{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_54293/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_54293","id":"gutenberg_54293","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54293","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: History - Religious","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"VOL. XXXIII.                                              No. 8.\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                           AUGUST, 1879.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    ANNUAL MEETING                                               225\n    PAINS OF RETRENCHMENT                                        225\n    FREEDMEN\u2019S MISSIONS AID SOCIETY                              227\n    MISSIONS IN CENTRAL AFRICA                                   228\n    EDUCATION OF FREEDMEN                                        229\n    CONGREGATIONALISM IN THE SOUTH--ITS RELATION TO THE\n      AFRICAN RACE                                               230\n    DEATH OF A TEACHER                                           232\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                         232\n    GENERAL NOTES                                                233\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    ATLANTA UNIVERSITY--Tenth Anniversary                        235\n    TALLADEGA COLLEGE--College, Farm and Seminary                237\n    BEREA COLLEGE--Crowded Commencement                          238\n    S. C., ORANGEBURG--School Closing--Religious Life            240\n    GEORGIA, MCINTOSH--Call for a Lady Missionary                240\n    GEORGIA, FORSYTHE--Temperance and Religion                   241\n    ALABAMA, FLORENCE--Corner-Stone of a Church Laid             241\n    TENNESSEE--Teachers\u2019 Institute                               242\n    TENNESSEE--By-ways of Tennessee                              243\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    MENDI MISSION--Explorations--Industrial Work                 245\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    NOTES AND CLIPPINGS: Rev. W. C. Pond                         246\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    MY HOME IN INDIAN TERRITORY                                  249\n\n\n  LETTERS TO THE TREASURER--Words of Cheer                       250\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                       251\n\n  WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &C.                                   254\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\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  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    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    ADDISON 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\nshould be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Ass\u2019t Treasurer, No. 56 Reade\nStreet, New York, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch\nOffices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West\nWashington Street, Chicago, Ill.\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                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n          VOL. XXXIII.      AUGUST, 1879.         No. 8.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOur readers will see, on the last page of the cover, that the next\nAnnual Meeting of the Association is to be held the last week of\nOctober, in the city of Chicago. We suggest to our Eastern friends,\nor those from the far West, who have in their plans a visit to that\ncity within the next three months, that, if possible, they delay\ntheir going until that time, that they may prove to our friends of\nthe interior their interest in the work, and add to it the impulse\nof their presence.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE PAINS OF RETRENCHMENT.\n\nWe do not propose a treatment of this topic in the abstract, to\ntell of the internal pressure for retrenchment from the collapsed\ncondition of our treasury, or of the outcries which accompany the\nred line made by the surgical knife. We simply lay before our\nreaders the facts in regard to our latest efforts in this direction.\n\nWe have had a school for fourteen years at Athens, Alabama.\nMiss M. F. Wells has been the principal from its beginning, and\nhas been one of our most faithful and most successful teachers\nand missionaries. Miss Underwood has been her assistant for two\nyears, and Rev. Horace Taylor has been pastor of the vigorous and\nenterprising church which has grown up by the side of, and indeed\nout of, the school. Some 150 scholars have been in attendance at\nthe school, and its work has been more and more satisfactory year\nby year.\n\nWe had a building there which was, however, in bad repair: its\nwalls had been propped up these last months, and it was becoming\nreally unsafe, so that it must be abandoned or replaced. But to\nerect a suitable and permanent building would cost $5,000, and we\nhad no such sum to expend; and the question came to be, Shall we\nbuild, or close the school and transfer the teachers to some other\nfield? Reluctantly this latter decision was made:--indeed, we\ndid not make it; it was made for us. We could not build, and the\ndecision was sent on to Athens.\n\nOn the first of July, Miss Wells wrote from a sick bed, of the\nshock which this decision gave to her, though it had been intimated\nbeforehand. She said:\n\nWe thank you cordially for the delay in the announcement of your\ndecision, for had it come in the midst of our closing exercises,\nstudents and teachers would have been unfitted for the work upon\nthem.\n\nOur examinations continuing through four days were largely attended\nthroughout, a crowded house greeting us every day.\n\nThe general voice of the people was: \u201cExaminations grow better all\nthe time;\u201d \u201cThis is the best we have ever had;\u201d \u201cI will send _all_\nmy children the _first day_ next year, and not keep them out for\n_anything_;\u201d \u201cBless the Lord for this school;\u201d \u201cIt makes me cry\nfor joy when I see what it has done for our people;\u201d \u201cWe are _all_\ngoing to help build a new house;\u201d \u201cWill start a brick-yard next\nweek, if you say so, right in these grounds;\u201d \u201c_All_ will help;\u201d\n\u201cEven the idle boys on the street will gladly lend a hand;\u201d etc.,\netc.\n\nOn the whole, our examinations and closing exercises were more\nsatisfactory _to us_ this year than ever before. There has been a\ndeeper earnestness in study, and a higher grade of scholarship has\nbeen reached.\n\nOn the day following, Miss Underwood wrote:\n\nIt is pitiful to witness the grief of the people. In the faces\nof young and old one seems to read, \u201cA calamity has fallen upon\nus.\u201d Some of them go silently about with bowed heads and spirits,\n\u201cclothed in sackcloth and ashes.\u201d Others say, \u201cWe will arise and\nbuild; surely the Lord will help those who help themselves.\u201d The\nuniversal feeling is that the school _must_ not close and _Miss\nWells must not go_. Without consulting her, they have called a\nmass meeting for to-morrow night, to see what can be done towards\nthe erection of a new building. You will be promptly notified of\nresults.\n\nOn the 4th of July, Mr. Taylor, pastor of the church, wrote as\nfollows:\n\nThat night, at a lecture at the Court House, I read a note from\nMiss Wells announcing your decision. The people were much pained.\nThe open rejoicing of many of the white people hurt the colored\npeople more than anything else. They asked me, \u201cCan nothing be done\nto prevent this?\u201d I told them I thought not, for the orders were\npositive. \u201cIf we build the school-house, can Miss Wells stay and\nthe school go on?\u201d I said I didn\u2019t know about that, and asked them\nif they knew what they were talking about; that a school-house such\nas ought to be put up there would cost $5,000? They said, \u201cWe can\ndo it, and we will do it.\u201d So I telegraphed you, \u201cIf people put up\nschool building, will school be maintained?\u201d That night, Wednesday,\nwas our preparatory lecture. The people decided to hold a meeting\nThursday night, and notice was given at preparatory lecture; so\nlast night the church was filled by an earnest, quiet audience.\nColored men were elected chairman and secretary. A committee of\nfive colored men was appointed to draft resolutions, of which the\nfollowing is a copy as nearly as I can remember:\n\n\u201cWhereas the maintenance of Trinity School is necessary for the\neducation of the colored people of North Alabama, therefore be it\n\n\u201c_Resolved_, 1st. That we hear with deep sorrow the decision of the\nAmerican Missionary Association to discontinue the school, sell\nthe property, and send the teachers to other points. 2. That we\nearnestly request the American Missionary Association to reconsider\nthis decision, and permit Miss Wells to remain at the head of the\nschool. 3. In order to enable the school to be kept up, we propose\nto put up a good substantial school building, and as an assurance\nof our purpose and ability to do this we forward the following\nsubscription list.\u201d\n\nThe resolutions were immediately and unanimously adopted. Two men\nthen spoke with trembling voices and tears in their eyes, and in\nthirty minutes names were taken with pledges to the amount of\n$2,196. We then checked the movement, and explained that $5,000\nwas necessary, but that we had raised the $2,000 we wished to\nraise there. A unanimous vote authorized me to make the report\nof the meeting to the American Missionary Association, and that\nthey wished the house and lot to be held forever for the education\nof the colored people of North Alabama; that if the American\nMissionary Association would permit them to buy the land at a\nreasonable price they would do it; or the American Missionary\nAssociation might hold the land and the people the house, neither\nto sell out without the consent of the other. An old blind man\nsaid, \u201cAn old blind horse ain\u2019t good for much, but when you get\nhim into the tread-mill he is as good as any other; so when you\nget to making brick I will turn the crank to draw the water.\u201d We\ngot another $100 subscription and immediately adjourned. This\nmorning I have received another subscription of $12, making in all\n$2,308. I ought to have mentioned that a committee of seven was\nappointed to solicit subscriptions on the streets. If you say so,\nthe school-house shall be completed January 1st, 1880. I earnestly\nrequest that the petition be granted.\n\nAt the last meeting of our Executive Committee these letters were\nread. All were deeply moved, and the response was hearty and\nunanimous, _Let them arise and build_, and the funds needed for the\ncontinuance of the school shall be appropriated and paid. We cannot\nstop such a work. We cannot refuse such a plea. Why, the educating\npower of this movement upon the colored people of that place, and\nits effect, perhaps, upon the white population as well, is worth\nten times the money involved in both the building and the school.\nAnd yet we are told that the blacks are becoming indifferent to\neducation.\n\nAnd now, dear friend, you who are thinking how the Lord has not\nprospered you quite as much as he did a few years ago, when you\nhave read this, will you not put back that $100, or that $1, you\nwere going to take from your usual gift to us, that such work as\nthis may go on? It is your retrenchment that compels ours.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFREEDMEN\u2019S MISSIONS AID SOCIETY.\n\nThe annual meeting of our English Auxiliary took place at Union\nChapel, Islington (Rev. Dr. Allon), June 6th. The Earl of Aberdeen\npresided. The Rev. Dr. O. H. White read the general report of work\ndone in the United States and to be done in Africa. The Rev. J.\nGwynne Jones presented the financial statement. The total receipts\nhad been \u00a35,270; \u00a34,727 had been expended in direct mission work,\nand the balance in hand was \u00a3205. \u00a33,000 had been promised by\nMr. Arthington, of Leeds, towards the establishment of a mission\nin Central Africa. The American Missionary Association had fully\nconsidered the proposal and deemed it practicable, and they desired\nnow to raise another \u00a33,000 in this country, trusting that they\nwould be able to command funds in America for carrying on the work,\nif its outfit should be substantially secured here.\n\nMiss Jennie Jackson, of the Jubilee Singers, then sang one of\ntheir plaintive hymns, after which the presiding officer addressed\nthe meeting, referring to his personal observation of the slave\ntrade in Africa. The Rev. Dr. Moffat followed, saying that he had\nbeen the servant of Africa for sixty years. Since he went out as\na missionary in 1816 he had been incessantly engaged in advancing\nthe Redeemer\u2019s kingdom in Africa. He had had many opportunities of\nwitnessing what the Gospel could do in Africa, and he could testify\nthat it was the salvation of every one that believed. Mr. J. B.\nGough then spoke in his usual entertaining and forcible way.\n\nOn the motion of the Rev. Dr. Allon, seconded by the Rev. Dr. F.\nBilling, the following resolution was adopted:\n\n  That this meeting desires to express the deep sense it entertains\n  of the favoring providence of God in connection with the\n  education of the emancipated slaves of America, for teachers\n  and missionaries to their own race, and also in connection with\n  the mission work accomplished by some of the society\u2019s students\n  (ex-slaves) on the West Coast of Africa. And this meeting\n  would renewedly record its conviction that in the Christian\n  education of the Freedmen we are working in the line of a\n  special providential arrangement for a native agency for the\n  evangelization of Africa.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSIONS IN CENTRAL AFRICA.\n\nAt the recent anniversary of the London Missionary Society, the\nRev. W. F. Clarkson, B. A., of Birmingham, made the following\nremarks upon Missions in Central Africa:\n\n\u201cAnd now, turning to Central Africa, what a solemn responsibility\nhas been thrown upon the Church of Christ in connection with that\nvast continent! True it is that the North of Africa has been\nconnected with European history ever since Europe had a history,\nand Egypt, especially, is rich in associations of the most remote\nantiquity. South Africa has been colonized by modern European\nnations, and the East and the West Coasts have furnished the\nmaterial for that iniquitous slave trade in which Christian nations\nhave not been ashamed to join hands with Mohammedans in order to\nrob their fellow-men of their liberties.\n\n\u201cBut all this has touched only the fringe of this vast continent,\nand the interior has been practically unknown. Look at the maps of\na few years ago and you will see blank spaces, relieved only by\nimaginary rivers and unverified mountains, and the letterpress of\nthe geography books was just as meagre and as unsatisfactory. I\nchanced to light upon a school geography, the other day, published\nin 1847, in which this was the description given: \u2018The interior\nof Africa is little known. The climate is so bad that the few\nEuropeans who travel there generally die before they return.\u2019 And\nit concluded by saying: \u2018Most of the inhabitants are negroes.\u2019 I\nthink that the young people of to-day may congratulate themselves\nthat they have not to study the text-books of thirty years ago--at\nany rate, on this question. I need not remind this meeting how,\nby the labors of eminent geographers and explorers and, not the\nleast, missionaries, this reproach has been rolled away, and\nAfrica promises to be as widely known as is Asia. But it is more\nto the purpose of this meeting to express the admiration and the\nthankfulness with which we witness the Church of Christ, of divers\ndenominations, taking up the solemn responsibilities thrown upon\nher, and addressing herself to the evangelization of Africa.\n\n\u201cThe Church Missionary Society advancing to Lake Nyanza, the Scotch\nChurch taking possession of Lake Nyassa, the Baptist Missionary\nSociety establishing itself on the banks of the Congo; and, not to\nmention other kindred societies, our own London Missionary Society\nadvancing to Lake Tanganyika--are so many distinct columns of the\ngreat invading army which has gone forth to rescue Africa from the\npower of the prince of this world, and to bring it into subjection\nunto Christ. Surely this is the dawning of the day which David\nLivingstone rejoiced to see and was glad. And I hope that I may\ntake upon myself, in your name, respectfully to congratulate our\nvenerable father and apostle, Dr. Moffat, upon the advent of a time\nso rich in promise, and so glowing with hope, for that Africa which\nhe has so long and so lovingly served. The report has spoken to us\nin forcible terms of the anxieties of the directors concerning the\nestablishment of this Central African Mission, and I think you will\nfeel that nothing shows that anxiety more clearly than the action\nof the directors in regard to the offer of Dr. Mullens, that they\nshould have accepted that offer and dispatched him, if not to the\nfront, at any rate to the base of operations for this new campaign;\nand he will carry with him to Zanzibar our best wishes and our most\nearnest prayers in the enterprise which he has so promptly and so\ngenerously undertaken.