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NO. 5.\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                            MAY, 1881.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    DEDICATION OF CHURCH AT WILMINGTON, N.C.                   129\n    PARAGRAPHS                                                 130\n    PROF. BLAIKIE\u2019S LIFE OF LIVINGSTONE                        132\n    WHAT THE SOUTHERNERS ARE BEGINNING TO THINK                133\n    BENEFACTIONS                                               135\n    GENERAL NOTES\u2014Africa, Indians, Chinese                     135\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                       137\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    GEORGIA\u2014Those Atlanta Apples                               138\n    GEORGIA, ATLANTA\u2014Twenty-eight New Disciples                139\n    ALABAMA, MARION\u2014Temperance\u2014First Fruits                    140\n    LOUISIANA, NEW ORLEANS\u2014Examination of Law Department\n      at Straight University                                   141\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    OFF FOR AFRICA: Rev. H. M. Ladd                            142\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    A GENTLE GROWL: Rev. W. C. Pond                            143\n\n\n  WOMAN\u2019S HOME MISS. ASSOC\u2019N\n\n    MONTHLY REPORT                                             145\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    CLAUDIE\u2019S COLOR LINE: Miss M. L. Sawyer                    147\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                     149\n\n\n  LIST OF OFFICERS                                             155\n\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                                 156\n\n\n  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC.                                 157\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             NEW YORK.\n\n         Published by the American Missionary Association,\n                      ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\n\nEntered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y. as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: CHRIST CHURCH, WILMINGTON, N.C.]\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n              VOL. XXXV.      MAY, 1881.      NO. 5.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDEDICATION OF CHURCH AT WILMINGTON, N.C.\n\nThe new meeting-house for the First Congregational Church of\nWilmington, in connection with the work of the A. M. A., was\ndedicated on the evening of March 12th. (See picture on opposite\npage.) The history of the house and the services of dedication are\nof sufficient interest to warrant a notice in these pages.\n\nSomething like a year ago, a gentleman who signed himself\n\u201c_Howard_,\u201d and whose real name was only known at the Boston\noffice, gave $3,000 to build the house. Rev. D. D. Dodge, our\nSuperintendent at Wilmington, was charged with the duty of securing\na site, of procuring plans and estimates, and of building the house\nwithin the sum appropriated. This work Mr. Dodge duly undertook,\nintending to build of wood, but, after the foundations were laid\nand the frame was up, \u201cHoward\u201d signified his wish to have the frame\n\u201cjacketed\u201d with brick, and for that purpose added $600 more to his\ndonation, thus making the entire coat $3,600.\n\nThe house will seat 450 people, is 72 feet in length by 36 in\nwidth, and measures 22 feet in the clear. It has a corner tower\nrising 100 feet from the street below, and is the highest object in\nthe city, and the first seen on approaching the city from the Sound.\n\nThe brick is of a deep red, and, though not pressed, looks as if\nit were. The proportions of the building could not well be more\nperfect or more pleasing to the eye. Both the local press and\nthe people speak of it as an ornament to the city, and express\nsurprise that it could have been built for a sum less than eight\nor ten thousand dollars. It should be said, however, that all the\nparties on the ground of whom the material was bought, sold at\nthe lowest rates; those furnishing the lumber, sashes, doors and\niron, throwing off the entire local profit; and Mr. Barstow, of\nProvidence, R.I., 65 per cent. from the two furnaces to heat the\nhouse. Mr. Dodge, also, gave his time to the work; and Mr. Weston,\nof Nashua, N.H., who laid the brick, a part of his. This will\naccount in part for so fine a building at so moderate an outlay\nof money. A large, dry and light cellar extends under the whole\nbuilding, which will furnish needed room for storing coal, wood,\n&c., for the mission.\n\nThe services of dedication occurred in the following order: 1.\nAnthem, by the Choir. 2. Prayer, by Rev. Mr. Dodge. 3. Reading of\nthe Scriptures, by Rev. Dr. Taylor, of the First Baptist (white)\nChurch of the city. 4. Singing. 5. Sermon, by Rev. C. L. Woodworth,\nfrom Luke xiv. 23. 6. Dedicatory Prayer, by Rev. Dr. Wilson, of the\nFirst Presbyterian Church (white).\n\nAfter the dedication proper, \u201c_Howard_\u201d\u2014who turns out to be the\nHon. James J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass.\u2014was introduced as\nthe giver of the house. In an address full of feeling and of good\nsense he offered the salutations and the fellowship of the Northern\nCongregational Churches. Drs. Wilson and Taylor followed with words\nof kindly greeting, and assurances of sympathy and co-operation\nfrom their respective churches: the former slyly saying that\nthe only thing he wished different was that the church was\nPresbyterian, and the latter responding that the thing he wished\ndifferent was that the church was Baptist. Two others, laymen,\nspoke from the floor in a similar strain. The addresses were, in\nevery sense, genial and hearty.\n\nThe house was entirely filled, and among the audience were forty or\nfifty of the best white citizens of the city, all of whom showed\ninterest and some of whom expressed warm sympathy.\n\nThus ended a scene in which Christian feeling and fellowship seemed\nto have conquered prejudices and differences on all sides, and\nthe workers from the North and from the South clasped hands in\nfraternal regard, and pledged each other hearty good will.\n\nAs growing out of this, and, perhaps, a happy finale, it may be\nof interest to say that Dr. Taylor very cordially invited Mr.\nWoodworth to preach in his pulpit the next Sabbath morning. The\noffer was accepted, and the occasion proved one of great pleasure\nto the speaker, and, if judged by the greetings at the close, not\nless so to the large audience which listened.\n\nAt the proper time we shall take occasion to state the further\ngood which Mr. Gregory intends for the \u201cChrist Church Mission\u201d at\nWilmington.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOn the 27th ult., Secretary Strieby presented the cause of this\nAssociation in Dr. R. S. Storrs\u2019 church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and\nafter a full and earnest endorsement by the pastor, a collection\nwas taken, amounting to $3,200, one gentleman giving $2,500 of the\namount. On the same Sabbath, Dr. Wm. M. Taylor, of the Broadway\nTabernacle, New York, presented our cause with his usual marked\nability, and his appeal was followed by a contribution of $1,500,\nan increase of about fifty per cent, over last year\u2019s donations\nto the same object. In connection with the many good words that\nhave been recently uttered in behalf of Christian education at\nthe South, it is exceedingly cheering to record such reports of\nincreased interest and liberality. Shall we not have many more to\nfollow?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe have alluded repeatedly to the unanimity now prevalent as to\nthe remedy for the radical troubles in the South\u2014the education of\nthe Freedmen. President Garfield\u2019s message sets it forth again in\nforcible terms. But ever since Gen. Grant\u2019s military policy became\nintolerable to the South and a weariness to the North, and was\nabandoned by President Hayes, the conviction that moral and not\nmilitary forces are needed has deepened, and has found distinct\nutterance by representative men in all sections of the country.\nPresident Hayes, in his address to his comrades in arms at Canton,\nO., and Senator Brown of Georgia, in his speech in the Senate,\nmay stand as the exponents of the two sections of the country and\nthe two political parties on that subject, while Dr. Ruffner,\nSuperintendent of Public Instruction of Virginia and Rev. Dr.\nHaygood of the M. E. Church South, may represent two influential\nStates in the South, and two great religious denominations. The\npopularity of Judge Tourgee\u2019s book at the North, in which the same\nthought is fully and eloquently set forth, may be taken as another\nevidence of the views held here.\n\nThe thing that remains, as Paul says, is to \u201c_perform the doing\nof it_.\u201d President Garfield refers not only to the duty of the\nnational and State governments, but also to \u201cvolunteer forces\u201d\nin the great work. To these with churches in the South must be\ncommitted the essential _Christian_ efforts\u2014which neither the\ngeneral nor State authorities can do.\n\nIt is all-important that the nation should not content itself with\nthe simple utterances of these noble declarations. Good people,\npatriotic people should act, and act promptly and liberally. We\nexhort our patrons earnestly to step forth, not spasmodically,\nbut to inaugurate regular and enlarged measures of assistance. To\nthis end we venture to suggest regular and steadily increasing\ncollections in the churches with favorable seasons in the year\nfor taking them, and that individuals feel more their personal\nresponsibility in the case and that by liberal gifts in life,\nand by remembering the cause in their wills they provide for the\npressing work of the age, and for its progress after they have\npassed away.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe are indebted to Dr. L. T. Chamberlain, of Norwich, Conn., for\na copy of a valuable missionary concert exercise prepared for the\nuse of his church and Sabbath-schools. The exercise is separated\ninto three divisions, each of which forms a series of responsive\nreadings. 1. Responsive Scripture readings. 2. Statements of the\nobject of the concert\u2014missions and the world\u2019s conversion. 3.\nMissionary agencies. Under this latter division is outlined a\nseries of questions and answers showing the work carried on by\nthe American Home Missionary Society, the American Missionary\nAssociation and the American Board. We commend this missionary\nconcert exercise as suitable for general use, and eminently\nfitted to bring the Sabbath-schools especially into more intimate\nrelations with the work of our great missionary societies.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe New York, Madeira and West Coast of Africa Steamship Company,\nwhich has been recently projected, is likely to be of much service,\nboth to commerce and to Christian missions. The names of the\nincorporators include those of Wm. E. Dodge, John D. Fish, Joseph\nW. Yates, Robert Porterfield, and other well-known capitalists.\nThese gentlemen have both the means and the experience requisite,\nand we have a right to conclude that the company will have its\nships ready for service at an early day. The capital stock is\n$100,000, with a proviso allowing an increase of capital to\n$4,000,000, and the company is to continue for twenty years. The\nPresident, Mr. James W. Yates, of the firm of Yates & Porterfield,\nhas been for years engaged in the West African Trade, and the\nmissionaries of this Association have frequently passed on their\nway to and from our Mendi Mission in his vessels.\n\nThe recent impulse that has been given to commerce by the activity\nin promoting internal improvements, such as telegraph and railway\nsystems, from the mouth of the Gambia to the Niger, together with\nthe rapid development of industries, especially those pertaining\nto gold mining, the production of palm oil, and the culture of\ncoffee, give promise of large trade between New York and this\nportion of Africa. The number of missionaries, as well as the\nnumber of colonists for Liberia and elsewhere, will be sure to\nmultiply with the increase of wealth among the colored people of\nAmerica, and the improved facilities for reaching the land of their\nfathers.\n\nWe regard this enterprise as auspicious, and one of the many\nprovidential events looking toward the early evangelization of the\nvast tribes of people in Central Africa. May God speed this new\nsteamship company in His own good way!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe have seen the report of the Fourteenth Street Presbyterian\nSabbath-school of this city, which is at once suggestive and\nmost encouraging as to what may be done in the way of systematic\ngiving. The Creed of the school, if heartily accepted, would secure\nsuch results in all our Sabbath-schools and churches. This Creed\ncontains the following articles:\n\n_We believe_, I. That every one should help others to the Gospel.\n\nII. That every one should _help as much as he can_.\n\nIII. That every one should find this work for others blessed and\nhelpful to himself.\n\nThree rules are drawn from this Creed:\n\n                {  I. Regularly each Lord\u2019s day.\n  We will give: { II. Consecutively, according to our ability.\n                {III. Joyfully, because a privilege and blessing\n                      to ourselves.\n\nThe result has been that in the intermediate and senior\ndepartments, 31 classes made 8,037 out of a possible 8,070\nofferings; that is, there were only 33 failures to keep the whole\nnumber of promises made for the year, though because of vacation,\nsickness, etc., there were 2,004 absences from school.\n\nIn the infant department, 11 classes brought 3,355 out of 3,403\nofferings promised for the year; that is, there were only 48\nfailures.\n\nThe average attendance in the main room was 201\u20133/4, of whom\n200-37/40 brought their offerings.\n\nThe average in the infant department was 85\u20133/40 of whom 83\u20137/8\nbrought their offerings.\n\nIf this same conscientious regularity could be secured in all our\nchurches and Sabbath-schools, the work of the A. M. A. would never\nsuffer for want of funds. What _has_ been done, _can_ be done.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPROF. BLAIKIE\u2019S LIFE OF LIVINGSTONE.\n\nThis volume, published by Harper Bros., is a book of extraordinary\ninterest. In it two great and good minds meet and yield practical\nthought and valuable instruction. They also give us a rare\ncombination of wise and spiritual truths, calculated to fill the\nsoul of the reader with great aspirations for a richer experience\nin things that pertain to Christ\u2019s kingdom. If the book were read\nby Christians everywhere the effect could scarcely be less than\na reformation. It is what is needed, under God, to counteract\nthe flood of secular things that evermore threaten to quench the\nmissionary spirit in the hearts of believers. The consecration,\nperseverance, enterprise, skill, heroism, fidelity and charity of\nLivingstone\u2019s life are dwelt upon by Dr. Blaikie with such grateful\nemotions as prompt him to say\u2014\u201cThe author could wish for no higher\nhonor than to have his name associated with that of Livingstone,\nand can desire no greater pleasure than that of conveying to other\nminds the impressions that have been left on his own.\u201d\n\nAmong the many favorable impressions made by this book are\nthose that relate to Livingstone\u2019s superb faith. This was quite\ndiscoverable in his early life. Talking with his father\u2014\u201cThey\nagreed that the time would come when rich men and great men would\nthink it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries instead\nof spending their money on hounds and horses.\u201d When he became great\nand moderately rich, he illustrated his own faith by his gifts for\nmissions, and his devotion to the success of the laborers who went\nforth at his instance. All this flowed naturally from his life-long\npurpose. \u201cI will place no value on anything I have or may possess,\nexcept in relation to the kingdom of Christ.\u201d\n\nUpon this followed his exquisite trust for Divine protection. \u201cIf\nGod has accepted my service, then my life is charmed till my work\nis done.\u201d But his faith and works were rounded out by all that was\nneedful to make them complete. \u201cIt was in front and not in the rear\nthat he expected to find the pillar of cloud and the pillar of\nfire,\u201d and it was unto the Lord of Hosts he looked for victory, and\nunto Him his prayer ascended unceasingly: \u201cO, Almighty God, help\nand leave not this wicked people to the slave-dealer and Satan!\u201d\n\nHe not only kept at work answering his own prayer, but was given\nto see, as he thought, how all things were working together\nfor the wished-for consummation. \u201cViewed in relation to my\ncalling,\u201d he says, \u201cthe end of the geographical feat is only\nthe beginning of the enterprise. We are all engaged in very\nmuch the same cause\u2014geographers, astronomers and mechanicians\nlaboring to make men better acquainted with each other\u2014promoters\nof Niger expeditions, soldiers fighting for right against\noppression, and sailors rescuing captives in deadly climes, as\nwell as missionaries, are all aiding in hastening on a glorious\nconsummation to all God\u2019s dealings with our race. In the hope that\nI may yet be honored to do some good to this poor long down-trodden\nAfrica, the gentlemen over whom you have the honor to preside,\nwill, I believe, cordially join.\u201d\n\nThat the millions who are interested in the negro race may\n\u201ccordially join\u201d in the endeavors promoted by this man for \u201cpoor\ndown-trodden Africa,\u201d is our most earnest wish, and, with this in\nview, we heartily welcome and commend Dr. Blaikie\u2019s book.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWHAT THE SOUTHERNERS ARE BEGINNING TO THINK.\n\nThe following extracts taken from an editorial which appeared\nin the _Memphis Daily Appeal_, March 18th, contain so much true\nappreciation of what ought to be done for the Negro under the\ncircumstances, that we are glad to give them a place in our\ncolumns. We believe they indicate that the South is on the eve of a\ngreat revolution of sentiment respecting the importance of popular\neducation, and that if the friends of the A. M. A. will assist us\nin pushing forward with our present and proposed work, the time\nwill come speedily when the recognition of the vital importance of\nour principles and institutions will be well nigh universal.