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NO. 7.\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                            JULY, 1881.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    OUR ANNIVERSARY REPORTS                                  193\n    A BRIEF VIEW OF THE SITUATION\u2014INTEMPERANCE IN THE\n      SOUTH                                                  194\n    THE LAST MAN: Rev. C. P. Osborne                         195\n    OUR BOSTON ANNIVERSARY                                   196\n    BENEFACTIONS                                             197\n    GENERAL NOTES\u2014Africa, Indians, Chinese                   198\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                     201\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    ANNIVERSARY REPORTS\u2014D.C., Howard University              201\n        Va., Hampton Institute, Hampton                      202\n        Tenn., Fisk University, Nashville                    203\n        Miss., Tougaloo University, Tougaloo                 205\n        La., Straight University, New Orleans                207\n        Tenn., Le Moyne Normal School, Memphis               208\n        Ala., Emerson Institute, Swayne School               209\n        Ga., Beach Institute, Byron                          210\n    TALLADEGA COLLEGE\u2014LAYING OF CORNER-STONE                 210\n    NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE                                211\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    ORDINATION AT GOOD HOPE                                  212\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    ANNIVERSARIES: Rev. W. C. Pond                           214\n\n\n  WOMAN\u2019S HOME MISS. ASSOC\u2019N.\n\n    MONTHLY REPORT                                           216\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    STORY OF REBECCA                                        217\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                  218\n\n  LIST OF OFFICERS                                          222\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                              223\n\n  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC.                              224\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             NEW YORK:\n         Published by the American Missionary Association,\n                      ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\n\nEntered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: STONE HALL, STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS.\u2014See Page 208]\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n              VOL. XXXV.      JULY, 1881.      NO. 7.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n_American Missionary Association._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR ANNIVERSARY REPORTS.\n\nWe devote an unusual amount of space in this number to reports\nof the closing exercises of ten of our educational institutions\nat the South. Next month we purpose to add reports of others\nwhose anniversaries occur too late for mention at this writing.\nIt will be seen that the year has been an unusually prosperous\none. The number of students, either of advanced grade or seeking\nfor a higher education, has been larger, perhaps, than during any\nprevious year. We note especially the large number of boarding\nstudents, and also the fact that the accommodations for them are\nby far too limited in many of our schools. The growing disposition\nof our students to continue their studies through as many months\nof the year as possible is a fact of much significance. It will\nbe remembered that our missions have been richly blessed by\noutpourings of the Holy Spirit, and that a goodly number\u2014sometimes\nwhole classes\u2014have indulged the hopes of a new life. Most of these\nwill go forth to teach during the summer, and the rich experiences\nthrough which they have passed will prove of great value to them\nin their work. We know of no class of people needing the prayers\nof our patrons more than these. Perhaps the influence of our\ninstitutions upon the leading minds of the South, and especially\nupon those interested in popular education, was never so great.\nGovernors of Southern States, mayors of cities, presidents of\ncolleges, representatives of the pulpit, the bar and the press,\nattend our anniversary exercises, and enter heartily and with\nappreciation into the spirit of the work. We believe any one who\nwill read the reports referred to will find much occasion for\nthanking God and taking courage.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe reports of the exercises at Hampton, Va., and Fisk University,\nNashville, Tenn., were written by Virginians, and give a good idea\nof the drift of thought concerning our institutions among the\nbetter class of Southern people.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA BRIEF VIEW OF THE SITUATION.\n\nThe gift of Mrs. Stone of $150,000 for new buildings at Fisk,\nAtlanta, Talladega, and New Orleans; the new educational\ninstitution at Austin, Texas, and our new churches organized the\npast year at the South, make additional demands upon our treasury.\nThe churches should not be left to a feeble struggle for life,\nbut be aided to a vigorous growth. The additional facilities at\nthe schools mentioned, and the new institution in Texas, mean an\nincreased number of students to be aided, and increased expense for\nteachers, for insurance, repairs and other incidentals. Our work\namong the Chinese in California calls urgently for enlargement; in\nfact, the continued existence of such a work means continued growth\nwith increased expenditures.\n\nA great pressure has been brought to bear upon us to do more for\nthe education of Indian youth; but the work cannot be done without\nmoney. The success, however, at Carlisle and Hampton indicates\nclearly the hopefulness of doing much more. Mr. Arthington, of\nLeeds, England, has paid over \u00a33,000, and British Christians have\ngiven a like amount, for a new mission on the Upper Nile, in East\nCentral Africa; but the opening of the Arthington Mission will\nrequire $10,000 annually for its support.\n\nIt will be seen by these statements that the entrance to our\ndifferent fields of labor has been thrown open more widely. We must\nsettle the question as to whether we shall enter; but to enter\nmeans continued and efficient occupancy. \u201cOccupy till I come\u201d is\nthe command of the Great Teacher. The gate is not open to a haven\nof rest, but to a field of labor, and additional labor calls for\nadditional expense. Nothing short of an increase of 25 per cent.\nof the income of the Association will be adequate to meet the\nincreased demands. The pastors and officers of the churches are our\nmost effectual helpers in raising the amount required. Will they\nnot come to our relief right early? The people will give of their\nmeans if the work and its wants are properly presented to them; and\nif God has set before us these open doors, surely He will add His\nblessing as we enter.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nINTEMPERANCE IN THE SOUTH.\n\nOne of the \u201cdecisive battles\u201d to be fought by and in behalf of\nthe colored people of the South is on the field of intemperance.\nSlavery made this vice impossible. Emancipation, with all its\nmanifold blessings, opened the gates to its entrance, and these\nonce opened, it now pours in like a flood.\n\nThe cannonading has already begun in some of the Southern States in\nregard to prohibition, local option and other legal safeguards; but\nin this, as in other battles, small arms and the hand-to-hand fight\nmust win the victory. Man by man, must the victims of this vice be\nwarned and rescued, and especially must the young, individual by\nindividual, be instructed, warned, pledged to personal abstinence,\nand enlisted in the work of saving others. The schools of the\nAmerican Missionary Association are the very citadels of drill and\nequipment in this warfare. Their students must be the vanguard\nin the onset, and the \u201cold guard\u201d that \u201cnever surrenders\u201d in the\nhottest fight.\n\nWe rejoice to know that our schools and their students are alert\nand active in their duties in this respect. Temperance literature\nand the prayers of God\u2019s people are invoked in their behalf.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE LAST MAN.\n\nREV. C. P. OSBORNE.\n\nThe first man is named by sacred history. Scientific prophecy\nventures to tell us who the last man is to be.\n\nProf. Alphonse de Candolle, son and successor of the great\nnaturalist, wrote, a few years since, some interesting speculations\non the probable future of the human race. This paper was deemed\nof sufficient value to be republished in the Annual Report of\nthe Smithsonian Institution at Washington, for the year 1875. In\nthe course of his discussion the eminent writer shows reason for\nbelieving that the last man is to be, not one man, but three. The\nfuture history of mankind, leaving out of the account any possible\ncatastrophe that might suddenly extinguish the race, will be, in\nhis view, somewhat as follows.\n\nFor an extended period the population of the globe, favored by\nimproved methods of agriculture, by migration to unoccupied lands,\nby general prevalence of peace consequent upon higher morality,\nwill increase until the world is stocked with inhabitants to its\nfullest capacity. Then, after a period, will begin a process of\ndepopulation. The conditions of life in the colder regions will be\ngreatly changed by growing scarcity of the fuel supply; the world\u2019s\nstock of minerals will be gradually exhausted by rust and wear,\nwhich will bring an end of ships, railroads and commerce, and thus\nincrease the difficulty of maintaining life; and the incessant\naction of water, ice and air will constantly diminish the land area\nof the globe, until only mountains will remain as islands above the\nsurface of the sea. Under the combined action of these agencies,\nthe principles of natural selection and survival of the fittest\nwill come into play with decisive effect, and in the struggle for\nlife the weaker races will one by one succumb and disappear. Three\nraces, however, exhibit qualities which fit them to survive beyond\nall others.\n\n1. The white race, as represented by Europeans and their American\ndescendants, thanks to their intelligence and habitual bravery,\nskill, and the confidence they can place in each other, will\nsustain the struggle. 2. The negroes also will prevail, on account\nof their physical vigor, power to resist malaria and to flourish in\ntropical regions, where the white race rapidly deteriorates. 3. The\nyellow race, represented principally by the Chinese, will maintain\ntheir place, since they have great vigor of stock, a capacity to\nexist on small resources, and alone seem sufficiently intelligent\nand robust to struggle in all latitudes with both the other races.\n\nThe last man, then, is to be a white man, a negro and a Chinaman.\nBut de Candolle seems to think that the negro may, after all, be\nthe last man of this triumvirate. For the white man, occupying\nscattered islands in the colder regions, and deprived of fuel,\nmight be exterminated by the more or less periodical invasions\nof ice from polar regions, while the black man could continue to\nsubsist with little effort on the pulp of tropical melons.\n\nSuch is a brief outline of the curious speculations of this\neminent savant. Of their value as science or prophecy, of their\ncorrespondence with Biblical views of the future of human history,\nlet the reader make his own judgment. The writer simply asks\nattention to a few obvious suggestions.\n\n1. It is a very significant fact that a man of recognized eminence\nas a scientist should, in a glance at the probable future of\nmankind, give so important a place to the despised African. It\nis a fact that more than justifies all the deep interest of\nthe Christian and the philanthropist in that unfortunate race.\nChristians are not in any danger of giving undue attention to the\nclaims of the negro upon their prayers and benefactions.\n\n2. The conclusions of science, that the African race is fitted to\npersist among the latest inhabitants of the earth, are confirmed\nby the evidence of facts. The census of 1880 produced two genuine\nsurprises. First, the fact that the largest relative increase of\npopulation in the United States during the last decade was in the\nformer slave States. Second, that this result was due to the fact\nthat while the increase of the whites of those States was some two\nper cent. below the average for the whole country, the increase of\nthe blacks was more than three per cent. above that average.\n\nIt is thus demonstrated that negroes are not to be numbered with\nthose races which, like Australians, Hawaiians and American\nIndians, fade away and disappear in the presence of more civilized\nraces. The negro in warm latitudes has shown his ability, with less\nthan a fair chance, to hold more than his own with the white man.\nWe may no longer hope that the grave problems, social, political\nand religious, connected with his residence in our land, are to be\nsolved by the gradual extinction of the race. The black man will\nnot die; he must be instructed and evangelized.\n\n3. If we are to have black men and yellow men for our neighbors to\nthe end of time, it is for our interest to be on good terms with\nthem. As a matter of policy it will be best for us to do all we can\nto make them comfortable\u2014I may even say, companionable neighbors.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR BOSTON ANNIVERSARY.\n\nIt will be remembered by our readers that during the last week\nin May the six co-operative Societies sustained largely by the\nCongregationalists, hold anniversary meetings in Boston. This year\nthe meetings were held on Wednesday, the 25th. The day was bright\nand breezy, and the congregations throughout were larger than\nusual. The meeting of the American Missionary Association closed\nthe morning session.\n\nA report was made by Secretary Woodworth, reviewing, in brief,\nthe several branches of the work carried on by the Association\nduring the past nineteen years. Mr. Woodworth\u2019s address was replete\nwith facts and statistics, giving a comprehensive view of the\nimportance, success and necessities of the Association.\n\nRev. J. F. Lovering, of Worcester, was the first speaker. During\nhis address he mentioned the fact that a negro family of his\nacquaintance, in Massachusetts, found it difficult to rent a\nhouse on account of their color, and argued that if there be such\nprejudices still at the North, we ought not to be surprised if\nthey yet exist at the South. He related several instances coming\nunder his observation during the war, showing the religious nature\nof the colored people and their love for knowledge, closing his\naddress with a graphic description of a company of colored women\nand children singing songs of thanksgiving to troops returning from\nthe war.\n\nHon. J. J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, was the next speaker. He\nurged the work of saving the Freedmen as a duty upon us from a\ncommon-sense and statesmanlike view, as well as from a religious\nconsideration. He said: \u201cThey will never vote safely until they\nvote intelligently. They will always be at the mercy of others\nuntil they can think for themselves. They are not like the\nMexicans, who have not changed for a century, but they are eager\nfor knowledge, plastic, and have already made astonishing advances.\nThey spend their money freely, and if educated will like their\nhomes tasteful and attractive. In so low a view as the commercial\none, we should be deeply interested for these people. There are\nonly about twenty-five colored lawyers and a hundred doctors among\nthem. In the time of the yellow fever, one of the latter remained\nthrough it all and cared for the people. When his work was over,\na large company of white citizens gratefully followed him to the\ndepot with a band of music, showing that color is forgotten when\nthere is ability and power.