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No. 4.\n\n\n                                  THE\n\n                         AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n                 \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n                             APRIL, 1881.\n\n\n\n\n                              _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    PARAGRAPHS                                              97\n    THE INAUGURAL AND THE SOUTH                             98\n    TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY                                     99\n    ARTHINGTON MISSION                                     100\n    GROWTH OF NEGRO POPULATION IN THE SOUTH                101\n    TONIC SOL-FA SYSTEM OF TEACHING MUSIC                  102\n    SUCCESS, REAL AND APPARENT                             103\n    BENEFACTIONS                                           104\n    GENERAL NOTES\u2014Africa, Indiana, Chinese                 105\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                   107\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    VIRGINIA, HAMPTON\u2014Pastor\u2019s Testimony                   108\n    GEORGIA, ATLANTA\u2014Revival Interest                      109\n    GEORGIA, SAVANNAH\u2014John the Baptist of the\n      Church\u2014Genius for Piety                              109\n    GEORGIA, MACON\u2014Southern Winter of 1880-81              110\n    ALABAMA, TALLADEGA\u2014Accessions to the Church            111\n    MISSISSIPPI, TOUGALOO\u2014Burning of Boys\u2019 Dormitory       112\n    TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE\u2014Statistics of Teaching by\n      Students in Fisk University                          114\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    HOW SPEEDS THE WORK? Rev. W. C. Pond                   115\n\n\n  WOMAN\u2019S HOME MISS. ASSOC\u2019N\n\n    MONTHLY REPORT                                         118\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                 120\n\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                             126\n\n\n  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC.                             127\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n                               NEW YORK:\n           Published by the American Missionary Association,\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\nAmerican Missionary Association,\n\n56 READE STREET, N. Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  PRESIDENT.\n\n    HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\n  VICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n    Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n    Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n    Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n    Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.\n    Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.\n    WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.\n    Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.\n    Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.\n    Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.\n    Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. J.\n    Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D. D., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.\n    Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n    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    Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.\n    Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.\n    Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Washington Ter.\n    Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.\n    Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n    EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.\n    Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D.D., Ct.\n    Rev. W. L. GAGE, D.D., Ct.\n    A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio.\n    Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Mass.\n    Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.\n    Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.\n    Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.\n    Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.\n    S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n    Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n    Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.\n    Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.\n    Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng.\n    WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y.\n    J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.\n    E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J.\n    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.\n    DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.\n    A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.\n    Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y.\n    FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.\n    JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I.\n    Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo.\n    J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.\n    E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.\n    C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.\n    Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal.\n    Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas;\n    Rev. W. H. WILLCOX, D. D., Mass.\n    Rev. G. B. WILLCOX, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D. D., N. Y.\n    Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, Mass.\n    Rev. E. B. WEBB, D. D., Mass.\n    Hon. C. I. WALKER, Mich.\n    Rev. A. H. ROSS, Mich.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n  DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n    REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n    REV. G. D. PIKE, D. D., _New York_.\n    REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n    H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.\n\n\n  EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n    ALONZO S. BALL,\n    A. S. BARNES,\n    C. T. CHRISTENSEN,\n    CLINTON B. FISK,\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n    S. B. HALLIDAY,\n    J. A. HAMILTON,\n    SAMUEL HOLMES,\n    CHARLES A. HULL,\n    EDGAR KETCHUM,\n    CHAS. L. MEAD,\n    SAMUEL S. MARPLES,\n    WM. T. PRATT,\n    J. A. SHOUDY,\n    JOHN H. WASHBURN.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to\nthe District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the \u201cAmerican\nMissionary,\u201d to Rev. G. D. PIKE, D. D., at the New York Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New\nYork, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21\nCongregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\n\n\n\n                                  THE\n\n                         AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n             VOL. XXXV.       APRIL, 1881.         NO. 4.\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n\nWe call special attention to our appeal for the funds needful for\nre-building the dormitory recently destroyed by fire at Tougaloo\nUniversity. The demand is immediate and imperative, as will be seen\nby the account of the fire given by Mr. Hatch in this number of the\nMISSIONARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMayor Hall, of Cambridge, Mass., who has made an extended tour in the\nSouth, recently stated in an address at Dr. McKenzie\u2019s church that he\nconsidered the moral and religious character of the schools of the A.\nM. A. a model of missionary work, and that he believed certainly for\nthe next ten years the work of the Association was the great work of\nthe churches, and that no cause has a higher claim on their charity and\nprayers.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe communication found elsewhere concerning our Chinese work on the\nPacific Coast is timely and pertinent. Mr. Pond\u2019s efficiency, economy\nand success will leave no doubt in the minds of those who know of\nhim and his work that his request is reasonable. While we cannot ask\nthat money intended for our treasury, and which we need to meet our\nappropriation for Bro. Pond\u2019s work, be diverted, we commend his appeal\nto the prayerful attention of the friends of the Chinese, and assure\nthem that whatever may be sent to him will be properly applied, and\nmeet an urgent necessity.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe \u201cMissionary Herald\u201d for March contains a map of that portion of\nAfrica selected for the new mission of the American Board on the west\ncoast. It also gives an account of the arrival of Messrs. Bagster,\nSanders and Miller at Benguela. These brethren write very cheerfully,\nand anticipate an easy and early journey to Bihe, the point of their\ndestination. The sadness caused by the death of Mr. Pinkerton while on\nhis way to Umzila\u2019s kingdom, of which a full account is given in the\nsame number of the \u201cHerald,\u201d is somewhat relieved by the hopeful aspect\nof affairs on the west coast.\n\nA benevolent gentleman offers to duplicate any excess of $50 or\nmore over last year\u2019s contribution by any churches to the American\nMissionary Association, up to the aggregate amount of $2,500.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe \u201cGospel in all Lands\u201d for March, published by Eugene R. Smith,\nat the Bible House, is devoted to Africa and the Africans. It gives\na resum\u00e9 of the missionary endeavors prosecuted in Africa by the\ndifferent denominations of Christians, covering a period of about 150\nyears. It also contains four maps and numerous illustrations. We know\nof no one pamphlet likely to be so helpful to any one who may wish to\npossess himself of the present attitude of missionary affairs in the\nDark Continent as this.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIt is gratifying to have testimony to the progress of the colored race\nat the South from witnesses outside of our missionaries, confirmatory\nof their evidence.\n\nOne of the missionaries of the American Sunday-school Union writes\nfrom South-western Virginia: \u201cIn Pulaski County I attended the best\nSunday-school Association I was ever in. It was among the colored\npeople. They are intensely in earnest in Sunday-school work, and\nanxious to learn. They are very poor, yet buy more books than their\nwhite neighbors. Some of them are quite intelligent. They take hold of\nthe International Lesson System well. Most of the Sunday-schools which\nare kept up during the winter here are colored schools. They ought to\nhave a Sunday-school missionary of their own color.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CLASS OF \u201980, FISK UNIVERSITY.\n\nErnest H. Anderson has been elected Principal of the State Normal\nSchool for the training of colored teachers, located near Hempstead,\nTexas. This is the most important position open to a colored teacher in\nthe State. It gives a large field of usefulness for which Mr. Anderson\nis well qualified. Laurine C. Anderson is in charge of a school in\nChapel Hill, Texas. Joseph Anderson is at the head of a school in\nLeesburg, Camp county, Texas. J. J. Durham is studying medicine at the\nMeharry Medical College, Nashville. J. E. Porter is teaching in one of\nthe public schools of Jeffersonville, Ind. R. P. Neal is in charge of\nthe school at Humboldt, Tenn. Here is a practical answer to the inquiry\nthat is often raised by our friends, \u201cWhat do your students do after\ngraduating from college?\u201d\u2014_Fisk Expositor._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE INAUGURAL AND THE SOUTH.\n\nPresident Garfield\u2019s inaugural has very properly given special\nattention to America\u2019s great problem, the condition of the colored\npeople in the South. His fitly-chosen words may well be repeated:\n\n\u201cBad local Government is certainly a great evil which ought to be\nprevented; but to violate the freedom and sanctity of the suffrage is\nmore than an evil\u2014it is a crime which if persisted in will destroy the\nGovernment itself. Suicide is not a remedy.\u201d\n\nAs to the remedy, the President says:\n\n\u201cFor the North and South alike, there is but one remedy. All the\nconstitutional powers of the Nation and of the States, and all the\nvolunteer forces of the people, should be summoned to meet this danger\nby the saving influence of universal education.\u201d\n\nA sounder utterance could not be expressed if the word \u201c_education_\u201d be\nmade sufficiently broad. The training of the common school, reaching\nonly the intellect, is not enough. There must be the awakening of the\nconscience and the purification of the heart as well. _Character_ is\nthe foundation of manhood, and hence of a worthy citizenship.\n\nThe A. M. A. has from the first acted on the necessity of this broader\nbasis, and hence its school and church work have been blended\u2014the\nschool has been religious and the church intelligent.\n\nThe President\u2019s remedy of \u201cuniversal education\u201d has been criticised as\nrequiring too long a time. Perhaps somebody can find a legislative or\nlegal remedy that will work the cure more speedily. The past does not\nmake us hopeful in this respect, and hence we, as one of the \u201cvolunteer\nforces,\u201d which the inaugural mentions, will push on as vigorously as\npossible. This is the great work of the age for this nation, and we\nhope the strong and clear language of President Garfield will give a\nnew impulse to it.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.\n\nThe recent burning of the boys\u2019 dormitory at Tougaloo, Miss., compels\nus to build anew, and the over-crowding of students compels us to build\nlarger.\n\nWe must rebuild or abandon the school. The latter we dare not do. The\ncolored population in the State exceeds the white, numbering 652,221,\nand has increased over 46 per cent. in the last ten years. Tougaloo\nUniversity is seven miles north of Jackson, the capital, and there is\nno similar school of higher grade admitting colored students nearer\nthan about 200 miles south, east, or north, and none much nearer west.\nThe Institution has 500 acres of land attached to it, giving employment\nto the students, and it has the good-will of the State Legislature,\nwhich makes an annual grant to support teachers.\n\nThe school at Tougaloo has long been over-crowded. It has comfortable\nrooms for 32 young women, but 60 are in attendance, three being put\nin the small rooms, and sitting-rooms being converted into sleeping\napartments. One room needed for the accommodation of teachers was\ntaken and ten young women put into it. Some applications were refused.\nThere were, before the fire, accommodations for 28 young men, with 50\nin attendance, the overflow being crowded into most unsuitable and\ninconvenient quarters.\n\nThe students, in summer vacations, teach about 4,000 pupils in day\nschools and Sunday-schools, and secure from 1,000 to 1,500 names to the\ntemperance pledge.\n\nThe Executive Committee, a few months since, authorized the gradual\nenlargement of the girls\u2019 dormitory as funds would permit. For a\nnew boys\u2019 dormitory it was hoped that $10,000 might be spared from\nthe generous gift of Mrs. Stone, but the definite pledges to other\ninstitutions and the increased price of labor and materials forbid\nit. We had scarcely more than realized this disappointment when the\nboys\u2019 dormitory was destroyed by fire. The best temporary arrangements\npossible have been made, including the use of the barn, which the boys\nhave occupied cheerfully, calling it \u201cAyrshire Hall,\u201d but they have\nsuffered much from cold in inclement weather.\n\nFourteen thousand dollars is the lowest sum for which a boys\u2019 dormitory\nand chapel can be erected. Three thousand dollars will be required for\nthe enlargement of the girls\u2019 dormitory. Two thousand dollars will be\nnecessary for furnishing; making a total of $19,000. Three thousand\ndollars, the insurance on the burned building, will reduce the sum\nneeded to $16,000.\n\nThe building and improvements should begin at once, to get them ready\nfor use in the fall. The Executive Committee, feeling the call to be\nimperative, will go forward immediately, relying upon our friends to\nfurnish the means _as a special contribution_: for our ordinary income\nwill be taxed to the utmost to carry on our current work.\n\nWe make an earnest appeal to the friends whom we believe to be both\nable and willing to aid us effectually and promptly in this pressing\nemergency.\n\nFunds may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New\nYork.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nARTHINGTON MISSION.\n\nExtracts From Recent Correspondence.\n\nWe trust it will be of interest to the friends of African Missions to\nlearn that Mr. Robert Arthington, of Leeds, England, has paid over the\n\u00a33,000 pledged by him to this Association, for a new mission on the\nUpper Nile.\n\nThe following extracts from letters give a comprehensive view of the\npresent attitude of affairs relating to the mission:\n\n                                 \u201cLeeds, England, December 14, 1880.\n\n  \u201cDear Brethren in our Lord Jesus, our Saviour: For some time I have had\n  it in my mind and heart to write to you and say I thought it time\u2014I\n  do trust the Lord\u2019s time\u2014we should begin the mission. If, therefore,\n  your faith is fully with my faith, I propose to send you the \u00a33,000 at\n  once. How does it seem with you in the Lord\u2019s sight? Without Him we\n  can do nothing, and we must have Him with us from the beginning to the\n  end of this enterprise.\n\n  \u201cLet all the true people of God in the United States understand\n  this, our view and feeling. We are all one family\u2014they who are \u2018the\n  children of God scattered abroad.\u2019 So I ask them all throughout the\n  States, yea, and the world, to go with us heart and soul and prayer\n  always in this undertaking. Surely in the mighty God of Jacob we shall\n  overcome. We shall win many for Christ, and they shall stand amidst\n  the multitude of the redeemed with palms in their hands, out of every\n  kindred and nation and tongue and people.