\n\nAfter commenting upon an article which appeared in the _North\nAmerican Review_ from the pen of Chief Justice Chalmers, quoting\nfrom him the assertion that the negroes\u2019 \u201cright to vote as a race\nis as fixed and irreversible as their freedom,\u201d and that \u201cthe\nballot box must speak the unbiased verdict of all lawful electors,\u201d\nthe editor says: \u201cNo sane man doubts it; there is but one thing\nleft for the people of the South to do, and that is to throw\nthemselves into the work of educating the negro, of lifting him\nout of the deplorable condition of brutality which slavery left\nhim in, and elevating him to a plane where he can not only stand\nalone and see for himself, but where he can not be reached by the\narts of demagogues, of which, unfortunately for the country, there\nare too many in all parties. In this work, a man of culture, like\nJudge Chalmers, can do a great deal. He can by personal example\ninduce the leading men of his State to come to the front as eager\ndefenders of a thorough system of public education. They have, as\nmost of those of the other Southern States have done, too long\nstood aloof and allowed the stranger to do for the negro what they\nshould have done themselves as willing workers, instead of making\nmouths at a fate which after fifteen years of effort they find is\nsuperior to anything they can put forward against it.\n\n\u201cThirteen years ago the Jackson _Clarion_ warned the people of\nMississippi, as the leading papers of the South everywhere did,\nthat \u2018there was but one way out of the wilderness, and that was\nas plain as the road to market. It was to recognize the rights\nthe Federal Government had bestowed upon the negro; to treat him\nkindly, and to point him the way he should go.\u2019 This plan was not\ngenerally pursued. But it is never too late to mend. We can begin\nnow the work that should have been done in 1867. We can rescue the\nnegro from the ignorance that threatens him and us by establishing\ngood public schools\u2014not grudgingly, as if we were conferring an\nunwilling charity\u2014but in a broad, cheerful, earnest and good\nneighborly spirit, as if we were performing a duty\u2014a paramount\nand most important duty. Under God this is the only remedy for\nnegro suffrage. It is a waste of time to talk of abridging it.\nRevolutions never go backward. The best answer to that sort of talk\nis that the United States never were so strong or so prosperous\nas they are at this moment, when public sentiment is in all the\nStates demanding the most absolute assertion of democratic life\nand living. Instead of looking back, we must look forward; nay, we\nmust go forward, and we must take the negro by the hand and make\nhim feel that he is a part of the great column of the people; that\nhis destiny is interlaced with ours; that we must not stand apart,\nisolated and at enmity, but go forward, each doing what he can to\nstrengthen the community at all points, moral and physical, to\nuphold and defend our democratic form of government and perpetuate\nunsullied the liberties which have survived the chaos of civil war\nand reconstruction.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe are glad to add to the other testimonials from able and\nintelligent Southerners, a few words from the remarkable\nThanksgiving Sermon of Rev. Atticus G. Haygood, D.D., President of\nEmery College, Oxford, Ga.:\n\n\u201cThere is a vast mass of illiteracy among us. There is white as\nwell as black illiteracy. There are multiplied thousands who can\nneither read nor write. They must be taught.\n\n\u201cLet us wake up to our want of educational facilities. Our\npublic-school system is painfully inadequate. Our colleges and\nuniversities are unendowed, and they struggle against fearful odds\nin their efforts to do their work. We are one hundred years behind\nthe Eastern and Middle States. We are also behind many of the new\nStates of the West.\n\n\u201cFor the negroes themselves. * * * * Much depends on those who,\nunder God, set them free. By every token this whole nation should\nundertake the problem of their education. That problem will have\nto be worked out on the basis of co-operation; that is, they must\nbe helped to help themselves. To make their education an absolute\ngratuity will perpetuate many of the misconceptions and weaknesses\nof character which now embarrass and hinder their progress. Much\nalso depends upon the Southern white people, their sympathy, their\njustice, their wise and helpful co-operation. This we should give\nthem, not reluctantly, but gladly, for their good and for the\nsafety of all, for their elevation and for the glory of God.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nThree Israelites in Germany devoted 1,400,000 marks to charitable\npurposes without distinction of faith.\n\nMr. J. H. Wade of Cleveland, O., has given $92,000 to the City\nOrphan Asylum, $12,000 of which is to be applied for a school-house.\n\nThe late John M. Pinkerton, Esq. left about $300,000 to Pinkerton\nAcademy at Derry, N.H. Mr. Pinkerton was a native of that town,\nand the Academy was founded by his grandfather.\n\nThe late E. R. Harris, of Preston, England, left over \u00a3300,000 for\nthe establishment of public institutions for the town, of which\n\u00a3100,000 will be expended for an orphan home, and \u00a350,000 for a\nscience and art school.\n\nThe late Hugh Meharry, of Paxton, Ill., left the following\nbequests: To the Central Tennessee College, $10,000; to the Parent\nMissionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, $10,000; to\nthe American Bible Society, $10,000.\n\nIf the executors of A. T. Stewart carry out the proposed plan of\na college for educating 1,500 young men\u2014with an endowment of some\nthree to four million dollars\u2014it will doubtless be the largest\ndonation to education from any one estate.\n\nThe late Herr Isador Kraft, of Berlin, a wealthy philanthropist,\nhas left behind him a will which would have rejoiced the soul of\nTom Hood. He has ordered that half of his fortune of 1,000,000\nmarks be expended in the foundation of a fund for the assistance of\npoor needlewomen, without regard to sect.\n\nMr. Amasa Stone has given $500,000 for the removal of Western\nReserve College to Cleveland, O. The citizens have raised $100,000,\nwith which a site of 40 acres has been purchased on Euclid Avenue,\nopposite Wade Park. It is proposed to locate the College and the\nCase School of Applied Science, with its endowment of $1,250,000,\non these grounds, and to designate the different schools as Western\nReserve University. The combined endowment funds exceed $2,000,000.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAfrica.\n\n\u2014The Sultan of Zanzibar has put in irons three slave-owners\nprominent in the late disturbances at Mombasa.\n\n\u2014M. Callisto Legnani has been named as consular agent of the\nkingdom of Italy, with his residence at Khartoum.\n\n\u2014Mr. Mackay, missionary of the Church Missionary Society at Mteza\u2019s\nkingdom, has completed his translation of St. Matthew\u2019s Gospel into\nthe language of Uganda.\n\n\u2014Lieutenant Dumbleton and the military physician Browning embarked\nthe last of December at Liverpool to penetrate by the Gambia into\nthe valley of the Niger, and if possible as far as Timbuctoo.\n\n\u2014The journal _Nature_, of London, announces that M. J. Thomson, the\nexplorer of the region between the Dar-es-Salam, the Nyassa and the\nTanganyika, has been called to direct an expedition from Sierra\nLeone to Timbuctoo.\n\n\u2014Capt. Neves Ferreira, Governor of Benguela, and some officers of\nthe Portuguese army, have offered to the Geographical Society of\nLisbon to undertake a scientific exploration across Africa, setting\nout from the Western side.\n\n\u2014A conference has been held at Madeira by the Church Missionary\nSociety respecting West African missions. Bishop and Arch-deacon\nCrowther, two native Africans, were invited to be present. A\ndeputation from London had arrived safely at the island some time\nsince, and the report of proceedings will be looked for with\ninterest.\n\n\u2014More than nineteen years since, the daughter of Archbishop Whately\nestablished a mission in Cairo which she is said to have supported\nwith her own private means. It includes a large mission school for\nCopts and Moslems, and is attended daily by more than 500. It has\nalso in connection with it a medical mission, book depot and Bible\nwomen.\n\n\u2014Mr. Mackay writes from Kagei, on the southern shore of the\nVictoria Nyanza, on November 1st, that canoes had arrived from\nUganda, and he was about proceeding thither together with a\nre-inforcement for the Romanist mission. The canoes, however,\nhaving been three months coming across the lake, there was no news\nlater than July 29th. Affairs were then no brighter and Mr. Pearson\nfound it difficult to obtain food.\n\n\u2014It is reported that the women at the Livingstonia Mission, Eastern\nAfrica, attend the services respectably clothed, and have learned\nto make dresses for themselves. The native young men have acquired\nmany industrial arts, and can make furniture, bricks, etc., and\neven work the engines of the steamer belonging to the mission. Over\n100 children are on the school-roll, and their attendance is very\nregular.\n\n\u2014Mouchot, an ingenious mechanic, has succeeded with an experiment\nin Algiers which is likely to attract much attention among those\ninterested in the development of the manufacture of industries in\nAfrica. He has contrived an apparatus by which he is able to pump\nand boil water by solar force. With abundance of force, cotton and\nworking people, the unclad millions of Ethiopia, among whom already\ncloth is the most valuable currency, may become both respectable\nand rich.\n\n\u2014A new company of missionaries from Algiers has set out to found\nbetween that side and the great lakes a station which will render\ncommunication easier with the missions of Uganda and Ouroundi, and\nfrom whence they can come to their aid, according to circumstances.\nThe missionaries of Ouroundi will also establish a new station\nto the west of Tanganyika, so that they may advance towards the\nManyema and the Upper Congo by a shorter route than that they have\nhitherto followed.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Indians.\n\n\u2014Six new converts were received by the church of Odanah, Chippewa\nMission, during the last year.\n\n\u2014Congress has appropriated $165,000 for indemnity to the Ponca\nIndians, and to secure their lands in severalty on either the old\nor new reservations, in accordance with their wishes.\n\n\u2014A few hundred of the Iowas and Sacs are still in the north-eastern\npart of Kansas, and the Rev. S. M. Irwin, one of their early\nmissionaries, has agreed to spend some months in missionary labors\nfor them. This is regarded as somewhat an experiment, but it is\nhoped that it may result in permanent arrangements for their\nbenefit.\n\n\u2014Rev. G. L. Deffenbaugh writes from Lapwai, Idaho Territory, of\nthe very encouraging progress of the Presbyterian mission at that\npoint. It appears from his statement that thirty-four united with\nthe church there during the past year, and that now they have a\ntotal membership of 178. Of these three were licensed to preach,\nwhile the ordinance of infant baptism was administered to seven.\nGood work was also done at Kamiah, where the church numbers 200.\nSeventeen children were baptized at this place during the year\nending Jan. 1st, 1881.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Chinese.\n\n\u2014A Christian hospital has been erected at Tientsin, with funds\nprovided by the viceroy Li Hung Chang, in connection with the\nsuccessful treatment of his wife by a female medical missionary.\n\n\u2014The Chinese Methodist Mission in San Francisco reports as good\nresults from their religious endeavors as those attained by like\nlabors among the whites. There are ninety-seven full members and\nten on probation.\n\n\u2014The American Baptist Missionary Union, Tremont Temple, Boston, has\nissued a valuable map of China, including Siam, Burmah and Japan.\nIt is about six feet by five in dimensions, and will be furnished\nat $1.25 cloth, or 75 cents paper.\n\n\u2014A new Chinese church was dedicated at Honolulu, Jan. 2d. The\nbuilding, commodious and attractive, cost with the land $10,700,\nthe Chinese contributing $4,470. The King and the Attorney-General\nwere at the dedication. Drs. Damon and Hyde assisted in the\nexercises, while the principal parts were taken by Chinese, and the\nbenediction was pronounced by a native Hawaiian.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nMCLEANSVILLE, N.C.\u2014On the 4th of March the school observed the day\nby giving in the forenoon some account of each of the Presidents.\nIn the afternoon they set out Garfield shade trees. At night there\nwas a prayer-meeting, in which the central thought was\u2014pray for the\nnew President.\n\nWOODVILLE, GA.\u2014The Pilgrim Church had a very interesting service\nMarch 6th. The building was crowded; three persons were admitted to\nmembership; one brother was ordained deacon, after which the Lord\u2019s\nsupper was celebrated. The Sabbath-school is well attended, taking\nthe place of the forenoon sermon. Twichell school is growing, and\nsome of the scholars walk eight miles every day to attend.\n\nNASHVILLE, TENN.\u2014Pres. Cravath in a recent letter says: \u201cThis is\na time of special religious interest. Daily prayer-meetings have\nbeen held for several weeks, and there have been a few recent\nconversions. Yesterday Dr. Earle, who has been laboring in the city\nin connection with the First Baptist Church, came out at eleven and\nheld a meeting with the students. The audience was deeply moved,\nand a large number rose to express a desire to become Christians.\nThere was deep interest at the night prayer-meeting, and this\nmorning our opening exercises were changed to a prayer-meeting.\nProf. Bennett held an inquiry meeting all the forenoon in the\nparlor. Fourteen think they have found peace, and a large number\nare anxious and inquiring. We expect to have the inquiry meeting\nagain to-morrow. The interest seems very deep and genuine.\u201d\n\nCHATTANOOGA, TENN.\u2014On last Sabbath evening the Sunday-school held\nits quarterly concert, which consisted in reciting the golden texts\nof the quarter and the lessons of the same, by topics, with a short\ntalk on the great missionary work Christ came into this world to\ndo. Quite a number of people were present and seemed interested in\nthe services. At the close a contribution of $5.64 was taken for\nthe A. M. A.\n\nPARIS, TEXAS.\u2014\u201cOur work is growing. The members are all doing\nnicely. All our meetings are full of interest. We are holding\nneighborhood prayer-meetings for those who cannot get to the\nregular prayer-meeting. One united with us last Sabbath by\nprofession. Sunday-school is full of interest.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D.,\n\nFIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nThose Atlanta Apples.\n\nMissionary statistics are sometimes thought to be dry. I propose to\ngive some that all will concede to be juicy.\n\nIn the good old Massachusetts towns of Amherst, Danvers, Lincoln,\nNewton, Norfolk, and Walpole, there grew last summer a choice\ncollection of forty thousand apples. These apples were choice not\nonly because of their beauty and flavor, but also because of their\nmissionary destiny. Scorning to waste their precious substance in\nthe cellars, and attics, and barns of a region already over-stocked\nby their orchard companions, they resolved to put themselves\nwhere they would do the most good. So by the aid of willing hands\nand generous hearts they found their way into eighty good-sized\nbarrels, a goodly half thousand in each barrel. Rail-cars and\nsteamers brought them to the sunny South, and they were soon\nprovided with ample accommodations in one of the basements of\nAtlanta University.\n\nIt must be confessed that when the barrels were opened some of\nthe apples had a very green appearance, as though they had never\nbeen on a mission before; while others of them were blushing\nviolently, as if greatly agitated by the responsibilities of their\nnew vocation. Subsequent acquaintance, however, proved that these\nindications of weakness were wholly upon the surface, and that,\nwith the exception of a very few who had been suffering from their\nlong journey, the new comers were sound to the core and fully\nprepared for missionary service.\n\nThis service, it must be added, was one which called for nerve\non the part of the missionary recruits in proportion to their\nrealizing sense of what they were coming to. Many times companies\nof two hundred each were summoned from the barrels and placed in\nlong picket lines around the edges of a dozen large dining tables,\none standing guard at each plate. But scarcely had this been done\nwhen two hundred hungry boys and girls and missionary teachers\nappeared upon the scene, and, after bestowing upon the red and\ngreen sentinels many a complacent smile through a long meal of meat\nand vegetables, finally attacked them with six thousand (more or\nless) sharp ivory weapons, and subjected them to that fate which\nother missionaries are said to have suffered among the Cannibal\nIslands. Others, after being flayed, drawn and quartered, were\nplaced in boiling cauldrons, and their indistinguishable remains\nwere afterwards served up on the same tables in sauce dishes or\nconcealed under the crust of pies.\n\nYet these missionaries of Pomona uttered no complaint, but met\ntheir fate with a calmness that was beautiful to behold. All honor\nto the forty thousand! What a host it was! If taken to the capital\nof their native state and strung together, they would have made a\nfestoon stretching from the State house dome to the apex of Bunker\nHill monument! Many, many thanks to our generous friends.\n\n                                                     ALL OF US.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTwenty-eight New Disciples.\n\nMISS JULIA GOODWIN, ATLANTA.\n\n    \u201cSweet day, so cool, so calm, so clear!\n    Bridal of earth and sky.\u201d\n\nThese beautiful lines of the sainted Herbert well describe that\nbright day in March, a day in which to breathe its delicious air\nwas a luxury; a day in which our hearts were lifted up in unison\nwith all things in Nature; a day long to be remembered as a golden\none in the history of this band of Christ\u2019s followers.\n\nAs we entered the audience room, going from the clear sunshine\nwithout into the subdued light of the sanctuary, we found it filled\nto its utmost capacity, and over all seemed to reign a holy calm.\nBefore the altar sat thirty who waited to be made one with this\nfold, (twenty-eight by profession, two by letter). Waiting to\nwelcome these and to assist in the sacred rites of the hour were\nRev. Messrs. Hawley, Francis, and Beaman, and Dr. Roy. After the\nsinging of hymns, reading of Scripture and prayer, and the pastor\nhad spoken fitting words of welcome, admonition and encouragement,\nthose who had not already received the rite, one after another,\nkneeled before the altar for baptism. The hush of solemn stillness\nadded to the impressiveness of the simple ceremony. Then in the\nfreshness of their love the twenty-eight new disciples stood and\ntook the vows of God upon them, while Christian hearts rejoiced;\nand may we not believe that angels bent to hear, and carry the\nnews to Heaven of young hearts renouncing the world and pledging\nallegiance to the King of kings? God grant that each one may be\nfound \u201cfaithful unto death.