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No. 3.\n\n                                  THE\n\n                          AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n                 \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n                              MARCH, 1880.\n\n\n\n\n                              _CONTENTS:_\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    PARAGRAPHS                                                      65\n    ZEAL FOR STUDY                                                  66\n    TROPICAL AFRICA                                                 67\n    THE NEGRO IN AMERICA AND AFRICA                                 69\n    DR. BLYDEN ON THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY                   70\n    REV. CHAS. B. VENNING\u2014ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                      71\n    AFRICAN NOTES                                                   73\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    AT TALLADEGA: REV. J. E. ROY, D. D.                             74\n    NORTH CAROLINA\u2014McLeansville School                              75\n    SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLESTON\u2014Church and School Work\n      \u2014Cause of the Exodus                                          76\n    GEORGIA\u2014Report of Board of Commissioners on Atlanta\n      University                                                    78\n    ALABAMA, TALLADEGA\u2014Why he likes it: Rev. H. S. DeForrest        79\n    ALABAMA, ATHENS\u2014Building Progress\u2014Missionary Spirit             80\n    MISSISSIPPI, TOUGALOO\u2014Student-Conversions\u2014Crowded Rooms         81\n    TENNESSEE, MEMPHIS\u2014School work and Week of Prayer               82\n    TEXAS\u2014Two Hours\u2019 Work by Student Canvasser                      82\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    AN INDIAN BOY\u2019S LETTER                                          83\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    ANNIVERSARY AT SACRAMENTO                                       85\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    HOW TO MAKE MONEY FOR THE MISSIONARIES                          87\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                          88\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                                      93\n\n  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS                                            94\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\n  Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\n                    American Missionary Association,\n\n                         56 READE STREET, N. Y.\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  PRESIDENT.\n\n    HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\n  VICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n    Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n    Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n    Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n    ANDREW LESTER, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.\n    Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.\n    WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.\n    Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.\n    Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.\n    Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.\n    Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. J.\n    Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D.D., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.\n    Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n    HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich.\n    Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H.\n    Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D. D., Ct.\n    DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.\n    Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.\n    SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.\n    Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.\n    Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon.\n    Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.\n    Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n    EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.\n    DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J.\n    Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.\n    Rev. W. L. GAGE, D. D., Ct.\n    A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio.\n    Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn.\n    Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn.\n    Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.\n    Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.\n    Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.\n    Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.\n    S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n    Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n    Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct.\n    Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.\n    Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.\n    Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng.\n    WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y.\n    J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.\n    E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J.\n    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.\n    DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.\n    A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.\n    Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y.\n    FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.\n    JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I.\n    Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo.\n    J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.\n    E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.\n    C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.\n    Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal.\n    Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n  DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n    REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n    REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_.\n    REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n    H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.\n\n\n  EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n    ALONZO S. BALL,\n    A. S. BARNES,\n    GEO. M. BOYNTON,\n    WM. B. BROWN,\n    C. T. CHRISTENSEN,\n    CLINTON B. FISK,\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n    S. B. HALLIDAY,\n    SAMUEL HOLMES,\n    CHARLES A. HULL,\n    EDGAR KETCHUM,\n    CHAS. L. MEAD,\n    WM. T. PRATT,\n    J. A. SHOUDY,\n    JOHN H. WASHBURN,\n    G. B. WILLCOX.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to\nthe District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the \u201cAmerican\nMissionary,\u201d to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street,\nNew York, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch\nOffices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112\nWest Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty\ndollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.\n\n\n\n\n                                  THE\n\n                           AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n  VOL. XXXIV.                 MARCH, 1880.                      No. 3.\n\n\n\n\n                    American Missionary Association.\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWe are glad to be able to announce the safe arrival of Prof. Chase at\nSierra Leone, about the 8th of January, and hope before our next issue\nto receive valuable advices from him.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe call attention to the Thirty-third Annual Report of the Association,\nrecently published. In addition to the general survey which was read at\nthe Annual Meeting at Chicago, and the minutes of that grand gathering,\nwe have given, as usual, a detailed report of our work, and we suggest\nto pastors and others who may desire to inform themselves in regard to\nparticular aspects of it, that if they will notice, they will find all\nthis matter so classified in the Report that they can easily select\njust what they want. Thus, after the list of institutions and teachers,\nthey may find the following headings: Delay in Opening Schools, Quality\nof the Work, Closing Exercises, Industrial Departments, Growing Favor,\nBuildings, Rented Property, Libraries, Student Aid, Religious Character\nof Schools, Colored Teachers, Theological Departments. The Church Work\nand other main departments are analyzed in the same way. We have done\nthis, hoping to make the Report a helpful document and one easily used\nby the friends of the Association. Dr. Storrs\u2019 sermon is also printed\nwith it.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMiss Parmelee\u2019s paper, read before the Woman\u2019s Meeting at the\nAnniversary in Chicago, excited so much interest at the time and\nsince, and gave so vivid, so faithful and so sympathetic a view of\nthe perils of the girls of the South, that we have, besides giving\na portion of it in a former MISSIONARY, re-printed it in full, and\nhave sent it largely to the Christian women of our churches. We\nbeg them to read it, remembering that its statements are facts,\nand that the evils of which it speaks are among the better class\nof the colored women of the South, and hardly suggest the depths\nbelow, in which the mass are at home, and into which education and\nenlightenment only make the fall more fatal. May God\u2019s spirit move\nthe hearts of our Christian women to save their sisters.\n\nOne of our colored ministers, trained in an American Missionary\nAssociation school, in stating some incidents of his life to a friend,\nsaid that he was led, when about sixteen years old, to give up gambling\nand licentiousness, simply out of regard for his teacher, fearing that\nshe would learn of his evil ways and despise him. That teacher little\nthought then, and has never learned even, of the blessed influence\nupon that young man, of her pure and consecrated life, which, through\nthe providence of God, led to the transformation of a gambler and\nprofligate, into an efficient and esteemed Christian minister, through\nwhom she is now preaching to hundreds and even thousands.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Superintendent, scouring through Georgia, came across Rev. Mr.\nThomas, a choice man, who has charge of two colored Presbyterian\nchurches at Union Point and Woodstock, under commission of the Northern\nGeneral Assembly, and who got all his schooling\u2014three years\u2014at our\nLewis High School in Macon, Ga. So the fruit of our tree of knowledge,\nis falling over into other church lots, and we are glad of it. Such\nfruitage is a great encouragement to the teachers of our minor schools.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_A Bible Example of Reconstruction._\u2014It was after the return from\nBabylon. Civil and the moral reformation went hand in hand. The\nfirst Governor, Zerubabel, who was a grandson of a former king, had\nthe high priest, Joshua, to lead in the worship, and the prophets,\nHaggai and Zechariah, to preach and to teach. The next Governor,\nEzra, instituted for the instruction of the people an extensive\nsystem of Bible-readings. \u201cSo they read in the Book, in the law of\nGod, distinctly and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the\nreading.\u201d\n\nThe next Governor, Nehemiah, was a reformer. He put down the practices\nof taking heathen wives, of violating the Sabbath, and of exacting\nillegal interest. No improvement has as yet been made upon that style\nof civil reconstruction. Religion and education, the church and the\nschool, must go along with the re-ordering of the State. So we find our\nwork at the South in the line of a Divine pattern. The Bible gives us\nits ideal of dealing with freedmen by taking into its sacred canon the\nfive books of Moses for the emancipated Israelites, the books of Ezra,\nNehemiah, Haggai and Zechariah, for the restored captives.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nZEAL FOR STUDY.\n\nA good deal has been said, from time to time, of the abatement among\nthe colored people of that eagerness to learn, which marked the days\nimmediately following their emancipation. Of course, much of it is\ntrue; many found by trial that it was not so easy or instantaneous\na process to learn to read as they had supposed; the pressure of\nself-support drew away the attention of others from their aspirations\nafter an education; unduly excited ambitions and crude hopes were seen\nto be unfounded, and in the disappointment many were discouraged.\nBut all of it is not true. There are many instances yet of the early\neagerness to learn among the young, and even among the old; we give\nan instance from a teacher\u2019s letter: \u201cOne woman, 39 years old, lives\nin the country, and walks six miles to school, and six miles again\nafter school to her home. Her seat has been vacant only on one or two\nof the rainiest days since the school opened, September 1st. At home,\nshe has all her household affairs to look after, and finds time to\nstudy at night even then; and if, on account of helping her husband to\npick cotton in the fall, she would go late to bed without \u2018knowing her\nlesson,\u2019 it \u2018worried\u2019 her so, she said, that she \u2018could not get a wink\nof sleep,\u2019and her husband would waken to find her up and studying. She\nis gaining slowly in rudimentary knowledge, and is very much pleased,\nor, as she would say, \u2018proud\u2019 of her success. Several such ones, eager\nto learn, I have under my care, and though they can learn but slowly,\nit is really better than that they should never know anything, though I\nthink we would count it hardly worth while to take such pains so late\nin life; yet, better to get upon the first round of the ladder than not\nto rise at all.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTROPICAL AFRICA.\n\nThe Three Lake Missions.\n\nAmong the great movements of this stirring age, none are, perhaps,\nmore far-reaching than those for the exploration and evangelization of\nTropical Africa. The splendid achievements of Livingstone and Stanley\ncrown and complete the efforts of their heroic predecessors. Africa\u2019s\nthree great central lakes and her two great rivers\u2014the mysteries of\nthe ages\u2014are now explored and mapped.\n\nThe missionary efforts that have followed these discoveries reveal an\nenthusiasm, and a consecration of talent and life, worthy of the vast\nfield thus opened. In the promptness of the response, the money and the\nlives devoted and the number of missions founded or projected, the last\nfive years give a history that probably has no parallel in the records\nof Christian missions. The story of these adventures in discovery and\nevangelization has the fascination of romance, and is pathetic in the\npiety and the sufferings of both travellers and missionaries.\n\nWe select as illustrations the three Lake Missions of Tropical Africa.\n\n\n1. The Victoria Nyanza Mission.\n\nOn the northern shores of this greatest of Africa\u2019s central lakes is\nthe dominion of King Mtesa\u2014a name now familiar to the civilized world.\nHe rules over two millions of people, has a navy of 300 war canoes and\nan army of 150,000 warriors. In 1875, Stanley reached his capital. The\nwelcome was cordial, and for two months the traveller taught the King\nthe principles of Christianity with such happy results that the Bible\nwas studied, and in obedience to its teachings, an enemy and rebel,\nconquered in battle and doomed to death in accordance with African\nmorals and invariable practice, was spared! Stanley appreciated the\ntrue value of the King\u2019s \u201cconversion,\u201d and saw the need of having his\nown incipient teaching followed up by steady missionary labors. His\nappeal for such labors was written in Africa and appeared in a London\npaper Nov. 15, 1875. The prompt response should be noticed. Three\ndays after it appeared, came an anonymous offer of $25,000 for the\nfounding of the mission, and soon another equal sum was proffered.\nThe venerable and efficient Church Missionary Society undertook the\nwork. The consecrated money was soon followed by the consecrated\nmen. In 1876, the company of missionaries landed at Zanzibar, and\ntravelling the 800 miles of jungle in six months, and marking their\nfirst disaster in the death of one of their party, reached Mtesa\u2019s\ncapital. They were welcomed with enthusiasm, and when the name of Jesus\nwas uttered, a salute was fired. The work was begun immediately, but\nsoon the second great disaster came\u2014two of the company, Lieutenant\nSmith and Mr. O\u2019Neill, were murdered at no great distance from the\ncapital. But instead of discouragement, these disasters called forth\nnew enthusiasm. Three young men were promptly sent out by the Church\nMissionary Society. They took the Nile route, but a journey that should\nhave taken three or four months was protracted to nine by the floating\nislands in the Upper Nile and the ignorance of the Arab captain. One\nof the missionaries received a sunstroke and was obliged to return. At\nlength they reached Uganda and were joyfully received, but soon came\nthe greatest calamity\u2014a week after their arrival two French Jesuit\npriests came also, and succeeded in so disaffecting the mind of the\nKing as to arrest the work, and lead to the withdrawment of most of the\nmissionaries. The summary at the latest dates is: Sixteen missionaries\nin all have been sent, of whom six have died and three have returned\nsick. Of the seven still in Africa, four have been permitted to go on\nvarious duties and three remain at Uganda without the facilities either\nto carry on their work or to withdraw.\n\n\n2. Tanganika Mission.