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No. 11.\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                          NOVEMBER, 1878.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    THE ANNUAL MEETING                                           321\n    PARAGRAPHS                                              321, 322\n    MR. STANLEY\u2019S INTEREST IN CHRISTIAN MISSIONS                 322\n    THE INDIAN AGENTS WE NEED                                    325\n    \u201cHAMPTON TRACTS.\u201d\u2014CONGREGATIONALISM IN THE SOUTH             327\n    SUNDRIES.\u2014GENERAL NOTES                                      328\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    ALABAMA\u2014Florence: Rev. L. C. Anderson.\u2014A\n    Memphis Letter.\u2014A New Orleans Letter.\u2014Scholarship\n      Letters                                                331\u2013334\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    THE MENDI MISSION: Rev. A. P. Miller                         334\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    FORT BERTHOLD, D. T.: Rev. C. L. HALL                        337\n    LAKE SUPERIOR AGENCY: I. L. Mahan                            339\n    RED LAKE AGENCY, MINN: C. P. Allen, M. D.                    341\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    CHINAPHOBIA: Dr. M. C. Briggs                                342\n\n\n  THE CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE                                            343\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                       344\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. G. 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.      NOVEMBER, 1878.      No. 11.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n_American Missionary Association._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE ANNUAL MEETING.\n\nWe take this last opportunity to invite our friends to meet us\nin Taunton, Mass., October 29\u201331. We shall hope to see a goodly\nnumber of the old teachers and early friends of the work. Wednesday\nevening will be mainly in their hands. Among the speakers will be\nRevs. George R. Merrill, Martin L. Williston, C. M. Southgate,\nSvlvanus Haywood, W. S. Alexander, and O. W. Demick, Esq.\n\nThe speakers for the closing meeting on Thursday evening will be\nRev. J. L. Withrow, D. D., Rev. C. D. Hartranft, D. D., and others.\n\nAmong those who will read papers on Wednesday will be Rev. M. E.\nStrieby, D. D., Rev. George Leon Walker, D. D., Rev. Ebenezer\nCutler, D. D.\n\nAs we go to press, everything promises well for a meeting of\nunusual interest and power. The people of Taunton are large\nhearted, and will be glad to have their hospitality taxed to the\nutmost.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014The new Chinese Ambassadors are men from whose intelligence,\nexperience and wisdom we have much to hope. Chin Lan Pin, first\nambassador, is a man of deep learning, being a graduate of the Han\nLin College, of the highest class, and a man of extensive travel\nand observation as well. In 1872, he visited this country as Chief\nCommissioner in charge of the Chinese students sent to be educated\nin the Connecticut colleges, and he subsequently visited England\nand Spain on similar missions. In 1874, he was one of the three\nCommissioners who were sent by the Chinese Government to Cuba, to\ninvestigate the condition of the Chinese laborers there. After\nlocating the several consulates appointed for the United States, he\nwill visit Spain and procure the recognition of a Consul for Cuba,\nand thence proceed to Peru for a similar purpose. He will then\nreturn to Washington and take up his abode as resident Minister.\n\nThe Vice-Minister, Yung Wing, is even better known in this country.\nHe was graduated at Yale College with high scholastic and literary\nhonor, receiving the degree of LL.D. He subsequently devoted\nhimself to awakening his countrymen to the needs of reform in\neducation, and his efforts gained official recognition. He has been\nCommissioner of Education and in charge of the Chinese Educational\nMission in Hartford, Conn., and of the 112 Chinese students\nconnected with it.\n\nWe have been glad to read a very clear report published in the\nInverness _Courier_ of an address made by Prof. Spence, of Fisk\nUniversity in that city, in Scotland. The many friends of the\nUniversity and of Prof. and Mrs. Spence will be interested to know\nof the work they are doing in Great Britain, and that they are\nso fully recognized in the Scottish press. We learn from private\nadvices, that they have been very warmly received and cordially\nheard, and from the places in which they have presented their\ncause, have reaped fair, if not large, results. What effect the\nrecent failure of the Bank of Glasgow may have upon their future\nsuccess we cannot tell, but we fear it may dry up many of the\nstreams from which they had hoped to draw.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMR. STANLEY\u2019S INTEREST IN CHRISTIAN MISSIONS.\n\nIt was a remark of Dr. Livingstone\u2019s, that \u201cthe end of the\ngeographical feat is the beginning of the missionary endeavor.\u201d\nAnd, although all African explorers are not animated with the\nmissionary idea, yet it is easy to believe that an over-ruling\nProvidence uses their efforts for missionary ends.\n\nMr. Stanley asserts, that the object of his desperate journey was,\n\u201cTo flash a torch of light across the western half of the Dark\nContinent.\u201d \u201cIf the natives allow us a peaceful passage, so much\nthe better; if not, our duty says, go on.\u201d \u201cWe are always under\nthe eye of God.\u201d \u201cThe one God has written that this year the river\n[Lualaba] shall be known throughout its length. \u2018Think,\u2019 he says,\nto Frank Pocock, \u2018what a benefit our journey will be to Africa.\u2019\u201d\n\nFrom these different quotations, taken from Mr. Stanley\u2019s recent\nbook, we have a right to infer, that the interests of missions were\nprominent in his mind throughout his journey. Indeed, his book\nindicates that he was not only governed by a desire to complete\nthe explorations commenced by Dr. Livingstone, but also to further\nthe missionary endeavors of that godly man. This was evidenced\nfirst on his arrival at Uganda on the shores of the Victoria\nNyanza, where he wrote the following: \u201cA barbarous man is a pure\nmaterialist, he is full of cravings for possessing something that\nhe cannot describe. My experience and study of the pagan, prove\nto me, that if a missionary can show the poor materialist that\nreligion is allied with substantial benefits and improvement of\nhis degraded condition, the task will be rendered comparatively\neasy. The African, once brought in contact with the European,\nbecomes docile and imbued with a vague hope that he may also rise\nin time to the level of this superior being who has challenged his\nadmiration. He comes to him with a desire to be taught, and, seized\nwith an ambition to aspire to a higher life, becomes docile and\ntractable.\u201d \u201cI find them,\u201d he says, elsewhere, \u201ccapable of great\nlove and affection, and possessed of gratitude and other traits of\nhuman nature. I know, too, that they can be made good, obedient,\nindustrious, enterprising, true and moral\u2014that they are in short,\nequal to any other race or color on the face of the globe in all\nthe attributes of manhood.\u201d\n\nKing Mtesa, the despotic ruler over 2,000,000 of people, appeared\nto Mr. Stanley the most desirable object for his first efforts.\n\u201cMtesa has impressed me,\u201d he says, \u201cas being an intelligent and\ndistinguished prince, who, if aided by philanthropists, will do\nmore for Central Africa than fifty years of gospel teaching,\nunaided by such authority, can do. I think I see in him the light\nthat shall lighten the darkness of this benighted region. In this\nman I see the possible fruition of Livingstone\u2019s hopes, for with\nhis aid the civilization of equatorial Africa becomes feasible.\u201d\nMr. Stanley further informs us how he followed up his convictions:\n\u201cSince the 5th of April, I had enjoyed ten interviews with Mtesa,\nand during all, I had taken occasion to introduce topics which\nwould lead up to the subject of Christianity. Nothing occurred in\nmy presence, but I contrived to turn it towards effecting that\nwhich had become an object to me, viz., his conversion. There was\nno attempt made to confuse him with the details of any particular\ndoctrine. I simply drew for him the image of the Son of God\nhumbling himself for the good of all mankind, white and black,\nand told him how, while He was in man\u2019s disguise, He was seized\nand crucified by wicked people who scorned his divinity, and yet,\nout of His great love for them, while yet suffering on the cross,\nHe asked His great Father to forgive them. I had also begun to\ntranslate to him the Ten Commandments, and Idi, the Emperor\u2019s\nwriter, transcribed in Kiganda the words of the Law, as given to\nhim in choice Swahili by Robert Feruzi, one of my boat\u2019s crew, and\na pupil of the Universities\u2019 Mission at Zanzibar.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe religious conversations which I had begun with Mtesa, were\nmaintained in the presence of M. Linant de Bellefonds, who,\nfortunately for the cause I had in view, was a Protestant. For,\nwhen questioned by Mtesa, about the facts which I had uttered,\nand which had been faithfully transcribed, M. Linant, to Mtesa\u2019s\nastonishment, employed nearly the same words, and delivered the\nsame responses. The remarkable fact that two white men, who had\nnever met before, one having arrived from the south-east, the other\nhaving emerged from the north, should nevertheless both know the\nsame things, and respond in the same words, charmed the popular\nmind without the burzah as a wonder, and was treasured in Mtesa\u2019s\nmemory as being miraculous. As the result of these conversations,\nMtesa, who can read Arabic, caused the Ten Commandments of Moses\nto be written on a board for his daily perusal, as well as the\nLord\u2019s Prayer and the command of the Saviour, \u2018Thou shalt love thy\nneighbor as thyself.\u2019\u201d\n\nThe encouragement given to Mr. Stanley by his success with\nMtesa, caused him to send forth his famous appeal, resulting in\nthe establishment of a mission station at Uganda by the Church\nMissionary Society of London. He seems, also, to have pursued his\nwork during his stay of several months with Mtesa. Meanwhile, an\nopportunity was afforded him of testing the genuineness of Mtesa\u2019s\nconversion. The Wavuma were waging fearful warfare upon Mtesa,\nduring which, his scouts succeeded in capturing one of their\nprincipal chiefs. Mtesa was in high glee, and caused to be gathered\na large quantity of fagots with which to burn his prisoner. \u201cNow,\nStamlee,\u201d he said, \u201cyou shall see how a chief of Uvuma dies. He\nis about to be burnt. The Wavuma will tremble when they hear the\nmanner of his death.\u201d \u201cAh! Mtesa,\u201d I said, \u201chave you forgotten the\nwords of the good Book, which I have read to you so often\u2014If thy\nbrother offend thee, thou shalt forgive him many times,\u2014Love thy\nenemies,\u2014Do good to them that hate you?\u201d \u201cShall this man not die,\nStamlee? Shall I not have blood for him, Stamlee?\u201d\u2014\u201cNo, Mtesa, no\nmore blood; you must stop this pagan way of thinking. It is not\nMtesa the good. It is not Mtesa the Christian. It is the savage;\nI know you now.\u201d \u201cStamlee, Stamlee, wait a short time and you\nshall see.\u201d \u201cAn hour afterward, I was summoned by a page to his\npresence, and Mtesa said: \u2018Stamlee will not say Mtesa is bad now,\nfor he has forgiven the Mvuma Chief, and will not hurt him.\u2019\u201d\n\nMr. Stanley, however, though he had translated for Mtesa the Gospel\nof St. Luke entire, prepared for him an abridged Bible, selected a\nsite for a church, and detailed the boy Dallington\u2014a pupil of the\nUniversities\u2019 Mission at Zanzibar\u2014to remain at Uganda and serve as\na missionary, did not feel that he had provided sufficiently for\nthe spiritual wants of his convert. \u201cA few months\u2019 talk,\u201d he says,\n\u201cabout Christ and His blessed work on earth, though sufficiently\nattractive to Mtesa, is not enough to eradicate the evils which\nthirty-five years of brutal, sensuous indulgence have stamped on\nthe mind. This, only the unflagging zeal, the untiring devotion to\nduty, and the paternal watchfulness of a sincerely pious pastor,\ncan effect. And it is because I am conscious of the insufficiency\nof my work, and his strong evil propensities, that I have not\nhesitated to describe the real character of my \u2018convert.\u2019 The grand\nredeeming feature of Mtesa, though founded only on self-interest,\nis his admiration for white men. By his remarks, he proved he had\na very retentive memory, and was tolerably well posted in his\narticles of belief. At night I left him, with an earnest adjuration\nto hold fast to the new faith, and to have recourse to prayer to\nGod, to give him strength to withstand all temptations that should\ntend to violate the Commandments written in the Bible.\u201d\n\nMr. Stanley\u2019s long intercourse with the tribes of the interior\nenabled him to discover many traits of character that indicate\nthe aptitude of the negro to receive religious truth. On one\noccasion, he had dwelt a long while in giving account of great\nworks of art and science, commerce, agriculture, and material\nwealth; when he turned to the discussion of the grand themes of\nScripture and Divinity, the interest in the latter subject was so\nintense that Mr. Stanley determined to devote himself, with renewed\nenergy, to the promulgation of the doctrines of the Christian\nfaith, discovering\u2014what others had learned before\u2014that the negro\nhas a remarkable appreciation of the things of religion. He gives\nan incident, which occurred at Mowa Falls, on the Livingstone\nRiver, that displayed a quality of heart very suggestive to those\ninterested in the salvation of the pagan.\n\nUledi, the faithful coxswain who had dared every danger, and\nproved dutiful and faithful for years and months, having robbed\nthe Expedition of a quantity of beads, a council of chiefs was\ncalled, and the question was submitted as to what his punishment\nshould be. One of the most reliable and steady men replied, \u201cWell,\nmaster, it is a hard question. Uledi is like our elder brother,\nand to give our voice for punishing him, would be like asking you\nto punish ourselves; yet, master, for our sakes beat him only just\na little.\u201d Mr. Stanley then inquired of Shumari, who was Uledi\u2019s\nbrother, what punishment he should meet to the thief. \u201cAh, dear\nmaster,\u201d Shumari said, \u201cit is true Uledi has stolen, and I have\nscolded him often for it. I have never stolen. I am but a boy.\nUledi is my elder. But please, master, as the chiefs say he must be\nflogged, give me half of it, and, knowing it is for Uledi\u2019s sake,\nI shall not feel it.\u201d \u201cNow, Saywa, you are his cousin. What do\nyou say?\u201d Young Saywa advanced and said, \u201cThe master is wise. All\nthings that happen he writes in a book. Perhaps, if the master will\nlook in his book, he may see something in it about Uledi\u2014how he\nhas saved many men, whose names I cannot remember, from the river;\nhow he worked harder on the canoes than any three men; how he has\nbeen the first to listen to your voice always. Uledi is my cousin.\nIf, as the chiefs say, Uledi should be punished, Shumari says he\nwill take half of the punishment; then, give Saywa the other half,\nand set Uledi free. Saywa has spoken.\u201d It would seem that persons\nwith such instincts as these indicated above, would readily come to\nappreciate and accept the sacrifice of Him by whose stripes we are\nhealed.\n\nA thorough perusal of Mr. Stanley\u2019s \u201cThrough the Dark Continent\u201d\ncan hardly fail to arouse in the hearts of those yearning to heal\n\u201cthat open sore of the world,\u201d sympathy and fellowship with him.\nHe had his imperfections, and met with obstacles which brought\nthem sharply into view; but the good he accomplished will be the\nlongest remembered. His noble self-denial, after reaching the West\nCoast, as seen in his fidelity to his pagan followers, indicates\ncharacteristics worthy of profound admiration. Instead of leaving\ntheir conduct round the Cape of Good Hope to Zanzibar to the charge\nof others, and rushing on himself, to receive the plaudits of the\nproudest courts of the civilized world, he quietly and patiently\ncared for all their wants, for weary months, returning them to\ntheir homes and friends, and rewarding them with the liberality\nof a father\u2019s affection, which will be lovingly remembered among\nthe tribes from whence his servants came, long after his rich and\ncostly gifts of material things have perished.\n\nAll this will be worth something yet to the cause of missions.