{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_55613/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_55613","id":"gutenberg_55613","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55613","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"VOL. XXXV.                                          NO. 8.\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                           AUGUST, 1881.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    PARAGRAPH\u2014The Mendi Mission                            225\n    ILLUSTRATION\u2014Mission Home, Mendi Mission               228\n    DEATH OF REV. KELLY M. KEMP                            230\n    AFRICAN NOTES                                          230\n    FREEDMEN FOR AFRICA: Rev. Lewis Grout                  232\n    ADDRESS AT NASHVILLE: Sec\u2019y Strieby                    233\n    BENEFACTIONS                                           236\n    CHINESE AND INDIAN NOTES                               237\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    ANNIVERSARY REPORTS\u2014Continued.\n      Ga.: Atlanta University                              238\n      Ala.: Talladega College                              240\n      Texas: Tillotson Institute, Austin                   242\n      S.C.: Avery Institute, Charleston                    242\n      Ga.: Lewis High School, Macon                        243\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    ANNIVERSARY AT STOCKTON                                245\n\n\n  WOMAN\u2019S HOME MISS. ASSOC\u2019N.\n\n    TWENTY MINUTES A-DAY WORKING SOCIETY                   247\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    GRACIE\u2019S MISTAKE: Mrs. Harriet A. Cheever              248\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                 250\n\n  LIST OF OFFICERS                                         254\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                             255\n\n  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC.                             256\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: MAP OF PROTESTANT MISSION STATIONS IN AFRICA.]\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n             VOL. XXXV.      AUGUST, 1881.      NO. 8.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n_American Missionary Association._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe publish on the opposite page a map of Africa, upon which is\nrepresented, by crosses, the location of the different Protestant\nmission stations of that continent. The Mendi Mission on the West\nCoast, and the proposed Arthington Mission in the Nile Basin, are\nspecially indicated by dotted lines. We give, also, elsewhere a cut\nof the Mission Home at Good Hope Station, Mendi Mission.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE MENDI MISSION.\n\nSUGGESTIONS, WITH EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL.\n\nREV. H. M. LADD.\n\nMuch of the mission work in Africa, at least upon the West Coast,\nhas a basis in industrial work of some kind. Many causes have\nconspired to hinder this branch of civilizing work at the Mendi\nMission. Without stopping to specify what these may have been,\nno one can doubt that the chief reason why the saw-mill at Avery\nhas failed to be a source of income to the Association, is the\ndifficulty of transporting the lumber to market. This mill, with\na circular and an upright saw, with a good head of water during\nthe larger part of the year, and with timber near at hand, is the\nonly mill of the kind on the West Coast. There is a good demand for\nsuch lumber as the mill can produce, but the chief market is 120\nmiles distant. No one in Africa, however much he might want lumber,\nwould be guilty of going 120 miles for it, nor even 120 rods, if\nhe could help it. In former times the lumber was taken to the\nmarket in a large boat, propelled by oar and sail; but the climate\nand the worms have claimed that boat as their own. Here is a most\npotent agency, an attractive centre for goods. The mill might be\nproducing thousands of feet of lumber a day, and yet if there were\nno way to carry this lumber to the point where it could be sold,\nits production would only become a burden. What is needed to insure\nthe best success of the mill, and of all the industrial departments\nconnected with it, is an easy and quick means of transportation.\nThis would not only make the mill a really civilizing institution\nand a paying piece of property, but if a small steamer or tug-boat\nwere thus in use, it would more than pay its own way in the\nregular trips it would make, and by the incidental services it\ncould render to other mission stations where similar industrial\nwork is carried on. There are promises enough to insure the\nsuccessful running of such a steamer. It should be adapted to\ntowing a lumber boat of large capacity to and from Freetown, and\nshould also be adapted to carrying passengers up and down the\nrivers. It would accomplish more work in a given time than any\nother project yet proposed on this coast, would dispense with the\nsmall army of boatmen and fleet of boats now maintained, and would\nbe the solution of the question in regard to the mill. But why keep\nup this mill? Why have an industrial department? Simply because the\nspiritual interests of the mission are involved in it and demand\nit. There must be a physical basis for any successful work upon\nthe minds and hearts of the people in this part of Africa. This\nhas been demonstrated in other missions than our own. The people\nneed a place to tie to, and something to draw them to that place\nin order to receive any lasting good. They need to learn habits of\nindustry along with the Gospel. They need to be lifted out of their\nbarbarism by increasing their wants and showing them how to supply\nthem.\n\nThese are a few of the considerations that make this industrial\nwork a sort of entering wedge for the Gospel. The situation of\nthings at the Avery Station is, however, such as to convince\nthose who have considered the matter, that the keen edge of this\nentering wedge must be the sharp prow of a little steamer. There\ncan be scarcely a doubt, that the facilities afforded by such a\nsteamer would give a much needed impetus to the whole work of the\nAssociation upon the West Coast.\n\n\nJOHN BROWN MEMORIAL STEAMER.\n\nHere is now an opportunity to turn to account the latent forces\nthat lie pent up within easy reach. But how shall the steamer\npreach its practical sermon unless it be sent? Some one must send\nit. Many hands make light work, especially when they contain the\ncontributions of willing hearts. Why may not the many little\nrills, and springs, and even drops of love for the colored race,\nflow together and float this steamer? Why not send, as some one\nhas suggested, old John Brown, of Harper\u2019s Ferry, in a memorial\nsteamer over to Africa, to carry forward in a higher sense the work\nof freedom which he began here, and which shall never end till\nhis soul has ceased its marching on? About $10,000 are needed to\nfurnish such a steamer as is required. Who will take the first $100\nshare in the steamer \u201cJohn Brown\u201d soon to leave for the coast of\nAfrica?\n\n\nADVANCE TO THE INTERIOR.\n\nIf we may believe one-half of the glowing accounts which come to us\nregarding the high table-lands of the interior, one or two hundred\nmiles back from the coast, the region is full of rich promises\nas the scene of future missionary operations. It is said that\nthe land is rich, the country wonderfully beautiful and healthy,\nthe population dense, and cattle and horses abundant. There are\ndifficulties in the way of reaching this country, but they are\nnot insurmountable. One of our missionaries (Mr. Williams), well\nfitted for the work, has pushed his way back into this region, and\nreports very strongly in its favor. He brought back a horse with\nhim as corroborative evidence of his statements, and there can be\nno doubt that in this healthier upland region the natives are more\nintelligent, more industrious, and every way superior, while they\nare also ready to welcome any who come among them for purposes\nof peace. Our present stations upon the coast, three in number,\nfurnish excellent starting points and bases of supply, and should\nbe maintained largely as such. But it should be our aim to work\nback from the low, malarious coast into these healthier and more\npromising highlands just as soon as the proper men and the means\ncan be found. Starting from the stations already established, it\nwould seem to be a wise thing to locate a chain of stations within\neasy distances of each other, stretching back to the mountains.\nAt these points the missionaries could reside two by two, with\nmutual helpfulness and support. The natives of this region talk\nthe same general language as upon the coast. They are said to be\nremarkably fine singers, and are fond of music. They manufacture\ngreat quantities of cloth and various other articles of a superior\nquality. They are, however, reported to be the husbands of many\nwives, counting their honors by the number of their wives. The\nrivers that drain this region afford an imperfect approach to the\ncountry, but are available for considerable distances. Let the\nmeans and the men be found, and this healthier and more promising\ncountry can soon be captured for Christ. It is only a question of\ntime. This push for the interior must soon be made, and a larger\nand better work must soon be inaugurated.\n\n\nBRIEF EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL.\n\nOn Wednesday, March 23d, we sighted the point of Sierra Leone by\nearly dawn. The country as approached from the sea is beautiful.\nThe serrated Lion Mountains slope to the water\u2019s edge, covered\nwith a luxuriance of tropical vegetation. The city of Freetown at\na little distance appears comparatively well built. The public\nbuildings are large and attract immediate attention, the streets\nare wide and regularly laid out; and the whole external aspect\nstrikes one as much finer than what is naturally expected on this\ncoast; but a nearer view suggests the truth of the old saying that\n\u201cFamiliarity breeds contempt.\u201d The stay here was short, but into\nthe time was crowded a variety of strange and novel experiences.\nFrom this point the mission boat \u201cOlive Branch\u201d carried us to\nGood Hope Station, on Sherbro Island, where we landed late in the\nevening of March 30th. This trip of about one hundred and twenty\nmiles occupied three days and two nights, and was, perhaps, the\nmost trying part of our journey. We experienced several severe\ntornadoes on the way, and suffered from the intense glare of the\nsun, now nearly vertical, and the difficulty of procuring proper\nfood. Having reached the mission house, we at once made ourselves\nas much at home as possible. Thursday, March 31st, we were all\nup at an early hour, and went out before the intense heat of the\nday to inspect the grounds and buildings. The fine property of\nthe mission had evidently suffered in many ways from neglect. All\nthe buildings stood in need of repairs, and a large portion of\nthe grounds, including the little cemetery where Barnabas Root is\nburied, was overgrown with bush. The spiritual condition of the\nchurch and station seemed also to bear some resemblance to its\noutward condition. It was not hopeless, but somewhat depressed.\nThe grounds in the immediate vicinity of the mission house gave\nevidence, however, that the missionaries had neither forgotten to\nexercise their taste, nor been wasteful of the small force and\nslender means at their command. So, also, the spiritual condition\nof the station presented some encouraging features. The warm\nreception which Mr. Kemp and his wife received on every side gave\nsome reason to hope that the church would yet nourish under his\njudicious care.\n\n[Illustration: MISSION HOME, MENDI MISSION.]\n\nFriday, April 1st, was emphatically a day of calls. It had been\nquickly noised abroad that the new missionaries from America had\narrived, and many availed themselves of the first opportunity to\nbid them welcome to Africa. Possibly a little curiosity was mingled\nwith their politeness, but we did not care to analyze too closely,\nand were glad to see them all. The people we met were generally\nfine looking, of a rich, brown color, and not burdened by any\nsuperfluity of clothing. They talked a broken English, which was\nalmost as difficult to understand as a new language.\n\nTo say that Sunday, April 3d, was a warm day would convey but a\nslight idea of the truth. When the thermometer indicates over 90\u00b0\nin America we are apt to call it rather warm; but a new adjective\nis needed to characterize African heat at 90\u00b0, for it is something\nso entirely different from the summer broils of other countries.\nNo wonder that this is an unhealthy climate. The land is low, the\nwater stagnant, the air moist, vegetation thick, and the heat\nintense. In the morning I preached in the mission church to an\nattentive audience on \u201cThe light that shineth in a dark place,\u201d and\nwas present at a service in the Mendi language at the school-house\nin the afternoon. The prayer meeting in the evening was well\nattended and full of interest.\n\nOn Monday, April 4th, we went in the \u201cOlive Branch\u201d to Avery\nStation, on the Mahna River, a branch of the Bargroo, forty miles\ninland. The trip took all of one night, the boatmen rowing and\nkeeping time to their oars with a weird, monotonous singing all the\nway.\n\nThe inspection of the station at Avery consumed the early morning\nhours of Tuesday. We visited the mill, the boat houses, the coffee\nfarm, the cassada fields, the rice houses, the boy\u2019s department,\nthe store, the church and school-room, and last, but not least, the\n\u201cfaki,\u201d or native village, situated on the mission grounds, and\nunder the control of the missionary. The situation of the mission\nhouse is a fine one, but the adjacent country is wilder than at\nGood Hope. The house stands on a high promontory, and commands\na very picturesque view both up and down the river. This river\nabounds in fish and alligators, while the banks are alive with\nmonkeys.\n\nI was up at three A. M. on the 7th to help receive Mr. Kemp, who\narrived from Good Hope Station at that hour. Later we visited the\nschool together, examined the pupils in their various branches, and\ngave them a little talk, which they seemed to enjoy. Some of them\nwere honored by such names as Wm. E. Gladstone and M. E. Strieby.\nTheir appearance and behavior were very gratifying. The prayer\nmeeting in the evening was fully attended, and indicated a marked\ndegree of earnestness, the leader having some difficulty to bring\nit to a close. If hand-shaking is a means of grace, we enjoyed\nspecial privileges at the end of this meeting.\n\nI found oysters growing on trees (April 8th), and plucked a large\nbranch. Bread and butter also grow on trees in this strange land.\nI had occasion to turn doctor to-day, and prescribed some fearful\ndoses, right and left, with marked results, due probably to faith.\n\nAfter the ordination exercises at Good Hope (April 10th), a number\nof the ministerial brethren of the council went in a boat-load\nto attend service at the out-station of Debia, and although a\nsevere tornado threatened to break up the meeting, we enjoyed an\ninteresting and precious season together. The work at this point is\nfull of encouragement, but greater facilities are needed to carry\nit on.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe painful news has just been received through Rev. O. H. White,\nD.D., of London, of the death of Rev. Kelly M. Kemp at Good Hope\nStation, Mendi Mission. Thus one more bright name has been added\nto the long list of missionary heroes and martyrs whose dust\nhallows the soil of Africa. No particulars have been received,\nand we cannot speak confidently as to the cause of his death.