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No. 8.\n\n                                  THE\n\n                          AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n                             AUGUST, 1880.\n\n\n\n\n                              _CONTENTS:_\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    ANNUAL MEETINGS                                              225\n    FINANCIAL NOTICE                                             225\n    PARAGRAPHS                                                   226\n    HARD CASES                                                   228\n    TEACHER OR MISSIONARY, WHICH?                                229\n    WRONGS OF THE PONCAS                                         230\n    THE NEGRO ON THE INDIAN                                      231\n    EADLE KEAHTAH TOH                                            232\n    BLACK MISSIONARIES FOR AFRICA: Rev. G.\n      D. Pike, D. D.                                             235\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                         237\n    AFRICAN NOTES                                                238\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    ATLANTA UNIVERSITY\u2014TALLADEGA COLLEGE                         239\n    BEREA COLLEGE: Secretary Strieby                             242\n    TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY: Pres\u2019t De Forest                        243\n    BREWER NORMAL SCHOOL: J.D. Backenstose                       244\n    STORRS SCHOOL, ATLANTA, GA.\u2014WOODBRIDGE, N. C.                245\n    ALABAMA: Rev. W. H. Ash                                      247\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    MISSION WORK AMONG THE MINERS                                248\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                       250\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                                   253\n\n  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS                                         254\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n                               NEW YORK.\n\n           Published by the American Missionary Association,\n                       ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\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  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. C. C. PAINTER, at the New York Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New\nYork, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21\nCongregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\n\n\n\n                                  THE\n\n                          AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n                    VOL. XXXIV. AUGUST, 1880. No. 8.\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                    American Missionary Association.\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nANNUAL MEETING.\n\nThe next Annual Meeting of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION will\nbe held in Norwich, Ct., in the Broadway Church, commencing Tuesday,\nOctober 12, at 3 P. M.\n\nRev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., of New York City, will preach the Sermon.\nOther addresses and papers will be announced hereafter.\n\nThe time is fixed to meet the convenience of those who wish to\nattend our meeting as well as those of the American Board, the State\nConference, and the National Council.\n\n\nFINANCIAL NOTICE.\n\nOnly two months remain of our fiscal year. We regret to say that a debt\nof nearly $20,000 is impending. This arises from the encouragement\nwhich the prosperity of the country at the beginning of our fiscal year\ngave us to make some additional appropriations to meet the most urgent\ncalls that pressed upon us from the field. A decline in that prosperity\nhas been intensified by the drought in many parts of the country, and\nour receipts for our regular work have fallen off.\n\nWe give the notice thus early that pastors and churches who sympathize\nwith us and in our work, and in our effort to avoid a debt, may take\nimmediate steps to avert the danger. We are confident that if the\ncollections of churches that are behind in their offerings, and those\nthat are set down for August and September, are promptly and generously\nmade, the deficiency will be covered; but, fearing this may not in all\ncases be done, we venture to ask individuals having our cause at heart\nto assure the certainty by additional contributions.\n\nThe pastors and officers of the churches can be our most efficient\nhelpers by securing collections and making remittances promptly. We\nearnestly invoke the aid of our friends. A debt at the close of this\nyear (September 30) will compel harmful retrenchment for the next. The\nfield has never been more fruitful in good results. The command of the\nMaster is, \u201cGo forward.\u201d We cannot go into the Red Sea of debt. Will\nour friends wield the rod of Moses and open the waters for us?\n\n\nPARAGRAPHS.\n\n_Mrs. Sarah Spees_, who died at York, Nebraska, June 10th, was for\nmany years one of our faithful workers among the Indians at Red Lake,\nMinn. Born in 1832, at Nelson, Ohio, she was converted at the age of\nfourteen years, and took at once strong and decided grounds for Christ.\nShe was for a time a pupil of Mr. Sturgis, of Micronesia, who inspired\nher with missionary zeal. Soon after her marriage to the Rev. Francis\nSpees, she went with him to his missionary field among the Chippewas of\nMinnesota, bearing the severest privations. The journey required great\nfortitude. The Indians were in the rudest state of heathenism, and\nlife itself was not secure. Amid scenes of danger and peril, she never\nshrank or wavered, or regretted that she had entered on so arduous a\nwork. For three years, Mr. and Mrs. Spees labored among these people,\nand then left them for a quieter work at Tabor, Iowa. Ten years later,\nthe way was opened for their return, and no sooner were they back among\nthe red faces than a precious revival was enjoyed among the Government\nemployees. In addition to her work as missionary, Mrs. Spees added the\ncare of the Girl\u2019s Boarding School. This was too great a tax upon her,\nand after a few years her strength gave out, and she was obliged to\nrest. For three years she waited by the river. Her pastor says that\noften, when visiting her in her feebleness, he found her wearied with\nthe slow progress of the work of Christ on earth, and turning over in\nher mind how money could be raised for the spread of the Gospel. Her\nwork well done, she has now entered upon the \u201crest that remaineth to\nthe people of God.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_The Pastor of the Central Congregational Church_ of Brooklyn must take\na great deal of solid satisfaction in the noble missionary work of its\nSunday-school. Thoroughly imbued as he is with the mission spirit, he\ndoes not fail to impart something of it even to the lambs of his flock.\nThis school is also blessed with one of the most earnest and successful\nChristian workers of the city as its superintendent, and, therefore, it\nis not surprising that, in addition to its own local missionary work,\nit supports, this year, _four_ missionaries\u2014one in the foreign field,\nand three among the Freedmen. We take great pleasure in referring to\nthis school, whose example might be followed by many others with great\nbenefit to the cause of missions, and, also, to the schools themselves.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIf the person who sent us a card, post-marked \u201cHartford, Conn., June\n24,\u201d but _without name or signature_, will send us his name, we will\ngladly answer his inquiry.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_A Burst of Patriotism._\u2014On the Confederate Decoration Day, at\nMontgomery, Alabama, this year, the Memorial Address was delivered by\nTennent Lomax, Esq., son of Gen. Lomax, who fell at the battle of Seven\nPines, and whose monument, the principal one in the cemetery at the\ncapital, received the special floral attentions of the day. We give an\nextract from the oration as printed in the local daily:\n\n  \u201cLet us again to-day, standing upon this sacred spot, extend the\n  hand of perfect reconciliation to our fellow citizens of the North,\n  and ask them to clasp that hand in the true spirit of fraternal\n  love, and to live with us as a band of brothers, united in one grand\n  enterprise, the advancement of the honor, the interest, and the\n  glory, of our common country; and to pray with us to almighty God\n  to hasten the advent of that day, for it must surely come, when\n  the star-spangled banner, \u2018with not a stripe erased or polluted,\n  nor a single star obscured,\u2019 shall float, not over \u2018a country\n  dissevered, discordant, belligerent,\u2019 but over a union of co-equal\n  States, re-united and bound together by a golden chain of unbroken\n  friendship.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_At the meeting_ of the North Carolina Conference at Dudley, in May,\none of the delegates, Deacon Stevens, of Beaufort, as he was preparing\nhis pipe, heard the little children of his host remarking to themselves\nabout the poison of tobacco, and the bad practice of using it. His\nthought was started. He went out to get away by himself for a smoke. He\nobserved that the people about him were not indulging in that habit.\nAt the end of the three days\u2019 meeting, he searched about the audience\nroom to see if there were any of the defilements of tobacco. He found\nnone. That church, (Rev. D. Peebles, pastor,) and its Band of Hope\neschew tobacco as well as all intoxicating drinks. The deacon went\nhome convinced, as he said, that it was a \u201cdirty, ugly, mean habit.\u201d\nHe joined in starting a Band of Hope, and told his experience as above\nnarrated. \u201cA little child shall lead them.\u201d The little ones did not\naddress him, but he thought that they intended their remarks for his\nbenefit.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Mr. Spurgeon_ finds caste even in England. He says: \u201cI know several\nhalf-sovereign people who would not think of asking a half-a-crown to\ntea, and there is a very strong aversion on the part of the half-crowns\nto the three-penny pieces; and, perhaps, a stronger aversion still on\nthe part of the three-pennies to anything coppery. I have heard of a\nChristian minister in this country now, who, I am told, is humble and\nuseful and talented, but there is not a congregation that will have him\nfor its minister. He was nearly starved to death a few years ago, and\nthe great sin he has committed is that he married a black wife. Now,\nyou would not like a minister\u2019s black wife; you know you would not. Up\ncomes the caste feeling directly. We condemn it in the Hindoo, and here\nit comes in this country. We like a negro if he has been a slave, and\nwe raise money for him when we would not for a white man. Now, I do not\nthink a black man is any better than a white man, and I do not think\nthat because a man is green he is at all superior. I believe that we\nare all pretty nearly equal, and that God made of one blood all nations\non the face of the earth. But we want to hear these stories about caste\nin India that we may be taught to avoid it here; and if it were not for\nthese follies, vanities, and prides of human nature, carried out to\nextremity abroad, we might not so readily see them to be evils in what\nis thought to be a mild form at home\u201d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTWO CONVENTIONS.\n\nDuring the sitting of the Virginia Republican Convention at Staunton,\nthe members were as free from molestation as they would have been at\nWorcester, Mass., and the hotels were open for their entertainment,\nwhite and black alike. For three days, colored men took their meals in\ncommon with white men and women in the public dining-rooms of houses\nkept by life-long democrats. One day, at the principal hotel, a black\nman was seen dining with representatives of some of the oldest families\nof the State; other colored men sat at different tables around the\nroom; while a large number of staunch democrats, men and women, went\non with their meals as if the scene was not an unusual one. Whether\nthis is due to a change of sentiment, or to policy induced by fear of\nthe re-adjusters, may be open to doubt, but the fact is significant.\nNo less so is the fact that not a single colored man had a seat in\nthe Convention at Cincinnati. If the unusual treatment of the negro\nvoter in Virginia is due to a change of sentiment, this change is\nnot so observably great in the Union at large. If due to fear, this\nfear is not so great in other States as in this where the colored\nline has been broken. This would seem to indicate that a solid front\nwill be maintained longer on national than on State issues. We have\ndischarged our duty in regard to these facts when we have simply stated\nthem. Their cause and significance we leave to others; while we take\nthe opportunity for saying, that not until the negro voter, by his\nintelligence and virtue, commands the respect of his fellow-citizens,\ncan he be other than an object of contempt and abuse when weak, and of\nfear when strong; and a source of danger, whether weak or strong.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHARD CASES.\n\n\u201cThe destruction of the poor is their poverty.\u201d This is illustrated\nnot alone in the history of families, but of missionary enterprises.\nPoverty, long continued and excessive, breeds a thousand evils more\ndestructive and more difficult to overcome than poverty itself. The\nvery features of a given case which constitute its strongest appeal\nfor help, are the ones which render it almost impossible to afford\nrelief, however much help is given. This, the experience of all\nphilanthropists, is many times repeated in the history of our work, and\nthe wisest discrimination is necessary to ensure that our efforts shall\nbe made where the greatest good can be done; not necessarily where\nmisery and ignorance utter their loudest wail.\n\nOne of our missionaries writes from a field where the people are\nliving very near the line of absolute starvation. They are as ignorant\nas could be inferred by the most logical mind from their whole past\nhistory; they are as bigoted and superstitious as their training can\nlegitimately make them; they are as much in need of what the missionary\noffers them as a people can be. If he partially educates the children,\nthe Stygian darkness of their homes seems to blot out what they\nhave learned; if he enrolls them in the temperance army, they lose\nstep when they pass the boundary of childhood; if a hopeful revival\ncomes to cheer his heart, causing him to forget his past toils and\ndespair, the converts over whom he rejoiced are swallowed up by the\nold churches about him, which teach salvation through loud shouting or\nsemi-occasional feet-washing; and his hopes would die, only that there\nare a few bright ones among the children who have twined themselves\nabout his heart.\n\nAmid the almost universal chorus of rejoicing from all parts of the\nfield over abundant and cheering results, there comes, once in a while,\na note like this from one who labors, not less abundantly or acceptably\nthan others, but with more doubtful success.\n\nFrom another field, the missionary tells of a revival commencing among\nhis own people, which was the signal for desperate _rival_ as well as\nrevival efforts in the other colored churches, directed largely to\nthe end of drawing away from him the results of his labors. He notes\na fact which seems to him strange, but one which, we apprehend, is\ndestined to repeat itself with great frequency as the work of education\ngoes on. The colored people seemed less responsive to the efforts\nwhich the church, unusually active, puts forth. As the negro becomes\nmore intelligent, we hope and believe that he will prove less highly\ninflammable; and he should comfort himself with the assurance that the\nresults of all genuine religious revivals belong to the Lord, and we\nwill rejoice in it all, under whatever banner the new recruit marches.\nThe bigotry of sectarianism, which is of ofttimes so trying, should be\nclassed with other sins which the Gospel, rightly preached and broadly\nillustrated, will in time remove; and, if under educational influence,\nthe negro kindles more slowly to religious zeal, he will doubtless burn\nmore steadily, and in the end yield more light and heat.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTEACHER OR MISSIONARY, WHICH?\n\nThe _Natal Mercury_, South Africa, paints a dark picture of the\nCaffres, even of those who have professed Christianity. Many fathers,\nit says, still sell their daughters in marriage for cattle as in years\npast, and many practice polygamy, which still has a very strong hold\nupon those of whom better things ought to be expected.