\n\n  \u201cWith my Christian sentiments to your committee, and asking the\n  blessing of God on all their deliberations, yours and theirs, ever\n  in Him, whom not having seen we love, in whom believing we have joy\n  unspeakable and full of glory,\n\n                                                \u201cROBERT ARTHINGTON.\u201d\n\n\n                                \u201c56 Reade Street, January 14, 1881.\n\n  \u201cRobert Arthington, Esq., Leeds, England. Dear Brother: * * * *\n  Further information about the requirements of the mission and the\n  territory to be occupied have been gathered, so that on the receipt\n  of your letter, we felt called of God to take definite action. Our\n  Executive Committee, with prayerful gratitude to God, interpreted your\n  communication as an indication from Him that the time had come for us\n  to go forward. Accordingly they voted to accept your bountiful gift\n  and to undertake the preliminary work needful during the coming year.\n  Among the persons with whom we had been in communication was Rev.\n  Henry M. Ladd, the son of a missionary, who had spent 17 years of his\n  early life at Smyrna and other localities in the East, before coming\n  to this country to study for the ministry, and who was presumed to\n  have peculiar fitness as the leader of the new mission. On receiving\n  your letter, we obtained an interview with Mr. Ladd, and after a full\n  and prayerful deliberation, we tendered him the superintendency of our\n  African Missions, and this week he writes us as follows: \u2018I hereby\n  accept the position, praying the great Head of the church for His\n  blessing on the arduous work undertaken in His name.\u2019\n\n  \u201cWe learned last spring from Gordon Pacha, the late Governor-general\n  of the Soudan, that it would be necessary to secure certain privileges\n  from the Egyptian Government, assuring protection to the missionaries,\n  the privilege of navigating the Upper Nile, etc. This we trust may be\n  accomplished in part, at least, by correspondence, upon which we can\n  enter directly. Meanwhile, inasmuch as the best season for starting\n  from Cairo and the mouth of the Sobat commences about the first of\n  October, we desire Mr. Ladd and a physician to be on the ground at\n  that time, to take advantage of the favorable weather of the latter\n  part of autumn and the early winter, to visit the territory it is\n  proposed to occupy, and determine about the location, and the men and\n  facilities needful in order to insure the success of our new work.\n\n  \u201cWe are seeking prayerfully and most earnestly under God, to lay\n  enduring foundations, and to build up a work which may extend over\n  the utterly destitute region of country, included in the boundaries,\n  marked out, we believe, so wisely and prayerfully by yourself. We\n  now most cheerfully, and relying upon God hopefully, are ready to\n  undertake the great work you have suggested to us.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGROWTH OF NEGRO POPULATION IN THE SOUTH.\n\nThe negro most perversely and persistently refuses to do what has been\nprophesied of him, or to conform to the general rules enumerated as\napplicable to him.\n\nThe census reports for 1880 reveal the last and most striking phase of\nthis, perversity, as may be seen in the following table taken from the\n_New York Herald_, comparing the colored population of the old slave\nStates, except Texas, in 1870, with that of 1880:\n\n    STATES.           1870.        1880.\n  Alabama            475,510      600,141\n  Arkansas           122,169      210,622\n  Delaware            22,794       26,456\n  Florida             91,689      125,262\n  Georgia            545,142      724,654\n  Kentucky           222,210      271,462\n  Louisiana          364,210      483,898\n  Maryland           175,391      209,896\n  Mississippi        444,201      652,221\n  Missouri           118,071      145,046\n  North Carolina     391,650      531,316\n  South Carolina     415,814      604,325\n  Tennessee          322,331      402,991\n  Virginia           512,841      631,756\n  West Virginia       17,980       25,729\n\nThe increase in these States during this decade has been more than 33\nper cent., and at the same rate will give us at the beginning of the\nnext century more than ten millions of negroes in these States alone.\nDuring the same time, the per cent. of increase in the white population\nhas been less than 28 per cent., which will give something over\neighteen millions as their total white population in 1900.\n\nIt is manifest that the negro has come to stay, and must be taken into\nour calculations in all estimates for the future of our national life.\nHe need not fade away before us despite heroic efforts to save him.\nHe does not perish even under our discouraging frowns. He will not be\nsuppressed by a somewhat rigorous repressive policy. He has withstood\nall this, and flourished under it, as did the Israelites under the\ndiscouragements of Egyptian legislation.\n\nIt is not for us humanely to consider, therefore, how we can make\ncomfortable in their decline the lingering remnants of this perishing\npeople. The more momentous question is how this vast and rapidly\nincreasing mass of humanity is best to be fitted for the large part\nit is to play in our national life. It is not a question whether we\nshall have it with us or not, but whether we shall allow it to remain\na festering, death-exhaling corruption, or whether it can be converted\ninto a much needed element of strength. It could not be a matter of\nindifference to the most despotic government what is the condition of\nsuch a vast body of its citizens. Even when they were slaves, wholly\nunder control of their masters, with no rights to claim and no duties\nto perform, their very presence as an ignorant and licentious mass of\nchattles gave great cause for anxiety to the intelligent lover of his\ncountry. But now they are citizens and voters, and whether exercising\ntheir rights as such or deprived of them, are equally, almost, a source\nof dangerous power which cannot but fill us with grave apprehensions,\nif we but think of it.\n\nThe census tables proclaim loudly that death nor destiny will mitigate\nthis danger; is it not time for a wise statesmanship to undertake\nseriously the task of dissipating it by a good and ample system of\neducation which will qualify the negro for the duties thrust upon him?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE TONIC SOL-FA SYSTEM OF TEACHING MUSIC.\n\nBY THEODORE F. SEWARD.\n\nThat music is one of the special gifts of the colored people has long\nbeen known and recognized. How to develop that gift in the wisest manner\nand to the best advantage of the race, is a question which ought to\nreceive a practical answer, and as speedily as possible. If they are\npeculiarly susceptible to the refining and elevating influences of such\nan art as music, it is very desirable that these influences be brought\nto bear upon them just now, while in the formative stage of their\nhistory.\n\nFortunately, or as I like better to say, providentially, the way is\nnow opened for that result. A system has been devised and perfected\nin England, and is now beginning to be generally adopted in this\ncountry, which so simplifies the study of music as to bring it within\nthe comprehension of a little child. That system bears the name which\nstands at the head of this article. A technical description of the\nsystem would be out of place here. It is enough to say that the result\nis accomplished and the study of music now is made easy and delightful\nwhere it was formerly perplexing and confusing. How much this means\nfor the colored people, with their musical gifts and inspirations, it\nis impossible to imagine. It is not to be supposed that such special\npowers were bestowed upon a whole race without some very important and\nfar-reaching purpose. The unfolding of that purpose was begun in a very\nwonderful way by the Jubilee Singers. But their mission was among the\nCaucasian races rather than among their own people. The Tonic Sol-fa\nsystem comes to fill a widely different sphere, viz.: to give to the\nmasses an intelligent possession of the world of music.\n\nThe A. M. A. has done a very wise thing in taking steps to test at once\nthe value of this system for its constituents. They have commissioned a\nteacher to go to the Fisk University and teach it during the remainder\nof the school year. The method is so easy and natural that a thorough\nknowledge of its fundamental principles can be imparted in that time,\nand not only that, but _all who learn it can teach it intelligently in\ntheir schools during the coming summer_. Its advantages will thus begin\nto be felt in remote country districts, and the reform will be carried\non just where such reforms should always begin, among the masses of the\ncommon people.\n\nThe teacher who has been appointed to this important post, Mr. J. W.\nAdams, is one who is singularly fitted by his history and antecedents\nto engage in this special work. Born in England, he was taken by his\nparents to the island of St. Helena at the age of three. When nine\nyears old he accompanied his father, a sea captain, on one of his\nvoyages. The vessel was wrecked on the coast of South Africa, and the\nyoung lad remained there for eighteen years. He traveled extensively\nthroughout the country on trading expeditions, and thus became\nthoroughly acquainted with the manners and usages of the native tribes\nas well as of the British and Dutch settlers. He learned the Tonic\nSol-fa system there and became so interested in it that at length he\nresolved to qualify himself as a teacher. It is certainly a singular\nand interesting fact, that the person who is first to introduce the\nsystem among the Freedmen of America should have learned it in Africa.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSUCCESS, REAL AND APPARENT.\n\nIt is often difficult, not to say impossible, to know just what success\nhas been achieved by any special missionary effort. After years of\nfaithful labor the missionary, if challenged to do so, may not be able\nto adduce a single satisfactory proof that he has not labored wholly in\nvain, so far as the results he has been seeking are concerned.\n\nOn the other hand, changes so remarkable, so exactly in the line of\nwhat is sought and hoped for, follow the very first proclamation of the\nGospel, which we gladly attribute to Divine grace; we grow confident\nthat at last the promise is nearing its fulfilment when \u201ca nation shall\nbe born in a day.\u201d\n\nNow, it should be understood that we are in danger of mistake as to the\nreal condition of things in each case; a mistake which breeds despair\nwhere there may be good reason for rejoicing, or excites hopes that are\nfatally false on the other hand.\n\nDoubtless many a faithful toiler has spent his whole life in laying\nfoundations, deep and broad, but out of the sight of ordinary\nobservers, upon which shall rise, in magnificent proportions, a temple\nto our God after he has gone to his reward\u2014to the reward of one who has\nbeen faithful, rather than of one who has been observed. The merest\naccident may place another in such relation to this man\u2019s toils that he\nshall seem to be the creator of all the results for which he labored,\nwhile he bears no other relation to them than the minnow does to the\nswell and roar and irresistible rush of the wave by which it has been\ncaught and upon which it rides.\n\nAgain, men possessed of certain gifts, but devoid of needed restraints\nin their use, may arouse the enthusiasm of their fellows, sway their\npassions, play upon their imaginations, excite their emotions and\npropel them along certain lines of activity until confidence is created\nthat now, at last, the kingdom is coming with millennial celerity and\npower. But a reaction from all this is certain, and the Gospel ship\nwhich just now was riding with grace and beauty upon the crest of\nthe wave lies half buried in mud and sea-weed to await the rising of\nanother tide. The whole movement has been that of an anchored boat,\nwithout the possibility of advance, and worse than useless, for in this\ncase it has been with the waste of spiritual force.\n\nThere are two facts which all who are laboring for the coming of the\nkingdom of our Lord should regard as fixed, and being fixed some good\ndegree of fixedness will be secured for their hopes with reference to\nits progress. One of these is the amazing ignorance and wickedness of\nthose over whom this kingdom of light and love is to be established;\nand the other is the Divine power of that kingdom and the Divine\npurpose to establish it, and hence the certainty of its establishment.\n\nThe Gospel will never gain its conquests in such way as to relieve the\nChurch of the duty and labor and self-denial and discipline of carrying\nit and proclaiming it to the heathen, who will find it, as all people\nhave, opposed to all their habits and pleasures and traditions, and\nwill, therefore, when they understand it, resist it before accepting\nit. The cheering news which so often comes to us from Central Africa\nand other lands will doubtless be followed by most discouraging news of\ndisappointment and seeming disaster.\n\nOn the other hand, it must be remembered that in all really substantial\nbuildings, especially if erected on doubtful ground, a large proportion\nof the cost and of the most valuable material, and also of the time,\nmust be expended out of sight before it becomes a feature of the\nlandscape.\n\nIn all religious movements it is especially true that much of the best\nmaterial, and much of the cost, is utterly lost to sight before the\nworld sees any result. In the South, for the past fifteen years, the\nfoundations have been laid for a superstructure which is to arise in\ngrand and glorious proportions, the joy of our land and the praise\nof all people. We are just reaching the surface, and others than the\nworkmen themselves are now able to see that something has been going on\nduring all these years.\n\nIf structures, however beautiful, which have no foundations, must\ntopple, and we should feel no disappointment when they do, we would yet\nunderstand that much has been done when a foundation broad enough and\nstrong enough has been laid.\n\nThe work will go on now with apparently tenfold rapidity, for, since it\nattracts attention it will also attract helpers, and those who doubted\nand sneered will co-operate in carrying it forward.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nIt is reported that John I. Blair has recently given $40,000 to\nLafayette College.\n\nHon. Levi Parsons has given $50,000 to Union College for the benefit of\nworthy students.\n\nMrs. Orra Bolles, of Hartford, Conn., has given $15,000 to different\nbenevolent enterprises, mostly under the auspices of the Baptist\ndenomination.\n\nEx-Secretary Delano has given $10,000 to Kenyon College.\n\nThe Botanical Department of the Cornell University has recently\nreceived a donation of $10,000 from the Hon. H. W. Sage, of Ithaca, N.\nY.\n\nMr. Spurgeon is reported to have recently received $200,000 for his\nPastors\u2019 College, and $125,000 for his Orphanage.\n\nMr. Amasa Stone, of Cleveland, Ohio, has offered $500,000 to the\nWestern Reserve College, conditioned on its removal to Cleveland.\n\nJames Mackey, of California, has signified his intention of giving\n$50,000 to Bowdoin College. It is said his example is likely to be\nfollowed by a gentleman in Philadelphia.\n\nThe will of Mrs. Maggie Embry, of Eleton, Ky., which has been admitted\nto probate, gives $200,000 in Louisville and Nashville Railroad Stock\nto the Vanderbilt University at Nashville.\n\nJudge Forbes, of Northampton, Mass., has left $300,000 to found a\nsecond free library in that town.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAfrica.\n\n\u2014King Meneleck, who rules in Southern Abyssinia, has recently abolished\nthe slave-trade in his dominions.\n\n\u2014Tunis and Algeria are now united by a daily postal service, and\nletters are transmitted at a cost of fifteen cents each.\n\n\u2014M. Lombard, corresponding member of the Norman Society of Geography,\nhas been charged with a scientific mission in Abyssinia. He has arrived\nat Massoua.\n\n\u2014The caravan of the missionaries from Algeria, bound for Lake\nTanganyika, has arrived safely at Kar\u00e9ma, near the Lake. Those that\nstarted, however, for the Victoria Nyanza, have been pillaged on the\nroute.\n\n\u2014The Chamber at Paris has approved the grant made to a company for a\nrailroad from St. Louis to Dakar and voted a credit of 1,700,000 francs\nfor laying a cable from Dakar to St. Vincent. This last line will place\nSenegal in direct communication with Europe.\n\n\u2014The Church Missionary Society has received an offer from Mr.\nArthington, of Leeds, of $25,000, the income of which they will be at\nliberty to use towards maintaining a steamer and staff of agents on the\nUpper Binu\u00e9 and Lake Tchad. In returning thanks to Mr. Arthington, the\nSociety was obliged to inform him that the amount would be insufficient\nfor the purposes mentioned.\n\n\u2014Mr. J. M. Cnouwer, a Hollander, has undertaken a journey from\nAlexandria to the Cape of Good Hope. It is announced that he will\nbe joined on his way by a Frenchman who has lived a long while\nin Abyssinia. He possesses considerable fortune and has had much\nexperience as a traveler. It is not his purpose to take with him more\nthan a single servant and a small amount of luggage. If he succeeds in\nhis endeavors, his name will be placed by the side of the most renowned\nAfrican explorers.\n\n\u2014Stanley continues his travels towards the interior without allowing\nhimself to be stopped by the difficulties of his enterprise. The 7th\nof November he was rejoiced to meet H. Savorgnan de Brazza, who, after\nascending two tributaries of the Congo and establishing a station,\ntraversed the territory of Apfourous and reached by land the shores\nof the Congo. Resuming navigation he descended the course of the\nriver half way to Stanley Pool, where he founded a new station. Then,\ncontinuing to follow it, he rejoined Stanley. It appears that the\njourney made by Brazza, which traversed a territory north of the lower\nCongo towards the interior of Africa, is a much more practicable route\nthan the one up the river itself.