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NO. 12.\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                          DECEMBER, 1880.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    PARAGRAPHS                                               385\n    DR. MCKENZIE\u2019S SERMON--POWER OF RIGHT PRINCIPLES         386\n    THE CALL FOR ENLARGEMENT--SHALL IT BE HEEDED?            387\n    HOLIDAY GIFTS                                            388\n    REVIEW AND OUTLOOK: Rev. M. E. Strieby, D. D.            389\n    WHAT OUR AFRICAN METHODIST FRIENDS THINK                 395\n    GENERAL NOTES--Africa, Indians, Chinese                  396\n    CENTRAL SOUTH CONFERENCE                                 398\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                     399\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    GLEANINGS                                                400\n    GEORGIA--Atlanta University--Extract from Report\n      of Board of Visitors                                   400\n    ALABAMA, ATHENS--Church, School, and Brick-making        401\n    MISSISSIPPI, TOUGALOO--Patient Work                      402\n    LOUISIANA, NEW ORLEANS--Revival Meetings                 403\n    TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE--Fisk University                    404\n    MEMORIAL SERVICES                                        405\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    INDIAN EDUCATION IN THE EAST: Gen. S. C. Armstrong       406\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    CHAPTER OF GOOD THINGS: Rev. W. C. Pond                  408\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    A SLAVE-GIRL\u2019S FAITH                                     410\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                   412\n\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                               415\n\n\n  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC.                               416\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             NEW YORK\n\n         Published by the American Missionary Association,\n\n                      ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\n\nEntered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association,\n\n56 READE STREET, N. Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  PRESIDENT.\n\n    HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\n  VICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n    Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n    Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n    Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n    Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.\n    Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.\n    WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.\n    Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.\n    Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.\n    Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.\n    Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. 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    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    Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.\n    Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.\n    Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Washington Ter.\n    Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.\n    Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n    EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.\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, Mass.\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    Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n    Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\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    J. 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    Rev. W. H. WILLCOX, D. D., Mass.\n    Rev. G. B. WILLCOX, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D. D., N. Y.\n    Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, Mass.\n    Rev. E. B. WEBB, D. D., Mass.\n    Hon. C. I. WALKER, Mich.\n    Rev. A. H. ROSS, Mich.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., 56 _Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n  DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n    REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n    REV. G. D. PIKE, D. D., _New York_.\n    REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n    H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.\n\n\n  EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n    ALONZO S. BALL,\n    A. S. BARNES,\n    C. T. CHRISTENSEN,\n    H. L. CLAPP,\n    CLINTON B. FISK,\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n    S. B. HALLIDAY,\n    A. J. HAMILTON,\n    SAMUEL HOLMES,\n    CHARLES A. HULL,\n    EDGAR KETCHUM,\n    CHAS. L. MEAD,\n    SAMUEL S. MARPLES,\n    WM. T. PRATT,\n    J. A. SHOUDY,\n    JOHN H. WASHBURN.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to\nthe District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the \u201cAmerican\nMissionary,\u201d to Rev. C. C. PAINTER, at the New York Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New\nYork, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21\nCongregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n           VOL. XXXIV.      DECEMBER, 1880.      No. 12.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe publications provided for a household do much to mould the\ncharacter of its inmates. If a right proportion of these are\nreligious and missionary, good results are sure to follow. As at\nthis season many determine what periodicals they will take for\nthe coming year, we beg leave to suggest the wisdom of families\nsubscribing for and perusing the AMERICAN MISSIONARY. By this\nmeans foundations for right thinking and right doing will be laid,\nand the way prepared for the exercise of Christian patriotism and\nphilanthropy, so needful in the present condition of our country.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe have word from Hampton that the tide of negro students never\nset in so promptly and strongly as since October 1st of this year.\nFor the second time in the history of the school, tents have been\nerected on the campus and occupied by the colored boys.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nDr. Alexander, President of Straight University, is much encouraged\nby the fact that white students are ready to avail themselves\nof the advantages of the Law Department of the University. This\ndepartment is entirely self-sustaining, and conducted with rare\nability, one of the professors having served on the Supreme Bench\nof the State. Of twenty-three students, nineteen are white.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe number of students in attendance at Fisk University for the\nfirst two months of this year is much greater than that of any\nprevious year since Jubilee Hall was occupied. A communication\nfrom Pres. Cravath, published elsewhere, states at length some of\nthe unusually hopeful aspects of the work, and indicates that the\nUniversity is entering upon a larger career of usefulness than it\nhas ever experienced.\n\nThe American Bible Society offers to its Life Members an annual\ngrant of one dollar\u2019s worth of Bibles or Testaments; its benevolent\nintention being to supply them with the means of distributing the\nword of God among the needy. This perquisite is transferable at\nthe written request of the Life Members. A lady, once a teacher\nin our schools at the South, and who has a great interest in the\nwelfare of the colored children, suggests that in this way the\npupils of our day and Sunday-schools may be supplied with the\nsacred Scriptures. We cordially second the suggestion, and will\nbe glad to receive the written authorization of any of the Life\nMembers of the Bible Society for the use of their current gift for\nthe purpose above indicated. The officers of the Bible Society, as\nwe understand, acquiesce in this plan so far as it may seem wise to\nthe Life Members to co-operate with us.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDR. McKENZIE\u2019S SERMON.\n\nThe sermon preached at our Annual Meeting by Dr. McKenzie, related\nto our duty to Africa, and was one of rare excellence and beauty.\nIt was printed in the _Advance_, Oct. 28th, and a limited number\ncan be supplied to persons sending us a postal requesting it, with\ntheir address. The closing words of the sermon, which we append,\nnot only sound a note of cheer, but are fitted to awaken the hope\nand courage of earnest Christian workers everywhere.\n\n\u201cThe day of the Lord is coming. The light is on the hills and along\nthe coast of all the lands. The nations are coming to the King. The\ncontinents and the islands begin to hear His voice. The tongues of\nmen shall be filled with praise. It is not long; a few days more\nof work and prayer; a few more deeds of sacrifice and love; a few\nmore lives given; a few more men gilded with the towel and with the\nbasin in their hands; a few more repetitions of that strange and\nsacred deed, Jesus washing the feet of Judas. Then the glory and\nthe rejoicing. A little while and the day shall dawn. We may see\nthe hastening light as we face the East,\n\n                \u201cWhere, faint and far,\n    Along the tingling desert of the sky,\n    Beyond the circle of the conscious hills,\n    Were laid in jasper-stone as clear as glass\n    The first foundations of that new, near Day\n    Which should be builded out of heaven to God.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPOWER OF RIGHT PRINCIPLES.\n\nFrom the beginning this Association was wedded to right principles.\nIt recognized their latent power. It took it for granted that\nright was expedient--that right would triumph. It did not ask if\nright thinking and right doing was the way of the multitude, even\nof the multitude of professing Christians. Its inquiry was simply\nfor the way of righteousness. That way it strove to tread. It was\ncalled narrow--captious. Its leaders were sometimes stigmatized\nas men of one idea--disturbers of the people--fanatics. They were\nnot time-servers, however. They had the martyr spirit and toiled\non, waiting for the morning; and the morning came. What was once\nquestioned if not ridiculed, is now accepted and honored.\n\nThe elements that entered into their early labors are needful\nstill. They had courage. They dared to do right in the face of\nopposition. If mobbed and mobbed again, the oppression only served\nto fill the country with the fragrance of their good deeds. It was\nbut the torch that kindled the incense. They were never drawn from\na righteous purpose. God was present in the shadows, keeping watch\nabove his own. They had the spirit of sacrifice. They were ready to\ngo to the lost sheep--to the despised. They passed not by him who\nfell among thieves. They achieved distinction by their readiness\nto endure hardness--to submit to insult--to be counted among the\nfew--to toil with but little appreciation and for meagre rewards.\nThey also bore about with them a rich and beautiful charity, first\npure, then peaceable, full of mercy and good fruits. It was the\ncombination of these elements in active operation for a score of\nyears that served largely to revolutionize public sentiment, and\nespecially the sentiment in our churches, until the principles\nof this Association are accepted and acceptable. The change\nwas wrought by the power of pure motives applied to aggressive\nreligious work in behalf of a needy and wronged people.\n\nThis change is sure to come in every quarter of our land, by\nsufficient application of the power of right principles. Every\nmission station of this Association is a centre from which a pure\nlight radiates. Every graduate from our schools is a torch-bearer\nflaming this light over the land. It is a question of time--of a\nscore of years perhaps--and there will be no ostracism experienced\nby our teachers South. If they can be sustained in the field,\ntoiling in righteousness; if their numbers can be multiplied\nto meet the demand; if the churches will make it possible to\ncontinue the work; the victory of right principles South will\nbe as certain and speedy as it was at the North, and much more\nmay be hoped for. North and South will clap their hands together\nin hearty co-operation, shouting their choruses in one grand\nanthem, and entering in company upon the enlarged work of carrying\nright principles to the domain of final victory--the Freedmen\u2019s\nfatherland. To gird ourselves for that to-day is the duty which\ncalls the servants of the Master, East, West, North and South.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CALL FOR ENLARGEMENT--SHALL IT BE HEEDED?\n\nAt no time has the call for enlargement been more urgent. It is\nstrikingly providential also. The political, moral and religious\natmosphere is charged with forces, prophetic of unparalleled\nprogress in our Southern work. Questions relative to the policy of\ngovernment are measurably settled for four years. We can lay our\nplans with encouraging assurances. Sound and practical views on\nall that pertains to permanent prosperity are dominant. It is not\nlikely they will be materially modified, save for the better. Our\nstatesmen and philanthropists are coming to prize more and more\nthose forces in man which are developed by a Christian education.\nThe _want_ that is looming up before them, is good schools for\nthe masses in every section of the country. They voice this want\nin their public utterances, and the sound thereof is echoing and\nre-echoing over the land. It has in it the promise of expansion\nand universal application. Its adoption and elaboration mean\nincrease of every laudable industry, the development of commerce,\nart, science, literature, wealth, beauty, happiness. They mean the\nleveling up of humanity heavenward. The tone and temper of our best\nmen was never more auspicious than now--never more favorable to the\nwork of this Association.\n\nThere never was so strong conviction in the South as now of the\nwisdom of Christian education for the Freedmen. The worth of it\ncannot be hidden. It is as evident as the sheen of an electric\nlight. There is a capacity in the heart of man, by which he is\nable to recognize it. He comes to do so gradually, inevitably, as\nthe flower unfolds from the bud, and as the fruit matures from the\nblossom. Many of the best in the world started wrong, but turned\nabout and out-stripped their fellows in well doing. The South has\nbeen wrong, but pour in sufficient light and it will turn about.\nWe have a right to hope and pray for such consummation. The aim\nof our work is to hasten it. When the South turns, it will not be\nby halves,--that is not her method. She is already rising for the\nemergency. The signs of it are apparent. It is but a question of\ntime, and the time is at hand.\n\nLegislatures have appropriated money for our work, and are doing\nso heartily still. They act as statesmen, with a view to the\nbest interests of the State. In Texas, there is a tidal wave\nsetting strongly in favor of popular education, impelled by the\nfar-sightedness which discerns that the flow of emigration of the\nbest sort trends away from territory, however rich and inviting,\nwhere free schools for all classes are not abundant. The value of\ninaugurating school work through the agency of Christian teachers,\nneed not be argued. The call for these teachers is sure to be more\nurgent than ever. Shall we provide for the immediate and coming\nwant? God seems to have said so. We have received $150,000 for\nnew buildings, in which to train teachers. New buildings mean\nenlargement--enlargement means more missionaries, more prayer, more\nmoney. Will not the friends of Christ heed this call prayerfully,\npromptly, efficiently?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHOLIDAY GIFTS.\n\nIn December, 1869, the late Henry P. Haven, of New London, Ct.,\nproposed to his Sunday-school that instead of receiving gifts they\nremember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said: \u201cIt is more\nblessed to give than to receive.\u201d\n\nThe proposition met with favor, and a Christmas service of\nworship with a Christmas offering to some deserving cause became\nincorporated in the annual school plans. It occurs to us that such\nholiday gifts by Sabbath-schools and households have the following\nadvantages:\n\nOne is, they afford the young people more real pleasure. The\nhappiness from rejoicing over the good of others is an exercise of\nthe purest affection and the finest feeling of the human heart. It\nis akin to the blessedness and happiness of God himself. However\ngratifying a gift may be to the receiver, nevertheless it puts him\nto a disadvantage. The gift-taker becomes under obligation to the\ngift-maker. The receiver\u2019s joy in a gift terminates in himself. It\nhas a mixture of dependence and submission in it. But the giver is\nplaced under no obligation to the receiver. Moreover, he inevitably\nministers to his own well-being, though it may be unconsciously.\n\u201cEvery man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.\u201d\n\nAnother advantage is that there is more virtue in giving than in\nreceiving. The virtue of receiving consists in regard for one\u2019s\nself; the virtue of giving in a proper regard for others. There is\nalso more self-denial in giving than in receiving, and self-denial\nis the essence of virtue. The receiver has no natural habit or\ninclination to counteract, but the giver must overcome many\nobstacles which require superior virtue. The more young people do\nto develop the attribute of virtue, the more real pleasure they are\nsure to experience.\n\nAnd then again, God promises to reward the giver but not the\nreceiver. This is a great consideration, and may well be taken into\naccount by all teachers and parents. It is a good thing to make the\nholidays memorable and happy by giving tokens to young people, but\nnot so blessed as to bring them into an attitude where they will be\nsure of Heavenly rewards. Of the few things which God has promised\nto reward men for in this life, giving is one. \u201cBlessed is he that\nconsidereth the poor * * * he shall be blessed upon the earth.