{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_54589/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_54589","id":"gutenberg_54589","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54589","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"VOL. XXXIII.                                             No. 10.\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                          OCTOBER, 1879.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    THE ANNUAL MEETING\u2014PARAGRAPHS                                289\n    WORKER AT REST (MRS. PEEBLES)\u2014DEATH OF FATHER JOCELYN        291\n    RANDOM SUGGESTIONS                                           293\n    A STRONG APPEAL                                              294\n    LANGUAGE OF EQUATORIAL AFRICA                                296\n    STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY                                       297\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                         299\n    GENERAL NOTES                                                300\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    NORTH AND SOUTH\u2014SOME THINGS IN COMMON                        304\n    REMINISCENCES\u2014\u201cIT\u2019S THE COLOR THAT TELLS\u201d                    306\n    TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE\u2014Remarkable Conversion and\n      Triumphant Death                                           309\n    GEORGIA, BYRON\u2014First Impressions                             310\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    THE BEGINNING OF HARVEST\u2014ONG LUNE                            310\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    COUNTRY SCHOOL-HOUSES                                        313\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                       314\n\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                                   317\n\n\n  WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS &C.                                    318\n\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   Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. as second-class\n                              matter.\n\n\n\n\n                 AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\n\n                      56 READE STREET, N. Y.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  PRESIDENT.\n\n    HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\n  VICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n    Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n    Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n    Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n    Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.\n    Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.\n    WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.\n    Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.\n    Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.\n    Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.\n    Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.\n    Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n    HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich.\n    Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H.\n    Rev. EDWARD HAWES, Ct.\n    DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.\n    Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.\n    SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.\n    Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.\n    Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon.\n    Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.\n    Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n    EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.\n    DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J.\n    Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.\n    Rev. W. L. GAGE, Ct.\n    A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio\n    Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn.\n    Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn.\n    Rev. GEORGE THACHER, LL. D., Iowa.\n    Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.\n    Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.\n    Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.\n    Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.\n    S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n    Rev. WM. PATTON, D. D., Ct.\n    Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n    Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct.\n    Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.\n    Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.\n    Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng.\n    WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y.\n    J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.\n    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ct.\n    DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.\n    A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.\n    Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y.\n    FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.\n    JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n  DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n    REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n    REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_.\n    REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.\n    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 mote 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.      OCTOBER, 1879.       No. 10.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR ANNUAL MEETING.\n\nThe Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the American Missionary\nAssociation will be held in the First Congregational Church (Rev.\nDr. Goodwin\u2019s), Chicago, Illinois, commencing October 28th, at 3\np. m. The Annual Sermon will be preached by Rev. R. S. Storrs, D.\nD., of Brooklyn, N. Y., service commencing at half-past seven in\nthe evening. A paper on the Chinese question will be presented by\nRev. J. H. Twichell, of Hartford, Connecticut; one on the Necessity\nof the Protection of Law for the Indians, by Gen. J. H. Leake,\nUnited States District Attorney, Chicago, Illinois. Other papers\nand addresses on timely and important subjects will be presented by\nable writers, the announcement of which will be given in the daily\npress at an early date.\n\nParties desiring entertainment during the meeting will write, by\nor before October 8th, to H. G. Billings, Esq., 242 South Water\nStreet, Chicago.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIt will be seen that our communications from the Southern field are\nvery limited this month. It is, of course, the time of vacation in\nall our Southern institutions, except a few of the public schools,\nto the support of which we are contributing, and from which we\nhear mainly through the larger schools of which their teachers are\npupils or graduates. Soon the wheels will begin to revolve again,\nwe trust, with greater effectiveness than ever before.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA confidential word from the Editor to the members of the\nmissionary and teaching force who occasionally write to the\nMISSIONARY.\u2014Your communications are always read in the most kindly\nand interested spirit. Their contents are always noted, and if\nthey contain any incident or item which even perhaps may be of\ngeneral interest to our readers, we use it. Do not be too greatly\ndisappointed or grieved at us if we do not always use them in the\nform in which they are sent. There are many things which must\nbe weighed in the make-up of a magazine which no one but those\nwho see it all can even know. The Editor\u2019s basket is not a waste\nbasket, even when it receives MSS., for they do not go into it\nunread, nor do we mean to let any wheat get lost among the chaff,\nalthough doubtless we occasionally do. Sometimes an article must\nbe squeezed into an item or be squeezed out. Please keep writing,\nthen, not for your local audience, but for all; or, if you please,\nas though it were meant for the Editor\u2019s ear alone. Don\u2019t be\ndisappointed\u2014much more, don\u2019t be angry, if all you write does not\nget into print. And don\u2019t promise anybody, that a certain thing you\nsend will appear in the MISSIONARY; for, after all, the Editor who\nmust decide is in the New York office.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nProf. A. K. Spence and wife arrived in August by steamer \u201cBolivia,\u201d\nfrom an absence of a year in their native Scotland. They have been\nfor ten years connected with Fisk University, and have resumed\ntheir work in that institution. By their visit they have been\ngreatly refreshed in health. They have been constantly engaged in\nprivate and public effort to interest their Scottish people yet\nmore in our work as related to the Christianization of Africa.\nWith their territorial and commercial interest in that dark\ncontinent, British Christians are all the more disposed to care\nfor the religious welfare of the inhabitants of that country.\nThe many friends at the West who have heard the familiar talks\nof Mrs. Spence, will be prepared to believe that her recital of\nthe Freedman\u2019s story to the sisters of her motherland was greatly\nacceptable.\n\nProf. Spence\u2019s mother, who, at the age of eighty-five, recently\ncontributed to the _Independent_ a poem on George McDonald, whom\nshe had known from his childhood, sent on the fee for her article\nto the treasury of the A. M. A.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Revivals in Summer Time._\u2014The people of the North, who are apt\nto be under the respite of vacation at this season of the year,\nand who are addicted to special efforts for the promotion of\nrevivals in the Winter time, are sometimes surprised to hear of\nsuch movements at the South during the heat of Summer. At first it\nseems quite creditable to the piety of our colored brethren that\nthey should warm up to such service in dog days. But the reason for\nselecting this season for such service is the same as that which\nat the North locates it in the Winter. That is the slack time of\nthe year. The corn and the cotton have been laid by, and now there\nis leisure before the time comes for picking and harvesting. The\nAssociation of South-west Texas meets at the middle of July, and\nrefuses to fix any other date for assembling, desiring to use that\n\u201cset time\u201d for some revival effort, and expecting to bless the\nentertaining church in that way. We are hearing that nearly all of\nour churches in the South have been making more or less of special\neffort.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_The Southern Sentinel_, a monthly, published at Talladega College,\nunder the new management of Prof. Geo. N. Ellis, editor, and P.\nP. Green (one of the students), publisher, is taking on more of\nfreshness and of force. A department of agriculture has been added.\nThis will be of great value. In this we see the hand of the farm\nsuperintendent, Mr. Atkinson, who went down from Olivet College to\nhelp on in this part of the Talladega movement.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u201c_What is that to thee? Follow thou me._\u201d\u2014This response of the\nMaster to Peter\u2019s inquiry about the lot of John indicates the\nmeasure of consecration requisite on the part of those who are\ncalled to this missionary work among despised classes. It is an\nunquestioning, an unconditional obedience that is needed. One may\nsay: \u201cOthers are staying at home and having easy times.\u201d What is\nthat to thee? \u201cDown there we may be sneered at and treated like\npariahs.\u201d What is that to thee? \u201cIt was easy up North to have been\nan abolitionist, but to go and put yourself down by the side of and\nunderneath the outcast ex-slave to try to raise him up, that is\nanother thing.\u201d What is _that_ to thee? Follow thou me. Follow my\ncall; follow my example in caring for \u201cthese my brethren.\u201d Sympathy\nwith the Saviour in His love for souls, in His self-forgetfulness\nwhile winning lost men to His Gospel, is the first qualification\nfor this Christly work. It was a rigid scrutiny that set aside the\nfew men that were to gain the victory of the Lord at the hand of\nGideon. A like carefulness of selection is necessary in this holy\nwar. It would enlist only those who give themselves to its cause\nwith such alacrity that they stop not for personal ease, but who\nlap their drink.\n\nBut the reward of those who thus follow the Divine Leader in this\nservice is quick and ample. They are a happy set of folks. They\nlove their work; they love their people; they have joy in their\ncalling; in this they are like returned foreign missionaries.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_A Worker at Rest._\u2014Mrs. Anna M. (Day) Peebles departed this life\nat Dudley, N. C., on the 28th of August. Educated at Oberlin, she\nhad been one of our teachers in the Washington School at Raleigh,\nN. C., serving also as teacher and leader of music. Something over\na year ago she was married to Rev. David Peebles, of Dudley, N. C.,\nwhere she took charge of the school, becoming greatly successful\nand beloved in the same. Excelling as a teacher, enthusiastic in\nthe missionary aspect of her work, and winsome among her associates\nand pupils, her loss to our cause is greatly felt.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDEATH OF FATHER JOCELYN.\n\nAnother Christian hero has laid aside his armor and received his\ncrown. The Lord did not break the dies when He made the last of the\nancient Martyrs or of the Puritan heroes. In great emergencies he\nreproduces them after their kind. The anti-slavery struggle needed\nthem and they came forth, and among them there was no braver man\nthan the gentle and amiable SIMEON S. JOCELYN. It is a mistake to\nsuppose that the bold and determined men who take front rank in\ngreat moral conflicts are destitute of kindly impulses. Father\nJocelyn was utterly uncompromising where duty called, yet I have\nseldom known a man of more tender sympathies, of quicker, almost\nwomanly sensibility to sorrow or suffering. Nor are all such men,\nas is often imagined, so intent on pushing forward their great\nreforms as to overlook the rights of others. Father Jocelyn was\nmost scrupulous in regard to the minutest claims of all men, even\nof his opponents. Nor are all such seemingly rash and headlong\nmen lacking in caution. Father Jocelyn was the most cautious man\nI ever knew. Indeed this trait was, in some sense, a hindrance to\nhis activity, for he instinctively saw the many adverse bearings\nand possible misconstructions to the course contemplated or to the\ndocument to be published. The marvel is that such a man could ever\nhave become an abolitionist\u2014that he could have risked reputation,\nproperty, and even life itself, in an enterprise so doubtful of\nsuccess and beset with so many dangers to the peace of the church\nand the nation. The only explanation is in his clear perception,\nthrough all glosses, of the path of duty, and the overwhelming\nimpulse of conscience to pursue it in spite of all dangers. Of such\nstuff are moral heroes made.\n\nThe piety of Father Jocelyn was sincere, deep and all-pervading.\nHe was a man of prayer and of close communion with God, active\nin Christian labors in public and private, and of a beautiful\nsimplicity and transparency of character\u2014a saintly man. A Puritan\nby birth and conscientious conviction, his religious life was after\nthe strictest model, yet his tender sympathies rendered him kind as\nwell as faithful in counsel or warning, while his broad Christian\ncharity made him liberal toward all who loved the Saviour.