodic enlargement of the Church\nwork, or that the first few months will add largely to the small\nlist of Congregational churches in the South. The Doctor is too\nwise and experienced a field-marshal to design or desire any such\nsudden and apparent gain. Nor shall we estimate his efficiency by\nany such shallow measure. But we can assure the friends of the A.\nM. A. that the whole subject will receive a consideration careful,\npatient, and detailed, the results of which will appear in a policy\nwhich, we trust, may be consistent and approved. For fifteen years\nwe have been laying foundations with care, in the education of the\nfreedmen and their preparation for citizenship in the State. We\nbelieve that this same education is fitting them for a church in\nwhich all are most fully citizens. But, after these years of toil,\nefficient, as we think, and full of promise, we wish to build on\nthese foundations\u2014not wood, hay, stubble, transient and perishable\nthings, deservedly short-lived and weak;\u2014but the gold, the silver,\nand the precious stones of Christian character and Christian\nchurches, which shall be able to stand all the tests of time and of\ntemptation.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nPERMANENT, INTEREST-BEARING INVESTMENTS.\n\nMany persons, affected by financial disasters, have at least one\nconsolation\u2014what they have given for Jesus\u2019 sake is saved. More\nthan this, it is bearing interest, and no human power can lessen or\ndestroy it. It is not like a bond, payable in full at the option\nof the one who issues it. It draws interest throughout eternity.\nThe grain sown will multiply, some thirty, some sixty, and some an\nhundred fold, and the sheaves will aggregate a much larger amount\nthan the seed. Those who have sown bountifully, will reap also\nbountifully.\n\nThe only bags that wax not old are those woven by gifts. These\nare stored away in the heavenly garners, and will add to the\nexceeding weight of glory. Gifts do give relief to the recipients;\nthey further the work for man\u2019s redemption. This fact is the\nobjective reason for them; it lies upon the surface, and is soonest\ncomprehended. There are times, however, when it is proper to\nconsider how our charities may abound to our own account\u2014how we\nmay secure for ourselves enduring mansions, spotless robes, and\nimperishable crowns.\n\nIf we have been tempted to trust unduly to uncertain riches, which\nhave made for themselves wings and used them, it is time to ask,\nwhat investments are safe\u2014what are the treasures that never fail?\nBountiful givers cannot be absolutely poor. They may be called to\nwait a little for their inheritance, but only for a little, for\ntheir Master\u2019s word is sure: \u201cBehold, I come quickly, and my reward\nis with me, to give to every man according as his work shall be.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTHE CLAIM OF NEED.\n\nWhat claim on us of the Caucasian race\u2014us of the Christian\nChurch\u2014have the Negro, the Indian, and the Chinaman, the three\ndespised races in the United States? We, who have the leaven, what\ndo we owe to those who have it not? We, who are the leaven, what to\nthat which is a foreign and corrupting mass, that we may transform\nit into not only that which is leavened, but, as all which is\nitself leavened becomes, into leaven itself?\n\nWhat claim on us have they?\n\nWe answer, the claim of _need_. We do not even say, of want, which\nis conscious need, but of need; the mere absence of that which we\nhave to enjoy, the mere contrast of their want with our plenty,\nthat of itself is, perhaps, the greatest of all claims.\n\nThat is not the truest generosity which waits to be besieged\nwith tears and cries for help, which lingers behind the closed\ndoor of its comfortable home, until it is called out by special\napplication, and its sympathies are moved by loud appeals\u2014as that\nis not the truest need which proclaims its wants most loudly\u2014but\nthat which goes and looks, and, knowing or suspecting want, seeks\nit out, patiently and lovingly, to relieve it.\n\nSo God has treated this sinful world. He looked from heaven, he\nsaw, he bowed the heavens and came down. It was the need, and not\nthe prayer, of the world which brought the Lord Jesus to its relief.\n\nOnce here, He sees a man lie in the porches of the pool Bethesda;\nHe only sees him, and He asks at once, \u201cWilt thou be made whole?\u201d\n\nHe sees the multitudes in the wilderness, and it is only bread they\nlack, and He has compassion on them, and from the storehouse of the\nFather\u2019s wealth, supplies their need.\n\nHe sees the sins of the world, in which the world is taking\npleasure and rejoicing, and against their rejection, their\nblasphemy, and their persecution, dies by their hands to free them\nfrom their sins.\n\nAnd if need _be_ a claim, then the claim is in proportion to the\nneed. That is the loudest call which comes from the deepest depths.\nBut what are these? Not poverty, for that may consist with all\nwhich is best and worthiest in this life\u2014with intelligence, virtue,\nand faith in God. But the opposites of these\u2014ignorance, immorality,\nand superstition.\n\nWe need not tell you that the 5,000,000 of freed men in the South,\nthe 300,000 Indians of the Northwest, and the, at least, 150,000\nChinamen on the Pacific Coast, are, by our standard, in this direst\nwant. The negroes and the Indians, unlettered and unintelligent,\ngiven over by the habits of their lives, these to the vices which\nare found among the degraded classes which are domesticated, and\nthose to the immoralities which attend a wild life, and in both\ncases, made worse by the neighborhood of those possessing greater\nknowledge and power, but who have used this knowledge and power\nonly to depress them, and to make them serve the interests of\nintelligent greed and lust.\n\nThe negro, religious, but full of superstition and sensuousness,\nwhose religion consists largely in seeing visions and dreaming\ndreams, and singing songs of a heaven they are unfit for\u2014a\nreligion, too, which has been almost utterly divorced from\nmorality. As General Armstrong says: \u201cThe story of the devout old\nAuntie who would go to the communion service, and not let one poor\nold goose (that she had stolen) come between her and her blessed\nLord, shows how little a broken commandment disturbs the peace of\nthe unenlightened.\u201d The Indian, with a vague and dreamy notion of\na Great Spirit, and a happy hunting ground, and a definite fear\nof the medicine men, who send evil spirits to possess them, and\ndrive away disease with a dance. The Chinaman, with the remains of\nan ancient civilization, which has taught him to imitate and to\nworship his ancestors and to burn Josh-sticks to Confucius, and,\nthough temperate as to the use of alcoholic liquors, has learned\nthe worse drunkenness of the opium pipe, and to whom the thought\nof a Saviour from sin, and a life of doing good, is an unheard-of\ngospel. But we may not dwell longer here. This depth of need may\nonly be hinted at. That it is real and pressing, no one can doubt.\n\nIt is a claim which these races have in common with all who are in\nwant. We merely ask the question: Can you find needs more real,\ndegradations more deep, and therefore claims more pressing, than\nthese we need only not shut our eyes to see, for which we need not\ncross the ocean, nor even our own continent\u2014the needs of the three\ndespised, oppressed, and largely neglected races in these United\nStates?\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\u201cTHESE STUPID BLACKS.\u201d\n\nBY REV. G. B. WILLCOX, D. D.\n\nThat they are not altogether idiotic, is occasionally made to\nappear rather significantly. In a class in Yale College, not long\nago, was a colored youth of high scholarship and fine promise. In\nthe same class was a white student from South Carolina, with nearly\nor quite the same name, and consequently a seat at recitation\nnext to the sable scholar. Anent which occurred, substantially,\nthe following correspondence between the Southern father and a\ngentleman of the faculty:\n\n \u201c\u2014\u2014, South Carolina.\n\n \u201cPROF. \u2014\u2014\n\n \u201cDEAR SIR:\u2014My son informs me that he is obliged to sit next\n a negro day after day, which is highly disagreeable to him\n and offensive to me. Will you please provide some different\n arrangement? Yours, etc.,\n\n \u2014\u2014.\u201d\n\n \u201cYALE COLLEGE, New Haven.\n\n \u201c\u2014\u2014, ESQ.,\n\n \u201cDEAR SIR:\u2014Your favor is at hand. It is true that the students\n are arranged alphabetically for the present term, and a colored\n student has his place next to your son. But, at the commencement\n of the next term, the arrangement will be in the order of\n scholarship, in which case, the colored youth will be so near the\n head of the class, and your son, I regret to say, so near the\n other extremity, that there will be no farther embarrassment on\n that score. Yours, etc.,\n\n \u2014\u2014.\u201d\n\nSpeedy result: A note from a disgusted father, calling home a\ndisgusted son.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nAN AGED MINISTER\u2019S ENTHUSIASM.\n\nHaving commenced my ministry among a class whom it was my lot to\nknow as slaves, your privilege to know as freedmen, no sooner does\nthe AMERICAN MISSIONARY cross the threshold of my house than one\npair of eyes is running over its pages. The report of the Alabama\nConference in the May number just received, thus closes a record\nthat has \u201cstirred a fever in the blood of age\u201d: \u201cI could not ask\na happier lot than to be permitted to give my life to this field.\nIt seems to me so _unmistakably_ the work of Christ.\u201d I met in the\nreport one name with which I am familiar, and it occurred to me\nthat if the sainted mother of him who bears the honored name were\nliving to-day, she could not ask a happier lot \u201cfor her son than to\nbe permitted to be a laborer in a field where the germinating seed\nis giving promise of an abundant harvest in due season.\u201d I have\nbefore me, while I write, a card which that mother, as the wife of\nthe Treasurer of the American Board, put in circulation, in her own\nhandwriting, nearly fifty years ago. I have preserved it carefully\nduring this long period, and it has struck me that it may still do\ngood service reproduced in the columns of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\nI will transcribe it in substance. It is a fine specimen of _multum\nin parvo_: \u201cExpect great things, and attempt great things. Little\ncauses produce great effects. The poor heathen are perishing. We\nmay be the means of saving them. What we do we must do quickly.\n\u2018Love thy neighbor as thyself\u2019 is a Divine command. \u2018The Lord\nloveth a cheerful giver.\u2019 \u2018The liberal soul shall be made fat.\u2019\nWho would live to be \u2018creation\u2019s blot, creation\u2019s blank, whom none\ncan love, whom none can thank?\u2019 Rather let the heathen rise up and\ncall you blessed. The noblest object in the world is the surest of\nsuccess. The young and the old, the rich and the poor, may aid it.\nThe child\u2019s penny, the widow\u2019s mite, will be acceptable. If you\nhave no money to give, offer a jewel, a second-hand dress, a book,\nor if you have none of these, your influence and your prayers.\u201d\n\nLet me repeat one sentence from Mrs. Hill\u2019s card, and emphasize\nits application to the work in which the American Missionary\nAssociation is engaged: \u201c_The noblest object in the world is surest\nof success._\u201d\n\n REV. T. L. SHIPMAN (ordained 1826.)\n\n JERSEY CITY, CONN.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTHREE EXTRACTS.\n\nFrom a paper read by MR. J. H. ALLEY, of Boston, before the Essex\nSouth Conference. The writer testifies, from his own observations,\nas to\n\n\nThe Africans in Africa.\n\nThe African, in his native land, is little known by us; but a year\namong that people gave me opportunities for observation. They are\nfar from being the stupid race we so often hear them called. Keen\nat a bargain, they are often a match for some of us in that boasted\nYankee trait. Apt to learn, quick to understand and to appreciate\nadvantages, they are a people easy to assume and appropriate the\nbest results of civilization\u2014brave in the defense of their rights\nand homes, yet not aggressive, except when forced by circumstances\nand their teachings. We forget the whole history of this people in\nlooking only at some particular phase or trait. Their land, the\nfield of the slave-stealer for centuries, has been the scene of\ncruelty, fraud, and all the worst forms of vice. A people educated\nby so long a course of schooling in its vicissitudes might well\nbe cruel and vicious. The land has been hunted, from Egypt to the\nCape of Good Hope, by foreign and native stealers. Tribes have\nbeen driven for self-protection, or by greed of gain, to make\ncaptures from other tribes or other parts of their own. To show the\ndebasing power of slavery and slave-hunting, let me say that I have\nseen slaves brought to the coast from the central parts of Africa\nwho were the most abject specimens of the human race I have ever\nknown\u2014brought by a strong, stalwart tribe, noble in bearing, and\nbrave in war; and these, too, were the same tribe or people only\na comparatively short time before. Why this great difference? A\nsimple explanation is only required to show it all. Together and at\npeace, they had a generous and varied diet of animal and vegetable\nfood, for they had extent of territory in which to hunt and gather;\nbut divided and at war, fighting for self-protection, one party\ngained the supremacy. Then the other were a defeated people;\ncircumscribed within small limits, unable to hunt, they were soon\nconfined to a vegetable diet alone, and then to a single kind,\nand often to a few simple roots; courage gone, they were reduced\nto servitude and slavery, and brought to a market. This is no new\ntheory, for the same effects have followed the same causes over and\nover again.\n\nAfter references to the evils of slavery in this land, and the good\nto be accomplished by it under the Divine overruling, follows this\n\n\nThrilling Incident.\n\nOne of the most thrilling incidents of the late war was one in\nwhich I was an observer and part participant. I never more wished\nfor the powers of a great painter than then, or even now, for I can\nsee it to-day as vividly as when it occurred, fourteen years ago;\nfor to me it seemed to contain a history of slavery, embodied in\na single act. The army, in suddenly swinging round, had enclosed\nwithin its lines a large number of slaves who could not be taken\nfurther South before this was done. As we could not encumber\nourselves with the women and children, the steamers bringing\nsupplies for the army were prepared to take them to Washington. A\nvery large steamer was brought as near the shore as possible, and\na plank gangway, some fifteen feet in length, and at an angle of\nabout 45\u00b0, was laid from the shore to the entryport of the steamer.