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NO. 5.\n\n  THE\n\n  AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  MAY, 1880.\n\n\n\n\n_CONTENTS_:\n\n\nEDITORIAL.\n\n  PARAGRAPHS                                                       129\n\n  GEN. GRANT\u2019S RECEPTION AT STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY                    132\n\n  OLD NAILS WELL CLINCHED--THE CASE IN A NUT-SHELL                 133\n\n  SOUTHERN NEGROES IN NEW YORK CITY--WOMAN\u2019S\n  HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION                                      134\n\n  EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA                                           135\n\n  LE MOYNE INSTITUTE                                               136\n\n  ANGLO-TURKISH CONVENTION FOR THE SUPPRESSION\n    OF THE SLAVE-TRADE                                             137\n\n  H. M. STANLEY ON THE CONGO                                       138\n\n  JESUS SAT OVER AGAINST THE TREASURY--GRADATIONS,\n    NATURAL AND HELPFUL                                            139\n\n  ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                             140\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--Lincoln Mission, Washington                141\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, WILMINGTON--Report of a Visitor                  141\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA--Revivals in Raleigh                              142\n\n  ALABAMA--Conference of Cong\u2019l Churches                           143\n\n     \"     Sunday-school Convention                                145\n\n     \"     MONTGOMERY--Health-Talks, etc.                          145\n\n  KENTUCKY--The Land and the People                                146\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n  EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM PROF. CHASE                           148\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n  INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON                                           149\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n  CHAPTER OF ITEMS                                                 150\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n  ALBERT BURTON JOWETT                                             152\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                         153\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                                     157\n\n  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS                                           158\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  NEW YORK:\n\n  Published by the American Missionary Association,\n\n  ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\n\n  Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association,\n\n56 READE STREET, N. Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPRESIDENT.\n\n  HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\nVICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n  Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n  Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n  Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n  ANDREW LESTER, Esq., N. Y.\n  Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.\n  Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.\n  WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.\n  Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.\n  Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.\n  Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.\n  Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. J.\n  Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D. D., N. Y.\n  Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.\n  Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.\n  Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n  HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich.\n  Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H.\n  Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D. D., Ct.\n  DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.\n  Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.\n  SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y.\n  Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.\n  Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.\n  Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon.\n  Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.\n  Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n  EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.\n  DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J.\n  Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.\n  Rev. W. L. GAGE, D. D., Ct.\n  A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.\n  Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio.\n  Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn.\n  Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn.\n  Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.\n  Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.\n  Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.\n  Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.\n  S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n  PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n  Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n  Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n  Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct.\n  Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.\n  Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.\n  Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng.\n  WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y.\n  J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.\n  E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J.\n  Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.\n  DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.\n  A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.\n  Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y.\n  FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.\n  JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I.\n  Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D., Ill.\n  Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo.\n  J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.\n  E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.\n  C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.\n  Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal.\n  Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas.\n\n\nCORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n  REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\nDISTRICT 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\nEXECUTIVE 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\n    the Corresponding Secretary, those relating to the collecting\n    fields to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of\n    the \u201cAmerican Missionary,\u201d to Rev. C. C. PAINTER, at\n    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\nTHE\n\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n  VOL. XXXIV.       MAY, 1880.         NO. 5.\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWith this number, the AMERICAN MISSIONARY passes into the\nhands of Rev. C. C. Painter, as Editor and Business Manager. Mr.\nPainter was born in the South, educated at the North, where he was for\nseveral years a pastor, and more recently a Professor of Theology in\nFisk University, and connected with its financial management. He brings\nto the work a ripe scholarship, the pen of a ready writer, and a deep\ninterest in the varied work in which the Association is engaged.\n\nThe retirement of the Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, who, for several years,\nhas acted as Editor of the MISSIONARY, is felt to be a great\nloss to the Association. His peculiar skill in editing, his facility\nin writing, and his quick apprehension of current events bearing\non our work, enabled him to give to our magazine a freshness and\nattractiveness it never before had attained. Mr. Boynton\u2019s usefulness\nas a member of our Executive Committee makes his loss to us the\ngreater. In his new pastorate in Jamaica Plain, Boston, he bears with\nhim the warmest affection and best wishes of the officers of the\nAssociation.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAs we make our bow after the above graceful introduction by our honored\nSenior Secretary, we are conscious that all eyes are turned regretfully\ntoward the departing, rather than hopefully to the incoming, Editor.\nWe are in the position similar to that of a new minister, who is\ntold as he makes his first pastoral visits, \u201cWe never expect to love\nanother pastor as we loved Mr. B.\u201d We are glad for all that makes our\nposition difficult, and suggest as the only remedy for the loss the\nMISSIONARY must otherwise sustain in the retirement of Mr.\nBoynton, that all who feel it, shall make the appropriate effort to\nprevent it. Let our teachers and missionaries understand, that they\nmust come to the rescue by prompt and faithful reports of every phase\nof their work; giving us rich material from which to select what, from\nour stand-point, appears _the_ thing to be said at any given time. Let\nPastors and Superintendents, and other co-laborers, feel that they\nmust stand between this work and loss, and double their diligence, and\nquicken their zeal, in keeping their churches and schools informed\nand interested; and, finally, let all who have\nfelt an impulse to _give_ more, show their appreciation of the late\nEditor\u2019s good work by such an increase of gifts, as shall meet the\nurgent demands on our Treasury; and in _reporting_ all this, we promise\nthe most interesting numbers of the MISSIONARY yet published.\nThus:\n\n    \u201cOut of these _golden_ griefs\n     Bethel we\u2019ll raise.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe have received a copy of the new map of Central and Southern Africa,\npublished by the A. B. C. F. M. As an outline map for chapel purposes,\nwe believe it unsurpassed in beauty and cheapness. The price, on paper,\nis 75c.; on cloth, $1.25; to be had of C. N. Chapin, 14 Congregational\nHouse, Boston.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nDr. T. Thornton Macklin, who for several years was connected with the\nBlantyre Mission in the region of the Nyassa, is making a brief visit\nto this country, and gave us much valuable information about methods of\nwork in Equatorial Africa, in an hour\u2019s interview at our office. Dr.\nMacklin is anxious to return to Africa and enter upon pioneer work,\nsuch as that proposed by Mr. Arthington to the A. M. A., in the Nile\nbasin.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe are glad to know that Dr. G. B. Willcox, whose presence and\ncounsels are sadly missed in our Committee meetings, loses none of\nhis enthusiasm for the American Missionary Association and its work,\nbecause of his new home and new duties. At a recent meeting in Dr.\nNoble\u2019s church in Chicago, he read an address which we wish could be\nput into the hands of every Christian, and of every citizen, in the\nland. It is too long to print in our pages, and too consecutive to\ndismember without marring. We hope he may have calls to deliver it\nbefore the other churches of that city, and of other cities, East and\nWest.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe fear that a fact, stated by Mrs. Hill in our last number, has not\nbeen fully taken in by our readers. Writing from Marion, Ala., of her\nwork among the children, she said, incidentally, and most of us read it\nwithout comprehending it, \u201cThe girls\u2019 sewing-class has sent $38 to the\nMendi Mission.\u201d\n\nThe \u201cGIRLS\u2019 SEWING-CLASS!\u201d \u201cTHIRTY-EIGHT DOLLARS!\u201d\nSunday-school workers of New England, think what that means! We\nventure to say there is scarce a Sunday-school connected with one\nof our churches in New England where the same amount of money would\ncost a girls\u2019 sewing-class one-half the self-denial and labor that\nis represented by this $38 for the Mendi Mission. And it came from a\ncolored girls\u2019 sewing-class!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSome time since, a request came from a teacher in one of our\ninstitutions to the Sunday-school of the Second Congregational Church\nin Rockville, Conn., that it should raise $70 for a promising young man\nwho, for lack of it, must leave his studies. The matter was brought\nbefore the school and laid over for consideration. On the next Sabbath,\na class of young men, every one of whom was earning his own living,\nstated that it would assume the responsibility for the whole amount.\nTo raise this money did not hurt them; on the contrary, it did them as\nmuch good as it did the one who received it. What if this same spirit\nshould become epidemic in our schools!\n\nThe Sunday-school at Kenosha, Wis., when its pastor read to it\nPresident Cravath\u2019s article in the October MISSIONARY,\nentitled \u201cWhat shall we do?\u201d promptly responded by sending a check for\n$50. Pastors, Sunday-school superintendents and teachers, it is not\na difficult thing to do, but a most easy, and as blessed as easy, to\nenlist your young people in this beneficent work; beneficent not alone\nin relation to the ignorant negroes, but to your own young people.\nThe needs of our work are great, but the need that our Sunday-school\nchildren and young people be educated out of narrow, selfish views\nof life, is even more urgent. Let this double education go forward\nsteadily and by organized effort; thus shall sower and reaper rejoice\ntogether, and it will be difficult to tell the one from the other in\ntheir mutual joy and benefit, for both are reapers of such sowing.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Selma, Ala., _Daily Times_ notes the fact that our Field Secretary,\nDr. Roy, preached in the First Presbyterian Church of that city in\nthe morning, and the Rev. H. S. DeForest in the evening, of a recent\nSabbath, and says that more than usual interest was manifested in both\nservices. Also, in a kindly notice of the Fifth Annual Convention of\nthe Congregational Churches of Alabama, convened in that city, it says:\n\u201cThis church is doing a great work for the education and religious\nculture of the colored people in Alabama, and the other Southern\nStates.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nDr. R. S. Rust, Secretary of the M. E. Freedmen\u2019s Aid Society, in his\nTwelfth Annual Report of the work of that Society, speaks with a just\npride of the twenty distinctive colored schools established in the\nSouth, with an aggregate of 2,510 pupils: of these, 453 are classed\nas Biblical, 20 law, 60 medical, 74 collegiate, 270 academic, 1,020\nnormal, 242 intermediate, and 371 primary.\n\nWe congratulate him and his church on the good work done, and to be\ndone.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nProf. J. W. Randolph, of Waco College, Texas, which, we understand, is\na newly-projected school, to be under management of the colored people,\nannounces his purpose of publishing a new music and hymn-book for and\nby his own people; and so the genius of this people is reaching out\ninto new fields of effort.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFacts are facts _positeevely_, as Dr. John Brown\u2019s Scotch beadle would\nsay, and will assert and establish themselves if we can only have\npatience in well-doing. The professor of Greek in one of the State\nColleges of the South said to us, some months since: \u201cI spent a day in\nFisk University, and as I am, and have been all my life, a teacher of\nGreek, was curious to see what the negro could do with that language;\nand, sir, I should be most proud and happy if I had twenty boys in my\nCollege who could recite Greek as I heard that number of boys and girls\nreciting it in that school.\u201d\n\nThe teacher of these boys and girls was a young colored woman, 22 years\nof age, herself a graduate of the school in which she was then teaching.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAmong the many indications of the growing interest taken by the best\nclass of Southern people in the educational work of our schools, we\nnote the frequent kindly notices, given in the daily papers of the\ncities in which our schools are located, of anything that concerns the\nwork. We clip the following from the _Morning\nLedger_, of Memphis, in appreciative mention of the lecture course\nbefore Le Moyne Institute of that city: \u201cIt is an encouraging sign\nof the times when such men as Dr. Maury, Judge Morgan, Col. Eaton,\nand Judge Hammond give their time and talents for the instruction and\nelevation of the colored race, especially when these people show a\ndisposition and a capacity for moral and intellectual improvement. It\nis an indisputable evidence of the amiable relations of the two races,\nand gives assurance that the traces of the war, and its bad passions,\nare wearing out, and that we have entered upon a peaceful, law-abiding\nera, with a good basis for solid prosperity.