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No. 9.\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                         SEPTEMBER, 1878.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    PARAGRAPHS                                             257\n    THE CLAIM OF SELF-INTEREST                             258\n    PLEASE PERUSE, AND PONDER                              259\n    THEN AND NOW                                           260\n    ANNUAL REPORTS NEEDED                                  261\n    A GOOD EXAMPLE\u2014THE NEGRO IN THE UNITED STATES          262\n    ITEMS FROM CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS                        265\n    GENERAL NOTES                                          266\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE IN ATLANTA UNIVERSITY:\n      Rev. Horace Bumstead                                 267\n    CHARLESTON, S. C.\u2014Avery Normal Institute.\u2014Reunion\n      Exercises.\u2014Impressions made on a Visitor from a\n      Neighboring State                                    270\n    GEORGIA\u2014Ogeechee: Rev. John R. McLean                  272\n    ALABAMA\u2014A Surprise Party: Mr. E. C.\n      Silsby.\u2014Anniversary of Trinity School: Rev.\n      Horace J. Taylor.\u2014A Gospel Ship: Rev. P. J.\n      McIntosh                                         272\u2013274\n    MISSISSIPPI-Grenada                                    275\n    KENTUCKY\u2014Berea College Commencement.\u2014Frankfort:\n      Miss Mattie E. Anderson                         275, 276\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    MENDI MISSION\u2014In Good Health and Good Heart:\n      Rev. Albert P. Miller                                276\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    CHINA FOR CHRIST: Rev. W. C. Pond                      277\n\n\n  THE CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE                                      281\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                 283\n\n\n  WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c.                             286\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_.\n    REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago, Ill._\n\n    EDGAR KETCHUM, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._\n    H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Assistant Treasurer, N. Y._\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.\n\n\n  EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n    ALONZO S. BALL,\n    A. S. BARNES,\n    EDWARD BEECHER,\n    GEO. M. BOYNTON,\n    WM. B. BROWN,\n    CLINTON B. FISK,\n    A. P. FOSTER,\n    E. A. 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.     SEPTEMBER, 1878.     No. 9.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n_American Missionary Association._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe thirty-second Annual Meeting of the American Missionary\nAssociation will be held in Taunton, Mass., by invitation of the\nCongregational Churches of that city, commencing on Tuesday,\nOctober 29th, at three P. M.\n\nThe sermon will be preached by the Rev. S. E. Herrick, D. D.,\nof Mt. Vernon Church, Boston. Other speakers and the order of\nexercises will be announced hereafter.\n\nA cordial welcome will be given to delegates, and a full\nrepresentation of the churches is earnestly desired.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOn the 2d of July, Lord Polwarth gave a missionary conference\nin the grounds of Mertown House, on the Tweed, at which Dr. O.\nH. White, of America, Secretary of the Freedmen\u2019s Aid Society,\nmade an address. He dwelt upon the explorations of Africa and the\nemancipation of the slaves in America, and on the relation of these\ntwo remarkable events to the evangelization of the 180,000,000 of\nignorant and idolatrous inhabitants of the hitherto almost unknown\ncontinent. \u201cThe address was marked by intense earnestness and\npathos, and was listened to with rapt attention.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe monthly concert arranged for Rev. Mr. Winship\u2019s Questions and\nthe Jubilee Songs seems to be a great success. Almost daily orders\nare coming in for the Songs and Questions. Wherever they have been\nused they have given the highest satisfaction. We confidently\ncommend them, therefore, to churches and Sabbath-schools that\ndesire to spend a pleasant and profitable hour in considering the\nwork and wants of the Association. We do not see how the same\namount of information in regard to the Association could be so\nreadily imparted in any other way.\n\nOrders sent to Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Congregational House, Boston,\nor to any A. M. A. office, will be filled gratuitously.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe friends of Fisk University will be interested to hear of\nthe safe return to this country of President Cravath. With him\nhave also come the Jubilee Singers, who have been giving popular\nconcerts during the last year in Holland, Germany and Switzerland,\nand have now disbanded.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CLAIM OF SELF-INTEREST.\n\nThe claim of the three despised races in the United States is\nenforced by a motive of self-interest, by the relation of their\nleavening to the future prosperity and even perpetuity of our\nnation. Especially is this true of the freedmen, as large enough\nin their numbers to have weight, and endowed with privileges which\nmake their numbers powerful for good or evil.\n\nSo large a mass, if it be corrupt, is also corrupting. Here are\nthree lepers; I can but hint at their diseases. They are full of\nwounds and bruises and putrifying sores. You shrink and shudder\nat the picture. But, my brother, they are at your very door. What\nshall we do with them? This sickness is not unto death. Worse than\nthat; it is perpetuated and transmissible; but it may be cured.\nThe power of Christ, who touched the leper with His life-giving\nhand, is still with us. But we must go in the name of Jesus of\nNazareth. We cannot bar the negro out; he has the right to sit in\nour midst, even among the senators of the land; and if he be still\nignorant, and immoral, and superstitious, he will spread corruption\naround him. The only way to prevent him from contaminating us is\nto let virtue go forth from us to convert and cleanse him. And the\nquestion is, is there enough in us to do it? The very _presence_ of\nvice and ignorance is contaminating; it conducts all evil influence\nand spreads it. The swamp malaria which fills the air, while it\nchokes the hovels of the poor, can by no means be kept out of\nthe palaces of the rich. The foul odors of Hunter\u2019s Point pay no\nrespect to the brown-stone fronts of Murray Hill. If one member\nsuffers, all the body is afflicted.\n\nDo you say, \u201cIt is not our concern\u201d? But it is every one\u2019s concern.\nIs the ignorance and vice of your own town or city not your\nconcern? You have to pay for it dearly. Your taxes for police, for\ncourts and for prisons are only a small part of what it levies\non you. It, too, pervades the air and mingles its deadly poison\nwith it, and you breathe it in. You are proof against it; it only\nimperceptibly lessens the tone of your health and vigor. But your\nneighbor is not, and perhaps your son or daughter is not; and in\nthe traps which line our streets your son or my son may stumble and\nfall; or behind the shaded windows where the snares are laid, your\nson or my son may go to ruin.\n\nIt is so in the nation. If the leaven be not more active and more\npotent than the mass, it will be itself unleavened and spoiled.\n\nBut there is a greater peril to us than the mere presence of\nignorance and vice in its _power_. By the chances of war, and for\nthe sake of its success, 1,000,000 slaves were made citizens. They\nwere armed with the rifle and the ballot. With the rifle they\nturned the day of strife to the day of settlement; but with the\nballot, if left slaves as to their intelligence and manliness,\nthey may make of peace fatal disaster. Till they can exercise this\nsolemn trust with wise discretion, and with conscientious fidelity,\nit is a perilous trust in their hands. One million more votes added\nto the vast number which are swayed by demagogues of either party,\nincrease by a fearful percentage the dangers of the land.\n\nIn their Christian education is our only surety for the future.\nEducation for their intelligence, and Christianity for their\nmorals, and as a foundation on which both intelligence and virtue\nmay rest secure.\n\nThe same danger would be swelled by the numbers of the Indians and\nthe Chinese if they were citizens. As it is, the Indian can only\nbecome so by forswearing all the relations which are most sacred to\nhim, and which mean to him family and religion. And the Chinaman,\nit has just been decided, cannot vote, at least in California,\nbecause he is neither white enough nor black enough.\n\nBut it is the part of every wise man to see the danger, and to do\nwhat he can to avert it. The Federal Government cannot do what\nis needful. The States will not do it. Christian charity, with\nfar-sighted wisdom and self-denying philanthropy, can alone be\nrelied on for the work required\u2014the training of these races. It\nis an illustration of the truth, that all self-interests are met,\nnot by a narrowly planned seeking of them, but by that broader\nconformity to the great law of love which, loving God first, has\nlove for each one in his place, and seeks the highest good of all.\nIn that is wrapped up, concealed sometimes, but surely there, our\nown gain and good.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPLEASE PERUSE, AND PONDER.\n\nOur friends will pardon us for reminding them that the fiscal\nyear of the Association will close with the month of September.\nWhat is done to swell the receipts, either for diminution of debt\nor to meet current expenses, must be done quickly. Let no one\nimagine, however, that we are not duly grateful to God and to His\npeople, for the gifts which have made possible the work on the\nfield, and lightened so much the drag on our treasury. Still, we\nfeel constrained to ask these givers for a larger giving, in order\nthat we may free ourselves from an incumbrance which has sadly\nembarrassed us for years, and keep pace with the openings before\nus. Two things we ask:\n\n1. The debt _must_ be cleared away. Every interest of the\nAssociation demands it. Our friends demand it\u2014do they not? Else,\nwould they have reduced our indebtedness, within eighteen months,\nfrom over $90,000 to some $40,000 at this present writing? Why\nmay we not believe that God has His reserves, both of men and of\nmoney, at hand, to wipe out the remaining balance against us? We\nwait to see who will step into the place of honor, and make some\ngreat sacrifice in this behalf. This debt was incurred to aid the\npoorest of the poor, as we thought, at the call of Christ himself.\nMay not they expect His blessing who shall now come to the rescue?\n\u201cInasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my\nbrethren, ye have done it unto Me.\u201d\n\n2. We need increased supplies to meet our constant outgo. Our\nfriends have done well by us during this year\u2014such a year, too, as\nit has been! But they must be faithful to the end of it to ensure\nus a good record on the 30th of September. They need not be afraid\nof overdoing it; for if, by any good fortune of ours and good-will\nof theirs, we should, after paying all our current claims, have a\nsmall balance, it will go at once to lessen this still burdensome\ndebt.\n\nRemember, too, that the work is ever increasing on our hands, save\nas we have to keep it down. Millions of these freedmen must in the\nnext ten years, if ever, be brought under the influence of sound\nlearning and true religion. This generation must not pass away till\nit be possible for every colored child to read the word of God.\nThe Chinaman and the Indian, too, make claims upon us which their\ncruel treatment by our fellow-citizens only serves to emphasize.\nAfrica, also, as a culmination of our work, is calling for new\nlaborers of her own sons to come and bring back to those sitting\nin darkness the light which is the life of men. But, in order to\nthis, our teachers and missionaries must be numbered by hundreds\nand thousands, where now they are numbered by scores and hundreds.\nThis is the true economy and the true wisdom. If we are to realize\nour ideal, there must be a new interest kindled in the work, and\na great advance in the gifts of God\u2019s people. With the closing of\nthe year, therefore, we invite the intelligent and liberal men of\nthe land to consider _once more_ the work of this Association, in\nits bearing upon this nation, and in its bearing upon the nations,\nto which these races belong. We do not see how we can vindicate\nourselves as righteous men, as men who fear God and love our\nneighbors, if we neglect this work brought to our doors and laid\nupon us by sanctions as solemn and pressing as were ever imposed on\nmen. We do, then, in behalf of these races, and in the name of our\nrisen Lord, ask the good and the wise, everywhere, to give us their\nsympathies, their prayers, and their money, in measure large enough\nto put these fields under ample culture for a better and brighter\nfuture.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHEN AND NOW.\n\nREV. J. E. ROY, D. D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT.\n\nThen\u2014in October, 1860\u2014as the newly-appointed District Secretary\nfor the A. M. A., I attended its fourteenth annual meeting, in\npastor M. E. Strieby\u2019s church at Syracuse. It was an occasion of\ncongratulation that the receipts for that year had come up to\n$56,000\u2014$5,000 more than for the preceding, and $2,000 more than\nfor any previous year. There had been sixty missionary laborers in\nforeign lands, and 112 in our own country, the most of whom were\nin the West, and forty of them in Illinois. The churches aided\nnumbered 140, to which had been added 989 members, of whom 659 came\nby profession of faith. Twenty-five revivals were reported. In the\nSouth, North Carolina had one missionary and Kentucky had four, all\nof whom were engaged in caring for little churches among the white\npeople. In a year and a half the war came on, and our missionaries\nwere driven out of the South. The American Home Missionary Society\nhad cleared itself, the first of all the national societies, from\ncomplicity with slaveholding, and so the missionary churches of the\nA. M. A. at the North and the District Secretary were transferred\nto the old society.\n\nNow\u2014after sixteen and a half years\u2014I find myself, by the clearest\ndrift of Providence, back in the service of the Association. At\nits anniversary of 1859, in Chicago, there was a discussion as\nto what should come of the A. M. A. when all the societies and\nchurches should have reached the anti-slavery standard. Some\nheld that the Association was only a tug to help those noble\ncrafts out to sea. President Blanchard said, \u201cYes, a tug; but\nwhen she has got them all over the bar we will change her into\na frigate, to course up and down all the Southern waters.\u201d Last\nfall, the Association came back to Syracuse to hold its thirtieth\nanniversary, and, sure enough, the tug had come in as a frigate,\nwith report of engagements all over the South. And so it had been\nrunning for the last twelve years. The Treasurer\u2019s report ran up\nto $264,709. Instead of the 112 white churches North, are shown 59\nchurches among the ex-slaves; also 7 chartered institutions, 14\nhigh and normal schools, with 10,000 scholars, and with 100,000\npupils reached by their teachers. The Indian work abides; the\nChinese has come on. The scheme for evangelizing Africa, by using\nthe Christianized freedmen, is opening into proportions immensely\nbeyond the conception of its early movers.