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No. 10.\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                          OCTOBER, 1878.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    FINANCIAL                                                    289\n    OUR ANNUAL MEETING.\u2014THE ROMAN CATHOLICS AMONG THE\n      FREEDMEN                                                   290\n    THE YELLOW FEVER                                             291\n    A FOUL CHANCE AND A FAIR CHANCE.\u2014INDIAN AGENTS               292\n    \u201cINDIAN WARS\u201d                                                293\n    AN INDIAN HYMN-BOOK                                          294\n    INDIAN STUDENTS.\u2014THE WET SEASON ON THE WEST COAST            295\n    PARAGRAPHS                                                   296\n    ITEMS FROM CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS.\u2014GENERAL NOTES               297\n    OUR QUERY COLUMN                                             300\n\n\n  THE PRESS.\n\n    UNCLE REMUS\u2019 REVIVAL HYMN.\u2014A BIT OF HISTORY                  301\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    GEORGIA\u2014Brunswick\u2014Risley School Exhibition                   303\n    ALABAMA\u2014Wanted, a Barn: Rev. E. P. Lord                      303\n    TEXAS\u2014The Southwest Texas Congregational Association:\n      Rev. B. C. Church                                          304\n    KENTUCKY\u2014A Vacant Church\u2014The National Problem: Rev.\n      John G. Fee                                                305\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    THE MENDI MISSION: Rev. Floyd Snelson and Mr. E.\n      White                                                 306, 307\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    S\u2019KOKOMISH RESERVATION: Rev. G. H. Atkinson, D. D.           307\n    GREEN BAY AGENCY: Jos. C. Bridgman, Esq.                     310\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    MORE ABOUT A MISSION AT HONG KONG: Rev. W. C. Pond           311\n\n\n  THE CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE                                            313\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                       315\n\n\n  WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c.                                   318\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                             NEW YORK:\n\n         Published by the American Missionary Association,\n\n                      Rooms, 56 Reade Street.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n           A. Anderson, Printer, 23 to 27 Vandewater St.\n\n\n\n\n                _American Missionary Association_,\n\n                      56 READE STREET, N. Y.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\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.      OCTOBER, 1878.       NO. 10.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n_American Missionary Association._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFINANCIAL.\n\nWhen this number of the MISSIONARY reaches our readers, our fiscal\nyear (closing Sept. 30) will be nearly ended. By careful economy\nfor two years past, we kept our current expenses within our\nreceipts, and we hope that the receipts of this month will make\nthis the _third_ year in which our expenditures will not add a\ndollar to our debt.\n\nOur _debt_ is now our great solicitude. Last year it was reduced,\nby the sale of stocks, etc., from $93,232.99 to $62,816.90. This\nyear we have received to September 1, in cash, $14,108.22, and\nin pledges (partly conditioned) $7,550, making $21,658.22, thus\nreducing the amount\u2014if the pledges are paid\u2014to $41,158.68. Shall\nnot an effort, so nobly begun, be pushed forward to completion?\n\nWe feel called upon, as never before, to urge the wiping out of\nthis debt. We have retrenched in office expenses, and have been\nvery guarded in annual appropriations, that it might be paid.\nGenerous doners have given liberally\u2014some of their abundance\u2014more\nof their poverty\u2014and the amount is reduced within grasp. We have\nrejoiced that the liberality of the churches and individuals have,\nin one month, by special efforts, well-nigh relieved a sister\nsociety\u2014the honored American Board\u2014of a balance on its annual\nappropriation of $80,000. A little more than half that amount, if\ngiven to the A. M. A., will pay off the remainder of a debt that\nhas hung upon it as an incubus for ten years. The payment of that\ndebt will honor the cause of the Master; it will unfetter our\nhands; it will cheer us and our friends for future work; it will\nbe a boon to the ignorant and needy masses for whom we labor. We\nappeal to the wealthy, the liberal, the self-denying, to all who\nlove God and His poor, to make a final effort, by special gifts, to\nreach an object so near at hand and so important.\n\nOur books will be closed promptly Sept. 30, for current receipts\nand expenditures, but for _receipts for debt_ they will be kept\nopen till after the Annual Meeting; and we trust that meeting will\nhave the joy and glory of announcing the complete extinction of the\ndebt.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR ANNUAL MEETING.\n\nThe Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the American Missionary\nAssociation will be held in the Broadway Congregational Church,\nTaunton, Mass., October 29\u201331. The meeting will be organized on\nTuesday, at three o\u2019clock P. M., and at half-past seven o\u2019clock\nin the evening the annual sermon will be preached by Rev. S. E.\nHerrick, D. D., of Boston. On Wednesday, papers will be read by\nRev. George Leon Walker, D. D., and others. Wednesday evening will\nbe occupied with addresses and reminiscences by present and former\nmissionaries of the A. M. A. Thursday will be devoted to reports of\ncommittees and discussions of the work.\n\nThe meeting will close Thursday evening, with addresses from able\nand distinguished speakers, to be named hereafter.\n\nThe people of Taunton will undertake to entertain all the friends\nwho may attend the meetings. Those desiring hospitality can address\nCharles H. Atwood, Esq., until Sept. 20th. Return cards, assigning\nplaces, will be duly sent.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE ROMAN CATHOLICS AMONG THE FREEDMEN.\n\nThe _Independent_ closes a careful and, in the main, accurate\nsummary of the work of Christian education among the negroes, with\na view of what the Roman Catholics are doing. After speaking of\nthe large estimates of money expended, and pupils taught by that\nchurch, it says:\n\n  \u201cNothing approaching a confirmation of these estimates has been\n  brought to our notice. We have carefully examined the Roman\n  Catholic papers with reference to this subject for a year past,\n  and have been able to glean from them only the most barren record\n  of facts and isolated movements.... We believe that, if the\n  Roman Catholics really had facts to prove that they have made\n  the progress they claim to have made, they would not hesitate to\n  publish them conspicuously. As they fail to produce them, we are\n  contented to believe, for the present, that they are doing no\n  more than their fair share of the work, if so much, and receiving\n  no more than their share of the conversions.\u201d\n\nIn a later issue, the same paper says:\n\n  \u201cWe are glad to have been able to capture and expose the\n  spectre which has been frightening Protestants so much. We\n  mean the wholesale conversion of negroes to Catholicism. In a\n  recent article in our \u2018Religious Intelligence\u2019 we gave all the\n  information we could gather about the extent and results of\n  Catholic missions among the freedmen, and there was nothing in it\n  to alarm or annoy anybody. The _Catholic Review_ quotes liberally\n  from the article, and virtually concedes the accuracy of our\n  statements in the following sentences:\n\n    \u201c\u2018Like our contemporary, we have noticed the \u201cextravagant\n    estimates\u201d to which it refers; but we never happened to\n    notice their having been made by any Catholic authority\n    whatever. They usually make their appearance in papers\n    of the _Christian Advocate_ stamp, and are employed as a\n    stimulus to rouse missionary zeal in people who are much\n    more readily moved to give money by their hatred of Popery\n    than by their love for what they believe to be the truth\n    taught by our Divine Lord. The _Independent_ wants facts to\n    substantiate these boastings. We suggest that it can always\n    be accommodated with facts enough to substantiate the truth\n    of whatever assertions are actually made by our missionaries.\n    They can hardly be held responsible for any wild stories\n    which other people may circulate at their expense.\u2019\n\n  \u201cThose who have been most troubled by reports of the gains of\n  Catholicism among the negroes may give to the winds their fears.\u201d\n\nWe, too, have been for more than a year making special inquiries.\nWe have read the large estimates, which have been through the\nnewspapers, of money expended, and pupils taught. The statement\nthat $600,000 in gold (nearly one million dollars in our currency)\nwas given to this work by the Propaganda at Rome, in 1867, and\nthat, in the same year, sixty-six priests landed in New Orleans\nto undertake missionary work among the blacks, we trace to the\n_Christian Intelligencer_ of that year.\n\nThe fact is, that it is extremely difficult to get at accurate and\nauthorized statements in regard to all Roman Catholic missions.\nTheir funds are not raised by appeals, based on special needs or\nspecial encouragements, or addressed to the general public; and\ntheir policy is one of quiet foundation-laying, rather than of\ndemonstrative up-building. It is not an easy task, even, to secure\nreliable information of what they are doing here at our doors, or\nbehind their own.\n\nRecognizing this difficulty, we are not ready to agree with the\n_Independent_ that, if the Roman Catholics had facts to prove, they\nwould not hesitate to publish them conspicuously. Nor are we ready\nyet to congratulate ourselves that we \u201chave been able to capture\nand expose the spectre,\u201d while we are obliged to confess that we\nhave not had it in our grasp sufficiently to take the measure of\nits outlines, or tell its height and girth.\n\nA careful reading of the \u2018virtual concession\u2019 of the _Catholic\nReview_ makes it amount to virtually nothing, except an ingenious\nevasion of responsibility for any statements which may have\nbeen made. It does not even say that the estimates have been\nextravagant, but uses that expression as a quotation from the\n_Independent_. It only suggests that assertions actually made by\nmissionaries (who are careful not to make assertions) can always be\nsubstantiated.\n\nWe would merely caution the friend of the negro, and those who\nfear the influence of Romanism over him, that an argument based on\nignorance is not very securely founded. And, while we would not\nhave _omne ignotum pro magnifico_, or believe because the spectre\nis vague, it must be very large; on the other hand, we would not\nsay of one whose wont is to hide itself, \u201cBecause we cannot dissect\nit, it is nothing.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE YELLOW FEVER.\n\nThe yellow fever, in its ravages in the South, pays no regard to\nrace, color or previous condition. Whites and blacks alike have\nsuffered from its sudden and malignant attacks. Death levels all\ndistinctions. The statement which has been often made, that the\nnegroes are proof against this pestilence, seems to have been\nill-based, as intelligent observers of its ravages in former years\nutterly contradict it. At any rate, it is not true of this year\u2019s\nscourge.\n\nQuite opposite assertions have been made in regard to the conduct\nof the blacks during the panic which this deathly visitor has\noccasioned. So contradictory, in fact, that we suspect the truth\nto be that they have acted very much like white people of the\nsame intelligence. Some have stood at their posts, and done noble\nwork as nurses, as ministers, and in humbler stations. And some,\ndoubtless, like those of other races, have been carried by their\nfears away from the most sacred of duties.\n\nHow has it affected our work? Of course, our schools in the\nSouth are closed during the hot months, and most of the teachers\nand white pastors are in the North. Straight University, at New\nOrleans, La., is closed, and Rev. Mr. Alexander, the pastor of\nthe church, is at his New England home. At Grenada, Miss., which\nhas been almost depopulated by the fever, we had a school. The\ntwo teachers, however, we believe went to the country before the\npestilence reached that beautiful town. The only one of our workers\nwhom we know to have been stricken down is Rev. W. W. Mallory, the\ncolored pastor of the church at Memphis, Tenn., who was still sick\nat our last advices. We have reason to hope for his recovery and\nrestoration to full health.\n\nWe have transmitted some sums of money which have been put into our\nhands for special relief to the suffering colored people of these\ninfected districts, to which we have added what we felt justified\nin doing from the funds of the Association.\n\nBut the peril is not over yet. Many days must intervene before the\nthrice welcome frosts may be expected to kill the germs of this\nfell disease, and famine always comes in the train of continued\npestilence. It is the Lord\u2019s work to avert suffering and relieve\nphysical want. May the fountains of charity, which have been opened\nso freely through the land, continue to flow increasingly until\nthere shall be no more thirst.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA FOUL CHANCE AND A FAIR CHANCE.\n\nA correspondent writes us upon the subject of how the freedman is\ngetting on, as follows:\n\n\u201cOn my way up the Mississippi, between the States of Arkansas and\nMississippi, I fell into conversation with a planter living on the\nright bank of the river, and, after the manner of all Yankees,\nasked him how the negroes were getting on. He was a short, chunky,\nred-faced man, and his account was gloomy in the extreme. He said\nthat he would not undertake to tell me all the trouble he had with\nhis \u2018help,\u2019 for, if he did, I would not believe him at all. He\nsaid that he could not advance them anything at the beginning of\nthe season, for fear of their running away and leaving him without\nhands in time of harvest; that they were so lazy that all they\ncared for was to get bread and meat for the least possible amount\nof work; that, although all his hands were deacons or preachers\nor \u2018exalters,\u2019 they stole so that he could not raise any pigs or\nchickens; that the members of the church were more licentious than\nthe \u2018world\u2019s people\u2019; that they got angry and burned his gin-house\nevery year, etc., etc. He was the first man that I had met, during\na residence of nine years at the South, who would admit that he was\nsorry the slaves had been made free.\n\n\u201cOn my way down the river, at about the same point, I had a\nconversation upon the same subject with a man residing on the other\nbank. He was a tall gentleman of fine form, with an intellectual,\ngenial, open face. In reply to my inquiries, he said the freedmen\nwere doing first-rate; were industrious, honest, temperate and\nmoral; were acquiring property in stock, tools and land; and he\nfound free labor more easily managed and more profitable than slave\nlabor. I referred to the conversation I had with his Mississippi\nneighbor on my way up, and asked him why their reports were so\ndifferent. With a good deal of animation and emphasis, he replied:\n\u2018I can tell you why it is: I just give my niggers a chance, and\nhe doesn\u2019t. He has always brought them out in debt to him at the\nend of every year, and has crushed out all their enterprise and\nambition, so that, as he says, the problem with them is how to\nget a bare living with the least possible amount of work. All the\nnigger wants is a fair chance.\u2019\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nINDIAN AGENTS.\n\nUnder the Peace Policy, the Government has entrusted to the\nAmerican Missionary Association the nomination of six Indian\nagents. Vacancies in these occur from time to time, and\napplications for nominations are desired. One vacancy now exists.\n\nThese Indian agencies afford an admirable opportunity for\nusefulness to the right persons; but they are not sinecures for\nincompetent men\u2014whether laymen or ministers. It is desirable that\nthe applicant have some knowledge of farming and the simpler\nmechanic arts, but it is essential that he present the best\nof credentials as to _piety, integrity, business capacity and\nexperience, and ability to influence masses of men_.