\u201d \u201cHe\nthat hath mercy on the poor, happy is he,\u201d and best of all, God\nmeans to reward the liberal giver more fully at the resurrection of\nthe just.\n\nBy the favor of Providence we have ample opportunity to give to\nhumane and missionary enterprises.\n\nAt this season, when plans for celebrating the holidays are being\nmatured, would it not be wise for those having responsibility for\ntraining the young, to embrace the time to teach them in their\nabundance of gift-taking and gift-making to provide for themselves\n\u201cbags that wax not old, a treasure in the Heavens that faileth not.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREVIEW AND OUTLOOK.\n\nA Paper read at the National Council at St. Louis, Nov. 13th.\n\nBY REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D.\n\nI intend, without preface, to review the work of the American\nMissionary Association for the last three years, and to give an\noutlook on its future duties.\n\n\nI. The Review.\n\n1. We have paid our great debt. This had clung to us for years,\nlike the shirt of Nessus, scorching while it clung. At the last\nCouncil we were enabled to announce that we had rent away about one\nthird of the hateful garment, during the next two years we tore off\nthe remainder, and since then we have walked forth, financially,\n\u201cClad in raiment pure and white,\u201d as becometh saints who should\n\u201cOwe no man anything.\u201d It may happen to us in the future that our\nbooks will sometimes show a balance on the wrong side; but we\nhope never again to be beguiled into putting on one of the large,\niron-clad garments we had so long and sadly worn.\n\n2. We have received the munificent gift of $150,000 from Mrs.\nStone. Not long since, our elder and honored sister, the American\nBoard, had laid on her table a loaf so large that there was\ndanger that it might be like the \u201cCake of barley bread\u201d which the\nMidianite saw in his dream, that \u201ctumbled into the host and came\nunto a tent and smote it that it fell, and overturned it that the\ntent lay along.\u201d But with the whole church, we rejoice that the\nloaf has been to the Board, by its great wisdom and God\u2019s blessing,\nnot as the cake of the Midianite, but as his dream, an augury of\nvictory and enlargement! Our gift, great as it was, is only as one\nof \u201cthe crumbs that fall from the Master\u2019s table,\u201d most gratefully\nreceived and all needed at once, with no danger of surfeit. Our\nchildren are not only hungry--they are crowded into close quarters,\nand some of them have to be turned out of doors. At the Atlanta\nUniversity, with accommodations for only 40 girls, 62 are packed\nin. At Tougaloo, barracks of slabs are erected, and outbuildings\nand garrets are turned into dormitories, and still the pupils come,\nso that the teachers inquire if they may put three in a bed and\ntwelve in one large room. Our reply is: \u201cTake all that you can\naccommodate consistently with good health and morals, and send\nthe rest away.\u201d These are specimens, perhaps the most striking,\nbut from nearly every school comes the call for more room. Never\nbefore have we had such overcrowding; never before have we been\nobliged to turn away so many. Mrs. Stone\u2019s great gift will meet\nthe want in five of our larger institutions and no more; and that\nonly for shelter, while the increased number will make an enlarged\ncall for bread. Mrs. Stone provides the homes: who will furnish the\nendowments for more teachers and the scholarships for more pupils?\n\n3. We are just completing the Tillotson Institute, Austin, Texas,\nwith its large and commodious building and beautiful campus of\neight acres, near the capitol--an outpost in that vast State of the\nSouthwest; thus extending our permanent institutions from Hampton\nRoads, Va., to the banks of the Colorado, Texas, and supplying\neight of the largest Southern States with schools of higher grade,\neach of which sends out annually its score or fifty well-trained\nteachers.\n\n4. It is a matter of much gratification to us that while we have\nbeen paying our debt and extending our lines, we have been able to\nmaintain, and even to enlarge, the work already in hand among the\nFreedmen. Three years ago our teaching force in the South numbered\n150; now there are 200. Then our pupils were 5,404; now 8,052.\n\nOne illustration of the usefulness of these schools is seen in\nthe great army of scholars taught in them and by their pupils. We\nbelieve, from a safe estimate, that _half a million_ of names have\nbeen enrolled, in the aggregate, in our schools and the schools\nof our pupils, since this Council last met, and still the cry is\nfor more teachers. This roll-call of the school-room gives no idea\nof the added work in the Sunday-school, the temperance cause, the\nprayer meeting and in the homes of the people. As to the kind of\nwork done in our schools, and Theological departments, I point\nto the modest and gentlemanly Second Assistant Moderator of this\nNational Council.\n\nOur church work has grown slowly, but steadily and safely. Three\nyears ago our churches in the South numbered 59, now there are\n73. When we began our labors among the Freedmen there was not one\nCongregational church in the old South. The famous Central Church\nin Charleston, S. C., was not really Congregational, and that in\nLiberty Co., Ga., had become Presbyterian. It is said that the soil\nin the South is not congenial to our churches. It must be admitted\nthat they will not flourish in the same soil with slavery, nor\nwhere its roots still live; but as the introduction of clover kills\nill weeds, root and branch, and not only yields a good harvest in\nmowing time, but also enriches the ground for all other crops, so\nthe planting of Congregational churches in the South will help to\ndestroy the roots of slavery, give a good crop for the Master, and\nenrich the field for all other churches. We are confident that our\nclover-sowing in the South is coming to be regarded by both whites\nand blacks not as supplanting others, but enriching all.\n\n5. The flow of Chinamen to the Pacific coast is not increasing,\nbut the work we are doing among those now there is as hopeful as\nany we are attempting. Many are turning from idol worship and\ngiving evidence of genuine conversion. Such men as Jee Gam, so\nintelligent, so modest, so pious, are proof that the work is not\nsuperficial; and the eagerness of those converts as well as their\nteachers to extend the effort to the Chinese in the mines, and even\nto carry the Gospel to China, is proof of a missionary spirit as\nwell as of genuine piety.\n\n6. The new movement for the education of Indian youth in schools\nat the East, begun three years ago at Hampton by Capt. Pratt,\ndeserves encouragement, not as superseding the schools among the\ntribes, but as helping them. The sending of these young people\nfrom their homes has attracted the attention of the Indians to the\nsubject of education more than any other thing that has taken place\nfor years; and the correspondence which has sprung up between the\nparents and the children, as well as the return of the educated\npupils, will deepen the interest. We have aided some of the pupils\nat Hampton, and we are disposed to consider the earnest wish of\nCapt. Pratt, now in charge of the Government School for Indian\nyouth at Carlisle Barracks, that we extend the effort into several\nof our schools in the South. Gen. Armstrong\u2019s experience at Hampton\nshows that the joint education of the Indian and Negro pupils is a\nsuccess, that they are helpful to each other.\n\nWith this rapid sketch of our work among the three neglected races\nin America, and extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, I\npass to the next item in this review--where we follow the negro to\nhis home in the land of his fathers.\n\n7. The Mendi Mission in Africa.\n\nWhen the Council met in Detroit we had just sent out our first\ncompany of Freedmen as missionaries to Africa. Three years is\nnot long enough to warrant absolute conclusions, yet such as we\nhave reached I give. 1. We are very hopeful as to the ability of\nthe colored American to endure the climate of Africa. 2. We are\na little disappointed as to his qualifications in ripeness of\njudgment and maturity of character, for the duties of a missionary.\nPerhaps we expected too much. The white missionary has behind him\nthe culture of seventeen centuries; the colored of seventeen years!\nBut of the fitness of the few now, and ultimately of many, we have\nno doubt. We must select at first more carefully, and train the\nrest more fully. Nor have we any question as to the call of God to\nthese Freedmen to carry the Gospel to Africa, and we \u201cbate not a\njot of heart or hope\u201d in our work of preparing and sending them.\n\nThe discouragements we share with all the noble societies that\nhave responded to the grand impulse inspired by the wonderful\ndiscoveries of Livingstone, Stanley and others; nay, with all who\nin every age have heard the Divine call for great enterprises in\nbehalf of religion and humanity. God begins his great movements by\npreliminary trials and disappointments; in them only are heroes\nand martyrs trained. Persecutions were essential to the success of\nthe primitive church. Bull Run saved the republic and overthrew\nslavery; and our confidence in the Divine purposes for Africa are\nall the stronger for the discipline at the outset. He means no\nholiday parade, but thorough, apostolic sacrifice and success. And\nlastly,\n\n8. To pay that debt and to carry on our work, with its\nenlargements, its endowments and buildings, we have, in these three\nyears, received into our treasury _six hundred and twenty-seven\nthousand dollars_. If we add the sums received by our affiliated\nschools ($283,132), the amount is _nine hundred and ten thousand\ndollars_; and if we add to this the _one hundred and fifty thousand\ndollars_ received from Mrs. Stone, now rapidly to be expended,\nthe total will be _one million and sixty thousand dollars_! The\nchurches seem to have had confidence in us, and to have appreciated\nour work. For this, through you, we wish to thank them, and to ask\ncontinued confidence and the means to carry on the enlarged work\nthat opens before us.\n\n\nII. The work before us.\n\nWhen we turn from what we have done to what we have yet to do, we\nare overawed at both its vastness and its pressing urgency.\n\n1. Whatever other danger threatens this republic, or calls for\nthe labors of its Christian people, that arising from the three\ncolored races is, I do not say the greatest, but the most obvious.\nThe vast influx of European peoples does indeed, awaken serious\napprehension, for they bring with them infidelity or Romanism; yet\nthus far no overt peril has arisen from this source, for they have\nso spread themselves among the masses that their influence has\ngathered to no focal point. But the Indian has been an irritant\nthroughout the whole history of our occupancy of the land, and\nin all parts of it. Blood has flowed freely in the track of our\nwrongs against him, and will do so until we act like Christians\nand he becomes one. The Chinamen on our Western coast are few,\nand yet how their coming has shaken the nerves of the nation!\nWhat other set of immigrants, so few in number, has excited so\nmuch irritation--not on their part, but among ourselves about\nthem? But the great disturber--yet the utterly unintentional\ndisturber--of the peace of this nation, is the negro. For nearly\nhalf a century the storm has raged around him, as around Elijah\nin Horeb--the wind of tempestuous discussion in pulpit, press\nand Congress; the earthquake, rending asunder trade-interests,\nreligious denominations, dividing even the nation itself into two\nhostile sections; the lurid and awful fire of war, with its blood,\ncarnage and desolation. Last of all came \u201cthe still, small voice,\u201d\nand God was in it. But how little has it been heeded. The wind is\nscarcely lulled; the earthquake is quiet but the dreadful chasms\nremain; the fires are smouldering, but now and then a darting flame\nof Ku Klux outrage or a Chisholm murder reveals the pent-up heat\nbelow! Then as to the _anointing_! Elijah anointed the kings and\nthe prophet--giving thereby the grace to do the Divine behests,\nwhether of vengeance or mercy. We have _enacted_ the Freedman into\na king where all are sovereigns, and a prophet where all the Lord\u2019s\npeople are priests, but we have not given him the knowledge or the\nspiritual grace that alone can anoint him as a king or priest.\n\nThe source of the special irritation in regard to these races is\nnot far to seek. If a man moves into your neighborhood who is of\nyour own race and color, though you may differ from him in theories\nof trade, politics or religion, yet assimilation and esteem may\narise. But if he has a tawny skin, delights in the promiscuous use\nof the tomahawk and scalping knife, and withal claims an ancient\ntitle to the very land you occupy; or if he has a yellow face,\nwears a cue, eats with chop-sticks and is willing to work fifty\nper cent. cheaper than you can; or if he has a black face, with\nthe stigma of slavery and caste-prejudice upon him, then the case\nis altered; assimilation and friendship are not so easy. But these\npeople are here and they must stay; they are so numerous that you\ncannot ignore them; you must choose between leaving them as they\nare, a perpetual source of annoyance and danger, or training them\nto become useful citizens. Moreover, they are your neighbors,\nfallen among thieves, which stripped them of their raiment and\nwounded them, and you must choose between the part of the priest\nand Levite or of the good Samaritan. The meanest of them all is\nyour brother, and you _are_ your brother\u2019s keeper.\n\nBut if you mean to act the part of a neighbor and a brother to\nthese great multitudes, you have no small job on hand--which brings\nme to my next point.\n\n2. The dangers and the duties of emancipation.\n\nThe nation that emancipates a large number of slaves assumes a\ngrave responsibility. This is increased if the emancipation is\nimmediate and the ex-slaves remain on the soil, and especially\nif they differ widely in race from the master-class. All these\ndifficulties attach to our Act of Emancipation; but they are not\nan argument against emancipation. The old abolitionists were\nright--immediate emancipation was the nation\u2019s duty. No preparation\ncould be made for the change before it took place--slavery\nmust be supreme or nothing. The safety lies alone in the wise\n_after-treatment_. Then or never, and soon if ever, must the\nFreedman be prepared for his new position. We have striking\nillustrations at hand. We begin with the nearest in point of time:\n\nIn 1861 Russia emancipated nearly fifty millions of serfs. This was\nthe result of a ground-swell of popular sentiment demanding some\nbreak in the iron-clad despotism of an absolute monarchy. The next\nyear the empire completed a thousand years of national existence.\nIn the joyful enthusiasm over these two great events, there arose a\nstrong hope of the advent of constitutional liberty. The changes,\nhowever, were few and utterly disappointing; and the issue of\nemancipation scarcely less so, involving the ruin of most of the\nlanded aristocracy, and the ignorance, idleness and intemperance\nof a large share of the serfs. And now, after twenty years of\nunrelaxed despotism and the continued deterioration of the masses,\nthe educated people in Russia see no better remedy than Nihilism!\n\nIn 1834 Great Britain emancipated 800,000 slaves in the West\nIndies, giving \u00a320,000 as compensation to the masters, but making\nalmost no provision for the education and religious instruction of\nthe negroes. The hour of emancipation presented a touching scene\nin many places. Slavery ended on the midnight that ushered in the\nfirst of August, and the negro population, engaged in devotional\nexercises till that hour, were then on their knees and awaiting\nin silence the gift of the great boon of freedom coming from the\nhand of God! That was the auspicious era for beginning the work\nof elevating this inoffensive and willing people. But the golden\nmoment was lost, for with inadequate provision for schools and\nchurches, they gradually sunk in ignorance and superstition, back\nalmost to African fetishism. So hopeless was the field that this\nAssociation withdrew its missionaries, and at length the British\nGovernment, aroused to its mistake, and after the loss of one third\nof a century of most precious time, established a thorough system\nof common schools. The tide begins slowly to turn.\n\nIn remoter years God himself became the emancipator of about two\nmillions of slaves. Even He did not attempt the task of leaving\nthem on the soil to meet the scorn or the power of the masters.\nBut He showed His appreciation of their need of education and\nreligious training by halting almost immediately after setting out\non their long journey and opening a church-school on Mount Sinai.\nThat most wonderful of all schools was kept there for a whole\nyear--God himself the teacher. And when their journey was resumed,\nHe directed in the construction of a portable church-school edifice\nin which instruction was continued till their journey\u2019s end. God\u2019s\nappreciation of the need of homes for the ex-slaves is seen in the\nfact that He had employed gangs,--not of men, but of nations--for\ncenturies in clearing the land, building houses, and planting\nolive-yards and vine-yards for them.\n\nThis act of emancipation must be the model for Christian nations,\nso far as the circumstances are the same. There must be no\npreliminary apprenticeship, but immediate emancipation, followed\nby prompt, thorough, and persistent training of the people in\nknowledge, piety, and in acquiring homes.\n\nI call attention lastly to\n\n3. The results and outlook of our own emancipation. Let us consider\nthese, not as is usually done, from the standpoint either of the\npolitician of the North, or the planter of the South, but from that\nof the negro himself.\n\nWith all its glory, emancipation has brought to the negro three\ngreat disappointments.