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No. 11.\n\n\n                                 THE\n\n                         AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n                \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n                            NOVEMBER, 1879.\n\n\n\n\n                             _CONTENTS:_\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    OUR ANNUAL MEETING                                  321\n    DEATH OF REV. WM. PATTON, D. D.                     321\n    PARAGRAPHS                                          322\n    NO DEBT\u2014NO DEFICIT                                  323\n    MISSIONARY MASS CONVENTIONS\u2014OUR NEW\n      MEN                                               324\n    THE MENDI MISSION                                   325\n    THE ARTHINGTON MISSION                              326\n    SELF-PROTECTION: Extract from address of\n      REV. ALBERT H. HEATH                              326\n    SUNDAY-SCHOOL LETTERS                               329\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                329\n    GENERAL NOTES                                       331\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    PART OF A TOUR THROUGH THE CAROLINAS                334\n    CONTRASTS                                           335\n    GEORGIA, ATLANTA: Economical Industrial\n      Department                                        337\n    GEORGIA, SAVANNAH: Revival\u2014Work and Results         338\n    ALABAMA, FLORENCE: New Church Building              339\n    ALABAMA, TALLADEGA: Protracted Meetings             339\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    MENDI MISSION\u2014Annual Meeting of the Missionaries    339\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    A TOUR AMONG THE CLALLAM INDIANS                    342\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    CABIN PRAYER-MEETINGS\u2014Which was the\n      Hero?                                             344\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                              346\n\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                          349\n\n\n  WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c.                          350\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n                              NEW YORK:\n\n          Published by the American Missionary Association,\n\n                       ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n                 Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\n\n Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\n                  _American Missionary Association_,\n\n                       56 READE STREET. N. Y.\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n\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. 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, Ct.\n    DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.\n    Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.\n    SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.\n    Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.\n    Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon.\n    Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.\n    Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n    EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.\n    DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J.\n    Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.\n    Rev. W. L. GAGE, Ct.\n    A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio.\n    Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn.\n    Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn.\n    Rev. GEORGE THACHER, LL. D., Iowa.\n    Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.\n    Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.\n    Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.\n    Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.\n    S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n    Rev. WM. PATTON, D. D., Ct.\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    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ct.\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\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    EDGAR KETCHUM, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._\n    H. W. HUBBARD. ESQ., _Assistant 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    EDWARD BEECHER,\n    GEO. M. BOYNTON,\n    WM. B. BROWN,\n    CLINTON B. FISK,\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n    E. A. GRAVES,\n    S. B. HALLIDAY,\n    SAM\u2019L HOLMES,\n    S. S. JOCELYN,\n    ANDREW LESTER,\n    CHAS. L. MEAD,\n    JOHN H. WASHBURN,\n    G. B. WILLCOX.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the business of the Association may be addressed to either\nof the Secretaries as above; letters for the Editor of the \u201cAmerican\nMissionary\u201d to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nshould be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Ass\u2019t Treasurer, No. 56 Reade Street,\nNew York, or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices,\n21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill.\n\nA payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.\n\nCorrespondents are specially requested to place at the head of each\nletter the name of their Post Office, and the County and State in which\nit is located.\n\n\n\n\n                                 THE\n\n                        AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n               VOL. XXXIII.   NOVEMBER, 1879.   No. 11.\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n_American Missionary Association._\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR ANNUAL MEETING.\n\nThe Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association\nwill be held in the First Congregational Church (Rev. Dr. Goodwin\u2019s),\nChicago, Illinois, commencing October 28th, at 3 p. m. The Annual\nSermon will be preached by Rev. R. S. Storrs, D. D., of Brooklyn, N.\nY., service commencing at half-past seven in the evening. A paper on\nthe Chinese question will be presented by Rev. J. H. Twichell, of\nHartford, Connecticut; one on the Necessity of the Protection of Law\nfor the Indians, by Gen. J. B. Leake, United States District Attorney,\nChicago, Illinois; one on the Providential Significance of the Negro in\nAmerica, by Pres. E. H. Merrell, of Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin.\nAddresses may be expected from Rev. Drs. Goodell, Roy, Corwin, Dana,\nEllsworth and other able speakers on timely and important topics. For\nreductions in Railroad fares and other important items, see fourth page\nof cover.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWe are called to record the death of another venerable friend of the\nAssociation, Rev. Wm. Patton, D. D., who died suddenly at his home in\nNew Haven, only a few days after his return from a trip to Europe, on\nSaturday, the 6th of September. He had been a Vice-President of the\nAssociation for fifteen years, and always a warm and generous friend\nof the colored people. He was the father of President Patton of Howard\nUniversity.\n\nEducated at Middlebury College and at Princeton Seminary, he was the\nfirst pastor of the Broome Street, now the Madison Square Presbyterian\nChurch, in New York. Since 1862 he has resided in New Haven, Conn. He\nhas labored much and written much, and died at the good old age of 81,\nbeloved and honored. He remembered the Association in his will with a\nbequest of $500.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nIn our issue of last month, the article \u201cNorth and South\u201d stated\nthat we have a common interest in the glory of our Revolution. This\nassertion finds confirmation in the fact that a Southern _Centennial_\nis now under process of arrangement. It is to occur on the 7th of\nOctober, 1880, at King\u2019s Mountain, North Carolina, to commemorate\nthe battle that was fought at that place Oct. 7, 1780. In July a\nmeeting was held at that same mountain to make preparation. The States\nof Georgia and of North and South Carolina were represented. Three\nthousand people were present. Patriotic speeches were made. In these,\nand in the several resolutions adopted, as reported in the _Atlanta\nConstitution_, not one word was used in reflection upon the American\nUnion. All the other States were invited to participate. Besides the\nStates represented, those of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and\nTennessee were to be memorialized, through their Legislatures, to make\nsuch appropriations as would be necessary to the proper consummation\nof the celebration. The ladies of those several States were invited to\nco-operate. The committee of arrangements were to secure a collection\nof the historic relics of the battle ground and to apply for troops to\nillustrate the plan of the battle.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSecretary Powell has recently made an earnest plea in the _Advance_\nfor printing-presses, greatly needed at Fisk, Straight and Tougaloo\nUniversities. He says: \u201cAbout $1,000 are needed for each press, with\nits accompaniments of type, rules and leads. But there is a firm in\nthis city that for presses going into this work will discount fifty per\ncent. Only five hundred dollars, therefore, are needed for each press\nand accompaniments. And in what direction could five hundred dollars be\nbetter used for the advancement of Christ\u2019s kingdom and the safety of\nthe land?\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nIncidental testimony from pure sources of high authority to the\nvalue of a work is often more gratifying to those engaged in it than\npurposed compliments. A recognition of its value before an outside\naudience is also of special importance. We are glad, therefore, to\ncall attention to the fact that Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, in his\nrecent political address at Worcester, referring to the interest of the\nNorthern people in everything that would promote the true interests of\nthe South, speaks of Captain Eads\u2019 jetties, \u201cmaking one long harbor of\nthe Southern Mississippi,\u201d as a great boon to its material prosperity,\nand points to \u201cthe magnificent work of the American Missionary\nAssociation\u201d as in a higher sphere a source of sincere rejoicing to all\ngood men of the North.\n\nWe notice, also, in the report of the Peabody Educational Fund, the\nfollowing reference to our work: \u201cMuch good has been accomplished\nfor the colored schools by the universities and other endowed\ninstitutions with normal departments maintained by different Christian\ndenominations. One association has already sent out from its numerous\ninstitutions 5,267 teachers, by whom about 100,000 pupils have\nbeen instructed. A large proportion of the graduates of all these\ninstitutions become teachers.\u201d\n\nThe following tribute to the Hampton Normal Institute is also paid\nby the Superintendent of Public Schools in South Carolina: \u201cThe\nagent of the Peabody Fund has placed at my disposal ten fifty-dollar\nscholarships in the Normal and Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Va.\nA visit to the Institute, and observation of the manner in which it is\nconducted, convince me that it is doing exactly what it professes to\ndo.\u201d\n\nWhether our work needs testimonials to its value or not, we are always\nglad to find such as these, which were not intended either for the ears\nof our teachers or officers, or even constituency. If we needed to be\nassured at all, such witnesses would give us deeper confidence than\never in its real need and real efficiency.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDr. O. H. White, Secretary of the Freedmen\u2019s Missions Aid Society,\nwrites from London:\n\nThe recent death of Dr. Mullens and four others connected with the\neffort of the London Missionary Society to reach Central Africa, has\nturned the thought of this people to our plans and work for Africa as\nnever before. They begin to believe that, as Dr. Moffat said, \u201cAfricans\nmust go to teach and save Africans; it is the Divine plan.\u201d And the\nmore I speak upon this idea, and the more I see of the people, the more\nI am persuaded that this view will prevail in the future, and we shall\nhave all we can do to furnish the colored missionaries for all the\nmissionary societies of Europe working in Africa.\n\nIf our colored missionaries show to the world that they can live in\nAfrica and can manage the affairs of a mission as well as white men,\nthen the demand for them by the missionary societies of this country\nwill be large enough for all we can supply from America in many years.\nAnd the ministers here tell me that if my mission to the country should\nresult in nothing else, it will more than pay for all the time, work\nand expense which I am giving to this effort.\n\nWere it not for the earnest commendation of many of the most prominent\nministers and laymen in England and Scotland of my sermons and\naddresses on the subject of the evangelization of Africa by the\nFreedmen, I should give up at once in these hard times of dreadful\ndepression in business; but the Lord has evidently given me the ear and\nthe heart of the people with reference to the future redemption of that\nvast continent of Africa by the emancipated slaves.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNO DEBT\u2014NO DEFICIT.\n\nFrom time to time during the year our readers have been told the\ncondition of our treasury. Occasionally it has been only a place to put\nmoney in, a great vacuity. It has been with us a year of anxiety and\nfrequent change, of falling and of rising tides. And now we have just\nclosed the books which contain the record of another financial period.\nAnd by the arrival of the date which this number of the MISSIONARY\nbears, and which we have to anticipate for printing and mailing to our\nremotest subscribers, we shall have made its full statement to the\nannual meeting.\n\nIt is with profound gratitude to Almighty God, and with renewed\nconfidence in Him and in His people, that we write its record.\n\n_First._ We have fully met all the expenses of the year from the year\u2019s\nincome. We have kept in active operation all our institutions and\nchurches. No one has been suspended or stopped for lack of funds. We do\nnot by any means intend to say that all have been fully equipped and\ncarried on to the best advantage, for we have not dared by any means\nto do with them all that could have been done. They have all been run\nin the most economical manner consistent with the accomplishment of\ntheir main intent. The salaries have been small, the services have been\ngreat, the self-denials have been many, of our pastors and teachers;\nstill, in the year, which only at its close has begun to show signs of\nreturning commercial prosperity, we are glad to record an undiminished\nwork all paid for.\n\n_Secondly._ We have fully paid the debt. The $37,389.79 of indebtedness\nreported at the last annual meeting has absolutely disappeared. Every\ncent of it has been paid, to the last of the seventy-nine. The great\nwork undertaken three years ago is finished, and we are free. We have\nbeen for a long time like Lot\u2019s wife, looking back and fearing lest\nperchance the past might overwhelm us; but God has only rained down\nriches out of Heaven and buried our burden beneath His gracious gifts;\nand we are free now to look and to press forward.\n\nBut such a statement brings a weight of grave responsibility. We say\nof the treasury of the Association gladly and gratefully, No debt\u2014no\ndeficit. But we must remember, in all humility, we do ever owe the debt\nto love our fellow-men and show it by our works of Christian charity,\nand our deficit is what we have been lacking in filling up the full\nmeasure of our opportunity for serving Christ in the person of His poor.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSIONARY MASS CONVENTIONS.\n\nAt the late State Conference of Ohio, a Committee on Missions was\nappointed, of which Prof. Judson Smith, D. D., is chairman, and Rev.\nC. C. Creegan, of Wakeman, secretary. It is proposed to hold a series\nof mass conventions, at central points, and every member of every\nCongregational church in the State will be invited to attend at least\none of these meetings. Rev. James Powell will represent the A. M. A.\n\nThe following schedule has been prepared:\n\n  Marietta, Oct. 31st,\n  Cincinnati, Nov. 4th,\n  Mansfield, Nov. 5th,\n  Toledo, Nov. 6th,\n  Wauseon, Nov. 7th,\n  Sandusky, Nov. 8th,\n  Norwalk, Nov. 10th,\n  Wakeman, Nov. 11th,\n  Elyria, Nov. 12th,\n  Wellington, Nov. 13th,\n  Medina, Nov. 14th,\n  Cleveland, Nov. 15th,\n  Burton, Nov. 18th,\n  Painesville, Nov. 19th,\n  Ashtabula, Nov. 20th,\n  Jefferson, Nov. 21st,\n  N. Bloomfield, Nov. 22d,\n  Youngstown (Welsh Conference), Nov. 23d,\n  Windham, Nov. 24th,\n  Ravenna, Nov. 25th,\n  Mt. Vernon, Nov. 28th,\n  Newark (Welsh Conference), Nov. 29th,\n  Columbus, Nov. 30th.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR NEW MEN.