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No. 1.\n\n                                  THE\n\n                          AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                             JANUARY, 1880.\n\n\n\n\n                              _CONTENTS:_\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    SALUTATIONS                                                        1\n    OUR ENLARGED WORK                                                  2\n    PROF. CHASE IN AFRICA                                              3\n    INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON                                             4\n    PARAGRAPHS\u2014SATISFIED                                               5\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                               6\n    GENERAL NOTES                                                      8\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    VACATION REPORTS: Prof. T. N. Chase                                9\n    WOMAN\u2019S WORK FOR WOMAN: Miss L. A. Parmelee                       12\n    THE GEORGIA CONFERENCE                                            14\n    THE CENTRAL SOUTH CONFERENCE                                      15\n    GEORGIA\u2014Thanksgiving Services and First Impressions:\n      Rev. C. W. Hawley                                               16\n    ALABAMA\u2014Emerson Institute, 1865 to 1879: Rev. O. D. Crawford      17\n    ALABAMA\u2014Shelby Iron Works\u2014A Revival                               19\n    TENNESSEE\u2014A Student Aided: Rev. E. M. Cravath                     19\n    TENNESSEE, MEMPHIS\u2014Health, Business, &c.: Prof. A. J. Steele      20\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    S\u2019KOKOMISH AGENCY\u2014Homes and Schools, Lands and Titles:\n      Edwin Eells, Agent                                              22\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    SANTA BARBARA MISSION\u2014Chin Fung: Rev. W. C. Pond                  23\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    AMATEUR HEATHEN                                                   25\n\n\n  RECEIPTS.                                                           27\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  NEW YORK:\n\n  Published by the American Missionary Association,\n\n  ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\n\n  Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\n  American Missionary Association,\n\n  56 READE STREET, N. Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  PRESIDENT.\n\n    HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\n  VICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n    Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n    Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n    Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n    ANDREW LESTER, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.\n    Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.\n    WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.\n    Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.\n    Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.\n    Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.\n    Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. J.\n    Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D. D., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.\n    Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n    HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich.\n    Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H.\n    Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D. D., Ct.\n    DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.\n    Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.\n    SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.\n    Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.\n    Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon.\n    Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.\n    Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n    EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.\n    DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J.\n    Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.\n    Rev. W. L. GAGE, D. D., Ct.\n    A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio.\n    Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn.\n    Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn.\n    Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.\n    Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.\n    Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.\n    Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.\n    S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n    Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n    Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct.\n    Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.\n    Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.\n    Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng.\n    WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y.\n    J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.\n    E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J.\n    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.\n    DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.\n    A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.\n    Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y.\n    FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.\n    JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I.\n    Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo.\n    J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.\n    E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.\n    C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.\n    Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal.\n    Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n  DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n    REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n    REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_.\n    REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n    H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.\n\n\n  EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n    ALONZO S. BALL,\n    A. S. BARNES,\n    GEO. M. BOYNTON,\n    WM. B. BROWN,\n    C. T. CHRISTENSEN,\n    CLINTON B. FISK,\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n    S. B. HALLIDAY,\n    SAMUEL HOLMES,\n    CHARLES A. HULL,\n    EDGAR KETCHUM,\n    CHAS. L. MEAD,\n    WM. T. PRATT,\n    J. A. SHOUDY,\n    JOHN H. WASHBURN,\n    G. B. WILLCOX.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to\nthe District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the \u201cAmerican\nMissionary,\u201d to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, 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.               JANUARY, 1880.               No. 1.\n\n                    *       *       *       *       *\n\n                    American Missionary Association.\n\n                    *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSALUTATIONS.\n\nWe extend to our friends the salutations of the season, and rejoice\nthat we can do it with more of gratitude and hopefulness than we have\nbeen privileged to do for many years. Like Bunyan\u2019s Pilgrim, we have\npassed through the Slough of Despond, and the heavy load of Debt has\nfallen from our shoulders; but, as in the case of the Pilgrim, this\nis no signal to us, or our friends, for rest in the Arbor, but for\naddressing ourselves to the real Christian life-work before us.\n\n1. In this we have many things to encourage us:\n\n(1.) The renewed prosperity of the country puts it into the hands of\nour friends to aid us in the needed enlargement of the work before\nus. We are grateful for the help given in the dark days of business\nstagnation, and we hope that with the reviving industry and commercial\nactivity, gratitude to God and love for His cause will stimulate the\nfriends of the poor to increased liberality.\n\n(2.) There is a more full realization of the importance of our work.\nNever before since the war has the North so well understood that the\nonly real solution of the Southern problem is in the intelligence and\nreal piety of the FREEDMEN. Every day\u2019s developments make this the more\nplain. In like manner the rights and wrongs of the INDIAN never forced\nhim upon public attention with a more imperative demand for answer.\nSo, too, the right of the CHINAMAN to a home and legal protection\non the Pacific coast, has never become more clearly defined or more\nintelligently recognized. Constitutional enactments and hoodlum mobs\nhave only set forth his wrongs more sharply and made our duty more\nplain. Africa looms up with more distinctness as a field of Christian\nlabor. Not only triumphant exploration and crowding missionary\nenterprises stir the Christian heart, but the very difficulties and\ndisasters arouse new zeal. Our hopeful endeavors to introduce the\ncolored man of America as a missionary to the land of his fathers adds\na new element of hope and activity.\n\n(3.) The most encouraging outlook before us, however, is in the deeper\nspiritual and prayerful interest which our work awakens. Among other\nsigns of this fact are the aroused attention of the praying women of\nthe North to the woes and wants of the colored women and girls in the\nSouth, the increasing volume of prayer going up from the churches of\nthe North for Africa, and the prayer and consecration awakened in its\nbehalf among the colored people of the South. But above all, we believe\nthat the followers of Christ are coming to realize that in this whole\nrange of work it is only in the Divine arm that effectual help can be\nfound.\n\n2. We have a great work before us.\n\n(1.) In our own special field we have the urgent call to make the\nrepairs and improvements which we were compelled to refuse when in\nour great struggle for the payment of the debt. These can no longer\nbe denied, in some cases, without sacrificing the health of the\nmissionaries and teachers, as well as the progress of the work.\n\n(2.) The call for _enlargement_ confronts us on all sides. We cannot\nmeet the demand in the public mind at the North if we stand still, and\nstill less can we meet that of overcrowded schools and for new churches\nin the South. We refer our readers to the following article for some\nstirring details on this subject.\n\n(3.) Our friends need to be on their guard against one incidental\ndrawback. The Presidential election occurs this year, and the\nexperience of this, and all other missionary societies, shows that such\nyears mark diminished receipts. We can only say to our friends: Do your\nduty at the ballot-box, but do not forget the contribution-box and the\nprayer for missions!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR ENLARGED WORK.\n\nWe have been saying for a long time, when we are free from debt we will\ndo more work, and now that we are free, we have felt constrained at\nonce to begin the fulfillment of that promise. The great question is\nto find the just mean between cowardice and rashness. No organization\nlike ours can say, we will never spend a cent that we have not in our\ntreasury, for we have to make engagements amounting to many times the\nsum at our present command. We must follow the leadings of Providence\nnot only, but its indications, and rely on God\u2019s people to sustain us\nin our anticipations of what they will do.\n\nIn our Salutation to our friends, we spoke of the call for the\nenlargement of our work that confronts us on all sides. During the\nstruggle of the past few years for the payment of our debt, we could\nhave but one answer for the pressing appeals that came to us for more\nroom and better accommodations\u2014an answer which was hard to give and\nhard to receive, for those who saw so clearly the great good that would\nresult from a comparatively slight expenditure of money.\n\nBut now that the debt is paid, our friends must tell us whether we can\nventure to make a different and more cheering answer to our appeals.\nThese appeals are coming to us from Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama,\nGeorgia, North Carolina, &c., as may be seen by noticing the \u201cItems\nfrom the Field,\u201d in this number of the MISSIONARY. These items were\ntaken without any special reference to this article, and surprise us,\nas we glance over them, by the needs which they disclose.\n\nIn addition to these, we give just here a few extracts from letters not\nquoted in our \u201cItems.\u201d\n\nOne teacher writes:\n\n  \u201cOur school opened with a _rush_. It reminded me of the time\n  when I used to attend lectures at L\u2014. A crowd would assemble,\n  and as soon as the doors were opened they would press in, each\n  intent on the best seat. So it was in my schoolroom, each\n  parent striving to get the first chance to enter his child or\n  children; and ever since the opening, I have had to turn away\n  applicants, though they begged with tears to be admitted.\u201d\n\nAnother:\n\n  \u201cIf our number increases this year in the same proportion as\n  two years ago, in February we shall have 121 boarders; if the\n  same proportion as last year, we shall have 134. We can not\n  find room for any such number. From present prospects we shall\n  reach that number. If anything is going to be done by way of\n  enlarging this year, we ought to order lumber immediately.\u201d\n\nAnd in a subsequent letter:\n\n  \u201cWe have more young women boarding than we have had at any\n  time before since I have been here, and several others have\n  engaged rooms. Every room in the Ladies\u2019 Hall is _filled_. Two\n  rooms have four in them. Miss E. expects to arrange beds in the\n  sitting-room. We cannot put four into our 10 x 14 rooms. The\n  new scholars this fall have mostly come from schools that have\n  been taught by our pupils, and have been able to go into the\n  Preparatory Department.\u201d\n\nStill another:\n\n  \u201cSomething must be done for our relief at once. We are\n  overrunning full.\u201d\n\nFrom another the story is:\n\n  \u201cI wonder if all your stations have such increasing wants as\n  this one has! We trust that our request for another teacher is\n  honored by an appointment. We intimated that our wants would\n  still increase. This is verified. The question now before us is\n  this: How much enlargement of this work can you make? Are your\n  means equal to the demand? Now, we wish that our building were\n  larger by two rooms; especially so, since many tell us that a\n  large number are planning to begin school after Christmas. We\n  submit very earnestly the proposal that we be authorized to\n  rent a building that is contiguous to our grounds, and that\n  you send a sixth teacher to occupy it. If we do thorough work\n  this year, the demand another year will require a permanent\n  enlargement of room. We unite in the most earnest wish that you\n  not only send us the fifth teacher, but also the sixth.\u201d\n\nWe have already appropriated several thousand dollars more than in\nprevious years upon the Southern field, and that mainly in the work of\nChristian education. If our readers only knew the many things we have\nnot done, they would count the expansion to be very little. Among other\nthings, as was indicated in the Annual Report, and as is set forth more\nexplicitly elsewhere, we have enlarged our Indian work, not in the far\nWest, but in Virginia. We have allowed something more for the foreign\nfield, and added a few hundred dollars for the Chinese Mission in\nCalifornia.\n\nOur friends will have the satisfaction this year of knowing that their\ngifts all go to do the work which presses now; no more is needed to\nfill up the hollows of the land through which we travelled long ago.\nThey must not fail us, then, who have helped us in our distress; but\nmuch more, stand by us, now that they have enabled us to give ourselves\nwholly to the wants to be met and to the work in hand.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPROFESSOR CHASE IN AFRICA.\n\nIt has for some months seemed desirable to the Executive Committee that\nan experienced man, in the carefulness of whose inspection and the\ncalmness of whose judgment they might fully rely, should go to see for\nthem, with his own eyes, the field on the West Coast of Africa, the\nmissionary band, and the work it is doing. The great difficulty has\nbeen to lay hands upon a man who should unite with the qualifications\nrequired the willingness and the ability to go. That obstacle has given\nway at last, and an embassy is on the way.