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No. 7.\n\n THE\n\n AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n * * * * *\n\n \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n JULY, 1880.\n\n\n\n\n _CONTENTS:_\n\n\n EDITORIAL.\n\n PARAGRAPHS 193\n OUR GREAT NEED 197\n ARTHINGTON MISSION\u2014THE OUTLOOK 198\n THE GENERIC AND THE INDIVIDUAL NEGRO 200\n THIRD STATE OF OUR EXPERIMENT 201\n AFRICAN NOTES\u2014ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 203\n\n\n THE FREEDMEN.\n\n MAKE HASTE SLOWLY: Rev. J. E. Roy, D. D. 204\n HAMPTON ANNIVERSARY: Rev. A. P. Foster 206\n FISK UNIVERSITY 207\n STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY 210\n TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY 210\n HOWARD UNIVERSITY 211\n LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL\u2014BEACH INSTITUTE 212\n\n\n AFRICA.\n\n SUNDAY-SCHOOLS IN CENTRAL AFRICA 213\n\n\n THE INDIANS.\n\n S\u2019KOKOMISH, WASHINGTON TERRITORY 214\n\n\n THE CHINESE.\n\n OUR WORK AT THE CENTRE: Rev. W. C. Pond 216\n\n\n CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n ELEPHANT IN AFRICA 218\n\n\n RECEIPTS 219\n\n\n CONSTITUTION 222\n\n AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS 223\n\n * * * * *\n\n NEW YORK.\n\n Published by the American Missionary Association,\n\n ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n * * * * *\n\n Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\n\nEntered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\n American Missionary Association.\n\n 56 READE STREET, N. Y.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n PRESIDENT.\n\n HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\n VICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n ANDREW LESTER, Esq., N. Y.\n Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.\n Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.\n WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.\n Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.\n Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.\n Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.\n Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. J.\n Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D. D., N. Y.\n Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.\n Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.\n Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich.\n Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H.\n Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D. D., Ct.\n DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.\n Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.\n SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y.\n Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.\n Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.\n Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon.\n Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.\n Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.\n DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J.\n Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.\n Rev. W. L. GAGE, D. D., Ct.\n A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.\n Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio.\n Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn.\n Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn.\n Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.\n Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.\n Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.\n Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.\n S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct.\n Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.\n Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.\n Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng.\n WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y.\n J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.\n E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J.\n Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.\n DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.\n A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.\n Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y.\n FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.\n JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I.\n Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D., Ill.\n Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D.D., Mo.\n J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.\n E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.\n C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.\n Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal.\n Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas.\n\n\n CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_.\n REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._\n REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.\n\n\n EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n ALONZO S. BALL,\n A. S. BARNES,\n GEO. M. BOYNTON,\n WM. B. BROWN,\n C. T. CHRISTENSEN,\n CLINTON B. FISK,\n ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n S. B. HALLIDAY,\n SAMUEL HOLMES,\n CHARLES A. HULL,\n EDGAR KETCHUM,\n CHAS. L. MEAD,\n WM. T. PRATT,\n J. A. SHOUDY,\n JOHN H. WASHBURN,\n G. B. WILLCOX.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to\nthe Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting\nfields to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of\nthe \u201cAmerican Missionary,\u201d to Rev. C. C. PAINTER, at the New\nYork Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New\nYork, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices,\n21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington\nStreet, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time\nconstitutes a Life Member.\n\n\n\n\n THE\n\n AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n * * * * *\n\n VOL. XXXIV. JULY, 1880. No. 7.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n American Missionary Association.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nWe are glad that we can keep silent in regard to the closing\nexercises of our schools and let others praise us; strangers, and not\nour own lips. Nay, better than this, we can say that in many cases\nthose whose praise we repeat, are no longer strangers. In place of\nsome of the usual reports written by our teachers, or friends who\nhave gone down to look into our work, having the greatest sympathy\nwith it, we gather up what is said by the native whites of the South,\nmany of whom have been most interested attendants upon all the\nanniversary exercises of the schools contiguous to them. We find no\nfuller or more sympathetic or enthusiastic reports in the Southern\npapers of the schools for whites than of ours for the colored people.\nWe, therefore, ask the special attention of our readers to these\nreports this year, as showing the estimate the Southern press and\npeople are putting upon our work.\n\n * * * * *\n\n_Dr. Rufus Anderson._\u2014Seldom have nature and grace, culture and\nvaried discipline, combined to form a more rounded and perfect\ncharacter than that of this sainted man, so long identified with the\nlife of Missions, who passed to his rest on the last Sabbath of May.\nHe became permanently connected with the A. B. C. F. M. in 1822,\nand since 1832 has largely shaped the policy of that Society. For\nmore than half a century, he has been in the closest sympathy with\nthe Divine Master in His effort to save the world, and it has often\nseemed to us that his face reflected much of the sweet longings of\nthe Master for its accomplishment.\n\nIt were sad to be forever on a journey, and never reach home, and so,\nwhile the church feels a sense of loss and bereavement because of\nhis removal from its councils, we yet rejoice over his beautiful and\nuseful life, and in the assurance that to him has been administered\nan abundant entrance into the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n * * * * *\n\n_Deacon Isler._\u2014The Church at Wilmington, N. C., has been greatly\nafflicted, and much weakened, by the death of Deacon Isler, a\nChristian of rare development in all that graces Christian character.\nIt is only five years since he came to Christ, and it now seems\nto his associates that these five years have been spent under a\npremonition that what he did must be done quickly. His consecration\nwas without reserve; nothing was too hard for him to undertake; no\nobstacle turned him aside from the duty which lay before him. With\nno patience for those who would accept help they did not need, he\ncombined the purpose and constant effort to bear in his strong arms\nthose who did need it.\n\nWhile, as he said, he \u201chad his rathers,\u201d and would like to work for\nothers, yet he was willingly and joyfully in the hands of Jesus. Much\ncomforted by his wife\u2019s reply to his question whether she could give\nhim up, \u201cYes, all I want is Jesus,\u201d he passed gently and sweetly\naway; a man of rare strength, whose death is a great loss, but, being\ndead, he yet speaketh, and his works follow after him.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\u201c_No Charge On My Books Against You._\u201d\u2014The above sketch of a worthy\nand noble man, for which we had no room in our last number, is\nsupplemented by an incident which must find place for brief mention.\n\nWhen it became evident that disease was fastening upon him, the best\nphysician of the city was called in and put in charge of the case. He\nbecame acquainted with the noble life of his humble patient, took the\ndeepest interest in him, and attended him as faithfully as if he had\nbeen a wealthy and influential white man.\n\nWhen one of the teachers, who had made herself responsible for the\nbill, called upon the doctor for it, he said: \u201cI have no charge\nagainst you. I only wish I could have done more for so worthy a\nman; I shall be glad to give my professional aid to as many such\nbeneficiaries as I can.\u201d Straws are small things, but they indicate\nthe _set_ of the tide. Facts multiply which abundantly prove that\nmutually helpful relations are being established between the two\nraces on the basis of recognized equal civil liberty. The _ignis\nfatuus_ of social equality between them might with profit be remitted\nto the realm of dreams and fantasms, and wait the establishment of\nsuch between members of the same race.\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe _Dallas_ (Texas) _Times_ relates an unparalleled instance which\noccurred at the last term of the Ellis Co. District Court. A negro\nwas tried and found guilty of conspiracy to murder. His defence had\nbeen strong but unavailing. The judge overruled a motion for a new\ntrial, as no error of law could be alleged and the evidence seemed\nstrong. When asked what he had to say, the prisoner answered that he\ncould say nothing which would change the sentence the court was about\nto pronounce upon him, but he would like to speak a few words to his\nown people in the court-room. Leave being given, he began in a slow,\nquiet way to review the case. He dissected the evidence in a most\nmasterly way, showing its inconsistencies and contradictions; and\ngradually warmed up until he burst forth into a strain of impassioned\neloquence which carried audience and court with him. When he\nfinished, the judge said, \u201cSam, I thought you guilty; I don\u2019t believe\nso now, and will set aside the judgment overruling your motion for\na new trial, and give you another chance.\u201d The attorney for the\nprosecution then dismissed the case. He was an uneducated, common\nfield hand; and yet there are some who think the negro incapable\nof doing anything higher than hoeing cotton under a white man\u2019s\nsupervision.\n\nWhen Gen. Howard was in Andover, Mass., the other week, visiting his\nson in Phillips Academy, he was introduced to a colored man, who\nasked him if he remembered an answer given by a colored boy at the\nStorr\u2019s School, in Atlanta, some years since, to his question, \u201cWhat\nshall I tell the people of the North?\u201d \u201cO, yes,\u201d said the General.\n\u201cA little boy in a white jacket said, \u2018Tell them we are rising.\u2019\u201d\n\u201cWell,\u201dsaid the young man, \u201cthat boy has kept his promise. He has\nrisen and is doing noble, manly work for his people.\u201d He has become\neditor of the _Journal of Progress_, one of the fifty-four papers now\nedited by colored men in this country.\n\n * * * * *\n\n_Then and Now._\u2014Nineteen years ago, John G. Fee was waited upon by\nsixty-two citizens of Bracken Co., Ky., with a peremptory demand that\nhe should leave the county. One of these, an influential and wealthy\nman, has recently called on him and requested him to give an address\non education for the benefit of an institution which the citizens\nof that county have built. This building is used as an academy. The\nschool is flourishing, having a large number of pupils and three\nteachers.\n\nThe door is opening wider and wider, while the number of adversaries\ngrows smaller: many of them deserting, and becoming co-laborers with\nus in this work.\n\n * * * * *\n\n_Savannah, Ga._, has one grog-shop for each 110 of its 33,000\ninhabitants, and one Protestant church, white or black, for each\n1,223; and until recently, it is said, the churches had no particular\nfault to find with the grog-shops, and it may be inferred the latter\nhad no complaint to make of the churches. But there has been a\ndisturbance. Some 4,000 of the whites have enlisted to fight this\ngreatest curse and nuisance of our day, while the blacks are also\n700 strong in the same army. The labors of Rev. H. E. Brown, in\nconnection with his revival work in that city, have greatly aided\nMr. Markham\u2019s efforts in this direction; and so the blacks and the\nwhites are making common cause against the common enemy, just as if\ntheir interests were identical in whatever concerns the temporal or\nspiritual welfare of the city. We shall some time talk more of common\ninterests, and less of different colors.\n\n * * * * *\n\n_Preaching, but no Instruction._\u2014In our last number, one of the\nmissionaries in Alabama said that many of the colored people \u201cdeclare\nplainly they do not believe in Bible religion.\u201d They believe in\nvisions and dreams. Another missionary, writing from a section still\nunder the spiritual guidance of the old preachers, says:\n\n\u201cThese people have had preaching, but no instruction. The heart and\nconscience have not been touched. The older people will come out of a\nreligious meeting and steal a hog for their supper. A white man said\nto me, \u2018When these darkies are going to have a camp-meeting barbecue,\nI am pretty sure to lose two or three heads of cattle from my herd.\u2019\nOne very _pious_ brother, engaged in prayer at a camp-meeting, heard\nsome one in the crowd say, \u2018Here comes a United States marshal,\u2019 when\nthe brother rose from his knees, leaving his petition unfinished, and\nran with all speed for the brush.\u201d Surely, such need truly religions\nteachers.\n\n * * * * *\n\n_Missionary Studies._\u2014The plan of study adopted by the church\nat Dorset, Vt., is so comprehensive and practical, that we must\ngive room to it. The reports and papers are offered on the first\nSabbath of each month, as follows: Races for whom Christ died.\n1st. Characteristics, Homes, Histories; 2d. What is being done for\ntheir evangelization? 1. White men, Caucasian race; 2. Yellow men,\nMongolian race; 3. Black men, Ethiopian race; 4. Brown men, Malayan\nrace; 5. Red men, American or Indian race.\n\nA most valuable course of instruction is mapped out here, combining\nthe advantages of a literary club, with the spiritual aims of a\nmissionary concert.\n\n * * * * *\n\n_What Does It Mean?_\u2014The venerable Dr. Moffat, father-in-law of\nLivingstone, says: \u201cMore has been learned regarding Africa since the\nProclamation of President Lincoln, declaring the slaves of the United\nStates free, than in all the past.