\u201d\n\nThe emblems were blessed, the bread was broken, the wine poured,\nthe invitation given, \u201ceat ye all of it.\u201d Interesting and touching\nreminiscences were indulged in, often with much tenderness of\nfeeling. The heart-hymn, \u201cMy faith looks up to Thee,\u201d every line of\nwhich breathes a prayer, ascended in its wedded tune of Olivet. The\nbenediction was said; the service was over.\n\nThus we tell you of the first ingathering of sheaves from the\nharvest not yet fully garnered. Silently, as God\u2019s greatest\nblessings always come, this favor has come to us. Seed scattered\nthrough many years by loving hands has, all unnoticed, been\nspringing up. Sowing, pruning, digging about, preparing the ground\nto receive the watering of Divine mercy, has not been in vain. In\nanswer to fervent, long-continued prayer, not with boisterous\nstorm or rush of wind, but gently, the rich showers of blessing\nfell, \u201cNot by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the\nLord.\u201d\n\nThe awakening began in our day-school. Much seriousness seemed\nmanifest during the week of prayer, when daily after-school\nmeetings were held, and in connection with the labors of Mr. and\nMrs. H. E. Brown, a few weeks later, in many hearts a settled\npurpose to serve the Lord found expression. The church and school,\nlike twin-born sisters, go hand in hand. One can not be troubled\nand the other be unaffected; one cannot be blessed and the other\nremain unmoved. The work of grace went on, making the Sunday-school\nand all church services solemn seasons. Each night the place of\nprayer was crowded, many anxious to know the way of life or avowing\ntheir purpose to live for Christ, sometimes struggling through days\nof darkness to find the clear light from the sun of righteousness\njust beyond. Sweet always will be the remembrance of a morning\ngreeting from a bright-faced girl of fourteen, as she waited at\nthe school-yard gate. Her beaming countenance told the story even\nbefore the lips, which quickly uttered the glad words, \u201c_I_ have\nfound Christ at last! He has forgiven my sins!\u201d\n\nSome among those who seemed the stoutest-hearted were the first to\nsubmit to Christ, while sadly we look upon others, who remind us of\nthe young man whom Jesus loved, who seemed near the kingdom and yet\ntook no step nearer.\n\nThe joy it gives every new-born soul to welcome one after another\nto their newly-formed ranks has been beautiful to behold. A hopeful\nsign is that everyone seemed so ready, nay, so eager, to do some\nservice in showing to others the path in which their own feet had\njust begun to tread. All love the place of prayer, and often spend\nthe half-hour recess at noon in a prayer-meeting by themselves in\nthe small library up-stairs. Some of tender years are as thoughtful\nin face and manner as the oldest ones. One in telling of her\nnew-found love said, \u201cI felt that I loved everybody, and if my arms\nhad been large enough I thought I would like to take in the whole\nworld;\u201d and with eyes and voice full of tears, she begged prayers\nfor her father, who had said, when she urged him to come to Christ,\n\u201cI am too old.\u201d\n\nJust as in days gone by, many benighted ones outside of us believe\nthat \u201cgettin\u2019 religion\u201d consists in the seeing of visions and the\ndreaming of dreams, and those who have been taught the truth in our\nSunday-school are often interrogated; \u201cHow far did you go?\u201d \u201cWhat\ndid you see in your travels?\u201d \u201cHow long did you stay in torment?\u201d\nand when they have no answer but the unvarying one, \u201cWe are\ntrying to do Christ\u2019s commands,\u201d they are taunted with \u201cYou\u2019re no\nChristian!\u201d \u201cBible religion ain\u2019t no religion.\u201d Yet they show only\na feeling of pity for such ignorant ones.\n\nThere is still among us a spirit of inquiry. At our usual Monday\nafter-school prayer-meeting many said, \u201cPray for us!\u201d\n\nThrough all there seems to underlie a current of earnestness and\ndesire for holier living in God\u2019s children, and more, much more we\ncrave of willingness and strength, that so we may\u2014\n\n    \u201cJoy to find in every station\n      Something still to do or bear.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nTemperance\u2014First Impression\u2014First Fruits.\n\nREV. A. W CURTIS, MARION.\n\nThe temperance agitation here has not been without fruit. A monster\npetition was sent to the Legislature, praying for prohibition, and\na law was passed prohibiting all traffic in intoxicating drinks\nwithin five miles\u2019 radius of the court house. The word _Bar_,\nprinted prominently over several places of common resort, has\nfound at last its legitimate meaning\u2014to bar out all drinkers.\nEverything is very quiet, and it seems probable that a great crowd\nof loafers will have to go five miles for their liquor or reform.\nOne man died from over-drinking the last night of open traffic. Yet\nanother loud lecture on temperance was given us a few weeks ago. An\nold colored man, going home late Saturday night, intoxicated, fell\nabout eight feet into a gully and broke his neck. The effect of the\nnew law upon the colored people has proved very salutary.\n\nKnowing that this people have little opportunity for finding out\nthe news, I have adopted the plan of giving a brief resum\u00e9, such\nas will afford them some idea of the world\u2019s progress in all the\ngreat reforms of the day, at the opening of our Sabbath evening\nservice. It works well, if intense eagerness in listening is a fair\nindication.\n\nMy first impression of this people,\u2014Sabbath, January 2d\u2014was that a\nvery large infusion of white blood and brains was represented in\nmy audience, and it was very hard to think that most of them had\nbeen slaves. The next was one of respect for my predecessors, as I\nnoted their readiness and precision in responsive reading; though\nI afterwards saw that many of the older ones did not read\u2014could\nnot, as it proved. You may imagine with what delight some of these\nlistened to President Garfield\u2019s inaugural address as I read it,\nwhen it came, to such as happened to be within easy reach. Our\nwork here has been full of encouragement. The attendance is never\nlarge, as compared with the other churches, but good interest has\nbeen manifest from the very first. We moved here January 17th, and\nat once revived the meetings at \u201cThe Home\u201d for the ladies, the\nchildren and young people, Mrs. C. taking charge, with the one aim\nfrom the first of winning their hearts to Christ. As many as forty\nyoung people have been present at some of her Sunday evening and 3\nP. M. meetings, and at the close frequently several of these would\nask leave to stay and talk personally about becoming Christians.\nOf course, we were soon obliged to have special meetings, and have\njust closed a session of 17 nights\u2019 consecutive preaching. The Holy\nSpirit has been working in many hearts. The church has been greatly\nrevived. _All_ the Sunday-school children\u2014not already members\u2014have\nbeen forward for prayer, and many others in the community, quite\na number converted, and more awakened who will probably go to the\nBaptists, who started a \u201crevival\u201d the second week of our meeting\nand are still continuing with great excitement, and I hope real\ngood results. Not a small part of our work is to stir up the other\nchurches, for which let us thank God and take courage. Last Sabbath\nwe received ten of the first fruits on profession of their faith in\nJesus. Nearly every one of our Sabbath-school now think they are\nChristians. Oh, for more to come into our Sabbath-school! Pray that\nthe good work may go on.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLOUISIANA.\n\nExamination of the Law Department at Straight University.\n\nIt was my pleasure to fall in upon the Straight University at the\ntime of the annual examination in its Law Department. The exercises\ncame off at the office of the Dean of the Law Faculty, Judge Alfred\nShaw. There were present, also, the three other Professors, J. C.\nWalker, Esq., and Honorables M. M. Cohen and R. T. Posey, and Dr.\nW. S. Alexander, President of the University. Eight young men were\nexamined for graduation, one of whom, J. B. Gaudet, was colored.\nPres. Alexander, leading off in general questions, each of the\nProfessors followed in the line of his department. The young men\nhad taken the two courses of lectures and had read law in private,\nor under preceptors. All were approved. By the laws of Louisiana,\ngraduation from this Institution admits at the Bar for practice.\nThe State University\u2019s Law Department has the same prerogative.\nSo fades out the color line. Our institutions are color-blind.\nBrains and culture stand on their own merit. The accomplished white\nlaw-lecturers and the bright white students receive the colored\naspirant lawyers on the basis of citizenship and scholarship.\nSimon Cameron repeats at the North, after a tour of the South,\n\u201cthe picked-up notion of \u2018over-education\u2019 among the blacks, the\nsame, of whom awhile ago it was said that they could not take on\nthe higher education. But how would the Pennsylvania statesman\nhave these sable attorneys prepared for their profession and for\nthe competition of life and business? Does it not come with an ill\ngrace that a man who has himself risen from humble position, should\nrule down these Africo-Americans to an education that would simply\nfit them for good servants?\u201d Of the twenty-five graduates of this\nLaw Department, seven are colored, and they are making their way\nsuccessfully in the Courts. Of the nineteen students now in the\ncourse, five are colored. One is the pastor of the English Lutheran\nChurch of the city, a former graduate of a Pennsylvania College,\nand of Princeton Seminary.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOff for Africa.\n\nBY REV. HENRY M. LADD.\n\nIt does not seem possible that anyone could ever have crossed the\nAtlantic, followed by more prayers and good wishes, than attended\nand do, we believe, still attend us.\n\nOur good steamer, the \u201cCity of Berlin,\u201d though advertised to sail\nfrom New York on the twelfth of February, did not leave till the\nthirteenth. We met on board, quite unexpectedly, some old college\nfriends, who were bound for a trip in Europe, and we were therefore\nsoon at home, surrounded by the most congenial society.\n\nOn the twenty-first we sighted the bold headlands of Cape Clear,\nand in the evening we were reading the latest news from London.\nHaving arrived safely in Liverpool, and Mr. and Mrs. Kemp, colored\nmissionaries for the Mendi Mission, reaching the same place a few\ndays later, we were obliged to wait there a week for an African\nsteamer; but the time was well employed in some preliminary\nbusiness in London and elsewhere, with reference to the proposed\nnew mission in the Nile basin. We had the pleasure of a short but\ninteresting visit with Rev. O. H. White, D.D., the earnest and\nefficient secretary of the Freedman\u2019s Missions Aid Society, who has\ndone so much to interest our English and Scotch friends in the work\nof the American Missionary Association. We also called on Robert\nArthington, Esq., of Leeds, whose munificent generosity has made\npossible the opening of the new mission near the head-waters of\nthe Nile, which is to be distinguished by his name. He received us\nvery kindly, and with outspread map before us, we spent a pleasant\nafternoon together, discussing plans and hopes for the opening\nof the work next fall, which now seems to promise so well. On\nSaturday, March 5th, we embarked on board the steamship \u201cMayumba,\u201d\nfor Africa, and our voyage has been a delightful one ever since.\nThe same steamer had on board two hundred tons of gunpowder for\nthe slaughter of the natives. Like the vessel that carried out rum\nand missionaries to Turkey, this was carrying powder to kill the\nAfricans, while we were going for their peace and healing. Yet we\nwould rather a thousand times go with the powder than with the\nrum; for the former, horrid as is the art of war, has in the hands\nof the English made a way in the wilderness for the heralds of the\nCross, while the latter has been and always will be an unmitigated\ncurse.\n\nBut the cloud is beginning to lift. We believe that there is a\nbright and cheering history of African missions yet to be written.\nThe five millions of reserve force, now drilling in America for the\nfinal victory, are yet to be called out, and they will come to the\nrescue. They are already on the move. These educated freemen have\ndeveloped already many of the proper qualifications for the work.\nWe must expect failures and disappointments at first from those so\nrecently in the degradation of slavery, but we believe theirs is\nthe work, and they will yet do it, and do it grandly, too. With a\nholy enthusiasm they are coming by degrees more fully to appreciate\nthe fact that Africa is their true field of labor\u2014even as this\nexcellent colored brother and his wife, who are going out with me,\nsay they would rather die for their degraded brethren in Africa,\nthan live in Christian America. As, therefore, we approach the\nshores of Africa, to enlarge and carry forward this work, I feel\nthat we are now moving in the line of God\u2019s appointment, and that\nsuccess must ultimately crown our efforts. In this very steamer are\nthose going out in Her Majesty\u2019s service to conquer the rebellious\ntribes along this same west coast. Shall we, who are the soldiers\nof the Lord of Hosts, the King of kings, have less enthusiasm and\ncourage in conquering these same tribes with the sword of the\nSpirit and in the bonds of peace?\n\n\n                                           TENERIFFE, March 15th.\n\nI am happy to report our safe arrival at this point on our\njourney. We have had a very pleasant voyage thus far, and have\nbeen remarkably well. Mr. and Mrs. Kemp are in excellent health\nand spirits. I think we may hope much from them. I have learned to\nesteem them very highly. Last Sabbath we touched at Madeira, and\nwere met on board by Mr. Smart, agent for the \u201cMissions to Seamen\nSociety,\u201d who very kindly invited us to his house to breakfast and\ndinner. There we met Mrs. Godman, of the Wesleyan Mission at Sierra\nLeone, who was much broken down in health. These kind friends\nshowed us every attention possible, and we came away feeling that\nwe had had a day of great spiritual as well as physical refreshing.\nI was much pleased with what little I saw of the place. I have had\nmany pleasant talks with the Kemps regarding their work, and only\nwish we had a dozen such men to send out to Africa.\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.\nStone, D.D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon.\nF. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D.D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev S. H.\nWiley, D.D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D.D., Jacob\nS. Taber, Esq.\n\nDIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D.D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P.\nBaker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA GENTLE GROWL.\n\nI love to look over the columns of religious intelligence in the\n_Congregationalist_, the _Advance_, the _Pacific_. I say to myself:\n\u201cHow well the churches are doing! How happy all these ministers\nmust be! How little they have to annoy, to worry, to depress! How\nmuch to make them glad and even jubilant!\u201d Yet, a few days pass, and\npossibly one of these very ministers knocks at my study door, to\ntalk over, confidentially, the pains, the difficulties, the heavy\nburdens of his work; a root of bitterness which he has tried in\nvain to remove, now springing up to trouble him; finances going all\nawry; sad cases calling for discipline,\u2014the duty imperative, and\nthe church, though stung to the quick with a sense of its dishonor,\ntoo timid to come up to its task. Of course, such things ought not\nto go into the papers nor any other but the good and glad things.\nWe can make others sharers of our joys, but we shrink from asking\nthem to bear, with us, our pains.\n\n\u201cWell, that is all right,\u201d I say to myself, and so it is. And yet\nthose who sustain a missionary work have a _right_ to see it on\n_all_ sides. God be thanked that I have had so much to report that\nwas cheery, stimulating, hopeful; so little that was otherwise. I\nwonder if our friends and helpers\u2014readers of the _Missionary_\u2014think\nthat, like the harvest fields of California, so our Gospel work\nis bathed in perpetual sunshine? or do they know that here, too,\nwe have our darkened skies, our tempests untimely, our frosts\npremature?\n\n\u201cWell, it won\u2019t hurt them if they don\u2019t see the shady side,\u201d I say\nto myself again.\n\n\u201cYes, but am I _truthful_ in the matter?\u201d I reply, and so even\nconscience puts me up to make a gentle growl. There is nothing\nvery bad to growl about; no more probably than I need; far less\nthan I deserve; but there is something, almost always, on which if\none allowed himself to brood, he could soon get up steam to scold\nhard. And I am not thinking just here of the greater trials of our\nwork, as when some riotous outburst of anti-Chinese prejudice sends\nthese people at sunset to their several retreats, and seems, for\nthe time, to knock our schools prostrate; nor of the sore trials\nfrom false brethren among our Chinese Christians\u2014starting discords\nin the little flocks\u2014or by their vile conduct bringing reproach on\nthe Gospel that they have proclaimed. Those things, I am grateful\nto say, belong to years past; and, besides, we don\u2019t growl at the\ngreat trials\u2014it is the comparatively little things that put us in a\nscolding mood.\n\nFor instance: here is a teacher who has done well\u2014been faithful,\nskilful and successful; has won the intense affection\u2014almost the\nreverence of her pupils. But her heart is young, and somebody\nelse\u2019s heart is young also, and these two have grown together,\ntill, in an hour of general congratulation, their hands are joined,\nand they start off upon life\u2019s journey no longer twain. Then the\nsame zeal, the same concentration of interest and effort which made\nher so successful a teacher, is developed touching home cares and\na husband\u2019s comfort; and weeks grow to months and months to years,\nand her face is not seen, even for an hour, in the school-room\nwhere she served so well. She did not mean it so to be; but so it\nwas, and the shrewd heathen Chinese, that was almost persuaded in\nview of her zeal and self-denial to become a Christian, thinks now\nthat he sees through it all: \u201cGood pay, good teach; no pay, no\nteach.