\u201d\n\nAt the close of the last lecture, delivered by Rev. Mr. Trible, Col.\nL. B. Eaton arose, and after reference to the success of the course\nand its good results to the community, proposed, as appreciative of\nthe lecture and expressive of their interest in the object, that they\nshould take a collection, which resulted in over $30 for the library of\nthe school.\n\nWe learn that these lectures have been prepared with the same care\nas if intended for the most cultivated white audiences, and without\ncondescension or patronage, were delivered as if addressed to an\naudience of young men and women without any hint, direct or implied, of\nrace, color, or previous condition.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEN. GRANT\u2019S RECEPTION AT STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.\n\nJust as the MISSIONARY was going to press, we received a\nletter from Dr. Roy, who is now in New Orleans, giving a brief sketch\nof the visit of Gen. Grant to the Straight University. We have also\na more full account in the _New Orleans Times_, but we can offer our\nreaders in this number only the shorter narrative. Dr. Roy writes:\n\n\u201cWe gave a reception to Gen. Grant in the chapel. Flags were displayed\nat the front and behind the platform, with the big map on the wall and\na placard \u2018Our Country.\u2019 The school and the patrons filled the hall.\nProf. McPherron led his scholars in some exquisite classic music;\nProf. Alexander made the welcoming address in behalf of the Straight\nUniversity. Gen. Grant responded in one of his laconic and fitting\nspeeches, which was greatly satisfactory to the colored people. Gen.\nGrant said:\n\n\u201c\u2018It is a good sign to see such a University as this attended by\ncolored people who were for so long deprived of any such advantage.\nThose who have gone before you had no such advantages. But by the\ngift of these institutions, those here are taking the first great\nstep towards improving the advantages guaranteed to them by the\nConstitution. Great advantages are given these people by the provisions\nof the Constitution and the Amendments, and the colored people are\ncoming to improve them. The privilege of emigration is permitted\nand allowed to any people. But other things being equal, every one\nis happiest in passing his life in the locality where he was born.\nSo that I am glad to see you improving these opportunities. I hope\neverything for the colored people, and may you make freedom a blessing\nto yourselves. Gentlemen, I thank you for your kindness.\u2019\n\n\u201cThen the Field Supt., in behalf of the A. M. A., followed, thanking\nthe General for the peace-policy which he had inaugurated, and which is\naffording so much aid to our work among the Indians; and thanking him\nfor his word in China, upon Chinese emigration, which has helped us in\nour missions on the Pacific coast. The Superintendent also reported the\nextent of the work of the A. M. A. at the South, the patriotism of the\ncolored people, and their hunger for knowledge.\nA young lady, in behalf of the students, presented the General with a\nbouquet, and Col. Lewis (colored), Collector of the Port, responded\nfor the colored soldiers of Port Hudson. The scholars and friends then\nfiled around and shook hands with the General.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOLD NAILS WELL CLINCHED.\n\nThree cases of more than ordinary importance were decided in the\nUnited States Supreme Court, last month, from which it happily appears\nthat the soul of Judge Taney doesn\u2019t \u201cgo marching on.\u201d The Negro has\nrights. Thanks to the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, he has\nexactly the same civil rights as the white citizen. Moreover, he has\nequal rights before the courts--any \u201cState Sovereignty\u201d legislation\ndiscriminating against him to the contrary notwithstanding. The\ntest-cases, which had been appealed to the Supreme Court, were those\nin which colored men had been put on trial for alleged crimes in State\ncourts, and had been denied the right of having any member of their own\nrace on the jury. This discrimination against them, on account of race\nand color, was pronounced unconstitutional and illegal. The decision is\none to awaken devout thankfulness and patriotic pride in the hearts of\nall lovers of humanity and equal rights for all.--_The Advance._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CASE IN A NUT-SHELL.\n\nJudge Tourgee, if he _is_ the author of that remarkable book, \u201cA Fool\u2019s\nErrand,\u201d which every citizen of the Union should not only read, but\nprofoundly study, puts the case in a nut-shell when, in answer to his\nold teacher\u2019s question, \u201cBut what can be done for their (the Negroes\u2019)\nelevation and relief, or to prevent the establishment of a medi\u00e6val\nbarbarism in our midst?\u201d he says:\n\n\u201cThe remedy is one that must be applied from the outside. _The\nremedy for darkness is light; for ignorance, knowledge; for wrong,\nrighteousness._ The nation nourished and protected slavery. The\nfruitage of slavery has been the ignorant freedman, the ignorant poor\nwhite man, and the arrogant master. Now, let the nation undo the evil\nit has permitted and encouraged; let it educate those whom it made\nignorant, and protect those whom it made weak. It is not a matter of\nfavor to the black, but of safety to the nation. Make the spelling-book\nthe sceptre of national power. Let the nation educate the colored man\nand the poor white man, because the nation held them in bondage, and is\nresponsible for their education; educate the voter, because the nation\ncannot afford that he should be ignorant. Honest ignorance in the\nmasses is more to be dreaded than malevolent intelligence in the few.\u201d\n\nWe express no opinion as to his method for applying this remedy, as\nit would lead to a discussion of political questions with which, as\nsuch, we have nothing to do. But that the remedy for, and the provision\nagainst, these threatening evils, is the education of these people, of\nthis there can be no doubt.\n\nWe are happy to say, also, that the work already accomplished by our\nschools is dissipating the fears, conciliating the prejudices, and\ndisarming the hostility of the Southern people, who are coming more and\nmore to appreciate and sympathize with the effort to educate the Negro,\nand in helpful ways to co-operate with us in this work. The remedy,\nindeed, must come from without; but it is beginning to operate, and the\nmost hopeful symptom of healthful action is that the patient begins to\nappreciate and demand it.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSOUTHERN NEGROES IN NEW YORK CITY.\n\nIn our efforts to find out the needs of the emigrants for Liberia, now\nin New York, we have discovered facts in regard to the resident colored\npopulation in the city which were to us a great surprise. One of its\nmost intelligent colored men informs us that of the 20,000 colored\ninhabitants in this city, only about 5,000 are of Northern birth.\n\nA church organized two years ago, with 21 members, has now a membership\nof 150, and a congregation of about 800, all of whom are from the\nSouth. They now worship in a hall for which they pay $40 per month;\nhave raised more than $3,000 for current expenses; $300 for charities,\nand have $2,000 in bank toward a church building. The pastor of this\nchurch is a young ex-slave from Norfolk, Virginia.\n\nNow, in regard to the refugees themselves, we believe an attendance\nupon the meeting in Dr. Garnet\u2019s church, called to organize and\nsystematize the effort to care for them, would have proved a radical\ncure for chronic and most persistent doubt as to the negroes\u2019 ability\nto meet an emergency. The overflowing charity of that meeting was only\nmatched by the wisdom, prudence and skill with which it was managed.\n\nIf the Christian churches and friends of Christ would but seek out, and\nbring as prominently before the public, facts, of which there are many,\nsuch as the above, showing the rapid progress these people are making\nunder great discouragements, as the police courts and enemies of the\nnegro report and dwell upon those which show his degradation, we are\nconfident he would be held in much higher estimation.\n\nWe venture to say that a like number of refugees of any other race, in\nas great destitution, with a similar story of wrongs, whether true or\nfalse, could not be so quietly stowed away in New York, or left to be\ncared for so exclusively by their own people. There have been no urgent\nappeals to the public, and either none at all, or but a passing notice\nof their arrival, in our religious papers.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWOMAN\u2019S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nThis new organization held its first public meeting in Boston, March\n18th. The ladies assembled at eleven o\u2019clock in the lecture room of\nthe Park Street Church, which was crowded. Mrs. C. A. Richardson, of\nChelsea, presided; Mrs. J. F. Hunnewell, of Charlestown, acted as\nSecretary. By-laws were read and adopted. An address on the general\nsubject was made by Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton; and Mrs. Steele, of Revere,\ngave a very interesting account of her labors in Maryland for eight\nyears among the poor whites.\n\nA more public meeting was held in the afternoon in the audience-room\nof the church, which was also well filled. Rev. Dr. Webb presided, and\nmade a very appropriate and encouraging introductory address, sketching\nthe new range of work opened for women in the missionary world, and\nassuring the new organization of the welcome it would receive by the\nofficers and friends of the American Board and the Woman\u2019s Board. By\ninvitation, representatives of the American Missionary Association and\nof the American Home Missionary Society addressed the audience; Rev. C.\nL. Woodworth and Rev. M. E. Strieby, D. D., appearing for the former,\nand Rev. Robert West and Rev. H. M. Storrs, D. D., for the latter.\nThese gentlemen confined themselves, as was expected, to presenting\na view of the wide fields occupied by their\nrespective societies, and the great need and remarkable hopefulness\nwhich they furnished for the labor of woman in the elevation and\nChristianization of the more destitute women and children of the great\nWest and South.\n\nThis new organization originated entirely with the ladies themselves,\nand, as far as we can judge, has been inaugurated and will be carried\nforward with great wisdom and efficiency, and with no spirit of\nrivalry, but with the utmost Christian consideration and love towards\nother similar boards. It is hard to predict the future of a new\nbenevolent organization. Who could have conjectured in 1810 the grand\nreach of Christian labor achieved by the ever-to-be-honored American\nBoard? And who, ten years ago, could have foreseen the remarkable\nenergy and wonderful success--then latent, but now active--displayed\nby the Christian women of this land in the several denominations in\nco-operation with the great Missionary Boards? But while we cannot\nprophesy of the future of this new society, yet the success of those we\nhave mentioned encourages us to anticipate for it a glorious career.\nThere certainly is room in this our land, among the women and children\nof less favored portions and races, for the widest and most hopeful\nendeavors that can be put forth; and while the degraded of distant\nlands should not be neglected, certainly those in our own should not be\npassed by. This new Board has our warmest sympathies.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.\n\nIn a letter from Rev. J. Edwards, of Grantville, Mass., he adds his\ntestimony to the many that reach us from all directions, that the South\nis experiencing a gradual, and to one who visits it after several\nyears\u2019 absence, marked uplifting. He also comes back full of the\nassurance, as do all others who study the \u201cproblem of the South,\u201d that\nthe A. M. A. is doing good work just where it is needed. We thank him\nfor his letter, and second his suggestion that our work presents a\nmagnificent opportunity to the Christian and patriot. We have room for\na few extracts:\n\n\u201cEnter the train of the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad and you will be\ncarried very comfortably through a country as monotonous and unexciting\nas you will often find. You can bear to watch, for once, the scenery\nthat looks so painfully uninviting it is positively entertaining: light\nland, scattered pines, and here and there, the so-called villages, of\nwhich you might say, \u2018enough of them--such as they are.\u2019 No bright\ngreen sward; and as for houses, homes--where are they? Surely not very\nnear the line of the railroad, unless you can by courtesy give the name\nto the scanty cabins, with the tow-headed children, and the wan women,\nand the man scratching the top of the earth with a plow drawn by one\ndecrepit steer or sorry mule.\n\n\u201cThe railroad on to which you pass at Weldon, would carry you to\nWilmington, famed throughout the old North State for its delightful\nsocial life. But we stop one hundred miles short of this, in the heart\nof the State. Your desolate ride has hardly prepared you for the\npleasing aspect of the town that greets you. Comfortable houses, some\nof them tasteful, with abundant flower-yards, and, now and then, the\nfamiliar green turf, preserved with a good deal of pains; the county\nbuildings, numerous and large stores, some of them doing a business of\ntwo or three hundred thousand a year, assure\nyou that here, too, are homes and American enterprise. You are in the\nmidst of the cotton belt--a dry, light, almost sandy soil, level like\nthe bottom of a lake, showing signs (in beds of marl, with shells not\nyet absorbed) of having been once under the sea, easily tilled; large\namounts of chemical fertilizers in use; plenty of work for both whites\nand blacks; and, although some of both races are do-nothings, numbers\nof both are industrious and reap the reward. The relations between the\ntwo races here appear to the casual eye entirely peaceful. Some blacks\nare leaving for Indiana, and a few are returning; and the departure\nof those who go from this particular section only gives more room and\noccupation for those who stay.\n\n\u201cA fragment of the conversation of two negroes I overheard on the\nstreet sounded true and sensible: \u2018My \u2019pinion is, one dat\u2019s willin\u2019 to\nwork, kin make a livin\u2019 most anywhar; as fur ---- he allus was too lazy\nto live; he\u2019s too lazy to die. I don\u2019t b\u2019lieve nuffin sech as he ses.\u2019\nThey were talking of a bright but indolent mulatto, well known in the\nplace, who had lately exodusized and come back.\n\n\u201cThe churches are Baptist, Episcopal, and Methodist, with\n\u2018Hard-shells,\u2019 Campbellites, etc. The colored people have churches and\npreachers of their own, and will never rise very high till they have\nschools and better churches.\n\n\u201cThe lack of schools is a great evil, felt and deplored by some of the\nbest people. There are private schools for the whites who can pay for\nthem, but no public schools for them, and none of any kind for the\nblacks here yet. But times move forward and grow better.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLE MOYNE INSTITUTE, MEMPHIS, TENN.\n\nTraining Nurses--Needle-Work--Preparation of Food, etc.\n\nIn the MISSIONARY for March, 1879, Miss Milton gave some\naccount of the industrial department of the school at Le Moyne, and\nalso announced the purpose of giving attention to the training of\nnurses.\n\nProf. Steele writes that their plans have been more fully developed\nwith most gratifying results. During the year, about an hour each\nday has been devoted to such work, without interfering with regular\nstudies, and with the effect of stimulating the students in all other\ndirections. The list of questions on the care of the sick, which\nconstituted a part of their examination at the close of the winter\nterm, indicates a varied and minute training, which must fit these\npupils to be angels of mercy, and most blessed ministers of comfort and\nhealth in many cabins of the South.\n\nProfessor Steele reports a death-rate among the negroes of Memphis that\nis simply appalling. He says in other cities of the South it is about\ndouble that among the whites; in Memphis it is three times as great.\nWe are confident that this disproportion does not prevail through the\ncountry. The blacks are gregarious, and crowding into the cities, as\nthey do, in ignorance and poverty, disease is fearfully fatal among the\nchildren; but we do not believe the forthcoming census will establish\nsuch a death-rate as the above among the colored population at large.