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NO. 6.\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                            JUNE, 1880.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n    PARAGRAPHS                                                   161\n    SIX PREACHERS, ALL CALLED\u2014NEW INDUSTRIES AND SIGNIFICANT\n      FEATURES OF NEW LIFE IN THE SOUTH                          166\n    THE NEGRO, ON THE STATUS AND EXODUS OF THE NEGRO             167\n    CONDITIONS OF INDIAN CIVILIZATION\u2014AFRICAN NOTES              169\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                         170\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    A TOUR OF THE CONFERENCES                                    172\n    NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE                                    175\n    SOUTH-WESTERN CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION                     176\n    GEORGIA, MACON\u2014Revival                                       177\n    ALABAMA\u2014Notes from Selma                                     179\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    LETTER FROM PROF. T. N. CHASE                                180\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    POLITICS AND THE MISSION, ETC.                               182\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    LETTERS FROM INDIAN BOYS                                     184\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                       185\n\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                                   189\n\n\n  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS                                         190\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\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. C. C. PAINTER, 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                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n            VOL. XXXIV.       JUNE, 1880.         NO. 6\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAs we go to press, we are happy to announce the safe arrival of\nProf. Thomas N. Chase, from our Mendi Mission.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_That 20 per cent._ increase in our appropriations, voted at\nChicago, and voted also by the Executive Committee, has not as\nyet been furnished by our friends. We are compelled to urge it\nupon their attention that we are in danger of falling behind the\nappropriation, to our grief and the detriment of the work, unless\nthey come gallantly to the rescue.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Who Will do It?_\u2014One of our missionaries in North Carolina\nsuggests, and we cordially second the suggestion, that some of our\nfriends send us the means for distributing 1,000 copies of the\nMISSIONARY to as many prominent men, clergymen and others, through\nthe South. We are confident that a like sum of money could not be\nexpended in a way to tell more favorably upon our work after the\nmeans have been supplied to carry it on. Will not some generous\nfriend of the South send us the money?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Tougaloo\u2019s Plea._\u2014Through its workers, this Institution puts in a\nmost pathetic plea to the Executive Committee for an appropriation\nfor a new building. How they inquire, can 120 persons be seated in\na dining-room large enough for only 80? Or how can fifty girls be\nput into 16 small dormitories? The Executive Committee gives it up,\nand sends it along as too much of a 15-puzzle. The plea melts the\nhearts of us who have no money, so we make it to those who have,\nhoping some one will help to a solution of this problem.\n\nFully as difficult is that propounded by President Ware, of\nAtlanta: Sixty-two girls in rooms fitted for forty, and prospects\nthat the number cannot be kept down to that. It could be easily\nincreased to one hundred next year. The $10,000, given from the\nGraves estate for a building, must be supplemented by $5,000 to\nmake it adequate to pressing need. Who gives the answer to _this_?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_The Christian Recorder_, Philadelphia, (organ of the A. M. E.\nChurch,) in noticing the \u201cFool\u2019s Errand,\u201d refers to the fact that\nthe Fool found himself limited to the society of the teachers of\nthe colored schools and a few Northern families, and asks: \u201cWhy\nso? Were there no colored people there? The South ostracised him\nbecause of his _opinions_, while _he_ ostracised the negroes\nbecause of their _color_.\u201d Of the two, the _Recorder_ believes the\nSouth the more rational and consistent.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Laws of Heredity._\u2014One of the\u2014not fathers, but great-grandfathers,\nin Israel, writes a pleasant note from Jewett City, Conn., to\nsay how much pleasure he takes in reading the \u201cReceipt pages\u201d\nof the MISSIONARY, finding them the most interesting of the\nwhole. He notes as an especially pleasant feature, the increasing\nnumber of \u201cfriends,\u201d who send, as in the last number, from $2.00\nto $1,747.50. He mentions with great satisfaction that he has\nlearned to look regularly in the May number for a contribution\nfrom the grandson of an old French Huguenot, who fifty years ago\nhobbled regularly to the parsonage on the morning after missionary\nmeetings, and asked him (the writer) to get 25 cents out of his\npurse for the work, which always left the purse empty. The grandson\nnow sends $20. Of him, he says, with Leigh Hunt, \u201cMay his tribe\nincrease.\u201d We shall be glad if investigation on the part of some\nmissionary Darwin shall establish the fact that such tendencies are\ntransmitted with accumulating force from father to son.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIn Southwest Texas, at a Freedman\u2019s country home, our\nSuperintendent found a Bible which had this inscription, printed\nupon a fly-leaf at the front:\n\n\u201cOne of 10,000 Bibles presented to the Freedmen of America by\nthe Divinity Students\u2019 Missionary Society, connected with the\nUnited Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Printed at the University\nPress, Oxford, for the National Bible Society of Scotland.\u201d So\ndoes religious beneficence percolate the most distant regions.\nOur colored fellow-citizens have been made the recipients of an\nimmense amount of material and spiritual sympathy on the part of\nBritish Christians. These Divinity Students will be glad to know\nthat this Bible, sent by their Society some ten years ago, is used\nfor morning and evening family worship in an interesting household,\nwhich possesses its own farm, and which furnished hospitality to\nour representative.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA dozen years ago, one of our lady teachers at a Southern\ncapital had a shower of stones driven through the window of her\nschool-room. At another time, some \u201cfellows of the baser sort\u201d\nbrought in some drunken Mexicans to annoy the school. A guard of\nsoldiers was placed at the school-house, and she was escorted to\nand from the school by the same. Now she has so many friends among\nthe Southern white people that she says she doesn\u2019t like to hear\nthem spoken against. She has not time to reciprocate their social\nattentions. The school has proven a great success. She has her\nfifty teachers out at work and she is as enthusiastic as ever.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Rev. Geo. E. Hill_, of Marion, Ala., mentions a few facts in a\nprivate note which doubtless he deemed too commonplace for formal\ncommunication to the MISSIONARY, yet significant and hopeful. Not\nevery pastor, even in favored New England, is so fortunate in his\nyoung people.\n\nOn a recent Sabbath, one of his boys, who is to graduate this\nsummer from Talladega, preached for him, and proved himself a good\nspeaker, possessed of a clear, logical mind, with the promise of\nbeing a useful man. On the next day, he and another member of his\nchurch, also a Talladega student, spoke at the meeting of the Young\nMen\u2019s Christian Association extemporaneously, but with great beauty\nand force. His missionary meetings are conducted in a way that\nmight be profitably followed by such of our churches as have like\nhelpers. The subject of the last one was \u201cAfrica,\u201d illustrated by\na large map. Miss M., a graduate of Fisk University, read a paper\non the Mendi Mission, \u201cwhich would have done honor to any of our\nNorthern churches.\u201d She is possessed of a true missionary spirit\nand Bro. Hill hopes she will find her way into the mission field,\nnotwithstanding a misfortune which has partially disabled her.\n\nHe has also a Young People\u2019s Club for intellectual culture. At\nits last meeting, the programme included: A sketch of Gen. Grant;\na paper on Mormonism; a sketch of Eli Whitney; a history of\nUmbrellas; a reading, recitations, etc.\n\nHe seems to have a church of \u201cHoly Endeavor,\u201d with the athletics\nand pastimes left out.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_A Confederate and a Man._\u2014He was a colonel. He is the editor of a\nleading journal of the South. Some years since, an educated mulatto\nwoman from Ohio went South to secure a position as a teacher. She\nwas thrust into the smoking-car to endure the commingled filth and\nribaldry of the place.\n\nAfter securing her position, it was necessary to return home\nbefore entering upon her duties. She sought the intervention of\nthe colonel. He went to the local superintendent, who sent orders\nalong the line over three roads which gave her admission to the\nladies\u2019 car, both on her way home and on her return. She proved a\nsplendid teacher and noble woman, and the colonel is proud to have\nchampioned her cause, when to do so was unpopular.\n\nThe same colonel is now wielding a great influence in the South in\nfavor of negro education, and recently, both in his paper and at a\npublic meeting, has expressed thanks to the A. M. A. for work it\nhas been doing in the South.\n\nThe influences multiply and reach out in every direction, which are\ndestined soon to bring a total and wholesome change of sentiment,\nNorth and South.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe have received the proceedings of the Colored Men\u2019s State\nImmigration Convention, held in Dallas, Texas, the latter part\nof February. An association was formed whose object is to locate\ncolonies of colored people on Government lands in that State. Mr.\nS. H. Smothers, editor of the _Baptist Journal_, of Dallas, said\nin his address, as explanatory of the Exodus movement among his\npeople, what seems to have escaped the attention of the Senate\nExodus Committee, that the negro may act from the same motives that\ninfluence white men. His address is full of good common sense, as\nthe following may show:\n\n\u201cOnly a few weeks ago, in a conversation with a colored immigrant\nfrom Georgia, I asked him why he left that State and came to Texas.\nHe replied that a great many of his white neighbors were moving to\nTexas, and he thought that whatever was good for them would be good\nfor him.\n\n\u201cMuch has been said in regard to the wrongs and oppressions of\nwhich our people complain. While, doubtless, there is some ground\nfor their complaint, their hardships, in my opinion, are more\nthe result of their illiterate condition than all things else.\nIf a class of white laborers were as illiterate as our people,\nthey would be equally oppressed as are the Irish tenants to-day.\nCapitalists look out for their own interest, and will, if they can,\noppress one man, be his color what it may, as soon as another. We\nshould remember that knowledge is power and ignorance is weakness.\nThe protection which we most need is the power which education and\nproperty give. For my own part, all I ask of any man is an equal\nchance, and then if he can outstrip me in the race of life, let him\ndo it.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Lovedale Missionary Institute_, South Africa, is said to be the\nbusiest industrial college in the world. During the session which\nclosed with 1879, there were in all 393 pupils of both sexes, many\nof them boarders, who paid in fees \u00a31,006, beside \u00a3510 still due.\nLivingstonia and Blantyre sent 6 pupils; 19 came from Natal; 11\nfrom the country of the Barolongs. The carpenter had 30 apprentices\nand journeymen under him; the wagon-maker 8; the blacksmith 5; the\nprinter 4; the bookbinder 2. On the farm were raised 1,054 bags of\ncorn, beans, potatoes and wheat.\n\nTwenty-one students, of whom eleven were Kaffir\ncertificated-schoolmasters, were under theological instruction. Dr.\nStewart thinks the home churches will hardly continue the present\nnumber of missionaries beyond the lifetime of those now in the\nfield, and that the work will be done by a native ministry.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA \u201cLivingstonia Central African Company,\u201d for promoting legitimate\ntraffic among the natives, has been organized by a society of\ngentlemen interested in the civilization of the \u201cDark Continent\u201d\nand in the development of its resources. Direct communication is\nto be opened with Central Africa, and a road has already been\nconstructed a distance of sixty miles around the cataracts of the\nShir\u00e9, which, connecting with a line of steamers, will constitute\na line of 800 miles from the coast. Two Christian gentlemen of\nEdinburgh, Messrs. John and Frederick Moir, are at the head of\nthe company. It is to be no less a missionary than a commercial\nenterprise, and there is every reason for believing that in both\nrespects it will prove a success. The natives are becoming fully\nawake to the advantages of the extensive and solid business\nfacilities possessed by the company, whose future will be watched\nwith great interest.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe _West African Reporter_, of Sierra Leone, in announcing changes\nin the officers and probably in the location of the Liberia\nCollege, (Dr. Blyden having been appointed President; and the\ntrustees, leave being given by the legislature, having voted to\nco-operate with the American Board in a plan to remove the college\nfurther into the interior,) expresses itself strongly in regard to\nthe injury done to natives who have been sent to Europe to receive\ntheir education. It sums the result thus:\n\n\u201cWe find our children, as a result of their foreign culture\u2014we do\nnot say _in spite_ of their foreign culture\u2014but as a _result_ of\ntheir foreign culture\u2014aimless and purposeless for the race\u2014crammed\nwith European formulas of thought and expression, so as to astonish\ntheir bewildered relatives. Their friends wonder at the words of\ntheir mouth. But they wonder at other things besides their words.\nThey are the Polyphemus of civilization\u2014huge, but sightless\u2014_cui\nlumen ademptum_.\u201d\n\nTo some extent the same holds true of negroes from the South,\neducated in the North for work in their old homes.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Onondaga and Oneida Indians._\u2014There are in the State of New York\neight Indian reservations, aggregating 86,336 acres of land, a\nlittle less than 18 acres to each of the 5,093 Indians who occupy\nthem. These lands are held by tribal and not individual titles. A\nfew of these Indians have become thrifty farmers, but the most of\nthem are idle and poor; probably one-half are still pagans. A bill\nhas been introduced into the Legislature to abolish, with consent\nof the Indians, the treaty of 1788, and distribute these lands\nin severalty to these people. This would end the fatal communal\nsystem, which has proved in this, as it must in all cases, so\ndeadly to all prosperity. Each Indian would thus become, under the\nlaws of the State, a land-owner, and amenable to the laws on the\nsame footing as other citizens.\n\nUnder the present tribal system, the father has nothing but his\ntomahawk and scalping knife to leave to his children, and transmits\nonly a disposition to use them. Give him the right to acquire a\ntitle to something else, and he will doubtless acquire and bequeath\nit.