\u201d\n\nHere is another teacher who took up the work with zeal and loved\nit\u2014so she said and so she thought; better and better the longer she\nwrought. But she is cumbered with much serving all day long, and\nbrings a weak flesh, and, consequently, a not very willing spirit\nto her evening\u2019s service at the mission. The pupils note it. It is\nindeed unmistakable, for the head nods and the eyes close, time\nand again, before the last school hour is half expired. They don\u2019t\nlike to burden her, and one by one they drop out of the school. The\nSuperintendent intervenes as gently as he can; but he finds that it\nis very difficult to dismiss a teacher and not lose a friend.\n\nHere is a field where the opportunity is evidently large, and the\ngate to it seems wide open. You enter it hopefully. Plans seem to\nform themselves almost without your thinking. Arrangements are made\nand the work begins. Then it appears the arrangements were _not_\nmade; that you \u201creckoned without your host;\u201d his plans and yours\ndo not exactly dovetail, and in this case a miss is as good, and\nas ill, as a mile. Delays ensue; disappointment and failure seem\ninevitable. The very elements seem to have conspired against you.\nAnd yet that opportunity must not be lost, for there are golden\nharvests possible in that wide-open field, and, somehow, you must\nreap them.\n\nIt is getting past the middle of your fiscal year. We have\ntried hard to make one dollar do the work of two, and yet the\nappropriation is well nigh exhausted. Contributions come in slowly.\nThe churches, you fancy, have forgotten this work; or, possibly\nthey dare not propose it among their charities. You sally forth,\nsubscription book in hand. You take the easy ones first, the men\nthat you \u201c_know_\u201d will give. But they respond to your \u201cknow\u201d\nwith a different \u201cNo.\u201d and you draw back to your retirement, you\nenter into your closet, and learn to go forth the next time in\nthe use of a coinage and a wisdom not your own and prayer, or the\nprayer-hearing Master, pulls you through, so that when the year\nends the year\u2019s bills are all paid and you take a fresh start for\nthe next twelve-months\u2019 campaign.\n\nBut a truce to all this. Who expects to make a voyage and encounter\nno storms? Who can hope to win a battle without finding that there\nare blows to take as well as blows to give? Our Master never\npromised us that just now the currents should float in either to\nthe fulfilment of our task or the attainment of a full salvation;\nbut forewarning us that in the world we should have great trials\nand tribulation, he adds, \u201cBe of good cheer; I have overcome the\nworld.\u201d\n\nI conclude with this little extract from a letter just received\nfrom a new helper, Jue Lee, whom we have sent to Oroville: \u201cNow\nthe school is here first-rate getting on. We have almost thirty\nscholars every night, but Mr. Ostrom, [Pastor of the church, W. C.\nP.], read the Bible also. I explain China to them. Now I hope God\nopen their ears to hear; find out this true light soon, and come to\nworship same God. But Christ is a faithful Saviour, and will not\nforsake those who put their trust in Him. But I, at first, dislike\nhere; it seem everything so strange to me. Now that I remember what\nthe Bible says: \u2018But the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head\u2019\n[I am content]. Now I hope God give me power to preach and soon\nthey will be all converted.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nWOMAN\u2019S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nRoom 20, Congregational House, Beacon St., Boston.\n\nMISS NATHALIE LORD, _Secretary_. MISS ABBY W. PEARSON, _Treasurer_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMONTHLY REPORT.\n\nThis Association has now become a corporate body. A meeting of the\nAssociation to complete the business of incorporation by adopting\nthe Charter and By-Laws, was held in the chapel of Mt. Vernon\nchurch, on March 30. In spite of the stormy weather the meeting was\na large one. Upon a motion to adopt the Charter, the opposition (to\nthe so-called \u201crestriction\u201d policy) at once offered an amendment,\nto postpone the whole matter of incorporation for a few weeks. A\nlively and somewhat lengthy discussion followed, which resulted\nin the loss of the amendment and the adoption of the Charter by a\nlarge majority. The debate was renewed over the obnoxious \u201c9th\nArticle,\u201d and an amendment to strike out the word \u201cHome,\u201d as\ndefining the work of auxiliaries, was proposed; but this was lost\nby a vote of 87 to 30, and the original Article adopted by a vote\nof 97 to 15.\n\nThe Association feel that they have reason to rejoice, not only in\nthe result, but in the whole course of the meeting. It was evident\nthat the opposition steadily lost ground, while the sentiment that\nthe policy of the Association thus far has been a wise and fitting\none, made a constant gain. We hope and believe that this is an omen\nof the increasing good-will and confidence of Christian people\ntowards the Association. While we are thankful for the steady\ngrowth of interest and the expressions of that interest in material\naid, we pray and long always for more; and we beg that none of\nthe friends of the work will remit, or intermit their interest,\nbut that they will rather redouble their efforts as they see how\nthe field opens before us, and how good a thing it is to help our\nneighbors in this way, and to serve our country and God.\n\nWe give an extract or two from a letter lately received from\nMiss Carter, at Nashville, telling us something of how she has\nused the contents of her last barrel, and of the working of her\nsewing-school.\n\n\u201cWednesday evening,\u201d she writes, \u201cI had a reception in my room. The\nguests were dirty, ragged, pitiful boys; some of them can read,\nsome cannot, but all of them are spell-bound by the wonderful\nstories of _St. Nicholas_ and _The Youth\u2019s Companion_. If the\nchildren who sent these papers and magazines sacrificed anything\nin so doing, may they be blessed for it; they would be could\nthey see the happy, wondering faces of the children, who almost\nreverently turn the pages and spell out the stories.\u201d * * * \u201cI\nwish it were possible for you to come into my sewing-school of a\nTuesday evening. At two o\u2019clock the girls assemble\u2014noisy, rough\ngirls,\u2014racing and laughing they burst into the room where I wait\nfor them: a room where a family of father, mother and five children\nlive, one of many, in some old barracks that were used in the\nwar. We begin with reading of Scripture and a short prayer, and\nsometimes the girls sing with their rich, full voices; then we\nare all ready for the work, which is sometimes sewing, sometimes\ncutting. There is a great deal of commendable rivalry among the\ngirls as to which shall sew best and fastest, so their tongues run\nfast until I silence them with a proposal to read or tell a story.\nThey are deeply interested in \u2018Pilgrim\u2019s Progress,\u2019 and beside we\nare having ten minute talks on Physiology, and the care of the\nbody. The immorality among the women and young girls is something\nto make one\u2019s heart ache, and my daily prayer is that I may do\nsomething to turn them to better, purer lives.\n\n\u201cWhen a garment is finished, the maker buys it for a trifling sum,\nwithin the means of the poorest. My other school meets Thursdays,\nin a school-house, and is conducted on nearly the same plan.\n\n\u201cPure hearted Northern girls, with homes where every comfort and\nluxury abound, you cannot picture to yourselves the poverty and\ndegradation of some of these homes where I go daily. Perhaps you\nread Dickens and Thackeray with moist eyes, and then, laying\naside the book, comfort yourselves with the thought, \u2018Well, after\nall there is no Nancy or Bill Sykes. There was never any one so\nmiserable as \u2018little Nell\u2019 or \u2018poor Jo;\u2019 never any such frightful\ncreature as one of these great hearts has wept over and the other\nhas laughed over.\u2019 But believe me, there _are_ just such; no\nnovelist\u2019s pen has ever colored too highly possible poverty and\ndegradation. What would you say, or rather what would you _do_,\nwere you to enter a cabin where I have been many times? The\nfirst time I ever saw \u2014\u2014 she was standing in her door-way on a\nsnowy, cold day, _her only article of clothing a calico wrapper_.\nWithin, the one room was as cheerless as a place well could be. In\none corner stood a bedstead with only a dirty husk bed on it, in\nanother, a table; there were two chairs, neither boasting a seat;\non the table were a few broken dishes, and this list enumerates all\nthere was in the room, absolutely _all_. This woman lives with a\nman many years older than she; he is a brute, and in his drunken\npassions beats her; she with one paralyzed and utterly powerless\narm can do nothing to defend herself. Perhaps it is no wonder if\nshe too, drinks at times, to forget her misery, yet no amount of\npersuasion or entreaty will induce her to separate from this man.\n\n\u201cHow can other girls and women be saved? Certainly not by the\nefforts of one woman working single-handed among them, not by the\nefforts of many such, perhaps; yet possibly by the earnest prayers\nof pure hearts, that send help while they still pray.\u201d\n\nReceipts of the Association from March 1 to March 28, 1881:\n\n  From Auxiliaries                                        $377.63\n  Donations                                                 90.95\n  Life Members                                             245.00\n  Annual Members                                            33.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $746.58\n\n\nDONATIONS.\n\nThrough Cong. Pub. Society, from Hoosac S. S., Hymn books, papers,\n&c., for Miss Julia A. Wilson, Baxter Springs, Kansas, $15.88.\n\nBible Society, New York, 60 Bibles for Mrs. Amelia S. Steele,\nAlmeda, S.C., $24.\n\nFrom Park St. S. S., Boston, for land for church, to Mrs. A. S.\nSteele, Almeda, $30. From friends, for Mrs. Steele, new clothing,\netc., $25.\n\nBarrel valued at $37, sent to Mrs. Steele, from Ladies\u2019 Benevolent\nSociety, Piedmont Church, Worcester, Mass.\n\nTwo cases, valued at $100 each, to Western Missionaries, from\nShawmut Av. Church, Boston.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCLAUDIE\u2019S COLOR LINE.\n\nMISS MARY L. SAWYER.\n\n\u201cI never, _never_ can bring myself to do it, Auntie; I know I never\ncan!\u201d and Claudie\u2019s blue eyes grew so very cloudy that Auntie\nthought the rain drops would surely fall.\n\n\u201cVery well, my darling, you may do as you please,\u201d she said,\ncheerily; \u201cbut now run out into the sunshine, for I shall be very\nbusy this morning and you must amuse yourself.\u201d\n\nThat did not seem a hard thing to the little girl, as she wanted to\nexplore the new home into which she had come for the first time the\nnight before. How strange everything looked; the blue mountains in\nthe distance, the cotton fields where women were picking the white\nballs into baskets, the little log cabins with their queer mud\nchimneys, and the mules shaking their long ears as they drew the\ngreat wagons piled high with snowy cotton bales along the road to\ntown. From the open window of the great brick building opposite she\ncould hear the hum of voices, for this was a colored college, and\nClaudie\u2019s uncle was one of its Professors. Her mamma had gone to\nHeaven a little time before, and this was why she was playing alone\nin the Southern sunshine at Auntie Faith\u2019s home.\n\nBut why was she alone? Out under the cedar trees were Pink and\nChloe and little Midge \u201cplaying supper\u201d with persimmons and\nchincapins, and breaking out now and then into song as naturally\nas the mocking-birds themselves. They had viewed Claudie from\nafar with round, admiring eyes, reserved the biggest chincapins\nfor her use, and Pink had even ventured to say \u201cHowdy?\u201d but the\nlittle stranger stood aloof. Not a cross word or a naughty one had\nany of the children spoken, and they looked as clean and neat as\nClaudie herself would have looked had she been eating very ripe\npersimmons as freely as they. Pink\u2019s black eyes were as full of fun\nand sparkle as Claudie\u2019s blue ones, and her face as bright, and yet\nplaying with these children was the very thing Claudie had said she\ncould never, never do!\n\nI really don\u2019t like to tell you her reason, she would be so ashamed\nof it now. It was just because their merry little faces were\ncolored _black_ instead of _white_!\n\nNow Claudie would never have been so foolish if she had not heard\nsome grown-up people talking after this fashion just before she\nleft the North:\n\n\u201cI really don\u2019t see how dear Mrs. Faith, with her refined tastes,\ncan _live_ among the blacks,\u201d said one.\n\n\u201cThink of eating at the same table, and actually touching them!\nIt fairly makes me shiver,\u201d echoed another, who sat with one arm\naround a big Newfoundland dog while she fed him with candy.\n\nAnd after Mrs. Faith, with tears in her eyes, had told the story\nof her work and described her love and respect for her colored\nfriends, another lady smilingly said:\n\n\u201cI have enjoyed your talk _so_ much, Mrs. Faith; but I don\u2019t envy\nyou in the least. I know I couldn\u2019t _endure_ the negroes.\u201d\n\nClaudie was not old enough to understand that people who talk in\nthis way are not the best or the wisest or the most refined people,\nand so their words influenced her. She was a very sociable little\nbody, however, and playing alone soon grew dull. It was hot on the\nveranda, and, too, indeed, that shady nook under the cedars seemed\nthe only cool spot in the yard just then, and how cunning little\nMidge did look!\n\n    \u201cNo second-class on board the train,\n      No difference in the fare,\u201d\n\npiped Pink, gleefully, as she set her table with gouber shells for\nplates.\n\nClaudie started. Why, Auntie sung that song once, and she said it\nmeant that Jesus and the angels loved black people just as well\nas white ones, and thought them quite as beautiful. How funny to\nforget that! If the little angels would be willing to play with\ncolored children of course she could, and then those persimmons\nwere vanishing _so_ fast!\n\nThe next minute a little white-robed maiden was flying through the\nrose-garden toward the cedars.\n\n\u201cOh, Pink!\u201d she cried, breathlessly, \u201cI never ate a persimmon in\nall my life.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe is saving some for you,\u201d answered Pink, as graciously as if her\npolite advances had been received at first, \u201can\u2019 Chloe got some\n\u2018simmon bread an\u2019 Midge brought some goubers.\u201d\n\nWhat these new delights were Claudie had no idea, and the\nchildren\u2019s tongues ran faster than ever as they explained. After\nthe feast came an exploring trip, and under Pink\u2019s guidance the\nyard and the adjoining field proved a perfect storehouse of\ntreasures.\n\n\u201c\u2019Clare, I done forgot,\u201d she cried, suddenly producing a long\nnecklace of chincapins, and presenting it shyly to Claudie; \u201cI made\nit on purpose for you.\u201d\n\n\u201cOh, you splendid Pink!\u201d cried Claudie; \u201cyou are the very nicest\nlittle girl I know!\u201d and throwing her arms around her new friend\u2019s\nneck she kissed her rapturously.\n\nThen of course they must play house, with Claudie as the\nwell-dressed mamma, and then came school and church and everything\nelse they could think of, till at last, tired out with play, they\nthrew themselves down in the shade to tell stories.\n\n\u201cI wonder if Heaven is over yonder by the mountains,\u201d said Claudie,\ndreamily; \u201cmy mamma is in Heaven, and she has a beautiful white\nrobe, and a golden crown and a harp!\u201d\n\n\u201cAn\u2019 my mamma is in Hebben, too, an\u2019 she wears a collarette,\u201d\nchimed in Chloe with much importance; \u201cbut Hebben isn\u2019t on the\nmountains; it\u2019s in England!\u201d\n\nClaudie had just opened her mouth to dispute this remarkable\nstatement, when Pink took up the argument:\n\n\u201cChloe doesn\u2019t know nuffin \u2019bout it,\u201d she laughed. \u201cShe just\nthinks that \u2019cause cousin Emma went to England in a big ship with\na heap of colored people to sing, an\u2019 she said ev\u2019rybody was so\ngood it seemed just like Heaven, and nobody seemed to notice that\nthey weren\u2019t as white as anybody, an\u2019 she saw the queen, an\u2019 she\nwent to dinner with white folks in splendid big houses, an\u2019 a white\ngen\u2019leman took her out to dinner hisself, an\u2019 treated her \u2019zactly\nlike a white lady; an\u2019 she says, \u2018\u2019magine me in Washington an\u2019\nGene\u2019l Sherman taking me out to dinner!\u2019\u201d\n\nPink stopped breathless.\n\n\u201cBut she did say it were sure \u2019nuff Hebben dere! You didn\u2019t tell it\nall, Pink Symond,\u201d persisted Chloe, indignantly.\n\n\u201cYes,\u201d said Pink, more soberly, \u201cshe _did_ say that when they came\nhome an\u2019 she had to ride in smoking cars, an\u2019 couldn\u2019t go to table\nwith white folks at hotels, an\u2019 was treated just like we all are,\nshe thought England must be Heaven sure enough, \u2019cause everybody\nsays this is the freest country outside of Heaven!\u201d\n\nJust then this theological discussion was ended by the sound of the\ndinner-bells, and Pink and Claudie, with arms lovingly around each\nother, walked slowly toward the house.\n\n\u201cOf such is the kingdom of Heaven,\u201d murmured Uncle Faith as he\nwatched them from his study window, and the tired look on his\nface faded away and something came instead that made Claudie say\nwonderingly\u2014\n\n\u201cOh, Uncle Faith, you look like\u2014like the apostle John!\u201d\n\n\u201cI think Pink is perfectly beautiful, Auntie,\u201d whispered Claudie at\nher bedtime talk that night, \u201cand I do wish those ladies at home\ncould see her. You know, Auntie\u201d\u2014the fair face flushing\u2014\u201cI was so\nignorant \u2019bout the colored people this morning, and I didn\u2019t know\nany better, and I s\u2019pose that\u2019s just the way with those ladies.\nIsn\u2019t there some way we could tell them, Auntie, that the colored\npeople are just like us, and that they don\u2019t seem so very colored\nafter all?\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS\n\nFOR MARCH, 1881.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $131.43.\n\n    Augusta. South Cong. Soc., ($30 of which from\n      BARRETT E. POTTER, to const. DEA. GEO. F.\n      HAWES, L. M.) $51; Mrs. A. M. C., 50c.; Mrs.\n      D. A. F., 50c.                                         $52.00\n    Farmington. H. P. K., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                      1.00\n    Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        6.40\n    Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.00\n    Hermon. Mrs. M. A. Peabody                                 1.00\n    Hiram. Ladies of Cong. Ch., by Mrs. L. W.\n      Hubbard, Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._,\n      $2.50 _for freight_                                      2.50\n    Kennebunk. Union Cong. Ch.                                15.53\n    Machias. Centre St. Ch. and Soc.                          14.50\n    Sweden. Members Cong. Ch.                                  5.00\n    Windham. Cong. Ch.                                         7.00\n    Windham Centre. J. T., 50c.; Mrs. B. F. D., 50c            1.00\n    Woolwich. J. C. S.                                         0.50\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $111.43\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Bethel. Estate of Sarah J. Chapman, by A. W.\n      Valentine, Ex.                                          20.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $131.43\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $306.42.\n\n    Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            20.00\n    Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                2.86\n    Colebrook. J. A. H.                                        0.50\n    Dover. E. J. L.                                            1.00\n    Exeter. Three Bbls. of C., _for Talladega,\n      Ala._\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             7.98\n    Fisherville. Rev. A. Wm. Fiske, $30, to const.\n      MRS. A. W. FISKE, L. M.; MRS. MARY C.\n      ATKINSON, $30, to const. herself L. M.                  60.00\n    Fitzwilliam. Dea. R. B. Phillips, $5; H. H. W.\n      60c.                                                     5.60\n    Francestown. R. G. C.                                      0.50\n    Great Falls. First Cong. Ch.                              26.23\n    Haverhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             14.32\n    Hillsborough Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $4.30; H. O. C., $1                                      5.30\n    Hollis. Cong. Ch. (89c. of which _for Woman\u2019s\n      work for Women_)                                        26.78\n    Laconia. \u201cFriends,\u201d Box of C., _for\n      Washington, D.C._\n    Lancaster. Mrs. A. M. Amsden                               5.00\n    Littleton. Mrs. B. W. K.                                   1.00\n    Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc., adl. to const. DEA.\n      SAMUEL F. BALL, L. M.                                   10.80\n    Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $57.33, to\n      const. DEA. LEONARD FRENCH, L. M.;\n      \u201cPillsbury,\u201d $5                                         62.33\n    Marlborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           18.59\n    Mason. E. B. Newell                                        2.00\n    New Boston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            16.73\n    Orford. David E. Willard                                   5.00\n    Troy. M. W. W.                                             0.60\n    Wolfborough. \u2014\u2014                                            5.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $289.61.\n\n    Barre. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 16.06\n    Bethel. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 7.26\n    Burlington. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     1.00\n    Castleton. Cong. Ch and Soc.                              32.00\n    Clarendon. Mrs. A. Smith                                   5.00\n    East Poultney. J. M.                                       0.50\n    Essex Junction. Elizabeth T. Macomber                      2.00\n    Greensborough. Mrs. L. S. Patton                           5.00\n    Hubbardton. Mrs D. J. Flagg, _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                         2.00\n    Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               40.14\n    North Ferrisburgh. MRS. C. W. WICKER, to\n      const. herself L. M.                                    30.00\n    Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            15.75\n    Norwich. Mrs. H. Burton                                    5.00\n    Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. JOSEPH\n      C. PARKER, L. M.                                        26.50\n    Royalton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                21.75\n    Saint Albans. Dea. H. M. Stevens, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           15.00\n    Shelburne. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                        15.00\n    Strafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             20.00\n    Wallingford. Cong. Ch., by Miss L. A. Kelley,\n      Bbl. of C. and $1 _for freight, for\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                         1.00\n    West Charleston. Rev. W. T. Herrick, _for\n      rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._                             8.65\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                             10.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                             10.00\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $3,458.38.\n\n    Abington. S. L.                                            0.50\n    Acton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 21.15\n    Amesbury. Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C., _for\n      Washington, D.C._\n    Andover. C. E. Goodell, $25; A Friend, $5                 30.00\n    Andover. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      15.00\n    Andover. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                        10.00\n    Arlington. Cong. Church and Soc.                          25.00\n    Ashburnham. Fa r of Children\u2019s Circle of Cong.\n      Ch., _for Atlanta U._                                   45.70\n    Ashfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    12.50\n    Ashland. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            3.50\n    Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   46.00\n    Athol. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. ANDREW J.\n      HAMILTON and ELBRIDGE E. SPAULDING, L. M.\u2019s             75.00\n    Barre. Sab. Sch. of Evan. Cong. Ch.                       14.03\n    Berlin. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n    Boston. Old South Cong. Church and Soc.,\n      $672.24; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $1.50                             673.74\n    Boston. Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Association,\n      Abbie W. Pearson, Treas., $150.40, _for Lady\n      Missionaries_; Individuals, _for Mag._, $2             152.40\n    Boston. Mrs. M. E. Hayden, 2 Boxes of\n      Articles, _for Fair at Emerson Inst._\n    Boston Highlands. Miss E. Torrey\u2019s Sab. Sch.\n      Class, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                   2.00\n    Boston Highlands. Eliot Dorcas Soc., Bbl.\n      Bedding and C., _for Fisk U._\n    Bradford. Elijah Bradstreet, _for Fisk U._                10.00\n    Bridgewater. Sab. Sch. of Cent. Sq. Cong. Ch.             15.00\n    Brockton. Mrs. B. Sanford, _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                        10.00\n    Brockton. Mrs. L. C. Sanford, Bbl. of C.\n    Brookline. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     50.00\n    Buckland. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       5.00\n    Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                           9.66\n    Charlton. Bbl. of C. and $1 _for freight_, by\n      Mrs. H. M. Fiske, _for Kansas Refugee M._                1.00\n    Chelsea. \u201cE. G.\u201d _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                5.00\n    Dalton. First Cong. Ch.                                   33.98\n    Danvers. Miss C. W. L.                                     0.50\n    Dedham. Miss M. C. Burgess, _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                       100.00\n    Dorchester. \u201cA Friend of the Freedmen,\u201d $5; C.\n      E. B., $1; Mrs. E. T., 50c.; Mrs. M. J. B.,\n      50c.                                                     7.00\n    Dracut. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           5.00\n    Easton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          13.75\n    Fitchburg. H. M. F.                                        0.50\n    Foxborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            31.56\n    Franklin. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           15.25\n    Framingham. Mrs. J. W. C., 50c.; Mrs. F. B.\n      H., 50c.                                                 1.00\n    Georgetown. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      28.82\n    Greenfield. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                           25.00\n    Hampshire Co. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                 100.00\n    Harwichport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                             6.00\n    Hatchville. Mrs. V. N.H.                                  1.00\n    Heath. Mrs. W. E. Hunt, _for Macon, Ga._                   2.00\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             105.00\n    Hopkinton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.\n      _for Mobile, Ala._\n    Hubbardston. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Kansas Refugee\n      M._                                                      2.00\n    Linden. \u201cA little boy,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            0.25\n    Littleton. Mrs. Wm. Sewall, _for the poor,\n      Mobile, Ala._                                            4.00\n    Lowell. Edwin Lamson, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            2.00\n    Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            32.25\n    Marblehead. J. J. H. Gregory, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           65.00\n    Marion. Ladies\u2019 Missionary Soc.                            5.00\n    Millbury. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., _Bbl. of\n      bedding, for Atlanta U._\n    Monson. Mrs. C. O. Chapin and her S. S. Class,\n      _for ed. of an Indian boy, Hampton N. and A.\n      Inst._                                                  10.00\n    Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         19.00\n    Newburyport. Freedmen\u2019s Aid Soc., Bbl. of C.,\n      _for Washington, D.C._\n    Newton. First Cong. Ch.                                   25.00\n    Northampton. \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. MISS\n      HARRIET S. BILLINGS and MRS. ELIZABETH MEAD,\n      L. M.\u2019s                                                100.00\n    Northampton. First Cong. Ch., _for ed. of an\n      Indian, Hampton N. & A. Inst._                          50.00\n    Northampton. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                         5.00\n    North Brookfield. Union Cong. Ch.                         11.00\n    North Somerville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                               1.00\n    Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           6.00\n    Oxford. Mrs. Edward Bardwell, $5; Mrs. D.\n      Payne, $5; _for the poor, Mobile, Ala._                 10.00\n    Peabody. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., by Mrs.\n      Sperry, 2 Bbls. of Bedding, _for Atlanta U._\n    Peru. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     10.00\n    Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          27.00\n    Roxbury. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for the poor, Mobile,\n      Ala._                                                   15.00\n    Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              75.00\n    Salem. Sab. Sch. of South Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      70.00\n    Salisbury and Amesbury. Union Evan. Ch. and\n      Soc.                                                    10.00\n    South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          8.00\n    Southborough. P. E. Ch. and Soc.                          23.16\n    South Deerfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $25; Mrs.\n      M. C. Tilton, $2                                        27.00\n    South Framingham. G. M. Amsden                             5.00\n    South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    24.00\n    Springfield. \u201cM.,\u201d _for rebuilding, Tougaloo,\n      Miss._                                                 100.00\n    Springfield. Homer Merriam, to const. RUTH E.\n      CLIZBIE, L. M.                                          30.00\n    Springfield. T. S. S.                                      0.50\n    South Royalston. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                20.00\n    Stockbridge. Alice Byington, _for Ind. Sch.,\n      McIntosh, Ga._                                           5.00\n    Swampscott. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            11.64\n    Tewksbury. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls. of C.\n      and $3 _for freight, for Talladega C._                   3.00\n    Upton. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl. of C., _for Washington,\n      D.C._\n    Ware. East Cong. Ch. and Soc., $410.90; First\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc., $35.60                             446.50\n    Warren. Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. CHARLES F.\n      PIERCE, L. M.                                           65.18\n    Watertown. Ladies, Bbl. of C., _for Talladega,\n      Ala._\n    Westborough. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $95.03;\n      Sab. Sch. of Evan. Cong. Ch., $50                      145.03\n    Westhampton. Miss H. F. C.                                 1.00\n    West Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           13.00\n    Westminster. Bbl. of C. val. $45, by Mrs. J.\n      B. Wood; Mrs. H. G. Whitney, $2 _for freight_            2.00\n    Westport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                           3.54\n    Weymouth and Braintree. Union Cong. Ch.                   23.79\n    Wilmington. Mrs. Susan Bancroft                            6.00\n    Winchester. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     1.00\n    Woburn. E. F. F.                                           1.00\n    Worcester. Minnie A. Winter                                5.00\n    Worcester. Washburn & Moen, 1142 lbs. of\n      Galvanized Barb Fencing, _3 miles of fencing\n      for Winsted Lawn, Talladega, Miss._\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. MRS. SUSAN M. SPRAGUE\n      and MRS. LYDIA S. SPRAGUE, L. M\u2019s.                      60.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                             10.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $3,308.38\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Northfield. Estate of Mrs. Amanda Field, by T.\n      J. Field, Adm.                                         150.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $3,458.38\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $526.52.\n\n    Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch., $426.02;\n      Rev. A. H. M., 50c.                                    426.52\n    Providence. A. D. Lockwood, _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                       100.00\n    Providence. Central Ch., one Bbl. and two\n      Boxes of C. _for Washington, D.C._\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $3,244.01.\n\n    Ashford. Cong. Ch.                                         5.00\n    Bethlehem. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             22.15\n    Branford. H. G. H.                                         1.00\n    Bridgeport. First Cong. Ch.                               93.81\n    Collinsville. Mrs. Chidsey, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            5.00\n    Derby. First Cong. Ch.                                    17.50\n    East Hartford. First Cong. Ch. ($10 of which\n      from Abraham Williams), _for Kansas Refugee\n      M._                                                     20.00\n    East Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         16.55\n    Enfield. First Cong. Ch.                                 100.00\n    Fair Haven. Second Cong. Ch., to const.\n      CHARLES N. HUBBARD, L. M.                               37.10\n    Goshen. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                45.00\n    Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch.                                     6.00\n    Hartford. Mrs. Polly Johnson, _for Mendi M._               1.50\n    Hartford. Mrs. John Olmsted, _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                        15.00\n    Harwinton. Cong. Ch.                                      44.80\n    Hebron. L. W. R.                                           1.00\n    Lebanon. Ladies\u2019 Social Soc. of First Cong.\n      Ch., Bbl. of C.\n    Litchfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   25.00\n    Manchester. First Cong. Ch., Box dried fruit,\n      _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n    Meriden. Edmund Tuttle, to const. MISS MARY A.\n      RICE, L. M.                                             30.00\n    Milldale. J. B. D.                                         0.50\n    New Haven. Church of the Redeemer, $191.75,\n      and books, val. $14, from Rev. S. W. Barnum            191.75\n    New Haven. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Indian M._                    20.00\n    New Haven. H. F. Hart, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    New Haven. E. P. Judd, books, val. $100, _for\n      College Library, Talladega C._\n    New Haven. \u201cA Friend,\u201d Box of books, _for\n      Tougaloo U._\n    New London. Mrs. Robert McEwen, _for Hampton\n      N. & A. Inst., new building for Indian girls_          100.00\n    New London. First Church                                  50.75\n    Norfolk. Cong. Ch., $50; M. A. C., $1                     51.00\n    North Greenwich. Mrs. A. D.                                0.50\n    North Stamford. Cong. Ch.                                  3.00\n    Norwich Town. _For Kansas Refugee M._                      5.00\n    Norwich. Park Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         866.62\n    Norwich. Miss Mary W. Rockwell, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Norwich. Home Miss. Soc. of Second Cong. Ch.,\n      Box of bedding, _for Atlanta U._\n    Norwich. Home Miss. Soc. of Park Ch., Bbl. of\n      bedding and towels, _for Tillotson C. and N.