{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_57859/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_57859","id":"gutenberg_57859","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57859","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.      MAY, 1882.       No. 5\n\nTHE\n\nAmerican Missionary\n\n\u201cTHEY ARE RISING ALL ARE RISING, THE BLACK AND WHITE TOGETHER\u201d\n\n\nNEW YORK:\n\nPUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\n\nROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPrice, 50 Cents a Year, In Advance.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nEntered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class\nmatter.]\n\n\n\n\n                             CONTENTS.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n                                                         PAGE.\n    PARAGRAPHS                                             129\n    BENEFACTIONS                                           130\n    CONCERNING ENDOWMENTS                                  131\n    DEATH OF REV. J. M. WILLIAMS                           133\n    GENERAL NOTES\u2014\u2014Africa, Indians, Chinese                133\n    CUT OF MODOC FUNERAL                                   135\n    ANNIVERSARY ANNOUNCEMENTS                              136\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    REVIVAL NEWS\u2014\u2014From Tougaloo, Chattanooga,\n      Macon, Atlanta, Hampton, Paris and McIntosh          137\n    OUR YOUNGEST, THE TILLOTSON                            140\n    TEACHER\u2019S INSTITUTE AT TALLADEGA                       140\n    HON. WM. E. DODGE AND ATLANTA UNIV.                    141\n    ATLANTA TEACHER AT MACON                               141\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    MR. LADD\u2019S JOURNAL                                     142\n    ELEPHANT HUNTING (cut)                                 143\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    STATISTICS FOR FEBRUARY\u2014\u2014Chinese New-Year              147\n    JAPANESE PLEASURE PARTY                                149\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    THE GRASSHOPPER TEACHER                                150\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                 151\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  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\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 Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New York\nOffice.\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, Rev. C.\nL. Woodworth, Dist. Sec., 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass.,\nor Rev. James Powell, Dist. Sec., 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member. Letters relating to boxes and barrels of clothing may\nbe addressed to the persons above named.\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\u201cI BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 dollars,\nin trust, to pay the same in \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 days after my decease to the\nperson who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the\n\u2018American Missionary Association\u2019 of New York City, to be applied,\nunder the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association,\nto its charitable uses and purposes.\u201d The Will should be attested\nby three witnesses.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Annual Report of the A. M. A. contains the Constitution of the\nAssociation and the By-Laws of the Executive Committee. A copy will\nbe sent free on application.\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n            VOL. XXXVI.       MAY, 1882.         NO. 5.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe friends of the A. M. A. who examine the receipts acknowledged\nin this number of the MISSIONARY will be gratified to see a total\nof $31,976.58 for March, thus making up in some measure for the\nfalling off in February. But too much encouragement must not be\ntaken from this single item. Let it only stimulate our friends to\na steady effort to round out the year with the $300,000 called for\nby the annual meeting and by the imperative needs of the work. To\nreach that sum $168,000 will be required for the remaining six\nmonths of the year, or $28,000 per month.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe most infamous enactments of the Congress of the United States\nhave been made in response to the demands of caste prejudice; as\nfor example in the Fugitive Slave Law. A parallel to this is found\nin the recent bill prohibiting Chinese immigration\u2014\u2014an enactment\ninjurious to this country, a wrong to China and a violation of the\nfundamental principles of the Declaration of Independence, and of\nthe law of God. It is a shameful repudiation of our boast that\nthis land is an asylum for the oppressed of all nations, and it\nis a cowardly acknowledgment that a hundred thousand inoffensive\nChinamen can so excite and alarm a nation of fifty millions of\npeople. It is with great gratification that we chronicle the\nveto of this bill by President Arthur. We only regret that he\nhas not put the veto more squarely against the principle of such\nprohibition.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPopular virtue is spasmodic. It was a spasm of public righteousness\nthat overthrew Wm. M. Tweed in New York. But the spasm soon passed\nand New York was again misgoverned. Sudden uprisings of enthusiasm\nin the temperance cause have given us prohibitory and other\nstringent laws, but soon again the tides of intemperance have swept\nonward. In missionary as well as reformatory work is the evil of\nthese spasms felt. Some new developments of special need or of\nspecial encouragement arouse the churches, and unwonted streams of\ncontributions pour into the treasuries of the Mission Boards. On\nthe strength of these gifts the mission work is enlarged and new\nresponsibilities are assumed, but ere long the decay of the special\nimpulse leaves the Boards to face their newly-created obligations\nwith an empty treasury.\n\nThis has been specially true in regard to the work among the\nFreedmen. On the proclamation of Emancipation, and the enactment of\nlaws giving the ballot to the blacks, the popular enthusiasm knew\nno bounds. Liberal benefactions called into life the Freedmen\u2019s Aid\nSocieties and filled the treasury of this Association. At length,\nhowever, the Freedmen fell into the hands of the politicians, and\nthe nation lost interest in the conflicts of parties and factions\nover them. The Aid Societies were abandoned and the A. M. A. with\nits vast machinery was left in debt. Now, again, within the last\nfew years has the public attention been aroused to the education\nof the colored people as their only hope and the nation\u2019s only\nsafety. Presidents Hayes and Garfield have voiced the feelings of\nthe North, and Senator Brown and Dr. Haygood have re-echoed the\nsentiment for the South. During these late years the treasury of\nthe A. M. A. has felt the new impulse, and again it has ventured\nupon enlargement. Shall it once more be left on the sands of a\nretreating tide and the work for the Freedmen be again crippled?\nNothing will avert such a result but conscience and Christian\nprinciple on the part of the friends of the colored race. If this\nwork ought to be done, and what patriot or Christian doubts it,\nthen the patriot and the Christian must give it their steady and\ngenerous support.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nMr. Garry Brooks has given $30,000 to found a Brooks Professorship\nat Oberlin College.\n\nThe medical department of Dartmouth College receives $2,000 from\nthe will of the late E. W. Stoughton, of New York.\n\nHon. Frederick Billings, of Woodstock, Vt., has given $5,000 to\nthe fund now being raised for an additional gymnasium building at\nAmherst College.\n\nGen. James M. Coale, of Maryland, bequeathed $10,000 each to\nGeorgetown College, D.C., and St. Mary\u2019s Industrial School for\nBoys, Baltimore.\n\nThe Marquis of Bute offers to add \u00a310,000 to the fund to the\nproposed University College of Wales, provided the institution be\nestablished at Cardiff.\n\nEx-Gov. Morgan, of New York, has given $100,000 to Williams College\nfor a new dormitory building. The gifts of Gov. Morgan to Wells\nCollege amount in all to $275,000.\n\nMiss Sarah Burr, of New York, bequeathed $95,000 for educational\npurposes in connection with institutions already established and\n$60,000 towards founding new ones.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_During the past twelve months we have recorded under the head of\n\u201cBenefactions\u201d $9,118,500 to different educational institutions\nin the United States. The greater part of this was given for\nendowments and permanent educational facilities\u2014\u2014a portion of it\nhad been provided by donors during previous years, and a part\nstill remains unpaid. Of the grand total only $66,500 was for\nFreedmen\u2014\u2014the money for their support having for the most part come\nthrough the contribution boxes._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONCERNING ENDOWMENTS.\n\nThe success already achieved by the institutions of this\nAssociation and the favor already won by them among all classes of\nthe Southern people, amply justify the work hitherto carried on. It\nis believed that the time has fully come when this work should be\nput upon a more substantial basis. Permanent endowments are needed\nthat these institutions may achieve that larger success which is\nrightly expected of them.\n\nCertain phases of our work, sometimes overlooked, greatly emphasize\nthis need. Careful attention is invited to the following points:\n\n1. _The unusual difficulties attending the successful prosecution\nof our work._ It is no ordinary school teaching that we have\nundertaken to carry on in the South. Our pupils bring to the\nclass-room absolutely no inheritance of scholarly mind. Only two\nor three generations separate them from the heathenism of the most\nuncivilized continent in the world. Some of them come with the\nmost meagre vocabulary\u2014\u2014a few hundred tattered and torn remnants\nof English words. Many of them have no equipment of general\ninformation, such as other children absorb from their parents. But\nworse than all is the evil inheritance which many of our pupils\nbring from centuries of heathenism and slavery. Let us be frank and\nadd that even the great boon of freedom, so righteously conferred,\nhas, by the very suddenness of its bestowal, unavoidably brought\npeculiar peril and damage to many of the freedmen.\n\nIt is not a light task to deal with such material as this. Moral\ncharacter must be developed at the outset and carefully nurtured\nall along. The rubbish of incorrect speech must be cleared away,\nand a correct and copious vocabulary formed. The commonest facts\nof general information must be imparted. Of course, in our higher\ninstitutions there is less of such work to be done; but a still\nmore responsible and difficult task takes its place\u2014\u2014that of\npreparing college and normal students to perform this same arduous\nprimary work as teachers and leaders of their own people. Never was\nsuch a mass of ignorance thrown so suddenly upon the educational\nresources of a civilized people. But there is a brighter side.\n\n2. _The unprecedented facilities now available for the prosecution\nof our work._ Never was a civilized people so well prepared as\nour nation now is to meet this great emergency. The progress made\nin the science of education was never so great as it has been\nin recent years. The adaptation of methods of teaching to the\nvarying necessities of pupils was never so well understood as now.\nText-books and school apparatus, juvenile literature and helps for\nBiblical study were never so excellent as at present. The value\nof industrial training, even as an element in the most liberal\nculture, is receiving unwonted emphasis. In short, the accumulated\nwisdom of the latest and best century stands ready to serve us, if\nwe only summon its aid. Much of it is in service already; but far\nmore is needed than our present financial resources can command.\n\n3. _The necessity of a high order of talent in the teachers and\nmanagers of our work._ To understand thoroughly the needs of such\npupils as crowd our schools, and to apply successfully the most\napproved educational methods, requires something more than an\nordinary teacher. An eminent advocate of popular education has\nstated it as his belief that the most interesting and valuable\nimprovements yet to be made in pedagogical science will be made in\nconnection with the education of the colored people. But tyros and\nbunglers in teaching will never give us much that is interesting\nor valuable. The very best teaching ability must continually be\nemployed in our schools and colleges, and be properly remunerated.\n\n4. _The relation of our work to the future of education in the\nSouth._ The justification of all Northern missionary teaching in\nthe South has been that it was designed to accomplish what the\nSouthern people were not prepared to do themselves. To whatever\nextent they may in the future take up our work, it will still be\nour mission to maintain that helpful leadership which it has been\nour privilege to exercise from the beginning. Our institutions\nshould be the best and do the best work of any in the South. We\nshould be the first to discern the peculiar needs of Southern\npupils and the first to introduce whatever is new and excellent\nin educational appliances. We ought, for instance, to have\nat once industrial departments connected with all our larger\ninstitutions. Every normal and college graduate should be able\nto use intelligently either the wood-working or the iron-working\ntools; and the same expenditure of time and money which the Harvard\nand Yale boys make in learning to wield the oar and the bat would\naccomplish this much desired end. Already our institutions are\nbeing visited by Southern teachers eager to witness the advanced\nmethods of teaching already introduced. We should always be able to\nreward such visitors by showing them something which they have not\nseen before. Above all, we should send out from our institutions\nsuch noble specimens of young manhood and womanhood as shall prove\na stimulus to the whole educational work in the South.\n\nThe destiny of the colored race is to be largely determined by the\ncharacter of the young men and women now crowding forward into\nactive life. The immediate future will demand all our resources,\nand more, to save these young people. In the more distant future,\nour success as influential leaders in education will depend largely\nupon the promptness with which our institutions are _now_ put upon\na substantial basis. Every consideration of past success and of\npresent and future need enforces our plea that these endowments\nshould be provided at once.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREV. J. M. WILLIAMS, of the Mendi Mission, died at Freetown,\nFebruary 21. Mr. Williams was a native of British Guiana, and born\nin 1828. He was early impressed with a love to the Saviour and\nto Africa by his grandmother Christina, a native of the interior\nof Congo. He was educated in Ebenezer Chapel School, and studied\ntheology with the pastor of the church; became assistant minister,\nthen tutor in training school at Clarkson. But in his own words:\n\u201cThe promise of my childhood made to my grandmother that I would\ncarry the word of God to Africa for her, when a man; this promise\nmade with no other object than to soothe her in her tears for\nAfrica, grew up with me, till I felt I would rather travel from\ntown to town with my Bible, reading and publishing Christ the\nSaviour to my benighted brethren in Africa, than fill the most\nexalted and lucrative position in British Guiana or anywhere else.\u201d\nIn 1861 he went to Africa, and with the exception of three years\nspent in England remained there till the time of his death. Mr.\nChase, who visited him in 1880 at Kaw Mendi, where the last five\nyears of his life were spent, says: \u201cFor Africa Mr. Williams\u2019\neffort may be considered a success. Very few missionaries could\naccomplish so much in so short a time in any field in Africa.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n\u2014\u2014West Central Africa is to receive four missionaries from Oberlin,\nwho will go out under appointment of the A. B. C. F. M.\n\n\u2014\u2014The London _Standard_ has received from Durban a dispatch\nannouncing the return of Mr. Richards, a missionary, who has been\nwell received by Oumzila. The King has permitted him to establish a\nmission in his possessions.