\n\nWe are delighted with our new men. Scarcely ever in the history of the\nAssociation have we had so large a number of recruits for important\nplaces in our service, of such proved quality, and more and more we\nfind ourselves able to retain the services of our best men, who have\nserved the cause of education and religion with us in years past. It is\nto us a gratifying indication of the growing sense among our Christian\nministers and teachers of the importance and dignity of the work, and\nof their appreciation of it, as founded and established beyond all\nquestion, and for all time (as we measure things), that such men are\nwilling to commit themselves to it, and to remain in it year after year.\n\nWe accept the congratulations of _The Congregationalist_ as expressed\nin the following paragraph:\n\nThe Association is to be congratulated upon new accessories to its\nworking force. Rev. Henry S. DeForest of Iowa has accepted the\nPresidency of Talladega College, and is already upon the ground. Rev.\nS. D. Gaylord, a highly commended schoolman of the West, has taken the\nprincipalship of the Avery Institute at Charleston, S. C. The late\nprincipal, Prof. A. W. Farnham, is proposed as an occupant of a chair\nin one of the colleges of the A. M. A.; Rev. C. W. Hawley, pastor of\nthe Second Church at Amherst, Mass., is to enter upon the pastorate of\nthe First Congregational Church of Atlanta, which was resigned by Rev.\nS. S. Ashley, that he might take a season of respite after his fourteen\nyears of invaluable Southern service. Rev. O. W. Fay accepts the call\nto the pastoral charge in Montgomery, Ala.; Rev. O. D. Crawford of\nWest Bloomfield, N. Y., goes down to serve as pastor of the church\nand superintendent of the Emerson Institute at Mobile; Prof. J. K.\nCole is transferred from New Orleans to the principalship of the Beach\nInstitute at Savannah, Ga.; while Prof. McPherron is promoted to be\nPrincipal of the Normal Department of Straight University.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE MENDI MISSION.\n\nWe call attention to the summary on another page of the Second Annual\nMeeting of our Missionaries on the West Coast of Africa. There seems to\nhave been in it a careful review of the work of the year and a study of\nthe means at hand for carrying it in the future, and a reasonable view\nof its needs and possibilities.\n\nIt will be seen that the report of church and evangelizing work\nindicates not only earnest effort but substantial results. The\nmissionaries are planning\u2014and the plan has resulted from their own\nexperience and observation\u2014a more free use of native helpers as it\nshall become possible. All Missions have come or are coming to this. It\nneeds but a simple knowledge of the love of God and the redemption of\nthe world by the Lord Jesus Christ, to fit a man to go home and tell\nhis neighbors the good news which has come to him. That is the work\nof evangelization. And if these native Christians, carrying to their\nown people only that portion of the Gospel which they have known and\ncertified by their experience, can come into frequent contact with the\nmissionaries educated and established in the faith, they will be kept\nfrom wandering off into error, and grow in grace and knowledge by using\nthe grace and knowledge they have already received and acquired.\n\nThe missionaries have, to some extent, upon the basis of the year\u2019s\nexperience, re-arranged themselves so that they think (and we agree\nwith them) that they can work to better advantage than the past year.\n\nOne of the schools, that at Good Hope, seems to have been very\nsuccessful and to have reached a large number of native children. The\nother, at Avery, has been more confined to the training of children,\nwho are taken into the home to be under continuous influence, in the\nhope that by industrial and religious, as well as mental training, they\nmay in time be fitted to be important helpers in the work.\n\nMr. Anthony, who joined the Mission in March last, to take especial\ncharge of the mill and other industrial work at Avery, has already\nproved to be a valuable addition to the band. And the Committee have\njust commissioned and sent out another recruit to strengthen the hands,\nwe trust, of those already in the field. His name is Nathaniel Nurse.\nHe was born in the island of Barbadoes, West Indies; immigrated to\nLiberia, Africa, where he spent five years; came to the United States;\nspent nearly two years in the cities of New York and Boston; was\nconverted to Christ in the latter city nine years ago. He returned to\nBarbadoes, visiting also various other West Indian islands. In 1875 he\nwent to England, visiting Liverpool, and spending a year in London.\nWhile in the latter city he was engaged in missionary work.\n\nHe was sent, about two years ago, by the Freedmen\u2019s Missions Aid\nSociety, of London, assisted by Belmont Church, Aberdeen, Scotland,\nand several individual Christians, to Fisk University, Nashville,\nTenn., where he has been studying with a view to devoting himself to\nmissionary work in Africa.\n\nThese young men are in a very trying position, and need the prayers of\nall good people that they may have wisdom and grace and patience from\nthe Giver of all good and perfect gifts.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE ARTHINGTON MISSION.\n\nLet it not be thought by any of the friends of the Association, because\nwe have not had more to say in the MISSIONARY, that we have given up\nthe hope of yet being able to accept the noble offer of Mr. Robert\nArthington, and of establishing and sustaining the Mission proposed by\nhim. We have already fully and formally recognized the importance of\nthe work, the accessibility of the field and its peculiar claims upon\nour body. Equatorial Africa is our sphere. It is in that that we have\nlabored for over thirty years, and to that that we desire to confine\nourselves. This Eastern Mission will be a proper balance and complement\nto the Mendi Mission on the Western coast. But we have tried to make\nhaste slowly.\n\nThe condition precedent made by Mr. Arthington, that the debt of the\nAssociation should be extinguished, is now fully and fairly met. That\nis an obstacle out of the way. The only other condition is one on our\npart of prudent anticipation. It will take a large amount\u2014though it\nhas been more often over than underestimated\u2014to provide the men and\nthe outfit and to put them on the ground. It will require at least an\namount annually equal to that we are expending on the Western Mission\nto sustain this in the East. And the Executive Committee have thought\nit wise to assure themselves of $50,000, which they would have in hand\nto devote to this work as it might be required, before they should take\nthe first step towards beginning it.\n\nThere are several things within our horizon to-day which conspire to\ngive us hope of a speedy realization of this plan. Mr. Arthington\u2019s\noffer still holds good. There is $15,000 for the work to begin with.\nDr. O. H. White, the indefatigable Secretary of the Freedmen\u2019s Missions\nAid Society in Great Britain, is enthusiastic on the subject of this\nMission, and reports to us that the interest of the English and Scotch\npeople in it is deep and deepening. Already he has secured considerable\nsums to be devoted to this work. Recently he has written us asking for\na definite agreement on the part of the Association as to what it will\ndo in the way of providing from this country a portion of the fund\ndeemed necessary to the inception of the Mission, if he shall raise\nfrom the mother country a second $15,000. The Committee has answered\nhim that they will agree to provide the $20,000 to make the needed\n$50,000 for the start, and will then, \u201cwith the blessing of God and\nthe assistance of the friends of the African race in Great Britain and\nAmerica, perpetually maintain the Mission.\u201d\n\nThe Committee felt free to make this pledge, in the present financial\ncondition of the Association, and especially as final receipts\nfrom the Avery estate have recently come to hand, amounting to a\nconsiderable part of this sum, and which are devoted by the donor to\nthe evangelization of the African race in Africa.\n\nIt is a great step for us to take; but we have felt that it would be\na great mistake, a great failure in duty, for us not to take it. God\nbless Robert Arthington, of Leeds! God bless Dr. White in his efforts\nto raise this second fund! God bless every man and woman on either side\nthe sea who shall join hands and put together their resources to carry\nthe light of the gospel of love and liberty into the thick darkness of\nEastern Equatorial Africa! Who will help us on this side the water?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSELF-PROTECTION.\n\n  [We extract from the valuable address given at the Boston\n  anniversary, by the Rev. Albert H. Heath, of New Bedford, Mass.,\n  his second division (all we can find room for), in which he\n  treats forcibly of one most important aspect of our home work.\n  In other portions of the address he spoke at length of our\n  special obligations to these people and of the work in the light\n  of a genuine Christian philanthropy. We commend these strong\n  words to careful reading and thought.]\n\nSelf-protection is to be taken into consideration in this work. What\neffect, we may well inquire, is it going to have upon the beloved\ninstitutions of our land if these races are not Christianly educated?\nIt is possible that many will feel that the Indian, whatever our\ntreatment of him, can never offer any serious menace to our civil life;\nwe may safely let him go, as his fathers have gone before him, marching\nbefore our fixed bayonets toward the setting sun. And if this military\npolicy is to prevail, we shall all be glad when he has made his last\ntrail across the plain and echoed his last shrill war-whoop amid the\nmountains\u2019 fastnesses. But, after all, friends, it may be there is a\nGod in Heaven who will remember and avenge the red man\u2019s wrong. \u201cThey\nthat take the sword shall perish with the sword,\u201d is not alone to\nbe found in Scripture. It is written in our constitutions; it is a\nfundamental law of our being; and history bears abundant testimony that\nit is no dead letter. We ought to remember this law as we press the\nIndian from his God-given right. It may be that we, the children of the\nPilgrims, may yet find ourselves driven from our Eastern homes and the\ninstitutions which the century has helped us to build, while the red\nhand of Nihilism holds sway over the graves of our fathers, and crowds\nus, as we are to-day crowding the Indian, into the track of the setting\nsun.\n\nBut whatever may be the result of our treatment of the Indian, there\ncan be no doubt what will be the effect if the Negro and the Chinaman\nare left uneducated and unchristianized. Already do we feel the hand\nof the black man in our politics; our ears have distinctly heard the\nlow rumbling, and we have felt the shudder beneath our feet which\nbetokens an eruption. Before we know it Vesuvius may be belching forth\nits fiery flood, darkening the sky and spreading far and wide its river\nof death. Nor will the exodus greatly change the matter. The demagogue\nand the office-seeker are a genus that thrives in all climes. They\nmay be more poisonous at the South, as most reptiles are that breed\nunder a tropical sun; but the frosts of the North do not kill them any\nmore than they kill the larv\u00e6 of the insects which every April sun\nhatches into life. It only needs the warmth of an election to quicken\nthem and bring them in buzzing swarms around your ears. There will be\ncorrupt politicians in Kansas who will rob them of their political\nrights as readily as those in the South. It matters little where they\ndwell; even in New York or Boston they would find themselves still\nin the reign of demoniacal possession. While they remain an ignorant\nclass they will be a dangerous class. To be shot and intimidated may\nnot be, after all, their worst political fate; to be corrupted with\nbribery would be equally bad. The electioneering purse, in the hand of\nthe Northern office-seeker, might prove as potent in robbing them of\ntheir rights as the pistol which Southern chivalry may point at their\ndevoted heads. Let us not, therefore, cheer ourselves, nor encourage\nthese, our colored friends, that there is any holy land in these United\nStates to which they may go in solemn exodus and be safe. Wherever they\nmay be, ignorance is their greatest curse; nothing but education and\nChristianization will dispel this shadow that is darkening their lives,\nand lift this yoke of bondage that is now galling their necks, and in\nno other way can they be converted into useful citizens. They are an\nelement of danger to the Republic, until, like our Northern children,\nthey grow up under the shadow of the school-house. It is possible that\nall are not aware how great is the weight of this ignorance, which is\nlike loose ballast in the ship of State, ready at any sudden lurch to\nchange sides and carry us to the bottom. We and our legislators have\nbeen most thoughtless in our treatment of this question. In a single\nday, by legislative enactment, we put the ballot into the hand of a\nmillion men, not one of whom knew a letter of the alphabet. A more\nsuicidal blow has seldom been aimed at the heart of this Republic. We\nhave given, almost indiscriminately, the right of suffrage to these\nSouthern States, and yet in sixteen of them seventy-five out of every\nhundred of the population, according to the census of 1870, are growing\nup entirely without school advantages. At the present moment a majority\nof the voters in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and South\nCarolina are without the ability either to read or write. In either\nof these States, or in all of them, any election can be carried by\nsheer weight of ignorance. Seventeen hundred thousand men, according\nto a statistical report which has been put into my hands, at the last\nnational election cast the ballot which they could neither read nor\nwrite. No wonder we were plunged into confusion. Had not a kindly\nProvidence been on our side we should have been plunged into anarchy.\nAnd this scene waits to repeat itself in 1880. The next President of\nthese States will be elected to his high position by sheer force of\nignorance\u2014ignorance manipulated and controlled by men whose hearts are\nas black with treason to-day as they were in \u201961. No thoughtful man can\nlook upon these facts and not tremble for the safety of his country.\n\nSo, also, is the ignorant and unchristianized Chinaman making himself\nfelt in our politics. He casts no ballot, he holds no office. He\ndoes not come to the polls to drink and smoke and sell himself to\nthe highest bidder on election day; and yet his political influence\nalready is as wide as the continent; his unwelcome ghost stalks through\nthe halls of Congress, and broods over every political or religious\nconvention that is holden between the two oceans. Already have we\nseen one sovereign State changing the terms of its constitution and\nrevolutionizing its laws out of pure regard for the Chinaman. And,\nstill more significant, we have seen our great National Congress\nvoting to change the very genius of the Government, and to shut the\ndoors that have for a hundred years stood open, and which we mean\nshall not be closed for a hundred years to come; and we will write\nover these open doors in letters of fire, so that the most distant\nislands of the sea may read: \u201cThis is the world\u2019s asylum, free to the\noppressed of all nations.\u201d Now, I doubt not there are evils connected\nwith the coming of the heathen Chinaman. There is oppression and\nsorrow brought home to many hearts. I feel that there must be more\nor less of pollution in his touch. I pity the State into which this\nold world sewerage empties itself. But the remedy is not in building\nwalls, though they be heaven-high, on our Chinaward side. This evil\ncan be handled and neutralized only by the Christian virtue that is in\nus. Can we convert this heathen material\u2014permeate it with Christian\nthought? Can we assimilate it and weave it into the civil fabric we are\nmaking? If so, it will do us no harm; otherwise it will rankle like\npoison in our blood, and possibly work our destruction in the end. This\nquestion should not be settled in the political arena. It is a moral, a\nreligious question. The forces that are needed now are those that lie\nin the hand of the Christian church. We must permeate this festering\nmass with the leaven of Christ, and we must do it speedily. The evil\nis growing. Politicians are beginning to treat it, and therefore it is\nrapidly growing worse. It cannot be cured by legislative enactment.\nLegislation knows of no instrumentality, save that the civil statute\nultimately seeks support in the bayonet. Before we know it, this\nquestion may be baptized in blood. Those western shores are far away.\nThe Rocky Mountain wall lifts up a tremendous barrier to separate us\nand make us twain; only one little thread of iron binds us together\nand makes us one. Let us not wait until the whole Pacific slope\nbristles with rebellion as the South did in \u201961; but let us pour the\nstrains of our Christian influence over the mountains. If we can\nChristianize this heathen mass, then the trouble is over, the danger\npassed. Self-protection, then, affords a most powerful motive in the\nprosecution of this work.