{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_57445/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_57445","id":"gutenberg_57445","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57445","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Teaching & Education","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:\n\nVOL. XXXVI.     JANUARY 1882       NO. 1\n\nTHE\n\nAmerican Missionary\n\n\n\u201cTHEY ARE RISING\nALL ARE RISING,\nTHE BLACK AND\nWHITE TOGETHER\u201d\n\n\nNEW YORK:\nPUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\nROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\nPrice, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.]\n\nEntered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class\nmatter.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                             CONTENTS.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    SALUTATION, 1882                                         1\n    PARAGRAPHS\u2014A GOOD WAY TO DO IT                           2\n    JOHN BROWN MEMORIAL STEAMER (with cut)                   3\n    BENEFACTIONS                                             4\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                     5\n    INDIAN GIRLS AT HAMPTON (with cuts)                      6\n    GENERAL NOTES\u2014Indians, Africa, Chinese                   7\n    TRAINING GIRLS FOR HOME LIFE: By Miss M. L. Sawyer      10\n    RELATION OF THE FAMILY TO THE NATION\u2019S WELFARE:\n      by Miss E. B. Emery                                   12\n\n\n  FREEDMEN.\n\n    TENNESSEE\u2014Interesting Exercises in Fisk University,\n      Nashville                                             14\n    GEORGIA\u2014Storrs School, Atlanta                          15\n    MISSISSIPPI\u2014Dedication of Strieby Hall, Tougaloo        15\n    WORK IN THE SOUTH                                       16\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL OF REV. H. M. LADD                18\n    CUT OF CAIRO                                            19\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    CALIFORNIA AND CHINA: By Rev. W. C. Pond                21\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    HOW A STRAIN OF MUSIC CALLED A WANDERER HOME            23\n    MISSIONARY VEGETABLES                                   24\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                  25\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                              29\n\n  AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC.                              30\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n           VOL. XXXVI.      JANUARY, 1882.        NO. 1.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n1882.\n\nWe welcome the advent of the new year with praise and thanksgiving.\nThe toils and burdens of 1881 are past. The husbandman has garnered\nhis sheaves. The sower has cast in his seed, and awaits the spring\ntime. We greet our friends with hope and gladness. The prosperity\nof the past is significant. We have a fuller experience, enlarged\nfacilities for work, and a place in the confidence and esteem of\nthe church and the nation that brings with it not only cheer and\ncourage but an added weight of responsibility.\n\nWe are, doubtless, on the eve of great events in the world of\nmissions. He who has taught all Christendom of every sect and every\nage to pray, \u201cThy kingdom come,\u201d has never decreed such immense\nstrides in the material world as our eyes have seen, without a\npurpose to overmatch them all by spiritual achievements.\n\nThe current of events does not tarry; it rushes on more mightily\nthan ever. We may pray expectantly. We may accustom ourselves\nto meditate upon vast plans for enlarged work in fields already\noccupied, and for new and fruitful enterprises in regions beyond.\nSuch gifts from the living as have been bestowed by Mrs. Stone and\nMr. Seney, such legacies for missions as were left by Mr. Otis,\nreveal to us what floods may come when all things are ready, while\nsuch revival waves as have swept over Madagascar and the Telagoo\npeople in India are earnests of the power of the Holy Spirit to\nsubdue speedily islands and continents to Himself.\n\nGirt with the promises, and armed with all prayer and faith, we\nshall go forth to conquer. The day is dawning, the morning star\nis piercing the twilight, and dark night will shortly be rolled\naway. Over the continents, over the islands, over the seas, victory\nis watching and waiting to come; but tarry it will, tarry it\nmust, till we, or such as we ought to be, win the battle in God\u2019s\nappointed way.\n\nHeaven grant that the day of its coming be hastened gloriously, as\nnever before, by the efforts and events of 1882.\n\nOUR Annual Report for 1881 will soon be off the press and ready for\ndistribution. We shall be happy to forward it to any of our friends\nwho will send us their name and address, signifying their wish to\nhave it.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWE are happy to give our readers in this number of the MISSIONARY\ncopious extracts from the Journal of Superintendent Ladd, who,\nat last reports, was at Cairo, Egypt, in company with Dr. Snow,\nawaiting passage to Souakim, on the Red Sea. The reception they\nreceived in Egypt was very encouraging.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE _Gospel in All Lands_ is to be published as a weekly,\ncommencing with January, 1882. It will contain one-third of its\npresent number of pages, but will undergo no other change. The\nappearance of an illustrated missionary weekly, relying upon\nits subscription list for support, will mark a new and cheering\ndeparture in the missionary literature of the times. We bid the\nenterprise Godspeed.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOUR annual meeting discouraged, for the present at least, a\nmovement for the establishment of a mission in China, under the\nauspices of this Association, and in this it accorded with the\nrecommendations of the Executive Committee. But something may\nultimately be done in this direction, and that our friends may know\nmore at length the facts in the case we publish in this MISSIONARY,\nBrother Pond\u2019s earnest plea in its behalf.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA GOOD WAY TO DO IT.\n\nA few months since, the cause of this Association was presented\nto a church in Central New York, after which the minister in\ncharge addressed the congregation substantially as follows: \u201cEvery\nfamily belonging to this church must wish to give, according to\nits ability, to the cause which has been so clearly and ably\npresented. In order that this may be brought about, I have placed\na slip of paper in each pew, and desire that each family present\nsubscribe the amount it will give, and state when the money will\nbe ready. At the close of the service I will gather the slips,\nand compare them with the church-roll. If any families have not\nresponded, I will take a carriage, if need be, and, before the\nclose of the week, call on those whose names have not been handed\nin, so no one shall fail to have an opportunity for assisting in\nthe great work of advancing the Redeemer\u2019s Kingdom.\u201d The result\nwas a cheerful and liberal donation, made up probably from all the\nfamilies in the church. The clergyman who adopted this thorough and\nself-denying plan was a pastor from Nebraska, on an exchange for a\nfew months with an Eastern brother. It fell out that he had trained\nhis Western church in the method described above, until all its\nmembers cheerfully rejoiced in it, and put it into practice on all\noccasions when money was to be raised for either home or foreign\nobjects. So that, although his church numbered but eighty-five,\nits contributions to benevolent objects exceeded those of any\nother Congregational church in the State. Moreover, this was not\nbrought about by neglect of things needful at home. A new organ was\npurchased at a cost of $1,000, the money being raised by the same\nmethod. The blessing of Heaven was not withheld; seasons of revival\nstrengthened the church, and its membership at present is over\na hundred. The perseverance and fidelity of the pastor were not\noverlooked. Where every one was schooled to give, it was an easy\nmatter to gather what was wanted to purchase a beautiful gold watch\nas a Christmas present for the minister. The appreciation of pastor\nand people was mutual\u2014so much so that the church was able to retain\nits minister, though he was repeatedly called to other places,\nwhere a larger salary was offered.\n\nWe commend the example of this clergyman and his people to the\nlarge number of devoted pastors who are always prayerfully seeking\nfor\u2014\u201cA good way to do it.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nJOHN BROWN MEMORIAL STEAMER.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nWe call attention once more to the John Brown steamer. Scarcely a\nday passes that we do not receive contributions for it, and yet, as\nthe sums are small, it will require much more to furnish the amount\nneeded. As to the value of the steamer we give below a letter from\nthe Rev. Geo. Thompson. No man in the world is a better judge than\nhe of its necessity for the use of the mission. He was for many\nyears a missionary at the Mendi Mission, was indefatigable in his\nlabors, made wide explorations in the regions round-about, exerted\na vast and wholesome influence over the people, exposed himself\nto the dangers of the climate, and only gave up the work on which\nhis heart was so much set after the failure of the health of his\nfamily. His gift, so large in his circumstances, for the John Brown\nsteamer is as strong an attestation of his appreciation of its\nworth, as his earnest and eloquent words. Read his letter and help\nus to complete the amount.\n\n  DEAR BRO.\u2014I notice the intention to build a steamer for the\n  Mendi Mission; Glory to God! My heart rejoices. This, more\n  than almost any other human means, will help the mission. I\n  well know the need of such a craft, having been back and forth\n  so many times in canoes, sometimes old, leaky ones, and my wife\n  and many others have suffered greatly in those long and rough\n  canoe voyages from and to Sierra Leone, often terrible and\n  dangerous. Speed the steamer, and may the blessing of the Lord\n  rest upon the enterprise.\n\n  My heart leaps for joy at the prospect. I hasten to send my\n  first earned money (by hard labor) since reading the last\n  MISSIONARY, to help build this John Brown memorial steamer. I\n  send it with joy and thanksgiving.\n\nIn order that old and young may have a part in this work, we have\narranged to issue four grades of shares, as follows: First Grade,\n$100; Second Grade, $10; Third Grade, $5; Fourth Grade, $1.\n\nAll donations for this purpose should be forwarded to H. W.\nHubbard, Treasurer of the American Missionary Association, 56 Reade\nSt., New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\n\u2014The late George G. Fogg bequeathed $5,000 to Dartmouth College.\n\n\u2014Mr. Reed, of Boston, has given $10,000 to Hampton Normal and\nAgricultural Institute.\n\n\u2014The will of John Amory Lowell contains bequests to Harvard College\namounting to $40,000.\n\n\u2014William Bicknell, of Philadelphia, has given $50,000 to the\nUniversity at Lewisburg, Pa.\n\n\u2014Wells College, Aurora, N.Y., receives a bequest of $100,000 from\nthe estate of Col. E. B. Morgan.\n\n\u2014Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske has left to Cornell University $290,000\nfor library fund, building and other purposes.\n\n\u2014The University of Sydney has received a gift of $25,000 for the\nendowment of scholarships.\n\n\u2014Hon. John Evans, Ex-Governor of Colorado, has given $40,000 to the\nUniversity of Denver since the beginning of the enterprise.\n\n\u2014Howard University is to receive $5,000 from the estate of Francis\nP. Schoals of New York City, which amount is to be paid at the\ndeath of his widow.\n\n\u2014Mrs. Noah Wood, of Bangor, Maine, has left $5,000 to Bowdoin\nCollege to found the Blake scholarship in memory of her son.\n\n\u2014Kenyon College has received $15,000 for scholarships from Mr. H.\nB. Curtis, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio.\n\n\u2014Col. Charles H. Northam bequeathed $75,000 to the general fund of\nTrinity College, Hartford, Ct., and $50,000 for the endowment of a\nprofessorship.\n\n\u201c_If there is any place in this world where a great deal of\nmoney, wisely used, can work incalculable good, even tested by\nthe simplest maxims of political economy and cent per cent, the\nendowment of the Christian schools for the Freedmen is that\nopportunity._\u201d\u2014_A. D. Mayo, D.D._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\n_Orangeburg, S.C._\u2014The people here are rejoicing in a new $50 bell\nbought by themselves. They have also put up a bell tower.\n\n_Tuskegee, Ala._\u2014Mr. B. T. Washington writes: \u201cPlease allow me\nspace to express the thanks of this school to the _Smith American\nOrgan Company_, of Boston, for the donation of one of their\nsuperior cabinet organs. It is a valuable addition to our school.\u201d\n\n_Athens, Ala._\u2014Rev. H. S. Williams writes of a union effort in the\nchurches at this place, which has proved a success. Twenty-seven\nconversions are reported as the result.\n\n_Savannah, Ga._\u2014The Sabbath-school has begun to yield excellent\nfruit. Having $30 in the treasury they voted to send one of their\nnumber to Atlanta University for a year. After a spirited contest\non the part of several members of the school to win the prize the\ndecision was finally favorable to Palmer Lloyd, a boy of about 15\nyears. He went to Atlanta in time for the opening of the term.\nFifty dollars in all were needed to insure him a year\u2019s study.\nTo raise the remaining $20 the Sabbath school gave a musical\nentertainment and ice-cream supper and were successful in raising\nthe amount needed.\n\n_First Impressions of a New Teacher._\u2014After nearly two months\u2019\nwork I feel that I am more interested than when I came, which I\nthought would be impossible. The work is more vast and _awful_\nin its importance. I do not wonder, as I did at first, at the\ncareworn faces of the teachers who have been long in the work. The\npossibilities for good or ill of the race are to be contemplated\nby us only with fear and trembling, unless God works through and\nby us. I enjoy the work heartily. It consists, more than I could\nbefore understand, in laying foundations.\n\n_Impressions of a Teacher of Long Experience South._\u2014I am sure,\nin our busy and crowded life, most of us teachers especially fail\nto realize how broad and comprehensive our work at the South is;\nhow what we do, well or poorly, is to affect the whole educational\ninterest at the South where everything is in a transition state.\nShould we not, in view of what our work and influence have\naccomplished in the past, and in view of our greater and growing\nopportunities for the future, should we not be aroused to a sense\nof these things that we may make the most of our chances in this\ndirection?\n\n\nINDIAN GIRLS AT HAMPTON.\n\n[Illustration: _From Harper\u2019s Monthly._]\n\nThe accompanying cuts were published in Harper\u2019s _Monthly_, April,\n1881. The improvement made in the appearance of Indian students,\nboys and girls, by a three years\u2019 course of study at Hampton has\nconvinced more than one observer from the Western frontier that\nthere is something better to do for the red man than to shoot him\non sight. Miss Helen W. Ludlow, one of their teachers, says of\nthe two older girls that appear in the picture: \u201cThey have been\namong the farmers of Berkshire County, Mass., working for their\nboard, sharing the home life and improving in health, English and\ngeneral tone; they have won a good report from the families which\nhave taken them, even better this year than last, and have done\nmuch to increase public sympathy for their race. The Indian girls\u2019\nimprovement has been as marked as the boys\u2019. Their early inuring\nto labor has its compensation in a better physical condition\napparently, and their uplifting may prove the most important of\nfactors in the salvation of their race.\u201d\n\n[Illustration: _From Harper\u2019s Monthly._]\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\u2014The Indian Bureau reports that the number of self-supporting\nIndians cannot be precisely stated, but gives the following as a\nfair estimate: Wholly or almost entirely self-supporting, 105,939;\npartially self-supporting, 44,119; wholly dependent on government\nrations, 50,882; these figures do not include the five civilized\ntribes in the Indian Territory, numbering 59,187. At Crow Creek\nAgency, Dakota, 60,000 of the 500,000 acres of reservation land\nhad been taken up by 235 out of 325 neighboring families, of whom\n208 had broken ground, cultivating an average of five acres apiece.\nTheir title is a certificate from the Secretary of the Interior,\nand can be made valid only by an act of Congress.