\n\nThis is, indeed, cause for deep regret, but ought not to be of great\nsurprise. It may be true, that by one supreme exercise of faith in the\nLord Jesus Christ, the results of a whole life of debauchery can be\ncorrected in a single moment; that impure imaginations and dominant\nappetites and perverted tastes may all be utterly eradicated, and the\ndegraded slave of many years restored to the normal condition of an\nuncorrupted child. This may be, for men assert that it has been done;\nbut, most assuredly, it is not so common as to be expected ordinarily.\n\nThe prodigal who has gone into a far country has a long journey to\nretrace, and he comes back with many swinish tastes and habits of\nthought which he masters, if at all, by most persistent, prayerful and\npainful efforts.\n\nThe grace of Christ comes in as most stimulating and efficient aid\nin these efforts; but it comes as aid to effect, and not in the form\nof accomplished result. What the exact, literal truth may be in the\npoet-prophet\u2019s prediction, that \u201ca nation shall be born in a day,\u201d\nwe do not know; what new forces may be called into play, or what\nadded efficiency may be given to those now employed, when the kingdom\nadvances with millennial power and celerity, we know not; but as\nyet, no labor-saving machinery is known to the Church militant. The\nGospel has still to be carried by laborious, self-denying effort into\nthe homes of the degraded, and it gains its victories, if surely yet\nslowly, over the vices and evils of man\u2019s corrupted heart and life, and\nhe comes to the stature of a perfect man in Christ Jesus by a gradual\ngrowth.\n\nThe Sandwich Islands afford the striking illustration of the prophecy\nto which allusion has been made. But, in this case, the \u201cday\u201d covers\nmore than half a century, and has not yet reached its meridian, and\neven there deplorable facts prove that the mass of the people might\nbe \u201cborn again and again,\u201d as the good colored preacher has it, with\nadvantage. We are told that in the homes of the people are yet to be\nfound many of the fruits of their long degradation\u2014much impurity of\nlife, little of the spiritual strength and elevation of character which\nthe Gospel produces as its ripened fruit.\n\nThe question comes, and often with a pressure from our friends, as\nto the multiplication of missionaries, and, of course, because of\nour limited means, corresponding diminution of educational work. Our\nwork is limited by the money put into our hands, and, therefore, we\nare compelled to choose between them, when we cannot do both of\ntwo desirable things. It would be pleasant, and a source of great\nspiritual comfort and social advantage every way, if we could send an\nexcellent Christian woman into every negro cabin of the South, who\nshould bring her refined womanhood into loving and sympathetic contact\nwith the ignorant and lonely aunties, who never see a cultured white\nwoman socially. It were easily possible to organize an evangelistic\nmovement which would set the religious nature of the negro ablaze, and\ngather the people by tens of thousands into the churches which could\nbe erected with the money now employed to sustain our schools; but all\nthis would leave the negro helpless, at the mercy of the bulldozer or\ndebaucher, and still under the control of his licentious and dishonest\nhabits.\n\nThe work must be more thorough, and, therefore, more tedious than this.\nThe negro _character_ needs to be created in germ, and then developed\ninto a worthy manhood and womanhood by thorough Christian culture, and\nthe best and only adequate missionaries are the Christian teachers in\nour schools.\n\nConversion, as the negro in his ignorance understands it, is not the\nmost important or desirable thing to be accomplished. We must first\nsecure an enlightenment of the understanding, a toning up of the moral\nconstitution, which shall give value to conversion when it does occur.\nConversion is but the beginning of a new life\u2014a beginning which is\nutterly worthless except in connection with an adequate conception\nof what that life is, and unless that life follows. No one who at\nall comprehends the nature of the work to be done, will advocate\nother policy than the one we now pursue of \u201chastening slowly.\u201d We\nmust enlarge, equip and multiply our educational facilities through\nthe South. When this has been done, the number of missionaries may\nbe multiplied manifold with advantage; but to displace or weaken\neducational agencies for those that aim at conversion and spiritual\ncomfort, would prove utterly disastrous.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWRONGS OF THE PONCAS.\n\nThe removal of the Poncas from their reservation, and the failure of\nCongress to pass the bill for their relief, illustrate the facility\nwith which crimes, and blunders which have all the fateful results\nof crime, have been committed by us against the Indians; also, the\ncriminal tardiness with which we correct such blunders.\n\nThe Government in 1868 made a new treaty with the Sioux, and settled\nthem upon reservations in Dakota, which included 96,000 acres of land\nbelonging to the Poncas, one of the most peaceable of all the Indian\ntribes, who had held and had been dwelling upon this land ever since\nthey were known as a tribe\u2014held it, too, as an absolute grant from\nthe United States, under a guaranty of peaceable possession during\ngood behavior. Without their knowledge or consent, as also without a\nshadow of complaint against them as a tribe, their reservation was set\napart and given into possession of the Sioux. Failing to gain their\nconsent to a removal, the Government forced them, without compensation,\nfor their homes and fields, or other losses, to abandon their own and\nsettle upon a reservation in the Indian Territory, where the climate\nwas to them inhospitable. As a result of this, their numbers have been\ngreatly diminished, they have become discouraged and disheartened, and\nare making no progress toward self-support. This alienation of their\nlands was an acknowledged blunder, due to ignorance of boundaries on\nthe part of Congress; but their arbitrary and cruel ejectment from\ntheir homes, without charge of crime, and in violation of most solemn\npledges, is more than a blunder; it is an act of high-handed injustice\nand robbery.\n\nThe bill reported by Senator Dawes, of the Senate Select Committee,\nto investigate their removal, requires the Secretary of the Interior\nto return the Poncas without delay to their Dakota reservation, and\nprovides that their title to the same shall be deemed valid, anything\nin the Sioux treaty to the contrary notwithstanding. It also requires\nthe Secretary of the Interior to restore to the Poncas \u201cuse and\nenjoyment in the same condition, as nearly as may be, when left by\nthem, all houses and other improvements and personal property belonging\nto the tribe when removed from Dakota, and for all the foregoing\npurposes provides an appropriation of $50,000.\u201d The minority report\nproposed simply to compensate them for losses sustained by removal, but\nhints at no remedy for the wrongs they have suffered in this removal.\n\nAnd now Congress has adjourned without action of any kind for their\nrelief, and they are left to brood over their wrongs, and mature such\nplans of revenge as suggest themselves to savage minds.\n\nThe appointment of a commission to China to investigate, report upon,\nand adjust the difficulties growing out of Chinese immigration,\nsuggests the propriety of a commission of like character, as regards\nits members, to take into consideration the agitating questions\nrelating to the Indians. There is nothing which more nearly touches\nour honor, or more intimately affects our peace and prosperity, than\ndoes the condition of these people. We believe that a commission of\nstatesmen would devise some solution of our difficulties, and suggest\na remedy for the wrongs and injustice which have characterized our\ntreatment of them, and thus bring to an end their wild and lawless mode\nof life.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE NEGRO ON THE INDIAN.\n\nThe negro teacher of the Indian boys at Hampton pithily says some\nthings which go right to the heart of his subject, and are well worth\nrepeating and remembering. The following extracts are from Prof.\nRobbins\u2019 Report to the Trustees of Hampton Institute. The much-abused\nnegro, forgetful of his own wrongs, stands before the Anglo-American\nto plead for the Indian and urge a more excellent treatment of him.\nWe commend the whole report to the thoughtful consideration of those\nwho yet doubt the capacity of either the negro or Indian for Christian\ncivilization:\n\n\u201cThe Indian problem which the people of the United States have so long\nbeen trying to solve may be briefly stated thus: Shall we be able to\nteach the Indians to surrender their lands and their houses to us, when\nwe want them, without fighting? It is a singular fact that the American\npeople require more Christian charity from the Indians than they\nthemselves are ready to give.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe question is not, can the Indian learn, but will he put his\nknowledge to practical use? The answer to this question depends\nupon the future policy of the Government. The white man, to put his\nknowledge to the most practical and profitable use, has a choice of\nlocation. He goes where his services are most demanded, and where he\ncan get the best returns for his labor. Are these Indians to be bound\nto get their living on one reservation, or will they be left free to\nchoose homes for themselves?\u201d\n\n\u201cUnless education is made to mean more than brain culture, it may yet\nprove the curse of the Anglo-Saxon race. Thousands of young men and\nwomen who leave our high schools, seminaries and colleges, all over\nthe land, graduate a degree higher than their social surroundings.\nThe majority of them return to their homes unprepared to put their\nphilosophy and literature into every-day practical life. With them,\nlife becomes one continued grind, and the long list of intelligent\ncriminals is only a sad sequel of it. The education which will nerve\nand strengthen a man for his calling in life is the most practical, and\nis the most needed to-day.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe condition of the Indian is unlike that of any other people in\nthe world at present. He is not only banished from the best contact\nwith civilization, but he is hated, hunted, envied, and yearly the\nboundaries of his place of exile are growing smaller; his rights are\nconferred by a superior power, and are so limited that his gun is his\nonly defence, for the awful judgment of the nation is always against\nhim.\u201d\n\n\u201cIt should not be asked, how can we avoid war, but how can we introduce\nthe arts of peace and throw the Indians on their own resources? Every\nman should be made to supply his own wants. The Indian question can\nonly be solved by meeting and conquering its difficulties.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe want to make savages Christians in a day, and after a short trial\nwe see that it cannot be done. Christianizing is not the work of a day\nor a year, or a spasmodic effort in any direction; it is a continued\nand constant effort.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe Indians should be allowed to assimilate with, and become a part\nof, our nation\u2019s life. Are there always to be national prison pens for\nthem; or will they some day enjoy those \u2018certain inalienable rights\u2019?\nIt is wonderful how slow the Anglo-American has been to perceive that\nthis Declaration refers to no particular race or color, but speaks of\n\u2018all men.\u2019\u201d\n\n\u201cIt takes a higher degree of civilization than all Anglo-Saxons\npossess, to give up an opinion to which one stands committed, even\nwhen he knows it is false. But it is grand to think that neither\nfears nor prejudice can be a final obstacle to the work. The greatest\nrevolutions in popular opinion which the world has ever known have been\nthe outgrowth of a few strong hearts that have believed in, and have\nachieved, success.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe can afford to wait; the American public cannot be educated in a day\nany more than the Indian. The people will be ready by and by to lay\naside legends two hundred years old, and accept facts as they are. The\nideal Indian is dead; the true Indian is living and progressing. It is\ntime to concede that he is a man. Take from him what you will in the\nscale of civilization, but do not subtract his manhood; it is his by\nDivine right.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe answer to the Indian question must be broader than his reservation\nand broader than his territory; it must be as broad and as long as\nthese United States; with all their rights and privileges.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nEADLE KEAHTAH TOH.\n\nWhat this means we do not know, but lack of room alone prevents a\nreprint in these pages of the entire contents of the second number of\nthis charming little paper, published at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., in\nthe interest of the Indian Training School, and to some extent by the\nIndians, since we are told that a Pawnee boy set up about one-half of\nthe type, and much of its contents was written by them. There is a\nletter from White Thunder to his son in Capt. Pratt\u2019s school, in answer\nto some complaints he had made, telling him: \u201cYour letter did not\nplease me. I am ashamed to hear from others in the school that you act\nbad, and do not try to learn. I send you there to be like a white man,\nand I want you to do what your teacher tells you. Remember the words\nI told you. I said if it takes five or ten years, if you do not learn\nanything you should not come back here.\u201d\n\n\nOUR PROGRESS.\n\nUnder \u201cOur Progress,\u201d the declaration is made that, so far, results\nshow \u201cthat these boys and girls have come to a determination to throw\naside the Indian\u2019s mode of thought and feeling with the old dress and\nway of life. This seemed apparent in the beginning, but we feared that\nthe older ones, at least, would soon grow weary of the restraint, which\nthey must find very irksome. We have between sixty and seventy pupils\nover sixteen years of age. With few exceptions, these young men and\nwomen are helpers in discipline, as they are in all the manual labor\nnecessary for their mutual comfort.\n\n\u201cSome time ago, one of the young men came to the girls\u2019 quarters and\nasked to see his sister. The interview was in the presence of an\ninterpreter, who reported that he gave the little girl a kind but very\nserious talk. He told her that he had noticed that she was noisy and\nidle, and that she laughed too loud on the playground. Said he, \u2018We\ncame here to learn. I do not know the white man\u2019s way very much yet,\nbut if I do wrong it is because I do not know what my teachers want me\nto do.\u2019 Several instances of the same kind have occurred since, showing\nthat these boys consider themselves the guardians of their sisters.\nThese are Sioux boys just from their tribes. The interpreter tells us\nthat among the Sioux, the boys and girls of the same family seldom or\nnever speak to each other; this makes it the more remarkable. They are\nfar from indifferent to each other\u2019s comfort and happiness, however,\nas is invariably shown in time of sickness or any kind of trouble. The\nletters received by the children from their parents almost invariably\ncounsel obedience to teachers and submission to all the regulations of\nthe school.\n\n\u201cAn intimate acquaintance with these children, and through them a\nbetter knowledge of their people at home, have increased our respect\nand deepened our sympathy for the Indians.\n\n\u201cWe believe that the beginnings of a new life are stirring in many\nhearts. What outward developments this life may assume, time will show.\nThe good seed is germinating. The air is full of promise. We can afford\nto wait.\u201d\n\n\nOUR GIRLS.\n\nAgain, how like \u201cour girls\u201d these promise to be under Christian culture:\n\n\u201cIt is gratifying to watch the interest manifested by the little girls\nin the new arrivals. They are so anxious for them to be washed and\ndressed anew, and want to loan their own clothing until new can be made.\n\n\u201cRuth, Grace and Rebecca seemed to feel themselves especially called\nupon to watch over and teach the ways of the family to the little Nez\nPerces girls, \u2018strangers in a strange land\u2019. They went with them to\nput them to bed, and then got up early in the morning, to show them\nhow to dress themselves and put their room in order. For several days\nthese little girls watched over them, even leading them by the hand to\ntheir meals, when the bell rang to call them together. They could not\nunderstand one word of each other\u2019s language, but they chattered away\nlike little birds; and yet six months ago, these same children were\nquite as wild and uncivilized as the little Nez Perces, Harriet and\nSophia.\u201d\n\n\nTSAIT-KOPETA.