\n\nProf. Thomas N. Chase had been detailed from his duties as an\ninstructor in Greek at Atlanta, where his eminent abilities have\nbeen most fully proved by the annual examinations of his classes,\nand where his presence has been valued for his manifold service, for\nspecial duties in superintending the plans and erection of buildings\nin the Southern field. Some important preliminary work had been\naccomplished in that direction, when it was found that the money which\nwas anticipated for this purpose would not be at the disposal of the\nAssociation for some months. Prof. Chase being thus open to our call,\nand being the man of all men we should have chosen for this post, the\nproposal was made to him that he should take this trip to the Mendi\nMission, and inspect the work. After some hesitation, but with much\nless than was anticipated, and regarding the circumstances and the call\nas of the Lord, he consented, with the full agreement in his decision\nof his excellent and devoted wife.\n\nOn the sixth of December he sailed from New York for Liverpool,\nexpecting to take the steamer thence to Freetown on the twentieth\nof December, and to be in the field at Good Hope by the middle of\nJanuary. He is accompanied by the Rev. Joseph E. Smith, a graduate of\nAtlanta, who has been for three years in charge of important churches\nin the South, and in whom we have every reason to place the highest\nconfidence. Mr. Smith will, we hope, conclude to remain with the\nmission, although that matter is left to his decision. We believe that\nhe will do what he thinks the Master wishes. Meanwhile he will do good\nservice as a companion of Prof. Chase, to care for him and aid him in\nthe accomplishment of his work.\n\nImportant questions as to the permanent location of the stations,\nthe distribution of the work among the missionaries, and their more\ncomplete equipment will be decided, and with the Lord\u2019s blessing on\nthem we hope for results of lasting value from this embassy.\n\nIt is just the time of the year when such a mission can most safely and\neffectively be prosecuted. They will reach the country and have three\nmouths of the dry season, if so long a time shall be needed, before it\nwill be necessary that they should come away. They realize, as we do,\nthat there is always some peril in going to the West Coast, especially\nfor a white man; but the professor is in his prime, of sound health,\nand we believe will be so prudent in all matters of exposure and of\nliving that we have no great fears for him. And yet, when we remember\nthose who have fallen, we pray the Lord, and beg all the friends of\nAfrica to join with us in the prayer, that He will keep these His\nservants from harm, will prosper them in their mission and bring them\nback in health.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON.\n\nThe Association has, after conference with General Armstrong, decided\nto make appropriations to aid the Indian work at Hampton as follows:\n(1.) It agrees to pay the salary of a teacher, whose time is wholly\ndevoted to this work, and whose enthusiasm and success in it no one\nwho attended the last commencement can have failed to remember.\n(2.) It will support these three boys: James Murie, a Pawnee from\nthe Indian Territory, a bright boy, who is now in the Preparatory\nDepartment, and will be able to enter the Junior Class next year;\nJonathan Heustice, a Pawnee with some colored blood, apparently a\nvery good boy; and Alexander Peters, a Menomonee from Wisconsin, who\ncomes well recommended by his teachers, and is proving an interesting\nscholar. (3.) It will clothe the eight boys from Fort Berthold Agency,\nsent by the Government last year, and for whose support it is mainly\nresponsible. The total expense will be $1,450. We shall be very glad\nto receive contributions to this work, or for any of these boys in\nparticular, from those who are specially interested in this new work of\neducating Indian boys in our colored schools. The success of the effort\nhas been so marked, that we no longer look on it as an experiment. It\nis the application to this class of the same principle on which we\nbelieve the solution of the great problem of negro citizenship depends.\nLet us educate the teachers and the leaders for these races, keeping\nthem constantly surrounded by the most elevating Christian influences,\nand they will have great power in lifting up the masses, who must be\ntaught and Christianized at home.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe news of the destruction of Academic Hall at Hampton, has reached\nthe friends of that Institution long ere this. The origin of the fire\nis unknown; it was discovered in the attic, and was already beyond\ncontrol. In a couple of hours all was over. An insurance amounting to\nabout three-quarters of the expense incurred in building will, in the\nlower prices now prevailing, replace it to a great extent. Still it is\na severe loss.\n\nThe value of the excellent organization of the school was made apparent\nin the perfect order which prevailed. The honesty and loyalty of the\nstudents were thoroughly tested and triumphantly proved. Only a single\nday of school work was lost. About $3,000 will replace the loss on\napparatus, furniture, library, &c. The students lost about $1,200 of\npersonal property. We trust that the friends of Hampton\u2014and they are\nmany\u2014will come generously and promptly to its relief.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOur Sunday-schools are in great need of special helps for their work,\nand that of all sorts: books for the library and for the service of\nsong; Sunday-school banners, maps and every thing of the kind. Are\nthere not Sunday-schools who have such material they have outgrown or\nlaid aside, and which they can send to us for the dark-skinned children\nof the South?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSATISFIED.\n\n_He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be\nsatisfied._\u2014There are many motives which combine to urge the\ndisciples of Christ to energy and fidelity in the missionary work:\nthe wretchedness of those who lie in the darkness of heathendom, and\nespecially in the black night of savage superstition; the wrongs and\ncrimes which the introduction of a Christian civilization would in\ntime efface; our sad anticipations for those on whom we must believe\nthe Lord will look with merciful and just consideration, and yet who\nare surely not fit for the kingdom of God. The fact of the command\nof Christ were enough, and especially that this was His last and\nparting charge. But, amid all these, is there a motive so sweet and\nstill so energizing as that which we have written above\u2014that in the\ncontemplation of His salvation accomplished among men, the joy of our\nLord shall be full, the purpose of His love attained, and He content\nto have endured the flesh and the cross? If we love Him because He\nfirst loved us, let us remember that His love was not a sentiment, but\na sacrifice; that it was measured by what He did for us, and for our\nsalvation; and that it is the sacred claim of His love upon ours, that\nwhat sacrifice by us of time, or strength, or means, or life itself,\nmay contribute to the fullness of His joy, to the completeness of His\nsatisfaction, we should give with cheerful and continuous readiness.\n\nOther motives may bear upon us with now greater and now less force;\nspecial calls may be heard with more or less distinctness; unusual\ndisclosures of need may make us eager to relieve; but through all, and\nunder all, and greater than all, is this, that we may please our Lord,\nand contribute somewhat to the completeness of His redemption, and to\nHis satisfaction in the result of all that He has borne and done for\nsinful men.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nTALLADEGA, ALA.\u2014The Southern Industrial Association held its second\nannual fair at Talladega, Ala., November 11-14. This Association is\nofficered in part and largely helped by Talladega College, and its\nobject is to promote the industry and physical good of the Freedmen.\nThe weather was favorable, the attendance was large, many coming\nquite a distance, and the display of articles was unusually good. In\nagricultural and garden products, in fancy articles, in needlework,\nboth plain and ornamental, and in the culinary department, especial\nexcellence was shown. The exhibition of stock was meagre, with the\nexception of fowls, which were numerous and remarkably fine. Some\nblacksmith\u2019s hammers, tables, and an upholstered chair, would compare\nwell with similar productions from the best Northern workmen. More than\nseven hundred entries were made, and the premiums awarded were worth\nabout three hundred dollars. The fair stimulates industry, and marks a\nreal advance in the condition of the people. Many of our white friends\npaid well-deserved praise, and one late slaveholder, said to have owned\nnearly a hundred negroes, was so pleased as to make a cash contribution\nto the treasury, and offered to double it should there be a deficit.\nOn the last evening, the College chapel was full to overflowing, while\nRev. C. L. Harris, of Selma, gave a very bold and moving and powerful\naddress of more than an hour in length, on the African in America.\nThe address showed what an African can do, and it pointed out what an\nAfrican should become. Take it all in all, the Fair marks a good step\nupward and gives fresh hope for the future.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMCLEANSVILLE, N. C.\u2014Our school is growing larger\u2014double what it\nwas at the corresponding time last year. Many expect to come after\nChristmas from abroad. Must enlarge our accommodations.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTOUGALOO, MISS.\u2014We now have seventy-nine boarders, and have had to go\ninto the barracks again. A prospect of increased attendance, and what\nto do with the students we can none of us imagine. We ought to enlarge\nour accommodations immediately.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMOBILE, ALA.\u2014School overflowing. If we have room and teaching force\nenough, we shall have three hundred in attendance by February 1st.\nWithout increased room and help we shall be obliged to turn away many\nthat would enter the intermediate and normal departments. We have\nalready begun this at the primary door.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nATLANTA, GA.\u2014Mr. A. W. Farnham, late principal of Avery Institute, has\nbecome principal of the Normal department of the University, to assist\nin making the best teachers possible for that region.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFISK UNIVERSITY.\u2014The number of pupils is rapidly increasing, and there\nis a prospect that the students will be too many or the accommodations\ntoo few.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWOODVILLE, GA.\u2014Our school is crowded. If you had not built the\nparsonage, the pupils could not have been accommodated. You have done\na great deal of good for the people at this place. Almost every day,\nchildren are refused admittance, because we are so full. The only hope\nof our church, so far as I can see, is in the children educated in our\nschools.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNEW ORLEANS, LA.\u2014\u201cI wish you could have heard some of the expressions\nof gratitude to the A. M. A. in our services during your Annual Meeting\nin Chicago. The church observed the day by remembering the Association\nin their Tuesday evening prayer meeting.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMARION, ALA.\u2014In one envelope yesterday, the collection being for the\nA. M. A., was $5 from a hard-working man, this being one-tenth of\nthe man\u2019s crop\u2014one bale of cotton, which brought $30\u2014showing that\nyour work for this people is not wholly unappreciated. We made the\nA. M. A. a special subject of prayer at our church meeting last week.\nSixty-three at Sunday-school yesterday. Boys\u2019 meeting at the Home\nfully attended. We have had a \u201creception\u201d at the Home\u2014all our people,\nmen, women and children, including babies. We only want the special\ninfluences of the Holy Spirit.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFLORENCE, ALA.\u2014On the Sabbath, November 23d, a new church edifice\nwas dedicated at this place. Pastor Wm. H. Ash was assisted by Field\nSuperintendent Roy; by student Anderson, from Fisk University, who\nhad preached for the church the year before Mr. Ash came; by the\nPresbyterian pastor, who offered the prayer of dedication; and by the\nM. E. South Presiding Elder. Fifty of the best white citizens of the\nplace were present; among them, besides the ministers named, two other\nMethodist preachers, ex-Governor Patton and four lawyers. These friends\ncontributed freely to the balance needed ($70) to put in the pulpit\nand pews, which had not yet been secured. It was all raised in a few\nminutes after the sermon. The house is spoken of by the citizens as the\nonly modern church in the place. It is indeed a gem. It is twenty-five\nby forty feet, with a brick foundation, a steep roof and a little\nbelfry. It is well painted on the outside, and on the inside ceiled\nin varnished yellow pine. The total cost was $950. It was built with\ngreat economy under the supervision of Mr. Ash. \u201cHoward,\u201d of Boston, is\na man who knows how to make fine investments in this line, as several\nof his ventures of this kind have proved. To his $300, the Central\nCongregational Church, of Providence, R. I., to which Mr. Ash belongs,\nadded $100. One year ago, more than twenty of the influential and\nwell-to-do members of this church removed to Kansas, else so much of\naid would not have been needed. We learn that those people are highly\nrespected in the communities where they have settled. Pastor Ash and\nhis educated wife are greatly devoted to their people. They are also\nteaching a parish school, which is much approved.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\nAfrica.\n\n\u2014Quite full accounts of the Nyanza Mission are given in the last two\nnumbers of the _Church Missionary Intelligencer_. Mr. Wilson set out\nAugust 23, 1878, from Kagei, at the south end of the lake, for Mtesa\u2019a\ncapital, at its northern extremity, in the Daisy, but was wrecked on\nthe way, and compelled to take out a section of the boat with which to\nrepair the rest of it. Eight weeks were thus occupied, during which\nthey received great kindness from the chief and people of Uzongora,\na tribe which met Stanley with great violence. They arrived November\nsixth at Uganda. Mtesa continued to treat them well, despite the\nefforts of the Arabs to prejudice him against them. Mr. Wilson had gone\nto meet the three missionaries who were coming to reinforce them by\nway of the Nile. Mr. Mackay was teaching reading by charts to a large\nnumber of old and young. Some valuable conclusions have been reached\nby their experience\u2014that they do not need ordained men yet so much as\nthose experienced in practical work. \u201cUnless we succeed in elevating\nlabor, we shall get hearers, but no doers. Hence slavery\u2014domestic,\nat least\u2014cannot cease; and if slavery does not cease, polygamy\nwill remain.\u201d The need of English traders to take the place of the\nArabs, who want slaves, is emphasized. The cost of maintenance is\nvery trifling: small presents secure an abundance of goats, coffee,\nplantains, sugar-cane, etc. It is hoped that long ere this, seven\nmissionaries are together in Uganda, viz.: the Revs. O. T. Wilson and\nG. Litchfield; Messrs. Mackay, Pearson, Felkin, Stokes and Copplestone.\nSixteen in all have been sent, of whom six have died and three have\nreturned sick.\n\n\u2014The _English Independent_ of October 30 says: \u201cIt would seem, from\ncommunications which have just been received, that the wiles of French\nJesuits have already brought trouble to these missionaries. A letter\nof introduction, written by Lord Salisbury to King Mtesa, was read,\nand gave great satisfaction. Soon after the arrival of the Jesuits\nthe aspect of affairs was changed. The king accused the missionaries\nof playing him false, an untruthful report having reached him that\nthe Egyptians were advancing their posts more to the south. Some\nmonths passed in a very unsatisfactory manner, and at length one of\nthe missionaries was allowed to go to Egypt to prepare the way for\nthe king\u2019s messengers, who were to be accompanied by Mr. Wilson; two\nmore were permitted to return to the south side of the lake, \u2018on\ncondition that they would thence send on to Mtesa some mission stores\nleft there.\u2019 At the end of June, three remained at Uganda, without\nthe necessary facilities either to carry on their mission work or to\nwithdraw. With such troubles they are beset, through the combined\nintrigues of the enemies of corporeal and spiritual freedom.\u201d\n\n\u2014The same paper says that no direct tidings have been received from\nthe London Missionary Society\u2019s agents at Ujiji on the Tanganika,\nand ascribes this break in communication to the Arab slave traders,\nand only hopes that their hostility has been limited to intercepting\nletters. Dr. Kirk, the consul at Zanzibar, has been instructed\nto institute inquiries. Dr. Laws, of the mission at Livingstonia\n(Scotch), has been requested to send messengers to Ujiji to learn the\ncondition. Great solicitude is felt, and a day of special prayer for\nDivine guidance and help has been appointed. The last accounts in the\n_Chronicle_ of the London Missionary Society report the death of Rev.