\n\nFather Jocelyn was born in New Haven, Ct., in 1799, and was early\nconverted to Christ. He began active life as an engraver, but\nrelinquished a prosperous business to preach the Gospel to the\npoor, devoting his ministry to a feeble colored church in New\nHaven. The anti-slavery cause from the beginning had his warmest\nsympathies and most earnest co-operation. The American Missionary\nAssociation had no earlier or steadier friend. When the Amistad\ncaptives were landed in New London, and prompt and persevering\nefforts were made to re-enslave them, a committee of gentlemen was\norganized in New York to watch over their interests, and at the\nhead of that committee stands the name of S. S. Jocelyn. Throughout\nthe long struggle that secured their liberties and their return\nto their native land, accompanied by a missionary and teacher,\nMr. Jocelyn was constant in his active exertions; and when at\nlength that committee and other similar bodies were united in the\nformation of this Association, he was forward in founding, and\nconstant thereafter in sustaining the new organization. He attended\nthe meeting in Albany when the Association was formed. He was its\nRecording Secretary from 1846 to 1853, Corresponding Secretary with\ncharge of the Home Department from 1853 to 1863, and from that time\ntill his death was a member of the Executive Committee.\n\nWe extract from an article in the _Advance_, by Dr. Roy, the\nfollowing account of the funeral:\n\n\u201cThe funeral was held in the New England Church of Brooklyn, E. D.,\nwhere he had his membership. In the large congregation there was a\nfine representation of colored people. The Executive Committee and\nother officers of the American Missionary Association were present.\nThe pall-bearers were a squad of veterans of the old Liberty Guard.\nThe pastor, Rev. Mr. Hibbard, presided. A few words of affectionate\nsympathy with the brothers and sisters who had been bereaved of\ntheir father, were spoken by Rev. J. E. Roy, whose father, also at\nthe age of eighty, a few months before had been called away.\n\n\u201cDr. Strieby spoke of the work of the departed in the American\nMissionary Association, and especially with eloquent words depicted\nthe tremendous moral courage, the great cautiousness, the womanly\ntenderness, the transparent simplicity which were blended in his\ncharacter. Strange that so sweet a man ever had the grit to take up\nthe battle against slavery. Rev. Mr. Ray, a colored minister, who\nhad known Mr. Jocelyn, and had been associated with him for forty\nyears, gave fitness to the occasion by his words of gratitude, and\nby several telling reminiscences,\u2014one of which was that, in 1839,\nMr. Jocelyn came down from New Haven to take up the gauntlet of\ndebate upon the colonization question with Mr. Robert Finley. The\ndiscussion was in a hall in Nassau Street, and Mr. Jocelyn\u2019s main\nreliance was the word of God.\n\n\u201cRev. Mr. Lockwood, a former pastor, bore loving testimony. Dr.\nEdward Beecher went back to an acquaintance of fifty years ago,\nwhen a student in Yale College, under concern of soul, he went to\nMr. Jocelyn. He was such a spiritual, faithful Christian as a young\nman in passing that crisis would be apt to seek out. Dr. B. was\nassociated with him in his Sabbath-school and church work among the\ncolored people, and carried with him that same impulse when he went\nto Illinois College, and stood by Elijah P. Lovejoy until they shot\nhim down. In closing, Dr. Beecher said that the words appropriate\nto the character of the departed were: \u2018In simplicity and godly\nsincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we\nhave had our conversation in the world.\u2019\u201d\n\n                                                  M. E. STRIEBY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nRANDOM SUGGESTIONS.\n\nWill the Exodus Affect the Work of the Association in the South?\n\nI answer without hesitation, _it will not_. To the present time the\nexodus movement has been confined very largely to the disturbed\nparishes, or to certain exceptional cases where the conditions of\nlabor have been oppressive. In New Orleans, while conventions and\nopen-air meetings have been held, and the policy of emigration has\nbeen discussed, but few of the Freedmen have decided to leave the\nState and find a home in Kansas. There is a restless, dissatisfied\nfeeling among the masses of the negroes, especially the poorer\nclasses, induced by the glowing appeals made to them; but the\nexodus has not assumed, and I believe will not assume, large\nproportions. The masses will stay on Southern soil and abide in\nSouthern homes. My opinion is based upon the supposition that their\nrights, social, educational and religious, and their rights also\nas laborers, will not be invaded or denied beyond what they are at\npresent.\n\nIn New Orleans 45 per cent. of the population is colored, and\nin the State at large 55 per cent. I do not believe that this\nratio will be materially changed by the exodus. And even if a\nfew thousands of Freedmen left the South in search of warmer\nhospitality, an increased compensation for labor, and a more\nequitable recognition of their rights as citizens, it would not\nlessen the possibilities of good afforded to the Association.\nShould a half million go away, there would still be four and a half\nmillions left to be instructed and helped in their race struggle\nfor higher intelligence and a purer religious life. Press forward,\nthen, the glorious work of education. Hasten the full equipment of\nthe normal schools and colleges for the wider, grander work before\nthem. Let new churches be planted, and the pure gospel of Christ be\npreached all over the beautiful and fruitful South, wherever the\nFreedman has his home. The work is not one of a generation, but of\na century.\n\n\nStudent Aid.\n\nTo secure, at the earliest day, one of the chief objects of the\nAssociation\u2014the thorough education of colored young men and women\nas teachers and ministers, who shall be competent to lead the\nmasses of their race to a higher civilization\u2014special aid must be\ngiven to those whose minds and hearts give promise of usefulness.\nA large number who propose to seek only an elementary education,\nor those who reside in the city where a school of high grade is\nlocated, do not require aid from abroad. The wise policy of the\ninstructors in our institutions is to search for young men and\nwomen of promise, and encourage them to pursue a full course of\nstudy, and to watch over them till the benefits they receive are\nmade a valued possession not only to themselves but to their race.\nWhat are the facts in the case? The best material is often remote\nfrom the college, and utterly lacking in pecuniary ability. Many\nof the brightest, the most intellectual of the children of the\nFreedmen, who are intensely anxious for an education, and have a\npraiseworthy ambition to be fitted for positions of responsibility\nand usefulness, are denied the privileges of the college by reason\nof extreme poverty. Many others are able to meet a part of the cost\nof an education, but without benevolent aid must stop short of a\nfull course of study. I am just now in receipt of a letter from a\nworthy and talented young man near New Orleans. I quote a sentence\nto show its import: \u201cI have the same mind to work in the cause of\nChrist and prepare to preach His word. I think I have been called\nto engage in this work and cannot be satisfied unless I do. Dear\nbrother, I do now most solemnly appeal to you and the good brethren\nin the North to aid me to an education.\u201d\n\nThis is one instance of hundreds which could be cited. Another fact\ndeserves earnest consideration. We need to _conserve_ and utilize\nfor the general good the partial education which the graduates of\nour colleges have secured. At the present time this is not done\nas it should be, and as it might be, if _special_ student aid\nwere available. Many graduates go forth from the college who are\nlost to view. After so much patient labor has been bestowed upon\nthem\u2014and in some instances special pecuniary aid given\u2014they should\nbe encouraged in every way to devote themselves to the greatest\ngood of their people. Take the last class in Straight University as\nan illustration. We graduated eight students, all bright, talented\nand promising, and, grandest of all, Christians. All are poor\u2014some\nof them extremely poor. Their education has cost them a hard,\npatient struggle. They desire to become teachers of the highest\nrank. The young men are looking to the learned professions. In\norder to attain what they desire, and what we desire for them, they\nshould take a post-graduate course. The young men, if God calls\nthem to the work, should take a three years\u2019 course of theological\ninstruction.\n\nBut left alone, without outside aid, they will be compelled to work\nfor their daily bread, and for them their school days will have\nforever passed. Is it not worth while to say to these young men:\n\u201cCome back to the University, and the Christian benevolence of the\nNorth will see you through one, two or three years more of study,\nand then we shall claim you for the college, for the church, and\nfor the work of God. Henceforth you are not your own, but must go\nwherever God shall call you, and stand in the forefront of every\ngreat and good movement for the elevation of your race.\u201d\n\nTo-day, if a worthy Christian young man or woman appeals to us,\n\u201cCan you not aid me to keep on in my studies?\u201d our answer is a\nsorrowful one, \u201cThere is no fund that can be appropriated to\nthat purpose.\u201d Will not good men think of this and make a grand\npossibility of good a fact gloriously realized?\n\n                                                W. S. ALEXANDER.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA STRONG APPEAL.\n\nWe present below a forcible appeal for student aid. Such aid is\nessential, and the question of obtaining it in sufficient amount\nto meet the demand lies at the bottom of the whole possibility\nof educating the colored youth of the South. If scholarships and\neducational funds are important to the white students of the\nNorth, how much more to the colored students at the South, where\nemployment is so poorly paid, and the money so hard to be collected\nwhen earned! This appeal is but a sample of the cry that comes from\nall our institutions\u2014Atlanta, Talladega, Tougaloo, New Orleans, and\nthe rest. An illustration may be seen in the foregoing article by\nRev. W. S. Alexander, President of Straight University.\n\nBut we must warn our patrons not to divert their contributions from\nour ordinary work to this special object, for if this is done, we\nmight as well furnish this student help directly from our treasury.\nThen where would be the money to sustain the teachers?\u2014and _they\nmust be sustained_, or the schools closed. The only solution of\nthe problem is for the friends of the Freedmen to enlarge their\ncontributions to meet both wants. We most importunately urge our\npatrons not to starve the teacher in order to aid the scholar, but\nhelp both.\n\n\nWhat Shall We Do?\n\nWill a goodly number of the readers of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY tell\nus?\n\nThe case can be best set forth by giving a single illustration. On\nthe Saturday evening preceding the Monday on which the new school\nyear of Fisk University was to begin, a young man was brought\nto my room by one of our former students, who introduced him as\nbeing from Montgomery, Alabama. I found on inquiry, and from a\nletter which he brought from a prominent colored man of that city,\nthat he had determined to get an education, and having but little\nmoney, had made up his mind to walk from Montgomery to Nashville,\na distance of three hundred miles, with the hope of finding some\nway by which he might be admitted as a student in Fisk University.\nFortunately, a prominent citizen of Montgomery was able to secure\nhim a pass on the railroad, one hundred miles, to Birmingham, and\na student of Fisk University who happened to meet him at Columbia,\nTenn., used the little spare money he had in his pocket to help him\non his way twenty miles toward Nashville.\n\nWhat do the friends of education among the colored people of the\nSouth wish us to do with such cases? The University has no means\nof its own with which to help such young people, and this instance\nis but an illustration of very many similar cases which we are\ncompelled to decide every year.\n\nFrom the correspondence of teachers, and through the cases known\npersonally by the comparatively few of our old students who have\nalready returned from their summer\u2019s work, we could number up\nto-day, which is only the fourth day after the opening of the\nschool, at least forty instances of young men and young women of\nknown character and ability who are eager and anxious to come to\nFisk University to fit themselves for teaching and other Christian\nwork among their people, who cannot come because they have not and\ncannot get sufficient money. The number will be doubled by the time\nthis article reaches our friends through the AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\nIn many cases they can pay from five to seven dollars of the twelve\ndollars a month required for their board and tuition. We find from\nactual experience that an average of fifty dollars will help at\nleast one such struggling student to support for a year in Fisk\nUniversity. The balance and the money necessary to purchase books\nthey can generally provide for themselves. We ask the readers of\nthe AMERICAN MISSIONARY what we shall do with these cases. Any one\nwho will send us a thousand dollars will answer the question for\nat least twenty. Every fifty dollars will give the answer in the\ncase of one. Our hearts ache when we are compelled to refuse, for\nthe want of money, these eager applications. Every one who has an\nanswer to give us can send it to H. W. Hubbard, Assistant Treasurer\nof the American Missionary Association at New York\u2014and we know the\nanswer will suffer no long delay in his hands\u2014or to E. P. Gilbert,\nAssistant Treasurer of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. All\nstudents helped will in due time communicate by letter with those\nwho thus befriend them.\n\nWill not every individual or Sabbath-school that contributed last\nyear to help aid students continue that help for the coming year,\nand give us the earliest possible information of such intention?\n\n                         E. M. CRAVATH, _Pres. Fisk University_.\n\n\nTHE LANGUAGE OF EQUATORIAL AFRICA.\n\nGreat interest has been awakened in the geographical discoveries\nthat have been made in Central Equatorial Africa during the last\ntwenty-five years. This vast and newly-explored country is no\ndoubt the choicest portion of the whole African continent. The\ninhabitants, with the exception of a few mixed tribes along its\nouter borders, all belong to one great family. A line starting\nfrom the Cameroon Mountains on the western coast, second degree\nnorth latitude, and drawn, with some slight variations, directly\nacross the continent to the same degree of latitude on the east\ncoast, divides the negro race into two distinct families, perhaps\nof nearly equal size. The one, occupying the country north of this\nline to the southern borders of the Great Desert, is known as the\nNigritian stock, from the fact that they are to be found mainly\nin the valley of the Niger. The other, and the one to which our\narticle mainly refers, is known as the Ethiopian or Nilotic family,\nfrom its supposed descent from the ancient Ethiopians, whose chief\nresidence was the banks of the Nile.\n\nOne general language, with great divergence as to dialects,\nprevails over this whole region of country. There are not\nonly verbal resemblances, but there is a peculiar grammatical\nstructure, scarcely known to any other language, that pervades and\ncharacterizes all the dialects of this one great family. A very\nlarge number of words are common to the Mpongwe dialect on the west\ncoast, and the Swahili on the east, as may be seen from a grammar\nof the Mpongwe, published by the missionaries at the Gaboon years\nago. If the words used by three or four tribes along the coast of\nSouthern Guinea could be fully collated, they would be found to\ncontain not less, perhaps, than four-fifths of all the words used\nover the whole of this vast region.