{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_58051/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_58051","id":"gutenberg_58051","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58051","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online\nDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This\nfile was produced from images generously made available\nby Cornell University Digital Collections)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: VOL. XXXVI.      SEPTEMBER, 1882.       NO. 9\n\nTHE\n\nAmerican Missionary\n\n\n\u201cTHEY ARE RISING ALL ARE RISING, THE BLACK AND WHITE TOGETHER\u201d\n\n\nNEW YORK:\n\nPUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\n\nROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPrice, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nEntered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class\nmatter.]\n\n\n\n\n                             CONTENTS.\n\n\n                                                         PAGE.\n\n  EDITORIALS.\n\n    ANNUAL MEETING\u2014Financial                               257\n    AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION\u2014School Work for Indians     258\n    CASTE ON THE CARS                                      259\n    ADDRESS OF THE REV. GEO. M. BOYNTON                    260\n    MISPLACED BENEVOLENCE\u2014Benefactions                     263\n    GENERAL NOTES\u2014Africa, Indians, Chinese                 264\n    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                   266\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    SOUTHWESTERN CONGREGATIONAL ASSOC.                     267\n    TEACHERS\u2019 INSTITUTE AT MEMPHIS                         269\n    SUNDAY-SCHOOL INSTITUTE AT TOUGALOO                    269\n    GO HOME TO THY FRIENDS\u2014A Rice Plantation (Cut)         270\n    WORK AT FLORENCE, ALA.\u2014Topeka, Kansas                  271\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    VARIETY IN MISSIONARY LIFE                             272\n    INDIANS SPEAKING ACROSS A CHASM (Cut)                  273\n    INDIANS AT HAMPTON                                     274\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    THE PENALTY OF PROSPERITY                              275\n    YAKUT VILLAGERS (Cut)                                  277\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    THE BOY WHO GREW UP IN A COTTON PATCH                  278\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                 279\n\n\n  THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION                                284\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association,\n\n56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  PRESIDENT, HON. WM. B. WASHBURN, Mass.\n\n\n  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n    Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n  TREASURER.\n\n    H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n  DISTRICT SECRETARIES\n\n    Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n    Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_.\n    Rev. JAMES POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields,\nto the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the\n\u201cAmerican Missionary,\u201d to Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New York\nOffice.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,\nor, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, Rev. C.\nL. Woodworth, Dist. Sec., 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass.,\nor Rev. James Powell, Dist. Sec., 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member. Letters relating to boxes and barrels of clothing may\naddressed to the persons above named.\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\u201cI BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of \u2014\u2014\u2014 dollars,\nin trust, to pay the same in \u2014\u2014\u2014 days after my decease to the\nperson who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the\n\u2018American Missionary Association\u2019 of New York City, to be applied,\nunder the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association,\nto its charitable uses and purposes.\u201d The Will should be attested\nby three witnesses.\n\n\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.      SEPTEMBER, 1882.       NO. 9.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nANNUAL MEETING.\n\nThe next Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association\nwill be held in Cleveland, Ohio, commencing Tuesday, October 24,\nat 3 P.M. On Tuesday afternoon the annual report of the Executive\nCommittee, including the Treasurer\u2019s report, will be presented, and\non Tuesday evening the annual sermon will be preached by Rev. C. L.\nGoodell, D.D., of St. Louis, Mo.\n\nOn Wednesday morning the report of the Committee on the Amendments\nto the Constitution will be presented. The succeeding sessions of\nWednesday and Thursday will be occupied with papers and reports of\ncommittees, with addresses. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings,\naddresses will be given by Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, D.D., Rev.\nAtticus G. Haygood, D.D., and other distinguished speakers. The\nnames of other speakers and further details will be published in\nthe October _Missionary_ and in the religious papers. The report of\nthe Committee on the Revision of the Constitution will be found on\nthe page following the receipts in this number of the _Missionary_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFINANCIAL\u2014CLOSING MONTH\u2014PROSPECTS.\n\nThis month (September) closes the fiscal year of the American\nMissionary Association, and will decide whether it is to receive\nthe $300,000 asked for at the annual meeting. The figures show\nthat the receipts for the ten months, ending July 31, were\n$262,829.31; leaving a balance of $37,170.69 to be made up in\nAugust and September. The receipts from legacies in the ten months\nwere $74,152.29, but for the remaining two months none of large\namount are anticipated, and as August is usually unfavorable for\ncollections, and as our receipts at the date of going to press\n(August 14) are small, we must depend ultimately upon the receipts\nof September to make up the sum needed.\n\nWe are anxious to secure the $300,000. It will not only cheer the\nofficers and the constituency of the Association, but the _work\nabsolutely demands that amount_. The fear of debt alone deters us\nfrom making needed repairs, improvements and additions. The details\nwould convince our friends that economy and efficiency would be\npromoted by the expenditures we have thus far withheld.\n\nPermit us then to ask; (1) that treasurers of churches and\nexecutors of estates remit to us at their earliest convenience\nmonies in their hands intended for us; (2) that pastors and church\ncommittees take up collections that are on the list for September,\nor that have been neglected during the year; and (3) that generous\nfriends send us contributions to meet the emergency.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.\n\nThe Committee appointed at the last annual meeting of this\nAssociation, to consider and report on Amendments to its\nConstitution, have held two meetings during the year, and have\ngiven very careful thought to the subject. Their report is given\nin the form of \u201cThe Proposed Constitution,\u201d which will be found on\nanother page. We ask for it the deliberate consideration of our\nconstituency, in the hope that a unanimous decision on the subject\nmay be reached at the next annual meeting. The Committee consists\nof the following persons: Col. Franklin Fairbanks, Pres. E. H.\nMerrill, Hon. Wm. B. Washburn, Rev. L. W. Bacon, D.D., Rev. L. T.\nChamberlain, D.D., Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, Pres. E. H. Fairchild,\nHon. C. I. Walker, S. R. Heywood, Esq., Rev. A. E. P. Perkins,\nD.D., Col. C. G. Hammond, Rev. A. H. Plumb, D.D., J. G. W. Cowles,\nEsq.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSCHOOL-WORK FOR THE INDIANS.\n\nThe regular correspondent of the _Tribune_, in reporting a\nconference with Mr. Teller, the Secretary of the Interior, upon his\nIndian policy, gives this question and answer:\n\n\u201cWhat is your view of Indian education, and of the Hampton and\nCarlisle schools in particular?\u201d\n\n\u201cI recognize the usefulness of those schools, but I insist that\nthey are entirely inadequate, as any number of them would be, to\naccomplish what is desired. The Hampton and Carlisle schools no\nmore meet the exigency than Yale and Harvard supply education to\nthe youth of the whole United States. There are 50,000 Indian\nchildren. We must furnish means for their education. Hampton and\nCarlisle will do for the training of teachers. But we must get the\nschools, which are to educate the masses of Indian children, out\nnearer to the tribes.\u201d\n\nThis is our view, exactly. Use these and similar institutions at\nthe South for training the young people brought to them from the\nIndian country to become teachers and mechanics. Then let them go\nback to their people and serve as teachers of the home schools and\nleaders in the mechanic arts.\n\nTHE reports from our schools have crowded our limited pages for\nthe last two months, and have compelled us to leave over a number\nof articles which will be found in the pages of this number. Our\nreaders will agree with us that these articles contained so much\nof spice that they have not become mouldy by the delay. We wish,\nhowever, to notify our teachers and missionaries that we desire\nas speedily as possible the renewed use of their pens. Nothing,\nhowever good, can be a substitute for their fresh views and facts.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCASTE ON THE CARS.\n\nOur new-made fellow-citizens at the South are coming to such\nconsciousness of their civil and political rights as leads them to\ndemand the protection of law. The Cincinnati Southern Railway has\nrecently paid a fine of $1,000 for putting a colored man who had\na first-class ticket into a second-class car. The Atlanta & West\nPoint Railroad, for a similar offence, has been compelled to pay a\nfine of $400. The Georgia Railroad, having been sued, thought it\nbest not to stand a trial, and paid $700 to a colored young woman\nwho was put off its train because she was in a first-class car\nwith a first-class ticket. At Nashville two or three suits have\nbeen entered in the same line. Bishop Payne, as is well known,\nhaving been put off from a Florida road, is seeking legal redress.\nBishop Cain, also of the African M. E. Church, having purchased\na first-class ticket on the Sunset route, in Texas, was about to\nenter the car to which his ticket authorized him to go. Some white\npeople who were also getting aboard said that they would not go if\nthe black man should take a seat in that car. He then entered the\nparlor car, paying the extra dollar for his seat, and now has sued\nthe company for $20,000.\n\nIt is a clear case that the law for common carriers requires the\ncompanies to allow passengers who have first-class tickets to ride\nin first-class cars. The 14th amendment declares that \u201cno State\nshall deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due\nprocess of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction\nthe equal protection of the laws.\u201d Justice Strong, of the Supreme\nCourt, referring to this language in the recent case of Strander\n_v._ Virginia (10 Otto, 307), which related to the exclusion of\ncolored men from juries, said: \u201cWhat is this but declaring that the\nlaw in the State shall be the same for the black as for the white;\nthat all persons, whether colored or white, shall stand equal\nbefore the laws of the States, and in regard to the colored race,\nfor whose protection the amendment was primarily designed, that\n_no_ discrimination shall be made against them by law because of\ntheir color.\u201d\n\nIt is clear that the railway companies are doing better and\nbetter in this matter. Some allow colored passengers to go\nwithout hindrance where their first-class tickets would take\nthem. Other railway officials have instructed their train men\nthat if colored people with first-class tickets make request to\nenter the first-class cars, they shall be allowed so to do, though\nthe brakemen will keep them out as long as they can. Our colored\nfriends must be patient while public sentiment is advancing and the\nlaw is coming to their help. Many colored people are as sensitive\nto the nicotine poison as any white ladies, and it is a cruelty,\naside from the injustice, to thrust them into the smoking-car.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nADDRESS OF THE REV. GEO. M. BOYNTON\n\nAT THE BOSTON ANNIVERSARY, MAY 31, 1882.\n\nThere are four ways in which a race in the enjoyment of power\nand prosperity may deal with a race which is under the burden of\nweakness and temporary debasement; God forbid that I should say\nwith an inferior race; for it is not ours to measure gifts until\nthe scale of opportunity shall have been equalized; God forbid\nthat I should say with a despised race, though that too nearly\nrepresents the fact among large portions of people, even in our\nown land and day;\u2014I say, in dealing with races which are for the\npresent weaker and in inferior position to our own. I used to\nread, when I studied geography, that the inhabitants of the world\ncould be classed under four heads: as barbarous, half-civilized,\ncivilized and enlightened. And I think the four methods in which\nthis race may be treated correspond somewhat with these four\ndivisions of human progress.\n\nThe first and barbarous cry which meets a weaker race is, \u201c_kill\nthem_; put them out of existence.\u201d The first impulse of savage\nmen\u2014the question is when the savagery is all expelled from human\nnature\u2014is to put out of the way that which is offensive, that which\nis in your way, that which seems in any way to compete with your\nfull satisfaction and enjoyment.\n\nThe next way of dealing with those of a weaker race is to _use\nthem_, subordinate them to your own service, make bondsmen of them,\nlet them be your hewers of wood and drawers of water, command their\nlabor and their persons, control even their instruction and their\nreligion, and make them absolutely yours.\n\nThe third way in which a superior race may deal with a weaker race\nis by the gentler, but perhaps no less harmful, process of _letting\nthem alone_,\u2014withdraw from them, hands off! Shut them out, keep\nthem away, make the barrier between yourself and them impassable.\n\nThere is one way more in which a race higher in circumstance and\ncondition and endowment may treat those who for the time are weaker\nthan they, and that is to _lift them up_ to its own plane just so\nfast and just so far as God shall make it possible.\n\nIf we read in the Old Testament, as many are increasingly disposed\nto do, a progress of development which recognizes the training of\nmankind from its lowest possible basis up to its highest possible\nattainment, we may find illustrations of these four methods of\ntreatment in that record. The first conviction of their duty, and\nwith Divine consent, toward the races which occupied Canaan, was\nto exterminate the people of the land. At a little later stage,\nwhen Joshua had entered the country, he made his league with the\nGibeonites and the people of the central confederacy, by which\nthey became his hewers of wood and drawers of water. As we read on\nstill further in the story, we find the Jews shutting themselves\nout from all mankind, and shutting all men off from them, having no\ndealings even with the Samaritans. But, when the Lord Jesus Christ\ncame, bringing the light of the gospel and the character of God\nand heavenly opportunities on to the soil of our earth, his last\ncommand is, \u201cShare my gifts in every land with every creature,\u201d\nand the last word he promises that some of us shall hear before we\nenter into the lasting joy of heaven, is, \u201cBecause ye have done it\nunto the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me.\u201d\n\nOur country has illustrated all these methods of treatment of the\nweaker races. Its cry has been toward the Indian\u2014its characteristic\ncry almost from the very first\u2014\u201cKill him; there is no good Indian\nbut a dead Indian;\u201d and that sentiment, that barbarism, has not yet\naltogether been exterminated from the land. Our country has said\nof the great African race, \u201cEnslave them; use them; subordinate\nthem to our own uses; make them our hewers of wood and drawers of\nwater, our chattels, our breeders of children; use them without\nconscience; subordinate them to our own supposed good.