{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_57013/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_57013","id":"gutenberg_57013","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57013","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Sociology","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online\nDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This\nfile was produced from images generously made available\nby Cornell University Digital Collections.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: JUNE, 1887.\n\n  VOL. XLI.\n\n  NO. 6.\n\n  The American Missionary]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: CONTENTS]\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    THE ADVANCE--APPEAL,                                157\n    PARAGRAPHS,                                         158\n    LOOK ON THIS SIDE AND ON THAT,                      161\n    THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED,                            164\n    PLYMOUTH CHURCH, MINN,                              165\n    FROM THE _Atlanta Constitution_,                    166\n\n\n  THE SOUTH.\n\n    NOTES IN THE SADDLE,                                167\n    SENATOR SHERMAN AT FISK UNIVERSITY,                 169\n    REMARKS OF SENATOR SHERMAN,                         171\n    A CHURCH AND A SCHOOL TO A COUNTY,                  172\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    SPEECH OF ELI ABRAHAM,                              174\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    HOME-LOVE VERSUS CHRIST-LOVE,                       175\n\n\n  BUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\n    EXPERIENCE OF AN A. M. A. STUDENT TEACHER,          177\n\n\n  FOR THE CHILDREN.\n\n    MRS. TUCKER\u2019S CONVERSION,                           179\n\n\n  RECEIPTS,                                             181\n\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\n                              matter.\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  PRESIDENT, Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, LL.D., Mass.\n\n\n  _Vice-Presidents._\n\n    Rev. A. J. F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y.\n    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass.\n    Rev. D. O. MEARS, D.D., Mass.\n    Rev. HENRY HOPKINS, Mo.\n\n\n  _Corresponding Secretary._\n\n    REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n  _Associate Corresponding Secretaries._\n\n    Rev. JAMES POWELL, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n    Rev. A. F. BEARD, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n  _Treasurer._\n\n    H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n  _Auditors._\n\n    PETER MCCARTEE.\n    CHAS. P. PEIRCE.\n\n\n  _Executive Committee._\n\n    JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.\n    A. P. FOSTER, Secretary.\n\n    _For Three Years._\n      S. B. HALLIDAY.\n      SAMUEL HOLMES.\n      SAMUEL S. MARPLES.\n      CHARLES L. MEAD.\n      ELBERT B. MONROE.\n\n    _For Two Years._\n      J. E. RANKIN.\n      WM. H. WARD.\n      J. W. COOPER.\n      JOHN H. WASHBURN.\n      EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.\n\n    _For One Year._\n      LYMAN ABBOTT.\n      A. S. BARNES.\n      J. R. DANFORTH.\n      CLINTON B. FISK.\n      A. P. FOSTER.\n\n\n  _District Secretaries._\n\n    Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, D.D., 21 _Cong\u2019l Home, Boston_.\n    Rev. J. E. ROY, D.D., 151 _Washington Street, Chicago_.\n\n\n  _Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._\n\n    Rev. CHARLES W. SHELTON.\n\n\n  _Field Superintendent._\n\n    Rev. C. J. RYDER, _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n  _Bureau of Woman\u2019s Work._\n\n    _Secretary_, Miss D. E. EMERSON, _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nRelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretaries; those relating to the collecting fields,\nto Rev. James Powell, D.D., or to the District Secretaries; letters\nfor \u201cTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY,\u201d to the Editor, at the New York\nOffice.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nIn drafts, checks, registered letters or post office orders may\nbe sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,\nor, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21\nCongregational House, Boston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\u201cI BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of \u2014\u2014 dollars, in\ntrust, to pay the same in \u2014\u2014 days after my decease to the person\nwho, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the\n\u2018American Missionary Association,\u2019 of New York City, to be applied,\nunder the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association,\nto its charitable uses and purposes.\u201d The Will should be attested\nby three witnesses.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                VOL. XLI.    JUNE, 1887.     NO. 6.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe _Advance_ will please accept our thanks. In a recent issue it\nquotes almost the entire financial article published in the May\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY, and then editorially comments as follows:\n\n\u201cThe _Advance_ seconds the motion for a movement all along the\nline to save the American Missionary Association from the calamity\nof a threatened debt. May and June are magnificent months for\ndoing good things. The whole world opens out in beauty. Blossoms,\nsongs, abounding life, are everywhere. What a hint to close-clasped\npocket-books to come out from their hiding places and join with the\nlilacs and apple trees and the birds and the forests and the fields\nin making everybody happy with their generous outflow. The New West\nis out of debt; the Home Missionary Society is out of debt. Let\nministers and churches and sympathetic friends see to it that when\nthe financial year ends the American Missionary Association can\njoin in the same glad refrain--_out of debt!_\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe prime object we have in view in urging our appeal for increased\ncontributions at the present time is that, if possible, we may\nobtain relief from threatening financial embarrassment before the\nsummer months are upon us. When the ministers are in their own\npulpits, and when the people are in their own pews, then is the\ntime to make an effort. Unfortunately for some years past, we have\nbeen obliged to make special appeals during the summer months. We\nhad no option. It was appeal or suffer. We have always felt the\ndisadvantage. We were obliged to call, and yet we were conscious\nthat those who ought to hear did not hear, and that many who heard\nfelt constrained to do more than they really could afford. Many a\ntime we would have gladly returned donations to friends who made\naltogether too great sacrifice in giving what they did. Cannot this\nevil be remedied? That is the question we wish to press during the\nfew weeks that are now passing. Brethren and friends, before the\nvacation days come, can you not so roll up on your gifts to the\ntreasury of the A. M. A. that when the summer is fairly here and\nyou are gone to the mountains, to the seaside, across the ocean,\nor elsewhere, our anxieties shall be allayed and the danger of our\nbeing obliged to make special appeals shall be averted? \u201c\u2019Tis a\nconsummation most devoutly to be wished.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOur Treasurer frequently receives gifts in the form of cherished\nkeepsakes. These keepsakes are associated with the memory of\nloved ones now dead, and they represent much more than any\nmoney value can measure. A widow, to whom a watch was the chief\nmaterial reminder of her husband, heard the appeal of the American\nMissionary Association, and having no money to give, sends that\nwatch that it may be sold in the market and the money go into our\nwork. A friend of hers, who sent the watch to us, writes: \u201cFavored\nwith but few of this world\u2019s goods, yet not daring to plead this as\nan excuse for not giving, she felt heavenly drawings to give to the\nLord this cherished memento of the dear departed one. Having known\nher for many years as a Dorcas in the church, I cheerfully write\nthese few words, not because of the intrinsic value of the gift,\nbut because it is indeed the widow\u2019s mite, and in God\u2019s sight the\nwidow\u2019s mite may be more than the costly offerings of the wealthy.\u201d\nSuch gifts greatly encourage us, because they tell of affection and\ndevotion and sacrifice.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe wish to guard our work and friends from imposition. Not\nnecessarily imposition in the bad sense. It is to shield them from\nmaking donations to objects that in themselves may be worthy,\nunder the impression that they are giving to the work of the\nA. M. A., when they are doing no such thing. There are a great\nmany schools, of one kind and another, that have been started\nat the South among the colored people by private parties, on a\npurely independent basis. Complaint comes to us frequently that\ncirculars and letters begging for funds with which to carry on\nthese independent enterprises are being continually received, and\nthat funds are diverted from our treasury on that account. Many\ncontribute in response to these appeals under the impression that\nthey are giving to the A. M. A. These independent ventures differ\nfrom our work in one very important respect. All our institutions\nare under supervision and are held to a strict responsibility and\nscrutiny. These others to which we refer are irresponsible and\nnot supervised. Many of them are carried on with what we should\nconsider a great lack of economy, and some of them are in the\nfield because those that control them were uncomfortable under\nsupervision. They knew too much to be counseled with and would not\nbe advised. We ask our friends to be careful in the confidence they\ngive to every applicant, who, taking the files of the AMERICAN\nMISSIONARY, uses the United States post-office as a means of\ngaining entrance to their homes and charity. We have no right to\ndictate to our friends where they shall spend their money. That is\ntheir own business. But we feel that it is our duty to advise them\nof the complaints that come to us, and to put them on their guard\nagainst imposition from every quarter.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE COLOR LINE IN ART.--The Art Students\u2019 League of New York\nrecently admitted to its membership Mr. Geo. Alex. Bickles, a\ncolored youth of nineteen years. He is the first colored student\never admitted to the League. A few of the students were inclined\nto be angry because he was admitted. They wanted to draw the color\nline. They tried to work up a feeling of antagonism against the\nmanagement. They called a meeting of the students, introduced a\nseries of resolutions against the admission of colored students,\nbut they were ingloriously defeated. To add to their chagrin,\nthey were informed that even had their resolutions passed, the\nmanagement would have taken no notice of them. Mr. Bickles is a\nbright young man, who until recently was a stable boy at Islip,\nL.I. He has a remarkable talent for drawing and painting, and\nhis sketches are to be found in many a home in that Long Island\nvillage. Several prominent Brooklyn gentlemen having summer\nresidences at Islip, recognized the young man\u2019s ability and urged\nhim to quit the stable and study art. This is the reason why he is\nnow a student of the Art League, and there is this to his credit,\nthat he has been admitted to its membership upon the merit of\nhis work. In addition to being a good painter, he is also a fine\nmusician.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA German, who owned a large plantation and many slaves near\nSavannah, Ga., at his death manumitted his slaves. Some of them\nwere his own children. Two of his boys he sent to Germany and\nhad them thoroughly educated. It was the design of the planter\nto have his property go to his freed children, as they were the\nonly children he had. The war came and the State confiscated the\nproperty. One of the boys has been for many years a missionary of\nthe A. M. A. He spends half an hour daily teaching German to the\ndaughter of a prominent white citizen. Our missionary writes:\n\u201cYesterday, while busy teaching this little one, a visitor looked\nin and asked the mother in German, \u2018What are you doing?\u2019 She\nreplied, \u2018My little daughter is taking lessons.\u2019 Visitor said\nsomething about \u2018nigger.\u2019 The lady held up her hand, as the\nstranger drew back in the next room, and said to him, \u2018That is\nthe German translator.\u2019 The visitor answered, \u2018Is that the one?\u2019\nThe conversation was now carried on in an undertone. Whenever\nI go to discharge my duty at the above mentioned house, I am\nkindly treated. Whenever I call on the German Lutheran minister,\nDr. Bowman, of Savannah, he treats me with kindness and respect.\nThe language of the visitor made little impression on me, for in\nGermany I have been taught to respect an honest man, not his color.\nThe United States is a strange place.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA CHILD\u2019S FAITH.--A little colored boy was in the room where his\nold grandmother was lying, suffering intense pain from rheumatism.\nIt was in the evening. As he was leaving and said good-night to\nthe old woman, she said: \u201cLewis, won\u2019t you ask God in your prayers\nto-night to make grandma better?\u201d \u201cOh, yes, I will, and God will\nmake you better.\u201d He went right away, and offered up his child\u2019s\nprayer that God might take away his grandma\u2019s pains and make her\nwell. His mother, not knowing what had happened, incidentally asked\nhim if he had prayed for his grandma. The little fellow, thinking\nthat his mother knew all about it, replied: \u201cOh, yes, I did; but\nGod hasn\u2019t done so yet. I guess he is seeing about it, but he\u2019ll do\nit.\u201d Next morning he hastened to ask his grandma how she was. \u201cI\nam better, thank God, this morning,\u201d came the answer. At once he\njumped about the room, clapping his hands, and cried out: \u201cDidn\u2019t I\ntell you God was seeing about it, and I am so glad that he did it!\nI knew he would!\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAn educated Christian Chinaman, thoroughly acquainted with the\nteachings of Confucius, made the following comparison between\nConfucius and Jesus:\n\n\u201cThey are like two bridges; they are both noble structures. You\nadmire the strength of the timbers and the way in which they are\nframed together, forming the solid foundation and the graceful arch\nrising about it. You walk on the bridge of Confucius; it is all\nright till you come to the River of Death--there you see the black\nwaters rolling before you, and there is no plank on which you may\ncross to the shore beyond. Jesus Christ is a completed bridge, over\nwhich you may safely pass to the Heavenly Home and to the mansion\nhe has prepared for your eternal habitation.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSTANLEY AS A MISSIONARY.\n\nIn a recent interview between Mr. Stanley and a newspaper\ncorrespondent, the distinguished explorer said: \u201cI have been in\nAfrica for seventeen years, and I have never met a man who would\nkill me if I folded my hands. What I wanted, and what I have been\nendeavoring to ask for the poor Africans, has been the good offices\nof Christians, ever since Livingstone taught me during those four\nmonths that I was with him. In 1871 I went to him as prejudiced\nas the biggest atheist in London. I was out there, away from a\nworldly world. I saw this solitary old man there, and asked myself,\n\u2018Why on earth does he stop here?\u2019 For months after we met I found\nmyself listening to him and wondering at the old man\u2019s carrying\nout all that was said in the Bible. Little by little his sympathy\nfor others became contagious; mine was awakened; seeing his pity,\nhis gentleness, his zeal, his earnestness, and how he went quietly\nabout his business, I was converted by him, although he had not\ntried to do it. How sad that the good old man died so soon! How\njoyful he would have been if he could have seen what has since\nhappened there!\u201d\n\nAnd thus have these great explorers demonstrated the power of\nsympathy and kindness even upon the most degraded of people.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLOOK ON THIS SIDE AND ON THAT.\n\nThere is a very ancient chestnut tree which has been shaken by many\na traveler on his way. One of its nutshells has a word of wisdom in\nthe story of two knights who contended about a certain shield. \u201cIt\nwas gold.\u201d \u201cIt was silver.\u201d Both were sure, for did they not see it\nfor themselves? Both were wrong, of course; people usually are who\nsee one side. There were two sides to that shield.