\n\n\u2014Rev. A. J. Biddle, in speaking of the American Indian, gives the\nfollowing incident with which he was personally acquainted, as a\ntypical case: An Indian and his wife left their tribe in the state\nof Oregon, came among the white settlers upon an excellent farm,\nbuilt their cabin, assumed the garb of civilization, and were\nexceedingly earnest in their endeavors to be as their neighbors.\nThe wife eagerly sought instruction from her white sisters in\nhousekeeping. The husband was as eager to know how to farm. They\nwere succeeding nicely, contented and happy in their new home and\nnew civilization. One day two white men came along, saw this farm;\nit was fertile and well improved; they coveted it; asked the Indian\nto sell it; he refused. They determined to have it; so, a few days\nlater, they returned when no white witnesses were present, shot the\nIndian in his own door-yard, drove the frightened wife away and\ntook possession of the property. Nor were they ever molested. No\none saw the crime but the Indian wife. No court would listen to her\nstory, so the matter ended, with the pleasant home desolated, the\nmurderers eating the fruit of their crime.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n\u2014The whole Bible has been translated into eight African tongues,\nand portions of it into 24 others, making 32 in all.\n\n\u2014According to the _Agence Reuter_, M. Roger will set out with the\nBelgian expedition and 135 natives to rejoin Stanley upon the Congo.\n\n\u2014Three Roman missionaries, of Ouroundi, have been massacred in\ntheir houses, near Tanganyika. Three others escaped. The last\nletters of the missionaries tell of the perils which they run on\nthe part of the blacks from the calumnies of the Arab merchants in\nregard to those who endeavor to abolish the treaty.\n\n\u2014The Livingstonia Central African Company has established a factory\nat Inhamissengo, at the mouth of the Zambeze. It found there\nalready two European companies, one Portuguese and the other French.\n\n\u2014Messrs. Creux and Berthond, of the Swiss mission at the north of\nTransvaal, are attempting to open a direct route from Valdezia to\nthe Delogoa Bay.\n\n\u2014A company has been formed in Transvaal, with a capital of 200,000\nlivres, to explore the silver mines of Tati.\n\n\u2014The London Missionary Society\u2019s mission on Lake Tanganyika has\nbeen carried on since its commencement, in 1876, at an expense of\n$100,000. There have been three deaths, and three have been obliged\nto retire on account of ill health. The society proposes to send\nout five new men in the Spring to recruit the mission.\n\n\u2014Mr. Adam McCall, leader of the Livingstone inland mission on the\nCongo, died at Madeira on November 24.\n\n\u2014Direct communication was to be established by submarine cable\nbetween Calle and Bizerte early in October.\n\n\u2014A scientific French mission at Thebes has discovered recently 36\nsarcophagi of kings and queens inclosing mummies, rolls of papyrus,\nthousands of jewels and talismans, from which much may be learned\nof importance in the history of ancient Egypt.\n\n\u2014M. Ledoux, Consul-General of France at Zanzibar, reports a great\nfamine in equatorial Africa. The tribes, in despair, have pillaged\nthe caravans.\n\n\u2014M. Succi, delegate of the Italian Society of Commerce with\nAfrica, has returned to Milan after a voyage to Madagascar and the\nComores. The sovereign of one of these islands has granted to him a\nconcession very advantageous for the Italian Society.\n\n\u2014In an exploration of Quango three great cascades have been\ndiscovered, to which the names of the emperors of Germany and\nAustria and the king of Portugal have been given.\n\n\u2014The military French administration has placed forty kilometres of\nrailroading of the Decanville system from Sousse in the direction\nof Kaironan.\n\n\u2014After having been dangerously ill of bilious fever, Stanley has\nrecovered sufficiently to go to Manyanga, and from there to Stanley\nPool.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u2014The American Board has rendered good service to the cause of\nmissions by issuing a large map of China, suitable for use at\nmonthly concerts and other meetings.\n\n\u2014The Chinese merchants of San Francisco have received from the\nEmperor of China an elaborate and beautiful scroll, in recognition\nof their liberal gifts for the relief of sufferers from the famine\nin China three years ago.\n\n\u2014\u201cI love money first and God second,\u201d was the confession of a\nChinaman in Boston, who was quite ready to argue that his was the\nbest way, as he was giving an account of his nephew\u2019s preparation\nfor a public profession of religion.\n\n\u2014The Chinese Sunday-school, held in the chapel of the Mount Vernon\nChurch, Boston, had an average attendance last year of 48 pupils,\nthe largest number present at any one time being 71. The total\nnumber of Chinese in Boston is said to be about 300.\n\n\nTRAINING GIRLS FOR HOME LIFE.\n\nBY MISS MARY L. SAWYER, BOXFORD, MASS.\n\n  At our annual meeting at Worcester, a part of Thursday\n  afternoon was devoted to the reading of papers and to the\n  delivery of addresses on Women\u2019s Work for Women.\n\n  We gave in our last issue some brief extracts of the addresses\n  on that occasion by Rev. A. H. Plumb and Rev. E. N. Packard.\n  In this number we publish portions of the papers read by Miss\n  Sawyer and Miss Emery, which our readers will find to be\n  interesting, pertinent and profitable.\n\nYou all know of the degradation of the colored women in the South.\nYou are ready to believe in their dirty, comfortless huts, yet I\ncould take you into many a pleasant home among the colored people,\nwhere neatness and order reign supreme, where man\u2019s industry and\nwoman\u2019s taste have combined with charming result, and where it\nwould be hard to say which was exerting the greater or better\ninfluence\u2014the earnest Christian man, or his equally earnest wife.\nTasteful pictures on the walls, books of standard authors on the\ntable, shades at the shining windows, a clean, white bed, a clock,\nperhaps a cabinet organ, would meet your wondering gaze. With\nkeen insight the women and girls recognize the primary cause of\nsuch a home and the influence that has molded its founders. So,\nin ever-increasing numbers, ignorant, uncouth girls, apply for\nadmission to the missionary school, which, in some mysterious way,\nis to transform them; and their poverty-stricken mothers give of\ntheir scanty store all that can be spared, and more, and wait with\njoyful anticipation for the time when the daughters may become the\nteachers from whom they in turn may learn the more excellent way.\nTo us, then, comes the work of educating them, not out of their\npositions in life, but for them; to train them in such habits that\nthey may look upon uncleanliness, either physical or moral, with\nutter loathing, and yet to implant that Christlike spirit which\nshall lead them to count no home too repulsive, no work degrading,\nif only it is the Lord\u2019s place and work for them.\n\nWith such an end in view, school work means much. Not only is\nthe dormant intellect to be awakened and the knowledge of books\nimparted, but also that practical knowledge of every-day life\nin which, strange to say, they may be even more deficient. Nor\ndo they always come with that keen thirst for improvement that\ninsures success. How can they, when the consciousness of their own\nshortcomings has not yet dawned upon them? Their acquaintances are\nas ignorant as themselves; their own bare home is as good as their\nneighbors\u2019. Not until they have mingled in the school life with\ncompanions far beyond themselves in attainment do they realise\ntheir own need, and begin to climb. Personal neatness is to be\ninculcated; dress, deportment, speech, expression, manner, must be\nwatched and toned by careful teachers. A sense of honor must be\ncultivated, and, above all, conscience aroused and trained, that\nthe end of all our labor may be attained and Christ be found in\nthem.\n\nMuch of their future usefulness depends on the industrial training\nwhich is becoming more and more a feature of our schools. The\ndifficulty of uniting this branch of instruction with the regular\nschool duties was long ago recognized by so eminent a teacher\nas Mary Lyon; and what was hard in New England is even harder\nin Georgia and Alabama. But the need is greater, too; and on\nmissionary ground the question cannot be, \u201cIs it difficult?\u201d but\nonly \u201cIs it best?\u201d and, since there could be but one answer,\nall over the South, this work in many forms is being carried on\nto-day. Due attention is paid both to theory and practice. Lectures\non cooking, for instance, are followed by conversations on the\nsubject, where questions can be freely asked and difficulties\nexplained, after which the pupils are required to test their\nknowledge by making bread, cooking meals and the like. This\npractice is repeated day by day, and the examinations are as rigid\nas in any other department. Sewing is as carefully taught, a part\nof each day being devoted to it. Darning and patching become an\nart, until some specimens of their skill in this line could be\nranked almost as ornamental needlework. Not only sewing, but the\ncutting of garments, is taught; and this affords good opportunity\nfor those wise counsels on economy, simplicity and kindred subjects\nwhich these girls need so much.\n\nHousekeeping in its minutest details receives careful attention,\nand here, as everywhere else, precept follows precept and theory is\nsupplemented by practice.\n\nAnother and no less important branch is that of nursing the sick.\nThe ignorance of the very simplest remedies and of hygienic laws on\nthe part of many of the colored people is appalling. The treatment\nof a cold, or a slight accident, is as much beyond their knowledge\nas the most complicated disease would be, while a sudden emergency,\nas a case of poisoning, would paralyze them with fear. Medicine\nto them is simply medicine, and one kind as good as another. \u201cI\ndidn\u2019t have no sugar,\u201d said the mother of a sick baby to the\nmissionary who was attending to its needs, \u201cand so I put a spoonful\nof the medicine that didn\u2019t want sweetening into a spoonful of the\nmedicine that did want sweetening and it seemed to do him good.\u201d\nThat this ignorance was not unusual may be inferred from the\nestimate that in the city where this mother lives the death rate\namong the negroes is three times that of the whites.\n\nThe method of imparting this knowledge of nursing varies in\ndifferent schools. In every case opportunity for practice is\nabundant; sometimes in their own homes, sometimes among the poor\nof the city or in the women\u2019s wards of the hospital. A prominent\nphysician of Memphis, noting the examination questions required of\nthe girls of Le Moyne School, said: \u201cIf your girls answered those\nquestions, they ought not only to make safe nurses, but also fair\nphysicians.\u201d The object, however, is not to make physicians, but to\ngive a thorough acquaintance with the details of nursing, including\nall those little thoughtful attentions to the sick which Northern\ngirls learn from the lips and the practice of gentle, efficient\nmothers, but of which the colored women seem as ignorant as their\ndaughters.\n\nYou can hardly imagine a more desolate scene than a case of\nsickness in a cabin home. There is no isolation\u2014all family work\nperformed in sight of the patient, the glaring light falling\nfull on the bed, water either for drinking or bathing seeming an\nunknown luxury, and noise everywhere. Into such homes these eager\ngirls penetrate, adapting their knowledge to the surroundings with\nwonderful tact, hanging an old quilt or shawl to give isolation,\nshading the light, preparing with neatness and dispatch some\ntempting morsel of food, and administering with their own hands\nthat thorough bathing which is often the most potent medicine.\nNo wonder that after such treatment one poor old creature should\nejaculate, \u201cThank the Lord, when we get to Heaven we shall all\nget on clean clothes.\u201d Alas, that in so many homes the inmates\nseem perfectly content to wait till that time for the delightful\nsensation!\n\nOf course cleanliness and other hygienic laws are placed first\nin importance, and just here we are finding one answer to the\nquestion so near our hearts, \u201cHow can we make the _homes_ better.\u201d\nThe lessons learned by the daughters at school are duly repeated\nto the mothers at home, who are the more ready to receive new\nideas of _house_-keeping from the young teachers who have first\nrevealed to them the secrets of _health_-keeping. It is idle to\nhope to accomplish the greatest good for these girls unless for a\ntime they are wholly under our control. Evil influences cannot be\nforgotten or overcome in a month or a term. They must come into our\nboarding-schools for a term of years, and the money to keep them\nthere must come in part from you. By the industrial system, they\ncan be helped to some extent and the idle and careless sifted out;\nbut after all is done, the last hard-earned penny paid over, the\nlast work tried, there is still need.\n\nBut there are so many calls, and you are so busy. Yes, so was one\nof old, and you remember, \u201cAs thy servant was busy here and there,\nhe was gone.\u201d\n\nJust so will it be here. The work for these girls must be done\n_now_. If we do not help them, there is no help for them, and\ninstead of life and light there is nothing but blackness of\ndarkness before them. Their influence will widen and deepen just\nthe same, only instead of a blessing it will bring a curse, until\nthe old sentence may be repeated for us, and our lives go for their\nlives and our people for their people.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE RELATION OF THE FAMILY TO THE NATION\u2019S WELFARE\n\nBY MISS E. B. EMERY, GORHAM, ME.\n\nThe materialist boldly tells us that physical law is the only law,\nand that there is no sin but the violation of the laws of our\nphysical being, and that if these were understood and obeyed by\nall, there would be no sorrow, suffering or disorder in the world.\nBut with a deeper insight, we do not need to live long on earth\nto learn that violation of moral law for a time will bring into\nfearful disorder, and actually subvert, physical law. If any truth\nin this world is manifest, it is that a nation is well balanced\nand secure just in proportion to the observance of the moral law\nrespecting the _family_; that a commonwealth is prosperous and\ninvincible, in its material as well as spiritual interests, exactly\nin proportion to the strength and purity of its homes, even to the\nhumblest. Naught can bring such dire confusion and destruction as\nlaxity of family relations; what, then, can you expect of those\nfor whom the family was obliterated, and that by legal statute,\nfor many generations? The freed people are by no means the only\nsufferers, for in obedience to the divine principle just referred\nto, precisely to that degree that the colored woman refuses to\nrecognize marriage and a home, just so far is the whole region\ndemoralized; and this obliquity over wide extent threatens the\nvery vitals of our great republic. Educate, Christianize, inspire\nthe young colored woman, and you save and elevate not only the\nentire colored race, but you brace up the white people of the\nSouth to moral standards far from universal now; you save all, in\nall their interests, temporal and eternal. The domestic relations\nare the deepest in life; they dictate and control all others.\nMake the _home_ pure and powerful, and the soil will yield, and\ndemand and supply will adjust themselves; cities will rise, and\nlaws will protect, and schools will flourish, and the church will\ngrow apace, and there is work and education and salvation for all.\nThis is no idle picture; every one of us knows the reality of it.\nAnd it is because the home is the basis and centre of all earthly\nlife\u2014and who makes the home? Mainly, it is the woman. Therefore,\nsave the woman; build her up hour by hour; feed her with wisdom\nof every kind; regulate her passion and emotion, discipline her\nreason, fortify her will, nerve her with principle, fire her with\nenthusiasm, and make her tender with Christ\u2019s own love. In every\nmighty movement on earth, woman is at the bottom, and the problem\nwhich more than any other agitates this whole country to-day, is\nbecause of woman. She can wreck this nation, and she can deliver\nit. Man fought to save it; woman prays, teaches, suffers and\nsacrifices to save it.