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No. 9.\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                         SEPTEMBER, 1879.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  FORWARD: Rev. Eli Corwin                                       257\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    PARAGRAPHS                                                   258\n    LITERATURE OF OUR SOUTHERN WORK                              259\n    THE TENTH COMMANDMENT                                        259\n    WINDING UP A HORSE                                           260\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                         264\n    GENERAL NOTES                                                265\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    WINNING BY PASSIVE VIRTUE: Rev. J. E. Roy, D. D.             267\n    GEORGIA, WOODVILLE--Dying Scenes--Pressing Work              268\n    GEORGIA, CYPRESS SLASH--A New Field                          269\n    ALABAMA, MONTGOMERY--Swayne School                           270\n    TENNESSEE, MEMPHIS--Le Moyne School--Conversations           270\n    TENNESSEE--A Colored Girl\u2019s Experience as a Teacher          270\n    MISSISSIPPI--Letter from a Tougaloo Student                  271\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    MENDI MISSION--Religious Progress at Avery--Travels\n    into the Interior--The Heathen--The Country                  273\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    FALSE BRETHREN: Rev. W. C. Pond                              278\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    CHILDREN\u2019S INFLUENCE                                         281\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                       282\n\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                                   285\n\n\n  WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &C.                                   286\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\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.\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.      SEPTEMBER, 1879.      No. 9.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFORWARD!\n\nDedicated to the American Missionary Association, by the Author,\n\nREV. ELI CORWIN, D.D., JACKSONVILLE, ILLS.\n\n    _Strike_, valiant warrior, strike!\n      Be foremost in the fight,\n    And wield the battle-axe of truth\n      With all a giant\u2019s might;\n    He ventures in no doubtful cause\n      Who champions the right.\n\n    _Build_ for the ages, build!\n      Lay the foundations strong,\n    Through all the circling centuries\n      Of wretchedness and wrong;\n    The tribute of the after times\n      May to this age belong.\n\n    _Work_, then, with courage, work!\n      He labors not in vain,\n    Who, leaning on the Mighty Arm,\n      Counts every loss a gain;\n    Since we may reach the glory goal\n      Through pilgrimage of pain.\n\n    _Pray_, weary watcher, pray!\n      Upon the promise rest;\n    Faith seems to see a _rising_ sun\n      Sink in the darkening west;\n    And, in the morrow\u2019s prophecy,\n      Is comforted and blest.\n\n\n\n\nWe take from the columns of the _Christian Intelligencer_, the\norgan of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, the ingenious and suggestive\narticle by Dr. Chamberlain, entitled \u201cWinding up a Horse.\u201d We are\nsure it will be read.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThere is good sound sense in the very practical contribution on\nChildren\u2019s Influence in Missions, or rather on interesting children\nin the work of Missions, on the Children\u2019s page. The heart which is\ninterested intelligently in such work in its youth will never be\nlikely to grow too busy or too old to follow the progress of the\nyears, and the hand which has learned early to drop its pennies\ninto the Lord\u2019s treasury will hardly be found clenched upon its\ndollars in riper years.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNext month brings us around to another Annual Meeting. Our\nfinancial year ends with the last day of this month (September).\nOur books will be closed then for the year, and our balance\nwill be struck. This is our reminder to all, either churches or\nindividuals, who have intended to contribute to our work during the\ncurrent year. Let your gifts be sent in speedily and as liberally\nas the Lord may have prospered you. Every cent received during\nthe next thirty days helps this year\u2019s showing. Do not let us go\nback of the standard maintained during the last three years! Our\nambition is to report expenses all met and debt all gone.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe report that the yellow fever has returned to Memphis has long\nbefore this reached the ears of our friends. We hope that the evil\nwill not be so great as it was last year, and yet its immediate\neffect upon our work has been more suddenly felt than then. The\npeople flee more eagerly from a scourge the severity of which they\nhold in horror enhanced by the recent memory of its infliction.\nThe church at Memphis is scattered; pastor and people have left\nit; a faithful janitor is caring for its and the school property.\nThe church at Chattanooga, too, has been largely deserted, and\nits attendants have fled to the mountains. Of course this is\nbut a temporary interruption. The three or four hundred dollars\nwhich was sent to us last year for the relief of the colored\nsufferers accomplished an amount of physical relief, and indirectly\nof spiritual good, almost beyond belief. We shall be glad to\nsuperintend the disbursement of any like moneys which may be sent\nto relieve the poorest of the poor in this their special distress.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  \u201cOh, how great is Thy goodness, which Thou hast laid up for them\n  that fear Thee; which Thou hast wrought for them that trust in\n  Thee, before the sons of men!\u201d\n\nAs a father lays up for his children against a future need, so the\npsalmist felt that the Heavenly Parent had done for those that fear\nHim; so, in sight of the sons of men had He wrought such goodness\nfor them. It is a great thing to realize the daily dispensing\nof such divine favor, but a greater to learn that Infinite Love\nhas gone before to treasure up the riches of goodness. It was\na marvel of blessing that God wrought before the sons of men\nin all the world for the American children of bondage in their\nemancipation. But more than this: He had laid up beforehand\ntreasures of Christian anti-slavery sentiment and charity, to be\ndisbursed among them in the lines of educational and Christianizing\nprocesses, and, with divine forethought. He had prepared a system\nfor the administration of this relief. Distinguished among other\nprovisions of this kind were the rise and the preparatory training\nin principle and method of the American Missionary Association. We\nknow not which the more to admire, the wisdom or the goodness of\nsuch fore-ordaining. It is the privilege of its constituency to be\nthe almoners of such bounty.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE LITERATURE OF OUR SOUTHERN WORK.\n\nIt makes no pretension. It has been a growth from nothing. And\nyet it is worthy of mention. The _Southern Workman_, the organ\nof Hampton Institute, is a monthly, well filled with matter\nhistorical, scientific and newsy, and well adapted to interest\nthe Freedmen and their friends, as also the civilized Indians and\ntheir friends. The Hampton Health Tracts, in a series of a half\ndozen, treat of the great essentials of health and of physiology.\nIt was a happy hit to give the late children of bondage these\nfirst lessons in civilization. This list of tractates has also\nnot a little of instruction for many people who pass among the\nenlightened class. The _Fisk Expositor_ is an occasional issue that\ngathers up the history and progress of that University, which the\nJubilee Singers have done so much to endow and to make famous. The\n_Southern Sentinel_ is a monthly, published at Talladega College,\nand designed, as is the _Southern Workman_, to interest the colored\npeople in all matters pertaining to education, agriculture and\nmechanic arts. On both, the work of type-setting and printing is\nall done by the colored students, who have learned the process\nwhile in school, and who make this their means of support, besides\nthe acquiring of a trade that will secure them a respectable\nlivelihood. The young women make capital compositors. In both of\nthese offices not a little of job work is also done. The mechanical\nwork upon the _American Missionary_ was for a time done by the\noffice at Hampton. The Straight University at New Orleans has also\nits occasional medium of communication with its constituency.\n\nEight chartered institutions issue their annual catalogues, which\ncompare favorably with the current literature of the kind. It seems\nnot a little strange, in these annual reports of schools among\nour fellow-citizens, the late slaves, to come across not only the\nlists of the Faculties and the long roll of students, but also\nthe several departments, normal, scientific, classical, medical,\nlegal and theological. Then of the six General Associations for our\nSouthern churches, four have issued their annual \u201cMinutes.\u201d Those\nof the original one, the Central South, furnish quite a compendium\nof our church work. Those of Alabama are rich in records of\ndiscussions upon vital themes and of missionary activities. Those\nof Louisiana glow with revival reminiscences. The first of Georgia\nmakes a dignified document that gives promise of not a little of\nchurch activity. Texas and North Carolina will soon come on to the\ndignity of printing the Minutes of their Associations.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE TENTH COMMANDMENT.\n\nDuring the last few days, how to avoid breaking the tenth\ncommandment has been a practical question for me.\n\nIt has been my privilege to visit the College and Agricultural\nSchool at Amherst, and their sister institutions at Northampton and\nSouth Hadley, if they can be called institutions when the students\nare absent.\n\nAs I strolled about the Amherst College grounds and buildings, and\nnoticed its concrete walls and shaven lawns, with their trimmed\nedges that said to the grass, \u201cThus far and no farther;\u201d and\nlooked upon the Gymnasium, Walker Hall, and College Chapel, of\nsolid granite and beautiful sandstone, with their numerous gables,\ntowers and turrets; and walked about the Museum building, crowded\nwith many rare and costly specimens, representing thousands upon\nthousands of dollars and years upon years of skilled and patient\nlabor; and then strolled about the pleasant village, and saw the\nbeauty and elegance and comfort of the professors\u2019 residences:\nthen, as I went into the field, and saw in the centre of a farm\nof 500 acres of level, fertile land, the Agricultural College\nbuildings of brick and stone, erected for service, but not lacking\nin adornment; the extensive and beautiful conservatory, the fine\nbarn and cattle, and various \u201cnew and improved\u201d agricultural\nimplements; then, as, after a ride of seven miles through the\nvalley of the Connecticut, justly famed for its beauty, where\ndeacons formerly raised profitable crops of tobacco while they\nwere trying to solve the questions of ethics involved in this\nindustry, I saw upon the \u201chill\u201d in Northampton, Smith College, with\nits lovely grounds, its Gothic buildings of somewhat elaborate\narchitecture, including a house for the president and cottages\nfor the young ladies, its varnished floors, its fine furniture,\nand its art galleries, containing already a goodly collection\nfrom the pencil of the painter and the chisel of the sculptor,\nupon all of whose equipments seemed to be written, \u201cNothing mean\nor cheap can enter here;\u201d then, as, after having flanked Mount\nHolyoke and got in his rear, I came upon the school of Mary Lyon,\nwhere formerly were educated all the sisters and \u201ccousins\u201d of\nthe Amherst students, and, beginning at the kitchen, where are\ntwo stoves expressly devoted to the cooking of griddle-cakes, a\nbroiler for beefsteaks, a marble slab for a \u201cbread board,\u201d and\na stone slab for warming plates, and then passed on through the\ncapacious dining-room and the carpeted chapel to the fire-proof\nlibrary building filled with books, and then to the new Williston\ncabinet and art gallery, where our guide, an old pupil of Mary\nLyon, pointed out a picture which she said, apparently with \u201cbated\nbreath,\u201d cost $1,000.\n\nAs I saw all these evidences of growth and prosperity and tokens of\nthe liberality of good men and women, there kept ringing in my ears\na sentence from the catalogue of our poor Atlanta University: \u201cIt\nis hoped that the time is not far distant when funds will flow into\nthe treasury of the Institution as freely as they do into those of\ncolleges in other parts of the country.\u201d\n\nWhen one sees how New England is packed with seminaries, colleges,\nacademies and high schools, he can hardly help believing that the\nLord is willing that the colored people of the State of Georgia\nshall have one institution for thoroughly fitting teachers for the\ncommon schools of their race, and at least giving those who can\nand wish to obtain a college education the opportunity of doing\nthis. And may we not have faith to believe that the example of\nMrs. Stone, in giving one-sixth of the money to be distributed by\nher among the schools of the country to those in the South for the\neducation of the colored race, will be followed by others, and that\nthis provision for the more needy will but increase the devising of\nliberal things for these institutions of the North?\n\n                                                        T. N. C.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWINDING UP A HORSE.\n\nNineteen years ago I bought in Madras a peculiar kind of horse.\nHe had to be wound up to make him go. It was not a machine, but a\nveritable live horse.\n\nWhen breaking him to go in the carriage he had been injured. An\naccident occurred in starting him the first time and he was thrown\nand hurt and frightened. It made him timid; afraid to start. After\nhe had once started he would never balk, until taken out of the\ncarriage. He would start and stop and go on as many times as you\npleased, but it was very difficult to get him started at first each\ntime he was harnessed to the carriage.\n\nHe was all right under the saddle, an excellent riding horse,\nand would carry me long distances in my district work, so that I\ndid not wish to dispose of him; but I could not afford to keep\ntwo, whatever I had must go in carriage as well as ride, and I\ndetermined that I would conquer.\n\nHow I have worked over that horse! At first it sometimes took me\nan hour to get him started from my door. At last, after trying\neverything I had ever heard of, I hit upon an expedient that worked.\n\nI took a strong bamboo stick two feet long and over an inch thick.\nA stout cord loop was passed through a hole two inches from its\nend. This loop we would slip over his left ear down to the roots\nand turn the stick round and round and twist it up.