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NO. 1.\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                          JANUARY, 1881.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    SALUTATION\u2014FINANCIAL                                         1\n    PARAGRAPHS                                                   2\n    RETIRING FROM BUSINESS\u2014WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT\u2014ARTHINGTON\n      MISSION                                                    3\n    MORE MISSIONARIES\u2014THE GOSPEL WAY                             4\n    WEEKLY OFFERINGS\u2014OBJECTION CONSIDERED: Rev. Geo. Harris      5\n    A FEW WORDS TO THE CHURCHES                                  6\n    DISCUSSION OF INDIAN AFFAIRS                                 7\n    WOMAN\u2019S WORK FOR WOMAN: Miss Mary E. Sawyer                  9\n    BENEFACTIONS                                                12\n    GENERAL NOTES\u2014Africa, Indians, Chinese                      13\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                        15\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    THE \u201cCENTRAL SOUTH\u201d: Pres. G. F. Magoun, D. D.              16\n    SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLESTON\u2014\u201cTannerism\u201d in Church\n      Work\u2014Charm of Old Songs                                   18\n    GEORGIA\u2014Atlanta University                                  19\n    GEORGIA\u2014Georgia Conference                                  20\n    ALABAMA\u2014Visit to Marion                                     21\n    TENNESSEE\u2014Revival at Memphis                                22\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    LETTERS FROM PUPILS                                         23\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    CHRISTMAS GIFT LIKE BELL BENNET\u2019S: Mrs. T. N. Chase         25\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                      28\n\n\n  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC.                                  32\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             NEW YORK:\n\n         Published by the American Missionary Association,\n\n                      ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\n\nEntered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\n                 American Missionary Association,\n\n                      56 READE STREET, N. Y.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  PRESIDENT.\n\n    HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\n  VICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n    Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n    Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n    Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n    Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.\n    Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.\n    WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.\n    Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.\n    Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.\n    Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.\n    Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. J.\n    Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D. D., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.\n    Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n    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    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. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.\n    Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.\n    Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.\n    Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.\n    S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n    Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n    Rev. 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    Rev. W. H. WILLCOX, D. D., Mass.\n    Rev. G. B. WILLCOX, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D. D., N. Y.\n    Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, Mass.\n    Rev. E. B. WEBB, D. D., Mass.\n    Hon. C. I. WALKER, Mich.\n    Rev. A. H. ROSS, Mich.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n  DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n    REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n    REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_.\n    REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n    H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.\n\n\n  EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n    ALONZO S. BALL,\n    A. S. BARNES,\n    C. T. CHRISTENSEN,\n    H. L. CLAPP,\n    CLINTON B. FISK,\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n    S. B. HALLIDAY,\n    A. J. HAMILTON,\n    SAMUEL HOLMES,\n    CHARLES A. HULL,\n    EDGAR KETCHUM,\n    CHAS. L. MEAD,\n    SAMUEL S. MARPLES,\n    WM. T. PRATT,\n    J. A. SHOUDY,\n    JOHN H. WASHBURN.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to\nthe District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the \u201cAmerican\nMissionary,\u201d to Rev. C. C. PAINTER, at the New York Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New\nYork, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21\nCongregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of Thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n            VOL. XXXV.      JANUARY, 1881.      NO. 1.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSALUTATION.\n\nWe know of no Society that has more occasion for expressing\ncheerful congratulations than the American Missionary Association;\nand we wish its patrons and workers a thankful and prosperous Happy\nNew Year.\n\nBy the merciful blessing of God and the prayerful liberality of\nHis people, we have been sustained in our work. The number of our\npupils has multiplied. The Holy Spirit has been poured out upon\nour churches. A great improvement in public sentiment South has\nbeen witnessed. Questions relating to the policy of the government\nhave been settled. We have escaped the bondage of debt, and, better\nstill, have received a munificent gift for additional school\nfacilities, and, like the prophet of Israel, are ready to exclaim,\n\u201cThe God of Heaven, He will prosper us, therefore we, His servants,\nwill arise and build.\u201d\n\nOur missionaries and teachers at home and abroad have been spared\nand blessed abundantly. Let us rejoice, but not stop in our work.\nOur best joys spring forth from busiest toil. The work before us is\ngreat\u2014greater than ever.\n\nWe are called most encouragingly to stand on our Western shores,\nand in the name of Christ to welcome the Chinaman. We bear good\ntidings amidst ice and snow in the Northland to the American\nIndian. Kansas utters a voice for her Freedmen refugees; while\nthe sunny South, we believe, has almost passed its winter of\ndiscontent. Seed time, with more favoring skies, is right upon us;\nand Africa\u2014land of shadows, land of trouble and wrong\u2014from her vast\ndomains is stretching out her hand for our Freedmen to come over\nand help. There is no quarter of the globe where the principles\nwe advocate are not wanted. The millennial year rushes on to our\nview. It is a question of prayer\u2014a question of sacrifice and\nthanksgiving\u2014a question of the patience of hope and the labor of\nlove.\n\nGod grant us all a preparation for the hour and all its\npossibilities.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFINANCIAL.\n\nThe receipts in our treasury for the two months of the present\nfiscal year (Oct. and Nov.) are $29,258.57, as against $26,577.05\nfor the corresponding months of last year, showing an increase\nof $2,681.52, and are gratifying as a response to our appeal for\nenlargement, made at our annual meeting at Norwich. Never before\nwas such an appeal of ours met in a more business-like way than\nat that meeting. There was no hasty vote calling for large sums\nof money the coming year, but a discriminating examination, and a\nstrong setting forth in reports and addresses of the great need\nof enlargement. We have since ventured to suggest twenty-five per\ncent. of an advance over last year. This is indeed inadequate to\nthe pressing and increasing claims made upon us by the wants of the\nfield, but it will be a great relief. The advance as shown in these\ntwo months is but nine per cent. We are persuaded that a thoughtful\npurpose on the part of pastors, churches and individual friends\nwill easily secure the larger percentage.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe story we publish in our children\u2019s department, by Mrs. T. N.\nChase, is worthy of a word of explanation. The account she gives of\nthe Georgia colored school-teacher, her efforts for a school-house\nand for the education of her sister, is strictly true; but as Mrs.\nChase wrote before Christmas, she was obliged to anticipate a\nlittle. The fact is, the girl never got the $300, which Mrs. Chase\nsays, in a note to us, is needful for the school-house alone. We\nsee no way out of the difficulty now, unless some good Christian\nmothers will send us the sum named. If they will do this, we will\nwarrant there will be more than a large school of colored children\nwho will believe that Mrs. Chase\u2019s narrative is a very good one.\nAnd what would Mrs. Chase think to get $300 for her story?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPresident Fairchild of Berea, Ky., in a private letter, gives\na very interesting account of a convention of the Young Men\u2019s\nChristian Association at Bowling Green. Two Berea students, one\nwhite and the other colored, attended the meeting, and gave a\nreport of the proceedings on their return. It appears that both\nwere welcomed by the Association, while Mr. Titus, the colored\nman, was treated with marked attention, many taking pains to make\nhis acquaintance. The feature of chief interest at the meeting was\nthe discussion of questions relating to the religious education of\nthe Freedmen. Mr. Titus was urged to assist in the organization\nof Christian Associations among the colored people in Louisiana.\nThe tone of the meeting was exceedingly favorable. Pres. Fairchild\nconcludes as follows: \u201cA glorious time for work in the South is\njust before us.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIt is said that the tendency now is for the few to give largely,\nwhile the gifts of the churches, as such, are less. Sad, if true.\nThe recent large gifts of the generous few are as gratifying as\nthey are surprising. They are one of the hopeful signs of the\nsubstantial growth of Christian liberality and consecration. But\nif they are to be purchased by the drying up of the charities\nof the many, it is in the end no boon, for woe to the churches\nwhen they do not share in giving, even to the widow\u2019s mite, for\nthe spread of the Gospel. A piety that delegates its charities\nand self-sacrifices to the few will die. Such a state of affairs\nis like the Sahara of parching sands with a few green oases, as\ncompared with the fertile and well cultivated lands where each\nspear of grass and blade of corn does its part towards the golden\nand abundant harvest.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nRETIRING FROM BUSINESS.\n\nIt is a debated question whether a man should retire from business\nwhen he has accumulated a competency. On the one hand, tired\nnature pleads for rest, and on the other it is claimed that the\nretired man is not only useless, but unhappy. A gentleman gave us\nthe other day what seems to be the true solution\u2014and the charm\nof his plan is that he is carrying it out in his own case. It is\nthat the wealthy man while still active, should retire from his\nsecular business and give himself to efficient service in mission\nand charitable organizations, and in Christian work for the poor,\nand the advancement of Christ\u2019s kingdom. There is wide room for\nsuch workers. We venture to say that among those most efficient on\nmission, college and charitable boards in this country are such\nmen, and there is need of many more. A still larger share of the\nreliable members of such boards are men yet in active life, whose\nbusiness will not permit them to devote the time needed to the most\nefficient service in charitable work. The man who has accumulated\nhis fortune, or at least his competence, has also accumulated an\namount of experience and practical knowledge that would be of\nimmense value in Christian work. Is it not, then, wise to retire\nfrom work, and yet work? The change would be rest and usefulness.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT.\n\nWe have received many cheering words since our Annual Meeting at\nNorwich, through the press and by letters from the long-tried\nfriends of this Association.\n\nThe following, from our honored Vice President, Col. G. C. Hammond,\nis a good illustration of the appreciative and hopeful tone\nexhibited by the many of those who give bountifully and prayerfully\nfor our work.\n\n\u201cDear Brother: I was anxious to be at your anniversary at Norwich,\nand disappointed that my health prevented. You may well suppose\nwith what relish I have devoured the last \u2018Missionary.\u2019 I feel\nconstrained to write you a word of congratulation, not intended\nto tax your valuable time for a reply, but to assure you that,\nso far as I can judge, the papers presented to you at that\ntime, and now printed, by far exceed any heretofore presented\nwithin my recollection. The obstacles that lie in your path, the\nencouragement to work, and the plans and principles which govern\nthe Association in their labors, are laid down so plainly, and so\ncommend themselves to the appreciation of Christians, that it would\nseem that means must flow into the treasury in no stinted measure.\nBut, alas, how true it is that the love of money shuts out even\nfrom Christian souls the just appreciation of the Saviour\u2019s claims.\nMy prayer is that God will, by His spirit, make His children\nappreciate the great joy of giving. How much they would gain by\nliberal giving!\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nARTHINGTON MISSION\u2014A SIGNIFICANT ANSWER TO PRAYER.\n\nIt will be remembered by our readers that a little more than a year\nsince, the Executive Committee of this Association voted that on\nreceipt of \u00a33,000 from Mr. Arthington and a like amount from the\nBritish public, raised through the efforts of Dr. O. H. White,\nit would undertake the establishment of a new mission in Eastern\nAfrica. Dr. White has been laboring patiently with fair success,\nand from present indications we judge he will be able to secure the\nbalance needful during the coming season.\n\nThe following extract from a recent letter from him is very\nsignificant. \u201cA gentleman in London, who heard me preach six months\nago in Scotland, came to our office and said, \u2018I will give \u00a3100 to\nyour Arthington Mission on condition that some other person will\ngive another \u00a3100.\u2019 So I went in to find the person. After seeing\nsome, and writing to others, I found a man who also heard me in\nEdinburgh, and he gave the \u00a3100. I then saw the first man and told\nhim I had the money, and he said, \u2018I will not give in the money\njust now, but I will pledge another \u00a3100 on the same condition.\u2019\nBut I had called on so many in the past year, that really I did not\nknow which way to turn. So I laid the case before God, and had in\nthat connection the most _direct answer_ ever given to me.\n\n\u201cThe very next day a lady came to the office and said, \u2018I felt all\nthe afternoon yesterday that I ought to go to London and give you\n\u00a3100 for the proposed new mission, and here it is.\u2019 It was a \u00a3100\nbank-note. I asked her name, that I might write a receipt. She said\n\u2018No.\u2019 I said \u2018Give me your initials.\u2019 She said \u2018No, put it down to\n\u201ca friend,\u201d and you may see me again.\u2019 So when the London gentleman\npays in his \u00a3200 we shall have \u00a3400.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMORE MISSIONARIES\u2014THE GOSPEL WAY.\n\nThere never before was a time when the openings for missionary\nendeavors were so abundant. Barriers which formerly opposed, have\nbeen broken down almost everywhere. In many places there is some\ncondition of things that invites the Gospel directly or indirectly.\n\nThis is notable on the Pacific coast, where the Chinese are so\neager to learn English that they are more than ready to use\nthe Bible as a textbook. Nor are the Chinese peculiar in this.\nKnowledge of the English language is equal to a competency in other\nlands, and the Bible can be freely used in teaching it.\n\nCommerce has also removed many barriers; and what is of equal\nimportance, it has necessitated the building of ships, the\nconstruction of railroads, the laying out of highways in the\ndesert, and a telegraph for every quarter of the globe. The press\nhas done its share of work as well. Through it, intelligence has\npenetrated almost to the remotest bounds of heathendom. All these\nthings have made way for more missionaries. To this it must be\nadded that the increase of missionary organizations and the natural\ndevelopment of their operations, all multiply the demand for more\nmen to run to and fro throughout the world, heralding the tidings\nof joy unto all people.\n\nStill another barrier has been virtually removed. Once _money_ was\nlacking, but now the church of Christ has the means needful to\nsend forth all the men that the new condition of things demands.\nNot that the wealth is yet consecrated, but it is in possession,\nand by the simplest gift of grace from the Lord of the harvest, it\nwill be forthcoming when required. The men have also been raised\nup. They have not enlisted, but they have been trained. The records\nof our colleges show now, and have shown, an increased number of\nstudents as the years go by. New colleges have been springing up\nover the country, until the list can be reckoned by scores and\nhundreds. From these classic halls armies of men march forth,\nbrave, sacrificing, full of life and hope, fitted for missionary\nendeavors, and able\u2014God helping them\u2014to capture the world for\nChrist.