{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_57107/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_57107","id":"gutenberg_57107","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57107","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: History - Schools & Universities","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"Produced by Joshua Hutchinson and the Online Distributed\nProofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was\nproduced from images generously made available by Cornell\nUniversity Digital Collections)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: AUGUST, 1887.\n\n  VOL. XLI.\n\n  NO. 8.\n\n  The American Missionary]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: CONTENTS]\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    ANNUAL MEETING\u2014FINANCIAL,                          215\n    PARAGRAPHS,                                        216\n    A GRADUATE AND A PORTER,                           217\n    THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED\u2014NO. 3,                     220\n    DEATH OF REV. SIDNEY H. DALE,                      221\n\n\n  THE SOUTH.\n\n    NOTES IN THE SADDLE,                               222\n    HOWARD UNIVERSITY\u2014FISK UNIVERSITY,                 224\n    TALLADEGA COLLEGE,                                 226\n    TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY,                               227\n    GREGORY INSTITUTE,                                 230\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    CLOSING EXERCISES AT SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING\n      SCHOOL,                                          231\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO,                               234\n\n\n  BUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\n    EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS,                             235\n\n\n  RECEIPTS,                                            237\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 House_, _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.        AUGUST, 1887.        No. 8.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n_American Missionary Association._\n\nThe next Annual Meeting of the Association will be held at\nPortland, Me., Oct. 25th to 27th. Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, D.D.,\nof Brooklyn, will preach the sermon. The friends in Portland have\nalready begun preparations for the reception of the Association.\nLife Members, Delegates chosen by contributing churches, Local\nConferences, State Associations and the National Council,\nconstitute the Annual Meeting. So far as possible, the Portland\nchurches will entertain those who attend. Those purposing to be\npresent and wishing entertainment are requested to write to Rev.\nC. H. Daniels, Chairman of the Committee of Entertainment, or Rev.\nS. K. Perkins, Secretary, Portland, Me. Applications must be made\nbefore Oct. 1st. Special rates will be arranged at hotels for those\nwho desire to pay their own way. Railroad and steamboat favors will\nbe secured as far as possible, and notices of reductions and other\nmatters will appear later in the magazine and in the religious\npress.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe face an unpleasant fact. Receipts in July last year were a\nlittle over $42,000. This was unprecedented. It was owing to the\nspecial collection taken by the churches July 4th for the debt.\nNevertheless, it became a part of our year\u2019s work, and those heavy\nreceipts entered into the total. There are now but two months\nremaining. Shall our total receipts be allowed to fall behind those\nof last year? At the end of June we were just about even with last\nyear. But the outlook for July is not encouraging. However, we know\nthat our friends have the money, and we do not believe they are\ngoing to allow us to fall behind. We ask them favorably to consider\nour request that they make a special effort to lift the watermark\nof our treasury at least as high as it reached last year, and, if\npossible, lift it up just a little higher.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIn conferring the degree of D.D. upon Rev. Henry Hopkins of Kansas\nCity, and of LL.D. upon Gen. Sam\u2019l C. Armstrong, Principal of the\nHampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Williams College can\nhardly be said to have added any special distinction. The college\nhonors itself fully as much as it does these, her honored sons,\nin thus receiving them within the circle of those marked by an\nexpression of her distinctive regard. Both of them years before had\njustly won their spurs. The Christian public, a circle wider than\nany college, and not apt to be at fault in its judgment, either,\nhas for years honored these men because of their works\u2019 sake. We\nare glad, however, that Williams College, their Alma Mater, has\nbeen first to voice this wider public sentiment. The American\nMissionary Association congratulates the college in what it has\ndone, because the one, Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., is an honored\nVice President of the Association, and the other, Gen. Sam\u2019l C.\nArmstrong, LL.D., is at the head of one of the schools founded and\nfostered by the Association, and still gloried in as a monumental\nevidence of the grand work in which it is engaged.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe call the attention of our readers to Rev. Mr. Pond\u2019s article,\n\u201cImperium in Imperio.\u201d It is certainly a pathetic appeal to the\nChristian women of America from the heathenism that has come to us\nfrom China. It gives a new glimpse into our Chinese mission work,\nand emphasizes its importance. We venture the suggestion that this\narticle would furnish interesting reading at ladies\u2019 missionary\nmeetings.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMr. Grady\u2019s famous speech before the New England Society, if things\nkeep going on at the South as they have been, is likely to become\ninfamous. He asserted for substance that the South had come to\nrecognize the fact that in the war the North was right, the South\nwrong, that the Negro has the fullest protection of our laws and\nthe friendship of our people.\n\nRecently, Rev. Leonard W. Bacon, who, strange to say, has been\nfor some time pastor of the Independent Presbyterian Church of\nSavannah, Ga., preached to his people a patriotic sermon. He\nemphasized the importance of national patriotism. He eulogized\nWashington, Lincoln and Grant. He intimated that in the late\nunpleasantness the South was wrong. The result of all this was an\nexcited congregation, an excited community, and the development of\nsuch hostility that Mr. Bacon will probably be forced to resign.\n\nJust a little while before the above incident, a colored\ngentleman by the name of Council was refused permission to\nride in a first-class car, though he had paid for and held a\nfirst-class ticket on the Georgia Central Railroad. Mr. Council\nlaid his grievance before the Interstate Commerce Commissioners.\nCommissioner Bragg, of Alabama, happens to know the complainant,\nand this is the way he testified concerning him: \u201cI know Council\nwell. He is one of the brightest and best of our colored citizens.\nHe is a stanch Democrat, and canvasses the State at every election\nfor the Democratic ticket. He is not a man who desires to push\nhimself forward because of any ambition to obtain social equality.\nHe is modest and unassuming. He is a gentleman.\u201d On another page,\nField-Superintendent Ryder tells us of treatment received on a\nGeorgia railroad by Rev. Wm. Sinclair, one of our missionaries.\nIt is rather singular that these incidents happened in Georgia.\nMr. Grady is the editor of the leading newspaper of that State.\nHe ought to be able to testify as to its thought and feeling upon\nthe great questions that grew out of the war. It seems to us that\nby this time he must begin to feel that his speech before the New\nEngland Society in New York was a most unfortunate affair. We\nshall be glad to find out what the New South is, but we shall not\nbe willing to take Mr. Grady as an instructor. The question still\nremains: _Is_ there a New South?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Fifth Annual Convention of the Colored Teachers\u2019 Association\nof Georgia was recently held in the House of Representatives Hall\nat Atlanta. Upwards of one hundred colored teachers formed what\nthe local press called an \u201cintelligent and decorous body.\u201d The\nsessions continued for three days. The papers gave full reports of\nthe proceedings. Much popular interest was taken. Many white people\nattended. The range of the discussions was wide. The science of\nteaching in all of its departments was introduced by papers and\naddresses, and evoked very general discussion. It was a convention\nof both interest and power. It was a demonstration, beyond all\ndoubt, of the Negro\u2019s intellectual capacity and of his willingness\nto use and improve it. One of our Atlanta teachers writing us about\nthis convention says: \u201cI wish our Northern friends could have\nattended it. I am sure, if they could have done so, those who are\nhelping would want to help more, and those who never have helped\nwould be stirred up to lend a hand in raising up a people, so\nmany of whom have proven and are proving that they can be raised.\nCertainly those of us here on the field can but feel encouraged and\nstrengthened to go on.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA GRADUATE AND A PORTER.\n\nThere appeared in an Atlanta paper a few days ago, a paragraph\nstating that a young Negro man of Atlanta, who had the best\nuniversity education, was acting as a porter in a cotton room, and\nthat all but two of his class, perhaps thirty, had dropped back\ninto just such work as he was doing, and saying that perhaps a good\ndeal of higher education was wasted.\n\nThis paragraph has been copied by a large number of papers and is\nlikely to injure the cause of education among the colored people,\nand for this reason it seems necessary to call attention to the\nerrors it contains.\n\nThe young man referred to has not a university education, but left\nschool during his freshman year. He was not a member of a class of\nabout thirty, although sometimes when his class recited with one in\nthe normal department, the two combined probably reached about that\nnumber.\n\nWhile he was junior preparatory his class numbered ten, and when he\nwas college freshman, eleven. Of these eleven, three went through\nthe course and were graduated. Two of these are teaching, one in\nTexas, and the other as principal of a school in Chattanooga. The\nthird graduate is employed by a wealthy resident of Atlanta, at\nwhose home he always has lived, as collector of rents, etc., and\nmay be said to be \u201cin business.\u201d\n\nSo, instead of the young man in question having a university\neducation, he did not finish his freshman year; instead of his\nbeing a member of a class of thirty, his class numbered only\neleven; and instead of thirty falling from the sublime heights of\nuniversity graduates to the low estate of porters in cotton houses,\nthe three of that class who completed their college course are\noccupying the important positions mentioned above.\n\nUnfortunately this instance of misrepresentation is not an isolated\ncase, but one of a thousand of similar character. The statement\nthat the graduates from colored colleges are all idle vagabonds,\nhas become too stale to produce an impression any longer when made\nin the abstract.\n\nNow what are the facts upon this point? Let the published list of\ngraduates from the Atlanta University, with their occupations,\nanswer.\n\nThis school has a classical course of study covering a period of\nseven years, for pupils who have completed the common English\nbranches. From this have been graduated forty students in ten\nclasses averaging four to a class. This university has also a\nnormal course of four years, for admission to which the same is\nrequired as for admission to the classical course. From this have\nbeen graduated in thirteen classes one hundred pupils, averaging\nabout eight to a class.\n\nOf the forty graduates from the classical course, five are\ndead, eight are in the service of the U.S. Government, four are\npastors of churches, one is a lawyer, two are in the theological\nseminary, one is engaged in business in Atlanta, and the remaining\nnineteen are teaching. None are unemployed and all are engaged in\noccupations in which considerable education is required, and a\nthorough one is desirable. It ought to be added that two of these\ngraduates are professors in colleges, one is editing a respectable\nweekly newspaper, besides teaching, and one of those in the service\nof the Government has been promoted three times upon merit alone.\n\nOf the one hundred graduates from the normal department, six have\ndied, seventeen are keeping house for their husbands, one is in a\nmedical school, one is pursuing a college course, one is a mail\ncarrier, one is still living at home, one is a hired housekeeper,\nand the remaining seventy-two are teaching.\n\nWith reference to putting an education to a practical use, how many\nschools in the United States can show a better record?\n\nIt may be said that a thorough education is not required to fit a\nperson for a government position, such as clerks in departments,\npostal route agents and letter-carriers. But if such an education\nenables one who has it to get from sixty to one hundred and thirty\ndollars a month instead of seventy-five cents a day in the city\nwhenever he can obtain a job, or ten dollars a month and \u201crashuns\u201d\nin the country, it becomes to him an eminently and interestingly\npractical thing. Even in the case of this young Negro porter, the\ngentleman under whom he works says he could hire some one else to\ndo the same work for half his wages, but he prefers his services at\nthe double cost. If three years of Latin and two and a third years\nof Greek and the mathematics that go with them double the value of\nthe services of a colored youth, let us challenge studies that are\nusually considered more practical to show a better record and be\ncareful how we speak sneeringly of higher education.\n\nBut are occupations for the fullest use of a higher education by\ncolored people limited? They certainly are. A white pastor may\nminister to a colored church, a white teacher may instruct colored\nchildren, a white physician may prescribe for a colored patient, a\nwhite attorney may counsel for a colored client, a white mechanic\nmay employ colored laborers, a white merchant may serve colored\ncustomers, but in none of these spheres does the rule work both\nways except in a few rare instances. So the services of educated\ncolored people in the professions and in business are confined\nto their own race, and in that they are crowded by their white\ncompetitors. Furthermore they are not welcomed to these higher\nwalks of life even among their own people by their neighbors of the\nmore powerful race; but the general and almost universal public\nsentiment is in favor of keeping them down. More than this, many of\ntheir own race prefer the services of white lawyers, physicians,\nministers, teachers, mechanics and merchants.