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NO. 9.\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                         SEPTEMBER, 1881.\n\n\n\n\n                            _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    ANNUAL MEETING\u2014FINANCIAL\u2014OUR BROADSIDE                 257\n    THE PLACE OF THE CHURCH IN THE WORK OF MISSIONS        258\n    HEALING OF THE NATION\u2019S WOUND                          260\n    SUGGESTION WORTH PASSING ALONG                         261\n    BENEFACTIONS\u2014GENERAL NOTES                             262\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    OUR CHURCH WORK BROADSIDE.\n      Washington, D.C.; Hampton, Va.                       265\n      Wilmington, Beaufort, N.C.; Charleston,\n        Orangeburg, S.C.; First Cong. Ch.,\n        Atlanta, Ga.                                       266\n      Cut First Cong. Ch., Atlanta, Ga.                    267\n      Atlanta Univ., Savannah, Ga.                         268\n      Woodville, Marietta, Cypress Slash, Ga.              269\n      Belmont and Louisville, Ga.; Talladega,\n        Mobile, Marlon, Ala.                               270\n      Montgomery, Selma, Ala.                              271\n      Shelby Iron Works, Childersburg, Florence,\n        Ala.; Tougaloo, Miss.; Cong.\n        Churches of Louisiana                              272\n      Nashville, Memphis, Tenn.                            275\n      Chattanooga, Tenn.; Berea, Ky.; Little\n        Rock, Ark.                                         276\n      Goliad, Paris, Flatonia, Texas                       277\n      Corpus Christi, Texas                                278\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    JOTTINGS FROM THE FIELD                                278\n\n\n  WOMAN\u2019S HOME MISS. ASSOC\u2019N.\n\n    MISS WILSON\u2019S WORK IN KANSAS                           280\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    PAULPHEMIA\u2019S MA                                        282\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                 284\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                             287\n\n  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC.                             288\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 Poet Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association,\n\n56 READE STREET, N.Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  PRESIDENT.\n\n    HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\n  VICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n    Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n    Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n    Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n    Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D.D., Me.\n    Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D.D., Ct.\n    WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R.I.\n    Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D.D., Mass.\n    Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R.I.\n    Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D.D., R.I.\n    Rev. RAY PALMER, D.D., N.J.\n    Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D.D., N.Y.\n    Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. W. W. PATTON, D.D., D.C.\n    Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n    Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D.D., N.H.\n    Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D.D., Ct.\n    DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.\n    Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.\n    Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D.D., Minn.\n    Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N.Y.\n    Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Washington Ter.\n    Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D.D., Iowa.\n    Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n    EDWARD SPAULDING, M.D., N.H.\n    Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D.D., Ct.\n    Rev. W. L. GAGE, D.D., Ct.\n    A. S. HATCH, Esq., N.Y.\n    Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D.D., Ohio.\n    Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn.\n    Rev. A. L. STONE, D.D., California.\n    Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D.D., Oregon.\n    Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D.D., D.C.\n    Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D.D., Wis.\n    S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n    Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n    Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.\n    Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.\n    Rev. HENRY ALLON, D.D., London, Eng.\n    WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N.Y.\n    J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.\n    E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N.J.\n    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.\n    DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.\n    A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.\n    Rev. A. F. BEARD, D.D., N.Y.\n    FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.\n    JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R.I.\n    Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D.D., Mo.\n    J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.\n    E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.\n    C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.\n    Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D.D., Cal.\n    Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D.D., Kansas.\n    Rev. W. H. WILLCOX, D.D., Mass.\n    Rev. G. B. WILLCOX, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., N.Y.\n    Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, Mass.\n    Rev. E. B. WEBB, D.D., Mass.\n    Hon. C. I. WALKER, Mich.\n    Rev. A. H. ROSS, Mich.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n  DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n    REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n    REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_.\n    REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n    H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N.Y._\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.\n\n\n  EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n    ALONZO S. BALL,\n    A. S. BARNES,\n    C. T. CHRISTENSEN,\n    CLINTON B. FISK,\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n    S. B. HALLIDAY,\n    A. J. HAMILTON,\n    SAMUEL HOLMES,\n    CHARLES A. HULL,\n    CHAS. L. MEAD,\n    SAMUEL S. MARPLES,\n    WM. T. PRATT,\n    J. A. SHOUDY,\n    JOHN H. WASHBURN.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to\nthe District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the \u201cAmerican\nMissionary,\u201d to Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., at the New York Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New\nYork, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21\nCongregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n          VOL. XXXV.      SEPTEMBER, 1881.        NO. 9.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n_American Missionary Association._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Missionary\nAssociation will be held in Worcester, Mass., commencing November\n1st, at 3 P. M. For particulars see fourth page of cover.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFINANCIAL.\n\nThis month brings around the close of another fiscal year.\nOur balances will be struck on the 30th of September, and we\nare exceedingly anxious that all parties, either churches or\nindividuals, who have intended to contribute to our work during\nthe current year, should do so as early as possible. Our appeal\nis that you give to this cause liberally as the Lord may have\nprospered you. Our receipts for the nine months to June 30th were\nvery encouraging, but the receipts for July, the first month of the\nlast quarter, have not been as large as we had reason to hope. The\nincrease over July of last year has been only fourteen per cent,\ninstead of twenty-five per cent., the amount necessary to carry\nforward the additional work we have undertaken. But we trust that\nour friends will enable us to meet these appropriations without\nembarrassing our treasury. Every dollar received during the next\nthirty days will help us to meet our pressing demands, and possibly\nsave us from closing the year with debt.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR BROADSIDE.\n\nWe give room in this number of the MISSIONARY to a broadside on\nChurch work. Our object is to present to our patrons, at a view, an\narray of the large number of new churches we have established for\nthe colored people. A majority of the pastors employed by us have\nbeen connected in some capacity with our Institutions, a goodly\nnumber of them having graduated from the theological classes at\nTalladega College, Fisk and Straight Universities.\n\nIt may be said, with grateful assurance and peculiar emphasis,\nthat this Association _establishes_ its churches. It prepares\na constituency by its day and Sabbath-schools, and from this\neducates a ministry. In this way it develops a demand for a pure\nchurch, and also the possibility of maintaining it when established.\n\nIt will be observed that nearly all the churches reported have\nbeen blessed during the year with additions to their numbers,\nand that many have made improvements upon their property. The\nSabbath-schools have everywhere received due attention, and much of\nthe progress in the different churches has been made possible by\nthe earnest, prayerful and unremitting labors of our missionaries\nin this department of religious work. Missionary meetings and\nsocieties have been greatly encouraged and the cause of temperance\nwidely promoted. Many of the young converts have found their way\nto institutions of learning, and many have engaged in teaching and\nmissionary service.\n\nWhen it is taken into account that these young churches are\nreformed churches, and that their church life is a new experience\namong the colored people, where they shine as lights in the world,\nit will be readily seen, we think, that this branch of our work\naugurs most hopefully a day of better things for the new South, and\nthat the hearts and hands of these brethren, whose letters will be\nfound elsewhere, should be strengthened, and their numbers largely\nincreased.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE PLACE OF THE CHURCH IN THE WORK OF MISSIONS.\n\nIn these days, when science is pushing her inquiries in every\ndirection with reference to the discovery of new facts, in order\nthat she may deduce therefrom the course of nature and the system\nof the universe, there is danger that we overlook the basis in\nman\u2019s moral constitution on which, alone, knowledge can have the\nhighest significance and value. The drift is seen not merely in the\npublic schools, but in the college and the professional seminary,\nwhich, more and more, are reducing education to the acquisition of\nfacts, or to a simple intellectual drill. The scientific method,\nso called, has no place for moral agents or moral causes, and so\nits account of the world is forever rendered on a physical rather\nthan on a metaphysical basis. With such a tendency in education,\nthis Association can have no sympathy. It is the friend of all good\nlearning, and will do its utmost to advance education; but it does\nnot believe that a man can be well or symmetrically educated until\nhis moral faculties are disciplined in advance of, and equally\n_with_, his intellectual. For this reason it would put the church\nat the center and foundation of all its work. In this respect it\nwould co-operate with God, accepting His own appointed agency\nfor the moral instruction of mankind. The church, as the great\nmoral teacher, bears the stamp of a divine origin and authority.\nIts function is to teach divine truth, and to put man into right\nmoral relations to the deep order of the universe. Any system of\neducation, then, which ignored the church, or even set her in\nthe background, would fail in a well rounded development of all\nthe mental powers. A partial substitute may be found in other\nprofessions and other institutions, but nothing can take the place\nof the church as the authoritative teacher of moral and spiritual\ntruth.\n\nIt is well to remember, also, that that which best develops and\neducates the moral powers is the best possible discipline for\nthe mind itself. No subjects require clearer perception, sharper\nanalysis and more discriminating reason than moral subjects, and\nno men show keener minds than those who have been trained to\nreason on moral questions. Illustrations of this in ancient times\nare found in the Jewish patriarchs, and in modern times in the\npeople of Scotland and of New England. And yet the common schools\nof these latter countries, until within fifty years, were of the\nrudest sort, and only taught the simplest elements of an English\neducation. But their people, trained in the sanctuary, under a\nministry which was able to reason of righteousness, temperance and\na judgment to come, were as strong intellectually as they were\ntough and clear-minded morally.\n\nSenator Hoar, in his recent oration before the law school of Yale\nCollege, asserted and proved that the best lawyers of the last\ngeneration were indebted to the strong pulpits of New England more\nthan to anything else for their intellectual clearness, and for\ntheir judicial discrimination and force.\n\nLet there be a strong pulpit in any community, and there will be\nstrong men around it, mentally and morally, though the schools are\nof the simplest. On the other hand, if the pulpit be weak and the\noutcoming moral influences be feeble, though the schools be ever\nso well equipped and endowed, the people around will lack high\npurpose, and scholarship itself will be frivolous and effeminate,\ndestitute of the rugged strength which comes to natures fed from\nthe deep roots of moral earnestness and conviction.\n\nIt need hardly be said that the great need of the South, especially\namong the colored people, is a _strong_ church and a _pure_ church;\nfor slavery damaged the colored man morally vastly more that it\ndid intellectually. Indeed, his intellect was rather sharpened\nby the invention and craft on which it was constantly put, while\nthe forces which strengthened the will and nourished a pure heart\nwere the weakest possible; and yet nine persons out of ten suppose\nthe damage was intellectual, and are greatly surprised when our\nteachers assure them that colored children are as bright, and learn\nas readily, as white children.\n\nA moment\u2019s reflection would satisfy any one that the weakness would\nbe on the moral side, for the reason that the life of the slave was\nso ordered as to ignore all moral distinctions and to violate all\nmoral obligations. Hence, the building up should be strongest on\nthe moral side. No greater mistake could be made than to attempt\nto graft on to a low moral character a high degree of intellectual\nculture. Should we send forth a generation of students, with sharp\nwits and dull moral perceptions, we might contribute to the roll of\nmore adroit villains, but we should add little to the list of good\nmen.\n\nThe church, therefore, should be emphasized at all points and\nat all times. It should command for its preachers the best and\nthe ablest men. Both races need this. Only this can destroy the\nconditions which made it possible that white blood should now be\nrunning in the veins of three-fourths of the colored people. The\nSouthern pulpit has failed to sufficiently enforce either good\nmorals or practical righteousness. For lack of this, slavery was\npossible, and dueling and violence covered the land with blood.