\n\nOne day at the South, while on a solitary walk, I stepped through\nthe crazy paling, and spoke to a jolly black woman who was getting\ndinner in the yard just before the front door. She was about\nforty-five, with a superb physique, quite unfettered by fashion,\nfor she wore but one garment, which did not hang in flounces, but\nin strings. The fire, or rather smoke, for I saw no fire, puffed up\nfrom a little heap of sticks, and over this swung a broken kettle,\nwhich, apart from the gourds lying about, was the only dish of the\nhousehold. Into this kettle she had put a piece of grimy salt pork,\nwith a share of bristles remaining on it, making a firm rind, and\nwith it turnip-tops and cabbage-stumps, and she was then washing\nsweet potatoes; and such a nest of children in every stage of dirt\nand nakedness and hunger, and every one in densest ignorance and\nheathenism! The little hut couldn\u2019t hold them, so they were ranged\ninside the paling, all in a row, forming a kind of animated hedge,\ntheir little bare, shining bodies flashing as they whisked in the\nsun, their big, round eyes gleaming with curiosity, and every\nsingle body of them poised to turn a somersault or two and ask me\nfor a penny. The woman made a low courtesy, and a graceful one it\nwas, and as I greeted the children the whole batch of them squealed\nand cackled, stood on their heads and came right side up with the\nwildest kind of a grin, in my very face.\n\n\u201cHow many children have you,\u201d I asked. \u201cThese are not all yours?\u201d\n\n\u201cYis, ma\u2019am, dey is ebery one mine. I\u2019se got fourteen.\u201d\n\n\u201cIs your husband at home?\u201d I inquired. I thought I spied a man in\nthe cabin.\n\n\u201cHe\u2019s sick mos\u2019 times,\u201d she replied, \u201ca\u2019nt good for not\u2019in\u2019 but\neat; he kin eat mo\u2019n any nigger in all Car\u2019line, though he don\u2019 git\nde luck berry offen, dere\u2019s so many ob us,\u201d and she gave a chuckle.\n\n\u201cBut how do you take care of so many?\u201d was my question, as the\nvision of more than one overworked mother at the North, with her\nsolitary child, flashed across me.\n\nSuch a loud, musical laugh!\n\n\u201cWhy, bress yer soul, honey, I don\u2019 car\u2019 ob dem, dey takes car\u2019 ob\ndemselves,\u201d and she leaned back and again she sang and rippled and\nrolled at the absurd idea of a mother\u2019s taking care of her children.\n\nI ask you to-day, what do you expect those children will do and\nbecome? It is for you to say.\n\nDestitution and ignorance like this may be found all through the\nSouth, but just such families have been reached and redeemed by\nour missionaries, and if all are not reached, it is simply because\nwe do not send the missionaries, for allowing every discouragement\nthat exists the fact still remains that there is no missionary work\non the earth so hopeful and so rich and so rapid in its results as\nwork among the colored people South.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTENNESSEE.\n\nINTERESTING EXERCISE IN FISK UNIVERSITY.\n\n_By Rev. H. S. Bennett, Nashville._\n\nThe first Friday night of the term we listened to reports from\nthose of the students who had taught school during the vacation. It\nwas expected that those who spoke would give as correct an idea as\npossible of the colored people, their interest in education, the\ncondition of the crops, whether the people were getting possession\nof land, and all other items of interest relating to their work.\n\nPresident Cravath read a letter from a county superintendent in\nMississippi, who bore the strongest testimony to the honesty,\nmorality and efficiency of the teachers who had gone out from Fisk\nUniversity.\n\nMr. Mitchell, a new student, had taught in one neighborhood for\ntwo years, in De Soto, Miss. He had succeeded in building up a\nsuccessful Sunday-school. He had in his school about 150 pupils and\nthree assistant teachers. The citizens encouraged the education of\nthe colored people and took great interest in his school.\n\nMiss Murray had taught in Mississippi for five months. The people\nwere very poor and the children were poorly clad. She taught in the\nSunday-school very successfully; she did not think that the people\nhad bought much land, but they had stock and wagons.\n\nGeo. McLelland did not wish to exaggerate, but desired to tell the\ntruth. He taught just above Vicksburg, Miss.; here there is little\ncivilization. In their homes, the large majority of the people are\nvirtually slaves; they pay $9 per acre, or 90 pounds of lint cotton\nfor their lands; they raise nothing but cotton and corn, and often\ncome out in debt; they buy their goods at the store on account,\non fall time. In most cases last year they came out behind; in\nthis condition they must give a lien on the next year\u2019s work;\nsome do better than this, but the majority are in this wretched\ncondition. Government land is sold at 25 cents per acre, but the\ncolored people do not buy it to any extent; this year they have\ndone something of this, and have secured forty acres of good land.\nSaturday night the people go to the store and drink up an acre of\ngovernment land at the rate of 25 cents a glass.\n\nOne church represents all. They worship in a very blind, ignorant,\nsuperstitious way. In the church he attended two out of five could\nread a little. One elder, in telling how we were to get to Heaven,\nsaid that after we were dead we must first go to hell and search\nall around, and if we did not find our names there we were to go to\nHeaven.\n\nD. Donnel taught in southwestern Arkansas. He had much opposition,\nbut he had, by persevering, found out that there was \u201ca little man\nin him.\u201d The people are getting homes and becoming owners of land.\nThey had never been aroused before. They were all religious, but\nthey all drank whisky, from the least to the greatest.\n\nThe white people did not believe in getting a good teacher from\nabroad, because he carried the money out of the country.\n\nQueenie V. Moore taught in Illinois and had high ideas of the\ncolored people, but she found them not nearly so well off as the\ncolored people of the South. The young people spent their time near\nthe taverns, smoking and drinking. She had a model school-house,\nwhich was also used as a church. The people were from all the\nSouthern States. She tried to inspire the young people with a\nhigher purpose than to wear fine dresses or smoke cigars, and\nsucceeded in getting them into Sunday-school. The white people were\nvery cordial and friendly.\n\nProf. J. D. Burrus tried to look upon the bright side at\nMurfreesboro, where he visited, and was surprised to find the\ncolored people so prosperous in getting farms, houses and in\neducating their children. One man had paid $1,100 for his house and\n$1,100 for his shop. Within a radius of a few miles he counted up\n30 families that owned their own homesteads.\n\nH. C. Gray taught in Texas; was Superintendent of the\nSunday-school. He had studied the land system of Texas. A man buys\na piece of land and pays a little down and 10 per cent. interest\non the notes. Many of them are in debt. The school law is such\nthat each child may ask the judge to set aside his pro-rata for\nhim to go to school upon, so that each child gets his chance to be\neducated.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nSTORRS SCHOOL.\n\n_By Miss Amy Williams, Atlanta._\n\nDuring the summer the city of Atlanta erected a beautiful eight\nroom colored school building not more than sixty rods from the\nStorrs School. We all said, surely the number attending our school\nwill be greatly diminished by this new free school; consequently,\nonly four teachers were summoned to be on the ground ready for\nthe opening of school on September 5; but as 280 pupils filed\ninto the school building, we saw that we had underestimated the\nforce needed, and our fifth teacher was called in, and before the\nexpiration of two weeks the sixth one was installed in her old\nplace, and we are now hard at work with 350 pupils enrolled, and\nnew ones are being admitted almost every day.\n\nThis new colored school, which we can see so plainly from our home,\nis a constant inspiration for us to work on with new courage, for\nits eight faithful teachers, with one exception, have been first\ntrained at Storrs School and afterward at Atlanta University.\n\nThis good work loses none of its fascination for us; we only mourn\nthat time and strength are not given us to accomplish more.\n\nMr. Kent, our new pastor, comes with perfect health, and is\nbrim-full of enthusiasm and earnest desire to do the people good.\nHis earnestness, supplemented by the experience and good judgment\nof Miss Stevenson, the city missionary, must tell upon the church\nand people generally.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI.\n\nDEDICATION OF STRIEBY HALL.\n\n_By Mrs. M. E. H. Pope, Tougaloo._\n\n  THANKSGIVING DAY, 1881.\n\nOne year ago to-day we gathered in the old chapel of Washington\nHall to recount the mercies of the year which God had crowned with\ngoodness.\n\nHow little did we anticipate the changes which one year more would\nbring to us. We were trying to make the best of the (dis) comforts\nand (in) conveniences of the old building; but it could not hold\nhalf of the young men, and it seemed to us that the old rooms over\nthe shop and wood-house, and the temporary barracks, had served\ntheir day and generation, and we needed\u2014yes, there was no doubt\nof it\u2014we needed a new building. We asked the Lord for one, and\nthe beginning of the answer to our prayer was the sweeping away\nby the flames, in one short hour, of our main school building,\nwhich included chapel and boys\u2019 dormitories. But, though cast\ndown, we were not destroyed utterly, for we had a large new barn,\nout of which we turned the cattle; dubbed it \u201cAyrshire Hall,\u201d and\nmoved in. We were sure the Lord Jesus would not forget that His\nbirthplace was a manger, and would glorify this refuge with His\npresence; and so He did.\n\nOur numbers were larger than ever, and it was a wonder to us\nsometimes where they were all stowed away; but we were always\nable to find a place for \u201cone more,\u201d and so the year went on and\nended. The boarding hall had been enlarged during the last half of\nthe year by the addition of a wing and another story, so it could\naccommodate more than twice as many girls as before. And now\nfollowed a busy summer, during which the boarding hall was finished\noff and a substantial three story brick building erected. A good\nmany buildings have been put up at various places by legacies\nand named for the dead, but we thought it right to give honor to\nthe living as well, and by request of the Faculty, the Executive\nCommittee voted to name this building after the Association\u2019s\nrepresentative man, Dr. M. E. Strieby. And so a tablet over the\nmain entrance bears the words \u201cStrieby Hall.\u201d The work upon this\nbuilding has been entirely done by colored men, except a few days\nwork by the traditional \u201cplumber.\u201d\n\nTo-day we met to keep our Thanksgiving feast and to dedicate this\nbuilding to the cause of Christian education. Oh, such gladness and\nthankfulness as filled our hearts, and was voiced by the choir in\nthe opening anthem, \u201cPraise the Lord!\u201d After the opening exercises\nvoluntary expressions of thanksgiving were called for. Mr.\nHartsfield, our head carpenter, said he could not help comparing\nthe present with twenty-five years ago, when he little dreamed of\never participating in such exercises as these, and said his heart\nwas so full of thankfulness he could not express it. Others spoke\nof their gratitude for the blessings of the year and of this day.\nMr. H. W. Hubbard, our genial Treasurer, who was with us, told the\nyoung people where the money to furnish them these advantages comes\nfrom.\n\nAn address was then delivered by Rev. B. A. Imes, of Memphis, which\nwill be long remembered by us all, but especially by our students,\nto whom it has already proved a real inspiration. Dr. Roy followed\nin a wonderfully appropriate dedicatory prayer.\n\nThe day seemed all too short to express the joy and thanksgiving\nthat filled our hearts. Truly He has brought \u201cthe blind by a way\nthat they knew not.\u201d We finished up the day with a lecture at night\nfrom Dr. Roy, who always has something good for us.\n\nOur new building has, besides chapel and recitation rooms, family\nrooms now occupied by Prof. Hatch and wife, who have charge of the\nyoung men, and dormitories for sixty-eight young men.\n\nAnd what will you say when I tell you that there are seventy-five\nhere now, with a prospect for a much larger number after the\nholidays?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWORK IN THE SOUTH.\n\nDuring my visit North last summer a friend asked: \u201cHaven\u2019t you had\nenough of life and work in the South? Aren\u2019t you ready to come\nback and take hold of the Home Missionary work again?\u201d The friend\nlooked so incredulous at my expressions of satisfaction, and even\nof desire to get back into the work again as soon as the extreme\nheat was over, it occurs to me that a little glimpse of the past\nfew days of life and labor in this especial corner of the great\nfield might convince a good many that the work is not only very\nhopeful, but also exceedingly interesting. Previous to my restful\nvacation North, I had not been able to visit our people in their\nhomes, but now, with renewed strength, I ventured a long, rough\nwalk, leaning on my husband\u2019s arm, to the home of one of our women,\nwho was very sick. Down a steep, long hill, over deep ravines worn\nby swift-running brooks, with slender poles thrown over to serve\nfor bridges, up the long hill beyond, and we had reached the little\nhouse where the sick one lay. We cheered her as best we could with\nsympathy and comforting words, spreading out the little delicacies\nwe had brought to tempt her appetite, admired the new baby, and won\nthe hearts of the other little people standing shyly back with the\ngingersnaps we had brought for their special comfort.\n\nJust as we were leaving we noticed a young girl crouching near the\ndoor. \u201cMy sister Mag,\u201d said the sick one. We shook hands cordially,\nsaid a few pleasant words to her, then came back to our home tired,\nso very tired, that the rest of that day and the next, which was\nthe Sabbath, was full of weariness and pain.\n\nDid it pay? Yes, a hundred-fold! Early Monday morning there was\na tap at the door, and there stood \u201cMag,\u201d neatly dressed, with\na smiling face, and a basket of vegetables for me. It flashed\ninstantly over my mind what I had heard concerning her. She had\nonce been a Christian, was still a member of our little church, but\nfor a long time past had seemed possessed with every evil spirit of\nsin and mischief that could possibly find lodgment in her heart.\nNothing could induce her to set her foot inside the church door.\nShe invariably vanished whenever the minister tried to see her, and\nshe had long ago been given up as an utterly hopeless case.\n\nWith a swift thought of prayer to Heaven for wisdom, I greeted\nher most cordially, made her feel quite at ease, then led her on\ncarefully step by step, until, before she knew it, she was actually\nconfessing her sins to me, and I was talking kindly but most\nfaithfully to her. Still she stayed on, with a wistful look in her\neyes, and the thought came: \u201cGod surely sent her to me! I\u2019ll do all\nI can for her!\u201d\n\nRising suddenly I closed the door, went directly to her and said,\n\u201cMag, I want to pray with you.\u201d I put my arm around her, drew her\nto her knees beside me, and poured out my whole soul in prayer for\nthat poor child of sin.\n\nWhen we rose from our knees her eyes were tender and full of tears.\nShe clasped my hand tightly for a moment and was gone.\n\nI sought out other homes that very day, where God permitted me to\ncarry little gleams of comfort and strength to sad hearts.\n\nYesterday was the Sabbath. At four o\u2019clock a white flag was\nfluttering at our gate. Five minutes after, fifty young people and\nchildren suddenly appeared, as if by magic, from the lovely grove\nnear by, and came pouring into my largest room, filling every\nchair and bench, finally taking seats on the floor in the small\nspace left about my chair. They were such a bright, eager looking\ncompany\u2014at least a third of them young men and young ladies,\nranging down to half a dozen little fellows at my feet.\n\nHow I blessed the Master for the gift of story-telling when I saw\nthe eager faces, the almost breathless interest with which every\none, from the oldest down to the least of all, listened to me as\nI carefully blended story and lesson with all the grace and power\nI possessed, until I had the joy of seeing the bright eyes grow\ntender and moist, and knew the dear Saviour was with us, laying\nbig hands in blessing upon us all. Then all stood with bowed\nheads while I commended them to God\u2019s mercy and loving care in an\nearnest petition in which all could join. After this, I sat down\nto the organ\u2014a poor, wheezy little thing\u2014which is, nevertheless,\na great comfort and help. They gathered close about me while we\nsang together a beautiful new song, then went quietly away to their\nhomes.