{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_53618/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_53618","id":"gutenberg_53618","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53618","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Sociology","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"VOL. XXXIII.                                                No. 1.\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                *       *       *       *       *\n\n                          JANUARY, 1879.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    OUR OUTLOOK FOR 1879                                           1\n    OUR APPEAL FOR THE NEW YEAR                                    2\n    THE LORD\u2019S WORK AND THE LORD\u2019S COMING                          3\n    THE LONDON UNION MISSIONARY CONFERENCE                         3\n    POLITICAL PROGRESS OF THE FREEDMEN: Rev. M. E. Strieby         4\n    THESE MY BRETHREN                                              6\n    FIVE TESTS OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION: Prof. C. D.\n      Hartranft, D. D.                                             7\n    RETURN OF REV. FLOYD SNELSON                                  10\n    ITEMS FROM THE CHURCHES                                       10\n    GENERAL NOTES                                                 11\n    OUR QUERY COLUMN                                              14\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA\u2014Revival in Howard University             14\n    VIRGINIA\u2014A Destitute County                                   14\n    ALABAMA\u2014New Church at Shelby Iron Works\u2014Talladega a\n      Missionary Centre                                           15\n    FLORENCE\u2014Thin End of the Wedge\u2014First Thanksgiving Service     16\n    MISSOURI\u2014Free Schools in the State                            17\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    THE MENDI MISSION\u2014A Church Organized and Dedicated at Avery   18\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    THE LATE INDIAN WAR AND CHRISTIANITY: Rev Myron Eells         20\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN CHINESE: Rev.\n      W. C. Pond                                                  21\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                        24\n\n\n  WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC.                                   27\n\n\n  PLEASE READ, THINK, COPY AND MAIL                               28\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\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    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    WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.\n    Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.\n    Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.\n    Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.\n    Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.\n    Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n    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., Minn.\n    Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.\n    Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon.\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    PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, 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    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ct.\n    DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.\n    A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.\n    Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y.\n    FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.\n    JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _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_.\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; letters for the Editor of the\n\u201cAmerican Missionary\u201d to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York\nOffice.\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. XXXIII.     JANUARY, 1879.     No. 1.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n      *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR OUTLOOK FOR 1879.\n\nThe review of our last year\u2019s work has been so recently and\nso fully given in connection with the annual meeting of the\nAssociation, that it is scarcely needful for us to ask our readers\nto join us in another survey of what has already been accomplished.\nIt is more fitting, as we stand upon the threshold of the new year,\nto ask what are the signs of the times, and what the demands of the\nwork before us.\n\nThere are still dark clouds in the Southern sky. A mere granting\nof civil and political rights by formal enactment is of small\nimportance unless the rights themselves are honestly allowed and\nfaithfully accepted. The adjustment of alleged wrongs we must leave\nto politicians if not to statesmen, and to courts of law if not\nof justice. Our work, obscure and remote as it may seem, is more\nfundamental and important than that of either Congresses or courts.\nFor by whatever defences the Freedman may or may not be surrounded,\nthe only safeguard of his rights must be in his fitness to exercise\nand his ability to maintain them. It is for us, through all the\nchanges of the year, to keep steadily to our work. It is not\nchecked because the winter is upon us; nor will it be over when the\nsummer comes. It is not for this year\u2019s harvesting alone that we\nare working; we are sub-soiling and so laboring for the permanent\nreclamation of these vast fields. We believe that more depends\nupon the moral and intellectual elevation of the Freedmen of our\nland, not only in regard to their welfare, but in regard to the\ngreat questions of which they are only a factor, than upon anything\nwhich can be done for them by legislative enactment or military\npower. We purpose, then, to press on with the school and the\nchurch. Intelligence and virtue are the Jachin and Boaz, the two\ngreat pillars of the porch of the Temple of American citizenship\nand liberty. While it rests on anything else, it is uncertain and\nunsafe.\n\nOur lesser work at home among the Indians and Chinese will demand\nthe same moderate but constant share of our attention as before.\nOur connection with the six Indian Agencies, through the Interior\nDepartment, is not a matter of expense, but mainly of time and\ncare. If we shall be relieved from that, our missionary work will\nstill remain and may be enlarged. And though the immigration of\nChinamen has been checked to some degree, and their interest in\nlearning English has been abated by the abuse they have received,\nthe work has been, and is yet, too fruitful of good to be given up.\n\nOur African mission has passed through one year under its new\norganization, with apparent prosperity and success. We shall need\nto strengthen its forces before long. We shall want both the men\nand the means.\n\nThere is work enough in our outlook and encouragement to do it. We\nwould remind our readers as well as ourselves, that the year which\nis most full of sacrifice and service for the Master, is most sure\nof all to be _A Happy New Year_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR APPEAL FOR 1879.\n\nOur friends are thoroughly informed of the fact that our debt of\nlate has been rapidly diminishing. We are sorry to say that _the\nsame thing is true of our income_. That, too, has been growing\nless. We learn that this is true, also, of our sister societies.\nThey, also, have noticed a falling off in their revenues. We do\nnot like to make much ado over our troubles; but we have been very\nfrank in acknowledging our mercies, and we owe it to the work, and\nto those who sustain it, to tell them our perplexities as well.\n\nOur receipts for the last two months have been very inadequate\nfor the work we have in hand. What does this mean to us with this\noutlook for 1879? Does it signify withdrawal from fields already\nunder cultivation? Already the Executive Committee have had under\nserious advisement two cases, in which it was necessary either\nto stop fruitful work at important points or spend a little more\nmoney. Retrenchment is easier to talk of than to accomplish. It\ncosts as much sometimes to stop as to go on. A temporary suspension\nis sometimes more expensive than continuous work. Our teachers are\nengaged and our buildings are prepared for the year. Shall we stop\nthe whole machinery of a great factory to save the price of the gas\nwhich lights it? That would be ruinous economy indeed.\n\nBut we do not seriously believe that the friends of the three most\nneedy races on our continent have lost heart, or hope, or means, to\ncarry out the generous plans they have devised. These last months\nof 1878 have been trying alike to them and to us. Our plea is only\nthis, that, with the new year (if the debt be not by that time\naltogether a thing of the past), there may be a fresh and final\nattack upon that enemy of our peace; and more even than this, that\nthere may be a fuller and a steadier flow of the Lord\u2019s money into\nour treasury for the wants of the work of 1879.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe are happy to say that a goodly number of ladies whom we have\nasked to assume the responsibility of raising a share of $25,\ntowards the payment of our debt, have replied favorably. The\nfollowing extract from a letter sent us by one who has been\nabundant in her efforts for the Freedmen, indicates the enthusiasm\nand thankfulness with which some of the ladies respond:\n\nYour kind letter of November 26th found me watching in the sick\nroom of my brother; but my heart went right up to God in gratitude\nthat I was not forgotten by the officers of the A. M. A., and that\nthey still think I can do something to help on this great work. I\nhave never ceased to be interested in the work in all its length\nand breadth, and to do what little I can for it. The debt has\noccupied much of my thought. I have wanted to do something to help\npay it beyond the little I could give myself. Now that I can go out\nunder your guardianship, I will be one of two hundred to raise one\nshare ($25), and as much more as I can. I am sure the debt will\nsoon be paid. There should be no lack of funds to carry on this\nwork. It is very strange our _nation_ cannot see it and feel it\ntoo.\n\nAn old and faithful friend from Sag Harbor, N. Y., sends us thirty\ndollars to make a life member. At the same time he asks us to star\nthe names of his two oldest children, who were among the first of\nthe twenty whom he has thus added to our list. They have gone up\nhigher. He concludes thus:\n\n  I was much interested in reading the article in December number,\n  page 387, \u201cStudents Want to \u2018Batch\u2019\u2014Who will Help?\u201d I would like\n  for my $30 to go to assist in building one of those $100 houses.\n  Can\u2019t you get some one to add the other $70, and put up one of\n  those dwellings for those scholars who are so anxious to get an\n  education to teach and to preach?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE LORD\u2019S WORK AND THE LORD\u2019S COMING.\n\nOne of our friends, (Rev. T. S. Robie, North Carver, Mass.,) who\nwas at our annual meeting at Taunton, remembering doubtless that\nthe Prophetic Conference was in session during the same days in New\nYork City, puts the two things together thus:\n\n  One comes from a meeting like that, through which glimpses are\n  caught of opportunities for work, of openings by the Unseen Hand\n  into spheres of service which stretch out into the future beyond\n  the range of our human vision, with the overwhelming conviction\n  that the Lord isn\u2019t just at present to stop the wheels of this\n  world. It is not _like_ the Lord to give such problems to His\n  people, which are pressing upon this Christian nation today with\n  such power, and which demand time for their solution, and then\n  to cut the Gordian knot by the sword of His \u201ccoming,\u201d as if He\n  had met with a tangled question which He himself could not untie.\n  The red, blue and white and black marble, which Divine Providence\n  has brought into this land, tell of a building of God grander\n  than any Persian palace, the foundations of which seem to be just\n  being laid, rather than the completion thereof to be nigh at\n  hand. The vastness of the preparation points to the magnificence\n  of the Lord\u2019s dominion in the hearts and over the lives of men.\n\n  The Book of God\u2019s Providence is as much inspired as the Bible\n  itself. And whoever studies the former as prayerfully as the\n  latter, must labor hard to stifle the feeling that the clock of\n  earth, instead of getting ready to stop, is being wound up to\n  keep good time for a thousand years, as a prelude to that perfect\n  righteousness which shall dwell forever on the new earth and\n  beneath the new heavens.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE LONDON UNION MISSIONARY CONFERENCE.\n\nThe London Union Missionary Conference was held in November. The\nCongregational churches of America were represented by Dr. Clark\nof the American Board, and Dr. O. H. White of the Freedmen\u2019s Aid\nSociety, of London, who also represented the American Missionary\nAssociation, to which the F. A. Society is auxiliary. The last\ngathering of the kind in England was in 1860, at which one\nhundred and twenty-six delegates assembled. The sessions were\nmainly private, the societies represented were chiefly British,\nand plans were discussed rather than achievements reported. This\nlater meeting was somewhat different in its character. Six hundred\ndelegates were in attendance from various lands and denominations\nof Christians. It was not so much a conference on methods as a\ncomparison of results. The sessions of the week were apportioned\nto the work in the various lands. A great mass of information was\ncollected, which will doubtless be more impressive and complete in\nthe volume of proceedings to be published, than it could have been\nin the hearing.\n\nThe character of the meetings may be inferred from the following\nsketch of the time devoted to the \u201cDark Continent,\u201d in which we\nare especially interested. We copy from the correspondent of\nthe _Christian Union_: \u201cTwo sessions on Tuesday were devoted to\nAfrica and its many tribes. An Irish peer, the Earl of Cavan,\npresided, and the attendance of delegates and friends was large.