\n\nThere is neither lack of opportunity, money or men for the domain\nof missions. The trouble is that the men and the means have not\nas yet been transferred. There is some one thing lacking which no\nhuman power can supply.\n\nIt is a question of _disposition_ on the part of those who hold the\nwealth, and of the men fitted for the service. God only is able to\ndeal with this question of disposition successfully. He can do it,\nand we can help.\n\nThis brings us directly to our part in the work. How we are to\ndo it is no mystery. Our Saviour has pointed to us the way\u2014\u201cPray\nye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth\nlaborers into His harvest.\u201d Our call is a call to prayer. That\nis the one thing lacking. Not that no prayers are offered, but\nthat, as yet, the prayers of God\u2019s people for this object are not\nsufficiently abundant. The church has not qualified itself to pray\nas it ought, by right living. More Godly sincerity, more humility,\nmore faith, more charity, are needful to elevate the tone of piety\nin the Church, until its prayers shall lay hold on the promises,\nwith a power that God himself has already rendered irresistible.\nThen He will send forth the laborers into His harvest. Then the\nmoney and the men for the grandest and most complete missionary\nenterprises will be lifted from their moorings amidst worldliness,\nand transported, freely, graciously, from sea to sea, and up\nthe rivers to the ends of the earth. In these days, when we\nare especially reminded of the advent of Him who came to bring\ngood tidings of great joy for all people; when we solemnly and\njoyfully set apart a week for prayer; in these days when the great\nheart-beatings of those who manage our missionary organizations\nfind vent only in unceasing calls for more missionaries, it is a\ngreat relief\u2014indeed, a rest and assurance\u2014to follow right on in the\nGospel way.\n\nAlready the day has dawned, and as we pray, joining with the angels\nand the heavenly host, deep calling unto deep, over against the\nprayer we are taught to utter will follow the certain interrogation\nfrom the Captain of our salvation, which answers itself, lovingly,\nroyally and sufficiently: \u201cWhom shall I send and who will go for\nus?\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWEEKLY OFFERINGS\u2014AN OBJECTION CONSIDERED.\n\nREV. GEO. HARRIS, PROVIDENCE. R. I.\n\nIt is objected to the system of weekly offerings, that it\npractically does away with the presentation from the pulpit of the\nclaims of our missionary societies. The objection is not a serious\none, and serves only to show that the real difficulty lies further\nback than the method of giving. It proceeds on the assumption\nthat in churches where occasional collections are taken, sermons\nare preached annually by the pastor or by the secretaries on the\nclaims of all the principal societies. This is not true. There\nare very few churches, with whatever methods of giving, where\nsermons are frequently heard on missionary subjects. The objection\nassumes that under the system of weekly offerings sermons are not\nand cannot profitably be preached on the claims of our missionary\nsocieties. This, also, is not true. In these churches such sermons\nare sometimes preached, and may be very effective, taking the years\ntogether.\n\nThe objection assumes that people are to be interested in missions\nchiefly by listening to frequent discourses on the subject, while\nthe truth is, that preaching is only one method among others. The\nreal difficulty, I have said, lies further back than the particular\nmethod of giving which may be used by a church. The difficult thing\nis to produce an intelligent and sustained interest in Christian\nwork beyond local limits. This difficulty has been felt for years\nand cannot be met by simply making public appeals from time to\ntime. There are various methods which may be employed with some\nsuccess under any system of giving, but which will leave much to\nbe done anywhere. It should be well understood, first of all, that\nit is the duty, not of secretaries, but of pastors, to keep the\npeople alive to the progress of Christ\u2019s kingdom in the world. The\nfirst condition is, that pastors be well informed about missionary\nenterprises and deeply in sympathy with them. If it were certain\nthat the pastors know the progress and plans of missions, and that\nthey are really solicitous to remove the ignorance and apathy of\nthe people, the battle would be more than half won. Now, when the\npastor has an intelligent interest in missions at home and abroad,\nthe following suggestions may be useful:\n\nA sermon devoted to this subject may be preached occasionally, and\nthe preacher may enrich sermons on other subjects by illustrations\nfrom the multiform conditions and incidents of missionary work,\nand thus accomplish two objects at the same time. But the second\nservice, which should be devoted to instruction rather than\npersuasion, may frequently become a missionary meeting.\n\nThe prayers of the pastor may be made more effective for missions\nthan his sermons. If he makes mention in his prayers of the\nservants of Christ who are toiling among the heathen, or the\nFreedmen, or the Western settlers, and prays, not with a tedious\nenumeration, but with fervor and definiteness, he will put missions\non the hearts of the people. What has a place frequently in our\nprayers has a place in our sympathies. Yet how often the petitions\nof public worship are confined to the boundaries of the parish.\n\nSomething may be done by increasing the circulation of missionary\nmagazines. Let the annual contribution make as many life members as\npossible, to whom these publications will be sent.\n\nThus there are various means to be used in the interest of\nmissionary work. What is needed is the flavor of missions in\nthe life of the churches, the vision of Christ\u2019s kingdom kept\ncontinually before the imagination and faith of the people, the\nproportions of the local, not magnified into excessive size, but\nbrought into true harmony with the greatness of our Redeemer\u2019s\nwork for the race. Not all people can be aroused into interest for\nmissionary work by any methods; whatever the zeal of the pastor,\nsome indifference will remain. But if he has the missionary spirit,\nhe will not be contented with an occasional preaching. He will\ndetermine the tone of worship and the direction of all endeavors\nby his enlarged view of God\u2019s plan for the redemption of men. New\nsuggestions, allusions, illustrations and prayers will swell the\ncurrent of sympathy for missions, and increase contributions under\nany method of giving.\n\nBut, at all events, if the pastor thinks it wise to preach on the\nsubject, or introduce a Secretary when collections are to be taken,\nthere is no reason why he may not pursue the same course when\npledges of money are made only once a year.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA FEW WORDS TO THE CHURCHES.\n\nIt is customary for our District Secretaries at this season to\nsend to the churches letters and circulars containing statements\nof receipts and appeals for future co-operation. We give below\nextracts from circulars issued from our offices at Boston and\nChicago, commending them as pertinent, timely, and fitted to\nprovoke unto love and good works.\n\nThe following comes from Secretary Woodworth:\n\n  The battle for the Republic and her institutions will be fought\n  _in the South_; and for the simple reason that the battle will be\n  fought where the causes of the battle exist, and the principles\n  which underlie our free institutions encounter most of opposition\n  and danger.\n\n  And this battle for the foundations of the Republic, and for the\n  administration of every public right and interest, is now upon\n  us. The war itself involved no graver questions, and called for\n  no higher style of patriotic sacrifice and zeal. Every appliance\n  of Christian education and of moral power must be enlisted to\n  uplift the people and unify the nation; and for this work the\n  time favors. For four years, at least, we have an open course;\n  the political signs are more auspicious; and we may hope to _push\n  far ahead_ the forces of intellectual and moral regeneration.\n\n  The colored people are intensely loyal to the rule of majorities;\n  they believe, heart and soul, in those who broke their chains;\n  they accept their principles, and receive joyfully the lessons\n  of their teachers and their preachers. With them we can build\n  up free schools, Christian churches and homes, and plant and\n  develop the seeds and forces which have their type and prophecy\n  in Plymouth Rock. Now is our time.\n\n  Arm them with a true manhood; educate them into a true knowledge\n  of their duties to God and to man, and they will bring peace and\n  strength to our land, now threatened with storm and wreck, and\n  prepare the way for the redemption of the Dark Continent itself.\n\nSecretary Powell\u2019s appeal concludes with special requests, inviting\nimmediate attention. He says:\n\n  The Executive Committee ask for an increase of twenty-five per\n  cent. this coming year to the contributions from churches and\n  individuals.\n\n  1. If your Church has not yet made a contribution to the American\n  Missionary Association during the year, will you please ask them\n  to do so before the year ends?\n\n  2. When your Church reviews the benevolence of the past year, and\n  plans for the next, will you please see to it that the A. M. A.\n  is placed on the list of causes for which contributions are to be\n  made, and that the time of year when the contribution is to be\n  taken is chosen with a full view of the great importance of our\n  work? The time of year selected often makes all the difference\n  between a large and a small contribution.\n\n  3. At the monthly concert will you please plan so that the work\n  of the A. M. A. will have a place in the prayer and thought of\n  your people, and that some field or branch of our work shall be\n  reported? The despised races of America, and those who, in great\n  self-denial, privation, and sometimes opposition, labor for them,\n  should not be forgotten when God\u2019s people meet to pray for the\n  conversion of the world.\n\n  4. Will pastors please arrange so that at some time during the\n  year they will preach a sermon to their people on the work of the\n  A. M. A.? The November number of THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY will be\n  found rich in fact and suggestion for such a discourse. The theme\n  will prove to be of great interest both to preacher and hearer.\n\n  5. Will you endeavor to enlarge the circle of the readers of our\n  monthly magazine, THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY?\n\n  Specimen copies in any number will be sent you free if you so\n  request. The Magazine gives reliable information respecting our\n  work, and notices the current events that relate to the welfare\n  and progress of the races for whom we labor. It will be found a\n  helpful factor in the development of an intelligent, patriotic\n  and tender piety to the membership of the churches.\n\n  May we not confidently look for the co-operation of every one\n  into whose hand this appeal comes to make certain that the\n  increase asked for by our Executive Committee shall be secured?\n  Plan for it, pray for it, talk about it, interest others in it,\n  and don\u2019t forget to _give_ for it.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDISCUSSION OF INDIAN AFFAIRS.\n\nWe rejoice in the continued agitation of the Indian problem. It\nis only under the shelter of popular indifference that wrong\nand revenge become the order of the day\u2014with murders, wars and\nboundless expense. Under \u201cthe sunlight of publicity\u201d the wrongs\nare detected and the remedies are projected and applied. Just\nnow we are favored with three valuable papers on this subject.\nIn the first place we have the report of the Committee of Indian\nAffairs, giving a very encouraging statement of the progress of the\nIndians in the arts of civilization. We have next the elaborate\nreport of Hon. Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior, in which,\nwith a frankness as rare as it is commendable, he acknowledges the\nchange of views and policy of the Administration in relation to\nIndian affairs. He then with great clearness outlines its present\npolicy, and takes occasion to speak minutely of the case of the\nPoncas. The injustice done to them in their original removal from\nDakota is admitted, but it is also clear to him that it \u201cwould\nbe contrary, alike to their own interests and to those of the\ncountry at large, to remove them from their present homes. This\nconclusion is arrived at by reason of various considerations, such\nas the fact that their present condition in the Indian Territory is\nprosperous; that they do not themselves want to return North, and\nalso because if they are removed back to Dakota, the other Northern\nIndians now in the Indian Territory would be made restless with a\ndesire to follow their example. This would, in all probability,\nresult in an extensive evacuation of the Indian Territory, and of\nthat part of it which contains the lands coveted by the intruders,\nand which lands are held against them on the ground that they are\nreserved for Indian settlement. It is obvious,\u201d says the Secretary,\n\u201cthat the evacuation by the Indians of the region held for Indian\nsettlement, and defended on that very ground against intruders,\nwould be apt greatly to encourage and stimulate the projects of\ninvasion, which, although repeatedly repelled, are pursued by\nevil-disposed persons with persistent activity.\u201d The last of these\npapers is the President\u2019s message, in which he endorses and briefly\nrecapitulates the views of the Secretary of the Interior in regard\nto the Indians. We clip from this a few paragraphs presenting the\nattitude of the Administration:\n\n\u201cIt gives me great pleasure to say that our Indian affairs appear\nto be in a more hopeful condition now than ever before. The\nIndians have made gratifying progress in agriculture, herding and\nmechanical pursuits. The introduction of the freighting business\namong them has been remarkably fruitful of good results, in\ngiving many of them congenial and remunerative employment, and\nin stimulating their ambition to earn their own support. Their\nhonesty, fidelity and efficiency as carriers are highly praised.\nThe organization of a police force of Indians has been equally\nsuccessful in maintaining law and order upon the reservations,\nand in exercising a wholesome moral influence among the Indians\nthemselves.\n\n\u201cMuch care and attention has been devoted to the enlargement of\neducational facilities for the Indians. The means available for\nthis important object have been very inadequate. A few additional\nboarding-schools at Indian agencies have been established, and\nthe erection of buildings has been begun for several more, but an\nincrease of the appropriations for this interesting undertaking is\ngreatly needed to accommodate the large number of Indian children\nof school age. The number offered by their parents from all parts\nof the country for education in the Government schools is much\nlarger than can be accommodated with the means at present available\nfor that purpose. The number of Indian pupils at the Normal School\nat Hampton. Va., under the direction of General Armstrong, has been\nconsiderably increased, and their progress is highly encouraging.\nThe Indian School established by the Interior Department in 1879,\nat Carlisle, Pa., under the direction of Captain Pratt, has been\nequally successful. It has now nearly 200 pupils of both sexes,\nrepresenting a great variety of the tribes east of the Rocky\nMountains. The pupils in both these institutions receive not\nonly an elementary English education, but are also instructed in\nhouse-work, agriculture and useful mechanical pursuits.\n\n\u201cThe interest shown by Indian parents, even among the so-called\nwild tribes, in the education of their children, is very gratifying,\nand gives promise that the results accomplished by the efforts now\nmaking will be of lasting benefit.\n\n\u201cI concur with the Secretary of the Interior in expressing the\nearnest hope that Congress will at this session take favorable\naction on the bill providing for the allotment of lands on the\ndifferent reservations in severalty to the Indians, with patents\nconferring fee-simple title inalienable for a certain period, and\nthe eventual disposition of the residue of the reservations, for\ngeneral settlement, with the consent and for the benefit of the\nIndians, placing the latter under the equal protection of the laws\nof the country. This measure, together with a vigorous prosecution\nof our educational efforts, will work the most important and\neffective advance toward the solution of the Indian problem, in\npreparing for the gradual merging of our Indian population in the\ngreat body of American citizenship.\u201d\n\nWe have never doubted the honest purpose of President Hayes\u2019\nAdministration to deal justly and wisely with the Indian problem,\nand the plan it now proposes must meet the approbation of all\ngood citizens. The great question still remains: How far will the\nNation insist on the necessary legislation by Congress to carry\nout these plans? It is in this point of view that we hail with\ngratification the continued agitation of the subject, even if it\nshould involve differences of opinion among the warmest friends\nof the Indians. And there are such differences. For example, it\nis said that the claim of great improvement among the Indians, as\nshown in their making demand for lands in severalty, and in their\nprogress in agricultural industries, is mere rhetoric, for it has\nbeen repeated over and over again for years, in the reports of the\nIndian Department. \u201cFine words butter no parsnips\u201d for the Indian,\nany more than for the white man. Give to the Indian his patents and\nsecure to him his rights. The _doing of it_ is the thing demanded.