\u201d And even\nnow our land, this land of freedom, to which we all came strangers\nat some past time, has issued its edict through its highest\ncourts that the Chinaman shall be shut out from all access to our\ncivilization and our Christianity. Brethren, the glory and joy of\nthis American Missionary Association is that its work has been from\nthe beginning to reach out to those who were weakest, who were\nmost in need, who were most neglected. Thank God that there is one\nplace where the sentiment may be centred and emphasized that \u201cGod\nhath made of one blood all nations of men that dwell upon the face\nof the whole earth;\u201d and though it may be true that for a time \u201cHe\nhath fixed the bounds of their habitation,\u201d yet it is not so sure\nthat these bounds were in his purpose fixed to outlast the breaking\ndown of those barriers which the progress of Christian civilization\nsurely brings.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAnd now, what is it that makes these races weaker, less prosperous,\nless independent than our own? It is the lack of education; it is\nthe lack of developed intelligence, not of native ability. And what\nare the claims which ignorance may make upon intelligence? It may\nnot claim a right to power; it may not claim a share in property;\nit may not claim an equal social position with intelligence; but\nit may claim an opportunity to fit itself for all these things.\nSuppose a man had been born and had lived his life at the bottom\nof a pit; and he cries out, as you listen to him at the brink,\n\u201cGive me a voice in the control of your affairs up there. I am\nin the United States as truly as you are, if I am at the bottom\nof this hole. I want to vote and have a voice in the affairs of\nthe nation.\u201d You may properly suggest to him that until he has\nseen the lay of the land he can hardly decide which way the roads\nhad better run, that until he has lived in the upper air he can\nhardly know what institutions for the general control of society\nare best and wisest. He cries out to you again from the bottom of\nthe pit, \u201cGive me some money; I have had no chance to earn any\ndown here. Throw down some greenbacks.\u201d And you remind him that\ngreenbacks as a circulating medium from one pocket to another are\nnot a particularly profitable investment, and that if deposited in\nthe clay bank, in which his hole is dug, they would yield him no\ngreat return. He says to you, \u201cAt any rate, throw down a broadcloth\nsuit; I want to dress as well as you.\u201d You intimate again that even\ngoodly raiment would not add greatly to his comfort in his present\nstate. But if that much-to-be-pitied man is wise, he will cry out\nfor one thing only: \u201cReach me down a ladder, by which I may climb\nup to where you are.\u201d If he is wise, the one thing he will ask of\nyou is not a share in the control you have, not a share in the\npossessions you have acquired, not a share in the social position\nyou may have attained, but it is an opportunity to fit himself for\nthe acquirement and use of all these things. It is our business,\nbrethren and friends, and it is the work of this Association, to\nreach that ladder down. If you will but let our brother get his\nhands upon the lowest round, he will come up and stand with us in\nGod\u2019s sunshine, as we have already seen him do. If we forbear, if\nwe refuse, we are more guilty than the priest and the Pharisee\nwho went by on the other side; we are as guilty as were Joseph\u2019s\nbrethren who lowered their brother into the pit and left him there\nand went their way.\n\nWe are not here to-day to plead rival claims and rival causes; but\namid the whole circle of Christian graces and Christian charities,\nthe last in all the world to leave unfilled is that which, when\nall the other miracles and glorious works of Christ had been\ncatalogued, was added as the crowning gem of all\u2014\u201cThe poor have\nthe gospel preached unto them.\u201d God help us ever to have sympathy\nwith this grand work; and in this era which is coming, an era\nwhich will call for greater sacrifices and greater gifts than any\nthat have gone before\u2014for it must be an era of endowment for these\ninstitutions\u2014let its claims be heard among all the rest in fair and\ntrue proportion.\n\n\nMISPLACED BENEVOLENCE.\n\n\u201cThe sympathies of Christian people are always deeply stirred when\nthey come into personal contact with individuals who, in foreign\nlands, have come out of the superstitions and darkness in which\nthey were reared and are seeking help for themselves or their\npeople in this country. The touching stories that can be truthfully\ntold of struggles in the past, and of difficulties under which they\nnow labor, appeal strongly to all who hear them, and it is quite\nnatural that gifts should be made in response to these pleas with\nlittle thought of certain nearly inevitable results which, were\nthey aware of them, the donors would deeply deplore. The matter is\na delicate one to treat. On the one hand, we would have earnest\nsympathy expressed for those who are seeking to elevate themselves\nand their people, whether educationally or religiously, and would\nhave them wisely aided. It seems ungracious to do or say anything\nto check the outpouring of money in response to these appeals. But,\non the other hand, when we see how, by reason of the reception\ngiven to these special appeals, the work of our missionaries is\nhindered, and their plans for the education and elevation of the\npeople to whom they are sent are imperiled, we are constrained to\nutter again a word of caution.\u201d\n\nThe above is quoted from a thoughtful article in the August number\nof the _Missionary Herald_. It presents in a very careful manner\na warning that is at once delicate and needful. We find the same\ndifficulties in our work at the South, and take this opportunity\nof adding our word of caution to our friends in regard to special\nappeals from that quarter. Money intended for our mission work in\nthe South, or for student aid, can be more judiciously dispensed\nby us, knowing the whole field and its wants, than if sent by the\ndonor directly in response to an appeal that may be overdrawn,\nor relatively less important than some others, and in some cases\nentirely unworthy of confidence. We have no reference in these\nwords of caution to the professors and representatives of our\nInstitutions, who visit the North duly accredited by us.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nCol. Alfred Shorter, of Rome, Ga., has left $45,000 to Shorter\nCollege, the income to be used in aiding students.\n\nR. G. Peters, Esq., of Manistee, Mich., has given $6,000 toward the\nProfessorship Fund of Chicago University.\n\nMiss Louisa Howard, of Burlington, Vt., has given $5,000 to the\nUniversity of Vermont, to establish five scholarships, to be known\nby her name.\n\nJohn P. Howard, of Burlington, Vt., gives the Vermont University\n$25,000 for the Lafayette statue, $50,000 for rebuilding the main\nedifice, making a total of $125,000, besides $150,000 given to\nother religious and benevolent institutions in the city.\n\nMr. Moses Hopkins lately gave $50,000, and $3,000 for repairs, to\nthe Golden Gate Seminary, at Oakland, Cal., which is hereafter to\nbe called Hopkins Academy.\n\nThe estate of Christopher R. Robert, of New York City, by a\ndecision of the New York Court of Appeals, is now to pay $100,000\nmore to the endowment of Robert College at Constantinople.\n\nSenator Jos. E. Brown, of Atlanta, Ga., has given the State\nUniversity $50,000, to be used in aiding indigent worthy young men.\n\nPaul Dulane, of Princeton, N.J., has given $2,000,000, to be used\nin building and endowing at New Orleans an institution for the\neducation of white young men in languages, science, literature and\nart.\n\n_We learn that a man in the South has made provision in his will\nto leave $25,000 or $50,000 toward the endowment of one of our\nchartered institutions in that region. This is a grateful foretaste\nof what is yet to come, when the people of that land shall join\nwith those of the North in supporting these schools of higher\nlearning for the benefit of our newly-made fellow-citizens. It\nalso makes to other high-minded and patriotic men at the South the\nsuggestion\u2014\u201cGo thou and do likewise.\u201d_\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n\u2014Mr. Grattan Guinness honorable director of the Livingstone Congo\nInland Mission, has published a grammar and dictionary in the\nlanguage now spoken by the natives.\n\n\u2014The Bible in the Basuto language, has been issued by the British\nand Foreign Bible Society at a cost of $20,000. This is the ninth\ncompleted Bible in the native languages of Africa.\n\n\u2014Both roads from the coast to the level of the Upper Congo, that on\nthe north side of the river and that on the south, are reported to\nbe now open all the way. The vast basin of the Upper Congo, with\nits 900,000 square miles of territory and its 150,000,000 of idol\nworshippers may therefore be said to be overcome.\n\n\u2014Between the Zambesi River and Lake Bangueola a Missionary station\nis to be established by M. Ceillard, a French Missionary, and his\nwife, who have recently gone there for that purpose.\n\n\u2014Seven different nations are embraced by the Berlin Missionary\nSociety in the area of their South African Work, which extends 1000\nmiles in length by 500 miles in width. They have forty-two stations\nwithin this boundary.\n\n\u2014Great Britain has twenty-three times as much trade with Africa\nas the United States has, and France fifteen times as much. Great\nBritain\u2019s commerce on the West Coast alone amounts to over twenty\nmillions of dollars, and that of France to over fifteen millions.\n\n\u2014The C. M. S. has recently sent six men to the Nyanza Mission. They\nwere accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Lane and Miss Havergal, who went\nout to be married to the Rev. A. D. Shaw. The same steamer took out\na large party of missionaries for the London Missionary Society\u2019s\nmission on Lake Tanganyika, and the two parties together formed a\nconsiderable majority of the passengers.\n\n\u2014News has been received from Zanzibar of the death of Rev.\nCharles Albert Janson, University College, Oxon, a member of the\nUniversities\u2019 Mission to Central Africa. Mr. Janson died near Lake\nNyassa, making the nineteenth death among the members of this\nmission.\n\n\u2014The Council of the Royal Geographical Society have decided on\nequipping an expedition to Eastern Africa for the exploration of\nthe snow-capped mountains, Kenia and Kilimanjaro, and the country\nbetween them and the eastern shores of the Victoria Nyanza. Mr.\nJoseph Thomson is to be the commander, and, according to present\narrangements, he will leave England for Zanzibar to organize his\nparty early in the ensuing year.\n\n\u2014The African Lakes Company, which was formed not so much with a\nview to financial profits as to co-operate with various missions\nin furnishing stores for them, is developing the legitimate trade\nof the country. The 2,000 miles of coast, river, and lake, which\nthis company are endeavoring to keep open, reaches from Quillimane\nup the Kwakwa River to the Zambezi at Mazaro; from Mazaro up the\nZambezi and the Shire to Katwnga, then on towards Blantyre and\nMatope on the southern shore of Lake Nyassa. Here the small steamer\n\u201cIlala\u201d (which is to be purchased by the company) takes goods,\netc., to the north-east of the lake, from which point Stevenson\u2019s\nRoad is to be constructed, and thus unite Lake Tanganyika to this\nextensive line of communication.\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\u2014The U.S. Congress has set apart $5,220,674 for the ensuing year\nfor the Indian Department. Of this amount nearly $500,000 is\nappropriated for the education of Indian children. Last year the\nonly general appropriation was $85,000.\n\n\u2014The Pima Indians have undertaken the erection of a small chapel at\nBlack Water Village. The head chief has cut his hair short, dresses\nin American clothes and regularly attends church.\n\n\u2014At the Carlisle Indian School, \u201cwell\u201d was given one of the boys to\nincorporate in a sentence. This was the result: \u201cLast week I sick,\nand he doctor catch well for me and some other boys, too.\u201d Another\nwas given \u201cblind.\u201d He wrote, \u201cBlind means \u2018not see\u2019\u2014yesterday I\nwas blind my marbles.\u201d\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u2014The Chinese of San Francisco contributed last year $44,142.53 for\nthe support of the City and State governments.\n\n\u2014For several years past, members of the Central Presbyterian Church\nof Denver have given special attention to the Chinese of that city.\nThey now have over 60 Chinamen in attendance at Sabbath-school,\nseven of whom have been baptized and received into the Church.\n\n\u2014A poor Chinaman became blind, and went into the hospital. While\nthere he learned to read the Bible in the raised printing used\nfor the blind. He said to the missionary, \u201cGod make me no see\nhere\u201d (pointing to his eyes); \u201cbut he make me see so muchee here\u201d\n(placing his hand on his heart), \u201cI welly glad.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nPARIS, Texas.\u2014A church has recently been dedicated here. Dr. Reed\npreached the sermon, and all the white pastors took part in the\nservices. The house could not begin to hold the people. $313 was\nsubscribed towards paying the debt.\n\nCEDAR CLIFF, N.C.\u2014At this place Rev. A. Connet organized a\nCongregational church of a dozen members, using the Confession,\nCovenant and Constitution of Roy\u2019s Manual, inserting a temperance\nclause. A white citizen gives half an acre of land for the church.\nA dozen white people attended service. Rev. J. N. Ray will become\nthe pastor of the church.\n\nCHATTANOOGA, Tenn.\u2014In the wake of a revival, which had already\nadded forty or fifty persons to our church in this city, Mrs.\nSteele, the missionary, writes: \u201cWe are still wonderfully blessed.\nI have been in the Howard school some as a substitute for the\nprincipal, when he was sick. Pastor Smith thought in that way I\nwas prosecuting my special work, as I was getting close to the\nchildren\u2019s hearts. After teaching in one of the rooms for a week my\nscholars asked if we might not have a prayer meeting at the close\nof school on Friday afternoon. I said \u2018Yes, if you will go over\nto our church,\u2019 as that was the hour for our sociable. And so the\ncrowd went over there, and twenty-three professed conversion. I\nnever before witnessed such a sight.\u201d\n\nMEMPHIS, Tenn.\u2014\u201cThe little ones are quite enthusiastic over the\ntemperance concerts, and of course are interesting their elders. We\nfind the charts a great help. I have been using for supplementary\nreading the \u2018Gospel Temperance Book,\u2019 and have been surprised at\nthe interest manifested. Yesterday I asked how many enjoyed it, and\nnearly every hand went up. One young man said: \u2018A while ago I tried\nto talk with a young fellow about drinking, and couldn\u2019t meet his\narguments, but since we have taken up this book I have a great deal\nmore to say.\u2019\u201d\n\nTOPEKA, Kansas.\u2014The relief work proves quite a tax on our time\nand strength. Six mornings out of the seven are devoted to the\npeople for their instruction and improvement. Monday evening we\nhold prayer meeting; Tuesday evening is devoted to Bible study\nfor the young people. A good number attend. Friday evening I have\na class in singing. The Sabbath is a busy day for each of us. We\nhave a full Sunday-school and need twice as much room, and Sabbath\nevening the Chapel is well filled. With not a few worthy exceptions\nthe people are ignorant and wicked, but this does not discourage\nus. Already we can perceive a change for the better. In all our\nexercises the people are more orderly and attentive.\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014\u201cI have organized a Doing Good Society in the\ngirl\u2019s school, which is doing effective work and interesting all.\nWe appoint a committee of two to visit the sick every week. I\ngive them something to carry in food and clothing, playthings and\npicture-books, for the sick, and taking the Bible and song-book\nthey read and sing, often gathering a whole family in to hear them.\nEach Saturday a report of their visits is read, and once a month\nthe school brings pennies to buy food. My prayer meetings among\nthe mothers and girls are often very full of tenderness. And yet,\namong this people it is so easy to have good prayer meetings that I\ndon\u2019t think as much of it as I used to at the North. More and more\nI feel the importance of teaching them that temperance, purity and\na desire to do something for others is true religion.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n\nTHE SOUTHWESTERN CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION.\n\nBY REV. W. S. ALEXANDER, D.D.\n\nThe time and place (June 1, New Orleans) proved propitious. They\ngave the ministers and delegates an opportunity, by anticipating\nthe meeting, to be present at the anniversary exercises of the\nUniversity. I think a fire has been kindled which will not be\nquenched when our brethren reach their homes, and we shall find,\nwhen the new school year opens, that new connecting lines have been\nestablished between Straight University and the interior towns.\n\nThe Association last met in this city, in the spring of 1877.\nIn 1878 and 1879 we met in New Iberia, and in 1880 and 1881 in\nTerrebonne; so this is our sixth annual meeting without a break,\nand we are able to report not only continuity of life, but real\nprogress. A little advance in the church work of this Association\nmeans more than a far greater advance in our older religious\nbodies. Here the fight has been, first upon the question, \u201cHave\nwe, as Congregationalists, a right to live in Lousiana?\u201d The\ndenominationalism among the colored people has been, and still is,\nintense. As the Baptist and Methodist Church once covered this\nentire Southern field, the Congregationalist is looked upon as\na traitor to a holy cause, who has enlisted under a strange and\npiratical banner. \u201cWho are you, anyhow?\u201d \u201cWhere do you come from?\u201d\n\u201cWhat strange faith have you picked up now?\u201d are questions which\nsalute our brethren constantly, and which are designed to cover\nthem with confusion and discomfiture. But this battle has been\nbravely and patiently fought, and the right to exist \u201cestablished.\u201d\n\nThere were 31 pastors and delegates present. The reports from the\nvarious fields were cheering and hopeful. It has not been a harvest\nyear, though some churches have been refreshed by the gracious\nvisitation of the Holy Spirit, and all have, we hope, felt the\nquickening of a new life. A revival of wonderful preciousness and\npower was reported from Central Church, New Orleans, beginning with\nthe \u201cWeek of Prayer,\u201d and continuing five weeks, during which time\nnearly 100 souls were awakened.\n\nBrother Clay\u2019s church in Terrebonne has been blessed and\nstrengthened. There have been many hindrances in the year. The\nfloods have caused great suffering among the poor. Cabins have been\nwashed away, crops destroyed, and the plans of labor disarranged.\nWhen the laboring class of the colored people suffer, the churches\nsuffer in their resources.\n\nLet me summarize the result of our annual meeting.\n\nI. From the reports of the churches we find that there have been\nnumerical losses, which, though seemingly serious, are really\ngains, so far as the purity and vigorous life of the Association is\nconcerned. The Association has not yet laid down the pruning knife,\nand it may be that more dead branches will be clipped off in the\nyear, without which the tree will be more beautiful and fruitful.\n\nII. A higher stand was taken for an educated ministry. One of the\nbrethren, on his own volition, presented a resolution to this\neffect: \u201cThat from this day we, as an Association, will neither\nlicense nor ordain any man to preach in our churches who is not\nfitted by education to perform all the sacred duties of his\noffice.\u201d The brethren in the discussion preceding the vote said\nthat while there was formerly an excuse for an ignorant ministry,\nwe now have our colleges and theological seminaries, and with\na little self-denial, all who wish may fit themselves to guide\nintelligently the minds and hearts of the people.\n\nIII. The necessity was deeply felt and freely expressed, of taking\na clearer and stronger denominational position, with all charity\nand fellowship for all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.\nWe, as Congregationalists, should know the ground on which we\nstand, and be able to give a reason for the hope within us. It was\nvoted that a Manual be prepared, answering more fully than any yet\nissued, the local needs of our Louisiana churches. This Manual will\nbe prepared during the summer, and submitted in manuscript to the\nAssociation at its next meeting.\n\nWe were fortunate in having the presence and cordial aid of Rev.\nO. D. Crawford, of Mobile. He gave an address, Wednesday night,\non the subject: \u201cWhy am I a Congregationalist?\u201d It was scholarly,\njudicious and effective.\n\nThe Moderator, yielding to the kind and earnest desire of the\nbrethren, occupied the evening session of Thursday in an account\nof his visit to Europe, with especial reference to the Jubilee\nMeeting of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, held at\nManchester in October last.\n\nAfter prayer and song, and with deep gratitude to God for His\nblessing upon our annual meeting, the Association adjourned, to\nmeet in New Iberia the first Wednesday in April, 1883.\n\nI desire, in concluding this statement, to say that if our Northern\nfriends wish to see a vigorous Congregational Association in\nLouisiana, the _helping hand_ must be extended, with the \u201cGod\nbless you\u201d from the lips. Weak points along the lines need to be\nstrengthened, the faint and weary to be encouraged and the streams\nof benevolence to be directed into the barren wastes, where men of\nGod have only their lives to offer.\n\n\nTEACHERS\u2019 INSTITUTE AT MEMPHIS.\n\nBY MISS ELLA A. HAMILTON.\n\nI have thought that perhaps the readers of the MISSIONARY would\nbe interested to know something of the Institute held at LeMoyne\nfor the colored teachers of Shelby and the adjoining counties.\nThe Institute was continued for two weeks, beginning on the first\nMonday in June. Prof. Steele was appointed conductor by the State\nSuperintendent. Teachers were present not only from western\nTennessee, but also from Mississippi and Arkansas. On the first day\nour enrolment list reached eighty-nine, and increased during the\nsucceeding days to one hundred and fifteen. Our daily session began\nat quarter before nine with short devotional exercises. These were\nfollowed by the recitations in the different branches. The lessons\nwere given and studied by topics, and each teacher was provided\nwith a blank book, in which he kept the topics for study and also\nany notes which he wished to remember. The Rev. Mr. Imes had charge\nof reading, Prof. Steele of arithmetic, grammar, penmanship and\ngeology, while I took history and geography. A certain time each\nday was devoted to any matters of interest which we should wish to\npresent. At this time several talks on school organization were\ngiven, an object lesson on coal was presented by Miss Lovell,\nprincipal of one of the public schools, the temperance charts\nshowing the effects of alcohol upon the stomach were exhibited,\nand Miss Wadsworth, a worker under the W. C. T. U., addressed\nthe teachers, answering many questions which they asked her. The\nteachers present were, without exception, earnest, enthusiastic and\nanxious to get good, that they might do good. One young man said to\nme at the close of the Institute: \u201cThis Institute has given me work\nto do for twelve months to come; it was just what I needed.\u201d Many\nothers told us of the good they had received during the Institute,\nand seemed to feel that they should do their work in their\nschool-rooms better for the work they had done there. The county\nsuperintendent, who was with us for two days, told us that the\ncolored teachers would average quite as high as the white teachers,\nwho were then in attendance at a similar Institute at Bartlett, the\ncounty seat. This is about the first work of the kind that has ever\nbeen done in Tennessee, but if the results are as good as we have\nevery reason to hope, we are sure it will not be the last.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSUNDAY-SCHOOL INSTITUTE AT TOUGALOO.\n\nBY MISS J. KELLOGG.\n\nIt was thought that the last Sabbath of the school year could not\nbe better spent than by calling in the Sunday-school workers among\nthe colored people and holding a Sunday-school institute.\n\nProvidence smiled upon the exercises with a most beautiful day, and\nat an early hour the chapel was filled with an attentive though\nmiscellaneous throng, whose intelligent looks and interested,\norderly demeanor were a surprise to some of the newest workers and\nevidence of progress to all.\n\nThe regular exercises of the Sunday-school were first attended to.\nThe lesson, \u201cFollowing Christ,\u201d with its golden text, \u201cWhosoever\nwill come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross\nand follow Me,\u201d seemed to furnish a peculiarly appropriate theme\nfor the last conference of the teachers with their classes, and\ncalled forth thoughts and experiences, exhortations and warnings,\ncalculated to be helpful alike to the Christian of years, the score\nor more of young converts, and the few who, with all their calls\nand opportunities, still refuse the yoke of Christian service.\n\nIn closing the review the superintendent gave a blackboard\nexercise suggested by the verses, \u201cWhat shall it profit a man if\nhe shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall\na man give in exchange for his soul?\u201d This formed an impressive\nintroduction to the first subject brought forward\u2014the use of\nthe Blackboard. Other topics presented were, Opening and closing\nexercises, Duties of the superintendent, Use and abuse of lesson\nhelps, How to get the children in, Conversion and training of\npupils, Individual responsibility.\n\nTwo of these topics were well presented by former graduates of this\ninstitution. The only topic which evoked general discussion was\nthat of success in gathering the children in and winning them to\ncontinued attendance. Of the many who volunteered a statement of\nmethods to this end, all spoke briefly, pointedly, correctly and\nsensibly, and the question-box when opened revealed nothing but\npractical, intelligent queries.\n\nThe Institute closed with the repetition by Miss Koons of one\nof our regular Sabbath-afternoon course of lectures, a lecture\non Temperance, illustrated by Sewall\u2019s charts. A quantity of\ntemperance literature was distributed, to be carried away for\ncirculation. May the blessing of God render it very influential!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGO HOME TO THY FRIENDS.\n\nFour years ago a little ten-year-old native on the west coast of\nAfrica had a hungering for \u201cbig America,\u201d and a captain beguiled\nhim, by false promises of educating him, to come aboard his ship.\nThe poor waif seemed providentially cared for in Brooklyn and\nConnecticut, till an A. M. A. friend picked him up and sent him\nto Atlanta University. During the winter our little Philip has\noften spoken of his purpose to live for God. Last night, in his\nbroken English, he told us of the impression made on him by the\nSunday-school lesson of the day\u2014the demoniac made happy and sent\nhome to tell what great things the Lord had done for him. Said\nPhilip: \u201cIt is God who put me here, where I have learned of Christ,\nand now you must pray for me that I may be a good Christian and\ngrow strong and wise, for I must sometime go home to my friends\nin Africa and tell them how the Lord had compassion on me.\u201d His\nartless words touched all hearts and turned our prayer meeting\ninto an impromptu missionary concert. One young man said: \u201cPhilip\u2019s\nfriends are our friends. Though there is much for us to do here our\n250 years of trial in America may have been only a discipline to\nfit us for our greater work in Africa.\u201d\n\n[Illustration: A RICE PLANTATION.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE WORK AT FLORENCE, ALA.\n\nBY REV. W. H. ASH.\n\nThe closing year has been peculiarly blessed. We commenced with\ndark clouds over our work in the beginning of the year, but ere\nthe work was well started they proved to contain blessings. The\ngood which the Association, under God, has accomplished here for\nthe poor, is only seen vividly as we compare the results of the\npresent year with those of four years ago. Then we had no church\nedifice; begun a day-school with three scholars in an old shell of\na building for a school-house; the Sabbath-school had about ten\nscholars. Now we number nearly forty. Since that time a beautiful\nchapel has been built and a snug parsonage, and we now have an\nenrolment of seventy scholars in the day-school.\n\nSome of our pupils have passed a very satisfactory examination\nbefore the Board of Examiners, and received certificates to teach\nin the public schools this summer. Our work has grown this year\nmore than ever in the favor and confidence of both white and black.\nI believe that the good effect of the closing exercises will make\nthe school very large next fall. One pleasing fact in connection\nwith the exercises was the young organist we presented to the\npublic. Ours is the only colored church here that has an organ, and\nmy wife is the only colored woman, so far as I know, in the county,\nwho plays the organ. Now that she has taken one of the girls and\ntaught her how to play, one of the colored churches has ordered an\norganita for its Sabbath-school.\n\nAnother fact of interest is that the county Superintendent of\nEducation has consented to give to our school a portion of the\npublic money, so that we may teach it as a public school.\n\nThe interest of the church and school has been very much increased\nby a fine bell, given by Mr. F. W. Carpenter, of the Central\nChurch, Providence, R.I., also a beautiful communion service,\npresented by the ladies of the same church.\n\nWe have received a barrel from the ladies of the church at\nYarmouth, Mass. Many of the pieces will go to assist a poor girl\nwho intends entering Fisk University next fall.\n\nWe have received a box from Rev. C. L. Woodworth, which enabled us\nto help worthy ones in the Sabbath-school.\n\nMy wife has planted a flower garden in front of the parsonage. I\nhave planted a vegetable garden, which has given me an opportunity\nfor physical exercise. We have every variety of vegetables, and as\nfine as I ever saw anywhere. My white potatoes are particularly\nfine.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nVISIT TO TOPEKA.\n\nBY GEN. O. O. HOWARD.\n\nOn last Sabbath, at 3 P.M., by the invitation of your missionary\nat Topeka, Rev. Mr. Markham, I visited the Tennessee Mission and\nparticipated in the exercises of the occasion. I found a large\nmeeting room filled with young people, with a sprinkling of older\nheads.\n\nI had seen some thirty girls, with perhaps half as many boys, over\nat the S. S. Convention Park. They had stood behind me on the\nplatform Sunday morning and backed me up with their inimitable\nmelodious songs of Zion. The large multitude of people\u2014perhaps a\nthousand\u2014were touched by their enthusiasm, where a little of art\nhas not robbed nature of her best effects. So here again I find the\nsame bright, happy faces and more of them.\n\nMany of the regular school exercises were set aside for my\naddress. They sang \u201cHold the Fort,\u201d and others of Sankey\u2019s\ncollection, with spirit. The young lady who teaches them, Miss\nGerrish, is remarkably faithful, full of tact and good sense. Your\nmissionary himself interested me a good deal. I saw him first\nat the young men\u2019s rooms at a prayer meeting. He gave a little\npersonal experience, showing how a child comes to the Master\u2019s\narms. Professor Stearns, of Washburn College, spoke highly of his\ndisinterested work at the mission. He has worked great changes for\ngood. The people, for the most part, own their houses and lots.\nSome houses are very neat. One soldier\u2019s wife said: \u201cYes, this\nlittle stone house is mine. My husband is a common working man.\nYes, we have paid for the house. It is little, but, you know, there\nis nothing like home, if \u2019tis only so small!\u201d Her husband had been\nthrough the war near me. On Sunday, every child was well dressed,\nand generally the blacks had as good clothing as the whites. I\nurged these good people, who are struggling up into respectable\nways of living and moderate prosperity, to stand up for the Lord,\nthat He may bless them more and more.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWHAT THE STRAWBERRY-BED DID.\n\nRev. A. Connet, of McLeansville, N.C., tells the story. Last year\nwe canned 12 gallons, and the people stared. This year we have\ncanned 20 gallons, sold $11.39 worth and have had all we wanted to\nuse for the last 35 days. A white neighbor whom we feasted in the\npatch, and whose children were also fed on berries, said, \u201cYou have\nastonished the natives.\u201d Ours are the only cultivated strawberries\nin this neighborhood. Now for the fruit. 1st, a new industry.\nExample is contagious. A number, some white and some colored, have\nspoken to us for plants. 