{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_57108/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_57108","id":"gutenberg_57108","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57108","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: History - Modern (1750+)","Category: History - Schools & Universities","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Sociology","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online\nDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This\nfile was produced from images generously made available\nby Cornell University Digital Collections)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: September, 1887.\n\n  VOL. XLI.\n\n  NO. 9.\n\n  The American Missionary]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: CONTENTS]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    ANNUAL MEETING,                                          243\n    INCREASED SIZE OF THE PRESENT NUMBER,                    243\n    FINANCIAL,                                               243\n    PARAGRAPHS,                                              244\n    THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED\u2014No. 4,                           245\n\n\n  THE SOUTH.\n\n    THE GLENN BILL IN THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE,               247\n    GEORGIA\u2019S NEED OF TEACHERS,                              265\n    LE MOYNE INSTITUTE,                                      266\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    CALIFORNIA AS A MISSIONARY FIELD,                        267\n    GRADUATING ADDRESS OF YAN PHOU LEE AT YALE COLLEGE,      269\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                   273\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. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass.\n    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. D. O. MEARS, D.D., Mass.\n    Rev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., 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.       SEPTEMBER, 1887.       No. 9.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFor notice of Annual Meeting see last page of cover.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe present number of the MISSIONARY is eight pages larger than\nusual. We devote it chiefly to a broadside on Georgia\u2019s Teachers\u2019\nChain-Gang Bill. The importance of the subject warrants it.\nValuable matter is crowded out in consequence.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWe have again reached the last month of our fiscal year. What our\nfriends do this month will determine whether the year closes with\na debt. The receipts for July, which we publish in this number,\nare not pleasant to look at. As compared with the July receipts\nlast year, they are nearly seventeen thousand dollars less, and\nthe total receipts for the year from churches and individuals, as\ncompared with the total receipts at the same time the preceding\nyear, are nearly twenty thousand dollars less. Dr. Dana\u2019s Fourth of\nJuly appeal, and Miss Auld\u2019s appeal to the ladies last year, will\nin part account for the falling off. The excessively warm weather\nduring July, greatly reducing the congregations, has doubtless\nhad an influence. But whatever the cause, our receipts are behind\nto an extent that threatens injury to our work, and this month is\nthe last we have in which to ward off the double evil\u2014debt and\ncurtailment of work. What we do must be done quickly.\n\nWe invite our friends to serious thoughtfulness preceding action.\nThey know better what to do than we can advise. We earnestly plead\nfor the co-operating help of every one of them.\n\n(1) We solicit a personal contribution from all who are able to\ngive, and the influence of word and pen from all who can induce\nothers to make a contribution. Please bring our needs to the\nattention of the prayer-meeting, the missionary concert and the\nSabbath congregation.\n\n(2) We request all churches that have made us no contribution\nduring the year, (and there are some who have made us no\ncontribution for several years), to be sure and give us a\ncontribution this month. You see the work of the American\nMissionary Association is to be benefited or injured all through\nnext year by what the churches do this month.\n\nFriends, what answer will you make to this statement of facts we\nlay before you? You know that enemies of our work in the South are\nproposing the chain-gang for our teachers. They are not satisfied\nwith ostracizing them from society, they propose to punish them as\ncriminals because they preach the gospel to the poor and befriend\nthe oppressed. Will you allow the work to suffer in the day when it\nis assailed? Must we retrench, cut down, withdraw, at such a time\nas this? We cannot believe that our friends will sanction it. Let\nthere be this month such a rally to the defense and maintenance of\nour God-appointed mission as was never known in all our history.\nLet everybody have a chance to give, and let everybody give, be it\nmuch or little.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA poor colored woman, living near one of our chartered\ninstitutions, and taking a deep interest in the education of its\nstudents, has recently given her little home, paid for by savings\nfrom small wages, to this institution for the benefit of its\nstudents. This is larger than some of the first ministerial gifts\nto Harvard University, and is a good omen and prophecy.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe name of California is so much associated with the idea of gold\nthat it is easy to imagine that it is a wealthy State. And it _is_\nwealthy. How easy to think the next thought; being wealthy it ought\nto do more for mission work within its borders. That, however, does\nnot prove that it will or that it can be reasonably expected to do\nmore. If only the wealth was in the hands of Christian people\u2014ah,\nyes, _if only_. Please find Rev. Mr. Pond\u2019s article on another page\nand read it. His facts are unquestioned and his meditations will\nbear meditation.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMr. Yan Phou Lee, the young Chinese gentleman who was graduated\nby Yale College in its last class, delivered an address on the\noccasion of his graduation that elicited the hearty applause of\nthose who heard it, and the widespread favorable comment of the\npress, secular and religious. Our readers will find this address on\nanother page. Mr. Lee shows himself thoroughly competent to discuss\nthe Chinese question. His words should have a wide reading. Mr. Lee\nexpects to attend our Annual Meeting, at Portland, and we shall\nhope to hear from him again.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe _Christian Mirror_, Portland, Me., Rev. I. P. Warren, D.D.,\neditor, had in one of its issues not long since a rousing editorial\non the approaching meeting of the A. M. A. in Portland. It predicts\na meeting \u201cof much interest both because of the work itself and\nthe eminence of many of the persons whom it will bring hither,\u201d and\ncloses with the earnest advice, \u201cLet all the friends of humanity\nlay their plans to attend.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe _Savannah News_, speaking of the Glenn Bill, has the following\nto say:\n\n\u201cPerhaps it may teach a lesson to the over-zealous individuals in\nthe North who use their money in efforts to bring about social\nequality in the South through the schools.\u201d\n\nWe regret to have such sentiments promulgated. They are utterly\nmisrepresentative. The bugbear of \u201csocial equality\u201d so distorts the\nvision of our Southern friends that they seem incapable of seeing\nthings as they are. \u201cOver-zealous individuals in the North\u201d have\nhelped Georgia through their missionary schools in a way that has\ngiven inspiration and progress to education, religion, morality and\nindustry all over the State, especially among colored people. They\ndeserve thanks, not misrepresentative sneers.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHINGS TO BE REMEMBERED\u2014NO 4.\n\n_The Duty_: To preach the Gospel to every creature, in the shortest\npossible time, is the duty laid upon the church by the last\ncommand of her King. The part of the work assigned to us is to be\ndetermined by our surroundings, and especially by our opportunities\nto reach the unsaved races of men. We are bound to put in our labor\nwhere it will go farthest and move greatest masses of men towards\nGod. If we find that the \u201cdark lands\u201d can best be reached through\ntheir children on these shores, then must we seek and save the\nchildren for the sake of their kindred.\n\nTake now the map of the world and turn to Asia; the merest\nglance shows that our nearest point to that greatest of the\nWorld\u2019s divisions is the California coast. On that coast the old\ncivilization and the new stand face to face. There, too, meet the\nold Paganism and the newer Christianity, and there, _emphatically_,\nwill be the battle-ground between the past and the present, the\nfalse and the true. As Christian men we mean to regenerate the\nAsiatic continent, and in particular the Mongolian race. If our\nBibles left us in doubt our geographies would show that the Pacific\ncoast was the spot on which to initiate a Christian movement\nfor the capture of China. And anyone can see that Paganism and\nChristianity are now in contact on that coast, and one or the\nother will soon be master. If only for the honor of our faith,\nwe must accept the contest and abide the issue. The capture of\nthe thousands of her children in this land means the capture of\nthe Empire of China. The stake is too immense to be treated with\nindifference. The prize to be won involves mighty races and is\noffered to us alone. To secure it is to cover ourselves with glory;\nto decline it is to cover ourselves with guilt and shame.\n\nIf with united heart and hand we bent ourselves to the task, how\neasily we might absorb the Chinese into the life of the nation\nand into the faith of the churches. And then, when they all went\nback\u2014as they all intend to do\u2014they would bear with them the new\nthoughts and the new life to become the regenerating leaven for\ntheir continent. If we give them the Gospel, accompanied by the\nrenewing energy of the Holy Ghost, they will return in the power of\nthe Highest to save their people.\n\nAnd, now, look to Africa\u2014barbarous, wretched, and apparently\nhopeless. But, lo, within our own borders are seven millions of her\nsons and daughters, born into our civilization, already feeling\nthe quickening forces of our learning and our faith. Who touches\nthe African race as we do, or who can so influence the African\nmind and heart? Here are the African souls that are best fitted to\nregenerate the African race. These young Christian scholars are a\nhundred years in advance of anything we can find in Africa. And\nare they not the men to be organized into a mission to save their\nfatherland? We are related to Africa as no other nation on the\nglobe is; touch more of its people and control more of the African\nheart and mind. This is our special opportunity and puts us under\nobligation to move upon the African race with all the forces of\nlight and truth at our command.\n\nThe whole matter is in a nutshell and may be summed up thus: We\nhave the power to preach the Gospel to every Chinaman, every\nIndian, and every Negro in the land, and having the power, we are\nin duty bound to use it.\n\nDid we do this, our simplest duty, these people in turn would have\nthe power to preach the Gospel to all the millions of their own\ncountrymen. Nothing can be plainer. Then why do we hesitate to\nmuster the forces and put these races in training for Christ and\nthe salvation of their own lands? The _opportunity_ to do this\nwork brings with it the obligation to do it. But when it is added\nto this that we _alone_ can do it in the way suggested, and in the\nonly way that seems to make its near and easy achievement possible,\nthere is no excuse for a moment\u2019s delay. If we have men and money\nenough to go after these races in foreign lands, we certainly\ncannot lack means to provide for them here. To us _alone_ is given\nthis privilege of preaching this Gospel _to the world_ at our own\ndoors. And while the best statesmanship of the country is tasked to\nshow how we may deal with these races for _our_ highest good, the\nchurch of God is set to the task of showing how we may deal with\nthem so as to secure the speediest regeneration of the yet unsaved\ncontinents.\n\nThe American Missionary Association believes that this result will\nbe soonest realized by at once bringing these children of theirs\nunder the full light and power of the Gospel. And it believes that\nthe interest of this land and of those lands will be best promoted\nby throwing among those populations a Christian force so large\nthat not one shall fail to hear of Christ. To reach one in twenty\nor thirty is to trifle with the whole problem. Nothing short of\nreaching every soul, or making it possible for every soul _to be_\nreached with the power of the Gospel, will be adequate.\n\nThe way is all open; we can see clear through to the end. The\nquestion is pressed upon us and we must answer distinctly whether\nwe will accept this opportunity to save China and Africa, or\nwhether we will decline the offer and withhold the bread of life.\n\nC. L. WOODWORTH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE GLENN BILL IN THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.\n\n\nThis infamous bill was passed by the lower house of the Georgia\nLegislature by a vote of 128 (all white) to 2 (colored), the only\ncolored men in the house. The only speech made in favor of the bill\nwas by Glenn, its author. The two colored men were the only ones to\nspeak against it.\n\nTEXT OF THE BILL.\n\nA bill to be entitled, An Act to regulate the manner of conducting\neducational institutions in this State and to protect the rights of\ncolored and white people and to provide penalties for the violation\nof the provisions of this act and for other purposes.\n\nSec. 1.\u2014Be it enacted that from and after the passage of this\nact no school, college or educational institution in this State\nconducted for the education and training of colored people shall\nmatriculate or receive as a pupil any white person, nor shall\nany school, college or educational institution conducted for the\ntraining of white receive or matriculate any colored person as\npupil, nor shall any school, college or educational institution\nreceive or matriculate both white and colored persons.\n\nSec. 2.\u2014Be it further enacted that any teacher or manager or\ncontroller of either of such institutions violating the provisions\nof this act shall be punished as prescribed in section 4,310 of the\nCode. If such institution be a chartered one, then not only the\nteachers thereof but the president, secretary and members of the\nboard of trustees, or other persons filling corresponding offices,\nwho shall knowingly permit the same to be violated, shall be\nsubject to indictment and punishment as aforesaid.\n\nSec. 3.\u2014Be it enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict\nwith, this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed.\n\nSection 4,310 of the Code is as follows:\u2014\n\nAccessories after the fact, except where it is otherwise ordered\nin this Code, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $1,000,\nimprisonment not to exceed six months, to work in a chain-gang on\nthe public works not to exceed twelve months, and any one or more\nof these punishments may be ordered in the discretion of the judge.\n\n\nWHY THE BILL WAS INTRODUCED.\n\nA correspondent of the New York _Tribune_, states the case as\nfollows:\n\n\u201cThe bill is aimed against Atlanta University. But the University\nis not the cause of it. It is merely the occasion. The cause is the\nwicked anti-Christian caste-spirit among the white people of the\nState. To understand the situation a few facts need to be stated:\n\n\u201cIn 1867 the American Missionary Association secured a charter\nfor the Atlanta University, and founded that institution for the\neducation of colored youth. But the well-known principles of the\nAssociation, admitting no distinctions on the ground of color,\nforbade the closing of its doors to any worthy student who might\napply for admission. The money to start that school, buy the\ngrounds, erect the buildings, furnish them, and make improvements,\nwas all contributed by benevolent people at the North. Into the\ngrounds and buildings as they stand to-day there have been put\nsomething over $150,000\u2014every cent of it contributed by friends\nin the North. In addition to this, Northern contributors have\ngiven toward the running expenses of the institution on an average\nsince 1867 about $10,000 a year. That is to say, Christian people\nat the North have given the State of Georgia to help educate her\nchildren in this one institution something over $350,000! But the\nmoney is by far the smallest part of the contribution. The culture,\npiety, noble character and consecration of the teachers, graduates\nof Northern colleges and normal schools, have made the Atlanta\nUniversity a model school to imitate and a constant inspiration to\nthe development of the educational interest of the State. There\nhave been, however, for several years past, a few white pupils\nin the school. These were the children of the professors and in\none instance a child of a missionary of the American Missionary\nAssociation. The reasons for the presence of these white pupils\nwere three: (1) The principles on which the institution was\nfounded; (2) The fact that there was no school in Atlanta where\nthe children could receive as thorough training and discipline,\nand (3) The sentiment of the people against \u201cnigger teachers\u201d was\nsuch that to send the children to the white schools would have been\nto subject them to ostracism and insult. If it were not for the\nfirst two reasons, the last would not count for much. Ostracism\nand insult are the condemnation of those who inflict; the honor of\nthose who suffer.\n\n\u201cBut the answer is not yet complete. In the distribution of a\nnational grant of public lands for education in the several States\nmade by Congress in 1862, under the lead of Senator Morrill, of\nVermont, Georgia received 270,000 scrip, the interest on which\namounts to something over $16,000 a year. And what did the State of\nGeorgia do with it? Appropriated it to its white State University\nat Athens. With nearly one-half of its population colored, it\ntook the Nation\u2019s gift for the benefit of the whole State and put\nit where the colored people could have no share in it whatever.\nSomebody discovered that this was clearly a misappropriation of\nfunds, and that if the United States Congress should learn of\nit there would probably be \u2018music in the air\u2019 of a kind Georgia\nwould not like to hear, and so the State Legislature \u2018generously\u2019\nvoted that it would appropriate $8,000 a year for the education of\ncolored youth in the State! And this money, the gift of the United\nStates to Georgia, was always spoken of as a State appropriation\nand quoted as an evidence of the wonderful interest the State\ntakes in negro education. But what would $8,000 a year accomplish\nfor the training of teachers to supply the wants of the 725,000\ncolored people in Georgia? How far would it go in the purchase of\ngrounds, erection and equipment of buildings and the salaries of\nteachers? It is simply laughable to ask the question. But here was\nan institution at hand, grounds, buildings, equipments, teachers,\neverything in operation. Having been placed by the American\nMissionary Association in the hands of its own Board of Trustees\nand being undenominational and unsectarian in all respects, why\nnot appropriate the money to this school? The State Legislature\nappointed a committee to look into the matter. The committee\nvisited the school, were profoundly impressed with its excellence,\nand unanimously reported in favor of having the appropriation go to\nthe school. Every year since then the appropriation of that $8,000\nhas gone to the University. Every year since then the reports\nof the State Examiners have been highly eulogistic. They have\nadmitted, often with astonishment, the splendid educational work\ndone there. The admission was forced that this was, on the whole,\nthe best school in the State. The contrast between the discipline\nand training in it, and that found in the white State University,\nwas too great not to be noticed.