\n\nThe point of view has to do with what one sees. For example, when\nRev. Doctor Field went South, the shield which he looked at on\nthe way was burnished gold. He saw it. He wrote a book about it,\nwhich was honorable to his heart and to his eyesight. Everything\nwas lovely and of good report down South. It was faith, hope and\ncharity, but the greatest of all was charity. Then Editor Grady\ncame to New York and told us in eloquence and imagination of the\nNew South. The shield which he held up to us was gold studded with\ndiamonds. \u201cVery well, let it be gold, that is what we want,\u201d was\nthe hopeful response of tens of thousands until it has come to\nbe the mode to say, \u201cSurely it is gold. The era of good will and\njustice has come, and nothing either great or small remains for us\nto do.\u201d\n\nThose of us who have been praying and working for \u201cthe acceptable\nyear of the Lord\u201d could wish that this were so, but it remains true\nthat an intelligent view is not a one-sided view. People may run\nthrough the South and get the view that leans to inclination. They\nmay have delightfully warm receptions, but it takes a good many\nwarm days to make a summer.\n\nThere is no doubt that there is a New South, that the beginning of\nthe dawn of a glorious morning is lifting itself up. Thoughtful\npeople in the South are realizing the trend of things. They\nare attent to the problems which present themselves. They are\nre-adjusting their opinions. A few leaders are coming into the\nrealm of convictions which are quite other than those they once\nentertained. They are nobly meeting questions once ignored. This is\nthe prophecy of the golden year for which the American Missionary\nAssociation has been expending itself. From the time when the\nAmerican Missionary Association planted its first Institution\nat Hampton, Va., until its last one was destroyed so lately by\nincendiaries at Quitman, Ga., it has waited patiently for Southern\nrecognition of its work. This has been coming gradually, and we\nneed not say that we appreciate it. Many have been convinced, some\nare urgently exhorting us to increased activities and service.\nThoughtful Southern people do not look upon a population of another\nrace, now numbering about seven millions, which averages upwards of\nseventy per cent of absolute illiteracy, with unconcern.\n\nThey begin to see what we are doing; they begin, in some\nrespects, to feel with us. They even, in some slight measure, are\nco-operating with us.\n\nThis is the golden side. It is full of promise. But now if one\nshould see this, and see this only, he would make a great mistake.\nThat which centuries have cherished will not change in a life-time.\nIt is true that it does not require the heroism of the past years\nfor our teachers to go South now, but none of them, so far as\nwe have learned, have been spoiled as yet by being too greatly\nhonored. To illustrate the point of view, we quote from a recent\nissue of the _Banner-Watchman_ of Athens, Ga. It reads: \u201cAbout\n8 o\u2019clock in the morning of any school day a passer through the\nstreets of Athens is met by great swarms of negro children on\ntheir way to be educated. * * * * The question naturally presents\nitself, who feeds and clothes and buys books for these pupils? We\ndo not suppose that one negro in twenty has $10 worth of property,\nand they are paid, too, the smallest wages imaginable, barely\nsufficient to buy them coarse raiment and the plainest food, and\nyet they all seem not only able to keep their children in idleness\n(sic) but these children are nicely clad and have expensive books.\nThe question then arises, who pays for all this? And the conundrum\nnaturally arises, what are we educating these young negroes for?\nWhat can we do with them? The field for educated whites is narrow\nenough, and there is no opening for a learned negro, except the\npulpit and the school bench, and these two avocations are now\ncrowded to suffocation. Experience has taught that when you educate\na negro you incapacitate him for manual labor; and to be a hewer of\nwood and drawer of water for the superior race is all the sphere\nthat the African ever has or ever will creditably fill. (We forgive\nthis unpremeditated murder of the Queen\u2019s English.) Visit the chain\ngangs of Georgia, or any old slave State, and you will see that a\nlittle education, assisted by a linen duster, a cotton umbrella and\na hymn book, is the best recruiting sergeant that the penitentiary\nhas.\u201d\n\n\u201cAnd yet the white people of our State, through the medium of\npoliticians and office-seekers, are taking an enormous load of\ntaxation on their shoulders (sic) to make convicts and vagabonds\nof the only class of labor they now have. To substantiate this\nstatement we have only to refer to Athens before and since public\nschools were established, and the history of our city is the\nhistory of every place in the South where the whites have consented\nto bear the burthen of educating the negro. There is (sic) ten\ntimes as much stealing in our midst now as before free schools were\nestablished, and the number of idlers has increased as many fold.\nSo it is unkindness to the negro to lift him above his position.\u201d\nIn the same paper, a second article declares that the colored\nschools are rapidly \u201cbecoming nuisances.\u201d\n\nNow, it would not be just to say that the sentiments quoted above\nare those of the New South. They are not. It would be equally\nerroneous to deny that these views would be accepted by the great\nbody of people living in the South. The New South to many means\nsimply a new South for white people. Those who have had the\nmisfortune to be the children of slavery are to most as yet not in\nthe newness.\n\nThere is a New South that is becoming awake to the possibilities,\nthe opportunities, and the duties, especially of the dominant race,\nbut he shuts his eyes to serious facts, and to many sad ones, who\nis led to think that the movements which we herald with gladness\nare the thought and feeling of any large significance, or that they\ncan do the work to which the American Missionary Association is\nconsecrated. It will, we fear, be a long time yet before the South\nwill become so new that it will spell negro with one _g_. And it\nwill be as long perhaps before the poor and despised shall be so\nelevated and Christianized that people shall be ashamed to use two\n_g\u2019s_ where one is superfluous.\n\nThe appreciation which our work gains from noble and thoughtful\npeople in the South is the bright side. We love to look upon this.\nBut the fact that there are seven millions of colored people in\nthe South, and probably not more than five hundred well educated\ncolored preachers for them, is a fact not so bright. Our schools\nand theological seminaries are bright spots in the darkness. While\nwe are grateful to note the fact that the thoughts of men are\nwidening, we know that there is need of faith and patience, because\nthere remains much land to be possessed. One need not go far from\nwhat is hopeful to find enough to excite concern for the future,\nand to urge him to relax no zeal to hasten the day when Christ\nshall make all things new.\n\nWhen Southern newspapers can still print the opinion that education\nfor the Negro is a recruiting agency for the penitentiary, and that\ncolored schools are nuisances, we may be sure that the anxiety of\nthoughtful people, who are urging us to do a work which they cannot\ndo and know not how to do, is very real.\n\nAs to the truth of such opinions, which are very common in the\nSouth, we have only to quote a sentiment of a modern philosopher,\nviz., \u201cIt is better not to know so many things, than to know so\nmany things that ain\u2019t so.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHINGS TO BE REMEMBERED--NO. 1.\n\nIt seems to be a condition of every successful benevolent\nundertaking that there should be a constant recurrence to\nfundamental principles. The danger, in all mission enterprises,\nis that they will become perfunctory,--about so much to the\nsociety--rather than a contribution measured by the forces and the\ninterests involved in its work.\n\nIt is only when we see the _reason_ of things, and apportion our\ngifts according to the significance and value of our work on the\nKingdom of Christ, that we give intelligently, wisely, steadily for\nits promotion.\n\nThe friends of the American Missionary Association, we believe,\nwill thank us if we recall to their minds certain fundamental\nthings, of which the Association\u2019s _work_ is only an expression.\n\n_The Work_: Three historic heathen races are represented on these\nshores and engage the labors of the Association. These races number\nfully one-half of the human family, and, at least, three-fourths of\nthe un-evangelized portions of the world. For eighteen centuries\nChrist has claimed them for his own, and long ere this would have\nreceived them for his inheritance had his people been obedient to\nhis last command. But as we failed to go into all the world, he has\nsent the world to us, until the vast empire of heathendom pushes\nitself up to our very doors. Every day and every hour of the day\nwe touch thousands and millions of China and Africa, and might, if\nwe would, prepare them to be, respectively, the saviours of their\ncountry. It is not only possible, but it ought to be an easy thing\nto raise up out of the seven million blacks, out of the one hundred\nthousand Chinese, and out of the two hundred and seventy thousand\nIndians, teachers and preachers enough to give the gospel, with\nall its accompanying light and power, to the unnumbered myriads\nthey represent still sitting in the shadow of death. The Chinese\nare returning homeward at the rate of thousands a year, and will\nall return, if they live, at their own charges. Who dare say it is\nnot in our power to send them back with enough of the knowledge\nof Christ in their heads, and of his love in their hearts, to\nguide themselves and their countrymen to Heaven? Who dare say\nthat we have not Christian power enough to bring every Indian in\nthe land under the subduing influence of the Gospel: that we have\nnot resources of _every_ kind adequate to preparing thousands and\ntens of thousands of the sons and daughters of Africa to be the\nregenerators of their country?\n\nAnd yet we have been in contact with the Negro and the Indian\nsince the landing of the Pilgrims; and with the Chinese since the\ndiscovery of gold on the Pacific coast, without perceiving that our\nhand was on the unsaved millions of the globe, and that we had the\nopportunity to move and master them for Christ.\n\nHas blindness happened to our churches that they do not see the\nmeaning of the presence of these races here, and that they look\nwith such apparent indifference, not only upon questions of the\ngravest political import in connection with them, but questions\ninvolving the regeneration of continents? These populations are in\nour hands, and will be what we make them. We may train them to be\nthe World\u2019s teachers and leaders, or we may leave them and their\nraces to the old night of heathenism. It is such an opportunity to\ndo a magnificent Christian work for the human race as was never\nbefore offered to man. To take advantage of this opportunity is\nthe special work of the American Missionary Association. And to\nno society in _this_ or in _any_ land is there entrusted a work\nbroader in the possibilities of its influence, or mightier in the\nsources of its power.\n\n                                                C. L. WOODWORTH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPLYMOUTH CHURCH, MINNEAPOLIS, ONCE A BENEFICIARY OF THE A. M. A.\n\nDist. Sec. Roy, in his address before the General Association of\nMinnesota, at Minneapolis, reported from official documents the\nearly beneficiary relation between the Plymouth Church of that\ncity and this Association. It appears that the Church, having been\norganized in 1857, had Rev. Norman McLeod commissioned as acting\npastor in 1858, with $200 a year pledged. Under him the first\nchurch edifice was erected. It was a frame structure, 32\u00d762, that\ncost $2,300, of which $300 was furnished by the \u201cBuilding Fund.\u201d\nThe Church had then fifty members. In 1860 Rev. H. M. Nichols was\ncommissioned at the same rate for the same Church. During his\nfirst year of service that new meeting-house was burned by the\nincendiarism of the saloon interest. A young man from New England\nin three years had run down to delirium tremens. Mr. Nichols was\nwith him at his death, and on the Sabbath, referring to this\naffair in a temperance sermon, charged the murder upon the liquor\ntraffic of the town. The liquor sellers were present, and \u201cwere\ninfuriated like mad hounds.\u201d Fifty ladies of the town waited upon\nthe rum-sellers, begging them to abandon their traffic. They were\nanswered by a flow of free rum that fired the crowd to do their\ndesperate work of burning the church by using kerosene and burning\nfluid for kindling. An indignation mass meeting was held and a\nvigilance committee of fifty was appointed to act. \u201cThe town,\u201d\nsays Mr. Nichols, \u201cwill be cleared of liquor.\u201d A revival was also\nreported for that same year. But just as Mr. Nichols was about to\nstart east to solicit aid in rebuilding, he and his two children\nand a brother-in-law, with his two children, were drowned in Lake\nCalhoun.\n\nIn 1861 Rev. W. B. Dada was commissioned. The A. M. A. report\nspeaks of the place as an \u201cimportant field,\u201d and mentions another\nrevival as enjoyed there. The first man labored eight months; the\nsecond, seven months; the third, nine. This has proven a good\ninvestment, as the contribution of this Church the last year to\nthe A. M. A. was $508, and this is about the annual offering, and\nits total of church benefaction the last year was $35,263. In these\nyears it has been a very mother of churches. It was this Church\nthat, in 1873, entertained the meeting of the American Board,\nwhich had come to hold its anniversary upon the field of its first\nmission among the Sioux Indians.\n\nAt that time, 1860, there were also two other churches in Minnesota\nunder the A. M. A., those of Traverse de Sioux and Brooklyn; and in\nthe West there were _seventy_ white churches under the commission\nof this Association. Among them, those of Charlotte, Mich.,\nSandwich, Ill., and Waterloo, Iowa.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWe take the following from the Atlanta _Constitution_. We publish\nthe whole of the article, from beginning to end, in order that\nthere may be no opportunity for drawing wrong inferences. The\n_Constitution_ is edited by Mr. Grady. We consulted the editorial\ncolumns to see if any editorial remarks had been made upon the\nincident. We did not find any. Surely the man who made that famous\nspeech at the New England Dinner recently in New York could not\nhave been in his office. If he were, and allowed such an incident\nas this to go unnoticed, very ugly inferences indeed must be drawn\nin reference to that New England Dinner speech. Just what _is_ the\nNew South, anyway?\n\n\u201cSomething of a sensation was created at Tillman\u2019s tent service,\ncorner Hunter and Lloyd streets, yesterday afternoon. Early in\nthe afternoon two white teachers in the Clark University entered\nthe tent with eight or ten negro girls, who are students at the\nschool, and seated themselves. Soon after the party entered the\ntent, ladies and gentlemen began arriving and in a short time the\ntent was crowded. Every seat except those reserved for the colored\npeople was taken and many persons were standing up. One of the\nushers, with a view to supplying seats for some who were standing,\nwent to the negro girls and asked them to move to the seats set\napart for their race. The girl to whom the usher spoke referred him\nto one of the teachers. Up to that time the usher did not know that\nthe negroes and the two white women were together, but turning to\none of them he asked her to have the negro women move to the seats\nprovided for their race.\n\n\u2018Why should they move?\u2019 asked the teacher.\n\n\u2018Because they are in seats reserved for the white ladies and\ngentlemen, and there are plenty of them standing. Those seats over\nthere are for colored people and those women can take them.\u2019\n\n\u2018Well, I don\u2019t know that there is any distinction as to color in a\nchurch and they won\u2019t move,\u2019 answered the teacher.\n\nThe usher seeing that a scene was probable if he insisted upon\nthe negro women moving, sought Patrolman Whitley, who was near\nthe tent, and telling him that the tent belonged to the Rev. Mr.\nTillman, asked him to remove the women. The patrolman entered the\ntent and approaching the party, repeated the request.\n\n\u2018Well, we are satisfied with these seats,\u2019 said the teacher.\n\n\u2018I can\u2019t help that,\u2019 said the patrolman, \u2018this tent belongs to Mr.\nTillman and he wants these seats. Over there are seats for those\nnegro girls. You ladies can remain here, but they must move.\u2019\n\n\u2018What difference does color make?\u2019 asked the teacher.\n\n\u2018I don\u2019t know, only I know they must move. Now if they don\u2019t go\nI will have to take you all out, and if I take you out I\u2019ll make\ncases in police court against you. I am sorry to disturb you, but\nit is my duty.