\nJust back from the shore, the bluff, at about the same angle, rose\nsome 100 feet, and this bluff and the plain above were occupied\nand covered by some three or four thousand slaves. All being made\nready, the order was given for embarkation; the women and children\nwere to go on board first. For some moments no one started, and\nthen a single figure, that of a woman of some sixty years, was\nseen slowly advancing alone up the plank; no one else followed. A\nperfect hush seemed to hang over the scene, as if some great event\nwas to take place, and if ever an emblematic scene was enacted it\nwas here. Slowly the bent form went forward, bearing the weight of\nyears of toil in the field\u2014years of bodily and heart suffering such\nas you and I never knew, and pray God _never_ may. Her face, her\nwhole frame, was a perfect picture of a doubt. All eyes seemed to\nwatch her in silence; officers and men waited\u2014they probably knew\nnot for what; her own people\u2014as though she was their \u201cpath-finder.\u201d\nAt last she reached the side of the steamer; the open port was\nright before her, and just then it seemed to her as the open portal\nto all her heart\u2019s longings, and God\u2019s open door. She and her race\nhad poured, for long years, their tales of trial and suffering into\nHis ear, \u201cwho never slumbers nor sleeps.\u201d _Was this the answer to\nher prayers?_ That seemed to be the question of her heart all the\nway up. Suddenly the bent form straightened, the homely, wrinkled\nface glowed with a new light, her coarse, ragged garb was a royal\nrobe, as she turned and looked towards her people, raising her hand\nand eyes to heaven, and exclaiming, in tones so loud and clear that\nthey reached every ear, and made the very hills ring: \u201c_I\u2019s free!\nThank God, I\u2019s free! Come on!_\u201d For a single instant there was\nperfect silence, and then cheer on cheer rent the air, and, with a\nshout, the rest followed up the gangway till the steamer was full.\nIt was, indeed, their way to liberty and happiness even in this\nlife, and by such efforts as this Association is making and aiding,\nshall it not be to the life to come?\n\nThe paper closes with a plea for the liberal support of our work\namong the freedmen, enforced by\n\n\nTwo Examples of Liberality.\n\nAbout giving, let me relate two incidents and I close, for if they\nappeal to you as they did to me they will be more effective than\nany mere words of mine. As I sat in Mr. Woodworth\u2019s office, the\nother day, an elderly lady came in and took a chair by his desk,\nsaying, as she opened her bag, that she had come to bring her\noffering. Her dress was not of the latest fashion, her bonnet was\nnot of the spring style; but her face was one of those beautiful\nmotherly faces you and I used to look into years ago, and which,\nthough years have come and gone since they were covered from our\nsight, are still as sweet to our memories as ever\u2014such faces as\nwe know will greet us lovingly in heaven, for they are watching\nand waiting for us, and our entrance there will be, in no small\nmeasure, in answer to their prayers. From her pocket-book she took\na bill and handed it to Mr. W., saying, she wished it were more,\nand in such a tone that I knew it was a heart gift, and that the\nwish was almost a prayer, which might go with the gift and make\nit as effectual as if it were all she had desired it to be. Gifts\nmade in such a spirit, in His hands, who multiplied the bread of\nold, grow to wonderful results. The bill, to my surprise, for I had\nimagined the circumstances of the donor to be very limited, was\ntwenty dollars.\n\nI have another: A poor woman, with an income of less than one\nhundred and fifty dollars a year, whose yearly offering had been\na single dollar, came and laid down on the secretary\u2019s desk (I\nhad almost said at the Master\u2019s feet, for the place seemed sacred\nground) ten dollars, saying that she could not be here long, her\njourney was almost ended, and that she felt she must do all the\ncould while she stayed, for she could not give after she had gone\nhome, and so, after prayer, long and earnest, she had been enabled\nto make this, perhaps her last gift. What a gift from such scanty\nresources! It meant the giving up of many necessaries, as we should\ncall them. Have _we_ so given? She had cast in of her want, and may\nwell expect to hear the Master\u2019s commendation. May she not have\ncast in more than we all?\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nOBITUARY.\n\nWe are called to notice the death of REV. SILAS MCKEEN, D. D.,\nof Bradford, Vt., whose name, for fourteen years, has stood upon\nour list of Vice-Presidents. Mr. McKeen was born in Corinth, Vt.,\nMarch 16, 1791. His education was obtained amid many difficulties.\nSo great was his desire for knowledge that, in his father\u2019s\ngrist-mill, he occupied his leisure moments in studying, without\na teacher, Latin and the higher mathematics. During an illness\nwhich caused him to abandon all thoughts of a collegiate education,\nhe was led to devote himself entirely to the service of Christ;\nand, in the following spring, he commenced the study of theology\nwith Rev. Stephen Fuller, of Vershire. In 1814 he was licensed by\nthe Orange Association to preach the gospel. His first sermon was\ndelivered in Vershire, and his second in Bradford, where, shortly\nafterwards, he was installed as pastor. Twelve years later, he\nwas dismissed from this church, but in less than three months was\nrecalled, and remained its pastor five years longer, when he was\nagain dismissed, this time that he might accept a call to Belfast,\nMe. After nine years of labor in Belfast, he was a second time\ninvited to return to Bradford. His whole ministry in this place\nwas about forty-three years, he finally resigning when he was\nseventy-five years old. During these years, there were added to\nthe church three hundred and forty-two members. A man of great\ndiligence and decision, with tender sympathies and warm affection,\ntrue and judicious, his ordinary work among his own people, as\nwell as in protracted meetings and in revivals, was eminently\nsuccessful. He took a lively interest in education, and was a true\nand eloquent friend of the colored people. Full of years, with his\nwork well done, he was ready to leave it for the reward.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nITEMS FROM CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS.\n\nDUDLEY, N. C.\u2014\u201cA deep and increasing religious interest is\nreported. The work of conviction and conversion is going on.\nBacksliders have been restored. Brother Peebles was assisted for a\ntime by Rev. Mr. Smith of Raleigh.\u201d\n\nGEORGIA.\u2014Of the thirty-seven graduates from Atlanta University,\nthirty are teachers, two are pastors, one is a missionary in\nAfrica, one a theological student at Andover. Only three are not\nteaching or preaching\u2014two who are wives and one who has died.\n\nALABAMA.\u2014The Trinity Church, Athens, Rev. Horace J. Taylor, pastor,\nreceived one on profession at the May communion. This church has a\nflourishing missionary society, which contributed in February $16\nfor the support of colored missionaries in Africa. It has sustained\nduring the year just closing, thirteen mission schools, in which\nover 700 have been taught.\n\nLOUISIANA.\u2014The Minutes of the Southwestern Congregational\nConference, which met at New Iberia, April 3-5, have been printed.\nThe statistics give fourteen churches, with a total membership of\n865.\n\n\u2014The following relates to a recent convert in one of our churches:\n\u201cMr. K. proves a very strong man in the church. He is evidently\nof the material which makes a first-class sinner or a first-class\nsaint. He was lately invited to a dinner-party by his brother, who,\nwhen he entered the room, began in a mocking way to give an account\nof his (Mr. K\u2019s) conversion. Mr. K. listened patiently, and when\nthe account was finished, said it was true, but all had not been\ntold. He then gave his own story in such a way that one of the\ncompany there determined to follow his example.\u201d\n\nMEMPHIS, TENN.\u2014Miss Woodward writes: \u201cFor the past thirteen weeks\nthe Murphy temperance movement has been very successful among the\nwhite people of Memphis. A few earnest workers, seeing the need\nof a like effort among the colored people here, inaugurated a\nseries of meetings at the Second Congregational Church. From the\nfirst there has been a very decided interest manifested, and the\nmeetings are productive of great good, both directly and as a means\nof awakening thought on this important subject. Some two hundred\nin all have signed the pledge, and new names are added at every\nmeeting.\u201d\n\nTOUGALOO, MISS.\u2014A teacher writes: \u201cI think there is not one in the\nschool who has not signed the pledge. They came in one by one, till\nlast week one who has stood out all these months, came and put\nhis name on the list of total abstainers. He said: \u2018You all got\naway with me at the meeting last night, and I am going to sign the\npledge, for I cannot teach others to do what I will not do myself.\u2019\u201d\n\n\u2014The following is a good illustration of perseverance among the\ncolored people of the South. While the missionary was persuading\na sick woman to put her trust in Jesus, the husband came in, when\nthe following conversation took place: \u201cMr. Williams, are you a\nChristian?\u201d \u201cNo, Miss, I\u2019s left on de docket yet.\u201d \u201cDo you ever\nthink about becoming one?\u201d \u201cYes, Miss, I thinks a heap about it\nsometimes. I tries a while, then I stops.\u201d \u201cI fear you do not seek\nfor it as you do for money; you should keep at it all the time, as\nyou do when working for money.\u201d \u201cYes, Miss, that is jes the way I\nworks for money. I works a while for the ole man, then I stops. Jes\nthe same way, Miss.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nCHINESE ITEMS.\n\n\u2014Wong Sam has returned from China, and has resumed his place in the\nBarnes School. Lee Hame, who was there before, has been sent to\nSacramento. There are now four Chinese helpers regularly employed.\n\n\u2014Mr. Dakin has retired from the Central School, having removed to\nArizona. Mr. Henry C. Pond, a son of our efficient superintendent,\ntakes his place. He is a graduate of the State University, and well\nqualified for the work.\n\n\u2014Mr. Gilbert is doing good work at Woodland, and approving himself\nto all.\n\n\u2014Six Chinamen were received to Bethany Church June 2d, making\nforty-four Chinese members in all. There are two Chinese Christian\nfamilies in the church.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\nThe Negro.\n\n\u2014Howard University, for colored students, Washington, D. C., shows\na strength of two hundred and twenty-five in all departments.\nThere are thirty-two theological students, fifty medical, six law,\ntwenty-two academical, eighteen preparatory, and ninety-five in the\nNormal department.\n\n\u2014The Reformed Episcopal Church has organized fourteen colored\ncongregations in and around Charleston, S. C. Some of them meet in\nlog buildings. One church is staggering under a debt of ten dollars.\n\n\u2014The Baltimore Annual Conference of the A. M. E. Church passed\nresolutions denouncing the action of the School Commissioners of\nthat city, in refusing to employ colored teachers for the separate\nschools for colored children. Two colored delegates, representing\nthe African Methodist Church, were most cordially received.\n\n\u2014Prof. Bennett, of Nashville, makes an important contribution to\nthe question of negro mortality, in the _Independent_. He sums up\nthe causes of its large percentage: (1) The old and sick, broken\nby slavery, are dying as the effect of former hardships; (2) they\nlack vital force, are scrofulous, and readily succumb to disease;\n(3) ignorance of the laws of health; (4) late and excited religious\nmeetings; (5) inadequate clothing and food; (6) crowded tenement\nhouse life. He also names the following grounds for expecting an\nimprovement: (1) They are gradually improving their condition,\nas to homes, food and clothing; (2) they are progressing in\nintelligence and knowledge of the laws of health; (3) the younger\nministers are leading them to earlier hours and quieter modes\nof worship; (4) boards of health are securing better sanitary\nconditions.\n\n\u2014The first negro who has sat on an important jury in New York, in\nmany years, was accepted May 22d, in the Supreme Court circuit, in\na case involving $6,500.\n\n\u2014Should the barque _Azor_ make four trips a year, it would take one\nhundred years to transport to Africa the 100,000 now ready to go,\nand able and willing to pay $20 each for passage and food. It is\nmost important that the 99,000, at least, should neither give up\nhome nor work.\n\n\u2014A French Roman Catholic mission is to be established at Lakes\nVictoria and Tanganyika, in Central Africa, with government aid to\nthe amount of $20,000. Ten missionaries, who have seen service in\nNorthern Africa, will soon set out for Zanzibar. They have already\nlarge and extending missionary enterprises in the north and in the\nsouth.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nThe Indian.\n\n\u2014It is hard to tell, from the contradictory accounts, whether\nSitting Bull will continue seated over the Canada lines, trading in\nthe spoils of raids on Black Hills trains, or will issue from his\ncamp of 1,500 lodges to take possession of his old home and fight\nout his claim to the end. Authorities differ.\n\n\u2014Meanwhile, the Bannock Indians, numbering about 200 warriors,\nunder the command of Buffalo Horn, the noted scout, are encamped in\nthe lava beds, between Big Campus Prairie and Snake River, and have\nordered the whites to leave the prairie on penalty of death. The\nIndians on the Upper Columbia are equally hostile, and the Sioux\nstill threatening.\n\n\u2014General Sherman says that, if the present indications of an Indian\nwar are realized, and he fears they will be, the army, as it now\nstands, would be entirely insufficient to cope with the weight of\nIndian strategy and valor that would be thrown against it.\n\n\u2014The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is about to try a new\nexperiment with the Indians. He has given orders forbidding further\ngratuitous issue of coffee and sugar to them at their agencies.