\n\nIt is said that a horse can retain but one idea at a time in its\nsmall brain. Soon the twisting would begin to hurt. His attention\nwould be abstracted to the pain in his ear. He would forget all\nabout a carriage being hitched to him, bend down his head and walk\noff as quiet as a lamb. When he had gone a rod the horse boy would\nbegin to untwist, soon off would come the cord, and the horse would\nbe all right for the day. The remedy never failed.\n\nAfter having it on two or three times he objected to the operation,\nand would spring about and rear and twitch and back; anything but\nstart ahead, to keep it from being applied. We would have, two of\nus, to begin to pat and rub about his neck and head. He would not\nknow which had the key. All at once it would be on his ear and\nwinding up. The moment it began to tighten he would be quiet, stand\nand bear it as long as he could, and then off he would go. It never\ntook thirty seconds to get him off with the key. It would take an\nhour without. After a little he ceased objecting to have it put\non. He seemed to say to himself, \u201cI have got to give in and may as\nwell do it at once,\u201d but he would not start without the key. In a\nfew months he got so that, as soon as we got into the carriage, _he\nwould bend down his head to have the key put on_, and one or two\nturns of the key would be enough.\n\nThen the key became unnecessary. He would bend down his head,\ntipping his left ear to the horse boy, who would take it in his\nhand and twist it, and off he would go.\n\nMy native neighbors said, \u201cThat horse must be wound up or he cannot\nrun.\u201d And it did seem to be so.\n\nWhen he got so that the \u201cwinding up\u201d was nothing but a form, I\ntried to break him of that, but could not succeed. I would pat him\nand talk to him and give him a little salt or sugar or bread, and\nthen step quietly into the carriage and tell him to go. \u201cNo.\u201d Coax\nhim. \u201cNo.\u201d Whip him. \u201cNo.\u201d Legs braced, every muscle tense for\nresistance. A genuine balk. Stop and keep quiet for an instant and\nhe would hold down his head, bend over his ear and look around for\nthe horse boy appealingly, saying very earnestly by his actions,\n\u201cDo please wind me up. I _can\u2019t_ go without, but I\u2019ll go gladly if\nyou will.\u201d The moment his ear was touched and one twist given, off\nhe would go as happy and contented as ever horse could be.\n\nMany hearty laughs have we and our friends had over the winding up\nof that horse. If I were out on a tour for a month or two and he\nwere not hitched to the carriage, or if he stood in the stable with\nno work for a week or two during the monsoon, a real winding up had\nto take place the first time he was put in. We kept him six years.\nThe last week I owned him I had to wind him up. I sold the patent\nto the man that bought the horse, and learned from him that he had\nto use it as long as the horse lived.\n\nI was thinking about that horse the other night when it was too hot\nto sleep, and I suddenly burst into a laugh as I said to myself,\n\u201cI have again and again, in the membership of our churches at\nhome, seen that horse that had to be wound up, in all matters of\nbenevolence.\u201d\n\nI had often thought of that horse as I went through our churches at\nhome, and imagined that I recognized him, but the whole thing came\nupon me with such peculiar force the other night that I must write\nout my thoughts.\n\nThere are some Christians (yes, I believe they are _Christians_)\nwho have to be wound up by some external pressure before they\nwill start off in any work of benevolence. Others will engage in\nsome kinds of benevolence spontaneously, but will not touch other\nbenevolent efforts unless specially wound up. Free under the\nsaddle, but balky in carriage.\n\nI knew of one good member of our church who would never give a cent\nto our Domestic Missionary Board unless he happened to hear of some\nmissionary in the West who was actually without the necessaries of\nlife, and then he would send in liberally. It took that to wind him\nup.\n\nAnother would never give to the Board for educating young men for\nthe ministry unless he happened to become acquainted with some\ncandidate who was being aided. Then his gifts would come in for\nhelping that man.\n\nAnother would never give to the Bible Society unless he chanced to\nhear of some particular town out West where but two Bibles could be\nfound in a population of five hundred, although he knew perfectly\nwell that there were hundreds of such communities among whom the\nAmerican Bible Society was daily endeavoring to introduce the\nDivine Word. He must be wound up by a special case.\n\nBut it was especially of my visits through the churches in\nconnection with our foreign missionary work that I was thinking\nwhen I said that I had so often recognized my horse that had to be\nwound up, in all the different stages of his training.\n\nThank God, I found hosts of noble-hearted men and women all\nthrough the Church that needed no winding up; whose conversion and\nconsecration had extended down to their pockets; who were always\nat the forefront in every good work; who required no spasmodic\nappeals. They gave from a deep set principle and an intelligent\nlove for Christ and His cause; some even pinching themselves in the\nnecessaries of life, as I know, to be able to give. It is on such\nthat the security and continuance of our missions depend. We know\nthat we can rely on them. They never fail us.\n\nBut there are others that have to be \u201cwound up,\u201d willing or\nunwillingly, before they will do anything in the missionary work.\nSome are very willing to be wound up.\n\n\u201cDominie,\u201d said a good elder who had just introduced himself to me\none day, \u201cI have come in on behalf of our church at ---- to see if\nyou would not come out and give us a missionary talk. We ought to\nhave sent in a collection to the Foreign Board months ago, but we\nneglected it, and now we have been talking it over and have made up\nour minds to do something handsome if you will come out there and\ngive us a talk.\u201d\n\n\u201cWell,\u201d said I, \u201cI shall be very glad to come and tell you\nsomething of our work just as soon as I can edge a day in between\nother engagements. But if you have made up your minds to do\nsomething handsome for the Board, why not do it at once and relieve\ntheir present pressing need, and I will come as soon as I can and\ngive you the talk all the same.\u201d\n\n\u201cO, no,\u201d said he. \u201cWe can\u2019t do that. We have made up our minds that\nwe must give liberally, but we can start it easier if you come\nthere and give us the talk first. You need not fear. We will give a\ngood sum. That is settled, and it is mostly pledged. But you must\ncome and talk to us first.\u201d\n\nI smiled and said to myself, \u201cThere is my horse in its third stage\nof training. That church is bending down its ear and entreating me\nto twist it, for it has made up its mind to go, only it requires to\nbe wound up first.\u201d\n\n\u201cDominie,\u201d said one of our earnest ministers to me one Wednesday,\n\u201cwe raised $1,000 for the Board last Sunday morning. It is more\nthan usual, and we are all happy over it. Now we want you to come\nover the first Sunday of next month and give us a missionary\naddress.\u201d\n\n\u201cGood,\u201d said I, \u201cthat church has got one stage further than my\nhorse ever did in his training, for they start and do the work\nfirst and bend down the ear to be twisted afterwards.\u201d Did it not\ngive me an earnest joy to go and tell that church what the Lord\u2019s\nwar in India was, and how much they had helped it?\n\nA Sunday-school superintendent came to me one day with smiling\ncountenance, saying, \u201cOur Sunday-school has raised $175 during the\npast year for missions, and we have determined to give it to the\nwork in India. The year closed three months ago, and it is all in\nthe hands of the treasurer, but we want you to come and give us a\nspeech, and then it will be formally voted and sent at once to the\nBoard. We have been waiting all this time because they told us at\nthe rooms that you were engaged up till now. When can you come? The\nmoney is lying idle and we are waiting, and we know the Board needs\nthe funds. So come as soon as you can.\u201d\n\n\u201cAh,\u201d said I, \u201ceverything is ready, and the family are in the\ncarriage, but they have to sit there half an hour because the horse\nboy is busy elsewhere, and the horse is holding down his ear all\nthis time waiting for that particular horse boy to come and twist\nit.\u201d\n\nI was both pained and irresistibly amused by an incident that\noccurred not two hundred miles from New York, when the horse was in\nthe first stage of training, and stoutly resisted allowing its ear\nto be touched.\n\nThe missionary was announced to speak in the church on a given\nSunday, when the annual collection would be taken up. A good member\nof the church--the pastor says a sincere Christian--was very much\nput out about it; had heard enough of these old missionaries,\nand was not going to hear any more; did not believe in foreign\nmissions--we had heathen enough at home.\n\nThe appointed Sunday came. Mr. A. and his family stayed away from\nchurch because they would not countenance the missionary address.\nThey, therefore, missed the announcement which the pastor made,\nviz., that a telegram had been received that it was impossible for\nthe missionary to be there. He would come next Sunday, and the\nannual collection would be deferred until then.\n\nThe following Sunday Mr. A. and family all filed into their pew,\nserene and happy in the thought that they had avoided the old\nmissionary. As the organ was playing the voluntary, the pastor\nentered the pulpit from the vestry and a stranger with him. The\npastor took the opening exercises and the second hymn was sung,\nwhen the pastor rose and said that Mr.----, the missionary, as\nannounced last Sunday, would now address them.\n\nMr. A. was thunderstruck. He did not like to go out in the middle\nof a service, and so determined to sit it through. The missionary\ntold his simple tale. The plates came in. The collection was\nunprecedentedly large. Mr. A.\u2019s plethoric pocket-book had disgorged\nitself upon the plates, and no heartier worker for foreign missions\nis now found in that church. Mr. A. had tried his best to keep his\near from being twisted. Now it needs no twisting. He has learned to\ngo and loves to go.\n\nThere was a church in our fold at home whose pastor was determined\nthat it should not be wound up for foreign missions. He had\nsucceeded, as he himself told me, in keeping all missionaries and\nsecretaries and agents out of his pulpit during all the years of\nhis pastorate. When the day came for collections for any of our\nBoards the fact was stated, the plates were passed, and those gave\nwho wished. The collection, as a matter of course, under such a\nchill, was a minimum.\n\nIt required some of the very best and most wary and skillful\nman\u0153uvring to get hold of the ear of that church; but it was\nobtained and twisted, and off it started on the trot in the\nmissionary work, and since then it has annually held down its ear\nand begged to have it twisted, as it wanted to go more.\n\nScores of incidents which occurred in my own experiences among the\nchurches in America, and which recalled my \u201chorse winding,\u201d come\ncrowding into my mind, but I forbear.\n\nFor I remember the phalanx of noble churches that needed no such\nwinding up, who were all alive and always on the alert; who gave\nregularly, generously, nobly; who, from the pastor, the head, to\nthe humblest member, prayed from the lips, from the heart, _from\nthe pocket_, \u201cThy Kingdom come.\u201d They are always glad to get hold\nof the recruiting watchman, and ask him, \u201cWatchman, what of the\nnight?\u201d but they never have to be wound up to start them giving.\n\nGod give us more and more of such churches and more such Christians\nand church members, so that no missionary or secretary need come to\n_beg_, but can come with radiant countenance and say, \u201cBrethren,\nwith the funds you are continually sending us for the work, we\nhave done for the Master thus and thus.\u201d Then in looking over our\nchurches and our benevolent work we shall no longer have occasion\nto remember \u201cthe horse that had to be wound up.\u201d\n\n                                    REV. JACOB CHAMBERLAIN, D.D.\n\n    Mudnapilly, India, April 30, 1879.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nATHENS, ALA.--The Rev. Horace J. Taylor writes to us: \u201cWork has\ncommenced for the new building. We have the yard prepared, and are\nnow engaged in making brick. I am treasurer and chairman of the\nbuilding committee, and the building will be finished without at\nany time being in debt one cent, if it takes three years to finish\nit.\u201d\n\nANNISTON, ALA.--The pastor of this church had written us asking\nfor an organ to help in its services. Before the request was\nmade public, one of our old and faithful friends wrote us that\nhis resources had been so much curtailed that he could send us no\ngift in money, but that he had a cabinet organ which he would be\nglad to send us, if we could make it of service in our work. The\norgan went to Anniston. Rev. Mr. McEntosh, the pastor, writes: \u201cI\nwish you could have seen the bright eyes of the children in the\nSunday-school, and the admiration and surprise of the adults, as\nthey listened with solemn and pleasing quietness to the sweet tones\nof the new organ, as it gave the heart-cheering notes of \u2018One there\nis above all others.\u2019 I cannot arrange words to express our thanks\nto you and to the many friends of the descendants of Ham.\u201d\n\nCHILDERSBURG, ALA.--Rev. Alfred Jones writes: \u201cI have had my series\nof meetings; eight came to Christ, and five joined my church--four\nyoung men and one girl,--and I think they bid fair for the future.\nThey all belong to my Sunday-school. I am holding my fort, and\nexpect to have a good church. I am doing all that I can, and feel\nthat the Lord is with me.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nThe Freedmen.\n\n--At a meeting held by the influential Friends in Philadelphia\nthis week, to consider the condition of the negro refugees in\nKansas, some new facts were brought to light. It appears from the\nstatements made to them that the negroes are not all so needy as is\nsupposed; some of them have money to buy land, and have bought it.\nThe Freedmen\u2019s Relief Association has bought 5,000 acres at $2.65\nper acre, has made the first payment, and put some of the refugees\nto work on it. The second payment is not due for four years, and\nbefore that time they hope the blacks will have got Northern legs\nunder them, so to speak, enough to be able to pay it themselves.\nMany of the older men and women, however, are not self-supporting,\nand never will be. The facts stated of their immediate need were\nso well authenticated, and the methods suggested for their help so\npracticable, that the Friends have taken up the matter in earnest.\n\n--The Exodus is attracting increased attention among colored people\nin Virginia and North Carolina, though they are acting with more\ndeliberation than is shown in Louisiana and Mississippi. A colony\nhas been formed in Lynchburg to proceed West as soon as requisite\nfunds can be collected. A colony in North Carolina has sent one of\nits members West to prospect.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Indians.\n\n--THE PONCA INDIANS.