\u201d Who can be so blind that he does\nnot see the relation of these two facts?\n\nToday, eight European governments have from one to three exploring\nparties penetrating that vast continent for various purposes. The\nnegro slave of America has become a free man, has the ballot in his\nhand, and the nation is under bonds to fit him for citizenship. He is\nrestive in his present position. He has an instinct for home which\ndoes not find its full satisfaction either on the cotton lands of\nMississippi, nor on the corn fields of Kansas or Indiana. What it all\nmeans, God in His own time will fully unfold. Meantime, the pressure\nof necessity is upon us to save ourselves from being trampled to\ndeath under the feet of these ignorant voters, led to the polls by\nunscrupulous demagogues. When we have done this, we shall have fitted\nan instrument for God\u2019s own right hand; whether for use in America or\nin Africa chiefly, we know not, and it matters not.\n\n * * * * *\n\n_John Sykes._\u2014The editor of the _Independent_, on a recent excursion\ninto Virginia, met with, what we may begin to call, a representative\nnegro, for John Sykes is not so much alone today as James\u2019 celebrated\nsolitary horseman of thirty years ago. He is the owner of 171 acres\nof land near Lake Drummond, all paid for, and stocked with horse,\nmule, several cows, pigs, sheep, and fowl. He was on his way to\nHampton to hear the valedictory address of his son, with great\nexpectations as to what he should see and learn as to new methods of\nfarming practiced on the great farm connected with the school.\n\nHis daughter is to take her turn at the school next year, to be\nfollowed by another son. Since he bought his land, eight years ago,\ntwenty-five other colored men, his neighbors, have purchased, and\npaid for, land in lots of from 5 to 50 acres each, while some thirty\nothers have contracts for similar lots. All this within eight years,\nand along with it has been a progress in education and general thrift\nwhich is most hopeful. The editor met four graduates on the same boat\nwith Mr. Sykes, on their way back to Hampton to attend the graduating\nexercises, \u201cwhose intelligence and gentlemanliness were most marked.\u201d\nHe adds as the result of his observations, what a recent excursion\ninto the South enables us to confirm, \u201cIn Virginia, the colored\npeople are rapidly rising in intelligence, in comfort, and in wealth;\nand the feeling of the whites toward them is quite as kindly as could\nbe expected.\u201d\n\nAnd the contrast suggested is one that it would be well for those\nwho are impatient of the negroes\u2019 slow progress to follow out to\nthe minutest detail. He writes: \u201cIt is impossible for a visitor\nfrom the North not to compare their position as a race with that\nof our ancestors two hundred years ago, when starting an American\ncivilization. The Southern negroes have probably as much comfort\nabout them as most of our early forefathers, as good houses, as good\nfurniture, as many cattle: but they have not the intelligent educated\nupper class, which founded our great colleges and which molded our\nwhole population. This influence they must get from abroad. They\nneed it, and they appreciate and want it; and no more needed and\nfruitful work can be done by our benevolent people than to provide\nthe Southern negroes with Christian education.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe _Memphis Avalanche_ says that a most interesting and entertaining\nfeature of the evening exercises, connected with the close of the Le\nMoyne School, was the address to the graduating class by Judge J. O.\nPierce, which was scholarly, thoughtful and eloquent. And it adds of\nthe school that \u201cit is an honor to the educational institutions of\nMemphis. It has done much to forward the cause of education among the\ncolored population, and the good results of its labors are apparent\nin every direction. Institutions of this class cannot be too much\nencouraged.\u201d\n\nIt is proof that we have entered upon a new era when the principal\nof one of our schools is constrained to say, what Prof. Steele, of\nLe Moyne Institute, does in a card to the editors of the _Memphis\nAppeal_:\n\n\u201cI cannot leave the city for the summer without first thanking you,\nand, through the _Appeal_, also the other eminent gentlemen, who\nhave, during the year past, given us so much aid and encouragement\nin our work among the colored people of this city and vicinity. The\ncourse of lectures which these gentlemen have provided has, I am\ncertain, accomplished much good in many ways. * * * In this, as in\nevery other respect, a better day is near at hand. * * * It has been\nour aim, in quietly doing our work here, to hasten forward this day\nof better feeling, and after years of patient toil, and amid many\ndiscouragements, we hope that at last a day is not far distant when\nour work shall gain the approval and aid of all good people, or even\nwhen we may relinquish our efforts and hand over our work to those\nhere who should be, and who are, I am convinced, becoming greatly\ninterested in it. Again, in behalf of the faculty and students of\nthis school, and in behalf of the American Missionary Association,\nwhich has, in the past sixteen years, expended millions of dollars\nin education at the South, I thank the _Appeal_ and other papers and\ngentlemen for their interest and encouragement in our work.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nOUR GREAT NEED.\n\nWe have vast opportunities. Our schools are overflowing with the\nbest selected material we have ever had. The fields are white for the\nharvest, much of which must rot ungathered, unless a large number\nof laborers are sent into the field; and these are not wanting. The\nday of romance in negro teaching is past, and there is nothing in it\nthat appeals to the mere sentimentalist. The day of danger is past,\nand martyrs are not called for; but there is a demand for honest,\nearnest Christian educators, who find ample field for all their best\ngifts, and there is no difficulty in procuring these of the very\nfirst order. There is, also, much intelligent appreciation of the\nvital importance of this work, in its relations both to the life of\nour nation and the kingdom of Christ. What is needed now, and most\npressingly, is a clear apprehension on the part of churches and\nindividuals of the relation which their _gifts_ bear to these civil\nand spiritual results. It is largely a question of money given, or\nmoney withheld. \u201cPrayers are needed?\u201d Certainly! Prayer, not to move\nthe Lord so that _He_ shall favor the work, and prosper the efforts\nof those engaged in it, but prayer that shall shake selfish plans of\nexpenditure which are so large that nothing is left over for this\nwork; prayer that shall confirm, and give definite shape to vague\ndesires that the means shall be provided; prayer that selfishness may\nnot throttle benevolence. When _this_ prayer has become fervent and\neffectual, the result will be _money_, which, we assert again, is our\npresent great need.\n\nThe Association was urged forward, by the zeal of the churches at\nthe last Annual Meeting, to enlarged plans for the year, requiring\nenlarged gifts from the churches. This enlargement on our part has\nbeen made; it is necessary that yours shall now correspond, or\ndisaster will follow.\n\nOwing to the fact that our schools close in the month of June, and\nour accounts with our workers must be settled, our need is specially\ngreat at this time. The long spell of dry weather has affected our\ncollections in the country churches; and there is danger that we\nshall suffer, as our benevolent societies do in the presidential\nyear, from absorption of public interest in political affairs; and so\nwe must urge again upon our friends the fact that our great and most\npressing need is \u201cmoney.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nARTHINGTON MISSION\u2014THE OUTLOOK.\n\nTo those who are acquainted with the fact, that there is not a single\nProtestant missionary in the Nile Basin proper, from the Albert\nLake to the Lybian Desert, the subject of this article will be of\nprofound interest. Is Ethiopia stretching out her hands to God, or\nwill she do so soon? For a reply to these questions, the eye turns,\njust now, to this Association and the progress of the proposed\nArthington Mission. We have considered Mr. Arthington\u2019s proffered\naid, and have sounded the call for men and means. Expectations\nhave been raised, money has been contributed, and the service of\nexperienced missionaries tendered. There have been so many disasters\nin connection with Central African Missions, so much delay has\nbeen caused by unexpected obstacles, and such sacrifices of health\nand life have been experienced, that we have felt constrained to\nproceed with the greatest caution. The courage and faith of God\u2019s\npeople may be sustained for a time by displays of enterprise,\ndaring, and readiness to give one\u2019s life for a good cause. Indeed,\nsuch exhibitions are essential; but a time comes when nothing will\nsatisfy but solid success. Our earnest prayer from the beginning has\nbeen, that we might be led to enter upon work in the Nile Basin, if\nat all, in a manner that would give promise of great and permanent\nusefulness. We have, therefore, endeavored during the past year to\ngather information from every available source, and, especially,\nfrom persons who have been engaged in the service of the Egyptian\nGovernment. In this, we have been fortunate.\n\nCol. C. C. Long, of New York, who visited Mtesa\u2019s kingdom on the\nNile, has kindly responded to our calls upon him, whenever questions\nof interest about which he was informed, have arisen. More than\na year ago, we submitted to him in writing a list of thirty-nine\nquestions for the purpose of obtaining information on every matter\nof interest in connection with the Mission. To these questions, he\nresponded fully in writing.\n\nLast autumn, Col. H. G. Prout, who had served for two years and\na half on Gordon Pasha\u2019s staff in ancient Ethiopia, established\nhimself in New York. At our request, he gave us several interviews\nof great interest and profit. During his stay in Central Africa,\nhe had carefully surveyed the route from Souakim to Berber, of\nwhich we have a full report. He had also surveyed the countries of\nKordofan and Darfur, after which, with a view to the acceptance of\nthe governorship of the Upper Nile Basin, he proceeded to Mrooli, by\nway of the White Nile and the Albert Lake, traversing the country we\npropose to occupy. He kindly reviewed with us the responses given by\nColonel Long, and added valuable information.\n\nProf. Chase, on his return from Africa to London, submitted the\ninformation, received from Col. Prout and Col. Long, to Gordon Pasha,\nwho at that time was in England, and from him gathered in writing\nadditional and valuable knowledge of the country, and the methods\nof procedure necessary for entering it. Prof. Chase also obtained\nan interview with Dr. Felkin, of the Church Missionary Society, who\nhad just returned from Mtesa\u2019s kingdom, by the way of the Nile and\nSouakim. From these gentlemen, and the current literature of the\nyear pertaining to the Nile Basin, we are prepared to re-affirm and\nsupplement the statements made by us a year ago:\u2014\n\n1.\u2014The country is accessible. Col. Prout\u2019s survey from Souakim on the\nRed Sea to Berber on the Nile, a distance of 240 miles, is reported\nwith such fullness of detail as to familiarize the reader with almost\nevery mile of the journey, impressing him with the feeling that a\ntrip over the road at the right season would prove a pleasurable\npastime. From Berber to the mouth of the Sobat, the northern border\nof the territory selected for the Mission, steamers with suitable\naccommodations ply with more or less regularity. To this it may be\nadded that abundant supplies, except medicines, can be purchased\nalong the route.\n\n2.\u2014The negroes from the Sobat to the Equator have not been\nMohammedanized. They are real heathen, in very needy circumstances,\nand would, doubtless, welcome missionary endeavors, especially if\ntrade and industries were promoted in connection with religious\nteachings.\n\n3.\u2014The efforts of the missionaries would have a very wholesome\ninfluence upon the Egyptian officials, and serve to check the\nslave-trade and to ameliorate the condition of slaves.\n\n4.\u2014It would be the part of wisdom to locate our first stations where\nthe people are already protected by the Egyptian Government, as\ntheir flag would be sure to follow if new fields were opened, and\nwith it, temporary disturbance. Pressure should be brought to bear\nupon the Khedive for obtaining permission to navigate the Nile with\nsteam-boats, and for freedom and protection while pursuing missionary\nwork at the points selected.\n\n5.\u2014While it would be desirable to commence at once, for many\nreasons, among the Obbo and Latooka, south-east of Gondokoro,\nyet it would probably be the part of prudence to plant our first\nstation near the mouth of the Sobat, where the country is rolling\nand well-wooded, and the people of the Nouer tribe are friendly to\nmissionary endeavors. From this point, there is frequent and not\ndifficult communication with Khartum, which is a sufficient base\nof supplies. From the mouth of the Sobat, mission stations may be\nextended throughout the region we hope to occupy.\n\n6.\u2014A rendezvous might wisely be established at Berber, where a\nfruitful oasis affords supplies. This locality is said to be healthy,\nand, being situated on the Nile in the southern portion of the\ndesert, free from African fever. If a steamer is secured for the\nMission, the missionaries, in case of sickness or need of changes,\ncould easily resort to Berber, spending a portion of the more\nunhealthy season; and possibly, meanwhile, developing a Mission at\nthat point.\n\n7.\u2014The aid rendered by the Egyptian authorities to the United\nPresbyterian, of America, who have established 35 mission stations\nin Lower Egypt, gives promise of a good measure of protection and\nco-operation. Although the Mohammedans as such, and, especially,\nthe slave-dealers, are sure to look with disfavor upon Protestant\nmissions in the Nile Basin; yet, American and English influence is\nsufficient to assure such toleration as is needful, while the real\nheathen, to whom we hope to minister, have no political or other\nreasons for discouraging our efforts.\n\nFrom the information gained during the year, we are encouraged to\nbelieve that as soon as the means, now being gathered in Great\nBritain and America, is sufficient to warrant us in inaugurating the\nArthington Mission, we can safely and wisely enter upon the work.\nThe amount to be made up is a little less than $15,000. May the Lord\nhasten His work in His own good time.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTHE GENERIC AND THE INDIVIDUAL NEGRO.\n\nIn commenting upon the evidence in the Whittaker case, one of\nour most fair-minded weeklies says: \u201cShould his guilt be finally\nestablished, the act will be a blunder no less than a crime. Whatever\nhis purpose, the _necessary_ result of his conduct will be injurious\nto \u2018his people.\u2019\u201d\n\nThis is ambiguous. Whittaker is three-fourths part Caucasian, and\nwe are unwilling to take, as being a part of _his people_, even\n1/46,000,000 part of his crime if he is guilty, and do utterly refuse\nto be hurt by it. If, on the other hand, his one-fourth part negro\nblood so dominates these three-fourths, that he must be accounted a\nnegro, then grave apprehensions are excited. That he has, as we go to\npress, passed so many of his examinations successfully under all the\ndifficulties of his position, we must conclude is due to the modicum\nof negro blood in his composite nature; a fact which foreshadows the\nsupremacy of _his people_ in our land.