\n\n\u201cI think nothing can exaggerate the seriousness of the enterprise\nto which we, as a society, have committed ourselves in connection\nwith Central Africa. To have to travel 600 or 700 miles, every\nmile of it measured out by the weary tread of human feet, and to\nbe accompanied by 200 or 300 porters, not simply to carry your\nluggage, but even to carry the very money with which you have to\npay your way, is no holiday excursion; and to have to deal with\nnative chiefs of difficult and capricious tempers, with differing\nand oftentimes opposing interests, demands qualities of the\nhighest statesmanship. To establish a mission like that of Lake\nTanganyika, the lake itself being of the length of the distance,\nsay from London to Carlisle, and twenty miles broad, with all its\nshores lined with populous villages--to establish a mission in\nsuch a centre of such a district demands an energy and a zeal and\na patience equal to those of the greatest missionaries that have\never lived; and to do this, with the certain loss of the comforts\nand conveniences of civilized life, and with the equally certain\nrisk of losing life itself, demands a heroism equal to that of the\nancient martyr. All honor to the brethren who have responded to the\ndemands of Christ, and have given themselves to this sacred work.\nWe sympathize with those that are living and working, and we shall\nnever forget those that have laid down their lives in this blessed\nservice. Dr. Black in the South, Lieut. Smith in the North, and our\nown J. B. Thomson, and others who have fallen with them in this\nwarfare--shall not the Church of Christ register them, each one, in\nthe roll of heroes and of martyrs, by whose immortal example she\nwill seek to stimulate the generations to come?\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE EDUCATION OF FREEDMEN.\n\nMrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has contributed two articles with the\nabove title to the June and July numbers of the _North American\nReview_, tracing the history of this work, and giving a valuable\nsummary of its present status.\n\nWe reprint a brief paragraph and the six general propositions, of\nwhich the facts given are offered as the proof:\n\n\u201cFor years patriots, statesmen, conscientious and Christian men,\nhad toiled and agonized over the inscrutable problem, _How_\ncould slavery be abolished without ruin to the country? Madison,\nJefferson, Washington, all had their schemes--all based on the idea\nthat after emancipation it would be impossible for the whites and\nthe blacks to live harmoniously together. Sudden emancipation was\nspoken of as something involving danger, bloodshed and violence;\nand yet, as no one could propose a feasible system of preparation,\nthe drift of the Southern mind had come to be toward indefinite\nperpetuation and extension.\n\n\u201cOur emancipation was forced upon us--it was sudden; it gave no\ntime for preparation; and our national honor forced us to give not\nonly emancipation, but the rights and defenses of citizenship. This\nwas the position in which the war left us. We had four million new\nUnited States citizens in our Union, without property, without\neducation, with such morals as may be inferred from the legal\nstatus in which they had been kept; they were surrounded by their\nformer white owners, every way embittered toward them, and in no\nwise disposed to smooth their path to liberty and competence.\n\n\u201cThat in such a sudden and astounding change there should have been\nstruggle and conflict; that the reconstruction of former slave\nStates, in such astonishingly new conditions of society, should\nhave been with some difficulty, wrath and opposition; that there\nshould have been contentions, mistakes, mismanagements, and plenty\nof undesirable events to make sensation articles for the daily\npress, was to be expected.\n\n\u201cBut wherever upon God\u2019s earth was such an unheard-of revolution in\nthe state of human society accomplished with so little that was to\nbe deprecated?\n\n\u201cFor in this year, 1878, certain propositions of very great\nsignificance bear assertion, and can be maintained by ample proof:\n\n\u201c1. The cotton crop raised by free labor is the largest by some\nmillions that ever has been raised in the United States. That\nsettles the question as to the free-labor system.\n\n\u201c2. The legal status of the negro is universally conceded as a\n_finality_ by the leading minds of the South.\n\n\u201c3. The common-school system has been established throughout the\nSouthern States, and recognized in theory by the wisest Southern\nmen as to be applied impartially to whites and blacks.\n\n\u201c4. All of the large religious denominations are conducting\neducational movements among the Freedmen on a large scale. There\nare scattered through the Southern States, under the patronage\nof different denominations, thirty-nine chartered and endowed\ninstitutions for the higher education of colored people as\nteachers, ministers, physicians, farmers and mechanics. Besides\nthese, there are sixty-nine schools of a lower grade. It is\ncalculated that in the last sixteen years twenty million dollars\nhas been contributed and invested in the work of educating the\nFreedmen.\n\n\u201c5. Leading and influential men at the South are in many cases\nopenly patrons of these educational efforts. Several of these\ninstitutions have been generously assisted by the States in which\nthey are founded. The last reports of all these institutions\nrepresent them as in a successful and flourishing condition.\n\n\u201c6. The colored race is advancing in material wealth and\nprosperity.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONGREGATIONALISM IN THE SOUTH.\n\n\n4. Its Relation to the African Race.\n\nDIST. SEC. C. L. WOODWORTH, BOSTON.\n\nBeyond any sentiment of honor, or of ambition to do our share of\nthe immense work thrown in an hour upon the churches of this land,\nis the higher aim to introduce our faith and our polity to the\nAfrican race. Not only is it our reproach that we have been, almost\nexclusively, confined to a small part of the English-speaking\npeople, but we shall deserve our littleness if we consent to be\nlimited to this nation, or even to this continent. The world needs\nthe principles we have in trust, and will not reach its best until\nit attains them. And, now, before us is an open field, rich in\nresources of life and wealth, all untilled. One-sixth of the human\nfamily waits to be moulded by Christian influence. A continent\nbares its bosom and asks Christianity for her strongest and best.\nWhy should the Church, which took possession of _one_ continent\nand gave it the most benign institutions earth ever saw, hesitate\nto lay hold of _another_, and plant it with the good seed of the\nkingdom?\n\nThere is something immensely stimulating in the thought of\nbreaking forth after a lost race. All we need is an infusion of\nthe enterprise which guided the Pilgrims to Plymouth Rock. A new\ncontinent for Christ is what we need to take up as our watch-word,\nand pass along the lines till our membership is fired with a\nholy zeal to win its 200,000,000 unto the Lamb that was slain.\nAnd if we were intent on this, how easy it would be to connect\nthe work _here_ with the work _there_. If, when the door opened\ninto the South, we had gone in with our plans to save the African\nrace, we could hardly have done differently from what we have.\nWe have planted our schools and our churches in the very centres\nof population and of influence. We have a large force of young\nmen and women in our schools, and our churches are constituted\nalmost wholly of young Christian scholars. How easy it would be\nto turn the whole tide of their study and thought and influence\ntowards Africa! There is in the African mind of the South now a\nstrong drawing toward the land of their fathers. The schemes of\ncolonization afloat all through the South show it. The hundreds\nof young men and young women banded together in our schools and\nchurches to go to Africa as teachers or as preachers, if the way\nshall open, show it. They only need the guiding intelligence to\nundertake to plant on Africa\u2019s shores another Plymouth Colony and\nMassachusetts Bay.\n\nAnd this opportunity comes to the Congregational church and finds\nit well prepared to enter on the training of Christian scholars\nand preachers for this work. Our churches on the ground are few in\nnumber, but filled with young, fresh, intelligent, pure material,\nand co-operate with our schools to bring forward the teachers and\nleaders of the African race. Is it all chance that puts us in this\nposition and gives us this advantage in laying the foundations of\neducation and religion for another race and another continent?\nGod\u2019s plan may include _black_ as well as _white_ pilgrims, and\nit may be ours to impart the pilgrim spirit and prepare the men\nwho shall make a new Africa, as our fathers made a new America.\nThis is possible to us as a church, and we ought to work towards\nit with unflagging zeal. We can only lose our advantage by our own\nneglect and lack of enterprise. We are in the front of workers for\nAfrica. Eight or ten of our young Christian scholars are already\non African soil. They send back a call for reinforcements, and the\nreinforcements will be ready as soon as our churches furnish the\nequipments and give them marching orders. The work may be long and\nrough; our fathers found it so here. Congregationalism is used to\nthat. Indeed, she does best when on the strain. She is grand when\nshe leads the forlorn hope. Easy, comfortable, self-pleasing life\nis not the atmosphere in which she grows tough, sturdy, courageous\nand aggressive. Show her something to do for Christ, something\ncalling for sacrifice, some mighty battle to be fought for her\nKing, and she will cover herself with glory.\n\nOut at the front--among the ranchmen, herdsmen, miners, soldiers,\nsavages--she is at home. This Southern work, which has taken the\nfeet of her toilers as near the thorns, and their heads as near\nthe crown of martyrdom, as any work of the century, has shown her\nsplendid qualities. Her faith and meekness, love and heroism, have\nwon her praises even in the gates of her enemies. And now we ask\nher to make the whole African race the object of her endeavor. This\nis the mission offered to her; let her not decline it. Let her lead\nthe hardest and perhaps the grandest movement in modern missions.\nThe young colored scholars of the South have learned to trust her,\nand they will follow her.\n\nNow is the time: Africa swings wide open her long barred gates;\ncommerce and science are moving to possess the land; foundations\nare being laid for the centuries: let the church that can build so\nwisely and so well, build this new temple of a regenerated Africa.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDEATH OF A TEACHER.\n\nIt is with painful regret that we are obliged to record the\nuntimely death of Miss Laura S. Cary, one of the teachers of the\nFisk University. She was the daughter of John J. Cary, Esq., of\nNashville, well known as cashier of the Freedmen\u2019s Savings Bank,\nand as a trustee of the Fisk University from its organization.\n\nMiss Cary pursued the full course of study at the University,\nand was graduated with honor in the class of 1877, receiving the\ndegree of A.B.; after this she engaged in teaching in the classical\ndepartment as an assistant to Professor Spence.\n\nShe was very attractive in person, cultured in manners, dignified,\nquiet and winning. Her character as a Christian was unobtrusive and\nconsistent. As a teacher she was proficient, kindly and patient,\nadding to exact scholarship a grace of demeanor and a voice of such\nrare sweetness as to attract constant attention to it. In her death\nthe institution has lost one of the most valuable members of its\ncorps of workers, and the African race a representative of rare\nmerit and promise.\n\nShe died of typhus fever, June 28th, after an illness of ten days,\naged 23.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nRALEIGH, N. C.--After the closing of the Conference, Pastor Smith,\nwith the assistance of Rev. Mr. Peebles, of Dudley, held special\nservices for three weeks. The church was greatly revived. Two\nyoung men have been received into the church. Others have been and\nare interested. The congregation is increasing, especially in the\nattendance of young men.\n\nGREENWOOD, S. C.--The Brewer Normal School, under the care of Mr.\nJ. D. Backenstose, closed, June 26th, a successful year\u2019s work.\nExaminations and exhibition were very creditable and largely\nattended. The annual address was delivered by the Rev. F. E.\nMcDonald, on \u201cCulture.\u201d Ministers of other denominations, graduates\nof the school, and many prominent citizens, showed by their\nattendance, and expressed in words, their deep interest in the work\nand gratification with its results.\n\nATLANTA, GA.--The teachers and students of Atlanta University\ncontributed about $75 at their monthly missionary meetings during\nthe past year, and have employed that sum in aiding the work of\nthe National Temperance Society, from which they have received a\nlarge supply of the best temperance literature. As nearly 150 of\nthe students are at present engaged in teaching summer schools,\nand nearly all enter into the temperance work, they will find\nsuch a supply a valuable help, and can give it wide and effective\ndistribution. About an equal sum was given at weekly school\nmeetings, and will be sent to aid mission work among the Indians.\n\nA State Teachers\u2019 Association was organized in Atlanta, during\ncommencement week, by the young colored teachers of Georgia.\nThere was an attendance of more than one hundred, and all parts\nof the State were represented. The proceedings were dignified\nand appropriate, and wise and useful plans were set on foot for\nfuture action. A large portion of the participants were graduates\nof Atlanta University, and were in attendance upon its closing\nexercises.\n\nRev. S. S. Ashley has resigned the care of the First Church in\nAtlanta, and Rev. Geo. E. Hill, of Marion, Ala., is supplying the\npulpit during the summer.\n\nWOODVILLE, GA.--The Sabbath-school is growing, and God is with\nus. It is in a better condition now than ever before since its\norganization. Last Sunday we had both white and colored people,\nwho came seven miles to our Sunday-school. The day-school has\nnever been as prosperous as it is this year. Truly we ought to be\nthankful. Our Sunday night meetings have been crowded for some time.\n\nNEW ORLEANS, LA.--A very complete manual of the Central\nCongregational Church, neatly printed, is in our hands. The order\nof admission and of administration of the church is very complete.\nThe present membership is 149. Rev. Walter S. Alexander has been\npastor of the church as well as President of Straight University\nfor the past three years.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nThe Indians.\n\nFrom a recent report to the Department of the Interior, we extract\nthe following items of information in regard to our Indian\ntreaties, which may be to many as novel as they are striking:\n\n  DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,                               }\n  OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, WASHINGTON, _April 28, 1879_.   }\n\nTO THE HONORABLE THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D. C.\n\nSIR: By reference to the treaties now in force with our nomadic\ntribes, it is found that a clause, in like terms, in reference to\neducation, appears in seven (7) of our most important ones, while\nmanifestly the same spirit of educational help from the Government\npervades them all.\n\nOne of the clauses referred to is as follows (see revision of\nIndian treaties, page 132, Treaty with the Cheyennes and Arapahoes,\n1868):\n\n\u201cArticle 7.--In order to insure the civilization of the tribes\nentering into this treaty, the necessity of education is admitted,\nespecially by such of them as are or may be settled on said\nagricultural reservation, and they thereby pledge themselves to\ncompel their children, male and female, between the ages of six and\nsixteen years, to attend school; and it is hereby made the duty of\nthe agent for said Indians to see that this stipulation is strictly\ncomplied with; and the United States agrees that for every thirty\nchildren between said ages, who can be induced or compelled to\nattend school, a house shall be provided, and a teacher, competent\nto teach the elementary branches of an English education, shall\nbe furnished, who will reside among said Indians and faithfully\ndischarge his or her duties as teacher.\n\n\u201cThe provisions of this article to continue not less than twenty\nyears.