\n\nBut apart from these verbal resemblances, there are certain\nfeatures of orthography that establish the relationship between\nthese dialects quite as clearly. To mention no others, the use\nof _m_ and _n_\u2014as if they were preceded by a sort of half-vowel\nsound\u2014before certain other consonants, at the beginning of words,\nis very peculiar. _M_ is constantly used before b, p, t, and w,\nas in the words _mbolo_, _mpolu_, _mtesa_, and _mwera_. So _n_ is\nconstantly used before k, t, y, and gw, as in the words _nkala_,\n_ntondo_, _nyassa_, and _ngwe_. The combination of _ny_ occurs in\nthe names of most of the great lakes, as _Nyassa_, _Nyanza_, and\n_Tanganyika_. A still more striking feature of relationship between\nthese dialects may be found in the combinations by which proper\nnames are formed. The names of a large proportion of the tribes\nencountered by Stanley and Cameron on their journeys across the\ncontinent commence with the letter _u_, as _Uganda_, _Unyoro_, and\n_Ujiji_, &c. Now, by prefixing _ma_, and dropping the initial _u_,\nwe have _Maganda_, a person or citizen of _Uganda_; _Manyoro_, a\nperson or citizen of _Unyoro_. So by prefixing _wa_ instead of\n_ma_, we get _Waganda_, they, or the people of _Uganda_. Now, in\nthe Mpongwe dialect, _ma_ is simply a contraction of _oma_, person,\nand _wa_ or _wao_ is the personal pronoun for _they_, showing how\nthese proper names are formed. Again, many of the names of these\ntribes terminate in _ana_. _Ana_, in the Mpongwe dialect, is an\nabbreviation of _awana_, children or descendants. If the names of\nBechuana and Wangana could be analyzed, they would be found to mean\nthe children or descendants of _Bechu_ or _Wanga_, this being the\nway of giving names to any particular family that separates itself\nfrom the parent stock.\n\nBut the peculiar character of this language is more remarkable\nthan its wide diffusion. Taking the Mpongwe dialect as a specimen,\nwe have no hesitation in saying that it will be difficult to\nfind any language, ancient or modern, that is more systematic\nor philosophical in its general arrangements, more marked in\nthe classification of its different parts of speech or their\nrelationship to each other, or in the extent of its inflections,\nespecially those of the verb. The existence of such a language\namong an uncultivated people is simply a marvel. As many as three\nhundred oblique forms can be derived from the root of every regular\nMpongwe verb, each one of which will have a clear and distinct\nshade of meaning of its own, and yet so regular and systematic in\nall its inflections, that a practiced philologist could, after\na few hours\u2019 study, trace up any of even its most remote forms\nto the original root. It is not intended to convey the idea that\nall these forms are habitually used, for that would indicate a\nmuch more extended vocabulary than could reasonably be expected\namong an uncultivated people. But there is no form of the verb,\nnotwithstanding its extensive ramifications, that would not be\ndistinctly understood by an audience, even if they had never heard\nit used before.\n\nIt will be seen, therefore, that the vocabulary may be expanded\nto an almost unlimited extent. It is not only expansible, but it\nhas a wonderful capacity for conveying new ideas. The missionaries\nlaboring among these people, after they had acquired a thorough\nknowledge of the structure of this wonderful language, were\nsurprised to find with how much ease they could use it to convey\nreligious ideas. In their native state the people had no knowledge\nof the Christian religion, and, of course, used no terms for\nsaviour or salvation, for redeemer or redemption, etc. They had,\nhowever, the terms _sunga_, to save, and _danduna_, to redeem, or\npay a ransom. Now, according to a well established law of grammar,\n_ozunge_ is a saviour, and _isungina_ is salvation; similarly\nfrom _danduna_ comes _olandune_, the redeemer, and _ilanduna_,\nredemption:\u2014so that they could at once get a tolerably correct\nidea of these terms, and there was no need (as there is in most\nunwritten languages) to call in the aid of foreign words. Without\nmultiplying illustrations of a similar character, it will be seen\nthat the language is not only flexible and expansive to a very\nremarkable degree, but is suitable beyond almost any other known\nlanguage to convey religious instruction to the minds of the\npeople. It has been preserved, no doubt, by a wise Providence for\nthis very purpose.\n\nThe providence of God towards this great family, therefore, seems\nto be very marked and significant. They have been preserved for\ncenturies in great numbers and vigorous manhood, notwithstanding\ntheir perpetual intestine strifes and the cruel desolations that\nhave been occasioned by the slave trade, along both their eastern\nand western borders. They are in possession of a country that is\nnot only healthful and productive, but whose navigable streams seem\nto have been traced out by the finger of Divine Providence for\nthe twofold purpose of facilitating intercommunication among the\npeople themselves, and of furthering the rapid diffusion of the\nGospel wherever it has once gained a footing. Then their language,\nwith all its wonderful characteristics, seems to have been kept\nby the Divine hand as an easy channel through which the light and\nblessings of the Gospel might, in God\u2019s own good time, reach their\ndark and benighted minds.\n\n             J. LEIGHTON WILSON, in _The Catholic Presbyterian_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY.\n\nBY MRS. H. G. GUINESS.\n\nA wealthy farmer who cultivated some thousands of acres, had,\nby his benevolence, endeared himself greatly to his large staff\nof laborers. He had occasion to leave the country in which his\nproperty was situated, for some years; but, before doing so,\nhe gave his people clearly to understand that he wished the\nwhole of the cultivated land to be kept in hand, and all the\nunclaimed marsh lands to be enclosed and drained, and brought into\ncultivation\u2014that even the hills were to be terraced, and the poor\nmountain pastures manured\u2014so that no single corner of the estate\nshould remain neglected and barren. Ample resources were left for\nthe execution of these works, and there were sufficient hands to\nhave accomplished the whole within the first few years of the\nproprietor\u2019s absence.\n\nHe was detained in the country to which he had been called very\nmany years. Those whom he left children were men and women when\nhe came back, and so the number of his tenantry and laborers\nwas vastly multiplied. Was the task he had given them to do\naccomplished? Alas! no. Bog and moor and mountain waste were only\nwilder and more desolate than ever. Fine rich virgin soil, by\nthousands of acres, was bearing only briars and thistles. Meadow\nafter meadow was utterly barren for want of culture; nay, by far\nthe larger part of the farm seemed never to have been visited by\nhis servants.\n\nHad they been idle? Some had, but large numbers had been\nindustrious enough. They had expended a vast amount of labor,\nand skilled labor, too; but they had bestowed it all on the park\nimmediately around the house. This had been cultivated to such a\npitch of perfection that the workmen had scores of times quarreled\nwith each other, because the operations of one interfered with\nhis neighbor. And a vast amount of labor, too, had been lost in\nsowing the same patch\u2014for instance, with corn fifty times over in\none season, so that the seed never had time to germinate and grow\nand bear fruit; in caring for the forest trees as if they had been\ntender saplings; in manuring soils already too fat, and watering\npastures already too wet. The farmer was positively astonished\nat the misplaced ingenuity with which labor and seed and manure,\nskill and time and strength, had been wasted for no result. The\nvery same amount of toil and capital expended according to his\ndirections, would have brought the whole demesne into culture, and\nyielded a noble revenue. But season after season had rolled away in\nsad succession, leaving those unbounded areas of various but all\nreclaimable soil, barren and useless; and, as to the park, it would\nhave been far more productive and perfect had it been relieved of\nthe extraordinary and unaccountable amount of energy expended on it.\n\nWhy did these laborers act so absurdly? Did they wish to labor\nin vain? On the contrary, they were forever craving for fruit,\ncoveting good crops, longing for great results. Did they not wish\nto carry out the farmer\u2019s views about his property? Well, they\nseemed to have that desire, for they were always reading the\ndirections he wrote, and said continually to each other, \u201cYou know\nwe have to bring the whole property into order;\u201d but they did not\ndo it. Some few tried, and ploughed up a little plot here and\nthere, and sowed corn and other crops. Perhaps these failed, and\nso the rest got discouraged. Oh no! the yield was magnificent;\nfar richer in proportion than they got themselves. They clearly\nperceived that, but yet they failed to follow a good example. Nay,\nwhen the labors of a few, in some distant valley, had resulted in\na crop they were all unable to gather in by themselves, the others\nwould not even go and help them to bring home the sheaves. They\npreferred watching for weeds among the roses in the overcrowded\ngarden, and counting the blades of grass in the park and the leaves\non the trees.\n\nThen they were fools, surely, not wise men?\u2014traitors, not true\nservants to their lord?\n\nOh! I can\u2019t tell! You must ask him that. I only know that the\nMaster said, \u201cGo ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to\nevery creature.\u201d And eighteen hundred and seventy-seven years after\nthey had not even mentioned that there was a Gospel to one-half of\nthe world!\u2014_China\u2019s Millions_.\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nMEMPHIS, TENN.\u2014Thus far, during the epidemic of this year, none of\nthe scholars of the Le Moyne Institute and none of the members of\nthe Second Congregational Church (colored) have suffered.\n\nATLANTA, GA.\u2014The Storrs School was opened on the first of\nSeptember, with 250 scholars, under the continued principalship\nof Miss Amy Williams, who is assisted by Misses Abby Clark, Julia\nGoodwin, Amelia Ferris and F. J. Morris. Miss M. E. Stevenson\nhas been transferred from the position of a teacher to that of\nlady missionary for the city, representing the ladies of the two\nchurches of Oberlin.\n\nBRUNSWICK, GA.\u2014Mr. Morse writes: \u201cMy school has been free the\nentire year. We have averaged over ninety for the year of ten\nmonths. I think many have been made wiser and better. Some have\nconnected themselves with the churches there. We are having a\nseason of great Christian interest in the Congregational Church of\nthis city, under Brother Clarke\u2019s care. Two of our Sunday-school\nscholars, and now supernumerary teachers, have given their hearts\nto the Saviour. Our hope is the schools; take them away and I would\nnot give anything for Congregationalism among the colored people. I\nhad no idea of touching this matter when I began to write.\u201d\n\nMACON, GA.\u2014Rev. S. E. Lathrop, who has been at Atlanta for three\nmonths, running down to supply his church meantime, in a private\nletter, describes a day of work as follows:\n\n\u201cBrother Young wrote me from Byron to come down there and baptize\nsome candidates for him. In the morning I went out from Macon\n(seventeen miles by rail), rode three miles from the church to\nthe creek in a lumber wagon with fourteen _other_ colored folks,\ngetting caught in a shower on the way. Arrived at a grist-mill,\nin which I changed clothes (preparing for immersion), with the\nflour-dust half an inch deep everywhere. Waded into the creek and\nimmersed four candidates, three men and one woman, all of whom\nbehaved excellently well, without any shouting or gymnastics;\nthe seal of _sprinkling_ being set upon us by another sudden\nshower just as we came out of the water. Rode back to the church,\npreached, administered communion, received the four persons to\nmembership, and baptized an infant. Had just time for a good dinner\nof \u2018chicken fixins,\u2019 and took the train back to Macon, arriving at\nsix p. m. of a close, sultry day. Walked one and a half miles and\nback through the sweltering heat, to see a sick girl who wants to\njoin our church. Got back just in time for evening service, and\npreached. Came back here yesterday, and have felt \u2018bunged up\u2019 ever\nsince.\u201d\n\nNO. 1 MILLER\u2019S STATION, GA.\u2014\u201cOn the 27th of August, one of the\nmembers of this church died; or, perhaps, I should express it\nbetter if I said he fell asleep\u2014for it seemed more like sleep than\ndeath. The brother had not been a member of the church for one year\nyet; but all who saw him before his death felt sure that he was a\nsaved man. He was over 76 years of age, and was one of those who\nhad left off drinking since I came here. He was so determined on\nleaving it off that he would not take the communion with us the\nlast time he was present at our services. He said he was afraid it\nwould lead him to rum drinking again. In his case was shown the\npower of the Gospel. He had lived in sin for 75 years; yet, by the\ngrace of God, and the power of His word, he was set free from the\npower of Satan. During his short Christian life he was kept from\nthe sin of strong drink, and when he died he went to live with\nJesus. A few hours before his death he said to me: \u2018All I want now\nis to see my dear Jesus; I have given up all for His sake; do,\nblessed Jesus, come and take me when you are ready.\u2019\u201d\n\n\u201cTHE FIRST COMMENCEMENT ON THE OGEECHEE\u201d is the way in which Pastor\nMcLean, of Ga., announces the closing exercises of his parish\nschool. Never before had those rice swamps caught the echoes of\nthe children\u2019s eloquence. In the twenty-eight orations and two\ndialogues there was not a failure. And when the fathers and mothers\nhad a chance to express their gratitude, it was a burst of \u201cGod\nbless you, brother.\u201d Best of all, of the ninety-five who have been\nconnected with the school during the year, twenty-five have become\nthe disciples of the Great Master since the school was opened.\n\nTALLADEGA, ALA.\u2014The Catalogue of the College for the last year\nreports 214 students in all the departments. This number includes\nthe dozen theological students who have been under the training of\nProf. G. W. Andrews. Their names are Andrew J. Headen, P. W. Young\nand W. S. Williams, who were graduated this year; and also these,\nwho are to study one year more, though they have all been licensed,\nJ. B. Grant, Byron Gunner, John W. Strong, John R. Sims, Yancy B.\nSims, J. W. Roberts, H. W. Conley and Spencer Snell.\n\nLAWSONVILLE, ALA.\u2014While the people of this place are engaged in\nbuilding a church, they are enjoying a season of revival under\ntheir Talladega minister, Rev. J. W. Strong.\n\nMT. SPRING, ALA.\u2014Rev. Alfred Jones, of Childersburg, having\npreached a week at the out-station, Mt. Spring, was permitted to\nrejoice in the conversion of fourteen persons. A half dozen have\nalso united with his church at home upon profession.\n\nTHE COVE, ALA.\u2014Rev. J. B. Grant has been assisted at this place by\nhis fellow theologues, Y. B. Sim, T. T. Benson, J. R. Sims, and by\nRev. P. J. McEntosh, in a series of meetings which have resulted in\ngreat good.\n\nNEW ORLEANS, LA.\u2014Rev. D. L. Mitchel, who is in charge of the\nPresbyterian Book Depository in this city, is supplying the Central\nChurch (Rev. W. S. Alexander\u2019s) during the summer vacation. He\nwrites thus under a recent date: \u201cThe congregation is quite regular\nin attendance, about seventy, and the attention is excellent. The\nprayer meetings are also well attended, and the spiritual condition\nsteadily improving. I think this one of the most important fields\nin the South, and one of the most hopeful. May the blessing of our\nheavenly Father abide with your corps of Christian workers and give\nthem abundant success in their self-denying labors.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nThe Freedmen.