\n\u201cWhen we were gliding,\u201d he says, \u201cthrough the broad portals [of the\nCongo] into the ocean, turning to take a farewell glance at the\nmighty river, I felt my heart suffused with the purest gratitude to\nHim whose hand had protected us, and who had enabled us to pierce\nthe Dark Continent from east to west, and to trace its mightiest\nriver to its ocean bourn.\u201d That gratitude, we believe, is shared by\na mighty host of the followers of Him who shall have dominion from\nsea to sea\u2014who are already echoing the last words of Mr. Stanley\u2019s\nbook\u2014_Laus Deo, Laus Deo_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE INDIAN AGENTS WE NEED.\n\nThe vacancy in the Indian Agency, referred to in the last number of\nthe MISSIONARY, has been filled; but, as other vacancies are likely\nto occur from time to time, applications, with proper credentials,\nmay be forwarded to this office.\n\nAs to the qualifications necessary, we can state nothing more\nclearly than we find it given in an article, which we republish\nbelow, from the Springfield _Republican_, written by a gentleman\nwho seems thoroughly familiar with Indian affairs. We will\nonly repeat that an Indian Agency is no sinecure, and should\nbe undertaken by no man who is not thoroughly competent and\nself-sacrificing:\n\n  A residence of two years at an agency in Dakota gave the writer\n  unusual opportunities for observation of the requirements of this\n  service. The popular impression seems to be that this office is\n  a sinecure, affording retirement for decayed politicians and\n  inefficient goodies, whereas the service is, when faithfully\n  performed, an arduous one, requiring exceptional and diversified\n  ability.\n\n  The agent must have executive capacity, together with that rare\n  selective faculty that recognizes at sight a competent man for a\n  given place. The character of the agency force of employ\u00e9s, and\n  the quality of their work, reflects the personality of the agent.\n  The progress of the Indians in the schools, and in learning to\n  work for their own support, is in proportion to the efficiency of\n  the agent as an executive. A vigorous, capable man infuses his\n  spirit into his subordinates, and, in a more limited degree, into\n  the natives.\n\n  The agent needs judicial knowledge. No laws are in force on\n  Indian reservations, with a few exceptions, but the treaties with\n  the Government. The administration of justice and the punishment\n  of crime are left to the agent, with such co\u00f6peration as he\n  can secure from the Indian chiefs. He settles family quarrels,\n  neighborhood disputes, complaints against Indians by neighboring\n  whites, questions of the boundary of lands and the ownership\n  of property. He receives acknowledgments of deeds, executes\n  contracts, administers estates and takes depositions. Crimes of\n  all degrees, from petty theft to murder or arson, come under his\n  jurisdiction, and he is often compelled to administer punishment\n  almost as arbitrarily as the captain of a man-of-war. He is even\n  called upon sometimes to prepare a code of laws for a tribe in an\n  advanced state of civilization.\n\n  Business ability and experience are indispensable qualifications.\n  The agent has to purchase miscellaneous supplies amounting to\n  from $5,000 to $50,000 annually, on contract or in open market.\n  The opening of bids and awarding contracts on sample requires\n  actual acquaintance with the market, and experience in judging of\n  the quality of goods of every variety. He needs the experience\n  and judgment of a first-class country merchant. If the agent is\n  an incompetent buyer, contractors and merchants are quick to\n  discover the fact and profit by it. A knowledge of accounts is\n  essential. Accurate returns of every item of cash and property\n  received and expended, are required by law, and are subjected to\n  most rigid scrutiny. Absolute correctness, in both matter and\n  form, is required, and ignorance of methods is not admitted as an\n  excuse for errors.\n\n  The diplomatic qualifications of the position are by no means\n  inconsiderable. A copious official correspondence is required\n  with the Indian office at Washington, and must be conducted\n  with due formality and dignity. All matters of importance are\n  submitted to the Indian Office for action, and it often requires\n  skilful presentation of a subject to make a clerk at Washington\n  take a view that seems self-evident to the agent on the frontier.\n  Great tact and patience are requisite in dealing with the various\n  outside influences that embarrass the agent, and often bring him\n  to grief. Frontier settlers are continually having difficulties\n  with the Indians that require attention. Liquor-sellers,\n  claim-agents and swindlers lie in wait for the Indian, who\n  must be protected. Scheming half-breeds and \u201csquaw-men\u201d create\n  dissension among the natives. Then there are the contractor\n  and sub-contractor; the man who failed to get the contract he\n  wanted, and the man who is planning to get the next contract.\n  There is the ex-agent, who corresponds with the employ\u00e9s and\n  Indians, and criticises his successor, and the man who wants to\n  be agent, and watches for a lever to oust the incumbent. (There\n  are always twenty of them!) There is the dissatisfied employ\u00e9,\n  who corresponds with outsiders about agency affairs, and the\n  meddlesome clerk at Washington, who gives him private assistance.\n  The agents are few who meet all these difficulties without\n  serious trouble.\n\n  Especially, high moral character is a prime requisite, not only\n  on account of the agent\u2019s influence upon a people just rising\n  from barbarism, but to enable a man to maintain his integrity\n  under the extraordinary temptations that surround the place. Said\n  an ex-agent of unimpeachable integrity: \u201cI know of no service\n  that tries a man\u2019s principles so severely as the Indian service.\u201d\n  In spite of all precautions, opportunities for peculation, direct\n  and indirect, are frequent, and present themselves in the most\n  seducing forms possible.\n\n  Having shown the requirements of the position, we may consider\n  some of the obstacles in the way of securing agents who are\n  thoroughly competent for the work. First comes hard work. No\n  branch of our civil service draws more heavily on a man\u2019s time\n  and strength. The agent is involved in a constant round of\n  wearisome details, varied only by frequent hard journeys by wagon\n  or stage, or worse, by frontier railroads.\n\n  The responsibilities of the place are onerous. The agent is held\n  accountable, under a heavy bond, for all funds and property that\n  come into his hands, as well as for all the acts and failures of\n  his subordinates. He may be ordered away for months at a time, on\n  public business, and in the meantime he must depend entirely upon\n  the fidelity of the agency clerk, who is not a bonded officer, to\n  discharge his duties and care for agency property. Release from\n  bonded accountability can only be had after complying with all\n  the forms of law and going through a long and tedious process\n  of examination of accounts. Two years after closing his term of\n  service, an agent was required to account for one iron wagon-bolt\n  (purchased by a subordinate, three years before), in order to\n  secure release from his bond, and five hundred dollars arrears of\n  salary. The agent\u2019s family must endure practical exile, separated\n  from society, schools and churches.\n\n  Every agent, honest or dishonest, suffers in reputation. If a\n  man is thoroughly honest, dishonest contractors and jobbers\n  invariably slander him, to get rid of him. This consideration\n  keeps many competent men out of the service. The salary paid is\n  entirely inadequate. It is that of a country postmaster, an army\n  lieutenant, a school-teacher or a traveling salesman. Here is the\n  root of the whole difficulty. Even in the present state of the\n  labor market, it is impossible to get a $2,500 man for $1,500.\n  The expenses of the position are high. The agent keeps open house\n  for all strangers, newspaper correspondents, army officers,\n  Indian inspectors, and others. His family supplies are brought\n  from a distant market, at a heavy expense. This matter has been\n  presented to Congress by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, each\n  year for several years, but without effect.\n\n  In spite of these disadvantages, the service is much better\n  manned than might be supposed. Indian-Inspector E. C. Watkins\n  said to the writer: \u201cI have visited a large number of agencies,\n  and, in view of the meagre salary paid, and the difficult service\n  required, I have been surprised at the capacity and fidelity\n  displayed. As a class, the agents nominated by the religious\n  societies perform their duties with ability and success.\u201d When\n  a thoroughly competent agent is found in the service, one of\n  three things will almost invariably be true: Either he enters\n  the service with the idea of supplementing his salary (honestly\n  or dishonestly); or he is in search of novel experience or a\n  change of climate for himself or family; or (as is often true)\n  he has the spirit of a missionary, and seeks the advancement of\n  the Indian race. If we wish to escape the burden of providing for\n  idle Indians, we shall have to employ competent agents, at fair\n  wages, to train them to habits of industry.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\u201cHAMPTON TRACTS.\u201d\n\nAmong the excellent devices which have proceeded from the fertile\nbrains and earnest hearts of our fellow-workers for the freedmen,\nnone has for a long time commended itself to our hearty approbation\nmore than the one indicated in the above heading. It appears that\nan English Sanitary Association has for twenty years been engaged\nin publishing and distributing simple sanitary tracts and leaflets,\nintended for use in schools and families. Following this excellent\nexample, an editing committee, consisting of General Armstrong, his\nsister-in-law, Mrs. M. F. Armstrong, Miss Ludlow and Dr. Stephen\nSmith, of New York, propose, and have already begun, the same good\nwork. They say\u2014\n\n\u201cThese publications will provide as simply and in as attractive\na manner as possible, carefully prepared information upon all\npoints directly connected with physical life, as, cleanliness of\nthe person and house, ventilation, drainage, care of children and\ninvalids preparation of food, etc., and, as in the case of their\nEnglish forerunners, they are to be sold for a sum just sufficient\nto defray the cost of publication and to permit a certain amount of\ngratuitous distribution. They will be issued in a series, printed\nat the office of the Normal School Press, Hampton, Va., and will be\nknown as \u2018Hampton Tracts.\u2019\u201d\n\nThe need and use of such information among the homes and families\nof the Southern negroes is most apparent, though by no means\nconfined to them. It is in their midst, doubtless, that they will\nfirst be distributed.\n\nThe American Social Science Association, convened in Cleveland\nthis year, having examined the first three numbers of the proposed\nseries of tracts in manuscript, by a unanimous vote passed the\nfollowing Resolution\u2014\n\n  \u201c_Resolved_, That the American Social Science Association learns\n  with pleasure of the work undertaken at Hampton, in Virginia,\n  to spread among the people of Virginia, and of the South in\n  general, a knowledge of Sanitary Science popularly set forth;\n  and that from an examination of the three Sanitary Tracts of the\n  proposed series, viz.: _The Health Laws of Moses_, _The Duty of\n  Teachers_, and _Preventable Diseases_, the Executive Committee\n  of this Association is persuaded that the important task, thus\n  undertaken, will be well performed. We would, therefore, commend\n  these Tracts to all readers, at the North as well as at the\n  South, and would recommend their wide distribution in the way\n  best suited to promote the circulation of them.\u201d\n\nAgain, we desire to express our cordial commendation of the plan,\nand doubt not it will be carried out in all its details with wisdom\nand energy.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONGREGATIONALISM IN THE SOUTH.\n\nThat God holds the denomination which stands as the constituency\nof the American Missionary Association to a large measure of duty\nin this line, is evident from the fact that by His providence He\nhad been preparing this instrumentality against the day of freedom,\nand that He has given it now so wide and effectual a door of\nentrance. At first it entered with physical relief; then with the\nvery first school that was opened among the \u201ccontrabands\u201d; then\nwith its system of Normal schools and colleges and professional\ndepartments and church organizations. All this was the drift and\ndrive of Providence. To have halted anywhere up to this point\nwould have been to disobey marching orders. And now can anything\nbut the spirit of desertion fail to hear the command ringing on:\nGo; go, preach; go, disciple the people; go, organize them into\nthe life and fellowship of the churches of Christ? Having started\nthem in the way of Christian education, shall we deny them that\nschool of Christian nurture, the self-governing church? Having\ngiven them the elements of the Puritan system, shall we fail to\ngive them its full fruitage? The founding of such churches is but\nthe natural out-growth of this scheme for the elevation of the\nemancipated race. As in the Interior and in all the West, these\nideas and institutions have been a leavening force, so will they\nbe at the South, interpenetrating and uplifting. They will be an\nexample, a stimulus. They will help other communions. Already,\nour institutions have put not a few educated preachers into\nthe pulpits of the Methodist and Baptist colored churches; and\nwe are glad thus to help in their work. \u201cExpository preaching,\nwith warm application,\u201d says Col. Preston, \u201cshould be the\npreacher\u2019s mode.\u201d Our church members there are gaining the title\nof \u201cBible-Christians.\u201d Let churches of such material have a\nchance.\u2014_Dr. Roy, in the Congregationalist._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSUNDRIES.\n\nIowa Lands, Louisiana Churches, Theological Books.\n\nOf the 6,040 acres given to the American Missionary Association by\nthe Rev. Charles Avery, 1,500 yet remain to be sold. Any person who\nwould like to make a good investment in land, can do so by applying\nto Secretary Strieby at New York. I found that the railway company\nwere pushing their track along from Algona to Shelby on the Sioux\nCity & St. Paul Railroad. So the branch from Huntington on the same\nroad has been built to Sioux Falls in Dakota.\n\nSince the meeting of the Louisiana Conference in April, Rev.\nDaniel Clay, and his people at Terrebonne, have enjoyed a revival\nof religion which has added thirty-four to the membership. This\nsable brother has been the instrumentality in bringing several\nof the other pastors of that region into the ministry. Rev. W.\nS. Alexander, pastor of the Central Church in New Orleans, and\nPresident of the Straight University, somehow finds time once a\nyear to visit these brethren and these churches which he broods,\nin the Louisiana Conference. He says they are Congregationalists,\n_ex-animo_. This Christian worker, who was turned back from his\nmission to the nominally Christian lands in South Europe, finds an\nadmirable substitute in the extreme South of our country.\n\nThose young men who in our Southern institutions are coming on to\nbe Congregational divines, ought to have access to the theological\nliterature of the fathers. The common text-book used by their\ninstructors is Pond\u2019s Theology, issued by our Congregational\nPublishing Society. They ought to have in their libraries, as\nreference books, the works of Robinson, and Edwards, and Hopkins,\nand Bellamy, and Park on the Atonement. Now, these books are\non the shelves of the C. P. Society, and can be had cheap. The\nSociety has not in hand the means to make the appropriation, but\nare there not some of the stanch friends of the old Congregational\nBoard and its stanch theology, who will be glad to put those works\nwithin the reach of these young theologians of the South? That\nwould be a handsome thing to do, and grand results may follow\nin solidifying the views of those coming preachers. There are\nfive of these institutions which are teaching theology, and as\nmany libraries that await such an accession of the wisdom of the\nfathers.\u2014_Pilgrim, in Congregationalist._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\nThe Peabody Educational Fund.