{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_56587/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_56587","id":"gutenberg_56587","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56587","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: History - Religious","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"Produced by Ian Crann, Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the\nOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net\n(This file was produced from images generously made\navailable by Cornell University Digital Collections)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVOL. XXXV.                                                  No. 10.\n\n\n                                  THE\n\n                          AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n                 \u201cTo the Poor the Gospel is Preached.\u201d\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n                             OCTOBER, 1881.\n\n\n\n\n                              _CONTENTS_:\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    ANNUAL MEETING\u2014PARAGRAPHS                            289\n    TALLADEGA COLLEGE (with Illustration)                292\n    THE STRONG AND THE WEAK: Rev. G. N.\n      Marden                                             295\n    GIVING, FROM A COMMONPLACE STAND-POINT:\n      Rev. Samuel Scoville                               296\n    BENEFACTIONS                                         297\n    GENERAL NOTES\u2014Africa, Indians, Chinese               298\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                 300\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    KENTUCKY\u2014Work at Berea: Dr. Mayo in\n      _Journal of Education_                             301\n    KENTUCKY\u2014Sowing in Tears and Reaping\n      in Joy: Rev. J. A. R. Rogers, Berea                303\n    TENNESSEE\u2014Letter from Miss Alice E.\n      Carter, Nashville                                  304\n    ALABAMA\u2014Letter from Mrs. M. V. Curtis,\n      Selma                                              304\n    GEORGIA\u2014Extract from a Fraternal Letter of\n      Rev. T. L. Day                                     306\n    TEXAS\u2014Death of S. B. White, Paris                    306\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    DEATH OF REV. MR. KEMP                               307\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    WORK ON A SHORT TOUR: Rev. M. Eells                  308\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    \u201cSTEADFAST, IMMOVABLE:\u201d Rev. W. C.\n      Pond                                               310\n\n  GLEANINGS                                              313\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    A MISSIONARY POTATO                                  315\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                               316\n\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                           319\n\n\n  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC.                           320\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n                               NEW YORK:\n\n           Published by the American Missionary Association,\n\n                        ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n                  Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.\n\n Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\n                    American Missionary Association,\n\n                        56 READE STREET, N. Y.\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  PRESIDENT.\n\n    HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.\n\n\n  VICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n    Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n    Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n    Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n    Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.\n    Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.\n    WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.\n    Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.\n    Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.\n    Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.\n    Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. J.\n    Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D. D., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.\n    Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n    Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H.\n    Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D. D., Ct.\n    DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.\n    Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.\n    Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.\n    Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.\n    Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Washington Ter.\n    Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.\n    Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n    EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.\n    Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.\n    Rev. W. L. GAGE, D. D., Ct.\n    A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.\n    Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio.\n    Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Mass.\n    Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.\n    Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.\n    Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.\n    Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.\n    S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n    Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n    Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.\n    Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.\n    Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng.\n    WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y.\n    J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.\n    E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J.\n    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.\n    DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.\n    A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.\n    Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y.\n    FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.\n    JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I.\n    Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D, Mo.\n    J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.\n    E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.\n    C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.\n    Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal.\n    Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas.\n    Rev. W. H. WILLCOX, D. D., Mass.\n    Rev. G. B. WILLCOX, D. D., Ill.\n    Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D. D., N. Y.\n    Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, Mass.\n    Rev. E. B. WEBB, D. D., Mass.\n    Hon. C. I. WALKER, Mich.\n    Rev. A. H. ROSS, Mich.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._\n\n\n  DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n    REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n    REV. G. D. PIKE, D. D., _New York_.\n    REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n    H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.\n\n\n  EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n    ALONZO S. BALL,\n    A. S. BARNES,\n    C. T. CHRISTENSEN,\n    CLINTON B. FISK,\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n    S. B. HALLIDAY,\n    J. A. HAMILTON,\n    SAMUEL HOLMES,\n    CHARLES A. HULL,\n\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.   OCTOBER, 1881.   No. 10.\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n_American Missionary Association._\n\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association\nwill be held in Worcester, Mass., commencing November 1st, at 3 P. M.\nFor particulars see fourth page of cover and the religious press.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\nOur readers have already been informed of the death of Rev. K. M. Kemp\nof the Mendi Mission, and it now becomes our painful duty to chronicle\nthe death of his beloved wife. The latest advices inform us that their\ndeaths were neither of them due wholly to the climate. Mrs. Kemp was a\nbrave, true woman, whose life and example will not soon be forgotten in\nthe field where so many had already learned to love her.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\nBy the time this reaches our readers, Superintendent Ladd and Dr. Snow\nwill be well on their way toward the Arthington Mission. It is their\npurpose to push directly for the region of the Sobat in the heart of\nCentral Africa, with the view of locating the new mission. It will\ngive us pleasure to keep the public informed of the movements of their\nexpedition in this interesting portion of Africa. Two missionaries\nare under appointment to occupy this field at the call of the\nSuperintendent.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe take pleasure in announcing the safe arrival of Rev. O. H. White,\nD. D., from England. After a continuous service of over six years of\nearnest labor in the mother country, he well deserves the rest which\nhe now seeks. As Secretary of \u201cThe Freedmen\u2019s Missions Aid Society,\u201d\nhe has ably represented this Association in its great work for the\nNegro, and has been enabled, we trust, to insure the success of the\nArthington Mission, by so far interesting our British friends in this\nnew and promising missionary enterprise, as to call forth many generous\ncontributions toward its support.\n\nAs this number of the MISSIONARY will be in the hands of our readers a\nfew days before the close of our fiscal year, September 30th, we make\nthis reminder to the churches and friends who have not yet made their\nannual offering to our treasury.\n\nWe wish to pay every obligation, and report the year closed without\ndebt. If the gifts we have reason to hope for are promptly forwarded,\nwe shall be able to do this.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\nOne obstacle in the way of establishing missions in the interior\nof Africa is illustrated by the difficulties experienced by the\nmissionaries of the American Board destined for Bih\u00e9. Messrs. Bagster,\nSanders and Miller landed at Benguela on the coast, 250 miles from\nBih\u00e9, November 13, 1880; May 1st, they had only reached Bailunda,\n200 miles on their way, where they were still encamped awaiting the\narrival of supplies. Five months and seventeen days had been exhausted\nby preparations and delays, and the end had not come at last reports.\nPossibly, however, the knowledge gained meanwhile of the peculiarities\nof the country and the language and habits of the people will quite\ncompensate for loss of time, and enable them to lay the foundations for\ntheir future work far more wisely in consequence of the difficulties\nthus experienced.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Le Moyne Institute, Memphis, Tenn., has established an industrial\ndepartment for the purpose of teaching the girls the art of cookery.\nA kitchen has been furnished with all needful appliances. Lectures\nare given on housekeeping and household economy, which are followed\nby instruction in various methods of cooking different foods. The\ngirls all take turns in doing the work, and in this way get the full\nadvantage of the practice. The following list of questions on which a\nclass in cooking was examined at the last anniversary, illustrates the\nscope of the work that is being done:\n\n   1.  Name seven principal components of the human body.\n   2.  Name some of the principal foods used to supply these elements.\n   3.  At what time in the day is the most nutritious food required?\n   4.  What is the object in cooking food?\n   5.  Name three of the most healthful and economical modes of cooking\n       meat.\n   6.  Why are fried meats not healthful?\n   7.  What should be remembered in boiling or roasting meat?\n   8.  Give general principles for making soup.\n   9.  What is essential in making good light bread?\n  10.  How may bread be made \u201clight\u201d without the use of yeast or soda?\n  11.  Give general principles for mixing cake.\n  12.  Give receipt for making gruel.\n  13.  How should potatoes be boiled?\n  14.  Give rule for washing dishes and putting the kitchen in order.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe work among the refugees in Kansas by the different agencies has\nbeen carried forward with energy and success. According to the best\nestimates there are upwards of 50,000 colored people in that State, and\nthe number is steadily increasing. The reports from our missionaries\nare favorable, and indicate that much is to be done and that the\nrefugees are eager for the needed assistance. The interest taken in\nbehalf of the exodites by the English people is worthy of the imitation\nof American philanthropists. During the last few months, friends in\nGreat Britain have sent to Mrs. Comstock for the Freedmen\u2019s Relief\nAssociation, $25,000 worth of supplies, consisting of wearing apparel,\nhousehold goods and kitchen utensils. There has also been received\nfrom England during the last fifteen months $13,000 in money, making\na total amount of $80,000 for the treasury of the Relief Association;\ntwo-thirds of this is said to have been given by the English people.\nOur appeal, published some months since, for $2,500 to provide for the\nwork we have recently inaugurated in Kansas, has not yet met with such\nresponse as we hoped to receive. When so much is being done by friends\nabroad for this needy class of colored people, we believe the patrons\nof the American Missionary Association would not have us do less\nfor the Kansas field than we have already undertaken. Will they not\ncontribute so liberally for this special object that we shall be able\nto do a great deal more?\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe clip from the New York _Tribune_ a paragraph relating to the work\nof the American Missionary Association in the South. It comes from the\npen of a special correspondent, who, as the editorial in the _Tribune_\nsays, \u201chas already written with great intelligence and fairness of the\nSouth and the Southern people.\u201d\n\n\nSUCCESS OF COLORED TEACHERS.\n\n\u201cThe educational work in the South of the American Missionary\nAssociation is of the highest character, and deserves all possible\nrecognition and assistance. The leading Southern people everywhere\nspeak of it gratefully and enthusiastically. At the Normal and\nAgricultural Institute, Hampton, Va., at Talladega College, in Alabama,\nTougaloo University, Mississippi, Tillotson Normal School, Austin,\nTexas, and in several other colleges and normal schools which I have\nvisited, though the money endowment of the schools is scanty compared\nwith the amounts which are needed, the endowments in personal qualities\nand character, as represented by the teachers, are of a remarkably\nhigh order. This is indispensable indeed, for the peculiar nature of\nthe work of educating the colored people of the South requires the\nbest teachers that can be obtained. In many of these institutions the\nboys learn something of various trades or mechanical occupations, and\nof farming; and the girls are taught sewing, cooking and the care of\na house. I have visited a great number of the negro common and high\nschools, which are taught by graduates and students of the colleges and\nnormal schools which I have named, and I think it very wonderful that\nso many of these negro teachers are successful. They generally have to\nstruggle against many disadvantages, but nearly all whom I have seen\nhave the confidence and respect of the leading white citizens where\nthey are at work. I have found a few fools among them, of course, but a\ngreat majority appear to be sensible, earnest young men and women.\u201d\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTALLADEGA COLLEGE.\n\nPRESIDENT HENRY S. DE FOREST.\n\nThis issue of the MISSIONARY contains a view of Stone Hall, built of\nAlabama bricks at Talladega. Its completion, it is believed, marks an\nera in the history of the College. With better equipments than ever\nbefore, with a field as large as it can wish, the College, backed by\nthe history of half of one generation, looks forward with hope to the\ngrowing and unfolding future. From what has been we may attempt to\nprevise something of what may be.