\n\nThen\u2014its constituents were individuals, and churches of the more\npronounced abolition sort. Now\u2014since the National Council at\nBoston\u2014the Association has been recognized as the agency of the\nCongregational churches for doing their work among \u201cthe three\ndespised races.\u201d The old adherents, developed into generous giving\nby the necessities of their enterprise, abide with the enthusiasm\nof veterans; while now the mass of our people acknowledge\nthemselves under just as much obligation as they to use this\norganization in its peculiar sphere of Christianization at home\nand abroad. They find it by Providence marvelously developed and\nfitted to its work\u2014tested, toughened and trusted. They hear it said\nfrom without, that our body of churches is doing more and better\nwork among the freedmen than any other. They find that the old\nanti-slavery education in our families had prepared a multitude of\nour cultured and consecrated young people to enter this work as\nsoon as the way was open, even at a salary little above the nominal\nrate. And so they find this charge laid upon them and readily\naccept the obligation, grateful for the opportunity.\n\nIn coming back to this service, I feel that I am only shifting from\nthe right to the left wing of the home missionary army. No man can\ngo beyond me in appreciation of the sublime movement represented by\nthe American Home Missionary Society. But in this other department\nI find that most of the same arguments are to be used. Do we call\nfor the Christianizing of the people of our country? Here are\nmillions of them at the South in need of that process. Do we plead\nfor the saving of our country from the spiritual despotism of\nRome? The Jesuits, using hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly,\nare scheming to Romanize the congenial material found in the\nex-slaves. Do we appeal in behalf of the political interests of\nour country? Here are 1,000,000 black voters who cannot read. Then\nby their side, only lower down in the social scale, are 1,100,000\nwhite voters who also cannot read the ballots they are to cast;\nand the conviction is now gaining ground that the most effectual,\nif not the only way, to lift up that class is to put under them\nthe leverage of the educated negro. Do we use that grandest\nargument\u2014the salvation of our country for the sake of the salvation\nof the world? Here in our own land is looming up the most potent\nagency for the evangelization of Africa. That despoiled continent\nmay yet say to her despoilers, \u201cYe thought evil against me, but God\nmeant it unto good.\u201d\n\nThe A. H. M. S., true to its charter as a national institution,\nas soon as war had battered down the walls that were in its way,\nsought, with the Philip of its evangelism, to go towards the\nSouth. It explored the chief cities and centres of that region,\nand was entering devotedly upon that part of the field. It has\nkept pressing every hopeful opening. It will still be true to its\nnational idea and do all it may be allowed to do there. None feel\nmore keenly than do its chief officers the chagrin at the few\nopportunities afforded and the failure in so many of them. They\nhave done only their duty in making the costly experiments. And now\nthe apostolic spirit of our Congregational churches seems to say to\nthe white people of the South, \u201cSeeing ye count yourselves unworthy\nof these good things, lo, we turn to the freedmen.\u201d\n\nIf, in some distant part of the globe, a people had just been\ndiscovered, numbering 5,000,000 souls, speaking our own language,\nhungering for our ideas, our civilization and our Christianity, it\nwould thrill the Christian world to go in at once and possess that\nland for Christ. That thing we may do in our own country, under our\nown flag. And some of us who now, with our years, could not pass\nmuster to go and cope with a foreign language, have yet not a few\nyears left in which we may do an essentially foreign missionary\nwork in our own language, in that tongue, which, more than any\nother spoken by man, is freighted with the associations and the\nspirit of the Gospel of the Crucified One.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nANNUAL REPORTS NEEDED.\n\nAny of our friends who have the following back numbers of the\nAnnual Report of the A. M. A. that they can spare, will confer a\nfavor by sending them to our office as soon as convenient: Numbers\n3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 24. We do not ask our friends to\nbreak a set if they are anxious to keep it, but to send any extra\nnumbers they may have. Without realizing it, we have exhausted our\nsupply of these numbers, and now wish to make up a few extra sets\nto have bound for our own use. As years go by, we learn more and\nmore the value to us of these old reports.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA GOOD EXAMPLE.\n\nMrs. Sally Perry died in Boston, Mass., June 17th, aged ninety-one\nyears. The slaves had a large place in her sympathies, when she\ncould do little more than offer her prayers in their behalf. But\nwhen the war had set them free, and left her charity at liberty\nto enter on practical offices of good will, she eagerly embraced\nthe opportunity, watching for openings. She read in the AMERICAN\nMISSIONARY, for 1866, a call for funds to establish orphan asylums\nfor the thousands of homeless colored children in the South. She\ncame to our office in Boston for information in regard to it. The\nresult was a donation of $500, to found the Brewer Orphan Asylum in\nWilmington, N. C., in memory of her deceased daughter. And, year by\nyear, while the Asylum existed, she gave it the interest of $2,000,\ndevised in her will for its benefit.\n\nWhen the Asylum was no longer needed, the city of Wilmington\nundertaking to care for its poor, with the consent of Mrs. Perry,\nthe funds which she had invested in it were transferred to the\nBrewer Normal School in Greenwood, S. C. This school so enlisted\nher thoughts and sympathies, that she determined to make over to\nit, two years before her death, the amount she had designed for\nit at her decease. Accordingly, she paid over to the Association,\nfor the benefit of the school, two one-thousand-dollar U. S.\nBonds, which realized $2,416.25. The writer remembers how her\nface shone after the act was done. Indeed, giving seemed to be,\nto her, a supreme luxury. The whole amount which she contributed\nto the Association, for its work of physical relief and Christian\neducation, was not far from $4,000. And the school which she has\nleft in her daughter\u2019s name, the support of which is mainly from\nher bequest, will go on perpetuating her influence for the years\nand generations to come. Many, in the great day, will rise up and\ncall her blessed. Are there not other dear saints of God, friends\nof the poor and the needy, who will imitate her spirit and her\nexample?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE NEGRO IN THE UNITED STATES.\n\n  We attempt to give, though it is difficult, a condensation of the\n    address made by President BUCKHAM, of Burlington, Vt., at the\n    Boston Anniversary of the A. M. A., May 29th, 1878. It has been\n    published in full in the _Congregationalist_, and in pamphlet\n    form already.\n\nThe negro, it must be confessed, has lost the place he once\nheld as an attractive object of philanthropy. Invested with the\nlegal rights of a man, and thus by necessity thrust forward into\ncomparison and competition with other men, he not only exhibits his\ninferiority on a conspicuous stage, but manifests some traits which\nmake him repulsive and odious. The negro cause has thus sunk from\nan impassioned crusade to a common-place charity.\n\n\nThe Negro Question.\n\nAnd yet the Negro Question is still the great American Question.\nPerhaps it is with questions like this as with the movements of a\nbattle; those at a distance see them more clearly than those in the\nthick of action. The intelligent Englishman or Frenchman will tell\nyou in an instant that our great problem is the negro question\u2014the\npolitical, as dependent on the social and moral condition of the\nfreedmen.\n\nWith a population as large as that of the colonies at the\nRevolution, with the full privileges of American citizens theirs\nby constitutional right, they hold in their hands\u2014the very hands\nbut recently manacled in cruel and degrading bondage\u2014the balance\nof political power in the nation. As parties are now divided,\nthe supremacy of one or the other depends on the negro vote; and\nwhether the negro vote shall be the vote _of_ the negro, or merely\nthe vote _by_ the negro, will depend on the degree of manhood he\nreaches through his social and moral condition.\n\n\nThe Southern Solution.\n\nOne party in the South, not including the best elements of Southern\nsociety, but for the present the dominant one, has already matured\nand avowed its solution of the problem. \u201cThe negro,\u201d they say,\n\u201cbelongs to a race constitutionally and forever inferior\u2014a race\nforeordained to serve in some capacity the superior white race.\nYou have declared by law that he shall not be a chattel; we are\ndetermined that he shall not be more than a serf. Rule over us\nhe shall not; rule with us he shall not; if he must vote, he\nshall vote as we bid him; by all the methods usually employed for\nthat end wherever caste prevails, by compulsory ignorance, by\nsuperstition, by terrorism, by fraud, when necessary by force, he\nshall be compelled to stay in his place as a member of a subject,\nan abject race.\u201d\n\nThere are others\u2014and it must not be ignored that among them are\nsome of the leaders of opinion at the South\u2014whose language is less\nviolent, and whose measures are less threatening, but whose end is\nsubstantially the same. They are willing, possibly I should say\ndesirous, to better the condition of the negro, so far as to make\nhim a better laborer, a more thrifty and useful factor in political\neconomy, a more honest man and a more devout Christian, but with\nstringent limitations to his social and political ambition. They\nfavor education, but an education so controlled by the superior\nrace, and so differenced from the education given to the children\nof this race, that it shall beget no dangerous and revolutionary\naspirations. These men favor religion for the blacks\u2014but such a\nreligion as shall keep them occupied with emotional fervors and\nboisterous bodily exercises, not such as shall encourage thoughtful\nstudy of truth in God\u2019s word and works.\n\n\nThe Christian Solution.\n\nNow, as the policy of the party unfriendly in a greater or\nless degree to the freedman, is based on the assumption of his\ninferiority, so the policy of his friends and benefactors\u2014and he\nhas friends at the South as well as at the North\u2014must be based on\nthe counter assertion of his manhood. It is not necessary\u2014it is\nsomewhat dogmatic, it is at least premature\u2014to assert his equality\nin all respects with the white man. That is an ethnological\nquestion which it may take ages to settle, and when settled it will\nbe mainly a matter of scientific interest. But that the negro is\na man; that everything distinctively human belongs to him; that\nhe is capable of improvement; that his intellectual faculties\nare expanded, and his moral nature is elevated by means of the\nsame truths and the same influences which invigorate and enlarge\nand fructify the souls of other men, and that he is entitled to\nhis full share, without stint or reserve, of all the knowledge\nand all the human agencies and the divine influences by which\nit is ordained that our common humanity shall reach its highest\nattainable perfection\u2014this is the broad basis of principle on\nwhich the American Missionary Association, and all true missionary\nassociations, found their policy in dealing with negroes, as with\nall other races of men whom God has made of one blood on all the\nface of the earth, and for whose common redemption and perfection\nChrist died, who is the Saviour of all men.\n\nBut in one sense the freedman is something more than a man; he is\nan American citizen; and he is more than an ordinary citizen; he\nis a voter. He has been entrusted by the nation with the highly\nimportant duty of giving expression to the municipal, the State,\nand the national will in legislative, judicial and executive acts.\nHe is an integral part of the sovereignty of this nation. We may or\nmay not think it a national mistake to have made him so important\na functionary. But the negro is here. He is here either to corrupt\nour politics, to degrade our social life, to debase our religion,\npossibly to drag us into another civil war, if we continue or\nrepeat in some other form our injustice and tyranny to him; or, he\nis here to perform some useful, perhaps some noble, part in the\nwork of developing a Christian civilization at home and extending\nit abroad through the earth, if we are faithful to the trust\ncommitted to us by Providence in him.\n\n\nThe Negro Intellectually.\n\nThe question of the negro\u2019s intellectual capacity has almost become\nobsolete as a debatable question. Strange that it should ever have\nbeen seriously maintained, that a race which has produced its full\nshare of the world\u2019s great men all along through history, a race\nwhich has given to the world a Hannibal, an Augustine, a Toussaint,\nis a race lacking intellectual capacity. Strange it is, on the\nother hand, that a race, however gifted, should, though oppressed\nand stupefied by ages of bondage, so frequently throw off minds of\na high order.\n\nIf it should be said that these are a few picked men, whose cases\ndo not indicate the intellectual capacity of the race, I reply\nit is only a few picked men of any race who are capable of high\nintellectual attainments, and that, because the rarest of talents\nis that ambition for high attainments which will carry one through\ntoils and sacrifices to the far-away prize. I know no better test\nof intellectual capacity than the ardent desire for knowledge, and\nthat desire the freedmen have in a remarkable degree. When the\nfreedman spelt out, by the light of his pine-torch, the words:\n\u201cThou God seest me,\u201d and then jumped to his feet and exclaimed:\n\u201cJohn Martin, you can read! John Martin, you are a man!\u201d he\nuttered a truth which too few of the boasted superior race so well\nappreciate\u2014that manhood comes from power to appropriate great\nideas. There is no doubt that the returns for money invested in\nfreedmen\u2019s schools are large. No one can read the accounts sent\nto us by teachers in these schools, and doubt that. The soil is\na virgin one, and yields great crops for a small outlay. Think\nwhat the Peabody Fund is doing for the whole South! Think how\nwide-reaching would be the effects of a few thousand dollars put\ninto the colleges at Atlanta, Berea and Nashville, where it might\nbe hoped that almost every single dollar would quicken some mind\nwhich else were benighted, but which, if enlightened, might carry\nlight to hundreds of benighted minds.\n\n\nThe Negro\u2019s Moral Capacity.\n\nIf the negro had come out of this long, cruel bondage without being\nterribly degraded morally; if, as some pretend, his moral nature\nhad been under an elevating discipline, then had slavery not been\n\u201cthe sum of all villainies.\u201d But there is no denying that the\nAmerican negro bears the marks of his bondage, in his indolence,\nhis untruthfulness, his dishonesty, his animalism. But these are\nall vices of the slaves, not of the men; of the condition, not of\nthe race. The possibilities of the negro nature are to be estimated\nby its highest actual attainments in the most favored individuals.\nTwo of the noblest races of history have come from an ancestry less\npromising than our Southern freedmen\u2014the Israelites and our own\nancestors.