\nIn order to secure application to duty on their part, he says\nthat only as they work, and in payment for their labor, will they\nreceive coffee and sugar rations in future.\n\n\u2014The _Tribune_ says: \u201cThe Senate will certainly raise the army to\n25,000 men, and concur in the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the\nWar Department. The first will almost certainly be yielded by the\nHouse in Conference Committee, and the other has already received\nits approval.\u201d The same paper contains this paragraph, also:\n\u201cBefore the Indian Bureau is transferred from the Interior to the\nWar Department, however, Congress should strive to comprehend the\nfact that even the War Department can have very little success in\nmanaging Indian affairs unless we contrive to attain some settled\nIndian policy. We have been in the habit of putting the Indians\nby turns under the immediate care of missionaries and thieves,\nof Quakers and Catholics, of army officers and contractors. We\nhave made solemn treaties, and broken them. We have moved them to\nreservations, and then crowded them off whenever they were found\nto be in the way. We have pauperized them by promising supplies,\nand starved them by breaking our promises. We have made a pretence\nof civilizing them, without furnishing them with any code of law,\nand of educating them, without furnishing them with any teachers.\nAfter supplying them with rifles to fight with, and worrying them\ninto hostilities, we have made war upon them; and when they have\nproved so conspicuously cruel and treacherous as to deserve swift\nretribution, we have tried moral suasion. No one ever dreamed that\nthe same tribe was to receive the same treatment for two successive\nyears, and no two tribes ever received the same treatment at the\nsame time. What is first needed is a definite and persistent policy\nof some kind, so that both Indians and white men will be able to\nform some clear idea of what will probably happen the day after\nto-morrow. A bad system is better than no system; any system is\nbetter than caprice.\u201d\n\n\u2014A small Indian church was dedicated at Jamestown, Clallam County,\nWashington Territory, Sunday, May 12th, by Rev. M. Eells. The idea\nof erecting it originated entirely with the Indians, who bought\nthe lumber, and have done all the work. The windows and casings,\nnails, paint, oil, and lime came as annuity goods. They have also\nhad encouragement, pecuniarily, from white friends. It is the first\nchurch building in the county, although it has been settled for\nabout twenty years, and the first white house in the Indian village.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nCOMMENCEMENT AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE.\n\nBY TELESCOPE.\n\nThis always interesting occasion came on the 23rd of May. The\nspecial feature of public interest this year was the attendance of\nthe President of the United States, with his private secretary,\nRogers, and General Devens and Mr. McCrary of the Cabinet. A large\nparty went, also, from New York and Boston on this most enjoyable\nand instructive excursion.\n\nThe trustees were in session on Wednesday, the 22d, on which\nday also was held the first meeting of the graduates of Hampton\nInstitute. There were assembled in the beautiful \u201cWhittier Chapel,\u201d\non the upper floor of Virginia Hall, a large representation of\nthe 277 who had gone out, most of them as teachers of their race.\nOf that whole number, not a complaint has been made. They have\nbecome good and useful citizens, maintaining the high moral tone\nof Hampton, and evidencing that growth in character which is the\nbest witness to the existence of a true life within. Says the\ncorrespondent of the Springfield _Republican_:\n\n\u201cAll this was abundantly manifest by their general bearing on this\noccasion, the prompt organization of their meeting, the dignity\nand good sense of their presiding officer, a negro black as night,\nthe secretary likewise, but models of courtesy and tact, their\nself-possessed and orderly manner of conducting their business\nin a large presence of trustees, teachers, and visitors, in the\naccounts they gave of their work, their trials, their methods, and\nsuccesses.\u201d\n\nAfter giving reports of their varied experiences, hindrances, and\nhopes, a discussion followed as to the desirableness of raising the\neducational standard of Hampton and making it a real college. There\nwas a good deal of feeling in favor of such a move, and the alumni\ncame, finally, to a standing vote requesting such a change of the\ntrustees and faculty.\n\nGeneral Armstrong, the Principal, seconded by Secretary Strieby,\nthe President of the Board of Trustees, with a good deal of\nfrankness and tact, managed to bring the meeting to a feeling of\nthe sensibleness of just such a course as that they had enjoyed,\nand to receive finally, in response, hearty expressions of approval\nof that which had been already done, and of the general sufficiency\nof the advantages provided.\n\nEarly on Thursday morning the Presidential party arrived, and were\nwelcomed by a salute from the guns of Fortress Monroe. With other\nguests, they were escorted over the farm to the new barn, 100\u00d7150\nfeet in size, and covering the stables, the agricultural and other\nmachinery, blacksmith shop, etc. The cash balance against the farm\nfor the year is $326.03. The printing-office shows a credit balance\nof $400. The students have earned during the year $12,236.75 in\nthe varied industries, which, though not profitable in the net\npecuniary result, are among the most important educational agencies\nof the institution; for the knowledge of practical work, and the\nability to perform intelligent labor, are among the most important\nattainments for the colored students, both as citizens and as\nteachers.\n\nThe catalogue shows 332 pupils on the roll, of which 202 are young\nmen, and 130 young women. The graduating class numbered 57. In the\nexaminations of Thursday morning, the teachers showed the tact\nand thoroughness for which they have been always noted, and the\nresults in the intelligence and interest of their pupils were most\ngratifying.\n\nThe new class of fifteen Indians attracted much attention. Their\nhistory has been already given. Five of these Indians are going, in\nSeptember, to Bishop Whipple\u2019s school in Minnesota. Ten remain at\nHampton as permanent students. Bear\u2019s Heart, White Goose, Squint\nEyes, High Forehead, Wild Horse, and Big Nose will probably change\ntheir names, although the Indian for each has a romantic sound. The\nnegro students take very kindly to their new friends, and there\nis promise of entire harmony between the two races. Proposals\nare in discussion between General Armstrong and the Government\nat Washington that include the education of more Indians, and\nthe co-education of an equal number of Indian girls, so that the\nexperiment may not be one-sided in its future developments.\n\nWe abbreviate from the admirable letter of an editor of the\nBaltimore _American_ his account of the commencement exercises:\n\n\u201cAt 1:30 P. M. a procession, headed by the Normal School brass\nband, was formed on the lawn. President Hayes and the trustees of\nthe school took the lead, while the invited guests and visitors\nfollowed after, in rather irregular order. Seats were reserved on\none side of the hall for the pupils of the school. The platform was\noccupied by distinguished visitors, with President Hayes as the\ncentral figure. The audience was composed of the most intelligent\nand highly cultivated people of Hampton and the surrounding\ncountry, reinforced by the _\u00e9lite_ of Norfolk, who came in two\nexcursion steamers. Nearly all the educated people of this section\nof Virginia are friendly to the Hampton Normal School, and take\nmuch pride in its success.\n\n\u201cFour essays were read by members of the graduating class, and four\nspeeches were made. The subjects discussed were of a practical\nnature, and were treated with vigor and originality.\n\n\u201cI can barely mention the speeches that were made in Virginia Hall\nafter the graduates received their diplomas. Rev. Dr. Strieby, of\nNew York City, President of the Board of Trustees, briefly reviewed\nthe work of the year, and commended the spirit of liberality shown\nby the Virginia Legislature in providing for the support of the\nInstitution. After he had concluded, Attorney-General Devens was\nintroduced by General Armstrong, and made an impromptu speech of\nremarkable directness and force.\n\n\u201cIn speaking of the historic associations of the place, he alluded\nto the fact that, fourteen years ago, he had been brought here\nimmediately after the great battle of Cold Harbor, and had remained\nthree months. At that time there were sixty officers and more\nthan four thousand soldiers in the hospitals erected upon these\nsame grounds. The natural surroundings were then the same as now;\nthe river ran lazily along; the roadstead, which glitters to-day\nunder the Virginia sun like a sea of molten silver, was filled\nwith ships. They were not ships of a broad, peaceful, prosperous\ncommerce, such as are now resting upon its bosom, but ships filled\nwith supplies for the great army that was lying up the river. The\narmy has gone; the bugles of war have sounded their last notes; the\nsick and wounded soldiers that were camped on these grounds have\nstruck their tents. Three or four hundred of them remain in yonder\ncemetery, where stands the monument erected by Miss Dorothea Dix\nto commemorate their heroism. But I regard this Institution as a\nmore fitting monument to the army that fought for law, and order,\nand civilization, to the patriotism of the men that rushed to the\ndefense of a constitutionally elected President when his authority\nwas defied and his office menaced.\u201d\n\nThe President, also, made a telling little speech, expressing his\ndeep interest in the education of the freedmen, and his approbation\nof the things which he had seen and heard.\n\nThus ended another memorable day for Hampton.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nFISK UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT.\n\nA. R. MERRY, STUDENT.\n\nThe commencement exercises of Fisk University began on Sunday,\nMay 19th, at eleven o\u2019clock A. M. Addresses were made before the\nSociety for the Evangelization of Africa, by Professors Spence and\nChase.\n\nAs the readers of the MISSIONARY doubtless know, from this Society\nalready have gone forth four young consecrated souls to bear the\nlight of the Gospel and civilization to the perishing ones on the\nwest coast of Africa; and in the future we are sure that many more\nwill verify the prophetic saying of one of those already gone: \u201cHer\nsons and her daughters are ever on the altar.\u201d\n\nAt three P. M. the baccalaureate sermon was preached by the Rev. H.\nS. Bennett, from the text, Matt. xxii. 21: \u201cRender, therefore, unto\nC\u00e6sar the things that are C\u00e6sar\u2019s, and unto God the things that are\nGod\u2019s.\u201d\n\nOn Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, commencing at 9.30 o\u2019clock,\nexaminations were held in all the departments of the University,\nand were, on the whole, unusually satisfactory.\n\nOn Monday evening the Common-school Normal Exhibition took\nplace, at which time those who have completed that course were\ngranted certificates of ability to teach in the common-schools.\nThe exercises of the evening consisted of essays and original\ndeclamations.\n\nOn Tuesday evening the Union Literary Society held its ninth\nanniversary. The exercises were unusually interesting, especially\nthe debate, \u201cShould the colored people of the United States migrate\nto Africa,\u201d which was well sustained on both sides, by Mr. J. C.\nMcAdams, of Tennessee, in the affirmative, and Mr. R. H. Harbert,\nof Texas, in the negative.\n\nOn Wednesday evening the Senior Preparatory and Higher Normal\nExhibition took place. Six young men were admitted to college, and\nthree young ladies secured the Higher Normal diploma.\n\nOn Thursday, College Commencement day, the interest of the week\nculminated. At an early hour the chapel of the University began to\nbe filled, until all available space was occupied. The audience\nroom was tastefully and elaborately decorated. At the back of\nthe platform, extending its entire length, was the national\nflag, gracefully folded and festooned. Above, on one side, was\nthe portrait of the hero, Livingstone; on the other, that of the\nstatesman and philanthropist, Wilberforce; from the centre, the\ngenerous, open countenance of General Clinton B. Fisk smiled\nbenignly down; above all, in evergreen, were the words, \u201cCLASS OF\n\u201978.\u201d\n\nAt eleven o\u2019clock the exercises commenced with the chorus, \u201cHail,\nFestal Day,\u201d well rendered by the University choir, after which\nprayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Baird, of Ohio. Mr. H. S. Merry,\none of the two graduates, then delivered his oration, \u201cBeyond\nthe Alps our Italy.\u201d The young man acquitted himself with honor.\nThe manuscript of Mr. Miller, the other graduate\u2014now absent as\nMissionary to Africa\u2014not having arrived as expected, extracts from\nletters recently received by various members of the University\nwere read instead. These letters breathed forth a spirit of zeal\nand devotion, and a courage unabated, even in the presence of the\nobstacles and difficulties with which he must daily combat, thus\nshowing that his was not a mere romantic sentiment, but a deep,\ncontrolling principle.\n\nAfter a well-rendered instrumental solo, Mr. John H. Burrus,\ncandidate for the Master of Arts degree, read a carefully prepared\nthesis on \u201cAmerican Citizenship.\u201d\n\nRev. A. J. Baird, D. D., of Nashville, then delivered the\nCommencement Address, which was full of wholesome, practical\nadvice, interspersed with happy illustration. He dwelt largely upon\nthe great tendency of young men to rest upon their laurels won in\ncollege, and to expect afterward to float with folded arms into a\nhaven of prosperity and success. He maintained that substantial\nsuccess is achieved only by unmitigated toil. After the address,\nthe degree of A. B. was conferred upon Messrs. H. S. Merry and A.\nP. Miller, and the degree of M. A. upon Mr. Jno. H. Burrus and\nMrs. Virginia Walker Broughton. After a few pertinent remarks by\nProf. A. K. Spence, Dean of the Faculty, a shield, bearing in\ngolden letters upon a blue field the parting words of one of our\nmissionaries, which have been unanimously adopted as the motto\nof our institution\u2014\u201cHer sons and her daughters are ever on the\naltar\u201d\u2014was suspended upon the wall of the chapel amid sounds of\nhearty applause. The benediction was then pronounced by Rev. L. N.