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n    There is a poor blind Samson in this land,\n      Shorn of his strength and hound in bands of steel,\n    Who may in some grim revel, raise his hand,\n      And shake the pillars of this commonweal,\n    Till the vast temple of our liberties\n      A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies.\n\nThat same \u201cblind Samson\u201d is in the land to-day. It is the Negro,\nuneducated, immoral, with a ballot in his hand. It is the white\nman, uneducated, immoral, with a ballot in his hand. For it makes\nno difference. The harm lies back of the color. The consequences of\nignorant suffrage, by whomsoever exercised, can be only detrimental\nto the peace and welfare of the State. Free institutions can be\nbuilt up only on the basis of intelligence and integrity. Without\nintelligence and integrity, the best cannot long survive. If there\nbe large numbers on whom this right has been conferred, but who are\ndensely ignorant, especially if these large numbers are grouped in\na single section, like these millions of negroes and poor whites\nin the South, it is an official notice served on the nation that\nno time is to be lost in imparting the mental and moral training\nrequisite for the right discharge of these sacred functions of\nvoting. Men are not left to settle this question of helping with\nschools and churches, merely on the ground of humanity or Christian\nduty. Their interest is challenged, and their very selfishness is\nunder contribution. We do not put matches in children\u2019s hands, and\nthen leave them to play about hay-mows. If we give them matches\nwe train them in the use of them. With an instrument in his\nhands so potent as the ballot, and with the possibility of using\nthe leverage of it in contingencies easy to be foreseen for the\noverturning of the nation, it takes but half an eye to see that\nthe man who wields it ought to have an instructed mind and an\ninstructed conscience, and the State is not secure until he does.\n\n                                        \u2014[DR. NOBLE _in Advance_.\n\n\nSIX PREACHERS, ALL OF THEM CALLED.\n\n[The following letter reveals the condition of _one_ out of many\nneighborhoods scattered all over the South, densely populated\nwith negroes, neglected by the whites, excepting as the agent or\noverseer of the plantation looks after the owner\u2019s interests as\nconnected with the labor of the people. No schools, no churches,\nexcepting such as are ministered to by preachers as ignorant and,\nin many cases, as licentious as the people themselves. Just think\nof it! The visit of this Sunday-school agent the first visit of\na white Christian to the hundred families; their religious and\nother culture such as those six preachers could give! And this\nnot in Central Africa, but in the very heart of the southwest\nportion of our own land! These people citizens of our republic, and\nvoters!\u2014ED. MISS.]\n\nA missionary of the American Sunday-School Union in the Southwest\nwrites:\n\n\u201cI recently organized a Sunday-school for the colored people at\nHoman Station, on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern R. R.,\nin Miller County, between Texarkana and the Red River, where is\na large cotton plantation, and two others are near, having in\nall more than one hundred families. Among them is one Baptist\nchurch, and six preachers, every one \u2018called!\u2019 Only two of them\ncan read, and the pastor or \u2018head-preacher\u2019 is blind; and so are\nall, in spiritual things, preachers and people. After delivering\nan address, I found that only seven in the audience could read.\nIn all, fifty adults and children joined the Sunday-school and\npromised to learn to read. I furnished them with primers, Bibles,\nTestaments, etc., which seemed to please the plantation agent or\noverseer as well as the people.\n\n\u201cAfter the school was organized, the blind preacher gave a sermon\nfrom Rev. xxii. 1, 2, another preacher doing the reading. I shall\nnot attempt to characterize the sermon, singing and responses. When\nwill white Christians, who know the way of life, surrender their\nprejudices and teach these poor, benighted people the truths of the\nGospel? My visit was the first made by a white Christian worker to\nthis place, and will be remembered.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNEW INDUSTRIES AND SIGNIFICANT FEATURES OF A NEW LIFE IN THE SOUTH.\n\nIt is a good indication of the movement of the South to manufacture\nits own staples, that since 1866 it has set in motion 600,000\nspindles, of which Georgia has 213,157, a third of them being in\nColumbus, and that the cotton mills at Augusta, Ga., alone turned\nout $4,000,000 worth of manufactured products last year, paid ten\nto twelve per cent. dividends, and carried a handsome surplus to\nthe sinking-fund accounts.\n\nThe president of the large mills at Nashville, Tenn., assured us\nthat his mills in 1878\u20139 had earned fifteen per cent. dividends.\nOne of our wealthiest manufacturers of New England, who has\nrecently been to Eastern Tennessee, where he has an interest in a\nnew mill, says if twenty years younger, he would certainly go South\nand invest largely in manufacturing. Everything is favorable for\nsuch enterprise.\n\nThis is in striking contrast with the time when the papers, voicing\nthe sentiment of Virginia, compelled the founders of Lowell, Mass.,\nto abandon their purpose of building their mills in Richmond,\nbecause such industries were in deadly hostility to Southern\ninstitutions.\n\nAnother significant, but almost unnoted feature of the new South,\n(for the old _is_ passing away more rapidly than is generally\nbelieved,) is the increasing favor with which the town system, but\nmore especially the common-school system, is regarded by the people.\n\nUnder the old r\u00e9gime both were unknown. Virginia (and we believe\nshe was in harmony in this with all the other slave States)\npauperized the pupil who received aid, by making the overseer of\nthe poor the disburser of such funds as were appropriated by the\n_County Court_ for educational purposes.\n\nThe business, which in New England is transacted by the citizens\nof a town, assembled in town meeting, duly warned, and notified of\nthe business that could be brought before it, was, in the South,\ntransacted by the _County Court_ for a whole county. Surprise is\noften expressed that the people of the South can be led, in almost\nsolid masses, to the polls, to vote for men and measures which\nthose who know the private sentiments of the people are sure they\ndo not approve.\n\nBut conceive of New England as having never sent her children to\na _common_ school; as having never gathered in town meeting; as\nhaving never known even a Congregational Church meeting, and,\nat the same time, as having free thought on all questions of\npublic policy overshadowed, fettered and ruthlessly throttled\nby an interest which enthroned itself as supreme in commercial,\npolitical and social life, before which good society did homage,\nand politicians sacrificed, and divines worshipped, without whose\napproval nothing was right, and without whose protection nothing\nwas safe. Conceive what, under such circumstances, New England\nwould have been, and then cease to wonder that the pro-slavery\ndisunionist was not crushed, and that the Bourbon politician is not\nburied under the _new sentiment_ which lives in the South to-day.\n\nBut it is manifest to anyone who knew the South under the old state\nof things, and who has had opportunity of seeing it to-day, that\nthese two agencies which have made New England what she is, but\nwere unknown to the South\u2014which were thrust upon her as a part\nof the reconstructive machinery, against her sullen but helpless\nprotest, and were hated accordingly\u2014are coming more and more into\nfavor with the people.\n\nIt is noteworthy and significant that the Legislature of Tennessee,\nlast year, in all its frantic, unwise, and dishonest efforts to\nreduce expenses, did not reduce her school appropriations. He must\nbe a blind observer and a dull reasoner who does not see that this\nis most significant as showing that old things are passing away,\nand all things are becoming new in a regenerated South.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE NEGRO, ON THE STATUS AND EXODUS OF THE NEGRO.\n\nIt is significant that the leading article in the current number of\nthe _South Atlantic_, the _\u00e9lite_ literary magazine of the South,\nis by a colored man. His topic is, \u201cThe Status of the Negro, and\nthe Exodus.\u201d It is able and fair in its treatment of the subject.\nThe editor disclaims responsibility for its statements, and\nslightly apologizes for its publication; would have been glad, had\nit not seemed unfair to the writer, to modify a few paragraphs; but\nhas given a negro full leave to tell his white readers just what he\nthinks of negro status and exodus. This fact is one which should\nnot be forgotten.\n\nOn the other hand, it would be well for us to hear just what an\nintelligent negro has to say on this topic. The writer, Rev. D. J.\nSanders, indicates the difficulties in the way of his people\u2019s\nprogress; obstacles thrown in the way both by his friends and\nhis enemies; asserts that because of what _he is_, the negro has\nmade commendable progress in spite of these hindrances, aided by\nmissionary preachers and teachers who paid but little attention to,\nand took no part in, the political events which were transpiring\nabout them. Evidently, in his estimation, the improved condition of\nhis people has not been due to political action, but to schools and\nmoral influences.\n\nHe asserts that the Exodus has not been brought about by political\ncauses, though a certain class of politicians have done something\nto spread the movement; nor is it due to the fact that educational\nor religious privileges have been withheld, for, strictly, it\ncannot be asserted that such has been the case. Persons who were\npronounced in their opposition to negro schools are, when this\nmovement begins, laboring side by side with those who have devoted\nthemselves to negro education. Whatever of politics, or education,\nor religion may enter into the movement is merely incidental.\n\nPolitical abuse there has been, but the Exodus movement began after\nthis had for the most part ceased, and has raged most where this\nabuse has been least known, as near the home of the writer, in\nNorth Carolina.\n\nThere have been, and are now in some States, unjust laws regulating\nlabor and wages. The script system, which permits the employer to\npay the laborer in script redeemable at his store, has been known,\nand is ruinously unjust to the laborer, but in the two States\nwhere this movement has been greatest, regulative legislation has\nbeen in the one exactly the reverse of what it is in the other. In\nMississippi the landlord must fulfil his engagements before he can\nforce his tenant to quit. In North Carolina the tenant must fulfil\nhis before he can leave.\n\nFundamentally, it is the impoverished condition of the people,\nconjoined with restlessness, and supplemented by idle curiosity,\nmaking change easy and desirable, which has exposed these poor\npeople to the designs of unscrupulous sharpers and demagogues. They\nhave inherited poverty, ignorance, improvidence, to say nothing\nof positive vices. They have been hindered by positive efforts to\nkeep them down. They have been discouraged by the fact that success\nwould give them no social or political advantage, and so they\nhave either refused to labor, or have squandered in pic-nics and\ncake-walks, for tobacco and whiskey, it is estimated, about eighty\nmillions of dollars annually.\n\nThere have been, so far, about 28,000 of these _exodusters_ who\nhave paid an average of about $16.65 to the railroad companies\nfor transportation. Out of this the companies have paid to the\nunscrupulous agents who promote the movement, one dollar for full,\nand fifty cents for half fares.\n\nThe roads have received about $500,000 from these people, and\nhope for at least half as much more from a return movement. The\nemigrants have received in charity about seven cents each, as an\noffset to the $16.65 which they have paid for transportation alone.\nWe know not what report the Senate Exodus Committee will make, but\nare confident that it will come no nearer the truth in regard to\nthis movement than has the writer of this article. So long as the\nnegro is thus ignorant he will be helpless against the oppressor,\nwhether he be the old master or the pretended new friend. When we\nknow the possibilities yet undeveloped in the negro, and give full\nscope to them, we shall know also what an element of wealth and\nstrength here is in what is now known as an incubus on prosperity\nand a menace to our national life.\n\n\nCONDITIONS OF INDIAN CIVILIZATION.\n\nBefore the Indian can become civilized, the conditions of\ncivilization must exist. For him, at present, these are scarcely\npossible. No mere tribe can attain to a civilized state, yet the\ntribal relation is fostered and perpetuated by our policy. Such\nagencies of a civilized life as civil courts, town meetings, common\nschools, railroads, telegraphs, etc., these are simply impossible\nso long as tribes of men are forced or permitted to wander over\nvast territories to which they have no other title than that of\ntribal occupancy. The prime condition of a home is an exclusive\ntitle to the land upon which it stands and from which its support\ncan be drawn. Without a home, a high civilization is impossible,\nbut our policy has been to discourage, and too often render\nimpossible, the creation of a home by the Indian.\n\nHe is the ward of the nation\u2014a ward who has never been taken to\nthe maternal bosom as a child, who is not permitted to reach his\nmajority, or to care for himself, who is cheated by his guardian,\nand unfitted by the whole course of his education for the duties\nand responsibilities of manhood. There has been no false principle\nof politics but has been applied to his regulation. There has been\nno species of wrong, or injustice, or folly, which has not been\npracticed upon him, and regarded by him as the exponent of our\nChristian civilization.\n\nIt is time this foolish and wicked treatment should cease; time\nthat we showed something like an honest desire to do justly by him,\neven though incapable of wise statesmanship. The principles which\nhave lifted up savage tribes and made of them civilized nations are\nhistoric, and might be known to, and their application attempted\nby, the Government. Our Congressmen should be compelled to hear\nother demands than those made by reckless adventurers who find the\nIndian occupying lands he would possess.\n\nJudging from all past experience we have every reason to believe\nthat, under secure conditions of life and property, these tribes\nwould settle down and become worthy and excellent citizens. The\nprotection of the Indian must be individual and not tribal; it\nmust be found in courts which administer impartial justice, not in\nlonger-ranged rifles and fleeter ponies. In short he must have the\nopportunities and defences of manhood, and thus be prepared for the\nresponsibilities and duties of citizenship.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAFRICAN NOTES.\n\n\u2014The Mission church at Old Calabar, Western Africa, where the Rev.\nE. P. Smith was buried, is spontaneously aiming at self-support.\n\n\u2014A few French Protestant missionaries from South Africa, have\npenetrated the great Barotse Valley, North of the Zambesi, with a\nview to establishing a mission in this unevangelized region. M.\nCoillard, the leader, is now in Europe, endeavoring to awaken an\ninterest in the new enterprise.\n\n\u2014At the new San Salvador Congo Mission, excellent work has been\ndone during its first six months of labor. A school has been opened\nand the scholars have made good progress. One hundred and fifty\non the average have attended preaching services; about a thousand\nwords of a hitherto unwritten language have been collated, and the\nmissionaries thank God and take courage.