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NO. 10.\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                          OCTOBER, 1880.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    OUR ANNUAL MEETING\u2014PARAGRAPHS                              289\n    PARAGRAPHS                                                 290\n    JUBILEE SINGERS                                            291\n    ATLANTA\u2019S COLORED PEOPLE\u2014COMMON SENSE FOR COLORED MEN      292\n    OUR SCHOOLS AND THE COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM                   293\n    A NEW SOUTH, NOT A NEW ENGLAND IN THE SOUTH                294\n    MTESA AND THE RELIGION OF HIS ANCESTORS                    296\n    BEGGING LETTER                                             297\n    AFRICAN NOTES                                              299\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                       300\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    COLORED CADETSHIP                                          302\n    NORTH CAROLINA, MCLEANSVILLE\u2014Revival Interest              302\n    SOUTH CAROLINA, GREENWOOD                                  303\n    GEORGIA\u2014Midway Anniversary                                 304\n    GEORGIA\u2014Atlanta University and Temperance                  305\n    ALABAMA\u2014Shelby Ironworks                                   305\n    ALABAMA\u2014FLORENCE\u2014Outside Work                              306\n    MISSISSIPPI\u2014Tougaloo University                            307\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    S\u2019KOKOMISH AGENCY: Rev. Myron Eells                        308\n    SISSETON AGENCY: Chas. Crissey                             309\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    SERMON BY JEE GAM                                          310\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    CHINESE AND CHINESE CUSTOMS                                312\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                     313\n\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                                 317\n\n\n  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS                                       318\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             NEW YORK:\n\n         Published by the American Missionary Association,\n\n                      ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\n\nEntered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                  AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION\n\n                      56 READE STREET, N. Y.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  PRESIDENT.\n\n    HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\n  VICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n    Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n    Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n    Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n    ANDREW LESTER, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.\n    Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.\n    WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.\n    Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.\n    Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.\n    Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.\n    Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. J.\n    Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D. D., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.\n    Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n    HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich.\n    Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H.\n    Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D. D., Ct.\n    DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.\n    Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.\n    SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.\n    Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.\n    Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon.\n    Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.\n    Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n    EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.\n    DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J.\n    Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.\n    Rev. W. L. GAGE, D. D., Ct.\n    A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio.\n    Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn.\n    Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn.\n    Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.\n    Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.\n    Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.\n    Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.\n    S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n    Hon J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n    Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct.\n    Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.\n    Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.\n    Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng.\n    WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y.\n    J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.\n    E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J.\n    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.\n    DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.\n    A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.\n    Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y.\n    FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.\n    JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., Ill.\n    Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo.\n    J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.\n    E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.\n    C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.\n    Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal.\n    Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n  DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n    REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n    REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_.\n    REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n    H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.\n\n\n  EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n    ALONZO S. BALL,\n    A. S. BARNES,\n    GEO. M. BOYNTON,\n    WM. B. BROWN,\n    C. T. CHRISTENSEN,\n    CLINTON B. FISK,\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n    S. B. HALLIDAY,\n    SAMUEL HOLMES,\n    CHARLES A. HULL,\n    EDGAR KETCHUM,\n    CHAS. L. MEAD,\n    WM. T. PRATT,\n    J. A. SHOUDY\n    JOHN H. WASHBURN,\n    G. B. WILLCOX.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to\nthe District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the \u201cAmerican\nMissionary,\u201d to Rev. C. C. PAINTER, at the New York Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New\nYork, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21\nCongregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n          VOL. XXXIV.      OCTOBER, 1880.        NO. 10.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR ANNUAL MEETING.\n\nThe Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Missionary\nAssociation will be held in the Broadway Church (Rev. Dr.\nChamberlain\u2019s), Norwich, Ct., commencing Oct. 12, at 3 P. M., at\nwhich time the Report of the Executive Committee will be read by\nRev. M. E. Strieby, D.D., Corresponding Secretary. The Annual\nSermon will be preached by Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., of New York\nCity, Tuesday evening. Reports, papers, and discussions upon\nthe work of the Society, may be expected throughout Tuesday and\nWednesday. The following persons have promised to be present and\nparticipate in the exercises, with others: Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D.,\nGen. Clinton B. Fisk, H. K. Carroll, of New York City; Rev. A. F.\nBeard, D.D., Syracuse, N. Y.; Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D., Cambridge,\nMass.; Prof. Wm. J. Tucker, D.D., Andover, Mass.; Prof. Cyrus\nNorthrop, New Haven, Ct.; Rev. Sam\u2019l Scoville, Stamford, Ct.; Rev.\nJoseph Anderson, D.D., Waterbury, Ct.; Rev. Wm. H. Willcox, D.D.,\nMalden, Mass. We also have invited Pres. Julius Seelye, Amherst,\nMass., and Hon. John P. Page, Rutland, Vt., and hope for favorable\nresponses. For reduction in railway fares and other important\nitems, see fourth page of cover.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIn addition to the speakers from the North announced above, much\ninterest will be added to our Annual Meeting by addresses from some\nof the prominent workers in the Southern field.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nDuring the vacation of our schools and workers, there is a dearth\nof intelligence from \u201cthe field,\u201d which must be the MISSIONARY\u2019S\napology for its leanness. The next number will be made fat with the\ngood things prepared for us at Norwich, and may be delayed on that\naccount, after which there will doubtless be abundance from our\nteachers and pastors, who will by that time have their work well in\nhand once more for another year\u2019s labor.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe St. Louis School Board has added oral lessons in etiquette to\nits course of studies. A few scholars read in turn five pages from\na manual of etiquette, and then a conversation is held on the topic\nby teacher and pupils. We do not see why good manners are not as\nessential as good grammar.\n\nSo says the _Congregationalist_, and so says the AMERICAN\nMISSIONARY. In several of our Institutions at the South, a small\ntext-book on good manners is used with accompanying oral lessons.\nColored pupils take well to such instruction.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nChicago is the freest city in this country. There is no\ndiscrimination except in brains and money. Every place is open to\nthe colored man. The schools of the city have white and colored\nchildren on the same seats and in the same classes, and no\n\u201ckicking\u201d is heard. But what is the strangest of all, there are\ntwo colored ladies who teach schools composed of white as well as\ncolored.\u2014_Ex._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIt is possible we may yet go to the negro to learn many things,\nespecially the virtues allied to, and growing out of, patience\nunder provocations, of which certainly he has been a wonderful\nexample. The editorial fraternity of the country would do well to\nimitate the example of the colored brethren, who at the meeting\nof the Colored National Press Association, recently held in\nLouisville, disposed cheaply of what has hitherto been regarded\nas the editors\u2019 inestimable and inalienable right by resolving,\n\u201cThat when differences arise among us, we will eschew vituperation\nand personal abuse, and that the columns of our papers shall be\nkept free from everything calculated to detract from the tone and\ncharacter of journalism.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe defense Roman Catholicism makes against Protestant ruffianism\nvaries according to environments; in Uganda it takes one form, in\nthe United States another; but it is good to see the necessity of\nsome form of it, as stated in one of the Roman Catholic journals\nin Mexico as follows: \u201cIt is necessary that the Catholics rise\nresolutely and make a rapid and voluntary movement in defense of\ntheir belief. To-day, unfortunately, the Protestants come with\na subvention, and their teachings are extending throughout the\nwhole country. They circulate their writings at the lowest prices,\neven give them away, sometimes in tracts, sometimes in papers,\nwhich is the favorite method of sowing the bad seed; and, sad to\nsay, in exchange, the Catholic weeklies are dying off for lack\nof subscribers to sustain them. Protestantism is becoming truly\nalarming among us.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe colored Baptist churches of Virginia and South Carolina,\nbelieving the time has come when they should go forth to the\nmillions of their fatherland with the Gospel, have sent out two\nmissionaries; and now the churches of Virginia unite in calling a\nconvention to meet at Montgomery, Ala., on the 24th of November.\nThis call is as broad as all the colored Baptist churches and other\nreligious bodies of the colored Baptists of the United States, and\nis \u201cfor the purpose of eliciting, combining and directing the\nenergies of all the colored Baptists in one sacred effort for the\npropagation of the Gospel in Africa.\u201d\n\nThis may seem to some a somewhat narrow call, but it is for a broad\nwork\u2014a work that shall yet elicit the energies of all our Father\u2019s\nchildren of whatever color and denomination, until the dark\ncontinent shall be made glorious by the Sun of Righteousness.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMohammedanism, whatever its affinity for Africa as it has been, and\nits baleful power because of this, has no outlook for the future\nof that sad, but soon to be made glad, continent. The _Foreign\nMissionary_ well says: \u201cIf we consider only the physical condition\nof success, it must be allowed that Islam has an immense advantage\nin its central position and its vicinage to the field to be won.\nThere is much also in the greater similarity of character between\nthe Moslem and the heathen tribes as compared with Europeans, whose\nhabits are so utterly different from those of all African tribes.\nBut on the other hand, the forces of Christianity have now well\nnigh surrounded Africa, and are pushing through a hundred avenues\ninto the interior. Discovery, time, commerce and civilization, are\nhandmaids of the Gospel as they are not of Islam. That can only\nendure the dim light which survives from a past age. It belongs to\nan age which has passed away, and to a type of civilization which\nis everywhere sinking into decay.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nJUBILEE SINGERS.\n\nThese singers of world-wide fame will once more enter the \u201cservice\nof song\u201d for Fisk University. They have devoted their wonderful\nvoices to its benefit for six years, during which they left their\nmarvelous impress on vast and select audiences in America, Great\nBritain, and the Continent, including the highest and humblest\nin rank, and have reared as their monument the substantial and\nbeautiful Jubilee Hall, at Fisk University. The past two years they\nhave taken for needed rest, and in giving concerts for their own\nbenefit; and in dedicating themselves to the up-building of the\nUniversity, it is now for endowment, as it was then for building.\n\nDuring all these years, their voices have been more and more highly\ncultivated, without losing their freshness and originality, or\ntheir power to move most deeply the hearts of vast audiences, as\nwas so signally manifested in the enthusiastic gatherings they met\nrecently at Chautauqua.\n\nThe name and fame of these Singers have been repeatedly\nappropriated by unworthy imitators. This true Jubilee Troupe, when\nagain heard, will need no credentials except their own voices to\ncertify to the public that they are the original Jubilee Singers.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nGen. Garfield heard the Jubilee Singers when he was at Chautauqua,\nand closed his eloquent speech with this beautiful tribute:\n\n\u201cI heard yesterday and last night the songs of those who were\nlately redeemed from slavery, and I felt that there, too, was one\nof the great triumphs of the republic. I believe in the efficiency\nof forces that come down from the ages behind us; and I wondered\nif the tropical sun had not distilled its sweetness, and if the\nsorrows of centuries of slavery had not distilled its sadness, into\nvoices which were touchingly sweet\u2014voices to sing the songs of\nliberty as they sing them wherever they go.\u201d\n\nIn his speech responding to a serenade by the \u201cBoys in Blue\u201d in\nthis city, he expressed this noble sentiment in reference to our\ncolored fellow-citizens\u2014a sentiment which must become a fact\nestablished beyond the possibility of successful assault before\nthere can be either peace or safety for the nation:\n\n\u201cWe will stand by them until the sun of liberty, fixed in the\nfirmament of our Constitution, shall shine with equal ray upon\nevery man, black or white, throughout the Union. Fellow-citizens,\nfellow-soldiers, in this there is all the beneficence of eternal\njustice, and by this we will stand forever.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n_Atlanta\u2019s Colored People._\u2014Atlanta, and the world outside that\nChicago of the South, will doubtless be surprised to learn that her\ncolored people give in $250,000 of taxable property. There are over\nsix hundred who pay tax on values ranging between $100 and $1,000;\nsome forty ranging from $1,000 to $6,000 and over. In business\npursuits, there are 40 boot and shoe makers, 40 retail grocers, 75\ndraymen, 25 hackmen, 20 blacksmiths, 12 barbers, 2 tailors, several\nboarding-house keepers, 2 caterers, 5 confectioners, 3 dealers in\nfruits, 1 dentist, 1 undertaker, 1 veterinary surgeon, 1 mattrass\nmaker, and 1 billiard-table keeper. Of bootblacks, newspaper\nvenders, porters, peddlers, drummers, messengers, hostlers,\nwaiters, and those engaged in mechanical pursuits, we have no\nspecial data, for they are numerous.