\nMerry.\n\nIn one hour, professors, students of boarding department and\ninvited guests assembled in the dining hall to partake of a\ncarefully prepared collation. After all had partaken heartily,\nremarks were interchanged by invited guests, professors and\nstudents. Among the many pleasant features of the occasion was\nthe presence of two old friends of the Institution from Great\nBritain\u2014Rev. George Crow, of Belfast, Ireland, and Rev. William\nBathgate, of Kilmarnock, Scotland, who gave many words of cheer\nand congratulation. Thus pleasantly closed the most prosperous and\neventful year in the history of the institution, with a clear gain\nof thirty-five per cent. in attendance over last year. On the day\nafter commencement, the 24th, the Union Jack floated from the tower\nof Jubilee Hall, in honor of the birthday of Queen Victoria, and\nsignificant of the close relation the institution sustains to its\nfriends in Great Britain.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nKENTUCKY.\n\nThen and Now.\n\n_Berea College._\n\nThe builder working day after day placing stone upon stone,\npolishing here and there, might well get discouraged if he stopped\nto look at each day\u2019s work. Progress in all great things is slow,\nand nowhere slower than in building character.\n\nTwelve years ago, two little black children made their first\nappearance in our Berea School. The scholars, all of whom at that\ntime were white, scattered before those two little bits of color,\nas if scared by the plague. The school that in the morning numbered\nfifty, by noon scarcely counted a dozen. Then commenced the long\nand weary work of rowing against the stream of prejudice. With a\nwhole State against us, with even our country, so far as it knew\nus, looking on in doubt, with colored people, who held the most\nabsurd notions of freedom and learning, flocking to us, we found\nourselves under a heavy burden.\n\nOur students were fresh from town and country, plantations and the\narmy; some with misty thoughts that education was a good thing, and\nthat about all they had to do was to open the pores and let it soak\nthrough. When the restraints of the school-room came, and the study\nthat brought slow results, the courage of this class flagged, and\nthey were easily wooed back to their first love, where the liberty\nof the corn-field and the swing of the axe was much more to their\nfancy.\n\nThere were some, however, of sterner stuff, who, counting the cost,\ncame through poverty and self-denial, and are remembered as among\nour best students and graduates. One man, the father of fifteen\nchildren, came to Berea years ago, and has somewhat educated almost\nall his children. Some have taught, and others are preparing to do\nso. How, in their poverty, they have managed to keep four or five\nin school at once, we can hardly imagine. We, who are mothers, and\nknow how the little shoes wear out, and the clothes always need\na button or patch, stand almost in awe of a mother who not only\nprepares her children\u2019s daily bread, but helps to earn it. If their\nlittle ones have had less than others more favored, they do not\nseem to mind it. Their laugh is just as merry, and their appetite,\nperhaps, better for the work that helped to earn the meal. On last\nThanksgiving-day, the father spoke of his trials and hindrances,\nbut counted them all as nothing for the joy that the children had\ngained the privileges he had so longed for, but had been denied.\n\nOnly this winter a noble girl, well on in her course of study,\nwhose influence over her companions was always good, the help and\nstay of the principal, was, inexplicably to us, called to leave her\nwork below and go to the mansion prepared for her. Another sweet,\ndark-eyed girl, frail in health, but strong in spirit, for two\nyears has not only paid her own way, but has had something left to\nsend to a tired and over-taxed mother. Last year, directly after\nCommencement, she engaged a school where for months she taught very\nsuccessfully. At the close of her school, mounted on horseback, she\nrode to Berea to make final preparations for a new term, telling\ngleefully how she had secured this and that comfort for the year,\nand that now she could give herself wholly to study. Imagine her\nsurprise and distress to find, on her return to her boarding\nplace, that all her possessions were burned to ashes, her clothing\nall gone; and this with only a little money due her. But, though\nstunned and almost broken-hearted, her courage never failed. Using\nher means with the greatest economy, willing to deny herself, she\nis here with us, though how she manages to get along, only she and\nher Lord fully know.\n\nThese are but few cases out of the hundreds that might be\nmentioned, showing heroism of a very quiet sort; but in God\u2019s own\ntime, when faithfulness in little things is appreciated, many\nof these poor people will wonderingly receive the crown of the\nblessed, astonished to find that their plain, hard lives had aught\nof glory in them.\n\nMissionaries to heathen lands are glad to give their lives to plant\nChrist\u2019s banner on foreign soil, and we, looking back through these\nyears, take courage, thinking of the souls which have been helped\nhere, and are going out, carrying the good seed, and planting it in\nall the waste places about us.\n\nBerea opens her arms to the poor about her, with a welcome for\nall. Those who come here rarely go away without benefit, and many\noutward signs of improvement. The old people gaze with delight on\ntheir children. Weary mothers who have toiled over the wash tubs,\nfathers who have worked alone in the field while their children\nstudied, are more than rewarded for their toil. Through these hard\ntimes, when expenses are great and money comes in slowly, we have\nhad to learn anew the lesson of waiting on the Lord; but we know in\nwhom we trust, and that for the sake of His poor He will supply all\nour needs.\n\n L. R.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nReligious Life in Atlanta University.\n\nMRS. T. N. CHASE, ATLANTA.\n\nThe other day, when one of our young men handed me a letter to\nread from a dear old lady \u201cup North,\u201d in which was the sentence,\n\u201cI\u2019m so disappointed when the MISSIONARY comes, not to read of a\nrevival in your school,\u201d I felt like saying to her: \u201cDear, praying\nmother, if you could be here one week, you would go home rejoicing,\neven though there were no revival.\u201d As the years go by, there is\nless inclination here to come in flocks to the Lord\u2019s side, or to\nbe led into the kingdom by impulse or excitement. Our students act\nmore and more upon the spirit of the motto that hangs in each of\nour buildings\u2014\u201cLet every one that nameth the name of Christ depart\nfrom iniquity.\u201d They look upon religion less as a Sunday garment,\nand more as a robe of righteousness, that transforms our selfish\nnatures into earnest, self-denying lives of obedience.\n\nLet me give a week\u2019s religious duties. Sunday, two of our young men\npreach in an adjoining town. Quite a number go out to neighboring\nSunday-schools, and return about eleven o\u2019clock, when our\npreaching service begins. Our pastor, a graduate of Yale College\nand Theological Seminary, came South at the close of the war, to\nbuild the first Congregational church in Atlanta. For years he did\nfoundation-work there that placed it in the front rank of A. M.\nA. churches. The past four years he has been our college pastor.\nWith such a knowledge of the needs of this people as his experience\ngives, you may have an idea of the kind of sermons we enjoy.\nSimple truth, such as young people, with such a history and such a\nfuture, need, is presented so forcibly, that often the meal, which\nimmediately follows, is almost a silent one, owing to the serious\nthoughtfulness produced.\n\nIn the afternoon, all meet for Sunday-school, which is\nsuperintended by the President, who is also a graduate of Yale.\nAs his rich tones come to us in the hymns and Bible readings,\nboth in Sunday-school and at morning devotions through the week,\nwe are thankful for the rare gift\u2014a good reader. In a large\nschool-building, of course each class can have a separate room, and\nso secure a delightful hour of quiet, uninterrupted Sunday-school\nwork.\n\nIn the evening, all assemble in a general prayer-meeting. I do\nnot think it would be possible to give an adequate idea of this\nmeeting, or of similar ones in other A. M. A. schools. It is simply\nan inspiration to one who realizes what a part these pioneers have\nin shaping the destiny of their people. In all the meetings I have\nattended here during these years, I do not recall ever hearing the\nremark, \u201cImprove the time, brethren,\u201d or any other expression of\nlike import.\n\nMonday, most of the school devote the time of one\nrecitation\u2014three-fourths of an hour\u2014to Bible reading and study in\nclasses. After school there is held a female prayer-meeting of a\nhalf hour, led by a lady teacher.\n\nWednesday evening is the regular church prayer-meeting, led by the\npastor, attendance upon which is voluntary. The last half hour of\nschool, Friday afternoon, is devoted to a prayer-meeting, led by\nthe President, and attended by the entire school. This is the only\nmeeting at which the day scholars are required to be present, and\nso is the most important of all the week. At its close almost every\nmember of the school deposits in the box an envelope containing his\nregular weekly contribution toward paying the debt of the A. M. A.\n\nA very profitable meeting is announced on Sunday in this way: \u201cOn\nFriday evening bring your Bibles, and tell us what it says about\nthe evils of the tongue;\u201d or, at another time: \u201cSelect passages\nreferring to the Sabbath, the Holy Spirit, Repentance,\u201d etc.\nMost of the family gladly come, each reading one of his selected\npassages, and discussing it. Familiarity with the Bible and\nConcordance is a very apparent benefit of this exercise. It is\nalso remarkable how they improve in clearness of expression, and\nin confining their thoughts to one point. Best of all is the broad\nview they get of Bible truth, by looking at it from all sides.\nNo disputed points\u2014as Baptism or Perseverance of the Saints\u2014are\ndiscussed in this Bible exercise, or in Sunday-school, or any\nother religious meeting. No Baptist or Methodist need fear being\nproselyted in Atlanta University.\n\nSaturday evening is the teachers\u2019 prayer-meeting of a half hour.\nThe best test of the religious interest is the number of voluntary\nstudents\u2019 meetings. Sunday evening, just before the general meeting\nof an hour, the young men always gather for another hour in a\nmeeting of their own. The burden of this meeting is praying for the\nSpirit\u2019s blessing on the sermon and Sunday-school, and pleading for\nHis presence in the general meeting that follows.\n\nThere are many other students\u2019 meetings, among both the young\nmen and women, whose interest, and existence even, depend upon\ncircumstances. Nearly every summer term these meetings multiply.\nAs the pupils realize they are soon to leave this peaceful home,\nand for three months take on the responsibilities and trials of\nteachers, they seem impelled to a new consecration. Many, each\nyear, go out to teach for the first time, and all feel it is a\nsolemn undertaking. Another occasion for extra meetings is to plead\nfor those so soon to leave us, and not yet in the fold.\n\nThis is a hasty view of what may be seen of our religious work.\nEternity alone will reveal the number and effect of the private\npersonal appeals, or of the pleading notes written to the timid\nones. So, dear friends, do not think, because no revival is\nannounced, that souls are not often coming into the kingdom, and\nthat Christians are not receiving a most careful culture.\n\nI have often thought that the prayers of Northern friends, more\nthan anything else, have been the occasion of such a deep Christian\nspirit in the A. M. A. schools. Think of that old lady watching the\nMISSIONARY to see if her prayers for us were answered! I once knew\na man, who was not rich, or even a professing Christian, who, for\nsome years, gave $300 each year for the support of a teacher, who,\nas he said, \u201cwould teach a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ\u201d to\nthe freedmen. Many of our best friends are in such haste for us to\ndo simply church work, that they can hardly wait in patience for\nus to build on an intelligent, educational basis. If God has so\nburdened hearts for the spiritual welfare of the freedmen, may it\nnot indicate that, in His plan, He may have a glorious part for\nthem, in bringing the nations to His feet?\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nA Photograph with Lights and Shades.\n\nMR. JOHN MCINTOSH, TEACHER, ATHENS.\n\nThe lights and shades are the things which make the photograph\nappear natural; and so, in attempting to give a true, and thus\nnatural, picture of my field of labor, I must give the lights\nand shades. But, in order that my picture may leave a favorable\nimpression upon the mind, I will first give the shades, and then,\nthe lights. I came to this place October 6th, 1877. On the first\nday only two pupils met me, and the increase, during this and\nthe following months of the same year, was so very small that I\nbegan to be discouraged. I called several educational meetings,\nand, to my surprise, there was no response. I became still more\ndiscouraged. Failing to get as large a day-school as I desired,\nI offered my services at night, for one dollar per month each to\nthose who could not come in the day. A few accepted the offer, and\nwhen these few became weary in well-doing and fainted by the way,\nI offered to teach at night, free of charge, any young man who was\nnot able to pay his tuition. Only one accepted this offer. I then\noffered to teach vocal music, free of charge, to any who would meet\nme every Saturday. The first Saturday, none came; the second, eight\ncame, far behind time; and this has been the greatest number that\nhas ever accepted the offer. In my day-school the variety of books\nwas large; the number of misused books was great. I had for several\nmonths to labor very hard to reduce chaos to form and order.\n\nBut why did I not have a full school all the while? The assigned\nreasons were various. Many did not know whether I was Baptist,\nMethodist, or something else; and so sectarianism kept some away;\nsome parents said their children were just out of school, and\ntheir minds needed rest\u2014these, and many excuses less plausible,\nwere rendered for non-attendance. After my school was pretty well\nestablished and my scholars were somewhat classified, one other\nfact became apparent, and this was, and is, indeed, a sad fact,\nviz.: in the acquisition of knowledge, the teacher is considered\none distinct party, the parent another, and the child another.