\u201d\n\nThese treaties were all confirmed in 1868, and, as will be seen,\nthe educational clause is respectively limited to twenty years.\nThe _intent_ was unquestionably to gather into schools _all_ of\nthe children of the tribes who became parties to the treaties. By\nreference to the last annual report from this office, it will be\nfound that the total population of the tribes having this clause\nin their treaties, on the date of that report, was about 71,000,\nand their children of school age numbered 12,000; and that ten\nyears after making these treaties, of this great number of children\nentitled to educational privileges at Government expense, only 944\nwere really provided for.\n\nThe following extracts from said report have a direct bearing upon\nthis subject, and merit special attention in this connection:\n\n\u201cExperience shows that Indian children do not differ from white\nchildren of similar social status and surroundings, in aptitude or\ncapacity for acquiring knowledge; and opposition or indifference to\neducation on the part of parents decreases yearly; so the question\nof Indian education resolves itself mainly into a question of\nschool facilities.\n\n\u201cBut the figures contained in the tables herewith fall far short\nof indicating a purpose on the part of the Government to make this\nquestion one of speedy solution.\n\n\u201cAt a low estimate, the number of Indian children of school-going\nage, exclusive of those belonging to the five civilized tribes\nof the Indian Territory, may be placed at 33,000. Of these, not\nless than 8,000 could, within a short time, be gathered into\nboarding-schools, except for the fact that the teachers are yet to\nbe employed, the school buildings are yet to be erected, and the\nfunds for both, and for feeding and clothing the scholars, are yet\nto be appropriated.\n\n\u201cThe whole number of children who can be accommodated in the\nboarding-schools now provided at the various agencies is only\n2,589. To these may be added 5,082 more, who can find room in\nday-schools--those expensive make-shifts for educational appliances\namong Indians,--making a total of only 7,671 Indians who have\nyet been placed within reach of school facilities. And when it\nis considered that the fifty youth who spend from one to _three_\nyears in a boarding-school, must step from that into the social\natmosphere created by 500 youth and 2,500 other members of the\ntribe who are still in ignorance, it can readily be seen that the\nelevation of an Indian tribe is being attempted by a method at\nleast as slow as it is sure; and that what should be the work of a\nyear will be protracted through a decade, and the work of a decade\nthrough a generation.\n\n\u201cIn many cases this policy is not only short-sighted, but in direct\ncontravention of treaty stipulations, as, for example, the treaty\nof 1868 with the Kiowas and Comanches (heretofore noted). The\none boarding-school at the Kiowa and Comanche Agency, which will\naccommodate 75 pupils, is filled, and the other 425 children are\nwaiting their turn. To comply with treaty stipulations with these\ntwo tribes would more than absorb the entire fund appropriated for\nthe civilization and education of all the Indians in the Indian\nTerritory, exclusive of the five civilized tribes. Even more\nglaring violations of educational clauses in Sioux treaties might\nbe cited.\u201d\n\nThe experience of the Department has been that the best results are\nobtained by a removal of the children from all tribal influence\nduring the progress of education, so that educators can command all\nthe time and attention of their pupils.\n\nYouth so educated return to their tribes as teachers, interpreters\nand examples in farming, etc.; and if properly sustained and guided\nthereafter, prove far more effective guides than whites of the same\ncapacity.\n\nNothing is more essential than that Indian youth, while passing\nthrough school, should have thorough instruction in some practical\nbranch of labor that will meet their needs for obtaining a\nlivelihood after leaving school.\n\n                Very respectfully, your obedient servant,\n                            E. J. BROOKS, _Acting Commissioner_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nATLANTA UNIVERSITY.\n\nThe Tenth Anniversary--Commencement--Alumni Meeting--Going Forth to\nWork.\n\nREV. C. W. FRANCIS, ATLANTA, GA.\n\nThe tenth anniversary of Atlanta University, which has just\noccurred, was an occasion of special interest to all its patrons\nand friends. The fact that the school was closing a year of\nprosperous work, during which a larger attendance than ever had\nbeen secured and maintained, and that evidences were multiplied\nof increasing confidence and respect on the part of all classes\nof people in the State, so that opportunities for usefulness were\nnever greater, while generous gifts had recently come to provide\nneeded facilities for the work, together with the real merit of the\nexercises and the large attendance of graduates, gave all a feeling\nof satisfaction which did much toward making the week one of great\npleasure.\n\nThe exercises were introduced by a thoughtful and instructive\nsermon on the Sabbath, addressed to the graduating classes by the\nRev. Mr. Bumstead, in which he set forth the occasion and motives\nfor a high standard of attainment in life according to \u201cthe pattern\nshown on the Mount.\u201d\n\nThree days of examination followed, which were attended by a board\nof examiners, appointed by the Governor of the State, and by a\ncommittee of citizens, invited by the Board of Trustees, and a\nlarge number of patrons and friends. The chairman of the Board of\nExaminers, a prominent editor of the State, who has attended these\nexercises in his official capacity for six successive years, spoke,\nin an address to the students at the close, of his increasing\nsatisfaction with the progress in education exhibited, and the\nsubstantial work done, with the spirit and management of the\ninstitution, and the zeal and skill of the students in their work,\nin different communities. He assured them of the liberality and\nfriendliness of the people, and pledged the hearty co-operation of\nthe State authorities and leading citizens with all their efforts\nat self-improvement, and for the elevation of the poor and ignorant\nso long as the present high standard of doing good was maintained.\nFor all their work in these directions thus far, he had nothing but\npraise to give.\n\nThe Commencement exercises upon the last day were brief, sensible\nand entertaining. Five young men were graduated from college and\ntwo young women from the normal course, and degrees were conferred\nupon six young men who were graduates of three years\u2019 standing. The\nmusic was a pleasant feature of the occasion, being well selected\nand well rendered. A report, which was highly commendatory,\nwas read by Rev. J. M. Martin, D.D., of Atlanta, who had been\nin attendance upon the examinations by request of the Board of\nTrustees.\n\nThe gathering of the graduates in their meeting in the afternoon\nwas the most striking feature of the occasion, as it was their\nfirst formal meeting, and secured the attendance of a large portion\nof them, and was marked by the warmest expressions of devotion\nto the school, its aims, discipline and culture, and affection\nand gratitude for its instructors. A singularly sober and earnest\nfeeling pervaded their utterances, and it could plainly be seen\nthat the conflicts of life in the difficult work nearly every one\nhas taken up, have led them to appreciate as never before the\nvalue of work done for them here.\n\nA finely framed portrait of Pres. E. A. Ware was presented by\nthem to the school, as an expression of their appreciation of his\nsacrifices and devotion to its interests, as well as a testimonial\nof personal affection.\n\nThe next day witnessed the busy scenes connected with the departure\nof more than 150 young people, who, for the most part, go to teach\nsummer schools of three months\u2019 duration throughout the country\nregions of the State. There is something peculiarly interesting in\nthe separation and departure of a large company of young people\nanywhere, but a special interest belongs to this occasion. These\ngo with such a simple faith to difficult work among strangers,\nwith so few facilities and so many obstacles of many kinds; and\nyet they seem to win favor, even from those naturally opposed to\ntheir work: they find places open for them, gather schools in\nchurches, log-cabins, or brush arbors, make furniture, black-boards\nand charts, give lectures, lead Sunday-schools, Bible classes and\nmeetings, teach ministers and elders, and become \u201call things to\nall men,\u201d that they may save some from the degrading bondage to\nignorance, superstition and sin in which they find the mass of\nthose for whom they labor. It is rare that any are unable to find\nschools through lack of money to travel and friends to aid them,\nbut the absence of any efficient system of schools makes the burden\nheavy, and brings to a few sad disappointments. But the fact that\nso many young people, with no experience and little money and few\nfriends, accomplish every year such a great work, seems to prove\nthat the hand of the Lord guides and protects them, and that His\npurpose is to make them a leavening power at the base of society in\nthis State, to regenerate and bless and save the whole mass.\n\nThe religious work of the year has been prospering, twelve having\nunited with the school church, and more than as many more, who were\nhopefully converted here, being expected to unite with churches\nat their homes. All the members of the graduating classes are\nprofessing Christians, as has been the case with all who have been\ngraduated thus far. The opportunities and possibilities for good\nwere never greater nor the outlook more hopeful; and we may well\nset up at the end of the year another stone of witness and say,\n\u201cHitherto hath the Lord helped us.\u201d\n\nWe append the following statements from the Editorial\ncorrespondence of the Macon _Telegraph and Messenger_:\n\nThis institution has been conducted with singular wisdom and\npropriety, and has already proved an inestimable blessing to\nthe colored people of Georgia. Gradually, but surely, all the\nprejudices of the whites have been overcome, and the predictions\nof many that it would eventuate in a mere nursery of Radicalism\nand hate to the superior race, have not been justified by the\nfacts. On the contrary, we have the testimony of our own School\nSuperintendent, Mr. B. M. Zettler, that some of the most efficient\nand conservative teachers in the Bibb County schools were educated\nat the Atlanta University. Moreover, he favors the appointment, by\nthe various Boards of Public Education, of teachers of their own\nrace for the colored children of the State, in every instance where\nthey show themselves competent.\n\nAccordingly, we find from the official report of President Ware,\nthat of the fifty-one alumni of the University, forty-two have\nengaged in teaching as a profession, while three are pastors\nof churches, two theological students, and one, Nathaniel D.\nHarris, of Washington, D. C., is pursuing the study of law. Of the\nteachers, four only have located beyond the limits of the State.\n\nIn addition, over ninety of the more advanced pupils employ their\ntime during vacation in teaching.\n\nThe institution is in a more flourishing condition than at any\nprevious period of its history. Its matriculates number two hundred\nand forty, representing ten different States and forty-seven\ncounties in Georgia. The trustees hold sixty acres of valuable\nland adjoining the college edifices, which is in itself a splendid\nendowment. The other revenues cover $8,000 per annum from the\nState of Georgia, tuition fees (only $2 per month), and donations\nusually amounting to $2,500 from charitable institutions at the\nNorth. But recently the trustees have had quite a windfall from the\nStone estate at Malden, Mass. The widow of Mr. Stone, who, by her\nhusband\u2019s will, was made the almoner of his bounties, has given\n$50,000 to the University. They have fallen heir also to another\nsum exceeding $10,000, from the estate of the late R. R. Graves,\nof New York, who had previously donated a valuable library to the\nUniversity.\n\nWith these subsidies it is proposed to erect immediately another\nCollege building between the two present structures, to cost\n$40,000, and a large addition to the Girls\u2019 Dormitory, which will\ninclude a dining-room capable of seating 300 pupils. The estimated\ncost of this improvement is $15,000.\n\nThe library of the Institute comprises 4,000 volumes, most of them\nexcellent selections, with a balance on hand in cash of $700 for\nfurther augmentation, derived from the interest on the permanent\nlibrary endowment, which is $5,000.\n\nIt will be seen from the above that the Atlanta University is on\nthe high-road to prosperity.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTALLADEGA COLLEGE.\n\nThe College, Farm, and Theological Seminary.\n\nREV. TEMPLE CUTLER.\n\nTalladega is beautifully situated among the hills of Alabama. It\nreminds one somewhat of Andover, Mass., only the hill on which the\ncollege stands is not as high. There is, however, the same outline\nof mountains in the distance, and the same soft light falling on\nthe village nestling below, hidden among the rich foliage of trees.\nTalladega is by far the prettiest site for a college that I have\nseen in the South. Nature has done her part in fitting up the place\nfor purposes of instruction. There is every incentive to mental\nimprovement that nature can afford. If man will do his part, we\nmay expect to find here one of the most important of those springs\nwhich are sending forth streams of moral and mental influence\nthrough all the wastes of this south country.\n\nA week spent here has been exceedingly enjoyable. The teachers are\nan agreeable set of finely educated gentlemen and ladies, who spare\nno pains to make one\u2019s stay a pleasant one. The hospitality is not\nmade burdensome either to host or guest, but one quietly falls into\nthe routine of life, and feels immediately at home.\n\nThere is a farm here of about 180 acres of land, most of which is\nunder cultivation, called the Winsted Farm. This is being rapidly\nreclaimed from the waste of former mismanagement. The difference\nbetween Northern and Southern agriculturists is, that the land is\nimproved under the former management, and wasted under the latter.\nIn New England it is a sure sign of shiftless husbandry when the\nland runs out year by year. In the South there are but few farms\nor plantations that are not becoming poorer every year. The effort\nis begun on this farm to restore fertility, and in a few years\nwe may expect to see a fine specimen of Northern enterprise in\nthe products of its hitherto barren acres. The students work the\nfarm in part payment for their education. How far this industrial\ndepartment is going to succeed financially is a question that must\nwait for an answer. It is easy to theorize about the advantages\nof such a measure, but the surest proof that the pudding is good\nis found in the eating of it. One thing is certain: four or five\nhours a day of work in the hot sun does not fit a young man to bone\ndown to real hard study. It takes a good deal of the remainder of\nthe day to get rested and ready for work. It sounds pretty to talk\nabout a man\u2019s catching up his book between works, and so using up\nthe odds and ends of time, _a la_ Elihu Burritt; but unfortunately\nthere are not a great many Elihu Burritts left, and I am afraid\nthey are not indigenous to this climate, nor found among boys and\ngirls in these schools. It is a question whether we can afford to\nrun a farm and school together. The drain on both the treasury of\nthe college and the physical powers of the student must be taken\ninto our calculations.\n\nThe collegiate exercises of the school were creditable to the\nstudents and their instructors. The examination exhibited the usual\nenthusiasm of these students in their studies. The day is past when\nwe need to parade proofs that the negro has a brain capable of\nimprovement. We can now quietly assume that the color of a man\u2019s\nskin does not necessarily affect his mental calibre, and there\nwe may leave it. I must say, however, that I have not attended a\ncloser and more satisfactory theological examination in many a day\nthan that of the nine theological students who will graduate from\nTalladega next year. I have attended examinations in seminaries\nand associations and councils, and been through several such\ntrials myself, but I never was present at one that gave me better\nsatisfaction than this. If all our theological teachers will pass\nover to us men as thoroughly posted in the fundamental doctrines\nof the Bible as these young men appeared to be, we will gladly put\nthem into the ministry. Prof. Andrews has solved the question of\nthe practicability of a theological department in this school. We\nhave henceforth no excuse for putting men into the ministry who\ncannot answer the questions usually propounded to candidates for\nthe sacred office.