\nA. W. Dodgshun seven days after his arrival at Ujiji, on the way to\nwhich place he lost nearly all the goods belonging to that part of\nthe expedition, and the successful progress through Ugogo of Messrs.\nSouthon and Griffith: they were in good health, and confident of\nreaching their destination shortly.\n\n\u2014The _London Telegraph_, of Oct. 22, says: \u201cAll alike will be\ninterested in the following extract from a letter which has just\nbeen received from Mr. Stanley, the famous African explorer, by an\nintimate friend. The letter is dated from Banana Point, at the mouth\nof the Congo River, Sept. 13, and says: \u2018All this year I have been\nvery busy, and have worked hard. I have equipped one expedition on the\nEast Coast; have reconstructed another\u2014namely, the International\u2014of\nwhose misfortune we have heard so often, and have explored personally\nseveral new districts on the East Coast. Having finished my work\nsatisfactorily to myself, my friends and those who sent me, I came\nthrough the Mediterranean and round to this spot, where I arrived two\nyears and four months ago, on that glorious day on which we sighted\nold ocean after our rash descent of the Livingstone. * * * And now I\nbegin another mission seriously and deliberately, with a grand object\nin view. I am charged to open\u2014and keep open, if possible\u2014all such\ndistricts and countries as I may explore for the commercial world.\nThe mission is supported by a philanthropic society which numbers\nnoble-minded men of several nations. It is not a religious society,\nbut my instructions are entirely of that spirit. No violence must be\nused, and wherever rejected, the mission must withdraw to seek another\nfield. We have abundant means, and, therefore, we are to purchase the\nvery atmosphere, if any demands be made upon us, rather than violently\noppose them. In fact, we must freely buy of all and every, rather than\nresent, and you know the sailor\u2019s commandment\u2014\u2018Obey orders if it\nbreaks owners\u2019\u2014is easier to keep than to stand upon one\u2019s rights.\u2019\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nVACATION REPORTS.\n\nPROF. T.N. CHASE, ATLANTA.\n\nA stranger could hardly obtain a more vivid and correct idea of the\nfar-reaching influence for good that one of the higher institutions of\nthe American Missionary Association is exerting, than by listening to\nthe reports of the students as they return from their summer\u2019s work of\nteaching. At Atlanta University the first Sunday afternoon of the fall\nterm is devoted to these reports, and to the teachers it is one of the\nhappiest and most inspiring occasions of the whole year. We wish that\nmany of the readers of the MISSIONARY could have been with us on last\nSunday, and seen with their own eyes and heard with their own ears,\nsince the full rich tones of voice, dignified composure and simple\nearnestness of these student-teachers cannot be transferred to paper.\nBut I did not see you present, and so will give you the benefit of some\nnotes I took down, departing from my original plan of arranging and\nclassifying the \u201ctestimony,\u201d omitting quotation marks, and introducing\nthe successive speakers simply by beginning on a new line.\n\nI taught in Tatnal. Other pupils were afraid to go there because it was\na democratic county. People did not want a teacher from outside of the\ncounty, because they did not want the money to go out of the county.\nThey liked me very much. Colored people have from one acre to 2500\nacres of land, and are about as well educated as the whites. Children\nare compelled by their parents to come to Sunday-school. I kept up a\nSunday evening prayer-meeting. Several of the children acknowledged\nJesus and _turned over_ to the church. I made two or three speeches on\ntemperance.\n\nMy Commissioner is well disposed toward this Institution. I made two\nor three lectures against intemperance, and encouraged the people to\neducate themselves and accumulate property. At my exhibition three\nlawyers were present and forty or fifty other whites.\n\nThe Commissioner did not examine me, saying that this school was the\nbest in the world and he never intended to examine a pupil from it.\nHe was a Saturday-Sunday man and did not do any business on Saturday.\nI tramped a week and a half for a school and found one on Col. \u2014\u2014\u2019s\nplace. Parents want their children whipped, and do not think they are\ntaught any thing unless they are whipped.\n\nSome of us had a convention on temperance, tobacco and morals. The\ncolored people own a good deal of land and make lots of cotton. One man\nmade twenty-one bales, but saved only eighty dollars.\n\nCol. \u2014\u2014 said Atlanta University must be the best disciplined school\nin the State. The poor whites do not want to go to school, and are more\nintemperate and degraded than the blacks. If the colored man would only\nstand up for his rights, he would not be _hacked_.\n\nI taught in a district called \u201cDark Corner.\u201d I think I gave them a\nright start. Had a prayer meeting which was largely attended. Poor\nwhites use more whiskey than the colored people. Whites seem kind to\nblacks, lend them money and horses, and help them in every way.\n\nI had an average attendance of thirty-three and a night-school of\nfifteen. Taught on an old plantation, on which there used to be five\nhundred slaves. Ignorance has great sway there. People have good stock,\nbut cannot buy land. There is a temperance lodge in Camden of one\nhundred and forty members.\n\nIt was a bad county where I taught. I was _careful_ about teaching\nthere. They never had a school before. No land is owned by colored\npeople. There is much opposition to their education. The immorality of\nthe place is explained by the fact that they formerly had stills there.\nPreachers are not moral men. They are opposed to \u201cforeign\u201d teachers.\nPoor whites create a good deal of disturbance. Land is owned by those\nwho owned it during slavery times, and they will not sell it to white\nor colored.\n\nI was the first lady teacher that taught in the county and was quite a\nnovelty. They had bad teachers. One white one was intemperate. White\npeople were friendly. Three whites raised their hats to me, which\nwas quite a new thing. I had a very good Sunday-school; white people\nattended my exhibition. They like this University very much, and the\nCommissioner wanted me to encourage the boys and girls to come up.\n\nMost everybody uses whiskey and tobacco. I talked on temperance,\ndistributed temperance papers and read to them. Took the New York\n_Witness_ and read it to the people. I think I did some good among\nthe children. The children of the poor whites are _knocking about_ on\nthe road all the time. They had a school one month, then gave it up.\nYoung men spend Sunday in gambling; guess they are doing it right now.\nSome said I was not teaching them anything because I did not use the\nblue-back speller. The houses of poor whites are just like the colored,\nbut their clothes are not so good.\n\nThe people where I taught are intelligent and well-to-do. Most of them\nown their own homes. The whites want the colored people educated. A\nspeaker at an exhibition of a female seminary said that the colored\npeople were leaving them in the dark, and if they did not look out, the\nbottom rail would be on the top. Six or eight colored people own from\none hundred to five hundred acres and stock. The Commissioner\u2019s wife\nasked me into the parlor and gave me a rocking-chair.\n\nWhere I was last winter, the people kept Thanksgiving. Of course\nI enjoyed that, because I knew you were keeping it here. I had a\nSunday-school that was quite large at first, but when big meetings came\non it grew small.\n\nI had seventy-five pupils. I cannot see that I did much good, but I\nhope some good will come out of my summer\u2019s work. Public sentiment\nseems to sanction the worst things there are.\n\nThe people where I taught said they must have a man, that females could\nnot teach, and they could not stand ladies. The whites, on the whole,\nare better to the teachers than the colored people are. I succeeded\nin getting six men to stop using tobacco while attending school, and\nthen they said if they could stop fifty-five days they could all their\nlife-time.\n\nSomehow they looked at me like they looked at Columbus when he first\ncame to America. Preachers are all intemperate men, and some of them\nsaid they could not preach well unless they had some whiskey in them.\nI taught four times in the same place, and have had a larger school\neach time. The morals of the colored people depend on the morals of\nthe whites. I opened school at eight and closed at six. I saw no\nintemperance, because it was the wrong time of the year. I talked\ntemperance and acted it. There is but little difference between the\nwhites and colored; they eat together, sleep together, and have the\nsame kind of houses.\n\nNow to these reports, only a small part of which I have copied, I will\nadd a few comments:\n\n1. There is no diminution of the desire of colored children to learn,\nand of their parents to have their children educated. Parents want\nteachers to teach from early dawn to candle-light, and even to _beat_\nknowledge into the pupils.\n\n2. Intemperance and licentiousness abound to a fearful extent, not only\namong the laity, but also among the clergy.\n\n3. The poor whites need education and moral and religious instruction\nas much as the colored people, and our students are reaching some of\nthem in their influence.\n\n4. Public school privileges in the South are limited, and it will be a\nlong time before suitable buildings are provided and efficient teaching\nsecured.\n\n5. The whites are, in the main, well disposed toward the colored\npeople, and in favor of their being educated.\n\n6. Many of the colored people are acquiring homes and other property,\nalthough in some places the owners of land will not sell it.\n\n7. In some instances the colored people are cheated out of the benefits\nof their labor, and ill-treated in various ways.\n\n8. Atlanta University stands high in the estimation of the people,\nand needs liberal pecuniary support from its friends to keep up its\nreputation and do the great work that lies before it.\n\n9. Social prejudice seems to be yielding somewhat, although the fact\nthat a white lady invited a colored girl to sit in a rocking-chair in\nher parlor, is not so common an occurrence as to make it unworthy of\nmention. Tidiness, gentility, intelligence and morality will yet be\nconsidered superior to a light complexion.\n\n10. The hope of this race, as well as of any other, lies in the\ntraining of children, and hence the value of good schools, both day and\nSunday.\n\n11. The American Missionary Association is doing a valuable work among\nthe _whites_, by showing them what education will do for poor people,\nand stimulating them to try to keep the \u201ctop-rail\u201d where it is.\n\n12. No one can estimate the influence our school is exerting in favor\nof education, industry, economy, temperance, Sabbath observance,\nchastity, social order, and, in short, morality and religion.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWOMAN\u2019S WORK FOR WOMAN.\n\nMISS LAURA A. PARMELEE, MEMPHIS, TENN.\n\n  We give the closing portion of a paper read at the Woman\u2019s Meeting,\n  held in connection with the Annual Meeting at Chicago. In the opening\n  portions of it, Miss Parmelee describes with frank truthfulness the\n  perils which encircle the colored girls of the South by reason of the\n  family habits, the laxity of the marriage relation, the ignorance\n  of the laws of health, the late hours of their religious and social\n  gatherings, &c. We print her statements and suggestions as to the\n  remedy and protection.\n\nOf special agencies for training colored girls to better habits,\nboarding schools claim the first place. If there had been seventy,\ninstead of seven homes of this kind, we could to-day report a fairer\nrecord of virtue and purity. Under the constant supervision of faithful\nteachers, who regulate the hours, walks and visits of those in their\ncharge, there is opportunity to acquire a love for systematic ways\nand a pure home life. With the instinctive imitation of their race\nthey adopt the manners and sentiments of the ladies living under the\nsame roof and sitting at the same table. Yet with this help, there has\nbeen frequent occasion for teachers to ponder the story of the young\ncrabs that went from the sea-side to a seminary among the mountains,\nwhere they became ashamed of their own gait and diligently tried to\nlearn the new way of walking, succeeding to the entire satisfaction of\ntheir teachers as well as themselves, and seeming to have forgotten\nthe old ways, but, upon returning to parents and friends at the shore,\nrelinquished the accomplishment and walked backwards as in other days.\n\nIn two or three schools\u2014possibly more, but I speak only from personal\nknowledge\u2014it is the duty of one of the lady teachers to give the\ngirls instruction in dress, manners, morals and health, particularly\nin matters relating to their peculiar physical organization. Once\na week the regular lessons are postponed or laid aside, that the\npupils may have a half hour for listening to the lecture that has\nbeen thoughtfully prepared for their exclusive benefit. Commencing\nwith points of etiquette, dress, sketches of lives of famous women,\nannouncing the latest fashion items when they happen to be suitable,\nand so winning the confidence and arousing the interest of the class,\nit is comparatively easy to come to graver counsels concerning morals,\nhealth, danger of association with people of loose principles, the\nlowering of standards of personal honor, and finally the teaching\nproperly due a daughter from her mother\u2019s lips.\n\nThis branch of work is neither light nor pleasant. False delicacy,\nfear of speaking injudiciously and of being misunderstood by the girls\nand their mothers, too long kept us silent. We shrank from meeting our\nfull responsibility in this direction, and nerved ourselves to the\ntask only when circumstances convinced us that it was an imperative\nduty. The ordinary study of physiology is good, but in colored schools\nsomething more is needed. Teach young girls to reverence the body,\nto regard all its functions as gifts of God, and the possibilities\nof motherhood to be sacredly guarded, and they are transformed from\nanimals to thoughtful women. Do any regard this as dangerous argument?\nThose who have tried the experiment are satisfied of its worth. More\nsensible and healthful modes of dress, increasing discretion of manners\nand modesty of deportment, are immediate results of a plan that a few\nregarded as an innovation, but which has abundantly justified itself.\nIf every well-established school of the American Missionary Association\ncould be furnished with models for this purpose, far more good would\nbe accomplished than with empty hands, however wise the teacher\u2019s lips.\n\nThese health talks include cookery, sanitary measures, medical hints,\nand a thousand items of common information in a land of newspapers, but\nunknown to people who depend upon neighborhood gossip for all their\nknowledge.\n\nAs teachers became better acquainted with the needs of their fields,\nsewing lessons were given, or sewing schools established in connection\nwith daily work. While teaching deft use of the needle, to mend old\ngarments and cut new, there is opportunity to speak apt words about\nlove of finery, habits of wastefulness or extravagance, and improper\nhours, all of which find quick lodgment in minds eager for new ideas.\nIt is no slight gratification to teachers that, in large assemblies,\nthey can select their students by a more quiet, suitable dress and\ndignified bearing.\n\nHouse-to-house visiting is another important means of elevating the\nhomes and making \u201clife among the lowly\u201d cleaner and purer. In the\nearly days of labor for the Freedmen, ladies were commissioned by the\nAmerican Missionary Association for this purpose. It is encouraging\nto note that, through the parent society, the Christian women of the\nNorth are adopting representatives to carry on this branch of work more\nsystematically. Year by year there are changes in methods, and teachers\nhave less time than formerly for this outside visiting.\n\nHonorable mention must be made of the part Congregational churches\nbear in this work of regeneration. Too much time would be consumed in\nexplaining the opposition they meet, or the great need of planting this\nlittle leaven that is already moving the mass of blind superstition.