\n\nIn 1867, only fourteen years ago, when the Freedmen\u2019s Bureau was acting\nas Interex between past bloodshed and coming chaos, the building now\nknown as Swayne Hall, with ample and beautiful grounds, was purchased,\nand the future College begun with spelling book and Bible primer. A\nfew wise men of the East were there at its birth. They wore blue and\ncarried swords, though in the scabbard. But many black men, who had\nbeen waiting through a long and starless night, thought they heard an\nangel chorus and forthwith were praising God. A white male high school\nbuilding, reared by the unrequited labor of the slave, was bought at\na mortgage sale and opened for the Christian training of all, without\nrespect to color or sex. Men, black either in pigment or in figment,\nbegan to come, and the reconstructed building gave shelter to school\nand church. But a home was needed, and two years later, in 1869,\nFoster Hall was built, affording rooms for the girls and teachers, and\nalso table accommodations for the entire family. From the beginning,\nTalladega has united the three great forces in shaping character,\nnamely, the school, the church and the home. The foundations of the\nsecond building, Foster Hall, were laid while the Ku Klux Klan was\nbrandishing its weapons and grating its teeth. The Nehemiahs of that\ntime carried their weapons in one hand and wielded the trowel with\nthe other. But they built, and the God of Heaven prospered them. From\nthat time forward the quadrennial period has been observed. The year\nfollowing a Presidential election, Talladega College has inaugurated\nsome new thing. In 1873, Graves Hall with additional land was secured\nfor the theological department. In 1877, when President Hayes was\nholding out the olive branch, we attempted more of the peaceful pursuit\nof agriculture, and Winsted farm was bought. And now in the beginning\nof President Garfield\u2019s administration, the third brick building is\nreared, and Stone Hall opens its door to eighty young men.\n\n[Illustration: STONE HALL, TALLADEGA COLLEGE.]\n\nSurely this is rapid progress. Not half of one generation has passed,\nand the spelling book is supplemented by normal, college preparatory,\nto some extent college, and theological studies. Some of those first\nprimary students are preachers now. The babes of those recent days\nhave become the leaders of their race. Figures are not juicy; but\nit is noteworthy that one hundred and sixteen of our students were\nteaching during the last summer vacation; that three hundred and\neighteen who had pursued something of Normal studies have gone thence\nas pedagogues; that of our forty-two Theological students, fifteen\nare pastors of A. M. A. churches; as many more are ministering in\nother fields, and the remainder are still in training. Such facts are\ninspiriting and full of hope. These results, let it be remembered,\nhave been realized with meagre resources and poor appliances. If\nnow our means could be made more commensurate with our necessities,\nif our resources could compare with our opportunities, what a grand\nwork of patriotism and Christianity might not the College attempt and\nexpect in the near future. As regards the higher branches of learning,\nthe College has an unrivaled place in a great State, half of whose\npopulation is black. It has in Alabama more than 600,000 colored people\nfrom whom to draw its students. It cares for muscle as well as mind,\nand for heart most of all. It teaches industry and thrift and economy.\nIt emphasizes the fundamentals, and believes that the foundations of\nlearning should be laid before the superstructure is attempted. Still\nin its care for the masses, it is seeking for wise leaders, and wishes\nto take certain elect souls through as long and as thorough a course of\nstudy as the circumstances will allow. It aims especially to furnish\nmen well equipped for the Gospel ministry, and thinks it has found a\nplace for uplifting not only America, but Africa, and that by laboring\nthere among the foot-hills of our own Blue Ridge, it may help beautify\nthe Dark Continent with salvation. As long as cotton grows on those\nblack bottoms, or those hills yield their treasures of iron and coal,\nso long will Talladega College be needed, and so long it hopes to stay.\nIt desires to grow with the generations and increase with the ages.\nAlready it feels its need of permanent investments, and is asking for\nthe beginning of an endowment. It calls for the personal service of\nsome, and asks for the gifts of others who cannot offer themselves.\nIn both cases it gives an opportunity for usefulness as large and as\nlasting as can be desired.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\nRev. A. D. Mayo, D. D., writes in _The Christian Register_ of Talladega\nCollege as follows:\n\n\u201cThis year the institution numbers two hundred young men, women\nand children, of whom eleven are in the theological, eleven in the\npreparatory college, forty-eight in the normal, fifty-nine in the\nintermediate, and seventy-two in the primary department. Rev. Henry\nS. De Forest is president, and Rev. George W. Andrews pastor and\ninstructor in theology. Three men and six women teachers in addition\nmake up the teaching force; and an abler, more devoted, and more\nattractive people we have never met in any seminary of learning in any\npart of the country. They are all white, and represent every section\nof the Union and the Dominion of Canada. Talladega may congratulate\nitself on its \u201cnegro college,\u201d for probably no institution in the State\nrepresents more thoroughly the best modern ideas of education.\u201d\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE STRONG AND THE WEAK.\n\nBY PROF. G. N. MARDEN, COLORADO SPRINGS, COL.\n\n[Illustration:\n  Large outer square labelled: WHITE POPULATION.\n  Then three squares from bottom right.\n  - 35% side, labelled: COLORED POPULATION.\n  - 8% side labelled: INDIAN.\n    with bottom fifth shaded grey\n  - 5% side labelled: CHIN.]\n\nInjustice seems never more flagrant than when committed by the\nprosperous and powerful against the poor and weak. If the moral test of\ncivilization, as of society, is its care for its weakest members, we\nhardly dare to measure our country by the history of its treatment of\nthe Negro, the Indian and the Chinaman.\n\nThe diagram above is designed to illustrate the numerical strength of\nthe white element of the United States, as compared with three other\nelements of the population. The large bordered square (whose side is\nten centimeters) represents our country\u2019s _total_ population\u2014a round\nfifty millions. The colored population\u2014not less than six and a half\nmillions\u2014is signified by the square in the lower right hand corner.\nClose beside it is the little square which stands for the size of the\nIndian\u2014about three hundred thousand souls; the shaded portion of the\nsquare means the _wild_ Indians\u2014about fifty thousand. The dreaded\nChinese element of our population can be seen by looking for the minute\nsquare, which represents one hundred thousand.\n\nThis diagram, in enlarged form, can be effectively used in the\nMissionary Concert. To a large square of stout paper, smaller squares\nof different colored paper may be pinned. Correct proportions for\npaper or for blackboard illustrations would be, following the order\nof the size of the population, 50, 18, 3.87 and 2.23 centimeters\nrespectively; or, in inches, about 19-2/3, 7-1/10, 1-1/2 and 7/8. These\nfigures denote the base lines of the respective squares.\n\nHow the powerful white man looms up and looms over the little group of\nthe three ill-treated races huddled in the corner!\n\nThe black block makes no insignificant figure, after all, and its\nrapid growth suggests that to have, through neglect, a dense body of\nsuch dimensions depressed by ignorance were a blunder matched only by\nthe wickedness of oppression. The size of the Indian and the Chinaman\nsuggests strongly the outrageous meanness of ill-using them; it makes\nmore striking the absurdity of a war policy against the red man, and\nof the demagogue\u2019s appeal to fear on account of the presence of the\nChinaman.\n\nWhat an opportunity, on our own shores, for strength to help weakness,\nfor knowledge to help ignorance, for wealth to help poverty, and so to\nfulfil the law of a Christian civilization!\n\nSurely it is high time for us to heed the weighty saying of John\nMilton: \u201c_A nation ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one\nmighty growth or stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue\nas in body; for look, what the ground and causes of single happiness to\none man, the same we shall find them to a whole state._\u201d\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGIVING, VIEWED FROM A COMMONPLACE STAND-POINT.\n\nREV. SAM\u2019L SCOVILLE.\n\nWe think this whole matter of giving is put so high sometimes that it\ngets clear out of sight of common people. We love now and then to put\nit down upon the basis of common virtues and moralities and see how it\nlooks.\n\nMotives, springing from the highest spiritual insight and experience,\nare good and always in order, but they are not essential to a fair\njudgment nor to proper action in this matter. A man may have much less\nthan John\u2019s spirituality or Paul\u2019s experience to decide that there is a\nglaring inconsistency in praying for the building up of God\u2019s kingdom\non the earth, and then withholding the means necessary to that end; in\npraying that the Gospel may fly to earth\u2019s remotest bound, and then\nrefusing to contribute to the amount of a single wing feather to help\nits flight.\n\nIt does not take a great deal of spiritual insight to see that we\ncannot serve God and mammon at the same time in our churches with\nadvantage, any more than we can in our own hearts, and that if the\nJudas of worldliness carries the bag, there is going to be a betrayal\nof the Master some day. The most common of common sense judgment is all\nthat is needed for so simple a conclusion.\n\nAnd it is not necessarily any high revelation required, but only an\nappreciation and approval of square dealing, to convince us that a\nchurch must so raise its money, and to such amounts, that it will be\nable to do its share towards carrying on the great work of evangelizing\nthe world.\n\nIn these days of missionary spirit every church is to broaden out its\nparish lines until they meet only at the antipodes. All the dark places\nof the earth belong to us to do something for, to do what we can for,\nand we are not to raise our money nor use it so that this part of the\nwork is neglected. To cheat the heathen out of his portion of the\nGospel is an immorality. To help carry the Gospel to the heathen in the\nuttermost parts of the earth must be accepted by every church as a part\nof its moral obligation. This may make it necessary to put less expense\ninto church choirs, into adornments and improvements\u2014that the minister\nand the sexton shall receive smaller salaries. So be it; let the whole\nfield be looked over, and let each receive the share adapted to him.\nThis is good morals in this matter.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\n\u2014Hamilton College receives $5,000 from Lemuel Brooks, of Churchville,\nN. Y.\n\n\u2014Henry Villiard has given to the Oregon State University $70,000 to\nrelieve its indebtedness.\n\n\u2014D. O. Mills has given to the University of California $75,000 to endow\na chair of intellectual and moral philosophy.\n\n\u2014William H. Vanderbilt proposes to add to his previous gifts one-half\nor two-thirds enough to erect and equip suitable buildings for the\nNashville Female College.\n\n\u2014Mr. George B. Babcock, of Plainfield, N. J., has recently given\n$30,000 to Alfred University, and still later $10,000 to Wilson College\nat Wilson, Wisconsin.\n\n\u2014The will of the widow of the late ex-President Millard Fillmore leaves\npublic bequests to the amount of $50,000, among which is one of $20,000\nto the University of Rochester.\n\n\u2014Matthew Vassar, following in the good work of his uncle, bequeathed to\nthe college which bears the family name the handsome sum of $130,000;\nto the Vassar Brothers Home for Aged Men, $15,000; and to the Vassar\nBrothers Hospital, $85,000. These contributions are to be largely\nincreased by some residuary legacies.\n\n\u2014The following table shows the increase of endowments of the New\nEngland colleges during the past year: Harvard, $500,000; Yale,\n$250,000; Amherst, $75,000; Tufts, $120,000; Smith, $43,000; Dartmouth,\n$110,000; University of Vermont, $50,000; Wesleyan, $100,000; Colby,\n$30,000; total, $1,278,000.\n\n\u2014_Talladega College, Talladega, Ala., is erecting Stone Hall, by the\ngift of Mrs. Stone\u2014the fourth College building. Endowments now are\nthe great necessity. $25,000 will provide for a Professorship, and\nthere are four such needing endowment, one of these a Theological\nProfessorship._\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n\u2014Forty light-houses of great range have been established in the Red\nSea, to render navigation less dangerous during the night.\n\n\u2014Dr. Schweinfurth has returned to Suez after a month\u2019s exploration\nin the Island of Socotora, where he found a very abundant flora. The\nforests constitute the principal riches of the isle.\n\n\u2014Following the massacre of the expedition Giulietti, two Italian\nvessels have been sent to Assab, to be stationed there during the\ninquest that the Egyptian Government has ordered, with a view of\ndiscovering the murderers and punishing them. They will be supported by\nan English vessel.\n\n\u2014Dr. Southern, of the London Missionary Society, has been laboring for\nmore than a year at Urambo, the capital of the noted chief Mirambo. He\nhas been received with much cordiality, and is able to report results\nof his work in terms which are suggestive of a bright future for that\nstation.\n\n\u2014The Governor of the Gold Coast has placed, as a condition to the\nconclusion of a treaty with the King of Achantis, the abolition of\nhuman sacrifices in the states of the latter. The king having demanded\nthat a representative of the Governor should visit him, M. Maloney, the\nColonial Secretary, has accompanied Prince Buaki, who has returned to\nCoomassie.\n\n\u2014The necessary materials for the construction of the railroad of\nthe Senegal have been transported over the upper river, the King of\nFoutah guaranteeing the security of the passage. There is still some\ndifficulty with the King of Cayor on the subject of the passage of the\nroad over his territory, but they hope for a satisfactory solution.\n\n\u2014A business house in Hamburg has sent out an agent to attempt the\nculture of coffee in the region of the Ogove. A clearing has been\nmade near Corisco bay, where several thousand coffee trees have\nbeen planted, promising an abundant harvest this year. The American\nPresbyterians have a mission some hundreds of miles up the Ogove river,\nand the project is on foot to open a route this way to Stanley Pool on\nthe Congo.\n\n\u2014The Universities Mission to Central Africa, which was first\nundertaken in 1860 through the influence of Dr. Livingstone, and\nafterwards suspended, has recently entered upon a very hopeful career.\nBishop Steere has now a well equipped staff of thirty-one European\nmissionaries, of whom seven are ladies. He already understands the\nlanguage of the tribes among whom he labors. The present work of the\nmission is threefold: First, that on the island of Zanzibar, which is\nnow of a comprehensive character, including many agencies; secondly,\nthe work at Magila and its surroundings, some forty miles from\nPangani, on the main land to the north of Zanzibar; and thirdly, the\nmissions on the main land to the south in the Rovuma district.\n\n\u2014The _Missionary Herald_ for August, the organ of the Baptist\nMissionary Society of London, contains an admirable map of the Congo\nfrom its mouth to Stanley Pool. This Society already has a mission at\nSan Salvador, south of the Congo, between one hundred and two hundred\nmiles from the coast. It recently sent two of its missionaries, Mr. H.\nE. Crudgington and Mr. W. H. Bentley, on an exploring tour to Stanley\nPool for the purpose of fixing a site for a mission at the latter\npoint. The report of their exploration is given almost entire in the\n_Herald_, and constitutes one of the most interesting and profitable\nnarratives of perseverance and heroism that has been given to the\npublic in the annals of missions.