\n\nThe salary ranges from $1,000 to $2,000 per annum, according to\nthe responsibilities and duties of the agencies. Bonds for the\nfaithful performance of duty will be required by the government,\nvarying from $15,000 to $20,000.\n\nApplications or inquiries may be addressed to Rev. M. E. Strieby,\n56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\u201cINDIAN WARS.\u201d\n\nAnd so the latest Indian War is over! It is absurd to call such\nchases and skirmishes by so dignified a name. Small bands of ten,\ntwenty, sometimes a hundred or two outlaws in revolt, are hunted\nto death or surrender in the wildernesses of the Far West. We\ncall them nations, and this undignified pursuit a war. It is, in\nreality, only the same thing which is continually being done in\nour great cities by the police. Law-breakers, and men who avenge\ntheir own wrongs, must be chased to their dens, and either caught\nand chained, or shot like dogs. Only that, on the frontier, the\nfacilities for the violence, and then for the escape, are so much\ngreater than in the city; and that we have to send generals and\ncolonels in the army after them, instead of sergeants of police.\n\nWe pity the \u201cbraves\u201d of the Territories more than we do the\n\u201croughs\u201d of the bloody sixth ward, because they are more ignorant\nand more wronged, and because the hindrances to a better life are\neven greater for them. And we pity the gallant men of the army, who\nare compelled to do this police work, in dogging criminals to death.\n\nAmong the recent dispatches is one, telling of an encounter\nbetween six cow-boys and eight Indians on the Nueces River, in\nwhich four Indians were killed and one captured; one of the boys\nhad a flesh-wound, and the others only wounds in their clothing.\nGeneralship does not go for much in such guerrilla warfare. West\nPoint tactics are not of much avail. Often, in the brooks of New\nEngland, the farmer\u2019s boy, who goes fishing with a stick and a\nstring, when it rains too hard to work out of doors, will bring\nhome ten times as many trout as the city sportsman with eight-ounce\nrod, a Conroy reel and a choice assortment of flies. Perhaps a\nsmall army of cow-boys would serve us best on the frontier. It is\nnot fit work for real soldiers. We do not mean a word of disrespect\nto them. They have our sympathy and admiration for their fidelity\nand obedience, and for not resigning when they are set to such work.\n\nBut how much better it would be if, by fair treatment and\nhonestly-fulfilled pledges, we had made these Indians both friendly\nand law-abiding\u2014or, even, if now, with patience and forbearance,\nwe should be persistently kind and true, and see how long it would\nbe before we and they should find each in the other, \u201ca man and a\nbrother.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe difference between _equal_ and _identical_ rights is well\nillustrated by the action of the Georgia Central Railroad\nofficials. Travel between Macon and Savannah is so light that only\none passenger coach is run. By a partition this is divided into two\nparts, furnished exactly alike, one for white and the other for\ncolored passengers. The colored end being nearly empty one day, a\nwhite man took a seat, or rather _four_ seats, in it, upon which\nthe conductor told him that he was in the wrong end of the car, and\nthat the vice-president was very particular that no white persons\nbe allowed to ride in the apartment for colored people.\n\nA similar arrangement formerly prevailed on the street-cars in\nMobile, and some of the old partitioned cars are still in use.\nIt is to be hoped that, in the course of human events, identical\nrights on steam-cars will not be considered any worse than on horse\ncars by the constituents of Georgia\u2019s good Governor Colquitt.\n\n\nAN INDIAN HYMN-BOOK.\n\nWe have just received a copy of the _Hymns in the Chinook Jargon\nLanguage_, compiled by Rev. Mr. Eells, missionary of the American\nMissionary Association. It is not a ponderous volume like those\nin use in our American churches, with twelve or fifteen hundred\nhymns, but a modest pamphlet of thirty pages, containing both the\nIndian originals and the English translations. The tunes include,\namong others, \u201cHappy Land,\u201d \u201cGreenville,\u201d \u201cBounding Billow,\u201d \u201cJohn\nBrown,\u201d and the \u201cHebrew Children.\u201d The hymns are very simple, and\noften repeat all but the first line. The translations show the\npoverty of the language to convey religious ideas.\n\nOne hymn reads\u2014\n\n    \u201cAlways Jesus is very strong,\n      So his Paper (the Bible) says.\u201d\n\nAnother we give in full, and in both original and translation, as\npart of the words of the Jargon will be seen to be English:\n\n\n                 HEAVEN.\n\n  1. Kopa Saghalie konoway tillikums\n       Halo olo, halo sick,\n     Wake kliminwhit, halo solleks,\n       Halo pahtlum, halo cly.\n\n  _Chorus_\u2014Jesus mitlite kopa Saghalie\n           Kunamoxt konoway tillikums kloshe.\n\n  2. Yahwa tillikums wake klahowya,\n       Wake sick tumtum, halo till,\n     Halo mimoluse, wake mesachie,\n       Wake polaklie, halo cole.\u2014_Chorus._\n\n  3. Yahwa tillikums mitlite kwanesum,\n       Hiyu houses, hiyu sing;\n     Papa, mama, pe kloshe tenas;\n       Ovacut yaka chicamin pil.\u2014_Chorus._\n\n  4. Jesus potlatch kopa siwash,\n       Spose mesika, hias kloshe,\n     Konoway iktas mesika tikegh,\n       Kopa Saghalie kwanesum.\u2014_Chorus._\n\n\n             Tune, \u201c_Greenville_.\u201d\n\n  1. In Heaven all the people\n       Are not hungry, are not sick;\n     They do not tell lies, do not become angry;\n       They do not become drunk, do not cry.\n\n       Jesus lives in Heaven,\n       Together with all good people.\n\n  2. There the people are not poor,\n       Have no sorrow, are not tired;\n     They do not die, are not wicked;\n       There is no darkness, no cold.\n\n  3. There the people live always;\n       There are many houses, and much singing;\n     There is father, mother and good children;\n       The street is of gold.\n\n  4. Jesus will give to the Indians,\n       If you are very good,\n     Everything you wish,\n       In Heaven, always.\n\n\nWe only extract, further, the literal translation of the Lord\u2019s\nPrayer, some of the petitions of which seem to find admirable\nexpression in this version, especially the \u201clead us not into\ntemptation,\u201d etc.:\n\n\u201cOur Father who lives in the Above, good thy name over everywhere.\nGood if thou become true Chief over all people. Good if thy mind is\non the earth, as in the Above. Give to us during this day our food.\nPity us for our wickedness, as we pity any man if he does evil to\nus. Not thou carry us to where evil is; but if evil find us, good\nthou help us conquer that evil. Truly all earth thy earth, and thou\nvery strong, and thou truly very good, so we wish all this. Good\nso.\u201d\n\nIt is no little task to make hymns for such a people out of such\npoor materials. Let it be understood that these are only hymns for\nthe transition state, for Indians who can only remember a little,\nand who sing in English as soon as they have learned to read.\n\nThis little book is an interesting monument of missionary labor,\nand full of suggestion as to the manifold difficulties to be\nencountered in the attempt to Christianize the Indians of America.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nINDIAN STUDENTS.\n\nThe fifteen Indian students who have been studying at Hampton\nremain there through the summer. Many of our readers will look\nwith interest for some news of them, and be glad to hear of their\ncontinued progress and content. Like the other students who remain,\nthey work through the summer, chiefly on the farm, thus earning\nmoney for their clothing and support. They are allowed a day and\na half in school each week, and thus, under a regular teacher,\ntheir instruction is kept up in the English language, with object\nlessons, and phonetic practice, writing, arithmetic and geography.\nThey also meet for an hour every evening, from eight to nine,\nwith a few of the other students, under the care of a teacher,\nfor conversation, and games that are exercises in talking. This\nconversation class is thus far a great success, enjoyed by the\nIndians and the other students who take pleasure in helping them.\n\nThey also have their Sunday-school class, and a prayer-meeting, in\nwhich most of them are very constant and devoted attendants. The\ndevoutness of their simple prayers in Cheyenne and Kiowa cannot be\ndoubted by a listener, though understood only by the Great Spirit\nto whom they are addressed.\n\nAt their first meeting, a gentleman present spelled out the\nquestion with the card letters for one of the young men to answer:\nWhy do you like to learn? Letter by letter the startlingly\nimpressive answer followed, \u201cBecause it makes me a man!\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE WET SEASON ON THE WEST COAST.\n\nIt will be borne in mind by those who have special interest in our\nMendi Mission that it is still the rainy season, to which all the\npeculiar perils of the West Coast of Africa are to be encountered,\nand with great risk to the health and life of those who are not\nfully acclimated. We have had weekly letters from our colored\nmissionaries there, to as late a date as Aug. 13th, who have been\npassing the first test of their ability to endure the climate\nand resist the African fever. None of them have entirely escaped\nthe touch of its hot breath and icy hand, and yet it seems to\nhave for the most part passed them lightly by. Two of the female\nmissionaries have been very sick. One, Mrs. Dr. James, died early\nin the season.\n\nThus far, then, we are encouraged to believe that, as we hoped it\nwould prove, men and women of African descent endure the risks of\ntransplanting and of naturalization far better than those who have\nneither themselves nor their ancestors been \u201cto the manner born.\u201d\nAnd, if these perils at the threshold can be encountered better by\nthem than by others, we may surely hope that the less malignant\ninfluences which pervade the atmosphere will not undermine their\nstrength, as it does with those who are foreigners by both blood\nand birth.\n\nIt behooves their friends on this side the ocean, who believe in\nthe power of prayer, to keep these missionaries constantly in their\nminds and in their hearts, and to pray the Lord of the harvest,\nwho has already raised up and sent forth these laborers into the\nfield, that He will enable them to bear the heat and burden of the\nday.\n\nThey are doing well in their work. The schools are growing and\ngaining in every way. A lack of proper text-books has hampered the\nteachers, and an unfortunate delay has occurred by the loss of a\nbox containing a supply, which, with the boat which was conveying\nit from Freetown to Good Hope, failed to reach its destination. The\nchurch has received valuable accessions since Mr. Snelson and his\nco-laborers reached the field. We hope to have more regular and\nfull correspondence to lay before our readers in future, from month\nto month.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAn honored New Hampshire pastor writes: \u201cI should be glad to\nsee the A. M. A\u2019s debt removed, and I am in hearty sympathy\nwith the Society. It seems to me to combine, in the persons of\nthe freedmen\u2014to say nothing of the Chinese, etc.\u2014the claims of\nHome and Foreign Missions in a remarkable degree. Patriotism and\nphilanthropy meet and blend in its work.\u201d\n\nThe same friend says: \u201cCommunism, so much, and thus far, perhaps,\nso extravagantly dreaded, will find friends among the black race at\na future day, to an extent unexpected now, if we are not prompt to\nenlighten and Christianize that vast army of ignorant and voting\nlaborers.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWhen, at the opening of the war, the life of the infant Berea\nCollege was sought, the Angel of Providence said: \u201cArise, and take\nthe young child and flee into the Egypt of Safety, and be thou\nthere until I bring thee word; for the Herod of Slavery will seek\nthe young child, to destroy him.\u201d But, when Herod was dead, behold,\nthe angel appeared, saying: \u201cArise, and take the young child and\ngo into the land of Israel, for they are dead which sought the\nyoung child\u2019s life.\u201d And they arose and took the young child Berea,\nand went back into their own land. And the child grew, and waxed\nstrong in spirit. And other children were born to this household of\nfaith\u2014Howard and Hampton, and Fisk and Atlanta, and Talladega and\nStraight and Tougaloo, and several more. These do not have to flee\nfor their life; but they need to be nourished into maturity, that\nthey may do the mighty work assigned them in this and in coming\ngenerations, here and in other lands.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Apropos_\u2014A judge from a Western city told us, the other day, that,\nhaving had a black man to testify in his court, he turned and\ncomplimented him from the bench as the most intelligent witness he\nhad ever had in that box.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nHe had been a colonel in the war. Since the coming of peace he\nhad remained in the South, to engage in the process of the social\nand political reconstruction. He felt the desperateness of the\ncase, and yet was hopeful. In our office, he was setting forth the\nSouthern status, and arguing for patient endurance and vigorous\nendeavor when, in his military phrase, he broke forth: \u201cIt is only\none shot in five hundred that hits.\u201d Fire away, then, ye soldiers\nof the Cross! Some of the shots will hit.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIt was the Christmas of the year 1865. It was in a Southern city.\nThe preacher, though black, had the frosts of seventy winters on\nhis head. His text was the parable of the vine and the branches. In\nthe sermon of singular unction, he said: \u201cMy brethren, we has the\nadvantage of the vine and the branches. They get the sap only in\nthe spring and thro\u2019 the season, _but the Christian has the sap all\nthe year \u2019round_.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Old Whitey._\u2014Lewis Tappan had nothing too good to be used for the\nbenefit of the colored people. While our new Field Superintendent\nwas in the last six months of his course at the Union Theological\nSeminary, with aid from the American Home Missionary Society, he\npreached back of Brooklyn for a Presbyterian church of \u201cAmericans,\nfalsely called Africans,\u201d as Mr. Tappan was fond of styling that\npeople. His own family carriage and horse he furnished the young\npreacher all that time for riding out and back. Storms and mud did\nnot prevent the cheerful bringing out of the rig. In later years,\nupon meeting the preacher, he would always speak with pleasure of\nthe service of Old Whitey. In those days, or even now, how few men\nwould furnish their family turnout for such a purpose!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS.\n\nHAMPTON, VA.\u2014The Trustees of the Normal Institute have decided to\nuniform the male students. A plain sack-coat, pantaloons and cap of\nbluish-gray cloth have been selected. The suit will cost about ten\ndollars.\n\n\u2014Seventy young men and twenty-two young women remain at Hampton\nInstitute this summer\u2014a larger number than in any previous\nyear\u2014finding employment on the school-farm, in the shops,\nknitting-room, laundry, and at housework. The young people are\nunder watchful care and supervision; the family life of the school\nis kept up, and regular Bible-class instruction on Sundays.\n\nBYRON, GA.\u2014Two united with the church during the month of August;\ntwo infants baptised. Still, many are asking what must they do to\nbe saved.\n\nTALLADEGA, ALA.\u2014A professor writes: \u201cNever before were our young\nministers, as a body, so much in earnest as now, or more successful\nthan this summer in their Christian work. They evince more tact in\novercoming difficulties, and show more power in removing obstacles\nthan I have ever seen in them before. The last two years have told\npowerfully on their mental and Christian development.\u201d\n\n\u2014Rev. Mr. Hill writes; \u201cAt the church prayer-meeting in the\nchapel, September 3d, three girls, pupils in the college, rose and\nexpressed a hope in Christ. Two of them are in the family at Foster\nHall, for whom we have felt anxious, and have been praying all\nsummer. They seem now very decided and very happy. I have been much\nimpressed with the deep spiritual tone of the teachers here, and\ntheir entire consecration to the work.