\u201d\n\nMr. Gregory is now building a mission home and remodeling the\nschool-house at Wilmington, N.C., at an expense of about $8,000.\nThese buildings are in close proximity to the new church edifice\nalso built by him, an account of which was given in the AMERICAN\nMISSIONARY for May.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\n\u2014Yale and Hamilton Colleges are to receive $40,000 each from the\nestate of James Knox, of Knoxville, Ill.\n\n\u2014Dartmouth College receives a bequest of $5,000 from the late Hon.\nH. C. Burleigh, of Great Falls, N.H.\n\n\u2014Hon. E. B. Morgan, of Auburn, N.Y., has given Wells College,\nAurora, $10,000, making his gifts to it upwards of $160,000.\n\n\u2014Col. Gardner A. Sage, of New York, has given $90,000 to the\nTheological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, situated at\nNew Brunswick, N.J.\n\n\u2014Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass., has recently added\nto his gift to the A. M. A. of $3,600 for a church at Wilmington,\nN.C., $3,500 as the first installment for a school building to be\nerected in close proximity to the new church.\n\n\u2014A banker of Altenburg recently bequeathed $187,000 for endowments\nin the University of Jena. The government of Saxe-Altenburg,\nhowever, retained $54,000 of the amount as legal duty, thereby\nreducing the endowment to $133,000.\n\n\u2014Col. C. G. Hammond, of Chicago, has offered $20,000 towards\nestablishing an endowment fund of $80,000 for the Congregational\nTheological Seminary of that city. Not long since Mr. Hammond\ncontributed $25,000 for a library building to the same institution.\n\n_The endowment of the young institutions for the education of\ncolored people South, presents a fine field for the exercise of\nsuch wise charity as is shown in some of the liberal donations\nabove._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n\u2014Dr. Laws, of the Scotch Mission on Lake Nyassa, discovered two\ncoal seams on the north-eastern end of the lake.\n\n\u2014The Akankoo Gold Mining Company has ordered the explorer Cameron\nto go to the Gold Coast to study the mineral ores of the grant\nwhich it holds.\n\n\u2014Dr. Lanz has exploded the theory of converting the Sahara into an\nocean. He reports that the most depressed portion of El Juf, the\nbody of the desert, is nearly five hundred feet above the level of\nthe sea.\n\n\u2014M. Harold Tarry, a member of the French Sahara commission, has\ndiscovered, south of Wargla, the ruins of the large city of\nCedradra buried under the shifting sands. A mosque and nine houses\nhave been excavated containing columns, statuary and charred\nmanuscripts.\n\n\u2014The village of Roumbeck contains a hundred _toukouls_ (cabins\nbuilt upon piles to preserve them from the ravages of the white\nants). This is the chief place of the province of Rohl. Here are\ncollected ostrich plumes, caoutchouc, tamarinds and cotton, which\nare sent to Khartoum.\n\n\u2014The efforts of the French to find tracing for a railroad across\nthe Great Desert to Timbuctoo have met with disaster. The great\nexpedition under Col. Flanders, when nearly across the desert, was,\naccording to most reliable reports, attacked by the hostile natives\nand destroyed.\n\n\u2014Dr. Oscar Lanz, the leader of the German expedition to Timbuctoo,\nhas accomplished the object of his mission. He started from\nMorocco, taking a south-easterly course across the Great Desert.\nIn returning he followed the route to the westward toward the\nSenegal river, arriving safely at St. Louis on the coast, after\nexperiencing many delays and hardships. He went in the disguise\nof a Turkish physician, taking with him one Italian and five Arab\nservants.\n\n\u2014Timbuctoo is described as lying on the southern edge of the\nSahara near the Niger, is five miles in circumference, and\nsurrounded on all sides by plains of white sand. Its population has\ndecreased, many of the houses are in ruins, but it is still the\nmost important city in Central Africa and the great emporium for\nthe slave trade of those regions.\n\n\u2014Dr. Holub is preparing to start for the Cape of Good Hope, from\nwhence he will travel towards the interior of the continent, with\nthe expectation of coming out at some point on the Mediterranean.\nAlthough his trip is essentially a scientific one, he will not\nneglect the commercial question. He is connected with important\nhouses of Vienna, with which he will attempt to establish relations\nwith the tribes of the interior of Africa.\n\n\u2014On his return from Bahr-el-Ghazal, Gessi found Khartoum very\ndifferent from what he had seen it three years before. The European\ncolony had transformed it. The Catholic mission had become the\ninstructor of the population. The traders had imported all the\nproducts of European industry. Houses with magnificent stores had\nbeen erected, and one could obtain there all that was required for\nmodern civilization. It had become a centre of exportation for\nthe products of Soudan. To remedy the inconvenience of expensive\nvoyages, they already thought of establishing in the neighborhood a\npermanent place for receiving the wax, rubber and ivory which they\nbrought from the more central countries.\n\n\u2014The French missionaries who are in the Egyptian Soudan complain\nthat the slave trade is more active than ever, and that far from\ntaking measures to prevent it, the regular troops take part in\nthe plunder in the neighborhood of the White Nile, where they\ncapture thousands of slaves of both sexes and all ages. One of the\nmissionaries saw at Fachoda a number of children taken to the slave\nmarket. Another reports that the mountains south of Kordufan are\ninhabited by a very beautiful race of negroes, who have resisted\nall efforts of the proselytizing Mussulman. These are sold at high\nprices, and the slave-hunters regard them as a favorite prey. This\nmissionary also relates that a dozen valleys were recently ravaged\nby the Bagarahs.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\u2014In British America, during the past 20 years, more than 13,000\nIndians have been received into the Church of England.\n\n\u2014There is a church organization at Fort Wrangel, Alaska Territory,\namong the Stickenn tribe of Indians, with a membership of about\nforty. In connection with this, an industrial school and home for\ngirls has been established.\n\n\u2014The Indians at present in close relations with the Presbyterian\nchurch number about 16,000, and may be divided as follows: Mohave,\n838; Chimehneva, 200; Coahuila, 150; Cocopah, 180; Pima, 4,500;\nMaricopa, 500; Papago, 6,000; the San Carlos, White Mountain,\nCoyotero, Tonto, Chiricahua, Cochise, Ojo Caliente, Yuma and\nMohave Apaches, 4,878; Hualapai, 620; Yuma, 930; Suppai, 75; and\nQuacharty\u2019s, 400.\n\nThese are grouped into the three agencies of Colorado River, Pima\nand San Carlos. They number 2,218 children of school age. They had\n7,700 acres of land under cultivation, and raised 43,333 bushels of\nwheat, 2,493 of corn, and 10,833 of barley and oats.\n\n\u2014Some poet at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., has set forth the merits of\nthe Indian training-school at that point as follows:\n\n    \u201cThe Garrison, where tap of drum was rule,\n    Is now the famous Indian Training School.\n    In days of yore, the Soldiers there were taught\n    That RED MEN\u2019S USE WAS ONLY TO BE FOUGHT.\n    But note the change! The reign of Peace is near,\n    The ploughshare conquers deadly sword and spear.\n    The cunning pen shall in their swarthy hand\n    A swifter missile be than burning brand.\n    Their only WATCH-FIRE shall be REASON\u2019S LIGHT\u2014\n    Their only WARFARE, BATTLING FOR THE RIGHT.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u2014It is a significant fact that nearly all of the thirty men-of-war\ncomposing the fleet of the Chinese navy are commanded by European\nofficers.\n\n\u2014The Young Men\u2019s Christian Association at Tokio, Japan, consisting\nwholly of natives, has concluded to start a religious magazine.\n\n\u2014During the past eight years, which will measure the time of actual\nservice of the Protestant missions in Japan, the work has been\nso far advanced that at present there are 160 missionaries, with\n50 churches organized and a total membership of 8,000. There are\nalso schools, dispensaries, colleges and publishing houses, which\ncirculate the Scriptures and religious reading in all parts of the\nempire.\n\n\u2014It is reported, concerning the Chinese boarding-school for boys at\nNingpo, that nothing has appeared for years that seems to so fully\nenlist the interest and co-operation of all the natives. Although\nthe school is under native management, the foreign members of the\nPresbytery with which it is connected have a voice in its affairs.\nContributions for its support have been given freely both by the\nconverts and heathen people. It seems that the method pursued is\nsimilar to that carried on so generally in the A. M. A. schools\nSouth.\n\n\u2014Lai Tip, a Chinese laundryman, was recently murdered on Spring\nStreet, New York, while returning from the Sunday-school of the\nReformed Presbyterian Church. It appears he was set upon by two or\nthree roughs, and while stooping to recover his hat, which had been\nknocked off, received from a knife fatal wounds from which he died\non the third day. His funeral was attended by Rev. Drs. Hall and\nCrosby, and he was buried amid a large attendance of Chinamen at\nMachpelah Cemetery, Hoboken, N.J. The murder was most shameful and\nunprovoked.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nFLATONIA, TEX.\u2014\u201cThe box you spoke of in your letter was received\nlast week. Maps are just what we need and will be a great help.\nAlmost everything was of use, and I consider it a very valuable\nbox, unusually so. I would like to give my heartfelt thanks to the\ndonors if I knew them. Please do so for me. I know that those who\nkeep up the supplies at home like to be assured that their gifts\nare appreciated.\u201d\n\nCOLORED SUNDAY-SCHOOLS, N.C.\u2014\u201cHappy Greeting\u201d Union Sunday-school\nis the name of one of eight schools organized during the last two\nmonths by a missionary of the American Sunday-school Union in North\nCarolina. \u201cThis name,\u201d he writes, \u201cwas adopted by a cheerful crowd\nof colored people.\u201d Another of these schools is called \u201cValley\nHome.\u201d Very few among those people were able to read the Bible.\nIn a class of twenty-five, only one could tell the name of the\nfirst book in it. Some said that Jacob built the ark. When asked\nhow the Israelites expressed their joy after crossing the Red Sea\nin safety, one said: \u201cI s\u2019pose, sir, dey shot off big guns and\nholler\u2019d!\u201d and all present nodded their assent.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nANNIVERSARY REPORTS.\n\n\nHOWARD UNIVERSITY.\n\nCommencement Exercises of the Theological Department of Howard\nUniversity were held in the Memorial Lutheran Church, Fourteenth\nStreet and Vermont Avenue, Washington, D.C., Friday evening, May\n6th, 1881, at 7.45 o\u2019clock. A large audience of white and colored\nfriends was present, including various U.S. Senators and other\npersons of influence.\n\n\nORDER OF EXERCISES.\n\nMusic; Prayer by Rev. W. W. Patton, D.D., Pres. Howard University;\nreading of the Scriptures by Rev. J. G. Butler, D.D.; Music;\nAddresses by Graduates; The Perpetuity of the Church, by Emory\nW. Williams, Prince George\u2019s Co., Md.; Man, a Religious Being,\nby William A. Shannon, Washington, D.C.; Music; The Christian\nMinister, by George V. Clark, Atlanta, Ga.; Our Duty to Africa, by\nJarrett E. Edwards, Columbia, S.C.; Music; Address to Graduates, by\nRev. Charles A. Stark, D.D., Lutheran, Baltimore, Md.; Presentation\nof Bibles to the Graduates, in behalf of the Washington Bible\nSociety, by Rev. A. W. Pitzer, D.D.; Conferring Certificates, by\nRev. J. G. Craighead, D.D., Dean Theo. Dept. The addresses were of\na creditable character and gave promise of future usefulness.\n\nThe following persons connected with the Congregational, Baptist,\nMethodist and Presbyterian denominations, having pursued studies in\nthe Theological Department, now leave the University to engage in\nthe work of the Ministry in their respective churches: George V.\nClark, Atlanta, Ga.; Thomas H. Datcher, Washington, D.C.; Jarrett\nE. Edwards, Columbia, S.C.; John H. T. Gray, Prince George\u2019s\nCounty, Md.; Thomas H. Jones, Baltimore, Md.; William A. Shannon.\nWashington, D.C.; Emory W. Williams, Prince George\u2019s County, Md.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHAMPTON INSTITUTE.\n\nREPORTED BY JUDGE WATKINS, A VIRGINIAN.\n\nThose whose good fortune it was to be present will \u201cnot willingly\nlet die\u201d the pleasant memories of the Commencement day at Hampton,\nVa., on the 19th May, 1881. Representatives of widely circulated\njournals have made public record of many good things said and done\non this occasion. Some of the incidents will interest readers of\nthe MISSIONARY.\n\nThe illness of Mrs. Garfield, regretted by all, prevented the\nPresident\u2019s attendance. General Howard, Governor Holliday of\nVirginia, Rev. Dr. Potter, and other representative men and women,\ncontributed largely to the pleasures of the day. The full and most\ninteresting report to the corporation of Principal Armstrong gave\nsatisfactory evidence of the God-blest success and continuing\nusefulness of this noble enterprise. A large edition of this\nvaluable paper will be issued, and will, it is hoped, be widely\ncirculated. No report of any year in Hampton\u2019s history has been\nmore satisfactory.\n\nAn account of the public exercises of the day for the MISSIONARY\nmust necessarily be brief. At 8.30 a. m. the new Academic Hall\nwas dedicated. Bishop Payne, of the Colored Methodist Episcopal\nChurch, in most appropriate words and manner, offered the\ndedicatory prayer. General Howard followed in an address of\nmarked ability, and of broad and liberal and most approved views,\nadmirably presented, basing his brief and pertinent remarks upon\nthe duties of the hour in reference to the negro on the editorial\nin the Memphis _Appeal_ reproduced in the May MISSIONARY. Governor\nHolliday, of Virginia, was introduced to General Howard. Both had\nlost an arm in battle. With their left hands in cordial grasp,\nthey exchanged fraternal salutations. The incident gave unaffected\npleasure to all who witnessed it.\n\nThe corner-stone of the Stone Memorial building, for colored girls\u2019\nindustries (the generous donation of Mrs. Stone of Massachusetts),\nand the corner-stone of the Indian Girls\u2019 building, were laid.\nThe Rev. Dr. Strieby, president of the corporation, delivered\nthe address in the first, and Rev. Dr. Potter, of New York, in\nthe latter of the ceremonies. Both gentlemen performed the duty\nassigned them most acceptably to the friends of the institution.\n\nThe large and interested audience filled the chapel of Virginia\nHall to its utmost capacity to hear the public addresses of six of\nthe alumni. These performances were made in excellent taste, the\nelocution being exceptionally good, and the views were expressed in\na style and range of thought above the average Commencement orator,\nand reflected honor on the _Alma Mater_ and her sons and daughters.\n\nIn appropriate terms General Armstrong introduced General Howard,\nDr. Potter and Governor Holliday, of Virginia, whose words of wit\nand wisdom were enthusiastically received. His Excellency, who is a\nChristian gentleman of enlarged views and a broad-gauge statesman,\ngave cordial welcome to the strangers within the gates of the Old\nDominion, and in fitting words of sincere and merited commendation\napproved and indorsed all that had been done and so well done at\nHampton.\n\nMuch more might be said; less could not be said. God will, it is\nnot doubted, continue to call from Hampton to His service Christian\nmen and women, _workers_ in His vineyard, who will illustrate that\n\n      \u201cPeace hath her victories\n    No less renowned than War.