\nSad fact that, in the pleasant and most beneficial work, teacher,\nparent, and scholar are not one. When Christmas-day came, most of\nmy patrons said: \u201cIt is Christmas, and there should be no school\nfor one week;\u201d and, indeed, I had but little. A short time ago\na circus drifted down this way. \u201cOf course,\u201d said many of my\npatrons, \u201cthe children must go to the circus, and omit going to\nschool until the circus is over with\u201d; and they went.\n\nBut all shade, says the photographer, makes no picture; and so I\nwill show the lights, and thus complete my picture. Many of my\npupils, who were once, apparently, ignorant of what punctuality\nwas, have learned to be punctual. Those who once thought it best\nto be disorderly, disrespectful, disobedient, careless, idle,\nand the like, now think it their duty to act differently; and so\na much better state of things exists than formerly. Some months\nago, when I would ask a reason for working an example in a certain\nway, the answer invariably was, \u201cbecause\u201d; and if I asked \u201cbecause\nwhat?\u201d the reply would be lengthened, thus: \u201cbecause that gets the\nanswer.\u201d But now my pupils can not only work their examples, but\ntell why.\n\nStrange to say, my third class (by name) is my best class in\narithmetic, and the best scholar in this class is the smallest,\nand probably the youngest\u2014not thirteen, perhaps. This same class\nis very good in geography, and, indeed, as a class, good in all\ntheir studies. My class in composition, for three months, have\nbeen endeavoring to understand the theory of composition, and now\nthey are writing, or learning to write, essays according to the\ntheory which they have learned. A few in the class compose very\nwell already. In nearly all of my classes, strange to say, the dark\npupils are the ones that stand at the head. In composition, good\nmorals, geography, reading, grammar, writing, the leading scholars\nare dark\u2014dark in color, but bright in intellect. I think it must be\nacknowledged that color has no influence over mind. I have several\ngrown men, who have left their farms in the country that they may\nattend school and receive instruction, which they may impart to\nothers. They are getting along fairly. When I asked my scholars\nwhat I should write concerning them, they said, with one accord,\n\u201cThe truth, and nothing but the truth;\u201d and I think I have done\njust as they said. Clouds still hang over me, but they are not so\ndark as they were some months ago.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nDedication of Emerson Institute.\n\nMR. B. F. KOONS, PRINCIPAL, MOBILE.\n\nSince the burning of Emerson Institute in 1876, our school has\npassed through some very dark clouds of discouragement. All of last\nyear, and the first four months of this, it occupied an old store,\nvery poorly fitted for school purposes.\n\nIn December last, the A. M. A. purchased property known as Holly\u2019s\nGarden, located near the centre of the city. There are nearly three\nand three-quarter acres of ground, covered by over one hundred\nbeautiful live oak, cedar, and various other trees, and near the\ncentre of the lot is located quite a comfortable and commodious\nframe dwelling. Into this we moved the school in January, and have\nsince occupied three rooms, some sixteen by eighteen feet square.\nIn these, we have accommodated about one hundred pupils.\n\nReaders of the MISSIONARY will recall the account in the March\nnumber of the breaking ground for a new school building upon this\nlot December 26th. Since that time the proposed structure has\nsteadily grown, and on the 30th of April we were able to pronounce\nit completed. It is a well constructed two-story brick building,\n34\u00d764, with wings at the centre of each side 10\u00d721. The lower\nstory is divided into two school rooms, 28\u00d731\u00bd feet, and between\nthese is what may be called a hallway, divided into four hat and\ncloak rooms. From this floor there are two stairways, occupying\nthe wings, and leading to the second story. At the head of each\nof these is a commodious hat and cloak room, through which the\npupils pass as they enter the chapel, or large school-room, of the\nsecond floor. This room is 31\u00bd\u00d748; at one end, on each side of the\nteacher\u2019s desk, are doors leading into two recitation rooms, each\n15\u00d715\u00bd. The building is surmounted by a very neat belfry, which\nawaits the new bell daily expected from New York, via the ocean.\nThe original plan was to place above the whole a weather-vane in\nthe shape of a large gold quill, but just as it arrived here from\nNew York the railroad depot was burned, and with it our quill. We\nsincerely hope that the burning of this is not an indication of the\nfate of our building.\n\n\nTHE DEDICATION.\n\nAt last the 1st of May arrived, the day set apart for the\ndedication of our new building; and to the teachers and pupils,\nand all friends of the school, it was a glad day indeed. Just in\nproportion as the former days of the school were dark, so this was\nbright and joyous. It seemed that the sun never shone more clearly,\nthat the sky was never brighter, and that all nature rejoiced with\nus. At an early hour the people began to gather, and at eleven\no\u2019clock, the doors of the new building were thrown open, and the\nchapel was soon filled by an eager, expectant multitude. A few\nmoments later the school, about one hundred in number, filed in,\nand took seats in front and to the right of the platform. Upon this\nwere seated Rev. Drs. Burgett and Walden, pastors of the First and\nThird Presbyterian Churches of Mobile; Rev. W. S. Alexander, of\nStraight University, New Orleans, and Rev. Wm. H. Ash, pastor of\nthe Congregational Church of Mobile: and to the left were several\nladies of Mobile, invited guests; the Rev. Mr. Owens, pastor of one\nof the Baptist Churches; Dr. Murrell, a leading physician of the\ncity; Mr. Wheeler, the oldest merchant of Mobile; D. S. Richardson,\nPrincipal of Mobile Military Academy, and others.\n\nThe exercises were opened by a chant\u2014the 121st Psalm\u2014sung by the\nschool; appropriate passages of Scripture were read by Rev. Mr.\nWalden, and prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Ash. The little folks\nthen sang \u201cMarching On!\u201d after which a short oration was delivered\nby one of the boys of the school, and an essay read by one of\nthe girls. One spoke of the past, and the other, of the present\nand future of our school. After this, the principal gave a short\nhistory of the school, and in a few words explained the object for\nwhich it was established, and the aims of the American Missionary\nAssociation in the South.\n\nWe told them that we are here for no political ends, but that our\nwhole aim is to cultivate the minds and hearts of our pupils, to\nlift them up to higher planes of true manhood and womanhood, and to\nfit them for usefulness to themselves, to their people, to their\nemployers, to all with whom they come in contact, to the world,\nand especially to God. That our aim is to send forth cultivated\nand Christian hearts, endowed with the nobler aims and aspirations\nin life, and fitted for efficient work in the vineyard of our\nMaster. If mistakes had been made in the past by workers under\nthe Association, it was not in accordance with the will of its\nofficers, their expressed wish being that we ignore politics. That\nours is a mission work, and finally, that if the people of the\nSouth and we have not fully understood each other in the past, we\nhope that in the future we may know each other better. As for us,\nwe earnestly and sincerely ask the sympathy and co-operation of the\nChristian people of the South; we need it.\n\nThe school then sang one of the Jubilee Songs, \u201cWe shall walk\nthrough the valley and shadow of death,\u201d after which Mr. Alexander\noffered the dedicatory prayer. The original plan was to have one\nregular address, and possibly a few words from others present, but\nthe plan was changed, and it was concluded to have an informal talk\nfrom the invited guests, the colored ministers present, and others,\nand as the programme was carried out it became more and more\nevident that the latter was a fortunate choice.\n\nDr. Burgett, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Mobile, was\nfirst called upon. He said: \u201cI fully endorse all the efforts of\nthe A. M. A., and congratulate it, and all present to-day, because\nof its high and praiseworthy efforts, its success in the past,\nthe immediate present, and the bright prospects of the future. I\nhave visited the school in former years, and never heard better\nrecitations anywhere, nor saw greater advancement.\u201d His speech was\nfull of good thoughts, as his talks always are; and just before he\nclosed, he turned to the teachers, and said: \u201cI cannot understand\nthe composition of a man who will oppose your efforts here. As\na representative of the Christian people of Mobile, I speak\nauthoritatively when I say you deserve their sympathy and hearty\nco-operation, and you have it. Deep down in the heart of every\nChristian here, there is a kindly feeling for you and your work.\u201d\n\nThe next person called upon was Rev. E. D. Taylor, one of the\noldest colored ministers of the M. E. Church in this place. He\nsaid \u201cI have cautiously watched the movements of these teachers,\nand their school work, and I am convinced that they are here for\nlifting up of my race, and as I go down the steps of life, I look\nback upon this school, and these teachers, with a great deal of\npleasure, knowing that they are leading my people out from a\nbondage worse than slavery. I thank God that we have these friends\nto help us.\u201d\n\nRev. Mr. Bryant, a former pupil of Atlanta University, spoke of\nthe many thousands of children taught in the South, as the direct\nresult of the work of the A. M. A. through its teachers and pupils.\nSome of the white brethren expressed much surprise at the figures\nhe presented, and were astonished at the magnitude of the work,\nboth direct and indirect, of the Association.\n\nRev. Mr. Walden said: \u201cDeep down in my heart there is a little\nniche held sacred to the memory of that good old mother who cared\nfor me when a child, and for that little colored boy who was my\nplaymate in childhood. I have lost sight of them, but their memory\nis still sacred, and I hope to meet them in eternity. There is much\nin common between the white and colored people of the South. We\ncannot afford to be anything but friends, for we must be saved by\nthe same blood, we must walk through the same \u2018valley and shadow of\ndeath,\u2019 and if saved, we must spend eternity in the same kingdom.\u201d\nAnd then, turning to the teachers, he said: \u201cMay God bless you in\nyour noble work\u2014Christian work. Yours is a Christ-like calling, and\nI say that you not only deserve the hearty sympathy, co-operation,\nand support of the Christian people of the South, but you have it.\nI repeat it, _you have it_.\u201d At this point all sang, \u201cHold the\nFort.\u201d\n\nDr. Murrell said: \u201cI endorse every word of Drs. Burgett and Walden,\nbut I feel just a little jealous, as I would like to stand in the\nplace of those who have contributed to erect this building; and if\nI had the means, I would have just such a building in every county\nin Alabama. I heartily feel with you, and ask God to bless you.\u201d\nAfter the exercises closed, he showed us his good will by offering\nhis professional skill to the teachers free of charge.\n\nMr. Wheeler was not in the habit of making speeches, but he\nheartily sympathized with us in our work, and wished us a great\ndeal of success.\n\nRev. Mr. Owens said: \u201cMy heart is full of joy to-day at being able\nto be here. I can only endorse all that has been said.\u201d And, after\nthe exercises were over, he showed his sincerity by asking me to\nmeet his people in their church, and talk to them of our work.\n\nMany good words were spoken by Rev. Mr. Ash, and Rev. Mr. Evans,\nof State Street M. E. Church. Rev. Mr. Wilson, of Little Zion\nChurch, was called upon, and said: \u201cSince listening to Dr. Burgett,\nand others, whose words were like drops of gold, I must decline.\nI am like the uncultivated pear-tree which Dr. Burgett spoke of.\nEducation knows education, therefore I must keep silent lest I\nbetray myself.\u201d\n\nMr. Alexander, as the closing speaker, made some very happy\nremarks. He told the colored people that by trying to get on too\nfast, and to begin at the top instead of the bottom, and by seeking\nto fill positions which they could not, they had set themselves\nback twenty-five years. He advised them to claim the right to\nnothing till they had earned that right; to work patiently, and\n_wait_ for results.\n\nA spirit of earnestness and sincerity pervaded all the exercises,\nand, as the old colored man said, the words that fell from the lips\nof Dr. Burgett, and others, were truly _drops of gold_, utterances\nfrom the depths of sincere hearts, and all went away feeling that\nit had been good to be present, and that during those three hours a\nnew era had dawned upon the work of the A. M. A. in this city.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nThe Church and the Literary Club.\n\nREV. WILLIAM H. ASH, MOBILE.\n\nI found my church in rather a discouraging condition, when I came\nin November last; since that time, I have been greatly encouraged\nto see the work prospering in my hands.\n\nMy congregation has increased to three times the number which I\nfound when I came to Mobile, and principally of people who have\nnever visited our church before. But the great difficulty is that I\nam not able to hold a permanent congregation of the better class,\nor to reach the young people, because of the want of a church with\nbetter facilities for the needed work. The Sabbath-school has\nincreased from about a dozen to forty scholars. This is remarkable,\nbecause one half of the time I have had no one to assist me in the\nwork of teaching. Four have united with the church, one of whom is\na young lady, who promises to be of great service to the church.\n\nThe prayer-meetings have been kept up well, considering that\nmy members are hard laboring people, and there is a growth in\nspirituality and purity of life, such as is consistent with the\nBible. It is a custom in the fairs here to have a table devoted to\nthe punch-bowl, and different kinds of wines, to raise money for\nthe church or minister\u2019s salary; but my church is a model so far as\ntemperance is concerned, feeling that it cannot encourage a demon\nthat destroys the happiness of so many homes, both North and South.