\u201d\n\n\u2014The Talladega College Industrial Department will hold a State\nIndustrial Fair at the grounds of the College, in Talladega, Ala.,\nin November, 1878. This fair is intended as an exhibition of\nwhat the colored people are able to do, as farmers, carpenters,\nprinters, manufacturers, musicians, housewives, etc. Any one who\nhas produced, or made, or who owns anything he considers especially\nfine, is invited to exhibit. Three hundred dollars or more are\npromised, and it is hoped the sum may be increased to one thousand\ndollars, to be given as prizes.\n\nCHILDERSBURG, ALA.\u2014Rev. Mr. Jones was ordained here in June.\nBetween twenty and thirty have recently come out on the Lord\u2019s side.\n\nALABAMA FURNACE, ALA.\u2014A protracted meeting is now in progress, with\ndecided indications of good results; and also at the \u201cCove,\u201d there\nhave been several marked conversions.\n\nNEW ORLEANS, LA.\u2014A gentleman of high standing, in New Orleans,\nwrites to Mr. Alexander, the pastor of the Central Congregational\nChurch, who is now in the North: \u201cNotwithstanding the intense heat,\nand the excitement that prevails because of the yellow-fever here,\nthe congregation at Central Church have not abated their interest,\nand, both on Thursday evenings and on Sundays, they manifest by\ntheir presence that they will \u2018not forsake the assembling of\nthemselves together as the manner of some is.\u2019 The good Lord is\npresent to bless at every service, and the faithful people are, as\nfar as I know, conscientiously discharging every known duty. They\ndisplay a zeal that is truly commendable, and must certainly meet\nyour approbation and esteem.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nThe Freedmen.\n\n\u2014The Trustees of the Peabody Fund have just sent $1,200 to aid\nschools in North Carolina. One thousand dollars of this amount is\nto be used in Raleigh alone\u2014$600 for a white graded school, and\n$400 for the two colored graded schools. Dr. Sears, agent of the\nfund, said that the Trustees would have sent more money, but that\nthe income from it had recently fallen off 40 per cent.\n\n\u2014The North Carolina Legislature of 1876\u201377 provided for two Normal\nschools\u2014one for white persons and one for black persons. The latter\noffers continuous instruction throughout the year at Fayetteville.\nIt is under the care of Mr. Harris, a colored man, who was prepared\nfor the work, which he does well, in Ohio.\n\n\u2014The Board of Education at San Jos\u00e9, Cal., has abolished the\ncolored school, and the former pupils have been permitted to enter\nthe other schools.\n\n\u2014At Memphis, a telegram says the colored population are acting well\nin the emergency, and heartily co-operating with the whites, and\nadds:\n\n  \u201cA meeting has been called by prominent colored men for the\n  purpose of organization, to assist the whites in relieving\n  distress and guarding the property, which the people, in\n  the panic of last week, left unguarded. Their action in the\n  present emergency speaks volumes, and has greatly increased the\n  confidence reposed in them by those who were their masters. Among\n  the most efficient on the police force now are the negroes.\u201d\n\n\u2014When the better people of the North come to be understood by\nthe right-thinking people of the South, we shall have hearty\nco-operation in the education of the negro.\u2014_Rev. Robert West._\n\n\u2014To \u201cremove the colored man from politics\u201d\u2014in the sense of taking\nhim out of such an absorption in politics, and such a misuse of\nthem as does injury to himself and to others\u2014it is only necessary\nto put him into education and industry.\u2014_The Advance._\n\n\u2014No nation can possibly let twelve per cent. of its population grow\nup in ignorance, superstition and vice, without reaping a fearful\nharvest.\n\n\u2014Macaulay says: \u201cThe best remedy for the evils incident to\nnewly-acquired freedom, is _freedom_.\u201d\n\n\nAfrica.\n\nFrom all the west coast of Africa, in 1874, there were imported\n486,544 cwt. of palm oil and kernels, valued at \u00a3518,134, or over\ntwo-and-a-half million dollars; of India-rubber, 3,427 cwt. were\nimported, valued at \u00a325,792; of coffee, 11,502 cwt., valued at\n\u00a346,506; of spices and ginger, 8,803 cwt., valued at \u00a320,908; and,\nnoticeable fact to Americans, of raw cotton, 11,315 cwt., valued at\n\u00a332,839.\n\nThe chief articles sent out to the islands and coasts were cottons,\narms and ammunition, haberdashery, hardware and cutlery. Of these,\ncotton was king. The whole number of yards of cotton cloth, mostly\nprints, sold at these ports for that year, amounted to 47,217,966,\nor nearly forty-eight millions. Allowing thirty yards to a piece,\nand thirty pieces to a bale, there were over fifty thousand cases\nof calicoes, whose value was estimated at \u00a3745,179, or nearly four\nmillions of dollars. Shall America utterly neglect so rich a field,\nwith its hundreds of factories half idle, and not a few completely\nat rest?\u2014_African Repository._\n\n\u2014The colored Republic of Liberia has 3,500 voters, 116\nofficeholders, besides petty magistrates and constables, and taxes\nthe people at the rate of twenty-nine dollars for every voter,\nbesides the cost of maintaining schools and government buildings.\n\n\u2014Stanley is said to have agreed to make another exploring trip\nthrough the Continent of Africa, at the expense of the king of\nBelgium.\n\n\u2014Mr. Williams, who accompanied the Azor\u2019s shipload of South Carolina\nnegroes to Liberia, is unwilling to take the responsibility of\nadvising the colored people of the United States to emigrate.\nIt is a magnificent country, and money is to be made there; but\nthe risks of fever and disease are great, and the climate is\nenervating. Thrift, patience and good management are essential\nto success. No emigrant should land at Monrovia without a six\nmonths\u2019 stock of provisions, a supply of simple medicines, a\nlittle ready money, and all the bright calicoes, brass trinkets\nand notions he can lay his hands on. Salt is always valuable, too.\nIn the interior, the natives lick visitors\u2019 hands for the salty\ntaste of the perspiration. Those who have from $200 to $300 over\ntheir passage-money will have a much better chance of becoming\nindependent in Liberia than in America; but those who expect to\nfind there a heaven on earth, where they will not have to work, and\nwho are unprovided with means, will soon become disheartened, and\nbe anxious to return to the United States.\n\n\nThe Indians.\n\n\u2014One fundamental principle in the management of the Indians should\nbe, that they are not to be massed together, but separated in small\ncommunities, and as soon as may be, in homesteads. The more they\nmix with us the less they will disturb us.\n\n\u2014The solution of the Indian problem will be found whenever a\npolicy founded upon justice shall be inaugurated, entrusted to a\nseparate department of the Government, free from political or army\ninterference, executed by men selected on account of fitness, who\nshall be exempt from the accursed political dogma, \u201cthat to the\nvictors belong the spoils,\u201d held to strictest accountability, and\nsubject to removal only by impeachment. When this is done so that\nit cannot be undone, and the officers of the Department are clothed\nwith power to protect the Indian under the civil law of the land,\nand the barriers to the citizenship of the Indian are removed,\nand he stands upon the same plane with every other man, alike\nresponsible to law, and equally entitled to its protection, then,\nand not until then, may we hope for peace with our native tribes.\nWhen the army of the United States shall become what it ought ever\nto be, the executive servant of the people, called into requisition\nonly when humane measures have failed, then it may fulfil its\nmission\u2014never as a humane civilizing power.\u2014_Col. Meacham._\n\n\u2014The number of Roman Catholic missionaries and teachers among the\nIndian tribes in the United States is 117.\n\n\u2014Of the 8,000 youth of legal school age in the Indian Territory,\nover 5,000 are enrolled as attendants at the common schools, and\nan average daily attendance of over 3,000 is reported. There is a\n_per capita_ expenditure upon the total school population of the\nCherokees of twenty-five dollars, while New York State expends\nbut six. The total expenditure in all the tribes is very nearly\n$200,000 a year. If money can make good schools, the Indians\ncertainly ought to have them.\n\n\u2014The Bannock war is over, and the Snakes are scotched. If we may\nbelieve these last\u2014though it was one of their tribe who deceived\nour first mother\u2014in the division of labor, the Bannocks did the\nmurdering, and the Snakes the stealing.\n\n\u2014The care of Spotted Tail agency was put into the hands of the\nEpiscopal Church, under the administration of Secretary Delano, in\nthe Interior Department. The present Commissioner of Indian Affairs\ndecides that this means that no other missionary religious teachers\nshall go on this ground except Episcopalians. Consequently, three\nCatholic priests have just been banished from the Spotted Tail\nagency, against the wish and choice of that chief and his people.\nSo says the _Advance_.\n\n\nChinese.\n\n\u2014The number of children in San Francisco between the ages of\nfive and seventeen is 55,899, of whom 133 are negroes, and 4\nIndians. The number under five years, of all classes, is 24,389,\nmaking a total under seventeen years, of 80,288, of whom 1,505\nare Mongolians. Of the white children of school age, who have not\nattended any school during the past year, there are 16,147. The\nreturns do not mention any Mongolian children as having attended\nschool.\n\n\u2014The Chinese Consul, Lit-Mium Cook, who has recently arrived at\nthe port of San Francisco, says that the Chinese Government has\nno desire to abrogate or modify the Burlingame Treaty, and also\nthat it believes that the Government of the United States has\nboth the power and the will to protect Chinamen in the enjoyment\nof their treaty rights in this country. Mr. Seward, United States\nMinister to China, who arrived at San Francisco in the same\nvessel, expresses himself as strongly opposed, on commercial and\ninternational grounds, to any change of the existing treaty with\nChina. There is not the slightest danger, as he thinks, that\nChinese immigration will ever be so great as to give that race any\ncontrol in this country, or make it injurious to our industrial\ninterests.\n\n\u2014Chinese labor is discountenanced by the Legislature of British\nColumbia. A resolution just passed declares that \u201cChinese laborers\nshould not be employed upon the public works of the province, and\nthat a clause should be inserted in specifications of all contracts\nawarded, to the effect that contractors will not be permitted to\nemploy Chinese labor upon the works, and that, in event of their\ndoing so, the government will not be responsible for payment of the\ncontract.\u201d\n\n\u2014Two Chinese young men are preparing themselves for the ministry of\nthe Episcopal Church, in San Francisco, Cal.\n\n\u2014The Chinese Ambassador is credited with the statement that the\nChinese will go to Ireland, as that is the only country that the\nIrish do not rule.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR QUERY COLUMN.\n\nOne of our most experienced and successful teachers writes to us:\n\u201cWhy not have a Query Column in the MISSIONARY, which will bring us\nin contact oftener? Have questions practical, and answers concise,\nclear, and to the point.\u201d To all which we say: Why not, indeed?\n\nAnswer: We will.\n\nHere is, then, already the beginning\u2014a query and an answer. The\nquery practical, which is the only condition imposed by the writer.\nThe answer, although our own, we are not afraid to measure by all\nthe three conditions suggested. It is concise\u2014not susceptible of\nany very great condensation; clear\u2014no vagueness there; and to the\npoint\u2014indeed, a direct answer.\n\nOur Query Column is, then, in its place. After the news and notes\nwill be a place for the interrogation marks. Who will ask the\nquestions? We suppose it will be he that wants to know. And who\nwill answer them? We do not profess to know everything at the New\nYork office; but we have a wise man in the East, at Boston, and\none who may _occidentally_ know a thing or two at Chicago, a royal\ncorrespondent in the South, who will be everywhere, and a whole\ncorps of intelligent teachers and pastors on the field, who, best\nof all, can answer each other\u2019s questions.\n\nSeriously, then, we welcome the idea. We hereby open and inaugurate\n\u201cOur Query Column,\u201d for all our friends and co-workers. Let the\nquestions be \u201cpractical,\u201d germain to our distinctive work. Let them\nbe the real questions on which you desire light for yourselves,\nand from some source we will try to secure you answers which shall\nbe \u201cconcise, clear, and to the point.\u201d Of course, we (for the\neditorial, like the kingly, \u201cwe\u201d is a cover for much irresponsible\nauthority) shall answer, or cause to be answered, only such queries\nas, in our judgment, will be helpful to the work we have in hand.\nWho asks first?\n\n\n\n\nTHE PRESS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                    UNCLE REMUS\u2019 REVIVAL HYMN.\n\n    O, whar\u2019 shall we go when de great day comes,\n    Wid de blowin\u2019 ob de trumpets an\u2019 de bangin\u2019 ob de drums?\n    How many po\u2019 sinners \u2019ll be cotched out late,\n    An\u2019 fin\u2019 no latch ter de golden gate?\n              No use fer ter wait twel ter morrer,\n              De sun musn\u2019t set on yo\u2019 sorrer;\n              Sin\u2019s ez sharp ez a bamboo brier\u2014\n              O Lord, fetch de mo\u2019ners up higher!\n\n    When de nations ob de earth are standin\u2019 all aroun\u2019\n    Who\u2019s a gwine ter be chosen fer ter war de glory crown?\n    Who\u2019s a gwine fer ter stan\u2019, stiff-kneed an\u2019 bol\u2019,\n    An\u2019 answer ter deir name at de callin\u2019 ob de roll?\n              You\u2019d better come now ef you\u2019s comin\u2019,\n              Ole Satan\u2019s a loose an\u2019 a bummin\u2019,\n              De wheels ob destruction is a hummin\u2019\u2014\n              O, come along, sinner, ef you\u2019s commin\u2019.\n\n    De song ob salvation is a mighty sweet song,\n    An\u2019 de Paradise wind blow fur an\u2019 blow strong,\n    An\u2019 Aberham\u2019s buzzum is safe an\u2019 its wide,\n    An\u2019 dat\u2019s de place whar de sinners orter hide.\n              No use ter be stoppin\u2019 an\u2019 a lookin\u2019,\n              Ef yo\u2019 fool wid Satan you\u2019ll get took in;\n              You\u2019ll hang on de edge an\u2019 get shook in,\n              Ef yo\u2019 keep on a stoppin\u2019 an\u2019 a lookin\u2019.\n\n    Jes now is de time, an\u2019 dis yer is de place,\n    Let de salvation sun shine squar\u2019 in yo\u2019 face;\n    Fight de battles ob de Lord, fight soon an\u2019 fight late,\n    An\u2019 you\u2019ll always fin\u2019 a latch ter de golden gate.\n              No use fer ter wait twel ter morrer,\n              De sun musn\u2019t set on yo\u2019 sorrer;\n              Sin\u2019s ez sharp ez a bamboo brier\u2014\n              Ax de Lord fer ter fetch yo\u2019 up higher.\u2014_Exchange._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA BIT OF HISTORY.\n\nThere is nothing new under the sun\u2014not even a Home Missionary\nSociety for Illinois. The American Missionary Association had three\nauxiliaries\u2014the Penobscot, in Maine; the Western Home and Foreign,\nat Cincinnati; and the North-western, at Chicago. In 1854, the\nNorth-western was modified to become the Illinois Home Missionary\nAssociation. As such it was operated for five or six years, when\nit was given up, and the whole work was transferred to the A. M.\nA., with a District Secretary to have supervision of the missionary\nchurches and to push the collections. When that District Secretary\nand the missionary churches, in 1861, were transferred to the A.\nH. M. S., he retained in possession the record books of those two\nauxiliaries. But these, together with other precious journals,\nwere consumed by the great fire, so that it will be difficult to\nreproduce that chapter in our State home evangelism. Rev. Epaphras\nGoodman was the Corresponding Secretary. Rev. S. G. Wright and Dr.\nFlavel Bascom both served as agents. Rev. A. L. Rankin, now of\nCalifornia, was a general missionary along the southern portion\nof the Illinois Central Railroad. Coming to one place in Egypt,\nand inquiring for the religious element there, he got this as an\nanswer: \u201cReligious element? You are the first man we have had\nmaking that inquiry. We thought you were looking for land.