\u201d\n\nThe Hampton Institute is becoming more known and appreciated in\nVirginia and the neighboring States. Its alumni are occupying\npositions of practical usefulness, and discharge the high duties\nof good citizens well and faithfully. Virginians believe that\nPrincipal Armstrong is emphatically the right man in the right\nplace, and that, with General Marshall, Miss Mackie and others\non his staff, he will push forward the good work in which they\nare engaged, and will continue to merit and receive the grateful\nappreciation of the people of the commonwealth. Above all, they\ninvoke that blessing of God in the future which has been so\nsignally manifested in the past.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFISK UNIVERSITY.\n\nPROF. C. C. PAINTER.\n\nNo one can properly appreciate or understand Fisk University\nwho does not take into account the model school whose unique\nanniversary exercises occurred on Thursday p. m., preceding those\nof the University proper. The school is under the management of\nMiss Irene Gilbert, who is assisted by students from the Normal\nDepartment. The excellency of her work is not found alone in\nthe perfection of drill which every exercise shows, but in the\nexquisite finish of whatever work is done. A recent graduate from\nWilliston Seminary and of the Sheffield Scientific School, with\nwhom I visited this school one day when it was not on exhibition,\nand examined the children\u2019s work in map drawing, declared that he\nhad never seen any work of the kind that compared with it. The\nexhibition given by these children made it easier to understand the\nuniformly excellent work apparent in all the classes of the higher\ngrades witnessed during the three days\u2019 examinations of the next\nweek. Miss Gilbert trains up the child in the way he should go, and\nin the higher departments he does not depart from it.\n\nThe Baccalaureate sermon of President Cravath on Sunday afternoon,\nfrom Heb. xi. 27, \u201cFor he endured as seeing Him who is invisible,\u201d\nwas able and timely; well calculated to inspire his hearers with\nthe faith and courage requisite for the great work which lies\nbefore them as leaders of their emancipated people through the\nwilderness which still surrounds and stretches out before them,\nafter sixteen years of wanderings.\n\nA rainy evening gave a much smaller audience to hear Dr. G. D.\nPike\u2019s missionary sermon than would otherwise have greeted him. He\nmust be a laggard indeed who, hearing the Doctor on his favorite\ntheme of missions, does not become inoculated with something of his\ndivine enthusiasm.\n\nSpace cannot be given for even a full programme of the exercises,\nwhich filled to the full Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday;\nexaminations in the mornings until 1 p. m., and exhibitions in\nthe evenings by the Normal School, the Literary Society and the\nCollege Preparatory Class; and it would be exceedingly common-place\nto say, what simple truth demands should be said, that they were\nall excellent. One of the visitors said at the close of the Normal\nSchool exhibition on Monday, that he did not expect to hear\nanything better even from the graduating class; but on Thursday\ncandidly admitted his mistake, as there was just such advance as\nthere ought to have been to mark the advanced grade of the pupils.\nPerhaps, instead of giving a programme of these exercises, it will\nprove more profitable to state impressions derived from them.\n\nThis was the first time the writer has had the privilege of\nattending the closing exercises of this or of any school for the\neducation of these people. Brought up among them, and always\naccustomed to regard them as inferior, he shared until recently the\nfeeling so prevalent that in their education nothing more should\nbe attempted than a fair common school training. This is not the\nplace in which to argue that there is urgent need that the leaders\nof 7,000,000 people, who are to be redeemed from ignorance and\nlifted into a plane where they shall command the respect of those\nwho are now unjustly prejudiced against them, shall be thoroughly\ndisciplined and broadly educated; but it is the time to express\nthe opinion of the writer, and of several others who attended with\ngreat interest these exercises, with something of his prejudices,\nthat these students showed conclusively that they are capable of\ntaking on the same culture, and under it of reaching the same\nexcellencies of thought and discipline, as the more favored whites\nattain under like training; and that an objection to their higher\neducation must be based on other ground than their inability to\nreceive it, or the need of their race for such leaders as this\nschool is sending out from year to year.\n\nA gentleman, native of Tennessee, who has recently been called\nfrom the presidency of a Southern College to the management of the\neducational work of the State, was present during the commencement\nexercises, and contrasted them with those of the graduating class\nof the first institution of the State for whites, in terms so\ncomplimentary to the negro students, that, out of deference to the\nwhites, his language will be omitted.\n\nThis work is no longer tentative. Both the possibility and value\nof it have been fully demonstrated, and the urgent demand is that\nthe University shall be fully equipped for it. The point has\nbeen reached, in the estimation of all who know anything of its\nhistory, needs and opportunities, when it must be enlarged or\nsuffer irreparably. It was, therefore, with gladness of heart that\na large number of its friends, white and black, from the city and\nfrom other States, gathered to lay the corner-stone of Livingstone\nMissionary Hall on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nGen. Fisk presided most felicitously, and the address of Dr.\nStrieby was in every way happy and inspiring. It was a regular\nlove feast, not simply because there was so much of the Methodist\nelement in it, as represented by the General and his excellent\nlady, and Dr. McFerrin\u2014\u201ca rebel who fought on the last ten acres\nleft for the rebellion to stand upon,\u201d and who overcame great\nobstacles to get out to the exercises, despite attractions in other\ndirections, and made a delightful speech, full of good feeling\u2014but\nbecause there was such a flowing together of hearts and good-will\nfrom all classes as represented on the occasion. Dr. Strieby should\nbe requested to print his speech in full and distribute it all over\nthe land, and with it should go the eight or ten other excellent\nshorter speeches which followed, one of which was by the city\u2019s\ntreasurer, who came to represent the Historical Society.\n\nThere was a poem written for the occasion by Prof. Spence, and read\nby one of the pupils, Miss Allen, who has remarkable powers as a\nreader.\n\nThe address from Rev. C. H. Daniels, of Cincinnati, which followed\nthe graduating addresses of the class, was able and timely. His\ntheme was \u201cThe dignity and value of the individual man.\u201d It was\nevery way a manful presentation of a manly subject, and was a\nfitting _finale_ to the very able and manly addresses of the\ngraduating class.\n\nThe diplomas were presented by Gen. Fisk in a brief address full\nof pathos and good sense, with happy allusions in each case to\nthe theme of the recipient\u2019s address. After this came the Alumni\ndinner, plain and substantial, and the speeches following, which\nwere fully up to those of older and more pretentious societies.\n\nAnd thus closed the fullest and most hopeful year in the history of\nthis institution, which is beginning to excite the deepest interest\namong the people of the State, who are awakening to the fact that\nit is offering the only solution to many dark problems which to\nthem seemed without an answer, or at least one that had anything of\nhope in it.\n\nWe cannot better close this article than by giving the following\nextract from an editorial from the _American_, the ablest and most\ninfluential paper of the State:\n\n\u201cIn the proceedings at the Fisk University, yesterday, another\nstep forward was taken in the way of providing material means for\nthat moral and intellectual growth which is going on silently as\na great institution grows and roots itself firmly in the society\naround it. Universities are not created in a day, nor at all by\nmoney, although money is a necessary agency. They grow. The Fisk\nis passing through with comparatively the early stages of growth,\nwhen we compare it with the ideal which finds place in the dreams\nof its enthusiastic laborers\u2014dreams which enfold the future result.\nWe doubt if the public, although it lend a hearty sympathy and\napproval, and expect good to flow from it, begins yet to realize\nthe work this institution is to perform. We doubt if there is such\nappreciation anywhere existent or possible except in the dreams of\nits enthusiast laborers. These in some way comprehend its future.\nBut the Fisk has had to adapt itself in more ways than one. At\nfirst it encountered, as a matter of course, but cold approval from\nthe wealth and culture of Nashville\u2014not hostility, but approval\nfrom a languid and cold judgment. But perhaps the hardest task\nhas been to adapt itself to the negro himself. To secure the cold\napproval of intelligent judgment was apparently easy; to go a\nlittle further and secure aid, if it were necessary, would not be\nhard; but to lift the negro up to appreciate New England culture\nand conservatism and quiet labor, is like bringing him, in his\nearly religious experience, to accept the calm conservatism and\nquiet demeanor of the Catholic, Presbyterian or Episcopal churches.\nIn vain is he solicited to enter the intellectual stage of\nreligious experience, when nature tells him that his stage is the\nemotional, if indeed it be beyond the sensuous. This is the task\nFisk has set itself, and is performing, and performing well. It is\nencountering, and has encountered, a world of prejudice from the\nvery race it seeks to elevate, and must content itself with working\nupon and with the _creme de la creme_ of the race in the South,\nwhile it cannot as yet reach the vast mass unless it let itself\ndown, and we believe that so long as its present laborers are at\nthe helm it will insist on drawing others up and never let itself\ndown. It has a great and widening field, which it is worthily\nfilling, and in the labor of regeneration of a race, no agency\nwill have a higher, or indeed so high a place as this conservative\nschool, which is filling so difficult a position.\n\n\u201cWe are not unmindful also of the necessity for quite other\nlaborers in the regeneration of this race. It is just as necessary\nin school as in church that this yet blind and emotional creature,\n\u2018crying for the light with no language but a cry,\u2019 shall have\ntendance suited to his condition and upon his own level.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.\n\nThe annual examinations in this institution began on Thursday, May\n26th, continuing Friday and also Monday forenoon. Many friends\nof students were present from various parts of the State. The\nforenoon of Sunday was taken up with the Sunday-school, with its\nvery instructive lessons from the parable of the talents, and\nimmediately following this a temperance Bible reading, with its\nintensely practical and stirring appeals. The latter was especially\ntimely, inasmuch as a large number of temperance tracts, pamphlets\nand papers had been distributed to all the members, just before,\nfor circulation as they return this summer to their own homes, or\ngo forth to engage in teaching. Supplied in this way, the students\nfrom this school are the means of disseminating through the State\na great deal of good temperance literature, and are enabled to\norganize a multitude of little temperance societies.\n\nIt will not be amiss to note the fact, as illustrating the high\nvalue of just this sort of work, that besides these societies\nestablished by the students of this University, there is no kind of\ntemperance organization among the colored people in the State. At\nthe same time, the prevalence of drunkenness, and of the habit of\ndrinking among all classes, is appalling. The following incident\nshows the crying need of a _reform movement_: A colored church not\nfar from here had communion service, and when it was concluded, the\npastor and deacons tarried, and following, as they believed, (?)\nthe instruction of the Bible, where it says, \u201cdrink ye all of it,\u201d\nconsumed what was left of the generous supply of wine, and thus\nmade themselves beastly drunk.\n\nSunday was filled up with impressive services. In the afternoon the\nLord\u2019s Supper was commemorated, and five of the students united\nwith the church, receiving the rite of baptism. In the evening,\nDr. Strieby preached a sermon from the text. \u201cAnd now also the axe\nis laid unto the root of the trees: every tree, therefore, which\nbringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the\nfire.\u201d Every word was listened to with closest attention.\n\nOn Monday evening the Preparatory School Exhibition, under\nthe management of the teachers of the Primary and Preparatory\ndepartments, was held in the chapel, presenting to a crowded\naudience a varied programme, made up of recitations, declamations,\nsongs, &c. A prominent feature of this exhibition was a strong and\nwell appreciated temperance dialogue.\n\nIt was a manifest disappointment to all when Tuesday dawned cloudy\nand dark, with every prospect of a rainy time. The exercises of\nthe day were accordingly held in the barn, instead of the grove,\nfor which all arrangements had been made. The forenoon was taken\nup with the commencement exercises of the Normal department. The\norations and essays were presented by members of the Middle and\nJunior Classes, with the single exception of an oration by the one\ngraduate from the Normal course. As was said on that day, what the\ngraduating class lacked in quantity was well made up in quality. We\nexpect a very high order of work and Christian influence from Henry\nLanier.\n\nIn the afternoon the interesting ceremony of laying the foundation\nof \u201cStrieby Hall,\u201d the new boy\u2019s dormitory, was followed by a\nprocession to the chapel again, where the annual address was given\nby Dr. Strieby. This was a stirring presentation of the reason\nwhy the American Missionary Association is to-day in the field of\nSouthern Freedmen education, and of exactly what it is aiming to do\nfor the colored race. It was shown how this Association was pioneer\nin the work, and how, gradually, the most prominent and cultured of\nSouthern gentlemen have come to regard the higher education of the\nrace as possible, and, now, as a necessity to the prosperity and\nthe material advancement of the region.\n\nCol. Power, who with other gentlemen from Jackson had been\npresent through the day to witness the exercises, was then called\nupon to speak. He alluded to the exercises of the forenoon with\nappreciation of the orations and essays presented, referring to one\nof the former as \u201celoquent,\u201d and added a glowing word of tribute to\nthe sweet music rendered by the students. He assured all present\nthat the white people of the State are now in hearty sympathy with\nthe work of the education of the colored race. Immediately after\nthe war, he frankly admitted, the people were not attracted by\nthe idea, but now a better opinion prevails, and they see that\neducation must be given to all, white and black.\n\n                                                          H.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSTRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.\n\nREV. W. S. ALEXANDER, D.D., NEW ORLEANS.\n\nWe come to the close of another school year with a profound sense\nof gratitude to God for His guiding Providence, and for His\nblessing upon the work undertaken in His name. We have had 328\nnames upon our rolls, with a large average attendance. There has\nbeen a marked advance in scholarship, and we are justified in\nsaying with regard to all the pupils, \u201cOur labor has not been in\nvain.