\n\n\u2014Mr. Adam McCall, a converted engineer, with seven years\u2019\nexperience in African life, has gone out from the East London\nMission Institute, in charge of an expedition, planned to reach\nStanley Pool this summer. Here he proposes to establish a\ngood, strong industrial station, to which the natives from the\nsurrounding country may be attracted, and where they may gather\nround a centre of civilizing and Christianizing influence.\n\n\u2014The mission of the United Presbyterians in Egypt has been signally\nblessed. They have thirty-five stations, nearly one thousand\ncommunicants, and over twelve hundred pupils in their schools,\nand have received, in all, assistance equal in value to $120,000.\n$40,000 of this was from the late Viceroy, and $80,000 from His\nExcellency Maharajah Dhuleep Singh.\n\n\u2014According to Mr. Stanley\u2019s report, the population in the upper\nCongo region is very dense. The towns in some places are two\nmiles long, with one or more broad streets between rows of neat\nwell-built houses, superior to anything in East Africa. Mr. Stanley\nis constructing a good road, ten feet wide, on the lower Congo,\npast the rapids and cataracts. Relief stations are to be built at\nintervals for the benefit of merchants, missionaries and explorers,\naccording to the original plan of the King of the Belgians.\n\n\u2014Coal is said to exist in abundance in the vicinity of St. Paul\nriver, Liberia, West Africa, and a survey for a railroad has\nrecently been, made on the St. Paul river.\n\n\u2014\u201cThe conditions of health in the Gaboon, West Africa,\u201d says\nRev. S. H. Murphy, a Presbyterian missionary, \u201care good living,\ngodliness, cleanliness, tranquillity, patience, and quinine.\u201d\n\n\u2014A Trans-Sahara Railway from Algeria to Soudan, across the Desert\nto Timbuctoo on the Niger, and another line from Senegal to the\nNiger, are proposed by the French. The necessary explorations\nfor the first of these schemes are being made by Duponchel, a\ncelebrated engineer, and for the second by Soleillet, another\ncelebrated engineer and explorer.\n\n\u2014The Dutch Church in South Africa began on January 2d the\npublication of their first weekly religious paper, in the Dutch\nlanguage, called \u201c_De Christen: Weekblad voor Kerk en Maat\nschappij_;\u201d (_or the Christian; a Weekly for the Church and\nSociety_.) It is well gotten up, and is indeed quite an attractive\nsheet.\n\nThere are several large and enterprising secular sheets published\nat Cape Town.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nHAMPTON, VA.\u2014\u201cI am glad to tell you that two of your Indian boys,\nMurie and Hustice, are to unite with our church on next Sunday.\u201d\n\nRALEIGH, N. C.\u2014The spiritual condition of the church is still very\nencouraging. Fifteen persons entered into covenant last Sunday,\nwhich made it a day of rejoicing. Six others have been voted into\nthe church, and will enter into covenant at the next communion.\n\nWILMINGTON, N. C.\u2014A pleasing incident occurred at our communion\nseason last Sabbath. Four generations in one family were\nrepresented, from the aged great-grandmother to the infant who\nwas presented for baptism by its grandmother, a close-communion\nBaptist; her impenitent son, the father, and the young mother, who\nis a member of our church, standing by her side. The grandmother\nafterward communed with us.\n\nCHARLESTON, S. C.\u2014Mr. Cutler writes: \u201cYesterday was a grand day for\nus. The church renewed its covenant. About 100 were present. Some\n30 or 40 others sent word that they wished to do so. We are now in\na condition to go forward. I trust the renewal was made sincerely.\u201d\n\nAUGUSTA, GA.\u2014\u201cAt one place where I called, an old lady had the care\nof several grandchildren. One evening she said, \u2018I don\u2019t know what\nI shall do to-morrow, for I\u2019ve only one nickel left.\u2019 Then, one\nof the grandchildren replied, \u2018Grandma, don\u2019t you know you always\nsay, \u201cthe Lord will provide\u201d? Don\u2019t you worry; it will be here in\nthe morning.\u2019 And sure enough she went over to the depot the next\nmorning, and two ladies asked her to wait on them, and gave her\nfifty cents, and another said, \u2018Here, auntie, take this basket and\nempty it for me,\u2019 and there was provision enough to last all day\nand part of the next. \u2018Children, you just trust the Lord,\u2019 is a\nremark she often makes.\u201d\n\nWOODVILLE, GA.\u2014\u201cOur revival is still going on. God is with us.\nBrother Markham preached here last Sunday, and four persons were\nadmitted to membership.\u201d\n\nMILLEDGEVILLE, GA.\u2014A society for little children has recently been\nformed in this town, known as the \u201cRising Youths\u2019 Society.\u201d It\npromises well. The Sunday-school is still flourishing.\n\nMCINTOSH, GA.\u2014The church work is growing. Five have been added to\nthe church since last July, and a number are to unite at the May\ncommunion.\n\nMILLER\u2019S STATION, GA.\u2014From Miss Douglass: \u201cYou see by the date\nthat I am once more out of Savannah. It was hard to get away, for\nthere were many who were inquiring, and needed to be sought out and\nled to the Saviour. I came out to fill an appointment for a Bible\nreading here last night. There were only thirteen present, as it\nwas rainy. One of these was an old gray-headed man, who suffers\nmuch from rheumatism. He walked nearly two miles to get here, yet\nexpressed himself as \u2018very much satisfied\u2019 with the pay he received\nfor his walk.\u201d\n\nMCINTOSH, GA.\u2014Rev. A. J. Headen writes: \u201cI have a great deal of\nwalking to do because I have no horse, and I am not able to go as\nmuch as I might if I had one. Please see if you can help me to\nsecure one through some friend. I give you my word it would add a\nhundred per cent. here to our work if a horse could be put in the\nfield. Some days I walk from eight to nine miles to see the people\nand to attend to church work.\u201d\n\nMACON, GA.\u2014Rev. S. E. Lathrop writes: \u201cWhen Brother Rogers was\nhere he told us we ought to \u2018pray for a missionary horse.\u2019 Whether\nthat is the best way to get one or not, I am not sure, but I do\nwish we had one. When I see a serviceable horse, I sometimes feel\nlike breaking the tenth commandment, and saying, as the disciples\nsaid to a certain colt\u2019s owner, \u2018The Master hath need of him.\u2019\nWe feel the need of some kind of locomotive power, as the hot\nweather of spring has begun. Our long walks under the burning sun,\ntake the starch out of our linen, to say nothing of the lassitude\nand fatigue of body. There are no street cars now running in\nMacon; they are bankrupt, defunct and buried (_i. e._ the tracks)\nunder sand and gravel. Some of our members live two miles in one\ndirection and some three miles in another. The whole congregation\nare scattered far and wide, hence they are somewhat irregular, and\nthe labor of visitation is much increased. If we had a horse we\ncould accomplish much more, besides saving something on draymen\u2019s\nbills, etc., etc. All our workers _need_ the recreation of riding\nfor the sake of health, and we can\u2019t afford to hire hacks. Now I\ndon\u2019t know why I wrote this, except that I do feel like \u2018praying\nfor a missionary horse.\u2019 Join your prayers with ours.\u201d\n\nTALLADEGA, ALA.\u2014The theological students at Talladega College have\njust been favored with a course of lectures on Eschatology by Rev.\nH. S. De Forest, President of the College. The students manifested\na lively interest in these lectures, and in the study of the\nintricate and somewhat obscure field of thought traversed by them.\nThe lecturer having positive views, combined with much classic and\ntheologic learning on the themes discussed, and possessing a warm,\nChristian heart, did not fail to make a deep impression on all who\nheard him.\n\nEight young men will be graduated from the Theological Department\nof the College this year, all of whom will enter the Congregational\nministry in the South. They are now warmly welcomed to the pulpits\nof all denominations, and are recognized as an important factor in\nthe elevation of the colored people in this region.\n\nKYMULGA, ALA.\u2014A very interesting temperance meeting is reported.\nSixty persons were present. The exercises consisted of singing,\naddresses and selections by the members of the Society. Rev. H. S.\nDe Forest, of Talladega, visited the Sunday-school and preached for\nthe people.\n\nCHILDERSBURG, ALA.\u2014Rev. Alfred Jones writes: \u201cMy work is in a\nlively condition. I have a full house. My people seem to study the\nBible with greater interest than they ever have before. Some come\nto my church who did not like it at first.\u201d\n\nANNISTON, ALA.\u2014Rev. P. J. McEntosh has been the victim of a\nvery pleasant \u201cApril Fool.\u201d On returning from Conference he was\ninvited into the chapel, and found, to his great surprise, that\nan excellent stand for the choir had been erected, with banisters\nand place for books. The work had been done with the proceeds of a\nsurprise party given while he was away.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA TOUR OF THE CONFERENCES.\n\nIt took six weeks. Other pens were engaged to write up the details.\nSome notes by the way, may be in place. The Kentucky Association\ndid not elect delegates to the National Council. There will be yet\nanother chance at the July meeting. Rev. John G. Fee is opposed\nto any representation in that body beyond that of an honorary\ncharacter. Membership in it, he thinks, would be an endorsement\nof the sect principle, and inconsistent with the position of the\nKentucky Association, which is simply a body of Christian ministers\nand churches. He claims that testimony must be borne, if only in a\nsmall way. At the National Council in Oberlin, I was delighted with\nthe catholic and non-sectarian spirit with which the delegates of\nthis body were welcomed to membership. I should say now: Keep on\nsending delegates to encourage and emphasize that testimony. That\nis the only ecclesiastical body in the United States that would\noffer such organic fellowship.\n\nYou have been told of the new era in our work, marked by the\nopening of half a dozen of the homes of the first families in\nSelma, Alabama, for the entertainment of the white members of the\nConference. It was not merely the offer of their houses as eating\nand sleeping places, but it was a delicate and attentive Christian\nhospitality, which invited the guests around from home to home in\norder to the extension of acquaintance. When grateful words were\nsaid to Major Joseph Hardie for having led the way, he answered\nthat that gave him too much credit; that the places had all been\nopened cheerfully, and that, after the sessions were over, other\nfamilies had said: \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you give us a chance? We would\nlike to have had some of those folks.\u201d Another host, referring\nto the mutual satisfaction, said: \u201cIt is just because we are\ngetting better acquainted.\u201d In the same line was the opening of\nthe Presbyterian pulpit, morning and night. The exercises of the\nConference, with a printed programme and prepared articles, were of\na high order and well sustained throughout. It was much like one of\nthe Western General Associations.\n\nIn the Louisiana Conference, at Terrebonne, of the twenty-six\nmembers, the only two white men were Pres. Alexander and the\nSuperintendent. It was not a literary tournament, but a glowing\nreligious convocation. Before the adjournment, eight or ten souls\nwere inquiring the way of life, and some fervid spirits remained\nto extend the flame. Our dear brother, Rev. Daniel Clay, the\nentertaining pastor, with his own home and his church upon the same\nplantation where for thirty-seven years he had served as a bondman,\nis a very patriarch among the young ministers, loved and revered\nby us all. The last meeting of this Conference, at New Iberia, was\nfollowed by a revival that added one hundred to the company of the\ndisciples. Next year we are to go back to Terrebonne.\n\nThe regular time for the meeting of the Association of\nSouth-Western Texas is in July, which in the South is the slack\ntime of the year, with the corn and the cotton \u201claid by,\u201d and which\nis the usual period, among both colored and white, for revival\nmeetings, as is the winter at the North. This year the brethren\nundertook to bring it forward to April, so that the Superintendent\nmight be with them, but, as everybody was plowing corn and chopping\nout the cotton, the effort brought to Helena only the two pastors,\nB. C. Church and M. Thompson. Yet we had a glorious four days\u2019\nmeeting, with preachings, conferences, a communion, a season of\nbaptizing, and a class meeting, which, according to the custom\nof the church, precedes the communion as a preparation. People\ncame six, nine, or twelve miles. The native pastor, Mr. Thompson,\npreached an able and moving sermon upon trust in God. The regular\nmeeting will be at the same place in July. This Church has a\ndignified and efficient deaconess, who looks after the many little\nthings in the parish, which a woman can do better than anybody\nelse. It did seem appropriate that a woman\u2019s taste should be\nemployed to arrange her Lord\u2019s Table. I took pleasure in pointing\nout to her, once a slave, the likeness of her work to that of\n\u201cPhebe, the servant of the Church at Cenchrea.\u201d I had the pleasure\nof a ride in the nice missionary buggy which Bro. Towne had given\nto our presiding elder, Church. It is a good deal better, now that\nhe is sixty-seven, though straight and spry, when he camps out,\nto have this vehicle to lie under, than to have only the starry\nfirmament over him. It helps to keep company on the prairie for the\npreacher and the picketed pony.\n\nFor ingenuity of swindling, can any pale face beat the darkey when\nhe tries?\n\nDown this way, one was going about selling tickets to Kansas for\nfive dollars down, and four upon arrival. In one place he took in\nsome forty of his confiding brethren. Some came to the railroad\nagent, my informant, to learn of the cheat. Others, at another\nplace, had got on board to find that their tickets were a sham.\nAnother black sharper, for one dollar and a half, was making out\nthe papers for land which Queen Victoria was to give them, since\nUncle Sam had failed on the \u201cforty acres and a mule.\u201d\n\nOn the way, making one hundred miles north by hack to Austin, I had\nmy desire satisfied in overtaking one of the great droves of cattle\nmoving northward. It numbered three thousand. We struck them as\nthey were passing across a valley, so that every creature was in\nview. A grand sight it was, preceded by the four-mule commissary\nprairie schooner, attended by the twenty cow-boys in saddle, with\ncracking whip and awful spurs, and with the relay of sixty horses\nin drove, each driver having a change of four. The dreadful drouth\nof the last year, which carried corn up to 25 cents a bushel, was\napparent in the poverty-stricken quality of the beasts and in the\nscraping up of old scalawags and yearlings and two-year-olds to\nmake out the drove. Out of three counties here last year, 25,000\nhorses were taken. These go in droves of from twelve to fifteen\nhundred. Multitudes of them, as they run from colts upward, are\nsold for five dollars each. Mine host, a colored man, while I was\nwith him, sold eight head of broken horses for $155, to be paid\nnext fall, without interest. In some droves, fifty sucking colts\nare sometimes shot in a day, as impediments of the march.\n\nThe Parker farm has in it 24,000 acres. Six thousand of these are\nto be cultivated to raise grain for fattening the 4,000 cattle\nwhich are to be shipped by rail. Collins Campbell, Esq., twenty\nyears from Vermont, has his 15,000 acres, with 7,000 fenced. I\nfound him a stated reader of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY, and retaining\nthose well-balanced sentiments which his own Green Mountains\nhad bred. He sells land to the Freedmen. One of his neighbors,\nwhose hospitality I enjoyed, is Gabriel Washington. I wonder if\nthat archangel has not sufficient regard for \u201cthe Father of his\nCountry,\u201d and for this, its dusky citizen, to be pleased with this\ncollocation of names? Our Gabriel is so much of the earth earthy,\nthat he owns 1,260 acres of its soil, and has a model farm, with\nits orchard, cotton gin, and its big Yankee woodpile, the finest\none I have seen in the South. His buxom wife had been down the day\nbefore, twelve miles, to our big meeting.