\n\nHear what Tsait-Kopeta has to say of his old life and new, showing that\nIndian nature, both old and new, is human nature:\n\n\u201cMy life was pretty rough and sharp before I came this way, just like\nthe waves of the ocean, unsteady and not sure. I always was stumbling,\nbut again I would get up. I was a very smart servant for Satan. I was\nlike an ox with his yoke on me; but I worked for him willingly, just\nsame he was my father. But what kind of pay did he give me? Nothing,\nonly shame and danger, and I think when I suffered he laughed at me. I\nhope now I am free from him, and I think he is sorry he lost me, but he\ncan\u2019t help; and now I have found the Great Master, the Rock of Ages;\nand I saw His words, and He says, \u2018Come unto me, all ye that labor\nand are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you\nand learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find\nrest unto your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.\u2019 And\ntherefore I shall fall at His feet and worship Him, and have confessed\nHim before men, and want to serve Him only all life long.\n\n\u201cNow I can boast, Satan is my enemy. I return to him the shame he give\nme. He used tell me, \u2018You do what you want in earthly life, nothing\nhurt you; you only got this life, by and by you die; so anything you\nwant good or bad you do.\u2019 Oh, poor Tsait-Kopeta, how Satan kept me\ndown and tempted. I don\u2019t want something to hurt or do bad and he\nridicule me and lie. He said, \u2018Ah, you coward! only women feel that\nway.\u2019 Satan made me prisoner; but Christ was sorry for me and picked\nme out of his hand. He give me free, and told me go and no more sin. I\nthink very strange, Capt. Pratt, why I not know more then, why I did\nnot ask myself who make me and all the wonderful things. My life is\nvery strange and different from my past life. Little good at that time;\noften I hungry, thirsty and cold, sorrowful, all the time I restless,\nand afraid of the enemies or trouble; but this part of the Indian life\nI like sure, riding and hunting.\u201d\n\n\nSUSETTE LA FLESCHE.\n\nSusette La Flesche (Bright Eyes), in the following extract from a\nletter to a friend, illustrates what culture has done for an Indian\ngirl, and discovers the fountains of yearning and of hope in the heart\nof her people:\n\n\u201cI am coming more and more to the conclusion that the surest and almost\nthe only way of reaching the parent is through the children. Almost\nthe only comforts they have in their lives consist in their children.\nFor them they are willing to lay aside their arms and take up the plow\nand mower, all unused as they are to labor. For them they are willing\nto pass over injuries, lest the wrath of the Government be aroused and\ntheir children slain. For the sake of their children they are willing\nto break up their nationality, their tribal relations, and all that\nthey hold dear, to become citizens. Said one man to me, \u2018I wish I had\nhad the advantages in my youth which you have. I could then have had a\nchance to become something other than I am, and could have helped my\npeople. I am now helpless and ignorant; but I shall die content if my\nchildren after me live better than I have done.\u2019\u201d\n\n\nINDIAN MOTHER-LOVE.\n\nWe are in danger of quoting the whole of this paper after all, but must\ngive the following extract from a letter from the wife of one who was\nstationed at what is now Post Fort Sill. The incident occurred in 1869.\nWe do not envy him who can read this without shame, that during the\n260 years of our contact with these people we have done so little to\ncall forth their finer qualities, glimpses of which we catch in such a\nscene. We have done much to degrade and brutalize them; almost nothing\nto save them:\n\n\u201cOne bright spring morning I had just dressed my fair girl-baby in her\nfirst short dress, then carefully placing her upon the bed, stood back,\nmother-like, to admire. The outer door of my room was wide open, and I\nsaw approaching what seemed to me then the most miserable-looking squaw\nI had yet seen. On she came with the grace and tread of an elephant;\nand oh, how revolting she looked as she stood in the doorway! Her hair\nwas cut short and hung over her forehead to her eyes. Her face, neck\nand breast were painted in narrow stripes of different colors. About\nher waist was fastened a short skirt made of a part of a buffalo robe.\nShe saw my darling, and before I knew what she intended she had her in\nher arms. What did I do? Why, I sprang forward, saying, \u2018You horrid,\ndirty thing,\u2019 and took my baby into my own arms. The poor miserable\nwoman looked at me in the most pitiful manner, and then gathering up\nthe corner of her blanket, she held it in her arms as one would hold a\nsick infant, and at the same time with a mournful cry, she made a sign\nthat her baby had died; and to show how great her grief had been, she\nheld up her hand so that I could see she had cut off her little finger,\nwhich is one of the extreme mourning customs of the Kiowas, and she\nalso pointed to the deep scars on her breast and arms. Tears ran down\nher cheeks, and my sympathies were so moved that almost unconsciously I\nplaced my baby back in her arms. How carefully she handled her, and how\ntenderly she passed her hands over her plump limbs. After some minutes\nshe handed her back to me, and with a grateful look and smile, giving\nme a hearty hand-shake, she departed. In a week she came again, and\nplaced in my lap about a peck of ripe wild plums, which ripen there in\nthe early spring. They had been freshly washed, and were brought to me\nin a piece of new pink calico. Again she held the baby, and this time\nwith signs asked permission, and got it, to kiss our darling, for she\nwas no longer disgusting to me. She left me as before, and in another\nweek she came again, this time bringing two buffalo tongues. All she\nwanted in return was the pleasure of holding baby. This was her last\nvisit. Where she came from or where she went, I never knew. She came\nand went alone.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBLACK MISSIONARIES FOR AFRICA\u2014THE BISHOP CROWTHER PLAN.\n\nREV. G. D. PIKE, D.D.\n\nIf God \u201chath set bounds to the habitations\u201d of the different races\nof men, or to any race, that fact should enter into our plan of\nmissionary work. It is our duty to succeed. How to do it, is worthy of\nour greatest thought and most earnest prayer. When we take the road\nto success in God\u2019s work, we find heavenly attendants all along the\nway, and abundant supplies of grace and every needful thing. Just now\nthe great question before the Christian world is, \u201cHow to succeed with\nmissionary work among the recently discovered Pagans in Equatorial\nAfrica.\u201d Attempts have been made on the borders of this country for\nhundreds of years, but no permanent success has been achieved inland.\nWe have learned, however, two things. One is, that white men and\nmulattoes are, as a rule, incapable of preserving their health and\nlives in the climate of tropical Africa; and the other, that the\ngenuine negro has a constitution entirely fitted for its vicissitudes.\n\u201cNegroes for Negroland\u201d must be emblazoned on the banner of the\nsuccessful missionary army, as it goes forth to battle against sin\nthrough the Dark Continent.\n\nThe history of every missionary endeavor of long continuance among the\nnegroes in tropical Africa warrants this conclusion. But have negroes\nsucceeded as missionaries? They have not had much opportunity for doing\nso, as but few missions have been committed to their care. Public\nsentiment has been against them. The theory of manning stations by\nblack men is comparatively recent. Our great societies, however, are\nforced by the unfolding of providential events to weigh the evidence in\nfavor of the theory. The only question left to be settled pertains to\nthe negro\u2019s aptitude and capacity. Can he achieve success in the domain\nof missions? We are fortunate in having an illustration which enables\nus to answer this question in the affirmative.\n\nIn 1821, an African lad was captured in a village about 100 miles from\nthe Bight of Benin, and put on board a slave-ship, from which he was\nsubsequently rescued by the English government and landed at Freetown.\nHere he was received into a mission school under the care of Mr. Weeks.\nIn 1825, when 15 years of age, he was baptized, and sent to England\nto study. Soon after, a Bible-school for training native students to\npreach was established at Sierre Leone, and the young African, who had\nbeen named Samuel Crowther, was recalled and placed in this school,\nwhere he remained as student and teacher until 1841. At this time,\nLord John Russell\u2019s famous Niger Expedition selected Mr. Crowther as\ninterpreter, and while exploring the territory on the west bank of\nthe Niger, he became exceedingly interested in the people living in\nthe villages of the country. When the purpose of that expedition was\nabandoned, Mr. Crowther gave himself to missionary work in the towns\nhe had visited. To fit him more thoroughly for this, he was sent to\nEngland, where he remained till 1843. He then returned to his chosen\nfield, reduced the language of the people to writing, and preached\nthe Gospel to them in their native tongue. At one of his preaching\nstations, he discovered his mother, brother and two sisters, who had\nbeen held in slavery for many years, and procured their ransom. Among\nhis first converts in the great town of Abeokuta, was his own mother.\nAt this place, he commenced preaching in 1845. In 1861, there were\nreported to be 1,500 converts as the result of his labors. In 1864\nhe was consecrated \u201cAfrican Bishop of the Niger.\u201d Since then he has\nproceeded with his great work with many additional facilities.\n\nSome friends in England have secured for him a steamboat, valued at\nmore than $22,000, by which he is able to visit his mission stations,\nnow nine in number, located along the river, and superintend some 22\nnative preachers and helpers under his charge. At an early age he\nmarried Asano, a girl delivered from bondage at the same time with\nhimself, and instructed in the same school. Several children were born\nto them, and some of these, at least, are very worthy and helpful to\ntheir father.\n\nHere we have in a nut-shell an illustration of how the work may be\ndone. Representatives of the inland tribes may be gathered into\nsuitable schools, taught the things which pertain to the Christian\nfaith, and practiced in the arts of teaching and preaching, under the\nsupervision of wise and experienced missionaries, and then returned to\ntheir tribes to declare the good news of a salvation which, through the\nblessing of God, they have experienced. The illustration we have chosen\nwould indicate that it were wise to establish the training-school in\nAfrica itself; and the fate of scores of white missionaries and others\nof our race, who have perished on account of the climate of Africa,\npoints to the wisdom of selecting black men as teachers in these\ntraining-schools, whenever suitable persons for the position can be\nfound among the colored people.\n\nThe venerable Dr. Moffat affirms that black missionaries for Africa\nis the \u201cDivine plan.\u201d Dr. Blyden tells us that the climate of Africa\nrecognizes only pure negroes with favor. It conforms to no prejudices\nor customs of society in assigning mulattoes to the negro race. Unmixed\nblack men alone are welcomed with long life and happiness.\n\nGod sets bounds to habitations, but the love of Christ in God is\nunbounded. The good tidings of great joy has no metes. The heathen and\nthe uttermost parts of the earth are within the borders of the kingdom.\nThe elect and precious are separated by no climate or partition\nwalls. They shall come up from the North, South, East and West. We\ncan only hope to succeed in doing our part towards hastening the\nconsummation when we have fallen into line with the logic of events,\nand have accepted the new phases of work for the negro as they are\nprovidentially unfolded.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nSAVANNAH, GA.\u2014The pastor of the church at this place writes: \u201cThe\nstandard of piety among the colored people about us is so low that\nit is difficult to create a moral conscience in our own people, and\nthis fact shows the great need there is for our churches.\u201d There has\nbeen an unusual work of grace among his people, and the \u201cmeetings\nhave been quiet and orderly, as with a New England congregation.\u201d A\nnumber have been brought into the church whose experience has been most\nsatisfactory; none of them have had dreams or visions, but all tell\nof simple faith in the Saviour, and express the purpose of a new life\nof intelligent obedience to Him. \u201cWe are beginning to rise above the\nsuperstitious notions which once prevailed.\u201d\n\nATLANTA, GA.\u2014June 20th, Rev. M. E. Strieby, D.D., preached the\ndedication sermon of the First Congregational Church. The dedicatory\nservice had been delayed until all debt should be cleared off the\nhouse\u2014a beautiful structure in brick, with slate roof and tower,\nhaving cost more than $5,000. This done, and a $300 Troy bell secured,\nall was ready. In the afternoon, a thanksgiving service was held,\nconsisting of music, the responsive reading of appropriate Psalms, and\naddresses by the pastor, Pres. Ware, Prof. Francis, Supt. Roy, and\nMayor Calhoun. The latter, referring to the early days of trial, said\nthat he had always been glad that this people had friends, wherever\nthey came from, who were willing and able to help them.\n\n\u2014Rev. T. E. Hillson, of New Orleans, has been located at Flatonia and\nLuling in Texas, to have charge of the two churches in those places,\nwhich are far out upon the \u201csunset\u201d route to San Antonio. Miss M. E.\nGreen is in charge of the school in Flatonia.\n\n\u2014Rev. Mr. Roberts, a recent graduate of the Talladega Theological\nDepartment, has been appointed to take the pastoral charge of the\nchurch at Paris, Texas. Mr. White, another student of Talladega, will\nprobably take the school at Paris.\n\n\u2014Rev. L. C. Anderson, of Fisk, is teaching and preaching near Austin,\nTexas.\n\n\u2014Rev. B. A. Jones, a recent student in the Theological Department at\nOberlin, will take the pastorate of our church at Memphis, Tenn., in\nSeptember. Mr. Williams, whose health is not equal to the permanent\ncharge, will continue as a supply until that time.\n\n\u2014Rev. G. W. Moore, of the Fisk University, is supplying at Florence,\nAla., for the vacation; while Rev. S. N. Brown, another student,\nsupplies the Howard Chapel in Nashville.\n\n\u2014Rev. J. W. Strong, of Talladega, takes the place of Pastor O. W.\nCrawford at Mobile during the vacation.\n\n\u2014Mr. Geo. Clark, of the Divinity School in Howard University, is\nsupplying Pastor Lathrop\u2019s pulpit at Macon, Ga.\n\n\u2014Rev. J. W. McLean, of Ogeechee, is filling Rev. R. F. Markham\u2019s place\nin Savannah, Ga., during vacation.\n\n\u2014Rev. H. W. Conley is supplying at Marion, Ala., during the absence of\nthe pastor, Rev. Geo. E. Hill.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAFRICAN NOTES.\n\n\u2014Col. C. E. Gordon, who was for a time Governor-General of Soudan\nfor the Khedive of Egypt, made strenuous and successful efforts to\nsuppress the slave-trade in those parts of Equatorial Africa which came\nwithin its influence. He was forced, as our readers know, to resign\nhis position, and in a pamphlet, published by the British Anti-Slavery\nSociety, states that the Khedive has permitted the resuscitation of\nthe slave-trade in Central Africa, and \u201cevery order he gave for the\nsuppression of this abomination has been cancelled.\u201d He thinks that a\ndecided message from the French and English governments to the Egyptian\nruler would have great effect, but that the slave-trade will never be\nput down voluntarily by the Khedive.\n\nThis slave-trade is one of those evils which time alone will not cure.\nNothing but bringing all the influences of Christian missions and\nChristian governments to combine for its destruction, will overthrow\nit. We are glad that the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society\ncontinues its holy war against it.\n\n\u2014The Church of Scotland Mission at Blantyre, on the Shir\u00e9 River,\nAfrica, has opened another station. The new station is at Zomba, on\nthe west side of the Shir\u00e9 River. It is a very elevated and secure\nspot, where thieves could be barred out. The station is on the borders\nof Chemlumbe and Malemia, whose respective chiefs are hostile to each\nother. The design is to reach both tribes. The neighborhood is quite a\npopulous one, and 4,000 people have asked the missionaries to become\ntheir protectors. The Arabs carry on their nefarious trade between\nBlantyre and Zomba, and frequently kidnap people from the latter place\nto fill out their gangs. Refugees are almost constantly coming in at\nBlantyre, but none are received at Zomba. A school has been opened at\nZomba, and it has forty scholars. The people are very attentive to the\npreacher, and sit a long time unwearied.\n\n\u2014Encouraging news continues to come from Bishop Crowther\u2019s mission on\nthe Niger. The station at Bonny, which was founded fourteen years ago,\nand which for some years past has encountered opposition and severe\npersecution, now is become a bethel. Archdeacon Crowther says the voice\nof prayer is heard in nearly every house, night and morning. Several\npersons have been baptized and there are over 200 candidates for the\nsacrament.