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NO. 4.\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                           APRIL, 1880.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    PARAGRAPHS                                                97\n    DEATH OF SECRETARIES BUSH AND DASHIELL\u2014DEATH OF\n      MISS DELL SAFFORD                                       98\n    MISSIONARY PERIODICALS                                    98\n    THROUGH THE LIGHT CONTINENT                               99\n    TWENTY PER CENT                                           99\n    THE NEW PLEA                                             100\n    CONGREGATIONALISM IN THE SOUTH                           101\n    IGNORANCE OF THE NEGRO QUESTION                          102\n    AN ILLUSTRATED PRESS                                     103\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                     104\n    GENERAL NOTES                                            105\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    VIRGINIA, CARRSVILLE\u2014Large Ingathering                   106\n    NORTH CAROLINA, MCLEANSVILLE\u2014Facts about the\n      Taught and the Teachers                                107\n    GEORGIA\u2014NO. 1 MILLER STATION\u2014A Struggling Church,\n      etc.                                                   109\n    GEORGIA, MACON\u2014A Lady\u2019s S. S. and Missionary Work        110\n    GEORGIA, MCINTOSH, LIBERTY CO.\u2014Communion Season          110\n    GEORGIA\u2014Church and School must Work Together             111\n    ALABAMA\u2014Notes from Marion\u2014Mrs. Geo. E. Hill              113\n    MISSISSIPPI, TOUGALOO\u2014A Brother\u2019s Devotion               114\n    MISSISSIPPI\u2014Report of the State Superintendent of\n      Public Education                                       115\n    LOUISIANA\u2014Revival in Central Church\u2014Theological\n      Department\u2014Church Dedication                           116\n    TENNESSEE\u2014Revival in Fisk University                     117\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    CHURCH\u2014CHRISTMAS\u2014BIBLES                                  117\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    OUR NEW FIELDS\u2014DEATH OF ED. P. SANFORD, ESQ.             118\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    A VOYAGE TO AFRICA\u2014PROF. CHASE TO HIS\n      FOUR-YEAR-OLD BOY                                      120\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                   121\n\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                               125\n\n\n  AID, STATISTICS, WANTS                                     126\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\nEntered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.\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    ANDREW LESTER, Esq., N. Y.\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. J.\n    Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, 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, D.D., 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, D.D., 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. 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    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    E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J.\n    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.\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    Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D.D., Mo.\n    J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.\n    E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.\n    C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.\n    Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D.D., Cal.\n    Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D.D., Kansas.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n  DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n    REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n    REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_.\n    REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n    H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _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    GEO. M. BOYNTON,\n    WM. B. BROWN,\n    C. T. CHRISTENSEN,\n    CLINTON B. FISK,\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n    S. B. HALLIDAY,\n    SAMUEL HOLMES,\n    CHARLES A. HULL,\n    EDGAR KETCHUM,\n    CHAS. L. MEAD,\n    WM. T. PRATT,\n    J. A. SHOUDY,\n    JOHN H. WASHBURN,\n    G. B. WILLCOX.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to\nthe District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the \u201cAmerican\nMissionary,\u201d to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New\nYork, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21\nCongregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n           VOL. XXXIV.      APRIL, 1880.         No. 4.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAmong the list of our workers in the February number, two names\nwere in some unaccountable way omitted. We hasten to supply them\nhere\u2014Mrs. H. B. Northrop is our missionary at New Orleans, La., and\nRev. P. W. Young the pastor of our church at Byron, Ga.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOur lady teachers are also missionaries. The lady missionaries\nsent out by the Woman\u2019s Boards often find their first and most\neffective means of access to the people in the schools they start\nfor girls. Our one hundred and fifteen lady teachers are doing the\nwork of Christian training along with that of school teaching, and\nare missionaries nearly as much as the seven ladies who devote\nthemselves exclusively to direct mission work. They have a right to\nconsider themselves as missionaries.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe notice in the list of officers of the First State Sunday-school\nConvention of Louisiana, the name of Rev. W. S. Alexander,\nPresident of Straight University and pastor of the Central\nCongregational Church of New Orleans, as one of the Vice-Presidents\nand also of the Executive Committee. He was chairman of the\nCommittees of Credentials and on the Constitution. Dr. Roy was\nalso present. Certainly there is no cause for a complaint of lack\nof recognition of those engaged in our work in the midst of such\nexamples as these.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe question how to interest the Sunday-schools in missionary work\nhas met with a new answer in the cordial reception and use of our\nJubilee Concert Exercise. Five large editions have been exhausted,\nand now a second Exercise has been prepared (No. 2), in which a\nnumber of questions are to be answered by as many persons as there\nare letters in the alphabet, covering the main facts of our various\nwork. Five Jubilee Songs are inserted to be sung by a choir, and\nplace is left for short addresses. We commend it to our friends,\nwho will receive as many copies as they need for use, gratuitously,\nby applying to Dist. Sec. Pike.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nIt is with profound sadness that we record the death of two of\nour most esteemed co-laborers in the administration of missionary\nwork. The Rev. Charles P. Bush, D. D., for many years associated\nwith all our churches, especially in the Middle States, as the\nDistrict Secretary of the A. B. C. F. M., has not only enjoyed the\nconfidence, but won the love, of pastors and people on every hand.\nWe shall miss him greatly. The Rev. Robert L. Dashiell, D. D., the\nSecretary of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal\nChurch, has been a tower of strength not only to the broad\nmissionary enterprises of that denomination, but, by his genial\nsympathy and wise counsels, has added to the efficiency and courage\nof his brethren in the work outside of his own organization.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe much regret to learn of the death of Miss Dell Safford, formerly\na teacher under this Association. For six years, she labored\nfaithfully and conscientiously among the Freedmen in Talladega\nand Selma, Ala. She was patient and untiring in her efforts for\nthe real good of those under her instruction, and her interest in\nthem did not flag even after she left the field, but showed itself\nespecially in the care she exercised over one of her pupils, whom\nshe had brought with her that he might receive the benefits of a\nNorthern education. After leaving the service of this Society,\nshe removed to Wisconsin. But a cold taken in the spring, when\nshe was already overworked and worn, could not be controlled,\nand consumption followed. She died at the last very suddenly of\nhemorrhage.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOne of the most hopeful signs of the times in the missionary field\nis seen in the increasing demand and the corresponding supply of\nmissionary intelligence. The _Missionary Herald_ has enlarged its\nspace between the borders, and fills it with valuable matter. Its\nstrong point is, as it has been, its full and valuable letters from\nthe front. The _Foreign Missionary_ of the Presbyterian Board has\nbeen of late renewing its youth, and coming up, until it has become\nthe most suggestive and vivacious of all the periodicals of the\nkind which meet our eyes. But nowadays, when intelligent people\nread the doings of all the world every morning at their breakfast\ntables, and are no longer satisfied with the village or the county\nnews, they must have something which shall give them broader views\nof the great field of missions, which is the world, than they can\nobtain from the organs of special societies.\n\nTo meet this want, the societies themselves are increasingly\ninforming their constituency that there is other work being done\nthan that they do themselves. \u201cThe work of other societies\u201d\nis becoming a familiar heading. Even this, however, does not\nanswer the full demands\u2014and that the day has come for missionary\nperiodicals, which are edited and circulated upon the same basis\nas those which deal with scientific or material progress, shows\nthat the broader interests of the coming kingdom are taking more\nfully their appropriate place in the hearts and minds of Christian\nmen and women. The _Missionary Review_, which has been published\nfor more than two years from Princeton, New Jersey, and which as\nan unsparing critic of existing missionary societies, is adapted\nto promote great circumspection in those who administer them, is\nre-enforced in this general field by _The Gospel in all Lands_,\nedited by Rev. Albert B. Simpson, and published by Randolph,\nwhich will give itself to the broader aspects and principles of\nmissionary work, and to a compilation of fresh intelligence from\nall quarters. We rejoice in all such methods for the diffusion of\nknowledge, and the stimulation of interest, in carrying out \u201cthe\ngreat commission.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\u201c_Through the Light Continent_\u201d is a comely octavo in elegant type,\nfrom the London press, giving the observations of William Saunders\non a tour taken through our country in 1877\u20138. In a chapter upon\n\u201cEducation in Atlanta,\u201d after speaking of the Public Schools, he\nsays: \u201cOne of the most interesting institutions of Atlanta is\nthe University for the education of colored persons, under the\nsuperintendence of Professor Ware. The Atlanta University has 175\nstudents (the last catalogue made them 244), half of whom pay\nthe fees and cost of board. Many young negroes have worked, and\nsaved up $200 or $300 in order to come to the University. It will\nthus be seen that the energy which the negroes are manifesting to\nobtain education is not confined to the ordinary work of the Board\nof Schools, but extends to the higher branches of learning. About\n75 of the students are girls, and their progress is regarded as\nuniversally satisfactory.\n\nProfessor and Mrs. Ware, who have devoted their lives to this work\nwith true missionary zeal, are now much cheered to find their\nlabors recognized and encouraged in quarters from which persistent\nopposition was formerly experienced. When they came to Atlanta,\nany manifestation of regard for the blacks was looked upon as an\nact of hostility to the whites; but a great change has taken place\nin public opinion, and it is now generally felt that national\nadvancement requires the elevation of the negro race, and those who\nundertake their education are no longer regarded with disfavor.\n\nThere are many societies in the Northern States for promoting\nnumerous enterprises amongst the negroes. Before reaching Atlanta,\nI noticed a large crowd of negroes at one of the wayside stations,\nand found the occasion to be the leaving of a missionary, who had\nbeen working amongst them for two or three years, and was then\nchanging his station. The respect and regard paid to him and to his\nwife were pleasant to see; the missionary was a most intelligent\ntravelling companion, evidently devoted to his work in the genuine\nspirit of Christianity.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTWENTY PER CENT.\n\nThe enthusiasm evinced at the last Annual Meeting, our freedom\nfrom the long-borne burden of our debt, the general interest which\nseemed to be renewed in the welfare of the Freedmen, and the\ncommencing and anticipated prosperity in the financial world, all\nconspired to encourage us to plan and prepare for an enlarged work\nand more abundant results. In carrying out these purposes, the\nExecutive Committee have appropriated about _twenty per cent._ more\nthan in the previous year to the Southern field.\n\nThe total receipts thus far have been very gratifying,\u2014and yet,\nwhen we come to analyze them, we find that they are, in a larger\nmeasure than formerly, sent to us to be appropriated to special\ndepartments of the work, or more often to special work not included\nin our estimates. This is both gratifying and embarrassing:\ngratifying, because it indicates an increasing familiarity with\nthe details of our work, and special sympathy with this or that\nportion of the whole; but embarrassing, because it cannot fail to\nbe a diversion of funds which have been anticipated by us to meet\nthe appropriations already made to new fields, and often to create,\ninstead of covering, expense.\n\nWe recognize these needs, of student aid, of woman\u2019s work, and of\nspecial endowment, and we would not have these particular demands\nneglected. It is only that if all the money were to be thus\nspecifically applied by the donors, there would be none left for\nthe main work, on which the ability to carry on all the specialties\ndepends. Don\u2019t starve the body in order to enlarge the hand or the\nfoot. The best growth of all is that which comes from the food,\nwhich enters by the mouth into the stomach, and, vitalized, is\ncarried through the whole system. If you appropriate all the fuel\non the steamer to the donkey engines, what will you do with the\ngreat machinery whose work it is to revolve the main propeller? If\nin your city water-works, you enlarge the side supply pipes and\nleave the old mains, you get not more, but less, water into the\nhouses.\n\nWhat do we ask, then?\u20141. That your _special appropriations be\nspecial gifts_, additions to, and not diversions of, the moneys you\nare wont to give to the general work of the Association. 2. That\nyou do not fail in your church, or from your private purse, to give\nus something _this year_. 3. That as you have encouraged us to lay\nout a larger work, you send us for general uses at least _twenty\nper cent._ more than you did last year.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE NEW PLEA.\n\nHenceforth the basis of our appeal to the churches ought to be\ngratitude, not necessity; thankfulness, not the cry of sharp\ndistress; the impulse kindled at the sight of opening fields,\nwidening opportunities, intelligent appreciation of service done\nand rewarding results.\n\nThe large additions to the churches in the foreign field, their\nincreasing spirit of benevolence, the awakening interest in the\ncause of education, the world-wide readiness and call for helpers,\nthe cheering indications of an abundant harvest of souls, soon to\nbe gathered, the overwhelming demand in our own land for immediate\nwork upon the frontier and at the South, among the depressed races\nand the incoming population, the return of prosperous times, and\nthe ever-pressing command of Christ, are considerations so potent,\nso eloquent in their united plea, that the first thought of him who\nlistens is, \u201cHow can any Christian heart resist the new plea!