\n\nTo-day the little white flag again fluttered at the gate, and one\nby one, or in little groups, the mothers came. I knew how tired\nthey would be, what effort it must cost them to leave their work\non Monday, to come to a meeting like this; so all day I had been\nasking the Lord for some specially helpful, comforting message for\nthem. It would be simply impossible to describe the tender spirit\nthat brooded over us. The Saviour was so manifestly with us that\nthe room seemed the very gate of Heaven.\n\nThe Scripture lesson I had chosen grew so, unfolded itself with\nsuch hidden strength and sweetness, it was like a new revelation.\nThe prayers that followed were wonderful to hear, coming as some of\nthem did from lips untutored, ignorant in book lore, but wise in\nthe hidden wisdom taught them by God himself. _Beautiful_ prayers,\nfull of deep feeling, of humble confession, of earnest pleading.\n\nThere were two strangers with us for the first time, who knelt\nwith us in prayer, and manifested the deepest interest in all that\nwas said. After the meeting there were hearty handshakings, kindly\ngreetings to the new comers, who promised to come again; then they\nwent away with shining faces, with hearts uplifted and strengthened\nfor their hard, toilsome life.\n\nAlone in the twilight, I returned thanks from a full heart to the\ndear Lord, who had honored our little gathering with His presence\nand blessing.\n\nDoes it pay? Yes, a thousand-fold!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nEXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL OF REV. H. M. LADD.\n\nThursday, October 20.\u2014Land! Egypt land! The lighthouse was the\nfirst object in sight this morning, then the low coast and the\ndomes and minarets of the City of Alexandria, and last, but not\nleast, Pompey\u2019s Pillar. After taking our pilot on board we slowly\nrounded the long breakwater on which the lighthouse stands, and\nsteamed into harbor. Before we had fairly drawn up alongside the\nquay a crowd of boatmen were on board.\n\nWe selected the Hotel Abbatmen, and were soon off with them in a\nsmall boat. We passed the Customs without the slightest difficulty\nand were driven to our hotel. Here we had our lunch, and then, as\nwe intended to go right on to Cairo by the early morning train, we\nimproved what little time we had during the afternoon by visiting\nPompey\u2019s Pillar, the gardens of the Khedive, the Rosetta gate, the\nBazaars, etc.\n\nFriday, October 21.\u2014At 8 A.M. we took the cars for Cairo. Arriving\nat the station, we found a large omnibus waiting for us, and we\nwere driven to Shepard\u2019s Hotel, where we have been assigned very\npleasant rooms. This is a very fine hotel for this part of the\nworld. In front and around it is a garden filled with tropical\ntrees and shrubs. Two fountains dash their cooling spray high into\nthe air, and there is a small menagerie, from which the table is\noften supplied.\n\nHere, as on the Galata Bridge, in Constantinople, the past and the\npresent, the east and the west, flow together. The latest fashions\nfrom Paris, and the garb of the time of Abraham, the luxuriance\nof Oriental wealth and splendor, and the miserable poverty and\nnakedness of the oppressed \u201cfellahin,\u201d all pass before one like the\nshifting figures of a kaleidoscope. It is a most interesting and\nabsorbing scene, to be found nowhere else in the world.\n\nSaturday, October 22.\u2014Called at the American Consulate the first\nthing this morning, but found it closed. We were bothered with a\nhost of dragomans and donkey-boys, but they are finding out that\npeople who speak Turkish and Greek and French as well as English,\nand a few words of other languages, are \u201cone too many\u201d for them!\nWe took a little walk alone about the European portion of the\ncity, to get the hang of the place. Some of the residences and\npublic buildings are very fine. In some places you quite forget\nthat you are not in Paris. To-day, our Consul-General, Hon. Simon\nWolf, has been formally presented to the Khedive in great pomp.\nThe Khedive always makes a great display on these occasions, and\npresents the new Consul with a fine Arabian horse. We called again\nat the Consulate, and were glad to receive our letters from home.\nWe talked up our contemplated trip with some of the officials, and\ngained valuable information.\n\nSunday, Oct. 23.\u2014Judge Farman, from the United States, called early\nthis morning. He is very kind, and is doing all in his power to\npave the way for us to the favor of the officials here. As he was\nto leave on Monday for Alexandria, he asked us to go with him to\nthe Consulate, where he told them what he wanted done for us. A\nnumber of Arabic interpreters have been recommended to us for our\ntrip, but we take our time in the choice of a proper man. We find\nthat it will be necessary to take an Arabic interpreter and a cook\nfrom here.\n\n[Illustration: CAIRO.]\n\nWe attended the Mission Church, under the care of the United\nPresbyterians this morning, and greatly enjoyed being among our own\npeople again. I presented my letter of introduction to Drs. Lansing\nand Watson, and found them to be very agreeable gentlemen, and at\nonce greatly interested in our work.\n\nMonday, October 24.\u2014Called at the Consulate again this morning, and\nhad an interview with our Consul-General, Mr. Wolf. We found him\nto be a very pleasant man, bright and energetic, and anxious to\npromote our interests in every way possible. He proposed to present\nus to the Khedive and to introduce us to Sir Edward Malet, the\nEnglish Consul, to whom we have letters from the British Foreign\nOffice, and to General Stone, who is in a position where he can\nhelp us greatly.\n\nOctober 25.\u2014I\u2019m trying to pick up Arabic, but I find a donkey-boy\nbetter help than a book. We tried this method this morning, and\nstarted for the bazaars. I rode \u201cYankee Doodle,\u201d a very smart\nlittle donkey, and Doctor rode \u201cChampagne Charley.\u201d We went through\nthe gold and silver bazaars and the Turkish bazaars and the shoe\nbazaars, and various other departments. Here I aired my Turkish and\nmy Greek. Everywhere we went there was a gentle murmur in our ears,\n\u201cBakhshish,\u201d \u201cBakhshish.\u201d We have got accustomed to it now, and\nrather like it; in fact, we feel quite lost without it.\n\nWednesday, October 26.\u2014We went this morning to call upon Sir Edward\nMalet, K. C. B., with our Consul. I presented our letter from the\nForeign Office, and we were very cordially received. He gave us\nsome good advice and considerable information, and promised to get\nus the necessary letters. He also requested us to report to him\nthe state of the slave trade on our return. We find that we have\nto move very cautiously. The slave trade is a touchy question in\nsome quarters, and proselytism is another. In order to obtain any\nfavor, we are obliged to emphasize the educational part of the work\nproposed.\n\nThursday, October 27.\u2014Dr. Lansing called again this evening. He\nhas a man he wants to send with us as far as Khartoum selling the\nScriptures. He also thinks that there are some from among the\ntribes we hope to reach in their schools now who will work in with\nus in time.\n\nFriday, October 28.\u2014In the P.M. we went with Dr. Lansing and a\nparty of friends to see, or rather hear, the Howling Dervishes.\nIt was something unearthly, devilish, and never to be forgotten.\nDoctor and I began to calculate our chances if their religious\nenthusiasm and fanaticism should lead them to turn upon us. There\nhas been a great revival of Mohammedanism lately and fanaticism.\nAfter this we went to the old synagogue, where there is a\nmanuscript of the law written by Ezra. This is actually the case\nDr. Lansing affirms. He intends to examine it more thoroughly some\nday, but it is very carefully guarded. Then we visited the old\nRoman gates of New Babylon and also attempted another church, but\nfound it closed; we finished up with a drive on the fine Shubra\navenue. There we saw the Khedive and a vast turnout of handsome\ncarriages and handsomer occupants.\n\nSunday, October 30.\u2014Attended the mission church and heard Mr.\nHelditch on Psalm cxxxix. 18. Met some Americans there who\nexpressed great interest in our work. Remained quietly in our rooms\nthe rest of the day.\n\nMonday, October 31.\u2014Wrote nearly all day. Received our circular\nletters from the Government to the authorities in Soudan and the\nEquatorial Provinces. Had a very friendly call from Sir Edward\nMalet, K. C. B., who offered himself for any further services he\ncould render.\n\nTuesday, November 1.\u2014Called at the Consulate. Our baggage, which we\nsent overland by express, has not come yet, but we are told to give\nit time\u2014everything needs plenty of time. In the afternoon we called\nby appointment at the Consul\u2019s residence. Here we met several\ngentlemen who knew all about the Soudan; one had been there, and\nanother was an intimate friend of the Pasha, the Governor-General.\nThe Consul then took us around and introduced us to Gen. Stone.\nIn his position of Commander-in-Chief he can do more for us than\nany one else, and he knows more than any one else about Soudan\nand the Nile. He received us very cordially and seemed eager to\ndo what he could for us. With maps before us he gave us much\nvaluable information in regard to positions and healthfulness. He\nalso put us in the way of transportation across the desert at the\nleast expense of time and money. He strongly advises us to have\nheadquarters at Berber, and in establishing our stations not to\nstop at the Sobat, but to go on to Fatiko. He is also going to\nfurnish us letters to the Governors. We dined this afternoon at\nthe American Mission House with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey, and spent a\nvery pleasant evening with the teachers. I conducted prayers in\nthe girls\u2019 department, and saw there several children who had been\nbrought down as slaves from the very tribes to which we are going.\nThey seemed to be very bright and intelligent. If we find as good\nmaterial as that we shall have no cause to complain.\n\nWednesday, November 2.\u2014Called at Consulate and received letters.\nWe had the clerk translate the telegram which General Stone wrote\nfor us to send to Souakim, with reference to transportation, into\nArabic, and then we were advised to get General Stone\u2019s seal to it.\n\nThursday, November 3.\u2014We have found and engaged a good interpreter\nat a moderate price. We called on General Stone and obtained his\nseal to the telegram.\n\nFriday, November 4.\u2014Called at the Consulate. Sent telegram of\nGeneral Stone to Marquette, at Souakim. It will take some days to\nget an answer from it. We are told to-day that the English steamer\nwe intended to take down the Red Sea has been delayed for about ten\ndays. It is better to pass our Quarantine here than at Souakim.\nThis is our only consolation, for we are very anxious to be off\nnow, although they all tell us that we are early yet.\n\nSaturday, November 6.\u2014We hope this week to see at least the\nbeginning of the end of our waiting here. Much will depend on\nthe answer to our telegram; some will depend on the letters from\nGeneral Stone: much more will depend on the movements of that\nEnglish steamer on the Red Sea.\n\nIt is not always possible to make circumstances.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCALIFORNIA AND CHINA.\n\nBY REV. W. C. POND.\n\nThe new fiscal year opens most hopefully. It began September 1,\nand the statistics for September which I have just compiled show\na larger enrolment and a larger average attendance than was ever\nbefore reported in the whole history of our work. The figures\nare these: 15 schools; 661 pupils enrolled; average attendance,\n332. Among these pupils are 200 who are reported as having ceased\nfrom idol-worship, and 137 who give evidence of conversion. There\nare other hopeful features\u2014a good band of teachers and helpers,\nnumbering 27, not one among them now whom I would like to have\nresign, and a spreading and deepening interest in this work among\nour churches, and peace in all our borders. The hoodlum element\nis measurably quiet, and we work without molestation, except as\nnow and then the heathen cousins or uncles of some of our young\nconverts try what virtue there is in stripes to exorcise from them\nthe Christian devil. The boldness and the constancy which some who\nare still children\u2014scarcely in their teens\u2014have shown, declaring to\ntheir persecutors when dragged before an idol, \u201cI will not worship\nit, though you kill me,\u201d remind one of the legends of primitive\nChristianity.\n\nBut I turn from all points of interest in our work here to press\nonce more on the members and friends of the Association the\nopportunity there is and the need there is for its commencing a\n\nWORK IN CHINA.\n\nI will venture to assume that much of what I myself have written\nbefore about this, and what Jee Gam wrote nearly a year ago,\nis still remembered. I am glad to say that in the populous\ndistricts from which our Chinese come there is now one American\nmissionary\u2014Rev. D.D. Jones\u2014American, though born in Wales. Bro.\nJones as a layman at Cheyenne, Wy. Ter., had his heart stirred\nfor the Chinese in that place. Commencing a mission among them,\nhe afterwards went to Chicago to do like work there, and then to\nBoston on a similar errand. At length he sought ordination, and\nwent forth, appointed by no society, to become a self-sustaining\nmissionary in China. It is a comfort to me to give to each of\nour returning Chinese a letter to him, though probably in many\ninstances the probability of their seeing him is very small.\n\nIs it asked: \u201cWhat would we do by our mission, if we had it\nestablished?\u201d We would, first of all, give a cordial Christian\ngreeting at Hong Kong to every Christian Chinese returning from\nCalifornia: we would bring them off ship into an atmosphere warm\nwith Christian love; we would bring them into meetings for prayer;\nand would then let them go out to their old heathen homes, baptized\nwith the Holy Ghost. In the same spirit we would meet them as they\ncome back on their return to California, calling for reports of\ntheir experiences, the temptations they have met, the testimony\nthey have borne, and the results which have followed their words.\nThen, we would make our mission house at Hong Kong a rendezvous\nand training school for such of our Chinese as may be fitted or\ncould become fitted for evangelistic work among their countrymen.\nWe ought to raise up many such through our work in California. The\nwise word, \u201cAfricans for Africa,\u201d has double wisdom when you read\nit \u201cChinese for the conquest of China for Christ!\u201d They have the\nhard language already; they know from childhood the ways of the\npeople; they know from personal experience the darkness, the fear,\nthe soul-hunger and the woe of heathenism. It would not be wise\nto send them forth with no American supervision; but evidently\nhere is a great force at present little used, that, properly\ndirected, might be wielded for the salvation of multitudes, and the\nChristianization of the greatest empire of darkness the world now\nknows; perhaps has ever known.\n\n\u201cBut isn\u2019t the ground already occupied? How many missionary\nsocieties are already operating in and around Canton? Why add\none more?\u201d I have no statistics at hand, and speaking thus from\ngeneral knowledge alone I must keep far within the truth; but I\nam surely safe in saying that of competent missionaries, either\nChinese or foreign, there are not in the provinces of South China\none to 100,000 people; I know that I am safe in saying that, in the\ndistricts from which our Chinese come there is not more than one to\n350,000. I risk nothing, I think, in affirming that Central Africa\nhas to-day more missionaries in proportion to its population than\nthese districts of China to which I have referred. Certainly many\na helper might be added before any society now on the ground could\npossibly find itself jostled by neighbors.\n\nBesides, we should have our own special methods and our own\nspecial field, growing naturally out of the relationship between\nthe mission here and the mission there; such that while we should\nlargely enter into the labors of brethren who have preceded us;\nusing the books that they have prepared; availing ourselves of\nvarious conveniences that they have contrived, we should in turn\nsupplement and extend their work and multiply their joys. We should\nbe then, not as competitors, but as co-workers\u2014one in spirit and\nmutually helpful.\n\n\u201cBut wouldn\u2019t it cost too much?\u201d Too much for what? Too much for\nthe souls that would be saved? More that these souls are worth? Not\none of our readers thinks this. But _this_ is the question: Would\nit not cost too much for our treasury to bear, loaded as it already\nis with such heavy responsibilities? I reply that it would not be\nvery costly. Two American missionaries, a little property in Hong\nKong, a rented chapel here and there in the larger villages and\nthe small stipends of the Chinese evangelists; this would be all.