{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_58038/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_58038","id":"gutenberg_58038","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58038","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: History - Modern (1750+)","Category: History - Schools & Universities","Category: Religion/Spirituality","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\n  VOL. XXXVI.      JULY, 1882.      NO. 7.\n\n  THE\n\n  American Missionary\n\n  \u201cTHEY ARE RISING ALL ARE RISING, THE BLACK AND WHITE TOGETHER\u201d\n\n\n  NEW YORK:\n\n  PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\n\n  ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class\n  matter.]\n\n\n\n\n                             CONTENTS.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                                                         PAGE.\n\n  EDITORIALS.\n\n    THIS NUMBER                                            193\n    DEATH OF WM. E. WHITING                                194\n    PARAGRAPHS                                             194\n    THE NEW LAW AND OUR WORK                               195\n    GENERAL NOTES--Chinese, Indians, Africa                196\n    SEEKING A WIFE IN TARTARY (Cut)                        197\n    BENEFACTIONS--SELECTIONS                               199\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    ANNIVERSARY REPORTS                                    201\n    HAMPTON INSTITUTE                                      201\n    FISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE                             202\n    TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, MISS.                             204\n    HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON                          205\n    AVERY INSTITUTE, CHARLESTON                            205\n    BEACH INSTITUTE, SAVANNAH                              206\n    PEEPING THROUGH (Cut)                                  207\n    EMERSON INSTITUTE, MOBILE                              207\n    NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE                              208\n    WOMEN\u2019S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION AT MARION, ALA.         210\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    MR. LADD\u2019S JOURNAL                                     211\n    ABYSSINIANS (Cut)                                      213\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    NEW CHURCH AT DUNGINESS                                215\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                 215\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, or,\nwhen more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, Rev. C. L.\nWoodworth, Dist. Sec., 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or\nRev. James Powell, Dist. Sec., 112 West Washington Street, Chicago,\nIll. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life\nMember. Letters relating to boxes and barrels of clothing may be\naddressed to the persons above named.\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\u201cI BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- dollars,\nin trust, to pay the same in ---- 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\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.      JULY, 1882.      NO. 7.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOur readers will find in this number of the MISSIONARY reports of\nthe anniversaries of seven of our institutions. Other reports will\nappear in our next issue.\n\nIt will be seen that the number of pupils in the higher grades of\nstudy has been unusually large and that the boarding departments\nhave been crowded as never before.\n\nWe opened during the year new dormitory buildings at New\nOrleans, Tougaloo and Talladega. These have given much needed\naccommodations. By autumn, Livingstone Missionary Hall at Nashville\nwill be ready for occupancy, affording rooms for 140 boarders\nbesides chapel, library and recitation rooms. Stone Hall at Atlanta\nwill also be completed, which, though not a dormitory building,\nwill nevertheless relieve the other buildings so that greater\naccommodations for students can be secured; but still the pressing\nneed at Atlanta will be more room for the girls\u2019 department.\n\nThe growth of interest among the colored people in our schools is\noutstripping the growth of conveniences for them, and new dormitory\nbuildings at several points are becoming an imperative necessity.\nThere are many reasons for this condition of affairs. One is the\nrighteous purpose exhibited in the work of the A. M. A. South. Both\nwhites and blacks realize that our institutions are based upon\nthe great fundamental principles of the Gospel. They witness the\nself-sacrifice of the teachers, their prayerful devotion to the\nwelfare of their pupils, the frequent revivals resulting from their\nefforts, the large number of students sent forth to teach, and\nthe churches planted and supplied with a responsible and educated\nministry. The work done inspires confidence.\n\nSome time since, the principal of a colored institution received\nan honorary degree from a Southern college, whose trustees had\nobserved his work for a series of years. When conferring the\ndegree, they said: \u201cWe recognize your fidelity to the principles\nof those who sent you forth.\u201d It is fidelity to the principles\nthat have actuated the A. M. A. for nearly forty years that is\nwinning the hearts of the people, and every year confirms the\nconviction that we have only to press forward with renewed energy\nand perseverance in order to achieve the best results for the whole\nsouthern portion of our country.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe fathers are passing away. The death of Wm. E. Whiting, which\noccurred June 3, removes one of the most familiar names in the\nannals of the American Missionary Association. He was chosen\nmember of the Executive Committee at the first election, and no\ncomplete list of the officers of the Association has been published\nsince, that does not contain his name. Of that first list but one\nman survives him (a Vice-President), and of the administrative\nofficers, he was the last. His position has been various; on the\nExecutive Committee from 1846 to 1871; Assistant Treasurer from\n1865 to 1875; Vice-President from 1876 till his death. In all Mr.\nWhiting\u2019s relations to his associates in the office and to the\nworkers in the field he was ever gentlemanly and courteous; in the\ndischarge of his duties he was faithful and conscientious. He was\namong the first to enlist in the great anti-slavery struggle, and\nin the martyr age of that contest he bore his share of contumely,\nreproach and danger. In his private life and as a member of the\nChurch of Christ, he had rendered himself so useful and so beloved\nthat the heartfelt eulogy pronounced upon him at his funeral by his\npastor might have seemed overdrawn but for the attesting evidence\nof the manly and womanly tears that throughout accompanied the\neloquent words.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWe were pleased to have a call on the 20th of May from Rev. D. K.\nFlickinger, the Missionary Secretary of the United Brethren in\nChrist, who had just returned from a tour of inspection at the\nShengay Mission in the Sherbro country of West Africa, bringing\nwith him the Rev. Mr. Gomer, a colored man who is the local\nSuperintendent of the mission. We gained from them much valuable\ninformation concerning our own mission among that people. It is\nwonderful how much exposure that Secretary and his Superintendent\nhave been able to endure in that climate. We bless God for the\ngreat work which their church through them is doing for West Africa.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe faculty and students of the Wesleyan Female College at\nMacon, Ga., on the 12th of May celebrated the birthday of their\nbenefactor, Mr. George I. Seney. They sent him a telegraphic\ngreeting, which he acknowledged. They had music and poetry and also\nan oration by Colonel Hardeman, one of the first orators of the\nState.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe _Christian Recorder_, the official organ of the African M. E.\nChurch, thus pronounces its benediction upon Mr. John F. Slater,\nchanging the Spanish Bishop\u2019s cursings upon liberal journalists\ninto blessings:\n\n  \u201cMay Almighty God bless John F. Slater with the perpetual\n  blessings pronounced upon His saints and His angels! May he\n  live with the martyrs and the confessors! May the Lord judge\n  him as he judged Moses and David and Hezekiah! May the earth\n  preserve him alive! Let him be blessed day and night, sleeping\n  and waking, in eating, in drinking, and in playing, when he\n  speaks and when he keeps silence! May not his eyes be blinded,\n  his ears be deaf, and his tongue be dumb! Blessed be every\n  member of his body! Let him be blessed from to-day and forever!\n  May his sepulchre be that of the saints! May no famished wolves\n  prey upon his corpse and may his eternal company be that of\n  Michael and his angels!\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE NEW LAW AND OUR WORK.\n\nWe are mortified that our Government has reversed the traditions\nand the precedents which have made our country a home for people\nfrom all parts of the world. The political parties bidding for the\nprize of the Pacific Coast have humiliated our nation in the eyes\nof all the others. It were a ludicrous spectacle, if it were not so\nsad, the great nation of the West receiving at this Atlantic port\nin a single month 90,000 immigrants of half a dozen nationalities\nand yet shuddering in its Congressional Halls over the 105,000\nalmond-eyed people who in the last score of years have landed at\nour Pacific harbor. It is a grotesque object lesson which we are\nnow exhibiting at the Golden Gate--our ministers of Government\nstanding there and watching for any stray vessel ready to send\nback the few Chinamen, who, following the star in the east of\nChristian civilization, have ventured over the waters to compare\nwith it their pagan religion. Fifty millions of Christian people\nseem afraid to bring their system into competition with the effete\nsuperstitions of a hundred thousand heathen sojourners. We have\nbeen praying that the walls of opposition might be broken down and\nthe doors opened to the Gospel among the nations; and now when\nChina is the answer to that prayer, saying \u201cCome to us\u201d with your\nglad tidings, and let some of us go over to eat of the tree of life\nin your land, we close the port, we slam the door in their faces.\n\nAnd how does this new law bear upon our work on the Pacific coast?\nWill this cutting off of the supply preclude all enlargement of the\nschool and mission process? May it even call for a curtailment of\nour present operations? By no means. We have as a stock on hand,\nthese hundred thousand people, and we should push our evangelizing\nappliances to their utmost capacity, so as to do the most possible\nfor the soul-welfare of those who are left under our influence, not\nonly for their own good but preeminently that they may be prepared\nto receive and to help to Christianize those who shall yet follow\nthem, and then, also, to carry with them on their ever-intended\nreturn to the land of their fathers the blessings of the gospel\nof Christ. It may be that this enforced quiet and isolation shall\nbecome a mighty factor in this scheme for Christianizing the\nMongolians who are already upon our shores. And so with this sea of\nprohibition before us, we hear the voice saying, \u201cGo forward.\u201d\n\nThen the politicians\u2019 law is for only ten years. Meantime it may\nappear to the interest of one party or the other to repeal the\nrestricting edict. The conscience, the principle of the nation,\nwill be at work. Demands for labor in subduing and developing that\nmajestic Farther West will yet be heard. Before we are aware of\nit, the floodgates may be raised and a great tide of immigration\nmay set in from the neighboring country over the Western sea. So,\nin any event, we must be on the alert, doing in this line the full\nmeasure of work that God brings to our hand.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n--The Chinese Sunday-school of the Mount Vernon Church, Boston,\nnumbers 110, and is increasing so rapidly that it is difficult to\nfind teachers.\n\n--Thirty-one societies employ in China 618 laborers and expend\n$764,039. The American Board, last year, led in the amount\nexpended. The China Inland Mission has the largest number of\nlaborers, and the American Presbyterian Church the largest number\nof ordained missionaries.\n\n--The medical ladies of the Methodist Episcopal Mission at\nKin-kiang have more to do than they are able to accomplish. The\nHome is crowded with poor, sick women, who cannot be turned away,\nshowing how great is the need of a hospital building.\n\n--The Medical Missionary Hospitals at Han-kow and Tien-tsin are now\nentirely supported by the natives, who thus not only tolerate, but\nencourage the propagation of the Christian tenets which are known\nto be disseminated at such institutions. Thus old prejudices melt\naway.\n\n--The island of Hainan, on the coast of China, has a population of\nabout 1,500,000. A Mr. Jeremiassen, formerly engaged in the service\nof the Chinese customs at Canton, being an earnest Christian, left\nthis service to engage in mission work at his own expense. He is\nnow on the island of Hainan for the purpose of introducing the\nGospel there.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n--According to the last statistical report of the Missionary\nSociety of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, it had among the\nIndians 13 ordained and licensed preachers, 7 candidates, 40\nruling elders, 29 deacons, 24 organized congregations and 527\ncommunicants.\n\n[Illustration: SEEKING TO WIN A WIFE IN TARTARY.]\n\n--At Capt. R. H. Pratt\u2019s Indian Training School there has been an\nincreasing religious interest the past winter. One evening those\nwho are already members of Christian churches were asked to rise.\nThirty-four stood up. Then all who were wanting to be Christians,\nand trying to be Christians, were asked to rise; whereupon 72\narose. This included the first class. The prayers of the young men,\nwhich are now altogether in English, were short, but in many cases\nshowing, by the tone and manner, an earnest desire for a Christ\nlife.\n\n--The latest established of the Training Schools for Indians\nis that at Forest Grove, Oregon, under the auspices of the\nPresbyterians. It started with an appropriation of only $5,000\ntwo years ago, out of which to erect buildings, clothe and feed\nthe Indians and pay all the necessary expenses of transportation.\nThe Indian boys have erected the building in which they live,\ndoing all the work from the foundations up. They have made all\nthe furniture, beds, chairs, tables, all the desks and essentials\nof the schoolroom. The girls have made bedding, all the clothing\nrequisite for the schoolroom, and under the guidance of the matron\nhave done the necessary cooking.