\n\nBut, seriously, we do most earnestly and decidedly protest against\nthis idea that the negro is not an individual but a fraction of\nan unit. We believe the _certain_ result will be injurious to his\npeople, but this will not be a _necessary_ result. Were a white\nstudent guilty of such a crime and blunder, it would be simply\nridiculous to say that the _necessary_ result was injurious to\n\u201chis people,\u201d meaning the white race. There are reported cases of\nself-inflicted injuries of this kind. Who believes for a moment that,\nbecause a wife mutilates herself, as in a case reported, she has\nbrought discredit upon all our wives?\n\nWe treat Indians and Negroes in classes as if it inhered, by\neternal necessity, in the nature of things, that their individuality\nshould be ignored, disregarded, or trampled upon. We are a great\nways off from the true and right basis of action when we pass\nby the personality of any one with all his inherent rights and\nresponsibilities, and think of him and treat him only as belonging to\na general class.\n\nIt may be, that until his rights are respected by the public at\nlarge, the negro must receive special attention as the case of\nWhittaker has received; but, so long as his treatment is special\nbecause he belongs to a class, it is evident that the treatment of\nthe class to which he belongs is all wrong. Whittaker\u2019s innocence\nor guilt pertains to himself alone, and should in no way affect the\nquestion as to the standing or character of his people. The feeling\nthat it must necessarily affect them is one phase of the sentiment\nwhich has isolated and made intolerable the life of this poor fellow\nat West Point. Personally he appears to be a very fine fellow, but\nthe condition of \u201chis people\u201d has necessarily\u2014so these young cadets\nthink, and evidently many others who are not in the callow softness\nof their cadetship agree with them\u2014affected him, rendering him unfit\nfor comradeship, or even decent treatment. The questions, (any one of\nwhich is deemed a final and conclusive estoppel to all argument as\nto the right of the negro to Christian courtesy), \u201cWould you sleep\nwith a negro?\u201d \u201cWould you associate with a negro?\u201d \u201cWould you marry a\nnegro?\u201d\u2014these are simply absurd. Whether we would do any, or all of\nthese, should be answered as in the case of any person of whatever\nrace, in view of considerations and qualifications that are purely\nindividual, with no reference whatever to Ham, or to his or her\npeople. We associate with friends because of personal qualities, not\nbecause they are white or yellow.\n\nWe apprehend that in some schools for the education of colored\npeople, the treatment of the pupil is special because of his color.\nHe is made to feel that he is a special case, whatever the advantage\nor disadvantage of the fact, its honor or dishonor. He is a negro,\nand not simply a human being. He is to stand or fall as a part of\n\u201chis people\u201d rather than by his own individuality and personal\ncharacter. We say again, with great emphasis, that we protest against\nthe whole so-called necessity of the case as false and absurd; as\nindicative of abnormal sentiments which must be eradicated before\nright results can be even sought, much less reached.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTHE THIRD STAGE OF OUR EXPERIMENT.\n\nWe have reached, and, in some of the States, have distinctly\nentered upon, the third stage of our experiment of negro suffrage.\nIn glancing at these, we shall be simply historical, not critical;\nshall set down naught in malice, but with simple truth as we have\nunderstood it. The fragments of the late Confederacy resumed their\nautonomy as parts of this nation almost wholly under direction of the\nnegro voter. There seemed to be a double necessity that he should be\narmed with the ballot, that he might defend himself against his old\nmaster who showed unmistakable evidence of his purpose virtually to\nre-enslave him, and that he might maintain the political ascendency\nof his friends over his master\u2019s old friends. In this first stage\nwe had, as the political representative of the South, what is\nhistorically known as the carpet-bagger\u2014an immigrant elected by the\nFreedman, hated and opposed by the native white; and legislation\nwhich burdened some of the States to the verge of endurance was the\nresult.\n\nThe second stage was reached when the influence of the general\nGovernment was withdrawn from the South, and control passed again\ninto the hands of the native whites. The alien was remanded to\nobscurity, or found the climate of the North more congenial, and the\nnegro was mightily prevailed upon to forego his right to vote. This\ngave us what is generally regarded as the reign of Bourbonism. The\nwhite vote of the South became solid, and the opposition was almost\nsilenced. We state the fact without commenting upon it or arguing\nfrom it. This result we might easily have inferred from what had gone\nbefore. The instinct of self-preservation, it would seem, must have\ncompelled such a united front against the outrageous robbery to which\nthe South had been subjected by ignorant and dishonest legislators.\n\nBut now we have entered upon the third stage of this experiment. The\nsolid South is broken, not by federal assaults, or through the ambition\nof carpet-baggers, but by native greed of power. The irrepressible\nconflict between the \u201cins\u201d and the \u201couts\u201d hurls to the ground the\nfabric which seemed to the South so fair and so strong. The hero of a\nhundred battles leads the ignorant negro to the polls, deluded by lies\nand false promises, displaces one-armed Confederates who had fought\nunder him, to make room for a low grade of negro politicians, trails\nthe honor of a once proud old commonwealth in the dust, and dissipates\nforever the fond delusion of a solid white South. We have had the negro\nplaced in authority for a brief day by federal power; then by a certain\nreaction driven from the legislative hall, and in many cases from the\nballot box, by the outraged white restored to power. Now we are to\nsee him debauched and led to the polls by political demagogues, in a\ndesperate and most demoralizing struggle for office.\n\nWhich stage has been, or promises to be the worst? Concerning this\nthere would doubtless be difference of opinion, according to the\nlatitude of those who express it. To the Southern white, nothing\ncould seem more terrible than exposure to the insult and burden of\n_negro_ legislation; not simply because it is ignorant, but chiefly\nbecause it is negro legislation. To the average citizen of the\nNorth, the stories told of wrongs and cruelties perpetrated by the\nSoutherners in their efforts to deliver themselves from this, to\nthem, intolerable degradation, have seldom been eclipsed in horror\nand utter fiendishness, and nothing could be worse than that a solid\nSouth be maintained. But to us who have been trying to grasp, in\norder that we may solve, the great problem involved in the negro\u2019s\nrelation to our national life, and the kingdom of our Lord, it seems\nevident that we are just beginning to get a glimpse of the danger\nwe are called to face, and with which we must grapple. Hitherto we\nhave chased the bear, and the chase has had its dangers; but now the\nbear has turned to chase us. We can no longer calmly discuss the\nquestion, \u201cWhat shall we do with the negro?\u201d but it becomes one of\nvital interest, \u201cWhat will he do with us?\u201d We have put a bludgeon\ninto a giant\u2019s hands, with which he will beat out our brains, unless\nwe soothe and exorcise the devil that is in him.\n\nThere is this one way out of our danger, and there is none other.\nWe have been bold enough to attempt the experiment, staking the life\nof our Republic upon the issue; let us be wise enough to supply,\nwith all promptness and fidelity, the conditions which shall ensure\nits success. While the statesmanship which thrust the problem upon\nus has given itself no concern whatever as to the issue, Christian\ncharity has shown that a blessed solution is possible. Our schools\nhave proved that of the ignorant slave a wise and useful citizen can\nbe made. The path of safety has been clearly pointed out; now let the\nmeans for achieving this safety be supplied. We believe the nation\nought to do it. We know the patriot and Christian must do it, or this\nthird will prove to be the final stage in this experiment, not only\nof equal negro citizenship in a free Republic, but of Republican\ngovernment itself.\n\nAFRICAN NOTES.\n\n\u2014Africa is the most profoundly interesting of missionary lands,\nbecause it is God\u2019s greatest providential mystery. Great in\nantiquity, great in its ancient curse, great in its colossal\nwickedness, great in its hideous wrongs, great in its tremendous\ndifficulties as a mission field, great in its costly missionary\nsacrifices, great in its future possibilities for Christ and the\nworld. The eyes, the efforts, the progress of the Church of God,\nmust ever be more and more directed to this grand Satansburg, as Dr.\nSchlier would call this great citadel of sin.\u2014\u201c_Bible in all Lands._\u201d\n\n\u2014Africa is the white man\u2019s grave; to him the sentinel of death stands\nfive miles out at sea; pass beyond that line and sleep on shore,\nand death is almost certain. \u201cThe story of all past mission work\non that Dark Continent,\u201d says Dr. Blyden, \u201cis one of the saddest\nof our missionary stories, and three hundred years of European\nintercourse with West Africa has left the people worse than it found\nthem.\u201d With these facts before me, I do not hesitate to assert my\nhonest conviction that Africa is to be redeemed by, and through the\ninstrumentality of, her own sons. If we will now do our duty to\nbleeding Africa, and not debauch her people with intoxicants, then\nwe, of the Anglo-Saxon race, may yet sit as a grand jury over that\nContinent, introducing all the arts of civilization, and all the pure\ninfluences of Christianity. I am encouraged in this belief from the\nfact that no tribe in the immediate rear of Liberia is considered\nperfect, unless it has a man who can speak English, and this may be\nthe language of Africa in less time than many of us think.\u2014_Edward S.\nMorris._\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nMCLEANSVILLE, N. C.\u2014Bible temperance meetings at McLeansville, N.\nC., seem to tone up the sentiments of the people. One young man,\nwho at considerable trouble and expense had procured a situation in\na grocery store where whiskey is sold, has thrown up his position\nand gone to work on a farm, because he was convinced that the Bible\ncondemned liquor-selling, and he could not ask God\u2019s blessing upon\nhis daily work.\n\n * * * * *\n\nCHARLESTON, S. C.\u2014Prof. S. D. Gaylord, principal of Avery Institute\nand licentiate of the Central Association of Iowa, was ordained in\nPlymouth Church, Charleston, S. C., by a Council convened on the\n29th and 30th of May last. Several members of the Council preached\nin various churches of the city, which fact indicates a growing\nministerial fellowship with our missionaries and pastors.\n\nThe Avery Institute for the year has numbered 476 pupils, with an\naverage of 376\u2014its most prosperous year.\n\nThe \u201crenewal of the Church Covenant,\u201d introduced and recommended by\nPastor Cutler, is proving a great spiritual blessing to the church,\nand conduces to greater watchfulness on the part of the members.\n\n * * * * *\n\nATLANTA, GA.\u2014On the 28th of March, the pastor of the First\nCongregational Church of Atlanta proposed that the debt of that\nchurch should be paid off. $26, from two Sunday-schools in the North,\nwere handed in by the pastor as a _starter_. The Professors of the\nUniversity gave $30 more, and the people nobly came forward and have\nnow paid off all the debt, making some $563 they have raised, aside\nfrom current expenses, since last October. They have since raised\nmoney, which, with special gifts for that purpose, has procured a\nfine 800 lbs. bell, which will greet our Secretary, when he reaches\nAtlanta on the 24th of June.\n\n * * * * *\n\nMARIETTA, GA.\u2014A gem of a church school-house, 24\u00d740 feet, with a\ngallery, and furnished with wardrobes and Sherwood\u2019s crown double\ndesks, was dedicated at Marietta, Ga., on the 6th of June. The people\nraised $300 for it; two young men in Illinois gave $50, and the A. M.\nA. furnished the remainder, and owns the property.\n\nC. P. Jordon, a graduate of Atlanta University, takes the school; and\nRev. E. J. Penney, also a graduate of Atlanta University, and more\nrecently of Andover Seminary, will have charge of the church-work.\nOur Field Superintendent preached the sermon. A promising enterprise,\nstrongly manned.\n\n * * * * *\n\nMOBILE, ALA.\u2014The _Daily News_, in giving notice of the examinations\nat Emerson Institute, says: \u201cProf. Crawford deserves great credit\nfor the successful manner in which he has conducted and built up\nthis colored institution, which today has no superior in our State.\u201d\nAnd Miss Stevenson, of that school, from whom we have had a pleasant\ncall, speaks of a great change in the feelings of the citizens of\nthat city toward the school, its work and teachers.\n\n * * * * *\n\nFLORENCE, ALA.\u2014The _Florence Gazette_ says of the pastor of the\nColored Congregational Church of that town: \u201cMr. Ash has gained\nthe respect and goodwill of all classes in this community, and has\naccomplished a most praiseworthy educational and religious work among\nthe people of his race.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\nCHATTANOOGA, TENN.\u2014During the absence of the Rev. Jos. E. Smith in\nAfrica, a retired Presbyterian clergyman of Chattanooga, the Rev.\nT. H. McCallie, offered to preach for his church three Sabbaths\nfor three months, and to extend the time if necessary. He took\nthe greatest interest in the work, hunted up and looked after the\nmembers, and, either in person or by substitute, attended the Sabbath\nservices and buried the dead, as if he were the pastor of the church.\nThe Rev. J. W. Bachman, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of\nthis city, also preached one Sabbath, and has expressed the deepest\ninterest in the church, and invited the pastor to call on him.\n\n * * * * *\n\nBEREA, KY.\u2014There were four accessions to the church at Berea on\nprofession of faith on the first Sabbath of May.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nMAKE HASTE SLOWLY.\n\nAt one of our Southern conferences last spring, the brethren,\ncolored and white, were bemoaning the small numbers and slow progress\nof our churches. A Baptist minister who was present, and who is\nengaged in this educational work, turned the tide by stating that\nthere were advantages, for the present, in that state of things,\nand that his denomination suffered somewhat from the embarrassment\nof numbers. He said that he had been a farmer\u2019s boy, and that when\nat the tail end of a steam threshing machine for shoving away the\nstraw, if for only a short time his associate stepped away, he found\nhimself unable to keep up with the thresher, and covered down by the\naccumulation. So they were sometimes bothered in handling their great\nnumbers by way of discipline and effort at moral elevation.\n\nThere is no room in the South for our church system if its work be\nsimply to transfer the people in bulk from other communions, with\nall their prevalent views and practices. Our brethren of the Baptist\nand Methodist churches are to be congratulated upon their large\nmembership, and so upon their opportunity for doing good. They have\nthe responsibility of purifying from within. Many are struggling\nnobly, as exhorted by the _Christian Recorder_, \u201cto thin out the\nministry of the church until there shall not be found an ignorant\nman, nor a bad man in the ranks. Thin out the church itself. Expel\nthe vicious. Drive out the notoriously bad. Have a clean church.