\n      Inst._\n    Orange. Rev. E. E. R., _for Macon, Ga._                    1.00\n    Plantsville. Cong. Ch.                                   365.35\n    Plantsville. \u201cFriends,\u201d $80; Mrs. E. P.\n      Hotchkiss, $5, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._            85.00\n    Prospect. R. R. Brown, $20; Cong. Ch., $17                37.00\n    Somersville. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                         1.00\n    South Windsor. Cong. Ch., $32; C. W., 50c.                32.50\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      77.68\n    Thompsonville. H. P. P.                                    1.00\n    Tolland. Lucy L. Clough, ($50 of which _for\n      Indian M._)                                            100.00\n    Tolland. Cong. Ch.                                         6.35\n    Vernon Depot. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                 9.00\n    Warren. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          36.60\n    Woodbury. \u201cF. J.,\u201d _for ed. of Indians,\n      Hampton N. & A. Inst._                                   1.00\n    Woodburn. Benjamin Fabrique                               20.00\n    West Winsted. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                        10.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for rebuilding, Tougaloo,\n      Miss._                                                  10.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $2,644.01\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    South Britain. Estate of Nancy P. Mitchell, by\n      C. LeRoy Mitchell, Admr.                               500.00\n    New London. \u201cTrust Estate of Henry P. Haven\u201d\n      _for rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._                      100.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $3,244.01\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $796.01.\n\n    Big Hollow. Nelson Hitchcock                               5.00\n    Binghamton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   50.00\n    Binghamton. Young People of Cong. Ch. through\n      Miss S. Bean, Box of articles, _for fair,\n      Mobile, Ala._\n    Black Creek. Cong. Ch., $3.30; Miss M. T. $1               4.30\n    Brooklyn. C. T. Christensen, $100; Park Cong.\n      Ch., $10.63; Sab. Sch. of Ch. of the\n      Covenant, $3                                           113.63\n    Brooklyn. Mrs. B. W. Gleason, package of C.,\n      _for Kansas Refugee M._\n    Canajoharie. Mrs. D. H. P.                                 0.50\n    Clifton Springs. Anna B. Miller, _for the\n      poor, Mobile, Ala._                                      2.00\n    Cutchogue. Mrs. L. D. Whaley, $9; Presb. Ch.,\n      Box of C., _for the poor, Mobile, Ala._                  9.00\n    East Aurora. Rev. R. M. Sandford                           4.00\n    Ellington. Mrs. H. B. Rice, _for Woman\u2019s Work\n      for Women_                                              10.00\n    Ellington. Cong. Ch.                                       2.50\n    Franklin. First Cong. Ch., to const. REV. JOHN\n      H. FRAZER, L. M.                                        51.20\n    Flushing. First Cong. Soc.                                15.00\n    Geneva. Mrs. C. H.                                         0.50\n    Gloversville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Straight U._                                            40.00\n    Griffins Mills. Abijah Paul                                2.00\n    Hamilton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      15.00\n    Hamilton. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                 6.00\n    Harlem. Cong. Ch., $45.53; Sab. Sch. of Cong.\n      Ch., $30; to const. CHARLES P. PIERCE, L. M.            75.53\n    Homer. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Talladega,\n      Ala._\n    Honeoye. Cong. Ch.                                        64.10\n    McDonough. Miss Caroline Sawtelle                          2.00\n    Millbrook. Mrs. J. W. C.                                   0.51\n    New York. \u201cArtist,\u201d $25; A. N. Selter, $10; J.\n      S. Holt, $10; Dr. A. S. Ball, $5                        50.00\n    Oneida. S. H. Goodwin, $10; Edward Loomis, $2             12.00\n    Oriskany. Albert Halsey, $5; Mrs. E. D. P., $1             6.00\n    Oxford. Assoc. Presb. Ch.                                  8.69\n    Palmyra. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for the poor,\n      Mobile, Ala._                                            2.50\n    Penn Yan. W. M. Taylor                                     2.50\n    Perry Center. Mrs. E. A. S.                                1.00\n    Portland. John S. Coon                                    15.00\n    Prattsburgh. \u201cA.\u201d                                          5.00\n    Rochester. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of Plym. Cong.\n      Ch., _for Straight U._                                  10.55\n    Sackets Harbor. Mrs. Anar. H. Barnes, _for\n      Indian M._                                              40.00\n    Sherburne. Mrs. F. L. Rexford, _for Talladega\n      C._                                                     12.00\n    Silver Creek. Mrs. Eliza Lee, $100; W. Chapin,\n      $5; C. H., $1; Others, $1                              107.00\n    Syracuse. C. A. Hamlin                                    50.00\n    Westmoreland. A. S. B.                                     0.50\n    West Winfield. Miss A. K.                                  0.50\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $240.00.\n\n    Bergen Point. Reformed Church, by Rev. H. W.\n      F. Jones                                                50.00\n    Englewood. C. T.                                           1.00\n    Montclair. Mrs. S. T. Pratt\u2019s S. S. Class,\n      $13; \u201cA Lady Friend,\u201d $1                                14.00\n    Montclair. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Hampton N. & A. Inst._                                  40.00\n    Morristown. Miss Ella M. Graves, _for\n      rebuilding, Tougaloo U._                               100.00\n    Orange Valley. Cong. Ch., Package S. S.\n      Papers; Mrs. H. M. A., 50c.                              0.50\n    Newark. C. S. Haines                                      30.00\n    Paterson. H. H.                                            0.50\n    Raritan. Mrs. S. Provost, $4, and Box of papers            4.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $157.01.\n\n    Coudersport. Mr. & Mrs. John S. Mann                       6.50\n    Philadelphia. H. W. Pitkin, _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                       100.00\n    Philadelphia. A. H. Wilstack, _for Tougaloo U._           50.00\n    Pittsburgh. E. P.                                          0.51\n\n\n  OHIO, $1,506.16.\n\n    Alliance. Mrs. J. L. Thomas                                1.50\n    Ashtabula. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                   100.00\n    Bowling Green. Mrs. P. Minton, $1.50; Rev. J.\n      K. Deering, $1.50; Mrs. J. K. D., 50c.                   3.50\n    Bissells. Mrs. S. H. E.                                    1.00\n    Brookfield. By Evan T. Tomas, Sec.                        10.00\n    Burton. Cong. Ch., (of which S. A. H., $10; L.\n      R. B. $10, C. C. $10, to const. MRS. SARAH\n      A. HOTCHKISS, L. M.)                                    40.26\n    Cincinnati. Vine St. Cong. Ch. _for furnishing\n      rooms, Tougaloo U._                                     37.00\n    Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., $18; \u201cM. H. B.,\u201d $1           19.00\n    Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of bedding\n      and C., _for Fisk U._\n    Columbus. Miss C. Herd, _for ed. of a colored\n      man for the ministry_                                    5.00\n    Fort Recovery. J. F. Collins                               5.00\n    Four Corners. Cong. Ch.                                   11.75\n    Gallion. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of Pres. Ch., Box\n      of C., _for the poor, Mobile, Ala._\n    Geneva. Young People\u2019s Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      the poor, Mobile, Ala._                                  5.00\n    Gustavus. Ladies, 50c., _for Student Aid_,\n      Bbl. of C., and $1.50 _for freight, for\n      Talladega C._                                            2.00\n    Hudson. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                            2.65\n    Kingsville. Presb. Ch., $14; Rev. D. L.\n      Hickok, $10; Mrs. A., $1; Ladies, 3 Bbls. of\n      C., _for the poor, Mobile, Ala._                        25.00\n    Lenox. Cong. Ch., $11.75; A. J. Holman, $10               21.75\n    Madison. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       80.48\n    Mallet Creek. Dr. J. A. Bingham                            5.00\n    Mechanicstown. S. M.                                       1.00\n    Newark. Mrs. Lewis Jones                                   2.00\n    Oberlin. First Cong. Ch., $90; Mrs. J. F. B.,\n      60c.                                                    90.60\n    Painesville. Reuben Hitchcock, _for\n      rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._                           150.00\n    Painesville. S. W. P.                                      1.00\n    Pierpont. Mrs. S. W.                                       1.00\n    Ravenna. S. H.                                             1.00\n    Sandusky. First Cong. Ch.                                159.77\n    Sandusky. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box of bedding,\n      _for Fisk U._\n    Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                                       10.00\n    Saybrook. Dist. No. 3, _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._, $2.30, and _for freight_, $1.70            4.00\n    Seville. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n    Tallmadge. Miss H. W. C.                                   0.50\n    Toledo. First Cong. Ch., $24; Third Cong. Ch.,\n      $10.70, _for furnishing rooms, Tougaloo U._             34.70\n    Unionville. Mrs. J. M. Frazer, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           10.00\n    Wakeman. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           31.70\n    Wauseon. Cong. Ch., _for furnishing rooms,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            12.00\n    West Williamsfield. Cong. Ch.                             11.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $906.16\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Andover. Estate of Orrin B. Case, by Thomas\n      Case                                                   600.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $1,506.16\n\n\n  INDIANA, $5.50.\n\n    Dublin. H. M.                                              1.00\n    Economy. C. W. O., $1; Mrs. L. M., $1                      2.00\n    Fort Wayne. Mrs. E. T. M.                                  0.50\n    Sparta. John Hawkswell                                     2.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $1,098.90.\n\n    Amboy. C. A. Church, _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                         5.00\n    Avon. Mrs. Celinda Woods, $3.50; \u201cA Friend,\u201d\n      $1.50                                                    5.00\n    Belvidere. Miss Elizabeth Smith                            3.00\n    Buda. J. B. Stewart, _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                       100.00\n    Byron. A. A. Johnston                                      5.00\n    Chicago. New England Ch. (ad\u2019l), $118.61;\n      Lincoln Park Cong. Ch., $10.89                         129.50\n    Chicago. C. B. Bouton, _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                     50.00\n    Chicago. Mrs. E. W. Blatchford, $10; Mrs. C.\n      H. Case, $5; Ladies\u2019 Aid. Soc. of Leavitt\n      St. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.; Lincoln Park\n      Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.; Ladies of New England\n      Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for the poor,\n      Mobile, Ala._                                           15.00\n    Chicago. Lincoln Park Cong. Ch., Woman\u2019s Miss.\n      Soc., _for Lady Missionary, Mobile, Ala._               13.90\n    Downers\u2019 Grove. J. W. Bushnell, _for\n      rebuilding Tougaloo U._                                  3.00\n    Elgin. \u201cFriends in Cong. Ch.\u201d                             50.00\n    Geneva. Cong. Ch., B. of C., _for the poor,\n      Mobile, Ala._\n    Griggsville. Cong. Ch.                                    33.68\n    Highland. Cong. Ch.                                       15.00\n    Huntley. T. S. Huntley                                    10.00\n    Hutsonville. C. V. N.                                      1.00\n    Ivanhoe. Mrs. S. S.                                        1.00\n    Jacksonville. T. W. Melendy, $10; H. L. and M.\n      C. Melendy, $10                                         20.00\n    Milburn. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl.\n      of C., _for the poor, Mobile, Ala._\n    Moline. Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   25.00\n    Moline. \u2014\u2014                                                10.00\n    Orange. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n    Ottawa. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           35.00\n    Payson. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00\n    Plymouth. N. F. Burton                                    10.00\n    Quincy. Lorenzo Bull, _for rebuilding\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                       100.00\n    Quincy. Joshua Perry                                      10.00\n    Stillman Valley. Cong. Ch.                                 8.32\n    Streator. Mrs. M. L. W.                                    0.50\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $673.90\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Chicago. Estate of Mrs. E. H. Craven, by E. N.\n      Blatchford, Adm., $200, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._, and $225 _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                          425.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $1,098.90\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $540.68.\n\n    Alpena. Mrs. S. Hitchcock, _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                        20.00\n    Battle Creek. Presb. and Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               6.00\n    Brighton. Mrs. M. A. Kellogg                               5.00\n    Calumet. Cong. Ch.                                       242.44\n    Calumet. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           28.68\n    Church\u2019s Corners. H. C.                                    1.00\n    Covert. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   11.00\n    Gaylord. A. Van Auken                                      3.00\n    Grand Rapids. E. M. Ball                                  10.00\n    Laingsburg. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc.                             2.11\n    Lansing. Plymouth Ch.                                     33.00\n    Litchfield. First Cong. Ch.                               19.75\n    Olivet. Cong. Ch.                                          8.70\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $390.68\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Union City. Bequest of Miss Sarah B. Clark,\n      _for repairing roof of Swayne Hall,\n      Talladega, Ala._, by I. W. Clark                       150.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $540.68\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $224.30.\n\n    Arena. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             1.55\n    Berlin. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., $10; Mrs. Geo.\n      Waring, $5; W. F., $1; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $1;\n      \u201cFriends,\u201d 1 Bbl. and 2 Boxes of C., _for\n      Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                               17.00\n    Beloit. Ladies of First Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             3.00\n    Beloit. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for freight_                 1.53\n    Broadhead. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n    Bristol and Paris. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Lady Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                        3.00\n    Kaukauna. Cong. Ch.                                        2.50\n    Kenosha. L. G. M.                                          1.00\n    Lake Geneva. Mrs. H. A. Allan, _for Theo.\n      Dept., Talladega C._                                    15.00\n    Madison. First Cong. Ch., adl.                            50.00\n    Mazo Manie. Mrs. R. Laughlin, _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                         2.00\n    Milton. First Cong. Ch.                                    8.71\n    Ripon. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                            15.00\n    Sparta. First Cong. Ch., to const. JOHN L. WOY\n      and WILLIAM LOHMILLER, L. M.\u2019s                          60.01\n    Sun Prairie. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               9.00\n    White Water. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., $20,\n      Prof. Saulsbury, $5, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Woodworth. Ladies\u2019 Soc., Bbl. of C. and $5\n      _for Freight, for Macon, Ga._                            5.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $438.97.\n\n    Algona. Cong. Ch.                                          6.00\n    Anamosa. Woman\u2019s Freedmen\u2019s Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           10.00\n    Big Rock. Cong. Ch.                                       19.00\n    Big Rock. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           10.00\n    Burlington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   10.00\n    Cedar Rapids. T. M. Sinclair, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      25.00\n    Cedar Rapids. Miss A. W. D.                                0.50\n    Clay. Cong. Ch., _for Kansas Refugee M._                  17.00\n    Chester Centre. Cong. Ch.                                 36.00\n    Clinton. Dr. E. R. Mullet, $1.50; H. C. Y.,\n      $1; H. R. W., 50c.; C. B., 50c.                          3.50\n    Clinton. Ladies, _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                            5.00\n    Davenport. Geo. W. Ells                                   10.00\n    Denmark. J. H.                                             0.51\n    De Witt. Rev. J. F. T.                                     1.00\n    Dubuque. Mrs. J. Merrit Rice, Box of C.; Cong.