\n\n\u2014\u2014Of forty physicians who offered themselves to accompany to the\nGold Coast Mr. Praetorius, sub-inspector of the Basle Missions, the\ncommittee has chosen Dr. Ernest Maehli, of Swiss origin.\n\n\u2014\u2014A survey is to be made for a light railway from the West African\nGold Coast through the mining regions of the Wassan. If this road\nis constructed it will open up a country rich in palm oil, India\nrubber and precious metals.\n\n\u2014\u2014John Smith Moffat has been sent to Lessouto as British\nrepresentative. Born at Kourouman and brought up in England, he\nhas still passed nearly 25 years in Africa, and exercised in the\nTransvaal a civil magistracy among the natives, whose interests,\nmaterial and moral, he has always protected.\n\n\u2014\u2014Capt. Foot, commander of the ship Ruby, has accepted a call of\nthe Sultan of Zanzibar, with a view to the suppression of the slave\ntrade, which appeared concentrated at Bemba. The Arab bark with\nwhich Capt. Brownrigg joined combat has been captured. The French\nand English governments have taken up the matter.\n\n\u2014\u2014The Arab influence is said by the missionaries of the C. M. S. to\nbe destroyed in Mtesa\u2019s kingdom. \u201cNo fear of starving now,\u201d writes\nMr. O\u2019Flaherty. \u201cWe can water our garden, which bears fruit twice\na year. We live like lords on native food, have flesh meat twice a\nday. The climate is lovely, country beautiful, people affable and\nkind, and we are happy. Our work is so increasing daily that we do\nnot know where to begin or what to do first.\u201d\n\n\u2014\u2014A section of the Geographical Society, of Lisbon, has been formed\nat Horta, chief town of Fayal, one of the Azores, and has commenced\nto seek means for establishing a help station for shipwrecks, a\nmeasure desired for a long time in this latitude where violent\ntempests so frequently surprise one.\n\n\u2014\u2014Messrs. Thornycroft & Co., of England, are constructing a steamer\nfor the use of the Baptist mission on the Upper Congo. The steamer\nis to be of steel, having twin screws for her more easy control\nand management amid the currents and sand-banks of the river. Her\nlength will be 70 feet and she will draw only 12 inches of water.\nThe lightness of flotation is secured by a singularly ingenious\narrangement of the screws. The contract price of the vessel,\ncomplete and packed for transmission to the Congo, with a steel\nboat and duplicates of the most important portions of the machinery\nand gear, has been fixed at \u00a31,700. To this will have to be added\nabout \u00a3150 for sundry stores, so that the entire cost of the vessel\nwill not exceed \u00a32,000.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\u2014\u2014There are 5,500 Indians drawing rations at the Agency of Standing\nRock, Dakota.\n\n\u2014\u2014During the present session of Congress 140 bills relating to the\nIndians have been introduced, an average of one to about every\n1,700 Indians.\n\n\u2014\u2014Thirty descendants of Indians in Delaware have asked to be\nadmitted to the Maryland Conference of the Methodist Protestant\nChurch.\n\n\u2014\u2014There are 1,000 Indians in the Everglades of Florida, speaking\ntheir own language. They are said to be friendly and honest in\ntheir dealing with the whites.\n\n\u2014\u2014Among the 275,000 Indians reported in the United States there\nare 219 churches and 30,000 church members. Out of 70 tribes, 22\nare stated to be self-supporting.\n\n[Illustration: MODOC FUNERAL.]\n\n\u2014\u2014The Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory, have long had a law\nto prevent excessive cruelty to animals; inspired, it seems, not\nfrom any example of the whites, but from their own instincts of\nhumanity. The penalty is a fine of thirty lashes.\n\n\u2014\u2014A sub-committee appointed by Presbyterians to prepare a memorial\nfor Congress relating to the Indians, adopted the following: \u201cFor\nIndians we want American education, we want American homes, we want\nAmerican rights\u2014\u2014the result, of which is American citizenship.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u2014\u2014Shanghai, China, has a temperance society with 400 members.\n\nThe Chinese pupils at Stockton and Oroville have purchased cabinet\norgans for their respective schoolrooms.\n\n\u2014\u2014In order to introduce telegraphy into China, the authorities\ngrant the free use of the wires to the people for a month.\n\n\u2014\u2014A decree has been issued exempting all Chinese converts to\nChristianity from all levies for idolatrous worship, processions or\ntheatrical performances.\n\n\u2014\u2014The Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong says that the Catholic mission\nthere took 400,000 Chinese children last year to bring up in the\nfaith of their church.\n\n\u2014\u2014A tract which is being distributed by the Japanese says:\n\u201cChristianity is spreading like fire on a grassy plain, so that in\ncapital and country there is no place where it is not preached.\u201d\n\n\u2014\u2014According to the latest statistics on the subject, there are\nat the present time 310 Protestant missionary agents in China.\nReckoning the population of China at 350,000,000, a ratio is found\nof _one_ missionary agent to a population of 1,129,032.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nANNIVERSARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.\n\nHOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014\u2014The anniversary of the\nTheological Department will be on Friday evening, May 5, when\naddresses will be made by five young men, who will graduate,\nand who will be addressed at the close by some person yet to be\nselected.\n\nFISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN.\u2014\u2014Friday night, May 20, public\nexercises of Class A., and the conferring of normal certificates.\nSunday, 3 P.M., Baccalaureate sermon by President Cravath. Sunday\nnight, Missionary address by Rev. C. L. Woodworth, of Boston,\nMass. May 23, 24 and 25, examination of classes. Thursday, May 26,\nCommencement Day, Anniversary address by Rev. R. G. Hutchins, of\nColumbus, Ohio.\n\nTALLADEGA COLLEGE, TALLADEGA, ALA.\u2014\u2014Baccalaureate sermon, Sunday\nmorning, June 11, by President De Forest. Missionary sermon in the\nevening by Rev. Edward W. Bacon, of New London, Conn. Examinations\non Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Monday night, exercises of the\nLiterary Societies. Tuesday night, address by Rev. E. W. Bacon.\nThursday, Anniversary exercises and graduation of two from the\nTheological Department. Commencement concert in the evening.\n\nTOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, TOUGALOO, MISS.\u2014\u2014Examinations Thursday. Friday\nand Monday, May 25, 26 and 29. Sabbath-school Convention, Sunday,\nMay 28. Annual sermon by the President, Sunday night. Exhibition,\nTuesday night, May 30. Literary exercises of graduating class,\nWednesday morning, May 31. Annual address, Wednesday, P.M., by Rev.\nTruman N. Post, of St. Louis.\n\nTILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEX.\u2014\u2014Public\nexaminations, June 5 and 6. Closing exercises, June 7.\n\nWILMINGTON, N.C.\u2014\u2014Examinations, June 1. Exhibition in Memorial\nHall, June 2.\n\nCHARLESTON, S.C.\u2014\u2014Commencement exercises, May 31. Address by Rev.\nE. J. Meynardy, D.D., of the Bethel M. E. Church.\n\nBEACH INSTITUTE, SAVANNAH, GA.\u2014\u2014Closing exercises, May 31.\nExaminations and grading for next year during the week preceding,\nending May 26.\n\nMACON, GA.\u2014\u2014Friday, May 26, close of primary school. Saturday,\nclosing exhibition of sewing-school. Sunday, address to the\nstudents of the Lewis High School, by J. W. Burke, Esq. Monday and\nTuesday, examinations. Wednesday, May 31, closing exhibition, with\npresentation of certificates of scholarship. Wednesday evening,\nconcert for the benefit of the school.\n\nLEMOYNE SCHOOL, MEMPHIS, TENN.\u2014\u2014May 28, annual sermon. May 29,\nJunior exhibition. May 31, graduating exercises and the annual\naddress.\n\nMOBILE, ALA.\u2014\u2014Written examinations, May 23 and 24. Oral\nexaminations, May 25. Closing exhibition on the night of the 26th.\n\nMONTGOMERY, ALA.\u2014\u2014Examinations and closing exercises, May 30 and 31.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREVIVAL NEWS\n\n\nRELIGIOUS INTEREST AT TOUGALOO.\n\nFor the past two weeks there has been a great deal of religious\ninterest among the students here. At the meetings, which have been\nheld nearly every night during this time, twenty-nine persons have\ntold us of their determination to serve God for the rest of their\nlives.\n\nMany of those who have lately begun this new life are young people,\nwho have a good deal of influence over their classmates and\nassociates. We feel glad to know that now they are on the side of\nTruth and are ready to use whatever influence they may have in the\nbest way. Not only have sinners been converted, but Christians have\nbeen stirred up to do better work.\n\nOne night, after a sermon upon the subject \u201cConfession,\u201d from the\ntext: \u201cWill a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me,\u201d an invitation\nwas given to all who felt it to be their duty to confess any sins\nthat were weighing upon them. The first who arose was a young\nman who was converted a year or two ago, and who has ever since\nbeen foremost in every good work. He said that he had been guilty\nof an act of dishonesty which had caused him much sorrow. In a\nlesson that he had written upon the board a few days before he\nhad misspelled a word. One letter was wrong, but as it happened\nto resemble very closely the right letter, he reported it as such\nwhen he saw his mistake. For the next three or four days he had\nno peace. He knew that he ought to confess the act to the teacher\nwhom he had deceived, but he was afraid that she would lose all\nconfidence in his integrity. He also tried to persuade himself that\nit was a very little thing, hardly worth reporting. Why not keep\nquiet about it? No one would ever find it out. But these thoughts\nbrought no comfort with them. The more he thought about the matter,\nthe more he felt convinced that his act was not a little thing. He\nknew that it was a _sin_, and therefore not a small thing.\n\nAfter praying about the matter, this suggestion came to him: \u201cSince\nyou have asked the Lord to forgive you, you have done all that is\nnecessary. You need not ask your teacher\u2019s forgiveness.\u201d\n\nHe soon saw that he ought not to expect God to pardon his sin until\nhe had done what he could to set the matter right with his teacher.\nHe felt now as if the very salvation of his soul depended upon\nhis making this confession. As soon as possible, after coming to\nthis conclusion, he went to her and acknowledged his sin. With this\nacknowledgement came peace.\n\nOther confessions followed this. Some told of similar acts of\ndishonesty, which they had committed. All who spoke expressed a\nsincere determination to do better for the future. We felt as if\nthese confessions had cleared the moral atmosphere and made it\npossible for more effectual work to be done for those who did not\nprofess to be Christians.\n\nAmong the number recently converted is a middle-aged woman from the\nneighborhood. For at least thirteen years she has fully realized\nthat she ought to lead a better life, but has been so much under\nthe influence of old superstitions and ignorant associates, who\ntold her that she could not be called a Christian until she would\nsay that she had seen all sorts of impossible visions and had\nnumerous strange experiences, that she has hardly known which way\nto turn. Now she has come out from under her yoke of bondage and\nfeels as if she had seen a great light, a much clearer and better\none than that for which she watched so many years.\n\nWe are hoping and praying that the good, work which has been begun\nhere may continue: that those who have started in the right way\nmay have strength of character enough to keep in it, even when the\nprospect looks dark and they do not feel so full of enthusiasm as\nnow.\n\n                                          _Miss F. J. Webster._\n\n\nA SUMMER SHOWER.\n\nIt fell out of a clear sky, without foretokening of cloud or of\nelectric display. It was at Chattanooga, in Pastor Joseph E.\nSmith\u2019s church. At the regular Wednesday evening prayer meeting a\nyoung man announces that he has made up his mind to turn and live a\nChristian life. Good Deacon Morford asks of the pastor: \u201cHow would\nit do to have a meeting to-morrow night?\u201d It is appointed. Two or\nthree more at that time come out on the Lord\u2019s side.\n\nThen a meeting every night is agreed upon, with a sermon from\nthe pastor; and every night souls are hopefully born again. The\nseries continues two weeks. For the last few days Pastor Penney and\nSuperintendent Roy drop in to help glean a little. Over two-score\nsouls are numbered among the believers. Forty are examined and\napproved by vote for membership in the church.\n\nBut there was some preliminary work after all. The lady missionary,\nMrs. Almira S. Steele, of Revere, Mass., who is sustained by the\nladies of the Congregational churches of Chelsea, besides her\ngeneral service, has had a Friday afternoon sociable for the\nwomen, which not only worked as a preparation but was used all\nthrough the revival with marked spiritual results. So her service\nin the Sunday-school, with the handling of the review intrusted\nto her, had borne upon the happy issue, and all the people, who\nare delighted with their lady assistant, trace the work back\nin part to her influence. The pastor, who had become almost\ndiscouraged, becomes a new man. The church is confirmed. This\nfruitage encourages the patient culturing of the Sabbath-school. It\nrewards proper teaching. There was no noise, no confusion. None of\nthe inquirers were looking for visions and dreams, for long-drawn\nagonies, for \u201cthe power.\u201d They were just marched up to the question\nof immediate submission and trust. This work shows how our little\nchurches that are striving for purity and order and character may\nbe spiritually empowered and built up.\n\n\nREFRESHING AT MACON.\n\nIt will gratify our friends to know that our A. M. A. mission in\nMacon has been spiritually refreshed. There was a growing religious\ninterest among the children of our day-school and Sunday-school,\nand early in February we were enabled to secure the aid of Rev.\nE. E. Rogers, of Orange, Conn. The neighborhood prayer-meetings\nand house-to-house visitation by day were followed by powerfully\nimpressive meetings at night. The work spread remarkably among\nthe children, many of whom have started out in the new life. For\nmore than three weeks the scholars of our Lewis High School would\nvoluntarily leave their play and spend the whole half-hour of noon\nrecess in prayer and religious instruction at the parlor of the\nMission Home to the number of sixty and upward. At one memorable\npray-meeting in the school-house there were twelve or fifteen of\nthe students who gave their hearts to God. It was a Pentecostal\nseason, a time of great rejoicing to the faithful teachers who had\nso long prayed for their pupils. The clear, decided testimony of\none bright little Sunday-school boy, eight years of age, who was\nconverted in one of the Sunday-school prayer-meetings, would put\nto shame the half-way, timid professions of some older people.\n\u201cOut of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected\npraise.\u201d Sixteen members of our Sunday-school have joined our\n(Congregational) church. Twenty-two in all have united, of whom\neight are heads of families, while eight or ten of the students\nhave joined other churches, where their families are connected. The\ndaily meetings continued for six weeks, with the efficient help\nof Rev. D. Sherrell, of Savannah, for a few days, after Brother\nRogers\u2019 departure.\n\n\nGOOD HARVEST.\n\nThe religious interest in Atlanta University, which was reported\nto you some time since, has continued for five weeks without any\nabatement, and a good harvest has already been gathered. The\nmeetings have been well attended, in spite of some sickness and bad\nweather, and have been marked by an earnest attention to the truth\nand a fervent spirit of prayer. We have good reason to believe\nthat many more than a score of souls have chosen the service of\nChrist, and they show a tenderness of devotion and a carefulness of\ndemeanor which promise well for their stability.\n\nScarcely one is left among those who made their home here who has\nnot been deeply affected, and who has not taken some steps in\nadvance. We do not expect any reaction or falling away from the\nuplift which the whole school seems to have experienced.\n\n\nINCREASE IN PRAYER MEETINGS.