\n\nAnother fact, to show the influence of our church, is the\norganization of a literary club among the young people, which has\nproven a success. About three months ago, I sent out notices to the\nministers, and some of the better class of colored people, to meet\nat my church for this purpose; an organization was completed, and\nsince that we have met from church to church.\n\nLast night the club gave its first special entertainment. It was\ncertainly a credit to the members who took part, and compared well\nwith similar entertainments which I have seen in New England. The\nfollowing notice is from the Mobile _News_:\n\n \u201cTHE ARISTOTLE LITERARY CLUB.\u2014This club, whose members are\n among the most cultivated of Mobile\u2019s colored citizens, gave\n its first entertainment, last night, at St. Emmanuel Church, at\n eight o\u2019clock. The exercises consisted of literary and musical\n recitations, debates, etc. The programme was a choice one, and\n the large audience in attendance enjoyed the occasion very much.\n The \u2018Aristotles\u2019 are the true representatives\u2014or rather, the best\n representatives\u2014of the colored population in our city, and we bid\n them God-speed in their earnest efforts to elevate themselves\n above the low standard that generally prevails among our colored\n people.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nMontgomery\u2014Swayne School\u2014A Year\u2019s Work\u2014Closing Exercises.\n\nMISS MARTHA J. ADAMS, PRINCIPAL.\n\nMy first school year\u2019s work among the colored people at the\nSouth, has just closed. What a history it has! How rich in new\nexperiences!\u2014experiences which I should deeply regret to have\nstricken from my life.\n\nHow vividly do I recall that sunny morning, the first day of\nOctober, 1877, as I stood upon the steps of \u201cSwayne School\u201d\nbuilding, with five lady teachers at my side, while before us, in\nalmost military lines, were drawn up some three hundred colored\nchildren and youth. These were our pupils. What a work lay before\nus! We have been repeatedly told, since our arrival, that the\ngeneral feeling was, \u201cNo woman can control this school.\u201d We, too,\nknew, in the depths of our hearts, that without Divine aid, we\nshould utterly fail. But God has been true to His promises, and has\ngiven us a quiet, happy and successful year in our work, and one\nfull of kindly, appreciative testimony from those among whom we\nhave labored.\n\nOur school, with only a few days\u2019 notice, closed half a month\nearlier than we had expected. This, of course, interfered greatly\nwith preparations for the closing exercises. Besides, two or\nthree Sunday-school May festivals and picnics had been previously\narranged to take place the same week, and so many of the pupils\nwere absent; but we did the best we could, under the circumstances,\neach teacher having in her own room reviews and examinations of\nher classes, which have borne abundant testimony to the earnest,\nfaithful and kindly work they have done.\n\nOn Thursday night we had an exhibition in the Congregational\nChurch. It was a lovely moonlight night. The church was crowded to\nits utmost capacity; many, indeed, were unable to gain admittance,\nso great was the throng. The exercises, consisting of declamations,\nessays, recitations, and songs, were listened to with great\ninterest and apparent delight.\n\nOne young woman read an essay upon P. P. Bliss, whose visit here is\nlovingly remembered, closing with reciting the last hymn he set to\nmusic:\n\n \u201cI know not what awaits me;\n God kindly vails mine eyes.\u201d\n\nThe Secretary of the City Board of Education, now acting\nSuperintendent, and another member of the Board, were present the\nentire evening, and expressed gratification at what they had seen\nand heard. As they passed out of the church, they were heard to\nremark to each other: \u201cThat was _good_.\u201d \u201cYes, it _was_ good.\u201d\n\nI will close in the words which one of the colored boys printed in\nlarge letters in colored crayons upon the Sunday-school blackboard,\n\u201cGOD BLESS SWAYNE SCHOOL.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nA Surprise Party in a Southern Church.\n\nREV. CHARLES NOBLE, MONTGOMERY.\n\nThat our people can do a pleasant thing, and do it gracefully,\nthey proved the evening before our departure. The Sunday previous,\nwe had had a business-meeting of the church, and at its close\none of the brethren requested me to leave them, as they had some\nbusiness on hand in which my absence would assist them more than\nmy presence. Of course, we inferred from this that \u201csomething was\nup\u201d; but were unable to discover what it was. Nothing happening,\nhowever, until the close of the Wednesday night prayer-meeting,\nwe had all come to the conclusion that whatever was intended had\nprobably proved impracticable. We were sitting together at the\nHome, talking over the experiences of the year, when the notes\nof a guitar struck our ears, and a few voices began singing the\n\u201cSweet Bye-and-Bye\u201d very softly and sweetly. I supposed that some\nof the people had come down to give us a little serenade, and\nstepped to the door to return thanks for the pleasure the song\nhad afforded. When I opened the door, instead of the half-dozen\nsingers I expected, a perfect throng of merry faces met me. The\nyard was crowded, and they seemed to reach out indefinitely down\nthe road. I had barely sufficient presence of mind to ask them\nin, and then met the wave of increasing congratulations with very\nmuch the sort of feeling with which one meets a good big wave at\nthe sea-shore. It was exhilarating, but bewildering. An enormous\nfreezer of ice-cream, and strawberries, raspberries, and cakes\n_ad infinitum_, were brought in, and our rooms were soon crowded\nwith about one hundred and fifty as happy-looking people as I ever\nsaw. Young and old, grave and gay, Christians and worldlings,\nMethodists and Baptists, as well as Congregationalists\u2014it was a\nthoroughly representative gathering. Our own people were out in\nforce, and there were prominent members of all the other colored\nchurches. For about two hours they amused themselves and us with\nconversation, singing, and playing. There was not a rude word or a\nboorish action. It was a gathering that would have done credit, in\nits behavior, to any community. They made the pastor and his wife,\nwith the teachers, gather together and partake of the delicacies\nso generously provided, and then attacked them (the delicacies,\nnot the teachers) on their own account, with right good will. For\ntwo hours they made the house echo with merry laughter and with\nsinging\u2014patriotic, sentimental, and religious\u2014and then, after a\nsiege of hand-shaking, which made me realize somewhat the trials\nour popular Presidents have to undergo, and with many pleasant\nwords of kindly appreciation, they took their leave.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nAnother Female Missionary Needed.\n\nThe work at Montgomery stands greatly in need of more visiting\nthan the pastor can accomplish. While the church and congregation\nare small, the field includes the whole colored population of the\ncity and suburbs\u2014not far from 10,000 souls\u2014and no form of labor\nseems so likely to be fruitful as the work of a good woman in\nthe homes of the people. One of our good teachers has kept up a\nBible-reading in one of the poorer neighborhoods, and has thus\nreached a number whose ignorant prejudice renders them inaccessible\nto the Congregational minister. She has been able, also, to reach\nthe hearts and homes of many others, and has shown herself to have\nthe power to win their affection and sympathy, and lead them to\nhigher thoughts and purposes. The attempt to combine this labor\nwith her school duties, and the vexatious responsibilities of the\nmatron of the Home, had its natural result in broken health and\ndepressed spirits. Is there some church or society, or generous\nindividual, who, in addition to regular contributions, would be\nwilling to provide for the maintenance of a \u201cWoman Missionary\u201d\nin this field, that this faithful worker may be able to use her\ntalents more efficiently, or, if she cannot return, that some other\ngood woman may take her place? \u201cBut when He saw the multitudes, He\nwas moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were\nscattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith He unto\nHis disciples: The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are\nfew. Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that He will send\nforth laborers into His harvest.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nA Blessed Work.\n\nREV. GEORGE E. HILL, PASTOR, MARION.\n\nWe had an interesting day last Sunday. Seven were admitted on\nprofession and six children were baptized\u2014a new thing here. The\naudience was the largest we have had, quite filling the church, and\nthe floral decoration of the pulpit and its surroundings added to\nthe effect.\n\nOur Sabbath-school is flourishing. Mrs. H. and my daughter both\nhave classes. A few Sabbaths since, I drew a map of Palestine\non the blackboard, and proposed to the scholars to \u201cgo and do\nlikewise.\u201d They have brought in twenty-five maps; some of them\nwould do credit to any school at the North. There is a good promise\nfor the future of the church in the children, many of whom already\ngive evidence of a change of heart.\n\nAt a recent \u201cpraise-meeting,\u201d we had testimony from twenty-five\ndifferent persons, who mentioned special causes for gratitude.\nThe people all seem eager to be helped, and to improve every\nopportunity. We enjoy our work more and more. It is a blessed,\nblessed work!\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u201cCALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\u201d\n\nAuxiliary to the American Missionary Association.\n\n PRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L.\n Stone, D. D., Thomas O. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon.\n F. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S.\n H. Wiley, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D.,\n Jacob S. Taber, Esq.\n\n DIRECTORS: Rev. George Moor, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. W. E.\n Ijams, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, E. P. Sanford,\n Esq., H. W. Severance, Esq.\n\n SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nLast month I gave an account from the pen of our missionary helper,\nFung Affoo, of the Sabbath services at our Mission House in San\nFrancisco. Jee Gam, at my request, has prepared the following\nstatement respecting the method pursued at Oakland, where his\nlabors are specially centred. I am sure that it will be read\nwith interest, the very simplicity with which details are given\nrendering more vivid and distinct the picture.\n\n \u201cOAKLAND, CAL.\n\n \u201cREV. W. C. POND:\n\n \u201c_Dear Friend_\u2014As I am requested to give you a little outline\n about our manner of conducting the Christian work in Oakland,\n I will try to do so. On Sunday morning, those brethren who\n can get out in time from their occupations generally attend\n church, but this number is comparatively small, owing to the\n way in which they are situated. Our Chinese Sunday-school is\n held immediately after the morning service in the church, and\n continues till fifteen minutes of two P.M. The average number of\n scholars during the last few months was about fifty-five. Mr.\n E. P. Sanford is our superintendent, and I am the assistant.\n The school is generally opened by singing two hymns in Chinese\n and two in English, followed by a prayer. After the latter,\n each teacher proceeds to take charge of his own class; and when\n the lesson ends, passages of Scripture are recited by most of\n the Bible-reading pupils. Then the notices are given for all\n the exercises of the following week. The Lord\u2019s Prayer is then\n recited in concert, and the school is dismissed.\n\n \u201cFrom 6.30 to 7.15 P.M., we assemble at our Christian Association\n Room (a small house of five rooms) for prayer-meeting. This\n meeting is conducted by the president of the Association. The\n exercises consist of singing, praying, and speaking from two of\n the members who are appointed by the president at the previous\n meeting. After these speakers get through, eight to ten minutes\n are allowed to all who wish to speak or pray. The meeting is\n closed with the Doxology and prayer. From this meeting we go back\n to the chapel where we held our Sunday-school. There we open our\n regular Sunday evening service. The average attendance is about\n twenty-five. The first part of this service is singing from 7.25\n to fifteen minutes of eight. The singing is conducted by Mr.\n Sanford, assisted by Miss L. Gill and Miss Sanford. To these\n persons we are greatly indebted for their kindness in teaching\n us, especially Mr. Sanford, whose labors for us are unspeakably\n great. After the singing and prayer, Mr. Sanford takes the Bible.\n He then reads, and explains to them in English; I take the same\n lesson and explain to them in Chinese, after which the meeting\n is closed with a prayer in Chinese. On Wednesday evening our\n prayer-meeting is conducted entirely by myself. Its average\n attendance is about the same as that of Sunday evening. Thursday\n evening I have the whole Bible-class, consisting of from ten to\n eighteen pupils. Beside this Bible reading we also have another\n very interesting Bible exercise in the Association Room every\n evening throughout the whole week, with the exception of Saturday\n and Sunday evenings. This exercise commences immediately after\n the brethren get back from school and continues until ten P.M.\n We begin by reading and explaining the Scripture alternately.\n If one fails to explain his verse correctly, the one who sits\n next to him follows it up, and if he fails also, the third,\n fourth, and so on to the last one in the class. If he fails to\n succeed, I then explain the verse to them again. When this lesson\n is through, I read and explain to them the new lesson for the\n following evening. Then this exercise is closed with a prayer in\n English by one of the brethren successively.\n\n \u201cYours respectfully, JEE GAM.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\u201cKING DAVID\u2019S DANCE\u201d AND THE \u201cHOLY MARCH.