\n\nUjiji, the location of the Tanganika Mission is endeared to the friends\nof Livingstone. Here he made his temporary home, and here, almost ready\nto die, he was discovered by Stanley, to be restored to vigor and to\ntoil still longer for Africa, till at last he was found dead upon his\nknees. The plan for a mission here was formed by the London Missionary\nSociety, scarcely less venerable than the Church Missionary Society.\n\nMr. Arthington of Leeds, Eng., one of the generous and prompt donors\nof $25,000 for the Nyassa Mission, gave a like sum for this. Four\nordained missionaries, one scientific man and one builder, left\nLondon in March, 1877. Their journey from the coast of Africa was\nprotracted over thirteen months in consequence of the many obstacles\nand vexatious delays. Added to these trials, death did its fearful\nwork. Under these discouraging circumstances, Dr. Mullen, the intrepid\nand beloved Secretary of the Society, obtained the reluctant consent of\nthe Directors to lead in person an additional force, and to hasten the\nprogress of the supplies. But he had gone only 200 miles from the coast\nwhen death closed his useful career. No event in the last five years\nhas cast such a gloom over mission circles in Great Britain as the sad\nfate of this noble man.\n\n\n3. Nyassa Mission.\n\nAgain is the stimulus of Livingstone\u2019s labors seen, and his name and\nmemory honored in the founding of another mission: the Livingstonia on\nLake Nyassa. It was a labor of love for the Free Church of Scotland,\naided by sister communions to undertake this mission. In the Spring of\n1875, the expedition started, having been furnished with all needed\nsupplies, including a beautiful steel steamer and two boats for the use\nof the mission on the Lake. After a tedious journey up the Zambesi and\nShir\u00e9 and a toilsome land journey of 60 miles, around the Murchison\nFalls, the Lake was at length reached.\n\nAfter a brief search, a site was selected that held out unusual\nhopes of coveted advantages\u2014there were no mosquitos and a favoring\nlake breeze gave promise of health. But alas for the unforeseen\nand insignificant difficulties that sometimes defeat the greatest\nundertakings\u2014the fatal tsetse fly compelled the choice of a new\nlocation. But we cannot give space for the subsequent details.\n\nThe disasters and deaths in these missions have had a depressing effect\nupon the hearts of Christians in Great Britain, and we fear that the\ndiscouragements will to some extent be felt in this country. But we\nmust guard ourselves against hasty inferences and unwarranted fears. We\nshould remember:\u2014\n\n1. That trials at the outset are often God\u2019s means of arousing a\ndeeper faith. The history of missions, modern and Apostolic, is\nfull of examples. The Teloogoo Mission where such an unusual work\nof Divine grace has recently been experienced and the converts have\nbeen numbered by thousands, was for a long time the scene\nof unfruitful labors. Bishop Crowther\u2019s Mission in West Africa, now so\nstrong and growing, had an early experience of toils and persecutions.\nThe Apostles themselves encountered imprisonments and death not only,\nbut their labors were sometimes followed by defections, perversions of\ndoctrine and scandals in life.\n\n2. We should take courage from the fact that the slave-trade, the worst\nfoe to missionary labors in Africa, is feeling the effects of the\nearnest efforts of Great Britain for its overthrow. Sir Samuel Baker,\nand after him Col. Gordon, the stout old Covenanter\u2014the Havelock of\nAfrica\u2014have crippled its power on the Upper Nile, while the labors\nof Sir Bartle Frere, and subsequently of Dr. Kirk at Zanzibar, have\nbeen equally effective along the coast, so that the Church Missionary\nIntelligencer feels authorized to say that \u201cthe slave-trade if not\nkilled, is scotched.\u201d The missions themselves, though hindered in many\nrespects, have had a salutary influence in shaming and arresting this\nfiendish traffic.\n\n3. Finally, the church of God must bear in mind that the Saviour\u2019s last\nand great command, \u201cGo ye into all the world and preach the Gospel,\u201d is\naccompanied by that all-comprehensive and all-sufficient promise, \u201cLo,\nI am with you always, even unto the end of the world.\u201d God will redeem\nthe whole world, and in the Saviour\u2019s heart and plan, Africa is not\nforgotten.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE NEGRO IN AMERICA AND AFRICA.\n\nDr. Edward W. Blyden, of Liberia, Africa, is the author of an\ninteresting article in the _Methodist Quarterly Review_ for January,\n1880, from which we gratefully reprint elsewhere his tribute to\nour work. Anything which comes from the pen of this distinguished\ngentleman\u2014one of the most cultured men of the race whose cause he\npleads\u2014is well worth reading and consideration. With much that the\nDoctor says, we are in full and hearty agreement, but beg leave to make\none or two suggestions, growing out of what seem to be at least not\nunwarranted deductions from his positions.\n\nNo one can regret more than we do the prejudice which exists, in this\ncountry especially, against the colored man. And there is no doubt\nthat, as Dr. Blyden observes, even among those who are not unmoved by\nthe story of his wrongs, and who are earnestly engaged in philanthropic\nefforts for his uplifting, this personal prejudice and sense of\nsuperiority does exist. That it is not so to anything like the same\ndegree in England and on the Continent, is suggestive in the light it\ncasts upon the fact among us. On what is the difference of feeling\nfounded? Certainly not altogether in the natural race-prejudice. That\nis a fact not to be denied. There is a prejudice which is universal\nbetween all people of distinct races of men. It is felt by the original\ninhabitants of Africa against the Caucasian, as Dr. B. shows, as well\nas by the white man in his own home against the black. But in this\nland, the prejudice is intensified by the position and the character of\nthose who have made up the negro population.\n\nDr. Blyden objects to our calling the Negro, Indian and Chinaman\n\u201cthe despised races.\u201d He even dislikes to have Africa called \u201cthe\nDark Continent.\u201d Of course, our brother knows that the sympathies of\nthis Association are, as they have always been, with these people of\nhis land, and that our toils and labors have not been limited, nor\nof brief continuance, in their behalf. All this he most fully and\nkindly acknowledges in his article. It is hardly necessary for us to\nsay, then, that we have used the term as describing what is, and as\ncontrasted with what ought to be. It is true, rightly or wrongly,\nthat they have been looked down upon and are still despised. And\nwe have used the word as setting forth the fact, and as, therefore,\nthe strongest plea to Christian sympathy and help; for we have been\nsure that where we could enlist these, the term would no longer have\napplication. The good Samaritan did not despise the poor Jew who had\nfallen among thieves, as he held him up on the ass which bore him to\nthe inn. He was too busy pitying and helping him. Perhaps this is\nenough to say. We have used the term \u201cthe Despised Races\u201d not as an\nepithet, but as a plea.\n\nA fair inference at least from the Doctor\u2019s article is, that he sees\nno hope for his people on this continent, and that their only way to\nsuccess is to emigrate to the land of their mothers, and to make its\nreclamation their ambition. But how does that affect our work and the\npresent generation? The American Colonization Society, as seen by\nits last published report, sent out to Africa during the year 1878,\none hundred and one colonists; during the same year the bark Azor\ntransported two hundred and forty. It is but a spoonful dipped from\nthis deep sea. It is but the smallest possible percentage even of the\nincrease of the colored population of America. Meanwhile, what are we\nto do with the five millions who remain, and with their children and\ntheir children\u2019s children? What we do for them we must do for them here.\n\nWe, too, believe in colonization; in the evangelization of Africa by\nAfricans; and the only difference in our aim and purpose from the\nwork with which the Doctor is so fully identified, is that we want to\ndistribute our colonists more widely. It is well to have a Christian\nrepublic in Africa. But it is our desire to plant small colonies\nof twenty-five or thirty, among whom shall be both ministers and\nmechanics, here and there through the still \u201cdark continent\u201d\u2014points\nof radiation for the light of life and of Christian civilization which\nthey are to hold forth.\n\nWe are full of sympathy and interest with the good work in Liberia.\nMay the Lord bless it abundantly. But the work here is not hopeless.\nHundreds of thousands of the Freedmen still answer, from amid all their\ndisappointments and disabilities, \u201cWe are rising.\u201d Our plan and purpose\ndesire to take part in both hemispheres of the whole rounded work\u2014to\nsave the African in America and in Africa alike.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDR. BLYDEN ON THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nThe American Missionary Association, whose publications we have\nprefixed to this paper, in their work of lofty and noble purpose\nthrough the South are endeavoring to prepare the negro for higher\nspheres of labor than \u201ccotton-fields, turpentine orchards, and\nrice-fields.\u201d Every negro who is at all acquainted with matters in the\nUnited States must have the highest admiration for it. Almost alone\namong the benevolent institutions of that land in the days of the great\nstruggle, they never for one moment yielded to the imperious dictates\nof an oligarchical monopoly, but gave expression to the idea which they\ninscribed upon their banner, that one of the chief purposes of their\norganization was to resist the tyranny of the autocracy which doomed\nthe negro to perpetual servitude. No one could be enrolled among its\nmembers who was a slave-holder. They have the gratitude of the negro\nrace.\n\nBut history will have a brighter page than even that with which\nto adorn their annals, when she comes to recount the devotion and\nsacrifices of the hundreds who have been sent forth under their\nauspices, as uplifters of the prostrate host in the South, to whom,\nleft as they were, paralyzed by slavery, free movement and real progress\nwere intrinsically impossible without the aid of such agencies as the\nAmerican Missionary Association. As time rolls on, the romance which\nclings to those heroes who fought to unfetter the body of the slave,\nwill fade beside the halo which will surround these who have labored to\nliberate his mind.\n\n  (_Methodist Quarterly Review._)\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREV. CHARLES B. VENNING.\n\nOne of our most earnest and devoted missionaries at the Jamaica\nMission, after severe and protracted suffering, has entered into his\nrest. Mr. Venning went about fifty years ago, when Negro-slavery was at\nits height, to work on a Jamaica sugar estate. He was then an ardent\nyoung Englishman, and easily led into dissipation and vice. But the\nLord arrested him, and the course of his whole life was changed. He\nentered the Mico Institute, a Training College for Schoolmasters, and\nwas a successful teacher. He then became interested in the efforts of\nthe American Missionary Association, and desired to devote himself\nentirely to school work and religious teaching among the Negroes in\nthe country districts of the Island. His name stands on the list of\nmissionaries in our first Annual Report, and he has labored faithfully\nevery year since\u2014while his health would permit by active efforts, and\nwhen on a bed of suffering by example and counsel.\n\nWe quote the following from the letter of a fellow missionary: \u201cI never\nsaw a man who so entirely devoted himself to the work as he did. He\nhad the true missionary spirit. He not only preached the Gospel in his\nown church, but from house to house and in the most out-of-the-way\nplaces; indeed everywhere where men would give a listening ear. No\nother missionary in the Island did so much for the education of his\npeople as Bro. Venning, and outside of the towns there could be found\nno people so intelligent as his. He watched over his flock with almost\na painful interest\u2014encouraged and reproved. He gathered the poor that\nwere otherwise uncared for about his own door, gave them shelter, fed\nthem from his own table, and clothed them from his own wardrobe.\u201d\n\nOne who knew him intimately at the Island writes: \u201cHe labored literally\nnight and day most earnestly for the salvation of souls and the welfare\nof those who had been converted. Being a born educator, he has left\nhis mark upon the generation that has grown up under his instruction.\nAs a private Christian, he was most real and honest, and free from all\nguile, exemplifying in all his life, in the most striking manner, those\nbeautiful words of Scripture \u2018harmless\u2019 and \u2018blameless.\u2019 His faith\ntriumphed nobly in the end. In my interviews with him of late, it has\nbeen most interesting to see with how firm a grasp he held fast to the\nassurances of God\u2019s blessed word, and thus found perfect rest and peace\nto his soul.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nNASHVILLE, TENN.\u2014Religious interest is reported in the school. Six\npersons have professed their faith in Christ. The day of prayer for\ncolleges was observed and we hope that good may result from the day.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMCINTOSH, LIBERTY CO., GA.\u2014Pastor Snelson writes: We observed the week\nof prayer. The weather was mild, and consequently we did not have to\ngo into the Academy for the use of the stoves. Last Sabbath, eleven\nwere received into the church by confession and one by letter. It was\na blessed day with us. There is much here to do. Miss E. W. Douglass is\na great help to us. The people all like her. She is at work any and\neverywhere. They call her in some places the lady-preacher. I would to\nthe Lord that more missionaries like her were sent throughout the field\nof the American Missionary Association. Pray for us.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nANNISTON, ALA.\u2014On Thursday night, December 25th, the colored church\nwas crowded to its utmost capacity to witness the exercises of the\nschool children, which consisted of songs, recitations, etc. The Rev.\nP. J. McEntosh has had this school and church at Anniston in charge\nfor a number of years and has labored with untiring energy to elevate\nthe colored people, and has met with a great deal of encouragement.\nAfter the school exercises, the presents from the Christmas tree were\ndistributed among the children. Several white visitors were present and\nspoke very highly of the management of the church and school. On Friday\nnight, they gave a fair at which they realized $56.80.\u2014_Chattanooga\n(Tenn.) Times._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nGREENWOOD, S. C.\u2014Mr. J. D. Backenstose writes: I have just closed my\nfirst week of school for this year (1880), and am glad to be able to\nreport a larger number of students than ever before at this place.\n\nI have had to rent a room of one of my neighbors, and we have as many\nboarders now as we can well accommodate, even with our new house, and\nmore are to come in the middle of the month.\n\nThe house is 18\u00d736, containing two rooms 18\u00d718, with two windows and a\ndoor in each room and a chimney in the middle. Each room is to contain\nthree bedsteads, and from six to nine chairs. The house completed and\nfurnished will cost $228.68, a little more than we calculated, but it\nis large, well built and well furnished.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTALLADEGA, ALA.\u2014Both of the barns, one being new and very valuable,\nwith most of their contents, including hay, grain, corn, and\ncorn-fodder, 300 bushels of cotton-seed, with tools and farm-implements\nand three cows, were burnt Wednesday night, Jan. 7. Evidently it was\nthe work of an incendiary, but not instigated at all by any prevailing\nill-will toward the College. Subscriptions were at once circulated\namong citizens, both white and black, and while the amount raised is\nnot large, the number and willingness of the contributions prove the\ninterest felt by this community in the College. Efforts will be made to\nrebuild at once. The loss is estimated at $1,200. It falls heavily on\nthe agricultural department, which is becoming an important factor in\nthe college work. The farm does much toward feeding the large family,\nand gives opportunity of self-help to the young men.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNORTH CAROLINA.\u2014While Islay Walden\u2019s people in Randolph county\nwere hauling in logs for the lumber of their new church, the mill\nwas burned, and a part of their boards. The owner not being able to\nrebuild, and there being no other mill near, the people came together\nto help him, the young colored preacher putting down $25 from his\nscanty salary. They hope to have the mill under way again in three or\nfour weeks. Meantime they will hurry in their logs, to be the first of\nthe new sawing.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTOUGALOO, MISS.\u2014We have a colored man visiting his daughter to-day;\nhis first visit to Tougaloo. He says he is keeping his daughter in\nschool with the money saved by himself and wife on snuff and tobacco\nsince signing the pledge; the result of the work of one of our students\nwho taught in his district.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNEW ORLEANS, LA.\u2014The Central Church is having a wonderful\nrevival. Mr. Alexander has preached every night since the beginning\nof the year. The interest is remarkable, crowding the room\nevery evening with a quiet, orderly, and earnest audience; many have\nbeen converted. Twenty-eight united with the church Feb. 1st.