\u201d\nStarting as a new church-life, we have no call, no excuse for\nsweeping in such material. It would be no gain to the kingdom to\neffect such a transfer in bulk. Our mission is, through our blended\neducational and Christianizing process, to help raise the standard of\nChristian and church character. By the stimulus of such example, we\nare doing more to help the old churches in their eliminating process\nthan we could in any other way. That same article in the _Recorder_,\nfrom which I have quoted, shows this.\n\nThe editor also sets down the A. M. A. as the greatest rival of\nthe A. M. E., and no doubt rejoices in this provoking of his\nchurch to love and to good works. But our churches, if they would\nattain to much of this helpfulness, must gain it upon the standard\nof intelligence and of Christian character, without the risks of\nwildness and superstition. And so, if God be with us, if we be humble\nand spiritually minded in our work, by and by we may expect large\naccessions of members. The president of a Baptist Colored University,\nhimself a New England educator, remarked to me, a while ago, that he\ncould see that in twenty-five years the Congregationalists would have\na large church-work among the Freedmen, simply as the result of their\neducational process.\n\nOur young pastors, who have not as yet the stimulus of the large\ncongregations of some other communions, must remember that the\ninfluence of their churches is not measured by numbers, and that if\nthey secure quality, this may go further than quantity.\n\nBut, as it is, our church-work is not destitute of encouragement\nnow in regard to numbers. Fifteen years ago there was not a colored\nCongregationalist in all the South, except in the two ancient white\nCongregational churches of Charleston, S. C., and of Liberty Co., Ga.\nThe system itself was utterly unknown, as it is to this day, except\nwhere it has crept in since the war. The experiment, in one single\nlocality, of swallowing down the old-time churches, proved a failure,\nand taught us a lesson. The only gain has been by the slow process\nof enlightenment and of assimilation, mainly by the Christian-school\nprocess. A high official in the M. E. Church said of us: \u201cYou can\nafford to wait for the youth; we cannot.\u201d He was right. That great\nChurch, which is doing so grand a work for the Freedmen, had already\non its hands hundreds of thousands of adult members, who must be\ncared for at once. By our policy of waiting, the last Annual Report\nset down sixty-seven churches, and 4,300 church members, an average\nof 69 members to each. As this is all new work, let us compare it\nwith new work at the West. Alas, for the lack of church statistics\nin our last Year Book! By that of the former year, we find that the\nchurches of Missouri and Nebraska had an average in each State of\n27 members; Kansas had 34; Iowa had exactly our average of 69; and\nIllinois, which has been under Home Missionary culture for sixty\nyears, has an average of only 25 members more than that of the\nchurches of this Association.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTHE HAMPTON ANNIVERSARY.\n\nDistinguished Visitors\u2014Speeches by Pres. Hayes, Sec. Schurz, and\nOthers\u2014Natural Development\u2014Three Questions Settled.\n\nREV. ADDISON P. FOSTER.\n\nThe graduating exercises at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural\nInstitute, on May 20, were of even unusual interest. A large and\ndistinguished company was in attendance, including Governors and\nother notabilities from Massachusetts, and President Hayes and\nSecretary Schurz from Washington. A military parade by the students\nunder the inspection of the President, recitations, and an exhibition\nof the various industries of the school, occupied the morning. The\nwork of the Indian boys excited special interest. A farm-cart,\ncomplete in all its parts, tin-ware, tables and large silicate\nglobes, were among the articles which they had made.\n\nWhitin Hall was crowded in the afternoon. The students, 300 in\nnumber, seated on benches rising toward the rear in front of the\naudience, were a picture of neatness, intelligence and content. Those\nwho remembered the squalor and ignorance of the colored people as\nthey sought refuge in the Union lines during the war, could not fail\nto recognize the value of the work done by the noble educational\ninstitutions which the American Missionary Association has brought\ninto existence through the South. This thankful feeling was deepened\nas the students took up the parts assigned them. Their addresses were\nnot mere essays, but the expression of their opinions on practical,\nvital themes, concerning the welfare of their race. These utterances\nwere marked with rare good sense, a freedom from bitterness for past\nor present ill-treatment, and a hopeful courage for the future. More\nthan once some expression unexpectedly pathetic, or forgiving, or\nconsecrated, brought tears to the eyes of those who heard.\n\nThe exercises of the students were followed by admirable addresses\nfrom some of the dignitaries present. President Hayes showed how the\nrelation of the different races and nationalities in the land was one\nof our most vital problems, and how Hampton was solving it. Secretary\nSchurz considered at length the experiment of Indian education, which\nis being tried at Hampton, and showed why it might succeed now when\nit had not in the past. Governor Long, of Massachusetts, referred\nto the presence of these educational institutions in the South as\none of the most important results of the war. Ex-Governor Rice, of\nMassachusetts, regarded the Institution at Hampton as the natural\ndevelopment of advancing civilization, which is breaking down the\nbarriers of the races and bringing all nationalities together as\nbrethren.\n\nThe concurrent testimony of these speakers, and the manifest\nconviction of the visitors present, was that Hampton is doing a grand\nwork.\n\nIts diversified departments are conducted with such careful attention\nto detail, with such consecrated, self-denying enthusiasm, with\nsuch genius in teaching, and with such faith in God, on the part of\nits principal, Gen. Armstrong, and his corps of teachers, gathered\nfrom the best families of the North, that the school could not be\notherwise than successful. This language may seem extravagant, but,\nif any one is inclined to regard it so, let him visit the school next\nMay, and he will appreciate the self-restraint of one who says no\nmore than what has just been said.\n\nThe Hampton Institute has settled two or three questions very\nsatisfactorily.\n\nFrom the experience of this Institution, it is plain that it is\nquite possible to combine industrial with intellectual and religious\neducation without injury to any one of these branches of knowledge.\nNothing is more prominent to a superficial observation than the\nindustrial side of Hampton.\n\nThe saw-mill, which since September last has cut over a million feet\nof lumber, the knitting-room, which has produced this year 12,000\ndozen mittens for a Boston firm, the market-garden, from which have\nbeen sent this spring thirty barrels of peas a day to Baltimore, and\nfrom which have been raised peas and asparagus, together amounting\nin value to $1,500, the ice house, in which are stored 180 tons of\nice, the industrial room, where are made the students\u2019 uniforms,\nthe cooking school, in which the girls are taught the culinary art,\nthe printing office, from which is issued monthly \u201cThe Southern\nWorkman,\u201d the shoe shop, the blacksmith\u2019s shop, the wheelwright\u2019s\nshop, the carpenter\u2019s shop, the repair shop, the brick-yard, which\nhas supplied all the bricks used on the buildings of the Institution,\nthe $6,000 barn, where fine blooded stock is kept, the farm of 330\nacres\u2014these departments of activity, wonderful for their variety and\ncompleteness, are steadily training the students and the inhabitants\nof the surrounding region in ways of industry. But this is not all,\nnor the principal benefit, the students receive. If we may judge from\na hasty inspection of classes, from the scope and skillful expression\nof thought in the graduating exercises, and from the testimony of\nteachers, a thorough and sufficiently extended education in all\nmental departments is given. Best of all, as the crown no less than\nthe beginning of wisdom, the students, entering the school without\nspecial religious impressions, seldom leave it without becoming\ndevoted Christians. The result of the combination of industrial\nwith other forms of training, is seen in the evident union in\nHampton students of hard good sense with scholarly intelligence and\nunostentatious piety.\n\nAnother question is most satisfactorily settled, whether it is\npossible to educate the Negro and the Indian together. On graduation\nday, in sight of the audience, was a stand on which rested a fragment\nfrom the building recently burned. It was a mass of red and black\nbricks cemented together, and prettily draped with vines. If this\nwas designed to be emblematic, it was truthfully so. The red and\nthe black races do harmonize most happily at Hampton, and cultivate\ntogether the graces of character. They are a mutual help to each\nother, especially the Negro, as farther advanced in civilization,\nto the Indian. Their dispositions supplement each other. The Negro\nis enthusiastic, demonstrative and dependent, the Indian reserved,\nbashful and self-contained. Each finds in the other, qualities that\nhe needs and that attract him. As a consequence, there is great\nfriendliness between the two races. When the colored boys were asked\nif any of their number were willing to room with the Indians, that\nthe latter might learn to speak English more readily, there was no\nlack of volunteers. And no one can doubt the kindly feeling pervading\nthe school, who has seen, as we have, Indian and Negro boys walking\ntogether, or chatting on the green with arms lovingly about each\nothers\u2019 necks.\n\nOther questions, such as the wisdom of educating the Indians away\nfrom their tribes, or of the coeducation of the sexes, we have no\ntime to discuss. It is sufficient to say that the experience of\nHampton is thus far entirely satisfactory in these regards.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nFISK UNIVERSITY.\n\nExaminations\u2014Ode to Jubilee Bell\u2014Dr. Willcox\u2019 Address\u2014Prosperous Year.\n\nThe Nashville _Daily American_, whose proprietor is the Honorable\nSecretary of the U. S. Senate, gives a full report of all the\ncommencement exercises of this school, from the Sabbath morning\nsermon by Prof. Bennett, the baccalaureate by Pres. Cravath in the\nafternoon, and the missionary sermon by Dr. Twichell, of Cleveland,\nOhio, in the evening, to the doxology with which the Alumni dinner\nclosed on Thursday afternoon, making in all at least five full\ncolumns.\n\nMonday was given to examinations. The _American_ says: \u201cThese\nexaminations were held in different recitation-rooms of Jubilee Hall\nand were attended by interested visitors.\n\n\u201cWe stopped a while in the room where the Senior Class was being\nexamined in Geology by Prof. Chase. One student was giving the names\nof sixty or seventy specimens of minerals, ores, rocks and fossils.\nAnother was determining the nature of certain minerals by means of\nthe blow-pipe, while another gave the classification of the mineral\nkingdom as he had written it on the board. Prof. Morgan was hearing\na class in Cicero as we entered the library, and one of the students\nwas reading in a sonorous tone the impeachment of Cataline by Cicero.\n\n\u201cIn another room, Prof. Spence was hearing a class in Ph\u00e6don. Prof.\nBennett conducted a class through the United States History within\nthe hour and a half allotted to him. Other classes were examined in\nAstronomy, Virgil, and the Greek Testament. In Normal School, under\nthe care of Miss H. Matson, assisted by Misses E. M. Barnes and S.\nM. Stevens, classes were examined in Arithmetic, Grammar, Physical\nGeography, and Reading. A person passing from one room to another\nwould be impressed with the thought that hard and conscientious work\nhad been done, and that the examinations were impartially conducted\nin order to draw out the exact knowledge of the pupil upon the\nsubject under consideration.\n\n\u201cIn the evening came the Common School Normal Exhibition, beginning\npromptly at 8.30 o\u2019clock. The beautiful song, \u201cThe Morning Freshly\nBreaking,\u201d was sung by a well-trained chorus. The music of the entire\nweek, consisting of thirty pieces or more, was under the charge of\nMiss Mary O. Swift, who combines with great ability as an instructor,\na voice of rare sweetness and power.\n\n\u201cThose who took part in this exhibition had finished the normal\ncourse, which is adapted to the demands of the State schools, and\nreceived a certificate in which their standing in the studies of the\nCommon School Normal Course is given. Most of these will continue to\npursue their studies further. The examination of the day, together\nwith the exercises of the exhibition, promise well for the remainder\nof commencement week.\n\n\u201cOn Tuesday, examinations were continued. We spent a good deal of\ntime in the Model School, an important attachment of the Normal\nDepartment of the University. The presiding genius of this school\nis Miss Irene Gilbert, a lady who seems to have been born for the\nposition she holds in the Model School.\n\n\u201cShe has had upwards of a hundred children from the city under her\ncharge during the past year, and has carried them forward with an\nunflagging enthusiasm, which has secured the best results. The\nNormal Class, which received certificates on Monday night, have\npaid daily visits to her school to witness the drill which she\ngives her juveniles in the mysteries of reading, spelling, and\nrudimentary mathematics. Details of students from the Normal School\nhave been made daily, who instructed the Model School pupils, under\nthe critical eye of Miss Gilbert. When it is remembered that Fisk\nUniversity contributes one hundred and fifty teachers to the schools\nof the South, it will be seen that the drill thus received is\nespecially valuable to those who receive it.\n\n\u201cIn the evening came the Union Literary Society Exhibition.\n\n\u201cWednesday afternoon, at 3 o\u2019clock, occurred the presentation of\nthe great Bell given to the University by the Jubilee Singers and\nMrs. Gen. C. B. Fisk, of New York. These were of an exceedingly\ninteresting character. Speeches were made by Prof. White and Mr.\nLoudin, on the part of the singers, and by Pres. Cravath, Prof.\nWillcox, and others; after which a poem by Prof. Spence of the\nUniversity was read. A number of pieces were sung by the Jubilee\nSingers, who furnished much of the music for all the exercises.\n\n\nODE TO THE JUBILEE BELL.\n\nBY PROF. A. K. SPENCE.\n\n I.\n\n Ring the bell! Let it swing and swell,\n Peal on peal, with a joyous knell,\n Till it thrills and throes and quivering goes,\n Like a thing of life, that feels and knows!\n To and fro, with a surging tide,\n Let it send its greetings far and wide!\n\n II.\n\n Ring the bell, with thy swing and swell,\n For thou hast a joyous tale to tell,\n And gladder yet than the chime of old\n That once the birth of our nation told:\n For thou dost tell of a race set free.\n Thou dost tell of the Jubilee!\n\n III.\n\n Ring, ring, and thy music fling,\n As thou dost sway, and quiver, and swing!\n Peal o\u2019er the town with its din of men,\n Wake the echoes in lonely glen!\n Ring by Cumberland\u2019s classic tide,\n Scatter thy melody far and wide!\n\n IV.\n\n Knell, knell, with thy swing and swell,\n Oh, glorious, liberty-loving bell!\n In tones prophetic, sepulchral, slow,\n In dirge of warning, in dirge of woe.\n Solemn and deep let thy tones be cast\n Over the grave of oppression, past!\n\n V.\n\n Well, well, dost thou swing and swell,\n Oh, welcome and well-beloved bell!\n Thou comest to greet us with loving hands!\n Thou comest to bind us with loving bands!\n When hearts are weak and our fears oppress,\n Thou comest to cheer, thou comest to bless!