\u2019\n\nThe two teachers and the negro girls held a consultation in a low\ntone a few minutes, and then arising from their seats swept out.\nWhen outside the tent one of the teachers called Patrolman Whitley\nto her and said:\n\n\u2018I was never treated so shamefully before. I never knew before that\none\u2019s color made any difference in a church before the Lord.\u2019\n\n\u2018I don\u2019t know what it does before the Lord,\u2019 answered the\npatrolman, \u2018but down South here it makes a difference. In this\nsection we have nothing like social equality, and never will, in\nchurch or out of church.\u2019\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNOTES IN THE SADDLE.\n\nBY FIELD-SUPERINTENDENT C. J RYDER.\n\nIn the \u201cNotes\u201d of last month I spoke of the floods that threatened\nthe destruction of plantations and villages in Western Mississippi.\nFrom Mississippi I passed over into Texas, and this was passing\nfrom flood to drought. In some sections of the latter State there\nhave been only two showers in as many years. Cattle are dying by\nthousands on prairie ranches. Water is held at fabulous prices,\nand in some sections it is impossible to get it, even for gold.\nThe reports of suffering which come from the Western part of the\nState are painful in the extreme. All Christian hearts are turning\nin agonizing prayer to Him \u201cwho holds the waters in His hand.\u201d\nSpecial prayer services are held in many places, and every Sabbath\npetitions are offered in the pulpits for rain. It is a fearful\nexperience through which Texas is passing just now, and unless\nrelief comes speedily the loss of property will be enormous, and\nthe lives of the settlers will be endangered.\n\nI wonder if there be any occult logical connection between the want\nof water and the prohibition agitation? However that may be, Texas\nis stirred to its centre by this temperance movement.\n\nNext August a prohibitory amendment to the State constitution is\nto be voted upon by the citizens. Churches, public halls and\nschool houses are filled almost nightly with interested and excited\naudiences listening to the discussion of their political duties\nconcerning this great moral question. The leading temperance\nadvocates have confident hopes that this coming election will wheel\nthe Lone Star State into line with the goodly number of prohibitory\nStates. In the hotels, on the streets, in railway carriages,\neverywhere, prohibition is the absorbing question.\n\nIn the cars, as I journeyed from Paris to Dallas, two gentlemen sat\njust behind me. They were, of course, discussing this perplexing\nquestion of prohibition, although from their arguments I learned\nthat they were both opposed to temperance legislation. One was\na Georgian, the other a Texan. They both freely admitted that\nthey \u201cliked their bitters,\u201d and neither believed in prohibition,\n\u201cbecause, you see, it wouldn\u2019t prohibit!\u201d Said the Texan: \u201cThere\nalways have been, and there always will be, certain besetting sins,\nand you cannot abolish them by law. People have kept getting drunk\never since Eve got drunk in the Garden of Eden, and I reckon they\nalways will, and you can\u2019t prohibit it by law.\u201d\n\nPoor old mother Eve! The apple must have had hard cider in it. This\nwas the argument of a lawyer, and fairly averages the arguments\nurged throughout the State against prohibition. Agitation and fair\ndiscussion are all that are needed to convince every man that the\nthing to do with crime is to prohibit it. Every A. M. A. preacher\nand teacher was pronounced and energetic in his advocacy of this\nsound temperance principle. The influence of these Christian\nworkers will be felt in the coming election. The colored vote is an\nimportant factor in the settlement of this question, and our A. M.\nA. workers will do their utmost to make it solid for prohibition.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Sunday laws in Texas are strict and well enforced. Even at\nthe news counter at the hotels, cigars and tobacco are not sold.\nCongregational leaven, or some other moral force, has agitated\nsociety most healthfully. Texas is a worthy example to many of our\nolder States in respect to Sunday observance. There is now before\nthe Legislature a law prohibiting hunting on Sunday, and there is\nevery reason to believe that it will pass.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTillotson Institute, the A. M. A. institution at the capital of the\nState, is demanding better facilities and larger accommodations.\nThe school has outgrown its buildings. Its very prosperity makes\nadditional expense necessary in order to do the work that is now\npressing upon us. And there is every reason to expect still larger\nsuccess for the school in the future under the management of its\nnew president. It is the only institution which the A. M. A. has\nin the State, and it holds a commanding position. If it is largely\nand generously supported, its influence will be felt throughout the\nentire State.\n\nA ride of forty miles across the lonely prairie, starting at\nmidnight, was full of _possible_ romances and _imaginary_ dangers.\nThe boy who drove got out of the buggy repeatedly \u201cto feel for the\nroad, sah.\u201d As the track was so dim where other wagons had passed,\nand as there were no fences to mark the road, the only way to find\nit by night was to get down on one\u2019s hands and knees and feel for\nit. Houses stood ten, twelve, and even eighteen miles apart. Wolves\nwere all around us on the prairie. It would have been easy to have\nfancied that one was in danger, but there was no real danger,\nand when the light of the early morning came the ride was most\ndelightful. The prairie was starred with flowers; thorny cactuses\nstood guard over more timid blossoms. Away back here on the prairie\nis Goliad, and in it an A. M. A. church and school. An old Mexican\ntown, now in ruins, stands across a ravine a short distance from\nthe present village. Here, in 1835, the terrible massacre of the\nAmerican troops crimsoned the prairie grass. But it was the bloody\nbaptism of freedom! The fetters of Mexican tyranny were broken.\nTo-day this village is the centre of a large and exceedingly\nfertile farming region. The A. M. A. church is feeble, but full of\nhope and confidence. They own their meeting-house, and are thrifty\nand prosperous. They are pushing towards self-support. One of the\nchurch members teaches a day school. So in this out-of-the-way\nvillage on the prairies of Texas the A. M. A. is sowing the seed of\na better Christian progress.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe local papers of Alabama have changed the spelling of the name\nof that State, and write it now \u201cAlaboomer.\u201d It is an appropriate\nchange, for the whole State is in a fever of excitement over the\n\u201cbooms\u201d in real estate. This rise in the value of property means\nincreased work for the A. M. A. Children of small farmers can be\nspared from cotton and corn field as their parents become more\nprosperous, and thus our schools will be more crowded, if this is\npossible.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSENATOR SHERMAN AT FISK UNIVERSITY.\n\nBy invitation of the Republican members of the Tennessee\nLegislature, Senator John Sherman visited Nashville on his return\nto Ohio from Cuba, and on the night of the 24th of March delivered\nin the hall of the House of Representatives a public address on the\nissues of the day.\n\nDr. Theo. L. Cuyler said, a few mornings since, in addressing our\nstudents, that he had chosen to return home from New Orleans via\nNashville in order to visit Fisk University, though he could spend\nonly a few hours in the city; and that for a Northern man to come\nto Nashville and not see Fisk, would be like going to Washington\nand not seeing the Capitol.\n\nThe Mayor of Nashville followed the custom observed in the case of\nother distinguished visitors, in providing in the programme of the\nday for Senator Sherman and his party a visit to Fisk University.\nUnder the escort of distinguished citizens of Nashville, during\nthe present year we have had the honor of visits from Judge Kelly,\nof Philadelphia, \u201cthe Father of the House of Representatives,\u201d and\nhis traveling companions; Charles Dudley Warner and the Harper\nparty, and others. These occasions are always full of interest, and\nthe University becomes an object-lesson to teach and illustrate\nthe possibilities of Negro education; but Senator Sherman\u2019s visit\nwas in every way so pleasant and significant that it will long be\na fragrant memory and quickening inspiration to both faculty and\nstudents. The Senator\u2019s party, largely increased in number by the\naddition of distinguished citizens of Nashville and of the State,\nand even of adjoining States, and under the escort of the Mayor of\nNashville, arrived in carriages at Livingstone Hall at half-past\neleven A.M. After a few moments had been spent in greetings and\nintroductions in the President\u2019s room, all repaired to the chapel,\nwhere the students had been assembled in the order observed at\nour usual chapel worship. The Senator, on his appearance with the\npresident of the University at the head of the procession as the\nguests filed into the chapel and took seats upon the platform,\nwas greeted with most hearty applause. The students then sang,\naccompanied by the piano, organ and orchestra, \u201cThe Red, White and\nBlue,\u201d which called forth hearty applause from the platform.\n\nPresident Cravath, in a few well-chosen words, then introduced\nSenator Sherman. The students rose to their feet and stood in\nsilence with eager, upturned faces, until the Senator began his\naddress. His words were reported by one of the students, and were\nfull of the kindest sentiment and the soundest practical wisdom.\nAt the close of the address the Jubilee song, \u201cGood News! The\nChariot\u2019s Coming,\u201d was sung.\n\nAt the request of Senator Sherman, Gen. Grosvenor, formerly\nLieutenant Governor of Ohio and now member of Congress, was\nintroduced. He began by referring to the gallantry and bravery of\nthe colored soldiers under his command, who made the desperate\ncharge on the Confederate works on Overton Hill during the second\nday of the battle of Nashville, and to the conviction expressed\nthen that the descendants of such brave, heroic men would under\nfreedom prove themselves worthy citizens of the country their\nfathers fought to save from disruption. The General made an\nexcellent point in favor of higher education by an illustration\ndrawn from the war. He said: \u201cWhen we called upon the colored men\nto become soldiers, we put the best Springfield rifles into their\nhands, for being under greater disadvantages than white soldiers,\nthey needed the best possible weapons. So for your success as\nleaders and guides of your people under freedom, you need the best\nweapons, and so the advantages of a higher education are provided\nfor you, and you should arm yourselves with the best discipline,\nfor you must fight your battles under unusual difficulties.\u201d\n\nGen. Wheeler, a prominent citizen of Nashville, who fought on the\nConfederate side, was next introduced, and spoke a few words of\nmost cordial greeting and congratulation.\n\nThe Mayor then tendered thanks in behalf of the party for the\ncordial reception that had been extended by the University, and\nannounced that the limit of their time had been reached, so that\nthey must ask leave to retire. The whole party then visited Jubilee\nHall, and thus completed the inspection of the University. A\nquotation from the report of an interview with Senator Sherman,\nas published in the New York _Herald_ and quoted in the Nashville\n_Daily American_ of the 3d of April, will best convey the\nimpression produced upon the Senator by his visit:\n\n\u201cAre the Southern Negroes devoting much attention to the matter of\neducation? I never saw anything like it. Their thirst for knowledge\nhas been greatly increased by the obstacles previously thrown in\ntheir way. There are several excellent colored universities in the\nSouth. Fisk University at Nashville is especially good. The young\nmen and women attending it are bright and very intelligent. The\nyoung white people of the South must look well to their laurels or\ntheir black neighbors will soon lead them in the race for mental\nimprovement.\u201d\n\n                                                   BY A TEACHER.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREMARKS OF SENATOR SHERMAN.\n\nSTENOGRAPHIC REPORT BY A FISK STUDENT.\n\nThis seems to me a very impressive scene. Most of you have grown\nup, indeed most of you have been born, since the event that secured\nyour citizenship took place.\n\nI am familiar with the object of \u201cFisk,\u201d and Howard University in\nWashington; both are engaged upon the same work and are a tower of\nknowledge to a race of people that were denied all those privileges\nnow so dearly cherished and so valuable to everyone. It seems\nalmost an act of the genii or the golden lamp, like the story of\n_The Arabian Nights_. The rapid changes that have occurred and now\nare occurring, and the attainment of citizenship to a race that was\na short time ago denied these privileges, seem only to have been\nmade possible by the magical power of the wonderful lamp.\n\nYou are all now entitled by the Constitution and laws of the United\nStates to the privilege of citizenship. Thirty years ago this\ncould not be said of you in any State in the Union. Now, so far as\nlaw is recognized, you have the same rights as the proudest man\nor woman in the country. You must fit yourselves to enjoy these\nprivileges. I am now getting to be an old man. Let me give you a\nword of advice. You must be patient in the progress you are making.\nYou must meet the prejudice of centuries. While you should assert\nyour rights with dignity, you must be patient, endeavor to command\nthe respect of those you meet, and you will see in the time near\nat hand that you will be given all your privileges. You must be\nguided and directed by the forces that govern all humanity, and,\ntherefore, while you have the rights of American citizenship, you\nshould do all that will materially help your race and those that\nare to come after you. You must be patient if sometimes you meet\nwith difficulties and prejudice.\n\nThe Alumni of Fisk University will some day stand side by side with\nthe graduates of Yale and Harvard. To help on this passage are the\nlaws of education, the study of the sciences, the study of arts,\nand the study of the practical development and various resources\nyou have at your command. It is this, young men and young women,\nthat is to help you.\n\nNow, with these simple remarks, with no desire to excite you,\nI again express the hope that the time will come when in the\nNorth, South, East and West you will be recognized as a race and\nas American citizens according as you behave yourselves and not\naccording to your color and condition.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA CHURCH AND A SCHOOL TO A COUNTY.\n\nThe \u201cMountain Work,\u201d which the A. M. A. has undertaken in the\nSouth, has a tendency to make those who engage in it enthusiastic,\nand we in the field sometimes almost mistrust that even our\nwell-informed officers in New York, with all their appreciation of\nthe need and greatness of the work before us, are accustomed to\nmake a discount of seventy-five per cent. on all we write them. On\nthe other hand, we _know_ we have not been, and shall not be, able\nto make anyone who has not spent weeks here realize one quarter of\nthe real needs of this field. One has to go into their poor homes\nand see them in sickness and in death; come into contact with\nthem day by day, and feel the general intellectual and spiritual\ndestitution; see some of them taking on noble, Christian manhood\nand womanhood, before he can fully comprehend the importance of the\nwork.\n\nThe A. M. A., burdened with debt and beset with calls from other\nneedy fields, has been able, so far, to devote but a small sum\nto this work; yet the work has gone on marvelously. It has been\nclearly shown what can be done.\n\nI am sure the A. M. A. is ready to hear and heed the command of the\nchurches to go forward, and even to take as a motto: _A Church and\na School in every County in the Mountains_. It is with the hope of\ncontributing a little to such a result that I give the following\nreasons why this should be done:\n\n1. These counties contain from three to fifteen thousand\ninhabitants each--some of them even more. In most of them there\nis no day-school worthy of the name, no Sunday-school, no\nprayer-meeting, no educated ministry, no churches in which pure\nreligion is taught or systematic work of any kind is done. The\nmajority of the people are good-hearted and respond readily to kind\nwords and acts of love. They live mostly in wretched, windowless\nlog-cabins, and know few of the blessings of a Christian land,\nhaving no luxuries and few of those things which are generally\nconsidered necessities. Physically, mentally and spiritually they\nneed teaching and elevating. For the sake, then, of the two and a\nhalf millions already here, there ought to be a church and a school\nestablished at once in the county seat, or chief place of every\ncounty. From these centers the leaven would work through the whole\nregion, and other churches would spring up about them as they are\ndoing in Whitley Co., Ky.