\n\nThere are eighteen churches in the city, with an average membership\nof 350, the three largest having each over 1,500. Over 5,000\nchildren and adults are in the Sabbath schools, and 1,278 children,\nabout one-half in the public schools of the city. There are three\nlodges of Good Templars among them, having a total membership of\nabout 200. Two lodges of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria\nhave a membership of some 500. The Brothers Aid Society number\nsome 250, and the Brothers of Love and Charity 75. The Gospel Aid\nSociety, Daughters of Bethel, and Daughters of Jerusalem\u2014benevolent\ninstitutions\u2014number a total of about 600. The Masonic lodge has\nsome 50 members. There are lodges of Odd Fellows whose combined\nmembership exceeds 600. These institutions have encouraged them to\nform habits of sobriety and economy, and imbued them with feelings\nof charity and benevolence. There are five military companies, and\nthey show great proficiency in the manual of arms.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCOMMON SENSE FOR COLORED MEN.\n\n[The following letter with the above caption is from the New York\n_Evangelist_, and was written by the Rev. Moses A. Hopkins, a\ncolored preacher of Franklinton, N.C. It contains so much truth,\nand good, hard, common sense, that the MISSIONARY is constrained to\nsend it along. This is done with a slight but emphatic caveat in\nregard to one paragraph, to which exception is taken as misleading.\nTo say \u201cthe pinching poverty which drove a few idle and ignorant\nFreedmen to Indiana, Kansas, and Africa\u201d does not come up to\nthe proportions, as the writer would imply that it does, of a\nsatisfactory explanation of this great movement which has taken\nmore than 40,000 colored people from their old to new homes, at\ngreat expense, both of suffering and money.\n\nFrom Florence, Ala., many of the most intelligent and well-to-do\nof these people exodized. Among those who went to Africa were many\nintelligent and thrifty men, sufficiently so to send out an agent\nand arrange for the movement, with means to place themselves in\ntheir new home, and they were unanimous in assigning reasons which\njustified them in the experiment.\u2014ED. MISS.]\n\nMany designing men, \u201cfilled to the brim\u201d with sledge-hammer\nrhetoric and campaign eloquence, for more than a decade have \u201cused\nsorcery and bewitched the colored people\u201d with their \u201ccunning\ncraftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive,\u201d till many of the\nFreedmen thought that the time had fully come when the last should\nbe first and the first last, and were waiting and watching for\ntheir turn in the White House and Congress.\n\nBut having hoped against hope, till hope deferred and poverty had\nsaddened their hearts, most of them have turned their minds to\nthe soil, which now promises \u201cseed to the sower and bread to the\neater.\u201d On every hand \u201cthe valleys are covered over with corn,\u201d\nand God, the poor man\u2019s Friend, has just granted the tillers of\nthe ground \u201ca plentiful rain,\u201d which causes \u201cthe outgoings of the\nmorning and evening to rejoice.\u201d\n\nThe present prospect of a bountiful harvest has greatly inspired\nour people to labor and to appreciate honest toil, and to remember\nthat the great mass of the Freedmen will make better plowmen than\nPresidents, and better sowers than Senators. The pinching poverty\nwhich drove a few idle and ignorant Freedmen to Indiana, Kansas\nand Africa, has taught those who had the good sense to stay at\nhome, that God will not bless idleness and ignorance among any\npeople. Most of the Freedmen have decided to buy land and labor on\nit; to build houses and dwell in them, \u201cand to plant gardens and\neat the fruit of them\u201d; to seek the peace of the country and the\ncities where God has caused them to be carried away captives; and\nto remember that in the peace and prosperity of this country shall\nthey have peace.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR SCHOOLS AND THE COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM.\n\nThe settlers of New England showed their uncommon common sense by\nthe early establishment of Harvard and Yale\u2014the nursing mothers of\nthe common school system which has made these States what they are.\nThese colleges are not the ripened fruit of the common schools,\nbut the creators of them. For these colleges, we are indebted\nto a class of men among the Pilgrim Fathers, educated in the\nuniversities of the old world, a class not to be found among the\ncolored people of the South, and because of which alone, if for no\nother reason, their condition differs immensely from that of the\nFreedmen, who have no ability to create the instruments by which\nthey can be lifted up from the degraded condition in which slavery\nleft them.\n\nThe deep-seated prejudice of the Southern white against the fact\nof negro education, his bitter unwillingness to see the experiment\ntried, coupled with his scornful incredulity that anything worth\nthe effort could be accomplished, made it certain that those\nmost deeply concerned, because of the new relation these people\nsustained to them, in the elevation, through schools, of the negro,\nwould originate no efforts to this end. This gospel, like every\nother, must be sent to those who are to be specially benefited by\nit, and must be sustained, like all missionary enterprises, by\nthose who know its value, until it can vindicate itself to those to\nwhom it is sent.\n\nIt is not rash to say that, but for outside pressure, few, if\nany, of the Southern States would now have a system of common\nschools, provided for by State legislation, even for the whites;\neven less bold is the assertion that, but for the proved results\nof missionary schools for the education of the colored people,\nthe South, and a large proportion of those in the North, would\nbe utterly incredulous as to the possibility of making scholars\nof the negroes; and that the common schools forced upon the\nunwilling South by the constitutions formed by conventions in\nwhich the Southern sentiment found no expression, would never have\ngained favor as they have with the people, but for the trained\nteachers which our schools and the schools of other societies have\nfurnished. As in New England, so in the South, the trained teacher\nmakes the schools, which are thus the children of the colleges and\nnormal schools.\n\nWherever we have been able to send competent colored teachers, the\nwhites are in favor of sustaining the common school system; and it\nmay with modesty be said, that the A.M.A., perhaps more than any\nother agency, has won for it a place in the future of these States,\nten of which, according to the latest reports, appropriate $49,829\nfor normal instruction in colored schools, a large share of which\ngoes to institutions established by Northern charity, to carry on\na work the value of which had been fully proven by these schools\nbefore these States contributed a dollar for such a purpose.\n\nIn 1878, out of a total school population in the recent slave\nStates, including the District of Columbia, of 5,187,584, 2,711,096\nwere enrolled, being nearly 62 per cent. of the whites, and\nsomething more than 47 per cent. of the blacks. Nearly twelve\nmillions of dollars was expended upon the schools for that year,\nand for the most part it has been very equitably divided between\nthe races, except in Kentucky and Delaware, in which States the\nschool tax collected from the colored people alone is appropriated\nto colored schools.\n\nThus the teachers of negro schools have fought a great fight, and\nhave won substantial victories, for a system of education which is\nto regenerate the South, and, more than any other and all other\nagencies, is to convert elements of danger, which, neglected,\nwould soon have proved the ruin of our republic, into elements of\nstrength and greatness.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA NEW SOUTH, NOT A NEW ENGLAND IN THE SOUTH.\n\nThere is a general feeling outside of, and it is encouraging to\nbelieve even in, the South, that a new state of things is desirable\nfor that section of the country. No one who has seen its homes,\nschools, churches, industries (or want of them), its literature\u2014in\nshort, whatever at once marks and constitutes its civilization, and\nknows how meager and unworthy it is, but assents to the proposition\nthat the South needs to be regenerated, and heartily wishes that\n\u201cold things might pass away and all become new.\u201d In one way or\nanother, New England has supplemented her earnest wish for it\nwith most earnest efforts to accomplish this regeneration. To say\nnothing of legislative attempts by the Government, thousands of\nmissionaries, at an expense of millions of dollars, during the past\nfifteen years, have, with great self-denial and laborious effort,\nattempted the task, and the reports are abundant and uniform that\nthese efforts are beginning to have their effect. Old prejudices\nare yielding; new industries and new institutions, the outcome\nof new ideas, are springing up; society is changing, and the\ncountry is beginning to put on a new aspect. Never before have the\nsocieties and laborers engaged in this work been so cheered and\nencouraged by the outlook.\n\nIt may be well at this point to ask, toward what ideal we are\nworking, and fairly to consider the forces that are co-operating\nwith, or working against, us in this effort. The most potent factor\nin the creation of a new South must be, of course, the South\nitself, as of necessity she will be chiefly the architect of her\nown fortunes, good or bad.\n\nIt would be unwise, and the effort would prove futile, to attempt\nits reconstruction by outside influences and agencies, in utter\ndisregard of the fact that to her belongs the right, and upon her\ndevolves the duty, as she alone possesses the power, of shaping\nher own destiny. This being the case, it becomes evident that the\nnew South is not to be a New England in the South, and our Yankee\negotism should not measure the progress made in that section simply\nby its observable approximation to Northern ideals. New England, as\nit is, could not have been built except upon New England\u2019s hills,\nand we shall never see it in the cotton fields, rice swamps and\neverglades of the sunny South.\n\nOther influences than those that are merely ethnic and moral help\nto mold the character of a people, and to develop the industries\nby which it shapes its civilization. We dare not think what the\nresult to our Republic would have been had the Mayflower found the\nmouth of the Mississippi River instead of Plymouth harbor, and had\nthe Pilgrim Fathers settled on the savannahs of Louisiana instead\nof the bleak hills of New England. The intelligent and thrifty\nNew England farmer, transplanted to Florida, may not, indeed,\ndegenerate into an everglade \u201ccracker,\u201d whose \u201cstrength is to sit\nstill\u201d and chew tobacco; but he cannot be a New England farmer in\nFlorida, for the reason that he has neither the climate, soil nor\nproducts of his old farm, and none of the conditions which partly\nprompted, and partly compelled, the thrift which has characterized\nthe farmers of New England.\n\nNew England has emptied itself, probably more than once, into\nthe West; she has sent her sons and daughters out into the great\nprairies with the school-house and the church, and they have built\nthem homes hallowed and made beautiful by these influences, but\nthey have not reproduced Yankee New England, and they never can.\n\nIn the new South, the ugly mud-daubed log huts will give place\nto neat cottages; the school-houses will be multiplied until all\nher children shall possess facilities for acquiring education;\nchurches, supplied with an educated ministry, will be accessible\nto all inhabitants; roads will be built, over which it will be\npossible to travel with comfort; the immense tracts of land\nnow impoverished and running to waste will be brought under\ncultivation; a Christian conscience will displace a false code\nof honor among the people as a rule of conduct, and methods more\ncivilized than the pistol and bowie-knife will be resorted to in\nadjusting misunderstandings among neighbors. All this will be, and\nof this there are evident tokens that it is now coming in. But the\nwide diversity of soil and climate and other conditions of life,\nthe antipodal ideas which have shaped the character of the people,\nthe heterogeneous elements which more and more are entering into\nthe make-up of the population of the different sections\u2014in short,\nthe necessities of the case, make it absolutely certain that New\nEngland is to be confined to New England, and greatly modified even\nthere, and that the civilizations of the South and the West are to\nbe in many respects widely different, possessing characteristics\nas marked, and doubtless as valuable, as those which have made\nthe influence of New England so beneficent upon the country at\nlarge. It is wise, as it is also incumbent upon us, to supply the\neducational influences which shall change the whole aspect of\nSouthern society, but foolish to undertake to cast it in the exact\nform of that which we are proud to call New England.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMTESA AND THE RELIGION OF HIS ANCESTORS.\n\nIn 1875, Stanley wrote in the _London Telegraph_ of the wonderful\nopening in Uganda, at the court and among the people of Mtesa, for\nmissionary effort. Within three days after the publication of his\nletter, the Church Missionary Society received, from an unknown\ngiver, $25,000, which was soon increased by the same person to\n$50,000, for opening a mission among the Waganda.\n\nThe reception of the mission, which was soon sent out, was most\nencouraging. The opposition of the Mohammedan Arabs, bitter as it\nwas, did not materially interfere with its prospects. The king\nseemed intelligently alive to the fact that there was something,\nat least, in a Christian _civilization_ infinitely superior to\nwhat was offered in Mohammedanism or heathenism. For a time,\neverything progressed most encouragingly; the king and all his\npeople gave themselves assiduously to the new doctrines, and the\nwork of the mission was interrupted only temporarily by a suspicion\non the part of the king that the missionaries were emissaries of\nthe Khedive of Egypt, and were intriguing in his interest. This\njealousy was soon allayed, friendly relations were restored, and\nthe work was fully resumed, when there appeared upon the scene ten\nJesuit missionaries, sent out by the Archbishop of Algiers, with\ninstructions to occupy every station of the Protestant missionary\nsocieties in the region of Victoria Nyanza and Tanganika, with the\nintention of carrying the French language and influence into the\ndepths of Central Africa.\n\nTheir coming endangered for a time the life of the mission, and\ntheir settlement near the palace by the king proved to be a serious\nobstacle to the prosecution of its work. They gladly bribed the\nking with gifts of arms and ammunition, articles eagerly sought by\nhim, but refused by the Protestant missionaries. They immediately\nassumed a most hostile attitude toward the mission; denounced\nthe missionaries as liars, and threw the king and court into the\ngreatest perplexity. \u201cWhat am I to believe?\u201d cried the king.\n\u201cWho is right? First, I was a heathen, then a Mohammedan, then a\nChristian; now some more white men come and tell me these English\nare liars. Perhaps if I follow them, other white men will come and\ntell me these are liars also.\u201d\n\nAfter a time, matters had settled down to comparative quiet.\nThe missionaries appealed to the word, which they were rapidly\nteaching the people to read. King and people were learning with an\neagerness like that manifested by the Freedmen of the South after\nthe surrender. The king had the prayers written out in Arabic\ncharacters, and ordered many copies, so that all might join in the\nSunday services; and such was the evident interest of all, that\nneither the efforts of the Moslems, made after the fast of Ramadhan\nlast autumn, to have their creed introduced, nor the opposition of\nthe Jesuits, availed to hinder the work.\n\nBut there was a danger greater than the joint opposition of Arab\nand Frenchman, of Islam and Loyola, with their confederates of the\nslave trade\u2014an adversary more to be dreaded, because indigenous to\nthe country, not foreign, and entrenched more deeply and strongly\nin the African nature than any possible influence by which he could\nbe swayed.\n\nMessrs. Mackay and Litchfield were in November last anxiously\nawaiting the return of Mr. Felkin from England, whither he had gone\nwith the Uganda chiefs, being in sore need of more paper to meet\nthe demand made for printed cards and pages of the Scriptures. Mr.