\nDr. Underhill, of the Baptist Missionary Society, discoursed on\nthe benefits of emancipation, and showed what an important bearing\nthe evangelizing of the negro race must have on the conversion of\nall West Africa. Sir Fowell Buxton, the son of the great advocate\nof emancipation forty years ago, described the three schemes now\nbeing carried out for planting new missions on the three great\nlakes of Central Africa. Dr. Stewart, of the Free Church Mission\nat Livingstonia, on Lake Nyassa, described the principle and\nthe plan of the missionary institution at Lovedale, in the Cape\nColony, which he has managed for several years. This is a model\ninstitution, with industrial as well as educational and theological\ndepartments; and is just the thing which the native tribes of South\nAfrica need for their enlightenment. Dr. Lowe, the Secretary of the\nEdinburgh Medical Missionary Society, also read an admirable paper\non the work, methods and usefulness of medical missions generally.\nSeveral of the medical missionaries who have recently gone out to\nAfrica were Dr. Lowe\u2019s pupils.\n\n\u201cAmong the effective speakers on these African missions were\nDr. Waugemann, of Berlin, who described the work of the Berlin\nSociety, especially in the Transvaal; Dr. White, of the Freedmen\u2019s\nAid Mission; the Rev. E. Schrenck, of Basle, who spoke of work\nin Ashantee; and the Rev. Dr. Moffat, who told the Conference\nabout his Bechuanas, and of course with his strong gray hair and\nhis eighty-three years of age and sixty-two years of service for\nChrist, received an ovation at its hands. The noble presence and\nthe stirring words of the grand old man on the African day were a\nstriking feature in the meetings of the Conference.\u201d\n\nSuch gatherings must help on the cause of Christian comity in\nmissions, as well as broaden the views of all who are engaged\nin working the field under their hands. It is well to look up\nsometimes from our own furrow, even if we have to stop ploughing\nfor a little, that we may realize that the field is the world, and\nthat the harvest belongs to one Master.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE POLITICAL PROGRESS OF THE FREEDMEN.\n\nBY REV. M. E. STRIEBY.\n\nWas it wise to give the ballot to the ex-slaves? The answer that\ncame in the hour it was given, from the Congress that gave it,\nfrom the Northern people that sustained it, and from the colored\npeople that enjoyed it, was an emphatic and enthusiastic \u201cYes!\u201d\nThe answer that came at that hour from the Southern white man was\nin a suppressed voice, and was an execration hissed out between\ngrinding teeth. Since that hour the voice of the Southern white\nman has grown firmer, and, as it came up from misgoverned South\nCarolina and Louisiana, has rounded out into a full-toned \u201cNo!\u201d\nNay, more, it has been re-echoed from the North, and recently with\nspecial emphasis from the lips of one of the purest Christian\nscholars on the heights of Christian learning in New England. What\nanswer do I give? Unhesitatingly, \u201cYes!\u201d I say nothing about the\nmere party reason given either then or since, for I do not write\nas a partisan. I put the wisdom of the ballot on more substantial\ngrounds.\n\n1. It saved the Freedmen from being again reduced to slavery.\nVagrant laws were passed, which confined them to the plantations\non which they had engaged to work, the end of which would have been\na serfdom attaching them to the soil. The ballot saved them from\nthis.\n\n2. It gave the Freedmen and the South a free school system\u2014a\ngreater boon than Southern legislation ever gave them before\u2014a\nboon without which all else would have been well-nigh in vain.\nThat system was modeled after the best patterns at the North, and\nalthough it has been somewhat modified and enfeebled in practical\noperation, is yet a solid corner-stone in the foundation of the new\nsuperstructure which the South is rearing.\n\n3. The ballot gave the Freedman a sense of self-respect, and\ncommanded for him the respect of others. To him it was an education\nand an inspiration. It gave him the standing of a man among men,\nand prompted him to become worthy of his position. It was a power\nto him in the early days of his freedom, when he needed every help\nto sustain him in that freedom; and to-day, though it is held in\ncheck and almost useless, yet it is a slumbering giant, and is\nwatched with respectful caution by the whites. For who can tell\nwhat such a slumbering power might do if aroused?\n\nAt present the black voter is politically conquered. The \u201cwhite\nman\u2019s government\u201d is established, and it is the purpose of the\nwhite man that it shall remain so. This has been easily attained in\nthe States where the white majority is undoubted. In the few States\nwhere the blacks are in the majority, the white man is determined\nto rule, peaceably if he can, forcibly if he must. The Chisholm\nmurder and the Hamburg massacre are but samples of the methods\nthat will be resorted to if the effort is pushed persistently\nto restore the supremacy of the black man in politics. When we\nremember how that supremacy in those States was abused, how can we\nask the restoration if the abuse must again follow? The problem\nis difficult. It can be solved only by one formula. The black\nman must be protected in his political rights, and he must be so\nenlightened as to use and not abuse those rights. There will be no\npermanent advantage from a mere partisan triumph of the black man.\nIf achieved, as matters now stand, bayonets will again be needed to\nsustain it, and will become once more a source of angry discussion\nat the North and of concentrated bitterness at the South. The\nexperiment may again be necessary; but a far better thing should be\nspeedily, steadily and efficiently pushed forward\u2014the training of\nthe colored voter for an intelligent and responsible manhood and\ncitizenship.\n\nIf every colored voter could be accompanied to the polls by a file\nof soldiers armed with muskets, his ballot would represent the\nmusket and not the man. But if he becomes a property owner, with\nall the interest in the welfare of the community which property\ngives; if he is educated and can take an _intelligent_ interest\nin the welfare of the community; and if he acquires a weight of\ncharacter that challenges respect, he will need no soldiers to\nguard him to the polls, and his vote will represent the man and not\nthe musket.\n\nWhen the black man shall reach such a position he conquers\ncaste-prejudice and wipes out the color-line in politics. Color is\nsignificant only as it represents condition. Change the condition\nand the color is of no consequence. With that change the white and\nblack men at the South will divide on politics as white men do at\nthe North, from differing views as to the best measures to promote\npublic weal.\n\nLook on this picture: An armed and organized mob is breaking up a\npolitical gathering of the blacks and their friends, and in the\nbackground are the overawed Freedmen retiring from the polls.\nLook, also, on this picture: A company of United States soldiers\nare keeping guard over a body of legislators, mostly black, who,\nwith reckless rascality, are squandering the public funds, to\nthe ruin of the State and the disgrace of the nation. Turn not\nfrom these pictures with indifference, for they are no fancy\nsketches; nay, face them, for the history of at least two States\nof this Union is liable to be a perpetual oscillation between the\ntwo. But now look on this picture: A colored man is tilling his\nland, adorning his home, and gathering around him the refinements\nof life. Near by is the school-house, where his children, with\nhundreds of others, are receiving the instruction of skilful\nteachers, and not far off is the church edifice where that man and\nhis neighbors worship God under the ministration of a well educated\nand pious minister.\n\nWhich picture do we choose, not as a matter of artistic preference,\nbut as the practical model for patriotic work? The only safety is\nto extend that last picture till it shall cover the whole canvas\nand blot out the other two. In that way only can a life and death\nstruggle between two irreconcilable forces be avoided.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\u201cTHESE MY BRETHREN.\u201d\n\nIn the Saviour\u2019s great \u201cInasmuch\u201d there is the power of\npersonality. \u201cI was an hungered; I was thirsty; I was naked; I was\na stranger; I was sick; I was in prison.\u201d It was Christ in the\nperson of these suffering and lowly ones; and service done to them\nwas done to Him. He might well have stopped there. But the marvel\nof His personal identification with them is in the relationship\nwhich He claims between Himself and them\u2014\u201c_these my brethren_.\u201d\nOh, the touching condescension to name them by this title! What\nwe do for these humble and desolate ones we are not only doing\nfor our Lord, but for the brethren of our Lord. He takes it as a\nspecial favor to Himself. And this service is graduated to the\nlowest capacity\u2014it is service done to only _one_ of the _least_ of\nthese. The standard is not that we should serve the mass of these\nHis brethren, but any one of them, according to the measure of our\nability, even down to a single act done to one of them in the right\nspirit and as a revelation of a character in which we delight. Then\nthe obligation runs up to as great a number as our opportunity and\nour ability may reach.\n\nThe intervention of organic efficiency greatly multiplies the\nduty and the privilege of the individual. The American Missionary\nAssociation, as has been potently said, is set for the care of the\nthree despised races in our country. Though the Indian and the\nNegro and the Chinaman are the objects of prejudice and violence\nand injustice and hatred on the part of our people, nevertheless\nChrist speaks of them as among \u201cthese my brethren;\u201d and the prayers\nand the sympathy, and the service and the giving of substance\nin their behalf He counts as rendered to Him. This organization\ncannot discharge any one\u2019s personal duty, but its instrumentality\nis offered to all who would use it in the discharge of individual\nobligation to Christ and to His brethren. Its opportunities belong\nto all who would use them, and by these a single Christian may\nreach not only \u201cunto one of the least of these,\u201d but unto many.\n\nAt the Great Day, when the Master shall surprise you, humble\nChristian, with a benediction for service rendered to His brethren\namong these despised ones, and you deprecatingly answer, _when_\nand _where_, His revealing response may be\u2014_when_ you reached them\nwith your prayers and your substance through that Association which\noffered you its means of operation. And surely all its workers\namong these outcast peoples, in the ostracism and opposition\nand hatred which confront them, may even in this life have their\nabundant recompense in this, that they are serving those whom the\nMaster owns as \u201cthese my brethren.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFIVE TESTS OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.\n\nNotes of an Address at the Annual Meeting.\n\nBY PROF. C. D. HARTRANFT, D. D. HARTFORD, CONN.\n\n(1.) The Indians, the Negroes and the Chinese I regard as the\ndivinely appointed agents by which the principles that underlie\nAmerican civilization are to be finally tested. Every utterance\non the Fourth of July, from the Declaration of Independence till\nthis hour, has made the _right of asylum_ a pre-eminent feature\nof American civilization. So whenever a man has been impelled by\nthe dictates of his conscience to leave his native land and seek\na foreign shore, that he might not be compelled to live in false\nalliance with the Church and worship God in a way he did not elect;\nwhenever a man, full of noble impulses, has felt the hopelessness\nof his life, so far as any ambitious scheme was concerned; or the\neducation of his children\u2014a man feeling the tyranny of continuous\nlabor, without the possibility of accumulation\u2014this man has ever\nbeen gladly welcomed to America. So the Puritan, so the Huguenot,\nso the Dutchman, so the Lutheran\u2014whatever a man\u2019s religious\ntraining, America has given him hearty greeting. Even the atheist\nand the infidel have found a refuge under the folds of this flag.\nAmerica has welcomed them to the shadow of her pines and palmettoes\nand to her golden Pacific. But what a niggardly right of asylum\ndoes she give to the poor Negro, as he is emancipated from his\nbonds; and to the wretched Indian, whom she shuts up in Western\nterritories; and, most of all, to the poor Chinaman, as he comes\nfrom his joss-house, with the instincts of a higher civilization\nimpelling him from the stagnation of centuries to the shores of the\nPacific!\n\nIt behooves us to inquire whether this precious right of asylum is\nto be denied to the weaker races; whether we are going to lose this\npeculiar feature of our nation, that throws its broad land open to\nthe world. Is it not true now, as in the past, that this is a vast\nsanctuary, and that if a man lays hold of the horns of its altar,\nthere shall be nothing to drag him from his possession of freedom?\nHe stands on holy ground. In the British islands, the races that\nhave appeared in its history have been amalgamated\u2014welded by the\nmace and the battle-axe. In France, the various tribes and races\nthat, one after another, possessed that land, were woven together,\nin warp and woof, by fire and blood. In Germany, the Prussians\nhave brought together that great mass of people as one, through\nbitter and tremendous wars, the echoes of which have scarce died\naway. America proposes a far different solution. She recognizes the\nnobility of the characteristics developed by the various races. She\nwants the African, the Chinaman, the Teuton\u2014all races\u2014to labor side\nby side; to develop not only her wealth and prosperity, but, most\nof all, the typical American humanity.\n\nAmerican civilization can better endure the savagery of the\nIndian, the ignorance and brutality of the Negro, and the\nsemi-civilization of the Chinese, than it can afford to fraternize\nwith a civilization that is impregnated with a spirit of\necclesiasticism, or endure the philosophies of St. Louis or the\nInternationals. Rather is it for us to overcome these forces that\nare the outcroppings of centuries of Roman development, as well as\nthose of Indian or Chinese or Negro semi-civilization.\n\nThis right of asylum involves another thing\u2014the right of a man\nto say, \u201cI will leave this land and go to another\u201d\u2014_the right to\nmigrate_ if he does not find things subservient to him. We once\nhailed the Irishman to come and build our railroads. We welcome\nthe German now, as he comes and terraces our mountains and teaches\nus how to garden. We welcome the Frenchman\u2014we welcome all. But we\nsay, \u201cLo! poor Indian, go West. East of the Appalachian is too good\nfor you; we want it. Go West; go West. We will give no rest to the\nsoles of your feet.