\n\nUnder all these adverse circumstances and others that might be\nnamed, it requires great courage and perseverance in a colored\nyouth to complete a full course of study.\n\nBut should they be encouraged or dissuaded?\n\nIf the philosophy of civilization teaches anything it teaches that\nNature intended that every man should make the most of himself, and\nevery race should attain the highest possible development; and if\nChristianity teaches anything it teaches the same lesson. Unless\nsome one knows for certain that the Negro is the descendant of Ham,\nand that the descendants of Ham have not yet served their time in\nhewing wood and drawing water, why not test the virtue of this\nrather queer theory by trying, on a small scale, the experiment\nof giving Negroes the opportunity of acquiring all the education\ntheir mental capacity is capable of receiving, and looking on to\nsee what they will do with it, and what effect it will have upon\nthe race, and not expect that every individual will be a success or\nachieve high place among men?\n\nAs the masses become enlightened the demand for well educated men\nand women must increase. The \u201ccornfield preacher\u201d who depends upon\nthe \u201cSperrit\u201d will step down and out, and the seminary graduate,\nwith \u201cBible religion\u201d will take his place. Thoroughly trained and\nequipped colored lawyers and physicians will conquer the prejudice\nthat now exists among their own people against them, and will\nconquer it the more easily if they are better prepared for work\nthan their white competitors. All this need not come about in one\ngeneration. We can transmit the work, with our faith and our hopes,\nas a legacy to our children.\n\nBut, however divergent the views of different people may be upon\nthese questions, there certainly is no immediate occasion for a\nhowl against the higher education of the Negro, for there is not\nenough of it to feed the flames of a respectable controversy. Only\na fraction of the so-called universities south of Washington open\nto colored students have a collegiate course of study, and the\nentire number of graduates from such a course can be expressed by\ntwo ciphers and a small significant figure. What are a hundred or\ntwo of college graduates among six or seven millions of people? The\nshades of Hahnemann himself might echo the question.\n\n                           T. N. CHASE, _in New York Independent_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHINGS TO BE REMEMBERED\u2014NO 3.\n\n_The Danger!_ Whatever of sentiment or of poetry may have appealed\nto the imagination in the work of foreign missions, has been pretty\nmuch dispelled by contact with foreign races at our own doors. We\nfind that they are intensely human, and that the task of saving\nthem is intensely real. The enchantment which comes of distance is\nsimple commonplace and matter of fact when the object is near at\nhand. Hence the danger, now to be apprehended, is that of disgust,\nor of indifference. Indeed we are not sure that the feeling has not\ntaken on a stronger form, and might not now be called hatred, or\nscorn. If it be not one of these, what name shall we give to the\nfeeling towards the Chinese on the Pacific; towards the Indian,\ndriven from his hunting grounds and chased to the death by our\nsoldiery; towards the Negro, whipped and shot by midnight raiders,\nunprotected by the government he helped to save, and left in his\nignorance, his poverty and his animalism by God\u2019s people, on whom\nhe is cast for enlightenment and elevation?\n\nHow shall we see the vastness and urgency of the work for these\nraces with such repugnances and disgusts meeting us on the very\nthreshold? Moral ideas are of slow growth, and churches and\ncommunities turn to new objects of sympathy and labor reluctantly\nand sluggishly. While we hesitate and wait, the probability is\nthat things will take shape and pass beyond our control; or, at\nbest, that we shall but _partially_ secure results which are now\nfully within our reach. At this moment the churches of America\nhold the key to the conquest of this world for Jesus Christ! Will\nthey hold it a generation hence? Not unless they take advantage of\ntheir position to win these races to God before they are absorbed\ninto the world, and are thus lost as a regenerating force with\nwhich to elevate the unsaved millions of mankind. Suppose, in our\nsupineness, we see the Chinese driven back into heathenism; the\nIndian turned over to the soldiery for extermination, or a deeper\nbarbarism; the Negro wrested from his rights, and unlifted from\nhis passions, weaknesses and enthralments of mental and spiritual\ndarkness: is there any reason to believe that the opportunity\nwill ever return when it will be possible for us so completely to\ncontrol, guide and mould them as we now can?\n\nWe are in jeopardy, therefore, of making the most fearful mistake\nin Christian ethics and in Christian practice. If these races pass\nfrom our hands uneducated and unsaved, the world will charge us\nwith the commission of a crime against humanity itself. Now we can\nthrow upon these fields, if we will, men enough to take possession\nof them in the name of Christ. Now, we can raise up _out of these\nraces_ the laborers to carry our learning, our art, our faith, to\nall who speak the same tongue, and to all in whose veins bounds the\nsame blood. To this work Providence manifestly calls us\u2014to do it\nis to walk with God, we verily believe. But whether the churches\nsee it, or _wish_ to see it; whether they are more ready to walk\nin their _own_ light than in the light which shines from heaven, I\ncannot answer. I can only say the sun shines, and we have the eyes\nto see. If we miss the Divine plan and method it will not be for\nlack of light, but the mistake will be none the less sad, and the\nmisfortune to the world none the less direful, because the ages may\nnot undo it. From such a peril may the good Lord save his people,\nand open their eyes that they may see!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOBITUARY.\n\nREV. SIDNEY HAMILTON DALE, pastor at Florence, Ala., died June\n18th, and was buried at Talladega, June 25th.\n\nMr. Dale was graduated from the Theological Department of Talladega\nCollege, June, 1886, and at Christmas was ordained at Florence, the\nsermon being preached by Prof. G. W. Andrews, who also conducted\nthe funeral services at Talladega. Some seventeen years before,\nMr. Dale, then a little boy, was converted in a revival of very\nremarkable reach and power, at Marion, under the pastorate of\nMr. Andrews, who was then beginning his many years of service\nin Alabama. After some time at the Lincoln Normal Institute, in\nMarion, he came to Talladega, where, in addition to normal and\ncollege preparatory studies, he pursued theology under the same\nfriend who had led him to Christ. He was diligent, growingly\ndiligent; in his studies strong, active and persevering. He had\na voice of remarkable compass and power, and he composed both\nthe words and music of the Class Song sung at his graduation.\nHe was devoted to the ministry, for which he had made years of\nlaborious preparation, and which he had begun with large promise\nof usefulness. His illness continued but a few days, and death\nwas not expected till the end had almost come. But his faith was\nstrong. With exultant prayer and triumph he crossed the stream into\nthe better land. But it seems as if the fields this side, so large\nand needy, could ill spare such a young and vigorous reaper; and\na heavy sorrow falls upon the young wife and mother who mourns an\nunmeasured loss, yet not without the hope and comfort which God\nalone can give.\n\n                                                            D.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNOTES IN THE SADDLE.\n\nBY FIELD-SUPERINTENDENT C. J. RYDER.\n\n\u201cMen are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he\nis a fool; shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not, he\nis simple; teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows, he is\nasleep; wake him. He who knows and knows he knows, he is wise;\nfollow him.\u201d So runs an old Arabic proverb. A sermon delivered\nby one of our A. M. A. pastors, before a class just graduating\nfrom one of our Southern institutions, proves that in educational\nmatters this pastor was of the fourth class according to the Arabic\nclassification. The text of the sermon was Philippians iii, 13-14,\nand the preacher spoke as follows, according to report in one of\nthe local papers:\n\n\u201cThere are important lessons in these words of the Apostle Paul for\nyou. In finishing the course here you have only made a beginning.\nThe real work and the prize are ahead. A foundation has been laid\non which you must build, patiently, carefully, wisely. Healthy\nspiritual and intellectual life are characterized by progress. This\nis the touchstone, like a shining light, shining more and more unto\nthe perfect day. Education is the full development of the man,\nand we know that development is a gradual, almost imperceptible\nprocess. It is the leading out of the powers and capabilities which\nhe may possess. You do not educate a man when you simply tell him\nwhat he did not know, but you do educate him when you make this\nknowledge imparted a part of himself, thus causing him to feel what\nhe ought to feel\u2014conscious power and manhood. Education which does\nnot make a man more manly and independent, is a decided failure. It\nmeans growth. It is a man\u2019s duty to grow. Remember, then, that you\nhave not apprehended\u2014for what you must apprehend or lay hold on, is\nChristian character and manhood in its highest sense.\u201d\n\nSuch manly and discriminating counsel coming from a graduate to\nother graduates of his own race, proves that it is safe to appeal\nto the results in proof of the value of higher education among the\ncolored people of the South.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMost refreshing news comes to us from a far-off church in Texas.\n\u201cLast Sabbath,\u201d writes the faithful pastor, \u201cwas a high day for the\nchurch here. Thirteen united with us, and many others were greatly\nrevived. Meetings of intense interest are still being held, and\nmany are coming forward for prayers and consecrating themselves to\nthe Lord.\u201d A revival in midsummer! What a surprising phenomenon in\nreligious work at the North, but not so surprising for the South,\nfor there most earnest Christian work is often done during the\nheated days of summer. The pastor who reports this encouraging\nwork has charge of three churches, and travels every week some\nfifty miles by wagon in order to fill his appointments. He regrets\nhis inability to visit all the stations in his field regularly at\npresent, on account of the great interest at this one point and the\nimperative demands there are upon him for special services here. He\nbegs the prayers of his brethren to whom he writes, and may I not\nask, through these Notes, for the prayers of a much larger circle\nthan those reached by his letter?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThese Notes seem to be a scrap-bag, or a sort of patch-work quilt,\nmade up of bits gathered from different letters. Let me add one\nmore as illustrating two things: first, the extreme self-denial of\nmany who are contributing to the work of the A. M. A., and also as\nillustrating the high appreciation of this self-sacrifice on the\npart of those who are doing the work in the field. A teacher whose\neconomy in traveling expenses had been so marked as to call for\ncommendation, writes: \u201cIt seems to me that we are in honor bound\nto be more prudent in the use of A. M. A. money than in the use of\nour own. Some of the money given for the work in the South comes\nfrom very humble people. I have heard of a poor woman in \u2014\u2014, who\nearned her living by washing and scrubbing, yet saved out of her\nscanty earnings a half cent a day for the A. M. A. It would be a\nshame to any one to spend such money carelessly.\u201d There are noble\nheroism and self-denial on both sides of the line which divides the\ntwo classes of those engaged in the work of the A. M. A. When the\nnew Acts of the Apostles is written, it will include in its records\nnot only the Pauls and Peters who have gone out into this great\nSouthern field, but also the Tabithas \u201cwho are full of good works\nand alms-deeds which they do\u201d in their own homes.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u201cWhere is the New South?\u201d I repeat the question asked by the\neditor of this magazine last month. Report just reaches us that\nRev. W. A. Sinclair, while traveling with his bride, has been\nviolently and brutally put out of a first-class railway coach and\nforced into a \u201csmoker,\u201d although he held a first-class ticket which\nhe bought of the regularly appointed agent of the road. I do not\nknow the circumstances connected with this new outrage, but I _do_\nknow Rev. Mr. Sinclair, and know him to be a quiet, unostentatious,\nunobtrusive Christian gentleman. There could have been no excuse\nfor this outrage. The \u201cNew South,\u201d evidently, is not on the railway\ntrains in Georgia.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHOWARD UNIVERSITY THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.\n\nThe Theological Department of Howard University, Washington,\nD.C., held its anniversary exercises on May 27th in the First\nCongregational Church, in which was assembled a large audience of\ncolored and white people. Ten young men were graduated, four of\nwhom made interesting addresses. One of these was a Bulgarian,\nwho has also taken the medical course in the University, and will\nreturn to his country as a missionary. Each graduate received a\nBible and a copy of Finney\u2019s Autobiography. There were thirty-eight\ntheological students this year, and these included yet another\nBulgarian, who was converted under the missionaries of the American\nBoard, and was driven from his country by persecution, but who\nhopes eventually to return thither.\n\nMost encouraging reports were received during the year from former\ngraduates, who are hard at work in their respective fields, and\nwho to preaching add Sunday-school instruction, teaching in\nday schools, temperance lecturing, and often housebuilding. No\ndepartment of our University yields richer fruit than does this.\n\n                                                WM. W. PATTON.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCOMMENCEMENT AT FISK UNIVERSITY.\n\nBY REV. A. P. MILLER, AN ALUMNUS.\n\nBeing absent on Thursday and Friday, I did not take in the\nexercises of the Senior Preparatory Class and the literary\nsocieties of the University, but learned that the young men and\nwomen did themselves and their Alma Mater much credit in their\naddresses and essays.\n\nThe missionary sermon was preached on Sunday morning by Rev. David\nM. Harris, D.D., editor of a Presbyterian organ in Nashville. Dr.\nHarris, who is a Southern gentleman, with much feeling referred to\nthe wrongs endured by the colored people in this country, saying\nthat he was heartily ashamed of their treatment in the past, but\nthat he had rather be the wronged than the perpetrators of the\nwrong. The Doctor was much pleased with what had been accomplished\nby Fisk University during the trying years of her eventful history\nfor the elevation of the African race in this country, and, through\nthem, on the African continent.