\n\nThe public appointments of this week embraced literary exercises\nby the Soronian Society on Monday evening, public exercises of\nthe Model School on Tuesday afternoon, and College Address in\nthe evening: Wednesday, graduating exercises of the theological\ndepartment at 2.30 P.M., and at 8 o\u2019clock, prize declamations\nand essays, closing with a spelling match: on Thursday, 10 A.M.,\nthe graduating exercises of the higher Normal department; at 2 P.M.,\nan exhibition of the agricultural department; and at 8 P.M.\na concert by the Musical Union closed the week. I was not able to\nremain through all the exercises of Thursday. Those that I attended\nwere of a high order, and compared favorably with similar exercises\nof the same grade in other schools.\n\nThe attendance of the citizens from the town through all the\npublic exercises was a very pleasant feature. Talladega has made a\ndeep and lasting impression on the white people. They acknowledge\nthe good work that it has done and is doing, and believe in the\npossibilities that are before it.\n\nLast fall, arrangements were made for an Industrial Fair, which\ncalled together some of the best specimens of work done by colored\nmen and women in this State and a part of Georgia. This, probably,\ngave more impetus to the industrial enterprise of the people than\nanything that has been done since freedom. May the good work go on.\nThat is just what we want to see--the people waking up to do their\nlevel best.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBEREA COLLEGE.\n\nA Commencement Crowd--A Mixed School--Free Speech--Self-Support.\n\nPRESIDENT E. H. FAIRCHILD, BEREA, KY.\n\nWednesday, June 25th, was a beautiful day. The dust had been laid\nby a grand shower the evening before, and the whole day was cool\nand bright.\n\nAt half-past seven in the morning the neighboring people began to\nenter the college campus, a beautiful grove of forty-five acres. At\nhalf-past nine, when the exercises commenced, they were bringing\nextra seats into the tabernacle, a rough but very substantial and\ncommodious building, which accommodates two thousand people.\n\nAt half-past ten there were thought to be three thousand in and\nabout the tabernacle, and nearly a thousand horses on the ground.\nAs Berea embraces but eight hundred inhabitants, including students\nand infants, it appears that more than two thousand came from\nabroad.\n\nBut what came they out for to see? An exhibition of an impartial\nschool in the centre of Kentucky. Sixteen students--twelve young\nmen and four young ladies--delivered orations and essays. Only\nthree of these were colored. This disproportion is accounted for\npartly by the fact that the great demand for colored teachers calls\ncolored students away before they reach the higher classes. But it\nwas partly accidental. It has never occurred before, and probably\nnever will again. The colored students outnumber the white.\n\nThere were ten graduates--six from the classical department, three\nfrom the scientific, and one from the normal.\n\nTwo-thirds of the audience were white. A large portion of them were\nmountain people, but many were from the blue-grass region. The\ncolored people generally gravitated to one side of the building,\nthus keeping up their country customs and gaining the approbation\nof their white neighbors. This is one of the relics of slavery.\nGenerations must die before either white or colored people will\nfeel like treating each other as equals. As master and slave they\nmade no objection to the closest contiguity; as equals they cannot\neat in the same dining-hall, though forty feet apart. This feeling\nhas nearly passed away in Berea, as was perfectly manifest in a\nsocial farewell gathering of about three hundred of both races at\nthe ladies\u2019 hall in the evening. Equal rights, to the full extent,\nwill never be enjoyed till this feeling is extinguished.\n\n\u201cDemocracy Restored\u201d was the subject of one oration, delivered by\nthe only democrat in the institution. It was cheered by ex-rebels,\nand the college gained popularity among them for its liberality.\nSome of them thought the Faculty must have hired him to deliver\nhis harangue to make a show of toleration. One young son of the\ndemocracy decided to attend the school. It will be a good place\nfor him. The author of the oration has two years yet to study, and\ntrying years they will be for him. His party had better get his\nfaith insured.\n\nThe graduates are all professing Christians, though one has had his\nfaith somewhat shaken, as was shown by his oration. He would be\nglad to study theology at an orthodox seminary. He is a son of the\nmountains, and an honest, earnest thinker, and a superior scholar.\n\nThe effort of the college to get on alone, without aid from the\nAmerican Missionary Association, taxes all its energy and faith;\nbut, thanks to God and its faithful friends, the past year it\nhas not been left to suffer. The erection of the new chapel will\ncommence immediately, though the necessary means are not all\nsecured.\n\nBerea College is a miracle of God\u2019s grace and power. No other being\ncould have established such a school, in such a community, with\nsuch instrumentalities, and made it such a power.\n\nIn this voting precinct of five hundred voters, where whiskey\nhas reigned for many years, three-fourths of all the inhabitants\nhave signed the Murphy pledge. Arrangements are made for a grand\ntemperance rally on Friday, the 4th, which, it is confidently\nbelieved, will fill the tabernacle to its utmost capacity. Berea,\na beautiful spot by nature, is growing more and more beautiful\nevery year. It is a charming place for a college, and nothing but\npoverty prevents a thousand youth from flocking here for education.\nExpenses are very low: Tuition, $9 a year; board, $1.50 a week;\nfree tuition for ninety pupils; yet many students must leave,\nunless they can contrive a cheaper way to live, and find work to\nmeet their small expenses.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSOUTH CAROLINA.\n\nSchool Closing--Religious Life.\n\nREV. W. L. JOHNSON, ORANGEBURG.\n\nOur scholastic year closed on the 5th inst. Appropriate exercises\nwere held at the \u201cIndependent Hall.\u201d There was a very large and\nrespectable audience of the children\u2019s parents and white citizens\nwho felt interested in our work. The exercises began about 8\no\u2019clock, consisting of declamations, orations and music. After the\nexhibition, Rev. Professor Larrence, of Claflin University, by\nan eloquent address, in which he paid a splendid tribute to the\nvalue of learning and the excellence of the A. M. A. schools, its\nPrincipal and teachers proceeded to make the presentation of six\nsilver-plated vases and beautifully ornamented butter-dishes to\nas many pupils. Those gifts were awarded by the Superintendent.\nFive were given for sustaining perfect examinations, and one for\nexcellence in delivering a declamation. The whole affair was closed\nby a bountiful collation for the children and friends of the school.\n\nDuring the term we have maintained religious meetings among the\nchildren, several of our scholars taking part by offering prayer.\nIt has been a pleasure to see others mourning to know Christ as\ntheir Saviour. The neighboring ministers have, in general, been\npresent, and expressed deep interest in our undertaking, besides\nimpressing valuable lessons and pious sentiments upon the minds of\nthe children.\n\nSix pupils taught this year, in the free schools of Orangeburg\nCounty, an aggregate of 575 children, and were very acceptable\nto trustees and patrons of the schools. The whole number of days\ntaught by them is about 375.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\n\nA Revival--Call for a Lady Missionary.\n\nREV. FLOYD SNELSON, M\u2019INTOSH, LIBERTY CO.\n\nWe have had, and are still having, a precious work of grace. On\nSunday, the 25th, our communion season, nearly a thousand people\nwere present. The weather was very delightful, and everything else\nconnected with the occasion. Sixteen persons, hopefully converted,\nunited with the church. The church is much encouraged, and its\nfuture looks very hopeful. I am almost broken down in this long\nand hard pull, still I believe that with this interest around me I\ncould go on five months longer.\n\nIn summing up the converts during this campaign we find twenty at\nCypress Slash, 14 miles above in our new field, and thirty-five\nhere, making fifty-five in all. Most of these are not only young in\ngrace but young in years, being from eleven to twenty. Therefore,\nin order to make them successful and useful Christians, I deem it\nvery necessary to give them uncommon care. A special meeting of a\nsocial and religious nature is held Friday evening of each week in\nmy house for them, and each one is required to take a part and is\nmade to feel at home.\n\nA Literary Society is also held at the church on the second and\nfourth Wednesday evenings of each month. In the former meeting much\nis sometimes said to correct the errors of home life. The necessity\nof this arises from the secluded situation of their parents and\nthemselves from the white people. They were not at all situated\nlike those in the upper part of the State among the whites, whose\nways they generally imitate, but were left to themselves, with no\ntraining except such as was given by overseers and drivers.\n\nThis important work is, therefore, left still undone. My wife did\nwhat she could in this line before we left for Africa, but since\nour return her health has been such that she has not been able to\ndo anything. This work is of so much importance, and in such a\npromising field, that I now _earnestly_ ask, Will not some one of\nour churches or Sunday-schools send us a lady missionary who can do\nit?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nActions and Reactions--Temperance and Religion.\n\nWM. F. JACKSON, FORSYTHE.\n\nOur school year closed May 30th, with encouraging results.\n\nThis was the first year of real systematic work in the Academy, the\nbuilding having been finished too late to open at the beginning of\nlast school year.\n\nThere is a growing interest in the work. Upon the close of the war,\nthe schools established by the American Missionary Association were\neverywhere crowded with our people thirsting for knowledge: in the\nwhole South the feeling for education ran high, so that the zeal of\nthe Freedman for education became proverbial. But this proved to be\nnot so much zeal as blind impulse. It is not so now. By a bitter\nexperience, our people have been brought to see the errors of the\npast. Their present ideas respecting education plainly show this\ndiscovery. The people of our community feel that they and their\nchildren need it to make them useful. In our school were three\nwomen and two men of advanced age, who were diligent in studying,\nand compared favorably with younger pupils in their advancement,\nand who are now exerting their influence to bring in others, that a\npermanent class of aged persons may be formed. Again, many parents\nhave sent children to school to me, evidently for no other purpose\nthan to have them cared for; but now, some of these same parents\nexpress a different purpose, viz., to have them prepared for the\nduties of life. Then, too, there is a public spirit in favor of a\nbetter and higher education, manifested in the efforts now being\nmade to establish here an African Methodist Episcopal College and a\nMethodist Episcopal High School.\n\nOur pupils have been very regular in attendance compared with past\nyears. There have been 113 students in school during the year, many\nof whom came from the adjoining counties, and will go out to take\nschools for the summer. There has been much earnest study done by\nthese pupils, who seem determined to surmount the difficulties\nwhich present themselves. They have been encouraged to organize a\nTemperance society, which they manage themselves with credit. This\norganization is doing much in the school and community to encourage\nthose who are striving to be temperate.\n\nAmid all the flattering results of the year not much could be\nconsidered gained were it not for the great revival of religion\namong the pupils of our school. In April, very many became serious\nabout their souls. They made earnest inquiries after the way of\nlife. The Lord poured out his spirit in copious showers upon these\nprecious souls, and nine were happily converted and added to the\nchurch. Thus we feel that God has richly blessed our labors, and\nthat His approving smile rests upon us.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nCorner-Stone of a Church Laid--The School Work.\n\nREV. WM. H. ASH, FLORENCE.\n\nThis week has been a blessed one for us. On Saturday last the\ncorner-stone of the new chapel was laid, and on Sunday appropriate\nservices were held. It was an occasion long to be remembered.\n\nOn the walls, at the front of the building, was erected a temporary\nplatform, and on it a table. In the centre of it was a Bible and a\nlarge vase of beautiful flowers; back of this were seats for the\nspeakers, and at the right was seated the choir.\n\nThe Rev. M. L. Frierson, of the Presbyterian Church, opened the\nservices by reading the second chapter of Nehemiah, and led in\nprayer. The Choir then sung \u201cWhat shall the harvest be?\u201d The clerk\nof the church read the list of articles which were to be placed in\nthe box prepared for the corner-stone, which has this inscription:\n\u201cFirst Congregational Church, A.D. 1879. A.M.A.\u201d\n\nNext in order was an address by Hon. W. B. Wood, who said that he\nwas a Methodist and a sectarian, too, but he loved _all_ who loved\nthe Lord Jesus Christ. We are not of the same denomination, but\nPaul said, Be ye brethren. He said that the times were better,\nthat some old fogies would have us believe that we are not as\nprogressive as they were 40 or 50 years ago, but his experience\nwas, that we are moving onward, for he, as a judge, did not have as\nmany cases to decide as he had five or six years ago. Not that the\npeople were afraid of the punishment of the law, but controlled by\nthe power of the Gospel and its morality.\n\nHe said that he took pleasure in aiding to build churches, that\nhe had an interest in every church of Florence, and that if a\nsubscription book should be carried around and his house passed he\nwould feel slighted; and he advised all present to aid in behalf of\nthe church.\n\nHe said that he believed he could speak for the entire white\npopulation, that they, in sympathy, would encourage every good work.\n\nRev. Mr. Frierson also spoke. After a collection was taken, \u201cYe\nChristian heralds, go proclaim salvation in Immanuel\u2019s name,\u201d was\nsung by the choir, and the benediction pronounced.\n\nOn Tuesday the examination of the school took place, and on\nWednesday night the exhibition occurred. We had many visitors\nduring the examination, and on the night of the exhibition our\nbuilding, used for church and school, was filled to overflowing;\nall around the building, at the windows and doors, there were many\nwho were eager to see and hear the exercises.\n\nIt is the first year of school work in connection with the church.\nAt the beginning of the year we had three scholars; at the end we\nclosed with thirty-five.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTENNESSEE.\n\nTeachers\u2019 Institute--Practical Education.\n\nThe Shelby County Teachers\u2019 Institute or Convention was held in\nJune. In regard to it the editor of the Memphis _Appeal_ writes:\n\nThe teachers of the colored schools of the city and county deserve\nespecial commendation for the interest they take in the leading\neducational questions of the day, and for the efforts they are\nmaking to reach wise and correct conclusions, and if we may judge\nof the nature of their entire proceedings and discussions from\nthe paper on practical education presented before the Institute\nyesterday, and printed in another column of this morning\u2019s\n_Appeal_, the Institute has certainly been a success in point\nof ability. It is not often that teachers take the initiative\nin educational reforms, but we are glad to notice here that a\ncompany of teachers speak boldly and plainly in favor of a more\npractical course of study for the preparatory and common schools\nof the country. We would call the attention of educators and\nschool boards to this paper, and urge that some system be devised\nfor our schools, whereby the simpler of these plans, at least,\nbe at once carried into effect with the opening of the schools\nin October. The actions and words of this Institute have an\nespecial significance, coming as they do from the teachers of our\ncolored schools, themselves belonging, with few exceptions, to the\ncolored race. They certainly indicate a commendable earnestness in\nmatters pertaining to the educational interests of the country and\ncommunity, and they richly merit the encouragement and co-operation\nof all good citizens.