\n\nThen, too, Mr. Tibbles and Bright Eyes are still on the war\npath, with a following so earnest and respectable as to command\nattention. We do not pronounce on the justice of their claim, but\nwe do welcome the agitation. The great thing to be dreaded is the\nrelegation of the Indian question to indifference and neglect. It\nhas many aspects, and its permanent and righteous settlement is the\nimmediate and imperative duty of the nation.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWOMAN\u2019S WORK FOR WOMAN.\n\nMISS MARY E. SAWYER.\n\nA Paper read at the Women\u2019s Meeting, held in connection with the\nAnnual Meeting of the American Missionary Association at Norwich,\nCt.\n\nBefore every Southern teacher to whom comes the opportunity of\npresenting this cause, so dear to us, to the Christian women of the\nNorth, two pictures rise.\n\nLooking upon the one, you would shrink back in dismay, wondering\nif it be not hopeless to try and illumine a darkness so gloomy,\nto raise a class so utterly buried in ignorance, superstition\nand sin. But, could we turn to you the other view, show the work\ndone, acquaint you with the trials, the sacrifices, the glorious\nvictories over fiery temptations, the patient continuance in\nwell-doing in the face of obstacles almost insurmountable, then,\nindeed, you might be tempted to take the other extreme and feel\nthat missionaries are hardly needed among a people whose Christian\nrecord shines brighter than our own. So, coming as pledged\nwitnesses before you to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing\nbut the truth, we shrink from the vastness of the undertaking, for\nwhile exactly fulfilling the last requirement and telling nothing\nbut the truth, we keenly realize the many contradictions, and know\nthat the whole truth cannot be told in a single hour\u2014can never,\nindeed, be fully known till seen in the light of eternity.\n\nWe read of nations with no word for home. Come through the cabins\nof the South and you will find not the name but the reality\nwanting. You will not find there any incentive or help to personal\nmodesty, any retirement or any sense of impropriety in the state of\nthings. From these influences and homes many of our girls come to\nus with minds and characters such as might be expected from such\nsurroundings. We sometimes speak of them as _children_, but the\ncomparison is hardly just. Never do I realize more keenly their\ndeprivations than after talking with Northern children\u2014little\nchildren whose precocity, to one fresh from the South, seems\nalmost alarming, suggestive of brain fevers and early death. From\nbabyhood their wits have been quickened by contact with other and\nmature minds, their many questions wisely answered till they have\n_absorbed_ knowledge enough to be intelligent companions before\ntheir so-called education begins. But put them in the place of\nthe colored children, remove all books, all papers, all pictures,\nlet them have no knowledge of the outside world, let all their\nquestions be addressed to people as ignorant as themselves, and you\nwill find the youth of sixteen far behind the child of six.\n\nTo many of the girls, entering school is like entering a new world.\nThey sit for the first time in their lives at a well ordered table,\nutterly at a loss as to the proper manner of conducting themselves.\nThe refined manners of the older students bewilder them.\n\nThe door of a teacher\u2019s room is suddenly and unceremoniously thrown\nopen, and two or three girls march silently before her to the\nfire, and standing with vacant faces by its warmth, are perfectly\nunconscious of any impropriety in such a mode of entrance, or of\nthe need of a single word of explanation. It is no uncommon thing\nfor a girl to throw herself, fully dressed, on the outside of her\nfreshly-made bed and there pass the night, having no conception of\nproperly undressing and going to bed.\n\nOur school work, then, includes much more than one would at first\nimagine. Each girl has some part in the household work, and must\nbe taught the neatest, quickest and best method of doing it. This\ndoes not mean once showing, but careful, patient oversight for\ndays and weeks. Her room, clean and tidy, when given her, must be\nkept in the same condition, and this necessitates very frequent\nand very thorough inspection, till she at length comprehends fully\nthat a hasty use of the broom, leaving the sweepings under the bed\nor behind the door, a scrambling up of all loose articles into one\npile on the closet floor, or a set of drawers with finger marks\noutside and a motley collection of clean and dirty clothing within,\nwill not satisfy the requirement.\n\nThe same care is exercised over her person; clean, whole clothing,\nwell-kept hair and thorough bathing transform her outwardly, while\nthe loud, boisterous tones, the coarse expressions, the uncouth\nmanners are toned and softened by constant care.\n\nSewing, in which they are woefully deficient, receives due\nattention, and girls whose hands can manage a plough or a cotton\nbag much more easily than they can hold a needle, become at the\nend of the course very nice seamstresses, whose work would rejoice\nthe hearts of the advocates of hand sewing. In these classes,\nbesides plain sewing of every description, the girls are taught\npatching and darning, and the cutting and putting together of\ngarments, and in at least one of the colleges, each girl who\ngraduates must leave behind a garment cut and made entirely by\nherself, as a specimen of her skill.\n\nA few minutes daily are spent in giving the assembled school a\nbrief summary of the important items of news in the great outside\nworld, and more or less time is devoted to plain talks on practical\nmatters, manners, morals and care of the health,\u2014the last a\nsubject, by the way, with which they seem wholly unacquainted, and\nwhich the girls especially need to become familiar with. Dress\nreform in two directions needs to be impressed upon them, as the\nuncouth garb of the girls from the woods, and the thin slippers,\ncheap finery, powder, paint and corsets laced to the last verge of\nhuman endurance donned by the city girls, bear testimony.\n\nBut this is not all. These girls are sent to us to be trained for\nChrist, and knowing the utter folly of attempting to build up\na pure, noble womanhood on any other foundation than Christian\nprinciple, we try by all our system and watchfulness and oversight\nto establish them in this, earnestly praying the Master to send\nfrom on high that blessing without which all our labors will be\nnothing worth.\n\nHave you never in some late Spring watched the brown leaf-buds, as\nday after day they seemed to remain unchanged, till you were tired\nof waiting for the fulfilment of their promise? And do you remember\nyour joyful surprise when, leaving them thus at night you woke to\nfind the whole tree aglow with the fresh, tiny bits of color from\nthe bursting buds? So we feel often as we wake to realize that the\nrough, awkward girl who came to us has developed into the quiet,\nrefined Christian woman, leaving us for her life work. Nor are we\nthe only ones to see the transformation.\n\n\u201cI am looking to see what kind of a woman you are,\u201d said a child to\none of the Talladega students as she opened her log cabin school in\nthe pine wood. \u201cYou look to me like a white lady.\u201d The teacher\u2019s\nface was of the most pronounced African type, and black as ebony,\nbut her quiet dignity and refined manner excited the child\u2019s wonder\nand elicited the unconscious compliment.\n\nAs teachers, these girls carry the missionary spirit with them,\nand feeling their responsibility, open Sunday-schools and engage\nin temperance work as surely as they begin their day schools. Into\nthe cabins they carry, as far as may be, a regard for neatness,\norder, and those little adornments which make home what it is.\nHappy the young colored minister who wins one of them for his wife,\nthus establishing a home which shall supplement his sermons and\nact as leaven in the homes of his people. More than one graduate\nof the colored theological seminaries is gravely hampered in his\nusefulness by an ignorant, careless wife. As one frankly expressed\nthe matter to a brother minister, \u201cMy wife is more trouble to me\nthan all my work put together.\u201d And in thus training our girls to\nbe careful, efficient housewives, we know we may be moulding not\nthem alone, nor their immediate households, but the whole community\nof women over whom, as ministers\u2019 wives and the most thoroughly\neducated women, they will exert a powerful influence.\n\nBut we have deeply felt the need of more direct and personal\ninfluence over the women. The work of the school needs to be\nsupplemented by that of the missionary: mother and daughter must\nwork together for the best result. But the teacher had little time\nafter the school duties were performed, and the lady missionaries\nso sorely longed for, were very few in number. Why not, then, work\nthrough our tried colored helpers? The description of the way this\nhas been done in other States I leave to those whose experience\nis wider than my own. In Alabama, we have a \u201cWoman\u2019s Missionary\nAssociation,\u201d holding annual meetings in connection with the State\nconference of churches, and having auxiliary societies in these\nseveral churches. The colored women who compose these societies\nhave heartily and faithfully assumed the duties devolving upon\nthem, and helping others have themselves been helped.\n\nThe work done is varied, no rigid plan being laid down. Sewing\nclasses for the women and girls, prayer-meetings for the mothers,\nBible-readings, visiting from house to house, bearing food and\nmedicine for the sick, clothing for the destitute, and comfort\nand sympathy for all, health talks\u2014than which nothing can be more\nneeded,\u2014literary societies to develop their untrained minds,\nforeign missionary meetings to broaden their sympathies; all these\nand other ways of working for the Lord are reported at their last\nmeeting. In April, for the first time, this annual meeting was\nvisited by several white Southern ladies. Our surprise at their\ncoming was only equalled by their amazement at the revelations.\n\n\u201cYou put our ladies to the blush,\u201d said one. \u201cYou are far ahead of\nus in Christian work.\u201d\n\n\u201cOnly to think,\u201d exclaimed another as she listened to the carefully\nprepared papers and systematic reports,\u2014\u201cOnly to think that we have\nkept such women as these in slavery!\u201d\n\nThere are bright, promising girls all over the South, who, to make\njust such women as these, need only your help. You cannot leave\nyour home duties to go yourself to them, but you can provide the\nmeans by which they may be fitted to act as your substitutes among\ntheir people. \u201cTen times one is ten,\u201d you know, and the girl to\nwhom you lend a hand may win many more souls into the kingdom. They\nstand to-day on the border: your arm lifting, they will come into\npower and usefulness: your heart closed to them, they will sink\nback into the old life. There must be many in this room to-day who\nhave aided this work by gifts dearer to them than their own lives.\nDoes not the scene come back to you, when through blinding tears\nyou looked for the last time on brother or husband or son, as for\nlove of God and country the dear ones marched away to find a grave\nbeneath the Southern skies? They rest from their labors. It remains\nfor us, for their dear sake, to see that this work they so nobly\nbegun shall be as honorably carried on.\n\nDoubtless the Lord could perfect this work without our aid, but He\nhas chosen to entrust it to our keeping. And with every instinct\nof humanity, every impulse of patriotism, every principle of\nChristianity urging us to the work, shall we not receive it as from\nour Saviour\u2019s hand, holding fast that which we have, that no man\ntake our crown?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nMr. Cyrus H. McCormick has given $100,000 to the Presbyterian\nTheological Seminary of Chicago, to place it entirely out of debt.\n\nThe late David N. Lord, of New York City, left by will $100,000 for\nforeign missions, and $50,000 to the American Bible Society. He\nalso bequeathed $62,500 to local objects of charity.\n\nMr. R. L. Stewart, of New York City, has given $200,000 to be\ndivided equally between Princeton College and Princeton Theological\nSeminary, to be applied for the endowment of Professorships.\n\nBy the will of Mrs. Altana Wescott, of Jersey City, nearly $100,000\nis given to institutions connected with the Episcopal Church.\n\nThe widow of the Cologne banker, Von Oppenheim, has given $150,000\nfor a hospital for poor children of all denominations, in memory of\nher late husband.\n\nMr. Wm. B. Spooner, of Boston, left by will $3,000, the income of\nwhich is to be expended for the education of the colored people\nat the South. He also made liberal provision for the State Total\nAbstinence Society and the National Temperance Society of New York,\nbesides other bequests to worthy objects.\n\nMr. John T. Crawford, of Cincinnati, has left an estate valued from\n$30,000 to $100,000, to be applied for a home for aged colored men.\nHis directions were that the institution be built on College Hill.\nThere seems to be some doubt about the ability of the executors to\ncarry out the conditions of the bequest.\n\nThe American Presbyterian Board of Missions has received from the\nestate of the late Mrs. Lapsley, of New Albany, Ind., the sum of\n$215,000, with the prospect of receiving $60,000 or $70,000 more\nfrom the same source.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAfrica.\n\n\u2014Sir Garnet Wolseley has given to the Berlin Missionary Society\na large tract of land in South Africa to be used for a Mission\nStation.\n\n\u2014The mission at Frere Town, East Central Africa, has proved an\ninviting rendezvous for run-away slaves. The missionaries have\nno power to keep them, but have opportunity to expostulate with\ntheir owners for any cruelties they may inflict upon them. The\npractical result is that the masters become intimidated and angry,\nand would make an end of the missionaries if they had the power.\nThe settlement has already been threatened with destruction. It is\nhoped, however, that the impending calamity may be over-ruled, to\nthe overthrow of slavery on the coast.\n\n\u2014_The Victoria Nyanza Mission_ of the C. M. S., despite every\ndifficulty and disappointment, still exists. Letters from Uganda\nbring intelligence down to Aug. 14. It appears that Mtesa had\nengaged Mr. Pierson to build him a boat, and that Mr. Litchfield,\nin company with Mr. Mackay, had made a journey to Uyui, arriving\nat that point June 5. As the locality proved favorable to\nMr. Litchfield\u2019s health he intended to remain there with Mr.\nCopplestone, while Mr. Mackay had gone back to Uganda. These\nbrethren are cheered by the belief that the hearts and minds of\nmany of the heathen with whom they have labored have been prepared\nfor the Gospel.\n\nMr. Litchfield writes: \u201cI have invariably found the poor people\nready and eager to listen to the story of the cross. Numbers of\ninstances rise up before me as I write, where the hearers have\ntestified their astonishment and joy at the love of Jesus in dying\nfor them. Do not give away an inch,\u201d he says, \u201cif the place is\nproposed to be given up. On Dec. 23 we had that crushing vote to\nreject Christianity and stop our teaching. Now things are changing\nand public opinion is coming round in our favor. The hand is on the\nplow and we must not look back.\u201d\n\n\u2014The Jesuits have purchased a large tract of ground near\nAlexandria, Egypt, and purpose to build a convent for the reception\nof the members of their order who have been expelled from European\ncountries.\n\n\u2014A short time since, the Khedive of Egypt commissioned Col. Sala\nto take charge of an expedition for the capture and liberation\nof slaves who are brought down the Nile from the Soudan into\nEgypt. The expedition crossed the Nile at Assouan and searched\nseveral localities where slaves were illegally retained. After\nmuch difficulty and many fruitless endeavors, Col. Sala succeeded\nin surprising a village during the night time, and capturing\nand liberating twenty-one negroes. This endeavor set on foot by\nthe young Khedive indicates a more hopeful condition of affairs\nrelating to the East African slave trade than any other event of\nrecent occurrence.\n\n\u2014_News from Mr. Stanley._\u2014A letter from Mr. Carrie, superintendent\nof the Mission at Loango, gives interesting details gathered from\nMr. Protche, a French naturalist, concerning Mr. Stanley and his\noperations. Mr. Protche visited him for the purpose of connecting\nhimself with the expedition, but failed in his object.\n\nHe reports that Mr. Stanley was living at Vivi, in a village which\nhe had built with lumber from Europe. The houses were said to be\nquite comfortable. Mr. Stanley had already constructed a road\nextending three leagues east of his village, and was performing a\nlarge amount of work in a way that must be quite assuring to those\nwho are responsible for his expeditions.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Indians.\n\n\u2014The number of Indian youth learning trades in work-shops at\nthe agencies under the care of the United States Government has\nincreased from one hundred and eighty-five last autumn to three\nhundred and fifty-eight this year. Brick-making has been begun,\nand houses for the Indians are now almost exclusively built by\nthe Indians themselves. The aptitude shown by the Indians for\nmechanical work, has, in many cases, been surprising.\n\n\u2014Nearly two thousand freight wagons have been in use by the\nIndians this year, with the result of saving considerable money\nto the government compared with the amounts formerly paid for the\nsame transportation (of supplies, &c., to the agencies), besides\nfurnishing a civilizing and welcome employment to a large number of\notherwise restless Indians.