\u201d\n\nThe signification of the above terms may not be familiar to\nall our readers, and hence a description of them may prove of\ninterest. They are religious exercises, and constitute a part of\nthe regular Sabbath worship of the colored Baptist Church of Mount\nVernon, Ala. The members of this church are very emotional, and\nexceedingly demonstrative in their religion. The order of services\neach Sabbath are as follows: A Union Sabbath-school is held from\nnine to half-past ten A.M., after which one of the leading brethren\nconducts a prayer-meeting for about an hour.\n\nThen preaching begins. The young minister preaches a sermon first,\nand he is followed by the old minister, who preaches another sermon\nfrom the same text. Mourners are then called for, the doors are\nopened to receive members, and other necessary business transacted,\nafter which the benediction is pronounced.\n\nIt is then about three P.M. Instead of going home, the members\nall remain, move the benches aside, and prepare for \u201cKing David\u2019s\nDance\u201d and the \u201cHoly March.\u201d The first consists in forming a\ncircle\u2014or \u201cringing up,\u201d as they term it\u2014joining hands, and jumping\nup and down, keeping time to the tune of some lively \u201cspiritual\nsong.\u201d This performance is carried on for some time, and then they\nmarch the \u201cHoly March.\u201d\n\nThis is done by forming in single file, each one placing his hand\non the other one\u2019s shoulder, and marching around and around, going\nthrough a number of bodily contortions, better seen than described.\nThey march and dance alternately until about sundown, when,\ncompletely exhausted, they go home.\n\nDuring these exercises they shout and scream vehemently. The above\nis a true statement of the manner in which the colored people here,\nof the Baptist connection, worship. The so-called \u201cKing David\u2019s\nDance\u201d would remind one more of the war-dance of some savage tribe.\nSeveral other churches in the neighboring settlements carry on\nthese performances.\u2014_The Southern Sentinel._\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nNEGRO RELIGION.\n\nNegro religion is as varied as the character and grade of its\nprofessors: some as dignified as African princes, others as wild\nas children playing at church. And yet, who shall say that either\nextreme is the more acceptable to Him who looks through outward\ndemonstrations at the hearts of worshippers? One of their own\nutterances perhaps best expresses the idea:\n\n\u201cWe has our own ways ob doin\u2019 things; white folks don\u2019t allus\nunderstand us, but de Lord seems to get along with us putty well,\nan\u2019 dat\u2019s all we need care fur.\u201d\n\nWhite folks do not understand, and certainly cannot but be amused\nat seeing an old black woman, whose gray wool is bound up in a\nbrilliant turban, moving in slow, undulating waves of a mystic\ndance up and down the church aisles, and round its altar, as\nshe chants forth her testimony to \u201cde leadin\u2019s of de Lord all\ndese eighty years\u201d; but they can quite appreciate the reverence\nwhich sends every one to his knees at the words, \u201cLet us pray,\u201d\nand sometimes wish that the custom might prove possible of\ntransplantation. Quaint and racy words sometimes come from these\ncolored preachers. \u201cTa\u2019n\u2019t no use dodgin\u2019,\u201d said one the other day;\n\u201cyer may poke yer head dis way and stick yer feet dat way, but yer\ncan\u2019t go round yer grave; yer may shut yer eyes and make b\u2019lieve\nyer don\u2019t see it, but ye\u2019s got to tumble inter it, after all. Dere\nit is, right in yer path. Is yer all ready?\u201d\n\n\u201cI can\u2019t read much,\u201d said a preacher; \u201cI can\u2019t say all dem long,\nhard names. I couldn\u2019t read a word when the good Lord Jesus found\nme, in the South Caroliny cane-brake; but I taught myself to spell\nout de name ob Jesus, and now I can read all \u2019bout how He carries\nsinners to heaven; dat\u2019s \u2019nough.\u201d\n\nWe were present at a communion service in which there was nothing\ncalculated to draw a smile. Tears of apparently genuine earnestness\nstood in many eyes, and suppressed sobs mingled with the rich,\nquaint hymns in many parts of the room. The preacher was a young\nman, who drew a moving picture of the crucifixion, which, in its\npathos, simplicity, and correct diction, would have done honor\nto any white preacher in the land. But one point, that of the\nsubstitution of _w_ for _r_, marked the speaker as one of that\nsubject race, which, in thus slowly rising from barbarism, while\nit loses much that is amusing to the merely curious observer, is\nsteadily gaining in what pertains to the dignity of manhood, and\nthe well-being of immortal souls.\u2014_Illustrated Christian Weekly._\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR MAY, 1878.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n MAINE, $111.42.\n\n Augusta. John Dorr 15.00\n Bangor. First Cong. Ch. 31.42\n Brewer. First Cong. Ch. $6.40, and Sab. Sch.\n $2.50; Dea. J. Holyoke $5.10 14.00\n Hallowell. Miss Mary Flagg $10; Hon. H. K.\n Baker $2, _for Printing Press, Talladega\n C._; \u201cA Friend\u201d $1, _for Student, Tougaloo,\n Miss._ 13.00\n Houlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00\n Oak Hill. \u2014\u2014 30.00\n Wells. \u201cA Friend\u201d 5.00\n Wild. Rev. D. D. T. 1.00\n\n\n NEW HAMPSHIRE, $254.02.\n\n Concord. R. P. S. 1.00\n Exeter. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for a\n Teacher, Wilmington, N. C._ 70.00\n Greenland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.85\n Hanover. Cong. Ch. Dartmouth Col. 50.00\n Henniker. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.00\n Hooksett. Union Soc. 3.87\n Littleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 37.00\n Marlborough. \u201cLadies\u2019 Freedmen\u2019s Aid Soc.\u201d 16.00\n New Boston. Ladies, bbl. of C. and $2, _for\n freight, for Wilmington N. C._ 2.00\n New Ipswich. \u201cHillside Gleaners,\u201d _for\n Memorial Inst., Wilmington, N. C._ 16.00\n West Concord. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.30\n\n\n VERMONT, $259.62.\n\n Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00\n Brownington and Barton Landing. Cong. Ch. and\n Soc. 13.25\n Clarendon. Mrs. N. J. Smith 5.00\n East Arlington. Rev. Chas. Redfield 10.00\n Jericho Centre. Miss J. Graves 2.00\n New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.37\n North Springfield. Chas. Haywood 5.00\n Peru. Cong. Ch. 10.00\n Rochester. Cong. Soc. 15.00\n St. Albans. Mrs. J. Gregory Smith 10.00\n Thetford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.00\n Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 69.00\n Wells River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30; C. W.\n Eastman $10 40.00\n Westminster West. Mrs. A. S. G. 1.00\n Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00\n\n\n MASSACHUSETTS, $4,078.34.\n\n Andover. Free Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30.81, to\n const. CHARLES W. CLARK, L. M.\u2014\u201cFriends\u201d\n $25, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 55.81\n Ashby. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.25\n Ashburnham. M. W. 1.00\n Belchertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.00\n Boston. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.\n $600.40.\u2014\u201cHoward\u201d $500, _for two\n Chapels_.\u2014Mrs. N. B. Curtis $200; Mrs. S. A.\n Bradbury $25.\u2014Juvenile Class of Phillips\n Cong. Ch. $18.75, _for Student, Talladega C._ 1,344.15\n Brocton. \u2014\u2014 15.00\n Brookline. Howard Ch. and Soc. 92.50\n Cambridge. Geo. H. Fogg 20.00\n Charlestown. Ivory Littlefield (of which $25\n _for Chinese M_) 50.00\n Chelsea. Mrs. P. N. P. 1.00\n Conway. Cong. Soc., to const. DEA. EDWIN\n COOLEY and Mrs. L. L. LEE, L. M \u2019s 70.45\n East Bridgewater. Union Ch. and Soc. 25.09\n Easton. Cong. Sab. Sch. $30, to const. EVERETT\n C. RANDALL, L. M.; Cong. Ch. and Soc. $10.70 40.70\n Egremont. Cong. Ch. 19.50\n Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.88\n Florence. Florence. Ch. 108.88\n Foxborough. D. Carpenter 80.00\n Framingham. Mrs. T. F. $1; Mrs. S. M. B. $1 2.00\n Georgetown. \u201cA Friend\u201d 10.00\n Greenfield. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of First Ch.\n $18, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._\u2014Ladies,\n Box of C. 18.00\n Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $66.40; J. H. $1 67.40\n Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00\n Lancaster. ESTATE of Miss Sophia Stearns, by\n W. W. Wyman, Ex. 7.00\n Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.62\n Linden. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00\n Lowell. M. Moore and wife $20.\u2014Ladies of First\n Cong. Ch., bbl. of C. and $1 _for freight,\n for Wilmington, N.C._ 21.00\n Lynn. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.47\n Malden. Mrs. C. F. Belcher, pkg. of papers.\n Mittineague. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.35\n Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond 10.00\n Needham. N. S. R. 0.50\n Newburyport. Mrs. T. C. Tyler $10; Miss P. N.\n 50c. 10.50\n North Andover Depot. F. D. F. 0.50\n North Beverly. Mrs. Rebecca Conant 15.00\n North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.48\n North Orange. Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.00\n Norton. Wheaton Fem. Sem., _for Student Aid,\n Atlanta U._ 21.00\n Norton. ESTATE of John Hunt, by E. T. Jackson,\n Ex. 804.75\n Orleans. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00\n Paxton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00\n Peru. Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.50\n Phillipston. Mrs. J. L. 0.50\n Plainfield. Albert Dyer 2.00\n Pittsfield. JAMES H. DUNHAM, to const. himself\n L. M. 30.00\n Rochester. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 30.00\n Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc. $46.13; South\n Cong. Sab. Sch. $21.32 67.45\n South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.07\n Somerville. Broadway Ch. and Soc. 12.25\n South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch. $55; Second\n Cong. Ch. and Soc. $36, to const. MRS. ELLEN\n A. CHANDLER, L. M. 91.00\n Springfield. Olivet Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.67\n Ware. East Cong. Ch. and Soc. $313.85; First\n Cong. Ch. and Soc. $21 334.85\n Watertown. Phillips\u2019 Ch. and Soc. $37.50;\n Phillips\u2019 Sab. Sch. $10 47.50\n West Cummington. Rev. J. B. B. 0.25\n Westfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which\n $5 from the late Mrs. Dickinson and $5 from\n Miss Lizzie Dickinson) 31.40\n West Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00\n West Newton. Ann Miller 5.00\n West Springfield. Prof. M. S. Southworth, _for\n Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00\n Wilbraham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00\n Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 101.00\n Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 101.31\n Woburn. Mrs. G. A. B. 0.25\n Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.\n $55.56.\u2014Plymouth Ch. $15, _for printing\n press, Talladega_,\u2014Mrs. C. M. F. and Dr. W.\n D. 50c. ea. 71.56\n\n\n RHODE ISLAND, $81.15.\n\n Little Compton. Cong. Ch. to const. REV. WM.\n D. HART, L. M. 81.15\n\n\n CONNECTICUT, $698.87.\n\n Bristol. By Mrs. H. L. Bartholomew, _for Ind.\n Dept. Talladega C._ 20.00\n Berlin. Rev. J. Whittlesey 10.00\n Bozrahville. Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.50\n Buckingham. Cong. Sab. Sch. 8.50\n Cheshire. G. K. 1.00\n Colchester. Mrs. C. B. McCall, _for Tougaloo\n U._ 5.00\n Cornwall. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 20.00\n East Hartford. First Cong. Ch. 32.00\n Ekonk. Elizabeth W. Kasson 10.00\n Enfield. First Cong. Ch. 11.40\n Guilford. Mrs. Lucy E. Tuttle $50; First Cong.\n Ch. $20 70.00\n Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.95\n Hartford. D. R. Howe $30, _for Ind. School,\n Talladega C._\u2014Mrs. L. C. Dewing, $20; \u201cArmor\n Bearers\u201d in Talcott St. Cong. Sab. Sch. by\n M. K. Stevens, $3 53.00\n Harwinton. EVELINE S. BARKER to const. herself\n L. M. 30.00\n Meriden. Box of papers, by Edmund Tuttle.\n Middletown. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.96\n Mt. Carmel. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for a Student,\n Atlanta U._ 26.71\n New Haven. North Church $118.\u2014Rev. Wm. Patton,\n D. D. $25 (ad\u2019l), _for Howard U._\u2014College\n St. Ch. $10; Mrs. Julius Gale $5 158.00\n North Branford. J. A. P. 1.00\n North Haven. Elihu Dickinson 2.00\n Norwich. Broadway Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 100.00\n Rocky Hill. Mrs. U. C. D. 0.25\n Rockville. G. P. 0.55\n South Killingly. Rev. W. H. Beard 4.00\n Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 29.58\n Wallingford. Mrs. C. P. Hall 2.00\n Washington. Cong. Ch. 20.00\n West Haven. Cong. Ch. 19.32\n West Stafford. Cong. Sab. School 1.15\n\n\n NEW YORK, $1,282.03.\n\n Antwerp. First Cong. Ch. 24.05\n Binghamton. First Cong. Ch. 151.00\n Brooklyn. Mrs. M. E. W. $1; J. E. $1 2.00\n Gilbertsville Academy. Rev. A. Wood 15.00\n Goshen. F. E. C. 1.00\n Greigsville. Mrs. S. J. C. 1.00\n Hamilton. O. S. Campbell, Mrs. M. Tompkins and\n Mrs. S. K. Bardin $5 ea. 15.00\n Harris Hill. ESTATE of Thomas Hutchinson, for\n _Freedmen Foreign and Home M.,_ by John Berry 18.00\n Irvington. Mrs. R. W. Lambdin 5.00\n Lisle. Cong. Ch. 5.34\n Madison. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00\n Morrisville. Cong. Ch. 30.14\n New Lebanon Centre. Ladies, by Miss E. W.\n Frary, Bbl. of C.\n New York. ESTATE of Edwin S. Dewing, by Mrs.\n L. C. Dewing 250.00\n New York. Mrs. Hannah Ireland $50; Miss J. F.\n $1 51.00\n Niagara. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C., _for\n Tougaloo_\n Orwell. Cong. Ch. 11.00\n Oneonta. Mrs. H. Slade and others 1.90\n Philadelphia. W. C. 0.75\n Poughkeepsie. Mrs. M. J. Myers 30.00\n Rochester. Emily Boardman, _for Student Aid,\n Atlanta U._ 20.00\n Rodman. Cong. Ch. 17.25\n Sag Harbor. Mrs. A. E. Westfall 10.00\n Syracuse. Mrs. S. J. White 10.00\n Union Valley. Sab. Sch., by Dr. J. Angel, Supt. 1.25\n West Brook. T. S. Hoyt 3.00\n Westmoreland. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.85\n Williamsburgh. ESTATE of Lewis Chichester, by\n John M. Stearns and E. C. Wadsworth,\n Executors 594.00\n Windsor. Mrs. Julia Woodruff 5.00\n Wyoming. H. S. S 0.50\n\n\n NEW JERSEY, $128.40.\n\n Newark. Belleville Ave. Cong. Ch. 38.39\n Orange. Trinity Cong. Ch. 70.01\n Trenton. Misses A. P. and S. T. Sherman, _for\n Indian pupil_ 20.00\n\n\n PENNSYLVANIA, $47.75.\n\n Farmers\u2019 Valley. Mrs. E. C. O. 1.00\n Pittsburgh. E. P. 0.50\n Prentiss Vale. Rev. M. W. Strickland $20; C.\n L. Allen $10.25, to const. MISS ABBIE L.