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAFRICAN NOTES.\n\n\u2014The long delayed tidings have been received by the London Missionary\nSociety from Messrs. Hore and Hutley at Lake Tanganika. The particulars\nof Mr. Dodgshun\u2019s death are given. Annoyances and delays interposed\nby the Arab slave-traders are rehearsed. We give a few extracts from\nletters:\u2014\n\n\u201cDuring the seven months of our stay here, we have done much towards\nmaking friends with the natives; they have closely observed us, and\nadmit that they can see nothing bad; but the influence of the Arabs\nis so powerful that they, the Wajiji, are afraid to make any definite\nnegotiations with us apart from the Arabs.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u201cThe slave-trade at Ujiji is merely a small local affair\u2014slaves\ncaptured in war, &c., amongst surrounding tribes, and passed from\nhand to hand, till they finally come to a stand in some Arab\u2019s\n_shamba_: this used to be done in the market, but since we came here,\nit has all been kept out of sight. Once only some Wajiji offered us\na slave for sale as they passed by our _tembe_. The traders owning\nthese domestic slaves, have from twenty to one hundred of them\n(I think Muniyi Heri reaches the larger number); they are their\ndomestics, boatmen, carriers, body guard, and cultivators, and, of\ncourse, form the principle population of the place, filling up with\nhuts the spaces between their masters\u2019 larger houses.\n\n\u201cSlavery amongst the natives is another matter. The Wajiji are great\nslave-holders, slaves being as common as domestic servants at home;\nbut no great numbers are owned by individuals as among the Arabs. A\ncommon present between chiefs is one or two slaves, and Mirambo sends\nsmall parties from time to time to buy both slaves and ivory. When\nthe Portuguese and Arab slave-trades are crushed out, or nearly so,\nwe shall see and more fully realize the extent of native slavery,\nor slave customs, which cover the continent through its length and\nbreadth. The former will have cost an immense outlay of the power and\ninfluence of civilized Europe ere it is swept away. The latter will\ntake years of faithful mission labor to eradicate.\n\n\u201cTo fulfil my promise to an Arab, to whom I said, \u2018We do not want to\nbuy except for our own use; but I will send your words to England,\u2019 I\nadd these few lines:\u2014The Arabs say, \u2018If the white men will come here\nand buy, we will grow as much sugar and rice, and spice and oil, &c.,\nas they want, and would much rather get our money in that way, than\nin dangerous [and, as they admit one by one privately, _illegal_]\nslave-hunting.\u2019 I keep telling them that the slave-trade is dying\nout, and they had better look to something else before they are left\nin the lurch.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014\u201cI have great trouble with my sailors who of course are _not_\nsailors. On one occasion I was close off Cape Kiungwe. About two A.\nM., pitch dark, a heavy squall burst on us from the northward, with\nsheets of rain. I could not see one foot in front of my eyes. This\nlasted for two or three hours, the boat sweeping along at a great\nrate without a stitch of canvas, and a nasty foaming sea. All six men\nbecame perfectly helpless, and huddled together inside the cabin. The\ngood little binnacle, however, kept the compass-lamp burning, and by\nit only I knew where to steer; had it gone out, none of them could\nhave put it to rights. I could not possibly let go the tiller; they\nwere perfectly unable to work the paddles had they been required, and\nit was only after roaring myself hoarse at them that I could rouse\nthem to bale the water out. When they get home they strut about with\na little cane in their hands, and boast of their sailorizing.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014\u201cI trust,\u201d he writes, \u201cno one will call this mission disastrous, or\ncondemn Ujiji hastily as unhealthy. It is certainly much healthier than\nZanzibar, and both Mr. Hutley and myself were never more persistent in\nour determination to go on. Certainly we want more help, but the work\nis _going on_. We are living down native prejudices and suspicions,\nand the lies of slanderers. We will slacken no effort to carry on this\nwork; and I am speaking, not at home, but in the midst of the work and\nits difficulties. May God induce His stewards to do their part, and\nsee in the vacant spaces of the ranks only cause for new and earnest\neffort. I commenced this letter with but mournful news; I desire to\nclose it with an expression of thankfulness to God for what health and\nstrength and success He has given us, and with an earnest appeal to all\nmissionary hearts to apply their means and strength with renewed vigor\nto this work, and to be assured that, however cavilers may talk of\ndisaster, there is no despondency here.\u201d\n\n\u2014On the eve of going to press the Directors have received a telegram\nfrom the Society\u2019s agent in Zanzibar, to the following effect: \u201cThe\nRev. W. Griffith and Dr. Southon arrived at Ujiji on the 23d of\nSeptember; all well.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014An Alexandria despatch to the _Daily News_ says Ismail Eyoud Pacha\nhas been appointed Governor of the Soudan, vice Gordon Pacha resigned.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n\nAT TALLADEGA.\n\n_At the Faculty Meeting._\u2014Three men and four women present. Prayer.\nThe circle is passed around for matters of business. Besides minor\nthings these results are reached; Will observe the day of prayer for\ncolleges, with an address at morning worship, with a prayer-meeting\nin the afternoon for the male students, one for the females and one\nfor the faculty, and with a general meeting at night; will hold a\nNormal Institute on the last two days of the present term, inviting\nthe colored teachers in the region round about to come, and asking\nMr. A. W. Farnham, Normal Professor at the Atlanta University, to be\npresent and help; will have a series of familiar lectures, alternating\non Friday night with the young people\u2019s sociable. Surely all this looks\nlike business.\n\n_At the Library._\u2014The donation of books to the value of more than four\nhundred dollars, from Rev. W. H. Willcox, of Malden, Mass., attracts\nthe eye, and feasts it, too. The books are new, of standard and current\ninterest.\n\n_At the Prayer Meeting._\u2014One of the colored young preachers reports\nthe fine large old Bible which, as the gift of some Eastern friend, he\nhad taken into his little church at the Cove on the preceding Sabbath.\nThe people had requested him to express their thanks. Then President\nDeForest followed. There is a story connected with that book. It came\nwith a box of things from the Congregational Church at Columbus, N.J.,\nRev. E. B. Turner\u2019s. It came from Harriet Storrs, who is a cousin of\nmy mother. Every page of the book has been prayed over. Out of the\nSabbath-school of that old hill-town church, six ministers of the\nGospel have been raised up, among whom, I suppose, they count myself,\nfor that was my father\u2019s home; and two wives of foreign missionaries\nhave come from the same source. Surely that old nest must be kept warm\nfor more of such productiveness.\n\n_At Evening Prayers._\u2014It is in the dining-hall, where the students\nof both sexes and the teachers meet. The repast over, the President,\nas is his wont, gives a resum\u00e9 of the current news, the discovery of\nthe intro-Mercurial star, the day\u2019s phase of the Maine affairs, and\nother such. Then the students at two of the tables recite each a verse\nupon a particular topic, temptation; then the sweetness of a religious\nsong; then prayer; then a quiet and orderly retiring. It is alone the\nreligion of Jesus that can present such a scene.\n\n_At the Farm._\u2014You enter its enclosure, passing under a graceful\narch that bears in large letters the emblazonment, \u201cWinsted Farm.\u201d\nSo everybody knows what town it was in Connecticut that did a good\ndeal toward the providing of that industrial department. The wheat\nand the rye and the oats are covering the fields with green, even at\nthis mid-winter time. You can see that there is good farming in that\nlocality. You can see it, too, by contrast.\n\n_Co-operative Farming._\u2014During the last season the colored people\nabout our church at Lawson\u2019s, in Alabama, Rev. J. W. Strong, pastor,\nrented a half-dozen acres of land, and cultivated the most of it in\ncotton, for the purpose of adding to the fund for supporting their\nschool. They had a board of managers. They worked when called upon.\nThey plowed and hoed. They at last picked out the cotton and found\nthat they had two bales, worth $120. One bale they sent to the colored\nfolks\u2019 Industrial Fair, on the grounds of Talladega College. This\nchurch is now also engaged in building a house of worship, having the\nframe erected, intending, with the aid of $100 from the A.M.A., to go\non this season with the finishing, and hoping that a revival will be\nits process of dedication.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA.\n\nOur School.\n\nREV. ALFRED CONNET, MCLEANSVILLE.\n\nOur school is put down as a common school. That is correct. Yet we are\nlaboring to make it more than a common school. To this end we have\ngraded it as follows:\n\nA. Normal; B. Normal. A. Intermediate; B. Intermediate. A. Primary; B.\nPrimary.\n\nThrough the kindness of friends in the North the school had been\nsupplied with a good many books, and unfortunately, there was a great\nvariety of text-books. We have ordered new, standard books, and have\nsecured uniformity. As we had new books it was easy to require all to\nbegin at the bottom and work up, and to do thorough work.\n\nIn a very few instances we have found pupils who can go into two\nclasses in the same branch. In this way they bring up from the first,\nand at the same time go on with a more advanced class.\n\nThe grading, the new books, and the uniformity of books, have each and\nall had a stimulating effect. They see there is a ladder to climb. They\nsee they cannot start at the top, or the middle, but must begin at the\nbottom. They study harder. The school has improved in numbers and in\nregularity of attendance. The number enrolled is 84.\n\nOur pupils are from four counties, including this (Guilford) county.\nThirteen are here paying board, or boarding themselves. Of the thirteen\nall are professors of religion but three: one is a minister, two are\npreparing for the ministry; one professed religion since he came here\na year ago, one of those preparing for the ministry united with the\nchurch at the last communion, and one is a teacher. Of those enrolled\nlast year, seven are teachers, six of whom are now teaching, and one\nattending school. One pupil who is a minister reports over forty\nhopeful conversions in connection with his labors during the summer\nvacation.\n\nA year ago we greatly felt the need of dormitories, and accommodations\nfor students to \u201cbatch.\u201d For this the Association could make no\nappropriation. One of the neighbors has put up a building for this\npurpose, another is building, and a third has converted an old\nstore-room into dormitories, and four families have taken boarders.\nLast year our school was confined to one room; now we have added a\nrecitation room.\n\nOn the whole, the outlook is hopeful. By the close of the present\nschool year twelve to fifteen of our pupils will be able to obtain\nteacher\u2019s license from the County School-Examiner.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSOUTH CAROLINA.\n\nChurch and School Work\u2014The Cause of the Exodus.\n\nREV. TEMPLE CUTLER, CHARLESTON.\n\nThe work goes quietly on here in Charleston\u2014in all its departments.\nThe school is flourishing. It never had so many pupils as now, and was\nnever more popular than under the direction of Mr. Gaylord. We are not\nashamed to have visitors from North, South, East, or West, visit Avery.\nIf any of your readers doubt the capacity of these colored boys and\ngirls, let them come and see for themselves.\n\nMiss Wells, our missionary, is doing good work\u2014visiting the homes and\nteaching the mothers and daughters how to make the home what it should\nbe.\n\nThe church work goes on slowly. The feeling of unity and harmony is\nincreasing, and, so far as I can see, may be said to be universal in\nthe church. We have had stormy weather in Plymouth for some time; it\nhas been a sort of Cape Hatteras, around which the winds have revelled,\nbut now the sky is clear and the sea smooth. We have a large growth of\ntares in the church that does neither us nor anybody else any good.\nIf we should undertake to root it out, I do not know how much wheat\nmight come up with it, nor how much wheat we would trample down in\ngetting to it. Oh, how wise we need to be in dealing with these people;\nwhat a broad mantle of charity we have to throw over them. Those of\nus who glean after the reapers in this field, where the \u201cpatriarchal\ninstitution\u201d once flourished, find that either the type of piety\nthat prevailed in the \u201cAbrahamic household\u201d was very defective, or\nthe \u201cAbrahamic duty\u201d was woefully neglected. Certainly, the idea of\nreligion that prevails among the former dependents of these modern\npatriarchs, is not that of either the Old or New Testament. But why\nthrow stones at the old defunct institution? What did I say? Defunct?\nI wish to God it was defunct, and that these freemen had a fair chance\nand a free fight for their rights and liberties. But that day is a long\nway off; and I fear the shimmer of the morn is not yet seen. I want to\nbe just as hopeful as possible. I never was a croaker. I generally see\nthe bright side of a thing. But sometimes, when I come in from some\ntale of oppression and misery, the clouds just shut right down\u2014it is\nmidnight. When I am made to know that there are 20,000 poor wretches\nhere in this city that are the carcass on which rich cormorants are\nfattening, my soul is sick within me. Congress may investigate the\ncause of the emigration of the colored people to all eternity, and come\nto what conclusion they may, it won\u2019t stop. I pray God it may not\nstop until enough laborers get away from the South to give room for\nthose who remain to grow. God knows the truth, and He will open some\nway for His people to go out. I assure you His new Israel has not yet\ncome to the land flowing with milk and honey. What think you of a man\nsupporting a family of four on 25 cents a day, and paying five dollars\na month for house rent? What think you of a family of five living on\nthe wages of the daughter who gets six dollars a month working out, and\npaying five dollars a month for house rent? _Hungry mouths will stifle\nconscience._ Or, how long could the good people of the North live on\nhasty-pudding without molasses or milk, morning, noon and night, and\nnothing else, day after day and week after week?\n\nDo you say, why not go back into the country and work the land? So\nI said to one who had brought his family of five or six down here\nto starve with the rest: \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you stay up in the country?\u201d\n\u201cCouldn\u2019t lib up dar no how. Starve up dar shuah. Rent so high couldn\u2019t\nlib. Had free acres of land and a po, misable shantie, and had to work\nfo days ob de week fur de rent, and but two days to tend my own crop.\nHab to buy ebreting ob de commisary. Hab to pay twenty cents a pound\nfur meat (bacon), and forty cents a peck fur grits (corn meal). Starve\nto deff up dar shuah.\u201d Four days\u2019 work every week for the rent of three\nacres of land! The best land in that section is worth four dollars per\nacre. Call the man\u2019s work worth twenty-five cents a day. His rent was\none dollar a week\u2014fifty-two dollars a year. No wonder the landlords\nare not anxious to sell land to the colored people, when they can get\nfour times the value of the land every year in work at twenty-five\ncents a day. Defunct institution! Yes, on the statute book. \u201cBut, my\nman, why didn\u2019t you buy the land at four dollars an acre?\u201d \u201cWell, sah,\nsome ob \u2019em did buy de land. I dunno how much dey pays; but I knows\nwhen dey\u2019s paid two or tree stalments dey can\u2019t pay no mo, and gibs\nem up.\u201d Do you wonder the people listen to glowing pictures of better\nopportunities somewhere else? If these people had a decent chance at\nhome, they would not listen to invitations away. The fact is, they\nare perfectly helpless, and there is nothing for the mass of them but\nto sit down and wait, wait, wait, through the long, long years till\nthe morning comes. I do not wonder they emigrate. I pray God they may\ncontinue to go, until those who remain shall have their hands full to\nsupply the demands for labor. It may not be better for those that go,\nbut it will be better for those that remain. The more you thin out your\nwoodland, the taller and stouter will be your timber. The only hope\nfor this people is a scarcity of laborers. There are so many who must\nhave work, or die, that every vacancy has a dozen ready applicants.\nTwenty-five cents a day, I am told, is all that some of these planters\nwill give to man or woman; and they can get enough at that price. In\nsuch circumstances, you cannot expect people to haggle long about the\nprice of labor. The cry is simply, \u201cGive me my hire.\u201d And then, if you\nremember that two hundred years of slavery in a man\u2019s blood is not a\nvery good preparation for independency, you may get a pretty good idea\nof the situation of the people.\n\nBut my letter is too long. Tell the churches to pray for the freeman\nof the South. I do not say freedmen, because there are thousands\nhere who were never slaves and are no better off. Ask the churches\nto help us to give them the only consolation they can at present\nhave\u2014a sure and intelligent hope of a better world than this on\nthe other side\u2014and not expect them, out of their deep poverty,\nto pay for their own schooling or preaching just yet.