\n\n                                                  ALBERT H. HEATH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSUNDAY-SCHOOL LETTERS.\n\nThe interest of the Sunday-schools in our Southern work has been\nincreasing during the past year. The concert exercise has taken well,\nand many schools have sent us their first contributions.\n\nHow many of the schools connected with our churches understand clearly\nour offer in regard to correspondence from the field, we do not know.\nIt is this: any Sunday-school which contributes ten dollars or more\nannually to the work of the A. M. A., if they request it, is entitled\nto a quarterly letter from one of our missionaries.\n\nThe \u201cChildren\u2019s Page\u201d of this number of the MISSIONARY contains such a\nletter. It is bright and interesting to both teachers and scholars. The\nfollowing letter from a superintendent tells of the interest excited by\nsuch letters in his school.\n\nBesides the good done by the money given, is it not well worth while to\ntrain up our children to give, and to educate them in the missionary\nspirit? This letter is in response to a Sunday-school letter from Miss\nBarr:\n\nMISS L. E. B.\n\nDEAR SISTER IN CHRIST: Your kind letter of the 11th inst. came to\nhand by due course of mail, and your very valuable epistle to our\nSabbath-school, of the 2d, came last Saturday. Accept my sincere thanks\nfor the same, in behalf of the Sunday-school and myself. I think if\nyou could have seen the eager faces and deep interest manifested by\nall while I read it to the school last Sabbath, you would be satisfied\nthat at least one missionary of the A. M. A. would be mentioned by our\npraying ones in their petitions at the Throne of Grace for some time,\nand that all of us have so much of a missionary spirit kindled in our\nhearts, and so much interest awakened in you personally, that your next\nletter will be looked for so eagerly that it will seem a good while to\nwait. I think you must have a very earnest-working church in Atlanta,\nand that the Master will bless them and you is my prayer. I have no\ndoubt but \u201cAunt Lucy\u201d will have many prayers offered for a blessing\nupon her.\n\nI am glad to know that your present field of labor in the vineyard is\nso pleasant; and that the Master will give you health and strength to\nlabor for Him in it, and that you may be the means in His hands of\ngathering in many precious sheaves from it to the heavenly garners, is\nthe sincere prayer of\n\n        Your humble fellow-servant,\n\n                                                   R. H.,\n\n                _Superintendent Congregational Sabbath-school_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nANNISTON, ALA.\u2014Rev. P. J. McEntosh writes: \u201cMy field is increasing\nin interest greatly. I have just closed a series of meetings in our\nchurch. The Lord hath once more visited this part of His vineyard.\nThere have been twenty-two conversions in our meetings. Seventeen of\nthese have cast their lot among us\u2014seven strong, settled men, four\nsettled wives, six promising young ladies. Others are still asking\nwhat they must do to be saved, and if I can induce them to take Jesus\nat His word and believe on Him, they too shall be saved. Pray for us,\nthat I may lead them on in the paths of peace, and that they may learn\nfrom experience that \u2018The path of the just is as a shining light, which\nshineth more and more unto the perfect day.\u2019\u201d\n\nTALLADEGA, ALA.\u2014Our first word from the new President of the College,\nRev. H. S. DeForest: I came sound and dusty this p. m., having seen\nmany things of interest to me at Hampton and Atlanta. The first look\nhere more than meets my expectations. The buildings, grounds and\nscenery are very pleasant, and the possibilities certainly are grand.\n\nATLANTA, GA.\u2014The Fall term of the University opened October 1st. The\nfirst week gives promise of a very full school. There are already\nthirty girl boarders, and the indications are that their Hall will be\nas badly crowded as last year. The reports of the Summer work of the\nstudents, in all parts of the State, are very cheering. There is an\nincreasing desire for education. The white people are taking a deeper\nand more kindly interest in the education of the colored children and\nin the University.\n\nDr. Orr, State School Commissioner of Georgia, has, with the approval\nof Dr. Sears, established fourteen Peabody scholarships, each paying\n$72, in the Normal department of Atlanta University. The award is to be\ndetermined by competitive examinations.\n\nThe Storrs School is running over full.\n\nCYPRESS SLASH, GA.\u2014Brother Snelson writes: Last Sunday, 14th, I spent\nwith Brother Headen at Cypress Slash. Gave the communion there, and\nreceived three new members. They have made a pretty good pole-house,\nabout 28\u00d720 feet, in which they hold school and meeting.\n\nFLATONIA, TEXAS.\u2014We are holding a protracted meeting, and last Sunday\nwas our communion. There seems to be more interest in the church, and\nthe prospect is fair for doing good. Last night seventeen persons rose\nfor prayer. Brother Church has been here since last Thursday, and will\nremain a few days longer.\n\nAUSTIN, TEXAS.\u2014Mr. A. J. Turner writes: I was in Austin last week and\nvisited Mrs. Garland\u2019s school. She had just returned from the North and\nstarted her school. She has a full Sabbath-school. I visited with her\nthe site of the new building, the walls of which are rising. It will be\na beautiful place. I rejoice that Northern people are doing so much for\nour people.\n\nGOLIAD, TEXAS.\u2014\u201cThere is an increasing desire among our people to carry\nthe Gospel beyond the bounds of our churches, and so far as it has\nbeen done, our polity and purity have attracted favorable attention.\nThere is a growing dissatisfaction with the worship and moralities of\nthe older churches on the part of some of their members and others who\nwould join but for these. The young people, in their plays, imitate the\n\u2018shouting\u2019 to perfection. It is fine sport to them to see the church\nmembers perform. They laugh at the claim of Divine help to do what they\ncan so easily do without that help. The young men, on this account,\nare increasingly more difficult to reach with the Gospel. Education,\nproperty and morality are cast aside as of little worth; stealing and\nshooting among themselves are not uncommon. Only a pure Gospel can save\nthese young men from dissipation and crime; yet they see the grossest\nimmoralities in church members, and the wildest fanaticism in their\nmodes of worship. A wide door is open here for Christian workers, and\nas promising as any other to those of great patience and self-denial.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\nThe Freedmen.\n\n\u2014THE PEABODY EDUCATIONAL FUND\u2014REPORTS OF THE GENERAL AGENT AND\nTHE TREASURER.\u2014The annual meeting of the trustees of the Peabody\nEducational Fund was held October 1st, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.\nThe chairman addressed the meeting, and in the course of his remarks\nmentioned with regret the shrinkage in the income from the investments,\nand expressed the hope that from other sources the funds would be\nrendered adequate to the work laid out.\n\nThe thirteenth annual report was presented by Dr. Sears, the general\nagent. He said that the work had made satisfactory progress during the\npast year. The difficulties arising from the poverty of the South, he\ncontinued, are now increased by the pressure of the State debts. The\nnecessity of aid from the Federal Government is now greater than ever\nbefore. The evils that are certain to grow out of popular ignorance,\nif the public schools are suffered to languish, or if they reach only\na part of the population, will not be limited to the States where they\nfirst appear, but will cast their blight over the whole country.\n\nIt might be thought best to limit the assistance to the colored\npopulation, if any should be granted. By an act of the General\nGovernment the right of suffrage has been extended to them. A large\nproportion of them are confessedly unqualified for a judicious exercise\nof this power. If the colored people are the \u201cwards of the nation,\u201d in\nwhat way can the nation so well perform the duties of its trust as by\nqualifying them for citizenship?\n\nOf the two grand objects of this fund, the first, the promotion of\ncommon school education, has been thoroughly established, and the chief\nattention should be henceforth given to the second, the professional\ntraining of teachers. In some of the States that stand most in need of\nefficient normal schools, it would be impossible to provide at once the\nrequisite funds for their establishment.\n\nThough there are very few normal schools of a high character besides\nour own in the States with which we are concerned, there are several\nof different grades of excellence, either maintained or aided by\npublic authority. Some of the former, and all of the latter, are for\ncolored teachers. Much good has been accomplished for the colored\nschools by the universities and other endowed institutions with normal\ndepartments, maintained by different Christian denominations. One\nassociation has already sent out from its numerous institutions 5,267\nteachers, by whom about 100,000 pupils have been instructed. A large\nproportion of the graduates of all these institutions become teachers.\n\nThe report by States shows the following facts: In Virginia less than\nhalf the children of the State attended the public schools last year.\nIn the colored schools there was a loss of 3,271, compared with the\nyear before. Over $250,000 of the school money has been diverted to\nother purposes; but in the future three-fourths of the appropriation\nare secure.\n\nIn North Carolina the attendance is less than one-half. Difficulty has\nbeen found in this State to induce young men of character and talent to\nprepare for the business of teaching, as the pay is uncertain and but\nlittle more than the wages of a common laborer.\n\nThe school attendance in South Carolina has increased 13,843 during\nthe year. For several years the system of public instruction was in\na disordered condition; but, during the last year, a better state of\nthings has been manifest. But the want of normal schools and of more\nfunds is painfully felt. Such, at least, are the views of the State\nSuperintendent. In regard to scholarships he says: \u201cThe agent of the\nPeabody Fund has placed at my disposal ten fifty-dollar scholarships\nin the Normal and Agricultural Institute at Hampton, Va. A visit to\nthe Institute and observation of the manner in which it is conducted\nconvince me that it is doing exactly what it professes to do.\u201d He\nadds: \u201cThere are dangers before us which it will require the highest\npatriotism and the wisest statesmanship to avoid. Nearly 57 per cent.\nof the voting population of the State are unable to read the ballots\nwhich they cast.\u201d\n\nIn Georgia, notwithstanding the increase of nearly 40,000 in the school\npopulation, the number of the illiterate is diminished 20,614. Great\nencouragement is felt regarding the educational prospects in the State.\n\nIn Florida education is advancing rapidly. Two-fifths of the children\nattend school, and there are applicants promised for all the Normal\nCollege scholarships that can be allowed to that State.\n\nOpposition to the public free school system is disappearing in\nMississippi, and a healthy condition is reported. A normal institute\nhas been established. One-third of the school population attend\nin Louisiana. In the Colored Normal School we have had twenty\nscholarships of $50 each. This arrangement is the result of an extended\ncorrespondence with the State Superintendent.\n\nIn Tennessee, never since the first year of the present school system\nhas so much money been raised for its support; never has the school tax\nbeen paid more cheerfully. Speaking of the use made of Mr. Peabody\u2019s\ngift, the Superintendent says: \u201cThe encouragement given by the wise\ndisposition of this fund has always proved an invaluable accessory in\nthe arduous work of organizing and sustaining the cause of popular\neducation in this State and in the South.\u201d\n\nThe State Superintendent of West Virginia says of the aid received from\nthe Peabody Fund for the Normal Institutes: \u201cIt is of the highest value\nto the cause of education, and contributes more, perhaps, in general\nadvantage than an equal expenditure in any other direction could do.\u201d\n\nThe appropriations from the fund for the last year were: Virginia,\n$9,850; North Carolina, $6,700; South Carolina, $4,250; Georgia,\n$6,500; Florida, $3,000; Alabama, $3,600; Mississippi, $4,000;\nLouisiana, $7,650; Texas, $7,700; Arkansas, $5,600; Tennessee, $12,000;\nWest Virginia, $4,000; total, $74,850.\n\nThe Treasurer\u2019s report showed a balance of about $83,000 available\nfor expenditure during the coming year. In former years the income\nhas amounted at times to as much as $110,000, but there has been some\nshrinkage since the 6 per cent. bonds, in which much of the fund was\ninvested, have been called in, the new investments being in 4 per cent.\nbonds.\n\nThe officers of the Board, who have been continued from year to year,\nare Robert Winthrop, Chairman; G. Peabody Russell, Secretary; Samuel\nWetmore, Treasurer; the Rev. Barnas Sears, General Agent.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Indians.\n\n\u2014In the coming fall, twenty more girls will be added to the number\nof Indian students at Hampton. Their due proportion is regarded as\nessential to the success and value of the effort. When the Indian\nprisoners from St. Augustine returned to the Territory, and their wives\nand families turned out to welcome them home with rejoicing, the long\ndreamed of meeting proved such a shock to the reconstructed braves that\nsome of them broke from the company and ran away to the woods, refusing\nto have anything more to do with their affectionate but very dirty\nsquaws. The situation was humorous but tragic, and withal very natural.\nHow could they walk \u201cthe white man\u2019s road\u201d in such companionship? And\nhow could they walk it alone? The co-education of the Indian boys\nand girls, with its lessons of mutual respect and helpfulness in\nthe class-rooms and work-rooms, is the hope, and the only hope, of\npermanent Indian civilization.\n\n\u2014The Secretary of War has turned over to the Department of the Interior\nthe U. S. Army barracks at Carlisle, Penn., to be used for the purpose\nof Indian education, under charge of Capt. R. H. Pratt, who has been\nsent West to collect 100 Indian youths for his school, as well as\nthe girls for Hampton. Captain Pratt\u2019s wise, Christian philanthropy\ntoward the Indian prisoners at St. Augustine was the origin of the\npresent movement for Indian education, and has demonstrated his eminent\nqualifications for the work.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAfrica.\n\n\u2014Mr. Mackay gives most interesting accounts of his intercourse with\nMtesa and his chiefs. Every Sunday, after Wilson left, he conducted\nservice at the palace for the king and chiefs, speaking in Suahili\nwithout an interpreter, and Mtesa interpreting into the Uganda language\nfor the benefit of those who did not understand Suahili. On Christmas\nday a special service was held, all the chiefs being in \u201cextra dress,\u201d\nwhen Mackay explained the great event of the day. He regards Mtesa as\nmost intelligent, and quite inclined to listen to the word of God.\nGratifying instances are mentioned of the influence already exerted\nupon him. Some Arab traders arrived to buy slaves, offering cloth in\nexchange, and saying they had come from the Sultan of Zanzibar. Mackay\nvigorously opposed them, informed the king of the Sultan\u2019s decrees\nagainst the slave traffic, and of the cruelties perpetrated upon its\nvictims. Then he gave a lecture on physiology, and asked why such an\norganism as a human body, which no man could make, should be sold for a\nrag of cloth which any man could make in a day. The result was not only\nthe rejection of the Arabs\u2019 demand, but a decree forbidding any person\nin Uganda to sell a slave on pain of death! By another decree Mtesa has\nforbidden all Sunday labor, and the question of the evils of polygamy\nhas been seriously discussed by him and the chiefs. He was on capital\nterms with the chiefs, and was teaching numbers of people to read,\nhaving made large alphabet sheets for the purpose. He describes the\nArab traders as most bitter against the Mission. They are distilling\nardent spirits from the plantain, and drunkenness is spreading in\nconsequence.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPART OF A TOUR THROUGH THE CAROLINAS.