\nIt would not call for a larger sum unless, in the good providence\nand by the dear Spirit of God, it came to be, by virtue of its\nown success, a _large work_; and then contributions would flow\nin for it, so that by means of it the treasury would be enriched\nrather than depleted. I seldom prophesy; but I will venture to say\nthis, that when the American Missionary Association has once taken\nhold of this work, and adopted as one of its mottoes: \u201cChina for\nChrist,\u201d it will take but a brief period\u2014a very few years\u2014to give\nit such a place in all our hearts that we would sooner think of\ncutting off our right hands than of relaxing our grasp on that land\nas ours to be won for Christ.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHOW A STRAIN OF MUSIC CALLED A WANDERER HOME.\n\n(Toronto Evening News, October 10.)\n\nThey were two young girls, and both were inmates of a gilded palace\nof sin in the city. One was hardened in her sin\u2014the other had waded\nonly ankle deep into the black moat which circles the walls of\nperdition. The other night they went to hear the Jubilee Singers,\nand sat unnoticed in the gallery. The sweet, tender music, so\ntouching and true to nature, entered like a limpid stream into the\nsoul of the younger girl, and filled her whole heart. She leaned\nforward and caught every word, with her eyes shining and her red\nlips trembling. People turned round and wondered at the fair face,\nand watched her soul shining through her great eyes, but they never\nsuspected who she was or whence she had come. There she sat, still\nand immobile, with her small gloved hands tightly clenched, and\nevery nerve in her little body strung to an almost painful tension.\nAll was still in the pavilion. The very gas lights held themselves\nmotionless, as if afraid to make a sound. The great audience was\nhushed. And then a note sweet and tender, but full and rich as\nmoonlight, swelled and rose like a sea, and then, like a shower of\npearls falling through the sounding waters, a woman\u2019s voice sang:\n\n    Bright sparkles in the church-yard,\n      Give light unto the tomb;\n    Bright summer\u2014spring\u2019s over\u2014\n      Sweet flowers in their bloom.\n\nThe girl in the gallery gave a great, shuddering sob. The singer\nlooked up and went on:\n\n    My mother, once\u2014\n    My mother, twice\u2014\n    In the heaven she\u2019ll rejoice,\n    In the heaven once,\n    In the heaven twice,\n    In the heaven she\u2019ll rejoice.\n\nAgain the girl in the gallery uttered a long, shuddering sob, and\nhid her white stricken face in her trembling hands. But still the\nmusic fluttered about her like the rustling of an angel\u2019s wings:\n\n    Mother, don\u2019t you love your darling child?\n    Oh, rock me in the cradle all the day.\n\nShe sat still and heard till the last cadence of the music had\nwandered out into the moonlight, where the angels, who wished to\nlearn it off by heart, caught it up, and bore it in triumph into\nHeaven.\n\n\u201cI must go from here,\u201d said the girl hoarsely. \u201cLet me go, don\u2019t\nfollow me\u2014I will be better soon.\u201d\n\nHer comrade reasoned with her, but she kept saying hoarsely. \u201cLet\nme go\u2014I will be better soon.\u201d\n\nShe hurried out and fled like a frightened deer. She was mad! Her\neyes were hot and dry\u2014her brain was bursting, and all the while a\nwondrous choir was singing in her ears:\n\n    Bright sparkles in the church-yard,\n      Give light unto the tomb;\n    Bright summer\u2014spring\u2019s ever\u2014\n      Sweet flowers in their bloom.\n\nShe fled like a hunted thing till the lights of the city were far\nbehind and she was alone on a country road. She stopped to rest a\nmoment, but the chorus went onward through the sky and she could\nnot stop, for the words were beckoning to her:\n\n    \u201cYour mother, once,\n    Your mother, twice,\n    In the heaven she\u2019ll rejoice.\u201d\n\nTireless she followed on, on, on, the long, long night. The moon\nwent down and she got blind and staggered and groped upon her way,\nbut still she said hoarsely, \u201cI must go on. I\u2019ll be better soon.\u201d\n\nIn the morning a farmer threw open his door and saw lying on the\nsteps the soiled figure of a girl. He picked her up and laid her on\nhis own bed, and his wife laid the wild, pleading face against her\nwarm bosom. A stream of music reached the ears of the dying girl.\n\n    \u201cMother, don\u2019t you love your darling child?\n        Then rock me in the cradle all the day.\u201d\n\nShe sank back with a weak, pleased smile. \u201cRock me, mother, that\u2019s\nit\u2014oh! how nice\u2014how nice it is. Oh, rock me, rock me\u2014rock me,\nmother. I am too tired to say my prayers to-night, mother. Let me\nsleep, mother, and kiss me, but let me sleep\u2014sleep\u2014sleep!\u201d\n\nAnd she closed her eyes and slept, and the choir in Paradise, lest\nthey might wake her, sang softly:\n\n    \u201cHer mother once\u2014\n    Her mother twice\u2014\n    In the heaven she\u2019ll rejoice.\n    In the heaven once\u2014\n    In the heaven twice\u2014\n    In the heaven she\u2019ll rejoice.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSIONARY VEGETABLES\u2014A GOOD EXAMPLE.\n\n_By C. H. Kellogg._\n\nLast Spring, our Sabbath-school having become greatly interested in\nthe work of Atlanta University, one of the lady teachers proposed\nto the superintendent that the boys in the school be asked to\nraise as their own during the season, corn, potatoes, cabbages,\nsquashes, etc., these to be called \u201cmissionary vegetables;\u201d and\nthe girls were asked to make fancy articles, and in the Fall a\nfair held called a harvest festival. The boys and girls entered\nheartily into the enterprise, and last week we held the fair, which\nresulted in the raising of $80 for Atlanta University; this is to\ngo toward supporting some worthy student. The money will be placed\nat the disposal of Miss Emma Beaman, one of the teachers, who was\ninstrumental in awakening an interest here by giving us a talk\nin regard to her work at Atlanta. Is not this a good example for\n_other_ schools to imitate next Summer?\n\n  NORTH AMHERST, Mass., Oct. 17, 1881.\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1881.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $78.72.\n\n    Brewer. First Cong. Ch.                                  $16.72\n    East Waterford. S. E. Hersey                               2.00\n    Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.00\n    Hallowell. Hon. H. R. Baker, _for Atlanta U._              5.00\n    North Anson. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    6.00\n    Searsport. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       20.00\n    Thomaston. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      2.00\n    Thomaston. Bbl. of C.\n    Woolwich. John Percy, deceased, by I. Percy                2.00\n    Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        20.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $310.73.\n\n    Acworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.00\n    Amherst. L. R. Melendy, $25; Ladies\u2019\n      Missionary Soc., $21, _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                            46.00\n    Amherst. Cong. Ch.                                        11.00\n    Auburn. Cong. Ch.                                         10.71\n    Colebrook. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                17.61\n    Concord. Ladies of North Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      Bbl. and Box of C.\n    Derry. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl. of C., _for Washington,\n      D.C._\n    Exeter. MRS. WOODBRIDGE ODLIN, to const.\n      herself L.M.                                            30.00\n    Exeter. Hervey Kent, _for Atlanta U._                     25.00\n    Goffstown. Mrs. Mary A. Stinson, _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             29.66\n    Hancock. E. W.                                             1.00\n    Hollis. Cong. Ch.                                          3.20\n    Lyme. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown Steamer_           12.00\n    Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const.\n      DEA. HORACE PETTEE, L.M.                                31.05\n    Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns                       30.00\n    Nashua. J. G. Proctor                                      5.50\n    Northhampton. E. Gove                                     10.00\n    Pelham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l)                          3.00\n    Salmon Falls. O. S. Brown, _for Atlanta U._               25.00\n    South Newmarket. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      2 Bls. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._\n\n\n  VERMONT, $416.96.\n\n    Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                18.43\n    Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         2.00\n    Burlington. Winooski Ave. Cong. Sab. Sch., $48\n      (incorrectly ack. in Dec. number from Ct.)\n    East Dorset. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           21.02\n    East Poultney. A. D. Wilcox                                5.00\n    Grafton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                9.16\n    Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               8.24\n    Holland. Cong. Ch.                                         4.33\n    Jamaica. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                7.57\n    Jeffersonville. \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. MISS\n      HELEN LUCRETIA MOODY, L.M.                              30.00\n    Peacham. Ashley Blodgett                                   5.00\n    Saint Johnsbury. \u201cA Young Man,\u201d $5; \u2014\u2014, $1                 6.00\n    Saint Johnsbury Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 7.00\n    Springfield. Mrs. F. Parks                               100.00\n    West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   11.15\n    West Charleston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       23.25\n    West Danville. J. M.                                       1.00\n    West Derby. Rev. John Fraser                               5.00\n    West Randolph. Susan S. Albin, $6; S. J. A.,\n      $1; Miss Betsey Nichols, $2                              9.00\n    Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      REV. JAMES F. BRODIE, DEA. MASON W. LADD,\n      DEA. JUSTIN S. MONTAGUE, and CHARLES DANA,\n      L. Ms.                                                 143.81\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $6,569.96.\n\n    Amherst. Faculty of Agl. College, _for\n      repairs, Talladega C._                                  35.00\n    Amherst. Zion Chapel Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    Andover. South Ch., The Little Gleaners, $27;\n      G. W. W. Dove, $100, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                            127.00\n    Ashfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Soc. Bbl. of\n      C. and $1 _for freight_                                  1.00\n    Ashland. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of\n      C.\n    Auburn. Cong. Ch.                                         42.82\n    Barre. Sab. Sch. of Ev. Cong. Ch.                         48.43\n    Belchertown. By Rev. P. W. L., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 1.25\n    Bernardston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            4.00\n    Beverly. Dane St. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for\n      Washington, D.C._\n    Boston. Mrs. Emily P. Eayrs                                5.00\n    Boston. Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Association,\n      _for Lady Missionaries_                                113.53\n    Boston. M. W. Richardson, $25; H. Gardner,\n      $25; Edward Atkinson, $20; A. R. Turner,\n      Jr., $20, _for Atlanta U._                              90.00\n    Boston. Mrs. Thomas Kingsbury, _for\n      Charleston, S.C._                                        5.00\n    Boylston. Ladies, 2 Bbls. of C.\n    Bridgewater. Central Sq. Trin. Cong. Ch. and\n      Soc., to const. LILIAN FRANCES SIMMONS, L. M.           40.55\n    Brockton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $50; Mrs.\n      J. R. Perkins, $5                                       55.00\n    Buckland. Dea. S. Trowbridge, $5; C. W.\n      Thayer, $5; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5; Dea. F. F., 51c.            15.51\n    Cambridgeport. Ladies\u2019 Mission Soc., $30, to\n      const. MRS. EDWARD KENDALL, L. M.; G. H. R.,\n      50c.                                                    30.50\n    Chelsea. Central Ch. and Soc., $19.20; Third\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc., $11.09                              30.29\n    Danvers. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const\n      JOHN S. ARMITAGE, ROLLAND B. FRENCH, WALTER\n      T. MARTIN and SOPHIA D. TAPLEY, L. Ms                  120.00\n    Dedham. First Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   188.86\n    Dedham. A. W. Gates, _for John Brown Steamer_             10.00\n    Dorchester. Miss E. Pierce                                 5.00\n    Easthampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $42.02;\n      Payson Ch. Sab. Sch., $37.50                            79.52\n    East Somerville. Ephraim Stone, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               50.00\n    Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                4.77\n    Fall River. Wm. H. Jennings, $50; Other\n      visitors from Fall River, $312, _for Atlanta\n      U._                                                    362.00\n    Fiskdale. Mrs. A. S.                                       0.50\n    Fitchburgh. Calvinistic Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $176.96; Rollstone Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $166.44, to const. DUANE C. HARRINGTON,\n      CHARLES H. DOTEN, EDWIN C. BABBITT, GORDON\n      J. BUSHNELL and ANNIE E. FERSON, L. Ms                 343.38\n    Fitchburgh. David Boutelle, $50; Miss L.\n      Boutelle, $10, _for John Brown Steamer_                 60.00\n    Framingham. Young Ladies Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      25.00\n    Framingham. George Nourse                                  5.00\n    Gardner. J. B. Drury to const. JOSEPH GRIMES,\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Globe Village. Sab. Sch. of Evan. Free Ch.                20.00\n    Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.                             100.00\n    Groton. \u201cMother and Daughter,\u201d _for Freedmen,\n      Chinese and Indian M._                                  30.00\n    Hatfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              71.00\n    Hinsdale. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                          31.94\n    Holliston. \u201cA Young Friend,\u201d $5; \u201cA Friend,\u201d\n      $1; other friends, $3, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                              9.00\n    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          8.59\n    Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch.                          20.00\n    Lancaster. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., Bbl. and Box\n      of C. and $2, _for Freight_                              2.00\n    Lawrence. F. E. Clarke, _for Atlanta U._                  50.00\n    Lawrence. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        29.64\n    Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                      75.00\n    Lowell. J. S. Ludlam, $50; A. G. Cumnock, $50,\n      _for Atlanta U._                                       100.00\n    Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            19.78\n    Manchester. Mrs. Abby H. Trask                             2.00\n    Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              30.00\n    Medfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      171.00\n    Middleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   28.00\n    Middleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              5.00\n    Milford. Geo. Draper, _for Atlanta U._                   100.00\n    Monson. Mrs. N. M. Field, $10, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_, and 50c. _for Mag._                           10.50\n    Newburyport. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl. of C., _for\n      Washington, D.C._\n    Newton Center. C. L. H.                                    0.51\n    North Amherst. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        90.00\n    Northampton. First Cong. Ch.                              67.51\n    Northborough. Sab. Sch. of First Evan. Cong.