\n\n(1.) Education was to him the talisman of the master\u2019s power, and\nabove all, it was the key to open the long concealed treasures\nof God\u2019s word. He stretched forth his hand for it as if it were\nAladdin\u2019s lamp, which by a few touches would reveal the hidden\nriches. But there was no magic in the lamp; it showed him only a\nlong and difficult road, that by patient and persevering travel\nwould bring him to the coveted knowledge. Then, again, the common\nschool fund of the South gives him but few schools, and those are\nopen but for a short time, while his own necessities bend him\ndown to the struggle for existence, and allow him little means to\neducate his children, or power to spare them from work in the field.\n\n(2.) His next great disappointment was in the ballot. This, too, he\nhad seized with avidity as the symbol of sovereign power--the one\ngrand test of equality with the master. In two states he wielded it\nin uncontrolled majority, but his use of it was so disgraceful to\nhimself and so ruinous to the state, that his friends were amazed\nand his foes exasperated. He showed that he lacked the intelligence\nto wield this great power, and the strength of character to resist\nits temptations; and now the symbol is wrenched from his grasp and\nhe is once more helpless before superior knowledge.\n\n(3.) His last disappointment was as to the ownership of land. What\nvisions floated before him of land that he could call his own and\nof a home that he might adorn and use for himself and family. It is\nwonderful to see how much he has done to realize this vision. But\nthis, too, in large measure eludes his grasp. If he rents he must\npay a rental almost equal to the value of the land; and if he buys,\nhe must take the united toil of himself and family to pay for it;\nand hence his dilemma. If he buys his home, he cannot educate his\nchildren; if he educates them, he cannot buy the home!\n\nDo we wonder that with the crushing of these \u201cgreat expectations,\u201d\nand with as little hope in most cases of seeing things better as\nwhen he was a slave, he yields to despair, and rather than \u201cbear\nthe ills he has he flies to others that he knows not of,\u201d and that\nKansas becomes his refuge?\n\nThe Kansas refugees are not the most hopeless of the colored\npeople; they, at least, have the energy to flee. But there are\nlarge numbers that are content to sink to the bottom and stay\nthere; they are the water in the hold that threatens to drag down\nthe ship. Yet, thank God, there is still another portion, not so\nlarge, but more hopeful and enterprising than either, that get\nhomes and educate their children. These are the ones whose children\ncrowd our schools; they are the hope of the race; they have the\nright ideal--that an education, of heart as well as head, is the\nrod of God in the hand of man; that makes character, wields the\nballot, wins the home and works the land! This is the class to help\nfirst, and this is the way to help--give them the good school and\nthe pure church.\n\nThe emergency was too great to brook delay. This Association did\nnot wait. It struck in at this point at the outset and has stuck to\nit ever since. It is on the right track, as is now admitted on all\nsides. Pres. Hayes utters the practical sentiment of the nation,\nand he but echoes what Judge Tourgee, the author of \u201cA Fool\u2019s\nErrand,\u201d representing the radical opinions of the North, and Rev.\nDr. Ruffner, Supt. of Public Instruction of Virginia, representing\nthe conservative views of the South, had already uttered, that\nthere is no way of making the Freedmen safe members of society but\nby educating them. To the colored people themselves nothing is\nmore inspiring and helpful than the kind of work achieved by the\nAmerican Missionary Association in your behalf. When these people\nrecall the little handful of their number that cowered under the\nguns of Fort Monroe for protection and the little school opened\nthere, and now see the large buildings at Hampton, the broad farm\nand the busy workshops in which their children are trained; when\nthey remember the scowling looks of the masters in Atlanta when\nGen. Sherman had gone, and now see the Atlanta University, visited\nby those old masters--and the best of them--who come away with\ncommendations so warm, that the state grants $8,000 a year to the\neducation of their children, when they think of the timid crowds\nof their people in Nashville at the close of the war, and now see\nJubilee Hall, sung into existence by their children, who have\ncalled forth the tribute of tears from crowned heads abroad as well\nas people at home; when, in short, they see all over the South\nsuch schools taught by teachers from the North, and behold their\nchildren going forth year by year, by scores and hundreds to teach\nand to preach, this is to them the manna that sustains them in\ntheir wilderness journey. Will you help us to multiply that bread,\nas Jesus did when He fed the multitudes, saying--\u201cgive ye them to\neat\u201d? Multiply it not only for the thrifty and enterprising, but\nmultiply it for the discouraged ones now ready to flee to Kansas!\nYea, multiply it so abundantly that the most hopeless and degraded\nmay be fed by it and become strong; and then you will have helped\nsave the Freedmen and the nation, and will have helped win a\nvictory for caste-crushed people over all the world--a victory for\nfreedom, humanity and religion!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWHAT OUR AFRICAN METHODIST FRIENDS THINK.\n\n_The Christian Recorder_ asks: \u201cWhat is the lesson taught us by\nthe rapid growth of our sister colored churches, the Presbyterian\nand Episcopal especially? That they are growing, and most rapidly,\ntoo, he who runs may read. But what is the lesson it has for us\nMethodists? Plainly that we shall put no more ignorant men and no\nmore trifling men into the ministry. To continue to do so is to\nsound our death knell for the future. Ignorant men and trifling\nmen as religious teachers may satisfy the older generations of our\npeople, but the younger will insist upon one of two things--give us\nan intelligent, dignified pulpit, or we will go where we can get\nit. We are already losing too many of our children; nor will the\nstampede ever stop, until our conferences stop opening the door to\nevery one who knocks.\u201d\n\nThis is from the able and influential organ of the African M. E.\nChurch, published at Philadelphia. Not long since we transferred\nto these columns, from the same paper, a similar article, in\nwhich the editor used the high quality of the educational and\nchurch work of the A. M. A. at the South in the same way, as a\nspur to his people. We commend his wisdom in the case. Perhaps no\nmore effective stimulus could be applied. Surely this great and\ngrowing denomination, with its own \u201cWilberforce University,\u201d and\nwith access to all of our institutions for the training of its\nministers, cannot afford to put off \u201cignorant and trifling\u201d pastors\nupon the young America of its constituency. They must have \u201can\nintelligent and a dignified pulpit\u201d or these young folks _will_\nstampede. That former article warned its hearers that the greatest\nrival of the A. M. E. was the A. M. A. In the sense of provoking\nto love and to good works we are willing to enter the lists. And\nherein--the helping of the old-time colored churches of the South\nto a public sentiment that demands more of purity and of education\nin their ministry--we find much of our incentive and of our\nmission. Their children come to our schools and soon learn to call\nfor more intellectual and moral cultivation in their preachers. Not\na few of their best pastors were trained in our institutions.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAfrica.\n\n--A third telegraphic cable has been laid between Marseilles and\nAlgiers.\n\n--Twelve International African exploring and scientific\nassociations have recently been constituted.\n\n--Algeria exports $5,000,000 worth of wheat annually, of oxen and\nsheep $3,000,000, wool $3,500,000, and grasses $2,000,000.\n\n--It is estimated that more than three thousand slaves were brought\nto Egypt during the months of last June and July.\n\n--Dr. Zuchinetti has returned from a journey among the Makarakas,\nthe Niams-Niams, the Gouros-Gouros in Darfour, Kordofan and Nubia,\nwhere he made a special study of the manner in which they collect\ngold.\n\n--Messrs. Cadenhead and Carter of the International Association\nwere recently killed near the Tanganyika during a fight between\ntwo hostile tribes of the interior. The Sultan of Zanzibar has\nsent troops under Lieut. Matthews, an English officer, temporarily\nsecured for the purpose, to quell the disturbance.\n\n--A Sheik has recently transported over eight hundred slaves in a\nsingle week from Suakim to Jedda. In order to evade the law the\nnegroes are given certificates of liberation when leaving the\nAfrican coast, but these are destroyed by their masters when they\narrive at Arabia, where they are sold. The question of appointing\nconsular agents at Khartoum and Siout for the purpose of breaking\nup traffic in slaves, is agitated.\n\n--There is an African chief named Matola, living in the Rovuma\nvalley, East Central Africa, who speaks six languages. Perhaps the\nmost remarkable thing about him is that he is a total abstainer. He\nbecame such from principle and has for many years never touched the\nnative beer or any other intoxicating liquor. By his aid a church\nhas been built to which he summons his people every Sunday, acting\nas interpreter when there is occasion.\n\n--The negro Anderson, who has had great experience in travel and\nadventure in Western Africa, is about to undertake the training of\nelephants for service in Liberia. He has at his command elephant\nhunters from the vicinity of the Congo, who will endeavor to\ncapture and bring to Monrovia as many of the animals as are wanted.\nAs domestic animals in Liberia are few in number and affected badly\nby the climate, this new enterprise is looked upon with great favor.\n\n--The French people have formed a gold mining company on the west\ncoast of Africa called: \u201cThe African Company of the Gold Coast.\u201d\nDuring the month of August, 1879, it was working actively upon a\nlarge and important gold vein, with machinery sent from Europe.\nThe results obtained were kept secret, but it transpired on the\ncoast that they had been surprising. A second company was formed\nDecember, 1879, by the English, called the \u201cEffuenta Gold Mining\nCompany,\u201d for the immediate exploration of the rich territory named\nEffuenta. The gold fever actually animated the inhabitants of\nWassaw as much as it did formerly the emigrants to California.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Indians.\n\n--Secretary Schurz has pledged himself to send fifty Indian girls\nto Hampton, provided they can be received and cared for. He is\nready to appropriate $150 a year for each.\n\n--_Indian youth not revengeful._--General Armstrong testifies that,\n\u201cin nearly two years\u2019 experience, we have found no signs of the\nrevengeful nature ascribed to the Indian. \u2018They are like other\npeople\u2019 is a common remark among us, and is the sum of Indian\ncharacter.\u201d\n\n--A full-blooded Indian chief writes to his half-brother at Hampton\nfrom Crow Creek: \u201cI am going to write you a letter. I never forget\nyou. Try to learn all you can while you are down there. I wish I\nwere young so I could go down and learn too. I want you to learn\nall you can and come back and teach your brothers. Try to learn and\ntalk English too. Don\u2019t think about coming home all the time. If\nyou do you can\u2019t learn much. I like to have you write a letter back\nand tell me how you are.\n\n                                               WIZI--That\u2019s I.\u201d\n\n--Rev. Mr. Denison of Hampton writes of the twelve captive\nIndian warriors from Florida received by him into the church:\n\u201cWe are not deceived into thinking that these Indians present a\nhighly civilized type of piety, but after careful observation,\nwe are forced to believe that, as regards the pith and marrow of\nChristianity, they are our beloved brethren, for this one thing\nthey do if ever men did it, forgetting the things that are behind,\nthey press toward the mark. One point in theology they understand,\nand only one. It is to walk the new road in the help of Jesus, and\nthey show their faith by their works. They are patient in study.\nThey are always found on the side of law and order. Digging in the\nearth is not the chief joy of an Indian warrior, but Koba writes:\n\u2018I pray every day and hoe onions.\u2019\u201d\n\n--_Bed-making by Indian youth._--Mr. James C. Robbins, a colored\ngraduate of Hampton who recently had oversight of Indian boys under\nGen. Armstrong, gives the following account: \u201cWhen they first began\nto make beds, the sheets were either tucked up under the pillow or\nlaid on the outside. One boy was found to have seven sheets, who\ndid not know the proper use for two. The janitor helped me carry a\nbedstead into the sitting-room, the boys were called in and seated\nin a semi-circle, and I began the process of bed-making, the boys\ngrunting and laughing as it proceeded. When the clothes were neatly\ntucked in, and the pillow shaken and put into its place, I said,\n\u2018Now boys, I will show you how to get into bed,\u2019 which I did. Then,\nthrough the interpreter, I asked who was willing to try it. He\nhardly put the question when a boy who had objected to having his\nhair cut when he first came, stepped forward. He began where I did,\nand followed every movement, so closely had he observed. No sooner\ndid he finish than there was a stunning applause. He was then asked\nto show us how to go to bed, and when his head touched the pillow\nand he drew the clothing up over him, up went another shout.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Chinese.\n\n--Dr. Legge, the professor of Chinese at Oxford University, says,\n\u201cIf the present rate of conversion of the Chinese to Christianity\ncontinues, by the year 1913, there will be 26,000,000 of church\nmembers, and 100,000,000 of professed Christians in the Chinese\nEmpire.\u201d\n\n--The Chinese government is removing the old restrictions which\nwithheld Chinese merchants from trading with other nations, and\nis adopting a policy of encouragement to a wide-spread foreign\ncommerce. The Chinese Ambassador at Washington stated that a\nsteamer, commanded and manned by Chinese wholly, would soon appear\nin San Francisco laden with the products of Chinese industry.\n\n--The Chinamen, who walk over bridges built two thousand years\nago, who cultivated the cotton-plant centuries before this country\nwas heard of, and who fed silk-worms before King Solomon built his\nthrone, have fifty thousand square miles around Shanghai which they\ncall the Garden of China, and which has been tilled for countless\ngenerations. It is all meadow land, and is raised but a few feet\nabove the rivers, lakes, and canals, and is a complete network of\nwater-communication. The land is under the highest cultivation,\nand three crops a year are gathered from it. The population is so\ndense that wherever you look you see men and women in blue clothing\nin such numbers that you fancy some muster or fair is coming off,\nand that the people are out for a holiday. Missionaries of several\nsocieties are at work in this locality.\n\n--A Christian Chinaman at Sacramento, in California, was present at\nthe annual festival of the Chinese school on June 4th. When asked\nwhether Christian influence really made the Chinaman better, he\nreplied:--\n\n\u201cOh! yes, all much better men. Do not steal. Do not gamble. Do not\ndo any bad.\u201d\n\n\u201cHow about smoking?\u201d\n\n\u201cOh! no opium! Some not even smoke cigars. We can tell. All other\nChinamen watch Christian Chinamen. If they see him go wrong, tell\nus. Then we tell him. Then he stop. If he did not stop, then he\nmust leave here.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut, suppose you don\u2019t watch him. Will he be good without it?\u201d\n\n\u201cOh! yes, most times. When he is converted and believes truth, it\nmakes him good inside, he don\u2019t want to go wrong any more.\u201d\n\n\u201cHow do you like it as far as you have gone?\u201d\n\n\u201cOh! me like very well. If all Chinamen be Christians, then no more\ntrouble about \u2018must go\u2019! All more happy and good to each other.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CENTRAL SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE.\n\nThis religious body held its autumn meeting with the Second\nCongregational Church, Memphis, Tenn. Delegates representing the\nChurches in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, were present.\nThe following programme illustrates the orderly way and the\npractical character of the brethren engaged in our church work\nSouth:--\u201cAnnual Sermon,\u201d Rev. Wm. H. Ash, Florence, Ala.; \u201cChurch\nExtension,\u201d Rev. Jos. E. Smith, Chattanooga; \u201cEducation,\u201d Rev. G.\nW. Moore, Nashville; \u201cMissions,\u201d Professor H. S. Bennett, Fisk\nUniversity; \u201cHow to Develop the Benevolence of the Churches,\u201d\nProfessor A. K. Spence, Fisk University; \u201cAbsolute Necessity of\nEducation for the Colored People,\u201d President Magoun, of Iowa\nCollege.\n\nIn addition to the foregoing exercises, the Conference examined\nand licensed for one year Mr. B. F. Foster, of Arkansas, a former\nstudent of the Theological department of Fisk University. It also\nrenewed the licensure of Rev. W. H. Fuller, a student of the\nTheological department of Talladega College. During the session\na council was organized for the examination of Mr. B. A. Imes,\na graduate of Oberlin College and Theological Seminary, with\nreference to his ordination and installation as pastor of the\nchurch in which the Conference was convened. Rev. Dr. Roy was\nModerator of the Council, and the examination was very thorough\nand satisfactory. Dr. Magoun, whose daughter is the accomplished\nteacher of music in the Le Moyne Institute, was present to\npreach the ordination sermon, and Rev. G. Stanley Pope, of\nTougaloo University, to give the charge to the pastor. This young\nconference, which already numbers twelve churches, possesses the\nelements of a steady and helpful growth, indicative of a better era\nfor pure religion at the South.