2nd, the strawberry-bed is helping to\nbridge the social chasm. Some of our white neighbor ladies called\non us in strawberry time. 3d, the children have just come in with\na basket of cherries and a lot of dewberries given them by the man\nwhom we feasted in the patch.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nVARIETY IN MISSIONARY LIFE.\n\nREV. M. EELLS, SKOKOMISH, W. T.\n\nOur services on one Sabbath were a decided medley of persons and\nBabel of languages. The opening exercises were in English, after\nwhich was the sermon, delivered in English but translated into the\nNisqually language, and a prayer was offered in the same manner.\nAt the close of the service, two infants were baptized in English,\nwhen followed the Communion services in English. At this there were\ntwelve white members of the Congregational church here, and one\nIndian; also two white members of the Protestant Methodist church,\none Cumberland Presbyterian, and one other Congregationalist;\nthere were also about seventy-five Indians as spectators. The\nSabbath School was held soon after, seventy-five being present.\nFirst, there were four songs in the Chinook language, accompanied\nby the organ and violin; then three in English. The prayer was\nin Nisqually, and the lesson read in English, after which the\nlessons were recited. Three classes of Indian boys, two of Indian\ngirls, and two of white children were instructed in English; one\nclass of Indian children was talked to partly in English and\npartly in Chinook. There is one Bible class of Indian men who can\nunderstand English, a part of whom can read and a part cannot,\nand another of about forty Indians, whose teacher talks English,\nbut an interpreter translates it into Nisqually, and then he does\nnot reach some Indians of the Clallam tribe who are present. Next\nfollowed a meeting of the Temperance Society, as six persons wished\nto join\u2014a white man who can write his name and five Indians who\ntouch the pen while the Secretary makes the mark. Three of these\nare sworn in English and two in Chinook. The whole services are\ninterspersed with singing in English and Chinook.\n\n[Illustration: INDIANS SPEAKING ACROSS A CHASM.]\n\nOn the trip to an Indian logging camp one evening, to hold a\nmeeting, my companion and myself found the tide up so high that we\nhad to \u201ccoon\u201d the logs, as they were rolling in the water, in the\ndark, wade a part of the time, and improvise a lantern out of cedar\nsticks split up rather fine.\n\nA Sabbath day\u2019s work appears as follows: Began services with the\nIndians at Jamestown about ten o\u2019clock, which continued until\nhalf-past twelve; then returned three-quarters of a mile to my\nboarding-place, went into the cupboard and took a very little\nlunch in my hands; walked four miles or more to Dunginess, where\nI preached to the whites at two o\u2019clock, without even a chair or\nanything to sit down on; walked back two miles to the house of\na friend, where I sang and played on the organ about all of the\ntime, except while eating supper, until half-past six or seven,\nwhen I walked back to Jamestown and held services from eight to ten\no\u2019clock\u2014thus walking thirteen miles, besides holding service over\nfive hours, and singing an hour or two.\n\nThe variety of one trip of about two hundred miles is recorded\nthus: As to food, have done my own cooking, eaten dry crackers\nonly for meals, been boarded several days for nothing and bought\nmeals. As to sleeping, have stayed in as good a bed as could be\ngiven me, free of cost, and slept in my own blankets in an Indian\ncanoe, because the houses of the whites were too far away and the\n\u201cphleeze\u201d were too thick in the Indian houses. They were bad enough\nin the canoe, but the Indians would not allow me to go further\naway for fear that the panthers would catch me. As to work, have\npreached, held prayer meetings, done pastoral work, helped clean\nup the streets of an Indian village, been carpenter and painter,\ndedicated a church, performing all the parts, been organist,\nstudied science, acted as agent, taken hold of law, in a case where\nwhiskey had been sold to an Indian, and in a will. As to traveling,\nhave been carried ninety miles in a canoe by Indians, free, paid\nan Indian four dollars for carrying me twenty miles, was carried\ntwenty miles on a steamer at half fare and twenty more on another\nfor nothing; rode horseback, walked fifty miles, and \u201cpaddled my\nown canoe\u201d for forty-five miles.\n\nA note is made of some people very hungry for preaching. One\nlady just recovering from sickness was hardly able to walk\nthree-quarters of a mile to church, and as they had no horse her\nhusband took her on a wheelbarrow more than half the way. An\nold lady, seventy-six years of age, walked over three miles to\nchurch where the services were mainly for the Indians, then a mile\nfurther, where the preaching was for the whites, and then returned\nhome.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nINDIANS AT HAMPTON.\n\nBY REV. H. B. FRISSELL.\n\nOur communion on Sunday was very interesting. There were added to\nthe church four colored students and three Indian boys. These three\nare representatives of three different tribes. One of them was\nan Apache. He came to us sixteen months ago with no knowledge of\nChrist, and none of God, with the exception of what he had gained\nfrom an old medicine man. He told me that God was like the wind\nthat came in at one window and went out at the other. He has been\nvery earnest in his study of the Bible and has come to my study\nnight after night when he had had a hard day\u2019s work and an evening\nstudy hour that he might read the Bible with me. Not long ago he\ntold me he wished to pray in meeting and asked me if I would write\nout what he wanted to say. So I took my pen and after long pauses\nhe told me what he wanted to say to God. I wrote it down just as he\ngave it to me. He has carried it away to learn so that he may take\npart in our weekly meeting in English. The other two boys have come\nto me twice before and asked to join the church but I have told\nthem to wait. But now it seemed as though they could wait no longer\nand they were glad to profess their faith in Christ.\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE PENALTY OF PROSPERITY.\n\nBY REV. W. C. POND.\n\nOur schools were never before so prosperous as during the last six\nor eight months. Each successive budget of monthly reports showed a\nlarger enrolment and a larger average attendance, in the aggregate,\nthan had ever been secured before. Notwithstanding that we have\nclosed our schools in Oroville during these hot months, and have\ngiven a month\u2019s vacation to the Berkeley school, the reports for\nJune call for their superlatives as cheeringly as did those of\nApril or of May. The rolls for June showed the names of 908 Chinese\npupils, and the average attendance was 437. During the ten months\nnow past of the present fiscal year, no less than 2,152 Chinese\nhave been enrolled as members of our schools, and thus, for longer\nor shorter periods, have been brought to hear something of the true\nGod and the only Saviour. Many have been with us but a short time,\nbut not one, I believe, has failed to get some new idea which, it\nwould seem, must have set him to thinking, and thus may prove to be\nin him the seed of the everlasting life.\n\nBut what is the \u201c_penalty_\u201d of all this? and why should there be\nany penalty for it? The penalty is a depleted treasury, and the\nreason for this is the unavoidably increased expenditure. How many\nof our readers know what it is to have more than $1,600 coming due,\nand less than $600 at command? As many as have had this experience\nwill understand the penalty I am just now called to suffer. I\n_could_ not turn the dark souls away from what seemed to be for\nthem the only possible path to light, and I could not bid them\nwelcome without increasing our corps of laborers. I could not add\nnew workers without adding some new bills. The increase of expense\nis not at all proportioned to the increase in work fulfilled, for\nwhile we have reached nearly 40 per cent. more Chinese than we did\nin any preceding year, the expense will be greater by only about 10\nper cent. But I have been working all these years up to the utmost\nlimit of our resources, and now, towards the close of this fiscal\nyear\u2014the annual appropriation from the parent society exhausted and\nthe gifts of most of our regular contributors already used\u2014it comes\nto pass that that 10 per cent. extra begins to be felt, and as the\nmission purse gets lighter your superintendent\u2019s heart gets heavier\nwith thoughts and plans and cares.\n\n\u201cWell, what are you going to do about it?\u201d some of my readers are\nasking. I answer, first of all, I mean to pray. Nothing else ever\navailed in my experience to replenish a depleted treasury, like\nappealing to the Giver of all good. He knows the work; He gave the\nopportunity; He has, many times before this, verified His promise,\nand answered my prayer. I mean to trust Him; ask His counsel and\nHis help, and so _move on_. While His pillar of cloud and of fire\ngoes before us, we need never be dismayed. \u201cDifficulties will be\nremoved, in proportion as it is necessary that they should be\nremoved.\u201d But I do not mean to stop with prayer. That is M\u00fcller\u2019s\nway, and, in his case, it succeeds. When he was consulted as to\nthe failure of others who wrought on his plan, it is said that he\nreplied: \u201cThey were not so called.\u201d Every man according to his own\ncalling. For myself, I read the promise thus: \u201cAsk, and it shall\nbe given you; _seek, and ye shall find_.\u201d And so I feel called to\nfollow up my asking with seeking, and to enter every door that my\nmaster causes to be opened to my knock. That is just what I am\ndoing now, in writing this paragraph. It may not reach all our\nreaders till after our fiscal year has closed; but the books can be\nkept open till October 1, and gifts sent to make up what is now\nlacking, will be gratefully acknowledged, and most carefully used.\n\n\nTHE CENTRAL SCHOOL.\n\nThis is held at the Central Mission house, in this city\u2014the\nheadquarters of our whole work. The building is admirably located\nfor our purposes, and though always felt to be too small for the\nmost effective service, has nevertheless answered our purpose\ntolerably well. As long as the attendance on the school did\nnot exceed 125, it was possible to move about easily in the\nschool-room, and by careful attention to ventilation, to keep the\natmosphere tolerably pure. But last month the _average_ attendance\nwas 185, and the largest attendance on any one evening was no less\nthan 260! Of course even standing room was at a premium. To move\nabout in such a mass; to attempt anything like classification; to\ngive to each pupil his portion of instruction, taxed the energy,\npatience and skill of the teachers to the utmost. Jee Gam declares\nthat if we had room enough and teachers enough, we could have 300\npupils in this school every evening.\n\nOne reason for this throng of pupils, (and I am glad to say that\na like cause of prosperity exists in all our schools) is that we\nhave now so excellent a corps of teachers and of Chinese helpers\u2014so\nfaithful, so devoted and enthusiastic\u2014and, generally, so well\nfitted for the work. About this I trust there may be nothing\ntemporary. Another fact,\u2014which may not always operate so strongly\nas now\u2014and which tends specially to fill up the Central school, is\nthe great influx of Chinese now going on at this port. When the\nnew law goes into operation, this will be checked, at least, for a\ntime. Hastened, doubtless, by the passage of this law nearly 25,000\nChinese have come in at this port within less than six months,\u2014a\nnumber equal to one-fourth of the entire Chinese population in the\nwhole country at the beginning of this year. This multitude will\nrapidly scatter, moving wherever a demand for their labor attracts\nthem, and then the pressure at this spot will be lessened, but the\nwork will remain to be done; 25,000 more of these blood-bought\nsouls, to be brought to a knowledge of their Redeemer; 25,000 more\nout of whom to gather messengers of salvation, heralds of the\ngospel of Christ\u2019s dying love and living power to the myriads ready\nto perish in their native land.\n\nI am sorry to say that my faith in the possibility of securing\nin any way a more commodious building for this school and for a\nhead-quarters for our entire work, is not strong. Perhaps this is\nthe reason why the oft-repeated petitions of our teachers for more\nroom, remain without response. \u201cAccording to your _faith_\u201d it is\nsaid, \u201cbe it unto you.\u201d One lady at the East, self-prompted, or\nprompted of God, has added to many a previous kindness, a donation\nof $100, to be used for this enlargement when it shall become\npossible. One member of the Executive Committee of the A. M. A.,\nwho has visited our quarters, and seen something of the need, has\nhinted that the easiest way to get relief would be to ask for the\nnecessary fund to buy or build. I ventured to infer that if this\nrequest should be made, his generous heart and ever-open hand would\nhelp the matter on. It would be much that thus we could save to our\nwork $1,200 per annum now paid for rent. This sum would keep _five_\nteachers in the field for a full year. And then we should have a\nbuilding suited to our needs, large enough and light enough, open\nenough to the pure air of heaven, to speak for itself a welcome\nand to bear in itself a blessing to these crowds of needy souls.\nFifteen thousand dollars would secure this\u2014a place where (if the\npredictions of our wisest helpers may be trusted) 300 _young men_,\nborn in the depths of heathenism, could be brought every day of\nevery week throughout each coming year, to sit at Jesus\u2019 feet and\nhear his word. And a sum much less than that would put my faith\nconcerning it at that mustard-seed point at which our Saviour\nassures us \u201cnothing shall be impossible to you.\u201d\n\n[Illustration: YAKUT VILLAGERS.]\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nONE BOY WHO GREW UP IN A COTTON PATCH.\n\nBY MISS LAURA A. PARMELEE.\n\nHis name is Frank, his cotton patch is in Mississippi, near the\nSunflower River, and he is teaching school in that neighborhood\nat this very time. Although he is quite grown, he is not so tall\nas his highest cotton stalk, and doesn\u2019t look a bit as if he had\na story. It is not an uncommon story, and might be true of a good\nmany Williams, or Henrys, or Johns. That is why I am so particular\nto tell you his name and where he lives.\n\nMost of his time was spent in the field, but he ate and slept\nin a rough log-cabin of one room. The chimney was built outside\nof the cabin, and was made of sticks and clay. The one window\nwas a board shutter, swinging on leather hinges. Two beds, a\ntable, a few dishes, two or three pots and kettles, three or four\nleather-bottomed chairs and a barrel of meal furnished the house.\n\nPoor as the building was, a good mother\u2019s love made it a dear home\nto her little children. Roses and honeysuckles bloomed around the\ndoor all summer, and in summer and winter the white sand was swept\nclean with brooms made of twigs tied together. Health and work gave\nappetites for the fried bacon and hoe-cake that furnished the daily\nmeals. Baked sweet potatoes with pones and greens were sometimes\nadded to their bill of fare.\n\nThere was no father to provide for the family, so the little ones\nmust try the harder to care for themselves. When Frank was scarcely\nmore than a baby, he followed his mother and sisters to the field\nand pulled trash; that is, pulled up old stalks and sticks for\nburning, to clear the fields ready for the plow, and, after the\nfurrow was prepared, little fingers dropped the fuzzy gray seed\ninto the soft earth.\n\nBy the time he was five years old, Frank had his own light hoe and\n\u201cchopped cotton\u201d almost all day. When the feeble plants had been\ncut up and the strong ones cleared of weeds, there was the corn\nto be hoed and the melon patch to be attended to. In August the\nfleecy white fibre had pushed itself out of the green bolls and\nthe pickers must go to work. With a large bag tied around his neck\nand shoulders, Frank went up and down the cotton patch, his nimble\nfingers pulling the feathery cotton from its casings. Carefully as\nhe gleaned each bush, no sooner had the field been once picked than\nother bolls unlocked their treasures, and again and again he must\ngo over the same ground. Sometimes Christmas came before the crop\nwas all gathered, and in January the fields must be cleared once\nmore for plowing. Playtime never seemed to come to Sunflower River.