\n\n VI.\n\n When the time shall come, as come it must,\n And we shall crumble away in dust,\n Thy voice shall ring on and on, for aye,\n As it peals out on the air today!\n And ancient sire to child shall tell\n Tales of yore of the Jubilee Bell!\n\n\u201cThe evening was given to the\n\n SENIOR PREPARATORY EXHIBITION.\n\nThe programme was a full one, and well carried out.\n\n\u201cIn some respects the Senior Preparatory Exhibition of Fisk\nUniversity is _the_ night occasion of commencement week. The interest\nrises from the first, and culminates with Wednesday night. This was\nspecially true of this year. The knowledge of the fact that the\nJubilee Singers were to sing contributed to crowd the chapel with\nsuch an audience as has not been assembled in it for months. Every\ninch of available space was occupied, and many were compelled to\nstand at the entrance unable to find seats. The Jubilee Singers\nopened the exercises by a song, \u201cSweet Music\u201d\u2014Beethoven.\n\n\u201cThursday, commencement proper:\n\nCLOSE OF THE MOST PROSPEROUS YEAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTION.\n\n\u201cAccording to announcement, the commencement exercises took place\nThursday morning at 10 o\u2019clock, in the presence of a crowded house.\nIn addition to the decorations of the previous day, the wall back\nof the platform was tastefully set off with the folds of the Dutch\nand English flags, the American flag being on duty on the border.\nUpon the folds of the flags were arranged in letters of cedar the\nwords, \u2018The Class of 1880.\u2019 Six young men then gave their graduating\naddresses. These are kindly and appreciatively spoken of, as able and\nwell delivered.\n\n\u201cProf. G. B. Willcox, D. D., of Chicago, was introduced and spoke to\nthe graduates in reference to those things which scholars hold in\ncommon. The ideal of a college graduate is that he has come to the\npossession of his manhood. It is impossible to give the spirit of\nthis most able address. It abounded in wit, humor, and pathos. These\nkept the audience on the alert for an hour, after they had sat two\nhours during the previous exercises.\n\n\u201cThen came, what is now a feature of Fisk commencement day, the\nAlumni dinner, with its post-prandial wit and wisdom. And thus closed\nthe most successful and prosperous year in the history of Fisk\nUniversity. The catalogue shows an aggregate of 350 students. The\nwork done in the class-room has been unusually satisfactory. There\nhave been abundant evidences of growth in character and mind on the\npart of all the students.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nSTRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.\n\nWhy No Graduating Class\u2014Threatened Suspension of Public Schools.\n\nREV. W. S. ALEXANDER, NEW ORLEANS.\n\nThe anniversary of Straight University was observed at Central\nChurch. The audience, both in numbers and intelligent appreciation,\nwas one of the best ever gathered for such a purpose in the city. The\nliterary exercises were exceptionally fine. The original orations,\none on \u201cCharles Sumner\u201d and the other on \u201cOur Glorious Union,\u201d\nwere, both in composition and delivery, worthy of high praise. All\nwho heard them were proud of the young and promising orators. A\ncultivated lady in the audience said to me, at the close of the\nevening, \u201cYou don\u2019t tell me that those orations were written by the\nyoung men?\u201d \u201cCertainly; why not?\u201d \u201cWhy,\u201d she replied, \u201cI have never\nheard better.\u201d\n\nThere was no graduating class this year. Those who in order would\nthis year have finished their course, were persuaded to remain\nanother year that their graduation might signify a higher grade of\nscholarship.\n\nThe year has been crowned with the Divine favor. Three hundred\nstudents have been in attendance, real progress has been made in all\ndepartments of study, and the Institution stands higher today in\nthe estimation and affection of the New Orleans public than in any\nprevious year.\n\nUnless all signs fail, the ensuing year will bring to our doors a\ngreatly increased throng of eager and earnest students. The public\nschools of New Orleans, and of Louisiana, are threatened with the\nevils of indefinite suspension. The doors will be closed June 30th,\nand the wisest friends of education cannot predict the time of their\nre-opening.\n\nSo far as adequate support is concerned, the public school system\nin this State has been an uncertain quantity for many months. Its\nfate trembles in the balance today. A subscription list is now in\ncirculation among the merchants and bankers to raise money to pay the\npublic school teachers the monthly salaries long since due. The most\nplaintive appeals are made to public sympathy in their behalf. It is\na time to press forward our work.\n\nApplicable to the impoverished State of Louisiana, so far as her\npublic schools are concerned, are the words: \u201cThe fields are white\nalready to the harvest,\u201d and \u201cThe laborers are few.\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.\n\nMore than a Thousand Visitors. Promise of the Coming Year.\n\nThe commencement exercises of this growing and popular University\nwere held on Thursday, June 3d, and drew together an unusually large\ncompany of visitors within its wide grove of moss-draped oaks.\n\nMany parents were present on this day, and also at the annual\nexaminations, which continued from Monday till Wednesday evening. Two\nold men came from the northeastern corner of the State, a distance of\n200 miles or more, to see their sons graduate.\n\nThe pains and thoroughness with which the examinations were\nconducted, aiming to exhibit the pupil\u2019s real knowledge of his\nstudies, the evidence throughout all of great care and constant drill\nin the use of clear, simple and correct English, and the plain\nindication of independence on the part of the students in their\nstudying and in their own thinking, made these class exercises of\nunusual interest. The Senior Class passed creditable examinations in\nNatural History, Science of Government, The Theory and Practice of\nTeaching, and Natural Philosophy. There followed on Wednesday evening\nthe exhibition of the Primary and Intermediate Departments, combined\nwith that of the strong Temperance Society\u2014an organization extending\nthrough the whole school, and representing a work of great importance\nyet to be done in this State, where nearly all people are in the\nhabit of drinking, and that to excess.\n\nOn Thursday, a class of seven young men presented orations, and\nreceived certificates of graduation from the Normal Department\nof the Institution. These orations were highly commended by the\nprominent gentlemen who were present from Jackson. In the afternoon,\na stirring address was delivered by President De Forest, of Talladega\nCollege, upon the topic of \u201cWork.\u201d This was followed by speeches\nfrom Capt. Wolf, of Jackson, from Dr. Watkins, the venerable pastor\nof the Methodist Church at Jackson, and from Dr. Hunter, pastor of\nthe Presbyterian Church of the same city, all of whom expressed\nappreciation of the good work this Institution is doing. More\nthan a thousand visitors were present at these closing exercises\non Thursday, an excursion train running from a point fifty miles\ndistant for their accommodation. The location of the University on\nthis great railroad which passes north and south through the centre\nof the State, these beautiful groves being only about half a mile\nfrom the depot, furnishes rare facility for such a gathering of the\nfriends and patrons of the school. The ignorance among the people\nin this State is fearful, but it is a very hopeful sign when the\ncolored people are themselves showing an interest in such a school as\nthis one now is, and when they are beginning to appreciate the sort\nof training given here to their young men and women. Much of this\nhas been brought about through the wise, energetic and progressive\nmanagement of the President, Rev. G. S. Pope.\n\nThe promise for the coming year is flattering. The school will\nprobably be crowded even more than during the year just past. The\nbuildings must be in some way enlarged, or new ones provided, in\norder to have room for all who will doubtless desire to come. There\nhas been little or no complaining by the students on account of\nvery rough, cold and crowded rooms\u2014the only temporary places which\nhitherto could be provided. Another year, however, ought to bring\nbetter accommodations. Here is a place second to none in our country\nfor the doing of great and far-reaching good.\n\nA. H.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nHOWARD UNIVERSITY.\n\nTheological Department\u2014Sixteen Graduates.\n\nREV. W. W. PATTON, D. D., WASHINGTON\n\nThe anniversary exercises of the Theological Department of Howard\nUniversity, (which is largely aided by the American Missionary\nAssociation), occurred on the 7th inst., in Washington. The spacious\nand beautiful edifice of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church was\nfreely offered for the purpose, and was filled with a large audience\nof white and colored people. Such an event could not have taken place\nat any former time, and it marks the rapid and healthful progress of\npublic opinion. Six of the graduating class made addresses, which\nwere a credit to themselves and to their race, and elicited the\ncommendation of many intelligent gentlemen and ladies who heard them.\nSixteen students were sent forth to preach, all of whom go to the\nSouth, to the Freedmen. Five of these had pursued a full course of\nstudy, including Hebrew and Greek: the others had received training\nin English studies only. Fifty theological students have been under\ninstruction in this department the present year. Each graduate\nreceived a handsome Bible from the Washington Bible Society, and an\naddress was delivered by Rev. W. R. Harrison, D. D., chaplain of the\nHouse of Representatives, and pastor of the South Methodist Church\nin this city\u2014a fact which marks the progress of good feeling. Never\nbefore was the promise of usefulness in this work so great.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nLEWIS HIGH SCHOOL.\n\n(_From the Macon, Ga., Telegraph and Messenger._)\n\nAs announced, the closing exercises of the Lewis High School took\nplace yesterday, May 27th, and reflected credit alike upon teachers\nand pupils. The latter, embracing both sexes, number 110; and a\nmore intelligent and well-behaved body of colored youth cannot\nbe found anywhere. The singing and music were especially good,\nindicating great aptitude on the part of the scholars, and very\ncareful training. This Institution is under the care of the American\nMissionary Association, whose headquarters are at New York. It\nappoints the teachers, and supplies all the funds that may be needed\nannually for its support.\n\nThe school is under the general supervision of the pastor of the\nColored Congregational Church, Rev. Mr. Lathrop, who also teaches\nchemistry, philosophy and book-keeping. In all of these branches, the\npupils exhibited commendable proficiency.\n\nAmong those who attended the examinations were Rev. Geo. McDonald,\nD. D., and Rev. Joseph Key, D. D. Both of these gentlemen expressed\nthemselves highly gratified with all that they saw and heard, and\nwhen called upon, responded with neat and appropriate addresses, to\nthe great encouragement and delight of their auditors.\n\nThe Lewis High School, under the judicious management of Mr. Lathrop,\nMiss Christine H. Gilbert, principal, and her efficient assistant,\nMiss Belle M. Haskins, is doing a good work for the colored people of\nMacon, and should receive the countenance and support of our citizens.\n\nThe college building is a neat brick structure, which was erected at\na cost of $5,000 upon the site of the edifice which was destroyed by\nfire. The school will open again on the first of October next.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nBEACH INSTITUTE.\n\n(_From the Savannah Morning News._)\n\nThe scholastic year of the Beach Institute, which closed yesterday,\nwas made the occasion of interesting school exercises in the\nexamination of the several classes of the Institute, and an\nexhibition of the scholars in recitation, declamation, reading and\nsinging.\n\nThe Beach Institute is one of the educational institutions under the\ncontrol of the American Missionary Association, whose headquarters\nare at New York, and whose operations in the South have been directed\nto the moral and educational advancement of the colored people.\nThe Southern work is under the superintendence of Dr. J. E. Roy,\nwhose headquarters are at Atlanta, and who was present yesterday,\na gratified spectator of the progress made at the Institute in the\neducation of the colored race.\n\nThe school here is, as we learn from the Superintendent, Prof. J.\nK. Cole, in a prosperous condition, nearly 300 scholars having been\nregistered during the scholastic year.\n\nThe Institution is divided into five grades, under competent\nteachers, as follows: The first grade, or normal class, under\nProfessor Cole, the Superintendent; the second grade, Miss Partridge,\nteacher: the third grade. Miss Bailey, teacher; the fourth grade,\nMiss Burgh, teacher; and the fifth grade, under the supervision of\nMiss Willey.\n\nThe examination yesterday evinced the faithfulness of the instructors\nin their departments and the aptitude of the pupils, and we were\nparticularly struck with the examination of the normal class in\nintroductory Latin exercises, the pupils showing a remarkable\nproficiency in their recitations from Harkness\u2019 Introductory Latin\nLessons.\n\nAt 12 o\u2019clock, the whole school assembled in the chapel, when the\nprogramme was successfully carried out, to the pleasure of the large\nnumber of friends and parents of the pupils present.\n\nThe school will re-open on the first Monday in October.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nSUNDAY-SCHOOLS IN CENTRAL AFRICA.\n\nA Paper read at the State Sunday-school Convention, at New Britain,\nCt., May 26, 1880, by Albert Burton Jowett a native of the Mendi\nCountry, West Africa.\n\n * * * * *\n\nI represent the Sunday-schools in the Mendi country of Western\nAfrica. These are located in the interior, about a hundred and\nfifty miles north of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. The first\nSunday-school among the Mendi was established at Kaw Mendi. This\nplace was the site selected for a mission by Messrs. Raymond and\nSteele, who accompanied the Amistad captives to Africa, when they\nleft Farmington in 1841.\n\nAt this school, my mother was a pupil, and had for her instructor,\nMar-groo, one of the Amistad captives who had been hopefully\nconverted.\n\nThere was a good day-school at this place, and also one at Freetown,\na hundred and fifty miles north, which had been kept up for\ntwenty-five years by the Church Missionary Society of England.\n\nMy mother has often told me that the missionaries were very much\npleased because the Mendi boys passed a better examination than the\nboys at Freetown, who had had all the advantages of that sea-port\ncity.\n\nMr. Burton, a missionary who went to Africa from Connecticut, while\ntraveling up the Bar-groo river noticed a fall of water in a wooded\ncountry, and determined to establish an industrial mission at that\npoint.\n\nThere was no saw-mill on the coast, so Mr. Burton put up buildings\nfor a mill; some one gave him the necessary machinery, and he opened\na station and named it \u201cAvery.\u201d A church and some dwelling houses\nwere built, and a community of people gathered who bought logs,\nconverted them into lumber, and conveyed it to the coast for sale. A\nschool was opened in the basement of the church, and a Sunday-school\nwas convened on Sundays. My father is a teacher and interpreter\nat this station. This Sunday-school and the one at Kaw Mendi are\nthe only ones in the Mendi country proper, where there are about\n2,000,000 people. There are Sunday-schools on the Sherbro Island, but\nthe people there belong mostly to the Sherbro tribe.