\u201d\n\nWe find by the Annual Report of the A. M. A. for 1855 that, of its\n104 missionaries in the home department, forty of them were under\nthe Illinois Society. Among these were Revs. W. W. Blanchard,\nNelson Cook, George Bent, William Beardsley, S. Dilley, George\nGemmell, J. T. Marsh, M. N. Miles, Alfred Morse, W. A. Nichols, L.\nParker, George Schlosser, David Todd, E. E. Wells and David Wirt.\nAmong the fifty-four churches aided were the South, the Edwards,\nand the Welsh, of Chicago; and those of Amboy, Henry, Providence,\nUdina, Plymouth, of Ottawa; DeKalb, Lawn Ridge, Metamora, Roscoe,\nSterling, Bloomington, Byron, Kankakee, Newark, Milburn, Albany,\nUrbana (now Champaign), Huntley, Victoria, Shirland, Dundee and\nSandwich.\n\nThe State Society investigated the necessities of the field, and\nendorsed applications for aid, but did not make appropriations\nto the churches. This was done by the A. M. A. in New York,\nwhich issued the commissions. After a while the executive\ncommittee\u2014Deacons Carpenter and Johnston, and Pastors Patton and\nRoy\u2014finding that they were simply an additional committee for\nendorsing applications, and not having the responsibility and the\nstimulus of administration, made request to have the whole work\nresumed by the A. M. A., and the State Society voted to discontinue\nits operations. Herein is a confirmation of the wisdom of the new\nSociety in making itself independent and auxiliary, and not simply\nco-operative. This piece of history, containing the argument of\nexperience, was not brought out in the late series of discussions.\n\nThat there was no alienation of feeling attending this separate\noperation in home missions as a testimony against slavery, is\nevident from the fact that the churches and the missionary pastors\nof the A. M. A. were so readily turned over to the A. H. M. S.,\nand by it so cheerfully received. That National Home Missionary\nSociety had all along borne more or less of testimony against\nslave-holding; but when, in 1857, it passed a rule by which all\nof its fifty-five Southern Presbyterian missionaries were dropped\nfrom its list, then no one could question the soundness of its\nposition. So, again, the readiness with which testifying churches\nreturned to regular contributions in behalf of the American Board,\nas well as of this Society, revealed an abiding love for these\nvery organizations with which for a time they had not walked in\nfellowship. The First and the Plymouth Churches of Chicago, which,\nfrom their organization, had taken each its two annual collections\nfor the A. M. A., one for the home and one for the foreign\ndepartment, fell in with the old Society and Board as naturally and\nheartily as though they had always been among the more conservative\nchurches. On the other hand, the chief officers and supporters of\nthe old organizations were glad that the organic testimony thus\nborne, along with other influences, had been able to tone up public\nsentiment so that the satisfactory action could be taken by them.\n\nAnd now everybody sees that, out of that testifying process, God\nwas bringing on another organization to be ready against the day\nwhen He should open to it the special field of the South and of\nAfrica.\n\n                              \u2014_Rev. Dr. Roy, in the Advance._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nBrunswick\u2014Risley School Exhibition.\n\nAS SEEN BY A SOUTHERNER.\n\n  This school is taught by S. B. Morse, a graduate of Atlanta\n  University. The following account is from a local newspaper.\n\nMR. EDITOR: It has ever been a source of unfeigned pleasure to me\nto observe any efforts tending to the elevation and refinement\nof humanity. Hence, it was no less a pleasure than surprise\nlast evening when I found so marvelously successful an effort\nin that direction, as evinced in the concert and exhibition\u2014the\nclosing exercises of the Risley School. Mr. Morse (a graduate of\nthe University of Atlanta) may justly congratulate himself upon\nthe proficiency attained by his pupils, considering the great\ndifficulties and discouragements under which he has necessarily had\nto labor.\n\nThe colored people are born natural musicians; but the time,\nharmony and smooth rendering of the \u201cpart-songs\u201d last night gave\nindubitable evidence of thorough culture and faithful practice.\nThe declamation by the young scholars displayed good powers of\nmemory and hard study. Their enunciation was distinct and perfect.\nThe selections were excellent. With the single exception of an\ninterruption by a few disagreeable, unmannerly boys, who evidently\nhad as little respect for themselves as for propriety, the affair\nwent off without a break. Quite a number of white persons were\npresent. Just before closing the exercises, Mr. Morse made a short\nand pertinent address, stating the numerous difficulties under\nwhich he had labored, but offering \u201cthe fruits of his labors\u201d as\nthe test of his fidelity and capacity for filling the position he\nproudly claimed, of \u201cteacher.\u201d The Honorable President of the Board\nof Education and Mr. Kenrick, the county-school commissioner, were\ncalled upon for speeches, and expressed their hearty gratification\nat the degree of proficiency and the evidence of faithful study\non the part of the school, and their satisfaction at the marked\nimprovement in order, manner, and the advance in education, as\nclearly shown by their present exhibition.\n\nWe have to congratulate ourselves upon possessing a most quiet,\nrespectable and law-abiding colored element. Their comfortable\nhomes, with well-stocked gardens; their numerous churches, some\nquite pretentious in architecture, and, above all, their large and\nsubstantial free school, give proof that there is no question of\ntheir enjoyment of all \u201cthe rights, titles and emoluments\u201d of a\n\u201cfree and independent citizen\u201d in Brunswick.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nWanted\u2014a Barn.\n\nREV. E. P. LORD, TALLADEGA COLLEGE.\n\nMeeting a lady recently who has long been interested in our work,\nshe remarked: \u201cTalladega does not seem to have so many wants as\nmost new institutions\u2014at least, we do not hear so much of them.\u201d\nImagine my surprise, when I had feared that the Association and all\nof our friends were wearied by our continual importunities.\n\nWhat a list we have of not merely wants, but actual and pressing\nnecessities, for which some of us pray as continually and earnestly\nas for daily bread. A dormitory, for the physical and moral\ngood of the young men, now crowded six and more in a room, in a\nbuilding intended and much needed for other purposes; a library, as\nnecessary in a college as steam in a factory; money, without which\nnone of the means of elevating a race or individuals can be made\neffective.\n\nBut I want now especially to urge one vital necessity, even to the\ncontinuance of one of our most important means of helping this\npeople. Last year good friends in the North gave us $3,566.52,\nand some of the instructors advanced $2,000. With this amount\nproperty valued now at about $5,000 has been purchased, and an\nIndustrial Department, including farming, carpentering, printing,\nand house-work of all kinds, has been carried on one year. By\nthis outlay sixty scholars have earned a large sum in payment of\ntheir school expenses. They have also learned to do these various\nkinds of work in a systematic and intelligent manner. But in the\ngrowth of character the good has been greatest. The young people\nhave acquired earnestness, self-dependence and enterprise. During\nthe vacation they are disseminating this practical knowledge and\ntheir spirit through the whole State. The Southern Educational\nSociety, composed of some of the foremost educators of the South,\nrecently pronounced \u201cindustrial education the hope of the South.\u201d\nIt is certainly more necessary and more promising among the colored\npeople than among the whites. Already we can see the benefits of\nthe department in the improving material condition of the people\nin the country about, in better and larger crops, cultivated more\nskilfully with better implements, etc.\n\nThe Agricultural Department is one of the most useful, and it is,\nalso, one of the most remunerative parts of our work. At present we\nare obliged to go three-fourths of a mile by the road to reach the\nfarm; $1,000 would buy a piece of land connecting the farm directly\nwith the college buildings. This would save annually a large\npercentage of the cost in time required to reach the farm, to say\nnothing of the use of the land. Who will make this very essential\naddition to \u201cWinsted Farm\u201d?\n\nThe most profitable part of the farm-work is the dairy, and\nraising beef for the College boarding department. We shall keep\nfifty or sixty cattle continually, but we have now no barn. The\nworking stock, the implements and the feed must have a shelter.\nWe have nothing but sheds made of old lumber, which we fear the\nautumn storms will destroy, with much property within. Besides,\nif the farm is to be, as it should be, a model to the colored\npeople, we must not leave everything out in the rain and cold,\nas is universally the case in the South. There is to be held, in\nconnection with the department, this fall, the first Industrial\nFair ever held by the colored people. We expect it to be a means\nof education to 5,000 people. The barn should be ready for their\ninspection and information. Fifteen hundred dollars will give the\nfarm the barn it needs, and furnish work to a number of young men,\nby which they will learn the use of tools, under our very skilful\ncarpenter, and be able to pay their expenses in school. If friends\ncould appreciate how necessary these things are, we certainly\nshould have them at once.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTEXAS.\n\nThe Southwest Texas Congregational Association.\n\nREV. B. C. CHURCH, GOLIAD.\n\nThe General Association of Congregational Churches, of Texas, at\nits seventh annual session, doffed its name, and hereafter will be\nknown as the Southwest Texas Congregational Association.\n\nThree churches were represented by their delegates and pastors.\nRev. Geo. Whitefort, of Red River Association, and agent of the\nAmerican Tract Society, added to the interest of the meeting, and\nfound himself more interested than in any other association.\n\nThe Rev. A. J. Turner, member of West Texas General Conference,\nand pastor of the Congregational Church of Schulenburg, requested,\nwith his church, to be received into the Association. The church,\nconsisting of fifteen members, with Sabbath school of ninety-eight\nscholars, had been gathered by him since last January. They left\nformer associations to find a church home of purity and morality,\nand a more simple and Scriptural government. After examination,\nconducted mostly by Rev. S. M. Coles, a graduate of Yale Divinity\nSchool, he and the church were received.\n\nAt our morning and night sessions of each day we had preaching and\nother devotional services. Sabbath morning, Rev. Messrs. Coles\nand Whitefort spoke most earnest and profitable words to parents\nand children. This was followed by a love-feast, in which we had\nforty-five talks, which, with singing, occupied about an hour and a\nhalf. If several rose at a time, each waited for his turn. When the\npeople have been educated to speak of Christ and the joy of faith,\nrather than of themselves, and \u201cthese low grounds of sorrows\u201d\ncoming from their emotional nature, it is not strange that you see\nsmiles and tears, or that sinners\u2019 hearts get into their throats.\nWhen the opportunity was given, seventeen rose, saying, \u201cPray for\nus.\u201d After the Association adjourned, religious meetings continued\nfor a week, as a result of which, seven persons united with the\nchurch.\n\nThe Helena Church was organized four years ago with three members.\nNow there are fifty-four members, twenty-three of whom united\nwithin the last twelve months. During the same time they have\nraised seven hundred dollars, with which they have built a house\nand furnished it. The other churches have had but little growth in\nmembership, but in Bible study and intelligent worship there has\nbeen commendable improvement.\n\nA Christian Church, worshipping God according to Bible rules, is a\nlight of untold worth in any country. This feature of our work is\nencouraging. Even those who hate and persecute us gradually adopt\nour views and modes of worship.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nKENTUCKY.\n\n\nA Vacant Church\u2014The Seed Wafted\u2014The National Problem.\n\nREV. JOHN G. FEE, CABIN CREEK, LEWIS CO.\n\nI am here, in the field of my early ministry, on my regular\nquarterly visit. Twenty-four years since, I left this for my\npresent home in Berea, Ky.\n\nMost of those who, as parents, heard me with trembling twenty-five\nyears ago have passed away, and those who were then boys and\ngirls are now fathers and mothers. These, by time, thought and\nobservation, have had their early impressions ripened into\nconvictions. The sympathies and convictions of these are for\nloyalty to the union, liberty to man, and a gospel of impartial\nlove. They take no stock in the issues of mere denominationalism.\nThey assent readily to the proposition that manifested faith in the\nLord Jesus Christ, as a personal Saviour from _sin_, is the faith\nof the gospel. On this faith the church was organized in 1847,\nas it then separated from all slave-holding bodies. Some of the\nmembers are still there. They have been without a regular pastor\never since the year 1860. They still keep up a Sabbath-school, and\npart of the time a prayer-meeting.\n\nWhat they now need is a regular pastor\u2014one who can visit the\nfamilies, and preach at least once in two weeks. I hope such an\none may be speedily found. This, together with the congregation\nin Bracken County, would make a most interesting and promising\nfield. The effort to plant churches here thirty years ago was not\nin any sense a failure. And the second temple can be made much more\nglorious than the first.\n\nEmigrations from these fields have been useful also. Five families\nwent more than a hundred miles into the interior to help build up\nBerea; eleven others, young men and young women, have gone out\nthere as students in the college. Other families have gone to other\nStates to exert there an influence for liberty, justice, and a\ngospel of impartial love. Many of these were \u201cmere children,\u201d and,\nhaving had their birth in times of trial, they were not mutes in\nthe fields where, in the providence of God, they were cast.\n\nIn view of the debasing effect of slavery in the South, and the\ncommunistic element in the North, I am often asked, \u201cWhat is to\nbe the result of this effort to establish republican institutions\non this continent?\u201d I answer, there is no hope but in sanctifying\nthe hearts of the people by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This will\ndirect aright the intellect, the wealth and the activities of the\nnation, make the people a law unto themselves, and for good. Let\nus pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into His\nharvest.\n\n\nA Teacher\u2019s Vacation Correspondence.\n\nWhen tired teachers flee for rest to their own homes, they do not\nwholly escape from school duties or cares. Letters pursue them with\nunmerciful rapidity. From a pile of fresh ones, let us cull a few\nsamples of requests that demand sympathy and aid.\n\n\u201cMy school is to have an exhibition in a few weeks. Can you not\nsend me some interesting declamations and fresh music?\u201d A favor\neasily granted.\n\n\u201cThe Sabbath-school has appointed me king of its celebration.\nPlease send me a nice piece suitable to speak, and a few dialogues\nappropriate for the little folks.\u201d An hour\u2019s search through old\nfiles of the _National Teacher_ provides material exactly suited\nfor this occasion.\n\n\u201cThere is to be a Sunday-school Convention at \u2014\u2014, the 24th of\nthis month, and I am expected to speak. I never attended such a\nmeeting. Please write me a nice speech, telling who introduced\nSunday-schools, and how much good they have done.\u201d A modest\nrequest! But, if there is really to be a Sunday-school Convention\nin the heart of Southern Georgia, and this shy boy is to help make\nit successful, \u2019tis worth while to look over Sunday magazines for\nfacts which the speaker can arrange and use.\n\n\u201cI wish I could go to school the whole of this year. My wages for\nteaching public school three months will not carry me through.\nCould you help me in any way?