\u201d What\ncan hinder a most liberal investment in causes that promise such\nrich returns?\n\nInstead of exhausting all the strength of the crew at the pumps in\na desperate endeavor to save the ship from sinking, has the time\nnot come, when, with canvas all spread, and the ship sea-worthy,\nrightly headed and well under way, the main question shall be,\nhow to touch every harbor, explore every river, sail every inland\nsea, and leave the precious freighting of the Gospel at every\nport around the globe? Is it quite creditable to our piety, our\ndevotion, our loyalty to Christ, that we can resist appeals based\nupon love, goodness, merciful interposition, glorious enlargement,\nand wait until we are crowded to a reluctant response by the plea\nof dire necessity, overshadowing peril?\n\nThere are most cheering indications that the new plea is becoming\neffectual. We are informed of a number of instances in which\nchurches have lately nearly or quite doubled their contributions to\nthe American Board, and that, too, apparently with great heartiness\nand joy. Gifts, also, from some private and unexpected sources\nhave been a cheering indication of the advance movement. The same\nindications are, to a certain extent, true of the other Societies.\n\nA mid-summer appeal for larger and extra contributions, in order to\nprevent a deficit, ought to be anticipated, and made impossible, by\nample gifts now. The volume of offerings during the _first half of\nthe year_, ought to be so large as to remove all anxiety concerning\nthe state of the treasuries of these Societies when their accounts\nclose. How pleasant, if, at the annual meetings, the friends could\nbe surprised with reports of a surplus instead of deficits.\n\nOught there not to be a stern purpose to pay as we go, and to\npay with sufficient liberality to enable us to go with vigor and\ndispatch to the utmost bound of a rapidly increasing demand? May\nthe plea of great interposition, great opportunity and great\nability find fitting response.\u2014_The Advance._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONGREGATIONALISM IN THE SOUTH.\n\nWe reprint the following article from the _Christian Recorder_,\nthe able organ of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It is a\nsignificant endorsement of the church work done by the Association,\nand from those who are most profoundly concerned in the Christian\nelevation of the colored people of the land. We have not even\nomitted the sharp criticism of the approving words of those who\ngathered at Chicago to review our work, hoping that we may thus\nescape the charge of \u201cPhariseeism\u201d in accepting the commendations\nand congratulations of our brethren of the A. M. E. Church:\n\n\u201cThe thirty-third Annual Report of the American Missionary\nAssociation is before us. We wish that we could place the Report\nin the hands of every A. M. E. preacher in the land. Years ago\nwe called attention to the fact that the A. M. A. was destined\nto become the strongest competitor the A. M. E. would find in\nthe South. As we declared, it is even now seen. The twenty-three\nCongregational churches of 1869 have become sixty-seven in 1879.\nBut it may be said, what is sixty-seven churches with a membership\nof 4,600, compared to our thousands? They would not be much, to\nbe sure, were they of the same general material. But they are\nnot. They are, as it were, a picked body. In a sense they may be\nsaid to occupy the same relation to our Church as the regular\narmy sustains to the volunteer force of the country. And we all\nknow what that means. A thousand regulars can do the work of ten\nthousand volunteers. Is it asked, How is this? The answer is at\nhand. Each Congregational church grew out of the school which the\nCongregational preacher in the person of a teacher taught. Knowing\nhis material, and wielding it much as the potter wields the clay,\nhe occupied for his church a position decidedly advantageous; and\nthe result shows that he has not failed to profit by it.\n\n\u201cIn nothing that we have said is it to be supposed that we are in\nwrath at their manifest success. Of course, we have no patience\nwith the spirit of Phariseeism breathed forth in the report of the\nCommittee on Church Work in the South. Nothing that the typical\nPharisee of the New Testament said excels it; but for the work\nitself of these, our companions in the kingdom and patience of\nJesus Christ, we entertain the highest possible respect; begging,\nhowever, the privilege of suggesting that next year\u2019s report be not\nso strenuously self-complacent.\n\n\u201cAnd now we repeat what we have so often said to our brother\nministers, especially of the South, where they are brought in\ncontact with this energetic body of men: Know, once for all, that\nthe Church possessed of the best cultured heads and the best\ncultured hearts, is to win. That we are infinitely stronger in\nnumbers to-day than are the Congregationalists, argues nothing\nfor the future. It is with churches as with everything else, the\nfittest survives. If African Methodism prove to be that fittest,\nit will survive. If not, it must inevitably pass away, and only\nbe remembered as a thing of the past. To be the fittest, it\nis required that she banish all ignorance, all immorality and\nsuperstition from her midst. This must be done, let the cost be\nwhat it may. Thin out the ministry of the church until there shall\nnot be found an ignorant man nor a bad man in the ranks. Thin out\nthe church itself. Expel the vicious. Drive out the notoriously\nbad. Have a clean church. Let such steps as these be taken, and\nAfrican Methodism will have a future that will be to the glory of\nGod and the best interests of mankind. But if she draw back, let\nher remember that God can take no pleasure in her.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nIGNORANCE OF THE NEGRO QUESTION.\n\nFrom a paper read by W. N. Armstrong, Esq., before the Yale Alumni\nAssociation of New York in January, as printed in _The Present\nCentury_:\n\nThere is an astounding ignorance in the North regarding the\nconditions and relations of the blacks and whites of the South. The\nNorth in full control of the National Government for many years,\nhas had before it a vast and complicated problem in statesmanship.\nInstead of working at it intelligently, it has lost itself in a fog\nof political prejudice, and is not ready at this late day to take\nan honest look into the matter.\n\nFor the last fifteen years what have we known of the South,\nespecially of the blacks? What steps have we taken to ascertain the\nactual truth regarding four millions of negroes whom we suddenly\nrailroaded into our political system? When the General Government\nwished to obtain facts concerning the geological, botanical and\nmineral character of the Western territory, it sent out experts\nskilled in examining, testing, classifying and surveying. These men\nwere kept in the field for years, and their reports fill a score\nof volumes, and now we know something about the plains and the\nmountains. For the intricate social questions of the South, that\nvast tract of unknown land, that section of the Dark Continent in\nAmerica, we have neither expert or surveyor, or intelligent process\nof examination, though the demands for accuracy in social science\nare as imperative as in physical. Visiting statesmen have been\nthere. But was a visiting statesman ever known to report a fact\nwhich hurt his party?\n\nNorthern men who are in the South for the purpose of getting office\nwill not tell the truth, because it may bear against them. Southern\nmen, as a rule, do not report the real facts, because they are\nprejudiced. Northern men who have become prosperous in business\nat the South, long since discovered that silence was golden, and\ntheir lips are sealed to the public. The testimony of the blacks\nis the most unreliable of all for reasons which will be given\nhereafter. The poor Northern men who have failed to make a fortune\nin the South have a grievance, and cannot be trusted. It is upon\nthe newspaper correspondent that the North has relied mainly for\ninformation. But he is always under limitations. One of them (whom\nyou all know by reputation) said to me\u2014\u201cWe correspondents are not\nsent here to find out the actual truth, but to support the theories\nof the papers which send us. It won\u2019t do for me to say in my\nletters that the nigger is to blame, when the editorial columns of\nmy paper say the white men are in the wrong.\u201d The newspaper makes\nits theory first, or it inherits a theory, and then sends out for\nfacts to fit it. Does not every one know beforehand how every daily\npaper in this city will treat any given political event? The best\nsources of information regarding the blacks are his educators.\nThese men, all of them from the North, know something about the\nnegro. Though little enough as yet, Congress has never asked\nthese teachers to tell what they know about him. Facts regarding\nthe lives or the motives of men are not obvious. The newspaper\ncorrespondent cannot reach them in an hour, or even in a year.\nI have been personally familiar with a number of events in the\nSouth. I have never known one of these to be correctly reported.\nHas any lawyer of this city ever known one of his cases to be\nreported accurately in the daily press? Truth seems to be in a\ndeep well everywhere. The _Herald_ says Edison\u2019s light is a great\nsuccess. The _Nation_ is doubtful about it. An electrician of rare\nskill tells me it is a humbug. If we cannot get at the truth about\nmatters near at home, what shall be expected regarding matters in a\ndistant section of the country?\n\nThe Republican believes what his newspaper tells him about the\nSouth, and the Democrat does not believe it. They never unite for\ninvestigation. The historian will say hereafter that the real\noutrage was in our criminal neglect to ascertain the truth. It is\neasy to see that it is supremely difficult to get at the facts\nabout two races jostling together, like huge vessels thumping and\npounding against each other in a rolling sea.\n\nLast year the negro paper in Charleston, South Carolina, advocated\nthe election of a Democratic mayor. The Republican papers had no\nuse for that fact. It did not indicate the existence of outrages.\nIt was rather in the line of what Tyndall calls the tragedy of\nscience\u2014a beautiful theory killed by an incontrovertible fact.\nFor two years the Democratic party of Georgia has been so broken\nup that as many as six or seven independent Democratic tickets in\nlocal issues have been in the field in many counties, and the white\ncandidate, who has captured a negro vote, sees to it with rifle and\nrevolver that no other white opponent interferes with that black\nvote.\n\nFacts like these occur by the hundred in Southern politics, but the\nRepublican press ignore them. The Northern men who are educating\nthe negro regard Captain Thompson, superintendent of public\nschools in South Carolina, as one of the most efficient men of the\nSouth in extending negro education; but the _Tribune_ calls him\na bloody-shirt orator. The negro teacher is at present his best\nfriend, and his evidence about the whites should be credible if not\nconclusive.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAN ILLUSTRATED PRESS.\n\nWe have received two communications lately in regard to the\nimportance of the Press in the education of the colored people\u2014one\nfrom an esteemed friend in the West, urging that other institutions\nshould follow the example of Hampton and Talladega in publishing\npapers. We are not sure that this is altogether desirable. There\nmust be many favoring conditions to make it a success; otherwise\nthere is a certainty of pecuniary loss and wasted effort. The\nother letter is from an English missionary in the West Indies, who\nthus states the case as to the value of periodical literature to\nsupplement the influences of the church and the school:\n\n\u201cThere remains, as a means of elevating and advancing the colored\npeople, the Press. The periodical Press has been of untold service\nin promoting the civilization of the English and American white\nlaborers. It has come into their homes, arousing them, week by\nweek, with fresh power and stimulus. It has filled their homes\nwith pictures of beauty, which delighted themselves and their\nchildren, and taught them, indirectly, (and therefore most\neffectually,) lessons of thrift, neatness and refinement. Every\npicture of a clean, neatly-dressed child, of a well-kept home, of\na happy fireside group, etc., etc., carried its lesson and left\nits impress, suggesting imitation, and stimulating efforts for\nimprovement.\n\n\u201cNow, what periodicals are there in the whole wide world that\nwill thus encourage, stimulate and arouse the colored people? Not\none. I have not met with any English or American publication at\nall suited to their needs. It is a common remark of the people\nhere, when asked to adopt some reform: \u2018That will do for _white_\npeople; but it is not for we.\u2019 And if the _British Workman_, or\nany similar paper, is placed in their hands, it but intensifies\nthis feeling. The contrast between themselves and white people is\nconstantly before them. Week after week they will see pictures of\npleasant homes and scenes in home life, and in every case these are\nconnected with the home of the _white_ man. If, by chance, some\ncolored face is shown, it is as a curiosity, like a Modoc Indian, a\nChinaman or a Zulu.\n\n\u201cWhat is urgently needed is something that will meet the needs\nof colored laborers, in periodical literature, as the needs of\nthe white laboring classes are now met. I think that there should\nwithout delay be established in America some new periodical\u2014or some\nperiodical now established should be so modified in the manner of\nconducting it\u2014that, pursuing the broad lines of humanity, would\nsecure two things:\n\n\u201c1.\u2014In the illustrations, the manhood of the colored man would\nreceive recognition, and _his_ home, _his_ children, incidents\nof _his_ life, would appear from time to time, in such way as\nto convey to all colored people a feeling of emulation, a hope\nand inspiration, stimulating them to achieve better things for\nthemselves.\n\n\u201c2.\u2014In the letter-press, care would be taken to avoid those figures\nof speech which carry with them an implied degradation of the\ncolored people. To illustrate, what is \u2018foul\u2019 would not be made\nsynonymous with what is \u2018black.\u2019\u201d\n\nThere is certainly sound reason in the above suggestions, and it\nwould seem that good results might follow the proposed plan. Just\nhow it is to be done is the question. The paying constituency\nof such a paper would probably be too small to make it a matter\nof mere business enterprise. Perhaps to some one the good to be\naccomplished may seem large enough and direct enough to warrant the\nneeded outlay of thought, time and capital.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nRALEIGH, N. C.\u2014Great religious interest is reported throughout the\ncity. Our little church is sharing in the great blessing\u2014church\nmembers are being revived and others are inquiring the way of life.\n\nWOODBRIDGE, N. C.\u2014During the last two weeks we have had a\nremarkable outpouring of the Spirit. On two afternoons we have had\nto suspend the school exercises on account of those weeping over\ntheir sins. Some little ones will not leave the house till they\nfeel forgiven. Almost all are from the Band of Hope. The older ones\nlook on in surprise at such a work among the children. Some have\ntried to stop their children from praying, but they could come to\nschool and pray, or go out in the woods till they were converted,\nand then they couldn\u2019t help it. We have a daily prayer-meeting in\nthe school-house, in which all take part. Sometimes we have open\nmeetings for the children. We have nightly revival meetings, in\nwhich the children are taking hold as far as it seems advisable.\n\n_Later._\u2014One Saturday, four came to tell us of sins forgiven. Since\nthen, for three weeks, almost every day has brought one or more,\ntill about thirty have believed, and several others are anxious.