\n\nThe prayer meetings at Hampton are well sustained, and the\nreligious feeling in the school is good. There has been a marked\nincrease in our prayer meetings this year. We often have 200 in\nour Sunday morning meeting conducted by the students, where last\nyear there were only thirty or forty. We have kept up two Indian\nmeetings during the week, in which a verse of the Bible is read in\nEnglish by one of the students, then by all who can read English in\nconcert, then by one in Dakota. Then it is explained. After trying\nseveral ways, this seemed to be the most satisfactory. Prayers are\noffered in Dakota, in Arizona and in English by the students.\n\nA meeting is kept up by the English-speaking students among\nthemselves in order to fit them to take part when they go back to\ntheir homes.\n\n\nPARIS, TEXAS.\n\nWe are in the midst of a special work of grace. Nineteen have given\nevidence of having been born by the Holy Spirit. They all have been\nadded to our church. Besides these, one came by letter from another\ndenomination. Others are anxiously inquiring the way of life. All\nthese converts, with two exceptions, are from the Sunday School.\nAmong these \u201cnew-born babes\u201d one is the wife of a minister and one\nis the wife of a deacon. The two oldest children of the pastor are\namong those that professed a hope in Christ.\n\n\nM\u2019INTOSH, LIBERTY CO., GA.\n\nLast Sabbath was a \u201chigh day\u201d with us. We have been holding extra\nmeetings about four weeks. The result was the conversion of about\nfourteen persons, among whom were several of our most promising\nscholars. Our communion season came off last Sabbath, when nine of\nthese converts came to unite with us.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR YOUNGEST\u2014\u2014THE TILLOTSON.\n\nThe Austin branch of the Texas Central, a few miles below the\ncapital, falls into the valley of the Colorado. As you run up that\nlovely vale, you soon see on the right, just out of the city, the\nTillotson, a five-story stone and brick edifice, crowning a ground\nswell that overlooks the river and town. Its neat fence and the\ngrounds graded by nature are attractive. As we roll up the valley,\nI see a fine carriage standing at the door; and this, as I come\nup to the place, I find to be the turnout of Gov. Pease, who has\nbrought his family up to visit the institute and to call upon\nthe family of teachers. An original Connecticut man, 30 years a\nresident of Texas, her Governor for a term, during which a fund of\n$2,000,000 was set apart for public schools, and now a trustee of\nthe Tillotson, his interest and influence are worth much to such an\ninstitution at the South.\n\nBut, so soon, the house is full to overflowing, in its\nassembly-rooms, in its dining-hall and in its dormitories. So that\nalready the call is for another building. I find 140 scholars, of\nwhom 65 are boarders. I find enthusiasm and spring in these freshly\ngathered students. In this State the colored people are getting\nland faster than in any other: partly, for the reason that, from\nthe beginning, there was here the least opposition to their doing\nso; and, partly, from the fact that Texas is a new and largely a\nWestern State; and so, these more well-to-do parents are ready to\navail themselves of the advantage of such a school. The father of\none of these young men was a slave, but now owns 500 acres of land,\non which he has paid $6,000 of the $7,000 purchase money.\n\nThe President, Rev. W. E. Brooks, who left his pastorate in West\nHaven, Conn., to take this position, is supported by Prof. J. J.\nAnderson, a graduate of Beloit College, with a dozen years of\nexperience, and by Misses Hunt and Topping, graduates of Olivet,\nwho are born teachers and disciplinarians. The President, besides\nteaching several classes, preaches on the Sabbath in the chapel,\nand also conducts a Sunday-school. He is welcomed to the pulpits of\nthe city, and is on the friendliest terms with the first citizens.\nRev. Dr. E. B. Wright, pastor of the Northern Presbyterian Church,\nis one of the trustees, and is greatly attentive to the interests\nof the Institute. Mrs. Brooks, an accomplished pianist, has\n_twenty-eight_ colored pupils in piano music, which shows the\nzest for cultivation. Once a week a lecture is delivered before\nthe students by teachers or prominent citizens. The wife of Judge\nGarland, who has had an A. M. A. school in Austin for fifteen\nyears, continues in a primary school near at hand; and the Judge\nhimself, for the present stress, is volunteering a half-a-day of\nteaching for a month. A New Hampshire schoolmaster, he became a\nlawyer, then a judge in Texas, under appointment of Gov. Davis.\n\nA grand future is apparent for the Tillotson in this Empire of a\nCommonwealth. The only question is whether it can keep up with its\nopportunity and its demand. It gives us no time to rest. No sooner\nis it opened than it calls for more room. The growing brain makes\nroom for itself, and so must this educational enterprise.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nALABAMA.\n\nTEACHERS\u2019 INSTITUTE AT TALLADEGA.\n\n_President, Henry S. DeForest._\n\nOf late it has been the custom to end the spring term at Talladega\nCollege with a teachers\u2019 institute, giving special training to\nthose who are so soon to go out and teach. The one just held at\nthe last of March has been very pleasant and helpful. Prof. A. J.\nSteele, of the Le Moyne Institute, Memphis, Tenn., was present,\nbearing a large part in its instruction, and giving it the\nchoicest fruits of his own training and experience. The Hon. H.\nClay Armstrong, State Superintendent of Education, had a place on\nthe programme, and Rev. Daniel Duncan, the County Superintendent,\nwas present at every session from beginning to end. Three years\nago, at the beginning of the series, he said, that was \u201cthe first\ninstitute ever held in Talladega County, from the creation of the\nworld.\u201d This one, especially, roused all his enthusiasm, and again\nand again he gave his testimony to the good that was effected.\n\nThe need of such institutes and of the steady, persistent work of\na college to train teachers and preachers is most apparent, when\nit is considered that probably not more than one in ten of the\nblacks, in a State where they make about half of the population,\ncan read so as to make the sense, and half of the voters of all\ncolors are unable to read either God\u2019s Law or the amendments to\nthe Constitution. Some are teaching who have never been at school\nthemselves. School-houses are few, and often without floor, or\nwindow, or fireplace; desks and school-books are scarce; the\nschool-year averages only 67 days, and the appropriation _per\ncapita_ for the year is 97 cents.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGEORGIA.\n\nHON. WILLIAM E. DODGE AND ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.\n\n_Mrs. T. N. Chase._\n\nSome of you doubtless remember seeing a recent account of a very\ncordial welcome given Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, at a handsome\nreception in the home of Hon. William E. Dodge, of New York. The\ncourtesy was soon reciprocated, and a few days ago the Atlanta\n_Constitution_\u2014\u2014a democratic daily which stands at the head of\nSouthern journals\u2014\u2014announced the expected arrival of Mr. and Mrs.\nDodge in Atlanta.\n\nThis good man and his noble wife have made frequent trips to\nGeorgia and Florida during the past ten years, always stopping to\nsay a cheering word to Atlanta University and shake hands with\ntwo or three needy students, who each year for all this time have\nbeen supported by the generosity of these good people. To-day they\nvisited the school, accompanied by Mrs. Gov. Colquitt and one of\nher lady friends.\n\nMr. Dodge said he remembered well the first time he addressed the\nstudents. He wondered how many had a purpose to go out and gather\nforty and fifty about them to do for those in the dark places what\nhad been done for them by their teachers on this hill. He begged\nthem to remember that unless they sought first the kingdom of\nHeaven and its righteousness all other knowledge would be vain. He\nsaid he must add a word about temperance, in which he knew they\nwere so much interested. He could not believe any before him would\never reel through the streets a staggering drunkard, but their only\nsafety lay in total abstinence.\n\nHis words were so instructive and his benign face so inspiring\nthat the very instant he took his seat the entire school burst\nspontaneously into the plantation melody:\n\n    \u201cDo you think I\u2019ll make a soldier?\u201d\n\nI might as easily describe an exquisite fragrance as these choruses\nof young voices from our 250 students, especially when singing this\n\u201cspiritual,\u201d whose words so touchingly portray the mingled hopes\nand fears of those deep, emotional natures. But, when in verses\nsecond and third they triumphantly sing:\n\n    \u201cWe are climbing Jacob\u2019s ladder,\n    Every round goes higher, higher,\u201d\n\nour hopes with theirs conquer our fears, and we sympathize with\nMrs. Colquitt when she remarks: \u201cI feel like making a speech to the\nschool myself.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nATLANTA TEACHER AT MACON.\n\n_Miss Julia A. Goodwin._\n\nEverything here is new to us, and we enjoy the country-like city\nin its irregularity, broad streets, steep ascents and descents,\nits profusion of flowers, especially its roses. Then it is a real\npleasure to compare the workings of the school and church with our\nown. We think we could not accomplish what these teachers do who\nare obliged to teach some of the time\u2014\u2014two of them in one room,\neach conducting a recitation at one and the same time; but they\nwork admirably together, without a particle of friction, and are\na very happy family. Mrs. Lathrop\u2019s sewing-school is also very\ninteresting. As we walked into the room last Saturday morning,\ntwo old ladies, who were sewing just as busily as the children,\narose from their seats and came across the room to greet us. One\nof them, whose sprightly manner and unwrinkled face would never\nhave betokened her great age, said to us: \u201cI am ninety-two years\nold if I live till Monday. I can\u2019t do much, my hands are so stiff;\nbut I thank the Lord that I can come here and sew a little;\u201d and\nshe showed us her patch-work squares with as evident satisfaction\nas any of the younger pupils. Ninety-two years old and learning to\nsew! Ah, thought I, most old ladies are through with their needle\nat that age. These sewing-schools must bring some comfort into many\nhomes.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMR. LADD\u2019S JOURNAL.\n\n_Saturday, Dec. 3._\u2014\u2014We started from Assiout at five o\u2019clock\nthis morning on our voyage up the Nile. The air to-day has been\nwonderfully fine. The landscape, too, has presented a constantly\nvarying panorama full of novelty, full of interest, full of beauty.\nWe have called for a few moments at a number of villages to leave\nthe mail. We have been peering through our glasses, as we sat under\nthe awning on deck, at the natives along the banks in their varied\ncostumes, and in almost no costume at all, at the high bluffs,\nwhich in some places rise abruptly from the river, and at the\nwonderful tombs with their hieroglyphic inscriptions cut out high\nup in the rocks. The river is full of boats of one kind or another\ncoming and going.\n\n_Sunday, Dec. 4._\u2014\u2014One misfortune of travel on the Nile is that any\ndiscussion of the weather becomes monotonous and trite. Every day\nis like every other day, beautiful, bright and balmy. No church\nbells ring for us to-day, so our thoughts naturally turn homeward.\nThe views, as we slowly steam up the river are charming. We pass\nsome bold headlands, call, as yesterday, at many villages by the\nway, and witness many interesting and peculiar scenes. A fringe of\n\u201cshadoofs,\u201d with half naked men hard at work at them watering the\ncrops, keep up a constant creaking. We notice also great numbers of\nbirds of every size and shape. We tie up for the night at Keneh,\ncelebrated for its porous jugs, its dates, and once on a time, its\ndancing girls, whom the march of civilization has driven higher up\nthe river.\n\n_Monday, Dec. 5._\u2014\u2014We have seen something of what is left of the\ngreat city of Thebes, its magnificent temples, its stupendous\nhalls, its wonderful colossi, its interesting tombs\u2014\u2014Karnak and\nLuxor, on one side, Gourna on the other. It is hard to realize what\npomp and splendor were once displayed among these ruins, still so\ngrand in their desolation. The strong current of the river got\nthe best of us to-day. The steamer in rounding a point could not\nbe made to obey her helm, and before we knew what was going to\nhappen, with full steam on we ran bunt up against and on to the\nsteep bank. The men pushed and grunted, and finally we got clear\nand righted up again. We have witnessed a nearly total eclipse of\nthe moon this evening, soon after it rose, which for the manner\nin which it came on and went off was very remarkable. We could\nhear the natives in their villages trying to frighten away the\ndragon which was supposed to be swallowing the moon. We tied up at\nEsneh for the night. Here we went ashore with torches and lights\nto visit a portion of a temple, which is in an excellent state of\npreservation. I first went to see the Mudir to get him to telegraph\nfor us to Korosko for camels. He had retired for the night, but as\nour business could not be transacted at any other time, I sent in\nour orders from Cairo, and he soon appeared. Coffee was served, our\npapers made out, viz.: An order to the governors of places where we\nmight call within his _mudirieh_ to show us proper attention, and a\ntelegram signed by the Mudir to provide camels for us at Korosko.\nThen joining the rest of the party we visited the temple. The top\nof it is only a little above the successive deposits of ages, and\none has to descend a long flight of steps to reach its floor. It is\ncompletely covered with sculptured work, which is finely preserved.\nThis, however, is only the portico of the real temple, the entrance\nto which is walled up.\n\n[Illustration: ELEPHANT HUNTING]\n\n_Tuesday, Dec. 6._\u2014\u2014Our steamer made a long stop at Edfou to-day,\nas is customary, to let passengers see its splendid temple. This is\nthe most complete, and the best preserved in Egypt, and gives one\nthe best idea of ancient Egyptian architecture. Its massive pylons\nhad long been in sight as we steamed up the river. As soon as the\nsteamer stopped we took donkeys and started toward them through the\nwinding mud-walled streets of the little town. What a temple! A\nbook would fail to do it justice! Every inch of it is covered with\nthe most beautiful carving. I have not space nor time to tell of\nhow we climbed the pylons and wandered through the dark mysterious\nchambers, and stood in admiration before those beautiful and ever\nvaried pillars, and explored dark winding passages built in the\nwalls themselves. One has an overwhelming sense of sublimity and\nawe as he stands under the shadow and in the profound hush of these\nsacred monuments of a departed glory. We tied up for the night at\nGebel Silsileh, a narrow, rocky passage, through which the river\nseems to have burst its way. Here we went on shore and with the\nhelp of torches examined the tombs and chapels and noted quarries.\nThe perfect silence here was almost painful. There was not even the\nusual gentle murmur of \u201cbacksheesh.\u201d Returning to our steamer we\ntook a moonlight row up the river, and over to the opposite shore.\nRuins and moonlight, and a boat ride on the Nile! Could anything\nbe more romantic? Here is a picture hung upon the walls of memory\nnever to be forgotten.\n\n_Wednesday, Dec. 7._\u2014\u2014We have run aground twice to-day. We passed\nthe ruins of Comombo early this morning, and now we are at Assouan,\nwith another stage of our journey accomplished. We have visited\nthe bazaars, where all sorts of curiosities from Nubia and the\nSoudan are sold, and had crowds of wild-looking, long-haired,\ngrease-smeared and more than half naked desert Arabs thronging\naround us, and have been besieged with strange looking people with\nstranger looking things to sell, of which we bought none. In fact,\nour novel experiences in and about the town would, if all told,\nbe a tale too lengthy for these brief pages. We also visited the\nisland of Elephantine, with its ruins of pottery, human skeletons,\nand interesting Nile meter. Ibrahim was dispatched the first thing\non our arrival, to secure a dahabeyeh for us. He has returned, and\nreports that he has found one, such as it is, which will take us\nand our baggage from here to Korosko for \u00a35. We have agreed to take\ntwo men, Mousa and Ibrahim Cohen, with us to Khartoum to lighten\nour expenses. Then we have Mongades, the Bible Society\u2019s man with\nus, so that we shall really have to pay for the dahabeyeh only\nabout \u00a33. We have been invited to see a \u201cfantasia,\u201d but our taste\nnot being cultivated in that direction we declined.