\n      Ch. and Young People\u2019s Benev. Soc., Bbl. of\n      C., _for the poor, Mobile, Ala._\n    Dunlap. Cong. Ch.                                         15.73\n    Grinnell. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., $33.35; By\n      Rev. J. S. F., $1                                       34.35\n    Grinnell. \u201cEight Friends,\u201d $20; Prof. F. P.\n      Brewer, $2.21; _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                     22.21\n    Lyons. Ladies, _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                           10.00\n    Marion. \u201cWilling Workers,\u201d _for Straight U._              30.00\n    Maquoketa. Cong. Ch.                                      31.50\n    Miles. Ladies, _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                            1.75\n    Montour. Cong. Ch.                                        14.70\n    Montour. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for Kansas\n      Refugee M._                                              1.00\n    Newton. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                           11.22\n    Oskaloosa. Rev. Asa Turner and wife, _for\n      Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                               20.00\n    Sabula. Ladies, _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                            5.00\n    Tabor. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid, Tougaloo\n      U._                                                      5.00\n    Wayne. Ladies, $2; D. C. S., $1; _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            3.00\n    Wilton. Ladies\u2019 Missionary Soc., $10; Ladies\n      $5, _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._             15.00\n    Winthrop. Cong. Ch.                                       20.00\n    Council Bluffs. Ladies\u2019 Home Miss. Soc., $15;\n      Iowa Falls, Ladies of Cong. Ch., $15; Ames,\n      Ladies of Cong. Ch., $5; Bear Grove, Ladies\n      of Cong. Ch., $5; Shelbyville, Ladies of\n      Cong. Ch., $5, _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                           45.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $132.35.\n\n    Index. W. B. Wills, $10; P. M. Wills, $5; F.\n      P., $1; Others, $1.50                                   17.50\n    Meadville. Cong. Ch.                                       8.25\n    New Cambria. Cong. Ch.                                     2.10\n    Saint Louis. Mrs. R. Webb                                100.00\n    St. Louis. Miss Mary E. Edgell, _for the Poor,\n      Mobile, Ala._                                            5.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $14.67.\n\n    Burlington. John Morris                                    2.00\n    Lane. Mrs. N. D. Coleman                                   2.00\n    Russell. First Cong. Ch.                                  10.67\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $114.64.\n\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 20.81\n    Minneapolis. E. D. First Cong. Ch.                        12.63\n    Northfield. A. N. N.                                       1.00\n    Plainview. \u201cMission Helpers,\u201d _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       7.00\n    Saint Paul. Sab. Sch. of Plym. Cong. Ch. _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   25.00\n    Tivoli. L. H.                                              1.00\n    Waseca. Cong. Soc.                                        15.00\n    Zumbrota. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      MRS. WILLIAM B. WARD, L. M.                             32.20\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $37.88.\n\n    Red Willow. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    37.88\n\n\n  COLORADO, $10.50.\n\n    Colorado Springs. Young Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         10.00\n    Loveland. C. E. F.                                         0.50\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $300.00.\n\n    San Diego. George W. Marston                             150.00\n    Oakland. Mrs. E. A. Gray, _for School-house in\n      Georgia_                                               150.00\n\n\n  OREGON, $23.00.\n\n    The Dalles. First Cong. Ch.                               13.00\n    Oregon City. Rev. Amos W. Bower                           10.00\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $4.06.\n\n    Washington. Lincoln Memorial Cong. Ch.                     4.06\n\n\n  MARYLAND, $100.00.\n\n    Baltimore. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                   100.00\n\n\n  WEST VIRGINIA, $4.00.\n\n    Elm Grove. Mrs. B. D. Atkinson                             4.00\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $151.75.\n\n    Wilmington. Normal School, Tuition                       106.75\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                     45.00\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $321.75.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition                         321.75\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $320.33.\n\n    Memphis. Le Moyne School, Tuition                        207.50\n    Nashville. Fisk University, Tuition                      112.40\n    Nashville. \u201cA Widow\u2019s Mite,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                 0.43\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $827.72.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs School, Tuition, $324.35;\n      Rent, $3                                               327.35\n    Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition, $125.25; Rent,\n      $7.80                                                  133.05\n    Atlanta. First Cong. Ch.                                 125.00\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $92.95; Rent,\n      $5.50                                                   98.45\n    McIntosh. Tuition                                          6.87\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $123; Rent, $10          133.00\n    Spoonville. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for furnishing rooms,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             2.00\n    Woodville. Rev. J. H. H. Sengstack, _for Mendi\n      M._                                                      2.00\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $597.97.\n\n    Marion. Cong. Ch.                                          1.25\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition                           222.70\n    Mobile. Emersonian Mission Band, $5; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d $5; Miss R. A. Smith, $2.50, _for\n      the poor, Mobile, Ala._                                 12.50\n    Mobile. Ch. Offering, _for Mendi M._                       1.00\n    Montgomery. Pub. Sch. Fund                               221.25\n    Montgomery. Miss H. M. Scott, to const. LUCY\n      C. SANFORD, L. M., _and for furnishing\n      rooms, Tougaloo U._                                     50.00\n    Selma. Cong. Ch.                                          12.75\n    Shelby Iron Works. A. E. S. B.                             0.51\n    Talladega. Talladega College, Tuition, $75.50;\n      H. L. B., 51c.                                          76.01\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $251.00.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                        150.50\n    New Orleans. Central Cong. Ch.                           100.00\n    New Iberia. B. K.                                          0.50\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $120.70.\n\n    Tougaloo. Renters on McKee\u2019s Plantation, _for\n      fitting up Chapel_, $3.50; Tougaloo,\n      \u201cFriends,\u201d $1.25; Canton, \u201cFriends,\u201d $2.10;\n      Livingstone, $1.80; Sweet Canaan Ch., $2.50,\n      _for furnishing rooms in Ladies\u2019 Hall_                  11.15\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition                           102.60\n    Hinds Co. \u201cFriends,\u201d by A. Costello, $3.50; by\n      Andrew Moman, $3.45, _for furnishing rooms,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             6.95\n\n\n  TEXAS, $45.75.\n\n    Austin. Tillotson C. and N. Inst. Tuition                 44.50\n    Corpus Christi. First. Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       1.25\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $455.00.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               355.00\n    General Endowment Fund                                    50.00\n    C. F. Dike Fund                                           50.00\n\n\n  SCOTLAND, $100.00.\n\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA. P.\u201d                                               100.00\n\n\n  PERSIA, $50.00.\n\n    Orsonnat. E. W. Labaree                                   50.00\n\n\n  JAPAN, $40.00\n\n    Kobe. REV. R. HENRY DAVIS ($10 of which _for\n      Chinese M. in San Francisco_), $30, to\n      const. himself L. M.; Miss Anna Y. Davis, $10           40.00\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total for March                                  $16,987.47\n        Total from Oct. 1st to March 31st                104,509.93\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON C. & N. INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Norwich, Conn. Ladies of Park Ch., by Mrs. L.\n      B. Young                                                27.00\n    Buffalo, N.Y. W. G. Bancroft                              50.00\n    Romeo, Mich. Miss T. S. Clark                             15.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                              $92.00\n    Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to Feb.\n      28th                                                 4,110.71\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                            4,202.71\n\n\n  FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.\n\n    From Oct. 1st. to March 31st                         $17,993.06\n                                                         ==========\n\n                                    H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,\n                                                56 Reade St., N.Y.\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association,\n\n56 READE STREET, N.Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  PRESIDENT.\n\n    HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\n  VICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n    Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n    Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n    Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n    Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D.D., Me.\n    Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D.D., Ct.\n    WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R.I.\n    Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D.D., Mass.\n    Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R.I.\n    Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D.D., R.I.\n    Rev. RAY PALMER, D.D., N.J.\n    Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D.D., N.Y.\n    Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. W. W. PATTON, D.D., D.C.\n    Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n    Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D.D., N.H.\n    Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D.D., Ct.\n    DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.\n    Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.\n    Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D.D., Minn.\n    Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N.Y.\n    Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Washington Ter.\n    Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D.D., Iowa.\n    Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n    EDWARD SPAULDING, M.D., N.H.\n    Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D.D., Ct.\n    Rev. W. L. GAGE, D.D., Ct.\n    A. S. HATCH, Esq., N.Y.\n    Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D.D., Ohio.\n    Rev. H. A. STIMSON, 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    Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n    Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n    Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.\n    Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.\n    Rev. HENRY ALLON, D.D., London, Eng.\n    WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N.Y.\n    J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.\n    E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N.J.\n    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.\n    DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.\n    A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.\n    Rev. A. F. BEARD, D.D., N.Y.\n    FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.\n    JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R.I.\n    Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D.D., Mo.\n    J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.\n    E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.\n    C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.\n    Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D.D., Cal.\n    Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D.D., Kansas.\n    Rev. W. H. WILLCOX, D.D., Mass.\n    Rev. G. B. WILLCOX, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., N.Y.\n    Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, Mass.\n    Rev. E. B. WEBB, D.D., Mass.\n    Hon. C. I. WALKER, Mich.\n    Rev. A. H. ROSS, Mich.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n  DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n    REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n    REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_.\n    REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n    H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N.Y._\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.\n\n\n  EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n    ALONZO S. BALL,\n    A. S. BARNES,\n    C. T. CHRISTENSEN,\n    CLINTON B. FISK,\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n    S. B. HALLIDAY,\n    A. J. HAMILTON,\n    SAMUEL HOLMES,\n    CHARLES A. HULL,\n    CHAS. L. MEAD,\n    SAMUEL S. MARPLES,\n    WM. T. PRATT,\n    J. A. SHOUDY,\n    JOHN H. WASHBURN.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of 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. G. D. PIKE, D.D., at the New York Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New\nYork, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21\nCongregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\n\n\n\nConstitution of the American Missionary Association.\n\nINCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nART. I. This Society shall be called \u201cTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\nASSOCIATION.\u201d\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct\nChristian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a\nknowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries\nwhich are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent\nfields of effort.\n\nART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes\nfaith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the\npractice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds,\nmay become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty\ndollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have\nnot professed their faith may be constituted life members without\nthe privilege of voting.\n\nART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of\nSeptember, October or November, for the election of officers and\nthe transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall\nbe designated by the Executive Committee.\n\nART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular\nofficers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,\nand of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,\nand other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one\nrepresentative.\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\nthan twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be\nadvisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.\n\nART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting\nand disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining\nand dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and\nagents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the\ntransaction of all such business as usually appertains to the\nexecutive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies;\nthe Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the\nmissionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision\nof the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually\nchosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or\nmissionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.\n\nThe Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies\noccurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;\nto apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of\nincorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all\nofficers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the\nSociety; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and\nfor the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call,\nin all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and\ngeneral conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the\ndiffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous\npromotion of the missionary work.\n\nFive members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for\ntransacting business.\n\nART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing\nofficers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields\nof labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor\nparticularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the\nknown fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment\nthose who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.