\n\nOur teachers, wise and Christ-like in their spirit, are directing their\nefforts to whatever affects the welfare of these poor people, and their\ncondition will constantly improve.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nANGLO-TURKISH CONVENTION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE-TRADE.\n\nThe Queen of England announced at the opening of the last session of\nParliament, Feb. 5th, \u201cThat a convention for the suppression of the\nslave-trade has been concluded between my Government and that of his\nImperial Majesty the Sultan.\u201d This was very gratifying to all who had\nso long waited the signing of the oft-promised and oft-delayed treaty\nwith Turkey. On the 9th of February, it was said by the Under-Secretary\nof State that the treaty had been signed but not ratified, and would\nsoon be laid upon the table of the House of Commons. In the meantime,\nwhat purports to be a copy of the treaty has been published.\n\nAn examination of its several articles creates grave fears that astute\nTurkish diplomacy has been too much for Sir Henry Layard in this\nmatter. It is all very well for English cruisers to have the right to\nsearch suspected ships, sailing under the Turkish flag, for slaves; but\ntheir officers cannot touch African _slave_ seamen, and it will be easy\nto so make out a ship\u2019s papers that she can carry many more men than\nshe needs, and she can change her crew every voyage. All slaves seized,\nanother article provides, shall be turned over to _Ottoman authorities\nfor the purpose of proclaiming them free_, which, we fear, will prove\nas effectual in accomplishing that result, as throwing the turtle into\nthe water by the simpleton was effectual in drowning it.\n\nWhen England made treaties with other slave-holding nations for the\nsuppression of the slave-trade, she provided that captured slaves\nshould be tried before a mixed Commission in which British officers\nsat. In this treaty they take their chances for freedom before an\nOttoman Court.\n\nIn this connection we regret to announce that Pacha Gordon has\nresigned, and his resignation has been accepted; and thus Central\nAfrica loses its noble Christian ruler. He went out in 1874 as Governor\nGeneral of Soudan, \u201cto establish a regular government, to create\nfacilities for commerce, and to destroy the slave-trade in the province\nentrusted to him,\u201d and his resignation will bring dismay to all who\nhave the cause of humanity at heart. It was at first reported that\nIsmail Eyoub Pacha had been appointed to take his place, who, while\nnot Gordon Pacha, was, it is said, as good a man for the post as could\nbe found in Egypt. But the _Anti-Slavery Reporter_ now says, \u201cit is\nofficially announced that the actual successor is one Raouf Bey, of\nevil memory.\u201d\n\nThis Raouf Bey is spoken of by Sir Samuel Baker in his \u201cIsmailia\u201d as\nthe bosom friend of Abou Saood, whom he describes \u201cas the _incarnation\nof the slave-trade_, and the greatest slave-dealer on the White\nNile.\u201d Colonel Gordon thinks it certain that the slave-dealers will\nat once resume their operations, and will be unmolested by the new\nGovernor. He estimates that at least 30,000 slaves have annually,\nfor the past twelve years, been brought down from the Bahr Gazelle\nand Darfur; and Vice-Consul Wylde believes that not less than 50,000\nannually cross the Red Sea, who are taken to Egypt, Turkey, and other\nMohammedan countries. And now, it seems, the Anglo-Turkish Convention\nprovides that slaves captured by the English shall be handed over to\nthe _Ottoman_ authorities to be by them declared free, and a noted\nslave-hunter displaces the Christian suppressor of that hellish traffic\nin the governorship of the slave-hunting grounds.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMR. H. M. STANLEY ON THE CONGO.\n\n[From the Field, March 12.]\n\nAs the recent movements of this well known African explorer have not\nbeen given in detail, the following translation of a letter written by\nFather Carrie, head of the Congo Mission, dated Landana, December 3,\n1879, and published in _Les Missions Catholiques_ (No. 559), may not be\nwithout interest.\n\nFather Carrie says: \u201cHaving just returned from a voyage through\nthe whole navigable portion of the Lower Congo, I take the\nfirst opportunity of sending you the following particulars\nconcerning Mr. Stanley and his explorations. The party of the\ngreat explorer is somewhat numerous. It consists, besides the\nleader, of a superintendent, an engineer, a sea captain, several\nmechanics, carpenters, etc., in all, twenty whites of different\nnationalities--Belgians, Americans, English, Italians, and Danes. A\nFrench naturalist, M. Protche, just come to Landana from Paris, and an\nold member of the German expedition to Chinchoxo, near Landana, are\nalso about to join The \u2018Society for the Investigation of the Upper\nCongo,\u2019 as this expedition terms itself.\n\n\u201cThe blacks of the party consist of about one hundred men, Arabs\nand natives from Sierra Leone and the Congo. The stores are very\nconsiderable, comprising especially five small steamers and some\nauxiliary craft, engines and trucks for land carriage, wooden houses\nready for erection, &c.\n\n\u201cMr. Stanley, as I am informed by Mr. Greshoff, proposes to go up the\nCongo to the Lualaba, where he hopes to meet his Arab friend Tibu-tin.\nHe will then explore the Western part of the Congo as well as the\ncountries near both of its banks, and will endeavor at the same time to\nbring the ivory-trade to Emboma. When we arrived at Vivi (four or five\nmiles below the first cataract of the Yellala Falls), Mr. Stanley was\non his way across the mountains in the direction of the great village\nof the same name, doubtless studying the start for his route to the\ninterior. M. Van Schandel, chief engineer of the expedition, told us\nthat the celebrated traveller habitually started on such excursions\nwithout warning any one of his going or returning. Soon, however, Mr.\nStanley himself was announced; he returned tired to death and covered\nwith dust and perspiration.\n\n\u201cWhile waiting for the end of the rainy season, he is engaged in\nfirmly establishing his first station--the base of all his future\noperations--and in maturing his plans for overcoming the gigantic\ndifficulties in his way.\n\n\u201cIt is, indeed, a startling enterprise to traverse some two hundred\nmiles of precipitous, rocky mountains, piled up--so to speak--one on\nthe other, and almost without any intermediate passage, not only with\na numerous party, but a considerable weight of baggage, wooden houses,\ntrucks and steam vessels, which must be hoisted over heights of from\n1,000 to 1,300 feet, with extremely abrupt rises; and this not once, or\ntwenty, or a hundred times, but on thousands of occasions.\n\n\u201cHappen what may, it will require some years\u2019 work to reach the end\nof this terrible chain of mountains at Stanley Pool, where the second\nstation is to be established.\u201d\n\nMaking every allowance for the fears of the worthy ecclesiastic whose\nletter we have here given, it is sufficiently evident that Mr. Stanley\nhas his work cut out in executing the Belgian international programme.\nHe will, apparently, have a land journey of three hundred miles before\nhe can make use of the river, and he himself considers that it will\ntake three years to carry out the project successfully. -----File:\n013.png---\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nJESUS SAT OVER AGAINST THE TREASURY!\n\nIt is an assurance full of sweet comfort, especially to the poor, that\nOne sits over against the treasury who estimates at its full value the\nwidow\u2019s mite, knowing as He does out of what love and self-denial it\ncomes. With a check for the last instalment of $100 from the estate\nof a poor widow, comes a brief sketch of a life that was beautiful\nand touching; a life that was full of struggle, and sorrow, and\nbenefaction; which closed in blindness after 88 years. After a brief\nmarried life, she was left a widow with one child, in great poverty.\nShe won a home with her needle, in which she lived for forty-two years,\nthe last twenty-six of these entirely alone, as her daughter had been\ntaken from her by death.\n\nShe lived her brave, self-forgetful, helpful life; active in all good\nwords and works in church and neighborhood, economizing where her own\nwants were concerned, keeping guard even over the use of matches;\nliberal to the limit, not only of what she _had_, but of what she\n_could earn_, where the needs of others were known. Intelligently\nacquainted with the work of the Church, at home and abroad, from a wide\nreading of all our home and foreign missionary journals, she accepted\nit as the highest duty and most honored privilege of life to fill up,\naccording to her measure in her own body, what remains behind of the\nsufferings of the divine Redeemer. Such gifts are as precious ointment\npoured upon the head of the Master, and He accepts them with the pledge\nthat they shall not be lost. It were almost a sacrilege to write a name\nupon our pages by way of eulogy which the Master himself has pronounced\nwith honor before His angels: \u201cThou hast been faithful over a very\nlittle.\u201d \u201cEnter thou into the joy of thy Lord.\u201d\n\nAnd He still sits over against the treasury, noting not alone\nthe widow\u2019s mite, but the larger gifts of those who give, if not\nabundantly, yet out, of their abundance.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGRADATIONS, NATURAL AND HELPFUL.\n\nCan civilization reach the state of nature, that state which God meant\nfor it, until men know how to divide society equally, from top to\nbottom? I do not mean by this that there will ever come a time when\ntwo will not be more than one, when four will not be more than two,\nand when eight will not be more than four; I do not mean that we shall\never see the time when there will not be gradations in society from the\ntop to the bottom--gradations of power, gradations of intelligence,\ngradations of wealth, gradations of refinement; but there is to be in\nsociety just that which exists in households--namely, a disposition,\nthat runs from the top to the bottom, of love and sympathy; and when\nyou have so stratified society, and organized it, and made every member\nof it, from the lowest to the highest, feel, \u201cMy brother above me is\npulling me up higher,\u201d we shall begin to realize our true relation,\nand fulfil our appointed duty one to another. When in society it is\nas it is on the sides of mountains, where men, being helped by those\nwho are above them, turn round and help those who are below them, and\ngo on a few steps and again are helped by those that are above them,\nand again help those that are below them, and so on until they reach\nthe top, then gradation will not be an evil. Gradation is now an evil\nbecause there is a stratum of prosperity, and a\nthick slice of selfishness; then another stratum of prosperity, and a\nthicker slice of selfishness; and so on, selfishness growing thicker\nand thicker as you go toward the bottom. It has got to be broken up.\nThe low places, the valleys, have got to be exalted, the mountains\nhave got to be brought down, and men have got to mix and coalesce.\nIn other words, the day has got to come when that simple sentence, a\nmillion times repeated, and a million times not understood, shall be\nfulfilled, and love to God and love to man shall be the law of the\nuniverse, and of universal conditions. We have got to come to it first\nor last.--_Christian Union._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nN. C., LASSITER\u2019S MILLS.--\u201cThe church is greatly revived; six\nconverts this week, and many more seeking the Lord.\u201d\n\nN. C., RALEIGH.--\u201cThe revival still goes on. There have been\nover 200 conversions since Mr. Brown left us, and many are still\nanxious. There are revival meetings in every colored church in the city\nevery night without the least rivalry. We have twenty-two converts in\nour church already.\u201d\n\nS. C., CHARLESTON.--\u201cMiss Wells has organized a Band of Hope\nwith forty members, and there seems to be a good deal of enthusiasm.\nThe church has fixed on the 3d Sunday in April as the day for a renewal\nof the covenant. The officers are now visiting every member, urging\nthem to come forward to renew their church pledge.\u201d\n\nGA., MCINTOSH, LIBERTY CO.--Mr. Snelson writes: \u201cOur communion\nseason held yesterday was highly enjoyed by all. Six persons united\nwith the church. Four were promising young men. Two of the candidates\ncame out from Baptist families and were baptized by immersion.\u201d\n\nGA., WOODVILLE.--Mr. Sengstacke writes: \u201cI have been preaching\nevery night for six weeks. Our Sunday night meetings are crowded, and\nthe unconverted people are becoming alarmed. I am now reaching the very\nclass I have been longing after for some time--the young people. In\nFebruary I baptized two young people, in March three, and last night\none young woman professed conversion. Our Sunday night contributions\nare increasing. We are having the church repainted on the inside, and\nare trying to raise money for additional seats. We cannot seat the\npeople. Last Sunday night many turned away, because we had no room.\u201d\n\nALA., FLORENCE.--Easter-Sunday was observed in an impressive\nmanner. The new church was full.\n\nKY., BEREA.--Some persons have here recently professed faith\nin Christ, and others are inquiring.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.\n\nLincoln Mission.\n\nREV. SIMON P. SMITH, WASHINGTON.\n\nA great deal has been said recently about the Lincoln Mission in the\nDistrict of Columbia, and probably many would like to hear how the work\nis progressing.\n\nThere is a very large Sunday-school at this mission, and has been for\nseveral years. The teachers come from Dr. Rankin\u2019s church, more than\nfifty of them, and manifest great enthusiasm. The school averages about\nthree hundred scholars, and on some occasions, during the cold weather,\nwe had more than four hundred.\n\nThe majority of these children come from the poorest and most\nilliterate colored families in the city. They have good training in the\nday-schools, but bad home influences. Their parents do not bring them\nup as they should, hence they are very rude. There is much need of a\nlady missionary here to teach the mothers of these children how to make\nhomes happy.\n\nIt is said that there are about sixty thousand colored people in the\ncity, and from the appearance of loiterers standing on the streets,\nthere must be twenty thousand out of employment. Idleness is the mother\nof mischief, and what an opportunity such people have to enter into\ntemptation! Some of the parents of the children who come to the Lincoln\nMission are among these idlers.\n\nThese children are very poorly dressed; they scarcely have sufficient\nclothing to keep them warm. We hold prayer-meeting with them every\nWednesday evening, and we find it very difficult to keep them away from\nthe stove. This seems to indicate that they have but little fire at\nhome. We are always glad to have it cold on Wednesday evenings, for,\nthen, we are sure of a good audience; and we can tell them about the\nwords of eternal life. Many desire to be prayed for, and we believe\nthat some of them love the Lord Jesus.\n\nGeneral O. O. Howard was with us recently, and addressed the children.\nWhile he was speaking, his words were so full of sympathy and love that\nhe held the attention of the rudest class of boys in the city for more\nthan an hour. The sheep know the shepherd\u2019s voice--even the lambs. We\nknow that he loves our nation, because he built us this synagogue, and\nwe love him because he loves us. He is, indeed, a true philanthropist.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA.\n\nWilmington.\n\nIn place of a report from our teachers at this place, we are happy to\nsubstitute a letter from a visitor from the North who happened to reach\nWilmington in time for the examinations. We have yet to hear of the\nfirst visitor who has not become an enthusiastic friend of our work. We\ndo not wish a general decline in health among our friends, but we do\nwish that all visitors to the South would make themselves acquainted\nwith this work.\n\n\nREPORT BY A VISITOR.\n\nReturning with my friend from our winter\u2019s stay in Florida, we embraced\nthe opportunity to stop in Wilmington, and visit Mr. and Mrs. Dodge,\nand see their work among the colored people.\nWe arrived the day previous to the exhibition which was to close the\nwinter\u2019s term of school. Friday evening, March 26, at 8 o\u2019clock, we\nrepaired to the pleasant hall of the building, where were gathered over\na hundred bright, interesting-looking boys and girls between the ages\nof five and eighteen, well and neatly clad, and a fine looking audience\nof expectant parents and friends, who filled the room to its utmost\ncapacity. The exercises were opened with singing by the school, one of\nthe ladies presiding most creditably at the organ.