\u201d There have been years of decline, since the first burst\nof enthusiasm after the war, in education; but a better and more\nhopeful era has dawned, when interest in the general education\nof the people, and the higher grades of scholarship, is in the\nascendant. From this time on, the demand for education among the\ncolored people will be more intelligent and abiding.\n\n\nTHE EXAMINATIONS.\n\nshowed thoroughness of instruction, and aptness in learning and\nretaining what was taught. Many kind words of appreciation and\npleasure were spoken by the visitors and trustees. One of our\nmerchants who attended Professor Jewett\u2019s examination of the class\nin botany said: \u201cWhat would the planters up in Ouchita Parish say\nif they should happen in here now and hear a \u2018nigger\u2019 analyzing a\nMorning Glory?\u201d\n\n\nTHEOLOGICAL ANNIVERSARY.\n\nWhile the Theological department has been in existence for eleven\nyears, we have never graduated a student till this year. The\ntheological and literary attainments of the students would never\nhave justified us in doing it. It is little less than a crime to\nconfer an unmerited degree upon a young man. It would not only\nbe a fraud, but a source of constant embarrassment to him. This\nyear we had as a student Mr. A. E. P. Albert, who studied some\ntime at Atlanta University, and who joined our senior class of\nthe University and the Theological school in October. He is a\nregularly ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, a\nyoung man of culture and ability. On Sunday night he delivered his\naddress, taking as his subject, \u201cLike Priest, Like People.\u201d It was\nable, impressive, and appropriate for the time and the people. The\nPresident followed with a plea for an \u201cEducated Ministry;\u201d and then\nthe degree of Bachelor of Divinity was conferred upon Mr. Albert. I\ntrust all subsequent degrees will be as worthily bestowed.\n\n\nLITERARY EXHIBITION.\n\nIn the afternoon of Commencement day, our University chapel was\nfilled with an intelligent and interested audience. The exercises,\nconsisting of orations, compositions and recitations, were entirely\nby the undergraduates. We furnished a pleasant entertainment to the\ncitizens, and identified the entire school with Commencement day.\n\nAt night Central Church was packed in every part, pews, aisles,\nvestibule and gallery, with an eager, expectant audience,\ncomprising the best element of the colored population of New\nOrleans. Such an assembly was never gathered in Central Church\nbefore. The audience itself was an inspiration and showed a deep\nand intelligent interest in the holy cause represented. A goodly\nnumber of our white friends were present, and were among the most\nenthusiastic in their congratulations.\n\nRev. H. M. Smith, D.D., editor of the _South-Western Presbyterian_,\noffered the prayer, in which he thanked God for the existence of\nStraight University and the good it had done.\n\nThe five young men composing the senior class, who made their\nsalutations to the audience, represented three of the Southern\nStates, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Their orations were well\nwritten and well delivered. One of the orations was solicited for\npublication by two of the New Orleans papers represented in the\naudience by their editors.\n\nThe music, both in the afternoon and evening, was exceptionally\nfine, and so pronounced by all. It was entirely under the direction\nof Professor J. M. McPherron, and reflected great credit upon his\nmethod and excellence of instruction.\n\n\nSTONE HALL.\n\nThe new dormitory for girls will be entirely finished by July 15th.\n\nIt must be furnished by the 1st of October. Milwaukee, Wis., West\nNewton, Mass., and Evansville, Ind., have already forwarded money\nto furnish and name a room. Others have the money partly raised.\nDear friends, come to our help at once. Send $50, if you can. Send\n$25, or $10, or $5. Do the best you can and at once. It is God\u2019s\nwork, and we ask your aid in His name.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLE MOYNE NORMAL INSTITUTE.\n\nPROF. A. J. STEELE, MEMPHIS.\n\nThe passing months have again brought us to where we may look\nback over the entire work of the year. While we grieve over\nopportunities lost and efforts to all appearance fruitless, we can,\ntoo, rejoice that the \u201cMaster of the harvest\u201d has given increase.\nThe year has been one, on many accounts, unusually successful and\nsatisfactory. Never before have we known our pupils so susceptible\nto all good influences and so ready to receive instruction and\nguidance from their teachers.\n\nDuring the year past, the school has experienced a most precious\nrevival, over forty of our young people professing conversion. In\nour closing prayer meeting for the year, it was found that there\nwere but about a dozen students of the Normal department who had\nnot accepted the Saviour.\n\nIn way of school work we have never before secured so satisfactory\nresults as this year has shown. Our attendance has been more\nconstant, and consequently our work more thorough.\n\nA class of eight\u2014five young men and three young ladies\u2014this year\ncomplete the course of study, and go out to work at teaching in\nthree different States, one taking a prominent place in the schools\nat Fort Smith, Ark.\n\nWe have for the entire year had the active sympathy and hearty\nencouragement of the best people of the city; Gen. Humes, a very\nprominent lawyer and formerly a major-general in the Confederate\narmy, giving the annual address, and the daily papers making full\nreports of lectures, graduating exercises, &c.\n\nOur industrial work has developed to our entire satisfaction, and\nby all our patrons and friends is now regarded as a very important\nand valuable feature of the school.\n\nA class of girls has had careful instruction, with actual practice\nin the experimental kitchen, in the nature, relative values and\nhealthful methods of cooking different articles of food, including\nvegetables, meats, breads, pastry, &c., &c. Classes in needlework,\nknitting, use of sewing machines, &c., have had daily lessons and\npractice.\n\nWe are confident that instruction of this nature can be given in\nconnection with a day-school, without interfering with regular\nschool-work, and at slight expense and small increase of teaching\nforce. I am anxious to have a workshop fitted up where the boys\nand young men shall receive instruction in wood-working and the\nordinary use of tools for that purpose.\n\nWe shall have a full and strong attendance for next year. We are\nhaving more students from the country, and usually they are those\nwho put to good use the training and instruction they carry from\nhere. Not less than seventy of our students will be teaching during\nvacation, those of former years with those going out from this\nyear\u2019s work. I should look upon our work as of little importance\nand value if our influence did not extend and multiply in this way.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nEMERSON INSTITUTE.\n\nREV. O. D. CRAWFORD, MOBILE.\n\nThree hundred and fifty pupils enrolled for the year, carries our\nnumbers above any point reached since the boarding accommodations\ndisappeared in the \u201cBlue College\u201d fire. Had we possessed boarding\nfacilities and sufficient school-room, the number would have been\nas near 500 as 350.\n\nTwo days of this week were given to the final written examinations,\nand in some of the departments three days were so used. Thursday\nwas devoted to oral examinations. About thirty visitors favored\nus\u2014among them Rev. Dr. Burgett, whose name is becoming familiar to\nyour readers as one that appreciates this work of the Association;\nanother, the Rev. W. G. Strong, pastor of the largest colored\nchurch in the State. The common sentiment of these judges was that\nthe pupils did remarkably well, and showed that they had received\ncareful and thorough training.\n\nLast night 800 people crowded the Third Baptist Church to witness\nthe closing exhibition. Although the aisles were filled with people\nstanding down to the middle of the house, many turned away from the\ndoor. Dr. Burgett offered the opening prayer, and Rev. Mr. Strong\npronounced the benediction. All the exercises that came between\nastonished many, especially the white people present, and gave\npleasure to all until the weariness of standing made many persons\nabout the door restless and unduly communicative. The popular\njudgment is that much progress has been made during the year.\nPersonally, we think many exhibitions at white schools would suffer\nin comparison with this one.\n\nThe future of this people is full of promise.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSWAYNE SCHOOL.\n\nREV. O. W. FAY, MONTGOMERY.\n\nProf. Martin and his efficient corps of assistants are deserving\nof commendation for their hard and thorough work at this point\nduring the school-year just closed. The number in attendance has\nbeen unusually large, (the whole enrolment being 644 against\n484 last year); but in thoroughness of teaching and in all that\nconstitutes good discipline there has been a decided advance all\nalong the line. Recognizing the fact that the school building has a\nseating capacity for only about 350, while the average attendance\nfor a part of the year has been 450, the necessity for enlarged\naccommodations, as well as some of the difficulties encountered by\nthe teachers, will be apparent.\n\nOn the principle that what is good for a part is good also for\nall, there was no favoritism shown in the assignment of parts in\nthe closing exercises. All, \u201cfrom the least to the greatest,\u201d were\ngiven a _speech_. Although the average was somewhat reduced near\nthe close of the term, yet, with the more than three hundred to\ntake part, it will readily appear that the \u201cCommencement Exercises\u201d\nof Swayne College (as the patrons call it), could not all be\ncrowded into a single day. Consequently, in order that a _good_\nthing might last a good while, it was arranged to devote three\nevenings to the speaking. Friday evening, May 20th, was given to\nthe exhibition of the Primary department; Friday evening, May 27th,\nto the Intermediate; and Tuesday evening, May 31st, to the Higher\ndepartment. The Congregational church proving too small on the\nfirst night, the exhibition was held the second and third nights\nin the M. E. Zion church, with an audience on the last night,\nwhich, admitting all members of the school free, and charging an\nadmittance fee of a nickel for adults, netted more than seventeen\ndollars.\n\nThese exercises, consisting of declamations, dialogues, solos,\nchoruses, &c., were creditable entertainments, and gave evident\nsatisfaction to the members of the City Board of Education and\nother white visitors in attendance, as well as to the patrons of\nthe school.\n\nMonday and Tuesday, May 30th and 31st, were occupied with the\nexaminations of the several departments. These were entered into by\nthe pupils with a good deal of genuine enthusiasm, and evidenced to\nthe goodly number of visitors present that the efforts in \u201cdrill,\u201d\non the part of the teachers had not been in vain. The \u201cSwayne\u201d is\ndoing good work.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBEACH INSTITUTE, SAVANNAH.\n\nThe school was brought to a successful close to-day. The year has\nbeen one of interest and profit, although of trial, on account\nof severe and, in some cases, protracted sickness on the part of\nnearly all the workers in this field. The school has prospered,\nand the progress made by some of the pupils has been very marked.\nDiffering degrees of attainment, as well as of ability to express\ntheir knowledge, was clearly shown in the examinations. The closing\noratorical exercises this afternoon, in the presence of an audience\nwhich crowded the chapel, were interesting in every particular.\nWithout any special expenditure of time and strength in preparing\nfor these, the most creditable results were shown. There was almost\nno prompting. The original productions, chiefly having relation to\nsome country and the people inhabiting it, were well conceived and\nwell expressed. The reading was distinct. It is manifest that that\nform of public address is doomed, and will soon be heard no more\namong the colored people, which only \u201cmouths\u201d words, regardless\nof sense and of the listening ear. Such scenes as that at \u201cBeach\u201d\nto-day have only hope in them for our country and the colored race.\n\n                                                              C.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBYRON, GA.\n\nBY REV. S. E. LATHROP.\n\nI recently attended the closing exercises of Rev. P. W. Young\u2019s\nschool at Byron. Going down on an evening freight train, I arrived\nat 9 p. m., and proceeded with my little girl and Bro. Young to\nthe church, which is used also as a school-room. People in these\ncountry places are slow in getting together, at night especially.\nAfter working hard all day in the fields (it was just the busiest\n\u201ccotton-cropping\u201d time), they have to go home, get their suppers,\ndress up in their best clothes, and then go perhaps three or four\nmiles. So it was half-past ten o\u2019clock before the audience arrived\nin sufficient numbers; but finally the curtain was drawn and the\nexercises began. Declamations, readings, dialogues and music were\ngiven by the school, with much credit to themselves and their\nteachers. These exercises were under the direction of Mrs. Amelia\nYoung, the pastor\u2019s excellent wife, who showed decided talent in\nmanaging. It was after midnight when the exercises closed, and then\nyour reporter was called on for a speech, which at that hour of\nthe night (or rather morning) turned out to have one merit\u2014that of\nbrevity. A young neighboring teacher also made a speech, and the\nsession was closed.\n\nNext morning came off the examination of the classes, which showed\ncommendable progress and encouraging attention to the studies.\nThese country schools have many disadvantages which are not felt in\nlarger places; but Bro. Young and his wife have evidently done a\ngood work here, and are elevating and helping the whole community\nby their labors. A picnic dinner was spread in the church, as the\nrain prevented its service in the beautiful grove surrounding.\nAfter bountifully satisfying the inner man, and a little more\nspeech-making, we returned home well pleased.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTALLADEGA COLLEGE\u2014LAYING OF CORNER-STONE.\n\nPRESIDENT H. S. DE FOREST.\n\nThe corner-stone of the new dormitory which Mrs. Stone gives to\nTalladega College was laid May 13th. Scripture was read and\nprayer offered by President De Forest. Professor Andrews, the\nveteran in American missionary service in Alabama, laid the stone\nand gave an address, in which fitting reference was made to the\ngood lady who, having seen and known none of us here, with her\nqueenly benevolence, has blessed not only this school of Christian\nlearning, and others in the South, but indeed round the world.\nThe students were well represented by Spencer Snell, a member\nboth of the Normal and Theological departments; after which a\nvery appreciative address was delivered by Captain N. A. McAfee,\na citizen of the place and a friend of the college from its\nfoundation.\n\nThe sun was very hot that afternoon, and the services, beginning\nat 5 o\u2019clock, naturally ended in a collation, which was followed\nby off-hand speeches, the singing of old-time songs, and music\nfrom a brass band. Some references were made to the past, but\nthe prevailing thought was of gratitude to God for what He has\nwrought, of the duties of the hour, and of preparation for the\nauspicious future. Twelve years ago the corner-stone of Foster Hall\nwas laid, in the days of turmoil, fear and violence. The first\ncollege building, now called Swayne Hall, was begun nearly thirty\nyears ago; and it is a noteworthy fact that one who worked as a\nslave on that structure is the brick contractor of this, while his\nhome to-day is the place owned by his master at the time of the\nsurrender. The history of this man, who is a pillar in the college\nchurch, as well as an influential citizen among both blacks and\nwhites, shows something of the possibilities and hopefulness of\nthis Southern work. More of it is to be done, and it is a privilege\nto have a hand in it.