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nATLANTA UNIVERSITY.\n\n=Baccalaureate\u2014Commencement\u2014Visit of the State Board\u2014Report of Local\nPaper.=\n\nOn Sunday, June 20, the baccalaureate of Atlanta University was\npreached by Rev. M. E. Strieby, D.D., of New York. His subject was the\npath of the just and the way of the wicked, the forming of character,\ngood and bad.\n\nThe examinations lasted three days.\n\nThe Commencement exercises, June 24, came off the same hour with the\nnomination of Gen. Hancock. Orations were pronounced by six young\nmen, and essays read by ten young women, all of whom showed a fine\nscholarship and a good degree of the art of elocution. The most\ngratifying feature in these productions was a zeal to help their people\nby precept and example in the way of economy, thrift, and moral reform.\nThe degree of A. B. was conferred upon three young men, and that of B.\nS., with the certificate of graduation from the higher normal course,\nwas given to twelve students, male and female. The music, which was of\na high order, was by the students. One captivating piece was, \u201cI am in\na strange land.\u201d The college address was delivered by Rev. J. E. Roy,\nD.D., and the diplomas presented by Rev. M. E. Strieby, D.D.\n\nThe State Board of Examiners, ten in number, came over, fresh from\nthe inspection of the State University at Athens, and gave four days\nof faithful attendance upon the examinations and Commencement of\nthis Institution. Their Report is to be made to the Governor and the\nLegislature, but it was understood that they were greatly delighted\nwith the thoroughness of the scholarship evinced, and the general\n_morale_.\n\nThe _Constitution_, which reported each day, said: \u201cThe examinations\nwere heard by many visitors who showed great interest in all the\nproceedings. The various questions were, as a rule, aptly answered, and\neach student gave evidence of the progress achieved in this excellent\nand yearly growing Institution. The familiarity with Greek which\nwas shown by the class, which was called upon to construe and parse\nselections from Demosthenes, was quite astonishing. Everybody who has\ngrappled with the Greek language knows how difficult it is to render\nthe \u201cOration\u201d properly. Special proficiency was shown in the several\nother branches upon which the students, both male and female, were\nsubjected to rigid questioning. Our citizens are cordially invited to\nvisit the Atlanta University, and see for themselves the great good\nwhich the management is doing for the colored people in our midst.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTALLADEGA COLLEGE.\n\n=Commencement Exercises\u2014Standard of Instruction\u2014Literary\nSociety\u2014Needs.=\n\nREV. O. W. FAY, MONTGOMERY, ALA.\n\nThe friends and patrons of Talladega College have great occasion for\nencouragement and congratulation, in view of the present condition and\nfuture prospects of that Institution, as evinced by the examinations\nand exercises connected with its Tenth Annual Commencement.\n\nThose exercises opened grandly on Sunday, June 6th, at 10.30 A. M.,\nwith a baccalaureate sermon by President De Forest from the text (1\nTim. i. 12), \u201cAnd I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me,\nfor that he counted me faithful putting me into the ministry,\u201d which\nwas a clear and inspiring argument for entering upon the work of the\nGospel ministry especially appropriate for the occasion, as it was\naddressed particularly to the class of eight young men who this year\ngraduate from the Theological Department. At 4 o\u2019clock P. M., a Union\nPrayer Meeting of the Sunday-school classes was held in the College\nChapel, after which Prof. T. N. Chase, of Atlanta University, gave an\nintensely interesting detailed account of his recent experiences while\nvisiting the Mendi Mission on the West Coast of Africa. The evening was\ngiven to the missionary sermon by the Rev. O. W. Fay, of Montgomery,\non \u201cThe Divine Economy in the Gospel,\u201d or the plan according to which\nGod has been working, and is destined to work for the redemption of\nmankind. Text, Isa. xiii. 4: \u201cHe shall not fail nor be discouraged,\ntill he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for\nhis law.\u201d\n\nOn Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday occurred the regular examinations\nwhich, for impartiality, thoroughness, and general familiarity with\nthe subjects considered, reflected great credit upon both teachers\nand pupils. To one not familiar with the standard of instruction and\nscholarship in the colleges of the American Missionary Association,\nit might seem a little surprising to find examinations in moral\nscience, geometry, history, pastoral theology, and all higher branches,\nconducted _topically_ and well sustained; but, when it is known that\nPres. De Forest and Profs. Andrews and Ellis, with their able corps of\nlady associates, represent Yale, Olivet, Oberlin and Mt. Holyoke, he\nis prepared to expect and find all that is standard and best, both in\ntheory and practice, at Talladega. There was no evidence of special\n\u201ccramming\u201d on the part of the students, or of special favoritism on the\npart of the instructors. On the other hand, the evidence was abundant\nthat all had been doing good work, thorough, honest and true. Ex-Gov.\nParsons, one of Alabama\u2019s most distinguished citizens and a trustee\nof the College, honored the examination of the graduating class with\nhis presence, and expressed intense gratification with what he saw\nand heard. A few other white citizens of Talladega were present at\nthe various exercises from time to time through the week. It is to be\nregretted, however, that so few were inclined, even by their presence,\nto show their appreciation of what the College is doing for their\ncommunity and the State. While there was no great throng of colored\npeople in attendance, there was a goodly number present throughout the\nweek, who, by their remarkable appreciation of the exercises, showed\nthat the occasion was to them \u201ca feast of fat things.\u201d\n\nThe public exhibition of the \u201cAdelphic Literary Society,\u201d on Monday\nevening, was an occasion of interest. The exercises consisted of\ndeclamations, original essays, and a discussion of the question,\n\u201cShould capital punishment be inflicted for murder?\u201d The essays were\ngood, the declamations and the discussion were presented with spirit\nand a good show of ability, while the music was excellent, all showing\ncareful preparation and a laudable ambition to excel.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, the Annual College Address was given by Rev. J.\nE. Roy, D.D., Field Agent of the A. M. A., on the \u201cIncompleteness of\nindividual talent.\u201d In his own inimitable style, the doctor entertained\nhis audience with happy illustrations, amusing anecdotes and solid\nthought, showing the mutual interdependence of society, and how God\nhas really and practically given \u201cto every man his work.\u201d In the\nafternoon of Wednesday, came the prize-speaking. The contestants for\nprizes in declaiming and reading were eight young men and one young\nwoman. Two prizes were contended for; the first was tuition at the\nCollege for one year, and the second, tuition for half a year. A good\ndeal of commendable ambition was aroused, and the contest was so sharp\nthat the Committee found some difficulty in awarding the honors, which\nwere finally conferred by giving the first prize to H. L. Bradford, of\nthe Normal Department, and the second prize to Spencer Snell, of the\nTheological Department. Miss Dorcas White was also awarded a second\nprize for an essay on education. At 8 P. M., as a part of the programme\nfor the week, was held the regular Wednesday evening prayer-meeting,\nled by the pastor, Prof. G. W. Andrews\u2014full, fresh, spiritual and\nrefreshing in its character. The subject of the hour was \u201cChristian\neducation.\u201d\n\nThe graduating exercises of Thursday were, indeed, a fitting\nculmination of all that had preceded them. The orations of the eight\nyoung men who graduated were in happy accord with the expectations\nraised by their examinations the day before. They were all thoughtful\nand manly efforts, well conceived and well delivered. As an\nillustration of what _can_ be done as well as of what _is being_ done\nfor the colored race, the proficiency and promise of these young men\nis highly encouraging. They all go forth with enthusiasm for their\nwork. They all have fields for immediate labor. It is quite confidently\nhoped that at least one of this class will decide to go to the Mendi\nMission on the \u201cDark Continent.\u201d But when we look about us and see the\nalmost innumerable fields already white for the harvest, the inquiry\ninvoluntarily comes. What are these few \u201camong so many\u201d?\n\nIn accordance with her new motto, Talladega College is doing a grand\nwork \u201cPro Christo et Humanitate.\u201d Her facilities and prospects were\nnever good as at present. She was never so well deserving of support\nand patronage as now. Her location among the mountains of Alabama is\ndelightful. The long blue ranges of mountains, as seen in the distance\nfrom the College campus, along with the bracing mountain air, strongly\nremind one of New England. The only institution of its grade for\ncolored people in the State, its constituency is simply immense.\n\nWith a farm of nearly two hundred acres, her facilities are rare indeed\nfor aiding young men to obtain an education, who are disposed to help\nthemselves. She has an efficient corps of instructors, enthusiastic in\ntheir work. Particularly is she fortunate in her new President, under\nwhose wise administration the College has assumed a new character\nand taken a new position in the State. No one could listen to the\nearnest yet tender and eloquent words of counsel addressed to the\ngraduating class by Pres. De Forest on presenting the diplomas, without\nthe feeling that he is just the large-hearted, scholarly. Christian\ngentleman who is needed in the place which he occupies.\n\nBut notwithstanding all this, Talladega has very pressing needs. Her\naccommodations for young men are altogether inadequate to the demand,\nand such as she has are of a very indifferent character. A donation of\n$15,000 from the Stone Estate, however, gives cheering prospects that\nduring the coming year this sore need will be met.\n\nBut $10,000 more is needed just as much for furnishing the new\ndormitory, improving the College grounds, and making necessary repairs\non \u201cSwayne Hall,\u201d which, though originally costing $30,000, and a very\nstately building, is literally going to ruin from lack of means to\nrepair it.\n\nThese facts being known, may it not reasonably be hoped that in the\nnear future, friends of humanity and of Christian education may be\nfound, who will recognize this rare opportunity for investments, and\ncome to the rescue of a worthy and suffering College? Who will be the\nfirst?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBEREA COLLEGE.\n\nBusy and Varied Scene\u2014Range of Topics\u2014Stirring\nAddresses\u2014Brotherhood\u2014Pioneers.\n\nBY SECRETARY STRIEBY.\n\nThe little village of Berea, Ky., presented a busy scene on the 16th\nday of June. Commencement day brought together a crowd that for numbers\nand variety is seldom collected on such an occasion. The gathering\nbegan early in the day. Fine buggies and carriages came filled with\npeople, and with them were wheeled vehicles of almost every variety of\nconstruction and in almost every stage of decay. But the larger part\nof the crowd came on horseback in true Kentucky style, frequently two,\nand in some cases three persons riding on the same animal. The College\ncampus comprises many acres, covered quite uniformly with a fine growth\nof large trees. On the day before, I had noticed little slats nailed on\nthese trees, and their use was explained to-day by the horses hitched\nto them. There must have been 800 or 900 horses on the campus.\n\nThe audience numbered probably 1,800 or 2,000 persons of both sexes,\nboth colors, and of every stage in social position. I judged that\ntwo-thirds were of the white race, representing the well-to-do classes\nas also the poorer farmers from the mountains. The dresses were not\nuniform in style, nor always after the most recent fashion plates. I\nnoticed many old-fashioned sun-bonnets on the heads of the colored\nwomen. There was a full supply of babies in the audience, with the\nusual evidence of good lungs and voices\u2014the essentials for future\npublic speakers. I particularly noticed that the white babies carried\noff on this day the palm in this incipient oratory, yet I drew no\ninference as to the future. The assemblage gathered in the Tabernacle,\na roughly built structure somewhat in the style of the tabernacles at\nMartha\u2019s Vineyard and other watering places, though, of course, less\nexpensive.\n\nThe public exercises of the forenoon were very creditable to the pupils\nas well as their teachers in the essays and speeches. The range of\ntopics was wider than is usual in our institutions in the South, and\nwith less reference to the peculiar position and struggles of the\ncolored race. This was easily explained by the fact that about half the\npupils are white. The afternoon was occupied with addresses by Rev.\nJ. A. R. Rogers, Secretary Strieby, Pres. Fairchild, of Oberlin, and\ntwo colored ministers of the vicinity. The previous evening was taken\nup with a stirring address in the chapel by a Kentucky gentleman of\nprominent position, the son of a former slave-holder. It was in hearty\nsympathy with the work in Berea College, and concluded with some very\ntimely and practical advice to the colored people, which they heartily\napplauded.\n\nBerea College is doing, as may be seen, a peculiar work. No institution\nin the nation approaches it in uniting the two races in the same\nschool. As a pioneer in the breaking down of caste prejudice, it has no\nrival; nor is this purchased by lowering the one race at the expense\nof the other, nor by any approach to the blending of the races in\nmarriage. It is simply a quiet, unpretentious and practical working out\nof the brotherhood of man in educational and religious co-operation.\n\nThe pioneers and principal workers in founding and carrying forward\nthis noble Christian enterprise were present\u2014John G. Fee, J. A. R.\nRogers, E. H. Fairchild, and others. It is seldom that men live to\nsee with their own eyes so great a revolution as that which Berea\nwitnessed in the contrast of this Commencement day with the dark days\nof persecution, banishment and danger. Tales were told me at quiet\ntea-tables, of times of trial and deliverance, that moved the heart\nover scenes that occurred not in old historic times, but on spots\nwithin eye-glance, and participated in by the narrators.\n\nBerea College is well equipped with buildings and a good corps of\nteachers. The Ladies\u2019 Hall is modeled after, and about the size\nof, the similar building in Oberlin. Howard Hall gives excellent\nfacilities as a boys\u2019 dormitory. The new chapel is a model of neatness\nand convenience. Other and smaller buildings meet other wants, and\nwhile another edifice could be well used, yet Berea\u2019s great need now\nis _endowment_; and to those who have the means, and are looking for\na place to use it for the nation\u2019s welfare and the advancement of\nthe Redeemer\u2019s kingdom, we can safely and unhesitatingly turn their\nattention to this worthy and growing institution.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.\n\nAfrican Macedonia\u2014Usefulness and Needs\u2014Work of Grace\u2014Waiting for\nSupplies.\n\nREV. H. S. DE FOREST, TALLADEGA, ALA.\n\nA run into Mississippi, and two days spent at Tougaloo, have given me\na fresh sense of the importance of our work in its entirety, and a\nspecial interest in Tougaloo. This institution, in the centre of the\ngreat cotton State, where the black soil seems the natural home of the\nblack man, has a field as large, as needy and as hopeful as can well be\ndesired. From Marion, Ala., at the east, to far beyond the Mississippi\non the west, north from New Orleans and south from Holly Springs, each\nabout two hundred miles away, Tougaloo sits alone, and has undisputed\npossession of a great, a populous, and a waiting African Macedonia,\ncrying out, \u201cCome over and help us.\u201d The University, with meagre\nequipments and limited accommodations, is trying to answer that cry. It\nis doing much, very much; but how little compared with what might be\ndone and ought to be done!