\n\n\u2014Of 142 cases of yellow fever reported at Memphis during the week,\nAugust 18th to 24th, 79 were of colored people\u2014about one-half.\nAbout three-eighths of the total population are colored.\n\n\u2014Among the colored refugees in Kansas is an entire Baptist church\nof 300 persons led by the pastor and deacons. They were from Delta,\nLa.\n\n\u2014Sojourner Truth, the famous colored woman, who is now 103 years\nold, is at Chicago, en route to Kansas, to make a study of the\ncolored exodus.\n\n\u2014Governor St. John, of Kansas, believes that the colored exodus has\nonly begun; that it is not unlikely that it will soon re-open, and\nreach to hundreds of thousands in its numbers.\n\n\u2014The current catalogue of Howard University reports a total of\n236 students for the year. Of these, 21 are in the Theological\ndepartment, 64 in the Medical, 10 in the Law, 17 in the College,\n16 in the Preparatory, and 87 in the Normal. This Association for\nthe third year sustains one-half the expense of the Theological\ndepartment. Rev. Dr. Craighead of this city, many years connected\nwith _The Evangelist_, has been appointed to the chair of Theology,\nmade vacant by the death of Prof. Lorenzo Westcott. Dr. Craighead\nhas accepted, and is to enter upon duty this fall. The Law and\nMedical departments are under the instruction of resident lawyers\nand doctors in Washington. Rev. Wm. W. Patton, D.D., is President\nand Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Natural\nTheology, and Evidences of Revealed Religion, also Instructor in\nHebrew.\n\nAn appropriation of ten thousand dollars was made by the last\nCongress exclusively for the benefit of the College; not a dollar\nis to go to sustain the professional courses. It is fitting that\nthe Government, which, through the Freedmen\u2019s Bureau, did so much\nto found the institution, should help it along in its straits.\n\nProf. R. I. Greener, of the Law department, before the American\nAssociation for the Advancement of Science, in session at Saratoga,\njoined issue with Frederick Douglass in the discussion of the\nexodus question. He is a man of platform popularity. It must\nhave been a touching scene when Col. Thos. J. Kirkpatrick, of\nVirginia, and Frederick Douglass, in the meeting of the Howard\nBoard of Trust, joined hands in mutual expression of regard\u2014the\nex-slaveholder and the ex-slave.\n\n\u2014The Marysville College in East Tennessee, founded before the\nwar by the New School Presbyterians, now under the presidency\nof Rev. Peter Mason Bartlett, who has also a brother in one of\nthe professorships, received some of the funds of the Freedmen\u2019s\nBureau, upon the condition that its doors should ever stand open to\ncolored as well as white students. This provision has been carried\nout in spite of local prejudice, so that all along there have\nbeen a few students of the African race among its numbers. This\ninstitution is to be praised for fidelity to the bond. Some schools\nthat received from the same fund, on the same conditions, have not\nstood to the contract.\n\n\u2014Aunt Kelly, now living at Troy, Missouri, at an advanced age, but\n\u201cbred, born, and raised in ole Virginny,\u201d told the writer, that,\nwhen a young woman, she sawed the lumber for the building of the\nState University. For that matter, the labor in building the mass\nof the literary institutions of the South was performed by the\ncolored people. It is, then, only a piece of reciprocity that the\nseveral States of that region should now provide public schools\nfor that class of their citizens. Old Virginia appropriates ten\nthousand dollars a year to the Hampton Institute; South Carolina\naids the Claflin University (Methodist), and other States are doing\na like generous thing.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAfrica.\n\n\u2014Of the twenty-three new missionaries sent out by the Church\nMissionary Society during the last year, three were for West\nAfrica and five for the Nyanza Mission. Of the eighteen new this\nyear, two are for West Africa and two for the Nyanza Mission, to\nbe stationed at Mpwapwa. Mr. Price is, for the present, the only\nordained missionary at the station. Mr. Cole is to devote himself\nlargely to the industrial interests of the Mission with a view to\nits self-support at as early a day as may be found possible. Dr.\nBaxter and Mr. Last have already occupied the field for a year. In\nthe instructions given them at a farewell meeting it was said: \u201cNot\nonly is it made more and more clear that Mpwapwa is in a sense the\nkey to the Lake district, and likely to remain so for many years\nto come, and hence important with a view to the work carried on in\nthe interior by other societies as well as the C. M. S., but there\nis also no doubt that from it, as a centre, missionary work may be\ncarried on both among the natives inhabiting the Usagara Mountains\nand amid the manly and numerous race inhabiting the Ugogo country.\u201d\n\n\u2014The same Society reports that its work in behalf of the freed\nslaves in East Africa is beginning to bear spiritual fruit. The\nimproved condition of the settlement at Frere Town, materially and\nmorally, has been reported from time to time; but the spiritual\nresults hitherto have been comparatively small. Until lately no\nmention has been made of the gospel\u2019s taking root among the poor\nliberated slaves rescued by Her Majesty\u2019s cruisers, and handed\nover to the Mission in the Autumn of 1875, to the number of nearly\n300, and perhaps another 100 in smaller detachments since. Mr.\nStreeter now reports the baptism of thirty-two of them on their own\nconfession of faith, besides infants. The Rev. A. Menzies reached\nFrere Town June 1st.\n\n\u2014The Free Church of Scotland reports the transfer of Miss Waterston\nto the new field at Livingstonia. Miss W. has for seven years been\nthe successful superintendent of the female seminary at Lovedale.\nShe is fully qualified as a medical missionary, and carries the\nconfidence and good wishes of all who know her. Says the _Monthly\nRecord_: She means to go first to Lovedale, where she will halt\nfor a short time in order to select coadjutors from among her\nformer pupils. She hopes to induce some of them to accompany her\nto the sphere of her future labors, where they will be employed as\nteachers, and in other departments of the work. When Dr. Stewart\nfirst started for Lake Nyassa, so many of the Lovedale young men\nvolunteered for service under their noble missionary\u2019s banner, that\nhe found it impossible to accept of half the number. From what we\nhave heard of the young women, they are not likely to be behind in\ncourage and zeal, nor is Miss Waterston likely to be disappointed\nin her hope of volunteers. Her aim will be now, as formerly, to\nblend Christian teaching with efforts to civilize and elevate,\nand, as opportunity offers, to gather the young into boarding and\nindustrial schools. She will also help Dr. Laws in his dispensary\nand other medical work among the women.\n\nThe only other lady who has gone to Livingstonia is to be the wife\nof the well-known missionary, Dr. Laws, who so ably conducts the\nFree Church Mission there; and at Blantyre, the station of the\nEstablished Church of Scotland, there already resides the wife of\none of the missionaries\u2014Mrs. Duff McDonald.\n\n\u2014When the missionary steamer owned by the mission of the Free\nChurch of Scotland was to be placed on Lake Nyassa, the leader\nof the expedition applied to the chief of the tribe for reliable\nhelp to carry the craft around the Murchison Cataracts. The chief\nresponded by sending eight hundred women,\u2014a compliment certainly\nto the trustworthiness of the sex. \u201cSome of them came fifty miles,\nbringing their provisions with them. These women were intrusted\nwith the whole, when if a single portion of the steamer had been\nlost, the whole scheme would have failed. They carried it in\ntwo hundred and fifty loads in five days, under a tropical sun,\nseventy-five miles, to an elevation of 1,800 feet, and not a\nnail or screw was lost. They \u2018trusted the Englishman,\u2019 asking no\nquestions of wages, and receiving each six yards of calico; and for\nthe sake of being liberal, each was given an extra yard.\u201d\u2014_Heathen\nWoman\u2019s Friend_.\n\n\u2014The sudden death of Rev. Dr. Mullens, of peritonitis, at Aden,\nis announced. He has been for some years a Christian leader\nin Great Britain, and his opinions have had great weight with\nintelligent Christians throughout the world. He has been the chief\nCorresponding Secretary of the great London Missionary Society\nduring about twenty years\u2014a position of great responsibility and\nusefulness, and one of the most influential in the Church of\nChrist. Before he was called to this service he had been for many\nyears a successful missionary in India. Two or three months ago, by\nhis own request\u2014if memory serves us faithfully\u2014he was appointed by\nthe Society to accompany a band of young missionaries to Zanzibar,\nand to go on, if necessary, if his judgment so decided, to Lake\nTanganyika, in the heart of Southern Africa. It was expected\nthat his strong sense and remarkable executive ability would see\nand organize some method to overcome the serious obstacles and\ndifficulties which lie in the path of missions to Central Africa.\n\nOn arriving at Zanzibar, Dr. Mullens decided, in the exercise\nof the discretion given him by the Board, to proceed onward, in\ncompany with Messrs. Griffith and Southon, to Lake Tanganyika. The\nparty left Zanzibar on the afternoon of Friday, June 13th, and\nhaving landed at Saadani, started for the interior. Letters dated\nNdumi, June 16th, report that all the members of the expedition\nwere in excellent health, and were well on their way westward.\n\nNews of his death on the 10th of July has brought sadness to many\nhearts outside of the circle who will most deeply miss his counsels\nand mourn his loss. He was not yet fifty-nine years of age, and was\none of the foremost men of the present time in foreign missions,\nhaving been, perhaps, the most prominent leader in the Basle\nMissionary Conference held in October last.\n\n\u2014There is now an unbroken chain of communication by steam from\nEngland to the northern end of Lake Nyassa in Central Africa,\nexcepting seventy miles of the Murchison Cataracts in the Shire\nRiver; and it is ascertained that Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika are\nbut 130 miles apart, instead of 250.\n\n\u2014The London _Daily Telegraph_ says: Among many interesting\nparticulars of discoveries brought from Africa by the gallant\nPortuguese explorer, Major Serpa Pinto, none is more absorbing\nthan his story of the white people encountered between the rivers\nCubango and Cuando. Serpa Pinto found in these districts a tribe\nabsolutely European in tint, yet nowise of the Albino type, for\nthe hair was black and woolly. He described them as uglier than\nthe plainest negroes, and lower in civilization than any race met\nwith, having receding foreheads, slanting eyes like the Chinese,\nprominent cheek-bones, and hanging lower lips. The appearance fails\nto do much credit to the white men whom they resemble. Who, then,\nand whence, are these people, so strangely recalling the tribe\nspoken of by Mr. Stanley between the equatorial lakes?\n\n\u2014Late news from Bishop Crowther\u2019s mission, on the Niger River,\nAfrica, states that one of the chiefs, Captain Hart, who had been\nmost active at Bonny in the persecution of Christian converts,\nis dead. On his death-bed he commanded that all his idols be\ndestroyed, warning his followers to have nothing more to do with\nidol worship. The next day after his death the heathen fell upon\nthe collection of idols with a will. Archdeacon Crowther writes:\n\n\u201cEarly this morning they began to destroy the jujus. The work of\ndestruction is great. The poor gods and goddesses are having very\nhard times in late Captain Hart\u2019s quarters now. They are handled in\na most unceremonious and rough manner. Two canoe-loads, it is said,\nhave found their resting-place in the deepest part of the river,\nand those that float and will not sink are broken into ever so many\npieces. Floating wrecks of idols made and worshiped since the days\nof Captain Hart\u2019s father are to be seen dotted all over the creek\nto the river in the shipping. Imprecations and abuses have taken\nthe place of worship.\u201d\n\nBishop Crowther reports that, after a long season at Bonny, in\nwhich, owing to persecution, there were no converts, eight persons\nhave been baptized.\n\n\u2014Dr. John Kirk, the British Consul-General at Zanzibar, Africa,\nwrites that Keith Johnson, the leader of the expedition to explore\nthe head of Lake Nyassa, died of dysentery on the 27th of June,\nat Berobero, 130 miles inland from Dar-es-Salaam. The expedition\nwill be continued by Mr. Thomson, the scientific assistant of Mr.\nJohnson.\n\n\u2014Mr. John S. Hartland reports his arrival at Bonny, and Mr. W. H.\nBentley at Sierra Leone, on the West Coast of Africa. They are\nboth on their way to the English Baptist Mission on the Congo or\nLivingstone River.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Indians.\n\nThe following paragraph from the _Independent_ so fully expresses\nour view of the matter of the Ponca Indians, that we both copy and\nendorse it:\n\nThe story which Secretary Schurz tells about the Ponca Indians,\nwhile it corrects some misapprehensions in regard to the case,\nnevertheless confesses that the Government has treated the Indians\nvery unjustly. This the Secretary said in his first annual report.\nAfter securing to the Poncas 96,000 acres of land in South-eastern\nDakota by the treaties of 1817, 1826 and 1858, the Government in\n1868 granted this very land to the Sioux Indians, without any\nreference to the rights held therein by the Poncas, both by treaty\nand occupancy. The Sioux Indians were unfriendly to the Poncas,\nand the collision between these tribes made it necessary for\nthe Government to seek the removal of the Poncas to the Indian\nTerritory. All this was done before the present Administration\ncame into power, and hence it has no responsibility for the wrong\ndone. Secretary Schurz says that \u201cno effort has been spared by\nthe Executive branch of the Government to rectify all the wrongs\nthat the Poncas have suffered, so far as these wrongs can be\nrectified.\u201d He also says that \u201ca bill for their relief, providing\nfor payment for their lands in Dakota, and also providing for\nthe payment for their new reservation, with an appropriation of\n$58,000 to reimburse them for their losses, has been sent to\nCongress by the Interior Department.\u201d We are glad to learn from so\ngood an authority that the Executive Department of the Government\nrecognizes the wrong which has been done to these Indians, and\nshows a disposition to make an honorable _amende_ therefor. It is\nto be hoped that Congress will sustain and concur with its efforts.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNORTH AND SOUTH.\n\nSome Things in Common.\n\nIn efforts to promote the spirit of Christian union, it is always\nadvised that we look for the things that we hold in common\u2014the\nthings that make us Christians, rather than those which make us\nof this or that church party. In seeking to advance national good\nfeeling, may we not wisely pursue something of the same course? If\nany persons can take up this line of talk without being accused\nof having been bulldozed by Southern blandishment, it may be those\nwho were the early abolitionists, and especially those who endeavor\nto prove their faith by their works in going down among the lowly\nand despised ex-slaves to try to raise them up by the appliances of\neducation and of the Gospel.\n\n1. One such common possession is that of our English inheritance.\nWe are, characteristically, of the Anglo-Saxon stock. We speak\nthe English language from South to North. We have that glorious\nspeech that swallows up and overmasters the Babel of tongues that\nfall upon our ears. We think that, led by our incomparable Webster\nand Worcester, we use our English with even more of correctness\nthan does the mother country. We inherit the great principles of\nconstitutional government, of trial by jury, habeas corpus, and of\ncivil and religious liberty. We are joint heirs to the matchless\nEnglish literature, and to a history that has made England the\nleading nation of Christendom.