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NO. 9.\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                          SEPTEMBER, 1880.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    ANNUAL MEETING\u2014PARAGRAPHS                              257\n\n    ENCOURAGING SIGNS OF THE TIMES                         260\n\n    HELP WITHOUT MONEY\u2014THE TWO PARTIES AND THE CHINESE     261\n\n    INDIANS, RESERVATIONS AND RAILROADS                    262\n\n    BETTER HOMES FOR THE COLORED PEOPLE                    264\n\n    GROWTH OF IDEAS AMONG THE NEGROES AND INDIANS          266\n\n    AFRICAN NOTES                                          268\n\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                   270\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    A JULY VACATION                                        271\n\n    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA\u2014Lincoln Mission, Washington       272\n\n    ALABAMA\u2014Florence and her People                        273\n\n    LOUISIANA\u2014Lady-Missionary\u2019s Letter                     274\n\n    TENNESSEE\u2014Better Prospects of Memphis, &c.             275\n\n    TENNESSEE\u2014Flower Mission and Care for the Sick         276\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    MENDI MISSION\u2014Good Hope Station                        276\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    LA POINTE AGENCY                                       277\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    SERMONS BY OUR CHINESE HELPERS                         278\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    TRIP UP THE YANG-TSE-KIANG                             281\n\n    RECEIPTS                                               282\n\n    CONSTITUTION                                           286\n\n    AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS                                 287\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                             NEW YORK.\n\n         Published by the American Missionary Association,\n\n                      ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\n\nEntered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\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\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\n  relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\n  Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to\n  the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the \u201cAmerican\n  Missionary,\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.       SEPTEMBER, 1880.         NO. 9.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nANNUAL MEETING.\n\nThe next Annual Meeting of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION\nwill be held in Norwich, Ct., in the Broadway Church, commencing\nTuesday, October 12. at 3 P. M. For particulars see 4th page\nof cover.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_We are happy_ to say that encouraging responses have already been made\nto our note of warning that a debt is impending. Prompt and appropriate\neffort in this direction by our friends who have as yet only hoped, but\nhave not acted, for the best, will, we trust, give us a clear balance\nsheet on the last of September.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_A Farmer in New York_ writes: \u201cEnclosed please find draft for\n$300 for work among the Freedmen in the South. I notice in the\nMISSIONARY that you need an increase of 20 per cent. over last\nyear\u2019s contribution. I have increased mine 33 per cent. If all felt the\ninterest I do in this work, and would give in like proportion, there\nwould soon be a school-house in every neighborhood. It seems to me that\nthe life of our nation depends upon the education of these people.\nHowever much I desire that the Gospel shall be sent to Africa, for a\nfew years longer, it seems to me, our efforts should be directed mostly\nto the South. All reports from the work are encouraging.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_In the State Courts of Fulton County, Ga._, of which Atlanta is\nthe seat, no colored jurors have ever been empanelled; but the\ncommissioners have recently placed upon the jury list about twenty of\nthe most intelligent colored men, and it is hoped that some of them\nwill be drawn at the next term of court, and thus another advance in\nthe right direction be made by the Empire State of the South. For\nseveral years the United States court held in Atlanta has had a \u201cmixed\u201d\njury, and no serious evil has resulted.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Our readers_ will anticipate with much interest a new book by Judge\nTourgee\u2014\u201cBricks Without Straw\u201d\u2014which is announced for September. It\ndeals with the problem of negro education, and is by one who has made\nit a profound study.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_The public sentiment_ of Virginia, in regard to free schools, as\ngathered from the reports of the county superintendents, may be summed\nup in the language of one of them as follows: \u201cI might content myself\nby saying that most of the educated in my county are now decided\nadvocates of the present system. At first, a large majority were\nhostile to it; but a few days ago, one of the first men of the county\nsaid to me that he tried hard to believe it a \u2018Yankee innovation\u2019\nupon our good old Virginia plan, and as such it should be opposed by\nall true Virginians; but now he had become a decided advocate of it,\nand believed that the only hope of educating a large majority of our\ncitizens, indeed, that our very existence, as a free and independent\npeople, depended upon the preservation and extension of some good\nsystem of popular education.\u201d An examination of one hundred and three\nsuch reports discovers the fact that in less than a dozen counties is\nthere any very great opposition to the system. The reports show an\nalmost uniform and decided growth of public sentiment in favor of it.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_A Correspondent_ of the New Orleans _Times_ draws a discouraging\npicture of public school prospects in that city and State, and an\neditorial in the same issue adds: \u201cIt is, indeed, true, that our\nschools are in a very sad condition. What is more to be regretted is\nthat the prospect of their improvement is by no means encouraging. Once\nwe took pride in them, and gloried in the advantages which they offered\nto our children for obtaining an education. That pride appears to exist\nno longer. There is a sort of apathy about the schools, which justifies\nthe inference that they have not the hold on popular favor that they\nonce had. * * * If there were a prospect of a better condition of\naffairs next year, there would be, perhaps, no immediate occasion for\ndiscouraging forebodings. But there is not; there is no reason for\nbelieving that the provisions for the maintenance of the schools next\nyear will be more ample than they are this year. There is one thing\nvery certain, and that is that if we are to have efficient public\nschools in this city, the money to support them must be forthcoming.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_The Negro Bishop_ of Hayti, Theodore Holey, a native of the United\nStates, and consecrated in Grace Church, New York City, who, during the\nrecent gathering of the Bishops of the Anglican Church in London, was\nmuch honored by all his brethren, and who at the invitation of Dean\nStanley preached in Westminster Abbey, on St. James Day, closed his\naddress with the following eloquent words and remarkable prayer:\n\n\u201cAnd now, on the shores of old England, the cradle of that Anglo-Saxon\nChristianity by which I have been in part at least illuminated;\nstanding beneath the vaulted roof of this monumental pile, redolent\nwith the piety of by-gone generations during so many ages; in the\npresence of the\n\n  \u2018Storied urn and animated bust\u2019\n\nthat hold the sacred ashes and commemorate the buried grandeur of\nso many illustrious personages\u2014I catch a fresh inspiration and new\nimpulse of the Divine missionary spirit of our common Christianity;\nand here in the presence of God, of angels, and of men, on this day\nsacred to the memory of an apostle whose blessed name was called over\nme at my baptism, and as I lift up my voice for the first, and perhaps\nonly, time in any of England\u2019s sainted shrines, I dedicate myself anew\nto the work of God, of the Gospel of Christ, and of the salvation of\nmy fellow-men in the far distant isle of the Caribbean Sea, that has\nbecome the chosen field of my Gospel labors.\n\n\u201cO Thou Saviour Christ, Son of the living God, who when Thou wast\nspurned by the Jews of the race of Shem, and who, when delivered up\nwithout cause by the Romans of the race of Japheth, on the day of Thy\ncrucifixion, hadst Thy ponderous cross borne to Golgotha\u2019s summit on\nthe stalwart shoulders of Simon, the Cyrenian, of the race of Ham; I\npray Thee, O precious Saviour, remember that forlorn, despised, and\nrejected race, whose son thus bore Thy cross, when Thou shalt come in\nthe power and majesty of Thy eternal kingdom to distribute Thy crowns\nof everlasting glory!\n\n\u201cAnd give to me, then, not a place at Thy right hand or at Thy left,\nbut only the place of a gatekeeper at the entrance of the Holy City,\nthe new Jerusalem, that I may behold my redeemed brethren, the saved\nof the Lord, entering therein to be partakers with Abraham, Isaac, and\nJacob of all the joys of Thy glorious and everlasting kingdom.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Negro prejudice_ against negroes is likely to yield slowly, and will\ndo so only for good reasons. The prejudices of the whites have so far\ngiven way that Atlanta has had its negro juror, who promptly joined in\nconvicting a negro who was put on trial. But the next prisoner, who was\nalso a negro, charged with murder, strenuously objected to having one\nof his own race on the jury. There was another such case in Virginia\nsome time ago, when a colored prisoner made the same objection, on the\nground that \u201cniggers would hang a nigger just to see him kick.\u201d\n\nSo against this we note the fact, that the Court of Appeals in Kentucky\nrecently quashed an indictment against a negro, on the ground that\nthe grand jury was composed entirely of white men, and that the law\nexcluding all persons other than white men from serving on juries is\nunconstitutional.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Negro Teachers._\u2014The author of \u201cOther Fools, and Their Doings,\u201d pays\nthis somewhat rhetorical, but just tribute to the noble women who went\nforth to add value to the freedom, which, under stress of military\nnecessity, the nation had given to the negro slave\u2014a tribute which\nwill appear more just as the history of our noble workers becomes\nbetter known:\n\n\u201cWhile from thousands of homes brave men came with flaunting flags, and\nbeating drums, and booming cannons, singing as they marched,\n\n  \u2018We are coming, Father Abraham,\n  Three hundred thousand more,\u2019\n\nfrom out those same homes stole a procession of women, not\nclandestinely, not timidly, but brave of soul and strong of heart\nand inflexible of purpose, though without ostentation. The Bible and\nspelling-book were their only weapons, and their song was of \u2018the\nmercies of the Lord forever,\u2019 and their \u2018trust under the feathers of\nhis wings!\u2019 \u2018Neither the terror by night,\u2019 \u2018the arrow by day,\u2019 \u2018the\npestilence in darkness,\u2019 nor \u2018destruction at noon,\u2019 nor the \u2018thousands\nfalling on their right hand, and on their left,\u2019 could make them\nafraid; \u2018because they had made the Lord their strength, even the Most\nHigh their refuge.\u2019 They went forth to \u2018tread upon the lion and the\nadder, the young lion and the dragon.\u2019 Scorn, insult, slander, poverty,\nloneliness, sickness and death, they trampled under their feet; for\n\u2018through the work of the Lord were they made glad,\u2019 and they \u2018triumphed\nin the work of His hands.\u2019\n\n\u201cAway on in the Elysian fields of Heaven, when the cycles of eternity\nshall have encircled the universe, and rolled back upon their track in\nsuch repeated and intricate mazes as only the Infinite mind can trace,\nthey shall receive from the lips of the ransomed of all nations, \u2018the\nblessing of those once ready to perish;\u2019 and the blessed assurance that\nthe torch they lit in the Freedman\u2019s hut, lit a beacon that illumined\nthe world.\n\n\u201cIf the South is saved to civilization, its chief human Saviour was\n\u2018the nigger school-teacher.\u2019\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Capt. Payne_, who was ejected from the Indian Territory, which he\ninvaded last spring in defiance of the President\u2019s proclamation, again\ndefies the Government and the Courts, and has gone to the Territory\nwith a company of men. Parties in St. Louis have purchased machinery\nand various kinds of goods for his colony, and the issue is made most\nunequivocally with the Administration. We anxiously await the action of\nPresident Hayes.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_The Poncas_, of whose wrongs we spoke in the last number of the\nMISSIONARY, failing to receive justice at the hands of Congress, have\ncommenced a suit to recover possession of their houses and lands now\nheld by the Sioux, to whom the General Government has ceded them. The\nplaintiffs rely upon the fact that the Constitution of the United\nStates makes a treaty a part of the supreme law of the land, and also\nextends the judicial power of the Government to all cases in law and\nequity arising under treaties; and they have in their favor established\nprecedents by the courts for applying to the treaties with themselves\nthis provision of the constitution. Judge Dundy has decided that an\nIndian is a _person_ within the meaning of the laws, and, therefore,\ndischarged from the custody of Gen. Crook the Poncas whom he held for\nthe purpose of forcibly returning them to the Indian Territory from\nwhich they had escaped. Thus it is decided that they may have the\nquestion judicially tested in the Federal courts whether they have been\nillegally restrained of liberty. This suit is to determine whether\nthey may have not only their liberty, but their homes which have been\nforcibly taken from them in violation of solemn treaties.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nENCOURAGING SIGNS OF THE TIMES.\n\n(_From the Fisk Expositor._)\n\nFew things can be more gratifying and cheering to those engaged in the\ngrand work of educating the colored people in Tennessee, than the fact\nthat those having charge of educational affairs in the various towns,\nnamed below, either have, within the past few years, organized graded\nschools for colored youth, or are now taking steps for organizing such\nschools: Clarksville, Trenton, Shelbyville, Brownsville, Jackson, Union\nCity, Bolivar, Paris, Covington, Pulaski, Columbia, Fayetteville,\nMason Station, and perhaps some other towns. Another thing that all\nwho are engaged in the educational work in the State, ought to regard\nas a hopeful sign, is the fact that the last Legislature, in all its\nzeal for retrenchment, made no effort to reduce the income of the free\nschool system. This, and the fact, that much complaint was uttered by\nthe people all over the State, because of the suspension of schools\nconsequent upon the postponement of the collection of taxes by the\nLegislature, show how deeply the system of the State has taken hold\nupon the affections of the masses.\n\nStill another ground for hopefulness is found in the fact, that,\nwhereas, year before last, not quite 39 per cent. of the colored\nchildren of the State were enrolled in the free schools, last year\nnearly 49 per cent. were so enrolled. And there are reasons for\nbelieving that the superintendent\u2019s forthcoming report will show\nequally encouraging figures.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHELP WITHOUT MONEY.\n\nThe Rev. H. E. Brown, of whose evangelistic work under the auspices\nof the Y. M. C. A. of the South, and among the colored churches of\nthe South, we have spoken, makes at once a suggestion and an appeal\nwhich must strike every one as exceedingly practical, common sense\nand valuable. His letter which is given below will explain itself. We\nurge, most earnestly, upon the Christian scholars of the North this\nopportunity, without cost of money, and with but little expenditure of\ntime, for doing a most valuable work for the colored people. If men of\nacknowledged authority in their several departments of science and art\nwould furnish such articles as are asked for, the result must prove\nhighly beneficial to these people who so much need, and are so eagerly\nseeking, knowledge in regard to practical matters on which depends\nlargely their welfare. The physician, the lawyer, the farmer, the\npolitical economist, the scientist, all these might with great profit\nto these people respond to this call. We trust that the mere suggestion\nof Mr. Brown will prove sufficient to call forth abundant answer:\n\n\n  \u201cLANSING, MICH., July, 1880.