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n--The United Presbyterian Church of Jamaica has sent Mr. H. G.\nClerk, who has been educated in the college at Kingston, as a\nmissionary to Old Calabar, Western Africa.\n\n--Mr. James Stewart and party reached Livingstonia early in\nSeptember to begin work on the road to be made between Lakes Nyassa\nand Tanganyika. Dr. and Mrs. Hennington and party were at Quilimane\nOct. 25.\n\n--Dr. Laws reports the removal of the mission from Cape Maclear,\nthe previous chief settlement of the Livingstonia Mission, to\nBandawa, on the road now being made to Lake Tanganyika.\n\n--Rev. and Mrs. David Scott and party report themselves at Blantyre\nDec. 10. All were suffering somewhat from fever.\n\n--The C. M. S. Uganda Mission finds Mtesa again on his good\nbehavior, and the missionaries are having all desired liberty and\nmuch encouragement in their work.\n\n--Three members of the Livingstone (Congo) Inland Mission, Messrs.\nClarke, Richards and Ingham, had succeeded in reaching Stanley Pool\nin safety about Christmas.\n\n--The West Central African Mission of the American Board has\nexperienced a severe loss in the death of Rev. Walter Weldon\nBagster, the leader of the enterprise. Mr. Bagster had occasion to\nvisit the coast frequently for the furtherance of the work, and on\nthis account was more exposed to the African fever than those who\nremained at Bailunda, the principal station of the mission, the\naltitude of which is 5,000 feet above sea level.\n\n--Lake Ngami, to which a native mission has lately been sent, is\n2,500 feet above the level of the sea. It lies between 20th and\n21st parallels of south latitude, and was discovered on Aug. 1,\n1849, by Dr. Livingstone and his fellow-travelers, Messrs. Oswell\nand Murray.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nMr. Geo. I. Seney has furnished the means to build a chapel for the\nLucy Cobb Institute at Athens, Ga.\n\nThe late Ex-Gov. O. C. Washburn, of Wisconsin, has left by will\n$50,000 for a public library at La Crosse.\n\nHon. John R. Bodwell gives $1,000 and three other persons $700\ntowards the erection of a new building for the Hallowell Industrial\nSchool.\n\nThe Methodist Seminary at Montpelier, Vt., has received $30,000 for\nendowment purposes.\n\nMr. Roland Mather, of Hartford, Ct., has given $12,500 towards the\nProfessorship Fund of Chicago Seminary.\n\nMr. Chas. Pratt, a graduate of Amherst College, has given $25,000\ntowards a gymnasium for that institution.\n\nThe Senior Class of Iowa College have secured nearly $6,000 for the\nrebuilding of East College.\n\nThe late Mrs. Percy, of Oakland, Cal., bequeathed $4,000 to Mills\nSeminary; $3,000 for scholarships and $1,000 for general use.\n\n_The Executive Committee of the American Missionary Association at\nits last Annual Meeting appealed for $500,000 for the endowment of\nits chartered institutions at the South. The anniversaries of the\ndifferent colleges of the land are calling the attention of the\nbenevolent public to their growth and wants. We especially urge the\nclaims of the colored people South to a full share of the gifts\nmade for endowment purposes._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSELECTIONS.\n\nA RICH MAN\u2019S BENEFACTIONS.\n\nIn these days of numerous contested wills it is something of a\nnovelty to see a rich man forestall the lawyers by making his\nbequests before his death. George I. Seney is one of this class.\nHis large gifts have been entirely unsolicited; they have been\nmade simply because he himself thought that they ought to be made.\nThese bequests make in the aggregate $1,485,000, not bestowed\nthrough sentiment or caprice, but in accordance with the trained\njudgment of a shrewd, far-sighted business man. When asked why\nhe made these various bequests during his life, he answered:\n\u201cFirst of all, because I feel that I am a trustee, responsible\nfor the right use of the money given me. With the experience\nthat I have, I believe that I am the person best qualified to\ncarry out the provisions and duties of that trusteeship. What\ncertainty have I that these provisions and duties would ever be\nduly carried out after my death? Absolutely none. Whereas now,\nby making these gifts in my lifetime, I am sure that the precise\nobject I desire is accomplished in just the way I want. And then,\ntoo, I am more and more convinced of the truth of the words: \u2018It\nis more blessed to give than to receive.\u2019 The great danger of\nincreasing riches is that it fosters a disposition to hoard money\nonly for the sake of hoarding it. Slightly to alter a common\nword, it becomes _money_-mania with them; they gloat over their\nmillions, just because they are millions and not because of the\nhappiness producible from them. Now I maintain that such a spirit\nis unworthy not only of a true Christian but of a true man, and I\nhave determined never to let it appear in my character.\u201d--_New York\nTribune._\n\n\nGIVING IS GETTING.\n\nOne of the plain paradoxes in the realm of mind, matter, nature and\ngrace, is that true gain comes only through loss; that hoarding\nis impoverishing; that there is no way of keeping one\u2019s hold on a\ndesired good, like parting with it; that acquisition is a result\nof expenditure; that dividing is multiplying; that scattering is\nincreasing; that spending is saving; that giving is getting. Bodily\nstrength comes from its expenditure, not from its hoarding. Every\nwise use of a muscle adds to the power of that muscle.\n\nIt is the use, not the possession, of any material treasure that\ngives it its highest value. Money gathered and kept for its own\nsake increases the discontent and cravings of its holder: while\nmoney sought and handled for its beneficent uses gives pleasure\nand satisfaction to him who employs it. As a rule, men and women\nof ample means shrink more from the outlay of money for their\npersonal convenience and enjoyment, or for the giving of pleasure\nto others, and really have less of the delights which money-using\nmight secure, than persons of more limited income who have no\ndesire for money as money; no wish to be rich, in comparison with\nthe thought of living and doing richly. Straitened circumstances\nare quite likely to increase with growing accumulations of wealth;\nand unsatisfied cravings for riches are exaggerated by every effort\nat their satisfying. \u201cThere is\u201d--indeed there is--\u201cthat withholdeth\nmore than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.\u201d And the pinch of\npoverty itself can never nip so sharply as the pinch of withholding\navarice.\n\nOur mental faculties gain through their using. Giving out thought\nin speech or writing increases one\u2019s treasures of thought, as well\nas one\u2019s ease and power of expression. In our moral nature the same\nprinciple prevails. Pres. Hopkins said: \u201cIt is of the very nature\nof the affections that they give; and of the desires that they\nreceive.\u201d\n\nThe exercise of desire is belittling, that of affection, ennobling.\nDesire brings unrest. Affection brings content. When a child\nreceives gifts, or selfishly employs what has been given him,\nhis _desires_ are exercised, and by their very exercise they are\nstrengthened and intensified. But when the child gives to others,\nit is his _affections_ which are exercised, and which are enlarged\nby their exercise. As with the child, so with those of us of any\nage. Only as we give do we get anything that is worth getting. Only\nin our giving do we find the real pleasure of living. If we find\nthat our affection, our ministry, our presence, is a source of\ncomfort or pleasure, we recognize a blessing just there.\n\n  \u201cFor the heart grows rich in giving; all its wealth is living\n    grain.\n  Seeds, which mildew in the garner, scattered, fill with gold the\n    plain.\u201d\n\n                                                  --_S. S. Times._\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nANNIVERSARY REPORTS.\n\n\nHAMPTON INSTITUTE.\n\nBY REV. H. B. FRISSELL.\n\nAnniversary day at Hampton was cool and comfortable. The steamers\nfrom New York and Boston for several days previous had been\nbringing the friends of the institution from the North, and the\nmorning of Thursday, May 25, found a good number assembled to\nwitness the anniversary exercises.\n\nAt 8.30 A.M. the battalion was drawn up in front of Academic Hall\nand the regular morning inspection was held by the U.S.A. officer\nwho has charge of the military drill of the school.\n\nThe students and visitors then passed to the large assembly room of\nthe New Academic, where morning prayers were held and the news of\nthe day was read. The rest of the morning was spent in visiting the\nclasses and looking at the various industries. The Indian classes\nclaimed their full share of attention, and showed an improvement\nin the advancement and general character of the pupils over last\nyear. The kitchen garden, the cooking class for girls and the\nclass in the new \u201ctonic sol fa\u201d system were filled with visitors.\nThe training class, where the seniors had a chance to show their\nskill in teaching a row of ten urchins brought up from the primary\nschool, was one of the features of the day.\n\nThe new stone building erected for the industries of the school\nwith the money given by Mrs. Stone showed this department to the\nbest advantage. The shoe shops, the printing establishment, the\ntailoring and knitting department have gained a new impulse, now\nthat they have gotten into their large new rooms. The saw mill, the\nharness-making shop, the tin, carpenter and wheelwright shops were\nall in full blast.\n\nAfter a pleasant lunch in the \u201cStone building,\u201d the procession,\nheaded by the trustees and re-inforced by a large party from\nNorfolk, made its way toward Virginia Hall, where the graduating\nexercises were to be held. In a few moments the large hall was\ncrowded. A few words from Gen. Armstrong explained the change\nin the graduating exercises inaugurated the previous year, by\nwhich the speakers of the day were for the most part members of\nclasses that had graduated in previous years, and had come back\nto tell of work done and experience gained. Only two speakers,\nthe valedictorian and salutatorian, were from the class of \u201982.\nThis change of plan has been found to work well, and has made the\nexercises of the last two years especially interesting.\n\nThe speeches of the afternoon were, for the most part, full of\npractical common sense, plain, straightforward accounts of work\ndone and the difficulties and discouragements met and overcome. The\nsalutatory, delivered by one of the girls of the graduating class,\ntold of the missionary work which the students had done among the\npoor people of Hampton, of the Bible reading in the miserable\ncabins, and the help which they had been able to bring to those in\ndistress.\n\n\u201cMy Home\u201d was the title of a very interesting piece by one of the\ngirls, in which she described the condition of affairs among the\ncolored people in one of the western towns of Virginia. \u201cTo the\nGirls\u201d gave the graduating class and the audience the wisdom which\nhad come from a year\u2019s experience in the world. Thos. Wildcatt\nAlford, a young Indian chief, made a strong plea for the education\nof his people. He said that one educated Indian could do more for\nthe benefit of his people in one year than a regiment of soldiers\nin ten years. He spoke hopefully and bravely of the future of his\nrace, and of what he meant to do for it. He is one of the three\nIndians who graduated with the present class, the first who have\nfinished the regular English course of the school.\n\n\u201cOur Race,\u201d by one of the early graduates of the school, told of\nthe discouraged feeling which he had when he arrived at Hampton and\nfound that most of the students had to work hard with their hands\nevery day. He showed of what advantage that same training had been\nto him, of how he had been able to build his own school-house. He\nspoke of lack of industry as being one great obstacle in the way of\nthe success of the colored people.\n\nBetween the speeches, the great chorus, massed in the front part\nof the hall, swelled out in the national hymns of the different\ncountries and the pathetic slave songs so full of power and\nfeeling. After the valedictory, Rev. Dr. Strieby, the President of\nthe Board of Trustees, presented the diplomas to the graduating\nclass with appropriate remarks. Sixty students came forward to\nreceive their diplomas. The present class is much the largest that\nhas gone forth from the institution.\n\nAfter the parting hymn had been sung by the class, Rev. Dr. Bartend\npaid a glowing tribute to the school and to Gen. Armstrong\u2019s work.\nHe said: \u201cFor many years after the beginning of this institution,\nwe were accustomed in this part of the country to speak of the\nHampton school as an experiment; to-day, by the help of Almighty\nGod, we can say that Hampton school is a magnificent success.\u201d He\nspoke of the work that was being done for the colored race, of the\nmanly characters that were being developed by the school training.\nHe referred to the Indians, and especially to the speech which one\nof them had made. He spoke of the intention of the early settlers\nof the country in regard to them. \u201cTwo hundred and fifty years ago\nthere came floating into this beautiful harbor vessels from the old\ncountry. What was their object? What was their hope? The prayer\nthat arose from their decks was this: God give us strength that we\nmay educate and Christianize the Indian. William and Mary College,\nnow almost ready to perish, is the monument of their endeavor. They\ndid not see the answer to their prayer. God works in His own way,\nin His own time, with His own men. Could they see what we to-day\nbehold, they would say as do we, speed on! God speed this glorious\nschool. God bless its patrons that we may raise up good citizens\nhere and glorify God forever and forever.\u201d\n\nThe closing remarks were made by Rev. Dr. Burrows, of Norfolk,\nin the course of which he said that he had often heard of the\ninstitution, but the half had never been told him. When the crowd\npoured forth from the hall, the sun was far down in the west and\nthe steamer was waiting to take away some that had brought much of\nbrightness and cheer to our anniversary day.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE.\n\nBY MRS. L. A. SHAW.\n\nCommencement week, crowded with exercises representing the treasure\naccumulated by a year\u2019s labor and overhung with the joys and\nsorrows usually attending such occasions, has just closed. Nearly\ntwo weeks ago \u201cthe last things\u201d commenced, and the sadness of\nparting from friends began to settle down, tempering the joy of\nhaving completed a year\u2019s work.\n\nFriday, May 19, the first public exercises were held. A class of\nthirteen, having completed the Common School Normal Course, gave an\nexhibition and received certificates of fitness to teach the common\nEnglish branches.