\n\nThe baccalaureate sermon in the afternoon, by Pres. E. M. Cravath,\nD.D., commanded the closest attention; and at the close, the\nPresident\u2019s very feeling address to the graduates, four young men\nand two young women, was very impressive. The music provided for\nthe services during the day by Prof. Spence and the Mozart Society\nwas of the highest order.\n\nThe Rev. Dr. F. A. Noble, of Chicago, arrived on Saturday, and\nseemed to have taken in all round about him during his stay,\nvisiting classes in all departments under examination. The\nexercises of the Normal Department of the University were richly\nenjoyed, degrees being conferred on six young men and two young\nwomen. The addresses and essays were thoughtfully conceived,\ntimely, and well delivered; and to one who, nine years ago, was\ngraduated from the University, showed marked evidence of advance.\nWhile one member was delivering his address, his fellow-townsmen\nwere electing him to a position in their school on a salary of $75\nper month.\n\nOn Tuesday the Alumni associations of the University held their\nanniversaries, addresses being delivered by Mrs. Ava Brown\nDismukes, class of \u201977, Normal, and the Rev. Albert P. Miller, of\nNew Haven, Conn., class of 78, College. Mrs. Dismukes\u2019 subject was\n\u201cLocal Missions.\u201d She vigorously enforced the duty of graduates,\nwherever they may be, to make of themselves missionaries for the\nupbuilding of the race. The Rev. A. P. Miller spoke on \u201cThe duty of\nthe hour,\u201d and his address was listened to attentively throughout.\nDr. Noble emphasized Mr. Miller\u2019s remarks as to the Negro\u2019s lack\nof sufficient moral courage to know and assert his rights. At the\nclose of the Alumni meetings, Gen. Clinton B. Fisk and wife put\nin their appearance and were heartily applauded, and of course a\nspeech was called for and received with wonted enthusiasm.\n\nWednesday, beautiful and clear, came, bringing Commencement Day.\nTeachers, students, friends and old graduates marched in procession\nfrom Jubilee to Livingstone Hall. The exercises began at 10 A. M.\nMusic was grand. Addresses and essays gave evidence of deep thought\nand careful preparation. Dr. Noble, in his afternoon speech, said\nhe never heard them excelled in any college, not even in dear old\nYale. Six received the degree of B.A.; some of them having been\nin the institution fifteen years, and among those who had been\nlongest connected with the University was Miss Mary E. Spence, only\ndaughter of Prof. A. K. Spence, whom I found at Fisk on entering,\nseventeen years ago.\n\nDr. Noble\u2019s address, \u201cChristian Socialism,\u201d was timely, and had a\nring in it that thrilled the hearts of all who heard it. We who\nwere privileged to meet and hear this noble man and minister of\nChrist cannot and will not soon forget him and his visit to Fisk.\n\nAfter degrees had been conferred, Gen. Fisk delivered one of his\ncharacteristic speeches, thanking and blessing God for Fisk\nUniversity, with whose life he had been associated for more than\ntwenty years. He was proud of its history and of the work done by\nits band of noble men and women and students, and urged graduates\nto be something. Master\u2019s degrees were conferred on W. R. Morris,\nnow teacher in Fisk; G. K. McIlvaine, of St. Louis, Mo., and Dr. A.\nA. Wesley, recently graduated from medical school at Chicago.\n\nWhat impressed me most was the desire expressed by the alumni of\nFisk to see their Alma Mater permanently endowed, and an intention\nto work in the future among themselves and former students to this\nend. The alumni have already pledged one per cent. of their annual\nincome toward an endowment fund, and as a result several hundred\ndollars have been realized, and are now invested in a Nashville\nbank. The ball was again started a-rolling at Commencement dinner,\nDr. Noble leading off, followed by Prof. Spence, with $10 each for\nthe class of \u201987, and the amount ran up, swollen by contributions\nof students, to about $150, and Gen. Fisk said he knew a gentleman\nin New York who would double the sum subscribed on that occasion.\n[This gentleman is doubtless Gen. F.] Rev. A. P. Miller was\nappointed by the college alumni as corresponding secretary to work\nup the endowment fund among the alumni and former students, and it\nis to be hoped that friends of Negro education whom God has blessed\nwith means will turn their attention toward this University, whose\nteachers and students have done so much for the mental and moral\nregeneration of the South and the Negro race.\n\nFisk University must be endowed, and we her sons and daughters, who\nintend doing what we can in this direction, most sincerely trust\nthat friends of years gone by will not forget, in the distribution\nof what God hath given them, this institution, which has all these\nyears depended solely on God and a charitable public for its\nexistence and a continuance of its blessed work. May the richest\nblessings of heaven come down on every one, whatever his or her\ncreed, white or black, who will help to permanently endow Fisk\nUniversity.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCOMMENCEMENT AT TALLADEGA COLLEGE.\n\nBY PRESIDENT H. S. DE FOREST, D.D.\n\nTalladega\u2019s seventeenth Commencement began Friday, June 10th, with\nexercises of the lower grades from the Cassedy school, and ended\nwith the oration, essay, and a wedding at the Alumni meeting the\nThursday evening following. Between these dates were the sermon\nbefore the graduates; a missionary sermon by Secretary Powell,\nof New York; public examination of students in all grades, from\nsecondary studies up to theology, including classes taught in\nPractice School by Normal Students; exercises of the three literary\nsocieties; an address by Dr. Powell on \u201cOver the sea\u201d; one by\nDr. W. H. Ward on \u201cThe testimony of ancient monuments to God\u2019s\nWord\u201d; exhibition of industrial work, with orations and essays\nby graduates from the Normal and Theological departments. It was\na large bill of fare, we thought well served, and many were at\nthe table. The attendance all through was excellent, the house\nbeing usually crowded, and often the overflow was very great. The\ndifferent examinations, it was conceded by all, gave evidence of\nthorough study and solid attainments. Certainly thoroughness is\nconstantly sought, and those who visit the college bear witness to\ngood success in securing it. Two, new this year, graduated from\nthe Theological and thirteen from the Normal department. All are\nprofessed Christians, are exemplary in life, and go to their work\nwith excellent preparation.\n\nTuesday afternoon was given to inspection of the industrial\ntraining. A display was made of the girls\u2019 work in cutting, sewing\nand repairing; of what the young men had done in blacksmithing,\ncarpentry and cabinet-making; while samples of cobbling were\nwalking all around. Students were seen painting, wood-working,\ndraughting; some were type-setting, form-making, and at press-work.\nThe garden, farm, wood-saw and feed-mill, stock and barns were\nexamined. All our visitors are impressed with the results already\nsecured in industrial training, and some are relieved who feared\nthat the brain, if it gets much of a start, will paralyze the hand,\nforgetting that the hand must be inapt till there is a trained head\nto give it cunning.\n\nThe mid-winter series of meetings, both at the college and the two\nmission chapels, were blessed to several conversions. Young people\nhave been schooled in a vigorous Society of Christian Endeavor.\nMission Sunday-schools and neighborhood prayer-meetings have\nbeen carried on with growing interest. The different benevolent\nsocieties have had their claims presented in turn; something has\nbeen given to all; and if the offerings have been small, they have,\nit is believed, been weighted with prayer.\n\nImportant repairs, so far as means are afforded, are to be made by\nindustrial students. Board is now to be made cheaper, and, with,\nno less attention to fundamental branches, more is to be done in\ndeveloping college studies; and theological training, a strong\npoint from the beginning, is still to be kept in the foreground. At\nthe close of another good year, the college looks hopefully towards\nthe future.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCOMMENCEMENT AT TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.\n\nWhatever else we may have or fail to have at our annual\nCommencement time, we always _expect_ rain, and we are rarely\ndisappointed in this particular. This year rain was so greatly\nneeded, and had been so long devoutly wished for, that it was one\nof our causes of rejoicing. However, the showery character of\nthe weather prevented our having the usual full attendance on\nCommencement Sabbath; but by Commencement day we had many visitors\nfrom a distance, who, with our school family and people from our\nown vicinity, filled all the space of our new chapel\u2014not quite so\nclosely as it might have been packed, but comfortably full; the\nlargest attendance being had at the concert, Wednesday evening,\nJune 1. These concerts grow in excellence and in favor from year to\nyear, and our choir has, besides, won some modest laurels, singing\noutside the University, which it has worn as modestly.\n\nOur Sunday-school is always delightful, and nothing else is ever\npermitted to take its place. At the close of this year we had the\npleasure of disposing of seventy dollars of Sunday-school money.\nForty dollars were voted to missionary work in Africa, twenty-five\nto library books, and five to the State temperance lecturer of\nMississippi. A larger average attendance than ever before was\nreported.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon a Home Mission Institute was held. A list of\ntopics was presented two weeks beforehand, but no set speeches or\nprepared papers were given. The young people, led by President\nPope, did nearly all the talking, and it was good to hear the\nearnest and practical way in which they discussed such topics as\nthese:\n\n\u201cWhat can we do\u2014\n\n\u201cTo secure the better observance of the Sabbath?\u201d\n\n\u201cTo introduce good reading matter into the homes of the people?\u201d\n\n\u201cTo make our industrial training do home missionary work?\u201d\n\n\u201cBy what means can we best promote the interest of the people in\nschools, Sunday-schools, missions, temperance, personal and social\npurity?\u201d\n\n\u201cWhat societies shall we seek to organize, or shall we combine all\nthese aims in Societies of Christian Endeavor?\u201d\n\nIn the evening President Pope delivered the sermon to the\ngraduates, speaking with even more than his wonted force and fervor\nin view of his farewell to this field and the transfer of his labor\nto the mountain work in Tennessee.\n\nBesides the oral examinations of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,\nthere were black-board drawings and displays of written work in\neach room, so that those who passed through might see something of\nthe work of each grade. There were also industrial exhibits of the\nyoung ladies\u2019 work, and work from the shops. Col. Power, of the\nState Board of Visitors, spoke of our new school-house and shops\nthemselves as being a most gratifying industrial exhibit, having\nbeen so largely the work of our apprentices.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon the black-boards in one of the large\nschool-rooms were seen to bear these scrolls, in dashing capitals:\n\u201cWelcome, Alumni!\u201d and \u201cThere\u2019s no place like Home.\u201d And presently\nabout a score of Tougaloo graduates, with teachers and friends,\nwere gathered to listen to an address by Mr. J. N. Granberry, one\nof the very first class graduated here. He said, in beginning,\nthat he had decided to take for his theme \u201cThat which most men try\nto shirk, namely: \u2018Duty.\u2019\u201d He then spoke of the duty of the sons\nand daughters of this institution to themselves, to their school,\nto their people, to their country, to the world at large, basing\nall upon the thought of duty to God.\n\nAt a business meeting, next morning, of the Society of the Alumni,\nPresident Pope pledged funds with which to erect, within two years,\nan Industrial Cottage for Girls, and the Alumni pledged funds\nfor the furnishing. This is with a view to placing our girls\u2019\nindustries more nearly on an equal footing with those for young\nmen. In the meantime our good friend, Mr. Ballard, of New York, has\nagain come to our rescue and made it possible to set the enterprise\nof girls\u2019 housekeeping on foot at once\u2014that is, next year\u2014in a\nsmall way, as we can with our present accommodations.\n\nAn unusual number of graduates were present at Commencement, and\nenjoyed their own separate dinner and \u201cthe olive branches\u201d about\nthe table. There were never so many babies at Tougaloo before, and\na well-behaved and promising little company we thought them, upon\nthe whole. May God bless the little ones and make them every one\nburning and shining lights in His kingdom! Our graduating class was\nsmall this year\u2014two young ladies from the Elementary, and a young\nman from the Higher Normal. The exercises were good.\n\nWe have always listened with pleasure and profit, each recurring\nyear, to our annual address, by whomsoever delivered, and faithful\nand eminent men have thus favored us; but never have we experienced\ngreater delight in this part of our service than this year while\nbeing addressed by that grand, large-hearted, eloquent divine and\nstanch friend of the colored people from _ante-bellum_ days, the\nRev. Dr. C. K. Marshall, of Vicksburg. He seemed not at all to\naddress himself to colored people as such, but from a glowing heart\nto pour forth universal truth for universal humanity, in the most\ngenial spirit, counseling our young people as young people anywhere\nmight rejoice to be counseled on the threshold of active life.\n\nAfter so prolonged a \u201cfeast of reason,\u201d the mortal bodies demanded\nrefreshment, and the afternoon was far spent when all had been\nserved. Then good-byes were spoken, students and visitors departed,\nand a sort of lonesome quiet settled over Tougaloo; but the chosen\nmotto of our graduating class looks down in letters of unfading\ngreen from over the rostrum, \u201cLife is earnest,\u201d and carries our\nprayerful thoughts out to the army of young workers who, in their\nseveral homes, schools and places of labor, we trust are earnestly\nendeavoring to walk in the footsteps of our blessed Master and\n\u201covercome evil with good.\u201d\n\n                                                         J. K.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGREGORY INSTITUTE, WILMINGTON, N.C.\n\nOur closing exercises this year partook more of the nature of a\nCommencement than heretofore. This is the second year only that our\nschool has turned out graduates from any of the higher courses.\nFrom the class of ten comprising the elementary normal class,\nseven\u2014five young men and two young women\u2014were graduated. One other\nyoung man, who failed to pass on account of being absent teaching\nduring a part of the year, and who is working hard, determined to\nmake up the lost studies before leaving the city, will probably\nsucceed and be granted his certificate during the summer.