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Chinese.\n\n\u2014Two Chinamen were baptized and received into the Church at\nStockton, Cal., Nov. 7. They were the first of that nation to join\nany church in that city.\n\n\u2014_Restriction of Chinese Immigration._\u2014A treaty has been made by\nthe United States with the Chinese Government which practically\nleaves the subject of regulating Chinese immigration to the\nauthorities at Washington. Owing to the fact that the Chinese\nGovernment has never been anxious to have its citizens emigrate to\nany country, little difficulty was found in negotiating the treaty.\n\n\u2014The _Christian Advocate_ has a very interesting report of the\nsermons preached by the native pastors at the Methodist Conference\nat Foochow, China, in October last. We select one. Rev. Sia Sek\nOng preached from the single word \u201cGo:\u201d \u201cLeave father, mother,\nfriends, fields; preachers go thus; world-men don\u2019t like to go in\nthat fashion. Where must we go? To the sea, for the fish. They are\nnot on the surface; they are in the depths. We may find shrimps\nin shallow water, but we must go to the deep water for the large\nfish. Go to the mountains to seek the lost sheep. There are lions\nand tigers and snakes in the mountains; but we must go, not to\nfind sport, but to find the sheep. Go to the vineyard, to work,\nto watch, to plant, to water. Go to the field to sow seed. Study\nthe soil, and sow accordingly. Field-work is not play. Go to\nthe market-place, and bid guests to the Master\u2019s feast. Go into\nthe army, to fight, to wrestle with the devil, to put forth your\nstrength, and to come home singing songs of victory.\n\n\u201cAsk the Master for Peter\u2019s hook to bring up the right fish; for\nDavid\u2019s crook to guide the sheep aright; for Gideon\u2019s torch to\nlight up the dark places; for Gospel seed, without any tares in\nit; for Moses\u2019 guiding rod; for the brazen serpent, to cure the\nbites of the world\u2019s snakes; for David\u2019s sling to prostrate your\ngiant foe; for the armor inventoried by Paul in the last chapter of\nEphesians; but above all, for the wonderful Holy Spirit, to help at\nall times. If we have all these, it is no matter where we go. We\nwill come with rejoicing to conference next year, with songs and\nshouts of victory.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nNASHVILLE, TENN.\u2014During the latter part of November a precious work\nof grace was going on in Fisk University, more than fifteen of the\nstudents having decided to come over upon the Lord\u2019s side.\n\nCHATTANOOGA, TENN.\u2014As a result of some special meetings held by\npastor Jos. E. Smith, assisted by Rev. E. J. Penney, of Marietta,\nGa., the Church was greatly confirmed and six or seven were added\nto the company of the disciples.\n\nTOUGALOO, MISS.\u2014In the University Chapel, on the last Sabbath of\nNovember, Superintendent Roy preached a sermon, and delivered a\nmissionary address before the young people, who were about to\norganize a Society of Inquiry in addition to their mission school\nassociation, and was permitted to rejoice on that day with the\nteachers over the conversion of a young man, who had been the\noccasion of a great deal of solicitude to them. Half a dozen others\nhave been coming along this fall in a quiet way; whereas, one\nyear ago, the Spirit appeared almost as a rushing, mighty wind,\nleaving nineteen students to the Saviour within twenty-four hours,\nall of whom are still holding on their way beautifully. There are\nnow 107 boarding students, while not a few have been turned away\nfor lack of room. The new house for the home of the President is\nnearly completed. A third story is to be put upon the Ladies\u2019 Hall,\nand other enlargements are sufferingly needed. The industrial\ndepartment is in vigorous condition.\n\nPARIS, TEXAS.\u2014On the 23d of Nov., an Ecclesiastical Council, at\nthis place, after an eminently satisfactory examination, ordained\ntwo young men, graduates of the theological department of Talladega\nCollege, licentiates of Alabama Conference,\u2014Mr. J. W. Roberts as\npastor of the \u201cAfrican Congregational Church\u201d of Paris, and Mr. J.\nW. Strong to go to Corpus Christi, to take the church work, while\nRev. S. M. Coles, who has been doing double service there, will\nretain the charge of the school. Rev. W. C. McCune, of Dallas,\npreached the sermon, Rev. R. H. Read of the other Congregational\nChurch, of Paris, delivered the charge. Rev. Albert Gray, who has\nhad charge of the Church for several years, having been an old-time\nAfrican preacher, extended the right hand of fellowship, and Supt.\nRoy, the moderator, offered the prayer of ordination, having spent\nfive days in confirming and preaching for the cluster of churches\nin the country about, that have branched off from this one. These\nare Pattonville, New Hope, Paradise and Shiloh. The mother church,\nwhich, in 1868, paid $112 in gold for an acre and a half lot in the\nsuburbs, has now bought a more central lot and will work toward a\nnew \u201cchurch house.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE \u201cCENTRAL SOUTH.\u201d\n\nPRES. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D.\n\nMY DEAR DR. WARREN:\u2014Across the street from where I write is a\nFreedmen\u2019s church, of modest pretensions, in which the Central\nSouth Conference of churches (Congregational) is sitting. It\ncomprises the churches and pastors of Tennessee, Mississippi and\nAlabama. Just within the door a low pillar in the centre supports\nan \u201coffertory,\u201d to use an English, but hardly an American word,\nwith the legend \u201cHelp us.\u201d It is from great poverty and hardships,\nas well as great wrong, that this scion of ecclesiastical New\nEngland has grown, and the people are still needy. Behind the\npulpit is the motto, \u201cTake my yoke upon you;\u201d they have accepted\nthat of Christ as they have rejected that of man. Very happily,\nthe earnest and intelligent young pastor elect, in welcoming\nthe members of this Conference this morning, reminded them that\nthey come to a Memphis unlike that of antiquity, from which the\ntask-master has forever passed away.\n\nThis is a genuine Congregational body save in hue\u2014one cannot long\nsay just that, for we are to have many of the same hue. Its modes,\nmotions, votes, reports, papers on appointed subjects, discussions,\ncare to recognize the precedence of churches over mere officers\nof churches, and its devotional spirit, are like those of Maine\nConferences. But in the half a hundred brethren and sisters who\nare present forenoon and afternoon, white faces are to be seen\nonly here and there; those who possess them are admitted, so far\nas I can see, to an entire equality with others! The moderator\nis a white professor of languages in Fisk University; the scribe\na colored pastor at Nashville. The preacher last evening was a\ncolored minister from Alabama; a white minister from Iowa assisted\nhim, whose daughter, teacher of music in the Normal Institute for\nFreedmen here, led the choir. In one corner sits Rev. Dr. J. E.\nRoy, the A. M. A. Field Superintendent in the South. The (white)\nchairman of the business committee is at the head of a church\nand one institution supported by the Association in Mississippi.\nFervent and spiritual, yet orderly as a Northern prayer-meeting,\nwere the devotional exercises of the first hour this morning.\n\nNarratives from the churches coming first in the proceedings,\nindicated the practical working character of the Conference. One\nof them was the story of a church holding on its way without a\npastor, growing in steady Christian work in its prayer meetings\nand in its Sabbath attendance, and fostering an institution of\nlearning the while. Another was a written apology from the pastor\nfor absence, because of conversions and a promising work of grace.\nAnother was a thrilling narrative of a brotherhood whose main body,\nthirty strong, went two years ago to Kansas, and its Sabbath-school\nhas twice since been swept away; yet it has come up from six to\nforty-five in numbers, built a pleasant house of worship, and\nmade Christian education victorious over the deadly opposition of\nsecular public education. I learned of another, not represented\nto-day, whose real acting pastor is a lady teacher, nineteen years\nat her solitary post. The dashing heroism of anti-rebellion days\nhas been succeeded by the quiet, persistent heroism that is often\nthe greater of the two; and the self-sacrifice of many of both\nraces for the cause of Christ is wonderful.\n\nThere is hopefulness among these brethren and sisters as to the\nreviving of God\u2019s work in the special direction of practical\nrighteousness. With all the immense moral evils of a Federal\nelection, they feel that conscience has been stirred, and profound\ngratitude to God for the result has been awakened among the\nFreedmen. Thought and energy, it seems to them, are more likely\nto turn in the direction of religion now than in any other great\ncommon channel, and they have courage and cheer for coming work. No\nsalvation movement among them can overpass their need.\n\nI add, at a later date, that an afternoon given to church extension\nand the spread of education was of the deepest interest. Between\nthe two papers, or addresses, was another on more generous giving\nby the churches, entirely in keeping. How vast a work in both\nchurch and school is laid upon them, one needs to be among them,\nand to see and hear them, in order to realize. How the treasury of\nthe A. M. A. could fill to repletion if all who support it could\nhave an inside view. In conversations at Andover on two different\noccasions, Prof. Park uttered the strongest and most anxious\nimpressions respecting our national future and the condition of the\nSouth. I am sure that he and all deep-sighted and far-sighted men\nwould find them intensified on actual examination of the facts.\nThe task before us is vast, and, but for divine help, overwhelming\nand impracticable. Nothing in church order and work can save these\npeople but the freest and most intelligent system; nothing in\neducation but practical training for the duties and competitions\nwith a more favored race, guided and inspired by thorough Christian\nprinciple.\n\nAnother afternoon was given to an ecclesiastical council, called\nby the 2d Congregational church of Memphis, to advise as to the\nordination of a pastor. The examination of the young man who\nhad been preaching to them for some months was a thoroughly\ndelightful one, specially full and rich in the recital of Christian\nexperience. The young brother is a light colored man, a native of\nPennsylvania, of an earnest, intense nature, studious, modest,\ninstructive as a preacher, and edifying to a group of Northern\nwhite teachers in Le Moyne Institute, and bore himself as to\nclearness and soundness of doctrine, in a manner so admirable,\nthat many candidates for the ministry from the more favored race\nmight well look up to him. Very tender and sweet was his testimony\nto parental faithfulness, and the divine blessing upon it in\nthe Presbyterian church in which he was brought up, and to the\nprovidential leading that guided him into the ministry \u201cfor the\nsake of the work in the South.\u201d The Conference, at an earlier\nsession, licensed two other young brethren, whose work in gathering\nchurches and schools is sorely needed in the communities they\nrepresent. One of these preached before it.\n\nTwice this week I have given before Freedmen\u2019s institutions\nlectures prepared for Northern college audiences. One\u2019s respect for\nthese institutions and for their students could only be raised by\nthe intelligent attention given. The city press\u2014Democratic\u2014has made\ncourteous and even generous notice of the religious proceedings\nof the week. Dr. Roy and myself were promptly invited to occupy\nPresbyterian pulpits in the city, and were most kindly and\nrespectfully received. We were assured that we should be heard\nwith pleasure again, and that the Gospel which we preached was\nthat which they received, knowing \u201cno North, no South.\u201d On Sabbath\nevening the place of worship of the 2d Congregational Church\u2014the\nfirst is of white people\u2014was crowded with attentive hearers of both\nraces while the ordination exercises were held. The young pastor\nhad been chosen by the Conference delegate to the National Council\nat St. Louis, and the people, at the close of the ordination,\nraised a sum of money to defray his expenses. I have never seen\nmore genuine and grateful joy among a Christian flock at the gift\nof a pastor and teacher than these people showed as they crowded\nup to take his hand after he had pronounced the benediction. They\nare ordinarily more social and demonstrative at all religious\ngatherings than white Christians.\n\nSome views of their future, and of the great and grave problems\ninvolved in their elevation by a free Christianity and by Christian\neducation, were deeply impressed upon me during my week among them,\nto which I may give utterance hereafter.\u2014_Christian Mirror._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSOUTH CAROLINA.\n\nTannerism in Church Work\u2014Charm of Old Songs\u2014Temperance Revival.\n\nREV. TEMPLE CUTLER.\n\nTwo years ago Plymouth church, Charleston, was in the hands of\na man whom it believed to be a good man, and in the enthusiasm\nof the moment it undertook to support him without aid from the\nAssociation. They ran the church nine months, and then were glad\nto get back under the sheltering wings of their cherishing mother.\nThey did not return a moment too soon. Life was at a very low ebb,\nand the church required very tender nursing to bring it up. The\nmost I can say of it now is, that it is convalescing. The pulse\nis regular, the digestion normal, the eye is brighter and more\nhopeful, there is a degree of buoyancy in the step, the skin is\nmore healthy, and if there shall be no relapse, we may confidently\nhope for full recovery. But I would not advise a repetition of such\nexperiments. It isn\u2019t a good plan to try how near we can bring\nourselves to the gate of death and then get back. _Tannerism_ isn\u2019t\ngood for church work.\n\nThe greatest burden of the church now, is a debt of $1,200 which\nit owes to the A. M. A. We would like to pay this off, and no\ndoubt the money would be of great use in some other department of\nour great work, but the people are very poor. They are willing to\ndo what they can, but we find it hard to pay the interest on the\nmortgage. If any of the readers of the MISSIONARY desire to help a\nworthy cause, let them send their donation to Dr. Strieby, to be\nset to the credit of Plymouth church in Charleston.\n\nWe have been revising our list of membership. In the spring we had\na solemn renewal of fellowship, and from that renewal we made up\nour list. In doing this we were obliged to drop from our record\ntwenty-five names. We number now, present and absent, 180; but, I\nam sorry to say, some of them who are in the city, and who solemnly\ncovenanted to walk in the fellowship with the church, still absent\nthemselves from all our services. Still they regard themselves as\nexemplary Christians, and resent the imputation that they are not\nliving consistent lives. It is here, as everywhere, a few faithful\nones are the bone and sinew of the church.\n\nI wish I could take you into one of our prayer meetings, such a\none as we sometimes have, for they are not all of the same degree\nof spiritual fervor, but one of our good meetings is exceedingly\nenjoyable. The songs are so weird and the prayers are so fervent\nand frequent, and their attitude so devout\u2014well, perhaps your\nfastidious taste would be shocked, but somehow I am drawn a little\nnearer Heaven here than anywhere else. I can\u2019t help saying \u201cAmen\u201d\ndown in my heart. And when they sing my body sways with theirs,\njust as the sailor rolls his gait with the motion of the deck. We\nsing a good many of the old time tunes, and some that have not\nyet been translated into written song. Our people sing their good\nold household hymns to these tunes. They have a happy faculty of\nadapting the words to the music, no matter what the metre may be.\nFor instance, the tune in the Jubilee Songs, \u201cI will die in the\nfield,\u201d is made to fit the hymn, \u201cWhen I can read my title clear.\u201d\n\nSometimes the hymn is divided up, and the chorus sandwiched in\nbetween the lines most ingeniously. But, however incongruous it may\nbe to the rules of music, it has a peculiar charm.\n\nThe church was well supplied during the vacation by Rev. David\nPeebles, of Dudley, N. C. Bro. Peebles kept them together and\nstrengthened their hands. His ministry was most acceptable to the\npeople. If nothing happens to us we have every reason to expect\nthe church now to grow. We need the baptism of the Spirit. We are\nlooking forward to a meeting, soon to be held in the city, under\nthe direction of Rev. H. E. Brown, who has been laboring in the\ninterest of the colored people in the South with great success. The\nMinister\u2019s Union has taken hold of the matter, and stands ready\nto give him a hearty co-operation. Bro. Brown\u2019s method introduces\nBible Readings in public, and from house to house. This is what we\nneed, and what the people want. We hope for a large blessing to\nfollow.\n\nThere is a large territory spiritually to be occupied in\nCharleston. We have a population of 50,000, a large part of whom\nare colored. In this county there are 71,000 colored people and\nonly 30,000 white. There are 604,000 colored people in the State,\nand 391,000 white. The colored vote is 40,000 in majority. There\nis great wickedness among these colored people. They copy and\nimprove upon the vices of the whites, in addition to their natural\ndepravity. Gambling, profanity, drunkenness, licentiousness and\nSabbath-breaking abound. Some of these vices have been born of\nfreedom, others have been increased by it. Drunkenness was rare\namong the blacks in slavery. Gambling was comparatively unknown.