\nMost of these are children; a few are pretty small. To-day some of\nthem have been praying, all their spare time, that they may be able\nto hold out to the end.\n\nIt is a time of struggle here. People are so poor as to hardly have\nenough to eat of the poorest fare, and clothing is pretty scarce.\nNo capital in the place. They spin and weave their own garments,\neven to the thread.\n\nMACON, GA.\u2014Bro. B. arrived on the 23d of February, and we began\nour special meetings the next night. We had several extra prayer\nmeetings the previous week, when much earnest prayer was offered\nfor God\u2019s blessing to come upon us. All things seemed to be in\nreadiness, the brethren of the church are already quickened, and\nthe meetings have been very encouraging from the start. The members\nhave taken hold with commendable zeal, and seem to be thoroughly\nunited. The meeting last night (March 3d) was almost a Pentecostal\nseason. There are fifteen or twenty inquirers, of the most hopeful\nclass of young men and women, and some intelligent middle-aged men.\nThe work is quiet and deep, without noise or nonsense, and seems to\nbe spreading every day.\n\nSELMA, ALA.\u2014When I last wrote, I think we were anticipating the\nweek of prayer with hope of some awakening. We observed the days\nwith very good attendance and very good results in quickening\nmembers, still the expected ingathering of souls has not been\nrealized. Otherwise we think the church is in quite a flourishing\ncondition. Since the week of prayer, we have sustained three or\nfour cottage meetings every week, with good results, and with the\nLiterary Society, sociables, ladies\u2019 weekly and monthly meetings,\nand regular prayer meetings and teachers\u2019 meetings, we have managed\nto keep quite busy.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nThe Indians.\n\n\u2014The House Committee on Indian Affairs has agreed to a bill which\nproposes to place all that part of the Indian Territory not set\napart to, and occupied by, the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and\nSeminole Indians, under the jurisdiction of the United States\nDistrict Court for the District of Kansas, held at Fort Scott,\nin respect to the crimes of murder, manslaughter, arson, rape,\nburglary and robbery. The exemptions, above stated, are placed\nby the bill under United States District Court for Arkansas. The\nbill further extends the provisions of the laws of the respective\nStates wherein are located Indian reservations to the reservations\nthemselves.\n\n\u2014A bill is now pending before the Indian Committee of the House,\nupon which Governor Pound, a member of the committee and an\nenthusiastic student of the Indian question, has made a favorable\nreport, providing for a number of Indian schools similar to that at\nCarlisle; and it was in this connection that a visit of inspection\nwas recently made by Secretary Schurz, several members of the House\nCommittee on Indian Affairs, and two members of the Board of Indian\nCommissioners. Besides the general advantages to result directly\nfrom education of Indian youths, it is represented in support of\nthe measure that the presence of a number of children from each\ntribe at schools in the East will be a most efficient guarantee of\ngood behavior on the part of the tribes.\n\nIt would seem, judging from the meagre opportunities for inspection\noffered by a single visit to Carlisle, that the movement promises\nto be an effectual aid, if not ultimately one of the chief\ninstruments, in settling the vexed Indian problem. If, however,\nonly a part of that which is expected is actually realized, still\nit will have been a very profitable venture, both for the Indians\nand for the Government.\u2014_N. Y. Tribune._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAfrica.\n\nExtract from a letter received by the London Missionary Society:\n\n\u2014\u201cFood continues cheap and plentiful; the market is a great\nblessing\u2014it fluctuates frequently, but the cause can generally be\nseen; a recent rise in prices was caused by the sudden arrival of\nseveral caravans of ivory from Manyuema. We are doing a little\nbetter with the garden just now. One of our new men formerly worked\nin an Arab\u2019s garden, and under his advice and care we have onions\nnow coming up, and some of the seeds from Cape Colony are showing\nsigns of life. We have a good plot of sweet potatoes. The vegetable\ncalled nyumbo\u2014mentioned by Livingstone as being very wholesome\u2014is\nnow procurable in the market; we find them very good and much like\npotatoes; in shape and size they are like good-sized long radishes\nwith blunt tails; in colour and texture like English potatoes, but\nstringy outside. Good beef is not procurable. Fish, fowls, and\ngoat\u2019s flesh are plentiful; also eggs and butter.\n\n\u201cHaving a good supply of sugar we have tried preserving, and\nsucceeded very well with lemon marmalade and jam of bananas and\nguavas. Mr. Hutley has acquired the art of bread-making, and we\noccasionally have an excellent loaf. We both find the maize meal\nwholesome; it is capable of being made into a variety of puddings.\nIf I were asked of what I am in want in the shape of food, I would\nsay, first, cabbages; second, rhubarb: and lo, only to-day, Mr.\nHutley tells me that some Savoy cabbage seeds are showing signs\nof life! So we may yet, with care, obtain several of the English\nvegetables, which beat anything in this country, with all its\nluxuriance.\n\n\u201cWheat planting begins in a few days, at which we shall also have a\ntry. I think it probable we shall be able to procure \u2018whole-wheat\nmeal\u2019 from Unyanyembe in the season at a reasonable price. Men who\nknow the roads in the forest go to Unyanyembe in eight days; this\nseems to us very near.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nVIRGINIA.\n\nA large Ingathering.\n\nMISS M. A. ANDRUS, CARRSVILLE.\n\nReading in the \u201cMissionary\u201d of the work done in the South, it\ncame into my mind to tell you of a work of grace here. Nearly all\nof our Sabbath-school are converted. From sixty to seventy have\nbeen baptized and received into this church, and since the 1st\nof September the pastor has baptized 150. I have never before\nlabored in a Sabbath-school where I have felt so manifestly the\nSpirit accompanying the word. It seemed to sink deep into the\nhearts and take root there, and a harvest of souls is the result.\nThe pastor thinks the converts were more intelligent than usual,\nand he imputed it to the instruction they had received in the\nSabbath-school. My method of instruction is, to expound the\nScriptures verse by verse, as read by each scholar, making special\napplication to each one individually, and so each one feels as if\nhe had a portion.\n\nSabbath before last, I had the blest privilege of seeing\nforty-three of the converts all seated together in the front seats,\nand it was to me an affecting sight. All ages were represented\nthere from the little child to the man of grey hairs.\n\nI spoke to them of the joy it gave me to see them occupying such\na position, and of the joy to the angels of God over them, for\nif there is joy in heaven among the angels over one sinner that\nrepenteth, how much more joy over such a number as I saw before me.\n\nI read to them, \u201cA charge to those who have just joined the\nChurch,\u201d sent to me a few days before by Samuel B. Schieffelin\nof New York, which seemed providentially to have come at that\ntime. They all listened with profound attention and seemed much\ninterested, and I trust a good and lasting impression was made upon\nthem.\n\nAfter the reading, I presented each one with a copy of the\n_Charge_, as it was in little book form, with which they seemed to\nbe much gratified.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA.\n\nFacts About the Taught and the Teachers.\n\nMRS. ALFRED CONNET, McLEANSVILLE.\n\nWe have been here seventeen months. During this time I have\nrefrained from expressing myself in regard to the negroes and our\nwork among them. Every day we are more and more convinced of their\ndeep degradation; in fact, it is entirely beyond anything we had\nimagined.\n\nThey seem to be guilty of the whole category of sins, but,\nperhaps, their untruthfulness is most prominent. We cannot have\na self-reporting system in school, but there are some noble\nexceptions to the general rule.\n\nThe most pitiable objects are those women who have families, but\nnever had husbands. One such woman last fall told me that she was\ngoing to gather \u201cshoemake\u201d (shumac) leaves that week, and get her\na pair of shoes. Saturday afternoon, she stopped on her way home\nfrom the store. \u201cWell, Aunty, did you get your shoes?\u201d \u201cNo; Mr.\nF. showed me so much purty caliker that I bought me a dress.\u201d She\nalready had about a dozen calico dresses. \u201cBut what will you do for\nshoes?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know; but I prays to the good Lord to keep me from\ngetting sick when I get my feet wet.\u201d I guess He heard her, for she\nis well. In contrast with this, the woman who washes for us saves\nup her wages and buys just what she and her child really need.\n\nThe women have not made as much advancement as the men; but there\nis good reason for this. They have gone to the field as regularly\nas the men, and have had their cooking and housework to do; and,\nin addition to this, they have borne a child every year or two.\nWhen they come to church they have these small children to care\nfor. They were pleased when they learned that the \u201cnew minister\u201d\nwas glad to see them and their babies. It is hard to hold their\nattention, they are so tired, and have so much to think about what\nthey shall eat and wear. We wish we could do them more good; but we\nmust turn our energies principally to the young.\n\nSin and temptation beset the young girls on every side, and, alas!\ntoo many of them yield. One asked me in regard to that terrible,\nnameless crime. I told her that the life of the child was just as\nsacred before birth as after birth. She said that the crime was\nquite common here. Mr. C. has since preached against it.\n\nFaith in God is very strong in some of them. One dear Aunty, who\nhas a very large family, and much to do, said: \u201cWhen I feels so\ntired, I just ask the Lord to give me strength to finish this\nwashing, or whatever I am doing, and he does it.\u201d Her husband is\nour Sunday-school Superintendent, and their children are the best\neducated of any in the neighborhood. This family belongs to three\nraces\u2014white, black and red\u2014the latter predominating.\n\nSome of the people seemed to get the idea that we were so anxious\nfor their children to attend school that they could dictate to\nus, and they encouraged their children to rebel against necessary\ngovernment. One girl who ran away from school wrote a note\nacknowledging her wrong and asking forgiveness; of course she was\ngladly received back. Seven young men and two girls are doing their\nown cooking so that they can remain longer. Five others are paying\nboard.\n\nWe have some very dull scholars. We have some bright ones. One\nyoung man, fourteen months ago, did not know his letters. Now he\nreads in National Third Reader and United States history, has\ncommenced grammar and geography, and is in fractions in arithmetic.\nOne pupil, who is a minister, is over thirty years of age. Three\nother scholars are twenty-nine. Nearly all the larger ones are\nteachers, or are preparing to teach. I think they will do much good\nfor their people.\n\nI may be mistaken, but it seems to me that the negro does not\ninvestigate or reason much, but acts according to his feelings.\nEven the babies do not tear up their playthings to see what is\ninside of them.\n\nThey are full of signs and superstitious notions. Our little girl,\nAddie, showed a very small hen\u2019s egg to some little girls. One of\nthem said: \u201cMy mother never allows us to take one into the house,\nit is bad luck; but it is good luck to throw it over the house, and\nwe always do that.\u201d\n\nMr. C. and I both teach six hours per day. Sometimes after school\nwe take the carriage and go to see some sick person. Last week\nwe went three miles to see one poor sick woman, who has lost the\nuse of one eye and is nearly blind in the other. She is a great\nsufferer, but said, \u201cMy many afflictions and tribulations bring me\nnear the Lord, and I am so proud to see you all.\u201d Last Saturday we\nwent four miles to see an old man who is probably on his death-bed.\nHe was sixty-three years a slave, is a Christian, has united with\nthe church since we came, and said that if he never met us here on\nearth again, he hoped to in heaven. We sent him some food suitable\nfor him.\n\nWe see so much destitution that we can\u2019t help giving until we feel\nit. We do almost entirely without butter, and frequently without\nsugar. We live very plainly, but contentedly. One man told in\nchurch how much good it did him, when Mr. C. visited him last\nsummer, and assured him that his child was not past recovery. It\nwas a long ride of fourteen miles on horseback under a burning\nSouthern sun; but it greatly encouraged these humble Christians.\nThey are so ignorant that when they get sick, they think somebody\nhas poisoned them. They do not seem to have any confidence in each\nother. One young woman, who spent five years with Miss Douglass,\nassured me that she would not take medicine from a colored doctor,\nif he was ever so well educated\u2014\u201cBecause I am afraid he might be\nmad at me and poison me.\u201d It seems discouraging when years of good\ntraining fail to eradicate such silly notions.\n\nWe are in a Ku Klux neighborhood, twenty white families within a\nmile of us; but only three of these have ever made us a social call.\n\nOur children have no associates. I am glad that there are six of\nthem and not just one or two.\n\nWe are obliged to keep one of the older children out of school to\ntake care of the babies, aged two and four years. I think it would\nbe a sin to leave them in the care of any of these colored people,\nthe greater part of each day. They are so ignorant and sinful and\nsuperstitious, that I am sure they would poison their young minds.\nPerhaps that is the reason the Southern people have given so much\ntrouble, they have had such ignorant nurses.\n\nOur Sunday-school is large and doing well. We have large classes\nbecause we have so few competent teachers; we are trying to train\nothers. Church services are well attended. Our work is made up\nof lights and shades, but we like it, and thank the Lord that He\npermits us to be humble workers in this part of His vineyard.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nA Struggling Church\u2014A Growing Temperance Work\u2014Hindrances.\n\nREV. J. R. McLEAN, NO. 1 MILLER STATION.\n\nThe school is doing well. I have enrolled 67 now, and have larger\nscholars than at any time before. The Sunday-school is growing in\nnumbers and also in interest, and its work has had great power over\nthe people here for good.\n\nThe church has been pulling together quite well, and has raised\ntowards the work here about $30. A number of the people are not\nable to do anything, for they need some one to help them to get\nbread. None have joined the church this year thus far; still I hope\nto have some come in before the year closes.\n\nWe have our house all ceiled inside, and now we are trying to get\nit painted. I _do_ wish we could find some one to give us some\nsinging books, both for Sunday-school and church. We have only\nthree that we can use in worship. I like the \u201cSongs of Devotion,\u201d\nbut then anything else will do if we can get that.\n\nThe Temperance Society is doing good, but there is room for it to\ndo much more. At our meeting last Sabbath, five joined us. The band\nnumbers now about 50. Some, as might be expected, have broken their\npledges. I find it is those who are trained in our schools, and\nthose only, that take hold of our principles.\n\nO, if more could be done for the children, and for a larger number\nof them, there would be some hope for the race yet! What can be\ndone for them?\n\nThe white people are doing nothing to help them, as I shall tell\nyou when I get to it. But the old ones find it hard to leave off\nthe habits of slavery, which have been going on so long that they\nhave taken deep root, and how they are to be dug out I cannot tell.\nBut will not our Heavenly Father overlook many of these wicked\nhabits!