\n\n\u201cBut this year the Examiners discovered that there were a few\nwhite children, the children of the professors, and the child of\nthe missionary already referred to, in the school, and they have\nbecome righteously indignant over their presence. The money, say\nthey, was given exclusively for the education of colored pupils,\nand behold, some white pupils are receiving benefit from it!\nBesides it is co-education of the races, and that the State of\nGeorgia will not tolerate! It will introduce \u2018Social Equality\u2019 and\n\u2018Miscegenation,\u2019 and \u2018Miscegenation of Ideas!\u2019 And these are the\nreasons why this bill has been brought forward. Strange that they\nwere not discovered before, for they have all been in existence\never since the appropriation was first made, and they were known to\nbe existing by every State committee that has visited the school.\u201d\n\n\n_The Reasons are only Pretenses._\n\nA correspondent in the _Advance_ handles these reasons as follows:\n\n\u201c1. As to \u2018misappropriation.\u2019 The last Legislative committee\nnoticed, with feigned horror, that there were among the students\nin the Atlanta University three or four of the children of the\nprofessors, who recited in Geometry, Greek, Latin, etc., in the\nsame classes with colored pupils. But while the Atlanta University\nreceives $8,000 a year from the State, it receives $19,000 a\nyear from Northern sources. When a mal-administrator wishes to\nsave his mal-administration from coming under legal courts, it is\nan interesting spectacle to see him pose, on the point of honor,\ncrying out, \u2018Misappropriation!\u2019 to the men who not only administer\nevery dollar to the purpose for which it was given, but add to\nevery dollar two dollars more, kindly given them by benevolent\nfriends for that purpose! Misappropriation, indeed!\n\n\u201c2. \u2018Social Equality.\u2019 There is no such thing, as the Southerners\ndefine it, outside their own imaginations. It is the biggest\nbugbear that ever frightened respectable minds. If it be a fact\nthat God has made of one blood all mankind, and that Jesus\nChrist is our common Elder Brother, and we all are, or may be,\nthe children of God, then this caste-mania, which dominates the\nSouthern mind so like an unclean spirit, is something as idiotic as\nit is unchristian.\n\n\u201c3. \u2018Miscegenation.\u2019 It is time, we admit, that Georgia wake\nup to this evil. She ought to have wakened to it more than a\nhundred years ago. Atlanta University is not the offender. Had\nthe principles of that school always been regnant in Georgia,\nthere never would have been the evil. Georgians themselves are\nthe sinners. Their witnesses walk before them and are seen every\nday. A hundred thousand light-colored negroes in Georgia proclaim\na hundred thousand white transgressions. It is high time Georgia\nawoke on the subject of miscegenation. A colored transgressor is\nquickly strung up to a tree. Why not hang the white transgressor?\nA few hundred \u2018white\u2019 hangings would wonderfully clear up the\nmoral atmosphere down there and get things in good shape for a\nthorough-going, anti-miscegenation law. Now that Georgia forces\nherself under the gaze of the civilized world through this action\nof her Legislature, the decent opinion of mankind calls on them\nto put a stop to this wickedness within her borders. Make every\ncolored woman who gives birth to a light-colored child disclose the\nfather, and then hang him. Enforce this law as faithfully against\nthe offender of one color as the offender of the other. It is\nalways well to shoot in the direction of the game.\n\n\u201c4. \u2018Miscegenation of Ideas.\u2019 The sagacious patriots of the\nGeorgia Legislature speak of \u2018miscegenation of ideas\u2019 as something\nparticularly horrible; something almost as bad as the other kind.\nWhat they mean by this they do not explain; should they attempt to\nexplain it, all the world outside the white South would laugh them\nto scorn. They will themselves live to grow ashamed of it. It is\ntoo stupid to awaken any mirth, too ridiculous for sober answer,\ntoo essentially mean in the spirit and motive of it for anything\nbut contempt and pity. That such a measure as this chain-gang law\nfor Christian teachers could be received with such favor in a\nState like Georgia, is one of the most dismal signs of the time,\nor rather signs of the place, that has come to light during the\npast ten years. But it will fail; yet the curse and stigma of it\nwill long remain to plague those in that State who have any moral\nsensibility left.\n\n\u201cAt the bottom of this miserable and cruel caste-prejudice is\njealousy\u2014jealousy of the rising colored man.\u201d\n\n\nTHE CHAIN-GANG.\n\nIt is a singular coincidence that this very Legislature, whose\nlower house has passed this bill to punish Christian teachers\nfor allowing their own children to recite with colored children\nin the class-room by putting them into the chain-gang, is by a\ncommittee investigating the State penitentiary system, pronounced\nby competent prison reformers to be \u201cperhaps the vilest on earth.\u201d\nThere are some good people in Georgia who want to see the barbarous\nsystem exposed and abolished. On the other hand, the supporters\nof the system are numerous and influential. The Georgia papers do\nnot have much to say about this subject, and probably for the same\nreason that Russia don\u2019t want the civilized world to know about\nwhat is going on in Siberia. The people are afraid to have their\ndeeds of darkness brought to the light, but they are not all silent.\n\nAn Atlanta correspondent of the _New York World_, writing under\ndate of July 22d, describes the system as follows:\n\n\u201cThe convicts of Georgia, numbering about sixteen hundred, the\nnegroes largely predominating over the whites, are confined in\nno regular penitentiary. They are worked under State direction\nand control, but are divided into three companies, known as\n\u201cPenitentiary Company No. 1,\u201d etc. These companies take all\nthe convicts under a twenty years\u2019 lease, the good, bad and\nindifferent. The Lease Act originally prescribed certain work that\nthese convicts should do, the intention being to so regulate their\nemployment as to prevent them from being brought into competition\nwith free labor. Now, however, there is no class of work that the\nconvicts are not called upon to do. They work on railroads and\nin coal mines; they cut pine timber for the saw mills; they are\nemployed about the mills in those places where skilled workmen are\ngenerally employed; they make brick; they operate iron furnaces;\nthey constitute the labor in various manufactories; they work\nupon plantations, and in every possible way they compete in every\nindustry with free labor.\n\n\u201cThe lessees of the convicts change from time to time, men\nselling their interest in the lease just as they would dispose\nof their property in anything else. The lessees to-day are not\nwholly and entirely the same lessees as operated the system at\nthe beginning. Senator Joseph E. Brown is one of the few original\nlessees who still holds his interests. The changes have been many\nand various, and so are the stories of outrages. Several years\nago children began to make their appearance in the penitentiary,\nnot because of any due process of law, but because of shocking\nimmoralities on the part of lessees and their subordinates. In one\ncamp where the principal lessee was a man named Alexander, since\ndead, these scandals mostly originated. It was a difficult thing\nto substantiate the charges, and the Legislature never made any\ninvestigation. There were no white women in the penitentiary in\nGeorgia at the time, and perhaps the affair alluded to was not so\nshocking to public opinion as it would otherwise have been.\n\n\u201cTo-day there is only one white woman in the penitentiary in this\nState. She is confined at the camp of the Chattahoochee Brick\nCompany, Penitentiary Company No. 3, about six miles from this\ncity. This poor woman, weak in intellect, untutored and unfamiliar\nwith the wickedness of the camps, has to be locked up and kept in\nclose confinement day and night, to prevent her being ruined. Since\nthe Legislature has shown a disposition to look into these matters,\nthe lessees of the camp at the brickyard have given the strictest\norders about this woman. Her door is constantly locked and the key\nkept by the good wife of the principal boss, who allows no man to\ncross her threshold, \u2018Great heavens!\u2019 ejaculated a member of the\nHouse, when this circumstance was told him, \u2018what sort of a system\nmust this be when such measures have to be devised?\u2019\u201d\n\n\u201cThe lessees at various camps have been from time to time charged\nwith cruelty to their prisoners. A common charge has been working\nthem on Sunday; so it is common to hear of whipping them to death\nfor refusing to work on Sunday, or when they have been worn out\nwith fatigue. The charge of favoritism is so well established and\nso generally admitted that it has ceased to be urged.\n\n\u201cThe \u2018Old Town Camp\u2019 has a very bad reputation. Here most of\nthe serious charges have been laid, and here it was proved that\nwhipping-bosses positively whipped men to death.\n\n\u201cAnother camp prolific of charges is that of State Senator Smith\nin Oglethorpe County. He has been accused of working convicts on\nSunday, of shooting them down in cold blood, and an affair of honor\nis now pending between Smith and Principal Physician Westmoreland,\nof the penitentiary. Westmoreland accuses Smith of gross inhumanity\nto the poor creatures under his charge, and dares him, or rather\ninvites him, to meet him on the field of honor for the various\nfalse accusations and scandal that Smith has made against him.\u201d\n\n\n_Another Account._\n\nHere is a part of the account which a reporter of the Augusta\n_Chronicle_ gives of a convict camp, in Richmond County, which he\nhas recently visited on a tour of investigation for his paper.\n\n\u201cLeaving the hospital the reporter went into a barn 80 by 20,\ndivided into two compartments, and they divided by a 10 foot alley.\nThe barn would not be given as a resting-place to a beast that is\nprized by its owner, as the rain or sun could easily gain admission\nthrough the top, and the openings in the sides so affected the\nhouse that it gave no protection from the weather. On looking into\nthis place it was horrible to realize that a commonwealth like the\nState of Georgia would allow the offenders against her laws to be\nkept in so dirty and filthy a place as that in which the eighty\nconvicts at the camp of the A. and K. Railroad are placed. Along\nthe narrow aisles in the barn smouldering fires were burning, and\non the beds sat the prisoners. All of the convicts were seen.\nThey begged that their names would not be used, for they would be\nlashed if it were known that they told of the treatment. They state\nthat Captain Starns uses the lash freely. Several testify that,\novercome with the heat, they stopped to rest and were taken out\nand whipped. Attention was called to the cruel whipping of Chuck\nCooper, a mulatto about twenty-five years old, who was quartered\nin the hospital. The reporter, without being noticed, repaired to\nthe hospital, and, being assured that the guards were not near at\nhand, Chuck Cooper disrobed himself and showed huge scars left from\nthe lash, the skin being badly lacerated. Returning to the barn\nthe reporter inquired of Mr. Smith the cause of the filthy beds on\nwhich the convicts slept. They were caked in dirt and as black and\nas filthy as could be imagined. Mr. Smith, the guard, admitted that\nthe blankets and bedding had not been washed for several months,\nalthough Mr. Shubrick had notified Captain Starns, and he had\npromised two months ago to have new straw put in the beds and have\nthem washed. \u2018It is seven months,\u2019 Smith said, \u2018since we left the\nbrick-yard, and the bedding has not been touched since.\u2019\u201d\n\nAnd this is the kind of place to which the Georgia Legislature is\nready to send the trustees and teachers of Atlanta University!\n\n\nWHAT THE PRESS HAS TO SAY.\n\nThe press North and South has been roused by the introduction of\nthis bill as we have never known it to be before by the action of\nany State Legislature. In the North it is practically unanimous in\ncondemnation, and for the most part in denunciation. Republican,\nDemocratic and Independent papers are, in this instance, found\nunited. They differ somewhat about the constitutional right of\na State to pass such a bill, but they all unite in pronouncing\nthe punishment attached to the Glenn Bill as \u201cdisgraceful,\u201d\n\u201coutrageous,\u201d \u201cinfamous,\u201d \u201cwicked.\u201d In the South the colored papers\nare all against the bill; the white papers, outside of Georgia,\nsomewhat divided, but in the main, so far as we can learn, for the\nbill. In Georgia the white papers are for it. Were the editorials\non this subject by the press of the United States compiled and\npublished they would fill several large volumes. We quote from as\nmany as our space allows:\n\n\nTHE NEW YORK TRIBUNE.\n\n  When Mr. Grady made his glowing speech last winter to the Sons\n  of New England at Delmonico\u2019s assembled, he probably did not\n  imagine that such a delightful illustration of the paternal\n  solicitude which the whites feel for the blacks in the Empire\n  State of the South was in store for us. What a pity he was\n  not aware of the boon in preparation! What sweet flowers of\n  rhetoric he would have twined around it! It would have made his\n  nomination for the Vice-Presidency certain.\n\n  It is possible that when the facts are known public sentiment\n  will make it appear advisable to drop this cheerful measure,\n  but we are assured upon excellent authority that at the present\n  moment the Georgia Legislature is disposed to pass it; and,\n  moreover, that Governor Gordon\u2019s approval of a recent report\n  connected with the subject indicates a willingness on his\n  part to sign it. Many interesting points are involved in the\n  introduction of this measure, including its constitutionality,\n  and it is safe to say that they will all be discussed with\n  considerable animation before it takes its place on the\n  statute-book.\n\n\nTHE NEW YORK TIMES.\n\n  It is very hard to understand the animus of the recent attempts\n  to cripple or destroy this noble school (Atlanta University)\n  by Gov. Gordon and his followers. They have threatened to take\n  away the $8,000 a year of United States money, and a bill is\n  before the Legislature and has been reported favorably from\n  committee to punish with a year of the infamous chain-gang of\n  Georgia and with a fine of $1,000 the crime of some of the\n  white teachers in allowing their own children to enter the\n  classes they instruct. This has been a characteristic feature\n  of the school, and one that has contributed materially to its\n  phenomenal success in putting and keeping the negroes on their\n  best behavior. If some of the most intelligent and refined\n  white people are willing to face the bitter ostracism of the\n  South and work for their benefit to the utmost limit of their\n  strength\u2014and sometimes, as in the case of the late lamented\n  President Ware, far beyond it\u2014and besides all this put their\n  own children into the same classes with them, the negroes must\n  indeed be vile and thankless if it did not stimulate all that\n  is good and repress all that is bad in them.\n\n  It is certain that the sort of people sent out by the American\n  Missionary Association will not be deterred by ruffianism of\n  this sort from doing what they believe Christian duty requires.\n  What object Gov. Gordon and his abettors\u2014and it looks very\n  much as if the silver-tongued Grady is among them\u2014can have in\n  stirring up sectional bitterness in this way it is hard to see.\n  But the fact that such an outrage should be even proposed is\n  evidence that the awful lesson of the war as to the impolicy\n  of treating men and women as if they were mere animals has not\n  yet been learned by some who boast that they belong to the new\n  South. That it can be helpful to industrial development and\n  render a residence in Georgia inviting to the most desirable\n  Northern people no one who knows the facts can believe.\n\n\nTHE NEW YORK HERALD.\n\n  The Glenn Bill, which passed the Georgia House of\n  Representatives, has caused a great deal of hot-tempered\n  discussion. The constitution of the State is opposed to the\n  co-education of black and white children. All right. The people\n  of Georgia are on the ground and ought to know what is for\n  their best interest. If they see fit to afford educational\n  facilities to colored children in one school and the same\n  facilities for white children in another school, well and\n  good. And if they decree that white teachers shall teach white\n  children and colored teachers shall teach colored children,\n  nobody will shrug his shoulders. The object, which is to offer\n  a good common-school education to every child in the State,\n  will be attained.\n\n  To enact a law, however, that the white teacher who admits\n  to his class a colored boy or girl shall be punished in the\n  chain-gang for a period of twelve months, as related elsewhere,\n  is decidedly drastic. That seems to be a pretty heavy penalty\n  for a rather light offence. With a strong public opinion\n  opposed to co-education, such a desperate resort would seem to\n  be hardly necessary.\n\n  Colonel Glenn probably had some motive in the introduction of\n  the bill which is not visible to the naked eye. At any rate,\n  he committed a grave blunder, which in this case is almost\n  equal to a crime. The bill has gone to the Senate and will be\n  smothered there.\n\n\nTHE NEW YORK EVENING POST.\n\n  There is something very peculiar about the presentation of\n  a bill in the Georgia Legislature, making it a misdemeanor,\n  punishable with a fine of $1,000 and the chain-gang for one\n  year, for any teacher or trustee of any public or private\n  school in the State to allow any white pupils to attend a\n  colored school, or any colored pupils to attend a white school.\n\n  Georgia, like every other Southern State, and like many\n  Northern States until recent years, has always maintained\n  separate schools for the two races. The Constitution provides\n  for \u201ca thorough system of common schools,\u201d which \u201cshall be\n  free to all citizens of the State, but separate schools shall\n  be provided for the white and colored races.\u201d The wisdom of\n  this policy, in the present condition of public sentiment on\n  the race question throughout the South, is not doubted by any\n  intelligent man at the North. Public education could never\n  have been established if the attempt had been made by force to\n  bring the two races into the same school-room, and it would be\n  overthrown in a moment if mixed schools were to be ordered now.