\u201d\n\nA determined worker, who holds Sunday-schools on door-steps when\nno better place offers, seeks encouragement and papers. Here is\npart of his story: \u201cI have some hard trials, and ups and downs,\nbut I trusts in God, and tries to fight my way through. I have got\nno learning of account, but to the best of my knowledge I means\nto teach. God said where there is little known there is little\nrequired.\u201d Perhaps the angels could tell us that poor Jacob\u2019s crown\nwill far outshine that of many a richly-endowed soul.\n\nA \u201csweet-girl graduate,\u201d folding away bouquets and compliments with\nher pretty muslin, wishes to know how she can make her school-room\nattractive. Speaking of future plans, she pens these words: \u201cI mean\nto work for the Master to the best of my ability. I think a life\nnot consecrated to God is _no life_.\u201d\n\nIf sometimes burdensome, such letters do greatly add to the\nsweetness of vacation rest. They give assurance that the seed\nsown in weariness is yielding harvest, which, with the affection\nbreathed from every page, inspires to future faithfulness and zeal.\n\n                                                        L. A. P.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE MENDI MISSION.\n\nEight Added to the Church\u2014A Refreshing Sunday.\n\nRev. Floyd Snelson writes:\n\n  Last Saturday was our day for preparatory meeting, the following\n  Sabbath being the day of Communion. Ten persons presented\n  themselves as candidates for membership. All were examined\n  carefully, in open meeting; eight were received, as we believed\n  from their evidence that they were hopefully converted, and two\n  rejected on the ground that they were not married according to\n  law (this is one of the greatest evils that exist here, both\n  among the white and colored, there being no law to compel them\n  to marry). Sunday was, indeed, a day of great refreshing, there\n  being before us eight adults to be welcomed into the Church\n  of Christ, and seven children, in the arms of parents and\n  god-parents, to be consecrated to Him. And what increased the\n  joy was, that the whole week had been a rainy one up to late on\n  Saturday, when the good Master stopped the rain, and removed the\n  clouds gradually, and let the light of the sun beam upon us.\n  I would say more upon this precious subject, but the time for\n  closing the mail has arrived, and I am compelled to stop. Pray\n  for us.\n\nMr. E. White writes:\n\n  The thing I want to ask you about now is this\u2014if you will help\n  me to take care of a few boys? When I was here the first of\n  the year, the people came almost daily to get me to take their\n  children and keep them in the mission, but I told them that\n  I was not allowed to do so; if I were, I would do it gladly.\n  Their reason was that, if they sent their children to the\n  mission-school, they would only be in the school a small portion\n  of the day, and at home most of the day and all night, and,\n  therefore, the evil influence which they would have over them\n  in that time would overbalance what the teacher would teach\n  them in the short time he would have them in the day; and they\n  wanted their children to \u201cSabby-book,\u201d and if they did, they\n  must be taken away from them. They say that they don\u2019t think\n  their children can become like the white man while they are with\n  them; the \u201cpickin\u2019\u201d must be taken from the old people; and I\n  agree with them on this point. The vices which the old people\n  practice, the children will surely follow, if allowed to be where\n  they are. There are no children in this station, and we said in\n  our meeting that we would not take in any till we heard from\n  you; but, as I am a single man, you might not think of my taking\n  any mission children. Therefore, I write to ask you if you will\n  allow me to take some of the boys offered me. Some of the people\n  have promised to bring rice (which is the most they eat) for the\n  children, if I would only take them.\n\n  One being with these people every day can clearly see that the\n  redemption of Africa is in the little folks, and, therefore, I\n  think, that a number of these boys and girls should be taken by\n  somebody, and trained, as they are at Hampton.\n\n  This part of Africa is very little behind the South in 1866; and\n  see what the A. M. A. has done in that dark place since that\n  time? There are only two things that differ here from the South.\n  First, the colored people in the South had been taught to work\n  with more skill than these people have. Second, those at the\n  South had more civilized people to deal with than these people\n  have now. Take out these two, and Africa (this part), to-day,\n  will compare with the South before the A. M. A. took it in hand.\n  Now, if so much has been done in America, why not in Africa?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nS\u2019KOKOMISH RESERVATION.\n\nREV. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., PORTLAND, OREGON,\n\n_Superintendent A. H. M. S., for Oregon and Washington Territories._\n\nThe best way to study the Indian problem is to study the Indians\nthemselves. The agents and employees on the reservations have all\nthe means to test every element of this question.\n\n\nSafety of Life and Property.\n\nThe agent, Edwin Eells, Esq., with wife and children, has lived\namong the Indians here seven years. The employees and their\nfamilies have lived here from one to six years each, all without\nharm or fear. At any moment the Indians could have killed them,\nstolen their property, burnt the dwellings, and fled to the rugged\nhills and mountains. The agent has traversed the country occupied\nby his bands, alone, or with Indians, by day and by night, without\ninjury or alarm, leaving his wife and little ones at their mercy.\nWhisky is excluded from the reservation, but outsiders have sold it\nto the Indians, and exposed him and his household and company to\ndanger from them, when excited by it, and the more when arresting\nthem and arraigning and convicting the sellers in the courts. But\nin no case has he or one of the whites received a blow, or a stab,\nor a shot, or a threat from an Indian during all these seven years.\n\nLike facts can be put on record of the safety of agents and\nemployees, and their families, on most, if not all the reservations\nin Oregon, Washington and Idaho.\n\nTheir property has also been safe. Agent Eells affirms that clothes\nare left out day and night, tools are left in open sheds, doors are\nnever locked, and yet they have never had an article stolen. He\nadds that they have had no occasion to use force, or show weapons,\nexcept in the arrest or retention of criminals. For this police\nservice he commonly appoints Indian constables. What is true on\nthese counts of the S\u2019Kokomish Indians, is true of other bands or\ntribes placed on reservations in this region. Those who live near\nthem, or who have observed them in all conditions, both off and on\nthe reservations, for the last fifteen, and even for thirty years,\ncan bear witness that they are usually quiet, peaceable hunters,\nfishermen, or workers on farms, or in mills, or lumber camps, or\nin kitchens and laundries for the whites, exciting no fear among\nfamilies, and causing no danger to lone travellers on the prairies\nor in the forests.\n\nThe Nez Perc\u00e9 reservation has been traversed for thirty years\nby whites in safety. Prospectors have ranged alone among their\nmountains, and through the gulches in all directions, in search of\ngold and silver for twenty years, in entire safety. Miners have\nfollowed and pitched their camps in every sort of lonely spot,\nexposed to the attacks of these savages. Long caravans of goods, in\nmule or wagon trains, in the care of a few teamsters, have passed\nback and forth among these Indians, and most of the other tribes,\ntransporting merchandise of all kinds during the last twenty years,\nunmolested by the Indians. Express-men have had no fear to go to\nany mining camp of the upper country in charge of millions of\ngold. The mail carriers, on horses, have crossed and recrossed the\nwhole Indian country unharmed. Stages, loaded down with mails and\npassengers, have rolled along over many of the same routes, having\nno more fear of Indians than of the white settlers, for whose\nconvenience the post routes were established by government. Flocks\nand herds, in care of a few scattered men, have multiplied in all\nthose regions. The robberies and murders, as the records of the\ncourts testify, have been committed by white men. Sheriffs trace\nnearly every crime and outrage to the white, not to the Indian race.\n\nThe charges of a thieving, savage, murderous spirit made against\nthe Indian in the public press, on the street, in the halls of\ndebate and legislation, are not borne out by the facts. It is like\ncharging a whole community with the vices and outrages of a small\nnumber of its members. It is like putting the stigma upon the whole\nSouth for the atrocities of Libby prison and Andersonville. It is\nthe charge of fraud upon the U. S. A. for the defalcations and\nembarrassments of a few of her citizens.\n\nIn war or peace the Indian is cruel in revenge; but we cannot\nforget the massacres of Memphis. The victim in his grasp is\ntortured; but we remember the Chisholm and Hamburg horrors, and\nthose in the negro parishes outside of New Orleans. He destroys\nwithout mercy, and devastates without remorse; but the Pittsburgh\nriots, the New York mobs, and the Commune of San Francisco, belong\nto the white race. He has burnt a few of our hamlets and settlers\u2019\ncabins. We have swept him and his household and his camps,\u2014the\nonly houses and cities that he can call his own\u2014with canister and\ngrape, the hail of iron and lead and fire. Having no commissariat,\nhe has starved his prisoners. Without transportation or fortress\nfor their safe keeping, he often raises the black flag and slays\nthem at sight. But again and again, at the outset of battle, the\norder has moved along our line, \u201cTake no prisoners!\u201d Cold as\nsteel, we have made a jest of his life, and hailed him good only\nwhen dead. We have steadily driven him from one hunting ground to\nanother, over the rivers and beyond the lakes, hemmed him in from\nthe gulfs and the oceans, crowded him off the prairies into rugged\nmountains, compelled him to sell his native lands, and have let\nloose the dogs of war upon him, because, forsooth, he has had the\nmanhood to resist our march of doom against his race. If he has\ncounted us the aggressors and the outlaws, we have hurled back upon\nhim the fiercest invective known to human speech. If he, in the\nwild delirium of madness, has outraged and mutilated his captive,\nwe have, in fiercer and more fiery passion, counselled, if not\nplotted, his extermination.\n\n\nProgress in Civilization.\n\nProofs press upon the eye and ear of agents and employees that he\ndoes more and better with the means in his hand for the support\nof himself and family than other men would. I visited ten Indian\nfamilies at their homes on the S\u2019Kokomish reservation, on the\n15th of August, and saw twenty more of their frame-boarded houses\nenclosed within their small claims. About thirty of the Indians,\nhaving finished haying, were away from home, most of them hunting\nin the mountains, or fishing at the weirs. Those at home had neat,\nwell swept rooms, usually a sitting-room, bed-room and kitchen.\nAlmost every one had a cooking stove, with its furniture, and\ncrockery on the table, or in the cupboard a few chairs or benches,\na clock in every house (often two), occasionally a rocking-chair\nand bureau, always one or two bedsteads, with beds and blankets,\nand often covered with a neat quilt of the wife\u2019s taste and make.\nCards and pictures were hung on the walls, and some of their\nphotographs, also. They were dressed in comfortable clothes, and\nwere glad of a call and a kindly greeting. They are adopting the\nmanners of their white teachers.\n\nThe school, in charge of Deacon G. A Boynton, has a list of\nthirty-one pupils, twenty-four of them pure Indians, six\nhalf-breeds, and one little white girl. In dress, order and\nstudiousness, they rank with many of our common-schools. In\nreading, singing, writing, at the blackboard, or in mental\narithmetic, they evince ability to learn what white children learn.\nIt is done more slowly, partly because while reciting in English\nthey probably think in their own more familiar language, or in\nthe jargon, and thus fail to get or convey the meaning of words\nquickly, and probably from lack of such mental training in their\nparents. The laws of heredity hold in them as in other people.\nBetter shaped heads and finer brain power may be expected of their\nchildren.\n\nIn church and Sabbath-school, Indian parents and children meet with\nwhite parents and children, join in singing, listen to a sermon in\nthe morning, translated by the interpreter into the Twana Indian\nlanguage, and in the evening, to one in English. They exhibit a\ndesire to learn the word of truth, and are profiting by their\ninstructions. Several of the pupils in the school have become\nChristians and united with the church.\n\nThe testimony of the agent, the missionary, the teacher, the\nphysician, the farmer and the carpenter, is uniform as to their\ncapacity, and desire to improve and live like the whites, and of\ntheir real progress in industry and manner of living. They are\ntrusted more and more, and they honor the trust.\n\nIt is cowardly to despise them and cast them out like dogs. It is\nnoble to respect them as men and women, who have the rights of\nlife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They have claims on\nus for sympathy and help to secure these things. It is a credit to\nlift up the lowest, if we count them so. Those who know them best\nhave most hope of them, if given a fair chance.\n\n\nA Neglected Treaty.\n\nNo man will clear land and make a farm unless he owns it, or has a\nlien upon it. The treaty pledges them an allotment for a homestead\non the reservation. It was made by Gov. Stevens, in Jane 1855, at\nPoint-no-Point, and ratified by the government in 1859. In private\nand public speeches, with one voice, they plead for their titles.\nThey want the patents promised in the bond nineteen years ago. With\nthese in hand, they will improve their homes still more. It is a\nreasonable demand. The plan to remove them from these lands, where\nthey were born, excites their fears and their rebellion. We cannot\nexpect them to rest in quiet and work with energy until we give\nthem the motive of ownership in the soil they till and the timber\nthey cut. This is the question of the hour for the Indian. Shall he\nown in law his garden and his field and his house, or hold it as a\ntenant at the will of another, liable to ejectment? If government\ngrant the former, as it has promised, the largest factor of the\nproblem will be found that will solve the rest of it.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGREEN BAY AGENCY, KESHENA, WIS.\n\nJOS. C. BRIDGMAN, ESQ., AGENT.\n\nThe Stockbridge tribe take very little interest in education. The\nhead men, not specially interested, voted to have only six months\u2019\nschooling, paying the teacher but $25 per month. As this tribe\nreceive $3,800 a year, the same being the interest on their funds\nin the hands of the Government, this meagre sum is illiberal.\nRev. J. Slingerland, who has been both preacher and teacher for\nthis tribe for many years, is still retained. While the number of\nchildren of school age is twenty-five, with nearly as many of the\n\u201cold citizen\u201d party, who are not allowed privileges, the greatest\nnumber attending any one month is thirteen, and the average for the\nyear is ten. The church membership is twenty-nine.\n\nThe Oneidas are making an unusually good record. Their crops\nare nearly or quite one-third larger than last year. The school\nattendance shows an increase of thirty-seven, and the church\nmembership fifty-three over last year.\n\nThe Methodist Mission-school is unfortunately located for reaching\neven a fair number of scholars, and Rev. S. W. Ford, without\nadditional compensation, has opened a school a mile and a half\ndistant; his daughter, Miss Mary W. Ford, teaching the Mission\nschool without pay. The records of the two schools are seventy-nine\nscholars enrolled, with an average attendance of forty-five,\nagainst an average of twenty-six for the one school of last year.\nI am urging upon the Department the wisdom of establishing this\nnew school, which was started as an experiment, with the result\nas above. Unless thus sustained it will be abolished, as Mr. Ford\ncannot give his time without reward.