\u201d\n\nThe paper referred to was by Miss Laura A. Parmelee, of the Le\nMoyne School, and, after a historical sketch of much value, ended\nwith the following recommendations:\n\n  After careful inquiry into the various methods adopted\n  by different schools, your committee feels justified in\n  recommending: That in every school-house a room be furnished\n  with mechanical appliances, where, for an hour each day, the\n  boys and young men may receive lessons in the art of handling\n  tools and methods of work, under the direction of a practical\n  workman; that all girls spend three-quarters of an hour daily\n  in learning to do plain sewing, to cut garments neatly and\n  economically, and to judge of the value and appropriate use of\n  fabrics commonly made into clothing; that the first lessons in\n  free-hand drawing be given to every student, and classes for\n  further instruction organized for those who display special\n  aptness for the work. One competent teacher could attend to\n  this branch in all the schools, and still have time to assist\n  in private schools, if desired. A plan of co-operation in\n  these extra branches would greatly lighten the expense, while\n  stimulating healthy competition to excel on the part of pupils;\n  that the older girls study the science of nursing from a regular\n  text-book, reporting to the teacher for criticism and advice\n  their own experiences in neighborly watchings with the sick. Your\n  committee note, with pleasure, an awakening interest in this\n  subject, and would endorse the \u201cHand-Book of Nursing,\u201d arranged\n  and prepared by the New Haven training school for nurses, as a\n  suitable work to be introduced for this purpose. In connection\n  with the usual study of physiology, there should be discussions\n  as to proper foods and best methods of their preparation. That\n  in city and country schools, young children be encouraged to\n  observe the habits of animals and plants; that no school-house be\n  considered complete without a small microscope, and at some time\n  in the course of study, the usual reading books be laid aside\n  for a series of child\u2019s books of nature, treating of the first\n  principles of botany, philosophy and zoology; that all methods\n  of teaching bend toward educating the senses to observe quickly\n  and accurately, the mind to think independently, and the hands to\n  work dexterously.\n\nA cordial letter from the Hon. W. H. Fonte, Superintendent of\nSchools, closed with the following words:\n\n  Especially, I may add, do I desire to encourage and forward\n  in every way, every plan or purpose which has for its object\n  the elevation and progress of the colored race, believing with\n  Frederick Douglass, that \u201cwithout intelligence there is no\n  independence, without independence no leisure, without leisure no\n  progress.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE BY-WAYS OF TENNESSEE.\n\nIn February, 1878, we printed a letter from our Bro. Cutler, in\nwhich he spoke of a young girl who wanted to get an education, but\nwho was entirely without means. He procured for her half enough\nto keep her at study for a year, started her on her course, and\npronounced her \u201cthe happiest girl in the land.\u201d The following\ndescription of her first field and work as a teacher will certainly\ninterest those who aided Tennie Morford, and, we think, many\nothers.--EDS.:\n\nThere is situated in the eastern part of Tennessee a beautiful,\nlonely, little valley, called the Sequatchie Valley. It is sixty\nmiles long and five miles wide, containing about four hundred\ninhabitants. This is one of the by-ways of Tennessee, or, as it\nseems to be, from the condition of the people, Africa at home. It\nis hedged about with mountains, and its inhabitants scarcely hear\nof any other place than their own valley. They are very ignorant,\nand their chief occupation is farming.\n\nI spent my last vacation among them, and tried to teach and show\nthem the need of an education. There were persons who were forty\nand sixty years old who could not count a hundred. Scarcely any of\nthem had seen a steam-boat or car. They know only of the wilds of\nSequatchie, where they have spent their lives. Near the head of the\nvalley was my place of work, principally inhabited by drunkards of\nboth colors, who spent their Sabbaths in intoxication and in the\nuse of profanity. Their places of enjoyment were three still-houses\nabout half a mile apart, where the price of their labor was given\nin liquor.\n\nOn my arrival at Pikeville I was conducted to a little house on\nthe main street, where I remained one week. I was examined three\ndays after my arrival. My examination seemed very simple, and I\nreceived first grade certificate. During that time it was noised\nabroad that school would open Monday, June 10th. Bright and early\nMonday morning I commenced my summer\u2019s work; but as I met only\ntwelve bright faces I felt somewhat discouraged, and was beginning\nto think that I would go elsewhere if I did not have more next\nweek. To my surprise, by that time I found nineteen, and felt\nmore reconciled. After I had taught a while I visited some of the\nchildren\u2019s parents, and found that every body wanted to go to\nschool, both young and old. Every one began to show an interest,\nand the number of scholars grew to fifty-seven, a few of whom\nhad been to school before, while the others were only making a\nbeginning. My most advanced pupil studied only the Third Reader\nand the Elementary Speller, which was considered by him quite an\neducation. The most of them said that they did not want to go\nany higher than the Speller. Others only wanted to get as far as\n\u201cpublication.\u201d In one case a lady came and brought a little girl\nto me who did not know the alphabet, and asked me to get her to\n\u201cbaker\u201d as soon as possible, for she wanted her, as they say, to\n\u201chelp to lay by crop.\u201d She said that if she got as far as \u201cbaker\u201d\nshe would be half through the Speller, which she considered half\nof an education; but I told her that that was only laying the\nfoundation for the great work intended for them to do. They had\noften heard of schools, and half realized that they had minds to be\ncultivated, but not until last summer had they become interested\nin the real work of learning. They had a very good school-house\nfor dry weather, but when it rained we had to shelter ourselves\nthe best we knew how. The house would seat about sixty scholars\ncomfortably, and was beautifully situated on a small hill called\n\u201cCedar Bluff,\u201d which was surrounded by large oaks.\n\nThe people do not have very much preaching, but when they do have\nit it must be by daylight, on account of the white people stoning\nthem at night. The colored people are still living as slaves, and\nare afraid to live otherwise. The laborers do not work by the day,\nas they do here, but as they are told. They get up about three\nor four o\u2019clock in the morning and work until about midnight,\nand sometimes later if their employers desire to have the work\nfinished. This is what they consider a day\u2019s work. They have the\nsame idea about teaching. They wanted that I should teach from\nsunrise to sundown. They know nothing of the eight or ten hour\nsystem of labor.\n\nThose who live along the highways of trade and culture in our\nState, that are participating in the active work of the world,\nwould scarcely believe that some parts of their own State are\nhalf civilized if they did not occasionally see it; but one has\nonly to cross the Cumberland mountain to find his mistake. The\nSequatchie Valley is only catching a ray of light now and then from\nthe sunrise. When the sun comes up in the east it is first seen\nby those who live on the mountain tops and those who live in the\nhighest places; but it keeps rising until it shines on valleys and\nplains. So with the morning that has dawned upon the people of the\nSouth; it is first grasped by those on the highways, and then it\nbegins to shine into the hidden corners until all shall be lighted.\nWhat can be expected of the children of the next generation if\ntheir parents are not more than half civilized? We need educated\nparents, so that the children may be properly trained. In order\nto do this we must go into these by-ways of our State and sow our\nseed, though it be on untilled soil. I think that the time is fast\napproaching when the public school system, carried out by earnest\nteachers, shall reclaim these valleys, and make them an honor to\nthe State instead of haunts of ignorance and vice.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE MENDI MISSION.\n\n\nExplorations into the Interior, etc.\n\nREV. ALBERT P. MILLER, GOOD HOPE STATION.\n\nI am traveling more or less to see the interior of this extensive\ncountry, going up certain rivers and visiting towns and villages\non the way. I visited the Bargroo country last week, and hope to\nleave in the morning for Kaw-Mendi, to see what are the prospects\nof useful work for the Mission in that part of the country. Many of\nthe old places formerly held by the Mission I shall try to visit\nbefore the rainy season proper sets in. We are getting things\nsomewhat in shape, and hope to push into the interior as soon as\npracticable. Dodo is open to us; Cunkananny, also, on the very\nfrontier, no mission station having ever been established nearer\nthem than Avery. Bros. Anthony and White are to-night with us; will\nleave to-morrow for Avery. Bro. Anthony is well, and is getting on\nvery well in his new field of labor. He takes right hold, and seems\nto be in dead earnest. Bro. White is also well. I find that we\nshall be obliged to get a large quantity of goods from some source\nor other with which to purchase logs, as two saws will soon be\nrunning in the mill, which will come in to help us. We are all very\nwell save the doctor, who has been ill of late, but is now up. Pray\nfor us.\n\n\nThe Industrial Work--General Impressions.\n\nELMORE L. ANTHONY, AVERY STATION.\n\nI am well and all right. I had a slight pain in my head yesterday\nfor the first time since I have been in the country, and that\ncame from being in the sun too much. Everything seems to be going\nforward. I am doing the best that I can.\n\nThe mill has been repaired. The bottom logs were decayed; the ends\nof some of the posts were also decayed. There is considerable\nwork to do yet. One of the saws started this week, and the other\none will start soon. Bills for lumber are coming in. We can find\nsale for all the good lumber that we can saw. Logs are coming in;\nbusiness seems to be opening. We had the shoot that leads the water\nfrom the vat or receptacle to the turbine wheel enlarged, which\nwill, I think, give the water greater propelling power, and, of\ncourse, give the circular saw greater velocity. I am having the\ncoffee farm cleaned, and will have the trees pruned next month, as\nI understand that is the time. I am doing just as you said.\n\nThe religious work seems to be improving, though I have not been\nhere long enough to tell much about it. The industrial department\nis about all one man can attend to if he will do his duty.\nBrothers Jackson and White have the church and school. I help in\nthe Sabbath-school. Having seen the condition of the people,\nI would say, if you had the money, send _one hundred thousand\nmissionaries_ to different parts of Africa at _once_, and have\nthem establish missions and tributaries. This country is baptized\nin ignorance, vice, poverty and old customs. Humanity is entirely\nbelow description. There are hundreds, yes, thousands of persons\nhere that have not a string of clothing to their names. All the\nnatives do is to sow and reap; they know nothing about cultivation\nwhatever. Now, why keep missionaries away, when Christ has said,\n\u201cGo ye, therefore, and teach all nations\u201d?\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\nNOTES AND CLIPPINGS.\n\nBY REV. W. C. POND.\n\nIt is unnecessary, and, of course, in the space at command it\nwould be impossible, to give at length my correspondence with\nteachers and pupils connected with our schools; but I must ask you\noccasionally to make room for brief \u201cnotes and clippings.\u201d\n\nWhatever concerns our Chinese helpers bears with great weight on\nour work. Their teacher writes: \u201cI think my pupils are very much\nin earnest, and study the Bible with no mere desire of finding out\nwhat there is in it, or of advancing themselves in the knowledge of\nour language--as some intimate the Chinese do--but with an earnest\npurpose to learn God\u2019s ways and follow His commands, and to fit\nthemselves to teach others the blessed truths which they themselves\nhave come to believe. It seems to me they must make excellent\nmissionaries; they appear to realize so fully the sad condition\nof their heathen friends, and are so simple and unquestioning in\ntheir faith in the God revealed to them by our Bible. All their\nteaching and preaching is the love of Christ, and what we should do\nin return for such love. I am puzzled what to do about the texts\n[passages of Scripture which I give them week by week to prepare\noutlines of discourses from. W.C.P.], for no matter what is the\nsubject of them they are sure to run into the _one thing_ that\nseems to fill their minds.\u201d But that is the one thing needful.\n\nThe difficulties of which our teacher at Petaluma writes, are\nencountered to a greater or less extent everywhere. She says: \u201cNo\nChinese ever attend the school except from one company. [Two of\nthe now famous \u2018Six Companies\u2019 are represented among the Chinese\nof Petaluma. The rivalries and mutual antipathies of members of\nthese companies are often very intense, leading sometimes to\npitched battles. In Petaluma they keep the peace; but no efforts\nof teachers or helpers have yet succeeded in getting Chinese of\nboth the companies into one school. W.C.P.] The scholars are, also,\nhouse-servants or laundrymen, and are constantly changing places,\nand a great deal of the time have nothing at all to do. If they\nhad work we could keep them. If the times would improve the school\nwould improve. The scholars like the school, and are much more\nfriendly and cordial to me since Hong Sing [the Chinese helper]\ncame, because now I am better understood. But while they are\nconstantly shifting about to get employment, I am afraid the good\naccomplished cannot be very great.\u201d\n\nThis is illustrated by the following from a teacher in the Oakland\nSchool: \u201cI was hearing a scholar who had been in the school about\na week read in his primer. We came to the sentence, \u2018Christ died\nfor us,\u2019 and I asked him \u2018Who was Christ?\u2019 To my astonishment, he\nknew nothing of him. In the plainest way possible to me, I gave\nan account of Christ\u2019s life and death. He seemed interested, but\ntold me that he had never been at Sunday-school. The next night\nI noticed him reading with the helper in the Testament, and he\nbecame regular in his attendance at Sunday-school. Losing his\nposition, he was obliged to go away to get work. I was very sorry,\nfor I had great hopes that he would soon become a Christian. This\nteacher adds: \u2018It is gratifying when you ask one who has seemed\nsomewhat dull, Who is God? to see the face brighten and the hand\npoint upwards; and if you go still further and ask, Do you love\nGod? a smile plays upon the features and the reply is, \u2018Oh, yes.\u2019\nA prayer-meeting is held each Wednesday evening, in which manifest\ninterest is taken. After the close of the school the pupils often\nremain and read together the Scriptures written in Chinese. Each\nFriday evening I tell them a short story from the Bible, and try to\ntake from it some truth which they may remember. I should be deeply\ngrateful could I write of more being brought into the kingdom of\nGod. The work is encouraging; and while sometimes we reap the\nfruits of others\u2019 labors, so others shall reap the fruits of ours.\u201d\n\nOf course the Gospel leaven working in this mass of heathenism\ninduces more or less of fermentation. Our Christian Chinese are\noften engaged in discussions with their heathen friends. I took\nbrief notes of one such, as afterwards reported to me. I am glad\nto say that the assailant of the truth in this dispute has since\nbeen converted, and is now a member of my church. The heathen, who\nhad long been a pupil in Bethany School, and a close reader of the\nNew Testament, said to our brother, \u201cYour Bible itself says we must\nnot put new wine into old bottles. China is an old bottle; new\nwine will burst it.\u201d The reply surprised me by its apt and correct\ninterpretation of the text referred to: \u201cNot so. You cannot put the\nnew wine of Christ into the old bottles of Chinese teachings and\nworship, it will burst them; but you can put it into Chinese hearts\nand it will save them.\u201d \u201cBut you say,\u201d continued the objector,\n\u201cthat a little water on the head washes sins away. I wash all over\nthree times a day, and not take my sins away.\u201d \u201cNot so,\u201d replied\nHong Sing, \u201cwater cannot take sins away; but water means that God\u2019s\nSpirit poured upon our hearts, Christ\u2019s blood sprinkled on our\nsouls, takes our sins away.