\n\n  The Board of Trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund\u2014George\n  Peabody\u2019s gift of $2,100,000 in aid of education in the\n  South\u2014held its annual meeting October 2d, in New York City. The\n  Treasurer reported receipts of $80,000, and disbursements of\n  $77,000. The principal statements of Dr. Sears\u2019s annual report\n  were the following:\n\nThe year just brought to a close has been one of unusual pecuniary\nembarrassment to all the schools of the South. While every\nbranch of the department of education has been affected by it,\nthat relating to the employment of teachers has suffered most.\nNotwithstanding these discouraging circumstances, the schools\nin most of the States, instead of deteriorating, have advanced\nin almost every respect. The attendance was never so great;\nthe interest of the people never so general. An approximation,\nnear or remote, in the great mass of teachers, to the standard\nof those professionally educated, has been effected, sometimes\nby county organizations, under State supervision; sometimes by\nbringing together teachers from all the counties of a Congressional\ndistrict; and, in one instance, by assembling the teachers of a\nwhole State to receive instruction for a period of six weeks. This\nis a new feature in the school operations of the Southern States,\nand is now more rapidly revolutionizing modes of instruction than\nany other measure that has been tried. No part of the funds at\nour disposal has produced greater or better results than that\ncontributed to this object. The scholarships established last\nyear have had an excellent effect. Those given to the New Orleans\nNormal School, in amounts of $150 each, were used for the benefit\nof pupils from the country parishes. They were ten in number. Those\nof the Nashville Normal College, of $200 each, were for pupils from\nbeyond the limits of Tennessee.\n\nThe number of white children in Virginia, December 1, 1877, between\nfive and twenty-one years of age, was 280,149; that of colored\nchildren, 202,640, making in all, 482,789. Of these, 139,931 white\nchildren and 65,043 colored were enrolled in the public schools,\namounting to 204,974, or somewhat less than one-half. The average\ndaily attendance was only 117,843. The current expenses for the\npublic schools and school officers were $949,721; and for permanent\nimprovements in real estate, houses and furniture, $100,625.\nAlthough the current expenses were reduced $36,000, the school work\nwas increased, and the number of pupils was 5,000 greater than the\nyear before. It is well known that the State is largely in debt;\nand the courts have decided that the school fund may be used for\nthe benefit of the creditors.\n\nIn North Carolina the provisions for education are altogether\ninadequate. There is a great lack of funds, and also of proper\norgans to execute the law. So long as a meagre State tax is the\nsole reliance for the support of schools, they will inevitably\nlanguish. Double the amount of money now raised would be a scanty\nsupply. The organization of boards of education, and of the other\nbranches of school administration, is radically defective.\n\nThe report of the new Superintendent of South Carolina for 1877\nshows that 2,483 schools, with an attendance of 102,396 children,\nout of 228,128, were in operation for a period averaging three\nmonths. The State had appropriated $100,000 for their support.\n\nIn Georgia, English branches only are taught in the public schools.\nThe total enrolment in 1877 was 191,000. Of this number, 64,000\nwere colored children. The school funds amounted to $434,000,\nincluding $143,000 which was raised by towns and cities. There is\na prospect that, under the new Constitution, there will be a large\nincrease of funds.\n\nA letter from Florida reports that in 1877 there were 30,406\npupils in the public schools\u2014about 4,000 over the number reported\nthe previous year. There is an improvement also in the quality\nof teachers, in the average length of school terms, and in the\ninterest taken by the people.\n\nFew well-graded and well-taught schools are to be found in Alabama.\nThe number of children of school age, in 1877, was 369,447; the\nnumber enrolled in the public schools, 141,230, about three-fifths\nof whom were white. The school expenditures for teachers and\nsuperintendents were $384,993.\n\nIn Mississippi, the Superintendent regards the situation as hopeful\nand encouraging. The statistics are very imperfect, as only\nsixty-five of the seventy-five counties made any report. These\ngive 160,528 as the number of children in school, and $481,251 as\nthe amount of money expended. The enumeration of persons of school\nage, giving the number of 324,989, is said to \u201cfall far short of\nthe actual number.\u201d\n\nIn Louisiana there has been a period of careful re-organization\nof the public school system, rather than of marked success in\nachieving decided results in the educational work of the State.\nThe loss of the interest on the trust fund for the year, by an\nunconstitutional act of the Legislature, and the failure to collect\nmuch over half of the $500,000 appropriated by the State, proved\nvery prejudicial to the country districts, where the number of\ncolored children required a much larger number of schools. In the\nparishes reported, the aggregate attendance of white children was\n16,042, and of colored children, 17,511. There are about 20,000\nmore colored than white children in the State.\n\nThe Secretary of the Board of Education of Texas, writing July 30,\nafter saying that the reports giving the statistics of the schools\nthe present year have not yet been received, adds: \u201cUnder our\npresent law, our schools have prospered as they never have before.\u201d\n\nArkansas has provided for 237 Normal beneficiaries, who are\nentitled to four years\u2019 free tuition. There were last year twenty\nNormal students in the collegiate course, and thirty-one in the\npreparatory school. At Pine Bluff there is a branch Normal college\nfor colored teachers, arranged on nearly the same plan, and\nentitled to the same number of beneficiaries.\n\nThe school population of Tennessee, in 1877, was 442,458; 111,523\nbeing colored. The enrolment was 227,643\u201443,043 being colored; an\nincrease of 33,463 over the enrolment of the previous year. The\nschools have improved as much in the quality of the instruction\ngiven as in the attendance. The amount of school money during the\nyear was $718,423, which is $120,311 less than that of the year\npreceding. Notwithstanding this diminution of funds, the number of\nschools was increased by 807, and that of teachers by 791.\n\nWest Virginia is one of the least fluctuating of the Southern\nStates in regard to education, and its history is that of a slow\nbut steady growth. The number of persons of school age, or from\nsix to twenty-one years, for the year 1877, was 192,606, being\nan increase over the previous year of 7,810. Of these, 125,332\nactually attended school, being a numerical increase of attendance\nof 1,828 over the preceding year, and an increase in the average\ndaily attendance of 11,191. There was an increase, also, of 161 in\nthe number of teachers employed. The total value of school property\nin the State is $1,714,600, being an increase on the preceding year\nof $54,132. The total expenditure for the year was $921,307, being\na decrease of $65,270, caused mainly by a reduction in the rate of\nteachers\u2019 salaries, and in the number of school-houses built during\nthe year.\n\nDuring the past year, the income of the fund was distributed as\nfollows: Virginia, $15,350; North Carolina, $4,500; South Carolina,\n$3,600; Georgia, $6,000; Florida, $3,900; Alabama, $1,100; Texas,\n$8,550; Mississippi, $600; Louisiana, $8,000; Arkansas, $6,000;\nTennessee, $14,600; West Virginia, $5,050.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014A general press dispatch from Washington reports that Mr. Keating,\neditor of the Memphis _Appeal_, having had his attention called\nto a statement by Dr. Ramsey, of Washington, that white women in\nMemphis have had to take colored men for nurses, or go without,\nand that the latter have abused their opportunities, pronounces\nthe story utterly untrue. He says that white women have not been\nput to the necessity of taking colored men for nurses; the other\npart of the statement is a libel upon the negroes of Memphis. He\nsays: \u201cAll honor to them. They have done their duty. They have\nacted by us nobly as policemen and as soldiers, as well as nurses;\nthey have responded to every call made upon them, in proportion\nto their number, quite as promptly as the whites. A few of them\nthreatened trouble at one time about food, but they were at the\nmoment suppressed by a company of soldiers of their own color. The\ncolored people of Memphis as a body deserve well of their white\nfellow-citizens. We appreciate and are proud of them.\u201d\u2014_Tribune._\n\n\u2014There is an Episcopal \u201cTheological Seminary and High School\u201d in\nVirginia. Several colored young men applied for education for the\nministry, and were turned away, rather than allow them to receive\neducation with white people.\u2014_Independent._\n\n\u2014A General Missionary Conference will be held in London, Oct.\n21st\u201327th. Among the topics to be discussed are the following,\nwhich bear especially upon the work of the A. M. A.: \u201cResults of\nEmancipation, Social and Religious: Probable Influence on Africa,\u201d\nby E. B. Underhill, LL.D.; \u201cDiscovery in Africa as bearing on the\nnew Mission Schemes in Central Africa,\u201d by Sir Fowell Buxton. Rev.\nDr. O. H. White, Secretary of the Freedmen\u2019s Aid Society of Great\nBritain, will represent the Association in the Conference.\n\n\u2014A company for developing commerce with Africa has been organized,\nunder the title of the American and African Commercial Company.\nArticles of Incorporation have been filed by Congressman Cain, and\nMessrs. Watts and Porter, well-known colored men. The Capital Stock\nis 500,000.\n\n\u2014The French Roman Catholic Mission here [Zanzibar] has lately\nestablished a station fifteen or twenty miles from Kidudwe, in\nthe Nguru Country, and now a party of ten Jesuit missionaries are\nleaving Bagamoyo to establish a mission at Ujiji.\n\n\u2014The Methodist Mission at Boporo, Africa, east of Liberia, has met\nwith unexpected repulses. The people wanted trade, and in their\ndisappointment became hostile to the missionaries. They can obtain\nno site for a mission building. The people were forbidden to give\nor sell them anything, even to eat, and this interdict had to be\nbought off. But the missionaries do not despair.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFLORENCE, ALABAMA.\n\nA Good Work Well Finished.\n\nREV. L. C. ANDERSON.\n\nI closed up my work at Florence on the first Sabbath of September.\nRev. William H. Ash was present, to take charge, in good time. The\nLord blessed the end more than the beginning of my labor at F. We\nwere permitted to work in a revival, beginning about the middle\nof August and lasting up to September 1st. This brought out great\nnumbers of the people, and gave opportunity to reach many. The\nSpirit was manifested from the beginning, in converting power.\nAbout twenty were converted, fifteen of whom joined our branch of\nGod\u2019s Church. So you see that we had great cause to be thankful,\nwhen, on the 1st inst., we came together at the Lord\u2019s Table, to\nre-dedicate ourselves to Him who first loved us and gave Himself\nfor us, to make to Himself a people zealous of good works.\n\nNothing is more potent than the Spirit of God to break down\nopposition and remove prejudice. The outpouring from on high turned\naway the stream of opposition, and so melted the hearts of the\npeople that we could say with David, \u201cBehold, how good and how\npleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!\u201d\n\nThe first part of my labor at F. was a work of sowing, and stirring\nup the hearts of Christians, so that, in God\u2019s time, we should\nbe prepared to enter and gather sheaves for the Master. During my\nlabor, twenty-one were added to the church, nineteen on profession\nof faith. Seven children were christened, and two unworthy members\nwere cut off. In these seventeen months, the little church of\ntwenty members became thirty-nine.\n\nBrother Ash enters upon the work with good promise of success, and\nhas a live church to work with.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA MEMPHIS LETTER.\n\nThe following letter, from Rev. Mr. Mallory, will explain itself.\nIt was written immediately after his recovery from the yellow fever:\n\n                                    MEMPHIS, September 27, 1878.\n\nREV. M. E. STRIEBY: _Dear Brother_.\u2014Your kind favor, dated\nSeptember 2d, has to-day come to hand, with the $50 all right.\nI have not been able to go so far as the post-office before\nthis, and it lay in the registry office. Thank you for your warm\nsympathy. May God reward your kindness. I was quite sick; suffered\nconsiderably from want of proper care, but none from lack of means;\nwas among the first in our neighborhood to have the fever, and the\npeople were afraid. With two or three exceptions, every member of\nthe church remaining in the city had an attack of the fever. A. J.\nBarker\u2014one of the oldest, and, as it seemed to me, the man whose\nlife was most important to the future of the church\u2014has died, and\none other. The loss seems an irreparable one; but the Lord has done\nit, and we try to say, \u201cLet Him do to me as seemeth good unto Him.\u201d\n\nIn this vicinity, and I think throughout the city proper, the\nsickness has greatly abated, but is spreading and increasing\nfearfully in the outskirts and adjacent country.\n\nThe supplies in the hands of the Howards and Relief Committee are\nample, but there is such a routine imposed upon the poor colored\npeople that many of them get out of heart before they reach the end.\n\nI will not appropriate any of the $50, but use it among the people.\nHad already bought a barrel of meal and side of meat, and begun\nwork; and now that I can write, will let you hear oftener.\n\n                          Yours, in hope,\n                                                  W. W. MALLORY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA NEW ORLEANS LETTER.\n\nThe following letter is one of several received by us in\nacknowledgment of moneys sent by and through the Association,\nto the sufferers by the yellow fever in the South. It is most\ngratifying to know that it has been expended with such care, that a\nreturn of names and amounts given has been made to us:\n\n                                NEW ORLEANS, September 30, 1878.\n\n_My Dear Sir_: Allow me, on behalf of several of our sufferers\nfrom yellow fever, in this city, to thank the American Missionary\nAssociation, through you, for great relief\u2014a draft of $50, sent\nthem in this time of dire need.\n\nNone but they who are here can fully know the terrible suffering to\nwhich our people are reduced; and I beg to assure the Association\nthat this act of charity will never be forgotten by them.\n\nI sign myself, on their behalf, as well as my own,\n\n                      Yours, very gratefully,\n                                                        C. HUNT.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSCHOLARSHIP LETTERS.\n\nExtracts from Students\u2019 Letters to their Benefactors.\n\n                                            STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.\n\n_Dear Benefactor_,\u2014I am happy to say that I am at school, striving\nto accomplish all I can before the ending of this session. I have\nbeen wonderfully blessed of the Lord these few years that I have\nbeen serving Him; and I cannot stop serving God, he is so kind to\nme. O, I love to work for Jesus; He is always willing to help the\npoor. Last October I was thinking how I could manage to continue at\nschool this session, having only $21.50 to commence. I thought that\nI would continue trusting the Lord and ask Him to help me. Then I\nwent to school, and found the teachers ready to receive me. I told\nthem that I would begin school Nov. 1st. Thus the Lord has blessed\nme to commence, and I think He will help me to the end. I wish\nagain to thank you for the aid you have furnished me toward getting\nan education. During the holidays last Christmas I built a house\n12\u00d724 for an old gentleman who was very anxious to help me get my\nschooling, and he paid me; then I was able to buy an overcoat. If\nthe Lord is willing, I will continue in school two years longer.\nPray for me that I may be able to help my people.\n\n                                                        C. H. C.\n\n\n                                              TALLADEGA COLLEGE.\n\n_Dear Sir_,\u2014I am glad to have the opportunity of writing you\nthis my third letter. You know that this is my third year in the\nseminary, and that I was to finish my course of study at the close\nof it. Among all my benefactors there are none to whom I feel so\ngrateful for my education as to you. By the assistance, which I\nhave received from your charitable hand, I shall be enabled to\ncomplete my studies and enter upon a field of labor at our next\nCommencement. It would be impossible for me to repay you for what\nyou have done for me during these last years of my course, though\nI had bags of \u201cfine gold.