\n\n  \u201cDEAR SIR: An opportunity is now presented for leading\n  scholars to afford substantial help toward the solution of the\n  colored problem of our country. Colored editors of ten papers,\n  chiefly for colored people, published in Washington, Charleston,\n  Raleigh, New Orleans, St. Louis, and other Southern cities,\n  request for publication a series of scientific articles, of about\n  a column\u2019s length, say a thousand words, such as would be, at\n  once, helpful to ministers, teachers and students, and would\n  stimulate future inquiries among all classes. I am aware that the\n  preparation of such articles will cost valuable time which can\n  scarcely be spared from pressing duties; but the promise of benefit\n  to the colored race is so great in the elevation of tone of their\n  papers, and in anticipating so-called infidel science, that I take\n  the liberty to ask you to prepare, and send me, one or more such\n  articles, that I may copygraph, and forward, gratis, to the several\n  editors who desire them.\n\n  \u201cYours truly,\n  \u201cHENRY E. BROWN, _Secretary\n  \u201cfor International Committee of Col. Dep\u2019t.,\n  \u201cY. M. C. A._\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE TWO PARTIES AND THE CHINESE.\n\nAh Sin does not vote even once; Patrick O\u2019Flannigan does as often as\nthat, and is capable of doing even better if occasion should require.\nAh Sin is, therefore, exposed to such kicks as Patrick may ask for at\nthe hands, or rather the feet, of the politicians, while both parties\nvie with each other in throwing to Patrick such sops as may conciliate\nhis good will. Under Democratic Government, a class which has neither\nchains upon, nor ballots in its hands, is an anomaly impossible to\nharmonize with its surroundings, as it is also defenceless against the\nassaults of its enemies; it has neither weapons for its own protection\nnor a reward to offer for that of others. What Pat, who votes, may ask\nfor as against Ah Sin, who does not, the average politician is ready\nto promise, even when constitutionally prohibited from granting. And\nthis promise has been made, it is humiliating to confess, not simply by\nsand-lot demagogues, but by aspirants for the highest offices under our\nGovernment.\n\nThe arrival on our Western coast, and the presence in our land, of less\nthan a hundred thousand Chinamen is gravely spoken of as a fearful\ninundation which in some way must be arrested; but the tide that flows\nsteadily in upon our Eastern coast from Ireland and other countries,\nis regarded as a blessing rather than a danger. If we seek for an\nexplanation of this difference, it will be found to be at bottom simply\nthis: Patrick does not like Ah Sin\u2019s frugal, industrious, economical\nhabits, which enable him to live and labor cheaply; so he nourishes\nhis ballot over the head of the politician, and his shillalah over\nthat of Ah Sin, and says that he must go, while all seekers for office\neither echo the demand, or more mildly assert that his coming must be\nregulated.\n\nA candid examination of the testimony taken by the Committee of the\nUnited States House of Representatives last year in California, will\nleave the impression that the Chinese characteristics which give most\noffense to the sand-lotters, whose voice both great national parties\nhave heard, and to which they have also made responses which ought to\nmantle our cheeks with shame, are just the ones above mentioned. Such\nmen as the Mayor of San Francisco, indeed, complain that China Town\nis not much like Beacon Hill in beauty or cleanliness; that there are\nwomen among these people not so pure as they ought to be; that many of\nthe men lie quietly in opium dens under the influence of that subtle\ndrug instead of assisting, under the stimulus of whiskey, at primary\nmeetings and at the polls, as good politicians should. Charges to this\neffect are made, but the evidence taken shows that the real ground of\ncomplaint is that the Chinaman is sober, industrious, reliable, and\nlikely to be preferred as a laborer to Patrick and Bridget.\n\nThat the necessaries and comforts of life are to be bought, by those\nwho need them, more cheaply in a market supplied with Chinese labor,\nis not deemed worthy of consideration; the great fact which demands\nattention is that Patrick must forego his numerous holidays, his\nwhiskey, and his devotion to politics; must settle down to, and\naccomplish, a vast amount of honest and skillful labor, if he shall\nsuccessfully compete with the Chinese, which is an evil the two\npolitical parties must promise to abate as the condition of having his\nsupport at the polls.\n\nThe fact comes back upon us that the ballot is necessary, under our\nGovernment, for the defence of every class of citizens; and the\neducation of the voter is a necessary defence of the Government against\nthe ignorance of the ballot. Neither the wisdom nor the virtue of the\nstatesman can be relied upon, for he everywhere becomes a demagogue, if\ndemagogy continues to be the road to office, as it is everywhere among\nignorant voters. Our salvation must be found, not in the virtue of the\nstatesmen, but in the intelligence and virtue of the people.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nINDIANS, RESERVATIONS AND RAILROADS.\n\nThere are in all one hundred and twenty Indian reservations scattered\nover the country, chiefly west of the Mississippi River, aggregating\nmore than one square mile of land to each man, woman and child of the\n252,897 Indians, exclusive of those in Alaska, which compose our Indian\npopulation. This is equivalent to giving three times the area of New\nYork State to one-half the population of Brooklyn; only these people\ndo not hold this land in severalty, and, therefore, are tempted by its\nabundance to roam over it as hunters, and are discouraged from building\non it and cultivating it as owners because of the uncertain tenure by\nwhich it is held. That there has been such a decided tendency toward\ncivilized life, under all such discouragements, as is shown by the last\nReport of the Indian Commissioners, is most encouraging.\n\nThe five tribes longest settled in the Indian Territory, now called\ncivilized, number about 60,000 souls. More than half of these can read.\nAll wear citizens\u2019 dress. They have a school-house for every 312, and a\nchurch-building for every 458 inhabitants. During the past year, they\ncultivated more than 22 acres of land for each family of five persons,\nraised more than 263 bushels of grain and vegetables, and owned five\nand one-sixth horses or mules for each family. This favorable showing\nwould appear even more encouraging from a full exhibit of all the\nstatistics given in this Report, to which our readers are referred.\n\nThe showing for the other tribes is fully as encouraging, when it is\nremembered that their circumstances have been much less favorable.\nIn fact, it appears evident that the progress of these people has\nbeen great just in proportion to their opportunities; that what is\nlacking is not susceptibility to civilized life, but opportunity for\nadopting it, which we have denied them. Give the Indian the chance, and\nhe will become a civilized and valuable citizen. About 77,000 among\nthe remaining tribes wear citizens\u2019 clothes and own more than 11,000\nhouses, 1,212 of which have been built during the past year. Eleven\nthousand and eighty-one can read, and 1,717 have learned the art within\nthe same time.\n\nIt is significant that the five tribes above mentioned expended\n$156,856 of tribal funds for schools, while the Government added $3,500\nfor this purpose. Among the other tribes, $13,043 of tribal funds were\nraised for schools, and the Government appropriated $164,702. That is\nto say, these five tribes numbering 60,000 raised, in round numbers,\ntwelve times as much for schools as all the other tribes, and only\n$12,000 less than the Government appropriated to all the others for\nschool purposes; and the Government expended more than forty-seven\ntimes as much upon the other tribes as it did upon these five.\n\nThis would seem to indicate, even to an average Congressman, that the\ncheaper policy would be to give the Indian a chance to take care of\nhimself. Aside from the discouragements to a civilized life furnished\nby the amount of land occupied by the Indian, and by the kind of\ntitle he has to it, it should be remembered that much of this land is\nvaluable and presents a strong temptation to the white man\u2019s greed,\nand that it lies, often, in the direct line of advancing civilization,\nan almost insurmountable barrier to its progress. We cannot reasonably\nbe expected to double the length of our railroad lines, simply to\nbuild them around lands which ought to be opened up by them. The\nNorth-western and Milwaukee railroads, in their westerly march, have\nnearly reached the Sioux reservations. These cannot be entered except\nby force, or with the full consent of this tribe. The right of eminent\ndomain, under treaty with our Government, belongs to it, not to us; to\nthe individual members of the tribe, and must be surrendered with each\none\u2019s consent, or not at all. These roads are not willing to pay what\nis demanded for the right of way, and are preparing to enter without\npermission. The probable result will be this: the roads will enter;\nthe Indians will resist; the army will be sent in to punish them for\nmurder; and after a war that will cost many lives and millions of\nmoney, the roads will be built, and the remnant of Indians forced into\nsome other reservation. Of course, we cannot allow this people to throw\na barrier across the Continent; the road must be built.\n\nThe fact is, the whole policy of treating these people otherwise than\nas citizens who are to be fitted for the privileges, and from whom\nare to be exacted the duties, of good citizens, is foolish, wicked,\ncostly and suicidal. Is it not time for the good common sense\u2014we say\nnothing of the humanity\u2014of the American people to declare that this\nshall be done now; that the rights of these people shall be wisely and\nrighteously adjusted to both our and their highest interests?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBETTER HOMES FOR THE COLORED PEOPLE.\n\nThat the subject of village improvement was discussed in some of the\nessays presented at the closing exercises of the Hampton School last\nMay is due, doubtless, to the fact that some of the teachers came from\nStockbridge, Mass., and belong to the Laurel Hill Association, rather\nthan to any spontaneous ideas on the part of the students themselves.\nThe idea of village improvement comes as a development and outgrowth\nof such a degree of _home_ improvement as is yet unknown, not alone\nto the negroes, but to the vast majority of the Southern whites. Not\nuntil the log hut has been supplanted by something better, and the\nidea of improvement has put in floors and windows, has built a chimney\nand yard fence, has planted some trees and flowers about the house,\ncan it be expected that much interest will be taken in public streets\nand cemeteries; neither can much be hoped for in the elevation and\nrefinement of the people.\n\nMan is so far a chameleon that he takes his color largely from his\nhabitat, and the observant traveler through the South is slow to\nbelieve that much has been, or can be, done for the culture of the\nnegro so long as he vegetates, rather than lives, in the miserable\nshanties, devoid alike of beauty and comfort, about which flocks of\nchildren like so many crows, or scarecrows, are roosting. From such\nhomes our pupils come, and back to such they return. It has been\ndespairingly said that the cultivated Indian gradually, but almost\ninevitably, sinks back to the level of the home-life by which he is\nsurrounded; rarely has he strength to lift others to his isolated\nlevel. This is deplorable, but not surprising. It requires a vast\namount of moral heroism to stand out against the universal customs\nof one\u2019s people. It requires more than the strength of one or two\nmen or women to lift up a whole tribe, and except for an evident and\nwide-spread desire among the Indians to better their condition and\nchange their modes of life, but little could be hoped for from the\nexperiments now being made at Hampton and Carlisle; neither can we\ndoubt that much of the culture received in our schools for the negroes\nwill be lost, or serve only to quicken a sense of degradation, unless\nspecial efforts are made to counteract the inevitable tendencies of\nsurroundings when these pupils return to their homes. Educational\neffort should be largely directed to a practical knowledge of bettering\nthese homes, and to the kindling of a desire to do so.\n\nHistorically and, perhaps, philosophically, dress seems to have been\ndeveloped from ornament. All savages strut in paint, feathers, and\nskins, intended to set off their charms of person, long before either\ndecency or comfort suggests clothing; and among the colored girls of\nthe South, pains should be taken to develop a womanly pride which\nwill be ashamed of a bare and squalid hut, a pride which, without\ncare, will prove to be mere vanity, delighting in gaudy dress and\nbrilliant pinchbeck. In its present stage of development the South is\nthe Eldorado of the cheap jewelry peddler, and many a youth, who can\nwithout shame sleep on straw, live on corn and get along without shoes,\nis miserable for lack of a brass ring and pin.\n\nDress for comfort and not as mere ornament, soap, towels, beds,\nregulated ventilation, the conditions and concomitants of true\nculture, these belong to a distinct epoch from that earlier and lower\none characterized by love of display. The wise, Christian culture of\nour schools is intended to reduce this evil, to which the negro is\nspecially inclined, to the least possible dimensions. We aim to make\nearnest, practical men and women, who shall value all they can acquire\neither of knowledge or of money, not in its relation to personal\naggrandizement, but for its power to lift their homes, families and\npeople out of their present degradation.\n\nBut the work of the teacher needs to be supplemented by other saving\ninfluences. In no other way could the Southern States do so much for\nthe elevation of intelligence and virtue of its poorer classes, white\nand black, as by inducing them to build for themselves better homes.\nIn more northerly latitudes, climate compels the erection of houses\nthat are at least well made, and excellence in one particular suggests\nand gradually secures it in others; but where a hut, floorless and\nwindowless, proves sufficient, nothing better is suggested, and life\nsustained on that level rises to no higher plane except under special,\nextraneous provocatives. In the present impoverished condition of these\nStates, and comparative indifference of the better to the degraded\ncondition of the lower classes, nothing can be expected from them, and\nthe suggestion is made to philanthropists who are seeking the welfare\nof the colored people, whether something might not be done by offering\npremiums for the erection of homes, and by furnishing, in some way,\nplans and suggestions which would be helpful to them.\n\nIn some States, the negroes have, with good results, instituted\nagricultural fairs, and have thus stimulated each other to helpful\nrivalries. Cannot something be done by the offer, through these\norganizations, of suitable premiums for cheap, but suitable, homes?\n\nChristianity ought, in this 1880th year of our Lord, to be more than\na \u201cvoice crying in the wilderness;\u201d more than John clad in skins and\nliving on locusts and wild honey. She ought to go forth clad in her\nbeautiful garments. During these two centuries she has ripened much\nfruit which the world knows is good; she has developed much power of\nwhich the world feels its need, and it should not go to the nations\nand tribes of the earth empty handed, only to utter, as at first,\nthe glad tidings which she was commissioned to proclaim. She should\nmarch forth in the greatness of her strength and magnificence of her\nbeauty, panoplied in power and garlanded with her victories, commending\nherself to man by what she has gained for him. Other avenues have been\nopened for approach\u2014other than through his hopes and fears for the\nfuture life; substantial gains have been achieved for that which now\nis, and these should be made the allies of Christ and the instruments\nof the Church. It has taken centuries to build a Christian home,\nthe mightiest ally of the Church; let the Church take it with her\nalong with the school, and not suffer the filth, and discomfort, and\ndegrading influences of the old hut to hang as a millstone about the\nneck of those she would save. Of man\u2019s home here, no less than of the\nheavenly, \u201cthe Lamb should be the light;\u201d his surroundings, person,\nintellect, every part of him and every interest pertaining to him,\nshould be acted upon by the accumulated influences, and appealed to by\nthe developed advantages and benefits of Christianity. If by some means\nthe log cabins of the negroes can be supplanted by neat and healthful\ncottages\u2014surrounded by gardens and shaded yards\u2014more than threefold\nefficiency will be added to the efforts we are making through the\nschools and churches.\n\nSend back our pupils from the refining influences of our\nboarding-schools into the dirt and squalor and ugliness of these\ncabins, and a large per cent. of our work will be lost.\n\nAttention to the subject, immediate and earnest, is demanded by all the\ninterests we seek, and it is hoped that some one competent to deal with\nit will give it thought, and suggest some practical way of securing so\ndesirable an end.