\n\n2. We hold in common the glories of our Revolutionary period. We\nshare in the joys of the birth of a new nation. We have the same\ntraditions of patriotism. We are mutually proud of the memory of\nWashington and Jefferson and the Adamses, and of the other fathers\nof the Republic. Our National Centennial gave occasion for a\nrevival of our national feeling. Masses of our brethren who had\nbeen estranged were glad of the opportunity thus afforded to share\nin the thrill inspired by the world\u2019s recognition of our national\ngreatness.\n\n3. We share in the essentials of the Reformed Church life. The\nPilgrims and the Puritans settled in New England. Much of the blood\nby which the Southern States were stocked was of the Reformed\nquality. In the celebration, at Chicago, of the two hundred and\nfiftieth anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrims, Dr. Bacon said\nthat the Presbyterians were Puritans. The South has had a large\nportion of this moral and theological leavening. The Scotch and\nthe Scotch-Irish element in that region has been large and largely\ninfluential. Through them Puritan notions have been planted and\npropagated. The Huguenots, who were the contribution of France to\nthe Reformation, have had a large representation in the South.\nSixty years before the Pilgrims landed, they made, on the Carolina\ncoast, two settlements, which were annihilated by the persecuting\npower of Rome that followed them to the wilderness continent. They\ntried again and made a lodgment where Charleston now stands, and to\nthis day \u201cThe Huguenot Church\u201d abides in its integrity of language\nand of character. From this same source that city has received a\nlarge infiltration of blood and of principle. Out in the State,\nand at other places in the South, the Huguenots have given names\nto towns and tone and caste to society. The South has had but a\nsmall portion of the foreign emigration, and so has felt less the\ninfluence of the Continental views as to the Sabbath. One of our\nprofessors, who has been many years in the South, says that the\nHoly Day is more strictly observed in that part of the country\nthan at the North. The intellectual orthodoxy of the South is well\nknown. It may be because of the lack of activity in theological\ndiscussion, but the fact is apparent to such a degree that a more\nethical and practical preaching is what the Christian people are\nhungering for thereaway.\n\n4. We have a common sympathy in Protestantism. The early Spanish\nand French occupation in Louisiana and in Baltimore has made\nthose strong Catholic centres. But Romanism is not so generally a\nprevailing power in the South as in the North. The drift of foreign\nemigration has made this difference. Rome\u2019s chance at the South is\nnow not with immigrants, but with natives, Africo-Americans; and\nshe is bound to make the most of it. But just here comes out our\nunity in Protestant views. Southern Christians are anxious lest\nthe display and the mystery of the Roman system should captivate\nthese simple children of nature. They are as solicitous as we\nthat the same Providence which delivered our land from the early\ndomination of Romish nationalities, may save it from coming under\nthe supremacy of that spiritual despotism. When the Catholic bishop\nat Richmond opened his cathedral, Sunday nights, to a free service\nin behalf of the colored people, it made a tremendous stir among\nwhite as well as colored Protestants.\n\n5. Have we not had a common responsibility for the existence of\nslavery? Striking in its upas roots at Jamestown, it was allowed\nto spread over all the colonies. Samuel Hopkins, thundering at\nthe gates of the pens of the slave-trade in Newport, must yet\nreverberate among those empty dens still standing. In 1872 I saw\nin Connecticut an aged disciple who had once been a slave in that\nState. My childish ears tingled with my father\u2019s stories of slave\nlife as known to him in New Jersey. The system, by implication,\nwas recognized in the Federal Constitution. The Government allowed\nit to sweep out over yet other empire areas at the South and West.\nWe had Federal laws, resting upon Northern public sentiment, to\nprotect the institution. We allowed our churches and our literary\ninstitutions and our benevolent societies to come under the common\nparalysis of conscience. Without any interest in slaves as personal\nproperty, we allowed our great commercial affairs to be brought\nunder bondage to that system. Our measure of complicity in that\nnational wrong was indicated in part by the awful retribution meted\nout in the sacrifice of half a million of precious lives and by the\noffering of billions of treasure. We have had occasion to join our\nbrethren at the South and say, \u201cWe are verily guilty concerning our\nbrother.\u201d\n\n6. Have we not now a common obligation to make restitution to these\nnew-made citizens? We are not only by legislation to recognize\ntheir rights of manhood and of citizenship, but to uphold them in\nthe same. We are to secure them in the enjoyment of the blessing\nof our American educational system and of the best Christianizing\nprocesses. As we have endowed them with the sacred elements of\ncitizenship, we must help them to the means of making them citizens\nworthy of the nation. This common duty was indicated by Hon. John\nGoode, of Virginia, when he said, in Congress, \u201cCan the Government\nbestow civil and political rights upon these wards of the nation,\nand at the same time avoid the solemn obligation to provide for\ntheir mental and moral improvement?\u201d That is the responsibility\nof citizens, North and South, as well as of the Government. And\nso let the people join hands, irrespective of sectional lines, in\ndoing the just, the right thing by these native Americans, the\nprovidential significance of whose existence in our country is a\nproblem calling for solution.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREMINISCENCES.\n\n  \u201cIt\u2019s the color that tells\u201d\u2014\u201cJes hear dem niggers read\u201d\u2014Candle\n  and half-bushel\u2014\u201cAge up country,\u201d &c.\u2014Sad words making\n  glad\u2014\u201cFrosty arms.\u201d\n\nAfter the full accounts you have been giving your readers of late\nof the Commencement Exercises, with their attendant essays and\norations, brief reminiscences of a few years ago, when the Freedmen\nknew little of Greek and Latin, but were intent upon \u201cblue-back\u201d\nspellers and the easy parts of the Bible, may not come amiss.\n\nIt happened once that in a dimly-lighted school-house, about nine\no\u2019clock at night, filled with men and women of various hue, from\nwhite through brown to black, there was one class of nine young\nmen spelling words of three syllables. They were very earnest, and\nin real old-fashioned way were going \u201cup and down\u201d in the class.\nAt the head stood Joseph, very black; then three nearly as dark,\nfollowed by four light ones, with the very darkest of the whole\nclass at the foot. All went well till the upper light one missed\nand the word passed down; Joseph, seeing it likely to pass from the\nlight ones to the very dark face at the foot, in excitement and joy\nburst forth with, \u201cSpell it, Dave, and cut up here; _it\u2019s the color\nthat tells_.\u201d Dave spelt it, and the color did tell.\n\nOne man who made his appearance in night-school about the middle\nof the winter, I shall never forget. His entrance was quite\noverpowering\u2014a big man, big cane, big hat, and a big shawl thrown\nover his shoulder, Arab style. I happened to be at leisure, so I\nwent at once to ask him if he intended coming regularly to school.\nSaying that he did, my next question was, \u201cWhat\u2019s your name?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m\nLucy\u2019s husband, over there.\u201d As I didn\u2019t know Lucy, I was not much\nthe wiser, and had to repeat the question with the emphasis on the\n_your_. Wishing to classify him, I asked, \u201cWhat book do you read\nin?\u201d \u201cThe Bible mostly, ma\u2019am.\u201d \u201cCan you read in the First Reader?\u201d\n\u201cYes, first, second, third, fourth and all the other elementary\nbooks.\u201d Thinking I might gain some information where to assign him,\nI looked at the books he had brought with him. There were four: a\nlarge family Bible; another book of some size, but very fine print,\non \u201cPresbyterian Ordination Refuted;\u201d a \u201cChild\u2019s Scripture Question\nBook,\u201d and a small geography.\n\nBut if the night-schools were amusing, the afternoon schools for\nthe women were not less so. Old women and young women, many of them\nin fantastic attire, with hats, caps and dresses that would have\nbeen considered prizes by an antiquary; the dark faces peering\nfrom under the white or speckled turban; old women wiping their\nspectacles, vainly endeavoring to get \u201cmore light\u201d on the subject,\nwhile picking away at the letters in some old Primer, as if they\nwere to be transferred bodily to the head. Aunt Chloe Fisher\nmust have been seventy-five or eighty years old, but still she\nwas bright and original. She came into school one afternoon very\nanxious to learn to read \u201cde way, de troof, and de life.\u201d Seeing\nsome women in another part of the room reading, she exclaimed, \u201cJes\nhear dem niggers read! If dis nig can\u2019t read, too, won\u2019t she fight\n\u2019em?\u201d and then she vigorously applied her finger to the pages of\nthe Gospel of John which she had with her, finding the words Lord\nand God, which were about all she knew. She believed in both faith\nand works, for she used to pray most earnestly that God would help\nher know the words, and then get up in the middle of the night and\nlight a pine knot to see if she had a word right. Old Aunt Chloe\nwas always happy. I never saw her otherwise but once, and then she\nwas greatly troubled for fear she should lose her place in the\ngrave-yard. One special place she had chosen, and young people were\ndying so fast she was afraid she should not die soon enough to lie\nthere. She would get happy over her wash-tub or anywhere else, and\nher hands and her feet would keep time with some negro hymn in a\nmost amusing manner.\n\nOne old Aunty was reading the fifth chapter of Matthew,\nwhen she came to a passage, which she read thus;\n\u201cNeither\u2014do\u2014men\u2014light\u2014a\u2014half-bushel\u2014and\u2014put\u2014it\u2014under\u2014a\u2014candle-stick.\u201d\nOn being stopped and told to look again, pointing with her finger\nall along the lines of the page, with a look of half despair she\nsaid, \u201cBress you, honey, I can\u2019t find either candle or half-bushel\nnow.\u201d Those simple words were quite a sermon for me, and I\u2019ve\nthought of them many a time since. Are not we, as Christians, in\ndanger of losing our candles? Our good Aunty\u2019s candle was soon\nfound for her; but will ours, once lost, be as easily recovered?\n\nIn those days, even in the day-schools, there were many\ndifficulties that could hardly be encountered now. I remember\nhearing one teacher say that it was almost impossible to get the\nages of her scholars. They would say, \u201cMy age is up country;\u201d or\n\u201cOle missis has my age in the Bible, and she\u2019s gone away.\u201d The\ntrick of giving one name to one teacher and another to the next\nwas practiced. On giving a second name once, one little fellow was\nbrought up with, \u201cWhy, I thought your name was George Johnson?\u201d \u201cI\ndone got tired of that name,\u201d was his cool reply.\n\nPerhaps the most interesting prayer-meeting that I ever attended\namong the Freedmen was in Alabama, where the Ku Klux outrages\nlasted so much longer than in other places, and where the\nmissionaries looked to their guns and their rifles before retiring.\nI reached there just the evening of the weekly prayer-meeting at\nthe school-house. \u2019Twas a stormy night, but with waterproofs and\numbrellas we ventured. Wholly unused to bullets, I must confess\nthere was a little trembling under one waterproof, as we wended\nour way along the little path through the woods, and across the\none plank bridge over the Branch; but once within the building all\nfear vanished. The room was filled with the finest looking colored\npeople I had ever seen. They had, many of them, been house servants\nin the best families in this aristocratic place. The pastor opened\nthe meeting, and they carried it on with a liveliness that was\ntruly refreshing. Two or three usually rose at once, with words\nright on their lips. This church had only been organized a little\nover a year, and then numbered about eighty. There had been much\nto dishearten all along. They had no church building, and had been\nstriving hard to build; but no sooner would they begin to see\nlittle light through the clouds than the white people, fearing that\nthe men with dark skins might acquire too great a hold on this\nworld\u2019s goods, would remove work from the most prosperous, and\nthus the clouds would gather again. Referring to this method of\n_keeping down_, one of the members once said, \u201cNo \u2019count niggers\ncan rub along here well enough, but smart niggers had better look\nout for other quarters.\u201d Even at that time the danger of their\nbeing obliged to disband from outside violence was hardly over, and\nas they told of their love for their church, one could hardly help\nthinking of the stories of the early Christians, when persecutions\nonly increased their zeal. There was an undertone of sadness\nthrough the remarks of several, for they felt peculiarly uncertain\nas to what a day might bring forth. But one suddenly rose and\nchanged the key. \u201cI was sad,\u201d he said, \u201cwhen I first came in here,\nbut your words of sadness have made me glad, for they have shown me\nhow much we all love our church, and such love, with the love of\nGod for us, which is even much greater, will carry us through fiery\ntrials. I never felt as strong as I feel to-night. \u2019Tis true, I\ndon\u2019t know what may come upon us, but I do feel that the Lord will\nhelp us through.\u201d Then he told what he hoped for the future, in\nsuch cheerful words, that as he sat down, they burst forth almost\nwith one voice in a song of praise, and then one after another\nkneeled down, and in the most simple words of faith asked their\nFather to help His children in this their day of trouble, and I do\nnot think there was one present who had the slightest doubt of His\ndoing so.\n\nEven before the Kansas fever, there were States in the North that\nwere synonyms for all good things to the colored people. I remember\na Thanksgiving Day, when a minister was addressing one of the\nschools, and telling the children what they had to be thankful\nfor, that he burst forth with the question, \u201cIs there any other\ncountry so blessed as this?\u201d \u201cYes, sir,\u201d said a little urchin\nbefore him. \u201cWhy, what one?\u201d \u201cMassachusetts,\u201d was the reply.\n\nI once heard a colored minister pray heartily for the teachers in\nthis wise, \u201cMay God throw around this institution His _frosty_\narms, and bear the teachers from this to another vale of tears.\u201d\n\nThe good old days have gone; the better ones, _perhaps_, have come.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTENNESSEE.\n\nA Remarkable Conversion and Triumphant Death.\n\nMISS HENRIETTA MATSON, NASHVILLE.\n\nHow often have God\u2019s dealings with His children seemed strange and\nsad, when those who were just ready to do valiant service for Him,\nhere amid the need of a lost world, are called up higher\u2014called to\nrest, rather than toil\u2014to wear the crown, rather than longer bear\nthe cross.\n\nBut God\u2019s ways are not ours, and since we know that He ever cares\nfor His own cause, we may believe that He calls the loved one to\na higher usefulness. Such were some of the thoughts that came to\nour hearts when, on a beautiful June morning during the summer\nvacation, we read the words, \u201cE. J. Park died yesterday afternoon,\u201d\nfollowed by an account of the triumphant death of a student of Fisk\nUniversity, who had gone to Texas to teach school.