\u201d I know that my getting an education was\nnot the ultimate motive that actuated you to give your money; but\nthat I might be prepared thereby for the Master\u2019s service, and to\ngo into His vineyard and help build up His kingdom. This is the\nfruit which, I perceive, you expect to find growing upon the vines\nwhich you have planted and watered; and, by the help of my Master,\nthis shall be the labor of my life. I feel that I have a work here\nin the South among my people, which God would have me do, that no\nother man can do. When I look abroad and see what is to be done\nto raise this people out of chaos, and the almost overwhelming\nresponsibility that is resting on us who are being prepared for the\nwork, it almost discourages me; but I have made up my mind to die\nin the work.\n\nThe most encouraging thing among us is the fact that most all\nof the schools and colleges which have been founded here for\nthe education of the colored people are conducted and taught by\nChristians. The colored people, though the majority of them are\nunlettered men, seek for Christian teachers\u2014even in our common\npublic schools\u2014as a general thing.\n\nThe mission work carried on by the theological students is still\nfull of interest, and promises a bright future for the many\nthousands who are being brought to a knowledge of the truth. The\nstudents of the college go out into all parts of the State and\nteach day and Sunday-schools, and by so doing exert a Christian\ninfluence over their pupils.\n\nI trust that the good Master, who sees the doings of all His\nchildren, will increase your store, that you may continue to\nhelp lift up those who are bound to ignorance and degradation.\nRemember especially the American Missionary Association, which has\nbeen instrumental in doing so much for the Christian elevation\nof this people. It has pressing need of funds to carry its work\nsuccessfully.\n\nIf I never have the opportunity of writing you again, or of hearing\nfrom you at any time, I trust we shall meet each other in the\nkingdom above, where we shall remain together forever, and give God\nall majesty and praise.\n\nFrom your ever grateful servant,\n\n                                                        J. D. S.\n\n\n                                              HOWARD UNIVERSITY.\n\n_Dear Sir_,\u2014It becomes my delightful as well as grateful task to\ndrop you a line in recognition of your kindness. The opportunities\nfor us who were lately transformed from chattels into citizens to\nenjoy the advantages of a collegiate or theological training are\na rarity. Schools, seminaries, universities are many; they abound\nin every quarter; but we are either barred out of them by poverty\non the one hand or proscription on the other. Therefore, when the\nphilanthropic hearts of our friends at home and abroad are moved\nto institute places of learning for our benefit, and aid us in\nsecuring the wherewithal to attend them, we experience a joy, an\ninward pleasure, a sense of gratitude, I may say, unspeakable.\n\nOur University, I am glad to say, is in a prosperous condition; no\nopposition daunts it in its upward march, and I am warranted by\nevery circumstance in heralding the fact that \u201cwe are rising.\u201d I\nentered the Theological Department here last autumn and am pursuing\na regular course. If at the completion of my studies I shall go\ninto the world and shall there prove faithful to my trust, fulfil\nthe office of the ministry, reflect honor upon this institution and\ncredit upon myself, then I shall feel that your kind benefaction\nwas not bestowed in vain. Accept my sincere thanks for the interest\nthus manifested in our welfare.\n\n                                                        W. A. S.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE MENDI MISSION.\n\nAnnual Meeting of the Missionaries\u2014The Board of Counsel and Advice.\n\nThe missionaries of the Mendi Mission are, in accordance with the\ninstructions of the Executive Committee, organized into a Board of\nCounsel and Advice. In this capacity they met at Good Hope Station,\nAugust 7th, 1878: Rev. Floyd Snelson, President; Rev. A. P. Miller,\nSecretary. After devotional exercises, with which each session\nopened and closed, committees were appointed on church work, school\nwork, agricultural work, extension of mission work, reception of\nscholars, buildings, &c.\n\nWe give the reports of these committees in whole or in part, as\npresenting a clear view of the work in hand, and its wants. We\nsubmit the question also with confidence, whether this band of\ncolored men does not, by this careful and business-like survey\nof its work, approve itself as well qualified to carry on the\nimportant mission which has been assigned its members in their\nfar-off fatherland.\n\n\nThe Report of Committee on Buildings.\n\nWe, your committee on buildings, beg leave to submit the following\nreport. On entering the field we found all the buildings at Good\nHope in a dilapidated condition, three in number, namely, the\nmission-house, chapel and school-house. The latter was a mere\nwreck, having been covered with bamboo, which was completely\nrotten. This allowed the rain to pass through, which hastened its\nruin. As we desired to open school and at once proceed to work, we\nwere compelled to repair it. As one of our first duties, the whole\nbuilding was made anew, and also enlarged at a cost of about \u00a3100.\n\nThe chapel, too, was in a similar state, although it was covered\nwith boards and tin. The school was held in this during the time\nof repairing the school-building. As soon as this was completed we\nproceeded to the repairing of the chapel. From this we went to the\nmission-house, which we found to need more repairs than we could\npossibly make before the rains fully set in.\n\nThe first work was to begin the covering of this, that the\nbuilding, with its contents, might be protected during the rains,\nthough we were interrupted frequently, being called to the\nrepairing of the floor, which was fast decaying. We could not cover\nthe whole of the building before the rains had fully set in. The\nremainder of the roof was patched so that it might serve through\nthis season.\n\nSince the rains commenced some internal repairs have been made. We\nrecommend that the remainder of this building be covered as soon as\nthe weather will permit, and that all or a greater part of it be\npainted.\n\nWe have also been trying to enclose the premises, but under much\ndifficulty. This is very much needed, that cattle roaming about may\nbe kept out.\n\nAt Avery we found three buildings, namely, the mission-house,\nchapel, freight-house; in addition to these a mill-shed, the three\nformer in good condition. Adjacent to the house is an ell built for\na kitchen, bath-house and store. Under the chapel is a room for a\nschool; adjacent to this is another room, used both for school and\nsewing-room. Also, at the freight-house is a shed-extension used as\na lumber wharf. The mill is in a decaying condition, the greater\npart of it being covered with bamboo, which was rotten, and allowed\nthe rains to pass through, greatly to the injury of the frame-work\nand the mill apparatus generally. Repairs have been made on this\nroof more or less ever since our coming on the field. Still, we\nregret to say that this work is not as yet completed. Repairs\nhave also been made on the under part of the shed, a water-trunk,\nsaw-lever, etc., have been replaced, yet much more is needed to put\nthis structure in good condition, which we deem best to have done\nduring the next dry season. Again, there are other things that must\nbe supplied as early as possible\u2014rubber-belts, etc. The belts, we\nare informed, have already been ordered by the Executive Committee.\nAs it is so difficult to pass up the ascent from the front wharf to\nthe house, we recommend the construction of an elevated stairway,\nwhich would put the whole place in a good condition.\n\nAt Debia, we found also one building in a dilapidated condition,\nnamely, the teachers\u2019 home\u2014a structure enclosed with rough\nboards\u2014three rooms and a bamboo roof. This roof, like most others\non the field, was almost worthless. It has been re-covered, and\nis used at present for school purposes. Previous to our coming on\nthe field, a country building had been erected for a chapel and\nschool, which for want of attention had gone to decay. If this work\nis to be continued, it is quite necessary that a better building\nbe erected for the same purposes, so that the persons teaching and\ncarrying on the religious work there, may have the use of the house\nand reside upon the field. Each of the above stations has one or\nmore country buildings erected for different purposes.\n\nWe submit all to your consideration.\n\n\nThe Report of Committee on Agricultural Work.\n\nYour committee on agricultural work beg leave to say that at Good\nHope, according to records left at this station, there are four\nhundred acres of land under the control of the Mendi Mission, some\nof which we think might be very profitably put under cultivation.\nBut we regret to say that we have no means other than hoes and\ncutlasses to begin such a work.\n\nIt was our purpose on entering the field to do something in this\ndirection. Therefore we began to clear the land, turning over\nsome with hoes; but as the premises were not enclosed, and cattle\nwere roaming over them, it was impossible for us to plant to\nany advantage. Therefore the first part of our work had to be\nabandoned, and we are giving our attention to the fencing of the\npremises, with a view to doing something in the agricultural work\nat the opening of the next season.\n\nThe records show that a hundred and sixty acres of land are under\ncontrol of our mission, at Avery. About eight of these are cleared\noff, including yard. Three hundred and six coffee-trees are growing\non said land. The trees are not in a very promising condition, and\nwe are unable to say as yet what the result will be. The land is\nvery hilly, yet a small portion of it might be utilized to some\nprofit, but must first be cleared. All such work will necessitate\nan additional expense, the returns of which we need not expect to\nrealize very soon, yet will tend to advance civilization.\n\n\nReport of Committee on Church Work.\n\nYour committee on church work beg leave to submit to you the\nfollowing report. We regret to say that on entering the work at\nGood Hope Station, we found the church abandoned, the doors having\nbeen closed for months, since the death of the Rev. Barnabas Root.\nMany of the members had united with the Church Mission Society.\n\nWe re-organized with as much of the old element as willingly\nreturned, and set to persuading others who knew not Christ to come\ninto the fold, and we rejoice to say that our efforts have been\nblessed. Twenty-two new converts have been added, mostly from among\nthe pupils of the mission, and some who serve as laborers; nearly\nall from the native element, whose eyes have been opened to the\ntruth as it is in Christ Jesus, and have learned to love Him.\n\nNow our number of regular members is forty-four. In addition to\nthese we have baptized ten children. Our church is in a healthy\ncondition, and attended mostly by a native element, preached to\nthrough an interpreter. The attendance is good, and at times our\naccommodations are not sufficient. We hope soon to see many others\ncoming into the kingdom.\n\nWe have also organized a Literary Society, which adds greatly to\nthe interest of our work. This meets the first and second Fridays\nin each month, in our chapel. But like all other departments of\nour work, this is greatly retarded by continued rains. We hope to\nredeem the time when the dry season sets in again.\n\nOur hours of conducting services at Good Hope Station are,\non the Sabbath, preaching at 11 A. M., Sunday-school at 3 P. M.,\nand prayer-meeting or preaching at 7 P. M. We have also a\nprayer-meeting Wednesday evening, and one every morning, very\nearly, for the benefit of laborers and natives generally.\n\n\nAt Mannah Bargroo Station, or Avery,\n\nwe have a new chapel, which has been opened since our coming to the\nfield. Meetings were conducted in the first part of the year by\nBro\u2019s James and White. The people became more and more interested\nin these meetings. Since the arrival of the new missionaries, Rev.\nA. E. Jackson has been put in charge of that work, and regular\npreaching services, together with prayer-meetings, have been kept\nup.\n\nA number of the old members from Good Hope Church, and those who\nhave been converted, have been brought together, their names\nenrolled, and other preparations made, looking forward to an\nearly organization, which, we hope, will take place as soon as\nthe weather will allow. Seven adults have been baptized and four\nchildren. The whole number enrolled is thirty. There is great\ninterest manifested among others whom we hope soon to see converted.\n\nWe have preaching services at eleven A. M., Sunday-school at two\nP. M., prayer-meeting at seven P. M. Also a Thursday evening\nprayer-meeting. There is a preaching station outside the mission.\n\n\nReport of Committee on School Work.\n\nYour committee on school work beg leave to report to the members\nof the Board of Counsel and Advice, the progressive state of\nthe schools both at Good Hope and Avery, under the existing\ncircumstances. The progress of the schools is wonderful when\ncompared with the chances of the scholars. The advantages have been\npoor, as we have been trying to fight without arms for the last\nnine months. We have been, and are now, almost altogether without\nbooks, which not only discourages teachers and pupils, but is also\na great loss to the scholars and the general work. [Provision was\nmade for a supply of books from England, but a misunderstanding led\nto delay; the books have since been sent from this country.\u2014ED.]\nAs time with missionaries is something in Africa, where so much\ndarkness prevails, we lay before you the real needs of our schools.\n\nMany of our scholars attend school with only a handkerchief as a\ngarment, tied around their necks, hanging somewhat cloak-fashion.\n\nSchool is taught at Debia. The prospect does not seem very hopeful,\nyet more so than at any time previous. The people are very poor,\nand are not able to supply the wants of their children. A larger\nnumber could be brought in if we were to aid them a little. This,\nwe hope, we shall be able to do, to some extent, in future, as we\ntrust we shall be so advised by the committee at New York.\n\nThe Sunday-schools, no small factor in our work, are in a\nflourishing condition. We stand in great need of Sunday-school\nbooks, papers, mottoes, etc., which, we hope, will soon be supplied\nus.\n\nOur aim is to train up young men and young women, who may go forth\ninto this broad continent, and carry the light to those benighted\nones whom we are unable to reach. Therefore, we recommend to this\nbody the importance of establishing, at whatever station in their\njudgment seems best, a High School for the purpose of training up\npersons to be missionaries to the dying millions in the interior,\nwith hope of the approval of the Executive Committee at New York.\n\n\nOn Reception of Scholars at the Stations.\n\nThe Board resolved itself into a Committee of the whole to discuss\nthis question, after which the following resolution was unanimously\nadopted:\n\n_Resolved_: That experience has convinced us that it is absolutely\nnecessary to keep a Boarding Department, to some extent, at each of\nthe stations, viz., Good Hope, Avery and Debia.\n\n(1) Because the people are unable to continue their scholars in\nschool as necessity demands, to fit them for missionary work as\nsuggested by the Executive Committee.\n\n(2) The people on the whole are not sufficiently acquainted with\nthe benefits of an education to compel the attendance of their\nchildren, even if they were able.\n\n(3) We can never train up persons to serve as assistants in\nmissionary work without taking them from under the unwholesome\ninfluence of their parents, and placing them under Christian\ninfluence.\n\n(4) Therefore, seeing the difficulties which exist from having to\nreceive the material upon which we are to work sent us at the will\nof the parents, we recommend to the Committee at New York that\neach station be allowed to retain as many scholars as can be well\nprovided for. We submit this to your weighty consideration.\n\n\nExtension of Mission-Work\n\nwas discussed by the Board. This is a question of great importance,\nand to carry our views into effect, will necessarily require a\nlarge sum of money. We regret to say that from the outset we\nhave been greatly embarrassed, in attempting to extend our work,\nbecause of the want of means with which to do it. And we are no\nmore encouraged now, from the fact that we are continually being\ninstructed by the Committee that the means are short, and we must\ncurtail expenses. At present we have not a dollar to do this, and\nwe are unable to tell when we shall have. In our view, there are\nmany places which could be opened and worked up with great success.