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE GROWTH OF IDEAS AMONG THE NEGROES AND INDIANS.\n\nREV. ADDISON P. FOSTER, JERSEY CITY, N. J.\n\nIt is a truism to say that the welfare of our country depends on the\nideas which are prevalent. No inquiry, then, can be more helpful in\ndetermining our condition as a nation than that which relates to the\nprogress of ideas among these classes which give us most anxiety. The\nFreedmen and the Indians are not the worst classes among us, but they\nhave been the most ignorant, and every patriot is desirous of knowing\ntheir present mental condition. A recent visit to the Normal Institute\nat Hampton, Va., on the occasion of its graduating exercises, gave\nyour correspondent, as he listened to the addresses of the students\nand conversed with different colored people, an opportunity to collect\nfacts which, though not decisive, are at least suggestive on this\npoint. Undoubtedly, these ideas came largely through the influence of\nHampton Institute, but it must be remembered that similar institutions\nof the American Missionary Association and other boards are scattered\nthroughout the South, and that, through their educated students, these\nideas are diffused far and wide among the colored people.\n\nAs to _work_, the colored man long since learned the Divine law, that\nif he would not work, neither should he eat. One could not sit for an\nhour on the wharf at Norfolk, as we did lately, and watch the colored\nmen about the sloops and lighters and on the docks, without being\nimpressed by the fact that they had learned to work.\n\nThe same lesson is just now being diligently conned by the Indians.\nCarl Schurz, in his speech at Hampton, declared that the Indians were\ndiscovering that they must work or starve, that hunting would no longer\nsupport them, and that the land must be cultivated for food. A similar\ntruth was uttered by \u201cBear\u2019s Heart,\u201d an Indian youth, who made an\ninteresting address in broken English on the same occasion. Said he:\n\u201cBefore I come here, I play; my mother and sisters work. When I go\nback, my mother and sisters do housework: I dig the ground\u201d\u2014a purpose\nwhich was loudly applauded. An amusing story is told of a certain great\nGeneral who is supposed to sympathize with the barbarous sentiment,\n\u201cThe only good Indian is a dead Indian.\u201d Driving out from Fortress\nMonroe to examine the progress of the Indians at Hampton, he was\ninveighing against them, and declaring vehemently that they could not\nbe taught to work, when he cast his eyes on a field belonging to the\nInstitution, and there were ten Indian boys vigorously hoeing corn.\n\nAs to _property_, the desire is coming to be very strong among both\nIndian and colored for the possession of land. It is well known that\nmany Indians on Western reservations are seeking an ownership of land\nin severalty. A similar desire has long stimulated the colored man. We\nhad the honor of talking with a man of unmixed negro blood, who owns in\nfee simple, about twenty miles from Norfolk, a good farm of 171 acres.\nHe and a friend purchased together an estate of 342 acres of woodland,\npaying $1,300 for it. He took one-half, paid in cash $200, which he\nhad saved up during the war, and the remainder in three years. He has\nsince fairly stocked his farm, built him a little house, comfortably\nfed his family off his farm, and secured about a hundred dollars a year\nin cash. When we met him, he was on the way to Hampton to see his son\ngraduate with valedictory honors. Geo. Sykes, of Lake Drummond, Va., is\na man whose name deserves to go on record. Mr. Sykes affirms that eight\nyears ago he was the first colored man in his township who owned land.\nNow twenty-five own from five to thirty acres each, and have their\ndeeds without encumbrance, while twenty-five others have bought land\nand are paying for it.\n\nAs to _self-help_, we heard the most encouraging words from speakers on\ngraduation day. \u201cWe must stand on our own feet,\u201d said one speaker, \u201cand\nmust not trust alone to missionary societies or State or individual\naid.\u201d \u201cNo talk,\u201d he added, \u201cwill make me equal to other men, but I\nmust equal them, if at all, by my own exertions.\u201d A striking instance\nof self-help is more conclusive testimony. We conversed with a\ncertain young Hampton graduate who gave us a remarkable history. He\nwas an orphan. After saving up $125 by farm work, he went to Hampton\nfor study, receiving no aid, and working summers. At the end of two\nyears, he found he had not more than forty dollars left, so he went to\nteaching. But he was paid only in orders on the State Treasury, which\nhe could not get cashed except at a discount of generally twenty per\ncent. With business wisdom, he secured a living by farm-work in summer,\nsaved up his orders on the Treasury, till at the end of three years the\nState cashed them in full, and then he went back and graduated. Not\neven Dr. Goodell, of missionary fame, carrying his trunk on his back\nto Andover for the sake of an education, showed more heroism than this\ncolored boy.\n\nThe colored people\u2019s desire for _education_ has long been known, and\nthe incident just related well illustrates it. The same spirit appears\nin the support of the \u201cButler School,\u201d situated on the grounds of the\nInstitute, and taught by its graduates. The State of Virginia furnishes\nfunds to keep this school open only five months; but the parents of\nthe children, finding employment in a canning establishment on the\nInstitution\u2019s property, gladly pay ten cents a week for each child from\ntheir slender wages, and so keep the school open the rest of the year.\n\nAs to _responsibilities_, the colored students recognize their duties\nas leaders of their people. Some of them who would gladly be teachers\nhave found that orders on the State Treasury, subject to ten or twenty\nper cent. discount for cash, are not very remunerative, and are looking\nin other directions for employment. Undoubtedly, as skillful farmers\nand successful merchants, no less than as teachers, they can elevate\ntheir people. But at Hampton, a stalwart black man, in a post-graduate\naddress, gave the students a ringing exhortation not to desert, because\nof its hardships, the vocation of a teacher, \u201cwhich,\u201d said he, turning\nto President Hayes, who sat before him, \u201cis a nobler position than even\nthat of President of the United States.\u201d The responsibilities of the\nnegro for village improvements in the South and for the evangelization\nof Africa were points dwelt upon by other speakers.\n\nWe listened with peculiar interest to references made in the graduating\naddresses to the relation of the colored man _to other races_. It was\npleasing to see the kind and forgiving spirit manifested. No bitterness\nwas shown either publicly or privately because colored teachers had\nfailed to secure their pay. An interesting essay on \u201cThe Advantage\nof Disadvantages\u201d referred to their ill-treatment in the past, with\nno word of reproach. One speaker advanced the sentiment that the\ncolored man need not feel specially troubled at his past deprivation\nof political privileges; that it was better for him not to have much\ninfluence in government until he had become fitted to exercise that\ninfluence wisely. Other like utterances were made, full of patience,\nmodesty, loyalty, hopefulness and a worthy ambition.\n\nAs to _religion_, everything is most encouraging. We attended a revival\nmeeting in a neighboring church, which was conducted with great decorum\nand genuine feeling, entirely different from the wild hurly-burly of\nwar times. The students of the Institute are carefully trained in\nreligious truths, and it is seldom that a graduate goes out who is not\na sincere Christian. The spirit of the anniversary exercises was that\nof a deep, but unostentatious piety. The same influence is exerted\namong the Indians. We were told a touching story of \u201cWalking Cloud,\u201d\nan Indian boy whom nothing could move from his stolidity and his\nunwillingness to put away the badges of his barbarism\u2014his blanket and\nlong hair\u2014till the chaplain of the Institution showed him a picture of\nChrist on the cross and explained its meaning. This boy, soon afterward\ntaken sick and dying, gave expression in the peculiar metaphoric speech\nof his race to his desire to live a Christian life.\n\nWe are abundantly satisfied that these noble institutions through the\nSouth, of which Hampton is one of the best-known and most efficient,\nare surely and not so very slowly re-shaping the races which are under\ntheir influence. We think there was abundant reason for Governor Long,\nof Massachusetts, in his address at Hampton, to use these words:\n\u201cHorace Greeley was wont to say that the way to resume is to resume,\nand so we would say, the way to solve the race problem in this country\nis to solve it;\u201d and this is what the Hampton Institute is doing.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAFRICAN NOTES.\n\n\u2014The River Binue, one of the great confluents of the Niger, which\nBishop Crowther and Dr. Blaikie ascended, in 1854, to a point 400 miles\nabove its union with the other great branch, has recently been explored\n150 miles beyond the furthest point before reached by any white man.\nThis was done by the C. M. S. Steamer _Henry Venn_, under the command\nof Mr. Ashcroft. This voyage was recently described before the Royal\nGeographical Society of London, which awarded Bishop Crowther a gold\nwatch, valued at \u00a340, for geographical explorations on the Niger. Mr.\nAshcroft considers the Binue a most interesting mission field. In no\npart of Africa has he seen so many flourishing towns\u2014\u201ca good-sized\ntown every mile along the bank of the river for a long distance,\nthickly populated.\u201d He says: \u201cI spoke to the kings at many of the\nheathen towns, and they were all willing to learn the white man\u2019s book,\nand that their children also should learn.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014The Royal Geographical Society, on the 26th of April last, was\nvisited by Rev. C. T. Wilson and Mr. Felkin, who had just arrived from\nCentral Africa, and with them were three ambassadors from King Mtesa\u2019s\ncourt in Uganda. These were introduced as \u201cEarl Namkaddi,\u201d \u201cEarl\nKataruba,\u201d and \u201cEarl Sawaddu,\u201d nobles of the second rank at home. These\nmen are described as of slight build, very black in color, and with\nfeatures more bright and intelligent than in the common negro type.\n\nIt was in 1863 that Speke and Grant discovered the great lake Victoria\nNyanza, and made known to the world the existence of Uganda and its\npeople. Since then only four whites have visited that country\u2014-Mr.\nStanley, M. Linant de Bellefonds, Col. Long, and Dr. Emin Effendi,\nuntil the visit of Mr. Wilson, who returns with the first natives who\nhave visited Europe from that region.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014The Peninsula of Sierra Leone is 22 miles long by 12 miles broad,\nwith a population of 37,000, all of whom excepting about 4,000 bear the\nname of Christians. About one-half of these are connected with the C.\nM. S., and the remainder are for the most part Wesleyans. It became a\ndiocese in 1852, and may, with as much propriety, be called Christian\nas England or the United States. It is no longer considered missionary\nground. The church sustains itself, and the whole peninsula is divided\nup into parishes, the same as England, each one having its own clergy,\nSunday-school and church council. The cost of all is met by voluntary\nsubscriptions, as it has been for nearly twenty years. Three hundred\nand forty-three persons partook of the Lord\u2019s Supper at Lagos last\nEaster Sabbath, members of one church, which during the past three\nyears has contributed no less than \u00a33,412 for church purposes.\n\nSierra Leone is the oldest, but not the only, mission of the Church\nMissionary Society on the West Coast of Africa. Yoruba has eleven\nstations, thirteen African clergymen, more than two thousand\ncommunicants, and nearly six thousand professing Christians; and the\nNiger Mission, begun 23 years ago, has its African bishop and clergy,\ntwo hundred communicants and 1,500 Christians.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014ROBERT ARTHINGTON AND THE ENGLISH BAPTIST MISSION.\u2014It is difficult\nto decide whether to admire most the overflowing love which prompts\nhis gifts, the large, unsectarian spirit with which they are bestowed,\nor the wisdom with which they are placed and limited. Evidently, he\nhas profoundly studied the problem whose solution he feels called to\nattempt. He has just written a letter to the directors of the English\nBaptist Missionary Society, offering 4,000 pounds toward putting and\nmaintaining a steamer on the Congo River, for the use of the Congo\nMission of that Society. He writes:\n\n\u201cI believe the time has come when we should make every necessary\npreparation to carry out the original purpose of the Congo Mission to\nplace a steamer on the Congo River, where we can sail north-eastward\ninto the heart of Africa for many hundred miles uninterruptedly, and\nbring the glad tidings of the everlasting Gospel to thousands of human\nbeings who are ignorant of the way of life and immortality.\n\n\u201cI have, therefore, now to offer your Society a thousand pounds toward\nthe purchase chase of a steamer, of the best make and capacity, every\nway suitable for the purpose, and its conveyance and launch on the\nriver at Stanley Pool, and three thousand pounds to be carefully\ninvested, the interest only to be used for the perpetual maintenance\nof such steamer on the Congo and its affluents, until Christ and his\nsalvation shall be known all along the Congo from Stanley Pool to the\nfirst cataract of the equatorial cataracts of the Congo\u2014beyond the\nmouths of the Armvimi and Mbura Rivers.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014The Uganda envoys from King Mtesa\u2019s court sailed on the 22d of June\nfor Aden, whence they will take the British-Indian steamer to Zanzibar;\nthe closing of the Nile route making it necessary for them to return by\nway of the East coast. Mr. Felkin, whose health will not admit of his\ngoing back to Uganda, accompanies them to Zanzibar and will return to\nEngland. They will be conducted to their home by Mr. Stokes, who is on\nthe coast making the necessary preparations for the journey. They carry\nback valuable gifts, have seen much of England\u2019s civilization and the\nfruits of her religion, and it is not unreasonable to expect that the\nfuture of their country will be greatly influenced by this visit of her\nintelligent chiefs.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nFISK UNIVERSITY.\u2014The following statistics relating to the religious\ncondition of the University were read at a meeting, held on the day\nof prayer for colleges: In Model School\u2014Number of Christians, 35; not\nChristians, 56; total, 91; percentage, 38.4. Normal School\u2014Number of\nChristians, 61; not Christians, 55; total, 116; percentage, 52.5.\nCollegiate Department\u2014Number of Christians, 77; not Christians, 9;\ntotal, 86; percentage 89.5. Total number in school, 293; number of\nChristians, 194; percentage, 59. This meeting occurred in the midst of,\nand was followed by, great religious interest, which greatly reduced\nthe percentage of non-religious students.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTOUGALOO, MISS.\u2014A young woman, who has been teaching, writes to Mr.\nMiner, of Tougaloo, a letter which, although intended for no eye but\nhis, we think ought to be seen by others. She is explaining why she has\nnot returned to school: \u201cI have had bad luck again in collecting what\nis due me from the people. They all promised to pay me by the first\nSaturday of the month, but they did not; so I am left with but little\nmoney for going to school.\n\n\u201cMr. M. I am very sorry! Sorry and hurt to my very heart, to think how\nI have longed to go to school and learn something, and now I am not\nable to do so and pay for my own board. Probably I could do so, but\nI have a poor afflicted mother to help, and six younger brothers and\nsisters and an orphan cousin; all of them I must help. I am 23 years\nold to-day, and I have craved to go to school ever since I was seven\nyears old, which is sixteen years I have craved for it; and all the\ntime I have gone, after all, is not more than one year and five or\neight months. And now I am almost discouraged of ever going to school\nlike I want to go, that is, to bear my own expense.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMILLER\u2019S STATION, GA.\u2014Rev. J. R. McLean, after an absence of seven\nyears, has taken a vacation trip to his old home in McLeansville,\nN. C. He reports a good work at that point by Rev. A. Connet, the\nexaminations and closing exercises of whose school he attended. Among\nmany changes noted, he says: \u201cPerhaps the greatest is in some of the\nplantations. Where once there were from 50 to 100 slaves and from 30\nto 40 horses and mules, with large barns, granaries and many cabins,\ndesolation now reigns. One cause of this is the low wages paid for\nlabor (for men, $6.50 or $7 per month; for women, $3), which causes the\nyoung men to leave home and work in the tobacco factories. These are\nschools of vice, as are all places in which young men congregate free\nfrom restraint; and the money earned is speedily spent in forming evil\nhabits. In looking over these desolated plantations, I could but be\nreminded of the prophecy of Jeremiah iv., 27, and Isaiah v., 9-25. As\nI talked of these things with the only one left of those who formerly\nruled over my home and people, it seemed as if the frown of God was\nresting upon these old homes. May God speed the day when men of all\nraces shall love Him as a common father, and each other us brethren.