\nPearson was at Kagei, where he had gone to bring some machinery\nfrom that point to Rubaga. This he was not able to do and was\ncompelled to return without it. On arriving at Buganga his request\nto be allowed to go on was refused, because Mokassa, one of the\nLubari of the Nyanza, had possession of a part of the lake, and no\none could pass over it. At the same time a number of half-caste\ntraders were kept waiting at Rubaga, not allowed to proceed to\nUnyanyembe until this Neptune, god or devil of the lake should\nreturn home. Messrs. Mackay and Litchfield heard from time to time\nthat the Lubare was expected at court to cure the king of his\nsickness. One day they ventured to introduce the subject of his or\nher (for in this case the Lubare is an old woman who personifies\nthe spirit or devil of the lake), coming. The king entered heartily\ninto the subject and translated to his chiefs all that was said by\nthe missionaries. They said to him, if Lubare is a god, then there\nare two gods in Uganda\u2014Jehovah and Mokassa. If he is a man, then\nthere are two kings in Uganda\u2014Mtesa, who has given permission for\nthese traders to depart, and Mokassa, who has forbidden it.\n\nThe next day, an order was sent for the traders to depart, and the\nking proposed to his court that some cattle should be given to the\nLubare and she should be ordered to go back the way she came.\n\nWeeks passed, and it seemed doubtful whether the king would triumph\nor the old chiefs and the king\u2019s mother, who insisted that the\nLubare should have houses erected for her in the king\u2019s inner\ncourt. Mtesa himself said to Mr. Mackay, \u201cI believe what you say is\ntrue, and that every Lubare is a liar, and deceives the people only\nto get food.\u201d\n\nThere was a gathering of the old chiefs, and the king was advised\nby them that the missionaries had come to take possession of the\ncountry, and were laboring to change its customs as a preliminary\nstep to conquering them altogether. Evidently the king was afraid\nof the chiefs. The missionaries were at length summoned to court,\nwhere were gathered the chiefs and a vast concourse of people. At\nlength the king announced the result of the council: \u201cWe shall now\nhave nothing more to do with either the Arabs\u2019 or the white men\u2019s\nreligion; but we shall return to the religion of our fathers.\u201d\nEvery one assented with a simultaneous motion of hands. The next\nday, the beating of drums announced the great procession which\naccompanied the Mokassa to the palace.\n\nThe pupils have all ceased to come to the mission; a time\nof persecution is anticipated by those who have inclined to\nChristianity; and everything looks dark for the mission, which\nhad been planted at great expense, with so much hope. It is\nemphatically Satan\u2019s hour of triumph; but we feel assured that the\nhour of the Son of Man also draweth near, and this darkest is the\nhour before the dawning of the day.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBEGGING LETTER.\n\n[We give a prominent place in our pages to Mrs. Chase\u2019s letter,\nhoping it may meet with speedy and abundant answers. These calls,\ndear friends, are frequent, and they are urgent; but they are the\ncalls of our Divine Lord in the person of His poor children, that\nwe give them a fair chance to rise up from the degradation into\nwhich they have been thrust, and in which wicked prejudice and\nselfishness would keep them. We earnestly hope Mrs. C.\u2019s experience\nof ten years ago will be by as much more blessed in your responses,\nas our encouragement in this work, and apprehensions of its value,\nare enlarged.\u2014ED. MISS.]\n\n                                                  ATLANTA, GA.\n\nBegging letters! How you hate them! so do we! How often have we\nbeen deluded with the hope that there was to be no more need of\nthis unpleasant duty. Friends unexpectedly come to the rescue of\nneedy students. Often since 1869 large donations have set our\nfeet upon mountain tops when we had expected to remain years\nin the valleys. But every little while we have to meet our old\nbug-bear. After one year\u2019s absence we had been back but a few\ndays when President Ware said, \u201cThese twenty-six new rooms are to\nbe furnished; you\u2019ll write some letters for us, won\u2019t you, Mrs.\nChase?\u201d Now that means begging; but those of you who know anything\nof the type of President Ware\u2019s devotion to Atlanta University,\nknow that the only reply possible for his friends to make would be,\n\u201cCertainly, sir.\u201d So here I am doing the thing you and I hate.\n\nThis begging money to furnish rooms brings up so many memories, I\nmust ask you to indulge me in a few reminiscences.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nEleven years ago we had but one building\u2014teachers, scholars,\nsleeping-rooms, dining room, etc., all crowded into that one.\nEnough furniture was sent from an abandoned school in Augusta to\nmake the teachers\u2019 rooms comfortable. In the students\u2019 rooms, a\nbarrel with a board on it did the double duty of washstand and\ntable. In the summer of 1870, a new building for young men was\nwell on its way. It was our first summer in Atlanta. Some one\nsuggested that it would be pleasant to have individual friends,\nSunday-schools and churches furnish the dormitories, and keep with\nus a memento of their generosity by placing the donor\u2019s name over\neach door.\n\nHow well I remember with what enthusiasm I sat down, ten years\nago, to write my first begging letter. I gazed then upon this same\ncharming view that I am feasting my eyes upon at this moment, and\ndrank in hope and courage from this wide north view, with the\nstrong old Kenesaw towering in the distance.\n\nSoon responses came. You little realize how much joy has\nbeen brought to weary teachers on opening letters with a\ntwenty-five-dollar check for a room. One such occasional letter\ncompensated for many chilling ones, and lightened the weary hours\nspent in timidly addressing this friend and that. Nearly all of\nus turned beggars, and soon had the name of our home church or\nSunday-school, our native town or some dear friend, beaming down\nupon us as we walked through the buildings. At length, every\nstudent\u2019s room became sacred to the memory of some faithful friend\nof the Freedmen. Some donations came as thank-offerings for dear\nones restored to health. At the end of one corridor is a group of\nfour rooms where three are named for three sisters whose husbands\nhave all been engaged in Southern work, and the fourth bears\nthe name of their sainted grandfather, whose prayers and tears,\nmingling with multitudes all over our land, doubtless hastened on\nthe glad day his eyes were never here permitted to see.\n\nIn the wing of the young men\u2019s building is a room furnished by\na gentleman who named it for a dear brother stricken down by\nconsumption when nearly through his studies, and who gave great\npromise of usefulness. This gentleman has had a book-case placed in\nthat brother\u2019s room, and sends frequent donations of books for the\nuse of the occupants of \u201cFerrier\u201d room.\n\nAn Andover schoolmate, an Abbott Academy girl, named a room for\nher father, a devoted friend of the slave, and sends for its walls\npictures, brackets, etc. Abbott Academy, as a school, has furnished\na room in each building. One room is named for Dr. Gurley, of\nWashington, Abraham Lincoln\u2019s beloved pastor. Just beside it\nis \u201cAlice Carey,\u201d in memory of an only daughter, a precious bud\nopening under brighter skies. Opposite is the name of the devoted\nfather.\n\n\u201cCeleste,\u201d my dearest companion in girlhood, though so angelic\nthen, speaks to me _now only_ of her celestial home.\n\n\u201cLittle,\u201d the young physician, brave soldier, and devoted husband\nof another dear friend, reminds me of the sweet promise that the\ndarkness shall some time be made light.\n\nSo each of the hundred rooms has some history, many doubtless very\nprecious to the donors, while unknown to us.\n\nI must write of one more name, \u201cClarke,\u201d which always deeply moves\nme. In 1862, our lamented E. P. Smith, whose earthly life went out\nin the Dark Continent, was laboring with his efficient and devoted\nwife in the hospitals of Nashville, Tenn., under the Christian\nCommission. Their first-born and only son, Clarke, sickened and\ndied. Instead of leaving their post, heartbroken, they remained at\nthe side of those wounded and dying soldiers, enclosed the precious\ndust in its little casket, and sent it to their dear Northern home.\n\nIn 1870, without any personal appeal, but in response to a letter\nin the MISSIONARY, soliciting aid in furnishing rooms, came a\nprecious note, calling down upon us and our work benedictions, of\nwhich so many have felt the inspiration, and closing with, \u201cPlease\nfind enclosed $40 for a room in Atlanta University; please name it\nClarke.\n\n                      Yours, for the Master,\n\n                                                     E. P. SMITH.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThis summer, through the generosity of R. R. Graves, a large\nwing, which has been so much needed, is being added to the girls\u2019\nbuilding. $25 will buy a neat, plain set of furniture for each of\nthe rooms. I am sure there are some friends who will be glad to\nknow of this further opportunity of sending $25 and some dear name.\n\n                         Yours very truly,\n\n                                                MRS. T. N. CHASE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAFRICAN NOTES.\n\n\u2014_Lovedale_: THE MISSIONARY, a few months since, gave facts to\nsubstantiate the assertion that the Free Church\u2019s Industrial and\nMission School at Lovedale was one of the busiest in the world. A\nmagnificent pile of new buildings, which will cost \u00a310,000, will\nsoon meet the demand for enlargement which has been most urgent.\nThe old school buildings will still be used, and these, with the\nnew, the girl\u2019s boarding-house, and the shops required for the\nvarious trades, will form a collegiate establishment of which\nScotland may well be proud.\n\nLovedale is the centre and source of healthful educational and\nsaving influences which are reaching out into a large portion of\nSouthern Africa\u2014a true missionary centre. It has a large native\nchurch under charge of a native pastor, who has studied the\nScriptures in their original language. A missionary association has\nconnected with it several Kaffir young men who preach in all the\nkraals of the vicinity, and Evangelists who have carried the gospel\nto Nyassa, and even to Tanganyika. It has also a literary society,\na training society, a Young Men\u2019s Christian Association, and other\nsocieties such as the best-working churches of this country find\nnecessary for best efficiency.\n\n\u2014The Free Church of Scotland, since the death of Capt. Benzie, of\nthe _Ilala_, and of Mr. Gunn, last April, are making explorations\nwith a view to a removal of their Station from Livingstonia to a\nmore healthful location. The probable site is Bandawi, midway on\nthe western shore of Nyassa, and contiguous to the promising tribes\nof the Atonga and the Mangoni, who have reproached the missionaries\nfor not settling among them. The Royal Geographical Society has\npublished in its proceedings the letter of Mr. Stewart, the civil\nengineer of the Mission, describing his explorations in search of\nthis site, with two maps showing his route on the western coast.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014A Mission of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States\non the West Coast of Africa, at Cape Mount, among the Vey people,\nhas been commenced under the supervision of a young man of such\nenergy, talent and Christian spirit, as give promise of successful\nprosecution.\n\nIt will be remembered that the Veys are distinguished as the only\ntribe on the continent of Africa which has invented an alphabet,\nand a missionary of the Church Missionary Society has made a\ngrammar of their language. The natives are able to communicate with\neach other by written letters of their own invention.\n\nThose interested in the evangelization of Africa will rejoice in\nthe establishment of this Mission, and will watch with unusual\ninterest its success among these, the most interesting of all the\ntribes on the west African coast.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014The success of the Belgian Exploration Company in the use of\nelephants imported from Asia, for the transportation of its\nbaggage, has doubtless suggested the formation of a company at\nMonrovia for the capture of native elephants for the same purpose.\nVice-President Warner is president of the company, and a hunter\nof great experience is in charge of an expedition which has been\nequipped and sent out for the purpose of capturing some of these\nnoble animals, and there is hope that they will prove so valuable\nthat they will be esteemed for more than their tusks, and their\nwholesale slaughter will cease.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014_Malugsy needle-work_ is so superior to that of the English that\nit does not pay to send to Madagascar made-up goods, as the natives\nspeak with contempt of the bad sewing, and insist that the cost of\npicking it out shall be deducted from the price of such articles.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014The London Missionary Society announces the safe arrival at\nZanzibar, on the 29th of May, of the Revs. A. J. Wookey and D.\nWilliams, with Dr. Palmer, on their way to the Central African\nMission.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014_The Stanley Pool Expedition_ of the Livingstone Island Mission,\nunder the leadership of Mr. Adam McCall, is supposed to have\nreached the Congo about the 20th of April. The last tidings were\nwritten within three days of landing, and were very favorable.\nDonkeys and kroomen had been secured, and of the latter several\nwere warm-hearted native Christians, who will, it is hoped, render\ngood service as fellow-laborers in the Gospel.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nMARIETTA, GA.\u2014On the Sabbath, June 6th, the new church, which\nis also to be used as a school building, at Marietta, Ga., was\ndedicated. The sermon, by Superintendent Roy, was upon the\nrebuilding of the Temple by the ex-captives. A Presbyterian\nminister from Pennsylvania being present, offered the prayer of\ndedication. The house is 24\u00d740 feet, well finished and painted, and\nfurnished with desks that answer the double purpose of church and\nschool use. The people raised $200 toward the building. Prof. T.\nN. Chase gave the people a Sunday supply, reporting his visit to\nAfrica. Two young business men in Illinois put each $25 into this\nChristian investment.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTALLADEGA, ALA.\u2014The students are doing good service during\nvacation, teaching in day and Sabbath Schools, and keeping up with\ntheir studies so as not to fall behind if unable to return at the\nbeginning of the term. One who is teaching for the third season at\nHackneyville, Ala., has his sister, also a pupil from this college,\nassociated with him. At a recent picnic on the school grounds,\nheld for the purpose of creating an interest in education, leading\ncitizens, both white and black, made addresses.\n\nSwayne Hall, of which we have seen a fine photograph, is too good\na building to be allowed to rot down, as it is doing, for want of\n$3,000 needed to save it and put it in proper shape for the most\nefficient service. Will not some one save $15,000 to Talladega\nCollege by sending his checque for $3,000?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nATHENS, ALA.\u2014The Trinity School at this place is going forward with\nits new building. Last summer the colored people by volunteer labor\nmade and burned a kiln of 120,000 bricks, and have made another\nthis summer. If time is money, it takes a great deal of it to do\na work for which there is no money, but under the inspiration of\nMiss M. F. Wells, who for a dozen years has been principal of the\nschool, and is the good angel of this enterprise, the people are\nslowly but steadily moving forward to its accomplishment.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nLAWSON, ALA.\u2014Rev. Spencer Snell rejoices in some eighteen hopeful\nconversions as the fruit of a series of meetings held in August.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFISK UNIVERSITY, TENN.\u2014The Jubilee Singers at Chautauqua have been\nattracting attention to this Institution, and to themselves as\ncultivated persons, almost, it may be said, irrespective of color.\nTheir singing was one of the most fortunate and popular features of\nthe wonderful gathering at that famous place.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPARIS, TEXAS.