--The Ponca Indians have always been peaceful\nand friendly. It is not known that any of their number ever\nkilled a white man. In 1858 they released to the United States\nall their land, except about twenty square miles. In response to\na clamor from the whites to get this from them a new treaty was\nmade in 1866, by which the Poncas ceded 30,000 acres to the United\nStates, and the latter _ceded_ to the Poncas certain townships. On\nthis land they built houses, raised crops, and lived happily and\nprosperously, but the white man would not let them alone. In 1877\nIndian Agent James Lawrence, Indian Inspector E. C. Kemble, and\nRev. S. D. Hinman, an Episcopal Missionary among the Indians, came\nand insisted that the United States wanted them to leave and go to\nthe Indian Territory. This they refused to do. A paper purporting\nto be a contract was drawn up by these men; the signature of a half\nbreed by the name of Lone Chief, who does not belong to the tribe,\nwas attached to it. This paper was forwarded to Washington, placed\non file without examination, I suppose, and the United States\nArmy was ordered to see that the tribe was removed. I have seen\nand examined a copy of that so-called contract, and it is simply\ninfamous to call it a contract. It is nothing more than a record\nof what was said at a council, and has internal marks that the\nspeeches from which it quotes were never made. Yet on the strength\nof that paper, with all the chiefs of the tribe protesting against\nthe outrage, these people, 715 in number, were taken and carried to\nthe Indian Territory, and left in a malarial country, without money\nand without shelter, to get along as best they might.\n\nSince that time, about 300 of them have died. But that is not all\nof this unspeakable villainy. The household and farm effects,\nhorses and ponies and cattle, the whole not worth less than\n$200,000, were taken and sold, and the proceeds put into the\npockets of nobody knows whom. The Indians got none of it. One of\nthe chiefs, Standing Bear, escaped from the Indian Territory and\ntravelled back into Northern Nebraska, that he might find exemption\nfrom death. Here he was arrested for being off his reservation,\nand started as a prisoner for the Indian Territory. On his way\nthrough Omaha, Mr. T. H. Tibbles, of one of the Omaha papers,\ninterviewed him, and so thoroughly were that gentleman\u2019s sympathies\nstirred by the recital of the old man\u2019s wrongs, that he made an\neffort to secure his release by a writ of habeas corpus. In this he\nsucceeded, and Standing Bear was released.\n\nThere were two points in law, either one of which would release\nhim. First, the Indian is a _person_, and the Constitution\nprohibits any distinction being made against any person born in\nthis country, on account of race, color or previous condition;\nand, second, if we regard the Indian as a foreigner, still the\nright of expatriation is a principle recognized by our Government,\nand under the operation of that principle the prisoner could not\nbe restrained from his liberty. The judge, therefore, ordered\nhis discharge. This is the first instance in the history of the\ncountry where an Indian has secured standing in a United States\ncourt. It is proposed now to bring suit for the recovery of the\nPonca reservation. In the opinion of lawyers who have carefully\nexamined into the case, the suit can be successfully carried; and\nif this is done, the heaviest blow ever yet dealt against the\nunholy treatment the Indians have received from wicked men will\nbe given, and the way opened by which justice may at length be\ndone these terribly abused people. There is need that the friends\nof justice and humanity throughout the country take hold of this\nmatter vigorously. The Indian ring, with millions of dollars to\nback them, will fight to the bitter end. It will cost money to put\nthis thing through. Not less than four thousand dollars should be\nin the treasury at the start. Col. C. G. Hammond was appointed\ntreasurer at a recent meeting in Chicago, and is already receiving\nremittances. A committee was appointed to raise funds in the city.\nLet Boston take hold of this matter, and all New England follow.\nAble lawyers are ready to give their services free. Let money\nbe forthcoming to raise the issue at once and carry it forward\nfrom step to step till victory crown the effort.--SCROOBY, in the\n_Congregationalist_.\n\n--The Interior Department has official information that white men\nhave stolen about seven hundred horses from the Indians at the\nRed Cloud Agency, and run them across the Nebraska line, during\nthe past few weeks. The State authorities are doing nothing to\nprevent similar raids upon the property of the Indians, and the\nmilitary authorities, on account of the _posse comitatus_ law\nof last year, stand by without intercepting or pursuing the\nmarauders, although the stolen horses are driven right past Camp\nSheridan and Camp Robinson, on the way to market, or to the horse\nthieves\u2019 corrals. The Indian Agent, having no armed force at his\ncommand, is powerless to stop the depredations. The Indians,\nnotwithstanding their keen sense of injury, manifest no symptoms of\ninsubordination, but remain entirely peaceable, and are beginning\nto devote themselves to farming. The Spotted Tail Indians, within\nthe past two years, have lost several thousand horses in the same\nway. These facts reinforce our plea for extending the jurisdiction\nof the United States courts over the reservations. But, as it is,\nthe Department must be impotent indeed to rest supinely without\nbringing this matter before the Cabinet, and ascertaining whether\nthere be not power somewhere in this Government to secure justice\nto peaceable Indians when robbed and plundered.--_Advance._\n\n--A report from Fort Ellis says that there are 400 Indians there\nstarving, and their number is being daily added to. A band of 300\nare reported within a few days\u2019 march of Port Ellis, unable to\nproceed farther on account of weakness.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWINNING BY PASSIVE VIRTUE.\n\nVirtue, etymologically, has a masculine element, that of bravery,\nenergy. Those qualities had a grand exhibition on both sides of\nour late civil contest. In the process of moral construction now\nfollowing there is occasion for the exercise of the passive virtue\nof patient endurance. In the long run this courageous standing by\nmoral convictions will come to a victory more resplendent than that\nof physical valor. He that ruleth his spirit is stronger than he\nthat taketh a city.\n\nOur missionary teachers and preachers have gone down South from\nyear to year armed not with carnal weapons, but with spiritual--not\nunder the impulse of martial prowess, but of high moral courage.\nThis one thing they do: they give themselves exclusively to their\nwork of lifting up the lowly and despised by the influences of\neducation and of the Gospel. They do not go to engage in the\npolitical conflicts of that part of our country, thinking that a\ntraining in the higher elements of character and of citizenship\nwill be the most effectual way of doing good to the body politic.\n\nIt is not necessary now, nor is it to our purpose, to detail the\npersecutions, the hardships, the social ostracism through which\nthose cultivated and consecrated people, in this period, have had\nto pass. We, rather, take the more pleasant task of reporting how\nby their patient endurance in well-doing they have been winning the\nconfidence, the favor, of the best people of the South. Each of\nour leading institutions in that region has the habit of holding\nan experience meeting upon the return of the students from their\nvacation work. Last year Fisk and Atlanta Universities sent out\neach one hundred and fifty young folks as teachers. These come\ninto contact with a great number and a great variety of the\nwhite people. At those reunions they have reported from year to\nyear an increasing amount of good feeling toward them and their\nwork in behalf of their people. This is gratefully noted by\ntheir teachers. From our own observations the past year we are\nsatisfied that there is a good deal of such latent approval which\nhas not yet given itself expression in public. Our teachers and\npreachers for a long time have had complete immunity from personal\nviolence, and largely from personal insult. As the quality of\ntheir work has become known in developing intelligence, industry,\nhonesty, Christian character, they have received for it the\nhighest approbation from an increasing number, especially from the\nChristian and the more substantial portion of the community. This\nhas been accomplished by faithful service and quiet waiting.\n\nIn the matter of social recognition they still wait to win that\nfair recompense. In business and other relations on the street,\nand even, as in some places, at public gatherings, our gentlemen\nworkers are receiving that meed of consideration. In one city,\nunder the lead of one noble-hearted Christian man, that thin\nbarrier has been broken down, and some of the best ladies of the\nplace are on social terms with our teachers and the pastor\u2019s wife.\nWe are sorry to say that this is the only place where this social\nrecognition has gone so far. At one other city, where some of our\nworkers live in homes outside of the institutions, these have\nbeen treated with a measure of delicate and highly appreciated\nattention. The wife of one of our college presidents waited seven\nyears for her first call from a citizen lady. Some of our elect\nlady teachers have been engaged ten or twelve years, at the same\nplace, in their arduous and self-denying labor, without having had\na single sisterly greeting. It seems pretty hard to hear these\ngodly women, of the best that our churches can furnish, saying:\n\u201cFor so and so many years I have not been spoken to by a white\nSouthern lady.\u201d Our \u201cHomes,\u201d where these Christian people dwell,\nare avoided as though they were pest-houses. If the same people\nhad been missionaries to Africa, they would be received with all\ndeferential courtesy. If they were to go as missionaries to Natal\nor Calcutta or Constantinople, they would have for society the\nelite of foreign residents and their company would be courted.\n\nBut we will not complain. Our brethren and sisters, who are in\nthese situations, make no ado about it. They bear this neglect\nmeekly and hopefully, expecting that purity of life and devotion\nto their humane mission will yet win the tokens of regard which\nbelong to them. One lady says that she expects that it will yet be\ncounted an honor to her that she was the wife of the President of a\nFreedman\u2019s College.\n\nWe grant that it may be hard to break the ice after so long delay.\nIn a few cases there has been a disposition to make atonement by\nshowing attention to the newly arrived workers, while the old\nones are still overlooked. One fine, old Christian gentleman, who\nwas prominent as a Methodist minister, broke his embarrassment,\nwhen calling late upon some of our missionaries, by stating thus:\n\u201cI have heard that in some parts of the world the social custom\nprevails that whenever a new-comer arrives in a community, it is\nhis prerogative to select from the citizens such as he and his\nwould like to take into relations of social acquaintance, and to\nmake the first call upon them.\u201d The pleasantry served well in\nremoving a barrier from between those who proved to be real friends.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nDying Scenes--Pressing Work.\n\nREV. J. H. H. SENGSTACKE, WOODVILLE.\n\nA great deal of sickness is all around us and death has been very\nbusy reaping. A few days ago we buried one of our faithful members.\nSister Williams sent for me quite early last Monday morning. As\nsoon as I arrived she took hold of my hand and said to her cousin,\n\u201cTell him what I have been saying, for I am too weak to converse.\u201d\nShe had spoken the following words: \u201cI want to go and see Jesus.\nCome, Master, please come quickly. I am willing to go,\u201d etc. As it\nwas some time before I spoke, she said, \u201cTell Brother Sengstacke\nto speak quickly. I want to hear his voice once more.\u201d I read and\ncommented on the 22d chapter of Revelation, and offered prayer,\nafter which I folded her hands and laid them on her breast, as I\nexclaimed with a loud voice, \u201cSister Williams, I hope we shall meet\nin heaven!\u201d She tried to speak as she bowed her head, and with\na smile upon her face, her spirit took its everlasting flight,\n\u201cnot as the quarry slave at night, scourged to his dungeon, but\nsustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust.\u201d Tuesday her funeral\ntook place from our little church, the procession being over a mile\nlong. Wednesday morning an old Baptist woman sent for me quite\nearly to \u201ccome quickly.\u201d Arriving at her house I found her in a\nvery low condition. She took hold of my hand as I knelt by her on\nthe floor, and said: \u201cBrother Sengstacke, I want you to take me\nin your charge. Do look after me and not let me want for prayers\nand the word of God. I know that my Redeemer lives,\u201d etc. After\nsinging, reading and prayer, I left her in the hands of Jesus.\nTo-day we buried Sister Williams\u2019 baby. This sleeping infant will\nrest upon a mother\u2019s bosom, as they both lie in one grave.\n\nOn account of our growing school I fear that very little pastoral\nwork and preaching can be done this winter, and yet two services a\nday are necessary: one in the morning for the young converts and\nmembers living several miles away, and the other at night for a\nlarge body of Christians of other denominations and unconverted\npeople who do not come to us during the day. I am not gifted with\nwords to picture to you the great need of this field and its bright\npromises of a successful future, provided that it be not neglected.\nI feel that the American Missionary Association has done a great\ndeal for us, and this encourages me to sacrifice for the good\ncause. Yet how happy I should be if I had some help, or at least\nenough salary to employ one of the most advanced scholars to assist\nme in the day-school.\n\nOur promising mission and Sunday-school at the Five Mile had to be\ngiven up, because it was impossible for me to look after so much\nwork. Another denomination has started a mission at that place.\n\nI have to whitewash and try to paint the parsonage, as the church\nis not able, on account of struggling hard to raise money to\npaint the inside of the meeting-house, and to pay Brother Markham\nfor some new benches. They have finished paying for the organ\nand have had the church nicely done up (whitewashed) outside.\nOur Sunday-night meetings are crowded. Our Sabbath-school and\nday-school are flourishing.\n\nLast Sunday I received a note which read as follows: \u201cI desire to\nbecome a member of this Sabbath-school. I promise to study hard and\nobey all its rules.\u201d Signed, \u201cThomas.\u201d In reading out my church\nnotices I remarked, \u201cHere is a note from little Thomas, etc. Yes,\nTommy, we are happy to receive you. If little Tom is present he\nwill please stand up.\u201d Imagine my feelings when a big man got up\nand exclaimed, \u201cHere is your little Tom, sir.\u201d This person was a\nteacher in the Baptist Sabbath-school, and is a member of that\nchurch.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA New Field.\n\nREV. A. J. HEADEN, CYPRESS SLASH\n\nI arrived here July the 3d. There are many things to encourage\neffort in this field of labor. We have a splendid situation for a\nchurch, and school, and a few earnest men and women. We need a\nchurch building very much indeed, and hope to secure one as soon as\npossible.