\nThose who have read the recent accounts of his ordination and\nreception at Good Hope need not be reminded of the high hopes\nthat were entertained in regard to the work upon which he had but\njust entered with so much zeal. Mr. Kemp\u2019s earnest consecration\nand varied experience and sweet Christian character had not only\nendeared him to all who knew him, but had given rich promise also\nof great good to the people among whom he had counted it all joy to\nlabor.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAFRICAN NOTES.\n\n\u2014The Sultan of Zanzibar is about to study the organization of the\nFrench navy. He was expected at Marseilles in July for that purpose.\n\n\u2014Dr. Stacker is attempting to explore Lake Tsana in Abyssinia. If\nhe succeeds in accomplishing this he purposes to push on to Ghera.\n\n\u2014M. Viard, who has already explored the Niger and the B\u00e9nv\u00e9,\nin company with the Count of Semell\u00e9, is just attempting a new\nexpedition for penetrating into the interior, and establishing\nthere commercial stations.\n\n\u2014Captain Neves Fereira, Governor of Benguela, and some other\nofficers, have placed themselves at the disposition of the\nGeographical Society of Lisbon, for a new Portuguese expedition\nfrom the west to the east, upon an itinerary like that of Serpa\nPinto.\n\n\u2014P. Francisco Autuses, charged with establishing the mission of\nZoumba upon the Zambeze, has set out from Lisbon for Mozambique.\nAfter studying theology and natural sciences at Louvain, he will\ndevote himself to taking meteorological observations. He will\nestablish a station for this purpose at Zoumba. In a little\nwhile he will be joined by a number of Portuguese workmen, whom\ngovernment will send there to make the necessary buildings for a\ncommercial office.\n\n\u2014The Portuguese Commission of Public Works has constructed in the\nProvince of Angola a telegraphic line of 344 kilometers from St.\nPaul de Loanda to Dondo and Calcullo. It has already rendered good\nservice to commerce and the navigation of the Quanza. At Dondo\neverything is ready to prolong the line as far as Poungo Andongo.\n\n\u2014The Sultan of Zanzibar has just explored the upper country of the\nLoufigi with an expedition, the command of which was entrusted\nto M. Beardall, who formerly studied the region of the Rovouma,\nand more recently has had under his care the construction of the\nDar-es-Salam road.\n\n\u2014The society formed at Sfax will establish at the most important\npoints in the rich countries of Haussa, Bornou, Darfour, &c.,\ncommercial stations, which will be at the same time scientific\nstations, and between which will pass regular caravans, well armed,\nto which will be joined special men, furnished with all necessary\ninstruments for making topographical and meteorological surveys.\n\n\u2014Four Roman Catholic missionaries have gone to the Baptist mission\nat San Salvador. They were brought by a Portuguese vessel to the\npoint where the Congo ceases to be navigable, and escorted from\nthence to San Salvador by a lieutenant and a detachment of the\nnavy. They carried with them some holy water, fire-arms, silver\nvases and a golden crown, and offered them to the King of San\nSalvador from the King of Portugal. The king received them and\nreturned thanks, saying that it was the most beautiful present\nhe had ever received. He has promised his protection to the\nmissionaries.\n\n\u2014Mr. James Stevenson, Esq., has offered \u00a34,000 to the London\nMissionary Society and the Livingstonia Mission, provided they\nwill, without delay, establish stations and maintain them on the\nline of road between Lake Tanganyika and Quilimane on the coast. It\nis expected that merchandise will be transported over this route\nby steamer up the Zambezi and Shir\u00e9 to the falls of the latter\nriver. There will also be steamboat facilities on the upper Shir\u00e9\nand the Nyassa lake, leaving only about three hundred miles for the\ntransportation of goods by porters or domestic animals in order to\nreach the Tanganyika.\n\n\nFREEDMEN FOR AFRICA.\n\nREV. LEWIS GROUT.\n\nThe Freedmen, properly educated, will make capital missionaries for\nAfrica. After a careful study of the race for thirty years\u2014fifteen\non their own ancestral shores, and now fifteen in this land of\nours\u2014such is my conclusion concerning them. They have, naturally,\nsome of the best traits to fit them for mission work. They are\nhopeful, for one thing, as every missionary should be. During all\nthe long years of their bondage, and then during all the war, how\ndid they hope on and hope ever that deliverance would come, till\ncome it did! They are naturally a social people. Getting a new\nidea, a new truth, they talk it over, pass it on, keep it going.\nThe missionary must be social, if he will do the most good. They\nare a sharp-minded, quick-witted people. For ability to read\ncharacter, make a quick turn, a good use of passing events, or take\na good illustration from nature, the Africans have no superiors.\nThey are of a tropical constitution, most happy, healthy, and\nmost at home in just such a climate as that of Africa. It is\ntheir native clime\u2014a fact whose value can neither be denied nor\nover-estimated.\n\nNow keeping all these natural qualifications in mind, let us\nbriefly notice some pertinent points in that most unique, varied\nexperience and divinely appointed discipline through which God, in\nHis providence, has been causing the Freedmen to pass for all these\nyears, as giving them a yet more special preparation for the great\nmission work He has in store for them.\n\nFirst, experience in suffering. I know not how it may be with\nothers, but for myself I have come, long since, to think that\nthere is no discipline in this world like that of suffering,\nrightly used, to fashion us after the image of the Divine. In\nthis way the Saviour himself is said to have been made perfect\nand fitted for His great redemptive work, (Heb. v., 8, 9). And\nwhen, in olden time, God would make choice of a people to be\nconservators and propagators of His truth in the world for ages,\nhow did He prepare them for their mission? Not by sending them to\ncollege, but by sending them down into Egypt; and there, for long\ngenerations, did He keep them in bondage, and then for other long\nyears in wanderings in the wilderness, till He had fitted them for\nHis work, and ground into them a character which all the fiction\nof the ages has not yet ground out of them. So with the people\nof whom we speak\u2014what an experience have they had in suffering!\nSurely, God must have in store for them some great and wondrous\nmission, for which He has intended this experience to be both\npresage and preparation. Then notice the discipline they have had\nas soldiers in the camp, on the march, on guard, in the battle,\nshoulder to shoulder with our men, sons, brothers, fathers, bravely\nfighting for the Union, that they might know what war is, and\nwhat it sometimes costs to secure liberty and save a nation from\nanarchy and ruin. See, too, what experience and discipline they\nare getting in civil and political life, in the use of the ballot,\nin the forming and reconstructing of states, in the framing of\nconstitutions, in making and executing laws, in all the varied and\ncomplicated duties of citizens, magistrates, judges and rulers,\nthat they may know how laws, states and nations are made and\nsustained, and so be prepared to go and plant these institutions\nand principles in the land of their fathers. And then, last and\nbest of all, what an experience are they getting in the work of\norganizing and running Christian schools and pure churches among\ntheir own people, under the lead of our teachers and preachers in\nthe South, that they may be prepared to do this same blessed work\nin that dark land which is so imploringly calling to them, as her\nown sons and daughters, to come with the school and the church to\nher help.\n\nI love to look at the work of the American Missionary Association\nin this Divine light. I love to come up in this way upon these\nhighlands of God\u2019s movements in Africa, and among her sons on our\nshores in this our day, and to get, as I think I can, in this way,\nsome good look at the sweep and the purpose of His providence\nin the otherwise strange revolutions through which Africa, the\nAfricans, and we ourselves are so swiftly passing.\n\nAnd now, what is wanting to bring this divinely planned enterprise\nto a speedy and glorious consummation, but that we do all come\nquick and glad into line with God?\u2014that the Freedmen, the American\nMissionary Association, all its noble constituency of churches, the\nwhole rank and file of God\u2019s American army, tread firm and true to\nthe music of His providence? So shall be generously furnished the\nmen and the means He now asks, by which to hasten, in His time, the\nredemption of Africa unto Himself.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nADDRESS AT NASHVILLE,\n\nAT THE LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE OF LIVINGSTONE MISSIONARY HALL.\n\nBY SECRETARY STRIEBY.\n\nAs we are about to lay the corner-stone of a new school building,\nit is proper that I should answer the question, Why do we come down\nfrom the North to erect these buildings in the South?\n\nBefore answering the question, I may say that if we come at all,\nit is not strange that we should select so beautiful a spot as\nthis for a location; nor that we should come to Nashville, for\nthere seems to be some sort of educational lodestone that attracts\nschools to this city. Joshua conquered a Moabite city called\nKirjath-sepher, which scholars tell us means \u201cBook City.\u201d What\ncould have given it that title in that remote era, whether the\npossession of one book or several books, when letters had probably\nnot long been invented, must remain forever a mystery. So when\nMacaulay\u2019s New Zealander, after having meditated on the ruins\nof London Bridge, shall come to this spot and meditate upon the\nruins here, or when some Layard or Cesnola or Schliemann shall dig\ndown deep into their foundations, this place may be denominated\nthe \u201cSchool City;\u201d for at the earliest date of the settlement of\nNashville, good schools were formed, and now the hill-tops are\ncrowned and the streets are adorned with schools of the highest\ncharacter. Nor are these for the white race alone. The Methodist\nCentral Tennessee College, the Baptist Normal and Theological\nInstitute, and neither last nor least, Fisk University, crowning\nthese heights, attest the interest taken in the Christian education\nof the colored race.\n\nBut why do we come here from the North to build these buildings?\nFirst, we come as fellow-citizens, who have shared in the agony of\nthe late civil conflict, at the bottom of which lay negro slavery,\nand for which North and South were responsible, though it may be\nin different degrees. In the piping hot days of the anti-slavery\ncontest, the Evangelical Alliance met in London. An English\ngentleman took the platform and delivered a scathing rebuke to\nAmerica for slavery. Dr. Cox, our most celebrated off-hand orator\nof that day, took the floor, saying that of course America had\nher view as to who was responsible for negro slavery in America,\nwhether Britons or Americans; \u201cbut,\u201d said he, \u201cI propose to take\none corner of the mantle, and let the brother who has just spoken\ntake the other corner, and we will walk backwards and throw it\nover the originator of negro slavery in America.\u201d We come as\nfellow-citizens in a like spirit, ready to throw the mantle of\ncharity over the past. But emancipation has introduced a new\nelement. The ex-slaves need Christian education and elevation, and\nwe come as Christian brethren and say to our friends at the South:\nWe will take one corner of the mantle of Christian education, if\nyou will take the other, and we will go _forward_, with our faces\nlifted to Heaven, and will throw that mantle over the emancipated\nslaves.\n\nThis is the work we propose to do in the South, and wise and\ncandid men both North and South are beginning to realize that the\neducation of the negro race is the paramount duty of the nation\nto it. Presidents Hayes and Garfield have voiced the feelings of\nthe North on this subject, while Col. Preston and Dr. Ruffner of\nVirginia, Sen. Brown and Pres. Haygood of Georgia, have nobly\nre-echoed the sentiment from the South. This Association goes\nfarther than mere intellectual education. It believes that the\nChristian element lies at the foundation of all true character, and\nthat character is the basis of all true manhood and citizenship.\nIt has been the aim of this Association not merely to lift up the\nindividual, but to apply the levers to the elevation of the mass,\nand hence it has founded in every large Southern State, schools\nfitted for the training of teachers, preachers and missionaries of\nthe colored race. At Hampton, where the first slave-ship entered\nthe continent, in the same year in which the Pilgrims landed on\nPlymouth Rock, the Association opened the first Freedman\u2019s school\nin these United States. Under the energetic administration of Gen.\nArmstrong, Hampton Institute, with its broad lands, its large and\ncommodious buildings, its steam-engine and multiplied mechanical\nemployments, gives educational and industrial training to its large\ncompany of students, graduating about fifty pupils each year,\nninety per cent. of whom go into the State as teachers, carrying\nwith them, into the school, the Sunday-school, the prayer-meeting\nand the church a healthful Christian influence; while the noble\nold state of Virginia responds to the effort by a gift of $10,000\na year for the support of the school. Atlanta University, with its\ntwo commodious buildings, and another soon to be added, imparts\na higher range of teaching, including classic instruction to its\npupils, and the state of Georgia responds with its gift of $8,000 a\nyear. If you would see what is done at Fisk University, look around\nyou and examine the classes under instruction in Jubilee Hall. But\ntime would fail me to speak of Talladega, Ala.; Tougaloo, Miss.;\nStraight University, New Orleans; Tillotson Institute, Austin,\nTexas; and of the other schools, normal, grammar and primary, which\nthe Association sustains. From all these institutions we believe\nthere are pupils now engaged in teaching, who have under their\ncare 200,000 children, and that there are pastors in churches that\nwe have founded, and in others not under our care, whom we have\nprepared to be intelligent and faithful preachers of the Gospel in\nthis land and in Africa. We believe that the providence of God is\nbringing to pass a wonderful combination of discovery in Africa\nand of Christian education among the Freedmen, that is to have an\nimmeasurable influence on the long neglected races of the Dark\nContinent.\n\nIn these efforts for the colored people, we do not wish to make\nthem vain nor to pauperize them. We believe our efforts have led\nthus far to neither of these results. The scholars going from our\nschools are not troubled with what is so aptly called the \u201cbig\nhead,\u201d and my observation shows that around our schools and others\nlike them the colored people are inclined more than anywhere else\nto buy land, build houses and make comfortable Christian homes. Our\npurpose in erecting these buildings, in addition to the good that\nis done to the scholars under immediate instruction, is to inspire\nhope in the whole race. And we are doing it. A good colored deacon\nin one of our churches said that he expected no greater change to\ncome over him when he entered Heaven than came over his race when\nthe doors of the school-house were opened to it.