\nThe remedy for this is a new and right system of moral teaching.\nThis, we repeat, is the peculiar function of the pulpit. That this\nmay be made _possible_, churches pure and intelligent must be\nestablished all over the South. It should be done now, because we\nare laying the foundations and determining the character of the\ncoming generations. If the first crop of leaders are morally weak,\nthey will enfeeble their successors, and perhaps vitiate the seed\nand the crop for all time to come.\n\nWe need to put into the African blood the iron of the Puritan faith\nand purpose, so that they may do for the African continent what\nour fathers did for America. The first men sent to that dark land\nshould hold the ideas and principles out of which may be evolved\nchurches, schools, homes and Christian states, from the mouths of\nthe Nile and the Congo clear down to the golden Cape. If we cannot\ninoculate the colored race with those moral sensibilities and\nforces which will render them charitable, humane and just, then we\nlook to them in vain for help in the salvation of our own land, as\nwell as in the founding of Christian institutions and Christian\nstates for the continent of Africa.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHEALING OF THE NATION\u2019S WOUND.\n\nIt was a gaping, festering sore that was left by the fratricidal\nwar. A speedy healing was not to be expected. It took nearly a\ncentury for the mother country and America to get over their\ngrievance. There is much of encouragement that this later feud will\nbe more speedily composed. There have been some special influences\nat work. The occurrence of the Centennial tended to divert\nattention from the old trouble, to arouse the spirit of patriotism\nand to abate ill-will. The prevalence of an epidemic at the South\nfor two seasons gave the North an opportunity to express moral and\nmaterial sympathy, which did much to awaken reciprocal good-will on\nthe part of the people of that section.\n\nWhen President Garfield was shot, the people of the South rose up\nwith as much indignation and sympathy as those of the North. It was\na benediction for the Nation to be lifted by such a ground-swell\nof emotion, and that the impulse of Christian patriotism. We feel\nconfident that President Garfield, restored to soundness, will by\nthis dreadful dispensation be all the more disposed to temper his\nadministration with fairness and righteousness, such as will carry\non the process of healing in the body politic.\n\nThe Peabody fund and its judicious disbursement at the South is\ndoing its work of palliating feeling. Miss Willard\u2019s tour of\ntemperance lecturing through the South was a hopeful revelation of\nharmonious sentiment. Dr. Mayo\u2019s eminently successful educational\nvisitation was in the same line.\n\nThen it is also clearly manifest that the scheme of the North\nfor aiding the South in the education of the colored people is\ncoming to be recognized there-away as one of pure philanthropy and\npatriotism. The testimony of Dr. Haygood in his book, \u201cOur Brother\nin Black,\u201d to this effect, is but the expression of not a little\nof latent sentiment. He pronounces \u201cimmortal honor\u201d upon these\nteachers. He says that without such service the South would be\nuninhabitable by this time. Our teachers and preachers, dwelling\nthere from year to year, and returning North betimes, become\ninterpreters of the mutual and improving good feeling. They command\nrespect at the South, they retain affectionate regard at the North,\nand so become a bond of union between the two sections. More and\nmore this process will go on with happiest results.\n\nThe National Cotton Exposition to be held this fall at Atlanta,\nupon a gigantic scale, will be another mighty loom for weaving the\nfabric of national good-will.\n\nWe be one people, with one English inheritance of language and\nhistory, of character and civilization, with a common possession of\nRevolutionary glory and of pride in our national development. We\nmust let the dead bury their dead. We must push on in all proper\nways to remove prejudice and to restore confidence. Service for our\ncommon country in the way of evangelization and of righteous civil\nadministration, will be one of the most effective aids in healing\nthe Nation\u2019s wound.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA SUGGESTION WORTH PASSING ALONG.\n\nAfter the presentation of the cause of the American Missionary\nAssociation recently to a church in Connecticut, the pastor made\nthe following suggestion to his people:\n\n\u201cWe have now had this great subject before us. We shall never,\nprobably, see it more clearly. We shall never, probably, feel its\nimportance more. What shall we do about it? I was going to announce\na contribution for next Sabbath; but perhaps it will rain; perhaps\nyou will not be here; perhaps you will forget. Besides, I notice\nthat church plates do not hold a great deal. We make them a small\nbusiness. We ought to do more for this cause. We want to do more.\nAnd so, if I can find two or three young ladies ready for the work,\nI will send them to your houses. Be ready! Look the matter all\nover, and do as good a thing as you can. After that, perhaps, we\nwill pick up the stray bits when Sunday comes.\u201d\n\nIt is pleasant to add that the pastor found canvassers without\ndifficulty, and that about three times the amount usually given by\nplate collections was gathered.\n\nAtlanta University undertakes the work of \u201chead-making\u201d so far\nas this means the development of a clear and sensible intellect,\ncontrolled by a good heart. It was, however, \u201c_bread_-making,\u201d and\nnot \u201chead-making,\u201d which the types in our August number should have\nmentioned to the credit of the Atlanta girls, whose loaves, rolls\nand Yankee doughnuts so delighted the gentlemen of the examining\ncommittee at the recent anniversary. Plain cooking is a part of the\nregular instruction in Atlanta University.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\n\u2014Beloit College, Wis., has received $10,000 from Mrs. J. S.\nHerrick, to be applied for a new observatory.\n\n\u2014The bequest of Col. Wm. E. Putnam to Marietta College, Ohio, will\nprobably amount to $35,000.\n\n\u2014Mr. Reuben J. Flick, a member of the First Presbyterian Church of\nWilkesbarre, has recently given $20,000 to Lincoln University.\n\n\u2014Mr. Geo. I. Seney has recently added $100,000 to his gift to\nWesleyan University, the interest of which is to be given in prizes\nto students.\n\n\u2014Mr. A. L. Williston and wife have given $10,000 for a new\nobservatory at Mt. Holyoke Seminary, in memory of their deceased\nson.\n\n\u2014The late Ebenezer Alden, M.D., of Randolph, left a legacy of\n$5,000 to Phillips Academy, Andover, for helping students, or\npaying for instruction, at the discretion of the tutors.\n\n\u2014A friend of Yale Divinity School has given $10,500 for a new\nlibrary building, which is now being erected between Marquand\nChapel and West Divinity Hall.\n\n\u2014Mr. Leander McCormick, of Chicago, has donated his splendid\ntelescope, costing $50,000, to the University of Virginia, and\noffers to build the observatory to receive it.\n\n\u2014Mr. Wm. H. Vanderbilt, of New York, has given $25,000 to the\nUniversity of Virginia, and Mr. Lewis Brooks, of Rochester, N.Y.,\nhas given a splendid museum, costing about $60,000, to the same\ninstitution.\n\n\u2014_Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., has Jubilee Hall completed\nand overflowing 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\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n\u2014M. Matheis has been sent out by the French Government to explore\nthe region extending from the bend of the Niger to Lake Tchad.\n\n\u2014The question of the establishment of a small railroad on the\nDecanville plan, between Ogoou\u00e9 and Alima, is being considered.\n\n\u2014M. J. Thomson left London the 6th of May to go to Zanzibar, from\nwhence he will proceed to make the geological exploration of the\nRovouma for the Sultan of Zanzibar.\n\n\u2014Messrs. Demietri and Michieli, agents of the Italian Society of\nCommerce in Africa, have set out from Khartoum for the Red Sea at\nthe head of a caravan of 700 camels, laden with various kinds of\nmerchandise.\n\n\u2014The Commercial Association of Lisbon has moved a patriotic\nsubscription, the proceeds of which will be offered to the\nGovernment to co-operate with it in the foundation of civilizing\nstations in the Portuguese African colonies.\n\n\u2014An Italian party consisting of an officer and 14 men, while\nattempting to penetrate Abyssinia from Assab Bay, have been\nmassacred in the interior. It is possible that the Italian\nGovernment may send a military expedition to demand redress.\n\n\u2014Until recently there has been no bank in the English colonies\nof Western Africa. Many of the merchants have been hindered from\nentering into negotiations with these colonies by the difficulty of\nobtaining reliable information relative to the state of commerce.\nBut the Bank of West Africa has now been established, with a\ncapital of 500,000 pounds sterling, having its centre at London, and\nstations at Sierra Leone, Lagos, and later at Cape Coast, at the\nGambia, and wherever the exigencies of commerce render it necessary.\n\n\u2014Dr. Lenz affirms that the soil of the Sahara is not as sterile\nas is commonly believed. In Iguidi, in particular, they found\nmany foraging places for the camels, and they often saw troops of\nantelopes and gazelles fleeing at the approach of the caravan. Dr.\nLenz did not follow the example of Barth, but went rather to pay\nhis addresses to the Kahia, who made his stay in Timbuctoo the most\nagreeable possible. He gave him a fine house, and served him each\nday an abundant and delicious repast\u2014wheaten bread, butter and\nhoney, mutton and beef, chickens and game.\n\n\u2014Stanley has fixed the site of his second station at Isangila,\nabout 50 kilometers from Vivi. To reach this point, he traversed a\nvery dangerous country, where the population is scattered and which\noffered no resources. The difficulties were increased by the amount\nof baggage to transport, provisions, boats, &c., the whole weighing\n42 tons\u2014an enormous weight, considering the nature of the country\nand the means of transportation. He was obliged to throw bridges\nacross the rivers, fill up the ravines, open, hatchet in hand, a\nroute across dense forests, blow up rocks, or drag the wagons by\nforce of arm along the sides of steep mountains. And still it was\nnot possible to advance with all his baggage at once. He had to\nopen the way with a group of pioneers, and after advancing a little\nto make a halt, pitch a camp, then go back to bring by instalments\nthe rest of the convoy, till all were united.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\u2014Gen. C. H. Howard has been appointed Indian Inspector to succeed\nDr. I. H. Mahan, who resigned his position on account of failing\nhealth.\n\n\u2014Rev. S. Hall Young, of Fort Wrangel, Alaska, writes: \u201cWith a live\nmissionary, a saw-mill and a Christian trader in the N. W. T. Co.\u2019s\nstore, we can make that the model mission of Alaska.\u201d\n\n\u2014Indians are employed on the California Southern R. R. with\nsatisfactory results, and it is predicted with a reasonable degree\nof assurance that the experiment will prove to be a favorable means\nof civilizing the Indians.\n\n\u2014The Santees had 2,344 acres under cultivation last year. They\nraised 7,000 bushels of wheat, 2,000 of oats, 3,000 of corn, and\nmade 1,000 tons of hay for their stock. They also manufactured\n120,000 bricks. It is the opinion of Mr. Lightner, their agent,\nthat as soon as the Nation is willing to recognize the Indian as a\ncitizen, holding him amenable to the laws governing the white man,\nwe may expect his civilization to advance with double rapidity.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u2014There are 585 Chinese children in the public schools of San\nFrancisco.\n\n\u2014There are two Chinese papers in San Francisco. One man performs\nthe functions of editor, publisher, compositor, press-man,\nbook-keeper and office boy of the _Wah Kee_. This wonderful and\nversatile man is fifty years old. The paper has 1,000 subscribers,\nand costs ten cents per copy, or $5 per year.\n\n\u2014Candidates for missionary work in China have opportunity to study\nthe language at Oxford, Eng., in the department under charge of\nProf. Legge. The English Presbyterian Foreign Mission Committee,\nbelieving that more can be accomplished by three months\u2019 study at\nOxford than by a year spent in the unhealthy regions of China, have\nadopted the plan of sending their missionaries to the former place,\nto avail themselves of the instruction of Prof. Legge.\n\n\u2014Upwards of 2,000 Chinese have recently landed in two weeks\u2019 time\nin Australia. They come for the most part from Hong Kong, where\nthere is great depression in business and much suffering among the\npeople. The tide of emigration, which formerly set so strongly\ntowards the Pacific coast, seems recently to have been somewhat\ndiverted to Australia and the Sandwich Islands.\n\n\u2014The Government of China has decided to erect telegraphs from\nShanghai to Tientsin and other cities. Already hundreds of\ntelephones are in use. Questions in relation to railway systems\nare being agitated, and a committee has been appointed for the\npurpose of thoroughly canvassing the matter, submitting plans, etc.\nUnquestionably a number of railways will be constructed within the\nnext five years, and perhaps sooner.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOUR CHURCH WORK BROADSIDE.\n\n\nLINCOLN MISSION, WASHINGTON, D.C.\n\nREV. S. P. SMITH.\n\nI am glad to say that the religious state of the Lincoln Memorial\nChurch at present is good. It was organized the 10th of last\nJanuary with eleven members. In April the Lord poured out a special\nblessing upon us, the result of which was eight converts. The\nchurch has doubled its membership since its organization. In this\nrevival there was a little girl converted about nine years old, and\nan aged mother about seventy-five. We have had only one admitted to\nthe church by letter; ten on confession of faith. There is quite\na large temperance work here carried on by Mrs. Babcock. This\ntemperance society is known as the Lincoln Mission Band of Hope.\n\nOur Sunday-school is very large in the winter, but it thins out\nin the summer. The largest attendance during any time through the\nwinter was 530.\n\nThe Lincoln Mission building in which our church worships has been\ngreatly improved. The large hall has been re-plastered and painted\ninside and out.\n\nWe have sent two from the Lincoln Mission to Howard University.\nThis church also sent $4.06 to the American Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHAMPTON, VA.\n\nREV. H. B. FRISSELL.\n\nThere have been admitted to church membership in Bethesda Chapel\nduring the year 31 persons\u201428 on profession of their faith and\nthree by letter. Of these, 15 were Indians, one white, and the\nremainder colored students. With the growth of the school the\ncongregation at the chapel has so increased as to make it necessary\nto add another wing to the building. Two prayer meetings have been\nkept up by the colored students, one on the Sabbath and one on a\nweek day evening, the attendance and interest being well sustained.\nThe Indians have their own prayer meetings, where they take part in\ntheir own tongue. They manifest a most earnest desire to know the\nBible, and spend much time in reading and studying it.