\n\nHe would be a daring prophet who, in face of these examples, and of\nthe instances of moral greatness actually produced by this race,\nshould assert that something noble in character, some unique type\nof spiritual excellence, some splendid order of manhood, may not\nyet emerge from this now degraded and unpromising race. What the\nnature, the moral capacity of the American negro is, future ages\nwill determine; and if we believe that God made him and gave him\nhis nature, with all its unrealized possibilities, it surely cannot\nbe hard for us to believe that there is for him a glorious future\nof moral and spiritual character.\n\n\nOur Hope in Schools and Churches.\n\nTo the schools and to the churches, then, of the South we look as\nthe hope of this race. But there are schools, and schools; there\nare churches, and churches; and everything depends on the kinds of\nschools and churches they have.\n\nDepend upon it, unless we help the negroes to establish schools\nwhich will impart the kind of education which will give them\nintelligence and thrift, which will bring to them a consciousness\nof their resources and ambition to use them to the utmost, and\nthus raise themselves in the social and political scale, others\nwill see to it that schools are established which, in response to\ntheir cry for knowledge, shall keep the word of promise to their\near, and break it to their hope; which shall give them the kind\nof education that occupies and amuses the mind without developing\nit, and that will leave them fit subjects for the ecclesiastical\nand political yoke which has even now been prepared for them. And,\nunless we plant churches among them, which shall aim to consecrate\nand employ in Christ\u2019s service heart, soul, mind and strength\u2014the\nwhole man and all his capacities\u2014others will see to it that\nchurches are established which, appealing to his love of display\nand big responsiveness to sensational and dramatic demonstrations,\nshall keep him a child forever, submissive to his self-constituted\nmasters at home and abroad.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS.\n\nWILMINGTON, N. C.\u2014\u201cApplications for next school-term are coming in.\nThe students don\u2019t mean to be caught as they were last year. I had\nto refuse so many for want of room.\u201d\n\nATLANTA, GA.\u2014There are known to be more than 142 of the present\npupils of Atlanta University engaged in teaching during their\nthree months\u2019 vacation. This short term is all the present school\nsystem of Georgia contemplates during the year. Although many are\nprepared every year to take up the work, the demand is constantly\nlarger than the supply. A short time since, application was made\nat the institution for three teachers in one day, to take schools\nalready organized in the country, and none could be found to go.\nOne graduate of the school, who has taught a school of his own in\nthe southern part of the State for two years past, has raised up\nthe present teachers of nearly every school in two counties, and a\nlarge part of those in seven others.\n\nBYRON, GA.\u2014Four persons united with the church, July 7th. One\ninfant was baptized. Many are inquiring the way of life. A woman\u2019s\nprayer-meeting is held every week. The Sunday-school numbers\nfifty-two.\n\nWOODVILLE, GA.\u2014Pilgrim Church has started a mission at Five-mile\nBend, which promises well. They have licensed a brother to preach\nthere. Mr. Sengstacke preaches there once or twice a month. Since\nlast March thirty-five persons have been added to the church.\n\nGEORGIA.\u2014The railroads diverging from Atlanta generously passed\nat reduced rates the students of Atlanta University, after\nCommencement, to their homes and schools in the country. This\nreduction on one line, and on one trip, resulted in a saving to the\nstudents of a hundred and thirty-two dollars, a sum sufficient to\npay the board and tuition of a student in that institution one year\nand two months.\n\nATHENS, ALA.\u2014At the July communion, six children were baptized in\nTrinity Congregational Church. Two cases of discipline have just\nbeen issued. Rev. Horace J. Taylor is pastor.\n\nNASHVILLE, TENN.\u2014Nathaniel Nurse, a student of Fisk University, has\nbeen appointed a city missionary.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\u2014The Atlanta _Republican_ says that, in proportion to their means,\nthe colored people of that city are paying a much heavier tax than\nthe whites, while their school facilities are far inferior. It also\nalleges that the hostility of the mayor to the colored school is\nevidenced by the removal of their best teachers, and especially of\nthose who have gone thither from the North.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014Catlin says that the Indians preserve their health by keeping\ntheir mouths shut. Some pale-faces might preserve their spiritual\nhealth by observing the same rule.\u2014_Christian at Work._\n\n\u2014\u201cIt is a singular _non sequitur_ to refer to the discovery\nof frauds made by the Interior Department, as proofs of its\ninefficiency and unsuitableness to conduct the service, when, in\nfact, they are proofs of exactly the opposite.\u201d\u2014_Independent._\n\n\u2014The following resolutions, written by men who have worked in\nOregon and Washington for thirty years, and who ought to know\nsomething about this question, were unanimously adopted by the\nOregon Congregational Association:\n\n\u201c_Resolved_, That the Association affirm its faith in the\nredemption of the Indian from barbarism.\n\n\u201c_Resolved_, That we deplore the policy that tends to his\nextermination.\n\n\u201c_Resolved_, That the provisions of the Constitution, and the acts\nof Congress, and the pledges of treaties, furnish a strong motive\nfor effort on the part of the friends of the Indian to secure him a\nhomestead and citizenship as the best way to secure his rights in\nlaw, and promote his manhood and his welfare permanently, and\n\n\u201c_Whereas_, There is now a proposition in Congress to consolidate\nthe various reservations in Oregon and Washington Territory,\nwithout regard to the previous labor and rights of the Indians, and\nwithout their consent, and\n\n\u201c_Whereas_, We believe such consolidation would be unjust to the\nIndians, dangerous to the surrounding settlers, and, in the end,\nof vast expense to the government, as well as a great hindrance to\nthe civilization of the Indians physically, mentally and morally,\ntherefore,\n\n\u201c_Resolved_, That before any consolidation takes place, we\nearnestly urge upon Congress the necessity of now, by positive act,\ngranting to the Indians of industrious habits, on the reservations,\nhomestead titles to their lands in severalty.\n\n\u201c_Resolved_, That the recommendation of the Secretary of the\nInterior, that boarding schools be established among Indians for\nthe better training of their children, meets our convictions of\nwhat is needed.\n\n\u201c_Resolved_, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the\nSecretary of the Interior.\u201d\n\n\u2014General Crook is reported to have said, recently, to a newspaper\nman, \u201cIt is hard to be forced to kill the Indians when they are\nclearly in the right.\u201d\n\n\u2014The question of Indian loyalty or revolt is generally decided by\nour treatment of them. If served by capable and faithful agents,\nsupplied according to agreement, and protected from whiskey-dealing\ntraders, they are peaceable and friendly. If defrauded of their\nrights, starved, and driven from place to place, they become \u201cbad\nIndians,\u201d and who wouldn\u2019t? Witness the contrast between the Piutes\nand Shoshones, of Nevada, and the Bannocks.\n\n\u2014The Bannock war would seem to be nearly over. An official report\nannounces that the Bannocks and Piutes have separated, and are\nfleeing, apparently towards their reservations or former haunts.\nWheaton, and the boats on the Columbia, with Bernard and Forsythe\npressing from other points, all under the direction of General\nHoward, who also operated separately with a small force of cavalry,\nprevented the intended crossing of the Columbia, and an escape\ninto Washington Territory and the British Provinces. Settlers in\nthe vicinity of Camas Prairie are now in terror from the returning\nBannocks. Well they may be. The war began in connection with\nan attempt of these Indians to go back from their Fort Hall\nreservation, when nearly starved, to dig the camas, a nutritious\nroot, from which that region is named. The white inhabitants\nobjected, as they wanted the roots for their hogs. A difficulty\narose, a white man was killed, the military was called upon,\nand, though the tribe did not justify the killing, nor shield\nthe murderer, yet proceeded to inflict punishment upon the whole\ntribe by taking their horses and guns\u2014largely their dependence for\nsubsistence.\u2014_Advance._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014The President is said to be making careful inquiries into the\nfacts as to the immigration of Chinamen to our Pacific Coast, and\nto purpose a special message to the next Congress on the subject.\nHe has been reported as favoring its limitation by modification of\nthe Burlingame treaty.\n\n\u2014On the 19th of July, Judge Belden, of the District Court, rendered\na decision important to the interests of Chinese labor on the\nPacific Coast, declaring the exorbitant license tax on Chinese\nlaundries, of twenty dollars a month, to be void, and payments\nmade recoverable, on the ground that such charges were excessive,\ndisproportionate, and derogatory to fundamental principles of just\ngovernment.\n\n\u2014Twenty-five Chinese laborers sailed July 19th for Peru, to work\non a sugar estate. They are guaranteed prompt payment of sixteen\ndollars a month, and good treatment. Others will probably follow\nthem.\n\n\u2014Judge Choate, of the United States District Court, ruled, July\n10th, that a Chinaman cannot be naturalized under the laws of\nthe United States. The application was made by a Chinaman known\nas Charles Miller, who has lived in New York for twenty-eight\nyears. Judge Choate was guided by the decision of Judge Sawyer,\nof California, in the Ah Yup case, when thirteen hundred Chinamen\npetitioned that schools might be provided for them, as for Indians\nand negroes, and showed that in San Francisco alone they were\npaying $42,000 in school taxes. Their request was not granted,\nalthough it merely asked the carrying out of a provision of the\nState Constitution which the honorable gentleman had sworn to obey.\n\n\u2014Colonel F. A. Bee, attorney for the Chinese six companies,\ndeclares, upon official records, that during the past two years,\nup to June 1, the emigration and death-rate of the Chinese have\nexceeded the immigration by about 500; and that the entire number\nof Chinese residents on the Pacific Coast, as shown on the\nregisters of the six companies, does not exceed 65,000.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\n\nSYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE IN ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.\n\nBY REV. HORACE BUMSTEAD.\n\nDuring a portion of the past school-year a plan of systematic\nbeneficence has been in operation among the scholars and teachers\nof Atlanta University. It was undertaken largely as an experiment,\nand with many misgivings as to the results. Its success has been\nso gratifying as to suggest the possibility that other schools and\nchurches in this missionary field might like to introduce it, if\nmade acquainted with its practical workings.\n\nTHE PLAN.\u2014This is set forth in the following recommendations,\ndrawn up by a committee of teachers and scholars, and adopted by a\nunanimous vote of the school:\u2014\n\n  \u201c1. That we recognize more fully the duty and privilege of\n  systematic giving.\n\n  \u201c2. That during the remainder of the school-year we make\n  twenty-five weekly offerings of money at the Friday afternoon\n  meeting, to aid in paying the debt of the A. M. A.\n\n  \u201c3. That all persons connected with the school be invited to hand\n  in on slips of paper, to be provided, a statement of the amount\n  which they will endeavor to give weekly.\n\n  \u201c4. That all persons handing in these statements be provided\n  with envelopes in which to deposit the weekly amount; and that\n  envelopes be furnished also to any who may desire to give as they\n  are able, without stating beforehand a definite amount.\n\n  \u201c5. That any persons who prefer to devote their offerings to\n  any other benevolent object than the one already suggested, be\n  allowed to do so by giving timely notice of their desire.\n\n  \u201c6. That arrangements be made for furnishing cents in exchange\n  for larger coins, so that all may be enabled to give as small\n  sums as they wish.\n\n  \u201c7. That an account be kept with each holder of an envelope\n  showing the amount given by each.\n\n  \u201c8. That some person be appointed by the president to superintend\n  the execution of this plan.\u201d\n\nITS OBJECT.\u2014We desired not so much to raise a large sum of money\nas to cultivate the habit of giving with thoughtfulness and\nregularity. The value of this habit we sought to impress upon our\nscholars in several prayer-meeting talks when the subject was under\nconsideration. If each one gave only one cent a week, the _habit_\nof giving would be acquired, and this would be worth acquiring.\nWe wished also to encourage the idea that benevolent giving is\na fitting act of Divine worship. Our offerings were made at the\nweekly school prayer-meeting on Friday afternoon, and were always\npreceded by a short prayer of consecration from the president.\n\nITS FREEDOM.\u2014So far as possible the word \u201cpledge\u201d was avoided in\npresenting the matter to the school. Each person was asked to\nconsider carefully how much he was able and willing to give. The\nhanding in of a statement of his resolve to give so much per week\nwas designed chiefly to secure a thoughtful decision on the part of\neach one. If any preferred not to do this they could still receive\nan envelope and give what they liked from week to week. The keeping\nof the record was not for the purpose of dunning delinquents; this\nwas never done. Undoubtedly, however, the mere fact that the record\nwas kept proved a stimulus to regularity in making the offerings,\nand made it possible to tell any donor at any time how much he had\npaid or had yet to pay. If any one desired to change the amount of\nhis offering, or to discontinue it altogether, he was met with no\nremonstrance. While it was suggested that the offerings be devoted\nto the debt of the A. M. A., full opportunity was given to each\none to contribute to any other object that he might select. The\nscholars were especially urged not to be ashamed to give a small\nsum if they could not give more. In a word, the whole management\nof the plan was designed to be helpful rather than dictatorial or\ninquisitive.\n\nITS DETAILS.\u2014These may be skipped by those not specially\ninterested. One thousand strong Manilla envelopes, of the size\nrepresented below, were bought for eighty-five cents, and five\nhundred of them were printed, with the dates of the twenty-five\nweekly offerings, at an expense of one dollar. A blank cash\nbook, with stiff covers, was bought for twenty-five cents, and a\nconductor\u2019s punch for a dollar and a quarter. Thus, the cost of the\noutfit was but $3.35, and we have the book and punch for indefinite\nuse, and envelopes enough for another year or more.\n\nThere being no cents in general circulation in Atlanta, several\ndollars\u2019 worth were procured from the Post Office. Every Friday\nmorning, for half an hour before school, the \u201cmoney-changer\u201d sat at\nhis table in one of the school halls and gave pennies in exchange\nfor nickels and dimes. The sight of him, by the way, proved a very\nserviceable reminder to the scholars that the day of the offering\nhad come.\n\nEach person was provided with only one envelope, to be used over\nand over again. In case of loss a new one was cheerfully given. On\nthe envelope, between the columns of printed dates, are written\nhis name, the number of the name in the record book, and the page\nwhere found, and a letter indicating the school-room or department\nto which he belongs. On the inside of the flap is written the\nnumber of cents he is to give weekly, or an interrogative mark if\nno definite sum has been stated. When the holder of the envelope\nreceives it again, he finds a little hole punched opposite the date\nwhich his last payment has covered; this constitutes his receipt,\nand the unpunched dates show how many more offerings he has to make.