\n\nA new administration was to be inaugurated in the Avery Institute. The\nway was found open, and the new Principal, Rev. S. D. Gaylord, one of\nthe foremost educational managers of the interior, was greeted on the\nfirst day, the 29th of September, with an attendance of 258, which\nwas an advance of 40 or 50 upon former opening days. The prospect was\nfor a continued accession through the month. The _News and Courier_\ngave a handsome notice. I found that the Avery was an occasion of city\npride, not only on the part of colored but of white citizens. The\nauthorities of Claflin University, at Orangeburg, S. C., have visited\nand complimented the institute, seeking to pattern after some of the\nmethods. Prof. A. W. Farnham, who has been at the head of the Avery for\nfour years, bringing it up to its high standard, will do a like work on\na more general scale in the Normal department of Atlanta University.\nThe Plymouth church, during the Summer, under the care of the pastor\u2019s\nassistant, Rev. Mr. Birney, a former fellow-servant with the members,\nhad been prospering. Under the lead of Rev. Temple Cutler, the church\nwill enter upon a career of enlargement. The new principal and the\nField Superintendent preached in the Centennial M. E. and the Zion\nSouthern Presbyterian churches, the largest for the colored people of\nthe city, as well as in the Plymouth. These three churches form the\nbulk of the constituency of the Avery.\n\nAt Orangeburg a repeated visit and a preaching service prepared the\nway for the coming of the new pastor, Rev. T. T. Benson, a graduate of\nthe Talladega theological department. A pleasant church and a rallying\npeople were ready to greet him.\n\nOn the way I stopped off at Chester, S. C., to visit my seminary\nclassmate, Rev. Samuel Loomis, who, in ten and a half years, has gotten\nunder way his \u201cBrainerd Institute,\u201d and has helped to plant nine\nPresbyterian churches within that county. Blessed is the man who is\npermitted to lay foundations in that way. At Charlotte, N. C., I ran\nout to visit the Biddle University, which is the principal collegiate\nand theological institution of our Northern Presbyterian brethren in\nthe South. Rev. D. S. Mattoon, the president, is supported by Rev.\nMessrs. R. M. Hall and S. J. Beatty. Rev. Thomas Lawrence, of Penn., is\nto take the place of Rev. Dr. John H. Shedd, who has returned to his\nmission work among the Nestorians. The current catalogue shows eight\nstudents in theology, twenty-one in the college classes, and a total\nof 155. This institution is for males alone. Its mate, for females, is\nScotia Seminary, at Concord. The glory of the Biddle is, that in these\nten years it has planted a whole Presbytery of thirty churches in the\nregion round about, besides raising up teachers and preachers for the\nregions beyond.\n\nIn the back country of Randolph County, N. C., twenty-five miles away\nfrom the railroad, I looked up Rev. Islay Walden, a former slave in\nthat region, a recent graduate of New Brunswick Seminary, N. J.,\nwho had been ordained by the classis of New Brunswick. The A. M. A.\nhad sent him down to make a field in his native State. The Field\nSuperintendent assisted him in organizing a Congregational Church of\nthirty members. The ordinances of baptism and the Lord\u2019s Supper were\nadministered. This is in the neighborhood of one of the churches of our\nantebellum missionary, Rev. Daniel Worth, whom all our colored friends\nand some of the whites remembered affectionately. His church, a former\nWesleyan, has been taken up by the M. E. Church, so that they are well\ncared for.\n\nWe were waited upon by two committees, one from Hill Town, seven miles\naway, and one from Troy, the county seat of Montgomery, thirty miles\noff. The former had one man to offer three acres of land and timber\nin the tree for all the lumber needed for a church school-house, and\nthat man was an ex-slave. The latter committee consisted of three men,\nwho were the trustees of the \u201cPeabody Academy,\u201d whose erection they\nhad secured at Troy. They wanted a teacher and a preacher. Living\ntwelve or eighteen miles away from Troy, they intended to send in their\nchildren and have them cared for in a boarding club by an \u201cAunty.\u201d In\ntoken of their good faith, all of them interesting men, they united\nwith our new church, intending to transfer their membership to their\nown localities when we get ready to organize there. Who could forbid\nthat their requests should be granted? So we organized a circuit for\nBrother Walden, one Sabbath at Troy, and the other at Salem Church and\nHill Town, with one sermon at each place. The Quakers promise a school\nat Salem. A public school will serve Hill Town for the present, and a\ncompetent teacher must be secured for the Academy. It was a delight to\nwitness the pride of the people in their educated _fellow-servant_.\nEven the old master gloated over the diploma of his \u201cboy.\u201d\n\nRunning into McLeansville early this Monday morning, thinking to make\nit a minister\u2019s rest-day, with only this article and other letters and\na sermon for the night on hand, I found the church at the opening of a\nprotracted meeting with the visiting preacher announced for forenoon,\nafternoon and evening; house crowded all day, with two hundred people\nin it by count; all remaining with lunch in hand, between the first and\nsecond services, and many holding over between the second and third.\nAnd this is the habit of the people at such a time. All unnecessary\nwork is put aside and the entire time given up to religious service.\nThis habit they take from that of the white churches, with the\nexception that the colored people have added the third service. Pastor\nConnet had held a similar meeting in another part of his field this\nfall, and yesterday, as a result of it, twelve members were added to\nthis church. One of those converts, an old man, testified, bearing\nhimself with the air of a conqueror: \u201cI have fought the devil, and I\u2019ve\ngot the victory. Jesus helped me. I have fought the devil, and I\u2019ve got\nthe victory.\u201d The meetings are orderly and solemn\u2014congregational, only\nwarmed up by the African glow. The membership now numbers one hundred\nand fifty-six. Pastor Connet is also superintendent of the school,\nwhich is doing a good work in raising up teachers.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONTRASTS.\n\nThe Past and the Present.\n\nL. A. P.\n\n\u201cReminiscences\u201d in the October MISSIONARY have recalled a host\nof buried memories concerning the days of pioneer work, with its\nswiftly-changing experiences of humor and pathos.\n\nI might draw a picture of the good man who often asked the Lord to\n\u201cbless these teachers that have left their homes in foreign lands and\ncome a far distance to destruct us;\u201d of the old aunties who came to\ninquire about friends and old masters in Virginia and the Carolinas,\nthinking we must know the history of each family, because \u201cdidn\u2019t you\ncome right by there on your way down from the North?\u201d of the romances\nand tragedies connected with the hundreds of letters we wrote inquiring\nfor lost friends, sold away in the days of slavery; but one picture is\nmore vivid than others, and as the days of quaint prayers are rapidly\npassing, I am tempted to commit it to print.\n\nAlmost a dozen years ago, I found myself one of two teachers in a night\nschool varying from forty to sixty pupils. The roughly-ceiled room\nwas long, low and dimly lighted. The scholars were hard-working men\nand women who walked one, two, three or four miles, after the day\u2019s\nlabor, for the sake of acquiring a bit of book learning. At ten o\u2019clock\nlessons closed with a Bible reading, singing and prayer.\n\nOne evening, after books and slates had been laid aside, my attention\nwas attracted by a voice, liquid and rollicking, as it carolled a\npopular \u201cspiritual.\u201d In the gray room\u2014for the light wood fire was\nnearly out, and the two lamps in the rear gave little brightness\u2014it was\nsome time before I distinguished the singer.\n\nHe was a jaunty little man, very black, very lithe and very much\ndressed up. A blue round-a-bout coat was trimmed with two rows of\nyellow braid; a crimson dress braid made his neck-tie, the long ends of\nwhich floated over the shoulders. His hands were folded over a stout\nwalking-stick; his head nodding and feet patting time to the music.\n\nMy thoughts instantly went back to childish days, to a certain tree\nwhere a golden oriole\u2019s nest used to swing, to a field of red-winged,\nchattering bobolinks, not one of which ever seemed so deliciously happy\nin his song as my dusky scholar. I liked to look at him. It put me into\ncommunion with friends and influences hundreds of miles beyond the piny\nwoods.\n\nHe often spoke and prayed in the regular prayer-meetings. We soon\nlearned the words of his petition, for it was always in the same form,\nreverently intoned with an indescribable, inimitable cadence:\n\n\u201cOur Father, who art in heaven, hollowed be thy name; thy kingdom\ncome, thy will be done on earth as is in heaven. Father, Father\u2014this\nevening\u2014of all grace, look down upon us and hear us and bless us. O\nSaviour, come riding around this evening upon the milk-white horse and\nwake up sinners. Touch and tender about every heart. Teach \u2019em that\nthey have a soul to be saved or to be lost to all eternity. Bless my\nold mother. Teach her that she has a soul to be saved or one to be lost\nto all eternity. Strike her with the hammer of conviction. Shoot her\nwith the arrow of love. Bless families and families\u2019 connections. Give\nus more grace, more faith, more love. Make us humble. Teach us to pray,\nand teach us to love it, too. Be our guide and leader and protector.\nBless the sinners who are standing with one foot upon the grave and one\nupon the land of the living.\n\n\u201cFather! Father! when Gabriel shall stand with one foot in the sea and\none upon the land to blow his horn, and he shall say, \u2018How loud must\nI sound?\u2019 and Thou say, \u2018Sound calm and easy so as not to disturb My\nchildren,\u2019 then shall we link and lock our eagle wings to march upward\nto the golden gate.\n\n\u201cAnd when You see us fail below, help us to say, \u2018Here, Lord, I give\nmyself away, \u2019tis all that I can do. Welcome dis solisted band and bear\nmy soul away.\u2019 And when You have done suiting and serving Thyself of us\nhere, hand us to our graves in peace, where we shall praise the Father,\nSon and Holy Spirit in a world that never ends, is _my_ prayer for\nJesus\u2019 sake. Amen.\u201d\n\nAt that time this man was one of the more intelligent of his people.\n\nIn contrast, let me introduce a younger man of the same size and\ncolor, also endowed with unusual gift of song. Neatly dressed, quietly\nmannered, he seems no kin to the earlier types of his race.\n\nFrom under the very shadow of Yazoo he writes these lines: \u201cI have\nsubscribed for the _New York Tribune_. My school numbers 112 pupils,\nwith a daily attendance of 85 or 90. I have Cutter\u2019s Physiology, from\nwhich I give oral lessons daily. I will state the studies of my most\nadvanced pupils: Robinson\u2019s Practical Arithmetic, Harvey\u2019s Grammar,\nSwinton\u2019s Geography and Educational Readers. School closes next Friday\nwith a concert. I do wish you could be with us Thursday and Friday to\nattend the examinations.\u201d\n\nLest any one may infer from the above that \u201cthe schoolmaster is abroad\u201d\nin the land, let me quote one sentence of a prayer uttered a few months\nago by the pastor of a large church in a leading Southern city: \u201cO\nLord, bless us individually and _respectfully_.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nAn Economical Industrial Department.\n\nMRS. T. N. CHASE, ATLANTA, GA.\n\nThe demand for industrial departments connected with our schools of\nlearning has developed so rapidly of late, that it appears like one of\nthe fever heats of our American civilization that may soon subside.\n\nFriends of the A. M. A. institutions have been specially anxious that\ntheir students should learn trades and home industries while at school,\nfearing that they would have little opportunity to learn them except\nfrom their Northern instructors, and thinking that they could be\nacquired from them outside of school hours without much thought, time\nor trouble.\n\nOn the other hand, some have felt that our immediate, pressing need was\nyoung colored men and women with minds developed by long and thorough\ntraining in the text-books used in our schools and colleges. They are\nnot ignorant of the students\u2019 deficiencies in practical knowledge, but\nfeel that close and continued application of the mind to books is the\nbest and surest way to acquire all knowledge. They believe that if the\nbrain power of a child is developed, the hoe, the cook-stove and the\nsewing-machine will be well managed when occasion requires.\n\nAgain, these students are to be the teachers of their race in the\nSouth. These friends believe that nothing will so quickly convince\nthe intelligent men of the South that the negro has power which they\nare bound to respect, as to see him well versed, not only in the\nsciences he teaches, but his mind broadened by a familiarity with\nsubjects beyond. To secure this training, through an ordinary course\nsuitable for an average teacher even in Northern schools, with supposed\nsuperior material, has generally been found to require all the time and\nstrength of pupils under 18 years of age. Principals of the different\nschools, however, differ much both in theory and practice, in regard to\ncombining manual with literary work.\n\nIn Atlanta much has been done during the past ten years in a quiet\nway, by the business manager, matrons and preceptress, toward giving\npractical instruction in a variety of home industries, making specially\nprominent the importance of _good_ work. Every student, during the\nentire course, works an hour a day, generally with careful supervision.\nWhile visiting the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst,\nrecently, I learned that less time for manual labor was required of its\nstudents.\n\nDuring the past year, however, at Atlanta, it was thought best to give\nmore time and thought especially to sewing, cooking and care of the\nsick. How to secure a practical knowledge of these without much expense\nof material or instruction, and without taking much of the student\u2019s\ntime from literary pursuits, was the problem. The sewing was arranged\nin this way: Sometime before graduation the girls are required to\nmake, under the eye of the preceptress, a small garment of calico\nor other inexpensive material. This garment is to contain all the\nvarieties of plain sewing, machine-stitching, hand-hemming, ruffling,\netc. More than this, it must have the bugbears of all beginners in\nsewing\u2014a buttonhole, a patch and a darn. Each girl writes her name in\nindelible ink on the garment, and it is kept in the institution as a\nrecord of her standing in sewing.\n\nIn a catalogue I received lately from the hands of the matron of the\nMt. Holyoke Seminary are these words: \u201cIt is not part of the design\nof this seminary to teach young ladies domestic work. This branch of\neducation is exceedingly important, but a literary institution is\nnot the place to gain it. Home is the proper place for the daughters\nof our country to be taught on this subject, and the mother the\nappropriate teacher.\u201d I think I remember reading the same words from a\ncatalogue twenty years ago, and presume they were first penned by the\nimmortal Mary Lyon. So we hoped the emulation created by the prospect\nof leaving a beautiful specimen of needle-work upon graduation would\ninspire our girls to faithful painstaking in sewing at their homes\neven before entering school. The matron has the graduating class\nspend their required hour of work in learning to make good bread\nand to do other plain cooking. When any student is ill, opportunity\nis given for practical instruction from the preceptress in nursing\nthe sick. In addition to this, the time of one recitation was taken\nduring a part of the year for giving instruction in household science.\nA teacher prepared talks upon general rules for good housekeeping,\ngeneral principles of good cooking, care of the sick, care of children,\neconomy, etc. The class took notes, and were examined from their notes\nbefore the visiting board at the close of the school. We hoped thus to\nconvince them that we were not educating our girls above the homeliest\nduties of the household, as some of them had accused us of doing.\n\nI have given these details to show how much may be done in this\ndirection without any additional expense.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nRevival\u2014Work and Results.\n\nS. B. MORSE, SAVANNAH\n\nThe Congregational church of this city has been blessed with a visible\noutpouring of God\u2019s Spirit. Many of our old members have been quickened\nin their religious feelings and have reconsecrated themselves to their\nLord and Saviour. Many who have been lingering and shivering on the\nbrink of doubt, and many, too, who were waiting a plainer manifestation\nof their acceptance with God by \u201cdreams and travels,\u201d suddenly, as the\ntruth struck them, yielded their ways to _His_ ways, and are now, we\ntrust, walking in accordance not with their own, but with God\u2019s plans.