\n\nSunday morning Prof. Bennett preached an appropriate sermon from\nMatt. 25:34. His delineation of the blessedness and glory of the\nsaint\u2019s inheritance in Heaven was especially attractive to tired\nteachers and pupils. The Baccalaureate sermon in the afternoon by\nPresident Cravath was from John 3:19. The darkness of the souls\nof those who engage in evil practices was so vividly depicted that\ndeep and lasting impressions must have been made on many minds.\n\nDr. Haygood, President of Emory College, Georgia, delivered the\nannual sermon before the Missionary Society of the University.\nThe speaker by his book, \u201cOur Brother in Black,\u201d has proven his\ninterest in the colored people, and by his recent refusal of the\noffice of Bishop in the M. E. church has demonstrated his loyalty\nto the choice made when he entered upon educational work. His\nsermon was listened to with close attention as he presented anew\nthe setting apart and sending out of Paul and Barnabas on their\nfirst missionary tour.\n\nOn Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, from 9 A.M. to 1 P.M., oral\nexaminations of the various classes were conducted by their\nrespective teachers. These were visited by quite a number of\nfriends and strangers from different parts of the country, some of\nwhom took part in the work by asking questions as opportunity was\ngiven.\n\nMonday evening the two literary societies of the University held\ntheir anniversary exercises. In a debate between representatives\nof the two societies on the question \u201cShould the State assume the\npayment of bonds issued in aid of railroads,\u201d their ability to\ngrapple and handle a living subject in a masterful and convincing\nmanner was fully demonstrated.\n\nTuesday evening the Senior Preparatory exhibition, and Wednesday\nevening the graduating exercises of the higher normal department\nand the Alumni Address by John H. Burrus, were attended by large\nand enthusiastic audiences. Mr. Burrus is a member of the class of\n\u201975. He described the \u201cman for the times\u201d in a way to inspire those\npreparing for usefulness. Four higher normal graduates received\ntheir diplomas, and ten from the Senior Preparatory class enter\ncollege.\n\nThursday, the \u201cday of days,\u201d to the two college graduates,\ndawned clear and beautiful. The audience assembled promptly at\nten o\u2019clock. The exercises opened with a number of distinguished\nguests on the platform. The music by the Mozart Society elicited\nmuch praise, as did the music given on other occasions by the\nsame society. The two young men who were that day to take their\ndegrees delivered their orations in a self-possessed and dignified\nmanner that was a prophecy of future success. The subjects,\n\u201cTrue greatness of republics\u201d and \u201cAtheism destructive of man\u2019s\nnobility,\u201d sufficiently indicate the line of thought.\n\nThe commencement address by Dr. Scott, President of the State\nUniversity Columbus, Ohio, was worthy of the occasion, and crowned\nthe whole with its beauty and grace of diction and the scholarly\ntreatment of the hackneyed subject, Time. Music, sculpture and\npainting were beautifully shown not only to pay tribute to time,\nbut to have their very existence in it. Words fail to describe\nthe effect of the whole with the exquisite closing in the words\nof the poem, \u201cI sat alone with my conscience.\u201d It was remarked by\none of the hearers, \u201cThat is the poetry of science.\u201d After a few\nremarks by Gov. Hawkins and the Hallelujah Chorus by the Mozart\nSociety, came the alumni dinner. At the table with the President\nand his wife were seated Gov. Hawkins, Judge Lawrence and wife of\nNashville, Dr. Scott, orator of the day, Dr. and Mrs. Phillips of\nthe Nashville Institute and the two new A. Bs. The other guests\nwere seated at tables near the President. The after-dinner speeches\nby the Governor, Dr. Scott and Mr. Stewart, who is finishing the\nnew custom-house, were evidences that \u201cthe world moves.\u201d The\nGovernor spoke of the solicitude he felt at the close of the war\nin regard to the future of the colored people and his questions\nas to what would really be the outcome of the struggle. He said,\n\u201cThe question has been answered. It is answered in the exercises\nof this occasion, in the intelligent faces before me. The tasteful\ndecorations of these halls, these very walls themselves, have\nanswered the question of doubters as to the elevation of the\ncolored people.\u201d His presence and remarks were well calculated to\nhelp on the good work of breaking down the walls of caste prejudice\nin which many minds are still inclosed.\n\nDr. Scott referred to the condition of things during and at\nthe close of the war, in which he had a part. He expressed his\ndelight in being permitted to see the growth and progress of the\nlast seventeen years. His words of appreciation and sympathy\nwere especially grateful to the workers. He reminded them that\nany institution which outlives the trying period of training and\nsending out its first graduates and of nourishing and giving\nstrength to its first alumni was destined to live and grow. Alma\nMater is a name dear to every good student, and Fisk University has\na history and a future. The delightful exercises were brought to a\nfitting close by all rising and singing the doxology, \u201cPraise God\nfrom Whom all blessings flow.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, MISS.\n\nBY MISS J. KELLOGG.\n\nThe final examinations occupied three days, the 25th, 26th and\n29th of May. The attendance of parents and friends increased from\nday to day. On Sunday a Sunday-school Institute was held and the\nattentive throng seemed about as great as the chapel would hold,\nbut the absolute limit of its capacity was not reached until the\nexhibition, Tuesday evening, when the people were fairly wedged\nin. A beneficent down-pour of rain Wednesday morning prevented the\ncrowd from being any greater on that day, and rendered the air so\ncool and pleasant that people did not suffer from being closely\npacked.\n\nThe Committee on Decorations had made the chapel very inviting\nwith a fountain, motto and other devices. A class of six earnest,\nfaithful Christian students, three young men and three young women,\nhaving completed the normal course, were to receive certificates.\nPresident Pope addressed his sermon to them Sabbath evening--his\ntheme being Serving One\u2019s Generation.\n\nAt 10 o\u2019clock on Wednesday, the 31st, the commencement exercises\nbegan. As these young people have been, in accordance with the\navowed aim of this institution, educated for usefulness in\npractical life, it was fitting that their essays and orations\nshould be as they were, on subjects of every-day interest and\ntreated in an intensely direct and practical manner.\n\nThe music was inspiring, especially the class song, composed\nfor them by the Rev. B. A. Imes, of Memphis, a fine scholar and\ntalented gentleman of their own race.\n\nIn presenting their certificates, the President gave them five\n\u201cRemembers\u201d from the Holy Scriptures, as his final charge to them.\n\nIn the afternoon the annual address was delivered by the Rev.\nDr. Truman M. Post, of St. Louis. As I cannot reproduce it for\nyou, I will only say that it seemed an address which must prove\na strong lever to aid in the \u201cUplift of Character, Intelligence\nand Social Life,\u201d which was his theme. Taking a sweeping glance\nat the providential dealings of God with races and nations, he\ncame speedily to the problems which confront us in this our\ncommonwealth; and, after pointing out that races or individuals can\nonly be uplifted by their own exertions, cannot be raised but only\nassisted to rise by external aid, and that it is not merely duty,\nbut godlike privilege for the stronger and more fortunate to render\nthis aid to the weaker and less fortunate, he dwelt upon specific\nmeans of advancement and elevation, and pointed to a hopeful future.\n\nThere were but few white visitors present. Despite the rain,\na carriage load of gentlemen came out from Jackson, and added\nmaterially to the interest of the exercises--Mr. Lemly, a trustee\nof this institution; Col. Power and Gen. Clifton, members of the\nState Board of Visitors.\n\nThe first-named gentleman is accounted a firm friend of the school,\nbut can never be prevailed upon to evidence it by speech-making.\nThe others spoke very kindly and entertainingly. In the close of\nhis witty and eloquent speech, Col. Power, Editor of the _Clarion_,\nspoke of the progress he had witnessed in this school since its\nestablishment, and expressed the hope that a few years hence\nthe enrollment will have increased from a couple of hundred to\na thousand, and that a spacious chapel will have been erected,\ncapable of holding them all and their friends.\n\nGen. Clifton stated that in asking the Legislature for an increased\nappropriation for this school he had said that he believed it was\ndoing more good than any other school in the State, and he could\nrepeat that as still his conviction, because it is doing a work so\nvitally needed.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHEOLOGICAL DEP\u2019T, HOWARD UNIVERSITY.\n\nBY REV. W. W. PATTON, D.D.\n\nOur theological anniversary exercises passed off very pleasantly\nMay 5th. They were held in the Assembly Presbyterian Church,\nwhich is of convenient size and centrally situated. Though\nthe weather was unpleasant, the attendance was good, both of\nthe white and colored races, and included various persons of\ndistinction. The number of theological students this year has been\nthirty, not including eight others, who study principally in the\nclassical department. The graduates were five, connected with the\nCongregational, Presbyterian and Methodist denominations. Three\ngo to the Southern field, and two look towards Africa. Their\naddresses were most creditable in matter and manner, and were\nwarmly received by the audience. On behalf of the Washington Bible\nSociety, Rev. Dr. Butler presented each of them with a neatly bound\ncopy of the Holy Scriptures. Rev. Dr. Bullock, the chaplain of\nthe United States Senate, made an excellent, practical address to\nthem, on their coming life-work, and Rev. Dr. Craighead, Dean of\nthe department, added some felicitous closing remarks. Owing to\nthe endowment by Mrs. Stone, supplemented by the large aid of the\nAmerican Missionary Association, and in a less degree by that of\nthe Washington Presbytery, the Theological Department of Howard\nUniversity is in vigorous operation; and we are prepared to receive\nand train young men, white or colored, for the Gospel Ministry of\nall Evangelical denominations.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAVERY INSTITUTE, CHARLESTON, S.C.\n\nBY REV. E. T. HOOKER.\n\nThe public exercises incident to the closing of the school year at\nAvery Institute began Monday evening, May 29, with an exhibition\nby a portion of the intermediate department, under the charge of\nMiss Emma T. Miller. Though this was not a usual or most prominent\nfeature of anniversary, it was enthusiastically received by one\nof the best audiences of the week, which have all been large and\nindefatigable. They were well repaid by the bright recitations,\nwell-drilled singing and tasteful appearance of the pupils.\n\nTuesday morning, at 10 o\u2019clock, began what is called \u201cChildren\u2019s\nDay,\u201d being a similar exhibition of accomplishments by the primary\ndepartment, under Mrs. Brown and Miss McKinley, both natives of\nCharleston and of kindred blood with their pupils. The performances\nin dialogue, recital and music of these little ones did not differ\nfrom those in Northern schools of the same grade, which is enough\nto say both for the culture received and the faculty displayed.\nThere were as many faces, too, of ideal childhood beauty, and\nobviously as much parental pride somewhere back of this their\njuvenile d\u00e9but, as if their race was not just making its d\u00e9but upon\nthe stage of Saxon civilization.\n\nTuesday night saw a rendering of a lengthy and varied programme\nby the scholars of the upper grades not graduating. The _News and\nCourier_, in a report printed the next morning, says: \u201cOf the\nessays it may truthfully be said that they were written with neat\nrhetoric and obvious originality; of the recitations, that they\nwere given without a faltering of memory, and some with admirable\ndistinctness of enunciation and winning hold upon the listeners.\u201d\n\nThe regular Commencement exercises were held on Thursday, and\nattracted a large crowd of persons of both colors and was of more\nthan passing interest. The stage was handsomely decorated, and\nabove was the class motto, \u201cPerseverance overcomes all obstacles.\u201d\nAfter the essays, songs and choruses, the diplomas of the Institute\nwere awarded to the three graduates by the Principal of the\nInstitute, who took occasion to commend the graduates for their\nperseverance and to congratulate them upon their success. The Rev.\nE. J. Meynardie then delivered an eloquent address on \u201cNational\nResponsibility,\u201d arguing that no civilization is perfect which is\nnot founded upon the fundamental principles of revealed religion.\nHe also claimed with justifiable pride to have been the first man\nin this city in _antebellum_ days to advocate publishing the repeal\nof the prohibition upon schooling for the slaves. He spoke within\nA. M. A. walls evidently _con amore_. He is pastor of the Bethel M.\nE. Church South.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBEACH INSTITUTE, SAVANNAH, GA.\n\nBY H. H. WRIGHT, PRINCIPAL.\n\nThe work at Beach Institute is taking on more definite shape.\nThis year a class has graduated, and the course of study for the\nremaining grades has been brought into something like symmetry.\nThe Savannah public schools graduate the colored pupils from\nthe grammar grade, above which no provision is made for their\neducation. For the white pupils, however, a High School is\nmaintained. Hence the ambitious colored youth, many of whom are as\nfair as their white neighbors, turn hopefully to the \u201cBeach\u201d as a\nschool which will give them what the city fathers have denied them.\n\nThe first of the public exercises which have just closed the\nacademic year was a public examination, held Friday, May 26. The\nprogramme was the regular daily programme, so far as the order of\nclasses was concerned, but the questions put were given at random\nand without previous preparation from the work of the entire year.\nBy this plan, of course, a few failures occurred, but the visitors\nfelt that they had seen the classes fairly tested, and their hearty\ncommendation was duly appreciated.\n\nThe second public exercise was a sermon preached in the\nCongregational Church to the graduating class on Sunday evening,\nMay 28, by the pastor, Rev. Dana Sherrill. His earnest words of\nadvice to rise above county and State lines and become at least\nnational in their views of life were fitly spoken and well received.