\n\n_Thursday, Dec. 8._\u2014\u2014Some one was sick in the night. Thinking it\nmight be the Doctor I jumped out of bed to go to him, and landed\nin cold water! The ship had sprung a leak. All the rooms on one\nside were found to be flooded, and the engine-room was a pond. The\npumps were put to work, but it was some hours before the water was\nwhere it belonged. Some things in my room were spoiled. We started\nearly for Phil\u00e6, where our dahabeyeh lay, at the other end of the\ncataract. It was five miles, and we took camels so as to gain a\nlittle experience in riding preparatory to the long desert journey.\nOur route lay through the ancient bed of a river. On the way we\nvisited the famous granite quarries, and saw the huge obelisk left\npartially cut out of its bed. We all went on board our dahabeyeh\nfor lunch. The stars and stripes had been raised, and we also\nordered up the English flag in honor of our guests. After lunch,\nwhile Ibrahim and Mourgan were getting our baggage on board, we,\nthe party, took a small boat and rowed out to the interesting\nisland of Phil\u00e6. First we rowed around it to get a comprehensive\nview of its beautiful temples. Then we landed, and examined them\nall in detail. We also visited the ruins of a little Christian\nchurch, which an American has discovered.\n\n_Friday, Dec. 9._\u2014\u2014For some reason I did not sleep well, and was\nup early and over the side of the dahabeyeh for a good swim in\nthe Nile. A light breeze soon sprang up, the sail was set, and at\n8.30 A.M. we were off, the Englishmen still in the cataract. We\npassed an island to the right of Phil\u00e6, stopped for a few moments\nat a little village where some of our sailors lived and then we\nwere off again, slowly passing immense granite boulders, between\nnarrow banks fringed with dom-palms and very black Nubians,\ncreeping along pretty fast for the light wind that just fills our\nbig sail. We pass Debod, and then towards evening the wind goes\ndown, and we have to make the bank and tie up. We do not remain\nhere long, however. Our Reis, who is a fine fellow, ever on the\nalert, hears a rustling in the trees, a gale is upon us; the big\nsail is quickly flung out, and we start almost with a bound and\nstrike a rock! The captain reports \u201cno leak,\u201d and off we go again,\nfairly flying before the wind. After a while it dies down and once\nmore we have to make the bank and tie up just this side of Gebel\nKalabshe. Here we go ashore and wander about, but are quickly\nrecalled by the Reis. A good steady breeze has followed the lull\nafter the gale, and off we go. Now we enter scenery that in the\ndeep shadows of the moonlight is grand and sublime in the extreme.\nThe granite mountains tower up from the water\u2019s edge close to us\non either side. There are deep gorges and overhanging cliffs, and\nhuge boulders around which the pent up river swirls and eddies. I\nhave named this wild spot \u201cThe Gates of the Tropics,\u201d for now we\npass the invisible line and enter the tropics. The southern cross\nis clearly visible in the heavens near the horizon, and toward it\nwe are flying on the wings of the wind. In the witchery of such\nan evening, in such a place, we sit on deck till long past the\nmidnight hour.\n\n_Saturday, Dec. 10._\u2014\u2014The captain has been up all night and we have\nmade a good run of it. It is very hot, and the wind dying down.\nOver we go for a swim. We have passed a rock-temple, and another\nvery good temple at Dakkeh. The flies are getting to be a perfect\npest.\n\n_Sunday, Dec. 11._\u2014\u2014The wind is lighter and our progress has been\nslower. However, we have gradually drawn away from the grand rocky\nmountains that rose up abruptly from the water\u2019s edge on our\nleft this morning, and now around us are the volcanic peaks that\nindicate the vicinity of Korosko. We reached Korosko at 4 P.M.,\nhaving made remarkably good time from Assouan. We noticed a queer\npeak just before reaching the town. There is a sacred mountain with\na tomb upon it just at the rear of the village. Soon after our\narrival the governor and various other officials came on board.\nThe old governor was delighted when he found that we could talk\ntogether in Turkish. The usual formality of salaams, and coffee,\netc., were duly exchanged. Our camels were ready for us.\n\n_Monday, Dec, 12._\u2014\u2014We had a pleasant visit this morning from a\nmerchant who arrived by caravan during the night from Darfur. We\ntalked together in Greek. We have moved our boat higher up stream.\nHave received a number of visits from officials and sore-eyed men.\nThe Doctor is having quite a practice. We have climbed the road\nthat weary pilgrims tread to the top of the sacred mountain Gebel\nAboo-Gowenah, whence we have had a fine, extensive view of the\nwinding river, and the billowing ocean of volcanic peaks, and our\nown desert route that winds in and out among them. We send off a\nbatch of letters for home, pack and get ready for our long journey.\nThe bread is all made and properly dried.\n\n_Tuesday, Dec, 13._\u2014\u2014Up about 5 A.M., roused the crowd, and pushed\nthings as fast as possible. We expected to find the camels waiting\non the bank, but not a living being was in sight. Hours went by and\nnobody appeared; we sent two men in different directions after the\nsheik of the camel-drivers, but he was not! Finally patience was\nexhausted. We went to the Governor\u2019s house to see if we couldn\u2019t\nstart things up a little. He was pretending to hold court, but\ndismissed the case when he saw us. Then it being the proper thing\nto do we raised a row with His Majesty over our delay. It had the\ndesired effect. The sheik was speedily produced, and we rode back\nto the boat on donkeys, with the whole crowd at our heels. Here\nwe soon discovered that the governor, the sheik, and every other\nman in the crowd was determined to have a finger in the pie, and\nmake us pay double the proper prices for all our camels. We talked\nand reasoned till 1 P.M. without avail. Then we grew righteously\nindignant. We laid down our terms\u2014\u2014refused to listen to another\nword\u2014\u2014gave orders to have everything put back on board the boat if\nthey were not accepted, and threatened to go on to Wady Halfa and\ndenounce the whole crowd of them as miserable rascals. Our terms\nwere then accepted, and they thought a good deal more of us for\nstanding for our rights instead of yielding to their exorbitant\ndemands. Part of the money was paid and part held in reserve; the\npapers were made out, the baggage weighed and loaded, and at 1.30\nP.M. we started out. We went about a mile or two into the desert,\nand camped in a rocky ravine, and here we got everything into good\nshape, looked to everything connected with our water supply, and\nmade ready for the real business of the long desert before us; and\nhere begins our tent life.\n\n_Wednesday, Dec. 14._\u2014\u2014Broke camp, and started the caravan at 8.30\nA.M. Now for the great desert journey! All the morning we pass peak\nafter peak of a volcanic nature. At 2 P.M. we stopped, took a hasty\nbite of lunch in a sort of cave in a mountain called Elemnasir.\nThen on and on we go, swaying back and forth on our camels, and\ntrying to \u201cbone down\u201d to the regular business before us. At 5.15\nP.M. we went into camp for the night, considering it wiser not\nto make too long a day of the first one, as camels and men were\nboth fresh, but to reserve our forces for the great strain toward\nthe last. The spot chosen for our camp is a wild place under the\nshelter of a volcanic peak called Diakazarkha. Up goes the tent,\nall hands taking hold with a will. Mourgan starts a fire; now then,\nin the words of the \u201cold folks\u2019\u201d song, \u201cJerusha, put the kettle on\nand we\u2019ll all take tea.\u201d Mourgan produces a marvel of a meal for\nsuch a place, and we fall to at once to do it ample justice. Our\ncaravan consists of 19 camels and 15 men. The guide is a strong,\nbold fellow, thoroughly up to his business, and evidently enjoys\ncommanding his men. The camels get only 2\u00bd quarts of dourra a day,\ncarry about 400 lbs. each, and are expected to go without water\ntill we reach Murrat. Our water supply is to last us till we reach\nthe Nile at Aboo-Hamed, as the water at Murrat is not drinkable.\nHow brightly the stars shine out here. The stillness of the desert\nsoon rests upon the camp, broken only by the occasional growl of a\ncamel, and the snoring of the men.\n\n_Thursday, Dec. 15._\u2014\u2014We are all up early, take a hasty breakfast,\npull down the tent, load the camels amid a chorus of roars and\ngrowls, and start the whole caravan at 7 A.M. More volcanic peaks.\nThe ground is everywhere covered with balls of iron from the size\nof a large pea to that of a cannon-ball. The iron is so pure that\nthe natives are able to beat these balls into knives, etc. Now\nwe see our first mirage. It is a beautiful lake, whose surface,\nscarcely rippled by the gentle breeze, clearly reflects a distant\nmountain range. The illusion is perfect. We lunch in a cave in\na place called Gamoor. We have met one caravan of cattle and\nanother of two or three hundred camels. Our guide stopped to camp\nabout five o\u2019clock, thinking probably that we were exhausted by\nthis time. He looked surprised but pleased when we protested, and\ninformed him that we intended to make forced marches of at least\ntwelve hours every day. On and on we went into the darkness, for\nit is dark at five. At 7.10 we halted and pitched our camp in a\nportion of the desert called _Nasbelhedoriah_. Before we arrived\nin camp there was a commotion. What\u2019s the matter? Nothing, only\nthe cook has fallen asleep and rolled off from his camel! But the\nshining, round face comes up with a grin, \u201cAll right, kutter herak\nkattir.\u201d We are not half way to Murrat yet, and the water in our\n\u201cbootleg\u201d bottles and skins is as black as ink. A whole week more\nbefore we reach the river!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE STATISTICS FOR FEBRUARY.\n\nFigures may be dry, and yet I am sure that a summary of those\ncontained in the February reports from our schools cannot but\ninterest and gratify all friends of our work. No less than 116 new\npupils were enrolled in our schools during that month. Change of\nlocation or other causes produced the removal from the schools of\n99. But the total number enrolled, 726, is the largest total ever\nreached, and the average attendance, 354, is also larger than ever\nbefore. Among the pupils thus enrolled are 119 who give evidence\nof Christian life. The total number who have become members of our\nschools during the fiscal year, thus far (_i.e._, from Sept. 1st to\nFeb. 28th) is 1,375.\n\n\nTHE CHINESE NEW YEAR.\n\nIn the month of February occurs the Chinese New Year Festival\u2014\u2014the\ngreat holiday period for them of the entire twelvemonth. At my\nrequest, our teachers have given me some account of the way in\nwhich it was observed by our Christian Chinese in their respective\nlocalities.\n\nRev. Mr. Ostrom, of Oroville, who has served as a missionary in\nChina and whose heart is still there, states the following \u201cgeneral\nfacts\u201d: \u201cTheir preparation for the New Year is commenced weeks\nbefore the close of the old. One of the first things is to plant\nthe Narcissus\u2014\u2014a water lily called by the Chinese \u2018the water angel\nflower\u2019\u2014\u2014so that it may be in bloom on New Year\u2019s Day. A beautiful\nlegend connected with this flower is everywhere told and believed\nin China. In a certain district of the Fo Kien province lived a man\nwho had two wives and a son by each wife. The man died, leaving\na farm, which the elder brother seized, allowing to the younger\nbrother only a small, marshy corner, through which ran a sluggish\nstream. These lilies were found growing in the stream\u2014\u2014all that the\nmarsh and stream produced. The gentler younger brother, loving the\nbeautiful flower, cultivated it, and found that it would always\nbloom on the New Year. Its beauty and fragrance won the admiration\nof many and the demand for the bulbs increased till finally it came\nin from all parts of China, and the wealth of the owner of the\nlittle stream and marsh soon surpassed that of the avaricious elder\nbrother. Then, through some pretence, the latter took possession of\nthe little stream and marsh, expecting thus to grasp the revenue\nfrom the sale of the lilies. But, lo! when New Year came, they\nrefused to bloom. Conscience-stricken by this apparent rebuke\nof the gods, the marsh and the stream were surrendered to their\nrightful owner, and then, strange to say, the lilies bloomed forth\nas before.\n\n\u201cSuch is the legend; now for plain facts. At the close of the year\nthe house is cleaned, and dressed on its posts and walls with\nnew red paper containing good words from the sages. On the last\nday of the old year, every family worships the ancestral tablet,\nand the idols, with offerings of slain birds and other animals,\nwith vegetable delicacies added. Eight kinds of meat are offered\nto the ancestral tablets, and only fish, pork and chicken to the\nidols. Fruit, and a pudding cooked in boiling lard are also used\nas offerings. These furnish the feasts for the following day; for\nthe spirits only inhale the perfume, leaving the substance for base\nmortals.\n\n\u201cOn the last day of the old year, the married daughters must be at\ntheir husbands\u2019 homes, and must not revisit the paternal roof till\nthe New Year\u2019s festival is over. The devotee rising very early on\nNew Year\u2019s morning, worships, first of all, the ancestors, burning\nincense, and red paper representing money, before the tablet, on\neach side of which candles have been lighted, and before which\nthe offerings have been placed. Then the idols of the household\nare worshipped, and, next, those of the temple. Fire-crackers are\nsnapped by the priests in the temple, and by all the people at\ntheir homes and their places of business. If any one has married,\nor is successful in gambling or in business, he expresses his\ngratitude by these explosives. Breakfast comes next, composed of\nvegetables only, for no blood must be shed or be used on New Year\u2019s\nDay. Liquor distilled from rice is sipped from tiny cups. Now,\ncalling and the exchange of cards follow. Only good words are to be\nspoken. It is a violation of etiquette, established by the custom\nof ages, to speak evil of, or to, any one during the first ten days\nof the New Year.\u201d\n\nSuch of these usages as are purely social are retained by our\nChristian Chinese: The house-cleaning which brings to our several\nmission houses a thorough renovation; the trimming upon the walls\nand elsewhere with evergreen wreaths, with bouquets of artificial\nflowers and other samples of Chinese art; the cultivation of the\nfragrant Narcissus, and the interchange of calls and cards and\nmutual good wishes; the treating with candies, fruits, and tiny\ncups of tea\u2014\u2014guiltless of the American concomitants of sugar and\ncream\u2014\u2014all these you will find our Christian Chinese carrying\nforward with no less zest than their heathen countrymen. In these\ncases, this year, they invited the teacher with the whole family to\nwhich she belonged, to a banquet after the Chinese style; and in\n_all_ cases the teachers seem to have been remembered with gifts\nselected often with exquisite taste and purchased at a considerable\ncost.\n\nBut with our Christian Chinese these days are holy days rather than\nholidays. The week is a week of prayer. In all their sociality\ntheir religion is remembered and their Saviour is recognized. If\non their special reception-day, a minister is among the first to\ncall, he will be likely to be asked to open the day\u2019s enjoyment\nwith prayer. Every day there are special religious services; and\nconnected with these, fresh resolves of consecration to Christ and\nfresh and earnest intercessions for each other and for their still\nbenighted countrymen. One such meeting I attended by appointment at\nthe home of our Oakland brethren. I remained with them an hour and\na half. The school there had been in an unsatisfactory condition;\nrunning down in attendance and in spiritual power, while the\nschools in this city and at most other points were advancing\nin both respects. We looked the facts in the face; prayed over\nthem; and then took counsel together. The result was a unanimous\ndetermination to take up missionary work among their countrymen\nwith more earnestness and more system than ever before, and with\nGod\u2019s help to make their school as large and as efficient for good\nas possible.