\n\nThe exercises were held on Thursday evening, May 27th, in the\nchurch instead of in the hall, in order to get a larger room.\nIt was needed, the largest number being present that were ever\nassembled within the walls of this beautiful building.\n\nThe exercises consisted principally of orations and essays by\nthe members of the graduating class, interspersed with singing,\nall of which were rendered in a highly creditable manner. In\naddition to these were recitations by the school of the 23d Psalm,\na Scripture catechism learned during the year, and a missionary\ncolloquy beautifully rendered by girls from the different classes,\nrepresenting, by their dress, many of the heathen nations.\n\nAnother and a very interesting feature of the evening\u2019s\nentertainment, was a half-hour address by Rev. Geo. S. Smith,\npastor of the Congregational Church, Raleigh, N.C. He was\nintroduced to the audience as a colored man who had been trained in\nthe A. M. A. schools, and a noble specimen he is, as an orator, as\na scholar, and as a man. He chose for his subject, \u201cEncouragement,\u201d\nfrom which he delivered an address replete with sound practical\nthoughts and advice.\n\nA better behaved, more attentive audience scarcely ever gathered\nthan that at our Commencement. We feared that they might not like\nthese exercises as well as those of the usual exhibition order,\nbut many said this was the best exhibition we ever had. Everything\npassed off nicely, with nothing to mar the enjoyment of the evening.\n\nAs we looked at the people before us, we thought: \u201cHow could any\none in this Christian land have ever said, \u2018These niggers have\nno souls\u2019; or, \u2018You can\u2019t educate a nigger to make anything of\nhim\u2019?\u201d Even at this late day we hear these or kindred expressions.\nI tell you, friends, if you were thrown with this people as we\nteachers are, you would soon almost forget that they are colored.\nPlease don\u2019t forget that they are here to stay, 7,000,000 of them,\nand they need your help to rise from their despised, neglected\ncondition. They are surely marching onward, but much, _very_ much,\nyet remains for the Christians of our land to do.\n\nOur enrollment for the past year has been 285, but the average\nattendance has not been quite up to the usual mark, owing to\nsickness, \u201chard times,\u201d etc. Death has entered the school, taking\naway two of the number, both youths of special promise.\n\nOur workers have never been more untiring in their efforts to\nadvance the cause of temperance and morality. A flourishing Band of\nHope, taking in nearly every pupil in the three lower departments,\nhas been doing its good work throughout the year. The society for\nthe older ones, not strictly confined to the school, has also been\ndoing its work. White Cross societies have been formed, and without\ndoubt will prove of great help to their members. The Band of Mercy\nbelonging to the First Primary Division should not be forgotten.\nThe school prayer-meeting has been encouraging, and considerable\ntime has been taken up in the study of the Scriptures.\n\n                                                GEO. A. WOODARD.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCLOSING EXERCISES AT SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL.\n\nA beautiful feature of the Commencement season here at Santee was\nthe communion service of last Sunday, at which time six young\nIndian men came forward from among their companions and publicly\nunited themselves to God\u2019s people! We call them boys, but they are\nnot boys; they are old enough to realize the position they now\noccupy, and it has come to them only after the long, hard struggle\nwhich seems always to insure earnest lives for the future. Most\nbeautiful of all was the baptism! Tears rolled down their cheeks as\nthey bent for a blessing from the white man\u2019s God and their God.\n\nThe eyes of the teachers, who had prayed and labored so earnestly\nfor this very occasion, were filled to overflowing. Five different\ntribes were represented by these boys: Mandan, Ree, Assinaboine,\nYanktonais and Titon. Two of the young men are the sons of chiefs\nstill in their blankets, who, recognizing the great needs of their\npeople, are urging their sons on to more earnest study, so that\nthey may come back as missionaries to those who wait for them as\nfor deliverers.\n\nIt would seem enough of an achievement that these scores of Indian\nboys and girls have been brought out of the superstition, the\nunbelief, the savagery of their tribes, into the customs, manners\nand religion of civilization, even if the work stopped there; but\nthe three days following the communion Sabbath have shown such\nresults in regard to a growth as well as change of mind, that to\none seeing the work for the first time it is simply marvelous.\n\nIt is one thing to sit in an Eastern audience and listen to\nthe most earnest recital of the needs of, and work among, the\nIndians, and to say, \u201cO, yes, the needs are very great; the work\nis glorious; we fully understand your solution of the \u2018Indian\nproblem\u2019; we agree with you and aid you!\u201d (while in a day the needs\nare forgotten, and the work is overlooked). It is another thing to\nstand here on the ground and listen to the silent appeals of these\nhundreds of thirsty human souls\u2014appeals that are all the stronger\nbecause of their utter helplessness. Another thing is it to stand\nand _behold_ the work already done, and the change already made! To\nsee with our own eyes is to wonder and believe, in such a way that\nwe can never forget. Would that all men might not only hear, but\nsee!\n\nOn Friday, the 24th, began the yearly examinations of the Santee\nNormal Training School. Teachers and scholars were alive to the\nduties placed upon them, and the end of the seventeenth year\nfound all active as ever. The recitations extended throughout\nFriday, Monday and Tuesday, and visitors from the Agency and\nsurrounding towns were made welcome. The school-rooms, thrown open\ntogether, were well filled during most of the sessions. Especially\ninteresting was the map-drawing and accompanying recitation by the\nolder geography students. The recitation showed that an Indian may\nhave as clear and correct an idea of the formation of this earth\nand its divisions into hemispheres, countries, etc., as any white\nboy. The maps were accurately and admirably drawn. The language\nlessons were novel, and showed good work on the part of the\nteachers. Stories were read to the students which they were asked\nto re-write in as good English as possible. The following from a\nboy brought into the school last fall, is a good illustration of\nthe way in which they think and speak in English: \u201cWe get all our\nsilk from a little creature called worm. The little creature is\ngreen color. She lay number of eggs and then died, and they have\nnever seen their children and father.\u201d\n\nMusic is by no means drudgery to the Indians. Passionately fond of\nit, they practice with patience, and the results have been more\nthan satisfactory. Considering the lack of all discipline in their\nnatures, the examinations this year, both in vocal and instrumental\nmusic, have been remarkable. Those thousands in the East who heard,\nlast winter, the singing of the Santee quintette, can easily\nbelieve that this is true.\n\nGymnastics have been practiced as a means of teaching accuracy and\nquickness of thought. The precision acquired by the students shows\nthat it has been a good discipline, and would do credit to any\nschool.\n\nThe recitations in mathematics were good. The work in algebra\ndeserves special mention. One thing is very evident in studying\nthe school work here; that is, that while in everything requiring\nsimple memory the Indian is fully equal to the white boy, perhaps\nmore than equal, his reasoning faculties are much behind, on\naccount of the lack of such faculties in the generations of his\nancestors; so mathematical work requires patient plodding, month\nafter month, for each step gained. There is very great need of such\ndiscipline among this people, and it is one of the most difficult\nthings in this work of education and Christianization.\n\nTwenty minutes were given on Monday to the workings of a model\nnormal class in botany. It was most unique, carried on wholly by\nthe advanced students. They showed clearly the most approved manner\nand methods not only of teaching, but also of learning. The whole\nwas skillfully and understandingly done.\n\nTuesday evening was devoted to a literary entertainment. Space\nallows only of a word or two in regard to it. A former graduate\nof Santee, who is now one of its teachers, read an essay on\n\u201cCivilization\u201d well worth repeating. He began with the earliest\nknown civilization before Christ; came down through the centuries\nwith examples proving Christianity to be the mainspring of modern\ncivilization, ending with a touching picture of the angels of God\nlooking down upon this, the greatest nation of the world, and\nwatching anxiously to see it turn a listening ear to the plea of\nthe poor Indian for this very knowledge of God, which he realizes\nis his only salvation, his only path to the civilization for which\nhe longs. Beautifully pathetic were the words in which he spoke of\nour common brotherhood and of the longing of his people for better\nthings.\n\nOn Wednesday morning the exercises opened with a battalion drill,\nand later, time was given to an exhibition of the industrial\nwork of the students. The blacksmith, carpenter and shoe shops\nheld proof of good solid work on the part of the boys; while the\nneedle-work of the girls and small boys was exceptional. The talent\nfor free-hand drawing is very general among the Indians, and the\ncollection of specimens was good.\n\nThe exercises closed on Wednesday evening with a social gathering\nin the large dining hall. There were present all the boys and\ngirls of the school, the teachers, employees, and many visitors.\nBlanketed Indians mingled with the rest, and many nationalities\nwere represented. It was a novel company, but all were happy and\nglad. With the close of the evening, Santee finished a successful\nyear. Very early on Thursday morning nearly a score of the students\nwere busy with preparations for departure. In the quiet of the dawn\nsome of us heard the sound of music, most unusual at this hour; and\none of the teachers venturing to the chapel, found the young men\nholding a meeting for prayer. It was their own idea; they had waked\none another quietly for it. It was the surest safeguard against\nthe temptations they were going out to meet. This single incident\nshows better than words the missionary spirit pervading the whole\nschool. And so, to-day, with the departure of the students, goes\nout the gospel influence of Santee\u2014far North into Canada, East into\nMinnesota, and West into Montana, never to diminish, but to grow\nand spread until the white man\u2019s God shall be indeed the God of all\nthe Indians.\n\nWhat is true of the advance of the pupils of Santee is indicative\nof the advance of the whole people. There is surely a bright day\ncoming for the Indian.\n\n                                          MRS. CHAS. W. SHELTON.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nIMPERIUM IN IMPERIO.\n\nThe story which I have to tell this month may startle our readers\neast of the Rockies, though the hard fact underlying it has long\nbeen known to us on this Pacific slope, and especially in San\nFrancisco.\n\nOn Sunday, June 5th, among seven Chinese who were baptised and\nreceived to Bethany church, was one young woman about fifteen\nyears of age. She was the second female Chinese received to our\nfellowship, for out of more than 120 of that nation whom I have\nbaptised, all but two have been males.\n\nThis young woman is remarkably beautiful in person, pleasing in\nher ways, and interesting in character. Her father is in China.\nHer mother, quite in accordance, perhaps, with the moralities of\nChinese heathenism, had taken to herself another husband for the\ntime being, and had gone to Arizona to ply her trade, the nature of\nwhich I do not _certainly_ know, and therefore will not suggest. To\nraise funds she had _pawned_ this girl for $250, but had paid $100\non her debt. A very estimable Chinaman, not a professed Christian,\nbut one of whom we have hoped much, knowing the parties and hearing\nthat little Ah Yung was being harshly treated, advanced the balance\nof the debt and took possession of the child. He placed her in the\nfamily of our helper, Jee Gam. Thus she became known to the lady\nteachers in our Central Mission, one of whom went up-stairs each\nevening to the apartments occupied by Jee Gam\u2019s family, to give her\na lesson, and also (as always) to speak to her of Christ.\n\nAt first indifferent and even hostile, she softened at length,\nand began to wish that she might become a Christian. With this\nsoftening of the heart towards Christ, there rose, of course, an\nabhorrence and dread of the destiny which, according to heathen\ncustoms, awaited her. She did not, however, at first open her heart\nfully to her teacher, but said that she would like to earn some\nmoney, and to work for wages in some American family. A place was\nfound for her which, as being a little remote from the city, was\nlikely to be a safe refuge. But when the time for her removal came,\nunexpected obstacles were interposed. Jee Gam, while quite willing\nto have her go, felt that it would be neither honorable nor safe\nfor him to deliver her to any one except the man who entrusted her\nto him; and this one shrunk from the responsibility of letting her\ngo where it might be difficult for her mother to resume possession\nof her. Meanwhile the case became more urgent because of a report\nthat her mother would soon be in San Francisco, for, with her\narrival, all possibility of legal protection for the child would be\ngone. Miss Jessie S. Worley, the principal of our Central School,\nsuddenly cut the knot by causing herself, with no one\u2019s consent\nexcept that of the child, to be appointed her legal guardian, and\nshe holds her under such protection now.\n\nThe day after Ah Yung\u2019s baptism, I think it was, the mother\nappeared. Entreaties proving vain, she sought by other methods\nto bring her daughter under her own control, or else to get from\nsome one the coin she was supposed to be worth; for such a girl,\njust budding into womanhood, in our Chinese matrimonial market, is\nsaid to be worth from $500 to $1,500. Last Saturday the Chinaman\nwho had befriended Ah Yung appeared at my study. It was with great\ndifficulty that he could maintain his self-control, though he is a\nman of strong and steady nerves. His lips quivered as he talked,\nand his athletic frame often trembled. The mother had appealed to\nthe Six Companies, and his life was at stake. Since then, as I\nhave been informed, a meeting of the representatives of the Six\nCompanies has been held, and our friend was summoned to appear\nbefore them. He was given till to-day (June 17th) to restore the\ngirl to her mother\u2014an act entirely beyond his power. Meanwhile, the\nHigh-Binders were already on his track, and he scarcely feels safe\neven in Oakland and in his own employer\u2019s house. He will probably\nbe obliged to flee, perhaps to some point far East, for he will not\nbe able, even if disposed, to surrender the dear child to the fate\nto which, in her mother\u2019s hands, she would be doomed.