\n\nEugene Park came to Fisk University several years ago, a pleasant,\ncareless boy, who had never bestowed a thought upon his eternal\ninterests. For a long time he was but little moved; both the\nwarnings and the entreaties of the Gospel seemed to fall unheeded\nupon his ear, and we often felt that he became only more careless\nand indifferent.\n\nAt last, however, the Spirit strove with him, and he began to\nask, \u201cWhat must I do to be saved?\u201d though at first there was not\nin him that fixed purpose which would lead him to arise and go to\nhis Father. And so he halted for months, wavering and undecided,\nuntil a mighty conviction seized him that he must find God, and\nthat speedily. Sin, in all its enormity, was revealed to him, and\nhe seemed indeed to realize that he was lost, unless the Saviour\nshould interpose and deliver him.\n\nHe then gave himself entirely to seeking God. He could not study,\nand there were many long hours in which he could neither eat nor\nsleep, so powerfully was he wrought upon. One morning in Chapel,\nat devotional exercises, while in this intense state of mind, the\nreading of the Scriptures so affected him that he sobbed aloud.\nHoping to calm him, and at the same time point him to Christ, the\nhymn was sung, \u201cOh, the blood, the precious blood!\u201d but he was so\novercome that his friends were obliged to take him away, and a few\nof us gathered and prayed with him. Still the light from the Sun of\nRighteousness did not break in; the precious blood was not applied\nto his soul until the next day, when Jesus Himself drew near, and\nthe Lord of Glory revealed Himself as the One altogether lovely,\nand the Chief among ten thousand. His soul seemed in a rapture of\njoy for days. He came to the school with his Bible always in his\nhand, as though he could not be parted from it even for a moment.\n\nThen followed years of ripening in the Christian life, with\nfrequent seasons of such blessing that he could not speak of Christ\nwithout tears. He early gave himself to the ministry, feeling that\nto preach the everlasting Gospel would be his highest joy, and\nwas pursuing his studies with this in view. He was not, however,\nwithout temptations to a worldly life, though we are assured that\nthe dear Saviour kept His own, even unto the end. His death was a\nbeautiful illustration of the triumph of the Gospel of Christ. Far\nfrom friends and home, yet he was not alone, for that Friend that\nsticketh closer than a brother was near.\n\nHe had been ill for several days, and one morning he told those\nabout him that he should go home at three afternoon, and precisely\nat the hour named the summons came. He had sent messages to his\nmother and friends. \u201cTell them,\u201d he said, \u201cthat Jesus is with me\nand saves me. Oh, how sweet it is to die in the arms of Jesus.\u201d He\nthen sung, \u201cWashed in the blood of the Lamb,\u201d \u201cSafe in the arms of\nJesus,\u201d and \u201cSweeping through the gates to the new Jerusalem.\u201d\n\nAnd now we, in our sorrow, think of him as thus \u201csafe.\u201d We hoped he\nwould labor long and successfully for the Master; but he has been\ncalled up higher, and is now, we believe, among the ransomed in the\nNew Jerusalem, where he has learned the new song, even praise unto\nour God.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nFirst Impressions.\n\nREV. P. W. YOUNG, BYRON\n\nI feel the necessity of writing you this morning concerning my\nwork, though my time is much occupied. I am happy to say that I\nfound some very earnest members here, notwithstanding they were\nlike sheep without a shepherd when I came. There is an opportunity\nfor a great deal of Christian labor here, as in many other places.\n\nI preach on the Sabbath at 11 o\u2019clock and at 8 o\u2019clock in the\nevening. We have a very good Temperance Society also. Its members\nmanifest great interest in the cause. The people are beginning to\nsee that intemperance, if continually practiced, will bring them to\ndegradation. I delivered a lecture to the society last Sabbath in\nthe afternoon, having about 250 persons present. I told them in the\nplainest words of the great harm that had been done by intemperance\namong the colored people. When I closed my remarks they said they\nwished I could speak an hour longer on the same subject, showing\ntheir hearty approval of what I had said.\n\nThe religious interest seems to be good generally. There are four\nconverts to unite with the church.\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\nTHE BEGINNING OF HARVEST\u2014ONG LUNE.\n\nREV. WM. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nOur Lord has begun\u2014sooner than we desired and very suddenly to\nus\u2014to gather from our harvest field His wheat into His garner. The\nfirst-fruits went home on Sunday, Aug. 3d, at our Bethany church. I\nwas in the act of baptizing and welcoming to Christian fellowship\non earth _four_ of our more recently converted Chinese brethren,\nwhen our brother Ong Lune was welcomed to the fellowship above. He\nwas a young man of 21 years, had been a Christian, as we hoped,\nfor nearly three years, and a church member since December, 1877.\nHis sickness was brief, and he was supposed to be recovering till\nabout twenty-four hours before his death. He had greatly desired\nto become strong enough to be present at our August communion, but,\ninstead, he ate bread in the kingdom of God.\n\nModest and unassuming, but intelligent, earnest and thoroughly\nconsecrated to Christ, his absence from our mission work makes a\nvoid not easily filled. A great majority of American Christians\nmight well have sat at the feet of this young Chinaman and learned\nhow to be co-workers with the Saviour. Approaching his countrymen\nwith a smile, seizing every opportunity to \u201cspeak a word in\nseason,\u201d he sought to bring them to our schools, and then to lead\nthem to his Saviour. A house-servant, with little time that he\ncould call his own, he will wear no starless crown. I know not how\nmany times the question, \u201cWho told you to come to school?\u201d has been\nanswered by the utterance of his name. The last service he was able\nto render was\u2014in spite of pain and weariness from the disease which\nafterwards proved fatal\u2014to act as my interpreter in the examination\nof three candidates for baptism, one of them, possibly, his own\nchild in the Gospel.\n\nHis teacher\u2014Miss Florence N. Wooley\u2014quotes him as saying that what\nhe wanted was \u201cto bring more and more scholars, and watch them,\nand when they know about Jesus, must make them to be our brethren\nand try to keep them from temptation; and I wish to do the best I\ncan, but am afraid of temptation myself.\u201d She adds: \u201cHe succeeded\nin this; and the secret of his success, as told me by one of the\nscholars, was this: \u2018He talked so nice to the boys, and never got\ncross nor angry; and so they all minded what he told them.\u2019 He had\nentered into the spirit of the word, \u2018Go out into the highways and\nhedges and compel them to come in.\u2019 As soon as he came into school\nhe was wont to speak of some one who had promised him to come that\nnight. If this promise was not fulfilled, he went after the person\nagain and again and brought him in. He was getting on well in his\nstudies, especially in his study of the Bible. The last verses he\nrecited were Acts vii. 54, 55, now happily fulfilled in his own\nexperience.\u201d\n\n\nTHE STORY OF LEE FOUN, BY LEE HAIM.\n\n[Lee Haim, one of our helpers, had given me this account, and I\nrequested him to write it for the MISSIONARY. I give it as he wrote\nit, word for word, correcting only a few expressions to make the\nsense clear.\u2014W. C. P.]\n\n\u201cI am going to tell you something of our Christian brethren\nwhen they go back to China. Last year one of our Christian\nAssociation went by the steamship with his own brother, and when\nthey both reached their old home, his elder brother said to his\nwife: \u2018Well, to-morrow I will go tell my mother that my younger\nbrother, Lee Foun, believes in Jesus, and was a member of the\nAmerican Association while he staid in California. He does not\nwant to worship our gods which sit in the temple, nor worship our\nancestors; neither to keep the traditions which our fathers have\nhanded down from generation to generation. If I go and tell these\nthings to my mother she will give him a good whipping.\u2019\n\n\u201cSo his elder brother agreed to tell his mother in the morning;\nand when the morning came he brought the whole affair before her.\nShe was exceedingly grieved when she heard it, and she went and\ntold some of her son\u2019s uncles. Then Lee Foun\u2019s uncles said to her:\n\u2018Never mind that now; your son now come back is like a stranger;\nyou need not to say any thing to him now; but wait for two days,\nuntil the first day of June is come; then you may call him up and\noffer some tea, and burn the incense in the morning, and see if he\ndo it or not.\u2019 This custom was known to Lee Foun, for our Chinese\ngenerally keep it twice each month\u2014the first day of the month and\nthe fifteenth. It is considered a very important custom, as much so\nas to serve their parents in their lifetime. It is like the Jews\nkeeping the Passover every year, or as we keep the Supper of the\nLord.\n\n\u201cSo his mother said nothing to him till the first day of June; then\nshe tried to wake him up to burn the incense and offer the tea to\nhis great-grandfather; but Lee Foun did not get up as early that\nmorning as usual; and when the time of offering tea and burning\nthe incense had passed, then he got up. And when he met his mother\nshe burst into tears. He asked her presently, \u2018What is the matter,\nmother?\u2019 and his mother gave no answer. Then he asked her the same\nthing. His mother said to him: \u2018My son, you ought to have got up\nearly this morning and offered some tea and burned the incense\nbefore your ancestor; but you got up so late, and did not do it,\nthat makes me feel bad.\u2019 Then Lee Foun said to his mother: \u2018If we\ngo and offer tea and burn the incense before these stones, wood,\nclay and paper, do you think they know it? I don\u2019t believe that,\nfor they, having eyes, cannot see; having ears, cannot hear; having\nnoses, cannot smell; mouth, cannot speak; hands, cannot handle;\nfeet they have, but cannot walk; and bodies have they, but cannot\nmove. All these things are nothing but wood, stone, clay and paper.\nWhat good have they done for men? Moreover, those who serve images,\nor serve the dead instead of the living, sin against the living\nand true God; for every thing is made by His own hands. And He has\ncommanded us not to worship images, neither to serve the dead;\nbut only to worship the true and living God, and to honor father\nand mother while they are living. But those who take offerings\nof paper to be burned up, and represent money, are foolish, and\ndeceive themselves; for the paper is nothing but paper, and cannot\nrepresent money.\u2019 Then his mother laughed when she heard that, and\nLee Foun\u2019s brother was angry at him, because his mother was pleased\nwith his younger brother, Lee Foun. He felt as Joseph\u2019s brethren\nfelt toward Joseph when they saw Jacob, their father, love him. Do\nyou think they could injure Joseph, and that Lee Foun\u2019s brother can\ninjure Lee Foun? No. Why not? Because God is with them. As Paul\nsaid: \u2018If God be for us, who can be against us?\u2019 Oh, how glorious\nand powerful God is!\n\n\u201cAfter a while some of the Chinese missionaries heard that a\ncertain Christian brother had come back, so they went and inquired\nfor Lee Foun, and they entered into his village, to visit him;\nand when he saw the missionaries, then he wept, because of the\npersecution by his own brother, and because of the ignorance of\nhis relatives about God. Lee Foun\u2019s mother was glad to receive\nthem, and invited them to come again to the feast of Lee Foun\u2019s\nmarriage. After this the marriage of Lee Foun was at hand; so the\nChinese missionaries went to his village again to show him how\nthe Christian ceremony should be performed. So Lee Foun did as\nChristians do. He did not bow his head before the idols, nor before\nhis ancestors, and neither did he keep the traditions of men, but\nthe commands of God.\n\n\u201cNot only he did so, but Chan Wen, Lee Sam, and also many of our\nbrethren, act in accordance with Christianity when they go back\nto China. I believe you have no doubt of that; for if we are true\nChristians here in California, we will be true Christians in China\nand elsewhere. We will stand up for Jesus and suffer for Him, and\ntake up His cross in public.\n\n\u201cDear friends, we entreat that you will mention our names to the\nLord when you pray, that we may have a faithful heart in our Lord\nJesus; that we may be strong in Him; and ask Him to open the great\ndoor to us, that the nation of heathen Chinese soon may become\na Christian nation, and they may understand the word of God and\nknow Christ is the Creator and Saviour of the world, and all the\ncreatures should be bowed down before Him.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCOUNTRY SCHOOL-HOUSES.\n\nTO THE CHILDREN:\n\nI know you have heard much about the colored people, but did you\never hear about their country school-houses? Let me tell you of two\nin Alabama.\n\nSunday-schools as well as day-schools are held in these same\nbuildings. One Sunday, a minister who was going twelve miles out\ninto the country to visit one of these schools, invited me to go\nwith him. After inquiring many times where the school was, and\ngoing half a mile out of our way, we at last spied, at the right\nof the road, some saddled mules hitched to trees. We thought that\nmight be the place, and sure enough there, right in the woods, was\na nice new school-house.\n\nAfter fastening our horse to a sweet-gum tree, we entered the\nlittle unpainted building. The superintendent gave us seats at the\nhead of the school\u2014not armchairs, but simply a board two feet from\nthe floor, answering for a bench. As soon as we were seated I began\nto look about me to see what kind of a place I was in, while the\nminister addressed the school. The house was built of pine logs,\nplaced an inch apart, consequently there were great cracks on all\nsides of the room, which in summer must have been pleasant, as they\nlet in air, but in winter, think how cold they would be. The house\nwas full of old men, women and children, sitting on rude benches.\n\nAs I looked through the crack near me, I saw outside a row of men\nseated on a log, who left their places when they heard a stranger\u2019s\nvoice inside and crowded into the house. I saw them put their hats\nup on a beam over their heads. Those who couldn\u2019t find room inside\nlooked through the cracks. There was no window, only a square hole\ncut over the door to let in light. Seeing the many cracks in the\nroof, we asked, when we came out, if it never rained in upon them.\n\u201cNot much,\u201d was the answer. You see these people don\u2019t mind a bit\nof a sprinkle now and then.\n\nAfter the minister had finished telling them how he had been\nin the very same land where Jesus had lived, the school sung,\n\u201cWe\u2019re going home to-morrow.\u201d I wish you could have heard those\nchildren. They sang at the top of their voices, their white teeth\nshowing more than ever in contrast with their black skin. After\nthe superintendent gave out the papers which we had brought, the\nexercises closed, and I was glad to be relieved of the sixty pairs\nof eyes which had been upon me.\n\nAnother time I went with some teachers to a Mission Sunday-school.\nThis was in a most lovely place, right in the thick woods, far away\nfrom any houses or sounds of any kind, except the songs of the\nbirds. We found we were early that day, for neither the teacher nor\nscholars had come. We went inside the school-house and waited.