\n\nWe had an extra series of meetings for over two weeks, which were well\nattended by Christians of all denominations. These meetings closed last\nweek. On Sunday morning, September 7th, one was baptized by immersion,\nand at night five others were by sprinkling. Still another was received\nwho was a fallen member of some other church. Five children were at the\nsame time baptized, after which all those who loved the Lord Jesus, and\nwho wished, met around His sacramental board and feasted with Him. The\nchurch was so crowded that many were compelled to stand outside. It was\na high day in Israel. Many hearts were gladdened.\n\nMost of those we received were young people. Some of them teachers\nof our Sabbath-school, and nearly all of them at some time had been\nunder the influence of some good Northern lady teacher. Perhaps those\nteachers were disheartened and feared that their good seed had fallen\nupon stony ground, but in this they were deceived. We are too anxious\noften to see results. God\u2019s logic extends through years, but His\nconclusions are nevertheless sure and true.\n\nRev. Floyd Snelson officiated at the sacraments of baptism and the\neucharist. Bro. Clarke was directly instrumental in bringing about this\nrevival.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nOur New Church Building.\n\nREV. WM. H. ASH, FLORENCE\n\nOur new church is getting on nicely. The outside is nearly finished,\nwith the exception of the belfry, which I hope will be done this week.\nThe work has been carried on strictly with reference to economy as\nwell as to the finish, and yet it is so well done that it is simply\nbeautiful. Almost everybody has something to say about the church.\nOne says, \u201cYou are going to have a nice church, and your church\nwill be well attended when it is done.\u201d Another says, \u201cThis is the\ngreatest thing the colored people ever accomplished in Florence.\u201d I am\nconstantly greeted by my white fellow-citizens with, \u201cYou are going to\nhave the only modern church in town;\u201d and they visit the scene of the\nbuilding to watch the progress of the work and speak friendly of it. A\ngentleman who lives in Fryar\u2019s Point, Miss., and belongs to one of the\nfirst families here, has just asked me to let him look at the plan. He\nsaid, \u201cThis is going to be a credit to the town.\u201d I have put on a large\nportion of the first coat of paint myself.\n\nThe people have made great sacrifices to build their house of worship.\nI don\u2019t believe that the same number of members in any church North\ncould have done better with all the discouraging circumstances. They\nhave struggled hard to help themselves, giving when really they needed\nit at home.\n\nWe shall need a bell and pews, also a communion service, and money to\nbuy paint for the finishing of the inside and out. Who wants to help\nthose who help themselves?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLetter from a Student\u2014Vacation Supply at Mobile.\n\nJ. W. ROBERTS, TALLADEGA.\n\nOur protracted meetings lasted during three weeks. The Holy Ghost has\ngiven us five souls for our hire; besides He has warmed up our hearts\nwith His sacred love as a church. I am thankful to Him that my health\nis kept all right.\n\nSince and during our revival our audiences have been steadily\nincreasing both at afternoon and evening services. There is also an\nunusual interest in our Thursday praise meetings. In short, the \u201cfold\u201d\nis in a good condition if the shepherd will come soon.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE MENDI MISSION.\n\nAnnual Meeting of the Missionaries\u2014The Board of Counsel and Advice.\n\nThe annual meeting of the Board of Counsel and Advice of the Mendi\nMission was held in the Good Hope Chapel, at Sherbro Island, July 14,\n1879. Rev. A. P. Miller presided, and Dr. Benjamin James was elected\nSecretary.\n\nThe Moderator made the following introductory remarks:\n\nBefore we proceed to our business, you will please indulge me with\na few preliminary remarks, inasmuch as we are about to enter upon\nthat part of our missionary work which will tell most plainly to\nthe civilized world as to the wisdom and good judgment of colored\nmissionaries in devising plans for the furtherance of a work of so\ngreat importance, sacredly intrusted to our care.\n\nIn the performance of our several duties in the second annual meeting\nof our Board, let us not forget that body of devoted men of the A.\nM. A., by whose unwearied zeal and toil means are procured for the\nfurtherance and extension of this well-begun work.\n\nLet us not forget the thousands of Christian men and women who give of\ntheir means for the support of Missions, especially in Africa.\n\nLet us not forget the five millions of our own race in the South, from\nwhom the shackles of slavery have been torn asunder, to whom Africa is\nnow looking for the light of the Gospel and a Christian civilization,\nof whom we are the advance guards.\n\nLet us not forget that the problem of Africa\u2019s future is now under\nsolution and that we are the solvers. Our failure to arrive at a\nconclusion in her favor, as Freedmen, would bring everlasting disgrace\nupon us as a race, while on the other hand we should most shamefully\nwrong unenlightened manhood, whose blood would be required at our hands.\n\nAs a slave, the negro served well his oppressors. As a soldier, he\nserved well the cause of freedom and his country. The tyrant\u2019s chain\nof oppression, which held five millions in bondage, has been broken,\nand to-day the grand duty as well as privilege of carrying light and\nlife to his benighted brethren in his fatherland lies before him and\ncalls him onward. It remains yet for him to prove himself a man in this\nimportant relation that he holds to his fellow-countrymen and to the\nworld.\n\nIn view of these great responsibilities incumbent upon us in this\nCouncil assembled, in the discussion and decision of matters of\nimportance, may God, in mercy, so guide each one that he shall be\nunprejudiced and deeply sincere, as well as conscientious, throughout\nall these deliberations, with due regard to their bearing upon the\ninterest of the benighted whom we come to serve and enlighten. In view\nof all these things, may each one give the weight of his influence to\nthe furtherance of our work, exercising patience and charity one toward\nthe other.\n\nCommittees were appointed on the various interests of the Mission,\nwhile the subject of the extension of the work was referred to a\ncommittee of the whole.\n\nThe _Committee on Church Work_ reported forty-four members in the\nchurch at Good Hope Station, one having died during the year; seven\ninfants baptized; attendance on services good, and showing earnest\ndesire to hear the Word; advance in the Christian life of converts;\nprayer-meetings valuable. Some persons, under watch and care, will be\nreceived to membership as soon as legally united in matrimony.\n\nAt Avery there are forty-one members; under watch and care, three\nadults; eleven children baptized. Increasing willingness on the part\nof the people to attend church, and growing interest in the cause of\nChrist give encouragement.\n\nAt Debia, Mr. Goodman conducts religious services on the Lord\u2019s day. A\nchapel is hoped for here, books at Good Hope, and repairs of building\nat Avery.\n\nOur Sunday-school is in a flourishing condition, being well attended,\nmost of the scholars attending church services. Bradford friends in\nEngland sent our Sunday-school a nice present in the shape of copies of\nthe Gospels, pamphlets, papers, etc., which we used as prizes for good\nattendance, to encourage the little ones. We need singing books for\nthis work.\n\nThe _Committee on School Work_ reported that at Good Hope the school\nhas made rapid progress. During the year 245 children have been\nenrolled. These are both from the Sierra Leone and from the native\nelement. They learn English rapidly. \u201cWe have teachers,\u201d says the\nreport, \u201cwho are quite awake to their duty. Children are accessible in\nSherbro, and are brought into day and Sunday schools in large numbers.\nThrough the kindness of friends of the poor little Africans, shirts\nhave been put on their backs and books into their hands, for which\nthey seem to be grateful. Of course these wear out, and others must be\nprocured in some way or other in their stead, or these little ones in\nmany cases will leave off attending school. They must be constantly\nlooked after. We hope to see not far in the future a first-class school\nat this place. We have material in abundance upon which to work. Time,\npatience and labor will bring success.\u201d\n\nThe school at Avery has not made such progress as was hoped for during\nthe year. On the first of January its numbers were decreased by the\ntaking away of most of the larger boys to cut the crops for their\nparents. The irregularity of attendance is a great obstacle in the way\nof our success. Some attend for one day, and may not be seen again\nfor a month. Those who have attended regularly have made progress.\nThe prospect for the future is better. There are some children now in\nthe Mission whose attendance may be depended on. Most of the children\nliving in the village around the Mission have been taken to the farms\nto drive birds, so that the number on the roll at present is only\ntwenty, ten of whom come from the Mission house. There have been 56 on\nthe roll during the year.\n\nThe school work at Debia is encouraging, Mr. Goodman and family being\nsettled there. We base our hopes largely on the little ones who are\nbeing trained in our Mission schools.\n\nThe _Committee on Agriculture_ reported that the cassida planted at\nGood Hope does not thrive, owing to the impoverished condition of the\nsoil. At Avery the coffee plantation is in a comparatively thriving\ncondition, and some of the trees bearing well. The need of more\nlaborers and implements is urged, and it is recommended \u201cthat more of\nthe ground be put under cultivation as a measure tending to supply the\nwants of the growing Mission, and that the children of the Mission be\nemployed two hours each day upon the farms, under the supervision of\na competent and skillful person.\u201d It is further recommended \u201cthat the\nscience of horticulture be introduced at each station, and that the\nchoicest flora of native and foreign production capable of being grown\non the premises be obtained, so far as practicable, for this purpose.\u201d\n\nThe _Committee on Industrial Work_ reported that the saw mill needs\nrepairs of floor and roof, that one saw is in good running order.\nThere are sixteen hands employed at the mill, and two more are needed.\nIt is deemed desirable that some of the Mission children should be\n\u201cinstructed into the workings of mechanics so far as we have the means\nfor instruction.\u201d\n\nCommittees on _Repairs and Sanitary Condition_ of the Mission, made\ncareful examination, and reported their advice in these regards.\n\n\nDISTRIBUTION OF MISSIONARIES.\n\nSome changes were made in the location of the members of the Mission.\nThe force is now divided as follows: At Good Hope: Rev. A. P. Miller\nand wife, Pastor and Superintendent of the Mission; Dr. Benjamin James,\nPhysician and Teacher; and Mr. A. E. White, Principal of School. At\nAvery: Rev. A. E. Jackson, Pastor; Mr. E. L. Anthony, Industrial\nDepartment, and Mr. George N. Jewett, Teacher.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA TOUR AMONG THE CLALLAM INDIANS.\n\nREV. MYRON EELLS, S\u2019KOKOMISH, W. T.\n\nThe last month has been spent in a tour among the Clallam Indians.\nWishing to go further, and be absent from home longer than has been\nusual on such trips, my family, who had not been six miles away from\nhome for more than two years, concluded to accompany me. Although\nsteamers run the whole route of our travel, yet as they stop at but few\nof the places where the Indians live, and on the main part of the route\ngo only once a week, it was impracticable for us to travel in that way,\nso we took a canoe from the Reservation with an Indian man and his\nwife, looked out for our own food, carried house and bed, stowed in the\nthree babies, and away we went.\n\nOur first call on Indians was at _Port Gamble_, fifty miles from home.\nHere are about one hundred, and they asked me to talk on temperance.\nDuring the last year and a half they have reformed in this respect.\nAfter pointing them to Christ as the source of their help, they had\ntheir talk. They said that one thing now troubles them. They live\nacross Port Gamble Bay, an eighth of a mile from the saw-mill and town,\nin a village by themselves, on land owned by the mill company. They can\nmanage the Indians as well as could be expected, but there is near them\na white man with a black heart, who with his Indian wife often gets\ndrunk, sometimes remaining so for a week at a time. They also tempt\nthe weaker Indians; and now how to get rid of him is the question. As\nboth he and they live on land belonging to the company, the only way\nI saw was for them to petition the superintendent to remove him. So\nafter nine o\u2019clock at night I wrote out a petition, which the chiefs\nand policemen and others signed, stating all the facts, and asking for\nthis man\u2019s removal. I was obliged to leave early the next morning,\nand so left them to present it. I have known of whites petitioning to\nhave worthless Indians removed, but have never before known Indians\nto petition to have a white man removed because he was so low that\nthey did not wish to have him near them. Two years ago they would not\nhave done this, as many of them were glad to have an opportunity so\nconvenient where they could obtain the liquid poison.\n\nMy next congregation was at _Port Discovery_, thirty-five miles farther\non, and very much the same routine was observed at a number of places.\nMy business with them was to preach; theirs with me was to talk about\nhow and where to procure land in the best way. This was true at Port\nAngelos, Elkwa, and two settlements at Clallam Bay. For several years\nthey have been urged to procure land so that they could feel warranted\nin erecting good houses, and thus leave the old ones, full of grease,\ndirt and smoke; but with the exception of those at Dunginess, very few\nhave done so; now they begin to realize the benefits of it and have\n\u201cland on the brain.\u201d But they move cautiously, for it is easy for them\nto be deceived, and it is talk, talk, talk as to what is best. Two\nparties traveled to the Reservation about the time I was beginning my\njourney\u2014a trip of two or three hundred miles\u2014to consult about land.\n\nAt _Dunginess_ a troublesome case begins. Four Indians, living fifty\nmiles farther on, had been here three or four weeks previously, anxious\nto obtain the land on which their houses stood. They had been sent\nto the clerk of the Probate Court, who knew nothing about it, but\ntold them it was Government land, and offered to get it for them for\nthe usual fees, nineteen dollars each. They paid him the seventy-six\ndollars, and he promised to send it to the land office at Olympia, and\nhave their papers for them in two weeks. They waited the two weeks,\nbut received no returns. In the meantime others told them that the man\ncould lawfully do the business, but he was not to be trusted, for the\nland had been owned by private individuals for fifteen years. He, too,\nby the time I met him, had written to the land office and found the\nsame to be true. My business is, if possible, to get the money back. It\nis useless to sue him, as he has no property which the law can touch.\nOne of the four Indians returned with me to get his money, but was\nsatisfied that it was useless for him to go farther, so he went home.\nHe had already spent three weeks, and the three others two weeks each\nin trying to recover it. Yet this same man is Postmaster, Clerk of the\nProbate Court, U. S. Commissioner, Deputy Sheriff, and lately offered\nfifty dollars to the County Treasurer to be appointed his deputy. I was\nnot disappointed at the result, but handed the business over to the\nagent to settle in Court.\n\nLet us contrast the action of the Indians with this. I felt very sorry\nfor them. For four years we have been advising them to obtain land,\nand now they were swindled in their first attempt. Fearful lest they\nshould become discouraged, I offered them ten dollars to divide amongst\nthem, saying, \u201cIf you never get your money I will lose this with you,\nbut if you do you can then repay it.\u201d One-tenth of my income has long\nbeen given to the Lord, and I felt that it would do as much good there\nas anywhere. When I first mentioned this they refused, saying that they\ndid not wish me to lose my money, if they did theirs, but two weeks\nafterwards, when I left the last one he took it; yet shortly afterwards\nI found that he would not spend any of it, although he wanted some\narticles very much, saying that it was not their money after all.\n\nThis lower part of the Sound is very like the ocean, with nothing to\nbreak the winds, so I procured for that part of the journey a very\nlarge canoe, thirty-six feet long, two and a half deep and six wide.\nThe children can play in it, and at night we anchored it out in some\ngood harbor like a small schooner.\n\nHospitality was very generous. I thought that there were too many of us\nto go into anybody\u2019s house; but at Dunginess, where we remained two or\nthree days in connection with each of two Sabbaths, a woman said, in\nthe absence of her husband, \u201cYou must all come in. If you pitch your\ntent I will set fire to it and burn it down.