\n\nThis has brought closer home to me than ever before the fact of an\n_imperium in imperio_ in our Chinese communities. It stirs one\u2019s\nblood to think that this young man can make no effective appeal to\nour Government against this secret tyranny. It may very likely be\nthat if he should be murdered, his murderer, if convicted, would be\nhung; but this is at best a cold and shadowy comfort in the present\nemergency.\n\n\u201cA good argument, this,\u201d some one avers, \u201cfor hustling the whole\nbrood out of the land!\u201d But in so doing we should not help\nourselves at all, and we should hustle them back into deeper\ndarkness and severer cruelty. A good argument, rather, as it\nseems to me, for pouring in with intenser zeal and more practical\nendeavor, the life-giving, freedom-giving light of Christ.\n\n                                                     W. C. POND.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\nMISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOur matrons and teachers find much to interest them in studying the\ncharacteristics of the students as exhibited in their school life,\nand especially are they interested in following the students during\nvacations to their homes and among the people on the plantations.\nWitness the following extracts from the correspondence of one of\nour matrons:\n\nI think you would be more surprised and delighted to make a tour\nof our Boys\u2019 Hall, as I did one evening a few weeks before school\nclosed, than to go through the Ladies\u2019 Hall, because you might\nnot expect so much of the young men. I must say, the absolute\ncleanliness, order and quiet that reigned as I went around in the\ntime of evening study, was more than I expected.\n\nNearly every room had its pictures, every one its little case\nfor books, some a window full of plants, and all the ordinary\nconveniences spick and span, with the beds beautifully made up.\nSome rooms, especially those of the apprentices, were full of\ningenious little contrivances which they have made themselves,\nand so, of course, take double pleasure in. Their matron kept a\ndiligent eye for something to criticise, and, sure enough, some\nof their books were wrong end up, and she asked the boys if they\nexpected people to stand on their heads to read the titles.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe comfort, convenience and neatness of our plain little rooms,\nwhere the girls, and equally the boys, are required to have \u201ca\nplace for everything, and everything in its place,\u201d form by painful\ncontrast one of the special trials of our young people when they go\nout to cabin life in their teaching and other vacation work.\n\nAfter they have learned to love the new way, it is very hard for\nthem to have no room to themselves, no facilities for bathing, and\nsmall chance to display the good taste they have learned to use in\nthe arrangement and care of their personal belongings.\n\nOne of our older girls, who keeps a gem of a room here, felicitates\nherself on having a room to herself where she boards, even though\ntucked up and the walls full of other people\u2019s clothes, a saddle,\nand sundries.\n\nAnother of our girls passing through her first experience of \u201cgoing\nout,\u201d wrote a wofully homesick letter, saying there was no place to\nhang up or lay down anything where she was staying; that her trunk\nhad to go under her bed, and after she had made her morning toilet\nshe couldn\u2019t even find room to put down her comb and brush, but had\nto haul out her trunk and put them back into it. We expect to hear\na more cheerful song after her school fills up and she becomes busy\nand interested, for she is really a very energetic girl, practical\nand positive. We have written advising her to get her brother, who\nis skillful with tools and teaches near enough to visit her on\nSaturdays, to put up some shelves and other conveniences in her\nschool-room, to make that as homelike as possible, have her sewing\nthere, and gather her girls in to learn to sew, crochet, etc., if\npracticable.\n\n[This brother is one of our Biblical class, and already beginning\nto preach. He had a tramp of a hundred miles or so after school\nclosed, looking for work for himself and others, back from the\nrailway in the more inaccessible regions, where the schools are not\nsnapped up so quickly. In writing of his search, he said: \u201cI have\nhad what some would call a hard time, but I have enjoyed it, and I\n_know_ that the Lord is with me.\u201d Blessed assurance!]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAll the girls write, sooner or later, to their matron after going\nhome. Some of the letters are rather amusing.\n\nOne harum-scarum little miss, who made no end of care when here,\nafter being home a fortnight seems to have been visited with some\nsense of her shortcomings, and wrote: \u201cIf I live I am coming back\nin the fall, and try to be a better girl than I was before.\u201d\n\nShe refers to the text of Scripture that had been given them all as\na watchword, and says she often thinks of it; then, as if to confer\na like benefit upon her kind friend, she opens her Bible at random\nand copies: \u201cAnd he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes\nand shave off all his hair and wash himself in water that he may be\nclean.\u201d After two or three more of similar tenor, she says: \u201cThink\nof these verses as long as you live, and also of me,\u201d and ends all\nby this new rendering of a familiar passage: \u201cBe not overcome evil\nwith good, but overcome good with evil.\u201d Encouraging, isn\u2019t it?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR JUNE, 1887.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $234.31.\n\n    Bangor. Hammond St. Cong. Ch. 76.98; Sab. Sch.\n      of First Parish Ch., 14.32                             $91.30\n    Bethel. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.                     11.00\n    Biddeford. Primary Dept. Sab. Sch. of Cong.\n      Ch., _for Savannah, Ga._                                15.00\n    Blanchard. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n    Blue Hill. Mrs. H. W. Johnson, 1; Mrs. M. S.\n      Mayo, 1                                                  2.00\n    Brewer. M. Hardy (10 of which _for Pleasant\n      Hill, Tenn._)                                           25.00\n    Castine. Mrs. C. M. Cushman, for _Tougaloo U._             2.75\n    Gardiner. Ladies, _for Debt_.                              4.65\n    Kennebunk. Union Ch. and Soc.                             22.00\n    Lyman. Cong. Ch.                                           8.00\n    Machias. Center St. Cong. Ch., 6.70; \u201cC. L.,\u201d 5           11.70\n    Machias. Sara P. Hill\u2019s Sab. Sch. Class, _for\n      Indian M._                                               1.25\n    Scarboro. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                          10.25\n    South Berwick. Mrs. Lewis\u2019 S. S. Class, _for\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                        1.50\n    Waterford. First Cong. Ch.                                13.00\n    Winthrop. Bbl. and Box of C., _for Wilmington,\n      N.C._; 1.91 _for freight_                                1.91\n    Yarmouth. Mrs. Reynold\u2019s S. S. Class, _for\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                        8.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $374.79.\n\n    Amherst. Cong. Ch.                                        15.75\n    Bennington. Cong. Ch. and People                           9.31\n    Canaan. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl. Books etc., _for\n      Straight U._\n    Concord. Mrs. L. N. Barron, _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                            25.00\n    Concord. \u201cA Friend of the Colored Race\u201d 5.05;\n      J. W. Chandler, 1                                        6.05\n    Derry. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.                       19.00\n    Durham. Cong. Ch.                                         44.93\n    Exeter. \u201cA Thank Offering\u201d                                25.00\n    Franklin. \u201cFriends\u201d 3; Mrs. John H. Rowell, 2,\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                            5.00\n    Great Falls. Bbl. of C. _for Pleasant Hill,\n      Tenn._\n    Greenville. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00\n    Henniker. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MISS\n      ZILPHA BARNES L. M.                                     38.00\n    Hinsdale. Cyrus Newhall                                    1.00\n    Hollis. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                18.76\n    Jaffrey. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Woman\u2019s\n      Work_                                                    4.00\n    Lancaster. Cong. Ch.                                      14.40\n    Lebanon. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl. Books, etc., _for\n      Straight U._\n    Nashua. Sab. Sch. Class by Miss Dora Spalding,\n      _for Storrs Sch._                                       20.00\n    Portsmouth. North Ch. and Soc.                           101.19\n    Salem. Ladies of Cong. _Ch., for Debt_                     6.00\n    Salisbury. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Atlanta\n      U._                                                      2.00\n    Tilton. C. C. Sampson, _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                             3.00\n    Walpole. Y. P. M. Circle of Cong. Ch.                     11.40\n\n\n  VERMONT, $1,326.27.\n\n    Benson. Miss J. Kent                                       1.50\n    Bridport. Ladies, 26; Sab. Sch., 5, _for\n      McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild                   31.00\n    Brownington. S. S. Tinkham                                 5.00\n    Burlington. 2 Bbls. and Box of C., _for\n      McIntosh, Ga._\n    Cornwall. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (25 of which from\n      Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._)                            73.01\n    Dorset. Mrs. William D. Marsh, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           25.00\n    Dorset. Sab. Sch. and W. H. M. S. of Cong.\n      Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                      30.00\n    Fairfield. Cong. Ch.                                       4.75\n    East Fairfield. Cong. Ch.                                  3.61\n    Georgia. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs.\n      Ellen D. Wild                                            9.00\n    Granby. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Debt_                             5.00\n    Granby. Infant Class, by W. H. Matthews, _for\n      Rosebud Indian M._                                       1.10\n    Manchester. Cong. Ch., 36.01; Samuel G. Cone 50           86.01\n    Manchester. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by\n      Mrs. Ellen D. Wild                                       5.00\n    Middlebury. Lillie C. Chapman, _for Indian M._             0.20\n    Norwich. Ashley Blodgett                                   5.00\n    Rutland. Ladies, Bbl. of C., _for Straight U._\n    Swanton. Mrs. Augusta Dorman, _for McIntosh,\n      Ga._, by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild                              2.00\n    Swanton. Box of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._\n    Springfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for\n      McIntosh, Ga._                                           8.45\n    Townshend. Cong. Ch. (5 of which from Mrs.\n      Rice)                                                   15.50\n    West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch.                               15.14\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $326.27\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Saint Johnsbury. Estate of Miss Emma L.\n      Taylor, by James C. Taylor, Ex.                      1,000.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $1,326.27\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $3,346.37.\n\n    Amherst. North Ch.                                        10.00\n    Amherst. Miss M. E. Fowle, _for Tougaloo U._               1.00\n    Andover. \u201cA Friend\u201d Map of U.S. _for\n      Thomasville, Ga._\n    Ashfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. JOHN\n      WING L. M.                                              41.31\n    Ayer. Orthodox Cong. Soc.                                 16.40\n    Ballardvale. Union Ch. and Soc.                            4.00\n    Belchertown. Mrs. R. W. Walker                             2.00\n    Bernardston. Cong. Soc.                                    4.00\n        Boston. Union Ch. and Soc.               108.35\n        East Boston. Emma Fales and Sister         1.00\n        Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc.          46.40\n        Dorchester. Miss Grace S. Wilder           5.00\n        Jamaica Plain. Boylston Cong. Ch.          5.37\n        Jamaica Plain. Mrs. L. G. Jarvis,\n          _for Oahe Indian M._                     5.00\n        Roxbury. Mr. Susan Collins                10.00\n        Roxbury. Walnut Av. Cong. Ch.            184.67\n                                                 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014      365.79\n    Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 40.40;\n      Ward Hill Sab. Sch., 12.63                              53.03\n    Brockton. Mrs. Sanford, Bbl. of C., _for\n      Tougaloo U._\n    Campello. South Cong. Ch.                                115.00\n    Charlemont. Edward Graves                                 10.00\n    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         30.00\n    Danvers. Mrs. Lucy D. Carleton                             5.00\n    Douglas. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        5.00\n    East Dennis. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           15.00\n    Easthampton. Home M. Band, Bbl. Bedding, etc.,\n      _for Straight U._\n    East Templeton. Joel Fairbanks                             3.00\n    Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               17.00\n    Fall River. Central Cong. Ch.                            190.25\n    Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch, 50; also Box of\n      Goods, _for Student Aid, Straight U._                   50.00\n    Framingham. Sab. Sch. of Plym. Ch., and\n      \u201cFriends in the Church,\u201d 50; \u201cA Quartet,\u201d\n      42; Ladies of Plym. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   92.00\n    Gloucester. Sab. Sch. Miss\u2019y Soc., Patchwork,\n      _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n    Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.                              28.29\n    Groton. Union Cong Ch.                                    47.25\n    Hatfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,\n      _for Fisk U._\n    Holden. Cong. Ch.                                         15.00\n    Holyoke. Ladies, Box of C. _for Straight U._\n    Housatonic. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            66.18\n    Huntington. First Cong. Ch.                                3.24\n    Hyde Park. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n      32.58; First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 15                     47.58\n    Ipswich. Linebrook Cong. Ch., to const. ANDREW\n      J. PHILLIPS L. M.                                       30.00\n    Kingston. Mayflower Ch. and Soc.                          10.00\n    Leicester. Ladies\u2019 Char. Soc., by Miss E. E.\n      Loring, _for Woman\u2019s Work_                              25.00\n    Lexington. Hancock Ch.                                    16.00\n    Littleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             18.00\n    Longmeadow. \u201cT. P. C.\u201d                                     2.00\n    Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 22.10; Sab.\n      Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 14                             36.10\n    Lynnfield Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       9.00\n    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          54.00\n    Marblehead. J. J. H. Gregory, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      25.00\n    Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch.                                   16.00\n    Middleton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., ad\u2019l _for Debt_            0.10\n    Mittineague. Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc., Box of C.,\n      etc., _for Macon, Ga._\n    Monson. Mrs. C. O. Chapin                                  3.00\n    New Bedford. Mrs. I. H. Bartlett, Jr.                     30.00\n    Newburyport. \u201cMember North Cong. Ch.,\u201d 30, to\n      const. MRS. NELLIE MILLS L. M.; Harriet O.\n      Haskell, 2                                              32.00\n    Newtonville. Cen. Cong. Ch.                              110.15\n    Northampton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Indian M._                                         50.00\n    Northboro. Mrs. Martha D. Wells                            4.50\n    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch.                        100.00\n    North Brookfield. \u201cTwo Friends,\u201d _for Indian\n      M._                                                      2.00\n    North Brookfield. Ladies of First Ch., Bbl. of\n      C., _for Fisk U._\n    North Middleboro. \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. ADNA\n      P. KEITH L. M.                                          30.00\n    North Weymouth. Nathan Ford                                2.00\n    Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch.                                  107.58\n    Norwood. Ladies\u2019 M. Circle, by Mrs. J. C.\n      Lane, _for Woman\u2019s Work_                                20.00\n    Pepperell. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Storrs Sch._                                            25.15\n    Pittsfield. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      12.17\n    Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          70.00\n    Quincy. Miss Harriet Proctor, Box of Books,\n      _for Straight U._\n    Reading. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 17.50; \u201cA Friend\n      in Cong. Ch.\u201d 3; \u201cA Friend in Cong. Ch.\u201d 3              23.50\n    Reading. Mrs. Eliza A. White, Box and Bbl. of\n      C. etc., _for Macon, Ga._\n    Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc. (150 of which\n      from Joseph H. Towne, to const. MISS LYDIA\n      A. TOWNE, EZRA L. WOODBURY, JAMES SHATSWELL,\n      FRED. A. FULLER and EDMUND A. BROWN L. M\u2019s)            290.69\n    Salem. \u201cTwo Individuals\u201d 1 each, _for Marie\n      Adlof Sch\u2019p Fund_                                        2.00\n    Sheffield. First Cong. Ch.                                18.00\n    Somerville. Prospect Hill Ch.                             10.48\n    Southboro. Mrs. M. J. Temple, Bbl. of C., _for\n      Tougaloo U._\n    Southbridge. Miss N. Vinton, Bbl. of C., _for\n      Wilmington, N.C._\n    South Easton. James Rankin                                 7.50\n    South Hadley. \u201cMt. Holyoke Sem.\u201d 36; First\n      Cong. Ch., 25                                           61.00\n    South Royalston. Amos Blanchard                           10.00\n    South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 50.00\n    Springfield. Y. P. S. of C. E. First Ch. _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   25.00\n    Swampscott. Miss Emeline B. Sayer                          2.00\n    Townsend. Miss M. A. Proctor, 65 Books, _for\n      Straight U._\n    Walpole. Ortho. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        62.23\n    Waltham. _For Student Aid, Storrs Sch.,\n      Atlanta, Ga._                                            3.00\n    Wellfleet. Second Cong. Ch.                                6.00\n    West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       50.60\n    Westhampton. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., by Mrs. E.\n      P. Torrey, adl., _for Tougaloo U._                      10.00\n    West Medway. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            3.00\n    West Stockbridge. Cong. Ch. adl.                           1.25\n    West Warren. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                             5.00\n    West Washington. Mrs. Esther Melins                        1.00\n    Whately. Cong. Ch.                                        13.00\n    Williamstown. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Rosebud Indian M._                                      20.00\n    Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Parish                    70.00\n    Winchendon. Atlanta Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             36.00\n    Winchester. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    20.00\n    Worcester. Union Ch, 205.12; J. M. Bassett,\n      100; Geo. W. Ames, 3; Polly W. Ames, 3                 311.12\n    Worcester. Ladies Benev. Soc., Union Ch. 2 and\n      Bbl. of C., _for Talladega C._                           2.00\n    Yarmouth. Cong. Ch., by Rev. L. Reynolds, _for\n      Selma, Ala._                                             6.30\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend in Mass.,\u201d _for Debt_                        1.00\n    By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass\u2019n:\n        Ludlow                                    21.20\n        Mittineague                               25.66\n        Monson. Sab. Sch.                         50.00\n        West Springfield. Park St.                45.77\n                                                  \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014      142.63\n\n    CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.\n\n    Auburndale. \u201cFriends in Cong. Ch.\u201d 1 Bbl.,\n      _for Atlanta U._\n    Boston. Mrs. H. N. Ayers, 1 Bbl., _for Santee\n      Indian M._\n    Linwood. D. C. M. Rupp, 1 Bbl.\n    Maynard. Friends in Cong. Ch., 1 Bbl.\n    Medford. Miss Washburn, 1 Bbl., _for Oaks,\n      N.C._\n    Waverly. M. A. Chany, Clothing\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $422.41.\n\n    Central Falls. Cong. Ch.                                  53.00\n    East Providence. \u201cA Friend\u201d                              200.00\n    Providence. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 75; North Cong.\n      Ch. 45.32; A. L. Ordway, 25                            145.32\n    Providence. Ralph Ernest Larry, _for Rosebud\n      Indian M._                                               0.10\n    Westerly. Cong. Ch.                                       23.99\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $4,024.93.\n\n    Bethel. Y. L. M. Circle, Bbl. of C., _for\n      Thomasville, Ga._\n    Birmingham. Cong. Ch.                                    117.60\n    Bridgeport. Ladies of South Cong. Ch.,\n      _Freight for Thomasville, Ga._                           1.45\n    Canaan. \u201cFor Missionary Work\u201d                              5.00\n    Canton Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         13.24\n    Colchester. First Cong. Ch. 65.65, and Sab.\n      Sch., 3.50                                              69.15\n    Cornwall Hollow. \u201cThanksgiving Workers\u201d\n      Patchwork, for quilt, _for Thomasville, Ga._\n    Durham Center. Miss E. H. Newton and Miss A.\n      P. Camp, Patchwork, Apron and 50c. _for\n      Student Aid, Thomasville, Ga._                           0.50\n    East Avon. Cong. Ch.                                      15.00\n    East Hampton. Philo Bevin                                 25.00\n    East Hartford. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Indian M._                                         50.00\n    East Hartford. First Ch. (2.55 of which _for\n      Indian M_)                                              20.00\n    Ellington. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box of C.,\n      _for Thomasville, Ga._\n    Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch., to const. MRS.\n      W. S. GOSLEE, CORA HALE, AMELIA HUTT, MARY\n      ROBINSON, MINNIE COUCH, MRS. ELLEN A.\n      GAINES, MRS. JAMES GAINES, MRS. JUSTIN\n      HOLLISTER, H. E. LOOMIS, P. H. GOODRICH,\n      MRS. ADELADE DEAN, and MRS. GEO. W. BARTLETT\n      L. M\u2019s                                                 400.00\n    Granby. First Cong. Ch.                                    7.07\n    Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const. MISS\n      NELLIE C. SNOW L. M.                                    30.00\n    Hartford. Roland Mather 1,000; First Ch.\n      339.23; Windsor Av. Cong. Ch. 15; Asylum\n      Hill Cong. Ch. 7                                     1,361.23\n    Hartford. Benev. Soc. of Fourth Cong. Ch. 1.40\n      _for Freight_; Benev. Soc. of Park Ch. Box\n      of Goods, 3 _for Freight_; The Parsonage\n      Circle of First Ch. Bbl. of Goods, _for\n      Thomasville, Ga._                                        4.40\n    Higganum. Cong. Ch.                                       20.00\n    Kensington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Indian M._                                              25.00\n    Lakeville. L. M. S. 1; Ladies of Cong. Ch.\n      Bbl. of C., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                   1.00\n    Litchfield. First Cong. Ch.                               50.32\n    Mill Brook. Mrs. E. R. Allen                               0.50\n    New Britain. First Church of Christ                      115.00\n    New Britain. Willie Peck, 1 years \u201cNursery,\u201d\n      _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n    New Haven. United Ch.                                    154.00\n    New Haven. Ferry St. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill,\n      Tenn._                                                  32.70\n    New London. First Cong. Ch.                               52.16\n    North Haven. E. Dickerman                                  2.00\n    Plainville. Ladies\u2019 Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of\n      C., _for Thomasville, Ga._\n    Putnam. \u201cMission Workers,\u201d _for Atlanta U._               25.00\n    Quinebaug. Pkg. S. S. Papers, _for\n      Thomasville, Ga._\n    Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                50.69\n    Simsbury. Cong. Ch.                                       41.81\n    Southbury. Ladies, by Julia E. Bull, _for Debt_            1.00\n    Stamford. First Cong. Ch.                                 67.21\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      50.75\n    Torrington. Ladies\u2019 Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           50.00\n    Wallingford. Cong. Ch. (39.53 of which _for\n      Indian M_)                                             112.91\n    Waterbury. Second Cong. Ch.                              323.42\n    West Chester. \u201cA few Ladies,\u201d by Mrs. E. Brown             2.00\n    West Hartford. \u201cGray Girls,\u201d _for Sch\u2019p,\n      Indian M._                                              40.00\n    West Hartford. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                 10.00\n    West Hartford. Mrs. Richards, fifty S. S.\n      Books, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n    Windsor Locks. \u201cTrue Blue Cards,\u201d by Mrs. J.\n      H. Goodell, _for Indian M._                             10.00\n    Woodstock. First Cong. Ch.                                26.07\n    Woman\u2019s Home Mission\u2019y Union of Conn., by Mrs.\n      S. M. Hotchkiss, Sec., _for Conn. Ind\u2019l\n      Sch., Ga._:\n        Bridgeport. Ladies\u2019 Social Circle, So. Ch.            41.75\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $3,424.93\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    New London. Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven\n      (100 of which _for Indian M._)                         600.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $4,024.93\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $985.36.\n\n    Berkshire. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       74.00\n    Bridgewater. Cong. Ch.                                     8.75\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch.                              426.16\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian\n      M._                                                     37.50\n    Brooklyn. The Ch. of the Pilgrims, adl.                   20.00\n    Canandaigua. Ladies\u2019 Aux., _for Student Aid,\n      Hampton N. and A. Inst._, by Mrs. L. H. Cobb            70.00\n    Daysville. L. S. C., Clock, _for Schoolroom,\n      Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n    Durham. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         3.50\n    Homer. B. W. Payne                                        10.00\n    Jamesport. Cong. Ch.                                       7.00\n    Little Valley. Cong. Ch.                                   5.75\n    Lockport. First Cong. Ch.                                 10.00\n    Lysander. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n    Munnsville. Cong. Ch.                                      7.00\n    New York. \u201cA. M. R.\u201d 50; Pilgrim Ch. 10; Morey\n      Hale Bartow, 2; F. P. Shumway, 1.50                     63.50\n    Northville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                        10.00\n    Norwich. Mrs. L. H. Upton, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                14.00\n    Oneonta. Mrs. L. J. Safford                                5.00\n    Oswego. Cong. Ch. to const. SAM\u2019L. JOHNSON,\n      MRS. ELIZABETH CHESTNUT, MRS. EMILINE\n      COOPER, MRS. HENRIETTA LORD and MRS. H. G.\n      MATTHEWS, L. Ms                                        134.40\n    Portland. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Coon, 25; Mrs.