\n\n\u2014Praggia, who is engaged in exploring the Soudan south of Khartoum,\nbetween the Blue and White Nile, is said to have met a large caravan\nwith thousands of oxen, cows, goats and sheep. The children held\nin their arms the lambs and kids and even the little calves. The\nchiefs were mounted upon mules and asses, while their commander,\nupon a beautiful dromedary, ran hither and thither and superintended\neverything. These troops of quadrupeds were accompanied by bands of\nbirds, which flew over their backs. Praggia estimated that the caravan\nwould count 50,000 living beings. He also met other and smaller\ncaravans of the same character. The object of the emigrants seems to\nhave been a purpose to escape from the flies and particularly the\ntsetse. The region from whence they came lies a little northeast of the\nterritory where it is proposed to establish the Arthington Mission.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Indians.\n\n\u2014A small congregation of full-blooded Chickasaw Indians lately gave\n$400 for the Foreign Missions of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.\n\n\u2014The largest tribe of Indians in the United States is the Sioux, or as\nthey call themselves, the Dakota. Since the Sioux were first known,\nthey have occupied a large portion of the center of the American\ncontinent, including the head waters of the Mississippi River.\n\n\u2014In the last Annual Report of the educational work of the Friends among\nthe Indians, it is stated that at the Osage agency there are 2,745\nIndians. Of these, 205, on the average, are in attendance at the two\nboarding-schools sustained at that point.\n\n\u2014The American Sunday-school Union has planted 121 Sunday-schools in\nthe Indian territory. Next year they are to have a Sunday-school\ncamp-meeting of ten days in August, at Atoka, in the Cherokee Nation,\nwhere a large gathering of full-bloods, who are averse to meeting in\nhouses and among strangers, is anticipated.\n\n\u2014The laws of the Indian Colony at Metlakahtla, British Columbia, under\nthe auspices of the English Church Missionary Society, are fifteen in\nnumber, and worthy to be imitated by those laboring for the Indians\neverywhere. These have been summarized as follows:\u20141. To give up their\nIndian magic. 2. To cease calling in conjurers when sick. 3. To cease\ngambling. 4. To cease squandering their property. 5. To cease painting\ntheir faces. 6. To cease using intoxicating drinks. 7. To rest on\nthe Sabbath. 8. To attend to religious instruction. 9. To send their\nchildren to school. 10. To be clean. 11. To be industrious. 12. To be\npeaceable. 13. To be honest. 14. To build neat houses. 15. To pay their\nvillage tax.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Chinese.\n\n\u2014In one district in Japan seventy-one Buddhist temples have been\ndiverted to secular uses since 1873, and over 700 in the whole empire\nsince 1871.\n\n\u2014Mr. D. Smith, of the Presbyterian church of England mission at\nFormosa, has lately been privileged to baptize nine natives, making in\nall thirty-two members of the Peh-tsui-Khan Church. There has besides\nbeen a considerable amount of inquiry here, so that the congregation of\nhearers has greatly increased. Other places in this island have also\nhad blessing and additions to the churches.\n\n\u2014Dr. Happer thinks that Prof. S. Wells Williams over-estimates the\npopulation of China at the present time. The loss of life in recent\nyears, caused by wars and famines, has been considerable, and the\nrecuperative power of the Chinese people has greatly decreased\non account of the use of opium. Mr. Happer estimates the present\npopulation as 300,000,000.\n\n\u2014The singular idea prevails among some in China that the reason why\nChinese become Christians on reading the Bible is, that they are\nstupified by the ink used, in consequence of which they lose their\nreason and are thus ready to believe what is false. People are warned,\ntherefore, against buying or reading foreign books.\n\n\u2014The students sent by the Chinese government for study in this country\nlive in American families, and visit the headquarters at Hartford at\ncertain times for inspection, and for drill in their own language.\nThe number is distributed at present as follows: Boston Institute of\nTechnology, 8; Troy Polytechnic Institute, 5; Lafayette College, 2;\nLehigh University, 5; Bethlehem, Pa., 2; Institute of Technology,\nHoboken, 2; Yale College, Classical, 9; Scientific, 5; Amherst, 1;\nHarvard, 1; Columbia, 1. The greater number are in Hartford and\nvicinity.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nFLORENCE, ALA.\u2014Rev. W. H. Ash, with aid from this Association, is\nputting up a neat parsonage by the side of the new and tasteful\nchurch-edifice.\n\nNASHVILLE, TENN.\u2014The new enthusiasm in Fisk, at present, is over the\nnovel \u201cTonic-sol-fa system\u201d of vocal music. By means of this excellent\nvoice culture, Mr. Adams is bringing out the strength and beauty of\nvoices for which nature has already done so much. The first interest\ndoes not abate, and very perceptible improvement daily increases.\n\nLivingstone Missionary Hall is now building, and over this is much\nrejoicing.\n\nLOUISVILLE, KY.\u2014On the Sabbath, Feb. 20th, Superintendent Roy preached\nfor the Congregational Methodist Church of this city, as well as on the\ntwo preceding nights. The church, which has 95 members, a Sunday-school\nand a class-meeting along with the prayer-meeting, and which worships\nin a hall, owning its own organ, voted to unite with the Kentucky\nAssociation, and invited the A. M. A. to furnish them with a pastor. A\nsimilar church at Junction City, Ky., is moving in the same direction,\nhaving its own modest church property.\n\nLITTLE ROCK, ARK.\u2014On the 28th of February, after preaching on the\nSabbath previous, in the \u201cSons of Ham\u201d Hall, the Superintendent\norganized the First Congregational Church of that Capital and of the\nState, with forty-six members and ten more educated and influential\npersons ready to come, and \u201cmore to follow.\u201d Rev. B. F. Foster, a\nformer student of Fisk University and a licentiate of the Central South\nConference, was invited to serve the church for three months. The\npeople are moving at once to purchase a house of worship. As would be\nthe right of any Congregational Church, this one incorporated the class\nmeeting into the constitution found in Roy\u2019s Manual. A Sabbath-school,\nthoroughly organized, with one hundred scholars and seventeen officers\nand teachers, started off at the first.\n\nMARION, ALA.\u2014Our large room is filled every Monday afternoon at the\nladies meeting, and all hearts are full; and the dark faces look\nbeautiful to me, shining through smiles and tears, as we talk of the\ndear Saviour. The same room is filled to overflowing with young people\nand children Saturday afternoon. The interest has been so evident\nthat Mr. Curtis has held a few extra meetings. Twelve children have\nbeen forward for prayer, and we believe they have given their hearts\nto Jesus. Mr. C. will hold meetings next week also, and we hope for a\ngreat blessing.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nVIRGINIA.\n\nPastor\u2019s Testimony.\n\nREV. H. B. FRISSELL, HAMPTON.\n\nI have very pleasant meetings with the Indians here. I let them read\nthe verses from the English Bible and then explain them. When I first\ncame I used to read myself, but I found that they liked better to take\na part in the services. Then we sing together from Dr. Robinson\u2019s Songs\nof the Sanctuary. After that I give the meeting into their hands. They\nsuggest their favorite hymns and lead in prayer, usually in their own\nlanguage. They all seem attentive and devout. It is very pleasant to\nsee their faces light up as they get some new thought from God\u2019s word.\nI have seldom seen men more earnest in the study of the Scriptures.\nOne of those who united with the church at the last communion has\nbeen confined to the house with sickness. The nurse tells me that he\noften sits for two or three hours at a time patiently spelling out the\nwords of the English Bible, and asking her the meaning of that which\nhe cannot understand. I am pleased to see that they are interested\nto work for one another. I found the other day that one of the older\nboys, Jas. Murrie, had been accustomed to get a number of the others\nwho were not Christians together, and read the Bible and pray with\nthem. Excellent work, isn\u2019t it, for a young chief who will soon go back\nto take charge of his own tribe? They have a meeting of their own on\nWednesday evening, of which they take charge themselves. I could give\nyou instances of how these Indian boys have resisted temptation in a\nway which seems to me really remarkable.\n\nMy work among the colored students progresses very pleasantly. It is\nhard to get out of their minds wrong conceptions as to what a Christian\nlife is. They expect to see visions and dream dreams when they enter\nupon it, and seem to look upon the entering as the all important part.\nThey haven\u2019t been used to thinking of the Christian life as a struggle\nagainst sin. It is a real pleasure to preach to them, and they are\nearnest to know the truth.\n\nI am trying to make the Christian boys and girls feel their\nresponsibility more. I am trying to make them work for others. We\nhave started a Missionary Association for work in the country about.\nOn Sunday afternoon twenty-five go out into the cottages to read\nthe Bible and pray with the poor families. Many of them work in the\nSunday-schools in Hampton. One goes out to the poor-house, another\nto the prison. They all make the reports of their work to me. We are\ntalking of starting a Sunday-school in the Butler School House. We\nthink we could get in many who do not now attend, and it would give\nour students a chance for work. I am anxious to make them feel that\nthey are not merely to be recipients. There is a good interest in our\nmeetings, and although I don\u2019t feel at all contented with what is being\ndone, and look for much greater things, yet I am thankful for the\nevidences of God\u2019s favor which I see.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nRevival Interest.\n\nREV. C. W. FRANCIS, ATLANTA.\n\nWe have great reason to rejoice in all the good things the Lord has\ndone for us in this school. Since the day of prayer for Colleges on\nthe last Thursday of January, we have had a very marked and general\ninterest in religious things, and we have reason to believe that very\nmany have become reconciled to God and taken up the service of Christ.\nNearly every one in the family, numbering about two hundred students,\nwho was not already a follower of Christ, has been affected and\nconfessed an interest in the subject, and not many have drawn back thus\nfar. About sixty have attended inquiry meetings, and we hope a large\nproportion of them will hold on their way.\n\nThere has been a great quickening of those who bore the Christian name,\nand many of them have taken up the work as though for the first time.\nWe have held meetings every night for five weeks, and there has been\nthe steady presentation of the truth and much personal effort, and so a\ngreat harvest gathered, which fills our hearts with gladness.\n\nRegular school work has not been broken in upon to any great extent\nand there has been no tendency toward undue excitement but a deep and\nsolemn attention to the claims of God has characterized the experience\nof most.\n\nWe cannot tell how many have become decided Christians, certainly more\nthan twenty, and perhaps twice that will upon trial be found steadfast.\nSome have already gone away to distant places to open schools, and\nwill, we trust, carry the light with them, and others will go soon. If\nthey had not been reached just at this time we should probably never\nhave had opportunity to lead them again. Next month we hope quite a\nnumber will unite with our church, and many more will in due time unite\nwith other churches. We are aware of the tendency to over-estimate\nimmediate results and to be mistaken in regard to the permanent effects\nof such a work here; but it is the testimony of all that this is the\nmost thorough and general work for years in this school. It has been\nblessed to be here and to have a share in it. \u201cIt is the Lord\u2019s doing\nand marvelous in our eyes.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe John the Baptist of the Church\u2014Genius for Piety.\n\nREV. B. D. CONKLING, SAVANNAH.\n\nHaving some friends who read the MISSIONARY\u2014when sufficiently urged to\ndo so by their pastors\u2014I would like a little space to give them, not\nsome conclusions, perhaps, but some impressions of the A. M. A. work.\n\nI remember hearing a zealous brother, at the Chicago Annual Meeting,\nearnestly urge that the A. M. A. push more vigorously the \u201cChurch\nwork,\u201d that the conversion of the Freedmen was the thing to be aimed at\nrather than their education, etc.\n\nA few months of experience impress me with the conviction that the\nschool is the \u201cJohn the Baptist\u201d of the church. We cannot do without\neach of them. But we are still in the \u201cschool\u201d state; and if either is\nto suffer, it must be the church work. Each, in fact, bears the same\nmessage to the masses. The church is doubtless to \u201cincrease\u201d greatly;\nbut it will yet be many days (years) before the school will \u201cdecrease,\u201d\nif we are wise.\n\nIt has sometimes been said that the colored people have what has\nbeen called, \u201ca genius for piety.\u201d How much this means can only be\nunderstood by one who has been with them in their religious assemblies\nof the better sort. They have a faculty for getting hold of, and being\ninterested in and by, the things which are most elaborate and profound\nand spiritually significant in thought, which continually surprises\none. They know \u201cmeat\u201d from \u201cmilk,\u201d and are ready every time for the\nformer. They might not follow one who gave them Rowland Hill\u2019s fine\n\u201criver of words, and only a spoonful of thought,\u201d but if any man can\nspeak thoughts in words which accurately mate each other, I invite\nhim to my pulpit, assuring him that he will have an attentive and\nappreciative hearing such as delights the heart of the messenger who\nhas something to say. My impression is that the Negro is to have a\ndecided and beneficent influence upon the Christianity of America, if\nnot upon that of the whole world:\u2014but in precisely what direction I am\nnot clear.\n\nI have a truly noble little band of co-pastors in these churches\nscattered here-abouts. They do not know what they are doing\u2014nor do any\nof us, I think\u2014in planting the seeds of a decorous and an intelligent\nchurch life, and one which insists upon honesty, sobriety, \u201cwhatsoever\nis of good report,\u201d etc., as fundamental therein, among these people\nwho are slowly but surely getting into a secure and respectable place\nin the body politic.\n\nIn view of their position and its opportunities one cannot help\nfeeling\u2014and no one can feel it as keenly as they themselves do\u2014that\nit is a pity that their early advantages had not been greater.\nNevertheless it is my impression that the next fifteen years of A. M.\nA. work will be more important, if possible, than the last fifteen\nyears have been; and this, whether we consider negro or white, State or\nNation, America or Africa.\n\nConclusion: Prayers and gifts were never more needed, or more likely to\ndo lasting good than just now.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Southern Winter of 1880-81.\n\nREV. S. E. LATHROP, MACON.\n\nFor this season, at least, the name of \u201cSunny South\u201d is a misnomer.\nBeginning in November last, there have been almost four solid months of\ncold, sour, dismal, cloudy, stormy weather.\n\nFor ten days the thermometer stood constantly below the freezing point.\nOne night it touched zero. Everybody kept roaring fires, and cowered\nover them in their loosely-built houses. Soon the coal-yards gave out,\nand the wood market was empty. The smooth-shod Southern horses could\nnot climb the icy hills to bring supplies. Fuel became steadily scarcer\nand higher\u2014wood going up from four dollars (the usual price) to fifteen\ndollars per cord, and very scarce at that.\n\nRich and poor alike suffered. Many burned the fences, fruit trees and\nshade trees. Poor people burned their board partitions, bedsteads,\ntables, even chairs and trunks, and some, after all, had to go to bed\nas the only means of keeping warm.\n\nThe \u201cfuel famine\u201d lasted ten or twelve days, the like of which was\nnever known before. Water-pipes burst, fruits, flowers and vegetables\nwere frozen, and general distress ensued. The chilly rain still\ncontinues, though ice and snow have disappeared. I doubt if the\n\u201cblizzards\u201d and \u201cArctic waves\u201d of the North cause much more real\nsuffering than this chilly, damp, freezing winter here brings to the\ninhabitants so unaccustomed to this weather.\n\nMost Southern houses are very loosely built, generally warmed with\nfire-places or coal grates, over which you may scorch one side and\nfreeze the other. Water froze one day within six feet of our stove.\n\nMuch suffering, sickness and death have resulted among the poor in\ntheir wretched cabins. Fortunately for some our kind friends North\nhave this winter sent us an unusual amount of clothing, which has been\ndistributed judiciously among those most needy, and has done much to\nalleviate distress. My wife has given away over 400 garments within the\npast three mouths, and many shivering bodies have been warmed. From our\nown good State of Wisconsin we have had no less than seventeen boxes\nor barrels, containing books, clothing, magazines and newspapers. From\nfriends in other States there have come eleven packages of various\nsizes, with the same acceptable help for our poor people. And how\nhelpful these timely gifts have been!