\n\n[Illustration: JAPANESE PLEASURE PARTY.]\n\nPerhaps the account given by Mrs. Carrington, of the services at\nSacramento, presents the week\u2019s work as fairly as any. \u201cA watch\nmeeting closed the old year and opened the new. On Saturday evening\nthere was a union meeting at the Presbyterian Mission House. On\nWednesday evening a New Year\u2019s banquet was given at our Mission\nHouse. Rev. Dr. Dwinell and Mrs. Dwinell, with the superintendent\nand teachers in the Chinese Sunday-school and other friends, were\npresent. Other evenings were spent in less formal but more social\nworship, and on Saturday evening, February 25, a crowning union\nservice was held at our Mission House. The room was filled to\noverflowing. Twenty or more of the American friends were present,\nand much interest was manifested. And so this New Year\u2019s festival\nwas closed.\u201d\n\nAs between the hurried and meaningless New Year\u2019s calls, with\nthe accessories of unwholesome food in gluttonous quantities,\nwashed down by poisonous wines and fiery liquors, which the old\nKnickerbocker custom has entailed upon Americans, and these\nfestivities of our Christian Chinese, it does not take me long to\njudge which ought to be preferred.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE GRASSHOPPER TEACHER.\n\n_By M. K. Smith. Atlanta University, Ga._\n\nA young lad who had found his way from the West coast of Africa to\nAtlanta University entered my class in entomology last October.\nShortly after, when naming the teachers under whose instructions he\ncame daily, he quaintly designated me as his \u201cgrasshopper teacher.\u201d\n\nIn order to give some idea of the amount of enthusiasm the common\ngrasshopper is capable of rousing in the mind of the average\ncolored student, it may be interesting to give a brief explanation\nof the method of study pursued.\n\nThe pupils had no particular love for the troublesome insect;\nin fact, they had hitherto entertained for him a sentiment the\nreverse of friendly, and when I gave each student a pin upon which\na grasshopper (it had been killed by immersion in alcohol) was\ntransfixed, a dissatisfied giggle or a contemptuous sniff from each\ngave evidence that the little world of the class-room was decidedly\nout of sympathy with the existing state of affairs.\n\nThe African boy refused to touch a \u201cspecimen,\u201d and regarded me\nwith an expression in which surprise, fear and defiance were\nblended. The fear was doubtless the result of experience with\npoisonous insects in his fatherland, while the surprise was that\na grasshopper should usurp the place of a book, for which the\nsavage has all the superstitious reverence which characterizes\nthe civilized student, and the defiance probably arose from a\nresolution that no earthly power should induce him to touch the\nstrange animal. I did not urge him, but quickly called attention\nto the insect in hand. Without much difficulty they found the\nprincipal parts, to which I gave the names, head, thorax and\nabdomen. By the time these words were written on the board the\nclass was pacified, for the colored student loves new words whose\nsignifications are beyond his comprehension just as well as his\nwhite brother. When the shape of the head was considered the\nstudents realized for the first time the lack of words which is so\ngeneral among these people. \u201cIt\u2019s like a horse\u2019s head,\u201d broke forth\na boy, impetuously, while a hum of approval ran along the forms. I\naccepted the resemblance, and asked them to observe other things in\nconnection with the head, and very soon the eyes were mentioned. I\ndrew on the board a diagram of hexagonal cells, closely connected,\nand explained that the compound eye of the grasshopper is composed\nof _facets_ of similar form and each having power of sight.\n\n\u201cWhy, he is better off than we are,\u201d exclaimed a wondering youth.\n\u201cWe have only two eyes apiece, while he has thousands of \u2019em.\nWhat\u2019s that for?\u201d\n\n\u201cGod made him that way,\u201d returned another, as he handled his\n\u201cspecimen\u201d a little more gently, while the African boy leaned over\nto get a good look at those queer eyes that were even nicer than\nhis own.\n\nI then called attention to the position of the eyes on the head and\nsecured the statement that by their being placed just as they are\nthe insect can see before, behind and on both sides at the same\ntime. In a moment more than a dozen hands were waving wildly in\nthe air, while two excited youths came to their feet as suddenly\nas if they had been moved after the manner of a \u201cJack in the box.\u201d\n\u201cI know, I know,\u201d shouted one, \u201cthey are there so that he can see\ndanger all round him. Many a time I\u2019ve tried to catch him, and I\nwould steal up behind him and ease my hand up soft, soft (the boy\nillustrated the action) and then just when I thought I had him, he\nwas off!\u201d and the lad\u2019s hands were outspread to imitate the sudden\nmovement of the insect.\n\nI directed attention to the place where the head joins the thorax.\n\u201cHe\u2019s got a collar on,\u201d shouted one. \u201cWhat is that for?\u201d \u201cTo\ncover the seam nicely, and keep it from harm,\u201d answered another,\nbefore I had time to speak, \u201cand it\u2019s made mighty pretty, too,\u201d he\ncontinued, admiringly. \u201cI should like to know what this means?\u201d\nexclaimed another, who had extended his investigations, and now\nheld up to the astonished gazers the under wings, spread out as\nthey had never before seen them. I wish, dear reader, you could\nhave been with us that day, to have felt with me the delight of\nthose people, who for almost the first time were using their eyes\nas I think God intended they should be used\u2014\u2014to give light to the\nunderstanding. \u201cJust like a thin lady\u2019s gray veil,\u201d suggested a\nlittle girl, as soon as she found a chance to speak, whereupon a\nquizzical laugh arose, until she explained that the veil was thin,\nand not the lady.\n\nThe African boy at the very next lesson held out his hand for a\n\u201cspecimen,\u201d and throughout the term was as much interested as the\nothers, striving with all his might to announce his discoveries\nin correct English. The grasshopper became popular. We studied\nhim for more than two weeks and then felt we were only beginning\nhis acquaintance. The students spent their leisure in watching\ngrasshoppers eat, in studying their habits and in finding out\ntheir uses. The lessons went on with an eagerness that made the\n\u201cgrasshopper teacher\u201d fear that something must be wrong, for it\nseemed against all law and order that teacher and taught should\nhave such an uninterruptedly good time.\n\nThe pleasure was ever new, while, side by side with the development\nof power to think and reason, grew a sense of God\u2019s care over and\nnearness to his creatures.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR MARCH, 1882.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $311.45.\n\n    Bangor. Rev. I. P. Warren, D.D. ($30 of which\n      to const. MRS. SARAH L. WARREN L. M.)                  $50.00\n    Bangor. Miss Haynes, _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                             2.00\n    Bethel. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          8.00\n    Brownsville. Cong Ch. and Soc.                            17.00\n    Brunswick. Ladies, Bbl. of C. and $1.70, _for\n      Freight, for Selma, Ala._                                1.70\n    Calais. J. Barker, _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                     25.00\n    East Otisfield. Mrs. Susan Lovewell, $5;\n      Joseph Loring, $3; Mrs. Sarah Morton, $2.               10.00\n    Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        9.80\n    Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                6.00\n    Hallowell. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Furnishing Room,\n      Talladega C._                                           13.00\n    Hallowell. Mrs. H. K. Baker.                               5.00\n    Kennebunk. Union Ch. and Soc.                              5.20\n    Litchfield Corner. Cong. Ch.                              10.00\n    Lyman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  6.07\n    Machias. Center Street Cong. Ch., $5.89, and\n      Sab. Sch., $5; E. G. L., $1                             11.89\n    Orono. Cong. Ch.                                           1.04\n    Portland. St. Lawrence Street Cong. Ch. and\n      Soc.                                                    14.53\n    Scarborough. Cong. Ch., \u201cA Friend\u201d                        50.00\n    Searsport. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5; M. C. B., 50c                   5.50\n    Union. Ladies, Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n    Warren. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                10.21\n    Wells. First Cong. Ch and Soc.                            18.51\n    Winterport. Mrs. DR. E. MANTER, _for Chinese\n      M._, and to const. herself L.M.                         30.00\n    Winthrop. I. N. M.                                         1.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $420.72.\n\n    Amherst. L. and L. R. Melendy, $100, _for\n      Mendi M._, and $10 _for John Brown Steamer_            110.00\n    Auburn. Mrs. Sally Coult, to const. MRS.\n      HATTIE C. HOUGHTON L. M.                                30.00\n    Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            15.36\n    Boscawen. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              14.00\n    Concord. \u201cP. S. G.,\u201d _for John Brown Steamer_              1.00\n    Derry. Rev. B. F. Parsons                                  5.00\n    Exeter. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., val. $45\n      _for Kansas Refugees_.\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             9.88\n    Fisherville. \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. MISS JULIA\n      SARGENT L. M.                                           30.00\n    Groton. Mrs. Parker Blood, $20, and Bundle of\n      C.                                                      20.00\n    Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.16\n    Hanover. Cong. Ch., 30 copies \u201cSongs of the\n      Sanctuary,\u201d _for Athens, Ga._\n    Hollis. Cong. Ch.                                         17.71\n    Keene. Miss E. 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F.                                       0.50\n    Grafton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       10.00\n    Jericho. Second Cong Ch. and Soc.                         11.51\n    Ludlow. Mrs. Luther Martin                                10.00\n    Middlebury. Mrs. H. B. S.                                  1.00\n    New Haven. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                12.00\n    Newbury. Miss E. D.                                        0.50\n    North Bennington. Cong. Ch.                                9.67\n    Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            14.84\n    Pittsfield. Cong. Ch.                                     11.51\n    Pittsford. Thomas D. Hall                                  5.00\n    Pittsford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $46;\n      incorrectly ack. in April number from\n      Pittsfield\n    Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               26.56\n    Strafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             20.00\n    Thetford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              15.00\n    Vergennes. Mrs. H. S.                                      0.53\n    West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          18.09\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $232.11\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Waterbury. Estate of Harriet F. Russ, by\n      Daniel Russ, Ex.                                        25.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $257.11\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $5,538.21.\n\n    Abington. F. P. H., $1; H. F. R., $1                       2.00\n    Adams. Rev. L. V. Price                                   16.00\n    Amherst. Mrs H. D. Fearing, $10; Infant Class\n      First Cong. Sab. Sch., $10; _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        20.00\n    Amherst. Miss Sarah Ensign, _for Student Aid_              5.00\n    Andover. South Ch. and Soc., $38.54; J. H. T., $1         39.54\n    Andover. South Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           30.36\n    Ashburnham. E. L. E.                                       0.50\n    Athol. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      JOSIAH HAVEN and MOSES HILL L. Ms                       60.00\n    Attleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     6.08\n    Auburndale. Box of C. _for Macon, Ga._\n    Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding, $25, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._, and $45 _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega U._                                           70.00\n    Bedford. M. E. R.                                          0.50\n    Berlin. Mrs. W. A. Houghton                                5.00\n    Beverly. Miss M. E. T.                                     0.50\n    Beverly. Ladies of Washington St. Soc., Bbl.\n      of C. _for Fisk U._\n    Boston. S. D. Smith, Organs, $300; Old South\n      Ch. and Soc., $293.79; C. F. R., 50c                   594.22\n    Boston. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., package Books\n      _for Library, Macon, Ga._\n    Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. REV. W.\n      S. COGGIN L. M.                                         30.00\n    Brockton. Mrs. L. C. Sanford, _for Freight_                3.00\n    Cambridge. F. C. Swett, $2; E. W. F., $1                   3.00\n    Cambridgeport. G. B. C., 50c.; I. A. N., 50c               1.00\n    Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc., $80.56; A.\n      W. P., 50c                                              81.06\n    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($55 of\n      which _for Lady Missionary, Chattanooga,\n      Tenn._)                                                 57.60\n    Chelsea. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc., $9.44; I.\n      H. S., $1                                               10.44\n    Chicopee. Mrs. W. L. B.                                    1.00\n    Cohasset. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       1.00\n    Deerfield. Mrs. C. E. W.                                   0.50\n    Dorchester. Mrs. E. T.                                     1.00\n    East Charlemont. P. F.                                     1.00\n    East Hampton. Mrs. E. G. Williston, $100;\n      First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $60.71; E. A. C.,\n      50c                                                    161.21\n    East Medway. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     10.10\n    East Somerville. Woman\u2019s Home Missionary\n      Ass\u2019n, _for Lady Missionaries_                         204.78\n    East Somerville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           40.00\n    Edgartown. J. W. Coffin                                    3.00\n    Enfield. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      100.00\n    Fall River. Central Cong. Ch.                             30.00\n    Framingham. \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. MRS. MARY A.\n      W. DAVIS L. M.                                          30.00\n    Framingham. Hymn and Tune Books, _for Macon,\n      Ga._\n    Foxborough. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   33.49\n    Gardner. H. B.                                             1.00\n    Goshen. Cong. Ch.                                          8.00\n    Haverhill. \u201cFor work among Colored People.\u201d\n      $1; E. W., 50c                                           1.50\n    Hopkinton. Mrs. P. J. Claflin                             25.00\n    Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch.                                 20.12\n    Indian Orchard. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  15.37\n    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         13.00\n    Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              50.00\n    Jamaica Plain. N. F. R.                                    0.50\n    Kingston. L. A. McGlauthlin, Bundle \u201c_Youths\u2019\n      Companion_,\u201d _for Macon, Ga._\n    Lawrence. Mr. Coit, _for Talladega C._                     2.00\n    Lee. Mrs. E. B.                                            1.00\n    Lincoln. M. S. R., 50c.; L. C. J., 50c                     1.00\n    Littleton. Dea. Otis Manning, to const. EDWARD\n      C. HAUGHTON L. M.                                       31.00\n    Littleton. Ladies\u2019 Mission Circle, by Mrs. J.