\n\nAustin is picturesquely located on the north bank of the Colorado,\nand is a city of 12,000 inhabitants, half of whom are said to\nbe colored; and the finest, most sightly spot about the Capital\nhas just now been crowned with the much admired \u201cTillotson\nInstitute.\u201d It is to be opened October 1st. Mrs. E. G. Garland,\nwhose marriage with one of Gov. Davis\u2019 judges did not interfere\nwith her school work, has for several years been in charge of the\nEvans school-house, built by the Freedmen\u2019s Bureau, and called\nby her maiden name. The last year, fifty of her scholars were\nout teaching. Her school numbered the last term 120. Surely, it\nwas time for the living institution to take to itself ampler\naccommodations, and to advance to a higher grade. With all my heart\nI commend this struggling enterprise. Texas has been neglected. It\nmust now be brought into the line of our educational work. Rev.\nDr. Wright, pastor of the Northern Presbyterian Church, which\nwas planted by Dr. Daniel Baker, is one of the trustees of the\nTillotson Institute, and is working for it heartily. A sermon at\nParis and a lecture at Memphis will complete the work of the tour.\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE.\n\nThis is the Benjamin of the Congregational Israel. Its first\nmeeting was held one year ago at Raleigh. Its second occurred June\n7th\u20139th at Dudley. The opening sermon was preached by Rev. Geo. S.\nSmith, a graduate of the Atlanta University, pastor at Raleigh,\nupon Paul\u2019s determination to know nothing but Christ, and Him\ncrucified. It was an able, stimulating, faithful discourse, urging\nthat ministers in fidelity to this doctrine must not be afraid\nto preach against current sins. The morning prayer-meeting that\nfollowed, throbbed and warmed with the idea of Christ as a present,\npersonal Saviour, and all the meetings had a spiritual glow.\n\nRev. D. D. Dodge was made Moderator, and Rev. D. Peebles, Scribe.\nThe five churches had come to be six, the new one being at\nHilltown, in the west part of the State, and having as pastor Rev.\nIslay Walden, a graduate of the New Brunswick Seminary, ordained\nby the Dutch Classis of that locality, who had been a slave in the\nregion where now he is preaching the Gospel. A gracious revival,\nand a meeting-house under way, are the fruits of the first six\nmonths of the life of this church. These six churches and the five\nschools of the A. M. A. in the State, were all represented.\n\nMcLeansville was fixed upon as the place of the next meeting,\nwhere Bro. Connet has his church and high-school. The Conference\nwas favored with the presence of Miss Farrington, lady missionary\naided by the ladies of Maine, and located at Wilmington, and also\nwith a visit from Misses Waugh and Barker, located at Newbern as\nmissionaries of the Chicago Baptist Ladies\u2019 Society. These ladies\nare doing a blessed work in the region round about. In April last,\ngoing together, they had traveled 300 miles, and had held 80\nmeetings.\n\nTwo colored young ladies of rare cultivation, one an Episcopalian\nfrom Philadelphia, the other a Presbyterian from Long Island, sent\ndown by the Society of Friends to teach in this neighborhood,\nreported the happy working of their Bands of Hope, the idea of\nwhich they had taken from Mr. Peebles\u2019 Band in Dudley.\n\nDo the friends of the American Board and Home Missionary Society\nknow that we down here are broadening their field for harvest? Some\nof these little churches reported contributions to aid the white\npeople out West in supporting the Gospel and to send missionaries\nabroad. The one at Wilmington claimed itself to be the Banner\nChurch of all the constituents of the American Board, having given\nmore than any other, according to number and means, as judged by\nthe report of Dr. Alden.\n\nAnd so the good friend, \u201cHoward,\u201d who is about to help this church\nto a house of worship, will see that he is sowing seed in good\nground.\n\nRev. H. E. Brown, Secretary of the Freedmen\u2019s Dept. of the\nInternational Y. M. C. A., in his work at the South, has this\nseason held six of his union Bible meetings at Washington,\nRichmond, Raleigh, Dudley, Wilmington, and Savannah, three of\nwhich, as will be observed, were in this State. The series has been\none of great interest and profit. There are three points of special\nnotice. The first is the quickening of the spirit of Christian\nunion among these people, whose sectarianism is quite intense.\nThe second is the great honor which is put upon the word of God\nby the constant service of Bible readings, with the plans of the\nsame multiplied for the people by his portable copyist. The third\npoint in this work is, that revivals of genuine Bible religion are\nusually the result. This was true at the meeting at Raleigh, where\nthere were about 300 conversions among the colored people. There\nis manifest an abiding increase of regard for the word of God. The\nquality of the converts is also hopeful. As another perceptible\nresult, union meetings, led by an Evangelist, have since been\nheld by the white Churches of that city, and there were about 200\nhopeful conversions in these. We congratulate the Y. M. C. A. upon\nthis successful inauguration of their work among the Freedmen.\nAnd we make grateful recognition of the influence of Maj. Joseph\nHardie, of Selma, Ala., a member of the Y. M. C. A. Committee, in\nselecting and introducing Mr. Brown to this work in his own city.\n\nI am happy to make mention also of the work of Rev. E. E. Rogers as\nan Evangelist in our Church at Macon, Ga. He has proven himself a\njudicious and successful laborer, wise, earnest and loving. Pastor\nLathrop is very emphatic in commending him. Resulting from the\nstimulus of this meeting, special services were projected in all\nthe other colored churches of the city. And as a matter of fact,\nrevival meetings in the white churches followed. Mr. Rogers had\nalso been a worker of the A. M. A. in former years. We hope that\nhis services in the future may be secured in this line of special\nmovement in our churches at the South. They have come to a degree\nof intelligence and of steadiness that will encourage such endeavor.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSOUTH-WESTERN CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION.\n\nAnnual Meeting at Terrebonne, La., Apr. 7\u201310.\n\nREV. W. S. ALEXANDER.\n\nThe fact that our meeting was to be at Terrebonne, where we have\na live, growing church, and a vigorous, devoted minister, gave\npromise not only of a hospitable welcome, but of a profitable\nseason of communion.\n\nBrother Clay and his church had made every preparation. One hundred\nand fifty dollars had been raised and expended in putting the\nchurch and parsonage in perfect order. A long room in the house\nadjoining the church had been provided with a table sufficient\nto accommodate the delegates, and the table was furnished with\nnew tumblers, knives and forks and spoons, and the kitchen with\na new stove, all involving a good bill of costs, but met with\nthe greatest cheerfulness, and without the thought of hardship;\nand then the members of the church and congregation brought in\nchickens, hams and bread, and everything to satisfy the appetite of\nhungry men, and I find that Louisiana Congregationalists eat with\nthe same relish as their brethren in the New England Associations.\nSo much for the material part of the feast, for which Brother Clay\nand his flock deserve all praise and thanks.\n\nWith the exception of two of the small mission churches, every\nchurch was represented. Terrebonne is central, and the Morgan\nR. R. extension (finished to New Iberia), makes communication\neasy and rapid. There is something delightful about a new church\norganization. There is an inspiration in building upon newly-laid\nfoundations, and every member feels that he is essential to the\nsuccess of the movement. In an organization representing many years\nand great numerical strength, a man of quiet, retiring spirit is\nlost to view; but in the first years, every heart and hand are\nneeded.\n\nThe reports from the churches indicate a pure and steady growth.\nThe process of cutting off dead branches has gone on, so that\nalthough nearly two hundred have been received during the year, the\nnumerical gain over all losses has been very small. We are glad to\nbelieve that the sixteen hundred members in the churches of the\nAssociation represent more solid moral worth than in any previous\nyear. In the business sessions, when questions requiring wisdom and\nprudence were presented, and in the discussions of vital religious\ntopics, I was gratified to observe real progress in the ability,\nself-control and kindly Christian spirit of the brethren. These\nannual meetings serve as a profitable school, and are attended by\nwilling and eager learners. It was a great joy and blessing to have\nDr. Roy with us this year. The brethren have already learned to\nlove him, and to confide in his counsels. The Association placed\nhim under heavy tribute at this meeting. At their request he give\nan address on \u201cOur Country,\u201d and with his large illustrative map\nindicated the vast extent and marvelous resources of what is now\n_their_ country, and of which _they_ are citizens. But a few years\nago the _plantation_ was all the country they knew anything about,\nand from the law of the plantation there was no appeal. But now\nthey belong to Uncle Sam\u2019s family of 50,000,000, and can look to\nhim for protection.\n\nDr. Roy gave an address on our Congregational polity, which\ngreatly delighted the people. Hitherto, many of them have loved\nCongregationalism without being able to give a reason for it. The\naddress was timely and profitable, because the brethren, while not\nwaging a denominational warfare with other churches, desire to be\nintelligent in regard to their own faith, and to be able \u201cto give a\nreason for the hope that is within them.\u201d\n\nThe annual sermon, by Rev. W. P. Ward, of Gretna, was earnest and\npractical, and prepared the large audience for the sermon of the\nModerator which followed it. But few congregations in the North\nwould bear two sermons on the same evening, but they not only\ndid that at Terrebonne, but by song and prayer and exhortation\ncontinued the service another hour. The brethren seconded the\nappeals of the preachers from the pulpit, and went down among the\npeople, entreating them to come to Christ by repentance and faith.\nEight came forward and kneeled down for prayer, and many hands went\nup in the audience. God put honor upon His truth that night, and\nthe hearts of the people were touched.\n\nThe sermon of Dr. Roy on the last morning was tender and searching,\nand the tears of the people showed that he had not spoken in vain.\n\nThe Church in New Iberia called Rev. W. R. Polk, and he has already\nentered upon his work. He has a good field. May God give him grace\nto cultivate it.\n\nFive \u201cmissionaries at large\u201d were chosen. Some of them already\nhave churches, and take on all the supplementary work for which\nthey can find time. These men are unsalaried, and depend, in their\nmissionary tours, upon the thoughtful kindness and hospitality of\nthose to whom they go. Hospitality is a virtue among this people.\nThey exercise it \u201cwithout grudging.\u201d They have a real love for\nsharing their \u201cloaf\u201d with him, be he stranger or friend, who calls\nat their door. It is only necessary that he have the \u201cpassword\u201d of\nthe Christian Church.\n\nRev. W. S. Alexander and Rev. Isaac H. Hall were elected delegates\nto the National Congregational Council.\n\nThe next meeting of the Association will be held in Terrebonne the\n1st Wednesday in April, 1881. Brother Clay said: \u201cI haven\u2019t been\nhalf paid for my trouble. You must come back next year.\u201d\n\nGreeting to all the sister Associations in the North! Perhaps we\nshould say _filial_ rather than _fraternal_, but the infant of five\nyears ago is a good, strong child to-day, and we claim a seat at\nthe family table.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nOur Revival.\n\nREV. S. E. LATHROP, MACON.\n\nOur church observed the week of prayer, and there seemed to follow\nan unusual tenderness in the regular prayer-meetings. The people\nbecame more united and earnest, and it was evident that the way\nfor better things was being prepared. In February, some of the\nbrethren suggested sending for the aid of Rev. E. E. Rogers, of\nOrange, Conn., who was pastor here from 1869 to 1873. I wrote and\nfound that the way was open for his coming, and we began at once\nto hold extra prayer-meetings. Brother Rogers came during the last\nweek of February, and remained five weeks, preaching and laboring\nwith uncommon earnestness and consecration. The Lord has evidently\nfitted him for this special work. The church took hold with\nremarkable unanimity. I never have known any church in the North\nto be so thoroughly united in revival effort. The contagion spread\nto other churches, many of them soon beginning to hold special\nservices. This somewhat lessened our audiences, but a general\nrevival spirit spread through the city, and still continues. During\none or two weeks we held union afternoon prayer-meetings with a\ncolored Baptist church, a very uncommon thing in this country.\n\nThe meetings were quiet, tender, impressive throughout. The\npeople are beginning to get out of their old ideas of a noisy\nconversion. Some of the \u201cold-time\u201d quaint, plaintive songs are,\nhowever, wonderfully apt and appropriate in such seasons, ranking\namong the most effective \u201cspiritual songs.\u201d We held neighborhood\nmeetings in various localities, which seem more necessary here as\nthe people are so widely scattered. One disadvantage we found was\nthe necessity for late hours at night. Some of our people are \u201cin\nservice,\u201d and cannot get away early, and the rest do not finish\ntheir work until night, and afterward must go home and get supper,\nand walk from one to three miles to church. Our little band,\nhowever, were remarkably faithful in attendance, though we could\nnot often begin the preaching until half-past eight or nine o\u2019clock.\n\nOne peculiarity which I discovered during the meetings was, that so\nmany of the colored people labor so long under conviction before\nconversion. I had formerly supposed them to be a very religious\npeople, easily persuaded to become Christians; but my experience is\n(confirmed by that of other workers), that very many labor under\nintense conviction for many days, and even for weeks, coming to\nthe \u201canxious seat\u201d every night for long periods, and seeming, for\nsome reason, unable to yield themselves up. No doubt this is in\npart owing to the traditions handed down from the older ones, and\nin part to ignorance of the true way. Yet, even after much personal\nlabor and explanation is given, they often remain unenlightened. It\nis a phenomenon to me, especially as it is seen in the case of some\nof the most intelligent.\n\nThere have been from twelve to fifteen hopeful conversions. Ten\nhave united with our church, four of whom are heads of families,\nand the rest promising young men and women. Some have united with\nother churches. It is the custom here with some to seize hold of\nconverts at once and endeavor to persuade them into other churches.\nSometimes the different denominations (of the old-time churches)\nwrangle over converts.\n\nOne Saturday night we held a neighborhood meeting in the house\nof a well-to-do colored family. The strains of song floated out\nfrom door and windows, and the sound fell upon the ears of a \u201cpoor\nwhite\u201d woman of the lowest class, who was living illegally with\na deaf colored man. Her heart was stirred. She asked permission\nto attend the next prayer-meeting, held at the same house on the\nfollowing Saturday. There she rose, and, with tearful voice,\nconfessed Christ, in the midst of her dusky audience. It seems\nto be a genuine conversion. She brought in one night three other\ndegraded white women, one of whom was also living illicitly with\na colored man, another, who had not attended church for fourteen\nyears, and the third, who had never before in her life entered the\ndoors of a church! And now comes the question, like that of the\nfamous novel, \u201cWhat will He do with it?