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nReport of the Committee of the Board of Commissioners to the Atlanta\nUniversity, June, 1879.\n\nA large majority of the entire Board attended the examination of the\ncolored University at Atlanta, which receives an annual donation of\n$8,000 from the State. The report of the special committee appointed\nto make a suitable minute of the exercises and the condition of the\nInstitution was unanimously adopted. It is as follows:\n\nTO THE BOARD OF VISITORS:\n\nGentlemen\u2014The undersigned, your appointees, herewith submit\nthe following report upon the final examinations of the Atlanta\nUniversity, for the school year just closed.\n\nThe Board attended these examinations in an almost entire body.\nThey were promptly and courteously met by President Ware and\nhis associates, and the examinations proceeded with systematic\nregularity. The exercises were designated by neatly printed\nprogrammes, with the time and place of recitation distinctly set\nforth.\n\nThe examinations were fairly conducted and disclosed the fact that\nthe most advanced methods of teaching were employed. These methods\nwere mainly topical, supplemented by appropriate questions, which\nevinced that the students had an intelligent comprehension of the\nsubjects under consideration. We were especially impressed by the\nevidences of patient, systematic, untiring training on the part of\nthe teachers, so well adapted to the colored, or any race, and by the\nprogressive manner in which a subject was developed. All branches\ntaught, passed in review before us, and whether the immediate subject\nwas reading, grammar, history, mathematics, the classics, or other\nbranches, the means employed and the results attained were entirely\nsatisfactory. The examinations were entirely oral and the decorum and\norder maintained were of a high character.\n\nThe cleanliness of the recitation rooms, the preservation of school\nproperty and the gradual improvement of the grounds were marked.\n\nThe final exercises at Friendship Church were very creditable to\nthe institution. The subjects of the speeches and essays were\nappropriate, without political bearing, and they were delivered and\nread in a becoming manner.\n\nComparing the examinations with preceding ones, we are satisfied that\nthe University is steadily on the up-grade, and that it is becoming a\ncentre of great interest among the colored people.\n\nThe religious training of the pupils appeared to be excellent.\n\nThe Normal feature of the institution we regard with especial\ninterest. In no way can education be so rapidly extended, or its\nimproved methods so effectually multiplied, as by the special\ntraining of teachers. This we believe to be the great educational\nwant of our State.\n\nWe have one suggestion to make, viz: as the oral recitation has\nbeen now so satisfactorily developed, would it not be beneficial\nto introduce some written examination work in the higher classes,\nas affording a better comparative test, and as advancing the\nexaminations fully up to the modern standard?\n\nIt is your committee\u2019s opinion, based upon the foregoing, that\nthe State has acted wisely in her appropriation to the Atlanta\nUniversity, and that a continuance of it is to her best interests.\n\nRespectfully submitted,\n\nH. C. MITCHELL,\n\nChairman Special Committee.\n\nT. G. POND,      C. M. NEAL.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOn motion the above report was ordered to be submitted to the Governor.\n\nH. H. JONES,\n\nChairman of General Board.\n\nJ. T. WHITE,      C. M. NEAL.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nWhy He Likes It.\n\nREV. H. S. DEFORREST, TALLADEGA.\n\nA minister recently called to one of our schools in the South, gives\nthese reasons for liking his place.\n\n1st. I am needed. This is a great work and the workmen are few. It\nis not at all here as it used to be, and perhaps now is, in Boston\non a Saturday morning, scores of men standing with carpet-bag in\nhand, waiting for a chance to preach, and many waiting in vain. We\nhave here more of field than we can occupy. On all sides comes up the\nMacedonian-African cry, \u201ccome over and help us.\u201d I am often weary on\nSaturday and poorly enough prepared for Sunday, but am spared the\nanguish of not knowing where to go or what to do. Besides, there is so\nmuch of self-denial in the work that there are probably not a great\nmany thinking that, if I should die or leave, there would be a vacancy,\nand if there should be a vacancy they would like to fill it. Not many\nare interested in my will; few would care for my shoes,\u2014I hope to wear\nthem myself and wear them here. For,\n\n2nd. There is here a grand, perhaps unsurpassed opportunity for\ninfluencing men. I am not only a Home Missionary, but also a Foreign\nMissionary to Africa, and that last with special facilities. I am\nmaster of the language, and do not work at the disadvantage of a\nhalf-learned and half-murdered tongue. Neither is there any prejudice\nagainst me as a Foreigner because of my brogue, or my dress or my\nhabits. Without the honors of a Foreign Missionary, I am also without\nmany of his disadvantages, and my national and Yankee peculiarities,\nwhich might hinder across the sea, help on this side of the Atlantic.\nThis is indeed a missionary field, but operated with special\nfacilities. It is a double missionary field. For,\n\n3d. The most pressing work in our own country is here. As surely as in\n1861 our national peril is largely in the South. Ignorance is dense;\nimmorality is rampant: lawlessness is wide-spread, while intelligence,\nmorality and obedience to law form the only basis for such a government\nas ours. To save our country, we must save the South; to save the\nSouth, we must save the Southerners, and there are no Southerners\nmore hopeful and more deserving than the late slaves. They are down\nbut their faces are upward. Give them a hand and they will take it,\nespecially if it be a \u201cYankee hand,\u201d and a little lifting develops a\ngood deal of spring in themselves. Thus it is that Patriotism as well\nas Humanity and Christianity keep me here, and no campaigning in our\nrecent war seemed more a duty of loyalty than that in which I am now\nengaged. I am glad to be in the ranks and to still wear the blue. But,\n\n4th. Looking beyond our broad land, I hope, standing here, to reach\nsome portion of the \u201cDark Continent.\u201d I regard this as a good _pou\nsto_ for moving Africa. Our students, more than those who have been\nlife-long readers, use their memories. They are more impressible than\nthe young of some other stock. They have a strong desire, as they are\nhelped, to help others. Apparently the great missionary movement of\nthe next few years is to be in Africa. The call is already heard for\nmen. Some of these men are here, and the impressions now made, the\nvery words we now speak, may yet be felt and heard in lands whence the\nfathers of these men were stolen, and in the jungles which the white\nman may well fear to tread.\n\n5th. Besides, there are some special rewards in this work. If we\nhave the white man\u2019s contumely, we have the black man\u2019s love. A more\ngrateful and appreciative people than some of these, fresh from the\nprison-house of bondage but now rejoicing in a double freedom, I have\nnever seen. Seldom is a pastor more fervently and affectionately\nprayed for than are some of us here. And I suspect as the Lord\njudges souls\u2014He seeth not as man seeth\u2014we have our companionship\nchiefly with the foremost of this part of the Land. These and similar\nconsiderations have led me to think that this College stands somewhere\non Mt. Pisgah. Certainly just now I would rather be here than in any\nother part of the Universe of God. Tell our friends at the North that\nwe do not need their sympathy but we do need their help. With more of\nmeans we could greatly multiply our labors and their results. Let those\nat the rear at least send on supplies, and more abundantly.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nIs the Work in Vain?\u2014Building Progress\u2014A Missionary Spirit.\n\nREV. HORACE J. TAYLOR, ATHENS.\n\nSometimes one is tempted to say that the work here is in vain. We\nknow, for instance, that a great deal has been done during the last\nfifteen years by the Principal of Trinity School, and yet one can see\nthat the work is by no means finished. Have not some people at the\nNorth been thinking that, after fifteen years of good work among the\ncolored people of the South, the A.M.A. ought to be about leaving the\nfield here for some other? Some here say to me, it will be a work\nof centuries to bring up this people; others, that the colored race\nnever will be fit for anything but farm laborers; they must be hewers\nof wood and drawers of water. Some people in Ohio think the religion\nof the colored man in the South is a \u201cpure and undefiled\u201d religion.\nSome people here think there is no use in trying to give the colored\nman a pure system of religion. \u201cThey get together and shout and carry\non, and that is all they are fitted for.\u201d \u201cTheir religion is impure\nand defiled, and they cannot appreciate a pure religion.\u201d So say the\nenemies of the colored race. Well, this is partly true; too true. The\ncolored man has emotion, and his late masters were too often content\nwith that \u201creligion\u201d in the slave. As slaves they were allowed to\npreach and steal and commit adultery, and all together, too.\n\nWhen we think of the pit from which they have been lifted, and of their\nancestry\u2014only a few generations ago heathen all of them, cannibals\nsome of them\u2014can we think that the results are less than we might\nexpect? A great deal has been done here, and there is a great deal to\nshow for it. Some might think there was not much to be seen of good\nresults. A church of forty-four members\u2014three less than two years ago,\nfive less than one year ago\u2014some weak ones, the church as well as the\nschool still pecuniarily dependent on the A.M.A., they will not be\nready to cut loose from the fostering care of the Association for some\nyears yet.\n\nChrist said that the kingdom of heaven was like a grain of mustard\nseed, or like a little leaven. These churches and schools act like\nleaven in a mass of ignorance. And this leaven works. And it is because\nof this leavening power of the Gospel that we are encouraged. The whole\nwill be leavened in time. But time is necessary. The Congregational\nchurches have undertaken a mighty work, and they must patiently stick\nto it for years yet. Much as can be seen of the results of the work\nhere, more than half of it cannot be easily seen. Other churches have\nbeen enlightened and helped. Even those who try to keep out the light\ncan\u2019t prevent some of it getting through the chinks.\n\nYou will want to know about the work for the new school building. If\nwe had had the least idea that we must work five months with less than\none hundred dollars in money, we never would have undertaken the job.\nWe hoped a fair share of the subscriptions would be paid in cash. One\nor two had themselves to buy the moulds for making the bricks, and the\nshovels to dig with, and the cord to line the ground with. We had no\nboards to cover the bricks, so, instead of kilning the bricks as they\nwere made, they were piled in an old log house. Many were broken in\nthis way. Then they were moved when we had boards to cover the kiln;\nand many more were broken. And from the 1st of August\u2014we didn\u2019t begin\nto prepare the ground till July 17th\u2014till November we had heavy and\nfrequent rains. The papers said such a season had not been known for\nmany years. We were hindered in our work, and lost bricks from the\nrains. But we have over a hundred thousand bricks, and a total expense\nof one hundred and fifty dollars. If the workers next summer can have\nthe money, as we hope, they will not work to such disadvantage, for\nthey will have boards on hand, and can kiln the bricks as they make\nthem, and have tools. The building will be finished, but it takes more\ntime than we at first thought. Such a school-house was not necessary\nfifteen years ago. Our neat church building, and the necessity for a\nsubstantial school building, are proofs of the great work done here\nby Miss Wells. I enjoy this work, and have become attached to the\npeople. But it is too nice a place for me. I never expected to preach\nfrom a carpeted platform. I must go far hence to more destitute places\nbeyond\u2014to the islands of the sea. But the work is one. Whether in\nAlabama or Micronesia, under the A.M.A. or the A.B.C.F.M., we are\nworking for one Lord, to establish the kingdom of Christ on earth. We\ncan but praise Him that He calls us to work in any corner of His wide\nvineyard.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI.\n\nSunday-Schools\u2014Student-Conversions\u2014Crowded Rooms.\n\nMRS. G. STANLEY POPE, TOUGALOO.\n\nThe year thus far has been most pleasant and profitable. During the\nfall term we had an unusually large number of students who entered into\nstudy with faithfulness and energy.\n\nMany who had been teaching during the summer, gave most interesting\nreports of their work. The Sunday-school and temperance work had been\nvigorously pushed with excellent results; one of which is over thirteen\nhundred signers to the temperance pledge. Some conversions in their\nSunday-schools were also reported; and quite often now some one speaks\nin our prayer-meeting of receiving a letter from a pupil asking for\nprayers that he may become a Christian.\n\nJust at the close of the fall term we were visited with a remarkable\noutpouring of the Holy Spirit. Our good Dr. Roy had been here, and a\nsermon which he preached left impressions which brought some to decide\nfor Christ. And then the Sunday-school lessons. I remember watching the\nyoung people during the closing exercises of Sunday-school the Sabbath\nbefore Christmas, and I saw that there was deep feeling, and felt sure\nthat there were some who would not long resist the Spirit, and during\nthe next three days there were nineteen conversions.\n\nThree or four others have since then found Christ. There is also a\nmarked Christian growth and a growing interest in the study of the\nBible. Our hearts are greatly encouraged, and we go forward rejoicing\nthat we are permitted to work for Christ. Truly \u201cThe Lord hath done\ngreat things for us whereof we are glad.\u201d\n\nAt present we have one hundred and four boarders, with the prospect of\nmore soon. Every room is occupied, and we are crowded to what seems\nthe utmost limit of our accommodations. What we shall do with those\nyet to come, is a problem which neither mathematics nor the laws of\nexpansion have solved. Shall they hang up in the trees or bivouac under\nthem? We want to put an addition to the \u201cbarracks,\u201d but have not the\nmeans necessary. Dear friends at the North, shall we turn these young\npeople away? What is your answer? We hope that by a year from now, a\ngood substantial building will be at least in process of erection, that\nshall do away with some of the temporary accommodations we now have.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTENNESSEE.\n\nSchool Work and Week of Prayer.\n\nE. A. H., MEMPHIS.\n\nNext week will, I believe, close my second month\u2019s work here. I find\nthe work very pleasant, and am enjoying it greatly, though I think I am\nworking harder than I have ever worked in a school before. The school\nhas filled up very rapidly since the holidays. My room is full to\noverflowing, and I have been obliged to seat a few of my pupils in the\nNormal room. That room and the Primary are also quite full. Of course,\nthese additions to the school have made the work of the teachers\nmuch harder. Besides my work with my own pupils, I am having some\npractice work done. Four students from the Senior Class of the Normal\nDepartment, are engaged for a short time each day in teaching in my\ndepartment, and under my supervision. This corps of teachers is changed\nonce in two weeks, thus giving each pupil in that class a chance to\nwork. I also meet the Senior Class three times a week, for talks with\nthem on school and class work, taking up the objects to be gained by\nrecitations and the best methods used. I think I can see already that\nthis work is doing good, and I hope that it may prove of great value to\nthe pupils.\n\nWe have been observing the week of prayer in the school, by fifteen\nminute prayer meetings, directly after school. At first, these were\nheld in a recitation room, but Thursday evening the meeting had grown\nso large that it was held in the Intermediate room, and Friday evening\nin the Assembly room. A good deal of interest has been shown, and a\nnumber have expressed a desire for the prayers of Christians. We hope\nthat the interest may deepen and much good be done.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTEXAS.\n\nTwo Hours\u2019 Work by a Student-Canvasser.\n\nThe following letter, with enclosure of $3.50 and fourteen names for\nthe MISSIONARY for six months, will not only explain itself, but may\nfurnish a suggestive example to many.\n\nDEAR FRIENDS: Of course you will be curious to know how it happened\nthat some persons in this place\u2014Marshall, Texas\u2014suddenly conclude\nto read the AMERICAN MISSIONARY, consequently I send you these words\nof explanation. I am indebted to your schools for all the education I\npossess. I attended Straight University five months\u2014from January to\nJune, 1874; then beautiful Fisk University nearly nine months\u2014from\nSeptember to May, 1879, entering college regularly with the class.\nCommencement over, I set out for Texas, earnestly desiring to secure\nmeans to go through with; but, owing to bad health and the want of\nproper precaution, I failed. I was unwilling to return immediately to\nFisk University empty-handed, to give my teachers additional concern\nabout my welfare, and, as I am firmly resolved to complete the course,\neverything to the contrary notwithstanding, something had to be done.