\n\nThen followed responsive reading from the Bible, led by Miss Warner,\nand a prayer of thankfulness, by Mr. Dodge, for the possibilities now\nopened to this once oppressed race. After devotions came recitations,\ndeclamations, and dialogues, interspersed with music, in which all\nparticipated, and the exercises from beginning to end were conducted\nwith a correctness and order that would have done credit to any white\nschool in the North. One of the pleasantest features of the evening\nwas the representation of the re-united States, in which each scholar\nappeared wearing upon his or her shoulder the name of one of the\nStates, and repeating some appropriate motto or watch-word. When\nall were gathered on the platform the Goddess of Liberty took her\nplace in the center, waving the stars and stripes as they sang the\n\u201cStar-Spangled Banner.\u201d\n\nI only wish more friends in the North could have seen in their faces,\nand heard from their lips, the pride and gratitude which these parents\nare already finding in the education of their children. Sunday morning\nwe attended service in the same hall, where Mr. Dodge conducted the\nexercises much as he would those of a church at home, with singing,\nresponsive reading, and an exposition of the Scripture appropriate to\nEaster. At two o\u2019clock Miss Farrington, who has this year joined the\nHome in the capacity of a missionary, gathered in one of the lower\nrooms for instruction, what she calls her mission school, made up of\nthose outside the church. At three, a large Sunday-school came together\nin the hall, and after devotions were assigned to their respective\nteachers for work.\n\nAgain, in the evening Mr. Dodge presented Paul and his strivings to a\ncompany of attentive listeners. No one can realize, who has not been on\nthe ground, the sacrifice and labors of this little band of workers,\nwho are so completely isolated by prejudice from their own people,\nand are giving up everything to the elevation of this unfortunate\npeople. One of the saddest things about the work is the lack of means\nto accommodate those who would be glad to avail themselves of the\nadvantages of this school. If we at the North could only see how small\nwould be our largest gifts compared with those of these teachers,\nshould we not do much more?\n\n\nRaleigh.\n\nReverend George E. Smith sends an account of the refreshing, and in\nevery way helpful labors of Reverend Henry E. Brown, during a few\nweeks\u2019 visit to the churches of Raleigh. It will be remembered that\nRev. Mr. Brown was connected with our work at Talladega, where, by\nhis devoted and earnest labors, not only as Pastor and Professor of\nTheology, but as a missionary to the regions about, he established a\nnumber of churches and did much to ensure their success. He is now\nin the employ of the colored Y. M. C. Association of Raleigh, and is\nvisiting the churches of the South under its auspices.\n\nHe reached Raleigh at noon on the 9th of February, and with\ncharacteristic zeal had visited every colored pastor of the city\nbefore night, and arranged for a meeting held that evening in the\nCongregational Church, which was crowded to overflowing. Three\ndelegates of the Y. M. C. A., white, were present, and after hearing\nBro. Brown\u2019s plan of operations, cordially endorsed them, and proffered\ntheir assistance in carrying them out. Meetings for workers were held\nin the afternoon of each day; from this those who co-operated in the\nwork went out to prayer-meetings in different parts of the city, and in\nthe evening general meetings were held in the various churches.\n\nBro. Smith adds: There is now a revival going on in every colored\nchurch in the city, and we really feel that it is a revival of\nreligion, not mere excitement.\n\nSince Brother Brown came in our midst, over one hundred souls have been\nborn into the kingdom of Christ. Many of the Sunday-school scholars\nhave been led to reflect, and to accept the Saviour as their great head\nand teacher. Brother Brown\u2019s labors among us have been a blessing to\nall. One minister said the other day, \u201cMy people have more religion\nthan they used to have.\u201d When asked why he thought so, he replied,\n\u201cBecause they are living better.\u201d\n\nIt may be gratifying to the many friends of our little church to know\nthat we have shared in this great blessing. At our next communion\nseason, which is the first Sabbath in April, we expect a glorious time,\nas ten persons have already made application to unite with us at that\ntime. There may be more, as there are many anxious ones who meet with\nus every night inquiring the way of salvation. Since Brother Brown\nleft, we have still carried on the meetings.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nALABAMA.\n\nCONFERENCE OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES.\n\n    A Full and Delightful Meeting--Abundant and Most Courteous\n    Hospitality of the Citizens.\n\nBY MISS A. E. SAWYER.\n\nThe fifth annual meeting of the Alabama Conference was held, beginning\nSaturday evening, March 27th, and closing on the evening of the 30th,\nat Selma, a city noted for wide streets, beautiful trees, and pleasant\nhomes. Rev. C. B. Curtis assured us of a hearty welcome from the\nchurch, which had long been anticipating this meeting, and Rev. O. W.\nFay, of Montgomery, followed with the opening sermon, upon Christian\nactivity.\n\nThe sermon on Sabbath morning, by President DeForest, upon the power\nof the Gospel, was given in concise, terse language, and when, at\nthe close, he pictured the scene at the last day, when Christ should\nreceive the redeemed from all kindreds and nations, the \u201camens\u201d from\nmany hearers testified that their hearts had been touched.\n\nThe children\u2019s service in the afternoon opened with an earnest address,\nby Prof. Ellis, upon temperance, followed by Mr. Y. B. Sims, upon the\nsame subject.\n\nDr. Roy preached in the morning in the First Presbyterian Church,\nand at night, Pres. DeForest filled the same pulpit, both to the\nedification of the hearers, as we judge from various remarks of the\nmembers. The fame of the morning sermon came from thirty miles \u201cout\nin the country,\u201d and one good man said of the other preacher, \u201che\nought to be an evangelist; we want to get him away from you.\u201d The\nprayer-meetings were full of interest.\n\nPastors and delegates from the fifteen churches were present.\nSome spoke of special religious interest, others of neighborhood\nprayer-meetings, one of a pastor\u2019s class for brother ministers, some\nof farms recently purchased to be carried on by different members for\nthe benefit of church or school; and various plans for the uplifting\nof the people showed that the pastors of these little churches are\nthinking and working, as one of their own members said, \u201cstill holding\non, though there are discouragements.\u201d\n\nDr. Roy presented the \u201cPast, present and future work of the A. M.\nA.\u201d in an able address, and those who have long taken part in this\nwork were thrilled as they heard what had been done, and realized\nthe magnitude of the work still before them. Through the providence\nof God, the Dark Continent was to be made light by the labors of men\nand women trained in these schools of the South. We are not only home\nmissionaries, but, through our pupils, foreign missionaries. The fact\nthat Prof. Silsby is the son of a foreign missionary of Siam, gave\nadditional interest to his discourse on \u201cThe duty of the churches to\nforeign missions.\u201d\n\nOne interesting feature of the Conference was the number and variety\nof the papers by the students and pastors trained in the Theological\nDepartment of Talladega College. Though greatly regretting the\nunavoidable absence of Prof. Andrews, who has never before missed one\nof these gatherings, all felt that he was well represented by his\nstudents--his boys, as they like to call themselves.\n\nThe discussion, \u201cShall our ministers encourage the Exodus?\u201d by Rev. P.\nJ. McEntosh, must not be passed by in silence; for whatever were the\nopinions of the audience as to the propriety of bringing forward such a\nquestion at such a time, all must have been moved by the eloquence of\nthe speaker as he rapidly enumerated the disadvantages of the colored\npeople of the South.\n\nThe third annual meeting of the Woman\u2019s Missionary Association,\nconducted by Miss Adams, of Montgomery, was one of exceeding interest.\nReports from Selma, Marion, Montgomery, Mobile, and Talladega told of\nlively working societies of the women and girls. The work was much\nthe same in all. Mothers\u2019 meetings, Bible readings, visitations of\nthe sick, sewing-schools for the girls, all are helps in this work of\nlifting up the women of the South. Miss Hardy\u2019s paper on \u201cThe word as\na means of success in our work,\u201d by its apt quotations and earnest\nChristian spirit, touched all hearts. A letter from Mrs. Ash, of\nFlorence, who was educated in one of the A. M. A. schools, was received\nwith much interest, and the manner in which it treated the question,\n\u201cHow shall we inspire a spirit of womanhood in our young women and\ngirls?\u201d highly commended. The whole spirit of the meeting showed that\nthis subject was uppermost in the hearts of the workers, and that they\nrealized that the colored women must be helped in their homes, if we\nwould reach the entire community.\n\nThe Conference, after hearing an account of the meeting, passed a\nresolution expressing great interest in it, and approving the advance\nstep connecting it with the new Home Missionary Association.\n\nTime will not allow even a passing notice of many excellent addresses,\nbut we must note a capital one on temperance by Judge Saffold, of\nSelma, considering the question in its legal aspect.\n\nTuesday night we assembled for the last time, and listened to an\neloquent missionary sermon by Mr. Crawford, followed by the celebration\nof the Lord\u2019s supper, Pres. DeForest and Dr. Roy officiating. It was a\ntender, solemn service, the most precious of the week. Then came the\nfarewells, and we separated, feeling thankful for the privileges we had\nso much enjoyed.\n\nThe meetings were marked by large attendance, and are spoken of as\nunusually interesting.\n\nWe must not fail to mention the hospitality of the people of Selma,\nparticularly of the Presbyterian Church. They received us most\ncordially, attended many of the exercises, expressing much interest in\nwhat they heard, and greatly cheered us by their Christian courtesy.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nALABAMA SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION.\n\nYoung Man with Backbone--Refreshing Gathering.\n\nPROF. GEO. N. ELLIS, TALLADEGA.\n\nWe have just returned from the Fifth Annual Conference of the\nCongregational Churches of Alabama and the first meeting of the State\nSunday-school Association held at Selma.\n\nThis Association was organized only last year at Montgomery, so this\nwas our first gathering. We had a glorious, a soul-stirring time.\nThe Convention opened Friday evening, March 26th, with a sermon by\nPresident DeForest of Talladega.\n\nI summarize reports as follows:\n\nThirteen schools were represented by delegates, four by written\nreports, one by letter; their aggregate shows over thirteen hundred\nteachers and scholars in attendance, seventeen hundred volumes in\nlibraries, one hundred and eighty dollars raised, and one hundred\nconversions. This does not include the schools taught by our students\nthrough the summer, although they are really a part of our work. This\nbrief sentence gives no idea of the interest with which these reports\nwere given and received, or of the amusing or touching incidents\nconnected with the giving.\n\n_Mission Schools._--It will not do to pass these by unnoticed. It is\nmarvelously surprising how quickly the love of Christ, once received\ninto their own hearts, inspires this people to go out and seek for\nothers.\n\nWe have three such schools about Talladega. Selma and Mobile report one\neach. Childersburg has a county association.\n\nThe superintendent of the mission school at Selma gave an interesting\naccount of his experience in organizing and conducting it. By the way,\nhe is the young man recently mentioned in the _Advance_, who refused\na position, worth $25 per month, in a store, because whiskey was sold\nthere, which he might sometimes have to handle. It takes moral backbone\nin this country to stand up for temperance. I learned something of this\nyoung man\u2019s history. He is making every effort to educate himself and\nat the same time partially supports a widowed mother with her large\nfamily. He will make his mark in the world; moreover, what he is as to\ncharacter is largely due to the faithful efforts of a patient teacher.\n\nA large number of visitors were present; among them Rev. Mr. Woodsmall,\nPrincipal of the Baptist School at Selma, and others, many of whom\nfavored us with short addresses, which were spirited, enthusiastic and\npointed.\n\nWe feel that we may fairly call our first convention a success in\nnumbers, exercises, interest and results.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBusy Days--Health-talks--\u201cMajor Ann.\u201d\n\nMISS M. J. ADAMS, MONTGOMERY.\n\nIt often seems as if our work grew upon our hands, so that we have\nno time to tell about it; with our nearly 400 pupils, with all the\ncases of discipline that must arise, with interviews with parents\nand visits to their homes, in addition to the full hours of school\ngiven to instruction; then the school prayer-meetings, the special\nmeetings for Bible study, the Young Men\u2019s Association of the school--a\ncondition of membership of which is a pledge to abstain from the use\nof tobacco,--and the semi-monthly meeting of the Woman\u2019s Missionary\nSociety, which we have of late devoted to \u201cHealth-talks.\u201d\n\nAt our last meeting I sent an invitation to the mothers of our pupils\nto come to the school-room on Monday at four o\u2019clock. A large number\nresponded, and we gave them such instruction as we could, regarding\nthings they so much need to know for themselves, their children, and\ntheir homes. The women listened earnestly, and begged for another\nmeeting of the kind.\n\nWe set apart a portion of the day of prayer for colleges for\nappropriate exercises, and had a solemn meeting. Since that day, some\nhave been seeking Jesus. Our hearts are specially cheered with the\nevident sincerity of two promising young men, who, we trust, are now\nentering upon the new life.\n\nWe have a weekly school prayer-meeting, and meet on Tuesday nights such\npupils as we think will be specially helped in a small social meeting.\n\nI must tell you a little about \u201cAunt Ann,\u201d a member of my Sunday-school\nclass, who has just died. She was in many respects a remarkable woman.\nOf a giant frame, of strong practical common sense, an imperious will,\na contentious and often a bitter spirit, her life full of tribulation,\nit was, indeed, a warfare. She was quite a politician, and very fond of\npublic speaking, so that she was known throughout the city, by both the\nwhite and colored people, as \u201cMajor Ann.\u201d\n\nShe had learned to read in her old age, and had a great love for the\nword of God. She always had her Bible by her in her market-stall, and\nnever failed of being in her place in the class, with her lesson well\nlearned, and at every Sunday-school concert or Christmas festival she\nmust say her \u201cspeech.\u201d During the last of the year I noticed with how\nmuch more of a tender and quiet spirit she enjoyed the truths of the\nlesson, especially those about Heaven. When visited during her long and\npainful sickness, she always called for the reading of the 5th chapter\nof Revelation, adding, \u201cRead it right, for I shall know if you make one\nmistake.\u201d That chapter and the repetition of the twenty-third Psalm\nwere a sure comfort to her in her suffering, poverty, and loneliness.\n\nMajor Ann\u2019s dying message to me was, \u201cMeet me in glory; meet me at the\nfirst trump.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nKENTUCKY.\n\nThe Land and the People--The Work at McKee.\n\nREV. E. P. FAIRCHILD, BEREA.\n\nA stranger passing through many portions of the mountains of Kentucky\nwould probably regard it as a waste, howling wilderness, with no signs\nof habitation, save now and then the crow of a chicken or bark of a\ndog off in some hollow. This is owing to a custom the people have of\nsettling away from the public roads. Then, too, the highways often\nfollow a narrow ridge, or deep valley, where there would be but little\nroom for building. The indication of a near residence is a path leading\noff from the road, or possibly you may see a corn-field on a distant\nhill-side. But the heavy timber and thick underbrush generally obstruct\nthe view.