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nANNISTON, ALA.\u2014The Iron Company whose furnaces are at this place, which\nis about to erect also a woolen mill, is doing much to improve the\ncondition of the colored people. The neat church edifice and parsonage,\noccupied by the Rev. P. J. McEntosh, were largely built by this Company.\n\nThe parish school taught by the pastor, assisted by Miss R. Cruikshank,\na graduate of Talladega, closed on the 30th of June a successful term.\nMiss C. was able to add music to the list of studies, to the great\nadvantage of both school and church. In this she was much aided by the\nvaluable gift of an organ from Mr. Robert Cushman, of Pawtucket, R. I.\n\nThe need of women missionaries and teachers, to visit and labor in the\nhomes of the colored people, is deeply felt and strongly urged by the\npastor.\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 JULY VACATION.\n\n\u201cOnce at Clifton Springs, always there.\u201d That is the proverb. Well, why\nnot? Dr. Cuyler boasts of his thirty years at Saratoga Springs; and he\nhas been a tolerably healthy man, able to do some work in preaching and\nwriting for the newspapers. Multitudes of other people go to the same\nplace year after year for rest and recuperation; and so do many find it\nto their inclination and profit to come to these springs, season after\nseason. The make-up of Dr. Foster\u2019s Sanitarium develops a peculiar home\nfeeling. The judicious medical treatment, if needed, is an attraction.\nThe water, with, its sulphates of lime and magnesia and soda, has in\nmany cases a remedial quality. I think that within the time I get more\nof revivification here than I could get anywhere else, and so I am now\non my fourth summer at Clifton.\n\nNor can I refrain from saying that I find a peculiar pleasure in coming\nback to this place, where, during two years of enforced respite from\nlabor, God was preparing my mind for the transition in His life-plan\nfor me, by which I was to be taken from my own dear West and set to\ndoing much the same work at the South, which I have already learned\nto love. Here I told the Lord that if He would only let me up so that\nI could again preach the Gospel of His dear Son, I would go anywhere,\neven to the ends of the earth. But I may as well confess that when He\ntook me at my word and pointed out the field, it did cost a struggle,\na night without sleep. Up North to have been a good friend of the\nslave was one thing; to go down and put one\u2019s self by the side of the\ndepressed ex-bondsman, to take chances with him, to try to lift him\nup, that was another. Now I bless God for the joy of the work. It\nis a missionary service without the labor of acquiring and using a\nstrange language. It is in some sense the work of a foreign missionary\nwithout going from under the flag of my own country. I feel unworthy\nof the gratitude of these people, of whom the Master speaks as \u201cthese\nmy brethren.\u201d These two years I have gone everywhere from Virginia to\nTexas, without receiving one word or act of discourtesy, but with many\ntokens of approbation, from my white fellow-citizens.\n\nI find this also a good stand-point from which to look back upon my\nfield, to review the work of the year gone by, to devise for the\nnext, and also to catch the inspiration of Northern interest in this\nwork. Here are Christian and patriotic people from all parts of our\ncountry and from all branches of the Church of Christ. A single address\nbefore them in the chapel, in behalf of Christian education among the\nFreedmen, elicits a gratifying expression of sympathy, and imparts an\nimpulse to the cause through several denominational lines.\n\nIn the review, this seems yet the exigent work of the time. It is not\nthe caring for one, two or three new Territories or States at a time,\nbut for five millions of people scattered over fifteen States, who are\nneeding, all at once, the helping hand. This going back and forth makes\none realize that this is all one country, with one language, with one\nhistory, with one Christian religion, with one interblended destiny;\nthat the comfort of the whole body must depend upon the welfare of\nevery member; and that so our common patriotism requires the uplifting\nof these lowly poor. This glance back over the field brings immense\nencouragement as to the results of this evangelizing process; brings\nassurance that, if it is only prosecuted with vigor, there need be no\nfear as to the outcome of the great act of emancipation; and brings\nevidence of cheerfulness and happiness among the hundreds of workers,\nNorthern and native, male and female.\n\nAs my eye takes its usual course and sweeps around the coast from the\npoint where the old Mason & Dixon\u2019s line struck the Atlantic to the\nboundary of Mexico, all the way it brings up colleges and professional\ndepartments, and normal institutes and high schools, which, under the\nmanagement of this Association, are sources of light, fountains of\nblessing. It brings up the hundreds upon hundreds of primary schools,\nin which, during the last year, the native teachers of our own training\nwere instructing their one hundred and fifty thousand pupils. It brings\nup the seventy churches of the primitive faith, which are the outgrowth\nof that educational scheme, and which as to their influence for good,\nby their character are multiplying their number many times. It brings\nup the multitudes of youth in those higher schools, who are ambitiously\ntaking on a Christian cultivation that they may use it for the good\nof their people. It brings up those Christian congregations so hungry\nfor the word of God, so anxious for the best things in church-life. It\nbrings up, too, those masses, beset with ignorance and superstition and\nunthrift, who need to be rallied by some worthy aspiration. And then\nit turns with all hope to that corps of men and women, who, under God,\nhave wrought such great things already, whose excelling in the passive\nvirtues has commanded respect, and made it so comfortable for those of\nus who come to join them now, and whose service for the Republic and\nthe Kingdom makes them high benefactors in our time and land.\n\nClifton Springs, N. Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.\n\nLincoln Mission.\n\nREV. S. P. SMITH, WASHINGTON.\n\nOne of the most beautiful sights on the streets of Washington, on the\n5th of July morning, was the colored Sunday-schools coming out from\ndifferent churches, going to Howard Park, Vaness Garden and other\nplaces to pass the day. The little ones seemed to be in a delirium of\nhappiness while marching on the street, keeping step with the music, as\ntheir banners floated in the air.\n\nBut we felt very sad to think that our poor children at the Lincoln\nMission did not have this privilege. They could not go because we have\nnot enough teachers now to look after them. All the teachers who taught\nhere during the winter, left on the thirteenth of June and will not\nbe back until September. Some thought that it would be well to close\nthe school during the summer; but others thought that we had better\ncontinue it, if we could have only five teachers and fifty scholars. We\ndo not expect to have so many scholars in the summer as in the winter;\nbut what we lose in quantity we hope to gain in quality. Moreover, to\nkeep up the school through the summer, will aid us in our church-work.\n\nIt has been said that this school cannot be carried on successfully\nhere in the summer, for it has been tried and uniform failure has been\nthe result. But if the Lord be with us we shall endeavor to carry\non the work; if we fail, it will be no more than what has been done\nalready.\n\nOne of our greatest difficulties is to secure teachers; we have tried\nvery hard to get some from among the colored people, but have few as\nyet.\n\nWe are very grateful to those who have come from the Colored\nPresbyterian Church in the city to help us. But we feel especially\nthankful to Mr. J. W. Cromwell, editor of _The People\u2019s Advocate_, a\ncolored newspaper, published in the city. He holds a high position in\none of the Government departments here, but this does not make him\nforgetful of the children of his humbler brethren. He is found every\nSunday afternoon at the Lincoln Mission (unless called away from the\ncity) teaching the youth some truth from the Bible.\n\nIndeed, he manifests such zeal in our work that we cannot but believe\nhim to be one of our warmest friends. He is our example for all\neducated colored young men.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nFlorence and Her People.\n\nREV. GEORGE W. MOORE.\n\nFlorence is one of the prettiest towns in Northern Alabama. The climate\nis fine, the water good, and the scenery picturesque. It stands upon\nthe banks of the majestic Tennessee, which is fast being opened to\nnavigation; boats now come here from the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,\nand it is intended to open its channel so that it shall be navigable as\nfar as Chattanooga.\n\nThis is a land of abundant foliage, and one cannot but be attracted\nby the beautiful gardens of flowers and groves of cedar. To those\nseeking rest, or health, the springs of various kinds of water and the\nwholesome food are especially welcome.\n\nGood air, pure water and magnificent scenery, ought to have a good\ninfluence upon its people, and it may truthfully be said that Florence\nfurnishes a good example to our race; her people are healthy, cheerful\nand hospitable. Some of them have nice homes, and there seems to be a\ndisposition in all to improve their condition. To this end, they have\nsocieties, schools and churches, and, last but not least, they work.\n\nOne of the additions to the town is a beautiful Congregational edifice,\nwhich is a little gem, and the people, irrespective of race, say that\nit is an ornament to the city; but, best of all, it is paid for.\n\nThe A. M. E. and Baptist denominations have large and prosperous\nchurches. The Sunday-schools of all the churches are well attended and\nin a flourishing condition.\n\nThe educational work of the county is in full blast; the whites have\ngood seminaries and normal schools and our people have good common\nschools. The school at Florence, under the management of Mr. Y. A.\nWallace, is a centre of quite a number of schools taught by students of\nthe Baptist Institute, Central Tennessee College and Fisk University.\nThe great need of the place and demand of the colored people, is a good\nNormal school. These common schools would become feeders of this Normal\nschool, and thus meet a great need of the county and do much good for\nthe State.\n\nAnother mark of progress may be seen in the effort some have made, and\nare making, to get farms. I am told that some of our people in this\ncounty have farms containing from ten to three hundred acres. The crops\nare unusually good this year. If we have rain soon we shall have fine\ncrops of corn and cotton.\n\nWith the church to Christianize, and the school to educate the people,\nand the plow to cultivate the soil, the county of Lauderdale may well\nbe considered a power for good.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLOUISIANA.\n\nLady-Missionary\u2019s Letter.\n\n[Without designating either the lady or her field, we give a letter\nfrom a missionary among the Freedmen in a Southern city. These devoted\nwomen, for whom there is a vast work, under many discouragements and\ndifficulties are carrying the Gospel of sympathy and comfort into the\nlonely cabins in the South, and helping in many ways our larger and\nmore fundamental work. It would be a great mistake to withdraw needed\nfunds from our teaching, and give them to the visiting missionary, but\nit would be a great loss in many ways, not to multiply the number of\nthose whose mission is to visit the mothers in their homes, carrying\nthe Gospel of cleanliness and thrift, and a knowledge of wifely\nand motherly ways, to those who are to shape so largely the next\ngeneration.\u2014ED. MISSIONARY.]\n\nI must tell you of my experience last Sabbath in the \u201cHouse of\nRefuge.\u201d At 3 P. M. I took a car up the long, beautiful,\nwhite shell-road\u2014through \u201cSt. Patrick\u2019s Cemetery\u201d\u2014to the Institute\nbuildings, expecting there to meet our superintendent and teachers. For\nsome reason they were detained, so I had to proceed, though trembling\nand alone. The position can be appreciated only by those acquainted\nwith the history and training of these poor children. During the school\nhours, for our benefit, boys were screaming, dogs snarling just outside\nthe doors, pupils called out, and once the whole school utterly refused\nto sing the hymns so pleasing to them.\n\nThis made me afraid of what might occur to-day; but the service must\nnot be given up, though the door was locked and the \u201ckey lost\u201d\u2014the bell\noverturned, and no official to be seen about the grounds. Trusting,\nhowever, for guidance, I followed one of the boys through the yard and\nwork-house to the little chapel, where all had been to mass in the\nmorning. Thirty or forty were awaiting our arrival, and I am sure the\nLord helped me, for that wild, uproarious group, through the hour,\nremained quiet and gentle, while I had no difficulty in interesting\nthem.\n\nMy Sunday-school class in Central Church is a great joy and help in my\nwork. Commencing with thirty little ones, the names have increased to\none hundred and twenty. Through these, I find entrance to many homes\notherwise closed to all religious influences.\n\nNothing is so pleasing to the mother as interest taken in her children,\nand many interviews, following these friendly calls, will long be\nremembered. Only kindness and welcome do I receive everywhere among\nthem. I have learned truly to pity these poor mothers, who tell me,\nwith tears, how hard it is to bring up their children properly in\nthe midst of all this abounding iniquity. All I can bring under the\ninfluence of the A. M. A. work I deem a great gain.\n\nDuring the last three days I have visited thirty-four families. Quite a\ngood number were promised for church and Sunday-school.\n\nOne Sabbath I was pleased to see in church three mothers and\nten children whom I had visited during the week. There are many\ndiscouragements attending these efforts, but there are also many\nrewards\u2014many bright, happy faces, and many happier homes; many\nchildren learning good, rather than all evil ways; and so the days go\nby, while we take courage in the growing work, hoping that the little\nseeds, as well as the greater, will take root and grow.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTENNESSEE.\n\n  Better Prospects of Memphis\u2014Effect upon School-Work\u2014Value of\n  Industrial Work\u2014Hopeful Outlook.\n\nREV. A. J. STEELE, MEMPHIS.\n\nIn October, 1879, few were hopeful of immediate prosperity for Memphis.\nAll her interests seemed paralyzed, her best friends discouraged and\neven hopeless.\n\nBut now, in June, 1880, all is changed, despondency and fear have given\nplace to the utmost assurance of a great future for the business and\nsocial influences of the city.\n\nThe business season just ended has been one of unexampled prosperity in\nthe history of the city; all classes have been kept busy; and as the\nsanitary improvements, including a complete and almost perfect system\nof sewerage, and durable street pavements, are pushed forward, little\nfear is felt of another visitation of the fever this year.\n\nOur work has seemed to take on new life and vigor, and the year just\nclosed, though cut short two months by the fever, has been one of\nspecial success in every respect.\n\nThough an unusual number of our students have continued teaching during\nthe year, our classes have been constantly full, the enrolment being in\nadvance of last year and the attendance more steady.\n\nIn industrial work, such as may be undertaken in a day-school, we\nhave met with every encouragement and success. The sewing classes,\ntwo each day, have done much in learning to cut garments and in the\nvarious branches of needle-work, knitting, etc. The class of older\ngirls in nursing and care of the sick has been a feature of interest. A\nprominent physician said of the examination which the class passed, \u201cIf\nyour class answered those questions they ought not only to make safe\nnurses, but also fair physicians.\u201d We hope another year to have better\nfacilities for this work, meeting as it does a sad need in colored\nhomes, and at the same time the most hearty approbation of both colored\nand white people.\n\nOur closing exercises were of the usual nature, the Junior classes\nhaving their exhibition for the benefit of the library, and netting\n$50 for that purpose. Then followed the public session of the Literary\nSociety, under the management of its members, and the graduating\nexerciser, at which three young men received diplomas. The address\ngiven on this occasion by Judge Pierce was heartily appreciated and\nenjoyed by a large audience of both colored and white people. He also\npresented the diplomas in a manly, earnest address to the graduates.