\nTo plow, pick cotton, roll logs and build rail fences\u2014was that all\nof life? Frank wondered about it.\n\nTwo Sabbaths in the month the family went to the little brown\nmeeting-house that nestled under the trees down by a spring of\nsweet water. No bell called the people, yet they came, on foot,\non horseback, in wagons from miles around. Four or five hundred\ngathered in and around the church. Three or four preachers would\noccupy the rude pulpit, and often the services did not close until\nsunset. Some of the ministers could not read a word; some barely\nread the text and lined out the hymns. They said a great deal about\n\n    \u201cThe green hill far away\n    Without a city\u2019s wall,\n    Where the dear Lord was crucified,\n    Who died to save us all.\u201d\n\nAnd as Frank thought of that wonderful scene and how\n\n    \u201cDearly, dearly, He has loved,\n    And we must love Him too,\u201d\n\nhe longed to know more of His life and sayings. Must he wait to\nlearn of the Saviour\u2019s words\u2014wait until he should meet Him in\nheaven?\n\nThe questioning found a happy answer when he was about fourteen. A\nsummer school was started in the neighborhood, and on rainy days\nand at odd times he learned the alphabet, to make figures, to form\nletters and to read. New thoughts came into his mind, new hopes,\nnew plans. He heard of a large school up the river where Northern\nteachers taught eight months of the year.\n\nOne day the good mother was startled with the question, \u201cMay I\ngo to school at Memphis?\u201d She could only answer, \u201cI am too poor\nto send you. I can give you nothing but my prayers.\u201d But Frank\nbelieved those prayers were worth more than bales and bales of\ncotton, and with a few dollars in his pocket he started for the\ncity. He was sure that \u201cKing Jesus\u201d would have compassion upon him\nas He did upon that other young man who \u201cwas the only son of his\nmother and she was a widow.\u201d\n\nReaching the strange city, he soon found a Christian gentleman\nwho wished a boy to wait on the table. \u201cWork for his board and go\nto school,\u201d was the good news sent home. One year went by, two,\nthree and four. Slow but faithful, he was going up in his classes,\nwinning the respect of school-mates and teachers.\n\nOne October, as he re-entered school, he modestly told his teachers\nthat he had taught during the summer. It was said so quietly that\nlittle heed was paid to it, until another young man came from the\nsame town and announced that the unostentatious Frank had done a\nremarkable work in the way of Sabbath-school, temperance and day\nschool. No one had thought him able to do anything of the kind.\n\nAnd these long days, while you are swinging in hammocks and going\nto lakes and rivers in the search for cool air, our young friend\nis teaching a hundred dusky boys and girls each week day, and\ndirecting the Bible lessons of a much larger number on Sunday. He\nwrites to ask for S. S. papers, for a temperance text book and for\nthe prayers of his teacher.\n\nAlthough he did grow up in a cotton patch, he is a useful man, and\nexpects to one day see the King in his beauty, in the land that is\nvery far off.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR JULY, 1882.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $218.20.\n\n    Brewer. Manly Hardy                                      $50.00\n    Centre Lebanon. Mrs. O. A. Moody, _for Indian\n      M._                                                      5.00\n    Centre Lebanon. Cong Sab. Sch.                             1.35\n    Dennysville. Mrs. Samuel Eastman                           5.00\n    East Union. David Fowler.                                  5.00\n    Hallowell. Teachers and Pupils of Classical\n      Academy, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                  15.00\n    Kennebunk. Union Ch. and Soc.                             22.50\n    Norway. Mrs. Mary K. Frost                                 2.00\n    Oldtown. Cong. Ch.                                         5.00\n    Wilton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 6.35\n    Windham. Dea. J. T. and Mrs. C. D.                         1.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $118.20\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Brewer. Estate of Miss R. S. Atwood, by Manly\n      Hardy                                                  100.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $218.20\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $274.90.\n\n    Bedford. Presb. Ch. and Soc.                               7.72\n    Candia Village. Jona Martin                               10.00\n    Concord. South Cong. Ch.                                  57.77\n    Derry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           13.00\n    Dover. S. N. F.                                            0.50\n    East Jaffrey. Mrs. Eliza A. Parker                        20.00\n    Gilsum. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                29.25\n    Harrisville. W. H. J.                                      1.00\n    Merrimack. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       18.40\n    Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          20.20\n    New Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           15.10\n    Pittsfield. Sab. Sch., by Rev. G. E. Hill,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         27.00\n    Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 1.50\n    Seabrook. Mrs. Mary W. Boardman, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                         6.00\n    Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               17.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $244.44\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Cornish. Estate of Mrs. Sarah W. Westgate, by\n      Trustees, to const. JOSHUA B. WELLMAN L. M.             30.46\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $274.90\n\n\n  VERMONT, $673.20.\n\n    Barre. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 22.27\n    Bridport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              22.32\n    Danville. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 10.00\n    East Poultney. \u201cFriends\u201d                                   4.00\n    Hartford. Sab Sch. of Cong. Ch.                            8.05\n    Jamaica. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               11.93\n    Kirby. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  4.23\n    Lyndon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                31.01\n    Norwich. Mrs. B. B. Newton                                 5.00\n    Orwell. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                28.34\n    Putney. Mrs. S. H. W., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                              1.00\n    Saint Johnsbury. North Cong Ch.                          184.25\n    Springfield. A. Woolson                                  250.00\n    Waterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MISS\n      FLORA SCEGEL L. M.                                      30.00\n    Wells River.                                              24.82\n    West Brattleborough. T. Adkins                             5.00\n    West Fairlee. Dea. E. H. Wild, $3; \u201cA Lady,\u201d 40c.          3.40\n    West Salisbury. Mrs. E. S.                                 1.00\n    West Townsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          8.30\n    Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                6.28\n    Woodstock. William S. Lewis, $10; Harriet E.\n      Hatch, $2                                               12.00\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $13,245.44.\n\n    Abington. Mrs. H. P.                                       1.00\n    Amherst. Mrs. W. A. Stearns, $5; J. P. Felton,\n      $2, _for Atlanta U._; Friends, $5; Miss E.\n      W. B\u2019s. S. S. Class, $1, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             13.00\n    Ashfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              47.96\n    Barre. Evan. Cong. Ch, and Soc., to const.\n      ARTHUR M. BURR, ESTES HAWES and ABNER R.\n      MOTT L. Ms.                                             94.35\n    Beverly. Dane Street Ch. and Soc.                        108.08\n    Blandford. Cong. Ch.                                      18.78\n    Boston. Miss H. N. Kirk, $10: A. C. Tenney,\n      $5: Mrs. W. P. B., 60c.                                 15.60\n    Boston. Miss Carrie I. Gibson, _for McIntosh,\n      Ga._                                                    10.00\n    Boston. Miss Sara Leavitt, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            2.00\n    Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc., $104.16; \u201cF.\n      A. W.,\u201d $20                                            124.16\n    Buckland. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      10.00\n    Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l)                16.94\n    Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch.                                32.31\n    Cohasset. Second Cong. Sab. Sch.                           6.16\n    Danvers. Maple Leaf Mission Circle, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              32.00\n    Easthampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     55.24\n    Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               70.00\n    Georgetown. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    30.00\n    Greenfield. Friends, _for Atlanta U._                     20.00\n    Haverhill. Centre Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      30.00\n    Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch.                                 30.22\n    Holyoke. J. S. McElwain, $10; W. A. Prentiss,\n      $10; Wm. Whiting, $10; _for Atlanta U._                 30.00\n    Housatonic. \u201cA Lady\u201d                                       5.00\n    Hubbardston. \u201cS. M. W.\u201d                                   10.00\n    Hyde Park. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             34.02\n    Ipswich. South Ch. and Soc.                               30.00\n    Lakeville. Mrs. A. C. S.                                   0.30\n    Lawrence. Eliot Ch. and Soc., $23.75; South\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc., $17.63                              41.38\n    Lenox. Cong. Ch.                                          30.50\n    Leominster. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                     25.00\n    Leominster. D. W. Salsbury                                 5.00\n    Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc.                           20.38\n    Lowell. L. Kimball                                        50.00\n    Malden. First Ch. and Soc.                                59.88\n    Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            20.00\n    Marblehead. Ladies H. M. Soc. _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           30.00\n    Marlborough. Union Ch.                                    57.20\n    Medford. Mystic Ch. and Soc.                             103.23\n    Medway. Village Ch. and Soc.                              83.35\n    Melrose. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                4.39\n    Melrose Highlands. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      7.00\n    Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        65.70\n    Miller\u2019s Falls. Miller\u2019s Falls Co., Two cases\n      hardware, _for Ind. Dep\u2019t Atlanta, U._\n    Monson. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   33.87\n    Monterey. Cong. Ch.                                       18.00\n    New Bedford. H. M. L.                                      1.00\n    Newton. Eliot Ch. and Soc.                               173.00\n    Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   34.68\n    Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      71.80\n    Newtonville. Mrs. J. D. Hayes                             25.00\n    Northampton. A. L. Williston, _for Atlanta U._            25.00\n    North Brookfield. Miss A. W. Johnson, _for\n      furnishing room, Fisk U._                               40.00\n    North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           5.21\n    North Wilbraham. J. P. F.                                  0.50\n    Orange. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                20.00\n    Orleans. First Cong. Ch.                                  10.00\n    Peabody. Prof. J. K. Cole, _for Straight U._              40.00\n    Pepperell. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             16.06\n    Pittsfield. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $42.49\n      to const. REV. C. H. HAMLIN L. M.; First\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc., $21.32. James H. Dunham,\n      $25                                                     88.81\n    Randolph. \u201cFriend,\u201d _for Straight U._                      5.00\n    Reading. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                       2.00\n    Royalston. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       5.11\n    Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. and Soc.                           100.00\n    Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. S. S. _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             27.00\n    Sandwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              32.61\n    Shrewsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            32.00\n    Springfield. South Cong. Ch., $50.20; First\n      Cong. Ch., $33.39; Olivet Ch., $36.97 and $19          139.56\n    Springfield. \u201cA Friend.\u201d _for Atlanta U._                 10.00\n    South Barre. Sab. Sch.                                    10.00\n    South Dennis. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          25.00\n    South Egremont. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Macon, Ga._                                             10.00\n    South Hadley. Teachers and Pupils of Mt. H.\n      Sem., $25; First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $11                36.00\n    Templeton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             19.05\n    Tewksbury. Ladies, Bbl. of C., $2 _for\n      freight, for Talladega C._                               2.00\n    Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $117.30; Mrs.\n      D. A., 50c.                                            117.80\n    Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $43;\n      Individuals, by N. Scamman, $6                          49.00\n    Watertown. Phillips Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      MISS SUSIE M. BURNHAM L. M.                             78.75\n    Wellesley Hills. Grantville Ch. and Soc.                  89.78\n    West Barnstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       15.00\n    Westhampton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                              15.22\n    West Medway. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                25.00\n    West Medway. Mrs. Patience Shumway                         5.00\n    Westport. Pacific Union Sab. Sch.                          2.18\n    West Springfield. Second Cong. Ch.                        15.80\n    Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.                             15.60\n    Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l)                     10.00\n    Worcester. Union Ch. and Soc.                            197.25\n    Worcester. Sab. Sch. Scholars of Plymouth Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         20.67\n    \u2014\u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                            10.00\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $3,245.44\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Whitinsville. Estate of John C. Whitin, by\n      Sarah E. Whitin and Jeannie W. Lasell, Adm\u2019x.       10,000.00\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                         $13,245.44\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $13.05.\n\n    Peace Dale. Cong. Ch.                                     13.05\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $2,672.14.\n\n    Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                  28.30\n    Bethel. Cong. Ch.                                         20.00\n    Birmingham. William E. Downes, _for Land,\n      Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                             100.00\n    Bridgeport. Park St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   20.00\n    Canaan. \u2014\u2014\u2014, _for Student Aid_                             5.00\n    Clinton. John B. Wright, _for Land, Tillotson\n      C. and N. Inst._                                        25.00\n    Danbury. First Cong. Ch., $105; \u201cCash,\u201d $20              125.00\n    Derby. Urbane Swift, $25; Miss Sarah A.