\n\nThe third public exercise occurred Wednesday, May 31, beginning at\n11 o\u2019clock A.M. An extensive programme of declamations, dialogues\nand songs was rendered in a most satisfactory manner and listened\nto by a crowded house. The tables, the organ and the lamps were\nmost tastefully trimmed with a profusion of flowers, the gifts\nof the pupils. Jessamines mingled their fragrance with that of\nthe late-blooming rosebuds. Pond lilies and Spanish moss were\nenlivened by the \u00e6sthetic sunflower. Upon the platform, during a\npart of the exercises, were the Hon. J. O. Ferrill and Mr. Murray.\nThe former is a member of the City Board of Education and a firm\nfriend of the colored people. He has frequently advocated in the\nBoard, but with only partial success, more extended facilities\nfor their education in the public schools, and better salaries\nfor the colored teachers. Mr. Murray is a representative of the\nSavannah _Daily Recorder_. In the audience were numerous colored\nmen of influence, who happened to be in the city attending the\nBaptist Missionary Convention. The music was furnished entirely\nby the pupils, and included songs, quartets, duets, solos and two\ninstrumental pieces. The exercises were closed by the graduation of\na class of two girls. The diplomas were presented by the principal.\nThen the pupils rose at the touch of the organ, and striking up a\nmarch, \u201cThe Christian Soldier,\u201d sang their way to their various\nschool-rooms, and the year\u2019s work was ended.\n\n[Illustration: PEEPING THROUGH.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nEMERSON INSTITUTE, MOBILE, ALA.\n\nBY REV. O. D. CRAWFORD.\n\nEmerson Institute has rounded out a year of peculiar\ndisappointments and has crowned the last days with a brighter bow\nof promise than ever. The seven teachers have sought a well-earned\nrest in their cooler homes of the North. Their heroism at the\nburning of our church and school building last January, and their\ncheerful endurance for Christ\u2019s sake of the hardships that have\nfollowed, have been beautiful object lessons to their pupils and\nany spectators. As the scattering of the early disciples from\nJerusalem advanced the Kingdom, so our dispersion to two different\nsections of the city, it is believed, has accomplished the hope of\nour night.\n\nNo colored man has co-operated with us more efficiently than Rev.\nA. F. Owens, pastor of the Third Baptist Church. He and his people,\nafter our fire, offered us the use of their house for school\npurposes. No mention of pay was permitted beyond that involved in\nsome repairs necessary to adapt it to our purposes.\n\nThe marks at the written examinations fell below those of last\nyear, as might have been expected in the midst of such privations.\nBut at the oral examinations, on the 25th, the various classes\ngratified their teachers and visitors. Among the latter were our\nstaunch friend, Rev. Dr. Burgett, and three colored pastors.\n\nThe brightest color in the bow appeared in the anniversary\nexercises. The preparation had not interfered with regular lessons,\nbut their thoroughness was manifest in the hearty testimony of the\nleading white M. E. pastor in the city, Rev. J. O. Andrews, who\nhad offered the opening prayer. The exercises were witnessed by\nover 800 people, some of them outside, at the window. Those within\nentered by tickets, an experiment which fully succeeded in the\npresence of those who have some real interest in the work, and in\nsecuring better attention. The new Music Department was justified\nby its fruits, especially in a short cantata in which the Queen of\nthe Fairies crowned the virtues.\n\nLike the latest wonder, the exhibition is universally declared\nthe finest ever witnessed here. The deliverances warned against\nalcohol, tobacco, ignorance and laziness, and recommended labor and\npiety.\n\nThe advanced point made was the presence and remarks of the\nRecorder (Mayor) of the Port, R. B. Owen. He was accompanied by\nhis wife. As his honor came upon the platform, before the closing\nsong, the Superintendent grasped his hand, exclaiming, \u201cThe North\nand the South, one and inseparable!\u201d to which he responded, \u201cThat\nis my sentiment.\u201d In a few well-chosen words he expressed his\npleasure in the efforts of the colored people to gain an education;\ndeclared that the time had come for intelligence and morality\nto be the recognized mark of a man, and said he was \u201cinfinitely\ngratified\u201d with the performances of the young people at this time,\nand grateful for the opportunity of witnessing the results here\nobtained, and of giving a word of cheer to all engaged in the work\nof education.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE.\n\nBY SUPERINTENDENT ROY.\n\nThe dedication of Christ\u2019s Church of Wilmington, and the building\nof the Teachers\u2019 Home and the rebuilding of the school-house were\nduly noted in the AMERICAN MISSIONARY, as the _plant_ of that\n_seedsman_ Mr. J. J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass. The picture\nof the same three buildings has also adorned our magazine. Now\ncomes the Conference of the State to inspect the working of this\nmachinery, to test the quality of its products and its capacity.\n\nArriving one day ahead of the opening, we take a leisurely visit\nthrough the several departments of the school, and find it\nreconstructed after the most approved style of the Grammar School.\nWe find it presided over by six accomplished lady teachers, Misses\nChandler, Warner, Fitts, Jewett and Bishop, and Mrs. Steere, who\nhas charge of the musical department. We find it numbering 220\npupils; we find custom work done; we find the temperance text-books\nproposed by the A. M. A. introduced, as in all its schools of\nthe South, and working wonders in laying the foundations for a\ntemperance-loving generation. We test the capacity of the Home\nand find it elastic enough to take in sixteen guests beyond the\nfifteen of the regular family; we find it a marvel of convenience\nand taste and economy. We find the church edifice a gem of beauty,\nwith its noble bell, which does double duty in serving the church\nand the school; and we find the saving of several thousand dollars\nof expense and the superior quality of workmanship due to the\npersonal supervision of Rev. D. D. Dodge, the pastor, who selected\nthe material and had the jobs done by the day. We hear of a Sister\nof Charity, who says that the only thing in Wilmington she covets\nis this group of buildings. We hear of citizens pronouncing it\nan ornament to the city. We hear of leading pastors in the city\nsaying that it is doing the best work in Wilmington for the colored\npeople. We find that the entire work on the three buildings was\ndone by colored mechanics, except one master mason on the brick\nwork and a dozen days of bricklaying.\n\nAnd so the Conference finds itself _in situ_. The opening sermon\nis preached by Rev. A. Connet. The moderator of the last year is\nre-elected for this year, Rev. G. S. Smith, of Raleigh, a graduate\nof Atlanta, a member of the Executive Committee of the State\nTemperance organization. Rev. A. Connet is made registrar in the\nplace of Rev. D. Peebles, who has left us to go and look after the\nother \u201ctwin relic\u201d in Utah. When we were organizing this body at\nRaleigh, with five churches, I asked Dr. Tupper, the President of\nthe Shaw (Baptist) University there, how many churches they had in\nthe State. He answered, five _hundred_, \u201cbut never mind,\u201d said he,\n\u201cI can see that in twenty-five years you will have a great church\nwork as the result of your school process.\u201d So to the five we this\nyear add two, those at Troy and Pekin, with two more coming on.\nWhile we are here, a Council, called in the regular way, ordains\nas the pastor of those two churches Mr. W. H. Ellis, a graduate\nof Williams. The sermon was preached by Supt. Roy; the prayer of\nordination offered by Rev. J. P. Les Strade; the charge delivered\nby Rev. G. S. Smith and the right hand presented by Rev. Islay\nWalden. The two educated colored young ladies who teach school in\nthose two churches are present to report their work, thus showing\nhow by our plan the school and church work go hand in hand. Every\nchurch is represented, and so is every one of the seven schools of\nthe State. As the churches must have their narrative of the state\nof religion, so the schools must have their report of operations,\nwith discussion as to measures and principles.\n\nAn evening is given to the subject of temperance, especially to\nthe business of reconstructing, reorganizing and resupplying\nthe temperance army after its recent defeat in the State, and\npreparatory to the next intended assault upon the devil\u2019s\nstronghold. The process of recruiting was beautifully illustrated\nwhen Miss Jewitt, with her class and a blackboard before the\ngreat assembly, brought up the enthusiasm as they represented the\ndeadly poison of alcohol, how it is made, what its effects upon\nthe physical system, upon the mental and moral nature. The topics\nof infant baptism, family training, Sunday-school management,\nwere duly handled. In the local Sunday-school of two hundred\nscholars, the Conference appeared to pay its _addresses_, and\noffered the same courtesy to the day-school. Some of the city\npulpits were supplied. The whole was an occasion of stimulus and\nof encouragement. Slowly but steadily our work is advancing in\nthe old North State. Our two lady missionaries for the State,\nMiss Farrington, supported by the ladies of Maine, to labor in\nconnection with this mission in Wilmington, and Miss E. P. Hayes,\nsustained by the W. H. M. A., of Boston, laboring at Raleigh, where\nshe had taught many years, were present to report their work and\nto add to the inspiration of the occasion. It is said that there\nare not many models of patents in the Patent Office in Washington\nfurnished by women; but these women show a wonderful ingenuity in\ndevising ways and means for doing the people good, and reveal a\nvast amount of good accomplished.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWOMAN\u2019S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n_At Marion, Ala._\n\nBY MISS MARY K. LUNT, SELMA.\n\nMrs. H. S. De Forest, of Talladega, President, called the meeting\nto order, and after the opening exercises, welcomed representatives\nof sister societies and visitors who had come in to listen to the\nreports of the harvesters. Letters expressing interest and good\ncheer were read from the President and Corresponding Secretary\nof the Woman\u2019s Missionary Association of Boston. Mrs. Fay sang\n\u201cIf I were a Voice.\u201d Miss Partridge, of Talladega, read a letter\nfrom Miss Sawyer, of Boxford, Mass., a former laborer in the\nfield, showing that her interest had not abated. Miss P. added\na few remarks entreating the girls to make the most of their\nopportunities, showing that each one had a special duty to perform\nin imparting to others what she herself had received.\n\nMrs. Andrews, of Talladega, then made an address on Woman\u2019s Home\nMissionary Work, giving an account of the organization of the\nState society, the motives which prompted and warranted it, with\na summary of the organization of the parent society in Boston and\nthe number of missionaries first commissioned to the South and\nSouthwest, reviewing the home work in our own State.\n\nAfter singing \u201cRescue the Perishing,\u201d the reports from the local\nsocieties at Marion, Mobile, Montgomery, Selma and Talladega were\ngiven. The Marion society, with its thirty names enrolled, meets\nonce a week. The Mothers\u2019 meeting has been conducted by Mrs. A. W.\nCurtis, whose illness prevented her presence at this time. Miss\nMickle told how greatly they esteemed Mrs. C., and by request led\nin prayer for her recovery.\n\nThe girls composing the Emersonian Mission Band of Mobile, are\ndoing their part in the work of helpfulness and uplifting, by\nmaking articles for a fair, the proceeds of which are to be given\nto a missionary in South Africa. The mothers\u2019 meeting, under\nthe influence of Miss Clark, visiting missionary, gives promise\nof increasing interest. The Woman\u2019s Missionary Association has\nreceived fifty names since its organization, thirty-two reporting\nthemselves this year. Missionary subjects are presented once a\nmonth, and a collection is taken.\n\nMontgomery reports forty members. Since late in the winter\nthey have been engaged in making garments for the destitute. A\nspecial case of destitution, discovered by one of the members,\nwas the means of rousing to greater activity. The meetings of the\nsociety aim to elevate in literary culture, as well as in other\ndirections. Mrs. Fay offered suggestions in regard to the manner of\nincreasing the interest of these meetings. Miss Fairbanks and Miss\nCurtis followed with remarks, sensible and practical, in regard\nto the training of the girls in our churches and schools. The\ncontributions amounted to $39, $5 of which was donated to the Mendi\nMission, the remainder to home work.\n\nSelma has an enrollment of 32. Many of the members had been unable\nto attend regularly on account of business and family cares.\nMissionary tea parties were introduced, proving quite successful.\nSelect reading, singing, conversation and simple refreshments\noccupied the hours of meeting. In response to a call from Tougaloo,\ntwo quilts were made and sent to help replace those lost by fire.\nIn connection with the mission workers, they have contributed\nthe sum of $50, $26.75 of which was sent to the A. M. A. as a\nspecial gift, the balance being expended for the church. A ladies\u2019\nprayer-meeting, three sewing classes and children\u2019s meeting had\nbeen sustained during the week. A Young People\u2019s Literary Society\nwas held on alternate Monday nights.\n\nTalladega showed a very prosperous year in the monthly gatherings\nof the Mission Band, mothers\u2019 meetings and two sewing classes. With\nfunds collected they had purchased a carpet for the platform of the\nchapel, secured a share in the John Brown steamer, defrayed the\nfuneral expenses of a poor woman and aided many needy and destitute\naround them. The young people of both sexes are being educated in\nthe direction of missionary labors through the different committees\nwhich have been formed for that purpose.\n\nA paper prepared by Miss Wilcox, of Burrell School, \u201cHelps or\nHindrances, Which?\u201d was read by the Secretary, being a practical\nand earnest appeal to all Christian workers in the field to be more\nself-denying and untiring in their efforts for the women and girls\nfor whom they are laboring. Another by Mrs. Headen was read on \u201cThe\nGain of Giving,\u201d reviewing three points \u201cHow, When and What Shall\nWe Give,\u201d aptly quoting Scripture to sustain her arguments and\nmaking a practical application.\n\nWe cannot fail to be encouraged and strengthened by this mutual\ninterchange of thoughts, and to have our hearts drawn out in closer\nsympathy, while listening to the prayers of those for whom we are\nlaboring that they may become sons and daughters of the Great King.