\nHence I decided to remain in Texas a few months longer, giving my\nwife, who is at Nashville, the choice of remaining there or joining\nme here, until the difficulty is past. I could get no paying work\nright away, having walked upwards of two hundred miles and spent three\nweeks of valuable time in the search. Finally, weary, foot-worn and\nexhausted, I fell under the effects of intermittent fever\u2014indeed, I\nwas in trouble. Nothing remained, then, but to be idle two months or\nmore, at the expiration of which I could begin to teach, in accordance\nwith a contract that I then held. In the meantime my class would be\nmaking progress; this thought, believe me, gave me as much concern as\nmy ill-health. I carried the subject to the Lord in prayer and became\nreconciled. I reached Marshall, on the 22d instant. I plainly stated\nmy case to the teachers of this Institution. They seemed to sympathize\nwith me, and on the following morning assigned me work. Thus, you see,\nI am doing something, though it may be very little.\n\nI heard an interesting discourse Sabbath evening from I. Corinthians\nxv., 58. The preacher proved clearly to my mind that Christians ought\nto be zealous of good works for the churches to which they belong.\nHe proved, too, that all could do something. The whole furnished me\nexcellent food for reflection. I began to figure out how much we\ncolored people in the South could advance your glorious work if we\nonly had the zeal. I found, indeed, that we are neglecting a very\nimportant service; so I resolved, not having anything else in view,\nto secure some subscribers to the AMERICAN MISSIONARY, and within two\nhours yesterday I begged fourteen persons to put down their names. Now,\nsuppose each one of your students in the South should do even that\nmuch, is it not plain that you would soon have a large constituency\nhere as well as in New England? Such service alone would increase your\nsubscription-list by many thousands, and add largely to your income, as\nwell as disseminate, as should be, a wide knowledge of your work. Let,\nthen, every one, put his hand to the wheel, for all can do something.\nBelieve me, I am heartily ashamed of myself, now that I can see what\nan excellent opportunity of doing great good I have lost by not doing\nthe lesser. I have lived, more or less, in no fewer than twenty towns,\nand I have taught in at least fifteen different schools since I first\nleft one of your schools, at any one of which I ought to have raised at\nleast as many subscribers to the AMERICAN MISSIONARY as I have here. I\nhave been a Christian for several years, but unfortunately one of that\nclass who are afraid to \u201cstand up for Jesus.\u201d I am feeling differently\nnow, consequently am likely to fly to the other extreme. Should any\nlittle work, then, suggest itself to you, such as you may regard me\ncapable of performing, why be assured that a willing servant is at\nhand. It is to be very much regretted that, since I have to remain\nhere, I could not be with the teachers at Tillotson College; still\nthose who can work will work anywhere.\n\n  Very sincerely,\n\n  H. C. G.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAN INDIAN BOY\u2019S LETTER.\n\nDEAR FRIEND: I was born in Grand Island, Neb. in the 15 day of\nNovember. My mother was married by a white man, and used to live in\nGrand Island, and my father was scouting with the Pawnees, and once it\nrain very hard and he got lightling struck and died; I did not know\nhim, I never seen him, my mother tells me about him. When he died, my\nmother went back to her home, and lived with her brother, who lived\nlike a white man. In 1869 I went on a hunting bufflos with the Pawnees\nand Puncas. We went on about three days; they found some bufflos, so\nall the men got their best horses and fixed them up, and then took\ntheir bows and arrows and guns. They went all around them, and then\nthey just run their horses to see who\u2019ill get there first, one man\nwould kill two or three, sometimes four and eight, and they skin them,\nand take them home, skin and all. The skins is used for mocassins and\nmen legends (leggings). Once I went swimming while the men went after\nbufflos, while I was in the water I seen a bufllo coming where I was,\nfrightened me to, I had to climbed upon a tree. It was mad, and some\nmen were after him; and had some arrows in him. They killed it, and\nthen I got down, and I seen them skin it. We had lots bufflo meat; we\ncamp the same place, the Indians were drying their meat, so it will\nless (last) long. After while we went on again, we went on till sun\nwas sat. Next morning they seen some more bufflos; they killed many\nmore; they had to stay there till their meat was dry. We stayed there\nand then the Indian women got their work things and work on with their\nskins. They finished them and had lots meat and skins. We return home\nagain.\n\nI just eat dry meat all the time. No town near to buy some bread nor\nsugar. I used to be hungry for bread. I used to cry for bread. My\nstepfather had to take me where their was some Pawnees, that did not go\non hunting. We got there. I had all the bread I want. I was glad then.\nThe next day we went on and got to a town; and got in the cars, and\nwent on; we got to another town; we get out and went to my home, and\nthen they sent me to school. I went to school four months. I went home\nagain.\n\nAfter while some of the Pawnees ran away from their homes, went to\nIndian Territory and stayed there for couple years, had nice time and\nhad many ponies, then one went back home and told them it was very\nnice down the Territory, and it made part of the Chiefs think it would\nbe nice to go down there. They used to have a counsil all day, and\nhad a counsil one year. One Chief did not want to go down there; that\nwas Lone Chief, because he liked that place, because the Pawnees were\ncivilized when they were up there. They commencing putting up their\nhouses, and farming. They went down there. I went down with them. When\nI was there, I used to work on my farm. I have got a farm my own. I use\nto go to school in winter. I had been wanting to go to school somewhere\nelse. I am very glad they took me to Hampton School. I think my friends\nwill help me all they can. I want to learn all I can at Hampton School\nand stay here till four or five years, my mother was willing for me to\ngo to school and be among the white people, and when I went to Indian\nTerritory, and I went to the day school one year, and the next year I\nwent to the Boarding School. I never use to talk English one year ago,\nbut the Agent at my home, keep me at his office where there was many\nwhite men were writing. They use to talk to me all the time in English,\nand then I learn how, and then I use to interpret for the Agent.\n\nWhen we first went down to the Territory, there use to be many\nsickness; they used to die; they were not use to in warm country. Once\nI was sick. I had the chills and favor. I near died. I got well again;\nbefore I came away, I plow part of my field and sowed some wheat, but I\nhave got brothers who will work at my field while I am away, and keep\nmy horses good, and houses. Some white people used to want to take me.\nWhen I was at home I used to write to Col. Meachem, to help me to go to\nsome school. He did help me, and I am glad I went to Hampton School.\nI am trying to be a good boy, and study all I can. The only thing\ntroubles me is Geography, that is the only thing I have to try hard.\n\n  Yours truly,\n  JAMES MURIE.\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, E.\nP. Sanford, Esq.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAN ANNIVERSARY AT SACRAMENTO.\n\nREV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nWe have sustained a mission school among the Chinese at Sacramento for\nnearly ten years; but our first public anniversary was held at the\nCongregational church there, on Sunday, January 11th. The following\naccount of it was furnished for _The Pacific_ by the pastor, Rev. Dr.\nDwinell:\n\n\u201cThe attendance was good, and the exercises thrilling with Christian\ninterest to one who can see in such facts the beginning of a great\ntidal wave of grace that is yet to flow over the Chinese empire;\nand, what is more, a good collection was taken, showing the interest\nto be genuine. The exercises consisted of recitations of classified\nScripture, an original address, an original dialogue, and singing\u2014all\nby the Chinese\u2014and brief introductory and closing exercises by others.\nThe mission is in a very prosperous condition, and shows the fruits\nof the earnest, faithful teaching of those who have had charge of the\nschool, and especially of the present principal, Mrs. Carrington.\u201d\n\nAfter several of the exercises a muffled applause was audible, such as\non any other day and in any other place would have been irrepressible.\nEspecially was this the case after the following\n\n\nADDRESS BY LEM CHUNG.\n\n\u201cLadies and gentlemen: I am very glad to see you all here this evening.\nI thank you very much for your kindness, teaching us about the Gospel\nof Jesus Christ, because our people are in very darkness indeed,\nworshiping idols. I would like to tell you of something I did when I\nwas a little boy at home. My parents were very careful to attend to\nworshiping idols, but on the first day of the year they must worship\nmore than any other day of the year. At this time I used to carry a\nbasket with some sacrifice in it, follow after my father from place to\nplace where the different gods were for worshiping. I believe on them\nvery much. I thought the idols can help us a great deal. So when I was\nat school one day, I wrote a piece of paper, it represent a sage, and I\nput it inside of my desk. I then bought some nuts and wine and offered\nto him, and bowed my head to him, and ask him to help me about my\nlessons, that I might recite them well, and I said, \u2018If you do not help\nme to recite my lessons well, when I return I tear you off and burn you\nup.\u2019 When the time come I could not recite very well, so then _I burn\nit_. I had been at school about three years. My father sent me to the\nhigh school professor. Explaining the book of Confucius at that time, I\noften go with the priest to help them play the music for worshiping the\nevil spirits. After little while the priest came to my father, see if\nhe can let me go learn to be a priest. My father was willing to let me\ngo, but when my mother knew it she said, \u2018I cannot spare my son to be a\npriest, worshiping too much for the evil spirit, but I rather to send\nhim to California, getting his living.\u2019\n\n\u201cNearly five years have passed since I leaved my native land and came\nto this country, where I found all the things strange and different\nfrom what I had ever seen before. I found there was much for me to\nlearn. A friend of mine invited me to Sunday-school, and I went with\nhim. When I returned to the Chinatown I ask some person what kind of\npeople are they who teach us there? They said, American people; but\nI could not know how it was that they should be willing to come and\nteach us without pay. They told me that they were very good people who\ncome to teach you, and talk about Jesus Christ, and show us the right\nway. I kept on going till I can read the Bible. Great many things very\ndifferent from other books. My heart was touch of Christ. I could not\nunderstand all; but not many days after the same friend invited me to\ngo with him to the evening mission school. So I went with him to the\nschool. After the lessons were over, the Chinese helper explained the\nBible and talk to us, telling us it was useless to serve idols; they\ncannot help us; _they cannot take care of themselves_. But we must come\nto God of heaven, who made all things, heaven and earth. We must ask\nHim to help us, and pray to Him to give us all things what we need. We\nought to praise Him. So when I heard him say this I saw and felt all I\nhad done before was of no use, and was very wicked. Then I make up my\nmind to leave off worshiping idols, and begin to worship the true and\nliving God. So I went back where I was employed. When I kneeled down\nto pray I opened my window, because I thought God cannot hear me if I\nleave it closed. After a few days the Chinese helper request me to join\nthe Association of Christian Chinese, which I did, and read the Bible\nday by day, learning more about Christ. Oh, friends, I was very happy\nwhen I was converted! when I come to Jesus and worship the true God;\nleave the darkness and follow the light, and try to lead others of my\ncountrymen to learn of Jesus, and know Him who died for us and save us\nfrom sin.\n\n\u201cWhen my father heard I follow Christ he sent me a letter. He said:\n\u2018What are you doing out there? Are you going to believe Jesus, and\nleave all your countrymen, and your ancestors, and idols, and Confucius\nunserved?\u2019 And he said: \u2018No other way better than Confucius; so many\nof your countrymen do not believe Christ. You must leave off and\ncome back to _our own way_. Believe the way that most of our people\nbelieve.\u2019 But Christ tell us, \u2018He that loveth father or mother more\nthan Me not worthy of Me.\u2019 I cannot leave off the way of Christ for the\nway of darkness; but I can try to bring them to Jesus. I hope you all,\nbrethren, who come to Christ, will help hold up the light of the Gospel\nto shine on them which are in the dark and bow down to idols, and that\nmany of my countrymen shall go back to China to tell the glad news to\nthousands there who have never heard of Christ; and if we cannot reward\nyou, God will reward you every one.\u201d\n\nI have not been willing to correct any of the little mistakes of\ngrammar, but give the address in exact copy from the original. It\nwas uttered in a clear voice, with a distinct and quite correct\npronunciation, and with such simple earnestness that every eye was\nfixed upon him, and every heart seemed touched. Lem Chung has been our\nhelper in Sacramento for about eight months, is _growing_ mentally and\nspiritually, and gives promise of a very useful future.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHOW TO MAKE MONEY FOR THE MISSIONARIES.\n\nAn original Essay written by a Girl eleven years old, and read by her\nat a Woman\u2019s Foreign Missionary Meeting in Indiana.\n\nI should think that everyone could think of ways for themselves, but I\nsuppose we can help each other. Some ways that I may suggest might not\nbe thought of by others, while others in turn might think of many ways\nthat I would not.\n\nThe first way that enters my mind is what I found to be a very good\nplan at one time; have your grandfather get sick so that your father\nwill have to go and see him, and on his return your grandmother will\nsend you a present of one dollar. With it buy a pig in partnership with\nsomeone else who has the same amount, and after feeding it with your\nfather\u2019s corn for a year, sell it for twenty dollars, you of course\ngetting one half of it.\n\nAnother way is to have a little garden and sell vegetables out of it;\nand another way is to have a hen and sell eggs, or raise chickens and\nsell them. One way that I found to be a good one, is to make tidies\nand sell them. And those of us who are fortunate enough to have a baby\nbrother or sister, attend it two or three hours for a penny an hour.\nAnd I think another good way is to be a great talker, and have your\nmother give you five cents to be still. We may also relieve our mothers\nvery much by watering the house plants, and may be she will give us a\nlittle bit.\n\nAnd I have often thought it would be a good plan to have pay for\nwashing dishes, and may be some of your mothers would; just mention\nit to them; but mine won\u2019t, for I have tried it! And when your mother\nsends you to pick berries, just mention the missionaries to her. And if\nyou live in the country, gather apples, churn, kill potato bugs and dig\npotatoes. And then have a penny a dozen for finding pins; and the best\nplace in the world to find pins is in the oldest sister\u2019s room.\n\nAnd another way of getting money for our school in Persia is to save a\npart of the money we spend in candies. But I hope that in our dividing\nbetween ourselves and missions, none of us may be like the little\nboy that I heard of not long ago. His uncle gave him two bright new\nnickels. They were a little fortune to him, and as he looked upon\nthem, he said, \u201cOne of these must go for the heathen and the other for\ncandy.\u201d After this decision he put them away, and every few minutes he\nwould go to see if his fortune was safe. But once, after having them\nout, one of them was missing. What should he do? and which piece was\nlost, the missionary or the candy money? His little eyes rested upon\nthe shining piece in his hand, and after many minutes of hard struggle\nwith selfishness and benevolence, he said to his mother, \u201cIt was the\nmissionary money that I lost!\u201d But then I guess that bigger folks than\nchildren often have their business plans, which they think cannot be\nbroken into by missionaries.\n\n  (\u201cChildren\u2019s Work for Children.\u201d)\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR JANUARY, 1880.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $528.76.\n\n    Bangor. Central Ch. Sab. Sch., $25, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._;\u2014Hammond St. Ch. (ad\u2019l),\n      $15.21; T. U. C., $1                                   $41.21\n    Bath. Mrs. J. C.                                           1.00\n    Biddeford. J. N. A.                                        1.00\n    Brownville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            16.00\n    Cumberland. S. M. R.                                       1.00\n    Farmington. \u2014\u2014 Bbl. of C.\n    Lovell. Ladies, by Mrs. Lewis Goodrich, Bbl. of C.\n    Machias. Miss U. M. Penniman.                              5.00\n    Norway. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         12.84\n    Orland. Mrs. S. T. Buck and Daughter, $30;\n      \u201cA Friend,\u201d $1.00                                       31.00\n    Portland. State St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l),\n      $221.45; High St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $100;\u2014High\n      St. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25, _for Hampton N.\n      and A. Inst._;\u2014Mrs. David Patten, $5;\n      Mrs. L. D., 50c.                                       351.95\n    Rockland. Mrs. E. R. S., 51c.; Ladies of Cong. Ch.,\n      bbl. of C.                                               0.51\n    Saccarappa. W. K. D.                                       0.50\n    South Freeport. Miss Fannie E. Soule, $25, _for\n      Miller\u2019s Station, Ga._;\u2014Rev. H. I., 50c.                25.50\n    Sweden. E. P. Woodbury                                     8.00\n    Wells. First Cong. Ch., $5.50; Individuals, $2.50          8.00\n    West Newfield. Samuel C. Adams                            10.00\n    Winthrop. E. H. N., $1; Ladies of Cong. Ch., $1 and\n      bbl. of C.                                               2.00\n    Woolwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              13.25\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $452.38.\n\n    Amherst. Mrs. Ed. Aiken, $25, _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._;\u2014Ladies Soc., $2 and Box of Goods,\n      _for Wilmington, N. C._;\u2014Miss C. M. Boylston, $2        29.00\n    Colebrook. J. A. H.                                        0.50\n    Concord. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $47.01;\n      \u2014W. H. Pitman, $2, _for Mendi M._;\n      \u2014Miss F. A. G., 50c.; Mrs. C. D., 50c                   50.02\n    Francestown. ESTATE of Miss Lucy Everett, by Joseph\n      Kingsbury.                                              60.00\n    Francestown. A. F.                                         1.00\n    Greenville. Cong. Ch., $8.50; E. G. Heald, $6             14.50\n    Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc.                         25.00\n    Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              9.00\n    Harrisville. D. Farwell                                    2.00\n    Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              6.00\n    Keene. Individuals                                         1.50\n    Kensington. \u201cFriend\u201d                                       3.00\n    Lake Village. B. Q. J.                                     1.00\n    Londonderry. C. S. P.                                      1.00\n    Manchester. Franklin St. Ch. and Soc., $100, to\n      const. REV. WM. V. W. DAVIS, F. B. EATON and E.\n      L. BRYANT, L. M.\u2019s; \u201cPillsbury,\u201d $10                   110.00\n    Mason. Cong. Ch.                                           3.00\n    Milford. Cong. Ch.                                        19.31\n    Monroe. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 0.97\n    Mount Vernon. J. A. S.                                     1.00\n    Nashua. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc., $30.28; Mrs.\n      E. A. S., and Rev. F. A., 50c. ea                       31.28\n    New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $3; J. W. C., 50c.        3.50\n    Orford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $13; Mrs. M. B. Pratt,\n      $11; A. E., $1                                          25.00\n    Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, $7; Cong. Ch.\n      and Soc., $5                                            12.00\n    Pittsfield. \u2014\u2014 $10; John L. Thorndike, $10                20.00\n    Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 2.30\n    Short Falls. I. W. C.                                      0.50\n    Temple. Individuals, by Rev. J. F. Bassett                 5.00\n    Wentworth. Ephraim Cook, $10 and bbl. of C.               10.00\n    Wolfborough. Mrs. Sumner Clark                             5.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $1,153.69.\n\n    Barnet. W. G. H.                                           0.60\n    Bellows Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         21.56\n    Bennington. Second Cong. Ch.                              83.44\n    Craftsbury. ESTATE of Mrs. Deborah W. Lewis, by\n      C. S. Smith, Ex.                                       520.87\n    East Hardwick. Cong. Sab. Sch.                            31.56\n    Enosburgh. G. A.                                           1.00\n    Felchville. M. C. F.                                       0.50\n    McIndoes Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         8.50\n    North Thetford. Cong. Ch., $13.63; Mrs. E. G. B.,\n      50c.                                                    14.13\n    Pittsford. Cong. Soc.                                     20.00\n    Post Mills. Mrs. F. J. C. May, bbl. of C.\n    Royalton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              21.50\n    Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. $111.55;\n      South Cong. Ch., $38.17; Mrs. T. M. Howard, $25,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                             174.72\n    Sheldon. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  27.76\n    South Peacham. Mrs. W. W.                                  1.00\n    Springfield. \u201cSpringfield Miss. Circle,\u201d _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                               120.00\n    Vershire. Mrs. M. W. Parker                                2.00\n    Waitsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            13.51\n    Weathersfield Centre. Mrs. Edson Chamberlin                5.00\n    West Barnet. Ref. Presb. Ch., $10; Mrs. S. G., $1         11.00\n    West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch., $62.24;\n      Mrs. F. C. Gaines, $5                                   67.24\n    Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $7.30; G. F. H.,\n      50c.                                                     7.80\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $4,691.00.\n\n    Acton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 20.00\n    Amherst. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $78.55; North\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc., $60, to const. Mrs. MARIA\n      DUTTON and Mrs. JEANETTE E. STEARNS, L. M\u2019s.           138.55\n    Andover. Peter Smith, $500;\u2014\u201cLady Friends,\u201d $75,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._;\u2014West Cong. Ch.\n      and Soc., $45.18; F. A. T., $1                         621.18\n    Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._;\u2014G. S. S., 51c.                             25.51\n    Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    6.22\n    Barre. \u201cFriends,\u201d $3, and Bbl. of C. by Mrs. Edwin\n      Woods                                                    3.00\n    Bedford. M. E. R.                                          0.50\n    Belchertown. Orrin Walker, $5; D. B. B. 50c.               5.50\n    Berlin. Cong. Ch.                                          3.00\n    Boston. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtis, $200; Rev. Charles\n      Nichols, $30, to const. REV. J. ENWRIGHT, L. M.,\n      \u201cA Friend,\u201d $20; H. S. Robinson, $10; \u201cA Friend,\u201d\n      $10; Geo. P. Smith, $5; Mrs. B. F. Dewing, $5;\n      Mrs. S., $1;\u2014\u201cS. E. H.,\u201d 50c. _for Chinese M._         281.50\n    Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               18.19\n    Brocton. Porter Evan. Ch. and Soc., $34.09; Joseph\n      Hewett, $10; \u2014\u2014 Bbl of C.                               44.09\n    Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    118.16\n    Buckland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               9.25\n    Cambridgeport. Prospect St. Ch. and Soc., $124.17;\n      Pilgrim Cong. Ch., $8.24; Miss A. J. P., 50c.          132.91\n    Campello. \u201cMrs. W.,\u201d _for Lady Missionary, Nashville,\n      Tenn._                                                   3.00\n    Chelsea. Miss M. E. Brooks, $2;\u2014Mrs. A. E. P.,\n      $1, _for Lady Missionary_,\u2014\u2014; Miss H., 50c.              3.50\n    Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           7.50\n    Cohasset. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        7.36\n    Colerain. Miss E. McG.                                     1.00\n    Conway. David Lyons                                        2.00\n    Cotuit. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           7.00\n    Dalton. Hon. Z. M. Crane, $100; Mrs. James P. Crane,\n      $100                                                   200.00\n    Dorchester. Mrs. H.                                        1.00\n    East Douglass. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      to const. MISS HELEN L. R. BRIGGS, L. M.                55.45\n    East Longmeadow. Mrs. G. W. C.                             1.00\n    Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               68.00\n    Fitchburg. Rev. and Mrs. J. M. R. Eaton                   10.00\n    Framingham. Young People\u2019s Circle, Plymouth Ch.,\n      $98; Plymouth Ch. and Soc., $50.27;\n      \u2014\u2014 Box of C.                                           148.27\n    Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         33.30\n    Gilbertville. Cong. Ch. Sag. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      GEO. R. BRADFORD, JOHN CUNNINGHAM and JOSIAH\n      K. HURST, L. M\u2019s                                       100.00\n    Granville Corners. C. Holcomb                              5.00\n    Great Barrington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $100;\n      Miss Emily Beckwith, $10; \u2014\u2014 \u201cA. C. T.,\u201d\n      $1 _for Hampton N. & A. Inst._                         111.00\n    Greenfield. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             15.00\n    Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          10.00\n    Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                3.51\n    Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $143.19;\n      West Cong. Ch. and Soc., $7.04;\n      Mrs. L. P. F., 50c.; Dea. E. W., 50c.; C. C., $1;\n      Mrs. S. C., 50c.                                       152.73\n    Hingham. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         15.10\n    Holliston. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., 2 Bbls. of C, val.\n      $74.11, by Eda B. Partridge, Treas.; A. F., 51c.         0.51\n    Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            103.80\n    Housatonic. M. A. H.                                       0.51\n    Hubbardston. A. G. D.                                      0.50\n    Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.00\n    Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $28.15; Limebrook\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc., $4.50                               32.65\n    Indian Orchard. Cong. Ch.                                 43.00\n    Jamaica Plain. Boylston Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                   6.53\n    Lawrence. Lawrence St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $150;\n      \u2014Lawrence St. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                       200.00\n    Lexington. Miss M. E. P.                                   0.50\n    Littleton. Woman\u2019s Miss. Circle, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             10.00\n    Lowell. Kirk St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $50;\u2014Ladies\u2019\n      Soc., $1 and bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._;\n      \u2014Mrs. S. L. P., 50c.                                    51.50\n    Lynn. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          15.00\n    Malden. \u201cA few Friends,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             5.00\n    Matfield. Mrs. S. D. Shaw                                  3.00\n    Medford. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        2.00\n    Methuen. A. P. C.                                          0.50\n    Middleborough. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $11.68; Cong.\n      Ch. and Soc., $10.41                                    22.09\n    Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        57.95\n    Monson. Mrs. C. O. Chapin and her S. S. Class, $11,\n      _for ed. of Indian boys, Hampton N. and A. Inst._;\n      \u2014Mrs. Dewey\u2019s S. S. Class $6; Miss E. A. W., $1         18.00\n    Monterey. Rev. A. E. T.                                    0.50\n    Natick. Postage                                            0.10\n    Needham. Mrs. Ellen H. Green                             100.00\n    Newburyport. Freedman\u2019s Aid Soc., by Mrs. Mary E.\n      Demmick, Sec., _for Lady Missionary, Macon, Ga._        25.00\n    Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         223.15\n    Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $77.32;\n      S. A. E., 50c.; J. W., 50c.                             78.32\n    North Abington. Cong. Ch., M. C. Coll.                     5.00\n    Northampton. Sab. Sch. of First Ch.                       20.00\n    North Amherst. H. S.                                       1.00\n    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch.                         61.00\n    Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                9.00\n    Norwood. Mrs. Fuller                                       3.00\n    Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          23.50\n    Palmer. Second Cong. Ch.                                  13.57\n    Pittsfield. By John T. Poorer, $2.50; Mrs. N. G. B.\n      and Miss E. F., 50c. ea.                                 3.50\n    Plymouth. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc.                            56.56\n    Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               3.15\n    Raynham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         12.06\n    Reading. Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     14.92\n    Rockland. E. Shaw                                         25.00\n    Rockport. John Parsons                                     3.00\n    Salem. A. P.                                               0.50\n    Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                14.00\n    Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        7.00\n    South Attleborough. Mrs. Harriet L. Draper, Bbl.\n      of C. _for Savannah, Ga._\n    South Boston. Infant Class of Phillips Sab. Sch.,\n      $15; Miss J. A. 50c.                                    15.50\n    South Natick. John Eliot Ch. and Soc.                      9.63\n    South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. to\n      const. MISS MARY B. TIRRELL and MISS MARY A.\n      LLOYD, L. M\u2019s.                                          51.00\n    Somerville. H. B. S.                                       0.50\n    Springfield. \u201cM,\u201d $200; First Cong. Ch., $33.06;\n      South Cong. Ch., $32.91; G. B. K., $1;\n      Mrs. H., 50c.                                          267.47\n    Stockbridge. Cong. Ch.                                    74.48\n    Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              21.80\n    Stoughton. Betsey E. Capen                                 2.00\n    Sutton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                11.40\n    Sudbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $21; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $3          24.00\n    Taunton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       20.00\n    Uxbridge. W. J.                                            1.00\n    Watertown. Ladies of Phillips Ch., 2 Bbls. of C.\n      _for Wilmington, N. C._\n    Wellesley. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $36.08; \u201cL. B. H.,\u201d\n      $20                                                     56.08\n    Westborough. Rev. J. W. B.                                 0.60\n    West Boylston. \u201cWilling Workers\u201d $2 and Bbl. of C.         2.00\n    West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       18.16\n    West Medway. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. ADDISON A.\n      SMITH, L. M.                                            31.08\n    West Newbury. J. C. C.                                     2.50\n    West Roxbury. South Evan Sab. Sch. _for Indian\n      Pupils, Hampton N. and A. Inst._                        20.00\n    Whitinsville. Cong. Ch., $30; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $20;\n      S. A. D., 50c.                                          50.50\n    Williamstown. Cong. Ch., $40; Rev. Mark Hopkins,\n      $10                                                     50.00\n    Wilmington. Dea. J. Skilton                               10.00\n    Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc., mon. con. coll. $34.22;\n      North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $11.12                        45.34\n    Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $133.57;\n      Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $28.24                   161.81\n    Yarmouth. Rev. John W. Dodge                               5.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                            10.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                             5.00\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $199.96.\n\n    Bristol. Mrs. R. R. and Miss C. De W., _for Mag._          1.00\n    Little Compton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        22.00\n    Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             25.00\n    Peace Dale. Cong. Ch.                                     10.00\n    Providence. Union Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l), $126.64;\n      Charles St. Cong. Ch., $13.72; M. E. L., $1;\n      Miss P., 60c.                                          141.96\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $3,036.40.