\n\nThe people, as a class, take but little pride in good or comfortable\nhouses. One often has to get quite near before he can see them, so\nsmall are they, and so much the color of the timber, being made of logs\nor poles. A person is regarded as \u201chaving a plenty\u201d when he owns a good\nsaddle-horse or two, a pistol, a milch cow, a few shoats, domestic\nfowls, and crop enough to last him through the year. The idea is that\nman lives but a short time; he should be satisfied with enough to eat\nand wear; that death, in a sense, destroys his individuality; that one\nstar doesn\u2019t differ from another in glory; that \u201cin much wisdom is much\ngrief,\u201d and \u201cwhat profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh\nunder the sun?\u201d Be contented without knowledge, orchards and vineyards.\nWhat reason have we for improving on the condition of our parents? Of\ncourse, there are exceptions to those who hold these sentiments; and\nif their prophets and priests had not promulgated these ideas, to keep\nthem from becoming wise above their instructors, probably none would\nhave cherished them; for it would be hard to\nfind a people with as little knowledge and culture, who are so honest,\ngenial, frank, and ready to receive instruction as they are. The\ntrouble is, they have been neglected. The Southern aristocracy have\nlittle sympathy, and do not know what it is to reach a helping hand to\nthe needy, though they are regarded as very hospitable. The benevolent\npeople of the North and East are absorbed in aiding the growing West.\n\nBut let us go to the church. There is no bell to ring, though a bell\nwould sound beautifully among those hills and valleys. There is no\ntime-piece but the sun, and often no church or school-house to enter;\na private house or an arbor is sufficient, if there is a spring near\nby. It is surprising to see the number that gather when there are so\nfew signs of habitations. All are very attentive, and seem anxious\nto learn, save a few roughs, who gather at a distance, provided with\nwhiskey and pistols, ready to quell any fuss that may chance to arise.\nThose who read the Bible and Almanac at all generally read them very\nmuch, and are ready to quote Scripture, but are less gifted in its\nconstruction and application; and if they chance to get hold of any\nother reading, they are apt to become very familiar with it, reading it\nover several times. They are not afraid to sing loud, whether they know\nthe song or not.\n\nIt is not one of their principles to give, unless it be a good meal\nof bread, hog-meat and gravy. Many are not able, and none have been\ntaught, to give. Some hardly know how to account for the fact that\nother people give to them.\n\nThe people might be divided into two classes--either \u201cin all things too\nreligious,\u201d or \u201cfull of fornication and drunkenness, with feet swift to\nshed blood.\u201d The hills rock-ribbed, the quiet valleys with moss-covered\nstones, clear flowing brooks and running ivy, are not adapted to\nengender lukewarmness. A talented man is apt to be a preacher or\ndesperado--sometimes both.\n\nAbout four or five months ago I made my first visit to McKee, the\ncounty seat of Jackson Co., Ky. I found a small village having a\ncourt-house, jail, poor-house, two or three hotels, about the same\nnumber of stores, several dwellings, and a small school-house, but no\nchurch. It lies in a small basin-shaped hollow, with high hills on\nall sides. On public days, citizens may be seen pouring in from every\nvalley until the streets are flooded with people, and some of the\npeople flooded with whiskey.\n\nOn inquiry, I found they had no Sunday-school, and preaching, perhaps,\nonly once in two or three months, when a circuit rider might chance\nto be passing. I immediately helped them to the organization of a\nSunday-school, and made an appointment to preach there every other\nSaturday and Sunday through the winter. I have met the appointments,\nand we now have a Sunday-school with a membership of over seventy-five,\nwith a good library and lesson papers. A Temperance Society has been\norganized with over five hundred members. The Saturday and Sunday\nmeetings are regularly attended, and the people are now very anxious\nthat a suitable building should be erected for school and church\npurposes. A subscription of over five hundred dollars has already been\nraised by the citizens of McKee, and as soon as a thousand dollars can\nbe obtained from some benevolent source, we shall lay the foundation\nfor something permanent.\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nEXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM PROF. CHASE.\n\n\nJos. Smith preached this morning a good plain sermon upon \u201cThe Way of\nLife.\u201d He had to speak through an interpreter, but got along nicely.\nThe congregation was a strange one. Only two of the women had hats.\nMost of them wore turbans made of striped handkerchiefs, wound around\nin artistic styles.\n\nDuring the services a tithing-man passed around, a cane in hand,\nkeeping the children in order, and waking up those inclined to\ndrowsiness.\n\n_Avery Station._--This is rather a pleasant spot. The river makes three\nbends here, and the mission house is so placed, that from the front\nveranda we get a view about half a mile up and down the stream, of\nwater, rocks and green, the thick growth of trees, bushes and vines,\nmost of the way coming down to the water\u2019s edge, and at some points\ndipping into it. The yard is surrounded by a low well-kept hedge,\nsprinkled with little pink blossoms. In front are cocoa-nut trees,\nwith their clumps of yellowish green nuts encircling the trunks about\ntwenty feet from the ground; an orange tree, a cinnamon tree with\nits dark green fragrant leaves, and several pretty shrubs of various\nkinds. Beyond the hedge, on a point sloping toward the river, is the\ncoffee \u201cfarm\u201d (of three acres) covered with trees about four feet\nhigh, looking very much like pear trees. In the rear is a clump of\nbanana trees with a few bunches of unripe fruit. In the distance is\nthe mill, whose irregular roof of bamboo is looked down upon from the\nveranda. Nearer by is the chapel, an unpretentious yellow structure\nwith a school-room in the basement. The house is one-story, raised\nseveral feet above the ground, having a wide veranda on three sides,\nand containing six comfortable rooms, besides kitchen, &c.\n\nMr. Jackson is pastor of the church; Mr. Anthony, from Berea, has\ncharge of the mill and farm; and Rev. Mr. Jowett, a native, educated\nat Sierra Leone, teaches the school, and acts as interpreter. In\nthe family are ten little children who are just beginning to talk\nin English, and work about the house and grounds. The plateful or\nplatefuls of rice the little things can put away is astonishing. The\nsmallest one will eat as much as can be piled on a dining-plate.\n\n[_Editorial Note._--A son of the Mr. Jowett, referred to in the\nabove letter, has just landed in this country, on his way to Fisk\nUniversity. Believing that he is to figure in the future history of\nmissions in Africa, we give a brief sketch of him, and a glimpse at\nlife in an African village, prepared by himself. This will be found in\nthe juvenile department. Just here we wish to say that Albert Miller\nshows his appreciation of a liberal education and also his devotion to\nhis divine Master, two things very hopeful in a missionary. He found\nthis young man helpful as a Christian, and useful as an interpreter,\nand believing he would make a good missionary, he has sent him to his\nAlma Mater, and authorized the Association to pay his expenses out of\nhis own small salary. When such a spirit of self-denial and thorough\nconsecration characterizes the church, we shall have no trouble either\nin getting or maintaining teachers and missionaries.\n\nWe wish also to say that this is a most hopeful movement; that of the\nemancipated Christian and cultured African, with a constitution which\nenables him to live there, going back with the blessings of the Gospel\nto his fatherland; and that of the native, fully\nacquainted with the language of that people, rescued from paganism, to\nthis country for Christian education. The meaning of slavery, under the\nDivine administration, is beginning to unfold itself.]\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nINDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON.\n\nMISS ISABEL B. EUSTIS.\n\nMr. Hall\u2019s account in the February MISSIONARY of the departure\nof his Fort Berthold boys for Hampton, was a vivid picture to us who\nwelcomed them here. We could almost see them bidding a sad good-bye to\ntheir friends, waving their blankets from the deck of the boat, and\nsympathized with their consciousness that they had \u201ca long way to go,\nand a long time to stay, and it would be hard.\u201d\n\nWe wish the friends, who bade them good-bye that cold October morning,\ncould see them to-day. If they could hear their quick and intelligent\nreplies in the school-room, and watch them at their trades, we think\nthey would recognize the record which the new thoughts and self-control\nof the year have left on their faces, and would feel that they have\nalready gone a long way and a good one.\n\nAlmka (White Wolf), would show them the blue farm-cart of which he\nis rather shyly proud, because he made it, wheels and all, with his\nown hands. White Breast would lay down the doors of a new wardrobe,\nhe is finishing neatly, and Karunach would come from mending shoes,\nto tell them about Hampton, till their ideas out-stripped their\ntongues, and the old Indian sign-language came to the rescue. I think\nE-cor-rup-ta-ha would stop a minute, with a nonchalant air, to polish\nlovingly the big Corliss engine, before he shook hands even with them.\nLaughing Face and Ka-what would tell them how much they have made of\nthe new carriage-house, the Indians are building. Tom Smith would throw\naway his plane, and meet them with a joke and his merry boyish laugh;\nand little Ara-hotch-kish would look up from his painting, with a quick\nshy glance of welcome, going straight to the warmest place they have\nsaved in their hearts. Most of our Indians have gained a sufficient\ncommand of English to receive any idea which can be put in simple\nwords; and if any reader of the MISSIONARY is troubled with\nennui or thinks of searching for a new sensation, I advise him to come\nto Hampton, and try telling the old children\u2019s stories to Indians. Even\nWashington\u2019s little worn-out hatchet gets a new sharp edge. Columbus\non his voyage of discovery is followed with a slightly incredulous but\nintense interest, and all the Bible record reveals again a new force\nand fire.\n\nImagine telling the story of David and Goliath for the first time\nto a school full of Indian boys and girls. The room is breathlessly\nstill. Only kindling eyes and fixed attention show that the courage of\nthe shepherd boy for his unequal contest, his cool disregard of his\nbrother\u2019s scoffs, his disdain of Saul\u2019s armor and spear, his dauntless\nconfidence in God, are meeting, one by one, a hearty response in\nthe minds of the boys, a more timid one from the girls. Scarcely a\nsuppressed Indian grunt or guttural disturbs the narrative, till the\nfirst slung-stone lodges fairly in the giant\u2019s forehead, when little\nTa-ta-ton-ka-skah on the back seat forgets all traditions of Indian\nstoicism, jumps about a foot in the air, and claps his hands in an\necstasy of delight.\n\nThe bell rings, and the scholars must go to their classes, and fight\ntheir own giants, strong ones, that will by no\nmeans down at the first blow. May God bless every one, and grant them\nHis faith, and courage, and patience, till \u201clittle by little\u201d their\nenemies shall be driven out.\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\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.,\n    Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob S. Taber,\n    Esq.\n\n    DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D.\n    Sawyer, Rev. E. P. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph\n    Howell, Rev. John Kimball, E. P. Sanford, Esq.\n\n    SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E.\n    Palache, Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA CHAPTER OF ITEMS.\n\n_Chinese New-Year\u2019s._--Our Chinese brethren observed their national\nNew-Year\u2019s festival very happily, in their usual Christian way.\nWith great pleasure do I remember my visit to the very comfortable\nhead-quarters which our Oakland brethren have established. It is a\ntwo-story house, very neatly furnished with whatever is necessary to a\nChristian home, except that the male sex alone is represented there.\nIt bears witness to the strength of the _home impulse_ in Chinese\nhearts, such of them, at least, as have been touched by the love of\nChrist, and shows how soon--if only these immigrants were treated as\nothers are--Christian homes, in the full sense of that good word,\nwould spring into existence among them. When I reached the house, the\nrooms were already full of Chinese, and their teachers and friends.\nAfter greetings were over and refreshments tasted, several hymns were\nsung, and then I spoke to them of the \u201cnew commandment\u201d which our\nSaviour gave us, and led them in prayer. Just as I was leaving, Rev.\nDr. McLean, their pastor, entered with other friends. Before I had\ngone far, I met Rev. Mr. Condit, a Presbyterian missionary among the\nChinese, on his way to the same place. And thus with greetings and\nexhortations, and good counsel and prayer, the day passed away. At\nour Central Mission House and the Bethany Home in this city, similar\nexercises were held, at which the same duty of brotherly love--for us\n\u201cthe lesson of the hour\u201d--was pressed on their attention, and made the\nobject of earnest and united prayer--prayer to which I, at length, see\nthe beginning of a glad response.\n\nOf this same festival, as observed at Sacramento, Mrs. Carrington\nwrites: \u201cThe rooms were very tastefully decorated, and called forth\nmuch praise from the many who called. The scholars began the week\nby holding prayer-meetings; and during the week, as friends called,\nmuch of the time was spent in prayer and song. At a union meeting on\nThursday evening, Dr. Dwinell was present and spoke to them.\u201d Similar\nreports come from Stockton, Santa Barbara, etc. This festival calls,\nof course, for a few days of vacation in the schools, and involves a\ntemporary diminution in attendance, but, in my view, the religious uses\nto which it can be put, amply compensate for any inconveniences it may\ninvolve.\n\n_Additions to the Churches._--Two of our pupils at Santa Barbara were\nbaptized and received to the Congregational Church in that city, at\nits last communion. Three are expecting to be\nbaptized and received to the Congregational Church at Sacramento, and\nseven to Bethany Church, San Francisco, at their April communions. Let\nme quote Mrs. Carrington once more: \u201cI cannot tell you how my heart\nhas sometimes been thrilled with joy at the faithfulness of those so\nrecently brought out from darkness into the marvelous light. If people\nall through the land could know what devoted Christiana many of them\nare, they would feel condemned, as I do, for their own unfaithfulness.\u201d\n\n_The Barnes School._--Dea. and Mrs. Simeon Hackley, who have so long\nand so usefully conducted the Barnes Mission School, have found that\nother cares, that cannot be thrown off, make it impossible for them\nlonger to continue in the work. Both of them have been engaged in it\nsteadily for nearly six years. Dea. H., a graduate of Hamilton College,\nhaving been forced by a disease of the eyes to suspend study at the\nUnion Theological Seminary, and thus to give up his hope of becoming a\nforeign missionary, carried into secular life the missionary spirit.\nWhat he hoped for thus in youth, he found at length in this work, and\nto him and his like-minded wife have many souls been given as seals of\ntheir service here.\n\nIt is a real blessing that Mrs. C. A. Sheldon, who so successfully\nconducted the Bethany School for several years, has been restored to\nhealth, and, with the assistance of her daughter, is able to fill this\nvacant place. The school is growing in size and interest, and, we may\nhope, will be as useful in the future as it has been in the past.\n\n_Oroville Once More._--Miss Waterbury, from Oroville, gives an\ninteresting account of some \u201cgreat idol Masonic festival,\u201d which\noccupied the last week of February in the Chinese quarter of that town.