\n      C. Houghton, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._               8.00\n    Ludlow. Children\u2019s Soc., _for Freight_                     2.00\n    Lynn. Central Ch. and Soc.                                25.00\n    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          59.83\n    Mansfield. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    14.22\n    Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, _for Church\n      Building_                                            1,000.00\n    Medford. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        0.25\n    Milford. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                15.25\n    Milford. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            5.00\n    Milton. S. D. Hunt. Bbl. of C., _for Macon,\n      Ga._\n    Mt. Auburn. Rev. D. N. S.                                  0.50\n    Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond                                10.00\n    New Boston. \u201cN. B.\u201d                                       50.00\n    Newbury. First Ch. and Soc.                               18.50\n    Newburyport. Philip H. Lunt                               25.00\n    Newton Center. S. A. E.                                    0.50\n    Northampton. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $100; H. R. R., $1              101.00\n    North Billerica. J. D. Gould, Books, _for\n      Freedmen\u2019s Library, Macon, Ga._\n    Northbridge Center. Collected by Edith Putnam\n      (eight years old)                                        3.07\n    Norton. Mrs. E. B. Wheeler, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Palmer. Second Cong. Ch.                                  15.26\n    Petersham. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     3.08\n    Phillipston. A. & T. Ward, $5; D. & L. Mixter,\n      $2                                                       7.00\n    Plymouth. Pilgrimage Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   65.03\n    Rockport. W. H. Patch                                      5.00\n    Salem. Young Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc. of South Ch.,\n      _for John Brown Steamer_                                 5.00\n    Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $12; E.\n      Maynard, $5                                             17.00\n    Somerville. Broadway Ch. and Soc., $10; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d $1                                             11.00\n    South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        56.23\n    South Deerfield. Cong. Ch.                                20.33\n    South Framingham. South Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,\n      _for John Brown Steamer_                                10.00\n    South Framingham. G. M. Amsden                             5.00\n    South Royalston. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $10.18; Mrs. E. L. R., 50c.; Mrs. S. M. N.,\n      50c                                                     11.18\n    Springfield. \u201cH. M.\u201d                                   1,000.00\n    Springfield. Mrs. Persis Burnham ($1 of which\n      _for John Brown Steamer_)                                2.00\n    Stoneham. A.R.                                             0.50\n    Stoughton. Mrs. B. E. C.                                   1.00\n    Templeton. Trinitarian Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    Townsend. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  5.00\n    Townsend Harbor. S. M. P.                                  1.00\n    Ware. C. C. Hitchcock, _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                     25.00\n    Watertown. Mrs. S. S. and Mrs. J. H. S.                    1.20\n    Westborough. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $107.75; Mrs. M. M. Morse, $30, to const.\n      Rev. LYMAN WHITING L. M.                               137.75\n    Westfield. First Cong. Ch.                                44.07\n    West Gloucester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.00\n    West Hampton. I. G. Jewett ($1.50 of which\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._)                              2.00\n    Westport. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  2.17\n    West Somerville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        4.46\n    West Springfield. Park St. Cong. Ch.                      15.00\n    West Stockbridge. Village Ch. and Soc.                    28.07\n    Wymouth and Braintree. Union Ch. and Soc.                 42.20\n    Worcester. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc., $161.50;\n      Mrs. F. C., 50c.                                       162.00\n    Wrentham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        20.00\n    Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        43.12\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $4,973.21\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Beverly. Dane St. Ch., Estate of Mrs. Susan C.\n      Pickett, _for 17 Life Memberships_                     510.00\n    Boston. Estate of Rev. Dr. Hooker, Books, _for\n      Freedmen\u2019s Library, Macon, Ga._\n    Oakham. Estate of Perley Ayres, by Wm. S.\n      Spear, Ex.                                              55.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $5,538.21\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $30.00.\n\n    Providence. Pilgrim Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Rebuilding Emerson Inst._                               20.00\n    Providence. \u201cBaptist.\u201d                                    10.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $2,826.67.\n\n    Ansonia. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       10.00\n    Avon. Mrs. E. L. Robbins                                   5.00\n    Black Rock. Cong. Ch.                                     24.00\n    Bridgeport. First Cong. Ch.                              117.48\n    Canaan. \u201cM. A. N.,\u201d _for Chinese M._                       5.00\n    Canton Center. A. L. S.                                    1.00\n    Colchester. Mrs. W. E. Gillette, $5; Mary B.\n      Gillette, $5                                            10.00\n    Collinsville. Ladies Mission Soc., $16, _for\n      Student Aid_; H. S. Collins, $10, _for Theo.\n      Dept., Talladega C._                                    26.00\n    East Windsor Hill. E. O. C.                                1.00\n    East Woodstock. James Walker                               2.00\n    Enfield. First Cong. Ch.                                 100.00\n    Fairfield. First Cong. Ch.                                30.00\n    Fair Haven. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                           41.02\n    Georgetown. E. Gilbert, _for Macon, Ga._                   5.00\n    Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch., $16.45; B. A., $1                17.45\n    Hartford. South Cong. Ch., $250; Geo. P.\n      Bissell, $50; John S. Wells, $20                       320.00\n    Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Church, $25; \u201cM. J.,\u201d\n      $25; Mrs. G. O. Perkins, $50, _for Theo. Dept.,\n       Talladega C._                                         100.00\n    Hartford. Center Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n      John Brown Steamer_                                     66.00\n    Higganum. Selden Gladwin                                   6.00\n    Hotchkissville. \u201cWidow\u2019s Mite\u201d                             5.00\n    Kent. Cong. Soc.                                          29.25\n    Kent. Cong. Sab. Sch., $10; Miss Mary A.\n      Hopson, $5, _for John Brown Steamer_                    15.00\n    Litchfield. First Cong. Ch.                               18.57\n    Mansfield. Geo. F. King                                    2.00\n    Mansfield Center. Mrs. E. S. Fitch                         3.00\n    Middlefield. Lyman A. Mills, to const. HERBERT\n      L. MILLS and CHARLES ROWLAND MILLS L. Ms.               60.00\n    Milford. Rev. Geo. H. Griffin, _for Tillotson\n      C. & N. Inst._                                          25.00\n    Milldale. H. H. C.                                         1.00\n    New Britain. South Cong. Ch., Mrs. Mary E.\n      House, $30, to const. WILLIAM A. HOUSE L. M.;\n      \u201cA Member,\u201d $5; A. N. Lewis, $10                        45.00\n    New Haven. Sab. Sch. of Dwight Place Cong.\n      Ch., _for John Brown Steamer_                           30.00\n    New Haven. Mrs. Mary L. Skinner, _for\n      Talladega C._                                          100.00\n    New Haven. Ch. of the Redeemer, $244 (of which\n      F. C. Sherman, $100; Wm. E. Chandler, $60,\n      to const. WILLIAM WOODS CHANDLER and ROBERT\n      WOODS CHANDLER L. Ms.); \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d $5                                            254.00\n    New Hartford. Miss C. Richards, _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                           2.00\n    New London. \u201cFirst Church of Christ.\u201d                     39.21\n    New Milford. G. N.                                         1.00\n    Norfolk. Robbins Battelle, _for Talladega C._             25.00\n    North Branford. J. A. Palmer                               2.00\n    Northford. G. W.                                           1.00\n    North Stamford. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                 2.00\n    Norwich. Park Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($20 of which\n      _for John Brown Steamer_)                              271.67\n    Old Lyme. First Cong. Ch.                                 42.50\n    Plymouth. A. S. B.                                         1.00\n    Prospect. Cong. Ch. $11; People of Prospect,\n      Bbl. of C.                                              11.00\n    Roxbury. \u201cTwo Friends,\u201d _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 2.00\n    Simsbury. Mrs. Lucy A. A. Hoskins                          2.00\n    Somersville. Cong. Ch.                                    45.25\n    South Windsor. First Cong. Ch.                            30.00\n    Stafford. Mrs. T. H. Thresher                              5.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      81.77\n    Wallingford. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                           60.00\n    Washington. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Washington. \u201cZ,\u201d _for Indian M._                           1.00\n    Waterbury. Dr. John De Forest, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                     100.00\n    Watertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      20.00\n    West Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         50.00\n    West Hartford. Rev. F. H. Adams, _for Freight,\n      for Macon, Ga._                                          2.00\n    West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            21.50\n    West Suffield. Cong. Ch.                                   6.00\n    Wethersfield. Geo. Stillman                                2.00\n    Wethersfield. Sab. Sch. Class, by Jane C.\n      Francis, _for John Brown Steamer_                       10.00\n    Winthrop. Miss C. Rice, $2: Mrs. M. A. J., $1              3.00\n    Woodbridge. Cong. Sab. Sch., Bbl. of C.\n    Woodbury. Mrs. C. P. Churchill, _for Indian M._            2.00\n    Woodstock. E L. Snow                                     500.00\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $12,895.25.\n\n    Batavia. Mrs. A. D. L.                                     1.10\n    Brighton Heights. S. I. Reformed Ch., _for\n      Talladega C._                                           20.50\n    Brooklyn. Henry C. Hulbert, $100, _for Student\n      Aid_; A. J. Newton, $100; Cash, $1, _for\n      Talladega C._                                          201.00\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Fernandina, Fla._                           25.00\n    Brooklyn. Freedmen\u2019s Helpers, $18, and Bbl. of\n      C., _for Macon, Ga._                                    18.00\n    Brooklyn. Park Cong. Ch., $20.52; A. S., $1               21.52\n    Buffalo. Mrs. Wm. G. Bancroft, _for Tillotson\n      C. & N. Inst._                                          50.00\n    Buffalo. \u201cI. M. S.,\u201d _for John Brown Steamer_              1.00\n    Cazenovia. Mrs. H. L. W.                                   0.51\n    Chestertown. Fish St. Congregation, $2.27;\n      Mill Brook Congregation, $3.27; Chester\n      Wesleyan M. Congregation, $7.55, by Rev. S.\n      H. Foster                                               13.09\n    Coxsackie. Mrs. P. H. Silvester, _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    Floyd. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                     2.12\n    Fredonia. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc. of Presb. Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                               2.75\n    Greene. Mrs. W. H. B.                                      1.00\n    Griffin\u2019s Mills. Mrs. Theo. Olden, $2; Mrs.\n      Theo. Olden, $2                                          4.00\n    Hudson. A. S. P.                                           1.00\n    Hughsonville. S. H. S.                                     0.50\n    Jewett. Mr. and Mrs. Lucius North                         30.00\n    Le Rey. Miss D. A. Phillips                               15.00\n    Lockport. First Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                   46.83\n    Lockport. Cong. Ch, and Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    Millville. Cong. Soc.                                      4.37\n    New York. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  10,000.00\n    New York. W. H. De Forest, $100; Anson Phelps\n      Stokes, $50; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $1, _for Student\n      Aid_; Henry G. De Forest, $100; Dr. John\n      Hall, $25 _for Memorial Scholarships_; Chas.\n      N. Taintor, $50; Ralph Wells, $25, _for\n      Talladega C._                                          351.00\n    New York. D. I. Carson, _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                     50.00\n    New York. Bethany Sab. Sch., Mrs. S. T.\n      Gordon\u2019s Class, _for John Brown Steamer_                10.00\n    New York. Rev. A. J. G.                                    0.50\n    New York. American Bible Soc.; Grant of\n      Scriptures; val., $76.50.\n    New York. Taintor Bros. Merrill & Co., Package\n      School and Hymn Books, _for Macon, Ga._\n    Patchogue. Cong. Sab. Ch., _for Freight_                   2.46\n    Penn Yan. W. M. Taylor                                     3.00\n    Pitcher. Bellany Allen                                     5.00\n    Port Leyden. Cong. Ch.                                     2.00\n    Salem. B. C.                                               1.00\n    Sandy Hill. Mrs. Susan Rogers, _for Student\n      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                        5.00\n    Schroon Lake. Cong. Ch.                                   10.00\n    Sherburne. Chas. A. Fuller, _for Talladega C._            50.00\n    Syracuse. W. E. Abbott                                    50.00\n    Union Falls. Francis E. Duncan, $10; Mrs.\n      Fanny D. Duncan, $10; Miss Margaret B.\n      Duncan, $5                                              25.00\n    Walton. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                     25.00\n    Windsor. Rev. J. S. Pattengill, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       5.00\n    Yaphank. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        5.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                         $11,079.25\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Bergen. Estate of I. M. Hitchcock, by A. E.\n      Hitchcock, Ex.                                       1,000.00\n    Bridgewater. Estate of Jane Turner, by Wm. C.\n      Marsh, Ex.                                             500.00\n    Kingsborough. Estate of Mrs. M. S. Judson, by\n      D. B. Judson                                           116.00\n    Randolph. Estate of Mrs. D. C. Bush, by Mrs.\n      C. C. Fitch                                            200.