\u201d We submitted. The agent\nat Neah Bay was just as hospitable, notwithstanding that his house\nalready seemed to be full, and also the superintendent of the mill at\nSeabeck.\n\nThe weather was generally pleasant, but sometimes it rained hard. No\none caught cold, however, on account of it. Camping on the sand is not\nso pleasant. Fresh water is so scarce as only to be used for drinking.\nWe boil our potatoes in salt water, but get it near shore, and forget\nto let it settle. The potatoes crack, and the sand is all through them.\nThen baby crawls along and tips the rice over into the sand, and we all\ntramp the sand on to the beds, and into them, until our better half\nwishes herself at home, as it blows into the food-box and clothes-boxes\nand everywhere.\n\n\nA WEDDING.\n\nAn Indian, who had been married Indian fashion for several years,\nbut who had homesteaded a farm, thought it best to be married in a\ncivilized way. He had never seen such a performance, so I explained\nall to him beforehand. But when I was going through the ceremony and\nhad just said, \u201cYou promise to take this woman to be your wife,\u201d he\ninterrupted me, saying, \u201cYes, of course I do. You do not suppose I am\ngoing to put away my wife now, after I have lived with her so long?\nSee, here are my children, the oldest fifteen years old. It would be\nfoolish for us now to separate.\u201d I told him, \u201cAll right,\u201d kept very\nsober, laughed in my sleeve, made a note of it, and proceeded to say,\n\u201cYou promise to love and honor her,\u201d etc.\n\nTwenty religious services were held during the journey, including one\ncommunion service, and one very pleasant prayer-meeting preparatory to\nit. Thus we spent the month of August, enjoyed it, and have enjoyed\nhome all the more since reaching it.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCABIN PRAYER-MEETINGS\u2014WHICH WAS THE HERO?\n\nLILLIE E. BARR, ATLANTA, GA.\n\nDEAR TEACHERS AND CHILDREN:\n\nI wish I had space, so I could tell you all of the beautiful,\ninteresting and helpful things that happen day by day in my work;\nbut as I have not, I must content myself with giving you one or two\nincidents. First, let me tell you about an impromptu prayer-meeting\nheld in one of the many cabins which dot the hills all over. A few\nnights ago I went to see a sweet old Christian, who for three years has\nnot known an hour\u2019s rest from pain, and yet is as merry as a cricket,\nreceiving the little offerings of food and shelter which her poor\nneighbors bring her with cheerful gratitude as from her God. One day\nI asked her how she could be so patient and so gay. \u201cWhy, chile, it\u2019s\nall on de journey, an\u2019 I don\u2019t know no reason why the way should be\nmade easier fur me than it was fur the Master,\u201d she answered. While I\nwas trying to make her more comfortable, several women came in, _none\nof whom could read_, and after we had talked a little while about our\nsweet Lord Jesus, one said: \u201cPlease read the chapter where Jesus says:\n\u2018I pray not for these alone, but for all of them who shall believe on\nme through their word.\u2019\u201d A little tin lamp was brought, and as I opened\nmy Bible I glanced at the living picture before me. The lamp threw its\nfeeble light over the patient sufferer, and lit up the dusky faces of\nthe women bending eagerly forward as I read those blessed words. No\nsooner had I finished the chapter than one began that beautiful slave\nsong, \u201cSteal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus.\u201d Instantly it was\ncaught up. Our hearts had touched the heart of Christ in this grand\nprayer chapter. As soon as it was ended, another chapter was asked\nfor, and then another, and another, intermingled with prayer and song.\nIt was just such a prayer-meeting, I imagine, as the one held by the\ndisciples when, being gathered together, Jesus stood in their midst and\nsaid, \u201c_Peace be with you._\u201d I knew, I felt that I had been with Jesus.\n\nWith the light and grace of this prayer-meeting still about us, we\ncame down an alley and into a court known as Campbell\u2019s Block. It is a\nsquare, built round with cabins of one or two rooms _without windows_.\nA large wash-shed and well occupy the centre of the court. Look now\ninto the rooms; everywhere dirt and filth, crying children, quarreling\nchildren, women smoking, women dipping snuff, women idling, women\nwashing, women fretted with care until they are prematurely old,\nand not _one_ woman in the block able to read, and so gain strength\nfrom the blessed word of God. And this block is one out of four in\nour field. One house only shows any sign that for the poor there is\nanything beautiful; but that, like a grand sermon, stands amid this\nmisery and sin, from ground to roof a mass of flowers. I could not\nhelp thinking what a joy they must be to the ministering angels, as\nthey pass through this place of suffering and sin. To me they were the\npromise of redemption for the block. Like a pure thought in a sinful\nheart we found old Mr. and Mrs. Pleasant in one of the rooms. He is\nblind and helpless with paralysis, consequently the providing of rent,\nfood and clothes devolves upon his aged wife. After reading them the\ntwo last chapters in Revelation, the old man cried out: \u201cIt\u2019s worth\nwhile being blind to know the first thing I shall see will be the New\nJerusalem.\u201d \u201cYes indeed, George, now we must work harder than ever to\nwin home,\u201d answered his wife, as she brushed the tears away. We have\nbegun a prayer-meeting in this block, and I ask your prayers for its\nsuccess. To these cases I might add ever so many more; but if I give\nyou big folks any more room, I shall crowd my story to the children\nout, and that wouldn\u2019t be one bit fair\u2014would it, little ones?\n\nI shall introduce my story by asking the boys to pay particular\nattention, as I want them to decide whether Jesse Dobbs or Jim\nPrescott\u2014the two boys whom this story is about\u2014is the true hero.\n\n\u201cWho minds de cold? Come on, Jesse; de boys is going to make up a\ncompany and have heaps of fun down by Big Bethel.\u201d I must explain that\nBig Bethel is the name of a church.\n\nJesse glanced out at the sunshine and called, \u201cMammie, mayent I go with\nJo down to Big Bethel?\u201d\n\nAs the answer was yes, the two bounded away and soon joined several\nboys, the leader of whom, from his coarse, bloated face to his heavily\nbooted feet, was the very picture of a young ruffian. As Jesse and Jo\ncame up he was saying, \u201cDare aint a fatter roost to pick den old Judge\nGibbs\u2019 in de world; \u2019sides dat, you ken git 15 cents a piece fur every\nchick\u2019n. Den you brings de money to me, and I gibs you so much out of\nit. \u2019Stand what I say?\u201d\n\n\u201cYar, yar,\u201d came from the other boys.\n\n\u201c\u2019Sides dat, dares heaps of fun clearing off a chick\u2019n roost, and I,\nfur one, aint feared to go into nobody\u2019s yard. Now is you gwine to be\nready to-night to follow your captain? I\u2019s your captain.\u201d\n\n\u201cCaptain of what?\u201d asked Jesse.\n\n\u201cCaptain of the roost-clearing brigade; dat\u2019s what. Is you going to\njine us, Dobbs? If you aint I\u2019ll most kill you fur coming here to spy\ninto our plans.\u201d\n\nJesse paused an instant, then he said, \u201cNo.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhy not, I\u2019d jist like fur to know?\u201d demanded Jim, angrily.\n\n\u201cBecause I aint going to jine no thieving company.\u201d\n\nThe words were hardly spoken before Jim lifted his foot and kicked him\nin the side. Kick followed kick in such rapid succession, that Jesse\nwas almost senseless before Jim could be pulled off; and when I formed\nhis acquaintance he had been in bed nine months, a large tumor having\nformed in the side where he had been kicked. When I asked him about\nlying so long in bed, he answered:\n\n\u201cAt first the time was awful long, but by-and-by I began to take notice\nhow mother worried when I \u2019plained of de pain and de tiredness, so I\ntook to trying not to \u2019plain _fore_ her, and that kinder drawed off my\n\u2019tention from de pain.\u201d\n\nFor nine months he had been trying to help his mother by being patient.\nThree weeks ago he died from the effects of that cruel kick\u2014died\nforgiving all who had injured him, and bearing his cross of suffering\nlike a noble little Christian to the end.\n\nWhich was the hero\u2014Jim, who boasted he wasn\u2019t afraid to steal from any\nman, or Jesse, who wasn\u2019t afraid to say _no_, although forewarned that\nhe would be almost killed if he said it?\n\nI say Jesse was.\n\nWhat do you all say?\n\nFrom this story I hope you will all try to be more gentle and loving,\nfor we never know what months of pain and suffering, not only to\nothers, but also to ourselves, one rude action may cause.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR SEPTEMBER, 1879.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  MAINE, $215.61.\n\n    Bangor. Hammond Street Ch., $100; West Bangor\n      Chapel, $6                                            $106.00\n    Bluehill. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              10.00\n    Brewer. First Cong. Ch., $4.95, and Sab. Sch.,\n      $2.60; J. Holyoke, $5                                   12.55\n    Brunswick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              7.00\n    Castine. Rev. A. E. Ives                                   3.00\n    Litchfield Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    10.00\n    Machias. Centre St. Cong. Ch.                              7.56\n    Minot Centre. Mrs. B. J.                                   1.00\n    Northport. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      0.50\n    Orland. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         5.00\n    Orono. F. A. M.                                            1.00\n    Portland. State St. Cong. Ch.                             50.00\n    Woolwich. Mrs. Jotham P. Trott                             2.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $639.43.\n\n    Acworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               22.55\n    Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                3.85\n    Campton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               22.00\n    Candia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                24.90\n    Concord. Miss Alma J. Herbert, $3; S. S., $1;\n      Others, $2                                               6.00\n    Dover. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           82.29\n    Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              30.00\n    Francestown. Mrs. A. H. Kingsbury                          3.00\n    Fitzwilliam. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $8.75; Mrs. L.\n      Hill, $5                                                13.75\n    Hampstead. Ann M. Howard                                   5.00\n    Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc.                         50.00\n    Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          11.04\n    Northwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l)                       1.00\n    Orfordville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    1.00\n    Pelham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                46.40\n    Pembroke. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              16.88\n    Pittsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            16.75\n    Raymond. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               18.00\n    Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 4.11\n    Swanzey. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                8.00\n    Temple. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   20.91\n    Thornton\u2019s Ferry. Individuals, by Mrs. H. N. Eaton         2.00\n    Troy. ESTATE of Dea. Abel Baker, by A. W. Baker\n      and J. S. Parmenter, Ex\u2019s.                             150.00\n    Walpole. F. Kilburn, $50; W. G. Barnett, $5               55.00\n    Wilton. Second Cong. Ch.                                  25.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $480.21.\n\n    Alburgh. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., by Mrs. E. M. Hicks,\n      Sec. and Treas.                                          1.00\n    Brattleborough. Cong. Ch.                                 28.82\n    Burlington. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     5.00\n    East Arlington. Rev. Chas. Redfield                        5.00\n    Greensborough. Rev. Moses Patten and Wife                 15.00\n    Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     2.30\n    Jamaica. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.61\n    Putney. Mr. and Mrs. Foster                                5.00\n    Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                143.00\n    Wardsborough, North. Union Col.                            4.00\n    Wardsborough, South. Ch. and Soc.                          3.48\n    Wells River. ESTATE of Mrs. Chloe Brock, by F.\n      Deming, Ex.                                            250.00\n    West Brattleborough. Cong. Sab. Sch.                       7.00\n    Westminster West. \u201cA Friend\u201d                               5.00\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $3,401.94.\n\n    Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding                                50.00\n    Boston. G. F. Kendall, $5; Dea. G. P., $1                  6.00\n    Boston. Dorchester Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.             926.44\n    Boston. Highland Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                         50.00\n    Boxborough. Mrs. J. Stone                                 10.00\n    Buckland. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $4; Dea. S. Trowbridge, $2           6.00\n    Cambridge. Geo. H. Fogg, to const. MRS. GEO. H.\n      FOGG, L. M.                                             30.00\n    Clinton. First Evan. Ch. and Soc.                         75.00\n    Coleraine. Cong. Ch.                                      10.00\n    Danvers. Maple St. Ch. and Soc. to const. HENRY\n      RIPLEY, MRS. LYDIA T. KIMBALL and MISS HATTIE\n      ELIOT, L. M\u2019s                                          110.00\n    Deerfield. N. H.                                           0.51\n    East Hampton. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                       25.00\n    Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               67.00\n    Falmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l)                        8.00\n    Foxborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            28.19\n    Framingham. George Nourse                                  5.00\n    Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         10.00\n    Georgetown. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5; \u201cA Friend,\u201d bbl. of C.         5.00\n    Great Barrington. A. C. T., $1; L. M. P., $1               2.00\n    Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.                               3.00\n    Hanover. ESTATE of Isaac M. Wilder, by Chas. B.\n      Fox and Jedediah Dwelley, Ex.                          500.00\n    Holbrook. Mrs. C. S. Holbrook                            100.00\n    Housatonic. Housatonic Cong. Sab. Sch.                    25.00\n    Lakeville Precinct. Cong. Sab. Sch.                       20.00\n    Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Ch.                                35.14\n    Lenox. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 15.00\n    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          33.23\n    Mansfield. Orth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        8.03\n    Medway. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         1.00\n    Nantasket. M. H. Scott, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo\n      U._                                                     26.16\n    Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      48.04\n    Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.22\n    Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           8.25\n    Northampton. ESTATE of J. P. Williston, by A. F.\n      Williston, Ex.                                         394.24\n    Northampton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  200.00\n    Northbridge Centre. Helen S. Winter                        2.00\n    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                50.00\n    Northfield. Trin. Ch. and Soc.                            15.00\n    North Leominster. Church of Christ                        19.00\n    Orange. Central Ch.                                        4.10\n    Plainfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $11.69; Samuel\n      Loud, $10                                               21.69\n    Randolph. Miss Abbie W. Turner                            10.00\n    Shelburne. Cong. Church                                   24.94\n    Sherborn. Mrs. Aaron Greenwood                             3.00\n    Somerville. Franklin St. Ch. and Soc.                     75.00\n    South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         10.00\n    South Attleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.               