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMR. LADD\u2019S JOURNAL.\n\n_Sunday, Dec. 25._--Christmas morning in the tropics! My ankle\nis much better, though I cannot use my foot yet. We started at 8\nA.M.; stopped for lunch under some trees at _Gaigy_. We are getting\nrather tired of our hard fare, and long for one good, square meal.\nWe have kept further from the river than we supposed we should, and\nare practically on the desert. We have seen the river only once.\nThen we proposed to camp at it, but our guides disagreed and we\nwent on, and finally, it being Sunday night, we camped, earlier\nthan usual, about a mile from the river at _El Hefera_.\n\n_Monday, Dec. 26._--The men are getting worn out and begin to\nlag. It was 8:15 A.M. before we could get them started. Proximity\nto water has a bad effect on camel drivers. It is very hot. We\nturn out of our road a few steps to see the ruins of an ancient\nchurch at a place called Merre. We discover a big crocodile,\nabout 15 feet long, lying on a mud bank. We lunch in the town of\n_Aboo-Hashein_, in a plantation on the bank of the river under the\nshelter of a \u201csakia,\u201d or water-wheel platform. We meet the postman\nin the afternoon and send home some postals. We come upon some\nfine cataracts in the river and see half a dozen huge crocodiles.\nWe camp for the night at _El Shereigh_, near the bank, in a truly\ntropical bit of scenery. Ankle much better.\n\n_Tuesday, Dec. 27._--Started at 6.30. Mousa\u2019s camel ran away with\nhim to-day. It was a most comical sight, and then to end up with,\nwhen he at last reached the ground, she kicked him twice. We lunch\non the bank of the river at a point called _Tondaeb_, where we\nleave the river for 8 hours to cut a bend. Then we have a little\nrivalry with another caravan that has tried to keep ahead of us,\nand we get ahead. We are on the desert again. In fact, it is\nnothing but desert all the way to Berber. We climb a high plateau\ncalled _Natayielinnus_, and camp for the night in the middle of it,\nat a spot covered with the most beautiful, clean, white sand, just\nthe thing for the children to play in if they only had it somewhere\nin the back yard. There is a town on the river to our right called\n_El Karaba_.\n\n_Wednesday, Dec. 28._--Started at 7 A.M., and gradually descended\nfrom the high plateau. We have seen great numbers of partridges and\ntwo gazelles. We cross the dry bed of a river lined with palms,\nand strike the Nile again at the \u201c5th\u201d cataract. The rapids here\nextend for several miles. The slate formation along the bank has in\nsome places been fused and looks much like coal. We stop for lunch\nat a point where we can get a good view of the cataract in both\ndirections, called _Wady El Hamar_. Then we leave the river for\nabout two hours, ascend another high desert plateau, and gradually\ndescend again to an open plain, where nestles a village called\nGenenila. We camp for the night opposite the large, fruitful island\nof _Artoli_, where one of our guides lives. In the evening we\nreceive two presents of milk.\n\n_Thursday, Dec. 29._--The second guide swam over this morning from\nArtoli. We started at 7.15, and traversed a magnificent plain,\nneeding only water upon it to make it a most fruitful region. As\nwe approach Berber the houses are better built, and the villages\nare larger and more numerous. We passed the following in rapid\nsuccession: El Bowga; El Hodbab, a very large one; El Abidieh,\nclose to the last; El Farekha; Dangail, where there is a ruin; El\nHassa, El Ezarab, Es Sraphine and El Hor. Just before we reached\nthis last place our guide told us that here Sheik Hassan Halifa\u2019s\nfather lived; that he had heard we were coming, and had sent orders\nto him not to let us pass without coming to dine with him. This is\nabout five miles from Berber. Here the Sheik had come to meet us\nhimself at the house of his father. And what a princely reception\nit was! The grand old Arab, who is the son of the former king of\nthis country, came out to meet us, and brought us in. The house\nwas ours, and we were free to stay as long as we pleased. The\nmost delicate sherbets were placed before us. A sheep was killed,\nand a grand banquet served in the most royal style. We were quite\nsurprised and overwhelmed at all this unexpected kindness. But the\ngrand old Arab, under whose father 5,000 men bit the dust in their\nattempt to defend the country against the Turks, seemed to take\na delight in this generous hospitality. At 3.15 P.M. we took our\nleave, and, following the telegraph lines, entered Berber through a\nfine broad avenue. Sheik Hassan Halifa accompanied us. On the way\ntwo of his men showed us their skill in dromedary racing, and it\ncertainly was quite exciting, especially when the animals became\nunmanageable and came tearing down upon us, threatening to upset\nthe whole crowd. We reached Berber at 5 o\u2019clock. We went first to\nthe lower landing-place, and then to the upper to select a place\nfor our camp, and finally settled on the former. We pitched our\nthree tents near the water, on the high bluff-like bank. The whole\nspace of both landing places is covered with bales and boxes, etc.,\netc., showing that considerable business is done here. The people\nappear very friendly, and we are well pleased with the look of\nthe place. We have come 405 miles on camel-back, over one of the\nhardest of deserts, and to-morrow morning we don\u2019t propose to get\nup very early.\n\n_Friday, Dec. 30._--There is a high wind that rolls up the\nwhitecaps on the river like a sea. The Berberinos are a fine,\nmuscular, well-built set of people, and, apparently, a happy race.\nWe have heard the first hearty laughter here since we came to the\ncountry. Their voices, too, are very sweet and musical. After we\nhave made an attempt at washing off the dust and dirt of travel, we\ngo to see the Governor, Ibrahim Bey. He talks Turkish and we get\non well together. The government dahabeah is the only one here.\nThere are a few merchant boats, but they are all full or engaged.\nSo we have the boldness, as ours is pressing business, to ask\nthe Governor for his dahabeah. No! we can\u2019t have it. He is going\nout to collect taxes and needs it himself. We can go by camel or\nby merchant boat, as we please. Then we haul out our orders from\nCairo and give him another opportunity to let us have the dahabeah.\nFinally he says that if we can get an order from Raouf Pasha, the\nGovernor General of the Soudan, he will let us have it. We take\na walk through the city, and then returning to our tents send a\ntelegram to Khartoum to His Excellency, the Governor, asking for an\norder for the dahabeah.\n\n[Illustration: ABYSSINIANS.]\n\n_Saturday, Dec. 31._--The order from Raouf Pasha has arrived; the\ndahabeah is ours! and besides the order came a separate telegram of\nwelcome to the Soudan. Surely we could not ask to have things in\nbetter shape. In a few moments the dahabeah is moored in front of\nour tents, and the Reis reports to us for orders. We have had some\nbusiness with the Sheik to-day. Our boxes were badly broken up on\nthe desert through carelessness, and after repeated warnings, and\nbefore we pay the remainder of the camel money we propose to have\nthe drivers mend those boxes in a proper manner. They refuse; and\nthere are high words and loud talking. The Sheik comes. We explain\nto him the position of affairs, and tell him that as we expect\nto travel through this country more than once, we want it fully\nunderstood _how_ we intend to travel. He says it shall be done as\nwe say, and orders the carpenter to be called. He comes, and the\ndrivers dismiss him and clamor for their money. Not a _para_ until\nthose boxes are mended! After a time another carpenter is brought\nwho patches up the boxes, but we refuse to accept the work, and\ninsist on having it done over, and done properly. At last, after\nconsiderable growling, it is done, and we offer them the remainder\nof the amount agreed upon at Korosko. They refuse to take it,\ndemanding nearly twice as much. We go to Sheik Hassan Halifa with\nit, state the case, and offer the money. He obliges the men to\ntake it, and we come off with the respect of the whole crowd! It\nis the only way to do in a country like this! We have visited the\nbazaar, which is quite extensive. We have paid our respects to the\nGovernor, who, now that we have carried our point, is more polite\nthan ever. We have also had a number of calls. We have posted off\na big batch of letters, got our washing and our marketing done, so\nto-morrow, being the Sabbath, we work till late and go on board the\ndahabeah by moonlight. Mousa goes to the town, gets drunk, and is\nreturned by the police. We give him to understand most plainly that\nif we observe anything out of the way with him again he will be put\nashore and left there, as we cannot and will not have anyone with\nus who will in any way be a reproach to our party. We are eager now\nto reach Khartoum. We have been wonderfully prospered thus far,\nand things look bright ahead. God grant that the New Year, so soon\nto dawn, may be as rich with His favor and blessing as the old,\nwhich is now passing away! The promises are many, and we can go\ncheerfully forward.\n\n_Sunday, Jan. 1, 1882._--Happy New Year! We are on board the\ngovernment dahabeah, ready to start for Khartoum. Our boat is\nmoored to the upper landing to receive her provisions. At last\neverything was ready. The noise and confusion at the landing was\nso great that toward night, for the sake of a little quiet, and\nto hasten forward on this, the Lord\u2019s business, we allowed the\nmen to spread the sail, and soon left Berber and the noisy rabble\non the bank in the distance, the solitary minaret being the last\nobject seen. There is a village nearly opposite, but a little above\nBerber, called Sheik Abdel Medjid, whence the caravans start for\nDongola. We met three men in Berber worthy of mention. They were\nthe governor, Ibrahim Bey; the chief of police, Mohamed Effendi,\nand Sheik Hassan Halifa. We took a great fancy to this last man,\nmore for what he is in himself than for his family history, which\nis full of interest. We have sailed only a short distance, as we\nhave been obliged to tie up for the night on account of rapids in\nthe stream and lightness of the wind. We number on board 16 people\nall told. One is a comely black girl, who does the cooking for\nthe sailors. Her natural graces of person are untrammeled by the\nconventionalities of civilized life. She wears only a scant rag\nabout her waist. All the boats on the river here have one or more\nof these women, who grind the durra on flat stones and cook for\nthe men. We have decided not to put up our flag, but to sail under\nthe Egyptian colors, as this is a government boat, and ours for\nthe time only through the kindness of Raouf Pasha. New Year\u2019s Day\non the Nile! How many thoughts of home and loved ones have crowded\nupon us as we have been lounging on deck in the bright moonlight.\nGod bless us all, and give us a truly Happy New Year!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNEW CHURCH AT DUNGINESS.\n\nBY REV. MYRON EELLS, S\u2019KOKOMISH, WASHINGTON TERRITORY.\n\nOur little church at S\u2019kokomish has swarmed, granting letters to\nseven of its members who live at Jamestown, Dunginess, most of whom\nwere Clallam Indians. Four others united with them on profession\nof faith, and the Congregational Church of Jamestown was organized\nby your missionary April 30. One infant baptism took place at the\nsame time. A number of their white neighbors gathered in to the\nencouragement of the Indians, six of them communing with us. The\nservices were held in Chinook, Clallam, English, Chinook translated\ninto Clallam, and English translated into Clallam.\n\nAt the same time we made a few hymns in the native Clallam\nlanguage--the first ever made in the language. A good share of the\nIndians understand English and sing some in it. All but a few of\nthe very oldest understand the Chinook jargon, which I talk and\nin which we have a number of hymns. But they were anxious to have\nsomething in their own language and were much pleased with them.\nThey consist mainly of the same sentiment as is contained in our\nsongs of \u201cCome to Jesus,\u201d \u201cWhere are the Hebrew Children?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m\nGoing Home,\u201d though a few are entirely different in meaning from\nany of our English songs.\n\nThe work here at S\u2019kokomish has been more encouraging than last\nyear. Five have united with us this year on profession of faith.\nThe older Indians are taking more interest than heretofore, asking\nfor extra meetings, and some of the younger ones who have been in\nschool are helping very greatly in them, and in my absence taking\ncharge of some of the meetings with entire acceptance to their\nolder friends.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1882.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $264.33.\n\n    Bangor. First Cong. Soc., $22.55; Hammond St.\n      Sab. Sch., $10.                                        $32.55\n    Bath. Central Ch. and Soc.                                24.83\n    Bethel. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           6.02\n    Biddeford. Second Cong. Ch.                               30.32\n    Bridgton. Mrs. Rebecca S. Hale.                            5.00\n    Castine. Mrs. Lucy S. Adams to const. REV.\n      PLINY B. FISK L. M.                                     30.00\n    Falmouth. First Cong. Ch.                                 20.00\n    Gorham. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Hallowell. Cash.                                           1.00\n    Newport. M. S. N., _for John Brown Steamer_                1.00\n    Saint Albans. Rev. Wm. S. Sewall, $6; Mrs.\n      Hattie Philbrick, $3; \u201cTwo Friends of\n      Missions,\u201d $1.25.                                       10.25\n    South Berwick. Mrs. Lewis\u2019 Class in Cong. S.\n      S., _for Student Aid_, Wilmington, N.C.                  5.00\n    South Paris. Cong. Ch.                                     6.46\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             10.00\n    Wells. Second. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         15.00\n    Winthrop. Mrs. N. S. Bourne.                               5.00\n    Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Parish.                     36.90\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $444.99.\n\n    Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                   6.32\n    Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                2.44\n    Candia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                40.00\n    Canterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            10.00\n    Centre Harbor. Mrs. W. A. P.                               0.50\n    Colebrook. \u201cE. C. W. & W.