\nBut our present situation forbids any attempt. We hope the change\nmay be such soon that we shall be able to do something in this\ndirection, as we consider this to be one of the purposes for which\nwe were sent out.\n\n                                         REV. A. P. MILLER, Sec.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFORT BERTHOLD, D. T.\n\nREV. C. L. HALL, MISS\u2019Y OF THE A. B. C. F. M.\n\n\nYeast.\n\nSo Kingsley entitles one of his books; and we may give the name to\nall those influences which help in preparing the bread of life for\nthis people, or in preparing them to receive it.\n\nFirst comes the article itself; we have been furnishing them with\nit to make wholesome bread. Their Indian way of preparing flour,\nis to fry soggy dough in a panful of grease over a fire made of\nsticks in the centre of the lodge. Any one who goes back with\nlonging memories to the old days of open fireplace cookery, may\nenjoy it to his heart\u2019s content without the least contamination\nwith modern conveniences in, a Ree or Gros Ventres or Mandan\nearth-covered lodge in this place, a journey of only two or three\ndays by railroad and steamboat from Minneapolis. The Indians,\nhowever, take kindly to cooking-stoves when our \u201cUncle\u201d furnishes\nthem; and we are trying, as the first requisite of household\nhealth, to teach them to make good bread. Our first step was\nto create a desire for it, by giving them good bread. But the\npreference for \u201cwhite man\u2019s bread\u201d has been created, and the cry\nfor yeast to make it has been daily heard at our door this summer.\nLately, we have said, \u201cno more yeast,\u201d but \u201cgo and pick hops, and\nwe will teach you how to make yeast\u201d; and specimens of gathered\nhops are exhibited. It is a great gain to have the people eating\nwholesome food, for the want of which, in their changed condition\nof life, and the absence of the former abundance of game, they are\ndying off. It is greater gain to have them beginning in any way\nto make home more comfortable, attractive, decent; to have the\nwomen improving in cooking, and tidiness of home management; the\nmen drawn to an interest in building better houses; the family to\nhave an ambition for doors and windows and bedsteads, and cups and\nsaucers and tables, and cupboards made of old boxes with calico\ncurtains. But chiefly is it gain to get through such work the\nconfidence and the hearts of the people, that we may lead them to\nChrist; and if yeast will set the leaven at work by which we may\nleaven the whole lump, we say, _Amen_!\n\n\nFlowers.\n\nWe have not limited ourselves to yeast. On Friday afternoons we\nhave given the children who attended regularly, a good meal at a\ntable, with all the accessories of a Christian board, including\ngrace. Other little means of attracting the people to higher things\nhave been beautiful clusters of scarlet blossoms, blooming all the\nseason on the fence, and handsome dahlias and zinnias and four\no\u2019clocks, by the house. Groups of little Indians stand open-mouthed\nbefore them, or some old woman, with her willow-basket full of\ncorn or squashes on her back, is attracted and cheered by these\nbeauties\u2014gifts of God\u2019s love. That they do notice the flowers at\nall is a hopeful sign. Early in the spring, I picked a bluebell,\nand spoke of its beauty to an Indian man who was helping me set\nfence posts. He said, with a scornful expression at my ignorance:\n\u201cThat isn\u2019t anything, it isn\u2019t good to eat.\u201d\n\n\nFarming.\n\nThen they study our garden, with its variety of different\nvegetables and roots, and its young trees. They are doing well at\nagriculture\u2014better than most Indians in the territory of Dakota.\nThis year their crops of corn, potatoes, squashes and beans are\nlarge and fine; but they raise nothing else; and they have not\nlearned to care for stock, to milk, to make butter, and grow feed\nfor cattle. They do not put up hay for their ponies, but let them\ngrow poor during the winter, on such dried grass, and corn-stalks,\nand cotton-wood bark as they can pick up on the prairie or the\nbottoms by the Missouri. They are not of much value in harness, but\nare one with their rider, and endure fatigue and hunger with him\nmarvellously. They think I ought to keep a horse. I tell them my\ncow gives milk and butter, and their horses don\u2019t. So they look on\nat our methods of life, and see their superiority; and gradually\nwant to copy them.\n\n\nDeath.\n\nWe have striven to open the way for the Gospel by sympathy with,\nand help for, the sick and dying. One young man among the Mandans\ndied last year as I stood beside him. Before he grew unconscious,\nhe had said to his friend that the white people were coming for\nhim, and he was going. Perhaps some revelation of heaven and God\u2019s\nlove came to him in that shape. There was a woman once who touched\nonly the hem of a garment. There is One who does not quench the\nsmoking flax. Another poor consumptive died this spring, telling\nher people not to believe what bad Indians said about our malign\ninfluences; that we were good; that if she got well she would come\nto church; that father and mother must not grieve for her, but, if\nthey felt sad, go to us to be comforted. God has been teaching us\nhow to comfort bereaved parents and friends by taking away our own\nbaby, Harry, to the home over there. An atmosphere of sorrow is\nabout all our Dakota mission-stations. Mrs. Thomas Riggs has been\nsuddenly taken from a useful, active life, near Fort Sully, D. T.,\nand lies buried on her field of work; and Mrs. Renville is taken\nfrom the Flandreau people, and Miss Williamson from the Yankton\npeople. But \u201csorrow is the atmosphere that ripens hearts for\nheaven,\u201d and, ripe for heaven, they are best for earthly usefulness\nalso.\n\n\nConversions.\n\nThe white employ\u00e9s and white men living among the Indians were all\ninterested this spring, and we hope there were several conversions\nand much good influence at work. One young man, born of missionary\nparents in the South Seas, who had wandered here from England and\nfrom the Lord, we trust has gone back home to live a better life.\nOne man, with a half-breed family, said: \u201cThe white people have\nbeen teaching the Indians better ways of living; then you have had\nschool, a good school, and now we are going to have church and\nreligion, and do better.\u201d God grant it, but we have to sow and\nwait, and wait. Our seasons are short, our spiritual zone northern.\nYet God will conquer!\n\nFrom Devil\u2019s Lake three or four days\u2019 hard travel across the\nprairies to the north-east, there came a word of cheer in the early\nsummer. Some, especially one man who had been under missionary\ninfluence in the Southern part of our Territory, but apparently\ncared for none of these things, came to see us, and to sympathize\nwith us in our loss (he had lost children), and to get what help he\ncould from us in understanding his Bible, and teaching his friends\nto read. He went away with the urgent request that we come to\nDevil\u2019s Lake and preach to them.\n\nDevil\u2019s Lake is a Roman Catholic agency, and they do not preach to\nthem in their own tongue. One thing is certain: if the sons are\nto talk English to us, we must preach in the Indian tongue to the\nfathers.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLAKE SUPERIOR AGENCY.\n\nI. L. MAHAN, AGENT, BAYFIELD, WIS.\n\n\nA Merciful Man, etc.\n\nI am glad to report the following, as one of quite a number of\ninstances that have come within my own knowledge. Last fall, in\nobedience to the request of twelve of my Indians, I estimated for\ntwelve cows and calves, but received only eight. In consequence\nof this failure, four of my people were disappointed, after\nhaving harvested, at their own expense, a sufficient amount of\nfood to supply the cattle during the winter (by no means an easy\nundertaking for an Indian). The disappointed ones, however,\ntook the ill luck philosophically, and made the best of the\ndisappointment. They earnestly besought me to try again, and, if\npossible, get the cows and calves. I did try, and secured each of\nthe four a good cow and calf, for which they each worked upon their\nown 80s in clearing, etc., under the direction of the Government\nfarmer, thirty-eight days, and received each a cow and calf, and\ndrove them to their houses. A few weeks after, a report came to me\nthat Henry Buffalo was sadly neglecting his cow and calf; that he\nhad secured each to a stake, driven in the ground for the purpose,\nand had taken his family on a visit to an adjoining settlement, a\nfew miles away, leaving the cow and calf without food to eat or\nwater to drink for days at a time. This, to me, seemed terrible\ntreatment, and I set myself about an investigation, and found\nthat, upon the occasion above referred to, the Indians in the\nvicinity had all gone to attend church service some miles distant,\nthey having word of the coming of a favorite priest. Friends had\nadvised the stake arrangement\u2014the fences not being considered\nstrong\u2014and made preparations for Henry, in order to induce him to\ngo. He started, but looking back, took pity upon the dumb brute,\nand returned and remained at home all day, feeding and watering his\ncow and calf, and using an evergreen brush to keep the flies off.\nThe report was founded upon the fact that his house was locked up.\nSuch care and sympathy is worthy of reward.\n\n\nAn Industrious Builder.\n\nThe other day an Indian applied to me for lumber and nails to\nfinish his barn, that he might have a floor to thresh his grain\nupon. The lumber and nails were furnished him, and, on inquiry, I\nlearned that he had stripped a sufficient number of cedar trees\nof bark to cover his barn; and not having horses or cattle, had\ntransported it in a small boat, upon the lake, to the nearest point\ntoward his house, and then packed it upon his back one and a half\nmiles. Do you say such zealous and fatiguing labor does not deserve\nits reward?\n\n\nSmart Surveying.\n\nThe Lac Courte D\u2019Oreille reservation is located in the north-west\ncorner of Chippewa county, near the intersection of Ashland and\nBurnett counties. It was selected, undoubtedly, for the timber,\nalthough some very fine farming-land has been found. The Indians\nmade choice of this region of country on account of the very fine\ngroves of sugar-maple and the large number of inland lakes; but\nthe white man, who defines the boundaries, took occasion to so run\nthe lines that the most of the maple-groves and many of the lakes\nare left out, and the Indians have a reservation running from\nsouth-west to north-west about thirty miles, and from north-west\nto south-east but about three or four miles. Upon this reservation\nwe have made 160 allotments of eighty acres to individuals, and\nmany good farms have been opened without very much encouragement\nfrom the Department, as the Indians long for their patents, as in\nthe case of Red Cliff and Bad River. In passing up the Lac Courte\nD\u2019Oreille River, I found five new log-houses, and, in one case,\nabout ten acres cleared, and all planted. There are perhaps twenty\nor twenty-five other houses, that have been built by Indians\nwithout any individual aid from Government. They have improved the\nroads across the reservation. They have some stock, but are sadly\nin need of more.\n\n\nNo Civilizing Measures.\n\nBelonging to the Lac du Flambeau reserve are 542 Indians, who live\nalmost entirely by trapping, hunting and fishing. They are rovers\nin every sense of the word, having no houses or permanent homes,\nsave the starry-decked heavens. They are visited each year by the\nAgent; and such goods and supplies as the Department furnishes are\ndistributed to them as presents. The appropriations are not large\nenough to supply employ\u00e9s; therefore, no civilizing measures have\nbeen introduced here. Five thousand dollars a year, judiciously\nexpended for labor, in building houses, clearing land, and\nsupplying cattle to these Indians, would, in a very short period,\nplace them beyond want; while the present policy\u2014of leaving them\nto their own inclinations\u2014will make a class of miserable paupers,\nwithout knowledge or disposition to be anything else; and the State\nwill sooner or later be called upon to step in between the Indians\nand the general Government, and exercise some of its Christian\ncharities. These Indians must be aided, or they are lost beyond\nredemption.\n\n\nA Farmer on a Rock.\n\nThe Bois Forte bands, numbering 797 Indians, have a reservation of\n107,509 acres, lying in unsurveyed territory, about forty miles\nnorth-west of Vermillion Lake, in Minnesota. They have mingled with\nthe whites but little; therefore have but few of their vices. They\nroam, fish, hunt and trap for a livelihood. They dress in civilized\ncostumes, and a few of them sow and plant and harvest, live in\nhouses, and have some of the ordinary home comforts; but they are\nfew indeed. They have been banished to perhaps the most wretched of\nall lands, or rock, in North Minnesota. Their treaty stipulates\nthat a farmer shall be provided. A farmer! Think of it\u2014on such\na rock! The explorers report not a spot upon which to plant a\npotato. There is not a road within forty miles of the reservation.\nThe treaty is rapidly passing away\u2014half gone; soon they will have\nnothing left. We would most earnestly renew our recommendation of\nlast year, that about 1,000 acres of land on the south side of\nVermillion Lake, be set aside for agricultural and educational\npurposes, and that the Bois Forte Indians be induced to select\nhomes and settle thereon; that the boundary be defined, and that\nthe employ\u00e9s be permanently located.\n\n\nSchools.\n\nOur schools have been well attended. Books for more advanced\nscholarship have been a constant demand, and the statistics from\nteachers and farmers show a gradual improvement. The free-lunch\nsystem at Red Cliff and Bad River has been continued all year, and\nis, without doubt, the most successful medium through which to\nreach poor and hungry children.\n\n\nThe Wisconsin Scare,\n\nas it is called, might have reached immense proportions had not\nthe officers of the Indian Bureau taken a firm stand against\nthe possibility of such a thing as an Indian outbreak among the\nChippewas. The Chippewas have grievances that would make white men\ntear their hair and howl from one end of the country to the other;\nbut they prefer to submit quietly and peaceably to the powers that\nbe, praying without ceasing, hoping continually that the good men\nof the Great Father\u2019s household will yet hear and answer their\npetitions by the necessary legislations.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nRED LAKE AGENCY, MINNESOTA.\n\nSchool, Church, Farm, Mill, etc.\n\nC. P. ALLEN, M. D.\n\nThis reservation embraces about 3,200,000 acres of land, of which\none-third is supposed to be tillable; two-thirds wooded, grazing\nand worthless.\n\nPerhaps the most gratifying feature of the work here is the\nsuccessful opening of a fully equipped boarding-school in November\nlast. Ten boys and as many girls were taken, clothed and fed; the\ngirls were taught to wash, mend, knit, cook, keep house; and the\nboys were taught to cut and prepare fuel, to plow, plant, grub, do\nfence and farm work. In addition to the twenty boarding pupils,\nthere were some twenty day-scholars, so that the present capacity\nof the school is filled. The results are very gratifying.\n\nThe missionary work has been under the auspices of the Protestant\nEpiscopal Mission, who sent last year two native clergymen to labor\nhere; one died in September, 1877. This year, three others have\nbeen sent to labor here and across the Lake, where no missionary\nwork has been done, and where the Indians oppose any work of the\nkind. A church edifice is in process of building, to be completed\nby December 1st.\n\nProgress is seen in the extent of land in cultivation, in largely\nincreased crops, in fencing made, better dwellings, more stoves,\ntables, chairs, crockery, better clothing, greater cleanliness,\nmore wash-boards and wash-tubs in use, more comfortable homes; more\nstock each year; a growing desire to have their children educated;\nmore knitting and sewing done than formerly. Owing to a general\nlack of snow and water, less has been accomplished this season than\nusual in the way of building houses, as we had little lumber to\nbuild with, although logs were cut, preparatory to driving to mill,\nto the amount of over 100,000 feet.\n\nArrangements are about completed for putting in here a substantial\nlittle flour-mill this fall, to convert their wheat into nice\nflour. This will prove a great incentive to increased labor\nin clearing up land and raising more wheat. This again, will\nconduce to improved health, as much of their sickness arises from\ninsufficient food, and that of poor quality.