6.00\n    Southbridge. Evan. Free Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      REV. GEO. H. WILSON, L. M.                              40.00\n    Southfield. Ladies, 2 bbls. of C., _for\n      Woodbridge, N. C._\n    South Sudbury. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., $2 and bbl. of\n      C.                                                       2.00\n    Springfield. \u201cE. M. P. South Ch.\u201d                         15.00\n    Taunton. Winslow Ch. and Soc.                             34.00\n    Walpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               20.00\n    Warwick. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   6.00\n    Watertown. Phillips Cong. Ch.                             46.50\n    Webster. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  13.81\n    Westborough. Freedman\u2019s Mission Ass\u2019n, bbl. of C.\n    West Brookfield. Cong Ch. and Soc.                        45.00\n    Westford. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        35.00\n    West Newton. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    44.34\n    Weymouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         8.11\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $90.37.\n\n    Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               37.18\n    Little Compton. United Cong. Ch.                          38.00\n    Westerly. Pawcatuck Cong. Ch.                             15.19\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $2,194.26.\n\n    Branford. H. G. Harrison                                   5.00\n    Chaplin. Cong. Ch.                                        10.50\n    Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               32.25\n    Cheshire. Cong. Ch.                                       17.34\n    Coventry. B. T. Preston                                    5.00\n    Durham. ESTATE of I. Parmelee, by W. W. Fowler,\n      Ex.                                                    100.00\n    East Hampton. Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. WILBUR F.\n      STARR and MRS. HERMAN E. RICH, L. M.\u2019s                  77.75\n    Greenwich. R. B. CARPENTER, to const. himself L.\n      M.                                                      30.00\n    Griswold. Cong. Ch.                                       50.00\n    Hadlyme. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  12.72\n    Hanover. Hanover Ch. and Soc.                             25.00\n    Hartford. Thomas H. Smith, $100, _for Theo. Dep\u2019t\n      Howard U._;\u2014John R. Lee, M. D., $50;\u2014C. C.\n      Lyman, $20, _for Fisk U._;\u2014\u201cI. W.\u201d $5                  175.00\n    Harwinton. Cong. Ch.                                      41.00\n    Higganum. Cong. Soc.                                      12.00\n    Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       4.48\n    Manchester. Second Cong. Ch.                              19.31\n    New Britain. ESTATE of Rev. Charles Nichols, by\n      John B. Smith, Ex.                                    1000.00\n    New Haven. \u201cA Mere Crumb,\u201d $10; Erwin Shelley, $5         15.00\n    New London. First Ch.                                     66.80\n    Norwich Town. \u201cG. M.,\u201d for _Memphis, Tenn._                5.00\n    North Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       30.33\n    Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                                   13.03\n    Putnam. Mary T. Howe, $10;\u2014Mary A. Keith, $5,\n      _for Athens, Ala._                                      15.00\n    Rocky Hill. Mission Circle, \u201cFragment Gatherers,\u201d\n      by Miss Sarah D. Baldwin                                20.00\n    Stafford. Mrs. Thomas H. Thresher                          5.00\n    Terryville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. HOMER\n      W. GRISWOLD, CHAS. PURRINGTON and MRS. MARY\n      SMITH, L. M\u2019s                                          144.83\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      28.25\n    Unionville. First Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._           41.46\n    Warehouse Point. Roxana K. Porter                          5.00\n    Washington. Mrs. Rebecca Hine, $30, to const.\n      EDWARD ROBERT POND, L. M.; S. J. Nettleton, $5          35.00\n    Washington. LEGACY of Miss Julia Canfield, by\n      Chas. L. Hickox, Treas. Cong. Ch.                       20.00\n    Watertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             32.54\n    West Brook. Cong. Ch., to const. MISS E. E. LAY,\n      L. M.                                                   35.90\n    Wethersfield. Horace Savage                                2.00\n    West Winsted. \u2014\u2014                                          10.00\n    Woodstock. ESTATE of Geo. A. Paine                        51.77\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $626.24.\n\n    Amsterdam. Chandler Bartlett                              10.00\n    Berryville. S. W.                                          1.00\n    Bergen. Mrs. F. D. Kingman                                 5.00\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, by Geo.\n      H. Shirley, _for Rev. Geo. Henry_;\u2014Sab. Sch. of\n      Church of the Mediator, $20                             45.00\n    Brooklyn, E. D.  J. W. S.                                  1.00\n    Camden. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         2.00\n    Carthage. Mrs. Agnes Vrooman                               5.00\n    Crown Point. Mrs. L. J. Murdock                            5.00\n    Deansville. Mrs. P. M. Barton                             40.00\n    Gerry. Mrs. M. A. Sears                                  128.36\n    Gouverneur. Mrs. E. M.                                     1.00\n    Harpersfield. Cong. Ch.                                    7.00\n    Jamestown. \u2014\u2014                                              5.00\n    McDonough. Miss C. Sawtelle                                2.00\n    Medina. ESTATE of Allen Bacon, by A. E. Bennett,\n      Ex.                                                     51.48\n    Nelson. J. L. Bishop                                       7.00\n    Newark Valley. LEGACY of a deceased sister (in\n      part), by Mrs. A. B. Smith                               7.45\n    Newark Valley. Cong. Ch.                                  28.00\n    New York City. S. T. Gordon                              100.00\n    Norwich. Miss M. H. Northup (Smyrna, N. Y.), and\n      Mrs. R. A. Barber                                       10.00\n    Oneonta. Mrs. H. Slade, $1.50; Mrs. W. McC., 50c.          2.00\n    Oswego. Cong. Ch.                                          2.08\n    Poughkeepsie. First Cong. Ch.                             12.50\n    Sacket\u2019s Harbor. Mrs. Anar H. Barnes                      30.00\n    Sherburne. Cong. Ch., $90.37;\u2014C. H. Fuller, $10,\n      _for Athens, Ala._                                     100.37\n    Sinclearville. Earl C. Preston                             2.00\n    Syracuse. Rev. J. C. Holbrook                             10.00\n    Walton. First Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                             5.00\n    West Milton. I. K.                                         1.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $20.92.\n\n    Chester. Cong. Ch., $17.66, and Sab. Sch. $1.26           18.92\n    Paterson. Mrs. W. F.                                       1.00\n    Rahway. Mrs. B. T.                                         1.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $12.\n\n    Washington. H. H. Templeton                                5.00\n    West Alexander. \u2014\u2014                                         5.00\n    Worth. John Burgess                                        2.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $523.95.\n\n    Andover. O. B. Case                                       10.00\n    Ashtabula. First Cong. Ch.                                20.00\n    Bellevue. First Cong. Ch.                                 13.00\n    Clark\u2019s Corners. Mrs. Urania Haviland                      2.00\n    Cleveland. Rev. H. C. Hayden                              15.00\n    Elyria. J. M. H.                                           0.50\n    Galion. Mrs. E. C. Linsley                                 5.00\n    Lindenville. Mr. and Mrs. L. Bearss                       10.00\n    Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                 21.55\n    Olive Green. Mrs. A. C. Brown, $3; Mrs. M. Callum,\n      $2                                                       5.00\n    Medina. First Cong. Ch., $58.08; Albert Bates, $5         63.08\n    Moore\u2019s Saltworks. Robert George                           2.00\n    North Eaton. M. Oakes                                      2.00\n    North Kingsville. E. J. Comings                           10.00\n    Norwalk. Thomas Hagaman, $10; First Cong. Ch.,\n      $7.22                                                   17.22\n    Pittsfield. Cong. Ch.                                     16.00\n    Savannah. J. H. Patterson                                  5.00\n    Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      5.60\n    Wadsworth. George Lyman                                  300.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014                                                      1.00\n\n\n  INDIANA, $10.\n\n    Dunreith. David Maxwell and Mrs. Lydia Maxwell             5.00\n    Winchester. Mrs. C. R. Commons                             5.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $4,171.31.\n\n    Amboy. Cong. Ch.                                          23.00\n    Belvidere. ESTATE of Olney Nichols, by H. W.\n      Pier, Ex.                                            3,823.48\n    Chicago. Leavitt St. Ch., $37.84; Union Parker,\n      $10; Stephen Thurston, $5                               52.84\n    Geneseo. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., by Mrs. A. H.\n      Manington, Treas.                                       46.84\n    Gridley. Cong. Ch.                                         4.40\n    Hutsonville. C. V. Newton                                  2.00\n    Jericho Centre. Julia Graves                               5.00\n    La Prairie Centre. \u201cA Friend\u201d                             10.00\n    Lee Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                8.00\n    Lisbon. Cong. Ch.                                         12.74\n    Metamora. A. C. Rouse, $5; Mr. and Mrs. Ranney,\n      $2; A. H. K., $1; Christian Union, $6.50                14.50\n    Millburn. Cong. Ch.                                       15.00\n    Millington. Mrs. D. W. J. and Mrs. C. J. O. V.,\n      $1 ea.                                                   2.00\n    Morrison. Cong. Ch.                                       15.50\n    Payson. Cong. Ch. ($25 of which from Miss P. A.\n      Prince)                                                 26.79\n    Princeville. Wm. C. Stevens                               11.00\n    Providence. Cong. Ch.                                     18.00\n    Ravenswood. Cong. Ch.                                     12.58\n    Rockford. Miss Mary C. Waterbury, $30, to const.\n      REV. J. G. JONES, L. M., and $10 _for Memphis\n      Tenn._;\u2014\u201cThe Rockford Lamplighters,\u201d $11.50             51.50\n    Wyanet. Cong. Ch.                                         16.14\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $400.30.\n\n    Adrian. Stephen Allen                                     10.00\n    Almo. Julius Hackley                                      10.00\n    Chelsea. Cong. Ch.                                        29.26\n    Clio. S. C. R.                                             1.00\n    Comstock. \u201cA Friend of the Freedmen\u201d                     100.00\n    Detroit. First Cong. Ch.                                 179.04\n    Dexter. Mrs. E. L. Farrar                                 10.00\n    East Riverton. Mrs. Josephine Barnes                       5.00\n    Flint. Cong. Ch.                                          14.53\n    Milford. Wm. A. Arms, to const. CLARA WELLS ARMS,\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Pontiac. Cong. Ch. Mon. Con. $2.36, and Sab. Sch.\n      $1.51                                                    3.87\n    Wacousta. Cong. Ch.                                        7.60\n\n\n  IOWA, $198.22.\n\n    Atlantic. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  9.56\n    Belle Plaine. J. P. Henry, $5; Freddie and Josie\n      Henry, $1                                                6.00\n    Chester Centre. Cong. Ch.                                 23.63\n    Clinton. Cong. Ch.                                        50.00\n    Dubuque. Mrs. S. N. M.                                     1.00\n    Green Mountain. First Cong. Ch.                           22.70\n    Grinnell. Cong. Ch.                                       46.50\n    Marion. Adaliza Daniels                                    5.00\n    Newton. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                           10.58\n    Red Oak. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n    Reinbeck. Cong. Ch. ($3 of which _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_)                                7.25\n    Stacyville. Woman\u2019s Missionary Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 3.00\n    Wayne. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                     3.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $120.95.\n\n    De Pere. Cong. Ch.                                        38.00\n    Fort Howard. Cong. Ch.                                    25.00\n    Geneva Lake. Presb. Ch.                                   21.95\n    Janesville. J. W.                                          1.00\n    Shopiere. J. H. Cooper                                     5.00\n    Sparta. Bryce Crawford, $5; J. H., R. H., J. H.\n      G. and R. H. W., $1 each; J. and S. H. A., $1           10.00\n    Racine. First Presb. Ch.                                  20.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $35.97.\n\n    Afton. Cong. Ch., M. C. Coll.                              3.00\n    Hastings. D. B. Truax                                      5.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 22.97\n    Saint Peter. Mrs. Jane A. Treadwell                        5.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $20.\n\n    Lawrence. Second Cong. Ch.                                 4.00\n    Lawrence. Rev. A. M. Richardson                            2.00\n    Leavenworth. Mrs. Thomas Cutts                             5.00\n    Osawatomie. Cong. Ch.                                      9.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $2.\n\n    Strahmburg. Pilgrim Ch.                                    2.00\n\n\n  OREGON, $6.20.\n\n    The Dalles. First Cong. Ch.                                6.20\n\n\n  MARYLAND, $100.\n\n    Baltimore. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    100.00\n\n\n  WEST VIRGINIA, $3.\n\n    Elm Grove. Mrs. B. D. Atkinson                             3.00\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $766.60.\n\n    Chattanooga. Rent                                        100.00\n    Nashville. Fisk University                               666.60\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $99.10.\n\n    Atlanta. Rent                                             99.10\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $10.75.\n\n    Selma. Cong. Ch.                                          10.75\n\n\n  TEXAS, $148.\n\n    Corpus Christi. Cong. Ch.                                148.00\n\n\n  CANADA, $10.\n\n    Toronto. Mrs. J. Thom                                     10.00\n\n\n  SOUTH INDIA, $15.\n\n    Madura Mission. Rev. T. S. Burnell                        15.00\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $5,722.29.\n\n    \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014 Avery Fund                                       3,885.64\n    \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014 Le Moyne Fund                                    1,090.82\n    \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014 Hammond Fund                                       545.83\n    \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014 General Fund                                        50.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014 Graves Library Fund                                150.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                             20,044.62\n  Total from Oct. 1st to Sept. 30th                     $183,437.98\n\n                                      H. W. HUBBARD, _Asst. Treas._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  RECEIVED FOR DEBT.