\n  The legality and the advisability of separate school systems\n  are, therefore, not to be questioned. But it is one thing to\n  provide that the races shall not mix in schools supported\n  by public taxation, and quite another thing to declare that\n  no school, however supported, shall teach whites and blacks\n  together without subjecting everybody responsible for this\n  policy to the risk of a year in the chain-gang. This is an\n  outrage of the very worst sort, for which no defense that is\n  even plausible has been made or can be made. It is simply an\n  outburst of race prejudice in its most offensive form.\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  The odd feature of the incident is that it occurs in Georgia,\n  which is in many respects one of the most progressive States\n  of the South, while Kentucky, which is in many respects one of\n  the most backward, has already conquered this silly prejudice.\n  When Berea College in Kentucky opened its doors to whites and\n  blacks alike, there was bitter local opposition, which went\n  beyond hard words, and it was as much as a man\u2019s life was\n  worth, politically speaking, for him to show the slightest\n  favor to the institution. But as the years passed and none\n  of the threatened evils came to pass, Kentuckians gradually\n  concluded that they had been worrying themselves unnecessarily,\n  and at last a progressive Democrat was ready to take a part in\n  its anniversary exercises, as Judge Beckner did two years ago.\n  \u201cAlready in Kentucky,\u201d says Prof. Wright of the College, in\n  his article on \u201cSouthern Illiteracy\u201d in the last _Bibliotheca\n  Sacra_, \u201cthe former detestation of Berea has so far yielded\n  that Democratic aspirants for the Governorship speak on its\n  commencement platform.\u201d No member of the Kentucky Legislature\n  in the year 1887 would venture to suggest the chain-gang for\n  teachers in a school which admitted pupils of both races, and\n  it is most anomalous to find the proposition seriously urged in\n  Georgia.\n\n\nTHE NEW YORK WORLD.\n\n  Dr. Atticus G. Haygood, the well-known Southern Methodist\n  preacher, who is now the manager of the Slater Fund, declares\n  himself opposed to the Educational bill of William C. Glenn.\n  He says the bill is unwise because it is unnecessary. People\n  vote for such bills not because they favor them, but because\n  they fear being charged with a leaning towards social equality.\n  He thanks God that he knows the white teachers whose children\n  attend the negro college, and he honors them fully as much as\n  he does his own sister, who is now engaged in missionary work\n  in China. There are only fourteen white children in colored\n  schools, and Georgia has no reason to be scared. He winds up\n  by saying: \u201cThere is a law in Georgia against intermarriage,\n  a law more violated, ten to one, if not in the letter in the\n  reality and spirit of it, than the law against mixed schools.\n  If now the Legislature will give us a law placing the parents\n  of mulatto children in the chain-gang it would be worth while.\u201d\n\n\nHARPER\u2019S WEEKLY.\n\n  Such leaders as this school provides for their race cannot\n  be trained elsewhere in the State. The maintenance of the\n  University in full vigor is therefore for every reason, for\n  the common interest of the 817,000 white and of the 726,000\n  colored citizens, one of the most vitally desirable objects in\n  the State. The proposition to send the teachers and managers\n  to the chain-gang unless they expel their own children from\n  their schools is preposterous. The good sense of the State\n  should prevent the further prosecution of the scheme. Every\n  sensible citizen of Georgia would admit that nothing could\n  be more unwise than to stimulate hostility of race in the\n  same population by means of penal laws. Each race in Georgia\n  undoubtedly prefers separate schools for the present, but to\n  punish and disgrace the few persons who are indifferent to the\n  separation, and by that course to retard the indispensable\n  education of half the population, would be an unspeakable folly.\n\n\nTHE JERSEY CITY EVENING JOURNAL.\n\n  In Georgia there is still existing, as we read, a dread that\n  white people may be forced into miscegenation with negroes in\n  spite of themselves. The Georgian ought to know himself, and\n  it is droll to hear him pleading that some one will save him\n  from \u201cmarrying a nigger,\u201d in spite of himself. The principal\n  objection to public or private schools, in which the two races\n  should be together, is that this would lead to intermarriages\n  of the races. Under pressure of this argument, the Georgia\n  House of Assembly has passed the bill making the teaching of\n  colored persons by white persons a penal offence. A State law\n  already forbids mixed public schools. The new law is intended\n  to prohibit white persons from teaching colored persons in\n  Sunday-schools and private educational institutions. The\n  condition of the Georgia white, liable at any moment to run\n  off and marry a negro, is indeed lamentable. And, joking\n  aside, does not such a state of things show how completely\n  uncured, how woefully unreconstructed are the average ex-rebel,\n  ex-slaveholding people of Georgia? Such a state of things as\n  this proves, that wise were those men who years ago urged\n  that only territorial government should be given to the\n  States just conquered from rebellion, and that they should so\n  remain governed until time sufficient should have elapsed to\n  eradicate all traces of the old semi-barbaric habits of their\n  people. A community which adopts such a law as that mentioned\n  is decidedly unfit to bear a State\u2019s part in the general\n  Government of the Republic.\n\n\nTHE SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN.\n\n  The Glenn Bill in the Georgia Legislature, to impose a penalty\n  commensurate with a felony upon the teaching of persons of\n  the two races in any public or private school in the State,\n  is an outburst of barbaric sentiment which will do a vast\n  deal of harm. We may as well say at the outset that we do not\n  favor co-education of the races at the South, so long as the\n  people there do not want it. In Massachusetts, white and black\n  children attend the same school, and are treated just the same.\n  If half or more of our population were colored, we do not\n  doubt it would be a different question, but we do not see that\n  the mingling of youth at school produces any social mixing,\n  or mixture of races. At the South, where there is a large\n  body of each race, separate schools and institutions are well\n  enough, but separate streets, railroad cars, ferry-boats and\n  other public utilities would be a ridiculous and uncalled-for\n  extension of the effort to separate the races.\n\n  While a State may plainly indicate its policy by providing\n  separate schools for the two races, and assigning the colored\n  youth to one and the white to the other, to make it a felony\n  for any person to teach youth of different races together, is\n  essentially barbarous, more barbarous than Turkey.\n\n  The great Southern excuse for such doings is that the social\n  intercourse of the races is against nature. Very well; if it\n  is against nature, let nature take care of the problem. But\n  the bald and naked fact is that while the South is dreadfully\n  sensitive about the appearance of the two races in the same\n  parlor, or school-room, or opera house, or in the same\n  Episcopal Convention, it is profoundly indifferent to their\n  association together immorally.\n\n  Now if the State of Georgia proposes to condemn the Northern\n  men who have gone there to teach, to the chain-gang, for\n  instructing their own children in the classes, it will be\n  guilty of a ridiculous display of race feeling and petty\n  insularity, of a fine exhibition of ingratitude, and of a\n  political blunder of some magnitude. We trust Gov. Gordon, who\n  has been about the world a little, may be able to view this\n  matter in a broader light than the backwoods members of the\n  Legislature.\n\n\nTHE BOSTON EVENING TRAVELLER.\n\n  It is possible that the aroused public sentiment of the nation\n  may force the Legislature to drop this shameful, barbarous\n  measure, but nothing short of this will. This is the Empire\n  State of the South\u2014the New South which Editor Grady so\n  eloquently described last Forefathers\u2019 Day in New York, about\n  which so much gush and sentiment have been spoken and written.\n  The question cannot help suggesting itself, whether a little\n  less of boastful sentiment and a little more of civilized\n  humanity would not become the much-talked-of New South.\n\n\nTHE PHILADELPHIA PRESS.\n\n  Whether the prejudice against mixed schools is justified or\n  not, the attempt to enforce such penalties as those prescribed\n  in the Glenn Bill, and which are aimed especially against the\n  Atlanta University, would arouse a whirlwind of wrath that even\n  the Southern whites in their stolid indifference to public\n  opinion could not withstand. No white children, except those\n  belonging to the professors in the University, have been taught\n  with the colored pupils. One of the professors writes to the\n  Springfield _Republican_ as follows: \u201cI have taught twelve\n  years in the Atlanta University. The Glenn Bill will cut off my\n  four children and those of the other white teachers from their\n  best educational opportunity in Georgia\u2014in fact, as matters now\n  stand, practically from their only opportunity.\u201d As the funds\n  for founding this institution were given by Northern whites,\n  and as most of the money for sustaining it is derived from the\n  same source, it would seem wise to permit the Northern white\n  teachers some discretion in conducting the enterprise.\n\n  According to the census of 1880, Georgia had 446,683 persons\n  over ten years of age who could not read, and 128,934 whites\n  over ten who could not write. With such a discouraging mass of\n  ignorance, it would be supposed that the State would gladly\n  welcome any educational assistance. And yet, judging from this\n  Glenn Bill and the burning of the school at Quitman, the people\n  appear to be more anxious to increase than to lessen the amount\n  of ignorance in the State.\n\n\nTHE CHICAGO INTER-OCEAN.\n\n  So vicious a bill deserved a stupid and degrading defense, and\n  it got it. Mr. Glenn says that the bill is passed to prevent\n  the \u201cevident desire of the negroes for marriage with the\n  whites.\u201d Great heavens! And has it come to this? Is this all\n  that your \u201cSouthern refinement,\u201d your \u201cyears of chivalrous\n  tradition,\u201d and all the rest of the antiquated rot which you\n  dignify by the style and title of \u201cSouthern sentiment\u201d has been\n  able to accomplish? Has race pride so thoroughly died out among\n  the young men and women of the South as to force the elders to\n  guard them, by threats of prisons and chain-gangs, from that\n  certain intermarriage of white and black which would follow\n  co-education? Debased, indeed, would be the condition of the\n  South if this were true.\n\n  But it is not true. In Chicago and in every other large city of\n  the North, white and colored children attend the same schools,\n  but white and colored do not marry each other. Nor would they\n  in the South, though the race feeling has been lowered as it\n  never was in the North, by frequent and undisguised concubinage\n  of the colored woman to the white man. Savannah shows more\n  children of white paternity from \u201cmothers who were never wed\u201d\n  than Chicago. If half the zeal were shown for the suppression\n  of illegitimate unions between the races of the South as for\n  that of the very few possible legitimate ones, both morality\n  and health would improve. But it is a waste of words to argue\n  upon Mr. Glenn\u2019s proposition. He does not fear a general system\n  of intermarriage. It has happened nowhere. It never will happen\n  anywhere. If it did, it would be preferable to a general\n  practice of illegitimate commerce. * * *\n\n  The reports of the educational work and discipline of the\n  Atlanta University, by the State examiners, have invariably\n  been accompanied with the very highest commendation. The\n  comparison between the discipline of the Atlanta University\n  and that of the Athens University has been greatly to the\n  disparagement of the latter in almost every respect. This has\n  exasperated the authorities of the Athens University, and\n  set the newspapers of the State abusing the Commissioners\n  for making such invidious comparisons with the negro school.\n  Whereupon the committee were set to hedge, in order to\n  reinstate themselves in favor. It is at last discovered, what\n  has been open to everyone for a dozen years, that there were\n  in the Atlanta University perhaps half a dozen white children,\n  children of the professors, reciting in the classes along\n  with the 350 colored scholars. This fact was reported to\n  Governor Gordon forthwith. Governor Gordon makes haste to send\n  a special message to the Legislature. The young aspirant for\n  notoriety, Mr. Glenn, jumps at the chance for getting glory\n  from introducing his bill. The rapidity with which he got it\n  through and the unanimous white vote in the House, shows the\n  state of public sentiment. Next week the attempt will be made\n  to rush it through the Senate. And all this, not because of\n  the presence of the professors\u2019 children, but in retaliation\n  for the impudence on the part of the professors and students\n  of Atlanta University in allowing colored youths to behave\n  and do so much better than pupils of the other race in Athens\n  University. These are the facts, facts which nobody in Georgia\n  will deny.\n\n\nTHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.\n\n  The infamous Glenn Education Bill, making it a crime to teach a\n  white child in a colored school or a colored child in a white\n  school, has passed the Lower House of the Georgia Legislature.\n  It goes without saying that it will pass the Senate and be\n  signed by the Governor. Practically the law will only operate\n  against Atlanta University, which has seven white scholars on\n  its roll, the children of professors in the institution who\n  cannot be educated elsewhere in the State without insult and\n  ostracism because they are the children of \u201cnigger teachers.\u201d\n  Little hope can be had that the law will be defeated. That it\n  will be executed with vindictive severity goes without saying\n  also, and, as the penalty of the chain-gang is the maximum, it\n  is not improbable that these white Christian teachers, if they\n  persist in their duty, will be fettered by the side of convicts\n  and subjected to the treatment which, upon the authority of its\n  own grand juries, has made the chain-gang system of Georgia a\n  reproach to common humanity and decency. And this is the New\n  South over which Grady bloviated so pathetically! Is there no\n  progress, no shame, in that section?\n\n\nTHE CHICAGO CONSERVATOR; (COLORED.)\n\n  The Glenn Bill has passed the House and awaits action equally\n  certain and deplorable in the Senate. The Governor will sign it\n  and thus consummate the most barbarous piece of legislation\n  known since the Fugitive Slave Law. There are those who have\n  perfect faith in the liberality, intelligence and justice\n  of the New South. To them the Glenn Bill is a revelation.\n  Having hailed the silver-tongued Grady as a leader of a higher\n  civilization, they are loth to believe that the very State he\n  represents is the first to stain its statutes with so unholy a\n  law.\n\n  But it is there, boastful, brazen, and hideous in deformity.\n  The wheels of progress are stopped and justice is appalled\n  while the New South brands the missionary a felon and\n  persecutes God\u2019s noble men and women for daring to do right.\n  But the curse remains. Poisoned by prejudice, reeking with\n  injustice, dead to shame, and insensible to dishonor, the State\n  of Georgia will push on in its reckless course, indifferent\n  alike to reproof and counsel.\n\n  But it will not last long. The reign of injustice is sure to\n  fail. Though much suffering may be endured to-day, still the\n  time will come when Georgia will ask to blot from the book a\n  law so inhuman and vile. Under the circumstances the colored\n  race can do nothing to avert the evils of the iniquitous law.\n  It has suffered much in the past and can suffer still more in\n  the firm assurance that justice will ultimately assert itself\n  and right will finally triumph over wrong.\n\n\nTHE CONGREGATIONALIST.\n\n  The bill has been framed adroitly. By providing for the\n  colored race and for the white precisely the same educational\n  advantages, making no discrimination whatever, it is attempted\n  to evade those provisions of the national Constitution which\n  would be infringed by the least effort to deprive either\n  whites or blacks of any educational facilities supplied to the\n  other race. But the bill is so drawn that it neutralizes the\n  operation of this principle of equality. Whites and blacks\n  will not be on the equal footing plainly intended by the\n  Constitution unless they possess in law every privilege granted\n  them in the other States, among which is that of studying in\n  the same schools. Should this matter be carried to the United\n  States Supreme Court\u2014as we have no doubt that it will be, if\n  necessary\u2014there can be little question but that the bill will\n  be pronounced unconstitutional. However this may be, it is too\n  silly and unjust a measure ever to win the respect of judicious\n  and honorable people, in any part of our country.\n\n  It is not improbable, and is greatly to be hoped, that as soon\n  as the real nature of this bill becomes understood generally,\n  an opposition to it will spring up, perhaps even in Georgia,\n  which will put a quietus upon it once for all. If the bill\n  pass, Georgia certainly will have taken a long and significant\n  step back towards the dark ages, and business capital, as well\n  as modern ideas, will give such a State the cold shoulder for\n  years to come. Moreover, if any attempt should be made to\n  enforce the law contained in the bill, there will be such a\n  stir throughout the whole country as is not often witnessed.\n\n\nTHE CHICAGO ADVANCE.\n\n  Such a law and the execution of it is no new thing in that\n  State. Nor is the application of it to missionary workers\n  anything new in Georgia. Among the Cherokees in the northern\n  part of the State the American Board had a mission planted so\n  early as 1815, and this by 1831 had brought the people on to\n  a large degree of Christian civilization, so that they had\n  schools and churches and were living, as an old army officer\n  told our informant, in a more enlightened way than the white\n  \u201ccrackers\u201d around them. But Georgia wanted their lands for the\n  toil of slaves. Of course a sham treaty was the first step.\n  The next was a law passed by the Legislature requiring all\n  white men residing on the Cherokee lands to take the oath of\n  allegiance to the State of Georgia, and get a license from\n  the Governor under penalty, if found there after the first of\n  March, 1831, of penitentiary imprisonment at hard labor, not\n  less than four years. The missionaries, well knowing that this\n  was in open conflict with their rights, under the constitution,\n  laws and treaties of the United States, remained at their post.\n  Rev. S. A. Worcester, D.D., and Dr. Butler, of the American\n  Board Mission, Rev. Mr. Trott, a Methodist Missionary, and a\n  Cherokee named Proctor, and seven others, mostly teachers, were\n  arrested. The latter was for two nights chained by the neck\n  to the wall of the house and by the ankle to Mr. Trott, and\n  was marched two days chained by the neck to a wagon; and Dr.