\n\n2. The population is increasing very rapidly. Even the high\ndeath-rate from poor food, insufficient clothing, wretched houses,\nlack of nursing and of competent medical attendance, cannot keep\ndown the increase. The children can be readily gathered into Sunday\nand day-schools. Another generation ought not to be permitted to\nremain in the condition of the present and past.\n\n3. Then there is a third reason why this work should be undertaken\n_at once_ on a much larger scale than at present. The attention\nof the outside world is turning to the wonderful resources of\nthese mountains. It is becoming known that here is the richest\nundeveloped part of the United States. The great forests of\nvaluable timber, the thick and easily-mined deposits of coal, the\nfine quality of iron ore close by the coal, and other undeveloped\nwealth, are already drawing men here in large numbers. The\nrailroads are pushing their way among the mountains and immigration\nwill add more and more to the population, and vastly more to the\nwealth. Villages are springing up, cities will soon follow, and\nbefore many years this region will be filled with an enterprising\nand well-to-do people.\n\nNow is the time for the Christian influences which are to mould the\nfuture history of this people for good, to be set in motion from\nstrategic points. Cannot the Congregational churches, which have\nthe lead in Christian work here, arise in faith and take possession\nof the land in the name of the Lord?\n\nThere is one place which gives promise of being the future center\nof this whole region and the largest place in the mountains.\nIt is now absolutely destitute of all elevating, religious and\neducational institutions. It is nearly one hundred miles from\nthe nearest A. M. A. work. It is a village of three or four\nhundred inhabitants, with a thickly populated country all around\nit. A railroad is on the way to it, and it has such exceptional\nadvantages that it can scarcely fail to become a large and\nimportant place. It ought to be occupied at once, for people are\nbeginning to come in advance of the railroad and now is by far the\neasiest and cheapest time to start the work.\n\nIs there not some man of consecrated wealth who will assume\nthe financial part of establishing at once a mission in this\nplace? A neat, inexpensive little chapel, a school building, a\nyoung minister and his wife, a teacher and his wife, would make\na beginning from which great things would be sure to result.\nBeginning with this place, there ought to be a church and a school\nplaced one after another in the most promising places, until there\nshall be a center of mental and spiritual enlightenment within the\nreach of every person in this backwood, but promising region.\n\n                                                FRANK E. JENKINS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSPEECH OF ELI ABRAHAM, A NATIVE INDIAN.\n\nDELIVERED BEFORE THE DAKOTA ASSOCIATION.\n\n_My Friends_: When I was fifteen years old I learned to read\nGod\u2019s Word; and from the time I learned to read it I have desired\nearnestly to know what was in it.\n\nAlthough I did not know much, it has been my work now for about\neighteen years to teach others, the boys and girls and young people\nwho have come to school at Santee. When our school first began we\nheld it in a log house covered with dirt, and with a hay floor. The\nboys and girls came to school wearing their blankets, and they sat\non the ground to study. But now we have good buildings, and besides\nteaching in books, our pupils are taught various industries--such\nas shoemaking, blacksmithing, carpentry and farming, and our girls\nin all home work.\n\nOur boys like to take exercise in playing base ball, and I have\nnoticed that when the base ball clubs of white young men from the\ntowns around come in to play ball with them, the white young men\nget beaten; or when they try their speed with our boys in foot\nraces, they also get beaten. And it seems to me that if our young\nmen can be rightly instructed, they are sure to make good progress.\n\nIt has been my work to teach our scholars in the Bible. They come\nfrom many different tribes. Some are Titon Sioux, some Grosventres,\nsome Poncas, some Arapahoes, some Yanktons, some Brules, yet all\nlearn to read the Bible in our Santee dialect, and the past year\nI have been much pleased because of their interest in it. Often\nthey ask so many questions that we don\u2019t get on very far with our\nreading.\n\nIt seems to me that the best way to train up a people is to begin\nwith the children. It is like this: Once I pulled up a little\nseedling tree a foot high, and planted it near my house, where I\nwatered it and cared for it. When the dogs scratched it over, or\nthe oxen trod on it, I straightened it up again. Then I drove down\na strong stake beside it, and I tied it up in whatever direction\nit was crooked. Now, after ten years, it is a tall, straight tree.\nSo it seems to me that if we take the children and bring them up\nstraight, we shall have an upright nation, and that by God\u2019s Word\nwe shall make them truly upright.\n\nI have been thinking also how we should train our people in\nbenevolence. We must train the children. I have a little girl,\nto whom I gave a red cent and wished to teach her something.\nSo I asked her to what she would give it--to the sick, or for\nthe preacher, or for sending missionaries? \u201cWhat do they send\nmissionaries for?\u201d she asked. \u201cTo teach the people God\u2019s Word who\nhave not heard it,\u201d I answered. \u201cBut what will one cent do?\u201d she\nreplied. Said I, \u201cIf one hundred little girls should give a cent\neach, it would make a dollar.\u201d My little girl had learned to sing\nand play a little on the organ. When the young men came in, they\nwould ask her to sing for them; but after this she would answer,\n\u201cI will if you will give me a cent.\u201d When she had laid by five\ncents, I asked her if she was going to buy candy or nuts with it.\n\u201cNo,\u201d says she, \u201cI am going to give this to Mr. Singing Walker, our\nmissionary to the wild Indians.\u201d This, it seems to me, shows the\nway we are to train up our people, beginning with the children.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHOME-LOVE VERSUS CHRIST-LOVE.\n\nTo all persons familiar with missionary work in foreign lands\nthe fact suggested by the title of this article is more or less\nfamiliar. It sometimes occurs, even in American families, that\nChrist enters \u201cto set a man at variance against his father and even\na daughter against her mother,\u201d but this is unusual, so much so as\nto seem almost monstrous. When, as was the case last week, not far\nfrom my own field, the conversion of a daughter provokes the mother\nto disown her and to bid her leave home and look out for herself,\nwe are set wondering what strange madness has wrecked that mother\u2019s\nheart, and we ask, Is she possessed of the devil?\n\nBut this experience is usual in the turning of our Chinese to\nChrist. Scarcely any of them can escape it. And the questionings\nand struggles and sorrows are often very severe, and I have, of\nlate, been specially impressed by them. Thus, Mrs. Shattuck, of\nSanta Barbara, writes: \u201cWe have three or four anxious to join the\nAssociation [thus making profession of faith in Christ--W. C. P.],\nbut they are afraid of their own families. Tong is a good Christian\nboy,--as a pupil and as a singer equal to any China boy I ever had.\nWhen he talked with me he trembled like a leaf, saying, \u2018I do so\nlove your Jesus, but my family be angry. What shall I do?\u2019\u201d\n\nJee Gam has a little group of pupils in our Central school so\neager to study the Bible that they often remain an extra hour\n(from 9:30 to 10:30 P.M.) for instruction from him. One in this\ngroup, as deeply interested and as intelligent and constant as\nany, is a brother to two of our Chinese brethren, but has never\nhimself confessed Christ. Jee Gam wondered at this, and began to\ninquire into it closely. The young man replied, \u201cMy brothers are\nboth Christians. I am the only one left to worship my mother when\nshe dies. It would break her heart if she thought she had not even\n_one_ son left to worship her.\u201d I confess that as I \u201ctook in the\nsituation\u201d I felt the tears starting. What shall we say to such a\nsoul? This led to an item in the experience of Jee Gam himself.\n\u201cWhen I left home the last time,\u201d he said, \u201cmy father, knowing that\nI had not joined him in the worship of ancestors, and knowing _why_\nI had not, walked with me outside the village, urging me to promise\nto worship him when he should die.\u201d He appealed not only to Jee\nGam\u2019s affection but to his fears. \u201c\u2018If you do not worship me,\u2019 he\nsaid, \u2018my ghost shall pursue you and punish you.\u2019 I could not so\npain him as to say that I would not worship him, and I could not\nsay that I would worship him, and so, I said over and over again,\n\u2018I will do what is right.\u2019 And these were the last words I ever\nsaid to my father: \u2018Father, I will do what is right.\u2019\u201d\n\nA few days ago Rev. D. D. Jones, formerly laboring as a missionary\nin South China, was speaking to me of one of the members of our\nChurch who succumbed to the pressure brought to bear upon him\nat his marriage in China, and bowed to the idols. Immediately\nafterwards, deeply penitent, he went to the chapel in some\nneighboring village, where Mr. Jones was just then preaching, and\nconfessed his fault. \u201cI was not afraid of what they threatened to\ndo to me, but when they began to persecute my mother I could not\nbear it.\u201d\n\nThe case which has most deeply interested me and called forth my\nearnest prayer is that of a Chinese physician in Marysville. I\nmade his acquaintance about two weeks ago, on my recent visit to\nthat mission. He has attended our school for more than a year,\nand is one of the most faithful of the pupils. He shrinks from\nno service by which he can help on the work. He is well read in\nChinese--perhaps beyond any of our brethren, and is regarded as\nspecially skillful as a surgeon after the Chinese ways. He is a\nvery substantial looking man, with a fine head, a pleasant face,\nand a demeanor marked at once by modesty and strength. He is\ngreatly interested in the study of the Bible, and, but for one\nhindrance, would doubtless be a member of the Association, and\nwould, perhaps, have presented himself for baptism. I sat down by\nhis side and asked him what he thought of Jesus. \u201cI believe in\nJesus Christ,\u201d was his emphatic reply. \u201cBut how much do you believe\nin him?\u201d I asked, and then proceeded to illustrate real faith by\nthe confidence which he would wish his patients to repose in him--a\nconfidence which would lead them to abide implicitly by all his\ndirections. \u201cI believe in Jesus Christ just as I would wish my\npatients to believe in me,\u201d was his reply. \u201cWhat, then, is in the\nway of your becoming an avowed and active Christian?\u201d He turned to\nour helper, Loo Quong, and talked to him at length in Chinese. Loo\nQuong interpreted to me. \u201cIt is the woman,\u201d he said. This woman he\nhad pitied as she told him of the abuse she suffered at a brothel\nin San Francisco, and he had bought her from her mistress for\n$500. Quite in accordance with the dictates of Chinese morality,\nhe had made her a sort of American wife. That is to say, he had\nhis wife and son in China, and this woman was to be, after a sort,\nhis wife in America. This he now understood to be inconsistent\nwith Christian character; but what was he to do? I dare say he was\ndivided in mind somewhat over the $500. He could scarcely afford\nto lose it altogether, and I blush to say that he could doubtless\nrealize the full amount by selling her. But all questions of\npecuniary loss or gain apart, what shall he do? To drop her is to\nlet her fall into a life of prostitution--almost to _doom_ her to\nit. He might send her to one of our Mission Homes for Women, but\nshe is not disposed to go. Four or five years--as I understand\nit--they have lived together, and while, so far as his own comfort\nor pleasure is concerned, I believe he would give her up, would it\nbe right thus to dispose of her? It is a knot not easily untied, a\ntangle not easily cleared. I have thought that there might come to\nhim such an \u2018unction from the Holy One,\u2019 such an \u2018abundant entrance\ninto the Kingdom,\u2019 such a clear and uplifting conversion as would\nresolve all doubts and show a straight path before him. If this\nmight be so, it seems to me that he would become a worker in our\nmissionary field such as we greatly need: a reaper whose abundant\nsheaves would be gathered into everlasting life. Pray for it with\nus.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\nMISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nEXPERIENCE OF AN A. M. A. STUDENT TEACHER.\n\nMy first time to teach came last September, when I was formally\nintroduced to my work in the Practice School. I was allowed to\ngo to the school one morning as a visitor, that I might get the\ngeneral plan of conducting the classes, and, if I must say it, I\ndreaded the beginning more than ever. The second day found me at my\npost, determined to do my best. I was delighted with my apparent\nsuccess that afternoon, but prejudice compelled me to keep still\nabout it.\n\nMy surprise was greatest when I was told that I must prepare these\nlessons before teaching them, just as much as I did my own lessons.\nEach day the classes were more interesting and pleasing, every\nscholar doing his best work, not because he was obliged to, but for\nthe simple reason that his teacher as she went along, instilled the\nlove of study in his mind. This teacher had me prepare each lesson\nseparately, giving her opinions and suggestions and asking me how I\nwould teach it.\n\nDays and weeks went by rapidly; each day found me more interested,\neach night found me more willing to go over the lessons with the\nteacher. I would not have you think that I taught only one or two\nstudies, for before my time expired I had taught every class in the\nschool. I remembered that when I went to school as a child I was\nalways glad to have my teacher lay aside the text-book and tell us\nsomething of interest about each city and river in geography or\nabout some particular story in the reading lesson, so I endeavored\nto have a story or interesting fact for each class, that they might\nbe the more interested and also might remember the particular\npoints. I found out that it is the teacher\u2019s duty to answer\nsharp questions as well as ask them, for, in my physiology class\nespecially, some of the toughest questions I ever heard were put to\nme by those bright children.\n\nMy geography classes were nearly wild with excitement; sometimes\nwe would take sea voyages, and again we would find the homes of\ndifferent peoples and animals. Geography can be made a pleasant,\ninteresting and helpful study, and that is what I tried to make it.\nSoon my six weeks had gone, and with reluctance I bade the dear\nlittle scholars good-by. I think that I made happy and lasting\nimpressions on some of the children, as recent rumors have added to\nmy stock of conceit.\n\nAbout a week after my time of teaching had expired I had a new\nexperience; the teacher falling ill I was called upon to take\nher place. Elated with my past success and burning with a desire\nto teach a whole day by myself, I armed myself with a schedule\nof classes, the bunch of keys and proceeded to the school house.\nMost of the pupils seemed glad to have me there, but I could see\nwell enough that their teacher came first in their estimation.\nDevotional exercises over, I announced that their teacher was\nill and that I hoped they would be good for _her_ sake; then the\nlessons commenced. I found it quite different from having to do\nwith only one particular class, to hear one class in the back part\nof the room and keep an eye on three dozen curly haired witches in\nthe other part of the room. Oh! how slowly the time went, how my\ntemper waxed warmer as I noticed the various tricks and pranks. But\nsomething kept whispering, \u201cHow often have _you_ made faces at your\nteachers, thrown paper and made noises?\u201d so I kept down the sharp\nwords that continually came up, and tried to smile as I gently\nadmonished the giggling offender.\n\nAs it was a rainy day I took ten minutes from the recess and let\nthe children write a letter to their sick teacher. When the teacher\nread them over with me, you would have laughed could you have seen\nsome of them. In some I was spoken of quite highly but in others I\nwas reported as doing not so well as their own dear teacher. Some\nletters were composed of straight lines, as the very little folks\nalso deemed it necessary to write to her.