\n\nOur Sunday-schools constitute one of the means by which our young\nAfrican friends acquire the simple truths taught by our blessed\nSaviour. I do not know how it is, if I am in the wrong, pardon me,\nbut I do believe it is much more difficult to teach in Africa than\nin America, because we have no books in the Mendi language and the\nchildren know but little English. Our Sunday-schools in comparison\nwith those in America are very small. The bell for school rings at\n2 o\u2019clock, and the teachers go round to the houses where they fear\nthe children do not care to come, and bring them to the school.\nBefore bringing them in to the Sunday-school, a shirt is given to\neach scholar, as many of them wear no garments at home. This is made\nof English cloth and supplied by the missionaries; when they return\nfrom school, it is laid aside to be worn the next time the school\nassembles. The instruction is mostly oral\u2014the teacher asking the\npupils questions and then requiring them to repeat the answer until\nthey are able to say it.\n\nA good deal of time is spent in singing, as the children readily\nlearn the words and music of the Gospel songs, even though they do\nnot understand the meaning of the English words. They are very fond\nof singing indeed, and the missionaries listen to their songs with\nmuch delight, and give them a great deal of credit for them. As some\nof the children never attend day-school, the alphabet is taught in\nthe Sunday-school.\n\nWe have a portion of the Bible, and a few hymns, translated into the\nMendi, and hope some time to have books in the language, so that\ngreater progress can be made.\n\nWe have some active members who go about into the small villages and\nact as home missionaries among the people. These frequently bring\nin new scholars to the mission: and what do you think causes the\nincrease of our members, more than most any other circumstance? Some\nkind friends in America and England have been sending us illustrated\npapers, nice little books, and small cards with letters of nearly\nevery color and size.\n\nSuch things are very attractive to the little natives. I wish\nyou could know the good you can do, by sending your missionaries\nin Africa such attractive papers and cards, for those whom the\nmissionaries cannot reach will be instructed and influenced by them\nin their homes. The children who are brought in, take these papers\nand fasten them up in their houses for ornaments. The books and cards\nare offered as prizes to those who commit portions of the Scripture\naccurately.\n\nWe have no Sunday-school Conventions like this one, but sometimes we\nhave Concerts.\n\nWithin the past few years, all our missionaries have been Freedmen\nfrom America, and one of them was for a time connected with the\nJubilee Singers of Fisk University. They taught us some of the\nJubilee Songs, such as \u201cSteal Away to Jesus,\u201d \u201cMary and Martha,\u201d and\n\u201cThe Hocks and the Mountains Shall All Flee Away.\u201d The people had\nnever heard the like, and were very much delighted with them.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nS\u2019KOKOMISH, WASHINGTON TERRITORY.\n\nREV. MYRON EELLS.\n\nOn the first Sabbath in April, we had the privilege of receiving\nthree more into our church, all on profession of faith, two of them\nIndians from the school, and the other a young lady who has been\nassistant-matron in the boarding department. The Twanas and Clallams\nwere formerly at war with each other, and even now there is not\nalways the best of feeling between the two tribes: a like unpleasant\nfeeling has often been shown between the whites and Indians: yet, on\nthat Sabbath, representatives of the three classes received baptism,\nthere being one Twana, one Clallam, and one white person.\n\nAnother noticeable fact was the motive which induced them to\nbecome Christians. In reply to my question on this point, each one\nunknown to the other said, that it was because he had noticed that\nChristians were so much happier than other people. Two of them\nhad tried the wrong road very earnestly, and had found to their\ngreat sorrow that \u201cthe way of the transgressor is hard.\u201d I was\nled then to think of two or three others who had united with the\nchurch on profession of faith within about a year, employees on the\nReservation, who had made similar statements. \u201cIf the Bible were not\ntrue, and yet I could only believe it to be true, I would gladly do\nso, if it would bring me the happiness that Christians profess to\nhave,\u201d said one. Since becoming a Christian, he has often spoken of\nhis happiness, and has great pity for those who are skeptical, for\nhe knows how they feel, even if they do argue against Christianity.\nAnother of the number, who was for three years very skeptical, a\ntalented writer, and who used her talents against Christianity so\nstrongly that her companions feared to enter the lists against her,\nand who was supposed to be thoroughly contented in her unbelief,\nbecame a Christian, and now speaks of those years, as \u201cthree years of\nhorrible darkness.\u201d\n\nOn the third Sabbath of April, I was at Dunginess, where I received\nfour more into our church, three on profession of faith. Two Indians\nand two whites stood side by side to enter the church. The communion\nseason was very pleasant. One white lady, who had not been to the\nLord\u2019s table for a year, and who was just recovering from sickness,\nwas so anxious to be present, that as she was unable to walk the\ndistance, a little more than a quarter of a mile, she was carried\nby her husband more than half the way in a wheelbarrow. Another\nlady, seventy-six years old, walked three miles to be present, then\nanother mile to where I should preach to the whites in the afternoon,\nand home again in the evening, about eight miles in all. Ten of the\nwhites sat down there with the four Indians in the Indian church to\ncelebrate Christ\u2019s love.\n\nOne person, who lives half a mile from the Indian village, said\nto me, as we came away, \u201cIt is a shame, _it is a shame_, that the\nIndians here are going ahead of the whites in religious affairs. It\nis a wonder how they are making advancement, considering the examples\naround them.\u201d Two marriages, one infant and three adult baptisms,\nfour received to the church, one communion service, one funeral,\nthree prayer-meetings, and other services to the amount of fourteen\nin all, were the result of the eighteen days I was away from home.\n\nI had been at home but a few days when I was sent for by an Indian\non the Reservation who has been an invalid for some time, and who\nasked to be received as a member of the church. After considerable\nconsultation, he was so received week ago last Sabbath.\n\nLast Sabbath, my work at Seabeck culminated in a small church\norganization among the whites. I have written you that I have\npreached at that place, thirty miles distant, about once a month,\nwhen not called on some distant trip. The work has amounted to about\neight visits a year.\n\nSome six weeks ago, I felt that it was best for the few Christians\nthere to be banded together. I immediately tried to obtain some\nassistance in organizing, but after three efforts failed entirely,\nand hence, armed with authority from this church, I proceeded with\nthe organization. Nine entered it, two on profession of faith.\nThe heterogeneousness of the population may be seen from the fact\nthat of the seven who joined from other churches, one came from a\nCongregational church and two from a Protestant Methodist church\nin this Territory, one from a Congregational church in California,\none from a Presbyterian church in British Columbia, one from the\nEpiscopal church in England, and one from the Lutheran church in\nNorway, who, however, does not believe that he was a Christian until\nafter he left Norway. \u201cIt is the Lord\u2019s doings and it is marvellous\nin our eyes.\u201d\n\nIn the civilization of the Indians we feel somewhat encouraged. One\nfact has appeared quite plainly during the past winter. It has been\nthe most severe winter known here for twenty-five years\u2014the snow at\none time lying five feet deep\u2014and although it was nearly gone on the\ntide flats in six weeks, yet on most of the Reservation it lay for\nmore than three months from six inches to two feet deep. As late as\nfour or five years ago, the Indians generally lost a large number of\ncattle or horses every winter for want of feed, even when there were\nonly two or three weeks of snow, selling altogether too much of their\nhay in the fall; but during the past winter not one of their animals\nhas died for want of food, as far as I have been able to learn.\nExperience and observation have taught them to secure sufficient food\nand to keep it until all danger is over.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\u201cCALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\u201d\n\n=Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.=\n\nPRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L.\nStone, D. D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon.\nF. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H.\nWilley, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob\nS. Taber, Esq.\n\nDIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P.\nBaker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball,\nE. P. Sanford, Esq.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nOUR WORK AT THE CENTER.\n\nREV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nI find that for many months I have had little to say about our work\nin San Francisco and Oakland. I invite the readers of the Missionary\nto take a look, with me, at these central points.\n\nOakland is more to San Francisco, than Brooklyn is to New York. The\nocean breezes are so tempered in crossing San Francisco Bay, that a\nvery perceptible change of climate takes place, and Oakland is able\nto boast of a genial air and a clear sky on many days in summer,\nwhen San Francisco is shrouded in fog or swept by heavy, dust-laden\nwinds. It has the aspect, to a very good degree, of a large inland\ncity in New England\u2014Springfield or Hartford, for example. There is a\ngood deal about it not yet very heavenly, but, when compared with the\nbustle and drive of affairs, both climatic and human, on this side of\nthe Bay, it seems, like Auburndale, Mass., to be a sort of \u201cSaint\u2019s\nrest.\u201d It is constantly skimming the cream off our San Francisco\nchurches, so that when a brother and sister have fairly come to their\nplaces as pillars here in the metropolis, we expect soon to hear that\n\u201cthey are thinking of moving to Oakland.\u201d\n\nThese considerations have led to a more abundant provision for\nmissionary work among the Chinese in that city, than anywhere else.\nPersons, coming to California to labor in this missionary work, are\nquite apt to become impressed with the necessities of the _Oakland_\nChinese. And so, if our mission had not been, by many years, the\nfirst in that field; and if there had not gathered about it a large\nnumber of Christian Chinese for whom it is a spiritual home; and,\nif it were not possible\u2014thanks to the generous provision made for\nus by the First Congregational Church\u2014to do more work there now,\nin proportion to expense, than almost anywhere else, I should feel\nlike abandoning the field to those who have crowded in to help us.\nIn the new, spacious and elegant church edifice, rooms much more\ncommodious and much better furnished than those of any other school,\nhave been prepared and assigned to our Chinese work. On the Sabbath,\nthey are occupied by the Chinese Sunday-school, superintended so\nmany years by our dear brother, the late Dea. Edmund P. Sanford,\nand now in charge of one like-minded, A. L. Van Blarcom, Esq. On\nweek-day evenings, they are opened for our mission school, at which\nabout the same pupils gather who are present on the Sabbath, and\nevery session of which is, in large part, a religious service. About\neighty Chinese account themselves members of this school, attend it\nwhen they can, and are under its gospel influence; but there are so\nmany interruptions through the pressure of their daily work, that\nthe average attendance is about thirty. Two teachers are employed,\nMrs. B. C. Hawes and Miss L. Duncan, who, by years of service in\nthis field, have won a warm place in the affection and respect of\nthe Chinese. The expense is $40 per month. As fruits of this labor,\nwe have 17 who are members of the First Congregational Church in\nOakland, nearly as many more in other churches, and a goodly number\nwho have professed Christ in the Association, but have not yet been\nbaptized.\n\nIn San Francisco there are 4 schools; Central, Barnes, Bethany, and\nWest. The Central school is taught in our Central Mission house,\nthe headquarters of our work for the whole State. This is, I regret\nto say, a _rented_ building, the cost of which absorbs more than\na sixth of the utmost amount we can hope to command for our whole\nwork. We have occupied it now almost six years, have spent in rents\nnearly enough to have paid for as good a building, if only we could\nhave seized our opportunity; and I cannot even yet get sufficiently\nhardened to this expenditure, to meet it without a throbbing heart.\n\u201cIf only I could use this sum for teaching and preaching the Gospel\nof Christ!\u201d is my thought and my longing; when will the time come?\nThe building is a very plain one, but pleasantly located, just on\nthe edge of the Chinese quarter, and overlooking an acre or two of\ngreenness in the heart of our city which we call \u201cthe Plaza.\u201d It has\ntwo stories and a basement, the latter occupied by our Association of\nChristian Chinese as a hall and reading room, with some facilities\nin the rear for hospitality. The first floor is the school room\n(18 x 50), in which at times no less than 145 Chinese have crowded\nthemselves. The average attendance now is about 60; it is increasing,\nand I hope will again reach 100. In the upper story are the rooms of\nour Chinese helpers, with a little office, also, for the Secretary\nof the Association above named. A great deal of work is done here\nbesides the mere teaching; a great deal of correspondence carried on;\na great deal of what may be called pastoral care exercised; a good\ndeal, also, of honest study of God\u2019s word.\n\nBut I am making my story too long. About two miles south of this, on\nRidley Street, is the Barnes Mission house, a substantial two-story\nstructure of wood, with a smaller building on the rear of the lot,\noccupied by our Chinese brethren as a \u201cHome.\u201d This is owned by\nthe Mission, but has a debt upon it of $3,300. The upper story is\noccupied by the family furnishing the teachers for the school in the\nroom below. The mother and daughter, Mrs. C. A. Sheldon and Miss\nJennie Sheldon, are the ones whose names appear upon our lists, but\nfather and brothers all share lovingly and zealously in the work. The\nrent derived from this upper story and from the \u201cHome\u201d in the rear,\npays the interest on the debt, and the cost of insurance and taxes.\nWhen we were erecting this building, we expected to gather in it a\nschool of 150 members with an average attendance of about 100; but,\nthe very evening of its dedication, the riots of July 1877 occurred,\nand, for the time, our work in almost all the city seemed to be\nknocked prostrate. Other changes, the closing of some large shoe\nfactories, from which many of our pupils came, and the restrictions\nlaid upon the operatives in the Mission Woolen Mills, among whom we\nhoped to win some souls, have prevented the realization of all that\nwe hoped, though the results at which all was aimed, have not been\ndenied. There are many of whom\u2014looking at our Barnes Mission house\u2014we\nmay say, \u201cThis man was born there.