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nWILMINGTON, N. C.--Pressure for admission to the lower classes\nstill continues. The school is crowded and there already is an\noverflow room. Others are knocking morning, noon and night for\nadmittance.\n\nMACON, GA.--School opens unusually full, but better than that is\nthe fact that we have a good school. I can truly say that I feel we\nare doing well in every part of the work.\n\nMARIETTA, GA.--Our work here is decidedly encouraging. No new\nmembers yet, but three or four candidates are waiting to be\nadmitted whenever we deem it proper to receive them. One of these\nis a man who brings a nice family to our Congregation; he has six\nvery bright children, five of whom are old enough to attend our\nSunday-school. I have been laboring in a quiet way, spending much\nof my time in visiting the people, and with better acquaintance\nwith them I hope to do good work here. Sunday-school is already\nshowing an increase. Our monthly and quarterly concerts are doing\nmuch good. Our choir meetings are helpful; in connection with the\npractice of songs for the Sabbath we teach vocal music, and allow\nall who wish to attend; thus far the plan has worked well. Our\norgan is our greatest present burden, but we hope to be able to pay\nfor it at the stipulated time.\n\nANNISTON, ALA.--Last Sabbath was our regular communion day, and a\nvery precious day it was to us. We were gathering up the fragments\nof our protracted services. There were seventeen conversions during\nthe revival, and thirteen of the converts united with us. The\nchurch has been quickened by the Spirit and backsliders restored.\n\nTALLADEGA, ALA.--Our opening this fall was most favorable. The\nfirst day saw Foster Hall nearly full, and Swayne Hall well\noccupied. If the pupils continue to come, we shall soon be\ncompelled to ask what we shall do with them. Both pastors of the\ncolored churches here enter the normal department, and one the\ntheological.\n\nMOBILE, ALA.--I feel constrained, by the reports of the coming\napplicants, to request an additional teacher. Yesterday and to-day\nwe have turned away thirty or more applicants, nearly one half of\nwhom wish to enter the B intermediate department, and nearly one\nhalf are former pupils. Some went away crying because there was no\nroom for them.\n\nSELMA, ALA.--Our new missionary, supported by the ladies of Maine,\nwrites as follows: \u201cHave been here one month, and am prepared to\nsay that I like the work and find ample opportunity for doing good.\nI have already called upon every member of our church. A good\ndegree of interest is shown by the Sunday-school, also an increased\ninterest in the church is seen and felt by all. We are hoping and\npraying for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and trust that we\nare remembered by our Northern friends in this respect as well as\nothers. I am rejoiced that I am permitted to labor in this cause;\nencouragements far out-weigh discouragements, and when the people\nof the North fully realize the amount of good accomplished by the\nA. M. A. they will be more ready to sustain it than they have yet\nbeen.\u201d\n\nMEMPHIS, TENN.--School opened most hopefully. We now register over\none hundred and forty pupils, and I have already refused children\nfor the primary and intermediate rooms. I expect every seat will be\ntaken in the normal room by the end of this month. Our entire work\nhas never before opened so hopefully as this year.\n\nPARIS, TEXAS.--Rev. J. W. Roberts writes: Enclosed please find $1,\na collection which my Sunday-school sends for \u201cMendi Mission.\u201d I\ngave them a missionary talk yesterday on the work the A. M. A. was\ncarrying on in Africa, and urged them to aid her in sending the\nGospel to that land. The Sunday-school voted unanimously to do it.\nThus they send this as a beginning.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGLEANINGS.\n\nL. A. P.\n\nLetters from student-teachers often furnish truer insight to the\nhomes and sentiments of the people than can be learned in the\nhigher schools. Ten miles from a leading city a young lady writes:\n\u201cThis is such a wicked place that out of ninety day scholars I can\nget only forty to come to Sabbath-school. I begin school at eight,\nand close at half-past five in the evening. Parents think the\nchildren are not learning anything unless they stay in school as\nlong as the field hands work.\u201d\n\nA young man, whose recitations in class are always excellent, says:\n\u201cI have professed a hope in Christ, and joined the church. The\nletter you wrote me two or three years ago concerning religion was\nin my mind all the time before I professed hope. Please tell me\nwhere in the Bible I can find the place where a woman once cooked a\nBible in a loaf of bread to keep it from being destroyed.\u201d\n\nThis question aptly illustrates the lack of general intelligence\nin the community. It is quite possible for young people to leave\nschool with fair knowledge of the text-books, yet profoundly\nignorant of everything else, unless access to libraries and\nthorough Bible training accompany the regular school work, and are\nmade a part of it.\n\nAnother young man reads books and papers, and induces his patrons\nto provide themselves with good reading matter. Under the same date\nas the foregoing letter, he writes: \u201cI have an enrolment of 120 in\nday school. Sabbath-school numbers 143. I wish you could step into\nmy school-room, and see how busy and earnest all seem to be. You\ncannot imagine how the colored people of this vicinity are grasping\nafter education. I lectured to a large audience last Monday night.\nMy subject was \u2018Education in the South.\u2019\u201d\n\nAnother student records his experience thus: \u201cThe school had no\nblack-board, no writing desks--well, in fact, it was not provided\nwith anything. I now have a black-board, 8 ft. by 4; also very\ngood writing desks. The children were very much surprised at the\nblack-board, as they had never seen one before.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nExtracts from the Report of the Board of Visitors to the Atlanta\nUniversity.\n\nFor three days we listened to examinations of the scholars\nconducted orally by the teachers, and written examination work from\nthe higher classes was laid before us. We were also present at\nthe anniversary exercises of the Institution. It is with pleasure\nthat we bear testimony in behalf of the accuracy and thoroughness\nmanifested both by the teachers and scholars. We have never\nseen stronger proof of careful and successful teaching, and the\ndiscipline and government cannot be surpassed in any Institution.\n\nThe scholars were neat in appearance, orderly in deportment, and\nserious in application. The teachers were remarkably proficient in\ntheir several departments, and the scholars seemed to be impressed\nwith a deep-seated earnestness, calculated not only to advance the\nintellectual status of the colored race, but also to make of them\nbetter men and women.\n\nThe practical sciences are not neglected. A visit to the culinary\ndepartment showed us that the female students had been thoroughly\ntaught the art of cooking good dinners, without which even the\nintellect would pine and languish. Calisthenics, also, constitute a\npart of the training.\n\nWe found the buildings and grounds in the best of order, evidencing\nthe same watchful eyes which overlooked the entire Institution.\n\nThe school-rooms and furniture were entirely free from defacements\nof any kind, showing a marked difference in this respect between\nthe Atlanta University and most other colleges.\n\nAn interesting feature is the Library, composed of a collection of\nabout five thousand volumes, selected wisely for the purpose of\ninteresting as well as instructing the scholars. To the library\nthere have been added during the past year, three hundred new books\nof recent publication.\n\nIn connection with the library is a reading room, in which can be\nfound the leading magazines and daily papers.\n\nThe future of the University seems truly bright, and a better\nopportunity can never be given our colored citizens for a thorough\neducation.\n\nWe commend the entire corps of instructors, and must express the\nconfidence which we feel in the capacity of the president, Mr.\nWare, and in his fitness for the position which he occupies.\n\nIn conclusion, we think it proper to dwell for a moment upon the\nfact that the Atlanta University, besides the influence which it\nwields directly upon its scholars, reaches, through the many who\npass out from its walls as teachers, almost the entire colored\npopulation of our State. While the mental man is being developed,\nthe moral man is carefully trained, and temperance and religion are\nimportant parts of the instruction given.\n\nFrom this College, Georgia is sending out missionaries for the\namelioration of a large class of her citizens. Who can doubt the\nwisdom of continuing the appropriation?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nChurch, School, and Brick-making.\n\nMISS M. F. WELLS, ATHENS.\n\nI reached Athens on Saturday, Oct. 2d, found very little advance\non the brick-yard, the kiln of 118,000 being completed but not\nburned, everybody discouraged, young people and children scattered\nto the cotton fields, trying to earn enough money to buy their\nwinter shoes. Of course words of cheer and encouragement in view\nof the _great work_ (for them the making of 200,000 brick _is_ a\ngreat work, however small it may seem to those who do not know\ntheir poverty, and the great sacrifice this has cost them) already\naccomplished, made their heavy hearts lighter, and in the three\nweeks since Oct. 1st a great change has come over the aspect of\nthings.\n\nMen and boys are in the woods cutting wood to burn the kiln made\nthis season; women and girls are contributing their dimes, nickels,\nhalf dollars and dollars to raise a fund to haul the wood, and the\nprospect is that the brick will be burned before Christmas. But\nyou will not wonder that down in my secret soul there is sometimes\nalmost a moan. How long, O Lord, how long before the completion of\nthe school-house?\n\nDuring the summer the church has kept up the public worship once\na day; a Cumberland Presbyterian Minister (colored) has generally\npreached. When he was not well enough to preach a prayer meeting\nwas held.\n\nThe Sunday-school has been pretty well attended, and is now very\nenthusiastic. We are going over a short course of Bible History and\nChronology, in addition to the regular lessons of the International\ncourse. We are to have an examination for promotions at Christmas\nand all are striving to complete the course. Our prayer meetings\nare increasing in interest and numbers, but we need a minister,\nindeed we must have one.\n\nTwo delegates have been appointed by the church to attend the\nConference at Memphis. It would be a pleasure to me, as one of the\nappointees, to represent the church at that meeting, but there\nseems no possibility of my going, as the school is filling up\nrapidly, and the wood-cutters have to be provided with dinner, and\nit requires eternal vigilance to look after all the interests in\nsuch a way as to keep the \u201cark a moverin.\u201d I should have written\nsooner, but every day has brought some unexpected emergency--so\nmixing church and school and brick-making, that no line of thought\nor action was marked with sufficient distinctness to express itself\non paper. But now, things are more settled, all the interests\nseem harmonized, and the chaos has given place to order. We are\nall happy and busy day and night, bright faces and glad, earnest\nspirits inspire hope in the teacher\u2019s heart, and give vigor to\nevery effort to move forward.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI.\n\nPatient Work.\n\nREV G. S. POPE, TOUGALOO.\n\nSometimes we hear of incidents in the lives of our students plainly\nshowing that what we have said to them about hard, patient work\nhasn\u2019t ended with talk.\n\nOne of the graduating class last June spoke to us of \u201cLabor.\u201d\nA letter just received by one of the teachers tells how his\nschool-house was so uncomfortable that he thought something must be\ndone. He had a public entertainment to raise money to get lumber\nfor ceiling. He did not realize enough and footed the bill himself.\nWhen the lumber arrived he asked the people to come together to do\nthe work, but they did not respond and he ceiled the house himself.\n\nFour of our girls taught near each other, their schools over 40\nmiles from the railroad. One of them had taught before 14 months in\nthe same neighborhood. The people failed to pay her. At one time\nshe needed some money and persuaded a man who was owing her to kill\na hog and let her have it. She put it in a sack and started on\nhorseback to peddle it out. She has an invalid mother and one or\ntwo brothers and sisters nearly dependent upon her. She is anxious\nto educate herself, but the outlook is pretty dark.\n\nTwo of them started together for their new field; went to B----\nby railroad, paid a man $5 to take them 20 miles, reached town\nabout dark and tried four places before finding any one who could\nkeep them over night. The old woman who took them in was not able\nto give them anything to eat, but made a cup of coffee for each.\nOne of them had a little lunch with her. They ate part of it and\nput the rest aside. The next morning one woman who had refused to\nkeep them over night called and invited them around to see her;\nthey took dinner there and went back to the old woman\u2019s house to\nstay over night again, as they could not find any one to take them\nfurther before the Sabbath. They were going to finish their lunch\nfor supper, but the ants had finished it for them, so they had\nnothing more to eat until about noon, the next day. A man charged\nthem $7 to take them 22 miles. The Lord sent them some lunch\nthrough the same woman who fed them the day before. One of them\nonly obtained a two months\u2019 school. She received $36, and had to\nspend $13 in traveling expenses and $12 for board. She thinks she\nwill have hard work to get through the year on what remains.\n\nIn one church there were three ministers and only one Testament.\nThese girls induced them to buy several Bibles.\n\nThey wrote for the fourth one to come. She went as far as B----and\nhad to wait two weeks for her trunk. She then went half-way to her\nschool with the mail carrier and waited there another week before\nshe could get any conveyance to her school. She taught two months,\nand after purchasing what clothing she absolutely needed, and\nsettling board bills, only had about five dollars. She has just\nwritten me that she is picking cotton now, hoping to get a bale to\nsell, so she can return to school. We have enough such incidents to\nmake a book.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLOUISIANA.\n\nIndications of Good in School and Church--Revival Meetings.\n\nW. S. ALEXANDER, D. D., NEW ORLEANS.\n\nWe watch with peculiar interest the indications of the first month\nof church and school work, in their relation to the general results\nof the year. The first month has passed, and we have abundant\nreason to take courage and press forward. Never did a year begin\nwith fairer prospects of success. Never before, perhaps, have so\nmany students reported on the opening day of the University.\n\nThe completed roll of the Academic, Law, and Theological\nDepartments would show nearly, if not quite 200 names. Many\nstudents are detained upon the plantations--new scholars are on the\nway, and we expect by the holidays to have all we can well provide\nfor.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSTONE HALL.\n\nThe new dormitory, which will bear the name of our generous\nbenefactress, Mrs. Stone, of Malden, Mass., will soon be a reality.\nThe plans and specifications have been completed, bids have been\ninvited, and we shall soon hear the click of the mason\u2019s trowel,\nand the welcome sound of the saw and hammer. If Prof. Chase, who\nwill supervise the construction of the building, had any doubt of\nour joy at his coming, he has not the perception with which we\ncredit him. Our most grateful thanks go out to Mrs. Stone for her\nlarge-hearted benevolence. The blessings of thousands of God\u2019s poor\npeople whom we are trying to serve will be part of her reward.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE LAW DEPARTMENT\n\nNumbers already 23 students, only four of whom are colored. This\ndepartment is entirely self-sustaining, and a fee of $56 per year\nis exacted as compensation for the four able professors. It is a\nsource of great regret to us that more colored young men, in whose\ninterests the department was organized, do not avail themselves\nof its advantages. It is conducted with rare ability. One of the\nprofessors has been upon the Supreme Bench of this State.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCENTRAL CHURCH.\n\nThis church has paid all its expenses during the summer. The\npulpit has been supplied by a young man of ability, Mr. Albert,\nformerly a student at Atlanta, and at present a member of our\nsenior class. I found the church in a good spiritual state, the\ncongregation somewhat scattered, but they soon rallied, and we have\nnow fair and increasing audiences.\n\nThe one desire and prayer of the church is to witness an earnest\nand extended revival, and I am grateful to be able to say that\nthis hope seems about to be realized. Three years ago, Mr. James\nWharton, of Barrow-in-Furness, England, visited this city to engage\nin evangelistic work, if Providence should open the way, among the\ncolored people. He is a business man, but an earnest Christian,\nendowed with fine gifts as a persuasive speaker.\n\nHe wrote to me in the summer asking if the way would be open\nfor him to conduct revival services in Central Church if he\nshould visit New Orleans in October. I lost no time in sending\nhim a cordial invitation to come, and promised him our hearty\nco-operation. He has arrived in the city accompanied by Mr.\nRichard Irving, a man of kindred spirit, and next Sunday, Nov.\n7th, they will begin a series of meetings which will be continued\nindefinitely, so long as souls can be gathered into the Kingdom.