\n\nOur church grows slowly because we are trying all the time to get\nthe people out of their old ways, which most of the people like\nbest, and so they are held by the other churches.\n\nThe large rice planters are doing nothing for them, only to keep\nthem on their farms and get all the work out of them they can, and\npay them as little as possible for their work. How is this done?\n\nBy giving them great feasts on the Sabbath. At these feasts they\nhave the colored people come into the big house (this means the\nwhite people\u2019s house) and shout for them, as it is called here, but\nI call it dancing. They are given ginger snaps, rum and wine. This\nkind of a party, or feast, or shout, was given last Sunday (they\nare called by all these names). I am told that the colored people\non a certain plantation ate two boxes of ginger snaps, and drank\ntwo gallons of wine and four gallons of rum. They have them on the\nSabbath so as not to stop the work.\n\nThis is the way they hold them. I said in my haste last Sabbath,\nif the white man was to tell them that on the other side of Hell\nthey could get as much rum and wine as they could get free, many of\nthem would try to cross over. Many of them have given up all they\nhave for it, and will go anywhere to get it. This is awful, but it\nis the truth. Our work will tell in the end in saving those that\nbelieve. Please excuse any rough expressions, but this is not half\nlike it is. I am not able to tell just how the people do act here;\nstill they are my people, and I must do all for them I can. Pray\nfor me, that I may have courage to do my part of the work.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA Lady\u2019s Sunday-School and Missionary Work.\n\nMISS O. B. BABCOCK, MACON.\n\nMy infant class in Sunday-school has grown from five to forty-five\nsince I came; and, as I visit all my scholars, it keeps me busy.\nMonday afternoons I give to practising music in the Sunday-school;\nWednesday, we have our school prayer-meeting; Thursday, a mother\u2019s\nmeeting, for prayer and conversation. This last has always been an\ninteresting feature in my labors among the poor, and I trust it\nwill be so here. Friday evening, I have a meeting for Bible-reading\nand prayer in the cabins near by. The reading is greatly enjoyed\nby the people. Sunday evenings I usually spend in the same\nway. Saturday, at 2 P.M., I have the sewing-school, numbering\nseventy-five, and weekly increasing in numbers and interest. The\nmothers are delighted, and the children not less so. As the entire\nburden of the work rests on me, with no white help, you can see\nthat my moments at home are all occupied with cutting and basting.\nI have finally succeeded in getting some colored teachers, and may,\nin time, have help in preparing work. I try to visit the homes of\nall the scholars, that I may know their condition and needs. This\nis one of the very best means of access to the people, and helps\nto fill up the Sunday-school with needy ones. I feel as much at\nhome as if I had always lived here, and can go to any part of the\ncity with perfect ease. I have visited Vineville, Unionville, East\nMacon, Tybee, Sandy Bottom, etc., the suburbs of the city.\n\nThere was one dear old colored aunty here who was sick for months,\nbut always so tender and thoughtful of me that my visits were a\ncomfort and even pleasure. She went home last week, after a blessed\ndeath, singing with her last breath: \u201cI\u2019se passed over Jordan!\nHallelu! Hallelu!\u201d I wouldn\u2019t have believed that I should miss her\nas I do. I don\u2019t find many like her.\n\nI feel very grateful for the barrels that I have received; I\nhave received one barrel from Boston, a cask and barrel from\nNewburyport, one from Wentworth, N. H., one from Chicago. I have\nwritten letters to nine different Sunday-schools, and keep up a\nconstant correspondence with my own church and Sunday-school, also\nwith the Ladies\u2019 Society in it. This was at first a burden to me,\nbut it becomes easier and more of a pleasure. I find I have made\n150 calls during January, and though this is not a large number,\nstill it implies a great many miles of walking. I often can make\nbut one or two calls in half a day, the distances are so great\nand there is no way to ride. I have spent a great many hours in\nteaching children their A B C\u2019s and reading to them. I carry\nprimers with me and find plenty of teaching to do.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA Communion Season\u2014District Meetings.\n\nMISS E. W. DOUGLAS, McINTOSH, LIBERTY CO.\n\nIt was our Communion Sabbath and eleven united with the church,\none by letter. Five were baptized, four by sprinkling, one by\nimmersion. While a few went to the water to witness that ordinance,\nthe many gathered in the church for a season of prayer, and I think\nthat hour gave tone to the services of the day. I have seldom,\nif ever, seen so much quietness and seriousness in so large a\ngathering of this emotional people as there was that day. I refer\nto the greetings after the close of the service. There is usually\nmuch loud talking and laughing. The lesson of the morning hour was\nthat they should not forget that the object of the Lord\u2019s table\nwas not to draw a crowd together to meet one another, but to meet\nthe Lord and \u201cremember\u201d Him, and the chapter read and explained by\nthe pastor when he returned from the water led our thoughts to the\nCrucified One. Three of those who united with the church professed\nconversion during the week of prayer.\n\nAs the members of this church are so widely scattered that it is\ndifficult for the pastor to visit them often, they are arranged in\nseven districts, each having its \u201cwatchman,\u201d whose duty it is to\nsustain district prayer-meetings and to report to the pastor any\nthing needing his attention. I have attended one of these district\nmeetings, and hope to attend at least one every week.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nChurch and School must Work Together.\n\nREV. S. E. LATHROP, MACON.\n\nDuring the last session of the Georgia Conference at Savannah, a\ndebate took place on the subject of the church and school work as\nof necessity going together in this Southern field, which impressed\nme deeply. It was mainly carried on by the young colored brethren,\nboth ministers and laymen, and in matter and manner showed that\nthey knew whereof they spoke, and were deeply impressed with its\nimportance. Any person who may have doubted the vital necessity\nof the school to the church work here, would surely have been\nconvinced by the earnest arguments of these brethren, most of\nwhom came to the church through the educational department of the\nmission work.\n\nSaid one young preacher: \u201cThe school is the primary department\nof the church. It trains the children and youth to think, and\nhence to accept of a thoughtful religion like ours, instead of\nthe mere shouting and emotional style to which the ignorant and\nuntrained cling. The true religion is one which teaches us to love\nGod and our neighbor supremely, and this can be done best by the\nintelligence which comes only through the school training.\u201d\n\nAnother said: \u201cOur people never had any mental training, or any\nencouragement to think for themselves, and did not know how, until\nthe A. M. A. schools awakened these powers. We, as a race, are not\nnaturally a reasoning people. We are too much governed by impulse,\nby emotion, by instinct, by passions, and too easily offended, with\nlittle self-control. Slavery was a very poor mental discipline,\nand when freedom came, there were many extravagant ideas and\nignorant impulses that led the people to extremes. The utter lack\nof public schools for our race made us at first prize most highly\nthe advantages offered so generously by the A. M. A. Afterward,\nas the slumbering intelligence slowly awoke, we saw not only the\nintrinsic value of education, but we were more able to appreciate\nthe kindness which suggested the sending of these faithful teachers\nand missionaries. Gratitude prompted us, in many cases, to break\naway from the old superstitious churches, and growing enlightenment\nhelps us to see more clearly the superior advantages of an\nintelligent religion. The consecrated teachers of the Association\nhave many of them done grand missionary work, although very few of\nthem are open to the charge of sectarianism. Congregationalism, by\nits broad, liberal, unsectarian policy of churches and schools, has\ndone a vast amount of good to all the other denominations. They\nare being leavened more and more by true intelligence, and the\nancient foundations of ignorance and hierarchy are slowly giving\nway. Upon their ruins shall arise more beautiful temples to God,\nmore enlightened worship, more worthy conceptions of daily life and\nreligious duty.\u201d\n\nAnother speaker claimed that \u201cThe day-school brings about sympathy\nof the day scholars with the church and Sunday-school work. The\nreligious exercises of the schools cause the impression that there\nis a soul as well as a brain to be trained. The knowledge that the\nteachers are universally engaged in Sunday-school work, by the very\nlaw of cause and effect, calls attention to that work also. The\nsympathy that always exists between the preacher and teachers, and\nthe hearty interest in the children that is shown by the ministers,\ncause both parents and children to think that the work is all one,\nas it really is. New England \u2018blossoms as the rose\u2019 to-day, because\nthe church and the school-house have always been built together,\nand in their mutual work are as inseparable as the Siamese twins.\nMay the day hasten when it shall be so in the South.\u201d\n\nThe young delegate from Atlanta said: \u201cThe first church of Atlanta\nis the outgrowth of the Storrs School, whose devoted teachers have\nalways sought after the spiritual as well as the mental welfare\nof their scholars. They have been true missionaries and worthy\nco-laborers in the Gospel with the pastors of the church.\u201d\n\nA young preacher, who is also the successful teacher of the\nday-school in his parish, said that \u201cThe training of the school\nchildren to be punctual at the morning roll-call, teaches also\nthe very necessary habit of punctuality at church, in which our\npeople are so deficient. The promptness, the discipline of order,\ncleanliness, good behavior and attention, which is taught in\nschool, has also a corresponding effect in the church services.\nIf our people were educated and enlightened, perhaps the church\ncould get on without the school; but in their ignorance they must\nbe taught to think, before they can get a right idea of Bible\nreligion. The intellect must go with the heart, preparing the way\nfor the coming of the Lord. Superstition is still a formidable\nenemy in our church work, and nothing but sanctified intelligence\nwill ever defeat that adversary.\u201d\n\nSaid another delegate: \u201cI came into the church through the\nnight-school. I was working hard all day and could not attend\nday-school, but went at night and studied as well as I could. There\nI first heard of the Congregational church. I found by inquiry that\nit was a church which had been very active in the anti-slavery\ntimes, and believed in free speech, free schools, free churches and\nequal rights in church and state. That attracted me, and I inquired\nmore, until finally God forgave my sins and I united with the\nchurch. I love more and more the freedom and fraternity I find, and\nI believe in the church, which makes so much of schools, and has\neducated so many of my people.\u201d\n\nSaid another: \u201cThe church must go with the school, because\neducation alone only sharpens the mind for greater mischief. In\nthe very nature of things, every school teacher ought to be a true\nChristian, to exert a Christ-like influence in the school, to\nencourage pupils to attend church and Sunday-school. The teacher\u2019s\npower is greater over scholars here than in the North.\u201d\n\nDr. Roy spoke of the many mission Sunday-schools and churches which\nhad sprung up around Talladega College, the result of labor by the\nChristian students. He also recalled the history of the mission\nschools in India, which, on account of some complaints, were at one\ntime given up, to the great detriment of the missions.\n\nThis is but an outline of the remarks made upon this important\nsubject, which would have cheered the hearts of all philanthropists\nto hear. The decorum and general manner of expression throughout\nwould have done honor to the most dignified deliberative body.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nNotes from Marion.\n\nMRS. GEO. E. HILL.\n\nSundays are our grand working days. As we have services morning and\nnight, the afternoon is left free to meet the people in other ways.\n\nSometimes the women come to the \u201cHome\u201d for a prayer-meeting, or\nthe little children come in to hear Bible-stories told or read.\nSometimes I have a Bible-reading for _boys_. They come, bringing\ntheir Bibles, and pencil and paper, and I read them some of the\nprecious verses marked in my own Bible, or choose some story like\nthat of the Shunamite, which they are not familiar with.\n\nMany of them read imperfectly, and so lose the full meaning of\nthe words, and we find that the \u201cold, old story\u201d becomes new and\nstrangely sweet as we read it aloud to them, with fresh emphasis\nand expression.\n\nAn old man once said to me, \u201cIf I had a hundred dollar bill, I\u2019d\ngive it in a minute if I could read the Bible.\u201d\n\nLast Sunday, I invited several boys to come and see me. I seated\nthem round a table, and gave them eight or ten copies of \u201cLife\nand Light\u201d and \u201cMissionary Herald\u201d to look over. Choosing for my\ntext the _pictures_, I talked an hour with them, and selected an\ninteresting fact or incident for each one to give that night at our\nmonthly missionary meeting.\n\nA fine, large missionary map has been donated to the church by the\nSunday school in Weymouth, Mass., which is very useful in showing\nthe people the great world, about which they know so little.\n\nThe girls\u2019 sewing-class has sent $38 to the Mendi Mission.\n\nOur Sunday-school numbers about eighty, and is the pleasantest\nand most orderly school I have seen at the South. The children\ncome to their classes neatly dressed, after the Saturday\u2019s washing\nand ironing, and give quiet attention during the hour. We find\nblackboard illustrations helpful in fixing the thoughts of the\nlesson. One Sunday, twenty maps of Palestine were handed in, in\nconnection with the lesson.\n\nThe Sunday-school concerts are a special attraction, and are\nattended by many from other churches. At our last, several\nprominent white citizens were present.\n\nWe wish our friends at the North could see how well these colored\nchildren carry through the Bible Exercises and other recitations.\n\nEvery Monday at 4 P. M., the women meet at the \u201cHome\u201d for an hour\nof prayer. They have no clocks to tell the time by; but as most of\nthem live in sight, I hang a white flag on the gatepost, fifteen\nminutes before the hour. We call this our \u201cGospel flag!\u201d\n\nThe prayers of these women are marked by an unquestioning trust.\nThey ask directly for what they want, without getting entangled in\nthe formalities of more educated Christians, and they evidently\nfeel that they speak into a listening ear.\n\nTheir faces often beam with pleasure as they hear the reading\nof the Bible. \u201cWhat a glorious chapter this is!\u2014it _feels so\nholy_!\u201d\u2014one of them said.\n\nThey need these hours of prayer, for life with them is hard, and\npinched, and poor, and in their small houses of one or two rooms,\nfull of little children, washing and ironing, and cooking, these\nmothers have no \u201ccloset\u201d where they may shut themselves in for\ncommunion with Jesus, and get patience and strength for the day.\nBut are not their prayers heard, as they stand by the tub, washing\nfor the rich?\u2014or bend over the cradle, in which, for some, there is\nalways a baby\u2014or cook the meal, which to us would seem so scanty?\nA woman once told me, that in slavery times, she went down in the\ngarden, among the butter-beans, to pray\u2014and there she had such a\nseason of joy, that when she came in, and took her place at her\nmaster\u2019s table, to brush away the flies, \u201c\u2019pear\u2019d like glory was in\nde fly-brush!