\nSuffice it to say, that one of the two denominations claiming the\nreligious loyalty of the Freedmen insists that, once in Christ, a soul\nis forever safe, and can commit sin with impunity, because forgiveness\nfrees from all restraints of the law. The other great body of believers\nis equally false in its explanations of truths held by followers of\nWhitefield and Wesley.\n\nThese are the principal agencies operating for the redemption of\nthe colored homes, and through them for the emancipation of Africa,\nlatest called of nations, now stretching out imploring hands for the\nlight, and health, and hope, streaming from the cross of Christ. I\nwill not stop to detail incidents illustrating various phases of the\none great plan, nor recount successes attained, nor introduce you to\nthe homes\u2014truly homelike in peace, purity and domestic love; or to\nthe little centres of social influence, where refinement and virtue\ninvite your respect and friendship. There are such homes and circles,\nalthough they are not sufficiently numerous to have the power in their\ncommunities that they deserve.\n\nBetween the graduates of Atlanta or Fisk, and the toilers in cotton\npatch or rice swamp\u2014between the better homes of Memphis or Charleston,\nand the cabins in piney woods or Louisiana glades\u2014there is a great\ngulf, to be spanned only by the prayers and labors of Northern\nChristians. I have chosen not to paint prospects and aspirations of the\ndwellers _this_ side of that chasm; but rather to give you a glimpse of\nlife beyond in the darkness, that you may comprehend in some degree the\nurgency of the need to chase away the clouds that obscure the light of\nhope and purity.\n\nI have thought it possible for women to do more than they have\nheretofore in distinct efforts for their own sex; that some new effort\nmight be made to efficiently supplement the work of schools and\nchurches.\n\nTwo years ago, we made a bold venture at Le Moyne Normal School.\nHealth talks had become popular, and the teachers were convinced of\nthe wisdom of taking further steps in that direction, when, most\nopportunely, there came to Memphis a lady physician, well advanced in\nyears, of evident culture, and provided with an excellent life-size\nmodel of the human frame. She was invited to lecture to our female\npupils and their mothers, and did so very acceptably. Her gray hair\ncommanded respect, although the girls were at first a little suspicious\nof the manikin. Satisfied with the effect upon the students and of\nthe lady\u2019s good judgment, her services were secured for a course of\nlectures, to which the friends of the girls were invited. It was\na happy idea, as was quickly proven. I cannot tell how many times\nteachers were thanked for the privileges thus afforded, or how many\nmothers exclaimed, \u201cIf I had only known these things sooner, I should\nhave saved myself and my children worlds of sickness and trouble and\ndisgrace!\u201d\n\nEver since that experiment I have longed to see a similar opportunity\noffered to all the colored women. If a discreet, motherly woman, who\nunderstood anatomy, hygiene and medicine, could be furnished with a\nmodel of the body and sent through the large cities and villages,\ngiving free lectures upon health, care of their own persons, proper\nfood, training of children, and responsibility to God for the chastity\nof their sons and daughters, the Freedwomen would receive incalculable\nbenefit. The teachers cannot always reach out and control the mothers;\nthe missionary meets but a part of the women in a single city; but\nan itinerating lady physician could influence thousands of the very\nclass most in need of the instruction she could give. I wish the\nheart of some woman, qualified for the undertaking, would be stirred\nto consecrate herself to this work. I think the officers of the\nAssociation would indorse such a movement. Certainly, pastors and\nteachers in the field would heartily welcome her to their churches and\nhomes, to which she would be a valuable auxiliary, while exerting a\nmore positive and direct influence upon the women than is possible from\nany one of the already established methods of work.\n\nDean Howson says: \u201cHow can you convert a country unless you convert\nthe families? How can you convert the families unless you convert the\nmothers?\u201d\n\nIt was once my privilege to minister to an honored friend who was\ngently falling asleep in Jesus. Happening to draw up a window-shade an\nhour before the eyes closed upon the scenes of mortal life, I received\nfrom the beloved lips this last commendation and counsel: \u201cThat\u2019s\nright; give us more light.\u201d\n\nSpeaking to-day in behalf of our colored sisters, I appeal for light.\n\u201cGive us more light\u201d to dispel the heavy clouds of ignorance and sin,\nto show plainly straight paths for the feet of stumbling ones, and for\nthe praise of Him who is able to keep _us_ from falling, and to present\n_us_ faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE GEORGIA CONFERENCE.\n\nREV. C.W. HAWLEY.\n\nThe Georgia Congregational Conference, from which I have just\nreturned, is a large body, if an extensive framework can make it so.\nMy share of the travel to its second annual session at Savannah was\nabout six hundred miles. Of the fourteen churches, two of which are\nin South Carolina, all save one were represented, and the meeting\nwas much enjoyed by all. The color line was a little indistinct and\nalmost forgotten. The colored brethren were quite in the majority on\nthe platform and on the floor, and gave good proof of their ability\nto preside with dignity\u2014Rev. Floyd Snelson was our Moderator\u2014and\nto speak fluently and well. In fact, they showed a real genius\nfor public address, warranting the statement of a city daily\u2014the\nSouthern press is growing liberal\u2014that their speeches were \u201cworthy\nof the most dignified deliberative body.\u201d Dr. Roy reported the great\nmeeting at Chicago, giving, as he had already done at Atlanta and\nMacon, rich skimmings from the papers and speeches there presented,\nand greatly cheering, with these proofs of the sympathy of Northern\nChristians, those who must here learn to do without the sympathy of\ntheir near neighbors. His lecture on Congregationalism also elicited\nmuch interest, and nothing but the lack of money to pay the printer\nprevented its immediate publication in full, as a much needed campaign\ndocument for the use of the churches. To whatever church a man here\nbelongs, it becomes him to be able to state and to justify its faith\nand polity. There is kept up a running fire of small arms between\ndenominations here. It was encouraging to see that the men of this\nyoung Conference desire to be intelligent Congregationalists, and able\nto defend themselves; but it is hoped that they will not fall into\nthe mistake of making denominational strife the chief end of their\nexistence, as some of their neighbors seem to do.\n\nThe reports from the churches do not show any rapid increase. \u201cWe must\nexpect the churches to be small, perhaps, for twenty years yet,\u201d said\none who has grown up with this work. There are obstinate prejudices in\nthe way, and there is a great educational work yet to be done. A lay\ndelegate sagely remarked: \u201cWhen the ground is rough we must go slow,\nor there\u2019ll be trouble,\u201d adding also his personal testimony that,\nin seeking to bring others over to his way of thinking, he found it\n\u201cmighty hard to sense them into anything better than their old ideas,\nthat a man cannot have religion without making a great big fuss about\nit, and cannot pray without hollering as though the Lord was deaf;\u201d but\nstill he was sure that \u201cif we kept pulling at the wheel and rolling on\nthe chariot we should gain the field.\u201d\n\n\nTWO COUNCILS.\n\nOn the way down to Conference, some of us stopped at Macon, according\nto letters missive, for the examination and ordination of Preston W.\nYoung, acting pastor at Byron; and during the sessions of Conference\nanother council examined and ordained two others, A.J. Headen, of\nCypress Slash, and T.T. Benson, of Orangeburgh, S.C. These three\nyoung men passed very creditable examinations, and, with Rev. J.R.\nMcLean, moderator of the second council, formed a very interesting and\npromising group\u2014all Talladega men and classmates\u2014a fine illustration\nof the good work done by the school for the church. Putting all things\ntogether\u2014Conference and Councils, and acquaintance with the teachers\nand their excellent work in Macon and Savannah\u2014it was with us all a\ngrand week, quickening in its Christian fellowship, and profitable\nin its revelations of work already done, and of harvests yet to be\ngathered.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CENTRAL SOUTH CONFERENCE.\n\nEducation\u2014Discipline\u2014The Exercises.\n\nREV. HORACE J. TAYLOR, ATHENS, ALA.\n\nThe Central South Conference embraces the Congregational churches of\nTennessee, North Alabama and Mississippi. Last week we enjoyed the\nrare privilege of welcoming to our homes some of the members of this\nConference, and the Field Superintendent of the A.M.A. On Thursday\nevening, Nov. 20th, Rev. G.W. Moore preached the opening sermon from\nPsalm lxxiii. 24, \u201cThou wilt guide me by thy counsel, and afterward\nreceive me to glory.\u201d The subject was clearly and forcibly presented.\nOn Friday morning an organization was effected by electing Rev. J.E.\nSmith, of Chattanooga, moderator. That morning was spent in hearing the\nnarratives of the churches. The reports generally showed progress.\nAthens alone reported a less membership than last year; but in this\nchurch there has been a growth in grace in many of its members.\n\nIn the afternoon we discussed the subject of education. The young\npeople were especially urged not to be content with a little schooling,\nnor even with a good common school education, but to press forward\nwith a determination to secure the very highest education that can be\nsecured. The idea that the schools at Chattanooga, Athens, Florence\nand Memphis ought to be feeders of Fisk University was well brought\nout. These schools cannot give the high education that can be gained\nat Fisk, and their success should be measured largely by the number of\nstudents they send to Fisk University. Rev. J. E. Smith read an article\non the necessity of church discipline. The subject was well presented,\nand in the discussion that followed, as in the paper, the idea that\nchurch discipline ought to have for its main object the reclamation of\nthe offender, was clearly brought out. Dr. Roy and others also spoke\nas to the method of church discipline, and especially the propriety\nof getting evidence from any source. It seems that some, perhaps a\nmajority, of the churches about here will not receive the evidence of\nany but their own members. Some think that Congregational churches\nshould be bound hand and foot in the same way, so that the devil and\nhis followers can manage all in their own way. Then any member could\nbe guilty of theft, adultery, fornication or anything else; if he only\nwere not seen by members of this church he could remain in \u201cgood and\nregular standing.\u201d Dr. Roy said emphatically that evidence was to be\nsought from any source, and weighed carefully. Others agreed with him.\n\nAt night Dr. Roy spoke, using his fine large map, on the work of the\nAssociation in the South. The house was full, and all were deeply\ninterested. Saturday morning we listened to a paper by Rev. G. W.\nMoore, on how to reach the young people. Saturday afternoon was mainly\ntaken up with hearing reports of committees. Revs. H. S. Bennett and\nJ. E. Smith were chosen delegates from this Conference to the National\nCouncil. Saturday night we listened to the news of Trinity church and\ncongregation. This was one of the best meetings of Conference. Sunday\nmorning Rev. H. S. Bennett preached from Acts ii. 3, and Revs. A. K.\nSpence and G. W. Moore officiated at the communion. At night Rev. A. K.\nSpence preached to young people from Ps. cix. 9.\n\nI cannot give in this paper an idea of the interesting meetings we\nhad. Each meeting was a feast of fat things. It was a great privilege\nto meet these brethren from abroad, to have them sit at our table, to\ntalk with them about the common cause we all are interested in, and\nabove all to meet with them around the table of our Lord. Some of us\nmay never meet them again in Conference, but the memory of this good\nmeeting will remain through life; and we trust that this church will\nreceive a blessing in consequence of this meeting.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nThanksgiving Services and First Impressions.\n\nREV. C. W. HAWLEY, ATLANTA.\n\nI have just come in from our social evening service of thanksgiving\nand prayer for the A. M. A. About fifty were present, and there were\nrepeated expressions of gratitude for blessings here received, and\nfervent prayers for the continued and increasing success of the cause.\nOne brother thought the Association the chief agent in the abolition\nof slavery, and spoke most feelingly of the inexpressible relief which\nthat abolition had brought to him and to his people. Another in his\nprayer thanked the Lord for the schools and the church in the city,\nexpressing the conviction that if the A. M. A. had not sent its workers\nhere \u201cthings would be in a considerably worse fix than they are.\u201d\n\nOne woman told her story: her blind gropings as a slave, her joy in\nbeing sought out and taught by the teachers of the A. M. A., just when\nshe \u201c_did not know what to do with her freedom_,\u201d and made capable\nof giving her children, now converted, a Christian training, with a\npurpose henceforth to use for the good of others all the light and help\nshe had received. Another told us how the A. M. A. had reached out its\nhelping hand to him in this city when he was ignorant and vicious, and\nthrough the influence of a faithful teacher in a night school had saved\nhim from evil companions and the curse of drunkenness.\n\nIt has been an intensely interesting meeting to me, and would have\nquickened the zeal of any friends of the A. M. A. who might have been\npresent. Our regular prayer-meeting comes tomorrow evening and is a\npleasant anticipation to me. I reached the field the 11th inst. and am\nnot yet well acquainted with it. I am sure to be interested in it. I\nhave quite enjoyed the welcome given me and have no painful sense of\nisolation. Their faces, their intelligence, their quiet good sense,\ntheir homes, so far as I have seen them, all surpass my expectations.\nThe work that has been done for them _shows_. I shall esteem it a\nprivilege if I may do something to help it on.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nEmerson Institute\u20141865-1879.\n\nREV. O. D. CRAWFORD, MOBILE.\n\nIt was named after Mr. Ralph Emerson, a resident of Rockford, Ill.,\nwhose timely gift enabled the Association to purchase \u201cBlue College,\u201d a\ncommodious building, with beautiful grounds, in the western part of the\ncity, two miles from the post-office. It was originally built for the\neducation of the white youth. In the transpositions of the times \u201cafter\nthe surrender,\u201d as the close of the war is here styled, it became the\nresort of three hundred Freedmen. In April of our Centennial year it\ncrumbled in the flames. The school went on in unfavorable quarters\nuntil, in May, 1878, it entered its new and elegant building, which was\ndesigned for two hundred and fifty pupils. Last year the yellow fever\ndelayed the opening of school and crippled many of its friends. But\nadverse influences are now disappearing, and the ten thousand colored\npeople of the city are looking to it again as the hope of their youth.\n\nLast year, two-thirds of our whole number in attendance entered\nafter the Christmas holidays. This year the second month closes with\nfifty names more than the highest number of last year. The rooms are\nfurnished with the best of modern desks; but their present capacity\nis exceeded by more than forty names. If another room and sufficient\nteaching force be added by the friends of the Association after New\nYear\u2019s, our present number of two hundred and forty will, in every\nprobability, run up to three hundred. To meet the wants of these, we\nshould have six teachers besides the superintendent, including one that\nshould give half an hour each day to instruction in vocal music and\nsome time to instrumental music. We now have one that is competent for\nthis work, but she has no time for it. Our overworked force is to be\nsomewhat relieved by the expected arrival of a fifth teacher this week.\n\nAt present we are obliged to receive many primary scholars, not only to\nrelieve the public want, but also with the view of raising up normal\nscholars, for whom the Institute has been specially designed. We regret\nthe seeming necessity that is laid upon the colored parents of taking\ntheir children from the public schools. We do not advise their action.