\n\nTougaloo is seven miles from Jackson, the State capital, on the railway\nfrom New Orleans northward, having a location of wonderful beauty, and\nadvantages peculiar to itself. The farm of five hundred acres is now\nunder good cultivation. The facilities for marketing produce are good,\nand under judicious management it is believed the work of students may\ndo much towards paying their expenses. The mansion house, built with\ngreat taste and care by a planter who was never to occupy it, crowns\na gentle slope; while in front is a native grove, or forest, of as\nweird-like and enchanting beauty as can well be found on this rounded\nearth. The oaks are of the giant order, almost colossal in their\nproportions, while from the great arms hang abundant tassels of Spanish\nmoss. Here, on June 3d, under this witchery of shade, on improvised\nseats, the exercises of Commencement were held. Horses, mules, and\nvehicles of all kinds, at an early hour, were hitched under the trees.\nVisitors came by the tens and the scores; but finally, a special train\nput down its brakes at the station, and hundreds, with lunch baskets in\nhand, were swarming through the woods, and massing themselves near the\nplatform. Seven young men, after the ordeal of a searching examination,\nif I may judge from the little I was in time to hear, pronounced their\norations and received their diplomas. The addresses of the graduates\nwere thoughtful, full of moral earnestness, well delivered and well\nreceived by the great audience, among whom were representatives of\nthe clergy at Jackson, the Board of Trustees, and the Superintendent\nof Education. Several of these visitors added words of hearty and\nwell-deserved commendation. The impress of the instructors was manifest\nthroughout the exercises. This thought pervaded all the speeches:\n_there is work to be done, and we wish to have a hand in it_. Back of\nthe stage, as the class motto, hung the old, but not outworn, \u201cLabor\nomnia vincit.\u201d The motto suggested the theme of the first speaker. The\naddress in the afternoon was on \u201cThe field and the victories of work,\u201d\nand idleness had no mercy that day. Apparently, there is not much of it\nabout the institution. Under the direction of the Principal, Rev. G.\nS. Pope, a man of long experience in this Southern field, singularly\nfitted for his post and well sustained by earnest co-laborers, both\nin-door and out-door industries have been greatly promoted. The farm\nand garden are beginning to show what good husbandry can do. Blooded\ncattle are taking the place of the native lean kine; improved groves\nare disclosing their richness; while the garden not only supplies the\nlarge family at the University, but is affording some surplus for\nothers. Strawberries from nearly an acre of land have been picked this\nyear, and largely sent to Chicago. This industry promises well, and\nwill be increased in the future.\n\nThe needs of Tougaloo are as apparent as its present usefulness.\nBesides the mansion and the out-buildings, many of which are old,\nthere is a chapel with a second story containing rooms for young\nmen, and also a boarding hall, with dormitories for young women\nabove. These three principal buildings are of wood, the mansion house\noccupying the centre. These accommodations are far too small. To meet\na present necessity, a rough barrack has been put up, giving nine\nadditional rooms. The attendance during the past year has been about\ntwo hundred, and nearly all have been boarders in the family. Increase\nthe accommodations and the attendance might be doubled at once; but\nwhat would a school of four hundred be among the tens of thousands\nin this great State who are hungering for education? At mid-winter a\nwork of grace pervaded the school, and not far from thirty, it was\nthought, of these pupils became Christ\u2019s disciples, and they go forth\nwith new purposes. The influences for good from Tougaloo are not easily\ncomputed; its grand possibilities reach out towards the infinite.\n\nIt seems strange to us who are on the ground, glad to man these\nout-posts and give what we have of life and vigor to the work, that\nneeded supplies are not forthcoming. Give us adequate appliances, and\nwe can greatly multiply our usefulness. We wish to be re-inforced,\nnot relieved. Our commissariat is insufficient. We are glad to give\nourselves to this work, but we need supplies. And we cannot think that\nlife is cheaper than lucre; that men at the rear can afford to neglect\nthose who are allowed to go to the front; and if America has any front\nin this nineteenth century, it is still down South. We wish to advance\nall our lines, and are simply waiting for supplies.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBREWER NORMAL SCHOOL.\n\nJ. D. BACKENSTOSE, GREENWOOD, S. C.\n\nThe work of Brewer Normal Institute, for the past scholastic year,\nclosed very successfully, and, as far as we know, to the satisfaction\nof all its patrons, on June 24th.\n\nThe two days\u2019 examinations were unusually thorough and very\nsatisfactory.\n\nThe Annual Address was delivered on the morning of the 24th, by Prof.\nJ. Wofford White, of the Yorkville Academy at Yorkville, S. C., on \u201cThe\nbenefits of an education.\u201d\n\nThe address was worthy the man and the subject, and will doubtless be\nlong remembered by the very large audience. On the rostrum beside the\nspeaker were clergymen of three different denominations.\n\nAt 3 P. M. the audience again assembled, and was addressed by several\nof our former students, who have been engaged during the present year\nin teaching.\n\nThe annual exhibition took place in the evening, and long before the\nhour of commencing arrived, our large hall, (which was tastefully\ndecorated with wreaths and flags for the occasion,) was crowded to its\nutmost capacity, so that we could hardly make our way to the rostrum.\n\nBy competent judges, the declamations were pronounced superior to any\nheard on former occasions of a similar character, and not inferior to\nmany exercises presented in regular college commencements.\n\nThe school has been larger this year than ever before, and it has been\ndifficult for us to accommodate all who have applied for admission.\n\nWe have had much for which to be thankful during the past year\nconnected with this Institute; but let this be an inspiration leading\nus to greater achievements during the year to come.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSTORRS SCHOOL.\n\nThe Storrs School at Atlanta, Ga., closed one of its most successful\nyears, on the 23d of June, with an examination that gave great\nsatisfaction to Sec. Strieby, Prof. Chase and Supt. Roy, who were\npresent. A large number of the parents and patrons were present to\nrejoice in that evident progress of their children. This school has had\nfor the year a total of 543 pupils; the largest number at any one time,\n356, and an average of 333. The course of study is that of the Grammar\nSchool.\n\nIt is recognized by the school authorities of Atlanta as a school of\nthe very first quality. Miss Amy Williams, who has been at the head\nof the Storrs for more than a dozen years, and whose qualifications\nas an instructor and a disciplinarian are truly admirable, has had\nassociated with her this year Misses Julia Goodwin, Amelia Ferris, M.\nE. Stevenson, F. J. Norris, and Abbie Clark.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA.\n\nThe Year\u2019s Work at Woodbridge.\n\nREV. WILLIAM H. ELLIS.\n\nDuring the whole of last year, it seemed impossible to make any deep\nreligious impression on the community. Very few attended our services.\nThe children attended theirs and the grown people theirs, and it often\nhappened that we could not get enough together at either to make \u201ca\nmeeting.\u201d\n\nDuring the summer, generous friends contributed a good supply of\nclothing, which was bestowed only on temperate persons. This caused a\ngood deal of complaint and some ill-will; but we insisted that articles\ncontributed by industrious, temperate persons, many of whom were in\nstraitened circumstances, should not be given to the intemperate or\nunworthy. I am glad to report that I found in all 160 persons, old\nand young, whom I judged worthy. We succeeded in making temperance\nrespectable in clean clothes. Our Band of Hope had been organized five\nyears, but was not yet really a power. We now clothed our members,\noverhauled our books, expelled the unworthy, elected new officers, and\nwent ahead.\n\nFor a few weeks, we spent all our time in trying those who had broken\ntheir pledges. We also passed laws that members might be brought to\ntrial for anything dishonorable to the Band, and that all on trial must\nstand on the platform during trial. So each Sabbath every member is\nasked, \u201cHave you broken your pledge, and do you know any one who has?\u201d\nThey were shown the evil of having broken God\u2019s holy law, the guilt and\ndanger of sin, their own personal responsibility to God and need of a\nSaviour, the dying love of Christ, His willingness to forgive and power\nto save, and they were especially encouraged to trust Him for strength\nto overcome every sin. The fact that they were \u201csinners before the Lord\nexceedingly\u201d met them at every turn, but was enforced so lovingly that\na closer bond drew all together as one. No gloomy views of religion\nwere inculcated, but the Christian life was placed before them as\nsomething to be longed for and striven after. They were often called\naside by themselves, perhaps for discipline, perhaps to be commended\nfor good behavior, and then personal faith in Christ was explained to\nthem, often with prayer. We saw the signs of a mighty work at hand\nin their endeavors to leave off all sin, the evident desire to know\nand do the right, and the almost breathless attention when religious\nsubjects were spoken of. Some meetings were held especially for those\nwho desired to become Christians.\n\nMeanwhile, the Christian people were appealed to over and over again.\nIn fact, our main teaching this year has been \u201cBring forth fruits, meet\nfor repentance.\u201d Sin has been rebuked, publicly and privately, the\nLord\u2019s people have been urged to deeper consecration, and shown that if\nthey brought their little ones to the Lord in faith, He would receive\nthem.\n\nOn the first Sabbath in February we had our Sixth Temperance\nAnniversary. The children fairly astonished everybody by their\nenthusiasm and ability. The Band then made its reputation, and the\nnumber has since been increased from 90 to 116, and we are glad to say,\nmost of the new members are grown people, who have joined under full\nconviction of the usefulness of our Band, and of their own duty to it\nand themselves.\n\nThe drill and excitement attendant upon the anniversary having passed\naway, the minds of the scholars were free to think again. They could\nnot study or play, and some would be often in tears in school time. We\nwere careful not to encourage any sudden hopes which might prove false.\nThe work was evidently of the Spirit, who was sure to finish it. So we\nallowed time in each case to settle the great question. Fourteen in all\nbelieved during the week. Some were forbidden to pray at home. When\nthey came to school they might go out in the woods to pray, and not get\npunished, so they went home too happy to care for whippings.\n\nIn time the work reached the grown people in the neighborhood, and\nnightly meetings were held for weeks.\n\nOur own people were quiet enough. We had a little confusion from other\nchurches represented, but nothing serious. The number, hopefully\nconverted on the first of March, was 31. Twelve have been added since,\nand still there are seekers. I am glad to say that every one, so far as\nI know, still holds out well.\n\nAs the people think that to omit washing feet at the communion would\nendanger their title to heaven, we can form no church. The Band of Hope\nis practically our church, with one thing in its favor\u2014we have 100\nmore members than we could have in a church. Almost everybody around\nbelongs to it, except some of the old people, and they are coming. Our\nmembers are bound by voluntary covenant. Christ is the corner-stone,\nand obedience to Him the standard by which all are judged. We warn,\nexhort, discipline and expel according to Bible rules, and draw\nsanction from it for all proceedings. There are only seven unconverted\nmembers, old enough to know themselves, and they are under conviction.\nWe lack only the name and ordinances of a church.\n\nIt is most pleasant to see the evident affection shown by the young\ntowards the teacher, and our theological student, Brother Scott, on\nwhom a large share of the work has fallen, and who, if he can be\nassisted to an education, bids fair to be a power in the land. The\nchildren come early and stay late; they crowd around us, and do all\nthey can to please us. They have the freedom of the house, but we never\nmiss even a button. Such a school full of honest, truthful, obedient\nand affectionate children is rare anywhere. What shall be said of a set\nof _very dark_ colored children, in a community where the ignorance is\nsimply appalling, and many of them go hungry?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nREV. W. H. ASH, FLORENCE.\n\nThe work in Florence for the last two years has been comparatively a\nnew one. The exodus of the colony from here not only took from the town\nsome of the best citizens, but it robbed our church of its strength,\nboth in a temporal and spiritual sense, leaving behind the weakest\nspiritually and the poorest financially. My first endeavor was to\nimpress upon the people in their discouraged condition, the necessity\nof having faith in God.\n\nSince that time the church has grown in religious life and character;\nmembers have been added to it such, I hope, as shall be saved.\n\nWe have had a revival which served as a great quickening influence,\nthough there were not the number of conversions we had hoped for.\nWithin these two years, we have built a beautiful house of worship,\nwhich helps greatly as an attraction to our service; as also does our\norgan, sent by friends, being the only organ in the colored churches.\n\nThe Sunday-school has grown in interest and numbers, and has been able\nto pay for its lesson papers this year. The school has been built up\nalmost entirely out of new material. My wife and self have taught a\nday-school in connection with the church-work, which has given strength\nto the church. Outside of the primary and intermediate classes, we have\na class in United States history, one in English composition, and one\nin algebra. Up to this time forty-six scholars have been enrolled. Last\nyear we began with three scholars, closing with thirty-five. We have\nhad quite a number of applications for boarding scholars, but had no\naccommodation for such, with the exception of one girl whom we felt\nalmost bound to take. Some of the others found places with difficulty,\nbecause they wanted to go to the Congregational school (so-called,\nwhile the public is called the Methodist school).\n\nStrange to say, in this community the country people are more able to\nsustain a \u201cpay-school\u201d than are those in town. But there is a reason\nfor it: wages are very low, and it really takes what is needed for\ntheir absolute wants to pay dollar a month, particularly if a family\nnumbers six or seven, which is really the case in my parish. A woman\u2019s\nwages average from four to five dollars a month. I sigh, and wonder how\nthese poor people ever will rise.\n\nThe Christian people who give so liberally, and those who are intrusted\nwith the responsibility of this work, do not know the difficulties and\ntrying circumstances under which Congregationalism has grown, and is\ngrowing, in some parts of the South. Past experience has taught that\ntardiness in the appropriation of ample facilities for the work in some\nfields has caused the loss of rich results. If those who have gone to\nKansas had seen the present condition of the church, I believe it would\nhave been a great check upon their going, although there were other\nreasons which helped to drive them from the South aside from a lack of\nproper facilities for the education of their children.\n\nSince the dedication of the church, I have been anxious that our lot\nshould be inclosed, and on April 9th we gave an entertainment whose\nresults surpassed our most sanguine expectations, as we made $64 above\nexpenses.\n\nWe have put up a neat fence in front, well painted, which improves the\nlooks of the church, and have ordered lumber for the other sides of the\nlot, and by next week the whole will be fenced.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\u201cCALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\u201d\n\nAuxiliary to the American Missionary Association.\n\nPRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L. Stone,\nD. D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low,\nRev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D. D.,\nEdward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob S. Taber, Esq.\n\nDIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P.\nBaker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball, E.\nP. Sanford, Esq.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond, TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSION WORK AMONG THE CHINESE MINERS.