\n\nWhen I arrived here I found my people building a school-house of\npine logs on the grounds near where we hope to build the church, in\nwhich a public school will be opened the 1st of August by Mr. Silas\nDaniels. We shall use the school-house for worship until we can\nbuild a church. It is 18 by 20 feet.\n\nThis field seems now to be ready for the harvest, and for that\nreason I would urge the importance of building a church as soon as\npossible. The people are poor, but willing to do what they can to\npush the work forward. With some help I believe great results may\nbe obtained here for our Lord and his Christ. I do not think that\nmoney could be given to any field or people with more advantage\nthan to this. The people are truly in earnest, and will put forth\nevery effort themselves with the Association to establish here a\nChristian church and school.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nSwayne School.\n\nMISS M. J. ADAMS, MONTGOMERY.\n\nSwayne School closed its school year June 5th. We had pleasant\npublic exercises for the little ones Wednesday evening at 5 o\u2019clock\nand on Thursday night for the older pupils at the Congregational\nchurch. \u201cWe had a neat programme printed, the pupils bringing\neach a \u201cnickel\u201d to pay the printer. One was sent to each of the\nclergymen of the city, and to several prominent citizens.\n\nThe Board of Education and the mayor of the city, also two or three\njudges, responded by their presence. It was a very bright and happy\noccasion; a crowded house seemed to enjoy, without weariness, a two\nhours\u2019 sitting.\n\nMany kind words of approbation have come to us with regard to the\nhigh order and interest of the exercises. We trust that some new\nfriends have been made, and a new interest developed in our work\nwith some present that evening. It has been a very laborious year,\nbut the teachers have all stood bravely and faithfully at their\nposts, and by the good hand of our God upon us, we have all \u201ccome\nthrough\u201d without falling by the way.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTENNESSEE.\n\nLe Moyne School--Close of the Year--Conversions.\n\nMISS LAURA A. PARMELEE, MEMPHIS.\n\nAt the closing exercises of the school our numbers were good, and\nthe last recitation was as perfect as any lesson within the year.\nIt was remarkable that interest in study did not flag in the least.\n\nThe most cheering of closing incidents was found in the prayer\nmeeting. We have regretted the lack of a decided religious\ninfluence--it has been the one failure of the year. In the last\nmeeting we were not left without evidence of the Spirit\u2019s work.\nTwo young men confessed their trust in Christ and determination to\nbe his avowed followers. Another young man, whose voice has been\nsilent for years, and who has seldom attended meetings either at\nschool or church, asked prayers for himself in a manly way that\nspoke well for his expressed desire to resume his place in the\nranks of Christian workers.\n\nWe are not satisfied with the spiritual record of the year. We\nhoped it would have been a harvest season.\n\nI have not heard from the church since the fever panic. Am hoping\nit will not scatter the members or retard the work, which seemed\nprosperous.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA Colored Girl\u2019s Experience as a Teacher.\n\nREBECCA A. MICHEL, MARION, ALA.\n\nThis little town contains about five hundred inhabitants. There are\nfew colored people in Pikeville, but many live about it from one to\nthree miles away. My school was not right in Pikeville, but just\non the edge. The school-house was about eighteen by thirty. It is a\nframe house and has fourteen seats in it, all without backs except\nfour of them.\n\nMy work for the year 1878 began the second week of June, the\nschool being crowded from day to day. During the months of June,\nJuly, August, September and October, the number enrolled ran up to\nseventy-five. I heard from some of the citizens of that little town\nthat the pupils attended the school more regularly than they were\nknown to do before. I am glad to say that the greater portion of\nmy school seemed to have a thirst for knowledge. Even the little\nones worked earnestly in trying to prepare their lessons for the\ntime when they should recite. My school opened each morning with\nsinging, Scripture reading and prayer. At the close of the term\nevery one could read, print, write and spell. Those who have been\nout in the dark regions to teach the people can sympathize with\nthose of us who go into such places. They know something of the\ntroubles that meet us. On the whole, the outlook is very hopeful.\n\nThe work of last summer was arduous, yet I went through it with the\nhelp of the Lord, seeing promises of most excellent results for the\nfuture. When I first went to Pikeville I found the people of both\nclasses in a degraded and superstitious condition, and ignorance\nseemed to be the leading principle of the place. The Sabbath was\nregarded but by a very few of either class. Yet they were very\nanxious for an education, and tried in every way they could to make\nour schools comfortable and interesting. Their whole cry was, \u201cDo\nall you can for us poor people who are in the dark, and are in so\nmuch need of an education.\u201d I organized a Sunday-school, which I\nthink was one of the most important parts of my work, to teach the\npeople the word of God. I taught day and Sunday-school for five\nmonths, and had great success with both white and colored people.\nThe white people were very kind to me. I had a long talk with some\nof them about the education of the colored people. They said if\nthe colored man was educated they thought he would make a better\ncitizen, and they were ready to do all they could in trying to help\nhim toward an education.\n\nMy short but busy term closed with an examination and a good\nexhibition, well attended by white as well as colored people. All\nseemed perfectly satisfied with the work that I had done for them\nduring the term. The white people gave me permission to have my\nexhibition in their academy, which held over two hundred persons.\n\nI have come back to this lonely Sequatchie valley to stay with\nthese people four or five months longer, in which time I hope to do\nmuch good for them. All welcome me back to my old home. They say:\n\u201cThe white people seem just as glad to have me back as the colored\ndo.\u201d Some of them stopped me on the street to shake hands with me,\nand to talk with me about coming to teach the young people manners\nand behavior.\n\nOne said: \u201cI tell you, our young people do need education so much,\nand I am so glad you have come back to teach them.\u201d Another said:\n\u201cI knew you could not stay away from here.\u201d I could speak of a good\nmany more interesting facts, but time will not permit me to speak\nof them. I hope you will find this story interesting.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI.\n\nLetter from a Tougaloo Student--Vacation Work--Needy Recruits.\n\nMy public school closed last week, and I commenced teaching an\nindependent school this morning, with thirty pupils. They pay one\ndollar per month, in _advance_. I think I shall have a very good\nschool.\n\nThere are nine or ten promising young men here who want to go\nto Tougaloo, to school next year. Some of them are quite young,\nsixteen or seventeen years of age, and a great deal of good can be\ndone with and through such boys. Very few of them will be able to\npay anything for their board. They often come to my room in great\nnumbers to talk of Tougaloo.\n\nIn speaking with young people about this University, I try to\nimpress them with the knowledge that young men who are willing to\nwork hard and study diligently are those for whom the school is\nopen. I show them my five pound boots, etc. I think those who go\nthere from here will not find it harder than they expected. I go\ninto the country occasionally and meet young men who say: \u201cPlease\ntalk to my father in my behalf, and try to induce him to send me to\nschool.\u201d A young man and his sister (who live eight or ten miles in\nthe country) board here and go to school to me. The young man went\nto school in Selma, when he was quite a small boy. He also went to\nschool at Tougaloo a few months. He is very anxious to be in school\nthere next year, and his parents are very anxious to have both him\nand his sister go, but he thinks it is very doubtful unless he can\nget some work to do, and he is willing to do any kind of work. From\nwhat I have seen of him, I think him the most promising of any I\nhave met. He is not a Christian.\n\nThere are two young women here who are also anxious to go to\nTougaloo to school. Both are willing to work all they can. I want\nto explain their condition to you, and have you let me know whether\nanything can be done for them. One of them has been bound out for\nsome time to a white family, and is now living with an old lady,\nand washing, ironing, cooking, etc., for her living. She was raised\nby those white people, and has every appearance of a lady, so far\nas I can see. She is about sixteen or seventeen years of age. She\nwent to school to Miss V., who can tell you of her.\n\nI have not come to the point yet. I want to know if you cannot give\nthe people here an opportunity to work in preference to strangers\nfrom other places. If you can form an idea how much work you can\nfurnish, I wish you would give me some information in regard to it,\nso that I can answer the many questions that are asked me.\n\nAt the closing exercises of my school, there were people present\nfrom ten or twelve miles in several directions. They were all\npleased with the exercises, both the white and the colored people.\nThe whites have been assisting me in getting up my independent\nschool. A white man sends one child and pays for it himself. Some\nof the whites suggested that it would be a good idea to have a high\nschool here for the colored people.\n\nThe editor of the paper sent to my room for me Saturday, and I had\na long talk with him. He said he had not known very much about\nTougaloo University.\n\nThere was such a gathering at the church on Wednesday evening\nthat they could not all get into the house. I extended an\ninvitation to all the people in the county to be present: it was\nwell represented. I invited the people to sign the temperance\npledge after a temperance concert. The invitation was responded\nto by a great number. A still greater number have stopped chewing\ntobacco, but have not signed the pledge, because they prefer giving\nthemselves a trial before doing so. There will be quite a number of\nothers who will sign the pledge soon, I think.\n\n                                                        W. H. L.\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE MENDI MISSION.\n\nReligious Progress, etc., at Avery.\n\nREV. A. E. JACKSON, AVERY.\n\nI am glad to say that there is an increasing interest religiously\namong the people. They seem to be growing more and more in the love\nof God, and to exhibit it in their lives. They have begun to be a\nmore Sabbath-observing people. They are also attending church more\nregularly than usual, and give better attention than ever before.\nThese are all features of encouragement in our work.\n\nSunday, May 11, was our communion day, and the Lord seemed to be\npresent with us in the Spirit\u2019s power. Two adults were added to\nthe church, and five children christened. There is also a growing\ninterest in our prayer meetings; several are inquiring the way of\nsalvation. We earnestly ask the united prayers of your church for\nour work.\n\nThe tornadoes are fast coming to a close, and the rains are rapidly\napproaching. There will doubtless be very great suffering on the\npart of the natives this season, on account of the scarcity of\nrice. This comes from the fact that the rains came on much earlier\nthan usual last year.\n\nThe agricultural work is progressing quite nicely. The coffee farm\nis in quite a good condition, and Brother Anthony is now having it\ncleaned.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTravels into the Interior--The Heathen--The Country--The\nOpportunity.\n\nREV. ALBERT P. MILLER, GOOD HOPE.\n\nIt was my privilege to visit, during last mouth and part of this,\na large extent of country toward the interior of this broad\ncontinent, directly in front of the Sherbro Islands, to form an\nopinion as to the prospects of \u201cstretching our lines.\u201d I cannot\npromise to give you a detailed account of all incidents of interest\nthat came under my observation, but shall dwell upon that which\npresses my mind most in regard to our work--the opening up of new\nplaces for missionary operation.\n\nOn the 13th of May ultimo, Brother Jackson and I left Avery with\na view of visiting places in the Bargroo country, and at the same\ntime of getting children to be trained at Avery for missionaries.\nWe skimmed along nicely on the Big Bargroo River, passing many\nneatly built and arranged villages. We stopped at some to ask for\nchildren, but the chiefs informed us, generally, that they would\nhave to hold consultations with the people on the matter.\n\nOn every side signs of heathenism exhibited themselves. Little\nmounds, built by certain insects of the country, neatly covered\nby the natives, are bowed down to and worshipped. Small pots or\nbottles are placed before their doors to keep away evil spirits.\n\n\nCOCONANNY AND DODO.\n\nLate in the evening we arrived at Coconanny, the extreme military\npost of the English. This is kept here to suppress the slave-trade,\nthough much of it is carried on, I am informed, clandestinely. It\nis a beautiful place, elevated and healthy; vegetation, too, grows\nluxuriantly. The trader, Mr. Hayes, with whom we put up for the\nnight, has built, at his own expense, a small chapel, in which\nservices are conducted mornings and Sundays. Mr. Hayes is a friend\nof the Mission and our work, and desires very much to have us come\nand begin missionary work in behalf of those among whom his lot is\ncast. The villages round about are abundant, and I think a good\nwork could be done in this community. The people are willing to\nhave us come and establish a permanent Christian work among them.\nBritish protection being here would render property safer and less\nliable to plunder.\n\nLeaving Coconanny early next morning, we made our way to Dodo.\nThe neatness of the places visited was everywhere noticeable,\nthe people in their very expressions seeming to welcome \u201cthe\nmissionaries\u201d who had come to visit them. There is nothing\nstrikingly beautiful about the part of the Bargroo country that I\nvisited. Mangroves extend to the village of Dodo, which we have in\nabundance in Sherbro. The scene to me was rather monotonous. \u201cWe\nreached Dodo late in the evening, and after the usual ceremony,\nwhich consists in giving the chief presents, we disclosed to him\nthe nature of our journey, among other things telling him that we\ndesired very much to get children from his territory to train in\nour mission for missionaries. For his people he could not speak\njust then, but his majesty informed us that the matter would be\nbrought before them for consideration as soon as practicable; he\nwas in a position to speak for himself, and would give the only\nson large enough to leave home at the time. A large goat was slain\nand brought in and laid before us, with a peck of rice, for our\nsupper. Although we were very hungry, this was more than we felt\nable to consume at one or two meals. A hind quarter was sent in to\nthe chief, the rest being shared between ourselves and our men.