\n\nDuring the last year a new source of revenue has been developed,\nwhich is _Senega root_. Of this, they have dug nearly $4,000\nworth, and the supply is not exhausted.\n\nThis tribe is not decreasing in number, the births fully equaling\nthe deaths. What we need is to cultivate _individuality_; to treat\nthe Indians as men and women, not as parts of a tribe; to allot\nlands in severalty, giving them titles to their homes.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\n\u201cCALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\u201d\n\nAuxiliary to the American Missionary Association.\n\nPRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L.\nStone, D. D., Thomas O. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon.\nF. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S.\nH. Wiley, 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\nIn place of our usual communication from Superintendent Pond, which\nhe has not been able to send us, on account of special pressure in\nhis work, we reprint from a California paper the following article\nby Rev. Dr. M. C. Briggs, one of the leading men in the Methodist\nEpiscopal denomination in California. It embodies very important\ntruth in a most sprightly and incisive style.\u2014[ED\u2019S AM. MISS.]\n\n\nCHINAPHOBIA.\n\n\u201cBring me to the test, and I the matter will re-word that madness\ngambols at.\u201d This sentence from Shakspeare (I hope it is correctly\nquoted) is the sole partition between our Assemblymen and a charge\nof confirmed monomania. All roads lead to Paris, and all subjects\nof discussion lead these astute Solons to John Chinaman. To assert\nyour philanthropy, curse the Chinese. To prove your patriotism,\ndenounce the Chinese. To abate land monopoly, abuse the Chinese.\nTo eradicate the social evil, grow furious over the Chinese. To\nregulate finances, tax the Chinese. To quell incendiary mobs,\ndisplace the Chinese, and put ruffians in their stead. To pass\nthe Bland bill, expel the Chinese. To effect resumption, crucify\nthe Chinese. To ensure commercial prosperity, exclude forever the\nChinese. To show your faith in the Declaration of Independence,\nlevy a high tariff on the bones of the Chinese. To reclaim our\nswamp lands, howl at the Chinese. To encourage citizens to furnish\nfree meals for white tramps, who refuse to work at any price, drive\nout from our kitchens the Chinese, who to-day receive higher wages\nthan white men and women are getting in any State east of the Rocky\nMountains. To show yourself a hero, hurl brickbats at the Chinese.\nFrom whatever point of the political or moral compass these broad\nand eloquent men set out, they are sure to end with a stereotyped\nspasm on the stereotyped topic\u2014the infernal Chinese. Such untiring\nrepetitiousness grows stale, and one almost wishes that the\n\u201cnigger\u201d or the Hottentot, or any human being without a vote, would\nappear on the political tapis, to offer leather-lunged demagogueism\na chance for variety, and the weary ears of the people a rest.\nNasby\u2019s patent question, \u201cIf the nigger is set free, whom will the\nDemocrats find to look down on?\u201d has been answered to the glory and\ndelectation of both the old parties, and, pre-eminently, of the new\nparty, which has nothing American about it save whisky and brag.\n\nThe republic is sick. It has gastric fever, gout, goitre, gangrene,\nscrofula, sciatica, croup, consumption, ophthalmia, vertigo,\nsmall-pox, and cholera. It has eaten too much, drank too much,\ndanced too much, flirted too much, smoked too much, gambled too\nmuch, run riot in frivolity, gone mad in greed, flaunted its\npageantry of pride, coveted, lusted, blasphemed, forsaken God,\ndespised religion, loved leasing, and hated honest toil, with its\nhealth-giving frugality and slow but solid gains. Poor patient!\nIt needs skilful treatment; and what will these queer doctors do?\nWhy, they propose to force emetics and drastics down the throats\nof ever so many Chinamen. If the case were not so serious, it\nwould be infinitely funny. The patient has brain fever. Kick the\nChinaman. It has palpitation. Cuff the Chinaman. It is shaking with\nchills from Maine to Mexico. Pull the pigtails of the Chinaman.\nBanks are breaking in New York. Set the dogs on the Chinamen.\nMercantile houses are tumbling into ruins in Massachusetts. Arrest\nthe Chinaman on suspicion. Finances are deranged, and Congress is\nquarreling over resumption. Shoot the Chinamen. The South needs\npacification. Cut the throats of the Chinamen. Industry flags\neverywhere. Get up processions, and raid on the wash-houses of the\nChinamen. Wages are six bits a day, without board, in the Eastern\nStates. Banish the Chinamen from California forever and forever.\nHurrah!!\n\nThere was once a doctor who was \u201cdeath on burns.\u201d These gentlemen\nare not a whit behind him, only their specialty, into which they\nresolve all wounds and diseases, is the Chinese pest, _alias_\nthe Asiatic nuisance, _alias_ the Cooly invasion, _alias_ the\ncheap-labor plague of the Pacific Coast.\n\nWhat repose it gives a State to have wise and just men at the\nhelm of affairs! This epidemic rage\u2014as unstatesmanlike as it is\nunphilanthropic\u2014so prevalent in the halls of legislation just\nnow, merits the sarcasm of a Lord Brougham. Yet I accord to our\nRepresentatives a fair measure of good intentions. The Chinese have\nno votes, and are not patrons of the press; therefore, it is safe\nto denounce them. Besides, just now it promises to be a paying as\nwell as a perilless pastime. The rioters have ballots in their\nhands. \u201cPathric\u201d counts one (sometimes two or ten) at the polls;\nand who will defend John? \u201cPathric\u201d does not care to remember that\nhe was threatened with expulsion on similar grounds, and with\nequally cogent reasons, in the bygone. It will be well for him to\nrecall the fact; for when once the principle of discrimination is\nincorporated into the policy of the nation, the bolt that hits John\nto-day may chance to strike some one else to-morrow. When caste and\ncaprice usurp the place of justice and humanity, every man will\nthenceforth hold life, liberty and property by sufferance of the\nmob. It is natural to the weak side of public men, to court the\nvoters\u2019 favor. Not many politicians are tall enough to look over\nthe heads of stump orators and bannered agitators. Has the good God\nno taller men to send us for these agitated times?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAN OLD-TIME PRAYER MEETING.\n\nAmong the many things which I have observed is the singular form of\nworship which the colored people practice here. While at Hampton\nlast term, I read Livingstone\u2019s book about Africa. Some of the\nreligious customs related in that volume have certainly been\nbrought over by our forefathers, and are in this enlightened land\nfound mingled with the true religion. The great belief which our\npeople have in conjuration, (or \u201cthrowing for each other,\u201d as they\ncall it) signs, and the returning of departed spirits, confirm the\nabove opinion. Not long ago I went to one of their meetings. It was\nheld in a little church about twenty-two or twenty-three feet long,\nand twelve feet wide, with three windows, which have shutters of\nplank, through which, when shut, little or no air can pass. In the\nmiddle of the floor sits a large stove in which a very hot fire was\nkept during the meeting. The preacher was to have come that night,\nbut for some reason he disappointed them. His absence, however, did\nnot prevent their having an \u201cOld-time prayer-meeting,\u201d as they call\nit. So, after waiting for some time for their pastor to arrive,\nthey commenced the meeting by singing a hymn, given out by one\ncalled \u201cthe leader of the band.\u201d Prayer and a short exhortation\ncame next. Indeed, these two parts of the opening exercises were\nwell performed by a young man. But, in the scene which followed\nhis excellent prayer and advice, he (though somewhat intelligent)\nwas one of the chief actors. One or two more hymns were sung from\nthe hymn-book. I heard some of the women say: \u201cIf those men don\u2019t\nstop singing those dry tunes we\u2019ll take our bonnets and go home.\u201d\nBy the women ceasing to sing, the men discovered that there was\nsomething going wrong. The \u201cleader of the band\u201d seems to have seen\nat a moment\u2019s glance what caused the commotion, and immediately\nstruck up the well-known \u201cI, John, Saw.\u201d The women now joined in;\nand the woods and hills rang with the resounding melodies of that\nmusic which has never known a teacher, but yet is wonderful and\nalmost sublime. While this \u201cshout\u201d was being sung the men and women\ngathered around the stove, the men on one side and the women on\nthe other. The church by this time had become full of people. One\ncould not kneel down without leaning on some one else. All three\nof the windows were shut, and the shutters closed. A fire was in\nthe stove. Soon a sickening feeling came over me, caused by the\nimpure air which pervaded the place. I asked one who was standing\nnear the window to please open it. \u201cYou want us to freeze, don\u2019t\nyou?\u201d said he. I looked up, and, to my great satisfaction, found\nthat the roof was full of holes, and I knew that hot air rises, so\nI said no more to the man about the window. The \u201cleader\u201d had now\nbecome too warm it seemed, for while we were at prayers he took\noff his coat and rolled up his sleeves, exclaiming at the same\ntime, \u201cGet ready, children, we are going to drive out the devil\nto-night!\u201d The others, as soon as they saw him without a coat,\nimmediately disrobed themselves of theirs. Had I expected to see\nsuch heathenism I am sure I would not have gone to the meeting.\nAfter this there came a tumult and excitement\u2014women jumping among\nthe men, men holding each other; some of the young girls uttering\nscreams which really could have been heard a mile; and some tearing\ntheir clothes off without regard to womanly modesty. But what\ndiscouraged me most was to find among this seething mass some of\nmy school-children. After the meeting was over, and all on our way\nhome, a shameful fight came off between two of the leading shouters\n(females), about something which had been said during the meeting.\n\nWhat shall I say, having seen such degrading things with my own\neyes, (and I have not told the worst). All I can say is this: Let\nus work on with our might, and hope for better things. \u201cFor if God\nbe for us, who can be against us?\u201d\n\n\u2014_Student\u2019s letter in the Southern Workman._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR SEPTEMBER, 1878.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $161.98.\n\n    Bangor. Hammond St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   100.00\n    Brewer. M. Hardy                                          20.00\n    Bridgton. \u201cDean,\u201d First Cong. Ch.                          5.00\n    Castine. Rev. A. E. Ives                                   2.00\n    East Madison. Eliza Bicknell                               5.00\n    Machias. Centre St. Cong. Ch.                             17.15\n    Portland. Williston Cong. Ch.                             10.83\n    St. Albans. Rev. Wm. S. Sewall                             2.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $493.07.\n\n    Amherst. \u201cFriends\u201d ($5 of which _for Student\n      Aid, Straight U._)                                      14.75\n    Alstead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          3.24\n    Atkinson Depot. Gyles Merrill $50; Mrs. Gyles\n      Merrill $25; Mrs. Betsey Bartlett $50                  125.00\n    Campton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               17.35\n    Colebrook. Mrs. Benj. Gilman                               1.50\n    Derry. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                          13.81\n    Fitzwilliam. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hill                      5.00\n    Gilmanton Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       8.50\n    Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.85\n    Keene. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $141.73; Second\n      Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. $2.53                          144.26\n    Mason. Mason Division of the N. H. Memorial\n      Union, _for Wilmington, N. C._                           7.00\n    Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      76.56\n    Merrimac. \u201cLadies.\u201d                                        9.00\n    Nashua. Sab. Sch. Class by Mrs. Saunders, _for\n      Wilmington, N. C._                                       2.00\n    Piermont. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 26.00\n    Swanzey. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                2.00\n    Tamworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               6.00\n    Wolfborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     20.25\n\n\n  VERMONT, $565.25.\n\n    Coventry. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              15.35\n    Craftsbury. Dea. J. W.                                     1.00\n    Bethel. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 8.60\n    Brattleborough. Centre Ch.                                37.86\n    Derby. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 10.00\n    Essex Junction. E. T. M.                                   1.00\n    Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                7.00\n    Plainfield. ESTATE of Catharine Shepard, by\n      Willard S. Martin, Adm\u2019r.                              350.00\n    Rochester. Cong. Ch.                                      22.28\n    St. Johnsbury. East Cong. Ch., Rev. J. P.\n      Humphrey and wife                                       20.00\n    Shelburn. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                     25.00\n    Vergennes. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             20.00\n    Waterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             20.00\n    West Derby. Col. by Rev. S. S. Nickerson                   3.33\n    West Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             6.15\n    West Westminster. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                              5.00\n    Williamsville. Emory Dunklee                               3.00\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             9.68\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $1,988.39.\n\n    Amesbury. Mrs. A. L. Bayley                               20.00\n    Andover. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. $300; West\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc. $29.75                              329.75\n    Bernardston. Cong. Ch.                                     8.00\n    Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        62.45\n    Brocton. Porter Evan. Ch. and Soc. $31.42;\n      Mrs. Mary E. Perkins $5                                 36.42\n    Boston. Central Ch.                                        5.00\n    Campello. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              50.00\n    Charlemont. Cong. Ch.                                     10.00\n    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         48.33\n    Coleraine. Cong. Ch.                                       6.00\n    Conway. D. L.                                              1.00\n    Dedham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               180.33\n    Dorchester Village. Cong. Ch. $20.01, and Sab.\n      Sch. $17.20                                             37.21\n    East Hampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    84.57\n    East Longmeadow. Mrs. G. W. C.                             1.00\n    East Taunton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           6.19\n    Enfield. ESTATE of J. B. Woods, by W. B.\n      Kimball, Ex.                                           100.00\n    Georgetown. First Cong. Ch. $29.64; \u201cA Friend\u201d\n      $2                                                      31.64\n    Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch. $63.31; First\n      Cong. Ch. $10.75; Miss Janette Thompson\n      $5.\u2014Ladies $18, _for Student Aid, Atlanta,\n      Ga._                                                    97.06\n    Greenwich Village. Daniel Parker                           5.00\n    Groton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          30.79\n    Hamilton. Cong. Ch.                                       15.75\n    Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., by Mrs. P. J.\n      Claflin                                                150.00\n    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         16.00\n    Littleton. Ladies\u2019 Mission Circle                          4.70\n    Lowell. N. C. Wiley                                       25.00\n    Medford. Mystic Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       148.45\n    Millbury. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.                    7.05\n    Montague. Cong. Ch.                                       11.20\n    Monson. Ladies, bbl. of C. and $3 _for Freight_            3.00\n    Newburyport. Belleville Cong. Ch.                         57.46\n    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                50.00\n    Oakham. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., bbl. of C.\n      Orange. Cong. Ch.                                       11.86\n    Quincy. F. Hardwick $100; Evan. Cong. Ch. and\n      Soc. $20                                               120.00\n    Rehoboth. F. A. B.                                         1.00\n    Shelburn. Cong. Ch.                                       63.75\n    Sherborn. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                      3.00\n    South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        16.13\n    Spencer. \u201cA Friend\u201d in First Ch.                          10.00\n    Sudbury. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., bbl. of C. and $2\n      _for Freight_                                            2.00\n    Sunderland. Cong. Sab. Sch. to const. MRS.\n      ELLEN M. WILLIAMS, L. M.                                20.25\n    Sutton. Ladies\u2019 Soc. _for Freight_                         1.25\n    Wayland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               11.30\n    West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       60.00\n    Westfield. Mrs. H. O. C.                                   1.00\n    West Hawley. Cong. Ch.                                     2.00\n    Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.                             20.50\n    Worcester. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                     5.00\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $1,245.50.\n\n    Bristol. Mrs. M. De W. Rogers $250; Miss C. De\n      Wolf $250; Cong. Ch. $15                               515.00\n    Nayatt. R. S.                                              0.50\n    Providence. Central Cong. Ch.                            730.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $4,401.43.\n\n    Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                  24.91\n    Bethlehem. Cong. Ch.                                      10.00\n    Bridgewater. Cong. Ch.                                     5.12\n    Canton Centre. Sarah B. Hallock                           10.00\n    Collinsville. M. A. Warren, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta, Ga._                                            5.00\n    East Berlin. \u201cZ.\u201d                                          5.00\n    East Windsor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    10.00\n    Franklin. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                                17.00\n    Griswold. First Cong. Ch.                                 60.00\n    Gurleyville. Second Cong. Ch.                              7.63\n    Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. ANNA\n      DELIA CHAPMAN, L. M.                                    32.63\n    Hartford. ESTATE of Rev. Jonathan Brace, D. D.,\n      by John Hooker, Ex.                                  2,000.00\n    Hartford. Mrs. Ellery Hills, $300; Dr. John R.\n      Lee. $50                                               350.00\n    Harwinton. Cong. Ch.                                      39.36\n    Hockanum. South Cong. Ch.                                  9.00\n    Milford. Plymouth Ch. $40, and Sab. Sch. $20              60.00\n    Morris. Leverett J. Waugh                                  5.00\n    New Britain. South Cong. Ch. (a member)                   10.00\n    New Hartford. Samuel Couch                                10.00\n    New London. First Ch.                                     36.87\n    New Milford. Ladies\u2019 Soc. by Mary E. Bennett              30.80\n    Northfield. Cong. Ch.                                     24.75\n    Norwich. ESTATE of S. C. Morgan, by Lewis A.\n      Hyde, Ex.                                              850.00\n    Norwich. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      200.00\n    Norwich Town. First Cong. Ch.                             70.00\n    North Stonington. Geo. A. Avery                            6.00\n    North Canaan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          20.00\n    Northford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             14.73\n    North Haven. Mrs. Alexis Painter, to const.\n      WILLIAM S. TODD, L. M.                                  30.00\n    North Manchester. Second Cong. Church, $34.51,\n      to const. REV. M. J. SQUIRES, L. M.; S. H.\n      B. $1                                                   35.51\n    Pequabuck. \u201cA Friend,\u201d by R. D. H. Allen, FOR\n      STUDENT AID, TALLADEGA C.                               25.00\n    Plantsville. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             50.00\n    Poquonock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             15.00\n    Somers. Mrs. M. M. W.                                      0.50\n    South Britain. Cong. Ch. (additional)                      3.00\n    South Glastonbury. Cong. Ch.                               5.00\n    Thomaston. ESTATE of Henry Brooks, by Jesse R.\n      Brooks, Ex.                                            195.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      27.25\n    Unionville. Cong. Ch. _for Talladega C._                  30.00\n    Wallingford. Mrs. T. B. Bartholomew                        2.00\n    Wapping. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         7.59\n    Westport. \u201cA. M. W.,\u201d to const. MISS ARETTA M.\n      WAKEMAN, L. M.                                          30.00\n    West Winstead. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                 10.00\n    Willington. Cong. Ch. (M. Coll\u2019s)                          1.78\n    Windsor. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $534.57.\n\n    Aquebogue. Cong. Ch.                                      30.00\n    Bergen. Mrs. F. D. Kingman                                 5.00\n    Brooklyn. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       2.00\n    Cortland. Miss C. E. Booth                                 2.00\n    Ellington. Anson Crosby and Mrs. Nancy Crosby,\n      $3 each                                                  6.00\n    Elma. Mrs. E. S. A. Bancroft                               5.06\n    Evans Centre. Miss L. P.                                   1.00\n    Freedonia. Mrs. Thomas W. Stevens                          5.00\n    Gerry. Mrs. Mary A. G. Sears                             128.36\n    Hamilton. Miss M. Bronson                                  2.50\n    Harlem. John Dwight                                      100.00\n    Homer. Mrs. Electa Root $60; George W.\n      Bradford, $5                                            65.00\n    Irvington. Mrs. R. W. Lambdin                              5.00\n    Nelson. J. L. Bishop                                       7.00\n    Redfield. Mrs. Geo. McKinney                               2.00\n    Rome. John B. Jervis                                      25.00\n    Silver Creek. Mrs. Eliza Lee $50; W. Chapin\n      $5; Charlotte Howes $2; M. M. $1; L. C. $1;\n      Mrs. P. F. 50c.; Miss D. A. 50c                         60.00\n    Sinclearville. Earl C. Preston, $2; D. B. D.,\n      $1; Dea. E. R., $1; Mrs. A. B. $1                        5.00\n    Spencerport. *                                            50.00\n    Syracuse. Rev. J. C. Holbrook, D.D.                       10.00\n    Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel                                10.00\n    Warsaw. L. H. H.                                           1.00\n    West Farms. Mrs. Rev. Alphonzo Wood                        5.00\n    Westmoreland. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                        2.65\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $65.\n\n    East Orange. Grove St. Cong. Ch. $25, and Sab.\n      Sch. $10                                                35.00\n    Jersey. First Cong. Ch. to const. WILLIAM JAY\n      HUNT, L. M.                                             30.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $21.\n\n    Clark. S. P. Stewart                                       2.00\n    North East. B. T. Spooner                                  5.00\n    Providence. E. Weston                                      5.00\n    Wilkes Barre. Welsh Cong. Ch.                              7.00\n    Worth. John Burgess                                        2.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $644.31.\n\n    Bellevue. S. W. Boise, $20; Miss Elvira Boise,\n      $20                                                     40.00\n    Belpre. Cong. Ch.                                         21.15\n    Brocton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         24.81\n    Cincinnati. Rent, _for the Poor in New Orleans_           91.34\n    Cleveland. Plymouth Cong. Ch. $73.71; Mrs. S.\n      H. E., $1; A. L. H., 50c.                               75.21\n    Cleveland Heights. Cong. Ch.                              40.50\n    Collamer. Union Church                                    27.70\n    Fredericktown. A. H. Royce                                10.00\n    Freedom. Cong. Ch. $1.87; \u201cJ. C. B.\u201d $5; W.\n      K., $5                                                  11.87\n    Lindenville. John Thompson                                10.00\n    Madison. Mrs. S. H. Roe, and others, $10;\n      Sarah E. Warner $5                                      15.00\n    Martinsburg. Cong. Church Property, $55; Geo.\n      Stewart, $3; Mrs. D. $1                                 59.00\n    Medina. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                35.50\n    Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                 35.66\n    Penfield. Cong. Ch.                                       11.00\n    Pittsfield. Cong. Ch.                                     20.15\n    Steubenville. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc. of First\n      Cong. Ch., by Miss M. J. Leslie, Treas.                 10.00\n    Strongsville. Free Cong. Ch.                              15.00\n    Tallmadge. Mrs. Annis Wolcott $5; L. C. Walton\n      $5; H. A. Peck $2; Miss M. A. C. $1, _for\n      Tougaloo Miss._                                         13.00\n    West Andover. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. DWIGHT\n      R. CARPENTER, L. M.                                     24.42\n    Westerville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            3.00\n    Windham. First Cong. Ch.                                  30.00\n    Yellow Springs. \u201cD.\u201d                                      20.00\n\n\n  INDIANA, $10.\n\n    Crawfordsville. Prof. Caleb Mills                         10.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $985.61.\n\n    Albion. Mrs. Martha Skeavington                            5.00\n    Blue Island. Cong. Ch.                                     7.00\n    Buda. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. $50 _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._\u2014Cong. Ch. $20                             70.00\n    Chicago. Col. C. F. Hammond, for Howard\n      University                                             500.00\n    Chicago. N. E. Ch. Mon. Con. Coll. $19.80;\n      Mrs. M. J. Benton, $5; Lincoln Park Ch.\n      (additional) $3.21; Mrs. W. 50c.                        28.51\n    Chillicothe. G. W. Gillman                                 5.00\n    Elgin. Cong. Ch.                                          10.00\n    Emerson. Mrs. E. H. D. French                              5.00\n    Evanston. Cong. Ch.                                      100.00\n    Freedom. \u201cA Friend \u201d                                      10.00\n    Galesburg. ESTATE of Warren C. Willard, by\n      Prof. T. R. Willard                                     14.00\n    Geneseo. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., by Mrs. A. H.\n      Manington, Treas.                                       29.00\n    Kewanee. H. T. Lay                                       100.00\n    Lamoille. Cong. Ch.                                        6.30\n    Malden. Cong. Ch.                                         20.00\n    Oak Park. John Merton, $5.25; Mrs. S. E.\n      Hurlbut, $5                                             10.25\n    Prairie Centre. John Crawford                             10.00\n    Roseville. Cong. Ch. $15.55; L. C. Axtell and\n      wife, $10                                               25.55\n    Sheffield. Cong. Ch.                                      25.00\n    Waukegan. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc.                               5.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $154.67.\n\n    Bellevue. Mrs. H. L. B.                                    1.00\n    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. $16.42; John C.\n      Winans, $5                                              21.42\n    Grand Rapids. Mrs. G. E. F.                                1.00\n    Homestead. Cong. Ch.                                       4.00\n    Hudson. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                    2.00\n    Jackson. Missionary Soc.                                   2.00\n    Kalamazoo. Plymouth Ch.                                   17.00\n    Memphis. Cong. Ch. $3.\u2014Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. $2,\n      _for Bible Reader, Memphis, Tenn._                       5.00\n    Union City. Cong. Ch.                                     96.25\n    Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe                                   5.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $29.87.\n\n    Cherokee. First Cong. Ch.                                 10.37\n    Dover. M. W. H.                                            0.20\n    Montrose. Cong. Ch.                                       11.00\n    New Hampton. E. F. Powers                                  1.30\n    Red Oak. Cong. Ch.                                         6.00\n    Wilton. D. C. S.                                           1.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $123.68.\n\n    Beloit. Second Cong. Ch. $20; First Cong. Ch.\n      (ad\u2019l) $8                                               28.00\n    De Pere. First Cong. Ch.                                  14.93\n    Eau Claire. Cong. Ch.                                     18.00\n    Evansville. Cong. Soc.                                    10.00\n    Kinnick Kinnick. Cong. Ch.                                 2.25\n    Mount Sterling. Peter Valentine                            5.00\n    New Richmond. Addison Moffat                               5.00\n    Oconomowock. Cong. Ch. $15; Mrs. W. R. and\n      Mrs. C. L. A. 50c. ea.                                  16.00\n    Paxton. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Shaw                            5.00\n    Pleasant Prairie. Cong. Ch.                                1.00\n    River Falls. Wm. M. Newcomb $7.50; Mrs. S. W. $1           8.50\n    Sparta. Mrs. O. L. Irwin                                   5.00\n    West Salem. Mrs. W. L. Clark                               5.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $56.49.\n\n    Austin. Cong. Union Ch.                                   30.52\n    Medford. Cong. Ch.                                         8.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. $15.97; Cong. Ch. $2            17.97\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $5.00.\n\n    Clarksville. Cong. Ch.                                     5.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, 50c.\n\n    Leavenworth. L. A. S.                                      0.50\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $54.52.\n\n    Saint Louis. First Cong. Ch. $53.52; \u201cA\n      Friend\u201d $1                                              54.52\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $641.60.\n\n    San Francisco. Receipts of the California\n      Chinese Mission                                        641.60\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TER., $70.00.\n\n    S\u2019Kokomish. LEGACY of Mrs. M. F. Eells, by\n      Rev. Myron Eells, to const. MRS. SARAH M.\n      EELLS and MISS IDA M. EELLS, L. M\u2019s                     70.00\n\n\n  MARYLAND, $5.\n\n    Emmettsburg. David Gamble                                  5.00\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $102.94.\n\n    Wilmington. Normal School $92.20; Cong. Ch.\n      $10.74                                                 102.94\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $15.50.