\nThe feverish desire for education which seized the body of colored\npeople immediately after emancipation has subsided. Their best men are\nnow obliged to urge upon them the duty of educating their children. In\nthis they have come down to the level of the whites. An organization\nhas been formed to promote this interest. The largest church has\nestablished a school of more than fifty members. The pastor of the most\ninfluential church, in point of intelligence, has opened one, with an\nattendance of more than forty, and teaches it himself, in addition to\npreaching three sermons every Lord\u2019s day and performing the other usual\nduties of a minister. These schools are intended to awaken their people\nin the matter, and to raise up candidates for the work of teaching,\nthat may get their fuller preparation in our Normal department.\n\nThe friends of Christian education could not ask for a more needy and\npromising outlook than lies before us. Will they put into the hands of\nthe Association the necessary means?\n\n\nThe Church\u20141876-1879.\n\nOrganized with forty-seven members, it now has sixty-one. It owes its\norigin and existence to the presence of the Institute. Its members are\nvery poor in this world\u2019s goods, but delightfully rich in grace.\n\nIt was natural that the spirit of independence which found full\nscope among the Freedmen should seek for a church organization and\nconnection with an ecclesiastical body whose history was not tainted\nwith oppression. This disposition, however, has sometimes asked for\nmore license for fleshly indulgences than pure Congregationalism\npermits. In this city it is impossible for your Superintendent to find\na provision store having any considerable variety of goods that does\nnot include among its principal commodities _wines_ and _liquors_.\nMembers and officers of churches are engaged in the trade, and scruple\nnot to advertise conspicuously that branch of their business, which\nwe regard as exceedingly immoral. Yet there are some churches, both\nwhite and colored, whose rules and discipline would delight the heart\nof a Puritan. Congregationalism is an exotic in this soil; and its\nNorthern friends have reason to be pleased if it grows even slowly.\nAmong the adverse circumstances against which our church has had to\nstruggle may be mentioned a frequent change of pastors. In its three\nand one-half years it has suffered the perturbations incident to\ntwo summer supplies, and now the fourth pastor. These changes have\ntended to prevent some from making their church home with us. More\npermanence is a necessity. We have no such opportunity for reaching\nthose under our educational care as is offered by a boarding-school.\nThe parents of most of our pupils are connected with some church, and\nthe children themselves with Sunday-schools. The kind of instruction\nthey receive is one of the necessities of our continuance. The growing\nintelligence of the colored preachers, and the attractiveness of the\nlarge congregations which gather about them, make our beginning less\nattractive to the young, who otherwise might prefer our place of\nworship.\n\nYour missionary has preached to the largest colored church in a revival\nmeeting, and exchanged pulpits with the other leading pastor; but we\ncannot expect any special help from other churches in building up a new\ndenomination in the midst of them. J. H. Roberts, now in the Senior\nTheological Class at Talladega, supplied the church very acceptably\nthrough the summer, and just before his departure witnessed the\nreception of four persons to fellowship. Since then the attendance has\nincreased some. The interest in the Sunday-school has likewise received\nthe impetus given it by the return of our schoolteachers; yet our\nhopes of an increase in members have not thus far been realized. As\naccessory helps we need Sunday school papers and a library. Our problem\nis that of reaching the young with Christian influences in the form of\ndirect religious instruction. For this purpose we have some advantages,\nand hope for more. We wish to keep this missionary work upon the\nprayerful hearts of our Northern friends.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA Revival.\n\nREV. J. D. SMITH, SHELBY IRON WORKS.\n\nDuring the first week in October we set apart Wednesday as a day of\nfasting and prayer. On the following Sabbath we commenced a series of\nmeetings, which continued three weeks. Brother H. W. Conley stopped\noff here on his way from Marion back to Talladega, and preached and\nlabored very faithfully with us several days. Brother J. W. Strong came\ndown and labored with me, preaching the word almost every night for\nover a week. Brother Jones, of Childersburg, paid us a short visit, and\nRev. F. J. Tyler, of this place, pastor of the Union Church (white),\npreached for us. Last of all came Rev. G. W. Andrews, who preached\nseveral times.\n\nEvery evening, one half-hour before services, a number of Christians\nwould assemble in the inquiry-room and converse with those who came to\ninquire of the way of salvation. I must say that the inquiry meetings\nwere the means of great and untold good, as much or more than the\nsermons, perhaps.\n\nWell, the meetings closed with twenty-one conversions reported. Last\nSunday fifteen came forward, entered into covenant with the church, and\nwere baptized, on profession of their faith. _All_ of the candidates\nfor baptism preferred sprinkling\u2014the first instance, to my knowledge,\nwhere we did not have to immerse some out of so many uniting at\none time; and, more singular than all, a Baptist father and mother\npresented their infant boy for baptism. When reminded by some of the\nBaptist brethren that they had \u201cbroken the rules of the church,\u201d they\nreplied by saying that if they had five hundred children, they would\nhave them baptized, because it was right in the sight of God. The work\nhas a more hopeful outlook for future prosperity than ever before.\n\nSome eight or ten are to unite by letter, the first opportunity, who\ndid not get ready in time to join last Sunday. Our total membership\nwill then stand about fifty.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTENNESSEE.\n\nA Student Aided.\n\nREV. E. M. CRAVATH, FISK UNIVERSITY.\n\n  Our readers will remember a plea for student aid made by President\n  Cravath in the MISSIONARY for October. Soon after its publication\n  this description of the first young man thus aided came, but has been\n  delayed by the special matter which has claimed our columns. There\n  are many more such at all our institutions awaiting similar help.\n\nThe first answer came in the shape of a draft for fifty dollars from a\ngood friend of Rochelle, Illinois. On the same day with this answer a\nyoung man from Abbeville, S. C., came to Fisk University for the first\ntime, and as he was a good representative of the class of young people\nfor whom our appeal was made in the October MISSIONARY, we assigned him\nat once to this scholarship.\n\nA brief sketch of his personal history may encourage some of the\nreaders of the MISSIONARY who are yet hesitating to give a favorable\nanswer to our appeal. Mr. Richard J. Holloway was born in Abbeville,\nSouth Carolina, in 1857, and was a slave up to the close of the war.\nHe brought to the University the following testimonial from his former\nmaster, dated Abbeville, S. C., Sept. 8, 1879;\n\n\u201cThe bearer of this, Richard J. Holloway, is a young man who was born\nin my family. I have known him from his birth to the present time.\nHe early exhibited a desire for knowledge, which he has pursued under\ngreat difficulties. Notwithstanding he has made considerable advance,\nhis laudable desire seems to be unsatisfied, and he leaves this section\nof the country to avail himself of advantages offered elsewhere. So\nfar as I know, his moral character is good. He is commended to the\nfavorable regard of all to whom this may come.\u201d The first year after\nthe war, being a lad of nine years, Richard had the opportunity of\nattending a school in Abbeville for five or six months. After this he\nwas under the necessity of working with his parents, but contrived to\nstudy by himself so that he made considerable progress. During the fall\nof 1875 he happened to see, upon the table of his minister, a circular\nwhich had been sent out from the school established by the Am. Miss.\nAssoc. at Greenwood, S. C., which was then, and is still, taught by\nthat most faithful and zealous missionary laborer, Mr. Backenstose, of\nGeneva, N. Y. Noticing that the tuition was only fifty cents a month,\nthere dawned upon him the possibility of realizing his long-cherished\ndesire of securing a good education. Inspired by this thought he left\nhome and hired out on a plantation to earn some money with which to go\nto Greenwood.\n\nBy working three months he earned money enough, so that by buying his\nfood and doing his own cooking he was able to attend school about the\nsame length of time. He then went to one of the upper counties of\nSouth Carolina and taught a private school for two months, after which\nhe worked for two months in a cotton-gin near by, while remaining to\ncollect the money for his teaching. Being compelled to use considerable\nof the money he had earned to help his parents, he again secured a\npublic school for two months, at fifteen dollars a month, and boarded\nhimself. He then went over into Georgia and taught a public school,\nfor which he was fortunate enough to receive twenty-five dollars a\nmonth. He was then able to return to Greenwood, where he was again\nunder the instruction of Mr. Backenstose for nearly three months. Under\nthe advice of his teacher, he determined to get to Fisk University if\npossible and take a thorough course of study, but not succeeding in\nearning much money by his teaching during the spring and summer, he\nstopped for five months of last year at Biddle University at Charlotte,\nN. C. He then undertook teaching again, determined to earn what money\nhe could during the spring and summer, and to get to Fisk University\nif possible at the opening of the next school year. He only succeeded,\nhowever, in getting a three months\u2019 school in Georgia, for which he has\nonly received payment in part. As soon as his school closed he started\nfor Nashville and reached here on the 7th of October, just as the\nanswer came from our friend in Illinois which told us what to do. Mr.\nHolloway is a member of the African Methodist church, and his desire\nevidently is to secure an education that he may use it in Christian\nwork among his people.\n\nWe are confidently hoping that we shall receive similar answers enough\nto enable us to provide for at least a hundred such young men as this.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHealth\u2014Business\u2014School\u2014Church.\n\nPROF. A. J. STEELE, MEMPHIS.\n\nNovember 1st found Memphis dull, spiritless, and wearing a half\ndeserted appearance, its streets strewn with autumn foliage and dry\ngrass, so that the rustling of leaves beneath the feet was a more\nfamiliar sound than the rumbling of wagons or drays on most of the\nstreets. Business men who had returned, in most cases without their\nfamilies, wore a troubled and doubtful look. Many were discouraged and\nwithout hope for the future of the city, either as a business point or\na place of residence. A few, like the boy in the dark, made a pretence\nof courage by \u201cwhistling.\u201d\n\nAlthough the Board of Health had declared the fever ended, there were\nstill a few cases, with constant rumors of many more. After the cold\nspell of October 30, the weather became and continued unusually warm.\nLittle or no cotton was being received, and orders for goods came not\nto waiting merchants. Laboring people returning to the city found no\nemployment, and many suffered for the necessaries of life.\n\nThis state of things continued till the middle of November, when, after\na few frosty nights, and with bright clear weather, the entire aspect\nof affairs changed, and rapidly took on a most hopeful and promising\nappearance. Cotton, the staple and life of business, began to come in\nrapidly, until before the end of November the daily receipts became\nthe largest ever known at this point, placing Memphis as a primary\ncotton market scarcely second to New Orleans. With this revival of\nactivity the empty talk of a hundred or so self-constituted newspaper\ncorrespondents and pretended scientists ceased to be heard on the\ncorners and to be seen in the papers. The city authorities and a\ncommittee of citizens began a careful and thorough canvass of the city\nto ascertain its condition and needs. Under the advice of a committee\nof experts from the meeting of the American Sanitary Association held\nat Nashville, a system of sewerage and general sanitary reform was\npromptly adopted, and it is now expected that the Governor will convene\nthe legislature to empower the city to make the needed changes. There\nis little doubt but that the hard and painful lessons of the past two\nseasons have finally been learned, and that at least another epidemic\nwill not be invited next year by the criminal negligence of the\nauthorities.\n\nThe school opened November 17 with about forty students. This number\non December 2nd had increased to over 100. We are now receiving new\nstudents every day, of these ten are in the senior or graduating class.\nWe note with interest a revival of the early desire for education and\nthe culture which it brings; not _just_ the early desire of ignorant\nand foolish expectation, but a steadily deepening conviction of the\nneed and advantage of patient, continued study and training for better\nthings in the future. We hope to foster this feeling, and to do what\nwe may to realize the expectation, by building up honest, manly and\nwomanly characters in our students. Many of the pupils have taught\nduring the vacation months; some have not yet completed the term for\nwhich they were engaged. So far as we know, all have labored earnestly\nto exert an influence for good in the communities where they have\nbeen located. A few during the sickness were employed by the Howards\nor other societies as nurses, one young man saving about $200 at this\nwork, and gaining an enviable reputation as a nurse.\n\nOur public library is demonstrating its influence and usefulness in a\ngratifying way, in awakening in many laboring people a love of reading\nand of thought, aside from the great advantage it is to the school\ndirectly and indirectly. During the summer months, considerably over\none hundred volumes were drawn and read. Among many others several\nwhite persons of most excellent standing availed themselves of its\nprivileges. Of these latter, one is principal of a boys\u2019 and girls\u2019\nschool in our vicinity.\n\nI cannot close this letter without a word concerning the church here.\nDuring the epidemic, one of its most earnest, reliable members fell a\nvictim to the scourge. By thrift and saving, every family belonging to\nthe church, except one only, got through the long summer of idleness\nwithout aid in the way of charity, and before the return of the\nteachers, and in the absence of the pastor, the church voted to send a\ndelegate to the Conference at Athens, raising money at once to pay his\nexpenses. If this is not an example of commendable church devotion and\ncourage, show us one that is so.\n\nWe look for a fuller, stronger school this year than ever before. I\nsometimes think these people have become so accustomed to adversity\nand trial, that they come out stronger under it than from any other\nexperience. May it not be that God is leading them through rough ways\nto better things than we think?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE S\u2019KOKOMISH AGENCY.\n\nHomes and Schools\u2014Lands and Titles.\n\nEDWIN EELLS, AGENT, S\u2019KOKOMISH.\n\nThe favor of a kind Providence has preserved us from any unusual\ncalamities, and general good health, peace and prosperity have attended\nus and the Indians under my charge. It has been rather a quiet year,\nwith nothing very startling, either good or bad, to affect us. Among\nthe Indians generally, their habits of morality appear to have been\ngrowing stronger. Their general deportment is very good, and their\nstyle of living in their houses is improving all the time. Their\ngeneral health, in consequence of their improved manner of living,\nhas never been better than during the past year. Most of their houses\nhave been ceiled and good tight floors put in them during the past\nwinter, so that they are quite as comfortable as the average of white\nsettlers throughout the country. There has been some land cleared by\nthem, a decided advance in the kind of fences built by them, and I have\nfurnished 1,000 fruit trees, which they have set out, nearly all of\nwhich have lived.\n\nOur schools have been well attended, and the progress of the scholars\nin their studies has been quite satisfactory. The average attendance\nof the two schools has been something over fifty. One feature of\nimprovement at the Agency, which deserves mention, has been the\nemployment of apprentices, at small wages, at the various shops at the\nAgency. We have had five of our former school-boys employed in this way\nduring the summer, and they have done very well.