\u2014The Rev. J. W. Roberts, who is located at Paris,\nTexas, an enterprising and growing city on the Texas and Pacific\nRailroad, writes of a pleasant series of meetings resulting in some\nten additions to the two churches under his charge. He has since\nbeen delivering a series of Biblical lectures which attracted in\nmembers and pastors from other colored churches and a sprinkling\nof white people. He is soon to be reinforced by Mr. S. B. White,\na graduate of the Normal Department in Talladega, who is to teach\nthe parish school. This church was organized in 1868 by a man who\nat another place had his life sacrificed to the turbulence of those\ntimes. He makes an appeal for a much needed communion service. If\nsome one of our churches has supplied itself with a new service,\nits old one would be thankfully received; or if some one will\ncontribute a new one, it would be at once a graceful and grateful\nthing to do.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nHELENA, TEXAS.\u2014Rev. M. Thompson, on the first Sabbath of August,\nhad the joy of receiving to his church six persons who had recently\nfound the Saviour. The school in this place is now to be taught by\nMiss Henderson, a graduate of the Normal Department of Straight\nUniversity.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAUSTIN, TEXAS.\u2014The Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Institute at\nAustin, Texas, has been built during the year. Including the\nbasement above ground and the mansard roof, it has five stories and\nis a commodious and comely structure, crowning one of the finest\nsites about that beautiful city in the valley of the Colorado.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCOLORED CADETSHIP.\n\nREV. L. C. LOCKWOOD\n\n[In giving the following letter it will, of course, be understood\nthat neither the A. M. A. nor Gen. Armstrong, nor even the Editor,\nis committed to the plan suggested. Whether it is policy for the\nfriends of the negro to take up the gauntlet and cross swords in\nhis behalf on all occasions, or to possess their souls in patience\nwhile they quietly wait for old prejudices to die, and a more\nChristian spirit to prevail, may be a doubtful question.\n\nWhether it would be advisable, even if the plan of a military\nschool for colored boys were adopted, to engraft it upon Hampton,\nor upon any of our present schools, should be thoroughly weighed\nbefore decision. But we are glad to hear what Mr. Lockwood, who\nestablished our first Freedmen\u2019s School at Hampton, has to say,\nand print his letter not alone for the interesting anecdote of\nour lamented Lincoln, but also as suggestive of thought on this\nimportant subject.\u2014ED. MISSIONARY.]\n\nAs the first missionary among the Freedmen (then refugees), at\nHampton and Fortress Monroe, Va., in 1861\u20132; I take a great\ninterest in the problem of colored cadetship.\n\nAfter the persecution to which these cadets have been subjected\nat West Point, I think wisdom dictates the wide circulation of\na petition to Congress, to have a National Military Academy\nestablished in connection with the Hampton Institute, under the\nPresidency of General Armstrong, who has already given that\nInstitute a national reputation. Would not this peaceful way of\nbringing about the desired end be better than to battle with West\nPoint? In illustration, I offer an unpublished fact that showed\nLincoln\u2019s common sense. After his proclamation about the arming of\ncolored troops in 1862, I went to Washington, and in company with\nSenator Pomeroy, informed the President that the colored people of\nHampton were ready to enlist. His memorable reply was: \u201cYes, but\nFortress Monroe is not ready. Pennsylvania is not ready. New York\nis not ready. The Country is not ready. My proclamation meant this\nmuch and no more: Gov. Andrews, of Massachusetts, wishes to arm the\nYankee negro; Generals Hunter and Saxton wish to arm a few South\nCarolina negroes to occupy a post, and relieve the soldiers for\nactive duty. Let them do it. But the rest must bide their time.\nPlease leave your statement with the Secretary of War, and when we\nare ready we will let you know.\u201d This \u201cmaking haste slowly\u201d was\nwhat brought us through that tug of war, and I would recommend the\nsame common sense in reference to the cadetship. And I hope some\ninfluential friend of the cause will second my suggestion, and\nleave West Point alone in its unenviable glory.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nM\u2019LEANSVILLE, N. C.\n\nRevival Interest.\n\nREV. A. CONNET\n\nOur revival commenced on the Sabbath, August 15. That night there\nwere four or five inquirers. Monday the interest increased, and\nMonday night there were thirty inquirers. Tuesday there were twelve\nor fifteen conversions. Tuesday night, 28 or 30 inquirers and\nthree or four conversions. The number of inquirers continued to\nbe from ten to twenty till the close of the meetings. The whole\nnumber of conversions was about 25. The congregation on the\n15th was the largest, we are told, that it has ever been. Only\nabout two-thirds of the people could get into the church, even\nby the closest packing. Sunday, the 22d, between the sermon in\nthe forenoon and communion in the afternoon, we examined 23 new\ncandidates for membership, one to be restored and two for renewing\ntheir covenants. In the afternoon they were publicly received, and\nmore than half of them baptized. I also baptized two infants. The\ncommunion was then administered to a large number of communicants.\nThe house was full, forenoon and afternoon. One man, 56 years old,\nand his wife as old, or a little older, walked ten miles Sunday\nmorning to attend the communion. Another man walked ten miles,\nor over, to the meeting, both the 15th and the 22d. Three of our\npupils came about 35 or 40 miles to the meeting, by rail; another,\na young woman, came by private conveyance 20 miles; and another, a\nyoung man, walked 12 miles, and came forward as an inquirer. Four\nof the converts were members of my daughter\u2019s Sunday-school class,\na number of them were members of my class, and nearly all young\npeople and members of our school. Two are married men. One young\nwoman came to us by letter from the Methodist Episcopal church.\n\nIt was truly a season of refreshing from the Lord. The people held\na prayer-meeting Sabbath night, the 22d. We were too tired to go\nout. We were told that all the non-professors in the congregation\n(and the house was full), except three or four, came forward for\nprayer.\n\nMore than a dozen bade us good-by at the depot. Seven girls walked\nthree miles to bid us good-by. We were greatly rejoiced that Miss\nDouglass was with us to share in our labors and in our joys. Some\nof the converts are among our brightest and most advanced scholars.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSOUTH CAROLINA.\n\nMR J. D. BACKENSTOSE.\n\nDuring my recent vacation (spent in the State of New York) the\nquestion most frequently asked me was, \u201cAre the Freedmen as anxious\nto obtain an education, as they were when schools for them were\nfirst opened?\u201d\n\nI have answered these inquiries by relating some of my experience,\nand fearing lest Christians at the North have the impression that\nthey are less eager, and so are becoming weary in aiding these poor\npeople in their struggles for an education, I now relate it for the\nbenefit of the readers of the MISSIONARY.\n\nIn the fall of \u201973, two young men from distant part of the county\ncame to our Institute at Greenwood, S. C., and asked permission\nto occupy a vacant room in the building and cook their own meals\nwhile they attended the Institute. I consented, and assisted them\nin furnishing the room. From the wood-shed we procured lumber for a\nbedstead and table, had boxes for chairs, and newspapers for window\nshades. They were delighted with this, and immediately wrote to\ntheir friends that there were excellent accommodations for boarders\nat Brewer Institute, and before the winter had fairly set in, there\nwere nineteen men living in that room, which measured only 30\u00d732.\n\nAnother raid was made on the wood-shed, and three more bedsteads\nhastily built after the pattern of the first, and on these four\nbedsteads the nineteen men slept four months. Part of them would\nretire at an early hour and sleep till midnight, then arise and\nlet the others take their places. While some were sleeping, the\nothers were cooking and preparing their lessons for the next day,\nin the same room. During all this time, I never heard a complaining\nword from them. Our rooms are now neatly furnished for students,\nand we have recently built a good frame house which is also well\nfurnished. We have accommodations for only twenty students, and\nyet during a part of the past winter we had thirty-three crowded in\nthese rooms, and even then they were unwilling that I should say we\nwere full and could accommodate no more.\n\nSo eager are they for an education, that they are willing to live\nfor a time on corn meal, bacon, and molasses. The former they mix\nwith cold water, minus the eggs and butter, and, after baking, eat\nit with their meat, gravy, or molasses. This three times a day and\nseven days in a week. Tea and coffee are never on their bill of\nfare.\n\nThe home of two of these men was fourteen miles distant, and once\nin two weeks they would walk there on Friday afternoon and return\non Sunday night, bringing on their shoulders provisions to last\nthem till they should go again.\n\nA young man, a Baptist minister, who was obliged to leave school a\nfew weeks before the close of the term, walked sixty miles in order\nto be examined with his class at the close of the term.\n\nCould ever a people be more anxious to obtain an education than\nthese are now? Twenty-three of those who have lived and struggled\nin this way to obtain an education are now engaged in teaching,\nand have under their care over thirteen hundred pupils. We have\na beautiful school building well furnished with everything but a\ncabinet organ, and we believe that God will put it in the heart of\nsome good friend to send us that.\n\nA lively interest is constantly and in various ways manifested by\nthe people, and everything gives promise of abundant fruit in the\nfuture. If our highest hopes have not already been realized, we\nthank God for the progress made. May He put it into the hearts of\nthe benefactors of this race to add to their gifts and prayers,\nuntil not only twenty-three, but ten times that number shall go out\nfrom Brewer Normal Institute, as competent instructors of thousands\nof their brethren now ignorant and despised.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nAnniversary of Midway Church.\n\nREV. FLOYD SNELSON, M\u2019INTOSH, LIBERTY CO.\n\nLast Sabbath was a day of great interest to us as a church. It was\nour regular communion season, and in addition to that, we observed\nour anniversary for the first time, though it is six years since we\norganized. The other branch of the old Midway church that formed\nitself into a Presbyterian body, came over with its pastor, Rev.\nJ. T. H. Waite, to share the enjoyment of the occasion with us. We\nfind, in reviewing our history, that, including those who formed\nthe original church, 337 persons have connected themselves with\nit; ten have been dismissed, fifteen have been excommunicated,\nand twenty-eight have gone to their eternal home; leaving 284 to\ncontinue the Christian warfare. It is true that a great many of\nour members occupy the two extremes in life, and are very old or\nvery young, and consequently bring no pecuniary strength to the\nchurch. Still there is a benefit derived from both which is of\ninfinitely greater value than mere money, though we poor mortals\nare in many instances unable to see it. Especially is this the\ncase when our eyes are both bent on self. However, the young will\ncertainly prove, in due time, a help to the church also in the\nway of material support. Our church edifice is still unfinished,\nand as there are no means of heating it it is an uncomfortable\nplace for service during the winter. Notwithstanding the failure\nof crops from the drought this year, my people have resolved to do\neverything they can toward completing it. Will some friend come to\nour aid? \u201cHe that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord;\nand that which he hath given will He pay him again.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAtlanta University\u2014An Encouraging Precedent.\n\nThe Atlanta University, at Atlanta, Ga., was one of the earliest\neducational institutions in this country to adopt as a text-book\nDr. Richardson\u2019s \u201cTemperance Lesson Book,\u201d published by the\nNational Temperance Society. Among the recent commencement\nexercises of the University was a thorough examination in\nthis admirable text-book concerning alcohol. A New England\ncorrespondent, who was present and listened to the examination, was\nmuch gratified with it. In thus leading the way in giving to its\nstudents thorough scientific instruction concerning alcohol, the\nAtlanta University merits the warmest commendation from all friends\nof temperance. It furnishes a most valuable precedent which we hope\nmay ere long be followed by all our colleges and universities, as\nwell as academies and public schools.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOur correspondent writes:\n\n\u201cI spent most of the time in the temperance examination. They use\nDr. Richardson\u2019s text-book, and the students showed that they had\nbeen thoroughly drilled in it. Isn\u2019t it a very admirable thing for\nthis book to be used in that place? There are nearly three hundred\nstudents, and they all study it at some time; and with scarcely an\nexception these students go out into the by-ways and hedges of this\nand other States to teach the colored children. They teach through\nthe vacations to earn money for the next term. Think what a leaven\nthis is to work among the poor, ignorant creatures. They estimate\nthat the University students reach ten thousand children during the\nyear. I attended the graduating exercises and thoroughly enjoyed\nthem. The essays and orations were excellent. The speaking was\nreally eloquent. One blind-folded would never have guessed that he\nwas listening to black students, all of whose parents were slaves\nonly seventeen years ago. Mayor Calhoun and one of the ex-Governors\nwere present.\u201d\n\nThe National Temperance Society has just received the sum of\nseventy dollars from this Institution, money collected by its\nstudents for temperance work, and we have forwarded a large case of\nbooks, tracts and pamphlets for distribution throughout the South\nduring the summer vacation.\u2014_From National Temperance Advocate._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nGood Vacation Work.\n\nREV. J. D. SMITH, SHELBY IRON WORKS.\n\nWe have just had a refreshing time here in our church from the\ngood Lord. Shortly after that class of eight young men graduated\nfrom the Theological Department of Talladega College, Bros.\nCantry, Strong and Y. B. Sims, all members of my church, came\ndown to spend a few days at their homes with their relatives and\nfriends before going to their fields of labor. Each of them did\nsome faithful preaching for several evenings. It seemed at first\nas though we were not going to have any success, but I continued\nthe meetings after the brethren left us, and the Lord gave us some\nnine or ten conversions as the result of our labors. We received\nten new members into the church last night. It was one of the most\ninteresting occasions we have ever had here. The meetings were\nvery quiet indeed; no excitement. They were all converted through\nthe simple preaching of the Gospel and the quiet persuasion of the\nspirit of Christ. There was not as much fervor among the brethren\nas I like to see; the Lord did the work, nevertheless, and we give\nall the glory to Him.\n\nMost of the members who united with us last night were heads of\nfamilies, and all of them were adults. Our church is gathering in\nthe best material in the place. The members of the other churches\nsay their ministers do not feed them, and they must seek for better\npastures. Our church has a brighter outlook than ever before.\n\nThe Sunday-school is in a flourishing condition. The Lord is\nbuilding up His Zion here. Pray for us, that we may still be\nrefreshed from Heaven.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOutside Work.\n\nREV. W. H. MOORE, FLORENCE.\n\nThis has been a busy week with me, and I trust one of good to our\ncause, in removing false impressions, &c. I have come in contact\nwith the masses of the people; we like each other well. Last\nWednesday night I preached at Oak Grove A. M. E. Church. As we\napproached the meeting house, our ears were greeted with a volume\nof song, and the woods re-echoed with such weird strains as only\nour people in their unlettered state can produce. The surrounding\ngrove was filled with horses and mules hitched to the trees. The\nchurch was packed; all seats were filled, pulpit filled, windows\ncrowded, standing room taken, doors filled, and large numbers out\nof doors. There were all kinds and conditions present, from the\nebony hue to the pearly white, from the infant in its mother\u2019s lap\nto the octogenarian; women and men sat round the floor of the rude\npulpit, and just left standing room for me to speak.