\n\nAlthough my wife has had no special commission as missionary, she has\ndone considerable in that line. During three mouths past, she has made\nover two hundred and fifty visits, being confined to the house by\nillness for one month of that time, and being much hindered otherwise\nby the incessant stormy weather, which has also greatly interfered\nwith our evening meetings and Sunday services. Besides the clothing\nabove referred to, she has distributed hundreds of papers, tracts,\ncards and texts, reading and talking with the women and children. Her\nsewing-school, meeting weekly, has steadily increased, until it now\nnumbers ninety-three girls, of whom sixty were present at the last\nmeeting. Cutting and basting work for so many occupies a good deal of\ntime.\n\nAt our annual church meeting, the reports showed that eighteen persons\nhad been received on profession of faith during the year 1880, and $256\nraised for church purposes. The Sunday-school reported 220 names on the\nroll, of whom 175 were present at one time, and the average attendance\nfor the year was 115. Ten of the scholars united with the church, and\nthe school has raised about $60 in weekly contributions. The pastor\nand wife gave away 8,500 religious and Sunday-school papers during the\nyear. One of the papers has a story. It was given to a little girl in\nour infant class, who took it home and carefully preserved it. Her\nfather, not a Christian man, was soon after arrested and confined in\njail for several months for stealing. The little girl carried him her\nSunday-school papers to read. One of these told the story of Joseph and\nthe baker in the Egyptian prison, and suggested that every prisoner,\nand every sinner, had a divine intercessor at the throne, Jesus Christ,\nthe Saviour, who would not forget his friends in trouble, as the baker\ndid. So he began to pray, and when released from jail soon after, was a\nconverted man.\n\nWe have received a great many papers from Northern Sunday-schools and\nother friends, and shall be glad to receive many more. Much good may\nbe done by this means, as the above incident illustrates. From the\nincessant storms, floods and cold of this winter, the people need more\nhelp than ever by way of clothing for the destitute, and all other\naids. All kinds of business have suffered, and the high prices of\nfuel and other necessaries have caused many to be perplexed as to the\nwherewithal of eating and putting on. Many of the country churches have\nhardly been able to keep up services at all, owing to storms and floods.\n\nI have collected over 1,000 volumes for my \u201cLewis Public Library,\u201d\nand it is doing good work. I expect soon to issue a little missionary\npaper. Our Lewis High School is increasing in numbers.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nAccessions to the Church.\n\nREV. G. W. ANDREWS, TALLADEGA.\n\nTwenty-three connected themselves with our College Church yesterday\nMarch 6th; twenty-two of them by confession, and one by letter: fruits\nof a revival scarcely yet ended. All but two of them are children or\nyoung people; twenty-one are members of the Sabbath-school and of the\nCollege. Twelve are children of church members, now a long time with\nus. Two are wives for whom faithful and godly husbands had hoped and\nprayed, lo! these many years; there had been the secret hope but never\nbefore the open confession. Two were baptized by immersion, the rest\nfollowed the better way, choosing less of the outward and formal,\nand more of the inward and spiritual. Of the thirty girls boarding\nat Foster Hall, all are Christians, as are the forty boys, with two\nor three exceptions. Very few of those who come under our Christian\ninfluences so far as to be members of our family and Sabbath-school,\nfail to indulge a hope in Christ.\n\nWe had meetings every night for three weeks, Pres. DeForest preaching\nwith great tenderness and power, while all the teachers and workers\ndid faithfully what they could. So far from interfering with regular\nschool duties, these meetings quickened to highest endeavor in study,\nand led to the most careful and conscientious use of time. Never before\nhave our pupils been so conscientious and so well-behaved. Among the\nthirty girls at the boarding hall there has been but a single case of\ndiscipline since the present school year has begun, and that grew out\nof a voluntary confession, a sign of a very tender conscience.\n\nAll the meetings have been unusually quiet; not a case of noisy\ndemonstration, no great \u201csights,\u201d no \u201cdreams,\u201d but a thoughtful\nsurrender to Christ, very much, I think, as in the revival meetings I\nhave been accustomed to all my life. In them God has honored preaching,\nwhich has been so plain, practical and tender that few could resist\nit. There were not many hard hearts or dry eyes when the sermon on the\n\u201cProdigal Son\u201d was ended and the invitation given to all prodigals to\nreturn to an injured Father\u2019s house.\n\nThrough all these meetings unusual honor was put upon the Spirit, and\non prayer, and there was more than the usual amount of preaching to the\nchurch, and with excellent results. God has done great things for us,\nwhereof we are glad.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI.\n\nBurning of Building at Tougaloo.\n\nREV. A. HATCH.\n\nSunday, Jan. 23d, at half-past seven o\u2019clock, the students of the\nUniversity assembled as usual in the chapel for the evening worship.\nThe pleasant afternoon had given place to a chilly night. In a warm\nbut not overheated room all were attentive to the opening exercises.\nIn the midst of the second hymn, which all had arisen to sing, one or\ntwo young men near the door were seen to pass out quickly from the\nroom. Several others followed at their heels, when, immediately, as by\na common instinct, both divisions of the assembly turned and pressed\ndown the aisles toward the two front doors. Not a word of alarm was\nspoken by an individual and the order, \u201cback!\u201d \u201cback!\u201d which was given\nfrom the rostrum, checked for a minute this sudden movement, and some\nat the doors hesitated whether to pass out or to return. A moment more\nwhen a quantity of water fell from the ceiling through the thimble of\nthe stove pipe, simultaneously with the cry of \u201cfire\u201d without, all in\nthe room became aware of the real cause of alarm. The young men who\nfirst passed out ran to the hall above, and, with what water was found\nin three or four rooms which they burst into, attempted to put out the\nfire. It was found to have broken out, however, above them, beneath\nthe roof and very close also to the open bell-tower. This tower, with\nthe long, straight hall, which, at one end, opened into it, and at the\nother had an outside stair door\u2014the only entrance\u2014provided at the start\na powerful, furnace-like draught to the flames, which had they not been\nout of reach, could have been with difficulty brought under control.\n\nWithin one hour our chapel was entirely consumed. During this time the\nyoung men managed to save a trunk, in some cases, a handful of clothes,\na few books, or whatever else they could snatch out of their rooms the\nquickest. A number lost everything except what they were wearing at the\ntime. In several instances what was thrown out of windows and carried\nto a safe distance from the burning building was stolen by enterprising\nneighbors.\n\nNo sooner was the chapel well in flames than the attention of everybody\nwas centered in the effort to save adjacent buildings, and especially\nthe mansion, the most valuable of all. This and the chapel stood\nbroadside toward each other, 37 yards apart. We had, however, the\nadvantage of a flat iron roof easily accessible to work upon. To keep\nthe northern side of the building thoroughly wet with water thrown from\nthe roof, from the ground, and from the second-story veranda, was the\nwork of a long half hour, each moment of which we expected to see the\nbuilding take fire. The working force of our institution was put to\nits utmost strain for the whole of this time. This and all the other\nbuildings were saved.\n\nThe conduct of our students was truly admirable. Each young man worked\nwith a will, wherever he was placed, or at whatever needed to be done\nat the moment, whether it was at the pumps or carrying water, guarding\na roof, or taking out furniture and books. None worked harder than some\nof those who had rooms in the chapel building and were losing nearly\nall they had, forgetful even of the trunk or handful of clothing that\nlay somewhere scattered about in the yard\u2014all that was left of their\npossessions. Many of the young women, also, showed much presence of\nmind and were of great service. One was found upon the roof of the\nmansion with a bucket of water.\n\nWe received much assistance, too, from friendly neighbors both white\nand colored. One old colored woman was the means of saving a great deal\nfrom the burning building, running in and out carrying away the books\nand loose furniture.\n\nPrevious to the fire every available room was occupied by our students,\nand many apartments which were barely comfortable for two had to\naccommodate three. At ten o\u2019clock that Sunday night our main dormitory\nfor young men was in ashes. Thirty were without a place to sleep.\nFor that night fifteen were stowed away on the floor of one of the\nteachers\u2019 rooms in the mansion, five were put similarly in one of the\noffices, and the rest managed to squeeze themselves into the ten beds\nat the \u201cBarracks.\u201d\n\nIt shows the earnest disposition of the class of students which are\nattracted to Tougaloo University that we were able the next morning,\npromptly at nine o\u2019clock, to go on with the regular school work. The\nclasses all recited as usual, though school books had been scattered\nupon the campus and our school room and two recitation rooms had been\nturned to ashes by the flames. The Monday writing-class, however, did\nnot meet. Pens and desks were burnt.\n\nThe fire has indeed seemed to result in a moral blessing, softening\nthe disposition of many, and teaching a lesson of unselfishness. It\nhas served, we think, to attach our better class of students to the\ninstitution as perhaps never before.\n\nStudents have been arriving every week since the fire and we have sent\nnone of them away. The very week following brought us half a dozen\nyoung men. In addition to this, about the first of March quite a number\nof young men as well as young women are expected to return to us from\ntheir winter schools.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTENNESSEE.\n\nStatistics of Teaching by Students now in Fisk University.\n\nFrom reports carefully made out by students now in attendance on Fisk\nUniversity, the following facts are ascertained:\n\nNinety have at some time been engaged in school teaching. Of these,\nsixty-two are members of the collegiate department and twenty-eight of\nthe normal department. The time taught in all, including the past year,\nis 1,630 months, or reduced to school years of nine months each, 161\n1-9 years.\n\nIt is found that during the year 1880, seventy-two have taught school,\nthe sum of the months being 309. This reduced to school years of nine\nmonths each, gives 34\u2153 years.\n\nThe sum total of salaries earned in 1880, is $9,129. From this must be\nsubtracted for cost of board and travel, $3,236, leaving a net gain of\n$5,893.\n\nThe entire number of pupils taught during the year is 5,641, and the\nsum of average daily attendance is 3,717.\n\nOf the seventy-two who taught these schools, sixty-seven did labor in\nSunday-schools, forty-four as teachers, seven as superintendents and\nsixteen as both teachers and superintendents. The total attendance\non these Sunday-schools was 3,963. Besides this, four did labor in\npreaching, twelve held prayer-meetings and one held Bible readings. The\nnumber of conversions reported is 151.\n\nThirty-two taught in Tennessee, twenty-two in Mississippi, eight in\nTexas, four in Alabama, four in Arkansas, two in Georgia, one in West\nVirginia, and one in Missouri.\n\nInferences drawn from these statistics:\n\n1. Nearly all the students in Fisk University of sufficient age and\nadvancement in scholarship, teach during their courses of study. It\nis found that eighty per cent. of the students in the collegiate\ndepartment have taught. Those who have not taught are too young to take\ncharge of a school. The per cent. of those in the Normal department who\nhave taught, is less, because the advancement in scholarship is less,\nas is also the average age.\n\n2. The average salary per month is $29.54. The average cost for board\nand travel, not calculating other expenses, is $10.47. This leaves the\nnet gain per month of $19.07. This in reality is reduced somewhat by\nloss of time often incurred in securing a school, or in waiting for it\nto begin after it is secured.\n\n3. It is seen that the students are making very praiseworthy efforts to\ngain an education, and that they earn annually a large sum of money to\nsecure that end. Still, at a net gain of $19.07 a month, the student\ncannot entirely support himself. Parents should consider well this\nfact, not fully understood, as it would appear, by some of those able\nto assist their children. Those kind friends who have given to the\nStudent Aid Fund of the University, will see that their benefactions\nare needed and well bestowed.\n\n4. This condition of things, if the strain is not allowed to be too\nsevere, has a compensating benefit to the student, who grows strong by\ncontending with difficulties. He learns the value of education by its\ncost. He obtains that practical experience which students ordinarily\nhave to acquire after graduation. He is also kept in sympathy with the\npeople among whom his future labors are to lie.\n\n5. These statistics show that, while in the midst of their own arduous\nlabors as students, these young people are accomplishing a great amount\nof good in a field to which now, happily, the eyes of the nation are\nturned, the education of the colored people. During the last year,\nwhen, for reasons not necessary now to give, a less number of students\nthan usual were engaged in teaching, they had under their training an\narmy of between five and six thousand children, and performed the labor\nof more than the ordinary lifetime of a man; and, including former\nyears, they have done the work of more than a hundred and sixty years.\n\n6. But the whole good is not to be estimated in years. The great mass\nof the teachers among the colored people, as among the white, teach\nwith little if any more preparation than what is gained in the common\nschools. The coming into a community of one who has enjoyed superior\nadvantages, introduces a better idea to which others will seek to\nattain. One of the most threatening obstacles in the way of colored\neducation has been the great lack of competent colored teachers. The\npaying of incompetent teachers is almost, if not entirely, a waste of\nthe public money. Viewing from this standpoint, the long and expensive\njourneys necessarily taken by the students of Fisk University to reach\ntheir schools, may not be a loss but a benefit, by scattering further\nthe good influence of the University. In a region where one good\nteacher is sent, ten schools will be made better.\n\n7. In addition to the devotional exercises held in their schools by the\ngreater majority of the students, much other religious work is done.\nDuring the last year six preached, twelve held prayer-meetings and one\nBible readings, while ninety-six per cent. of all are now engaged in\nSunday-school labor. A more accurate knowledge of the Scriptures and\nbetter idea of Christian living must be the result of these labors.\n\n8. From a list of institutions of learning where some of those, now\nstudents in Fisk University, studied before coming to it, many of them\nof high standing and scattered over the land, it is seen that this\nUniversity cannot claim these good results entirely as its own. It\nshows also that the University, situated as it is, midway between the\ngulf and the lakes, is becoming a great central school of learning.\n\n9. No mention is made in these statistics of any students not now in\nattendance on the University. The exact number of those in that class\nwho are now teaching, is not known. It is known, however, that many\nsuch are devoting their entire time to teaching and some of them are\nalready occupying positions of honor and importance as educators.\nAccording to estimates derived from reports given by former students\nnot now in connection with the University, the number of pupils taught\nannually by them cannot be far from 10,000, making a total, with those\nbefore mentioned, of more than 15,000.\u2014_Fisk Expositor._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\u201cCALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\u201d\n\nAuxiliary to the American Missionary Association.\n\nPRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D.D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L. Stone,\nD.D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low,\nRev. I. E. Dwinell, D.D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D.D.,\nEdward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D.D., Jacob S. Taber, Esq.\n\nDIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D.D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P.\nBaker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nII.\u2014HOW SPEEDS THE WORK?\n\nIn the February number we gave a brief chapter of replies to this\nquestion. We make no apology for giving a second chapter now. It is\njust what our readers want to know, and what we equally wish to tell.