\u201d                                 2.00\n    Derry. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                              17.46\n    Dudley. Cong. Ch.                                          7.02\n    Exeter. Second Cong. Ch.                                 100.00\n    Fitzwilliam. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           26.50\n    Fisherville. Collected by Jeremiah C. Martin\n      (ad\u2019l), to const. LORENZO M. CURRIER, L. M.              9.00\n    Francestown. Joseph Kingsbury, $10; W. B., 50c.           10.50\n    Hampstead. Cong. Sab. Sch., $23; Ann M.\n      Howard, $5                                              28.00\n    Haverhill. C. P. P.                                        1.00\n    Meriden. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                8.52\n    Milford. Christiana Moore                                  5.00\n    Nashua. Matthew Barr, _for Wilmington, N.C._              10.00\n    New Ipswich. \u201cA Member of Cong. Ch.,\u201d to\n      const. REV. S. G. WOOD and WILLIAM H.\n      LINCOLN L. Ms                                           60.00\n    Orford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 8.00\n    Pembroke. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 15.26\n    Pembroke. Mrs. M. W. Thompson, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 5.00\n    Piermont. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                         17.00\n    Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 4.80\n    Rochester. Phebe J. Moody                                  5.00\n    Short Falls. J. W. Chandler                                2.00\n    Swanzey. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                8.00\n    Tamworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              10.00\n    Troy. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  20.22\n    Westmoreland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           5.45\n\n\n  VERMONT, $1,849.06.\n\n    Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              26.00\n    Brandon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               15.32\n    Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      13.18\n    Burlington. Third Cong. Ch.                               87.50\n    Burlington. S. H. F. S., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 1.00\n    Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             13.00\n    Danby. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                              2.51\n    Dorset. Cong. Ch., $14.85; Sab. Sch., $10                 24.85\n    Georgia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                9.00\n    Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     3.00\n    Montpelier. \u201cA Lady Member of Bethany Cong.\n      Ch.\u201d                                                   510.00\n    New Haven. \u201cThree Church Members.\u201d                         6.00\n    Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20; Albert\n      Buell, $10                                              30.00\n    North Cambridge. John Kinsley                              5.00\n    Post Mills. Lyman Hinckley                                 5.00\n    St. Johnsbury. \u201cFriends, North Church\u201d                   750.00\n    Springfield. A. Woolson, _for Atlanta U._                 25.00\n    Thetford. D. T.                                            1.00\n    Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           52.95\n    Williston. C. A. Seymour                                   5.00\n    Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             13.75\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $1,599.06\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Saint Johnsbury. Executors Erastus Fairbanks\u2019\n      Estate                                                 250.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $1,849.06\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $10,775.77.\n\n    Andover. Free Ch. and Soc., $133.50 (adl.) to\n      const. CATH. A. MIDDLETON, MARY H. HUSSEY,\n      MARION DOVE, SARAH H. BERRY, MARTHA P. GOFF,\n      WALTER S. DONALD, GEO. W. FOSTER and JAMES\n      P. BUTTERFIELD L. Ms.; Chapel Ch., Theo.\n      Sem., 128.25                                           261.75\n    Andover. Free Ch. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Andover. Two Bbls. of C. and $2, _for\n      Talladega C._                                            2.00\n    Amherst. William M. Graves                                20.00\n    Amherst. Fannie P. Cutler, 1 Doz. Towels, _for\n      Tougaloo U._\n    Boston. Shawmut Ch. and Soc.                             864.19\n    Boston. Shawmut Branch Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_ and to const. JAMES P. RICE\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Boston. Samuel B. Capen, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                               100.00\n    Boston. Mrs. E. P. Eayrs, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 6.00\n    Boston. Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Association,\n      _for Lady Missionaries_                                123.76\n    Boston. American Tract Soc., Bundle Tracts,\n      _for Raleigh, N.C._\n    Boxford. Box of C. and $2 _for Talladega C._;\n      Miss F. C. $1, _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                      3.00\n    Brimfield. Mrs. P. C. Browning, $10; Mrs. J.\n      S. Upham, $3                                            13.00\n    Brockton. Mrs. T. C. P.                                    1.00\n    Cambridge. Shepard Ch. and Soc.                          100.87\n    Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc., $215.22;\n      Mrs. M. C. B. and Mrs. L. G. C., $1                    216.22\n    Charlestown. Ivory Littlefield                            50.00\n    Clinton. Woman\u2019s Home Mission Ass\u2019n, to const.\n      MRS. J. D. HAYES L. M.                                  30.00\n    Chelsea. Central Ch. and Soc.                             21.76\n    Chelsea. Ladies\u2019 Union Home M. Band, 3 Bbls.\n      of C., val. $36, _for Chattanooga, Tenn._\n    Dalton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             50.00\n    Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         166.00\n    Dorchester. \u201cTwo Mites,\u201d _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 2.00\n    Dorchester. Mrs. M. J. B.                                  0.50\n    East Bridgewater. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 5.00\n    East Medway. Bundle of C.\n    Fall River. Central Mission Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              70.00\n    Fitchburgh. F. Fosdick\u2019s Sab. Sch. Class, _for\n      Fisk U._                                                26.01\n    Fitchburgh. A. S. D.                                       1.00\n    Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              26.57\n    Globe Village. Byron Harwood                               5.00\n    Granby. Cong. Soc., $47.87, and Sab. Sch.,\n      $17.74, to const. REV. F. W. BALDWIN and W.\n      A. TAYLOR L. Ms.; \u201cC. E. H.,\u201d $30, to const.\n      Miss HATTIE M. HUNT L. M.                               95.61\n    Great Barrington. \u201cA. C. T.,\u201d _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 1.00\n    Groton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                75.55\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              91.00\n    Holbrook. Winthrop Ch. and Soc.                           59.95\n    Holliston. \u201cBible Christians of Dist. No. 4\u201d              25.00\n    Holliston. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            3.55\n    Hubbardston. Mission Circle, Ev. Ch. and Soc.,\n      $22.20; Mrs. A. W. M. and Mrs. N. S., $1                23.20\n    Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       34.39\n    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          2.27\n    Lenox. Lenox Sab. Sch., $40, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._; $10, _for John Brown Steamer_            50.00\n    Lowell. Eliot Ch. ($30 of which to const. Miss\n      MARY E. FLETCHER L. M.)                                 60.00\n    Lynn. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong Ch. _for Fisk\n      U._                                                     50.00\n    Lynn. J. P. Woodbury, $1; J. L. O., 50c.                   1.50\n    Medford. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                       0.25\n    Millbury. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             25.00\n    Natick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                55.00\n    New Bedford. Acushnet First Ch.                           38.00\n    New Bedford. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. of Stone Ch.,\n      Bbl. of C. and $3, _for Talladega C._                    3.00\n    Newburyport. Belleville Ch. and Soc. $56.15;\n      Miss Ann P. Bassett, $5.; Miss S. E. Teel, $5           66.15\n    New Marlborough. Dea. W. H. R.                             1.00\n    Newton. Freedmen\u2019s Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Straight U._                               25.00\n    Newton Center. Ladies of First Ch., by Mrs. D.\n      L. Furber, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                 4.50\n    Northampton. First Cong. Ch.                             194.71\n    North Somerville. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                              1.00\n    Peabody. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           20.00\n    Pepperell. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              4.64\n    Pittsfield. Ladies\u2019 Sew Soc., Bbl. of C., _for\n      Atlanta U._\n    Plymouth. Amasa Holmes                                     4.00\n    Roxbury. Eliot Ch. and Soc., $103.35.; Mrs. P.\n      N. L., $1                                              104.35\n    Somerville. Mrs. H. M. W., 60c.; A. M. R., 50c             1.10\n    South Egremont. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    South Framingham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     115.25\n    South Framingham. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                20.00\n    South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to\n      const. FRANCIS H. FEARING L. M.                         45.00\n    Springfield. North Ch. and Soc. ($25 of which\n      from Sab. Sch.)                                        150.00\n    Springfield. Chas. and Nathan Bill, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                60.00\n    Springfield. \u201cH. M.,\u201d _for Atlanta U._                    50.00\n    Sturbridge. H. Haynes                                      2.00\n    Tewksbury. J. Clark\u2019s family, Bale of C. and\n      $1, _for Talladega C._                                   1.00\n    Upton. Cong. Ch. & Soc.                                   17.50\n    Wakefield. Cong. Sab. Sch., $10.80; Mission\n      Workers, $9.20; _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._           20.00\n    Waltham. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Little Rock,\n      Ark._                                                   10.00\n    Walpole. B. L.                                             0.50\n    Ware. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            33.60\n    Ware. East Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Warren. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l), to const. F. W.\n      KEYES, E. E. RICE, E. W. BUTTERWORTH, MRS.\n      MARY L. CARPENTER, MRS. LUCY BLISS and MRS.\n      S. H. BLISS L. Ms.                                      90.00\n    Webster. Cong. Ch.                                        25.00\n    Wellesley. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     15.00\n    Westborough. Freedman\u2019s Soc., $1.50 and Bbl.\n      of C., _for Talladega C._                                1.50\n    Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      45.64\n    West Medway. \u201cFriends,\u201d $14.50; Second Cong.\n      Ch. and Soc., $8.72                                     23.22\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            35.00\n    Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     100.00\n    Winchendon. Mr. and Mrs. Wood, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                         5.00\n    Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $96.52; Cong.\n      Sab. Sch., _for Freight_, $1.50; Miss A. F. C., $1      98.02\n    Winchester. Cong. Sab. Sch., Bbl. of Books,\n      _for Chattanooga, Tenn._\n    Winchester. Stephen Cutter, Box of Books, val.\n      $6, _for Talladega C._\n    Worcester. Salem St. Ch., $62; Plymouth Cong.\n      Ch. and Soc., $57.54                                   119.54\n    Worcester. Mrs. H. A. Wakefield, $50, and Bbl.\n      of C., _for Fisk U._                                    50.00\n    Worcester. Mission Circle, by Miss M. H.\n      Hubbard, Sec., Box and Bbl. of C., _for Fisk\n      U._\n    Worcester. Mrs. M. L. Rice, _for Atlanta U._               5.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $4,485.12\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Andover. Estate of Herman Abbott                         600.00\n    Charlemont. Estate of Mrs. Wealthy B. Hunt, by\n      H. H. Mayhew, Ex.                                      500.00\n    Foxborough. Estate of Daniels Carpenter, by W.\n      H. Alden and C. W. Hodges, Exs.                      4,640.65\n    Franklin. Estate of Miss Emily Pond, by L. B.\n      Cleveland, Ex.                                         550.00\n                                                         ----------\n                                                         $10,775.77\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $50.00.\n\n    Pawtucket. \u201cE.\u201d                                           20.00\n    Providence. J. C. Greenough, _for Furnishing\n      Primary Sch. Room, Tougaloo U._                         20.00\n    Providence. State Farm, Rev. Marcus Ames                  10.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $3,296.51.\n\n    Bethlehem. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                                 6.27\n    Bridgeport. Park Street Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          40.39\n    Bridgeport. Boys and Girls of North Ch., part\n      proceeds of fair and festival, _for Chinese,\n      Oakland, Cal._                                          24.00\n    Bristol. ----                                              5.00\n    Colebrook. Cong. Ch.                                      15.33\n    Collinsville. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              41.00\n    Cornwall. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                       18.13\n    Danbury. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc., Bbl. of C. and\n      $3 _for Freight, for Talladega C._                       3.00\n    Danielsonville. Mrs. Sarah A. Backus                       6.00\n    Darien. Cong. Ch.                                         32.50\n    East Hampton. H. H. Abbe, $25; A. Conklin, $5;\n      Mrs. Barton, $5, _for Theo. Dept., Talladega\n      C._                                                     35.00\n    East Hampton. Mrs. Dea. Skinner, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       5.00\n    East Windsor. Mrs. S. L. Wells                             5.00\n    Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch.                                     5.00\n    Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford                                 50.00\n    Hartford. J. E. Cushman                                  400.00\n    Hartford. Mrs. S. E. Perkins, $500; Roland\n      Mather, $100; _for John Brown Steamer_                 600.00\n    Hartford. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Atlanta U._                   100.00\n    Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,\n      and $3 _for Freight, for Talladega C._                   3.00\n    Higganum. Cong. Ch.                                       13.50\n    Kensington. Mrs. Rhoda Hotchkiss                           5.00\n    Kent. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                              35.50\n    Lisbon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 2.16\n    Middlefield. Cong. Ch. ($60 of which from John\n      O. Couch, _for Fisk U._) to const. MISS\n      ISADEL C. COUCH, MISS EMILY T. COUCH, MISS\n      MARY E. LYMAN and DAVID LYMAN L. Ms.                   120.00\n    Milford. First Cong. Ch., $9, _for Student\n      Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._, and $2.50\n      _for Emerson Inst._                                     11.50\n    Millbrook. Mrs. E. P.                                      1.00\n    New Britain. Mrs. Minerva Lee Hart                        30.00\n    New Haven. North Ch., $96.28; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $5             101.28\n    New Haven. John J. Mathias, _for Student Aid,\n      Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                                 5.00\n    New Haven. Rev. O. H. White, D.D., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    New Haven. F. H. Hart, _for Talladega C._                 10.00\n    Norfolk. Robbins Battelle, _for Talladega C._             25.00\n    North Madison. Cong. Ch.                                   7.00\n    Norwich. Henry B. Norton, $50; Mrs. E. P.\n      Huntington, $50; _for Atlanta U._                      100.00\n    Putnam. Miss M. H.                                         1.00\n    Redding. Cong. Ch.                                        23.70\n    Rockville. First Cong. $100; to const.\n      FREDERICK GILNACK and REV. J. W. BACKUS L. Ms.;\n      Second Cong. Ch., $53.97                               153.97\n    Rockville. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          30.00\n    South Britain. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                   67.00\n    South Manchester. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. of Cong.\n      Ch., _for Reading-Room, Talladega C._                   25.00\n    South Windsor. Second Cong. Ch.                           40.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      59.82\n    Tolland. Cong. Ch.                                         7.11\n    Vernon. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                              9.00\n    Warren. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        10.00\n    Washington. \u201cZ.,\u201d _for Indian M._                          1.00\n    Westford. Cong. Ch.                                        4.00\n    West Hartland. F. A. B.                                    0.51\n    Westville. Cong. Ch.                                      50.00\n    Westville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                31.00\n    ----. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                          50.00\n    ----. ----                                                61.75\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $2,496.51\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Greenwich. Estate of Miss Sarah Mead, by S. D.\n      Mead, Ex.                                              200.00\n    Fair Haven. Estate of Wm. H. Shipman, _for\n      Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                               600.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $3,296.51\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $3,190.02.\n\n    Amsterdam. D. Cady                                         5.00\n    Arcade. Lyman Parker                                       5.00\n    Binghamton. Mrs. C. Bean                                   5.00\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Soc., $221.80; South\n      Cong. Ch., $197.02 ($90 of which to const.\n      REV. ELDREDGE MIX, CHARLES H. PARSONS and\n      JEREMIAH CROWELL L. Ms.); Julius Davenport,\n      $100                                                   518.82\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Missionaries at Ladies Island, S.C., and\n      Fernandina, Fla._                                      175.00\n    Brooklyn. James S. T. Stranahan, _for\n      Talladega C._                                          100.00\n    Brooklyn. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Charleston, S.C._,\n      and to const. CHESTER A. ARTHUR, President\n      of the United States, L. M.                             30.00\n    Brooklyn. John B. Hutchinson, _for Talladega\n      C._                                                     25.00\n    Buffalo. \u201cR. W. B., First Cong. Ch.,\u201d to\n      const. MRS. EMMA HAINES, MRS. JOSEPH H. TRUE\n      and S. L. GRAVES L. Ms.                                100.00\n    Clifton Springs. A. Peirce, _for Tillotson C.\n      and N. Inst._                                           25.00\n    Danby. Cong. Ch.                                          22.44\n    East Bloomfield. Cong. Sab. Sch.                          23.70\n    Ellington. Mrs. Anson Crosby                               2.00\n    Gloversville. Mrs. U. M. Place, $10; Isaac V.\n      Place, $10; Dewitt Smith, $5; Mrs. B. B.\n      Edwards, $5; H. A. P., $1, _for Talladega C._           31.00\n    Groton. Mrs. Bostwick                                      5.00\n    Homer. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Needmore Chapel,\n      Talladega, Ala._                                        15.23\n    Irvington. Mrs. R. W. Lambdin                              5.00\n    Keeseville. Cong. Sab. Sch., $15; Master W. A.\n      B. and Miss Helen T. B., $1 each; Rev. L. H. E.,\n      $1, _for John Brown Steamer_                            18.00\n    Lisbon Center. First Cong. Ch.                            11.00\n    Madison. Cong. Ch., $10; Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      John Brown Steamer_, $10                                20.00\n    Malone. Mrs. Mary K. Wead, _for Atlanta U._              100.00\n    Malone. Miss M. F.                                         0.51\n    New York. Broadway Tab. Ch. (ad\u2019l) $10; Dr. A.\n      S. Ball, $5; Rev. S. W. Powell, $5                      20.00\n    New York. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. Dodge, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                               300.00\n    New York. Mrs. Mary A. Parker, $100; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d $50; George C. White, Jr., $20;\n      Chas. A. Hull, $10, _for Talladega C._                 180.00\n    New York. Richard T. Auchmutz, _for Fisk U._             150.00\n    Nichols. J. Weller                                         3.00\n    Northville. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                           18.50\n    Nyack. John W. Towt                                       50.00\n    Oriskany Falls. Cong. Ch., $5; Cong. Sab.\n      Sch., _for John Brown Steamer_, $5                      10.00\n    Perry Center. Cong. Ch.                                   73.50\n    Ph\u0153nix. Mr. and Mrs. C. E Candee, _for Chapel\n      in Kansas_                                               3.00\n    Randolph. First Cong. Ch.                                  6.02\n    Rome. John B. Jervis                                      25.00\n    Sandy Hill. Mrs. Collin, $2; Mrs. Taylor, $2;\n      Mrs. P., $1, _for Tougaloo U._                           5.00\n    Sherburne. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           33.30\n    Spencerport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                       15.00\n    Syracuse. M. W. Hanchett                                  10.00\n    Tarrytown. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     40.00\n    Ticonderoga. First Cong. Ch.                               5.00\n    ----. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       1,000.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $399.00.\n\n    Montclair. Sab. Sch. of First. Cong. Ch., $53\n      _for Fisk U._, $35 _for Hampton N. & A.\n      Inst._                                                  88.00\n    Morristown. Miss Ella M. Graves, _for Atlanta\n      U._                                                    200.00\n    Newark. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        10.00\n    Orange Valley. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._             100.00\n    Roselle. A. A.                                             1.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $107.00.\n\n    Allegheny. Mrs. N. B. Hyde, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            5.00\n    East Springfield. Mrs. C. J. Cowles                        2.00\n    Hyde Park. Thomas Eynon                                   25.00\n    Jeanesville. Welsh Cong. Ch.                              11.00\n    North East. Mrs. M. K. Spooner                             5.00\n    Pittsburgh. R. Edwards                                    50.00\n    West Alexander. Ladies, _for Freight, for\n      Storr\u2019s Sch., Atlanta, Ga._                              9.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $1,658.22.\n\n    Austinburgh. L. B. Austin                                100.00\n    Austinburgh. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              15.00\n    Bellefontaine. Mr. and Mrs. John Lindsay, _for\n      Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga._                               5.00\n    Claridon. C. M. Wells, $3; C. G., 50c.;\n      Others, $6.50                                           10.00\n    Cleveland. Young Peoples\u2019 Missionary Soc. of\n      First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._, and to const. MISS ALICE L. TREAT and\n      MISS ORRA G. INGRAHAM, L. Ms.                           60.00\n    Cleveland. First Cong. Ch.                                 5.00\n    Columbus. Cong. Ch. (adl.) ($30 of which to\n      const. REV. IRVING W. METCALF L. M.)                   120.56\n    Columbus. Cong. Ch., _for Reading Room,\n      Talladega C._                                           35.00\n    Crestline. Mrs. J. N. Stewart                              5.00\n    Delphos. M. D. J.                                          1.00\n    Elyria. First Cong. Ch. ($90 of which to\n      const. D. B. ANDREWS, E. D. GRISWOLD and\n      WILLIAM I. NEVINS, L. Ms.)                             123.33\n    Geneva. W. R. J.                                           1.00\n    Hagamon. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                      15.00\n    Huntsburgh. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           10.00\n    Lenox. Cong. Ch. ($5 of which from J. R. King)            11.00\n    Mansfield. First Cong. Ch., $61.94; Ladies\n      Benev. Soc., $18.67, and Young Peoples Miss.\n      Circle of First Cong. Ch., $19.39, to const.\n      MRS. JULIA M. TOLMAN, MRS. W. P. HARPER and\n      FRANCIS PALMER, L. M\u2019s                                 100.00\n    Marietta. First Cong. Ch.                                 61.16\n    Newark. \u201cA Friend,\u201d $100; Mrs. J. C. Wheaton,\n      $25                                                    125.00\n    Oberlin. Ladies, by Miss Rice, _for Tougaloo\n      U._                                                     25.00\n    Oberlin. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        5.00\n    Painesville. Miss\u2019y Soc. Lake Erie Sem., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              25.00\n    Peru. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                     15.00\n    Radnor. Welsh Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Springfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const.\n      REV. W. E. FAY L. M.                                    30.00\n    Warren. Two S. S. Classes, _for Student Aid,\n      Emerson Inst._                                          10.00\n    West Farmington. Cong. Sab. Sch.                           6.00\n    Youngstown. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     1.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                            $930.05\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Lodi. Estate of Timothy Burr                             728.17\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $1,658.22\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $818.58.\n\n    Altamont. School by Miss Etta Pierce, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               3.00\n    Avon. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Rebuilding\n      Emerson Inst._                                           5.60\n    Bondville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      5.00\n    Camp Point. Mrs. A. R.                                     1.00\n    Chicago. First Cong. Ch., $144.90; A. R., 50c.           145.40\n    Chicago. Mrs. Wm. H. Ferry, _for Fisk U._                 50.00\n    Chicago. Leavitt St. Cong. Ch., _for Howard\n      Chapel, Nashville, Tenn._                               13.37\n    Chicago. Ladies of South Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                               10.00\n    Danvers. Cong. Ch.                                         5.00\n    Dundee. Cong. Ch.                                         16.69\n    Evanston. H. W. C.                                         1.00\n    Galesburg. Mrs. E. T. Parker, $30; \u201cA Friend,\u201d\n      $20                                                     50.00\n    Highland. Miss Pittman, Box Papers and $1.55,\n      _for Talladega C._                                       1.55\n    Joliet. Rev. S. Penfield                                   2.00\n    Jacksonville. Cong. Ch.                                    5.00\n    La Harpe. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc. _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Lewiston. Mrs. M. Phelps                                  50.00\n    Millington. Mrs. D. W. Jackson                             5.00\n    Morris. Cong. Ch.                                         21.00\n    Oak Park. First Cong. Ch., $79.70; O. Peck,\n      $1.50; \u201cLyons,\u201d $1                                      82.20\n    Oneida. Cong. Ch., $19.93; and Sab. Sch., $2.12           22.05\n    Payson. Cong. Ch.                                         30.00\n    Port Byron. A. F. Hollister                                5.00\n    Rockford. Second Cong. Ch., $199.47; Thomas P.\n      Carleton, $3; H. S., $1                                203.47\n    Rockford. Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc., _for Fisk U._                 25.00\n    Roseville. Cong. Ch. ($20 of which _for John\n      Brown Steamer_)                                         34.00\n    Saint Charles. Ladies Missionary Soc.                      5.00\n    Thomasborough. ----                                        5.00\n    Udina. Cong. Ch.                                           6.25\n\n\n  INDIANA, $32.55.\n\n    Crooked Creek. Rev. C. W. C.                               1.00\n    Elkhart. Cong. Ch.                                         9.00\n    Gilead. Cong. Ch.                                          0.55\n    Kokomo. Mrs. J. F. V.                                      1.00\n    Liber. Cong. Ch.                                           1.00\n    Terra Haute. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      refurnishing Ch. and Sch., Emerson Inst._               20.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $419.08.\n\n    Alamo. Cong. Ch.                                           1.33\n    Calumet. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Rev. M. Higgins, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              79.29\n    Detroit. ARTHUR H. BIGG, M.D., to const.\n      himself L. M.                                           30.00\n    Galesburgh. P. H. Whitford                               100.00\n    Grand Rapids. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rev.\n      J. H. H. Sengstacke_                                    30.00\n    Laingsburgh. Ladies Missionary Soc.                        2.00\n    North Adams. \u201cWhat We Can Soc.\u201d (Little\n      Girls), $5; \u201cMission Band\u201d (Little Boys), $3             8.00\n    Olivet. W. B. Palmer, _for Talladega C._                 100.00\n    Olivet. Cong. Ch.                                          4.46\n    Port Huron. H. A. B.                                       1.00\n    Romeo. Miss E. B. Dickinson                               50.00\n    Webster. Cong. Ch.                                        13.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $153.46.\n\n    Clinton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Fort Atkinson. Mrs. C. B. Snell                           10.00\n    Fort Atkinson. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             2.75\n    Genesee. Cong. Ch.                                         8.10\n    Madison. Two Bbls. of C. and $3.50, _for\n      Talladega C._                                            3.50\n    Muscoda. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             2.75\n    New Lisbon. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             2.50\n    Platteville. Cong. Ch.                                    39.44\n    Rosendale. Cong. Ch.                                      38.00\n    Springvale. Cong. Ch.                                      3.60\n    Whitewater. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                            11.57\n    Windsor. Union Cong. Ch.                                  21.25\n\n\n  IOWA, 271.16.\n\n    Chester Center. Cong. Ch.                                 27.00\n    Dubuque. Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, _for Fisk U._                 5.00\n    Fairfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 4.00\n    Fort Madison. Francis Sawyer                              20.00\n    Garwin. Talmon Dewey                                       2.50\n    Grinnell. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           40.25\n    Grinnell. Two Bbls. of C., _for Talladega C._\n    Hampton. Cong. Ch.                                         9.75\n    Hillsborough. John W. Hammond                             25.00\n    Keokuk. Mellrose Sab. Sch.                                 7.35\n    Lansing. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        5.00\n    Leon. A. E. Chase, _for Tougaloo U._                       5.00\n    McGregor. Women\u2019s Missionary Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 9.74\n    McGregor. Ladies, _for Freight_                            0.50\n    Mitchellville. W. B. Turner                                8.00\n    Newton. Mrs. L. S.                                         0.50\n    Orient. Mrs. A. L. C.                                      0.50\n    Wayne. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                     5.00\n      Ames. Ladies of Cong. Ch., $5; Atlanta, Sab.\n      Sch. and Ladies, $6; Cherokee, Cong. Ch., 5;\n      Second Cong. Ch., $2; Corning, Cong. Ch.,\n      $9.05; Fairfax, Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., $5;\n      Green Mountain, Ladies, $16.10; Meriden,\n      Cong. Ch., $4.52; Red Oak, Ladies, $7; by\n      Mrs. Henry L. Chase, _for Lady Missionary,\n      New Orleans, La._                                       59.67\n      Charles City. Ladies of Cong. Ch., $10;\n      Gilman, Ladies, $15.40; Orchard, Ladies, $1;\n      Oskaloosa, Sab. Sch., $10; _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._, by Mrs. M. G.\n      Phillips                                                36.40\n\n\n  KANSAS, $15.34.\n\n    Russell. First Cong. Ch.                                  13.34\n    Topeka. Miss Sue Stevenson                                 2.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $95.28.\n\n    Clear Water. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 5.00\n    Duluth. \u201c* M. *,\u201d _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                     15.00\n    Faribault. \u201cHelping Hands,\u201d _for Tougaloo U._             20.00\n    Lolland. Rev. J. K.                                        1.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., $25.12; Second\n      Cong. Ch., $5                                           31.12\n    Owatonna. Cong. Ch.                                        6.34\n    Wabasha. Cong. Ch.                                        11.51\n    Worthington. Union Cong. Ch.                               6.31\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $7.95.\n\n    Waverly. Cong Ch.                                          5.45\n    Grafton. \u201cThe Useful Band,\u201d by Edna Murdock,\n      Treas., _for John Brown Steamer_                         2.50\n\n\n  DAKOTA, $7.00.\n\n    Bethel. Mrs. Minnie B. Rich, $5; Rev. L.\n      Bridgman, $2                                             7.00\n\n\n  COLORADO, $45.00.\n\n    Colorado Springs. Young People\u2019s Mission\n      Circle, _for John Brown Steamer_                        20.00\n    Denver. Jno. R. Hanna                                     25.00\n\n\n  UTAH, $5.00.\n\n    Whitelock. Mrs. E. C. Ayer, _for Storrs Sch.,\n      Atlanta, Ga._                                            5.00\n\n\n  OREGON, $9.10.\n\n    Albany. Cong. Ch.                                          9.10\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $5.00.\n\n    Suisun City. Chas. A. Birchard                             5.00\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $183.00.\n\n    Washington. First Cong. Ch.                              178.00\n    Washington. Lincoln Memorial Chapel                        5.00\n\n\n  VIRGINIA, $5.00.\n\n    Herndon. Cong. Ch.                                         5.00\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $177.60.\n\n    Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition, $172.60;\n      Cong. Ch., $5                                          177.60\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $255.00.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Institute, Tuition                     255.00\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $428.30.\n\n    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.                                   201.85\n    Nashville. Fisk University, Tuition                      226.45\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $755.54.\n\n    Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition, $204.04; Rent,\n      $35.80                                                 239.84\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $192.10; Rent,\n      $3                                                     195.10\n    Atlanta. First Cong. Ch.                                  30.00\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, 88.53; Cong.\n      Ch. and Sab. Sch., to const. REV. S. E.\n      LATHROP L. M., $35                                     123.53\n    McIntosh. Tuition                                         21.07\n    Savannah. Beach Institute, Tuition, $126;\n      Rent, $10; Cong. Ch., $10                              146.00\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $606.39.\n\n    Anniston. Tuition                                         10.00\n    Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition                             76.90\n    Athens. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Bell_, by M. F. Wells             50.00\n    Marion. Tuition, $10.25; Cong. Ch., $6.20                 16.45\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, $174.65; First\n      Cong. Ch., $6                                          180.65\n    Mobile. Women\u2019s Miss\u2019y Ass\u2019n, _for Mendi M._               1.50\n    Montgomery. Public Fund                                  175.00\n    Montgomery. Miss M. Blanche Curtiss, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                 5.00\n    Selma. Cong. Ch.                                          15.55\n    Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, $65.34;\n      Cong. Ch., $10.00                                       75.34\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $195.50.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition, $143.;\n      Central Ch., $50                                       193.00\n    New Orleans. Morris Brown Sab. Sch., _for\n      Athens, Ala._                                            2.50\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $3,085.00.\n\n    Tougaloo. State Appropriation                          3,000.00\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $84; Rent, $1             85.00\n\n\n  TEXAS, $164.70.\n\n    Austin. Tillotson Inst., Tuition                         161.75\n    Corpus Christi. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                    1.95\n    Washington. Mrs. I. H.                                     1.00\n\n\n  NEW BRUNSWICK.\n\n    Milltown. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,\n      _for Talladega C._\n\n\n  ENGLAND, $48.80.\n\n    London. Freedmen\u2019s Missions Aid Soc., \u00a310, (\u00a35\n      of which _for Student Aid, Fisk U._)                    48.80\n\n\n  JAPAN, $25.00.\n\n    Osaka. Rev. W. W. Curtis                                  25.00\n\n\n  INCOME FUND, $25.69.\n\n    Income Fund, _for President\u2019s Chair, Talladega C._        25.69\n                                                          ---------\n        Total                                            $29,874.92\n        Total from Oct. 1st, to May 31st.               $191,417.08\n                                                        ===========\n\n\n  FOR ARTHINGTON MISSION.\n\n    Rockville. Conn. First Cong. Ch.                          45.50\n    London, Eng. Freedmen\u2019s Missions Aid Soc., \u00a3190          927.20\n                                                          ---------\n        Total                                               $972.70\n    Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to April\n      30th                                                $2,484.43\n                                                          ---------\n        Total                                             $3,457.13\n\n\n\n\n  FOR ENDOWMENT FUND.\n\n    Morristown, N.J. Estate of R. R. Graves, by E.\n      A. Graves, Ex., _for Scholarship Fund, Theo.\n      Dept., Talladega C._                                $5,000.00\n                                                          ---------\n\n                                    H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,\n                                           56 Reade St., New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n=7= PER CENT. TO =8= PER CENT. 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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\nCHEAPEST, 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_--In 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.--_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.;\nAtlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans,\nLa., and Austin, Tex.--8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: Wilmington,\nN.C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S.C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.;\nMontgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.--11. _Other\nSchools_, 35. Total, 54.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.--Among the Freedmen, 319;\namong the Chinese, 28; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total,\n369. STUDENTS.--In 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--a 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 were corrected.\nThe arithmetic errors in receipts were not corrected.\n\nMoved a few lines of text from the top of page 214 to the bottom of\npage 212 to allow the drawing to be placed between paragraphs on\npage 213.\n\nAdded missing \u201cs\u201d in \u201cwas\u201d on page 202. (that arose from their\ndecks was this)\n\nAdded missing \u201cn\u201d in \u201canniversary\u201d on page 205. (Our theological\nanniversary exercises)\n\nCorrected \u201cTaladega\u201d to \u201cTalladega\u201d in the New Lisbon entry on page\n219.\n\nChanged \u201cit\u201d to \u201cis\u201d and \u201cblankes\u201d to \u201cblanket\u201d in the Hartford\nWoven Wire Mattress advertisement on page 221. (the Hartford\nMattress is cleanly....Requires nothing but a blanket)\n\nChanged \u201cSuperintentent\u201d to \u201cSuperintendent\u201d in the American S. S.\nUnion advertisement on page 223. (your Pastor, Superintendent or\nTeacher)\n\nAdded missing \u201ci\u201d in \u201cinsuring\u201d in The Travelers advertisement on\npage 224. (insuring $3,000 against death)","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 36, No. 7, July, 1882","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":19176}