\nNow both of these vices prevail to an alarming extent. Outside\nthe city limits on Sunday groups of men and boys are to be seen\neverywhere, throwing dice or engaged in some other form of\ngambling. An effort is on foot to reach these outlying masses and\nbring them under the influence of the Gospel. I know of but one\nmissionary who gives her time to the work of visiting the thirty\nthousand colored people of this city. We could use advantageously a\ndozen.\n\nOh, how much there is to be done, and how few to do it; and how\nweak all our instrumentalities in the face of these obstacles! May\nGod help us! Oh, that the churches at the North could see what a\nfield is open to them here in the South! If we could have at least\none more missionary here in Charleston we would be glad, and the\nmoney it would cost would be well expended.\n\nThe white people are waking up to more effort in missionary work.\nThey have commenced in the temperance reform, and already a\npetition with 5,000 names attached has been presented to the Mayor\nand Council, asking that no more licenses be granted for the sale\nof intoxicating drinks. It is a beginning. A noble Christian woman,\nMrs. Chapin, has been the prime mover of this endeavor. We hope its\ninfluence will not be lost if the petition is rejected. May God\ngive us other and stronger petitions until the authorities see that\nChristian people mean business.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nAtlanta University.\n\nREV. C. W. FRANCIS.\n\nSeveral facts of interest are connected with the opening of the\nschool year at Atlanta University.\n\n1st. We are in possession of several valuable improvements,\nwhich give increased facilities long greatly needed. These are\nin consequence of recent gifts, the first fruits of which a\nconjunction of favorable circumstances made thus early available.\nThey consist of an addition to the building for girls, nearly\ndoubling its capacity for lodgers; to the dining room, furnishing\nnearly forty more seats; to one school room, furnishing desks for\nsixty pupils, and two convenient recitation rooms. And these are\nall in full demand, and the inquiry presses, \u201cWhat shall we do next\nwhen the January rush comes on?\u201d\n\n2d. A largely increased attendance, especially of girls, 79\nbeing now present as boarders, and these new pupils come largely\nfrom remote regions, some traveling more than 300 miles to reach\nschool. This increase is the result of no special appeals or\ninducements\u2014indeed, until much more extensive preparations were\nmade it would not be safe to invite a larger attendance\u2014but grows\nchiefly out of the interest awakened by old pupils in their own\ncommunity, and in the schools taught by them during the summer\nvacation.\n\n3d. A very satisfactory report of vacation work by nearly all of\nthe more than 150 who engaged in it.\n\n(_a._) Every pupil who was competent and desired a situation in\nthe public schools, obtained one, and many were taken who had made\nbut little progress in studies, and after all were gone, more than\na score of applications were made for teachers to be sent from\nhere, which could not be met from any source, and the schools were\ndisbanded.\n\n(_b._) No obstacles were met by any pupil caused by any of the\nwhite citizens of the state, but on the contrary, much assistance\nand support was cheerfully given, and that too, in many remote and\nrude regions.\n\n(_c._) Temperance work had especial prominence and effectiveness.\nAll were provided with a good supply of suitable temperance\nreading, which they distributed in connection with schools taught\nby them both on Sabbath and week days. This work was followed up\nby family visits and lectures and personal work, so that in some\ncounties the vote was carried for prohibition under the local\noption law.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGeorgia Conference.\n\nThe Conference of this State held its annual meeting in Atlanta, at\nthe First Church\u2014Rev. C. W. Hawley\u2019s\u2014from the 2d to the 5th inst.,\nRev. Jos. E. Smith Moderator, and Rev. S. E. Lathrop and Prof.\nS. B. Morse, Secretaries. Rev. J. R. McLean preached the opening\nsermon, upon the encouragement to run the Christian race from the\nexample of Christ. It was a refreshing and edifying discourse, too\nmuch in earnest for an introduction, but made three points and\nstuck to them and stopped at the end. The preacher is a graduate of\nTalladega.\n\nAs a good example for other Conferences, one evening was given\nto addresses in behalf of the several Congregational Societies,\nwith alternation of color as to the speakers, but not as to the\nspeeches. Supt. Roy reported the anniversary of the A. M. A. and\nthe St. Louis triennial, and gave an address upon the independence\nof our churches as related to their fellowship. Rev. P. Snelson\nand Prof. C. W. Francis led off on \u201cChurch Discipline,\u201d President\nWare opened on \u201cThe School and the Church,\u201d showing their natural\nrelation as evangelizers. A half day was given to a visit at the\nAtlanta University, and one evening to a sociable. Two \u201cchurch\nhouses\u201d have been built during the year at Marietta and Cypress\nSlash. The Conference missed Rev. R. F. Markham\u2019s stirring way,\nbut rejoiced in the coming in his place at Savannah of Rev. B. D.\nConkling, whose transition from the moderatorship of the fortieth\nannual meeting of the Wisconsin Convention to a place in this\nhumble body did not appal him. His sermon at the University was\ngreatly appreciated. His combination of pulpit and business talent\nwill find full scope in this work. _The Atlanta Constitution_ gave\na report of the Conference each day.\n\nOn Monday the members of the Conference, called by letters missive,\nrepaired to Marietta, twenty-one miles out, to sit in Council for\nthe installation of Mr. E. J. Penney, a graduate of the Atlanta\nUniversity and of Andover Seminary. The young pastor is taking hold\nof his work grandly. Let it be observed that the Congregational\nChurches of the South are seeking after the old paths. This is the\nthird installation of a colored pastor within a month. The others\nwere Rev. B. A. Imes, of Memphis, and Rev. J. W. Roberts, of Paris,\nTexas.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nA Visit to Marion.\n\nREV. G. W. ANDREWS, TALLADEGA.\n\nMarion was reached Saturday night, a grand old town of three\nthousand inhabitants, and an educational centre for the State. As\nthe hacks were full, a colored brother, an old friend, and deacon\nin our church at this place, took my bag, and I hastened along the\nsidewalk a mile or more to what was once the \u201cTeachers\u2019 Home,\u201d but\nnow the parsonage, a house to which I was introduced ten years ago\nwhen I left my Connecticut pastorate for a winter in the Sunny\nSouth. I cannot tell you how I felt, passing along the streets,\nas I recalled the experiences of ten years ago. I shuddered as I\nneared the house where my friend, now of Chattanooga, came near\nlosing his life in the small hours of the night by the hands of\nmasked and armed men. The rush, the rope, the tree, the cries\nfor help, the final deliverance, and much more, were very vivid\nand real to my awakened mind. I thought, also, of those eight\nconsecutive nights when none of our family lay down to rest as\nusual; of the armed guard of twenty brave men in and about the\nhouse all those nights; of the warning letters received, the\nthreats made, the Henry rifles in our chairs when we bowed around\nour family altar; of the preaching with hands in my pocket on my\nrevolver; of the fear and trembling that seized us when special\ndanger threatened; of our isolation from all except the poor we had\ncome to bless by our labors. I thought, too, of the school-house,\nthe three hundred eager learners, the little church of a dozen\nmembers, the precious meetings, the great outpouring of the\nSpirit, the hundreds of conversions, the \u201cnever to be forgotten\u201d\nprayers and songs\u2014in all the most precious revival of my life. As\na drowning man recalls the events of a whole life in a moment, so\nin an incredibly brief space of time passed before me those early\nexperiences of missionary life in this strange land, impossible\nfor me now to relate. All is changed now. To-day the missionary is\nwelcomed by many Christian people in Marion. The dreadful past is\nfading from our minds in the love and friendship of the present.\n\nSabbath morning I looked out upon the many cottages and cabin homes\nin the woods and fields all about, while near by I saw the church\nedifice with its graceful and airy bell-tower in which hangs a\nchoice bell from the foundry of Veasy & White, of East Hampton,\nConnecticut, and the gift of the people there. The house will seat\nthree or four hundred, is well proportioned, nicely painted and\nfrescoed,\u2014the most handsome and best kept church edifice of the\ncolored people in the State.\n\nI wish it were possible for me to give some suitable account of\nthe Sabbath greetings and services. A few touches only, and your\nimagination must supply the rest. The bell called us to the house\nof God at 9 a.m. You first meet the men and women who joined\nthe church ten years ago, and are now pillars in it and in the\nSabbath-school. And such a welcome!\u2014such hand-shaking, such glad\nhearts! You very soon know Paul\u2019s warmth towards his beloved Church\nof Philippi, his first love in Europe, as this was my first love in\nAlabama. It was nearly five hours before these morning greetings,\nthe Sabbath-school, the preaching and then more hand-shaking, were\nended, and the people willing to go to their homes. The promise,\n\u201cHe shall bring all things to your remembrance,\u201d seemed that day\nfulfilled. Precious memories of the wonderful work of grace that\ndrew so many of them into the fold were present to all with power.\n\u201cOur hearts burned within us\u201d as we talked of these things there,\nand \u201cby the way.\u201d The night service, the Monday calls, the informal\nsocial gathering, the eager questions, the manifest Spirit\u2019s\npresence, the next day\u2019s farewells\u2014all made a deep impression on\nus, and led us to feel anew that this missionary work is God\u2019s\nwork, for it was that work that inspired our hearts and was our\ntheme from first to last.\n\nThis church has already put five young men into the Christian\nministry, and is in morals, intelligence and management a pattern\nworthy to be copied.\n\nSince my arrival home the one question that presses heaviest on my\nheart is, how can we provide for the boys and girls of Marion and\nother places visited that want to come to the college to school? In\nChildersburgh, Shelby Iron Works, Calera, Selma and Marion, places\nalong the line of my journey, I found many smart boys and girls\nanxious to become educated men and women. In one place I found\ntwenty-five eager to come, not one of whom could pay more than a\nsmall part of necessary school expenses. Low wages, poor crops, the\ncotton worm and inherited poverty keep them where they are, and so\nfar as I can see they must live and die there in their poverty and\nhopelessness, unless those whom God has more highly favored are\nmoved to help them. Our college expenses are so low that seventy\ndollars will keep one pupil in school one year, and sometimes,\non account of labor done or aid from home, a much smaller amount\nwill suffice. We need more than one thousand dollars to be used in\nthis way this year, above the amounts already pledged. Christian\neducation transforms these boys and girls. I wish you could see the\neight young men that were graduated last June from the Theological\nDepartment of the college, and hear them preach the word to their\npeople; you could but say, \u201cVerily, this is God\u2019s way and I\nmust chime in with it.\u201d Several young men are just now entering\nthe Theological Department who are every way worthy, but wholly\ndependent for means to prosecute their studies to the end.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTENNESSEE.\n\nRevival at Memphis.\n\nPROF. A. J. STEELE.\n\nI know you will rejoice with us at the outpouring of the Spirit\nwhich just now is so manifest.\n\nOur evening prayer-meetings, held for the past week each day\nimmediately after school, are being greatly blessed. One of the\nstudents, a young man, professed Christ three days ago; the\nearnestness since then has deepened. The meetings of yesterday\nand the day before were especially blessed, and this morning two\npromising girls of the school rose directly after devotions, and\nbefore the entire school, gave most earnest and clear testimony\nto Christ as their Saviour. In this afternoon\u2019s meeting, to which\nnearly the entire school remained, two smaller girls and two\nprominent young men professed, with rejoicing. The entire school\nseems moved, many are seeking most earnestly, and this evening, at\nseven o\u2019clock, we have a special meeting in the sitting-room at the\nHome.\n\nWe are all rejoicing, as we doubt not angels are, over the\nrepentance and return of those estranged from God. Will you not\ngive thanks with us and pray for a continuation of the presence of\nthe Spirit with us in our work!\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\u201cCALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION,\u201d\n\nAuxiliary to the American Missionary Association.\n\nPRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D.D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L.\nStone, D.D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon.\nF. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D.D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H.\nWilley, D.D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D.D., Jacob\nS. Taber, Esq.\n\nDIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D.D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P.\nBaker, James. M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLETTERS FROM PUPILS.\n\nREV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nI often receive letters from pupils in our schools, and still more\nfrequently read letters addressed to their teachers, which I have\nwished I could show to the Christian friends who are enabling us to\ncarry on our work.\n\nIt is encouraging to see how much of saving truth they have\ncontrived to learn, and still more to feel all through the\nthrobbings of a Christian heart. The English is often in a sad\ntangle, but the effort to get hold of idioms so utterly opposite\nto their own sometimes gives an appetizing quaintness to their\nutterances such as freshens even oldest truth.\n\nI venture to fill our columns for this month with a few extracts,\nrealizing the fact that our interest in them may be wholly due to\nour personal interest in the writers, and that I incur the risk of\ntheir falling quite flat on the ears of others.\n\nHere is one from Gin Sing, a member of the Presbyterian Church in\nSanta Barbara, now in Mexico: \u201cDear Sir, Mr. Pond: How are your\nhealth now? I hope you alway strong and able to do things. I have\nleave off [left] the city of Santa Barbara last Jan. 21st, but\nwe living in Sonora of Mexico the county, at place of San Felix\nMine. * * * I like to stay Santa Barbara very much, and so I have\na chance to go church every Sunday; and this country none have\nchurch, and not very good country, but only mine was good, and\ncountry was dry the all time, and hot, too, and cold\u2014sometimes\nwas cold as can be. Oh, Dear Sir, I hear from Ah Foy [a Chinese\nbrother, member of the Congregational Church] sometime ago. Tell\nme about Lee Wing Tie [a Baptist brother from San Francisco] been\nto Santa Barbara; done many good things for mission boys before he\nleft; but Mission boys like him very much indeed, and very happy\nthat time, and large school, too. Now Miss Clarke write me very few\nboys come. I am sorry. Sorry as can be. * * * Be prayerful, patient\nand pleasant, and never lose faith that the love and help of God,\nthe Father, are with us in every hour. May God bless you always.\u201d\n\nAnd here is one recently received from Ny To Ging, a Stockton\nbrother: \u201cMr. Pond: Dear Friend * * * Since I left you so long\ntime, I never written to you any. Alway do I remember your\nkindness. I hope God will bless you and give you much strength to\ndo his work. We are all sinners, and have wandered from God like\nlost sheep that have gone astray from the fold, but God is ready\nto forgive and take us back again in order to save us; so that we\nought immediately to repent and become the disciples of Christ\nand be always prepared to do the will of Jesus. The Bible is the\nword of God. Holy men wrote it as the Holy Spirit taught them. The\ntruths of the Bible never change. Every word is true, and God\u2019s\ntruth shall last forever. * * * I write to let you know and two\nChinese [are to be] baptized in Stockton Church Congregational\nthe next Sunday. I do not know how to write a letter well, but\nI make the attempt to write a little, hoping you will overlook\nall mistakes.\u201d [In some portions of the above I think that as to\nthe English our brother must have had the aid of his teacher\u2019s\ncorrections but the thoughts, I am sure, are his own.\u2014W. C. P.]\n\nThis is from Jou Mow Lam, recently baptized in Bethany Church,\naddressed to his teacher in Stockton: \u201cMy dear teacher, Mrs. L.\nLangdon, I write few words to you. I think you good take care your\nscholar. I leave you long time. I do pray to God, hope you very\nwell. I was very sorry, can get no work, know you help me. Pray\nto God to change my new heart [change my heart: make it new] no\nmake me darkness. Soon I have baptized [shall be baptized]. I have\nread also in the gospels about Jesus; he rose from the grave on\nthe third day after he was crucified, and went to heaven. I wish\nto be a Christian that I may go to heaven. I do not cease to pray\nfor the pardon of my sin, and a new heart. I cannot tell you how\nI long to meet you my dear Christian friend.