\u201d Do we want the Black Hills? Migrate! We will\nsurround you with a cordon of soldiers and a cordon of Government\nagents, who will eat the life out of you. Keep on, poor ignorant,\nkeep on!\n\nAs to the African, there are not a few Americans, even in this\nday, who think a righteous solution of the African question is to\nship them all off to the dark continent. So far as the American\nColonization Society keeps in view education and other Christian\ninstrumentalities, I bid them God-speed; but if they desire to send\nthe Negro out of the country, I say, No!\u2014a thousand times, No! Let\nus solve the problem right here where God has placed them.\n\nAnd we say to the Chinese, as he comes upon his ship, \u201cTurn your\nprow back towards the Flowery Kingdom; don\u2019t touch our golden\nWest.\u201d Is that the spirit that welcomes the Irishman, the German,\nthe Italian, the Frenchman? Why not give as broad an opening to the\nChinaman as to the Irishman?\n\n(2.) In the next place, God is testing that principle which is\nset forth in the preamble of our Constitution\u2014_the right of a man\nto pursue happiness in such a way as he may elect_, provided he\ndoes no wrong to his neighbor. And I opine that although happiness\ninvolves the pursuit of higher aims, it begins on the basis of\nlabor. Labor is the essential element of American civilization.\nIf I labor, then I have the right of choice to enter into\nwhatever labor I please. No matter whether I am an adept or not,\ncircumstances will give the verdict. With the right of choice of\na man\u2019s calling comes the right of competition. Carry it to its\nextreme, if you please. If there are fifty-two thousand clerks,\nI have a right to become the fifty-two thousand and first, and\nstarve. Then, after the inherent right of labor follows the right\nto such property as I may accumulate. What I may produce, that\nis mine absolutely, and no man can touch it. Here we are brought\nface to face with this tremendous question between Irish and\nGerman labor, and the low-priced labor of either the Negro or the\nChinaman. But, American citizens and Christians, if we respect\nthe right of a man to exercise such functions as God has given\nhim in such way as his conscience may dictate, and to choose his\nown occupation, shall we not defend this right of labor, and the\nright to pursue happiness as each may elect, and in the face of\nCommunism, defend the right of the Chinese to enter the market and\ncompete with all labor of whatever nationality?\n\n(3.) There is a _third right_ or principle put to the test\u2014_that\nevery man is equal before the law_. Whether he be Jew or Gentile,\nIrishman or German, Negro or Chinaman, he is the equal of all men\nbefore God. But what justice can a Chinaman get out of a Hoodlum\ncourt? What justice has the Negro got out of a Southern court? To\nthe establishment of that justice we must bend our energies, for\nit is vital to our institutions that a man before the law is equal\nwith his neighbor. If you have broken the shackles of the Negro,\nbreak those of the Indian. If he outrages the law, try him by\nprocess of the law and make him amenable, but deal with him as a\ncitizen. I opine that we shall arrive at this, sooner or later. Of\ncourse this includes with it the privilege of every one to enter\npublic life, provided he proves his capacity.\n\n(4.) But there is another principle being tested, and that is _the\nright of education_. It is a settled point in the development of\nAmerican civilization, that education is essential to the proper\ndiscipline of the citizen\u2014some degree, at least, of elementary\neducation. Now when, according to the census of 1870, in the States\nof Mississippi and Texas, 96 per cent. of the colored people were\nthoroughly ignorant; and when in another State, 95 per cent. were\ncompletely ignorant; in another, 93 per cent.; in two others, 91\nper cent.; and in a last one, 90 per cent.; 88 per cent. of the\nentire colored people of the South being in perfect ignorance;\u2014does\nit not behoove us to have a law for compulsory education if we\nhope to have true culture and citizenship? Was our late President\nfar from right when he brought forward this idea? What salvation\nis there for the Southern States unless universal education shall\nbe carried into effect? As the right to enter into competition is\ninherent as much as the right of choice in labor, so we regard\nthe right of choice of one\u2019s religion. The whole way should be\nmade open for the highest acquisition of intellectual and moral\nknowledge.\n\n(5.) So, too, our Protestant Christianity is under test. And\nhere we are encountered at once by the fact that Christians\nstill cultivate the caste spirit. If the Jew drew such a subtle\nline between himself and the Gentile, the white Christian draws\na similar line between himself and the black Christian. If the\nGreek considered himself to be of such high intelligence that he\nclassed all others as barbarians, Christians allow their prejudices\nto make the same broad distinctions between different classes\nof humanity, which it was the office of Jesus Christ\u2014blessed be\nHis name!\u2014to obliterate and utterly extinguish. That prejudice,\nthat caste spirit which Christians cultivate in the North to an\nextent that amounts to social ostracism, must be broken down, if\nwe would maintain Protestant Christianity. Further, this question\nconnects itself with the true _missionary spirit_. The best way to\nevangelize China is to evangelize the Chinese as they come to the\nPacific Coast. The best way to evangelize Africa is to evangelize\nthe African Negro of the South. Over against Protestant Christians\nin the South and the Chinese on the Pacific is that dark power\nwhich has involved the world in hopeless contentions. There stands\nthe Jesuit with his deep, treacherous features, his characterless\ncasuistry, and his sacrifice of all things else to glorify the\nChurch of Rome, no matter what may be the result on his country.\nThat subtle power which permeates our political institutions\nwith such great magnitude and force, stands face to face with\nProtestantism in the South\u2014with the Negro question, the Chinese\nquestion, and the Indian question. If we are to serve Protestant\nChristianity, we must free ourselves of caste, and learn to love\nthe African and the Chinaman at our doors. It is easy to speak well\nof the Chinaman away off in China\u2014to have an overflow of sympathy\nfor the poor African away in the dark continent; but it is a very\ndifferent thing to have sympathy for them in this country. The\nspirit of the Gospel of Jesus Christ must actuate us and lead us to\nthis.\n\nThese, then, are _the five great principles_ that underlie American\ncivilization\u2014principles that are being tested by these three races\nor nationalities. Our professions are large. Let us live up to them\nin these five great principles. It is Lord Bacon who says that\n\u201cWhen hempe is spun, England is done\u201d\u2014meaning that when Henry,\nElizabeth, Mary, Philip and Edward had passed away, England would\nbe done. We may say that _if these five principles_\u2014the right of\nasylum, the right of labor, of political freedom, of education, and\nfree play to Protestant Christianity be done\u2014America is done. God\nsave the State!\n\nAnd what is the agency\u2014or one agency\u2014by which that may be\naccomplished? The American Missionary Association, because it\ngives us Christian education. Because it brings together the\ncollege, the church and the home. And will not your devotion to a\npure Christianity, free from the spirit of caste, and filled with\nthe spirit of genuine love, manifest itself by your support of such\nan Association? May we not gauge your feelings in regard to these\nfive principles by the support you give to such a society? May we\nnot implore you that as you value the rights of property and free\ngovernment you array yourself solidly against Communism and its\nally\u2014Romanism; because these are craftily working together.\n\nWould you behold free Protestant Christianity established in this\ncountry? Then give your support to this Association, that these\nthree races may prove us to be a people who love liberty in its\ndeepest significance as liberty in Christ.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nRETURN OF REV. FLOYD SNELSON.\n\nJust after the annual meeting we learned that the health of\nMrs. Snelson was in such condition as to make her speedy return\nfrom the Mendi Mission, West Africa, a probable necessity. Her\nhusband has arrived with herself, their children, and those of\nDr. James, whose wife had died abroad. The change of climate and\nof occupation has already proved of great benefit to her. It is\na great disappointment to us all to lose so soon the earnest and\ndiscreet service of the head of our Mendi Mission. Whether he will\nbe able to return or not is still an unsettled question. But these\nexperiences are teaching us some valuable lessons. First of them is\nthis,\u2014that we must send no men or women to the West Coast of Africa\nwithout submitting them to a severe physical examination, such as\nis required for enlistment into the army or as a prerequisite to a\nlife insurance policy. For we find that upon those who went from\nthis country in thoroughly sound health, with no weakness from\nprevious disease or tendency to special complaints, the climate\nhas had little or no bad effect; but where there was any such\npredisposition or impairment of physical vigor, the malarial heats\nof the West coast have hastened its rapid development. We send no\nmore recruits, then, without medical attestation to their soundness\nof body, in addition to the testimony we have heretofore required\nas to their intellectual and spiritual health.\n\nMr. Snelson brings much valuable information from the field, which\nwe hope to lay before our readers at an early day.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNEWS AND ITEMS FROM THE CHURCHES.\n\nMACON, GA.\u2014Rev. Stanley E. Lathrop, who was graduated eight years\nago from the Chicago Theological Seminary, commenced pastoral work\nat Macon, December 1st. He writes: \u201cI am quite agreeably surprised\nwith everything thus far. I shall do the best I can for this\npeople, with God\u2019s help.\u201d\n\nMARIETTA, GA.\u2014The school prospers, and, with two other schools, is\nexerting a marked influence on the people. The Sunday-school and\nliterary society are both doing good work.\n\nMARION, ALA.\u2014Rev. Geo. E. Hill writes: \u201cOur church has received\nfrom the Sunday-school at Weymouth, Mass., Colton\u2019s large\nmissionary map, and I have had the pleasure of introducing my\npeople to a view of the world\u2014the field of missions. They propose\nto contribute monthly to the cause. Our Sunday-school is filling\nup.\u201d\n\nMONTGOMERY, ALA.\u2014Rev. Flavel Bascom, D.D., who commenced work for\nthe winter December 1st, writes: \u201cMy first impressions are very\nfavorable. My heart is drawn out toward the people, and I expect to\nenjoy my work for them very much.\u201d\n\nSELMA, ALA.\u2014Rev. C. B. Curtis has gone from Burlington, Wis., to\nthe charge of the church here.\n\nSHELBY, ALA.\u2014A Congregational church was organized October 10th,\nby Rev. G. W. Andrews, of the Theological Department of Talladega\nCollege, consisting of twenty-one members (twelve men and nine\nwomen). Rev. J. D. Smith, a graduate of Talladega Theological\nDepartment, is pastor.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nThe Freedmen.\n\n\u2014Over 3,000 people attended the Agricultural Fair for colored\npeople held at Talladega, Ala., in November, under the auspices of\nthe college. Stock, farm products, cookery, needle and fancy work,\nflowers and pictures, were brought in for exhibition. Contests were\nheld in athletic sports, and in spelling, declaiming, etc., between\nstudents of the different schools. Several hundred white people\nattended, and showed their interest by acting as judges on the\ncommittees with the colored people. The fair was kept entirely free\nfrom all the objectionable features which so often mar our State\nfairs, and indeed was opened with prayer, and, after the addresses\nand award of premiums, closed with the Doxology.\n\n\u2014Dr. Rust, the Corresponding Secretary of the Freedmen\u2019s Aid\nSociety of the M. E. Church, reports that its work during this\nyear \u201chas never been exceeded in any year of its history. It has\nerected more school edifices, more commodious and commanding;\neducated more teachers, prepared more ministers, led more souls to\nChrist, and set in operation more streams of elevating influence,\ndone more and better work for Christ and humanity, than in any like\nperiod before.\u201d The financial statement for the year ending July\n1, 1878, gives its total receipts for the year as $63,403, and\nits expenditures, mainly for salaries and board of teachers and\neducational expenses, including $3,000 paid on its debt, at the\nsame. The society has aided in the establishment of five chartered\ninstitutions having full collegiate powers, three theological and\ntwo medical schools, also chartered, and ten other educational\ninstitutions.\n\n\u2014Dr. Ruffner, Superintendent of Public Instruction in Virginia,\nclaims that $850,000 was collected from the people and set apart\nby law for the support of the common schools, and charges that\nthis, with the interest, has been diverted from its proper use and\napplied to the ordinary expenses of the State Government.\n\n\u2014A national colored Baptist educational convention was held last\nsummer at Nashville, Tenn. In an address published by them they\noffer heartfelt thanks to Northern Baptists, who alone have\nhelped them to what educational facilities they have enjoyed.\nTo the Southern white Baptists they are grateful for the \u201cgood\nresolutions\u201d they have passed in favor of the black man. They\nurge the colored Baptists to support their own publishing house,\nnewspaper, and the educational enterprises of the American Baptist\nHome Mission Society.\n\n\u2014Public sentiment has almost effaced the color line in Virginia;\ngiven political freedom and safety in North Carolina; and created\na powerful party of \u201cIndependents\u201d in Georgia; and it will bring\nSouth Carolina to her senses in time. Moral forces require more\ntime and patience than physical force.\u2014_Christian Union_.\n\n\u2014Two colored students of Mr. Spurgeon\u2019s Pastor\u2019s College, Rev.\nMessrs. Richardson and Johnson, with their wives, have left England\nas missionaries to Central Africa. They were all freed slaves from\nthis country.\n\n\u2014The Rev. Alfred Saher, English Baptist Missionary at the\nCameroons, West Africa, has translated the Bible into the language\nof the people, and now reports upwards of 2,000 converts.