\n\n\u2014The C. M. S. of London has established a new mission at Uyui, a\ncollection of villages under the control of a governor appointed by the\nSultan of Zanzibar. It is described as a very large town for Africa.\nMr. Copplestone, one of the early missionaries for Mtesa\u2019s kingdom,\ntook up his abode at Uyui in 1879, and in June 1880 was joined by Mr.\nLitchfield, who came south from Uganda for the benefit of his health.\nMr. Copplestone, who has learned the Unyamnezi language, has built a\nschool-room where he teaches the natives. He is assisted by one of the\nFrere Town African Christians.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\u2014The Baptist Home Missionary Society has established at Tahiequah,\nIndian Territory, the \u201cIndian University,\u201d and at present conducts a\nschool in their mission buildings. The society is out with an appeal\nfor buildings and endowments.\n\n\u2014The Board of Publication of the Presbyterian Church supports a Book,\nTract and Sunday-school missionary in the Indian Territory. Meetings\nare held, families visited, and a large amount of religious literature\nis scattered broadcast. The work is reported to be quite encouraging.\n\n\u2014Mr. Townsend, Special Agent of the Indian Department, has organized an\nIndian police force among the Pimas. His squad consists of fifteen men\nunder the command of Captain Maichu, a very competent and trustworthy\nIndian. The primary object of the force is to maintain order in a\nquiet way, and to educate the tribe in the principles and practices of\ncivilization.\n\n\u2014Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D. D., to whom the country is so much indebted\nfor his admirable work on Alaska, is now on a visit to that territory,\nsuperintending the building of two mission chapels, besides attending\nto other duties. A recent gift of $1,000 from a lady in Zanesville,\nOhio, in aid of the one at Chileat, is mentioned as an important factor\nin the movement.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u2014The chief official at the custom house near Bangkok, Siam, is a negro.\nThe position is a very responsible one, and was given to him on account\nof his education, honesty and capacity. He is said to discharge his\nduties with much efficiency and satisfaction to the government.\n\n\u2014Mr. S. A. Butler, a pure negro, at one time a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Anson\nBurlingame, is in charge of one of the most important departments of\nthe Chinese Steamship Company. He is a natural organizer, and when\nemployed by the company, systematized the business, brought order out\nof chaos, introduced economy, enforced discipline, and rivaled the\nEuropeans in their steamship service. The result is that after two\nyears\u2019 work this Chinese Steamship Company, instead of running at a\nloss, has earned over $1,000,000 net profit.\n\n\u2014Some gentlemanly Chinese laborers in Chicago gave a banquet to about\ntwo hundred of their American Christian friends, not long since, in the\nrooms of the Young Men\u2019s Christian Association. The sons of the Flowery\nKingdom were in full bloom, quiet, radiant and attentive. The tables\nwere beautifully adorned and sumptuously loaded. Speeches were made by\nRev. James Powell, Franklin Fisk and Ah Sing Get. The entertainment\nwas enlivened by the singing of a number of \u201cMoody and Sankey\u201d songs,\nwhich lost nothing by the slight Chinese brogue with which they were so\nearnestly rendered.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nWOODBRIDGE, N. C.\u2014Rev. W. H. Ellis reports a very interesting and\nprecious revival among the children growing out of the Band of Hope\ntemperance work.\n\nBEAUFORT, N. C.\u2014One of the colored bishops testified to a brother that\nthe church at Beaufort, though small, was a power for good that could\nnot be estimated.\n\nMCINTOSH, LIBERTY CO., GA.\u2014We feel especially thankful for the\nbeautiful organ presented to us by the Smith American Organ Company;\nalso for articles of clothing sent by the Ladies\u2019 Benevolent Society,\n2d Church, Keene, N. H., and the ladies of Framingham, Mass., to\ndistribute among the needy ones around us. A blind father, who has a\none-armed wife and seven children to care for, is just leaving us with\nhis quota.\n\nWOODVILLE, GA.\u2014Pilgrim church was crowded last night to witness the\nreception of nine persons to the church. During the revival, still\ngoing on, seven persons professed conversion, and two backsliders\nreturned home. Next Sunday night a thanksgiving service will be held\nand a collection will be taken up to help rebuild three churches that\nwere blown down by the recent storm.\n\nSAVANNAH, GA.\u2014Special meetings were held in this church in the summer.\nRev. S. N. Brown, temporary supply, was aided by Rev. John McLean, of\nMiller\u2019s Station. More than a score of souls were hopefully joined to\nChrist.\n\nHELENA, TEXAS.\u2014Rev. M. Thompson, pastor, rejoices over a revival in his\nchurch. Nearly every unconverted person in the community was moved, and\nnot a few to a final reconciliation.\n\nMEMPHIS, TENN.\u2014Pastor Imes had his people come in upon him by way of\na surprise party, August 30th, to celebrate his wife\u2019s birthday. Many\nuseful presents, of no small value, were the tokens of love.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D. D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nKENTUCKY.\n\nTHE WORK AT BEREA.\n\nNestling in a charming \u201cglade,\u201d overshadowed by the North-western\nfoot-hills of the mighty Appalachian mountain world, is Berea College.\nIt is not exclusively a school for teachers, but includes the entire\norganization of popular education from an effective primary school\nup to a solid university class of twenty-five, with a normal course\nfor instruction in methods of teaching. Its pupils are of both sexes\nand colors, and another year may possibly witness the white, negro\nand Indian quietly at work in the same class-rooms, with no rivalry\nexcept the honest pride to excel in good scholarship and manly or\nwomanly character. But in this, for the South, exceptional feature,\nthere comes in the most interesting peculiarity of this most \u201cpeculiar\ninstitution.\u201d With a few exceptions from the North and the blue-grass\nregion of Kentucky, the white students come from the great mountain\ncountry that overlooks the college campus. This region, in Kentucky,\nincludes a country as extensive as the whole State of New Hampshire,\nand not unlike it in shape. Here, in a mountain world, divided into\nthirty counties, out of hearing of the railroad whistle, in many parts\ntraversed only on horseback, with no village containing five thousand\nand very few one thousand people, dwells a population of nearly two\nhundred thousand, more thoroughly isolated from the New America than\nthe settlers in Oregon or the latest hamlet in Dakota. Living almost\nentirely from the land, in the narrowest way, on narrow means, with\nfew tolerable schools and a good deal of intolerable preaching, with\nan almost total destitution of books, newspapers and ordinary means of\ncultivation, completely shut off from social contact with the ruling\nclass of the State, this people is peculiar in many ways.\n\nOut from this interesting region come the majority of the white\nstudents of Berea. Few of them are able even to meet the yearly sum\nof seventy-five dollars, for which their education is given them.\nMany of them, even the girls, walk from their homes, and come in with\nnothing but a stout suit of clothes, a good head and a brave heart,\npaying their way as they go by such work as turns up, and the small\nwages of mountain school-keeping in the long summer vacations. They\nhave no leisure to discuss the vexed topic of co-education that worries\ngrave professors and doubting students at Yale and Harvard; indeed,\nthe young fellow not unfrequently brings in his sister, cousin and\nprospective \u201cannex\u201d to sit down at the same table of knowledge. He is\nmore anxious to lift his own end of a problem than to quarrel with the\ncolored boy who is tugging at the other end. Indeed, at Berea one seems\nto be in that ideal university where an overpowering desire for study\nlifts the entire body of students above a whole class of questions that\neven yet convulse politicians and people, schoolmen and churches, South\nand North. They live together; the girls, of course, under careful\nsupervision; study, work, recite, play and worship together; students\nand teachers, children and grown men and women, in one family. Probably\nno American school of three hundred and seventy students goes through\nthe year with so little disturbance, is so easily governed, or so\ngenerally absorbed in the work in hand. This year the faculty consists\nof thirteen professors and teachers under President E. H. Fairchild,\nand three hundred and sixty-nine students, of whom nine are in the\ncollege classical and twenty-five in the literary course, forty-five\nin the normal, and the remainder in the preparatory department. The\naverage age is sixteen. Two hundred and forty-nine are colored and one\nhundred and twenty are white; two hundred and six males and one hundred\nand sixty-three females.\n\nThe instruction is excellent, probably equal in quality to any school\nin the State; and the proficiency of the pupils remarkable, considering\ntheir previous estate. The primary school-room contains twenty stout\nfellows ranging from eighteen to twenty-five years of age; but it\nis not uncommon for one of these boys to go forth as a tolerable\nschool-master among the colored people after two years\u2019 hard work at\nBerea. Indeed, if one were to look for signs of mental power, he need\nnot go outside the beautiful campus of this school. We positively\nnever witnessed such progress in learning as is the common talk\namong these teachers. These stalwart young men and resolute maidens\nfrom the mountains buckle to their books with a will that knows no\ndiscouragement. They go back to their homes to become the pride of\ntheir friends and the hope of their neighborhood. Nearly every student\nis a member of the church and the temperance society, and the carrying\nof arms is cause of expulsion. All classes of the Southern people are\ngood listeners. We never addressed an audience of three hundred people\nthat put us more decisively on our mettle than the crowd of students\nand villagers that did us the favor to crowd the chapel on four\nunpleasant nights to listen to our talks on education.\n\nWe do not propose to defend Berea against any objector. A school with\nsuch tough Kentucky roots as Fee, Hanson, and their compeers; with a\nhistory so romantic in its heroic past and so startling in its recent\ngrowth; with a foundation on three hundred acres of \u201csacred soil,\u201d two\nhundred thousand dollars worth of excellent buildings, in a situation\nunrivaled in beauty; a faculty representing the best culture and\ncharacter of the North-west, with the rising ability of the South; and\na population of five hundred friendly people within sound of chapel\nbells; can be trusted to plead its own cause against all comers. It\nis already commending itself to many of the best people of Kentucky,\nreceiving students from families of highest respectability in the\nneighborhood, and on commencement days the great tabernacle is crammed\nwith three thousand people, from the humblest to the highest in the\nproud old State. Berea is a great American fact, comprehensible only\nto a man who has read, pondered and inwardly digested the Sermon on\nthe Mount and its corollary, the Constitution of the United States. If\nno similar college should ever exist, this will live in its own place\nin American history, a splendid evidence of the power of a consecrated\neducation to bind together all sorts and conditions of good women and\nearnest men.\u2014_Dr. Mayo in Journal of Education._\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSOWING IN TEARS AND REAPING IN JOY\u2014BEREA COLLEGE.\n\nREV. J. A. R. ROGERS.\n\nThe rule is that a long time must elapse between the sowing and the\nreaping. Abraham\u2019s patience in Canaan for long years seemed destined\nto be fruitless in those things which God had promised him; not a\nfoot of Canaan did he own, and he was still childless; his faith was\ntried to the uttermost, and only by a great struggle was he kept from\ndespair. After centuries, that sowing began to produce a harvest,\nnot yet but partially reaped. The recent addition of $50,000 to the\nendowment of Berea College calls to mind the long, weary days of\nstruggle and almost despair in its early history. The apparent success\nfor a time, to be followed by every sort of discouragement, was not\nthe least of the trials of those whose labors were the occasion for\nBerea College. Churches were formed, and many seemed heartily in favor\nof the Gospel of Christ, which commands and secures love; and then\npersecutions would arise, and such a perfect torrent of public opinion\nagainst the \u201cabolitionists,\u201d that large numbers would succumb to the\nadverse influences, and the love of many would wax cold. Again, such\npersecutions would arise, that for a time only women were regarded as\nsafe in attending the preaching services of Mr. Fee and others. After\nthe school was started in 1858, which culminated in Berea College,\nthere were still those great alternations of prosperity and apparent\ndefeat which are so hard to bear. One term, large numbers of students\nwould come, including the children of slaveholders, and the next, only\nthose would apply for admission who could endure the reproach of being\ncalled \u201c_nigger lovers_.\u201d Even after the war, when two or three colored\nchildren entered the primary department, there was such a stampede from\nevery department, that the principal, in sorrow, said to the few that\ntimidly remained, \u201cWill ye also go away?\u201d\n\nThose years from \u201955 to \u201966 were years of sowing in great sorrow. The\nmissionaries of the A. M. A. were very poor; their salaries were $400\nper year, and some of that sum must be expended for those still poorer.\nThey lived in almost constant terror of their lives. If for any cause\nthey were north of the Ohio River for a few weeks, they breathed such a\nfree atmosphere that it seemed almost like getting into Heaven. By many\nthey were regarded with suspicion and contempt. The writer remembers\nwhat cringing of the nerves he often had to endure, in walking the\nstreets of one of the central towns of Kentucky. People would stare at\nhim as if he were a hyena let loose. It is not easy to describe what\nwere the sorrows of those years, the greatest of which was that so many\nprofessed friends fell away in time of danger, and that so many bearing\nthe name of Christ at those times were ready to deny their faith.\n\nBut this sowing has in some respects given way to reaping, even in\nthe lifetime of those who watered the ground with their tears. Now at\nBerea is a college in some respects unlike any other in the land. Here,\nthree hundred in all, are seen white and colored students in about\nequal numbers. Here is a sort of Mecca for the colored people of the\nState, and a door of hope for many in the mountain region, who, though\nwhite, have had but few religious and educational privileges. Here is a\ncollege ably manned, with the confidence of the North, and growing in\nthe regard of the South, sending forth its streams of blessing in every\ndirection. If the tears of sorrow were many, the tears of joy and\nthanksgiving to God have been much more abundant.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTENNESSEE.\n\nMISS ALICE E. CARTER, NASHVILLE.\n\nAmong the men of Tennessee, the great and crying need seems to be the\nvery practical knowledge of some trade; the range of their individual\nusefulness is so often limited to gardening, grooming, rock-beating and\nshoveling.\n\nThe talent for gardening is a dormant one in winter; rock-beating\ncannot be followed in the coldest weather, and it is easy to see that\nthe other ranks may at times be filled to overflowing, and those not\nfortunate enough to get in, are out of employment.\n\nWhat a noble enterprise for someone to found an industrial school for\ncolored boys, which shall draw in the bright-eyed ragged boys, now\nlounging on the street corners or quarreling in the alleys, learning\nnothing except evil, daily!\n\nTo help a few such boys, though temporarily, I hold in my room,\none evening in the week, a little reception. Good stories, earnest\nconversation, plenty of books and papers to look over while here, are\nthe means put forth to help those who come. When they go away they\ncarry with them text-cards and old numbers of _St. Nicholas_ from my\nvery primitive \u201ccirculating library.