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                         $12,895.25\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $141.50.\n\n    Lakewood. By Rev. G. L.                                    0.50\n    Montclair. Mrs A. F. Pratt\u2019s Sab. Sch. Class,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                          6.00\n    Newark. C. S. Haines, $30; David Owen, $5                 35.00\n    Newark. David Ripley, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Paterson. J. C. Ryle, $50; G. G. Tillotson,\n      $25; _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                      75.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $317.21.\n\n    Guy\u2019s Mills. Randolph Cong. Ch. _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           16.10\n    Guy\u2019s Mills. S. O. F.                                      1.00\n    Le Raysville. Cong. Ch., $9.33; Rev. J. R., 75c.          10.08\n    Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch. to const.\n      BARTON F. BLAKE, HARRY P. BOWER, HARRY M.\n      BOWDEN, JAMES R. DANFORTH, JR., LEWIS W. H.\n      GIESE, EDWARD P. HALL, GEORGE HOBBS and\n      FRANK P. PENDLETON L. Ms.                              280.03\n    South Bethlehem. Mrs. H. D. Kitchell                      10.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $528.87.\n\n    Austinburg. First Cong. Ch.                               16.00\n    Bellefontaine. Mrs. R. I. Lindsay, _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                           5.00\n    Brookfield. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                9.00\n    Bryan. S. E. Blakeslee                                     6.50\n    Chagrin Falls. \u201cEarnest Workers,\u201d _for Student\n      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                       10.00\n    Cleveland. J. S., $1; A. R. B., $1; A. L. P.,50c           2.50\n    Delaware. By Sarah Evans                                   2.50\n    Hudson. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                    2.92\n    Huntsburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Q. Phelps                         4.00\n    Huntsburgh. Mrs. V. R. P. _for Indian M._                  1.00\n    Jefferson. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc. _for Student\n      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                       23.00\n    Lenox. A. J. Holman                                       10.00\n    Madison. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $59.87,\n      and Sab. Sch., $64.59                                  124.46\n    Madison. Ladies, Bbl. of C. and $4.15 _for\n      Freight, for Selma, Ala._                                4.15\n    Madison. Mrs. M. P. St. John, _for Freight_                2.00\n    Madison. Ladies, Bbl. Books and Papers _for\n      Summerfield, Ala._\n    Mechanicsburgh. Mrs. M. K. H.                              1.00\n    Mechanicstown. Mrs. S. M.                                  1.00\n    Metamora. Mrs. M. S.                                       1.00\n    Newark. Welch Cong. Ch.                                   12.80\n    North Ridgeville. Cong. Ch. ($2.80 of which\n      from Rev. J. B. Stocking)                                4.03\n    Oberlin. First Cong. Ch., $90; Mrs. D. H. P.,\n      51c.                                                    90.51\n    Oberlin. Ladies\u2019 Soc. of Second Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._                     75.00\n    Painesville. Rev. S. W. Pierson, $5; E. E. J., $1          6.00\n    Peru. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Rev. H. Lawrence, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              55.00\n    Pierpont. Mrs. S. W.                                       1.00\n    Springfield. \u201cFriend,\u201d _for Student Aid.\n      Tougaloo U._                                             5.00\n    Springfield. W. A. F.                                      1.00\n    Tallmadge. Miss Josephine Pierce, bal. to\n      const. MISS JOSEPHINE M. WOLCOTT L. M.                   6.00\n    Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed. $10; J. H. S., 50c.           10.50\n    Unionville. Mrs. E. F. Burnelle                            5.00\n    Wellington. Edward West ($10 of which _for\n      John Brown Steamer_)                                    30.00\n    Youngstown. \u201cMahoning\u201d                                     1.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $2.659.52.\n\n    Alton. Ch. of the Redeemer                                45.40\n    Champaign. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                15.00\n    Chicago. First Cong. Ch., $164.25; Mrs. S. A. S.,\n      $1; Mrs. F. E., 50c.                                   165.75\n    Chicago. First Presb. Ch., _for Berea C._                100.00\n    Chicago. C. B. Bouton, _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                     50.00\n    Chicago. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                               21.00\n    Danville. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc. of Presb. Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         30.00\n    Earlville. Mrs. Mary T. Murray                             2.00\n    Elmore. Cong. Ch., to const. WILLIAM HUMPHREY\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Elmhurst. Seth Wadhams, _for Prof\u2019s Home,\n      Talladega, Ala._                                     1,550.00\n    Freeport. L. A. Warner                                    25.00\n    Galesburg. First Cong. Ch.                               100.00\n    Galva. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   15.00\n    Griggsville. Cong. Ch.                                    28.80\n    Hutsonville. C. V. N.                                      1.00\n    Lawn Ridge. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Lyonsville. Cong. Ch., in part                            11.00\n    Lyndon. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $4; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $1, _for\n      John Brown Steamer_                                      5.00\n    Marseilles. Cong. Ch.                                     12.76\n    Naperville. Cong. Ch., $7.30; A. A. Smith, $5             12.30\n    New Windsor. Cong. Ch.                                     8.70\n    Oak Park. Mr. Packard\u2019s Class of Boys, Cong.\n      Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid Talladega C._               14.25\n    Ontario. Cong. Ch.                                        25.00\n    Payson. Cong. Ch.                                         20.00\n    Peoria. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Griswold, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                  100.00\n    Plymouth. Cong. Ch.                                       30.00\n    Port Byron. Mission Circle                                 8.00\n    Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss, $15; Cong. Sab.\n      Sch., $6.25                                             21.25\n    Princeville. Mrs. Olive L. Cutter                         10.00\n    Providence. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Rochelle. C. H. Holcomb                                   20.00\n    Rosemond. Cong. Ch. ($5.92 of which from Sab.\n      Sch.), _for John Brown Steamer_                         19.97\n    Seward. Cong. Ch., $18.10, and Sab. Sch., $12             30.10\n    Sheffield. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Savannah, Ga._                               5.09\n    Tolona. Mrs. L. Haskell, _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            10.00\n    Tonica. F. A. Wood                                        10.00\n    Western Springs. Union Meeting                             6.44\n    Wethersfield. Mrs. A. B. Kellogg                           5.00\n    Wheaton. Cong. Ch.                                        16.30\n    Wilmette. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                            6.25\n    Winnetka. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                18.50\n    Woodstock. Cong. Ch.                                       4.66\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $467.87.\n\n    Ada. Mrs. A. A. Morris                                     5.00\n    Adrian. Plymouth Ch., $7.03; Benj. S. Allen,\n      $2.97                                                   10.00\n    Battle Creek. \u201cJ. E. W.\u201d                                   5.00\n    Birmingham. Mrs. E. B. A.                                  1.00\n    Calumet. Cong. Ch.                                       252.61\n    Covert. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l), _for\n      John Brown Steamer_                                     10.00\n    Detroit. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Lady Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._                        50.00\n    Detroit. \u201cS. Z.,\u201d 50c.; D. G. P., 50c.                     1.00\n    Eaton Rapids. First Cong. Ch.                             20.45\n    Imlay. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc.                                 8.00\n    Milford. Mrs. E. G.                                        1.00\n    North Lansing. Plymouth Cong Ch.                          37.81\n    Pentwater. First Cong. Sab. Sch., Box of\n      Books, _for Macon, Ga._\n    Romeo. Mary A. Dickinson, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                50.00\n    Saint Clair. S. F. H.                                      1.00\n    Saint Josephs. Mrs. E. A. H. Grosvenor, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   10.00\n    Ypsilanti. Cong Ch.                                        5.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $386.75.\n\n    Appleton. Mrs. S. R. Page, Box C. and $2.25,\n      _for Macon, Ga._                                         2.25\n    Beloit. African M. E. Sab. Sch, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       4.00\n    Black Earth. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             3.25\n    Bristol. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. and $1.50\n      _for Freight, for Macon, Ga._                            1.50\n    Cumberland. W. B. Hopkins, M.D.                           10.00\n    Delavan. Miss E. E.                                        0.50\n    Eau Claire. Cong. Ch.                                     38.00\n    Eau Claire. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           20.00\n    Emerald Grove. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       8.50\n    Fort Howard. Mrs. D. C. Curtis, Bbl. of C.,\n      _for Macon Ga._\n    Fox Lake. William Dawes                                  200.00\n    Madison. First Cong. Ch., $45, and 50 Vols.\n      \u201cSongs of Christian Praise,\u201d _for Talladega\n      C._                                                     45.00\n    Milwaukee. Young Peoples\u2019 Mission Circle, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              16.00\n    Ripon. First Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. C., _for\n      Macon, Ga._\n    River Falls. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             2.50\n    Rosendale. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             0.25\n    Saint Clair. F. M., _for Freight_                          1.00\n    Sheboygan. First Cong. Ch., 2 Boxes Books and\n      C. and $10 _for Freight, for Macon, Ga._                10.00\n    West Rosendale. Mrs. A. Martin, $20, _for\n      Student Aid, Lewis High Sch._; First Cong.\n      Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Macon, Ga._                       20.00\n    Westfield. C. C.                                           1.00\n    Whitewater. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             3.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $1,694.33.\n\n    Anamosa. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            5.00\n    Anita. $6.50; Eldora. Ladies of Ch., $10.83;\n      Tabor, Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., $15; by Miss\n      Henry L. Chase, _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                           32.33\n    Burlington. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                20.00\n    Burlington. Miss M. L.                                     1.00\n    Cedar Rapids. Mrs. R. D. Stephens, _for\n      Student Aid, Straight U._                               25.00\n    Chester Center. Cong. Ch.                                 30.00\n    Chester Center. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           15.00\n    Davenport. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           26.00\n    Dubuque. Young People\u2019s Benev. Soc., $50; Mrs.\n      James Beach, $5.30, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           55.30\n    Dubuque. W. C. W.                                          0.50\n    Des Moines. James Callaman, $1,000; Ex. Gov.\n      Samuel Merrill, $250, _for President\u2019s\n      House, Talladega C._                                 1,250.00\n    Des Moines. \u201cTen Young Men,\u201d $50; \u201cFriends\u201d\n      $50, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                   100.00\n    Grinnell. S. H. H.                                         0.51\n    Keokuk. Mrs. M. W.                                         0.50\n    Keokuk. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014, _for John Brown Steamer_                     5.00\n    Lyons. Ladies\u2019 Circle, _for Lady Missionary,\n      New Orleans, La._                                       10.00\n    Muscatine. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           20.00\n    Oldfield. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  9.08\n    Osage. Cong. Ch.                                          18.00\n    Quasqueton. Rev. W. S. Potwin, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       5.00\n    Shenandoah. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                        8.00\n    Sioux City. Mrs. W. K. S.                                  0.51\n    Tabor. Ladies, $12; Mrs. John Todd, $10, _for\n      Student Aid, Straight U._                               22.00\n    Waverly. M. H. G.                                          0.50\n    Wayne. D. C. S.                                            1.00\n    West Liberty. Mrs. L. K. Sisson, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      22.50\n    West Liberty. \u201cBusy Bees,\u201d Package\n      Sewing-School Material, _for Macon, Ga._\n    Winthrop. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            6.60\n    Wittemberg. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                5.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $4.50.\n\n    Anthony. Rev. T. D. C.                                     0.75\n    Cora. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown Steamer_            1.25\n    Ridgeway. Cong. Ch.                                        2.50\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $128.79.\n\n    Audubon. Cong. Ch.                                         3.50\n    Clear Water. Cong. Ch., $3; C. M. S., 50c.                 3.50\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., $20.33; Second\n      Cong. Ch., $4.                                          24.33\n    Minneapolis. E. D. First Cong. Ch.                        14.38\n    Morris. A. A. S.                                           0.50\n    Red Wing. Mrs. Julia B. Nelson.                           10.00\n    Saint Paul. Plymouth Ch.                                  72.58\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $2.00.\n\n    Wayne. G. H. S.                                            1.00\n    Wheatland. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 1.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $9.80.\n\n    Holden. \u201cMrs. S. E. H.,\u201d _for ed. of Indians,\n      Hampton N. and A. Inst._                                 3.00\n    Saint Louis. Francis Whitney.                              6.80\n\n\n  OREGON, $9.15.\n\n    Forest Grove. Cong. Ch., $3.15; Mrs. M. R. W., $1          4.15\n    Portland. Mr. H. Williams.                                 5.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $10.00.\n\n    San Bernardino. Mr. Emeline Smith, _for\n      Tillotson C. and N. Inst., Austin, Texas_               10.00\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $2.36.\n\n    Washington. Lincoln Memorial Ch.                           2.36\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $214.00.