\u201d\n\nFor the last five months, we have had an afternoon school for\nchildren under 14 years of age, here at the \u201cHome.\u201d A large room\non the back gallery was fitted up for them, and here twenty-five\nchildren come every day and are taught from 1 to 4 o\u2019clock.\n\nBesides the ordinary book lessons, their young teacher instructs\nthem in good manners, neatness and simple fancy-work, and gives\neach day a half-hour talk on birds, plants or animals, illustrated\nby pictures on the blackboard.\n\nThe children are quick to learn and eager for all kinds of\ninformation, which they take home and repeat to their parents, when\nthe work of the day is done.\n\nSome of these parents who cannot even read themselves, are \u201cproud\u201d\nto hear their children talk intelligently about Washington, or\nNapoleon, or Henry Bergh.\n\nThis is our third winter among the Freedmen, but we feel that we\nare just learning how to be missionaries, and how to get at the\npeople, and meet them in their great needs. Are we happy in our\nwork? Yes; happy and content. Even in our \u201csmall corner\u201d we have\nthe Master\u2019s presence, and feel it a privilege to work among His\nlowly ones.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI.\n\nA Brother\u2019s Devotion.\n\nMRS. G. STANLEY POPE, TOUGALOO.\n\nWhen we first came to Tougaloo, two years ago last fall, we found\na young man who had been here a few days, Frank H\u2014\u2014. He had run\naway from his uncle, because of his cruelty to him. He was then\nabout nineteen years old. He was anxious to get an education;\nand although he had not a cent of money, he proved to be such a\nfaithful boy, both at his books and at work, that with but little\nhelp he managed to earn his board and pay his way in school. He\nhad been a very wicked boy, but Christ wrought a great change in\nhim, and before the year closed, he became a most conscientious\nChristian.\n\nHe remained right here, working on the farm during the summer, and\nstudying when school was in session, until about two months ago,\nwhen he left and went to work. He had often spoken of a sister who\nwas still with his uncle, and he was anxious to get her away, and\nhave her in school. A little over a week ago, he received his pay\nfor his work, and went to get his sister. He tried to persuade\nhis uncle to let her go, but he would not listen to it, and said\nshe should never leave him. Frank found out from her that she was\ngreatly abused, and that she wanted to leave and come with him. She\nis not more than fourteen years old, and small for her age, but\nwhen Frank found her she was burning brush and helping to clear up\nnew land. Her whole work has been in the field, plowing and hoeing,\npicking cotton and \u201cpulling fodder.\u201d\n\nFrank finally made up his mind to \u201ckidnap\u201d her; so a little after\ndark, when she was feeding the mules, he told her his plan, and\nthey left at once for the swamp, as it would be less easy to track\nthem there. After going through that, they walked till nearly\nmidnight to get to a railroad station farther away than the one\nthey usually went to, as Frank knew his uncle would be down there\nin the morning to find them. The girl, whose name by the way is\nLeah, had no clothing on except a cotton dress and a bit of an\nold shawl over her head; so, early in the morning, Frank went\nto a store and got calico for two dresses, and hired them made,\nboth being finished (after a fashion) by night, he paying a dollar\napiece for the work. He also bought her some shoes and a few other\nthings, and a little after dark they took the cars for this place,\narriving here about midnight. Frank stayed over the Sabbath, and\nthen went back to his work to earn money to keep her in school. He\nsaid to me, \u201cshe\u2019s all the sister I\u2019ve got, and I want her to do\nwell.\u201d She did not know a letter, but she is quick and bright, and\nduring the few days she has been in school she has done well; she\nknows nothing about housework, but is willing and tries to learn.\nI asked her yesterday if she knew about God. \u201cNot much.\u201d \u201cHave you\never been to Sabbath-school?\u201d \u201cNo.\u201d \u201cEver been to church?\u201d \u201cTwice.\u201d\n\u201cDo you know about Jesus?\u201d \u201cNever heard of him.\u201d\n\nOh, Christian women of the North! do you need to go to India or\nTurkey to find heathen? I assure you, Leah is not an isolated case;\nshe is a fair sample of thousands in the South.\n\nYour \u201cWoman\u2019s Board of Missions\u201d is doing a good work for God and\nhumanity. I would not underestimate its value; but while you are\nresponding so liberally to the calls for help from afar, are you\nnot forgetting this work of no less importance which lies nearer\nto you, the work of giving Christian education to the despised and\ndegraded colored women of the South?\n\nWe are very sorry to have Frank out of school. He can not afford\nit, neither can you afford it, for if he could be in school for\none or two years longer, he would make a very fair teacher for the\ncountry schools.\n\nHe hopes to be here next year; but if he has to clothe himself and\nhis sister, and pay seven dollars apiece a month for their board,\nI don\u2019t see much chance for him. Does any one feel called upon to\ntake the responsibility of her board bill?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nReport\n\n  _Of the State Superintendent of Public Education to His\n  Excellency Governor J. M. Stone, and the Honorable Legislature of\n  the State of Mississippi._\n\nTOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.\n\nThis institution, under the direction and control of the American\nMissionary Association, is doing a most excellent work in the\neducation of the colored youth of the State. For a number of years\nafter its establishment an annual appropriation was made by the\nState, supplementary to the funds contributed by the Society, and\na Board of Trustees was appointed on the part of the State. This\nBoard still exists; but inasmuch as the last Legislature failed\nto make appropriation for the University, and as the property\nbelongs to the Missionary Society, it would appear to be useless.\nThe Principal, writing on the 20th of December, 1879, says:\n\u201cThe improvement in the school is very marked. This is seen in\nthe general training of students, in the greater number who are\ndesiring to complete the regular course of study, the increased\nnumber in attendance in the higher grades, in more frequent visits\nfrom patrons, and by the friends it is making among the whites\nwhere our students have been at work.\n\nThe management of the institution is admirable, its teachers\nare superior, and everything connected with it is in excellent\ncondition, as I have had occasion to learn from personal\nobservation. As a recognition of the good work being done by the\nAmerican Missionary Association in the education and elevation of\nthe colored people of the State, it is recommended that a liberal\nappropriation be made, that it may be rendered still more useful.\u201d\n\n                                             J. A. SMITH,\n                              _State Supt. of Public Education_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLOUISIANA.\n\nRevival in the Central Church\u2014Theological Department\u2014Church\nDedication.\n\nREV. W. S. ALEXANDER.\n\nThe hope expressed in my last letter that I might have glad tidings\nto send you, has been fully realized, and it is my happiness to\nrecord one of the most precious revivals in the history of the\nCentral Church. I do not forget the history of the past four years,\nand the seasons of spiritual awakening through which the church\nhas passed. The present movement differs from the preceding, if\nat all, in a more intelligent grasp of the truth, and in a deeper\nspiritual tone. The past summer was a time of preparation for the\nscenes that were to follow. The Revival was the constant theme\nof conversation and prayer. It was the one burden upon their\nhearts. Sunday, January 4, the first day of the week of prayer,\nwas marked by evident signs of deepening interest. On that day,\neight were received to the church, of whom three came on profession\nof their faith. For twenty-seven consecutive evenings, we met in\nour lecture room. The Gospel was preached with directness and\nearnestness. A \u201cchurch in earnest\u201d took hold of the work and\npressed it forward. Beginning with an audience of 75, the numbers\nin constant attendance rapidly increased to 200. The interest\nsuffered no diminution to the last night, when six came forward to\nthe \u201cmourners\u2019 seats\u201d with the cry, \u201cPray for us.\u201d Some continued\nin an anxious state for two, three or four weeks, while others,\ncoming in from motives of curiosity merely, were stricken down by\nGod\u2019s Spirit, and as quickly brought into the light and liberty of\nbelievers.\n\nAn old man of 70 years was brought into the Kingdom, and is as\nhappy as the youngest convert. Another, much in political life, and\nwho publicly said, \u201cI have been an awful sinner,\u201d seems now to be a\nreformed and converted man.\n\nFour of our University students have joyfully professed Christ.\n\nWhile incidents occurred daily which touched our hearts, and added\nto the tenderness and deep solemnity of our meetings, they cannot\nof course be faithfully recorded, and I do not attempt it.\n\nLet me say that there was no undue excitement, and not the\nslightest approach to merely physical and emotional demonstrations.\nThe work was too intelligent, too spiritual for that. In prayer, in\nsong, and in appeal, human agency was forgotten, and the converting\npower of the Divine Spirit was reverently recognized.\n\nSunday, Feb. 1st, was our \u201cFeast of Ingathering.\u201d Of the _thirty_\nconverted in the meetings, twenty-four were received to the\nfellowship of the church, with two who came to us by letter. The\npeople brought flowers for the pulpit and communion-table. Of the\n250 present in the audience, 150 received the sacrament. \u201cThe Lord\nhath done great things for us whereof we are glad.\u201d\n\n_The Theological Department_ is larger than in any previous\nyear. It numbers twenty members, young men of zeal and promise,\nnot only willing but eager to be instructed in the truths and\ndoctrines of God\u2019s word. Four of the class are ordained ministers,\nof whom two are pastors of churches in New Orleans. Not all of\nthem have the ministry in view. Those who have not, are hoping\nthrough this instruction to become more useful and efficient in\nthe church. Three theological lectures are given each week, and\nthere are besides sermons given by the students before the class\nfor criticism, and discussions on religious topics. Our great\nlack is books of reference. We have no systems of theology, and\nno commentaries to which the young men can have access. In the\n\u201cgood time coming,\u201d these we trust will be supplied, and so the\nefficiency of the department be increased.\n\n_Church Dedication._\u2014In response to an earnest invitation from the\nCongregational Church in New Iberia, I went down on Saturday, the\n14th inst., to assist in the dedication of their new church. The\nterrific windstorm of last September laid their tasteful and really\nbeautiful house of worship in ruins. The building was a total\nwreck. The storm, as it swept up the bayou, left only desolation\nin its track. The people, with commendable energy and self-denial,\nbating not one jot of heart or hope, set themselves to the work of\nrebuilding. They purchased more ground, put up a larger and better\nbuilding, and the machinery of the church is again in working\norder. They have expended something like $450, and urgently need\n$200 more for painting and furnishing. The people feel that they\nhave exhausted their resources. It is a noble enterprise, and\nshould be encouraged. Loyalty to our Congregational polity in\nLouisiana should call forth a hearty response to their appeal. At\nthe service of dedication, the house was crowded to its utmost\ncapacity. Both morning and night the word was received with all\nreadiness and gladness of heart. Southern Louisiana is a beautiful\ncountry, unsurpassed for productiveness, and should be dotted all\nover with churches where the Gospel in its simplicity, clearness\nand power may be preached. God speed the day!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTENNESSEE.\n\nRevival in Fisk University.\n\nPROF. H. S. BENNETT.\n\nA quiet but deep work of grace has been in progress since the week\nof prayer in our institution. The week of prayer was observed as\nusual with us, but without any special increase of interest. The\nquestion then came up, \u201cShall we pass through the year without our\nusual work of grace?\u201d This led to earnest prayer and consecration\non the part of teachers and Christian students. The result was\nsoon perceptible in greater earnestness among Christians, and\na wide-spread spirit of inquiry among the impenitent. At this\npoint the attendance on the half-hour prayer meetings was largely\nincreased. From six to ten inquirers presented themselves for\nprayers from night to night, and from this time the work went\nforward. Four students were converted on one Sabbath, and others\nwere brought out into the light. Thus the work went forward\nhopefully but quietly, until, up to this time, fourteen students\nhave expressed a hope in Christ. This is the second season of\ninterest during the present scholastic year. Before Christmas, a\nbrief season of spiritual awakening brought seven students out\nupon the Lord\u2019s side, so that the results of the year have been\ntwenty-one conversions. Several others are still inquiring, and the\nwork goes on, though with less manifest power than a few weeks ago.\n\nThe results of the revival have been seen in the deepening of the\nearnestness of Christians, so that much of the power of the good\nwork does not appear.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCHURCH\u2014CHRISTMAS\u2014BIBLES.\n\nREV. MYRON EELLS, S\u2019KOKOMISH, WASH. TER.\n\nThe first Sabbath in this year we received five members into our\nchurch, three of them on profession of faith, two of whom were our\nolder scholars. One of the scholars whom we received a year ago\ndied some time since. It was on the Sabbath, and after his brother,\nalso a member, had returned from church, he took his brother\u2019s hand\nand held it until he died, urging him to hold steadfast to his\nChristian profession to the end.\n\nWe have, to our great regret, been obliged to discipline two\nothers for misconduct, suspending them for three months.\n\nOn Christmas I arranged so that a dinner was prepared for the\noldest Indians, who are unable to support themselves. They enjoyed\nit, coming through storm, snow and cold in order to get it. It was\nthe first affair of the kind we have had for them alone. Between\nGovernment and the Indians, feasts have been prepared for the\nIndians in general, but never for the old decrepit ones. They are\nnearly always neglected.\n\nFor more than two years I have been serving as Local Agent of our\nTerritorial Bible Society. On making my report for the last year,\nI find that I have sold books to the amount of $32.19, viz. thirty\nBibles and forty-five Testaments. Of these, twenty-one Bibles and\neighteen Testaments have been bought by the Indians, for which they\nhave paid $22.72. These have varied in price from the five-cent\nTestament to the royal octavo Bible, gilt, reference, the latter\nhaving been for a newly married couple, both of whom have been in\nschool.\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.\nP. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John\nKimball, E. P. Sanford, Esq.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR NEW FIELDS.