\u201d\n\nA mile and a half further south is the Bethany school, taught in the\nchapel of Bethany church, and through the faithfulness and tact of\nits teacher well sustained, although the Chinese are not specially\nnumerous in that locality. And about two miles west of the Central\nMission is the \u201cWest\u201d school, taught in a little back-room, behind\na small store\u2014a room most unpromising, and rented for only $5 per\nmonth, but, by the taste and care of teachers and pupils, rendered\nquite neat and inviting. The average attendance in each of these\nschools is a little less than 20, ranging between 12 and 19.\n\nIn the aggregate, about 175 Chinese now belong to these four schools;\nnot as many by nearly one-half as were enrolled in them three years\nago. Sandlotism, especially after it invaded our pulpits, has been a\nsore hindrance to missionary success. But we have tried to get closer\nto those whom we could bring within our reach, and to do better\nwork among them, and God has graciously owned it in saving power.\nSixty-six have been received to Bethany church, and of at least as\nmany more the hope is cherished that they have passed from death unto\nlife. The present outlook seems to me to be especially cheering, not\nonly here but in almost all our fields.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTHE ELEPHANT IN AFRICA.\n\nWe have seen many pictures of elephants in Africa, and they were all\nin hunting scenes.\n\nThis noble, wise, and magnificent animal is hunted in every part of\nAfrica; shot by the Englishman\u2019s rifle in South Africa and on the\nWhite Nile, speared by the natives, pursued with the sword by the\nAbyssinian tribes, as if he were the most deadly enemy of the human\nrace.\n\nIt is all for ivory, for the tusks which have taken perhaps fifty\nyears to grow, that the huge beast is slain.\n\nThis hunting has been going on for many years, and now in parts of\nAfrica there are no more elephants left.\n\nSome good people, who are also trying to open up the \u201cDark\nContinent,\u201d resolved to try some Indian elephants. They were sent\nfrom Bombay in a ship to Zanzibar, and after much trouble were landed\non the coast. Then away they marched, and after a little time this\nnew procession reached our station at Mpwapwa, and our missionary,\nMr. Last, writes to say how successful the elephants have been. The\ndreaded fly could not harm them; indeed, they kill the flies by\ncatching them in the folds of their thick skin, if the old African\ntravellers are to be believed.\n\nOur missionary, Mr. Stokes, writes from Uyuvi that these elephants\nhad reached Unyamwezi. He says:\u2014\n\n\u201cThey can bear a thirty-six miles\u2019 march without food or water. They\ncan carry from twenty-five to thirty men\u2019s loads; and the natives\nhere very soon pick up the management of them. I think these\nelephants have done more towards the civilization of Central Africa\nthan anything else I have seen. The natives think the white man a\nmost wonderful fellow when these big creatures on which they look\nwith terror obey him. It was quite a picture to view the astonishment\ndepicted on the faces of these poor blacks, as they watched these\nhuge beasts kneeling down at the word of command to let us get on\ntheir backs, or elevating their trunks to bid salaam to an Arab.\u201d\n\nThe Church Missionary Society would be very glad if it could send\ntwo or three of these wise beasts to their Mission at Mpwapwa, to\nhelp carry the missionaries up and down with the stores they must\nhave from time to time; and then, when our missionaries can speak\nfreely in the language, think what a help the elephant would be on a\nmissionary tour.\n\nBesides, when the natives see how useful the elephants are, they will\nsoon learn to catch and tame them, as did the Carthaginians, 600\nyears before Christ.\n\nTurn to the fortieth chapter of Job, and read about the behemoth. You\nwill see in the marginal reference, \u201cThe Elephant.\u201d \u201cHe is the chief\nof the ways of God.\u201d What a blessed time that will be, if, instead of\nbeing destroyed by man, this, the most wonderful of God\u2019s creatures,\nis used to carry about the messengers of the Gospel of Peace!\u2014_Church\nMissionary Juvenile Instructor._\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nFOR MAY, 1880.\n\n MAINE, $158.52.\n\n Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5.00\n Bangor. First Cong. Ch. 16.27\n Bethel. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00\n Blanchard. \u201cA Friend\u201d 5.00\n Castine. Mrs. Lucy S. Adams, to const. WM. H.\n SARGENT, L. M. 30.00\n Limerick. Miss E. P. Hayes, Box of C., _for Raleigh,\n N. C._ Portland. Abby A. Steele 50.00\n Saco. Cong. Sab. Sch., $14; Ladies\u2019 Circle, Cong.\n Ch., $10.00;\u2014Val. Box of Bedding and Table Linen,\n _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 24.00\n Woolwich. Cong. Ch. 1.00\n Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., ($1.74, _for\n Indian M._) 19.25\n\n\n NEW HAMPSHIRE, $266.34.\n\n Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20, bal. to const.\n MISS MARY E. KELLEY, L. M.; Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n Bundle of C. 20.00\n Concord. \u201cA Friend\u201d 1.00\n Epping. Hannah Pierson 5.00\n Exeter. Second Cong. Ch. 82.71\n Fitzwilliam. A. J. B. 1.00\n Hancock. W. P. H. 1.00\n Haverhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.11\n Hillsborough Bridge. Cong. Ch. 6.25\n Hudson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00\n Mason. Cong. Ch. 5.50\n Nelson. Dea. A. E. W. 1.00\n Piermont. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $5, and Sab. Sch.,\n $18.56. 23.56\n Plaistow and North Haverhill, Mass. 25.00\n Portsmouth. North Ch. and Soc. 34.70\n Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.32\n Short Falls. J. W. Chandler 2.00\n Walpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.69\n West Concord. Cong. Ch. 16.00\n Wilton. A. B. C. 0.50\n\n\n VERMONT, $250.01.\n\n Castleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00\n Chester Depot. J. L. Fisher 10.00\n Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00\n Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.18\n Burlington. First. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50; First\n Cong. Ch. and Soc., (ad\u2019l), $9 59.00\n Danby. Cong. S. S., $1.63; Rev. L. D. M., 50c. 2.13\n Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.50\n Jericho. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00\n Kirby. Cong. Ch. 5.00\n North Bennington. Cong. Ch. 6.65\n North Cambridge. Miss Maria Kinsley, Box, _for\n Cuthbert, Ga._\n North Londonderry. Dea. G. S. Hobart 2.00\n Peru. Cong. Ch. 2.36\n Plainfield. Mrs. Hannah Stevens, to const. BENJAMIN\n S. GAGE, L. M. 30.00\n Royalton. Rev. J. C. 1.00\n Saint Albans. Mrs. H. B. T. 1.00\n Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 52.97\n Westminster West. Mrs. A. S. G. 1.00\n West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.09\n Weston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.75\n Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.38\n\n\n MASSACHUSETTS, $2,671.10.\n\n Abington. \u201cMrs. H. P.\u201d 5.00\n Andover. Chapel Cong. Ch. and Soc., $141; Old South\n Cong. Ch. and Soc., $100; Free Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n ($100 of which from F. H. Johnson), $187.45, to\n const. JAMES SPENCE, MILO H. GOULD, MISS FLORENCE\n A. PARKER, JAMES WATSON, MISS LIZZIE A. PARKER and\n MRS. BLYTHE J. TOUGH, L. M\u2019s;\u2014By Miss A. Park,\n $25, _for Student Aid, Straight U._; \u2014\u2014$20, _for\n Talladega C._ 473.45\n Andover. West Parish Sab. Sch. 10.00\n Berkley. Ladies, Box of C., _for Atlanta, Ga._\n Boston. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $434.44; Mrs. E.\n P. Eayrs, $5 439.44\n Boston. Highlands. Miss E. Davis 25.00\n Boylston Centre. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., bbl. of C.,\n _for Atlanta, Ga._\n Cambridge. North Av. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 67.60\n Cambridgeport. G. F. Kendall 5.00\n Charlestown. Ivory Littlefield, $50; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $2 52.00\n Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $79.64; Third\n Cong. Ch. and Soc., $8.95; A. J. S., 50c.; T. E.\n G., 50c. 89.59\n Chicopee. Third Cong. Ch., ($5 of which _for a\n Teacher, Hampton N. and A. Inst._) 25.00\n Danvers. Maple St. Leaf Mission Circle, $60; Maple\n St. Ch., $25.72; Infant Class Maple St. Sab. Sch.,\n $5 _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 90.72\n East Bridgewater. Union Cong. Ch. 16.50\n East Somerville. A. R. 0.50\n Essex. Cong. Ch. $15.75, and Sab. Sch., $14.25,\n _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 30.00\n Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.57\n Fitchburg. W. L. Bullock 2.00\n Framingham. Young People\u2019s Circle, box of C., _for\n Atlanta, Ga._\n Franklin. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.24\n Georgetown. Memorial Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n Talladega C._ 20.00\n Gilbertville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.40\n Hubbardston. Miss Emma Cutler 2.00\n Hyde Park. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 5.00\n Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00\n Lawrence. Eliot Cong. Ch. 25.25\n Lincoln. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n U._ 20.00\n Lowell. John St. Ch., ($31.29 of which _for Chinese\n M._) 41.29\n Lynn. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $17.32;\n North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $4.87 22.19\n Middleborough. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 12.15\n New Bedford. H. M. L. 1.00\n Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.33\n Newton. Ladies\u2019 Freedmen\u2019s Aid Soc., Trunk of C.,\n _for Talladega, Ala._\n Northampton. \u201cA Friend\u201d 100.00\n Peru. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.50\n Salem. \u201cFriends,\u201d $6, _for Student Aid, Talladega\n C._; G. D., $1 7.00\n Sandwich. Miss H. H. N. 1.00\n Springfield. North Ch. 30.00\n Somerville. Broadway Orthodox Cong. Ch., $14; \u201cA\n Friend,\u201d $1 15.00\n South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.24\n South Attleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.68\n South Deerfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. C. B.\n TILTON, L. M. 30.00\n South Dennis. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.60\n South Framingham. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 173.50\n South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00\n Ware. East Cong. Ch. and Soc., $363.50, to const.\n ROLLIE D. NEWTON, MISS HATTIE G. RICHARDSON, MISS\n SUSIE B. HYDE and MRS. GEO. A. ROOT, L. M\u2019s; First\n Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20 383.50\n Warwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $6, and Sab. Sch., $4 10.00\n West Boylston. \u201cWilling Workers,\u201d $20; and Bbl. of\n C., _for Atlanta, Ga._ 20.00\n West Roxbury. South Evan Ch. and Soc. 117.13\n West Springfield. First Cong. Ch. 15.50\n Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00\n Wilmington. C. W. C. 1.00\n Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 77.63\n Woburn. Mrs. A. W. Dimick, _for Atlanta U._ 3.00\n Worcester. Union Ch. 38.60\n\n\n RHODE ISLAND, $150.05.\n\n Central Falls. Cong. Ch. 125.05\n Pawtucket. \u201cFriend\u201d 5.00\n State Farms. Rev. Marcus Ames 20.00\n\n\n CONNECTICUT, $688.28.\n\n Branford. Cong. Ch. 20.00\n Broad Brook. Geo. E. Taylor 3.50\n Clinton. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_ 7.73\n Colebrook. Miss E. R., $1; Mr. S., 50c. 1.50\n Collinsville. \u201cA Friend\u201d 2.00\n Columbia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.42\n Durham Centre. Horace Newton 3.00\n East Haddam. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., ($30 of which\n from Eugene W. Chaffee, to const. MRS. EUGENE W.\n CHAFFEE, L. M.) 86.15\n Ellsworth. Miss E. C. D. 1.00\n Fair Haven. Second Cong. Ch. 41.58\n Gilead. Cong. Ch. 12.35\n Greenwich. First Cong. Ch. 5.00\n Hartford. Benj. De Forest, _for Talladega C._ 70.00\n Middletown. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 29.59\n Millbrook. Mrs. E. P., $1; Individuals, 50c. 1.50\n Millington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00\n New Haven. North Ch., $95.35;\u2014Wells Southworth, $50,\n _for Fisk U._;\u2014Howard Av. Sab. Sch., $1, _for\n Student Aid_;\u2014Rev. D. J. O., 50c., _for Mag._; C.\n A. Williams, Pkg. of Books 146.85\n Putnam. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian Boy,\n Hampton Inst._ 15.00\n Redding. Cong. Ch. 17.20\n Rockville. Second Cong. Ch. 127.91\n Scotland. ESTATE of Caroline Barrows, by Geo.\n Lincoln, Ex. 15.00\n South Manchester. First Cong. Ch. ($19 of which _for\n Student Aid_, and $30, to const. EDWARD TAYLOR, L.\n M.) 57.00\n Stafford Springs. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $2; Individuals, _for\n Mag._, $2 4.00\n Torrington. Rev. C. H. B. 0.50\n Windsor. Mrs. M. C. W. 0.50\n Woodstock. Ladies, Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta, Ga._\n\n\n NEW YORK, $522.02.\n\n Amsterdam. Chandler Bartlett 10.00\n Binghamton. H. F. L. 0.50\n Brooklyn. Sab. Sch., Church of the Pilgrims, $100,\n _for ed. of Indians, Hampton N. and A. Inst._;\n \u2014\u201cA Friend,\u201d $60, to const. REV. THOMAS B. MCLEOD\n and MRS. M. J. C. MCLEOD, L. M\u2019s;\u2014Central Cong.\n Sab. Sch., Geo. A. Ball, Supt., $30, _for Lady\n Missionary_, and to const. HENRY MARTYN SCUDDER,\n JR., M. D., Arcot, Madras Presidency, Southern\n India, L. M.;\u2014Mrs. Mary E. Whiton, $20;\n East Cong. Ch., $7.04; J. C. Howard, Box of\n Books 217.04\n Crown Point. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 37.37\n Elma. Mrs. E. S. A. B. 1.00\n Lockport. H. W. Nicolas, Box of Books.\n Morrisania. Cong. Ch., $6.50, and Sab. Sch., $2 8.50\n Newark. Mrs. Phebe Parks, $10 and Communion Set 10.00\n New York. Ladies\u2019 Association of Presb. Memorial\n Ch., $105, _for a Teacher, Talladega C._;\u2014S. T.\n Gordon, Box of Singing Books 105.00\n North Pitcher. Cong. Ch. 3.25\n Patchogue. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.21\n Pitcher. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 18.00\n Pompey. Mrs. J. H. Childs, ($4.50 of which _for\n Student Aid, Fisk U._) 5.00\n Spencerport. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00\n Syracuse. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_ 14.15\n Tarrytown. \u201cA Friend\u201d 50.00\n\n\n NEW JERSEY, $78.19.\n\n Bound Brook. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. JAMES D.\n EATON, L. M. 30.00\n Montclair. Mrs. Pratt\u2019s S. S. Class, $5, and Box of\n C., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00\n Newark. Miss M. E. Sears, $30;\u2014Miss H. Miller, Box\n of C., _for Raleigh, N. C._ 30.00\n Paterson. Cong. Ch., $12.19; Mrs. A. C. W., $1 13.19\n Raritan. Miss Sarah Provost, Box of Papers.\n\n\n PENNSYLVANIA, $6.50.\n\n Candor. Isabella Connelly 3.00\n Canton. H. Sheldon, _for Freight, for Talladega C._ 2.50\n Terrytown. G. F. H. 1.00\n\n\n OHIO, $1,262.90.\n\n Brownhelm. ESTATE of John Locke 613.59\n Cleveland. Plymouth Ch., (ad\u2019l) 5.00\n East Cleveland. Mrs. Mary Walkden, _for Mendi M._ 4.00\n Elyria. First Cong. Ch. 103.20\n Freedom. Cong. Ch., Coll. $7; \u201cJ. C. B.,\u201d $5 12.00\n Hambden. A. C., 50c.; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 50c. 1.00\n Hudson. \u201cA Friend\u201d 10.00\n Lennox. A. J. Holman 10.00\n Madison. Central Cong. Ch. 10.00\n Mechanicsburg. Mrs. M. K. H. 1.00\n Newark. \u201cA Thank Offering, _for \u2018Leah and Frank,\u2019\n Tougaloo U._\u201d 50.00\n North Benton. Simon Hartzel 10.00\n Oberlin. Ladies, $20, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._;\n Ladies, $7, and 5 bbls. of C., _for Atlanta, Ga._;\n Mrs. William Kimball, $2; Mrs. J. F. B., 60c. 29.60\n Steuben. L. P. 1.00\n Wakeman. Mrs. G. V. F. 0.51\n Wellington. ESTATE of N. D. Billings, by J. H.\n Dickson, Ex. 400.00\n Zanesville. Mrs. M. A. Dunlap 2.00\n\n\n MICHIGAN, $912.45.