\u201d \u201cBut people come to the Lord\u2019s Supper\nand then go away, do wrong, gamble, smoke opium.\u201d Neither admitting\nnor denying this, Hong Sing told and interpreted with perfect\ncorrectness the parable of the net cast into the sea. The last\nobjection was this: \u201cYou Christians say that you go to the Lord\u2019s\ntable and drink his blood and eat his flesh. Would you eat your\nmother\u2019s flesh and drink her blood, if she were dead?\u201d Hong Sing\u2019s\nreply will be easily surmised by my readers. I wish that I could\ngive word for word the broken English, and could reproduce on paper\nthe animation with which this conversation was related to me; but\nthe limits of my space forbid, even if otherwise it were possible.\n\n=The Story of Lee Jin as told by Jee Gam.=--\u201cLee Jin was a young\nman twenty-three years of age, a nephew of Lee Young. For more\nthan three years previous to his death he had been a member of\na Chinese society of freemasonry, and also a member of Lock Shan\nTong. This latter is a school or society where the doctrines of\nConfucius and other Chinese sages are professedly taught; but, in\nreality, this society has been formed for no other purpose than to\nprevent any more Chinese from becoming Christians, and to entrap\nthose who have already become Christians. During his connection\nwith the above-mentioned society he was one of its most active\nmembers, and one of the strongest opposers of Christianity. He\ndid not content himself with setting forth his opposition at his\nown place and outside Christian institutions, but often carried\nit into our Christian association. His argument was nothing but\npride and self-glory. As a Jew boasted of his father Abraham, and\nfelt proud because his race was the chosen people of God, so he\nhimself was lifted up. He said: \u2018The middle kingdom is the true\ncelestial empire. She is the realm of literature. She is the nation\nof rites. Great and powerful are her people, and especially her\nancient personages, whose great deeds no language is sufficient to\ndescribe.\u2019 He endeavored to display his learning by quoting what he\nhad learned from the books of his sages, \u2018I have heard of men using\nthe doctrines of our great land to change barbarians, but I have\nnever yet heard of any being changed by barbarians, etc.\u2019 But when\nhis arguments were overcome he would say, \u2018Well, I am a Chinaman; I\nhave Confucius; I worship the gods of my own country. If Jesus is\nthe God of the barbarians, let him be worshiped by them, and not by\nChinese.\u2019 So his heart was hardened like that of Pharaoh, until, at\nlast, he fell sick. During his illness the Lord, with His wonderful\npower, revealed the folly of his pride, and the consequences of\nhis self-righteousness and evil deeds, to his then opened eyes.\nHe trembled with fear and said, \u2018Oh, what a great sinner I am!\nWhat a miserable offender of Jesus! Do send for Lee Hain and Jee\nGam. Tell them to come immediately and pray for me.\u2019 His uncle,\nLee Young, was struck with astonishment when he heard these words,\nand saw this great change in his nephew. He said in reply, \u2018Do you\nreally want Jee Gam and Lee Hain to pray for you?\u2019 \u2018Yes,\u2019 was the\nreply. \u2018Why not pray to the gods you always worship?\u2019 \u2018Oh, they are\ndead idols. They are of no use. They could not save me from the\npunishment of my sins.\u2019\n\n\u201cWe were sent for accordingly. When we reached there he begged us\nto forgive him for his opposition against us for preaching the\nGospel of the Saviour, whom he had begun to love. We prayed for\nhim, and asked him to repeat the words after us, which he did\nwith a tone of true repentance. Oftentimes after this he asked\nhis uncle and his younger brother to pray for him. His heathen\nfriends deserted him to the care of these Christian relatives, but\nafter his death, when we had taken charge of the body to give it\nChristian burial, they came and wished to perform some of their\nheathen rites. We would not permit it; and, rather than take back\ntheir offerings, which would bring them bad luck, they burned them\nbefore the door. We accompanied Lee Jin to the cemetery, where we\nhad procured a suitable lot, and then we sang a hymn and offered a\nprayer before committing his body to the dust. We believe he is now\nsafe in heaven.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe following \u201cshort talk\u201d was made by Etahdleuh Doanmoe (\u201cBoy\nHunting\u201d), at the anniversary at Hampton. He is one of the St.\nAugustine Indians now studying there:\n\n\nMy Home in Indian Territory.\n\n\u201cI am a Kiowa Indian boy twenty-three years old. My home is in the\nIndian Territory. My people are not much civilized. They live in\nhouses made of skins of the buffalo. They like to hunt and fight.\nWhen I was a little boy I did not see many white people. The Kiowas\nmoved camp often to keep near the buffalo, and we lived on buffalo\nmeat and berries all the time. We had no bread, no coffee or sugar.\nWe boys talked all the time about hunting the buffalo, going to\nfight the Utes, Navajoes, or Pawnees, and most about fighting the\nwhite people or stealing horses. The old Kiowas talked all the time\nto us about fight or hunt the buffalo. Sometimes the men would go\noff and bring back scalps of white men and women, or Indian men and\nwomen; then we had a big dance. This was all I heard and all I saw,\nand I thought it was good, so I will be a big fighter and a good\nhunter too, and may be I get to be a big chief. When I was about\nfifteen years old I killed my first buffalo with a bow and arrow. I\nhad no gun. Then I was called a man, because I could kill buffalo.\nThen I went with the young men to fight the Utes and Navajoes and\nsteal horses. I was in three fights with the Utes and two with\nthe Navajoes. All this time I wore a blanket or a buffalo robe,\nand liked to have my hair long, and paint my face and wear big\nrings in my ears. I did not know anything about God, or churches,\nor schools, or how to make things grow from the ground to live\non. Four years ago there was a big war. The Kiowas, Comanches and\nCheyennes fought the soldiers all winter. The buffalo were nearly\nall gone, and the Indians got very hungry. The horses worked hard,\nand it was so cold the grass was poor, so they got very weak, and\nwe lost many in fights with the soldiers. Then the soldiers came\nto our camps and we had to run away and leave our lodges, then the\nsoldiers burned them. We all got very tired and hungry, and the\nwomen and children cried, so the chiefs said we will go into Fort\nSill and give up. We met Captain Pratt in the Wichita Mountains.\nHe had some Indian soldiers and two wagons loaded with bread,\nsugar and coffee. He gave us plenty, and we gave him all our guns,\npistols, bows and arrows, shields and spears. That night we had a\nbig dance because we had plenty to eat. I went to Florida. Then\nI first began to learn something about the good way, and I find\nIndian\u2019s way very bad; so I thought I will never live Indian\u2019s way\nany more. Captain Pratt was our good friend. He taught us many\nthings and showed us the white man\u2019s road. We stayed in Florida\nthree years, and then some of the Indians went back home, but the\nyoung men wanted to stay east and get a good education. We came\nto Hampton. We have been here one year, and we study hard and are\nlearning to work and be men. We like it. I see that every white boy\nand girl, and every black boy and girl can go to school, and that\nis the way they get ahead of the Indians. Indians have no chance.\nYou give all Indian boys and girls schools and teachers like you\nhave, and Indians will do better.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nLETTERS TO THE TREASURER.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  We give a few extracts from letters recently received expressing\n  interest in and motives for pressing our work, and containing\n  substantial contributions to its continuance. We could print many\n  such letters every month if we had room for them:\n\n  I inclose a pocket-piece (a gold half-dollar), held and valued\n  for many years, to pay subscription to THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\n  for one year.\n\n                   Respectfully,                        I. M. S.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  My little son, the morning he died, on being asked what should be\n  done with the little money he had so carefully invested in the\n  new four per cent. $10 certificates issued April 1st, said his\n  father should have it to distribute as he thought best among the\n  benevolent societies, and I send you one-third of it, and the\n  balance to the Board and Home Missions.\n\n  This is very precious money. Put it where it will do the most for\n  the cause.\n\n                                                        A. L. W.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  Inclosed find draft on the American Exchange Bank for $200, my\n  subscription to your society for the Freedmen for the year 1879.\n  I have heretofore given $100, but it seems to me very important\n  that the Freedmen should be educated as fast as possible. As many\n  of the educated men as possible should be kept in the Southern\n  States to assist in educating the colored people and helping them\n  to stand up for their rights.\n                                                           R. L.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  Inclosed please find $5 for the American Missionary Association.\n  As I am now nearly ninety years old, this, in all probability,\n  is my last contribution to this good object. With my prayers for\n  this and every object of Christian benevolence,\n\n                   I am yours truly,                       C. H.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  The other day, when I thought that our loved American Missionary\n  Association was in debt, when I thought that our kind Father in\n  heaven had given us such overflowing crops in the past season,\n  and blessed us in every department (almost), it struck me that\n  there was something wrong in the supporters of the noble cause.\n  Well, let the time past suffice that we have been slack; let us\n  come up to the work.\n\n  Please find inclosed $25 for the old debt, $15 to constitute (in\n  part) two life members of the American Missionary Association,\n  and oblige yours,\n\n                                                       A FRIEND.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  In the _Congregationalist_ of last week, I noticed your \u201cAppeal\u201d\n  in behalf of the American Missionary Association, to which I\n  respond by inclosed draft for $24, pension for one quarter, for\n  service in the War of 1812.\n\n  An abolitionist from my first consideration of the enslaved in\n  our country, induced by the movement and utterances of the great\n  agitator--now happy, I trust, in his reward--I still feel that,\n  though their chains are broken, they are objects of sympathy and\n  aid in their anxiety and effort to become intelligent and useful\n  citizens. There is no department of benevolent effort to which I\n  more cheerfully contribute.\n\n                   With respectful regards,\n                        Yours truly,                       O. G.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n                       _From Grenada, Mass._\n\n  Inclosed find six dollars ($6), which you will please accept\n  from our Sunday-school as a thank-offering for what the American\n  Missionary Association has done for us in the past. We would\n  gladly have made it more, but the pressure of so many conflicting\n  claims made it impracticable. We are just now paying for a new\n  organ.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR JUNE, 1879.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $80.82.\n\n    Bangor. Rev. James H Crosby, _for Fisk U._               $10.00\n    Bridgeton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        6.56\n    Buxton Centre. Mrs. M. G. Hill                             2.00\n    Calais and Milltown. Sab. Schs., $1; also Ten\n      six burner Chandeliers, _for Emerson Inst._              1.00\n    Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        8.10\n    Houlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.00\n    Lewistown. Pine St. Cong. Soc.                            29.16\n    Mechanic Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         2.00\n    Otisfield. \u201cFriends\u201d                                       4.00\n    Portland. Williston Cong. Ch., $10; West Cong.\n      Sab. Sch., $3                                           13.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $106.11.\n\n    Colebrook. Cong. Sab. Sch., $13.70; \u201cE. C. and\n      Wife,\u201d $2                                               15.70\n    Gilsum. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $30.25, and Sab.\n      Sch., $12.39                                            42.64\n    Hollis. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 8.00\n    New Preston. Presb. Ch. and Soc.                          19.52\n    South Newmarket. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        3.25\n    Short Falls. J. W. C.                                      1.00\n    Temple. Isaac Kimball                                      5.00\n    Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               11.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $341.52.\n\n    Benson. Miss J. Kent                                       2.00\n    Brandon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               22.75\n    Bridport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              18.00\n    Cornwall. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $41.68; Cong.\n      Sab. Sch., $14; Miss A. W., $1; Miss L. C.\n      W., $1                                                  57.68\n    East Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         26.00\n    Ferrisburg. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     0.50\n    Ludlow. Mrs. L. M.                                         1.00\n    Middlebury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            27.43\n    McIndoes Falls. Dea. W. R. M.                              1.00\n    Montpelier. Bethany Ch.                                   13.66\n    New Haven. Cong. Ch.                                      35.50\n    Saint Albans. Mrs. J. Gregory Smith                       10.00\n    Saint Johnsbury. Fairbanks & Co.                         125.00\n    West Randolph. Mrs. S. W.                                  1.00\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $3,147.31.\n\n    Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              42.15\n    Andover. West Parish Sab. Sch.                            10.00\n    Boston. Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     203.18\n    Boston. Mrs. E. C. Ford, $25; Central Cong.\n      Ch. (ad\u2019l), $5                                          30.00\n    Beverly. Dane Street Ch. and Soc.                         41.76\n    Braintree. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       12.50\n    Bridgewater. Central Sq. Sab. Sch., $15; Mrs.\n      L. A. Darling, $2.50                                    17.50\n    Boxford. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Straight U._                                            10.00\n    Brockton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      20.00\n    Charlestown. Ivory Littlefield.                           25.00\n    Chelsea. Central Cong. Ch., $11.59; Miss M.\n      H., 50c.                                                12.09\n    Concord. ESTATE of Edward P. Parker, by\n      Margaret J. Parker, Ex.                               1000.00\n    Dana. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                   1.00\n    Danvers. Missionary Circle, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             30.00\n    Dorchester. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    10.00\n    Dracut. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          16.00\n    East Medway. Mrs. P. D.                                    0.50\n    Gardner. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.00\n    Greenfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      10.66\n    Greenwich Village. Daniel Parker.                          5.00\n    Groton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          66.71\n    Hanover. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          2.00\n    Haverhill. Ladies, _for Freight_                           3.05\n    Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           12.04\n    Hopkinton. Mrs. P. J Claflin                             150.00\n    Hubbardston. Miss E. Cutler                                2.50\n    Lawrence. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        10.00\n    Longmeadow. Ladies Benev. Soc.                            13.80\n    Little River. A. Doolittle                                10.00\n    Lynn. Central Ch. and Soc., $18.25; First\n      Cong. Ch and Soc., $4.90                                23.15\n    Lynnfield Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       8.35\n    Marlborough. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     28.00\n    Marshfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      47.74\n    Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          10.27\n    Melrose. By C. N. Chapin                                   3.50\n    New Bedford. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     70.00\n    Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         18.50\n    Newburyport. ESTATE of Ann M. Cross, by\n      Richard Tenney, Adm.                                   300.00\n    Newton Upper Falls. Miss R. P. Ward                       20.00\n    Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.50\n    Northampton. \u201cW.\u201d                                        100.00\n    Norton. Trin. Cons. Ch. and Soc.                          35.00\n    Oakham. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         5.00\n    Palmer. Second Cong. Ch.                                  25.00\n    Princeton. Ladies, by A. H. Whitteker                     12.00\n    Reading. Bethesda Cong. Ch., $102.18, to\n      const. REV. WILLIAM B. ELY, DEA. HIRAM\n      BARRUS, and CHARLES N. NOWELL, L. M.\u2019s; E.\n      F. S., 50c.                                            102.68\n    Royalston. Albert Brown                                    2.00\n    Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc., $190.40, to\n      const. MRS. EMMA T. CLARK, OLIVER CARLTON,\n      and WALTER K. BIGELOW, L. M.s; A P., 50c.              190.90\n    Scituate. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 6.37., and Sab.\n      Sch., $6.43                                             12.80\n    Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        7.25\n    South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         10.00\n    South Hadley. Teachers and Pupils of Mount\n      Holyoke Seminary                                        50.00\n    South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    30.00\n    Springfield. Olivet Cong. Ch.                             19.45\n    Springfield. _First Ch._ Marvin Chapin and\n      Mrs. Ed. Palmer, $5 ea; Mrs. Dr. Smith, Miss\n      Mary Brewer, and Mrs. Dr. Calkins, 3 ea.;\n      Nelson C. Newell and Ed. C Rogers, $2 ea.;\n      Mrs. H. F., S. C. R., Mrs. E., Mrs. S. R.\n      N., A. J. S. and Mrs. L. S., $1 ea.; Others,\n      $3.--_South Ch._ Geo. Merriam, $2; Mrs. R.\n      D. and Mrs. H. B., $1 ea.--_Olivet Ch._ Mrs\n      W. H. B., Mrs. A. B. F., and Mrs. A. H., $1\n      ea.; Others, $1.75;--Mrs. H. Bailey, $2;\n      Mrs. L. R., $1, by L. S. D.                             43.75\n    Stockbridge. Miss Alice Byington, _for\n      Washington Sch., Raleigh, N. C._                        10.00\n    Tewksbury. Mrs Geo. Lee, _for Straight U._                10.00\n    Townsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               8.00\n    Walpole. Mrs. C. F. Metcalf.                               5.00\n    Ware. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            17.25\n    Westfield. First Cong. Ch.                                10.91\n    West Roxbury. South Evan. Ch. and Soc.                    58.25\n    West Springfield. Park St. Cong. Ch., $27;\n      First Cong. Ch. $9                                      36.00\n    West Warren. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            3.00\n    Whately. Cong. Ch.                                         5.62\n    Winchendon. No. Cong. Ch. (adl)                            5.00\n    Wrentham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              20.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $2,550.47.\n\n    Birmingham. 2 Bbls. of C., by Mrs E. B.\n      Bradley; Chaplin Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     10.00\n    Colchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $57.29,\n      and Sab. Sch. $4.71                                     62.00\n    Cromwell. Cong. Ch.                                       50.00\n    Dayville. Sab. Sch.                                        1.00\n    East Woodstock. ESTATE of Geo A Paine                     10.00\n    Ekonk. Miss E. W. Kasson                                  10.00\n    Ellington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. JOHN\n      T. MCKNIGHT and S. THOMPSON KIMBALL, L. Ms              58.96\n    Ellsworth. Cong. Ch. _for Tougaloo U._                     9.75\n    Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const.\n      MRS. SAMUEL BISHOP, L. M.                               45.80\n    Greensville. Cong. Ch.                                    19.50\n    Hartford. Mrs. Sally Gillett, $30, to const.\n      A. C. HODGES, L. M.; Wethersfield Ave. Sab.\n      Sch., $9.78                                             39.78\n    Kent. Cong. Sab. Sch., $34.50, to const. L. P.\n      BISSELL, L. M.; First Cong. Ch., $15.12                 49.82\n    Manchester. First Cong. Ch.                               25.00\n    Mansfield Centre. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.               10.00\n    Meriden. First Cong. Ch.                                  74.87\n    Middletown. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      51.60\n    New Britain. Young Ladies\u2019 Society, _for\n      Freight_                                                 5.00\n    New Haven. Mrs. James P. Dickerman, $100;\n      Alfred Walker, $5; Taylor Cong. Ch. and\n      Soc., $6.50; \u201cA Friend in Center Ch.,\u201d $2              113.50\n    North Canaan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          27.85\n    New London. TRUST ESTATE of Henry P. Haven (of\n      which $300 _for Fisk U._, $250 _for Hampton\n      N. and A. Inst._, $200 _for Tillotson N. and\n      C. Inst._, $100 _for Berea College_)                 1,500.00\n    New London. First Church of Christ                        67.88\n    North Stonington. D. R. Wheeler, $10; Dea.\n      Chas. Wheeler, $5; Cong. Sab. Sch., $10.50              25.50\n    Norwalk. Cong. Ch., $16; Lewis J. Curtis, $5              21.00\n    Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l), $100;\n      Othniel Gager, $24                                     124.00\n    Rocky Hill. Cong. Ch.                                     18.36\n    Rockville. Bible Class, Second Cong. Ch., _for\n      Straight U._                                            31.00\n    Rockville. Rev. Giles Pease                                5.00\n    Sherman. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n    South Killingly. Cong. Ch.                                 4.00\n    West Meriden. Edmund Tuttle, to const. MISS\n      ELLEN R. HOUGH, L. M.                                   30.00\n    West Stafford. Cong. Ch.                                  13.50\n    Westville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             16.00\n    Woodbury. South Cong. Sab. Sch.                           10.00\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $2,499.99.\n\n    Ballston Spa. ESTATE of Titus M. Mitchell              1,873.89\n    Barryville. Cong. Ch.                                      2.38\n    Brentwood. Elisha F. Richardson                           15.00\n    Brooklyn. Mrs. Mary E. Whiton, $20; Mrs. G. A.\n      Low, $2.50                                              22.50\n    Candor. Cong. Ch.                                          4.43\n    Chapinville. Joseph C. Griggs                             26.00\n    Copenhagen. Cong. Ch., $11.44; \u201cW. B. M.,\u201d\n      $5.56                                                   17.00\n    Deer River. Cong. Ch.                                      3.55\n    Geneva. Mrs. Emeline Smith, Hattie D. Smith                6.00\n    Gloversville. Cong Ch. and Soc.                          211.09\n    Hamilton. O. S. Campbell and Mrs. S. K.\n      Bardin, $5 each; Mrs. E. K. P., $1                      11.00\n    Holley. \u201cA Few Friends,\u201d                                  12.00\n    Homer. Cong. Ch.                                         132.16\n    Jefferson. Mrs. Susannah Ruliffson                         4.00\n    Lisle. Cong. Ch.                                           2.35\n    Lumberland. Cong. Ch.                                      4.62\n    New York. Mrs. C. P. STOKES, $90 ($30 _of\n      which to const. herself a L. M._; and $50\n      _for Atlanta U._);--Erastus New, $50, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                               140.00\n    Pekin. Abigail Peck                                        5.00\n    Watkins. S. G. and N. M., 50c. each                        1.00\n    ---- ----                                                  6.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $17.\n\n    Harlingen. Mrs. L. D. Tompkins                             5.00\n    Newark. Mrs. Susan Denison                                 2.00\n    Stanley. \u201cA Friend,\u201d by Rev. C. P. Bush, D.D.             10.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $16.75.\n\n    Clark. S. P. Stewart                                       2.00\n    Pittston. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                 14.75\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $394.91.\n\n    Batavia. Cong. Ch.                                        58.13\n    Chicago. New England Ch. Sab. Sch., $32.60,\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._; New Eng. Ch.\n      M. C. Coll., $15.09; Rev. A. M., 50c.                   48.19\n    Dover Cong. Ch., $26.56; Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., $2           28.55\n    Galva. First Cong. Ch.                                    21.65\n    Geneseo. Cong. Ch., $41; Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,\n      $18.06                                                  59.06\n    Geneva. E. W. Town                                        10.00\n    Glenwood. Rev. L. S. Williams                              3.00\n    Kewanee. Milo Doty                                        10.00\n    Lyonsville. Cong. Ch.                                      5.25\n    Naperville. Rev. Edward Ebbs                               5.00\n    Northampton. R. W. Gillian                                 5.00\n    Oneida. Cong. Ch.                                         20.00\n    Payson. Cong. Ch. ($25 of which from J. K.\n      Scarborough)                                            29.50\n    Princeton. Cong. Ch., $41.84, and Sab. Sch.,\n      $9.02                                                   50.86\n    Quincy. Joshua Perry                                      10.00\n    Richmond. Cong. Ch.                                        4.55\n    Rockford. Ladies of First Cong Ch., $12, _for\n      Student Aid_;--\u201cLa Matin\u00e9e\u201d $1.67; Mrs. R.\n      T. 50c.                                                 14.17\n    Saint Charles. Cong. Ch.                                  12.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $276.49.\n\n    Andover. Cong. Ch., $3.29--incorrectly ack.\n      from Mass. in July number.\n    Austinburg. \u201cFriends\u201d ($2.45 _for Freight_ and\n      $1.05 _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._), by\n      Rev. J. K. Nutting                                       3.50\n    Brighton. Cong. Ch. $3.70; A. S. $1                        4.70\n    Chagrin Falls. Earnest Workers _for Student\n      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                       10.00\n    East Cleveland. Mrs. M. Walkden, _for African\n      M._                                                      2.00\n    Elyria. First Presb. Ch., $83.70; Mrs. L. T.\n      50c.                                                    84.20\n    Gomer. Cong. Ch.                                          56.90\n    Huntsburgh. Cong. Ch. _for Emerson Inst._                  0.50\n    Lenox. Horatio Tracy                                      10.00\n    Medina. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             8.00\n    Nelson. J. S. H.                                           1.00\n    Sandusky. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      40.00\n    Tallmadge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $19.69; Rev. L.\n      S. Shaw, $5                                             24.69\n    Wadsworth. Geo. Lyman                                     20.00\n    West Andover. Cong. Ch. $19--incorrectly ack.\n      from Mass. in July number.\n    Wilseyville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   10.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $113.94.\n\n    Benzonia. First Cong. Ch.                                 22.50\n    Charlotte. First Cong. Ch.                                61.44\n    Chelsea. John C. Winans                                    5.00\n    Grand Rapids. \u201cFriends.\u201d                                   7.00\n    Ludington. Cong. Ch.                                       7.75\n    New Haven. Cong Sab. Sch. _for Lady\n      Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._                              5.05\n    Romeo. Miss T. S. Clark, $5; Mrs. Reed\u2019s S. S.\n      Class, 20c. _for Lady Missionary, Memphis,\n      Tenn._                                                   5.20\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $24.21.\n\n    Brandon. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   5.50\n    Fox Lake. Cong. Ch.                                       14.21\n    Genoa Junction. Cong. Ch.                                  4.00\n    Racine. S. M. D.                                           0.50\n\n\n  IOWA. $99.66.\n\n    Anamosa. Cong. Ch. $9.13, and Sab. Sch. $4.07             13.20\n    Centre Point. Cong. Ch.                                    1.50\n    Cincinnati. L. B. Holbrook                                 5.00\n    Cresco. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n    Danville. Mrs. Harriet Huntington                          5.00\n    Earlville. Cong Ch.                                       10.00\n    Grinnell. Prof. F. P Brewer, _for Washington\n      School, Raleigh, N. C._                                  5.00\n    Humboldt. L. K. Lorbeer, $2; Mrs. L. A. W., $1             3.00\n    Muscatine. Cong. Ch. $22.60; and Sab. Sch. $15            37.60\n    Toledo. Cong. Ch.                                          4.36\n    Winterset. Mrs. Esther Burroughs                          10.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $10.00.\n\n    Quindaro. Rev. E. L. Hill                                  5.00\n    Waushara. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $44.14.\n\n    Alexandria. Q. L. Dowd                                     5.00\n    Faribault. Cong. Ch.                                      30.12\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                  9.02\n\n\n  COLORADO, $18.27.\n\n    Colorado Springs. Cong. Ch.                               18.00\n    Idaho Springs. A. R. J.                                    0.27\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $562.50.\n\n    San Francisco. Receipts of the California\n      Chinese Mission                                        562.50\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $163.50.\n\n    Chattanooga. Cong. Ch.                                     1.75\n    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.                                   161.75\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $100.65.\n\n    Raleigh. Washington Sch.                                  23.85\n    Wilmington. Normal School                                 76.80\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $271.19.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst.                                  269.10\n    Charleston. Cong. Ch., _for Mendi M._                      2.09\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $574.18.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs School                                   205.85\n    Atlanta. Atlanta U.                                      113.25\n    Brunswick. Risley Sch., _for Mendi M._                     1.34\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch.                                    60.90\n    McIntosh. Richard Waring, $3; N. J. Norman and\n      J. Ashmore, $2 each; J. O., L. D., P. W. and\n      J. W. R., $1 each _for Dorchester Academy_              11.00\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., $159.24; Cong. Sab.\n      Sch., $2.60; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $20                           181.84\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $306.86.\n\n    Marion. Cong. Ch.                                          8.51\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst.                                    123.35\n    Montgomery. Public Fund                                  175.00\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $538.70.