\n\n    Manchester, N. H. Rev. C. W. Wallace ($50 of\n      which from Hanover St. Cong. Ch.)                       70.00\n    North Raynham, Mass. E. B. Towne                          25.00\n    South Sudbury, Mass. Rev. G. A. Oviatt                    25.00\n    West Medford, Mass. Rev. C. B. Smith                      50.00\n    Hartford, Conn. John R. Lee, M. D.                        25.00\n    Stanwich, Conn. William Brush                            200.00\n    New York, N. Y.  A. S. Barnes                            850.00\n    New York, N. Y. \u201cH. W. H.\u201d                                50.00\n    Newark, N. J. Rev. M. E. Strieby                         100.00\n    Jersey City, N. J. \u201cA Friend\u201d                             50.00\n    Chicago, Ill. Rev. James Powell                          100.00\n    Ripon, Wis. Pres. E. H. Merrill                           25.00\n    Washington Heights, Ill. ESTATE of Rev. L. Foster\n      (sale of land)                                         344.95\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                              1,914.95\n    Previously acknowledged in July receipts              26,893.72\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                            $28,808.67\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    North Hampton, N. H. Ladies of Cong. Ch.                  26.35\n    Hopkinton, Mass. Mrs. J. C. Claflin                       50.00\n    Mendon, Ill. Mrs. J. Fowler                              125.00\n    Onarga, Ill. Mrs. C. L. Foster                            10.00\n    Rockford, Ill. L. S. Swezey                               21.00\n    Greenville, Mich. M. Rutan                               400.00\n    Oakville, Cal. A. A. Bancroft                             50.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                                682.35\n    Previously acknowledged in Aug. receipts               2,502.17\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                             $3,184.52\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  FOR ARTHINGTON MISSION.\n\n    Green Mountain, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart                 10.00\n    Previously acknowledged in June receipts                  35.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n            Total                                            $45.00\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.\n\n    Deer Isle, Me. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  5.00\n    Northville, Mich. D. Pomeroy                               1.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                                  6.00\n    Previously acknowledged in Aug. receipts                 349.24\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                               $355.24\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nConstitution of the American Missionary Association.\n\nINCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. I. This Society shall be called \u201cTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\nASSOCIATION.\u201d\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian\nmissionary and educational operations, and to diffuse a knowledge of\nthe Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries which are destitute\nof them, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.\n\nART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes faith\nin the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the practice\nof other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, may become a\nmember of the Society; and by the payment of thirty dollars, a life\nmember; provided that children and others who have not professed their\nfaith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting.\n\nART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of September,\nOctober or November, for the election of officers and the transaction\nof other business, at such time and place as shall be designated by the\nExecutive Committee.\n\nART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular\nofficers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, and\nof delegates from churches, local missionary societies, and other\nco-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one representative.\n\nART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President,\nVice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,\nTreasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less than\ntwelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory, and\nthe Treasurer ex-officio, members.\n\nART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and\ndisbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining and\ndismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and agents;\nthe selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the transaction of\nall such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of\nmissionary and other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no\necclesiastical jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to\nbe subject always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall,\nby a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any\naggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference shall\nbe final.\n\nThe Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies\noccurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;\nto apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of\nincorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all\nofficers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the\nSociety; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and\nfor the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, in\nall parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general\nconventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion of\nthe missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of the\nmissionary work.\n\nFive members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting\nbusiness.\n\nART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing officers,\nagents and missionaries, and in selecting fields of labor, and\nconducting the missionary work, will endeavor particularly to\ndiscountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the known fruits of\nunrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment those who hold their\nfellow-beings as slaves.\n\nART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to\nthe principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain\nmissionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the\nagency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART. X. No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without the\nconcurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular annual\nmeeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been submitted to\na previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in season to be\npublished by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if so submitted) in\nthe regular official notifications of the meeting.\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a belief\nin the guilty and lost condition of all men without a Saviour; the\nSupreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the\nonly Saviour of the world; the necessity of regeneration by the Holy\nSpirit, repentance, faith and holy obedience in order to salvation; the\nimmortality of the soul; and the retributions of the judgment in the\neternal punishment of the wicked, and salvation of the righteous.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n_The American Missionary Association._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with the\nalmost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its main\nefforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens and\nChristians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely related\nto this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE in America,\nand to co-operate with the Government in its humane and Christian\npolicy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in AFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 12;\nKy., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 13; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 5.\n_Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 66.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.\u2014_Chartered_:\nHampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville,\nTenn.; Tougaloo, Miss., New Orleans, La.; and Austin, Texas, 8.\n_Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington, Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston,\nGreenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens,\nSelma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn., 11. _Other Schools_, 18. Total 37.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014Among the Freedmen, 231; among\nthe Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 17; in Africa, 14. Total, 279.\nSTUDENTS\u2014In Theology, 88; Law, 17; in College Course, 106; in other\nstudies, 7,018. Total, 7,229. Scholars, taught by former pupils of\nour schools, estimated at 100,000. INDIANS under the care of the\nAssociation. 13,000.\n\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the growing\nwork in the South. 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 the\nnew churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and pious, for\nthese 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. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House.\n  CHICAGO    Rev. Jas. 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To any one\nwho will send us an order for 10 boxes with cash, $39, we will send\none box extra free as a premium. Or the orders may be sent to us for\none or more boxes at a time, with remittance, and when we have thus\nreceived orders for ten boxes we will send the eleventh box free as\nproposed above. If you do not wish to send the money in advance, you\nmay deposit it with any banker or merchant in good credit in your\ntown, with the understanding that he is to remit to us on receipt of\nthe soap, which is to be shipped to his care. Address,\n\n                                       CRAMPTON BROTHERS,\n                           Cor. 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SARGENT,\n                     Proprietor and Manufacturer,\n                        816 Broadway, New York.\n\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nEvery Man His Own Printer.\n\nExcelsior =$3= Printing Press.\n\n[Illustration: Printing press]\n\n  Prints cards, labels, envelopes, &c.; larger sizes for larger work.\nFor business or pleasure, young or old. Catalogue of Presses, Type,\nCards, &c., sent for two stamps.\n\nKELSEY & CO., M\u2019frs, Meriden, Conn.\n\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                           CHURCH CUSHIONS\n\n                             MADE OF THE\n\n                         PATENT ELASTIC FELT.\n\n              For particulars, address H. D. OSTERMOOR,\n\n      P. O. Box 4004.                          36 Broadway, New York.\n\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                              MARVIN\u2019S\n\n                           FIRE & BURGLAR\n\n                               SAFES\n\n                    COUNTER PLATFORM WAGON & TRACK\n\n                               SCALES\n\n                        _MARVIN SAFE & SCALE CO.\n                          265 BROADWAY. N. Y.\n                       627 CHESTNUT ST., PHILA._\n\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nW. & B. DOUGLAS,\n\nMiddletown, Conn.,\n\nMANUFACTURERS OF\n\nPUMPS,\n\nHYDRAULIC RAMS, GARDEN ENGINES, PUMP CHAIN AND FIXTURES, IRON CURBS,\nYARD HYDRANTS, STREET WASHERS, ETC.\n\n[Illustration: Pump]\n\n  Highest Medal awarded them by the Universal Exposition at Paris,\nFrance, in 1867; Vienna, Austria, in 1873; and Philadelphia, 1876.\n\n\n                         Founded in 1832.\n\n\n                        Branch Warehouses:\n                         85 & 87 John St.\n                             NEW YORK,\n                                AND\n                         197 Lake Street,\n                               CHICAGO.\n\n                 _For Sale by all Regular Dealers._\n\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             ST. GERMAIN\n\n                     THE _ORIGINAL_ STUDENT LAMP.\n\n                Every Lamp has C. A. KLEEMANN and my\n                name on Chimney-Holder. Buy no other.\n\n[Illustration: Lamp]\n\n                         The Best made Lamp.\n                          \u201d     \u201d    Shade.\n                          \u201d     \u201d   Chimnies.\n                          \u201d     \u201d    Wicks.\n\n                            ALL PATENTED.\n\n\n  This lamp is absolutely safe against explosion.\n\n  The light is brilliant and very steady.\n\n  No odor. No smoke.\n\n  All the latest improvements.\n\n  Easy to manage. Simple in construction.\n\n                    C. F. A. HINRICHS, New York.\n\n                Toys for Fairs. Send for Price List.\n\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n=A PRINTING PRESS= for =75= cents. With ink roller, =90= cents. Both\nby mail =$1.60=. A complete Printing Office, viz., press, roller, font\nof type, type tray, ink, leads, furniture, gold bronze, and 50 cards,\n=$2.25=. All by mail for =$3.25=. Sample package of =40= varieties\nof cards, =10= cents. Specimen Book of type, &c., =10= cents. YOUNG\nAMERICA PRESS CO., =35= Murray Street, New York.\n\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association\nwill be held in the First Congregational Church (Rev. Dr. Goodwin\u2019s),\nChicago, Illinois, commencing October 28th, at 3 p. m. The Annual\nSermon will be preached by Rev. R. S. Storrs, D. D., of Brooklyn, N.\nY., service commencing at half-past seven in the evening. A paper on\nthe Chinese question will be presented by Rev. J. H. Twichell, of\nHartford, Connecticut; one on the Necessity of the Protection of Law\nfor the Indians, by Gen. J. B. Leake, United States District Attorney,\nChicago, Illinois; one on the Providential Significance of the Negro in\nAmerica, by Pres. E. H. Merrell, of Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin.\nAddresses may be expected from Rev. Drs. Goodell, Roy, Corwin, Dana,\nEllsworth, and other able speakers on timely and important topics.\n\nParties desiring entertainment during the meeting, who have not already\napplied, will please write at once to H. G. Billings, Esq., 242 South\nWater Street, Chicago.\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Railroad Reductions._\u2014The following railroads will make special rates\nto those attending the meeting. Mich. Cent. R. R., Excursion Tickets,\n2cts. per mile; Ill. Cent. R. R. Excursion Tickets, 1\u2155 fare; L. S. &\nM. S. R. R., Excursion Tickets, 1\u2155 fare; C. B. & Q. R. R., full fare\nin, \u2155 fare out; C. & A. R. R., do.; C. & E. I. R. R., do.; C. & N. W.\nR. R., do.; C. & Pacific, do.; C., R. I. & P. R. R., do.; P., C. & St.\nLouis, Excursion Tickets, reduced rates; C. & Paducah, from Streator\nand Pontiac, fare and \u2155; Wis. Cent. R. R., full fare in, \u2155 out; Bur.,\nC. Rap. & North., do. in, \u2153 out; St. L. & S. W., full fare in, \u2155 out;\nC., M. & St. Paul R. R., do.; P., Ft. W. & C. R. R., do.\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTO ADVERTISERS.\n\nSpecial attention is invited to the advertising department of the\nAmerican Missionary. Among its regular readers are thousands of\nMinisters of the Gospel, Presidents, Professors and Teachers in\nColleges, Theological Seminaries and Schools; it is, therefore,\na specially valuable medium for advertising Books, Periodicals,\nNewspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of Learning, Church Furniture,\nBells, Household Goods, &c.\n\nAdvertisers are requested to note the moderate price charged for space\nin its columns, considering the extent and character of its circulation.\n\nAdvertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order\nto secure insertion in the following number. All communications in\nrelation to advertising should be addressed to\n\n                                 J. H. DENISON, Adv\u2019g Agent,\n                                           56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u261e Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of the\n\u201cAmerican Missionary\u201d can aid us in this respect by mentioning, when\nordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n       DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, Printer, 101 Chambers Street, New York.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\nSpelling and puntuation were changed only where the error appears\nto be a printing error. Capitalization and punctuation in the\nReceipts section is inconsistent, and was retained as printed.\nThe remaining corrected punctuation changes are too numerous to\nlist; the others are as follows:\n\nFor consistency, \u201cJessie\u201d changed to \u201cJesse\u201d on page 345 (As Jesse and\nJo came up) and page 346 (or Jesse, who wasn't afraid).","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 33, No. 11, November, 1879","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":21713}