\n\n    Ansonia. J. H. Bartholomew                                25.00\n    Berlin. C. S. Webster, $50, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._;\u2014Second Cong. Ch., $19.12                 69.12\n    Bloomfield. Cong. Ch.                                      6.00\n    Bridgeport. V. C.                                          1.00\n    Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  20.00\n    Broad Brook. Cong. Ch.                                    12.50\n    Burnside. Miss E. S.                                       0.50\n    Canaan. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         2.00\n    Canton Centre. Wm. G. Hallock                             10.00\n    Cheshire. Cong. Ch., _for ed. of an Indian boy,\n      Hampton N. and A. Inst._                                 5.00\n    Colchester. S. G. Millard, $10, _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._;\u2014C. B. McCall, $10, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._; Mrs. M. J. G., 50c.                 20.50\n    Collinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($6 of which\n      _for Girls\u2019 Ind. Sch., Talladega C._)                   28.43\n    Cornwall Bridge. Geo. H. Swift                            10.00\n    Cromwell. Cong. Ch. ($3 of which _for Indian M._)         11.00\n    Danbury. E. B.                                             1.00\n    Durham. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Ass\u2019n, $3 and Bbl. of C. _for\n      Talladega, Ala._                                         3.00\n    Eastford. ESTATE of Royel Warren, by J. D. Barrows,\n      Ex.                                                    250.00\n    East Hartford. First Ch.                                  20.00\n    East Windsor Hill. Ladies, $10.50, and Bbl. of C.\n      _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._                 10.50\n    Enfield. Sarah A. Abbe                                    30.00\n    Essex. First Cong. Ch.                                    13.20\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch. Quar. Coll., (of which $150\n      from Henry D. Hawley, to const. FLORA E.\n      Hawley, L. M.)                                         204.45\n    Georgetown. Cong. Ch., case of S. S. Books;\n      Rev. C. A. N., $1                                        1.00\n    Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $35; G. M. J.,\n      63c.                                                    35.63\n    Goshen. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        20.00\n    Greenwich. Miss Sarah Mead                                50.00\n    Hampton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                               5.77\n    Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., $149.96, ($10 of\n      which _for Hampton Inst._); Park Cong. Ch. and\n      Soc., $133.57; Windsor Ave. Cong. Ch., $20.07;\n      Mrs. Mary C. Bemis, $20;\u2014Young Girls\u2019 Miss.\n      Ass\u2019n, $5, _for Talladega, Ala._;\n      Miss P. Johnson, $1.50; Mrs. W. T., 50c.               330.60\n    Harwinton. Mrs. Frederick S. Catlin                       50.00\n    Hebron. \u201cFriends\u201d                                         15.00\n    Jewett City. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           20.00\n    Kensington. Cong. Ch.                                      5.44\n    Lebanon. Goshen Sab. Sch. $12; Mrs. P. E. H., 50c.        12.50\n    Litchfield. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                50.00\n    Lyme. First Cong. Ch.                                     17.00\n    Madison. Cong. Ch.                                         1.00\n    Manchester. E. A. B.                                       0.50\n    Meriden. Centre Cong. Ch.                                 21.00\n    Milford. First Cong. Ch.                                  50.04\n    Montville. First Cong. Ch.                                 6.95\n    Morris. Cong. Ch.                                          7.00\n    New Britain. South Cong. Ch., $55.40; Mrs. A. A., $1      56.40\n    New Hartford. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    24.55\n    New Haven. Mrs. Henry Johnston, $5.00; Miss B. P.,\n      $1; Others, $1                                           7.00\n    New London. Second Cong. Ch., ($300 of which\n      from TRUST ESTATE of H. P. HAVEN.)                     778.26\n    New Milford. Mrs. F. G. B.                                 1.00\n    New Preston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           40.50\n    North Branford. J. A. P.                                   1.00\n    Northford. Cong. Ch.                                      12.50\n    North Guilford. A. E. Bartlett                            10.00\n    Norwalk. Mrs. Wm. B. St. John                              3.00\n    Orange. Cong. Ch.                                         12.50\n    Prospect. Dea. Benj. B. Brown, $10;\n      Mrs. E. B. Brown, $10                                   20.00\n    Plymouth. Cong. Ch.                                       28.50\n    Quinnebaug. \u2014Bbl. of C.\n    Salisbury. Cong. Ch.                                      58.61\n    Somers. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                29.16\n    Southington. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                              2.10\n    Stanwich. Wm. Brush                                      300.00\n    Stonington. R. Town                                        1.50\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      23.09\n    Thompson. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._        9.00\n    Washington. F. A. F.                                       1.00\n    Watertown. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. WILLIAM A.\n      JONES and LAURA N. DAYTON, L. M\u2019s.                      75.00\n    Weatogue. T. J. W.                                         1.00\n    West Meriden. Edmund Tuttle, $30, to const. MRS.\n      IRA H. MERRIMAN, L. M.; E. K. Breckenridge, $5          35.00\n    Westminster. Cong. Ch.                                     5.00\n    West Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          2.60\n    Wethersfield. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                             2.00\n    Windsor Locks. Mrs. L. P. Dexter                           6.00\n    Winsted. Mrs. M. A. Mitchell, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           10.00\n    Woodbury. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Curtiss                       10.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                             17.50\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $642.73.\n\n    Antwerp. Cong. Sab. Sch., by Mrs. Ira H. Abell            25.00\n    Batavia. Mrs. A. D. L.                                     1.00\n    Binghamton. Sheldon Warner                                10.00\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $10, _for the\n      poor in Plym. Sab. Sch., Charleston, S. C._;\n      \u2014Mrs. H. Dickinson, $2; O. W., 50c.                     12.50\n    Canastota. E. B. Northrop, $5; Mr. and Mrs. R. H.\n      Childs, $5                                              10.00\n    Clear Creek. Cong. Ch.                                     1.50\n    Clifton Springs. MRS. ANDREW PEIRCE, to const.\n      herself L. M.                                           30.00\n    Cohoes. Mrs. I. Terry                                      5.00\n    Coxsackie. Rev. M. Lusk                                    5.00\n    East Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $35.57;\n      Mrs. E. S. $1                                           36.57\n    Ellington. Cong. Ch.                                       7.50\n    Felts Mills. Joel A. Hubbard and family                   30.00\n    Franklin. First Cong. Ch.                                 29.58\n    Fredonia. Mrs. Thos. W. Stevens                            5.00\n    Fillmore. L. L. Nourse                                     5.00\n    Fulton. J. C. Galispie, Almon Bristol, and T. W.\n      Chesebro, $5 ea.; F. S., 50c.                           15.50\n    Gouverneur. Mrs. H. D. S. $1; Miss B. R. S., 50c.          1.50\n    Hopkinton. First Cong. Ch.                                 3.00\n    Hudson. Mrs. D. A. Jones                                  15.00\n    Jamesport. L. I. \u201cFriends\u201d                                10.00\n    Locust Valley. Mrs. Sarah Palmer                           5.00\n    Marcellus. First Ch., $20; Mrs. L. H., 45c.               20.45\n    Marion. Cong. Ch.                                         30.00\n    Millbrook. Mrs. J. W. C.                                   1.00\n    New York. Broadway Tab. Sab. Sch., $50, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._;\u2014Holman Liver Pad Co., 7.75, _for\n      Emerson Inst._; E. S., 50c.                             58.25\n    New York Mills. H. N. Porter, D. D.                       10.00\n    Newark Valley. Cong. Ch.                                   5.00\n    North Franklin. Mrs. Mary P. Foote                         5.00\n    Oneonta. Mrs. L. J. S.                                     1.00\n    Perry Centre. Ladies Benev. Soc., $16.35 and Bbl.\n      of C. by Mrs. G. K. Sheldon                             16.35\n    Plattsburgh. G. W. Dodds                                   5.00\n    Rochester. Gen. A. W. Riley                               25.00\n    Sag Harbor. Mrs. A. E. Westfall, $10; A. E. W., 50c.      10.50\n    South Stockton. Adelia Eaton                               4.00\n    Success. Sab. Sch. by J. H. Benjamin, Supt.               20.00\n    Syracuse. Miss A. W. D.                                    0.50\n    Tompkinsville. Mrs. Maria Snyder                           2.00\n    Victor. Mrs. Emeline Lewis                                50.00\n    Walton. First Cong. Ch., $58.53; Agavine Miss.\n      Soc., $10;\u2014Chas. S. Fitch, _for Mendi M._, $5           73.53\n    West Chazy. Daniel Bassett, $5;\n      Rev. L. Prindle, $2                                      7.00\n    West Farms. J. A.                                          1.00\n    Westfield. Mrs. J. B. S.                                   1.00\n    West Greece. S. B. B.                                      0.50\n    Whitesborough. J. Symonds                                  5.00\n    Whitney\u2019s Point. Mrs. E. Rogers                            2.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                             25.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $108.50.\n\n    Belleville. J. B.                                          0.50\n    Camden. James E. Simpson                                   2.00\n    Clayton. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Lady Missionary, Nashville,\n      Tenn._                                                  25.00\n    Colt\u2019s Neck. Reformed Ch.                                  5.00\n    Newfield. Rev. Chas. Willey                               10.00\n    Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch., J. H. Denison, $30,\n      to const. MISS CARRIE DENISON, L. M.;\n      Miss H. Miller, $4, _for Student Aid, Raleigh,\n      N. C._; Mrs. R. W. S., $1;\u2014$1                           36.00\n    Paterson. Benj. Crane                                     20.00\n    Roseville. Ladies of Home M. Soc., by Mrs. L. Hannah      10.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $36.62.\n\n    Allentown. C. M.                                           0.50\n    Centre Road Station. J. A. Scovel                         10.00\n    Cowdersport. Mrs. John S. Mann                             5.00\n    East Brook. James H. Patton                                5.00\n    Hermitage. W. F. Stewart, $5; Miss Ellen Porter, $1        6.00\n    Philadelphia. W. P. F. and Mrs. S. D.                      1.00\n    West Alexander. John McCoy and Wife                        5.00\n    Wurtemburg. Mrs. T. E. Liebendorfer, $2;\n      Others, $2.12                                            4.12\n\n\n  OHIO, $428.24.\n\n    Ashland. John Thomson                                      2.28\n    Austinburgh. N. A.                                         1.00\n    Bellefontaine. Mr. and Mrs. John Lindsay                  10.00\n    Bellevue. J. S.                                            1.00\n    Berea. James S. Smedley                                    5.00\n    Burton. Miss E. E. P.                                      0.50\n    Chatham Centre. Cong. Ch.                                 18.81\n    Claridon. Cong. Soc.                                      13.50\n    Cleveland. Franklin Ave. Cong. Ch., $13.20;\n      John Foote, $10; Rev. H. Trautman, $5                   28.20\n    Columbus. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Elyria. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                40.00\n    Four Corners. Cong. Ch.                                    5.00\n    Geneva. Mrs. S. Kingsbury                                 10.00\n    Granville. Thomas D. Williams                             10.00\n    Kingsville. M. Whiting                                    20.00\n    Lenox. Cong. Ch.                                           9.25\n    Lyme. Cong. Ch.                                           17.88\n    Madison. Ladies Benev. Soc., $14.75, _for Student\n      Aid, Tougaloo U._; \u201cOld Friend,\u201d $5; W. H. S., $1       20.75\n    Moss Run. M. B. F.                                         0.50\n    Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25.50, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._; Harris Lewis, $3.             28.50\n    Orwell. Rev. W. T. Richardson                              5.00\n    Painesville. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._;\n      First Cong. Ch. $18.57                                  43.57\n    Parisville. Rev. D. D.                                     0.50\n    Ruggles. Mrs. J. T.                                        0.50\n    Saybrook. Rev. A. D. Barber and Family                    20.00\n    Seville. Julia Hulburt                                    10.00\n    Sharonville. J. H.                                         1.00\n    Sicily. Julian F. Cumberland                               5.00\n    Springfield. W. A. F.                                      1.00\n    Tallmadge. Mrs. Harriet Seward                             5.00\n    Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed,$10; By E. P. B., $1           11.00\n    Wellington. E. W.                                          0.50\n    Willoughby. Miss Mary P. Hastings                         10.00\n    Windham. First Cong. Ch.                                  23.00\n\n\n  INDIANA, $17.50.\n\n    Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch. _for Chinese M._                     6.75\n    Madison. G. W. Southwick                                   5.00\n    South Vigo. Cong. Ch.                                      2.75\n    Sparta. Mrs. L. R.                                         1.00\n    Versailles. J. D. Nichols                                  2.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $1000.32.\n\n    Albion. Mrs. Martha Skeavington                            5.00\n    Avon. Mrs. Cylinder Woods, $5; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5             10.00\n    Aurora. New Eng. Cong. Ch., $9.65;\u2014Mrs. J. D.\n      Pike\u2019s Sab. Sch. Class, $7; _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._; N. L. J., 50c.                                17.15\n    Batavia. \u201cW. E. M.\u201d                                       20.00\n    Belvidere. ESTATE of Olney Nichols, by H. W. Pier,\n      Ex.                                                     59.61\n    Byron. I. S. K.                                            1.00\n    Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, $112.50, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._;\u2014Union Park Cong. Ch. Sab.\n      Sch., $25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;\n      \u2014New Eng. Cong. Ch., $10                               147.50\n    Danville. Mrs. A. M. Swan                                  5.00\n    Denver. Thomas Graham                                      5.00\n    Farmington. Phineas Chapman                               44.00\n    Galesburgh. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._;\u2014J. G. W., 50c.                   50.50\n    Genesco. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              135.92\n    Hamlet. L. C.                                              1.00\n    Jacksonville. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                         10.00\n    Lyndon. First Cong. Ch.                                   11.00\n    Kankakee. F. S. H. and J. H.                               1.00\n    Kewanee. Cong. Ch., $102.73;\u2014Cong. Ch. Sab.\n      Sch., $25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                  127.73\n    Knoxville. W. A., $1; Mrs. A. B., $1                       2.00\n    Mendon. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                               16.00\n    Milan. By Mrs. J. M. L. D.                                 1.00\n    Oak Park. J. W. Scoville                                 100.00\n    Ottawa. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           35.00\n    Paxton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        20.00\n    Peoria. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Griswold, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                          100.00\n    Polo. Penny Contribution, _for Lady Missionary,\n      Nashville, Tenn._                                        1.00\n    Port Byron. A. F. Hollister, $6; Ladies\u2019 Miss.