\n\nThe church membership, 178, has had some twenty-five additions the\npast year, as the result of a revival in the fall and winter of\n\u201977\u201378. Two or three of its members have been licensed to preach\nthe gospel. Exception to the rules of the Methodist Church is\nmade, and Mr. Ford is now on his sixth year at this post, being\nfound peculiarly fitted for work among the Indians, whom he well\nunderstands, having lived with this and other tribes of the State.\n\nThe Episcopal Mission-school has enrolled 114, many of whom are\ninduced to come by gifts of clothing, etc., supplied by the\nEpiscopal Mission. Average attendance for the year forty-five and\ntwo-ninths. The Episcopal Church is well attended by a serious and\ndevout congregation on the Sabbath. Membership 150.\n\nAlthough there is a lodge of Good Templars with this tribe,\nI regret to say that some of the members do not realize the\nsacredness of their oath as they should, and falling from grace is\nno uncommon occurrence; yet it has brought about a radical change\nwith some who have been confirmed drunkards for many years.\n\nThe Menomonees have shown a wonderful spirit of thrift and\nenterprise the past year, putting 200 or more acres of new\nland under cultivation. Permission having been granted by the\nDepartment, it is proposed to hold a fair the last week in\nSeptember, with a list of prizes for the best and second best\nproductions of their crops, stock of all kinds, and manufactured\narticles by the women. Two hundred dollars in silver coin is to be\ngiven. This is creating a spirited impetus to good work, and lively\ntimes are expected on Fair-day.\n\nThe schools of this tribe have, we regret to say, taken a step\nbackwards. In 1876, through the advice of Inspector Watkins,\nthe day-schools were consolidated into a Manual Labor and\nBoarding School at Keshena, which far exceeded our most sanguine\nexpectations in numbers and interest. The breaking out of the\nscarlet fever, in the fall term of 1877, compelled us to close the\nschool, with but four or five weeks\u2019 teaching. It was renewed on\nthe 6th of January, but, owing to the non reply to letters, and\nthe omission of instructions from the bureau, only eight weeks\u2019\nschooling has been had since January 1st.\n\nAt the present time we are waiting permission to employ a matron\n(as necessary to the success of the school as a teacher). This\ndelay is to be greatly regretted, as fifty children could be\neasily gathered (the limit of our poor accommodations), while the\nday-school has an average of less than ten.\n\nCrime and drunkenness is greatly on the decrease; not a case of any\nmagnitude of the former, and but a very few cases of the latter,\ncoming to my notice for the past year. This is a very hopeful sign\nwith this tribe, many of whom are wishing to become citizens.\n\nWith the exception of scarlet fever, in a very mild form, among the\nMenomonees, the sanitary condition has been excellent with these\npeople.\n\nAs you are aware, the religion of this tribe is about equally\ndivided between the Pagan and Catholic, the former adhering closely\nto their rites and ceremonies, as for worship and the burial of\ntheir dead; and, when standing by, as they render their thanks to\nthe Great Spirit for \u201cour homes,\u201d \u201cour friends,\u201d \u201cour food,\u201d asking\nHis protection \u201cfrom storms,\u201d \u201cfrom disease,\u201d and, \u201cwhen taken into\nthe happy hunting-ground,\u201d to be \u201cfound in favor,\u201d etc., one cannot\nbut feel that \u201cHe\u201d who \u201cis no respecter of persons\u201d accepts their\nthanks and hears their petitions, although accompanied with the\nshaking of gourds and the pounding upon an Indian drum, instead of\nthe grand _Te Deum_ from the organs of our city churches.\n\nWhile the soil for Christian labor is unfavorable, and tares find\nroot, to the choking out of good seed sown, yet we should take\nheart in the increasing desire on their part for better homes and\nfarms, and the laying aside of the wigwam for good houses, the gun\nand rod for the plow and hoe. A slow and certain improvement in\ntheir habits from year to year is observable, and with kindness,\nhonest dealing and right influence, the time is not so very far in\nthe future when they can and will take a place in our nation, not a\nwhit behind many pale faces.\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 C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon.\nF. F. Low, Rev. L. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S.\nH. Willey, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D.,\nJacob S. Taber, Esq.\n\nDIRECTORS: Rev. George Moor, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. W. E.\nIjams, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, E. P. Sanford,\nEsq., H. W. Severance, Esq.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  We print the following letter from our Brother Pond, in regard to\n  the need and call for a mission work in Hong Kong, not because\n  the Executive Committee have formed any design of entering upon\n  such a work in the name of the American Missionary Association,\n  but only as these letters from converted Chinamen show to what\n  earnestness of missionary zeal they have been converted, and so\n  bear witness to the reality of their Christianization.\n\n  Even though we felt warranted in extending our work to embrace\n  a limited foreign field on the Chinese Coast, as we do not,\n  there are questions of comity which would forbid it. The English\n  missionary societies occupy the Hong Kong field in force, and\n  the Presbyterian Board have missionaries in the Canton district,\n  from which the Chinese immigrants come to our Western coast. We\n  shall be very glad if they, or either of them, will supply the\n  want indicated by our correspondent, and for which the Chinese\n  converts show such deep concern.\u2014[ED\u2019S AM. MISS.]\n\n\nMORE ABOUT A MISSION AT HONG KONG.\n\nWhile studying the proposition which I ventured to broach last\nmonth, for a mission at Hong Kong, which should be in intimate\nrelationship with our Californian Mission, I requested our helper,\nBro. Fung Affoo, to consult the Chinese brethren on the subject and\ntell me what they thought. Soon after, letters began to pour in\nupon me, till now I have about twenty on file, and it has occurred\nto me that extracts from these would interest the readers of the\nMISSIONARY. Some of them I can copy verbatim; some will need to be\nretouched a little in their English in order to be understood; but\nthe ideas are their own, and the expressions will be modified as\nlittle as possible.\n\nFirst of all, Affoo himself says: \u201cI told the brethren at the\nmeeting last Sunday what you said to me about establishing a\nmission at Hong Kong. They were very glad; their faces beamed with\njoy. They all wish, with one accord, that this enterprise will be\naccomplished before long.\u201d\n\nThe first letter which I take from my file is from Wong Sam. He\nsays \u201cI wish you could establish a school in Hong Kong for a Young\nMen\u2019s Christian Association, as we have here. Then we could hold\nall our brethren together when they go back to China, and they\nwould not all scatter abroad. I am sure all our brethren will be\nglad to have one. I ask God all the time for it, if God is willing,\nfor He knows what is best. We cannot do anything without the\nHoly One. Accept my warmest love and thanks for your kindness in\nexpending so much on our account, and bringing us out of darkness.\nYou will not lose your reward \u2018in my Father\u2019s kingdom,\u2019 as Christ\nsays.\u201d\n\nThe next one which comes to hand is from Hong Sing, and addressed\nto Affoo. It reads as follows: \u201cI heard you some time ago talking\nabout if we would like have one American Association school in Hong\nKong. I feel very glad, indeed, if we have one school in Hong Kong,\nthat we may go back to our China and find a Christian Home. Canton\nand Hong Kong have two or three schools, but not our Congregational\nAssociation. You know how many of our Christian brothers have gone\nback to China. They find no Christian home; then they find very\nhard to be good, and bye-and-bye feel cold with Jesus.\u201d\n\nJoe Lee and Chin Quong write to say: \u201cI like the idea of having a\nChristian school in Hong Kong very much, indeed. I think it will be\ngreat benefit, not only to the Christian boys, but also to the poor\nheathen boys there.\u201d Chung Sun says: \u201cI very glad; God very good to\nme. I like bye-and-bye go back China; tell father, mother, sister,\nbrother, very good Jesus. If him all [i.e., his relatives] no like\nme I go Christian house, call Christian friend Help me tell father,\nmother, sister, brother, how very good Jesus is. If all man, woman\nlove Him, bye-and-bye go heaven. If he all beat and _lick_ me, I go\nto the Chinese Mission at Hong Kong; very good, all the same my own\nchurch.\u201d\n\nAh King writes: \u201cDear Mr. Pond\u2014I am very glad in heart that I heard\nmissionary schools be opened in Hong Kong. I think you make these\nthings for our Christian brethren, just like builder build a stone\nfoundation of buildings\u2014the wind cannot blow off it.\u201d That is, the\nmission work at Hong Kong will tend to secure the results of our\nwork here. Without this, the winds of contradiction and persecution\nin China will tend to blow our brethren who return there off the\nfoundation.\n\nPerhaps these will suffice as samples, and I think that all the\npoints made in the other letters are referred to in these. But\nthe tone differs in different letters, and the fact specially\nemphasized; thus, for example, the chief point with one is, \u201cIf it\n[mission at Hong Kong] can be, it can keep us _doing good_ when we\ngo back, and I thank God with all my heart.\u201d With another, it is\nsorrow that we been without such a mission so long. \u201cWe plead,\u201d he\nsays, \u201cour brethren to help us. I pray that God will bless you and\nopen a way to make a mission in Hong Kong.\u201d Another says, \u201cIf men\ncan\u2019t do it, we all hope God has an authority [has some way] do it\nfor us. I hope our parents hear the gospel, receive it all, come to\nHim forever.\u201d A refuge from persecution is often referred to. \u201cWe\nhave great many trials, and I hope the Christians do this thing,\nthen our brothers have a place to see each other. We are far from\neach other in China.\u201d\n\nI conclude with the following from Jee Gam, whose name is familiar\nto most of our readers\u2014the helper longest in service with us; whose\ngood judgment, Christian spirit, and untiring zeal, I have learned\nto greatly respect. He says: \u201cI was very much pleased to hear that\nyou have written to the A. M. A., requesting its permission and aid\nto establish a Chinese Mission in Hong Kong. Without attempting to\nadd anything to what you have written, I will tell you what Ting\nKi, the most active deacon of the London Mission at Hong Kong, said\nto me while I was there: that the best way to accomplish the most\ngood is to open a mission and a Christian Association similar to\nours here. He also said that the great need of the English language\nis now felt by most of the Chinese in that city, and in order to\naid them, such schools as we have here should be established. This\nis the best way to reach them, so as to interest them in the Bible,\nwhich is our chief aim. As many of the people in that city are\nlaboring people, they could attend school better in the evening\nthan through the day. Ting Ki was very anxious to have me remain\nand establish such a mission-school, and teach them the English\nlanguage. The brethren in the Oakland school all feel as I do about\nthis matter, and they asked me to write for them, as well as for\nmyself.\u201d\n\nI will add nothing to these expressions. I confess that as I\nread them over, they ring in my ears like the Macedonian cry,\nand I cannot but hope that our Association, hearing it, will\nendeavor immediately to go into this modern Macedonia, \u201cassuredly\ngathering that the Lord has called us for to preach the gospel unto\nthem.\u201d\u2014Acts xvi, 10.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFrom a Private Letter of a Pastor\u2019s Daughter on a Visit to\nTalladega College, Alabama.\n\n                               BY THE ROAD-SIDE, _Aug. 24, \u201978_.\n\nDEAR AUNTIE: Where do you think I am? This morning, Miss L.\n(the matron of the college) and Mr. W. (one of the teachers)\nand I started out, with horse and open buggy, for Anniston, a\nlittle town twenty-six miles away. We got up early, and ate\nour breakfast before the rest, then put the three satchels and\nwater-proof, shawl, two umbrellas, two blankets and pail of oats\nand lunch-basket in the bottom and back of the buggy. Then we\nthree piled in, stopping in the village just long enough to get\nsome lemons. We had a lovely ride\u2014part of the way through the\nwoods\u2014catching glimpses of the mountains in the distance, all along.\n\nPerhaps you know that Alabama abounds in springs; so, whenever we\ngo out for a drive or a picnic, we always aim for a spring\u2014taking\na gourd with us for a cup. We learned at a little town just below\nhere that there was a fine spring a little farther on; and here\nwe are now right in the woods. I am writing on a _Sabbath-school\nTeacher_, which doesn\u2019t take the place of a desk very well. We\nhave eaten our dinner and washed the dishes, and have been reading\naloud. We are now just ready to pick up the blankets and things,\nand start again, for we have eleven miles yet to go. So, bye-bye,\ntill the next stopping-place.\n\n\n                                       ANNISTON, ALA., _Sunday_.\n\nI am going to write part of my letter Sunday, you see. I didn\u2019t\ntell you what we came here for, did I? Well, many of the scholars\nat the college go out to teach in the summer, and sometimes the\nteachers who are staying there through vacation go off to see their\nold scholars, and encourage them in their Sunday-schools. They\ndo a great deal of good in this way. I have visited two of these\nmission-schools; and this time we came to see Mr. M., one of the\ntheological students who has just been ordained here at Anniston.\n\nWe found him and his wife living in a neatly-painted house, close\nby his little church. It did me so much good to go into his home\nand see what it was. Not much like most of the colored people\u2019s\nhouses\u2014log-huts, dirty, low, and only one room, with so few\ncomforts. This was a house of two rooms\u2014the front room carpeted\nneatly; a nice bureau and bed in the room; a little table with\nbooks on it (one of which was a copy of Shakspeare!) In one corner\nof the room was his writing desk, with library over it\u2014and a very\ngood library it was; books on Isaiah and Psalms; Gospels and\nEpistles; several, or rather all of Barnes\u2019 Notes; a book on Moral\nPhilosophy, etc. I suppose that doesn\u2019t sound like much of anything\nto you; but when you know how many of these people live, and how\nignorant they are, it seems so much. There were pictures on the\nwall, a clock on the mantel, shades and curtains at the windows,\netc. The church has a good bell, and is to be painted very soon.\n\nWe attended Sunday-school this morning. Mr. M. has a little\nblackboard, a review chart, question-books, Gospel-hymns, and all\nsuch things. It did seem, this morning, when I was there, that\nthe colored people were advancing some. I am really interested in\nthem, Aunt Sarah. Have you heard of _my_ little Sabbath-school? May\nH., a girl a little older than myself, and three of the students\n(girls), and a driver, start at half-past two o\u2019clock every Sunday\nafternoon, in a mule-wagon. The school is held in a Mr. Allen\u2019s\nhouse\u2014colored\u2014(not the house, but the man, you know). We have to go\njolting over the roughest kind of a road to get there, crossing the\nrailroad track twice. When we reach the place, we crawl through the\nfence and enter the little house. We find the children seated on\nbenches made of rough boards. May and I take our places in chairs\nat the head of the school. Sometimes we have over forty children.\nWe open the school by singing some of the Gospel-hymns, then\nfollows the prayer; after talking a minute or two to the scholars,\nthe teachers take their classes and benches out of doors, and teach\nright among the bee-hives and hollyhocks!\n\nThe room is too small for so many scholars, especially as there are\ntwo beds in it. After a while, the classes are called in, and one\nof the scholars chooses a hymn to sing. Then I ask questions about\nthe lesson. Then we count the scholars and call their names, and\ngive out papers. Then I ask for verses from the children, which\nthey have learned in the classes. We then repeat the Twenty-third\nPsalm together, and close by saying, in concert, the Lord\u2019s Prayer.