\n\nAfter all there is an indefinable charm for me in teaching, and I\nmean to go on. Every night and morn I asked God\u2019s help, and through\nhim I accomplished what I have. I can say that my practice teaching\nwas a source of pleasure and help to me.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nFOR THE CHILDREN.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMRS. TUCKERS\u2019 CONVERSION.\n\nIt was Saturday afternoon, and Mrs. Tucker was very tired. Life was\nhard at best, only a tedious routine of wearisome duties; but on\nthis particular afternoon, the closing of the week\u2019s work pressed\nvery heavily upon her.\n\n\u201cOh, Mrs. Tucker, can Sallie go with us to the mission band?\u201d\n\nMrs. Tucker raised her eyes, and saw, standing in the doorway, two\nlittle girls.\n\n\u201cMission band! I\u2019d like to know what\u2019s a mission band?\u201d she\ndemanded sharply.\n\n\u201cWhy,\u201d spoke out the bolder of the two; \u201cit\u2019s lot of us children\nall together, working and sewing for poor folks. We bring our\npennies to Miss May for them, and she says it\u2019s giving to Jesus. We\nhave just the nicest time; do let her go.\u201d\n\n\u201cOh, mother,\u201d and Sallie\u2019s brown eyes looked appealingly into her\nmother\u2019s face; \u201cplease say I may--do let me.\u201d\n\nMrs. Tucker slowly folded the garment she had ironed, and hung it\nin its place before she answered.\n\n\u201cNo, she can\u2019t. I can give her all the sewing she wants to home,\nand we\u2019ve got nothing to give the Lord; he don\u2019t give to us. So go\nalong, and tell Miss May that Sallie Tucker\u2019s better set to work.\u201d\n\nWhen Mrs. Tucker, the hard day\u2019s work at last completed, toiled\nwearily up stairs, she found her little daughter seated upon the\ntop stair, while about her on the floor, were scattered all her\nchildish treasures.\n\n\u201cWhat on earth, child,\u201d exclaimed her mother, \u201cis all this clutter\nfor? What are you trying to do?\u201d\n\n\u201cWhy, mother,\u201d chirruped the sweet child\u2019s voice; \u201cI am looking to\nfind something to give to Jesus.\u201d\n\n\u201cGive to Jesus! What do you think the Lord wants of such stuff as\nthis?\u201d\n\n\u201cBut, mother,\u201d she explained, and her voice grew unsteady, and the\nbright eyes filled with tears, \u201cmy teacher said anything we give\nto him, he would like it; and if we gave what we loved best, it\npleased him most. And this is what I love most--my wax doll and my\nbirthday book. Won\u2019t he take it, mother? Can\u2019t I give him anything?\u201d\n\n\u201cSallie Tucker!\u201d and her mother\u2019s voice was cold and stern, \u201cyou\njust put this notion out of your head. You don\u2019t know what giving\nto the Lord means. Put this trash away. When the Lord remembers us\nwith some of his plenty, \u2019twill be time enough to give to him, I\nreckon.\u201d\n\nIt was the afternoon for the Woman\u2019s Quarterly Missionary Meeting,\nin the Shadyville Baptist church. Mrs. Gray, the minister\u2019s\nwife, came to the vestry with a sad heart. She knew too well the\ncharacter of these gatherings. A few ladies came together, in a\nlistless, apathetic way, a few lifeless prayers were offered, a\nlittle business disposed of, and the ladies went to their homes\nwondering why there wasn\u2019t more interest in missions. Mrs. Tucker\nwasn\u2019t in the habit of attending the missionary meeting, so when\nshe came into one this afternoon, the ladies present looked at each\nother in surprise. Mrs. Gray read the psalm and offered prayer, and\nthen came the usual dead silence.\n\nPresently Mrs. Tucker rose to her feet, and, in a voice shaken with\nemotion, said:--\n\n\u201cI s\u2019pose you\u2019re all astonished to see me here, but the truth of\nthe matter is, I\u2019ve got something to say to you, which can\u2019t half\nbe told in words, neither. You all know my little Sallie has been\nsick; but I don\u2019t s\u2019pose none of you know what that sickness has\nbeen to me. You see the children wanted her to go to the mission\nband, but I was tough and cranky, and dead set ag\u2019in\u2019 anything of\nthe kind, and told her, in the crossest way, she couldn\u2019t go. She\u2019d\nheard somethin\u2019 about giving to Jesus, and laid out her best doll\nand book; an\u2019 I laughed at it, an\u2019 told her the Lord didn\u2019t want\nher trash. Well, she took sick, an\u2019 got sicker an\u2019 sicker, till my\nheart stood still with the fear o\u2019 losing her. She was out of her\nhead, you know; and every time I come near the bed, she\u2019d start\nright up an\u2019 say, \u2018Oh, can\u2019t I give him anything? Don\u2019t he want my\ndolly? O mother, mother can\u2019t I go?\u2019 till I just thought my heart\nwould break in two. Everywhere I looked, I could see her eyes, with\nsuch a beseechin\u2019 look in \u2019em, and hear her voice callin\u2019, \u2018Mother,\nmother, can\u2019t I give _anything_?\u2019 till at last I went down on my\nknees, all broke up like, and I sez:--\n\n\u201c\u2018Lord, I\u2019m a poor, ungrateful sinner, and I\u2019ve been a-withholding\nfrom you all these years; but if there\u2019s anythin\u2019 I can give you,\nwon\u2019t you please take it? Even my little girl, and everything I\u2019ve\ngot I just lay down.\u2019\n\n\u201cWell, my sisters, I cried an\u2019 cried as I hain\u2019t for years, and it\nwasn\u2019t all for sorrow, neither; there was a great deep joy in it\nall. An\u2019 I come here to-day to tell you that I just give myself and\nall I\u2019ve got to the Lord\u2019s work. I\u2019m fairly converted to missions,\nand if the Lord will only take the poor, miserable offerin\u2019 I\u2019ve\ngot to give, and use me rough-shod in his work, I\u2019d really be only\ntoo thankful. Why, my sisters, I\u2019m the happiest woman on earth,\nand it\u2019s all owin\u2019 to the blessed child and that there children\u2019s\nband.\u201d--_Selected._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR APRIL, 1887.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $98.63.\n\n    Augusta. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              $23.30\n    Bangor. Mrs. Littlefield\u2019s Class _for\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                       14.01\n    Bath. Mrs. Anna Covel                                      5.00\n    Belfast. Ladies, by Miss E. M. Pond, Bbl. of C.\n    Bluehill. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Pleasant Hill,\n      Tenn._                                                   5.00\n    Brewer. First Cong. Ch.                                   11.00\n    Bridgton. Ladies, by Mrs. C. C. Farnsworth,\n      Bbl. of C. _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n    Casco. Mrs. R. Mayberry                                    1.00\n    Castine. Class No. 9, Trin. Sab. Sch., 1; Mrs.\n      C. M. Cunningham, \u00bd Bbl of C., _for Student\n      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                        1.00\n    Dennysville. Miss Lillie Vose, _for McIntosh,\n      Ga._                                                     1.00\n    Farmington. First Cong. Ch.                               19.32\n    Gorham. Miss E. B. Emery, _for Talladega C._              10.00\n    Harpswell Center. Ladies, by Mrs. E. P. Morse,\n      Bbl. of C. _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n    Madison Bridge. Mrs. Ezra Dinsmore                         3.00\n    Newcastle. Ladies, by Mrs. Chas. D. Crane,\n      Bbl. of C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n    North Brighton. _for Wilmington, N.C._                     1.00\n    Portland. St. Lawrence St. Ch., _for\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                        1.00\n    Portland. High St. Ch., by Mrs. Mary Wells,\n      Bbl. of C. _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n    South Berwick. Mrs. Lewis\u2019 Sab. Sch. Class,\n      _for Wilmington, N.C._                                   1.00\n    South Waterford. Mrs. J. M. Shaw                           2.00\n    Topshan. Ladies, by Mrs. Wm. Flye, 2 Bbls.\n      _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $363.50.\n\n    Alstead. Class of Little Girls, by Mrs. G. B.\n      Cutler, _for Indian M._                                  2.00\n    Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              17.12\n    Berlin Mills. Parish Ch. of Christ                         5.73\n    Boscowan. \u201cCrescent City Helpers,\u201d _for\n      Student Aid, Straight U._                               25.00\n    Claremont. Cong. Ch.                                      17.00\n    Colebrook. E. C. Wilder, 8 Boys\u2019 Coats val.\n      2.32\n    Concord. \u201cA\u201d                                               5.00\n    Exeter. Second Cong. Ch. 114; Mrs. Woodbridge\n      Odlin, 30 to const. MISS MARY H. BLACK, L. M.          144.00\n    Franklin. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Students Aid, Atlanta U._                               10.00\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              10.02\n    Jaffray. \u201cLilies of the Field,\u201d _for Storrs\n      Sch. Atlanta, Ga._                                       9.00\n    Kingston. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 25.54, also\n      Bible val. 3, _for Santee Indian M._                    25.54\n    Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          41.34\n    Pembroke. Prof. I. Walker\u2019s Bible Class, _for\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                        2.00\n    Penacook. Jere C. Martin                                  10.50\n    Tilton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. Class of Boys,\n      3, _for Student Aid, Straight U._, Class of\n      Girls, 8, _for Woman\u2019s Work_                            11.00\n    West Concord. Cong. Ch.                                   20.00\n    Winchester. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                         8.25\n\n\n  VERMONT, $330.39.\n\n    Barton Landing. Children\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc., _for\n      Indian M._                                               6.00\n    Burlington. Friends in First Ch. and Sab. Sch.\n      _for Santee Indian M._                                  20.00\n    Clarendon. Mrs. N. J. Smith                                5.00\n    East Corinth. J. B. Kemp                                  10.00\n    East Poultney. A. D. Wilcox, 5; Cong. Ch. 2.50             7.50\n    Fairlee. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                       5.00\n    Hyde Park. Second Cong. Ch.                                9.04\n    Johnson. Bbl. of C. _for McIntosh, Ga._                    2.00\n    Lyndon. First Cong. Ch.                                   25.00\n    Middlebury. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                        12.40\n    New Haven. Miss Sarah E. Everett, _for Jones\n      Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._                              2.00\n    Newberry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        33.05\n    Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               15.40\n    Norwich. John Dutton                                      10.00\n    Quechee. N. F. Carter                                     10.00\n    Rutland. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Straight U._                                       29.35\n    Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. _for\n      McIntosh, Ga._                                           5.65\n    Saint Johnsbury. Girls Miss\u2019y Soc., Bbl. and\n      Box of C., 2 for Freight, _for McIntosh, Ga._            2.00\n    Saint Johnsbury. Ladies of North Ch., Box of\n      C. val. 40, _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n    South Royalton. Mrs. Susan H. Jones, _for the\n      Debt_                                                  100.00\n    Springfield. Cong. Ch. ad\u2019l                               10.00\n    Tunbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             11.00\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $6,266.55.\n\n    Abington. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. _for\n      Student Aid, Tougaloo U._\n    Amherst. First Cong. Ch.                                  25.00\n    Amherst. Miss M. H. Scott, 5 _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._, and 2 _for Indian M._                      7.00\n    Andover. \u201cIn memoriam, A Friend\u201d                          30.00\n    Andover. Miss M. E. Towle, Bbl. of C. _for\n      Tougaloo U._\n    Athol. Evan. Cong. Ch.                                    90.56\n    Auburndale. Rev. Horace Dutton\u2019s Bible Class,\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                           35.00\n    Boston. Old So. Ch. and Soc., 428.62; Mrs. C.\n      A. Spaulding, _for Dormitory, Pleasant Hill,\n      Tenn._, 100; Hon. Geo. S. Crocker, _for\n      Atlanta U._, 50; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 10; \u201cTwo\n      Friends,\u201d 10; Homeland Circle, Park St. Ch.,\n      _for Indian M._, 4; \u201cA Friend,\u201d\n      1.--Brighton. Evan. Ch., 100.--Charlestown\n      Winthrop Ch. and Soc., 69.26.--Dorchester.\n      Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 90.46; Pilgrim\n      Ch. and Soc., 35; Mrs. Wm. Wales, 5;\n      Collected by M. A. Tuttle, _for Marie Adlof\n      Sch\u2019p Fund_, 2.--Roxbury. Eliot Ch. and\n      Soc., 160.20.--West Roxbury. So. Evan. Ch.\n      and Soc., 41.88; South Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._, 11                                 1,118.42\n    Bernardston. Cong. Ch.                                     2.80\n    Braintree. South Cong. Ch.                                16.19\n    Brockton. Joseph Hewett                                    5.00\n    Brockton. Mrs. B. Sanford, _for Freight_                   2.00\n    Brookfield. Mrs. R. B. Montague                            5.00\n    Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc.                           68.40\n    Byfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               21.25\n    Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch., M. C. Coll.                   14.80\n    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         32.65\n    Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         28.12\n    East Granville. Y. P. S. of C. E., by Warren\n      Griswold, Treas.                                         4.00\n    Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               50.00\n    Fitchburg. Sab. Sch. of Rollstone Ch. (40 of\n      which from Primary Dept., _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._)                                           50.00\n    Fitchburg. Mattie Baldwin\u2019s Class in C. C.\n      Sab. Sch., _for Atlanta U._                              4.50\n    Florence. Cong. Ch.                                       21.05\n    Foxboro. Ortho. Cong. Ch., 43.87; Primary\n      Class, \u201cTrue Blue\u201d Card, by Sarah T. Carey, 5           48.87\n    Georgetown. Memorial Ch.                                  35.70\n    Greenwich. Mrs. A. E. Cutler, 1; Y. P. C. E.\n      S. 50c.; Mrs. S. D. Cutler, 50c; Mrs. C.\n      Walker, 50c; Amherst S. Sibley, 1; Mrs. M.\n      A. Sibley, 1; Mrs. N. M. Paige, 50c., for\n      McIntosh, Ga.                                            5.00\n    Hadley. By Supt. of Russell Ch. Sab. Sch.                  5.00\n    Hanson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                17.39\n    Hardwick. Cal. Ch.                                         6.00\n    Haverhill. Ladies of Center Ch., adl., _for\n      Debt_                                                    0.30\n    Haydenville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                       20.00\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.                                       44.05\n    Holliston. Bible Christians of Dist. No. 4                30.00\n    Hubbardston. Ladies of Cong. Ch. _for Woman\u2019s\n      Work_                                                   20.00\n    Hubbardston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           17.00\n    Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch.                                12.56\n    Lancaster. Sab. Sch. of Evan. Cong. Ch.                   16.46\n    Lanesville. Cong. Ch.                                     21.00\n    Lawrence. Trinity Cong. Ch.                               21.85\n    Lee. \u201cFriends\u201d in Cong. Ch. _for Rosebud\n      Indian M._                                             150.00\n    Lee. John Browning, 5; Miss Mary Shannon\n      Smith, 3; _for Indian M._                                8.00\n    Leverett. Sab. Sch.                                        3.00\n    Littleton. Mabel Houghton and her Grandma,\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                            3.00\n    Lowell. Sab. Sch. Class, by Miss Nellie J.\n      Cutting, _for Indian M._                                 4.00\n    Mansfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                        1.75\n    Maplewood. Infant Sab. Sch. Class, _for\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                        1.00\n    Maynard. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (10 of which from\n      Homeland Circle)                                       200.00\n    Milford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Monson. Young Ladies\u2019 Working Club, 15; Mrs.\n      N. M. Field, 5, _for Tougaloo U._                       20.00\n    Monson. Hiram A. Felton                                    1.00\n    Montville. O. B. Jones, for Sylvester Jones,\n      deceased                                                 2.00\n    Natick. First Cong. Ch.                                  150.00\n    Natick. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Indian M._                        10.21\n    Newburyport. Freedman\u2019s Aid Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           35.00\n    Newton. Eliot Ch. and Soc.                               140.00\n    Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  106.26\n    North Adams. First Cong. Ch.                              22.89\n    North Adams. \u201cHenry Wadsworth Club,\u201d _for\n      Pupil, Fort Berthold, Indian M._                         5.00\n    Northampton. First Cong. Ch.                             259.68\n    North Andover. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                     17.31\n    Northbridge. Rockdale Cong. Ch.                           15.00\n    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. (10 of which\n      _for Indian M._)                                       110.00\n    North Brookfield. Union Cong. Ch.                         20.00\n    North Woodburn. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., by Mrs.\n      F. C. I. Wheeler, _for Woman\u2019s Work_                    11.00\n    Norwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              153.50\n    Oxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                48.41\n    Peru. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                              10.00\n    Plainfield. Mrs. Albert Dyer                               5.00\n    Plymouth. Pilgrimage Sab. Sch., 20 _for\n      Rosebud Indian M._, and 15 _for Debt_                   35.00\n    Quincy. Ev. Cong. Ch., M. C. Coll.                         7.00\n    Reading. Cong. Ch.                                        17.50\n    Reading. Ladies of Cong. Ch., add\u2019l, _for Debt_            0.25\n    Salem. Young Ladies\u2019 Mission Circle of Tab.\n      Ch., _for Student Aid, Santee Indian M._                50.00\n    Salem. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Atlanta U._                       50.00\n    Shelburne Falls. Sab. Sch. Class of Boys, by\n      Mrs. A. N. Russell, _for Pleasant Hill,\n      Tenn._                                                   5.00\n    Shelburne Falls. Miss Seraph E. Brown, Bbl. of\n      C., _for Tougaloo U._\n    Somerville. Franklin St. Ch. and Soc.                    148.30\n    South Amherst. Y. P. S. C. E. _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    South Amherst. Cong. Ch.                                   6.00\n    Southfield. Mary M. Ellis                                  2.00\n    Southwick. Cong. Ch.                                       2.50\n    Springfield. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                1,000.00\n    Stockbridge. Miss Alice Byington _for Indian\n      M._ 20; and pkg. basted work, _for Macon,\n      Ga._                                                    20.00\n    Sutton. E. L. Snow                                       100.00\n    Taunton. Sab. Sch. of Winlow Ch., _for\n      Students Aid, Atlanta U._                               40.00\n    Taunton. West Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          24.19\n    Templeton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                          7.00\n    Tewksbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             30.00\n    Townsend. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  7.13\n    Waltham. \u201cMission Band\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga._                               3.00\n    Watertown. Phillips Ch. and Soc.                         201.80\n    Watertown. Ladies, by Mrs. M. Fuller, 2 Bbls.\n      of C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n    West Barnstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.00\n    West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           5.49\n    West Boylston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   19.10\n    Westford. H. O. Keyes                                     10.00\n    West Hampton. Cong. Ch.                                   18.33\n    Westminster. \u201cCheerful Givers\u201d of Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              10.00\n    West Newbury. First Cong Ch. and Soc.                     10.00\n    West Newbury. Sab. Sch. of Second Ch. _for\n      Rosebud Indian M._                                       8.10\n    West Newton. Home Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Storrs\n      Sch., Atlanta, Ga._                                      9.00\n    Westport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              15.00\n    West Warren. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Straight U._                                5.00\n    Weymouth and Braintree. Cong. Ch.                         22.67\n    Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.                             15.92\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                            25.00\n    Winchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for\n      Indian M._                                              62.88\n    Worcester. Piedmont Ch. (52 of which _for Fisk\n      U._, and 5.20 _for Berea C._)                          157.20\n    Worcester. Central Cong. Ch., 98; Salem St.\n      Ch., 38.55; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 1                              137.55\n    Worcester. Mrs. Daniel Merriman _for Woman\u2019s\n      Work_                                                   40.00\n    By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass\u2019n:\n        Blandford. H. M. Hinsdale                 3.00\n        Holyoke. First                           12.16\n        Palmer. Second                           50.00\n        South Hadley Falls.                      15.85\n        Springfield. South                       80.23\n        Westfield. First (5 of which\n          _for Indian M._)                       74.25\n        Westfield. Second                        42.22\n        West Springfield. First                  10.00\n                                               \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014       287.71\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $6,166.55\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Bradford. Estate of Milton B. Day, by Chas. A.\n      Kimball, Ex.                                           100.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $6,266.55\n\n    CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.\n\n    South Berwick, Me. Ladies of Cong. Ch., by\n      Miss N. E. Farrin, _for Wilmington, N.C._\n    West Randolph, Vt. Ladies Mission Circle of\n      Cong. Ch., Case, _for McIntosh, Ga._\n    Boston, Mass. Miss Darrow, S.S. Literature\n    Brockton, Mass. Mrs. B. Sanford, 1 Bbl. _for\n      Tougaloo U._\n    East Cambridge, Mass. Miss M. F. Aiken, 1 Bbl.\n      _for Marietta, Ga._\n    Groton, Mass. By Mrs. Caroline E. Blood, 1\n      Bbl. _for Macon, Ga._\n    Malden, Mass. Miss M. Kent, 1 Bbl. _for\n      Kittrell, N.C._\n    Marlboro, Mass. Mrs. E. G. Gibson, S.S.\n      Literature.\n    Newton, Mass. Freedmen\u2019s Aid Sewing Circle, 1\n      Bbl., _for Macon, Ga._\n    Roxbury, Mass. Harriet S. Proctor, 1 Case.\n    Stoneham, Mass. \u2014\u2014 1 Bbl. _for Kittrell, N.\n      C._\n    Watertown, Mass. Ladies of Phillips Ch., 1\n      Bbl. _for Oaks, N.C._\n    West Medford, Mass. Mrs. R. J. Ford, Bdl.\n    Hampton, Conn. Edward F. Greenslit, 1 Bbl.\n      _for Marietta, Ga._, \u00bd Bbl., _for Athens,\n      Ga._\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $125.84.\n\n    Little Compton. Sab. Sch, of United Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Marie Adlof Sch\u2019p Fund._                           22.00\n    Newport. Ladies Aid Soc., Box of C. etc., _for\n      Macon, Ga._\n    Pawtucket. Ladies H. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Talladega C._                                      16.00\n    Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch., 64.84; Plym.\n      Cong. Ch., 23                                           87.84\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $4,270.98.\n\n    Ashford. W. D. Carpenter, 5; C. S Trowbridge, 5           10.00\n    Bantam. Cornelia Bradley                                  10.00\n    Bethel. Young Ladies Mission, Circle by Anna\n      L. Smith, Treas., _for Conn. Ind\u2019l Sch. Ga._            30.00\n    Broad Brook. Cong. Ch.                                    15.20\n    Chester. Cong. Ch.                                        26.00\n    Danielsonville. Mrs. Sarah A. Backus                       6.00\n    Darien. Cong. Ch.                                         29.00\n    East Granby. Rev. D. A. Strong                             5.00\n    East Hampton. First Cong. Ch.                             30.00\n    East Haven. Cong. Ch.                                     17.50\n    Enfield. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                             2.00\n    Essex. Cong. Ch.                                          19.70\n    Fair Haven. Second Cong. Ch. (1.57 of which\n      _for Fisk U._)                                          40.16\n    Fair Haven. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   15.00\n    Farmington. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Indian M._                    75.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch. (3.35 of which _for\n      Charleston, S.C._)                                      69.76\n    Franklin. Cong. Ch.                                       13.11\n    Glastonbury. W. S. Williams                              200.00\n    Griswold. Ladies\u2019 Soc., _for Conn. Ind\u2019l Sch.,\n      Ga._                                                    10.00\n    Hadlyme. Cong. Ch.                                         6.00\n    Hartford. Mrs. Henry A. Perkins, _for Young\n      Men\u2019s Hall, Santee Indian M._                        1,000.00\n    Hartford. \u201cAn old friend of the work,\u201d 400; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d 30 to const. MISS HARRIET E. BACON\n      L. M.; Rev. Wm. H. Moore, 25                           455.00\n    Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                       100.00\n    Hartford. First Ch. Parsonage Circle, _for\n      Jones Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._, by Mrs.\n      S. M. Hotchkiss Sec. W. H. M. U.                        50.00\n    Hartford. Fourth Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._               20.00\n    Hartford. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl. of Bedding, etc.,\n      _for Talladega C._\n    Hebron. First Cong. Ch.                                   16.00\n    Hebron. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind\u2019l\n      Sch., Ga._                                              12.00\n    Ivoryton. Frank M. Rose                                   18.00\n    Middlefield. Cong. Ch., add\u2019l, to const. LYMAN\n      A. MILLS and CHARLES E. LYMAN L. M\u2019s                    50.00\n    Middletown. Mrs. Susan Gladwin                             4.00\n    New Britain. Sab. Sch. of South Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                50.00\n    New Britain. South Cong. Ch., 30, to const.\n      GEO. W. BANNING, Jr., L. M.; \u201cNo. 4,222,\u201d 10            40.00\n    New Haven. First Ch. (7 of which _for Jones\n      Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._)                           162.17\n    New Haven. Church of the Redeemer, Young\n      Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., 50 _for Santee Indian\n      M._; Ladies\u2019 Home Miss\u2019y Soc., 20 _for Conn.\n      Ind\u2019l Sch., Ga._                                        70.00\n    New Haven. Mission Circle of United Ch., _for\n      support of an Indian child, Santee Agency_              50.00\n    New Haven. Dwight Place Sab. Sch., for Sch\u2019p,\n      Albert Luther Memorial, _for Indian M._                 20.00\n    New London. First Cong. Ch.                               52.29\n    New London. Young Ladies\u2019 Guild of Second\n      Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind\u2019l Sch., Ga._                  20.00\n    New London. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for the Debt_                     1.50\n    New Preston. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    1.00\n    North Coventry. Cong. Ch.                                 47.29\n    North Haven. Mrs. T. M. Painter, 20 _for\n      Indian M._, and 20 _for Chinese M. in Cal._             40.00\n    North Woodstock. Ladies and Sab. Sch. of Cong.\n      Ch., _for Conn. Ind\u2019l Sch., Ga._                        15.50\n    Plantsville. Cong. Ch. (83.05 of which _for\n      Indian M._)                                            225.31\n    Plymouth. Geo. Langdon, Sew. Machine _for\n      Thomasville, Ga._\n    Poquonock. Cong. Ch.                                      34.00\n    Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.                                  22.41\n    Rockville. First Cong. Ch. (30 of which from\n      \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. DAVID I. CARSON L. M.)           108.26\n    Roxbury. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        4.00\n    Roxbury. Mrs. S. J. Beardsley, pkg basted\n      work, _for Macon, Ga._\n    Sherman. _For Freight_                                     2.25\n    Southington. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Indian M._                   12.00\n    South Manchester. Sab. Sch. of First Cong.\n      Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._                            41.35\n    Southport. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc, by Miss M. G.\n      Perry, _for Conn. Ind\u2019l Sch., Ga._                      20.00\n    Stafford Springs. Cong. Ch.                                9.27\n    South Windsor. S. T. Wolcott                              20.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch., 23.35; David Cables, 10;\n      Edward Morse, 2                                         35.35\n    Torrington. \u201cValley Gleaners,\u201d _for Fort\n      Berthold, Indian M._                                    30.00\n    Washington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Santee Indian M._                          50.00\n    Waterbury. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     20.00\n    Waterbury. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Com. Set., Macon,\n      Ga._                                                     2.00\n    Wauregan. Benev. Soc., by Miss Emma Morse,\n      _for Conn. Ind\u2019l Sch., Ga._                              8.00\n    Westbrook. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for the Debt_                      2.00\n    West Stafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          7.00\n    West Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         16.73\n    Westville. Cong. Ch.                                      22.17\n    Whitneyville. Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Indian M._             31.00\n    Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch.                                  86.94\n    Windsor Locks. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  5.00\n    Windsor Locks. Miss Alice M. Cutler, _for\n      McIntosh, Ga._                                           2.00\n    Winsted. James J. Preston                                  2.00\n    Woman\u2019s Home Mission\u2019y Union of Conn., by Mrs.\n      S. M. Hotchkiss, Secretary, _for Woman\u2019s\n      Work_:\n        Hartford. Parsonage Circle of First Ch.   20.00\n        Suffield. Ladies\u2019 H. M. Circle             7.76\n                                                 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014       27.76\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $3,770.98\n    West Hartford. Estate of Mrs. Cynthia C.\n      Selden, by Henry Talcott, Ex.                          500.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           4,270.98\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $4,780.00.\n\n    Amsterdam. S. Louise Bell                                  5.00\n    Brooklyn. Plymouth Ch. (30 of which to const.\n      WILLIAM B. BOORUM L. M.), 1,023.39; The Ch.\n      of the Pilgrims, 340.59; South Cong. Ch.,\n      50. AMZI B. DAVENPORT, 30, to const. himself\n      L. M.                                                1,443.98\n    Broome Co. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    100.00\n    Buffalo. First Cong. Ch. (50 of which _for\n      Indian M._)                                            150.00\n    Comstocks. RUSSELL RANNEY, to const. himself\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Cortland. Home Miss\u2019y Soc. of First Cong. Ch.,\n      Case of C., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._\n    East Rockaway. Bethany Cong. Ch.                           5.55\n    Ellington. Mrs. Anson Crosby                               1.00\n    Frankfort. Dewey Hopkins                                   1.00\n    Franklin. Cong. Ch.                                       23.19\n    Fredonia. Martha L. Stevens                                5.00\n    Gilbertsville. Rev. A. Wood                               10.00\n    Hamilton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                          10.00\n    Holley. Mrs. E. J. Spicer, bbl. of Papers,\n      etc.; 1 _for Freight_                                    1.00\n    Jamesport. Cong. Ch.                                       1.00\n    Kinderhook. Rev. W. Ingalls                                1.00\n    Livonia. Mrs. Wm. Calvert, 10; G. W. Jackman, 5           15.00\n    Marion. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        50.00\n    Massena. W. H. Cubley, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            8.00\n    New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch.                      1,182.00\n    New York. F. A. Ferris, 250; Gen. Clinton B.\n      Fisk, 30 to const. MRS. ELLA SHEPPARD MOORE\n      L. M; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 13; Mrs. Anna G. Warner,\n      2, by Rev. Wm. Kincaid; Homer N. Lockwood, 10          305.00\n    New York. Mrs. Melissa P. Dodge, 100; William\n      E. Dodge Educational Fund, 100, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._; Rev. D. Stuart Dodge, 100\n      _for Atlanta U._                                       300.00\n    New York. \u201cA Friend\u201d _for Sch\u2019p Hampton N. and\n      A. Inst._                                               70.00\n    New York. Bethany Sew. Sch., _for pupil, Fort\n      Berthold, Indian M._                                    28.00\n    New York. Nat. Temp. Pub. Soc., box Papers,\n      etc., _for Macon, Ga._\n    North Windfield. Olive E. Harrison                        20.00\n    Norwich. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           11.00\n    Nyack. John W. Towt                                       50.00\n    Orwell. Union Sab. Sch.                                    3.27\n    Poughkeepsie. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Atlanta U._                 5.00\n    Richville. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n    Sherburne. First Cong. Ch., 49.40; Band of\n      Little Girls, by Mrs. C. A. Fuller, 5                   54.40\n    Sherburne. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           35.00\n    Sherburne. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Talladega C._                  35.00\n    Syracuse. Mrs. Clara C. Clarke                             7.70\n    Tarrytown. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     40.00\n    Wading River. Cong. Ch.                                   10.00\n    Warsaw. Cong. Ch.                                         31.91\n    Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs.\n      L. H. Cobb, Treas., _for Woman\u2019s Work_:\n        Berkshire. Young People\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc.       15.00\n        Brooklyn. Central Ch.                       25.00\n        Churchville. Ladies\u2019 Aux.                   10.00\n        Jamestown. Ladies\u2019 Aux, to const.\n          MRS. H. L. HUBBELL L. M.                  30.00\n        New York. W. H. M. U.                       66.00\n        Owego. Ladies\u2019 Aux.                         15.00\n        Syracuse. Primary Dept. Plymouth S. S.      20.00\n        Syracuse. Danforth Cong. Ch.                 5.00\n        Warsaw. Earnest Workers\u2019 Soc.               30.00\n                                                   \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014    216.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend in Central N.Y.\u201d                             10.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           4,280.00\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Sherburne. Estate of Melissa S. Bicknell, by\n      Joshua Pratt and R. H. Griffiths, Ex\u2019s                 500.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           4,780.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $160.44.\n\n    Bernardsville. J. L. Roberts                              40.00\n    Bound Brook. Cong. Ch.                                    20.58\n    Chester. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        3.00\n    Closter. Cong. Ch.                                        11.41\n    Jersey City. Tabernacle Cong. Ch., _for Indian\n      M._                                                     10.30\n    Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch. (30 of which\n      to const. FRED. A. SUMNER L. M.)                        62.00\n    Orange Valley. Cong\u2019l Ch., add\u2019l                          10.00\n    Upper Montclair. Christian Union Cong. Ch.\n      add\u2019l.                                                   3.15\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $589.18.\n\n    Centre Road. J. A. Scovel                                 10.00\n    Ebensburg. First Cong. Ch.                                 6.18\n    Mansfield Valley. Geo. A. Marsh\u2019s Sab. Sch.\n      Class, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                       10.00\n    New Milford. Horace A. Summers                             5.00\n    Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch.                          523.27\n    Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch., _for\n      Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                              34.73\n\n\n  OHIO, $759.77.\n\n    Bryon. S. E. Blakeslee                                     5.50\n    Cincinnati. Sab. Sch. of Columbia Cong. Ch.                5.00\n    Clyde. Mrs. C. M. Richards and Others, _for\n      Tougaloo U._                                             2.00\n    Collamer. Cong. Ch., bbl. of C., _for Mobile,\n      Ala._\n    Columbus. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc. of Eastwood\n      Cong. Ch. Pkg. of Cut-out Work and 2 _for\n      Freight_, _for Tougaloo U._                              2.00\n    Cuyahoga Falls. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.               9.00\n    Harrison. Dr. John D. Bowles                               5.00\n    Hudson. Cong. Ch.                                         10.25\n    Kent. Cong. Ch.                                           17.52\n    Kingsville. Myron Whiting                                500.00\n    Marietta. First Cong. Ch.                                 57.65\n    North Ridgeville. Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg_            3.00\n    Oberlin. First Cong. Ch.                                  83.85\n    Oberlin. Mr. Johnson, _for Student Aid,\n      Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                              10.00\n    Oberlin. Y. W. C. A., _for Student Aid,\n      Williamsburg, Ky._                                       3.00\n    Paddy\u2019s Run. Cong. Ch.                                    30.00\n    Steuben. Sab. Sch. of Greenfield Cong. Ch.                 5.00\n    Toledo. Mrs. E. H. Weed                                   10.00\n    Zanesville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                         1.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $1,943.09.\n\n    Belvidere. Mrs. M. C. Foote, 2 Pkg\u2019s\n      Patchwork, _for Mobile, Ala._\n    Chicago. First Cong. Ch. 100; New England\n      Cong. Ch., 25.75; Soc. of Inquiry Theo.\n      Sem., 20                                               145.75\n    Chicago. National Christian Ass\u2019n. _for\n      Student Aid, Straight U._                               25.00\n    Earlville. Cong. Ch.                                      23.00\n    Elmwood. Mrs. M. D. Wiley _for Student Aid,\n      Mobile, Ala._                                            5.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch., to const. A. W.\n      RICHARDS and MISS ANNIE MUMMY, L. M\u2019s.                  60.84\n    La Grange. L. M. U., of Cong. Ch.                          5.00\n    Lowell. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         2.00\n    Mendon. Mrs. Jane Arnold                                   5.00\n    Millburn. \u201cClyesdale\u201d                                     10.00\n    Ontario. Cong. Ch.                                         9.00\n    Polo. Ind. Pres. Ch.                                      28.00\n    Princeton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     50.00\n    Rockford. Ladies, _for Student Aid, Straight\n      U._                                                     16.00\n    Rockford. \u201cAn aged Widow\u201d (6 of which for the\n      Debt)                                                   12.00\n    Roscoe. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                    6.00\n    Wethersfield. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kellogg                   5.00\n    Wilmette. Cong. Ch.                                       33.50\n    Woodstock. J. H. Durfee, _for Macon, Ga._                  2.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             443.09\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Cropsey. Estate of G. S. Cook, by Ira C.\n      Pratt, Ex., (90 of which to const. IRA C.\n      PRATT, MRS. MARY E. COOK and LILA A. COOK,\n      L. M\u2019s.)                                             1,500.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           1,943.09\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $761.06.\n\n    Adrian. \u201cYours Truly\u201d                                      2.00\n    Alpena. First Cong. Ch., 80; Sab. Sch. of\n      Cong. Ch., 30 to const. E. K. POTTER L. M\u2019s.           110.00\n    Armada. First Cong. Ch., 9; and Sab. Sch. 4.54            13.54\n    Birmingham. Mrs. E. B. Adams, 3; Miss Fanny E.\n      Fish. 2                                                  5.00\n    Calumet. Helping Hand Soc., by Gertrude\n      Colton, _for Woman\u2019s Work_                              10.00\n    Charlotte. Cong. Ch.                                      25.00\n    Chelsea. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                            5.05\n    Grand Junction. Miss E. L. Rogers                          5.00\n    Hillsdale. Mrs. Mary I. Mead                               5.00\n    Homestead. Morris Case                                     5.00\n    Imlay City. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._                     5.00\n    Kalamazoo. Mrs. J. A. Kent                                10.00\n    Manistee. Cong. Ch.                                       45.18\n    Mattawan. Cong. Ch.                                        4.80\n    Milford. Ansley A. Arms                                   10.00\n    Olivet. Cong. Ch.                                         16.45\n    Ypsilanti. Harold F. Sayles, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                 5.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $282.02\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Pontiac. Estate of Mrs. Nancy G. Davis by H.\n      F. Messinger                                           479.04\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $761.06\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $381.21.\n\n    Appleton. C. N. Harrison, (8 of which _for\n      Indian M._)                                             18.00\n    Appleton. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc., Bbl. of C. etc.,\n      _for Macon, Ga._\n    Eau Claire. \u201cCheerful Givers\u201d by Frank Nyquist            10.00\n    Elkhorn. Y. P. S. C. E. ad\u2019l.                              1.18\n    Fulton Cong. Ch., 7; and Sab. Sch., 10                    17.00\n    Genesee. Cong. Ch.                                        16.18\n    Hartford. Cong. Ch.                                       32.00\n    La Crosse. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Marie Adlof\n      Sch\u2019p Fund_                                             50.00\n    Madison. First Cong. Ch.                                  13.51\n    Milwaukee. Grand Av. Cong. Ch.                           108.19\n    Milwaukee. Mrs. Wm. Davis, _for Student Aid,\n      Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                              10.00\n    Monroe. \u201cOur Family Missionary Box\u201d                        6.40\n    New Chester. Cong. Ch.                                     2.00\n    Oshkosh. Mrs. Lucy Bartlett, _for Communion\n      Set, Macon, Ga._                                        50.00\n    Peshtigo. Cong. Ch.                                        7.50\n    Sheboygan. Mrs. G. C. Coles\u2019 Sab. Sch. Class,\n      pk\u2019g. basted work _for Macon, Ga._\n    Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union of Wis. _for\n      Woman\u2019s Work_:\n        Brodhead. W. H. M. S.                          1.00\n        Delavan. W. H. M. S.                           0.25\n        Delavan. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                9.00\n        Lake Geneva. \u201cCash\u201d                            2.00\n        Madison. Mrs. Faith H. Montague                2.00\n        Milwaukee. W. H. M. S. Grand Av. Cong. Ch.    25.00\n                                                    \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014   39.25\n\n\n  IOWA, $260.93.\n\n    Algona. A. Zahlten                                        10.00\n    Burlington. Cong. Ch.                                     43.37\n    Burlington. Miss Mercy Lewis, _for Mountain\n      White Work_                                              0.50\n    Cedar Rapids. First Cong. Ch.                             40.77\n    Eldon. \u201cMary and Martha\u201d                                   5.00\n    Genoa Bluffs. Infant Class, _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                             5.00\n    Goldfield. Chas. Philbrick                                 5.00\n    Grinnell. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                          96.66\n    Independence. Rev. W. S. Potwin, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      20.00\n    Marshalltown. Boys\u2019 Mission Band, _for Student\n      Aid, Straight U._                                       17.63\n    Miles. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc. of Cong. Ch.                    10.00\n    Otho. Cong. Ch.                                            5.50\n    Red Oak. Mrs. M. Willis, 50c., and pk\u2019g.\n      basted work, _for Macon, Ga._                            0.50\n    Tipton. \u201cLight Bearers\u201d Box of C. etc., _for\n      Macon, Ga._\n    Webster City. Ladies Cong\u2019l Miss\u2019y Soc. _for\n      Beach Inst. Ga._                                         1.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $201.17.\n\n    Alexandria. First Cong. Ch., 15.50; Sab. Sch.\n      of Cong. Ch., 3.10                                      18.60\n    Freeborn. Cong. Ch.                                        3.00\n    Minneapolis. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 50; Plymouth\n      Cong. Ch., 38.50                                        88.50\n    Minneapolis. Y. L. Miss\u2019y Soc. of Second Cong.\n      Ch., _for Wilmington, N.C._                              6.00\n    Minneapolis. Miss Hattie Upton, _for Jones\n      Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._                              5.00\n    New Ulm. Cong. Ch.                                         5.00\n    Rushford. Cong. Ch                                         2.07\n    Sauk Center. James A. Norris                               3.00\n    Waseca. Cong. Ch., 2 boxes C., _for\n      Thomasville, Ga._; J. L. Claghorn, 5 _for\n      Freight_                                                 5.00\n    Worthington. Union Cong. Sab. Sch.                         5.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cFriend\u201d                                              60.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $45.10.\n\n    La Grange. Cong. Ch.                                       1.00\n    Pierce City. First Cong. Ch., 10; Sab. Sch. of\n      First Cong. Ch. 2.75                                    12.75\n    Saint Louis. Third Cong. Ch.                              31.35\n\n\n  KANSAS, $52.11.\n\n    Boston Mills. J. Hubbard                                   5.00\n    Manhattan. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      5.00\n    Paola. Cong. Ch.                                          21.02\n    Scatter Creek. Cong. Ch.                                   2.90\n    Stockton. First Cong. Ch.                                  8.75\n    Wabaunsee. Cong. Ch., _for Marie Adlof Sch\u2019p\n      Fund_                                                    1.94\n    Wakefield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                          7.50\n\n\n  DAKOTA, $32.11.