\n      Soc., $5.50; Emma Hollister, $2.00                      13.50\n    Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss                               10.00\n    Rockford. Mrs. A. H. Perry                                20.00\n    Roseville. Cong. Sab. Sch. (ad\u2019l)                          4.54\n    South Bend. R. Burroughs                                  10.00\n    Tonica. V. G. Lutz                                         5.00\n    Wauponsee Grove. Cong. Ch.                                 5.87\n    Woodburn. Nickel Miss. Soc., by Miss E. M.\n      Hollister, Treas.                                        5.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $112.61.\n\n    Calumet. Robert Dobbie                                    10.50\n    Covert. F. C.                                              0.57\n    Cross Village. Rev. A. A. C.                               1.00\n    Detroit. F. M. S.                                          0.50\n    Dexter. Dennis Warner                                     10.00\n    East Saginaw. Mrs. Miriam Seymour                          2.00\n    Flint. H. Whittlesey                                       2.00\n    Jackson. Mrs. R. M. Bennett                                1.50\n    Kalamazoo. Mrs. M. J. Kent                                 5.00\n    Lowell. Mrs. E. A. Yerkes                                  5.00\n    Marshall. D. H. Miller                                     5.00\n    Olivet. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Talladega C._                     0.25\n    Owasso. Mrs. F. G. D.                                      0.50\n    Romeo. Miss T. S. C., $1; Miss M. A. J., $1                2.00\n    Saint Johns. A. J. B.                                      0.50\n    Somerset. Cong. Ch.                                       18.87\n    Stockbridge. W. B. C.                                      1.00\n    Summit. Missionary Society, by Mrs. A. Vansickle           6.67\n    Union City. First. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                       24.75\n    White Lake. Robert Garner and wife                        15.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $227.26.\n\n    Appleton. First Cong. Ch.                                 20.20\n    Beloit. First Cong. Ch. $30, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._; Mrs. B. D. $1; W. P. 51c.                31.51\n    Brandon. Rev. H. W. C.                                     0.50\n    Bristol. Wis. Branch of W. B. M. S.                       10.00\n    Cheboygan. A. D. and D. B. 50c., ea.                       1.00\n    Clinton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Selma, Ala._               15.79\n    Fond du Lac. H. S. M.                                      0.50\n    Geneva. Presb. Ch. Quar. coll., $19.25; W. H. H.,\n      50c.                                                    19.75\n    Kenosha. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          5.27\n    La Crosse. First Cong. Ch.                                15.44\n    Mazomanie. R. L.                                           1.00\n    Mukwanago. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 3.00\n    Sparta. Cong. Ch., $52; Cong. Sab. Sch., $29.34;\n      Mission Band, $8.96, to const. MISS LYNTHA FRANCK,\n      MRS. O. L. IRWIN and J. R. SKILLMAN, L. M\u2019s             90.30\n    \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014. By L. S. Bingham                                     2.00\n    Racine. Mrs. D. D. N.                                      1.00\n    Rockland. Thomas H. Eynon                                 10.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $444.27.\n\n    Anamosa. Ladies of Cong. Ch.                               5.00\n    Bowensburgh. ESTATE of Eliza B. Spencer, by Richard\n      Eells, Ex.                                             100.00\n    Big Rock. Cong. Ch.                                       10.00\n    Burlington. Cong. Ch.                                     70.36\n    Clay. Cong. Ch.                                            4.50\n    Cleveland. Ladies of Cong. Ch.                            10.00\n    Des Moines. Plymouth Sab. Sch., $10;\n      \u201cFriends,\u201d $13, _for Student Aid_;\n      \u2014T. E. Brown, $10; Mrs. A. W. Rollins, $5, _for\n      Repairs, Talladega C._                                  38.00\n    Dubuque. Mrs. S. N. M. and Mrs. J. B., 50c. ea.            1.00\n    Dunlap. Cong. Ch.                                         26.66\n    Grinnell. Cong. Ch. and Boys\u2019 S. S. Class, $26.22;\n      Miss S. Whitcomb\u2019s S. S. Class, $5, _for Student\n      Aid_, and A. Steele, $5, _for Repairs,\n      Talladega C._                                           36.22\n    Marion. Mrs. A. W. Shedd, $5, _for Student Aid_;\n      J. T. S., 50c.                                           5.50\n    McGregor. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.                              17.70\n    Monticello. Ladies of Cong. Ch.                            5.00\n    Muscatine. Cong. Ch., $36.05, and a Sewing Machine,\n      _for Talladega C._                                      36.05\n    New Hampton. Dea. Gideon Gardiner, $5; Ladies\u2019 Miss.\n      Soc., Quar. Coll., $1.60                                 6.60\n    Newton. Rev. S. A. A.                                      0.50\n    Osage. Cong. Ch., $10.75; Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., $5.50;\n      Mrs. G. W. Smith, $1.50                                 17.75\n    Rockford. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., by Mrs. O. J. Green,\n      Treas.                                                   2.68\n    Sherrills Mount. Rev. J. R.                                1.00\n    Tabor. J. F. S.                                            0.50\n    Traer. Rev. C. H. Bissel, $5; Infant Class Cong. Sab.\n      Sch., $2.25; Mrs. Ames, $2                               9.25\n    Waterloo. Leavett & Johnson, _for Talladega C._           40.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $16.00.\n\n    Leavenworth. Prof. L. A. Stone ($1 of which _for\n      Chinese Mission_)                                        3.00\n    Meriden. \u201cA Friend of Missions\u201d                           10.00\n    Topeka. Justin Hillyer                                     3.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $86.41.\n\n    Audubon. Cong. Ch.                                         2.40\n    Austin. Union Cong. Ch.                                   25.77\n    Excelsior. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n    Hamilton. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n    Medford. J. W. Powell\u2019s Sab. Sch. Class                    2.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch., $19.64; Second\n      Cong. Ch., $1.60                                        21.24\n    Northfield. \u201cFriends,\u201d $7, and Bbl. of C. _for\n      Talladega C._; A. L., $1                                 8.00\n    Plainview. Primary Class Cong. Sab. Sch.                   2.00\n    Saint Paul. Plymouth Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              10.00\n    Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                            5.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $29.00.\n\n    Freemont. Cong. Ch., $5; and Sab. Sch., $8                13.00\n    Lincoln. J. G. E.                                          1.00\n    Nebraska City. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $10; Woman\u2019s Missionary\n      Soc. of First Cong. Ch., $3.50; Individuals, $1.50      15.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $5.00.\n\n    Chico. Lewis H. Moss                                       5.00\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $8.01.\n\n    White River. Cong. Ch.                                     8.01\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $587.25.\n\n    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.                                   117.15\n    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition, $245.10; Prof. A. K.\n      Spencer, $200, _for Fisk U._;\u2014Soc. for Evan. of\n      Africa in Fisk U., $25, _for a Pupil, Mendi M._        470.10\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $131.36.\n\n    Dudley. Tuition                                            6.45\n    Raleigh. Washington Sch. Tuition                          16.25\n    Wilmington. Normal Sch. Tuition, $82.50; Sales,\n      $22; Cong. Ch. $4.16                                   108.66\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $320.50.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition, $317.50;\n      \u2014Plymouth Cong. Ch., $3, _for Mendi M._                320.50\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $550.69.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs School Tuition, $185.60; Rent, $3;\n      Atlanta U., Tuition, $97; Rent, $16.50                 312.10\n    Athens. J. G. H.                                           0.51\n    Hawkinsville. M. B. C.                                     0.50\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $48.15; Rent, $4;\n      First Cong. Ch., $8                                     60.15\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 118.50; Sales,\n      $58.93; Rent, $10                                      187.43\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $418.14.\n\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, $179.45; Cong. Ch.,\n      $2                                                     181.45\n    Montgomery. Public Fund                                  175.00\n    Talladega. Talladega Col., _Tuition_, $61.19;\n      Rev. J. W. R., 50c                                      61.69\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $57.97.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $47.77; Rent, $10.20      57.97\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $18.00.\n\n    Bridge Creek. I. R. W.                                     0.50\n    Index. W. B. Wills, $10; P. M. Wills, $5; F. P. M.,\n      $1; Others, $1.50                                       17.50\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $96.25.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                         96.25\n\n\n  \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014, $25.00.\n\n    Jubilee Singers, _for Dept. Natural Science, Fisk U._     25.00\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $195.50.\n\n    Interest _for Mendi M._                                   45.50\n    Graves Library Fund                                      150.00\n\n\n  CANADA, $20.00.\n\n    Guelph. First Cong. Ch.                                   10.00\n    Sherbrooke. Thomas S. Morey                               10.00\n\n\n  LABRADOR, $10.00.\n\n    Labrador. Rev. S. R. Butler                               10.00\n\n\n  BULGARIA, $10.00.\n\n    Bulgaria, Samokov. \u201cWanderer\u201d                             10.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                Total                                     15,665.32\n         Total from Oct. 1st to Jan. 31st                $58,823.19\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Exeter, N. H. Mrs. Augusta F. Odlin                      100.00\n    Hartford, Conn. Mrs. Henry A. Perkins                    100.00\n    Worcester, Mass. John B. Gough                            50.00\n    New York, N. Y. Mrs. C. P. Stokes                        100.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                Total                                       $350.00\n    Previously acknowledged in Dec. receipts                 867.00\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                Total                                     $1,217.00\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS, ATHENS, ALA.\n\n    Charlotte, Mich. Cong. Ch.                                36.00\n    Minneapolis, Minn. \u201cFriends\u201d                             300.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                Total                                       $336.00\n    Previously acknowledged in Nov. receipts                  83.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                Total                                       $419.00\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.\n\n    Newton, Mass. Elliot Ch. and Soc.                        117.50\n    Sing Sing, N. Y. Mrs. Harriet M. Cole, to const.\n      REV. ALBERT P. MILLER, L. M.                            30.00\n    Union City, Mich. Mrs. Sarah B. Clark, $5; Mrs. L.\n      W. Clark, $5; Mrs. Lee, $3; Juv. Miss. Soc., $3         16.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                Total                                        163.50\n    Previously acknowledged in Dec. receipts                  17.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                Total                                       $180.50\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n                Receipts for January                      16,514.82\n\n                Total from Oct. 1st to January 31st      $62,255.03\n                                                          =========\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, 1849.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nART. I. This Society shall be called \u201cTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\nASSOCIATION.\u201d\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian\nmissionary and educational operations, and diffuse a knowledge of the\nHoly Scriptures in our own and other countries which are destitute of\nthem, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.\n\nART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes faith\nin the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slave-holder, 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\nbelief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a\nSaviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice\nof Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity\nof regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy\nobedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and\nthe retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the\nwicked, and salvation of the righteous.\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., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 13;\nKy., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6.\n_Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE 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_, 24. Total 44.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014Among the Freedmen, 253;\namong the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total,\n296. STUDENTS\u2014In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course, 63; in\nother studios, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars taught by former pupils\nof our 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., 56 Reade Street.\n  BOSTON       Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House.\n  CHICAGO      Rev. Jas. 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GEO. M. BOYNTON, aided\nby the steady contributions of our intelligent missionaries\nand teachers in all parts of the field, and with occasional\ncommunications from careful observers and thinkers elsewhere,\nthe AMERICAN MISSIONARY furnishes a vivid and reliable picture\nof the work going forward among the Indians, the Chinamen on\nthe Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as citizens in the South\nand as missionaries in Africa.\n\nIt will be the vehicle of important views on all matters\naffecting the races among which it labors, and will give a\nmonthly summary of current events relating to their welfare and\nprogress.\n\nPatriots and Christians interested in the education and\nChristianizing of these despised races are asked to read it,\nand assist in its circulation. Begin with the next number and\nthe new year. The price is only Fifty Cents per annum.\n\nThe Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the\npersons indicated on page 94.\n\nDonations and subscriptions should be sent to\n\n                                 H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n                                           56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n\n                            TO ADVERTISERS.\n\nSpecial attention is invited to the advertising department\nof the AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Among its regular readers are\nthousands of Ministers of the Gospel, Presidents, Professors\nand Teachers in Colleges, Theological Seminaries and Schools;\nit is, therefore, a specially valuable medium for advertising\nBooks, Periodicals, Newspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of\nLearning, Church Furniture, Bells, Household Goods, &c.\n\nAdvertisers are requested to note the moderate price charged\nfor space in its columns, considering the extent and character\nof its circulation.\n\nAdvertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month,\nin order to secure insertion in the following number. All\ncommunications in relation to advertising should be addressed to\n\n             THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT,\n                                          56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n\n\u261b =Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department\nof the \u201cAmerican Missionary\u201d can aid us in this respect by\nmentioning, when ordering goods, that they saw them advertised\nin our Magazine.=\n\n\n     DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, Printer, 101 Chambers Street, New York.\n\n\n\n\nTRANSCRIBER\u2019S NOTES.\n\n\n  1. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by\n     =equal signs=.\n\n  2. Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors have been\n     silently corrected.\n\n  3. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.\n\n  4. 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