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nGeorge Brown, for example, has made ten offerings, and has fifteen\nyet to make. His name is numbered \u201c46\u201d on page \u201c8\u201d of the record\nbook, and he is to receive his envelope back in the Middle (\u201cM\u201d)\nschool-room, where he studies.\n\nThe envelopes as they are emptied of their contents are separated\ninto two piles, the first consisting of those which contain exactly\nthe stipulated weekly offering, and the second of those which do\nnot, as for example, when the donor wishes to make two or more\nofferings at once. Care is taken to mark on each envelope of the\nsecond pile, opposite the proper date, the amount which has been\nfound in it. Each of these piles is now assorted, so as to bring\ntogether all the envelopes whose names occur on the same page of\nthe record book, for convenience in entering the amounts. Much\ntime is saved by having a second person read the name-numbers and\namounts to the person who enters them, reading of course, the\nfigures on the flaps of the first pile, and those opposite the\ngiven date on the second. The envelopes are then properly punched,\nand afterwards assorted according to the school-rooms, and given\nto the respective teachers to distribute to the scholars. To\nsave loss, this distribution is deferred till the day before the\noffering.\n\nThe record book is long and narrow, so as to get as many names as\npossible on a page. The account of each donor requires but one line\nrunning across two opposite pages, which are ruled vertically for\ntwenty-five entries. The amount given each week, even when more or\nless than the stipulated amount, is entered under the date of that\nweek, thus bringing all the offerings of the same week in the same\ncolumn.\n\nThe handling of the money is facilitated by using small cotton bags\nlarge enough to hold a hundred cents, or several dollars in nickels.\n\nITS RESULTS.\u2014Envelopes were issued to two hundred and nine persons.\nOnly ten of these preferred not to state how much they would give\neach week. Sixty-nine, or about one-third, offered to give one\ncent a week; forty-three, or about one-fifth, offered two cents;\nfifty-one, or about one-quarter, five cents. Only fifteen out of\nthe two hundred and nine offered more than five cents a week. Among\nthe scholars, the amounts ranged from one to ten cents; among the\nteachers, from five cents to one dollar.\n\nOut of the one hundred and ninety-nine who offered definite\namounts, sixty-three paid exactly what they had stated at the\noutset; thirty-four (all scholars) paid more\u2014in some cases double\nand over; while one hundred and two (of whom a good many had left\nschool) paid less. Thus very nearly half paid in full or over. Many\nof the others were deficient only a few cents, and these, in many\ncases, unavoidably so. Little notes like this would sometimes come\nin with the offerings: \u201cThis is all that I can pay; I have done the\nbest I could.\u201d The record shows that many who fell behind for a\ntime afterwards made up the deficiency.\n\nThe offerings of the ten scholars who did not state what they\nwould pay weekly, averaged a little over one cent a week; of the\nremaining one hundred and eighty-five scholars, a little over two\ncents a week; of the fourteen teachers, a little over twenty-one\ncents a week.\n\nThe scholars paid in all $102.02; the teachers, $73.00; making in\nthe aggregate, $175.02. _This was a little more than eighty-seven\nand a half percent. of all that was offered at the start._\nExcluding the teachers, all of whom paid in full, the scholars\nredeemed eighty percent. of the amount they set out to pay; and\nthis percentage would have been larger but for the scholars who\nleft school before the close of the year.\n\nFinally, the best result of all is, that we have learned something\nof the happiness of Christian giving, when practised thoughtfully,\nconscientiously and willingly.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCHARLESTON, S. C.\n\nAvery Normal Institute.\n\n[_Extracts from the Charleston News and Courier, July 4th, 5th and\n9th._]\n\nThe Graduation Exercises of this institution were held at the\nschool building in Bull street, yesterday, commencing at nine\no\u2019clock in the morning.\n\nThe programme included singing by the school, and addresses and\nessays, which reflected great credit upon the several pupils who\ndelivered them.\n\nA large number of prizes, including several handsome books, were\ndistributed to the successful pupils in the several classes, and\ndiplomas were presented to the graduates.\n\nMany features of the programme were excellently rendered, and it\nis, perhaps, fair to award the palm to the salutatory and essay\nby Julia D. Edwards, and to the discourse on \u201cClass History\u201d by\nElizabeth R. Tucker. These compositions were well conceived and\ngracefully delivered. The singing, too, deserves special praise,\nand there was one contralto voice in particular very noticeable for\nits strength and clearness.\n\nThe institution, which is devoted to the education of the colored\nyouth of this city, has turned out ninety-seven graduates since\n1872, all of whom do honor to their instructors.\n\n\nReunion Exercises.\n\nThe series of exercises which were arranged for three days, closed\nmost auspiciously, yesterday, with a reunion of the graduates. The\nprogramme comprised vocal and instrumental music, original essays,\nrecitation, declamation, oration and closing address. The main\nhall, where the exercises were held, was thronged with an audience\nhighly appreciative, as was continuously evinced.\n\nThe exercises were opened by a piano solo, a galop, which was\nadmirably played by Martha C. Gadsden, of the graduates of \u201973.\nAfter an address of welcome by Mrs. M. S. Lowery, an oration on\n\u201cTrue Greatness\u201d was pronounced by John M. Morris, an alumnus of\nthe institute.\n\nIt is but justice to make special mention of the essays: \u201cYouth the\nCrisis of Character and Destiny,\u201d by Merton B. Lawrence; \u201cAvery\nNormal Institute our Home,\u201d by Susan B. Artson; \u201cWoman\u2019s Position\nin Society,\u201d by Susan A. Schmidt; \u201cNecrology,\u201d by Catharine A.\nWallace; \u201cWhat is Life Without an Aim,\u201d by Ada C. Turner.\n\nAvery can well afford to risk its reputation as an educational\ninstitution on such essays, all of which showed no ordinary degree\nof culture. The vocal gem of the exercises was the soprano solo,\n\u201cBlooming Springtide,\u201d rendered with rare sweetness and taste by\nMartha C. Gadsden.\n\n\nImpressions made on a Visitor from a Neighboring State.\n\nAlthough daily notices were made in the _News and Courier_ of the\nclosing exercises of Avery Institute, as they took place from day\nto day, the following account by a visitor from a neighboring State\nwill not be without interest:\n\n  \u201cAvery Institute has had four principals during its brief\n  existence of thirteen years, and has been fortunate in their\n  quality. Two of them, Mr. Warren and the present incumbent, Mr.\n  Farnham, were fitted for their work by a course of moral training\n  and considerable experience in schools of similar grade to this,\n  and especially by their ardent love for their occupation.\n\n  \u201cAbsence of weeds from the flower-beds, tidiness of walks and\n  yards, cleanliness of floors and desks, and signs of neatness\n  everywhere suggested the possible theory of a \u2018clearing-up\n  time\u2019 for the occasion, but a quiet search for information on\n  this point revealed the fact that things were not \u2018fixed up\n  for Sunday,\u2019 but wore their every-day attire. If a maximum of\n  stillness, with a minimum of apparent effort, is the _ultima\n  thule_ of school discipline, there are no new lands for Avery\n  Institute to discover.\n\n  \u201cThe plan of \u2018native helpers\u2019 is being tried here, the faculty\n  consisting of a principal and two lady teachers from the\n  North, and five graduates of the school. Full attendance, good\n  scholarship and excellent discipline point to a successful\n  experiment.\n\n  \u201cJuly 2d at Avery was \u2018Children\u2019s Day.\u2019 There is not room for the\n  little ones at the closing exercises, and so Mr. Farnham gives\n  them _their_ day. The songs, \u2018A Smiling Face for Me,\u2019 \u2018If I were\n  a Sunbeam,\u2019 \u2018I love the Merry Sunshine, and the recitations \u2018The\n  Golden Side,\u2019 \u2018The Little Philosopher,\u2019 and \u2018The Summer Time,\u2019\n  indicate the joyous nature of the programme and the spirit of\n  the occasion. The teachers seem to appreciate the sentiment of\n  Dickens, \u2018I love these little people, and it is not a slight\n  thing when they, so fresh from God, love us.\u2019\n\n  \u201cJuly 3d was \u2018Graduates\u2019 Day.\u2019 The class of nine girls and one\n  boy furnished music sufficient for the occasion, both in quantity\n  and quality. Lessons with children, one on composition and one\n  on number, conducted by two of the graduates, constituted a\n  novel feature in the programme, and showed something of the\n  methods of teaching employed in the institute. By permutations\n  and combinations almost _ad infinitum_ on the numeral frame, the\n  children learned the \u2018Table of Sevens,\u2019 if they had never heard\n  of it before; and the fact that \u2018reproduction\u2019 without credit to\n  the author is plain stealing, was faithfully impressed upon the\n  young mind. One of the graduating girls made a strong argument in\n  the negative upon the question, \u2018Should Young Men take a College\n  Course?\u2019 The simplicity and self-possession of the graduates were\n  very pleasing. So also were their fine articulation and musical\n  voices. A little more volume, however, would not have been\n  offensive, and would have filled the hall better.\n\n  \u201cPrizes were distributed by the Rev. Mr. Patton and the Rev. Mr.\n  Dunton, and diplomas were presented by Prof. Chase, of Atlanta.\n\n  \u201cThe 4th was \u2018Alumni Day,\u2019 and, despite all the attractions at\n  the Battery, the hall was well filled. The exercises consisted\n  of addresses, essays, recitations and songs, all by members of\n  the class. \u2018Independence Day\u2019 afforded some stimulus to the\n  occasion, and called forth some of the sentiments and feelings\n  of the emancipated race, but revealed no sign of bitterness or\n  malice. The orderly conduct, dignified demeanor, literary merit\n  and good elocution of the day, evinced that \u2018Avery\u2019s children\u2019\n  are an honor to their foster parent, the American Missionary\n  Association, and to their native State and city. Two or three\n  hours spent in discussing \u2018viands that tickle the palate\u2019 and\n  in social converse, reviving memories of past school-day life,\n  terminated the three days of closing exercises at Avery Normal\n  Institute.\n\n  \u201cThe teachers and pupils were gratified by the presence of some\n  of the well-known and respectable residents of the city.\u201d\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nOgeechee\u2014Changes for the Better\u2014Saving Souls and Saving Money.\n\nREV. JOHN R. MCLEAN, PASTOR.\n\nWe have a good Sunday-school. It is not so large as it might be;\nbut the children, and all who attend, are getting thoughts of the\nBible that they can get nowhere else around here. And it is making\na great change with the old people, as well as with the children.\nThe other schools hold the children by giving them cake and candy;\nI hold them by giving them Bible truth. I find that it has more\npower over them for good than all the cake and candy that can be\ngiven them. The children act better on the Sabbath than they did\nwhen I first came here. I can see a great change.\n\nThe church is doing, I think, quite well. It takes a steady, but\nslow, patient and faithful work, to lead a people out who are so\nfar in the dark as these have been. I can see a manifest desire on\nthe part of the members to do better than they have been doing, and\neven better than the members of other churches.\n\nLast Sabbath was our Communion-day, and I never was in a more\nlovely meeting in my life. We had no one to join (for the first\ntime, I think, since I have been here), though there were three or\nfour who had been received some time before, but were not able to\nbe out on that day so as to join. Some of the churches that only\nhad preaching once in the month, have it now every Sabbath, since\nthey see that we have it every Sabbath.\n\nI know of no place in the South where the colored people get so\nmuch money for labor as they do here. But they don\u2019t save any money\nat all; they get it, and it is gone, and they cannot see what they\ngot for it. I am trying to induce our members to save their money,\nand buy for themselves homes; but it is hard to get them to do\nthis, like almost everything else that is right and for their own\ngood.\n\nI know the Lord has blessed me greatly in my work, for which I am\nthankful. Pray for us at this place.\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\n\nA Surprise Party\u2014A Church well Organized\u2014Burrell School.\n\nMR. E. C. SILSBY, SELMA.\n\nBrother Noble mentions a surprise party in Montgomery. I can\nrefer to an occurrence somewhat similar here. Last fall, during\nthe time that we were without a pastor, Brother Callen, of the\nchurch, filled the pulpit. His labors were faithfully performed,\nand our \u201cLadies\u2019 Society\u201d determined to give him a \u201cpound donation\nparty.\u201d The \u201cTeachers\u2019 Home\u201d was decided upon as the place, and\nthe members of the church were quite eager to bestow upon him some\nslight testimonial, indicating their appreciation of his Christian\ncharacter and faithfulness. It was a complete surprise to him, and\nthe articles contributed were opportune, although \u201cpounded\u201d at him.\n\nOne of the most encouraging features of our church is the \u201cLadies\u2019\nSociety,\u201d which holds a prayer-meeting every Sabbath afternoon,\nand a sewing society every fortnight. At these prayer-meetings the\ngirls and young ladies of the church are frequently put forward\nto lead, and thus are educated to Christian work. The older and\nyounger ladies are also brought more nearly together, and made to\nrealize more fully a common interest in the cause of Christ. An\naccount of this meeting has been given in the MISSIONARY, and, by\nthis means, a very pleasant correspondence has grown up between the\nsociety here and one at Dedham, Mass. The ladies at Dedham sent\ntheir greetings and sympathy, and encouraged and helped us with\ntheir prayers. It has been a blessing to both societies. Hearing of\nthe efforts of our ladies to purchase matting for the aisles of our\nchurch, they generously rendered assistance, and the matting has\nbeen laid.\n\nOne interesting and instructive feature of our work is that of the\nCommittee on Missionary Intelligence. This committee was organized\nduring the pastorate of Brother Pope. Its work is to present at\ntimes reports of missions in this and other lands. On the occasion\nof this presentation the attention is certain to be fixed, and the\nmatter of the papers is discussed for sometime afterwards.\n\nFour new members have been received on profession; two heads of\nfamilies and two young people. One has been received by letter.\nOne of those uniting on profession\u2014a man\u2014had long been the subject\nof prayer by a wife, mother, sister, son and other friends, but at\nlast the stubborn heart has yielded, and he is free.