\n\nIn the prosecution of this, our great work, we have spent over\n$3,000,000, and to secure that sum we have had providential\nhelpers. First on the roll and steadiest in the ranks are the\nChristian friends at the North and in Great Britain, whose firm\nsupport has been the stability of our efforts. We mention also\nthe Freedmen\u2019s Bureau, with its large and wise distribution of\nGovernment funds for educational purposes. This Bureau has not been\npopular at the South; but we believe the time will yet come when\nour Southern friends will learn to appreciate the work of Gen.\nHoward, the head of this Bureau, and of Gen. Fisk, who administered\nso wisely and impartially for both races the Bureau work in this\nand adjoining States. The Jubilee Singers need no eulogy in this\npresence; their monument stands before us in Jubilee Hall; yet\nno list of the providential helpers of this Association, and\nespecially of Fisk University, could be complete without their\nnames. And last, but not least, mention must be made of the noble\ngenerosity of Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, attested not only in the gift\nof $60,000, which is to build Livingstone Hall, whose corner-stone\nwe lay to-day, but in like gifts throughout the land. God rejoices\nin the coming spring, when the frozen ground and the ice-covered\nstreams give place to the springing grass and the budding leaves,\ncoming forth to adorn and beautify the earth and to presage the\napproaching harvests. And so, without presumption, may His child,\nthe giver of the bounty which rears this building, be permitted to\nrejoice as it sends forth its annual company of students, trained\nand adorned for a useful life that shall gladden and bless the\nworld.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Vicksburg _Herald_, rebuking a narrow-minded correspondent,\nsays: \u201cWe are heartily in favor of the South from the Potomac to\nthe Rio Grande being thoroughly and permanently Yankeeized. Yankee\nenergy, Yankee schools, Yankee cultivation, Yankee railroads and\nYankee capital are badly needed in the South, and will be welcomed\nby every Southern progressive patriot.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\n\u2014John P. Howard, of Burlington, has given $50,000 to the University\nof Vermont\u2014the largest individual gift ever made to the institution.\n\n\u2014The Hon. Robert H. Pruyn, of Albany, N.Y., has offered to give\n$100,000 toward the general endowment of Rutgers College, New\nBrunswick, N.J., provided the remaining trustees contribute\n$400,000.\n\n\u2014Dr. Hoffman, Dean of the Faculty of the General Protestant\nEpiscopal Theological Seminary of New York, with his family, has\ngiven $75,000 toward the endowment of that institution.\n\n\u2014Mr. John R. Buchtel, of Acton, Ohio, has added $75,000 to his\ngifts to the Buchtel College, making the entire amount about\n$200,000.\n\n\u2014Mr. Wharton has given $100,000 to the Wharton School of Finance\nand Economy in connection with the University of Pennsylvania.\n\n\u2014A benevolent lady has given $3,000 to Lincoln University for the\nerection of a tabernacle for the accommodation of visitors on\nanniversary occasions.\n\n\u2014A lady, who does not wish her name published, has just given\n$100,000 to Princeton Theological Seminary.\n\n\u2014Winthrop Hillyer, of Northampton, has given $35,000 to Smith\nCollege for an art building.\n\n\u2014_Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., has Jubilee Hall completed\nand over-flowing with students, and is now erecting Livingstone\nMissionary Hall, by the gift of Mrs. Stone; but endowments are the\ngreat necessity. Twenty-five thousand dollars will provide for a\nprofessorship, and there are seven such needing endowment._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCHINESE NOTES.\n\n\u2014Chicago has fourteen naturalized Chinamen.\n\n\u2014Dr. Chalmers reports that the native church in Hong Kong has\nincreased in numbers from 83 to 216 during the decade, although,\nduring the same period, no fewer than 77 members have removed to\nother parts of China, or have gone abroad.\n\n\u2014The girl\u2019s school in Shanghai, under the auspices of the London\nMissionary Society, numbers 100 scholars. A female missionary is\nemployed at this point, who devotes her time to work among the\nwomen. Two ladies are also employed with marked success in the same\nbranch of work at Hong Kong.\n\n\u2014A Consul of the English Government in China, writing from Chefoo,\nsays: \u201cA great change has come over all classes in regard to\nChristianity; it has made vast strides in the land, in spite of the\nfewness of the missionaries; and whether we are inclined to rejoice\nin or deplore the fact, the spread of Christianity is inevitable.\u201d\n\n\u2014It is an interesting evidence of the growing power of Christianity\nin Japan that the people feel it necessary to bolster themselves\nup by mutual pledges so that they may be kept from becoming\nChristians. A Japanese paper reports that a number of citizens\nof Kioto, grieved at the rapid spread of the new religion, have\nestablished a society in which each member binds himself by\nsolemn oaths never to embrace the Christian faith. Any member\nwho disregards his vows will be ostracized. Men would not so set\nthemselves did they not feel the power of the current.\u2014_Missionary\nHerald._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nINDIAN NOTES.\n\n\u2014At Hampton there are seventy-nine Indian students, representing\n_sixteen_ different tribes.\n\n\u2014Chief-elect Wildcat, a Shawnee boy, in the middle class at\nHampton, is improving his spare time by compiling a small\nEnglish-Indian dictionary. He says that his tribe has no such book,\nand one is greatly needed.\n\n\u2014In the British possessions it is estimated that the total Indian\npopulation is less than one-tenth of the number found by the first\nEuropean settlers.\n\n\u2014Rev. John Sunday, an Indian preacher at Hamilton, Ont., is\nreported to have closed a recent address with the following\nlanguage: \u201cThere is a gentleman who, I suppose, is now in this\nhouse. He is a very fine gentleman, but a very modest one. He does\nnot like to show himself at these meetings. I do not know how long\nit is since I have seen him, he comes out so little. I am very much\nafraid that he sleeps a good deal of his time, when he ought to be\nout doing good. His name is Gold. Mr. Gold, are you here to-night,\nor are you sleeping in your iron chest? Come out, Mr. Gold, come\nout and help us do this great work, to preach the Gospel to every\ncreature. Ah, Mr. Gold, you ought to be ashamed of yourself to\nsleep so much in your iron chest. Look at your white brother, Mr.\nSilver; he does a great deal of good while you are sleeping. Come\nout, Mr. Gold. Look, too, at your little brown brother, Mr. Copper;\nhe is everywhere. Your poor little brown brother is running about,\ndoing all that he can to help us. Why don\u2019t you come out, Mr. Gold?\nWell, if you won\u2019t show yourself, send us your shirt, that is, a\nbank note. That is all I have to say.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nANNIVERSARY REPORTS\u2014CONTINUED.\n\n\nAtlanta University.\n\nPROF. HORACE BUMSTEAD, D.D.\n\nAnniversary exercises are apt to afford but meagre indication of\nthe real work accomplished by any school. To those of us who know\nthe work of Atlanta University, such exercises seem especially\ninadequate to the faithful telling of what is being done here.\nWhen our good Christian friend, Philander Veryrich, hints that he\nis ready to come down here with a hundred thousand dollars in each\npocket, to be emptied out wherever they will do the most good, I\nshall not especially urge his attendance upon our Commencement\nexercises. I shall ask him to spend with us either the first or the\nlast Sunday evening of the school year. I shall beg him to preserve\na strict _incognito_, and allow me to conceal him outside one of\nthe windows, or behind one of the doors of our assembly room,\nwith a peep-hole conveniently arranged. If it is the last Sunday\nevening before the vacation, he will hear many of the scholars\nspeak with grateful appreciation of what the year\u2019s work has done\nfor them, and with enthusiastic hope of what they mean to do for\nothers during their summer\u2019s work of teaching. The members of the\ngraduating class will recall their experience of six or seven or\neight years in the Institution, and tell what a home it has been\nto them, and how much of what they have acquired in the training\nof mind and character is due to the Christian home influence of\nthe school. If it is the first Sunday evening of the new school\nyear, our benevolent friend will hear many of these same scholars\ntell of their summer\u2019s work\u2014how they have succeeded in some things\nand failed in others; what they have done in Sunday-school and\ntemperance work; what obstacles they have met and conquered; what\nincreasing favor they have found in the communities where they\nhave labored. At either of these Sunday evening family gatherings\n(for such they are), I think our visiting friend will be struck\nwith the simple straightforward way in which our scholars express\nthemselves, with the extremely limited amount of what is sometimes\ncalled \u201cgush,\u201d and with the clear revelation which will be made to\nhim that before, behind, around, and underneath everything else,\nthe development of a thoroughly Christian character, and of a true\nmanhood and womanhood, is the all-absorbing purpose of our work.\nBut I am stultifying myself in trying to convey an impression\nof these gatherings to others. Even to our own corps of workers\nhere, they come, twice a year, almost as a surprise and as a most\ninspiring revelation to ourselves of what God is permitting us to\ndo.\n\nAnd still, however inadequate, our anniversary exercises have been\nfull of interest, and have revealed much to those who have visited\nus for the first time. The Baccalaureate sermon was preached June\n12th, by our college pastor, Rev. Cyrus W. Francis, from 1st\nTim. i. 19, \u201cHolding faith and a good conscience;\u201d and it was\nan earnest plea for the supremacy of the higher motives in the\nChristian warfare upon which the graduates were about to enter.\nThree days of public examinations followed, each day\u2019s session\nbeing concluded by an exercise in music and light gymnastics. On\nthe last day there was a display of what our girls have learned\nin the way of head-making. The walls of the front hall and one of\nthe stairways were covered with specimens of the students\u2019 drawing\nand map-making, indicating great progress in this department\nduring the year. The normal work also has been making a decided\nadvance. It is evident that those of us who teach the Greek, Latin\nand other higher branches will have to look well to our laurels.\nFewer visitors to the school ask to hear the classics translated;\nmore wish to see how the three R\u2019s are taught. No exercise of\nthe examination days riveted the attention of our friends more\nfirmly than the exercise in teaching one of the grammar-school\ngrades, by one of the members of the senior normal class, with\nfollowing criticisms from the other members of the class. However,\nwe classical instructors rejoice in all this, for we know that\nhereafter we shall have better equipped pupils for grappling with\nXenophon and Cicero. It ought to be mentioned here that one of the\nmost valuable exercises of our winter term this year was a three\ndays\u2019 Teachers\u2019 Institute, in which all the teachers and scholars\nparticipated, and in which much light was thrown upon the improved\nmethods of teaching, now attracting such wide attention. A further\nimpetus was given to thought and effort in this direction by the\nvisit of our friend, the Rev. A. D. Mayo, co-editor of the _Journal\nof Education_, whose four lectures and one sermon before our\nstudents, and whose private talk and counsel with our teachers on\ncertain phases of our work, will not soon be forgotten.\n\nA very large audience, as usual, packed the Friendship Baptist\nchurch on Thursday, to listen to the essays of eleven of the\ngraduating class, and to the address of the invited orator of the\nday. Five young men and twelve young women received the diplomas of\nthe school. The Commencement address was delivered by Rev. Atticus\nG. Haygood, D.D., President of Emory College at Oxford, in this\nState. Those who are now reading his recently published book, \u201cOur\nBrother in Black,\u201d will not need to be told that his address was\nlistened to with the greatest pleasure and approval by all who\nwere present. It was a plain, forcible and thoroughly wholesome\npresentation of some of the ways in which the true greatness of\nthe State must be secured, and the relation thereto of education\nand of such institutions as ours. Dr. Haygood represents, most\nnobly, that rapidly multiplying element among the Southern people\nwhich believes in the motto, \u201cLook up and not down, out and not in,\nforward and not backward, and lend a hand.\u201d May his tribe increase.\n\nOne of the most excellent features of the address was, as one\nauditor suggested, the fact that it would have been just as\nappropriate for delivery before the Athens (State) University as\nbefore the Atlanta University.\n\nThe Alumni meeting, Thursday afternoon, brought together a goodly\nnumber of the graduates of former years. The spirit of the remarks\nmade at this gathering gives, every year, an increasing assurance\nof the stability and self-propagating character of the work in\nwhich we are engaged.\n\nThe report of the Visiting Committee, appointed by the Governor of\nthe State, has just been published. It furnishes renewed evidence\nof the growing favor which our work is meeting with among the\npeople of Georgia. The remarks made to the school on the last\nday of the examinations, by Rev. Mr. Wilkes, the chairman of the\nsub-committee, who prepared this report, were full of good sense\nand kindly feeling. The speaker told of his life-long service\nas a teacher, and how it had begun with the instruction of a\nlittle colored boy, his father\u2019s slave, in the safe seclusion\nof the corn-crib, in the days when such teaching was a criminal\noffense. None who heard him could doubt the entire sincerity of\nhis words of sympathy and encouragement. It is astonishing how\nrapidly and widely the work of Atlanta University is coming to be\nappreciated. Among the applications for teachers which have lately\nbeen received, have been several from county school commissioners,\nwho say, in substance, \u201cThe teachers we have met with from your\nInstitution are of such a quality that we desire now to supply all\nour schools from the same source.\u201d Let our friends at the North\ntake courage. Their investments, so far, are bearing compound\ninterest at a high rate. When these lines reach the eyes of the\nreaders of the MISSIONARY, some ten thousand children, all over\nthis great State, will be gathered under the instruction of our\npupils. Next October we shall get the reports of this work. As soon\nas our friend, Philander Veryrich, will send me his address, I\nwill give him the date of the Sunday evening gathering, from which\nhe can learn more about our work than from whole volumes of the\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTALLADEGA COLLEGE.\n\nMRS. THOS. N. CHASE.\n\nAfter following with tender anxiety so many classes through their\ngraduating exercises at Atlanta, it has been very pleasant for\nme, this year, to witness the closing exercises of two similar\nInstitutions. This one at Talladega I have been urged to report for\nthe MISSIONARY.\n\nThe sermon before the graduating class was preached by Pres. H.\nS. De Forest upon the worth of the soul. His eloquent review of\nthe grand geologic ages told of the greater grandeur of Him for\nwhom they were prepared. His allusions to the soul\u2019s capacity to\nthink, feel and choose, to its immortality and cost of redemption,\nmust have brought to the class an overwhelming sense of their\nresponsibility. In closing, they were asked to remember that what a\nman may be is infinitely more than what he can sell himself to get.