\nPrinted notices of the meetings have been widely circulated, and\nearnest workers are canvassing, going from house to house, and\nentreating the people to come to this Gospel feast. Dear friends in\nthe North, pray for us, and the success of this movement. As Bro.\nWharton wrote me from England, \u201cPray mightily for us.\u201d I pray God I\nmay have glad tidings to send you soon. These dear brethren come at\ntheir own charges, and ask only the privilege of preaching a _free_\nGospel to the needy and perishing.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTENNESSEE.\n\nFisk University.\n\nREV. E. M. CRAVATH, NASHVILLE.\n\nThe sixteenth scholastic year of Fisk University has begun under\nvery favorable conditions and with very encouraging prospects.\n\n1. The number of pupils in attendance for the first two months of\nthis year is greatly increased over that of last, although that of\nlast year was larger than any previous year since the occupancy\nof Jubilee Hall. The number from outside the city of Nashville is\nthirty per cent. greater than at the same time one year ago.\n\nThe result is that the limit of our boarding accommodations has\nbeen already nearly reached, and the anxious inquiry is forcing\nitself upon us, What shall we do with the large number of students\nwho desire, and are planning, to come during the next three months?\n\n2. The grade of scholarship in the case of new students is\nconsiderably advanced over that of former years. There have been no\nadditions to the regular college classes, but four have entered the\nsenior, three the middle, and six the junior college preparatory\nclasses. As advanced students are the ones desired in such an\ninstitution as this, it is a source of great encouragement that the\nnumber of such is steadily increasing year by year.\n\n3. There is on the part of the students a growing comprehension\nof the value and of the necessity of a thorough education, and\nconsequently a very much stronger desire and purpose to take long\ncourses of study. This is one of the most hopeful facts connected\nwith our work. It required a wonderful amount of determination and\npatience on the part of both professors and students to engineer\nthe first classes through a college course of study. There was no\npublic sentiment in the community, and no sentiment among parents\nor friends of the students, to encourage and stimulate to long\ncourses of study. But a great change for the better has been\nwrought. The steady, persistent work of the past fifteen years,\nwhich has resulted in the graduation of five small classes from\nthe college department, has created an atmosphere and established\nconditions which stimulate the desire for a liberal education, and\nfoster the purpose of those who undertake to secure it.\n\nThe educating power of a considerable body of advanced, carefully\ndisciplined and well-read students, is marked upon all the lower\ngrades, and especially upon those who come to Fisk University for\nthe first time. The present senior preparatory class promises to\nenter college in May twenty strong. This is double the number of\nthe largest class that has ever before been entered.\n\n4. The influence and power of the work done by our students while\nabsent from the University during vacation or after completing\ntheir studies, become more and more manifest. The reports brought\nback by the students themselves, the testimony of Trustees and\nCounty Superintendents, the new students brought here through their\ninfluence, all reveal to us as we have not realized it before,\nthe greatness of the service the University is rendering to the\ncause of education, morality, religion and social life throughout\nthe great Southwest. Our students are our epistles; and becoming\nknown and being read by the people wherever they go, are turning\nthe thoughts and hearts of others to the University. It is largely\nbecause of the faithfulness and loyalty of our students that the\nsteady growth in numbers continues from year to year.\n\nWe have, therefore, abundant reason to thank God and take courage.\nThe great concern we have about the future is that our friends in\nthe North will not be ready to meet the growing demands of this\ngreat work of uplifting the millions of recently emancipated people\nin the South, by a sufficiently large and constant giving. With\nthe experience of the last fifteen years in mind, we can say with the\nfull assurance of conviction that the call for the enlargement\nand strengthening of the University is in some vital respects\nmore imperative now than ever before. Endowments are needed to\nadequately sustain the departments of study already established,\nand to found professional schools to meet the growing demands of a\nstruggling and rising people.\n\nThese must come, or the best results of the labor already done, and\nthe money already expended, will not be attained.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMother and Daughter Gone.--Memorial Services at Fisk University.\n\nThe Sabbath services at this Institution, Oct. 24th, were hallowed\nby the touching and appropriate tributes to the memory of Mrs.\nElizabeth Spence, mother of Prof. A. K. Spence, and of her\ndaughter, Mrs. Julia Spence Chase, wife of Prof. F. A. Chase. Mrs.\nSpence had been boarding in the Institution four years, spending\nher last days with her children. She possessed a mind of unusual\nstrength and vigor, and was somewhat distinguished as an author.\nOnly a few days before her death, when eighty-three years of age,\nshe composed a poem on the occasion of the Nashville Centennial\nExposition, which was published. This mother of missionaries was\nborn in Scotland, and in her girlhood was made familiar with the\nmissionary endeavors of the London Missionary Society through an\nauxiliary which held its regular meetings at her mother\u2019s house.\nShe was a woman of much prayer, great faith and a sweet and\nbeautiful charity.\n\nJust eleven weeks from the day Mrs. Spence died, writes Miss\nHenrietta Matson, of Fisk University, Mrs. Chase followed her\nmother to the fairer country above. Her death was sudden, and a\nheavy blow to her sorely stricken family. She died on Kelley\u2019s\nIsland, Lake Erie, where the family had gone for summer rest. Mrs.\nChase, with her husband, had been in Fisk University eight years;\na part of the time in the earlier years had been an instructor,\nparticularly in music, in which she was especially gifted and\naccomplished.\n\nHer death was peaceful and beautiful. She sent loving messages to\nall her friends, to the teachers and especially to the students,\nwhom she loved and for whom she had labored. With perfect calmness\nshe bade each of her dear ones good-bye, and then passed from their\nsight, leaning upon the strong arm, and catching glimpses of the\nglory beyond, even while treading the dark valley.\n\nAt her own request, her remains were brought to Nashville, her\nheart seeming to turn to the very last to those with whom she had\nbeen associated, and to the people for whom she had labored. So\nwe laid her to rest till the resurrection morn on the beautiful\nhillside, with southern skies bending above her, and not far from\nthe earthly home of her own dear ones.\n\nThe message brought to us who remain, in the death of those who\nhave been of us is, \u201cThe night cometh, when no man can work.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\nINDIAN EDUCATION IN THE EAST.\n\nAN ADDRESS BY GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG.\n\nIt is now two and a half years since Indian students were enrolled\nat the Hampton Institute; but I never saw a more radical change of\nlife than appears in these men. They represent the worst stock in\nthe Indian territory: the class that the West declares can\u2019t be\nelevated any more than the buffalo. If the West knows anything, it\nknows that you can\u2019t improve the prairie Indian.\n\nCrossing the continent twice, of late, I found the universal creed\nto be \u201cThere is no good Indian but a dead one,\u201d which has been\nadopted by over half the intelligent people of the East.\n\nCapt. Pratt writes as follows from Carlisle, Pa.: \u201cOf the Florida\nboys who were formerly at Hampton, five have died; three,--Bear\u2019s\nHeart, Etahdleuh and Roman Nose--are still East: the two last being\nhere render valuable assistance to me by example and effort. The\nothers have all returned to their tribes, and, with the exception\nof Tounkeuh, are reported us doing well for themselves and for\ntheir people. Several are mentioned as specially useful.\n\n\u201cWe have 139 boys and 57 girls, 196 in all. The readiness of\nchildren to come is in advance of the willingness of parents to\nsend at Miles\u2019 Agency, and probably at the Kiowa too; but there\nis in general such desire for education that I believe no great\ndifficulty would be experienced in getting nearly all the children\nin the schools from most of the tribes.\u201d\n\nThe Carlisle School was established by an act of Congress,\naccompanied by an official report from which I extract as follows:\n\n\u201cExperience has shown that Indian children do not differ from\nwhite children of similar status and surroundings, in aptitude or\ncapacity for acquiring knowledge; and opposition or indifference\nto education on the part of parents decreases yearly: so that the\nquestion of Indian education resolves itself mainly into a question\nof school facilities.\u201d\n\nSons of Indian Chiefs, at Carlisle, are now making a portion of the\nshoes, harnesses, wagons, tin-ware and other supplies needed by the\nDepartment of Indian Affairs.\n\nIndians think. Their wise ones know that there is no hope for them\nbut in taking the white man\u2019s road. But there is also a stubborn,\nunyielding class. There are progressives and conservatives, as\namong all thinking people.\n\nThe braves will not fight the people who are educating their\nchildren. Every Indian child at school is a hostage.\n\nI recently met an army officer who told me that in the summers of\n1877 and 1878, five hundred thousand dollars had passed through\nhis hands, as Quartermaster, in payment of Oregon settlers, for\nsupplies and services in Indian wars; and that the past summer they\nhad been trying to get up another war for the sake of another five\nhundred thousand.\n\nOur system of treaties, annuities and rations is an acknowledged\nfailure. Distribution is without regard to merit, and encourages\nidleness among the one hundred and fifty thousand beneficiaries of\nthe Government.\n\nThe Indians are grown-up children; we are a thousand years ahead\nof them in the line of development. Progress is measured by\ndevelopment. Education is not progress but is a means of it. A\nbrain full of book knowledge, whose physical basis is the product\nof centuries of barbarism, is an absurdity that we do not half\nrealize, from our excessive traditional reverence for school and\ncollege training. We forget that knowledge is not power unless\nit is digested and assimilated. Savages have good memories; they\nacquire but do not comprehend.\n\nIndians are easily taught, for their minds are quick; their bodies\nare a greater care than their brains; but morals are the chief\nconcern of their teachers. Hence their education should be first\nfor the heart, then for health, and last for the mind, reversing\nthe custom of placing mind before physique and character. This is\nthe Hampton idea of education.\n\nApply sanctified common sense to the Indian problem and you will\nsave them in spite of the steam engine and the threats of fate.\n\nThe Indian question has been put wrong end first. It points to us,\nnot to them.\n\nThe possibilities of sound educational methods are not dreamed of.\nThe power of mind over matter is everywhere seen, but the power of\nmind over mind, of man over man, is little shown in all our proud\nprogress. That three years\u2019 work of Captain Pratt at Fort Marion,\nFlorida, is the best illustration of it I know of. Yet he never had\nover two years\u2019 schooling, and went from his workshop to the war.\nWork for the ex-captives was so encouraging, the need of educated\nIndian girls so obvious, that resolving to push our effort further,\nMr. Schurz was interviewed, entered heartily into the scheme, and\nsent Capt. Pratt to Dakota Territory, whence he brought to Hampton\nin Nov., 1878, forty boys and nine girls, since increased to\ntwenty-two girls and forty-eight boys. Indian girls lead a slavish\nlife, do all the drudgery, and parents have hated to spare them.\nBoys do nothing till they can fight. \u201cI would send a hundred boys,\nbut not one girl,\u201d said a chief to Capt. Pratt. But now one agency\nalone, Yankton, would fill our school with Sioux girls. Agent Miles\nsays he could enroll Cheyenne children from the Indian Territory\nfor eastern schools as fast as he could write their names.\n\nCo-education of the sexes will succeed with Indians as well as with\ncolored people in the six largest institutions for negroes, in\nwhich for ten years it has been tried with the best results.\n\nThe death rate at Hampton has been serious but not discouraging.\nOut of ninety-six, in twenty-two months seven have died at school\nand three since returning home. The tribe, gathered as they are in\nunnatural conditions at the agencies, away from the chase and the\nfight, without action or buffalo beef, fed on government rations,\nweaken.\n\nIndian students have in almost all cases died of diseases\nimplanted before leaving home; their friends have not been\nsurprised or discouraged.\n\nChief Wizi, on hearing of the death of his adopted son at Hampton,\ncalled his tribe together and said: \u201cIf only one of our children\nreturns to us with knowledge, we shall be repaid for the loss of\nall the others.\u201d\n\nWhile this eastern work at Carlisle and Hampton is incidental to\nthe general educational effort which must be made at the West,\nit is, more than anything else, pushing the Indian question to a\nproper settlement by creating public sentiment. For a Congressman\nto see an Indian hoeing corn, does more good than piles of\ndocumentary evidence. The hundreds of clear-headed, hard-handed\nyoung red-skins who will, ere long, be settled among the tribes,\nwill, we think, be strong enough to sustain each other and to\nteach the rest. They will not return home scared by our great\nguns and arsenals, but stimulated by contact with the spirit that\nlies at the bottom of our progress. They must see civilization to\ncomprehend it.\n\nWhat is given for them will come back with usury. Not the least\nreturn to us may be the educational methods which, inspired by\nexigencies and unchecked by tradition, shall be worked out to\nmeet the emergencies thrust upon the country by the destruction\nof the buffalo, which has brought the Indian to face the issue of\ncivilization or destruction.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\u201cCALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\u201d\n\nAuxiliary to the American Missionary Association.\n\nPRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L.\nStone, D. D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon.\nF. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H.\nWilley, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob\nS. Taber, Esq.\n\nDIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P.\nBaker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA CHAPTER OF GOOD THINGS.\n\nREV. W. C. POND.\n\n_Our Annual Meeting._--It was a very diminutive affair, compared\nwith that which, at the same time, was going on so grandly at\nLowell; or with the one which, just now, as I am writing, is--I\ntrust--in successful progress at Norwich. What a privilege and a\njoy I should feel it to be if I were there, instead of here! That\nis denied me, so far as bodily presence is concerned; but I am\nfree to be there in thought, and, in the solitude of my study,\nto mingle my prayers with yours. They meet before one throne of\ngrace. _Our_ annual meeting is one of the features of the annual\nconvocation of our Congregational churches in California, which was\nheld this year with the First Church in Oakland. The time assigned\nus in the programme was from 10:45 to 12:30 on Thursday, Oct. 7th.\nI should think that 250 persons were present. Rev. J. K. McLean,\nD. D., pastor of that church, and President of our Mission, occupied\nthe chair. After a hymn and prayer, the reports of the Treasurer\nand of the Board of Directors were presented. The principal facts\nset forth in these reports have been laid before the Association\nat its meeting now going on, and need not be re-stated here. There\nwas, however, a novel feature in the Treasurer\u2019s report--novel\nto us, however it may be to others--which stirred some of our\nfriends not a little. We have always had more work at hand than\nwe could possibly do with the means at our command; but we have\ntried to \u201ccut the garment according to the cloth,\u201d and have so\nfar succeeded as never to report a _deficit_, in current expenses\ntill this year. This was our novelty. Our friends did not like its\nlooks any better than we did. The President took it in hand and\nshook it, at an expense to himself of $10. Rev. Dr. Mooar followed\nwith another shake, at the same cost to his exchequer. Then good\nDea. S. S. Smith, and minister after minister, followed in quick\nsuccession, till not a shred of it remained, and we find ourselves\nnow with every bill paid, and a balance of $24.25, which we\ntransfer to our Barnes Mission House Building Fund. Cold water was\nnever more refreshing to a thirsty soul than was this spontaneous\nand unexpected offering--whether considered with reference to its\n_personelle_ or its results--to the heart of your Superintendent.\nWe don\u2019t mean to give our friends an opportunity to repeat the\noperation; but we shall remember it with gratitude and pleasure as\nlong as we live. Following this were volunteer speeches, containing\nearnest expressions of good will and sympathy, and crowding one\nupon another in such a way that the time allotted proved to be all\ntoo short, and the only regret with which we closed the meeting was\nthat so many who wished to speak, and whom we earnestly wished to\nhear, failed to have that opportunity.