\nAnd\u2014\n\n1. _The Finances._\u2014It was at this point our former chapter closed. I\nannounced that we were laying out work with reference to raising, over\nand above the regular appropriation from the parent society, $5,000\nthis year, in place of $1,610.70 received last year. I am glad and\ngrateful to be able to announce that of that $5,000, fully $2,600 are\nalready in sight, either in cash or in reliable pledges. It has been\nmade easy to raise this, because all except the hundreds (_i. e._,\n$2,000) has come in a single donation from the grand English house\nof Balfour, Gunther & Co., in this city. That is to say, $500 from\nthe senior partner in Liverpool, Alfred Balfour, Esq., $500 from his\nLiverpool associate, Hon. Stephen Williamson, M. P., and $1,000 from\nthe house as a whole, among the partners in which is a worthy son of\nChalmers\u2019 great successor in the Free Church of Scotland\u2014that prince\namong preachers, Dr. Guthrie. This great gift is proffered in the hope\nand expectation that the balance of $3,000 will not be found wanting,\nand, God helping us, it _shall not_ fail. There has been a painful\nsense, all along these years, that we were reaching only the outer edge\nof the great necessity touching, so to speak, only the bare fringe\nof our great opportunity, though we have done the utmost possible\nfor us, with the means at our command. I can with a clear conscience\nclaim that not a dime has gone forth needlessly; that every minutest\nitem of expense has been carefully scrutinized; and, while it would\nbe \u201ctoo good to be true\u201d if we said that _no_ mistakes had been made,\nthat every experiment had proved a success, or that no fields have\nbeen entered from which we were compelled to retire before the harvest\ncame to view, still, I speak the simple truth when I say that I know\nof nothing that to-day I would extract, or, so far as _our endeavor_\nis concerned, essentially change. The constant prayer has been for\nthe Master\u2019s guidance; is it vain or presumptuous to believe that\nthe prayer has been answered, his _promise_ fulfilled, his guidance\nvouchsafed? It would be meanly ungrateful if I did not thus testify for\nHim.\n\nBut the point is that now we must go deeper. We cannot rest on the\nouter edge of the great work. We must avail ourselves to the utmost of\nour opportunity, and for this we must have a marked increase of means.\nToward this, now that God has inclined these English brethren to give\nso largely, I cannot believe that American Christians will fail to make\nfitting response. And inasmuch as I cannot see how more than $1,500\nout of the $2,400 remaining to be raised, can possibly be gathered in\nCalifornia, I venture to press it on the thoughts and hearts of Eastern\nfriends, to furnish over and above their regular contributions to the\nparent society, at least $900 for its California auxiliary. Let the\ngifts be sent directly to me at 940 Copp Street, or to our treasurer,\nDeacon E. Palache, 218 Front Street, San Francisco.\n\n2. _Our Schools._\u2014In the February MISSIONARY I spoke of 13 schools in\noperation, a larger number than ever before. The first of March will\nsee the number 14, a school being prepared to start on that date, at\nTucson, Arizona. It will be, by far, our most distant out-post, but\ngives promise of being a very useful mission. Several of the pupils who\nhad become Christians in connection with our Santa Barbara mission,\nwork failing at that place, moved on towards the front, and were\nscattered among the villages of Arizona; one, at least, even crossing\nthe line into Mexico. We had letters from them occasionally, such as\nencouraged us to believe that, though in exile from what had been to\nthem a very house of God, and often standing alone, as Christians,\namong a crowd of ungodly and profane Americans, they were still walking\nin the truth. At length, from one of them who had settled at Tucson,\ncame, in behalf of himself and eight or nine others, an urgent request\nfor a mission there. At the suggestion of some excellent Christian\nladies of that city, to whom I appealed for advice, and who kindly\npledged their personal co-operation, the school is to be placed in the\ncare of Rev. Mr. Messenger, once a missionary of the Episcopal Board\nin Africa. He is pronounced to be \u201ca _good_ Christian, who can sing\nwell, can play on the organ, and will work earnestly\u201d in the liberty of\nChrist and not in bondage to any ritual or liturgy. The pupils attest\ntheir zeal by pledging contributions sufficient to pay the rent of\nthe school-room, $15 per month, and, perhaps, the incidental expenses\nlikewise. Pray for the success of the first Chinese mission in Arizona.\n\nAmong the new schools reported in my last was that at Oroville.\nIts teacher is a daughter of Rev. Alvin Ostrom, pastor of the\nCongregational Church in that place, who himself was once a missionary\nin China, and has, in his enforced return to this country, been hungry\nthese many years for an opportunity to preach Christ again to the\nChinese. I hardly need say that with such a spirit in the work tokens\nof a coming harvest begin to appear. Two or three of the pupils began\nto venture in, on Sabbaths, to the half empty church, and to sit in\nunoccupied pews. Whereupon an irate Caucasian vents himself in the\nvillage newspaper in this wise:\n\n\u201cED. MERCURY\u2014\u2018What are our places of divine worship coming to?\u2019 is a\nquestion with many. Are we to give way our places in the pews to the\nlong-tailed Mongolians, or shall we be obliged to take sides with\nthem? We answer, \u2018No!\u2019 Better send them and our pretended leaders away\ntogether to their proper places. We have no objection to his teaching\nthem, but for the sake of common decency and the respect due to us, let\nit be a separate matter.\n\n                                                     \u201cCHURCH-GOER.\u201d\n\nThe community soon began to be astir. The pillars of the church\nbegan to tremble. Subscriptions began to be withdrawn. Families were\nreported as \u201cgoing over to the other church.\u201d The croakers rose to the\nascendant, and the outlook grew dark. But silence and patience and\ngentleness, and pastoral diligence, having God and the right on their\nside, are winning the day; and fresh sunshine, gleaming through the\nwhole church-work, already \u201cputs to silence the ignorance of foolish\nmen.\u201d\n\nAlthough the severe storms of the past two months have interfered with\nthe attendance on our schools, and even made desirable the temporary\nsuspension of one of them, yet there is much to encourage in the\nreports received. At Marysville three during last month \u201cjoined the\nAssociation,\u201d professing thus their faith in Christ, and coming under\nprobation with reference to reception to the church. At Sacramento the\nteacher writes, rejoicing over the return to the school, with heart\napparently renewed, of one pupil for whom she had labored and prayed\nwith great earnestness, but who first left our school for another,\nand then seemed to \u201cgo to the bad\u201d with utter recklessness. But the\nLord has brought him back, and he now applies to be received to the\nAssociation, and to be thus recognized as a believer in Jesus. This\nSacramento school, as, also, the one in Stockton, that in Marysville,\nand those in this city, are a perpetual joy to me, in the spirit which\npervades the work and the results vouchsafed. Indeed, I know not that\nI need except any of our schools from this statement, and I cease to\nmention them by name only because the list would be too long. The great\nlack just now is Chinese helpers trained for service. To select them\nwisely, to provide for their being trained, to put them into harness\nat the right point, where by teaching they can learn to teach and by\npreaching to preach, is the problem now before me.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nWOMAN\u2019S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nRoom 20, Congregational House, Beacon St., Boston.\n\nMISS NATHALIE LORD, _Secretary_. MISS ABBY W. PEARSON, _Treasurer_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMONTHLY REPORT.\n\nThe Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Association has made no new appointments\nduring the past month under the American Missionary Association.\nFrom those already sent into this part of the field the reports are\nencouraging and interesting.\n\nFrom Baxter Springs, Kansas, where are 1,000 refugees and 1,100\nwhite inhabitants, Miss Wilson writes that she is getting her work\nsystematized, and gives her plan as follows:\n\n\u201cA small unoccupied building, owned by the Hard Shell (colored)\nBaptists, has been offered me, on condition that I will put in window\npanes and a stove. To do this I shall use a sum of money now in Gov.\nSt. John\u2019s hands, and I hope this will be enough also for a ton of\ncoal. In this building I am to open an afternoon industrial school for\nwomen. The different arts of housekeeping will be here taught in turn.\nThose who wish will learn to read, and especially mothers\u2019 meetings\nwill be held. This is the central point of all my work\u2014_the women and\ntheir homes_. Around this will cluster several other departments, for\nI have already four or five co-workers. Two of these are good Quaker\nwomen, living in the place and already doing all they can. They will\nassist in the women\u2019s school and in visiting at the homes. Another\nof the workers there will be John Smith, a colored minister, from\nIowa, educated by the Society of Friends. This man has been on the\nground three months. He is teaching a children\u2019s school. There are\nthree hundred children of the age to go to school, only about half of\nwhom are provided for by the town schools. He will be ready to assist\nme in every way necessary, and will have one of the departments in\nthe Sunday-school, of which we have arranged three, beside being the\nsuperintendent of the school. For the use of the Sunday-school we have\nthree rooms in the public school building. The fourth assistant is Miss\nE. Cabell, also colored, a graduate of Hampton. Miss C. joined us from\nVirginia in October. She is proving a valuable assistant. She will open\na children\u2019s school, mornings, in our little building, and also have\nthe Infant Department in our Sunday-school. One other service I desire\nto hold, a Sunday morning Bible reading in our little church. And if\nwe can persuade the ignorant preachers around us, of whom there are\nseveral, to come to our rooms some evening in the week for a weekly\nstudy of the Sunday-school lesson, we shall have gained a great point\nwith them.\u201d\n\nThe work of Mrs. Steele, in Almeda, S. C., proves full of interest.\nThis place takes its name from a daughter of Mr. Reuben G. Holmes, who\nbought this tract of land, 12,000 acres, for the purpose of giving\nemployment to worthy colored men and enabling them to buy small\nfarms for themselves at $5 per acre. He now has nearly 150 families,\nincluding more than 700 souls, on the place, and to instruct and care\nfor these is the work of Mrs. Steele. She writes that she has more or\nless care of all, has already had more than 200 in her Sunday-school.\nHer day school occupies her from 9 A.M. to 12.30 P.M.; her evening\nschool from 7 to 9.30 P.M.; and her afternoons she spends in \u201ccalling\non the folks.\u201d Having mentioned some touching cases of distress and\nhow she was able to relieve them, she adds: \u201cNow don\u2019t think it is\nall out-go and no income. I called on another family\u2014the mother had\npreviously called on me and wanted me to cut out a calico dress for\none of her little girls\u2014when my little girl and I came away from that\nhome, the mother brought me a _fresh egg_ as a present. Now that gift\nfor her was more than ten dollars would be for some people to give.\nThe good-will back of the gift made me feel _rich_.\u201d \u201cIn my solemn\ntalks,\u201d she says, \u201cwith my pupils, I\u2019ve found some who seem to me to\nbe of the Lord\u2019s noblemen, so conscientiously living up to the light\nand knowledge they have, and eager for more. I\u2019ve formed a temperance\nand anti-tobacco society and have quite a number of names already.\u201d\n\nAll who had a hand in filling or packing the barrel lately sent to Miss\nCarter, in Nashville, Tenn.\u2014as well as those whose hands are filling or\npacking or are about to be filling or packing other such choice barrels\nor boxes\u2014will be glad to hear of its welcome, and also to learn what\nare among the most acceptable things to send in such cases. She writes:\n\n\u201cThe barrel arrived Saturday and delights my heart. Were I _a little\ndarker skinned_ I should say, \u2018_it will do me so proud_,\u2019 but as it is\nI hardly know how to express my thanks and perfect satisfaction. Did I\ntell you so explicitly all my needs\u2014I can\u2019t remember\u2014or did you guess\nthem? Those test cards are gems: perhaps their value to others may be\nbeyond price. The papers I\u2019m so glad of, especially the children\u2019s\npapers. The pictures cut out by some loving fingers, the picture cards,\ntracts, story books, Testaments, _all_ these things meet especial\nneeds. The children\u2019s clothes, especially the flannels and boys\u2019\nshirts, are most welcome. I know this moment the destination of each\narticle.\n\n\u201cPerhaps that for which I\u2019m most truly grateful, is the quantity of\nsewing materials. The Lord has not since I came here let me name\na day for help, but just now I was counting my little funds and\nwondering\u2014wondering if the time had come when I should be really\nobliged to halt. This supply of materials is a true blessing. Perhaps\nmy Sunday-school stands highest in importance, but surely this\nsewing-school work, with all the influences of good which I strive\nto bring there to bear upon the girls, is next. I couldn\u2019t willingly\ngive it up. Through it the girls are clothing their bodies with their\nown honest efforts; are learning Christian gentleness and politeness,\nand having their minds stored with good thoughts out of good books.\nThey let me come very close to them, tell me their needs, their\ntroubles, and recognize me as their friend. So in furthering this\nwork, you are setting many wheels in motion. I held a reception at the\n\u2018opening\u2019\u2014opening of my barrel; how enthusiastic and happy we all\nwere.\u201d\n\nThe Association held public meetings in Boston, Mount Vernon church,\nmorning and afternoon of March 3. The interest of these meetings\nindicates, we believe, increasing energy and delight in forwarding the\nwork. The total receipts of the year, as announced there, have been\n$5,077.34. This is not a great sum, but neither is it a bad beginning,\nand as fast as it gives pleasure to the friends of the work to add to\nour pile, the present year, so fast shall we be eager to increase it by\nscattering.\n\nReceipts from Jan. 1, 1881, to March 1, 1881:\n\n  From auxiliaries         $818.65\n  From donations            188.89\n  From life members          40.00\n  From annual members        14.00\n                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n  Total                  $1,061.54\n\nDonations from Cong. Pub. Soc., $25 worth of S. S. papers, lesson\npapers, books and cards, for Miss Julia A. Wilson, Baxter Springs,\nfor use among refugees. From Mrs. C. A. Johnson, for Miss Wilson\u2019s\nuse, flannel, new cloth and sewing materials, valued at $25.00. Office\nchair, $10.00, from friends. Three chairs for office, from a friend.\n\nThe following boxes and barrels have been sent, valued at:\n\n  From Bradford Academy                               $180.00\n  From North Ave. Church, Cambridge, box, $90.21,\n    barrel, $48.90                                     139.11\n  From Providence Central Ch. Aux., barrel             475.00\n                                                     \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total                                              794.11\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR FEBRUARY, 1881.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $841.69.\n\n    Auburn. High St. Cong. Ch.                                $0.75\n    Belfast. Rev. W. Parker (_part for Refugees_)              5.00\n    Biddeford. Second Cong. Ch.                               15.44\n    Brownville. Hon. A. H. Merrill                           100.00\n    Calais. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          20.00\n    Deering. Mr. Bascomb                                       5.00\n    Dedham. Cong. Ch.                                          3.00\n    Foxcroft. Wm. W. Clark, to const. AXCEL M.\n      CAMPBELL, L. M.                                         30.00\n    Gardner. Sarah M. Whitmore, _for Student Aid.\n      Talladega C._                                            5.00\n    Gilead. Rev. H. R.                                         1.00\n    Hallowell. Ladies, by Annie F. Page, Bbl. of\n      C., _for Refugees_\n    Holden. Cong. Ch.                                          4.50\n    Machias. Eliza G. Longfellow, Bbl. of C., _for\n      Wilmington, N. C._\n    Portland. Ladies in Maine, by Mrs. W. E.\n      Gould, _for Lady Missionaries at Selma, Ala.\n      and Wilmington, N. C._                                 550.75\n    Portland. John M. Gould, Box of C., _for\n      Talladega, Ala._\n    South Freeport. Rev. H. I.                                 1.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n    Union. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Talladega\n      C._                                                      5.00\n    Waterford. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $4.50; Mrs. C. D., 50\u00a2              5.00\n    Woolwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $9; Mrs. J. P.\n      Trott, $2                                               11.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $426.92.\n\n    Alstead. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         11.52\n    Atkinson. Cong. Ch., Box S. S. Books, _for\n      Macon, Ga._\n    Candia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                40.00\n    Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.00\n    Colebrook. H. A.                                           1.00\n    Concord. Mrs. C. T., 50\u00a2.; C. T. P., 50\u00a2.                  1.00\n    Dover. M. E. L.                                            1.00\n    Dunbarton. W. C. Stinson                                  10.00\n    Epping. Miss Hannah Pearson, $5; Mrs. John\n      Billson, $5; _for School House, Athens, Ala._           10.00\n    Exeter. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., $20;\n      Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for freight_, $3; _for\n      Talladega C._                                           23.00\n    Exeter. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         2.00\n    Great Falls. Mrs. E. A. Tibbets, _for\n      Talladega C._                                            3.00\n    Hanover. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid. Atlanta U._                                        30.00\n    Hanover. Cong. Ch. at Dartmouth College                   22.00\n    Hinsdale. G. W.                                            1.00\n    Keene. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $81; Mrs. J.\n      A. G., 50\u00a2.; J. P., $1; Mrs. N. R. C., 50\u00a2              83.00\n    Langdon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                8.00\n    Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               40.00\n    Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  29.20\n    Monroe. S. H.                                              0.51\n    Mount Vernon. J. A. S.                                     1.00\n    New Ipswich. A. N. Townsend, $2; Mrs. Dr. G., $1           3.00\n    Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. A. B.\n      CHASE, L. M.                                            33.67\n    Orford. Miss A. E.                                         0.51\n    Peterborough. Mrs. E. H.                                   1.00\n    Piermont. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                           8.00\n    Pittsfield. J. Merrill                                     1.51\n    Plainfield. Mrs. Hannah Stevens, to const.\n      MRS. SOPHIA R. BAKER, L. M.                             32.00\n    Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              20.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $201.38.\n\n    Andover. \u201cBaldwin Family\u201d                                  1.00\n    Bakersfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            8.25\n    Bethel. Mrs. Laura F. Sparhawk                             5.00\n    Brattleborough. F. W. K.                                   1.00\n    Burlington. Third Cong. Ch.                               53.25\n    Charlotte. Nettie A Parker                                10.00\n    East Hardwick. Mrs. L. W. J. and Mrs. L. A. P.             2.00\n    Essex. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                          1.00\n    Fayetteville. M. K.                                        1.00\n    Marshfield. Lyman Clark                                   10.00\n    North Craftsbury. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of Cong.\n      Ch., Bbl. of Bedding, val. $30, and $2 _for\n      freight_, by Mrs. Mary W. Boardman, _for\n      Atlanta U._                                              2.00\n    Poultney. A. M. Knapp                                      2.00\n    Royalton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              19.00\n    Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    43.13\n    Saint Johnsbury. \u201cA. I. R\u2014\u2014y\u201d                              5.00\n    Saxton\u2019s River. E. S. S.                                   1.00\n    Shelburn. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      15.00\n    Underhill. E. S. Whitcomb                                  5.00\n    Vergennes. W. W. Pierce, $2; Mrs. H. S. and R.\n      T. B., 50\u00a2. ea.                                          3.00\n    Wait\u2019s River. J. F. W.                                     1.00\n    Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of C.\n      and $1 _for freight_                                     1.00\n    Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       11.75\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $5,599.11.\n\n    Allston. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        2.00\n    Amherst. G. C. Munsell                                     2.00\n    Andover. Mrs. F. R. B.                                     0.50\n    Athol. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      HORACE I. WHIPPLE. L. M.                                30.00\n    Bedford. M. E. R.                                          0.50\n    Belchertown. Cong. Sab. Sch., $7; Miss S. C.\n      A., $1                                                   8.00\n    Billerica. H. B. S.                                        1.00\n    Boston. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtis, $200; \u201cP.,\u201d $1;\n      Mrs. A. B., 50\u00a2.                                       201.50\n    Boston. S. D. Smith, (6 organs)                        1,000.00\n    Boston. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Kansas Refugee M._                5.00\n    Boston. N. Willis Bumstead, paper hangings and\n      mouldings, _for guest rooms, Atlanta U._\n    Boston. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl. Books and Papers and\n      Bbl. of C., _for Macon, Ga._\n    Boston. Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Ass\u2019n Abbie W.\n      Pearson, Treas. (of which from Bradford,\n      Vt., $10; from Mrs. Hunnewell, Boston, _for\n      Almeda, S. C._, $9.10) _for Lady\n      Missionaries_                                          179.51\n    Bradford. Mrs. S. C. Boyd, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             14.00\n    Bradford. Ladies, Bbl. of C. _for Wilmington,\n      N. C._\n    Brockton. Mrs. T. C. P.                                    0.50\n    Brockton. Mrs. Sanford, half Bbl. of C., _for\n      Tougaloo, Miss._\n    Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $710; Mrs. E. K., 50c.; Mrs. J., 50c.                  711.00\n    Cambridge. \u201cF. C. S.,\u201d _for Kansas Refugee M._             5.00\n    Charlemont. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                    3.00\n    Chelsea. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n    Clinton. First Evan. Ch. and Soc.                        125.00\n    Clinton. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for furnishing a room,\n      Atlanta U._                                             25.00\n    Clinton. \u201cA Friend\u201d _for Kansas Refugee M._               25.00\n    Colerain. Mrs. P. B. S.                                    1.00\n    Conway. \u201cFriend of Missions\u201d                               2.00\n    Danvers. Maple St. Ch. and Soc.                           39.00\n    Dedham. Individuals, by E. P. B.                           2.00\n    East Braintree. J. N. L., _for postage_                    0.10\n    East Medway. Ladies\u2019 Sew. Cir., 2 Bbls. of C.\n    East Longmeadow. Cong. Ch.                                19.00\n    Edgartown. \u201cA Reader of the Missionary\u201d                    1.00\n    Essex Co. \u201cHoward,\u201d _for Talladega C._                   500.00\n    Essex Co. \u201cHoward,\u201d _for Chapel at Wilmington,\n      N. C._                                                 100.00\n    Fall River. First Cong. Ch.                               66.96\n    Gardner. G. A. W.                                          1.00\n    Gilbertville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   50.00\n    Goshen. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 7.15\n    Grafton. Mrs. Joseph A. Dodge, $25, _for\n      furnishing a room, Atlanta U._; Ladies Sew.\n      Circle of Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Bedding,\n      _for Atlanta U._                                        25.00\n    Granby. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   25.40\n    Granville Corners. C. Holcomb, $5; Mrs.\n      Clement Holcomb, $5                                     10.00\n    Haverhill. Bundle of C.\n    Hopkinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Lakeville. Precinct Cong. Sab. Sch.                       20.17\n    Lawrence. T. C. Whittemore, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             40.00\n    Lee. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $103, _for rebuilding\n      Chapel, Tougaloo, Miss._; Ladies of Cong.\n      Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo_                        103.00\n    Linden. Young People\u2019s Mission Circle, Bbl. of\n      C., _for Talladega, Ala._\n    Littleton. Woman\u2019s Mission Circle, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                10.00\n    Littleton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C.,\n      _for Mobile, Ala._\n    Lowell. Leonard Kimball, _for Indian M._                 100.00\n    Lowell. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. of First Ch., Bbl.\n      of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._\n    Medfield. F. D. Ellis                                    100.00\n    Medford. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        2.00\n    Merrimac. Miss H. W.                                       0.50\n    Middleborough. Mrs. Geo. H. Doane, Box of C.,\n      $2 for freight, _for Tougaloo_                           2.00\n    Natick. Rev. D. W.                                         0.10\n    New Bedford. M. M.                                         0.50\n    North Amherst. H. S.                                       1.00\n    Northborough. Mrs. H. B. D.                                1.00\n    North Brookfield. \u201cA Friend in Union Cong. Ch.\u201d            5.00\n    Newburyport. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    5.00\n    Newburyport. Ladies\u2019 Freedmen\u2019s Aid Soc., 2\n      Bbls. of C., _for Washington, D. C._\n    Newburyport. H. F. Tyler, 23 Bbls. of C. _for\n      Refugees_\n    Newton Centre. Ladies of Mrs. Furber\u2019s Bible\n      Class, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                    50.00\n    Norfolk. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., Bbl. of Bedding,\n      _for Atlanta U._\n    Palmer. Second Cong. Ch.                                  20.00\n    Rockland. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      30.00\n    Saundersville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         15.00\n    South Hadley. Mt. H. Sem., \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for\n      Kansas Refugee M._                                       2.00\n    Southbridge. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   50.00\n    South Wellfleet. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                2.00\n    South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to\n      const. LYSANDER HEALD, L. M.                            42.00\n    Springfield. \u201cM,\u201d $800; First Cong. Ch.,\n      Coll., $83.39; \u201cF. A. B.,\u201d $200; South Cong.\n      Ch., $81.89; Miss Lizzie Bates, $3                   1,168.28\n    Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              20.63\n    Taunton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          7.28\n    Tewksbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Indian M.,\n      Hampton N. & A. Inst._                                  18.75\n    Townsend Harbor. Mrs. Ralph Ball, Box S. S.\n      Books, _for Macon, Ga._\n    Upton. \u201cA Friend,\u201d Bbl. of C., _for\n      Washington, D. C._\n    Wakefield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                38.07\n    Watertown. Ladies, 4 Bbls. of C., _for\n      Tougaloo, Miss._\n    Waverley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              13.04\n    West Dennis. S. S. C.                                      1.00\n    Westborough. Freedmen\u2019s Mission Ass\u2019n, Bbl. of\n      C., _for Talladega, Ala._\n    Westfield. Dr. H. Holland, _for Kansas Refugee\n      M._                                                      2.00\n    Westford. Rev. E. R. H.                                    0.50\n    West Medway. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   25.00\n    West Boylston. \u201cWilling Workers,\u201d _for\n      furnishing a room, Atlanta U._                          25.00\n    West Roxbury. Sab. Sch. of South Evan. Ch.                20.00\n    West Springfield. \u201cMission Band,\u201d by C. H.\n      Abbott, _for Talladega C._                              60.00\n    West Springfield. Park St. Ch., $30; First\n      Cong. Ch., $15                                          45.00\n    Wilmington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Wilmington. J. Skelton                                     5.00\n    Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc., \u201cA Friend\u201d                    25.00\n    Worcester. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $50; Old South Cong.\n      Ch. and Soc., $38.17; Hiram Smith and\n      Family, $30; H. W. Wheeler, $30, to const.\n      MRS. SARAH H. WHEELER, L. M.; M. F. W., $1             149.17\n    Wrentham. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing a\n      room, Atlanta U._                                        6.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. MISS ABBIE ALLEN, L.\n      M.                                                      30.00\n    \u2014\u2014 Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $5,499.11\n\n    LEGACY.\n    Whitinsville. ESTATE of E. W. Fletcher, by\n      Chas. P. Whitin, Ex.                                   100.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $5,599.11\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $72.60.\n\n    Nayatt Point. R. W. S.                                     1.00\n    Peace Dale. Cong. Ch.                                     10.00\n    Providence. Union Cong. Ch., $35; \u201cA Father of\n      Four,\u201d $25; L. M. W., $1; Miss S. P. P., 60c.           61.60\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $3,237.92.\n\n    Ansonia. Wm. Terry, M. D.                                  5.00\n    Avon. Miss L. O. T.                                        1.00\n    Berlin. Rev. J. Whittlesey                                10.00\n    Bloomfield. \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. MRS. HARRIET\n      E. FISH, LEVI TILLOTSON, and JOHN BLACKWELL,\n      L. M.\u2019s                                                 87.50\n    Bristol. Cong. Ch., to const. R. A. POTTER, W.\n      F. BRAINARD, E. B. DUNBAR, and GEORGE L.\n      GOODRICH, L. M.\u2019s                                      120.00\n    Chester. Cong. Ch.                                        19.40\n    Canton Center. W. G. Hallock                              10.00\n    Cobalt. G. H. L.                                           0.50\n    Cornwall Bridge. Geo. H. Swift                            10.00\n    Coventry. Mrs. B. T. Preston                               5.00\n    Derby. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for _Tillotson\n      C. and N. Inst._                                        29.50\n    Durham Centre. A. P. C.                                    1.00\n    East Haddam. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                        12.64\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch., FREDERICK C. JONES, to\n      const. himself, L. M.                                   30.00\n    Greeneville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                33.44\n    Greenwich. Richard B. Carpenter, $100; E. M., $1         101.00\n    Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   11.02\n    Hartford. Geo. Kellogg, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             25.00\n    Hartford. \u201cA Member of Asylum Hill Cong. Ch.,\u201d\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                            4.00\n    Hartford. \u201cMember Asylum Hill Cong. Ch.\u201d                  20.00\n    Hebron. Mrs. Jasper Porter, _for Tougaloo U._             25.00\n    Kensington. Mrs. M. Cowles                                 2.00\n    Litchfield. First Cong. Ch.                               24.10\n    Lyme. T. L. Gilbert                                        2.00\n    Meriden. First Cong. Ch., E. K. Breckenridge               5.00\n    Middlefield. Cong. Ch., _for Kansas Refugee M._           23.50\n    Middletown. First Cong. Ch., $29.94; Dea.\n      Selah Goodrich. $20; Miss E. T., 50c.                   50.44\n    Milford. First Cong. Ch.                                  17.63\n    Morris. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   15.00\n    Naugatuck. Cong. Ch.                                      27.00\n    New Hartford. Cong. Ch., Bbl. books, and\n      papers, $2 _for freight, for Macon, Ga._                 2.00\n    New Haven. Dr. W. B. DeForest, _for Talladega\n      C._                                                     50.00\n    New Haven. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Tillotson C. & N.\n      Inst._                                                   5.00\n    New London. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Harris, _for\n      Talladega C._                                          120.00\n    New London. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     2.00\n    New Preston. Mrs. B. A.                                    1.00\n    New Preston Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   44.00\n    New Preston Village. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Hampton\n      N. and A. Inst._                                        10.00\n    North Branford. J. A. Palmer                               2.00\n    North Haven. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                          10.00\n    Norwich. Second Cong. Ch., $113.23; Second\n      Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $65; First Cong. Ch.,\n      $10                                                    188.23\n    North Woodstock. Cong. Ch.                                15.00\n    Plantsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                60.00\n    Plymouth. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   95.00\n    Roxbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               11.70\n    Stafford Springs. Cong. Ch.                                5.00\n    South Britain. Mrs. E. M. Averill                          5.00\n    South Glastonbury. Cong. Ch.                               5.26\n    Terryville. A. S. Gaylord, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                70.00\n    Thomaston. David S. Cables                                20.00\n    Thompsonville. D. P                                        1.00\n    Torrington. Cong. Sch. and Soc.                           15.00\n    Trumbull. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $9.64; Cong.\n      Sab. Sch., $10.36                                       20.00\n    Vernon Depot. Sab. Sch., by C. D. Tucker, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                18.00\n    Washington. Henry S. Nettleton, _for\n      school-house in Ga._                                     5.00\n    Waterbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $399.86;\n      first Cong. Ch., $135.70                               535.56\n    Waterbury. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Kansas Refugee M._             5.00\n    Watertown. Dr. John De Forest, _for Talladega\n      C._                                                    100.00\n    Windsor. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n    Windsor Locks. Mrs. L. P. Dexter                           5.00\n    Winsted. E. E. Gilman, $10; Mrs. E. W. C., $1;\n      Mrs. C. S., 50c.                                        11.50\n    Winthrop. Miss C. Rice, $1.50; Mrs. M. A.\n      Jones, $1.50                                             3.00\n    Woodbridge. Cong. Ch.                                     10.00\n    \u2014\u2014\u201cA Friend\u201d  ($150 of which _for Kansas\n      Refugee M._)                                           450.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $2,637.92\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Avon. ESTATE of Maria Avent, by Oliver Gabriel           200.00\n    Eastford. ESTATE of Rozel S. Warren, by J. D.\n      Barrows, Ex.                                           400.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $3,237.92\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $1,096.96.\n\n    Albany. Mrs. Mary M. Learned                              25.00\n    Arcade. Dea. P. H. Parker                                  5.00\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., Geo. A.\n      Bell, supt., _for Missionaries at\n      Fernandina, Fla., Ladies\u2019 Island, S. C., and\n      Charleston, S. C._                                     200.60\n    Brooklyn. Bedford Cong. Ch.                               16.00\n    Cohoes. Mrs. I. Terry                                      3.00\n    East Bloomfield. Cong. Sab. Sch.                          16.00\n    Franklin. Mrs. Isabel H. Penfield                          5.00\n    Fredonia. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for School-house,\n      Athens, Ala._                                           30.00\n    Fredonia. Miss Martha L. Stevens                           5.00\n    Galway. Delia C. Davis and sister, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                10.00\n    Gloversville. Cong. Ch. (of which Alanson\n      Judson, $150, Mrs. Sarah B. Place, $70, $35\n      _of which for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._)              314.50\n    Goshen. Miss Martha Wisner, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                10.00\n    Jefferson. Mrs. S. Ruliffson                               4.00\n    Kinderhook. W. I.                                          1.00\n    Lenox. Amos S. Johnson                                     2.00\n    Lockport. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., ad\u2019l to\n      const. MRS. L. B. KING, MISS NETTIE MOODY\n      and GEORGE JENNINGS, L. M\u2019s                             56.04\n    Lima. Geo. Thayer, $5; G. W. Thayer, $3; Mrs.\n      E. W. Beadle, $2                                        10.00\n    Mount Sinai. Cong. Ch.                                    10.46\n    Mina. Mrs. A. T.                                           1.00\n    New York. William E. Dodge, _for Tougaloo U._            100.00\n    New York. Broadway Tab. Ch., Mon. Con. Coll.,\n      _for Ch., McIntosh, Ga._, and to const. REV.\n      WM. M. TAYLOR, D. D., L. M.                             30.00\n    New York. Sab. Sch. of Broadway Tab. Ch., $25;\n      Rev. H. C. Haydn, D. D., $10; Mrs. E.\n      Merritt, $10                                            45.00\n    New York. \u2014\u2014, _for Mendi M._                               5.47\n    Oswego. Cong. Ch. Mon. Con. Coll.                         13.48\n    Rushford. W. W.                                            0.51\n    Saratoga Springs. Mrs. A. M. W., Sen., $1;\n      Mrs. S. S., $1                                           2.00\n    Smyrna. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        10.00\n    Springville. Lawrence Weber                                3.00\n    Success. Sab. Sch., by J. H. Benjamin, supt.              11.00\n    Tarrytown. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     50.00\n    Troy. MRS. C. H. LADD, to const. herself L. M.            30.00\n    Walton. Union Miss. Soc. of Second Cong. Ch.,\n      $35.44; Second Cong. Sab. Sch., $19.66; J.\n      J. St. J., 50c.                                         55.60\n    West Farms. Ladies and Prof. Alphonso Wood,\n      Bbl. of Bedding and Books, by MRS. A. WOOD,\n      _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._\n    West Winfield. Cong. Ch.                                  16.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $81.39.\n\n    Bernardsville. J. L. Roberts                              25.00\n    Lakewood. Ralph Tyler and G. L. Hovey, Box of\n      Books, _for Tougaloo U._\n    Lyons Farms. \u201cC.\u201d                                          5.00\n    Newark. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         0.39\n    Orange Valley. Ladies\u2019 Sewing Soc. of Cong.\n      Ch., $26, and Bbl. of Bedding and C., by\n      Mrs. Austin Adams, _for furnishing rooms,\n      Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                              26.00\n    Salem. W. G. Tyler                                        25.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $7.00.\n\n    Cambridgeborough. Mrs. W. G.                               1.00\n    Cross Cut. W. W.                                           1.00\n    Forest Grove. C. T. B.                                     1.00\n    Guy\u2019s Mills. S. O. F.                                      1.00\n    Philadelphia. M. A. L.                                     1.00\n    Sewickley. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Mendi M._                      2.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $788.28.\n\n    Austinburg. First Cong. Ch.                               11.00\n    Belpre. Cong. Ch.                                         13.03\n    Brookfield. Miss E. F.                                     0.50\n    Bucyrus. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Rev. J. Schull, _for\n      Tougaloo U._                                            17.50\n    Burg Hill. Mrs. H. B., $1; J. M. J., $1; S. J.\n      B., 50c.                                                 2.50\n    Cleveland. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. of the Heights,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              24.00\n    Cleveland. B. A. D., 50c.; M. P., 50c.                     1.00\n    Dover. L. G. P.                                            1.00\n    Delaware. J. W. D.                                         0.50\n    Elyria. Heman Ely, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._             40.00\n    Fredericktown. A. H. Royce                                10.00\n    Geneva. \u201cCheerful Workers,\u201d by Minnie Carter,\n      sec., _for Tougaloo U._                                 15.00\n    Greenfield. William Smith                                  5.00\n    Harrison. John D. Bowles                                   5.00\n    Hartford. Mrs. F. and M. Brockway, $5; S. C.\n      B., $1; H. J., $1; Mrs. A. T., $1; H. B. T.,\n      $1; Others, $1                                          10.00\n    Huntington. Edward West                                   25.00\n    Kingsville. M. Whiting                                    20.00\n    Lorain. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Miss Kate Randall, _for\n      Emerson Inst._                                           8.00\n    Martinsburgh. J. A. McFarland and Miss Emily\n      McFarland, $2.50 ea.                                     5.00\n    Metamora. Mrs. M. S.                                       1.00\n    Moss Run. M. B. F.                                         1.00\n    Mount Vernon. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   50.00\n    Napoleon. Mrs. N. B. P.                                    1.00\n    Painesville. R. Hitchcock, _for Kansas Refugee\n      M._                                                    250.00\n    Painesville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                25.00\n    Painesville. E. E. J.                                      1.00\n    Sandusky. J. G.                                            0.50\n    South Salem. Daniel S. Pricer, $3; Miss M. M.\n      M., $1; Mrs. M. S., $1                                   5.00\n    Springfield. Cong. Sab. Sch., $12.50, _for\n      Tougaloo U._, and $12.50, _for Fisk U._                 25.00\n    Sulphur Springs. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Rev. J. Schull,\n      _for Tougaloo U._                                       22.50\n    Toledo. Mrs. Geo. L. Weed, $10; Mrs. M. A.\n      Harrington, $5                                          15.00\n    Willoughby. Mrs. J. M. Page, $5; Miss C. E.\n      Leonard, $5; _for Kansas Refugee M._                    10.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $621.03\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Cleveland. ESTATE of Chas. French                        167.25\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $788.28\n\n\n  INDIANA, $15.00.\n\n    Indianapolis. Mrs. M. S. Pratt, _for\n      School-house, Athens, Ala._                             15.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $585.66.\n\n    Aurora. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           25.00\n    Batavia. Cong. Ch.                                        39.49\n    Belvidere. Mrs. M. C. Foote                                3.00\n    Bristol. Mrs. S. J. Wheeler, $2; Mrs. H. S.\n      Colton, $2                                               4.00\n    Buda. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Savannah, Ga._                              20.00\n    Chicago. Elisha Gray, _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                     10.00\n    Chicago. J. Fairbanks, Box books and papers,\n      _for Macon, Ga._\n    Chicago. Dr. J. H. H., $1; Family Missionary\n      Box, $1.58                                               2.58\n    Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. Ferry, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Moline. John Deere, _for Theo. Dept., Fisk U._           100.00\n    Odell. Mrs. H. E. Dana                                    10.00\n    Payson. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   20.00\n    Peoria. Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Griswold, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                  100.00\n    Port Byron. A. F. Hollister                                5.00\n    Princeton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   10.48\n    Princeville. Mrs. E. R. Auten                              5.00\n    Providence. Cong. Ch.                                     22.61\n    Providence. Ladies\u2019 of Cong. Ch., for _Lady\n      Missionary, Liberty Co., Ga._                            5.00\n    Saint Charles. Cong. Ch., Miss Abby Ward                   3.00\n    Streator. Samuel Plumb, _for Kansas Refugee M._          100.00\n    Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           11.00\n    Tonica. \u201cFriends\u201d                                          8.00\n    Turner. Mrs. R. C.                                         1.00\n    Winnetka. Cong. Ch.                                       27.50\n    Wyoming. Rev. Wm. Walters                                  3.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $198.62.\n\n    Adrian. C. C. Spooner                                      5.00\n    Ann Arbor. Cong. Ch.                                      46.00\n    Battle Creek. Presb. and Cong. Sab. Sch\u2019s.,\n      _for Talladega C._                                       6.00\n    Cooper. Cong. Ch.                                         12.93\n    Detroit. First Cong. Ch., \u201cA Friend,\u201d $2; F.\n      M., $1; S. Z., 50c.                                      3.50\n    Kalamo. Mrs. S. E. B.                                      1.00\n    Lowell. Mrs. E. A. Yerkes                                  5.00\n    Marshall. D. H. Miller                                     5.00\n    Milford. Mrs. W. O.                                        0.51\n    Olivet. \u201cYoung Men\u2019s Christian Ass\u2019n,\u201d _for\n      Talladega C._                                           60.00\n    Owosso. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           35.00\n    Port Huron. H. W. C., 50c.; C. G. H., 50c.                 1.00\n    Salem. Mrs. A. V.                                          0.51\n    Saint Johns. Rev. S. S.                                    1.00\n    Summit. Missionary Soc., by Mrs. F. G.\n      Terrill, Treas.                                          3.17\n    Traverse City. S. A.                                       1.00\n    Union City. Mrs. E. J. H., 50c.; Mrs. D. B.\n      W., 50c.                                                 1.00\n    Vassar. J. G. Selden                                       2.50\n    Whitehall. B. H.                                           1.00\n    Whitehall. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hammond, _for\n      Schoolhouse, Athens, Ala._                               5.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $213.25.\n\n    Appleton. Miss A. E. Hutchinson\u2019s Sab. Sch.\n      Class, Box of C., $2 _for freight, for\n      Macon, Ga._                                              2.00\n    Appleton. First Cong. Ch., Box Books and C.,\n      _for Macon, Ga._\n    Beloit. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._, and to const.\n      MISS H. MARTINDALE, L. M.                               44.50\n    Beloit. J. Bert, $10.75; Sab. Sch. of Second\n      Cong. Ch., $7.30; Ladies of First Cong. Ch.,\n      Bale of C., _for Talladega C._                          18.05\n    Beloit. \u201cFriends,\u201d 3 Boxes Books and Papers\n      and 1 Box C., _for Macon, Ga._\n    Beloit. Rev. Thomas Gillespie                              5.00\n    Evansville. Cong. Ch., $5; Cong. Sab. Sch., $20           25.00\n    Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch., $95.60; Mrs.\n      Samuel Brown, $5                                       100.60\n    New London. First Cong. Ch., 3 Boxes Books and\n      Papers, Bbl. and Box of C., _for Macon, Ga._\n    Oshkosh. First Cong. Ch., Box of Books and C.,\n      and $2.75 _for freight, for Macon, Ga._                  2.75\n    Racine. Mrs. J. B.                                         1.00\n    Rosendale. Ladies\u2019 Soc. of First Cong. Ch., 2\n      Boxes Books and Papers, 1 Box C. and\n      Bedding, $9.35 _for freight, for Macon, Ga._             9.35\n    Ripon. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. Books and C.,\n      _for Macon, Ga._\n    Sheboygan. First Cong. Ch., Box of Books and\n      C., $5 _for freight, for Macon, Ga._                     5.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $366.14.\n\n    Cedar Rapids. First Cong. Ch.                              3.75\n    Cherokee. Mrs. C. E. W.                                    0.50\n    Cincinnati. L. R. Holbroook                               10.00\n    Council Bluffs. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Talladega C._                                           30.00\n    Creston. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             7.50\n    Decorah. G. C. Winship                                     5.00\n    Des Moines. Mrs. Samuel Merrill, _for\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Dubuque. First Cong. Ch., $41.50, to const.\n      DR. J. S. LEWIS, L. M.; W. C. W., 50c.                  42.00\n    De Witt. Rev. J. F. T                                      1.00\n    Fairfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 9.00\n    Genoa Bluffs. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $5;\n      Dea. H. A. Morse, $5                                    10.00\n    Grinnell. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n      $23.75; Miss Lewis\u2019 S. S. Class, $2; Miss\n      Morris\u2019 S. S. Class, $2.65; G. T. Hills\u2019 S.\n      S. Class, $2.25, _for Talladega C._                     30.65\n    Grinnell. Sab. Sch. Class, Cong. Ch., _for Le\n      Moyne Sch._                                              3.75\n    Marion. Ladies\u2019 and Young Girls\u2019 Miss. Soc\u2019s,\n      _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._                 25.00\n    Marion. Mrs. R. D. Stephens, _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                            25.00\n    Miles. Cong. Ch.                                           3.75\n    Monticello. Mrs. M. B. C. S.                               0.50\n    Osage. Woman\u2019s Missionary Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                            5.00\n    Preston. Cong. Ch.                                         4.43\n    Tabor. A. C. G.                                            1.00\n    Traer. Mrs. C. H. B.                                       0.51\n    Sherrill\u2019s Mount. Rev. J. R., _for Student\n      Aid, Straight U._                                        1.00\n    Stacyville. By Mrs. R. D. Stephens, _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            0.50\n    Waterloo. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Talladega C._                                           10.00\n    Eldora. Ladies of Cong. Ch., $11; Monona.\n      Ladies Aid Soc. of Cong. Ch., $1; Seneca.\n      Mr. and Mrs. O. Littlefield, $2; Traer.\n      Ladies of Cong. Ch., $12; _by Mrs. Henry L.\n      Chase for Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._            26.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $280.84\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Tabor. ESTATE of D. E. Woods, by Rev. John Todd           85.30\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $366.14\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $52.41.\n\n    Belle Prairie. Mrs. E. T. Ayer                             2.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 32.78\n    Minneapolis. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                           17.13\n    Saint Paul. Rev. R. H                                      0.50\n\n\n  KANSAS, $4.00.\n\n    Baxter Springs. Mrs. M. E. H. K.                           1.00\n    Burlingame. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     1.00\n    Leavenworth. Prof. L. A. S. ($1 of which for\n      Chinese M.)                                              2.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA TER., $17.50.\n\n    Nebraska City. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $15.50; L. N. B.,\n      50c.; Mrs. N. K. P. 50c.                                16.50\n    Green Island. Rev. C. S.                                   1.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $5.50.\n\n    Benicia. Mrs. H. A.                                        0.50\n    Santa Barbara. Mrs. H. M. Van Winkle                       5.00\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TER., $11.00.\n\n    Colfax. Rev. Cushing Eells, $10; Mrs. M. R.\n      S., 50c.                                                10.50\n    Seattle. Mrs. W. H. R.                                     0.50\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $10.00.\n\n    Washington. Mrs. A. N. Bailey                             10.00\n\n\n  KENTUCKY, $10.00.\n\n    Ashland. Hugh Means                                       10.00\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $94.50.\n\n    Wilmington. Normal School, Tuition                        94.50\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $317.00.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition                         317.00\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $355.30.\n\n    Chattanooga. Mrs. J. P. P., 50c.;                          1.00\n    Memphis. Le Moyne School, Tuition                        215.85\n    Nashville. Fisk University, Tuition                      138.45\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $599.39.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition                            186.58\n    Atlanta. Atlanta University, Tuition                     130.00\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition                           96.45\n    Macon. Rent                                                5.50\n    McIntosh. Dorchester Academy, Tuition                     29.81\n    Savannah. Beach Institute, Tuition, $121.05;\n      Rent, $10                                              131.05\n    Savannah. Dr. J. P. S. Houston and Dr. Wm. H.\n      Elliott, _for Mendi M._                                 20.00\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $659.95.\n\n    Athens. Trinity School, Tuition                           87.50\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition                           252.10\n    Mobile. Cong. Ch., _for Emerson Inst._                     1.25\n    Montgomery. Swayne Sch., Tuition                         190.00\n    Selma. First Cong. Ch., $41.30; Rent, $4                  45.30\n    Selma. \u201cFriends,\u201d by W. H. Lanier, _for\n      Tougaloo U._                                             5.00\n    Talladega. Talladega College, Tuition                     48.80\n    Talladega. Rev. H. S. De Forest, _for\n      Talladega C._, and to const. MISS JULIE C.\n      ANDREWS, L. M.                                          30.00\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $113.25.\n\n    Forest. \u201cFriends,\u201d by A. Strong, _for Tougaloo\n      U._                                                      2.00\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition                           101.75\n    Tougaloo. Rev. G. S. Pope, $5; Students, $1;\n      O. J., $1; D. I. M., $1; Mr. and Mrs. S.,\n      $1; Etta S., 25c.; J. M. N., 25c., _for\n      Tougaloo U._                                             9.50\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $141.75.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight University, Tuition.               141.75\n\n\n  TEXAS, $61.50.\n\n    Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst., Tuition                  46.95\n    Austin. G. Warren, _for Tillotson C. & N.\n      Inst._                                                  10.00\n    Corpus Christi. First Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       2.55\n    Helena. D. E., 50c.; A. S., 50c.                           1.00\n    Whitman\u2019s. W. B., 50c.; E. A. 50c.                         1.00\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $805.50.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               655.50\n    Graves Library Fund                                      150.00\n\n\n  CANADA, $5.50.\n\n    Sherbrooke. Rev. Arch. Duff                                5.50\n\n\n  ENGLAND, $101.90.\n\n    London. Freedmen\u2019s Missions Aid Soc., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._, \u00a321                             101.90\n\n\n  WEST INDIES, $1.00.\n\n    Jamaica. \u201cA Lady,\u201d _for Student Aid, Fisk U._              1.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total for February                               $17,097.97\n    Total from Oct. 1st to Feb. 28th                      87,522.46\n\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Washington, Conn. Mrs. Rebecca Hine                       20.00\n    Washington, Conn. Cong. Ch.                               14.21\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                              $34.21\n    Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to Jan.\n      31st                                                 4,076.50\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                           $4,110.71\n\n\n  FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.\n\n    Leeds, England. Robert Arthington, \u00a33,000             14,535.00\n    London, England. Freedmen\u2019s Missions Aid Soc.,\n      \u00a3379                                                 1,839.10\n    Le Grand, Iowa. L. M. Craig                               10.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                          $16,384.10\n    Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to Jan.\n      31st                                                 1,608.96\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                          $17,993.96\n\n                                        H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,\n                                                56 Reade St., N.Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nConstitution of the American Missionary Association.\n\nINCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1848.\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 faith\nin the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the practice\nof other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, may become a\nmember of the Society; and by the payment of thirty dollars, a life\nmember; provided that children and others who have not professed their\nfaith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting.\n\nART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of September,\nOctober or November, for the election of officers and the transaction\nof other business, at such time and place as shall be designated by the\nExecutive Committee.\n\nART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular\nofficers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, and\nof delegates from churches, local missionary societies, and other\nco-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one representative.\n\nART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President,\nVice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,\nTreasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less than\ntwelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory, and\nthe Treasurer ex-officio, members.\n\nART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and\ndisbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining and\ndismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and agents;\nthe selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the transaction of\nall such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of\nmissionary and other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no\necclesiastical jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to\nbe subject always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall,\nby a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any\naggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference shall\nbe final.\n\nThe Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies\noccurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;\nto apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of\nincorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all\nofficers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the\nSociety; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and\nfor the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, in\nall parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general\nconventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion of\nthe missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of the\nmissionary work.\n\nFive members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting\nbusiness.\n\nART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing officers,\nagents and missionaries, and in selecting fields of labor, and\nconducting the missionary work, will endeavor particularly to\ndiscountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the known fruits of\nunrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment those who hold their\nfellow-beings as slaves.\n\nART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to\nthe principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain\nmissionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the\nagency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART. X. No amendment shall be made 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) in\nthe regular official notifications of the meeting.\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a belief\nin the guilty and lost condition of all men without a Saviour; the\nSupreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the\nonly Saviour of the world; the necessity of regeneration by the Holy\nSpirit, repentance, faith and holy obedience in order to salvation; the\nimmortality of the soul; and the retributions of the judgment in the\neternal punishment of the wicked, and salvation of the righteous.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nThe American Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with the\nalmost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its main\nefforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens and\nChristians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely related\nto this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE in America,\nand to co-operate with the Government in its humane and Christian\npolicy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in AFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014in Va., 1; N. C., 6; S. C., 2; Ga., 13; Ky.,\n6; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 17; Miss., 4; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 2. _Among\nthe Indians_, 1. Total 76.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.\u2014_Chartered_:\nHampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville,\nTenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; and Austin, Texas, 8.\n_Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington, Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston,\nGreenwood, S. C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile,\nAthens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn., 12. _Other Schools_, 31. Total 51.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014Among the Freedmen, 284; among\nthe Chinese, 22; among the Indians, 11; in Africa, 13. Total, 330.\nSTUDENTS\u2014In Theology, 102; Law, 23; in College Course, 75; in other\nstudies, 7,852. Total, 8,052. 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 the\nnew churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and pious, for\nthese churches.\n\n3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and\nmissionaries to Africa\u2014a pressing want.\n\nBefore sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.\noffice, as below:\n\n  NEW YORK      H. W. Hubbard, Esq., Treasurer, 56 Reade Street.\n  BOSTON        Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Dis\u2019t Sec., Room 21 Congregational\n                House.\n  CHICAGO       Rev. Jas. Powell, Dis\u2019t Sec., 112 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 who\ntake up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of Sabbath\nSchools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; to Societies\nof Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does not prefer to\ntake it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less than five\ndollars.\n\nThose who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in their\nlast Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the following\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 their\nnames, their places of residence [if in cities, their street and\nnumber]. The following form of attestation will answer for every State\nin the Union: \u201cSigned, sealed, published and declared by the said [A.\nB.] as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who, at the\nrequest of the said A. B., and in his presence, and in the presence of\neach other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.\u201d In some\nStates it is required that the Will should be made at least two months\nbefore the death of the testator.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                    THE CONGREGATIONALIST FOR 1881.\n\nThe publishers of THE CONGREGATIONALIST have never been better prepared\nto make an entertaining and instructive paper for the family than now.\nOur contributors embrace such names as\n\n  Prof. AUSTIN PHELPS, D. D.,      ROSE TERRY COOKE,\n  Rev. J. T. DURYEA, D. D.,        SUSAN COOLIDGE,\n  President S. C. BARTLETT,        MARION HARLAND,\n  Rev. L. W. BACON, D. D.,         Rev. THEO. L. CUYLER, D. D.,\n  Rev. WASHINGTON GLADDEN,         Rev. W. F. CRAFTS,\n  GEO. E. WARING, Jr.,             Rev. GEO. LEON WALKER, D. D.,\n  Mr. C. C. COFFIN,                RAY PALMER,\n                        JULIA C. R. DORR,\n\nAnd many others who have attained a national reputation.\n\n                        \u201cHOW AND WHAT TO READ\u201d\n\nIs a topic on which we print several articles this year from Rev.\nWASHINGTON GLADDEN, and other well-known writers.\n\n                           \u201cWITHOUT A HOME\u201d\n\nIs the name of a story by Rev. E. P. ROE, running through the columns\nof THE CONGREGATIONALIST nine or ten months this season. More than\n200,000 copies of Mr. Roe\u2019s books have been sold, a fact which\nindicates the great demand there is for them.\n\nOur Sabbath-school Department for 1881 is under the charge of the\nRev. A. F. 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Begin with the January number and the new year. The price\nis only Fifty Cents per annum.\n\nThe Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the persons\nindicated on page 127.\n\nDonations and subscriptions should be sent to\n\n                       H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n                                         56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTO ADVERTISERS.\n\nSpecial attention is invited to the advertising department of the\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY. Among its regular readers are thousands of\nMinisters of the Gospel, Presidents, Professors and Teachers in\nColleges, Theological Seminaries and Schools; it is, therefore,\na specially valuable medium for advertising Books, Periodicals,\nNewspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of Learning, Church Furniture,\nBells, Household Goods, &c.\n\nAdvertisers are requested to note the moderate price charged for space\nin its columns, considering the extent and character of its circulation.\n\nAdvertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order\nto secure insertion in the following number. All communications in\nrelation to advertising should be addressed to\n\n            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 of the\n\u201cAmerican Missionary\u201d can aid us in this respect by mentioning, when\nordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes\n\n\nTeach-ng changed to Teaching in the table of Contents.\n\nObvious printer\u2019s punctuation errors have been corrected.\n\nOdd formatting of fraction (161 1-9 years) on page 114 has been\nretained.\n\nInconsistent hyphenation retained, due to multiple authors.\n\nDitto marks replaced by the text they represent in order to facilitate\nalignment in eBooks.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 35, No. 4, April, 1881","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":21524}