\n  Butler was marched also with a chain about his neck, and part\n  of the time in pitch darkness, with the chain fastened to the\n  neck of a horse. After eleven days\u2019 confinement in a filthy log\n  prison, Judge Clayton sentenced Worcester and Butler to four\n  years of hard labor in prison. To prison they were taken and\n  set at hard labor. A memorial was sent to Andrew Jackson. He\n  replied by Secretary-of-War Lewis Cass that the laws of Georgia\n  had rendered the laws of Congress \u201cinoperative,\u201d and he had no\n  power to interfere. Old Hickory, who could swear by the Eternal\n  that South Carolina should not nullify in a matter of tariff,\n  when slavery lifted its behest, had to succumb! The case\n  was then carried to the Supreme Court of the United States,\n  Chief Justice Marshall presiding, and rendering the decision\n  which reversed and annulled the State action, and ordered the\n  discharge of the prisoners. Here then came in Georgia\u2019s great\n  act of nullification. It refused to obey, and Gen. Jackson\n  said, \u201cMarshall may enforce his decision for himself.\u201d Georgia\n  had her way, awaiting the army of Sherman.\n\n  For sixteen months those godly missionaries languished in\n  prison at hard labor. They refused to accept of pardon before\n  they were incarcerated, on condition that they would never\n  again reside in the Cherokee country. And when they came out\n  they went back there to live.\n\n  We mention these facts to show to the Governor and Legislature\n  of that State what manner of people are these, whom they\n  propose, in a repetition of history, to thrust into the same\n  filthy prison and chain-gang, which all the world is coming to\n  recognize as one of Georgia\u2019s relics of barbarism.\n\n\nTHE CHRISTIAN UNION.\n\n  If this bill becomes a law, it will be possible to punish\n  a professor in the Atlanta University who chooses to teach\n  his own child in the class-room of the University, by making\n  him the associate of thieves and outlaws in the chain-gang\n  for a year. This is simply monstrous, and, in spite of\n  the practically unanimous vote of the lower branch of the\n  Legislature, we do not believe that the intelligent people\n  of Georgia favor any such infamous measure. If they do, then\n  the curse of ignorance and barbarism which once blighted and\n  limited the intellectual and the moral life of the South has\n  not yet been thrown off by that State. _The Christian Union_,\n  believing heartily in the Christian principle of putting\n  behind the things that are past, has used, and will use, all\n  its influence to soften sectional differences, to destroy\n  sectional hatred, and to make in fact as in name one nation\n  of a people who have shown by their unparalleled sacrifices\n  the vigor and the purity of their patriotism. Those who strive\n  to revive the bitter memories of the past, and to make issues\n  now settled capital for success, the _Christian Union_ has\n  opposed and will oppose to the utmost of its ability; regarding\n  all such men, whether Republicans or Democrats, as either too\n  ignorant to be followed or too selfish to be trusted. But the\n  adoption of such a measure as the bill now pending before the\n  Georgia Legislature will set back the movement toward unity\n  a decade, will put into the hands of selfish politicians\n  in the North the strongest possible weapons against the\n  South, and will discourage and cast down all intelligent and\n  sober-minded lovers of their country. The people of Georgia\n  have shown too much intelligence and good spirit to destroy\n  the influence which they are rapidly acquiring in national\n  affairs and to disgrace a record which, as a whole, has been\n  admirable; we cannot believe they will do it. The South does\n  not yet understand the inestimable service which the North\n  rendered it in its hour of defeat by at once setting in motion\n  educational agencies among the negroes. If now, in the face of\n  such a service as this, rendered in the utmost unselfishness\n  and sustained by the greatest generosity, the great State of\n  Georgia shall lend its name to such a piece of barbarism as\n  the Glenn Bill, it will be guilty of a piece of ingratitude\n  almost without parallel. We refuse to believe that this bill\n  represents the sentiment of the State.\n\n\nTHE NEW YORK OBSERVER.\n\n  We regard the Glenn bill as the most extraordinary\n  manifestation of race feeling which has been made in any part\n  of this country in many years. We are surprised at it because\n  we believed that the State of Georgia, as well as other\n  sections of the South, had long since passed the stage when\n  a law like this could be thought of seriously, either as a\n  necessity or as a matter of policy. The bill seems to us to be\n  entirely retrogressive in its action and in the highest degree\n  impolitic. It is an industrious attempt to make a mountain\n  out of a mole-hill. We observe that several Georgia papers,\n  the Atlanta _Constitution_ among the rest, favor the proposed\n  law on the ground that it obviates the danger arising from a\n  mixture of the races. Now, we are not in favor of a mixture of\n  the races, neither do we question the wisdom of the existing\n  law of Georgia, which provides separate schools for colored and\n  white children, but we do deprecate the attempt to incorporate\n  in the statutes of any State such a drastic and offensive\n  measure as the Glenn Bill. Even if such a danger existed as\n  that named in the _Constitution_ the proposed law would not\n  help the matter one iota. It will not have the slightest\n  influence on the question of social equality one way or the\n  other. So far as it affects the future of the race question a\n  more short-sighted, blundering, puerile piece of legislation\n  could not be conceived. The bill ought to be \u201csmothered\u201d out of\n  sight at once and forever.\n\n\nTHE CENTRAL CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.\n\n  This bill is a low grade of revenge, unworthy of the\n  legislators of a free people. The colored people are making\n  the greatest sacrifices to obtain education, and by the\n  generosity of their Northern friends, who have established a\n  number of first-class schools for them in the South, they are\n  making rapid advancement. They are making more rapid progress\n  relatively than the whites. And, strange to say, these efforts\n  to elevate their condition have created alarm, and the cry\n  of social equality has been raised. Intelligent people in\n  the South appear to be overwhelmed with the fear that if the\n  Negroes are accorded the equal rights to which citizenship\n  entitles them, that Southern white men and women will become so\n  eager to marry them that they must be prevented by law.\n\n  Certainly this suspicion is unworthy of the people who\n  harbor it. We know that in the old slavery times there\n  was a deplorable amount of inter-racial association and\n  licentiousness in the South. Nearly every plantation and\n  negro quarters furnished proof of it. But we believe that the\n  education of the negro will promote morality, and help to\n  remove the evil. At all events, in a Government like ours, in\n  which all citizens have equal rights, social standing cannot be\n  regulated by law.\n\n\nTHE NEW YORK CHRISTIAN INTELLIGENCER.\n\n  It is reported that the galleries and lobbies were filled\n  with a fashionable audience, interested in the passage of the\n  measure. It reminds one of pagan civilization, when Roman\n  ladies attended gladiatorial combats and mercilessly ordered\n  death to the vanquished. It is also reported that Mr. Glenn,\n  the originator of the bill, posed as the champion of this\n  measure, with a button-hole bouquet presented him by his\n  lady admirers. We bespeak for his efforts at fame the frail\n  character of the bouquet. Already it is said that efforts are\n  being made to pigeon-hole the bill in the Senate. The stupidity\n  of the bill is manifest in the argument of its author, that\n  co-education meant ultimate inter-marriage. If the adherents\n  of this bill were as solicitous of their brains as they are\n  of their blood, the matter of co-education would be rightly\n  settled. We are told that Mr. Glenn is a young man who covets\n  a reputation for statesmanship. We fear that this production of\n  his prejudice will blast his budding hopes. He seems to be one\n  born out of due time, about twenty-five years behind. The fifty\n  prominent members who were conveniently absent indicates a\n  conflict between principle and prejudice, or, if not principle,\n  at least good politics and prejudice.\n\n\nTHE ST. LOUIS EVANGELIST.\n\n  It is a measure designed to legalize the color line, and\n  notwithstanding the guarantees of the national constitution,\n  to re-construct the old _caste r\u00e9gime_ by a tentative process.\n  This burning question of the old prejudice ought to have been\n  settled so far as individual rights are concerned long ago, but\n  there seems to be an ill-concealed fear of the blacks and of\n  their future dominant influence in the State and in the Church.\n  Properly educated and fairly treated the negro will be quite\n  sure to maintain genuine respect for others of a lighter color.\n  The educational work will go on and with the gospel of Christ\n  be the means of giving prosperity and wholesome restraint to\n  both races. \u201cThe New South\u201d cannot afford such an exhibition\n  of fear and prejudice even as a proposition to any one of its\n  State Legislatures. It will take a long time and the patient\n  exercise of prudence to adjust these matters righteously.\n\n\nTHE NEW YORK INDEPENDENT.\n\n  The colored people clearly saw through the brutality and\n  meanness of this law, and that it was aimed at their rights.\n  So every colored paper in Georgia denounces the law, and the\n  two colored members voted and spoke against it. They happen to\n  be illiterate men from the south of the State, and could not\n  speak effectively. One of them, however, did call attention to\n  the fact that it applies to not a few Sunday-schools which have\n  colored classes.\n\n  It is time for those who wish to keep the Negro down to wake\n  up; and they are doing so. They are none too soon. The Negro is\n  rising. Those who do not wish him to rise must now sit on the\n  safety valve; and that they will do. The unanimity with which\n  this bill passes the Georgia Legislature is appalling. It shows\n  that the white race there is given over to believe a lie, that\n  it may reap the consequences. We shall now not be surprised to\n  see this law followed by others, and enacted in other States,\n  and a war of races provoked. Heaven knows we deprecate it. We\n  pray for peace and liberty. The next thing may be to forbid\n  white men and women to teach in Atlanta and Clark University.\n  Why not? This is a crusade against Negro elevation, against\n  Negroes being allowed to be as good as white men or being\n  treated as well. But the end will come all right, even if it be\n  through peril. It may require great courage and patience for a\n  while. Our deep sympathy will go to those white teachers whose\n  children attend these institutions. Our prayers are with them\n  that they may be led in the Lord\u2019s way. Just now the Devil\u2019s\n  way is popular in Georgia; but the Lord is on the side of the\n  weaker battalions.\n\n\nEXTRACTS FROM THE SOUTHERN PRESS.\n\n\nTHE AUGUSTA (GA.) CHRONICLE.\n\n  It is not new legislation to deprive the colored man of any\n  rights under the law. It is not either harsh or arbitrary\n  legislation. It is no interference with his personal or\n  political rights. The Glenn law merely provides for the\n  enforcement of the constitutional provision and statutory laws\n  governing the public school system of Georgia. That is all that\n  there is in the bill. Public sentiment justifies the enactment\n  and demands a rigid enforcement of the law against co-education\n  of the races.\n\n  Our stalwart friends bear false witness against the people of\n  Georgia, unintentionally, we hope, and we desire, if possible,\n  to remove the false impressions under which they labor. If\n  they respect the organic and statute laws of the State, if\n  they have any regard for the convictions and civilization and\n  settled policy of our people, which is irrevocable and firm\n  as the granite of our mountains, they cannot fail to see the\n  injustice done the State by their misrepresentation and abuse.\n  If our contemporaries proceed upon the higher-law theory and\n  have no regard for the constitutional, legal and moral rights\n  and customs of our people\u2014if they have no regard for the right\n  of each State to legislate for and regulate its own domestic\n  affairs\u2014they are advocating the claims of the socialists and\n  communists of the land, who assert that there is a law higher\n  than statutes and more imperative than the most sacred rights\n  of civilization.\n\n  There is no law, and there will be no law in Georgia against\n  the education of our brother in black, either in the primary\n  or intermediate department\u2014either in the high schools or\n  colleges. There is a law against the co-education of the races,\n  and if there were no law to prohibit, our civilization would\n  prevent. The constitution of the State prevents co-education\n  of races. The Negroes do not want it. The whites will not have\n  it. It is the fixed policy of the State to do equal and exact\n  justice to the colored man. The people of Georgia will regulate\n  their own domestic affairs without being influenced by outside\n  misrepresentation, or deterred by foolish intimidation. Our\n  Legislature will enact such additional laws in reference to\n  the education of the colored and white races separately as it\n  may deem most conducive to the welfare of each, and secure\n  the enforcement of the same without any regard to the silly\n  ravings or foolish threats of men who know nothing about the\n  educational status of the Negro in Georgia, and the relations\n  that exist between the whites and blacks. Co-education of\n  the whites and blacks in the South is an impossibility, and\n  the reasons are so apparent that it is unnecessary either to\n  present or discuss them any further.\n\n\nTHE SAVANNAH (GA.) MORNING NEWS.\n\n  The Glenn Bill is a wise measure for several reasons, but\n  mainly because it will save the public school system from\n  destruction. In the preservation of that system both races\n  are interested. It can only be preserved by keeping the races\n  separate in the schools. If the blacks were to demand mixed\n  schools and were to attempt to secure them through the ballot\n  box, the whites would at once oppose appropriations for\n  schools, and the common school system would be ruined. There\n  are two colored institutions in Atlanta in which white children\n  are now taught. Co-education in these two schools will soon be\n  made the excuse for mixed common schools. The agitation will\n  be productive of much bad feeling and cannot help injuring the\n  common schools by arousing public sentiment against them. The\n  sentiment of the State is clearly against mixing the races in\n  any way, and the Glenn Bill is in harmony with that sentiment.\n\n\nTHE MACON (GA.) TELEGRAPH.\n\n  The Glenn Bill, now pending in the Georgia Legislature, is\n  intended to carry out a clause of the State constitution.\n  That the people of the State indorse this clause is shown in\n  the large vote by which the constitution was adopted nearly\n  a decade since. The framers of that instrument declared that\n  there should be no mixed schools in Georgia.\n\n  This clause has been openly and flagrantly violated by the\n  teachers of Atlanta University. In that institution social\n  equality has been notoriously taught and practiced, and in that\n  institution colored teachers are prepared for places in the\n  public school system of the State. It would matter but little\n  if only the white children of the professors of the Atlanta\n  University were thus taught and trained, but the example is\n  pernicious and is becoming pervasive. Georgia cannot and will\n  not permit the natural line of demarcation between blacks\n  and whites to be broken down. She will countenance nothing\n  now looking to the mixture of the races in the future, to the\n  misery and possible destruction of both.\n\n  The school system of the State provides equal facilities to\n  blacks and whites, and the Glenn Bill does not impair or\n  threaten any right or privilege of the Negro. He is being\n  educated now, by the taxes of white men, to better advantage\n  than these same white men were educated years ago. It is the\n  policy, the interest and the safety of Georgia to keep the line\n  of demarcation between white and black as distinctly marked\n  as is the Gulf Stream in the waters of the Atlantic. The most\n  intelligent negroes favor separate schools and teachers of\n  their own race. Everything is satisfactory, except to certain\n  fanatical philanthropists and mischievous politicians, and the\n  present attempt at intimidation will soon fail.\n\n\nTHE ATLANTA (GA.) CONSTITUTION.\n\n  It is understood on every hand that public education at the\n  south would be overthrown in a moment if mixed schools were to\n  be ordered now. This is a fact with which every one here is\n  familiar. This being the case, how is it that the professors\n  of the Atlanta University, who have presumably been among us\n  for some time, do not understand the situation? For all we know\n  they may be trying to make martyrs of themselves, but we tell\n  them plainly that they have struck a blow at Negro education in\n  the South from which it will not recover in the next quarter\n  of a century. If they are really the friends of the Negro they\n  would have waited for time to do its perfect work, but in\n  jumping ahead of time they are responsible for sending back the\n  clock. Thus the matter stands.\n\n\nTHE NASHVILLE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN.\n\n  The bill seems to be aimed at the Atlanta University, where\n  there are a few white children\u2014mostly those of the teachers\u2014who\n  have gone there as missionaries to the colored people. A\n  similar state of things exists in the colored schools of this\n  State, and particularly in this city. No harm has ever come of\n  this practice. No white person has ever married a Negro, and\n  there is not the remotest probability that such a thing will\n  ever occur. We think it is far better in the South at least\n  that the two races should be educated in separate schools,\n  and that they should worship in separate churches. But when\n  it comes to making it a crime for missionaries to teach\n  their own children in the schools which they are sustaining\n  with a self-denial that is really sublime, we enter a most\n  emphatic protest in the name of the Christian religion which\n  those people are seeking to propagate among the ignorant and\n  degraded blacks of the South. The author of this bill in the\n  Georgia Legislature attempts to justify it on the ground of\n  his interest in the colored people. He also says that he fears\n  amalgamation. When assured that no such a result is at all\n  probable he explains that he fears intellectual amalgamation\n  even more than physical. This is not even respectable nonsense.\n  If the contact of an inferior with a superior mind produces an\n  intellectual hybrid, then we are all in danger. In denouncing\n  this Georgia bill we do not advocate the co-education of the\n  two races, nor do we believe there is any sensible man in this\n  part of the world who does. If the Georgia legislator\u2019s view\n  is to become the law of the land, then let the Church of God\n  recall its missionaries from heathen lands and acknowledge\n  Christianity a failure. The men and women, all over this land,\n  who have gone among the poor, unfortunate Negroes and taught\n  them knowledge and the way of salvation deserve special honor\n  and thanks at our hands. Every consideration of religion and\n  patriotism ought to make the friends of the Glenn Bill in the\n  Georgia Legislature ashamed of themselves. There is no nobler\n  work in this world than helping the lowly. There is no danger\n  that anybody will be hurt by trying to redeem the negro from\n  ignorance and sin.