\n\nThe Missionary Society had the promise of an address on Sunday\nevening by Dr. G. B. Willcox, of Chicago Theological Seminary. A\ntelegram announcing his sickness was throwing its shadow over us,\nwhen, as unexpectedly, Rev. H. M. Ladd dropped in upon us, only\na few days home from Africa. He hastened South to catch the last\ndays of Talladega and Atlanta sessions, hoping to find recruits for\nAfrican missions.\n\nOn Monday the examinations began. This Institution is fortunate\nin having an excellent primary school in the building. It is a\nconstant object lesson to the little army of teachers who go out\nevery summer to teach just such children, and also dignifies\nprimary work, which, in spite of Fr\u0153bel, Pestalozzi and the\ntruly wise and good everywhere, is too often considered of minor\nimportance. The principal of the intermediate department has\nremarkable ability in bringing her pupils up to her high standard\nof excellence. In the rear of her school-room is a power for good\nwhich is inestimable. It consists in a long, low table with seats.\nOn it are fastened, by a very simple contrivance, interesting and\ninstructive illustrated papers and magazines, which the children\nare allowed to read after lessons are prepared. In an age when\nthe best literature floods our land in such cheap forms that the\nhumblest need never thirst, what nobler philanthropy than to allure\nthese often worse than homeless children on to an early taste for\ngood reading?\n\nThe normal work and classes in natural science are in charge of a\ngraduate lately from Beloit College and Whitewater Normal School.\nThe classical department is in charge of an Olivet graduate, whose\nthree years here have proved him invaluable. A most interesting\nacquisition to the corps of teachers is a scientific farmer, a\ngraduate of Massachusetts Agricultural College. To enjoy the\ndelicious vegetables from his garden is enough to convert a sceptic\nin scientific agriculture. It really looks as though, under his\nskill, these unsightly acres of red clay were, in time, to blossom\nas the rose. The joy and pride of this Institution, however, is its\ntheological department, and well it may be. Its class of eleven\nwere examined two hours of one of their hot days, and nobody seemed\nweary. The clear, simple topics, recited in such an interesting,\nlucid style, tolerated no hovering fog, that I had supposed always,\nmore or less, mystified a recitation in systematic theology. The\naccuracy of their knowledge in Bible history, too, was wonderful.\nNone but a born teacher could have secured such results from\na class of that grade of scholarship. Classes in geometry and\nrhetoric told unmistakably of thorough work.\n\nWe were entertained, Monday evening, by prize speaking and essay\nreading; Tuesday evening, by an interesting account of Mr. Ladd\u2019s\nAfrican experience, in place of the expected address by Dr.\nWillcox; Wednesday evening, by the ordination of two candidates;\nThursday evening, by a musical concert. There are a few rare voices\nhere that vocal training would develop into marvellous sweetness.\n\nThursday was graduating day, and as the class was much smaller\nthan usual, five young men from the preparatory department gave\norations. They were all excellent in matter and delivery. Their\neffect would have been more pleasing, however, had there been a\ngreater variety of subjects or of treatment. Doubtless, in the\ndepths of these students\u2019 hearts, no subjects are so momentous as\n\u201cThe curse of Canaan;\u201d \u201cCannot we, too, become great men?\u201d \u201cThe\nballot,\u201d etc. But what has pleased me here more than anything else,\nhowever, is the excellent spirit manifested by the students in the\nfamily. There is, especially among the young men, an earnestness\nof purpose shown that is simply grand. Possibly it is, in part,\nowing to the fact that so many are from the country, schooled by\nhard work, away from the follies of city life. There is here no\nairing of exquisite broadcloth nor swinging of fancy canes. All\nare respectful, unassuming, and possessed of a modesty that seems\nto reach beneath their delightful demeanor and give them a true\nestimate of their abilities. At family devotions, the last morning\nbefore the school separated, one of the graduates led us in prayer.\nI cannot think that the thought and tones of that prayer will\never leave me. The ear of the Omnipotent must have heard those\npathetic pleadings that his fellow-students might be sustained by\nthe Everlasting Arms as they took up their heavy burdens, often\nin the midst of terrible temptations. We who send out these large\nnumbers of young men and women to reach the masses, feel the need\nof your prayers and sympathies; but how much more do these young\nand inexperienced ones, as they go out to battle with ignorance,\nenvy, intemperance and every form of vice! We never realize how\ngreat our hopes are for them till we occasionally get a great shock\nby the death of one, or the overcoming and fall of another. We\nreach but a few. Surely our work and the entire Southern work of\nthe American Missionary Association centres in those who go out to\nreach the millions. If they fail, we have failed. How important\nthat we hold up such a high standard of character, that they shall\nbe beacon lights instead of tapers that shall soon go out in the\ndarkness.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTILLOTSON INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n(From the Daily Statesman)\n\nTillotson Institute is presided over by the Rev. W. E. Brooks, a\ngentleman of evident Christian piety, an accomplished scholar, and\na man thoroughly impressed with the dignity and importance of his\ntrust. Professor Brooks is ably assisted in the educational part\nof his work by Miss Hunt, an experienced and successful teacher of\nthe young, as her class examinations, conducted at the Institute\non the 9th inst., fully demonstrated; the boys and girls, in the\ncareful and prolonged examinations to which they were subjected by\ntheir teachers and the visitors present, displaying an accuracy\nof information and a fullness of understanding highly commendable\nto themselves, and a just source of pride to their faithful and\nefficient teachers. The examination in English grammar, including\nanalysis and parsing, was excellent, as was that also in geography.\nThe result of the examination in arithmetic, algebra and Latin\nshowed an uncommon proficiency on the part of the students,\nconsidering the fact that they have been at this school and under\nthis training scarcely more than six months.\n\nPresident Brooks has the real welfare of his pupils at heart,\nand is educating them in a practical as well as theoretical way.\nHe is teaching them how to become useful and honorable men and\nwomen, and his labors have the cordial approval of all our best\ncitizens. President Brooks is so much gratified with his success\nthus far that he visits the North shortly, hoping to get further\naid in establishing this school, and proposes, if his expectations\nare realized, to add a mechanical and agricultural department\nto his present course of instruction. The school closed with an\nattendance of one hundred and seven pupils. This under-taking is\na very praiseworthy one, and will, we doubt not, meet with the\nencouragement it most certainly deserves. In Virginia, Tennessee\nand Louisiana these schools for the colored youth are attracting\nthe attention and securing the liberal approval of the legislatures\nand public men of those states, and so it will be here.\n\nWe noticed among the many visitors present at the examination,\nGov. Pease, Rev. Mr. Wright, Judge Fulmore, Mr. A. P. Wooldridge,\nProfs. Winn and Johnson, all of whom expressed themselves highly\ngratified with the success of the school.\n\nWe recommend to our people who take an interest in education\nto visit this Institution. They can be assured of a polite and\nhospitable welcome, and most of them will be surprised and pleased\nto see what a superior school and school building we have in our\nmidst.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAVERY INSTITUTE, CHARLESTON.\n\nThe school year at Avery Institute closed Thursday, June 30, the\nlast three days being given to public exercises. Tuesday was\n\u201cexamination day.\u201d I wish you all could see the school as it looked\nthat morning from the rostrum. The bright eager eyes, the earnest\nfaces, the neat appropriate style of dress, and the respectful\nscholar-like behavior of the students, even the tiniest ones, are\na strong contrast to the appearance of the street children. You\nsuppose our scholars belong to a better class than the street\nchildren? To be sure they do; but these same lower classes may\nbecome respectable, and have much more to encourage them to rise,\nthan those had who have already struggled up. The visitors were,\nof course, friends of the school and of the scholars, and they\nsaid many kind and appreciative things about the school and the\nrecitations they heard. We tried to make the examinations strictly\nhonest. Every scholar was given a chance, as far as possible, to\nshow what he had done in every study he had pursued; and to take\nthe words of those who visited the different classes, the result\nwas satisfactory.\n\nWednesday was \u201cchildren\u2019s day,\u201d when the little ones in the lower\nrooms gave the entertainment, and the older scholars attended as\nguests, with other friends of the small entertainers. The affair\nwas very child-like and pretty. The recitations and dialogues\nwere such as the children could appreciate; the songs bright,\nairy little things; and the singing a half-shy dainty rippling\nof very sweet music. Through all there was no appearance of the\n\u201cNow-all-are-looking-at-me\u201d feeling that sometimes makes children\u2019s\nexhibitions such pitiful things.\n\nOn Thursday was the Anniversary. The course of study having been\nextended one year, there was no graduating class. The exercises\nconsisted of essays by members of the upper classes, the recitation\nof a few poems, one or two dialogues, and music. The music was very\ngood, the dialogues natural, the recitations well chosen and well\nspoken, that entitled \u201cMona\u2019s Water\u201d being very strongly rendered;\nbut the most interesting part of this entertainment was the essays.\nThree prizes had been offered, and three gentlemen of the city\nacted as judges, to decide on the merits of the different essays.\nAll were called good, and with reason. Those of the youngest\nclass in essay writing were delightfully child-like, natural and\noriginal. That on \u201cIntemperance,\u201d to which the prize was awarded,\nhad besides a strong-hearted earnestness and depth of thought that\nwere surprising. The essays of the middle class showed more mature\nthought, or, perhaps, a reaching out towards mature thought\u2014a calm\nlooking forward and trying to prepare for earnest living. The prize\nin this class came to the essay entitled, \u201cWe Learn not for School,\nbut for Life.\u201d The essays of the upper class seemed to have for a\nkey-note a sentiment we always find among the best of our people\nhere, when we get at their hearts and hopes and aspirations\u2014the\nelevation of their race. Do not think there was any sameness in\nthese essays. Each reached this thought in a different way. It\ngleamed out in \u201cEverything was Made to be Happy;\u201d it made itself\nfelt as one of the foundations of \u201cProgress;\u201d and it formed the\ncrown of the prize essay, \u201cNothing Great is Lightly Won,\u201d when,\nafter brave words calling to action, it closed with the quotation\nfrom Longfellow\u2019s \u201cPsalm of Life:\u201d\n\n    \u201cLives of great men all remind us,\n    We may make our lives sublime,\u201d etc.,\n\nleaving one with the thought that helping others is the best and\ngreatest work here, and that our lives must be right towards God if\nwe would really help.\n\nIn the evening of this same day the Normal exhibition was held.\nEvery part of the programme was well executed.\n\n                                                            C.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLEWIS HIGH SCHOOL.\n\nREV. S. E. LATHROP, MACON, GA.\n\nThe closing examinations occupied nearly two days, May 31st and\nJune 1st. The attendance of parents and other visitors was larger\nthan at any previous occasion for some years past, showing perhaps\nan increasing interest in educational matters. Most of the older\nscholars (about fifteen of them) had left previously to teach\ncountry schools; but the classes which were examined acquitted\nthemselves remarkably well. The questioning by the teachers threw\nthem upon their own resources, and proved the excellent instruction\nthey have had. The noticeable quickness and readiness of answer,\nand the mastery of each branch of study, showed that they have\nbeen trained to think for themselves, and not merely to learn\nby rote. In reading, geography, history, grammar, composition,\narithmetic, algebra, natural philosophy, and other branches, the\nscholars showed very commendable proficiency, and again answered\nthe often-answered question, \u201cCan the negro learn?\u201d\n\nOne thing highly commended by all the visitors, and an important\nfeature of the instruction, was the constant use of writing.\nThe scholars spell out their lessons by writing on slate or\nblack-board. They frequently prepare written compositions or\nreviews of lessons in grammar and geography, and in many ways\nare taught to express in written characters the thoughts drawn\nfrom their studies. Thus the facts are firmly fixed in mind, and\nthey learn also by the same process to write, spell, capitalize,\npunctuate and compose. Some of the exercises written as ordinary\nlessons displayed handsome penmanship.\n\nSeveral leading white citizens attended the exercises, and\nexpressed themselves as being much pleased. Among them were\nProfessor Williams, principal of the State Asylum for the Blind,\nlocated here, a firm friend of negro education; and Professor\nLink, a professional teacher of many years\u2019 experience, who said,\nsignificantly, in private: \u201cI attend all the white schools, and\nI don\u2019t see any difference\u201d\u2014which is quite an admission for a\nnative Southerner. There was also Rev. J. W. Burke, a leading\nMethodist Episcopal clergyman, publisher and assistant editor of\nthe _Wesleyan Christian Advocate_, well known as an excellent\nChristian man and a true friend of the negro. All the visitors\nshowed decided interest and pleasure. A violent rain-storm arising\nin the afternoon doubtless kept away many who would have attended.\n\nThe literary exercises were held in the church at 4 p. m., June\n1st, in the presence of a large and attentive audience. The\nschool, marching in to organ music, were massed together upon the\npulpit platform, one tier above another, making a very striking\nand memorable group. As I looked into the bright eyes and smiling\nfaces of all shades of color, from jet black to almost pure white,\nand noted the neat, tasty dress, and the beaming of intelligence\nfrom the animated features, and remembered the thoroughness of\nthe examination they had passed, I looked back to another scene,\nsixteen years ago, when, as a soldier in General Wilson\u2019s cavalry,\nwe took possession of this city, and heard the rumors of peace\nconfirmed, just at the end of the long and bloody war. That was\nmy first sight of the negroes of Macon. Then they were uncouth,\nragged, ignorant and untrained; but now what a change! I thanked\nGod and took courage.\n\nAs the school stood in this grouped position, they sang beautifully\nthe song \u201cOur Motto,\u201d in which the chorus of each verse was \u201cBe\nfaithful, firm and true.