\n\nMost of the students of the school have been enrolled as members\nof the temperance society during the past year. Considerable work\nhas been done in the country about. One of the students organized\na temperance society in the village of Hampton, and several\ninteresting meetings have been held. The subject of local option is\nlikely to come up in the fall, and the society hopes to make itself\nfelt on the right side.\n\nThere has been an average attendance of 300 in Sunday-school. Forty\nstudents have been engaged in the Sunday-schools in the vicinity,\nthree as superintendents and the remainder as teachers. One of the\nschools where the students have become interested has increased in\nnumbers from 40 to over 200.\n\nThirty Bible students go out from the school on Sunday afternoons\nto read to the old people. They are everywhere received with a\nhearty welcome by those who have been deprived of the privileges\nwhich their children enjoy.\n\nThe Missionary Society of the school has raised $229. As the last\nwinter was of unusual severity, the most of this amount was spent\nin the relief of the misery at our very doors. During the winter\nthe students went out every week to mend the huts of the poor, to\ncarry them bedding, clothes and food.\n\nA Christian association has been formed in the school, so that\nthose who come here from denominations that do not allow their\njoining our church may feel that they have duties here as Christian\nworkers. So far as possible, the thought of their individual\nresponsibility for the souls of those around them is impressed upon\nthem.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWILMINGTON, N.C.\n\nREV. D. D. DODGE.\n\nWe record a steady interest and growth in grace; one added by\nprofession, one by letter, one adult and six children baptized;\nSunday-school in good condition; large classes and good attention.\nThe improvement of property has been great, as already described in\nthe MISSIONARY.\n\nOne of the most encouraging facts is this, which has come to our\nknowledge in several different ways, that when any one wishes to\nget a trustworthy servant, the fact of membership in our church is\nconsidered a most excellent recommendation. Experience has taught\nemployers its value.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBEAUFORT, N.C.\n\nREV. MICHAEL JERKINS.\n\nOur church is steadily increasing in numbers, and we are more\nencouraged than ever. Four were added to our number last month. The\ncause of temperance is prospering. We have a prohibitory law, and\nno licenses are granted in the county and parish. The Sunday-school\nwork is hopeful, the number in attendance averaging about 120.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPLYMOUTH CHURCH., CHARLESTON, S.C.\n\nREV. TEMPLE CUTLER.\n\nThe most encouraging feature of our work is the Sunday-school. We\nhave 120 in attendance, with an average of 82. Some difficulty is\nfound in procuring teachers. We manage, however, to keep up a good\ndegree of interest among the children. We have a Band of Hope that\nnumbers 120, mostly children, growing up to take part in the future\nconflict over alcohol in this state.\n\nDuring the winter we had a series of meetings that seemed to\nquicken some of the old backsliders, who, we trust, will prove of\ngreat help to the church, and a few conversions which resulted in\nthe bracing up of our spiritual energies considerably.\n\nThe people have raised about $500 for various purposes, about $200\nof which went to repair the church, $100 to pay the debt, and the\nrest for current expenses.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nORANGEBURG, S.C.\n\nREV. T. T. BENSON.\n\nWe have been highly blessed by the Lord this year in our church\nwork, both temporal and spiritual. In April we enjoyed a revival\nseason, during which seven persons were converted to Christ, five\nof whom have united with our church. Our Sabbath-school numbers 45,\nand is doing well. New hymn books have been purchased, the church\nhas been repaired, painted and plastered, and a chandelier secured.\nThree members of our church are absent teaching. One young man is\nengaged in missionary work.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFIRST CONG. CHURCH, ATLANTA, GA.\n\nREV. C. W. HAWLEY.\n\nLast February and March were months of revival and ingathering. The\nwork commenced in the Storrs School, and the teachers there and\nin the Sunday-school had precious answers to prayer and precious\nrewards of labor. Never was it more plain that church and school\nare strongly wedded and mutually helpful. Almost daily meetings\nwere held for several weeks, all quiet, orderly, solemn; short\nsermons, many prayers and much individual testimony for the Lord.\nRev. Henry E. Brown and wife and Brother J. E. Lathrop, of Macon,\nrendered good help to the pastor.\n\n[Illustration: FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, ATLANTA, GA.]\n\nMarch 13th was a memorable Sabbath, 28 uniting by profession and\ntwo by letter. In April, seven joined by profession, and in May,\nfour more by profession and three by letter, making an addition of\n44 in the three months.\n\nA new temperance society has been organized; new members, almost\nwithout exception, take total abstinence pledge, and but few old\nmembers are known to have the drinking habit.\n\nThe Sunday-school is prospering; over 50 in the infant class;\nsometimes over 300 are present in all.\n\nWith the aid of the American Missionary Association and Northern\nfriends we have a fine new bell. Church property is valuable and\nin good order. We have paid up our church debt, and have now a\nfine church costing $5,000, with a seating capacity for 500, and a\nbasement under the whole for Sunday-school rooms. During the year\nending January 1, 1881, the church raised for debt and current\nexpenses about $800.\n\nMany of our young people are in Storrs School or Atlanta\nUniversity. One has just graduated from the theological department\nin Howard University; six or more, now or formerly members of our\nchurch, are at work in the Gospel ministry, and two score or more\nare, or have been, engaged in teaching among their people.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nATLANTA UNIVERSITY CHURCH.\n\nREV. C. W. FRANCIS.\n\nThe church of Christ in Atlanta University is made up entirely of\nteachers and pupils in that school, and so has a somewhat different\nsphere from many of our sister churches. It now numbers 88 members,\nhaving received larger accessions during the past year than in any\nother year of its history, 22 having joined, all save two upon\nprofession of faith.\n\nA very gracious revival prevailed for the last five months of the\nschool year, during which time more than 50 persons were converted,\nseveral more of whom will unite with this church after longer\nexperience, and the rest with churches at their homes. It was a\ndelightful and precious work, affecting nearly every member of\nthe school, quickening the religious life of former members, and\ngathering in a harvest week by week up to the close of the year.\n\nThe temperance work is made a special care, as the need for it\nis so great, and all who go away to teach during their summer\nvacation, as all do save six or eight of the younger members, have\nfurnished them a package of selected temperance literature, and\nare instructed in methods for its use, after careful instruction\nupon the general subject, so that all are engaged in mission work\nof that character in the schools which they teach and the families\nwhich they visit.\n\nAbout $75 was raised during the year at the monthly missionary\nmeetings, which was given to promote the temperance work.\n\nAbout 75 members of the church are now engaged in teaching their\nsummer schools, most of them taking the lead in Sunday-schools, and\nso exercising a genuine missionary influence over a great number of\npeople.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSAVANNAH, GA.\n\nREV. B. D. CONKLING.\n\nThere has been a good deal of sickness among our people and\nthe missionaries. We have had additions to the church at each\ncommunion. The Sunday-school work is prospering finely, the pennies\noutnumbering the attendance every Sunday but two from January\n1st to June 1st. The average attendance at the Sunday-school for\nJanuary was 112, which gradually increased until, in May, the\naverage was 162\u2158. The average collections of the Sunday-school for\nMay were $2.12\u2158 for each Sunday.\n\nFrom January 1st to May 31st the congregation raised for church and\nmissionary purposes $83.71; and the Sunday-school, during the same\ntime, $36.73. This does not include some $25 raised to provide an\nexcursion for the Sunday-school and its friends. Several members\nduring the year, who are either ministers or ministers\u2019 wives, took\nletters of dismission; others still are in some of the institutions\nof the American Missionary Association for higher learning. More or\nless missionary work is being done constantly by resident members\nof this church.\n\nWhile it is not a large church, it has had, and does have, a large\ninfluence for good throughout the whole city; especially has it\nbeen the means of revolutionizing in the way of improvement the\nSunday-school work here and here-abouts.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWOODVILLE, GA.\n\nREV. J. H. H. SENGSTACKE.\n\nThis church was organized in the year 1871. In the year 1875 Mr.\nJ. H. H. Sengstacke, teacher of the public school at Woodville,\nwas elected pastor. At that time the membership consisted of 12\npersons. They worshiped in an old building about one-third of a\nmile from the present edifice. The church was at first known as\nthe Woodville Congregational church; but at the beginning of Mr.\nSengstacke\u2019s ministry the name was changed to Pilgrim church. The\nAmerican Missionary Association built a new house of worship,\nand Mr. S. was set apart for the Gospel ministry. The church has\nbeen growing rapidly ever since, the congregation at present\naveraging 200. The Sabbath-school is flourishing. In the year 1877,\nSengstacke Band of Hope was organized. Rev. J. M. Smith\u2019s people,\nof Grand Rapids, Mich., have done much towards building up this\nwork. In 1877 the church purchased a bell and an organ.\n\nIn 1878 the American Missionary Association built a neat little\nparsonage.\n\nIn 1879 the church was ceiled and painted inside.\n\nIn 1880 the people, with aid from the American Missionary\nAssociation, raised the meeting house on a brick basement, also the\nchurch was repainted and new seats were added.\n\nIn 1881 a new fence was put around the lot, and the meeting house\nwas improved on the outside, trees were set out, and a lot was\npurchased at the Five Mile for mission work. Pilgrim church has had\nrevivals every year.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMARIETTA, GA.\n\nREV. EDGAR J. PENNEY.\n\nOn my arrival a year ago, only seven persons (four men and three\nwomen) responded as members of the church. Since my ordination\nlast December, 13 have been admitted, six by letter and seven by\nprofession. This encourages us in great measure to labor on. The\nSunday-school has shown a steady increase for some months and is\nmaking real progress. We are better able than ever to hold those\nwho came at first out of mere curiosity. The following quotation\nrespecting temperance forms a part of the constitution of the\nchurch: \u201cAny member convicted of using intoxicating liquor other\nthan as a medicine shall be liable to discipline.\u201d Three of our\nmembers spent the past six months in Atlanta University.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCYPRESS SLASH, LIBERTY CO., GA.\n\nREV. ANDREW J. HEADEN.\n\nWe have a church of 60 members, and our work is growing in favor\nboth with white and colored; five have recently been added by\nprofession. Our Sunday-school is increasing in numbers and\ninterest. One young man has gone to the Hampton Institute to fit\nhimself for a teacher. Our church property has been improved, and a\nparsonage erected at a cost of about $230, in connection with which\nthere are ten acres of land. The field here is a promising one, and\nconsidering that the church has been organized only two years and a\nhalf, the progress of the work seems to us very encouraging.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBELMONT AND LOUISVILLE, GA.\n\nREV. WILSON CALLEN.\n\nThe work of ingathering in these churches has been slow and steady.\nSome who had been negligent have returned and manifested an\ninterest in the church. At Belmont 11 new members have been added\nduring the past four years.\n\nThere is a good attendance at Louisville, although but two have\nunited with the church during my ministry. There is great need\nof temperance work among the people. The Sabbath-schools are in\ntolerable good condition. We have very little church property, and\nwe are not able to keep what we have in good repair.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTALLADEGA COLLEGE CHURCH, ALA.\n\nPRES. H. S. DE FOREST, D.D.\n\nPreaching, Sunday-school, church and neighborhood prayer meetings,\nwith class of Bible readers, monthly concert, and meeting of the\nWoman\u2019s Missionary Society, have been kept up in usual order and\nwith a good degree of interest during the year. For three weeks,\nmeetings were held each evening. Several, chiefly students boarding\nin the college family, found Christ, and the church was revived.\n\nThe preaching was first and mainly to Christians rather than to\nthe impenitent. Besides the mission churches which have grown out\nof the College church, the students and teachers have sustained\nfive Sunday-schools in needy districts. The College church has\nrare facilities for distributing illustrated Sunday-school and\ntemperance papers. The parish missionary has faithfully pursued her\nwork, discovering and relieving much of want, and speaking to the\nneglected.\n\nA temperance society has been organized, embracing in its\nmembership those not connected with the College church, with a\npledge of abstinence from the use of tobacco in all its forms, as\nwell as from the use and sale of intoxicating liquors.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMOBILE, ALA.\n\nREV. O. D. CRAWFORD.\n\nA revival followed the State Conference in March; 15 persons\nbetween the ages of 13 and 18 manifested a deep interest, and\nreceived so much light on the supreme question, as carried them\nbeyond the reach of the ordinary instruction of the colored\nchurches and revival seasons. The church was much blessed.\n\nWe received to fellowship one young man, a pupil in the Institute,\nof rare promise. Several temperance sermons were preached, and 30\nnames secured to the pledge.\n\nThe church building was moved through the street to its more\neligible location on the Institute grounds, and improved by a large\nfront door and steps and cornice.\n\nOut of their deep poverty the people raised about one dollar at\neach monthly concert of prayer for missions. Two lady members are\nengaged in teaching in public schools acceptably.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMARION, ALA.\n\nREV. A. W. CURTIS.\n\nMarion is an old town, quite an educational centre, but in all\nother respects left high and dry on a side switch. Hence our\nchurch and work is a good deal like that of New England\u2014a good\nplace to emigrate from. There is not business enough to give work\nat home, and the young people have to go away; we are trying to\nmake it a good home and training-school, and look for the results\nelsewhere. This summer nearly all our men are abroad for work\u2014many\nat Tougaloo, working on the new building\u2014some renting land in the\ndistrict around. Most of the young women as they marry find homes\nabroad for the same reason.