\nHere we stopped overnight. The place is strongly barricaded, and\nis very neat and cleanly. A place was offered our Mission on which\nto establish a station. Here is a fine opportunity to make a step\nmore directly toward the interior. They want us to come; what must\nwe tell them? Brother Jackson visits the chief as often as time and\nstrength will allow. He was once ransomed by Brother Snelson when\non the point of being sent to Freetown, accused and found guilty\nof selling slaves. They dread very much to fall into the hands of\nthe English, and he was a happy man when Brother Snelson paid his\nransom for him, and stood between him and the English authorities.\nHe has given up warring, and his people are seemingly prosperous\nand happy. His subjects are chiefly Sherbros, but they speak Mendi\nas well as their mother tongue.\n\nOur Mission, through former missionaries, is known far into the\ninterior, and the natives generally are favorably disposed toward\nit. We left Dodo early next morning, homeward bound, with Joe, the\nchief\u2019s son, with us. He wore only nature\u2019s garment, and seemed as\nhappy as a bird. The people here don\u2019t bother themselves too much\nabout clothing. Industry is characteristic of them. We stopped\nat places that we visited on our advance up the river, and were\ninformed in most cases that the \u201cbig man\u201d was away, or the chief\nat Dodo. Humper Ranko had not been consulted. The people dare not\ndo anything of this nature without first consulting their head.\nHowever, we succeeded in getting four children, who were carried,\nas we found them--without a rag on--to Avery.\n\nThere are two places in this wilderness of moral darkness now open\nto us which, I think, could be worked up with very small expense\nto the Mission. Both are on the Bargroo River, leading toward\nthe interior, which is navigable at all seasons of the year by\nsmall boats. May the Lord in His own good time send to these our\nbenighted brethren the advantages of a Christian civilization.\n\n\nKAW-MENDI.\n\nIn accordance with your request I visited, last month, Kaw-Mendi\nand vicinity, where the banner of the Cross was first unfurled\nin this part of a heathen land by men sent out by the American\nMissionary Association. This place, as you will remember, was\ndeserted for a long time. Of late years Mr. J. M. Williams, of his\nown accord and on his own responsibility, has resumed the work.\nHere lie some of the sainted dead who fell in pure devotion to\nthe cause of the Christian religion, to the cause of suffering and\nunenlightened humanity.\n\nA mangrove tree here and there and roads leading in different\ndirections only remind one that once better things were here. Some\nof the scholars who attended school when Kaw-Mendi was in her bloom\nare still round about, and they still remember their old teachers,\nmany of whom, doubtless, are now gone. They all seemed glad to\nhave us come and visit them. One of the \u201cAmistads\u201d is here--Father\nSmith. He is growing quite old; yet he is active. Old Aunt Maria\nand Limby are still alive and can tell you all about Mr. Raymond\nand others who, in the infancy of missions here, came to Africa.\nBrother Williams has prayer meetings in his country house, mornings\nand evenings, to which those near are invited to come. Regular\npreaching services are held in a country chapel on Sundays. The\nchapel has been recently built, and the membership is such as to\nnecessitate its being organized and dedicated. Old pupils of the\nMission, who had lapsed into heathen habits, having long been left\nwithout any spiritual leader, have been reclaimed and brought into\nthe church.\n\nThe chief is favorably disposed toward missionaries and accompanied\nus to many places in his territory. Were it not for his favor,\nBrother Williams could not get along so well in his work. There are\n21 boys under Mr. Williams\u2019 immediate care in his country house,\n(which is very neat and comfortable), whom he is instructing. He\nfeeds and clothes them, and how he does it is a mystery to me. One\nthing helps him, and that is his agricultural department, connected\nwith his school. His boys are taught to work. Although the farm is\nsmall, still it is very good.\n\nWe took Brother Williams by surprise and notwithstanding his\npoor accommodation, as he termed it, we (Mrs. Miller, Mr. Jowett\nand myself) spent two or three days very pleasantly in and about\nKaw-Mendi. We went up the Little Boom as far as Kambia. This was\na very strongly barricaded town, held by Tom Cabby Smith, the\nmost powerful and wealthy chief in all this region of country. He\ndied last year, and his estate is going to ruin. The walls have\nfallen, the slaves are widely scattered, and things in general are\nin a very unsettled state. He was once connected with the Mission\nat Kaw-Mendi as a common laborer and was a very industrious man.\nVillages all along the banks of the river were flourishing and rice\ncrops promising. Everything indicated prosperity, so far as the\nnatives are able to be prosperous without the light of the Gospel.\n\nThe country is Mendi-speaking, and though it is large and the\npeople are plentiful, and are not opposed to the Christian\nreligion, still there is but one man in this country to tell them\nof Jesus.\n\nI am favorably impressed with the country and the people. It is a\nday\u2019s travel from Good Hope. Stretching out toward the interior,\nthe country is low, but Brother Williams pronounces it healthy.\nHe is a West Indian, and has lived in Africa for the last twenty\nyears. It may be that he is quite acclimated, and it is not\nunhealthy for him.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPlaces up the Big Boom were also visited in the interest of the\nMission, some of which were formerly occupied by missionaries under\nthe general direction of the American Missionary Association,\nbut are now abandoned. Three of these, doubtless, are well\nremembered--Salem Hill, Lawana, and Mo-Tappan.\n\nThe lower portion of the Boom River waters a section of country\nthat is very fertile, and might be called, very appropriately, the\n\u201cPalm-growing Region.\u201d The towns in this section of country are\nprosperous looking, and as one beholds palm-trees stretching into\nthe distance, he can but think of the old missionary hymn--\n\n    \u201cFrom Greenland\u2019s icy mountains, etc.,\n    From many a palmy plain.\u201d\n\nSurely from these plains, rich in the production of palm-nuts,\netc., they are calling Christian men and women to deliver them, not\nfrom physical bondage, but from that bondage that enslaves the soul\nforever--the bondage of eternal death!\n\n\nGBAP, TROM, MARKETAH.\n\nWe stopped all night at a place called Gbap, where the king of\na large extent of country, lying or bordering on the Big Boom,\nresides. We had very comfortable lodging here, although we failed\nin seeing his majesty the king.\n\nMrs. Miller was along; also Mr. Jowett, our interpreter. Two of the\nschoolboys also attended us. The next morning we got a good peep at\nthe place. It was very neat, and I was informed that the Mission\nonce had a teacher here.\n\nShoving off (you must remember we travel in boats), we advanced\nslowly up the river, whose current had become quite strong. The\nday\u2019s travel was very unsatisfactory, and our night\u2019s rest more so;\nfor the mosquitoes are so bad in this part of the country, that\nchildren and cows have been killed by them. This our men say. I am\nsure they were bad enough that night. Mrs. Miller seemed a perfect\nmarvel to these savage people. We could scarcely go to bed, such as\nit was, for their looking in upon us, talking about Mrs. Miller. I\nwas so black, and so much resembled other Africans, that I was not\nthe centre of attraction. Still, our interpreter informed us that\nthey complimented us as \u201cNyandingo te te\u201d--very fine, or fine for\ntrue.\n\nMorning was gladly hailed by all. Mosquitoes was the principal\ntheme. Each one had battled, evidently, all night, not for place,\nbut for life, against these pests. We moved off early, and shall\never remember the village and the night spent here. Its name is\nTrom. I am sure if I had been in a tomb that night, with something\nof the vault kind over me, my rest would have been more peaceful\nthan in this dreary place. The people wherever we stopped kindly\nreceived the missionaries. We made better time from Trom to our\nnext night\u2019s resting-place. We entered the Kittam River, early\nleading off toward the Gallinas, a tribe that also speaks Mendi.\nMendi is the predominant language of a very large extent of\ncountry. The lower part of the Big Boom River, which is called the\nBullom, runs through a beautiful section of country. The Kittam\nalso has very picturesque scenery. The people looked contented\nand happy; the country elevated and healthy. We travelled several\nmiles down this river, and on visiting the king, the reception that\nwas given us showed that he highly appreciated our visit. I am\ninformed that no missionary had ever been here before. He promised\nthe mission two children. After holding conference with the people\nhe offered a place to plant a mission station in which to educate\nhis children. He had them in his villages in abundance. I informed\nhim that I would \u201clook my head\u201d--think over the matter. All were\nimpressed with the beauty of this country, with the neatness of\nits villages and the good disposition of the people. The king\u2019s\ndaughter made so much fuss over Mrs. Miller, dressed so differently\nfrom herself, that she became quite uneasy. Large crowds came\naround and joined her in welcoming their strange friend. My color\nagain made me more common and less noticeable. We had a good\nnight\u2019s rest in this place. We left Coranko and the Soboo chief\nand his people the next day, feeling happy in the thought that\nmissionaries are wanted in this place, and that the Lord in his own\ngood time will send them to it. \u201cThe harvest, truly, is plenteous,\nbut the laborers are few.\u201d The people stood on the shore while\nwe sailed away. We met persons in our travels whom we knew in\nBonthe, at Good Hope. They always did their best to make us happy.\nAll I can say is, may the Soboo chief and people have, before a\ngreat while, some one to teach them the way to Christ, man\u2019s only\nRedeemer.\n\nEntering again the Big Boom en route to Mo-Tappan, we made good\ntime, stopping at a few villages along the way. No missionary is\nin all this country. We stopped overnight with one Mr. Collier,\nwho carries on trade near the river, in a place called Marketah,\npeople\u2019s market. It was Saturday night, and he was very busy\nclosing accounts for the week. Our reception was a cordial one. We\nspent the Sabbath here and were much pleased to see what is doing\nfor these benighted people. We had services at eleven o\u2019clock,\nwhich the natives attended. It was interesting, and I feel that a\ngood impression was made. Such meetings--I mean those consisting\nof reading of the Bible, commenting, etc.--are held regularly by\nMr. Collier for the community. They surely can do a great deal in\nhelping on the good cause. It were better and safer for trade, if\nreligious instruction were in all this country. This part of the\nBig Boom is often visited by the horrors of war. Whole villages are\nsometimes laid low in one night, the inhabitants put to the sword\nor carried off into slavery. These wars are not waged because the\naggressors have been in any way wronged by the attacked, but just\nfor the sake of plunder. It is now something over a year since\nwar visited this part of the Big Boom, but it has left its signs.\nVillages that were deserted are being rebuilt. Traders are resuming\ntheir business, and peace is gradually returning to all this region.\n\nWe left early Monday morning, having spent a pleasant Sabbath with\nour friends in Marketah. The current became stronger as we advanced\ntoward the interior. The winds were adverse, so our progress\nwas somewhat like the missionary work, slow. We had long since\nleft mangroves, with their malarial swamps. That we were getting\nsome distance from Sherbro was visible from the very appearance\nof things. The farther we advanced into the interior, the more\nuneasiness seemed to be depicted on the countenances of Africa\u2019s\nenslaved children. Africa is her own greatest enemy. War and\nslavery curse her most, bring misery where happiness might reign.\nWhen you launch out of British jurisdiction, slaves are common.\nThis traffic is carried on by the natives themselves, and the\nbiggest man owns the largest number of slaves and has the greatest\nnumber of wives.\n\nPolygamy is common, where men are able to support more than one\nwife; but you may rest assured that when means of support give out,\nthe women are found giving out too.\n\nThis day\u2019s travel brought us to Baikal, a strongly barricaded town.\nWe did not go inside, but the music and noise within showed plainly\nthat Ham\u2019s sons and daughters here were having a good time in a\ncountry dance.\n\n\nMO-TAPPAN, SALEM HILL, LAWANA.\n\nWe rested overnight, but early next morning pushed on for\nMo-Tappan, the extreme interior Mission station held by the\nAmerican Missionary Association. We stopped at villages along our\njourney, where signs of late wars are still apparent. Each man is\narmed with either sword or cutlass. I am told that they keep these\nnear them in time of peace to fight with, but in time of war they\nwrap them up in mats, give them to their wives, and ask their feet\nto save them by flight. The Mendi people are treacherous and cruel\nin war, and not at all brave. I hope the time may soon come when\nall this region will enjoy peace and righteousness in God.\n\nThis country is elevated, with beautiful bills stretching away\ninto the distance. We enjoyed the fine scenery. About ten o\u2019clock\nwe reached Salem Hill. The massive walls built here by the former\nmissionaries are still standing, but the place is so covered with\nshrubbery and vines that it is with great difficulty that access\nto it is obtained. The Hill and scenery are splendid, but this\nfoundation, of no use to any one, made us feel sad, everything\naround looked so forlorn. The large village that once stood near\nhas disappeared, as so many African villages and towns have done.\nAlong toward night we reached Lawana, where we remained overnight.\nHere, though several years\u2019 labor was given to this place, no sign\nof past missionary work is visible. The place was captured in war;\nthe inhabitants, all but a few who were ransomed, were put to death\nor sold into slavery. Our resting place here was not large, nor was\nit very comfortable. The chief was not seen until our return from\nMo-Tappan. He evidently feared us, because the portions of country\nwhere wars are numerous are often or sometimes visited by the\nEnglish to ask the people to keep quiet.\n\nWe left early next morning for Mo-Tappan, arriving there about 9\no\u2019clock. The place is now a regular canebreak. The tomb of the late\nMr. Brooks is the only thing that reminded us that the white man\nhad been here. Our stay was short. No one at all lives here now. It\nwas broken up by war.