\u201d Then repeating together the Twenty-third\nPsalm, and chanting the Lord\u2019s Prayer, they took their seats in\nthe body of the church, and the literary programme went on. The\nreading of selections and compositions, the declamations and music,\nwere all well rendered. The singing was especially deserving of\nnotice, as, on account of the severe illness of Miss Raynor, the\nmusic teacher, the scholars were deprived of their accustomed\norgan accompaniment and musical leadership. But they had been\nwell trained, and acquitted themselves with much credit to their\nteacher and themselves. A song entitled \u201cThe Farmer\u2019s Boy,\u201d with\na whistling chorus, was especially well sung and whistled. The\nsenior class sang a parting song, and the benediction by Rev. J. W.\nBurke at 6 P. M. closed the arduous and successful year\u2019s work of\nthe school.\n\nDuring the year there have been 162 pupils enrolled. Miss C. H.\nGilbert, who has been principal for the past three years, is a very\nsuccessful and experienced instructor, and deserves great credit\nfor the thoroughness and progress of the school. The assistants,\nMisses J. A. Raynor and C. M. Park, have also done faithful and\nvaluable work. The school has almost outgrown its present quarters,\nand much needs increased accommodations. The daily Macon _Telegraph\nand Messenger_ published full and eulogistic reports of the closing\nexercises.\n\nMrs. Elizabeth Lathrop, wife of the Macon missionary, has been\ndoing an important work in the industrial line among the girls\nduring the year. Laboring simply as minister\u2019s wife, she has\naccomplished a good deal of missionary work, not the least\nimportant of which has been the sewing school. Beginning last\nDecember with twelve pupils, the number increased to 133 on the\nroll, with an average weekly attendance of 55. Northern friends\nhave contributed thread, needles and other material, and during\nthe seven months the class have made, under the instruction of\nMrs. Lathrop, three hundred and six garments (aprons, dresses,\nhandkerchiefs and under clothing), besides twenty-six patch-work\nquilts, all but three of these completely finished. On June 4th\nthere was an exhibition of these articles at the Lewis High School,\nan astonishment to all who beheld. The mothers sat there with\nglad, grateful tears rolling down their cheeks, at the thought\nof the benefits received in this manner. Speeches of eulogistic\ngratitude were made by the colored Methodist preachers, and the day\nclosed with the distribution of the garments to the girls who had\nmade them. Much good has been accomplished in this way, and this\nindustrial training is receiving, as it should, more attention than\nformerly in different places.\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.\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\nTHE ANNIVERSARY AT STOCKTON.\n\nLast month I gave some account of our anniversary at Sacramento,\nwith the address by Lem Chung. Last Sabbath evening, June 19th, we\nheld our anniversary at Stockton. It was an exceedingly interesting\nand useful service. The church was well filled\u2014better than ever\nbefore when I have been there. The report of the secretary, Mr.\nM. J. Nightingale, and the supplementary one by the teacher, Mrs.\nM. B. Langdon, showed good work done with glad results. Just 100\nChinese had been enrolled as pupils in the school during the year,\nthough the largest enrolment in any one month was 49. The average\nattendance on some months rose to 35 or 36, but the average for the\nyear was 25. Two of the pupils have been baptized and received\ninto the Congregational church in Stockton during the year, and\nothers are now ready to be thus received.\n\nThe exercises by the pupils were well rendered. The pastor of the\nchurch, Rev. John Hooper, made an earnest and effective address,\npledging his own sympathy and co-operation in such terms as will be\nvery helpful to us in the year to come. Your superintendent said\na few words also; but that which thrilled us most of all was the\nbrief and modest address of our new helper, Lee Pak Yuen, converted\nin connection with our Oakland Mission, and a member of the First\nCongregational church in that city. I give it to our readers just\nas it was uttered.\n\n\nADDRESS BY LEE PAK YUEN.\n\nDear Friends and Teachers: I am very glad to see you all, but I\nhave not much to say to you. I can only tell you how I became a\nChristian.\n\nFor the first three years I was in California I did not like Jesus,\nand I did scold those Chinese Christians who spoke about him. I\nonly liked to go and gamble, and play cards and drink. So I had no\nmoney to live on. I felt very sorry; but afterward I was asked to\ncome to school, and for many months in school I also talked against\nJesus; but the teacher did not scold me, but was very kind to me.\nHe taught me, at length, to read this verse in Matt. ix. 13, \u201cFor I\nam not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.\u201d But,\nat last, the Holy Spirit convinced me to believe in Jesus with all\nmy heart, and now I thank you very much for what you have done for\nme and for my countrymen. I hope the Lord bless you, and bring many\nto believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\nI know the Lord is very strong. He helps every one to believe in\nHim. Without Him we can do nothing. He will watch over us and take\ncare of us. Now I will tell you what I did while I was in China.\nI left California to go back to China to my father\u2019s house. He\ncalled me to worship the gods, but I would not. My father had made\nall preparations for my worshiping. He took my hand to go out of\nthe door to worship the ancestors, and he wanted me to kneel down\nand pray to them. Because I would not, he scolded me and called me\ncrazy.\n\nI came out to Hong Kong and stopped there one month. I then went\nback to my home, and found my father crying, and all very sad. I\nasked, \u201cWhat is the matter?\u201d My father answered: \u201cYou are no good.\nYou come home and will not worship my gods. The gods will kill your\nbrothers.\u201d I then went to see my brothers, and found one of them\nvery sick indeed. The doctor said he cannot live two days. I almost\ncried myself. My father then said to me: \u201cIf he dies I shall kill\nyou. If I do not kill you, all your other brothers will die.\u201d I\nthen took my father\u2019s hand, and knelt down and asked the Lord Jesus\nto bless him; but my father scolded me all the time, for he did\nnot believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour. He heard my\nprayer for my brother\u2019s sickness. In twenty days he was all well.\nAll the people of my village called me Christ; but I said, I am not\nChrist; he is in heaven. The Bible says, \u201cWhatsoever ye shall ask\nthe Father in my name I will do it.\u201d\n\nMy dear friends, I hope you will not forget to pray for China, that\nall may be brought to believe in the true God. Let us remember\nthe promise, \u201cAsk of me, and I will give you the heathen for\nthine inheritance, and the uttermost part of the earth for thy\npossession.\u201d\n\n\nTHE MAY REPORTS.\n\nI add the following item, clipped from _The Pacific_ of June 8th:\n\nThe monthly reports for May from the various mission schools of the\nCalifornia Chinese mission are very encouraging. The work is larger\nand, as we gladly believe, _better_ than ever before\u2014more schools,\nmore teachers, more pupils, and, we trust, many souls seeking\nChrist. The statistics are as follows: Schools, 14; teachers and\nhelpers, 27; pupils enrolled, 566; of whom 190 were received\nduring May, against 68 who left the schools. The aggregate average\nattendance was 314. Since the beginning of the present fiscal year\n(Sept. 1, 1880), 1,245 pupils have been enrolled. Of the pupils now\nin the schools, 136 are reported as giving evidence of conversion.\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\nTWENTY MINUTES A-DAY WORKING SOCIETY,\n\nIN CONNECTION WITH THE WOMAN\u2019S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nFor the benefit of ladies interested in home missionary work, but\nprevented from forming or joining auxiliaries, we have this month a\nnew plan to propose, a plan which offers some of the advantages of\nboth individual and co-operative work.\n\nThe Twenty Minutes a-Day Working Society originated, we believe,\nin England, where it appears to be accomplishing great good. Its\ncharacteristic features are found in other associations among\nEnglish ladies, who seem to have a special liking for being bound\ntogether by aim and rules without organization or meetings. But the\nidea has been adopted in some of the churches of our country also,\nand, it is said, with admirable success.\n\nThe following are the rules by which the members of this society\nbind themselves:\n\n1. To work twenty minutes a day, or two hours a week, according to\nconvenience.\n\n2. Each lady to furnish her own materials, and make such articles\nas are suitable either for home missionaries and their families at\nthe West, or for distribution among the colored people.\n\n3. To contribute at least one book a year, not necessarily new.\n\n4. To contribute fifty cents a year for the purpose of defraying\nexpenses of transportation, &c.\n\n5. To pray each day for those to whom these gifts are sent, and\nalso for the prosperity of our organization.\n\n6. Articles made are to be sent twice a year to the rooms of the\nWoman\u2019s Home Missionary Association, at such times as shall be\ndesignated by the committee.\n\nFor further information apply to the Secretary of the Woman\u2019s Home\nMissionary Association, 20 Congregational House, Boston.\n\nThe interest roused by the late Home Missionary Convention at\nChicago shows how real and earnest is the purpose in the hearts\nof many of our people to undertake with new determination and\nzeal the task of keeping and of recovering this land for a true\nChristianity. Every day exposes anew to us, if our eyes are open,\nthe monstrous and fatal dangers which threaten our Republic. But\ndo we consider, does each Christian reflect, that not one of these\nevils, not one evil, would endanger our beloved country, if the\ngood news brought by Christ were accepted and worked out in every\nhome and every life?\n\n\u201cTen times one is ten;\u201d yes, there is well unfolded the secret of\nChristian life and strength, and of the coming millennium. Let each\nof us now say: \u201cI have been saved by the knowledge of Christ; to\nhow many can I convey this knowledge the coming year? Can I send\nit to ten more? to one more? It is not for me to wait to see what\nten others will do. What can I do, and now, to help recover what\nis lost, to keep what is yet ours in our dear land?\u201d Oh, let us\ntry it. We are not doing enough, and our time of working may be\nshort, if we let the enemy come in like a flood; but let us work,\neach work, alone, together; work and pray, for we have already seen\nsomething of what God\u2019s power and goodness can do in multiplying\nsingle-handed and feeble (?) efforts made in His name.\n\nA word more to the children about the Sunday-school papers. A\ngenerous response has come in, but still the Secretary has a large\nnumber of names of schools ready to receive above the number of\nthose ready to give. Are there not other Sunday-schools with\npapers to send? Is there not some girl or boy ready to undertake\nto collect the same? Do not be afraid to send a few, if you have\nnot many, only send them regularly and with prayer. Do not forget\nto be \u201cready to distribute, willing to communicate.\u201d This is your\nopportunity as well as that of your father and mother, and the work\nis great. Write to the Secretary of the Woman\u2019s Home Missionary\nAssociation, 20 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., and she will\nsend you the name of a school where the boys and girls will be, you\ncan hardly think how, eager and glad to get your papers.\n\nReceipts of Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Association from May 31 to June\n27, 1881:\n\n  From auxiliaries         $169.92\n    \u201d  life members          20.00\n    \u201d  annual members         2.00\n    \u201d  donations             52.50\n                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                           $244.42\n\nBoxes and barrels:\n\n  From W. Newton, Aux. to Mrs.\n       Babcock, valued at                 $30.00\n    \u201d  Son of Rev. Mr. Alvord,\n       Nashua, to Miss Wilson.             50.00\n    \u201d  Miss. Sunbeams, Phillip\u2019s Ch.,\n       South Boston, to the West           15.00\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGRACIE\u2019S MISTAKE.\n\nMRS. HARRIET A. CHEEVER.\n\n\u201cJust think, mamma! grandpa Gray gave me a five dollar bill just as\nhe was getting into the cars to go home, and said I might do just\nwhat I pleased with it; wasn\u2019t that splendid?\u201d\n\n\u201cYes, Gracie, what shall you do with it?\u201d\n\n\u201cDon\u2019t know yet, shall have to think;\u201d and Gracie flattened her\nnose against the window-pane one short moment, the next she\nexclaimed:\n\n\u201cOh, see, ma, there goes one of those colored students; do you\nsuppose they ever learn much?\u201d\n\nSomething in the child\u2019s tone pained Mrs. Gray, and she answered\nseriously:\n\n\u201cJust as much as any others; my little girl has yet to learn that\nany difference in young men that is only skin deep is a very slight\ndifference, and none whatever in the sight of God.\u201d\n\n\u201cWell,\u201d replied the petted child, \u201cI like white folks best, and\n_always shall_;\u201d and she gave her pretty head with its fair hair a\nsmart little toss. Before her mother could reply, she asked hastily:\n\n\u201cMay I run across the bit of woods and see Jennie Hale a little\nwhile?\u201d\n\nHer mother said yes, and the next moment Gracie was skipping along\nthrough the \u201cbit of woods\u201d towards the home of her little friend,\nwhen all at once she struck her foot against a little stump,\nbounded into the air for an instant, then fell heavily. There she\nlay moaning in dreadful pain.\n\n\u201cOh, dear!\u201d she cried, \u201cI\u2019ve broken my ankle, I know I have, and\nthat horrid Dr. Stuart will have to set it, and he sha\u2019n\u2019t, he\nsha\u2019n\u2019t! I\u2019ll die if he does! Oh, dear, what shall I do!\u201d\n\nDr. Frank Bates, a colored student in the medical department of the\ncollege for freedmen, close by, was walking slowly along with a\nbook in his hand\u2014a way these students have, somehow, of improving\nevery moment\u2014when he thought he heard a moan. He listened, and sure\nenough it _was_ a moan, very near, too, and putting the book in his\npocket, he soon reached the spot where Gracie was lying.\n\nHe was a very tall, strong young man, but tender-hearted and gentle\nas a woman could be. He knelt beside Gracie, who cried with pain\nwhen he tried to lift her.\n\n\u201cThere, there,\u201d he crooned pityingly, his great, soft eyes full\nof compassion; \u201cwait a moment, and Dr. Frank\u2019ll make it all right\nfor poor sissy;\u201d and seeing at once what was the real trouble, he\nfortunately found a little board, and tearing his bright Madras\nhandkerchief into strips, with what skill he could carefully\nsplintered and bandaged the broken limb; then lifting her firmly in\nhis strong arms, he carried her steadily and safely along to her\nhome.\n\nGrade\u2019s mother, in all her distress at her little girl\u2019s pain,\ndid not forget to thank him warmly for what he had done. Then\nshe added. \u201cNow we will send for Dr. Stuart, and soon have you\ncomfortable, poor little Gracie.\u201d\n\nBut to Mrs. Gray\u2019s surprise, Gracie cried out: \u201cOh no, no, mamma,\nlet Dr. Frank stay; I know my limb is broken and must be set all\nright; he told me so; but I want Dr. Frank; I\u2019ll be good, only let\nhim stay.