\u201d This poor, erring woman\nis in frail health and hardly able to earn her living. She lives\nwith a colored man whom, she says, she is willing to marry. She\nwants to marry him and join our church. But here the civil law\nsteps in and says, \u201cThou shalt not.\u201d It is a crime in the eyes of\nthis commonwealth for white and colored persons to inter-marry,\nand whoever celebrates such a marriage lays himself liable to a\nthousand dollars fine. Of course, we cannot admit her to the church\nwhile living in her present relations. She cannot marry, according\nto the law; she has no friends, and is not able to support herself\nif she should leave him. Even now she is so poor that she has to\nborrow shoes and other clothing in order to attend church. The\nwhite churches here have no room for such persons. She is in a more\npitiable condition than even the lowest of the negroes. Such are\nsome of the problems that beset us. Another of these white women is\nthe prodigal daughter of a good family, and we are endeavoring to\npersuade her to return to her friends.\n\nOur revival has strengthened the church, and has caused us all to\n\u201cthank God and take courage.\u201d Brother Rogers returned to his home\nwith the benedictions of a multitude. We trust the work has not yet\nceased.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nMissionary needed.\n\nREV. C. E. CURTIS, SELMA.\n\nWe are in the midst of a great union effort here that has been\nopening the eyes of all the churches to the great need of\nmissionary work right at our doors. The whole city has been\ndistricted off and workers assigned from one of the different\nchurches to each district. These are expected to visit every\nfamily, take down the name and residence of each person five years\nold and upward, with his religious condition and needs, present\nthose who may not be in the habit of attending Sunday-school with\na card of introduction to the superintendent of any school they\nmay prefer, have religious conversation, Bible reading and prayer,\nwherever it can be done to advantage, and urge upon all, young and\nold, a regular attendance on Sunday-school and church services.\nEvery week, we hold meetings to hear reports from the workers\nin the different localities, and these meetings are intensely\ninteresting. It would rejoice your hearts, I know, to hear the\nuniform testimony of delight in the work from those who, in many\ncases, entered upon it with fear and trembling. At the same time,\nthe amount of religious destitution, intemperance and superstition\nbrought to light in this city of churches and schools (there are\neight churches and four schools for the colored people here), is\nalarming. Out of twenty-one families, visited by one worker, only\ntwo had Bibles, all but two used tobacco, and the majority whiskey.\nOf twenty-two families visited by myself, only eight had any church\nmembers among them, and the great majority used both whiskey and\ntobacco. Very few attended Sunday-school. One hadn\u2019t been inside\nof a church for five years but once, and then only to attend the\nfuneral of a friend. One, who admitted that he habitually used both\nwhiskey and tobacco, claimed to be a minister in good and regular\nstanding among his brethren, and he is not the only such example in\nthe city. Several of the workers, particularly a young student from\nthe Baptist Theological School here, made stirring appeals to the\nchurches that they more earnestly endeavor to bring in the poor and\ndegraded, and make them feel at home in the house of God.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nLast Sabbath a young man came to us to inquire, \u201cWhat must I do\nto be saved?\u201d On asking what he had been trying to do, we learned\nthat he had endeavored to follow the plain, simple directions of\nthe Bible at first, but so many of his friends had told him that\nhe must stop reading his Bible and go to praying for visions and\ndreams, that he had become very much confused about the way. Many\nof them say plainly that they \u201cdon\u2019t believe in Bible religion.\u201d\nThey believe firmly in personal revelations from God, and that\nthese are superior to those in the Bible. There is more excuse for\nthem than for others, when we consider that so few can read and\njudge for themselves, and that for generations the Bible has been,\nand still is, represented to them by so many to be the bulwark\nof slavery. But when I think what abundance of material there is\namong these millions in the South for religious fanaticism to feed\nupon, it is a wonder to me that they have, on the whole, wandered\nso little from the truth, that some imposture has not spread among\nthem before this\u2014as Mormonism did at the North and West\u2014and swept\nthousands of them away. I fear it will be the case yet, if the\nchurches are not more faithful in preaching and teaching the pure\nGospel.\n\nNow, to make the matter practical, what can we do about it? Surely,\nmuch more ought to be done here by educated Bible Christians; but\nour teachers are already nearly breaking down with overwork in\ntheir regular school duties, there being one less teacher than\nusual on the force this year; the missionary and industrial work\nthey have been doing, and in which they feel such an interest, they\nwill probably not be able to keep up another year, and Mrs. C. will\nbe compelled to give up much that she has been doing. In short, I\nam more than ever convinced that we need a lady missionary here,\nto devote her whole time to personal work among the classes not\nnow reached by our schools and churches, and to take charge of the\nindustrial work among the women and girls. We have in mind just the\none we need if her support can be assured. Our church will, I am\nsure, assume a share of the expense, though it will be impossible\nfor them to do much more than they are doing. Now, who among the\nfriends of the work in the North will help us in this matter, which\nseems so important?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\nA LETTER FROM PROF. T. N. CHASE.\n\n\nAmong the most interesting experiences in our visit to the Mendi\nMission was a trip to Kaw-Mendi, the first station of the mission,\nwhere, over forty years ago, Mr. Raymond, with his company of\nAmistad captives, began their new home, near the spot where the\nlatter had been torn from their native land, and carried across the\nsea to be sold into slavery.\n\nA row of eight hours in a boat of four oars, propelled by Junjo,\nM\u00f3modo Grenace, Carrij Mi-Mah and Boyema, and steered by Geo.\nKeing, took us across the Sherbro, up the Jong and the Small Boom\nto our destination. The chief objects of interest on the way were\nwild monkeys, alligators, and mangrove trees, bearing vegetable\noysters that could be plucked as we sailed past. The rowers\n\u201ccheered the weary traveler,\u201d and increased the speed of the boat,\nby singing songs in their native tongue, in which, no doubt, as is\nusually the case, they indulged in personal comments concerning\ntheir passengers.\n\nA little after \u201cthe sun die\u201d we reach Kaw-Mendi, and are ushered\ninto a native house of four rooms, whose walls, partitions and\nfloors are made of mud, and whose steep hip roof is covered with\n\u201cbamboo shingles,\u201d the rafters and sheathing being cane. Mr.\nand Mrs. Williams, born and educated in British Guiana, gave\nus a hearty welcome to their mission home, leaving their work\nof manufacturing arrow-root to prepare us a cup of tea. It was\nprayer-meeting night and we gladly accepted an invitation to attend\nservice. The \u201cbarrie,\u201d in which meetings are held, is a bamboo\nroof, supported by tall posts, and enclosed by a mud wall about\nfour feet high. The floor and platforms are also of mud, nicely\nsanded.\n\nI was unable to count the audience, for the lamps shed a dim light\nwhich was not reflected from the faces of the company. A row of\nboys led the singing, a young man \u201cturned the word\u201d of those who\nspoke in English, and several led in brief prayers which we could\nnot understand, but which sounded sensible and devotional.\n\nIn the morning we took a more particular view of the premises.\nMr. Williams\u2019 house stands just in front of the site of the old\nresidence of Mr. Raymond and Mr. Thompson, a slight hollow and\nsmall bank being the only things to mark the place where it stood.\nWhile twenty years had crumbled to mother earth, buildings and\nfences, and produced a jungle that made it almost impossible to\nidentify the site, the cashew, orange and bread-fruit trees had\nbeen going on with their steady growth, and are now doing good\nservice with their fruit and shade. The flats along the banks of\nthe river, that had much to do with the unhealthfulness of the\nlocation, on account of which it was abandoned, are probably the\nsame now that they were then.\n\nAt our request, the two surviving Amistad captives came to see us,\nMr. Parn and Mr. Smith. The former had a pleasant smiling face,\nbut was too deaf to converse. The latter wore a rugged-looking\ncountenance, and after a little coaxing told us something of his\nearly life, dwelling especially upon the reason why the Amistads\nrose up and killed the officers of the vessel on which they were\nbeing carried to America. He said the cook told them that they were\nto be killed and eaten, and showed them a huge kettle in which they\nwere to be boiled. So they rescued themselves from the sad fate\nthat seemed to await them by slaying their captors, acting on the\nsame principle that Stanley did when the natives on the Congo tried\nto make \u201cmeat\u201d of him and his companions.\n\nChief Geo. Thompson Tucker came to pay his respects. He was\neducated in the mission and was a pupil of Geo. Thompson. He is not\na Christian, but favors Mr. Williams\u2019 work, and renders him much\nassistance. He wore pants and shoes, and a frock made of country\ncloth in a country fashion. He converses in English fluently, and\nsometimes interprets for Mr. Williams.\n\nWe desired to visit the cemetery, which Mr. Thompson had removed\nto some distance, that the sight of so many graves of fallen\nmissionaries might not depress the living. The dew being heavy and\nthe \u201croad\u201d having grown up somewhat, Chief Tucker had two of his\nmen go on in advance, and trim off the overhanging branches with\ntheir cutlasses, which they used with wonderful dexterity. The\ncemetery is partly surrounded by a ditch and bank, Mr. Thompson\nhaving concluded that this was more permanent than any fence that\ncould be erected. After a little search by the Chief and old Mr.\nSmith, three graves were found, ranged side by side at the foot\nof a mango tree\u2014those of Mr. and Mrs. Tefft and Jane Winters. The\nwood of which Mr. Thompson made head boards, and which he said did\nnot \u201cknow how to rot,\u201d has in some way obtained that undesirable\nknowledge, and even the planks laid on the graves by some later\nvisitor have crumbled nearly into dust. The other graves that were\nidentified were those of Mr. Garnick, Mr. Carter, Mrs. Arnold and\nMr. Thompson\u2019s son George, who died June 6, 1853, at the age of\nsix years. Seven mango trees between one and two feet in diameter\nmark these resting places. To me there was a strange fascination\nabout this consecrated spot, and words cannot express the feelings\nI experienced as I walked there among the sainted dead in that\ndistant, strange land.\n\nWe next visited the arrow-root farm and saw the boys dig the\nbulbs, which resemble the sweet potato in shape. Then we went to\nthe little mill where the bulbs are grated and strained, ready\nfor drying and packing. Mr. Williams finds the cultivation and\nmanufacture of arrow-root reasonably profitable, and he deserves\nencouragement in teaching the natives this and other industries,\nfor the great need of West Africa, apart from the Gospel, is a\nknowledge of remunerative agriculture.\n\nThe church bell had a strange sound, and we learned that it was an\nold gun-barrel that had been planted in the ground in a native\u2019s\ndoor-yard to keep witches out of the house, but upon the conversion\nof the owner, had been given up to Mr. Williams, and had thus been\nconverted from a profane to a sacred use.\n\nFifteen church members, twelve inquirers, one hundred attendants\nupon Sunday service, twenty-three family and nine day pupils,\nthe house and barrie, a clearing of three or four acres, the\ncultivation of various crops, the manufacture of arrow-root and\nfrequent visits to neighboring towns, give some idea of the\nindustry, perseverance and Christian zeal of this devoted laborer\nduring the past three years, and seem to make it possible to\ncontinue the work on this spot of so many hallowed associations and\nmemories.\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 O. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon.\nF. F. Low, Rev. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H.\nWilley, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D.,\nJacob S. Taber, Esq.\n\nDIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P.\nBaker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball,\nE. P. Sanford, Esq.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. O. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n_Politics and the Mission._\u2014Our Legislature, the first one convened\nunder our new Constitution, has adjourned, and the Chinese are\nyet here. Denis Kearney has been made to \u201cgo,\u201d and his party is\njust \u201cgoing;\u201d the former, in prison attire, to break stones on the\npublic highway, and the latter to befitting insignificance and\ncomplete disintegration. But how to assure it that \u201cthe Chinese\nmust go,\u201d is a problem by which, now as heretofore, our Californian\nstatesmanship(!) finds itself sore baffled. Among our newly-fledged\nlegislators, there was scarcely one, at the opening of the\nsessions, but had his pet scheme,\u2014a sure cure for the Chinese ail;\nand the river of Egypt scarce brought forth frogs more plentifully\nthan did our noisy Legislature its anti-Chinese bills. But most\nof them died before they were fairly, fully born, and the rest\nare either squelched under the weight of the U. S. Constitution,\nor else, not daring to face that foe, have retired into prudent\ndormancy. The gassy proclamation of our Board of Health, declaring\nChinatown a nuisance, has dissolved into thin air, and that\ndistrict of our city is just as populous, just as busy, just as\nnoisy, and almost as filthy as it was before. Our Mayor, and the\ndoctors associated with him, may possibly have caused a little more\nof the Chinese gold to be \u201cplaced where it would do most good;\u201d\nbut, no other effect of their bombastic demonstration seems now to\nbe even dreamed of.\n\nAll this helps us hope that we shall be able to pursue our\nmission-work with no special molestations, and that the result of\nour summer campaign may be as bright as the out-look is just now.\n\n_A Touching Farewell Service._\u2014the following paragraph which\nappeared in the _Pacific_ of April 14th, over the initials of\nthe Principal of our Central school, I am sure will interest our\nreaders. It explains itself:\n\n\u201cA very interesting and impressive meeting was held in Bethany\nchapel on Thursday evening, April 8th. A large number of the\nChinese friends and scholars of Mrs. S. A. Worley and Misses Jessie\nand Florence Worley, who for some years have been teachers in the\nschools of the California Chinese Mission of this city, had met\ntogether to bid these teachers farewell, as the family intended\ngoing to their new home in Stockton on the following day. After\nthe regular exercises of Thursday evening, consisting of singing,\nprayer and a short address in Chinese, the meeting was thrown open\nto any who wished to speak or lead in prayer. The first who rose\nspoke of his regret at their departure and his gratitude for their\nkindness. He then said: \u2018One year ago I hated Christian Chinese,\nand I hated the name of Jesus Christ. Then Miss Worley came to\nteach me, and read and explained the Bible to me, and by and by\nI came to love Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and all those who\nworship him.