\n\nPerhaps you ask how we got in. That was an easy thing to do, for\nthere was no locked door to keep us out, and no door of any kind,\nonly an opening in one side of the house. This was an old building,\nbuilt in the same way as the first one I visited. In some places\nthe logs were a foot apart. Here the benches were made of round\nlogs split in two, the flat part being the top, and in each end\nof the rounded part were two legs. And such queer looking seats\nas they were! Only one or two of them had backs. Before long the\nteacher and a few scholars came. The school was small that day, as\nthere was a \u201cbig baptizing,\u201d as they call it, not far away, which\nalways attracts crowds of colored people.\n\nAfter the scholars had left, and as we were preparing to go, a\nterrible thunder shower came up which detained us there. The rain\ncame in, drip, drip, at every crack, till after a while there was\nonly one dry corner in the house. The teacher told us that when\nshowers came in school time, the scholars had to sit on their books\nto keep them dry. The shower continued for some time, and being\nvery tired, after a sixteen-mile drive over new-cut roads through\nwoods, we put on our water-proofs and lay down on the damp benches;\nbut finding the drops were falling into our faces, we were obliged\nto put up umbrellas. This was resting under difficulties. There, in\nthat open building, far away from any one, with the rain coming in\nand standing in pools on the floor, we fully realized what these\npoor country people have to go through to learn their A, B, C; and\nthose who continue their schools in the winter must suffer greatly\nfrom the cold, as they only have a fire-place in one end of the\nroom. One teacher told us that his fire-place was so poor, that in\nwinter he built a fire out of doors, while the children gathered\naround it sitting on stumps and logs. There are not only these two\nschools I have spoken of, but many such scattered all over the\nSouthern States.\n\nNow, since I have been writing this, I have thought what a nice\nplan it would be for you boys and girls to save some of your\npennies, and perhaps before long one of you would have enough to\nbuy a small, plain black-board, and another enough to buy a box of\ncrayons, or a pretty motto for one of these old bare school-rooms.\nIf you couldn\u2019t send the things, you could send the money for them;\nand how delighted any teacher would be with a few such comforts!\nWhat do you think of my plan?\u2014L. P. H.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR AUGUST, 1879.\n\n\n  MAINE, $1,031.89.\n\n    Bangor. First Cong. Ch.                                  $29.17\n    Bath. Eliza Bowker                                         2.00\n    Castine. ESTATE of Samuel Adams, by L. G.\n      Philbrook, Ex.                                         800.00\n    Cumberland Mills. Rev. E. S. Tead                         18.00\n    Dennysville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           20.00\n    Falmouth. First Cong. Ch.                                 15.00\n    Gorham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      MISS E. B. EMERY, L. M.                                 27.72\n    Vassalborough. ESTATE of Mary B. Buxton, by\n      Samuel Titcomb, Ex.                                    100.00\n    West Bath. Isaiah Percy, $3; Buelah B. Percy $2            5.00\n    Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        15.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $301.76.\n\n    Antrim. \u201cA Friend.\u201d _for Talladega C._                     5.00\n    Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                   7.70\n    Claremont. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             44.35\n    East Jaffrey. Eliza A. Parker                             20.00\n    Goffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             52.29\n    Haverhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             14.64\n    Henniker. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              15.00\n    Lebanon. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         16.00\n    Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      51.33\n    Meriden. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               13.80\n    Merrimack. Merrimack Aux. Soc.                            11.15\n    Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns, _for\n      Athens, Ala._                                           50.00\n    Short Falls. J. W. C.                                      0.50\n\n\n  VERMONT, $195.95.\n\n    Berlin. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                    3.56\n    Brownington. Cong. Sab. Sch. (of which $5 from\n      Dea. S.)                                                 8.45\n    Chester. E. S.                                             1.00\n    Essex Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           4.50\n    Essex Junction. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        10.75\n    Ferrisburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             5.85\n    Georgia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               13.84\n    Greensborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    5.00\n    Highgate. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               2.07\n    Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                11.34\n    North Craftsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      20.00\n    Pittsford. Mrs. E. H. Denison                              5.00\n    Sheldon. Cong. Ch.                                         9.03\n    Springfield. Cong. Ch.                                    46.71\n    Swanton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               14.85\n    Townshend. Mrs. N. B. Batchelder                           2.00\n    Wesminster. Rev. A. B. D.                                  1.00\n    Westminster West. Rev. A. Stevens, D. D., $10;\n      Cong. Sab. Sch., $10                                    20.00\n    Windham. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $7; Cong. Sab. Sch., $4              11.00\n    Windham. Cong. Ch., $9.10, ack. in Sept.\n      Number, should read, Cong. Sab. Sch.\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $2,168.10.\n\n    Amherst. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          8.00\n    Andover. G. W. W. Dove. $100; \u201cJ. B. C.,\u201d $5,\n      _for Athens, Ala._;\u2014Ladies of Free Ch., $70,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._;\u2014J. L. S.,\n      50c                                                    175.50\n    Ashburnham. M. W.                                          1.00\n    Boston. Rev. B. Southworth                                 5.00\n    Boston. Highland Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       27.60\n    Boxford. S. B. S., 30c.; Mrs. C., 50c.                     0.80\n    Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        28.70\n    Brookline. \u201cM. and H. S. W.\u201d                             250.00\n    Buckland. \u2014\u2014 by W. F. Root                                 2.12\n    Charlton. Clarissa W. Case                                 5.00\n    Chelsea. N. C. Tenny                                       5.00\n    Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       15.25\n    Conway. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 9.50\n    Dana. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which $12.48 _for\n      Athens, Ala._)                                          13.50\n    Easthampton. ESTATE of Samuel Hurlbut, by Mrs.\n      Sarah E. Pettis, Ex.                                   200.00\n    Erving. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 4.15\n    Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         10.00\n    Grantville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            11.07\n    Great Barrington. Mrs. L. M. Chapin                        5.00\n    Greenfield. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., $20, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._;\u2014Miss Janette\n      Thompson, $5                                            25.00\n    Hadley. Russell Cong. Ch.                                  2.00\n    Holliston. Mrs. W. R. T.                                   0.50\n    Hopkinton. Mrs. J. P. Claflin, $150; Cong. Ch.\n      and Soc., $51.36                                       201.36\n    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          1.00\n    Lawrence. Lawrence St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 60.00\n    Long Meadow. Gents\u2019 Benev. Ass\u2019n.                         27.75\n    Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                94.55\n    Monson. Mrs. C. C. Chapin and Class, to const.\n      MRS. JOHN PACKARD, L. M.                                30.00\n    Monterey. Cong. Ch.                                       10.00\n    Milton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   31.34\n    Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond                                10.00\n    Newton Centre. Ladies of Mrs. Furber\u2019s Bible\n      Class, $60. _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n      U._;\u2014Cong. Ch. and Soc., $55.64; Deacon\n      Benj. Burt, $2                                         117.64\n    North Reading. Rev. F. H. Foster                           3.36\n    Norton. Wheaton Sem., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             25.00\n    Orange. Mrs. E. W. M.                                      1.00\n    Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         15.00\n    Petersham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              5.37\n    Reading. Rev. W. H. Willcox, bbl. of C. and\n      books _for Talladega C._\n    Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.                                       14.00\n    Royalston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      110.34\n    Shelburne. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             47.83\n    Shirley Village. L. Holbrook                               5.00\n    South Royalston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       20.00\n    Springfield. North Ch., $40, _for Miller\n      Station, Ga._;\u2014Memorial Ch., $18.40;\u2014Ira\n      Merrill, $5, _for Athens, Ala._                         63.40\n    Sunderland. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               34.33\n    Templeton. Trin. Sab. Sch.                                26.31\n    Uxbridge. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        33.00\n    Webster. First Cong. Ch.                                  50.00\n    Westfield. Mrs. J. F.                                      1.00\n    West Hampton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                             23.00\n    Wellesley. Missionary Soc. of Wellesley College            4.00\n    Westminster. ESTATE of Mrs. S. A. Damon, by H.\n      G. Whitney, Ex.                                        208.00\n    West Springfield. Mittineague Cong. Ch.                   12.05\n    Winchendon. Atlanta Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             40.00\n    Worcester. Union Ch.                                      37.73\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $1,776.64.\n\n    Bristol. Mrs. M. De W. Rogers, $500; C. De\n      Wolf, $500                                            1000.00\n    East Providence. Cong. Ch.                                14.00\n    Kingston. Cong. Ch.                                       28.77\n    Providence. Central Cong. Ch.                            733.87\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $1,142.93.\n\n    Bantam Falls. Miss Cornelia Bradley, _for\n      Athens, Ala._                                            5.00\n    Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 7.76\n    Bridgeport. Park St. Cong. Ch and Soc.                    13.66\n    Brooklyn. First Trin. Ch. and Soc.                        27.00\n    Canton Centre. \u201cAn Aged Friend\u201d                            2.00\n    Collinsville. Talladega Soc., $15.50, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._;\u2014\u201cA Friend,\u201d $1              16.50\n    Danbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         58.00\n    Durham. \u201cA Friend.\u201d to const. MRS. HENRY H.\n      NEWTON, L. M.                                           30.00\n    East Haven. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                              30.00\n    Ellington. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                28.00\n    Farmington. A. F. Williams, to const. JENNETTE\n      COWLES VORCE, L. M.                                     30.00\n    Gilead. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Brown, _for\n      Hampton N. and A. Inst._                                 5.00\n    Greenfield. LEGACY of Dea. Wm. B. Morehouse,\n      by N. B. Hill                                          200.00\n    Greenfield. Cong. Ch.                                     11.55\n    Guilford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        18.00\n    Hadlyme. R. E. and J. W. Hungerford, _for Fisk\n      U._, $100;\u2014Cong. Ch., $12.58; J. H. V., 85c.           113.43\n    Hartford. \u201cThe Armour Bearers\u201d of Talcott St.\n      Sab. Sch.                                                3.25\n    Kensington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            18.00\n    Middletown. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    10.00\n    Milford. First Cong. Ch.                                  25.00\n    Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          12.75\n    North Branford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        16.25\n    North Cornwall. Benev. Assn., by E. D. Pratt,\n      Treas.                                                  15.15\n    New Britain. South Cong. Ch.                              66.60\n    New Haven. Amos Townsend                                  40.00\n    North Stamford. Mrs. N.                                    1.00\n    Roxbury. \u201cMother and Daughter\u201d                             5.00\n    Salem. Cong. Ch.                                           4.00\n    South Britain. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         22.10\n    Southport. \u201cA Friend of the Freedmen\u201d                     20.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      22.83\n    Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              10.59\n    Union. Rev. Samuel I. Curtiss, $10; Union\n      Cong. Ch., $6                                           16.00\n    Wolcottville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          30.69\n    Wauregan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               7.30\n    Westfield. Cong. Ch. to const. WM. K. LOGEE\n      and MARY E. KING, L. M\u2019s                                65.00\n    Westford. Cong. Ch.                                       12.00\n    West Haven. Cong. Ch.                                     29.23\n    West Winsted. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Athens, Ala._               6.00\n    Wethersfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          43.96\n    Windsor. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n    Woodstock. First Cong. Ch.                                11.83\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cFriends\u201d                                               5.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                             17.50\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $25,133.99.