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE.\n\nREV. ALFRED CONNET.\n\nThis Conference, organized two years ago at Raleigh, held its\nthird meeting with Bethany Church at McLeansville. The churches\nwere all represented. Rev. Islay Walden and his delegate, Deacon\nPotter, together with three others, came fifty miles in a one-horse\nwagon to attend the Conference. One of the party, Mrs. Hill, now\na widow, has had twelve children, forty grand-children and twelve\ngreat-grand-children. She had never seen the cars nor heard a\nrailroad whistle till she came to the Conference.\n\nThe opening sermon was preached by Rev. David Peebles, of Dudley,\nfrom John vii. 37. On Friday the Conference organized by electing\nRev. G. S. Smith, of Raleigh, Moderator, and re-electing Rev. David\nPeebles, Clerk. The morning meeting for prayer and reports from the\nchurches was a precious season.\n\nRev. Mr. Peebles discussed Church and Sunday-school Singing and\nPictorial Preaching; Rev. W. H. Ellis, Children for Christ; Rev.\nG. S. Smith, the A. M. A. Work and National Council. The sermon\nFriday night was by Rev. Islay Walden; text, the first Psalm.\nSaturday afternoon the Conference held an experience meeting, in\nwhich some very interesting and touching reminiscences were given,\nparticularly that of the death and burial of the martyr, Rev. Mr.\nLuke, related by Mr. Peebles. While this was in progress, Mr. James\nGilmore, who sold the A. M. A. the grounds for this mission, came\nin, was made an honorary member, and sat, an interested listener,\nuntil the close.\n\nSaturday night, the Conference held a rousing temperance meeting\nand took strong ground by a unanimous vote in favor of total\nabstinence, the use of unfermented wine at communion, and in favor\nof prohibition, as submitted to the people of this State by the\nlast legislature for their ratification next August. The leading\ntemperance speech was made by Deacon Jones, of Raleigh, whose\ngrave was gratuitously dug for him at Chapel Hill some years ago\nby the Ku Klux, but which he declined to occupy. He tells us the\nCongregational Church at Raleigh is known as the prohibition church.\n\nOn the Sabbath the Sunday-school occupied the hour from 10 to 11\na.m. Sermon at 11 by Dr. Roy on the Great Commission. Text, Matt.\nxxviii. 18\u201320. In the afternoon one infant was baptized and nine\npersons received into the church, the pastor, Rev. A. Connet,\nofficiating. Communion was administered by Revs. G. S. Smith and\nDavid Peebles.\n\nSunday night was devoted to the cause of Missions. Rev. A. Connet,\nfor ten years in the employ of the A. H. M. S., presented the\ncause of Home Missions. Rev. G. S. Smith presented in earnest and\neloquent words the cause of the A. M. A. He was followed by Rev.\nJ. E. Roy, D.D., who gave a clear outline of the discoveries and\nmissionary operations on the continent of Africa. He told us how\nthe Christian world is looking to the colored population of this\ncountry to evangelize the \u201cDark Continent.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE ORDINATION AT GOOD HOPE.\n\nREV. H. M. LADD.\n\nNo little interest centered about the ordination of Kelly M. Kemp.\nIt took place at Good Hope Station, Sherbro\u2019 Island, West Coast\nof Africa, Sunday, April 10th.[A] Being the first ceremony of the\nkind in which the church and community had ever participated, it\nwas naturally looked forward to by many, not only as a matter of\ndeep interest in itself, but also as the harbinger of a better\nstate of things for the enfeebled and almost discouraged church.\nYet the field was an important one and must not be given up. The\nLord had set His seal upon some faithful souls here, and they were\npraying and hoping for better things. Here, in the little graveyard\nadjoining the church, lay those who had given their lives that\nAfrica might be redeemed. Here, by their side, lay one of Africa\u2019s\nown sons, the gifted Barnabas Root, whose Christian graces of\ncharacter had endeared him to all who knew him, and whose brilliant\nattainments had been to all the friends of the colored race at once\na promise and a fulfillment of their fondest expectations. Their\nmute appeal, seconding the conviction that God had not forgotten\nthis station, was eloquent, and prevailed. Good Hope was not to be\ngiven up. On the contrary, it was to be strengthened, so far as\nhuman power could do so, with a good hope, true to its name, that\nGod would add His blessing in the fulfillment of the rich promises\nof His grace.\n\nThe property of the mission here is on all sides acknowledged to\nbe the finest on the island. It consists of a large tract of land,\npart of it well wooded, about a quarter of a mile wide and a mile\nlong, running back from the Sherbro\u2019 River or Sound, and commanding\na fine view of its many beautiful islands, stretching across to\nthe native town of Bendoo on the opposite side. The mission house,\nlarge and well built, the church and school-house, besides a large\nnumber of \u201cfakis,\u201d or groups of native huts, are on this land. The\ngrounds in front of the mission house are neatly laid out with\ngravel walks and shrubbery, and extend to the river road skirting\nthe bank, where lies the mission boat moored to its wharf. It may\nbe truly said of this place, in the words of the grand old hymn,\nthat\n\n    \u201cEvery prospect pleases\n    And only man is vile.\u201d\n\nThe property was well enough, and there was work enough to be done\namong the dense native population settled upon or near it; but an\nordained minister to be the pastor of the church, a married man,\na man fully qualified for the great and responsible work, one\nafter God\u2019s own heart, earnest, energetic, efficient, spiritually\nminded, with a paramount love for the lost souls of his own people,\nwas wanting. The good seed had been sown, but there was needed\nsome one to harrow it in, nurture the growth and reap the harvest.\nIn this extremity God raised up one who seems to be the right\nman for the place. Mr. Kemp is a graduate of Lincoln University,\nand ably represents the thorough and practical training of that\ninstitution. With his coming and installation as pastor, the\nstruggling church took heart, and determined, forgetting those\nthings which were behind, to press forward toward those better\nthings which they believed were in store. The examination took\nplace on Saturday evening, April 9th, and was well attended, and\nalthough Mr. Kemp was feeling somewhat unwell at the time he stood\nthe long and searching fire of questions, theological, wise and\notherwise, with credit to himself and with great satisfaction to\nthe council, which, besides the \u201cmy-doxy\u201d members, was composed\nof representatives of various shades of theological opinion. This\nfact indeed formed one of the pleasantest features of the council.\nHere in the midst of a heathenism rendered fouler and more corrupt\nby contact with an immoral civilization, and in a common work\nfor a common Master and a common people, party names were wholly\nforgotten. One of the best and most earnest prayers that I have\never heard was offered on this occasion by an excellent brother\nof the Church Missionary Society, and he had no book before him\nor gown on his back. The ordination exercises on Sabbath morning\nwere attended by a full house, while a deep sense of the solemnity\nof the hour seemed to pervade every heart. The Holy Spirit was\nmanifestly present to sanctify the new relationship with the\noutpouring of His grace. As appropriate to the occasion, the third\nchapter of the First Epistle to Timothy was read. The sermon, full\nof earnestness and spiritual power, was preached by Brother Evans\nof the Shengay Mission. The charge to the people by Brother Jowett\nwas partially historical, reviewing the course of the church in\ntimes past, and counseling sound wisdom for the future. Brother\nNurse, who knew something of the wants of the field, gave the\ncharge to the pastor; and Brother Jackson, of whose growing work\nat Avery Station a fuller account will be given at another time,\nas his co-worker in the mission, very feelingly gave his brother\nmissionary the right hand of fellowship; while it was my privilege\nto offer the ordaining prayer. After the benediction, pronounced\nby their new pastor, the people, with tears of gladness in their\neyes, flocked around him and his good wife, whom they had already\nlearned to love, for a hearty hand-shaking, which, as some one has\ntruly said, is also one of the means of grace. Can it be necessary,\nafter this little glimpse, so hurriedly taken, of the hopeful\nrelation just entered into, to ask the sympathy and prayers of all\nthe friends of missions for the blessings of God to rest upon the\nnew missionary and his work at Sherbro\u2019 Island? He will have many\ntrying hours in that dark land, where there are worse things to be\nfeared and harder to be contended against than physical death. But\nthe promises are his as well as ours, and unitedly we can plead\nthem at the throne of grace. The promises of God include Africa.\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] The location of Mr. Kemp was a matter of such importance,\nconsidering the fewness of the workers and the demands of the\nwork, that it called for and received the most careful thought and\nattention. After considering the subject in its various bearings,\nand after duly consulting with all the persons concerned, it was\nfinally decided to station Mr. Kemp and his wife at Good Hope.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\u201cCALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.\u201d\n\n_Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association._\n\nPRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D.D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L.\nStone, D.D., Robert B. Forman, Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low,\nRev. I. E. Dwinell, D.D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey,\nD.D., Jacob S. Taber, Esq.\n\nDIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D.D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P.\nBaker, James M. Haven. Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball,\nA. L. Van Blarcon, Esq., George Harris, Esq., and the Secretary ex\nofficio.\n\nSECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nANNIVERSARIES.\n\nBY REV. W. C. POND.\n\nSince my last communication was forwarded, the four Mission Schools\nin San Francisco have held their anniversary at Bethany Church, a\ncrowded audience being held attentive and interested till nearly\n10 o\u2019clock. An address delivered on that occasion by Jee Gam\nwas forwarded in advance of delivery, and published in the last\nMISSIONARY. Last evening, Sunday, May 22d, the anniversary of the\nSacramento Mission was held at the First Congregational Church in\nthat city. The _Record-Union_, the leading paper at our capital,\ndevotes nearly a whole column to a notice of it, including a\nverbatim report of the address by our helper Lem Chung. I am sure\nthat I cannot put our columns in the MISSIONARY to better use this\nmonth than by reproducing that address entire.\n\n\nADDRESS BY LEM CHUNG.\n\nDEAR FRIENDS: I am a Chinese. Why I not be a heathen? A few years\nago I didn\u2019t know anything about the Bible. I didn\u2019t know about\nChrist. I had not heard of the true and living God; but I heard of\nthis land, where so many of my countrymen came and I come too, and\nhere I found Christian people who loved Christ, and for His sake\nlove me and show me the way of life. When I first hear of the Bible\nI didn\u2019t think I like it. I said: If no other books, I don\u2019t care\nfor this one; I don\u2019t want such a book as this. I thought I didn\u2019t\nneed any more gods, for I said I have all kinds in the temple, and\nI could see them if I go there, but the God I hear of in America\nI cannot see! When I learn in the Bible what it says about the\nheathen gods that are made of silver and gold, the works of men\u2019s\nhands\u2014how they have mouth and cannot speak, eyes cannot see, ears\nand cannot hear, noses cannot smell, and hands but handle not\u2014I\nlearn also the God of the Bible made all things and sees us all\nthe time, every thing is ruled by His hands. We must fear him, for\nHe is powerful and glorious, but the idols is unwise. I am obliged\nto leave the idols and come to worship the true God, and trying to\nobserve His law and commandments the Bible shows me how sinful I\nam, and if Christ had not come to the world to save me I am sure\nget lost.\n\nAfter I was converted I study the Bible more and more and learn\ngreat deal, great wonder to me. Now the Bible is a precious book. I\nam glad I accept the Saviour for my Saviour and His God for my God.\n\u201cI pass from death unto life, from darkness and bondage of sin into\nthe glorious light and liberty of a new creature in Christ Jesus.\u201d\nWhat I expect to do if I still be a heathen? I must be bound to\nworshiping idols, bow down to all kinds of gods; great fear to them\nand not dare to touch them. Whenever I enter the temple, cannot\nwithout three bow to the idols.\n\nThe people of China are great superstitious; they believe every\nthings whatever chance to hear or think. Let me tell you how some\nof the people doing when any of the family getting sick: They have\na doctor, but they think some kind of spirit troubling them, it may\nchance their ancient father or friends or enemies who died before.\nThey think they must offer something for them to eat that they\nmay go away, or some times they go into the temple to pray to the\nidols. They hope the idols may tell what are the reason with the\nsick that they find out how they may do and get well. How the idols\ncan tell them? Let me make known to you: A piece of wood has been\nsmoothen in the shape of a banana and cut in equal size the longest\nway. This they throw down before the idols that they may give a\ncertain condition according which they request before; may be they\nsay: If this is the spirit of an enemy let this pieces of wood fall\nboth the same way, or some other way, they may choose, till they\nfind out what is the matter and offer sacrifice that the spirit may\nleave off troubling and let the sick get well. The thief can pray\nthe idols that he may get help to steal! The gambler can ask that\nhe may win the money; the robber that he may be able to get what\nhe wishing for. If any kind of business going to be taken up the\nidols must first be asked about it. Every one is sure to say, \u201cNow,\nidols, if you help me good, I going to bring you something nice to\neat when I get success.\u201d\n\nWhen I was coming over to Cal., suddenly a storm came up, the wind\nviolent sweeping over the great ocean; the water dashing high upon\nthe boat. The sailors all at work to make the ship more safe. The\npassengers all trembling with fear and desperate to arrive in San\nFrancisco. Is there any chance to be rescued from the storm? Yes,\nsoon there was heard one of our number calling: \u201cWhosoever man\nin this ship have any money let us have some of it, that we may\nsacrifice to the goddess of the sea that she may deliver us out of\nthe storm and let us arrive safe to the land of Cal.\u201d I had a small\nsum of money. I gave half of it; others gave also. The man cast it\ninto the water and asked the goddess that she let no harm come to\nus, and we promise more sacrifice if we get here.\n\nThere are many reasons for going before the idols, but I have no\nchance to tell so much as I like to. A few weeks since I was in San\nFrancisco. I found some of the people from the town near my home in\nChina, getting money to send and build a temple over there. Every\none who give to help build it can have their names hang up in the\ntemple, but if any one who give $20 to $50 they have a present, and\nat the time of first worship or dedication a band of music to honor\nthem on their way home. Some of them asked me to give, but I said,\n\u201cNo, I cannot, I rather put money in the missionary fund.