\nShe says: \u201cCrowds of people have come in from the country for miles\naround, dark and rough-looking, many of them. There were processions,\nday after day, in which I recognized some of our scholars walking. Some\nof the forms were tall and fine as you will ever see. They carried a\nhuge monster, serpent or dragon of unearthly hideousness, designed to\nkeep away the evil spirits. At their temple there was an unceasing din\nof cymbals and gongs, with the firing of crackers and bombs, and the\noutlandish shouts of a mob-like throng; and nearly opposite, across\nthe narrow street, stands our humble mission-house, where on the three\nSabbaths previous, Lee Haim had preached, at eleven o\u2019clock, to a\nroom-full of his countrymen. On the Saturday and Sunday evenings of\nthis festival, the Chinese crowded in so that we dismissed school,\nand Lee Haim preached and sung to them in Chinese. Every seat and\nevery standing-place was filled. They wanted to hear. I am sure some\npoor, dark minds got a little Gospel truth for the first time, and,\nwith some of them, all they will ever hear until the revelations of\nthe future world shall be made to their astonished vision. It was\nsoul-inspiring to see the earnestness and energy with which he threw\nhis whole soul into the work, and even more so, to see all the eyes,\nand ears, and mouths open to catch the new and strange things of which\nthe preacher spoke. I could not understand a word, but I was refreshed\nin spirit and made stronger by it.\u201d Of course, this crowd no longer\nhangs upon the word. In two or three days, most of them scattered to\ntheir little mining camps, and the school resumed its comparatively\ndiminutive proportions. But God\u2019s word will not return to Him void; and\nwhile we know not which shall prosper, either this or that, we know\nthat \u201che that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall\n_doubtless_ return again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with\nhim.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALBERT BURTON JOWETT.\n\nI was born, in 1860, in a little town called Mocolo. They have no\nhouses there, but little mud huts covered with thatch. There are no\nroads, nor horses, nor cows. The people walk, or ride in little canoes\non the rivers. Not much work is done. What little clothing they wear is\nmade of native cloths. They have no cradles, and no clothing is needed\nfor their children. My father was away in the country to buy rice for\nthe Mendi Mission, and was taken prisoner a little before I was born.\nThe town was destroyed and the inhabitants killed, but my father\u2019s life\nwas spared. He was redeemed by Mr. Burton, one of the missionaries, who\npaid twenty-five shillings, English money, for his release. My father\nmoved to Good Hope when I was quite young, and I attended school and\nstudied the English language.\n\nNot far from the school-house there are groves of limes, pine-apples,\nplums, and bacon-fire, and the boys amuse themselves by battling each\nother with limes. The principal holidays are Christmas, New-Year\u2019s\nand Good Friday. They celebrate Christmas by having a big dance out\nof doors, lasting all day and often all night. The music is made by\nbeating drums, and by women who sing and clap their hands. The place\nwas lighted through the night by an immense fire in the centre. Pots of\nrice are cooked, and a sauce made of palm-oil, rice and fish, is served\nwith it. They always have rum and gin, which is supplied them very\nmuch more freely than the Gospel. We have no stoves in our country.\nThe fires are built either out of doors or in the corner of the hut.\nAs there are no chimneys, it is sometimes very smoky. The natives have\nno lamps, but use palm-oil in a dish. For a wick they wrap a piece of\ncloth around a stick. They have no tables, but sit down around a large\nmat and eat their food from wooden bowls, making one spoon do for the\nwhole family. On funeral occasions they have a big dance, which they\nsometimes keep up two or three days. All the people of the village\nattend, and the nearest relative is expected to furnish all the rum\nhe is able to pay for, and a liberal supply of food, but they have no\nreligious ceremonies. When a big man marries, if he has sufficient\nmoney, he keeps up a dance for a week. The missionaries are welcomed,\nand are doing a great deal to break up these old customs. In 1877, the\nRev. Mr. Snelson and two other Freedmen came to our mission, and it\nwas under their instruction that I was urged to give my heart to the\nSaviour. When Mr. Snelson asked me to try and become a Christian, I\ntold him I couldn\u2019t do it.\n\nHe took me to his room and prayed with me, then he called my father,\nand we all knelt down and he prayed again. He told me to go up to my\nroom and think over the matter. At first I did not know what to do;\nthen I fell down on my knees and prayed; I went to bed and prayed\nnearly the whole night. The next day I went to see Mr. Snelson, and he\nspoke to me on the same subject; I told him I felt greatly relieved\nfrom the burden of sin, and he prayed with me again that evening. Soon\nafter I connected myself with the church. After Mr. Snelson\u2019s return to\nAmerica, Rev. Albert Miller, a Freedman from the Fisk University, was\nmy pastor.\n\nBefore leaving Africa I acted as interpreter for Mr. Miller,\ntranslating his sermons, as he delivered them, into the Mendi language.\nMy father, who has been a native preacher for more than twenty years,\nis anxious to have missions planted far into the interior, where there\nare supposed to be two million Mendi people, occupying a country about\n7 degrees north latitude. All he could do is to give me up to the work.\nAmong this vast number, there is but one mission at present, and that\nis conducted by Freedmen from America.\n\nAfter spending three years in this country, at the Fisk University, it\nis my purpose to return to Africa, and assist in establishing missions\nin large villages in the wooded country, far from the coast. I feel\nthat I need your prayers. I have been treated very kindly since I left\nAfrica, and I pray earnestly that I may not disappoint my friends who\nhave assisted me in coming to this country, and who are anxious that I\nshould prepare myself to be a successful missionary in my native land.\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR MARCH, 1880.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMAINE, $432.47.\n\n  Augusta. Cong. Ch. and Soc., ($30 of which from\n    BARRETT EDWARDS POTTER to const. himself L. M.)             $53.56\n\n  Bluehill. M. E. Johnson                                         5.00\n\n  Foxcroft and Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         10.00\n\n  Hampden. C. E. H.                                               1.00\n\n  Kennebunk. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            12.00\n\n  Lewiston. Pine St. Cong. Ch.                                   17.77\n\n  Machais. E. G. L. and Mrs. H., 50c. each                        1.00\n\n  Orono. Cong. Ch.                                                1.04\n\n  Portland. Ladies in Maine, _for Lady Missionary_,\n    by Mrs. W. E. Gould                                         300.00\n\n  Portland. Nathalie Lord, package, _for Rev. A. E. White,\n    Mendi M._\n\n  Saco. D. J.                                                     1.00\n\n  Saint Albans. Rev. W. S. Sewell, $2; Cong. Ch., $1              3.00\n\n  Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                   5.00\n\n  Weld. Rev. D. D. T.                                             1.00\n\n  Wells. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               11.10\n\n  Winthrop. Isaac N. Metcalf                                      2.00\n\n  York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  8.00\n\nNEW HAMPSHIRE, $159.68.\n\n  Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                     3.95\n\n  Concord. Mrs. A. F. and Mrs. C. L. G., 60c. each                1.20\n\n  Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 10.90\n\n  Francestown. R. G. C.                                           0.50\n\n  Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc.                              25.00\n\n  Hillsborough Bridge. Mrs. J. G. and Mrs. N. T., $1 each         2.00\n\n  Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                    9.60\n\n  Lancaster. Mrs. A. M. Amsden                                    5.00\n\n  Lebanon. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              17.25\n\n  Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           58.73\n\n  Marlborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                15.05\n\n  Meridian. Mrs. Lucia Wells                                      5.00\n\n  New Ipswich. \u201cHillside Gleaners\u2019 Sewing Circle,\u201d by Carrie\n    B. Wilson, Treas.                                             5.00\n\n  Petersborough. A. M. C.                                         0.50\n\nVERMONT, $154.93.\n\n  Barre. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                      10.12\n\n  Bradford. Rev. Mrs. and Mrs. Elliot                            12.00\n\n  Burlington. Third Cong. Ch.                                    20.00\n\n  Chelsea. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                    20.00\n\n  Clarendon. Mrs. N. J. Smith                                     5.00\n\n  Danville. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                      10.00\n\n  Essex. L. C. B.                                                 1.00\n\n  Ludlow. Mrs. L. H. C.                                           1.00\n\n  Lyndonville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 5.00\n\n  Northfield. O. D. E.                                            1.00\n\n  Royalton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Soc., _for Student Aid,\n    Atlanta U._                                                  17.97\n\n  Sharon. Mrs. A. F. and Miss S. P. F., $1 each                   2.00\n\n  West Dummerston. A. B. B.                                       1.00\n\n  Weston. Mrs. S. A. Sprague and Lucy P. Bartlett, $2\n    each                                                          4.00\n\n  West Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               22.84\n\n  West Westminster. Elvira M. Gorham                              2.00\n\n  ---- \u201cA Friend\u201d                                                20.00\n\nMASSACHUSETTS, $4,869.39.\n\n  Amherst. Girls\u2019 Prayer Meeting, by Mrs. Mary H. Scott,\n    $30.05, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;--First Cong. Ch., $25    55.05\n\n  Andover. Calvin E. Goodell                                     25.00\n\n  Ashland. Mrs. Mary F. Cutler                                    5.00\n\n  Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        30.00\n\n  Beechwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                   1.31\n\n  Boston. Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $574.76; Miss R. A.\n    F., 50c.; F. W., 50c.                                       575.76\n\n  Boston Highlands. H. W. T.                                      0.50\n\n  Bradford. Ladies\u2019 Bible Class, bbl. C.\n\n  Brimfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                              $10.00\n\n  Brockton. Mrs. I. N.                                            0.50\n\n  Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., $581.54; N. H., 50c.        582.04\n\n  Charlemont. First Ch.                                           3.00\n\n  Chester. Second Cong. and Soc.                                  6.00\n\n  Clinton. First Evan Ch. and Soc.                               75.00\n\n  Danvers. Mrs. S. S.                                             1.00\n\n  Dedham. Allyn Cong. Ch. and Soc. _for Chinese M._              16.54\n\n  Dorchester. Mrs. Susan Collins                                  2.00\n\n  East Charlemont. Cong. Ch.                                     13.75\n\n  East Longmeadow. Cong. Ch.                                     22.00\n\n  East Medway. Ladies of First Ch., B. of C. and 25c., _for\n    freight_                                                      0.25\n\n  Essex Co. \u201cHoward,\u201d _for Chapel at Wilmington, N. C._       2,000.00\n\n  Fall River. First Cong. Ch., $84.04; M. E., $1                 85.04\n\n  Feeding Hills. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               7.81\n\n  Franklin. Peter Adams                                           2.00\n\n  Georgetown. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           25.90\n\n  Grafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              28.78\n\n  Grantville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 11.26\n\n  Greenfield. Jeanette Thompson                                   5.00\n\n  Greenwich Village. Daniel Parker                                5.00\n\n  Groton. Union Ch. and Soc., $83, and Sab. Sch., $17;\n    Elizabeth Farnsworth, $20; \u201cMother and Daughter\u201d\n    (of which $5 ea. _for\n    Chinese and Indian M._) $20                                 140.00\n\n  Groveland. Mrs. M. A. R.                                        0.50\n\n  Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             15.75\n\n  Hyde Park. Mrs. H. W. Bidwell, to const. MRS. FISK P.\n    BREWER, L. M                                                 30.00\n\n  Jamaica Plain. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       4.00\n\n  Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                           75.00\n\n  Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        11.42\n\n  Lowell. Mrs. A. S. C.                                           0.50\n\n  Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 13.00\n\n  Mansfield. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         18.56\n\n  Marblehead. J. J. H. Gregory, large package of flower and\n    vegetable seeds, _for Talladega, Ala._, and box garden\n    seeds, _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n\n  Marlborough. T. B. P.                                           1.00\n\n  Medway. J. D. Ellis                                           100.00\n\n  Millbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            24.00\n\n  Montague. Cong. Soc. 6.85\n\n  Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              24.51\n\n  Newburyport. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid, Talladega C._        10.00\n\n  Newton Centre. Mrs. M. B. Furber\u2019s Bible Class, _for\n    Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                     50.00\n\n  North Abington. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $15;--One and a half\n    bbl. of C., _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._          15.00\n\n  North Adams. Rev. C. S. S.                                      1.00\n\n  North Amherst. W. L. R.                                         1.00\n\n  Northbridge Centre. Minnie A. Winter                            2.00\n\n  North Brookfield. Miss Abby W. Johnson, _for Student Aid,\n    Fisk U._                                                     25.00\n\n  Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($30 of which from Mrs.\n    E. B. Wheaton, to const. MARY A. CHAPIN, L. M.)              39.00\n\n  Palmer. Second Cong. Ch.                                       10.84\n\n  Paxton. Mrs. H. O. K. and Mrs. W. B. R., 50c. ea.               1.00\n\n  Quincy. Miss Merrill\u2019s Sab. Sch. Class, Cong. Ch.               2.00\n\n  Reading. Bethesda Sab. Sch.                                    25.00\n\n  Royalston. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., bbl. of C.,\n    _for Savannah, Ga._\n\n  Sandwich. Mrs. Eliza W. Wells, $5; Mrs. Robert\n    Tobey, $5; Mrs. C. C. P. W., $1; Mrs. L. E. T., $1           12.00\n\n  Saxonville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l)                          $2.11\n\n  Shrewsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 25.00\n\n  South Braintree. A. P. W.                                       1.00\n\n  Southbridge. Miss S. R. L.                                      1.00\n\n  South Framingham. G. M. Amsden                                  5.00\n\n  South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20; Fred A. Hayes,\n    $3                                                           23.00\n\n  South Natick. Cong. Ch. and Soc., bbl. of C.; Ladies\u2019\n    Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch., bbl. of C.\n\n  Spencer. Primary Dept. of Cong. Sab. Sch.                       7.30\n\n  Springfield. Hope Cong. Ch., $13.22; Ira Merrill, $5           18.22\n\n  Taunton. Union Ch. and Soc.                                    21.52\n\n  Tewkesbury. \u201cIn Memory of Mary,\u201d by F.                         10.00\n\n  Ware. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Le Moyne Sch., Memphis,\n    Tenn._                                                       25.00\n\n  Wareham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                    19.25\n\n  Warren. Mrs. Jos. Ramsdell ($5 of which _for Chinese M._)       6.00\n\n  Watertown. Ladies of Phillips Ch., bbl. of C., _for\n    Memphis, Tenn._; Corban Soc., bbl. of C., _for\n    Talladega, Ala._\n\n  Webster. G. W. F.                                               1.00\n\n  Westborough. Evan. Ch. and Soc. Mon. Con. Coll.                20.21\n\n  West Dennis. S. S. C.                                           1.00\n\n  Westfield. First Ch., (\u201cA Friend\u201d) $50; First Cong. Ch.\n    and Soc. $18.74; S. F. S. B., $1                             69.74\n\n  West Hawley. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n\n  West Stockbridge. Village Cong. Ch.                            26.94\n\n  Whitinsville. ESTATE of E. W. Fletcher, by Chas.\n    P. Whitin, Ex.                                              100.00\n\n  Williamsburg. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                           10.00\n\n  Wilmington. Mrs. S. Bancroft                                    6.00\n\n  Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                122.18\n\n  Worcester. ----$60 to const. G. HENRY WHITCOMB and\n    MRS. ABBIE E. WHITCOMB, L. M\u2019s; Rev. W. J. White,\n    $1.50;--Mrs. John B. Gough, B. of C., and $1, _for\n    freight, for Atlanta U._; T. W. T., $1                       90.50\n\nRHODE ISLAND, $1.00.\n\n  Newport. D. B. F.                                               1.00\n\nCONNECTICUT, $4,215.83.\n\n  Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                       20.00\n\n  Birmingham. Cong. Ch., Coll. $24.76; Wm. E. Downs, $100       124.76\n\n  Bridgeport. First Cong. Ch.                                    91.21\n\n  Bristol. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                             4.00\n\n  Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $42.25; Hon. E. C.\n    Hungerford, $30 to const. CORNELIA A. NORTON, L. M.          72.25\n\n\n  East Hartford. First Cong. Church                              20.00\n\n  East Windsor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         20.00\n\n  Enfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch. ($10 of which _for Butler\n    school, Hampton, Va._)                                       13.00\n\n  Fair Haven. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n    Fisk U._                                                     35.00\n\n  Franklin. Cong. Ch.                                             7.00\n\n  Georgetown. Cong. Ch.                                          10.00\n\n  Guilford. \u201cA Friend in Third Ch.\u201d                               5.00\n\n  Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                    24.83\n\n  Hartford. Benj. DeForest, $70, _for Student Aid,\n    Talladega C._;--Mrs. John Olmsted, $15, _for Student\n    Aid, Fisk U._                                                85.00\n\n  Huntington. \u201cA few Friends in Cong. Ch. and Soc.\u201d               6.50\n\n  Killingly. Miss E. F. Jencks                                    5.00\n\n  Lebanon. ESTATE of Miss Betsy Metcalf, by Mary B.\n    Van Tuyl                                                     50.00\n\n  Marion. By Rev. L. F. B.                                        0.50\n\n  Morris. H. W.                                                   0.50\n\n  Milford. \u201cJ. M.,\u201d for books, _for Fisk U._                     10.00\n\n  Naugatuck. Cong. Ch.                                          100.00\n\n  New Britain. First Ch. of Christ, $143.03;--South Ch. Sab.\n    Sch., $50, _for Scholarship, Atlanta U._;--\u201cMember So.\n    Cong. Ch.,\u201d (two donations $5 ea.) $10                      208.03\n\n  New Haven. ESTATE of Rev. Wm. Patton, D. D., by\n    Wm. L. Patton, Ex.                                          500.00\n\n  New Haven. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $100; Dwight Place Cong. Ch. (of\n    which from Dea. Nelson Hall, $40; Dr. R. Crane, $10) $75    175.00\n\n  New London, \u201cFirst Ch. of Christ\u201d                             $50.42\n\n  North Guilford. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5; N. L. C., 50c.                  5.50\n\n  North Haven. Cong. Ch.                                         56.12\n\n  Norwich. Miss. Ass\u2019n of Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n    Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                     50.00\n\n  Plantsville. Cong. Ch., $243.35;--Mrs. E. P. Hotchkiss,\n    $5, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                           248.35\n\n  Simsbury. Rev. W. D. McF.                                       0.60\n\n  Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                           30.33\n\n  Washington. Cong. Ch.                                          21.07\n\n  Waterbury. First Cong. Ch., $141.41; \u201cA Friend,\u201d\n    $30, to const. ISRAEL HOLMES, L. M.                         171.41\n\n  Watertown. John DeForest, _for Student Aid, Talladega\n    C._                                                         100.00\n\n  Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                    14.10\n\n  Woodbury. ESTATE of Fannie Minor, by C. J. Minor,\n    Ex.                                                          62.50\n\n  Woodbury. Benj. Fabrique                                       20.00\n\n  Woodstock. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. MISS ELLEN D.\n    CHANDLER, L. M.                                              40.35\n\n  ---- \u201cA Friend\u201d                                             1,747.50\n\n  ---- \u201cA Friend\u201d                                                10.00\n\nNEW YORK, $978.17.\n\n  Albany. H. A. Homes, $2;--S. C., $1, _for repairs,\n    Talladega C._                                                 3.00\n\n  Astoria. C. N. S.                                               0.50\n\n  Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., by Geo. H. Shirley,\n    Chairman of Miss. Com., _for support of a Lady\n    Missionary, Charleston, S. C._, and to const. MISS\n    CARRIE A. PRATT, MRS. A. S. FOWLER, MRS. L. R. P.\n    STOCKTON, MRS. E. D. GRISWOLD, FREDERICK P. LITCHFIELD,\n    REV. JOHN L. SCUDDER, and WILLIAM C. HICKCOK, L. M\u2019s        210.00\n\n  Brooklyn. Chas. Wilbur, package Bibles; John H.\n    Anderson, box papers.\n\n  Binghamton. Chas. A. Beach                                     20.00\n\n  Black Creek. Cong. Ch., $3; Miss M. T., $1                      4.00\n\n  Chittenango. Rev. S. W., _for Church building,\n    New Iberia, La._                                              1.00\n\n  Clockville. C. K.  1.00\n\n  Crown Point. ESTATE of Mrs. Tryphena Walker, by Rev.\n    A. T. Clarke, to const. CALVIN W. HUESTIS and Dea. N.\n    MADISON CLARKE, L. M\u2019s                                       50.00\n\n  Dansville. James H. Learned                                    10.00\n\n  Deansville. Miss E. G.                                          1.00\n\n  Franklin. Communion Set, by Rev. I. H. Frazer.\n\n  Gilbertsville Academy. Rev. A. Wood, Principal                 15.00\n\n  Gloversville. Cong. Soc. ($100 of which from Alanson\n    Judson)                                                     114.00\n\n  Greenwich. Proceeds of claim on Cong. Ch.                     150.00\n\n  Hancock. Mrs. A. E. S.                                          1.00\n\n  Honeoye. Cong. Ch.                                             31.60\n\n  Ledyard. Cong. Ch., $27.60; R. H. Waldo, $2                    29.60\n\n  Leeds. Miss I. E. S.                                            1.00\n\n  Le Roy. Miss Delia A. Phillips, _for Woman\u2019s Work for\n    Women_                                                       25.00\n\n  Little Valley. First Cong. Ch.                                  2.12\n\n  Lockport. H. W. Nichols                                        20.00\n\n  Moravia. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., (ad\u2019l)                       1.00\n\n  New Hamburgh. S H. S.                                           0.50\n\n    New York. Ladies\u2019 Association of Presb. Memorial Ch.,\n    $105, _for a Teacher_;--Joseph S. Holt, ($10 of which\n    _for Berea C._) $20;--By Rev. C. S. Robinson, 54 copies\n    \u201cSongs of Sanctuary;\u201d--American Tract. Soc., Grant of\n    Sunday School Papers, _for the Freedmen_                    125.00\n\n  Oneida. S. H. Goodwin, $10; Edward Loomis, $2                  12.00\n\n  Oswego. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Miss S. Williams, _for Girls\u2019 Ind.\n    Sch., Talladega C._                                           2.00\n\n  Oxford. Asso. Presb. Ch. and Soc.                               6.97\n\n  Parma. Mrs. Ezekiel Clark                                       5.00\n\n  Paris Hill. Cong. Ch.                                          14.25\n\n  Rochester. Mrs. A. E. Albright                                  5.00\n\n  Sherburn. Chas. A. Fuller, $50, _for Student\n    Aid, Fisk U._;--Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $34.63                  84.63\n\n  Sinclairville. E. C. Preston, $1.50; Mrs. D. T. C., $1;\n    B. W. F., $1; E. W., 50c.                                     4.00\n\n  Syracuse. Sereno F. King $5.00\n\n  Union Falls. Mrs. Fanny D. Duncan, Francis E. Duncan,\n    and Margaret B. Duncan, $10 ea., to const. MRS. FANNY\n    D. DUNCAN, L. M.                                             30.00\n\n  Union Valley. Dr. J. Angel                                     10.00\n\n  West Barre. L. S.                                               1.00\n\nNEW JERSEY, $329.18.\n\n  Bound Brook. Mrs. T. D. V.                                      1.00\n\n  ---- \u201cHeart\u2019s Content\u201d                                         50.00\n\n  Jersey City. Sab. Sch. of Tab. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n    Fisk U._                                                     20.00\n\n  Newark. C. S. Haines                                           40.00\n\n  Orange Valley. Cong. Ch.                                       68.28\n\n  Sayreville. A. B. K.                                            0.50\n\n  Somerville. Mrs. Nicolas Voorhees                               2.00\n\n  Vineland. Proceeds of Land                                    147.40\n\nPENNSYLVANIA, $15.00.\n\n  Scranton. F. E. Nettleton                                      15.00\n\nOHIO, $1,460.99.\n\n  Castalia. Mrs. I. W. S.                                         1.00\n\n  Claridon. \u201cCheerful Workers,\u201d Cong. Sab. Sch.                  15.00\n\n  Cleveland. ESTATE of Brewster Pelton, by J. G.\n    Jennings, Ex.                                             1,118.75\n\n    Cleveland. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., $30; Miss Bettie\n    Dutton\u2019s Class, $10; Mrs. C. W. Ruggles\u2019 Class, $10,\n    _for Student Aid, Fisk U._--M. H. B., 50c.                   50.50\n\n  Conneaut. Communion Set, by H. E. Pond.\n\n  Delaware. N. W. Hodges                                          2.00\n\n  Elyria. F. B. N.                                                0.50\n\n  Fort Recovery. J. F. Collins                                    6.00\n\n  Greenwich Station. Wm. M. Mead                                  5.00\n\n  Kirtland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                    2.65\n\n  Madison. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Teacher, Selma, Ala._           20.50\n\n  Mansfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._  25.00\n\n  Metamora. Mrs. M. S.                                            1.00\n\n  Oberlin. First Cong. Ch.                                       40.62\n\n  Parkman. J. S. H.                                               0.50\n\n  Ravenna. S. H.                                                  1.00\n\n  Rockport. Cong. Ch.                                             4.00\n\n  Sandusky. First Cong. Ch., to const. MRS.\n    E. ALVORD, ELISHA D. WARD, MISS SARAH E.\n    CLARK, and JOHN M. FARRAR, L. M\u2019s.                          121.32\n\n  Saybrook. Sab. Sch. District No. 3, _for Student Aid,\n    Tougaloo U._                                                 15.00\n\n  Springfield. First Cong. and Soc.                               8.64\n\n  Tallmadge. H. W. C.                                             0.51\n\n  Wellington. A. H. A.                                            1.00\n\n  West Williamsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         10.00\n\n  Youngstown. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of Welsh Cong. Ch., $10; J.\n    C., 50c.                                                     10.50\n\nMICHIGAN, $196.38.\n\n  Adrian. C. C. Spooner                                           5.00\n\n  Armada. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._     11.50\n\n  Benzonia. Mrs. L. A. B. C.                                      1.00\n\n  Covert. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._         12.00\n\n  Detroit. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. $50; Mrs. Z.\n    Eddy, $5; Miss T. Hudson, $4; Mrs. L., $1, _for Lady\n    Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._; Miss M. L. Miller, $5           65.00\n\n  East Saginaw. Cong. Ch.                                        32.20\n\n  Greenville. Mrs. R. L. Ellsworth, _for Student Aid,\n    Fisk U., Tenn._                                               5.00\n\n  Kalamo. Cong. Ch., $3.23; Evans District, $1.27; Mrs.\n    S. E. B., 50c.                                                5.00\n\n  Laingsburg. Cong. Ch.                                           6.00\n\n  Menomonee. Rev. A. W. B.                                        0.50\n\n  Milford. Mrs. M. O.                                             0.50\n\n  New Baltimore. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  4.18\n\n  Olivet. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $10, _for Emerson Inst._, $5, _for\n    Chinese in Cal._, $5, _for Indian M._, $5, _for Camp\n    Nelson, Ky._; Cong. Ch. Mon. Con. Coll., $10.85              35.85\n\n  Owosso. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U., Tenn._, $9.15; Mrs. A., $1                               10.15\n\n  Port Huron. H. W. C.                                            1.00\n\n  South Frankfort. O. B.                                         $0.50\n\n  Union City. Mrs. E. J. H. and Mrs. D. B. W. 50c. ea.            1.00\n\nINDIANA, $6.37.\n\n  Dunreith. Mrs. L. M., 37c.; L. M., $1                           1.37\n\n  New Corydon. George Stoltz                                      5.00\n\n  South Bend. Oliver Plow Co., 3 plows, _for Talladega_.\n\nILLINOIS, $1,353.58.\n\n  Aurora. First Cong. Ch.                                        13.87\n\n  Bowensburg. ESTATE of Eliza B. Spencer, by Richard\n    Eells, Ex.                                                   12.00\n\n  Bowensburg. ESTATE of Eliza B. Spencer, $100, by\n    Richard Eells, Ex., incorrectly ack. in March No.\n\n  Byron. A. A. Johnson                                            5.00\n\n  Chesterfield. Cong. Ch.       3.00\n\n  Chicago. Union Park Cong. Ch., $334.27;--Union\n    Park Cong. Sab. Sch., $50, _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U._;--Lincoln Park Ch., $30, to const. ALFRED GOUDY, L.\n    M.;--Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., of Lincoln Park Ch., $20, _for\n    Lady Missionary_;--Mrs. L. P. R., $1                        435.27\n\n  Chicago. ESTATE of Mrs. E. H. Craven, by E.\n    W. Blatchford, Adm\u2019r, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._            250.00\n\n  Dundee. Mrs. W. D.                                              1.00\n\n  Elgin. Cong. Ch.                                               13.58\n\n  Evanston. First Cong. Ch.                                      33.94\n\n  Galesburg. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., $50; Mrs. S.\n    R. Holmes, $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._, First Ch. of\n    Christ, $30.05                                               85.05\n\n  Galesburg. _Correction._--In March No., Cong. Ch. Sab.\n    Sch., $50, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._, should read,\n    \u201cLadies\u2019 Benev. Soc. of First Ch. of Christ.\u201d\n\n\n  Geneseo. Cong. Ch., (ad\u2019l) $45.13; Mrs. E. L. Atkinson,\n    $5                                                           50.13\n\n  Griggsville. Cong. Ch.                                         22.15\n\n  Lisbon. Cong. Ch.                                              10.45\n\n  Kewanee. _Correction._--In April No., Ladies of Cong.\n    Ch., $57, should read, from Ladies of Cong. Ch., $37;\n    La Moille, Cong. Ch., $20.\n\n\n  Moline. John Deere, $100; Cong. Ch., $60                      160.00\n\n  Oneida. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U._                                                           2.40\n\n  Ontario. Cong. Ch.                                             21.55\n\n  Ottawa. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U._                                                          15.00\n\n  Peoria. Moses Pettengill, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._           15.00\n\n  Polo. Bbl. of C., and $1.40, _for freight_, _for Nashville,\n    Tenn._                                                        1.40\n\n  Princeton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U._                                                           6.75\n\n  Rockford. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of First Cong. Ch., $25;\n    Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of Second Cong. Ch., $25; Miss. Soc.