\u201d\n\nTurning to the young giant who stood quietly by, Mrs. Gray asked if\nhe dared undertake the case, and understood properly what must be\ndone.\n\nAnd he proved he did understand perfectly, for not even the famous\nDr. Stuart could more carefully or skillfully have done what was\nneeded than did Dr. Frank.\n\nSuch friends as they grew to be\u2014the dark-skinned, intelligent young\nstudent, and his fair little patient!\n\nOne day Gracie said to her father, \u201cPapa, sha\u2019n\u2019t you pay Dr. Frank\njust as much for what he has done for me as you should any one\nelse?\u201d\n\nMr. Gray thought a moment, then replied:\n\n\u201cYes, Gracie, I certainly shall; it is only right; he has earned it\nas fairly certainly as any one else could have done.\u201d\n\nAnd what a help and encouragement it was, the handsome sum which\nGracie\u2019s grateful papa paid to Dr. Frank one day. But one other\nday, the great tears stood in Dr. Frank\u2019s fine dark eyes, and he\ncouldn\u2019t say a word for a long time, when Gracie made him a present\nof her five dollar bill \u201cto buy a book with, to remember her by,\u201d\nshe said child-like; but when he could find his voice again, he\nsaid so sadly, that Gracie will never forget it:\n\n\u201cNo fear that Dr. Frank will ever forget the first dear white child\nwho ever gave him kind words and dared trust him. I am very, very\ngrateful for dear little sissy\u2019s dollars; but oh, the kind words\nare the sweetest sounds Dr. Frank has ever heard yet.\u201d\n\nOne day Gracie asked her mother if she remembered how proudly she\nsaid she should _always_ like white folks best.\n\n\u201cYes, I remember,\u201d replied her mother.\n\n\u201cSo does God,\u201d said Gracie very gently; \u201cbut I\u2019ve been praying Him\nto remember it no more, for what _should_ I have done without my\ngood, kind Dr. Frank?\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR JUNE, 1881.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $147.08.\n\n    Augusta. Benj. Spaulding                                  $5.00\n    Bangor. Hammond St. Sab. Sch.                             11.00\n    Blanchard. \u201cD.B.\u201d                                         10.00\n    Brunswick. J. W. Perry, _for Wilmington, N.C._             5.00\n    East Union. David Fowler                                   5.00\n    Ellsworth. Mrs. L. T. Phelps                              10.00\n    Gorham. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. and $2.50 _for\n      freight, for Selma, Ala._                                2.50\n    Machias. Centre St. Cong. Ch.                              5.11\n    North Yarmouth. Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid,\n      Selma, Ala._                                            27.45\n    Portland. Ladies\u2019 Aux. H. M. A. of Williston\n      Ch., Box of C. and $1.52 _for freight, for\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                        1.52\n    Saint Albans. Rev. W. S. Sewall                            6.50\n    Winterport. Mrs. Dr. E. Manter, _for\n      California Chinese M._                                  52.00\n    York. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                   6.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $136.39.\n\n    Amoskeag. Mrs. Henry B. Stearns, $2; Mrs. N.\n      Stearns, $2                                              4.00\n    Dover. S. H. F.                                            0.50\n    Exeter. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   20.00\n    Franklin Falls. J. B. H.                                   1.00\n    Gilsum. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                24.50\n    Goffstown. G. P.                                           1.00\n    Hampstead. Ann M. Howard                                   5.00\n    Hanover. Dartmouth College Ch. and Soc.                   22.00\n    Hollis. Cong. Ch.                                          6.19\n    Mason. Cong. Ch.                                           4.75\n    Meriden. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               25.00\n    Nashua. Lavinia Albert, _for Wilmington, N.C._             2.00\n    Stoddard. Rev. B. Southworth                               5.00\n    Troy. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  13.45\n    Wakefield. Rev. Nathaniel Barker                           2.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $318.03.\n\n    East Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         16.00\n    Fayetteville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           5.17\n    Dummerston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            10.15\n    Jericho Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        15.25\n    Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            45.60\n    McIndoe\u2019s Falls. Dea. W. R. Monteith                       5.00\n    Newport. M. Benton Hall                                    2.00\n    Newbury. Mrs. D. J.                                        1.00\n    New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20.47; Rev. S.\n      Knowlton, $10                                           30.47\n    North Clarendon. Mrs. Wm. D. Marsh                         5.00\n    Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $10; Mrs. B. B.\n      Newton, $5                                              15.00\n    Richmond. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              27.24\n    Saint Albans. Mrs. M. A. Stranahan\u2019s S. S.\n      Class, Cong. Ch., $50; Young Men\u2019s Bible\n      Class, $10, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                  60.00\n    Saint Albans. Class in First Cong. Sab. Sch.              25.00\n    Sheldon. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  20.00\n    Shoreham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               3.23\n    Underhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              3.00\n    Vergennes. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             20.00\n    Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                8.92\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $6,403.46.\n\n    Amherst. W. S. Clark, _for repairs, Talladega\n      C._                                                     50.00\n    Andover. Chapel Ch. and Soc.                              93.92\n    Andover. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., by Mrs. J. C.\n      Dove, $55, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._;\n      Sab. Sch. of Free Ch., $10, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           65.00\n    Ashburnham. M. W.                                          1.00\n    Ashfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $41.54, to\n      const. REV. J. WADHAMS, L.M.; B. Howes, $1.30           42.84\n    Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   93.44\n    Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding                                46.00\n    Bedford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS.\n      MARY W. HANAFORD, L. M.                                 39.66\n    Beverly. Dane St. Ch. and Soc.                            83.03\n    Boston. \u201cWilberforce.\u201d                                 2,014.00\n    Boston. Immanuel Cong. Ch. and Soc. $100;\n      Central Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l), $20; \u201cW. E. M.\u201d $10          130.00\n    Boston. Ladies, _for Washington, D.C._                     7.00\n    Brocton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       10.00\n    Brookline. \u201cS. A. C.\u201d                                     10.00\n    Cambridge. Children\u2019s Doll Show, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                            5.00\n    Charlestown. Ivory Littlefield                            50.00\n    Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $31.28;\n      Third Cong. Ch. and Soc., $11                           42.28\n    Chelsea. Mrs. E. C.                                        0.50\n    Conway. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                                  22.00\n    Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         182.56\n    Easthampton. Mrs. Emily G. Williston                     150.00\n    East Medway. Mrs. E. D.                                    1.00\n    East Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      REV. J. W. MALCOLM, L. M.                               53.00\n    Framingham. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                    5.00\n    Globe Village. Mrs. T. M.                                  1.00\n    Groton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                63.65\n    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         26.66\n    Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           11.31\n    Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        20.26\n    Housatonic. Housatonic Cong. Ch. and Soc                  52.85\n    Hyde Park. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Athens, Ala._            25.00\n    Hubbardston. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Tougaloo U._            9.00\n    Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            17.36\n    Lynnfield Centre. Cong Ch. and Soc.                        5.57\n    Linden. Young People\u2019s Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            6.00\n    Long Meadow. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Ass\u2019n.                        15.80\n    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          35.64\n    Mansfield. W. J. T., 75c.; S. E. S., 25c                   1.00\n    Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          15.00\n    Millbury. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             25.00\n    Mittineague. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           13.46\n    Monson. Mrs. C. C. Chapin and her S. S. Class,\n      _for ed. of an Indian boy, Hampton N. and A.\n      Inst._                                                  12.00\n    Montville. Sylvester Jones                                 2.00\n    New Bedford. North Cong. Ch.                              96.78\n    Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         26.00\n    Newburyport and Amesbury. Ladies, _for\n      Washington, D.C._                                        6.50\n    Newburyport. Belleville Cong. Ch., $57.11; P.\n      H. Lunt, $25                                            82.11\n    Newburyport. Miss Mary Couch, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                            5.00\n    Newton Centre. Ladies of Mrs. Furber\u2019s Bible\n      Class, $50; Mrs. M. B. Furber, $25, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                75.00\n    Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      60.98\n    Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                3.04\n    North Brookfield. Miss A. W. Johnson, $5; Miss\n      A. W. Johnson and Friends, Bbl. of C., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                    5.00\n    North Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      DEA. DAVID PRATT, L. M.                                 30.00\n    Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          59.00\n    Oakham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                64.93\n    Orleans. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   5.00\n    Paxton. \u201cFriends,\u201d by E. L. Rowell, _for\n      rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._                             4.00\n    Peabody. Prof. J. K. Cole, _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                            10.00\n    Peabody. Thomas Stimpson, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                              5.00\n    Petersham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              2.50\n    Reading. Bethesda Cong. Ch. and Soc., $52.79;\n      Mrs. W. W., 50c                                         53.29\n    Rockville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              5.00\n    Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc.                           278.25\n    Sherborn. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                 30.00\n    Shirley Village. L. Holbrook, $5; L. F. L., 50c            5.50\n    Somerset. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              12.00\n    South Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc., M. C. Coll.             16.00\n    South Hadley. Teachers and Pupils of Mount\n      Holyoke Sem. (40c. _of which for rebuilding\n      Tougaloo, Miss._)                                       14.90\n    Springfield. \u201cM.\u201d                                       1000.00\n    Springfield. Olivet Cong. Ch. and Soc., $31;\n      \u201cA Friend,\u201d $1                                          32.00\n    Springfield. Olivet Cong. Sab. Sch. _for\n      Indian boys and girls, Hampton N. and A.\n      Inst._                                                  23.22\n    Sturbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            51.82\n    Tolland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                4.93\n    Townsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              23.75\n    Uxbridge. Mrs. Charles Ellis                               2.00\n    Wakefield. \u201cMission Workers\u201d of Cong. Ch.,\n      $15; Three Classes in Cong. Sab. Sch., $13,\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                           28.00\n    Walpole. Rev. H. L. Kendall                               10.00\n    West Barnstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.00\n    Westhampton. Cong. Ch.                                    12.23\n    Wellesley. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   20.00\n    Westport. Pacific Union Sab. Sch.                          3.56\n    West Somerville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        4.00\n    West Springfield. Park St. Ch. and Soc.                   44.54\n    West Springfield. Mission Band of Cong. Ch.\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         30.00\n    Worcester. Union Sab. Sch. $35, _for\n      furnishing room, Stone Hall_, and $15 _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              50.00\n    Worcester. Cent. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Straight U._                               25.00\n    Winchendon. Atlanta Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             22.00\n    Winchester. N. W. C. H.                                    0.50\n    Yarmouth. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,\n      _for Charleston, S.C._\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                             10.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           5,919.12\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Danvers. Estate of Mrs. Jonas Fiske, by\n      Ebenezer Peabody                                       484.34\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           6,403.46\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $89.26.\n\n    Central Falls. Cong. Ch.                                  84.26\n    Providence. Ladies, _for Washington, D.C._                 5.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $4,358.30.\n\n    Bridgeport. Daniel E. Marsh, _for Tillotson C.\n      and N. Inst._                                          100.00\n    Bridgeport. Second Cong. Ch.                              77.73\n    Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                12.00\n    Colchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      89.34\n    Durham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $30; Cong.