\n      Cyntha Reynolds, 50c                                    25.50\n    Pulaski. R. D. Gillespie, _for Pleasant Hill,\n      Tenn._                                                   5.00\n    Saratoga Springs. Mary L. Bailey, deceased, by\n      Eleanor Bailey, Adm\u2019x                                   25.00\n    Westmoreland. First Cong. Ch. 13.30; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d _for Indian M._ 5                              18.30\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $167.12.\n\n    Bordentown. L. Bewkes                                      3.00\n    Chester. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        5.00\n    Montclair. W. H. M. S. of First Cong. Ch. _for\n      Tougaloo U._                                            75.00\n    Montclair. S.S. Class, First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               7.00\n    Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch.                          42.12\n    Summit. Central Presb. Ch., _for Hampton\n      Inst._, and to const. REV. F. F. WHITE,\n      D.D., L. M.                                             35.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $534.00.\n\n    Canton. H. Sheldon                                        10.00\n    Clark. S. P. Stewart                                       2.00\n    Philadelphia. Miss Mary E. Morrill                         5.00\n    Scranton. Plymouth Ch.                                    17.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             $34.00\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Philadelphia. Estate of Benj. Coates, by Geo.\n      Morrison Coates, Ex.                                   500.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $534.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $686.37.\n\n    Ashland. Mrs. E. F. Thomson                                2.28\n    Berea. First Cong. Ch.                                    11.18\n    Bryan. S. E. Blakeslee                                     5.00\n    Cincinnati. Central Cong. Ch., 139.30; Sab.\n      Sch. of Central Cong. Ch. 14.50                        153.80\n    Cleveland. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc. of Jennings Av.\n      Cong. Ch., 10 _for Indian M_., 25 _for\n      Memphis, Tenn._                                         35.00\n    Cleveland. John Jay Low, to const. J. W. MOORE\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Cleveland. Sab. Sch. of Olivet Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                    7.00\n    Conneaut. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                          10.00\n    Elyria. First Cong. Ch., 118.06 and Sab. Sch.\n      40                                                     158.06\n    Freedom. Cong. Ch.                                        18.40\n    Greensburg. Mrs. Helena B. Harrington                      3.00\n    Hudson. Cong. Ch.                                         10.23\n    Kelloggsville. Mrs. P. F. Kellogg                          3.00\n    Mansfield. James Lawson                                    4.50\n    Medina. Y. P. S. of C. E., by May Woodward                12.00\n    North Amherst. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 6\n      Packages Sab. Sch. Papers, _for Macon, Ga._\n    Oberlin. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       20.00\n    Rock Creek. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 2 Bbls. and\n      Box of C. etc. _for Fisk U._\n    Tallmadge. Young Ladies\u2019 M. S., _for Indian M._           20.00\n    Toledo. Miss L. Whitney, _for Austin, Tex._               20.00\n    West Andover. Henry Holcomb                                3.00\n    Youngstown. \u201cMrs. W\u201d                                       2.00\n    Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union of Ohio, by Mrs.\n      Ella J. Mahoney, Treas., _for Woman\u2019s Work_:\n        Burton. Mrs. E. A. Hitchcock               2.00\n        Chester. Saint Paul\u2019s Band                 5.50\n        Cleveland. L. M. S. of Euclid Av.\n          Cong. Ch.                               20.00\n        Cleveland. Y. P. S. of C. E.,\n          First Cong. Ch.                          3.25\n        Columbus. \u201cMite Box and Friends\u201d          16.00\n        Hudson. L. H. M. S.                        3.15\n        Kelley\u2019s Island. Aux.                      3.75\n        Kirtland. L. M. S.                         3.07\n        Medina. L. H. M. S.                        5.55\n        Oberlin. L. H. M. S. of Second\n          Cong. Ch.                               85.65\n        Sandusky. L. H. M. S.                     10.00\n                                                 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014      157.92\n\n\n  INDIANA, $72.22.\n\n    Fort Wayne. Plym. Cong. Ch.                               20.50\n    Michigan City. Cong Ch.                                   51.72\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $1,390.24.\n\n    Alton. Church of the Redeemer                             29.85\n    Amboy. Mrs. D. W. Slauter                                  3.00\n    Brimfield. Cong. Ch.                                       7.80\n    Chicago. Union Park Cong. Ch., 210.17; First\n      Cong. Ch., 100.; Leavit St. Cong. Ch.,\n      10.27; Western Av. Cong. Ch., 5.60                     326.04\n    Chicago. Ashland Av. Sab. Sch., _for Oahe\n      Indian M._                                              15.00\n    Chicago. Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc. of Plym. Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Indian M._                                         50.00\n    Chicago. Marder, Luce & Co., _for Memphis,\n      Tenn._                                                   5.00\n    Chuay. Mrs. E. H. Gillette, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                 2.00\n    Elmwood. Mrs. M. D. Wiley, _for Mobile, Ala._              4.00\n    Fremont. Cong. Ch.                                        20.50\n    Galesburg. \u201cAunt Lizzie\u201d to const. CASSIUS H.\n      MURRAY L. M.                                            30.00\n    Galva. Cong. Ch.                                          34.53\n    Gridley. Woman\u2019s H. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Woman\u2019s Work_                                           14.35\n    Lacon. First Cong. Ch.                                    19.51\n    La Harpe. Cong. Ch.                                       12.75\n    Lewistown. Mrs. Myron Phelps                              50.00\n    Moline. L. H. Ainsworth, Patchwork, _for\n      Mobile, Ala._\n    New Windsor. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                        2.51\n    Oak Park. Cong. Ch., (30 of which to const.\n      REV. FRANK V. STEVENS L. M)                            234.65\n    Payson. Cong. Ch.                                         22.78\n    Peoria. K. Rutherford\u2019s S.S. Class, _for\n      Mobile, Ala._                                           12.00\n    Quincy. First Union Cong. Ch.                            189.15\n    Rockford. Second Cong. Ch.                               214.74\n    Saint Charles. Cong. Ch.                                   7.35\n    Winnetka. Cong. Ch.                                       32.73\n    Woodburn. Mrs. C. E. Sturges, deceased, by A.\n      L. Sturges                                              50.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $451.04.\n\n    Alamo. Julius Hackley                                     20.00\n    Ann Arbor. Cong. Ch.                                       2.50\n    Calumet. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      35.00\n    Detroit. Miss M. L. Miller, _for Woman\u2019s Work_            25.00\n    East Gilead. Rev. L. Curtis                                1.50\n    East Saginaw. First Cong. Ch.                            113.33\n    Galesburg. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    110.96\n    Muskegon. Cong. Ch. to const. MRS. G. P.\n      KINGSBURY and WILLIAM MCMILLAN L. Ms                    60.00\n    Niles. Dr. James Lewis                                    25.00\n    Romeo. \u201cLittle Sunbeams\u201d 5; Miss Annie McKay\n      5; Mrs. Greenshields 5, _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                            15.00\n    Wheatland. _For Student Aid, Athens Ala._                  5.00\n    Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union of Mich. by Mrs.\n      E. F. Grabill, Treas., _for Woman\u2019s Work_:\n        Detroit. W. H. M. S. of Woodward\n          Av. Cong. Ch.                           25.00\n        Grand Blanc. \u201cWilling Workers\u201d            12.50\n        West Adrian. L. M. S. adl.                 0.25\n                                                 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014       37.75\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $267.87.\n\n    Beloit. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Straight\n      U._                                                     10.00\n    Beloit. L. Meacham                                         3.00\n    Brodhead. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Memphis, Tenn._                  3.00\n    Clinton. John H. Cooper                                    5.00\n    Kaukanna. Cong. Ch.                                       24.00\n    Kenosha. Y. P. S. of C. E. by Carrie L. Bray               4.08\n    Lake Mills. Cong. Ch.                                      3.00\n    Oshkosh. Second Cong. Ch., Welsh, _for\n      Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                               5.00\n    Watertown. Cong. Ch.                                      10.87\n    Waukesha. First Cong. Ch.                                 50.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend in Wis.\u201d _for Macon, Ga._                   10.00\n    Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union of Wis. _for\n      Woman\u2019s Work_:\n        Arena. W. H. M. S.                         1.00\n        Beloit. W. H. M. S. of First\n          Cong. Ch., to const. ANNA B.\n          KEEP and MISS SARAH F.\n          BLAISDELL L. M\u2019s                        60.00\n        Clinton. W. H. M. S.                       3.00\n        Green Bay. W. H. M. S. of Presb.\n          Ch.                                     20.00\n        Menasha. \u201cCheerful Workers.\u201d               3.56\n        Milwaukee. W. H. M. S. of Grand\n          Av. Cong. Ch.                           25.00\n        Winnebago. Convention                     22.36\n        Amiret, Minn. Mrs. L. H. Dwinell           5.00\n                                                 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014      139.92\n\n\n  IOWA, $316.16.\n\n    Burlington. Children\u2019s Mission Band, _for\n      Savannah, Ga._                                           3.00\n    Cedar Rapids. Eugenia, Helen and John\n      Brocksuit (birthday memorial to sister\n      Gertrude)                                                1.00\n    Corning. Cong. Ch.                                         6.57\n    Des Moines. Mrs. J. F. Rollins 2; Ladies of\n      Plymouth Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            2.00\n    Dubuque. Mrs. C. C. Wheat                                  2.00\n    Fairfield. \u201cFriends,\u201d Box Books, _for Straight\n      U._\n    Grinnell. Cong. Ch.                                        6.62\n    Hampton. First Cong. Ch.                                   7.19\n    Marcus. \u201cLife Member\u201d                                      1.00\n    McGregor. J. H. Ellsworth                                 10.00\n    Muscatine. Cong. Ch.                                      66.00\n    Osage. Cong. Ch.                                          50.00\n    Sawyer. Francis Sawyer                                    20.00\n    Sibley. Viola Mission Band, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            4.55\n    Webster City. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Pleasant Hill,\n      Tenn._                                                  10.00\n    Woman\u2019s Home Mission\u2019y Union of Iowa, _for\n      Woman\u2019s Work_:\n        Des Moines. L. H. M. S. North\n          Park Cong. Ch.                           2.50\n        Grinnell. W. H. M. S.                      4.79\n        Iowa City. Y. P.                          10.00\n        Iowa City. W. H. M. U.                    25.00\n        Lansing Ridge. Ladies of German\n          Cong. Ch.                                5.00\n        Marion. \u201cBusy Gleaners\u201d                   20.00\n        Marshalltown. Ladies                       5.00\n        Mount Pleasant. Ladies                     7.00\n        New Hampton. Ladies                        1.75\n        Osage. Ladies                              2.94\n        Osage. Y. P. S. C. E.                      5.11\n        Polk City. Ladies                          0.60\n        Prairie Hill. Ladies                       0.04\n        Sioux City. Ladies                         6.50\n        Tabor. L. M. S.                           15.00\n        Waucoma. Ladies                           15.00\n                                                 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014      126.23\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $106.14.\n\n    Leech Lake. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     4.50\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 25.50; First Cong.\n      Ch. 9.64; Pilgrim Cong. Ch. adl. 5; Mrs. R.\n      Laughlin 1                                              41.14\n    Morris. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00\n    Northfield. First Cong. Ch.                               14.80\n    Northfield. Rev. A. Willey, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           10.00\n    Rushford. Rev. W. Snell and others, Box\n      Papers, etc., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n    Saint Paul. Mrs. J. L. Howard, _for Oahe\n      Indian M._                                               2.00\n    Zumbrota. Cong. Ch.                                       23.70\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $49.00.\n\n    Garden City. W. B. Wills, 10; Miss A. C.\n      Wills, 1; F. P. Morlan 1; P. M. Wills, 50c              12.50\n    Laclede. Mrs. E. D. Seward                                 3.00\n    Lebanon. Cong. Ch.                                        18.50\n    Pierce City. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc. of First Cong.\n      Ch.                                                     10.00\n    Webster Groves. Cong. Ch.                                  5.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $5.00.\n\n    Topeka. Mrs. S. Officer                                    5.00\n    Topeka. Rev. M. O. Harrington, Box of Books,\n      etc., _for Macon, Ga._\n\n\n  DAKOTA, $59.75.\n\n    Columbia. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Oahe\n      Indian M._                                               6.75\n    Huron. W. M. S., by Mrs. F. M. Wilcox, _for\n      Oahe Indian M._                                          8.00\n    Oahe. Endowment Fund                                      20.00\n    Oahe. Miss S. Lindermann, 10; \u201cIn memory of\n      Cornelia M. Riggs,\u201d 5                                   15.00\n    Plankenton. Girls\u2019 Circle, by Mrs. F. Kinney,\n      _for Oahe Indian M._                                    10.