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Indians.\n\n\u2014Mr. Wheeler writes from Keshena Agency, Wisconsin, of the second\nsuccessful Agricultural Fair among the Menomonees. About 200\nentries of corn and potatoes were made, with other vegetables,\ngrains and grasses in abundance. The displays of woman\u2019s work and\nof live stock were very fine. A ploughing match was held. About\n$200 was expended in premiums, voted from the tribal funds for\nthat purpose. Advantage was taken of the opportunity for giving\ninstruction in the arts of agriculture, and for exhorting them to\nkeep their children faithfully in the schools. Such gatherings both\nprove and promote progress.\n\n\u2014Brig. Gen. Pope reports that the late outbreak of the Cheyennes\nwas caused by starvation. He says of the Indians in general: \u201cIf\nthey are left with the means to go to war, as is the custom, we\nsimply sleep on a volcano. Unless, therefore, ample, and above all,\nregular supplies of food can be guaranteed to the Indians, I am\ncompelled, in justice to the Government and the frontier settlers,\nto ask that more troops be sent to the agencies in the Indian\nTerritory, and that at least two of the posts in Western Kansas be\nlargely reinforced by cavalry. I have also to ask that any Indians\nsent from the North into this department be disarmed and dismounted\nbefore being sent here, so that they can be placed in the same\ncondition as the Indians with whom they are to live.\u201d\n\n\u2014Major Mizener reports more in detail:\u2014The causes which led to the\nleaving of the Northern Cheyennes may be summed up as follows:\nThey were disappointed in the country. Their rations were poor\nand entirely insufficient. They were home-sick, despondent and\ndisappointed, and were anxious to get back to a country better\nknown to them, and where game was to be had, while here they did\nnot have enough to eat.\n\n\u2014General Sheridan attributes our Indian wars to two classes of\ncauses; the first being the constant encroachment upon the lands\nof the Indians, sacredly guaranteed to them by treaty, and the\nconstant removal of the tribes to distant reservations, in which\nthey are again troubled by the tide of immigration. He says no\nother nation in the world would have attempted the reduction of\nthese wild tribes, and occupation of their country, with less than\n60,000 or 70,000 men.\n\n\u2014Secretary Schurz affirms that the real cause of Indian wars has\nbeen the breaking of treaties. He recites an exhaustive history of\nIndian wars to show that this has been the case, and that very few\nof the wars have arisen from the maladministration of agents.\n\n\u2014Gen. Sherman, in his annual report, declares that many of the\nIndians prefer death to agricultural toil; that to convert them\nfrom a nomadic into a pastoral race is the first and fundamental\nproblem; that each tribe must be dealt with according to its own\nnature; that whatever department of the Government is charged with\nthis work, must be intrusted with large discretion to adapt its\nmeasures to emergencies. He traces the Indian wars generally to\nbroken promises, insufficient rations and impending starvation.\n\n\u2014Of the joint committee to which the transfer of the Indians to\nthe War Department is referred, the three members of the Senate\nare from Nebraska, Kentucky and Illinois; of the five members of\nthe House, but one comes from as far East as this. The committee,\ntherefore, represents communities that favor the army. It is\nunderstood that the Indians themselves do not desire the change;\nthat the army does not want the responsibility; yet that it will\nprobably be done, unless the President interferes, because the\nIndian ring desires it, and because the army makes it a point of\nhonor.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Chinese.\n\n\u2014The First Church in San Francisco, Dr. Stone\u2019s, has just opened\na new and well-appointed room in the basement for its mission and\nChinese Sunday-school. The Petaluma Church has also enlarged its\nlecture-room for the use of its Chinese school.\n\n\u2014As the Chinese children are not permitted to enter the San\nFrancisco public schools, those who have embraced Christianity are\ntaught in the Union Mission in the old Globe Hotel. The school has\ntwo sessions, one of which is conducted by an American lady, the\nother by Hung Mung Chung, who is a fine Chinese scholar and a man\nof much dignity and scholarly attainments, said to be a lineal\ndescendant of Confucius. During the past year Hung Mung Chung was\nbaptized and became a member of the Protestant Church for Chinese.\nHe teaches the children the Chinese classics and the maxims and\nprecepts of Confucius. Each session of the school is closed by\nsinging and repeating the Lord\u2019s Prayer\u2014in the morning in English,\nin the afternoon in Chinese.\n\n\u2014The San Francisco Chinamen contributed $1,200 to the yellow fever\nsufferers of the South. The sand-lot meetings have not yet reported\nthe amount of their collections.\n\n\u2014The Chinese Sunday-school in Chicago has been in existence nearly\nsix months, with an average attendance of fourteen scholars. It is\nsaid that the number can be largely increased if teachers can be\nprocured.\n\n\u2014Rev. W. P. Paxson, Superintendent of the missionary work of the\nAmerican S. S. Union in their Southwestern Department, says: \u201cOne\nstriking event in my missionary work has been the organization of a\nChinese Sunday-school in St. Louis.\u201d\n\n\u2014Mr. Ha Shan Sin was baptized last Sabbath by Rev. E. D. Murphy\nat the Immanuel Presbyterian Chapel of this city. The young man\nis about twenty-two years old, was born in San Francisco, though\nhe has spent most of his life in China. This is the sixth of the\nChinamen that have been received into the churches of this city.\nThree have been enrolled among the members of the Fourth Avenue\nPresbyterian Church, Dr. Howard Crosby\u2019s.\n\n\u2014The first Chinaman was admitted to citizenship in the United\nStates by naturalization, last week, and we count the event an\nauspicious one just at this time. The man is Wong Ah Lee; by\ntrade he is a cigar-maker, and his wife is an Irish-woman. With\na view, mainly, to make a case which can be carried up to a\nconclusive decision from the highest court, the Judge here ruled\nthat a Chinaman is either white or black, and so must come in.\nCalifornia\u2019s ruling has been that a Mongolian is neither white or\nblack, and so cannot come in.\u2014_Congregationalist_, December 4.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR QUERY COLUMN.\n\n  _Query._\u2014South of the Ohio River the work of caring for the\n  sick falls to the colored people. During the past weeks there\n  has been greater demand for skilled nurses than for competent\n  teachers. How can A. M. A. schools prepare their students for\n  this important profession? What is the best method of instructing\n  pupils in a knowledge of the simpler details concerning the\n  proper care of the sick?\n\n                                                         TEACHER.\n\nWe shall be glad to have full answers to this important inquiry\nfrom those who have had experience. It calls attention to a most\nimportant part of the teacher\u2019s work. Meanwhile, we would suggest\nthat the _Hampton Sanitary Tracts_ may be found very useful for\ndistribution, or to be read to older pupils and parents. The first\nthree can be obtained by addressing the \u201cHampton Tract Editing\nCommittee,\u201d Hampton Institute, Va. The cost is five cents apiece,\nor four dollars a hundred copies. They are entitled: No. 1, \u201cThe\nHealth Laws of Moses;\u201d No. 2, \u201cPreventable Diseases;\u201d No. 3, \u201cDuty\nof Teachers.\u201d This last seems to be exactly addressed to the case\nin hand.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.\n\nRevival in Howard University.\n\nRev. Wm. W. Patton, D.D., President.\n\nYou will be glad to hear that there is much religious interest in\nour institution at the present time. It has been gradually coming\non all the autumn, but was greatly aided by the week of prayer\nheld by the Young Men\u2019s Christian Association of the University in\nconcert with other Associations. Some ten or twelve of the students\nthink that they have begun the new life lately, and we look for\nfurther good results. This is highly encouraging, as showing that\nin addition to the educational advantages which gather around our\nlocation, spiritual blessings may also be received. We desire the\nprayers of all Christians that the work may be continued with\npower. Our theological students have been deeply interested in the\nmeetings for prayer, and have rendered valuable aid.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nVIRGINIA.\n\nA Destitute County.\n\nThe following extract from a letter by an esteemed friend in a\ncentral county in Virginia is suggestive of the many dark places\nthroughout the South yet unreached by the school or the church:\n\nThe field in this county alone is an ample one. The colored\npopulation of the county largely exceeds the white, and the yearly\nratio of increase is in excess of the white. A half generation has\npassed since the era of emancipation, and it is melancholy, indeed,\nto any Christian mind and heart, to contemplate how rapidly this\nportion of the population, in the very heart of one of the oldest\nStates in the Union, is crowding the broad road to perdition;\nhow, in the entire absence of all organized efforts for elemental\neducation and proper religious instruction, they are relapsing into\nsemi-heathenism. There is not to-day a single school of any kind\nor character for them within the limits of the county (which may\nbe safely estimated to contain five thousand souls of all ages and\nsexes of the colored race), except the Sabbath-school which has\nbeen taught by the writer.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nNew Church at Shelby Iron Works\u2014Talladega a Missionary Centre.\n\nRev. G. W. Andrews, Talladega.\n\nA Congregational church of twenty-one members was organized\nOct. 10th, at Shelby Iron Works, Alabama. This is the fifteenth\nCongregational church planted by the A. M. A. in this State. Eight\nof them are in the vicinity of Talladega College, the most distant\nbeing forty miles away. They are the out-growth of the mission work\ncarried on by the teachers and pupils of the college.\n\nThis new church at Shelby begins its existence under most favorable\ncircumstances, most of its members being present or former pupils\nof the college. All are colored people; two are preparing for the\nministry; one has been a student at Oberlin, Ohio; one was for some\ntime a resident of Hartford, Ct., and more recently of Columbus,\nOhio, a graduate of the high school there and a former pupil here;\none is principal of an academy of ten years\u2019 standing at Shelby and\na graduate from Talladega. With two or three exceptions, all of\nthem have for some years been trained in our Sunday-schools. The\nShelby Iron Company is in hearty sympathy with the movement; the\nSuperintendent, himself a Methodist, coming into the preliminary\nmeeting and saying publicly that the Iron Company would look with\npeculiar favor on this church should it be organized, recognizing\nas it did the necessity for more intelligent Christian instruction\nfor the colored people.\n\nThe sectarian walls, which in the South are built heaven-high,\nhave in this particular place been badly shattered. There is no\noutspoken opposition on the part of the colored people, as in every\nother place known to me. The different denominations worship in the\nsame building, the lower story being devoted to the school and the\nupper one to the churches. The Iron Company own about two-thirds of\nthe building, the original cost being three thousand dollars.\n\nI suppose there are a million of dollars invested by the Shelby\nIron Company at this place, mostly owned in the North. One owner\nis an honored member of the Centre Church, Hartford, Ct.; another,\nof the Park St. Church, Boston; another is a Massachusetts man\nwell known among \u201ciron men\u201d both in this country and abroad. The\nSuperintendent is a noble Christian man from Illinois, and was a\ncolonel in the recent war. Several of the local managers are from\nthe North, some are from the South. Most of the workmen, white\nand colored, who stand all day side by side, are gathered from\nthe surrounding region. Here the North and South meet and learn\nto know and love each other. The Iron Company is helping to solve\nthe great national problem no less truly than missionary schools\nand churches. It seems to me sometimes that its entire business\nis carried on as a kind of missionary enterprise on the broadest\nbasis. Owning thirty thousand acres of land immediately about the\n\u201cIron Works,\u201d it exercises wholesome restraint over all classes.\nNothing seems to be overlooked; the church, the school, the home,\nthe village morals, the town adornments and the State, are all\ncared for.\n\nTalladega College, a college only in name yet, is the rallying\npoint for our missionary work in this State. It is just such a\ncollege as a missionary college should be, its whole work as a\nschool being subordinate to the church. It is a training school,\npatterned after the missionary colleges of the American Board.\nIts grand aim is to raise up a native ministry so as to plant\nchurches, and through them carry an intelligent gospel to the\nmasses. We are not especially afraid that there will be any lack\nof school-teachers. With our eye fixed steadily on our missionary\nwork, enough who cannot attain to the Christian ministry will\nbecome teachers, and they, catching the spirit of the institution,\nwill become missionary teachers. It is surprising to see how this\nspirit has taken possession of our pupils. There is scarcely one\nwho goes into the country to teach who does not organize his\nSabbath-school as promptly as his day-school, and pursue it with\neven more interest. It is the first thing he reports on his return.\nHundreds are converted by this means; Bibles, tracts, religious\nliterature, and light are spread in all directions; thus are\nconstantly carried forward many Sabbath-schools, and through them a\nglorious pioneer Christian work. Out of this work have grown eight\nchurches, so near to the college as to be its special care, and in\nwhich a hundred conversions are reported for the summer just ended.