\n\n\u201cWe now retraced our steps for home, stopping at Lawana. We then\nsaw the chief, who gave us a cordial welcome. Three children were\nbrought home by us to be trained for future workers. The current\ncarried us down quite rapidly. We stopped at but few places on\nour return; our Mission is well known in all this country, and it\nwill be easy for us again to gain footing in former places held by\nthe American Missionary Association. Large outlays are altogether\nunnecessary; plain houses, on cheap plans, are things for a country\nso subject to changes from war.\n\nThe real Mendi people are here, and I hope that the banner of\nChrist will soon again in triumph wave over the strongholds once\nheld by our Mission. Pray that we may be guided in attempting to\nextend our work, and that everything may be done to His honor and\nglory.\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\nFALSE BRETHREN.\n\nWe have had new griefs of late. In days past, when reproach\nand opposition came mainly from those whose anti-Chinese rage\nwas simply an expression of an anti-Christian spirit, it was\ncomparatively easy to endure it. And even when those professing\ngodliness have cringed before ungodly prejudices, and shut the door\nof the house of God upon the Chinese Sunday-school, and received,\nif at all, with left-handed welcomes to the church on earth Chinese\nwho gave every token of having been accepted by Christ to the\nkingdom of Heaven, we remembered with comfort the \u201csure foundation\u201d\nwhich has \u201cthis seal; the Lord knoweth them that are His.\u201d In all\nthese experiences, and even when the violence of lawless hoodlumism\nfor the time almost emptied our school-rooms, and the intensity\nof anti-Chinese feeling on the part of Americans was provoking an\nequally intense anti-American feeling on the part of the Chinese,\nso that we found it difficult to bring them within reach of Gospel\ninfluences, we had this to console us, that our Chinese brethren\nthemselves, almost without exception, seemed to be \u201csteadfast,\nimmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.\u201d It is true,\nsome who were received to our Association of Christian Chinese\nwere found, before the six or eight months of their probation had\nexpired, not to be sincere, and were consequently never baptized;\nbut of those who had been received to the church, I was accustomed\nto say that thus far not one, so far as we knew, had brought any\nreproach upon the name of Christ.\n\nThis was a glad surprise to me. I had read Paul\u2019s letters to\nthe churches of Corinth and of Galatia, and the messages of\nJesus to the seven churches of Asia, and was well aware that the\ndisappointments which attended apostolic missions occurred often\nenough to-day in heathen lands to make our missionaries there\nrejoice with trembling over those apparently born of God; but,\ntill recently, no such disappointment had been visited upon us.\nThere were occasional backslidings, a temporary recession of\ninterest, which started fears and called us to earnest prayer;\nbut, in general, I could say, that I knew of no group of American\nChristians in whose steadfastness and zeal a pastor could take\nmore delight than we could in our Chinese brethren. And this is\nstill true; perhaps more evidently true than before, in view of the\ncourse which they have pursued towards some \u201cfalse brethren.\u201d\n\nAbout three months ago I visited Sacramento, in order to make\nnew arrangements for the accommodation of our Mission there. The\nroom which we had occupied free of rent for many years being no\nlonger at our service, I was enabled to rent, at a comparatively\nlow rate, a Mission house so well located, so roomy, and so well\nadapted to our peculiar work, that I came away gratefully realizing\nthat the Master himself had gone before me, and believing that\nHe was about to lead us into a larger and better work there than\nwe had ever done before. The added expense, however, caused me\nto withdraw temporarily the paid helper, and to trust to the\nvolunteer aid which our Chinese brethren promised to give. Among\nthese volunteers, the one who seemed at once most able and most\nwilling was Wong Wing. He spoke English well; seemed to be a\nnatural leader; and while exhibiting some traits which made one\nstand somewhat in doubt, yet, on the whole, was trusted both by his\nChinese brethren and their American friends. But he proved to be a\nJudas. He carried the bag and was a thief. Having possessed himself\nof several hundred dollars from the hard earnings of his brethren,\nhe attempted to decamp, but has been brought back, and is now\nawaiting a trial which cannot but consign him to State\u2019s Prison.\nThe concern of our brethren, however, seems to be less for their\nown losses than for the dishonor brought upon the cause of Christ.\n\u201cHow shall we preach in the street any more,\u201d they say, \u201cunless we\ncontinue to let all men see that while we pity Wong Wing, we hate\nhis evil deeds?\u201d And they have spared neither pains nor expense\nin bringing him to justice, as, indeed, by the rules of their\nAssociation they were bound to do.\n\nIn San Francisco we have had one case even sadder than this, which\nhas made our hearts ache through and through, and two or three\ncases which, without bringing overt reproach, yet involved excision\nfrom the church. And at the same time with all these griefs came\ndissensions among the brethren in Oakland, which spread widely, and\nfor a while threatened great disaster. These, however, have been\nallayed, and, indeed, so overruled that the work, on the whole, has\nbeen helped rather than hindered through them.\n\nI suppose it would be neither needful nor wise for me to go further\ninto details, even if the space at my command admitted of it; but\nit seemed to be the dictate even of honesty, since, like Paul,\nI have ventured to \u201cboast\u201d over the character of our Chinese\nbelievers, that I should not conceal these humbling facts. Yet I\nstill will \u201cboast\u201d that never did I witness in any church more\nprompt, wise and effective Christian discipline than these events\nhave called forth in our Association of Christian Chinese; and God\nwill, sooner or later, overrule it all for good.\n\n\nBETHANY SCHOOL.\n\nI append some clippings from the last monthly report of the school\ntaught in the lecture-room of Bethany church, San Francisco. After\nspeaking of the great pleasure she finds in the work in general,\nMiss Worley says: \u201cThe last month has been one of great anxiety\nto me. Some who had attended the school for a long time, and were\nstill attending, had been trying to send others away. In some\ncases, by using threats, they had succeeded. Months ago I was\nrequested by two scholars to expel one pupil for this offense, but\nI wanted to try him a little longer. But\n\n  \u2018One sickly sheep affects the flock\n  And poisons all the rest.\u2019\n\nIn this instance only a few were thus affected. Some were too\nfaithful to be moved by threats. At length the issue came in this\nway: This scholar became aware that one of the pupils was about\nto join the Association. He set his heathen relatives upon him,\nand they threatened to kill him. To keep him away from the school,\nthey got possession, one day, of the key of the \u2018Bethany Home\u2019\nand locked him in. He, finding the door locked, and no chance of\nits being opened till after the close of the school, went out the\nback way and climbed over the fence (a close board fence about\ntwenty feet high, erected to protect the rear of the house from\nhoodlumism). He now thought he would get to school all right. He\nwas mistaken, for, stationed in the corridor between the church\nand the lecture-room were these Chinese who had locked him in. As\nhe passed them they struck him across his eye and hand. I found it\nnecessary then to expel them; yet I feel that they cannot forget\nwhat they have learned, and I live in hope that bread cast upon the\nwaters \u2018will be found after many days.\u2019\n\n\u201cI am glad to say that this good and faithful scholar (for such he\nis) who was hurt, gave his name at the next meeting as a candidate\nfor membership in the Association. The only obstacle in the way of\nanother scholar is the fear of his parents in China. He has not yet\nlearned by _heart_ that \u2018he that loveth father or mother more than\nme is not worthy of me.\u2019\n\n\u201cSince that night, and the expulsion of those persecutors, I seem\nto be constantly adding fresh names to my roll. Working scholars\nare leaving no stone unturned to increase our numbers. I feel\nthankful for such scholars. Friends kindly help me in the work, but\nwhat I most need is a Chinese helper. I trust that at no distant\ntime I may have one. The scholars who are able are willing to\nexplain, but they need all the little time they have for study. I\nfind the most studious pupils make the sincere Christians.\u201d\n\nTo which appeal for a Chinese helper the superintendent adds his\nown _Amen_. But we cannot have one without more means than now we\nhave at our command.\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S INFLUENCE.\n\nMISS MARY BAILEY, VERMONT.\n\nChildren\u2019s influence is too much overlooked in the Mission work.\nParents, Sabbath-school teachers, and missionary agents do not take\nthe pains they might to create in them a missionary spirit.\n\nAs soon as they \u201ccan speak and go alone\u201d they should be \u201cbent\u201d into\nmissionary workers. They _can_ be taught to take as much interest\nin the condition of the Freedmen, Chinese and Indians, as in\n\u201cMother Hubbard,\u201d \u201cJack and the Bean Stalk,\u201d etc. Especially when\nthey are called upon to give their pennies should it be explained\nto them for what purposes their moneys are solicited.\n\nA little mite of a girl came to me and asked for a penny. \u201cWhat\nwould you do with a penny?\u201d said I. \u201cCarry it to Sunday-school.\u201d\n\u201cWhat do you carry it to Sunday-school for?\u201d \u201cTo put it into the\nconniption box.\u201d \u201cWhat do you put it into the \u2018conniption box\u2019\nfor?\u201d \u201cFor the man.\u201d \u201cWhat does the man do with it?\u201d \u201cHe put it\ninto his pocket!\u201d\n\nAfter that, when missionary papers came, I read them through to\nher. By glancing ahead I saw what the facts were, then I would read\nthem in words she could understand. She was so charmed with that\nkind of reading she would take a toy book out of my hand and hunt\nup a missionary paper to be read to her instead.\n\nWhen she saw me glancing along she would exclaim, \u201cDon\u2019t let your\neyes zig-zag over the page; read every word!\u201d\n\nThe Freedmen interested her very much. She said one morning,\n\u201cI prayed for the colored people last night; I told Jesus they\nsuffered.\u201d At another time I read about a colored student who was\nanxious to become a minister, and she \u201ctold the Lord that he wanted\nto be a minister.\u201d\n\nLast Sabbath a missionary preached a very interesting sermon at our\nchurch, in the interests of the Freedmen. I hoped he would speak a\nfew words to the children, but he did not.\n\nI asked a little girl of nine years, who thinks she would like to\nbe a missionary, how she liked the sermon? She replied that she\ncould not understand it. I told her that he said the Catholics were\nsending more teachers among the colored people than we were, and\nthey were fast becoming their converts.\n\nShe quickly replied, \u201cThen we shall be slaves; we had better look\nout!\u201d\n\nIf all children under religious instruction were engaged to do all\nthey could in the cause of Missions, what an additional power would\ntheir praying and gleanings be against the enemies of Christian\nliberty.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR JULY, 1879.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $158.27.\n\n    Castine. Mrs. Lucy S. Adams, to const. MRS.\n      DOROTHY L. STEVENS, L. M.                              $30.00\n    Dennysville. Mrs. Samuel Eastman                           5.00\n    Eastport. Cong. Sab. Sch. $5; Rev. G. A. P.\n      50c.                                                     5.50\n    Kennebunkport. Second Cong. Ch., $8.25; First\n      Cong. Ch., $7.02                                        15.27\n    North Waterford. \u201cA. J. H.\u201d                                2.00\n    Portland. State St. Cong. Ch.                             75.00\n    York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            25.50\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $450.38.\n\n    Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.68\n    Antrim. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Imla Wright                        105.00\n    Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            22.01\n    Brentwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              2.00\n    Concord. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         54.33\n    Greenville. E. G. Heald                                    5.00\n    Keene. First Cong. Sch., $65.40; E. R., $1                66.40\n    Manchester. C. B. Southworth, to const. MINNIE\n      P. SOUTHWORTH, L. M.                                    50.00\n    Marlborough. Freedmen\u2019s Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc.                   7.00\n    Milford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               11.94\n    Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          19.97\n    New Market. T. H. Wiswall                                 10.00\n    North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         21.02\n    Northwood Centre. Cong. Soc.                              16.23\n    Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson                            5.00\n    Temple. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   17.00\n    Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            25.80\n    Windham. \u201cA Friend\u201d (thank offering)                       1.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $248.32.\n\n    Cambridge. B. R. Holmes, Rev. E. Wheelock, S.\n      M. Safford, J. G. Morse, and O. W. Reynolds,\n      $5 ea.; J. W. T. and M. J. M. $1 ea.                    27.00\n    East Hardwick. Mrs. L. W. J. and Mrs. L. H. P.             1.00\n    East Berkshire. S. J. B. 50c.; \u201cA Friend.\u201d 25c.            0.75\n    Enosburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              18.56\n    Fair Haven. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student,\n      Atlanta U._                                             30.00\n    Hartland. Union Coll.                                      2.45\n    Manchester. Cong. Ch. to const. Dea. S. G.\n      CONE, L. M.                                             74.51\n    Milton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                18.05\n    Underhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              9.10\n    Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $32; \u201cE. A.\n      H.\u201d $2                                                  34.00\n    West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   10.15\n    West Milton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            9.81\n    Windham. Cong. Ch.                                         9.10\n    Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              3.84\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $2,265.03.