\n\nIt will be remembered by such of our friends as keep a close\nwatch of our movements, that on or about the first of February,\nwe commenced work in three new fields, Oroville, Grass Valley and\nMarysville. They will read with interest the subjoined extracts\nfrom letters already received:\n\n_Marysville._\u2014I requested Lee Haim to stop at Marysville, on his\nway to Oroville, and spend the Sabbath there, preaching as he had\nopportunity. I also invited Lem Chung, our helper at Sacramento,\nto accompany him, and to spend a week there assisting to start the\nschool. A postal from Lee Haim and Lem Chung, written in Chinese\nand addressed to \u201cThe Brethren of the Congregational Association\nof Christian Chinese,\u201d has been translated for me as follows:\n\u201cDear Brethren, We write to tell you that we arrived safely\nin Marysville a little after 4 P. M. An hour later we went to\nChinatown, and on the street we preached to our countrymen. A large\ncrowd was gathered at first by our singing, and they listened to\nboth preaching and singing with great interest. At 7 o\u2019clock the\nsame evening, we had so large an audience in our school-room that\nmany went away on account of lacking seats. Our hearts were filled\nwith joy, and we preached to them from the Chinese Testament, and\nexplained to them the meaning of the hymns we sang. We trust the\nseed sown will soon spring up to a good harvest. Our countrymen\nhere in school treat us very kindly, and we know this is due to\nyour and Mr. Pond\u2019s prayers. Please pray for us continually.\u201d\n\nMiss Mattie A. Flint, the teacher, writes: \u201cI have 25 names on the\nroll, with an average attendance of about 15. They all take a great\ndeal of interest, especially in the singing. Already they can sing\nthree or four of the hymns on the card very well. We have organized\na Sunday-school. Visitors drop in occasionally and express much\ninterest. I myself am deeply interested, and will do all in my\npower to teach them of their Heavenly Father. They are learning to\nread very fast.\u201d The Christian co-operation of Rev. P. L. Carden,\npastor of the Presbyterian Church in Marysville, has much to do\nwith the good promise of the work there.\n\n_Grass Valley._\u2014Rev. F. B. Perkins reports orally, that he\nhas succeeded in renting a school-room already tolerably well\nfurnished, and expects to pay the rent by donations made upon the\nfield. The average attendance thus far is but eight\u2014owing partly,\nperhaps, to the fact that the school-room is rather remote from the\nChinese quarter. But there is a good prospect of increase. I wish I\ncould dare to send a helper to each of these points.\n\n_Oroville._\u2014Lee Haim wrote as follows after spending a fortnight in\nhis new field: \u201cThe school was opened on the 5th day of this month\u201d\n(the room not being ready before). \u201cOnly had school two evenings.\nThen we have vacation two days for New Year\u2019s. At New Year\u2019s day I\nmade a call at every store (Chinese) in Oroville. On the second day\nof our new year I went to the other Chinese town three miles from\nhere, and when I reached there I first made a call on every store.\nAfter that I preach to them and sing several hymns in Chinese in\nthe opening\u201d (_i. e._, of his street service). \u201cIt seems to me,\nby my own judgment (so far as I could judge) they were pleased to\nhear. Twenty were present at our last prayer-meeting, and when\nthe school was opened again, the school-room was quite crowded. I\nhope the Almighty God will send His Holy Spirit to remove (move)\ntheir heart, and still lead them coming; that they may hear this\nwonderful word, and repent, to be the children of God.\u201d\n\nAt a later date Miss Waterbury writes: \u201cWe are going on very well,\nand have as many as we can teach with any degree of profit. Last\nnight I should judge there were fifty or more. It is impossible to\ntell the exact number, as many come in, take a lesson, and leave\nbefore the school is closed. Two-thirds, I should think, began at\nA B C. Many of these are now spelling words. [After less than a\nfortnight\u2019s instruction.\u2014W. C. P.] Last night I had twelve or more\nin their letters, and taught them from a card hung upon the wall,\ntill lungs and strength gave out. Among them were two little boys\nabout six years old, uncommonly smart and quick. Several old men\nhave been spelling \u201cdog,\u201d \u201cman,\u201d etc. with great patience. The\nschool is a new thing and creates much interest. Sometimes several\nwill crowd around, looking over the shoulder and listening eagerly\nto the one who reads. I do not think this will always last, but I\nthink there is a great field here for good. Oh, to be filled with\nthe spirit of God, that I may be the channel of grace to these dark\nsouls! Who is sufficient for these things?\u201d\n\nI add an extract from a letter from Miss Helen E. Clarke, teacher\nin one of our old fields\u2014Santa Barbara. It is written in the\nfamiliar terms of a friendly correspondence, and not at all as a\nformal report; but it gives, for that, all the more graphic picture\nof the \u201cups and downs\u201d of our work:\n\n\u201cI am very sorry to say that Ah Sing has left Santa Barbara.\nWe shall miss him very much in the school. He went to the gold\nmines in Mexico, I think. He said he would write you when he got\nthere. Gin Gem took the wash-house, [previously carried on by Ah\nSing.\u2014W. C. P.] It makes quite a difference whom they have there,\nand I am very glad he has it, for I think him a very good boy. He\nsaid the reason he wanted the place was, so that he could come to\nschool every night. He and Gin Foy expect to unite with our church\nto-morrow.\u201d\n\n\nEDWARD P. SANFORD,\n\na director in our California Auxiliary, from its organization, for\nmany years Superintendent of the Chinese Sunday-school of the First\nCongregational Church in Oakland, was transferred to the church\nabove on Feb. 16th. A fearless friend of all who are unbefriended\nby the world at large, an eager, efficient and prayerful follower\nof Jesus, a strong pillar in the church, a man who united a careful\nand intense energy and an unflinching and unspotted integrity,\nwith the gentleness and kindliness sometimes supposed to adorn\nwomanhood alone, genial, generous, helpful everywhere,\u2014how _can_ we\nspare him? But how high and holy and beneficent must be the service\nprepared for him above, since the Master who never mistakes,\nthought good to take him there!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA VOYAGE TO AFRICA\u2014PROF. CHASE TO HIS FOUR-YEAR-OLD BOY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMY DEAR LITTLE BOY:\n\nIt is a good many days since papa left you and mamma, and he has\nbeen sailing on the water most all of the time. I was in the boat\nthat you and mamma left me on twelve days, as many as you have\nfingers on both hands and two more. Then I was on land three\nnights. Then I came on this ship, and have slept on it as many\nnights as you and mamma both have fingers on your two hands. The\nlittle beds on this boat are just like those you saw.\n\nThe boat stopped a little while at some places, and I saw people\nwithout much clothes, like the pictures you saw in the book, and\nlittle boys and girls, as big as you, who had not any clothes at\nall. They did not seem to care; but I think they would feel very\nfine if they had nice little sailor suits like yours. These black\npeople eat real funny. On the little boats that came out to get\nthings from this big boat they had little stoves with one pot. A\nboy about as big as Johnnie C\u2014\u2014, with no clothes but one piece\ntied around him\u2014no hat, no shirt, no coat, no pants, no socks, no\nshoes\u2014made the fire and cooked the food. He took some fishes that\nhe had caught in the water and cut them into small pieces, and then\ntook some rice, and put the pieces of fish and the rice into the\npot over the fire with some water in it. Then he put something into\na hole in a big log and pounded it with the end of a shovel-handle,\nand when he had pounded it enough he poured it on the fish and rice\nin the pot. By and by he poured what was in the pot into a large\ntray and all the men began to eat. But they did not eat as we do.\nThey did not have any plates, nor any knives, nor any forks. They\njust had one spoon. One took this spoon and ate a little, and then\nhanded it to another and he ate a little. The others put their\nhands into the tray and took out a handful of the fish and rice\nand made it up into a ball, as boys where you are make snow-balls,\nand then ate it as people eat apples. I don\u2019t think you would like\nto have your papa and mamma eat in that way, and I don\u2019t think\nyou would like to eat just fish and rice, no meat, no potatoes,\nno bread, no butter, no pie, no cake. But the rich people here in\nAfrica have _some_ nice things to eat. Mr. Smith bought a lot of\nnice oranges for about a cent apiece. They were real sweet and\njuicy and do not make my teeth sore, and we have some real nice\nbananas\u2014I wish you and mother had some of them\u2014and where we are to\nstop next, pine-apples grow.\n\nIt is not cold here as it is where you are. The sun is real hot\nand the trees are all covered with leaves and oranges, and bananas\nand pine-apples are growing on the trees and just getting ripe. I\nexpect to leave this ship to-morrow. The next day will be Sunday,\nand we shall spend that day in Sierra Leone. Then we are to ride in\na small boat that black men will make go with their oars, like that\nboat the boy took us to see the soldiers in last summer, when you\nwere just a little afraid it would tip over and spill us out into\nthe water. Don\u2019t you remember?\n\nSo in four days more we are to stop going, going, going on the\nwater, and live on the land in a house once more.\n\n                                     From your loving papa,\n                                                      T. N. C.\n\nP. S.\u2014We reached Sierra Leone Sunday morning, and found a little\nsteamer bound for Good Hope, to which we have been transferred. We\nwent ashore yesterday and attended church at the Wesleyan Mission,\nat which a native minister preached, and took lunch with Rev. Dr.\nGodman, who is in charge of the Wesleyan Missions. The boat is to\nleave at 12 to-day, and we plan to go ashore meanwhile.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR FEBRUARY, 1880.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $394.68.\n\n    Andover. Mrs. Eldridge Poor                               $2.00\n    Augusta. John Dorr                                        15.00\n    Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       151.18\n    Bethel. ESTATE of Mrs. Sarah J. Chapman, by A.\n      W. Valentine, Ex.                                       20.00\n    Blanchard. \u201cA Friend of Missions\u201d                          5.00\n    Brownville. Hon. A. H. Merrill                           100.00\n    Dennysville. Mrs. Samuel Eastman                           5.00\n    Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch.                                10.60\n    Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.00\n    Minot. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                          1.00\n    Monson. Rev. R. W. Emerson                                20.90\n    Orland. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         7.00\n    Orono. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                          5.00\n    Searsport. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             10.00\n    Winslow. Cong Ch. and Soc.                                20.00\n    Yarmouth. First Ch. and Soc.                              17.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $374.27.\n\n    Alstead. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         13.11\n    Amherst. W. D. L.                                          0.50\n    Auburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 7.35\n    Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            20.00\n    Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               11.80\n    Concord. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        1.00\n    Dunbarton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             11.01\n    East Pembroke. John Rand, deceased, by W.\n      Martin.                                                  2.00\n    Fisherville. J. C. Martin                                 10.00\n    Fitzwilliam. Dea. Rufus Phillips                           5.00\n    Gilmanton Iron Works. Cent Charitable Society\n      of Cong. Ch.                                             7.30\n    Keene. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $100; Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $63                                                    163.00\n    Langdon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.00\n    Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $36.11; Cong. Sab.\n      Sch., $10.                                              46.11\n    Lyndeborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           8.25\n    Marlborough. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C.\n      _for Talladega C._\n    New Boston. Presb. Ch. and Soc.                           11.10\n    Plymouth. Cong. Soc., $24.14; H. W. H. $1.                25.14\n    Rochester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             25.00\n    Salem. Mrs. G. D. K.                                       0.50\n    Troy. M. W. W.                                             1.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $207.84.\n\n    Berlin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                11.00\n    Coventry. M. C. Pearson                                    5.00\n    Craftsbury. Correction. ESTATE of Mrs. Deborah\n      W. Lewis in March number should read Mrs.\n      Deborah W. Loomis\n    East Hardwick. Cong. Sab. Sch. (adl.)                      8.00\n    Hardwick. \u2014\u2014 _for Ag\u2019l Dept., Talladega. C._               5.00\n    Hartford. Second Cong. Ch., $93.61.\n      Incorrectly ack. in Feb. number\n    Jamaica. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        5.00\n    Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $27.57; Centre\n      Ch., $11.06                                             38.63\n    North Cambridge. Miss M. K.                                1.00\n    North Ferrisburgh. ESTATE of Sylvia Dean, by\n      J. M. and W. L. Dean, Ex\u2019s                              15.00\n    Pittsfield. Dea. H. O. G.                                  0.50\n    Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    64.20\n    Salisbury. J. F.                                           1.00\n    Saxtons River. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          3.00\n    Shelburn. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      15.00\n    Strafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             15.00\n    West Danville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  0.51\n    Windsor. \u201cA thank offering for a departed\n      Mother\u201d by her daughter                                 20.00\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $2,615.07.\n\n    Ballard Vale. J. L.                                        1.00\n    Barre. Evan Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. JOHN S.\n      ROPER, L. M.                                            30.00\n    Boston. Mt. Vernon Ch., ad\u2019l $20; G. F.\n      Kendall, $5                                             25.00\n    Boxford. Miss Mary L. Sawyer, $2, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._ Mrs. J. K. Coles\u2019 S. S.\n      Class $1, for _Savannah, Ga._                            3.00\n    Brockton. Mrs. T. C. P. 50c.\u2014Bbl. of C.                    0.50\n    Brookline. Sophia B. White                                10.00\n    Buckland. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       5.00\n    Amesbury. Mrs A. L. Bayley                                20.00\n    Amherst. Wm. M. Graves $20\u2014Miss Coit and Mrs.\n      Field, Box of C., _for Talladega C._                    20.00\n    Andover. Rev. A. D. Smith, $2.15, _for Freight\n      on books, for Talladega C._;\u2014\u201cFriends,\u201d by\n      C. E. Towle, Box of C., _for Savannah,\n      Ga._\u2014Bbl. of C.                                          2.15\n    Ashfield. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., $14, by\n      Clarissa Hall, Treas.; B. Howes, $1.30                  15.30\n    Cambridgeport. Miss H. E. M., 50c; Mrs. H. L.\n      B., 50c.                                                 1.00\n    Campello. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              69.81\n    Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc.                        61.93\n    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         24.90\n    Danvers. Maple St. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        25.00\n    Dedham. Young Ladies\u2019 Mite Box, $7; Ladies\u2019\n      Soc., $3, _for Teacher, Selma, Ala._                    10.00\n    Dunstable. Cong. Ch.                                      20.00\n    Essex. \u201cHoward,\u201d _for Chapel, Wilmington, N.\n      C._                                                  1,000.00\n    Fall River. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      12.75\n    Granville Corners. Mrs. Clement Holcomb                    5.00\n    Groveland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              4.00\n    Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           7.00\n    Hanover. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        20.00\n    Hanson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 6.00\n    Harvard. Evan Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Indian\n      M._                                                      6.25\n    Holliston. Bible Christians of District No. 4,\n      by John Batcholder                                      25.00\n    Lawrence. Lawrence St. Ch., Bbl. of table\n      linen, and $5, _for Freight, for Savannah,\n      Ga._                                                     5.00\n    Lenox. A.J. Holman                                         5.00\n    Loudville. Mrs. W. S. R.                                   1.00\n    Marion. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.                                 5.00\n    Millbury. Second Cong. Ch., $25, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._; Hervey Goodell, $2; John\n      P. Lovell, $2; Mrs. H. C., $1: D. B., 50c.;\n      Tyler Waters, $5                                        35.50\n    Millford. \u2014\u2014 (of which, $2.50, _for Indians_,\n      and $1.50, _for Chinese M._)                             7.00\n    Monson. Miss Anna M. Bradford, $2; E. A. W.,\n      50c.                                                     2.50\n    New Bedford. \u201cA Lady Friend\u201d                              30.00\n    Newburyport. Philip M. Lunt, $25.50; Foster W.\n      Smith, $5; J. D., $1                                    31.50\n    Northborough. Mrs. A. E. D. F.                             0.50\n    Palmer. ESTATE of Mrs. Betsy Barton, by Wilson\n      Brainard and John C. Brainard, Ex\u2019s                    489.80\n    Pittsfield. S Frissell, M.D.                               1.50\n    Roxbury. S. W. B. and J. F. 50c. ea.                       1.00\n    Salem. N. C. Robbins, $5, _for rebuilding\n      barn, Talladega C._; South Cong. Ch., Bbl.\n      of C. _for Talladega, Ala._                              5.00\n    Saxonville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            30.92\n    Somerville. Franklin St. Ch. and Soc.                    112.86\n    South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          7.00\n    South Dartmouth. Mrs Mercy P. Staples                      2.00\n    South Deerfield. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                5.00\n    South Hadley. Mt. Hol. Sem., \u201cA Friend\u201d                    2.00\n    Sudbury. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        2.00\n    Taunton. Sewing Soc. of Winslow Ch., $25, _for\n      Student Aid_; also Box of C., and $2, _for\n      Freight, for Talladega, Ala._                           27.00\n    Tewksbury. Mrs. Geo. Lee, _for Savannah, Ga._              5.00\n    Warren. Cong. Ch.                                         40.00\n    Waquoit. Mrs. V. N. H.                                     1.00\n    Westborough. Evan Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $133;\u2014Mrs. Sarah Fisher, Box of C., and\n      $1.50, _for Freight, for McIntosh,\n      Ga._\u2014Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box of C.                    134.50\n    Westfield. Mrs. H. O. C.                                   1.00\n    Westford. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l)                  1.56\n    West Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $32.75; \u201cA\n      Friend\u201d $10                                             42.75\n    Williamstown. A. M.                                        0.50\n    Wilmington. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Woburn. Mrs. G. A. B.                                      0.50\n    Worcester. Union Ch. quar. coll., $47.59; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d $1; Mrs. M. P. J., 50c.; G. M. P.,\n      50c; Benj. C. Moore, a Melodeon                         49.59\n    Worcester Co. \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. MRS. MARY\n      W. HARRIMAN, L. M.                                      30.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Communion Service for\n      Midway Ch., Macon, Ga._                                 44.00\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $5.00.\n\n    Tiverton Four Corners. Amicable Cong. Soc.                 5.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $2,159.57.\n\n    Bethlehem. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             17.50\n    Bridgeport. Rev. Chas. Beecher, $1.50, _for\n      Freight_; J. B., $1                                      2.50\n    Bristol. Cong. Ch.                                        83.70\n    Buckingham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             2.52\n    Canton Centre. S. B. H.                                    1.00\n    Collinsville. Cong. Ch., ad\u2019l to const. MRS.\n      MELISSA LANE. L. M.                                      2.00\n    Cornwall Hollow. Mrs. H. S.                                1.00\n    Guilford. Daniel Hand, $100; First Cong. Ch.,\n      $20                                                    120.00\n    Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            9.45\n    Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford, $50; Cong. Ch.,\n      $10.04                                                  60.04\n    Hartford. South Cong. Ch., $150; Windsor Av.\n      Cong. Ch., Mrs. C. T. Hillyer. $30, to\n      const. MRS. DOTHA B. HILLYER, L. M.                    180.00\n    Litchfield. First Cong. Ch.                               27.70\n    Lyme. Grassy Hill Cong. Ch.                               16.00\n    Mansfield Centre. J. L. Hinckley                           2.00\n    Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._ and to const.\n      SAMUEL H. ARMSTEAD, L. M.                               30.00\n    New Britain. Miss. Julia A. Kelsey, $5, _for\n      Indian M._\u2014Mrs. W. H. S., 50c.                           5.50\n    New Haven. Alfred Walker, $5; Mrs. S. P. C.,\n      $1; Rev S. W. Barnum, books (val. $12)                   6.00\n    Newington. Laura. C. Kellogg                               3.00\n    New London. M. A. R. Rogers                                2.00\n    Norfolk. Cong. Ch.                                        50.00\n    Norwich. Second Cong. Ch., ($10 of which _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._)                              115.21\n    Norwich Town. First Cong. Ch.                             50.00\n    Old Lyme. E. M. P.                                         1.00\n    Pomfret. First Cong. Ch.                                  70.00\n    Prospect. Cong. Ch.                                       13.00\n    Roxbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               19.47\n    South Windsor. Second Cong. Ch., $25.84, and\n      Sab. Sch., $11.27                                       37.11\n    Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               9.75\n    Thompsonville. D. P.                                       1.00\n    Unionville. Cong. Ch.                                     55.53\n    Waterbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     491.59\n    Westbrook. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. WILLIAM\n      N. KIRTLAND, L. M.                                      30.00\n    Wilton. Rev. S. J. M. Merwin, _for Chinese M._           100.00\n    Winstead. E. E. Gilman                                    10.00\n    Winthrop. Miss C. P. and Mrs. M. A. J., $1 ea.             2.00\n    Woodbury. First Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                   10.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend,\u201d ($200 of which, _for Woman\u2019s\n      work for Woman_)                                       502.00\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $482.39.\n\n    Austerlitz. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Mrs. H. P.\n      Bake, $2; Sab. Sch. Concert, $1.46                       3.46\n    Bangor. Mrs. E. T. and Miss L. K., 50c. ea.                1.00\n    Brighton. E. C. A.                                         1.00\n    Brooklyn. Mrs. M. L. H., $1; Central Cong.\n      Sab. Sch., by George H. Shirley, Chairman of\n      Mis. Com., a second hand Organ                           1.00\n    Canandaigua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     60.00\n    East Hampton. Mrs. S. S.                                   1.00\n    Flushing. First Cong. Ch.                                 16.02\n    Gloversville. Cong. Ch., ($50 of which from\n      Mrs. U. M. Place)                                      112.65\n    Goshen. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         5.00\n    Jefferson. Mrs. Susannah Ruliffson                         4.00\n    Lima. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                           5.00\n    Lockport. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                       72.92\n    Middlesex. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Adams                      10.00\n    Moravia. Cong. Ch.                                        16.10\n    Mount Sinai. Cong. Ch.                                     7.32\n    New York. Z. Stiles Ely, $50: Gen. Clinton B.\n      Fisk, $30, to const. MISS IRENE E. GILBERT,\n      L. M.; Mrs. Elizabeth Merritt. $10; Mrs. E.\n      L. Congdon, $5; Miss J. A. V. A., 60c.; T.\n      R. W., Jr. 50c.                                         96.10\n    Oswego. Mrs. Martha Dodge                                  2.00\n    Penn Yan. F. O. Hamlin                                    25.00\n    Rochester. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 5.00\n    Rushford. W. W.                                            0.51\n    Saratoga Springs. Mrs. S. S. and Mrs. A. M.\n      W., $1 ea.                                               2.00\n    Spencerport. Alvin Webster                                 2.00\n    Volney. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                              8.25\n    Warsaw. Cong. Soc.                                        19.40\n    Watkins. Mrs. F. B.                                        0.66\n    West-Winfield. Henry Smith                                 5.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $127.27.\n\n    Bricksburgh. Rev. G. L.                                    1.00\n    Englewood. Rev. Geo. B. Cheever                           26.27\n    Morristown. Miss Ella M. Graves, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                       100.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $112.50.\n\n    Canton. H. Sheldon                                         5.00\n    Philadelphia. Mrs. James P. Dickerman, $100;\n      Rev. H. L. P., 50c.                                    100.50\n    Pittston. A. S. H.                                         1.00\n    Prentissvale. C. L. Allen ($5 of which, _for\n      Communion Service_)                                      6.00\n\n\n  OHIO, 314.03.\n\n    Alliance. Mrs. Miriam Thomas                               2.00\n    Austinburgh. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega, Ala._              4.00\n    Burg Hill. Mrs. H. B. and J. C. J.                         1.50\n    Cherry Fork. J. W.                                         1.00\n    Dayton. Mrs. Jane McGregor                                 5.00\n    Elyria. M. L. R.                                           1.00\n    Franklin. Miss F. G.                                       0.51\n    Granville. G. P. Bancroft                                  5.00\n    Gustavus. \u2014\u2014                                               1.00\n    Harmar. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           29.34\n    Harrison. Dr. John D. Bowles.                              5.00\n    Hartford. Mrs. E. and M. Brockway, $5; S. C.\n      Baker, $1.50; A. N. and Miss H. J., $1 ea.;\n      Mrs. R. H. P. and H. B. P., 50c. ea.                     9.50\n    Jersey. E. R., $1; Mrs. J. P., $1                          2.00\n    Kirtland. Mrs. E. B. W.                                    0.26\n    Madison. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $40; O. F.\n      L., $1, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._\u2014R. S.\n      Wilcox, $10; \u201cFriends,\u201d by Mrs. M. St. John,\n      $2, _for Teacher, Selma, Ala._                          53.00\n    Oberlin. Ladies\u2019 Soc. of Second Cong. Ch.,\n      $75, _for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._;\n      Second Cong. Ch., $24.11; J. B. C. $5.50               104.61\n    Sandusky. Individuals by Josiah Strong                     2.50\n    Saybrook. Dist. No. 3, _for Tougaloo U._                   5.00\n    Seville. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n    South Newbury. \u201cYoung Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.,\u201d $9,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._; Ladies of\n      Cong. Ch., Box of C., _for Talladega C._                 9.00\n    South Salem. Daniel S. Pricer, $2, Mrs. M. S.\n      $1; Miss M. M., $1                                       4.00\n    Springfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $17.81:\u2014\n      Ladies of H. M. Soc., $10, by Lottie R.\n      Carter, _for Tougaloo U._                               27.81\n    Strongville. Elijah Lyman                                 10.00\n    Tallmadge. Ladies, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo\n      U._, $2.05; Ladies, _for Freight_, $1.95                 4.00\n    Toledo. Mrs. M. A. Harrington                              5.00\n    Unionville. \u201cFriends.\u201d by Mrs. H. B. Fraser,\n      _for Teacher, Selma, Ala._                              10.00\n    Willoughby. Mrs. C. A. G.                                  1.00\n    Windham. W. A. P.                                          1.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $203.68.\n\n    Altona. Cong. Ch.                                          3.70\n    Aurora. Mrs. A. F. S.                                      0.51\n    Cambridge. Cong. Ch.                                       6.50\n    Danville. Mrs. A. M. Swan                                  5.00\n    Downers Grove. Cong. Ch., $6.45; J. W.\n      Bushnell, $5                                            11.45\n    Elgin. Cong. Ch.                                          42.69\n    Galesburg. ESTATE of Warren C. Willard, by\n      Prof. T. R. Willard                                     23.25\n    Kewanee. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Liberty Co., Ga._, by Mrs. C. C.\n      Cully                                                   57.00\n    Millington. Mrs. C. L. O. V., $1; Mrs. D. W.\n      J., $1                                                   2.00\n    New Windsor. Cong. Ch.                                     9.00\n    Orange. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n    Payson. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   20.00\n    Plymouth. Edward Whipple                                   5.00\n    Rockford. Gertie G. Page, _for Chinese M._                 1.05\n    Rosemond. Mrs. B. A. P.                                    0.50\n    Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell                                   10.00\n    Victoria. Cong. Ch.                                        4.00\n    Correction. $100 ack. in Dec. number, from\n      Bureau Assn. should read Wyanet and\n      Providence Cong. Ch\u2019s, $23; Buda, Ladies\u2019\n      Soc. of Cong. Ch., $20; Kewanee, Ladies of\n      Cong. Ch., $57\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $265.52.\n\n    Allegan. First Cong. Ch.                                  10.00\n    Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                  37.86\n    Blissfield. W. C.                                          0.50\n    Church\u2019s Corners. Cong. Sab. Sch., $12; A. W.