\n\nThe final, and perhaps most significant, meeting of commencement\nweek was the Alumni, at which about a dozen of the graduates of the\nschool\u2014nearly all who have been sent out\u2014gathered, with teachers and\na few friends, for a pleasant evening. The refreshments were followed\nwith the usual orations and speeches, and did much to gain for the\nschool an earnest working constituency.\n\nWe are rejoiced that Mr. B. A. Imes, of Oberlin, accepts the call of\nthe church here, and hopes to enter upon his work in October. Mr.\nWilliams, of Talladega, who has supplied the pulpit this year, has done\nfaithful, earnest work, but his health will not allow him to serve the\nchurch longer than till a regular pastor can be found to relieve him.\n\nEverything, the interest of our students, the appreciation of the\ncolored people, and the growing sympathy of the best class of the\nwhite people, as indicated in the lecture course given by prominent\ngentlemen to the school during the year, and by their aid to the school\nin other ways, points to a successful and growing work for the future.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFlower Mission and Care for the Sick.\n\nMISS HATTIE A. MILTON, MEMPHIS.\n\n[The training school for nursing, at Le Moyne Institute, is doing good\nwork, not simply in giving instruction that will fit the pupils to\nbecome intelligent and efficient nurses when they have gone to their\nhomes, but in visiting and caring for the sick now. Under instruction\nfrom their teachers, they have done much for the sick among the poor of\nthe city. Miss Milton tells below of the Flower Mission she started in\nthe City Hospital.\u2014ED. MISSIONARY.]\n\nYesterday I asked the girls in the sewing class to bring me flowers for\nthe sick at the City Hospital. They were very glad of the opportunity\nand brought sixty bouquets of our lovely roses and some honey-suckles,\nI took them to the Hospital, where I met, by previous appointment, the\nlady-missionary among the whites, and assisted her in conducting the\nservices in the white ward. Then we went to the colored ward, which she\nhad not been in the habit of visiting, gave each patient a bouquet,\nwhich was very gratefully received, after which we had a short service\nconsisting of Bible-reading, prayer and singing. We then passed through\nall the white wards, giving each inmate a bouquet. We came away leaving\nmany happy hearts and smiling faces. One old colored man, who was dying\nwhen I gave him the flowers, and passed away shortly after I left, said\nto the nurse with his last breath, \u201cTake these three spring-chickens\u201d\n(sent to him by a friend from the country) \u201cand give them to the\nteacher who gave me the flowers.\u201d The chickens came, and I shall have\nan opportunity of making some of the sick ones happy with them. The\ngirls are very much interested in working for the comfort of the poor\nand sick, and have asked permission to go with me on my visits. They\nhave been making some garments for orphans, in the sewing class, and\nhave enjoyed the work. They ask me to tell them about the poor and sick\nwhile they are sewing. I trust the Holy Spirit has touched their hearts.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMENDI MISSION.\n\nMR. NATHANIEL NURSE, GOOD HOPE STATION.\n\nWe have about a mile of land connected with this station. On this\nthe natives have built a number of \u201cfackies\u201d in which they live. I\nnoticed one afternoon, as I entered one of them, a man before the front\nentrance; and upon going to see what he was doing, my attention was\nattracted to a large piece of country cloth spread outside, and in\nfront, of the door.\n\nI asked the man what it was there for. He could speak English, but did\nnot want to tell me; however, when he saw that I could not be put off,\nhe said that it was there to keep away sickness and death from their\nfacki; that they put their trust in it as their God. I said, \u201cWould\nyou like me to put you on the ground, walk on you myself, and let\nother people do the same, too? Would you think that I liked you very\nmuch?\u201d He said \u201cNo.\u201d I said, \u201cNow you say that you put your trust in\nthis cloth to keep away sickness and death: if a person has anything,\nas silver or gold, which he values, he will keep it in a secure place,\nbecause he values it. Now you show how you value what you put trust\nin; you are walking on it yourself, and others are, too; the rains\nwill soon come, which will cause it to rot, and then it will be thrown\naway.\u201d The head woman of the facki was there, (they were without a head\nman, as he died only a few weeks before this,) as I spoke to this\nman, and another one who would explain what I said to her. I asked if\nthis cloth was here when their head man was alive. They said it was. I\nadded, \u201cThen, you see, he got sick and died; this cloth was not able\nto save him.\u201d They admitted it. I said, \u201cThere is nothing man can make\nthat can be worshiped as God, neither silver nor gold, nor anything;\nGod made all, and has made man. If you worship a tree, and say that man\nhas not made that, God made it. He lives in Heaven, and has made man,\nand there is nothing that man can take in place of Him, and if you will\nbelieve that, and put your trust in Him, He will save you through His\nSon. If at any time you believe what I have told you, but are afraid to\ntake away the cloth yourselves, send for me, and I will come and take\nit up.\u201d They explained it to the head woman, and while I was there,\nthey took the cloth up and threw it away. I thought it was best to have\nit at the Mission, as a memorial. I asked one of the men to bring it to\nthe yard some time when he was coming that way.\n\nThe head woman of this facki now comes to our church every Sabbath,\nand on the first Sabbath, when she was dressed for church, she brought\nthe cloth in her hand. The act of doing that showed that she gave up\nall. I was speaking that day on the long-suffering of God, and inviting\nsinners to accept Christ who was waiting to receive them. I said that\nalthough the heathen cannot read His word, they have a conscience, and\nnaturally know that there is a God. In speaking about that, I referred\nto this case, and had one of the brethren bring the cloth into the\nchurch and show them. I exhorted them concerning the life that we\nshould endeavor to live among these people. Many could not refrain from\ntears. I was much encouraged myself. I had almost given up, thinking\nI could not do anything, and that the Lord had not called me here. I\nhave trouble in getting the people to church, but, when visiting them\nin their fackies, I have a chance to bring the truth home to them, and\nhave made it my special duty to visit the fackies twice a week. While I\ncannot speak the language myself, I endeavor to avail myself of every\nopportunity of doing all the good I can. In many of the fackies I find\nsome that can speak broken English, so I speak to these and ask them to\ntell the others what I say. Sometimes I have a chance to speak to the\nparents about bringing up their children, especially if I see any that\nare disposed to accept civilized dress, but allow their children to go\nanyhow, and do not even send them to school. An ordained missionary is\ngreatly needed for the advancement of the work here.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLA POINTE AGENCY.\n\nDR. I. L. MAHAN, U. S. INDIAN AGENT.\n\nI have just returned from Lac Courte d\u2019Oreille, where I have been to\ndeliver the annual goods and supplies, and to superintend the farming\noperations carried on upon that reservation. Garden and field seed had\nbeen sent forward early in the season, and the farmer and assistant had\nprogressed finely with the work. I found a larger number of Indians\ngathered upon the reservation than at any time since the first year I\ncame to the agency. This is accounted for by reason of the late visit\nof three of their chiefs to their great father at Washington. The\nreport had gone abroad among the roving bands that the bills had passed\nCongress, and they expected to meet the Indian Commissioners to counsel\nupon the sale of their timber, from which they believed they were to\nreceive large sums of money.\n\nAll the roving Indians within a hundred miles had gathered, and were\nawaiting my arrival. I soon put their minds at rest, however, on\nthat score, and informed them that those who helped themselves the\nGovernment would help, but no others. In looking over their patches,\nfor their farms are in miniature as yet, they were seen to be well\ntended and well fenced; and as I looked upon the nearly twelve hundred\nIndians as they received their goods, for which the males between the\nages of 18 and 45 had worked under the direction of the farmer, I could\nnot but compare them with the same number gathered in the fall of 1873.\nThen they wore long hair, blankets, feathers, paint, &c.; they were\ndirty, filthy and almost eaten up with vermin. Now they are clean, with\nshort hair, blankets rare, little paint, no feathers, and most of them\nwell clothed. The dresses of the females were in the latest fashion;\nand many of them had on hats. The men wore clean white or colored\nshirts, and hats or caps. They prized the agricultural implements,\nhoes, rakes, scythes, plows, grub hoes, &c., all being in great demand.\nSome years ago they wanted blankets, beads and trinkets. They seemed\ndelighted with the idea of a boarding-school such as we agreed upon\nwhile I was East. There was an entire absence of that domineering\nspirit which characterized them in \u201873. They received the goods with\nthankfulness. Mildness and gentleness were pictured upon every face.\nThey respected their agent and loved the Government that dealt with\nthem so bountifully. This is the reservation on which Mr. and Mrs. Holt\ncommenced the work of civilization. Truly the seed was well planted,\nand although for years we have only been able to hold our own, now, as\nthe times look favorable, we hope for grand results.\n\nThese are the Indians who must go to the personal care of another. I\nleave them with sadness, yet cherishing a grand hope of their future. I\nhave done what I could, and hope they may fall into good hands, for the\nfield is ripe for the harvest. Give them a good agent who understands\nthem and will toil for them, and I have no fear. The Lac de Flambeau\nare much in the same condition, but the other Indians of this agency\nare able to care for themselves.\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\n  PRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D.\n  VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., Thomas C.\n  Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low, Rev. I. E.\n  Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D. D., Edward\n  P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob S. Taber, Esq.\n\n  DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer,\n  Rev. E. P. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev.\n  John Kimball, E. P. Sanford, Esq.\n\n  SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palace,\n  Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSERMONS BY OUR CHINESE HELPERS.\n\nIt seemed to me that no better use could be made, this month, of the\ncolumns set apart for our Chinese Mission, than to introduce to our\nfriends some of our Chinese helpers, by giving a sample or two of their\nwork. Let it be remembered that they have been taken from the kitchen,\nand set, at once, in the missionary service; and that whatever of\nspecial training they receive, comes along with the work itself. They\nare assisted in the study of the Bible by the teachers with whom they\nserve respectively, but learn to preach, mainly, _by preaching_.\n\nLee Sam, in our missionary work but four months as yet, sends the\nfollowing:\n\nMatt. xxvi., 41.\u2014Jesus says to his disciples, \u201cWatch and pray that ye\nenter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh\nis weak.\u201d When we first become Christians then our own hearts are evil.\nIt often seems much easier to do wrong than to do right; without Jesus\nwe can do nothing. We must pray without ceasing. Jesus says, \u201cIf a man\nlove Me he will keep My words, and My Father will love him and make Our\nabode with him.\u201d Hear what He says: \u201cIf any man will come after Me, let\nhim deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me, for whosoever\nwill save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for\nMy sake shall find it.\u201d If we know of Jesus and His love we shall be\nwilling to give our life that we may bring others to love Him and to\naccept Him as their Saviour. We must pray to Jesus to help us love the\nLord our God with all our hearts, and with all our soul, and with all\nour mind, and love one another and keep His commandments; and we must\npray that we enter not into temptation, and we may ask Him for whatever\nwe need. We may ask Him to heal us if we are sick, to help us if we are\nweak; for food to eat and clothes to wear. We must ask His care when we\ngo to bed, and His wisdom and strength when we rise in the morning to\nthe labors and duties of another day. We must rely upon Jesus Christ as\nlong as we live. Most of all must we beg of Him to blot out our sins\nand give us a new heart. If we live a life of prayer, God will love us\nin this life and when we die we shall have joy, and after death our\nsouls shall be full of joy for ever and ever. We cannot live near Jesus\nwithout much prayer; but we must watch as well as pray. We have many\nenemies that we must watch. Our own hearts lead us away from Jesus.\nJesus says: \u201cIf thy right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from\nthee, or if thy right eye offend thee pluck it out.\u201d This means that\nwe should part with anything, no matter how dear, if it makes us sin.\nWe must watch our thoughts; if we know they do not please Jesus, we\nmust put them from us. We must love only good things, and delight only\nin what we can have with our heart full of love to Jesus. If we know\nthat anything will tempt us to sin, we must watch against it and keep\naway from it. We must not go to any place where we know Jesus would not\nwish us to go. We must watch our tongues that they do not speak any\nwrong words, and we must watch that in all that we think, in all that\nwe say, and in all that we do, we please Jesus. \u201cThe spirit indeed is\nwilling but the flesh is weak.\u201d If we are true Christians, we desire\nmore than anything else to follow Jesus. We mean to love Him always, to\nwork for Him always, and to turn from everything that is wrong. But how\nmany times we do not do things we mean to do, and how many times we do\nthings that make us sorry: and we go to Jesus and we ask Him to forgive\nus. Our spirit is willing. In our heart, our very soul, we love Jesus,\nbut the flesh is weak. The flesh is our sinful self, the old wicked\nheart, anything in this life that makes us do wrong. Sometimes we want\nto speak good words for Jesus. We would like to tell our brethren of\nHis love, but we are not wise; we do not know the right words to say.\n\u201cThe spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.\u201d That is, in\nour own selves, without Jesus we are very weak, we cannot do anything\nright. But He will give the Holy Spirit to help us, so we may be strong\nin Him, though we are in our own selves, without His spirit, very weak.\nHe will help us be strong to do right, and wise to say the right word.\n\nLena Chung, our Sacramento helper, who has been in service about one\nyear, sends the following:\n\nJohn xiii., 34. \u201cA new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one\nanother.\u201d\n\nWhat does this mean? Our Lord was on earth; His disciples had followed\nHim three years. Jesus knew His hour was come that He should depart\nout of this world unto the Father. The disciples had been with Him so\nlong; they might know how to love God and follow Christ, but when their\nLight should go away then they would be troubled and offended because\nof the world. Jesus knew they would receive persecution; be cast out of\nthe synagogues and despised and hated of men; so He gave them this new\ncommandment that they should love one another in this world.\n\nI. We ought to love one another. It is our duty to obey this command.\nSome may say: he may be a Christian, but he is not my countryman, not\nnear to me. I am a white man, he is black, or he is a yellow man, he\ndoes not belong to my family or friends. I will not love him. It can be\nno sin to hate him. Not so, my friends. It hath been said, \u201cThou shalt\nlove thy neighbor and hate thine enemy.\u201d But Christ tells us: \u201cLove\nyour enemies and bless them which curse you.\u201d If so, we must love all\nwho love God, and are trying to serve and please Him, whatever their\nplace in life.\n\nThe body has many organs. The head is upward, feet downward, hands at\nthe sides; they must work in harmony with each other\u2014they must love\none another. So with us. There are many kinds of people in the world;\nbut God is the Father of all, though same are in Europe, some in Asia,\nsome in Africa and some in America. The color may be different, the\nfigure also different; but all must work for the same object, and all\nmust love one another as members of one body\u2014which is Christ.