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA\u2019S NEED OF TEACHERS.\n\nB. M. ZETTLER, Supt. of Public Schools, Macon, Ga., expresses\nhimself in favor of the Blair Bill, in the following, which we take\nfrom the _Atlanta Constitution_. It should be remembered that the\ncolored teachers to whom Mr. Zettler refers come largely from the\nA. M. A. schools, and especially from the Atlanta University:\n\n\u201cFor fifteen years Georgia has been struggling with her public\nschool system, and owing to lack of means but little progress\nhas been made towards efficiency and thoroughness. Outside of\nour principal cities and towns the people are literally without\nschool-houses, and the State ought to spend not less than a hundred\nthousand dollars annually for five years in providing suitable\nschool-houses. But with a school fund not sufficient to keep the\nschools open three months in the year it is utterly useless to talk\nabout appropriating a dime for such a purpose.\n\n\u201cThen, too, we need at least a dozen well-equipped normal or\ntraining schools for teachers in different sections of the State,\nor, perhaps, which would suit our immediate needs better, fifty\nsummer institutes to introduce modern methods of teaching, and\nprepare persons to teach in the schools. It is a fact, sir, to-day\nin Georgia, that most of the white public schools of our rural\ndistricts are taught (?) by broken-down preachers, doctors and\nlawyers, men who not only know little about teaching, but who are\n\u2018worn out\u2019 and are physically unequal to the work of teaching. And\njust here let me call your attention to the difference in the white\nand the colored schools in this respect. The latter are, almost\nwithout exception, in the hands of young men and women as teachers,\nand these bring to their work the enthusiasm and freshness of\nyouth. Scores of them come, too, from the training schools, not\nonly instructed in modern methods, but overflowing with zeal in\nthe cause of popular education. They become, in every sense of the\nword, \u2018missionaries of education\u2019 to their people, and when their\nState association convenes in annual session they come up by the\nhundred to report results and compare ideas, not forgetting to send\nwords of greeting to the score or two of white teachers assembled\nin the same capacity. Is the contrast a pleasant one for the white\npeople of our State? I think not.\n\n\u201cBut I need not go beyond the borders of our own county to prove\nthat we need the aid offered by the Blair Bill. Right here in Bibb\nwe ought to spend ten thousand dollars a year for five years in\nbuilding and equipping school-houses. We need, right now, thirty\nadditional school-houses in the country districts, and at least two\nmore in the city, and with the addition to our school fund of the\neight to twelve thousand dollars a year for eight years that would\nfall to our share under the provisions of the Blair Bill, as it\npassed the Senate, we could afford to spend at least five thousand\ndollars a year of our county appropriation in these greatly needed\nschool buildings.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLE MOYNE INSTITUTE.\n\nI know some readers of THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, as they follow the\nwork of the various institutions from year to year in the accounts\nsent from the field, wonder how each year in succession can\npossibly be reported \u201cthe very best in the history of the school,\u201d\nand ask rather dubiously if at such a rate perfection is not near.\nIt is a fact, however, in the history of all our well-established\nschools, barring accidents of unusual nature that could not be\nforeseen or controlled, that each year does show gratifying\nadvancement in many respects. Beginning eighteen to twenty or more\nyears ago with nothing but our hands and plenty of exceedingly raw\nmaterial to work upon, it would be strange if room were not found\nfor improvement and growth, and while thankful for what has been\ngained we see abundance of room for yet further advancement. When\nthis ceases to be the general report from the South it may be taken\nas a sign that our presence is no longer needed there. Le Moyne\nSchool can again, as often heretofore, report \u201cthe best year in its\nwhole history.\u201d We have had trials and cares and annoyances, but\nmost of them have, we trust, but strengthened our work and given\nassurance of future triumphs.\n\nOur total enrollment during this year has been larger than ever\nbefore. The average attendance has been much better, more students\nremaining in school steadily through the year, and we are certain\nthat we see a steady growth in stability of mind and character\namong our young people. A truer conception of what life is and the\nbest preparation possible to meet its requirements, we try to keep\nconstantly in mind as the aim and end of all our work.\n\nThe complete equipment of our Manual Training Department and its\ncomplete destruction by fire in April, marks both a triumph and a\ntrial to us, and its reconstruction and re-equipment before the\nmiddle of May, in every respect more complete and thorough than\nbefore, makes it easy for us to forget the loss and doubly to\nrejoice over the doubly won success.\n\nThis department adds greatly to the strength of our work and\ninfluence. We feel its reaction for good in every class and\nexercise of the school.\n\nThe closing exercises of the year were of unusual interest. The\nannual sermon was preached by Prof. Austin, a recent graduate of\nFisk University. His sermon, plain and full of applications to life\nand personal conduct, showed, with his general bearing, that his\nown training had not been in vain, and as coming from one of their\nown number who had gained his education and his success by his own\neffort, it was received with perhaps better effect than might have\nbeen an abler sermon by one out of their sphere of life.\n\nThe Children\u2019s Exhibition and that of the Junior Classes of the\nNormal Department were well attended, and of course a source of\ngreat enjoyment and delight to the pupils and their friends,\nwhile the proceeds of admission have given us a handsome sum to\nbe expended in new books for our growing and most useful library,\ncontaining now over 1,600 volumes, gathered during the past twelve\nyears by such efforts. The exercises of graduation were attended\nby a great throng of people, numbering from two to three thousand,\nfilling to overflowing the largest church in the city, the African\nM. E.\n\nFive students were graduated from the full Normal course, with\nthe usual accompaniments of flowers and enthusiasm on the part of\nadmiring friends. It would be difficult to state the meaning of\nsuch occasions to these people. I leave it to be imagined. The\naddress this year was given by Judge Greer of the city, a most able\nand estimable man. He spoke of the advancement of the child over\nthe parent, showing the vast progress made in the world in the past\ncentury, and hoping for yet better things for generations of youth\ncoming on and yet to come.\n\nThe Alumni meeting brought together nearly thirty of the graduates\nof the school, most of the classes being represented. Only the\ngraduates, the faculty and a few invited guests enjoy this the last\nand best exercise of the year.\n\nThe addresses then given, some impromptu and some after careful\npreparation, brought in themselves, and with the company of\nself-respecting young people present, ample reward for the years of\ntoil and sacrifice that have led to such results. A. J. STEELE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\nCALIFORNIA AS A MISSIONARY FIELD.\n\nIn the deeply interesting paper of Secretary Barrows, presented\nat the last Anniversary of the A. H. M. S., the expectation is\nexpressed that California, and several other States, \u201cwill soon\ntake upon themselves the whole burden of their own support and, not\nonly so, will assist the mother society.\u201d I venture to make this\nexpectation my text for this month\u2019s article in the MISSIONARY,\nbecause it represents a view of California very prevalent among our\nEastern friends, and to one who looks at us through the newspapers\nand from a distance of from 2,000 to 4,000 miles, apparently well\nfounded. It is not impertinent, I think, for me to remark upon\nthis expectation; I even feel it _necessary_ that I should do so;\nbecause it suggests inevitably the query whether California\u2014if the\nresponsibility were thrown upon her\u2014could not at once take care of\nall needed missionary work among the Chinese.\n\nI think I may safely claim that but _one_ of my brethren is better\nacquainted with the condition of our churches in California than I\nam, and to him I have submitted the statement I am about to make.\nI refer to our veteran Home Missionary Superintendent, Rev. Dr.\nWarren. His reply is in these words: \u201cHave read your note carefully\ntwice; every word is true.\u201d\n\nThere is great and rapidly increasing wealth in California; wealth,\nif it were held consecrate to Christ, far more than sufficient\nto sustain all needed religious institutions; but it is safe to\nsay that forty-nine fiftieths (and I wrote at first, not without\ncareful thought, ninety-nine one-hundredths,) of it is in hands\nof men who will not consider appeals for missionary contributions\nand evince no interest in any church work. There are also some\nstrong churches in California, in connection with all the leading\ndenominations, and we, Congregationalists, have perhaps our share\nof them. These churches have wealthy men in their congregations,\nand a few of these men are professors of religion. But what I wish\nnoted is that _all_ such churches, so far as our own denomination\nis concerned, could be counted on the fingers of one hand. I\nname them: The First and Plymouth of San Francisco, the First in\nOakland, and the First in Los Angeles.\n\nOf course, when we speak of churches as strong or weak, we speak\nrelatively. I have in mind what might be called the New England\nstandard, and I say that only these four among all our churches\nwould, if set down in Massachusetts or Connecticut, be accounted\nstrong. The churches in Berkeley and in Sacramento would rank next\nto these, though in both of them the home work involves a constant\nstruggle. There are certain other points, as Ferndale, Lockeford,\nWoodland, South San Juan, and especially Grass Valley, where single\nindividuals of considerable wealth are connected more or less\nclosely with our churches, but when I have spoken of these I have\nexhausted the list of those who _could_ give largely, however well\ndisposed.\n\nWe have (say) 120 Congregational churches in the State, with (say)\n8,000 members. (The last statistics, now nearly a year old, give\n114 churches and 7,308 members.) More than three-eighths of this\naggregate membership are to be found in five churches, leaving\nto the remaining 115 churches an average membership of about 40.\nAmong these remaining churches are 15 that have an aggregate\nmembership now of about 2,500; so that we have 100 churches with an\naverage membership not exceeding 25. These churches are scattered\nover a territory nearly three times as large as all New England.\nA line drawn diagonally across California in either direction\nwould reach from the northeastern point of Maine to the centre\nof North Carolina! It is a State of boundless possibilities,\ninviting and now welcoming a tremendous immigration. Opportunities\nabound. The demands for Christian work, in order to improve these\nopportunities, are imperious and almost oppressive. What might\nbe possible if California Christians were all ideal Christians,\nI do not know; but taking Christian people as they average the\ncountry over, taking churches as we find them in this world and\nat this particular stage in the development of Christianity, it\nis chimerical to suppose that for a _long time_ to come the Home\nMissionary work that ought to be done in connection with our\ndenomination in California will be sustained by contributions made\nupon the ground. Still more chimerical it would be to expect that\nthis missionary work among the Chinese, to which we are summoned by\nevery instinct of our faith and by a special call of Providence,\nbut which _here_ is called to encounter special prejudices and\npull a laboring oar unceasingly against both wind and tide,\ncould be maintained without assistance from abroad. The fact is\nthat but for the generous assistance of the American Missionary\nAssociation there would not be enough left of our Chinese mission\nto stir any interest or induce any giving at all in California.\nIt is because the Association started us, and because it, and it\nalone, enables us to give to the work such extent as it has, and\ndevelop it into such present usefulness and gather about it such\npromise of larger good; it is thus, and thus only, that we have\ngained our vantage-ground for successful appeal. As it is, the\namount contributed in California for this cause must be to every\none acquainted with all the facts a grateful surprise. It reached\nlast year a total of $2,654.05. I trust the amount will be no\nsmaller this year. But should the Association stand aside, it would\nin another year be reduced almost to nothing. When effort becomes\nhopeless, enthusiasm dies.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGRADUATING ADDRESS OF YAN PHOU LEE, AT YALE COLLEGE.\n\nTHE OTHER SIDE OF THE CHINESE QUESTION.\n\nThe torrents of hatred and abuse which have periodically swept\nover the Chinese industrial class in America had their sources in\nthe early California days. They grew gradually in strength, and,\nuniting in one mighty stream, at last broke the barriers with which\njustice, humanity and the Constitution of the Republic had until\nthen restrained their fury.\n\nThe catastrophe was too terrible, and has made too deep an\nimpression to be easily forgotten. Even if Americans are disposed\nto forget, the Chinese will not fail to keep the sad record of\nfaith unkept, of persecution permitted by an enlightened people,\nof rights violated without redress in a land where all are equal\nbefore the law.\n\nSad it is that in a Christian community only a feeble voice here\nand there has been raised against this public wrong; while the\nenemies of the Chinese laborer may be counted by the million. Yet\nthese men, having everything their own way, are still dissatisfied\nand cannot rest secure until all the Chinese laborers have been\ndriven out or killed off with the connivance of a perverted public\nopinion. Is it not high time for good men to \u2014\u2014 themselves and\nsay to the enemy of industry and order, \u201cHalt! thus far shalt thou\ngo, and no farther\u201d? For be assured that after the Chinese have\nall departed, those men who are determined to get high wages for\ndoing nothing will turn against other peaceful sons of toil; and\nwho would venture to say that there will be absolute safety for the\nnative American? Mob-rule knows no respect for persons; the Chinese\nwere attacked first simply because they were the weakest. I do not\ndeny that the anti-Chinese agitation has some _show_ of reason. But\nits strength rests on three erroneous assumptions, by proving the\ngroundlessness of which the whole superstructure of fallacy and\nfalsehood can be made to totter.\n\nFirst, it is assumed that the work to be done and the fund for\nlabor\u2019s remuneration are fixed quantities, and that if the Chinese\nare employed so much will be taken from other laborers. It is\nsufficient to reply that no economist holds that view.\n\nSecondly, it is assumed that the Pekin authorities are anxious to\nget rid of its redundant population. Nothing can be more absurd.\nThey have been always, and are still, averse to the emigration\nof their subjects; so much so that they yielded only to the\ninducements and concessions offered by this Government, which are\nembodied in the Burlingame Treaty. Another proof is the readiness\nwith which they consented to the limitation of Chinese immigration\nwhen the Angell Treaty was negotiated.\n\nThirdly, it is assumed that China\u2019s four hundred millions are\nonly waiting for an opening to \u201cinundate\u201d this country. This is\nsoberly asserted and has the effect of the Gorgon-head; for who is\nnot stunned at the bare mention of this appalling and impending\ndisaster? It would be terrible if it were possible\u2014if it could be\ntrue.\n\nBut there is no cause for apprehension. The immigration of my\ncompatriots has been exclusively from Canton and the region around\nit within a radius of a hundred miles. The population of this\ndistrict is estimated at 5,000,000. Not a single immigrant has\nhailed from any other part of the Empire. The Mongolization of\nAmerica, therefore, is an event as far off as the Millennium. For\nafter twenty-five years of unrestricted immigration, your patriotic\nagitators could muster up only 200,000 Chinese laborers in all the\nStates and Territories. Now place this figure side by side with the\n3,000,000 of immigrant princes from the \u201cEnglish Poland,\u201d which has\nnever had more than 8,000,000 inhabitants at any one time, and you\nwill be struck with the contrast.\n\nWhat reason can we give why so few comparatively come from China?\nThe Chinese are by nature and from habit gregarious, but not\nmigratory. They dislike to cut adrift from the ties of kindred,\nthe associations of home, the traditions of fatherland. The belief\nthat their welfare in the future life depends on the proper burial\nof their remains in home-soil, followed by sorrowing children and\ntearful widow, curbs their desire to go abroad, even with the hope\nof bettering their condition. But as only the poorest are tempted\nto lead a life of adventure, and as the good Emperor does not\npay their passage money, the number that _can_ leave their native\nland is very small. Thus you will find that Chinese immigrants are\nusually poor on landing, for they bring no votes in their pockets\nwhich can immediately be turned into money, and so they must rely\nupon their countrymen who have preceded them for assistance. This\nis afforded by the Six Companies, who accordingly have a lien on\ntheir prospective wages. From this practice of advancing money\narises the terrible accusation that Chinese labor is contract\nlabor\u2014is slave labor. We know with what reluctance they first\nmade their way to this country. Oftentimes they had to be drugged\nand kidnapped. It was thought necessary, for labor in those days\nwas in great demand; the Western country was wild; its resources\nwanted development. Laborers were welcome irrespective of race or\nnationality.\n\nBut the times soon changed; California had grown rich and\nflourishing; the Pacific Railroad had been built; wages had fallen;\nthe Chinese became superfluous, and the corals which constructed\nthe reef must go or die. From being an economic question, the\nexpulsion of the Chinese laborers was made a political question.\nDisinterested demagogues easily won mob-favor by advocating the\ncause of the sand-lot, and the Chinese workmen were sacrificed to\nthe Moloch of political ambition. The matter was carried to the\nNational Council, and you would suppose that Congress at least\nwould be just and dispassionate, but it, too, was borne along the\nwaves of prejudice.\n\nIn every such conflict might is right; the weakest goes to the\nwall. Two parties were bidding for the Pacific vote\u2014that of great\nmoral principles as well as that of no principles. The Chinese came\nin like cloth between the blades of the scissors, like Mr. Pickwick\nbetween the infuriated rival editors of Eatanswill. When 80,000\noffices were at stake, and the hoodlums of California had to be\npetted, it was not hard to make the Chinese out to be _undesirable_\nimmigrants and to hoodwink the public with charges against them\nwhich are false, or which may be preferred against all immigrants.