\n      Sab. Sch., $5                                           35.00\n    East Hampton. Dea. Samuel Skinner, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               5.00\n    East Hartford. E. A. Williams                             20.00\n    East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      MISS EMMA LYON, L. M.                                   30.00\n    Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      50.35\n    Georgetown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             1.70\n    Glastenbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    125.00\n    Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               21.97\n    Hartford. Roland Mather, $500; Mrs. L. C.\n      Dewing, $100; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $50; Talcot St.\n      Cong. Ch. (collected by five little girls),\n      $21.18                                                 671.18\n    Kensington. Mrs. M. Hotchkiss                              5.00\n    Kent. First Cong. Soc.                                    34.84\n    Ledyard. Cong. Ch.                                        19.45\n    Manchester. First Cong. Ch.                               56.89\n    Meriden. E. T.                                             1.00\n    Middletown. A. Doolittle                                   5.00\n    Morris. H. W.                                              0.50\n    Mount Carmel. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for ed. of an\n      African lad_                                            66.87\n    New Britain. Young Ladies\u2019 Soc., Bbl. and Box\n      of C. and $5 _for freight, for Macon, Ga._               5.00\n    New Haven. James H. Foy, $10 _for Student Aid_\n      and $25 _for furnishing a room, Talladega C._           35.00\n    New London. \u201cA friend in First Ch.\u201d _for\n      Talladega C._                                          300.00\n    New London. First Ch.                                     57.71\n    New Preston Hill. Cong. Ch.                               14.00\n    North Cornwall. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                           1.00\n    Northfield. Cong. Ch.                                     31.50\n    North Haven. E. Dickerman                                  2.00\n    Plainville. Cong. Ch. to const. MRS. TITUS\n      DARROW, L. M.                                           66.00\n    Plantsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., $25; Dea. T.\n      Higgins, $25, _for Tougaloo U._                         50.00\n    Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.                                  88.07\n    Putnam. \u201cMrs. E. W. S.,\u201d $20; Mrs. M. A. K.\n      $15, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                    35.00\n    Scitico. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid, Selma,\n      Ala._                                                   75.00\n    Somerville. Cong Ch. $65.54; Sab. Sch. of\n      Cong. Ch., Box of S. S. Books                           65.54\n    Stamford. Miss H. H.                                       0.50\n    Suffield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        17.04\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      68.90\n    Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              73.00\n    Wallingford. T. B. Bartholomew                             5.00\n    West Stafford. Cong. Ch.                                  10.00\n    Wilton. Cong. Ch.                                         15.50\n    Winsted. C. B. Hallett                                    10.00\n    Woodbury. North Cong. Ch.                                 18.00\n    Woodstock. E. L. Snow, $350; First Cong. Ch.\n      and Soc., $20.22                                       370.22\n    Vernon. Cong. Sab. Sch., $13.50; \u201cA Friend,\u201d\n      $2, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                       15.50\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           2,858.30\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Bridgeport. Estate of Mrs. Laura Sherman, by\n      Mrs. Mary B. Loomis, Executrix                         500.00\n    New London. Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven,\n      _for Talladega C._                                   1,000.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           4,358.30\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $779.92.\n\n    Bangor. R. H. Farr                                        20.00\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., $171.90; South\n      Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l), $3                                   174.90\n    Brooklyn. Ladies, _for Washington, D.C._                  21.00\n    Canandaigua. First Cong. Ch.                              45.98\n    Connecticut. Mrs. R. K.                                    1.00\n    Cortland. Ladies of Home Miss. Soc., Box of\n      papers and 25c. _for freight_                            0.25\n    Coventry. S. A. Beardsley                                  5.00\n    Coxsackie. Mrs. E. F. Spoor, $5; Miss A. G.\n      Fairchild, $5                                           10.00\n    Deansville. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                4.25\n    Fredonia. Sab Sch. of Presb. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._, and to const. MRS. SUSAN G.\n      WHITE, L. M.                                            50.00\n    Floyd. Cong. Ch.                                           2.53\n    Groton. Cong. Ch.                                         25.77\n    Ithaca. First Cong. Ch.                                   40.50\n    Little Valley. Cong. Ch.                                   3.60\n    Madison. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               16.00\n    Mexico. Mrs. Susan K. Butterfield                         50.00\n    Middletown. First Cong. Ch.                               20.00\n    Munnsville. Cong. Ch.                                      7.00\n    New York. S. T. Gordon, _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                    200.00\n    New York. S. T. Gordon, 275 copies of \u201cThe New\n      Song.\u201d\n    Owego. Bbl. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._\n    Pitcher. Cong. Ch.                                        18.23\n    Sidney Plain. Cong. Sab. Sch.                             10.71\n    Sinclairville. Earl C. Preston                             2.00\n    North Pitcher. Cong. Ch.                                   2.25\n    Spencerport. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   20.00\n    Ticonderoga. H. P. Bake and family                         5.00\n    Triangle. Gerrit S. Morse                                  2.00\n    Wellsville. First Cong. Ch.                               21.95\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $94.24.\n\n    East Orange. Grove St. Cong. Ch.                          23.74\n    Elizabeth. Mrs. H. W. P.                                   1.00\n    Jersey City. \u201cS. E. H.\u201d                                   10.00\n    Montclair. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $15; Mrs. J.\n      F. Pratt\u2019s Sab. Sch. Class, $5. _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      20.00\n    Newark. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n      furnishing room, Stone Hall, Talladega C._              24.00\n    New Brunswick. Mrs. S. L. C.                               0.50\n    Paterson. Broadway Tabernacle Sab. Sch.                   10.00\n    Vineland. Mrs. M. A. Cone                                  5.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $29.48.\n\n    Ebensburgh. Cong. Ch. Mon. Colls.                         11.48\n    Mercer. J. K.                                              1.00\n    Mercersburg. Thomas C. Johnston (of which $2\n      _for Chinese_ and $2 _for Mendi M._)                     5.00\n    Philadelphia. M. E. M.                                     1.00\n    Prentiss Vale. Mrs. William Lovejoy, bal. to\n      const. MRS. J. T. HALL, L. M.                           10.00\n    Terrytown. Dr. G. F. H.                                    1.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $574.63.\n\n    Ashland. Mrs. Eliza Thompson                               2.28\n    Ashtabula. Women\u2019s Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              25.00\n    Atwater. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               14.79\n    Brighton. Cong. Ch.                                        5.14\n    Cardington. W. A. Nichols                                  5.00\n    Cincinnati. Vine St. Cong. Ch.                           101.00\n    Cincinnati. Vine St. Cong. Ch., $100, and Sab.\n      Sch. $10, _for Strieby Hall, Tougaloo U._              110.00\n    Cleveland. First Cong. Ch.                                20.00\n    East Cleveland. Mrs. Mary Walkden, _for Mendi\n      M._                                                      5.00\n    Greensburgh. Mrs. H. B. Harrington, _for\n      Tougaloo U._                                            10.00\n    Jersey. Mrs. Lucinda Sinnet, _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            10.00\n    Madison. L. H. Ree, _for Strieby Hall,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            50.00\n    Mansfield. First Cong. Ch., $61.93; Women\u2019s\n      Beneficent Soc. of First Ch., $17.12; Young\n      People\u2019s Soc. of First Ch., $17.37, to\n      const. MRS. SAMUEL AU, MRS. JOHN LAWSON,\n      MISS VIOLA PLEASANTS, L. Ms                             96.42\n    Marysville. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           10.00\n    Oberlin. Ladies\u2019 Soc. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._                          75.00\n    Oberlin. J. W. Merrill                                    30.00\n    Sandusky. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box of Bedding,\n      _for Fisk U._\n    Wellington. \u2014\u2014                                             5.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $300.74.\n\n    Beecher. Mrs. A. H. Perry, _for freight_                   2.00\n    Chicago. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid, Fisk U._            5.00\n    Chicago. Mrs. Flovelle\u2019s S. S. Class, N. E.\n      Ch., _for Emerson Inst._                                 1.24\n    Dundee. Mrs. W. D.                                         1.00\n    Geneseo. Women\u2019s Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   50.00\n    Geneseo. Henry Nourse, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           42.50\n    Kewannee. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Savannah, Ga._                              30.00\n    Lewistown. Mrs. Myron Phelps                              50.00\n    Moline. Thomas Jewett, _for Ladies\u2019 Hall,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            50.00\n    Moline. Mrs. Sarah L. Barnard, _for Student\n      Aid. Fisk U._                                            3.00\n    Princeton. Mrs. C. Cook                                    5.00\n    Quincy. L. Kingman                                        10.00\n    Rockford. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of First Cong.\n      Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                         25.00\n    Tonica. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           25.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                             1.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $84.50.\n\n    Battle Creek. Cong. and Presb. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid. Talladega C._                              12.00\n    Benzonia. Cong. Ch., $11.12; \u201cFriends,\u201d $4.88             16.00\n    Chelsea. John C. Winans                                   10.00\n    Coral. Benj. H. Lewis                                      5.50\n    Flint. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Fisk U._               10.00\n    Milford. Mrs. Wm. A. Arms (Silver Wedding\n      Thank Offering)                                          5.00\n    Northville. D. Pomeroy                                     5.00\n    Owosso. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid. Fisk U._                                           15.00\n    Richland. Dea. J. B.                                       1.00\n    Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe                                   5.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $506.07.\n\n    Burlington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   27.50\n    Chester Center. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   12.00\n    Council Bluffs. N. P. Dodge, _for furnishing\n      room, Stone Hall, Talladega C._                         35.00\n    Cresco. Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            1.00\n    Decorah. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           15.00\n    Dubuque. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           20.00\n    Dubuque. Young Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              25.00\n    Des Moines. Cong. Ch., $6.35; Women\u2019s Miss.\n      Soc. of Cong. Ch., $16.65, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                23.00\n    Des Moines. Mrs. C. H. Getchell $35, and Mrs.\n      A. W. Rollins $35, _for furnishing rooms,\n      Stone Hall_; Mrs. Samuel Merrill, $25, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              95.00\n    Eldora. Mrs. J. S. R.                                      0.25\n    Eldon. F. M.                                               0.51\n    Emerson. A. A. F. & E. H. F.                               1.00\n    Fort Madison. Francis Sawyer                              20.00\n    Green Mountain. Cong. Ch.                                 28.54\n    Keokuk. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           12.50\n    Mason City. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                3.50\n    Mount Pleasant. James McDowell                             2.20\n    Muscatine. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           10.00\n    Muscatine. Henry Hoover, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                 2.00\n    Reinbeck. Collection at Central Association,\n      _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._                  7.00\n    Sergeant\u2019s Bluff. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._                       1.00\n    Sheldon. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            2.00\n    Sonora. Charles Fisher                                    50.00\n    South Muscatine. Mission Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                    5.00\n    Tipton. William Coutts                                     5.00\n    Waterloo. Cong. Ch. $80.07, and Joseph Bennett\n      $2, _for President\u2019s House_; Cong. Sab. Sch.\n      $20, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                   102.07\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $138.56.\n\n    Elkhorn. \u201cC. E. W.\u201d                                        5.00\n    Evansville. Cong. Ch.                                     11.85\n    Leeds. Cong. Ch.                                           7.05\n    Milford. Bbl. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._\n    Milwaukee. Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc. of Spring St. Ch.\n      _for furnishing room, Stone Hall, Straight\n      U._                                                     50.00\n    Milwaukee. C. D Booth                                      2.00\n    Racine. Star Missionary Soc. of First Presb.