\u201d They\nsaid, \u201cYour parents will feel sorrow and disgrace if they not see\nyour name; but if you don\u2019t want your name you can give and have\nyour parent\u2019s name put there; no one of your Christian men know it;\nyou can be a Christian just the same.\u201d I said, \u201cI do not wish to\nhelp my parents to sin; I don\u2019t believe idol worship and I cannot\nhelp about it. If I be a Christian I must try to live like one.\u201d\n\nThere is a great difference in the religion taught by the Saviour\nand that of the heathen. It is great change to me to try to be a\nChristian, to know the true God who sees us all the time. I have\nworked many things for the idols. I feel thankful I shall do so no\nmore. Before I come to the light my life was gloomy, miserable,\nhopeless; always was fearing the evil spirit going to trouble me;\nbut I don\u2019t fear them now.\n\nWould I go back to idolatry? No; the Bible says, \u201cThou shall not\nmake unto thee any graven image, or likeness of anything that is\nin heaven above or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the\nwater under the earth. Thou shall not bow down thyself to them nor\nserve them.\u201d I cannot serve idols again; but I will try to serve\nmy heavenly Father, and bring all I can to bow down to Him. I wish\nevery one in China and America knew about the Bible. I thank all\nChristian people that they led me to the true way. I hope you will\npray that I may always be faithful, and at last receive the crown\nof life and dwell with God in the world to come.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nWOMAN\u2019S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nRoom 20, Congregational House, Beacon St., Boston.\n\n  MISS NATHALIE LORD, _Secretary_.\n  MISS ABBY W. PEARSON, _Treasurer_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWe are glad to bring before our friends this month the work among\nthe colored people in Washington, D.C., as it has been carried\non there by Mrs. C. B. Babcock. In her field, as in that of our\nother Southern missionaries, the industrial work occupies a\nprominent position. Here the women and children learn lessons\nof practical value to them, as they are taught to cut and make\ntheir own garments and repair old ones, while at the same time\nthey are instructed in truths of the highest importance. In a\nletter recently received, Mrs. Babcock writes of this work: \u201cThe\nladies of the Congregational church have given 180 yards material\nfor the industrial work, and a few of them gave a supper to the\nwomen\u2019s class, numbering fifty. The women have made 102 new\ngarments besides mending 100 old ones during these three months.\nThis has been of untold help to them and their families.\u201d Her\ngirl\u2019s sewing-school numbers 135. The natural outgrowth of these\nschools has been prayer-meetings for the women and young girls\nrespectively. \u201cThe mother\u2019s prayer-meetings have been deeply\ninteresting of late,\u201d she tells us.\n\nThere is much need of temperance work all through the South, and it\nis encouraging to read of the new Band of Hope in Washington. \u201cIt\nhas succeeded beyond my expectations,\u201d Mrs. Babcock writes, \u201cnot\nonly interesting the colored churches about us, but also bringing\nin, as officers and helpers, some of the colored public school\nteachers and students from Howard University. There has been a good\ndeal of enthusiasm about our meetings. Of course, our exercises\nmust be made interesting, and I work hard for it, but _it pays_,\nwhen I see such audiences as we\u2019ve had. And then I know that our\nScripture readings and lessons from the Temperance Catechism must\ndo good.\u201d\n\nMrs. Babcock has worked in Washington in connection with the\nLincoln Memorial church, which was organized January 10th, and\nRev. S. P. Smith installed as pastor. Of this church she writes,\nunder date of June 3d: \u201cOur little church is prospering, having\nnow twenty-one members, some being added as fruits of our revival.\n* * Rev. Mr. Smith is greatly encouraged. I have made over an\nold carpet for the platform, helped to buy chairs, Bible and\ncommunion table, so that when our pulpit comes we shall be nicely\nfixed. Our hall is very large and rather _dreary_ without any\npulpit furniture. Nobody knows but those who have worked in the\nfield, how great are the obstacles in the way of forming a colored\nCongregational church. We have the same jealousy and bitter feeling\nfrom the _churches around_ us that there is farther South.\u201d\n\nSpeaking of the sickness and suffering among the colored people,\nMrs. Babcock says: \u201cI feel that I\u2019ve been greatly blessed in\nhaving friends at the North respond so nobly to my appeals for\nhelp. I have sold a great deal of clothing, and the money received\nfor it has done much good.\u201d\n\nIn connection with this allusion to the generosity of Northern\nfriends, it may be well to mention that in the last six months\nboxes and barrels of clothing, sewing materials, etc., have been\nsent through this Association to the amount of $1,674.00, and, in\naddition, books and papers valued at $93.88.\n\nSince the annual meeting in October, six of the auxiliaries alone\nhave contributed $1,228.70, the largest contribution being from the\nSecond church in Dorchester, of $445.70.\n\nWe would gratefully acknowledge, too, the hearty response to the\nappeal for Sunday-school papers for the colored schools in the\nSouth. We have on hand still a long list of Sunday-schools waiting\nfor supply.\n\nReceipts of the Association from April 25th to May 31st, 1881:\n\n  From Auxiliaries       $349.45\n    \u201d  Donations          174.50\n    \u201d  Life Members        60.00\n    \u201d  Annual Members      12.00\n                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                         $595.95\n\nDonation of Case\u2019s Maps of United States, British Provinces, etc.,\nfrom S. M. H.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE STORY OF REBECCA.\n\nBY REV. J. E. ROY, D.D.\n\nThe following incident in the life of a freedwoman affected me very\nmuch. Let me tell you her history.\n\nIn the old times, Col. Holly, of Middle Tennessee, was known as a\nkind master; but failing in business, his slaves had to be sold;\nthen, hoping to retrieve his fortune, removed to Arkansas, taking\nwith him two little slave girls, one of whom was Rebecca, four and\na half years old. Here she grew up in his family, and was married\nto a man who belonged to another master, and who hired his time,\npaying one-half his wages as a mechanic.\n\nIn Tennessee her mother was, of course, taken away to another\nfamily. Her father, who had not belonged to Col. Holly, had already\nbeen sold to the Red River country, where he soon after died.\n\nRecently, at Little Rock, I was a guest for five days in the house\nof Rebecca. Her husband owned his home, together with two other\nplaces. Her only son and a son-in-law were teaching school, and she\nwas mothering the two little girls of her deceased daughter. On the\ncentre table were a large family Bible and a copy of Shakespeare,\nboth rich in binding and illustration; and on the walls were some,\nnot costly, but tasteful and suggestive pictures, one of which\nrepresented Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and John Brown. Her\ndeportment was that of a lady; her company enjoyable. She said she\nremembered well the time and the scene when she was taken from her\nmother. The screaming was yet ringing in her ears. She bore in mind\nthe last words of her mother, as she put a little red flannel shawl\nround her neck: \u201cGod bless my child! God bless my child!\u201d She had\nin memory also her own crying and bursting of heart. So, too, was\nfresh in her mind, her weeping of nights in the new home, until,\nupon the imperative chiding of master and mistress, she was obliged\nto repress that relief of hidden sorrow.\n\nHer young mistress, who was of about the same age, upon growing up,\nwas sent to the High School of the city, and she herself was kept\nat home, and not allowed even to learn to read the Bible, out of\nwhich she was to be judged at the last day. She did experience a\nkeen sense of injustice and of murmuring; but all of that she was\nobliged to suppress.\n\nBut what had become of her mother? \u201cAfter freedom,\u201d twenty-one\nand a half years since the parting, she came over to look up the\ndaughter. But how shall there be an unmistakable recognition? Col.\nHolly and his wife have both passed away. Fortunately, a woman,\nwho came over with the family, still survived. She brought the\nmother to the home of Rebecca, and pointing to her said, \u201cThat is\nyour daughter.\u201d Then such hugging, kissing, and shouting of joy\nand weeping, as is the sensation of the neighborhood. I am sure\nthat I never heard a daughter speak with more enthusiasm of love,\nconcerning her mother, than did Mrs. Solomon. She thought she\nwould have known her anyhow; and her mother half came to the same\nconclusion when with such accuracy she depicted the scene of the\nparting.\n\nAnd now she must go to visit the old family. Though the master\nand mistress are gone, in their place is left the daughter, whom\nshe had nursed upon her own breast, and who is now married to a\nNorthern man. Old times and scenes and friends are talked over, but\nsoon she gives vent to the pent-up sorrows of the mother\u2019s heart.\nWith all the intensity of a great nature, she told of the grief at\nher separation from Rebecca. It was as though she had dropped blood\nfrom her heart; she went weeping and mourning every where. \u201cI wept\nas I was making the bread, and _them that eat the most of my bread\neat the most of my heart_.\u201d So David had said: \u201cThou feedest them\nwith the bread of tears.\u201d The old colored people told her she must\npray and the Lord would remove all that. In her prayer it seemed as\nthough there were deep waters and high mountains between her and\nher child, and that the Lord would have to send men and remove the\nmountains, and make a way over the waters so that she could come\nto her child; and now He had done it all, and brought her to tell\nher story to the remnant of the old household. The young mistress,\nwhile her husband walks the floor in deep and mute emotion, herself\nbursts into tears, and as her only relief, declares: \u201cMy father was\nsuch a man that he never would have done that thing if he had not\ngot broke.\u201d \u201cOh,\u201d said the sable matron, now rising up from the\ncrushing of her womanhood, \u201cI never thought anything about what\n_caused_ it.\u201d As Rebecca came to freedom she tried to learn, but\nher work for bread and the clumsiness of her unused powers were\nso great, she desisted, and now her Bible is read to her by the\nchildren.\n\nWill you who have heard this true story help the American\nMissionary Association with your pennies and prayers, in their work\nof educating these poor people?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1881.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $132.04.\n\n    Auburn. Mrs. B. J.                                        $1.00\n    Bangor. First Cong. Ch.                                   19.37\n    Bethel. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           8.60\n    Brunswick. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             20.00\n    Camden. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         1.00\n    Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        6.00\n    Kennebunk Port. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.\n      $7.70; First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5.50                   13.20\n    North Yarmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         7.18\n    Orono. Cong. Ch.                                           1.73\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $6; Infant\n      Class, Cong. S. S., $2                                   8.00\n    Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        43.96\n    Waterford. S. E. Hersey                                    2.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $446.29.\n\n    Acworth. Cong. Soc.                                       15.90\n    Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                   7.00\n    Bedford. Mrs. S. French, _for Student Aid,\n      Williston Sch._                                          2.00\n    Canterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            18.50\n    East Jaffrey. Benj. Pierce                                 5.00\n    Exeter. Second Ch.                                         5.00\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              18.61\n    Hanover. Cong. Sab. Sch., by Chas. P. Chase,\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                           30.00\n    Lebanon. Miss Mary L. Choate, to const. MRS.\n      O. W. BALDWIN, L. M.                                    30.00\n    Mason. Ladies, by Anna M. Hosmer, _for\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                        7.50\n    Manchester. C. B. Southworth                              25.00\n    Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          15.00\n    Orford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20; Mrs. M. B.\n      Pratt, $10                                              30.00\n    Pembroke. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 11.13\n    Plymouth. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        85.08\n    Rindge. Cong Ch. and Soc.                                  2.17\n    Rochester. \u201cJ. M. and Sister,\u201d _for\n      rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._                            10.00\n    Swanzey. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               17.00\n    Walpole. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. REV. FRED.\n      L. ALLEN, L. M.                                         30.00\n    Winchester. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               11.40\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $376.29\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Gilsum. Estate of Mrs. Eunice F. Downing, by\n      Sarah F. Hayward                                        70.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $446.29\n\n\n  VERMONT, $110.33.\n\n    Chelsea. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               20.00\n    Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             15.00\n    Danby. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                     2.30\n    Dorset. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                16.88\n    East Wallingford. Miss E. A. H., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                         1.00\n    Hinesburgh. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00\n    Jericho. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        11.00\n    Lunenburgh. Chas. W. King                                  5.00\n    Morrisville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           10.00\n    Pawlet. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 9.81\n    Pawlet. A. F.                                              1.00\n    Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             13.34\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $6,091.39.\n\n    Andover. Francis H. Johnson, $100; C. L.\n      Mills, $20                                             120.00\n    Andover. G. W. W. Dove, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             50.00\n    Ashfield. Henry Taylor                                     5.00\n    Attleborough. Ebenezer Carpenter, _for Fisk\n      U._ and to const. MRS. HATTIE E. CARPENTER,\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Barre. Evan. Ch. Sab. Sch.                                10.84\n    Billingham. E. W., deceased, by J. T. Massey,\n      Ex.                                                      0.75\n    Blackstone. Mrs. Hannah Hodgson                            2.00\n    Boston. J. T. Bailey, $100; Mrs. E. C. Ford,\n      $25; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $10; Mrs. E. P. Eayrs, $5             140.00\n    Boston. Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Association,\n      _for Lady Missionaries in Southern States_             160.41\n    Brimfield. Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n    Brookline. S. B. White                                    10.00\n    Cambridgeport. Ladies\u2019 Sew. Soc. of Pilgrim\n      Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Refugees_\n    Charlemont. E.G.                                           1.00\n    Charlton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  4.68\n    Chelsea. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $18.14;\n      Third Cong. Ch. and Soc., $7.50                         25.64\n    Conway. Cong. Ch.                                         34.65\n    Clinton. First Evan. Ch. and Soc.                         75.00\n    East Braintree. E. A. F.                                   0.50\n    East Bridgewater. Union Cong. Ch.                         25.36\n    Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              100.00\n    Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.11\n    Franklin. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        39.78\n    Groton. Elizabeth Farnsworth                              20.00\n    Halifax. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                8.06\n    Holliston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            100.00\n    Holliston. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,\n      Bbl. of C. _for Savannah, Ga._\n    Hubbardston. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                   5.00\n    Hyde Park. Heart & Hand Soc., _for Athens,\n      Ala._                                                   25.00\n    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         20.00\n    Lee. J. W. B.                                              1.00\n    Littleton. Mrs. James C. Houghton, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                 7.00\n    Lowell. Leonard Kimball, _for Fisk U._                   100.00\n    Lowell. John St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       55.75\n    Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, _for\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                    3,500.00\n    Millbury. M. E. Bond                                       3.50\n    Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                57.51\n    Montague. Cong. Ch.                                       23.65\n    Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond, _for Tougaloo U._             25.00\n    New Bedford. Mrs. I. H. Bartlett, Jr.                     20.00\n    Newburyport. Prospect St. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $26.87; North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $22.31                49.18\n    Newton. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. of First Cong.\n      Ch., to const. MRS. D. L. FURBER, L. M.                 30.00\n    Newton Centre. Mrs. J. B. H.                               0.50\n    Newton Highlands. Cong. Sab. Sch., Bbl. of C.,\n      and $1 _for freight, for Atlanta, Ga._                   1.00\n    Newton Highlands. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                25.00\n    Newtonville. \u201cM. W. M.\u201d                                    1.00\n    North Abington. Bbl. of C., by N. Noyes, _for\n      Tougaloo U._\n    Northampton. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                 100.00\n    Northampton. Mrs. F. E. G. Stoddard, Box of\n      Books, _for Theo. Dept., Talladega C._, and\n      $7.80 _for freight_                                      7.80\n    North Amherst. Friends, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                              7.00\n    North Amherst. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. of Cong.\n      Ch., Bbl. of Bedding and C., _for Atlanta,\n      Ga._\n    Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             4.00\n    North Somerville. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                              1.00\n    Norwood. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         20.00\n    Orange. Central Ev. Cong. Ch.                             10.35\n    Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         12.78\n    Rehoboth. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. J. F.\n      MOULTON, L. M.                                          25.00\n    Rutland. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          8.00\n    Salem. Geo. Driver                                         2.00\n    Sandwich. Mrs. Robert Tobey, _for Indian\n      Student Aid, Hampton Inst._                              5.00\n    Shelburne. Cong. Ch.                                      56.79\n    Somerville. A. R.                                          0.50\n    Southfield. Mrs. E. B. C.                                  1.00\n    South Framingham. So. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 204.00\n    South Natick. Young Eliot\u2019s Miss. Circle, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               5.00\n    South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      (ad\u2019l) to const. MRS. JUSTINA A. TINKHAM and\n      MISS JANE ELLEN LOUD, L. M\u2019s                            46.00\n    Spencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        170.35\n    Springfield. Memorial Ch., $52.82; North Cong.\n      Ch. and Soc. $25                                        77.82\n    Springfield. Ira Merrill, $5; Mrs. Ira\n      Merrill, $5, _for rebuilding Tougaloo, Miss._           10.00\n    Sunderland. Cong. Sab. Sch.                              $26.28\n    Taunton. Union Ch. and Soc.                                9.80\n    Townsend. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  5.00\n    Warren. Mrs. Joseph Ramsdell, $5: _for Chinese\n      M._, and $1 _for Mag._                                   6.00\n    Westborough. Freedmen\u2019s Miss. Assn., Bbl. of\n      C., _for Savannah, Ga._\n    West Gloucester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        6.00\n    Westminster. Bbl. of C. _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n    West Roxbury. South Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.              66.06\n    West Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                15.00\n    Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     109.00\n    Worcester. Salem St. Cong. Ch.                            41.23\n    Worthington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           13.76\n    \u2014\u2014 Three Bbl\u2019s C., _for Marion, Ala._\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                           100.00\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $44.00.\n\n    East Providence. Cong. Ch.                                20.00\n    Pawtucket. Mrs. C. Blodgett                               10.00\n    Providence. Ladies, by Miss Marsh, _for Byron,\n      Ga._                                                    14.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $8,428.78.\n\n    Birmingham. W. E. Downes, _for Tillotson C.\n      and N. Inst._                                          100.00\n    Brooklyn. \u201cE. F. B.\u201d                                      25.00\n    Colebrook. Cong. Ch.                                      17.05\n    Colebrook River. Miles Gillett                             2.00\n    East Haven. Cong. Ch.                                     14.00\n    Ekonk. Elizabeth W. Kasson                                10.00\n    East Windsor. Mrs. Sarah L. Wells                          5.00\n    Gilead. Cong. Ch.                                         20.68\n    Hartford. Mrs. Ellery Hills, $350; A. S. K., $1          351.00\n    Hartford. George Kellogg, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                            100.00\n    Hartford. Benev. Soc. of Asylum Hill Cong.\n      Ch., 2 Bbls. and a Box of Bedding and New\n      C., and $3.90 _for freight, for Atlanta, Ga._            3.90\n    Huntington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             8.00\n    Kent. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                     21.00\n    Mansfield Centre. First Cong. Ch.                          8.00\n    Mill Brook. Mrs. E. R. A.                                  1.00\n    Orange. Rev. E. E. Rogers, _for freight_                   2.00\n    New Britain. H. S. Walter, _for Straight U._              70.00\n    New Haven. North Ch., $180.64; Mrs. S. A.\n      Thomas, $5                                             185.64\n    New Hartford. North Cong. Ch.                             20.10\n    North Cornwall. Cong. Ch.                                 13.82\n    Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch.                              100.00\n    Norwich. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U., and to const._ ELIZABETH B.\n      HUNTINGTON, SUSAN D. HUNTINGTON and JOHN P.\n      HUNTINGTON, L. M\u2019s                                     100.00\n    Plantsville. Dea. T. Higgins, _for Tougaloo U._           25.00\n    Poquonock. Cong. Ch.                                      18.16\n    South Coventry. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                    10.00\n    South Windsor. Second. Cong. Ch.                          24.23\n    Rockville. First. Cong. Ch.                              111.00\n    Roxbury. Hervey M. Booth                                  10.00\n    Warehouse Point. \u201cFriend.\u201d                                10.00\n    Westford. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n    West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            11.29\n    Windsor. Cong. Ch.                                        20.00\n    Woodstock. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                18.35\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend in Conn.\u201d                                    50.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend in Conn.\u201d                                    10.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $1,501.28\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    New Haven. Estate of Mrs. Mary A. Hotchkiss,\n      by Richard E. Rice, Ex.                                470.00\n    Orange. Estate of Mrs. Huldah Coe, by Leman W.\n      Cutler, Ex.                                          6,457.50\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $8,428.78\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $878.82.\n\n    Baldwinsville. Howard Carter                              10.00\n    Brooklyn. South Cong. Ch., ($30 of which to\n      const. SAMUEL S. MARPLES, L. M.) $86.48;\n      East Cong. Ch., $84.72; Church of the\n      Pilgrims, $72; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $50                         293.20\n    Buffalo. Two Bbls. C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n    Cambria. Cong. Ch.                                       $15.00\n    Candor. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   10.00\n    Churchville. Union Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                        1.00\n    Columbus. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                           4.50\n    Crown Point. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     39.41\n    Danby. First Cong. Ch., bal. to const. WILLIAM\n      E. CHAPMAN, L. M.                                       18.00\n    Eden. Mrs. H. McNett                                       2.00\n    Fairport. Mrs. Rev. J. Butler                             10.00\n    Gainesville. \u2014\u2014                                            1.00\n    Gloversville. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                            12.50\n    Groton. Dr. C. Chapman                                     6.00\n    Homer. Cong. Ch.                                          15.00\n    Lake George. \u201cG. H.\u201d                                       1.00\n    New York. Hon. Wm. E. Dodge, $200; Mrs. Wm. E.\n      Dodge, $100; Robbins Battell, $25, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                               325.00\n    New York. J. Goetschins                                    1.50\n    Orient. Miss H. M. W.                                      1.00\n    Parishville. Cong. Ch.                                     6.35\n    Penn Yan. Mrs. D. B. Prosser                              15.00\n    Perry Centre. Cong. Ch.                                   20.76\n    Rome. John B. Jervis                                      25.00\n    Sherburne. Ladies, Bbl. of C., and $2.60 _for\n      freight, for Talladega Ala._                             2.60\n    Smyrna. First Cong. Ch.                                   20.00\n    Turin. Mrs. Martha Woolworth                               5.00\n    Verona. Cong. Ch.                                         18.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $108.50.\n\n    Boonton. G. W. Esten Bbl. of Books and Papers.\n    Bound Brook. Cong. Ch.                                    13.50\n    Newark. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   20.00\n    Newark. Collection at General Association _for\n      Lincoln Memorial Church, Washington D.C._               75.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $25.00.\n\n    Hyde Park. Thomas Eynon and Mrs J. L. Eynon               25.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $463.61.\n\n    Ashtabula. James Hall                                      3.00\n    Castalia. Cong. Ch. $6.85 and Sab. Sch., $2.15             9.00\n    Cleveland. Mrs. S. A. Bradbury, $30; Rev. R.\n      B. Johns, $5                                            35.00\n    Crab Creek. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                5.00\n    Elyria. First Cong. Ch., to const. REV. JAMES\n      B. STOCKING, ROLLIN B. CARY and ALEXANDER\n      LAMBERTON, L. Ms.                                      111.67\n    Geneva. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Tougaloo\n      U._                                                     36.50\n    Huntsburgh. Capt. A. E. Millard, $5; Mrs. M.\n      E. Millard, $5                                          10.00\n    Kelley\u2019s Island. Cong. Ch., _for Fisk U._                 20.70\n    Kent. Cong. Ch.                                           12.12\n    Marietta. Cong. Ch.                                       57.70\n    Mechanicsburgh. Rev. N. H.                                 1.00\n    Medina. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C., and bal. to const._ MISS ELLEN\n      J. MASON, L. M.                                         10.00\n    Newark. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $50; MRS. J. C. WHEATON,\n      $25 adl. to const. herself L. M.                        75.00\n    North Benton. Simon Hartzel, _for Talladega C._            5.00\n    Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                 11.30\n    Paddy\u2019s Run. Cong. Ch.                                    27.00\n    Parkman. Dea. J. S. H.                                     1.00\n    Strongsville. L. Freeman, _for furnishing a\n      room, Tougaloo U._                                      25.00\n    Tallmadge. Mrs. D. B. T., by J. P.                         0.62\n    Toledo. Second Cong. Ch.                                   5.00\n    Willoughby. Bbl. Of C., Miss M. P. Hastings,\n      $2 _for freight, for Tougaloo, Miss._                    2.00\n\n\n  INDIANA, $1.00.\n\n    Orland. Cong. Ch., _for Tougaloo U._                       1.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $2,417.22.