\n    of Female Sem., $10, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._              60.00\n\n  Streator. Mrs. Ralph Plumb, _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U._                                                          50.00\n\n  Sycamore. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n    U._                                                          50.00\n\n  Toulon. Cong. Ch.                                              11.00\n\n  Waukegan. Rev. A. J. B.                                         0.60\n\n  Winnetka. Cong. Ch.,$17.60, and Sab. Sch., $1.84               19.44\n\n  York Neck. Mrs. Anna Reynolds                                   5.00\n\nMISSOURI, $3.75.\n\n  Laclede. Cong. Ch., $3.25; Rev. E. D. S., 50c., _for\n    Mag._                                                         3.75\n\nWISCONSIN, $129.59.\n\n  Adamsville. Cong. Ch.                                           2.00\n\n  Appleton. Miss Ann S. Kimball                                 100.00\n\n  Eau Claire. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n    Missionary_                                                  21.65\n\n  Kashkomong. Mrs. A. V. M.                                       0.50\n\n  Milwaukee. \u201cFriends,\u201d box and bbl. C., _for Straight U._\n\n  Pleasant Hill. Cong. Ch.                                        2.00\n\n  Two Rivers. Cong. Ch.                                           2.44\n\n  Windsor. H. H. S.                                               1.00\n\nIOWA, $259.94.\n\n  Burlington. M. L.                                              $1.00\n\n  Cedar Rapids. T. M. Sinclair, _for repairs, Talladega\n    C._                                                          50.00\n\n  Chester Centre. Cong. Ch.                                      46.00\n\n  Columbus City. Sarah E. Evans                                   2.00\n\n  Dubuque. Bbl. of bedding.\n\n  Floris. \u201cMary and Martha\u201d                                       5.00\n\n  Grinnell. Cong. Ch., $43.13; Sab. Sch. Class of boys, $2;\n    L. B., 50c.                                                  45.63\n\n  Marion. Cong. Ch., $63.31; Willing Workers, box of C., _for\n    Straight U._                                                 63.31\n\n  McGregor. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., bbl. of C., _for Straight\n    U._\n\n  Postville. Rev. R. H. Robbins, _for repairs, Talladega\n    C._                                                           2.00\n\n  Tabor. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._              10.00\n\n  Winterset. Mrs. S. J. Dinsmore, $10; \u201cFriends,\u201d $25            35.00\n\nKANSAS, $252.00.\n\n  Leavenworth. Mrs. T. C.                                         1.00\n\n  Olathe. ESTATE of Elvira Beckwick, by Watts\n    Beckwith                                                    250.00\n\n  Olathe. Rev. W. W. McM.                                         1.00\n\nMINNESOTA, $92.57.\n\n  Minneapolis. Rev. E. M. Williams, $50, _for Student\n    Aid, Fisk U._;--Plymouth Ch., $28.57                         78.57\n\n  Rushford. Cong. Ch.                                             3.00\n\n  Saint Paul. C. S. Campbell                                     10.00\n\n  Tivoli. L. H.                                                   1.00\n\nNEBRASKA, $14.00.\n\n  Indianola. Cong. Ch.                                           10.00\n\n  Red Willow. Cong. Ch.                                           4.00\n\nCOLORADO, $1.00.\n\n  Colorado Springs. Rev. E. N. B.                                 0.50\n\n  Denver. J. L. P.                                                0.50\n\nCALIFORNIA, $25.00.\n\n  Oakland. Mrs. Nathaniel Gray                                   25.00\n\nMARYLAND, $100.00.\n\n  Baltimore. First Cong. Ch.                                    100.00\n\nVIRGINIA, $28.40.\n\n  Hampton. Normal Sch. Ch.                                       28.40\n\nTENNESSEE, $272.75.\n\n  Nashville. Fisk University, Tuition                            89.80\n\n  Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.                                        182.95\n\nNORTH CAROLINA, $120.24.\n\n  McLeansville. Cong. Ch.                                         5.00\n\n  Raleigh. Washington Sch., Tuition                              30.00\n\n  Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition                               85.24\n\nGEORGIA, $658.25.\n\n  Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $241.90; Rent, $3;\n    Atlanta U., Tuition, $113; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $2.52                360.42\n\n  Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, 74.95; Rent, $8               82.95\n\n  McIntosh. S. S.                                                 0.50\n\n  Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $107.75; Sales,\n    $106.63                                                     214.38\n\nALABAMA, $624.80.\n\n  Anniston. Cong. Ch., _for repairs, Talladega C._                8.15\n\n  Marion. \u201cGirls Sewing-Class,\u201d _for Mendi Mission_              17.00\n\n  Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition                                176.70\n\n  Montevallo. Cornelius Cadle, Jr., _for rebuilding barn,\n    Talladega C._                                                10.00\n\n  Montgomery. Public School Fund                                175.00\n\n  Selma. Rent, $100; Cong. Ch., $54.60                          154.60\n\n  Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, $74.85;--Eight\n    individuals, $1 ea.; J. R. M., 50c., _for rebuilding\n    barn_                                                        83.35\n\nMISSISSIPPI, $87.00.\n\n  Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition                                 87.00\n\nLOUISIANA. $129.75.\n\n  New Orleans. Straight University, Tuition                     129.75\n\nINCOME FUND, $416.00.\n\n  ---- Avery fund, _for Mendi M._                               246.00\n\n  ---- General Fund                                              50.00\n\n  ---- C. F. Dike Fund                                           50.00\n\n  ---- Straight U. Scholarship Fund                              70.00\n\n---- ----, $50.00.\n\n  ---- Jubilee Singers, _for Dept. of Natural Science, Fisk\n    U._                                                          50.00\n\nSCOTLAND, $250.00.\n\n  Glasgow. Mrs. Ann Morris McDowell, by Rev. Geo.\n    Morris, _for a Teacher, Fisk U._                            200.00\n\n\n  ---- \u201cA. P.\u201d                                                   50.00\n\n                                                                ------\n\n       Total,                                               $17,688.01\n\n       Total from Oct. 1st to March 31st                    $86,611.92\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFOR SCHOOL BUILDING, ATHENS, ALA.\n\n  Church\u2019s Corners, Mich. First Cong. Ch.                        21.00\n\n  Previously acknowledged in Feb. Receipts                      432.28\n\n                                                                ------\n\n        Total,                                                 $453.28\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFOR NEGRO REFUGEES.\n\n  Somerset, Mass. Cong. Ch. Bbl. of C.\n\n  Wilmington, Mass. Bbl. of C.\n\n  South Norwalk, Conn. 2 Bbls. of C., by Mrs. C. M.\n    Lawrence.\n\n  Binghamton, N. Y. Chas. A. Beach                                5.00\n\n  Brooklyn, N. Y. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      5.00\n\n  Penn Yan, N. Y. M. Hamlin                                     100.00\n\n  \u201cHeart\u2019s Content,\u201d N. J. Box of C.\n\n  Savannah, Ohio. J. A. P. Patterson                              5.00\n\n                                                                ------\n\n       Total                                                   $115.00\n\n  Previously acknowledged in Feb. Receipts.                     247.25\n\n                                                                ------\n\n        Total                                                  $362.25\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n  East Hampton, Mass. Mrs. Emily G. Williston                   200.00\n\n  Lowell. Mass. Mrs. E. M. Buss, $100; Judge Crosby, $25;\n    Leonard Kimball, $25                                        150.00\n\n\n  Hartford, Conn. C. C. Lyman                                   100.00\n\n  New Haven, Conn. Amos Townsend                                 10.00\n\n    New London, Conn. TRUST ESTATE of Henry P. Haven            500.00\n\n  Waterbury, Conn. Chas Benedict                                400.00\n\n  Morristown, N. J. Ella M. Graves                              100.00\n\n  Salem, Ohio. David A. Allen                                    25.00\n\n                                                                ------\n\n        Total                                                $1,485.00\n\n  Previously acknowledged in Feb. Receipts                    1,267.00\n\n                                                                ------\n\n        Total                                                $2,752.00\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n        Receipts for March                                  $19,309.01\n\n   Total from Oct. 1st to March 31st                        $93,228.21\n\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\nMISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\u201d\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct\nChristian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a\nknowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries which\nare destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of\neffort.\n\nART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[1] who\nprofesses faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder,\nor in the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the\nfunds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty\ndollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have\nnot professed their faith may be constituted life members without the\nprivilege of voting.\n\nART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of\nSeptember, October or November, for the election of officers and the\ntransaction of other business, at such time and place as shall be\ndesignated by the Executive Committee.\n\nART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular\nofficers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, and\nof delegates from churches, local missionary societies, and other\nco-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one representative.\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\nART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the\ncollecting and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling,\nsustaining and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons)\nmissionaries and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in\ngeneral, the transaction of all such business as usually appertains to\nthe executive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies;\nthe Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the\nmissionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision of\nthe annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually chosen, always\nentertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or missionary; and the\ndecision of such reference shall be final.\n\nThe Executive Committee shall have authority to till 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\nART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing\nofficers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields of labor,\nand conducting 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\nART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing\nto the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain\nmissionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the\nagency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART. X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution\nwithout the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a\nregular annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been\nsubmitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in\nseason to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if so\nsubmitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.\n\n[Footnote 1: By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a\nbelief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a Saviour;\nthe Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ,\nthe only Saviour of the world; the necessity of regeneration by\nthe Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and 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\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with\nthe almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its\nmain efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as\ncitizens and Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As\nclosely related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted\nCHINESE in America, and to co-operate with the Government in\nits humane and Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has\nalso a mission in AFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_--In 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.--_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.--Among the Freedmen,\n253; among the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total,\n296. STUDENTS--In 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--the 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 as 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--a pressing want.\n\nBefore sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.\noffice, as below:\n\n  NEW YORK   H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.\n  BOSTON     Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House.\n  CHICAGO    Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington Street.\n\n\nMAGAZINE.\n\nThis Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the\nMissionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen who\ntake up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of Sabbath\nSchools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; to Societies\nof Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does not prefer to\ntake it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less than five\ndollars.\n\nThose who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION\nin their last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the\nfollowing\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\u201cI BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of ----\ndollars in trust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the\nperson who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the\n\u2018American Missionary Association\u2019 of New York City, to be applied,\nunder the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to\nits charitable uses and purposes.\u201d\n\nThe will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States three\nare required--in other States only two], who should write against\ntheir names, their places of residence [if in cities, their street and\nnumber]. 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PAINTER, aided\nby the steady contributions of our intelligent Missionaries and\nteachers in all parts of the field, and with occasional communications\nfrom careful observers and thinkers elsewhere, the AMERICAN\nMISSIONARY furnishes a vivid and reliable picture of the work\ngoing forward among the Indians, the Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and\nthe Freedmen as citizens in the South 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 158.\n\nDonations and subscriptions should be sent to\n\n  H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n  56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTO ADVERTISERS.\n\nSpecial attention is invited to the advertising department of the\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY. Among its regular readers are thousands\nof Ministers 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\norder to secure insertion in the following number. All communications\nin relation to advertising should be addressed to\n\n  THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT,\n  56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u261e Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of\nthe \u201cAmerican Missionary\u201d can aid us in this respect by mentioning,\nwhen ordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.\n\n\nDAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, Printer, 101 Chambers Street, New York.\n\n\n[Transcriber\u2019s Note:\n\nInconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.]","title":"American Missionary, Vol. XXXIV., No. 5, May 1880","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":21390}