\n      Douglass, $3; J. F. Douglass, $3; Cornelius\n      Clement, $2; 12 Individuals, $1 ea.; P. H.,\n      50c.                                                    32.50\n    Clinton. Mrs. S. R.                                        0.50\n    Cross Village. Mrs. A. C.                                  0.25\n    Detroit. Rev. C. C. Foote, $15; Individuals,\n      $3, by Mrs. N. A. E. Nutting                            18.00\n    Greenville. Mrs. E. P. C.                                  0.51\n    Hudson. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   10.00\n    Kalamazoo. First Cong. Ch., $83.33, and Sab.\n      Sch., $7.17, ($30 of which, to const. MRS.\n      CHESTER M. KINGSLEY, L. M.)                             90.50\n    Ludington. Cong. Ch.                                       9.00\n    Lowell. J. S.                                              0.50\n    Memphis. Cong. Ch.                                         7.00\n    Monroe. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Agl. Dept., Talladega\n      C._                                                      2.00\n    Northport. First Cong. Soc.                                4.80\n    Olivet. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            1.00\n    Parma. Mrs. M. B. Tanner                                   2.00\n    Romeo. Mrs. A. B. Maynard $10; Mrs. S. L.\n      Andrews, Miss T. S. Clark, Mrs. E. F.\n      Fairfield, $5 ea.; \u201cLittle Sunbeams,\u201d $10,\n      _for Lady Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._ and to\n      const. MISS HATTIE A. MILTON, L. M.                     35.00\n    Stockbridge. W. B. C.                                      1.00\n    Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe                                   2.00\n    Whitehall. B. H.                                           0.60\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $193.98.\n\n    Alderly. Mrs. E. Hubbard $3, Mrs. Annie Reid,\n      $2                                                       5.00\n    Appleton. J. Lanphear                                     10.00\n    Brodhead. First Cong. Ch.                                  5.25\n    Big Springs. Rev. D. A. C.                                 0.50\n    Evansville. Loretta C. Winston, deceased, by\n      N. Winston                                               1.50\n    Koshkonong. Gentlemen of Cong. Ch., by Mrs. A.\n      V. Mills                                                10.00\n    Madison. First Cong. Ch.                                  50.00\n    Mazo Manie. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       7.00\n    Milwaukee. Plymouth Ch., $32.17; Rev. H. D.\n      K., $1;\u2014\u201cFriends,\u201d Box and Bbl. of C., _for\n      New Orleans, La._                                       23.17\n    Milton. Cong. Ch.                                         20.00\n    Racine. First Cong. Ch., $14.05; Miss Mary\n      Johnson, $10; Mrs. Dr. J. T., $1; Mrs. A.\n      B., 51c.                                                25.56\n    Raymond. Rev. G. W. W.                                     1.00\n    River Falls. Samuel Wales, $19; Wm. A.\n      Newcomb, $6                                             25.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $151.58.\n\n    Almoral. Cong. Ch.                                         1.90\n    Bellevue. Ladies\u2019 Missionary Soc.                          2.00\n    Cherokee. Mrs. C. E. W.                                    0.50\n    Chester Center. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for\n      Talladega, Ala_\n    Decorah. G. C. Winship, _for Mendi M._                    10.00\n    Eldora. Cong. Ch.                                          7.00\n    Elk River. Cong. Ch.                                       3.00\n    Genoa Bluff. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch,\n      $7:\u2014Ladies of Cong. Ch., $3, _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           10.00\n    Green Mountain. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.                         1.15\n    Grinnell. Mrs. James Chaplin, $10: H. L.\n      Muscatt, $5, _for Talladega C._; Lonnie\n      Walker\u2019s S. S. Class, $3.22; F.P.B., $1,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         19.22\n    Keokuk. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Wilson                           5.00\n    Lyons. Cong. Ch., to const. MISS MYRA DAVIS,\n      L. M.                                                   35.00\n    Marshalltown. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.                           3.50\n    Monona. Cong. Ch.                                         11.00\n    Muscatine. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $15.28; Young\n      Ladies of Cong. Ch., Sewing Machine and\n      Cash, _for Freight_, $3.05; \u201cLady Friends,\u201d\n      Box of C., _for Talladega C._; H. Woodward,\n      Sab. Sch. Class, $6.50, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           24.83\n    Tabor. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5, _for Tougaloo U._; By\n      J. E. W., $1                                             6.00\n    Toledo. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.                                 1.00\n    Wittemberg. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                       10.48\n\n\n  KANSAS, $14.50.\n\n    Bavaria. Richard Porter, $1.50; A. M., $1                  2.50\n    Brookville. Mrs. E. E. S. and Mrs. T.J., $1 ea.            2.00\n    Manhattan. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                        10.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $34.23.\n\n    Litchfield. Mrs. S. B. C.                                  1.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Church                              16.23\n    Plainview. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.                             10.00\n    Saint Paul. Rev. R. H.                                     1.00\n    Waseca. \u201cC. and R.\u201d                                        6.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $46.66.\n\n    Ponca. Rev. G. H. S.                                       1.00\n    Red Willow. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    24.00\n    Weeping Water. Cong. Ch.                                  21.66\n\n\n  COLORADO, $0.51.\n\n    Colorado Springs. Miss A. R.                               0.51\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $110.00.\n\n    Oakland. S. Richards                                     100.00\n    Santa Cruz. Pliny Fay                                     10.00\n\n\n  VIRGINIA, $10.00.\n\n    Valley Grove. Peregrine Whitham                           10.00\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $406.00.\n\n    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition                          187.00\n    Nashville. Fisk University, Tuition                      219.00\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $119.13.\n\n    Fayetteville. E. C.                                        0.50\n    Raleigh. Washington Sch., Tuition, $25.50;\n      Sab. Sch., $2.88                                        28.38\n    Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition                          90.25\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $620.39.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $285.44, Rent,\n      $3:\u2014Atlanta U., Tuition, $128.60, Rent,\n      $15.25                                                 432.29\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, 56.70, Rent,\n      $1.50: Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., $3.40                    61.60\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $115.50, Rent,\n      $11                                                    126.50\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $349.57.\n\n    Montgomery. Public Fund                                  175.00\n    Talladega. Talladega College, Tuition.\n      $144.57; Rev. H. S. De Forest, $30. _for\n      Talladega C._, and to const. MRS. HELEN M.\n      BIRGE, L. M.                                           174.57\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $99.20.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $73.05, Rent,\n      $26.15.                                                 99.20\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $179.25.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight University, Tuition.               179.25\n\n\n  SANDWICH ISLANDS, $500.00.\n\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                            500.00\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                            $10,100.72\n    Total from Oct. 1st to Feb. 29th                     $68,923.91\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    New York, N. Y. Z. Stiles Ely                             50.00\n    Previously acknowledged in Jan. Receipts               1,217.00\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                             $1,267.00\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR SCHOOL BUILDING, ATHENS, ALA.\n\n    Litchfield, Mich. First Cong. Ch.                         13.28\n    Previously Acknowledged in Jan. Receipts                 419.00\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                               $432.28\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.\n\n    Waltham, Mass. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2 Bbl\u2019s of C.\n    Goshen, N. Y. \u201cA Friend,\u201d Bundle of C.\n    Jefferson, N. Y. Mrs. Susannah Ruliffson                   2.00\n    New Lebanon Center, N. Y. Ladies\u2019 Soc., Box of\n      C.\n    West Bloomfield, N. Y. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 35.00\n    West Alexander, Penn. \u2014\u2014                                   5.00\n    Mansfield, Ohio. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc. of First\n      Cong. Ch., by L. L. Patterson, Sec., Box of\n      C., Val. $68.95\n    Homer, Ill. Cong. Ch.                                      7.25\n    Wilton, Iowa. Dr. C. E. Witham and Friends                17.50\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                                 66.75\n    Previously acknowledged in Jan. Receipts                 180.50\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                               $247.25\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.\n\n    Leeds, Eng. Robert Arthington, conditional\n      pledge, \u00a33000\n    London, Eng. Collected by Rev. O. H. White             1,433.42\n    Previously Acknowledged in Dec. Receipts               1,615.34\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                             $3,048.76\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  Receipts for February                                 11,664.17\n  Total from Oct. 1st to Feb. 29th                     $73,919.20\n                                                       ==========\n\n                               H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,\n                                              56 Reade St., N. Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\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 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 to 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\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a\nbelief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a\nSaviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice\nof Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity\nof regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy\nobedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and\nthe retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the\nwicked, and salvation of the righteous.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\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., 13;\nKy., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14, La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6.\n_Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70.\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.; Savannah, Macon,\nAtlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis,\nTenn., 12. _Other Schools_, 24. Total 44.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014Among the Freedmen, 253;\namong the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total,\n296. STUDENTS\u2014In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course, 63;\nin other studies, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars taught by former\npupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. 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. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and\n_larger_ contributions from the churches\u2014the feeble as well as the\nstrong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for\nthe new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and\npious, for these churches.\n\n3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and\nmissionaries to Africa\u2014a pressing want.\n\nBefore sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.\noffice, as below:\n\n  NEW YORK  H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.\n  BOSTON    Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House.\n  CHICAGO   Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington Street.\n\n\nMAGAZINE.\n\nThis Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the\nMissionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen\nwho take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of\nSabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries;\nto Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does\nnot prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year\nnot less than five dollars.\n\nThose who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in\ntheir last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the\nfollowing\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\u201cI BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of \u2014\u2014 dollars in\ntrust, to pay the same in \u2014\u2014 days after my decease to the person\nwho, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the\n\u2018American Missionary Association\u2019 of New York City, to be applied,\nunder the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association,\nto its charitable uses and purposes.\u201d\n\nThe will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States\nthree are required\u2014in other States only two], who should write\nagainst their names, their places of residence [if in cities,\ntheir street and number]. The following form of attestation will\nanswer for every State in the Union: \u201cSigned, sealed, published\nand declared by the said [A. B.] as his last Will and Testament,\nin presence of us, who, at the request of the said A. 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Begin with the next number and the new\nyear. The price is only Fifty Cents per annum.\n\nThe Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the\npersons indicated on page 126.\n\nDonations and subscriptions should be sent to\n\n                     H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n                                      56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTO ADVERTISERS.\n\nSpecial attention is invited to the advertising department of the\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY. Among its regular readers are thousands of\nMinisters of the Gospel, Presidents, Professors and Teachers in\nColleges, Theological Seminaries and Schools; it is, therefore,\na specially valuable medium for advertising Books, Periodicals,\nNewspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of Learning, Church\nFurniture, Bells, Household Goods, &c.\n\nAdvertisers are requested to note the moderate price charged for\nspace in its columns, considering the extent and character of its\ncirculation.\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          THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT,\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 punctionation misprints have been corrected.\n\nOn Page 126, \u201cOthe\u201d changed to \u201cOther\u201d (Other Schools).","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 34, No. 04, April, 1880","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":22284}