\n\nART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to\nthe principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain\nmissionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the\nagency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART. X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without\nthe concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular\nannual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been\nsubmitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in\nseason to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if\nso submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a\nbelief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a\nSaviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice\nof Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity\nof regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy\nobedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and\nthe retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the\nwicked, and salvation of the righteous.\n\n\n\n\nThe American Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with\nthe almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its\nmain efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens\nand Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely\nrelated to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE\nin America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane\nand Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in\nAFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014In Va., 1; N.C., 6; S.C., 2; Ga., 13;\nKy., 6; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 17; Miss., 4; Texas, 6. _Africa_,\n2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 76.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE\nSOUTH.\u2014_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.;\nAtlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.;\nand Austin, Texas, 8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,\nRaleigh, N.C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S.C.; Savannah, Macon,\nAtlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis,\nTenn., 12. _Other Schools_, 31. Total 51.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014Among the Freedmen, 284;\namong the Chinese, 22; among the Indians, 11; in Africa, 13. Total,\n330. STUDENTS\u2014In Theology, 102; Law, 23; in College Course, 75;\nin other studies, 7,852. Total, 8,052. Scholars taught by former\npupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the care\nof the Association, 13,000.\n\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the\ngrowing work. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and\n_larger_ contributions from the churches\u2014the feeble as well as the\nstrong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for\nthe new churches as we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and\npious, for these churches.\n\n3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and\nmissionaries to Africa\u2014a pressing want.\n\nBefore sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.\noffice, as below:\n\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\nwho take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of\nSabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries;\nto Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does\nnot prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year\nnot less than five dollars.\n\nThose who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in\ntheir last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the\nfollowing\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\u201cI BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of \u2014\u2014 dollars in\ntrust, to pay the same in \u2014\u2014 days after my decease to the person\nwho, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the\n\u2018American Missionary Association\u2019 of New York City, to be applied,\nunder the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association,\nto its charitable uses and purposes.\u201d\n\nThe will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States\nthree are required\u2014in other States only two], who should write\nagainst their names, their places of residence [if in cities,\ntheir street and number]. The following form of attestation will\nanswer for every State in the Union: \u201cSigned, sealed, published\nand declared by the said [A. B.] as his last Will and Testament,\nin presence of us, who, at the request of the said A. B., and in\nhis presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto\nsubscribed our names as witnesses.\u201d In some States it is required\nthat the Will should be made at least two months before the death\nof the testator.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                             RIDLEYS\u2019\n                         FASHION MAGAZINE\n                          _SPRING, 1881_,\n                            NOW READY.\n                             CONTAINS\n                   Over 100 Large Quarto Pages,\n                      _ENTERTAINING STORIES_,\n                       _in Prose and Verse_,\n                   _INTERESTING HOME ARTICLES_,\n                      _ILLUSTRATED FASHIONS_,\n\n     With valuable information for those living at a distance\n         from New York on the many perplexing questions of\n\n                         \u201c_WHAT TO WEAR_.\u201d\n\n\n                         ISSUED QUARTERLY,\n\n                50c per Annum; Single Copies, 15c.\n\n\n     This publication should be found in every household. 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RIDLEY & SONS, Publishers,\n\n                           GRAND AND ALLEN STS.,\n                                         _New York_.\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\nSales now greater than ever before.\n\nThis Ink received the Diploma and Medal at Centennial over all\nrivals.\n\nReport of Judges: \u201cFor simplicity of application and indelibility.\u201d\n\n\n                            INQUIRE FOR\n\n                      PAYSON\u2019S COMBINATION!!!\n\nSold by all Druggists, Stationers and News Agents, and by many\nFancy Goods and Furnishing Houses.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                      INVALID ROLLING CHAIR.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n(RECLINING.)\n\nA PRICELESS BOON to those who are UNABLE TO WALK. 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Money Order.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration: GILLEN, Rng 36 Beekman St]\n\n                         SECRETARY OF THE\n\n                    Brooklyn Furniture Company,\n\n               559 to 571 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N.Y.\n\nWill send, free, to any address, our Illustrated Price-List of\nFurniture. Intending purchasers of Furniture will do well to send\nfor it to compare prices with those of other houses. We manufacture\nall our goods, and retail at lowest possible rates.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n                         FUN FOR THE BOYS\n\nHere you are boys! Just the thing for a little harmless\nmasquerading. The mustaches are made of genuine hair, can be\nfastened to or removed from the face with ease, and when worn\ncannot be told from the real production. Boys and young men can\nhave hosts of fun putting them on in a crowd of friends, who will\nbe greatly astonished at the sudden transformation. Three colors,\nlight, dark brown and black. Goatees to match. PRICE BY MAIL,\nMUSTACHES 20 CTS. GOATEES 15 CENTS. Valuable Catalogue of Agents\ngoods free. =World Manuf\u2019g Co. 122 Nassau St., New York.=\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n       \u201cIndisputable culinary skill.\u201d\u2014_Philadelphia Times._\n\n                    VALUABLE COOKING RECEIPTS.\n\nBy THOS. J. 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HARLAN, Publisher, 19\nPark Place, New York.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                            BISCOTINE,\n\n                 _FOOD for CHILDREN and INVALIDS_.\n\n                 Glycerine Sans Pareil Hair Tonic,\n\n  Toilet\n      Waters,\n\n    Violet,\n\n  New Mown\n      Hay,\n\n  Heliotrope,\n      &c.\n\n  Sachets\n      D\u2019Iris\n    de Florence.\n\n  Compound\n      Orris\n  Dentifrice\n\n[Illustration: TRADE-MARK.\n  Established 1770.]\n\n                 DELLUC & CO., French Pharmacists,\n\n  Send for Circular.                   _=635 Broadway, N.Y.=_\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n              The American Popular Dictionary, $1.00\n\n[Illustration]\n\nThis useful and elegant volume is a Complete Library and\nEncyclopaedia, as well as the best Dictionary in the world.\nSuperbly bound in cloth and gilt. IT CONTAINS EVERY WORD IN THE\nENGLISH LANGUAGE, with its true meaning, derivation, spelling\nand pronounciation, and a vast amount of absolutely necessary\ninformation upon Science, Mythology, Biography, American History,\nLaws etc., being a perfect Library of Reference. Webster\u2019s\nDictionary costs $9.00, and the =American Popular Dictionary= costs\nonly =$1=. \u201cWorth ten times the money.\u201d\u2014Tribune and Farmer. \u201cWe\nhave never seen its equal either in price, finish or contents.\u201d\u2014The\nAdvocate. \u201cA perfect Dictionary and library of reference\u201d\u2014Leslie\u2019s\nIllus. News, N.Y. One copy of the American Popular Dictionary\n(illustrated), the greatest and best book ever published,\npost-paid to any address on receipt of =$1=. \u261e Entire satisfaction\nguaranteed. 2 copies post-paid =$1.75. Order at once. World\nManufacturing Co., 122 Nassau St., New York.=\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     THE WORLD MUSICAL ALBUM.\n\n                47 PIECES OF POPULAR MUSIC FOR 50c.\n\nWe have secured an immense stock of Choice Music at an\nextraordinary low price, and at our price it is the greatest\nbargain ever offered. The Music, if bought separately in sheet form\nat the Music Store, would cost over =Fourteen Dollars=. We have\nthe =Forty-Seven Pieces= nicely bound in book form and will send\nthe entire lot by mail for =Fifty Cents= or =Three Lots for One\nDollar=. Send your order at once. Postage Stamps taken. Valuable\ncatalogue of Agents\u2019 goods free. =WORLD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 122\nNassau Street, New York.=\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                 A PRINTING OFFICE FOR ONE DOLLAR.\n\n                             THE WORLD\n\n                     SOLID RUBBER FAMILY FONT,\n\nFor marking Linen, Cards, Books, &c. Combines the convenience of\nmetal type, with the flexibility, durability and elegance of the\nrubber stamp.\n\n[Illustration: Children learn their letters, arrangement of letters\ninto words and words into sentences without a teacher\n\n125 to 150 letters will set up any Name and can be Changed a\nThousand times.\n\nLight, durable, cheap, the best thing for marking Linen ever\ninvented; ink is indelible.]\n\n\n                          FOR ONE DOLLAR,\n\nyou get everything shown in the cut, with all the type shown below,\nor your choice of several other styles of letters.\n\n\n                             REMEMBER,\n\n125 to 150 letters with Ink, Holder, Pads, Tweezers, &c., all in a\nneat box with directions, only $1.00, the price you would pay for a\nsingle name.\n\n\nStyles of Type. Indicate by the number which style you wish in the\nbox.\n\n[Illustration: Fac Similie of Font No. 1.\n\nAABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJKKLLMMNN OOPPQRRSSTTUVWWXYYZ..,,,,\";:!?aaabbcc\ncddeeefffgghhiiijjklllmmnnooppqrrrssstttuuvwwxyyzz&]\n\n[Illustration: Fac Similie of Font No. 2.\n\nAABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJKKLLMMNNOOP PQRRSSTTUVWWXYYZ&....;::'!?123456789\n0aaabbcccddeeeffgghhiiijjkklllmmnnnoooppqrrrssstt tuuvvwxyyz$]\n\n[Illustration: Fac Similie of Font No. 3.\n\nAABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLLMMNNOOPPQQR\nRSSTTUUVVWWXXYYZZ$& ...,,,\"::;;!?aaabbcccdd\neeeffgghhiiijjjklllmmnnnoooppqrrrssstttuuvwwxx\nyyzz11223344556677889900]\n\n[Illustration: Fac Similie of Font No. 4.\n\nAABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLLMMNNOOPPQQR\nRSSTTUUVVWWXXYYZZ&&....,,,,???!!!;:$12345678\n90aaabbcccddeeeffgghhiiijjklllmmnnnoooppqrrrssstt tuuvvwwxyyz]\n\nSample Font by Mail, for =_One Dollar_=. We will send =_Two Fonts_=\nfor =_One Dollar and Seventy-Five Cents_=. We will send =_Four\nFonts_= for =_Three Dollars_=. Get three of your friends to send\nwith you, and you will have your own Font free.\n\n  =CARDS.= We can furnish good Bristol Board Cards, suitable for\n  the Fonts at 20 cents per 100, three hundred for 50 cents; $1.25\n  per 1000.\n\n\n        WORLD MANUFACTURING CO., 122 Nassau St., New York.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                         MARCHAL & SMITH,\n                           NEW IMPERIAL\n                           GRAND ORGAN.\n\n                           SENT ON TRIAL\n                           SOLID WALNUT\n\n                            Beautifully\n                              Carved.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n=By Sending DIRECT from FACTORY to PURCHASER=, selling thousands,\nand avoiding Agents\u2019 commissions, Middlemen\u2019s profits and all\nexpenses we can sell this Beautiful Organ.\n\n=5 Octaves, 16 Stops, 4 Sets Reeds= with handsome Stool,\nInstruction Book and Music, Making a Complete Musical Outfit for $75\n\nA matchless combination of Power, Purity, Variety and Sweetness\nof tone, combining =Sub-bass=, =Celeste=, =Coupler=, =Flute=,\n=Diapason=, =Vox Humana=, =Grand Organ=.\n\n\n                    AN ELEGANT PARLOR ORNAMENT\n\nWith Beautiful Carved Brackets, Polished Panels, Sliding Fall,\nTurned Handles, Fancy Fret work, Carved Lampstands, Large\nOrnamental Top with Pocket for Music. It is =70= in. high, =49= in.\nlong, =24= in. wide.\n\n\n16 Beautiful Stops.\n\n  (1) Diapason.\n  (2) Dulcet.\n  (3) Melodia.\n  (4) Dulciana.\n  (5) Echo.\n  (6) Celeste.\n  (7) Clarionet.\n  (8) Sub-Bass.\n  (9) Coupler.\n  (10) Vox Humana.\n  (11) Diapason Forte.\n  (12) Aeoline.\n  (13) Celestina.\n  (14) Flute.\n  (15) Flute Forte.\n  (16) Grand Organ Knee Stop.\n\n             A Finished Piece of Artistic Workmanship\n\nWe will box and deliver the Organ on board cars here, with handsome\nStool, Instruction Book and Music, for only $75\n\n=In ordering=, send the certificate of your Bank, or some\nresponsible business man, that the organ will be promptly paid for\nor returned to us. Freight will be paid by us both ways, if in any\nway unsatisfactory. =You take no responsibility= till you receive\nand approve the Organ after =15 days\u2019 trial in your own home=.\n\n_We guarantee every Organ for Six Years, and challenge the world to\nequal them in quality and price._\n\n\n                     THE ONLY HOUSE IN AMERICA\n\nthat gives so beautifully finished and complete a musical outfit\nfor =$75=.\n\n=Our No. 375.= The most popular organ ever made, 15 stops, 4 sets\nof reeds, 5 octaves, solid walnut. Thousands sold. A favorite with\nall. =$60=\n\nOTHER POPULAR STYLES in solid walnut cases, 5 octaves, =$45=,\n=$50=, =$55=, =$60=, =$65=, =$70= and upwards. A splendid new\nstyle, 5 octaves, with four full sets, is now ready at =$55=.\n\n\n         TWENTY YEARS WITHOUT ONE DISSATISFIED PURCHASER.\n\n=A Moment\u2019s Consideration= will show the certainty of securing\na superior instrument from us. Dealers can trust to their own\nshrewdness and the ignorance of purchasers to conceal defects in\nInstruments they sell. We cannot know who will test ours, and\nmust send instruments of a quality so superior that their merits\ncannot be hidden. Order direct from this advertisement. You take no\nresponsibility. Be sure to get our Illustrated Catalogue before you\nbuy. It gives information which protects the purchaser and makes\ndeceit impossible.\n\n            MARCHAL & SMITH, No. 8 West 11th Street, New York, N.Y.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE THIRTY-FIFTH VOLUME\n\nOF THE\n\nAmerican Missionary.\n\n1881.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nShall we not have a largely increased Subscription List for 1881?\n\nWe regard the _Missionary_ as the best means of communication with\nour friends, and to them the best source of information regarding\nour work.\n\nA little effort on the part of our friends, when making their own\nremittances, to induce their neighbors to unite in forming Clubs,\nwill easily double our list, and thus widen the influence of our\nMagazine, and aid in the enlargement of our work.\n\nUnder editorial supervision at this office, aided by the steady\ncontributions of our intelligent missionaries and teachers in\nall parts of the field, and with occasional communications from\ncareful observers and thinkers elsewhere, the _American Missionary_\nfurnishes a vivid and reliable picture of the work going forward\namong the Indians, the Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and the\nFreedmen as citizens in the South and as missionaries in Africa.\n\nIt will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting\nthe races among which it labors, and will give a monthly summary of\ncurrent events relating to their welfare and progress. Patriots and\nChristians interested in the education and Christianizing of these\ndespised races are asked to read it, and assist in its circulation.\nBegin with the January number and the new year. The price is only\nFifty Cents per annum.\n\nThe Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the\npersons indicated on page 157. Donations and subscriptions should\nbe sent to\n\n                             H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n                                       56 Reade Street, New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTO ADVERTISERS.\n\nSpecial attention is invited to the advertising department of the\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY. It numbers among its regular readers very\nmany frugal, well-to-do people in nearly every city and village\nthroughout our Northern and Western States. It is therefore a\nspecially valuable medium for advertising all articles commonly\nused in families of liberal, industrious and enterprising habits of\nlife.\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\nOur friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of the\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY, can aid us in this respect by mentioning, when\nordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.\n\n\nDAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes\n\n\nObvious printer\u2019s punctuation errors have been corrected.\n\nWord with missing letter on page 150 in the entry for Ashburnham\nleft as printed.\n\n\u201cAssotion\u201d changed to \u201cAssociation\u201d on page 150 in the second entry\nfor Boston.\n\nMissing \u201cS\u201d added to the beginning of Springfield in the first\nSpringfield entry on page 151.\n\n\u201cToulagoo\u201d changed to \u201cTougaloo\u201d in the Hinds Co. entry on page 154.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 35, No. 5, May, 1881","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":21064}