\n\nThe \u201cMinisterial Association,\u201d formed last year, and consisting\nof the ministers from the various colored churches, has been\nholding its meetings this year. The association meets at the study\nor residence of each pastor, in turn. The time of the meeting is\noccupied in discussing doctrines, presenting plans of sermons,\nand deciding upon practical subjects to present to their various\ncongregations.\n\nThe Sabbath-school still continues in interest, and is growing in\nstrength. I well remember that, a few years ago, when the Northern\nteachers who were laboring in the Sabbath-school went home for\ntheir vacation, we with difficulty secured a few to take their\nplaces; but now, superintendent, organist and teachers could be\nsecured from resident members of the school.\n\nThe church is now in charge of Brother A. J. Headen, a student from\nthe Theological Department of Talladega College.\n\nI will add that the interest in Burrell School is not diminishing.\nThe school was never so far advanced in studies before, and for\nthe coming year the prospect is good for having quite a number\nof advanced pupils. We seem to be keeping a hold upon our older\npupils. I have a class of them in one study this summer. Some are\nbecoming very proficient in vocal music, singing by note.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAnniversary of Trinity School\u2014A Grateful People.\n\nREV. HORACE J. TAYLOR, ATHENS.\n\nThe thirteenth anniversary of the commencement of Trinity School\noccurred on the 28th of last May. On the Sabbath previous the\nanniversary sermon was preached by the pastor. The scholars had\nprepared themselves for the exercises of Tuesday evening. At the\nappointed hour the church was full of a bright-faced throng of old\nand young. A class of little girls, dressed in white, stood on each\nside of the broad central aisle; and as Miss Wells (who begun the\nschool May 28th, 1865) advanced, they spread flowers in her way.\nShe was conducted to her seat, which was covered with flowers. The\nexercises consisted of speeches, compositions, and music. One old\nman\u2014Uncle Dennis Collier\u2014said he was very grateful to Miss Wells\nfor what she had done for him. He was blind, and couldn\u2019t learn to\nread, but his \u201cwife was the grandmother of sixty-six children,\u201d and\nhe doubtless felt that he had through them received a full share\nof the benefits of the school. She had done him favors, he said,\n\u201cand if you want to know what kind of favors, here\u2019s one of \u2019em,\u201d\nas he vigorously shook his coat. Then the offerings of flowers were\nbrought forward, and it seemed as if Miss Wells would be buried in\nthe mass of roses, lilies, magnolias, etc.\n\nThese anniversaries do the people good, and enable them to look\nback and compare their condition in May, 1865, with their present\ncondition, and to learn more forcibly what it is that is lifting\nthem up.\n\nSchool closed on the 28th of June. The examinations were on the\nafternoons of the 25th, 26th, and 27th. The schoolrooms were\ncrowded with people from the neighborhood; they were of every\nshade from black to white, but all \u201ccolored.\u201d All the classes were\nexamined, from the little \u201ctots\u201d to those in grammar, analysis, and\nalgebra. The examinations showed patient drill on the part of the\nteachers, and generally work on that of the scholars.\n\nFriday afternoon and evening\u2014the 28th\u2014occurred the exhibition.\nCompositions, declamations, orations and music instructed and\namused the audience till well along to midnight. All were pleased\nand edified. The colored people remember that, before the war,\nthey sometimes went to anniversaries and exhibitions of the white\npeople, but now they can attend those of their own.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA Gospel Ship.\n\nREV. PETER. J. MCINTOSH, PASTOR, ANNISTON.\n\nThe church building stood unoccupied about one year after the\nstudents of Talladega Theological Class, under the direction of\nRev. H. E. Brown, had ceased to work upon it. Mr. Albert Brown and\nJ. R. McLean, students at Talladega, labored to organize a church\nhere, but the denominational prejudice was so great that they both\nwere compelled to give up in despair.\n\nI came to this place in April, 1875. My first sermon was preached\nto a benevolent society, which assembled in the church building.\nThe society numbered about 100 members. You can imagine how\nearnestly I plead with my heavenly Father that He might give me a\nplace in the hearts of these people. I preached from 1 Cor. xiii,\n13, dwelling largely upon charity, interpreted love. I see before\nme to-day those faces which were indexes to so many prejudiced\nminds, as they commenced to show approval of my discourse. At\nthe close of the services, I asked the people if they would meet\nme here in this house and take part in carrying on a series of\nmeetings, two weeks from that time. They said they would.\n\nOn my arrival at the church at the appointed time for the meetings\nto begin, I found the church crowded to its utmost capacity. We\nheld meetings for one week, which resulted in the conversion of\nsix persons, and the willingness of three others to join with\nme in the formation of a church. Rev. H. E. Brown came up from\nTalladega, and, on the 23rd of May, 1875, assisted by the Methodist\nminister of the white church of this place, organized the First\nCongregational Church of Anniston. With these nine members (all\nheads of families) I took charge of the church, being elected by\nthem as pastoral supply. I preached here once in every two weeks,\nand pursued my studies at Talladega.\n\nDuring my absence, Brother A. J. Logan took charge of the church\nservices, and conducted them as faithfully as any one could have\ndone under the same circumstances. (He was one of the converts).\nWith these means, we set sail on the ocean of God\u2019s eternal power.\nWe drifted on until we reached October, 1875, at which time we took\non board nine more passengers for glory. We again set sail with the\neighteen passengers on board. By October, 1876, finding that we\nnumbered forty-two, we deemed it expedient to stop over, and thank\nGod for bringing us so far on our journey towards the heavenly\nJerusalem.\n\nIt would have inspired every reader of this article to have heard\nthe words of thanksgiving and rejoicing, and to have seen the\nsympathizing tears, as they stole silently down the cheeks of those\nwho had previously opposed the work here on account of its name and\nobscure history to the colored people. Permit me to say just here\nthat many of the aristocratic whites of our village took part in\nthe above-stated exercises.\n\nWe anchored here for some time, making repairs and casting\noverboard all who were diseased with intemperance and other\nmaladies, which are so common to those who are not willing to\nresist the devil.\n\nWe rejoiced that the great Physician of souls had so wonderfully\npreserved all of our number except six. One had taken the ship of\ntime, and sailed into eternity on the 26th of November, 1876\u2014\u201cPeace\nbe to his ashes\u201d; three took leave for other churches; thus leaving\nus thirty-two passengers for the next tour.\n\nAfter repairing all things needful, we set sail again, with a full\nsupply of _love_, _truth_ and _mercy_. We landed in the midst of\na glorious revival, in September, 1877. Here we took on board\nnineteen passengers more, and one on the 7th day of July, 1878.\n\nA few days ago the church committee took account of stock, and\nfound that we have on board the gospel ship fifty-two _soldiers of\nthe Cross_, varying in age from thirteen to sixty, all of whom are\nready for the next tour, upon which we expect to start out on the\nsecond Sabbath in September, 1878.\n\nWe have in our community some of the finest colored people in the\nState of Alabama, most of whom are absolute strangers to Christ. We\nmost humbly solicit a petition in the prayers of each one who reads\nthis article.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI.\n\nGrenada.\n\n[_Extracts from, the Grenada Sentinel of June 29th._]\n\nA representative of the _Sentinel_ witnessed the closing exercises\non Friday night, the 21st inst., of one of our colored schools,\nunder the management of Miss Anna Harwood and Miss Carrie Segur,\nwhich was an exhibition most creditable to both teachers and\npupils, receiving praises from all who attended. The audience was\nvery large, among whom we noticed quite a number of prominent\nwhite citizens, both ladies and gentlemen. The call for order,\naccompanied with the request for good behavior, and that there\nshould be no talking or stamping of feet, was, considering the\nimmense throng which filled the church, well observed, and we\ndoubt not that all went away pleased and highly gratified with the\nexhibition. The exercises were commenced with an opening chorus,\nentitled, \u201cHold the Fort,\u201d which was followed with prayer, by Elder\nJ. D. Williams. The declamations, dialogues, songs, etc., were all\nvery fairly rendered, and, in several instances, worthy of special\nmention.\n\nThat the teachers deserve not only the congratulations of the\npatrons of the school, but the encouragement and kindest regards\nof every lover and promoter of education in our community, we\nthink all who were present, at least, will agree. That the colored\npeople are progressing, and that rapidly, too, in an educational\npoint of view, is a fact beyond any doubt, we will venture to say,\nin the minds of those who have given the subject even a casual\ninvestigation. We are impressed with the idea that our people in\ngeneral have not yet given to this system of free education that\nreflection to which it is so richly entitled. But we are also\nimpressed with its growing favor, and the importance that will be\nattached to the institution at no distant day. It is not only our\nduty, but we should endeavor to make it our pleasure to encourage,\nimprove and build up our free schools.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nKENTUCKY.\n\n\nBerea College Commencement.\n\nIn one respect, Commencement at Berea, Ky., is unlike all other\ncolleges. It exhibits, in the centre of a Southern State, the\ncomplete solution of the vexed negro question. In the large\ntabernacle, on the 3d inst., was an audience of _two thousand_\npeople, rich and poor, white and colored, ex-masters and ex-slaves,\nsitting where they could find seats, without distinction, and with\nthe kindest feelings. On the large platform sat in the rear the\nmore advanced students, about half white and half colored; in front\nof them a choir of twenty singers, selected, evidently, with no\nthought of complexion; at the right a brass band of various shades;\nin front of all a score of professional men, with their wives,\namong whom were several colored preachers; outside was a mixed\ncrowd of five hundred or more.\n\nTo this crowd twenty orations and essays were delivered by sixteen\nyoung men and four young ladies, of whom fourteen were white and\nsix colored; and the only manifest thought of color was seen in\nthe fact that one side of the audience was of a darker shade than\nthe other. There was not the least sign of disturbance, nor any\nindication of dissatisfaction with this order of things, though\nmore than two thousand of the audience must have come from regions\noutside of Berea, which is a village of five hundred inhabitants. A\nprominent Southern lawyer remarked that he never witnessed so good\norder in so large a crowd.\n\nThis state of things has been brought about without constraint, in\nthe most natural way imaginable. It was originally a white school,\nbut thoroughly anti slavery. A few months after emancipation, a\ncouple of colored youths were admitted. Half the white students\nleft immediately. But the vacancy was soon filled with colored\nstudents; and eventually the white students returned, and the\ntrouble was over. The whole question seems to turn on the learning\nof one simple lesson\u2014that contiguity with a free man is no more\ndisagreeable than contiguity with a slave. The colors are mixed\nin all Southern society. A little change in the mixture has here\noccurred, and that is all.\n\nThe college campus, in which are all the college buildings except\nthe Ladies\u2019 Hall, consists of forty-five acres covered with\nnative forest trees. Under the shade of these trees, during the\nintermission, two or three hundred groups spread and consumed their\nbasket-dinners. And, in the more retired parts, a thousand horses\nwere sheltered from the burning sun.\n\nThe afternoon exercises consisted of a rousing address by Prof.\nDunn of Hillsdale College, Mich., on the conflicts of civilization,\nand a statement from President Fairchild to the effect that the\nannual number of students is about 275\u2014males, 145; females, 128.\nThirty-one are in the college department, and over a hundred are\nqualified to teach a common-school. Probably sixty or more will\nteach during the long summer vacation.\n\nIt has often been predicted that this school would either become\nall white or all colored; but there seems to be no such tendency.\nThe idea of color seems almost to have passed away. Intellectual\nculture and moral worth determine each man\u2019s position in society.\nIt will be many years before this state of society becomes general;\nbut cheering progress in this direction is very manifest, and not\nso tardy as many suppose.\u2014_Kentucky, in the Congregationalist._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFrankfort.\n\nMISS MATTIE E. ANDERSON, TEACHER.\n\nThe public examination of this school occurred June 13th, and was\none of great pleasure and interest. Each teacher conducted the\nexaminations of her own classes. Parents and friends were highly\ngratified with the very flattering manner in which the young\nladies acquitted themselves. During the year the building has been\nenlarged, and many improvements have been made. The new room was\nopened about the first of March.\n\nThe closing exercises took place at Major Hall, June 19th, and\nconsisted of vocal and instrumental music, essays, declamations,\ntableaux, dialogues and concert exercises.\n\nUpon the stage were seated Rev. Mr. Evans, pastor of the A. M. E.\nChurch; Rev. Mr. Parris, of the Independent Baptist Church. Prayer\nwas offered by Rev. Mr. Evans. The children then sang \u201cAway over\nMountain,\u201d after which Miss Virgin Gatewood came forward and read\nthe Salutatory. The exercises were of more than usual interest,\nand held the audience spell-bound from eight P.M. until twelve M.\nThe Valedictory was read by Miss Mittie Streets, after which \u201cThe\nStar-Spangled Banner\u201d was sung by the children, during which they\nwaved fifty flags in the most patriotic manner. Benediction was\nthen said by Rev. Mr. Martin, pastor of the First Baptist Church.\nThe hall was crowded with people, who seemed perfectly delighted\nwith all they saw and heard. We have received numerous compliments\nfrom the citizens for giving such an interesting entertainment.\nFour of our pupils are now teaching in different localities.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\nMENDI MISSION, GOOD HOPE STATION.\n\nIn Good Health and Good Heart.\n\nREV. ALBERT P. MILLER\n\n\nAfter arriving on the African shores, and reaching our destination\n(Good Hope), we soon decided to proceed at once to work. We had a\nlittle hesitation in so doing, because we knew that we had been\ninstructed otherwise by the Executive Committee. Having been\nassigned to our different posts of duty, we have been pushing\nforward the work, with but little loss of time from sickness, ever\nsince. Brother Jackson had an attack of fever, which scared him\na little, but he soon rallied, and is now again in the field,\nfighting valiantly. I was sick last week, but the trouble soon\npassed away, and I am now walking about, feeling as well as any\nAfrican in this our fatherland. It may be of interest to you, and\nto our many friends in America, to know that our wives have enjoyed\nthus far an unusually good degree of health.\n\nWe know not what the future has in store for us; still do we feel\nthankful to that kind Providence which we have enjoyed since our\ndeparture from \u201cdear old Fisk\u201d and the American shores.