\n\n    Chicago. C. G. Hammond, $1,000; Bethany Ch.,\n      $15.37; Rev. E. N. Andrews, $5                       1,020.37\n    Chicago. Jubilee Singers, special contribution\n      at First Cong. Ch., _for Chapel, Nashville,\n      Tenn._                                                 111.34\n    Chicago. James W. Porter, $10; Neddie, Charles\n      and Huntington Blatchford, $9, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        19.00\n    Chicago. N. E. Cong. Ch., Ladies Miss. Soc.,\n      _for Lady Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                     11.41\n    Chicago. Union Park Cong. Ch., _for Emerson\n      Inst._                                                   2.00\n    Dundee. Cong. Ch.                                         22.45\n    Dunlap. Elmira Jones                                      10.00\n    Geneseo. H. Davison                                        2.00\n    Highland Park. L. S. B.                                    0.50\n    La Fayette. \u201cP. M. H.\u201d                                     1.00\n    Lawn Ridge. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                5.00\n    Lyndon. Mrs A. H., $1; Mrs. M. W. 50c.                     1.50\n    Metamora. \u201cFriends\u201d by A. C. Rouse, _for\n      rebuilding Tougaloo, Miss._                             20.75\n    Newark. Horace Day                                         5.00\n    Princeton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 7.43\n    Payson. Cong. Ch.                                         40.00\n    Rockford. Second Cong. Ch.                               120.86\n    Seward. Cong. Ch., $22; and Sab. Sch., $8.\n      (_Incorrectly ack. in June._)\n    Seward. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                                   2.00\n    Waukegan. Young People\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for\n      Emerson Inst._                                          10.00\n    Wyoming. Cong. Ch.                                         4.61\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           1,417.22\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Galesburg. Estate of Mrs. W. C. Willard, by\n      Prof. T. R. Willard, Ex.                             1,000.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           2,417.22\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $228.39.\n\n    Battle Creek. Presb. and Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               6.00\n    Battle Creek. Ladies, Box of C., and $2.21\n      _for Freight, for Talladega, Ala._                       2.21\n    Calumet. J. H.                                             0.50\n    Canandaigua. Cong. Ch.                                     4.00\n    Detroit. First Cong. Ch.                                  50.00\n    Detroit. Miss J. Higley, _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                             4.00\n    Frankfort. Mrs. J. B. C.                                   0.50\n    Kalamo. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n    Kalamazoo. First Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l), to const.\n      WILLIS A. ANDERSON, GEORGE D. ALLEN, MRS.\n      LOTTIE WARTZ, MILES B. MILLER, and MRS.\n      ELIZA OLIVER, L. Ms.                                   100.00\n    Leland. F. C.                                              1.00\n    Milford. Mrs. E. G.                                        1.00\n    Morenci. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n    Northport. Cong. Ch.                                       8.43\n    Olivet. \u201cW. J. H.\u201d                                        25.00\n    Webster. Cong. Ch.                                        10.75\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $180.33.\n\n    Arena. Cong. Ch.                                           5.70\n    Beloit. J. E. T.                                           0.50\n    Columbus. Calvin Baker                                     5.00\n    Milwaukee. Mrs. Wm. Millard, _for Emerson\n      Inst._                                                   5.00\n    Racine. A. E. N., _for Indian M._                          1.00\n    River Falls. \u201cS. W.,\u201d $19; \u201cW. M. N.,\u201d $6                 25.00\n    Rosendale. Cong. Ch. $24.53, and Sab. Sch. $4             28.53\n    Sparta. Individuals, _for Mag._                            1.50\n    Wauwatosa. Cong. Ch., to const. ALFRED H.\n      DUPREE and EMERY A. SWAN, L. Ms                         75.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $125.97.\n\n    Cedar Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing\n      a room, Talladega C._                                   12.00\n    Cherokee Co. Second Cong. Ch.                              5.00\n    Chester Centre. Cong. Ch.                                 45.25\n    Creston. H. W. Perrigo                                    10.00\n    Creston. Pilgrim Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             0.50\n    Floris. \u201cMary and Martha.\u201d                                 5.00\n    Garden. \u2014\u2014, _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans,\n      La._                                                     5.00\n    Logan. Cong. Ch.                                           8.00\n    McGregor. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc.                             $16.87\n    Meriden. Cong. Ch.                                         3.35\n    Meriden. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                            2.00\n    Quasqueton. Rev. A. Manson                                 5.00\n    Storm Lake. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary,\n      New Orleans, La._                                        2.00\n    West Liberty. Mrs. L. K. Sesson, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       6.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $1.00.\n\n    Saint Louis. Mrs. M. K. J.                                 1.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $37.07.\n\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., $31.37; Second\n      Cong. Ch., $1.20                                        32.57\n    Rose Creek. Cong. Ch.                                      2.00\n    Rushford. Cong. Ch.                                        2.50\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $3.00.\n\n    Clarksville. Cong. Ch.                                     3.00\n\n\n  COLORADO, $25.00.\n\n    Colorado Springs. Young People\u2019s Mission\n      Circle, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._, and\n      bal. to const. MRS. J. W. PICKETT, L. M.                25.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $150.00.\n\n    Oakland. Mrs. E. A. Gray, _for School-house in\n      Georgia_                                               150.00\n\n\n  OREGON, $38.50.\n\n    Albany. Cong. Ch.                                         15.00\n    Forest Grove. Cong. Ch., Prof. J. W. Marsh,\n      $20; Capt. E. R. Merriman, $2; I. L. Smith\n      and others, $1.50                                       23.50\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TER., $5.51.\n\n    Fidalgo. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., ($3.60 of which\n      _for School-house in Ga._)                               5.00\n    Skokomish. Rev. M. E.                                      0.51\n\n\n  MARYLAND, $2.00.\n\n    Emmitsburgh. David Gamble                                  2.00\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $112.93.\n\n    Wilmington. Williston Sch., Tuition                      107.93\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $247.80.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition                         247.80\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $642.80.\n\n    Chattanooga. Rent                                        250.00\n    Chattanooga. G. R. _for furnishing room,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             1.00\n    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition                          207.15\n    Nashville. Fisk University, Tuition                      159.65\n    Nashville. Fisk University, Society for the\n      Evangelization of Africa, _for Student Aid,\n      Mendi M._                                               25.00\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $1,053.08.\n\n    Atlanta. Peabody Fund, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                            400.00\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition $243.30, Rent, $3          246.30\n    Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition $100.10; Rent $12           112.10\n    Atlanta. First Cong. Ch.                                  25.00\n    Bainbridge. H. R. S.                                       1.00\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition                           62.85\n    Macon. Cong. Ch.                                           5.00\n    Marietta. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n      U._                                                     30.00\n    McIntosh. Dorchester Academy, Tuition                     27.36\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $125; Rent $10           135.00\n    Savannah. Cong. Ch., $6.19, and Sab. Sch.,\n      $2.28                                                    8.47\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $478.55.\n\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition                           156.75\n    Mobile. Emersonian Mission Band, ($20 of which\n      _for Mendi M._)                                         45.60\n    Montgomery. City Fund                                   $210.00\n    Selma. Cong. Ch.                                          22.35\n    Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition                          35.85\n    Talladega. Wm. Savery, $5; D. Johnson, $2; N.\n      L., $1, _for rebuilding barn, Talladega,\n      Ala._                                                    8.00\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $119.45.\n\n    Greenwood. By \u201cR. W. J.,\u201d _for rebuilding\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                        11.00\n    Jackson. Friends, by A. B. W., _for\n      rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._                             2.10\n    Madison. \u201cFriends,\u201d by A. B. W., _for\n      rebuilding Tougaloo, Miss._                              9.60\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $73.75; Rent,\n      $20                                                     93.75\n    Tougaloo. Rev. G. S. Pope, _for Student Aid_               3.00\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $148.15.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                        141.50\n    New Orleans. Mrs. F. D., $1; Mrs. D. S., Mrs.\n      C. J. and Mrs. B. C. 50c. ea.; Other sums by\n      Rev. W. S. A. $4.15                                      6.65\n\n\n  TEXAS, $318.24.\n\n    Austin. Tillotson C. and N. Inst., Tuition               204.85\n    Austin. Rev. W. E. Brooks, $92.09; Rev. E. B.\n      Wright D.D., and wife $10; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5;\n      Eggleston Brothers, $5, _for Tillotson C.\n      and N. Inst._                                          112.09\n    Corpus Christi. First Cong. Ch.                            1.30\n\n\n  CANADA, $5.00.\n\n    Unionville. Rev. Edward Ebbs                               5.00\n\n\n  SWITZERLAND, $19.31.\n\n    Geneva. Legacy of Henri Serment, by W. Serment            19.31\n\n\n  SANDWICH ISLANDS, $1,000.00.\n\n    Sandwich Islands. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                          1,000.00\n\n\n  LEGACIES, $210.00.\n\n    Sundry Estates                                           210.00\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $278.87.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               278.87\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total for May                                     24,577.93\n        Total from Oct. 1st to May 31st                 $150,487.84\n\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Portland, Me. C. M. Seales, _for furnishing a\n      room_                                                   25.00\n    Plainfield, N.H. Mrs. Hannah Stevens                      25.00\n    Norwich, Conn. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                               400.00\n    Plainville, Conn. Mrs. Clapp                               5.00\n    Thomaston, Conn. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., by Mrs.\n      Horace A. Potter, Sec., $13, and Bbl. of C.             13.00\n    Watertown, Conn. Alma de F. Curtiss and Fannie\n      E. Curtiss, by Mrs. Mary F. Curtiss                    100.00\n    LeRoy, N.Y. Miss D. A. Phillips, _for\n      furnishing a room_                                      25.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                                593.00\n    Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to April\n      30th                                                 4,264.71\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $4,857.71\n\n\n  FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.\n\n    New Jersey. \u201cAnti-Slavery Friend\u201d                        515.00\n    Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to April\n      30th                                                20,098.76\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                            $20,613.76\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, Oregon.\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    J. A. 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, counseling, 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 of labor\nand conducting the missionary work, will endeavor particularly to\ndiscountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the known fruits of\nunrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment those who hold\ntheir fellow-beings as slaves.\n\nART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to\nthe principles of this society, and wishing to appoint and sustain\nmissionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the\nagency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART. X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without\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; Ky.,\n6; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 17; Miss., 4; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 2.\n_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 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., Treasurer, 56 Reade Street.\n  BOSTON         Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Dis\u2019t Sec., Room 21\n                   Congregational House.\n  CHICAGO        Rev. Jas. Powell, Dis\u2019t Sec., 112 West Washington\n                   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]. 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MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO., 154 Tremont Street,\nBoston; 46 East 14th Street, NEW YORK; 149 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                          MANHATTAN LIFE\n\n                    INSURANCE CO. of NEW YORK.\n\n\n                        ORGANIZED IN 1850.\n\n\n             _Over Thirty Years\u2019 Business Experience._\n\n            =AGENTS WANTED.= Apply at the Home Office.\n\n                              HENRY STOKES, President.\n            J. L. HALSEY, Secretary.\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. LEONARD BACON,\nD.D., HON. A. H. STEVENS, M.C., and OTHERS recommend them. SEND FOR\nCIRCULAR.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nFOLDING CHAIR CO., New Haven Ct.\n\n\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 224. 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 and omissions corrected.\n\nChanged \u201cmcereony\u201d to \u201cceremony\u201d on page 212.\n\nMissing \u201ck\u201d replaced in \u201cLake George\u201d on page 220.\n\nMissing \u201ct\u201d replaced in \u201cAshtabula\u201d on page 220.\n\nAssumed \u201cD\u201d in \u201cGeorge D. Allen\u201d in the Kalamazoo entry on page 220.\n\nMissing \u201ci\u201d replaced in \u201cEmersonian\u201d in second Mobile entry on page\n221.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 35, No. 7, July, 1881","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":21114}