\n      Ch., _for John Brown Steamer_                           10.00\n    North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           3.00\n    North Somerville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                               1.00\n    Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          19.25\n    Palmer. Mrs. E. G. Learned                                 5.00\n    Pepperell. Citizens of Pepperell, by C.\n      Crosby, Treas. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._               10.75\n    Pittsfield. Mrs. H. M. Hurd, Package of\n      Bedding, _for Tougaloo U._\n    Plymouth. Mrs. C. W. P.                                    0.50\n    Princeton. Cong. Ch.                                       7.00\n    Rockland. Cong. Ch.                                       73.40\n    Rockport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              18.94\n    Salem. Henry D. Sullivan, _for Atlanta U._                50.00\n    Salem. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl. of C., _for Washington,\n      D.C._\n    Scotland. \u201cE. F. L.\u201d                                       0.50\n    South Abington. Miss C. H. Whitman, _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    Southampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           35.00\n    South Boston. Phillips Cong. Ch. and Soc.                122.62\n    South Deerfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       18.16\n    South Framingham. Mrs. Geo. Cutler, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               4.00\n    South Hadley. Mt. Holyoke Sem., \u201cS.\u201d                      15.00\n    South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $43.75, and Ladies Missionary Soc., $17.25,\n      to const. MRS. JULIA A. REED and MISS\n      FLORENCE E. DEANE L. Ms.                                61.00\n    Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               1.50\n    Stoughton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              5.00\n    Templeton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.00\n    Tewksbury. W. H. Lathrop, $2 and Bundle of C.              2.00\n    Townsend. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       7.00\n    Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             57.93\n    Westborough. E. N. Forse, _for Wilmington,\n      N.C._                                                   10.00\n    Westford. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Soc. Bbl. of\n      C., _for Savannah, Ga._\n    West Newbury. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n      $10; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5                                     15.00\n    Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $27.25; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d $5                                             32.25\n    Woburn. \u201cBy a Daughter,\u201d in memory of a\n      departed Mother and of a S. S. Teacher, to\n      const. R. B. RICHARDSON, J. S. WHEELER and\n      MRS. E. V. BRIDGHAM, L. Ms.                            100.00\n    Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $140.36; Salem St. Ch., $110; Old South Ch.\n      and Soc., $31.30; H. M. Wheeler, $20; Mrs.\n      P. E. A., $1; Mrs. K. G. and Mrs. J. B. G.,\n      50c. ea.; E. J. R., 50c.                               304.16\n    Worcester. \u201cA Friend,\u201d in the Annual Meeting\n      at Worcester ($500 _of which for Hampton N.\n      & A. Inst._ and $500 _for Berea College_)            2,340.00\n    Worcester. \u201cA Father,\u201d in the Annual Meeting\n      at Worcester, to const. three daughters Life\n      Members                                                 90.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                              2.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           6,502.34\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Marion. A. J. Hadley, Trustee under the Will\n      of John Pitcher                                         67.62\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           6,569.96\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $906.63.\n\n    Kingston. Cong. Ch.                                       21.63\n    Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch., $200;\n      Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc., $110                       310.00\n    Providence. F. W. Carpenter, _for Bell for\n      Florence, Ala._                                         50.00\n    Woonsocket. Charles Nourse, _for Atlanta U._              25.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             406.63\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Coventry. Estate of Mary Lincoln, by Joel M.\n      Spencer, Ex.                                           500.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             906.63\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $1,656.23.\n\n    Bristol. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $15; Mrs. P. L. Alcott, $5           20.00\n    Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      John Brown Steamer_                                     10.00\n    Dayville. Cong. Soc., _for John Brown Steamer_            10.00\n    East Avon. Cong. Ch.                                      37.50\n    East Woodstock. Bbl. of C. and $2 _for Freight_            2.00\n    Elliott. Wm. Osgood                                        2.00\n    Greenville. Cong. Ch.                                     33.10\n    Guilford. Daniel Hand                                    100.00\n    Hebron. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch.                            104.84\n    Hartford. Roland Mather, _for Fisk U._                    50.00\n    Kensington. Miss E. Cowles                                 2.00\n    Killingly. E. F. Jencks, $5; L. G. Jencks, $5             10.00\n    Meriden. Mrs. S. F. S. B.                                  1.00\n    New Canaan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            23.52\n    Middletown. First Ch., $37.64; \u201cA. B. C.,\u201d $5             42.64\n    Milford. Plymouth Ch., $85; First Cong. Ch.,\n      $25                                                    110.00\n    New Britain. Mrs. Louisa Nichols, $400; First\n      Ch. of Christ (ad\u2019l), $30.35; South Cong.\n      Ch., $30                                               460.35\n    New Hartford. Samuel Couch                                10.00\n    New Haven. Mrs. Eunice M. Crane, $10; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d $6.33; \u201cL. M.\u201d $5                              21.33\n    New Haven. F. H. Hart for _Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    New Haven. S. W. Williams, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                20.00\n    New London. Mrs. D. H. and Mrs. H. S. C.                   1.00\n    Newtown. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    North Haven. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson\n      C. and N. Inst._                                        30.00\n    Northford. Cong. Ch.                                      22.00\n    Norwalk. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const.\n      MRS. JOHN F BENNETT, ALEXANDER JOHNSTON and\n      E. C. BISSELL L. Ms.                                   100.00\n    Norwich. Broadway Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson C.\n      & N. Inst._                                             50.00\n    Old Lyme. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            5.00\n    Plantsville. L. A.                                         1.00\n    Plymouth. Cong. Ch.                                       14.50\n    Preston City. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          22.00\n    Salisbury. \u201cG. B. B.,\u201d _for John Brown Steamer_           10.00\n    Stafford Springs. Mrs. S. M. D.                            1.00\n    Stanwich. Charles Brush                                  100.00\n    Somers. C. B. Pease, _for John Brown Steamer_             10.00\n    Somersville. Cong. Sab. Sch.                              10.00\n    Somersville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    South Killingly. Cong. Ch.                                 8.00\n    Southport. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    South Windsor. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.,\n      _for John Brown Steamer_                                10.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      28.37\n    Waterbury. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for John Brown Steamer_           10.00\n    Westford. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    Westport. Cong. Ch.                                       27.64\n    Whitneyville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                30.00\n    Winchester. Cong. Ch.                                     13.44\n    Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                7.00\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $1,597.20.\n\n    Albany. Sab. Sch. Coll., by W. S. Brower, _for\n      Talladega C._                                           16.76\n    Angelica. Mrs. F. A. R.                                    0.50\n    Arcade. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 3.00\n    Brooklyn. Plymouth Church, $264.16; Tompkins\n      Ave. Cong. Ch., $125; Miss E. O., 50c.                 389.66\n    Brooklyn. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl. of C., _for\n      Washington, D.C._\n    Brooklyn, E. D. New Eng. Cong. Ch.                        25.47\n    Buffalo. \u201cR. W. B.,\u201d First Cong. Ch., to\n      const. REV. GEO. B. STEVENS, LEWIS H. BROWN,\n      RUSSELL K. STRICKLAND, L. Ms.                          200.00\n    Camden. R. H., _for John Brown Steamer_                    1.00\n    Clifton Springs. Mrs. Andrew Peirce                       25.00\n    Cincinnatus. Coll. Union Thanksgiving Service             15.00\n    Cohoes. Mrs. N. U.                                         1.00\n    Crown Point. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n      _for John Brown Steamer_                                10.35\n    Crown Point. Miss A. McDonald                              5.00\n    Deansville. \u201cL.\u201d                                           5.00\n    Durham. Mrs. Hannah Ingraham                               3.00\n    Fillmore. L. L. Nourse                                     5.00\n    Gaines. M. & B. H.                                         1.00\n    Homer. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                     18.39\n    Livonia. Mrs. Calvert, _for Student Aid,\n      Storr\u2019s Sch., Atlanta, Ga._                              5.00\n    Ludlowville. Sydney S. Todd                                5.00\n    Malone. First Cong. Ch.                                   53.72\n    Marcellus. First Cong. Ch.                                 3.32\n    Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         31.79\n    New York. A. R. Whitney, $50; Chas. S. Smith,\n      $50; John H. Inman, $50; W. H. Caswell, $25,\n      _for Atlanta U._                                       175.00\n    Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $31.12, to const.\n      MARY S. THORP, L. M.; Mrs. R. A. Barber, $10            41.12\n    Norwich. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    Oxford. Cong. Ch.                                         10.42\n    Parma. Mrs. Ezekiel Clark                                  5.00\n    Patchogue. Cong. Ch.                                      12.00\n    Penn Yan. Chas. C. Sheppard ($10 of which _for\n      John Brown Steamer_)                                   160.00\n    Perry Center. Ichabod Miner                                5.00\n    Ransomville. John Powley                                   5.00\n    Sherburne. First Cong. Ch.                                76.70\n    Utica. Bethesda Welsh Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      John Brown Steamer_                                     10.00\n    West Chazy. Rev. L. Prindle                                2.00\n    West Farms. Daniel Mapes, _for Tillotson C. &\n      N. Inst._                                              100.00\n    Westfield. Mrs. L. S.                                      1.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                              5.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA. H. C.\u201d                                              5.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           1,447.20\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Utica. Estate of Job Parker, by T. & M. M.\n      Parker, Executors                                      150.00\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                           1,597.20\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $241.13.\n\n    East Orange. Trinity Cong. Ch.                           155.38\n    Newfield. Rev. Chas. Willey                               10.00\n    Paterson. Tabernacle Sab. Sch. Concert Coll.,\n      _for John Brown Steamer_                                20.75\n    Stanley. Anna M. Samson                                    5.00\n    Trenton. Barker Gummere, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                50.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $137.00.\n\n    Carlisle Barracks. C. M. S.                                1.00\n    East Smithfield. Rev. C. H. Phelps                         5.00\n    Erie. \u201cW.,\u201d _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                 50.00\n    North East. C. A. T.                                       1.00\n    Philadelphia. R. Garsed, _for Atlanta U._                 50.00\n    West Alexander. Thomas McCleery, to const.\n      MRS. JENNIE D. SHELLER, L. M.                           30.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $373.78.\n\n    Bellefontaine. Mrs. John Lindsay, _for\n      Atlanta, Ga._                                            5.00\n    Bellevue. Elvira Boise, $25; S. W. Boise, $20             45.00\n    Circleville. Harness Renick, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Claridon. L. T. Wilmot, bal. to const. MRS.\n      ALICE N. KELLOGG, L. M.                                 10.00\n    Cleveland. Plymouth Cong. Church, $43.80; Mrs.\n      H. M. P., $1                                            44.80\n    Edinburg. Cong. Ch.                                       20.00\n    Hartford. Mrs. E. B.                                       1.00\n    Madison. Mrs. M. P. St. John, _for Freight_                2.00\n    Marysville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           10.00\n    Mount Vernon. First Cong. Ch.                            127.98\n    Oberlin. J. W. Merrill                                    25.00\n    Oberlin. Rev. Geo. Thompson and family, _for\n      John Brown Steamer_                                     10.00\n    Painesville. Ladies of First Ch., box of\n      school supplies, _for Athens, Ala._\n    Ruggles. Cong. Ch.                                        25.00\n    Strongsville. Free Cong. Ch.                              10.00\n    Walnut Hill (Cincinnati). E. W. Hyde                      15.00\n    West Farmington. Mrs. M. A. Sprague                        5.00\n    Weymouth. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             8.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $803.30.\n\n    Chicago. Union Park Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              66.90\n    Chicago. Rev. E. N. Andrews, $15; Cash, 28\n      cents                                                   15.28\n    Danvers. Cong. Ch.                                        11.30\n    Galesburg. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     25.00\n    Jacksonville. J. M. L.                                     1.00\n    Lee Center. MRS. MARTIN WRIGHT, $30, to const.\n      herself L. M.; Cong. Ch., $8.67, and Sab.\n      Sch., $3.12                                             41.79\n    Lockport. First Cong. Ch.                                  8.80\n    Lombard. First Ch.                                         9.75\n    Mendon. Mrs. J. Fowler, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_, and to const. REV. ROBERT KERR and\n      WILLIAM HAYES, L. Ms.                                  100.00\n    Metamora. Cong. Ch., _for African M._                     26.05\n    Morrison. Cong. Ch. ($30 of which to const.\n      ROBERT WALLACE, L. M.)                                  50.00\n    Paxton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        25.25\n    Peru. First Cong. Ch.                                     12.90\n    Princeton. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary in\n      Ga._                                                    24.00\n    Rockford. First Cong. Ch., $52.82; T. D.