\n\nAmong the Indians who live off from the Reservation there has been an\nincreasing desire to take up or acquire land for themselves. One band\nliving at Clallam Bay, about 160 miles distant from the Agency, have\npurchased a tract of 154 acres of land, and have a favorable prospect\nbefore them of doing quite well. Ten individuals contributed the money\nto make this purchase. Some other individuals have taken up homestead\nclaims and are improving them. One has completed his five years\u2019\nresidence and obtained his title to his claim.\n\nThe delay of the Government to furnish the Indians on this Reservation\nwith titles to their allotments of land, has operated to discourage\nthem very much in the improvement of their farms. They also had reason\nto fear that there was danger of their being removed from here and\nconsolidated with other tribes, speaking different languages, and to\na distance from the home of their childhood and the land of their\nfathers. This has added to their despondency and unnerved them for\neffort. With this cloud of despondency hanging over them, it has been\nup-hill work to induce them to make sufficient effort to insure any\nprogress. Their faith in the Government failing, their religious faith\nhas also weakened, and while it has not led them to any bad practices,\nit has prevented them from making progress in Christianity. They reason\nin this way: If there is a God who rules the world, and institutes\ngovernments over men; if these governments are unjust and oppressive,\nit must be an unjust God who causes all this; and why should they love\nand worship such a being? This is the Indian mode of reasoning, and\nunder the present circumstances there is a barrier raised in their\nminds against the Gospel.\n\nAs the treaty is soon to expire, and as some of the safeguards they\nhave heretofore had will be removed, it seems to me very important that\nthis measure should, if possible, be immediately consummated.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\u201cCALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\u201d\n\nAuxiliary to the American Missionary Association.\n\n  PRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L.\n  Stone, D. D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon.\n  F. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross Rev. S. H.\n  Willey, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob\n  S. Taber, Esq.\n\n  DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P.\n  Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball,\n  E. P. Sanford, Esq.\n\n  SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE SANTA BARBARA MISSION\u2014CHIN FUNG.\n\nBY REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nAmong the compensations attending my service as Superintendent of our\nChinese Missions is the annual visit I am called to make to Santa\nBarbara; and, notwithstanding the great void I found in the absence of\nmy greatly beloved brother, Rev. Dr. Hough\u2014now returned to his former\nflock at Jackson, Michigan\u2014no visit ever made there was more pleasant\nto me than my last. The movements of the steamers were such that it\nhad to be an unusually long visit; and I gained thus the opportunity,\nnot only to see more of the homes and hearts of our English-speaking\nbrethren, but to get much closer in Christian affection and confidence\nto the Chinese who have begun to believe in the Saviour. Of the\nsix that from this mission, several years since, united with the\nPresbyterian Church, only two remain; but three others were found who\nhave never yet been baptized, and who seemed to give good evidence of\nbeing born again. My conversations with them greatly interested me.\nThere seemed to be a simple faith, a hearty and practical consecration,\na readiness to testify, to work and to give for Jesus, which certainly\nlooked like true tokens of a new life\u2014the eternal life\u2014begun. I\nexpect that they will be baptized and received into the Congregational\nChurch at its next communion. The following sentences from a letter\nwritten me by one of them express what appeared to be the spirit of\nthem all: \u201cOur school is grow up nicely, and have very good teacher\nnow. Only one thing I be very sorry. I will tell you about. Some\nschool-boy go to bad way, and disobey our Lord Jesus Christ. I, in\nmyself, have no strength to make them to love Jesus Christ. * * * Oh, I\nhope you pray for them, and ask God to send the Spirit to change their\nheart, and make them to \u2019member Jesus Christ died on the cross for us,\nand make them to \u2019member continue in heart wherefore the heathen too.\n[_I. e._, if I understand him, make them consider wherefore they should\ncontinue heathen at heart.] Oh, we are \u2019member you always in heart,\nbecause you very kind to our countrymen. I have nothing to recompense\nyou. But I pray to God for you, and ask God to bless you and comfort\nyou, and give you reward in Heaven.\u201d\n\nThe anniversary of the mission was held on Sunday evening, October\n26. A large audience was present, and great interest was evinced.\nBesides the exercises by the pupils, there was the annual report, and\nbrief addresses by the pastors of the Congregational and Presbyterian\nchurches. The exercises indicated some good progress made during\nthe year. I remember especially a recitation of the 115th Psalm, a\nresponsive recitation of John, xiv. chap., and a little dialogue about\nour mission schools, and what is learned in them\u2014\u201cnot only the English\nlanguage, but about Jesus Christ our Saviour from sin.\u201d One pupil\nrecited the Apostles\u2019 Creed, another the Ten Commandments, and none\nexcept one or two very recent comers were without some Gospel text,\nwhich, fastened in the memory, was recited in intelligible English.\nSacred songs, in both English and Chinese, were interspersed, and the\nhalf-hour was fraught with blessing, I am very sure, to all concerned.\nI have never been so hopeful of the best results from our Santa Barbara\nwork as I am just now.\n\n\nCHIN FUNG\n\nis one of our earliest fruits, a bright intelligent young man whom,\nyears ago, I invited to become one of our helpers. He declined on the\nground of being too little acquainted with Chinese, having had little,\nif any, opportunity of attending school in China. But I remember that\nhe said, \u201cI have wished very much that I could be prepared to go as\na missionary to my countrymen at home.\u201d I confess that I did not\nrealize how deep that feeling was. Such expressions are frequent among\nour brethren, and I never have doubted their sincerity, but I have\ngenerally thought of them as consciously a wish for the _impossible_,\nand consequently never likely to grow to a controlling purpose deciding\nthe life-work. But it was not so with Chin Fung. With the hope of this\nhe has been saving all these years, with rigid economy, the slender\nearnings of his work as a house-servant. At length, encouraged by the\nexcellent Christian lady by whom, of late, he has been employed, he\ndetermined to go to Hartford, Conn., and commence his course of study.\nBefore this letter reaches you, I trust he will be there.\n\nHe did not get away without a struggle. The agony of inward conflict\ninto which he was thrown by the representations of heathen kinsmen, as\nto the wrong he was doing his family, the difficulties and calamities\nin which he might involve his older brothers if he should thus turn\nhis back on China, and disregard a possible betrothal which his elder\nbrothers, it was said, had made for him, (although, with this great\nplan in view, he had charged them not to involve him in any such\nresponsibility,) called forth my intense sympathy. But I felt that it\nwas the Master\u2019s call to which, these years, he had been listening,\nand that to go back to China in obedience to the summons of his\nbrothers would be to turn his back on Christ. He himself saw it so\nat length\u2014saw it _for himself_, and from that instant there was no\nhesitancy, \u201cI will start tomorrow,\u201d he said, with an emphasis which\nmarked the conflict ended and the victory won. He certainly has some\nqualities which under skilful training would tend to make him a useful\nmissionary.\n\n\nIN GENERAL.\n\nWhat I have written about the Santa Barbara school, I might have\nwritten of almost all of them. We have an excellent corps of teachers,\nand though one or two of our schools are suffering because our\nreviving business prosperity involves their pupils in evening work,\nothers are steadily increasing in size, and increasing still more, I\ntrust, in usefulness. At the last communion at Bethany church seven\nwere baptized. A much larger number than that have recently united\nwith the Association of Christian Chinese, thus avowing themselves as\nChristians, and coming into the process of test work and training,\nwhich we feel to be necessary before they are finally accepted in the\nchurch. But we need to do much more: to enter new fields, to send forth\nmore laborers, and meanwhile in fields already occupied to bring to\nhear as never hitherto, the zeal, the wisdom, the living spiritual\npower of Him whose name is \u201cGod with us.\u201d Brethren, pray for us.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAMATEUR HEATHEN.\n\nThe small-boy who has been well and piously brought up hates the\nheathen, though policy compels him to conceal his feelings. He envies\nthe heathen small-boy, and at the same time looks upon him as a selfish\nand remorseless absorber of Christian pennies. This is natural and\ninevitable. The small-boy is told that his heathen contemporary goes\nconstantly barefooted, wears very little clothing, is never washed,\nnever goes to school, and is never taught anything that is good and\nuseful. Moreover, the heathen small boy lives in a country where\ntigers and other delightful wild beasts abound, and where the exciting\nspectacle of a widow burning to death in company with her husband\u2019s\ncorpse\u2014an attraction which no circus in this country has had the\nenterprise to offer\u2014is frequently exhibited free. Of course, the\nsmall-boy of Christian lands envies the blessed lot of his heathen\nbrother, and would give worlds had he, too, been born a heathen.\nNow, when this envious small-boy is compelled to give 50 per cent.\nof his pennies to the heathen, he feels that it is both unreasonable\nand unjust, and his anger burns against the heathen small-boy who,\nalthough rolling in every kind of heathen luxury, meanly absorbs the\nscant wealth of small-boys who have had the misfortune to be born in\nChristian countries. He cannot avoid noticing that the grown-up folks\nwho think that he should give one-half of his pennies to the heathen,\ndo not divide their own property in that way, and he never drops a\ncopper in the collector\u2019s box without feeling that he is the victim of\nmoral blackmailing.\n\nNow and then there arises a small-boy with a gigantic intellect, and\na degree of courage which marks him as a born leader of his race. It\nis the exceptional small-boy of this variety who heads expeditions\nagainst the Indians and organizes gangs of juvenile highwaymen. That\nthese enterprises do not meet with success is due to forces beyond\nhis control, but they display the greatness of his intellect and the\nboldness of his character. Of this type of small-boy is Master Jaggars,\nof North Meriden, Conn., who lately devised an ingenious and entirely\nnovel scheme for arresting the flow of American copper coins toward the\nheathen pockets of juvenile India.\n\nSome two months since, Master Jaggars, who had painfully accumulated\nthe sum of twenty-five cents, with a view to an expected circus, was\ncompelled to consecrate fifteen cents to the hated small-boys of\nIndia. It was this last of a long series of pecuniary outrages that\ndetermined him to take a bold stand against missionary assessments,\nand he, therefore, summoned a mass-meeting of small-boys on Saturday\nafternoon at Deacon Pratt\u2019s barn, ostensibly with a view to rats,\nbut really in order to propose a plan of defense against heathen\nencroachments.\n\nMaster Jaggars made a moving speech, in which he glowingly described\nthe luxury in which the heathen small-boy wallows. \u201cHe ain\u2019t washed,\nand he can wear just as little cloze as hesermineter. There ain\u2019t\nno school for him, nor no Sunday, you bet. He can go swimmin\u2019 every\nday, and can just lay off on the bank and see the crocodiles scoop\nin washerwomen and such. Then his back yard is chuck full of tigers\nand hipopomusses, and no end of snakes, and he can steal his dad\u2019s\ngun and shoot \u2019em out of the back window. This is the chap that rakes\nin all our money, and I say its mor\u2019n we ought to stand. Now, I move\nthat we all turn heathen ourselves. The folks can\u2019t make us wash and\ngo to school if we\u2019re heathen, and all the other boys will have to\nput up their money for us.\u201d It is needless to say that this speech\nwas received with tumultuous applause. Howls of execration went up as\nthe luxuries of the hated heathen were described, and the proposal to\nadopt heathenism as a profession was unanimously supported. A slight\ntemporary opposition was manifested by Master Sabin, who maintained\nthat in order to become heathen they must first have their eyes put\nout\u2014a theory which was based upon a misinterpretation of the hymn\nwhich speaks of \u201cthe heathen in his blindness.\u201d The objector, however,\nwas soon convinced of his error, and expressed thereupon a hearty\ndesire to become a heathen.\n\nThe details of the scheme were all arranged by Master Jaggars. A\nplaster bust of Mr. S. J. Tilden was decided to be ugly enough to serve\nas an idol, and the amateur heathen placed it on an empty barrel in\nthe barn, and bowed down to it with much gravity. They discarded all\ntheir clothing except a towel twisted around the waist, and blackened\ntheir entire bodies with burnt cork. There could be no doubt that they\nwere very successful heathen in appearance, and, as it was late in the\nafternoon, they resolved to spend the night in the barn; to breakfast\non the spoils of Deacon Pratt\u2019s orchard, and to attend Sunday-school\nin a body, in order to collect tribute from the Christian boys. The\nSunday-school opened as usual the next morning, although the absence\nof eleven boys created a good deal of remark. Soon after the exercises\nhad begun, the teachers were astounded at the entrance of Master\nJaggars and his ten associate heathen. It is only fair to say that the\nheathen behaved themselves with as much propriety as their professional\nduties would permit. Master Jaggars advanced to the Superintendent and\nremarked, \u201cIf you please, Sir, we\u2019ve all turned heathen. There ain\u2019t\nno foolin\u2019 about it. We\u2019ve got a first-class old idol, and we don\u2019t\nbelieve in nothing no more. So, if you please, Sir, will you please\ntell them Christian boys to fork over half of all the money they\u2019re\ngot, and to remember how blessed it is to consecrate it to real genuine\nheathen.\u201d\n\nThere is no instance on record in which a heathen has been converted\nas quickly as was Master Jaggars. The Superintendent held him by one\near, and at the tenth stroke of the cane Mister Jaggars renounced his\nheathenism and promised to smash his idol and return to the Christian\nfaith without a moment\u2019s delay. The other heathen, alarmed by the fate\nof their leader, fled to the barn, washed themselves, resumed their\nclothing, and went homeward with sober countenances, singing missionary\nhymns. The North Meriden revival of heathenism was a disastrous\nfailure, but nevertheless the boldness and originality of the scheme\ndevised by Master Jaggars must command our wonder and admiration.\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR NOVEMBER, 1879.\n\n\n  MAINE, $173.33.\n\n    Bath. Ladies, _for a Teacher_                             $8.50\n    Biddeford. Second Cong. Soc.                              27.51\n    Cumberland Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. OREN\n      S. THOMAS, L. M.                                        33.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            19.45\n    Foxcroft and Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     8.41\n    Fryeburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              13.46\n    Limerick. S. F. H., _for Raleigh, N. C._                   1.00\n    Litchfield. Ladies, Bbl. of C.\n    Newcastle. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       7.00\n    North Anson. \u2014\u2014.                                          10.00\n    Scarborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., \u201cA Friend\u201d               33.00\n    Waterford. \u201cA. D.\u201d                                         5.00\n    Wilton. Cong. Ch.                                          7.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $158.31.\n\n    Auburn. \u201cF. B.