\n\nThe thought of their ignorance and superstition, and the fact\nthat fifty or more of their number were seeking the Saviour,\nfired my heart and mind. I preached from Matt. vi., 33, and they\nlistened with rapt attention, while I spoke as I only could under\nthe inspiration of such an audience and the presence of the Holy\nSpirit. More than twenty have decided for Christ since the Sabbath.\n\nOn my return to town, I gave a lecture on Labor\u2014the dignity of\nlabor, and that labor should be duly rewarded. The meeting had been\nwell advertised and worked up by friends, so there was a good turn\nout, especially of working-men and women.\n\nI think I begin to see the dawn of a bright day for our cause\nhere. To-morrow afternoon I preach a sermon to children. It is\nto be our S. S. Centenary (Raikes\u2019?) Celebration. The church\nwill be decorated with evergreen and flowers. I shall give each\none a beautiful card, a present from the Muskegon, Mich., S. S.\nThat Sunday-school and the \u201cLittle Ones of the Bird\u2019s Nest\u201d of\nKalamazoo, Mich., have sent us a lot of beautiful papers and cards\nas a memento of the day.\n\nI have had the pleasure of carrying the word of life to the aged,\ninfirm, and sick who cannot attend church often. I receive more\ncomfort, I think, than I give. It did do my heart good to see a\ndear old aged and infirm lady rejoice and weep that she had the\nword brought to her. I shall see this class of God\u2019s poor as often\nas I can. I do enjoy the pastoral and pulpit work; would that I\nmight do it better. It is my only ambition to become a faithful and\nsuccessful minister of Jesus Christ.\n\nTo-day Mr. Alex. Jones, Sr., and I attended a large country\ngathering ten miles west of Florence. The crops are unusually large\nthis year. We noticed on our way large farms of golden corn and\nfields of blooming cotton, which will soon be changed into snowy\nwhiteness. This is a holiday with the farmers, who have laid by\ntheir crops and are now hopefully awaiting the harvest time. They\nhave an annual picnic at Bethlehem Church. Two hours of the morning\nand two of the afternoon are devoted to speeches. The audience\nwas large and appreciative. I spoke an hour, and received several\n\u201cAmens,\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s so,\u201d and \u201cTell it, brother.\u201d Then followed the\nhand-shaking, good words, &c., when I had finished. I enjoyed it\nroyally, and trust I did some good.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI.\n\nTougaloo University\u2014Its Location, Work, Equipments, Success and\nNeeds.\n\nREV. G. STANLEY POPE.\n\nThe immediate surroundings of Tougaloo University are, perhaps,\nthe most beautiful of any of our schools. At the same time it has\nseemed for the past three years to be a very healthful location.\nThe school has been unusually full during the past year, and\nthe work in the school-room has been most thorough. I have had\nassociated with me a very competent and willing corps of workers.\nTheir work has been every thing I could ask for. We attempt to give\nonly a thorough, practical _Normal_ training in our school, feeling\nthat this meets the present necessities of the colored people of\nour State. We are willing to take the rough stone from the quarry\nand put on the heavy, telling strokes of the _builder_, and leave\nthe more artistic strokes of the sculptor to be given by some of\nour sister institutions. A peculiar and interesting feature of our\nschool-room work is the study of the Bible in the class-room. This\nis done to give a special preparation for Sunday-school work.\n\nWe have sufficient apparatus for illustrating physics, but beyond\nthis we are poorly supplied with school-room conveniencies. We have\nbut a limited supply of models, maps and charts, while our library\nconsists mostly of Congressional documents.\n\nA peculiar feature of the work at Tougaloo is the training given\nthe students in gardening, farming, stock-raising and housework.\nAlready the shipment of strawberries to the Chicago market is\nproving a rich remuneration to student labor. Our clover field is\na wonder to the students and neighboring planters, and our fine\nblooded cattle not much less of a surprise. These industries are\nopening up new avenues of livelihood as well as usefulness to our\nstudents. Many of our young women have been but field hands, so\nthat the work about the house and in the sewing room is a new kind\nof labor to them.\n\nWe have been able to do nothing, comparatively, in the church work.\nNo churches have been organized as the outgrowth of our school.\nThere are communities ripe for such work if we only had the means\nto carry it on. There are points along the lines of railroad that\ncould be supplied by students if we only had a theological class to\nput to work in organizing and carrying on church work. We have not\nneglected the Sunday-school work because we have not been able to\ndo all that we have wanted, but have visited schools and held some\nconventions. The influence of these conventions is being felt in\nthe surrounding country.\n\nThe exodus affects our school but little thus far. The effect of\nthe movement upon the colored people themselves has not been such\nas to warrant us in encouraging it in any way. Many of the patrons\nof our school have secured small farms and are in a way to give\ntheir families a fair education. Our school is becoming more widely\nknown and its influence more powerfully felt. Parents came two\nhundred miles to see their sons graduate last June. Applications\nhave been crowding in upon us for accommodations next year.\n\nOur buildings are far from supplying our necessities. We have\ncomfortable accommodations for sixty-four boarders, and some of\nthe time we have had one hundred and eight. We have unfinished\nand merely temporary rooms for thirty others, but instead of one\nhundred boarders we ought to have two hundred, and might readily\nhave if we but had rooms.\n\nDuring the year we had a most precious revival, embracing nearly\nall in our normal and preparatory departments. Our work seems\nlimited only by the lack of means to furnish room for those\ndesirous of coming.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nS\u2019KOKOMISH AGENCY\u2014FIELD AND WORK.\n\nREV. MYRON EELLS.\n\nI propose to give some idea of the extent and character of my\n\u201cparish,\u201d and of the kind of work we are attempting to do.\n\n1st. In the S\u2019kokomish Reservation. Here are seven English-speaking\nfamilies, and a school of from twenty-five to thirty scholars\nat the Agency, and about two hundred Indians in the vicinity.\nBesides pastoral work, I hold a service every Sabbath morning in\nIndian. Once a month, in the absence of the pastor, one of the lay\nmembers of the church takes his place. This congregation averages\nseventy. In the afternoon, the Agent and employees carry on the\nSabbath-school with an average attendance of fifty-eight. Twice\na month I preach in the evening in English to a congregation of\nemployees and scholars, which averages about thirty-five. On\nThursday evening the regular church prayer meeting is held, at\nwhich the male members take their turns in leading. Occasionally I\nmeet the school-children and apprentices, generally once in a week\nor so, for some kind of an informal meeting.\n\n2d. Three miles from the Agency is a small place, Union City,\nconsisting of a store, hotel, saloon and five families, and a\nnumber of transient loggers. I can give them one evening a month\nwithout neglecting regular duties. The average attendance is about\ntwenty-five on public worship and eighteen on Sabbath-school, the\nlatter of which the ladies of the place keep up most of the time\nwhen I am not present.\n\n3d. Thirty miles North is Seabeck, a saw-mill town of two or three\nhundred people, where I have charge of a small church organized\nlast May. I generally visit them about once a month. There is a\nSabbath-school which the church sustains for the Indians, about\nthirty of whom live there, gaining their support mainly by work in\nthe mill\u2014two of them being members of our church.\n\n4th. Twenty miles further on is Port Gamble, a large milling town,\nwhich has a minister of its own, but near it are about a hundred\nIndians who belong to our Agency, most of whom are Catholics, but\nwho receive me cordially when I go there, two or three times a year.\n\n5th. Forty miles still further is Dunginess, a flourishing Indian\ncolony, named Jamestown, which is the centre of an Indian\npopulation of about one hundred and forty. I generally visit them\ntwice a year. Six of our church members live here; they have a\nsmall church built by themselves, a day school, and I also preach\nto them sometimes. They sustain a weekly prayer meeting most of the\ntime, the only one in the county which has a white population of\nover six hundred, and they likewise have the only church building\nin this county, organized twenty-six years ago.\n\n6th. Six miles from Jamestown is Sequim, a village of about forty\nIndians, most of whom are aged and infirm. These are tributary to\nJamestown, sending their children to that school, some of whom\ntravel the whole distance twice each school day, and also on the\nSabbath.\n\n7th. Between Port Gamble and Jamestown is Port Discovery, another\nsaw-mill town, where nearly forty Indians make their home, whom\nI generally call to see on my journeys; but so much whisky is\nsold near them that it has been almost impossible to stop their\ndrinking; they also live in a somewhat scattered condition, which\nmakes it difficult to make any permanent religious impression on\nthem.\n\n8th. Once a year I calculate to go still farther; and twenty miles\nbeyond Jamestown is Port Angelos, with about thirty nominal Indian\nresidents. But few of them are settlers, and like those of Port\nDiscovery they are diminishing.\n\n9th. Seven miles further is Elkwa, with about seventy Indians.\nIt has been the home of one of the most influential bands in\nyears past, but owing to the fact that there have been but few\nwhite settlers from whom the Indians could obtain work, they\nhave hitherto done very little about cultivating the soil for\nthemselves; and as they could easily go across the straits to\nVictoria in British Columbia, where there is but little restraint\nin regard to their procuring whisky, because they are American\nIndians, they have been steadily losing in influence and numbers.\nFour families of them have \u201chomesteaded\u201d land, however, and others,\nmoved by their example and success, are taking the preparatory\nsteps to secure homes; but being scattered, and most of them back\nfrom the water, as it is now impossible to homestead good land on\nthe beach, they will lose the benefits of school and church in a\ngreat measure; but still the old way of herding together will be\nbroken up, and they will obtain more of their living from civilized\npursuits.\n\n10th. Thirty miles still further is Clallam Bay, the limit of the\nIndians belonging to our reservation, the home of some seventy\nmore. Within a year they have bought about a hundred and sixty\nacres of land, and propose to follow somewhat the plan of the\nJamestown Indians. This place promises to be an important point,\nas it is near a salmon cannery, and in the catching of salmon they\nare at home; it is also the nearest station of the tribe to the sea\nfisheries of the northwest coast of the Territory, by far the most\nlucrative business, in its season, which the Indians can follow.\n\nThen there is call for work among the whites. In Clallam county,\nwith its more than six hundred inhabitants, there is no resident\nminister, and I am repeatedly asked to preach to them, but can only\ngive them a sermon during some hours of the Sabbath when I am not\ntalking to Indians. In Mason county, here I live, with six hundred\nmore people, I am the only resident minister, and call after call\ncomes which I cannot in justice to the work of the A. M. A.,\nanswer; but I shall try shortly to give them a fifth Sabbath in the\nmonth.\n\nFourteen miles from Seabeck is another settlement where there has\nnever been a sermon preached in the fifteen years of its existence,\nand four times, one young man, not a Christian, has asked me to\ngo there, even offering to carry me over fifty miles in his boat.\nThese are small places, with scattered people, and probably small\ncongregations, yet it is hard to resist their appeals. If there\nwere two Sabbaths every week I sometimes think I could manage the\nfield better.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSisseton Agency, D. T.\n\nCHARLES CRISSEY, U. S. IND. AGT.\n\nThis Agency has been established about ten years; the people are\nWahpeton and Sisseton Sioux Indians; some were in the outbreak of\n1862\u20133 as hostiles, but a large per cent, as friendly Indians. Most\nof them wore the Indian dress of cloth and skins, and lived in\ntepees.\n\nThey now dress entirely in citizen\u2019s clothing, and live in\nlog-houses, some with shingled roofs and board floors; most of\nthem with dirt roofs and floors. The number of houses built of\nlogs is 220, and 15 frame. There are five organized churches with\na membership of 416 Indians and ten whites. Two of the churches\nare building new frame buildings, 28 \u00d7 50 ft. and 20 \u00d7 30 ft.,\nrespectively.\n\nThere are about 4,025 acres under cultivation; there was broken of\nnew ground during the spring, 1,055 acres. There was raised last\nyear about 17,000 bushels of wheat and oats, with a little barley.\nThe estimated crop this year will be 25,000 bushels. The Indians\nhave bought without Government aid, during the last three seasons,\n16 reapers, 8 fanning-mills, and 4 sulky horse-rakes; one has\npurchased a self-binder.\n\nMany of them are able to do such work as an ordinary carpenter or\nblacksmith does. We have built three frame houses and have two\nmore nearly completed. I depend on Indians as help in running our\nthreshing machines, engines at our at steam-mills, caring for our\nhorses, and have employed no extra white help, other than one white\nman to oversee each department, since April 1st, 1879.\n\nThe largest crop raised by any one Indian last year, was 573\nbushels of wheat and oats, two others raising nearly as much. We\nhave threshed for one only this season, and he had 1,500 bushels\nof oats. We have distributed to those who have never been supplied\nwith teams previous to June last, to work with, 95 yoke of work\ncattle, with plows, yokes, chains, harrows, etc. The only way they\nhad to supply themselves previous to June last, was by yoking the\nbeef cattle and using them, thus depriving themselves of fresh\nbeef; and when an Indian does that, it is a good sign that he is\nwell on the road to civilization.\n\nThere are three schools, two Government and one mission; 7\nteachers, five Government and two mission.\n\nThe number of scholars attending one month or more during the year\nis 104; number attending boarding schools, 78; number attending\nday school, 26; number of months which school has been maintained\nduring the year, 10; average attendance during that time, 81.\nLargest average attendance during any one month, 100; about 25\nof the 78 boarding scholars attended the mission school, the\nGovernment furnishing the same with most of the clothing and\nrations; both Government and Mission Boarding schools have been\nwell maintained and successfully managed, the scholars showing\nmarked improvement during the past year, and the parents much more\ninterest than ever before.\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.\nL. Stone, 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,\nE. P. Sanford, Esq.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSERMON BY JEE GAM.\n\n[The MISSIONARY of last month contained sermons by two of our\nChinese helpers of the California mission, with a promise of one\nthis month from Jee Gam.\n\nThese come to us, unrevised, in the handwriting of their authors,\nwhich, for beauty and legibility, excites the wish that all our\ncorrespondents were converted Chinamen. These sermons give, as\nperhaps in no other way open to our readers, an idea of what can\nbe done in this work of imparting spiritual truth to this class of\nheathen minds, and the adaptation of these men to be its heralds to\ntheir own people. Lack of room compels the omission of the first\npart of the sermon, in which is answered the question, \u201cWhat is\nthis faith?\u201d Our extract begins with the account of Moses\u2019 faith,\nunder the second head, \u201cWhat has faith done?\u201d\u2014ED. MISS.]\n\nHeb. 10:38. \u201cNow the just shall live by faith.\u201d 2d. What has this\nfaith done?\n\nBy faith Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh\u2019s daughter.