\n\nThe children and young people who were converted last spring hold\nout well, and form the principal part of our number at prayer\nmeeting. We see occasionally also those who united with other\nchurches. Ten united on confession at our first communion, four\nat the second. So far as I can learn, all our church are strictly\ntemperance folks. Our Sunday-school is small. We have had three\nSunday-schools kept up in the country by members of our church who\nhad day schools in those districts.\n\nMost of our members have homes which they are making more valuable\nby improvement, while property in town has greatly depreciated. Our\nchurch have undertaken to raise $100 and to build a school-house\nthis summer. It may be a question whether they will succeed in the\nlatter as soon as they have planned.\n\nTen of the young people of our church have been at Talladega\nduring the past year, two at Fisk, and one in Tougaloo. Four of\nour members have been teaching school with good success and one is\npreaching.\n\nA young man who graduated with honor at the Normal here last week\nwas converted with us. He wishes to go to Africa, but will probably\ngo under Methodist auspices, according to his friends\u2019 wish. I have\nfound a large field and a very needy one.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMONTGOMERY, ALA.\n\nREV. O. W. FAY.\n\nWith our church, the past year has been one of more than ordinary\nencouragement and blessing. Spiritual growth is manifest. Special\nmeetings were held during the week of prayer and three weeks\nfollowing; result, several hopeful conversions; 12 have united\nwith the church, six by letter and six by profession. A healthful\nsentiment in favor of temperance prevails throughout the church and\ncongregation, cherished by special services and efforts through\nthe year. Not one person to my knowledge is addicted to the use of\ndrink. Sunday-school is vigorous with enthusiasm, numbering 175\npupils. Decided improvement both in attendance and contributions\nhave been made during the year. Though this has been financially\na hard year for our people, nevertheless in loyalty to church\nobligation they have done better than ever before in their history.\nNine of our members have been in attendance at Talladega College\nand Fisk University during the year; three of these are studying\nfor the ministry. As a whole, the church work at this point has a\nbright side, and we feel like thanking God and taking courage.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSELMA, ALA.\n\nREV. C. B. CURTIS.\n\nOur church observed the week of prayer with a good degree of\ninterest, which was followed by a series of meetings continuing\nthrough the month of January. Five were added to the church by\nprofession and four by letter. An effort was made in behalf of\ntemperance by all the churches, in the beginning of the year,\nto send a petition to the Legislature for the suppression of\nintemperance, but failed as to results. Christmas, a temperance\nSunday-school concert was held. The Sunday-school has been steadily\nincreasing, as shown by the following figures, which give the\naverage attendance for six months: January 82, February 77\u00be, March\n83\u00bc, April 84\u00be, May 112, June 101\u00be.\n\nA mission school at the house of the pastor has been in operation\nfor the year, with an average attendance of 18 weekly.\n\nAn effort has been made to raise a special donation for the A. M. A.,\nthat the Association may receive the $50 pledged as a duplicate\nfrom a friend in Massachusetts. The \u201cMission Workers\u201d of the\nchurch and Sunday-school have made by sales, and given for various\npurposes, $30.45. Six of our pupils are at school at Talladega, two\nat Tougaloo. Ten members are engaged in teaching or missionary work.\n\nInterest in the cause of missions has been furthered by a\n\u201cmissionary tea party,\u201d held at the home of the pastor. Items of\nintelligence from the broad field interested all.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSHELBY IRON WORKS, ALA.\n\nREV. J. R. SIMS.\n\nI can only give you a brief report of my work, as I have been here\nbut a short time.\n\nWe have not had any revival, only in the church there seems to be a\nrenewed spirit among her members.\n\nWe deem the Sunday-school work of vital importance, and endeavor\nto increase its interest from time to time; average attendance,\n90; teachers five. Our building is now being newly painted, and we\nhope to finish plastering by the 1st of October. Five pupils from\nthe church have been sent to some institution of learning. Number\nengaged in missionary work, five.\n\nThe work, as a whole, seems to be hopeful. We ask your prayers that\nwe may be strengthened.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCHILDERSBURG, ALA.\n\nREV. ALFRED JONES.\n\nRevival work has been very encouraging. Most of the youth have been\nled to embrace religion in consequence of our meetings. Thirty have\njoined our church, 22 of whom came through since I have been here.\nOur church is a temperance church; everybody looks upon us as a\ntemperance people. We have the best Sabbath-school in Childersburg.\nWe have plastered our meeting house and added a church farm worth\n$250, and a bell worth $45. Four of our church members are studying\nat different institutions.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFLORENCE, ALA.\n\nREV. WM. H. ASH.\n\nWe have built a beautiful parsonage this year which is said to\nbe the prettiest house in town. Our field of labor is one where\nthe minister plans his work, and then pulls off his coat and\nsees that it is done. Since I took charge here, two years ago,\na suitable house of worship has been erected. Meanwhile, I have\nacted as pastor and taught a school. Six were added to the church\nby profession, and a temperance society has been organized. It is\nthe only temperance society in connection with any of the colored\nchurches in town. When I came here I found an old house, that had\nbeen used for a bar-room and gambling shop, fitted up for a house\nof worship. This has been abandoned, the lot upon which it stood\nwell fenced, and a meeting house built.\n\nWe sent one pupil to Fisk University last year, and raised $160 for\nbuilding and repairs.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTOUGALOO, MISS.\n\nREV. G. S. POPE.\n\nThere has been no special revival this year. Steady progress,\nhowever, has been made, resulting in frequent conversions. Eleven\nhave been added to the church on profession of faith, and four by\nletter.\n\nIt is a rare thing for any of our students to hold themselves\noutside of the temperance work. They not only become temperance men\nand women here, but temperance workers when they leave. From 1,000\nto 1,500 signers of the pledge are secured by them each summer\nvacation. They sometimes commence Sunday-school work previous\nto the opening of their day schools, and during vacation it is\nestimated that they instruct about 4,000 Sunday-school scholars.\nFifty-eight of our church members have been engaged in teaching\nduring the year.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES OF LOUISIANA\u2014GENERAL SURVEY.\n\nREV. W. S. ALEXANDER, D.D.\n\nOf the 18 churches in the South-western Association, the first\norganization bears date June 14th, 1868; so that if we are not the\ninfant association, we are certainly among the youngest members of\nthe Congregational household.\n\nThere have been seven annual meetings of our Association, two\noccurring in 1870 and 1871, and then regularly from 1876 to 1881\ninclusive. There has been growth in several directions.\n\n1st, _morally_. The standard in moral instruction and practice is\nhigher, by a marked difference, than at the beginning of our church\nlife. The church is not a harbor for unholy and impure persons,\nwhere the outward profession atones for the faults of the private\nlife; but the scene of watchfulness and charitable judgment, where\nthe weak are helped, the penitent encouraged, and the persistent\nwrong-doer is discountenanced and disfellowshiped.\n\n2d. In intelligence. The ministers and church members have a\nclearer understanding of the proprieties of church order and\ndiscipline.\n\nThe public services of the Lord\u2019s day have grown quiet and\ndevotional, a deeper tone of reverence pervades the preaching, and\nmere emotion has been succeeded by _intelligent conviction_ and a\n_reasonable faith_.\n\n3d. There is a more direct aim for the best spiritual results.\nThe conversion of the heart and the saving of the lost is more\nand more the end and the aim of preaching. Between this and the\ncrude emotional spasmodic methods of the past, there is an almost\ninconceivable difference.\n\n\n_Central Church, New Orleans (Rev. W. S. Alexander, D.D.,\nPastor)._\u2014This church was in 1870 the University church, and has\nalways been intimately associated with Straight University. The\npresident of the University has been the acting pastor since\nJanuary 1st, 1876. Most of the teachers in the University are\nearnest workers in the Sabbath-school.\n\nFrom a membership of 35 in 1876, almost all of whom were old\npeople, the membership has been increased to 210. Hardly a year\nhas passed without witnessing in this church scenes of revival\ninterest. Every winter has had its harvest months.\n\nDuring the past winter, a revival of great power occurred in\nthe church, resulting in 50 conversions. Mr. James Wharton, of\nBarrow-in-Furness, England, was an honored agent of the Lord in\nthis blessed work.\n\nThe annual expenses of the church, averaging $650, are always paid\npromptly, and this year, in addition, the church has remitted $100\nto the treasury of the American Missionary Association.\n\n\n_Spain St. Church, New Orleans (Rev. Henry A. Ruffin, Pastor)._\u2014Mr.\nRuffin was a student in the theological department of Straight\nUniversity for four or five years, and was in charge of the church\nat the same time, as he is to-day.\n\nThe church has been disturbed during the year by a few bad men,\nambitious to rule, and so obstructing the progress of the Lord\u2019s\nwork and restricting the influence and usefulness of the pastor;\nbut by patience and wise counsels the difficulty seems to be tided\nover, and the church started on a new career of prosperity.\n\n\n_Morris Brown Chapel, New Orleans (Rev. Isaac H. Hall,\nPastor)._\u2014Mr. Hall was a delegate of the S.W. Association to the\nNational Council at St. Louis. He was a student for several years\nat Straight University. The church has had a constant though not\nrapid growth. Its membership of 110 represents a good deal of\nhard work in prayer. A few converts are gathered in every year.\nThe church has a small debt of about $250, which it is struggling\nbravely to discharge. Whenever a dollar can be transferred from\nthe fund for ordinary expenses to sinking fund it is done, and\nthe church will celebrate its jubilee when the last dollar of\nindebtedness is paid.\n\n\n_Algiers and Gretna._\u2014There are two churches across the river from\nNew Orleans, one in Algiers and the other in Gretna. Rev. James\nCraig is pastor at Algiers, and Rev. Putney W. Ward at Gretna. With\nbetter schools in these two places, there would be better churches.\nThe mass of the people need enlightening, and until it is done the\nchurch will dash against the breakers. Ignorance is never in accord\nwith quiet, progressive and spiritual church life. These churches\nhave now reached a crisis in their history which means either fatal\ndisaster or a new and better lease of life. May God guide and\nbring order out of confusion. In the parish of St. Mary we have an\ninteresting and hopeful group of churches.\n\n\n_Terrebonne (Rev. Daniel Clay, Pastor)._\u2014The house of worship\nis new, tasteful and admirably fitted for its purposes. Neatly\npainted, with good bell, the church-yard surrounded by a\nwhitewashed fence, and in the rear the pretty cottages of the\npastor and his son, nothing more could be desired. It is really\nbeautiful. And how happy Bro. Clay is\u2014how proud of his church and\nimmense congregation! He feels that God has been good to him, and\nafter many fierce storms, has conducted him to a peaceful and happy\nold age.\n\nThis church was built and paid for by the voluntary offerings of\nthe people. I think they have never solicited a dollar of outside\naid. They have built just as fast as they could pay for the work.\nNo shadow of debt has ever dimmed their joy.\n\nThe Association met with this church in April. Great congregations\nflocked to the meetings, and immediately upon the adjournment of\nthe Association, a revival of peculiar grace and tenderness was\nenjoyed, and some precious souls \u201cgiven their liberty.\u201d\n\n\n_Terrebonne Station (Rev. Benjamin Field, licensed Preacher, acting\nPastor). Lafourche Crossing (Rec. Wm. Reid, Pastor)._\u2014These two\nchurches are under the general supervision of Bro. Clay, and look\nto him for counsel as to a father. There is a peculiar bond binding\nthese little churches of like faith together. When the Lord\u2019s work\nis revived in one, the others hasten to share in the blessing,\nand when trouble is developed in one, the others are quick to\nsympathize and help. The Lafourche church are proposing to buy a\nnew lot and build a pretty chapel. They have very great faith in\ntheir prospective growth.\n\n\n_New Iberia._\u2014St. Paul\u2019s church is one of the strongest and most\nstable in the Association. The September gale leveled their old\nbuilding. It was a blessing in disguise, for a new and substantial\nchurch has risen in its place. How much the stimulus of necessity\nwill accomplish!\n\nRev. W. R. Polk, a _protege_ of Dr. Cuyler, is the pastor. The\nservices are orderly and intelligent. Situated in the midst\nof one of the most fruitful sections of the state, and almost\nevery colored man owning his homestead, and some of them in the\nrealization of the freedman\u2019s ambition, \u201c_forty acres and a mule_,\u201d\nthere is a look of prosperity about church and people that is\nrefreshing. They are now self-supporting. They are also rejoicing\nover several additions to the church on profession of faith.\n\nWe must now group together a few churches, small as yet, but giving\npromise of great usefulness. They are situated in important centres\nwith respect to colored population, and the absence of churches\nexcept at great distances.\n\n\n_Lockport and Harangville_\u2014Under the missionary supervision of\nBrother Ward, of Gretna. He pays them a monthly or semi-monthly\nvisit, and they do the best they can in the interval. When they\nget stronger they will require and can pay for the regular services\nof a resident minister.\n\n\n_Peteance and Little Pecan_\u2014Under the pastoral care of Rev. Wm.\nButler. Mr. Butler teaches a day school at Peteance, five miles\nfrom New Iberia. Both these churches have houses of worship, and\nare full of faith in the increase of future years. God grant their\nfaith may be rewarded.\n\n\nChurches at _Bayou Du Large_ (Rev. Humphrey Williams, Pastor),\nand at _Grand Bayou_ (S. Williams, Pastor), are new churches,\norganized within the year, attracted by the simplicity, liberty and\nspirituality of the Congregational mode of government. They have\ncordially united hands with us.\n\n\n_Abberville_\u2014Needs a house of worship, and until it is built we\ncannot begin to write its history. A church without a shelter is a\nchurch in the wilderness indeed; and in this part of the world is\nno church, but a scattered flock seeking a fold.\n\n\n_Lake Peigneur (Rev. C. E. Smith, Pastor)._\u2014This church enjoys\nstated preaching. When the pastor is absent, some layman who has\nthe \u201cgift\u201d of exhorting calls the people together. The homes of\nthe people are often far apart. It is a rich prairie section, and\nall or nearly all come on horse-back. There is very little abject\npoverty. The labor of the men and women is sought, and commands a\nliving price. The land itself can be purchased from $10 to $15 per\nacre, and so our friends are driving down the stakes into _their\nown soil_. Once the negro had a right only in \u201cGod\u2019s acre,\u201d and not\nthat till he was dead. Now he holds the _title-deed_ to his own\nproperty, sealed with the great seal of Louisiana. God be praised!