\n\n    Albany. Vina S. Knowles                                    5.00\n    Black River. D. D.                                         1.00\n    Brooklyn. J. E.                                            1.00\n    Clifton Springs. Miss F., $1, _for Miller\u2019s\n      Station, Ga._;\u2014Mrs. M. M. C., 50c                        1.50\n    Copenhagen. Lucian Clark                                  10.00\n    Eaton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 14.50\n    Ellington. Mrs. E. Rice                                    5.00\n    Elmira. Clarissa Thurston                                  5.00\n    Granby Centre. J. C. Harrington, _for Athens,\n      Ala._                                                   10.00\n    Ilion. Mrs. S. M.                                          1.00\n    Lebanon. Thomas Hitchcock, $5; M. Day, $5;\n      Alfred Seymour, $5; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Head,\n      $2; J. H. W., $1; Rev. S. M. D., 50c.; Sab.\n      Sch., $1.50, bal. to const. JARVIS A. HEAD,\n      L. M.                                                   20.00\n    Lima. Mrs. Mary Sprague, _for Student Aid_                 5.00\n    Newburgh. Mrs. E. I. P., M. D.                             0.50\n    New Lebanon. Presb. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     8.86\n    New York. Mrs. Magie, $10, _for Atlanta\n      U._;\u2014J. S. Holt, $10                                    20.00\n    Rome. Sarah H. Mudge                                      10.00\n    Sidney Plains. Cong. Ch.                                  10.00\n    Victor. ESTATE of Melancton Lewis, by Mrs. E.\n      Lewis and S. S. Bushnell. Exs.                      24,966.63\n    West Groton. Cong. Ch., $9; Miss A. T.\n      Cunningham, $5                                          14.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014                                                     25.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $63.43.\n\n    Bound Brook. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                        8.00\n    Montclair. First Cong. Ch.                                55.43\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $42.80.\n\n    Mercer. Cong. Ch.                                         37.80\n    West Alexander. \u2014\u2014                                         5.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $214.40.\n\n    Adams Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith                             10.00\n    Atwater. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               18.54\n    Beloit. J. S.                                              1.00\n    Castalia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               7.00\n    Deerfield. I. J.                                           1.00\n    Huntsburgh. Miss E. L. Miller, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       2.00\n    Mulberry Corners. Mrs. E. D. Lyman                         2.00\n    Oberlin. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., by Mrs.\n      Dr. Allen, Treas., $75, _for a Lady\n      Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._;\u2014Second Cong. Ch.,\n      $37.46; First Cong. Ch., $16.40                        128.86\n    Plymouth. Mrs. E. A.                                       1.00\n    Springfield. Mrs. M. G.                                    1.00\n    Thomastown. Welsh Cong. Ch.                               20.00\n    Westerville. Mrs. M. E. H. K.                              1.00\n    Windham. First Cong. Ch.                                  21.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $142.33.\n\n    Adair. Henry Topping                                       5.00\n    Adrian. A. J. Hood                                        10.00\n    Ann Arbor. Cong. Ch.                                      36.00\n    Clinton. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., by Mrs. Edward\n      Cook, Sec.                                               5.00\n    Grass Valley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    19.12\n    Homer. Mrs. Mary D. Pease                                 10.00\n    Hopkins. First Cong. Ch., $8.60; Second Cong.\n      Ch., $4.40                                              13.00\n    Owosso. Union Meeting                                      9.30\n    Salem. First Cong. Ch.                                     4.13\n    Summit. Cong. Ch.                                          6.78\n    Three Oaks. Cong. Ch.                                     17.00\n    Union City. Cong. Sab. Sch., $6; bal. to\n      const. LILLIE V. MCCLELLAN, L. M.;\u2014Mrs. E.\n      J. H. and Mrs. D. B. W., 50c. ea.                        7.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $636.56.\n\n    Broughton. Rev. S. Penfield                                5.00\n    Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, _for Atlanta U._              315.00\n    Farm Ridge. Rev. J. P. Hiester and family                  2.00\n    Ivanhoe. Mrs. S. S.                                        1.00\n    Joy Prairie. Cong. Ch.                                    15.00\n    Maiden. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                    2.30\n    Maywood. Union Ch.                                         5.00\n    Moline. Cong. Ch.                                         45.00\n    Odell. Cong. Ch.                                          20.00\n    Peoria. Cong. Ch.                                        121.50\n    Princeton. Mrs. A. R. Clapp, $50; Mrs. P. B.\n      Corss, $15                                              65.00\n    Roseville. First Cong. Ch. $21; Rev. A. L.\n      Pennoyer, $5                                            26.00\n    Saint Charles. Ladies\u2019 Missionary Soc.                     5.00\n    Stillman Valley. Cong. Ch.                                 5.76\n    Tiskilwa. Rev. R. E. Cutler, $2; B. A. B., $1              3.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $170.15.\n\n    Alden. Cong. Ch.                                           8.50\n    Charles City. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                10.00\n    Clinton. Cong. Sab. Sch., $25;\u2014Ladies of Cong.\n      Ch., $5., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_            30.00\n    Davenport. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                10.00\n    Durant. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 6.00\n    Grinnell. Mrs. Day, $5; Mrs. B., $1; Rev. S.\n      L. H., $1; Others, $1, _for Miller\u2019s\n      Station, Ga._;\u2014Mrs. Magoun\u2019s Sab. Sch.\n      Class, $5.10                                            13.10\n    Hillsborough. John W. Hammond                              5.00\n    Lyons. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 5.00\n    Marion. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                30.00\n    Mason City. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 3.00\n    Mitchell. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 5.25\n    Monticello. Miss N. P. S., _for Miller\u2019s\n      Station, Ga._                                            1.00\n    New Hampton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 5.00\n    Orchard. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 4.60\n    Osage. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                10.00\n    Quasqueton. Cong. Ch., $5; I. H. D., $1                    6.00\n    Rockford. Ladies Miss. Soc., $3.70; Mrs. E.\n      D., $1; Mrs. A. E. G., $1                                5.70\n    Stacyville. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 3.00\n    Wayne. D. C. S.                                            1.00\n    Wentworth. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 3.00\n    Wilton. \u201cLittle Gleaners,\u201d _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 5.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $62.84.\n\n    Arena. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                     5.00\n    Fort Atkinson. Mrs. Caroline Snell                         5.00\n    Ripon. First Cong. Ch., $29.85; W. G. B., 50c.            30.35\n    River Falls. First Cong. Ch.                              22.49\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $55.44.\n\n    Excelsior. Cong. Ch.                                      10.00\n    Medford. Cong. Ch.                                         3.25\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 16.19\n    Winona. Adna Tenney                                       20.00\n    Worthington. Union Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                     6.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $10.\n\n    Mariadahl. H. H. Griffin, _for Athens, Ala._              10.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $36.65.\n\n    Butler Co. Cong. Ch.                                       4.00\n    Crete. Cong. Ch.                                          11.65\n    Iowa Ridge. Cong. Ch.                                      3.00\n    Macon. Rev. S. N. Grout                                   12.00\n    Schuyler. Sumner & Free                                    6.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $1.50.\n\n    Cahoka. Moses Allen                                        1.50\n\n\n  TEXAS, $1.\n\n    Brenham. Mrs. I. H., _for Athens, Ala._                    1.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $109.50.\n\n    Oakland. S. Richards                                     100.00\n    Pescadero. Miss. Band of Cong. Sab. Sch.                   4.50\n    Santa Cruz. Pliny Fay                                      5.00\n\n\n  MARYLAND, $10.\n\n    Federalsburgh. Miss Sarah A. Beals                        10.00\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $5.\n\n    Nashville. Mrs. E. Spence                                  5.00\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $1.50.\n\n    Orangeburgh. Rev. W. L. Johnson                            1.50\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $173.45.\n\n    Athens. J. G. Hutchins, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             64.00\n    Atlanta. Atlanta U., $80;\u2014By Mary E. Sand,\n      $5.50; Storrs School, $18.45; A. Simpson,\n      $5.50                                                  109.45\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $104.92.\n\n    Selma. First Cong. Ch. (of which $3.45 _for\n      Mendi M._), $80.70; Rental, $2                          82.70\n    Shelby Iron Works. Rev. J. D. S.                           0.50\n    Talladega. Talladega C.                                   21.72\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $1.15.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U.                                      1.15\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $552.16.\n\n    \u2014\u2014 Avery Fund                                            549.70\n    \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014                                                      2.46\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total                                                 34,146.04\n    Total from Oct. 1st to Aug. 31st                    $163,393.36\n\n                                   H. W. HUBBARD, _Asst. Treas._\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Gilead, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Brown                $5.00\n    New York, N. Y. \u201cA Friend\u201d                               100.00\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total                                                    105.00\n    Previously acknowledged in June receipts               2,397.17\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total                                                 $2,502.17\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.\n\n    Marbletown, N. Y. John Hulme                              $2.85\n    Previously acknowledged in July receipts                 346.39\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total                                                   $349.24\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 judgement 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_\u2014In 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.\u2014_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.\u2014Among the Freedmen, 231;\namong the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 17; in Africa, 14. Total,\n279. STUDENTS\u2014In 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\u2014the 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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Y.\n\nManufacture a superior quality of BELLS.\n\nSpecial attention given to =CHURCH BELLS=.\n\n\u261e Catalogues sent free to parties needing bells.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                          [Illustration]\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, 1870; 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                     \u201cIMPORTANT TO CLERGYMEN.\u201d\n\n                  Prince\u2019s Improved Fountain Pen.\n\n                          [Illustration]\n\n            As now improved, saves one-third the time.\n\n\u201cIf I were bereft of it, I should feel myself bereft of my right\nhand.\u201d\u2014REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, _Ed. Ch. Union_.\n\nCan be sent by mail in a registered letter. Send for circulars.\nManufactured by\n\n                          JOHN S. PURDY,\n                          212 Broadway, Cor. Fulton St., New York.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                            CRAMPTON\u2019S\n\n                             PURE OLD\n\n                            PALM SOAP.\n\n                          [Illustration]\n\n                     For the Laundry,\n                               The Kitchen,\n\n                And for General Household Purposes.\n\n                          MANUFACTURED BY\n\n                        CRAMPTON BROTHERS,\n\n               _Cor. Monroe & Jefferson Sts., N. Y._\n\n                 Send for Circular and Price List.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                          [Illustration:\n\n                              BROOK\u2019S\n\n                            PRIZE MEDAL\n\n                            TRADE MARK.\n\n                           SPOOL COTTON]\n\n                       FOR HAND AND MACHINE.\n\n       IT IS STRONG, EVEN, AND ELASTIC; REGULAR IN QUALITY,\n                 UNIFORM IN COLOR, AND THE LENGTHS\n                          ARE GUARANTEED.\n\nFull assortments constantly on hand and for sale by the Sole Agents,\n\n                      WM. HENRY SMITH & CO.,\n\n  _P. O. Box 502._                 _82 & 84 Worth Street, NEW YORK._\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                    Every Man His Own Printer.\n\n                  Excelsior =$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\n                KELSEY & 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                            SAVE MONEY\n\n                            BY ORDERING\n\n                        Fashionable Custom\n\n                             CLOTHING\n\n                               FROM\n\n                             NEW YORK.\n\n                          [Illustration]\n\n\n                          ELEGANT SUITS,\n\n                             TO ORDER,\n\n                        _$18, $20 and $25_.\n\n\n                           DRESS SUITS,\n\n                           _$20 to $35_.\n\n\n                             TROUSERS,\n\n                            _$5 to $8_.\n\n\n                            SENT FREE.\n\nSamples of Cloths and Suitings, and Fashion Plates, with full\ndirections for ordering Gents\u2019 Clothing and Furnishing Goods, by\nmail, with fit and satisfaction guaranteed. Send for samples and\ngive trial order to\n\n                        FREEMAN & WOODRUFF,\n\n                     _Fashionable Clothiers_,\n\n                      176 BROADWAY, NEW YORK\n\n                    (Formerly of 241 Broadway.)\n\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\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\u2014we are doing more\u2014we 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\nObvious punctuation errors and omissions corrected. Inconsistent\nhyphenation has been retained, as there are several authors.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 33, No. 10, October, 1879","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":22072}