\n      Hotchkiss, $5, _for Land, Tillotson C. and\n      N. Inst._                                               30.00\n    East Haven. Cong. Ch and Soc., _for Land,\n      Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                              45.00\n    Ellsworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             13.29\n    Fair Haven. D. D. Mallory, $25; Mrs. Hannah C.\n      Hurd and \u201cFriend,\u201d $4; J. P. S., $1, _for\n      Land, Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                        30.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                     53.44\n    Greenfield Hill. Cong. Ch.                                10.65\n    Guilford. Mrs. Lucy E. Tuttle, $100; Third\n      Cong. Ch., $3, _for Land, Tillotson C. and\n      N. Inst._                                              103.00\n    Guilford. First Cong. Ch.                                 25.00\n    Guilford. \u201cA Friend in Third Cong. Ch.,\u201d _for\n      Indian M._                                               5.50\n    Hartford. Centre Ch., First Ecc\u2019l Soc.                   482.50\n    Hartford. Marshall Jewell, $50; Lewis E.\n      Stanton, $25, _for Land, Tillotson C. and N.\n      Inst._                                                  75.00\n    Hartford. F. H. Hart, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    New Britain. G. B. C., Jr.                                 0.50\n    New Haven. F. W. Pardee, $50; \u201cA Friend,\u201d $10;\n      F. J. Hart, $5; Davenport Cong. Ch., $37.40,\n      _for Land, Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                  102.40\n    New London. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Land, Tillotson\n      C. and N. Inst._                                        50.00\n    North Cornwall. Cong. Ch.                                 30.67\n    North Haven. Elihu Dickerman                               2.00\n    North Manchester. Second Cong. Soc.                      100.00\n    North Manchester. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid. Talladega C._                              10.00\n    Norwich. First Cong. Ch., _for Land, Tillotson\n      C. and N. Inst._                                        25.00\n    Mansfield Centre. Mrs. B. Swift, $15; Mrs. L.\n      C. Dewing, $10, _for Parsonage, Alabama\n      Furnace, Ala._                                          25.00\n    Mansfield Centre. H. D. R.                                 1.00\n    Meriden. First Cong. Ch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                50.00\n    Meriden. Rev. B. M. Adams, _for Land,\n      Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                               5.00\n    Middletown. South Cong. Ch.                               41.44\n    Mount Carmel. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        50.00\n    Plainville. Cong. Ch.                                     73.00\n    Plainville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                23.26\n    Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.                                  64.81\n    Rockville. Second Cong. Ch.                               53.00\n    Rockville. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for\n      John Brown Steamer_                                     13.00\n    Salisbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            104.16\n    Sharon. Cong. Ch and Soc., $44.03; Miss Belle\n      Terrett\u2019s S. S. Class, $5.50; _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        49.53\n    Terryville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           58.00\n    Tolland. Cong. Ch.                                         6.69\n    Vernon. Mrs. G. G. H.                                      1.00\n    Washington. \u201cZ.,\u201d _for Indian M._                          1.00\n    Wauregan. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Straight U._                    40.00\n    West Haven. E. H. Somers, $50.00; Susan P.\n      Beardsley, $10; _for Land, Tillotson C. and\n      N. Inst._                                               60.00\n    West Haven. Mrs. E. C. Kimball                            10.00\n    Winsted. James J. Preston                                  2.00\n    Wolcott. Cong. Ch., $10.50, and Sab. Sch., $2             12.50\n    \u2014\u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                           17.50\n    \u2014\u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                           10.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $2,314.14\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    New London. Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven,\n      _for Atlanta U._                                       300.00\n    Union. Estate of Rev. S. I. Curtiss, by Rev.\n      J. Curtiss, Ex.                                         58.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $2,672.14\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $1,031.73.\n\n    Baldwinsville. Howard Carter, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Binghamton. First Cong. Ch.                              120.09\n    Brentwood. E. F. Richardson.                              25.00\n    Bridgewater. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           12.40\n    Brooklyn. \u201cFreedmen\u2019s Helpers,\u201d $8.60 and Bbl.\n      of C., _for Macon, Ga._                                  8.60\n    Cohoes. W. L. Gilbert, _for President\u2019s house,\n      Talladega C._                                          100.00\n    Crown Point. Miss Adeline McDonald                        10.00\n    East Bloomfield. Cong Ch. and Soc.                        73.40\n    Gloversville. Cong. Ch. ($20 of which from A.\n      Judson, _for Talladega C._)                            127.00\n    Homer. Miss Nancy Knight                                   2.00\n    Ithaca. First Cong. Ch.                                   44.24\n    Ithaca. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      35.50\n    Lima. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                           2.00\n    Lisbon Centre. MRS. SERAPH A. SHELDON to\n      const. herself L. M.                                    30.00\n    Malone. Mr. Hannah B. Wilson ($1 of which _for\n      John Brown Steamer_)                                     6.00\n    New York. S. T. Gordon ($20 of which _for John\n      Brown Steamer_), $270 and 100 copies music\n      books; MOREY HALE BARTOW, $15, bal. to\n      const. himself L. M.; Children of Colored\n      Orphan Asylum, 143d st. (_by self-denial in\n      going without fire-works on the 4th of\n      July_), $5                                             290.00\n    New York. Geo. E. Sterry, $100; Thos. G.\n      Shearman, $25, _for Talladega C._                      125.00\n    New York. National Temperance Soc., Box of\n      books and papers, _for Macon, Ga._\n    Ovid. Mrs. S. K. Dunlap                                    5.00\n    Perry Centre. Miss R. J. Booth, Pkg. of papers.\n    Port Byron. S. B. O. (50c. of which _for John\n      Brown Steamer_)                                          1.00\n    Rochester. Miss Emma Hayes, _for Straight U._              1.50\n    Sinclairville. Earl C. Preston                             2.00\n    Springville. M. H. B.                                      1.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $21.00.\n\n    East Orange. Grove St. Cong. Ch.                          20.00\n    Orange Valley. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of\n      Books, _for Lewis Library, Macon, Ga._\n    Roseville. Mrs. S.                                         1.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $5.71.\n\n    Clark. S. P. Stewart                                       2.00\n    Philadelphia. Henry Disston & Sons, 4 Saws,\n      _for Ind. Dept., Atlanta U._\n    Terrytown. G. F. H.                                        1.00\n    Troy. Moss Grove Sab. Sch.                                 2.71\n\n\n  OHIO, $1,363.16.\n\n    Alliance. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  4.00\n    Ashtabula. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                      26.00\n    Atwater. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               22.67\n    Austinburgh. Miss Martha Cowles                            5.00\n    Cherry Fork. J. W.                                         1.00\n    Coe Ridge. Rev. G. E. A.                                   0.50\n    Conneaut. Cong. Ch.                                        6.50\n    Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Ch., $16.11; R. J. T., $1           17.11\n    Garrettsville. Cong. Ch.                                  18.00\n    Greenwich. Miss Annis Mead                                 2.00\n    Guilford. Trustees of First Cong. Ch. (of\n      which $25 _for Tougaloo U._, $25 _for Mendi\n      M._, $25 _for Berea C._)                               175.00\n    Harmar. Cong. Ch.                                        122.91\n    Jersey. Mrs. Lucinda Sinnet                               20.00\n    Lodi. Cong. Ch.                                           15.50\n    Oberlin. J. W. Merrill                                   400.00\n    Oberlin. Ladies\u2019 Soc. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._                          50.00\n    Painesville. First Cong. Ch.                              61.27\n    Randolph. W. J. Dickinson                                 10.00\n    Ravenna. S. H.                                             1.00\n    Sandusky. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            3.00\n    Springfield. L. A. W.                                      1.00\n    Tallmadge. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                24.00\n    Warrensville. Mrs. Mary Walkden, _for Mendi M._           10.00\n    West Peru. Sab. Sch., by Mr. Wilcox, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               3.70\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $1,000.16\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Freedom. Estate of Amanda Delano, by Rev. A.\n      M. Hills                                               363.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $1,363.16\n\n\n  INDIANA, $40.52.\n\n    Michigan City. First Cong. Ch.                            40.50\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $2,502.93.\n\n    Altona. Women\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc.                                5.00\n    Chicago. C. G. Hammond, $1,000; Union Park\n      Cong. Ch., $361.95; Bethany Cong. Ch.,\n      $14.23; Prairie State Loan and Trust Co.,\n      $100; Miss H. E. DeL., 50c.                          1,476.68\n    Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, _for Atlanta U._              300.00\n    Chicago. Ladies of Plymouth Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary in Mobile, Ala._                             50.00\n    Galesburg. Log City Sab. Sch.                              5.00\n    Galva. Cong. Ch.                                          22.10\n    Geneseo. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Granville. \u201cMerry Workers,\u201d _for Student Aid_             13.00\n    Havana. J. J. T.                                           0.50\n    Lyonsville. Cong. Ch.                                     13.15\n    Moline. First Cong. Ch.                                  146.94\n    Moline. Collected by Prof. H. S. Bennett, _for\n      Endowment of Theo. Chair, Fisk U._                      96.10\n    Paw Paw. Union Ch.                                         7.52\n    Quincy. First Union Cong. Ch.                            143.30\n    Sheffield. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Savannah, Ga._                               5.80\n    Sparta. Bryce Crawford, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Sparta. Wm. Rosborough, $5; Robert Rosborough.\n      P. B. Gault, James Hood, Robert Hood and D.\n      P. Parker. $2 ea., Others $4, by Bryce\n      Crawford                                                19.00\n    St. Charles. Cong Ch.                                      8.97\n    Sycamore. Cong. Ch.                                      102.10\n    Sycamore. M. E. W., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._             1.00\n    Wilmette. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           12.50\n    Woodburn. Cong. Ch.                                        9.42\n    Woodstock. Cong. Ch.                                       4.85\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $478.40.\n\n    Benzonia. Dea. D. B. Spencer, $5.45; C. T.\n      Hopkins, $4.45                                           9.90\n    Chelsea. John C. Winans                                  100.00\n    Kalamazoo. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Laingsburgh. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n      _for John Brown Steamer_                                 5.00\n    Litchfield. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc.                           13.00\n    Olivet. Cong. Ch.                                         47.00\n    Port Huron. Cong. Ch.                                     43.50\n    Romeo. Miss Mary A. Dickinson, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                25.00\n    White Lake. Robert Garner                                 10.00\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $278.40\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Flint. Estate of Mrs. Sarah M. Chase, by Ira\n      Chase and D. E. Salisbury Adm\u2019s.                       200.00\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $478.40\n\n\n  IOWA, $207.46.\n\n    Bear Grove. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary,\n      Topeka, Kan._                                            5.00\n    Council Bluffs. Mrs. O. S. H.                              1.00\n    Denmark. Isaac Field                                      20.00\n    Floris. \u201cMary and Martha\u201d                                  5.00\n    Grinnell. Prof. F. P. Brewer                               2.50\n    Iowa City. Collected by Prof. H. S. Bennett,\n      _for Endowment of Theo. Chair, Fisk. U._                18.00\n    Keokuk. Mrs. E. M. Wilson                                  5.00\n    Le Grand. W. V. Craig                                     10.00\n    Lyons. First Cong. Ch.                                    27.00\n    Manchester. First Cong. Ch.                               10.00\n    McGregor. Woman\u2019s Missionary Soc.                         11.82\n    New Hampton. Woman\u2019s Cent. Soc.                            3.00\n    Tabor. Miss M. L. Todd, _for Straight U._                  5.00\n    Waterloo. Cong. Ch. $79.14; Mayflower Mission\n      Circle, $5                                              84.14\n    West Liberty. \u201cBusy Bees,\u201d Package Material\n      _for Sewing Sch., for Macon, Ga._\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $17.35.\n\n    Amity. Cong Ch.                                           10.35\n    Breckenridge. Rev. T. A. H. 50c.; C. B. R., 50c.           1.00\n    Webster Groves. Cong. Ch.                                  6.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $350.45.\n\n    Appleton. First Cong Ch., Bbl. of C., $3 _for\n      freight, for Macon, Ga._                                 3.00\n    Arena. Cong. Ch.                                           8.00\n    Arena. Woman\u2019s Missionary Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             2.00\n    Beloit. First Cong. Ch.                                  125.00\n    Eau Claire. Cong. Ch., $40, and Sab. Sch., $17            57.00\n    Evansville. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                4.00\n    Genesee. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for John Brown Steamer_               4.00\n    Hartford. R. F.                                            1.00\n    Hartland. Rev. S. B. Demarest, box and p\u2019k\u2019g\n      of books and pamphlets, $2, _for freight,\n      for Macon, Ga._                                          2.00\n    Milwaukee. Plymouth Ch.                                   36.70\n    Platteville. Cong. Sab. Ch.                                6.00\n    Racine. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc. (Cong. and\n      Presb.), _for Lady Missionary, Talladega, Ala._         21.25\n    Racine. Mrs. Smith D. Marsh, $10; H. R., 50c.             10.50\n    River Falls. First Cong. Ch.                              43.00\n    Ripon. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                            12.00\n    Ripon. Prof. G. C. Duffle, _for Macon, Ga._                5.00\n    Sun Prairie. Young People\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc., _for\n      John Brown Steamer_                                      5.00\n    Waukesha. Vernon Tichenor                                  5.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $161.04.\n\n    Austin. Union Cong Ch.                                    22.62\n    Elk River. Cong. Ch.                                       8.86\n    Excelsior. Cong. Ch.                                      13.00\n    Faribault. Cong. Ch.                                      32.71\n    Glyndon. \u201cThe Church at Glyndon\u201d                          15.16\n    Hutchinson. Cong. Ch.                                      2.27\n    Leech Lake. HENRY J. KING, $5, bal. to const.\n      himself L. M.; Rev. S. G. W., 50c.                       5.50\n    Marshall. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc.                              5.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 36.13\n    Minneapolis. E. D., First Cong. Ch.                       13.79\n    Northfield. J. W. S.                                       1.00\n    Saint Peter. Mary R. Treadwell, in memory of\n      Mrs. Jane A. Treadwell, deceased                         5.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $31.00.\n\n    Lincoln. \u201cK. & C.\u201d                                         8.00\n    Weeping Water. Cong. Ch.                                  23.00\n\n\n  COLORADO, $19.73.\n\n    Denver. West Denver Cong. Ch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                15.73\n    Manitou. Cong. Ch.                                         4.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $2,550.95.\n\n    San Francisco. Receipts of the California\n      Chinese Mission                                      2,550.95\n\n\n  OREGON, $30.00.\n\n    Salem. Cong Ch., to const. WILLIAM J. STAIGER\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $5.00.\n\n    Washington. Lincoln Mem. Ch.                               5.00\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $11.48.\n\n    Dudley. Cong. Ch.                                          2.48\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch., $5; Tuition, $4                     9.00\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $45.00.\n\n    Greenwood. Pub. Sch. Fund, $42. Tuition, $3               45.00\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $12.05.\n\n    Nashville. Fisk University                                11.05\n    Nashville. A. C. D., _for Student Aid_                     1.00\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $339.80.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $111.35; Rent,\n      $3                                                     114.35\n    Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition                              74.14\n    Macon. Lewis High School. Tuition, $101.31;\n      Cong. Ch., $5                                          106.31\n    Macon. Rev. W. C. Bass, D.D., $5; \u201cFriends.\u201d\n      155 vols. _for Library_, Macon, Ga.                      5.00\n    Savannah. Cong. Ch., $20; Rent, $20                       40.00\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $190.45.\n\n    Marion. Cong. Ch.                                          4.00\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, $3.60; Cong.\n      Ch., $2                                                  5.60\n    Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     30.00\n    Selma. Cong. Ch.                                          10.00\n    Talladega. First Cong. Ch., $60.20; Musical\n      Union, $44.15; Hon. R. H. Isbell, $15;\n      Martin Jenkins, $13.50; Greene & Johnson,\n      $5; _for Talladega C._                                 137.85\n    Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition                           3.00\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $13.00.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                         13.00\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $1.01.\n\n    Hazlehurst. F. W. S.                                       0.50\n    Vernon. W. H. T.                                           0.51\n\n\n  FLORIDA, $5.52.\n\n    Daytona. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc., by Mrs. E. E. C.\n      Waldron                                                  5.00\n    Lake City. Mrs. A. R. M.                                   0.52\n    Mandarin. Mrs. H. B. Stowe, Box of Books and\n      Papers, _for Macon, Ga._\n\n\n  TEXAS, $1.50.\n\n    Corpus Christi. Cong. Ch.                                  1.00\n    Luling. Q. B. N.                                           0.50\n\n\n  INCOMES, $717.50.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               570.00\n    Income Fund, _for Theo. Dept. Howard U._                 125.00\n    Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._                      22.50\n\n\n  JAPAN, $25.00.\n\n    Okayama. Rev. James H. Pettee                            $2,500\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total for July                                   $27,275.67\n        Total from Oct. 1, to July 31                    $262,829.31\n                                                         ===========\n\n\n  FOR ARTHINGTON MISSION.\n\n    Income Fund                                              175.00\n      Previously ack. from. Oct. 1 to June 30              3,542.52\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                             $3,669.52\n\n\n\n\n    RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION, E.\n      PALACHE, TREAS., from JAN. 4 TO JUNE 16,\n      1882:\n\n    FROM AUXILIARIES: Marysville, Chinese Monthly\n      Offerings, $48.60; Four Annual Members,\n      $8.\u2014Petaluma, Chinese Monthly Offerings,\n      $7.40.\u2014Sacramento, Chinese Monthly\n      Offerings, $44.50; First Cong. Ch.,\n      $11.45.\u2014Santa Barbara, Chinese Monthly\n      Offerings, $36.60; First. Cong. Ch., $27.55;\n      Chinese, $18.50; Miss M. B. L. Smith,\n      $2.\u2014Santa Cruz, Chinese Monthly Offerings,\n      $24; First. Cong. Ch., $5; Collection at\n      Anniversary, $8.35; Five Annual Members\n      (Chinese), $10.\u2014Stockton, Chinese Monthly\n      Offerings, $18; One Annual Member, $2                  271.95\n    FROM CHURCHES: Benicia Cong. Ch., One Member,\n      $2.\u2014Oakland, First Cong. Ch., $15.70.\u2014San\n      Francisco, First Cong. Ch. (coll.) $4.80;\n      Two Annual Members, $4; Bethany Ch. ($18 of\n      which for nine Annual Members), $39.50.\u2014San\n      Jose, Cong. Ch. Young People\u2019s Miss. Soc., $3           69.00\n    FROM INDIVIDUAL DONORS: San Francisco, Messrs.\n      Balfour, Guthrie & Co., $1,000; O. W.\n      Merriam, $25; Messrs. Eppinger & Co.,\n      $10.\u2014Point Pedro, Chas. W. Otis, $11; C. W.\n      Broadbent, $5.\u2014Liverpool, England, Hon. S.\n      Williamson, M. P., $500; Alexander Balfour,\n      Esq., $500                                           2,051.00\n    FROM EASTERN FRIENDS: Warren, Me. Rev. J. E.\n      Pond, $5; Miss Maltby, $5\u2014Bridgeport, Conn.,\n      Sab. Sch. of North Cong. Ch., by Mrs. M. B.\n      Palmer, $24.\u2014Norwich, Conn., Mr. S. A.\n      Huntington, $125, to const. HENRY B. NORTON\n      L. M.                                                  159.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                             $2,550.95\n                                                          =========\n\n                                         H. W. HUBBARD, TREAS.\n                                           56 Reade St., New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                  \u201cA Book of Peculiar Interest.\u201d\n\n                     A HOME IN THE HOLY LAND.\n\n  Illustrating customs and incidents in modern Jerusalem. By Mrs.\n           FINN. 12mo, 491 pp., 16 illustrations, $1.50.\n\n\u201cWritten in an easy, flowing style, and replete with instructions\nconcerning the customs of people in the Holy Land.\u201d\u2014_Gospel Banner._\n\n\u201cAn admirable picture of things as they are at the present\nday.\u201d\u2014_N.Y. Observer._\n\n\u201cDelightfully entertaining throughout and well\nillustrated.\u201d\u2014_Golden Rule._\n\n\u201cWe have scarcely ever seen any book on the Holy Land which gives\ntruer pictures of every-day events as now transpiring in modern\nPalestine.\u201d\u2014_Christian Observer, Louisville._\n\n\u201cFull of information to the common reader.\u201d\u2014_Christian Register._\n\n\u201cA story of real home life in the Holy Land.\u201d\u2014_Christian Mirror._\n\n\u201cA capital book for family reading or S. S. libraries.\u201d\u2014_Christian\nIntelligencer._\n\n                     THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.,\n\n                     13 ASTOR PLACE, NEW YORK.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION.\n\n\nARTICLE I. This Society shall be called \u201cTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY\nASSOCIATION.\u201d\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct\nChristian missionary and educational operations.\n\nART. III. Members may be constituted for life by the payment of\nfifty dollars into the treasury of the Association, with the\nwritten declaration, at the time or times of payment, that the sum\nis to be applied to constitute a designated person a Life member;\nand such membership shall begin sixty days after the payment shall\nhave been completed.\n\nChurches, which have within a year contributed to the funds of the\nAssociation, and State Associations or Conferences of Churches, may\nappoint delegates to the Annual Meeting of the Association, each\nof such Churches and Associations or Conferences to be entitled to\ntwo delegates; such delegates, duly attested by credentials, shall\nbe members of the Association for the year for which they were thus\nappointed.\n\nART. IV. Members shall be entitled to vote by ballot in the\nelection of President, five Vice-Presidents, the Board of\nDirectors, and on Amendments to the Constitution; and they shall be\nentitled to be present at all meetings of the Board of Directors,\nand to take part in the proceedings, but not to vote.\n\nART. V. The Annual Meeting of the Association and of the Board of\nDirectors shall be held in the month of October or November, at\nsuch time and place as may be designated by the Executive Committee.\n\nART. VI. The Board of Directors shall consist of fifty persons, of\nwhom fifteen shall constitute a quorum. They shall be chosen by\nballot, the votes of absent members being receivable under such\nsafeguards as may be prescribed in the By-Laws of the Association.\nAt the first election of this Board, ten persons shall be elected\nfor the term of one year, and a like number for terms of two,\nthree, four, and five years respectively; and each year thereafter\nten persons shall be elected for the full term of five years, and\nsuch others as may be needed to fill vacancies.\n\nIf any Director shall fail to attend two annual meetings in\nsuccession, and to report the reason for such non-attendance, his\nplace on the Board shall be regarded as vacant.\n\nART. VII. The Board of Directors shall elect Secretaries of the\nAssociation, Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive Committee of\nfifteen members, shall ordain By-Laws, and in general shall direct\nand control the operations of the Association.\n\nART. VIII. The powers and functions of the several officers shall\nbe prescribed in the By-Laws.\n\nART. IX. No person shall be made a Director or officer of this\nAssociation who is not a member of some evangelical church.\n\nART. X. Missionary bodies, churches, or individuals agreeing to\nthe principles of this society, and wishing to appoint and sustain\nmissionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the\nagency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART. XI. Proposals for the amendment of this Constitution,\nsustained by the signatures of not less than fifty members of the\nAssociation, shall be published for not less than three months in\nthe official periodicals of the Association, and shall thereafter\nbe submitted to the vote of the members, by ballot, at the annual\nmeeting, under such conditions as shall be prescribed in the\nBy-Laws; and if the proposed amendment shall be sustained by\ntwo-thirds of the ballots cast, it shall be declared adopted.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n           BRAIN AND NERVE FOOD. VITALIZED PHOS-PHITES.\n\nIt restores the energy lost by Nervousness or Indigestion;\nrelieves Lassitude and Neuralgia; refreshes the Nerves tired\nby Worry, Excitement or Excessive Brain Fatigue; strengthens a\nFailing Memory, and gives Renewed Vigor in all Diseases of Nervous\nExhaustion or Debility. It is the only PREVENTIVE of Consumption.\n\nIt gives Vitality to the Insufficient Bodily or Mental Growth of\nChildren; gives Quiet, Rest, and Sleep, as it promotes Good Health\nto Brain and Body.\n\n     Composed of the Nerve-Giving Principles of the Ox-Brain\n                          and Wheat-Germ.\n  =Physicians have Prescribed 500,000 Packages.=\n  For sale by Druggists, or by Mail, $1.\n  F. CROSBY CO., 664 and 666 Sixth Avenue, New York.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                      _THE CHICKERING PIANO_\n\n                     \u201cTHE BEST IN THE WORLD.\u201d\n\nBefore buying elsewhere, write for circular and price list to\n\n                        CHICKERING & SONS,\n\n                         CHICKERING HALL,\n                      130 Fifth Avenue, N.Y.\n\n                           MANUFACTORY,\n                      156 Tremont St., Boston\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration: COUNT RUMFORD.]\n\n                            HORSFORD\u2019S\n\n                         =ACID PHOSPHATE=.\n\n                             (LIQUID.)\n\n                FOR DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL\n                EXHAUSTION, NERVOUSNESS, DIMINISHED\n                         VITALITY, URINARY\n                        DIFFICULTIES, ETC.\n\n              PREPARED ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTION OF\n\n             Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass.\n\nThere seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical\nauthority of the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has\never been offered to the public which seems to so happily meet the\ngeneral want as this.\n\nIt is not nauseous, but agreeable to the taste.\n\nNo danger can attend its use.\n\nIts action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to\ntake.\n\nIt makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only.\n\nPrices reasonable. Pamphlet giving further particulars mailed free\non application.\n\n                        MANUFACTURED BY THE\n\n                      RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS,\n\n                         Providence, R.I.,\n\n                  AND FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                          AGENTS! Get the\n\n=NEW BOOK, Our Lost Explorers=. The full, complete and authentic\nhistory, _told by the survivors_, of the ill-fated\n\n\n                       Jeannette Expedition.\n\nThe adventures, discoveries, thrilling experiences and tragic\nending, all combine to make a most fascinating book. _20 copies a\nday sold by live canvassers._ Agents wanted in every town. Send for\ncirculars, terms and agency to AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO., Hartford,\nBoston, Chicago, Cincinnati or St Louis.\n\n\u261e Mention this paper.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             HARTFORD\n\n                       Woven Wire Mattress,\n\n[Illustration]\n\nEspecially adapted to all climates\u2014particularly warm countries\u2014the\nHartford Mattress is cleanly, healthful, durable, economical,\nimpervious to vermin. Requires nothing but a blanket for\nover-covering, making it the cheapest bed in the market. This\nmattress will last a lifetime, and one-third of life is spent\nin sleep. Make that portion comfortable by using the Hartford\nMattress. The Hartford Mattress is now used in all parts of the\nworld; it is the popular bed of the globe, as well as the most\ndelightful sleeping arrangement in use. Try it, buy it, and you\nwill have no other. It is just the mattress for the\n\n\n                   MISSIONARY IN FOREIGN LANDS;\n\nits health-giving properties will aid the weak; its freedom from\nnoise quiet the restless; and its luxurious comfort bring rest\nand refreshment to the most wearied being. Address for catalogues\nprices, or any desired information,\n\n               HARTFORD WOVEN WIRE MATTRESS COMPANY,\n\n                         _P. O. 