\u201d                                            1.00\n    Candia. Jona. Martin                                       5.00\n    Dunbarton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             11.00\n    Durham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                11.50\n    East Alstead. Second Cong. Ch. $5.55; First Cong.\n      Ch., $3.10                                               8.65\n    East Jaffrey. Mrs. D.                                      0.25\n    Hancock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               25.00\n    Harrisville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            7.85\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $9.62; G. W., 51c.           10.13\n    Jaffrey. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.00\n    Keene. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                              28.37\n    Mason. Anna M. Hosmer, _for Wilmington, N. C._             6.25\n    Pembroke. C. C. S.                                         0.51\n    Pittsfield. \u2014\u2014.                                           10.00\n    West Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          22.80\n\n\n  VERMONT, $266.76.\n\n    Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l)                          7.75\n    Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               23.88\n    Danville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $20.50, and Sab.\n      Sch. $10                                                30.50\n    Fayetteville. ESTATE of Sophia C. Miller, by Milon\n      Davidson                                                75.00\n    Johnson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.00\n    Island Pond. Cong. Ch.                                    13.00\n    Lower Waterford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       12.19\n    North Cambridge. M. K.                                     1.00\n    Pittsford. Mrs. Nancy P. Humphrey                         10.00\n    Tunbridge. Cong. Ch.                                       2.07\n    Saint Johnsbury. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Blodgett, to\n      const. HERBERT W. BLODGETT, L. M.                       30.00\n    Swanton. Harriet M. Stone                                  5.00\n    West Enosburgh. Henry Fassett                              5.00\n    West Randolph. Mary A. and Susan E. Albin                  6.00\n    West Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       8.96\n    \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014                                                      0.20\n    Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       26.21\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $2,626.08.\n\n    Amherst. G. C. Munsell                                     2.00\n    Arlington Heights. Joseph C. Gibson                        5.00\n    Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n      U._                                                     25.00\n    Barre. ESTATE of Phebe Barrett, by Thos. P. Root,\n      Ex.                                                     87.55\n    Berkshire Co. ESTATE of Lucy Young, by Lucy C.\n      Lincoln, Executrix                                     100.00\n    Billerica. Orthodox Cong. Sab. Sch.                        8.00\n    Boylston. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. $1.50 and B. of C.           1.50\n    Boston. Mt. Vernon Ch., \u201cE. K. A.\u201d $30, to\n      const. MISS SARAH B. ALDEN, L. M.; C. H. N. $1          31.00\n    Bradford. Mrs. Sarah C. Boyd, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             15.00\n    Cambridgeport. Ladies\u2019 Missionary Society of\n      Pilgrim Ch. $30, to const. MRS. GEORGE R.\n      LEAVITT, L. M.; Prospect St. Sab. Sch. $11.68           41.68\n    Canton. Evan. Cong. Ch.                                   22.68\n    Charlestown. Ivory Littlefield                            50.00\n    Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. _for Student Aid_       26.00\n    Cunningham. \u201cFriends.\u201d                                     6.50\n    Dedham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $177.10, and Mon. Con.\n      Coll. $15.63; E. P. B. 50c.                            193.23\n    Dorchester. Miss E. Pierce                                10.00\n    Easton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          11.50\n    Fairhaven. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       30.00\n    Florence. Florence Ch.                                   110.78\n    Grantville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            10.88\n    Hatfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              55.50\n    Harwich. Cong. Ch.                                        13.27\n    Holbrook. BEQUEST of \u201cE. N. H.\u201d                          200.00\n    Holbrook. \u201cE. E. H.\u201d                                      25.00\n    Housatonic. Housatonic Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 22.36\n    Ipswich. First Ch., Bbl. of C.\n    Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                50.00\n    Lawrence. Lawrence St. Ch., Bbl. of C.\n    Leverett. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  2.75\n    Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      5.01\n    Litchfield. First. Cong. Soc. to const.\n      H. B. EGGLESTON, L. M.                                  40.50\n    Lowell. Eliot Ch. and Soc.                                 2.34\n    Marshfield. Ladies, by Miss Alden, $1.50, and B.\n      of C.                                                    1.50\n    Mattapoisett. A. C.                                        1.00\n    Medfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. $72.25, to\n      const. REV. GEO. H. PRATT and MISS LYDIA A. DOW,\n      L. M\u2019s; Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.          72.25\n    Merrimac. John K. Sargent and Charles N. Sargent,\n      $2 ea.                                                   4.00\n    Middleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             10.50\n    Millbury. M. D. Garfield, $5; \u2014Cong. Ch., $2.20,\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta, U._                           7.20\n    Milton. First Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch.                       16.00\n    Montville. Sylvester Jones                                 2.00\n    Natick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($50 of which from\n      S. S.)                                                 135.79\n    Newburyport. Freedmen\u2019s Aid Soc., by Mrs. Mary E.\n      Dimmick, $75 _for Lady Missionary, Macon, Ga._;\n      \u2014Whitefield Cong. Ch., $10.10; P. N., $1                86.10\n    Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   24.94\n    North Brookfield. Miss Abby W. Johnson, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   25.00\n    Norfolk. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  10.17\n    Northampton. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $100; W. K. Wright, $30;\n      First Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l) 75c.; \u2014\u201cFriend,\u201d a New\n      Single Harness, _for Talladega_                        130.75\n    Orleans. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  10.00\n    Phillipston. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C.\n    Pittsfield. James H. Dunham                               25.00\n    Reading. Rev. W. H. Willcox, Books, with cash for\n      freight, _for Library, Talladega C._                   410.35\n    Roxbury. Bbl. of C. _for Mendi M._ by Miss E. E.\n      Backup.\n    South Boston. Phillips Cong. Ch.                          78.55\n    Southampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           42.73\n    South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    28.00\n    Spencer. Young Ladies\u2019 Mission Circle, $7 and Bbl.\n      of C.                                                    7.00\n    Springfield. First Ch. $37.50; Mrs. Dr. Smith $3;\n      Eight individuals, $1 each;\n      Others, $2.75, _for Millers Station, Ga._\n      by Mrs. E. W. Douglass;\u2014Wm H. Hale, $6                  57.25\n    Taunton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        100.00\n    Thorndike. James H. Learned, $10; Mrs. E. L.\n      Learned, $2                                             12.00\n    Tewksbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             29.00\n    Townsend. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  5.00\n    Watertown. Mrs. S. S. 60c; Mrs. E. S. P. 60c; W. R.\n      60c; Corban Soc. 2 Bbls of C.                            1.80\n    Westborough. Freedman\u2019s Miss. Ass\u2019n. Bbl. of\n      Bedding and C. _for Atlanta U._\n    West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. _for Student Aid.\n      Straight U._                                            10.00\n    West Newton. J. H. P.                                      1.00\n    Worcester. Union Ch. $30; Salem St. Ch. and Soc.\n      $36.99; Mrs. Mary F. Gough, Bbl. of C.                  75.99\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $390.10.\n\n    Central Falls. Cong. Ch.                                  89.75\n    Providence. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc., $192.00;\n      \u2014Young Ladies\u2019 Soc. of Beneficent Ch., $100, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._;\u2014Plymouth Cong. Ch., $7.75       300.35\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $2,188.92.\n\n    Ashford. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n    Berlin. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student preparing for\n      African M._                                             50.00\n    Bristol. Mrs. P. L. Alcott                                 5.00\n    Colchester. Mrs. C. B. McCall, $10;\u2014Rev. S. G.\n      Willard, $10, _for Student Aid, Straight U._            20.00\n    Cornwall. ESTATE of Hannah D. Cole, by Geo. H.\n      Cole, Ex.                                               50.00\n    Danbury. Second Cong. Ch.                                  3.00\n    Durham. Ladies\u2019 Missionary Ass\u2019n, $3, and Bbl. of\n      C. by Mrs. Harriet C. Chesebrough, _for Talladega\n      C._                                                      3.00\n    East Hampton. Talladega Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           12.50\n    Enfield. First Cong. Ch.                                  14.17\n    Glastenbury. First Cong. Ch.                             140.00\n    Hadlyme. Cong. Ch.                                        11.24\n    Hampton. Cong. Ch.                                        22.90\n    Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               40.00\n    Hartford. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $300; \u201cPearl Street Cong.\n      Ch.\u201d $91.90; Rev. E. E. R., $1.00                      392.90\n    Harwinton. ESTATE of F. S. Catlin (ad\u2019l), to const.\n      VIRGIL R. BARKER and MRS. ELLEN M. BARKER, L. M\u2019s       65.55\n    Litchfield. \u201cL. M.\u201d                                        3.00\n    New Canaan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            15.00\n    New Haven. Nelson Hall, $30; \u201cA. T.\u201d $25                  55.00\n    New London. TRUST ESTATE of Henry P. Haven                50.00\n    New London. W. C. Crump, _for Fisk U._                    10.00\n    New Preston. Rev. Henry Upson                              5.00\n    North Madison. Cong. Sab. Sch., Box of Books by\n      J. M. Hill.\n    Norfolk. Robbins Battell, _for Fisk U._                   50.00\n    Norwich. BEQUEST of Mrs. Daniel W. Coit, by\n      Chas. W. Coit, Ex., _for the Freedmen_                 500.00\n    Norwich. Dea. Ed. Huntington                               5.00\n    Plainfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS.\n      NELLIE ROBINSON, L. M.                                  38.45\n    Plainville. Cong. Ch.                                     57.04\n    Prospect. ESTATE of Andrew Smith, by David R.\n      Williams, Ex.                                          200.00\n    Poquonock. Cong. Ch.                                      10.87\n    Rockville. George Maxwell, $100; Second Cong.\n      Ch. $25, _for Fisk U._                                 125.00\n    Southport. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid, Fisk U._         25.00\n    Stratford. Cong. Ch.                                      21.10\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      26.70\n      Waterbury. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for a young man preparing\n      for African M._                                         20.00\n    Westport. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       5.00\n    Wolcottville. L. Wetmore                                 100.00\n    Woodbury. North Cong. Ch., $18.25;\n      Sab. Sch. Class No. 13, $7; Friends, $1.25              26.50\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $1,589.08.\n\n    Brasher Falls. Elijah Wood, $15; Mrs. Oliver Bell,\n      $5                                                      20.00\n    Brooklyn. ESTATE of Mrs. Eli Merrill, by Eliza L.\n      Thayer, Ex.                                            500.00\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $40, _for Lady\n      Missionary, Charleston, S. C._, and to const.\n      GEO. A. BELL, L. M.; JULIUS DAVENPORT, $30,\n      to const. himself, L. M.; J. E., $1                     71.00\n    Buffalo. W. G. Bancroft                                  200.00\n    Canandaigua. Hon. M. H. C.                                 1.00\n    Canastota. ESTATE of Mrs. Lezetta Mead, by Loring\n      Fowler                                                 300.00\n    Central Square. W. S. T.                                   0.51\n    Deansville. \u201cL.\u201d                                           5.00\n    Deer Park. Artemus W. Day                                  8.50\n    Evans Center. L. P.                                        0.50\n    Gaines. M. and B. H.                                       1.00\n    Gloversville. Alanson Judson, $25; Wm. A. Kasson,\n      $5, _for Fisk U._                                       30.00\n    Irvington. Mrs. R. W. Lambdin                              5.00\n    Malone. First Cong. Ch., $34.37; Member First Cong.\n      Ch., $2                                                 36.37\n    Newburgh. John H. Corwin, to const. MISS LOUISE\n      CORWIN, L. M.                                           50.00\n    New York. Rev. L. D. Bevan, D. D., $100;\u2014A. Lester\n      & Co., Carpet and C., _for Hampton N. and A.\n      Inst._                                                 100.00\n    Oneida Co. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     20.00\n    Oswego. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                            30.00\n    Penn Yan. Chas. C. Sheppard                              150.00\n    Pharsalia. \u201cFriend\u201d                                        0.15\n    Ransomville. John Powley                                   5.00\n    Seneca Falls. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  50.00\n    Springville. Lawrence Weber                                3.00\n    Troy. \u201cLittle Margaret\u201d and Mary F. Cushman                2.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $180.14.\n\n    Jersey City. First Cong. Ch.                              40.89\n    Mendham. Rev. I. N. Cochran, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Orange. Trinity Cong. Ch., $93.75; A. T. M., 50c          94.25\n    Red Bank. Mrs. R. R. Conover, Bbl. of Books.\n    Salem. W. G. Tyler                                        20.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $2,416.38.\n\n    Alleghany. Plymouth Cong. Ch., _for Mission Work,\n      Berea, Ky._                                             34.38\n    Hillsdale. Miss Jane Wilson                                2.00\n    Pittsburgh. B. Preston                                    25.00\n    Washington. ESTATE of Samuel McFarland, by\n      Abel M. Evans, Ex.                                   2,343.00\n    West Alexander. Thomas McCleery                           10.00\n    West Middletown. Mrs. Mary Mehaffey                        2.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $238.74.\n\n    Andover. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       10.00\n    Bellevue. Elvira Boise, $25; S. W. Boise, $20             45.00\n    Cardington. R. M.                                          1.00\n    Cleveland. G. A. R.                                        0.50\n    Edinburgh. Cong. Ch.                                      17.34\n    Geneva. First Cong. Ch., C. Talcott, $5;\n      Mrs. G. F. Sadd, $5; Others, $20                        30.00\n    Gustavus. Mrs. L. A. King, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            2.00\n    Hudson. M. Messer                                         10.00\n    Huntsburgh. A. F. Millard, $5; Mrs. M. E. Millard,\n      $5                                                      10.00\n    Madison. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._         9.25\n    Medina. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. _for Chinese M._           2.50\n    Oberlin. First Ch. Branch of Oberlin Freed Woman\u2019s\n      Aid Soc. by Mrs. W. G. Frost, Treas., $75, _for\n      Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._; \u2014\u201cA Friend,\u201d $5,\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                           80.00\n    Painesville. E. E. J.                                      1.00\n    Radnor. Edward D. Jones                                    5.00\n    Talmadge. Miss Josephine Pierce                            6.00\n    Wauseon. Cong. Ch.                                         4.00\n    Wayne. H. F. Giddings and wife ($1 of which _for\n      Chinese M._)                                             2.00\n    Weymouth. Cong. Ch. _for Chinese M._                       2.15\n    Zanesville. Mrs. M. A. D.                                  1.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $623.64.\n\n    Aurora. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Blue Island. Cong. Ch.                                     7.00\n    Canton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, $250, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._;\u2014\u201cMrs. E. S. D.\u201d $60 to const. MISS\n      EVELYN L. ROLLS and MISS LILLIE AGNES ROLLS,\n      L. M.\u2019s;\u2014James W. Porter $25, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                            335.00\n    Chesterfield. Cong. Ch.                                    3.00\n    Elgin. Cong. Ch.                                          24.29\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                15.00\n    Galesburg. Mrs. Julia T. Wells                            15.00\n    Geneva. Mrs. G. R. Milton                                  5.00\n    Lyonsville. Arthur and Annie Armstrong, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                    1.50\n    Northampton. R. W. Gilliam.                                5.00\n    Oneida. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                    2.00\n    Richmond. Cong. Ch.                                        7.40\n    Rochelle. Wm. H. Holcomb, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                50.00\n    Rockford. Mrs. David Penfield, $50; Ladies of\n      First Cong. Ch., $25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._        75.00\n    Roscoe. Mrs. A. A. Tuttle                                  2.50\n    Sandwich. Cong. Ch.                                       20.00\n    Stillman Valley. Cong. Ch.                                 5.95\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $283.34.\n\n    Flint. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                10.00\n    Greenville. Cong. Ch., $46.24;\u2014Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,\n      $24.21; E. P. C., $1, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._        71.45\n    Hillsdale. J. W. Ford                                      2.00\n    Lansing. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                               46.30\n    Metamora. Cong. Ch.                                        2.00\n    Olivet. Students of Olivet College and Citizens (of\n      which Wm. B. Palmer, $20) $60, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._;\u2014Cyrus Ellis (Bbl. Wheat, _for Agl.\n      Dept., Talladega, C._), $3.75;\u2014Alex Tison $2            65.75\n    Richland. Mrs. S. A. S.                                    0.51\n    Romeo. Cong. Ch., $57; E. W. Giddings, $5                 62.00\n    Saint Johns. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     23.33\n\n\n  IOWA, $174.32.\n\n    Chester Centre. Cong. Ch. $23;\u2014Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,\n      $15, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                         38.00\n    Cincinnati. W. T. Reynolds                                 2.00\n    Council Bluffs. First Cong. Ch. Sab. School _for\n      Student, Talladega C._                                  30.00\n    Des Moines. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc. of Plymouth Cong.\n      Ch. (of which $5 _for Student Aid, Fisk U._)            30.00\n    Emerson. E. H. D. F                                        1.00\n    Glenwood. Cong. Ch.                                        7.31\n    Green. R. L.                                               1.00\n    Grinnell. Mrs. Day, $5; _for Student Aid_; \u2014Mrs.\n      Kendel, $2; Friends, $1; Mrs. G. $1, _for Millers\n      Station, Ga._                                            9.00\n    Iowa Falls. Cong. Ch.                                     12.00\n    Leon. Miss J. K.                                           1.00\n    Maquoketa. Cong. Ch.                                      22.71\n    Osage. Cong. Ch. _for Millers Station, Ga._                5.00\n    Riceville. \u201cFriends,\u201d $5; Mrs. B. and Mrs. A. P. $1        6.00\n    Strawberry Point. Cong. Soc.                               4.30\n    Tabor. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                         5.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $118.04.\n\n    Black Earth. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                      5.00\n    Delaware. Cong. Ch.                                       15.00\n    Durand. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n    Elkhorn. First Cong. Ch.                                   9.62\n    Genoa Junction. Cong. Ch.                                  9.77\n    Kenosha. Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid, Fisk U._             50.00\n    New Chester. First Cong. Ch.                               1.65\n    Plattesville. Cong. Ch.                                   20.00\n    Two Rivers. Cong. Ch.                                      2.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $89.23.\n\n    Lake City. Sab. Sch., by Miss Robinson, _for\n      Student Aid, Straight U._                               25.00\n    Mankato. Cong. Ch.                                         2.93\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                           16.75\n    Plainview. Cong. Ch., $29; and Sab. Sch. $6               35.00\n    Wabasha. Cong. Ch.                                         9.55\n    Northfield. Minn., Correction. In Dec. number,\n      Bethel Sab. Sch. $2.09, should read Blackman Sab.\n      Sch. $2.09.\n    Waterford. Union Ch. should read Union Sab. Sch. $4.\n\n\n  KANSAS, $6.60.\n\n    Burlingame. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     1.00\n    Seneca. Cong. Ch.                                          5.60\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $26.50.\n\n    Red Willow. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    26.50\n\n\n  OREGON, $13.25.\n\n    Forest Grove. Cong. Ch., $12.75; Mrs. M. R. W., 50c.      13.25\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $127.10.\n\n    San Francisco. Receipts of the California Chinese\n      Mission                                                127.10\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $130.\n\n    Washington. First Cong. Ch. ($50 of which _for\n      Howard U._)                                            120.00\n    Washington. Mrs. A. N. Bailey                             10.00\n\n\n  MARYLAND, $100.\n\n    Baltimore. Rev. Geo. Morris, _for a Teacher, Fisk\n      U._                                                    100.00\n\n\n  KENTUCKY, $10.\n\n    Ashland. Hugh Means                                       10.00\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $116.10.\n\n    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition                              116.10\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $102.78.\n\n    Raleigh. Cong. Ch. _for Mendi M._                          1.00\n    Wilmington. Normal School, Tuition $93.25; First\n      Cong. Ch., $8.53                                       101.78\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $311.60.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition                         311.60\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $779.02.\n\n    Augusta. Capt. C. H. Prince, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             10.00\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch. Tuition, $459.12; Rent, $12;\n      Atlanta U., Tuition, $118; Rent, $22.50                611.62\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $67.65; Rent, $7         74.65\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition                            82.75\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $392.02.\n\n    Mobile. Emerson Institute, Tuition                       105.75\n    Montgomery. Public School Fund, $175; Cong. Ch.,\n      $21                                                    196.00\n    Selma. Cong. Ch.                                           6.60\n    Talladega. Tuition, $80.67;\u2014J. R. Sims, $3, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              83.67\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $37.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                         37.00\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $53.88.\n\n    Bates Mills. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Tougaloo U._                  2.20\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $39.30; Rent,\n      $12.38                                                  51.68\n\n\n  TEXAS, $1.00.\n\n    Goliad. By Rev. M. T.                                      1.00\n\n\n  CANADA, $9.\n\n    Montreal. Rev. Henry Wilkes                                5.00\n    Paris. Mrs. N. Hamilton                                    4.00\n\n\n  SCOTLAND, $100.\n\n    Kilmarnock. J. Stewart, _for a Teacher in Fisk U._       100.00\n\n\n  ENGLAND, $55.20.\n\n    London. \u201cReaders of The Christian,\u201d \u00a311 10s.,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              55.20\n\n\n  AFRICA, $2.\n\n    South Africa. E. Brewer, _for Raleigh, N. C._              2.00\n\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                Total                                    $13,889.41\n\n                Total from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30th         $26,577.05\n\n\n         RECEIPTS OF CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\n\n  I. FROM AUXILIARIES.\n\n    Sacramento Chinese Mission\u2014Chinese pupils                  6.75\n    Santa Barbara Chinese Mission\u2014Annual Memberships,\n      1879-80: $2 each from Mrs. J. P. Stearnes, N. C.\n      Pitcher, Gin Foy, Wong You, Gin Sing, Gin Foon,\n      Lue Sam\u2014$14; Collection, $5                             23.15\n    Stockton Chinese Mission\u2014Chinese pupils                    3.00\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                Total                                         32.90\n\n\n  II. FROM CHURCHES.\n\n    San Francisco\u2014First Cong. Church                          18.20\n    San Francisco\u2014Bethany Church, Chinese                      1.00\n    At annual meeting: Antioch\u2014Rev. John B. Carrington         2.00\n    Benicia\u2014$2 each from Mrs. C. B. Deming, Mrs. N. P.\n      Smith, Miss H. L. Smith                                  6.00\n    Haywards\u2014Wm. Stewart                                       2.00\n    Oakland\u2014$2 each from Deacon and Mrs. Snow, A. L.\n      Von Blarcom, Mrs. M. S. Post, Rev. S. V.\n      Blakeslee, and $5 from Rev. G. Mooar, D. D.             15.00\n    Rio Vista\u2014Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Merritt                      2.50\n    Sacramento\u2014Rev. and Mrs. I. E. Dwinell                     4.00\n    San Francisco\u2014Rev. Aaron Williams, $2; Miss Mary\n      Perkins, $2                                              4.00\n    Other friends\u2014names not reported                          14.50\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                Total                                         69.25\n\n\n  III. Bangor, Maine\u2014a friend                                 25.00\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                Grand total                                 $127.10\n\n\n  E. PALACHE,\n  Treas. California Chinese Mission.\n\n\n  FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.\n\n    Millbury, Mass. M. D. Garfield                             5.00\n\n    Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts               1,510.34\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                Total                                     $1,515.34\n\n\n  FOR SCHOOL BUILDING, ATHENS, ALA.\n\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cFriend of Missions\u201d                                    1.00\n    North Bloomfield, Ohio. Elizabeth Brown                   10.00\n    North Bloomfield, Ohio. Annie F. Brown                    10.00\n    Painesville, Ohio. Mrs. Emeline Hickok                     5.00\n    Painesville, Ohio. Mrs. D. E. Gore                         1.00\n    Northfield, Minn. First Cong. S. S. $25,\n      incorrectly acknowledged in December number from\n      Mich.\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                Total                                         27.00\n\n  Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts                    56.00\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                Total                                        $83.00\n\n\n  FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.\n\n    Blanchard, Me. \u201cThree Ladies\u201d                              5.00\n    New Lebanon Centre, N. Y. Bbl. of C. by Mrs.\n      F. W. 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GEO. M. BOYNTON,\n        aided by the steady contributions of our intelligent\n        missionaries and teachers in all parts of the field, and\n        with occasional communications from careful observers and\n        thinkers elsewhere, the AMERICAN MISSIONARY furnishes\n        a vivid and reliable picture of the work going forward\n        among the Indians, the Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and\n        the Freedmen as citizens in the South and as missionaries\n        in Africa.\n\n        It will be the vehicle of important views on all matters\n        affecting the races among which it labors, and will give\n        a monthly summary of current events relating to their\n        welfare and progress.\n\n        Patriots and Christians interested in the education and\n        Christianizing of these despised races are asked to read\n        it, and assist in its circulation. Begin with the next\n        number and the new year. 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Among its regular\n        readers are thousands of Ministers of the Gospel,\n        Presidents, Professors and Teachers in Colleges,\n        Theological Seminaries and Schools; it is, therefore,\n        a specially valuable medium for advertising Books,\n        Periodicals, Newspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of\n        Learning, Church Furniture, Bells, Household Goods, &c.\n\n        Advertisers are requested to note the moderate price\n        charged for space in its columns, considering the extent\n        and character of its circulation.\n\n        Advertisements must be received by the TENTH of the\n        month, in order to secure insertion in the following\n        number. All communications in relation to advertising\n        should be addressed to\n\n                            J. H. DENISON, Adv\u2019g Agent,\n                                        56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n        \u261b Our friends who are interested in the Advertising\n        Department of the \u201cAmerican Missionary\u201d can aid us in\n        this respect by mentioning, when ordering goods, that\n        they saw them advertised in our Magazine.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nDAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, Printer, 101 Chambers Street, New York.\n\n\n\n\nTRANSCRIBER\u2019S NOTES.\n\n\n        1. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text\n          by =equal signs=.\n\n        2. Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors\n          have been silently corrected.\n\n        3. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as\n          printed.\n\n        4. Ditto marks have been replaced by the text they\n          represent in order to facilitate alignment for eBooks.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 34, No. 1, January, 1880","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":21840}