\u201d This one is from Ny\nKing, a beloved brother in Bethany Church, addressed to teachers\nwho had recently removed from San Francisco to Stockton. It was\nwritten just as he was about to sail for China: \u201cI sorry I can not\nwrite all I want, but I will try to write a few words to you. You\nare kind and patient to teach our Chinese, and I am very sorry you\nhave to go to Stockton and leave us. Still we are glad, for you\nshall have a good chance to do much good for our Christian Chinese\nup there. I hope you remember me while you pray, that I may go home\nto China, to hold up the light of Christ, and tell the kindness\nof your Christian people to my own countrymen which they might\nreceive it. One day, one of my heathen friends call up to me in a\nstore: \u2018Ny King,\u2019 said he, \u2018are you go home next steamer? I will\ntell you something, that you might not forget it. Now you say you\nare a Christian, but in about a month more, you will say you are\nsomething thing else,\u2019 for he thought the Christian only good for\nhere, and never can be in China. If the power of man, it might be\nso, but God who is the highest [is] _Almighty_. Now I must close my\nletter. I have no time to write any more. Good bye.\u201d\n\nMany other letters lie before me, each with its own point of\ninterest, but I shall trespass on another\u2019s space if I indulge\nin any more extracts. I will venture, however, to give without\nconnection, the following sketch of a sermon from Wong Ack, a\nhelper recently introduced into service, and from whom our readers\nhave not heard before.\n\nThe text is Matt. ii., 28: \u201cCome unto me all ye that labor,\u201d etc.\n\n1. The world is now already led by Satan, that who follows him, it\nis heavy labor he has to bear: and every grief in his heart that\nnever feels any comfort, so that Jesus has shown His kind heart,\nand sound His merciful voice that whosoever will leave the devil\nand come to Him, they will receive His rest.\n\n2. Jesus now on this world is like to what?\u2014Like a gong which is\nsounding on the place while the thieves surround the people at\nnight, and might wake them up, so they know the mischief was near,\nand try to escape out of the murderers\u2019 hands, and hope they might\nsave their life.\n\n3. Our friends, this mischief nobody is able to deliver you from,\nbut only Jesus who is our Saviour: He will preserve us, if we trust\nin Him. Oh! how sorry for them now which are asleep! Their hearts\nwere full of dreams, and their eyes were closed up by Satan\u2019s\nplans. Wake up, our friends, wake up! Come, come to Jesus as\npossible as you can [as quickly as you possibly can]. He is ready,\nwaiting for us. * * *\n\n4. That labor which I had spoken of is in this world. But you\nought to know beforehand _that labor_ which [is in] the world to\ncome. Now turn to Luke, xiv chapter and 24th verse: that will tell\nyou how that is. Therefore Jesus said, \u201cCome unto me.\u201d What you\nthink of this voice? * * * Now, our friends, should we all come\nto Him? Should we rather love to go to heaven, than go to hell?\nYes, we must all come to Him, and turn our hearts toward the way\nof heaven, and hope our Lord Jesus Christ lead us in to His glory\nforever and ever.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA CHRISTMAS GIFT LIKE BELL BENNET\u2019S.\n\nMRS. T. N. CHASE.\n\n\u201cAnnie, will you please come in a minute?\u201d called Mrs. Duncan to\na merry maiden tripping home from school. Annie Bennet looked\nup, nodded, and turned toward Mrs. Duncan\u2019s mansion. As soon as\nher feet touched the grand stone steps, she felt changed into a\ndignified young lady, as quickly as ever Cinderella turned into a\nfairy. And as handsome Will, just in from the same school, opened\nfor her the massive doors, some fresh roses jumped into Annie\u2019s\ncheeks and some fresh sparkles into her dancing eyes. As soon as\nthe three were seated in the cosey bay-window, Mrs. Duncan said,\n\u201cAnnie, you know, with my lame foot, I cannot go to see your\nmother, so I called you in to tell you my Christmas plan for our\nlittle May. You know how the child loves your little sister Bell.\nWell, last night while the little darling was saying her prayers,\nshe added, \u2018Please, Lord, tell Santa Claus to bring a Christmas\ngift to Bell just like the one he brings to me.\u2019 Now we had planned\ngetting her a tiny diamond ring, it would be so lovely on her\ndainty little hand, and I thought if your mother knew of May\u2019s\nsweet little prayer, she\u2019d like to strengthen the child\u2019s faith by\ngetting one for Bell like it.\u201d Annie thought it was a beautiful\nidea and hastened home to tell her mother.\n\nAs soon as Mrs. Bennet heard Annie\u2019s story, a greater pain came\ninto her heart than had been there for many a day; for they had\nlately received a fortune from a rich uncle, and she felt that\nher motives for simplicity and economy would not be understood.\nHer greatest anxiety, however, was for her children. How she had\nprayed that the love of this money might not be to them \u201cthe root\nof all evil,\u201d and \u201cpierce them through with many sorrows.\u201d She\nwell knew how her precious Annie would now be petted by the gay\nand fashionable, and here had come her first great trial in this\nirresistible message from charming Mrs. Duncan. Annie understood\nher mother\u2019s hesitation and said, \u201cMamma, wouldn\u2019t it be a pity to\nhave little May think her prayer was not heard?\u201d\n\n\u201cMy child, May did not pray for a diamond ring, but for a gift like\nBell\u2019s. Perhaps if you tell Mrs. Duncan I cannot conscientiously\ngrant her request she will get a simple gift like one we get for\nBell.\u201d\n\n\u201cOh, mamma, I never could tell Mrs. Duncan that. Don\u2019t you think\nthe habit of economy, that of necessity you have practiced all\nthese years, may be mistaken for conscience?\u201d\n\n\u201cThe habit doubtless makes it easier for me to obey conscience,\nbut I cannot think I am mistaking one for the other,\u201d replied Mrs.\nBennet.\n\n\u201cBut, ma, do you think it proper for us to live as simply now as we\ndid when papa had a salary of only $2,000 a year?\u201d\n\n\u201cAnnie, dear, have we not been able to dress respectably, has\nnot our table always had well-prepared, wholesome and appetizing\nfood, has not our little cottage contained all that was absolutely\nnecessary for real home comfort?\u201d\n\n\u201cYes, ma, we have a sweet home: you know I love it. I was not\ncomplaining of the past, but why did God give us this fortune if He\ndid not wish us to enjoy _luxuries_ now as well as comforts?\u201d\n\n\u201cI think He did, Annie. I\u2019m sure we can all now enjoy the luxury of\ndoing good as we never have before. Then just think what a luxury\nit will be not to weary ourselves with making over worn garments.\nWe can now give them to the needy and help still others by hiring\nthem to make our new clothing,\u2014not that we may be idle, but that we\nmay have \u2018a heart at leisure from itself to soothe and sympathize.\u2019\nWe can have dear grandpa and grandma with us all the time. We will\nhave several cosey bed-rooms added to our cottage, and shall not\nfeel too poor to invite our less favored cousins and many dear\nfriends to spend long vacations with us.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut, ma, we might do all this and still appear poor, while if we\nhad a grand home like Mrs. Duncan, and exquisite curtains, and\na fine carriage, and Bell had her diamond ring, and we all wore\nexpensive and stylish clothing, everybody would know papa was rich.\u201d\n\n\u201cYes, Annie, and what good would it do people to know papa was\nrich?\u201d\n\n\u201cWell, I cannot think of any good it would do them.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhat good would it do _us_, darling, to have people know it?\u201d\n\n\u201cOh ma, it would be so pleasant to have every one polite to us, and\ntreat us beautifully as they do rich people.\u201d\n\n\u201cDo not all who _know_ us treat us well, Annie?\u201d\n\n\u201cOh yes, ma, _very_ well; but you know even _strangers_ admire\nthose who dress, dine, and drive as only the rich can.\u201d\n\n\u201cNow think, Annie, what this consideration of strangers costs.\nFriends envy us, the poor hate us, the irreligious question our\nsincerity, our own hearts are made vain, if not proud, millions\nare spent in useless luxuries that might bless the poor, and\u2014well\nAnnie, this is enough for once, isn\u2019t it? When you have been in the\ncity did you ever notice boys slowly pacing the streets and often\nringing a bell, who were all covered over with an advertisement of\nsome sale or show?\u201d\n\n\u201cYes, mamma.\u201d\n\n\u201cWell, I often see young ladies on the street who always remind\nme of these advertising boys, as their dress makes them a walking\nadvertisement of their father\u2019s wealth. One Sunday night, after\nattending service in a very wealthy church, I dreamed that all\nthe ladies wore pocket-books on their heads instead of bonnets.\nSome were too full to be closed, and small coin often dropped out.\nOthers were tightly clasped and ornamented with all manner of\nprecious stones. A few were thin and worn, but all were labelled\nwith the exact amount of contents. And when one lady walked in with\n$2,000,000 blazing in diamond figures on her pocket-book how all\nthe congregation bowed down.\u201d\n\n\u201cOh mamma, what a funny dream!\u201d\n\n\u201cNow Annie, if Christian women would all feel that they were\nChristian stewards of their Lord\u2019s money, and could see what\nfoolish vanity it is to wish the world to know of their wealth,\nthen we should all have some comparatively definite standard of a\nChristian style of living. But as long as Christian women have no\nguide but the varying length of a husband\u2019s purse, we shall have no\nstandard, no conscience in the matter, and the world will continue\nto jeer and the poor to suffer.\u201d\n\nAnnie\u2019s dread lest Will Duncan and his mother should think them\nold-fashioned or Puritanical, or possibly avaricious, was a sore\ntemptation to her, and once more she plead\u2014\u201cBut ma, would it not\nbe right to call this ring a thank-offering for the great dowry we\nhave received?\u201d\n\n\u201cMy dear Annie, I cannot see how a gift that would simply be a\nbadge of our wealth, and tend to flatter the vanity of our innocent\nlittle Bell, would be a suitable thank-offering to the Lord. I\nbelieve in thank-offerings, however, and have written my dear old\nfriend Mrs. W\u2014\u2014, who is engaged in missionary work South, you\nremember, inquiring how I can best help her. Perhaps when her reply\ncomes you will feel differently.\u201d\n\nPoor Annie avoided passing Mrs. Duncan\u2019s home for two days,\ndreading to speak of her mother\u2019s decision. The second day the\nexpected letter came from Georgia. It told of a delicate little\ncolored girl\u2014a graduate of the Higher Normal Department of an A. M.\nA. School. This girl\u2019s father had run away $150 in debt, and the\nhome that sheltered the little family was to be sold at sheriff\u2019s\nsale to pay the debt. This girl found a man who would pay it and\nwait for her to pay him in small sums as she earned it by teaching.\nAs soon as this was paid she begged her sister to go to the school\nfrom which she graduated. The sister thought she was too old to\nbegin to go to school again, and could not be persuaded till at\nlast she was told\u2014\u201cNow Sis, kind friends at the North have helped\nme get my education and _I_ am going to send _some_ poor girl to\nthat same school, and if you don\u2019t go, some one else will be glad\nof my help.\u201d So now she is paying nine dollars a month for that\nsister\u2019s board and tuition, and buys her books and clothes, better\nones, too, than she wore herself. A letter was also enclosed from\nthis girl to her old teacher, begging for help to build a school\nhouse where she is now teaching. So besides educating her sister\nshe is trying to build a school house. But I have the letter and\nwill let the girl tell her own story:\n\n  \u201cDear Friend, Mrs. W\u2014\u2014: I know you are very busy, and will not\n  want to hear the word \u2018building,\u2019 but I don\u2019t know whom else to\n  write to. We have paid $71.70 on an acre of land for our school\n  lot. We have $68.30 to pay and twelve months to pay it in, with\n  no interest. We want to ask the A. M. A. if they will help us\n  build a school house. We can begin now as soon as we are able.\n  We want the A. M. A. to take full control of the house and the\n  building of it, and we will help all we can. We want this to be a\n  school for _everybody_. We have six men as trustees of the land,\n  and have worked hard and are working still. * * * The whites\n  are helping us and urging us to go on. Three white men gave $5\n  apiece, and others less. They were a little careful about giving\n  this time, as money has been solicited twice before for the same\n  purpose, so most of them would put their names down and say,\n  \u2018Come when you are ready for it.\u2019 There was no trouble in getting\n  it yesterday when we went for it. I was anxious to decide the\n  matter and make a payment yesterday. I\u2019ll try to get my money to\n  you by the 10th for sister.\n\n                      \u201cVery truly,\n                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u201d\n\nWhen Annie got home from school she read both letters with great\ninterest, but said, \u201cMa, don\u2019t you suppose such letters are\nsometimes gotten up for effect?\u201d \u201cPerhaps they are, but I am sure\nthis one was not, for you know I wrote asking for some case of\npressing need, and the girl\u2019s letter never could have been written\nfor my eyes, as it is dated some weeks ago.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut, ma, I have seen some missionaries who are so long-faced and\nsanctimonious that some way I can\u2019t enjoy their reports.\u201d\n\n\u201cI am glad you hate cant, Annie. So do I, but if you should see\nthis friend of mine who wrote that letter, you\u2019d feel very sure\nthere was none of it about her. She is one of the merriest,\nsunniest, most genial ladies I ever knew. And I never knew a person\nhate shams or pretense of any kind more thoroughly than she. How\nI wish you had been home when she was here two years ago; but you\nmust take the letter to Mrs. Duncan, for she is a dear friend of\nhers too.\u201d\n\n\u201cIs she, ma? I\u2019m so glad.\u201d\n\nAnnie stopped next morning at Mrs. Duncan\u2019s and left the letter\nwith the servant at the door, saying she\u2019d call for it on her way\nhome. When she called in the afternoon, Mrs. Duncan told her how\ndelighted she\u2019d been to hear from her old school friend, and that\nshe must certainly help that brave little colored girl build her\nschool house. Annie then ventured timidly to say her ma felt she\nought to do that instead of buying so expensive a gift for Bell.\n\n\u201cNow, Annie, that is just like your sweet mother,\u201d said Mrs.\nDuncan. \u201cI wish I was half as good. I did hope, though, little\nMay\u2019s prayer might be answered.\u201d\n\n\u201cMa says it might be if you could get a simple gift like the one we\nget Bell,\u201d shyly suggests Annie.\n\n\u201cSure enough,\u201d exclaimed Mrs. Duncan; \u201chow stupid I was not to\nthink of that. I\u2019ll do it, and then I\u2019ll have twice much to give\nthe little Georgia missionary.\u201d\n\nSo the two mothers purchased for the children inexpensive gifts,\nand sent to the Georgia colored girl a generous donation for her\nchosen work.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR NOVEMBER, 1880.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $56.16.\n\n    North Anson. Mrs. Eunice S. Brown                        $10.00\n    Skowhegan. Mrs. C. A. Weston, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                            5.00\n    Thomaston. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.\n    Wilton. Cong. Ch.                                          6.16\n    Winthrop. Henry Woodward                                   5.00\n    Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        30.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $93.54.\n\n    Amherst. Cong. Ch., $16.29; Miss L. W. B., 50\n      cts.                                                    16.79\n    Auburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                10.00\n    Concord. Ladies, Bbl. and box of C. _for\n      Savannah, Ga._\n    Dover. Mrs. Dr. L.                                         1.00\n    Exeter. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         1.00\n    Hopkinton. Rev. D. S.                                      0.60\n    Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns                       30.00\n    New Boston. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     5.00\n    Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  5.15\n    Temple. Mrs. W. K.                                         1.00\n    Walpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               18.00\n    West Campton. T. J. Sanborn                                5.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $222.82.\n\n    Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     2.00\n    Johnson. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         11.00\n    Lower Waterford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       13.28\n    Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc., and Sab. Sch.                 12.01\n    Springfield. Mrs. Frederick Parks                        100.00\n    Thetford. Mrs. L. N. Rugg, deceased, $2; P. R. $1          3.00\n    Wells River. Charles W. Eastman                            5.00\n    Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      DEA. JUSTIN MONTAGUE and CHAS. DANA, L. M\u2019s             66.53\n    Williston. Cong. Ch.                                      10.00\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $2,967.62.\n\n    Andover. \u201cFriends,\u201d by C. R. B., _for Emerson\n      Inst._                                                  28.00\n    Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             25.00\n    Ashby. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  6.25\n    Ashland. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            8.50\n    Billerica. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 8.25\n    Boston. Mt. Vernon Ch., in part, $30; Mrs. E.\n      P. Eayrs, $5; \u201cR. W. P.,\u201d $5                            40.00\n    Boston Highlands. \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. MISS\n      ELIZABETH F. BACKUP, L. M.                              30.00\n    Boxford. F. E. C.                                          1.00\n    Bridgewater. Central Sq. Trin. Cong. Ch. and\n      Soc., to const. REV. J. C. BODWELL, L. M.               60.75\n    Brocton. \u201cA Friend of Missions,\u201d to const.\n      CHARLES P. HOLLAND, L. M.                               30.00\n    Byfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               11.54\n    Cambridgeport. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  5.00\n    Campbello. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            100.00\n    Chelsea. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc., $10.55; \u201cA\n      Member of Central S. S.,\u201d $2; Miss E. H. T.,\n      50 cts.                                                 13.05\n    Charlemont. First Cong. Ch.                                8.25\n    Dedham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               188.00\n    Dorchester. E. P.                                          1.00\n    Dracut. \u201cFriends,\u201d by C. R. B., _for Emerson\n      Inst._                                                  10.00\n    Enfield. Edward Smith                                    150.00\n    Everett. Mrs. C. K. Farrington, _for Kansas\n      Refugees_                                                5.00\n    Fitchburgh. Rollstone Cong. Ch.                           57.61\n    Florence. Florence Cong. Ch.                             115.00\n    Framingham. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5; E. K. S., $1                   6.00\n    Framingham. Mrs. Mann, two Bbls., one bag and\n      bundle of C.\n    Gloucester. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $1; Miss M. A. H., 10\n      cts.                                                     1.10\n    Hatfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $63.50; R. M.\n      Woods, $40                                             103.50\n    Holbrook. \u201cE. E. H.\u201d                                      25.00\n    Holliston. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., $21; Bible\n      Christians, Dist. No. 4, $5; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $1;\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              27.00\n    Hopkinton. Bbl. of C., by Mrs. S. B. Crooks,\n      _for Refugees_\n    Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       75.16\n    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          6.78\n    Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. ad\u2019l $84;\n      \u201cThanksgiving,\u201d $4                                      88.00\n    Lawrence. Bbl. of C.\n    Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   92.25\n    Littleton. Mrs James C. Houghton, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                         3.00\n    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Howard\n      U._                                                      2.00\n    Marblehead. J. J. H. Gregory, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Medfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      MRS. CATHARINE B. GREEN, L. M.                         104.00\n    Medfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of\n      C. _for Savannah, Ga._\n    Middleborough. Central Cong. Ch.                          35.95\n    Mittineague. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Talladega C._            3.00\n    Monson. Mrs. C. O. Chapin and her S. S. Class,\n      _for Indian boys, Hampton N. and A. Inst._               9.00\n    Montville. Sylvester Jones                                 2.00\n    Mount Washington. Rev. S. W. Powell                        1.75\n    Newbury. Ladies of First Parish, Bbl. of C.,\n      _for Kansas_\n    Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   39.72\n    Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch. by Rev. Mr.\n      Phipps, Eleven Bbls. of Apples, _for\n      Atlanta, Ga._\n    Newton Lower Falls. M. A. M.                               0.50\n    Newtonville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $58.44; Mrs.\n      A. C. G., $1                                            59.44\n    Northampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $57.32;\n      William K. Wright, $30; \u201cB.\u201d $10                        97.32\n    Northampton. Sarah M. Lyman, _for furnishing a\n      Room, Atlanta U._                                       25.00\n    Northborough. Ladies, box of C., _for\n      Savannah, Ga._\n    Sandwich. Miss H. H. Nye                                   2.00\n    Salem. MRS. E. B. MANSFIELD, $30, to const.\n      herself L. M.; E. F. P., 50c.                           30.50\n    Southampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           35.39\n    South Abington. N. N.                                      1.00\n    South Boston. Phillips Cong. Ch. and Soc.                107.61\n    Southbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           23.07\n    South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      bal. to const. MISS MARY E. LOVELL and MISS\n      MARY ANNA CADY, L. M.\u2019s                                 47.00\n    Springfield. Mrs. S. E. B.                                 1.00\n    Sudbury. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                      10.00\n    Taunton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          8.16\n    Tewksbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            117.50\n    Uxbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              35.00\n    Ware. East Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Talladega C._            53.73\n    Watertown. Mrs. W. R.                                      0.60\n    Watertown. Corban Soc., two Bbls. of C., _for\n      Talladega, Alabama_\n    Webster. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n    Westborough. Freedmen\u2019s Aid Soc., _for freight_            1.00\n    Westford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              16.50\n    Westhampton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                              14.45\n    West Newton. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    52.58\n    West Newton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Room,\n      Straight U._                                            25.00\n    Winchendon. Atlanta Soc., $25 _for furnishing\n      Room, Atlanta U._, and $3 _for freight_                 28.00\n    Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $16.36; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d $5                                             21.36\n    Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            85.78\n    West Roxbury. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                               20.00\n    Worcester. Union Ch., $105.72; Mrs. J. F.\n      Lovering, $5                                           110.72\n    Worcester. David Whitcomb, _for Student Aid,\n      Hampton, N. and A. Inst._                              100.00\n    Worcester. Salem St. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      25.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $2,742.62\n    Legacies.\u2014Holbrook. \u201cE. N. H.\u201d                           200.00\n    Waltham. Lucy H. Burnham, by Rufus G. Brown,\n      Ex.                                                     25.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $2,967.62\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $234.41.\n\n    Central Falls. Cong. Ch.                                  72.26\n    Kingston. Cong. Ch.                                       26.08\n    Providence. Young Ladies\u2019 Mission Band of\n      Beneficent Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._             100.00\n    Providence. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      30.00\n    Westerly. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               6.07\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $1,454.26.\n\n    Ansonia. First Cong. Ch.                                  24.14\n    Ashford. Wm. D. Carpenter, $2.50; Lois H.\n      Carpenter, $2.50                                         5.00\n    Avon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  41.60\n    Berlin. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student preparing for\n      African M._                                             50.00\n    East Hampton. Cong. Ch., to const. JARED C.\n      KELLOGG, C. O. SEARS and SAMUEL KIRBY, L. M.\u2019s         117.51\n    Ellington. MRS. HARRIET H. TALCOTT, to const.\n      herself L. M.                                           30.00\n    Elliott. Dea. Wm. Osgood.                                  2.00\n    Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to\n      const. SAMUEL HEMINGWAY and LUCIUS S.\n      LUDINGTON, L. M.\u2019s                                      60.77\n    Fair Haven. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              35.00\n    Granby. First Cong. Ch.                                    4.00\n    Greenwich. D. B.                                           1.00\n    Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               47.85\n    High Ridge. C. A. P.                                       0.50\n    Lebanon. \u201cFive Ladies,\u201d _for furnishing a\n      room, Atlanta U._                                       25.00\n    Litchfield Co. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C., Fisk U., and Indian Dept.,\n      Hampton Inst._, $100 each                              300.00\n    Marlborough. Cong. Ch.                                    21.00\n    Milton. Cong. Ch.                                          3.50\n    Morris. Cong. Ch.                                         14.00\n    Naugatuck. Isaac Scott                                   200.00\n    New Canaan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            26.00\n    New Hartford. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    30.12\n    New Haven. C. A. S.                                        1.00\n    New Preston. Rev. Henry Upson                              5.00\n    North Guilford. Mrs. Eben F. Dudley                        5.00\n    Norwich. W. A. A.                                          0.50\n    Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                                    8.96\n    Putnam. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Hampton Inst._                                     15.00\n    Tolland. James L. Clough                                   2.00\n    Washington. S. J. Nettleton, $5; Mrs. D.\n      Nettleton, $5                                           10.00\n    West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            25.81\n    Woodbury. North Cong. Ch.                                 17.00\n    Woodstock. Elias L. Snow                                 300.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend in Conn.\u201d                                   25.00\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $881.20.\n\n    Brasher Falls. Elijah Wood                                15.00\n    Bronxville. Miss M. P. L.                                  1.00\n    Brooklyn. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       2.00\n    Buffalo. First Cong. Church                              200.00\n    Buffalo. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid, Fisk U._           10.00\n    Chenango Forks. J. B. Rogers                               5.50\n    Cincinnatus. Cong. Ch.                                    20.00\n    Columbus. Miss Sally Williams                             10.00\n    Crown Point. George Page, M. D., $25; Miss A.\n      McDonald, $5                                            30.00\n    Deansville. Mrs. P. M. Barton                             25.00\n    Evans Mills. Rev. C. H. Gaston                             5.00\n    Harlem. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for furnishing a Room,\n      Atlanta U._                                             25.00\n    Hamilton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           10.00\n    Madison. Cong. Ch.                                         6.00\n    Malone. First Cong. Ch.                                   40.37\n    Marion. \u201cLife Member\u201d                                      2.00\n    Millville. Mrs. E. G. Lindsley                             3.00\n    Newburgh. John H. Corwin, package of Reading\n      Matter\n    New York. Dr. H. C. Houghton, _for Berea C._              25.00\n    New York. Mrs. Elizabeth F. Giles, $3, through\n      Madison Av. Cong. Ch., by J. E. Brush; Mrs.\n      H. P., 50 cts.                                           3.50\n    Norwich. Mrs. R. A. B.                                     1.00\n    Penn Yan. M. Hamlin, $200; Chas. C. Sheppard,\n      $150                                                   350.90\n    Poughkeepsie. Mrs. John. F. Winslow, _for\n      furnishing Room, Atlanta U._                            25.00\n    Rochester. Abraham Hubregtse                               2.00\n    Symrna. Sab. Sch. Miss. Soc. of 1st Cong. Ch.             25.00\n    Syracuse. Mrs. S. J. White                                10.00\n    Walton. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $29.33; Mrs. T.\n      J. O., 50 cts.                                          29.83\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $36.90.\n\n    Newark. First Cong. Ch.                                   36.90\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $176.00.\n\n    Clark. Mrs. Elizabeth Dickson, $15; Miss Eliza\n      Dickson, $15                                            30.00\n    Eastbrook. James H. Patton, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                10.00\n    Harford. Miss M. A. Tiffany, to const. ADA J.\n      BUTLER, L. M.                                           30.00\n    Hermitage. W. F. Stewart, $5; Miss E. P., $1               6.00\n    West Alexander. Robert Davidson                          100.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $331.57.\n\n    Aurora. Cong. Ch.                                         15.35\n    Bellevue. Elvira Boise, $25; S. W. Boise, $20;\n      Cong. Ch., $20.20, and Sab. Sch., $3.03                 68.23\n    Brownhelm. Cong. Ch.                                      13.50\n    Bucyrus. F. Adams, $5; Abram Monnett, $5; G.\n      W. Hull, $5; D. E. Fischer, $3; John Scott,\n      $3; J. B. Gormly, $2; E. Blair, $2; M.\n      Roher, $2; M. D., $1; J. N., $1; _for\n      Tougaloo U._                                            29.00\n    Cincinnati. Columbia Cong. Ch.                            18.54\n    Claridon. L. T. Wilmot                                    10.00\n    Cleveland. Fanny W. and John Jay Low                      15.00\n    Crestline. James N. Stewart                                5.00\n    Fremont. S. J. G.                                          0.50\n    Harmar. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n    Hubbard. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                   1.65\n    Hudson. Cong. Ch., $6.60; and Sab. Sch., $8.25            14.85\n    Leetonia. S. I. A.                                         0.50\n    Madison. Mrs. H. K. Brewster                               2.00\n    Mahoning Co. \u201cClerk\u201d                                       1.00\n    Mansfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   25.00\n    Medina. Woman\u2019s Miss Soc., by Mrs. Mary J.\n      Munger, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                  8.25\n    Oberlin. Sab. Sch., by C. P. Goss                          1.50\n    Pittsfield. Cong. Ch.                                     18.00\n    Ravenna. Young Peoples\u2019 Assn. of Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              25.00\n    Ripley. Mrs. Mary Tweed                                    2.00\n    Sulphur Springs. Dr. C., _for Tougaloo U._                 1.00\n    Thomastown. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                8.50\n    Wakeman. Second Cong. Ch.                                 15.00\n    West Andover. Cong. Ch.                                   22.20\n    Weymouth. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             5.00\n\n\n  INDIANA, $16.00.\n\n    Cynthiana. Individuals, _for McLeansville, N. C._          2.00\n    Fort Wayne. Plymouth Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.              12.00\n    Solsberry. \u201cFriends,\u201d ad\u2019l _for McLeansville,\n      N. C._                                                   2.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $331.73.\n\n    Bone Gap. C. R. $1; Others 75 cts., _for\n      McLeansville, N. C._                                     1.75\n    Chicago. Union Park Ch., _for Lady Missionary,\n      Mobile, Ala._                                           25.00\n    Chicago. Rev. S. J. Humphrey, D. D., _for\n      President\u2019s House, Talladega, Ala._                     10.00\n    Champaign. Individuals, _for McLeansville, N. C._          1.30\n    Claremont. Individuals, _for McLeansville, N. C._          0.50\n    Danvers. Cong. Ch.                                        10.36\n    Dover. Cong. Ch.                                          37.20\n    Elmwood. Cong. Ch.                                        30.89\n    Farmington. D. B.                                          1.00\n    Galesburg. Mrs. Julia T. Wells                            15.00\n    Granville. Sunbeam Circle, Cong. Sab. Sch.                10.00\n    Hampton. Cong. Ch.                                         2.00\n    Lake Forest. Mrs. M. A. W. Ferry, _for\n      furnishing a room, Atlanta U._                          25.00\n    Lee Centre. Cong. Ch.                                     13.00\n    Marseilles. Cong. Ch.                                      2.58\n    Millburn. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                               50.00\n    Oswego. S. P.                                              1.00\n    Payson. Cong. Ch.                                          7.63\n    Plymouth. N. F. Newman                                     5.00\n    Princeton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                    9.15\n    Quincy. L. Kingman                                        10.00\n    Rochelle. W. H. Holcomb, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                50.00\n    Savoy. Mrs. H. B.                                          0.50\n    Sumner. A. C., _for McLeansville, N. C._                   0.25\n    Tonica. N. Richey, (Thanksgiving offering)                 6.62\n    Walnut. Mrs. E. D. W.                                      1.00\n    Woodburn. Nickel Miss. Soc.                                5.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $532.29.\n\n    Calumet. Cong. Ch., ad\u2019l                                 136.88\n    Custer. Rev. L. Curtiss                                   10.00\n    Detroit. Fort St. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._                             50.00\n    Grand Rapids. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Woodville,\n      Ga._                                                    30.00\n    Greenville. First Cong. Ch.                               60.00\n    Hamilton. Rev. Saml. F. Porter                             5.00\n    Jackson. First Cong. Ch.                                 150.00\n    Kalamazoo. Mrs. J. A. Kent                                 5.00\n    Marble. Mrs. Josephine Barnes                              5.00\n    Memphis. Ladies\u2019 Missionary Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._                              2.00\n    New Haven. Cong. Ch.                                       4.10\n    Northport. Cong. Ch.                                       8.11\n    Romeo. Cong. Ch.                                          55.20\n    Saint Joseph. Mrs. J. S.                                   1.00\n    Union City. Mrs. I. N. Clark and Miss Sarah B.\n      Clark, $5 each, _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                     10.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $309.03.\n\n    Alden. Ladies\u2019 Miss Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            2.00\n    Anamosa. Mrs. D. McC.                                      0.50\n    Burlington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   25.00\n    Chester. Cong. Ch.                                        28.50\n    Chester Center. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   15.00\n    Denmark. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Des Moines. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., Plymouth Ch.,\n      _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._                 25.00\n    De Witt. J. H. Price                                      10.00\n    Dubuque. First Cong. Ch.                                  24.00\n    Dubuque. Miss Anne Millard and Sab. Sch. of\n      Christian Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._               10.00\n    Farmersburgh. Cong. Ch.                                    2.50\n    Grinnell. John K. James, to const. HATTIE F.\n      JAMES, L. M.                                            30.03\n    Grinnell. Infant Class, Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Ind. Sch., Memphis, Tenn._                               6.00\n    Hampton. Mrs. M. R., _for Emerson Inst._                   0.75\n    Iowa City. Cong. Ch.                                      67.00\n    Lansing. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        5.00\n    Onawa City. Cong. Ch.                                      7.75\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $112.10.\n\n    Beloit. Cong. Ch. ($2.50 of which from Mrs. A.\n      A. Tuttle, Roscoe, Ill.)                                21.50\n    Delevan. Cong. Ch.                                        26.00\n    Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch.                                  12.73\n    Johnstown. Cong. Ch.                                       3.00\n    Mazomanie. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                     0.75\n    Menasha. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               40.00\n    Ripon. Mrs. M. H., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._              1.00\n    Two Rivers. Cong. Ch.                                      2.12\n    Whitewater. C. M. Blackman, _for Le Moyne Ind.\n      Sch._                                                    5.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $2.00.\n\n    Garden City. Cong. Ch.                                     2.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $11.75.\n\n    Sedalia. First Cong. Ch.                                  11.75\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $25.23.\n\n    Audubon. Cong. Ch.                                         1.50\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 21.73\n    Princeton. Cong. Ch.                                       2.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $44.00.\n\n    Fremont. Cong. Ch., $19, and Sab. Sch., $25               44.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $421.95.\n\n    Hollister. C. S. D.                                        0.45\n    San Francisco. Receipts of the California\n      Chinese Mission                                        421.50\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TER., $20.\n\n    S\u2019kokomish. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._                    20.00\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $76.25.\n\n    Washington. First Cong. Ch.                               75.00\n    Washington. Children of Gen. John Eaton, _for\n      Indian M._                                               1.25\n\n\n  MARYLAND, $246.95.\n\n    Baltimore. First Cong. Ch.                               146.95\n    Baltimore. Rev. Geo. Morris, _for a teacher,\n      Fisk U._                                               100.00\n\n\n  WEST VIRGINA, $10.00.\n\n    Valley Grove. P. Whitman.                                 10.00\n\n\n  KENTUCKY, $1.00.\n\n    North Middletown. Mrs. J. S. B.                            1.00\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $363.45.\n\n    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.                                   233.10\n    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition                              130.35\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $107.25.\n\n    Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition                         107.25\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $320.05.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition                         320.05\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $786.47.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs School, Tuition, $509.97;\n      Rent, $12                                              521.97\n    Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition                              81.00\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $65.25; Rent,\n      $7                                                      72.25\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $101.25; Rent,\n      $10                                                    111.25\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $507.52.\n\n    Childersburg. Rev. Alfred Jones                            2.00\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, $217.25; Cong.\n      Ch. $1                                                 218.25\n    Montgomery. Public Fund                                  175.00\n    Selma. Cong. Ch.                                           4.05\n    Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition                         108.22\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $2,086.50.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $86.50; State\n      Appropriation, $2,000                                2,086.50\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $83.25.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                         83.25\n\n\n  DOMINION OF CANADA, $20.00.\n\n    Kingston. Arthur B. Wilkes                                10.00\n    Sherbrooke. Thomas S. Morey                               10.00\n\n\n  IRELAND, 60 cts.\n\n    Cork. R. D.                                                0.60\n\n\n  SCOTLAND, $100.00.\n\n    Kilmarnock. Mrs. Janet Stewart, _for a\n      Teacher, Fisk U._                                      100.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total for November                                   $12,989.85\n    Total from Oct. 1st. to Nov. 30th.                    29,258.57\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\n\n  _From July 17th, 1880, to October 13th, 1880._\n\n    I. From our Auxiliaries, viz.:\n        Petaluma Chinese Mission:\n          Ten Annual Memberships                     $20.00\n            Collection, $6.30, Mrs. G., $1                    27.30\n        Sacramento Chinese Mission:\n           Chinese monthly offerings                  13.60\n          Eleven Annual Memberships                   22.00\u2014  35.60\n        Santa Barbara Chinese Mission:\n          Chinese monthly offering                     5.00\n          Rev. S. R. Wildon                            5.00\n          C. A. Menafee                                1.75\n          Mrs. P.                                      0.50\u2014  12.25\n        Stockton Chinese Mission:\n          Twenty-one Annual Memberships               42.00\n          Mrs. Lane                                    1.00\u2014  43.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n            Total                                           $118.15\n\n    II. From Churches:\n          Benicia: Cong. Ch., Rev. S. H. Willey,\n            D.D., (Ann. Mem.)                         $2.00\n          Oakland: First Cong. Ch., Collection        29.65\n          Nine Annual Memberships                     18.00\n          Lee Haim                                     5.00\n          Chan Fong                                    0.50\n          \u201cA Friend in Heaven\u201d                        20.00\u2014  73.15\n          Riverside: Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                          1.00\n          San Francisco: First Cong. Ch. collection   10.90\n          One Annual Member                            2.00\u2014  12.90\n          Bethany Church: Chinese monthly offerings    3.00\n          Forty-one Ann. Mem.                         82.00\n          William Johnston, Esq.                       5.00\n          Collection                                   3.00\u2014  93.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n            Total                                           $182.05\n\n    III. From Individuals:\n        Marysville:\n          Chinese (two Ann. Mem.)                              4.80\n        San Francisco:\n          O. W. Merriam, Esq.                                 25.00\n          Hon. F. F. Low                                      20.00\n          Charles Holbrook, Esq.                              10.00\n          Cash                                                10.00\n        At Annual Meeting, Oakland:\n          Rev. J. K. McLean, D.D.                             10.00\n          Rev. George Mooar, D.D.                             10.00\n          S. S. Smith, Esq.                                   10.00\n          Rev. C. M. Blake                                     5.00\n          Rev. J. T. Ford                                      5.00\n          Rev. C. A. Savage                                    5.00\n          Rev. J. H. Warren, D.D.                              2.50\n          L. G. C.                                             2.00\n          Rev. J. J. Powell                                    1.00\n          Rev. A. L. Rankin                                    1.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n            Total                                            121.30\n          Grand total                                       $421.50\n\n                                E. PALACHE, _Treasurer C. C. M._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Enfield, Mass. Edward Smith                             $200.00\n    Northampton, Mass. Mrs. C. L. Williston                  100.00\n    Northampton, Mass. Hon. G. W. Hubbard\u2019s Class\n      in First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                            15.00\n    Bridgeport, Conn. Horace Eames                            20.00\n    Clinton, Conn. Cong. Sab. Sch.                            25.00\n    East Haven, Conn. Cong. Sab. Sch.                         25.00\n    Hamden, Conn. Henry Monson, $10; E. D. Swift,\n      M. D., $5                                               15.00\n    Milford, Conn. Rev. Geo. H. Griffin                       25.00\n    New Haven, Conn. Hon. Charles Farnum                     100.00\n    Norfolk, Conn. Hon. Robbins Battell                       25.00\n    Plainfield, Conn. Ladies                                  27.00\n    Plymouth, Conn. Cong. Ch. \u201cFriends\u201d                       13.00\n    Waterbury, Conn. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                40.00\n    Watertown, Conn. Dr. John De Forest                      100.00\n    West Haven, Conn. Cong. Sab. Sch.                         25.00\n    Connecticut. Cash                                         10.00\n    New York, N. Y. Mrs. Mary J. Morgan                      100.00\n    Morristown, N. J. E. A. Graves                           500.00\n    Greenville, Mich. M. Rutan                               500.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                            1,865.00\n    Previously acknowledged in October Receipts            1,036.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                           $2,901.00\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.\n\n    Leeds, England. Robert Arthington, conditional\n      pledge, \u00a33,000.\n    Richmond, Ill. Cong. Ch.                                  $1.62\n    Genoa Junction, Wis. Cong. Ch.                             4.38\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                                  6.00\n    Previously acknowledged in October Receipts            1,601.90\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                             $1,607.90\n\n                                      H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._\n                                                56 Reade St., N. Y.\n\n\n\n\nThe American Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with\nthe almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its\nmain efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens\nand Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely\nrelated to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE\nin America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane\nand Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in\nAFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014in Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 13;\nKy., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6.\n_Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE\nSOUTH.\u2014_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.;\nAtlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.;\nand Austin, Texas, 8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,\nRaleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Savannah, Macon,\nAtlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis,\nTenn., 12. _Other Schools_, 24. Total 44.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014Among the Freedmen, 253;\namong the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total,\n296. STUDENTS\u2014In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course, 63;\nin other studies, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars taught by former\npupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the care\nof the Association, 13,000.\n\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the\ngrowing work. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and\n_larger_ contributions from the churches\u2014the feeble as well as the\nstrong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for\nthe new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and\npious, for these churches.\n\n3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and\nmissionaries to Africa\u2014a pressing want.\n\nBefore sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.\noffice, as below:\n\n  NEW YORK      H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.\n  BOSTON        Rev. C. L. 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All communications in\nrelation to advertising should be addressed to\n\n          THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT,\n                                        56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n\u261e Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of\nthe \u201cAmerican Missionary\u201d can aid us in this respect by mentioning,\nwhen ordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\nObvious punctuation printing errors were corrected.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 35, No. 1, January, 1881","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":22508}