\n\nSand-lotters were scandalized by the alleged immoral practices of\nthe Asiatics; were in trembling and fear lest their Christianity\nshould suffer by contact with Chinese paganism. I believe the\ncesspool once complained of the influx of muddy water. Californians\nprohibited the Chinese from becoming citizens and then accused them\nof failure to become naturalized. People in general were staggered\nat the imminent danger of the Mongolization of America and at the\nsame time found fault with the Chinese for not making the United\nStates their home. \u201cConsistency, thou art a jewel.\u201d\n\nThose who make America a catspaw to secure home-rule chestnuts\nproved most conclusively the non-assimilability of the Chinese\nrace\u2014said they came simply to make money which eventually found its\nway to the old country. I admit both points: I admit that they do\nnot come to America for the good of _their_ fatherland and mother\nchurch, and that they _do_ come to make money. So do Americans in\nChina. They are wicked enough to send money home to support wife\nand children, but they give an equivalent in work. Gold and silver\nare things you can most conveniently spare; but if you must keep\nthem at home, why then make a law forbidding their export.\n\nI also admit that the Chinese laborer does not assimilate with\nyour enlightened Hibernian citizens. Thank God for that! If he\ndid, he would not be compelled to do menial work through fear of\nstarvation. If he did he might have become a saloon statesman by\nthis time, or even a much-envied \u201cboodler.\u201d If he did, he might be\neven now luxuriating in Sing Sing at the public expense.\n\nBut why pursue this theme further? The bill was passed which\nexcludes both skilled as well as unskilled Chinese laborers, though\nthe Court of Pekin diplomatically understood that the restriction\nwas to affect common workmen alone. Natives of China are forbidden\nto become citizens of this Republic, which takes to its bosom\nthe off-scouring, the garbage, and the dynamite of Europe. Never\nhad there been seen such pandering to the worst passion of an\ninsignificant faction!\n\nWere it not for the tragic events which trod on the heels of the\nChinese Immigration Bill, one might be inclined to laugh at the\nabsurdities in the bill itself. If the law is faithfully executed\n(and to be worth anything it must be), all Americans born in China\nare disfranchised, and all Chinese natives of British colonies,\nlike Hong Kong and India, have free access to this country. But\nwho could laugh in the midst of indignant tears? By passing a\ndiscriminating law against an already persecuted class, the Central\nGovernment yielded to the demands of the mob, and to that extent\ncountenanced its violence and lawlessness. The Anti-Chinese Act\nis a cause of all the outrages and massacres that have been since\ncommitted in Rock Springs and Denver, in Portland, San Francisco\nand other parts, which, if they had been perpetrated in China\nagainst Americans, would have resounded from Bedloe\u2019s Island\n(whereon stands the Statue of Liberty) to the Golden Gate. But the\ncriminals in these cases were not punished, and even the pitiful\nindemnity was voted down until Congress could not withhold it from\nvery shame.\n\nI have stated facts which are well known. It is not necessary to\nexaggerate. I now ask you Christian people of America whether you\nhave not failed in your duties as lovers of justice and fatherland,\nin _not_ enforcing your opinions in public and in private, as well\nin church as in State. I ask those who gallantly sided with the\nstrong against the weak, whether they do not think they have done\nenough for glory and personal ambition?\n\nIf there is an avenging Deity, (and we believe there is), ought\nyou not to beware of the retribution which is sure to overtake a\nnation that permits the cold-blooded murder of innocent strangers\nwithin its gates to go unpunished?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR JULY, 1887.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $358.65.\n\n    Andover. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Williamsburg, Ky._             $10.00\n    Auburn. Sixth St. Cong. Ch.                                9.04\n    Bangor. Madam Coe. _for Oahe Ind\u2019l Sch._                   5.00\n    Cumberland Mills. Warren Ch.                               8.70\n    Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                7.00\n    Machias. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                           10.00\n    Monson. Cong. Ch.                                          5.05\n    Portland. State St. Cong. Ch., 150; Williston\n      Ch., 40                                                190.00\n    Saco. First Parish Cong. Ch.                               7.86\n    South Berwick. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Kreutzer Marie Adlof Sch\u2019p._                           100.00\n    South Berwick. Mrs. Lewis\u2019 S. S. Class, _for\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                        2.00\n    West Brooksville. Cong. Ch.                                2.00\n    Winterport. Cong. Ch.                                      2.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $376.32.\n\n    Claremont. \u201cFriend\u201d                                        1.00\n    Concord. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         46.00\n    Derry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           70.00\n    Fitzwilliam. Mrs. L. Hill                                 10.00\n    Great Falls. Cong. Ch.                                    20.00\n    Hopkinton. First Cong. Ch.                                25.06\n    Manchester. Hanover St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      69.01; C. B. Southworth, 25                             94.01\n    Monroe. Mrs. Emeline H. Chase                              4.00\n    Nashua. Fist Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           16.55\n    Rochester. \u201cFriends\u201d                                      20.00\n    Union. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 17.38; \u201cDo Good\n      Soc. of Children,\u201d 2.62, _for Storrs Sch.,\n      Atlanta, Ga._                                           20.00\n    Warner. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 9.20\n    Winchester. A. L. Jewell, 5; Sab. Sch. of\n      Cong. Ch., 2.68                                          7.68\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $343.50\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Cornish. Estate of Mrs. Sarah W. Westgate, by\n      Geo. H. Ayers, Chairman of Trustees                     25.82\n    Concord. Estate of G. B. Wardwell                          7.00\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $376.32\n\n\n  VERMONT, $245.72.\n\n    Cambridge. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       1.00\n    Castleton. First Cong. Ch.                                16.85\n    Coventry. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for McIntosh,\n      Ga._                                                    11.00\n    Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch.                               14.04\n    Franklin. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n    Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     5.17\n    Jericho Center. First Cong. Ch.                            7.00\n    Johnson. Cong. Ch.                                        16.00\n    Lunenburg. Cong. Ch.                                       3.00\n    Lyndon. Mrs. A. L. Ray                                     2.00\n    North Craftsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      12.72\n    Norwich. Mrs. Albert Buell                                10.00\n    Peacham. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs.\n      C. A. Bunker                                            21.00\n    Poultney. Cong. Ch.                                        6.00\n    Saint Johnsbury. Ladies, adl., _for McIntosh,\n      Ga._, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks                            1.25\n    Saxton\u2019s River. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        23.29\n    Sheldon. Cong. Ch.                                         5.00\n    Thetford. First Cong. Ch.                                  3.75\n    Waitsfield. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by\n      Mrs. Henry Fairbanks                                     8.00\n    Waterville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             1.00\n    Woodstock. Cong. Ch.                                      72.65\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $4,287.51.\n\n    Alford. J. Jay Dana, to const. REV. AUGUSTUS\n      ALVORD, L. M.                                           30.00\n    Amherst. First Cong. Ch.                                  25.00\n    Amherst. Boy\u2019s Soc., by Miss Emma Beaman, _for\n      Indian M._                                               6.00\n    Amherst. Miss M. H. Scott, Bbl. of C., _for\n      Tougaloo U._\n    Andover. Chapel Ch. and Cong., 70; G. W. W.\n      Dove, 50; Free Christian Ch., 25, bal. to\n      const. GEORGE CHRISTIE, L. M.                          145.00\n    Arlington. Ortho. Cong. Ch.                               25.00\n    Beverly. Dane St. Ch. and Soc.                           226.88\n    Boston. \u201cA partial payment of the\n        Debt due from the North to the\n        Colored race of the South\u201d                50.00\n      Boston. \u201cA Friend\u201d                          10.00\n      Boston. Mrs. Jacob Fullarton                 0.50\n      Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch. and\n        Soc. (5 of which _for Indian M._)        115.71\n      Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. and Soc., to\n        const. FRANCIS J. WARD, L. M.             90.60\n      West Roxbury. South Evan. Ch. and\n        Soc.                                      29.65\n                                                 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014      296.46\n    Brockton. E. C. Randall                                    0.50\n    Brookfield. Mrs. R. B Montague                             8.00\n    Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc.                           68.45\n    Cambridge. Miss H. E. Moore                                8.00\n    Canton. Evan. Cong. Ch.                                   15.00\n    Chelsea. Mrs. Emma B. Evans                                5.00\n    Chesterfield. Cong. Ch.                                    5.00\n    Coleraine. Ladies of Cong. Ch.                            10.00\n    Conway. Cong. Ch.                                          6.00\n    Dighton. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., by Mrs. Wm. B.\n      Greene                                                  10.00\n    East Bridgewater. Sab. Sch. of Union Cong.\n      Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                    25.00\n    East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        2.87\n    Easthampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     77.58\n    Easton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. REV. F.\n      P. CHAPIN, L. M.                                        35.91\n    Easton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid. Fisk U._, and to const. MISS C. E.\n      MITCHELL, L. M.                                         35.00\n    Falmouth. First Ch.                                       62.91\n    Fitchburg. C. C. Ch.                                      30.00\n    Framingham. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    25.00\n    Gilbertville. Cong. Ch.                                    3.00\n    Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      50.00\n    Haverhill Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to\n      const. MRS. SAMUEL DRIVER, L. M.                       100.00\n    Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           12.00\n    Holliston. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 147.88; \u201cBible\n      Christians of Dist. No. 4,\u201d 30                         177.88\n    Holliston. Inf. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               6.17\n    Holyoke. \u201cFriends,\u201d by E. B. Reed, _for Indian\n      Scholarship_                                            17.50\n    Holyoke. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Indian M._                        7.00\n    Hyde Park. By Mrs. E. S. Paine, _for Oahe\n      Indl. Sch._                                              2.00\n    Lawrence. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        15.36\n    Lenox. Cong. Ch.                                          29.50\n    Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc.                           13.50\n    Marblehead. J. J. H. Gregory, _for Wilmington,\n      N.C._                                                   94.33\n    Marlboro. Union Cong. Ch., to const. MRS.\n      SAMUEL BOYD, MRS. DELIA E. BUCKLIN, and MRS.\n      JOHN E. CURTIS, L. M\u2019s                                  93.62\n    Medway. Village Ch. and Soc.                              85.89\n    Milbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         51.60\n    Monterey. Cong. Ch.                                       30.00\n    New Bedford. Members North Cong. Ch., _for\n      Tougaloo U._                                            15.00\n    Newton. Eliot Ch. and Soc.                               100.00\n    Newton. \u201cEliot Mission Circle,\u201d 16 _for Oahe_,\n      and 70c. _for Rosebud Indian M._                        16.70\n    Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   85.57\n    Newton Center. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._           20.00\n    North Adams. First Cong. Ch.                              22.68\n    Northampton. Kate E. Tyler                                10.00\n    Northboro. Sab. Sch. of Evan. Cong. Ch.                   15.00\n    North Woburn. B. F. Kimball                                2.50\n    North Woburn. Miss Amanda Sevrens, _for\n      Rosebud Indian M._                                       0.20\n    Oxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 76; Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y\n      Soc., by L. D. Stockwell, Treas., 14                    90.00\n    Peabody. Sab. Sch., S. Cong. Ch., _for Oahe\n      Ind\u2019l Sch._                                             25.00\n    Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 85;\n      Second Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., 10                      95.00\n    Sherborn. Pilgrim Ch. and Sab. Sch.                       30.00\n    Southboro. Miss M. J. Temple, _for Freight_                1.50\n    South Framingham. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Indian M._              12.00\n    South Lee. Mrs. Horace Martin                              3.50\n    Templeton. Trin. Ch. and Soc.                             19.07\n    Townsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              21.84\n    Wakefield. Cong. Ch.                                      50.95\n    Wendell. Cong. Ch., 3; \u201cFriends,\u201d 5                        8.00\n    West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           8.00\n    Westhampton. \u201cP.\u201d                                          5.00\n    West Medway. Second Cong. Ch., bal. to const.\n      HELEN C. ALLEN, L. M.                                   15.73\n    West Newton. Cong. Ch., _for Talledega C._                53.85\n    West Tisbury. First Cong. Ch.                              4.59\n    Weymouth. S. F. Jenkins\u2019 Bible Class, _for\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                       10.00\n    Whitman. \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. MISS SARAH M.\n      BATES and HARRY R. REED, L. M\u2019s                         60.00\n    Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch., (80 of which to\n      const. REV. CHARLES WADSWORTH, L. M.) 187;\n      Piedmont Cong. Ch., 100; Salem St. Ch. 38.55           325.55\n    By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass\u2019n:\n      Agawam. Feeding Hills                       15.00\n      Chicopee. Second                            53.92\n      Chicopee. Third                             13.97\n      Chicopee. Third _for Indian M._              2.53\n      Holyoke. Second                             86.98\n      Huntington. Second                          13.15\n      South Hadley Falls                          19.50\n      Springfield. North                          37.17\n      Springfield. South                          47.08\n      Wilbraham                                   12.75\n                                                 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014      302.05\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $3,403.19\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Cambridge. Estate of A. E. Hildreth, by his\n      Sons                                                   500.00\n    Uxbridge. Estate of Mrs. A. H. Tucker, by\n      Jacob Taft, Ex.                                        384.32\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $4,287.51\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $174.97.\n\n    Central Falls. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                 25.00\n    Little Compton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., bal.\n      _for Kreutzer Marie Adlof Sch\u2019p_                         8.00\n    Pawtucket. Cong. Ch.                                     115.97\n    Providence. Young Ladies\u2019 Mission Circle of\n      North Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._                        26.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $4,038.88.\n\n    Berlin. Ladies\u2019 Sewing Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Conn. Ind\u2019l School, Ga._                                21.25\n    Bridgeport. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Sch\u2019p, Indian M._                                  25.51\n    Bristol. Cong. Ch.                                        75.00\n    Buckingham. Ladies\u2019 Sewing Soc., _for Conn.\n      Ind\u2019l School, Ga._                                       5.00\n    Burlington. Cong. Ch.                                      3.00\n    Cheshire. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud\n      Indian M._                                               5.50\n    Clinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Indian M._               3.05\n    Colebrook. Cong. Ch. (1 of which from Mrs. E.\n      Penney, of Millbrook)                                   15.12\n    Cornwall. First Cong. Ch.                                 15.07\n    Durham. First Cong. Ch.                                   12.96\n    East Granby. Cong. Ch.                                     5.00\n    East Hampton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Indian M._                                               6.00\n    Ellsworth. Cong. Ch.                                       8.56\n    Fairfield. Mrs. Jonathan Sturges, _for Indian\n      M._                                                     25.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                     85.31\n    Greenfield Hill. Cong. Ch.                                15.43\n    Guilford. Third Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             30.00\n    Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford, 100; Jos. W.\n      Hungerford, 100; Cong. Ch., 5.70                       205.70\n    Hartford. Warburton Chapel Sab. Sch., _for\n      Rosebud Indian M._                                      20.25\n    Hartford. \u201cFriends,\u201d 6; Fourth Cong. Ch.,\n      6.25, _for Indian M._                                   12.25\n    Higganum. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                          30.60\n    Kensington. Cong. Ch., 25; Mrs. Edward Cowles,\n      3                                                       28.00\n    Lyme. Grassy Hill Cong. Ch.                                8.50\n    Manchester. Sab. Sch., of North Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Rosebud Indian M._                                 55.14\n    Mansfield Center. Mrs. B. Swift                           25.00\n    Mansfield Center. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Rosebud Indian M._                                      10.00\n    Marlboro. Cong. Ch.                                       20.00\n    Meriden. Center Ch.                                       50.00\n    Middletown. First Ch., by R. H. Stothart,\n      Treas.                                                  65.31\n    Naubuc. \u201cA Friend\u201d (4 of which _for Indian M_)            84.00\n    New Haven. Mrs. A. S. Farnam, _for Oahe Ind\u2019l\n      Sch._                                                   50.00\n    New Haven. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._                             25.00\n    New Haven. Alfred Walker                                  10.00\n    Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              100.00\n    Norfolk. Cong. Ch., 19.77; Miss M. Curtis, 10,\n      _for Indian M._                                         29.77\n    North Cornwall. Cong. Ch., to const. DWIGHT\n      ROGERS and GEO. HUGHES, L. M\u2019s                          61.00\n    Northfield. Cong. Ch.                                     42.46\n    North Haven. Cong. Ch.                                   131.00\n    Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch.                              200.00\n    Norwich Town. \u201cThe Other Girls,\u201d by Fannie I.\n      Williams, _for Conn. Ind\u2019l Sch., Ga._                   22.00\n    Norwich Town. First Cong. Ch.                             21.00\n    Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                                   24.81\n    Plainville. Solomon Curtiss                              100.00\n    Plantsville. Walter W. Altwein, _for Rosebud\n      Indian M._                                               0.10\n    Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.                                  24.62\n    Rockville. Second Cong. Ch.                              500.00\n    Salisbury. Cong. Ch.                                      87.21\n    Salisbury. Sab. Sch. Class, by T. J. Roraback,\n      _for Oaks, N.C._                                         5.00\n    Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 4.75\n    Southbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              8.40\n    Southington. Cong. Ch. (of which 1.10 _for\n      Conn. Ind\u2019l Sch., Ga_)                                  51.10\n    Southport. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     25.00\n    South Windsor. First Cong. Ch.                            11.96\n    Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              13.90\n    Terryville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Indian Student Aid_                                     17.50\n    Washington. J. G. Fenn                                     1.00\n    Waterbury. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._               80.00\n    Watertown. Mrs. F. Scott\u2019s S. S. Class, _for\n      Student Aid, Fort Berthold, Dak._                       15.00\n    West Hartford. Anson Chappell                             10.00\n    Westport. Sab. Sch. of Saugatuck Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Conn. Ind\u2019l Sch., Ga._                             20.00\n    Westport. Saugatuck Cong. Ch.                             18.00\n    West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  229.11\n    Windsor. First Cong. Ch.                                  45.00\n    Windsor. Miss M. E. Sill, _for Oahe Ind\u2019l Sch._           25.00\n    Winsted. First Cong. Ch.                                  44.31\n    Wolcott. Cong. Ch.                                         6.00\n    Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union of Conn., by\n      Mrs. S. M. Hotchkiss, Sec., _for Conn. Ind\u2019l\n      Sch., Ga._:\n        Suffield. Young Ladies H. M. Circle                    7.37\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $3,038.88\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Norwich. Estate of Mrs. H. B. Norton, by Miss\n      E. F. Norton                                         1,000.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $4,038.88\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $1,409.80.\n\n    Batavia. Miss Sarah F. Lincoln                            10.00\n    Brooklyn. South Cong. Ch., 50; \u201cA Friend,\u201d to\n      const. HON. NEAL DOW, L. M., 30; Rev. S. W.\n      Powell, 3                                               83.00\n    Candor. Cong. Ch.                                         10.08\n    Chenango Forks. Cong. Ch.                                  3.00\n    Chittenango. Mrs. Amelia L. Brown                          5.00\n    East Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       54.00\n    East Bloomfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Santee Indian M._                                       30.00\n    East Bloomfield. Mrs. Eliza S. Goodwin                     1.00\n    Ellington. Mrs. M. Ellsworth                               1.00\n    Geneva. J. V. Ditmars                                      3.00\n    Greene. Cong. Ch.                                         12.00\n    Hamilton. Cong. Ch., 6.25; O. S. Campbell, 5              11.25\n    Homer. Cong. Ch.                                          26.19\n    Hopkinton. First Cong. Ch.                                17.00\n    Howell\u2019s. Cong. Ch.                                        9.00\n    Lockport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                          75.00\n    Lowville. Mrs. L. C. Hough, bal. to const.\n      REV. L. R. WEBBER, L. M.                                20.00\n    Madrid. First Cong. Ch.                                    5.00\n    Munnsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Santee Indian M._                                        7.00\n    New York. S. T. Gordon                       200.00\n    New York. S. T. Gordon, _for Howard U._      125.00\n    New York. Sab. Sch. of Broadway Tab.,\n      _for Student Aid, Fort\n      Berthold, Dak._                             50.00\n    New York. Bethany Sewing Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fort Berthold, Dak._           36.08\n                                                 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014      411.08\n    Patchogue. First Cong. Ch.                                19.41\n    Portland. First Cong. Ch.                                  5.35\n    Poughkeepsie. Cong. Ch.                                   23.30\n    Sinclearville. E. Williams                                 5.00\n    Spencerport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., to const.\n      J. C. BRIGHAM, L. M.                                    40.00\n    Union Center. Cong. Ch.                                    2.85\n    Woodville. Cong. Ch.                                      10.00\n    Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union of N. Y., by\n      Mrs. L. H. Cobb, Treas., _for Woman\u2019s Work_:\n        Danby. Acorn Band                          6.80\n        Walton. Ladies\u2019 Aux.                      20.00\n                                                 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014       26.80\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $926.31\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Albany. Estate of Mrs. Joanna T. D. Carner               483.49\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $1,409.80\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $280.00.\n\n    Chester. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       25.00\n    Jersey City. Mrs. Henry O. Ames                            5.00\n    Montclair. First Cong. Ch.                                25.00\n    Montclair. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               5.00\n    Orange. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        50.00\n    Stanley. \u201cThe Helping Hands\u201d of Cong. Sab.\n      Sch., _for Indian M._                                   50.00\n    Westfield. Mission Band, by Matilda C. Alpers             20.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend in New Jersey\u201d                             100.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $32.95.\n\n    Centre Road. J. A. Scovel                                 12.00\n    Drifton. Sab. Sch. Class, by Rev. J. P.\n      Humphreys                                                1.20\n    Neath. Cong. Ch.                                           3.33\n    Ridgway. Minnie Kline, _for Oaks, N.C._                    5.00\n    Scranton. Plymouth Ch.                                    11.42\n\n\n  OHIO, $509.24.\n\n    Akron. Cong. Ch.                                         156.73\n    Alexis. Cong. Ch.                                          4.10\n    Alliance. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 5.68; Mrs.\n      Rev. J. M. Thomas, 5, _for Indian M._                   10.68\n    Brownhelm. O. H. Perry                                    10.00\n    Burton. Mrs. H. H. Ford                                    4.00\n    Cincinnati. Mrs. Rachel M. Smith                           2.50\n    Conneaut. H. E. Pond                                       5.00\n    Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Ch.                                  7.82\n    Harmar. Cong. Ch.                                        176.21\n    Lodi. Cong. Ch., 9.34; Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc.,\n      2.50                                                    11.84\n    Marion. Mrs. M. B. Vose                                   10.00\n    Medina. \u201cThe Opportunity Club,\u201d by Lulu\n      Ainsworth                                                2.00\n    Newark. First Welsh. Cong. Ch.                            12.81\n    Oberlin. The Young Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., by A.\n      Grace Allyn, Treas.                                     30.00\n    Oberlin. Y. W. C. A., _for Student Aid,\n      Williamsburg, Ky._                                       3.00\n    Painesville. First Cong. Ch.                              30.05\n    Randolph. W. J. Dickinson                                 10.00\n    Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                                       12.00\n    Wayne. Mrs. Parker, 5; Mrs. A. Jones, 50c.;\n      Mrs. L. C. Bearss, $5                                   10.50\n\n\n  INDIANA, $13.00.\n\n    Dunrieth. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       5.00\n    Michigan City. \u201cGrains of Sand,\u201d (in memory of\n      Sterling Kent), _for Kindergarten, Atlanta,\n      Ga._                                                     3.00\n    Versailles. Mrs. J. D. Nichols, _for Indian M._            5.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $6,546.12.\n\n    Albion. James Green                                       10.00\n    Byron. Cong. Ch.                                          15.00\n    Chicago. New England Cong. Ch., 41.64; Lincoln\n      Park Cong. Ch., 25.70; Y. L. M. Soc. of\n      South Ch., 20                                           87.34\n    Danville. Mrs. A. M. Swan                                  5.00\n    Evanston. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. N. H.\n      WHITTLESEY, SILAS D. JENNINGS, CHAS. P.\n      MITCHELL and N. D. WRIGHT, L. M\u2019s                      139.59\n    Galesburg. Elizabeth G. Furness                            5.00\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.                                       23.00\n    Jacksonville. Cong. Ch.                                    1.00\n    Kewanee. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., by Mrs. W. H.\n      Lyman, Treas.                                           10.00\n    Lamoille. Cong. Church                                    20.10\n    La Salle. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      50.00\n    Lowell. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         5.00\n    Malta. Cong. Ch.                                           5.00\n    Morrison. Cong. Ch.                                       30.00\n    Odell. Ladies of Cong. Ch.                                 8.00\n    Polo. Ind. Presb. Ch.                                     26.75\n    Princeton. Cong. Ch.                                      33.30\n    Providence. Cong. Ch.                                      7.04\n    Rockford. Miss\u2019y Soc. of Rockford Sem.                     8.00\n    Sycamore. Cong. Ch.                                      106.06\n    Wheaton. Cong. Ch.                                        12.50\n    Wheaton. Mrs. J. C. Webster, \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d                 5.00\n    Woodburn. A. L. Sturges, 10; Cong. Ch., 2.95              12.95\n      Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union, of Ill., by\n      Mrs. Leavitt, Treas., _for Woman\u2019s Work_:\n        Ashkum. L. M. S. of Cong. Ch.              0.20\n        Galva. L. M. S. of Cong. Ch.              33.50\n        Illini. L. M. S. of Cong. Ch.             10.30\n        Payson. L. M. S. of Cong. Ch.             10.00\n        Rockford. L. M. S., of Second Ch.,\n          to const. MRS. J. P. PERKINS,\n          L. M.                                   32.60\n        Thawville. L. M. S. of Cong. Ch.           2.00\n                                                 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014       88.60\n    By Rev. T. L. Riggs, _for Oahe Ind\u2019l Sch._:\n      Chicago. W. F. M. Soc., Third\n        Presb. Ch., 25.75; Miss Farrand, 1        26.75\n      Evanston. Cong. Ch.                         42.78\n      Glencoe. \u201cA Friend\u201d 50; Cong. Ch.\n        \u201cFriends,\u201d 49.78 Sab. Sch. of\n        Cong. Ch., 3.37; Geo. Scott,\n        10; Mrs. Swan, 10; Mrs.\n        Stoutenberg, 4; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 1            128.15\n      Kenwood. \u201cTwo Ladies\u201d                        1.75\n      Lakeview. The Church of the\n        Redeemer, 20.21; Evanston Av.\n        Sab. Sch., 10.28                          30.49\n      Oak Park. Cong. Ch.                         39.04\n      Ravenswood. First Cong. Ch., 35.83;\n        and Sab. Sch., 2.70                       38.53\n      Winetka. Cong. Ch.                          21.00\n      \u2014\u2014 From Sale of Elizabeth\u2019s Pictures         3.40\n                                                 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014      381.89\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $1,046.12\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Chicago. Estate of Mrs. Almira Barnes, by Rev.\n      Henry Willard, Adm.                                    500.00\n    Lamoille. Estate of Joseph Allen, by J. Y.\n      Burnett, Ex. (30 of which to const. J. Y.\n      BURNETT, L. M.)                                      5,000.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $6,546.12\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $1,034.08.\n\n    Alma. Mrs. L. A. Van Antwerp                               5.00\n    Bay City. Cong. Ch.                                       25.00\n    Blissfield. Miss Clara M. Janes                            1.00\n    Detroit. Woodward Ave. Cong. Ch., 66.25; Sab.\n      Sch. of Woodward Ave. Cong. Ch., 20                     86.25\n    Eastlake. Cong. Ch.                                        2.60\n    Grand Blanc. Cong. Ch.                                    12.36\n    Ingham. Prof. R. C. Kedzie                                10.00\n    Irving. Cong. Ch.                                          2.00\n    Ithaca. Rev. and Mrs. A. H. Norris                        10.00\n    Kalamazoo. Timothy Hudson, 30; Cong. Ch.,\n      8.29., _for Oahe Ind\u2019l Sch._                            38.29\n    Middleville. Cong. Ch.                                     4 28\n    Milford. Wm. A. Arms to const. WILLIAM A.\n      CRAWFORD, L. M.                                         30.00\n    Milford. Mrs. T. O. Bennett                                5.00\n    Saint Josephs. By Rev. J. V. Hickmott to\n      const. NEWTON VANDERVEER, L. M.                         32.16\n    Union City. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   200.00\n    Webster. Cong. Ch.                                        20.40\n    White Lake. Robert Garner                                 10.00\n    Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union of Mich., by\n      Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Treas., _for Woman\u2019s\n      Work_:\n      Detroit Ladies Union, First Cong. Ch.                   50.00\n    Detroit. By Rev. T. L. Riggs, _for Oahe\n      Industrial Sch_:\u2014Mrs. Addison Moffat, 50;\n      Fort St. Cong. Ch., 37.10; Woodward Av.\n      Cong. Ch., 36.81; Woman\u2019s M. Soc.\n      Westminster Presb. Ch., 26.58; Frederic\n      Buhl, 25; S. Scolten, 25; C. H. Buhl, 20;\n      Mrs. Allen Shelden, 20; Mrs. R. A. Alger,\n      20; C. L. Freer, 20; Sab. Sch. of Fort St.\n      Presb. Ch., 20; Sab. Sch. of St. Paul\u2019s\n      Episcopal Ch., 20; Sab. Sch. of Fort Wayne\n      Cong. Ch., 15; Newell Avery, 15; Third Av.\n      Presb. Ch., 15; T. D. Buhl, 10; Geo.\n      McMillan, 10; C. Buncker, 10; Mrs. Black,\n      10; Mrs. D. Whitney, 10; Woman\u2019s Mich.\n      Indian Ass\u2019n, 5; Mrs. Walter Buhl, 5; Union\n      Meeting W. M. I. Ass\u2019n, 5; Frank J. Hecker,\n      5; Mrs. Ford, 5; F. C. Stoepel, 5; E. C.\n      Walker, 5; Bryant Walker, 5; S. C. Caskey,\n      5; C. A. Strelinger, 5; Dr. H. K. Lathrop,\n      4; \u201cTwo Ladies,\u201d 2; Miss Leet, 2; C. A.\n      Robinson, 1;\u2014\u2014, 1; \u201cTwo Young Ladies,\u201d 50c.;\n      Sale of Elizabeth\u2019s pictures, 3.75                     489.74\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $401.81.\n\n    Appleton. First Cong. Ch.                                 28.60\n    Arena. First Cong. Ch.                                     5.00\n    Arena. W. H. Jones, _for Oahe Ind\u2019l Sch._                  5.00\n    Beloit. First Cong. Ch., 151.07; \u201cA Friend\u201d, 85c.        151.92\n    Blake\u2019s Prairie. Cong. Ch.                                 1.55\n    Eau Claire. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.                  10.00\n    Evansville. Cong. Ch.                                     24.00\n    Fond du Lac. Cong. Ch.                                    49.64\n    Fulton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud\n      Indian M._                                               5.79\n    Lake Geneva. Cong. Ch.                                    11.00\n    Menomonie. Cong. Ch.                                      15.00\n    Peshtigo. Rev. H. C. Todd                                  5.00\n    Platteville. Cong. Ch.                                    20.00\n    Racine. Cong. Ch.                                         34.84\n    Windsor. Cong. Ch.                                         8.00\n    Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union of Wis., _for\n      Woman\u2019s Work_:\n      Beloit. Prof. J. Emerson                     1.00\n      Berlin. W. H. M. S.                          5.00\n      Brodhead. W. H. M. S.                        2.00\n      Kankauna. S. S. of Cong. Ch.                 2.00\n      Madison. W. H. M. S. Cong. Ch.               8.00\n      Madison. Mrs. Cramers S. S. Class            1.22\n      Milton Junction. Mrs. Chapman and Sister     1.25\n      Ripon. W. H. M. S.                           1.00\n      Ripon. Mrs. E. H. Merrill                    5.00\n                                                 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014       26.47\n\n\n  IOWA, $360.99.