\n\nA great deal of the mist that gathered around our vision, in regard\nto Africa and her people, while preparing to leave America, and\nas the steamer bore us away and her land faded until lost in the\ndistance, has since been removed.\n\nThe Americans have a very vague idea of the land of \u201cHam\u201d and her\ndusky sons and daughters, who are now depending on the institutions\nin the South for the story of the Cross.\n\nIf Africa is to be evangelized, as I believe it will be, it must be\ndone through the children of the summer and sunny clime, educated\nand Christianized in the South. You in America can\u2019t see this as\nplainly as one who mingles with this people, and has all chances\nto investigate in regard to this matter. If I could speak to every\ninstitution in the South, I would ask each one of them to be true\nto God and this common cause of humanity, which I would to God\nwould seize all Christendom, so that the many who have for ages sat\nin darkness, might be brought into the light.\n\nThe work here still moves on prosperously in both church and\nschool. Ten or eleven were received at our last Communion into\nthe church, among whom were some of our scholars. We hope to see\nthese develop into strong Christian manhood and womanhood. We have\na great many very promising boys and girls in our school here,\nwho are able to read and speak English very well. In these is our\nhope for a missionary work in Africa, which may expand until the\ninterior shall receive of its influence.\n\nWe have the material on which to work, and we ask our kind\nheavenly Father to help us to shape these young hearts for fields\nof usefulness, which they will have no difficulty in finding if\ninfluenced by right motives. They sing well. The old plantation\nsongs are not without interest here in Africa; I have introduced\nthem into my school.\n\nMay God help you in America in every effort put forth for the\nadvancement of His kingdom.\n\nMay He provide for the wants of the eleemosynary institutions\nplanted in the South for the good of that people and the millions\nof Africa.\n\nMay these institutions foster such young men and women as shall be\nwilling to work for the Master anywhere He may want them. Pray for\nus!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\n\u201cCALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\u201d\n\nAuxiliary to the American Missionary Association.\n\nPRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L.\nStone, D. D., Thomas O. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon.\nF. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S.\nH. Willey, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D.,\nJacob S. Taber, Esq.\n\nDIRECTORS: Rev. George Moor, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. W. E.\nIjams, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, E. P. Sanford,\nEsq., H. W. Severance, Esq.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n\nChina for Christ.\n\nREV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nA venerable Presbyterian minister of New York, to whom we are\nindebted for a generous gift to our mission, writes as follows: \u201cI\nfirmly believe that God in his providence is sending the heathen to\nour doors, _in order that they may carry back the blessed news of\nthe gospel to their own land_; and if we turn them selfishly away,\nHe will surely require their blood at our hands.\u201d\n\nThe truth thus expressed is a chief source of our enthusiasm in our\nChinese mission work. \u201cCHINA FOR CHRIST\u201d is our motto. I wish to\nlay before the readers of the MISSIONARY some of the facts in view\nof which we believe that we do reach China, though we are working\nhere 10,000 miles away.\n\nThere is nothing improbable in the idea. Indeed, it scarcely could\nbe otherwise. Hardly a steamer sails for China that does not carry\none or more of our pupils back to his native land. Most of these\nare heathen still; but they are heathen with their eyes at least\nhalf-opened. These, even, cannot be exactly what they were. But\nmany of them are Christians, as we confidently hope. Will these go\nthere to be silent? When neighbors and friends gather about them,\nto hear the accounts they have to give of things in the Sunrise\nLand, will they forget to tell of the Saviour they have found? I\ndo not believe it would be possible. The message to which they\nhave listened will be as a fire in their bones, and they will\nfeel that they must bear it on. Letters, too, are passing back\ncontinually; and these are not empty of gospel. A missionary at\nCanton writes me that the mother of one of our brethren lives near\nhis mission-house. \u201cShe enjoys the money he remits, but is not\npleased with his urging her to be a Christian.\u201d I hear incidentally\nthat the parents of another of our brethren have been visiting all\nthe shrines near them, and, with wailings and prayers, have placed\ntheir votive offerings where they thought they would do good,\nhoping that thus he would be won back from Christian heresy to\ntheir ancestral orthodoxy. What passes here in this regard is not\nunknown at the old Chinese homesteads; and what is known is felt.\n\nBut we ought not to be content with these spontaneous and sporadic\noperations. We do not rise to the height of our great opportunity\nwhile we leave this thing to work itself. It ought to _be worked_\nenergetically, systematically. Never was battery better placed\nfor storming a stronghold than we are here, for pouring shot, hot\nwith the love of Christ, into that empire-fortress of selfishness\nand superstition across the sea; but we need heavier guns, more\nammunition, and a truer aim.\n\nAbout four years ago, Wong Min died at Canton. He was spoken of\nafter his death as \u201cthe distinguished native pastor of the Baptist\nChurch in Canton.\u201d It was said that, in the absence of American\nmissionaries, he had carried the pastoral care of three Baptist\nchurches, and all were flourishing. Wong Min was converted at\nSacramento, in this State. Returning to his native land, he began\nto tell in the streets and elsewhere the good news of redeeming\nlove. His work attracted the attention of Baptist missionaries,\nand they took him into regular mission work. He had been at it\nmore than twenty years when the Master called him higher. But he\nhas left a son walking in his father\u2019s steps\u2014a preacher of great\npromise. Why have we not by this time sent back to China a hundred\nWong Mins? It might have been done; it ought to have been done. How\nlarge the blessing if it had been done! We are verily guilty in\nthis matter.\n\nYou will think me extravagant. \u201cOne hundred,\u201d you say, \u201cis a large\nnumber; it would be a large proportion of the whole number reported\nas converted in California from the beginning of missionary effort\nto the present time.\u201d I know it; but I do not flinch. It could have\nbeen done, and the doing of it would have reacted on the work here,\nand helped us to larger harvesting.\n\n1. I observe that our Christian Chinese have a strong desire to\ndo this work. One of them once wrote me as follows: \u201cIn China,\nthose who live in the villages don\u2019t know Jesus and never heard\nof Him. I am sorry I cannot go home. If I could fly I would go\nhome immediately, and tell how good and how kind Jesus is. Then\nI think they would all learn to love Him also. I want all our\npeople in China to be Christian, and our mothers and sisters and\nfriends to get the key, so they will go to heaven when they die.\u201d\nI shall never forget the joy that shone in the face of our Jee\nGam when he told me, a few months since, that a mission had been\nestablished near his home. Soon after, I found him writing for\nother eyes than mine\u2014\u201cOh, how glad I feel whenever I think of this\nmission-house in my own beloved district. How much I am indebted to\nthe ever-living and merciful Father for sending these missionaries\nthere!\u201d In expressions like these, these brethren represent the\nalmost universal feeling among our Chinese believers\u2014not from San\nFrancisco and Oakland alone, but from San Leandro, from Petaluma,\nfrom Santa Barbara, from Stockton. As conversions are reported,\nthere comes again and again the suggestion that such or such a one\nwants to learn how to preach the Gospel in his native land.\n\n2. They are doing this thing now. The missionary sent to Jee\nGam\u2019s district was converted in California. The story is full of\ninterest, and I give it in Jee Gam\u2019s own words. It illustrates well\nthe truth I wish to state on more sides than one: \u201cSix years ago,\na Chinese fortune-teller, while in California, heard a Chinese\nmissionary speaking to a crowd of his countrymen on the subject\nof superstition. His heart was deeply touched. Not long after he\nwent home, and at once commenced to build a house for his family,\nwithout going to an appointer of days to ask him to select a lucky\nday to begin upon. And so his friends and relatives told him that\nhe must have a day selected before he put a single man to work,\nor his house could never be built to stand, or somebody would be\nkilled by evil spirits before the house was completed. He told his\nfriends that he had done with that superstition, and that he would\nkeep on building. Finding they could not persuade him, they left,\nsaying they would have no more to do with him, for he had become\na foreigner. Then he was not only despised by these friends, but\nby every one who lived in that village. They said the evil spirits\nwould soon take his life, or some great trouble would surely\nvisit his family. Finally, his house was completed. He moved in\nand lived in perfect safety. People then began to wonder why the\nevil spirits did not visit this house. Some said they were busy\nelsewhere; but others said they must have gone away, and, on their\nreturn, they would cause this home and this obstinate family to be\ndesolated. So they waited, but in vain; for this man prospered,\nand in due time, in that very house, a son was born to him. When,\nnow, the people saw the joy of this household, they said one to\nanother, \u2018He must have worshipped the foreign God, and so the\nspirits dare not touch him.\u2019 He came back to California and went\nto fortune-telling again. This time he determined to learn more\nof Christ, and every opportunity he could find he attended the\nChinese meeting, and searched for truth by reading the Bible. He\nwas finally converted, gave up his profession, and was baptized by\nRev. Mr. Loomis. He then went home the second time, and studied\nat Rev. Dr. Happer\u2019s mission in Canton, where he was fitted to be\na very able missionary, for he had a very good Chinese education\nbefore he became a Christian. When he got through his studies,\nhe was sent to a large city, not far from his own home. There he\nlabored successfully for about two years, and he had been the means\nof converting a number of his countrymen, among whom was one of\nhis villagers, a professor of Confucius. He was on his way to a\ncounty examination; he visited the chapel where this missionary\nwas preaching, not that he might learn about Jesus, but merely for\ncuriosity. But the Lord\u2019s design was otherwise. He sent him there\nto be converted by the Holy Spirit, and fitted for the great work\nwhich He intended to assign him.\n\n\u201cAfter his conversion, this missionary and a delegate were sent to\nvisit Chuck Hum, a city about six miles from my home. When they\nreached there, great was their surprise to learn that a man named\nQuan Lang, who lived close by, had been Christianized in Australia,\nand had been preaching there, in the open air, for the last three\nmonths. They searched and found him earnest in the faith, glad and\nanxious to join himself with these missionaries. They consulted\ntogether about opening a chapel there. Then they wrote Dr. Happer\nabout it. He consented, and they began. But oh, what a hard time\nthey met! Opposition came upon them from every side. Even the whole\ncity firmly united against them. After violent persecution, the\ngovernor was consulted. He sent proclamations to the head man of\nthe city and the judge of the district, commanding protection to\nhis person and property. Then this missionary could have as many\npolice officers to protect him as he pleased. They even became\nburdensome to him, and he had to dismiss them. When the chapel was\ndedicated, it was crowded to its utmost capacity.\u201d This brings\nthe story down to the present time. The work in that district, it\nwill be perceived, was begun by an Australian convert, and is now\ncarried on by one from California.\n\nTwo of our Oakland brethren, Joe Jet and Lee Sam, have recently\nreturned to China, and intend to commence at once their studies at\na mission-school, in order to preach the Gospel. One of our San\nLeandro brethren, Jee Wee, started for China last October, and\nhas just returned. On the westward voyage he fell in with some\nmissionary families and a Chinese evangelist. The result was that\nat once, on reaching Canton, he began evangelistic work, opening a\nroom for the distribution of Bibles, and preaching. He encountered\nopposition and persecution at first, but, on application at\nheadquarters, was protected in the same manner with those of whom\nJee Gam writes above. The crowds that listened sometimes numbered\n300 or 400. More than twenty were hopefully converted, his own\nfather and mother being among them. Another Lee Sam, who returned\nto China about three years ago, and who, though a Christian, had\nnot at the time he left us been baptized, in his first letter\nto his brethren here, told of the conversion of his brother, an\neducated man and a sort of college professor, to whom he had been\nspeaking of the way of life.\n\nWe have lost sight of this Lee Sam, of Lui Chung, also, a most\nhopeful convert and Christian worker, whom I ought to have retained\nin California, and many others likewise. It is not strange that\nthis should be. Indeed, it could not be otherwise. We, 10,000 miles\ndistant, could not possibly follow them, save with our prayers. But\nthey ought to be followed, and nurtured and edified. And not only\nthat, but set at work, as light-givers and soul-savers, where-ever\nthey go.\n\nIt is easy to see that a Chinese, returning to his native land\nfrom California, would be likely to have special advantages for\ndoing missionary work. In the first place, by a process of natural\nselection, they are picked men. It is not the dullards or the\ndrones that undertake to cross the Pacific, and make their way\nto fortune in a land so strange to them as this. And by the same\nprocess it is, again, among those who come, the picked men that\nenter our schools. The great mass do not care enough about learning\nto follow up each hard day\u2019s work with two hours of evening study.\nThose that come do care, and care so much that they brave bitter\nreproaches in coming, from those whom they leave behind.\n\nThen, besides the limited education which they are able to get in\nour schools, there is an unconscious education, which they _must_\nbe, all the while, unconsciously receiving, as they breathe the\nair of a free and Christian land. Their views are broadened; the\nold crusted conservatism is broken; and they can speak out, with a\nforce and an authority which, it seems to me, no Chinese who had\nnever left his native district could possibly use.\n\nThen, there cannot but be an interest gathering about them, as\nhaving been in \u201cthe land of the golden mountains.\u201d They have the\nstory of this to begin with where-ever they go; they gather a crowd\nby means of it; they gain attention; and the gospel of Christ\nwill come in after it as easily as if it belonged\u2014as, indeed, it\ndoes\u2014to the very theme.