\n\nNow, you know a little of my Sabbath-school. I take ever so much\npleasure in planning for it. Friday evenings we have a Teachers\u2019\nMeeting, just for us six teachers to talk over the school, and\nstudy the lesson for the next Sabbath. Those are dear little\nmeetings. I enjoy them _so_ much. I hope I am helping a little to\nraise up these poor neglected people.\n\nI will leave the rest of my paper for my next stopping-place.\n\n\n                                     BY THE ROAD-SIDE, _Monday_.\n\nHere we are again, at the same lovely spring where we took our\ndinner Saturday. We have just lunched, and Miss L. is reading.\nLeila, our horse, is taking her dinner, and when she finishes it,\nwe shall start again for _home_.\n\nThis morning we passed a whole field full of cardinal flowers. We\npicked some beautiful ones, which are now bathing in the spring.\nWhen riding here, we see such different sights from what we do in\nthe North. There are such beautiful tall pines here. They grow up\nfifty or sixty feet before putting out any branches. The sweet\ngum-tree, too, is very pretty. In the distance it looks like a\nmaple. We often see wild grape-vines covering trees, the stems as\nlarge at the bottom as my two fists. The English ivy seems to like\nthis climate, too, for when it is planted by the side of a tree, it\ngrows way up into the branches, and almost covers the whole tree\nsometimes. The passion flower grows in the fields here.\n\nLeila is just eating her last oat, so we must be starting. I\nsuppose my next stopping place will be Talladega. Good-bye. From\nyour loving niece,\n\n                                                  LAURA P. H.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR AUGUST, 1878.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $279.20\n\n    Augusta. ESTATE of Mrs. Mary B. Buxton, by\n      Samuel Titcomb, Ex.                                    200.00\n    Bangor. First Ch.                                          7.80\n    Bath. Isaiah Percy $5; Beulah B. Percy $3;\n      Eliza Bowker $3                                         11.00\n    Bethel. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         12.00\n    Brewer. First Ch. $6 and Sab. Sch. $2                      8.00\n    Ellsworth. Mrs. L. T. Phelps and daughter                 12.00\n    Falmouth. P. N. Marston                                    6.40\n    Lebanon. S. D. L.                                          1.00\n    North Anson. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    5.00\n    Saco. D. J.                                                1.00\n    Winthrop. Mrs. E. H. N.                                    1.00\n    York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            14.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $259.35.\n\n    Antrim. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Wilmington, N. C._                5.00\n    Auburn. P. C.                                              1.00\n    Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            45.00\n    Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                1.75\n    Brookline. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              3.50\n    Colebrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             14.47\n    Concord. Individuals, by A. J. Herbert                     3.00\n    Exeter. \u201cFriend\u201d                                          20.00\n    Francestown. Cong. Ch. $10; A. F. $1                      11.00\n    Goffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             22.76\n    Hampstead. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                    50.00\n    Lancaster. Rev. C. E. S.                                   1.00\n    Mason. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  1.25\n    Meredith. S. S. Tappan                                     5.00\n    Peterborough. Union Evan. Ch. and Soc.                    23.87\n    Pittsfield. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               17.00\n    South Merrimac. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                 2.00\n    Wilton. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         16.00\n    Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            15.75\n\n\n  VERMONT, $852.65.\n\n    Benson. Cong. Ch.                                         12.00\n    Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     16.63\n    Cambridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $29.79; Dea. S.\n      Montague $10; J. T. Fullerton $3                        42.79\n    Fair Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $26.87; Cong.\n      Sab. Sch. $25                                           51.87\n    Grafton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               16.00\n    Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch.                              5.00\n    Guildhall. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              0.50\n    Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               5.25\n    Manchester. E. J. Kellogg                                 10.00\n    Monkton. Henry Miles                                       7.35\n    St. Albans. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      16.88\n    Sharon. S. P. F. and Mrs. A. F. $1 ea.                     2.00\n    Springfield. Mrs. E. D. Parks $100; Cong. Ch.\n      and Soc. $55.38.                                       155.38\n    Thetford. J. M.                                            1.00\n    Waterbury. L. Hutchins                                   500.00\n    West Westminster. Rev. A. Stevens                         10.00\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $3,685.48.\n\n    Abington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        35.14\n    Ashfield. F. H. Smith                                      5.36\n    Athol. ESTATE of Mrs. Abigail Chaplain, by\n      Lewis Thorp, Ex.                                       300.00\n    Bellingham. E. W.                                          1.00\n    Beverly. ESTATE of John Lovett, by James Hill\n      and Chas. T. Lovett, Executors                       1,311.31\n    Beverly. Miss Emma Harwood, proceeds of\n      Children\u2019s Fair                                          2.00\n    Boston. Juvenile Class of Phillip\u2019s Cong. Ch.\n      $18.75, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._; \u201cA\n      Friend\u201d $1                                              19.75\n    Boston Highlands. R. W. $1; J. F. 25c.                     1.25\n    Charlton. Clarissa W. Case                                 5.00\n    Danvers. Maple St. Ch. and Soc.                           91.79\n    Duxbury. Mrs. A. P. Holmes                                 2.00\n    Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        28.00\n    Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch. and Soc.                         50.00\n    Georgetown. Orth. Memo. Ch. and Soc.                      26.16\n    Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      50.00\n    Great Barrington. ESTATE of Mary and Nancy\n      Kellogg, by Hiram Crittenden, Adm\u2019r.                   500.00\n    Harwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (M. C. Coll.)                 11.94\n    Haverhill. John Kendrick                                  10.00\n    Holliston. Mrs. Mary M. Fisk                               5.00\n    Housatonic. W. G.                                          1.00\n    Hubbardston. Mission Circle $14, _for\n      Talladega C._; Mrs. Alden Pollard $6                    20.00\n    Littleton. Orthodox Sab. Sch.                              5.00\n    Long Meadow. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. $18.58;\n      Gents\u2019 Benev. Soc. $18.25                               36.83\n    Mansfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              8.41\n    Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      50.00\n    Marshfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $58.52,\n      and box of Books.                                       58.52\n    Medway Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      GEORGE E. SANDERSON, JOSEPH JONES and REV.\n      H. A. HANAFORD, L. M\u2019s.                                112.50\n    Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                15.23\n    Monterey. Cong. Ch.                                       17.00\n    Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch.                            44.42\n    Northampton. First Cong. Ch. $33.91; Edwards\n      Ch. $29.22.                                             63.13\n    Norfolk. W. E. C.                                          1.00\n    Pittsfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5; S.\n      F. 51c.                                                  5.51\n    Randolph. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      10.00\n    Reading. Old South Cong. Sab. Sch.                         7.03\n    Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             120.00\n    Royalston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            130.50\n    Sandwich. H. H. Nye.                                       2.00\n    South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         10.00\n    South Hadley. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                       16.62\n    South Weymouth. Ladies\u2019 Mission Soc. of Second\n      Cong. Ch.                                               18.00\n    Springfield. Hope Cong. Ch. $15; South Cong.\n      Ch. $12.34; Mrs. Sarah Merrill $2.50                    29.84\n    Sturbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $36.55; Cong.\n      Sab. Sch. $7.58                                         44.13\n    Townsend Centre. \u2014\u2014                                        8.00\n    Ware. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                          10.00\n    Woburn. Cong. Sab. Sch., for _Hampton, Va._               70.00\n    Worcester. Union Ch. $46.37; Hiram Smith and\n      Family $30                                              76.37\n    West Boylston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         22.00\n    Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      37.07\n    West Haverhill. Miss C. M. Smith                          50.00\n    Winchendon. North Cong. Sab. Sch.                         29.67\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cR. A. L.\u201d                                           100.00\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $15.\n\n    East Providence. Cong. Ch.                                15.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $887.46.\n\n    Brooklyn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        48.00\n    Canterbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc                        6.12\n    Cromwell. Cong. Ch.                                       60.00\n    Danbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         64.17\n    Deep River. H. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch. and Soc.              12.25\n    Lebanon. First Ch.                                        48.70\n    Lyme. Grassy Hill Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      21.00\n    Middlebury. Cong. Ch.                                     25.07\n    Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          25.17\n    New Britain. South Cong. Ch.                              35.25\n    New Haven. College St. Cong. Ch.                          66.50\n    New London. \u201cCollected by a Friend,\u201d _for\n      Mendi M._                                               10.00\n    Norwich Town. First Cong. Ch.                             41.50\n    North Stamford. Cong. Ch. $1.50; Mrs. A. A. N.\n      $1                                                       2.50\n    Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.                                  95.35\n    Rocky Hill. Individuals, by Miss E. M. W.                  1.05\n    Salem. Cong. Ch.                                           5.00\n    Simsbury. Mrs. M. H. W.                                    1.00\n    South Britain. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $32.75 (of\n      which $10 from P. B. Averill, _for the Debt_)           22.75\n    Stafford. Mrs. Thomas S. Thresher                          3.50\n    Terryville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      GERTRUDE M. FENN, NELLIE TERRY and LELIA\n      WILLIAMS, L. M.\u2019s                                      110.40\n    Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              12.80\n    Westbrook. Cong. Sab. Sch. box of Books, by\n      Dea. I. N. Spencer.\n    West Haven. Cong. Ch.                                     19.40\n    Wethersfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    93.61\n    Wilton. Cong. Ch.                                         40.00\n    Wolcott. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.00\n    Wolcottville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          11.37\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $807.23.\n\n    Albany. V. S. Knowles                                      2.00\n    Binghampton. J. D. Wells                                   5.00\n    Bridgewater. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            4.00\n    Champion. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  6.00\n    Columbus. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       3.00\n    Copenhagen. Lucian Clark $10; Martha Smith $5             15.00\n    Eaton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 17.65\n    Gaines. ESTATE of Henry O. Bidelman ($30 of\n      which to const. EDWIN S. BIDELMAN, L. M.),\n      by Charles Bidelman, Ex.                               200.00\n    Gaines. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $28.72, to const.\n      MRS. L. A. SANFORD, L. M.; Cong. Sab. Sch.\n      $8.90                                                   37.62\n    Greenville. F. H. W.                                       1.00\n    Homer. Cong. Ch.                                          32.15\n    Ithaca. Mrs. Adam Harrison                                 3.00\n    Le Roy. Mrs. Sarah Covert                                  5.00\n    Lima. Rev. H. N. P.                                        0.25\n    New York. Mrs. Hannah Ireland $50.\u2014Mrs.\n      Congdon $5, _for Fisk U._                               55.00\n    Oneida. Rose J. Topliff $50; H. P. Palmer $20             70.00\n    Peekskill. Prof. Robert Donald, Set of\n      School-desks and chairs.\n    Perry Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30.56; S. R.\n      Barber $10                                              40.56\n    Pompey. Mrs. James H. Child ($4.50 of which\n      _for Student Aid_)                                       5.00\n    Rome. Sarah H. Mudge                                      10.00\n    Spencerport. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                          17.50\n    Syracuse. \u201cS. J. W.\u201d                                      10.00\n    Union Springs. Mrs. Mary H. Thomas, _for\n      Woodbridge, N. C._                                     100.00\n    Utica. ESTATE of Job Parker, by T. and M. M.\n      Parker, Executors                                      140.00\n    Warsaw. Mrs. C. B. Darling $10; W. R., G. M.\n      P., A. W. N., O. F. P and A. G. B. $1 ea.,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._\u2014Mrs. S. A.\n      H. 50c.                                                 15.50\n    West Winfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          9.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014.                                                     5.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $20.\n\n    Newfield. Rev. Charles Willey                             10.00\n    Parsippany. Mrs. Jane W. Ford                             10.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $105.47.\n\n    Philadelphia. \u201cB.\u201d                                        50.00\n    Washington. Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne, _for Le\n      Moyne Sch., Memphis, Tenn._                             55.47\n\n\n  OHIO, $436.\n\n    Alexandria. Ladies, by Rev. D. S. Jones                    5.00\n    Adams Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith                             10.00\n    Cardington. W. C. Nichols                                  5.00\n    Cleveland. W. F. Hinman, _for Tougaloo U._                50.00\n    Cincinnati. Rent $41.48, _for the poor in New\n      Orleans_.