\n\n    Armour. Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc., _for Greenwood, S.\n      C._                                                      3.56\n    Fargo. Plym. Cong. Ch. Mission Band                        3.50\n    Huron. Mrs. Marcia D. Smith, package Basted\n      Work, _for Macon, Ga._\n    Sioux Falls. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., by C. G.\n      Black, Treas. A. C. U.                                   6.00\n    Vermillion. Cong. Ch.                                     19.05\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $24.20.\n\n    Beatrice. Mrs. B. F. Hotchkiss                             5.00\n    Franklin. Cong. Ch.                                        3.20\n    Greenwood. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n    Greenwood. First Cong. Sab. Sch., box of C.,\n      etc., _for Macon, Ga._\n    Linwood. Cong. Ch., add\u2019l, to const. Rev. M.\n      J. P. THING L. M.                                        6.00\n    Santee. Miss M. W. Green, _for the Debt_                   5.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $35.00.\n\n    Murphys. Mrs. C. K. Sanger                                 5.00\n    San Jacinto. Mrs. L. N. Suydam, 20; Nellie\n      Suydam, 10., _for the Debt_ and to const.\n      KEITH MACCONNELL SUYDAM, L. M.                          30.00\n\n\n  OREGON.\n\n    Portland. Ladies of First Ch., Bbl. and Box of\n      C. etc., _for Macon, Ga._\n\n\n  WASHINGTON, $20.00.\n\n    Seattle. Plym. Cong. Ch.                                  20.00\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $148.00.\n\n    Washington. First Cong. Ch.                              148.00\n\n\n  WEST VIRGINIA, $2.05.\n\n    Huntington. First Cong. Ch.                                2.05\n\n\n  KENTUCKY, $553.95.\n\n    Lexington. Tuition, 411.95; Rent, 2                      413.95\n    Williamsburg. Tuition                                    118.25\n    Williamsburg. Cong. Ch., 18.75; Mrs. F. E.\n      Jenkins, 3                                              21.75\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $972.62.\n\n    Jellico. Tuition                                          18.50\n    Jonesboro. Tuition, 24.40; Rent, 2                        26.40\n    Memphis. Tuition                                         421.20\n    Memphis. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.                     3.00\n    Nashville. Tuition                                       503.52\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $181.35.\n\n    Dudley. Cong. Ch., 4.50; School 1                          5.50\n    Troy. Cong. Ch.                                            0.50\n    Wilmington. Tuition                                      162.85\n    Wilmington. Miss H. L. Fitts, 5.50; Miss E. A.\n      Warner, 2                                                7.50\n    Wilmington. A Friend, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            5.00\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $127.00.\n\n    Charleston. Tuition                                       97.00\n    Charleston. Plymouth Ch., to const. REV. GEO.\n      C. ROWE, L. M.                                          30.00\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $726.80.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition                            269.85\n    Atlanta. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc. of First Cong.\n      Ch. _for Indian M._                                     10.00\n    Macon. Tuition                                           188.30\n    Macon. \u201cUnknown Friends,\u201d Bbl. of C., _for\n      Macon, Ga._\n    McIntosh. Tuition                                         35.00\n    Savannah. Tuition                                        162.25\n    Thomasville. Tuition                                      60.90\n    Woodville. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                               0.50\n\n\n  FLORIDA, $540.00.\n\n    Daytona. Watts Beckwith                                   10.00\n    Saint Augustine. School Board                            450.00\n    Saint Augustine. Rent                                     70.00\n    Sanford. Mrs. Moses Lyman                                 10.00\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $342.84.\n\n    Athens. Tuition                                           41.50\n    Citronelle. Rev. M. M. Schwarzauer, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               1.33\n    Mobile. Tuition                                          230.75\n    Shelby Iron Works. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega\n      C._                                                      5.00\n    Talladega. Tuition                                        64.26\n\n\n  LOUISIANA. $533.00.\n\n    New Orleans. Tuition                                     533.00\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $21.25.\n\n    Tougaloo. Rent, 8.25; Tuition, 8                          16.25\n    Tougaloo. \u201cWilling Workers,\u201d _for Rosebud\n      Indian M._                                               5.00\n\n\n  TEXAS, $457.86.\n\n    Austin. Tuition                                          423.86\n    Austin. Tillotson Ch. of Christ                            9.00\n    Austin. Miss M. J. Adams, and friend 9; \u201cA\n      Friend\u201d 10; \u201cA Friend\u201d by Mrs. J. Porter, 5;\n      \u201cA Friend\u201d 1; _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._           25.00\n\n\n  CANADA, 125.00.\n\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                            125.00\n                                                         ==========\n    Donations                                             18,846.35\n    Legacies                                               3,079.04\n    Tuition and Rents                                      4,307.59\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total for April                                  $26,232.98\n        Total from Oct. 1 to April 30                    153,838.45\n                                                         ==========\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n    Subscriptions for April                                  $63.10\n    Previously acknowledged                                  677.76\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total                                                   $740.86\n\n                               H. 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WARNER\u2019S CORALINE\u201d\n\nis printed on inside of steel cover.\n\n                FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING MERCHANTS.\n\n                         WARNER BROTHERS,\n\n  359 Broadway,                                      New York City.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n                     Hamilton Vocalion Organs\n\nof 2 manuals and 2 sets of pedals, $750; equalling in beauty,\nvariety and volume a pipe organ of 600 pipes by the best maker.\nCirculars, with testimonials of leading musicians and organists of\nthe world.\n\n\u201cWithout a doubt the Vocalion is at present the nearest approach to\na pipe organ.\u201d--_Clarence Eddy, Organist First Presbyterian Church,\nChicago._\n\n\u201cI have only words of praise in its favor.\u201d--_Henry Eyre Brown,\nOrganist, Brooklyn Tabernacle._\n\n\u201cEspecially valuable for Churches and Concert Rooms.\u201d--_A. H.\nMessiter, Organist, Trinity Ch., N.Y._\n\n\u201cA tone so rich and musical must be recognized as valuable for\nspecial and new orchestral effects.\u201d--_Henry Carter, Organist, N.\nY._\n\n\u201cYour Vocalion has a magnificent future.\u201d--_Sir Arthur Sullivan._\n\n\u201cA rare combination of power and sweetness.\u201d--_Adelina Patti._\n\n                                             Catalogue sent free.\n\n            WAREROOMS, 28 EAST 23d ST., NEW YORK, N.Y.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                         JOSEPH GILLOTT\u2019S\n\n                            STEEL PENS\n\n                GOLD MEDAL PARIS EXPOSITION--1878.\n\n                     THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                          THE TUXEDO SUIT\n\n                      FOR LADIES AND MISSES.\n\nThis complete costume of original design--novel, elegant and\ngraceful--consisting of Cap, Blouse, Skirt and Sash, is knitted of\nthe finest worsted materials in patterns to match throughout. It is\nmade in a varied assortment of colors, and in sizes for 12 years\nand upwards.\n\nFrom its texture it is especially adapted for Lawn Tennis,\nYachting, Rowing, Gymnasium.\n\nFrom its texture it is especially adapted for Mountain and Seashore\nWear, and all Athletic and Outdoor Sports.\n\n[Illustration:\n\n     T\n     U\n     X\n  TUX*EDO\n     E\n     D\n     O]\n\n             DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULAR SENT ON APPLICATION.\n\n                         For Sale Only by\n\n                       JAMES McCREERY & CO.,\n\n                   _Broadway & Eleventh Street_,\n\n                             NEW YORK.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                           _6%, 7%, 8%._\n\n                       _THE AMERICAN\n                              INVESTMENT CO._\n\n                       OF EMMETTSBURG, IOWA,\n\nwith a PAID-UP CAPITAL of $600,000, SURPLUS $75,000, offers First\nMortgage Loans drawing SEVEN per cent., both Principal and Interest\nFULLY GUARANTEED. Also 6 per cent. ten-year Debenture Bonds,\nsecured by 105 per cent. of First Mortgage Loans held in trust by\nthe MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY, New York. 5 per cent. certificates of\ndeposit for periods under one year.\n\n                               7\u2154%\n\n                    CAN BE REALIZED BY CHANGING\n\n                    4 Per Ct. Government Bonds\n\n                   Into 6 Per Cent. Debentures.\n\n         Write for full information and reference to the\n                            Company at\n\n                   150 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n          A. L. ORMSBY, Vice-President and Gen. Manager.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                          MASON & HAMLIN\n\n                             IMPROVED\n\n                          UPRIGHT PIANOS\n\n             With their Improved Method of Stringing.\n\n                      PATENTED JULY 24, 1883.\n\n                         CHARACTERIZED BY\n\n          BRIGHTEST, PUREST TONES, GREATEST DURABILITY,\n                   IMPROVED METHOD OF STRINGING.\n\nThe Strings being directly secured to the iron frame by metal\nfastenings will not require tuning one-quarter as often as Pianos\non the old system.\n\nThis new mode of piano construction, invented by Mason & Hamlin in\n1882, has been fully proved, many excellent experts pronouncing it\nthe \u201cgreatest improvement made in pianos of the century.\u201d\n\nWARRANT.--_Each piano will be accompanied by the fullest warrant.\nDetermined to achieve the very highest reputation for their\npianofortes, should defect develop itself in any one, the Company\nwill be more eager to correct it than the purchaser can be to have\nthem._\n\nPianos can be rented, if preferred, at moderate cost, with\nprivilege of purchase.\n\n                          MASON & HAMLIN\n\n                              ORGANS\n\n[Illustration]\n\n                       THE WHOLE WORLD SAYS:\n\nAt every Great World\u2019s Exhibition since 1867, these organs have\nbeen awarded the Highest Honors.\n\nSupplied to Her Majesty Queen Victoria.\n\nUsed in Westminster Abbey.\n\nUsed in St. James\u2019s Hall.\n\nAlways used by Ira D. Sankey.\n\nAfter having used a Mason & Hamlin Organ eight years at Corisco\nIsland, off the western coast of Equatorial Africa, the Rev. C. De\nHeer, Missionary, writes:\n\n\u201cThis is the only organ, American or European, that has not gone to\npieces within six months after its arrival.\u201d\n\n  100 Styles, $22 to $900.      Catalogues free.\n\n                 MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN & PIANO CO.,\n\n       BOSTON, 154 Tremont St.; NEW YORK, 46 East 14th St.;\n                     CHICAGO, 148 Wabash Ave.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                        Clinton H. Meneely\n\n                           BELL COMPANY\n\n                            Troy, N.Y.,\n\n                       MANUFACTURE SUPERIOR\n\n                         Church, Chime and\n\n                            Peal Bells.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n  1850                 Thirty-Seventh Year.              1887\n\n\n                          Manhattan Life\n\n                           INSURANCE CO.\n\n                           OF NEW YORK,\n\n                       156 AND 158 BROADWAY.\n\n\n                          AGENTS WANTED.\n\nWe desire to engage the services of competent, reliable men as\nAgents, in localities where this company is not now represented.\nLiberal arrangements will be made with men who would like to\nundertake the business. The requirements are, a good reputation\nfor honesty and integrity, popularity, intelligence, industry and\nperseverance. With these qualities any man can succeed; if he can\nadd enthusiasm he can command great success. Send references as to\nability, integrity, etc.\n\n\n  Accumulation                        =_11,155,000_=\n  Surplus, by New York standard,       =_2,254,000_=\n\n_Cash surrender values. Policy incontestable after five years. Very\nliberal to insurers, embracing the non-forfeiture law of New York._\n\n\n                    JAMES M. McLEAN, President.\n\n  J. L. HALSEY, 1st Vice-Pres\u2019t.\n      H. B. STOKES, 2d Vice-Pres\u2019t.\n          H. Y. WEMPLE, Secretary.\n              S. N. STEBBINS, Actuary.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  OUR\n  TRADE MARK\n  HAM\n\n  F.A. FERRIS & CO.\n  NEW YORK.]\n\n                                USE\n\n    \u201cOur constant aim is to make them the Finest in the World.\u201d\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  \u201cOUR TRADE-MARK\n  BACON\u201d\n  BONELESS\n\n  F. A. FERRIS & COMPANY\n  New York.]\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                            STATEMENT.\n\n\n                     PHENIX INSURANCE COMPANY\n\n                         OF BROOKLYN, N.Y.\n\n\n                        JANUARY 1st, 1887.\n\n\n  CASH CAPITAL                                  $1,000,000 00\n  GROSS SURPLUS                                  4,383,171 68\n                                                \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                      Gross Assets              $5,383,171 68\n                                                =============\n\n                          ASSETS.\n\n  United States Bonds, market value             $1,104,250 00\n  Other Stocks and Bonds                         1,502,858 90\n  Loans on Bond and Mortgage                       294,900 00\n  Loans on Call                                     80,758 76\n  Cash in Bank and Office                          495,135 83\n  Real Estate                                    1,082,787 53\n  Premiums in Course of Collection                 667,231 88\n  Interest Accrued                                  11,716 42\n  Bills Receivable for Marine Premiums             140,284 55\n  Rents Due and Accrued                              3,247 81\n                                                \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                $5,383,171 68\n                                                =============\n\n                         LIABILITIES.\n\n  CASH CAPITAL                                  $1,000,000 00\n  Reserve for Unearned Premiums                  3,466,886 97\n  Reserve for Unpaid Losses                        353,759 83\n  All Other Liabilities                              5,438 10\n  NET SURPLUS                                      557,086 78\n                                                \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                $5,383,171 68\n                                                =============\n\n  STEPHEN CROWELL, President,        GEO. H. FISKE,    }\n  WM. R. CROWELL, Vice-President.    CHAS. C. LITTLE,  } Ass\u2019t Sec\u2019s.\n  PHILANDER SHAW, Secretary.         JOHN H. DOUGHERTY,}\n\n\nPRESS OF HOLT BROTHERS, 119-121 NASSAU ST., N.Y.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\nObvious printer\u2019s punctuation errors have been corrected.\n\n\u201cIadian\u201d changed to \u201cIndian\u201d in the first Hartford entry on page\n183.\n\n\u201cTalladege\u201d changed to \u201cTalladega\u201d in the Independence entry on 185.\n\nMissing \u201cd\u201d in \u201chad\u201d replaced in the Ditson advertisement on the\nfirst full page of advertisements. Extraneous space removed from\nBOSTON in the same advertisement.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 41, No. 6, June, 1887","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":19380}