\n\nNow, what have I to propose? It is this: We ought to have a mission\nat Hong Kong. It ought to be in close, vital relationship with our\nCalifornia Mission. It ought to be at Hong Kong, because there our\nsteamers land their passengers, and from that point our brethren\nscatter. Most of them do not enter Canton at all. We ought to have,\nthen, at least one American missionary\u2014not necessarily a great\nman, but a man of earnest piety and business capacity, and sound\ncommon sense\u2014a man who would give to his mission the atmosphere,\nwhich, I am sure, our brethren recognize in the mission here, of\nChristian kindliness and brotherly love\u2014not that of a condescending\nbenevolence, but that of a hearty Christian brotherhood.\n\nHe ought to meet every converted Chinese\u2014at least, from our own\nmission (others, if they are willing)\u2014and take him home to his\nmission-house; find out his destination, and arrange to keep track\nof him, and make use of him as an errand-bearer for Christ. And we,\non our part, ought to be raising up and sending men who, educated\neither here or in China, may give themselves, under direction of\nthis missionary, to district gospel work.\n\nSo far forth, I am confident. It is no new thought with me, and, in\nproposing it, I feel that I am walking on solid ground. I feel that\nI speak in God\u2019s name when I say this ought, forthwith, to be done.\nWhether the proposed mission should be sustained by the A. M. A.,\nor by the American Board; whether more than one efficient American\nmissionary will ever be needed; what sort of mission work he should\ngo about in Hong Kong itself\u2014concerning these and other matters of\ndetail, any suggestion I could make would be crude, and, likely\nenough, mistaken. But the proposal itself, as to its essentials, I\nstand in no doubt about, and I ask the prayers and co-operation of\nall who love Christ and souls, that it may be speedily fulfilled.\n\nLet me add, as if by postscript, that a Chinese brother, Wun Ching\nKi, a member of one of the London Missionary Society\u2019s churches at\nCanton, who is in business at Hong Kong, has been doing something\nin the line above marked out; has kindly welcomed and aided our\nbrethren on their arrival; has suggested that, in that English city\nof Hong Kong, mission work among the Chinese could be conducted\nmost successfully, upon the very plan which we use here; and is\nvery desirous himself to send native preachers into the neglected\ninterior districts, asking whether our Chinese brethren here could\nnot help him so to do. The emphatic testimony which these bear\nto his good judgment and general efficiency, as well as to his\nChristian character, makes both the work he has done, and the work\nhe wants to do, confirm my confidence in the suggestion I have made.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n\n  We make the following extracts from letters of Mr. A. E. White,\n    one of our missionaries to Africa, to his former teachers at\n    Hampton Institute:\n\nI have just returned from the Shangay Mission, where I have been\nfor near two weeks (this mission is carried on by the United\nBrethren of Ohio.) The brother there sent for me to come and spend\nsome time with him, and to give him some advice in regard to his\nwork while I was there. This mission is on the mainland, and one\ncan see more of the habits of the people than he can here. When\ntheir children have gotten up to be two or three years old they\nsend them to the bush, called the Purroo and Bundoo. The Purroo is\nthe place where they send the boys, and the Bundoo where they send\nthe girls. They keep them there for a good many years, and cut on\ntheir backs the shape of a hamper-basket, and teach them the use\nof the country medicines and the way of worshipping the heathen\u2019s\ngods, and all the heathen\u2019s habits. If a man wants to marry, he\ncan go to the Bundoo Bush and pay eight pieces of cloth, of two\nyards each, and take any girl he wants. After these boys have spent\nall the time which the chief says they must spend in the bush,\nthey come out and go to whatever trade they have learned. Some are\ndoctors, others teachers, and some are farmers. The doctors go\naround with their medicine, and sell it at a very high price; and\nwhen they attend the sick they carry a board about one foot long\nand nine inches wide, with a bottle of ink and brush. On this board\nthey write, and then wash the ink off and give it to the sick to\ndrink. Then they have various things to sell to keep away sickness\nand to give good luck. These children are taught all kinds of vice,\nand they think it is right\u2014such things as lying and stealing. They\nare very easy to teach, and they put a great deal of faith in the\nperson who teaches them, and whatever they are taught they believe.\nSo one can see that the hope of this country lies in the children.\nIt is a hard thing to get a heathen to turn from his god; and I\nbelieve you can only do this by prayer. The missionaries who want\nto do anything must use the weapon of prayer. The chief of Shangay\nis an educated man; he spent eight years in the high school of\nEngland. When you find one of the heathen educated, he is ten times\nworse than an uneducated one. This man was taken up and sent to\nEngland and educated there. If he had been trained under some good\nmissionary, he might have been of use to the country.\n\nI have given the school to Mr. Miller, one of the new comers, and\nI have taken other work. We had an examination, and all the people\nseemed to be pleased. We had, also, pieces recited on the stage,\nand a dinner for the children and the friends of the school. The\npeople said that they never saw anything of the kind in Africa\nbefore. I think now we have about 140 pupils that are coming. We\ndon\u2019t have that many any one day, but they are in attendance. I\nhave some fine boys in school, and one whom I want to send to\nHampton next fall, if I can find a place there for him, and some\none to help me pay for his board. Please ask the General if he can\nhave a place there? He is the boy who has been with me since I have\nbeen here, and I have taken him and want to do all I can to educate\nhim.\n\nLast Sunday was the happiest day I have seen for many. We had\nthirteen new members to unite with the church\u2014twelve on profession;\nand one who once was a member, and was shut out when the church was\nclosed, came back and united the second time. And of this number,\nsix were members of my Bible-class\u2014four were my best boys, as I\ncall them, and two I own as the fruits of my own labor. The young\nman whom I have already written you about was one. He has been\ntrying ever since his brother became a Christian on the ship, and\nat last has made up his mind to follow Christ. You can imagine how\nI felt to see all these\u2014my boys\u2014standing up acknowledging Christ to\nbe their Saviour. There was another of my class to unite with us,\nbut he was sick and could not. I hope he will be able by the next\nCommunion-day.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR JULY, 1878.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $153.75.\n\n    Cumberland Centre. O. S. T. 50c.; E. J. 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Central Ch. and Soc.                                14.36\n    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          55.31\n    Marlborough. Union Cong. Sab. Sch.                        10.00\n    Medway. ESTATE of Clarissa A. Pond, by A.\n      Pond, Ex.                                              145.00\n    Melrose. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      31.42\n    Methuen. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         10.34\n    Middlebury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            37.68\n    Middleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             10.00\n    Milford. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  24.22\n    Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $57.88; M.\n      D. Garfield $5.\u2014First Cong. Soc., bbl. of\n      C., _for Atlanta, Ga._                                  62.88\n    Needham. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch.                             4.65\n    New Bedford. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. $100.01;\n      First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30                           130.01\n    Newburyport. Henry Lunt                                    5.00\n    Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         137.66\n    Newton Centre. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Mrs. Furber, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                50.00\n    North Adams. Cong. Ch.                                    27.90\n    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.               100.00\n    Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. ($30 of which from E.\n      B. Wheaton, to const. ELIZA R. BEANE L. M.)             38.00\n    Orange. Mrs. E. W. M.                                      1.00\n    Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          23.48\n    Plymouth. Church of the Pilgrimage                        44.16\n    Quincy. Even. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          54.00\n    Reading. Bethesda Ch. and Soc.                            45.00\n    Salem. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. $65.77; \u201cA\n      Friend\u201d $10                                             75.77\n    Sandwich. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 10.00\n    South Deerfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       15.00\n    South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch.                            8.11\n    Spencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      J. W. BOWERS, CHAS. H. JOHNSON and WM. G.\n      MUZZY L. M.\u2019s                                          115.21\n    Templeton. Trin. Ch. and Soc.                             20.39\n    Upton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30, to const. LYMAN\n      L. LELAND L. M.; Cong. Sab. Sch. $4.60; Mrs.\n      E. F. S. $1                                             35.60\n    West Barnstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.00\n    West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      MYRON W. SHERMAN L. M.                                  32.56\n    Wellesley. Cong. Sab. Sch. $25; College Miss.\n      Soc. $2                                                 27.00\n    West Medway. Cyrus Adams                                  10.00\n    West Roxbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          73.63\n    Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         21.68\n    Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.                             15.12\n    Wilmington. Mrs. Noyes, box of C. and $2.70,\n      _for freight, for Wilmington, N.C._;\n      \u201cFriend\u201d $1                                              3.70\n    Winchendon. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     5.00\n    Woburn. J. P. M.                                           0.50\n    Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $49.05, and\n      bbl. of C.                                              49.05\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $879.87.\n\n    Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             45.00\n    Providence. Union Cong. Ch.                              734.87\n    Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch.                         100.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $3,145.27.\n\n    Bennington. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                              5.00\n    Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                   9.00\n    Bethel. Cong. Ch.                                         20.22\n    Bristol. O. C.                                             1.00\n    Ellsworth. Cong. Ch.                                       9.00\n    Fairfield. \u2014\u2014                                              5.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                     56.79\n    Gilead. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. L. Brown                        5.00\n    Goshen. Sarah Beach, to const. JOHN BEACH and\n      JOSEPH BEACH L. M\u2019s.                                    60.00\n    Greenfield. Cong. Ch.                                      9.00\n    Greenville. Cong. Ch.                                     37.75\n    Guilford. Mrs. Lucy E. Tuttle $50; First Cong.\n      Ch. and Soc. $24                                        74.00\n    Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford $50; Jos. W.\n      Hungerford $50; Cong. Sab. Sch. $20.40                 120.40\n    Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               20.00\n    Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch. $92; South\n      Cong. Ch. $50                                          142.00\n    Hebron. Mrs. Jasper Porter, _for Woman\u2019s Work\n      among Women_                                            25.00\n    Kent. First Cong. Soc.                                    19.53\n    Manchester. First Cong. Ch.                               15.00\n    Meriden. First Cong. Ch.                                  34.08\n    Middletown. First Ch.                                     19.75\n    Morris. K. Goodwin                                        10.00\n    New Haven. Church of the Redeemer $164; O. A.\n      Dorman $100; Dwight Place Cong. Ch. and Soc.\n      $83; \u201cA Friend in a Time of Need\u201d $50;\n      Taylor Ch. $6.50                                       403.50\n    North Guilford. S. R. Fowler $6; \u201cA Friend\u201d $2             8.00\n    North Madison. Cong. Ch.                                   9.00\n    Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch., in part                     200.00\n    Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                                   10.09\n    Orange. Mrs. E. E. Rogers                                 10.00\n    Portland. Miss Maria White                                 2.00\n    Prospect. ESTATE of David W. Hotchkiss, by\n      Hervey D. Hotchkiss, Ex.                             1,000.00\n    Rocky Hill. Cong. Ch.                                     17.10\n    Salisbury. Cong. Ch.                                      35.30\n    Terryville. Elizur Fenn and Mrs. Elizur Fenn\n      $5 ea.                                                  10.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      72.76\n    Torrington. ESTATE of Henry Colt, by H. G.\n      Colt, Ex.                                              500.00\n    Union. Rev. Samuel I. Curtiss                             10.00\n    Washington. Mrs. Rebecca Hine (of which $30 to\n      const. LIZZIE J. POND L. M.)                            45.00\n    Watertown. Truman Percy, to const. MISS HATTIE\n      E. PERCY L. M.                                          30.00\n    West Killingly. Westfield Cong. Ch. and Soc.              75.00\n    Winsted. Mrs. M. A. Mitchell                              10.00\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $876.49.\n\n    Brooklyn. A. Merwin $10; Church of the\n      Covenant, M. C. Coll. $4.00; Mrs. T. C. F. $1           15.00\n    Camillus. Isaiah Wilcox                                   30.00\n    Dryden. H. B. W.                                           0.50\n    East Wilson. Rev. H. Halsey $30; C. M. Clark $3           33.00\n    Evans. Mrs. R. P. R. C.                                    1.00\n    Gloversville. Cong. Soc. $269.92 (of which $50\n      from Mrs. U. M. Place, _for the debt_), to\n      const. MRS. SETH C. BURTON, ASHLEY D. L.\n      BAKER, JOHN L. GETMAN and CYRUS STEWART L.\n      M\u2019s.                                                   219.92\n    Lenox. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. $19.18; Amos S.\n      Johnson $5                                              24.18\n    Leyden. ESTATE of Mrs. Amanda K. Merwin, by\n      Hon. M. H. Merwin, Ex.                                 200.00\n    Livonia. ESTATE of Mrs. Susan Fowler, by Rev.