\n\nOf the twenty pupils in the Theological department, all have been\nreaping in this missionary field during the summer vacation, about\none-half as preachers. The home church takes a lively interest in\nthem during their absence. Prayer is made to God without ceasing\nin their behalf, and often interested members go out to aid them\nin their revival meetings. Letters are constantly received from\nthem to be read at the monthly missionary concert, and public\nthanksgiving is rendered for the good work they report. Thus is\nmaintained a lively interest in Christian missions and Christian\nwork.\n\nThere has been an evident increase of interest in our mission\nchurches about the college this summer; all but one report revivals\nof greater or less power; one reports thirty-two additions by\nconfession; four report the completion of their houses of worship,\nfree of debt\u2014houses hitherto unplastered and otherwise much\nexposed, but now neat and comfortable, and everybody is happy\nover it. One is building a new house of worship unlike any of\nthe others; it is built of logs, large and commodious. One poor\nfellow was so intent on pushing forward to completion his house\nof worship, that he expended all his salary for the summer, and\nthen pawned his Sunday clothes. On his return to school he reports\ntwenty-three conversions, his house of worship completed, but no\nmoney in his pocket. If ever there was a man worthy of aid, he is.\nHe is now in my back-yard sawing wood. You will hear from him some\nday. These young prophets of the Lord are making rapid progress in\nthe knowledge of the Bible and the system of theology, and wherever\nthey go, are beginning to be recognized by all classes as well\nqualified to break the Bread of Life to their people.\n\nI am glad to report that the white people, seeing the character\nand efficiency of these young men, are coming to understand and\nappreciate our work. I believe they heartily approve what we are\ndoing. I have repeatedly experienced their hospitality this summer,\nand had many conversations with them relating to our mission here.\nFrom the president of a well-known college, down to the poor man\nwho did not know his letters, I have found nothing but approval.\nThe time is not far distant when this approval will be more\noutspoken and pronounced. When the Christian men of the South and\nyour missionary workers from the North understand each other, from\nthat day they are one in Christian work. We bless God for this new\nfeast of love. Pray that no political excitement may interrupt the\ngrowing good feeling.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Thin End of the Wedge\u2014A First Thanksgiving Service.\n\nREV. WILLIAM H. ASH, FLORENCE.\n\nOur work here in Florence is the \u201cthin end of the wedge,\u201d and with\nsufficient facilities, the smiles of the Master, and patience\nin its workers, great good will result. The services are well\nattended, and sometimes the house is disagreeably filled, and we\nare without the proper means of ventilation. The members of the\nchurch begged me to express for them to the Association their\nsincere and heartfelt gratitude for the _new organ_ sent them; it\nhas increased the interest of our services greatly. Last Thursday,\nNov. 28, the first Thanksgiving service ever held in this place\namong the colored people was observed in our church; therefore it\nhas a history in connection with our work here. I made it a union\nservice, inviting the Baptists and Methodists to worship with us.\nThis congregation of Baptists, Methodists, and Congregationalists\nworshipped as though Christ was the Head of the Church, instead of\nany one of the denominations present. The service was solemn and\nintelligent. It truly seemed that the Lord was in His holy temple.\nAfter service a gentleman of about sixty or seventy years of age\nsaid, \u201cI have been here forty years, but I never heard of such a\nthing as a Thanksgiving service among the colored people.\u201d This is\nthe \u201cdawn of a new age.\u201d Pray for us.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSOURI.\n\nFree Schools in the State.\n\nREV. J. E. ROY, D. D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT.\n\nThis noble Western State, plowed by war and sowed to freedom, is\nnow coming on with harvests of temporal and moral prosperity.\nAs I have been going over its territory, looking after the five\nschool-houses of the Association, I have been delighted with the\nevidences of progress in the free school system. It is a great joy\nto see in these cities and towns the new, large, two-story brick\nschool-houses of modern style and furnishing. The system works\nmore slowly into the back settlements. But in a Kansas City paper\nI see it stated that in the country places of Jackson County there\nare _one hundred and fifty_ of these schools. At Warrensburg I saw\nthe imposing three-story stone edifice of the State Normal School,\nbuilt by that town and its county of Johnson, and now occupied by\n_four hundred_ pupils from every part of the State.\n\nSpecial provision is made in the law for its enforcement in behalf\nof free schools for the colored children. These are managed by\nthe same school board and are supported from the same tax fund.\nThese officers are compelled to provide schools wherever there are\nfifteen of such scholars in the district. If they fail to do it,\nit is the duty of the Superintendent to require it to be done. I\nmet one case where the out-districts declined to co-operate with\nthe Board in this matter, when only a threatened appeal to the\nSuperintendent brought them to terms. I have been gratified to\nsee the heartiness with which the five boards I have dealt with\nare pushing the free school system in behalf of blacks as well as\nwhites. Nor have I been deceived, as some may imagine.\n\nThe Lincoln Institute at the Capitol, as a Normal School for\ncolored teachers, receives an annual appropriation from the State\nof $5,000. A democratic editor told me that that was considered as\na matter of honor, and that so there was no danger of its being\ndiscontinued. This institution of sacred name had also a sacred\norigin. For its founding, the 62d and 65th Regiments of U. S.\ncolored infantry, when discharged from service in January, 1866,\ncontributed a fund of $6,379. The Freedmen\u2019s Bureau furnished\n$8,000; the Western Sanitary Commission, $2,000; and agents Beal\nand Lane raised $2,000. The building is of brick, 60\u00d770 feet,\nthree stories high, a comely structure crowning a hill just out\nof Jefferson City. Its current catalogue enrolls 123 students. It\nis controlled by a local board, of which the Governor and State\nSuperintendent are _ex-officio_ members. Revs. R. D. Foster and M.\nHenry Smith have served as principals the most of the time since\nit was opened in 1871.\n\nThe Association has its five school houses at Troy, Fulton,\nWestport, Warrensburg and Lebanon. These were procured in part by\naid from the Freedmen\u2019s Bureau in 1867\u20139. They were at first run by\nteachers sent from the North, but were gradually taken up by the\nlocal school boards. I find them all in such use now. Three will\nprobably be sold to those boards at their present low valuation.\nTwo will be sold to local colored Methodist churches, as the\nschools require larger and better houses, which the authorities\nintend to build. These houses have also been used all the time as\nplaces of worship by the colored people. The seven or eight colored\nteachers in these schools were educated in Lincoln, Fisk, and\nkindred institutions. I have found them young people of character,\nand of tact in handling their schools. They have to be examined.\nThey receive from $35 to $45 a month, about the same as white\ncommon-school teachers.\n\nThe A. M. A. has done the work of initiation. By this tour of\ninspection I am deeply convinced of the wisdom of the A. M. A. in\nputting its strength upon Normal and Collegiate institutions, and\nso doing a wholesale business. Raise up teachers and send them back\ninto the country. Raise up the men and women for the professions\nand for the higher walks of social life. That is the work.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA CHURCH ORGANIZED AND DEDICATED AT AVERY\n\nA meeting of Counsel and Advice was convened September 29th at\nAvery Station, by order of Rev. Floyd Snelson, and, on solicitation\nof the minister in charge, Rev. A. E. Jackson, to organize and\ndedicate a church to God. Owing to our inability to reach Avery\non Saturday in time to hold preliminary exercises, examination\nof candidates for admission, etc., this part of our duty was\ndeferred till Sunday morning. This, with our other duties, made our\nprogramme for the day quite full.\n\nEarly Sunday morning the Board met in the church to begin the\nlabors of the day. The sun shone brightly, yet we could but feel\nthat many round us were groping in darkness, without any clear idea\nof Him in whose image they are made. Brother Snelson was elected\nmoderator, and A. P. Miller secretary. Brother Gomer, General Agent\nof Shengay Mission, who favored us with his presence, offered\nprayer. \u201cGuide me, oh! Thou great Jehovah!\u201d was sung.\n\nIn absence of letter missive, the minister in charge gave his\nreasons why a church should be established or organized at Avery.\nHe spoke of the willingness of the people to receive the story\nof the Cross; said that some came far to hear \u201cGod palaver,\u201d and\nexpress their joy in being permitted so to do. Brother Hallock,\nthe interpreter (native), and Brother Wise, were asked several\nquestions. Their reasons were clear and very satisfactory. It seems\nevident that the industrial work at this station, which gives\nemployment to many, is a means of good both to mission and people.\nIt was deemed fit to organize a church at Avery, to be known as the\nSecond Congregational Church of the Mendi Mission.\n\nBy 11 o\u2019clock, at the ringing of the second bell, the chapel was\ncrowded with natives, for the most part in native costume. Brother\nSnelson spoke to them through an interpreter, telling them the\nobject of our coming together. The candidates for admission to the\nChurch were then called forward. \u201cA charge to keep I have\u201d was\nsung by the congregation. Prayer was offered by Brother Snelson,\nafter which the missionary hymn, \u201cFrom Greenland\u2019s icy mountains,\u201d\nwas sung; and as it was being sung, each missionary, as he looked\nupon the sable congregation, could but feel that the \u201charvest is\nplenteous, but the laborers are few.\u201d\n\nThe roll was then called by Brother Jackson; after which the\ncandidates were examined, and by vote of the Council eighteen were\nreceived into full membership. Some of the candidates were not\nreceived because of not being legally married. They were instructed\nto attend to this matter, and then they might be received into the\nchurch. They are to remain under watch-care until this obligation\nis met. After examination of candidates, Brother Snelson spoke to\nthem about things peculiar to their country\u2014slavery, polygamy, etc.\nThe meeting was then dismissed to meet at 7 P. M. Brother Gomer,\nwho has for years known our work, expressed his astonishment at\nseeing so large a congregation assembled in the house of God at\nthis place, and at the good order kept throughout the exercises.\nSome of those received were old members, while others were new\nconverts, among whom were three chiefs, Peah Carle, Carray Phemah,\nand Sei L\u014dt\u014d. These men exercise a vast influence over their\npeople, and their being reached makes the reaching of their people\neasier.\n\nThe people assembled at the ringing of the second bell. \u201cPraise\nGod from Whom all blessings flow\u201d was sung. Brother Snelson then\nled the congregation in the Lord\u2019s Prayer. A hymn was sung, after\nwhich the Rev. J. Gomer offered prayer. \u201cAlas! and did my Saviour\nbleed?\u201d was sung. Portions of Scripture were read by A. P. Miller.\nThe services of organization and dedication were combined, owing to\nwant of time. Brother Snelson spoke through the interpreter, and\ntold the candidates what their step meant\u2014turning from death unto\nlife. The church, too, he said, we had come together to dedicate to\nGod and His service. Brother Snelson preached, choosing Luke xii.\n32, as his text\u2014\u201cFear not, little flock, for it is your Father\u2019s\ngood pleasure to give you the kingdom.\u201d A comparison was made\nbetween the people to whom these words were spoken and these our\nbenighted brethren. The promises of God were dwelt upon. We must\ntrust in Him for salvation. The dedicatory prayer was then offered\nby Rev. A. P. Miller. A hymn was sung. The right hand of fellowship\nwas given by Bro. A. E. White. The address was delivered by Rev. J.\nGomer. The Lord\u2019s supper was then celebrated; Brothers Gomer and\nJackson presided. It was a solemn scene. The Doxology was sung,\nand the benediction pronounced by A. P. Miller. The meeting was\none long to be remembered. One more stronghold is now erected in\nthis land of night to tear down the powers of darkness. We have all\nreason to thank God for His blessings thus far. A better day is\ndawning for these benighted, long-neglected sons of Africa.\n\nBrother Gomer says that more laborers (colored) are wanted in his\nmission. We, too, in a work so vast, can but ask God to prepare\nsuch as are needed for a work so difficult.\n\nWe ask the prayers of all lovers of mankind that the work\nbegun here may not only succeed, but that its influence may be\nfar-reaching.\n\n                             REV. FLOYD SNELSON, _Moderator_.\n                             REV. A. P. MILLER, _Secretary_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE LATE INDIAN WAR AND CHRISTIANITY.\n\nREV. MYRON EELLS, S\u2019KOKOMISH, WASHINGTON TERRITORY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe have had another Indian war, and, as usual, there has been a\ncry in favor of turning the Indians over to the War Department.\nThere are some, however, of us who will persist in seeing something\nfavorable to Christianity and the present policy even in this war,\nand we think we have our reasons for it.\n\nI do not propose, at present, to thoroughly discuss the causes\nof the war, for I am not well enough acquainted with them to do\nso intelligently. Some will lay the blame on Government, some\non a Christian policy, and some on the Indians. Perhaps all may\nhave to bear a part. Although I believe that the Government\nhas often treated the Indians wrongfully, yet a long course of\nobservation has convinced me that the Indians are not all saints,\nand when the Government is often crooked, either intentionally or\nunintentionally, and two crooked sticks come together, there is\nalmost always sure to be trouble.\n\nThe published statements of General Crook, who is not supposed to\nbe very sentimental in his feelings toward the Indians, and who was\nat the Fort Hall Agency at the beginning of the war, implicates the\nGovernment severely.