\n\n    Dudley. Public Fund.                                      30.00\n    Raleigh. Cong. Ch., _for John Brown Steamer_               2.00\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00\n    Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition                         177.00\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $289.25.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition                         279.25\n    Charleston. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                            10.00\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $468.60.\n\n    Chattanooga. Rev. J. W. White and Others, _for\n      Mag._                                                    2.50\n    Chattanooga. M. Blanche Curtis, _for Student\n      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                        2.00\n    Maryville. Rev. T. J. L., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 1.00\n    Memphis. LeMoyne Sch., Tuition                           180.60\n    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition                              271.95\n    Nashville. Miss\u2019y Soc. of Fisk U., $10; Fisk\n      U. Students, 55c., _for John Brown Steamer_             10.55\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $836.41.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs\u2019 School, Tuition, $245.40;\n      Rent, $3.                                              248.40\n    Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition                             231.59\n    Atlanta. First Cong. Ch. ($35.20 of which _for\n      Student Aid, Storrs\u2019 Sch._), $57; Cong. Sab.\n      Sch., $4.50.                                            91.80\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition                           83.72\n    Macon. Hon. James H. Blount, 155 Vols. Pub.\n      Doc., _for Library, Macon, Ga._\n    McIntosh. Tuition.                                        25.75\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., $143.30; Rent, $11.85.            155.15\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $503.87.\n\n    Alabama Furnace. Cong. Ch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 3.25\n    Anniston. Tuition.                                         5.00\n    Marion. Cong. Ch.                                          2.50\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition                           152.80\n    Mobile. Cong. Ch., $2; A. E., _for Emerson\n      Inst._, $1.                                              3.00\n    Montgomery. Public Fund.                                 175.00\n    Selma. Cong. Ch.                                          43.15\n    Selma. Mission Workers, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           11.50\n    Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition                         104.67\n    Talladega. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            3.00\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $202.25.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight University, Tuition                202.25\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $131.94.\n\n    Jackson. R. F.                                             0.24\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo University, Tuition                   129.70\n    Tougaloo. F. J. Webster, _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                             2.00\n\n\n  TEXAS, $192.20.\n\n    Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst., Tuition                 190.75\n    Corpus Christi. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                    1.45\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $455.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               355.00\n    C. F. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._                        50.00\n    General Fund                                              50.00\n\n\n  CANADA, $9.50.\n\n    Montreal. Rev. Henry Wilkes, D.D., $4; Charles\n      Alexander, $2.; Theo. Lyman, $2, and \u201cJuv.\n      Miss. Box of the family,\u201d $1.50                          9.50\n\n\n  FRANCE, $30.\n\n    Paris. Mrs. E. W. Hitchcock, _for Talladega C._           30.00\n\n\n  CHINA, $1.50.\n\n    Pao-ting-fu. 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Court\nHouse, Van Wert, Ohio; Mahoning Co. Court House, Youngstown, Ohio;\nWashington Co. Court House, Washington, Pa.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                   THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL STATEMENT\n\n                              OF THE\n\n                        CONNECTICUT MUTUAL\n\n                      Life Insurance Company,\n\n                        OF HARTFORD, CONN.\n\n\n  NET ASSETS, January 1, 1881                           $47,833,628.70\n    RECEIVED IN 1881:\n      For premiums                         $5,238,811.82\n      For Interest and Rents                2,830,328.08\n      Profit and Loss                          91,626.11\n                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          8,160,766.01\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                        $55,994,394.71\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n  DISBURSED IN 1881.\n\n    TO POLICY HOLDERS:\n  For claims by death and\n    matured endowments        $3,718,646.87\n  Surplus returned to Policy\n    holders                    1,284,342.53\n  Lapsed and surrendered\n    Policies                   1,081,234.81\n                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n      TOTAL TO POLICY HOLDERS              $6,084,224.21\n\n    EXPENSES:\n  Commissions to Agents         $286,797.05\n  Salaries of Officers, Clerks\n    and all others employed on\n    salary                       103,541.93\n  Medical Examiners\u2019 fees         10,540.25\n  Printing, Advertising, Legal,\n    Real Estate and all other\n    expenses                     276,607.84\n                                \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                             $677,487.07\n  TAXES                                       454,590.06\n                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          7,216,301.34\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    BALANCE NET ASSETS, DEC. 31, 1881                   $48,778,093.37\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n  SCHEDULE OF ASSETS.\n\n  Loans upon Real Estate, first lien                    $18,037,201.12\n  Loans upon Stocks and Bonds                               401,303.28\n  Premium notes on Policies in force                      3,347,600.47\n  Cost of Real Estate owned by the Company               12,657,974.92\n  Cost of United States Registered Bonds                  4,618,853.10\n  Cost of State Bonds                                       619,900.00\n  Cost of City Bonds                                      2,572,300.84\n  Cost of other Bonds                                     3,407,480.00\n  Cost of Bank Stock                                        122,761.00\n  Cost of Railroad Stock                                     26,000.00\n  Cash in Bank                                            2,933,319.50\n  Balance due from agents, secured                           33,399.14\n                                                        \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                        $48,778,093.37\n    ADD\n  Interest due and accrued                   $925,583.50\n  Rents accrued                                14,373.88\n  Market value of stocks and bonds over\n    cost                                      497,676.02\n  Net premiums in course of collection\u2014\u2014NONE.\n  Net deferred quarterly and semi-annual\n    premiums                                   43,058.08\n                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          1,480,691.48\n                                                        \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        GROSS ASSETS, December 31, 1881                 $50,258,784.85\n\n    LIABILITIES:\n  Amount required to re-insure all\n    outstanding policies, net, assuming\n    4 per cent. interest                  $45,810,598.00\n  All other liabilities                     1,060,614.87\n                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                         46,871,212.87\n                                                        \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n  SURPLUS, by Connecticut Standard, 4 per cent.          $3,387,571.98\n  SURPLUS, by New York Standard, 4-\u00bd per cent., about     6,500,000.00\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n  Ratio of expense of management to receipts in 1881    8.30 per cent.\n  Policies in force December 31, 1881, 63,913,\n    insuring                                           $159,039,867.89\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n  JACOB L. GREENE, President.\n  JOHN M. TAYLOR, Secretary.\n  W. G. ABBOT, Ass\u2019t Secretary.\n  D. H. WELLS, Actuary.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n    Physicians have Prescribed over Half a Million Packages of\n\n                      VITALIZED PHOS-PHITES,\n\nAnd have found this BRAIN AND NERVE FOOD indispensable in the\ntreatment of all Diseases of Debility, and in all Mental or Nervous\nDisorders.\n\nIt restores to the busy, active brain of man or woman the energy\nand ability that has been lost by disease, worry or overwork. It\nrestores vitality where there has been debility and nervousness,\nand prevents loss of memory and brain fatigue; it is a regenerator\nof the tired brain and nerves.\n\nIn impaired vitality it restores to the system that which has been\nwasted in excitement, in abuses, in excessive bodily or mental\nemotions.\n\nIt _prevents_ consumption and other diseases of debility.\n\n            F. CROSBY CO., 664 and 666 Sixth Ave., N.Y.\n\n        For Sale by Druggists; or by mail in P. O. order,\n                  bill or postage stamps, $1.00.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     BALL\u2019S HEALTH PRESERVING\n\n                              CORSET\n\n                      SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW\n\n[Illustration: EVERY CORSET WARRANTED SATISFACTORY OR MONEY\nREFUNDED]\n\nBy a novel arrangement of fine coiled wire spring, which yield\nreadily to every movement of the wearer, the most =Perfect Fitting=\nand comfortable corset ever made is secured.\n\nIs Approved by the Best Physicians. For sale by all leading dealers.\n\n                        Lady Agents Wanted.\n\n                       Price by Mail, $1.50.\n\n                       Manufactured only by\n\n                        CHICAGO CORSET CO.,\n\n                          Chicago, Ill.,\n\n               and FOY, HARMON & Co., New Haven Ct.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration: THE RISING SUN STOVE POLISH]\n\n    For beauty of gloss, for saving of toil.\n    For freeness from dust and slowness to soil.\n    And also for cheapness \u2019tis yet unsurpassed.\n    And thousands of merchants are selling it fast.\n\n    Of all imitations \u2019tis well to beware;\n    The half risen sun every package should bear;\n    For this is the \u201ctrade mark\u201d the MORSE BROS. use,\n    And none are permitted the mark to abuse.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                         ESTABLISHED 1780.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nSet Complete in Terry, $58. Set complete in Plush, $64. Parlor,\nLodge and Church Furniture. No charge for packing. Send for\nIllustrated Catalogue.\n\n                        SHAW, APPLIN & CO.,\n                                      27 Sudbury St., Boston.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  Smith\n  AMERICAN\n  ORGANS\n  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., 37 Whitehall Street;\n  Or, DEFIANCE, O.\n\n\n                         OVER 95,000 SOLD.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration: Estey Organ]\n\n  J. Estey & Co\n  Brattleboro Vt.\n\nAs musical culture increases it demands in musical instruments for\nhome, church, or school, excellence in tone, tasteful workmanship,\nand durability.\n\n                  SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                Special attention is invited to the\n\n                      ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.\n\nWith a circulation of 20,000 copies monthly, in the best families\nin the land, it becomes a valuable medium for the advertisement of\nstandard and reliable articles.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                          [Illustration]\n\n                              BABCOCK\n\n                               FIRE\n\n                           EXTINGUISHER\n\n\n                   A Sentinel that Never Sleeps.\n\n\n                          SIMPLE!\n\n                            EFFECTIVE!\n\n                                 DURABLE!\n\n\n                          S. F. HAYWARD,\n\n                          GENERAL AGENT,\n\n                     407 Broadway, N.Y. City.\n\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     60,000 TONS USED IN 1881.\n\nOne ton will build two miles of staunch three-strand Barb Fence.\nOne strand will make an old wooden fence impassable to large\ncattle. One strand at bottom will keep out hogs.\n\n                   Washburn & Moen Man\u2019f\u2019g Co.,\n\n                         WORCESTER, MASS.,\n\n                         Manufacturers of\n\n                    Patent Steel Barb Fencing.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nA STEEL Thorn Hedge. No other Fencing so cheap or put up so\nquickly. Never rusts, stains, decays, shrinks nor warps. Unaffected\nby fire, wind or flood. A complete barrier to the most unruly\nstock. Impassable by man or beast.\n\nNo other Fence Material so easily handled by small proprietors and\ntenants, or large planters in the South.\n\nShipped on spools containing 100 pounds, or eighty rods of Fencing.\nCan be kept on the Reel for transient uses.\n\n           CHEAPEST, BEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE OF FENCES.\n\nSend for Illustrative Pamphlets and Circulars, as above.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\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_\u2014\u2014In District of Columbia, 1; Virginia,\n1; North Carolina, 6; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 13; Kentucky,\n7; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 14; Kansas, 1; Arkansas, 1; Louisiana,\n18; Mississippi, 4; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 3. _Among the Indians_, 1.\nTotal, 82.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE\nSOUTH.\u2014\u2014_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.;\nAtlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans,\nLa., and Austin, Tex.\u2014\u20148. _Graded or Normal Schools_: Wilmington,\nN.C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S.C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.;\nMontgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.\u2014\u201411. _Other\nSchools_, 35. Total, 54.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014\u2014Among the Freedmen, 319;\namong the Chinese, 28; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total,\n369. STUDENTS.\u2014\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\u2014\u2014a pressing want.\n\nBefore sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.\noffice as directed on second page cover.\n\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\nWe are anxious to put the AMERICAN MISSIONARY on a paying 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 either the\nmoderate subscription price (50 cents), or $1.00, naming a friend\nto whom we may send a second copy.\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\nWe nevertheless renew the offer hitherto made, that the MISSIONARY\nwill be sent gratuitously, if desired, to the Missionaries of\nthe Association; to Life Members; to all Clergymen who take\nup 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\nSubscriptions and advertisements should be sent to H. W. HUBBARD,\nTreasurer, 56 Reade street, New York, N.Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nATKIN & PROUT, PRINTERS, 12 BARCLAY ST., N.Y.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\nObvious printer\u2019s punctuation errors and omissions corrected.\nInconsistent small caps retained as printed.\n\nPage number for Benefactions corrected in the Contents.\n\n\u201cPesbyterian\u201d changed to \u201cPresbyterian\u201d on page 150. (Presbyterian\nMission House)\n\n\u201cTalladaga\u201d changed to \u201cTalladega\u201d in the Danville entry on page\n155. (for Student Aid, Talladega C.)","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 36, No. 5, May, 1882","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":19823}