\n\n    Forest. Alfred Strong, _for Tougaloo U._                   5.00\n    Tougaloo. Pub. Sch. Fund                                 500.00\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., $31.45;--I. C. Barnes,\n      $2.25, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                   33.70\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $214.50.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., $164.50; Cong. Ch.,\n      $50                                                    214.50\n\n\n  CANADA, $5.50.\n\n    Sherbrooke. Rev. A. Duff                                   5.50\n\n\n  SCOTLAND, $200.\n\n    Glasgow. Mrs. Ann McDowall, _for a Teacher_              200.00\n                                                          ---------\n    Total                                                 12,678.17\n    Total from Oct. 1st to June 30th                     $117,276.72\n\n                                              H. W. HUBBARD,\n                                                     _Asst. Treas._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  RECEIVED FOR DEBT.\n\n    Lee, Mass. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            100.00\n    Jersey City, N. J. \u201cA Friend\u201d                             30.00\n                                                            -------\n    Total                                                   $130.00\n    Previously acknowledged in May receipts               25,718.72\n                                                           --------\n    Total                                                $25,848.72\n\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON NORMAL AND COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    East Windsor, Conn. Miss Semantha Wells                   25.00\n    Hartford, Conn. Roland Mather                            100.00\n    New Britain, Conn. J. A. Kelsey                            1.00\n    New Haven, Conn. Mrs. T. D. Wheeler, $30;\n      Atwater Treat., $10                                     40.00\n    Princeville, Ill. MRS. CLIVE L. CUTLER, to\n      const. herself L. M.                                    30.00\n                                                           --------\n    Total                                                    196.00\n    Previously acknowledged in April receipts              2,201.17\n                                                           --------\n    Total                                                 $2,397.17\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.\n\n    Saint Albans, Vt. Mrs. J. Gregory Smith                   10.00\n    Andover, Mass. Students of Phillips Academy                3.00\n    Sherman, Conn. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          7.19\n    Jefferson, N. Y. Mrs. Susannah Ruliffson                   2.00\n    Langsingville, N. Y. Mrs. M. T. Fletcher                   5.00\n    Ludlowville, N. Y. Sydney S. Todd                          5.00\n    Chicago, Ill. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. of New Eng.\n      Cong. Ch.                                               25.32\n    Jacksonville, Ill. Rev. Eli Corwin                         5.00\n    Woodworth, Wis. Cong. Ch.                                  7.00\n    Dover, Iowa. Mrs. C. P. Atkinson                           5.00\n                                                           --------\n          Total                                               74.51\n    Previously acknowledged in May receipts                  236.88\n                                                           --------\n        Total                                               $311.39\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR ARTHINGTON MISSION.\n\n    Union Falls, N. Y. Francis E. Duncan                     $15.00\n    Previously acknowledged in April receipts                 20.00\n                                                           --------\n          Total                                              $35.00\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\n\n  E. PALACHE, Treasurer.\n\n  _From March 20th to June 20th, 1879._\n\n    1. From Auxiliary Missions:\n      Petaluma (Miss M. C. Waterbury)                        $15.00\n      Sacramento (Chinese)                                    30.00\n      Santa Barbara:\n      Chinese Collection                         $15.00\n      Annual memberships (Gin Ah Foy, $2; Yee\n        Ling Foung, $2; Gin Ah Toy, $2; Gin\n        Ah Soo, $2; Gin Ah Sing, $2; Gin Ah\n        Foo, $2)                                  12.00\n                                                 ------       27.00\n      Stockton:\n        Mrs. M. C. Brown                           2.00\n        Chinese                                    5.50\n                                                 ------        7.50\n                                                             ------\n          Total                                               79.50\n    2. From churches:\n      Oakland (First Cong.)                                   12.00\n      San Francisco:\n        First Congregational                      30.00\n        Third Congregational                       5.50\n        Bethany Congregational                     7.50\n                                                 ------       43.00\n                                                             ------\n          Total                                               55.00\n\n    3. From individuals:\n      Grass Valley, Mrs. H. Scott                              2.00\n      Rio Vista. Mrs. A. J. Gardner                            1.00\n      San Francisco:\n        A. J. S., _for Barnes\u2019 Mission House_      5.00\n        Rev. John Kimball                         10.00\n        Messrs. Balfour Guthrie & Co.            100.00\n        S. Williamson, Esq., of Liverpool, Eng.   50.00\n        Alexander Balfour, of Liverpool, Eng.     50.00\n        Messrs. C. Adolphe Low & Co. (two\n          donations)                              45.00\n        Hon. F. F. Low                            25.00\n                                                 ------      285.00\n                                                             ------\n          Total                                              288.00\n\n    4. From Eastern Friends:\n      Amherst, Mass., Mrs. Rhoda A. Lester (a\n        thank-offering)                                      100.00\n      Bradford, Mass., Miss E. M. Benson                      10.00\n      Groveland, Mass., Mrs. E. Merrill                        5.00\n      Norwich, Conn., Mrs. Sarah A. Huntington\n        (_for Barnes\u2019 Mission House_), to const.\n        REV. L. T. CHAMBERLAIN a L. M.                        25.00\n                                                             ------\n           Total                                             140.00\n                                                             ------\n           Grand Total                                      $562.50\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_--In Va. 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 12;\nKy., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 13; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 5.\n_Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 66.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE\nSOUTH.--_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.;\nAtlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.;\nand Austin, Texas, 8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,\nRaleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta, Ga.;\nMontgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn., 11. _Other\nSchools_, 18. Total 37.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.--Among the Freedmen, 231;\namong the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 17; in Africa, 14. Total,\n279. STUDENTS--In Theology, 88; LAW, 17; in College Course, 106;\nin other studies, 7,018. Total, 7,229. Scholars, taught by former\npupils of our schools, estimated at 100,000. INDIANS under the care\nof the Association, 13,000.\n\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the\ngrowing work in the South. This increase can only be reached by\n_regular_ and _larger_ contributions from the churches--the feeble\nas well as the strong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES, for\nthe new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and\npious, for these churches.\n\n3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and\nmissionaries to Africa--a pressing want.\n\nBefore sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.\noffice, as below.\n\n  NEW YORK     H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.\n  BOSTON       Rev. C. L. 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THE CHEAPEST.\n\nWeighs but 50 lbs., has Steel Cutter Plate, can be worked square or\nat any desired angle, and is rapidly superseding all other Scrapers\nwhere it is known.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n                        Read the following:\n\nOne says: \u201cIt will do more work than two of the common kind.\u201d\n\nAnother: \u201cIt is worth more than all the old kind that can be made.\u201d\n\n\u201cI would not take 25 dollars for mine, if I could not get another.\u201d\n\n\u201cWith a yoke of oxen and boy to drive, I can scrape and finish up\nin five hours as much road as I can with any scraper known to me in\nten hours, beside doing it better and easier both for myself and\nteam.\u201d--J. DAVIS, Hartford.\n\n\u201cFor working roads it will soon supersede the old scoop. I consider\nit one of the best simple inventions of the age.\u201d--G. P. BELDEN,\nDover Plains.\n\n\u201cLeaves a road in better shape, and is easier for man and team,\nthan any scraper I ever saw.\u201d--J. S. KINNEY, Washington.\n\n                                                 Send for circular.\n\n                          S. H. DUDLEY,\n               Bantam Falls, Litchfield County, Ct.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                            CRAMPTON\u2019S\n                             PURE OLD\n                            PALM SOAP.\n\n                          [Illustration]\n\n                     For the Laundry,\n                               The Kitchen,\n\n                              AND FOR\n                    General Household Purposes.\n                          MANUFACTURED BY\n                        CRAMPTON BROTHERS,\n               _Cor. Monroe & Jefferson Sts., N. Y._\n                 Send for Circular and Price List.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                               PLANS\n                                AND\n                          SPECIFICATIONS,\n                               WITH\n                       Full Detail Drawings\n                                FOR\n\n                         CHURCHES,\n                            SCHOOLS and\n                                DWELLINGS.\n\n                         B. J. SCHWEITZER,\n\n                            Architect,\n\n                2d Floor.      =76 JOHN ST., N. Y.=\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  MARVIN\u2019S\n  FIRE & BURGLAR\n  SAFES\n  COUNTER PLATFORM WAGON & TRACK\n  SCALES\n  _MARVIN SAFE & SCALE CO.\n  265 BROADWAY. N. Y.\n  627 CHESTNUT ST., PHILA._]\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  The\n  ESTEY\n  ORGAN\n  IS THE BEST!\n\n  THE WORLD OVER.\n\n  Manufactory BRATTLEBORO, VT.]\n\n                          J. ESTEY & CO.\n\n                         BRATTLEBORO\u2019, VT.\n\n                  SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.\n\nThe manufacture of these widely known instruments was begun in\n1846, and American enterprise and skill have steadily developed\nthis business until now it is the largest Reed Organ manufactory\nin the world. The unsolicited testimony of the most careful judges\nplaces the =ESTEY ORGAN= at the head of all others of its class.\nSend for the new illustrated catalogue.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT\n  SUI GENERIS]\n\n                  Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs.\n\n_Demonstrated best_ by HIGHEST HONORS AT ALL WORLD\u2019S EXPOSITIONS\nFOR TWELVE YEARS; viz: at PARIS, 1867; VIENNA, 1873; SANTIAGO,\n1875; PHILADELPHIA, 1876; TWO HIGHEST MEDALS at PARIS 1878; and\nGRAND SWEDISH GOLD MEDAL, 1878. Only American Organs ever awarded\nhighest honors at any. Sold for cash or installments. ILLUSTRATED\nCATALOGUES with new styles and prices, free. MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN\nCO., BOSTON, NEW YORK, or CHICAGO.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                        Meneely & Kimberly,\n\n                    BELL FOUNDERS, TROY, N. Y.\n\n  Manufacture a superior quality of BELLS.\n  Special attention given to =CHURCH BELLS=.\n  \u261e Catalogues sent free to parties needing bells.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                          CHURCH CUSHIONS\n\n                            MADE OF THE\n\n                       PATENT ELASTIC FELT.\n\n             For particulars, address H. D. OSTERMOOR,\n\n            P. O. Box 4004.      36 Broadway, New York.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR ANNUAL MEETING.\n\nThe Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the American Missionary\nAssociation will be held in Chicago, Illinois, by invitation of\nthe Congregational churches of that city, commencing on Tuesday,\nOctober 28th, at 3 P. M.\n\nThe local Committee of Arrangements, representing each\nCongregational Church in the city, has already at a preliminary\nmeeting decided to hold the meetings in the First Congregational\nChurch (Rev. E. P. Goodwin, D. D., Pastor), which has been offered\nwith most cordial unanimity for the use of the Anniversary.\n\nThe sermon will be preached by the Rev. Richard S. Storrs, D.D., of\nthe Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, N. Y.\n\nFurther announcements of arrangements and programme will be made\nlater.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nYESTERDAY\u2019S WORK.\n\nWe point to the record of results of our work among the Freedmen\nduring the last fifteen years, as indicating a degree of progress\nand an amount of fruitage rarely equaled in the same length of\ntime. We base our claims for generous gifts, now and in the years\nto come, upon this showing, confident that this is the best\nargument we can make. Is it too much to claim to have been faithful\nover a few things, or to ask that we be trusted with what may be\nneedful for the many which are at hand?\n\n\nTO-MORROW\u2019S WANT.\n\nLooking ahead, we see that the coming claims upon us must be\ngreater than those of the past. The signs of the times indicate\nthat the Lord\u2019s work is to be done upon a larger scale in the near\nfuture; the progress, made and making, in our schools, and the call\nfor enlargement in our church work, will make increasing demands\nupon us, until the time shall come when they shall be more largely\nself-supporting than it is possible for them to be now. We have\ndone much--we are doing more--we must expect to do a still greater\nwork. Give us the means, and plan large things for us in the days\nto come.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.\n\nWe invite special attention to this department, of which our low\nrates and large circulation make its pages specially valuable. Our\nreaders are among the best in the country, having an established\ncharacter for integrity and thrift that constitutes them valued\ncustomers in all departments of business.\n\nTo Advertisers using display type and cuts, who are accustomed\nto the \u201cRULES\u201d of the best Newspapers, requiring \u201cDOUBLE RATES\u201d\nfor these \u201cLUXURIES,\u201d our wide pages, fine paper, and superior\nprinting, with =no extra charge for cuts=, are advantages readily\nappreciated, and which add greatly to the appearance and effect of\nbusiness announcements.\n\nGratified with the substantial success of this department, we\nsolicit orders from all who have unexceptionable wares to advertise.\n\nAdvertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order\nto secure insertion in the following number. All communications in\nrelation to advertising should be addressed to\n\n                    J. H. DENISON, Adv\u2019g Agent,\n                                        56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\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\nDAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, Printer, 101 Chambers Street, New York.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\nDitto marks replaced with the text they represent to facilitate text\nalignment. Obvious punctuation errors and omissions corrected.\n\nOn page 231, \u201cAfric\u2019s\u201d was changed to \u201cAfrica\u2019s\u201d. (on Africa\u2019s\nshores)","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 33, No. 08, August, 1879","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":21642}