\n\nA residence of nearly three years in Idaho, 1871\u20131874, in the\nvery region of the war, led me to believe that very little was\nenergetically done for Christianizing those Indians. This has\nbeen true at some Agencies. Their annual reports show that while\nthe Government opened wide the doors for Christian work, when\nthe present policy was adopted, and said, \u201cWe will give you\nopportunity, encouragement and aid, if you will only send the\nIndians missionaries,\u201d yet that Christians have failed to take hold\nof the work as they ought to have done. If this was true of the\nIndians engaged in the late war, Christians may have to bear a part\nof the blame.\n\nNotwithstanding all this, some laurels have been added by the\nlate war to the Christian work which has been done among the\nIndians. One \u201cwho wishes to be understood\u201d has written a letter\nin which he speaks very harshly against the Christian workers on\nthe Yakama Reservation, where Father Wilbur, of the Methodist\nEpiscopal Church, has been successfully laboring for sixteen\nyears. He says: \u201cThe present reservation system is a failure in\nevery respect. We, who daily come in contact with the Indians,\ncannot be made to believe that prayer-books, praying generals,\nand Methodist preachers, (or any other preachers,) are a good\nsafeguard against the tomahawk and the scalping-knife; and the\npseudo-philanthropists, the Christian-mongers of the East, who\nare paying thousands to send missionaries among these barbarians,\nwould do us a favor if they would keep them away; and if the U.\nS. Government would be less influenced in its conduct toward the\nIndians by the advocates of Christianity, our wives and children\nmight be annually spared the sight of murdered husbands and\nfathers. So far we have been loyal, while Indians, with passes\nfrom Wilbur and other Agents, have been on the war-path. We have\nreliable information that some of the dead Indians found after the\nbattles near Pendleton had on their persons passes from Wilbur.\u201d\n\nNow it is probably a fact that some of the Umatilla Indians, and\nperhaps a few of the Yakamas, were engaged in aiding the enemy.\nThere are always some renegade Indians connected with each tribe,\nas well as white renegades and tramps. As tribes, however, they did\nnot engage in the war, and comparatively few individuals did.\n\nIn the Indian war of 1855\u20136, before Father Wilbur went among these\nsame Yakamas, they were the leading spirits, and it was the most\nwide-spread war which has ever devastated this coast. If they and\nthe Umatillas had joined in this war, it would have been far more\nterrible than it has been. Inducements were not wanting to lead\nthem into it. It is said on good authority that two thousand horses\nwere offered them by the hostiles if they would join them, and yet\nthey refused. An army officer in command of one of the battles said\nthat some of those Indians did nobly in aiding our soldiers to gain\nthe victory.\n\nIt may be said that they had too much permanent property in homes\nand farms, to allow them to engage in the war; for they knew that\nif they should do so, they would certainly in the end lose it all.\nThis is undoubtedly so; and yet when Father Wilbur went among them\nthey had none of this kind of property, but only movable property\nwhich they could carry with them even in war, as the Bannocks have\ndone. It is a fact that Christianity gave them this property.\n\nIt may again be said that they were thoroughly whipped in 1855\u20136\nand were afraid to engage in war again. They were thus whipped, and\nthe remembrance of it may, even now, do them good. But in 1862\u20133\nGen. Crook, the noted Indian fighter, just as thoroughly thrashed\nthe Indians in Idaho, in precisely the same region where the late\nwar was carried on, and the praise of his effectual work is still\nin the mouths of the old citizens. This was seven years later than\nthe Yakama war, and so much fresher in the minds of the Indians.\nNo, it was evidently Christianity which prevented their joining in\nthe war.\n\nGen. Howard, too, has added new laurels to his reputation. It must\nbe remembered that he is the principal one of our generals who\nhas not been in favor of the transfer of the Indians to the War\nDepartment. This praying general has prosecuted the war with such\nvigor that the strong papers with strong arguments have sustained\nhim, and almost invariably those who went with him in his rough\nmarches have defended him, such as newspaper correspondents,\nscouts and the like, and the \u201cstay at homes\u201d have been about the\nonly ones who have found fault. His recent conference with the\nUmatilla Indians since the war has shown such firmness, justice and\nChristianity as to win for him very many friends among those who\npreviously opposed him, thus showing again that Christianity is\nthe way of dealing with the Indians. So Christianity has won its\nlaurels even in this war.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\u201cCALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\u201d\n\nAuxiliary to the American Missionary Association.\n\nPRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L.\nStone, D. D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon.\nF. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S.\nH. Willey, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D.,\nJacob S. Taber, Esq.\n\nDIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P.\nBaker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball,\nE. P. Sanford, Esq.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\u201cTHE CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN CHINESE.\u201d\n\nIts Origin and Organization.\n\nREV. WM. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nSoon after our work among the Chinese began to yield results in\nsouls apparently converted, I felt the necessity of banding the\nconverts together for mutual fellowship, for instruction, and for\ntest-work; for it seemed unwise, considering the difficulties\nunder which we must labor in determining the genuineness of the\nconversions, to bring them at once to baptism and the church.\nYet they must not be left quite outside the fold, and I proposed\nto them the organization of _The Chinese Christian Class_, into\nwhich any Chinese might come who, in the judgment of those already\nmembers of the class, had begun to believe in Christ. This class\nwas to have frequent meetings for prayer and for instruction in the\nBible; its members were to maintain a fraternal watchfulness over\neach other, and were to be baptized only when, through a probation\nof at least six months, they had proved to be steadfast and true.\n\nThis class at first comprised only such Chinese as had been led\nto Christ through the work of the Third Congregational Church in\nthis city, of which I was then the pastor. Afterwards it was found\ndesirable to receive to membership the Chinese connected with other\ncongregations, and to enlarge somewhat the scope or design of the\nclass. It was therefore reorganized under its present name, but\nwith the same principles and conditions of membership. Some of\nthe benefits, in the way of mutual aid and protection, which the\nheathen Chinese seek to secure through their \u201cSix Companies,\u201d our\nChristian Chinese, who have renounced all connection with the \u201cSix\nCompanies,\u201d gain through this Association. Its rooms are their\nplaces of resort; a sort of home. They have made a little beginning\ntowards a library of Chinese works, mainly religious, written by\nthe missionaries. The regulations of this Association, prepared by\nthe Chinese, without assistance or suggestion, so far as I know,\nfrom any American, have been translated for me into English, and\nwill be printed in full in our Annual Report. I quote here the 2d,\n3d, 6th, and 8th Articles:\n\n\u201c2d. Any one who desires to become a member of this Association\nmust forsake idolatry and all bad habits, and prove himself to be\na follower of Christ. He must bring references from one or more\nmembers. His name must be brought before the Society a week before\nhe can be admitted, and he is received upon a vote of two-thirds of\nthe members. He must himself sign his name, and pay the sum of two\ndollars as entrance fee, and twenty-five cents every three months,\nthis money being used to defray the expenses of the Association. He\nis expected to do all he can to bring in new members, and to lead\nhis countrymen to Christ.\u201d\n\n\u201c3d. The members are expected to take part in the meetings for\nworship, giving counsel and encouragement to one another. If any\nmember does wrong, he is to be kindly entreated and led back to the\nright.\u201d\n\n\u201c6th. If any member continue in the violation of the regulations\nof the Association, after three successive remonstrances, he must\nbe expelled from the Association. If he afterwards repent and\ndesire to come back, he is admitted without an entrance fee; his\nadmittance depending upon the sincerity of his repentance, as\njudged by the members of the Association.\u201d\n\n\u201c8th. If any member desire to go back to China, he must give notice\nto the Association one month beforehand. He must not go until he\nhas paid all his debts here. If he is really obliged to go before\nhe can pay his debts, he must find some one who will be security\nfor him.\u201d\n\nThere are now four Branch Associations, two in San Francisco, one\nin Oakland, and one in Sacramento. Each branch supports itself\nand is governed by its own officers. There are three\u2014President,\nVice-President, and Secretary who also acts as Treasurer. The\nstatistics of these \u201cBranches\u201d are as follows: Oakland, 36 members,\none expelled, five gone to China, 11 baptized; total contributions,\n$472.20, of which $117.25 was for Bible and missionary work in\nCalifornia and China. Sacramento, 14 members; contributions,\n$103.80. San Francisco, 82 members, four expelled, two gone to\nChina, 10 baptized; contributions, $351.00, of which $178.00\nwere for Bible and missionary work. Bethany (San Francisco), 9\nmembers, 3 baptized; contributions $244.50, of which $71.00 were\nfor Bible and missionary purposes. There are besides these, 23\nmembers belonging to the Central Association, who on account of\ntheir places of residence are not yet identified with any \u201cBranch,\u201d\nso that the total membership is 164. Of these 33 were received\nthe past year. The total amount contributed for all purposes was\n$1,181.50.\n\nBesides this company of 164, there are 30 or more Chinese who have\nbeen converted, as we hope, at Santa Barbara, San Leandro, Stockton\nand elsewhere, in connection with our schools; and besides the\ncontributions above reported, there has been raised at Petaluma,\nStockton and elsewhere, certainly not less than $100. When we\nconsider the poverty of these young men, the smallness of their\nwages, the drafts made upon them for parents and others dependent\nupon them in China, then this $1,300 which they have contributed\nduring the past year for the nurture of their own Christian life,\nor for the salvation of others, grows to its true proportions\u2014in\nour view, a token of real Christian heroism.\n\nI quote the closing sentences of the statement written for me by\nthe Secretary of the Association: \u201cNo death has occurred during\nthe past year. Our Heavenly Father has greatly prospered us, for\nwhich we return Him hearty thanks. We are grateful that He has\nput into our hearts a desire to have our parents and countrymen\nin China brought to a knowledge of the Christian religion. We are\nendeavoring to open a Chapel in Chuck Hum, China, and if we only\nhad means, could open as many as we desire. Most all the letters\nthat are sent to China members of the Association contain something\nabout the Christian religion, and urging the people at home to\ndiscard idols and believe in the Saviour.\u201d\n\n\nOUR LAST MONTH\u2019S WORK,\n\nas I reviewed it in the monthly reports, saddened me, and brought\nover me the first big _wave_ of discouragement which I have felt\nsince I entered on this service. The enrolment and the attendance\nwere both much less than I expected, and some of our smaller\nschools seemed ready to die. I quote from one of these reports as\nan example: \u201cYou will see that the average is very low, and I am\nafraid it will be still lower. The boys seem to have lost their\ninterest in the school, and I am afraid that I am losing mine. It\nis very discouraging to me, after doing a hard day\u2019s work (for I am\nworking very hard just now), to walk three-fourths of a mile and\nthen have but one or two come to the school. Thank God there are\none or two faithful ones.\u201d * * * \u201cNow, Mr. Pond, I have laid the\ncase before you, and I ask your prayers in behalf of this little\nschool struggling to keep alive, and for the teacher also, that he\nmay not weary in well-doing, but that God will help him bear this\ncross and try to save, at least, one soul.\u201d To receive letter after\nletter like that, while it draws out one\u2019s love and prayer for the\nwriter, sets one also to asking, \u201cWhere is the Lord,\u201d and what will\nbecome of our work at this rate? But before the reports were all\nin, news came that _six_, at least, during the month, had forsaken\ntheir idols and appeared to have become disciples of Christ, and we\n\u201cthanked God and took courage.\u201d Brethren, pray for us.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR NOVEMBER, 1878.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $163.74.\n\n    Belfast. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         $3.00\n    Biddeford. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which\n      $25.55 _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._)\n      $51.97.\u2014Second Cong. Sab. Sch. $20, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                71.97\n    Castine. Mrs. Lucy S. Adams. $10. (ad\u2019l) to\n      const. REV. LEWIS J. THOMAS, L. M.\u2014W. H. W.,\n      50c.                                                    10.50\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            19.07\n    Hallowell. Mrs. Flagg, $10; H. K. Baker, $5;\n      _for Printing Press, Talladega, Ala._\n      (Incorrectly ack. in Dec. number.)\n    Searsport. First Cong. Soc.                               25.00\n    Thomaston. \u201cMatt. vi. 3\u201d                                  10.00\n    Wells. B. Maxwell                                         15.00\n    Wilton. Cong. Ch.                                          9.20\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $217.75.\n\n    Amherst. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          9.00\n    Candia Village. Jona. Martin                               5.00\n    Concord. Ladies of North Ch., bbl. of C.