\n\nREV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nCan it be done? That is the question. That it needs to be done, there\ncan be no question. There is scarcely a mining camp in the State but\nhas its Chinese quarter, and there are many small camps where the\nentire population is Chinese, because Americans view the placers as\nworked out. Close upon every advancing wave of Caucasian emigration,\nthese follow into Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, and, just now, Arizona\nespecially. Thither all but two of those in Santa Barbara, of whom we\nhoped that they were born of God, have gone, and one of the last two\nwrites me that he is soon going. On the other hand, two of our best\nbrethren in Oakland have just migrated to Montana; one of them, Lee\nHaim, who was our excellent helper at Oroville till taken from our\nwork by a peremptory summons to return to China. This doom has been\ncommuted, but only upon his undertaking to remit amounts larger than he\ncould possibly save out of a helper\u2019s salary. The other of the two is\nLen Soon, a man of fine presence, good judgment, warm heart and earnest\nChristian spirit, whose ever-ready volunteer aid made him a pillar in\nour Oakland work.\n\nThese losses at the points already occupied, suggest one way in which\nGod, taking the matter into his own hands, is sending the Gospel to the\nChinese in the mines. They afford a partial solution of the problem\nbefore us. A portion of our scattered seed is made to fall upon those\nmoral wildernesses. We follow these brethren with our prayers; and I\nhave ventured to pledge to them our practical co-operation if they\nshould settle in any place where a hopeful missionary work could be\nbegun.\n\nBut a hopeful work of this sort, anywhere in the mines, could scarcely\nbe conceived of but for faith. The difficulties are unique, and are\nvery great. Our Home Missionary Society finds no other service so\nfraught with discouragements, as that in these regions. The toil\nrequired is very hard, and the returns are very scanty. Some churches\nhave been thrifty, and one or two are thrifty still; but outside a less\nnumber of points than you could count on the fingers of one hand, they\nare either dead or perpetually dying; preserved from utter extinction\nonly by persistent pastoral service, sustained mainly by missionary\naid. But the difficulties encountered in such work among our own\npeople, will be greatly enhanced in labor among the Chinese. Miners are\nalways migratory, but the Chinese miners most of all; and migration\ntends to barbarism, among the Chinese most of all. Miners depend upon\nluck. There is no possibility of knowing what there is in a piece of\nground till you have worked it through, and gotten it out. A single\nday may show your season\u2019s work to be a success, or may doom it as a\nfailure, and what that day will disclose no sagacity will enable you\nbeforehand to determine. Such occupations nurse the gambling spirit,\nfavor spendthrift habits, and tend almost irresistibly to poverty.\nAnd this is specially true of the Chinese. In certain seasons of the\nyear, miners are apt to be waiting and idle; in others, when the golden\nharvest must be gathered, if at all, working to excess; and in either\ncase, the moral effect is evil, not less so with Chinese than others.\nAmerican miners, with a few noble exceptions, seem to know little about\nthe Christian Sabbath. It used to be, and in some parts of California\nit still is, the day for cleaning-up, for coming to the central village\nfor trading, for gambling, for getting drunk; but even this distinction\nin the more prominent mining districts is passing away, and the wheels\nof labor roll remorselessly over the laborer\u2019s best boon, the weekly\nday of sacred rest. How much less can we hope for the help of Sabbaths\nin reaching with the Gospel the Chinese?\n\nAnd yet, there they are, by the hundreds and the thousands, precious\nsouls, bought with the blood of Jesus. Must we let them die, without a\nsingle hand stretched out, a single voice uplifted for their rescue?\n\nThe mission at Oroville was our first attempt to deal with this problem\nof work among the Chinese miners. It was begun, so far as downright and\ndetermined effort was concerned, February 1st, and continued till June\n1st. The school is closed during the hot months, but will be resumed, I\ntrust, about October 1st. In some respects it has fulfilled our hopes,\nand abundantly repaid our somewhat large expenditures. Six Chinese are\nreported as converted, but we did not reach many of the miners through\nthe school, as such. They would come to hear Lee Haim or Lem Chung\npreach, thronging the little mission house sometimes, and listening to\nthe Gospel, as, indeed, news, good news possibly, with eyes fixed and\nears and even mouths wide open, to receive the words. But coming and\ngoing, here to-day to trade at the temple for luck and at the stores\nfor \u201cgrub,\u201d to-morrow gone we know not where, we could learn but little\nof the work that good news wrought within their hearts.\n\nIt is evident, however, that if we are to reach our Chinese mining\npopulation it must be mainly through evangelistic service\u2014a mission\nschool at some central point, as a headquarters, and a well-trained\nhelper to go forth from it, preaching here and there on Sundays and\non week days, in the cabins or on the streets, wherever he can induce\nhis countrymen to lend him a listening ear. And in order to this, we\nought to be training helpers by the dozen where now we are training\none; not by sending them to Academies or opening for them a Theological\nSeminary, but by putting them to work and letting them learn to preach\nby preaching. This was Wesley\u2019s method for those half heathen among\nwhom his victories were gained in England, and I am persuaded that it\nis the beat method for these whole heathen for whom our struggle is\ngoing on to-day. Do not educate the helpers up out of the range of easy\nsympathy with those from whom they spring and among whom they go, but\nlet teaching and working, lesson and practice, go hand in hand. I am\neager to do more of this next year than we have ever done. I am greatly\nencouraged respecting it, by the results vouchsafed to us already; but\nhow to do it aright, with the resources now at command, I do not, and\nI fear, I cannot see, for the rules of arithmetic are against it, and\nthose rules are stubborn things. You cannot, in this case, reduce the\nmultiplicand (_i. e._ the helper\u2019s salary, for it is at the lowest\npoint that justice will admit already), and you cannot increase the\nmultiplier (the number of helpers) without enlarging the product (_i.\ne._ the expense to be met and the drafts to be made). What shall we do\nabout it?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR JUNE, 1880.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $55.00.\n\n    Bethel. First Cong. Ch.                                  $15.00\n    Dennysville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           20.00\n    Foxcroft and Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $10; Rev.\n      A. L., $1.                                              11.00\n    Hallowell. Mrs. Dummer                                     5.00\n    Minot. Mrs. B. Jones                                       1.00\n    Waterfowl. Central Cong. Sab. Sch.                         3.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $205.82.\n\n    Boscawen. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              13.50\n    Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                3.43\n    Candia. Cong. Ch.                                         30.00\n    Colebrook. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                12.58\n    Concord. H. A. D.                                          0.50\n    Canterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            15.00\n    Exter. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Chapel, Wilmington, N. C._         5.00\n    Fisherville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           16.00\n    Gilsum. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                19.70\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              10.22\n    Jaffrey. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          4.15\n    Keene. Mrs. E. C. W.                                       0.51\n    Littleton. Cong. Ch., $5.54; Ira Parker, $5; Mrs.\n      B. W. L., 50c                                           11.04\n    Meriden. Cong. Ch. and Soc., adl. to const. MRS.\n      SUSAN E. BURROWS, L. M.                                 13.19\n    Orford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $23, and Sab. Sch., $10       33.00\n    Orfordville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            5.00\n    Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               13.00\n    Wentworth. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl. of Bedding and Books,\n      _for Macon, Ga._\n\n\n  VERMONT, $197.12.\n\n    Castleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., (ad\u2019l)                      0.60\n    Dorset. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $18.58, and S. S.,\n      $11.42                                                  30.00\n    East Hardwick. Cong. Soc.                                 18.41\n    Newbury. Judge P. W. Ladd                                  5.00\n    New Haven. Cong. Soc.                                     19.85\n    Pawlet. A. F.                                              1.00\n    Putney. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Foster                           4.00\n    Saint Albans. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                54.00\n    Vergennes. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             20.00\n    Wells River. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           16.08\n    West Randolph. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         16.68\n    Williston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              6.50\n    Wolcott. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.00\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $3,076.13.\n\n    Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              39.46\n    Amesbury & Salisbury. U. E. Ch. and Soc.                  12.50\n    Ashburnham. M. W.                                          1.00\n    Ashfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $45; Henry Taylor, $5       50.00\n    Ashland. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid\n      Talladega. C._                                          25.00\n    Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding                                30.00\n    Belcherton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            33.00\n    Billerica. R. K. Underhill                                10.00\n    Bolton. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._         15.00\n    Boston. Immanuel Cong. Sab. Sch.                          15.26\n    Brockton. Mrs. Nathan and Barzilia Carey, $4, _for\n      Student Aid, Tougaloo U._;\u2014Mrs. Lucy Sanford, $2,\n      _for Freight_;\u2014C. M. B., 25c                             6.25\n    Bridgewater. \u201cThank Offering\u201d                             10.00\n    Brookfield. \u201cAged Woman in Evan. Cong. Ch.\u201d               25.00\n    Cambridgeport. Prospect St. S. S., $12.56; Pilgrim\n      Cong. Ch., $7.05                                        19.61\n    Chelsea. Cent. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $16.72;\u2014Mrs. A.\n      D., $1, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                 17.72\n    Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       24.65\n    Coleraine. Cong. Ch.                                      10.00\n    Conway. Cong. Soc. to const. HARRIS D. PEASE, L. M.       56.51\n    Danvers Centre. Sab. Sch. and \u201cFriends,\u201d _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              71.00\n    Dorchester. Second Parish Sab. Sch.                        4.00\n    Douglas. A. M. Hill                                       25.00\n    Easthampton. ESTATE of Hiram J. Bly, by Mrs. Maria\n      L. Bly, Exec\u2019x.                                        500.00\n    Easton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          11.25\n    Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch. and Soc.                         50.00\n    Framingham. \u201cA Friend in Plymouth Church,\u201d $20;\n      Mrs. Sally N. Brewer, $5                                25.00\n    Foxborough. D. Carpenter                                  50.00\n    Grantville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             7.51\n    Greenfield. First Ch., $8.17 and S. S., $12               20.17\n    Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           10.79\n    Housatonic. Housatonic Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 42.76\n    Hubbardston. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    4.00\n    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         10.09\n    Lawrence. Lawrence St. Ch., Box of C., _for Macon,\n      Ga._ Longmeadow. Ladies Benev. Soc.                     19.20\n    Lowell. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          46.04\n    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $33.82; \u201cA lover\n      of the cause,\u201d $10; Miss Mary Kent, $3                  46.82\n    Maynard. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               50.00\n    Millbury. M. D. Garfield                                   5.00\n    Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                31.50\n    Monterey. Cong. Ch.                                       16.12\n    New Bedford. Trinitarian Bible School Concert             17.06\n    Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         22.00\n    Newburyport. \u201cFriend\u201d Cask, and Bbl. of C., _for\n      Macon, Ga._\n    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                50.00\n    North Abington. Ladies of Freedman\u2019s Aid Soc., $5;\n      \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5, _for Nashville, Tenn._                  10.00\n    North Adams. Cong. Ch.                                    81.90\n    Northampton. Miss Elizabeth Jewett, to const. MISS\n      MARY A. JEWETT, L. M.                                   30.00\n    Northfield. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      20.00\n    Norfolk. ESTATE of Lucy M. Clark by Elisha\n      Rockwood, Ex.                                          124.33\n    Norfolk. W. E. C.                                          0.50\n    Oakham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                60.75\n    Paxton.\u2014\u2014, _for Freight_                                   1.70\n    Royalston. Joseph Estabrook                               10.00\n    Rowley. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._        10.00\n    Sandwich. \u201cM. N. C.,\u201d _for Missionary Horse at\n      Macon, Ga._                                              1.00\n    Salem. ESTATE of Mrs. Harriet E. Smith, by Chas.\n      H. Bates, Ex.                                          300.00\n    Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc., $258.28; So. Cong.\n      Ch. and Soc., $56.20; Miss S. L. E., 60c               313.08\n    Shelburne. First Ch.                                      33.36\n    Somerville. Prospect Hill Ch.                              5.01\n    South Abington. Bbl of C., and $2 _for Freight, for\n      Nashville, Tenn._                                        2.00\n    South Deerfield. Mrs. M. C. Tilton.                        2.00\n    South Hadley. Mt. Holyoke Sem.                            16.00\n    South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    25.00\n    South Natick. John Eliot Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            7.00\n    Southville. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                      3.64\n    Springfield. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $200; Memorial Ch., $30.54;\n      Olivet Cong. Ch., $20.54; \u201cE. M. P., South Ch.,\u201d\n      $20                                                    271.08\n    Sutton. Two Classes in Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                         9.00\n    Templeton. L. R. and E. C. D. Shattuck                     5.00\n    Townsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              12.00\n    Upton. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl. of C., _for Macon.\n    Ga._ Wakefield. Four Classes in Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                           16.00\n    Waltham. Individuals _for A. M._                           3.00\n    Watertown. Mrs. N. W. D.                                   0.50\n    Wenham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 5.71\n    Westborough. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             25.00\n    West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       20.00\n    West Cummington. B. B.                                     0.25\n    Westminster. F. Lombard                                    5.00\n    West Springfield. Park St. Ch. and Soc.                   30.00\n    Weymouth and Braintree. Union Cong. Ch.                   17.31\n    Wilbraham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             14.74\n    Winchendon. N. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                           10.00\n    Woburn. Mrs. Simon Holden, $5; H. Whitford, $5;\n      \u2014 Mrs. Dimmick, _$3 for Student Aid, Atlanta U._        13.00\n    Worcester. Union Ch.                                      25.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $1,422.98.\n\n    Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                  19.53\n    Bethlehem. H. B.                                           0.25\n    Colchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. and Sab. Sch.        90.00\n    Derby. N. J. B.                                            1.00\n    East Hartford. First. Ch.                                 20.00\n    Ellsworth. Cong. Ch.                                      15.83\n    Gilead. Mr. and Mrs. Hinman Lord                          10.00\n    Goshen. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                30.00\n    Greeneville. Cong. Ch., to const. JAMES SERVICE,\n      L.M.                                                    36.37\n    Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                    9.00\n    Hebron. First Cong. Ch.                                    8.07\n    Hanover. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  12.00\n    Hartford. Roland Mather, $500; Mrs. L. C. Dewing,\n      $50; \u2014-\u201cFriend,\u201d $5, _for Nashville, Tenn._            555.00\n    Kent. First Cong. Ch.                                     26.67\n    Mansfield Centre. Charles H. Learned                      10.00\n    Middletown. Mrs. J. D.                                     1.00\n    Milford. Mon. Con. Coll., _for Student Aid_                9.00\n    New London. First Ch. of Christ                           45.44\n    New Haven. Mrs. S. S. T.                                   1.00\n    North Cornwall. Benev. Ass\u2019n.                             18.16\n    North Madison. Cong. Ch.                                   9.00\n    Plantsville. Dea. T. Higgins, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                            100.00\n    Plymouth. Cong. Ch. S. S., _for Student Aid_              75.00\n    Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.                                  61.48\n    Sherman. Christian Ch.                                     1.00\n    Stamford. First Cong. Ch. (of which $57, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._), $102.46; \u201cCash,\u201d $5;\n      \u2014Mr. R., $1, _for Student Aid_                         108.46\n    South Killingly. Cong. Ch.                                 3.00\n    Terryville. Cong. Ch., Mon. Con., $11.56;\u2014Mon. Con.\n      Coll., $10.31, _for Student Aid_                        21.87\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      43.90\n    Thompson. Cong. Ch.                                        7.57\n    Tolland. Cong. Ch.                                         6.85\n    Union. ESTATE of Rev. Samuel I. Curtiss, by Geo.\n      Curtiss, Ex.                                             9.00\n    West Meriden. W. E. Benham                                10.00\n    Westport. Cong. Ch., $8.84, _for Student Aid_;\u2014Mary\n      I. Woodworth, $4                                        12.84\n    West Stafford. Cong. Ch.                                  17.00\n    West Winsted. Mrs. J. C. Stillman                         10.00\n    Willington. Cong. Ch. ($5 of which from Mrs. Sarah\n      Bowers)                                                  7.69\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $1,254.52.\n\n    Antwerp. Cong. Ch.                                        31.15\n    Brooklyn. Clinton Ave. Cong. Ch., Julius Davenport,\n      Treas., $250; \u2014Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $75, _for\n      Missionary in Florida_                                 325.00\n    Cazenovia. Mrs. Mary Woodward, _for Woman\u2019s Work for\n      Woman_                                                  20.00\n    Champlain. Lorenzo Kellogg, $10; \u2014Presb. Ch., $2.09       12.09\n    Columbus. Cong. Ch.                                        3.16\n    Cortland. C. E. Booth, Pkg. of Papers.\n    East Bloomfield. Cong. Ch.                                25.00\n    Spencerport. S. Vannest                                   10.00\n    Sackets Harbor. Mrs. A. H. Barnes, _for Indian M._        40.00\n    Syracuse. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc. of Plymouth Ch., by\n      Mrs. Sarah I. Salisbury, Sec., $25; \u201cMember of\n      Plymouth Ch.,\u201d $20                                      45.00\n    Ithaca. Cong. Ch.                                         20.25\n    Madison. Cong. Ch.                                         8.00\n    Munnsville. ESTATE of Mandana Barber, by Hall &\n      Barber, Executors                                      300.00\n    New York. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. Dodge, $300; Mrs.\n      Elisha Gray, $5, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._;\n      \u2014\u201cA Friend,\u201d $10                                       315.00\n    New Haven. Cong. Ch.                                      17.87\n    Ogden Centre. Miss Mary E. Dyer                            5.00\n    Onondaga Valley. A. L. G.                                  1.00\n    Owasco. Mrs. A. S.                                         1.00\n    Pitcher. N. W.                                             1.00\n    Penn Yan. W. M. Taylor                                     3.00\n    Randolph. ESTATE of Mrs. D. C. Bush, by Mrs. F. A.\n      Fitch                                                   40.00\n    Rochester. Miss E. L.                                      1.00\n    West Bloomfield. Chapin Taft                               5.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                           25.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $78.88.\n\n    Bernardsville. J. L. Roberts, $25; J. P. R., $1           26.00\n    Hackettstown. Rev. A. Proudfit, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                10.00\n    Jersey City. \u201cS. E. H.\u201d                                    6.00\n    Montclair. Cong. Ch.                                      25.65\n    Newark. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_                 8.73\n    Paterson. Cong. Ch., ad\u2019l                                  2.00\n    Roselle. A. A.                                             0.50\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $8.89.\n\n    East Springfield. Mrs. E. J. Cowles                        2.50\n    Gibson. \u201cSisters,\u201d $5.89; L. G., 50c.                      6.39\n\n\n  OHIO, $377.46.\n\n    Akron. Julia A. Upson, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo\n      U._                                                     10.00\n    Andover. Cong. Ch.                                         2.55\n    Atwater. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               16.95\n    Brownhelm. O. H. Perry                                     5.00\n    Cleveland. Mrs. E. R. Shipherd, deceased, by James\n      R. Shipherd                                              2.00\n    Delaware. G. H. C.                                         1.00\n    Elyria. First Cong. Ch., $27.50;\u2014Mrs. M., $1, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U_.                                   28.50\n    Harmar. Cong. Ch.                                        111.55\n    Hudson. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                10.00\n    Lindenville. John Thompson                                10.00\n    Mansfield. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc. of First Cong. Ch.          21.00\n    Mantua. Cong. Ch.                                          7.00\n    North Amherst. Rev. H. C. Haskell                          5.00\n    Oberlin. Mrs. W. and \u201cA Friend,\u201d $1 ea., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                    2.00\n    Painesville. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             25.00\n    Randolph. W. J. Dickson, $10; Cong. Ch., $5               15.00\n    Ravenna. Young People\u2019s Ass\u2019n of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk. U._                                  25.00\n    Rootstown. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Sandusky. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                27.91\n    South Toledo. Mrs. J. H. North                             2.00\n    Springfield. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid, Tougaloo\n      U._                                                      5.00\n    Sulphur Springs. \u201cB. F.,\u201d _for Student Aid, Tougaloo\n      U._                                                      4.00\n    Toledo. Mrs. P. G. H.                                      1.00\n    West Andover. Cong. Ch.                                   15.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $180.02.\n\n    Armada. Miss Lydia A. Jackman                             10.00\n    Grand Rapids. Cong. S. S., _for Rev. J. H. H.\n      Sengstacke, Savannah, Ga._                              30.00\n    Hudson. Cong. Ch.                                         14.70\n    Joyfield. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. WM. A. BETTS, L.\n      M.                                                       3.00\n    Northville. Daniel Pomeroy                                 5.00\n    Olivet. Cong. Ch., Mon. Con. Coll.                         6.82\n    Romeo. Mrs. T. S. Clark, (of which $50, _for\n      Indian_, and $10, _for Chinese Missions_), $110,\n      to const. E. W. CLARK, GEO. C. CLARK and JOHN\n      HEVENER, L. M.\u2019s; \u201cFriends,\u201d Box of C., _for\n      Memphis, Tenn._                                        110.00\n    St. Clair. S. F. H.                                        0.50\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $723.77.\n\n    Bondville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      5.00\n    Chicago. Ladies of N. E. Church, $75, _for Lady\n      Missionary_;\u2014N. E. Church, in part, $35.25; South\n      Church, $30.35;\u2014C. B. Bouton, $25;\u2014\u201cA Friend,\u201d\n      $25, _for Church and School Building, Marietta,\n      Ga._;\u2014\u201cA Friend,\u201d $5; W. S., $1;\u2014\u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl.\n      of C., _for Macon, Ga._                                196.06\n    Dundee. Cong. Ch.                                         19.10\n    Elgin. Cong. Ch., $22.45; Mrs. Gail Borden, $5            27.45\n    Englewood. First Cong. Ch.                                 7.50\n    Galesburg. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                26.32\n    Geneseo. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                     53.50\n    Hutsonville. C. V. Newton                                  2.00\n    Maywood. Mrs. C. C. Thayer                                 5.00\n    Milburn. Cong. Ch.                                        10.75\n    Morris. Cong. Ch.                                          3.03\n    Normal. Cong. Ch.                                          2.70\n    Oak Park. Girls\u2019 Miss. Circle, _for Girl in Fisk U._      50.00\n    Payson. J. K. Scarborough, to const. MISS LUCY H.\n      PURVIS and MISS MARY A. BETTS, L. M\u2019s                   60.00\n    Port Byron Cong. Ch.                                       9.14\n    Princeton. Cong. Ch., $32.11; Mrs. Polly B. Cores,\n      $10; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., $7.07, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           49.18\n    Quincy. J. Perry, $10; L. Kingman, $5                     15.00\n    Rockford. Mrs. David Penfield, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                50.00\n    Sycamore. J. H. Rogers, _for Stud. Aid, Fisk U._         104.00\n    Tiskilwa. Mrs. H. Bacon                                    2.00\n    Tonika. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Wilmette. Mrs. A. T.                                       0.50\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $165.60.\n\n    Arena. Cong. Ch.                                           7.00\n    Blake\u2019s Prairie. Cong. Ch.                                 5.25\n    Hammond. Cong. Ch.                                         2.00\n    Hudson \u201cA Friend.\u201d _for Mendi M._                         10.00\n    Janesville. First Cong. Ch.                               50.00\n    Manitowoc. Mrs. M. W. Mabbs, _for Woman\u2019s work for\n      Woman_                                                   5.00\n    Milwaukee. \u201cLife Member\u201d (77th birthday)                   5.00\n    Monroe. \u201cOur Family Missionary Box\u201d                        5.85\n    New Richmond. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   5.00\n    Racine. Sab. Sch. of First Presb. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Superior. \u201cFriends\u201d                                        5.50\n    Union Grove. Cong. Ch.                                    15.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $161.84.\n\n    Cincinnati. W. T. Reynolds                                 5.00\n    Chester Centre. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           12.00\n    Des Moines. Plymouth Ch., Mon. Con. Coll., $4.22,\n      and Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., $2.28, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                 6.50\n    Exira. Lyman Bush                                         10.00\n    Grinnell. \u201cM. C. G.,\u201d $5, Prize Money for Essay on\n      Missions; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 50c                                5.50\n    Humboldt. Mrs. L. A. W., $1; L. K. Lorbeer, $2             3.00\n    Maquoketa. Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.                        27.59\n    Muscatine. Cong. Ch.                                      15.00\n    Ogden. Mrs. A. M. Palmer, _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans_                                                10.00\n    Polk City. Cong. Ch.                                       3.00\n    Tabor. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Miss J. E. Williams, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                    5.00\n    Waterloo. Cong. Ch. and Soc                               59.25\n\n\n  KANSAS, $5.50.\n\n    Junction City. Rev. I. Jacobus                             5.00\n    Stockton. H. W.                                            0.50\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $6.60.\n\n    Neosha. Cong. Ch.                                          6.60\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $49.48.\n\n    Excelsior. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n    Hutchinson. Cong. Ch., Quar. Coll.                         1.08\n    Minneapolis. Plym. Ch., $31.07; Pilgrim Ch., $2.33        33.40\n    Waseka. \u201cC. and K.\u201d                                       10.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $60.00.\n\n    Crete. Cong. Ch.                                          10.00\n    Tremont. ESTATE of Mrs. Sophia Hughs, by Rev. I. E.\n      Heaton                                                  50.00\n\n\n  COLORADO, $16.46.\n\n    Colorado Springs. Cong. Ch.                               16.46\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TER., $13.88.\n\n    S\u2019kokomish. Cong. Ch.                                     13.88\n\n\n  OREGON, $32.20.\n\n    Albany. Cong. Ch.                                          7.20\n    Portland. First Cong. Ch.                                 25.00\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $10.00.\n\n    Washington. \u201cWilling Workers,\u201d First Cong. Ch., by\n      Pauline Whittlesey, Sec.                                10.00\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $295.00.\n\n    Memphis. Le Moyne School, Tuition                        159.50\n    Nashville. Fisk University                               135.50\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $235.58.\n\n    Dudley. Pub. Fund, $105; Tuition, $8.70                  113.70\n    Raleigh. Washington School, Tuition                       26.13\n    Wilmington. Normal School, Tuition, $70.75; Sales,\n      $20;\u2014Cong. Ch. $5                                       95.75\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $1,308.80.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Institute, Tuition                   1,308.80\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $580.44.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs School, Tuition, $340,48; Atlanta\n      U., Tuition, $95;\u2014Rev. J. E. Roy, $10, _for Church\n      and School Building, Marietta, Ga._                    445.48\n    Macon. Lewis High School, Tuition, $52.65; Rent, $7       59.65\n    Savannah. Mr. Lovell, _for Church Building at\n      Woodville, Ga._                                          5.00\n    Woodville. Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke, $10; Wm.\n      Williams, James H. Watson, Sen., James H. Watson,\n      Jr., Cudjo King, and Jordan Loyd, $2 ea.; Mary\n      Gaskins, $1.25; 28 Individuals, $1 ea.; Others,\n      $11.45, _for Woodville, Ga._;\u2014Pilgrim Ch., $9.61        70.31\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $419.68.\n\n    Montgomery. Public School Fund                           175.00\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition                           126.53\n    Selma. Cong. Ch., $37.65.; Ladies of Cong. Ch. $30;\n      \u2014Woman\u2019s Miss. Assn., $10, _for Mendi M._;\u2014Cong.\n      Ch., $8.10                                              85.75\n    Talladega. Talladega College, Tuition                     32.40\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $142.40.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                        142.40\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $126.30.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $116.30; Rent, $10       126.30\n\n\n  TURKEY, $10.00.\n\n    Van. Dr. Geo. C. Reynolds and Wife                        10.00\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $290.00.\n\n    \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Avery Fund                                          190.00\n    \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 General Fund                                         50.00\n    \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 C. F. Dike Fund                                      50.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                    Total                                $11,510.35\n\n\n                    Total from Oct. 1st to June 30th    $126,982.10\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Hartford, Conn. Roland Mather, $100;\u2014Mrs. Ellery\n      Hills, $100                                            200.00\n    Stanwich, Conn. Wm. Brush                                100.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                    Total                                   $300.00\n    Previously acknowledged in May Receipts                4,307.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                    Total                                 $4,607.00\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.\n\n    Greenfield, Mass. Mrs. L. A. Newell, Bbl. of C.\n    Stamford, Conn. First Cong. Ch.                           13.20\n    Romeo, Mich. \u201cFriends,\u201d $15.50, and 4 Bbls. of C.,\n    by Mrs. E. F. Fairfield                                   15.50\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                    Total                                    $28.70\n    Previously acknowledged in April Receipts                403.80\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                    Total                                   $432.50\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR SCHOOL BUILDING, ATHENS, ALA.\n\n    Hudson, Mich. Cong. Ch.                                   10.00\n    Previously acknowledged in May Receipts                  670.59\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                    Total                                   $680.59\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                    Receipts for June                    $11,849.05\n                    Total from Oct. 1st to June 30th    $137,451.95\n                                                         ==========\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\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\n\nFOOTNOTES:\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\n\n\n\n                  The American Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with the\nalmost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its main\nefforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens and\nChristians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely related\nto this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE in America,\nand to co-operate with the Government in its humane and Christian\npolicy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in AFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 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 studies, 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. Powell, 112 West Washington Street.\n\n\nMAGAZINE.\n\nThis Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the\nMissionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen who\ntake up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of Sabbath\nSchools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; to Societies\nof Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does not prefer to\ntake it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less than five\ndollars.\n\nThose who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in their\nlast Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the following\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\u201cI BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of \u2014\u2014 dollars in\ntrust, to pay the same in \u2014\u2014 days after my decease to the person\nwho, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the \u2018American\nMissionary Association\u2019 of New York City, to be applied, under the\ndirection of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its\ncharitable uses and purposes.\u201d\n\nThe will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States three\nare required\u2014in other States only two], who should write against\ntheir names, their places of residence [if in cities, their street and\nnumber]. The following form of attestation will answer for every State\nin the Union: \u201cSigned, sealed, published and declared by the said [A.\nB.] as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who, at the\nrequest of the said A. 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WILLIAMS & CO.,\n\n                          GLASTENBURY, CONN.,\n\n                            MANUFACTURERS OF\n\n                       Shaving and Toilet Soaps.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  For over 30 years this firm has made the manufacture of =Shaving\n  Soaps= a specialty, and their Yankee Barber\u2019s Bar, and other\n  Soaps, enjoy a reputation among Barbers, as well as those who shave\n  themselves, unequalled by any other.\n\n  To all of our readers who are seeking for the =very best Shaving\n  Soap=, we would say, be sure and get some of the following\n  (_carefully avoiding counterfeits_):\n\n                         =GENUINE YANKEE SOAP=,\n\n                        =BARBER\u2019S FAVORITE SOAP=,\n\n                         =CLIPPER SHAVING SOAP=,\n\n                         =VERBENA CREAM TABLET=,\n\n                         =POCKET SHAVING SOAP=,\n\n                            =TONSORIAL SOAP=,\n\n                          =BARBER\u2019S BAR SOAP=,\n\n                           =MUG SHAVING SOAP=.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n    These Soaps can be found in every State, and nearly every town\n    in the United States.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                    CLINTON H. MENEELY BELL COMPANY,\n\n                    Successors to Meneely & Kimberly,\n\n                       BELL FOUNDERS, TROY, N. Y.\n\n                Manufacture a superior quality of BELLS.\n\n               Special attention given to =CHURCH BELLS=.\n\n             Catalogues sent free to parties needing bells.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                            J. & R. LAMB,\n                        59 Carmine St., N. Y.\n                          CHURCH FURNISHERS\n\n                             [Illustration]\n\n                  Memorial Windows, Memorial Tablets,\n                  Sterling Silver Communion Services.\n\n                           SEND FOR CIRCULAR.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                    Every Man His Own Printer.\n\n                         [Illustration]\n\n        Excelsior =$3= Printing Press.\n\n        Prints cards, labels, envelopes, &c.; larger sizes for\n        larger work. For business or pleasure, young or old.\n        Catalogue of Presses, Type, Cards, &c., sent for two\n        stamps.\n\n        KELSEY & CO., M\u2019f\u2019rs, Meriden, Conn.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n            [Illustration: BRADFORD ACADEMY, BRADFORD, MASS.\n\n                          =INCORPORATED 1804.=]\n\n\n  TRUSTEES.\n\n    Rev. JAMES H. MEANS, D.D., Pres., Boston.\n    Hon. GEORGE COGSWELL, M.D., Vice-Pres. and Treasurer, Bradford.\n    Rev. JOHN D. KINGSBURY, Sec., Bradford.\n         RUFUS ANDERSON, D.D., LL.D., Boston.\n    Rev. RAYMOND H. SEELEY, D.D., Haverhill.\n         SAMUEL D. WARREN, Boston.\n         EZRA FARNSWORTH, Boston.\n    Hon. WILLIAM A. RUSSELL, Lawrence.\n         JAMES R. NICHOLS, M.D., Haverhill.\n         FREDERICK JONES, Boston.\n\n\n  BOARD OF INSTRUCTION.\n\n    MISS ANNIE E. JOHNSON, Principal.\n\n    [Illustration: PARLOR OF A SUITE.]\n\n      =MISS SARAH M. DAWSON=,\n        Natural Sciences.\n\n      =MISS MARY E. MAGRATH=,\n        Latin and Greek.\n\n      =MISS MARY F. PINKERTON=,\n        English Literature and Language,\n        and Modern History.\n\n      =MISS ELIZABETH M. BENSON=,\n        Literature and Ancient and\n        Medi\u00e6val History.\n\n      =FRAUL ANTONIE STOLLE=,\n        French and German.\n\n      =MISS MARGARET C. LORING=,\n        Mathematics.\n\n      =MISS MARY C. BARSTOW, Piano.=\n\n      =PROF. SAMUEL M. DOWNS=,\n        Piano, Organ and Vocal Music.\n\n      =MISS JENNIE E. IRESON=,\n        Elocution and Gymnastics.\n\n      =REV. JOHN LORD. LL.D.=,\n        Lecturer on History.\n\n      =PROF. CHARLES A. YOUNG=,\n        Princeton Coll. Lecturer on Astronomy.\n\n  CALENDAR, 1880-81.\n\n    FIRST TERM opens September 7th, 1880\n    FIRST TERM closes November 24th, 1880\n    SECOND TERM opens November 30th, 1880\n    SECOND TERM closes March 4th, 1881\n    THIRD TERM opens March 22d, 1881\n    THIRD TERM closes June 22d, 1881\n\n  Recess at Christmas-time.\n\n  TUITION.\n\n    FOR THE COURSE, which includes English branches, Latin and\n      French, Greek or German, Vocal Music in Classes, per term, $20.00\n\n    Academic Expenses for the year, including all charges.\n      No extras. $320.00\n\n    Instructions on Piano, per quarter of 24 lessons, $20.00 to $40.00\n\n    Use of Piano one hour a day, per quarter, 3.00\n\n    Instructions in Perspective Drawing, per quarter, 12 lessons, 5.00\n    Instructions in Painting in Oil or Water Colors, per quarter,\n      12 lessons, 8.00\n\n    Reduced rates to daughters of Missionaries in the home or foreign\n    field.\n\n    Application for circulars may be made to Miss ANNIE E. JOHNSON,\n    Principal, Bradford, Mass.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                                PAYSON\u2019S\n\n                             Indelible Ink,\n\n                      FOR MARKING ANY FABRIC WITH A\n                          COMMON PEN, WITHOUT A\n                              PREPARATION.\n\n\n            It still stands unrivaled after 50 years\u2019 test.\n\n\n                         _THE SIMPLEST & BEST._\n\n                   Sales now greater than ever before.\n\n                    This Ink received the Diploma and\n                   Medal at Centennial over all rivals.\n\n                   Report of Judges: \u201cFor simplicity of\n                      application and indelibility.\u201d\n\n\n                              INQUIRE FOR\n\n                         PAYSON\u2019S COMBINATION!!!\n\n                  Sold by all Druggists, Stationers and\n                  News Agents, and by many Fancy Goods\n                         and Furnishing Houses.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                         Brown Brothers & Co.\n\n                             59 WALL STREET,\n\n                                NEW YORK.\n\n          =Buy and Sell Bills of Exchange= on Great\n          Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium and\n          Holland, =Issue Commercial and Travelers\u2019\n          Credits, in Sterling=, available in any part of the\n          world, and in =Francs= for use in Martinique and\n          Guadaloupe.\n\n                   Make Telegraphic Transfers of Money\n\n            Between this and other countries, through London\n                                 and Paris.\n\n          =Make Collection of Drafts drawn abroad=\n          on all parts of the United States and Canada, and of\n          =Drafts drawn in the United States= on Foreign\n          Countries.\n\n          =Travelers\u2019 Credits= issued either against cash\n          deposited or satisfactory guarantee of repayment: In\n          Dollars for use in the United States and adjacent\n          countries; or in Pounds Sterling for use in any part of the\n          world. Applications for credits may be addressed as\n          above direct, or through any first-class Bank or Banker.\n\n\n                         BROWN, SHIPLEY & CO.,\n                       26 Chapel St., Liverpool.\n\n                         BROWN, SHIPLEY & CO.,\n                   Founder\u2019s Court, Lothbury, London.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                          THE THIRTY-FOURTH VOLUME\n\n                                 OF THE\n\n                          American Missionary,\n\n                                  1880.\n\n\nWe have been gratified with the constant tokens of the increasing\nappreciation of the MISSIONARY during the past year, and purpose to\nspare no effort to make its pages of still greater value to those\ninterested in the work which it records.\n\nShall we not have a largely increased subscription list for 1880?\n\nA little effort on the part of our friends, when making their own\nremittances, to induce their neighbors to unite in forming Clubs, will\neasily double our list, and thus widen the influence of our Magazine,\nand aid in the enlargement of our work.\n\nUnder the editorial supervision of Rev. C. C. PAINTER, aided by the\nsteady contributions of our intelligent Missionaries and teachers in\nall parts of the field, and with occasional communications from careful\nobservers and thinkers elsewhere, the AMERICAN MISSIONARY furnishes a\nvivid and reliable picture of the work going forward among the Indians,\nthe Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as citizens in the\nSouth and as Missionaries in Africa.\n\nIt will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting the\nraces among which it labors, and will give a monthly summary of current\nevents relating to their welfare and progress.\n\nPatriots and Christians interested in the education and Christianizing\nof these despised races are asked to read it, and assist in its\ncirculation. Begin with the next number and the new year. The price is\nonly Fifty Cents per annum.\n\nThe Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the persons\nindicated on page 254.\n\nDonations and subscriptions should be sent to\n\n                                  H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n                                         56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             TO ADVERTISERS.\n\nSpecial attention is invited to the advertising department of the\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY. Among its regular readers are thousands of\nMinisters of the Gospel, Presidents, Professors and Teachers in\nColleges, Theological Seminaries and Schools; it is, therefore,\na specially valuable medium for advertising Books, Periodicals,\nNewspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of Learning, Church Furniture,\nBells, Household Goods, &c.\n\nAdvertisers are requested to note the moderate price charged for space\nin its columns, considering the extent and character of its circulation.\n\nAdvertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order\nto secure insertion in the following number. All communications in\nrelation to advertising should be addressed to\n\n  THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT,\n                                        56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  \u261b Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department\n  of the \u201cAmerican Missionary\u201d can aid us in this respect by\n  mentioning, when ordering goods, that they saw them advertised\n  in our Magazine.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nDAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, Printer, 101 Chambers Street, New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTRANSCRIBER\u2019S NOTES.\n\n\n1. Italic script is denoted by _underscores_ and bold script by =equal=.\n\n2. Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors have been silently\n     corrected.\n\n3. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 34, No. 8, August, 1880","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":21509}