\n\n_The Chinese Fishing Villages._--It is several years since I first\nvisited a village of Chinese fishermen. I cannot say that the mere\npleasure of the thing would prompt me to repeat the visit very\nfrequently. There is nothing in the character of the dwellings, the\nappearance of their denizens, or the odors rising from their work,\nto tempt one to a protracted stay. But I thank God that I cannot\ngo through even such a rude and motley and ill-odored settlement,\nwithout seeing the immortal souls of which these ill-kept bodies\nare the habitations, or without beginning to query if some way\ncannot be opened to pour in upon them the healing light of that\nworld which needs no sun.\n\nA few days ago a message came from one of them, by a Providence so\nmarked that I ventured to think it a Macedonian Call, and to read\nin it God\u2019s _promise_ of success. This village is on a little cape\njutting out into San Francisco Bay and known as Point San Pedro.\nMr. Charles W. Otis, my warm personal friend,--whom, with his\nexcellent wife, it was my privilege many years ago, while pastor\nat Petaluma, to welcome to the fellowship of saints--has recently\nbeen placed in charge of the \u201cranch\u201d of which this Point San Pedro\nis a part, and is thus brought into business relations with the\nChinese who are tenants upon it. His heart is stirred for them, and\nhe asked me if something could not be done to save them. I sent Wah\nYene, our devoted helper at Petaluma, to explore, and he brings me,\nnot only his own favorable testimony, but the following message\nfrom Mr. Otis: \u201cWah Yene has been here a few days canvassing in\nthe Chinese school. He will report the prospects. That there is a\nfield here for work among the more than 400, there is no doubt.\nWe will furnish a house free, and I think I can get lumber from\nsome building for furniture, seats, &c. My wife and I will assist\nall we can, though I shall be busy much of the time, but I can add\nsomething that, will help the good work along. * * * \u201cI know so\nlittle of the ways and means and plans of the Chinese Mission that\nI am unable to say more than to promise a hearty co-operation in\nevery possible way. We are very much pleased with Wah Yene, and\nMrs. Otis is ready to \u2018adopt\u2019 him, and says she would feel safe\nwith him near when I am compelled to be absent, as I shall be\ntwo or three times each week.\u201d Mr. Otis goes on to intimate that\nhe could give employment to Wah Yene for a part of each day, and\nassume a proportionate part of his support if we desire; or if we\nwant him to devote his whole time to missionary service, he will\nprovide him a room comfortably furnished, free of charge. And so\nWah Yene starts to-day for a month\u2019s trial of the work; and we, on\nour part, will do our best to make the trial a success.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA SLAVE-GIRL\u2019S FAITH.\n\nA TRUE STORY.\n\n    \u201cChillen, git on de bo\u2019de,\n    Chillen, git on de bo\u2019de,\n    Chillen, git on de bo\u2019de, bo\u2019de, bo\u2019de,\n    Dere\u2019s room for many a mo\u2019,\u201d--\n\nwere the words that came in high but not unmusical tones from the\ndepths of the kitchen, where I knew Jule was struggling with the\nweek\u2019s ironing.\n\nAfter puzzling over them for some time I cried, \u201cWhat _does_ she\nmean, auntie?\u201d\n\nAuntie laughed. \u201cOh, you Yankee! Will you never learn negro talk?\nDo they never sing about the \u2018gospel ship\u2019 in Boston? That is what\nJule means.\u201d\n\n\u201cOh, is that it?\u201d I replied, laughing in my turn. \u201cI couldn\u2019t\nimagine how she was going to \u2018get on a board\u2019 with her two hundred\npounds of flesh.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m tired of sewing: I guess I\u2019ll go down and talk to her a little\nwhile.\u201d\n\nJule welcomed me to her snug kitchen, with a smile which disclosed\nher shining white teeth; and I seated myself by her ironing-table,\nand begged her to tell me of the days \u201cbefo\u2019 de wah.\u201d\n\n\u201cTell me how you became free,\u201d I said, as she resumed her work.\n\u201cWere you set free, or did you run away?\u201d hoping secretly that the\nlatter was the case.\n\nHer black eyes sparkled, and she tossed her gayly turbaned head, as\nshe answered--\n\n\u201c\u2019Deed, miss, I just runned away.\u201d\n\n\u201cYou did, Jule? How did you do it? Weren\u2019t you frightened?\u201d\n\n\u201cWell, honey, de good Lord just done helped me.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe Lord helped you? How?\u201d\n\n\u201cAh, chile, de Lord just as powerful now as when He showed de\nchillen of Isr\u2019el de way to de promus land!\u201d\n\n\u201cOf course,\u201d I replied; \u201cbut He doesn\u2019t interpose in the affairs of\nmen as He did then. We have no pillars of fire, and no parting of\nthe sea.\u201d\n\n\u201c\u2018Deed, miss, I don\u2019t know nothin\u2019 \u2019bout your \u2019posing, and we\ndidn\u2019t have no pillow of fire; but de Lord done helped me hisself.\u201d\n\n\u201cWell, tell me all about it, please.\u201d\n\n\u201cYou see, miss, we lived just outside dis yere city. One night\nsomehow de cullud people hearn tell that Pres\u2019dent Linkum was gwine\nto set all de niggahs in de District free, and ole mars was gwine\nto run us all down South to git clar ob de proclamashun. David, de\ndining-room boy, was a likely fellar; he had been about with young\nmars, and could read and write; so he heard de talk, and made up\nhis mind to run away to Washington dat very night. Any one who\nwanted to could go \u2019long. Well, most of \u2019em was ready to go, my\nmammy among \u2019em. She said I could go too: but we didn\u2019t know how\nI was to git away; fur, you see, miss, I was nurse to young mars\u2019\nchillen, and slept with dem in a room that you couldn\u2019t git out\u2019en\n\u2019thout gwine through his and Mis\u2019 Virginny\u2019s room. De do\u2019 that went\nout into the hall was right at de head of their bed, and creaked\nmighty loud. I asked mammy what I should do, and she said, \u2018Trus\u2019\nde Lord.\u2019\n\n\u201cWell, we niggers went to bed same as ever, and de house was shut\nup. I didn\u2019t go to sleep, but tried to trus\u2019 de Lord. De chillen\nwas sleeping sound, and so was young mars and Mis\u2019 Virginny, when I\nheard a little tap on de winder, and knew it was de signal. I got\non my knees in de bed, and I prayed hard, and I prayed strong. Then\nI took my shoes in my hand, and crep\u2019 frou de do\u2019 into young mars\u2019\nroom, and round to de hall-do\u2019, and put my hand on de knob. \u2019Deed,\nmiss, but my heart was a-beatin\u2019; for, if de do\u2019 should creak, we\nwere lost. \u2018Good Lord, don\u2019t let it creak,\u2019 I whispered, and turned\nde knob. Bress yo\u2019 heart, honey! that do\u2019 opened jest as soft as\na white baby\u2019s bref,--that do\u2019 that had always screeched like a\nnigger when he\u2019s hurt. I stepped into de hall, shet de do\u2019 behind\nme, went down stairs, an\u2019 out by de smoke-house, an\u2019 dare they all\nwere; but, if de good Lord hadn\u2019t helped me, I shouldn\u2019t have been\namong \u2019em. Bress de Lord! Hallelujah!\u201d\n\n\u201cBut what did you do after you got to the smoke-house?\u201d I asked.\n\n\u201cOh, I was de las\u2019 one; so we started right off. It was snowing,\nand I couldn\u2019t stop to put on my shoes; but I was a stout girl,\ngwine on fo\u2019teen, and didn\u2019t mind de cold, for I was gwine to be\nfree.\u201d\n\n\u201cWeren\u2019t you pursued?\u201d\n\n\u201cOh, yes, miss! By and by we heard horses come pounding along. We\nwere nigh de cross-roads where de woods was thick; so we crep\u2019\nunder de branches of de fir-trees. Pretty soon young mars and de\noverseer come \u2019long, and stopped to wonder which road we had taken.\nThey swore and cussed right smart for a while, and then took de\naqueduct road to Georgetown. When they had been gone a little\nwhile, we crep\u2019 out, and took de other road that led all \u2019round\n\u2019cross de creek to Washington. \u2019Bout morning we saw de Yankee\ntents, and at noon we was free, bress de Lord!\u201d\n\n\u201cWell, Jule, I\u2019m much obliged for your story,\u201d I said, rising to\ngo, for auntie was calling me.\n\n\u201c\u2018Deed, honey, you\u2019s welcome. Always put yo\u2019 trus\u2019 in de Lord,\nchile, He\u2019ll keep de do\u2019 from creaking.\u2019\u201d\n\nAs I went up stairs, she began to sing in a high key and with great\nfervor,--\n\n    \u201cI\u2019ll lub my Jesus till I die,\n                _Hal_lelujah!\n    He leaned from out de hebbenly sky,\n                _Hal_lelujah!\u201d\n\n                           --_Well-Spring._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR OCTOBER, 1880.\n\n\n  MAINE, $227.79.\n\n    Bangor. First Cong. Ch.                                  $38.90\n    Blue Hill. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             10.00\n    Bridgeton. Mrs. Rebecca Hale                               4.00\n    Brownville. ----                                           6.00\n    Cumberland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. SILAS\n      M. RIDEOUT L. M.                                        30.00\n    East Madison. Eliza Bicknell                               5.00\n    Eastport. Central Ch. Sab. Sch.                            5.00\n    Gardiner. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              24.89\n    Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                7.00\n    Hallowell. Fannie A. Davis, _Stu. Aid, Fisk U._           25.00\n    Houlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.00\n    Lewiston. C. C. Cobb, for Talladega, Ala.                10.00\n    Portland. Williston Ch. and Soc., to const\n      REV. FRANK E. CLARK. L. M.                              40.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n    Woolwich. John Percy                                       2.00\n                                                             ------\n                                                             217.79\n    Legacies, Hallowell--Mrs. Julia Talpey, by L.\n      D. Emerson, Ex.                                         10.00\n                                                             ------\n                                                             227.79\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE $316.75.\n\n    Amherst. L. and L. K. Melendy, $20; Miss Lucy\n      Blunt, $10, _for Chapel, Wilmington, N. C._             30.00\n    Antrim. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         5.00\n    Candia Village. Jona Martin                                5.00\n    Charlestown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            7.00\n    Dover. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           97.36\n    Greenville. E. G. Heald                                    6.00\n    Hancock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               25.00\n    Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc.                         24.45\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              14.53\n    Hollis. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 5.89\n    Merrimac. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                                 5.00\n    Milford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               18.36\n    Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          15.15\n    New Boston. Pres. Ch. and Soc.                             4.00\n    New Ipswich. Proceeds of Children\u2019s Fair                  13.00\n    Peterborough. M. R.                                        1.00\n    Pittsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            24.01\n    Temple. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   16.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $615.17.\n\n    Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                21.30\n    Barton Landing. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        11.75\n    Benson. Bale of C. _for Refugees_, by Rev. G.\n      Lyon.\n    Brattleborough. Cong. Ch.                                 26.58\n    Burlington. Mrs. F. S.                                     1.00\n    Danville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              27.00\n    Holland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                8.32\n    Londonderry. Mrs. Hepsibah H. Stowell                    400.00\n    Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                14.10\n    McIndoe\u2019s Falls. Dea. Monteith                             5.00\n    Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               13.35\n    Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               12.00\n    Saxton\u2019s River. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         9.00\n    Saint Albans. A. O. Brainerd                              20.00\n    Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Sab. Sch.                    25.00\n    Townshend. Mrs. N. D. Batchelder                           2.00\n    West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   18.77\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $3,815.00.\n\n    Agawam. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 7.17\n    Amherst. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $60, to\n      const. MISS MARY D. FIELD and FRANK W.\n      HARRINGTON, L. M\u2019s;--First Ch., $25.                    85.00\n    Barnstable Co. \u201cA Minister\u2019s Widow\u201d _to\n      furnish a room, Atlanta U._                             25.00\n    Bernardston. Orthodox Cong. Ch.                            2.00\n    Bridgewater. Sarah L. Alden, $10.; Mrs. M. S.\n      Dunham, $2                                              12.00\n    Boston. \u201cTeacher of A. M. A.\u201d                              2.00\n    Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                8.00\n    Brocton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         50.00\n    Brookline. W. H. White                                    10.00\n    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        109.57\n    Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       21.34\n    Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         39.00\n    Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc.                          32.87\n    Dorchester. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              10.00\n    East Charlemont. Dea. P. Field                             9.00\n    East Hampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $84.85; Cong. Sab. Sch., $25.                          109.85\n    Essex Co. \u201cHoward,\u201d _for Brick Jacket for\n      Chapel, Wilmington, N. C._                             500.00\n    Gardner. J. B. Drury, to const. MRS. SARAH\n      JANE DRURY, L. M.                                       30.00\n    Hanson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 6.00\n    Harvard. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               32.78\n    Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        5.00\n    Holyoke. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $15; Second\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc., $8.74.                              23.74\n    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.\n    Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch.                         817.00\n    Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch.                          18.00\n    Lanesborough. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   1.00\n    Littleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              6.50\n    Long Meadow. Gents\u2019 Benev. Soc.                           28.75\n    Lynn. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20.06;\n      North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $2.21                         22.27\n    Middleborough. Miss E. P. K.                               0.55\n    Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         118.18\n    Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     25.18\n    Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         125.00\n    North Brookfield. Miss A. W. Johnson, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                    5.00\n    North Falmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        25.00\n    North Leominster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       9.50\n    North Reading. Miss E. F. E.                               1.00\n    Norwood. Mrs. H. M. F., _for Indian M._                    1.00\n    Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          34.00\n    Paxton. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., to const.\n      REV. JOHN E. DODGE, L. M.                               30.00\n    Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         23.46\n    Peabody. Joseph Anderson                                  10.00\n    Pepperell. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             21.17\n    Phillipston. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Assn., Bbl of C.\n    Plainfield. Mrs. Albert Dyer, _for Student Aid_            5.00\n    Plimpton. Carrie, Alice and Nellie Titcomb                 3.00\n    Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $37.50;\n      Second Cong. Sab. Sch., $5                              42.50\n    Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          72.00\n    Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n    Somerset. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               5.00\n    South Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          31.00\n    South Middleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to\n      const. REV. EPHRAIM W. ALLEN, L. M.                     30.00\n    South Weymouth. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of Second\n      Cong. Ch.                                               19.00\n    South Walpole. J. F. W.                                    1.00\n    Spencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $132.60;\n      Young Ladies\u2019 Miss. Circle, $12.35; Young\n      Ladies\u2019 Soc. Bbl. of C.                                144.95\n    Springfield. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $43.25;\n      First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $39.10; Mrs.\n      Bowdoin, $10; Ira Merrill, $5; Mrs. Ira\n      Merrill, $5                                            102.35\n    Topsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             22.00\n    Townsend. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       4.00\n    Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($15 _of which\n      for Indian M_)                                          66.86\n    Walpole. E. P. Stetson, $50; Cong. Ch. and\n      Soc., $28.75                                            78.75\n    Westborough. Freedmen\u2019s Mission Assn., 2 Bbls.\n      of C., _for Savannah and Atlanta, Ga._\n    West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           6.35\n    Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      44.93\n    West Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          14.57\n    Weymouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        11.02\n    Whitinsville. Mrs. J. C. Whitin, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega, Ala._                                   30.00\n    Worcester. Piedmont Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $313.90, to const. THOMAS H. HODGE, JOHN B.\n      GOUGH, ANSON BANGS, C. M. DYER, DEA. E. T.\n      MARBLE, MRS. SARA PARTRIDGE, DEA. LYMAN\n      DRURY, DEA. F. B. KNOWLES, ARTHUR M. STONE\n      and E. C. CRANE L. M\u2019s; Central Cong. Ch.\n      and Soc., $165.75; Salem St. Cong. Ch. and\n      Soc., $84.28; Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $58.91                                                 622.84\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $445.60.\n\n    Providence. Union Cong. Ch.                              445.60\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $1,042.75.\n\n    Avon. Harry Chidsey, to const. REV. N. J.\n      SEELEY and MISS LAURA SEELEY, L. M\u2019s                   100.00\n    Bozrah. Simeon Abell, 2d.                                  5.00\n    Buckingham. Cong. Ch.                                      4.14\n    Darien. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega, Ala._                   5.00\n    Guilford. First Cong. Ch.                                 19.40\n    Hartford. Mrs. C. R. Hillyer, $30, to const.\n      MARY BUSHNELL HILLYER, L. M.; A. R. Hillyer,\n      $30, to const. DONALD GREGG, L. M.; Windsor\n      Av. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $17.14; A. C. H., $1            78.14\n    Hartford. Calvin Day, _for Talladega, Ala._               50.00\n    Hartford. Mrs. John Olmsted, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                15.00\n    Hebron. First Cong. Ch.                                    6.62\n    Hockanum. South Cong. Ch., $7; Mrs. E. M.\n      Roberts, $5                                             12.00\n    Mansfield Centre. \u201cTwo Friends,\u201d _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega, Ala._                                    2.00\n    New Britain. \u201cFirst Ch. of Christ,\u201d $5.59; D.\n      M. Rogers, $5.50                                        11.09\n    New Haven. \u201cEleven Friends,\u201d _for Talladega,\n      Ala._                                                  124.00\n    New Haven. Mrs. E. R. Marvin                               3.00\n    New London. \u201cA Friend in First Ch. of Christ,\u201d\n      $100; Chas. D. Boss, $20; Chas. D. Boss,\n      Jr., $15; W. C. Crump, $5; Rev. J. P.\n      Taylor, $5, _for Talladega, Ala._                      145.00\n    New London. Mrs. N. S. P.                                  1.00\n    North Manchester. Second Cong. Ch.                        14.62\n    Northfield. Cong Ch. to const. ERNEST WAKEMAN,\n      L. M.                                                   34.75\n    North Woodstock. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                               8.00\n    Norwich. \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. CHARLES BARD,\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Norwich. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega, Ala._                                         2.00\n    Orange. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                       10.00\n    Putnam. \u201cM. R. H.\u201d                                         5.00\n    Talcottville. C. D. Talcott and Others, _for\n      Talladega, Ala._                                       200.00\n    Watertown. Cong. Ch.                                      39.20\n    West Brook. Cong. Ch. An. Coll., $44.60; M. C.\n      Coll., $21.69, to const. REV. JOSEPH A.\n      TOMLINSON, and MRS. NANCY A. PERRY, L. M.\u2019s.            66.29\n    ---- \u201cFriend\u201d                                              1.50\n                                                             ------\n                                                             992.75\n    Legacies. Fairfield--Mrs. Lucretia Tates, by\n      Walter Jennings, Ex.                                    50.00\n                                                             ------\n                                                           1,042.75\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $669.19.\n\n    Arcade. Ralston W. Lyman                                   2.00\n    Batavia. Mrs. Anna V. S. Fisher                           20.00\n    Binghamton. First Cong. Ch.                              104.43\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., Geo. A.\n      Bell. Supt., $75 _for a Missionary in Fla._,\n      and by the liberality of Stephen Ballard,\n      $100 _for a Missionary, Ladies\u2019 Island, S.\n      C._                                                    175.00\n    Columbus. Box of books and papers by a Lady in\n      Cong. Ch.\n    Deansville. \u201cL.\u201d                                           5.00\n    Hamilton. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n    Lebanon. Thomas Hitchcock, $5.75; M. Day,\n      $5.75; Alfred Seymour, $5.75; J. H. W., $1;\n      J. A. H., $1; Others, 75c.                              20.00\n    Madison. O. S. Campbell, $5; Melissa Tompkins,\n      $5                                                      10.00\n    Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         38.75\n    New York. Ladies of Presb. Memorial Ch., _for\n      a Teacher, Talladega C._                               105.00\n    New York. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $2; National Temperance\n      Soc., by J. N. Stearns, 1500 Temperance\n      Papers                                                   2.00\n    Oneonta. Mrs. H. M. McC., and Mrs. H. C. S.,\n      50c each                                                 1.00\n    Ovid. D. W. K.                                             1.00\n    Perry Centre. Cong. Ch. $43.20, to const. REV.\n      E. H. MARTIN, L. M.; R. J. Booth, package\n      papers                                                  43.20\n    Poughkeepsie. First Reformed Ch.                          16.54\n    Rome. John. B. Jervis                                     25.00\n    Sherburne. Cong. Ch.                                      85.27\n    Westfield. Mrs. A. B. Rice                                 3.00\n    Woodhaven. L. I. Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.                   7.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $5,285.49.\n\n    East Orange. Trinity Cong. Ch.                            94.48\n    Jersey City. First Cong. Ch.                              36.01\n    Montclair. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   55.00\n    Perth Amboy. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Ind. Dept., Le\n      Moyne Inst_., and to const. PROF. S. G.\n      BARNES, EDWARD W. BARNES, and MRS. E. W.\n      BARNES, L. M\u2019s.                                        100.00\n                                                             ------\n                                                             285.49\n    Legacies. Morristown--Mrs. M. J. Graves, by\n      Arthur B. Graves, Ex.                                5,000.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                           5,285.49\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $970.83.\n\n    Athens. Mrs. F. E. C.                                      1.00\n    Cambridgeborough. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Circle of\n      Cong. Ch., by Mrs. H. R. Ross, Sec.                      5.00\n    Centreville. Cong. Ch.                                     5.00\n    Philadelphia. S. A. Johnson.                               4.83\n    Riceville. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n                                                             ------\n                                                              20.83\n    Legacies, Washington.--Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne,\n      by Executors                                           950.00\n                                                             ------\n                                                             970.83\n\n\n  OHIO. $902.29.\n\n    Akron. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Ashtabula. James Hall                                      5.00\n    Bloomfield. Dea. M. Knapp, $10.00; W. A., $1,\n      _for Ladies\u2019 Hall, Tougaloo U._                         11.00\n    Bristolville. A. N., $1; Mrs. L. M. C., $1;\n      \u201cFriends,\u201d 50c; _for Ladies\u2019 Hall, Tougaloo\n      U._                                                      2.50\n    Chagrin Falls. \u201cEarnest Workers,\u201d _for Student\n      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                       10.00\n    Chardon. \u201cCheerful Workers,\u201d by Mrs. Catherine\n      L. Keyes                                                15.00\n    Chatham. Cong. Ch., $3.25; Cong. Ch. and Sab.\n      Sch., $9.09, _for Ladies\u2019 Hall, Tougaloo U._            12.34\n    Cleveland. Dea. C. T. Rogers, $50; Dea. S. H.\n      Sheldon, $25; H. H. Adams, $20; Martin\n      House, $15; H. V. Wilson, $5, _for Ladies\u2019\n      Hall, Tougaloo U._                                     115.00\n    Cleveland. Plymouth Cong. Ch., $30.43; Hannah\n      M. Paine, $5                                            35.43\n    Conneaut. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n    Edinburgh. Cong. Ch.                                      25.00\n    Garrettsville. P. S. Tinan, $5; C. B. W., $1;\n      R. H. O., $1, _for Ladies\u2019 Hall, Tougaloo U._            7.00\n    Geneva. Sab. Sch. and Friends, _for Ladies\u2019\n      Hall, Tougaloo U._                                      20.50\n    Green. Mrs. H. B. Harrington, _for Ladies\u2019\n      Hall, Tougaloo U._                                       2.85\n    Hudson. Cong. Ch.                                         15.00\n    Hudson. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                 5.20\n    Kingsville. Rev. E. J. Comings, $10; Myron\n      Whiting, $5; Mr. Noyes, $2                              17.00\n    Lafayette. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Ladies\u2019 Hall,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             5.00\n    Lake Co. \u201cCongregationalist,\u201d ($200 of which\n      _for Tougaloo U_)                                      300.00\n    Lorain. Cong. Ch.                                          4.70\n    Madison. James Ford, _for Ladies\u2019 Hall,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             5.00\n    Mecca. Burt Case, $5; Wm. C. Hickok, $4.15,\n      _for Ladies\u2019 Hall, Tougaloo U._                          9.15\n    Mesopotamia. Cong. Ch., _for Ladies\u2019 Hall,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            16.98\n    Nelson. C. C. Fuller, $5; Rev. R. A. Toney,\n      $2; Cong. Ch., $1.50; G. F., 12c.; _for\n      Ladies\u2019 Hall, Tougaloo U._                               8.62\n    Oberlin. Rev. Geo. Thompson, _for Mendi M._                5.00\n    Oberlin. Miss E. A. L.                                     1.00\n    Painesville. First Cong. Ch.                              32.30\n    Ravenna. Friends, through Cong. Ch., _for\n      Ladies\u2019 Hall, Tougaloo U._                              55.00\n    Sandusky. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                            5.59\n    Saybrook. \u201cFriends,\u201d Dist. No. 3, _for Ladies\u2019\n      Hall, Tougaloo U._                                       4.75\n    Seville. Lyman Strong, $25; T. B. Dowd, $25,\n      _for Ladies\u2019 Hall, Tougaloo U._                         50.00\n    South Newbury. H. P. G., $1; Mrs. R. M. P.,\n      $1; Mrs R. T. W., $1; Others, $1                         4.00\n    Springfield. First Cong. Ch.                               6.93\n    Strongville. Cong. Ch., $10; Presb. Ch., $5;\n      _for Ladies\u2019 Hall, Tougaloo U._                         15.00\n    Twinsburgh. Cong. Sab. Sch., $18; Mrs. Truman\n      Buell, $10; J. R. Parmelee, $2                          30.00\n    Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for\n      Ladies\u2019 Hall, Tougaloo U._                               4.75\n    Youngstown. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Ladies\u2019 Hall,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            10.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $630.62.\n\n    Chesterfield. Cong. Ch.                                   14.00\n    Chicago. ---- $150; New England Cong. Ch.,\n      $125.85; Clinton St. Cong. Ch. ($30 of which\n      to const. DEA S. S. WRIGHT, L. M.), $33.41;\n      ---- $12.23                                            321.49\n    Chicago. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   50.00\n    Chicago. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., Bethany Ch., _for\n      Lady Missionary in Mobile, Ala._                        12.23\n    Galva. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,\n      $13.32; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., $11.68, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   25.00\n    Joliet. Mrs. M. T. Murray                                  2.00\n    North Hampton. R. W. Gilliam, _for Lady\n      Missionary in New Orleans_                               5.00\n    Rockford. First Cong. Ch.                                 43.78\n    Rockford. Mrs. John L. Page, _to furnish a\n      Room, Atlanta U._                                       25.00\n    Rockford. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., $25;\n      Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   50.00\n    Streator. Rev. G. W. Bainum                                5.00\n    Sycamore. J. H. Rogers, _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                     50.00\n    Sycamore. H. Wood, _for Lady Missionary in New\n      Orleans_                                                10.00\n    Western Springs. Mrs. J. C. Armstrong, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   11.12\n    Wyanet. J. R. P.                                           1.00\n    ---- \u201cA Friend\u201d                                            5.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN. $106.71.\n\n    Charlotte. First Cong. Ch.                                15.00\n    Edwardsburgh. Saml. C. Olmstead                           25.00\n    Hillsdale. J. W. Ford                                      2.00\n    Imlay City. Woman\u2019s Missionary Soc.                       12.00\n    Olivet. Cong. Ch.                                         40.71\n    Pontiac. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   3.00\n    Salem. First Cong. Ch.                                     4.00\n    Wacousta. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $202.08.\n\n    Koshkomong. Cong. Ch.                                      9.87\n    Racine. Ladies\u2019 Foreign Miss. Soc., $19; Sab.\n      Sch., $6, _for Le Moyne Ind. Sch._                      25.00\n    Wautoma. Cong. Ch.                                         2.00\n    West De Pere. Cong. Ch.                                   11.61\n    White Water. \u201cFriends,\u201d by C. M. Blackman,\n      _for Le Moyne Inst._                                   153.60\n\n\n  IOWA, $204.98\n\n    Algona. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary in New Orleans_                               3.12\n    Belle Plain. \u201cA few Friends,\u201d _for Lady\n      Missionary in New Orleans_                               3.75\n    Burlington. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Grimes, _to\n      furnish a Room, Atlanta U._                             25.00\n    Charles City. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary in New Orleans_                              10.00\n    Corning. Cong. Ch.                                         5.12\n    Creston. Mrs. Perrigo, $10; Rev. U. C.\n      Bosworth, $9; Mrs. H., $1, _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            20.00\n    Danville. Cong. Ch.                                        5.15\n    Earlville. Cong. Ch.                                       7.00\n    Hillsborough. John W. Hammond                              5.00\n    Iowa City. Individuals, by C. A. M. Currier                1.50\n    McGregor. Woman\u2019s Missionary Soc.                         14.96\n    Mitchel. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary in New Orleans_                               6.00\n    Montour. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary in New Orleans_                               7.00\n    New Hampton. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary in New Orleans_                               5.20\n    New Hampton. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc.                            2.33\n    Newtown. Cong. Ch., $15.62, and Sab. Sch., $2             17.62\n    Ogden. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary in New Orleans_                              11.00\n    Osage. Juvenile Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                11.68\n    Osage. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary in New Orleans_                              10.00\n    Osage. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc.                                  3.00\n    Riceville. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary in New Orleans_                               5.00\n    Rockford. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary in New Orleans_                               3.70\n    Stacyville. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., $3; \u201cWilling\n      Helpers,\u201d $1.35, _for Lady Missionary in New\n      Orleans_                                                 4.35\n    Toledo. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary in New\n      Orleans_                                                 5.50\n    Waterloo. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary in New Orleans_                              10.00\n    Wentworth. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary in New Orleans_                               2.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $41.37.\n\n    Duluth. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                                 5.54\n    Hutchinson. Cong. Ch.                                      1.50\n    Lake City. First Cong. Ch.                                10.00\n    Mankato. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary in\n      New Orleans_                                             3.97\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 20.36\n\n\n  KANSAS, $10.\n\n    Wild Cat. Mrs. S. B. Peirce                               10.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $4.61.\n\n    Camp Creek. Cong. Ch. _for Lady Missionary in\n      New Orleans_                                             2.61\n    Waverly. Cong. Ch.                                         2.00\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $179.20.\n\n    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition                              178.70\n    Whiteside. G. W. J.                                        0.50\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $5.14.\n\n    Talladega. Talladega College                               5.14\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $110.65\n\n    Tougaloo. Tuition, $55.50; Rent, $50; Tougaloo\n      U., $5.15                                              110.65\n\n\n  ENGLAND, $482.50.\n\n    London. Freedmen\u2019s Missions Aid Soc., _for\n      Fisk U._, \u00a3100                                         482.50\n                                                          ---------\n        Total                                            $16,268.72\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Southampton, Mass. Collected by Ladies of\n      Cong. Ch.                                               18.00\n    Westborough, Mass. Cong. Sab. Sch.                        24.00\n    Westfield, Mass. First Cong. Ch., $12; Second\n      Cong. Ch., $12                                          24.00\n    Worcester, Mass. Ladies in Central Cong. Ch.,\n      $31.50; Ladies in Union Ch., $13.50; Ladies\n      in Salem St. Cong. Ch., $10; Ladies in\n      Piedmont Cong. Ch., $5, by Mrs. G. Henry\n      Whitcomb                                                60.00\n    Worcester, Mass. Freedmen\u2019s Mission Ass\u2019n,\n      bbl. of C.\n    Central Falls, R. I. Ladies of Cong. Ch. $24,\n      and box of Bedding                                      24.00\n    East Haven, Conn. Julius Morris                            5.00\n    Fair Haven, Conn. H. H. Strong                            10.00\n    Fair Haven, Conn. Mrs. H. C Hurd                           1.00\n    Guilford, Conn. Mrs. Lucy E. Tuttle                      100.00\n    Guilford, Conn. Third Cong. Ch., $11; Miss L.\n      C. Dudley, $10                                          21.00\n    Hartford, Conn. D. H. Wells                               50.00\n    Meriden, Conn. Centre Cong. Ch.                           19.00\n    Middletown, Conn. Mrs. Benj. Douglass                     25.00\n    New Haven, Conn. \u201cMember Davenport Cong. Ch.\u201d             50.00\n    New Haven, Conn. E. B. Bowditch                           25.00\n    New Haven, Conn. Simeon E. Baldwin, $20; Mrs.\n      Alex. McAlister, $5                                     25.00\n    New Haven, Conn. Mrs. Emmeline Smith                      10.00\n    New Haven, Conn. J. L. Ensign                              5.00\n    New Haven, Conn. R. E. Rice                                5.00\n    Waterbury, Conn. Charles E. Webster                       10.00\n    Mendon, Ill. Mrs. J. Fowler                              125.00\n    Allegan, Mich. Mrs. R. E. Booth                          400.00\n                                                           --------\n        Total                                             $1,036.00\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.\n\n    Leeds, Eng. Robert Arthington, conditional\n      pledge, \u00a33,000\n    London, Eng. Freedmen\u2019s Missions Aid Soc., \u00a3332       $1,601.90\n\n                                 H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,\n                                                56 Reade St., N. Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nConstitution of the American Missionary Association.\n\nINCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nART. I. This Society shall be called \u201cTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\nASSOCIATION.\u201d\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct\nChristian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a\nknowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries\nwhich are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent\nfields of effort.\n\nART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes\nfaith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the\npractice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds,\nmay become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty\ndollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have\nnot professed their faith may be constituted life members without\nthe privilege of voting.\n\nART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of\nSeptember, October or November, for the election of officers and\nthe transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall\nbe designated by the Executive Committee.\n\nART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular\nofficers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,\nand of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,\nand other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one\nrepresentative.\n\nART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President,\nVice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,\nTreasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less\nthan twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be\nadvisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.\n\nART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting\nand disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining\nand dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and\nagents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the\ntransaction of all such business as usually appertains to the\nexecutive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies;\nthe Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the\nmissionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision\nof the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually\nchosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or\nmissionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.\n\nThe Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies\noccurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;\nto apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of\nincorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all\nofficers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the\nSociety; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and\nfor the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call,\nin all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and\ngeneral conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the\ndiffusion of the missionary spirit; and the general and vigorous\npromotion of the missionary work.\n\nFive members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for\ntransacting business.\n\nART VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing\nofficers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields\nof labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor\nparticularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the\nknown fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment\nthose who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.\n\nART IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to the\nprinciples of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain\nmissionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the\nagency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without\nthe concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular\nannual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been\nsubmitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in\nseason to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do\nso, if so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the\nmeeting.\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a\nbelief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a\nSaviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice\nof Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity\nof regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy\nobedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and\nthe retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the\nwicked, and salvation of the righteous.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nThe American Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with\nthe almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its\nmain efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens\nand Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely\nrelated to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE\nin America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane\nand Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_--In Va., 1; N. C., 6; S. C., 2; Ga., 13;\nKy., 6; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 17; Miss., 4; Texas, 6. _Africa_,\n2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 76.\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.;\nand Austin, Texas, 8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,\nRaleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Savannah, Macon,\nAtlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis,\nTenn., 12. _Other Schools_, 31. Total 51.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.--Among the Freedmen, 284;\namong the Chinese, 22; among the Indians, 11; in Africa, 13. Total,\n330. STUDENTS--In Theology, 102; Law, 23; in College Course, 75;\nin other studies, 7,852. Total, 8,052. Scholars taught by former\npupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the care\nof the Association, 13,000.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the\ngrowing work. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and\n_larger_ contributions from the churches--the feeble as well as the\nstrong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for\nthe new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and\npious, for these churches.\n\n3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and\nmissionaries to Africa--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., Treasurer, 56 Reade Street.\n  BOSTON      Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Dis\u2019t Sec.,\n              Room 21 Congregational House.\n  CHICAGO     Rev. Jas. Powell, Dis\u2019t Sec.,\n              112 West Washington Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMAGAZINE.\n\nThis Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the\nMissionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen\nwho take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of\nSabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries;\nto Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does\nnot prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year\nnot less than five dollars.\n\nThose who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in\ntheir last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the\nfollowing\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\u201cI BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- dollars\nin 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,\nto its charitable uses and purposes.\u201d\n\nThe will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States\nthree are required--in other States only two], who should write\nagainst their names, their places of residence [if in cities,\ntheir street and number]. The following form of attestation will\nanswer for every State in the Union: \u201cSigned, sealed, published\nand declared by the said [A. B.] as his last Will and Testament,\nin presence of us, who, at the request of the said A. B., and in\nhis presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto\nsubscribed our names as witnesses.\u201d In some States it is required\nthat the Will should be made at least two months before the death\nof the testator.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             MANHATTAN\n\n                               LIFE\n\n                        Insurance Company,\n\n                                OF\n\n                             NEW YORK.\n\n                       ORGANIZED A.D. 1850.\n\n                        RULES OF BUSINESS.\n\nPREMIUMS the lowest safe rates.\n\nPOLICY as little restricted in terms as possible.\n\nNON-FORFEITURE secured in the policy under the recent law of New\nYork.\n\nDIVIDENDS made annually.\n\nMANAGEMENT steady, reliable, business-like.\n\nINVESTMENTS. Best security sought, rather than the largest interest.\n\nPRINCIPAL OBJECT. To meet CLAIMS promptly.\n\nRESULT. Nearly 3,000 families benefited when most needed.\n\n  HENRY STOKES, President.\n  C. Y. WEMPLE, Vice-President.\n  J. L. HALSEY, Secretary.\n  S. N. 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From the first it has\nmaintained a thoroughly independent stand in politics, discussing\nall public questions of interest from a Christian standpoint. In\nreligion it takes the same ground with the Evangelical Alliance; in\ntemperance, with the National Temperance Society, and as regards\nthe oppressed races, with the American Missionary Association.\n\nIt gives summaries of the week\u2019s news, full Prices Current and\nFinancial Reports, and copious selections from the best editorials\nof the New York daily papers of both parties. It also gives\nreports of important religious and temperance meetings and makes a\nspecialty of a daily report of the Fulton Street Prayer Meeting,\nwhich has been a much-prized portion of the paper. It stands almost\nalone in the New York press in reporting the Progress of the\nIndependent Catholic Movement.\n\nA chief specialty of the _Witness_ is its Home Department,\nconsisting of letters from women, discussing questions of domestic\nand social interest. So much is this department prized that every\nweek for several years has brought more letters from all parts of\nthe country than we can insert in the three columns allotted to\nit. There is also a column of children\u2019s letters for which we have\nreceived a constant overflowing stream of juvenile correspondence.\nThe interest with which children read this column is remarkable.\n\nThere is an extensive literary department of the _Witness_ filled\nwith tales, mostly for children, and extracts from the best weekly\nand monthly papers. It has also a department for letters from\nall parts of the Union, chiefly from the South and West, giving\ninformation concerning various parts the country.\n\nThe _Witness_ will be found to contain more readable, instructive,\nand interesting matter than perhaps any other weekly, and to\ncombine in one sheet the excellencies of a newspaper, a commercial\npaper, a religious paper, a temperance paper, an agricultural\npaper, and a mother\u2019s magazine--all for $1.50 a year; or five\ncopies, directed separately, for $6.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe also publish an eight-page weekly entitled =SABBATH READING=,\neach number having a first-class Sermon and the best religious\nand temperance matter we can glean from American and British\nperiodicals. Each number contains the Sabbath-school lesson, and a\nreport of Fulton Street Prayer Meeting. 50 cents a year.\n\nALSO,\n\n=GEMS OF POETRY=, an eight-page weekly, containing selections of\nthe choicest poetry in the English language. 75 cents a year. First\nvolume, from 1st June to 31st December, 40 cents.\n\nSpecimen copies of these publications sent free. They all stop when\nsubscription expires.\n\n                             JOHN DOUGALL & CO.,\n                                      No. 7 Frankfort St., New York.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n               NEW AND IMPROVED STYLES THIS SEASON.\n\n                      MASON AND HAMLIN ORGANS\n\nBEST IN THE WORLD: winners of highest distinction at EVERY GREAT\nWORLD\u2019S FAIR FOR THIRTEEN YEARS. Prices, $51, $57, $66, $84, $108,\nto $508 and upward. For easy payments, $6.30 a quarter and upward.\nCatalogues free. MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO., 154 Tremont Street,\nBoston; 46 East 14th Street, NEW YORK; 149 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                          [Illustration]\n\n                          _J. & R. LAMB_,\n\n                      _59 Carmine St., N. Y._\n\n                        _CHURCH FURNISHERS_\n\n                Memorial Windows, Memorial Tablets,\n\n                Sterling Silver Communion Services.\n\n                        SEND FOR CIRCULAR.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\nDAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.","title":"The American Missionary, Volume 34, No. 12, December 1880","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":22198}