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Gratis copy for club of 10, with $10. On\ntrial three months, 25c.\n\n=Sabbath Reading.=\u2014A very handsome, small eight-page weekly,\ncontaining in each number an excellent sermon and a choice\nselection of interesting matter for reading on the Lord\u2019s Day.\nFIFTY CENTS a year, club of ten, $4. On trial three months 15c.\n\n=Gems of Poetry.=\u2014A beautiful, sixteen-page monthly, on fine paper,\nand with an excellent portrait of some eminent poet in each number.\nThe contents are two serials, the \u00c6neid of Virgil and Aurora Leigh\nby Mrs. Browning; a fine assortment of selected poetry, and a great\nvariety of original poetry\u2014the latter competing for two prizes each\nquarter. FORTY CENTS a year; club of three, $1. On trial for three\nmonths, 10c.\n\n=Specimens= of the above publications sent free on application. All\nstop when subscription expires.\n\nWITNESS, SABBATH READING and GEMS OF POETRY, three months on trial\nfor fifty cents.\n\n                        JOHN DOUGALL & CO.\n\n                          WITNESS OFFICE:\n\n                  21 VANDEWATER STREET, NEW YORK.\n\n                    We demand the Prohibition\n                      of the Liquor Traffic.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                         CHARMING STORIES.\n\n                     By BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON.\n\n  SYNNOVE SOLBAKKEN.\n  ARNE.\n  A HAPPY BOY.\n  THE FISHER MAIDEN.\n  THE BRIDAL MARCH.\n\n                         16mo. $1.00 each.\n\n\u201cThe reading public should know that such books are a positive\nblessing, and, like the songs of the best poets, awaken these\naspirations that elevate and ennoble the mind and heart.\u201d _New\nEngland Journal of Education._\n\n\n              REMINISCENCES OF ORIEL COLLEGE AND THE\n                         OXFORD MOVEMENT.\n\nBY T. MOZLEY, formerly Fellow of Oriel. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. $3.\n\nThe Oxford movement was not only one of the most important in\nthe religious history of England, but so many famous men were\nconspicuous in it that it had a remarkable personal, as well as\nhistoric interest. Newman, Pusey, Keble, and many other notable men\nfigure in Mr. Mozley\u2019s engaging \u201cReminiscences,\u201d which are full of\nanecdotes and recollections that will be read with nearly as great\nzest in America as in England. Mr. Mozley was for years one of the\nleading writers on the London _Times_ and his book is crowded with\ninteresting facts and glimpses of interesting people.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n_For sale by all booksellers. Sent, postpaid, on\nreceipt of price by the Publishers._\n\n                     HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.,\n\n                              BOSTON.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                    TESTED, TRIED AND APPROVED.\n\n\n                  CROWELL\u2019S S. S. LIBRARY, No. 6.\n\n             _Edited by CHAS. F. DEEMS, D.D., LL. D.,\n              Pastor of the Church of the Strangers,\n                            New York._\n\n                     50 volumes. 16mo. $29.00.\n\n\u201cThe fifty volumes contained in this Library have been procured\nat much expense, and selected from a great number of manuscripts.\nThey have been submitted to my inspection, and each volume has been\nexamined.\n\n\u201cThere is not a sentence in any of these books to which any\nChristian patriot can reasonably object, whatever may be his\ndenominational attachments, his political affiliations, or his\nsectional residence.\n\n\u201cTaken as a whole, the Library may safely be commended to families\nand Sunday Schools in any part of the whole country, and in any\npart of the church universal, as containing nothing but good books,\nmany of which are very superior to the average of this class of\nliterature. I believe that I am serving the cause of the Master in\naiding in the circulation of these excellent volumes.\u201d\n\n                                    CHARLES F. DEEMS,\n                      _Pastor of the Church of the Strangers_.\n\nWe refer also to the Baptist Publication Society, Congregational\nPublishing Society, Lutheran Board, and Methodist Book Concern, all\nof whom use our Libraries freely and will recommend them. Send for\nour catalogue giving an analysis of each book contained in this\nLibrary.\n\n                     THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.,\n\n                     13 Astor Place. New York.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                        Q. N. EVANS & CO.,\n\n                      60 Duane St., New York,\n\n                         Cor. Elm Street,\n\n                          =STEAM HEATING=\n\n                                AND\n\n                     =Ventilating Engineers=,\n\n                      MAKERS AND DESIGNERS OF\n\n              Steam and Water Heating Apparatus for\n                   Public and Private Buildings.\n\nWe have furnished our apparatus for the following buildings:\n\n  Office Building, 58 Broadway, N.Y. City.\n      Calvary Baptist Church, Albany, N.Y.\n          Stover Bros.\u2019 Block, Portland, Me.\n              Boston University, Boston, Mass.\n                  Florence House, N.Y. City.\n                      Mason Building, Boston, Mass.\n  Office Building, cor. 18th st. and B\u2019way, N.Y. City.\n          Fulton County Court House, Atlanta, Ga.\n                  Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.\n\n\n                      NEW ENGLAND AGENTS FOR\n\n                        OTIS BROTHERS & CO.\n\n                   Standard Hydraulic Elevators,\n\n                 72 SUDBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS.\n\n          Prompt attention given to repairing of boilers\n                      and heating apparatus.\n\n               Q. N. EVANS.            H. A. JOSLIN.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration: THE RISING SUN STOVE POLISH]\n\n    For beauty of gloss, for saving of toil,\n    For freeness from dust and slowness to soil,\n    And also for cheapness \u2019tis yet unsurpassed,\n    And thousands of merchants are selling it fast.\n\n    Of all imitations \u2019tis well to beware;\n    The half risen sun every package should bear;\n    For this is the \u201ctrade mark\u201d the MORSE BROS. use,\n    And none are permitted the mark to abuse.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             MANHATTAN\n\n                      Life Insurance Company\n\n                           OF NEW YORK.\n\n\nOVER THIRTY-TWO YEARS\u2019 business experience.\n\nLIBERAL FORM OF POLICY, securing non-forfeiture under the recent\nlaws of the State of New York.\n\nPROMINENT OBJECT.\u2014Life insurance for policy holders.\n\nRESULTS.\u2014Over 3,000 families benefited.\n\nCOST.\u2014The lowest consistent with safety.\n\nDIVIDENDS of surplus made annually, and have been large.\n\nINVESTMENT RULE.\u2014To get the best security rather than the largest\ninterest.\n\n\n                          AGENTS WANTED.\n\nActive, reliable and persevering men, who desire agencies in the\nStates of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and\nMissouri are invited to correspond with the company direct.\n\n                                           HENRY STOKES,\n                                                    President.\n\nJ. L. HALSEY, Secretary.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.\n\n[Illustration: SMITH AMERICAN ORGANS ARE THE BEST]\n\n\n                 _Catalogues Free on Application._\n\nAddress the Company either at\n\n  BOSTON, MASS., 531 Tremont Street;\n  LONDON, ENG., 57 Holborn Viaduct;\n  KANSAS CITY, Mo., 817 Main Street;\n  ATLANTA, GA., 27 Whitehall Street;\n  Or, DEFIANCE, O.\n\n                         OVER 95,000 SOLD.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             BARSTOW\u2019S\n\n                       Wrought Iron Furnace\n\n                For Anthracite or Bituminous Coal.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n              THIRTEEN SIZES\u2014PORTABLE AND BRICK SET.\n\n        Indorsed by the Leading Sanitarians of the Country.\n\n                 \u201cBarstow\u2019s Wrought-Iron Furnace,\n\n\nproperly set and supplied with plenary amount of fresh air, is one\nof the most efficient and delightful house-warmers it has ever\nbeen our privilege to enjoy: this conclusion is based upon three\nwinters\u2019 use, under extraordinary house exposure. Economical in\nfuel, plenty of warmth, fire easily kept, no gas escape, no sore\nthroats.\u2014_A. W. Bell, A.M., M.D., Editor Sanitarian._\u201d\n\n\n                        BARSTOW STOVE CO.,\n\n            Cor. Beekman and Water Sts., N.Y., 56 and\n              58 Union St., Boston; Providence, R.I.\n\n                 O\u2019CONNOR & HARDER, St. Louis, Mo.\n\n                      WESTERN SELLING AGENTS.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                      AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER!\n\n                            \u2014\u2014\u2014 (O) \u2014\u2014\u2014\n\nThere are a number of persons out of employment in every county\u2014yet\nenergetic men willing to work do not need to be. Those willing\nto work can make from $100 to $500 a month clear, working for us\nin a pleasant and permanent business. The amount our agents make\nvaries\u2014some making as high as $500 a month, while others as low as\n$100, all depending on the energy of the agent. We have an article\nof great merit. It should be sold to every house-owner, and pays\nover 100 per cent. profit Each sale is from $3.50 to $10.00. One\nagent in Pennsylvania sold 32 in two days, and cleared $64. An\nagent in New York made $45 in one day. Any man with energy enough\nto work a full day, and will do this during the year, can make from\n$2,000 to $6,000 a year. We only want one man in each county, and\nto him will give the exclusive sale as long as he continues to work\nfaithfully for us. There is no competition, and nothing like our\ninvention made. Parties having from $200 to $1,000 to invest can\nobtain a General Agency for ten counties or a state. Any one can\nmake an investment of from $25 to $1,000 without the least risk\nof loss, as our circulars will show that those investing $25 can,\nafter a 30 days\u2019 trial, return the goods unsold to us and get their\nmoney back, if they do not clear at least $100. They show that a\nGeneral Agent who will take ten counties and invest $216 can, after\na trial of 90 days, return all goods unsold to us, and have money\nreturned to them if they fail to clear at least $750 in that time.\nWe are not paying salaries, but want men willing to work and obtain\nas their pay the profits of their energy. Men not willing to work\non our terms will not work on any. _Those meaning business_ will\nreceive our large descriptive circular, and extraordinary offer\nby enclosing a three-cent stamp, with their address. The first to\ncomply with our terms will secure the county or counties they may\nwish to work. Address, RENNER MANUFACTURING CO.,\n\n                        118 Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration: ESTEY ORGAN\n\nJ. Estey & Co\n\nBrattleboro Vt.]\n\nAs musical culture increases it demands in musical instruments for\nhome, church, or school, excellence in tone, tasteful workmanship,\nand durability.\n\nSEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                    7 PER CENT. TO 8 PER CENT.\n\n                     Interest Net to Investors\n\n                      In First Mortgage Bonds\n\n                         ON IMPROVED FARMS\n\n                  In Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota,\n\n                            SECURED BY\n\n                        ORMSBY BROS. & CO.,\n\n                  BANKERS, LOAN AND LAND BROKERS,\n\n                         EMMETSBURG, IOWA.\n\n        References and Circulars forwarded on Application.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     60,000 TONS USED IN 1881.\n\nOne ton will build two miles of staunch three-strand Barb Fence.\nOne strand will make an old wooden fence impassable to large\ncattle. One strand at bottom will keep out hogs.\n\n                   Washburn & Moen Man\u2019f\u2019g Co.,\n\n                         WORCESTER, MASS.,\n\n                         Manufacturers of\n\n                    Patent Steel Barb Fencing.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nA STEEL Thorn Hedge. No other Fencing so cheap or put up so\nquickly. Never rusts, stains, decays, shrinks nor warps. Unaffected\nby fire, wind or flood. A complete barrier to the most unruly\nstock. Impassable by man or beast.\n\nNo other Fence Material so easily handled by small proprietors and\ntenants, or large planters in the South.\n\nShipped on spools containing 100 pounds, or eighty rods of Fencing.\nCan be kept on the Reel for transient uses.\n\n           CHEAPEST, BEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE OF FENCES.\n\nSend for Illustrative Pamphlets and Circulars, as above.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with\nthe almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its\nmain efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens\nand Christians in America, and as missionaries in Africa. As\nclosely related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted\nCHINESE in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its\nhumane and Christian policy toward the INDIANS. It has also a\nmission in AFRICA.\n\n\nSTATISTICS.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014In District of Columbia, 1; Virginia, 1;\nNorth Carolina, 6; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 13; Kentucky, 7;\nTennessee, 4; Alabama, 14; Kansas, 1; Arkansas, 1; Louisiana, 18;\nMississippi, 4; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 3. _Among the Indians_, 1.\nTotal, 82.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE\nSOUTH.\u2014_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.;\nAtlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans,\nLa., and Austin, Tex.\u20148. _Graded or Normal Schools_: Wilmington,\nN.C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S.C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.;\nMontgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.\u201411. _Other\nSchools_, 35. Total, 54.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014Among the Freedmen, 319;\namong the Chinese, 28; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total,\n369. STUDENTS.\u2014In theology, 104; law, 20; in college course, 91;\nin other studies, 8,884. Total, 9,108. Scholars taught by former\npupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. Indians under the care\nof the Association, 13,000.\n\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the\ngrowing work. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and\n_larger_ contributions from the churches, the feeble as well as the\nstrong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for\nthe new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and\npious, for these churches.\n\n3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and\nmissionaries to Africa\u2014a pressing want.\n\nBefore sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.\noffice as 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\nTranscribers Notes\n\n\nObvious printer\u2019s punctuation errors and omissions corrected.\nUnusual spellings suspected to be the original author\u2019s were\nretained. Differences in hyphenation retained due to the\nmultiplicity of authors.\n\n\u201cSteet\u201d changed to \u201cStreet\u201d on the inside cover in the\nCORRESPONDING SECRETARY listing.\n\nMoved the drawing of the Rice Plantation from page 270 to 271 to\nallow the drawing to be placed between paragraphs.\n\nMoved a few lines of text from the bottom of page 272 to the top of\npage 274 to allow the drawing to be placed between paragraphs on\npage 273.\n\n\u201cAarrisville\u201d changed to \u201cHarrisville\u201d in the New Hampshire section\nof the Receipts on page 279.\n\nTotal for the Pittsfield entry on page 280 changed from 8.81 to\n88.81 to agree with individual amounts listed on the line. Other\narithmetic anomalies in the RECEIPTS section could not be corrected.\n\n\u201cSacrament\u201d, changed to \u201cSacramento\u201d on page 283.\n\nChanged \u201cit\u201d to \u201cis\u201d and \u201cblankes\u201d to \u201cblanket\u201d in the Hartford\nWoven Wire Mattress advertisement on page 285. (the Hartford\nMattress is cleanly....Requires nothing but a blanket)","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 36, No. 9, September, 1882","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":19069}