\nHow restful to the tired laborer is a bed in his own cottage! How\nmuch better Christian he can be, with his own home, with all the\namenities and domestic comforts of the family circle, and with the\ninducements thus supplied to be good and to do good!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nUNION CHURCH, NASHVILLE, TENN.\n\nREV. H. S. BENNETT.\n\nThis is a University church, and the work done by it is so\nintimately connected with that done by the University that they\ncannot be separated. Its membership is now 171 and is composed\nlargely of students. During vacation its meetings stop. It was\norganized in 1868, and since that time no year has passed in the\nhistory of the University without from 12 to 70 conversions. During\nthe past school year two powerful seasons of refreshing resulted\nin the conversion of 68 students. The additions to the church have\nbeen mostly on profession of faith, and have averaged more than\n20 annually. In connection with the institution, of which the\nchurch is a part, are a Sunday-school, a college, Y.M.C.A., and a\nmissionary society for the evangelization of Africa. Many class\nprayer meetings are also held.\n\nFrom the University between 100 and 150 students, most of whom are\nmembers of the church, go out to teach school during vacation.\nThese teachers organize Sunday-schools and temperance societies.\nFive of the students have already gone as missionaries to Africa;\nothers are preparing to go, having consecrated themselves to the\nwork of African missions. Many of the students, members of the\nchurch, are now engaged in the work of preaching the Gospel in the\nchurches of the South; others are preparing to preach. The work was\nnever so promising as now.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMEMPHIS, TENN.\n\nREV. B. A. IMES.\n\nI can only speak of special interest awakened last fall and\nearly winter, carried on mainly among the young people of the\nAmerican Missionary Association school (Le Moyne Normal). Many\nof these pupils were also our Sunday-school scholars. Of perhaps\n40 converted, six united with our church. Since November 1, 1880,\nseven have united with this church on profession and nine by letter.\n\nThe Sunday-school is well attended, averaging from 100 to 140\nduring the latter part of winter and spring, and now in vacation\nabout 75; general interest good.\n\nSince January 1st, money raised for missionary purposes $20.\n\nAbout 12 pupils of Le Moyne School are from our church, some of\nthem members, others from families in part or entirely connected\nwith it. One young man is teaching during the summer; will be in\nschool next year.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCHATTANOOGA, TENN.\n\nREV. JOS. E. SMITH.\n\nThe year has not passed without giving us tokens of God\u2019s special\nfavor. The hopeful conversion of four persons, who are standing\nfirm in the faith and doing good service in the church, and the\nrenewed quickening of the whole church, are some of the happy\nresults of the Holy Spirit\u2019s special presence. The Sunday-school is\nfull of interest; average attendance about 90 scholars, with eight\nearnest teachers who were once our scholars. The Sunday-school\nhas a library of about 70 volumes of good books, which are quite\ngenerally read by the school.\n\nTwenty-one persons have left us at different times to engage in\nstudy either in Atlanta or Fisk University, nine of whom are\nteaching and doing good work otherwise, while one is over in the\nsouthern part of France preaching the Gospel. The church has paid\n$26.10 toward missionary purposes.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBEREA, KY.\n\nREV. JOHN G. FEE.\n\nThe church here is the one church of the place, undenominational,\nunsectarian. All who here profess faith in the Lord Jesus as their\npersonal Saviour from sin, and are baptized in His name as His true\nfollowers, are recognized as in the body, and their fellowship is\ncherished whilst they maintain Christian character.\n\nThe present membership is 171; number added during the past year,\n13; average attendance at the Sabbath-school, 192. Four other\nSabbath-schools are under the supervision of members of the church;\nin these there is a total average attendance of 208.\n\nDuring the past year we erected here a neat plain building as a\nchurch house and college chapel. It will seat some 500 people.\n\nWe have here, conducted and managed chiefly by members of the\nchurch, the most vigorous temperance association in the state,\nincluding over 1,600 pledges. Our relations to the churches and\npeople around us are eminently friendly and pleasant. There is to\nus an open door that no man can shut. To God be the glory.\n\nThe church at Union Chapel, Jackson County, has just entered into a\nnew church house; has the aid of two resident elders, and a monthly\nvisit from Bro. Bunting, associate pastor at Berea. The churches\nin Bracken and Lewis Counties are without a pastor; they sustain a\nregular prayer meeting and Sunday-school.\n\nThe church at Camp Nelson, Jessamine County, is without a regular\npastor. The members keep up frequent meetings and a promising\nSunday-school. We expect the presence and aid of Rev. J. T. Browne\nas a pastor to some of these churches. Many useful fields could be\noccupied if we had support for pastors.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLITTLE ROCK, ARK.\n\nREV. B. F. FOSTER.\n\nOur work here, as you know, is in its very infancy; organized\n27th of February, 1881, with 40 communicants. Since then we have\nreceived by recommendation or letter 32 more. Our Sunday-school is\nin excellent condition, averages 80 scholars, besides teachers,\n&c. Our greatest need is competent Christian teachers. We have\npurchased a lot in a very desirable part of the city (corner lot)\nat $400. Have paid $140 toward it. Have laid the foundation on it\nfor a church. We are now negotiating for lumber, &c., with which\nto erect the superstructure. Hope to go into it November 1st, and\nalso to lay the corner-stone very soon. Have raised since organized\n$468 for church purposes. Hope to send one pupil to Fisk next fall.\nProbably we may send two. Mrs. Foster (the pastor\u2019s wife) expects\nto begin missionary work here next fall. We pride ourselves on\nbeing among a benevolent, generous class of Christians. All are\nhopeful of success. Some certainly will be Congregationalists. Will\nsome Christian philanthropist help us?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGOLIAD, TEXAS.\n\nREV. B. C. CHURCH.\n\nAfter years of toil and waiting we are made to rejoice in a revival\nof religion; not the old, with its fanaticism and immoralities.\nIt is no easy task to educate an unlettered people to reject the\npast and adopt a new and higher form of Christian life; to change\na prayerless and violent home into one of song and praise. This is\nour work.\n\nAfter a meeting of fifteen days we received five persons into the\nchurch on profession of faith, all from the Sunday-school, two\nof whom are teachers. After a few days\u2019 rest we opened a meeting\nwith the church in Helena, that continued eleven days. As a result\nwe received seven members. These, too, were connected with the\nSunday-school. In both meetings the interest continued till the\nclose.\n\nRev. M. Thompson, my associate in work with these two churches, is\na brother greatly beloved by all who know him. If he had a few more\nbooks, and our churches had one communion service between them,\nmany hearts would rejoice and many thanks would be given to the\ndonors.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPARIS, TEXAS.\n\nREV. J. W. ROBERTS.\n\nWe have had no special revival since last summer. Four, however,\nhave been added to the church during the year, two by letter and\ntwo by profession. Without any formal organization, I am happy\nto say that my people are abstainers from intoxicating liquors.\nThere is a temperance society in the city, but I do not espouse\nits cause, because it is a secret society. Our Sabbath-school is\ncrowded every Lord\u2019s day. We are endeavoring to introduce the\ncatechism, and thus far have been quite successful. Our great need\nis a house of worship. We can scarcely hold services in the old\nbarn we now occupy on account of leakage when it rains and snows.\nWe have recently purchased a very desirable church lot not far from\nthe centre of the city, on which we expect to erect a new church.\n\nTwo of my male members are carrying on missionary work in the\ncountry with encouraging success. We sustain a neighborhood prayer\nmeeting, which is doing much good. A bright future is before us.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFLATONIA, TEXAS.\n\nREV. T. E. HILLSON.\n\nI have only been in charge of this mission one year. On my arrival\nI found everything to discourage me. Both white and black people\nwere prejudiced against the work of the Association, but the\nfuture, perhaps, will tell better. I have the pleasure of preaching\nto a congregation most of the time which cannot be comfortably\nseated in the church building. We have a membership of twenty,\nwhich is quite small, but the material for a Congregational church\nhas not matured in Texas yet. When young men and women possessing\nthe power of the Holy Spirit shall have taught among these people,\nthen Congregational churches will commence to spring up over Texas.\nOver 45 of our young men and women have joined the temperance\nunion. I have also a benevolent literary society organized, which\nis making good progress.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS.\n\nREV. J. W. STRONG.\n\nOur church has been revived and all its services are well attended.\nThe whole church is a temperance society. We are becoming more\nand more in favor with other churches both white and colored. The\nhope of our church is in the boys and girls at school. Already two\nministers have gone forth from us, one of whom is doing good work\nfor four Baptist churches which he has in charge. The other one\nalso is a great power for good. Our church has been more anxious\nfor the souls of men than for their names upon its list. The\nattendance at the Sabbath-school is good, made up in part of a\nlarge Bible class of elderly people.\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\nJOTTINGS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nThe following cheery item it was my privilege to publish in the\n_Pacific_ of June 20th. I am sure that it will interest the readers\nof the MISSIONARY:\n\nIn connection with our California Chinese mission, thirteen schools\nwere sustained during the month of June. This is one less than\nwere in operation in May, the school at Tucson, Arizona, having\nbeen discontinued temporarily. But the number of pupils enrolled\nwas 595\u2014a net gain over the preceding month of 45, and the largest\nenrollment ever reported. The average attendance was 314\u2014larger\nby 10 than during the preceding month, and larger than was ever\nreported before. In the course of this fiscal year, thus far, not\nless than 1,465 Chinese have been enrolled in these schools, and\nhave thus been reached by Gospel influences. Among the pupils now\nin the schools, 128 are reported as giving evidence of conversion.\n\n_Laborers wanted for God\u2019s Harvest._\u2014Christ bids us pray for these.\nI ask the readers of the MISSIONARY to join us in prayer for more\nChinese helpers made fit by the power of God\u2019s Spirit for the work\nthat they, they alone, can do. The teacher in one of our more\nrecently established schools writes me as follows: \u201cI find it very\nhard to get along alone. We sadly need an efficient Chinese helper.\nThe boys are beginning to think and ask so many questions, and\neach requires so much time for himself, that it is often after ten\no\u2019clock P. M. when I get through. Then there are so many Chinese\noutside that we cannot reach, and who will not come to school; and\nthey need some one to meet with them and talk to them in their own\nlanguage.\u201d\n\nWhat is true of this school is just as true of all the rest. We\nhave now nine of those helpers employed. I should like to add\nfour to the list as soon as September 1st. Can I have the means to\nsustain them? I believe that if the Lord will send forth the men, I\nwill trust Him for the money. But I certainly purpose not to waste\nthe Lord\u2019s money sustaining men whom I alone, not He, have called\ninto the field. Unite with us in prayer for the _right_ men.\n\n_A Helper\u2019s Sermon._\u2014Lou Quong is at present our helper in the\nWest School in this city. He is a servant in a Christian family,\nworking at reduced wages in order to get time for missionary work.\nWhat he thus loses I make up to him by way of salary. With the\nother helpers in this city and Oakland, he meets me at our Central\nMission House for a review of the week\u2019s Bible lessons, and for\nmutual conference on all matters bearing on our mission. One of\nthe exercises is the presentation by each helper of a sketch of a\nsermon for criticism and other suggestions from me. The following\nwas submitted yesterday (June 20th) by Lou Quong. I think that the\nreaders of the MISSIONARY have never heard from him before.\n\nThe text (assigned to all in common on the preceding Wednesday) was\nin John xiii. 34, \u201cA new commandment I give unto you, that ye love\none another: as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.\u201d\n\n\u201cOur Lord has given us a new commandment to learn\u2014that we should\nlove one another. Well, but how many commandments are there?\nThere are ten old commandments which the Lord gave Moses. The old\ncommandments say, \u2018Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.\u2019 Why\ndoes Jesus give us this new one? Is Christ any better than God? No,\nthey are the same. It is because Jesus saw the people of the world\nneeded more charity. Therefore, Christ gave us this one that we\nmust love one another with brotherly love.\n\n\u201c2. But how can we love one another? Can we love all our brethren\nwithout loving God? Or can we love God without loving our brethren?\nNo, we cannot love our brethren without loving God, neither can we\nlove God without loving His people. But we must first love God;\nthen we shall be able to love the brethren. Do not you know what\nthe Bible says, \u2018we love God because He first loved us.\u2019 _Love_ is\nthe _greatest word_ in the world. We cannot possibly do anything\nwithout this word. Love the brethren of God\u2019s church as if they\nwere your own brethren. But what is the reason that we should love\nthem as our own brethren? Yes, they are truly our own brethren.\nWhy? Because we are all made of one blood. At the beginning, did\nnot God make a man and a woman, and told them to love one another,\nand keep His commandments? But at last they broke His commands, so\nGod turned them out of Paradise. Now are they not the father and\nmother of us all? Of course, they are. This is why we ought to love\nthem that are God\u2019s children as well as our own brethren.\n\n\u201c3. But how are we able to love one another? Shall we love them\nwhen they love us? That is a very easy way, but this not the way\nof love at all. Or shall we say, we will love them, but the heart\nis not willing to do so? Is this the way to love? Or, shall we say\nby mouth, yes, we will love him truly, but still try to listen to\nhim when he talks, or preaching, or studying, to find fault with\nhim, and go right off and tell some one else instead of telling\nhis fault before him by yourself alone; is this the way to love?