\n      Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                         40.00\n    Racine. Mrs. R. B. Miner                                   1.50\n    Windsor. Union Cong. Ch.                                  21.16\n\n\n  KANSAS, $8.57.\n\n    Carbondale. Cong. Ch.                                      3.57\n    Whiting. S. P. Belden                                      5.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $70.88.\n\n    Excelsior. Cong. Ch.                                      15.00\n    Litchfield. \u201cFriends.\u201d                                     3.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 33.94\n    Minneapolis. E. D. First Cong. Ch.                         7.94\n    Northfield. Mrs. A. Willey, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           10.00\n    Zumbrota. Mrs. H. S. D.                                    1.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $2.50.\n\n    Harvard. Cong. Ch.                                         2.50\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $2,293.75.\n\n    San Francisco. Receipts of the California\n      Chinese Mission                                      2,293.75\n\n\n  OREGON, 50c.\n\n    Springfield. Mrs. M. A. S.                                 0.50\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $212.36.\n\n    Dudley. Pub. Sch. Fund, $75; Tuition, $28.89             103.89\n    Wilmington. Normal Sch. Tuition                          103.47\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $265.50.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Normal Inst., Tuition                  265.50\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $353.20.\n\n    Chattanooga. Miss Blanche Curtis, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        40.00\n    Chattanooga. W. F., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._             1.00\n    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition, $154; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d _for printing_, $18.25                        172.25\n    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition                              139.95\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $735.13.\n\n    Athens. Lizzie McCombs, _for Atlanta U._                   5.00\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $305.35; Rent,\n      $3                                                     308.35\n    Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition, $94.25; Rent,\n      $5.69; First Cong. Ch., $25                            124.85\n    Atlanta. Peabody Fund, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                            100.00\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $62.75; Cong.\n      Ch., $5                                                 67.75\n    McIntosh. Dorchester Academy, Tuition                     18.30\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $90.88; Rent,\n      $20                                                    110.88\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $383.95.\n\n    Marion. Cong. Ch.                                          3.35\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, $92.95;\n      Emersonian Mission Band, $9.55; Cong. Ch.,\n      $1.20                                                  104.70\n    Montgomery. City Fund                                    210.00\n    Selma. First Cong. Ch.                                    27.50\n    Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition                          33.40\n    Talladega. Dea. Hardwick, $2; W. B., $1;\n      Others $2, _for repairs, Talladega C._                   5.00\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $164.20.\n\n    Carroll Co. \u201cFriends,\u201d by H. Tanner, _for\n      Strieby Hall, Tougaloo U._                               5.25\n    Copiah Co. \u201cFriends,\u201d by E. E. Sims, _for\n      Strieby Hall, Tougaloo U._                               6.00\n    Gillsberg. W. H. T.                                        0.50\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $112.45; Rent,\n      $40                                                    152.45\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $168.15.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                        168.15\n\n\n  TEXAS, $105.00.\n\n    Austin. Tillotson C. and N. Inst., Tuition               104.00\n    Goliad. Rev. M. T.                                         1.00\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $290.00.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               190.00\n    C. F. Dike Fund                                           50.00\n    General Fund                                              50.00\n\n\n  ENGLAND, $10.00.\n\n    Albyns. Miss S. L. Ropes                                  10.00\n\n\n  SCOTLAND, $200.00.\n\n    Glasgow. Mrs. Ann McDowall, by Rev. Geo.\n      Morris, _for a Teacher, Fisk U._                       200.00\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                           19,224.35\n          Total from Oct. 1st to June 30th              $169,712.19\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Newton, Mass. Eliot Sewing Soc., $26, and Bbl.\n      of Bedding, _for furnishing a room_                     26.00\n    Spencer, Mass. Young Ladies\u2019 Soc., by Mrs. J.\n      W. Temple, $25, and Bbl. of Bedding, _for\n      furnishing two rooms_                                   25.00\n    Southington, Conn. Mrs. W. M. McLaughlin, $23,\n      and package of Bedding, _for furnishing a\n      room_                                                   23.00\n    Irvington, N.Y. Mrs. R. W. Lambdin                         5.00\n    Adams Mills, Ohio. Mrs. M. A. Smith                       13.00\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                               92.00\n    Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to June\n      30th                                                 4,857.71\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                           $4,949.71\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION,\n\n  _From Jan. 17th to May 17th, 1881._\n\n  E. PALACHE, _Treasurer_.\n\n    I. From our Auxiliaries, viz.:\n      Marysville Chinese Mission:\n        Chinese monthly offerings                            $33.40\n      Sacramento Chinese Mission:\n        Chinese monthly offerings                  $29.10\n        Mr. Lubin                                    3.00     32.10\n      Santa Barbara Chinese Mission:\n        Chinese monthly offerings                   24.00\n        N. C. Pitcher      }\n        Mrs. N. C. Pitcher }  An. Mem.               4.00     28.00\n      Stockton Chinese Mission:\n        Chinese monthly offerings                             12.00\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                              105.50\n\n    II. From Churches:\n        Oakland First Cong. Ch. Coll.                        $13.60\n        Sacramento First Cong. Ch. Coll.                      10.50\n      San Francisco:\n        First Cong. Ch. Coll.                       32.70\n        Two Annual Members                           4.50     37.20\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                               61.30\n\n    III. From Individuals:\n      Messrs. Balfour, Guthrie & Co.                       1,000.00\n      By Messrs. Balfour, Guthrie & Co. Alexander\n        Balfour, Esq., and Hon. Stephen Williamson,\n        M.P. of Liverpool, England, each $500              1,000.00\n      Hon. O. C. Pratt                                       100.00\n      Chinese                                                  1.50\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                            2,101.50\n\n    IV. From Eastern Friends:\n      Norwich, Conn., Mrs. Edward B. Huntington, to\n        constitute W. R. Burnham Esq., a life member          25.00\n      Newark, N.J.                                             0.45\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                               25.45\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Grand Total                                     $2,293.75\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  GENERAL ENDOWMENT FUND.\n\n    Lebanon Springs, N.Y. Miss Belinda Sanford            $1,000.00\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.\n\n    London, Eng. Freedmen\u2019s Missions Aid Soc., by\n      Rev. O. H. White, D.D., \u00a31,169 5s. 0d.               5,670.86\n    Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to June\n      30th                                                20,613.76\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                          $26.284.62\n\n                                      H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,\n                                                 56 Reade St., N.Y.\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association,\n\n56 READE STREET, N.Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  PRESIDENT.\n\n    HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\n  VICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n    Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n    Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n    Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n    Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D.D., Me.\n    Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D.D., Ct.\n    WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R.I.\n    Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D.D., Mass.\n    Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R.I.\n    Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D.D., R.I.\n    Rev. RAY PALMER, D.D., N.J.\n    Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D.D., N.Y.\n    Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. W. W. PATTON, D.D., D.C.\n    Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n    Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D.D., N.H.\n    Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D.D., Ct.\n    DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.\n    Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.\n    Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D.D., Minn.\n    Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N.Y.\n    Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Washington Ter.\n    Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D.D., Iowa.\n    Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n    EDWARD SPAULDING, M.D., N.H.\n    Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D.D., Ct.\n    Rev. W. L. GAGE, D.D., Ct.\n    A. S. HATCH, Esq., N.Y.\n    Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D.D., Ohio.\n    Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Mass.\n    Rev. A. L. STONE, D.D., California.\n    Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D.D., Oregon.\n    Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D.D., D.C.\n    Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D.D., Wis.\n    S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n    Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n    Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.\n    Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.\n    Rev. HENRY ALLON, D.D., London, Eng.\n    WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N.Y.\n    J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.\n    E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N.J.\n    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.\n    DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.\n    A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.\n    Rev. A. F. BEARD, D.D., N.Y.\n    FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.\n    JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R.I.\n    Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D.D., Mo.\n    J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.\n    E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.\n    C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.\n    Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D.D., Cal.\n    Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D.D., Kansas.\n    Rev. W. H. WILLCOX, D.D., Mass.\n    Rev. G. B. WILLCOX, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., N.Y.\n    Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, Mass.\n    Rev. E. B. WEBB, D.D., Mass.\n    Hon. C. I. WALKER, Mich.\n    Rev. A. H. ROSS, Mich.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., 56 _Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n  DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n    REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n    REV. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_.\n    REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n    H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N.Y._\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.\n\n\n  EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n    ALONZO S. BALL,\n    A. S. BARNES,\n    C. T. CHRISTENSEN,\n    CLINTON B. FISK,\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n    S. B. HALLIDAY,\n    J. A. HAMILTON,\n    SAMUEL HOLMES,\n    CHARLES A. HULL,\n    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\n_The American Missionary Association._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with\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\nclosely related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted\nCHINESE in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its\nhumane and Christian policy toward the INDIANS. It has also a\nmission in AFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014In Virginia, 1; North Carolina, 6; South\nCarolina, 2; Georgia, 13; Kentucky, 6; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 14;\nLouisiana, 17; Mississippi, 4; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 2. _Among the\nIndians_, 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\u20148. _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,\nRaleigh, N.C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S.C.; Savannah, Macon,\nAtlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis,\nTenn.\u201412. _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, the feeble as well us 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, in 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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WILLIAMS & CO.,\n\n                        GLASTONBURY, CONN.,\n\n                         MANUFACTURERS OF\n\n                     Shaving and Toilet Soaps.\n\nFor over 30 years this firm has made the manufacture of =Shaving\nSoaps= a specialty, and their Yankee Barber\u2019s Bar, and other Soaps,\nenjoy a reputation among Barbers, as well as those who shave\nthemselves, unequaled by any other.\n\nTo all of our readers who are seeking for the =very best Shaving\nSoap=, we would say, be sure and get some of the following\n(_carefully avoiding counterfeits_):\n\n  GENUINE YANKEE SOAP,\n  BARBER\u2019S FAVORITE SOAP,\n  CLIPPER SHAVING SOAP,\n  VERBENA CREAM TABLET,\n  POCKET SHAVING SOAP,\n  TONSORIAL SOAP,\n  BARBER\u2019S BAR SOAP,\n  MUG SHAVING SOAP.\n\nThese Soaps can be found in every State, and nearly every town in\nthe United States.\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 256. 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\nObviously printer\u2019s punctuation errors and omissions corrected.\n\nInconsistent capitalization of a.m. and p.m. retained, due to\nmultiple authors.\n\nMissing \u201ce\u201d in \u201cKewannee\u201d replaced on page 252.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 35, No. 8, August, 1881","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":19903}