\n    Exeter. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.\n      $27.\u2014\u201cFriends\u201d in Second Cong. Ch. $12, _for\n      a Teacher_                                              39.00\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               7.37\n    Keene. Mrs. Wm. W.                                         0.50\n    Kensington. \u201cFriends\u201d _for N. H. Memorial\n      Inst., Wilmington, N. C._                                6.70\n    Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns, $30;\n      First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $23                            53.00\n    New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which $27.\n      _for Wilmington Memorial Inst._) $31.41;\n      Proceeds of 16th Annual Fair, held by\n      Children of Cong. Ch. $12                               43.41\n    Plainfield. Mrs. Hannah Stevens, _for N. H.\n      Memorial Inst., Wilmington, N. C._ and to\n      const. TENNY K. PAGE, L. M.                             30.00\n    Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              15.16\n    Thornton\u2019s Ferry. Individuals, by Mrs. H. N.\n      Eaton                                                    4.00\n    Warner. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 4.61\n\n\n  VERMONT, $244.22\n\n    Burlington. M. C. Torrey                                   5.00\n    Charlotte. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. JOSEPH\n      S. SHAW, L. M.                                          37.60\n    Chelsea. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               17.00\n    Newbury. P. W. Ladd                                        5.00\n    Norwich. Mrs. S. J. Kellogg                                2.00\n    Ripton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                27.00\n    Saint Johnsbury. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Blodgett,\n      to const. REV. WILLIAM P. BENNETT, L. M.                30.00\n    Stowe. Cong. Ch. to const. ALBERT H. CHENEY,\n      L. M.                                                   43.43\n    Tunbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              2.59\n    West Enosburgh. Henry Fassett                              5.00\n    West Fairlee. Cong. Ch. $12; \u201cA Friend\u201d $1                13.00\n    Westford. Cong. Ch. and Society                           10.00\n    West Westminster. Cong. Ch.                               12.45\n    Windham. Cong. Ch. 12.54; Rev. D. N. Goodrich,\n      $2                                                      14.54\n    Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       19.61\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $4,329.83.\n\n    Andover. Mrs. Jonathan Poor, $15.50.\u2014\u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d $4.00, _for Straight U._                       19.50\n    Berkley. Cong. Ch.                                        25.68\n    Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($25 _of\n      which for Wilmington, N. C._)                          654.51\n    Boston. \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014 $15.00; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 75 c.; S. D.\n      Smith, 2 organs, val. $200                              15.75\n    Boston Highlands. Immanuel Ch. Sab. School                20.11\n    Cambridgeport. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. Pilgrim\n      Cong. Ch., $30.00, to const. Mrs. W. A.\n      WARD, L. M.; Prospect St. Cong. Sab. School,\n      $12.34                                                  42.34\n    Brimfield. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., bbl. of C.\n    Brookline. E. H. C.                                        2.00\n    Danvers Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Straight\n      U._                                                     25.00\n    Dorchester. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                    1.00\n    Easthampton. Payson Cong. Sab. Sch.                       50.00\n    Enfield. Edward Smith                                    200.00\n    Fitchburgh. Cal. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      158.00\n    Fitchburgh. J. A. Conn, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             50.00\n    Florence. Florence Ch.                                   110.00\n    Foxborough. Cong. Sab. Sch. $5.40; W. P. P.,\n      50c.                                                     5.90\n    Framingham. Ladies of Plym. Ch., 2 bbls. of C.\n    Georgetown. Sab. Sch. Class in Memorial Ch.               10.00\n    Globe Village. Evan. Ch.                                  34.76\n    Harvard. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $27.75; Carrie S.\n      Dixon, $10, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._               37.75\n    Harwich. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 2 bbls. of C.\n      _for Marion, Ala._\n    Holbrook. Winthrop Cong. Ch.                              48.34\n    Holden. Mrs. J. T.                                         0.50\n    Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. _in part_               340.48\n    Lawrence. Central Cong. Sab. Sch. _for\n      Straight U._                                            10.00\n    Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                      75.00\n    Leominster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            23.25\n    Lexington. Hancock Cong. Church                           12.43\n    Littleton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., bbl. of C.\n    Lowell. Kirk St. Cong. Ch. (F. F. Battles)                50.00\n    Lunenburg. \u201cFriend.\u201d                                       5.00\n    Lynnfield Centre. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                         0.25\n    Malden. W. A. Wilde, $25, _for bell, Atlanta,\n      Ga._; H. R. B. $1                                       26.00\n    Medfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      GEO. F. KERN and MISS AUGUSTA P. ADAMS, L.\n      M.\u2019s                                                    60.00\n    Milford. Con. Sab. Sch. _for Chinese M._                  19.00\n    Millbury. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. half bbl. of\n      bedding, _for Atlanta U._\n    Myricksville Precinct. Cong. Sab. Sch.                    20.00\n    Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         110.85\n    New Bedford. Trin. Cong. Ch.                              49.74\n    Newburyport. No. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       28.27\n    Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         140.75\n    Norfolk. \u201cFriends\u201d $20, _for Woodbridge, N.\n      C._; Cong. Sab. Ch. $8; Cong. Ch. and Soc.\n      $6.75                                                   34.75\n    Northampton. \u201cW.\u201d                                        100.00\n    Northbridge. Phebe S. Marsh                                5.00\n    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                50.00\n    Norwich. Mrs. S. J. Kellogg, pkg. of C.\n    Norwood. Mrs. H. N. Fuller                                 5.00\n    Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          19.50\n    Peabody. South Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Straight\n      U._                                                     25.00\n    Pepperell. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             20.00\n    Phillipston. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. bbl. of C.\n    Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.                                       12.00\n    Rockport. John Parsons                                     3.00\n    Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.00\n    Salem. South Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Straight U._            25.00\n    Scotland. James M. Leonard                                 2.00\n    South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         10.00\n    Southampton. Cong. Ch. $14; Benj. N. Norton $3            17.00\n    Southbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           38.55\n    Southfield. \u201cFriends,\u201d $1.10 and pkg. S. S.\n      books                                                    1.10\n    South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    34.00\n    Springfield. Memorial Ch.                                 24.48\n    Tewksbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             41.25\n    Taunton. Winslow Ch. and Soc.                             40.81\n    Truro. Rev. E. W. N.                                       1.00\n    Westborough. Freedmen\u2019s Mission Assn., 3 bbls.\n      of C., _one of which for Atlanta U._\n    Whitinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       1,158.50\n    Winchendon. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.\n      $9.64; Geo. Cummings, $10                               19.64\n    Winchester. Stephen Cutter                                 5.00\n    West Newton. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    35.11\n    Worcester. Union Ch., $60.62; Old So. Cong.\n      Ch., $54.36                                            114.98\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $198.95.\n\n    Central Falls. Cong. Ch.                                  73.95\n    Providence. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $100; Josiah Chapin,\n      $25                                                    125.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $893.73.\n\n    Ansonia. Cong. Ch.                                        32.00\n    Ashford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                6.00\n    Avon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 120.00\n    Black Rock. Mrs. J. P. Britten                             5.00\n    Colchester. Rev. S. G. Willard _for Straight\n      U._                                                     20.00\n    East Haddam. C. Higgins                                    5.00\n    East Woodstock. H. C.                                      0.25\n    Enfield. First Cong. Ch.                                  14.74\n    Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch.                               28.00\n    Georgetown. Cong. Ch.                                     12.00\n    Glastenbury. Cong. Ch.                                   150.00\n    Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   15.46\n    Guilford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        25.00\n    Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch. $86.50; Windsor\n      Ave. Cong. Ch. $27.60.\u2014Mrs. Chas. F. Howard,\n      $25, _for Howard U._                                   139.10\n    Kensington. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                1.00\n    Lebanon. First Ch. and South Soc. $18; Betsy\n      Metcalf, $10                                            28.00\n    Meriden. Julius W. Yale                                    5.00\n    Milford. Rev. Geo. H. Griffin, $5; Albert\n      Baldwin, $5; Lucy B. Miles, $10, _for\n      Printing Press, Talladega, Ala._\n      (incorrectly ack. in Dec. number.)\n    New Canaan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            13.30\n    New Hartford. First Cong. Sab. Sch., John\n      Richard\u2019s Bible Class, $5; Rev. F. H. Adams\u2019\n      Bible Class, $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._             10.00\n    New Haven. College St. Ch. and Soc.                       20.00\n    North Granby. First Cong. Ch.                              5.35\n    Norwalk. First Cong. Ch.                                  36.86\n    Plantsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        50.00\n    Stamford. First Cong. Ch.                                 26.52\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      20.15\n    West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            20.00\n    West Meriden. H. C.                                        1.00\n    Wethersfield. Horace Savage                                2.00\n    Winchendon. Coll. by I. A. Bronson                        15.00\n    Woodbury. North Cong. Ch.                                 17.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                           50.00\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $877.45.\n\n    Adams Basin. L. D.                                         1.00\n    Brooklyn. J. Davenport                                    50.00\n    Buffalo. W. G. Bancroft                                  200.00\n    Clyde. ESTATE of T. Grimshaw, by A. Traver, Ex.          100.00\n    Crown Point. Second Cong. Ch.                              6.00\n    Derby. Mrs. J. B.                                          1.00\n    Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              27.66\n    Hancock. Cong. Ch.                                         0.25\n    Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              9.00\n    Ithaca. Mrs. H. Selby and others                           1.50\n    Lockport. H. W. Nichols                                    5.00\n    Madison. G. H. H.                                          0.51\n    Newark Valley. Cong. Ch.                                  26.13\n    New York. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dodge, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._, $200; E. S., 40c             200.40\n    Norwich. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $20; Mrs. R. A. B. $1                21.00\n    Nunda. Four Ladies of Presb. Ch., bbl. of C.\n      and $1 _for Freight_                                     1.00\n    Oriskany. A. Halsey, Mrs. L. B. Porter, and\n      Rev. S. F. Porter, $5 ea.                               15.00\n    Paris. Val. Pierce $12, Mrs. Pierce $5                    17.00\n    Penn Yan. Chas. C. Sheppard                              150.00\n    Randolph. MRS. DEMARIUS SHELDON, to const.\n      herself L. M.                                           30.00\n    Utica. Bethesda Welsh Cong. Ch.                           10.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                            5.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $71.\n\n    Boonton. Mrs. W. G. L.                                     1.00\n    Montclair. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Hampton Inst._                                          70.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $31.00.