\n      S. M. Day                                              124.62\n    Lysander. N. Hart                                          5.00\n    Marion. \u201cA Few Friends,\u201d by M. M. Heslor, bal.\n      to const. MRS. HATTIE A. DEWOLF L. M.                    5.00\n    Newburgh. Miss E. I. P.                                    0.50\n    New York. Mrs. J. A. V. A.                                 0.75\n    Owasco. Mrs. A. S.                                         0.50\n    Parishville. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      5.73\n    Poughkeepsie. Cong. Ch.                                   15.22\n    Rensselaer Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      15.00\n    Richville. E. J. S.                                        1.00\n    Riverhead. First Cong. Ch.                                 6.00\n    Rochester. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                             90.50\n    Sherburne. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     20.00\n    Syracuse. \u201cA friend in Plymouth Ch.\u201d $4; A. B.\n      $1, _for Mag._                                           5.00\n    Walton. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                         31.60\n    Warsaw. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   15.47\n    West Groton. Cong. Ch.                                    10.00\n    West Yaphank. H. M. O.                                     1.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $64.70.\n\n    Englewood. C. T.                                           0.50\n    Montclair. First Cong. Ch.                                53.00\n    Newark. \u201cJonah\u201d                                            1.20\n    Raritan. Miss S. Provost                                  10.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $160.\n\n    Hermitage. W. F. Stewart $5; E. P. $1                      6.00\n    Philadelphia. James Smith                                100.00\n    Prentissvale. Mrs. C. B. Lovejoy                           5.00\n    Sharpsburgh. Joseph Turner ($5 of which _for\n      Indian M._)                                             10.00\n    Washington. Dr. F. J. LeMoyne, _for LeMoyne\n      Inst., Memphis, Tenn._                                   9.00\n    West Alexander. Dr. R. Davidson $20; Thomas\n      McCleery $10                                            30.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $943.53.\n\n    Andover. O. B. Case $10; Mrs. O. B. Case $10              20.00\n    Ashland. John Thompson                                     2.28\n    Bellevue. \u201cA Little Band of Cheerful Givers in\n      First Cong. Soc.,\u201d by Mrs. H. L. Berry                  11.30\n    Brownhelm. ESTATE of John Locke, by Cyrus L.\n      Whittlesey, Ex.                                        300.00\n    Cincinnati. Rent, _for the Poor in New\n      Orleans_, $101.17; \u201cA Friend\u201d $5                       106.17\n    Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch.                          21.50\n    Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Ch.                                  9.12\n    Hudson. Hiram Thompson                                    20.00\n    Lodi. Cong. Ch. $6.29; Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc. $1.95            8.24\n    Mesopotamia. Mrs. S. O. Lyman, bal. to const.\n      REV. A. M. PIPES L. M.                                  15.00\n    Oberlin. T. W. W.                                          0.50\n    Painesville. First Cong. Ch. (of which $4.40\n      from Mrs. A. Morley, _for Straight U._)                 50.21\n    Plymouth. ESTATE of Henry Amerman, by A. L.\n      Grimes                                                 359.00\n    Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      7.21\n    Wadsworth. George Lyman                                    5.00\n    Wakeman. Franklin Hale                                     7.00\n    Willoughby. Mrs. N. L.                                     1.00\n\n\n  INDIANA, $130.40.\n\n    Bremen. Cong. Ch.                                          2.00\n    Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch. $7.35, and Sab. Sch.\n      $5.65                                                   13.00\n    Indianapolis. Mayflower Cong. Ch.                          5.25\n    Michigan City. Cong. Ch.                                 110.15\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $625.32.\n\n    Amboy. Cong. Ch.                                          26.85\n    Canton. Cong. Ch.                                         50.00\n    Chesterfield. Cong. Ch.                                   15.00\n    Chicago. Leavitt St. Cong. Ch. $38.13; First\n      Cong. Ch. M. C. Coll. $13.58; Rev. E. H. $1             52.71\n    Clifton. Cong. Ch.                                         6.70\n    Cobden. E. W. Towne                                       10.00\n    Fawn Ridge. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid_                  5.00\n    Galesburg. ESTATE of Warren C. Willard, by\n      Prof. T. R. Willard, Ex.                                 9.55\n    Hutsonville. C. V. Newton                                  2.00\n    Lamoille. Cong. Ch.                                        8.35\n    Lawn Ridge. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               13.00\n    Malden. Cong. S. S.                                        1.00\n    Millburn. Cong. Ch.                                        8.00\n    Moline. Cong. Ch. (in part)                               61.27\n    Oak Park. Cong. Ch. (in part)                             64.75\n    Odell. Mrs. H. E. Dana                                    10.00\n    Peoria. Rev. A. A. Stevens                                10.00\n    Peru. First Cong. Ch.                                     13.22\n    Pittsfield. Cong. Ch.                                     31.00\n    Providence. Cong. Ch.                                     20.26\n    Quincy. First Union Cong. Ch. $28.75; R.\n      McComb $2                                               30.75\n    Rochelle. W. H. Holcombe                                  10.00\n    Rockford. Thomas D. Robertson                             50.00\n    Roseville. Cong. Ch. $6.25; Rev. A. L.\n      Pennoyer and Wife $5                                    11.25\n    Shirland. Mrs. J. G. L.                                    1.00\n    Sycamore. Cong. Ch.                                       85.66\n    Wayne Station. Cong. Ch.                                   5.60\n    Wyanett. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  12.40\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $176.53.\n\n    Adrian. Stephen Allen                                     10.00\n    Alpena. B. C. Hardwick, _for Emerson Inst._               71.10\n    Salem. Cong. Ch.                                           9.00\n    Churches Corners. A. W. D. and others                      1.00\n    Concord. Henry Mann                                        2.00\n    Jackson. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       30.00\n    Lamont. Cong. Ch.                                          3.00\n    Memphis. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Missionary,\n      Memphis, Tenn._                                          3.00\n    Michigan Centre. Centre Cong. Ch.                          3.10\n    Oxford. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for a Missionary,\n      Memphis, Tenn._                                          5.25\n    Portland. Cong. Ch.                                        7.50\n    Richland. J. B.                                            1.00\n    Romeo. \u201cMrs. E. F. F.\u201d $1.50; Mrs. Dr. A. $1:\n      Mrs. D. M. 50c., _for a Missionary, Memphis,\n      Tenn._\u2014M. A. J. 50c                                      3.50\n    Union City. Cong. Ch. (in part)                           22.08\n    Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe                                   5.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $320.13.\n\n    Beloit. First Cong. Ch.                                  130.00\n    Black Earth. Cong. Ch.                                     1.15\n    Geneva Lake. Presb. Ch.                                   15.00\n    Green Bay. First Presb. Ch.                               61.35\n    Oak Grove. Cong. Sab. Sch. $5; Dea. D. Richard\n      $2; Rev. W. E. S. $1                                     8.00\n    Milwaukee. Mrs. E. F. Rice                                10.00\n    Portage City. John Jones No. 4                             2.50\n    Rosendale. Cong. Ch.                                      17.35\n    Waukesha. First Cong. Ch.                                 22.00\n    Wautoma. Cong. Ch.                                         4.28\n    Wawatosa. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                                48.50\n\n\n  IOWA, $205.82.\n\n    Alden. Cong. Ch.                                           7.75\n    Burlington. Mrs. Hannah Everall $5; M. L. $1               6.00\n    Chester Centre. Cong. Ch.                                 32.00\n    College Springs. Cong. Ch.                                 8.60\n    Farragut. Cong. Ch. $6; C. W. H. $1                        7.00\n    Green Mountain. First Cong. Ch.                           31.00\n    Keokuk. Orthodox Cong. Ch.                                55.55\n    Muscatine. Cong. Ch.                                      26.35\n    New Hampton. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.                            5.50\n    Newton. First Cong. Ch.                                   12.27\n    Osage. Woman\u2019s Cent. Soc.                                  4.80\n    Rockford. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc.                               2.00\n    Rockford. Mrs. A. E. G. 50c.; Mrs. C. A. C.\n      50c.                                                     1.00\n    Shenandoah. Rev. W. P.                                     0.50\n    Sloan. Mrs. R. W. F. S.                                    0.50\n    Toledo. Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                              5.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $141.33.\n\n    Faribault. Cong. Ch.                                      41.58\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 20.55\n    Northfield. First Cong. Ch.                               49.95\n    Spring Valley. Cong. Ch., quar. coll. $13.25;\n      Rev. C. W. M. $1                                        14.25\n    Walcott. Mrs. Mary Adams                                  15.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $30.\n\n    Osawatomie. Rev. S. L. Adair, to const. H. H.\n      WILLIAMS L. M.                                          30.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $100.\n\n    Oakland. S. Richards                                     100.00\n\n\n  OREGON, $54.55.\n\n    Albany. Cong. Ch.                                          4.00\n    Portland. First Cong. Ch.                                 50.55\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $241.16.\n\n    McLeansville. Pub. Fund $42; Miss E. W.\n      Douglass $30                                            72.00\n    Raleigh. Pub. Fund $150; Washington Sch.\n      $17.83.\u2014Cong. Ch. $1.33, _for Indian M._               169.16\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $188.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst.                                  188.00\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $258.61.\n\n    Atlanta. Rent $104; Atlanta University $83; T.\n      N. Chase $50                                           237.00\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch.                                    12.40\n    Medway. Cong. Ch., _for Mendi M._                          8.00\n    Savannah. First Cong. Ch.                                  0.71\n    Woodville. Rev. J. H. H. S. 25c. _for Indian\n      M._ and 25c. _for Mendi M._                              0.50\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $29.50.\n\n    Anniston. Rev. P. J. McEntosh                              0.50\n    Athens. Trinity Sch.                                      29.00\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $26.20.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo University                             26.20\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $7.\n\n    Amity. Cong. Ch.                                           3.00\n    St. Louis. Mrs. M. P. Chapman                              4.00\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $101.50.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi Mission_                          101.50\n\n\n  SANDWICH ISLANDS, $1,000.\n\n    Sandwich Islands. \u201cA Friend\u201d                           1,000.00\n\n\n  ENGLAND, $253.\n\n    London. Freedmen\u2019s Missions Aid Soc., by Dr.\n      O. H. White \u00a350                                        243.00\n    \u2014\u2014 Miss S. L. Ropes                                       10.00\n\n\n  TURKEY, $5.\n\n    Van. Rev. H. S. Barnum                                     5.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total                                                 13,362.75\n    Total from Oct. 1st to July 31st                     $142,670.50\n\n                                     H. W. HUBBARD, _Ass\u2019t Treas_.\n\n\n  RECEIVED FOR DEBT.\n\n    Springfield, Vt. A. Woolson                              100.00\n    East Hampton, Conn. E. C. Barton                          20.00\n    West Haven, Conn. Mrs. Huldah Coe                          6.00\n    Gilbertsville Academy, N. Y. Rev. A. Wood                  5.00\n    Gloversville, N. Y. Mrs. U. M. Place                      50.00\n    Malone, N. Y. Mrs. S. C. Wead                            100.00\n    New Jersey. \u201cHearts Content\u201d                              25.00\n    Clark, Pa. Mrs. Elizabeth Dickson and Miss\n      Eliza Dickson $5 ea.                                    10.00\n    Hyde Park, Pa. Thomas Eynon                               50.00\n    Scranton, Pa. F. E. Nettleton                             10.00\n    Fredericktown, Ohio. \u201cA. H. R.\u201d                          500.00\n    Atlanta, Ga. Students and Teachers in Atlanta\n      U.                                                     175.00\n    Woodville, Ga. Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke                    0.75\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    1,051.75\n    Previously acknowledged in June Receipt               12,163.72\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total                                                $13,215.47\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. 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DENISON, Adv\u2019g Agent,\n                                          56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                            KINGSFORD\u2019S\n\n                              OSWEGO\n\n             For PUDDINGS, CUSTARDS, BLANC MANGE, Etc.\n\n                            The BEST is\n\n      [Illustration: Original KINGSFORD\u2019S OSWEGO CORN STARCH.\n                          PERFECTLY PURE]\n\n UNEQUALED FOR DELICACY, VARIETY OF USE AND HEALTHFULNESS. ADAPTED\n  ALIKE TO THE TASTE OF THE EPICURE AND THE WANTS OF THE INVALID.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\nPunctuation and spelling were changed only where the error appears\nto be a printing error. Inconsistent hyphenation was retained\nas there are numerous authors. The punctuation changes are too\nnumerous to list; the others are as follows:\n\n\u201cTheoogical\u201d changed to \u201cTheological\u201d on page 273 (a student from\nthe Theological Department).\n\n\u201cbrethern\u201d changed to \u201cbrethren\u201d on page 281 (whether our Chinese\nbrethren).\n\nExtra \u201c(\u201d removed from before COOPER INSTITUTE, NEW YORK CITY on\npage 288.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 32, No. 09, September, 1878","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":22873}