\n      Robertson, $20                                          72.82\n    Roscoe. Mrs. A. A. Tuttle ($2 _of which for\n      Indian M._)                                              5.00\n    Savoy. Mrs. H. B.                                          0.51\n    Waverly. Cong. Ch., $24.55, and Sab. Sch.,\n      $12.10                                                  36.65\n    Woodburn. Cong. Ch.                                       16.65\n    Woodstock. Cong. Ch.                                       3.65\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             553.30\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Galesburg. Estate of Mrs. W. C. Willard, by\n      Prof. T. R. Willard, Ex.                               250.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $803.30\n\n\n  INDIANA, $10.25.\n\n    Evansville. Rev. J. Q. Adams and wife, _for\n      Student Aid, Straight U._                               10.00\n    Indianapolis. R. R. W.                                     0.25\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $1,010.22.\n\n    Adrian. A. J. Hood                                        10.00\n    Ann Arbor. James D. Duncan                                10.00\n    Battle Creek. Cong. and Presb. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              12.00\n    Benton Harbor. O. E.                                       1.00\n    Benzonia. Amasa Waters                                    10.00\n    Detroit. First Cong. Ch.                                 147.30\n    Galesburgh. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for furnishing room,\n      Michigan Floor, Stone Hall, Talladega C._               25.00\n    Grass Lake. First Cong. Ch.                               15.00\n    Greenville. Cong. Ch.                                     50.88\n    Greenville. Hon. E. C. Ellsworth, _for\n      furnishing room, Michigan floor, Stone Hall,\n      Talladega C._                                           35.00\n    Kalamazoo. First Cong. Ch., $113.38; \u201c*\u201d $5              118.38\n    Pontiac. Cong. Ch., $15.91, and Sab. Sch., $3             18.91\n    Romeo. Miss Mary A. Dickinson, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                25.00\n    South Haven. Clark Pierce                                 10.00\n    Sparta Center. Mrs. C. I. Martindale                       2.00\n    Union City. \u201cA Friend\u201d ($30 of which for life\n      membership)                                            500.00\n    Warren. \u201cThe Lord\u2019s Money\u201d                                 5.00\n    West Adrian. Sab. Sch. Missionary Soc.                     5.25\n    Ypsilanti. Rev. G. H. G.                                   0.60\n    Northport. First Cong. Ch.                                 8.90\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $104.59.\n\n    Arena. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc. _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             1.30\n    Beloit. Mrs. S. M. Clary. Box C. and $2.75\n      _for freight, for Macon, Ga._                            2.75\n    Blake\u2019s Prairie. Cong. Ch.                                 3.00\n    Elkhorn. Cong. Ch.                                        10.84\n    Fort Howard. Rev. D. C. Curtiss, _for Macon,\n      Ga._                                                     2.00\n    Fox Lake. D. W. Stuart                                    11.70\n    Geneva. G. Montague                                       10.00\n    Mazo Manie. Cong. Ch.                                      2.24\n    Rosendale. Woman\u2019s Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             3.00\n    Sheboygan. \u201cFriends,\u201d Box of C. and $2.95 for\n      freight, _for Macon Ga._                                 2.95\n    Watertown. Cong. Ch.                                       7.31\n    Waukesha. Young Ladies\u2019 Miss Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                            16.25\n    West De Pere. Cong. Ch.                                   25.25\n    West Salem. Cong. Ch.                                      6.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $272.44.\n\n    Alden. Mrs. E. Rogers                                      2.00\n    Belle Plaine. \u201cA Few Friends,\u201d _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            4.70\n    Bradford. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  6.00\n    Chester Center. Cong. Ch.                                 41.07\n    Council Bluffs. Mrs. Mary B. Swan, _for\n      furnishing room, Stone Hall, Talladega C._              35.00\n    Creston. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of Pilgrim Cong.\n      Ch., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                     15.00\n    Decorah. G. C. Winship, $5, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_, and $5 _for African M._                       10.00\n    Des Moines. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing\n      room, Stone Hall, Talladega C._                         35.00\n    Green Mountain. \u201cMrs. H. L. C.,\u201d _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           25.00\n    Green Mountain. \u201cR. & H. M. S.\u201d                           10.00\n    Magnolia. Rev. L. P. S.                                    1.00\n    Marion. \u201cWilling Workers,\u201d $30; Mrs. R. D.\n      Stephens, $25, _for Student Aid, Straight U._           55.00\n    Montour. Cong. Ch. ($1 _of which for Talladega\n      C._)                                                    22.67\n    Montour. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            7.00\n    Montezuma. C. W. Herron, _for Mendi M._                    3.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $31.18.\n\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 27.18\n    Monticello. Rev. H. A. H.                                  0.50\n    Morris. Cong. Ch.                                          3.50\n\n\n  KANSAS, $1.00.\n\n    Osawatomie. C. H. C.                                       1.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA. $23.00.\n\n    Blair. Cong. Ch.                                           3.00\n    Humboldt. Jared B. White ($10 _of which for\n      John Brown Steamer_)                                    20.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI. $10.00.\n\n    Kirksville. J. S. Blackman                                10.00\n\n\n  COLORADO, $15.00.\n\n    Colorado Springs. Young Peoples\u2019 Soc., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              15.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA. $50.00.\n\n    San Francisco. Rev. J. Rowell, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                50.00\n\n\n  MARYLAND, $147.23.\n\n    Baltimore. First Cong. Ch.                               147.23\n\n\n  TENNESSEE. $243.80.\n\n    Chattanooga. Ida K. Ferrand, _for Atlanta U._              2.50\n    Memphis. Le Moyne School, Tuition                        241.30\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $201.50.\n\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00\n    Wilmington. Normal School. Tuition                       196.50\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $276.58.\n\n    Florence. M. E. Ch., by Rev. F. L. Baxter,\n      _for John Brown Steamer_                                 2.08\n    Charleston. Avery Institute, Tuition                     274.50\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $906.41.\n\n    Atlanta. S. M. Inman, $50; Richard Peters,\n      $25, _for Atlanta U._                                   75.00\n    Atlanta. Atlanta University, Tuition                     105.05\n    Atlanta. Storr\u2019s Sch., Tuition. $435; Rent, $15          450.00\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition                           80.11\n    Macon. Cong. Ch.                                           5.00\n    Savannah. Beach Institute, Tuition, $151.25;\n      Rent, $10                                              161.25\n    Savannah. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             30.00\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $360.62.\n\n    Anniston. Tuition                                          7.50\n    Athens. Rent                                               2.00\n    Marion. Cong. Ch.                                          2.37\n    Mobile. Emerson Institute, Tuition                       154.90\n    Mobile. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n    Montgomery. Public Fund, $175; Ladies\u2019 Miss.\n      Soc., $5                                               180.00\n    Selma. First Cong. Ch., $8.15; E. C. S., $1                9.15\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $65.20.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo University, Tuition                    65.20\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $120.50.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight University, Tuition                120.50\n\n\n  TEXAS, $177.25.\n\n    Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst. Tuition                  172.25\n    Paris. Rev. J. W. Roberts, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 5.00\n\n\n  CANADA, $10.00.\n\n    Unionville. Rev. Edward Ebbs                              10.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n      Total                                              $17,128.71\n    Total from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30                          33,880.78\n                                                         ==========\n\n                                    H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,\n                                                56 Reade St., N.Y.\n\n\n\n\nConstitution of the American Missionary Association.\n\nINCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nART. I. This Society shall be called \u201cTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\nASSOCIATION.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct\nChristian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a\nknowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries\nwhich are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent\nfields of effort.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes\nfaith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the\npractice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds,\nmay become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty\ndollars, a life member; provided, that children and others who have\nnot professed their faith may be constituted life members without\nthe privilege of voting.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of\nSeptember, October or November, for the election of officers and\nthe transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall\nbe designated by the Executive Committee.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular\nofficers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,\nand of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,\nand other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one\nrepresentative.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. VI. The officers of the Association shall be a President,\nVice-Presidents, Corresponding Secretaries (who shall also keep the\nrecords of the Association), Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive\nCommittee of not less than twelve members.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting\nand disbursing of funds; the appointing, counseling, sustaining and\ndismissing missionaries and agents; the selection of missionary\nfields; and, in general, the transaction of all such business\nas usually appertains to the executive committees of missionary\nand other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no\necclesiastical jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings\nto be subject always to the revision of the annual meeting, which\nshall, by a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the\ncomplaints of any aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision\nof such reference shall be final.\n\nThe Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies\noccurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;\nto apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of\nincorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all\nofficers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the\nSociety; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and\nfor the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call,\nin all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and\ngeneral conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the\ndiffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous\npromotion of the missionary work.\n\nFive members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for\ntransacting business.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. VIII. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to\nthe principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain\nmissionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the\nagency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nART. IX. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without\nthe concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular\nannual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been\nsubmitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in\nseason to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if\nso submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a\nbelief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a\nSaviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice\nof Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity\nof regeneration by the Holy Spirit; repentance, faith and holy\nobedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and\nthe retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the\nwicked, and salvation of the righteous.\n\n\n\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with\nthe almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its\nmain efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens\nand Christians in America, and as missionaries in Africa. As\nclosely related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted\nCHINESE in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its\nhumane and Christian policy toward the INDIANS. It has also a\nmission in AFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014In District of Columbia, 1; Virginia, 1;\nNorth Carolina, 6; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 18; Kentucky, 7;\nTennessee, 4; Alabama, 14; Kansas, 1; Arkansas, 1; Louisiana, 18;\nMississippi, 4; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 3. _Among the Indians_, 1.\nTotal, 82.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE\nSOUTH.\u2014_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.;\nAtlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans,\nLa., and Austin, Tex.\u20148. _Graded or Normal Schools_: Wilmington,\nN.C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S.C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.;\nMontgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.\u201411. _Other\nSchools_, 35. Total, 54.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014Among the Freedmen, 319;\namong the Chinese, 28; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total,\n369. STUDENTS.\u2014In theology, 104; law, 20; in college course, 91;\nin other studies, 8,884. Total, 9,108. Scholars taught by former\npupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. Indians under the care\nof the Association, 13,000.\n\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the\ngrowing work. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and\n_larger_ contributions from the churches, the feeble as well as the\nstrong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for\nthe new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and\npious, for these churches.\n\n3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and\nmissionaries to Africa\u2014a pressing want.\n\nBefore sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.\noffice as below:\n\n  NEW YORK      H. W. Hubbard, Esq., Treasurer, 56 Reade street.\n  BOSTON        Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Dis\u2019t Sec., Room 21\n                  Congregational House.\n  CHICAGO       Rev. Jas. Powell, Dis\u2019t Sec., 113 West Washington\n                  street.\n\n\nMAGAZINE.\n\nThis Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if desired, to the\nMissionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all Clergymen\nwho take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of\nSabbath-schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries;\nto Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does\nnot prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year\nnot less than five dollars.