\n\n    Chattanooga. Cong. Ch.                                    15.50\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $16.53.\n\n    Athens. J. McI., Jr.                                       0.50\n    Byron. Cong. Ch.                                           0.50\n    Savannah. Cong. Ch. $5.53 and Sab. Sch. $5;\n      Bible Class $5                                          15.53\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $8.35.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo University                              8.35\n\n\n  INCOME, $2,733.33.\n\n    \u2014\u2014. Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                         2,733.33\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n            Total                                         15,134.09\n    Total from Oct. 1st to Sept 30th.                   $166,891.23\n\n                                              H. W. HUBBARD,\n                                                      _Ass\u2019t Treas._\n\n  RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION, E.\n      Palache, Treas., from June 20th to Sept.\n      20th, 1878.\n    FROM AUXILIARIES.\u2014Petaluma Chinese Mission\n      $14.45; Stockton Chinese Mission (of which\n      from Mrs. M. C. Brown $3, Rev. M. Post $2,\n      Dea. J. T. Mills $2, Miss M. Bye $1, Mrs. J.\n      M. Cavis $1, Chinese 50c.) $9.50; Santa\n      Barbara Chinese Mission (of which from W. E.\n      Barnard $5) $26.85                                      50.80\n    FROM CHURCHES.\u2014Oakland\u2014First Cong. Ch. (of\n      which from Jee Gam and Lee Haim $2 ea.)\n      $53.40; Sacramento\u2014First Cong. Ch. (of which\n      from A. C. Sweetser $2) $12; San\n      Francisco\u2014First Cong. Ch. $43.15; Bethany\n      Ch. (of which from Chinese members $58) $77            185.55\n    FROM INDIVIDUALS.\u2014Balfour, Guthrie & Co. $50;\n      Redington & Co. $50; J. J. Felt $25; Thos.\n      Bell $25; Hon. F. F. Low $25; James M. Haven\n      $25; Flint, Peabody & Co. $25; Tallant & Co.\n      $20; Falkner, Bell & Co. $20; Charles\n      Holbrook $10; John F. Merrill $10; J. S. H.\n      $2.50                                                  287.50\n    FROM EASTERN FRIENDS\u2014Fitchburg, Mass. Col.\n      Sab. Sch., Primary Class. $17.75; bal. to\n      const. SAMUEL J. STEWART, L. M.; Amherst,\n      Mass. \u201cMrs. R. A. L.\u201d $100                             117.75\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                               $641.60\n\n\n  RECEIVED FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Greenwich, Conn. William Brush $400; David\n      Banks $400; Charles Brush 100; Israel Peck\n      $100; Solomon Mead $100                              1,100.00\n    Greenwich, Conn. Joseph L. Roberts, to const.\n      LAWRENCE ROBERTS, L. M.                                 30.00\n    Middletown, Conn. Mrs. Anna H. Phillips                   20.00\n    Norfolk, Conn. Robbins Battell                            25.00\n    Union Falls, N. Y. Mrs. Fanny D. Duncan $30;\n      Miss Margaret B. Duncan $30                             60.00\n    Englewood, N. J. Rev. G. B. Cheever                      100.00\n    Corpus Christi, Texas. Rev. S. M. Coles                    5.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           1,340.00\n    Previously acknowledged, August Receipts               1,465.50\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total                                                 $2,805.50\n\n\n  RECEIVED FOR YELLOW FEVER SUFFERERS\n\n    Fitzwilliam, N. H. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     22.00\n    Rindge, N. H. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          10.00\n    Norwich Town, Conn. \u201cG. M.\u201d                                6.50\n    Stonington, Conn. Third Bapt. Ch. $13.50;\n      Rising Sons and Daughters of Abraham Soc.\n      $10.\u2014\u201425c., by A. Morrison                              23.75\n    Astoria, N. Y. Friends in Reformed Ch., by F.\n      W. Whittemore                                           45.00\n    New York, N. Y. Rev. L. Smith Hobart                       5.00\n    New York, N. Y. \u201cH. W. H.\u201d $5; \u201cA Friend\u201d $2               7.00\n    Jersey City, N. J. First Cong. Ch., by W. J.\n      Hunt, Treas.                                            46.52\n    Paterson, N. J. Broadway Tab. Cong. Ch.                   25.20\n    Schooley\u2019s Mountain, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. R. R.\n      Proudfit                                                20.00\n    West Alexander, Penn. Dr. Robert Davidson                 10.00\n    Highland, Ill. French Evangelical Ch.                     40.00\n    Hudson, Mich. Cong. Sab. Sch.                             10.37\n    Imlay City, Mich. Cong. Ch.                               16.50\n    Columbus, Wis. Cong. Ch.                                  19.00\n    Clinton, Iowa. First Cong. Ch.                            26.85\n    Mason City, Iowa. Cong. Ch., by Rev. E. C.\n      Moulton                                                 11.00\n    Fort Berthold, D. T. Rev. C. L Hall $10; D. W.\n      Longfellow $5; W. C. Davie $5; E. H. Alden\n      $5; Geo. B. Johnson $5; Hannah Briggs $5; C.\n      W. Darling $5; Harvey Hendricks $3; James L.\n      Neave $2; W. Courtney $2; C. F. Walker $2;\n      J. W. Gould $1; Alice Johnson $1                        51.00\n    Oakland, Cal. Plymouth Ave. Cong. Ch.                     10.50\n    San Francisco, Cal. First Cong. Ch., by J. W.\n      Clark, Treas.                                          155.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                             $561.19\n\n\n  RECEIVED FOR DEBT.\n\n    Berlin, Vt. M. W. P.                                       2.00\n    Enfield, Conn. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                 1.00\n    Hartford, Conn. Dr. John R. Lee                           25.00\n    Meriden, Conn. Chas. H. Learned, to const.\n      JAMES H. LEARNED, L. M.                                 30.00\n    New Haven, Conn. Nathan Peck                              20.00\n    New Haven, Conn. Mary S. Thatcher                          5.00\n    Norwich, Conn. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                               200.00\n    Watertown, Conn. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      100.27\n    Camillus, N. Y. Isaiah Wilcox                            100.00\n    Gerry, N. Y. Mrs. Mary A. G. Sears                        50.00\n    Gouverneur, N. Y. Eli Mix                                 15.00\n    New York, N.Y. Mrs. Hannah Ireland                        50.00\n    Saratoga Springs, N. Y. William Dawes                     10.00\n    Cambridgeboro, Penn. Mrs. H. R. Ross                       5.00\n    Albion, Ill. Mrs. Martha Skeavington                      10.00\n    Chicago, Ill. Col. C. G. Hammond                         500.00\n    Rockford, Ill. L. S. Sweezey                             100.00\n    Kalamazoo, Mich. Rev. H. N. Burton, D.D., $5;\n      Dr. H. O. Hitchcock $5                                  10.00\n    Northfield, Minn. \u201cA. N. N.\u201d                               5.00\n    Jonesborough, Tenn. Julia B. Nelson                        5.00\n    Raleigh, N. C. Miss E. P. Hayes                           10.00\n    \u2014\u2014Bristol. Mrs. Theodore Jones                             5.60\n    INDIANA.\u2014_Liber_: J. R. Wells $5; Thomas Towle\n      $2; _Michigan City_: Mrs. J. C. Haddock $5;\n      _Winchester_: L. O. Ward $10                            22.00\n    OHIO.\u2014_Bryan_: S. B. Blakelee $5; _Geneva_:\n      Mrs. S. Kingsbury $5; _Kingsville_: M.\n      Whiting $10; _Cincinnati_: E. W. Hyde $25;\n      _Sandusky_: Lewis Moss $10; _Marietta_:\n      Cong. Ch. $6; _Lenox_: A. J. Holman $10;\n      _Edinburg_: B. E. Bingham $10; _York_:\n      Ladies of Cong. Ch. $5; _Hudson_: William\n      Pettengill $10; Miss Emily E. Metcalf $5;\n      _Madison_: Mrs. S. H. Roe $10.\u2014\u2014Rev. H. C.\n      Hayden $10; _Radnor_: Edward D. Jones $10;\n      _Ripley_: John L. Tweed $5; _Mallet Creek_:\n      Mrs. Mary B. Branch $5; Dr. J. A. Bingham\n      $5; _Painesville_: Mrs. C. O. Higgins $5;\n      _Galion_: Mrs. E. C. Linsey $3; _Findlay_:\n      Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. $8; _Toledo_: Edson Allen\n      $10; _Alexandria_: Mrs. Lucy C. Remington\n      $5; _Cleveland_: W. H. Doan $10; _West\n      Williamsfield_: Mrs. A. H. Robbins $5;\n      _Delaware_: John H. Jones $10; _Cuyahoga\n      Falls_: Mrs. Maria B. Clark $3.15; _Burton_:\n      Charles Cutler $12; _Randolph_: W. J.\n      Dickinson $10; _North Benton_: Margaret J.\n      Hartzel $10; _Springfield_: First Cong. Sab.\n      Sch. $10; _Sullivan_: Cong. Soc. $5; _South\n      Newbury_: Mrs. Ruth Watertown $3.50; Rev. E.\n      D. Taylor $2; H. P. G. $1; J. B. W. $1; Mrs.\n      L. M. $1; Mrs. R. P. $1; Miss E. M. 50c.;\n      _Cleveland_: Mrs. H. P. Hickox $10;\n      _Wellington_: Ladies of Cong. Ch. $11;\n      _Painesville_: \u201cThree Friends\u201d $3;\n      _Madison_: Mrs. H. E. Hendry $15; _Berlin\n      Heights_: Miss Mattie Kinney $5; _Marietta_:\n      Mrs. Douglas Putnam $10; _Claridon_:\n      \u201cFriends,\u201d by Mrs. Treat $20.21; _Norwalk_:\n      E. E. Husted and Friends $10; _Gambier_:\n      James S. Dawes $10; _Hudson_: Delia E.\n      Hazeltine $2.50; _Cleveland_: Mrs. M. B.\n      Lyle $5.50; _Medina_: Cong. Sab. Sch., by\n      Ellen J. Nason, $10; _Saybrook_: Mrs. W. S.\n      Streeter $10; _Centre Belpre_: Mrs. E. M.\n      Goodhue $5; _Ashtabula_: James Hall $10;\n      _Oberlin_: Mrs. E. S. Mead $5; _Elyria_: M.\n      W. Cogswell $10; _Oberlin_: J. B. Clarke\n      $10; _Akron_: Mary B. Monroe $5; _Gustavus_:\n      Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc. $5; _Sandusky_: J. E.\n      Marshall $10                                           444.36\n    ILLINOIS.\u2014_Rochell_: W. H. Holcomb $10;\n      _Galesburg_: Mrs. E. T. Parker $25;\n      _Malden_: Miss C. S. Porter $10;\n      _Sheffield_: A. W. Boyden $10; C. H. Boyden\n      $5; _Odell_: Mrs. H. E. Dana $10; _Maywood_:\n      Union Sab. Sch. $5; _Aurora_: H. C. Paddock\n      $10; _Champaign_: Cong. Sab. Sch. $10; _Lake\n      Forest_: Rev. W. A. Nichols $7;\n      _Chicago_\u2014Wm. H. Bradley $50; _Quincy_\u2014Chas.\n      W. Keyes $10; C. H. Bull $10: _Kewanee_\u2014Mrs.\n      C. L. Chapin and daughter $10;\n      _Winnebago_\u2014N. F. Parsons ($2 of which from\n      a friend) $10; _Morrison_\u2014Rev. E. G. Smith\n      $5; _Moline_\u2014\u201cFriends\u201d $10; _Payson_\u2014P. E.\n      Thompson $5; _Greeley_\u2014Mrs. Joseph Farrell\n      $5; _Prospect Park_\u2014Mrs. Lloyd $5;\n      _Peoria_\u2014J. T. Rogers $5; _Collinsville_\u2014J.\n      F. Wadsworth $10; _Chicago_\u2014S. B. French\n      $50; _Oak Park_\u2014Geo. Eckhart $5; _Aurora_\u2014D.\n      J. Pike $10; _Chicago_\u2014Z. B. Taylor $5; _Oak\n      Park_\u2014Wm. Spooner $5; _Mendon_\u2014Joel Benton\n      $10; _Collinsville_\u2014Mrs. J. S. Peens $10;\n      _Kewanee_\u2014Mrs. C. C. Culley $8;\n      _Rockford_\u2014Mrs. J. W. Briggs $5; Ladies of\n      Cong. Ch. $18; James B. Agard $5;\n      _Providence_\u2014Mrs. H. B. Gulliver $6;\n      _Quincy_\u2014Joshua Perry $10; _Sandwich_\u2014Mrs.\n      A. P. Casper $10; _Peoria_\u2014Rev. A. A.\n      Stevens $10; _Lyndon_\u2014D. F. Milliken $10;\n      _Port Byron_\u2014Mrs. E. T. Harper $5;\n      _Plainfield_\u2014J. Hagar $30, to const. MURTON\n      HAGAR FRASER, L. M.; _Quincy_\u2014H. P. Prentiss\n      $5; Miss Louisa M. Rollins $5; _Tonica_\u2014V.\n      G. Lutz $5; _Galesburg_\u2014Ladies of First\n      Cong. Ch. $20; _Aurora_\u2014N. A. James $5;\n      _Waverly_\u2014Miss Louisa Tupper $5;\n      _Roseville_\u2014Sarah J. W. Axtell $5; _Lake\n      Forest_\u2014Mrs. W. H. Ferry $3; _Sycamore_\u2014Mr.\n      and Mrs. H. Wood $10; _Springfield_\u2014Five\n      Ladies, by Mrs. C. L. Post $5;\n      _Danvers_\u2014Mrs. M. M. Longley $5;\n      _Odell_\u2014Mrs. B. F. Hotchkiss $5; _Bunker\n      Hill_\u2014C. V. A. Quick $10 _Payson_\u2014Mrs. Eliza\n      Harrington $5; _Elgin_\u2014Cong. Ch. $5;\n      _Chicago_\u2014Col by Mrs. N. H. Blatchford $10;\n      _Jerseyville_\u2014G. W. Burke $5; _Dover_\u2014M. M.\n      Allen $5; _Matamora_\u2014A. C. Rouse $5; Others\n      $5.25; _Ottawa_\u2014Mary H. Lewis $11.80;\n      _Galesburg_\u2014Mrs. S. D. Clendenin $15;\n      _Joliet_\u2014Wm. C. Stevens $12;\n      _Granville_\u2014Mizpah Circle, by E. J. Colby\n      $8; _Sycamore_\u2014$8.25; _Ivanhoe_\u2014Church, by\n      R. Osgood $13; _Lorain_\u2014Mrs. C. M. Fields\n      $3; _Woodburn_\u2014Mrs. W. H. Bird $5;\n      _Glencoe_\u2014Mrs. S. T. Lockwood $5;\n      _Clifton_\u2014Mrs. E. F. Cummings $5;\n      _Galesburg_\u2014Geo. Churchill $10; _Quincy_\u2014R.\n      McComb $5; _Sheffield_\u2014C. A. Davis and A. M.\n      Davis $5.75; _Oak Park_\u2014Mrs. J. H. Hurlbut\n      $5; _Princeville_\u2014Olive L. Cutter and Elmyra\n      Jones $10; _Lamoille_\u2014J. R. Jones $20;\n      _Sandwich_\u2014E. G. Coe $5; _Chicago_\u2014Mrs.\n      Willard Cook $30, to const. REV E. L.\n      JAGGAR, L. M.                                          754.05\n    MICHIGAN.\u2014_Detroit_\u2014Mrs. H. E. Baker $5;\n      _Bellevue_\u2014M. 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Converse $3;\n      _Memphis_\u2014Juv. Miss. Soc. by Mrs. W. P.\n      Russell $5; _Jackson_\u2014Mrs. L. Kassick $5;\n      _Detroit_\u2014Mrs. M. R. Eddy $5; _Pontiac_\u2014W.\n      S. Albertson $10; _Romeo_\u2014Mrs. A. M. Grover\n      $10; _Grand Rapids_\u2014S. L. Withley $5; Mrs.\n      S. L. Withley $5; _Three Oaks_\u2014Mrs. M.\n      Chamberlain $5; _Galesburg_\u2014Mrs. Sarah M.\n      Sleeper $5; _South Boston_\u2014Cong. Ch. $6;\n      _Benzonia_\u2014Mrs. Elvira F. Spence $10; Cong.\n      Sab. Sch. $5.25                                        409.00\n    WISCONSIN. _Ripon_: A. P. Harwood $25; _Oak\n      Grove_: Daniel Richards $10; _Beliot_: Mrs.\n      A. L. Chapin $5; Mrs. A. Cheney $10; Mrs. S.\n      M. Clary $10; Miss E. Field $10; _Brant_: E.\n      W. & M. B. Scott $2; _Sheboygan_: Mrs. L. H.\n      Chase $10; F. Lawrence $5; _Ripon_: C. T.\n      Tracy $5; _Keshena_: P. Bridgman $3; Miss\n      Alice Tapping $2; W. W. Wheeler $5; _Eau\n      Clair_: Mrs. J. 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Jones $5; _Seneca_\u2014Rev. O. Littlefield\n      and Wife $15                                           361.42\n    KANSAS. _Mariadhal_\u2014H. H. Griffin $10;\n      _Atchison_\u2014Rev. F. T. Ingalls $10; Woman\u2019s\n      Miss. Soc. $5; _Blue Rapids_\u2014T. H. $1;\n      _Leavenworth_\u2014Mrs. C. B. Brace $2; Mrs. S.\n      A. Cutter $10                                           38.00\n    MINNESOTA. _Hastings_\u2014R. B. Truax $5;\n      _Minneapolis_\u2014Mrs. J. B. Hanson $5;\n      _Clearwater_\u2014Mrs. M. M. Walker $7;\n      _Rochester_\u2014Mrs. J. Briggs $5; _Winona_\u2014Miss\n      Mary A. Keyes $5; _Austin_\u2014Mrs. A. Morse and\n      others $5.25; _Northfield_\u2014G. W. Phillips $5            37.25\n    NEBRASKA. _York_\u2014Benj. Bissell $10.25;\n      _Crete_\u2014Mrs. M. A. Farwell $5; _Steel\n      City_\u2014Mrs. S. C. Dean $5; _Weeping\n      Water_\u2014Mrs. A. 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Our readers are among the best in the country, having an\nestablished character for integrity and thrift that constitute them\nvalued customers in all departments of business.\n\nTo Advertisers using display type and Cuts, who are accustomed\nto the \u201cRULES\u201d of the best Newspapers, requiring \u201cDOUBLE RATES\u201d\nfor these \u201cLUXURIES,\u201d our wide pages, fine paper, and superior\nprinting, with =no extra charge for cuts=, are advantages readily\nappreciated, and which add greatly to the appearance and effect of\nbusiness announcements.\n\nWe are, thus far, gratified with the success of this department,\nand solicit orders from all who have unexceptionable wares to\nadvertise.\n\nAdvertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order\nto secure insertion in the following number. All communications in\nrelation to advertising should be addressed to\n\n                    J. H. DENISON, Adv\u2019g Agent,\n                                      56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n\u261e Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of\nthe \u201cAmerican Missionary\u201d can aid us in this respect by mentioning,\nwhen ordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.\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\u201cquanity\u201d changed to \u201cquantity\u201d on page 323. (large quantity of\nfagots)\n\n\u201cfrugalit\u201d changed to \u201cfrugality\u201d on page 342. (health-giving\nfrugality)","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 32, No. 11, November, 1878","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":23516}