\u2019 One after another the Chinese brethren came forward\nto bear witness to their love for these devoted teachers, and their\nsorrow for their departure. Many of them, like the first speaker,\ntestified that they had been brought to the knowledge of the saving\npower of Christ\u2019s love by the words and the example of their loved\nteachers. More than one tremulous voice and dimmed eye, gave\nevidence that their words were not the complimentary exaggerations\nof Chinese courtesy, but came deep from hearts filled with love\nand gratitude for kindness that had been bestowed upon them, and\noverflowing with grief at parting from their benefactors. \u2018We have\nnothing to repay you, our dear teachers,\u2019 they said, \u2018for all your\nkindness in teaching us your language, and in leading us to Christ;\nbut we can pray God that He will bless you and keep you wherever\nyou may go. You will go to Stockton and we will go to China, and\nmay never see one another again on earth; but in heaven we will\nmeet again.\u2019\n\nThe frequent brief prayers, offered in Chinese, were unintelligible\nto the Americans present, but the frequent recurrence of the words\n\u2018Stockton\u2019 and \u2018Worley\u2019 showed that these men, just awakened\nfrom heathen darkness, had grasped the idea of an omnipotent and\nloving Father, to whom they might confidently intrust their absent\nfriends. What an ample reward to these teachers for their earnest\nand prayerful devotion must such testimony have been! What a\nforetaste of heavenly bliss they experienced in seeing this fruit\nof their labor in the redemption of so many souls from idolatry and\nheathenism!\n\n                                                         H. M. P.\u201d\n\n_More about Oroville._\u2014I give, perhaps, more than its share of\nnotice to our new work in Oroville. But this is our first attempt\nto reach the Chinese engaged in mining, and, probably, the first\nsystematic attempt ever made in California. On that account it\nhas a special interest and importance. The number thus engaged is\nlarge, and no man careth for their souls. We have our first fruits\nof the work there, in the person of Jee Kane, a very interesting\nyoung man. He has joined the Association, thus professing faith in\nChrist. Miss Waterbury is disposed to commence a work among the\nwomen and children, and has one woman already under instruction who\nseems thoroughly interested. Lee Haim, our greatly-valued helper\nat Oroville, is obliged to return to China, and Lem Chung, of the\nSacramento Mission, takes his place for a time. Miss Waterbury\nreports that there was a good attendance and evident attention at\nhis last preaching service, and after service his hearers crowded\nabout him asking him questions about the miracles of Christ, of\nwhich he had been speaking. He told her, \u201cI feel so _proud_ of\nChrist. He was with me, helped me speak, put words into my mouth.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[We give, just as they were written, two letters from Indian boys\nat Hampton for our young readers to puzzle over. We know they will\nsympathize with Jonathan\u2019s longing for his ponies, and commend\nhis purpose and effort to be content without them and study hard.\nOur older readers will doubtless be struck with the other letter\nas curiously resembling that of a German attempting English.\nHis substitution of d for t, and of p for b is quite funnily\nTeutonic.\u2014ED. MISSIONARY.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMY DEAR FRIEND:\u2014I thought I would write to you a few line, use to\nbe in my home, last summer I went out on a hunting Buffalo away\noff in the west, we off in Texes country, and I saw many Texes and\nthey was trying to fight the Pawnee, but every Pawnee was afraid,\nbecause they are good many Texes that makes the Pawnee afraid just\nlike all white men the Pawnee do like them to fight and Texes kind\nafraid do and they stop and them went home every one. Would come\nback any more.\n\nWhen I was a little boy I use to play all time would doing nothing\njust only play all the time, now I like to worked hard like very\nmuch indeed, because if I work hard and get some money note to go\naway, that is the reason we like them for I come in Hampton Normal\nI used to live in my tents and stay all time in my tents, when I\nwas a little boy I used to take care of them ponies all time and\nevery morning and take the ponies in a nice grass is and have good\nto eat them nice grass note to way to take care of them. Now I am\ndoing to school I would take care of them horse and make fat horses\nany more because I will try and be contented. My father used to\ntalk me about fight the Sioux a long time ago now stop fight and be\nour friend all of them kind to each other. I went to school about\none year in my home that is the reason do know how to talk English\nbecause I went to school one year. That is all I can say now\n\n                                        From your friend\n                                               JONATHAN HUSTICE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nDEAR FRIEND:\u2014 I hope I write you to day, to let you Know what I\nwas doing when I was a young. Well I was working in my father his\nfarm. We pland some wheat and potatoes, we pland every thing, what\nwe want in a winder. And after-wile we had a school house in our\nsettlemend, so we can go to school, and that time I was very glad\nto school every day and I minte my teacher what he tells me to to\nand that time I was school two years and the next year I heart to\ntalk aboude the blacksmith shop, to put some podday a boy to learn\nhis trade put he coult find him any boy to learn fasd, and then the\nother day I get a letter from our agt. and he dolt me if I like to\nbe a black smith, and I recived his letter to tell him that I am\nvery willing to be a black smith so I pegan to work every day, an\nwhen I work one year I heard some boys to send to school some whre\nand after wile he ask me if I like to school I told her I shoult\nlike to have it So I come here do learn a Good away and so that\nI can teach my tribe a good away and I dry hard to learn fast to\nlearn write well and so that I help my tribe. I am sorry that I\ngoing to say thire was a grait many Indians in our State. Thay are\nvery goot she can not understand to work himself. Some of them she\nunderstand to write some thing his own Good. Dear sir I am glad\nthat you help us I am very much obliget to you, and then I will dry\nhard to learn fast, it all I can to say.\n\n                                      Yours very Respectfully,\n                                                  ALEXANDER PETERS.\n  from Wis. State.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR APRIL, 1880.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $231.05.\n\n    Bangor. Hammond St. Cong. Sab. Sch.                      $15.00\n    Bethel. F. B. and H. C. B.                                 1.00\n    Brewer. First Cong. Ch.                                    8.00\n    Calais. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          34.12\n    Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                3.00\n    Gorham. Cong. Soc.                                        28.12\n    Hampden. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                7.00\n    Lewiston. Pine St. Cong. Ch.                             101.43\n    Machias. Centre St. Ch., $13.38, and Sab.\n      Sch., $7                                                20.38\n    Portland. \u201cA Willing Worker\u201d                               2.00\n    Wiscasset. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       11.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $291.60.\n\n    Amherst. Cong. Ch.                                        36.75\n    Atkinson Depot. Gyles Merrill, $50.; Mrs.\n      Gyles Merrill, $25; M. H. C., 50c.                      75.50\n    Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                   5.58\n    Derry. H. T.                                               1.00\n    Greenville. E. G. Heald                                    6.00\n    Hampstead. MISS J. S. EASTMAN, $30. to const.\n      herself, L. M.; Cong. Ch. and Soc., $12                 42.00\n    Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc.                          5.00\n    Hollis. By Geo. Swain                                     18.00\n    Mason. Ladies, _for Storrs Sch._, $10;\u2014H. B.\n      H., $1                                                  11.00\n    Milford. Cong. Ch.                                        11.63\n    Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          27.51\n    New Boston. Children\u2019s Mission Circle of\n      Presb. Ch.                                              18.00\n    New Ipswich. Leavitt Lincoln                              10.00\n    Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               23.63\n\n\n  VERMONT, $389.31.\n\n    Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,\n      (ad\u2019l.), to const. SAMUEL JEWETT, ERNEST\n      PATTERSON, MRS. M. G. REMINGTON, MRS. A. C.\n      BINGHAM and MISS L. MARIA RAY, L. M\u2019s                   12.93\n    Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $15;\n      Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $12.15                       27.15\n    Burlington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      87.81\n    Chelsea. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l.)                        7.00\n    Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             12.55\n    East Hardwick. Mrs. L. A. P., $1; Mrs L. W.\n      J., $1                                                   2.00\n    East Poultney. A. D. Wilcox                                5.00\n    Hinesburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             6.00\n    Marshfield. Lyman Clark                                   10.00\n    Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l.)                        1.00\n    Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               11.00\n    North Clarendon. Mrs. Wm. D. Marsh, Memorial\n      Contribution, to const. MRS. JOHN SPENCER,\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            10.52\n    North Thetford. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                 2.00\n    Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               18.78\n    Saint Albans. Young Men\u2019s Class, Sab. Sch. of\n      First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._             15.00\n    Thetford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              20.00\n    Waitsfield. A. M. B. and G. I. B.                          1.00\n    West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch.                            12.06\n    West Fairlee. Cong. Sab. Sch., $13.27; Dea. J.\n      P. S., $1                                               14.27\n    West Townshend. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         6.74\n    West Westminster. Mrs. Z. D.                               0.50\n    Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l), to const.\n      MISS ELLEN S. STEELE and MISS HARRIET\n      HERRICK, L. M\u2019s.                                        56.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                             20.00\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $4,447.11.\n\n    Amherst. Second Cong. Ch.                                 10.58\n    Andover. \u201cLittle Gleaners,\u201d by Miss E. E. A.,\n      Bbl. of C., _for Savannah. Ga._\n    Athol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 68.10\n    Auburndale. Mrs. T. S. W.                                  1.00\n    Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding                                50.00\n    Barre. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. REV.\n      J. F. GAYLORD, L. M.                                    30.00\n    Bedford. Trin. Ch. and Soc., to const. SAMUEL\n      DAVIS, L. M.                                            32.75\n    Berlin. Cong. Ch., quar. coll.                             5.00\n    Boston. S. D. Smith (Organs), $400;\u2014Geo. F.\n      Kendall, $5, _for Indian M._;\u2014John L.\n      Shorey, 20 cop. \u201cNursery,\u201d _for Talladega,\n      Ala._                                                  405.00\n    Boxford. \u2014\u2014$1, _for Savannah, Ga._; Mrs. C.,\n      50c.                                                     1.50\n    Bridgewater. Central Sq. Sab. Sch.                        20.00\n    Brimfield. Ladies\u2019 Union of Second Cong. Ch.\n      $10, _for a Lady Missionary_; Miss P. C.\n      Browning, $10; Mrs. J. S. Upham, $3                     23.00\n    Brockton. \u201cFriend,\u201d $15;\u2014\u201cFriends,\u201d 2 Bbls. of\n      C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._                               15.00\n    Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. Soc.                        105.57\n    Cambridge. Mrs. J. S. S., $1;\u2014Bbl. of C.                   1.00\n    Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc., Mon. Con.\n      Coll.                                                    7.98\n    Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         17.07\n    Conway. Mrs. William Tilton                                2.00\n    Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         205.29\n    Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc.                          30.07\n    Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               70.00\n    Florence. A. L. Williston, $500; Florence Ch.\n      Coll., $111.48                                         611.48\n    Foxborough. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   28.18\n    Granby. Cong. Ch.                                         19.50\n    Greenfield. Ladies, Box of C., _for Atlanta,\n      Ga._\n    Groton. John H. Goddard                                  500.00\n    Hadley. E. Porter                                         10.00\n    Hardwick. E. B. Foster                                     5.00\n    Harwich. \u201cThank Offering\u201d                                  1.25\n    Haverhill. \u201cTwo Ladies,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            30.00\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              73.30\n    Holliston. Mrs. Mary M. Fiske                              5.00\n    Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             46.23\n    Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       12.19\n    Jamaica Plain. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                100.00\n    Lancaster. LEGACY of Sophia Sterns, by W. W.\n      Wyman, Ex.                                               5.25\n    Lawrence. Central Cong. Ch., $70, to const.\n      JAMES HARTLEY, and MRS. MARIA T. BENSON, L.\n      M\u2019s; \u2014\u2014 $5, _for Savannah, Ga._;\u2014Rev. J.\n      Coit, $3.56, and Box of C., _for Macon, Ga._            78.56\n    Leicester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       41.02\n    Lenox. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 54.00\n    Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      2.57\n    Lowell. High St. Ch. and Soc.                             69.41\n    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          33.32\n    Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            21.82\n    Mattapoisett. A. C.                                        1.00\n    Melrose. G. L. M.                                          0.50\n    Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond                                10.00\n    Newburyport. Miss P. N., $1; S. N. B., 50c.;\n      J. C. Cleveland, Bbl. of C.                              1.50\n    Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc., $125; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d $60; First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $29.17;\u2014Miss. Soc., $20, _for rebuilding\n      barn, Talladega, Ala._                                 234.17\n    Northampton. First Cong. Ch., $92.81; I. G.