\n\n    Abington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l), $3;\n      S. P. L. 50c.                                            3.50\n    Amherst. Church in Amherst College                        35.30\n    Andover. Chapel Cong. Ch. $75.39; \u201cA Friend,\u201d\n      $10; Miss H. E. Whittier, bbl. of C.                    85.39\n    Beverly. Dane St. Ch. and Soc.                             8.15\n    Boston. Eliot Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                            20.00\n    Brimfield. Second Cong. Sab. Sch.                          5.00\n    Brockton. 2 bbls. C. by Lizzie F. Trow, _for\n      Tougaloo U._\n    Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch.                              97.29\n    Charlestown. Winthrop Cong. Ch. and Soc. _for\n      Hampton N. and A. Inst._                                70.00\n    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         63.38\n    Curtisville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           14.75\n    Dover. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            4.00\n    East Hampton. Payson Cong. Sab. Sch.                      50.00\n    England. Miss S. L. Ropes                                 10.00\n    Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        23.50\n    Fall River. Central Cong. Ch.                              1.50\n    Framingham. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch.                      24.50\n    Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         10.00\n    Georgetown. Memorial Cong. Ch.                            27.05\n    Hadley. Thomas P. Carleton                                 2.00\n    Haverhill. John Kendrick, $10; Mrs. L. P. F.,\n      50c.;--Industrial Soc. of North Ch., bbl. of\n      valuable bedding, _for Tougaloo U._                     10.50\n    Holliston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             12.60\n    Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch.                                 17.90\n    Hingham. Ev. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           13.98\n    Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch.                              14.24\n    Lowell. Kirk St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      224.55\n    Lowell. High St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       15.83\n    Malden. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                44.25\n    Maplewood. Free Christian Ch.                              2.25\n    Middlefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           35.00\n    Millbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              56.49\n    North Adams. Cong. Ch.                                    81.66\n    New Bedford. North Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                       10.00\n    Newburyport. Whitfield Cong. Ch.                          10.87\n    Newton. Eliot Ch.                                        125.00\n    Newtonville. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $26.17; Mrs. J. W. Hayes, $25                           51.17\n    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                50.00\n    Northbridge. Phebe S. Marsh                                5.00\n    North Somerville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                               2.00\n    Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          34.70\n    Petersham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              3.25\n    Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      35.47\n    Reading. Rev. W. H. Willcox, _for Emerson\n      Inst._                                                  20.00\n    Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              70.00\n    South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        17.73\n    Southborough. P. E. Ch. and Soc.                          16.99\n    South Deerfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.50\n    South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    21.00\n    South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc., $40;\n      Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $45, bal. to\n      const. MRS. MARIA J. LOUD and FRANK W.\n      WALLIS, L. M.\u2019s                                         85.00\n    Springfield. First Cong. Ch., $39.85; South\n      Ch., $23.02; Mrs. Bowdoin, $10; Ira Merrill,\n      $5; Mrs. A. C. Hunt, $5                                 82.87\n    Sterling. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               3.39\n    Sturbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $32.45, and\n      Sab. Sch., $14.15                                       46.60\n    Templeton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20.15;\n      L. R. and C. C. Shattuck, $3; Mrs. W., $1               24.15\n    Waltham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $82.74; N.\n      Scamman, $2                                             84.74\n    Waverley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              23.66\n    West Barnstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.00\n    Westborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($5 of which\n      from Mrs. Samuel Griggs),                               12.31\n    West Boylston. Miss Polly Ames and Geo. W.\n      Ames, $3 each                                            6.00\n    West Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          17.72\n    Wilbraham.--by Chas. Marsh. Treas. H. B. A.               10.70\n    Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         22.52\n    Williamstown. First Cong. Ch., $15.57; A. M.\n      M., 50c.                                                16.07\n    Winchendon. \u201cF. T. J.\u201d                                     5.00\n    Wollaston Heights. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     10.00\n    Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    145.99\n    Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $50;--Cong. Sab. Sch., $10.07, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           60.07\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $85.65.\n\n    Central Falls. Cong. Ch.                                  85.65\n    Pawtucket. Robert Cushman, Organ and freight\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $1,500.26.\n\n    Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                  19.79\n    Bethel. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   10.00\n    Bethlehem. H. B.                                           0.50\n    Bristol. Mrs. J. R. H.                                     0.50\n    Colchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       4.00\n    Durham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          28.00\n    East Haven. Cong. Ch.                                     30.00\n    East Hartford. First Ch.                                  30.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                     40.08\n    Glastenbury. First Cong. Ch.                             125.00\n    Gilead. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Brown                       5.00\n    Goshen. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                30.00\n    Granby. First Cong. Ch.                                    6.50\n    Guilford. Daniel Hand                                    100.00\n    Hanover. Cong. Ch., to const. JAMES W. CUTLER,\n      L. M.                                                   37.52\n    Hartford. First Cong. Ch., $295; Asylum Hill\n      Cong. Ch., $135; Windsor Ave. Cong. Ch. $22            452.00\n    Lebanon. First Ch.                                        56.67\n    Meriden. First Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                            1.25\n    Millington. Cong. Ch.                                      3.63\n    New Haven. Amos Townsend, $50; B. P., $1;\n      Third Cong. Ch., $24.71                                 75.71\n    Northfield. Cong. Ch.                                     28.75\n    North Stonington. Cong. Sab. Sch.                          2.00\n    Norwich. First Cong. Ch. (in part)                       112.00\n    Old Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              18.00\n    Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                                   14.76\n    Poquonock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             17.25\n    Salisbury. Cong. Ch.                                      59.91\n    South Coventry. Cong. Ch.                                 37.50\n    Terryville. Elizur Fenn and Mrs. Elizur Fenn,\n      $5 ea.                                                  10.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      41.55\n    Vernon. Mrs. E. P.                                         1.00\n    West Haven. Mrs. Kimball and Mrs. Coe, $5 ea.;\n      Dr. Painter\u2019s S. S. Class, $1.13                        11.13\n    Wilton. Cong. Ch.                                         27.09\n    Windsor. Cong. Ch.                                        50.00\n    Woodstock. First Cong. Ch.                                13.17\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $2,471.35.\n\n    Binghamton. Chas. A. Beach                                25.00\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $30, to\n      const. HON. W. W. WHEELER, L. M., _for\n      Missionary at Charleston, S. C._; also $50\n      _for Rev. Geo. Henry, Fernandina, Fla._                 80.00\n    Camden. Cong. Ch., $23.61; and Sab. Sch., $10             33.61\n    Carthage. Cong. Ch.                                        2.03\n    Champlain. Pres. and Cong. Ch.                            21.60\n    Columbus. Box of books and papers by O. S.\n      Williams\n    East Bloomfield. Cong. Soc.                               39.00\n    Fairport. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 10.00\n    Freeport. Rev. C. F. Boynton, _for Emerson\n      Inst._                                                   6.00\n    Gaines. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $27.21, and Sab.\n      Sch., $8.61, to const. MRS. LEANDER\n      BIDELMAN, L. M.                                         35.82\n    Harlem. Cong. Ch.                                         11.46\n    Kingsborough. J. W.                                        1.00\n    Lima. Chas. D. Miner, Geo. Thayer and Geo. W.\n      Thayer, $5 each; Mrs. A. E. M., $1; Mrs. L.\n      T. B., $1                                               17.00\n    Madison. Cong. Ch.                                         7.00\n    Marcellus. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                    20.00\n    Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         50.18\n    New York. Tabernacle Ch. (ad\u2019l), $1; J. A. V.\n      A., 65c.; A Deceased Friend, by E. S. H.,\n      bag of C.                                                1.65\n    North Bergen. Rev. S. Carver                              10.00\n    Onandaga Valley. A. L. G.                                  1.00\n    Owasco. Mrs. A. S.                                         1.00\n    Perry. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                        10.00\n    Poughkeepsie. Mrs. M. J. Myers                            25.00\n    Randolph. Mrs. Diantha C. Bush, deceased                2000.00\n    Rensselaer Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      18.00\n    Spencerport. Sarah Vannest                                15.00\n    Syracuse. \u201cAn Old Friend,\u201d to const. G. B.\n      DOUD, L. M.                                             30.00\n    West Farms. Mrs. A. Woods, pkg. of books\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $29.35.\n\n    Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch.                          19.35\n    Parsippany. Mrs. Jane W. Force                            10.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $131.\n\n    Canton. H. Sheldon                                         5.00\n    Millbrook. Rev. G. S.                                      1.00\n    Philadelphia. Mrs. S. L. Chester                           5.00\n    ---- \u201cFor Jesus\u201d                                         120.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $332.59.\n\n    Ashland. John Thompson.                                    2.28\n    Berea. Cong. Ch.                                           3.80\n    Charlestown. Cong. Ch.                                     9.50\n    Cincinnati. Columbia Cong. Ch.                            14.10\n    Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Ch.                           14.04\n    Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Ch., $13.85, and Sab.\n      Sch., $8.51                                             22.36\n    Grafton. Mrs. Sally Tuttle                                 5.00\n    Harmar. Cong. Ch.                                         54.60\n    Hudson. By H. E. Riker                                     4.95\n    Huntsburgh. Cong. Ch., _for Emerson Inst._                 0.50\n    Jersey. Mrs. Lucinda Sinnet, $50; Mrs M. H., $1           51.00\n    Lodi. Cong. Ch., $9; Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. $1                10.00\n    Mantua. Cong. Ch.                                          4.00\n    Mesopotamia. S. O. Lyman                                  15.00\n    Newark. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         1.00\n    Oberlin. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. $30, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._;--Second Cong. Ch.\n      $10; Mrs. J. F. B. $1                                   41.00\n    Painesville. First Cong. Ch. (of which $1.50\n      from Mrs. Albert Morley _for Straight U._).             30.21\n    Randolph. W. J. Dickinson                                 10.00\n    Ravenna. Cong. Ch.                                        22.67\n    Rootstown. C. S. S.                                        0.51\n    Springfield. O. H. Anderson, $10; First Cong.\n      Ch. and Soc. $6.07                                      16.07\n\n\n  INDIANA, $86.12.\n\n    Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                       15.00\n    Michigan City. Cong. Ch.                                  71.12\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $919.97.\n\n    Belvidere. M. C. Foote                                     2.00\n    Chesterfield. Cong. Ch.                                    4.00\n    Chicago. Col. C. G. Hammond. _for Howard U._             500.00\n    Creston. A. B. McCrea                                      5.00\n    Elmwood. Cong. Ch. $24.05; Mrs. I. B. Reede,\n      $10                                                     34.05\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                     80.14\n    Greenville. Cong. Ch.                                      2.00\n    Hennepin. Cong. Ch.                                       10.00\n    Hutsonville. C. V. Newton                                  2.00\n    Kewanee. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc. _for Tougaloo U._              2.00\n    Malden. Cong. Ch.                                         20.00\n    Mendon. Cong. Ch.                                         29.00\n    Newark. Horace Day and Wife                                5.00\n    Oak Park. Cong Ch., $45.10; Geo. Van Zant, $10            55.10\n    Ottawa. Cong. Ch.                                         35.28\n    Paxton. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Shaw                            5.00\n    Peru. First Cong. Ch.                                     16.50\n    Port Byron. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.                             5.50\n    Providence. Benj. Dexter                                  10.00\n    Saint Charles. Dean Ferson                                 2.00\n    Sparta. P. B. Gault                                        2.00\n    Sycamore. First Cong. Ch., $85.90; \u201cA Friend,\u201d\n      $3                                                      88.90\n    Wayne Station. Cong. Ch.                                   4.50\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $473.06.\n\n    Canandaigua. Cong. Ch.                                     4.60\n    Homestead. Morris Case                                     5.00\n    Jackson. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $300; Cong. Ch., $38;\n      Miss Eliza Page, $30, to const. MISS S.\n      LOUISE OVIATT, L. M.                                   368.00\n    Littlefield. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.              11.55\n    Morenci. Cong. Ch.                                         6.00\n    Northport. Cong. Ch.                                       5.08\n    Port Huron. First Cong. Ch.                               42.00\n    Saint Clair. Cong. Ch.                                    15.83\n    Warren. Rev J. L. Beebe                                    5.00\n    White Lake. Robert Garner                                 10.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $402.67.\n\n    Alderly. Mrs. E. Hubbard, $3; Mrs. Ann Reid, $2            5.00\n    Appleton. Mrs. Ann S. Kimball                             25.00\n    Beloit. First Cong. Ch.                                  170.57\n    Brant. Mrs. E. W. Scott                                    4.45\n    Burlington. Cong. Ch.                                      4.91\n    Clinton. Cong. Ch.                                        23.75\n    East Troy. Cong. Ch.                                      10.00\n    Genesee. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n    Geneva Lake. Presb. Ch.                                   12.00\n    Leeds. Cong. Ch.                                           5.04\n    Madison. First Cong. Ch.                                  50.00\n    Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch.                           22.58\n    New Richmond. First Cong. Ch.                             22.06\n    Racine. Mrs. E B                                           0.51\n    Waukesha. First Cong. Ch.                                 20.00\n    Windsor. Cong. Ch.                                        16.80\n\n\n  IOWA, $466.02.\n\n    Bellevue. Cong. Ch.                                        3.25\n    Davenport. Edwards Cong. Ch.                             100.00\n    Denmark. Cong. Ch., $28.37, and Sab. Sch.,\n      $21.63                                                  50.00\n    Dubuque. Cong. Ch.                                        13.00\n    Farragut. Cong. Ch.                                       17.85\n    Franklin. Cong. Ch.                                        5.37\n    Grinnell. Ladies, proceeds sale of lace work              17.55\n    Keokuk. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $31;--N. N. M.,\n      50c., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                    31.50\n    Manchester. Cong. Ch.                                     21.00\n    McGregor. Women\u2019s Miss. Soc.                              15.78\n    New Hampton. Women\u2019s Cent. Soc.                            2.00\n    Orchard. Cong. Ch.                                         4.30\n    Osage. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.                                  5.53\n    Postville. Cong. Ch.                                      13.89\n    Tabor. ESTATE of D. E. Woods, by Rev. John Todd          165.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $14.25.\n\n    Manhattan. Mrs. Mary Parker                                2.00\n    Onaga. Cong. Ch.                                           7.25\n    Wildcat. Mrs. S. D. Pierce                                 5.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $261.93.\n\n    Austin. Cong. Ch.                                         16.96\n    Minneapolis. \u201cFriends,\u201d $150; Plymouth Ch.,\n      $22.11; Second Cong. Ch., $3                           175.11\n    Northfield. First Cong. Ch.                               52.66\n    Paynesville. By R. C. L.                                   1.00\n    Spring Valley. C. W. M. and Wife, $9.20; Cong.\n      Ch., $7                                                 16.20\n\n\n  DAKOTA, $1.12.\n\n    Valley Springs. Jubilee Concert Exercise                   1.12\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $50.\n\n    San Francisco. Rev. J. Rowell                             50.00\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $9.25.\n\n    White River. Cong. Ch.                                     9.25\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $156.\n\n    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.                                   156.00\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $55.10.\n\n    Dudley. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00\n    Raleigh. Washington Sch.                                  45.10\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $265.90.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst.                                  265.90\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $210.16.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch. $190.50; Coll. $1                   191.50\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch.                                     8.30\n    Liberty Co. Judge A. E. Fulton $5; Sam\u2019l\n      Osgood $2; Dorchester Cong. Sab. Sch. $1.06;\n      Others, $2.30, _for Dorchester Academy_                 10.36\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $466.70.\n\n    Athens. Pub. Sch. Fund                                   158.00\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst.                                    160.80\n    Montgomery. First Cong. Ch.                              100.00\n    Talladega. Talladega Coll.                                47.90\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $1.50.\n\n    Carrollton. Mrs. C. J.                                     0.50\n    New Orleans. Mrs. B. C.                                    1.00\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $35.75.\n\n    Durant. E. W. _for Tougaloo U._                            0.50\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., $27.25; M. H. Scott,\n      $5;--K. K. Koons for Student Aid, $3                    35.25\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $46.54\n\n    Amity. Cong. Ch.                                           4.50\n    Saint Louis. Mrs. Rebecca Webb, $25; First\n      Cong. Ch. $17.04                                        42.04\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $295.50.\n\n    Avery Fund                                               195.50\n    C. F. Dike Fund                                           50.00\n    General Fund                                              50.00\n\n\n  CANADA, $1.\n\n    Guelph. Rev. J. H.                                         1.00\n\n\n  SCOTLAND, $79.86.\n\n    Perth. North United Presb. Ch., Subscriptions,\n      \u00a314; \u201cFriend,\u201d 10s.; I. Balman, _for Chinese\n      M. in Cal._, \u00a32, by D. Morton                           79.86\n                                                         ----------\n        Total                                             11,970.60\n      Total from Oct. 1st to July 31st                  $129,247.32\n\n                                               H. W. HUBBARD,\n                                                    _Asst. Treas._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  RECEIVED FOR DEBT.\n\n    Greenville, Conn. Cong. Ch.                              $25.00\n    Jersey City, N. J. \u201cA Friend\u201d                             20.00\n    Scotland. \u201cA. P.\u201d                                      1,000.00\n                                                          ---------\n          Total                                            1,045.00\n    Previously acknowledged in June receipts.             25,848.72\n                                                          ---------\n        Total                                            $26,893.72\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.\n\n    Meriden, Conn. Centre Cong. Ch.                          $25.00\n    Paw Paw, Ill. First Union Ch.                             10.00\n                                                             ------\n        Total                                                 35.00\n    Previously acknowledged in June receipts                 311.39\n                                                            -------\n      Total                                                 $346.39\n\n\n\n\nConstitution of the American Missionary Association.\n\nINCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nART. I. This Society shall be called \u201cTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\nASSOCIATION.\u201d\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct\nChristian missionary and educational operations, and to diffuse a\nknowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries\nwhich are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent\nfields of effort.\n\nART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes\nfaith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the\npractice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds,\nmay become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty\ndollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have\nnot professed their faith may be constituted life members without\nthe privilege of voting.\n\nART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of\nSeptember, October or November, for the election of officers and\nthe transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall\nbe designated by the Executive Committee.\n\nART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular\nofficers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,\nand of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,\nand other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one\nrepresentative.\n\nART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President,\nVice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,\nTreasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less\nthan twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be\nadvisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.\n\nART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting\nand disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining\nand dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and\nagents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the\ntransaction of all such business as usually appertains to the\nexecutive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies;\nthe Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the\nmissionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision\nof the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually\nchosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or\nmissionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.\n\nThe Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies\noccurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;\nto apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of\nincorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all\nofficers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the\nSociety; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and\nfor the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call,\nin all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and\ngeneral conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the\ndiffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous\npromotion of the missionary work.\n\nFive members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for\ntransacting business.\n\nART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing\nofficers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields\nof labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor\nparticularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the\nknown fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment\nthose who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.\n\nART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to\nthe principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain\nmissionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the\nagency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART. X. No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without\nthe concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular\nannual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been\nsubmitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in\nseason to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if\nso submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.\n\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a\nbelief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a\nSaviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice\nof Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity\nof regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy\nobedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and\nthe retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the\nwicked, and salvation of the righteous.\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. 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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. 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Y._\n                 Send for Circular and Price List.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                    EVERY MAN HIS OWN PRINTER.\n\nExcelsior =$3= Printing Press.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nPrints cards, labels, envelopes, &c.; larger sizes for larger work.\nFor business or pleasure, young or old. Catalogue of presses, Type,\nCards, &c. sent for two stamps.\n\nKELSEY & CO., M\u2019frs, Meriden, Conn.\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\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  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                               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                            Architect,\n\n               2d Floor.       =76 JOHN ST., N. Y.=\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\n                          J. ESTEY & CO.\n\n                         BRATTLEBORO\u2019, VT.\n\n                  SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.\n\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\nOUR ANNUAL MEETING.\n\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       *       *       *       *       *\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\n\nMissing punctuation and obvious punctuation errors corrected.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 33, No. 09, September, 1879","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":21661}