\u201d\n\nMy cottage Sunday-school is a very interesting undertaking. Compassion\nfor the pitiful little street waifs, too small to find their way to\nthe remote city Sunday-schools, led me to try to make a bright spot in\ntheir day. It was a simple thing to gain permission of a woman, with\nfour tiny girls, to hold Sunday-school in her cottage, and the simplest\nmatter to fill the small room with children. To walk through the alley\nand say \u201cCome\u201d to any ragged, deformed or dirty little child was all\nthat was necessary. How well our Lord understood the willingness of the\npeople of the \u201chighways and hedges!\u201d\n\nEach Sunday the little ones come with ludicrously solemn faces and\ndecorous manners; and sitting on the beds, or a board between two\nchairs, and on the hearth before the fire-place, are as happy as can be.\n\nNot one can read; not one knew the name of Jesus, except one boy whose\nfather\u2019s oaths made him know it; yet all know and love the story now.\nThe teaching is necessarily by dictation, and my great wonder is that\nthe little minds remember so much.\n\nTheir singing they do with faces all smiles, and when the moment comes\nfor distributing the text-cards and child papers full of beautiful\npictures, their joy knows no bounds. These may be loaves and fishes\nfor which the children come, and yet, like the multitude of old, they\nperhaps carry away with them something better.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nMRS. M. V. CURTIS, SELMA.\n\nHave I ever written for the MISSIONARY? Well, no; but then why not?\nsince I have something very particular to say to my friends in the\nNorth; and I have neither head nor hand for all the letters I want to\nwrite; for there is the concert for August 30, (proceeds to be put\ninto the winter\u2019s supply of coal, this being the month when prices are\ndown); and the \u201cHarvest Home\u201d (a literary entertainment to be given by\nour \u201cYoung People\u2019s Guild\u201d some time in October), to be arranged for;\nalso some appropriate music to be prepared for the evening when our two\n\u201cpolitical refugees\u201d are to lecture on Arkansas, where they have been\nteaching and traveling during the past two years.\n\nWhy won\u2019t it be a stroke of policy to let that press away off in\nNew York do the work for me, for manifolding letters is not easy,\nand the inspiration is lost after the first recital? I wonder if my\ncorrespondents will not count this as an individual letter and send me\nletters in return.\n\nHow I do wish that you all could have been of the number that gathered\nin our pretty church a week ago Sabbath night\u2014our pretty church, with\nits white walls, its wood-work of rich yellow pine, exquisite with\nGod\u2019s own graining, and the crimson carpet for the two platforms, the\nwalnut table, vase and bracket, all the gift of the ladies of the\nchurch.\n\nThe night was matchless, and at an early hour a good audience had\ngathered (A. M. A. pastors have not always the encouragement of\nnumbers). We had reached out into the homes through the Sunday-school\nchildren, and the result showed the wisdom of our course.\n\nAfter the opening exercises, Mr. C. read to an attentive audience,\nMr. De Forest\u2019s racy letter of his experiences in the theatres of\nTottori, Japan. A quartet then besought us in song to \u201cTell it out,\u201d\nthis story of Christ, to the heathen, a sermon indeed in song. One of\nour young teachers read of the two _mice_ the little Sunday-school\nscholar brought as her two _mites_, for so she understood it. Another\ngave a crumb for the boys, found in the MISSIONARY; and when a sweet\nsoprano and alto pled for Burmah, and Burmah herself seemed to speak\nin the plaintive strains, that were borne to our ears through an open\nwindow, the effect was impressive, and the surprise and pleasure of the\naudience was manifest. The \u201cLittle Zulu Band\u201d sang a sweet song of the\nneeds of Zululand.\n\nAnd now I have come to the crowning exercise of the evening; for surely\nthat patient little group on the front seat, conscious of a secret\nhidden behind the white cards they wore, was not there for nothing.\nThey knew that the reason they were bidden to wait till the last was\njust because theirs was to be the best of all, and so it proved.\n\nQuietly they filed up the opposite aisles, making a semicircle in the\nalcove back of the pulpit (which, by the way, had been removed). Above\ntheir heads, on the white walls of the alcove, was the reminder of\nour Conference, two years ago, the motto, \u201cPraise ye the Lord.\u201d Then\nthose pretty evergreen letters, that did duty at Burlington, Wis.,\nwere employed again to spell out the sweet motto, \u201cAll for Jesus.\u201d The\nrecitations, concert exercises, questions and answers that followed,\nwere well given, and were a little sermon in themselves. How we prayed\nthat God would bless them to each one present! But the climax was\nreached when one of our young men came forward, and taking up a large\nglobe that had been standing upon the table, said: \u201cTo-night we will\nunite and extend the motto to \u2018All the world for Jesus.\u2019\u201d His manner\nwas dignified and his words impressive, as he went on to tell of the\nneeds of the whole world. Then came from each of the eleven, in answer\nto his question, \u201cFrom what countries they should come who before Jesus\nin white should stand?\u201d the names of country after country, the wide\nworld over.\n\nTurning to the audience the speaker told us not to say that time was\ntoo far off, and surprised most of us by saying that if each one now\nliving, who had taken \u201cAll for Jesus\u201d for his life motto, should bring\none soul to Jesus each year, the whole world would soon be converted.\n\nThe same young girls who had sung \u201cZulu Band,\u201d came forward and sang\nsweetly, \u201cAll for Jesus,\u201d the others joining in the chorus. The groups\nremained in their places while the audience arose and joined in the\ndoxology, and with reverent heads received the benediction.\n\nOur W. M. A. gathered for its second \u201cMissionary Tea Party\u201d on Friday\nof the same week. The reading of letters from our absent sisters and\nfrom \u201cThe Morning Star,\u201d together with the singing of missionary\nsongs, occupied an hour, and while we discussed our tea, we chatted of\nwhat we could do for our Selma boys at Tougaloo, and decided to call\nour September meeting a \u201cMissionary Quilting,\u201d and put on and off two\nquilts. The ladies say it can be done.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nExtract from a fraternal letter of Rev. T. L. Day, in behalf of the\nNational Council to the General Conference of the Congregational\nMethodists, in session at Fredonia, Ga.:\n\n\u201cWe feel that you agree with us when we express the hope that the time\nwill come when there will be no distinction of North and South, but\nwhen our whole people will understand and trust and love each other.\nPolitical parties pass away and new ones take their places; but, God\nhelping us, the Congregational method of church government shall never\npass away, but it shall be (as long as grass grows and streamlets\nflow) a firm _bond_ of _union_ and brotherly love between us and you\nand all other Christians who accept it in its purity. The spirit of\nthe Congregationalism we honor laments both the bigotry of sect and\nthe bitterness of sectional politics. It teaches us, both as citizens\nand Christians, to love each other. In this spirit of love some of the\nablest and most devoted ministers and educators of our denomination\nhave been giving their best strength to our missionary institutions of\neducation in the South. This work is supported by the self-sacrificing\ncontributions of our churches. They believe (what your leading men have\ntold us) that the race for which they do this missionary work must\nhave a training and education in morality and in religious principle,\nor they will be the greatest source of danger and evil to the South.\nWe know that these brethren are striving to work wholly in the spirit\nof Christ; and that every noble-minded Southerner, if he could only\nsee their hearts and their devotion to the future of your fair land,\nwould wish them God-speed. And if any of you, who are our brethren in\nthe faith, should ever come to see good results from their efforts,\nand should be moved to speak the word of sympathy to those engaged in\nthis lonely and difficult work, it will surely be reckoned to you by\nour Lord and Master as the \u2018cup of cold water,\u2019 given in the name of a\ndisciple.\u201d\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTEXAS.\n\nDEATH OF S. B. WHITE.\n\nREV. J. W. ROBERTS, PARIS.\n\nOur faithful missionary, S. B. White, died about three o\u2019clock\nyesterday, of congestive chills and fever.\n\nHe closed a very successful school session here the first of July. He\nwent out north of Paris, on Red River, to teach. The water and climate\ndid not agree with him. He made out to teach one month and a few days\nby hard struggle, and came up Friday before last, looking like the very\nshadow of death, conducted Sunday-school on Sunday, and was here to\npreaching that night. Two o\u2019clock Sunday night he started back to his\nschool, notwithstanding he was warned not to return. He reached there\nthrough hard struggle, and was there from Tuesday to Friday, trying to\nget some conveyance to bring him home. On Friday, August 19, he heard\nof a wagon that was coming in, so he walked two miles from the place\nwhere he was boarding, to take passage, which walk was too exhausting\nfor his already diseased frame. Thus he had to come in a rough wagon\nin all of Friday\u2019s scorching sun, a distance of some twenty-one or\ntwenty-two miles, with frequent fainting spells. He reached here Friday\nafternoon at 6 o\u2019clock, where he had the best attention shown him both\nby his friends and physician. He was not confined to the bed until\nMonday night.\n\nHe had not the least fear of dying. He said: \u201cDon\u2019t fret for me; but I\nwant you all to meet me in Heaven. I am going to that beautiful land of\nrest to live with Jesus. \u2018There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn\nfrom Immanuel\u2019s veins,\u2019\u201d etc. He described the kind of coffin he wished\nto be buried in. He was the most faithful Christian I ever saw. We have\nlost a noble Christian worker.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWe have the following information relating to the death of Mr. Kemp at\nthe Mendi Mission, from Rev. J. M. Williams, missionary at Kaw Mendi.\nMr. Williams\u2019 long experience in Africa has qualified his heart and\nmind to sympathize most fully with the afflicted. He is a colored man,\nborn in British Guiana, South America, and has rendered much good\nservice to the cause of missions during the past sixteen years.\n\nMr. Williams writes:\u2014Of the dangerous illness of Mrs. Kemp and of\nthe death of Mr. Kemp, I had not heard a word till I arrived at Good\nHope on Saturday. I knocked at the door of the mission house with the\nfullest expectation of enjoying the company of Mr. and Mrs. Kemp. The\nclosed doors and windows might have awakened apprehension that all was\nnot well, but they did not. The death-like silence that was within,\nafter my repeated knocking at the door, created not the slightest\nsuspicion or foreboding that sickness and death had preceded me, and\nforever removed my beloved and esteemed friend. After the third rapping\nat the door, the watchman came to the foot of the stairs and said: \u201cNo\npusson there, sir;\u201d and in reply to my questions, he further said:\n\u201cMissis done gone to town. The new massa that came t\u2019other day, he done\ndied.\u201d I could not, and did not, believe the man till after he replied\nthree times to my half-frantic interrogations, \u201cMassa Kemp done died.\u201d\nWords are inadequate to express my feelings then and now. During my\nsixteen years\u2019 residence in Africa no event has so sadly affected me as\nthe death of Mr. Kemp, except the death of my two children. I feel it\nkeenly. I deeply sympathize with Mrs. Kemp and with the Association. It\nis a severe blow to us all, and especially to this station and mission.\nAlthough the residence of the Kemps here was short, yet they were much\nrespected and beloved by the inhabitants of Bonthe. By the Europeans,\nfrom the Commandant downward, and by the colored people, I have heard\nthem spoken of in the most flattering terms.\n\nWhile still suffering from the intensity of grief produced by such\nsudden and unexpected intelligence, Mr. Jowett came and confirmed\nwhat I had heard from the watchman. I was informed by Mr. Jowett that\nBrother Kemp left Good Hope Station for Avery to see Mr. Jackson on the\n11th of May, and returned on the 13th. On the way home he was exposed\nto several heavy showers of rain. About two days after his return he\nwas attacked with intermittent fever. Mrs. Kemp was also dangerously\nill and not expected to recover. This kept him up when he ought to have\nbeen in bed. Under the combined weight of a disordered mind and body,\nhe sank rapidly until life departed. He had a strong presentiment, two\ndays before his death, that his end was near and his work on earth\ndone, and informed Mrs. Kemp of his convictions. He said: \u201cThe doctor\nhas done all he can do. I am ready to die. I commend you to God.\u201d\nDuring his illness he was attended by Brother Jowett, Mrs. During, and\nother kind friends.\n\nHe died on Sunday morning, May 29th, at 10 o\u2019clock, without a struggle\nor groan. He fell asleep in Jesus, and his disembodied spirit took its\nhappy flight to join the great congregation in Heaven. His remains\nwere moved to the chapel at 4 P. M., and from thence to the mission\ncemetery, followed by a large concourse of every color, rank and\nstation in the community. According to his request, his body now lies\nat the entrance of the grave-yard under the shade of a large mango\ntree. I shall do my best to get a few iron-tree posts, and to have\nthe grave enclosed as soon as possible after I return to Kaw Mendi,\nand I cherish the hope that the friends of the mission will procure a\ndesirable tombstone to be erected over the grave, and send from the\nStates a marble inscription to be put into the chapel.\n\nMr. Jowett is now taking charge of the Station, and Mr. Goodman is\nteaching the school at Debia. I sincerely wish you could find a\ndozen such men as Mr. Kemp to send to Africa; only be sure that they\ncome with sound livers, and be entirely free from heart disease. The\nclimate, I think, is more favorable to lung disease than America. I\nbelieve men of any color will live as long in health in Africa as\nelsewhere, provided they visit America or Europe, for a change, once in\nevery two or three years.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWORK ON A SHORT TOUR.\n\nREV. MYRON EELLS, SKOKOMISH, WASH. TER.\n\nWe have been made sad by the death of one of our most prominent church\nmembers, John F. Palmer. He was at the time of his death working at a\nsaw-mill, when he was accidentally knocked off from a platform, about\nten feet below.\n\nHe was the first Indian to join this church. He lived, however, to\nsee his wife and her two sisters, whom he brought up, members of the\nchurch; the oldest one married, and her daughter the first Indian\nchild who received the rite of infant baptism. He was far ahead in\nmany respects of any other of the Indians, especially in regard to old\nreligious superstitions. While many of the Indians seem willing to give\nup their old ideas as a religion, they find it very difficult to get\nrid of a superstitious fear. He, however, seemed to have overcome this\nentirely. This was partly due to his early life. When he was about ten\nyears old he went to live with a white family in this Territory. He\nafterwards spent several years on board a sailing vessel, and about\ntwelve years ago he came to this reservation, where he served as\ninterpreter ten years. He understood the Twana, Nisqually, Clallam,\nRussian and English languages, and could read and write the latter,\nthough he never went to school more than about three weeks. Kind\npersons in the family in which he lived and on the ship taught him, and\nhe had a library at the time of his death worth fifty or sixty dollars,\nand took several papers and magazines, both eastern and western, and\neven wrote a few articles for the papers.