\n      Jewett. $2.15                                           94.96\n    North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           3.87\n    Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          25.28\n    Paxton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for \u201cLeah,\u201d\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                         7.50\n    Peabody. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        139.98\n    Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      49.76\n    Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          27.00\n    Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.                                       25.00\n    Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             102.16\n    Salem. Mrs. E. O. P.                                       0.50\n    Somerville. Broadway Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    8.87\n    South Abington. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                 1.00\n    South Deerfield. ESTATE of Dea. Zebadiah\n      Graves, by C. A. Stowell, Ex.                          108.46\n    Southville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     2.00\n    South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to\n      const. MRS. DEBORAH M. TIRRELL, L. M.                   45.00\n    Springfield. South Cong. Ch., $42.75; First\n      Cong. Ch., $34.75; Mrs. J. D. L., $1                    78.50\n    Taunton. Ladies of Winslow Ch., Box of C.\n    Templeton. J. L.                                           1.00\n    Tewksbury. Cong. Sab. Sch., $30, _for Hampton\n      Inst._; \u2014\u2014 $5, _for Savannah, Ga._                      35.00\n    Townsend Harbor. Ladies, Bbl. of C., _for\n      Macon, Ga._\n    Upton. Mrs. M. F. C.                                       0.50\n    Waltham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. PHILLIP\n      JONES, L. M.                                            43.91\n    Watertown. Mrs. J. A.                                      0.60\n    Wayland. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   8.90\n    Webster. Cong. Ch.                                        25.00\n    West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           6.05\n    West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       26.00\n    West Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          11.00\n    Westport. Pacific Union Church                             4.00\n    West Springfield. Second Cong. Ch.                         9.63\n    West Worthington. Mrs. Arunah Bartlett                     5.00\n    Whitinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          41.75\n    Wilmington. \u201cFriends,\u201d $100, _for Student\n      Aid_;\u2014Cong. Ch. and Soc., $36.90                       136.90\n    Winchester. Steven Cutter                                 80.00\n    Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $135.94;\u2014Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $50; G. H.\n      Whitcomb, $15, _for Student Aid, Straight\n      U._,\u2014Salem St. Ch. and Soc., $11.88                    212.82\n    Worthington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           11.05\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                              1.00\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $99.71.\n\n    Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch., $71.71;\u2014A\n      few Ladies in Cong. Ch., $28, by Mrs. Wm. J.\n      King, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                    99.71\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $3,029.74.\n\n    Ansonia. First Cong. Ch.                                  22.17\n    Bloomfield. Mrs. Sally Gillet, to const.\n      LOUISA M. HODGES, L. M.                                 30.00\n    Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                11.00\n    Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.                    17.68\n    Coventry. Second Cong. Ch.                                51.23\n    Darien. Cong. Ch., $30, and Sab. Sch., $7                 37.00\n    Easton. S. R. D.                                           1.00\n    Fairfield. First Cong. Ch.                                35.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch., quar. coll.                        39.08\n    Glastonbury. W. S. Williams, _for Fisk U._             1,000.00\n    Greeneville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        39.85\n    Greenwich. Second Cong. Ch.                               62.75\n    Guilford. Third Cong. Ch., $33; First Cong.\n      Ch., $20                                                53.00\n    Hadlyme. Joseph W. Hungerford                             50.00\n    Hartford. Windsor Ave. Cong. Ch., $16.45;\n      Wethersfield Ave. Sab. Sch., $5.23                      21.68\n    Lyme. Old Lyme Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         12.00\n    Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       8.68\n    Mansfield Centre. First Cong. Ch., $6, and\n      Sab. Sch., $10;\u2014\u201cFriends,\u201d $1, _for postage_            17.00\n    Meriden. Center Cong. Ch.                                 12.21\n    Middletown. First Ch., $36.53; Third Cong.\n      Ch., $16                                                52.53\n    Milford. Anna C. Nettleton                                 2.00\n    New Haven. First Ch., $134.70; Ch. of the\n      Redeemer, $85; College St. Cong. Ch.,\n      $41.23; Howard Ave. Cong. Ch., $20                     280.93\n    North Haven. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25; Elihu\n      Dickerman, $2                                           27.00\n    Norwich. Park Cong. Ch., ($30 of which from\n      Mrs. Chas. Lee, to const. WILLIAM G. ABBOTT,\n      L. M.)                                                 700.00\n    Plainville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      DOUGLAS W. MASON, L. M.                                 50.00\n    Putnam. Mrs. Geo. W. Keith, $25; Mrs. E. W.\n      Spaulding, $25 _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                     50.00\n    Saybrook. Old Saybrook Cong. Ch.                           7.01\n    Simsbury. Cong. Soc.                                      19.00\n    Somersville. Cong. Ch.                                    50.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      41.35\n    Vernon. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Savannah,\n      Ga._                                                    10.00\n    Wallingford. Cong. Ch.                                     5.00\n    West Hartford. Mrs. F. G. B.                               0.50\n    West Haven. Mrs. E. C. Kimball                            10.00\n    Westford. Cong. Ch.                                        4.00\n    Whitneyville. Cong. Ch.                                   51.00\n    Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch.                                  75.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid_                           53.09\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                             20.00\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $1,936.88.\n\n    Ballston Spa. ESTATE of Titus M. Mitchell                200.00\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., $167.46;\u2014By Wm.\n      E. Whiting, $50, _for Chinese M._;\u2014Mrs. Lucy\n      Thurber, $5                                            222.46\n    Churchville. Union Cong. Ch.                              21.40\n    Coxsackie. Mrs. E. F. Spoor, $5; Miss A. G.\n      Fairchild, $5                                           10.00\n    Crown Point. Second Cong. Ch.                              2.00\n    Galway. Delia C. Davis and sister, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                10.00\n    Gloversville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Straight U._                                       40.00\n    Honeoye. Miss Hannah Pitts                                25.00\n    Kiantone. Cong. Ch.                                        8.55\n    Lumberland. Cong. Ch.                                      1.00\n    Madison. G. H. H.                                          0.50\n    Millville. Cong. Ch.                                       5.63\n    Morrisville. Cong. Ch.                                    28.90\n    Newark. James H. Reeves                                    5.00\n    Newburgh. John H. Corwin, Box of Books\n    New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch.                      1,000.44\n    New York. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $100;\u2014S. T. Gordon,\n      $100;\u2014D. J. Carson, $50, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                               250.00\n    Pekin. Miss Oliva Root, $5; L. C., $1                      6.00\n    Rome. John B. Jervis, $25; Miss C. Hurlburt,\n      $12                                                     37.00\n    Salem. B. C.                                               1.00\n    Sherburne. Chas. A. Fuller, Bbl. of C., and\n      $5, _for Freight, for Talladega, Ala._                   5.00\n    Syracuse. Mrs. Clara C. Clarke, $7; Miss F. A.\n      C., 50c.                                                 7.50\n    Tarrytown. \u201cS. M. M.\u201d                                      0.50\n    Troy. Rev. Chas. Redfield                                  5.00\n    Verona. Cong. Ch.                                         17.66\n    Victor. \u201cH. P.\u201d                                            0.50\n    Wellsville. Cong. Ch.                                     19.79\n    Westfield. Mrs. A. B. R.                                   1.00\n    Yaphank. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        5.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $231.87.\n\n    Bound Brook. Cong. Ch.                                    11.75\n    Jersey City. Tab. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $30,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._,\u2014Tabernacle Ch.,\n      M. C. Coll., $8.62                                      38.62\n    Lakewood. Rev. G. L.                                       1.00\n    Montclair. First Cong. Ch., in part                      170.00\n    Newark. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        10.00\n    Orange. \u201cT. F. S.\u201d                                         0.50\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $90.04.\n\n    Cambridgeborough. \u201cW. G.\u201d                                  0.54\n    Farmers Valley. Mrs. E. C. O.                              1.00\n    Hulton. W. W. Grier, _for Student Aid_                    30.00\n    Jeansville. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                6.50\n    Philadelphia. Mrs. S. L. Chester                           5.00\n    Prentiss Vale. Mrs. C. B. Lovejoy, $10; Wm.\n      Lovejoy, $2                                             12.00\n    Prentiss Vale. Rev. M. W. Strickland                       5.00\n    West Alexander. Dr. Robert Davidson, $20; \u2014\u2014\n      $10                                                     30.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $1,290.25.\n\n    Akron. Cong. Ch., $175.06, to const. DWIGHT W.\n      HIBBARD, THOMAS RHODES and MRS. LYDIA W.\n      ASHMAN, L. M\u2019s;\u2014Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                  200.06\n    Bellefontaine. Mrs. John Lindsay, _for Woman\u2019s\n      Work for Women_                                          5.00\n    Bissells. Mrs. S. H. E.                                    0.50\n    Bryan. S. E. Blakeslee, $5, _for Foreign\n      M._;\u2014\u201cA Friend,\u201d $5                                     10.00\n    Burton. Cong. Ch., $30.27, ($5 of which from\n      Mrs. L. R. Boughton); Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., $10           40.27\n    Chagrin Falls. \u201cEarnest Workers,\u201d _for Student\n      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                       10.25\n    Clarksfield. Mrs. Wm. A. A.                                1.00\n    Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch., (of which\n      from Mrs. N. Scott, $2, Mrs. L., $1),\n      $23.96; Rev. Peter Kimball, $2; Individuals,\n      _for A. M._, $3                                         28.96\n    Crab Creek. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                3.17\n    Fredericktown. A. H. ROYCE, ($30 of which to\n      const. himself, L. M.)                                 500.00\n    Geneva. Cong. Ch., ($5 of which from Chas.\n      Talcott, and $3 from James Ford)                        23.70\n    Huntington. Edward West                                   25.00\n    Huntsburgh. \u201cEarnest Workers,\u201d Box of C., _for\n      Talladega, Ala._\n    Lindenville. David Parker and Samuel Beaty                10.00\n    Madison. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       32.37\n    Mansfield. First Cong. Ch., $61.95; Young\n      People\u2019s Miss. Circle of First Ch., $30, to\n      const. MISS ALMEDA RUNYAN, L. M.                        91.95\n    Marietta. Cong. Ch.                                       90.98\n    Medina. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., by Mary J. Munger,\n      Treas.                                                  11.00\n    Newark. \u201cA Thank Offering,\u201d $50; Mrs. J. C.\n      Wheaton, $10, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._            60.00\n    Oberlin. First Ch., Branch of Oberlin Freed\n      Woman\u2019s Aid Soc., by Mrs. Wm. G. Frost,\n      Treas., _for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._             75.00\n    Paddy\u2019s Run. Cong. Ch.                                    28.00\n    Painesville. First Cong. Ch.                              21.04\n    Steubenville. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc. of First\n      Cong. Ch., by Miss M. J. Leslie                         15.00\n    Xenia. Mrs. Sarah S. Morrow                                7.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $128.05.\n\n    Benzonia. E. F. Spencer                                   10.00\n    Frankfort. First Cong. Ch., $3.71; O. B., $1               4.71\n    Grand Rapids. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Woodville,\n      Ga._, $40; E. M. Ball, $10                              50.00\n    Homestead. Cong. Ch.                                       1.87\n    Joyfield. Cong. Ch., (ad\u2019l)                                2.00\n    Kalamo. Rev. and Mrs. Henry Marsh, _for\n      rebuilding barn, Talladega, Ala._                        2.00\n    Kalamazoo. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., $25\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;\u2014\u201cJ. W.,\u201d $1                 26.00\n    Kensington. \u201cJ. T.\u201d                                        1.00\n    Mattawan. W. B. Gorham                                    10.00\n    Vermontville. First Cong. Ch.                             13.00\n    Vienna. Union Cong. Ch.                                    7.47\n\n\n  INDIANA, $2.00.\n\n    Sparta. John Hawkswell                                     2.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $822.02.\n\n    Alton. Church of the Redeemer                             55.35\n    Aurora. New Eng. Ch.                                      35.74\n    Bartlett. Cong. Ch.                                        6.00\n    Chandlerville. Cong. Ch.                                   2.25\n    Chicago. ESTATE of Mrs. E. H. Craven, by E. W.\n      Blatchford, $250, _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n      U._, and $112.50, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._;\u2014New England Ch. Sab. Sch.,\n      $46.90 _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n      U._;\u2014Bethany Cong. Ch., $15.21;\u2014New Eng.\n      Ch., M. C. Coll., $11.82; Miss Anna E.\n      Bushnell, $5; Mrs. J. H. McArthur, $5                  446.43\n    Elgin. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. O. V.