\n\nThose who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in\ntheir last Will and Testament are earnestly requested to use the\nfollowing\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\n\nThe Will should be attested by three witnesses (in some States\nthree are required, in other States only two), who should write\nagainst their names their places of residence (if in cities,\ntheir street and number). The following form of attestation will\nanswer for every State in the Union: \u201cSigned, sealed, published\nand declared by the said (A. B.) as his last Will and Testament,\nin presence of us, who, at the request of the said A. B., and in\nhis presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto\nsubscribed our names as witnesses.\u201d In some States it is required\nthat the Will should be made at least two months before the death\nof the testator.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                   NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE.\n\n                      Harper\u2019s Young People.\n\n                      AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.\n\nThe name of HARPER\u2019S YOUNG PEOPLE is now =A HOUSEHOLD WORD= in\nmany thousands of homes throughout the English-speaking world. The\nefforts of the publishers have been directed to sustaining the\npure, elevating and entertaining character of the paper, which\nhas won for it the reputation of being \u201c=The Best Periodical for\nJuvenile Readers=.\u201d The rapid\u2014perhaps unprecedented\u2014growth in\nits circulation within the past twelve months proves that its\nconductors have correctly appreciated the requirements of the class\nof readers for whom it is designed. Public and private teachers in\nevery part of the country have hailed it as =A POWERFUL ALLY OF\nTHE SCHOOLS= in the great work of Education, and in many instances\nhave borne practical testimony to its merits by putting it into\nthe hands of their pupils to be used as a regular text book\u2014a\ndistinction rarely enjoyed by a periodical publication. Its value\nas a means of =Developing the Intelligence of the Young= has\nrecently received the highest possible recognition, the managers\nof the _Chautauqua Young People\u2019s Reading Union_ having included\nHARPER\u2019S YOUNG PEOPLE among the works which the members of the\nUnion are required to read.\n\nEncouraged by their magnificent success, the conductors of HARPER\u2019S\nYOUNG PEOPLE will endeavor to make the third volume superior, if\npossible, to either of the preceding volumes. The publishers have\nalready secured serial stories by favorite authors\u2014among others a\nnew tale by JAMES OTIS, entitled \u201cMr. Stubbs\u2019 Brother,\u201d through\nwhich readers will renew their acquaintance with persons to whom\nthey were introduced by \u201cToby Tyler.\u201d They have also arranged\nfor several series of instructive articles upon =Scientific,\nHistorical and Artistic Subjects=, in which =Pens Trained to Write\nfor the Young= will present such topics with the aid of effective\nillustrations, in the most charming and profitable manner.\nExquisite =WOODCUTS OF CELEBRATED PAINTINGS=, on subjects which\nappeal to the imagination of the young, will be given in the paper,\nand will serve to create and cultivate in its readers a =Correct\nTaste for Pictorial Art=. Special attention will be devoted to\ndescriptive sketches, with\n\n\n                             PORTRAITS\n\nof persons connected with current affairs interesting to young\npeople\u2014a feature which added greatly to the attractiveness of\nseveral numbers of the second volume. The love of amusement,\nwhich is inseparable from youth, will be further ministered to by\nexplanations of old-established\n\n\n                         SPORTS AND GAMES,\n\nand by suggestions of new methods of enjoyment in the field and at\nthe fireside.\n\n  BRIGHT SHORT STORIES,\n      SPARKLING POEMS AND RHYMES,\n          FASCINATING PUZZLES, and\n              BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS,\n\ndrawn and engraved by the best artists, will, as heretofore, appear\nweekly in its pages.\n\n\u201c=THE POST-OFFICE BOX=,\u201d into which little hands have dropped\ntheir missives in such numbers that it has been found necessary to\nenlarge it, and through which subscribers have obtained charming\nglimpses of the =Domestic Life and Surroundings of Children= in\nevery clime, will continue to be at the service of those of its\nreaders who, for the purpose of eliciting or imparting information,\nor of effecting exchanges of articles of youthful interest, may\ndesire to communicate with the =BOYS AND GIRLS IN EVERY QUARTER OF\nTHE GLOBE=, whose eyes scan eagerly from week to week the columns\nof that favorite, sympathetic and humanizing department.\n\nThe bound volume for 1881 has been gotten up in the most attractive\nmanner\u2014the cover being embellished with a tasteful and appropriate\ndesign. It will be one of the most handsome, entertaining and\nuseful book for boys and girls published for the approaching\nholidays, and will receive =A CORDIAL WELCOME IN EVERY HOME= into\nwhich it may find its way.\n\n\n                              TERMS.\n\nFOUR CENTS a Number. SINGLE SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $1.50 each:\nFIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $7.00\u2014payable in advance: postage\nfree. Subscriptions will be commenced with the Number current on\nreceipt of order, unless subscribers otherwise direct.\n\nThe Third Volume will begin with No. 105, to be issued November 1,\n1881. Subscriptions should be sent in before that date if possible.\n\nBound Volume for 1881, containing Nos. 53\u2013104, inclusive, $3.00,\npostage prepaid. 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There are many things\npublished in the WITNESS that other papers dare not print, for fear\nof offending some rich and powerful corporation, and so losing\ntheir patronage.\n\n                 The price of the WITNESS is $1.50\n                  a year, post-paid; club price,\n                      five for $6.00. Sample\n                          copy sent free.\n\nMinisters, Missionaries, Evangelists of all Denominations, and\nTeachers can have the WITNESS for One Dollar a year.\n\n\n                        JOHN DOUGALL & CO.,\n\n                     New York Witness Office,\n\n                17 to 21 VANDEWATER St., NEW YORK.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.\n\n[Illustration: SMITH AMERICAN ORGANS ARE THE BEST.]\n\n\n                 _Catalogues Free on Application._\n\nAddress the Company either at\n\n  BOSTON, MASS., 531 Tremont Street;\n  LONDON, ENG., 57 Holborn Viaduct;\n  KANSAS CITY, Mo., 817 Main Street;\n  ATLANTA, GA., 27 Whitehall Street;\n  Or, DEFIANCE, O.\n\n\n                         OVER 95,000 SOLD.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             GREGORY\u2019S\n\n                          SEED CATALOGUE\n\n         My Annual Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seed\n\n                             FOR 1882,\n\nRich in engravings from photographs of the originals, will be sent\n\n\n                      FREE TO ALL WHO APPLY.\n\nMy old customers need not write for it. I offer one of the largest\ncollections of Vegetable seed ever sent out by any Seed House in\nAmerica, a large portion of which were grown on my five seed farms.\n_Full Directions for Cultivation on each Package._ All seed\n\n           WARRANTED TO BE BOTH FRESH AND TRUE TO NAME:\n              so far that, should it prove otherwise\n                  I will refill the order gratis.\n\nThe original introducer of the Hubbard Squash, Phinney\u2019s Melon,\nMarblehead Cabbages, Mexican Corn, and scores of other vegetables.\nI invite the patronage of =all who are anxious to have their\nseed directly from the grower, fresh, true, and of the very best\nstrains=.\n\n\n                    NEW VEGETABLES A SPECIALTY.\n\n                       JAMES J. H. GREGORY,\n                                    Marblehead, Mass.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             PAYSON\u2019S\n\n                          INDELIBLE INK,\n\n                   FOR MARKING ANY FABRIC WITH A\n                       COMMON PEN, WITHOUT A\n                           PREPARATION.\n\n\n          It still stands unrivaled after 50 years\u2019 test.\n\n\n                      THE SIMPLEST AND BEST.\n\nSales now greater than ever before.\n\nThis Ink received the Diploma and Medal at Centennial over all\nrivals.\n\nReport of Judges: \u201cFor simplicity of application and indelibility.\u201d\n\n\n                            INQUIRE FOR\n\n                      PAYSON\u2019S COMBINATION!!!\n\nSold by all Druggists, Stationers and News Agents, and by many\nFancy Goods and Furnishing Houses.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association,\n\n56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  PRESIDENT, HON. WM. B. WASHBURN, Mass.\n\n\n  VICE-PRESIDENTS.\n\n    Hon. E. S. TOBEY, Mass.\n    Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.\n    Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.\n    Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.\n    Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D.D., Me.\n    Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D.D., Ct.\n    WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R.I.\n    Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D.D., Mass.\n    Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R.I.\n    Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D.D., R.I.\n    Rev. RAY PALMER, D.D., N.J.\n    Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D.D., N.Y.\n    Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. W. W. PATTON, D.D., D.C.\n    Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.\n    Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D.D., N.H.\n    Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D.D., Ct.\n    DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.\n    Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.\n    Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D.D., Minn.\n    Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N.Y.\n    Gen. O. O. HOWARD, N.Y.\n    Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D.D., Iowa.\n    Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.\n    EDWARD SPALDING, M.D., N.H.\n    Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D.D., Ct.\n    Rev. W. L. GAGE, D.D., Ct.\n    A. S. HATCH, Esq., N.Y.\n    Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D.D., Ohio.\n    Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Mass.\n    Rev. A. L. STONE, D.D., California.\n    Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D.D., Oregon.\n    Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D.D., D.C.\n    Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D.D., Wis.\n    S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.\n    Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.\n    Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.\n    Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.\n    Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.\n    Rev. HENRY ALLON, D.D., London, Eng.\n    WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N.Y.\n    E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N.J.\n    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.\n    DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.\n    Rev. A. F. BEARD, D.D., N.Y.\n    FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.\n    JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R.I.\n    Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D.D., Mo.\n    J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.\n    E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.\n    C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.\n    Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D.D., Cal.\n    Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D.D., Kansas.\n    Rev. W. H. WILLCOX, D.D., Mass.\n    Rev. G. B. WILLCOX, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., N.Y.\n    Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, Mass.\n    Rev. E. B. WEBB, D.D., Mass.\n    Hon. C. I. WALKER, Mich.\n    Rev. A. H. ROSS, Mich.\n    Hon. JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN, Me.\n    Rev. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass.\n    Hon. NELSON DINGLEY, JR., Me.\n    Rev. L. T. CHAMBERLAIN, D.D., Ct.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, 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  DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n    Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n    Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_.\n    Rev. JAMES POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n\n  AUDITORS.\n\n    M. F. READING.\n    WM. A. NASH.\n\n\n  EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n    LYMAN ABBOTT.\n    ALONZO S. BALL.\n    A. S. BARNES.\n    C. T. CHRISTENSEN.\n    FRANKLIN FAIRBANKS.\n    CLINTON B. FISK.\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER.\n    S. B. HALLIDAY.\n    A. J. HAMILTON.\n    SAMUEL HOLMES.\n    CHARLES A. HULL.\n    CHARLES L. MEAD.\n    SAMUEL S. MARPLES.\n    WM. H. WARD.\n    JOHN H. WASHBURN.\n    A. L. WILLISTON.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields,\nto the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the\n\u201cAmerican Missionary,\u201d to the New York Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be 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 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\n\n\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe improvement in missionary literature is well known.\nExplorations, heroic endeavors of missionaries and their great\nachievements have given glowing themes alike to author and artist.\nCommunications from the field, encouraging incidents and pictorial\nillustrations have combined to afford a wealth of interest to young\nand old.\n\nWe are keenly alive to the necessity of keeping the AMERICAN\nMISSIONARY abreast with the very best publications of other\nmissionary societies, at home and abroad. We shall seek to make its\nappearance attractive by pictures and illustrations. The Children\u2019s\nPage will contain original stories and suggestive incidents. The\nGeneral Notes on Africa, the Chinese and Indians will be continued.\nThe fullest information will be given about our work in the South,\nnow recognized as so important to the welfare of the nation, and\nabout our labors in Africa\u2014that land whose fate so stirs the heart\nof Christendom. The journal of our exploring party of missionaries\nup the Nile will be given monthly. The editorial department will\nreflect the missionary zeal and work over the whole field, and add\nits influence to aid every good agency for the world\u2019s redemption.\n\nNo Christian family can afford to be without missionary\nintelligence, and no missionary society can afford to be without\nreaders of its publications; it had better give them to the readers\nwithout pay than to have no readers. Missionary zeal will die in\nthe churches without missionary intelligence.\n\nBut it would be far better for both the societies and the readers\nif missionary news were paid for. This would give the magazine\nattentive perusal and the society relief from the reproach of a\nlarge expense for publication. Missionary publications should be\nput on a _paying basis_. Aside from a free list to life members,\nministers, etc., the cost of publication should be made up by\npaying subscribers and advertisements.\n\nWe are anxious to put the AMERICAN MISSIONARY on this basis. We\nintend to make it worth its price, and we ask our patrons to aid us:\n\n1. More of our readers can take pains to send us the moderate\nsubscription price (50 cents).\n\n2. A special friend in each church can secure subscribers at\nclub-rates (12 copies for $5 or 25 copies for $10).\n\n3. Business men can benefit themselves by advertising in a\nperiodical that has a circulation of 20,000 copies monthly and that\ngoes to many of the best men and families in the land. Will not our\nfriends aid us to make this plan a success?\n\nSubscriptions and advertisements should be sent to H. W. HUBBARD,\n56 Reade st., New York, N.Y.\n\n\nATKIN & PROUT, PRINTERS, 12 BARCLAY STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\nObvious printer\u2019s punctuation errors and omissions corrected.\n\nChanged \u201cTongaloo\u201d to \u201cTougaloo\u201d on page 15. (By Mrs. M. E. H.\nPope, Tougaloo)\n\nMissing \u201cC\u201d added in the Salem entry on page 26. (for Washington,\nD.C.)\n\nMissing \u201cu\u201d added in the Salisbury entry on page 26. (Salisbury.\n\u201cG. B. B.,\u201d)\n\nMissing \u201cs\u201d added in the Westport entry on page 27. (Westport.\nCong. Ch.)\n\nMissing \u201cs\u201d added in the Crown Point entry on page 27. (Miss A.\nMcDonald)\n\n\u201cCAMES\u201d changed to \u201cGAMES\u201d on page 31. (SPORTS AND GAMES)","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 36, No. 1, January, 1882","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":19497}