\u2014Rev. B. P. Aydelott, D. D. $10                51.48\n    Dover. David Ingersoll and Mrs. Nancy H.\n      Ingersoll                                               42.00\n    Garrettsville. P. S. Tinan $5; A. C. W. 70c.;\n      \u201cFriends\u201d $1, _for Tougaloo U._                          6.70\n    Geneva. A. W. Hyman $10; Chas. Talcott $5;\n      \u201cFriends\u201d $1.05; Dea. G. C., M. C., W. E.\n      P., J. E. C., Mrs. A. E. H., Miss L. H. and\n      Mrs. H. A. W. $1 ea; Mrs. M. and Miss M. M.\n      K. $1; Mrs. E. W. S. 50c., _for Tougaloo U._            24.55\n    Huntsburg. Young Ladies\u2019 Soc. $5; Miss E. L.\n      Miller $2, _for Ind. Dept. Talladega, C._                7.00\n    Jersey. Mrs. Lucinda Sinnet                               10.00\n    Lafayette. Cong. Ch.                                       6.25\n    Lenox. Cong. Ch.                                          16.00\n    Madison. Elias Strong $5; Mrs. H. E. H. $1; L.\n      J. W. 50c., _for Tougaloo U._                            6.50\n    Mecca. Burt Case $5; J. C. H. $1, _for\n      Tougaloo U._                                             6.00\n    Medina. Woman\u2019s Missionary Soc., by M. A.\n      Curtis, Sec., $12, _for Ind. Sch., Talladega\n      C._\u2014Cong. Ch. $14; M. E. Nettleton $5; Mrs.\n      S. 50c., _for Tougaloo U._\u2014Mrs. Ann G. Fenn\n      $2                                                      33.50\n    Oberlin. First Cong. Ch.                                  52.58\n    Painesville. A Friend                                      5.00\n    Tallmadge. F. F. Fenn $6; Mrs. P. Seward $5;\n      Calvin Treat $3; Mrs. H. E. Wolcott, H. A.\n      Sackett, Wm. Hind, F. D. Alling and Daniel\n      Hind $2 ea.; Mrs. C. A. Sackett $1.25; H.\n      Carter $1.10; Mrs. E. A. W., Miss J. E. W.,\n      B. W. and Mrs. M. J. B. $1 ea; Mrs. L. A. S.\n      and Mrs. T. B. W. 50c. ea, _for Tougaloo U._            31.35\n    South Ridge. Urania Haviland                               2.00\n    Strongsville. Presb. Ch. $4.36; Mrs. A. P. $1,\n      _for Tougaloo U._                                        5.36\n    Wakeman. Second Cong. Ch. (of which $5 from\n      Sarah D. Todd).                                         26.37\n    Wauseon. Mrs. W.                                           0.50\n    Wayne. Mrs. Lydia Beers                                    2.00\n    West Andover. Rev. J. E. S.                                1.00\n    Weymouth. Cong. Ch., _for Tougaloo U._                     3.86\n    Windham. \u201cFriends\u201d $1.25; Mrs. E. K. H., Dea.\n      S. P., A. J., E. A., A. A. and G. A. M. $1\n      ea.; M. G. D. 50c., _for Tougaloo U._                    7.75\n    York. Cong. Ch.                                           16.25\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $239.18.\n\n    Amboy. Mrs. D. W. Slauter                                  1.50\n    Canton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           25.00\n    Chicago. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Cong. Ch., $25,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._\u2014Mrs. S. P. H. 50c.           25.50\n    Hutsonville. C. V. Newton                                  2.00\n    Ivanhoe. R. Osgood                                         5.00\n    Lafayette. Mrs. D. J. H.                                   2.00\n    Lake Forest. Mrs. S. B. Williams, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           10.00\n    Moline. F. H. Williams                                    14.00\n    Morrison. Cong. Ch.                                       21.51\n    Newark. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00\n    Oak Park. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                                10.00\n    Odell. Cong. Ch.                                           8.25\n    Payson. Cong. Ch. (of which $50 from J. K.\n      Scarborough)                                            80.00\n    Peoria. Cong. Ch. (in part)                               22.92\n    Solon Mills. R. R. C.                                      1.00\n    South Holland. Rev. A. B.                                  0.50\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $290.60.\n\n    Ada. T. I. H.                                              1.00\n    Adrian. Stephen Allen                                      5.00\n    Allegan. J. M. McCord, _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                      5.00\n    Almont. Ladies of Cong. Soc. $5; Mrs. H. G.\n      (Romeo) $1, _for a Missionary, Memphis,\n      Tenn._ (Incorrectly ack. in August Mag.)\n    Alpena. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Indian Boy, Hampton\n      N. and A. Inst._                                        25.00\n    Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch. $23.50; Isaac\n      Elliott $5                                              28.50\n    Armada. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           25.48\n    Battle Creek. Mrs. Dr. J. B. Chapin                        3.00\n    Benzonia. W. B. $1; \u201cA Friend\u201d 50c.                        1.50\n    Bellevue. \u201cA Little Band of Cheerful Givers in\n      First Cong. Soc.\u201d $11.30, by Mrs. H. L.\n      Berry. (Ack. incorrectly in Sept. number\n      from Bellevue, Ohio.)\n    Detroit. Rev. H. D. Kitchell $25; \u201cA Friend\u201d\n      $21.40; Miss H. $1, _for Missionary,\n      Memphis, Tenn._                                         47.40\n    Galesburg. First Ch. of Christ, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           35.00\n    Grand Haven. Cong. Ch.                                     1.00\n    Leland. Rev. G. T.                                         1.00\n    Litchfield. Cong. Ch., to const. F. C. MEAD L.\n      M.                                                      31.00\n    New Baltimore. Miss Hattie Milton, _for\n      Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._                              7.00\n    Northport. Cong. Ch.                                      11.72\n    Rochester. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for\n      Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._                              3.00\n    Union City. \u201cA Friend,\u201d (in part) to const.\n      AARON C. HENDERSON L. M.                                40.00\n    Vermontville. L. P. D.                                     1.00\n    White Lake. Robert Garner $10; John Garner $5             15.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $103.78.\n\n    Burlington. Plymouth Ch. (in part)                        11.35\n    Delavan. Cong. Ch.                                        12.00\n    Elk Grove. Cong. Ch.                                       8.25\n    Fort Howard. Cong. Ch.                                    15.00\n    Fox Lake. Cong. Ch.                                        6.00\n    Leeds. Cong. Ch.                                           3.85\n    Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch.                           19.10\n    River Falls. Cong. Ch.                                     9.66\n    Waukesha. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                            7.00\n    Windsor. Cong. Ch.                                        11.57\n\n\n  IOWA, $200.84.\n\n    Burlington. Cong. Ch.                                     34.11\n    Davenport. Edwards Cong. Ch.                              72.00\n    Fort Madison. Francis Sawyer                              10.00\n    Grinnell. Cong. Ch.                                       60.00\n    McGregor. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc.                              14.56\n    Oskaloosa. M. B. Turner, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                 2.17\n    Wintersett. Sarah Dinsmore                                 8.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $109.30.\n\n    Afton. Cong. Ch.                                           3.50\n    Audubon. Cong. Ch.                                         2.84\n    Minneapolis. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Cong. Ch.\n      $25; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. $17, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._\u2014Plymouth Ch. $17.55               59.55\n    Northfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   39.41\n    Sleepy Eye. Cong. Ch.                                      4.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $2.\n\n    Burlington. John Morris                                    2.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $15.50.\n\n    Brewer Crossing. Mrs. E. T.                                1.00\n    Omaha. Cong. Ch.                                          14.50\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $1.50.\n\n    Ironton. J. Markham                                        1.50\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $93.54.\n\n    Raleigh. Public Fund. $75; Washington Sch.\n      $18.54                                                  93.54\n\n\n  GEORGIA, 45c.\n\n    Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., _for Mendi M._                     0.45\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $567.11.\n\n    Montgomery. Public Fund $181.26; H. A. L. 50c.           181.76\n    Talladega. Talladega College. $185.35; Rev. E.\n      P. Lord $200                                           385.35\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $5.\n\n    Tougaloo. Rev. G. S. Pope                                  5.00\n\n\n  SCOTLAND, $105.\n\n    Edinburgh. Adam Parsons $100; Mrs. Wm. Lillie\n      $5                                                     105.00\n\n\n  TURKEY, $5.\n\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Wanderer\u201d                                            5.00\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total                                                  9,086.64\n    Total from Oct. 1st to August 31st.                 $151,757.14\n\n                                     H. W. HUBBARD, _Ass\u2019t Treas._\n\n\n  RECEIVED FOR DEBT.\n\n    Goffstown, N. H. M. A. Stinson                             5.00\n    Conway, Mass. Rev. A. Shirley                              1.00\n    Collinsville, Conn. \u201cFriends\u201d                              3.00\n    Fairfield, Conn. First Cong. Ch.                           5.00\n    New Haven, Conn. E. Pendleton                             20.00\n    Putnam, Conn. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  17.50\n    South Britain, Conn. P. B. Averill                        10.00\n    West Hartford, Conn. M. A. Ellsworth                       5.00\n    New York, N. Y. \u201cA Friend\u201d                               100.00\n    Andover, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Case, $10 ea.           20.00\n    Bell Brook, Ohio. Daniel Holmes                           10.00\n    Berea, Ohio. J. S. Smedley                                10.00\n    Cleveland, Ohio. \u201cA Memorial\u201d                            250.00\n    Sandusky, Ohio. Mrs. S. B. Caldwell                       10.00\n    Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. M. A. Harrington                       10.00\n    New Corydon, Ind. Geo. Stolz                              10.00\n    Logansport, Ind. Mrs. J. C. Merriam                        5.00\n    Dwight, Ill. J. C. Hetzel                                 25.00\n    Elgin, Ill. W. G. Hubbard                                 50.00\n    Milan, Ill. Mrs. J. M. N. Daniels                          1.00\n    Moline, Ill. John Deere                                   25.00\n    Plymouth, Ill. L. A. Cook                                  5.00\n    Polo, Ill. Mrs. R. M. Pearson                              5.00\n    Princeton, Ill. Mrs. A. R. Clapp                          50.00\n    Princeton, Ill. Mrs. P. B. Corss                          20.00\n    Alpena, Mich. \u201cFriends\u201d                                   25.00\n    Hillsdale, Mich. Mrs. H. I. Mead                           5.25\n    Imlay, Mich. Mrs. N. D. Glidden                            5.00\n    Olivet, Mich. W. B. Palmer                                50.00\n    Olivet, Mich. Mrs. H. L. Porter                            5.00\n    Marion, Iowa. Mrs. R. D. Stevens                          25.00\n    Marion, Iowa. Miss Mary Stevens                            5.00\n    Marion, Iowa. Miss Louise Stevens                          5.00\n    Marion, Iowa. Master Redman Stevens                        5.00\n    Appleton, Wis. Miss Ann S. Kimball                        20.00\n    Appleton, Wis. \u201cRuth\u201d                                     10.00\n    Bristol, Wis. Charles M. Fowler                           10.00\n    Fort Howard, Wis. Mrs. C. L. A. Tank                      50.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             892.75\n    Previously acknowledged in July Receipts              13,215.47\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total                                                $14,108.22\n\n\n  RECEIVED FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Bridgeport, Conn. MRS. MARY BISHOP, to const.\n      herself L. M.                                           50.00\n    Bridgeport, Conn. S. C. KINGMAN, to const.\n      herself L. M.                                           30.00\n    Chester, Conn. Dea. E. C. Hungerford                      30.00\n    Greenwich, Conn. Miss Sarah Mead                         100.00\n    Greenwich, Conn. Dea. Josiah Wilcox                       25.00\n    Greenwich, Conn. 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Mrs. Maria Willets                        10.00\n    Purchase, N. Y. Mrs. Sarah W. Collins                     10.00\n    Purchase, N. Y. Miss Sarah Collins                         1.00\n    Onargo, Ill. Mrs. L. C. Foster                            20.00\n    Olivet, Mich. William B. Palmer                          200.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             641.00\n    Previously acknowledged April Receipts                   824.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $1,465.00\n\n\n\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with\nthe almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its\nmain efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens\nand Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely\nrelated to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE\nin America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane\nand Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in\nAFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 11;\nKy., 5; Tenn., 4; Ala., 12; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 4.\n_Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 2. Total, 62.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.\n_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta,\nGa.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; and\nAustin, Texas, 8; _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,\nRaleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta, Ga.;\nMontgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.; 11; _Other\nSchools_, 7. Total, 26.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS\u2014Among the Freedmen, 209;\namong the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign lands, 10.\nTotal, 252. STUDENTS\u2014In Theology, 74; Law, 8; in College Course,\n79; in other studies, 5,243. Total, 5,404. Scholars taught by\nformer pupils of our schools, estimated at 100,000. INDIANS under\nthe care of the Association, 13,000.\n\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the\ngrowing work in the South. This increase can only be reached by\n_regular_ and _larger_ contributions from the churches\u2014the feeble\nas well as the strong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccomodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES, for\nthe new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and\npious, for these churches.\n\n3. 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DENISON, Adv\u2019g Agent,\n                                      56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.\n\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\u201ctha the\u201d changed to \u201cthat he\u201d on page 292. (it is essential that\nhe present)\n\n\u201cIthink\u201d changed to \u201cI think\u201d on page 312. (I think it will be\ngreat benefit)\n\n\u201cTaladega\u201d changed to \u201cTalladega\u201d in the entry for Hubbardston on\npage 315.\n\nDitto marks in tables were replaced with the text they represent,\nin order to help the text line up properly in all media.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 32, No. 10, October, 1878","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":23401}