\nOr, he speak something against me; then I do not like to speak to\nhim any more: is that the way to love? Or, to wait, find out all\nhis mistakes and all his faults, and then go find some one who you\nthink best,\u2014who you think love you very much, and who you think can\nhelp you any way, and who do always to please you with talk, and\nwho can scold them better than you, for perhaps they are better\nperson than you, and perhaps they have more respect of men; and\nyour heart is full of envying, and always try to knock him down: is\nthis the way to love one another? Is that your _brother_, that you\nought to treat him so? No, my friends, this is not the way to love\nat all. But we are _truly_ to love one another; this is our duty.\nWhat Jesus told us to do, we must do it by heart, not by talk,\nnor by pleasing, neither by any other way. But first knowing that\nGod is always looking down from above, so we must be careful how\nwe love God and our brother. This is what we ought to have;\u2014that\nis, we must first have our hearts pure, then comes the peaceable,\ngentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and _good fruits of\nrighteousness, without partiality and without hypocrisy_. Do it by\nheart. Amen.\u201d\n\nI have transcribed it just as it was brought in\u2014the first draft\nroughly penciled\u2014and the italics are his own. As a work of\nhomiletic art, it is open to criticism certainly; but as an\nutterance of truth, it may reach the case, and fitly stir the\nconscience of many an American Christian, as well as of our Chinese\nbelievers.\n\nI close with, this extract from the report of the teacher of our\nBarnes School: \u201cThe most enjoyable lessons to me are those in the\nBible, and I am often surprised at the interest shown, and the\nquestions and answers given. * * * Last night in Sabbath-school\none was learning the passage, \u2018Take heed that ye do not your alms\nbefore men,\u2019 etc. I asked him if he knew what that meant. He\nanswered, \u2018When you give away something, or do something kind to\nany body, don\u2019t go talk about it, tell everybody. If you do, God\nthink you too much foolie.\u2019 I think I have given his exact words.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nWOMAN\u2019S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nRoom 20, Congregational House, Beacon St., Boston.\n\nMISS NATHALIE LORD, _Secretary_. MISS ABBY W. PEARSON, _Treasurer_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISS WILSON\u2019S WORK AMONG THE REFUGEES IN KANSAS.\n\nMiss Julia Wilson, sent out October last by the W.H.M.A., writes\nfrom Baxter Springs, Kansas: The blessing of God has seemed to rest\nupon our work from the beginning, in opening the way before us and\nin giving us favor with the people for whom we labor.\n\nKind friends have sent us generous aid, whereby we have been\nable to meet our charity work, which although only a small part\nof the great whole, is nevertheless a very important part, not\nonly because we are thus enabled to relieve want and suffering,\nbut because of the opportunity thereby given to gain a personal\ninfluence over individuals. We often have thirty visitors in a day.\nA few minutes are given to one; often hours of precious time must\nbe given to others, for thus only are their hearts kept with ours.\nWe encourage, aid, advise as circumstances demand. We are with\nour people in sickness, death and also at their funerals. We have\na woman\u2019s school four or five times a week; but our Bible school\nis our corner-stone. We have a large attendance in the adult\u2019s\nroom and also in the children\u2019s department. They listen with\nearnestness, and I always feel at the close that the Lord has been\nwith us. This people have been so accustomed to a mixture of error\nwith the truth, that simple Bible truth is new to them. I will not\nspeak of difficulties that must be met and overcome, only to say\nthat if we did not know we are here in the strength of the Lord, we\nmight as well go home, so strong a hold has sin in its worst and\nmost debasing forms upon these people. \u201cBut the people who sat in\ndarkness have seen a great light,\u201d and \u201cthey that dwelt in the land\nof the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.\u201d What a\nprivilege to be a light-bearer for the Lord\u2014to hold the fort at any\npoint against the might of Satan! For Jesus signals, \u201cI am coming.\u201d\nYes, \u201cWe\u2019ll wave the answer back to Heaven. By thy grace we will.\u201d\n\nWe would like to give to the readers the diary of Miss. W. for one\nmonth, but have only space for the report of two or three days, to\nshow how constantly her head, heart and hands are busy in her work:\n\n1st. Sunday-school book, papers and slate pencil to Mr. B., who\ncame twelve miles. To preacher D., bundle of clothing for himself\nand family. 2d, sent soap to H. family, who camped under a tree\nafter traveling 200 miles; they were wet, weary and hungry. Again,\nsent rice to Mrs. G., thread and cloth for children\u2019s clothes to\nMrs. B., the same to Mrs. L., one of whom walked eight miles,\nthe other twelve, to attend the woman\u2019s school; lesson papers,\nSunday-school papers and cards to three young people who walked\neight miles to reach the mission. Lesson to Mrs. A. in button-hole\nmaking, thread for practice, cards to H. children, and lesson to\nCora. Supper cooked and given to a family of six tired, hungry\npeople, the most wretched I have seen, also a night\u2019s lodging in\nour church. Coat, shirt and decent grave clothes to B. Land given\nto three women, two of whom walked eight and the other twelve miles.\n\nThe friends who have so generously responded to Miss Wilson\u2019s needs\nwill see by this report how she has by their gifts been able to\nmeet the urgent necessities of these poor suffering people. Miss\nWilson lives with her helper, who was a pupil at Hampton Institute\nfor a time, in a small cottage \u201cshaded from the intense heat by\ntrees, and furnished with a good well of water, worth more than\na gold mine,\u201d surrounded by the cottages of her people, and so\nenabled to bring to bear upon them the influence of a Christian\nhome.\n\nBoxes and barrels sent during the month of July:\n\n  From Auxiliary in Plainville, Conn., clothing valued      $25.70\n    \u201d  Highland, Ill., to Miss Wilson, Baxter Springs,\n       Kansas, one box valued                                48.70\n    \u201d  Philips Church, South Boston, Ladies\u2019 Benevolent\n       Society to Miss Wilson, box valued                    55.31\n  To Home Missionaries at the West, box valued              132.19\n\nReceipts of Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Association from June 27 to\nJuly 25, 1881:\n\n  From auxiliaries          $360.50\n    \u201d  life members           80.00\n    \u201d  donations             165.95\n    \u201d  annual members          4.00\n                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                            $610.45\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPAULPHEMIA\u2019S MA.\n\n    \u201cOh! who is dat a comin\u2019? Don\u2019t you grieve for me.\n    De Lord don\u2019t want you to grieve for me.\n    \u2019Tis ole Father Gable (Gabriel),\u201d etc., etc.\n\nOver and over again sounded the weird melody, mingling with the\nstrains of martial music that floated from the barracks opposite.\nPaulphemia seemed to appreciate better her own melody, with its\naccompaniment of heels knocking against the gate-post on which\nshe sat, than the patriotic \u201cRally round the flag, boys,\u201d of the\nmusicians.\n\nIt was after the war and Paulphemia was free. Surely, she knew all\nthis, for hadn\u2019t her pa fallen in battle, bravely fighting? and\nhadn\u2019t she fled with her dear widowed missus and little missuses\nin as great terror as they when the Union army entered the city?\nFor she loved this mistress, and was only dimly sure that freedom\nwas to be such a glorious thing. Surely no one knew better than\nPaulphemia that she was free, and yet where was the use in singing\nall day, \u201cI\u2019se free, thank de Lord,\u201d or of falling on her knees\nperiodically to shout and praise God, as \u201c_maw_\u201d did?\n\nI have said that she seemed to appreciate better her own doleful\nmelody than the martial music; in reality, though, her song was a\nkind of \u201cGet thee behind me, Satan,\u201d to the tempter urging her to\nrun over to the barracks.\n\nIndeed Paulphemia\u2019s cup was one of mingled joy and pain, and\ntherein, although as black as ebony, she was akin to us. True, she\nwas free; that meant she had no more _toting_ of missus\u2019 babies.\nBut when she lived with missus, she didn\u2019t have to live with ma;\nand Paulphemia would have told you, \u201cthis ma ain\u2019t my ma, \u2019cause\nmy own dear ma done died,\u201d and this ma had decreed that the child\nshould not run loose hither and yon, and especially should not\ngo over to the fort and barracks. Paulphemia almost envied the\nlittle dwarf, her neighbor, poor little Joe Morgan, whose body and\nlimbs were so distorted and mixed up that he could scratch his ear\nor his little woolly head with his toes. For the amusement this\naccomplishment afforded the soldiers, he was welcome at any time,\nand in this way picked up many a penny.\n\n\u201cPaulphemie,\u201d shouted an imperative voice, \u201cI\u2019se a gwine ter whip\nyou, chile, if you darst go over to them quarters!\u201d The old woman,\nwith her threat and her stick for enforcing it, appeared most\nopportunely in the cabin door, for the child had slid from the\ngate-post and in another second would have rallied round the flag;\nbut with a face expressive of innocence itself, she responded,\n\u201cI\u2019se jis a comin\u2019, maw!\u201d This meekness deceived the old woman and\nshe changed her menacing tones. \u201cHoney,\u201d she said, \u201cyour _pore_\nma\u2019s done died, an\u2019 nebber lived to see us free! Say, honey, reckon\nyou\u2019d like for to be a lady like ole missus?\u201d \u201cDunno,\u201d answered\nPaulphemia, for \u201cYankee Doodle\u201d was just then driving her almost\nwild. \u201cSay, honey, reckon you\u2019d like for to go to the big paid\nschool?\u201d\n\nAt this the child opened wider her big eyes, for next to the\nbarracks in point of mystery was the large school into which\nshe had longed to penetrate. \u201cYou get learning, chile, an\u2019 get\nreligion, an\u2019 sure \u2019nough you\u2019se a lady like ole missus.\u201d This was\nwhat the old woman told Paulphemia then, and afterward put her to\nschool.\n\nYears came and went as years will do, some three or four or five;\nand after a time the blue-coats vanished from the city, martial\nmusic was no more heard, and the forts crowning the beautiful\nhills and all the barracks about them became deserted and silent.\nStill the school in the hospital buildings continued and increased\nin prosperity, and still the years rolled on, fourteen of them, and\neven the hospital buildings became deserted, for the Freedmen\u2019s\nschool had long since outgrown its quarters, and from one of the\nbeautiful hills it proudly and peacefully looks down upon the city,\nthat proudly and in peace gazes up to it.\n\nOn a day when the Southern sunshine was brightest, one of the\nprofessors, on his way to the University, was stopped by an aged\ncolored woman, bowed over on a walking-stick, and hobbling to\nmeet him. \u201cHowdy,\u201d said she, \u201cis you de teacher up yonder?\u201d and\nshe pointed to the stately hall. \u201cYes, auntie,\u201d he replied with\na smile. \u201cCan I do anything for you?\u201d \u201cReckon you don\u2019t \u2019member\nPaulphemie Watkins?\u201d\u2014and as she spoke the name, her voice grew even\nmore tremulous.\n\nThe professor regretfully said he did not recall her. \u201cI \u2019spects\nyou doesn\u2019t,\u201d added the old auntie. \u201cWell, down yonder, sah, when\ndis yere school was a baby, you know, down yonder in de guv\u2019ment\nbuildings, my Paulphemie went to your paid school; she got religion\nthar, and\u2014and (wiping slowly her eyes) she done got de _choleray_\nand done died, nigh on ter fourteen year ago now, sah. Praise de\nLord! she got religion, and she gone home ter glory!\u201d And then the\npoor old thing, after placing her walking-stick so that she could\nsafely lean on it and have her hands free, removed from her bosom\na handkerchief, and with trembling fingers untied a knot in one\ncorner; then she placed in the professor\u2019s hand, counting them out\none by one, six silver dollars. \u201cFor my Paulphemie\u2019s larnin\u2019, sah.\nI couldn\u2019t pay it sooner, sah; but, sure \u2019nough, its done laid like\na stone right here all dese yere years,\u201d she said, putting her hand\non her heart. \"I prayed de Lord an\u2019 I said, O! good Lord, don\u2019t\nlemme come home to glory till I done paid for Paulphemie\u2019s larnin\u2019!\nIt\u2019s a pretty day, sah; I lives a right smart o\u2019 way yonder, an\u2019 my\nole feet don\u2019t go fast, so good evening.\"[A] With those words she\nwould have gone. The professor\u2019s eyes were moist, and he had hardly\nspoken, so strange had been the scene, but now he followed her,\nbegging her gently to keep the money. With pride and almost anger\nshe refused, and after learning where her home was, he was obliged\nto let her go, contenting himself with a plan to fully make up to\nher in some way the sum she had left in his hands.\n\nWalking slowly and thoughtfully toward the University, he seemed to\nhear not \u201cthe still, sad music of humanity;\u201d for how could he dare\nto _pity_ a soul so noble? But an angel\u2019s plaudit spoke for her,\n\u201cShe hath done what she could.\u201d\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] This incident of the aged colored woman\u2019s honesty is true, and\noccurred during the past winter.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR JULY, 1881.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $171.23.\n\n    Bath. Central Ch. and Soc.                               $15.00\n    Portland. State St. Ch.                                  150.00\n    South Paris. Cong. Ch.                                     6.23\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $293.23.\n\n    Centre Harbor. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         17.00\n    Concord. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $100.57, to\n      const. MRS. SARA H. HARRINGTON, L. M.; Miss\n      A. J. H. and Others, $2; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $1                103.57\n    Fitzwilliam. MRS. LOUISA HILL, to const.\n      herself L. M.                                           30.00\n    Henniker. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              25.00\n    Hollis. Cong. Ch.                                          5.20\n    Reese. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                              39.00\n    Milford. Cong. Ch. ($10 of wh. bal. to const.\n      ANDREW J. HUTCHINSON, L. M.)                            18.75\n    Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          20.27\n    New Ipswich. Cong. Ch.                                    12.44\n    Pembroke. \u201cA. T.\u201d                                          5.00\n    Short Falls. I. W. Chandler                                2.00\n    Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               15.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $1,181.45.