\n SPILLER L. M. 30.25\n Providence. E. Weston 5.00\n Sewickley. Miss Lucy Bittinger 6.00\n Washington. Mrs. H. H. Templeton 5.00\n\n\n OHIO, $368.71.\n\n Berea. Cong. Sab. Sch. 1.30\n Belpre. Cong. Sab. Sch. 16.50\n Cincinnati. Western Tract and Book Soc., Books\n and Tracts val. $45.18, _for Savannah\n Mission_\n Cleveland. S. W. Pierson 5.00\n Clifton. J. K. 1.00\n Collinwood. Union Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 21.00\n Eagleville. E. M. T 0.50\n Elyria. First Presb. Ch. $61.28 and Sab. Sch.\n $40 101.28\n Fredericktown. A. H. Royce 10.00\n Madison. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 43.66\n Marietta. Rev. I. M. P. 0.25\n Martinsburgh. Church Property 74.62\n Norwalk. Cong. Ch. 8.55\n Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. 12.02\n Paddy\u2019s Run. Cong. Ch. 20.25\n Ravenna. Young People\u2019s Miss. Soc. $10, _for\n Student Aid, Talladega C._\u2014Howard Carter $10 20.00\n Seville. Mrs. Julia Hulburt 5.00\n Sharon Centre. Mrs. R. A. 0.25\n Sheffield. Cong. Ch. 10.50\n Springfield. First Cong. Ch. (Quar. Coll.) 7.03\n Willoughby. Miss Mary P. Hastings 10.00\n\n\n INDIANA, $25.\n\n New Corydon. George Stolz 5.00\n Orland. Union Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 5.00\n South Bend. R. Burroughs 15.00\n\n\n ILLINOIS, $1,243.29.\n\n Aurora. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Fisk\n U._ 25.00\n Batavia. Cong. Ch. 36.93\n Bondville. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Mendi M._ 10.00\n Chicago. Plymouth Ch. $83.57; Mrs. M. C. S.\n 50c. 84.07\n Chillicothe. R. W. Gilliam 5.00\n Cobden. E. W. T. 0.50\n Danvers. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.63\n East Waupaunsee. Cong. Ch. 10.00\n Evanston. J. M. Williams, _for Fisk U._ 25.00\n Galesburg. Mrs. Julia T. Wells $20.\u2014\u201cFriends\u201d\n $15; Mrs. D. Hurd $5, and Box of C., _for\n Ind. Dept., Talladega C._ 40.00\n Galesburg. ESTATE of Warren C. Willard, by\n Prof. T. R. Willard 17.00\n Galva. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Fisk U._ 30.00\n Geneva. Mrs. G. F. Milton, _for Ind. Sch.\n Talladega C._ 5.00\n Hampton. Cong. Ch. 4.00\n Lisbon. G. K. 0.50\n Macomb. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 5.80\n Morris. Cong. Ch. $14.45 and Sab. Sch. $4.05 18.50\n Morrison. Mrs. E. H. 1.00\n Nora. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 2.26\n Oak Park. Mrs. J. Huggins, _for Student Aid_ 20.00\n Onargo. Mrs. L. C. Foster 150.00\n Payson. Cong. Ch. 50.00\n Polo. Robert Smith 500.00\n Port Byron. Cong. Ch. 20.00\n Princeton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Fisk U._ 16.50\n Princeville. Mrs. Olive L. Cutter 20.00\n Quincy. Mrs. E. T. Parker $30, to const. MRS.\n GEORGE T. HOLYOKE L. M.;\u201cA Friend\u201d $5 35.00\n Rockford. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $20, _for Fisk\n U.;_ Ladies of First. Cong. Ch. $13, _for\n Ind. Dept, Talladega C._ 33.00\n Rock Island. \u201cA Friend\u201d 10.00\n Sparta. P. B. Gault 2.00\n Tonica. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch, _for Fisk U._ 26.50\n Wheaton. First Church of Christ 14.00\n Winnebago. Cong. Ch. 5.10\n Woodburn. A. L. Sturges, bal. to const. MRS.\n CLARISSA E. STURGES L. M. 10.00\n\n\n MICHIGAN, $202.75.\n\n Benzonia. \u201cFriends\u201d $10 bal. to const.\n CHAUNCEY BUSH, L. M.; \u201cA Friend\u201d $1 11.00\n Chelsea. John C. Winans 5.00\n Clinton. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. 5.00\n Covert. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Talladega_ 8.00\n Detroit. Rev. C. C. Foote $25; J. C. H. $1 26.00\n Flint. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Fisk U._ 10.00\n Grand Rapids. T. B. W. 0.25\n Hillsdale. Mathews Joslyn 100.00\n Lansing. Ag\u2019l Coll., Mrs. R. C. K., Mrs. W. J.\n B., Mrs. G. T. F., Mrs. A. J. C. and Mrs. R.\n G. B. $1 ea.; Mrs. C. L. I. 50c. _for a\n Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._ 5.50\n Oceola. B. F. Batchelder and Mrs. Sarah E. A.\n Batchelder $2.50 ea. 5.00\n Romeo. Cong. Sab. Sch. $20; Mrs. J. T. $1,\n _for Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._ 21.00\n Royal Oak. Cong. Ch. $5.\u2014Mrs. C. S. C. $1,\n _for Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._ 6.00\n\n\n IOWA, $215.85.\n\n Ames. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.50\n Bowen Prairie. \u2014\u2014 7.00\n Clinton. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $15, _for\n Fisk U._\u2014H. R. W. 50c. 15.50\n Cincinnati. Wm. T. Reynolds 2.00\n Cresco. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.65\n Denmark. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Fisk U._ 22.00\n Dubuque. Mrs. S. N. M. 0.50\n Genoa Bluff. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 4.27\n Grinnell. Cong. Ch. $37.50; \u201cFriend,\u201d gold\n ring and 43c. 37.93\n Hampton. \u201cA Friend\u201d 2.00\n Kellogg. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 5.00\n Keokuk. Mrs. E. M. Wilson 5.00\n Mason City. First Cong. Ch. 5.70\n McGregor. Cong. Ch. $12.42; Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc.\n 12.01 bal. to const. MISS CATHARINE\n GILCHRIST, L. M. 24.43\n Monticello. Cong. Ch. 16.50\n Muscatine. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 25.00\n Oskaloosa. Rev. Asa Turner 10.00\n Stuart. Cong. Ch. 6.00\n Tipton. William Coutts 5.00\n Traer. Mrs. C. H. B. 1.00\n Williamsburg. Welsh Cong. Ch. 1.87\n\n\n MISSOURI, $35.\n\n St. Louis. First Cong. Ch. 35.00\n\n\n WISCONSIN, $266.40.\n\n Albion. S. G. A 0.25\n Arena. Cong. Ch. 5.00\n Fon du Lac. Cong. Ch. 42.93\n Hartford. R. F. 1.00\n Keshena. S. J. Marshall, M. D. 6.00\n Madison. Cong. Ch. 68.47\n Mazo Manie. Cong. Ch. $8.10; Cong. Sab. Sch.\n $2.40 10.50\n Menomenee. \u201cA Friend\u201d 50.00\n Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch. 25.00\n Oconomowoc. J. S. Kenyon 5.00\n Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 5.00\n Wauwatosa. Cong. Ch. $37.\u2014Cong. Sab. Sch.\n $10.25, _for Student Aid_ 47.25\n\n\n MINNESOTA, $25.43.\n\n Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. $22.80; Pilgrim\n Cong. Ch. $1.38 24.18\n Morris. Cong. Ch. 1.25\n\n\n KANSAS, $1.\n\n Burlingame. A Friend 1.00\n\n\n NEBRASKA, $14.65.\n\n Linwood. Union Sab. Sch. 1.00\n Weeping Water. Cong. Ch. 13.65\n\n\n COLORADO TER. 50c.\n\n Littleton. H. C. W. 0.50\n\n\n CALIFORNIA, $30.\n\n Madison. MRS. TYLER THACHER to const. herself\n L. M. 30.00\n\n\n OREGON, $32.\n\n Salem. Cong. Ch. to const. DEA. JOHN J.\n MCFARLAND, L. M. 32.00\n\n\n MARYLAND, $50.\n\n Baltimore. Rev. Geo. Morris, _for Fisk U._ 50.00\n\n\n TENNESSEE, $193.50.\n\n Covington. H. C. Gray, _for rebuilding S. U._ 1.00\n Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. 119.65\n Nashville. Fisk University 72.85\n\n\n NORTH CAROLINA, $231.22.\n\n Raleigh. Washington Sch. 126.22\n Wilmington. Normal Sch. $98.73; Cong. Ch. $6.27 105.00\n\n\n SOUTH CAROLINA, $228.50.\n\n Charleston. Avery Inst. 223.50\n Orangeburgh. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Ass\u2019n of Cong. Ch.,\n _for Mendi M._ 5.00\n\n\n GEORGIA, $214.20.\n\n Atlanta. Atlanta University $103.\u2014M. Blanche\n Curtiss $5, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 108.00\n Columbus. R. P. Lewis, _for Atlanta U._ 5.00\n Macon. Lewis High Sch. 51.20\n McIntosh. Rev. Jos. E. Smith, _for Student\n Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00\n\n\n MISSISSIPPI, $65.55.\n\n Tougaloo. Tougaloo U. 65.55\n\n\n LOUISIANA, $152.75.\n\n Houma. Rev. A. E. P. A. 0.50\n Lake Peigneur. Cong. Ch. 2.00\n New Iberia. Cong. Ch. 5.25\n New Orleans. Straight University $144.50; W.\n A. C. 50c. 145.00\n\n\n TEXAS, 50c.\n\n Goliad. S. M. 0.50\n\n\n ALABAMA, $746.\n\n Mobile. Emerson Inst. 154.75\n Montgomery. Pub. Fund 420.75\n Selma. Cong. Ch. 11.35\n Talladega. Talladega Col. $126.15.\u2014Cong. Sab.\n Sch. $30; B. L. $1, _for Farm_; Willis Ferry\n $2, _for Ind. Dept. Talladega C._ 159.15\n\n\n INCOME FUND, $3,511.82.\n\n Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 2,286.82\n Le Moyne Fund 770.00\n Hammond Fund 350.00\n ESTATE of Dr. M. C. Williams 35.00\n ESTATE of Sarah J. Nason 35.00\n ESTATE of A. Miner 35.00\n\n\n CANADA, 16.08.\n\n Guelph. Rev. J. H. 1.00\n Sherbrooke. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 15.08\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n Total 14,812.30\n Total from Oct. 1st to May 31st $118,122.26\n\n H. W. HUBBARD\n _Ass\u2019t Treas._\n\n\n RECEIVED FOR DEBT.\n\n Amherst, Mass. Mrs. R. A. Lester 50.00\n Barnstable Co., Mass. \u201cA Traveler\u201d 5.00\n Holbrook, Mass. Mrs. C. S. Holbrook 100.00\n Holbrook Mass. Miss Sarah J. Holbrook 25.00\n North Abington, Mass. Mrs. A. S. Reed 20.00\n Hartford, Conn. \u201cA Friend\u201d 500.00\n Brooklyn, N. Y. Julius Davenport 25.00\n Goliad, Texas. Rev. Mitchell Thompson 5.00\n Helena, Texas. Cong. Ch. 5.00\n \u2014\u2014 Payment on Land in Mich. 150.00\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n 885.00\n Previously acknowledged April receipts 9,637.72\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n Total $10,522.72\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nConstitution of the American Missionary Association.\n\nINCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\nART. I. This Society shall be called \u201cTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\nASSOCIATION.\u201d\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct\nChristian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a\nknowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries\nwhich are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent\nfields of effort.\n\nART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes\nfaith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the\npractice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds,\nmay become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty\ndollars, a life member; provided, that children and others who have\nnot professed their faith may be constituted life members without\nthe privilege of voting.\n\nART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of\nSeptember, October or November, for the election of officers and\nthe transaction of other business at such time and place as shall\nbe designated by the Executive Committee.\n\nART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular\nofficers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,\nand of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,\nand other co-operating bodies\u2014each body being entitled to one\nrepresentative.\n\nART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice\nPresidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,\nTreasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less\nthan twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be\nadvisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.\n\nART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting\nand disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining\nand dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and\nagents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the\ntransaction of all such business as usually appertains to the\nexecutive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies;\nthe Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the\nmissionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision\nof the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually\nchosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or\nmissionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.\n\nThe Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies\noccurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;\nto apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of\nincorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all\nofficers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the\nSociety; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and\nfor the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call,\nin all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and\ngeneral conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the\ndiffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous\npromotion of the missionary work.\n\nFive members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for\ntransacting business.\n\nART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing\nofficers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields\nof labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor\nparticularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the\nknown fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment\nthose who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.\n\nART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to\nthe principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain\nmissionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the\nagency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART. X. No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without\nthe concurrence of two thirds of the members present at a regular\nannual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been\nsubmitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in\nseason to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if\nso submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.\n\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a\nbelief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a\nSaviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice\nof Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity\nof regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy\nobedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and\nthe retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the\nwicked, and salvation of the righteous.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\n_THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION._\n\n * * * * *\n\n\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\nBefore sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.\noffice, as below.\n\n NEW YORK H. W. Hubbard. Esq., 56 Reade Street.\n BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21, Congregational House.\n CHICAGO Rev. Jas. 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DENISON, Adv\u2019g Agent,\n 56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.\n\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= is on each\n =BOX= and on each =PACKAGE=.\n]\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\n\u201cDarmouth\u201d changed to \u201cDartmouth\u201d on page 218. (Hanover. Cong. Ch.\nDartmouth Col.)\n\nExtra \u201c(\u201d removed from E.D. Bassford\u2019s ad on page 224. (COOPER\nINSTITUTE, NEW YORK CITY)","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 32, No. 07, July 1878","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":23481}