\n\n Alamo. Julius Hackley 10.00\n Calumet. Prof. E. T. Curtis, $1.75, and Box of\n Books, _for Talladega C._ 1.75\n East Saginaw. ESTATE of Chas. W. Wilder, by N. H.\n Culver, Adm\u2019r 82.23\n Grand Rapids. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rev. J. H. H.\n Sengstacke_ 20.00\n Hancock. First Cong. Ch., to const. DR. I. M.\n RHODES and J. H. CARAH, L. M\u2019s 65.67\n Northport. Cong. Ch. 5.35\n Pontiac. Cong. Sab. Sch. 1.10\n Portland. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. 15.00\n Romeo. Mrs. H. O. S., $1, Mrs. J. S. R., $1, Mrs.\n Reed\u2019s S. S. Class, 35c., _for Lady Missionary,\n Memphis, Tenn._ 2.35\n Union City. \u201cA Friend\u201d 700.00\n Webster. Cong. Ch. 9.00\n\n\n INDIANA, $8.00.\n\n Elkhart. First Cong. Ch. 8.00\n\n\n ILLINOIS, $521.96.\n\n Belvidere. ESTATE of Olney Nichols, by H. W. Pier,\n Ex. 26.00\n Chesterfield. ESTATE of Miss Matilda M. Williams,\n by E. G. Duckles, Adm\u2019s 50.00\n Chicago. Plymouth Ch., $78.31; Leavitt St. Cong.\n Ch., $21.77; South Cong. Ch., $18.45; Ladies\u2019\n Miss. Soc. of N. E. Ch., $2.13 120.66\n Earlville. Cong. Ch., ($30 of which to const. MISS\n EMMA HATHAWAY, L. M.) 40.00\n Galesburg. \u201cA Friend\u201d 25.00\n Kewanee. Gleaners of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n Straight U._ 35.00\n Lewiston. Mrs. Phelps 50.00\n Mattoon. Cong. Ch. 5.00\n Morris. Cong. Ch., $27.39, and Sab. Sch., $1.61 29.00\n Odell. Mrs. H. E. Dana 10.00\n Olney. Cong. Ch. 12.00\n Ottawa. Cong. Ch. 21.73\n Payson. Cong. Ch. 22.00\n Princeville. Wm. C. Stevens 20.00\n Quincy. Mrs. E. T. Parker 20.00\n Roseville. Rev. A. L. Pennoyer and Wife 5.00\n Wheaton. Cong. Ch. 22.00\n Winnebago. Cong. Sab. Sch. 8.57\n\n\n WISCONSIN, $95.26.\n\n Beloit. Dr. A. 1.00\n Eau Claire. Cong. Ch. 25.60\n Walworth. Mrs. D. R. S. Colton 5.00\n Watertown. Cong. Ch. 9.16\n Wauwatosa. Cong. Ch., ($30 of which to const. JOHN\n M. WHEELER, L. M.) 54.50\n\n\n IOWA, $239.70.\n\n Alden. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. 2.60\n Belle Plain. Cong. Ch. 5.00\n Cedar Falls. Cong. Ch., _for Freight, for Talladega\n C._ 5.75\n Chester. Cong. Ch. 30.00\n Des Moines. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._ 24.85\n Dubuque. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary,\n New Orleans, La._ 15.00\n Garwin. Talmon Dewey 2.50\n Hampton. Ladies\u2019 Cent. Soc. 5.25\n Keokuk. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for Lady Missionary,\n New Orleans, La._ 20.00\n McGregor. Cong. Ch. 30.00\n Mitchellville. Cong. Ch. 3.00\n Oskaloosa. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady Missionary,\n New Orleans, La._ 10.00\n Prairie City. Cong. Ch. 5.75\n Stacyville. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc. 4.00\n Tabor. Cong. Ch. (in part) 50.00\n Waltham. ESTATE of Miss Emmeline Williams, $25, by\n Wm. Mason; W. M., $1 26.00\n\n\n KANSAS, $9.35.\n\n Onaga. Cong. Ch. 6.50\n Washara. Cong. Ch. 2.85\n\n\n MINNESOTA, $47.44.\n\n Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., $23.44; Second Cong. Ch.,\n $6.50 29.94\n Montivedo. Rev. D. G. 0.60\n Owatonna. Isaac W. Burch 9.90\n Wabasha. Cong. Cong. Ch. 7.00\n\n\n NEBRASKA, $4.00.\n\n Clarksville. Cong. Ch. 4.00\n\n\n TENNESSEE, $324.70.\n\n Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition 195.70\n Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition 129.00\n\n\n NORTH CAROLINA, $101.95.\n\n Raleigh. Washington Sch., Tuition, $19.75; S. F. H.,\n $1 20.75\n Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition 81.20\n\n\n GEORGIA, $686.22.\n\n Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition, $103; Rent, $13;\n Storr\u2019s Sch., Tuition, $229.20 345.20\n Byron. By C. R. K., _for Mendi M._ 0.50\n Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition 41.25\n Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $208.70; Rent, $30;\n Sales, $50.07;\u2014\u201cA Friend,\u201d $10, _for Beach Inst._ 298.77\n Warrior. E. F. M. 0.50\n\n\n ALABAMA, $400.77.\n\n Childersburg. Rev. A. J. 1.00\n Mobile. Emerson Inst. 167.75\n Montgomery. Pub. Sch. Fund. 175.00\n Talladega. Talladega C. 57.02\n\n\n MISSISSIPPI, $101.90.\n\n Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $79.90; Rent, $22 101.90\n\n\n LOUISIANA, $109.50.\n\n New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition, $108;\n Individuals, _for Mag._, $1.50 109.50\n\n\n JAPAN, $20.00.\n\n Kobe. Rev. R. H. Davis, ($5 of which, _for\n Chinese M. in Cal._) 20.00\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n Total $9,637.11\n Total from Oct. 1st to May 31st $115,471.75\n\n * * * * *\n\n FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n Norwich, Conn. \u201cA Friend\u201d 400.00\n \u2014\u2014 Conn. \u201cA Friend\u201d 10.00\n Galesburg, Ill. \u201cA Friend\u201d 10.00\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n Total $420.00\n Previously acknowledged in April Receipts 3,887.00\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n Total $4,307.00\n\n * * * * *\n\n FOR SCHOOL BUILDING, ATHENS, ALA.\n\n Portland, Mich. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., by Mrs. Wm.\n White 10.00\n Previously acknowledged in April Receipts 660.59\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n Total $670.59\n\n * * * * *\n\n Receipts for May $10,067.11\n Total from Oct. 1st to May 31st. $125,602.90\n ===========\n H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,\n 56 Reade St., N. Y.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\n Constitution of the American Missionary Association.\n\n INCORPORATED 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 diffuse a knowledge of the\nHoly Scriptures in our own and other countries which are destitute of\nthem, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.\n\nART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes\nfaith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slave-holder, or in the\npractice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds,\nmay become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty\ndollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have\nnot professed their faith may be constituted life members without the\nprivilege 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\nthe Executive Committee.\n\nART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular\nofficers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, 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\nand disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining\nand dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and\nagents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the\ntransaction of all such business as usually appertains to the\nexecutive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies;\nthe Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the\nmissionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision\nof the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually chosen,\nalways entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or missionary;\nand the decision of such reference shall be final.\n\nThe Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies\noccurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;\nto apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of\nincorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all\nofficers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the\nSociety; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and\nfor the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, in\nall parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general\nconventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion\nof the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of\nthe missionary work.\n\nFive members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for\ntransacting business.\n\nART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing 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\ntheir fellow-beings as slaves.\n\nART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to\nthe principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain\nmissionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the\nagency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART. X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without 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)\nin the regular official notifications of the meeting.\n\n [Footnote A: By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among\n others, a belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men\n without a Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning\n Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the\n necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and\n holy obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul;\n and the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of\n the wicked, and salvation of the righteous.]\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\nthe almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its\nmain efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens\nand Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely\nrelated to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE\nin America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane and\nChristian policy 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., 13;\nKy., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6.\n_Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE\nSOUTH.\u2014_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.;\nAtlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.;\nand Austin, Texas, 8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,\nRaleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Savannah, Macon,\nAtlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis,\nTenn., 12. _Other Schools_, 24. Total 44.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014Among the Freedmen, 253; among\nthe Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total, 296.\nSTUDENTS\u2014In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course, 63; in other\nstudies, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars taught by former pupils of\nour schools, estimated at 150,000. 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. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and _larger_\ncontributions from the churches\u2014the feeble as well as the strong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for\nthe new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and\npious, for these churches.\n\n3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and\nmissionaries to Africa\u2014a pressing want.\n\nBefore sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.\noffice, as below:\n\nNEW YORK H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street. BOSTON Rev. C. L.\nWoodworth, Room 21 Congregational House. CHICAGO Rev. Jas. Powell,\n112 West Washington Street.\n\n\nMAGAZINE.\n\nThis Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the\nMissionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen\nwho take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of\nSabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; to\nSocieties of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does not\nprefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less\nthan five dollars.\n\nThose who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in\ntheir last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the\nfollowing\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\u201cI BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of \u2014\u2014 dollars in\ntrust, to pay the same in \u2014\u2014 days after my decease to the person who,\nwhen the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the \u2018American\nMissionary Association\u2019 of New York City, to be applied, under the\ndirection of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its\ncharitable uses and purposes.\u201d\n\nThe will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States three\nare required\u2014in other States only two], who should write against\ntheir names, their places of residence [if in cities, their street\nand number]. The following form of attestation will answer for every\nState in the Union: \u201cSigned, sealed, published and declared by the\nsaid [A. B.] as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us,\nwho, at the request of the said A. B., and in his presence, and in\nthe presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as\nwitnesses.\u201d In some States it is required that the Will should be\nmade at least two months before the death of the testator.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n THE\n\n CHRISTIAN UNION.\n\n * * * * *\n\n HENRY WARD BEECHER,}\n LYMAN ABBOTT, } Editors.\n\n \u201cIn my own family, every one of us, from the eldest to the\n youngest, finds something in every weekly issue to be read with\n interest and to yield instruction.\u201d\u2014 LEONARD BACON.\n\n * * * * *\n\n _SPECIAL FEATURES FOR 1880._\n\n =PICTURES OF TRAVEL=, by BLANCHE WILLIS HOWARD, CHARLES\n DUDLEY WARNER, CURTIS GUILD, ADELINE TRAFTON, _J. Leonard\n Corning_, G. W. W. 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PAINTER, aided\n by the steady contributions of our intelligent Missionaries\n and teachers in all parts of the field, and with occasional\n communications from careful observers and thinkers elsewhere,\n the AMERICAN MISSIONARY furnishes a vivid and reliable picture\n of the work going forward among the Indians, the Chinamen on\n the Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as citizens in the South\n and as Missionaries in Africa.\n\n It will be the vehicle of important views on all matters\n affecting the races among which it labors, and will give a\n monthly summary of current events relating to their welfare and\n progress.\n\n Patriots and Christians interested in the education and\n Christianizing of these despised races are asked to read it,\n and assist in its circulation. Begin with the next number and\n the new year. The price is only Fifty Cents per annum.\n\n The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the\n persons indicated on page 223.\n\n Donations and subscriptions should be sent to\n\n H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n 56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n TO ADVERTISERS.\n\n Special attention is invited to the advertising department\n of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Among its regular readers are\n thousands of Ministers of the Gospel, Presidents, Professors\n and Teachers in Colleges, Theological Seminaries and Schools;\n it is, therefore, a specially valuable medium for advertising\n Books, Periodicals, Newspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of\n Learning, Church Furniture, Bells, Household Goods, &c.\n\n Advertisers are requested to note the moderate price charged\n for space in its columns, considering the extent and character\n of its circulation.\n\n Advertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month,\n in order to secure insertion in the following number. All\n communications in relation to advertising should be addressed to\n\n THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT,\n 56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n * * * * *\n\n \u261b Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department\n of the \u201cAmerican Missionary\u201d can aid us in this respect by\n mentioning, when ordering goods, that they saw them advertised\n in our Magazine.\n\n\nDAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, Printer, 101 Chambers Street, New York.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTRANSCRIBER\u2019S NOTES.\n\n\n 1. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal\n signs=.\n\n 2. Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors have been\n silently corrected.\n\n 3. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 34, No. 7, July, 1880","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":21660}