\n\n    Centre Road. J. A. Scovel                                  5.00\n    Newcastle. Mrs. J. W.                                      1.00\n    Pittsburgh. Third Presb. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              25.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $144.80.\n\n    Berea. First Cong. Ch.                                     2.50\n    Brownhelm. Cong. Ch.                                      16.80\n    Cleveland. M. H. B.                                        0.50\n    East Cleveland. Mrs. Mary Walkden                          2.00\n    Edinburg. Cong. Ch.                                       19.00\n    Hudson. Cong. Ch.                                         20.00\n    Lenox. Balance Subscription, _for Tougaloo\n      Inst._, by Nelson French                                 4.50\n    Mechanicstown. S. M.                                       1.00\n    Medina. Cong. Ch. and So., bal. to const. W.\n      F. ECCLESTON and T. E. ROWE, L. M\u2019s.\u201450 cts.\n      additional for _Tougaloo U._                            15.50\n    Nelson. Dea. Harvey Pike                                   5.00\n    Rochester. Cong. Ch.                                       4.00\n    Twinsburgh. L. W. and R. F. Green                          4.00\n    Wellington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      50.00\n\n\n  INDIANA, $5.00.\n\n    Kokoma. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $112.91.\n\n    Chicago. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.                                5.00\n    Delavan. R. Houghton                                       8.00\n    Evanston. Cong. Ch.                                       42.03\n    Galesburg. ESTATE Warren C. Willard, by Prof.\n      T. R. Willard                                           14.00\n    Huntley. Rev. D. C.                                        1.00\n    Kewanee. Mrs. C. E. Chapin, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                              5.00\n    Nora. G. W. Warner                                        10.00\n    Rantoul. Cong. Ch.                                         2.88\n    Rockford. Mrs. Penfield, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           10.00\n    Princeton. Mrs. J. T. Wells                               15.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $497.19.\n\n    Ann Arbor. Dea. Sylvester Morris                           5.00\n    Cross Village. Mrs. A. A. C.                               0.50\n    Detroit. First Cong. Ch.                                 293.56\n    East Riverton. Mrs. J. Barnes                             10.00\n    Hudson. Individuals                                        3.50\n    Hillsdale. J. W. Ford                                      2.00\n    Jackson. Mrs. R. M. Bennett                                1.50\n    Kalamazoo. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $5.19;\n      Friends, $3.30                                           8.49\n    Lodi. Eli Benton                                          40.00\n    Olivet. Wm. J. Hickok, $10 _for Camp Nelson_,\n      $5 _for Emerson Inst._, $5 _for Indian M._\n      and $5 _for Chinese M._                                 25.00\n    Niles. Dr. James Lewis                                     5.00\n    Port Huron. First Cong. Ch.                               34.00\n    Romeo. Cong. Ch.                                          35.42\n    Saint Clair. Cong. Ch.                                    22.22\n    Vienna. Union Cong. Ch.                                   11.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $183.48.\n\n    Anamosa. Cong. Ch.                                        13.83\n    Castalia. W. H. Baker and family, to const.\n      MRS. HANNAH WILLIAMS, L. M.                             35.00\n    Davenport. Capt. A. E. Adams, _for\n      Scholarship, Talladega C._                              50.00\n    Elk River. Cong. Ch.                                       3.00\n    Iowa Falls. Cong. Ch.                                      8.00\n    Maquoketa. Missionary Soc. of Cong. Ch.                   20.04\n    Monona. Cong. Ch.                                          6.00\n    Monticello. Children\u2019s Band                                0.20\n    Riceville. Girls\u2019 Miss. Soc.                              10.90\n    Stacyville. Cong. Ch.                                     14.21\n    Traer. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc.                                 10.00\n    Waterloo. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.                              12.30\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $29.68.\n\n    Beloit. First Cong. Ch., bale of C. _for\n      Montgomery, Ala._\n    Geneva Lake. W. H. H.                                      0.50\n    Fort Atkinson. Cong. Ch.                                  15.18\n    Waupun. Cong. Soc.                                        14.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $3.50.\n\n    Russell. S. H. Falley                                      2.50\n    Solomon City. M. W. E.                                     1.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $90.33.\n\n    Lake City. Sab. Sch. and Friends, _for\n      Straight U._                                            41.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 19.33\n    Hawley. Adna Colburn, Sr., $20; Adna Colburn,\n      Jr., $10                                                30.00\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $22.96.\n\n    S\u2019kokomish. Cong. Ch. of Christ                           18.10\n    White River. Cong. Ch.                                     4.86\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $5.00.\n\n    Silver. Melinda Bowen                                      5.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI. $4.00.\n\n    Warrensburg. Rent                                          4.00\n\n\n  MARYLAND, $280.00.\n\n    Baltimore. Rev. Geo. Morris, $200 _for a\n      Teacher_, and $80 _for a Student, Fisk U._             280.00\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $230.66.\n\n    Atlanta. Atlanta University                              113.00\n    Brunswick. School Children, by S. B. Morse,\n      _for Mendi M._                                           1.17\n    Savannah. Beach Inst.                                    115.60\n    Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., _for Mendi M._                     0.89\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $28.76.\n\n    Newbern. C. E. W.                                          0.50\n    Raleigh. Washington Sch.                                  25.50\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                      2.76\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $262.66.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst.                                  262.66\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $40.00.\n\n    Oakville. A. A. Bancroft                                  40.00\n\n\n  CANADA, $15.04.\n\n    Toronto. Mrs. J. Thom ($5 _of which for Cal.\n      Chinese M._)                                            15.04\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n      Total                                                8,983.64\n    Total from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30th                     $15,835.30\n\n                                                H. W. HUBBARD,\n                                                    _Ass\u2019t Treas._\n\n\n  RECEIVED FOR DEBT.\n\n    Amherst, N. H. L. and L. K. Melendy                     1000.00\n    East Woodstock, Conn. Rev. E. H. Pratt                     1.00\n    New Britain, Conn. Mrs. Norman Hart                       25.00\n    Wilton, Conn. Rev. S. J. M. Merwin                        50.00\n    Wilton, Conn. Miranda B. Merwin                           25.00\n    Andover, Mass. Free Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    13.00\n    Florence, Mass. \u201cA. L. W.\u201d                               500.00\n    Foxborough, Mass. A. L. Payson                             1.00\n    Malden, Mass. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         159.55\n    Lakeville, Mass. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      MRS. CAROLINE L. WARD, L. M.                            34.11\n    Pittsfield, Mass. Second Cong. Sab. Sch.                   5.00\n    Scotland, Mass. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                2.00\n    West Barnstable, Mass. Rev. B. Paine                       5.00\n    Albany, N. Y. Mrs. M. M. Learned                          25.00\n    Clifton Springs, N. Y. Mrs. Andrew Pierce                 25.00\n    Fairport, N. Y. Mrs. J. E. Howard                         25.00\n    Fairport, N. Y. Mrs. Garry Brooks                         25.00\n    New York, N. Y. \u2014\u2014                                        25.00\n    Penn Yan, N. Y. Mrs. D. B. Prosser                        25.00\n    Rochester, N. Y. Gen. A. W. Riley                         25.00\n    Sacketts Harbor, N. Y. Mrs. Anar H. Barnes                30.00\n    Centre Road, Penn. J. A. Scovel                            5.00\n    Belpre, Ohio. Cong. Ch.                                    5.00\n    Fort Recovery, Ohio. M. W. Diggs                           5.00\n    Paddys Run, Ohio. Sarah Wilkin                             5.00\n    Painsville, Ohio. Mrs. C. C. Beardslee                     4.00\n    Oberlin, Ohio. Pres. J. H. Fairchild                      10.00\n    Michigan City, Ind. Correction. J. C. Haddock,\n      $5. (Nov. number) should read Mrs. Clara W.\n      Peck, $5.\n    Buda, Ill. J. B. Stuart                                   10.00\n    Chicago, Ill. Prof. G. N. Boardman                         5.00\n    Geneseo, Ill. P. H. Taylor                                 5.00\n    Providence, Ill. Correction. Mrs. H. B.\n      Gulliver, $6. (Nov. number) should read \u201cA\n      few Friends,\u201d $6.\n    Wethersfield, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kellogg              5.00\n    Alamo, Mich. Julius Hackley                               20.00\n    Broadhead, Wis. Mrs. W. W. Matter                          3.50\n    Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. James Baker                           5.00\n    Patch Grove, Wis. M. A. Garsich                            1.00\n    Whitewater, Wis. Mrs. R. Coburn                            1.00\n    Natal, South Africa. Mrs. Abbie T. Wilder                 10.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n      Total                                                2,125.16\n    Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts               4,659.04\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n      Total                                                6,784.20\n\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON NORMAL AND COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Wells, Me. Mrs. B. A. Maxwell                             15.00\n    East Hartford, Conn. H. L. Goodwin                        50.00\n    Hartford, Conn. Mrs. John Olmstead                        50.00\n    Hebron, Conn. B. A. Bissell                                5.00\n    Hebron, Conn. Dea. Jasper Porter                           5.00\n    Sing Sing, N. Y. Mrs. Harriet M. Cole, to\n      const. CORNELIA M. COLE, L. M.                          30.00\n    Syracuse, N. Y. Mrs. Sarah T. Salisbury                   50.00\n    Oberlin, Ohio. Mrs. C. C. Wheat                            5.00\n    Olivet, Mich. Wm. B. Palmer                              200.00\n    \u2014\u2014. Individuals                                            5.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n      Total                                                  415.00\n    Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts                 190.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n      Total                                                  605.00\n\n\n  FOR YELLOW FEVER FUND.\n\n    Thetford, Vt. Sarah J. Rugg                                2.00\n    Portland, Conn. First Cong. Ch.                           41.92\n    Andover, Mass. Chapel Ch. and Soc. $64.55 and\n      Sab. Sch. $15                                           79.55\n    Troy, N. Y. \u201cLittle Mary and Margaret Cushman\n      and Mamma.\u201d                                              1.00\n    Orwell, N. Y. \u201cA few Friends in Cong. Ch.,\u201d by\n      Rev. F. N. Greeley                                      12.00\n    Orange, N. J. Trinity Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                 10.00\n    Tabor, Iowa. Cong. Ch.                                     6.40\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             152.87\n    Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts                 154.17\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n      Total                                                  307.04\n\n\n  ENDOWMENT FUND.\n\n    Norwood, Mass. ESTATE of Samuel Morrill, by\n      Edward H. Morrill, Ex.                                 500.00\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nThe American Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with\nthe almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its\nmain efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens\nand Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely\nrelated to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE\nin America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane\nand Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in\nAFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014In Va. 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2;\nGa., 12; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 13; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2;\nTexas, 5. _Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 1. 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DENISON, Adv\u2019g Agent,\n                                          56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\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\nD. H. GILDERSLEEVE & CO., Printers, 101 Chambers Street, New York.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\nDitto marks in tables were replaced with the text they represent in\norder to facilitate alignment.\n\nThe page number in the Table of Contents entry for RETURN OF REV.\nFLOYD SNELSON was corrected.\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\u201cProtestanism\u201d changed to \u201cProtestantism\u201d on page 9. (Protestantism\nin the South)","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 33, No. 01, January 1879","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":21599}