\n\n    Anamosa. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 24.17; Sab. Sch.,\n      5.83                                                    30.00\n    Anita. Cong. Ch.                                           5.60\n    Decorah. Cong. Ch.                                        48.35\n    Farragut. Cong. Ch.                                       28.10\n    Fort Dodge. First Cong. Ch.                                9.00\n    Grinnell. Cong. Ch.                                      137.06\n    Humboldt. Cong. Ch.                                       16.60\n    Independence. Cong. Ch.                                    5.45\n    Percival. Cong. Ch., 5; Rev. A. M. Beman, 1                6.00\n    Red Oak. Cong. Ch.                                        18.80\n    Webster. Cong. Ch.                                         2.50\n    Woman\u2019s Home Miss\u2019y Union of Iowa, _for Woman\u2019s Work_:\n      Des Moines. North Park                       2.48\n      Fairfield                                    4.75\n      Grinnell                                     8.38\n      Le Mars                                      4.30\n      Marion                                      10.00\n      Osage                                        2.66\n      Polk City                                    1.38\n      Sheldon                                      1.08\n      Traer                                       16.00\n      Wells\u2014Madison Co.                            2.50\n                                                 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014       53.53\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $376.23.\n\n    Ada. Cong. Ch.                                             2.57\n    Brainerd. First Cong. Ch.                                 12.90\n    Faribault. Cong. Ch.                                      28.88\n    Glyndon. \u201cThe Ch. at Glyndon,\u201d 4.75; Union\n      Sab. Sch., 70c.                                          5.45\n    Leech Lake. C. P. ALLEN, to const. himself, L. M.         30.00\n    Mankato. Cong. Ch.                                         4.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., 28; Lyndale Ch., 22.06;\n      Prof. W. M. Bristoll, 5                                 55.06\n    Rushford. Cong. Ch.                                        1.32\n    Saint Cloud. First Cong. Ch.                               3.80\n    Saint Paul. Y. L. M. Ass\u2019n of Park Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Jonesboro, Tenn._                                  40.00\n    Saint Paul. Plym. Cong. Ch.                               14.25\n    Three Lakes. Mrs. E. Leonard                               1.00\n    Tivoli. Lyman Humiston                                     1.00\n    Waseca. First Cong. Ch.                                   21.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cMinnesota Friends\u201d                                  100.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                            55.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $57.15.\n\n    Amity. Cong. Ch.                                          15.15\n    Ironton. J. Markham                                        2.00\n    Saint Louis. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                            40.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $26.80.\n\n    Carbondale. Cong. Ch.                                      1.10\n    Manhattan. Cong. Ch., Mrs. Mary Parker, 20; S.\n      D. Moses, 1; Mrs. Clara Castle, 50c.; Rev.\n      R. M. Tumell, 50c                                       22.00\n    Ridgeway. Cong. Ch.                                        3.70\n\n\n  DAKOTA, $188.64.\n\n    Canton. Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Ind\u2019l Sch._                   5.45\n    De Smit. Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Ind\u2019l Sch._                 10.58\n    Huron. Cong. Ch., 12.50; \u201cTwo Little Girls,\u201d\n      50c., _for Oahe Ind\u2019l School_                           13.00\n    Lake Preston. Cong. Ch.                                    8.00\n    Oahe. Interest on Endowment, _for Oahe Ind\u2019l\n      School_                                                 20.00\n    Scotland. German Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Ind\u2019l\n      Sch._                                                   25.00\n    Valley Springs. Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Ind\u2019l\n      Sch._                                                    3.76\n    Valley Springs. Cong. Ch.                                  2.85\n                                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             $88.64\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Dwight. Estate of Mrs. L. H. Porter, by Rev.\n      Sam\u2019l. F. Porter                                       100.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $188.64\n\n\n  COLORADO, $46.48.\n\n    Highlandlake. Sab. Sch. Miss\u2019y Soc                        16.35\n    West Denver. Cong. Ch., 17.66; Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y\n      Soc., 9.25; Sab. Sch., 3.22; by Rev. R. T.\n      Cross                                                   30.13\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $95.00.\n\n    Cambridge. Mrs. J. L. Hall                                 2.00\n    Nebraska City. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc. of Cong. Ch.            3.00\n    Omaha. W. N. McCandlish, to const. MRS. FANNIE\n      W. MCCANDLISH and CORA MCCANDLISH, L. M\u2019s               60.00\n    Santee. \u201cFriend,\u201d _for Indian M._                         10.00\n    Santee Agency. Mary Ward Green                            20.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $19.00.\n\n    Belmont. Mrs. E. L. Reed                                  10.00\n    Berkely. Park Ch. (Young People)                           2.50\n    Oakland. Christian Endeavor Soc., of Second\n      Cong. Ch.                                                2.50\n    Woodland. Cong. Ch.                                        4.00\n\n\n  OREGON, $7.00.\n\n    Portland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., bal.\n      to const. MRS. JAMES STEEL, L. M.                        7.00\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TER., $2.70.\n\n    Olympia. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                            2.70\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $6.00.\n\n    Washington. Lincoln Mem. Ch.                               6.00\n    Washington. H. M. Soc. of First Cong. Ch.,\n      Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo U_.\n\n\n  WEST VIRGINIA, $2.50.\n\n    Lewisburg. Mrs. E. R. Marvin                               2.50\n\n\n  KENTUCKY, $803.38.\n\n    Lexington. Tuition, 753.30; Rent, $8.50; W. T.\n      U., 1.83                                               763.63\n    Williamsburg. Tuition, 34.25; Mrs. F. E.\n      Jenkins, 2.50; \u201cFriend,\u201d by Mrs. A. A.\n      Myers, 3                                                39.75\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $187.90.\n\n    Grand View. Tuition                                       40.10\n    Jonesboro. Tuition                                         3.25\n    Pleasant Hill. Y. P. Miss\u2019y Soc. of Second\n      Cong. Ch.                                               10.00\n    Sherwood. Tuition                                        134.55\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $2.50.\n\n    Troy. Cong. Ch.                                            1.00\n    Wilmington. Tuition                                        1.50\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $188.00.\n\n    Charleston. Tuition                                      188.00\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $4.50.\n\n    Marietta. Cong. Ch., 1.70, and Sab. Sch., 1.30             3.00\n    Savannah. Rent                                             1.50\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $160.77.\n\n    Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                      8.00\n    Selma. Rent                                              100.00\n    Talladega. Tuition                                        52.77\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $3,002.00.\n\n    Tougaloo. State Appropriation                          3,000.00\n    Tougaloo. Rent                                             2.00\n\n\n  INCOMES, $725.00.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               570.00\n    DeForest Fund, _for President\u2019s Chair,\n      Talladega C._                                          125.00\n    Scholarship Fund, _for Fisk U_.                           30.00\n\n\n  CANADA, $5.00.\n\n    Montreal. \u201cA\u201d                                              5.00\n\n\n  ENGLAND, $10.00.\n\n    \u2014\u2014. Miss S. L. 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Also 6 per cent. ten-year Debenture Bonds,\nsecured by 105 per cent. of First Mortgage Loans held in trust by\nthe MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY, New York. 5 per cent. certificates of\ndeposit for periods under one year.\n\n  7\u2154%\n\n  CAN BE REALIZED BY CHANGING\n  4 Per Ct. Government Bonds\n  Into 6 Per Cent. Debentures.\n\n  Write for full information and reference to the Company at\n\n                   150 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n          A. L. ORMSBY, Vice-President and Gen. Manager.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                            STATEMENT.\n\n\n                     PHENIX INSURANCE COMPANY\n\n                         OF BROOKLYN, N.Y.\n\n\n                        JANUARY 1st, 1887.\n\n\n  CASH CAPITAL                          $1,000,000.00\n  GROSS SURPLUS                          4,383,171.68\n                                        \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                 Gross Assets           $5,383,171.68\n                                        =============\n\n                  ASSETS.\n\n  United States Bonds, market value     $1,104,250.00\n  Other Stocks and Bonds                 1,502,858.90\n  Loans on Bond and Mortgage               294,900.00\n  Loans on Call                             80,758.76\n  Cash in Bank and Office                  495,135.83\n  Real Estate                            1,082,787.53\n  Premiums in Course of Collection         667,231.88\n  Interest Accrued                          11,716.42\n  Bills Receivable for Marine Premiums     140,284.55\n  Rents Due and Accrued                      3,247.81\n                                        \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                        $5,383,171.68\n                                        =============\n\n               LIABILITIES.\n\n  CASH CAPITAL                          $1,000,000.00\n  Reserve for Unearned Premiums          3,466,886.97\n  Reserve for Unpaid Losses                353,759.83\n  All Other Liabilities                      5,438.10\n  NET SURPLUS                              557,086.78\n                                        \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                        $5,383,171.68\n                                        =============\n\n  STEPHEN CROWELL, President,           GEO. H. FISKE,    }\n  WM. R. CROWELL, Vice-President.       CHAS. C. LITTLE,  } Ass\u2019t Sec\u2019s.\n  PHILANDER SHAW, Secretary.            JOHN H. DOUGHERTY,}\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                        Clinton H. Meneely\n\n                           BELL COMPANY\n\n                            Troy, N.Y.,\n\n                       MANUFACTURE SUPERIOR\n\n                         Church, Chime and\n\n                            Peal Bells.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n             1850      Thirty-Seventh Year.      1887\n\n\n                          Manhattan Life\n\n                           INSURANCE CO.\n\n                           OF NEW YORK,\n\n                       156 AND 158 BROADWAY.\n\n\n                          AGENTS WANTED.\n\nWe desire to engage the services of competent, reliable men as\nAgents, in localities where this company is not now represented.\nLiberal arrangements will be made with men who would like to\nundertake the business. The requirements are, a good reputation\nfor honesty and integrity, popularity, intelligence, industry and\nperseverance. With these qualities any man can succeed; if he can\nadd enthusiasm he can command great success. Send references as to\nability, integrity, etc.\n\n\n  Accumulation                      _11,155,000_\n  Surplus, by New York standard,     _2,254,000_\n\n_Cash surrender values. Policy incontestable after five years. Very\nliberal to insurers, embracing the non-forfeiture law of New York._\n\n\n      JAMES M. McLEAN, President.\n  J. L. HALSEY, 1st Vice-Pres\u2019t.\n      H. B. STOKES, 2d Vice-Pres\u2019t.\n          H. Y. WEMPLE, Secretary.\n              S. N. STEBBINS, Actuary.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration: ham and bacon\n\n  USE\n\n  \u201cOur constant\n  aim is to make them\n  the Finest in the World.\u201d]\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                    PAYSON, DUNTON & SCRIBNER.\n\n\n                       THE NATIONAL SYSTEM.\n\n\n               The Standard of American Penmanship.\n\n                     TITLE WON, =NOT= ASSUMED.\n\n               _In Rank: Leading the Advance._\n                 _In Cost: Cheap as the Cheapest._\n\n\n                         WHOLESALE PRICES.\n\n  P., D. & S. Copybooks, large series      96 cents per dozen.\n  P., D. & S. Copybooks, primary series    72 cents per dozen.\n  P., D. & S. 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                               HOME\n\n                  INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK.\n\n                       OFFICE, 119 BROADWAY.\n\n\n                SIXTY-EIGHTH SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT,\n\n                            JULY, 1887.\n\n  _CASH CAPITAL_,                                  _$3,000,000.00_\n  _Reserve Premium Fund_,                           _3,108,596.00_\n  _Reserve for Unpaid Losses and Accruing Taxes_,     _304,419.04_\n  _Net Surplus_,                                    _1,442,494.58_\n                                                    \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        _CASH ASSETS_,                             _$7,855,509.62_\n\n\n                        SUMMARY OF ASSETS.\n\n  Cash in Banks                                             $91,685.16\n  Bonds and Mortgages, being first lien on Real Estate      614,450.00\n  United States Stocks (market value)                     2,567,000.00\n  Bank and Railroad Stocks and Bonds (market value)       1,811,650.00\n  State and City Bonds (market value)                       226,000.00\n  Loans on Stocks, payable on demand                        848,400.00\n  Interest due on 1st July, 1887                             33,587.32\n  Premiums uncollected and in hands of Agents               281,955.86\n  Real Estate                                             1,380,781.28\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                              Total,     $7,855,509.62\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                            DIRECTORS.\n\n  Isaac H. Frothingham,\n  Alfred S. Barnes,\n  Levi P. Morton,\n  Henry A. Hurlbut,\n  William Sturgis,\n  Charles J. Martin,\n  John R. Ford,\n  Wm. R. Fosdick,\n  Wm. H. Townsend,\n  Oliver S. Carter,\n  Henry M. Taber,\n  D. A. Heald,\n  D. H. McAlpin,\n  A. C. Armstrong,\n  Cornelius N. Bliss,\n  Edmund F. Holbrook,\n  John H. Washburn,\n  John H. Inman,\n  Walter H. Lewis,\n  Francis H. Leggett,\n  Benjamin Perkins,\n  H. E. Beguelin,\n  George W. Smith,\n  Fred. P. Olcott,\n  J. Harsen Rhoades.\n\n  T. B. GREENE,    }\n  W. L. BIGELOW,   } Ass\u2019t Sec\u2019s.\n  E. G. SNOW, JR., }\n\n  CHAS. J. MARTIN, President,\n  D. A. HEALD, Vice-President,\n  J. H. WASHBURN, Vice-Pres\u2019t & Sec\u2019y.\n\n       Agents at all important points in the United States.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                  THE FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING\n\n                              OF THE\n\n                 AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\n\n                          WILL BE HELD AT\n\n                     PORTLAND ME., OCT. 25-27.\n\n\nRev. A. J. F. Behrends, D.D., of Brooklyn, will preach the sermon.\n\nThe Meeting will be held in the Second Church, of which Rev. C.\nH. Daniels is Pastor. The friends in Portland have already begun\npreparations for the reception of the Association.\n\nLife Members and Delegates chosen by contributing churches, Local\nConferences, and State Associations, constitute the Annual Meeting,\nas will be seen by the following article of the Constitution.\n\n  ART. III. Members of evangelical churches may be constituted\n  members of this Association for life by the payment of thirty\n  dollars into its treasury, with the written declaration at\n  the time or times of payment that the sum is to be applied\n  to constitute a designated person a life member; and such\n  membership shall begin sixty days after the payment shall have\n  been completed. Other persons, by the payment of the same sum,\n  may be made life members, without the privilege of voting.\n\n  Every evangelical church which has within a year contributed\n  to the funds of the Association, and every State Conference\n  or Association of such churches, may appoint two delegates to\n  the Annual Meeting of the Association; such delegates, duly\n  attested by credentials, shall be members of the Association\n  for the year for which they were thus appointed.\n\nSo far as possible, the Portland churches will entertain those who\nattend. Those purposing to be present and wishing entertainment are\nrequested to write to Rev. C. H. Daniels, Chairman of the Committee\nof Entertainment, or Rev. S. K. Perkins, Secretary, Portland, Me.\n\nApplication must be made before Oct. 1st. Special rates will be\narranged at hotels for those who desire to pay their own way.\nRailroad and steamboat favors will be secured as far as possible,\nand notices of reductions and other matters will appear later in\nthe magazine and in the religious press.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPRESS OF HOLT BROTHERS, 119-121 NASSAU ST., N.Y.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\nObvious printer\u2019s punctuation errors and omissions have been\ncorrected. Inconsistent hyphenation is retained due to the\nmultiplicity of authors. To facilitate eBook alignment, Ditto marks\nhave been replaced with the text they represent.\n\n\u201cMiscengenation\u201d changed to \u201cMiscegenation\u201d on page 249.\n(Miscegenation of Ideas)\n\nChanged \u201chundreths\u201d to \u201chundredths\u201d on page 268. (ninety-nine\none-hundredths)\n\nThe first word of the last line on page 269 was incompletely\nprinted on all available copies and has been represented by a\ndashed line. (high time for good men to \u2014\u2014)\n\n\u201cChristrians\u201d changed to \u201cChristians\u201d in the Holliston entry on\npage 273.\n\n\u201cPlymouh\u201d changed to \u201cPlymouth\u201d in the first entry on page 277.\n\nMissing \u201cd\u201d in \u201chad\u201d replaced in the Ditson advertisement.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":23846}