\n      RICE and J. S. SMITH, L. M\u2019s.                           81.85\n    Moline. Thomas Jewett, $50, _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._, Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._; S. W. W., 75c.                   75.75\n    Oak Park. Cong Ch., in part                               28.10\n    Ottawa. Cong. Ch.                                         30.00\n    Princeton. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary,\n      Liberty Co., Ga._, by Mrs. C. C. Cully                  15.00\n    Seward. Cong. Ch.                                         11.50\n    Wyanet and Providence. Cong. Churches, _for\n      Lady Missionary, Liberty Co., Ga._, by Mrs.\n      C. C. Cully                                              9.50\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $47.35.\n\n    Beloit. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                      5.00\n    Berlin. Union Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             5.00\n    Caledonia. M. E. N.                                        1.00\n    Geneva. Presb. Ch.                                        26.35\n    Salem. \u201cR. and F.\u201d                                         5.00\n    Waukesha. Vernon Tichenor                                  5.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $148.81.\n\n    Creston. Mrs. Perrigo, _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             5.80\n    Cedar Falls. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch, 3 bbls. of\n      C., _for Talladega, Ala._\n    Des Moines. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           15.00\n    Des Moines. Mrs. S. A. R., by Pub. \u201cAdvance\u201d               1.00\n    Dubuque. Ladies, by Mrs. M., _for Tougaloo_                1.21\n    Dunlap. Cong. Ch.                                          5.53\n    Fort Madison. Francis Sawyer                              15.00\n    Grinnell. Mrs. S. H. Bixby, $3;\u2014Grace L.\n      Brewer, $2.80, _for Student Aid, Washington\n      Sch._;\u2014Mrs. H. P. Fisk\u2019s Sab. Sch. Class,\n      $1, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                      6.80\n    Hampton. First Cong. Ch.                                   7.75\n    Keokuk. M. A. Smith                                        5.00\n    McGregor. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc.                              15.61\n    New Hampton. Woman\u2019s Cent. Soc.                            1.46\n    Osage. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., $7, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._; Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., $4.45                11.45\n    Oskaloosa. Rev. Asa Turner, $20, _for Student\n      Aid, Tougaloo U._, and Box of Books, _for\n      Library, Talladega C._                                  20.00\n    Sabula. Mrs. H. H. Wood                                    3.00\n    Stuart. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                            9.20\n    Tabor. A. S. McPherron, $9.75; Musical Union,\n      $10.25, _for Student Aid, Straight U._; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d $5, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._             25.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $83.55.\n\n    Atchison. Cong. Ch.                                       56.55\n    Manhattan. Mrs. Mary Parker                                5.00\n    Topeka. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                         15.00\n    Waubaunsee. First Ch. of Christ                            7.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $166.96.\n\n    Hutchinson. Cong. Ch.                                      1.11\n    Minneapolis. E. D. First Cong. Ch. of St.\n      Anthony                                                 16.12\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                  6.16\n    Owatonna. Cong. Ch.                                        2.83\n    Saint Paul. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              25.00\n    Waseca. Cong. Sab. Sch., $7; \u201cC. and K.,\u201d $5              12.00\n    Winona. First Cong. Ch., to const. EDWARD\n      KEYES and MISS FRANC. B. LAIRD, L. M\u2019s                  73.74\n    Zumbrota. First Cong. Ch., to const. T. D.\n      ROWELL, L. M.                                           30.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $2.50.\n\n    Camp Creek. G. F. L.                                       0.50\n    Steele City. Cong. Ch.                                     2.00\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $0.50.\n\n    Olympia. Mrs. H. H. S.                                     0.50\n\n\n  OREGON. $22.15.\n\n    Oregon City. Rev. A. N. Bower                             10.00\n    The Dalles. First Cong. Ch.                               12.15\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $5.00.\n\n    Sonora. Mrs. H. M. Van Winkle                              5.00\n\n\n  MARYLAND, $100.00.\n\n    Baltimore. T. D. Anderson                                100.00\n\n\n  WEST VIRGINIA, $5.00.\n\n    Charleston. Mrs. Sarah Neale                               5.00\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $345.85.\n\n    Chattanooga. Rev. Joseph E. Smith, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                50.00\n    Memphis. Lemoyne Sch., Tuition                           192.15\n    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition                              103.70\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $119.25.\n\n    Raleigh. Washington Sch., Tuition                         25.53\n    Wilmington. Tuition                                       93.75\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $25.00.\n\n    Aiken. Mary R. Bell, _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n      U._                                                     25.00\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $549.90.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs\u2019 Sch., Tuition, $211.15, Rent,\n      $3; Atlanta U., Tuition, $116.50;\u2014\u201cFriends,\u201d\n      $25, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                     355.65\n    Macon. Tuition                                            58.25\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $60.70, Sales,\n      $69.79                                                 130.49\n    Stone Mountain. E. M. M.                                   0.51\n    Woodville. Rev. J. H. Sengstacke, _for\n      building at Woodville_                                   5.00\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $289.03.\n\n    Mobile. Mission Band, Emerson Inst., by Ella\n      F. Grover, Sec., _for Mendi M._                         40.00\n    Montgomery. Pub. Sch. Fund                               175.00\n    Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, $73.03; G.\n      N. E., $1                                               74.03\n\n\n  FLORIDA, $1.00.\n\n    Orange City. Mrs. M. D. H.                                 1.00\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $166.00.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                        166.00\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $122.05.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $102.05; O. A.\n      Angell, $20, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._            122.05\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n    \u2014\u2014 Small sums, _for Postage_                               3.19\n\n\n  INCOME FUND.\n\n    \u2014\u2014 Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                          4,000.00\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                          $19,222.72\n          Total from Oct. 1st to April 30th,            $105,834.64\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Springfield, Vt. A. Woolson                              100.00\n    Andover, Mass. G. W. W. Dove                             100.00\n    Salem, Mass. Joseph H. Towne                              25.00\n    Hartford, Conn. Mrs. H. A. Perkins                       100.00\n    New Britain, Conn. Mrs. Louisa Nichols, $25;\n      John B. Smith and Wife, $20                             45.00\n    Norwich, Conn. Dr. D. T. Coit                            400.00\n    New York, N. Y. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                15.00\n    West Farms, N. Y. Daniel Mapes                           200.00\n    Hyde Park, Penn. Thomas Eynon                             50.00\n    Philadelphia, Penn. Benj. Coates                         100.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                           $1,135.00\n    Previously acknowledged in March Receipts              2,752.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                           $3,887.00\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.\n\n    Wethersfield, Conn. Jane S. Robbins, $6, and 3\n      Bbls. of C.                                              6.00\n    Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. M. A. F., $1; Miss M. L., $1          2.00\n    Goshen, N. Y. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   1.00\n    Silver Lake, Penn. Wm. Macnab                              2.00\n    Lena, Ill. S. Rising                                       4.50\n    Benzonia, Mich. Rev. D. B. Spencer                         6.05\n    Hancock, Mich. Cong. Sab. Sch.                            20.00\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                              $41.55\n    Previously acknowledged in March Receipts                362.25\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                             $403.80\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR SCHOOL BUILDING, ATHENS, ALA.\n\n    Chicago, Ill. Annual Meeting                             195.54\n    Danvers, Ill. Rev. M. L. Longley                           5.00\n    Kalamazoo, Mich. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.              6.77\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                             $207.31\n    Previously acknowledged in March Receipts                453.28\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                             $660.59\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.\n\n    Leeds, Eng. Robert Arthington, conditional\n      pledge, \u00a33,000.\n    London, Eng. Collected by Rev. O. H. White             1,701.00\n    Previously acknowledged in Feb. Receipts               3,048.76\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                           $4,749.76\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n          Receipts for April                             $22,307.58\n          Total from Oct. 1st to April 30th             $115,535.79\n                                                        ===========\n\n                                   H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,\n                                                56 Reade St., N. Y.\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, counseling, 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\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 belief\nin the guilty and lost condition of all men without a Saviour; the\nSupreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ,\nthe only Saviour of the world; the necessity of regeneration by\nthe Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and hold obedience in order to\nsalvation; the immortality of the soul; and the retributions of the\njudgment in the eternal punishment of the wicked, and salvation of\nthe righteous.\n\n\n\n\nThe American Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with\nthe almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its\nmain efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens\nand Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely\nrelated to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE\nin America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane\nand Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in\nAFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 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. B., and in\nhis presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto\nsubscribed our names as witnesses.\u201d In some States it is required\nthat the Will should be made at least two months before the death\nof the testator.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                          [Illustration]\n\n                           J. & R. LAMB,\n                       59 Carmine St., N. 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LORING,\n  Mathematics.\n\n  MISS MARY C. BARSTOW, Piano.\n\n  PROF. SAMUEL M. DOWNS,\n  Piano, Organ and Vocal Music.\n\n  MISS JENNIE E. IRESON,\n  Elocution and Gymnastics.\n\n  REV. JOHN LORD. LL.D.,\n  Lecturer on History.\n\n  PROF. CHARLES A. YOUNG,\n  Princeton Coll. Lecturer on Astronomy.\n\n[Illustration: PARLOR OF A SUITE.]\n\n\n                        CALENDAR, 1880\u201381.\n\n  FIRST TERM opens       September 7th, 1880\n  FIRST TERM closes      November 24th, 1880\n  SECOND TERM opens      November 30th, 1880\n  SECOND TERM closes         March 4th, 1881\n  THIRD TERM opens           March 22d, 1881\n  THIRD TERM closes           June 22d, 1881\n\n  Recess at Christmas-time.\n\n\n                             TUITION.\n\n  FOR THE COURSE, which includes English branches,\n    Latin and French, Greek or German, Vocal Music in\n    Classes, per term,                                          $20.00\n  Academic Expenses for the year, including all\n    charges. 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Applications for credits may be addressed\nas above direct, or through any first-class Bank or Banker.\n\n\n                       BROWN, SHIPLEY & CO.,\n                     26 Chapel St., Liverpool.\n\n                       BROWN, SHIPLEY & CO.,\n                Founder\u2019s Court, Lothbury, London.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     THE THIRTY-FOURTH VOLUME\n\n                              OF THE\n\n                       American Missionary,\n\n                               1880.\n\n\nWe have been gratified with the constant tokens of the increasing\nappreciation of the MISSIONARY during the past year, and purpose to\nspare no effort to make its pages of still greater value to those\ninterested in the work which it records.\n\nShall we not have a largely increased subscription list for 1880?\n\nA little effort on the part of our friends, when making their own\nremittances, to induce their neighbors to unite in forming Clubs,\nwill easily double our list, and thus widen the influence of our\nMagazine, and aid in the enlargement of our work.\n\nUnder the editorial supervision of Rev. C. C. PAINTER, aided by the\nsteady contributions of our intelligent Missionaries and teachers\nin all parts of the field, and with occasional communications from\ncareful observers and thinkers elsewhere, the AMERICAN MISSIONARY\nfurnishes a vivid and reliable picture of the work going forward\namong the Indians, the Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and the\nFreedmen as citizens in the South and as Missionaries in Africa.\n\nIt will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting\nthe races among which it labors, and will give monthly summary of\ncurrent events relating to their welfare and progress.\n\nPatriots and Christians interested in the education and\nChristianizing of these despised races are asked to read it, and\nassist in its circulation. 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 190.\n\nDonations and subscriptions should be sent to\n\n                     H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n                                       56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                          TO 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\n  DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, Printer, 101 Chambers Street, New York.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\nObvious punctuation errors corrected.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 34, No. 06, June, 1880","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":21410}