\nIn a worldly sense, one may say he was the most foolish man in the\nworld; for if he had remained and accepted the offer he would have\nbeen King of Egypt, as Pharaoh had no son. He would have had great\npower; he would have lived in the finest palace of Egypt; he would\nhave had all the riches, comfort, pleasure, honor and glory he\nchose to have; but by faith he saw and knew all these were things\nwhich would vanish away like vapor. Besides these, I venture to say\nthat Moses must have been utterly disgusted with the idolatry of\nthat people. He knew in his own conscience that it was wrong and\nagainst God to worship any idol, bull, cow, or cat, all of which\nwere gods in Egypt. On the other hand he knew that the Lord was\nhis God, and that he has millions of times more riches and honor\nthan Pharaoh had. So he regarded not the low station of being a\nHebrew; neither cared he for being poor, despised, oppressed and\npersecuted, for he counted all these trials as nothing compared\nwith the blessings of God which were to come. At any rate, he\npreferred and did choose to be on the side of God, rather than on\nthe side of the Egyptians. By faith he wrought many wonders in\nEgypt; by faith he led his people across the Red Sea; by faith the\nmany battles were fought and won on the way to Canaan. By faith\nDaniel prayed continually three times a day when he knew that there\nhad been a decree against him; yet he cared not for the consequence\nof violating that law. He knew that it was far better and more\nimportant to obey the commands of his God than the corrupt decree\nof the King, even if he should be cast into the den and torn to\npieces by the terrible beasts.\n\nAnd now let us come down to a later period, and see how by faith\nthe disciples of Christ worked many miracles. Still later we find\nthat Luther by faith broke away from the monastery and preached\nChrist as he then thought He ought to be preached, not fearing any\ndangers that were to come. When he was summoned by the Council at\nWorms to answer its charges, he said to his friends, \u201cI will go\nto Worms, if there are as many devils as there are tiles.\u201d And\nby faith he was protected and saved. And now look at the present\ncentury, and see what the faith of Christian people has done for\nJapan and China. Fifty years ago, I believe, there was not a\nsingle Protestant Chinese Christian in that vast empire; but just\nsee how many there are now\u2014over thirteen thousand, besides the\nmany thousands who have been Christianized abroad. And by faith I\nventure to say right here that, China will, before long, become a\nChristian country, and rank high when compared with all her sister\nnations.\n\n3d. Can every man have this faith, be he white, black, red or\nyellow? Yes. The beggar can have it as well as the king. The poor\ncan have it as well as the rich; and the negro, the Indian and the\nChinaman.\n\n4th. Of what benefit is it? It makes us see our own sinfulness\nand weakness. It tells us to look to God for forgiveness and for\nstrength. It assures us that our sins have been pardoned, and the\npromises of God make us sure of our reward in Heaven. It makes us\nhave more confidence in God and in His Son Jesus. It gives us hope\nthat we shall see not only God, but all who have had this faith\nand are now in heaven. It gives us patience, peace, hope, comfort,\njoy and anxiety of heart to do God\u2019s will, and to lead people to\nChrist. Without faith we cannot please God, nor can we go to him in\nprayer. It is the foundation of Christian life. It justifies us,\nand, being justified, we live and shall live forever.\n\n5th. What are we called if we have this faith? The just. The born\nagain of the Holy Spirit; the forgiven; the justified ones; those\nwho have faith in God; the Christians. So then we are called just,\nnot by works, but by faith. Nevertheless, faith can never be\nwithout works; faith is the companion of works; they can never be\nparted. For instance, Luther, although he exalted faith, yet acted\nit right out with works.\n\nThink of Paul, how he by faith suffered many persecutions; how he\nlabored in prison as well as out of prison, and bore much fruit.\n\u201cFaith without works is dead.\u201d\n\n6th. Have we this faith? Have all men it? Alas! Let us consider how\nmany in this sinful world have not this faith; how many have never\nheard of it; how many have willfully refused to take it when it\nwas so kindly and so lovingly presented to them. Oh, how sad! for\nwithout this faith they are the enemies of God, and they shall be\ncondemned. Though in this world they may have all riches, comforts,\nrespect, and much honor in the sight of men, in the eye of God they\nare \u201cWeighed in the balance and found wanting.\u201d\n\nBut those who have this faith will have Heaven, and they shall live\nby the blessings derived therefrom, both in this world and in the\nworld to come.\n\n7th. Brethren and friends, let us get faith; for it is the greatest\nblessing to us. If we have it, let us live by it; for it is the\nmost vital and most wholesome food our souls can have. Let us hold\nfast to it. Let us exercise it so as to promote the happiness of\nmen to the saving of their souls. Let us exercise it so as to\nmagnify the love of God, and His Son Jesus Christ.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCHINESE AND CHINESE CUSTOMS.\n\nThe longer you live in China and the better you know the people,\nthe greater do your wonder and amazement increase. Their\nsuperstitions are as numerous almost as your thoughts. Their\nreligious customs are so many and intricate, that they make burdens\nfor the people more grievous to bear than those the Pharisees\nlaid upon the Jews. They spend as much money on those, to us,\nuseless and silly customs\u2014ten times as much, I fully believe\u2014as we\nChristians spend on the Gospel. A rich man, I am told, recently\nspent on the building of a paper house, which was burnt, for the\nuse of the spirit of the head of the family who had died, and on\nthe ceremonies connected with it, $10,000 in hard cash.\n\nThis is a large sum of money to spend on paper to be burnt simply\nin what, to us, seem perfectly ridiculous rites. But that is only a\ntithe of the money spent by such a family, on this religion, which\nGod hates. These people believe that every man has three spirits.\nWhen he dies, one spirit goes to hell, the second dwells in the\ngrave, and the third by due ceremonies is invited to take up its\nresidence in a wooden tablet, on which his name is inscribed. This\ntablet is kept in the house, and the worship of it is the ancestral\nworship, which is the last thing a Chinaman will give up.\n\nNo later than yesterday we had a good example of the ceremony for\nthe dead of which I have spoken. This is the case of a Chinaman\nborn in Penang, whose wife died in the latter part of last year,\nbut the ceremonies for providing for her comfort in Hades were\nnot performed till yesterday. He should have performed these\nservices several months ago, according to the proper custom, and\nwas very much blamed by the Chinese for having delayed. He told\nme the secret of the business, however. He did not believe in the\nthing, as he said, but his wife\u2019s mother was near at hand and all\nher relations, and because he was going to neglect the matter\napparently, they began to give him trouble. For peace, therefore,\nhe made the preparations. In the meantime, the body of his wife was\nstill in the house in the coffin. A Chinese coffin is thick and\nair-tight\u2014at least, no smell escapes from the decaying body, which\nsometimes is kept for years in the house or in a temple. This man\nwas not a rich man, but was in good circumstances.\n\nHe prepared a house about twelve feet square, built of bamboo and\npaper, most beautifully and carefully finished, the painting on it\nrepresenting brick, stone, marble, and woods of different kinds.\nSilver and gold leaf were used profusely; fruits and trees in\nrelief, and figures of all shapes. Inside the house, which was, by\nthe way, beautifully furnished with miniature furniture, reclined\nthe lady of the house, to represent his wife, on a handsome couch.\nIn the house were all the household utensils and everything\nindicative of wealth. At the door was a handsome sedan chair, and\nfour coolies standing by, ready at her call. Around her were men\nand women servants in figures about eight inches high, some engaged\nin one work, some in another. Some were preparing rice, some\nbaking, some washing clothes, some cleaning rice with a fanning\nmill. All was most tastefully and elegantly made up.\n\nBefore this house on a table were spread out all kinds of\nprovisions\u2014a little pig roasted, whole chickens, ducks, &c., &c.\nThe heads of these all pointed toward the place where the woman\nsat. It is, by the way, a Chinese custom, to point the head of an\nanimal, cooked, at the guest to whom you wish to show honor.\n\nOutside and over the door of the house, and extending across the\nwhole front, was an elaborate framework of bamboo, covered with\ngilt paper. This was supposed to represent the grounds before the\nhouse, and there were dozens of little figures, all representing\nthe lady\u2019s retainers\u2014some as soldiers, runners, tradesmen, &c. And\nwhy all these things? For the comfort and use of the spirit in\nhell, to mitigate her torments by providing her with comforts. All\nthese things cost about $40 or $50.\n\nIn another room, the ceremonies in connection with this were\nperformed. Here was a table covered with priestly symbols, food,\nliquor, candles, and peculiar priestly appliances. About the table\nstood three Buddhist priests, and sitting on benches were four men\nwith drum, cymbals and horns. For two days nearly they kept up\nincessantly the most fearful din, reading and howling at the top\nof the voice. Every now and then, the priests would perform a sort\nof dance. On the walls were hung large pictures of the torments\npractised in hell\u2014most hideous pictures of pulling out men\u2019s\ntongues and eyes, and tortures you would hardly think men capable\nof imagining. The little children of the dead woman were there,\nclothed in coarse sack-cloth, and kept busy taking part in the\nceremonies, directed by the priests. In the place where the house\nwas they would come in and bow down to the ground several times to\ntheir mother. The father stood by, looking on like one troubled and\nashamed of the horrid nuisance, as he evidently thought it to be.\nIn the morning, the whole thing was taken out and set on fire, and\nthus spirited away to the spiritual regions for the use of the poor\nwoman.\u2014_From Presbyterian Record, Canada._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR AUGUST, 1880.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $351.70.\n\n    Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $5; Rev. S. W.\n      Pearson, $5                                            $10.00\n    Bangor. First Cong. Ch.                                   27.50\n    Bath. Central Cong. Ch., $56.10; Winter St.\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc., $35.50; Eliza Bowker, $2            93.60\n    Brewer. M. Hardy, $50 to const. MRS. EUGENIE\n      L. BECKWITH, L. M.; First Cong. Ch., $8, and\n      Sab. Sch. $8                                            66.00\n    Brunswick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             25.00\n    Castine. Rev. A. E. Ives                                   2.00\n    Falmouth. First Cong. Ch.                                 20.00\n    Farmington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      12.00\n    Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                6.00\n    Gorham. Cong. Ch., ($2 of which bal. to const.\n      MISS REBECCA WATERS, L. M)                              25.40\n    Hampden. Mrs. R. S. Curtis                                 5.00\n    Portland. \u201cMrs. A. L. M.\u201d                                 25.00\n    Skowhegan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              5.20\n    Standish. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               3.50\n    Warren. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                12.00\n    Waterford. Mrs. S. C. Hersey                               1.50\n    West Bath. Isaiah Percy, $3; Beulah B. Percy,\n      $2                                                       5.00\n    Windham. Cong. Ch.                                         7.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $338.02.\n\n    Antrim. Individuals, _for Mag._                           15.00\n    Claremont. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $38.35; MRS. E.\n      L. GODDARD, $30, to const. herself L. M.                68.35\n    Concord. Alma J. Herbert, $3.50; Others,\n      $1.50; \u201cA Widow,\u201d $5                                    10.00\n    East Jaffrey. Eliza A. Parker                             20.00\n    Goffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             50.61\n    Hebron. Rev. J. B. C.                                      1.00\n    Henniker. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              20.00\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               5.43\n    Keene. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                              35.50\n    Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                8.00\n    Orford. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         5.00\n    Pembroke. Cong. Ch., $26.47; Mrs. Mary W.\n      Thompson, $5; Prof. Isaac Walker, $5                    36.47\n    Rochester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             18.11\n    Stoddard. Rev. B. Southworth                              10.00\n    Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            34.55\n\n\n  VERMONT, $1,124.79.\n\n    Barnet. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         3.00\n    Bridport. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  6.50\n    Charlotte. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             76.50\n    Chelsea. ESTATE of Dea. Samuel Douglass, by\n      Edward Douglass, Ex.                                   750.00\n    Coventry. Mrs. S. P. Cowles                                5.00\n    Cornwall. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              29.78\n    Georgia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.00\n    Greensborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $2.50; Rev.\n      Moses Patten and family, $15                            17.50\n    Middlebury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            20.44\n    Newbury. Mrs. E. F.                                        1.00\n    Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    86.34\n    Shelburn. \u201cA Friend,\u201d adl. to const. J. K.\n      DAVIS, L. M.                                            15.00\n    Springfield. Cong. Ch. by Rev. T. M. Boss                 15.00\n    Swanton. Ladies\u2019 \u201cHome Circle\u201d of Cong. Ch.                5.00\n    Thetford. John Lord (aged 98)                              2.00\n    Waterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. BURTON\n      H. HUMPHREY, L. M.                                      30.00\n    Wells River. George Leslie                                 5.00\n    West Enosburgh. H. Fassett                                 5.00\n    Westford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               8.00\n    West Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $26.46,\n      and Sab. Sch. $7.27                                     33.73\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $4,666.06.\n\n    Alford. Rev. J. Jay Dana, to const. TENNIE L.\n      CONVERSE, L. M.                                         30.00\n    Andover. ESTATE of Peter Smith                           500.00\n    Andover. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. in part,               200.00\n    Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  127.71\n    Boston. Mrs. Henry H. Hyde                                50.00\n    Boston Highlands. Miss E. Davis                           25.00\n    Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              36.40\n    Braintree. First Ch. and Soc.                             14.27\n    Campello. Sarah Packard                                   49.16\n    Chelsea. E. T. S.                                          1.00\n    Chesterfield. Mrs. Edward Clarke                           5.00\n    Curtisville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           19.00\n    Danvers. Maple St. Ch. and Soc.                           58.65\n    East Wareham. M. F. &. J. H. Martin                       10.00\n    Everett. E. H. Evans                                       5.00\n    Fall River. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     1.00\n    Falmouth. First Ch. and Soc.                              38.50\n    Fitchburg. Rev. and Mrs. J. M. R. Eaton                   10.00\n    Foxborough. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   30.07\n    Holliston. Mrs. R. R. W., $1; Ladies\u2019 Benev.\n      Soc. of Cong. Ch. Bbl. of C., _for Savannah,\n      Ga._, by Mrs J. A. Johnson, Sec.                         1.00\n    Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        18.09\n    Hubbardston. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   10.00\n    Gardner. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               40.00\n    Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.                              53.22\n    Ipswich. First Ch. and Soc.                               28.19\n    Lawrence. Lawrence St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                127.00\n    Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                      75.00\n    Littleton. Orth. Ch. and Soc.                             14.60\n    Lowell. ESTATE of E. S. Hunt by George F.