\n\nOh, my friends, I hope you will turn to love and not hate. If any love\nChrist they must love all people in the world, not only those they\nknow, but spread it wider and love all who come to Christ,\n\nII. Love one another truly with our hearts. Paul said: \u201cThough I\nspeak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I\nam become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. Though I bestow all\nmy goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned and\nhave not charity, it profiteth me nothing.\u201d So, then, we must love\ntruly, honestly, and freely. \u201cIf a man say, I love God, and hateth his\nbrother, he is a liar.\u201d When Christ saw the people love outwardly, not\nwith the heart, He said: \u201cBeware of false prophets which come to you in\nsheep\u2019s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.\u201d We may learn\nfrom this, unless we love one another truly and honestly, we cannot get\nthe blessing of God.\n\nIII. Love one another continually. This is like God, whose love is\nunchangeable. He loves us all the time, gives us our daily bread,\nour clothes, and all we have. He gave His only begotten Son to the\nworld to die for us. If we hate Him, He does not hate us, but loves\nus still. There was once a father in China who loved his son like the\nprecious diamond. His son did all things to dishonor his father, but\nhis father loved him still, and would not change his love. After a time\nthe son left his father and came to California, where he grew worse\nand worse; never wrote any letters to his father. At last, a friend\ncame to California whom the father knew, and sent word by him to his\nson. He said: \u201cWhen you meet my son please tell him for me, I love\nhim continually. I never forget my love.\u201d A few months after, this\nfriend met the son. He said to him, \u201cYou are doing all things vain. The\nprecious time is almost gone. Soon you will feel gloomy and sad. When\nI left home your father sent a short message to you. He said he loves\nyou continually.\u201d When the son heard this his face changed, his heart\nbecame like a piece of ice on the hot fire. He started at once to see\nhis father. When he reached home, his father was so happy to see him he\nforgot all the wrong his son had done. The father represents the true\nliving God; the son, the people of the world; and the friend represents\nJesus Christ. The bad son leaving his father and doing wrong, is like\nthe people of the world disobeying God and going far away from Him. God\nsent us word by our Saviour that He loves us continually. This word\nshould melt our hearts and make us return to God. He will receive us\njoyfully and forgive us our sins.\n\nBrethren: If God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.\n\n[The third sketch, which is by Jee Gam, to whom, during his recent\nvisit to the East, many of our readers listened with great interest,\nmust be deferred to another issue.\u2014ED. MISSIONARY.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA TRIP UP THE YANG-TSE-KIANG.\n\nREV. G. W. PAINTER.\n\nBy the last mail, I wrote that I was in Shanghai for my health. Since\nthen, I have been up the Yang-tse-Kiang to Hankow, a distance up and\nback of 1,200 miles, first-class passage $8. This included board for\na whole week, and it may startle you to hear that we had genuine\nstrawberries (the first I have seen during seven years\u2019 residence in\nChina), which cost the steward five cash each (half a cent), and shad\nat a cost of $2 per pair. We always had five or six kinds of meat, and\nseveral kinds of fruit. How this could be afforded was a mystery, but\nto me a charming one.\n\nThe fare provoked even a sick man\u2019s appetite, and the pure sweet river\nair conduced to sleep; the weather was fine, and the scenery, for one\nhalf of the route, superb. Part of the way the banks of the river were\nflat, and the view was cut off by tall reeds with which they were\nlined, but during the latter half of the upward journey the mountains\nrose, often abruptly from the river, not unfrequently to great heights,\nand it was true of some of these, what I supposed before coming to\nthis country was true of all mountains, that they were terraced and\ncultivated to their summits. Much of the scenery was equal to that on\nthe Hudson, minus the residences.\n\nThe country houses along the river are much poorer than in our Province\nof Hanchow, and the cities seem older and more dilapidated. The river\nannually overflows the low grounds from April to August, and as it\noften rises 50 feet above its winter level, the people build only rude\nhuts. The missionaries at Hankow inform me that for months they are\ncompelled to use canoes for travel on their streets. It was the busiest\nseason (May) when I reached Hankow, which until recently was the most\ninterior treaty port of the Empire. It is separated from Han Yang and\nWa-Chang by the Yang-tse-Kiang and Han rivers, and each of them is an\nimmense city. There are some two hundred foreigners here. The Bund\n(River) St. has houses only on one side, and is the finest in China.\nIt stands 50 feet above the river, which for half a mile is faced with\nsplendid stone masonry. It offers the busiest and most _Chinesy_ sight\nyet seen in this country. Fourteen steamers were lying at the wharves.\nThere is a great rush to get the first new tea into the English market.\nThe fleetest steamers are chartered at fabulous prices: $32 per ton\nis paid for transportation, and $1,600 for river pilots, on the round\ntrip from Shanghai to Hankow and return\u2014a trip of one week. This year\nthe season opened on the Sabbath, some taking advantage of the fact\nthat others were at church to begin lading. Neither heat, night, nor\nanything else checks the work. The Russians do the biggest business.\nThey deal chiefly in the coarsest and poorest qualities of tea. Stem,\nleaf, and often extraneous matter, are ground to powder, steamed and\npressed into bricks of convenient size for transportation, and these\nare used for money in Mongolia and Siberia.\n\nHankow is a filthy city. Wa-Chang is much better in this respect, has\nfine hills, and a lofty pagoda from which a magnificent view of the\nsurrounding country is obtained.\n\nI was hospitably received, not alone by the missionaries, but by many\noutside the mission circles, who as a rule do not show much kindness\nto us. I saw much of the mission work, and found that it was not\ngiven exclusively to the natives, but extended to the sailors in the\nvarious ports. Ancestral worship, which is the religion of China,\nis one of the chief obstacles to the reception of Christianity. A\npigeon-English-speaking Chinaman to whom a zealous sister had given a\nbook said, in answer to her question, \u201cHow did you like it?\u201d \u201cThat book\ntalkee fool pigeon. I no can leave father; no can leave mother.\u201d He\nmeant he could not cease from worshiping them.\n\nI saw here an ancient and queer monument called the \u201cLamp of a thousand\nyears.\u201d The inscriptions on it are in Sanscrit, and have not been\ndeciphered. Also a picture representing a miracle of like import to\nthat of Jesus at Cana. A landlord had treated one of the _genii_ with\ngreat kindness. He rewarded him by turning his well into a wine pool.\nThe host\u2019s avarice was awakened, and he complained that now he had no\nswill for his pigs, whereupon the well gave forth water again. Hence,\nin characterizing an avaricious man, the Chinese say \u201cIf his well\nbubbled wine he would complain of a lack of swill.\u201d\n\nSmuggling is carried on to a great extent all along the river, opium\nand salt being the principal articles thus introduced. The natives\nemploy foreigners to protect their goods, and the hands on the steamers\nare engaged in the work, and are skillful in all manner of tricks\nby which to evade duties. The whole trip was delightful and most\ninvigorating to a sick missionary.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR JULY, 1880.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $309.96.\n\n    Camden. E. D. Mansfield, $3; J. H., $1; A. H., $1         $5.00\n    Foxcroft and Dover. Cong. Ch.                              6.60\n    Limington. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      2.00\n    Machias. \u201cMachias,\u201d $10; Centre St. Cong. Ch., $6.45      16.45\n    North Waterford. Cong. Sab. Sch.                           6.50\n    Portland. State St. Ch., $150; St. Lawrence St. Ch. and\n      Soc., $8.50                                             158.50\n    Scarborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           15.66\n    Skowhegan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             31.75\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n    Vassalborough. ESTATE of Mrs. Mary B. Buxton, by\n      Samuel Titcomb, Ex.                                     50.00\n    York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            12.50\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $354.33.\n\n    Amherst. Cong. Ch.                                        20.25\n    Bethlehem. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              3.00\n    Campton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               17.00\n    Concord. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         54.92\n    Dover. S. H. F.                                            1.00\n    Exeter. \u201cA Thank Offering\u201d                                25.00\n    Fitzwilliam. L. Hill                                       5.00\n    Fitzwilliam. Mrs. C. E. Gowan, _in memory of her\n      Mother_                                                  3.00\n    Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $8.50; Ann M. Howard,\n      $5                                                      13.50\n    Hanover. Religious Soc.                                   20.00\n    Lebanon. O. S. M.                                          1.00\n    Manchester. C. B. Southworth                              25.00\n    Milford. Cong. Ch., $19.43; R. M., $1                     20.43\n    Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          50.00\n    New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           10.23\n    New Market. T. H. Wiswall                                 10.00\n    North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS.\n      ADALINE DRAKE, L. M.                                    30.00\n    Peterborough. Union Evan. Ch. and Soc., to const. JONES\n      N. DODGE, L. M.                                         30.00\n    Swanzey. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.00\n    Temple. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   10.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $284.76.\n\n    Cabot. Mrs. S. S. H.                                       1.00\n    Cambridge. M. and C. Stafford, $89.98; J. G. Morse, $5;\n      Rev. E. Wheelock, $5; S. M. Safford, $5;\n      O. W. Reynolds, $3; H. Wires, $3; B. R. Holmes, $2;\n      J. W. T., $1; E. B. $1; M. J. M., $1                   115.88\n    Clarendon. Mrs. N. J. Smith, to const. W. D.\n      SMITH, L. M.                                            30.00\n    Cornwall. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 10.75\n    Fair Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            18.38\n    Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            47.12\n    Morrisville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $17.84;\n      \u201cAn Aged Friend,\u201d $15                                   32.84\n    North Cambridge. John Kinsley                              5.00\n    Pawlet. Mrs. Dan Blakeley                                  5.00\n    West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch.                            12.44\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             6.35\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $4,517.04.\n\n    Amherst. Amherst College Ch., $61.25; Mrs. R. A. Lester,\n      $50; First Cong. Ch., $25                              136.25\n    Andover. West Cong. Soc.                                  50.00\n    Ashland. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           13.25\n    Belchertown. Mrs. R. W. Walker                             5.00\n    Beverly. LEGACY of Mrs. Betsey Butman, of Dane\n      St. Ch. to const. CARRIE T. BUTMAN, L.M.                30.00\n    Beverly, Dane St. Ch. and Soc.                            70.15\n    Boston. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         5.00\n    Boston Highlands. Eliot Cong. Ch., $122.60;\n      Immanuel Cong. Ch., $100; Mrs. Livermore, $2           224.60\n    Boxborough. Mary Stone                                    10.00\n    Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc., $112.52;\u2014\n      Mrs. Seaman\u2019s Infant Class, $50, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._;\u2014F. Winthrop White, $10; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $8  180.52\n    Brocton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       15.00\n    Cambridgeport. G. F. Kendall                              10.00\n    Clinton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       50.00\n    Danvers. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        100.00\n    Dorchester. Village Ch. Sab. Sch., $25.10;\n      \u201cE. P.\u201d $1                                              26.10\n    East Hampton. Payson Cong. Sab. Sch.                      50.00\n    East Somerville. Franklin St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.          52.58\n    East Templeton. Joel Fairbanks                             5.00\n    Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               50.00\n    Fitchburgh. ESTATE of Deborah B. Thurston, by J.\n      Baldwin, Ex.                                            50.00\n    Framingham. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch.                       2.25\n    Georgetown. First Cong. Ch., _for Talladega_               6.01\n    Grafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         41.43\n    Great Barrington. Mrs. J. M. Chapin                        5.00\n    Haverhill. Centre Cong. Ch.                               86.00\n    Hingham. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          3.23\n    Holliston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $49.12; \u201cBible Christians\n      of District No. 4,\u201d $25                                 74.12\n    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         25.00\n    Lawrence. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        11.37\n    Lowell. Thomas Hunt                                        5.00\n    Lynn. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          16.30\n    Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      78.00\n    Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          11.75\n    Medford. Mystic Cong. Ch. and Soc., $117.10; \u201cA Lover of\n      the Cause,\u201d $38                                        155.10\n    Medway. Village Ch. and Soc.                             100.86\n    Middlefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           48.76\n    Monson. Mrs. C. O. Chapin and her S. S. Class,\n      _for Indian Boys, Hampton Inst._                        11.00\n    Natick. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                             50.00\n    Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         125.00\n    Newton Centre. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                 10.00\n    Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $54.17; \u201cWilling\n      Hands and Cheerful Givers,\u201d $10                         64.17\n    North Amherst. Mrs. A. M. Smith                            2.00\n    Northampton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  150.00\n    Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                3.00\n    Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          25.49\n    Petersham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              1.22\n    Pittsfield. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $29;\n      First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $25.24                        54.24\n    Reading. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        5.00\n    Rutland. First Cong. Ch.                                  14.00\n    Salem. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         10.00\n    South Boston. \u201cH. J. B.\u201d                                   1.00\n    South Hadley. Mt. Holyoke Sem. (ad\u2019l)                      5.00\n    South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch.                          108.80\n    Sunderland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            60.00\n    Taunton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $104.77;\n      Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. $12.34                        117.11\n    Templeton. Trin. Cong. Sab. Sch.                           6.27\n    Tolland. Rev. J. H. J.                                     1.00\n    Uxbridge. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       2.00\n    Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             22.98\n    Watertown. Phillips Cong. Ch., $100, to const. MISS\n      LAURA STAFFORD GREEN, JOHN S. ABBOTT and EDWARD\n      STOCKIN, L. M\u2019s; Corban Soc. of Phillips Cong. Ch.,\n      $18.70, ad\u2019l, to const. MRS. C. L. WOODWORTH, L. M.    118.70\n    West Barnstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.00\n    West Boylstown. Mrs. Polly Ames, deceased, $3; Geo. W.