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $30.62.\n\n    Ashland. Cong. Ch.                                         6.55\n    Chadron. Cong. Ch.                                         3.50\n    Fairmont. Cong. Ch.                                       16.00\n    Ogallala. Cong. Ch.                                        2.57\n    South Bend. Cong. Ch.                                      2.00\n\n\n  COLORADO, $86.61.\n\n    Colorado Springs. First Cong. Ch.                         81.61\n    Highland Lake. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                             5.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $1,589.65.\n\n    Galt. Rev. Edward Dyer, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Los Angeles. Miss A. C. Nichols, _for\n      Savannah, Ga._                                           5.00\n    Pomena. Mrs. L. N. Suydam                                  1.00\n    Riverside. Edwin C. Brown\u2019s Sab. Sch. Class,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                          8.00\n    San Francisco. Receipts of the California\n      Chinese Mission                                      1,550.65\n\n\n  OREGON, $1.90.\n\n    East Portland. First Cong. Ch.                             1.90\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $75.00.\n\n    Washington. Ministering League of First Cong.\n      Ch., _for Marie Adolf Sch\u2019p Fund._                      50.00\n    Washington. Gen. E. Whittlesey                            25.00\n\n\n  KENTUCKY, $95.50.\n\n    Williamsburg. Tuition                                    95.50\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $710.37.\n\n    Jonesboro. Tuition                                         3.00\n    Memphis. Tuition                                         283.90\n    Memphis. Second Cong. Ch.                                  6.00\n    Nashville. Tuition                                       389.97\n    Nashville. Sab. Sch. of Fisk U.                           15.00\n    Nashville. Union Cong. Ch.                                12.50\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $185.75.\n\n    Dudley. Cong. Ch.                                          1.15\n    McLeansville. Rev. Andrew Connet                           4.50\n    Pekin. Cong. Ch.                                           1.55\n    Troy. Cong. Ch.                                            1.00\n    Wilmington. Tuition                                      150.95\n    Wilmington. \u201cOdd Minutes Miss\u2019y Soc.,\u201d _for\n      Indian M._                                              15.60\n    Wilmington. Miss H. L. Fitts, 7.25; E. A.\n      Warner, 2; Miss E. J. Peck, 1.75                        11.00\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $179.50.\n\n    Charleston. Tuition                                      179.50\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $742.02.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch. Tuition                             255.80\n    Covington. Dinah P. Watts, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta, Ga._                                           35.00\n    McIntosh. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Indian\n      M._, 18.27; Young Ladies, 1.10                          19.37\n    McIntosh. Tuition                                         18.50\n    Savannah. Tuition                                        133.00\n    Macon. Tuition                                           177.90\n    Thomasville. Tuition                                     102.45\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $344.80.\n\n    Athens. Tuition                                           51.00\n    Mobile. Tuition                                          222.45\n    Mobile. Woman\u2019s Sew. Soc. of First Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Indian M._                                          5.00\n    Mobile. Three Pkgs. Patchwork, from unknown\n      sources\n    Talladega. Tuition                                        66.35\n\n\n  FLORIDA, $83.00.\n\n    Saint Augustine. Rent                                     83.00\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $618.85.\n\n    New Orleans. Tuition                                     618.85\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $23.25.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tuition, 15; Rent, 8.25                         23.25\n\n\n  TEXAS, $256.50.\n\n    Austin. Tuition, 236.90; E. F. Newton, 12                248.90\n    Austin. Girls\u2019 Mission Soc., Tillotson Inst.,\n      _for Indian M._                                          7.60\n\n\n  INCOMES, $1,965.00.\n\n    Avery Fund. _for Mendi M._                               790.00\n    C. F. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._                        50.00\n    Gen\u2019l Endowment Fund                                      50.00\n    Graves Library Fund, _for Atlanta U._                    150.00\n    Graves Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._              125.00\n    Haley Scholarship Fund, _for Fisk U._                     50.00\n    Hastings Scholarship Fund, _for Atlanta U._               25.00\n    Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._                       400.00\n    Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._                      200.00\n    Scholarship Fund, _for Straight U._                       25.00\n    Tuthill King Fund, _for Berea C._                        100.00\n\n\n  AFRICA, $20.00.\n\n    Natal. Mrs. Abbie F. Wilder                               20.00\n                                                             ======\n\n\n\n\n    Donations                                            $14,633.20\n    Legacies                                               2,100.00\n    Tuition and Rents                                      3,129.47\n    Incomes                                                1,965.00\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total for June                                 $21,827.67\n          Total for Oct. 1 to June 30                    203,520.74\n                                                         ==========\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n    Subscriptions for June                                   $83.63\n    Previously acknowledged                                  772.74\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                             $856.37\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION,\n    from Sept. 20th, 1886, to May 10th, 1887. E.\n    Palache, Treas.:\n\n    FROM LOCAL MISSIONS.\u2014Alameda, Chinese Mon.\n      Off\u2019s, 8.75.\u2014Alturas, Rev. and Mrs. G.\n      Griffiths, 7.50; Mon. Off\u2019s, 15.\u2014Marysville,\n      Mon. Off\u2019s, 37.35; Ann. Mem., 8; Anniversary\n      Coll., 8.40. Oroville, Mon. Off\u2019s,\n      24.20.\u2014Petaluma, Mon. Off\u2019s,\n      12.55.\u2014Sacramento, Mon. Off\u2019s, 43.50; Ann.\n      Mem., 2; Last year\u2019s off\u2019s, 53.\u2014San Diego,\n      Mon. Off\u2019s, 10.50; American Friends, 27;\n      Chinese Pupils, 20.50, _for San Diego\n      Mission House._ Santa Barbara, Mon. Off\u2019s,\n      59.35; Teachers and Friends, 8.95; Ann.\n      Membs., 8. Gin Fooking, 20; Ye Loy, 15; Gin\n      Chow, 20; Woo Yung, 15; Pon Dan, 12; Other\n      Chinese, in sums of 5 and less, 94.20; Mrs.\n      E. M. Shattuck, 20; W. N. Hawley, 20; Mrs.\n      Fuller, 10; Seven little girls, 2.80\u2014Santa\n      Cruz, Mon. Off\u2019s, 36.63; Cong. Ch., 20;\n      Anniversary Coll., 12.20.\u2014Stockton, Mon.\n      Off\u2019s, 44.80; Mrs. Langdon, 2; Mrs.\n      Patterson, 1.\u2014Tulare, Mon. Off\u2019s, 6.25; H.\n      E. Dye, 2.25                                          $708.70\n\n    FROM CHURCHES.\u2014Berkeley, Cong. Ch., \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d 5.\u2014Pescadero, Cong. Ch.,\n      2.\u2014Haywards, Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. of C. E.,\n      8.75; Bible Class, 1.25.\u2014San Francisco,\n      Bethany Ch., S. McLellan, 6.25; Mrs. H. W.\n      Lamont, 8; \u201cOther American Friends,\u201d\n      4.\u2014Central Mission, Mon. Off\u2019s, 21.15. West\n      Mission, Mon. Off\u2019s, 29.90; Dea. S. W., 2.50            88.80\n\n    FROM INDIVIDUAL DONORS.\u2014Balfour, Guthrie &\n      Co., 500; Mrs. J. E. Sanford, 12; W. F.\n      Whittier, 11.50; Rev. E. N. Dyer,\n      10.\u2014Lugonia, Edson D. Hale and J. S.\n      Edwards, 7.\u2014Sandwich Islands, Kohala Rev. A.\n      Ostrom, 5                                              545.50\n\n    FROM EASTERN HELPERS\u2014Bangor, Me., \u201cFriend,\u201d by\n      Mrs. Mary T. Pond, 10; \u201cAlmost Home,\u201d\n      5.\u2014Belfast, Me., Mrs. E. M. Pond, 5.\u2014Derby,\n      Vt. \u201cYoung People,\u201d 2.\u2014Marlboro, Mass., Miss\n      H. J. Alexander, 5; Miss Ellen Beckford,\n      5.\u2014Stockbridge, Mass., Miss Alice Byington,\n      _for Santa Barbara Mission House_, 100, _for\n      General Work_, 50.\u2014Niagara Falls, N.Y., Rev.\n      H. S. Huntington, 5.\u2014Detroit, Mich., The\n      Bright Shining Stars, by Mrs. W. T. Black,\n      _for San Diego Mission House_, 20.65                   207.65\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n          Total                                           $1,550.65\n\n                                     H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n                                                 56 Reade St., N.Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                         BRADFORD ACADEMY,\n\n      An Institution for the Higher Education of Young Women.\n\n                          BRADFORD, MASS.\n\n\n                        INCORPORATED 1804.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n                             CALENDAR.\n\n  The year 1887-88 closes with public anniversary, June 20, 1887.\n\n                         THE YEAR 1887-88.\n\n  First Term opens,  Tuesday, September 6, 1887.\n  First Term closes,  Monday, December 5, 1887.\n  Second Term opens,  Tuesday, December 6, 1887.\n  Second Term closes,  Friday, March 2, 1888.\n  Third Term opens,     Tuesday, March 20, 1888.\n  Third Term closes,  Wednesday, June 20, 1888.\n  Recess at Christmas time.\n\nThe academic year closes on the last Wednesday but one in June,\nand consists of three terms. The year 1887-88 will commence on the\nfirst Tuesday in September.\n\n\n                             EXPENSES.\n\n            BOARD, including washing, fuel, and lights.\n\n  FIRST TERM                                               $90.00\n  SECOND TERM                                               90.00\n  THIRD TERM                                                90.00\n  TUITION, including English branches, Latin and French,\n    Greek or German, and Vocal Music in Classes ($20\n    per term), for the year                                 60.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n  Total expenses for the year                             $330.00\n\n\nSpecial terms to daughters of Missionaries and Clergymen.\n\nNo extras except the following:\u2014\n\n=Tuition in Music and Art=: Instruction on Piano, per term,\n$20.00 to $40.00. Use of Piano one hour a day, per term, $3.00.\nInstruction in Art, including Linear and Perspective Drawing, and\nPainting, according to the ability of the pupil, per term, $16.00.\n\nIn case of failure after an engagement has been made, information\nshould be given immediately. Application may be made to\n\n                       J. D. KINGSBURY, Treasurer, Bradford, Mass.\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                           4,888,171 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 08\n                                         =============\n\n  STEPHEN CROWELL, President,       GEO. 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DICKSON, Pastor Woodland Presbyterian Church,\nPhiladelphia, and a rare musician and singer, says: \u201cI have just\ngone over the \u2018Carmina Sanctorum,\u2019 by Rev. Drs. Hitchcock, Eddy and\nMudge, and find that it is by all odds the best hymnal I have ever\nseen.\u201d\n\nRev. THOS. B. McLEOD, Clinton Avenue Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.\u2014\u201cIt\nsatisfies me beyond anything of the kind I have ever seen. Of\ncourse, the names of the editors warranted high reputation. But\nconsidering the progress made in the direction, and the number of\nfine Hymn Books recently published, I was not prepared to see a\nwork so eclipsing as this.\u201d\n\nEDWARD H. MERRILL, Pres\u2019t Ripon College.\u2014\u201cThe \u2018Carmina Sanctorum\u2019\nis a superb book in all ways. I advise Churches about to change\nbooks to examine this one.\u201d\n\nRev. PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D.\u2014\u201cIt is a model collection.\u201d\n\nRev. P. T. FARWELL, Stockbridge, Mass.\u2014\u201cThe book is a thorough\ndelight.\u201d\n\nE. C. EVANS, St. Paul, Minn.\u2014\u201cIt has already contributed not a\nlittle to the enriching of the devotional part of our services.\u201d\n\nCONGREGATIONALIST.\u2014\u201cOne of the most practically serviceable hymnals\nwhich we have seen.\u201d\n\n\nSUNDAY SCHOOL TIMES, PHILADELPHIA.\u2014\u201cIt is a book of great merit, as\nmight be expected from the character and experience of its editors.\u201d\n\nINDEPENDENT, NEW YORK.\u2014\u201cAny congregation that likes to have its\nhymnal represent careful thought and full culture, would do well to\nexamine this collection of Carmina Sanctorum.\u201d\n\nEVANGELIST, NEW YORK.\u2014\u201cThe hymns are only the choicest, and they\nhave been carefully edited by that accomplished authority in\nhymnody, Dr. Hitchcock. As the American Churches have grown in\ntaste and capacity for musical expression in worship, this book\nseems to meet their wants completely, giving them plenty of tunes\nthey can and will sing, and at the same time educating their taste\nand improving their public worship.\u201d\n\nReturnable Examination copies sent to Pastors and Committees upon\nrequest.\n\n  A. S. BARNES & CO., Nos. 111 and 113 William Street, New York.\n\n      By DRS. HITCHCOCK, EDDY and MUDGE.       Price, $1.20.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                        Clinton H. 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Copybooks, pencil series     45 cents per dozen.\n\n               SAMPLE COPIES AT SATISFACTORY RATES.\n\n\n                 POTTER, KNIGHT, AINSWORTH & CO.,\n\n                 SCHOOL-BOOK PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK.\n\n\n                      _DEPOSITORY AGENCIES_:\n\n  BOSTON: 22 Bromfield Street.    CHICAGO: 377 Wabash Avenue.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n         PRESS 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\u201cPerspectve\u201d changed to \u201cPerspective\u201d in the Bradford Academy\nadvertisement.\n\n\u201cCommitees\u201d changed to \u201cCommittees\u201d in the advertisement for\nD\u2019Orsay\u2019s New Handbook\n\nMissing \u201cd\u201d in \u201chad\u201d replaced in the Ditson advertisement.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 41, No. 8, August, 1887","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":18262}