\n      Richardson, Ex.                                        500.00\n    Marshfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      45.43\n    Merrimack. Ladies of Cong. Ch.                             9.00\n    Middleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             10.00\n    Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        57.95\n    Mittineaque. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    10.82\n    Newburyport. Belleville Ch. and Soc., $37.20;\n      Whitefield Cong. Ch. and Soc., $17.73; Miss\n      Bassett, $5                                             59.93\n    Newton Centre. \u201cA Friend\u201d $40; C. L. H., 50c              40.50\n    Northampton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  150.00\n    North Abington. Reuben Loring, _for addition\n      to school building, Fayetteville, Ark._                  5.00\n    North Andover Depot. F. D. F.                              1.00\n    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                50.00\n    North Wilmington. L. F. M.                                 1.00\n    Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          9.40\n    Plainfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            12.00\n    Pittsfield. James H. Dunham                               25.00\n    Quincy. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Mon. Con. Coll.               18.00\n    Randolph. Miss A. W. Turner                               10.00\n    Rochester. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                17.00\n    Royalston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      114.10\n    South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          7.00\n    South Egremont. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        25.00\n    South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to\n      const. CHARLES MERRILL and FRANCIS TORREY,\n      L. M.\u2019s                                                 51.00\n    Springfield. ESTATE of George Merriam, by\n      Henry S. Lee, Ex.                                    1,000.00\n    Springfield. \u201cM,\u201d $500; South Cong. Ch. and\n      Soc., $43.25; First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $38.84                                                 582.09\n    Sturbridge. ESTATE of M. A. Bullock, by M. L.\n      Richardson                                              50.00\n    Sturbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            42.77\n    Taunton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          5.73\n    Templeton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      2.00\n    Tolland. Rev. C. J.                                        1.00\n    Walpole. M. G.                                             1.00\n    Ware. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                          10.00\n    Webster. Cong. Ch.                                        15.00\n    West Boylston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         22.00\n    Westfield. H. Holland, M. D.                               3.00\n    Whately. Cong. Ch.                                        16.47\n    Wilmington. J. Skilton                                     5.00\n    Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.                             50.00\n    Worcester. Union Ch., $32.01; G. M. P., $1.               33.01\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Thank Offering\u201d                                    20.00\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $4.00.\n\n    Little Compton. Ezra Wilbur, $2; G. A. G., $1.             3.00\n    Slatersville. W. P.                                        1.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $3,998.30.\n\n    Abington. S. C.                                            1.00\n    Berlin. MISS HARRIET N. WILCOX _for Woman\u2019s\n      Work for Women_, and to const. herself L. M.            30.00\n    Brooklyn. First Trin. Ch. and Soc.                        39.00\n    Cromwell. BEQUEST of Miss Roxana K. Porter, by\n      Rev. G. S. F. Savage                                   100.00\n    Derby. First Cong. Ch.                                    17.00\n    East Lyme. Cong. Ch.                                       5.24\n    Greenwich. Miss Sarah Mead                                50.00\n    Greenfield Hill. Cong. Ch.                                13.08\n    Goshen. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   31.32\n    Guilford. Mrs. Lucy. E. Tuttle.                          100.00\n    Hadlyme. Richard E. Hungerford, $100; Jos. W.\n      Hungerford, $100; Cong. Sab. Sch., $11.18;\n      Cong. Ch., $8.                                         219.18\n    Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               21.73\n    Hartford. Mrs. John Olmsted                               30.00\n    Higganum. Selden Gladwin                                   5.00\n    Lebanon. Mrs. L. Hebard                                    2.00\n    Meriden. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. to\n      const. HOMER A. CURTIS, L. M.                           75.00\n    Middletown. Member First Cong. Ch.                         5.00\n    Mt. Carmel. Cong. Ch.                                     28.51\n    Naugatuck. Cong. Ch.                                     100.00\n    New Britain. South Cong. Ch., semi-annual\n      contribution, $72.55;--Levi S. Wells, $40\n      for _Straight U._                                      112.55\n    New London. \u201cTRUST ESTATE of Henry P. Haven\u201d             500.00\n    Norfolk. Mary, Belle and Alice Eldridge _for\n      books for Theo. Student, Fisk U._                       30.00\n    North Stonington. D. R. Wheeler                           10.00\n    North Woodstock. Cong. Ch.                                25.00\n    Norwich. ESTATE of Mrs. Emily H. Mansfield, by\n      A. T. Converse, Ex.                                  1,800.00\n    Norwich. First Cong. Ch. ($5 of which _for T.\n      C. and N. Inst._)                                      140.00\n    Putnam. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for ed. of an\n      Indian boy, Hampton N. and A. Inst._                    15.00\n    Rockville. Mrs. A. Martin, B. A. Chapman and\n      Mrs. A. B. Martin                                        5.00\n    Rocky Hill. Cong. Ch.                                     11.54\n    Salem. Cong. Ch.                                           6.00\n    South Britain. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      H. P. DOWNES, L. M.                                     37.53\n    Stafford Springs. F. S.                                    0.50\n    Terryville. Cong. Ch., $233.60, to const. WM.\n      H. GRISWOLD, LEVI BASSETT, GEORGE F.\n      BUSHNELL, MR. O. D. HUNTER and MRS. VALERIA\n      TERRY, L. M.\u2019s; Elizur Fenn and Mrs. Elizur\n      Fenn, $5 ea.                                           243.60\n    Thomaston. Cong. Soc.                                     12.30\n    Wapping. Cong. Ch., to const. DEA. JOHN ALDEN\n      COLLINS, L. M.                                          30.00\n    Washington. Mrs. Rebecca Hine, to const.\n      FREDERIC P. POND, L. M.                                 30.50\n    Westville. Cong. Ch.                                      20.00\n    Wethersfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    45.42\n    Wilton. Cong. Ch.                                         19.34\n    Wolcottville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          20.96\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                            10.00\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $971.47.\n\n    Bergen. ESTATE of I. M. Hitchcock, by A. E.\n      Hitchcock, Ex.                                          40.00\n    Binghamton. J. D. Wells                                    7.00\n    Brooklyn. Tompkins Av. Cong. Ch., $33.91; Mrs.\n      Lewis Tappan, $10; Professor E. P. Thwing, $5           48.91\n    Camillus. Isaiah Wilcox                                   30.00\n    Clifton Springs. Rev. W. W. Warner, $10; Mrs.\n      Mary M. Chester, $5                                     15.00\n    Coxsackie. P. H. Silvester                                10.00\n    Dansville. Mrs. D. W. Noyes                                2.00\n    East Wilson. Rev. H. Halsey, $30; C. M. Clark,\n      $3                                                      33.00\n    Eaton. Cong. Ch.                                          18.20\n    Eden. H. McNett                                            2.00\n    Gaines. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $29.79; and Sab.\n      Sch. $2.07 to const. ADAM P. VROMAN, L. M.              31.86\n    Leeds. \u201cBeth\u201d                                              5.00\n    New Lebanon. Presb. Cong. Ch.                              7.50\n    New York. \u201cSanta Claus,\u201d $100; J. S. Holt,\n      $10; \u201cS. J. W.,\u201d $2                                    112.00\n    Nyack. John W. Towt                                       50.00\n    Ovid. D. W. K.                                             0.50\n    Poughkeepsie. Mrs. Margaret Jane Myers                    25.00\n    Randolph. Mrs. T. A. C. Everett                            2.00\n    Rensselaer Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      10.00\n    Rome. Rev. Wm. B. Hammond, bbl. of Books and\n      Pamphlets.\n    Schenectady. Mrs. Anna W. Viney                            5.50\n    Utica. Mrs. Sarah H. Mudge                                15.00\n    Warsaw. L. H. H.                                           1.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                            500.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $33.00.\n\n    Boonton. Mrs. N. T. J.                                     2.00\n    Irvington. Mrs. W. H. C.                                   1.00\n    New Brunswick. I. P. Langdon                              10.00\n    Newfield. Rev. Charles Willey                             10.00\n    Parsippany. Mrs. Jane W. Ford                             10.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $105.00.\n\n    New Milford. H. A. Summers                                 5.00\n    Troy. Chas. C. Paine ($50 of which _for Indian\n      M._)                                                   100.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $256.46.\n\n    Canfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              18.68\n    Cincinnati. Vine St. Cong. Ch.                            40.67\n    Cortland. Cong. Ch.                                        4.25\n    Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Ch.                                  8.42\n    Delaware. Rev. John H. Jones                              10.00\n    Gambier. James S. Sawer                                    5.00\n    Greenwich Station. W. M. Mead                              5.00\n    Harmar. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n    Hicksville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    10.00\n    Newark. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                                 7.00\n    Norwalk. First Cong. Ch.                                  14.00\n    Oberlin. J. W. Merrill, $40; First Cong. Ch.,\n      $32.22; W. G. B., 50c.                                  72.72\n    Ravenna. Howard Carter                                    10.00\n    Willoughby. Miss Mary P. Hastings                         10.00\n    Windham. First Cong. Ch.                                  35.72\n\n\n  INDIANA, $64.27.\n\n    Michigan City. Cong. Ch.                                  56.27\n    Winchester. L. O. Ward, $4.50; Lydia Maxwell,\n      $2.50; C. W. O., $1                                      8.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $2,339.98.\n\n    Buda. Cong. Ch.                                           24.00\n    Bunker Hill. J. W. B.                                      0.50\n    Canton. First Cong. Ch. $82.08; Cong. Ch., $22           104.08\n    Chicago. First Cong. Ch., $736.15; Lincoln\n      Park Ch., $29.55; New Eng. Ch., Mon. Coll.,\n      $15.62                                                 781.32\n    Elgin. S. N. Campbell                                      5.00\n    Galesburg. Mrs. E. T. Parker                              10.00\n    Granville. Cong. Ch.                                      31.00\n    Homer. Cong. Ch.                                          14.50\n    Joy Prairie. Cong. Ch. to const. LYMAN L.\n      PRATT, L. M.                                            34.15\n    Kewanee. Ladies of Cong. Ch., $25.38; \u201cThe\n      Gleaners\u201d of Cong. Ch., $12.81, _for Lady\n      Missionary Liberty Co., Ga._                            38.19\n    Lee Centre. ESTATE of Martin Wright                    1,000.00\n    La Harpe. Cong. Ch.                                       20.50\n    Metamora. Individuals, Collected by A. C. Rouse           20.00\n    Morrison. Cong. Ch.                                       25.00\n    Newark. Horace Day                                         6.00\n    Paxton. J. B. Shaw                                         5.00\n    Peru. First Cong. Ch.                                     13.80\n    Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss                               12.00\n    Rockford. Second Cong. Ch.                               113.64\n    Roseville. Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. SARAH C.\n      ELDRED, L. M.                                           33.00\n    South Danville. Cong. Ch.                                 12.00\n    Waukegan. Young Ladies Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                               10.00\n    Waverly. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  16.30\n    Winnebago. N. F. Parsons                                  10.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $390.51.\n\n    Alpena. First Cong. Ch.                                   75.75\n    Ann Arbor. Cong. Ch., Semi Annual Coll.                   30.00\n    Calumet. Cong. Ch.                                       120.72\n    Charlotte. First Cong. Ch., $30;--E. Pray, $5;\n      R. C. Jones, $3, _for Talladega C._                     38.00\n    Grand Rapids. Mrs. E. G. Furness                           5.00\n    Hancock. First Cong. Ch.                                  42.92\n    Homer. Mrs. C. C. Everts                                   5.00\n    Port Huron. First Cong. Ch.                               37.50\n    Union City. First Cong. Ch.                               35.62\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $204.45.\n\n    Beloit. First Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                            20.00\n    Black Earth. Mrs. J. W.                                    0.50\n    Bloomington. Cong. Ch.                                     3.00\n    Brandon. Cong. Ch., $3.50, and Sab. Sch., $10             13.50\n    Brant. Mrs. E. W. Brant                                    3.00\n    Fox Lake. First Cong. Ch.                                 15.00\n    Hartford. R. F.                                            1.00\n    Madison. First Cong. Ch.                                  75.00\n    Milwaukee. Mrs. E. F. Rice                                10.00\n    River Falls. Cong. Ch.                                    16.00\n    Sun Prairie. Cong. Ch., $6, and Sab. Sch.,\n      $19.45                                                  25.45\n    Sheboygan. Mrs. L. H. Chase                               10.00\n    Sparta. H. E. Kelley                                       2.00\n    West Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            10.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $352.80.\n\n    Alden. Cong. Ch., $3.85, and Sab. Sch., $1.15              5.00\n    Anamosa. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 5.00\n    Bellevue. Ladies of Cong. Ch. _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 5.00\n    Cherokee. Cong. Ch.                                        6.00\n    Creston. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             6.95\n    Dubuque. A. Kaiser                                        10.00\n    Dunlap. Rev. Joseph S. Fisher                             15.00\n    Durant. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans._                               10.00\n    Eldora. Cong. Ch.                                         10.50\n    Garden Prairie. Cong. Ch.                                  5.75\n    Green Mountain. First Cong. Ch.                           28.40\n    Grinnell. Cong. Ch.                                       76.90\n    Iowa City. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans._                               15.00\n    Kelley. Cong. Ch.                                          4.25\n    Maquoketa. Mrs. M. T. H., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 1.00\n    Marion. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                40.00\n    Marshalltown. Young People\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              10.00\n    McGregor. Woman\u2019s Missionary Soc., bal., to\n      cost. MRS. WILLIAM FAIR, L. M.                          14.55\n    Meriden. Cong. Soc.                                        4.00\n    Muscatine. N. B. Huntington, 50; W. Sandford,\n      10, _for Talladega C._                                  60.00\n    Oskaloosa. Samuel R. Pettett                               2.50\n    Seneca. Rev. and Mrs. O. Littlefield                      15.00\n    Traer. C. Jameyson                                         2.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $9.00.\n\n    Kidder. First Cong. Ch.                                    9.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $35.22.\n\n    Afton. Cong. Ch.                                          10.00\n    Brownsville. Mrs. S. M. McHose                             2.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., $12.52; Mrs. J. F.\n      A., 50c.                                                13.02\n    St. Cloud. First Cong. Ch.                                 5.20\n    Saint Peter. Mrs Jane A. Treadwell                         5.00\n\n\n  MONTANA, $5.00.\n\n    Divide. Mrs. C. A. Leggett                                 5.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $5.00.\n\n    Topeka. First Cong. Ch.                                    5.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $10.00.\n\n    Fairmount. Cong. Ch.                                      10.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $13.87.\n\n    Oakland. Miss Martha L. Newcomb                           13.87\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $6.37.\n\n    Seattle. \u201cA Friend,\u201d by Rev. Samuel Green                  6.37\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, 50c.\n\n    Covington. H. C. G.                                        0.50\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $4.25.\n\n    Raleigh. Washington Sch., Tuition                          4.25\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $2.00.\n\n    Charleston. J. W. H., $1; Avery Inst.,\n      Tuition, $1                                              2.00\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $40.30.\n\n    Montgomery. HON. JOHN BRUCE, to const. himself\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Pleasant Hill. W. H. G.                                    0.50\n    Selma. Cong. Ch.                                           9.80\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $9.10.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition                             9.10\n\n\n  TEXAS, 50c.\n\n    Austin. L. C. A.                                           0.50\n\n\n  \u2014\u2014 $1.00.\n\n    \u2014\u2014 Lucy O. Thompson                                        1.00\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $45.76.\n\n    Avery Fund                                                45.76\n\n\n  CANADA, $17.00.\n\n    Montreal. Emmanuel Ch., John McLaughlan, $10;\n      Chas. Alexander, $5; Theo. Lyman, $2                    17.00\n\n\n  SCOTLAND. $66.44.\n\n    Perth North United Presb. Ch. Subscriptions,\n      \u00a310 6s.; J. Balman, for Chinese M., \u00a32;--Girls\u2019\n      House of Refuge, Craigie, 5s.; \u201cFriends of\n      Africans,\u201d \u00a31; \u201cFriend,\u201d 5s., by D. Morton              66.44\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                           15,472.12\n        Total from Oct. 1st to Aug. 31st                $160,969.61\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Hanover, Conn. Mrs Ruth W. and Miss Ruth E.\n      Allen                                                 $100.00\n    New London, Conn. \u201cTrust Estate of Henry P.\n      Haven\u201d                                                 500.00\n    Amherst, Mass. Mrs. R. A. Lester                          50.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend,\u201d by Mrs. E. M. E. Garland                   10.00\n    \u2014\u2014 Refunded                                               75.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                             $735.00\n    Previously Acknowledged in July Receipts               5,503.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                           $6,238.00\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.\n\n    Amsterdam, N. Y. Chandler Bartlett, $5; James\n      H. Bronson, $3                                          $8.00\n    Previously Acknowledged in July Receipts                 436.75\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                             $444.75\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR SCHOOL BUILDING, ATHENS, ALA.\n\n    Ann Arbor, Mich. Presb. Ch.                              $18.00\n    Armada, Mich. Cong. Ch.                                    8.89\n    Columbus, Mich. Cong. Ch.                                  3.00\n    Detroit, Mich. Ladies\u2019 For\u2019gn Miss. Soc.                  22.15\n    Detroit, Mich. Miss A.                                     1.00\n    Flint, Mich. Miss H. H., $1; Mrs L. B., $1;\n      Mrs. T., 50c                                             2.50\n    Franklin, Mich. Cong. Ch.                                  7.00\n    Gr\u2019d Rapids, Mich. Mrs. White, $10; Mrs.\n      Withey, $2; Mrs. N. L. Avery, $2; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d $1                                             15.00\n    Hudson, Mich. Cong. Ch.                                    6.00\n    Imlay City, Mich. Cong. Ch., $5, and Sab.\n      Sch., $1.79                                              6.79\n    Lansing, Mich. Cong. Ch.                                  12.40\n    Memphis, Mich. Cong, Ch.                                   3.00\n    Mosherville, Mich. Methodist Ch.                          26.50\n    Olivet, Mich. Cong. Ch.                                   23.25\n    Owano, Mich. Mrs. Flora Duff, $5; Miss Doane,\n      $1.50; Dea. G., 50c.; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 25c.                   7.25\n    Pawpaw, Mich. Presb. Ch.                                  17.89\n    Port Huron, Mich. Cong. Ch.                               22.25\n    Newton, Mich. Cong. Ch.                                    2.73\n    North Adams, Mich. Cong. Ch.                              11.00\n    No. Lansing, Mich. Mrs. T., $1; Mrs. E., $1;\n      Mrs. A., 50c.                                            2.50\n    Romeo, Mich. Cong. Ch.                                    10.55\n    Saint Clair, Mich. Cong. Ch.                              10.65\n    Somerset, Mich. Cong. Ch.                                  3.00\n    Union City, Mich. Cong. Ch.                               14.00\n    Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Clark                                   5.00\n    Valparaiso, Ind. Presb. Ch.                               12.12\n    South Bend, Ind. Mrs. Reynolds                             5.00\n    Lake City, Iowa. Mrs Haas                                 20.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                             $299.42\n    Previously acknowledged in June Receipts                 680.59\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                             $980.01\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  Receipts for August                                    $16,514.54\n  Total from Oct. 1st to Aug. 31st                      $175,208.85\n                                                       ============\n\nH. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,\n56 Reade St., N. Y.\n\n\nConstitution of the American Missionary Association.\n\nINCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.\n\n\nART. I. This Society shall be called \u201cTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\nASSOCIATION.\u201d\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct\nChristian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a\nknowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries\nwhich are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent\nfields of effort.\n\nART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes\nfaith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the\npractice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds,\nmay become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty\ndollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have\nnot professed their faith may be constituted life members without\nthe privilege of voting.\n\nART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of\nSeptember, October or November, for the election of officers and\nthe transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall\nbe designated by the Executive Committee.\n\nART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular\nofficers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,\nand of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,\nand other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one\nrepresentative.\n\nART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President,\nVice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,\nTreasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less\nthan twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be\nadvisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.\n\nART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting\nand disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining\nand dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and\nagents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the\ntransaction of all such business as usually appertains to the\nexecutive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies;\nthe Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the\nmissionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision\nof the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually\nchosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or\nmissionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.\n\nThe Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies\noccurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;\nto apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of\nincorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all\nofficers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the\nSociety; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and\nfor the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call,\nin all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and\ngeneral conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the\ndiffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous\npromotion of the missionary work.\n\nFive members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for\ntransacting business.\n\nART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing\nofficers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields\nof labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor\nparticularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the\nknown fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment\nthose who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.\n\nART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to\nthe principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain\nmissionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the\nagency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART. X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without\nthe concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular\nannual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been\nsubmitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in\nseason to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if\nso submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a\nbelief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a\nSaviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice\nof Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity\nof regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy\nobedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and\nthe retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the\nwicked, and salvation of the righteous.\n\n\n\n\nThe American Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with\nthe almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its\nmain efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens\nand Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely\nrelated to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE\nin America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane\nand Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in\nAFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_--In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 13;\nKy., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6.\n_Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE\nSOUTH.--_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.,\nAtlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.;\nand Austin, Texas, 8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,\nRaleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Savannah, Macon,\nAtlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis,\nTenn., 12. _Other Schools_, 24. Total 44.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.--Among the Freedmen, 253;\namong the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total,\n296. STUDENTS--In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course, 63;\nin other studies, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars taught by former\npupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the care\nof the Association, 13,000.\n\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the\ngrowing work. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and\n_larger_ contributions from the churches--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., 56 Reade Street.\n  BOSTON        Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House.\n  CHICAGO       Rev. Jas. 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C. C. PAINTER, aided by the\nsteady contributions of our intelligent Missionaries and teachers\nin all parts of the field, and with occasional communications from\ncareful observers and thinkers elsewhere, the AMERICAN MISSIONARY\nfurnishes a vivid and reliable picture of the work going forward\namong the Indians, the Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and the\nFreedmen as citizens in the South and as Missionaries in Africa.\n\nIt will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting\nthe races among which it labors, and will give monthly summary of\ncurrent events relating to their welfare and progress.\n\nPatriots and Christians interested in the education and\nChristianizing of these despised races are asked to read it, and\nassist in its circulation. Begin with the next number and the new\nyear. 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In\nthe evening, at 7.30, the Annual Sermon will be preached by the\nRev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D. D., of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York\nCity. The citizens of Norwich will receive and cordially entertain\nall friends of the work of the Association who, desiring to attend,\nshall make application for entertainment before the first day of\nOctober. The Chairman of the Committee of Entertainment, CHARLES E.\nDYER, to whom all such applications should be addressed, will send\nout, on the above date, cards of hospitality, introducing those who\nhave made known their purpose of attending, to the host by whom\nthey will be entertained. Those receiving such cards will please\ncommunicate at once with the person to whom they are introduced,\nannouncing their purpose of attending, at what time they will\narrive in Norwich, and whether they will remain during the meeting,\nso that hospitality may have no unnecessary burdens to bear. Those\nfailing to receive such a card by the 6th of October will please\ninform the Chairman of the fact. An early application will greatly\nlighten the burden of the Committee, and will be duly appreciated.\nThose paying full fare one way to attend the meeting, will be\nfurnished free return tickets on the following railroads: New York\nand New England, New London and Northern, Norwich and Worcester,\nWorcester and Nashua, Stonington, Boston and Providence, Boston,\nBarre and Gardner, Passumpsic, Central Vermont; and by steamers of\nthe Norwich and New York Line. The Conn. River Road will sell round\ntrip tickets to those who attend the meeting.\n\nAny needed additional information will be given to those applying\nto the Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, Norwich, Conn.\n\n                         W. S. PALMER,\n                               Chairman Committee of Arrangements.\n\n\nDAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\nUnusual spellings that do not appear to be printer\u2019s errors have\nbeen retained.\n\nObvious punctuation misprints have been corrected.\n\nChanged \u201cfo\u201d to \u201cfor\u201d in the Marshalltown entry on page 316.\n\nDitto marks in tables were replaced by the text they represent in\norder to facilitate alignment for eBooks.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 34, No. 10, October, 1880","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":22135}