\n      Ames, $3                                                 6.00\n    Westhampton. Cong. Ch.                                    21.00\n    Westminster. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    2.00\n    West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          10.00\n    West Stockbridge. Rev. H. M. Hazeltine and Family          5.00\n    Worcester. Central Cong. Ch.                             141.23\n    Worcester. ESTATE of Rev. M. G. Grosvenor, by\n      David Manning, Ex.                                   1,500.00\n    Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        50.00\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $1,747.00.\n\n    Bristol. Mrs. De Wolf Rogers, $500; C. De Wolf,\n      $500, _for Fisk U._                                  1,000.00\n    Little Compton. United Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 20.00\n    Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             15.00\n    Providence. Central Cong. Ch., $700; Plymouth Cong. Ch.,\n      $11.50; Mrs. J. W. D., 50c.                            712.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $3,082.58.\n\n    Berlin. Rev. J. Whittlesey                                10.00\n    Bridgeport. Park Cong. Ch.                                22.02\n    Bridgewater. Cong. Ch.                                    21.24\n    Bristol. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       10.00\n    Burlington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             4.00\n    Canaan. \u201cN.\u201d                                               5.00\n    Clinton. ESTATE of Nancy Stanton, by\n      John A. Stanton and Lewis E. Stanton, Ex\u2019s             200.00\n    Cromwell. Cong. Ch.                                       50.00\n    Danbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        132.12\n    Danielsonville. Westfield Cong. Ch. ($20 of which,\n      _for the Freedmen_), $90;\u2014Mrs. S. S. D., 60c.           90.60\n    Durham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          30.00\n    Ekonk. Elizabeth W. Kasson                                10.00\n    Enfield. First Cong. Ch.                                  50.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch. (Quar. Coll.)                       65.08\n    Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch.                             125.00\n    Giliad. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Brown, $5, _for a\n      Teacher, Tillotson Inst._, and $5,\n      _for Hampton Inst._                                     10.00\n    Guilford. First Cong. Ch.                                 16.00\n    Hadlyme. \u201cR.\u201d                                              3.50\n    Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               19.53\n    Hartford. First Cong. Ch. ($30 of which from DEA.\n      HOMER BLANCHARD, to const. himself, L. M.)           1,141.00\n    Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., $176; Windsor Ave.\n      Cong. Ch., $20.26; J. N. Berdin, $5                    201.26\n    Lebanon. First Cong. Ch., $43.33 to const.\n      CICERO GARLAND, L. M.; First Ch., $20                   63.33\n    Middlebury. Cong. Ch.                                     30.56\n    Middlefield. Cong. Ch., to const. JAMES T. INGLIS,\n      L. M.                                                   40.00\n    Milford. Plymouth Ch.                                     15.00\n    Moose Meadow. Dea. F. W.                                   1.00\n    New Haven. Third Ch., $14.65; \u201cA Lady Friend,\u201d $5;\n      \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5; W. C. Scobie, $2                        26.65\n    Newington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             23.17\n    Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch. (in part)                    200.00\n    Pomfret. First Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                            4.45\n    Portland. Cong. Ch., ($2.19 of which, _for Student\n      Aid_)                                                   10.97\n    Putnam. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        17.50\n    Rocky Hill. Cong. Ch.                                      9.25\n    Roxbury. \u201cB. and S. J. B.\u201d                                 3.00\n    Salisbury. Cong. Ch.                                      58.05\n    Saybrook. Old Saybrook Cong. Ch.                          13.16\n    Sharon. First Ecclesiastical Soc.                         41.69\n    Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               22.00\n    Simsbury. James Reid                                       5.00\n    Suffield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        18.62\n    Taftville. Cong. Ch.                                      11.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      19.60\n    Westford. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n    West Haven. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               30.00\n    West Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         80.00\n    West Meriden. Edmund Tuttle, to const. MISS MINNIE L.\n      BEADLE L. M.                                            30.00\n    Wethersfield. H. Savage                                    5.00\n    Willimantic. Cong. Ch.                                    55.13\n    Wolcott. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                7.00\n    Woodstock. First Cong. Ch.                                20.10\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $2,095.75\n\n    Brentwood. E. F. Richardson.                              15.00\n    Brooklyn. Plymouth Ch.                                 1,250.24\n    Brooklyn. Church of the Pilgrims                         167.27\n    Brooklyn. E. D. New England Cong. Ch.                     30.00\n    Carthage. A. V.                                            1.00\n    Cazenovia. Rev. S. W.                                      1.00\n    Champlain. Mrs. M. Hamilton                                5.00\n    Derby. Jennette Bullock                                    2.00\n    Ellenville. Mrs. M. B. Holt                                5.00\n    Hancock. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n    Holley. \u2014\u2014                                                 5.00\n    Homer. Miss Nancy Knight                                   5.00\n    Martinsburgh. Horatio Hough, $5; A. H. A., $1              6.00\n    Newburgh. John H. Corwin, Pkg. of Reading Matter.\n    New York. S. T. Gordon. $100; E. L. A., 50c.             100.50\n    Nineveh. Reuben Lovejoy                                  300.00\n    North Lawrence. C. C. B.                                   1.00\n    Oneida. Edward Loomis                                      2.00\n    Poughkeepsie. First Cong. Ch.                             17.33\n    Rochester. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                             44.55\n    Rome. John B. Jervis                                      25.00\n    South Bangor. L. M. K.                                     0.50\n    Syracuse. Plymouth Ch.                                    72.36\n    Turin. Mrs. M. W.                                          1.00\n    West Camden. Mrs. A. L. C.                                 1.00\n    West Groton. Cong. Ch., $14; Nelson Cobb, $5              19.00\n    Whitney\u2019s Point. Presb. Soc.                               4.00\n    Yaphank, Mrs. H. M. Overton                                5.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $13.00.\n\n    Montclair. Mrs. J. F. Pratt\u2019s S. S. Class, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       3.00\n    Trenton. Geo. S. Grosvenor                                10.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $26.50.\n\n    Canton. H. Sheldon                                        10.00\n    New Castle. Mrs. J. S. W.                                  1.00\n    North East. B. T. Spooner                                  5.00\n    Pittsburgh. E. P.                                          0.50\n    West Alexander. \u2014\u2014                                        10.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $877.54.\n\n    Adrian. A. J. Hood. _for African, Indian and Chinese\n      M._                                                     10.00\n    Bridgeport. Cong. Ch.                                      1.00\n    Canandaigua. Cong. Ch.                                     2.70\n    Chelsea. John C. Winans                                   10.00\n    Grass Lake. Cong. Ch.                                     12.00\n    Hillsdale. M. J.                                           0.51\n    Middleville. Cong. Ch.                                     2.90\n    Morenci. Cong. Ch.                                         2.50\n    North Adams. Cong. Ch.                                    10.00\n    Olivet. BEQUEST of Dea. Henry Topping, by Albert\n      Topping                                                 50.00\n    Olivet. A. T.                                              1.00\n    Port Huron. ESTATE of Mrs. M. J. Sweetser                750.00\n    Portland. Cong. Ch. bal. to const. MISS HATTIE\n      COLE, L. M.                                              4.00\n    Salem. Summit Miss. Soc.                                   4.22\n    Saint Clair. Young People\u2019s Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,\n      $11.26, _for Lady Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._;\n      \u2014Cong. Ch., $2.95                                       14.21\n    Saint Johns. G. B.                                         0.50\n    Utica. Rev. Wm. Platt                                      2.00\n\n\nOHIO, $303.33.\n\n    Adams Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith                             10.00\n    Ashland. Mrs. Eliza Thompson                               2.28\n    Brighton. Cong. Ch.                                        5.18\n    Cleveland. Heights Cong. Ch., $46; Euclid Ave.\n      Cong. Ch., $12.11; Mrs. F. M. S., $1                    59.11\n    Columbus. Mrs. J. L. Bates, $5; Mrs. W. C., $1             6.00\n    Elyria. ESTATE of Miss Mary Burrill, by Mrs.\n      Charlotte Moore, Exec\u2019x                                 25.00\n    Garrettsville. Cong. Ch.                                  12.00\n    Greensburgh. H. B. Harrington, _for Woman\u2019s Work for\n      Woman_                                                   5.00\n    Harman. Cong. Ch.                                          2.00\n    Huntsburgh. Miss V. R. P., _for Ed. of Indians,\n      Hampton Inst._                                           1.00\n    Lenox. Horatio Tracy                                       5.00\n    Lodi. Cong. Ch.                                            9.00\n    Medina. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., by Mary J. Munger, Treas.,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         10.00\n    Nelson. Cong. Ch.                                         11.00\n    Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                 37.57\n    Painesville. First Cong. Ch.                              30.73\n    Seville. T. B. Dowd                                        5.00\n    South Ridge. Mrs. Uraniah Haviland                         2.00\n    South Toledo. Mrs. J. H. N.                                0.51\n    Springfield. Cong. Ch.                                     8.40\n    Sulphur Springs. \u201cTwo Friends,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            10.00\n    Tallmadge. Cong. Sab. Sch., $24.55; Miss Josephine\n      Pierce, $6; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $10                             40.55\n    Toledo. Edson Allen, _for Teacher, Raleigh, N. C._         5.00\n    Youngstown. J. D. W.                                       1.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $1,373.96.\n\n    Aurora. First Cong. Ch.                                   23.50\n    Chicago. C. G. Hammond _for Howard U._                 1,000.00\n    Chicago. First Presb. Ch., $100; Miss Haskell\u2019s S. S.\n      Class, Lincoln Park Ch., $3                            103.00\n    Dover. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc.                                  5.00\n    Evanston. Ladies of Cong. Ch. _for Lady Missionary,\n      Mobile, Ala._                                           20.00\n    Galva. Cong. Ch.                                          21.15\n    Geneseo. Cong. Ch.                                        82.00\n    Gilman. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00\n    Maple Park. J. I. Snow                                     4.95\n    Marshall. Mrs. G. E. C.                                    0.57\n    Port Byron. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.                             7.50\n    Princeville. Mrs. O. L. Cutter, $5; Mrs. Elmira Jones,\n      $5                                                      10.00\n    Rochelle. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5; W. H. Holcomb, Sen., $2          7.00\n    Shirland. Mrs. J. G. L.                                    1.00\n    Summer Hill. Cong. Ch.                                     5.25\n    Sycamore. Cong. Ch.                                       68.04\n    Waukegan. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $269.24.\n\n    Beloit. First Cong. Ch.                                  114.77\n    East Troy. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                        10.00\n    Columbus. Olivet Cong. Ch.                                 7.75\n    Hydes Mills. Rev. J. P. S.                                 1.00\n    La Crosse, Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    New Richmond. First Cong. Ch., $12.75;\n      Ladies\u2019 Centennial Sew. Circle, $5                      17.75\n    Oconomowock. Cong. Ch.                                    12.00\n    Racine. First Presb. Ch.                                  14.12\n    Rosendale. Cong. Ch., $25, and Sab. Sch., $7.85           32.85\n    Waukesha. First Cong. Ch.                                 34.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $170.57.\n\n    Amamosa. Cong. Ch., $4.60, and Sab. Sch., $3.31            7.91\n    Belle Plain. Correction\u2014Cong. Ch., $5, ack. in\n      July number should read Mrs. L. A. Baker, $5.\n    Cresco. Cong. Ch.                                          3.70\n    Davenport. George W. Ells                                 10.00\n    Des Moines. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                            60.00\n    De Witt. J. H. Price ($5, of which, _for Mag._)           10.00\n    Emerson. Mrs. E. H. D. F.                                  1.00\n    Farragut. Cong. Ch.                                       13.03\n    Grinnell. \u201cBrewer Sisters,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Raleigh, N. C._                                          9.20\n    Osage. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., $4.77; Cong. Ch.,\n      Mon. Con., $4.50                                         9.27\n    Sioux City. First Cong. Ch.                               15.40\n    Tabor. Prof. A. S. McPherron                               2.00\n    Toledo. Mrs. E. N. Baker                                   5.00\n    Traer. Cong Ch.                                           15.00\n    Vinton. Joseph Tenny Sen.                                  5.00\n    Wittenberg. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                4.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $11.50.\n\n    Amity. Cong. Ch.                                           3.25\n    Breckenridge. Cong. Ch.                                    3.75\n    Webster Grove. Cong. Ch.                                   4.50\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $183.41.\n\n    Alexandria. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00\n    Austin. Cong. Ch., $30.80; Mrs. S. E. Bacon, $10          40.80\n    Dexter. Rev. R. B. Wright                                  3.00\n    Elk River. Cong. Ch.                                       6.00\n    Faribault. Cong. Ch.                                      39.59\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., $20.98; First Cong. Ch.,\n      $13.81                                                  44.79\n    Northfield. Mrs. C. N. S.                                  1.00\n    Saint Paul. Plymouth Cong. Ch. (Semi-Annual Coll.)        36.90\n    Sherburne. Cong. Ch.                                       1.00\n    Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         15.33\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $6.00.\n\n    Exeter. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., $5; Rev. B. A. D., $1, by\n      Mrs. J. A. Baker, Treas.                                 6.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $847.25.\n\n    San Francisco. Receipts of the California Chinese\n      Mission                                                847.25\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $11.00.\n\n    Washington. Mrs. A. N. Bailey, $10; Rev. M. P. S.,\n      $1                                                      11.00\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $12.50.