\n\n\u201cJack at all trades and good at some,\u201d was the pleasant way in which\nDr. Schaff put it, when some of the students in the Theological\nSeminary at Hartford had done up some furniture for him to send to New\nHaven. I have often been reminded of this expression, and especially\nduring a short tour I lately made to Dunginess. We missionaries have to\nbe the first part of the sentence, and we console ourselves with the\nhope that the latter part may sometimes be true. When three miles from\nhome, the first duty was to stop and attend the funeral of a white man\nwho had recently died. Forty-five miles on, the evening of the next\nday until late at night was spent in assisting one of the Government\nemployees in holding court over four Indians who had been drunk; a\nfifth had escaped to the British side, and was free from the trial.\nThis kind of business occasionally comes in as an aid to the agent. I\nseldom have anything to do with it on the reservation, as the agent can\nattend to it; but when among Indians, off from the reservation, where\nneither of us can be more than once in six months or thereabouts, it\nsometimes saves him much trouble and expense, and seems to do as much\ngood as a sermon. It is of but little use to preach to drunken Indians,\nand a little law sometimes helps the Gospel. The agent reciprocates by\ntalking Gospel to them on the Sabbath on his trips.\n\nOn reaching Dunginess the afternoon was spent in introducing an\nIndian from British Columbia, who had taken me there in his canoe, to\nthe Clallam Indians and the school, and in comforting two parents,\nChristian Indians, whose youngest child lay at the point of death. The\nnext morning she died, and as no minister had ever been among these\nIndians at any previous funeral, they needed some instruction; so it\nwas my duty to help dig the grave and make the coffin, comfort them,\nand attend the funeral in a snow-storm.\n\nThe Sabbath was spent in holding two services with them, one mainly\na service of song; and as there was a part of the day not occupied,\nat the request of the whites near by, I gave them a sermon. The next\nday I found that \u201cblue Monday\u201d had to be adjourned. Years ago the\nIndians purchased their land, but owing to a mistake of the surveyor,\nit was necessary that the deeds should be made out again; so, in\norder to get all the Indians together who were needed, and the proper\nofficer, I walked fourteen miles and rode six in a canoe, and then saw\nthat nineteen deeds were properly signed, which required sixty-two\nsignatures, besides the witnessing, acknowledging and filing of\nthem, which required seventy-six names more. The plat of their town,\nJamestown, was also filed and recorded, and all after half-past three\no\u2019clock. When this was done, I assisted the Indians to get two marriage\nlicenses, when we went to the church, where I addressed them on two\ndifferent subjects, after which the two weddings took place, and by\nnine o\u2019clock we were done. The monotony of the next day was varied by a\nvisit to the school, helping the chief to select a burying ground (for\ntheir dead had been buried in various places), a walk of ten miles, and\na wedding of a white couple, who had been very kind to me in my work\nthere, one of them being a member of our church.\n\nOn my way home, while waiting for the steamers to connect, I took a\ntrip of about fifty miles to help in regard to the finishing of the\nIndian census of last year for General Walker and Major Powell, and\nthen on my way home, by the kindness of the captain of the steamer,\nwho waited half an hour for me, I was able to catch and take to the\nreservation the fifth Indian at Port Gamble who had been drunk, and had\nreturned from the British side.\n\nI have never had a vacation since I have been here, almost seven\nyears, unless such things as these may be called vacations. They are\nrecreation, work, and vacation, all at once.\n\nWhile at Dunginess I learned one thing which somewhat pleased me. A\nfew weeks before, a medicine man made a feast on Sabbath evening, and\ninvited all the Indians to it. In connection with it there was also\na large amount of their incantations. The feast was a bait, and the\nIndians went, the members of the church as well as the others leaving\nthe evening service for it. Mr. Blakeslee, the school-teacher there,\nwrote me, as he felt very sad about it. On reaching the place, I found\nthat on the same Sabbath evening, before the feast was over, those\nChristian Indians, feeling that they were doing wrong, left the place\nand went to one of their houses, where they confessed their sin and\nheld a prayer meeting over it, and on the following Thursday evening,\nat the general prayer meeting, made a public statement of it. We could\nask for nothing more, but could thank the Holy Spirit for inclining\nthem thus to do, before any white person had spoken to them on the\nsubject.\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\n    PRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L.\n    Stone, D. D., Robert B. Forman, Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon F. F. Low,\n    Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D.\n    D., Jacob S. Taber.\n\n    DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P.\n    Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball,\n    A. L. Van Blarcon, Esq., George Harris, Esq., and the Secretary ex\n    officio.\n\n    SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\u201cSTEADFAST, IMMOVABLE.\u201d\n\nBY REV. WM. C. POND.\n\nIt was in the last week in July that one of our Chinese brethren at\nMarysville, a lad of only 13 years\u2014Ng Gan Don by name\u2014called on one of\nhis cousins to inquire whether money which he had deposited with this\ncousin to be sent to his father in China, had yet gone forward. The\ncousin declined to satisfy him upon this point, but wished himself to\nbe satisfied upon another. So, taking Gan Don with yet another cousin\ninto an inner apartment, they inquired into his religious views and\npractices. They had been specially commissioned, so they said, by Gan\nDon\u2019s mother, to see to it that what he might hear and see in the land\nof the Golden Mountains should work no detriment to the religious\nideas she had instilled in his mind. Gan Don acknowledged that he had\nexchanged those views and practices for some which he saw to be wiser\nand more true; that he no longer worshipped idols or ancestors, but\nthat he believed in Jesus and was going to worship Him. They argued\nwith him, but found him more than a match for them on that arena; and\nso, being two against one, and that one but a boy, they were easily\nemboldened to see what virtue there might be in blows. The blows fell\nfast and hard, and the poor lad\u2019s head on which they fell was suffering\nsorely, but he maintained his integrity, and told them that he would\nnever worship idols, even if they should undertake to kill him. At\nlength he was released, and went, battered and bleeding, to the mission\nhouse. Our brethren, thinking that a little insight into Christian laws\nmight do these persecutors good, entered a complaint against them, and\nthey were fined $30 each.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nEXCITEMENT IN SACRAMENTO.\n\nThe _Record-Union_, of Sacramento, tells the story under this\nheading:\u2014\u201cCHINATOWN PREACHING. CHINESE MISSIONARIES KU-KLUXED, BUT\nNOT TERRIFIED.\u201d I wish you had space for the entire article, but it\nwould cover too many pages. Suffice it to say, that in connection with\nother Chinese Christians, our helper, Lem Chung, maintains a regular\nstreet-preaching service each Sabbath afternoon, in the very heart\nof the Sacramento Chinatown. Last Sabbath (August 14), as he and his\ncompanions approached the place, they found themselves confronted by\na large _white_ poster covered with Chinese characters. White is the\nemblem of mourning among the Chinese, and gave to the poster much the\nsame significance that black, emblazoned with skull and crossbones,\nwould have done to the colored voters of the South some years ago. Many\nof the heathen Chinese had gathered to watch the effect of this woful\npaper on the advocates of the American heresy; and mingled surprise\nand horror seized them when Lem Chung proceeded coolly to take it down\nfrom the wall and read it aloud to them all. I give you his translation\nof its contents;\u2014\u201cIt is claimed by the Christian preachers that Christ\nis the Lord of heaven and earth and the Creator. They only preach to\nmake money, and it is useless to dispute with them; but something must\nbe said to inform the people against this new false religion. It is\nlearned from Christianity that Jesus was born only 1,881 years ago,\nwhich proves that it is false that he made the world; and telling a\nfalsehood about this, they cannot be believed about anything else. Or,\nif Jesus was born before the world was made, then there was no world\nto hold Him when He was first born, or for Him to be upon, and His\nparents would have starved to death. How is it that you fellows keep so\nhappy when you preach such news as this to us? Notice is hereby given\nthat such of the Chinese people as have been converted to Christianity\nmust not follow that way any more. Moreover, this religion must not\nbe preached any more on the street, and if any shall do so they shall\nbe arrested by the Six Companies and punished for preaching false\ndoctrines and deceiving the people. They shall be given eighty lashes,\nand then dragged to the grave-yard and buried alive; their bones shall\nnot be taken back to China, but shall remain foreign ghosts forever;\nand then they can believe in Jesus all they are a mind to. Whoever\nshall dare to take this white notice down shall be the son of no\nfather.\u201d\n\nThe effect of the placard was simply to secure a larger audience and a\ncloser attention at the preaching service, to demonstrate the futility\nof gods that men could make and men destroy, and to give our helper\nand his friends the best possible opportunity to do two things: 1st,\nto show that Confucius urges all men to study and seek for the truth\nwherever they can find it, and those who propose to beat and kill and\ndoom men for doing this, are no followers of that great master; and,\n2d, to illustrate the Christian spirit by inviting those who had \u201cput\nup the white poster to come to the mission-house, where they would be\nkindly treated,\u201d and find themselves in the midst of good friends.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFONG GET LOY IN CHINA.\n\nFong Get Loy was one of our earliest converts, and though only a\nhouse servant, has long been a pillar in our Sacramento mission\nwork. Somewhat more than a year ago he returned to China and spent\nseveral months. I have been greatly interested in his account of his\nexperiences there, and at my request he has written them out, as\nfollows, (the original in Chinese; the translation by Lem Chung):\n\nDear Brother in Christ: According to your request, I will at this time\nsend you account of my late visit in China; and what I doing while\nthere. When I sailed from San Francisco, two of our Sacramento mission\nboys go with me on the ship. Every day we prayed together and talk\nabout Jesus. We take thirty-three days sailing to Hong Kong. Before we\nlanded, just as we casting anchor, we three gathered to hold prayer\nmeeting, that God keep us from evil and temptation in China, and help\nus to work for Him. At the same time our heathen countrymen sacrificed\nto the goddess of the sea. I met our Christian brother, Fung Affoo, in\nHong Kong; stayed there one day and two nights. Then I take Chinese\nschooner, sail hundred fifty miles to my own town, which took two days\nmore before I get home. One year before I return to China I sent have\nhouse built. When I arrived home, I found idols in some of the rooms\nto worship: in the kitchen, to the god who takes care the cooking;\nat the front door, the one who looks and guards the door to let no\nevil spirits come in to trouble us; also, in the parlor I found the\none who watches the whole house. I found blocks of wood with names\nof ancestors, carefully keep time of birth and death. All these they\nexpect me to worship on my return. I told them: \u201cMy father dead\u2014gone\naway. If he bad man when he live, God punish him now. He would be shut\nup in prison; can he come? They say \u2018No.\u2019 I say: \u2018If my father good\nman, he happy now; he in a good place; he don\u2019t want to come here, eat\nanything.\u2019 I tell them: \u2018You put up the god to take care the cooking;\nyou sit down, do nothing; by-and-by you not have anything to cook.\nSomebody else have no god in the kitchen; they go to work; by and by\nthey have something to eat!\u2019 I say: \u2018You place the idol by the front\ndoor; you leave the door open, not watch; you think no thief come? God\nmade all things. He is the one to worship. Idols cannot help you.\u2019\nThey say to me: \u2018You no worship idol, by and by you have no house, no\nchildren, no money.\u2019 I answer: \u2018Other nations that not worship idols\nhave more money and better houses than any we have in China. We go work\nfor them to get money. We do not have to worship idols to get money.\u2019\nI say: \u2018Whomsoever worship gods made by men\u2019s hands, it is transgress\nto God.\u2019 They say: \u2018How is this our nation so great, so many wise\nmen all worshipping idols; are they all transgress to Him? Is your\nexperience higher than they?\u2019 I say to them: \u2018The idols and ancestors\nhave no spirit nor power to help them any.\u2019 Once in a while the people\nare crowded at my door. They shouted and said: \u2018Well, if you dare to\ndestroy your gods and ancestors, and nothing happen to your family, we\nwill believe you.\u2019 I then took a chair, got up in the parlor, took the\ngoddess which my wife put there, and most all the family help her. I\ntake a hatchet, chop it into pieces, and boil the tea with it. Oh! what\nastonishment to them! So they disperse. After that, my wife and my son\nboth received the doctrine of the Bible, and every morning and evening\nwe all would offer prayer, and at our meals asked God\u2019s blessing. My\nwife more faithful than I. She willing to put away the idols, and like\nto go from house to house, when she have a chance, to tell the people\nabout Jesus. My son attends school. All his school-mates laugh at him,\nbut still he pray to God that He give him more faith, that he not care\nabout the laughing. At the school they have a person\u2019s name which they\nrequired to worship, that he may help them study and learn; but my\nson not want to worship him, after he believe in Jesus. He told them:\n\u2018That\u2019s nothing, only a piece of paper.\u2019 The teacher compel him to do\nlike the others. One day a woman in my town came to me, and asked me to\npray for her son. He gone away from her. He send no money to support\nher. She said: \u2018Pray for me that he thinks what he doing now, and may\nchange his conduct, send something to help me.\u2019 I knelt down with her,\nand pray God that He answer our prayer and bless this woman. Not many\ndays after this God answered that prayer, and sent the money, and,\nwith it, a new heart, for she believe, and thank our Heavenly Father,\nand came to be a Christian. Now a few others with her and my family\nkeep the holy Sabbath, and have a meeting together. Sometimes they go\nto the mission station a few miles off, to hear the Gospel. Before,\nwhen I went back to China [_i.e._, on his former visit to his home],\nno Christian or missionary at that part of the province of Canton, but\nlast year I find several hundreds become Christians not far from my\nhome. Many times I go to hear the missionary talk about Christ. Oh,\nhow I thank the Lord that He sent the missionary over there to speak\nthe Gospel to them, and take away the darkness, that they may, by and\nby, more and more come into the sheep-fold and glorify God! I stayed\nat home seven months. Every day I work for Jesus while I there. When\nthe time come for me to say good-by, and return to California, I feel\nI like great deal better to stay and work there for Christ. I promise\nmyself, as soon as I can gain enough to live upon, I will return and\ngive my whole time to work for my countrymen, and bring all I can to\nbow down to the true God.\u201d\n\nWhen will the American Missionary Association be ready to keep such men\nat work in their native land, preaching Jesus?\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nGLEANINGS.\n\n\n\u2014A friend has anonymously contributed the entire cost of the new steel\nboat required for the Baptist expedition on the African Lakes, and it\nis to be named the Plymouth.