\n\n    Brownington & Barton Landing. Cong. Ch. and\n      Soc.                                                    20.83\n    Johnson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.00\n    Middlebury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            44.72\n    Saint Albans. A. O. Brainerd                              25.00\n    Sheldon. Cong. Ch.                                         5.00\n    Shoreham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l)                        0.51\n    Springfield. A. Woolson                                  200.00\n    West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $9.88; Mrs. Fannie C. Gaines, $5                        14.88\n    West Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             3.00\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             5.26\n    Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS.\n      LYDIA WHEELER, and DEA. C. D. HAZEN, L. M\u2019s             52.25\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             381.45\n\n  LEGACY.\n    Springfield. Estate of Dea. Charles Haywood,\n      by Geo. P. Haywood, Ex.                                800.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           1,181.45\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $8,237.48.\n\n    Amesbury. Mrs. A. L. Bayley, to const. REV. W.\n      F. SLOCUM, L. M.                                        30.00\n    Amherst. First Cong. Ch., $25; South Cong. Ch.\n      and Soc., $6                                            31.00\n    Andover. Free Cong. Ch. and Soc., $93.41, to\n      const. REBECCA J. POOR, AGNES DEAR and MARY\n      RICHARDSON, L. M\u2019s; Chapel Ch. and Soc.\n      (ad\u2019l) $20                                             113.41\n    Arlington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             35.00\n    Belchertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           27.00\n    Boston. Highland Cong. Ch. and Society,\n      $37.50; Rev. Photius Fisk, $10; Mrs. M. L.\n      50c.; Mrs. J. L. T., 50c.; J. T. J., 51c.               49.01\n    Boston Highlands. Eliot Cong. Ch.                         80.49\n    Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch.                             112.91\n    Cambridgeport. Ladies\u2019 Sewing Circle of\n      Pilgrim Ch., Box of C.\n    Campello. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      50.00\n    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $38.38;\n      Mrs. A. E. P., 50c.                                     38.88\n    Concord. Ellen T. Emerson                                 10.00\n    Curtisville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           16.00\n    Douglas. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        1.00\n    Easthampton. First Ch. Sab. Sch.                          23.17\n    Fairhaven. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.00\n    Greenfield. First Cong Ch. and Soc.                       12.75\n    Lawrence. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        16.00\n    Littleton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     50.00\n    Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, _for\n      Buildings at Wilmington, N.C._                       1,500.00\n    Marlborough. Union Ch. and Soc.                           57.00\n    Marshfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      57.43\n    Medway. Village Ch. and Soc.                              85.06\n    Medway. Mrs. Fisher, _for Straight U._                     5.00\n    Middleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             12.00\n    Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        54.25\n    Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          50.00\n    New Bedford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     35.00\n    Newburyport. Miss L. B. Goodrich                           4.00\n    Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         160.00\n    Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $46.45; S. A. E., 50c.                                  46.95\n    Northampton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  150.00\n    Northfield. Miss M. E. Hilliard                            5.00\n    North Somerville. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $1; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $1           2.00\n    Orleans. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                2.00\n    Pittsfield. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      44.05\n    Salem. South Church and Soc., $73.22;\n      \u201cFriend,\u201d $5                                            78.22\n    Sandwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              53.25\n    South Dennis. Cong Ch. and Soc.                           12.04\n    Sudbury. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., Bbl. of C., val.\n      $29, and $3 _for freight, for Tillotson C. &\n      N. Inst._                                                3.00\n    Taunton. Ladies of Winslow Ch., _for\n      furnishing a room, Stone Hall, Talladega C._            50.00\n    Templeton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $24.84;\n      S. N. W., $1                                            25.84\n    Townsend. Cong. Ch., by Dea. W. Haynes                     5.00\n    Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             61.23\n    Watertown. Phillips Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   100.00\n    West Roxbury. S. D. Smith                                100.00\n    West Worthington. Mrs. Arunah Bartlett                     5.00\n    Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         60.00\n    Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.                             17.20\n    Wilmington. J. Skilton                                    10.00\n    Wilmington. Rev. D. T. Noyes, Bbl. of C. _for\n      Refugees_.\n    Woburn. \u201cFriends.\u201d                                         1.00\n    Worcester. Central Ch. and Soc., $169.24;\n      Union Ch. and Soc., $140.10; Salem St. Cong.\n      Ch., $6                                                315.34\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                              2.50\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           3,875.98\n\n  LEGACIES.\n    Worcester. Estate of I. Washburn, by P. C.\n      Bacon, Adm.                                          3,361.50\n    Boston. Estate of Hon. Stephen N. Stockwell,\n      by Geo. W. Merritt and W. W. Clapp, Executors        1,000.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           8,237.48\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $1,035.00.\n\n    Bristol. Mrs. M. De W. Rogers and Miss\n      Charlotte De Wolf, _for Fisk U._                     1,000.00\n    Little Compton. United Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 21.00\n    Little Compton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      rebuilding, Tougaloo U._                                14.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $2,387.92.\n\n    Barkhamsted. Rev. J. B. Clarke                             2.00\n    Berlin. Second Cong. Ch., $22; Miss C. R. C., $1          23.00\n    Canaan. \u201cThe Children\u201d                                     5.00\n    Collinsville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   2.00\n    Columbia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              21.85\n    Danielsonville. J. C. B.                                   0.50\n    Danielsonville. Westfield Cong. Ch. and Soc.\n      ($50 of which for furnishing a room in Stone\n      Hall, Straight U.), to const. EDWIN A.\n      PECKHAM, MISS ELLEN WILLIAMS and LORENZO\n      LILLIBRIDGE, L. M\u2019s                                    100.00\n    East Canaan. Cong. Ch.                                    20.84\n    East Haddam. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     71.75\n    Ellsworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             18.74\n    Enfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                            15.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                     45.83\n    Gilead. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Lord                         10.00\n    Guilford. First Cong. Ch.                                 23.00\n    Hadlyme. \u201cL.\u201d                                              2.00\n    Hartford. Centre Ch., $789; Asylum Hill Cong.\n      Ch., $188.21                                           977.21\n    Hebron. First Cong. Ch.                                   15.00\n    Higganum. Cong. Ch., to const. R. J. GLADWIN,\n      L. M.                                                   44.00\n    Hockanum. South Cong. Ch., $9.63; Mrs. E. M.\n      Roberts, $5; Mrs. S. W. and Miss M. B., 50c.\n      ea.                                                     15.63\n    Ledyard. Sab. Sch., by Edward Cook, Treas.                10.00\n    Meriden. Third Cong. Ch.                                  22.76\n    Middlebury. Cong. Ch.                                     29.50\n    Middletown. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      39.55\n    New Fairfield. First Cong. Ch.                            11.51\n    North Guilford. S. R. Fowler                               6.00\n    North Haven. Cong. Ch., to const. GEO. H.\n      COOPER and CULLEN B. FOOTE, L. M\u2019s                      72.53\n    Putnam. Sab. Sch., of Second Cong. Ch., _for\n      ed. of an Indian boy, Hampton N. and A.\n      Inst._                                                  30.00\n    Putnam. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        17.50\n    Redding. Cong. Ch.                                        15.69\n    Rockville. Rev. S. B. F.                                   0.51\n    Salisbury. Cong. Ch.                                      61.68\n    Stamford. Cong. Ch.                                      111.00\n    Simsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              37.35\n    South Killingly. Rev. Wm. H. Beard                         5.00\n    Stratford. Asa S. Curtis                                   2.00\n    Woodbury. Mrs. C. P. Churchill, _for Indian M._            2.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           1,887.92\n\n  LEGACY.\n    New London. \u201cTrust Estate of Henry P. Haven\u201d             500.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           2,387.92\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $1,540.32.\n\n    Binghamton. Chas. A. Beach                                25.00\n    Brentwood. E. F. Richardson                               15.00\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., Geo. A.\n      Bell, Supt., _for Missionaries at Ladies\n      Island, S.C., and Fernandina, Fla._                    125.00\n    Ithaca. Mrs. Lucy Thurber                                  5.00\n    Jamestown. Sab. Sch. and Cong. Ch., _for\n      school, Athens, Ala._                                   12.50\n    Marilla. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        1.00\n    New York. S. T. Gordon, $200; N.Y. Colored\n      Mission Sab. Sch., 135, West 30th St., $3.15           203.15\n    Oswego. Cong. Ch.                                         65.90\n    Poughkeepsie. First Reformed Ch., $29.52;\n      First Cong. Ch., $12                                    41.52\n    Sing Sing. \u201cFriends\u201d                                       5.00\n    Spencerport. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.                 17.25\n    Walton. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Steamer \u201cJohn Brown,\u201d\n      Mendi M._                                               10.00\n    West Camden. Miss N. Curtiss, $1.25; P. S. S.,\n      75c.                                                     2.00\n    West Groton. Cong. Ch.                                    12.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             540.32\n\n  LEGACY.\n    Nineveh. Estate of Col. Reuben Lovejoy, by\n      Mrs. Mary B. Lovejoy, Executrix                      1,000.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           1,540.32\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $10.70.\n\n    Newark. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         0.70\n    Troy. Mrs. Jane Ford                                      10.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $15.00.\n\n    Prentiss Vale. Rev. M. W. Strickland                       5.00\n    West Alexander. \u2014\u2014                                        10.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $336.99.\n\n    Andover. Cong. Ch.                                         4.00\n    Clarksfield. W. A. A.                                      1.00\n    Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch., $42.37, ($30\n      of which to const. J. W. ELLSWORTH, L. M.);\n      R. B. Johns, $2.50                                      44.87\n    Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        18.15\n    Freedom. Cong. Ch., by Rev. Geo. Thompson                  8.00\n    Garrettsville. Cong. Ch.                                  13.00\n    Hudson. Hiram Thompson                                     5.00\n    Lodi. Cong. Ch.                                           20.00\n    Madison. Mrs. James Dayton, Bbl. of Papers and\n      $2.30 _for freight, for Macon, Ga._                      2.30\n    Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch., $17.46; W. G. B.,\n      50c.                                                    17.96\n    Oberlin. Rev. Geo. Thompson, _for Mendi M._                5.00\n    Oberlin. Sab. Sch. in Farrer Neighborhood                  2.00\n    Painesville. First Cong. Ch.                              39.24\n    Randolph. W. J. Dickinson                                 10.00\n    Ravenna. Cong. Ch.                                        41.18\n    Savannah. James Lawson                                     5.00\n    Sharon Centre. Mrs. L. A. J. and Mrs. E. R.,\n      50c. ea.                                                 1.00\n    Springfield. First Cong. Ch.                               4.76\n    Strongsville. Lyman H. Freeman, _for\n      furnishing a room, Strieby Hall, Tougaloo U.,\n      and bal. to const._ CLARA M. HOWARD, L. M.               5.00\n    Tallmadge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             41.60\n    Tallmadge. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for S. S. work,\n      Mobile, Ala._                                           25.47\n    West Andover. Cong. Ch.                                   22.46\n\n\n  INDIANA, $100.00.\n\n    Michigan City. First Cong. Ch.                           100.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $1,004.09.\n\n    Aurora. Mrs. Philena Johnson                              10.00\n    Bondville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      5.00\n    Bunker Hill. Cong. Ch.                                    15.00\n    Canton. First Cong. Ch.                                   28.00\n    Chesterfield. Mrs. T. Dowland                              5.00\n    Byron. Mrs. T. H. Read, $10; Cong. Ch., $8.53             18.53\n    Chicago. Union Park Cong. Ch., $350.40; South\n      Cong. Ch., $33.30; New England Cong. Ch.\n      (Mon. Con.), $12; M. A., $1                            396.70\n    Chicago. Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc. of Plymouth Cong.\n      Ch., $50; Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc. of South Cong.\n      Ch., $8.75; Mrs. M. W. Mabbs, $5, _for Lady\n      Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                               63.75\n    Downers Grove. Cong. Ch.                                   5.00\n    Earlville. Cong. Ch. ($30 of which to const.\n      MISS TILLIE HART, L. M.)                                41.50\n    Elgin. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                50.00\n    Elmhurst. Seth Wadhams                                    25.00\n    Elmwood. Cong. Ch.                                        42.65\n    Galena. Mrs. Anne Bean                                     2.00\n    Galesburg. Mrs. E. T. Parker, $30; Ladies\u2019\n      Miss. Soc. of First Cong. Ch., $10                      40.00\n    Hutsonville. C. V. NEWTON, to const. himself,\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Jacksonville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._                            10.00\n    Lamoille. Ladies of Cong. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Savannah, Ga._                              20.00\n    Loda. Cong. Ch. (Decoration Day offering)                 13.34\n    Lyonsville. Cong. Ch.                                     16.89\n    Malden. Cong. Ch.                                         10.25\n    Maple Park. J. G. Snow                                     5.00\n    Millburn. Cong. Ch.                                       23.75\n    Moline. Miss Etta M. Pitts                                10.00\n    Northampton. R. W. Gilliam                                 5.00\n    Oak Park. Mrs. Lyman G. Holley                             5.00\n    Port Byron. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.                             5.00\n    Sycamore. Cong. Ch., $77.03; Henry Wood, $10              87.03\n    Wayne. Cong. Ch.                                           9.20\n    Wilmette. Mrs. A. T. S.                                    0.50\n    Woodburn. Children\u2019s Nickel Mite Soc., by Eula\n      E. Carson, Treas.                                        5.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $213.62.\n\n    Delhi. Norman Dwight                                      10.00\n    Grand Rapids. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Woodville, Ga._                                         30.00\n    Greenville. Mrs. E. Middleton                              2.00\n    Hudson. Cong. Ch.                                         21.54\n    Kensington. John Thompson                                  2.00\n    Litchfield. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc.                            12.00\n    Port Huron. First Cong. Ch.                               43.80\n    Romeo. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $20, _for Indian M._; and\n      $20, _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._, and to\n      const. CHARLES FAIRFIELD, L. M.                         40.00\n    Saint Clair. Cong. Ch.                                    12.28\n    Somerset. Cong. Ch.                                       20.00\n    Unadilla. Mrs. Agnes D. Bird                               2.00\n    Wayne. Cong. Ch.                                          16.00\n    White Lake. John Garner                                    2.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $510.89.\n\n    Anamosa. Cong. Ch., $3.50, and Sab. Sch., $3.95            7.45\n    Belle Plaine. J. P. Henry, $5; Mrs. C. M.\n      Henry, $5; Freddie and Josie Henry, 50c. ea.            11.00\n    Cincinnati. Wm. T. Reynolds                                5.00\n    Cresco. Cong. Ch.                                          6.50\n    Davenport. Rev. J. A. Reed, _for Stone Hall,\n      Talladega C._                                           10.00\n    Davenport. Rev. J. G. Merrill, _for\n      President\u2019s House, Talladega, Ala._                     50.00\n    Des Moines. Cong. Ch. (of which $100 from Hon.\n      Saml. Merrill)                                         173.28\n    Dunlap. W. S. Preston, _for furnishing a room\n      in Stone Hall, Talladega C._                            35.00\n    Grinnell. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              39.26\n    Humboldt. Mrs. L. K. Lorbeer, $2; Mrs. L. A. W., $1        3.00\n    Le Grand. L. M. Craig. _for Tougaloo U._                  12.00\n    Lyons. First Cong. Ch.                                    24.00\n    Monterey. Cong. S. S. Class, _for Chinese M._              0.50\n    Muscatine. Cong. Ch.                                      42.85\n    Muscatine. Capt. W. A. Clark, _for Stone Hall,\n      Talladega C._                                            5.00\n    Osage. General Association of Iowa                        10.00\n    Osage. Woman\u2019s Missionary Soc., $4.50 _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._, and $4 _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            8.50\n    Tabor. Cong. Ch.                                          63.00\n    Wayne. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                     4.55\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $23.35.\n\n    Holden. \u201cMrs. S. E. H.\u201d, _for ed. of Indians,\n      Hampton N. and A. Inst._                                 2.00\n    Stewartsville. Cong. Ch.                                  13.58\n    Webster Groves. Cong. Ch.                                  7.77\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $213.41.\n\n    Bloomington. Cong. Ch.                                     4.50\n    Brandon. \u201cBusy Bees.\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            11.18\n    Eau Claire. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                5.00\n    Geneva. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                            10.00\n    Geneva Lake. Presb. Ch.                                   36.57\n    Highland. Cong. Ch.                                       15.00\n    La Crosse. Boy\u2019s prayer meeting, Cong. Ch.                11.00\n    Menominee. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 9.00\n    Milton. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             2.50\n    Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch. Miss. Soc.,\n      _for Lady Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                  10.00\n    Monroe. \u201cOur Family Missionary Box,\u201d                       4.75\n    New Richmond. First Cong. Ch.                             16.98\n    Waupun. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which $5 _for\n      Chinese M., and_ $5 _for Indian M._) $57.63;\n      Cong. Sab Sch., $15                                     72.63\n    West Salem. Mrs. Mary L. Clark, Box of Books\n      and Papers, and $2.30 _for freight, for\n      Macon, Ga._                                              2.30\n    White Water. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             2.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $5.25.\n\n    Meriden. L. A.                                             0.25\n    Topeka. Justin Hillyer                                     5.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $107.34.\n\n    Austin. Cong. Ch.                                         21.64\n    Elk River. Cong. Ch.                                       3.68\n    Faribault. Cong. Ch.                                      25.18\n    Glyndon. Mrs. S. N. Millard                                3.66\n    Hutchinson. Cong. Ch.                                      2.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch., $30.20;\n      \u201cCash,\u201d $1                                              31.20\n    Plainview. Woman\u2019s Cent. Soc.                              7.50\n    Red Wing. Mrs. J. B. N.                                    0.50\n    Saint Charles. Cong. Ch.                                   6.98\n    Saint Peter. Mrs. Jane A. Treadwell                        5.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $11.13.\n\n    Crete. Cong. Ch. (of which $6.34 _for Cal.\n      Chinese M._)                                            10.13\n    Red Cloud. Cong. Ch.                                       1.00\n\n\n  DAKOTA TERRITORY, 50c.\n\n    Bon Homme. Rev. D. B. N.                                   0.50\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $18.75.\n\n    New Tacoma. Mrs. E. T.                                     1.00\n    Skokomish. Cong. Mission Ch., _for Indian M._             17.75\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $5.00.\n\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $219.75.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition                         219.75\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $2.71.\n\n    Chattanooga. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               1.71\n    Nashville. E. P. G.                                        1.00\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $136.35.\n\n    Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition, $37.50; Rent,\n      $6.00                                                   43.50\n    Atlanta. Students and Teachers of Atlanta\n      University, _for Cal. Chinese M._                       85.00\n    Macon. Cong. Ch., $5; Lewis High School,\n      Tuition, 85c.                                            5.85\n    Woodville. Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke, _for\n      Church building_                                         2.00\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $39.11.\n\n    Marion. Cong. Ch.                                          3.00\n    Selma. First Cong. Ch., $7.25; Woman\u2019s Miss.\n      Soc. of First Cong. Ch., $10                            17.25\n    Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition                          17.86\n    Tuskegee. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Mrs. M., _for Strieby\n      Hall, Tougaloo U._                                       1.00\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $2,022.95.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition                            22.95\n    Tougaloo. State Appropriation                          2,000.00\n\n\n  TEXAS, $2.30.\n\n    Corpus Christi. First Cong. Ch.                            2.30\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $1,266.78.\n\n    Avery Fund                                               711.41\n    Graves Library Fund                                      150.00\n    Theological Endowment Fund                               404.37\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                           21,112.60\n          Total from Oct. 1st to July 31st              $190,824.79\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n    Goshen, Conn. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing\n      a room_                                                $25.00\n    Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to June\n      30th                                                 4,949.71\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                           $4,974.71\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.\n\n    Rehoboth, Mass. \u201cA young brother in Cong. Ch.\u201d            $5.00\n    Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to June\n      30th                                                26,284.62\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                          $26,289.62\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  ENDOWMENT FUND.\n\n    Buda, Ill. By Mrs. A. M. Haley, in memory of\n      Samuel Gordon Haley, for two Haley\n      Scholarships in Fisk U.                             $2,000.00\n\n\n                                     H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,\n                                                56 Reade St., N.Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nConstitution of the American Missionary Association.\n\nINCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nART. I. This Society shall be called \u201cTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\nASSOCIATION.\u201d\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct\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\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 closely\nrelated to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE\nin America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane\nand Christian policy toward the INDIANS. It has also a mission in\nAFRICA.\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 as the\nstrong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for\nthe new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and\npious, for these churches.\n\n3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and\nmissionaries to Africa\u2014a pressing want.\n\nBefore sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.\noffice as below:\n\n  NEW YORK   H. W. Hubbard, Esq., Treasurer, 56 Reade Street.\n  BOSTON     Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Dis\u2019t Sec., Room 21 Congregational\n               House.\n  CHICAGO    Rev. Jas. 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M., the Executive Committee will\nrender their Annual Report.\n\nAt 7.30 o\u2019clock, Tuesday evening, the Annual Sermon will be\npreached by Rev. C. D. Hartranft, D.D., of Hartford, Communion\nfollowing.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, papers will be read on topics of special\ninterest relating to the work.\n\nWednesday afternoon and Thursday will be occupied with Reports of\nCommittees and addresses thereon.\n\nOn Wednesday and Thursday evenings, there will be addresses from\nSenator George F. Hoar, Judge A. W. Tourg\u00e9e, President M. H.\nBuckham, and other distinguished speakers.\n\nThe Committees on hospitality, reduction of railroad fares, and\nother matters of detail pertaining to the meeting, will be duly\npublished in the religious papers.\n\nThe Executive Committee proposes the following amendments to the\nConstitution of the American Missionary Association to be submitted\nto the Annual Meeting for action thereon, viz.:\n\nART. III. Any person who contributes to the funds of the\nAssociation may become a member thereof for the current year by\nrequesting to be enrolled as such at the time such contribution is\npaid into the treasury of the Association, and any contributor to\nthe amount of thirty dollars, at one time, may, on request to that\neffect, be enrolled as a Life Member.\n\nART. V. The Annual Meeting shall consist of the Officers, Life\nMembers who have been such prior to the first day of October\npreceding the time of such meeting, such persons as have been\nenrolled as members within one year prior to that date, and of\ndelegates from churches that have within the year contributed\nto the funds of the Society, and from State Associations and\nConferences, each of such churches, associations and conferences to\nbe entitled to one delegate.\n\nART. VI. The officers of the Association shall be a President,\nVice-Presidents, Corresponding Secretaries, (who shall also keep\nthe records of the Association,) Treasurer, Auditors, and an\nExecutive Committee of not less than twelve members.\n\nART. VII. After \u201cdismissing,\u201d omit the parenthesis. Omit ART.\nVIII., and number ARTS. IX. and X. respectively VIII. and IX.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\nObvious printer\u2019s punctuation errors and omissions corrected.\nInconsistent hyphenation retained due to various authors.\n\nMissing letter \u201ct\u201d inserted in the word \u201cat\u201d on page 263. (having\nits centre at London)\n\nMissing digit inserted in the Newton entry on page 284. \u201c1 0.00\u201d\nchanged to \u201c160.00\u201d. Arithmetic used to derive the missing digit.\n\nMissing \u201cg\u201d inserted into the word \u201cCong.\u201d in the Pittsfield entry\non page 284.\n\n\u201cTillottson\u201d corrected to \u201cTillotson\u201d in the first line of page 286.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 35, No. 9, September, 1881","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":20071}