\n\n    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition                               12.50\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $23.50.\n\n    Raleigh. Tuition                                          23.50\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $605.35.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Institute                              605.35\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $1.75.\n\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition                            1.75\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $99.01.\n\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, $3; Cong. Ch., $3;\n      \u201cA Friend,\u201d $1.91                                        7.91\n\n    Talladega. Talladega College, Tuition                     91.10\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $13.15.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition                            13.15\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $185.00.\n\n    \u2014\u2014 Graves Library Fund                                   150.00\n\n    \u2014\u2014 Scholarship Fund                                       35.00\n\n\n  SANDWICH ISLANDS, $1,000.00.\n\n    Sandwich Islands. \u201cA Friend\u201d                           1,000.00\n\n\n  ENGLAND, $90.41.\n\n    Albyns. Miss S. L. Ropes                                  10.00\n    Northampton. On Doddridge Scholarship, _for Fisk U._,\n      \u00a316 13_s._ 4_d._, by Dr. O. H. White                    80.41\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total                                                 18,515.39\n    Total from Oct. 1st to July 31st                    $145,497.49\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION\n\n  _From April 20th, to July 17th, 1880._\n\n    I. From our Auxiliaries, viz.:\n       Sacramento Chinese Mission:\n         Chinese monthly collections                   $20.75\n         Ten Annual Memberships (seven Chinese)         20.00\u201440.75\n\n       Santa Barbara Chinese Mission:\n         Chinese monthly collections                    15.00\n         Five Annual Memberships                        10.00\u201425.00\n\n     Stockton Chinese Mission:\n       Chinese monthly collections                      10.00\n       Five Annual Memberships                          10.00\n       Plate collections at Annual Meeting               8.65\u201428.65\n                                                        \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             $94.40\n\n    II. From Churches:\n          Grass Valley Cong. Ch. (Mrs. H. Scott)              $2.00\n          Riverside Cong. Church collection                    9.00\n          San Francisco Plymouth Church (collection\n            at Union meeting) $12.75; Bethany\n            Church\u2014Chinese, $3.00                             15.75\n          Santa Cruz Cong. Church                              7.75\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             $34.50\n    III. From Individuals:\n           Oroville:\n             M. C. W.                                         $1.60\n           San Francisco:\n             Messrs. Balfour, Guthrie & Co.                  100.00\n               \u201e     Parrott & Co.                            50.00\n               \u201e     Pope & Talbot                            50.00\n             J.J. Felt, Esq.                                  25.00\n             Messrs. E. Ransome & Co.                         25.00\n               \u201e     Rogers, Meyer & Co.                      25.00\n               \u201e     Wright & Sanders                         25.00\n               \u201e     C. Adolphe, Low & Co.                    20.60\n               \u201e     Williams, Dimond & Co.                   20.00\n               \u201e     Taber, Harker & Co.                      20.00\n             George W. McNear, Esq.                           20.00\n             A Friend                                         20.00\n             R. P. Tenney, Esq.                               10.00\n             Capt. J. E. Chapman                              10.00\n             W. L. Booker, Esq.                               10.00\n             A. Bannister, Esq.                               10.00\n             John F. Merrill, Esq.                            10.00\n             Israel W. Knox, Esq.                             10.00\n             Messrs. Eppinger & Co.                           10.00\n               \u201e     Macondray & Co.                          10.00\n               \u201e     James Sennett & Co.                      10.00\n             A. Crawford, Esq.                                 5.00\n             H. Hughes, Esq.                                   5.00\n             Cash, through R. B. Forman, Esq.                 15.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $516.60\n\n    IV. From Chinese:\n          In Marysville:\n            Regular collections                         $4.70\n            Special collections                         19.25\n            One Annual Membership                        2.00\u201425.95\n        In Oroville                                            0.30\n        In San Francisco                                       0.50\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             $26.75\n\n    V. From Eastern Friends:\n         Bangor, Me., E. R. Burpee, Esq.                      50.00\n         Amherst, Mass., Mrs. Rhoda A. Lester                100.00\n         Norwich, Conn., Mrs. S. A. Huntington, to\n           constitute REV. WM. S. PALMER a Life-Member        25.00\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $175.00\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n           Grand Total                                      $847.25\n              Of which from Chinese at least                 101.50\n\n  E. PALACHE, _Treasurer_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Exeter, N. H. Collected by Mrs. Odlin and Mrs. Eliza U.\n      Bell                                                   $22.00\n    Andover, Mass. John Smith                                250.00\n    Easthampton, Mass. Mrs. C. G. Williston                  100.00\n    Hartford, Conn. John B. Eldredge                         100.00\n    New Britain, Conn. Collected by Mrs. E. H. Wells,\n      $24, and Box of Bedding                                 24.00\n    Norwich, Conn. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                400.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n      Total                                                 $696.00\n    Previously acknowledged in June Receipts               4,607.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n      Total                                               $5,303.00\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.\n\n    Grand Rapids, Mich. South Cong. Ch.                        4.25\n    Previously acknowledged in June Receipts.                432.50\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n      Total                                                 $436.75\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.\n\n    Leeds, Eng. Robert Arthington, conditional pledge,\n      \u00a33,000.\n    London, Eng. Freedmen\u2019s Missions\u2019 Aid Soc.,\n      \u00a3378 6_s._ 8_d._                                     1,825.72\n    Beaver Crossing, Neb. Mrs. E. T.                           1.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n      Total                                               $1,826.72\n    Previously acknowledged in April Receipts              4,749.76\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n      Total                                               $6,576.48\n     Receipts for July                                   $21,042.36\n\n     Total from Oct. 1st to July 31st                   $158,494.31\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\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian\nmissionary and educational operations, and diffuse a knowledge of the\nHoly Scriptures in our own and other countries which are destitute of\nthem, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes faith\nin the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the practice\nof other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, may become a\nmember of the Society; and by the payment of thirty dollars, a life\nmember; provided that children and others who have not professed their\nfaith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of September,\nOctober or November, for the election of officers and the transaction\nof other business, at such time and place as shall be designated by the\nExecutive Committee.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular\nofficers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, and\nof delegates from churches, local missionary societies, and other\nco-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one representative.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\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 than\ntwelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory, and\nthe Treasurer ex-officio, members.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and\ndisbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining and\ndismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and agents;\nthe selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the transaction of\nall such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of\nmissionary and other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no\necclesiastical jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to\nbe subject always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall,\nby a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any\naggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference shall\nbe 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, in\nall parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general\nconventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion of\nthe missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of the\nmissionary work.\n\nFive members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting\nbusiness.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing officers,\nagents and missionaries, and in selecting fields of labor, and\nconducting the missionary work, will endeavor particularly to\ndiscountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the known fruits of\nunrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment those who hold their\nfellow-beings as slaves.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\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       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without the\nconcurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular annual\nmeeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been submitted to\na previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in season to be\npublished by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if so submitted) in\nthe regular official notifications of the meeting.\n\n[Footnote A: By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others,\na belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a\nSaviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus\nChrist, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity of regeneration\nby the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy 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 the\nrighteous.]\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 the\nalmost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its main\nefforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens and\nChristians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely related\nto this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE in America,\nand to co-operate with the Government in its humane and Christian\npolicy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in AFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga.,\n13; Ky., 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.; and\nAustin, Texas, 8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington, Raleigh,\nN. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.;\nMontgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn., 12. _Other\nSchools_, 24. Total 44.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014Among the Freedmen,\n253; among the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total,\n296. STUDENTS\u2014In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course,\n63; in other studies, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars taught by former\npupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the\ncare of the Association, 13,000.\n\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with\nthe growing 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\ninstitutions, to accommodate the increasing numbers of students;\nMEETING HOUSES for the new churches we are organizing;\nMORE MINISTERS, cultured and pious, 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. 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Meriden, Conn.\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, will\neasily double our list, and thus widen the influence of our Magazine,\nand 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 in\nall parts of the field, and with occasional communications from careful\nobservers and thinkers elsewhere, the AMERICAN MISSIONARY furnishes a\nvivid and reliable picture of the work going forward among the Indians,\nthe Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as citizens in the\nSouth and as Missionaries in Africa.\n\nIt will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting the\nraces among which it labors, and will give monthly summary of current\nevents relating to their welfare and progress.\n\nPatriots and Christians interested in the education and Christianizing\nof these despised races are asked to read it, and assist in its\ncirculation. Begin with the next number and the new year. The price is\nonly Fifty Cents per annum.\n\nThe Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the persons\nindicated on page 287.\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 Furniture,\nBells, Household Goods, &c.\n\nAdvertisers are requested to note the moderate price charged for space\nin its columns, considering the extent and character of its circulation.\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          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 the\n\u201cAmerican Missionary\u201d can aid us in this respect by mentioning, when\nordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.\n\n\n\n\n                           ANNUAL MEETING\n\n                               OF THE\n\n                  AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION will hold its Thirty-fourth Annual\nMeeting in the City of Norwich, Conn., on the 12th, 13th and 14th of\nOctober, 1880.\n\nThe several sessions of this meeting will be held in the Broadway\nChurch, Rev. L. T. CHAMBERLAIN, D. D., Pastor.\n\nThe opening session will begin at 3 o\u2019clock P. M. of Tuesday, the 12th,\nwhen the Report of the Executive Committee will be read.\n\nIn the evening, at 7.30, the Annual Sermon will be preached by the Rev.\nWM. M. TAYLOR, D. D., of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York City.\n\nThe citizens of Norwich will receive and cordially entertain all\nfriends of the work of the Association who, desiring to attend, shall\nmake application for entertainment before the first day of October.\n\nThe Chairman of the Committee of Entertainment, CHARLES E. DYER, to\nwhom all such applications should be addressed, will send out, on the\nabove date, cards of hospitality, introducing those who have made\nknown their purpose of attending, to the host by whom they will be\nentertained.\n\nThose receiving such cards will please communicate at once with the\nperson to whom they are introduced, announcing their purpose of\nattending, at what time they will arrive in Norwich, and whether\nthey will remain during the meeting, so that hospitality may have no\nunnecessary burdens to bear.\n\nThose failing to receive such a card by the 6th of October will please\ninform the Chairman of the fact. An early application will greatly\nlighten the burden of the Committee, and will be duly appreciated.\n\nIt is hoped that arrangements will be consummated for reduced fares on\nrailroads and boats, in time to be announced in the next number of the\nMISSIONARY, together with the Time Tables of the several roads, so that\nour friends at a distance may intelligently arrange their plans.\n\nAny needed additional information will be given to those applying to\nthe Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, Norwich, Conn.\n\n  W. S. PALMER,\n  Chairman Committee of Arrangements.\n\n\n  DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\nThe spelling, punctuation and hyphenation are as the original, with\nthe exception of apparent typographical errors which have been\ncorrected.\n\nItalic text is denoted _thus_.\n\nBold text is denoted =thus=.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 34, No. 09, September, 1880","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":22498}