\n\n\u2014A Virginia negro has recently taken out a patent for a fire escape,\nwhich is composed of lattice work that can be shut up into very small\nspace or extended into a safe ladder, and can also be used as a pike to\nthrow in tottering walls.\n\n\u2014The following plan for the abolition of slavery in Egypt has been\napproved by Col. Gordon, and will probably be adopted by the Khedive\u2019s\nGovernment:\n\n1.\u2014Registration of all existing slaves in the Mudiriehs of the Soudan,\nand of Cairo (Lower Egypt), by the Governors.\n\n2.\u2014Registers to be kept in each Government office of the names of\nslaves and their owners, with description of each.\n\n3.\u2014Every slave to be free if not registered after expiration of six\nmonths (the period given for registration). All slaves born after\nsignature of this decree to be free.\n\n4.\u2014Register books to be closed forever after the expiration of six\nmonths.\n\n5.\u2014Owners of slaves thus registered to be bound to produce Government\ncertificates corresponding with the register books, when required to do\nso by the Government of Egypt.\n\n6.\u2014The Governors of Egypt and of the Soudan to proclaim this throughout\nthe land.\n\n7.\u2014All purchases or sales of slaves from family to family are to be\nendorsed on the registration papers and inscribed in the Government\nbooks of registry.\u2014_Anti-Slavery Reporter._\n\n\u2014One of the most successful and trustworthy farmers in Georgia is a\nnegro named Harper, who has just paid $32,000 for 2,100 acres of land\nlying on Broad River, in Oglethorpe County. He is reported to be one of\nthe best farmers in the country. He is economical; his family all work:\nmost of his money was made by renting land and growing cotton.\n\n\u2014Prof. Wm. S. Scarborough, formerly a pupil at Atlanta University,\nhas published a neat volume of 150 pages, entitled \u201cFirst Lessons in\nGreek.\u201d The work was designed to be an imitation of Jones\u2019 \u201cFirst\nLessons in Latin,\u201d and to give a clear and concise statement of the\nrudimentary forms of the language, with copious notes and references\nto the grammars of Goodwin and Hadley. Under Part II. Mr. Scarborough\ngives a few selections taken from the Anabasis and Memorabilia of\nXenophon. The work is a good indication of what may be expected from\nthe colored people when they shall have had the advantages of a higher\neducation.\n\n\u2014\u201cWorship in Song,\u201d edited by Jos. P. Holbrook, Mus. Doc., and\npublished by A. S. Barnes & Co., contains 450 pages, and is handsomely\nbound and attractive. Those best acquainted with Dr. Holbrook recognize\nhis excellent judgment and taste, and the great attractiveness of his\ncompositions. The author and publishers invite a practical test of\ntheir book, and it appears to quite meet the expectations of those who\nmay adopt it for public worship.\n\n\u2014Bishop Hurst, in the _Quarterly Review_, writes on this wise\nrespecting the work of the Methodist Episcopal and the Congregational\nchurches at the South:\n\nThe two churches which are pre-eminently American, which have grown out\nof the ideas, convictions and the religious wants of the people under\nthe free institutions of this country, are the Methodist Episcopal\nand the Congregational. They have laid foundations in the north and\nwest which will endure for all coming time, and both are now doing the\nsame in the South. If considered as antagonistic, which it is not, but\nrather co-operative, the real rival of the Methodist Episcopal church\nin the South is the Congregational, with its institutions of learning\nsustained by the American Missionary Association. It moves upon those\nlines which will give it a future, while other and older denominations\nare sleeping, apparently unconscious of the mighty revolution that has\ntaken place, and indifferent to those principles which will inevitably\nimpress themselves upon the church of the next century. Intelligence\nand morality are everywhere seen in that communion. That it is gaining\na foot-hold in the South is obvious to every observer\u2014a fact for which\nwe are thankful. It is not carrying New England ideas into the cabins\nof the colored people, but it is doing better by bringing them out of\ntheir cabins and squalor and ignorance into the New England atmosphere\nand society created among themselves and for their posterity. We do\nnot entertain a doubt that this denomination will become strong in the\nSouth, and we shall rejoice to see the time when it will devote as much\nattention to the white people as it now does to the colored. Southern\necclesiastical bourbonism is sadly, if not hopelessly, fossilized,\nand it is very desirable that various churches unite in bringing new\nspiritual life to the masses in the South, both white and colored.\n\n\u2014Some have made a considerable ado about \u201cYankee school-teachers\u201d in\nthe negro schools in the South, and in some cases our heathen have\nacted much as the heathen of Canterbury Green (Ct.) acted in 1831.\nPerhaps some of them have not been altogether to our taste; perhaps\nsome of them have mixed in with the \u201cthree R\u2019s\u201d some things not to our\nedification. But what else could be done? Would qualified Southern men\nand women have taken these places when the Northern teachers came?\nWould they do it now? Not generally, though some of the best would,\nas a very few of the best have begun to do. Suppose these Northern\nteachers had not come\u2014that nobody had taught the negroes, set free and\ncitizens! The South would have been uninhabitable by this time. Some\nmay resent this. Be it so; they resent the truth.\u2014_From \u201cOur Brother in\nBlack\u201d by Atticus G. Haygood, D. D., Pres. of Emory College, Oxford,\nGa._\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA MISSIONARY POTATO.\n\nThe missionary concert at the Congregational church, last Sunday night,\nwas interesting, and in some respects novel. There is a bit of history\nconnected with it. Two little girls belonging to the Sunday-school some\ntime ago became so inspired with missionary zeal that, after casting\nabout for ways to get money for the purpose, they devised a doll show,\nand carried it through here last winter with considerable success,\nnetting five dollars. That money they sent to Fisk University, with\nrequest for report concerning its use. A letter came back, enclosing\na letter from a Fisk student, written from Mississippi, where the\nyoung man was teaching to earn money to continue his studies at the\nUniversity. That letter told of a colored boy, one of the pupils in\nthe student\u2019s school, and made an appeal for him. The boy was the\nson of his mother\u2019s former master, and since she was emancipated the\nmother had married. The step-father hired the boy to horse-racers and\nsaloon-keepers, and in various ways kept him under bad influences and\naway from school. The boy and his mother were ambitious that he should\nbe educated; and when, a short time previous, the step-father had\nsickened and died, one obstacle seemed removed.\n\nAnother obstacle was lack of means, and for that the student appealed,\nin a letter written in answer to one from our people here, and it was\nfor that purpose that the concert of last Sunday night was given by the\nYoung People\u2019s Missionary Circle of the Congregational Sabbath-school,\norganized since the little girls\u2019 doll show enterprise. But now the\nenterprise is shared with them by the other churches, for they all\nsuspended their services on this occasion, and Messrs. Sanders, Walter\nand Monroe participated in the devotional exercises, and their people\nswelled the congregation. The exercises, recitations, essays and\nJubilee Songs were creditable and entertaining.\n\nA collection was taken for the benefit of Master Walter, the ambitious\nMississippi boy, and then a novel feature was introduced. Mr. Dickinson\nstated that last spring one of the boys in the congregation had noticed\nfor two Sundays, in one corner of the church, a potato, from some\nsource unknown. The thought came to the boy that he would take it home\nand plant it, for the benefit of missionary interests. He had done so,\nand now brought the proceeds, some twenty or thirty potatoes, big and\nlittle, but mostly little, and desired them to be sold to separate\npersons who would, make the same use of them next year.\n\nThe potatoes were thereupon offered for sale, and bought up, mostly at\nten cents apiece; and we may expect to hear more about that missionary\npotato next year. Potatoes, $2.25.\n\nThe proceeds of the evening amounted to $15.05, which is forwarded\nto the student at the University, where he has already taken the boy\nWalter, trusting that the needed help will come. The student\u2019s name is\nMcClellan.\u2014_Cambridge (Ill.) Chronicle._\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1881.\n\n        *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $241.91.\n\n    Bangor. First Cong. Ch.                                  $20.17\n    Bath. Winter St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      MICHAEL F. GANNETT, L. M.                               35.10\n    Brunswick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       70.00\n    Dennysville. Peter E. Vose, $5; Mrs. Sam\u2019l Eastman,\n      $5                                                      10.00\n    Eastport. Cong. Sab. Sch., $5; G. A. P., $1                6.00\n    Gorham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                29.59\n    Hallowell. Girls\u2019 Sunday afternoon prayer meeting of\n      Classical Academy, _for furnishing a room, Atlanta\n      U._                                                     27.00\n    Hampden. Cong. Ch.                                        12.75\n    Machias. \u201cA. R. T.,\u201d $5; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $2                    7.00\n    South Berwick. Hugh and Philip Lewis                       5.00\n    Waterford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        8.30\n    West Auburn. First Cong. Ch.                               5.00\n    Wilton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 5.00\n    Woolwich. \u201cA widow\u2019s gift\u201d                                 1.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $315.37.\n\n    Amherst. Cong. Ch.                                        15.20\n    Colebrook. \u201cE. C. W. and Wife\u201d                             2.00\n    Cornish. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l), to const. REV.\n      JAMES T. JACKSON, L. M.                                  7.16\n    East Jaffrey. Miss Eliza A. Parker                        20.00\n    Francestown. AMASA DOWNS, to const. himself, L. M.        50.00\n    Goffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $32.16; \u201cA Friend,\u201d\n      $30.00, to const. MRS. MARIA J. STOWELL, L. M.          62.16\n    Greenville. Cong. Ch.                                     11.00\n    Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               17.50\n    North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         19.39\n    Pembroke. Cong. Ch.                                       18.31\n    Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 1.40\n    Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  5.00\n    Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             14.00\n    West Concord. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          14.35\n    Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            39.50\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             296.97\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Cornish. Estate of Mrs. Sarah W. Westgate, by Albert\n      E. Wellman, a Trustee                                   18.40\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             315.37\n\n\n  VERMONT, $1,561.86.\n    Barton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 5.31\n    Brookfield. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Tougaloo U._, and to\n      const. REV. WM. M. GAY and MRS. WM. M. GAY, L.\n      M\u2019s.                                                    50.00\n    Craftsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            16.33\n    East Hardwick. S. W. O.                                    0.52\n    Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     2.00\n    Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                10.81\n    Manchester. Miss Ellen Hawley, $45; Mrs. Cone, $15,\n      for _Student Aid, Talladega C._                         60.00\n    Montgomery. Heman Watkins                                  4.00\n    North Cambridge. M. K.                                     1.00\n    West Fairlee. Mrs. C. M. H.                                0.50\n    West Glover. Cong Ch. and Soc.                             9.25\n    Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            5.00\n    Woodstock. Cong. and Soc.                                 17.22\n    \u2014\u2014\u2014 \u201cL. G.\u201d                                               25.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             206.94\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Charlotte. Estate of Salome Strong, by W. W. Higbee,\n      Admr.                                                1,095.30\n    Springfield. Estate of Dea. Charles Haywood, by Geo.\n      P. Haywood, Ex.                                        259.62\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           1,561.86\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $3,454.31.\n\n    Abington. Mrs. H. P.                                       2.00\n    Amherst. Agricultural College, Class of 1882, _for\n      furnishing a room, Stone Hall, Talladega, Ala._         30.00\n    Andover. Rev. Joseph Emerson, $10; West Cong. Sab.\n      Sch., $10                                               20.00\n    Berlin. Cong. Ch.                                          2.00\n    Billerica. Mrs. E. R. Goales, _for Macon, Ga._             3.00\n    Boston. Mary R. Sturges, $15; Mrs. G. S. Curtis,\n      $10, _for Athens, Ala._                                 25.00\n    Boston. \u201cA. B. H. J.\u201d                                      2.00\n    Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        25.05\n    Braintree. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             19.65\n    Cambridge. North Av. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $224.43, to\n      const. MRS. B. F. SANDS, REV. CHARLES F. THWING,\n      M. L. WALTON, DAVID BOWIE, JOHN HARRINGTON and\n      FRANK FOXCROFT, L. M\u2019s.; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5                229.43\n    Charlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              20.00\n    Chelsea. J. P. Payson, _for freight_                       2.00\n    Concord. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        1.00\n    Danvers. Maple St. Ch. and Soc.                          109.52\n    Danvers. Maple Leaf Mission Circle, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      60.00\n    Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               35.00\n    Falmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              41.00\n    Grafton. Mrs. S. A.                                        1.00\n    Georgetown. A. H.                                          1.00\n    Greenfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., bbl. of C. _for\n      Union Point_\n    Haverhill. \u201cFriend,\u201d _for furnishing room, Tougaloo\n      U._                                                      1.00\n    Holden. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00\n    Holliston. D. B. Fitts                                     3.00\n    Hopkinton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                20.00\n    Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         30.00\n    Lawrence. Cong Ch. and Soc.                              100.00\n    Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc.                           16.73\n    Lunenburgh. \u201cWilson family,\u201d _for furnishing a room,\n      Stone Hall, Straight U._                                25.00\n    Lynn. Central Ch. and Soc.                                16.50\n    Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, _for buildings,\n      Wilmington, N. C._                                   1,500.00\n    Medford. Mystic Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. D. W.\n      WILCOX, L. M.                                          100.00\n    Monterey. Cong. Ch.                                       17.00\n    Natick. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., bundle of C.\n    Newtonville. J. K.                                         1.00\n    Northampton. Sab. Sch. of First Ch. _for ed. of an\n      Indian, Hampton N. and A. Inst._                        20.00\n    North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           3.80\n    Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          20.35\n    Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         10.01\n    Peabody. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid, Talladega C._        1.20\n    Pepperell. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for furnishing room, Stone\n      Hall, Straight U._                                      25.00\n    Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      54.43\n    Randolph. \u201cRandolph,\u201d _for furnishing room, Stone\n      Hall, Straight U._                                      50.00\n    Randolph. Miss Abby W. Turner                             10.00\n    Royalston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      112.00\n    Somerville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     1.00\n    South Attleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.               4.59\n    South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    35.00\n    Southville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             5.00\n    South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      MRS. SARAH JANE TIRRELL, L. M.                          44.00\n    Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $45.01; Sec.\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc., $37.54; Ira Merrill, $3             85.55\n    Sunderland. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5; \u201cFriends,\u201d $2                  7.00\n    Taunton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $130; H. H. Fish,\n      $25                                                    155.00\n    Walpole. Mrs. C. F. M.                                     1.00\n    Waltham. N. S. and W. J. S., $1;\u2014\u2014 Package of\n      Papers                                                   1.00\n    Warwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               12.00\n    Webster. First Cong. Ch.                                  20.00\n    West Boylston. Geo. W. Ames, $3; Polly Ames, $3            6.00\n    Westhampton. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                  20.00\n    West Medway. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing a\n      room, Stone Hall, Straight U._                          25.00\n    West Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                21.00\n    Wilbraham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              9.50\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            10.00\n    Woburn. Mrs. Simon Holden                                  5.00\n    Wollaston Heights. Mrs. Caroline C. Shaw                   6.00\n    Worcester. Saml. R. Heywood, to const. HON. GEO. F.\n      HOAR, L. M.                                             30.00\n    \u2014\u2014\u2014 Church of Christ, North Leominster, $7; Sab.\n      Sch., Shirley Village, $8.50; Sab. Sch.,\n      Lunenburgh, $9.50, _for furnishing a room, Stone\n      Hall, Straight U._                                      25.00\n    \u2014\u2014\u2014\u201cA Friend,\u201d _for furnishing a room, Stone Hall,\n      Straight U._                                            50.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           3,354.31\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Franklin. Estate of Mrs. Nancy C. Fisher                 100.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           3,454.31\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $1,744.67.\n\n    Berlin. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for aid of a young man\n      preparing for Africa_                                   50.00\n    Bridgeport. C. K. B.                                       0.50\n    Chester. Cong. Ch.                                        50.25\n    Danbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. E.\n      THOMPSON, J. W. BACON, WM. J. RIDER and AMZI T.\n      ROGERS, L. M\u2019s.                                        160.00\n    East Windsor Hill. Mrs. Ira Tracy                          2.00\n    Fair Haven. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           35.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Colored\n      Children_, and to const. MRS. HARRIET W. BARBOUR\n      and ALBERT W. HART, L. M\u2019s.                             63.00\n    Goshen. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        20.00\n    Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   10.21\n    Hadlyme. Richard E. Hungerford, $100; Cong. Ch.,\n      $5.46                                                  105.46\n    Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.00\n    Hartford. J. E. Cushman, $200; D. H. Wells, $25          225.00\n    Hebron. Rev. J. B. Cook                                    3.00\n    Huntington. Mrs. S. A. N.                                  1.00\n    Lebanon. First Ch.                                        68.53\n    Mansfield Centre. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $35, _for furnishing a\n      room, Stone Hall_; Cong. Sab. Sch. $10, _for\n      Needmore Chapel_; Mrs. B. Swift, $25; Chas.\n      Ramsdell, $2; Dea. G. S., $1; Mrs. W. T., $1, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              74.00\n    Middletown. \u201cA. B. C.\u201d                                     5.00\n    New Haven. Rev. J. J. Abbott, $20; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $20        40.00\n    New Preston. \u201cS. A. W.\u201d                                    2.00\n    North Stonington. Cong. Sab. Sch.                         15.00\n    Norwich. First Cong. Ch.                                 120.00\n    Pomfret. First Cong. Ch.                                  41.86\n    Salem. Cong. Ch.                                           6.00\n    Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                                        7.55\n    South Britain. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         17.75\n    Southington. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    1.00\n    Terryville. Cong. Ch., to const. JOHN CORNELIUS\n      GREGGS, CHARLES I. ALLEN, SILAS A. GRIDLEY, GEORGE\n      T. WINSLOW, JUDAH W. CLARK, WILLIAM BATES, GEORGE\n      H. BATES, BURR S. BEACH and STEPHEN FENN, L. M\u2019s.      303.80\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      50.80\n    Waterbury. Mrs. Chas. Benedict, _for Macon, Ga._           3.00\n    West Chester. Cong. Ch.                                    8.50\n    Westville. Cong. Ch.                                      28.00\n    Winsted. First Cong. Ch.                                  38.17\n    West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch.                           154.29\n    Wolcott. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                9.00\n    \u2014\u2014\u2014\u201cGratitude,\u201d _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                15.00\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $5,246.32.\n\n    Amsterdam. Mrs. L. M. Bell, $25; \u201cA few Members\n      Presb. Ch.\u201d by C. Bartlett, $67                         92.00\n    Auburn. S. B. O.                                           0.50\n    Brooklyn. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       5.00\n    Chittenango. Mrs. Edwin Lewis, $10; Mrs. Amelia L.\n      Brown, $5                                               15.00\n    Copenhagen. Miss A. E. W.                                  0.25\n    Coventryville. Cong. Ch.                                  15.00\n    Eaton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 11.00\n    Elmira. Miss C. Thurston                                   5.00\n    Gerry. Mrs. Mary A. Sears                                178.36\n    Goshen. \u201cFriend of President Garfield\u201d ($1 _of which\n      for Bibles and Testaments_)                              2.00\n    Hamilton. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   10.00\n    Homer. Mrs. E. B. Dean                                     7.00\n    Lebanon. Alfred Seymour, $6.50; Marvin Day, $6;\n      Thomas Hitchcock, $6; Thomas Williamson, $2; J. A.\n      Head, $1.50; G. A. Curtiss, $1.25; Others, $6.75,\n      by Rev. G. A. Curtiss                                   30.00\n    Milton. Miss F., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._           0.50\n    Nelson. Cong. Ch.                                          8.20\n    New York. Gen. Wager Swayne, _for repairs on Swayne\n      Hall_                                                  100.00\n    New York. N. Y. Colored Mission Sab. Sch. 135 West\n      30th St.                                                 2.41\n    Onondaga Valley. A. L. G.                                  1.00\n    Oswego. J. G.                                              1.00\n    Owasco. Mrs. A. Stewart                                    2.00\n    Poughkeepsie. Mrs. M. J. Myers                            20.00\n    Pratham. Edward Halsey                                     2.00\n    Rensselaer Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       7.00\n    Rochester. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                             19.44\n    Rome. John. B. Jervis                                     25.00\n    Sherburne. Joshua Pratt, $500; Lucius Newton, $2,\n      _for Talladega C._; Miss E. A. Rexford, $5, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                             507.00\n    Smyrna. H. M. Dixon, $5; Dea. C., $1, _for Needmore\n      Chapel, Talladega, Ala._                                 6.00\n    Syracuse. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                              48.91\n    Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel                                10.00\n    Walton. Mrs. C. H. Ladd, $100, _for Mendi M._ \u201c_John\n      Brown Steamer_\u201d; \u201cThe Little Helpers,\u201d Box of C.,\n      _for School at Avery Station, Mendi M._                100.00\n    Walton. By Rev. H. M. Ladd, _for Mag._                     1.50\n    Westmoreland. First Cong. Ch.                              3.25\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           1,236.32\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Coventryville. Estate of Mrs. Esther Reed, by Rev.\n      W. W. Warner                                            10.00\n    Palmyra. Estate of Mrs. Mary Ann Woodward, by Daniel\n      C. Lillie, Ex.                                       4,000.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           5,246.32\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $5.00.\n\n    Orange Valley. Cong. Ch., _for repairs, Talladega\n      C._                                                      5.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $525.00.\n\n    Mercer. Cong. Ch.                                         20.00\n    Worth. John Burgess                                        5.00\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                              25.00\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Philadelphia. Estate of A. Claxton, _for Mendi M._       500.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             525.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $1,255.94.\n\n    Berea. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Talladega C._                      62.15\n    Adam\u2019s Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith                            10.00\n    Cleveland. S. H. Sheldon, $26.50, _for furnishing\n      room, Ladies\u2019 Hall_; M. S. Hinman, $10, _for\n      furnishing room, Strieby Hall, Tougaloo, Miss._         36.50\n    Claridon. Rev. C. C. Starbuck, _for Talladega C._          3.00\n    Elyria. Heman Ely, _for Talladega C._                     50.00\n    Geneva. Mrs. H. A. W.                                      1.00\n    Gomer. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                    52.75\n    Hudson. C. E. H.                                           0.50\n    Oberlin. First Cong. Ch., $37.30; Second Cong. Ch.,\n      $11.87; L. F., $1                                       50.17\n    Oberlin. Ladies\u2019 Soc. of Second Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._                               75.00\n    Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing\n      room, Ladies\u2019 Hall, Tougaloo, Miss._                    25.00\n    Saint Clairsville. Wm. Lee, Sen.                           3.00\n    Steuben. Levi Platt                                        1.50\n    Strongsville. Mrs. K. Pomeroy, $30, _for furnishing\n      room, Strieby Hall_; T. J. Bartlett, $5, _for\n      furnishing room, Ladies\u2019 Hall, Tougaloo, Miss._         35.00\n    Sullivan. Cong. Ch., _for Mendi M._                       23.61\n    Windham. First Cong. Ch.                                  26.76\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             455.94\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Cherry Valley. Estate of Mrs. Fanny Slater, by W. W.\n      Hopkins, Ex.                                           100.00\n    Cleveland. Estate of Brewster Pelton, by John G.\n      Jennings, _for Mendi M._                               500.00\n    Geneva. Estate of Mrs. Amy Roberts, by Mrs. Harriet\n      A. Wood                                                200.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           1,255.94\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $992.37.\n\n    Chicago. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                     200.00\n    Chicago. Ladies of South Ch., _for Lady Missionary,\n      Mobile, Ala._                                            5.50\n    Galesburg. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   50.00\n    Galva. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                     25.00\n    Geneseo. Cong. Ch.                                        75.00\n    Highland Park. Mrs. Elisha Gray, $10; Fred. Fisher,\n      $5; Mrs. H. McD., $1, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._        16.00\n    Kewanee. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary,\n      Savannah, Ga._                                          20.00\n    La Harpe. Cong. Ch.                                       23.00\n    Moline. Charles Atkinson, _for President\u2019s House,\n      Talladega C._                                          100.00\n    Moline. Thomas Jewett, _for building Ladies\u2019 Hall,\n      Tougaloo, Miss._                                        75.00\n    Naperville. A. A. Smith                                    5.00\n    Oak Park. Cong. Ch.                                       56.45\n    Oak Park. Girls\u2019 Mission Circle, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                50.00\n    Prospect Park. Mrs. Emma Floyd                             5.00\n    Rochelle. C. F. Holcomb                                   12.00\n    Rochelle. W. H. H., Sen., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._       1.00\n    Rockford. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of Second Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              50.00\n    Rockford. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   25.00\n    Rockford. \u201cRockford Lamplighters,\u201d _for Indian M._        11.79\n    Streator. Samuel Plumb, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._        50.00\n    Sycamore. J. H. Rogers, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._       104.00\n    Wataga. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                    9.00\n    Woodstock. Cong. Ch.                                      11.13\n    Wyamet. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                12.50\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $366.53.\n\n    Alpena. First Cong. Ch.                                  134.00\n    Detroit. Woodward Ave. Cong. Ch., $65.25; E. P. B.,\n      56c.                                                    65.81\n    Frankfort. First Cong. Ch.                                 3.40\n    Grand Rapids. Mrs. E. G. Furness                           5.00\n    Hillsdale. J. W. Ford                                      2.00\n    Leland. Cong. Ch.                                          6.31\n    Litchfield. Mrs. J. B. S.                                  0.50\n    Mankato. Cong. Ch.                                         2.23\n    Moline. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Olivet. Cong. Ch.                                          8.05\n    Romeo. Miss Mary A. Dickinson, _for rebuilding,\n      Tougaloo U._                                           100.00\n    Summit. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.                    3.40\n    Warren. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         5.00\n    Whitehall. First Cong. Ch.                                 5.83\n\n\n  IOWA, $130.64.\n\n    Atlantic. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                         27.57\n    Denmark. Isaac Field                                      15.00\n    Grinnell. T. P. Carleton                                   2.00\n    Keokuk. Mrs. E. M. Wilson                                  5.00\n    Iowa Falls. Cong. Ch.                                      9.90\n    Marshalltown. G. W.                                        0.50\n    Maquoketa. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             23.82\n    McGregor. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc.                              16.40\n    Muscatine. Dr. I. L. Graham, _for furnishing room,\n      Stone Hall, Talladega, Ala._                             5.00\n    New Hampton. Ladies\u2019 Cent. Soc.                            2.45\n    Stacyville. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc.                             3.00\n    Traer. Cong. Ch.                                          20.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $160.68.\n\n    Arena. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary,\n      Talladega, Ala._                                         2.00\n    Beloit. Mrs. S. M. Clary, $5, and Box of C., _for\n      Macon, Ga._                                              5.00\n    Cooksville. Edward Gilley                                  5.00\n    Delavan. Cong. Ch.                                        45.00\n    Grand Rapids. Cong. Ch.                                    1.75\n    Leeds. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                                    0.50\n    Madison. First Cong. Ch.                                  50.00\n    Pewaukee. Cong. Ch.                                        7.00\n    Racine. First Presb. Ch.                                  33.43\n    Rockland. Thomas H. Eynon                                 10.00\n    Stoughton. Cong. Ch.                                       1.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $19.40.\n\n    Breckenridge. Rev. T. A. H.                                0.50\n    DeKalb. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Athens, Ala._                5.00\n    Kidder. Cong. Ch.                                          7.50\n    Saint Louis. Cong. Ch.                                     6.40\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $71.21.\n\n    Austin. Mrs. S. C. Bacon                                  10.00\n    Minneapolis. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           20.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 24.46\n    Spring Valley. Cong. Ch.                                  16.75\n\n\n  KANSAS, $3.00.\n\n    Brookville. Rev. S. G. Wright, $2.50; Mrs. E. E. S.,\n      50c.                                                     3.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $28.45.\n\n    Omaha. \u201cK. and C.\u201d                                        10.00\n    Weeping Water. Cong. Ch.                                  18.45\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $3.00.\n\n    Rocklin. Cong. Ch.                                         3.00\n\n\n  OREGON, $20.00.\n\n    Portland. First Cong. Ch.                                 20.00\n\n\n  DELAWARE, $1.00.\n\n    Wilmington. Mrs. N. T. J.                                  1.00\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $15.00.\n\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                     15.00\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $11.25.\n\n    Almeda. \u201cFriends\u201d by R. G. Holmes, _for Almeda, S.\n      C._                                                     11.25\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $8.00.\n\n    Memphis. By Prof. A. J. Steele                             8.00\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $256.60.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $253.60; Rent, $3         256.60\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $214.20.\n\n    Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition                             50.50\n    Marion. Cong. Ch.                                          2.05\n    Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                    120.00\n    Selma. First Cong. Ch. ($2.35 _of which for Mendi\n      M._)                                                    21.65\n    Talladega. Rev. H. B. De Forest, $10; Prof. Geo. N.\n      Ellis, $10, _for Needmore Chapel, Talladega, Ala._      20.00\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $13.10.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition                            13.10\n\n\n  TEXAS, $57.75.\n\n    Austin. Tillotson C. and N. Ins., Tuition                 57.75\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $120.50.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi Mission_                           85.50\n    Greenwich, N.Y. Town Bonds, _for Straight U._             35.00\n\n\n  SCOTLAND, $63.73.\n\n    Perth. No. United Presb. Ch., \u00a39; \u201cFriend,\u201d by D.\n      Morton, 5s.; J. Balman, _for Chinese M._, \u00a32;\n      \u201cFriend,\u201d _for \u201cJohn Brown Steamer,\u201d_ \u00a32                63.73\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                             16,906.79\n    Total from Oct. 1st to Aug. 31st                    $207,731.58\n\n\n          *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n    FOR TILLOTSON C. & N. INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\n      Bridgeport, Conn. S. C. Kingman                          100.00\n      West Haven, Conn. Mrs. Emeline Smith                      10.00\n                                                               \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                                110.00\n      Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to July 31st     4,974.71\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                             $5,084.71\n\n\n          *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n    FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.\n\n      From Oct. 1st to July 31st                           $26,289.62\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\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian\nmissionary and educational operations, and diffuse a knowledge of the\nHoly Scriptures in our own and other countries which are destitute of\nthem, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.\n\n\nART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes faith\nin the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the practice\nof other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, may become a\nmember of the Society; and by the payment of thirty dollars, a life\nmember; provided that children and others who have not professed their\nfaith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting.\n\n\nART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of September,\nOctober or November, for the election of officers and the transaction\nof other business, at such time and place as shall be designated by the\nExecutive Committee.\n\n\nART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular\nofficers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, and\nof delegates from churches, local missionary societies, and other\nco-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one representative.\n\n\nART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President,\nVice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,\nTreasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less than\ntwelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory, and\nthe Treasurer ex officio, members.\n\n\nART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting\nand disbursing of funds; the appointing, counseling, sustaining and\ndismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and agents;\nthe selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the transaction of\nall such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of\nmissionary and other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no\necclesiastical jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to\nbe subject always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall,\nby a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any\naggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference shall\nbe final.\n\nThe Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies\noccurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;\nto apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of\nincorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all\nofficers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the\nSociety; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and\nfor the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, in\nall parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general\nconventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion of\nthe missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of the\nmissionary work.\n\nFive members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting\nbusiness.\n\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 their\nfellow-beings as slaves.\n\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\n\nART. X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without the\nconcurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular annual\nmeeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been submitted to\na previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in season to be\npublished by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if so submitted) in\nthe regular official notifications of the meeting.\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a belief\nin the guilty and lost condition of all men without a Saviour; the\nSupreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the\nonly Saviour of the world; the necessity of regeneration by the Holy\nSpirit; repentance, faith and holy obedience in order to salvation; the\nimmortality of the soul; and the retributions of the judgment in the\neternal punishment of the wicked, 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 and\nChristian policy toward the INDIANS. It has also a mission in AFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014In Virginia, 1; North Carolina, 6; South\nCarolina, 2; Georgia, 13; Kentucky, 6; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 14;\nLouisiana, 17; Mississippi, 4; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 2. _Among the\nIndians_, 1. Total, 76.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.\u2014_Chartered_:\nHampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville,\nTenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; and Austin, Texas\u20148. _Graded\nor Normal Schools_: at Wilmington, Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston,\nGreenwood, S. C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile,\nAthens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.\u201412. _Other Schools_, 31. Total, 51.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014Among the Freedmen, 284; among\nthe Chinese, 22; among the Indians, 11; in Africa, 13. Total, 330.\nSTUDENTS\u2014In Theology, 102; Law, 23; in College Course, 75; in other\nstudies, 7,852. Total, 8,052. Scholars taught by former pupils of\nour schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the care of the\nAssociation, 13,000.\n\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the growing\nwork. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and _larger_\ncontributions from the churches, the feeble as well as the strong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for the\nnew churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and pious, for\nthese churches.\n\n3. 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Powell, Dis\u2019t Sec., 112 West Washington Street.\n\n\nMAGAZINE.\n\nThis Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if desired, to the\nMissionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all Clergymen\nwho take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of\nSabbath-schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; to\nSocieties of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does not\nprefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less\nthan five dollars.\n\nThose who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in their\nlast Will and Testament are earnestly requested to use the following\n\n\nFORM OF BEQUEST.\n\n\u201cI BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of \u2014\u2014\u2014 dollars, in\ntrust, to pay the same in \u2014\u2014\u2014 days after my decease to the person who,\nwhen the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the \u2018American\nMissionary Association\u2019 of New York City, to be applied, under the\ndirection of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its\ncharitable uses and purposes.\u201d\n\nThe Will should be attested by three witnesses (in some States three\nare required, in other States only two), who should write against\ntheir names their places of residence (if in cities, their street and\nnumber). 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M., the Executive Committee will render\ntheir Annual Report.\n\nAt 7.30 o\u2019clock, Tuesday evening, the Annual Sermon will be preached by\nRev. C. D. Hartranft, D. D., of Hartford, Communion following.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, papers will be read on topics of special interest\nrelating 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, Gen. O. O. Howard, President M. H. Buckham, and\nother distinguished speakers.\n\nThe Committees on hospitality, reduction of railroad fares, and other\nmatters of detail pertaining to the meeting, will be duly published in\nthe religious papers.\n\nThe Executive Committee proposes the following amendments to the\nConstitution of the American Missionary Association to be submitted to\nthe Annual Meeting for action thereon, viz.:\n\n    ART. III. Any person who contributes to the funds of the\n    Association may become a member thereof for the current year by\n    requesting to be enrolled as such at the time such contribution is\n    paid into the treasury of the Association, and any contributor to\n    the amount of thirty dollars, at one time, may, on request to that\n    effect, be enrolled as a Life Member.\n\n    ART. V. The Annual Meeting shall consist of the Officers, Life\n    Members who have been such prior to the first day of October\n    preceding the time of such meeting, such persons as have been\n    enrolled as members within one year prior to that date, and of\n    delegates from churches that have within the year contributed\n    to the funds of the Society, and from State Associations and\n    Conferences, each of such churches, associations and conferences to\n    be entitled to one delegate.\n\n    ART. VI. The officers of the Association shall be a President,\n    Vice-Presidents, Corresponding Secretaries, (who shall also keep\n    the records of the Association,) Treasurer, Auditors, and an\n    Executive Committee of not less than twelve members.\n\n    ART. VII. After \u201cdismissing,\u201d omit the parenthesis. Omit ART.\n    VIII., and number ARTS. IX. and X. respectively VIII. and IX.\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\nDAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\nSpelling and puntuation were changed only where the error appears\nto be a printing error. Capitalization and punctuation in the\nReceipts section is inconsistent, and was retained as printed.\nThe remaining corrected punctuation changes are too numerous to\nlist; the others are as follows:\n\nPage number 283 changed to 289 on title page.\n\nTotals for Massachusetts changed to agree with heading.\n\nGratton changed to Grafton in receipts for Massachusetts.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 35, No. 10, October, 1881","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":20248}