{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_58127/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_58127","id":"gutenberg_58127","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58127","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online\nDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This\nfile was produced from images generously made available\nby Cornell University Digital Collections)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  VOL. XXXVI.       NOVEMBER, 1882.       NO. 11.\n\n  THE\n\n  American Missionary\n\n  \u201cTHEY ARE RISING ALL ARE RISING, THE BLACK AND WHITE TOGETHER\u201d\n\n\n  NEW YORK:\n\n  PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\n\n  ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n  Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class\n  matter.]\n\n\n\n\n                             CONTENTS.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                                                         PAGE.\n  EDITORIALS.\n\n    THIS NUMBER\u2014The W. H. M. A.                            321\n    LADY MISSIONARIES\u2014Lady Missionary in New Orleans       322\n    PARAGRAPH\u2014Missionary Campaign                          323\n    CHRISTIANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY FOR THE SAKE OF\n      THE WORLD                                            324\n    PARAGRAPH\u2014Benefactions                                 326\n    GENERAL NOTES\u2014Africa, Indians                          327\n\n\n  THE FREEDMEN.\n\n    LIVINGSTONE MISSIONARY HALL                            328\n    LIVINGSTONE MISSIONARY HALL (Cut)                      329\n    HYGIENIC DEPARTMENT OF FISK UNIVERSITY\u2014Student\n      Teaching                                             330\n    PERMANENT TEMPERANCE WORK                              331\n    WORK IN TOPEKA                                         333\n\n\n  AFRICA.\n\n    DR. LADD\u2019S JOURNAL                                     334\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    FARMING AT FORT BERTHOLD                               340\n    RELIGIOUS INTEREST AT S\u2019KOKOMISH\u2014School at Leech\n      Lake                                                 341\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    REVIEW OF THE YEAR                                     342\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    LETTER FROM AN INDIAN BOY                              342\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                 343\n\n\n  CONSTITUTION                                             349\n\n\n  PROPOSED CONSTITUTION                                    350\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 to\nthe District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the \u201cAmerican\nMissionary,\u201d to Rev. G. Pike, D.D., at the New York office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,\nor, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, Rev. C.\nL. Woodworth. Dist. Sec., 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass.,\nor Rev. James Powell, Dist. Sec., 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member. Letters relating to boxes and barrels of clothing may\nbe addressed to the persons above named.\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST\n\n\u201cI BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of \u2014\u2014 dollars, in\ntrust, to pay the same in \u2014\u2014 days after my decease to the person\nwho, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the\n\u2018American Missionary Association\u2019 of New York City, to be applied,\nunder the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association,\nto its charitable uses and purposes.\u201d The Will should be attested\nby three witnesses.\n\n\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.      NOVEMBER, 1882.        NO. 11.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThis number of the MISSIONARY will reach our readers about the\ntime of the assembling of our friends at the Annual Meeting. With\nthe sum of $300,000 so nearly reached, with no debt upon our\ntreasury, with a year of most successful work, with the addition\nof many large, commodious and much needed buildings, and with\nthe dew of divine grace resting upon many of our churches and\nschools, we shall meet in our annual gathering with abundant causes\nof gratitude towards God for the past, and hope and courage for\nanother year. Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian life, and\nnone the less of missionary endeavor. We ask a place evermore in\nthe prayers of God\u2019s people. At our Annual Meeting it is our custom\nto spend a season of devotion on Tuesday afternoon in concert with\nall our workers in the field, who gather in their homes and schools\nand churches to lift up their voices in thanks and supplications\nwith us for the blessing of God upon our work. We ask those of\nour Christian friends whose eyes may rest upon this page at that\nhour of worship to unite with us in it; and may we not hope that\nthis suggestion, though received later, may stimulate to earnest\nsupplication in behalf of our work?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE WOMAN\u2019S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nThe arrangement for co-operation between the A. M. A. and the W. H.\nM. A. has ceased. A few words of explanation are proper. From an\nearly period of our work among the Freedmen, we have employed lady\nmissionaries, and found them exceedingly useful. When the W. H. M.\nA. was formed, we entered into co-operation with it in the hope\nthat a larger number of such missionaries might be sent into the\nfield. It was found, however, that with the office of one society\nin New York and the other in Boston, it was impossible to have such\nconstant consultations as to appointments, places and work as would\navoid all misunderstandings and complications. We have, therefore,\nfelt it our duty, though with reluctance and with all respect for\nthe zeal and earnest Christian purposes of the W. H. M. A., to\nsever our connection with it.\n\nAs we now return to our old plan of selecting the lady\nmissionaries, and of supporting them from our treasury, we most\nearnestly solicit the aid of the noble women of our constituency\nwho sympathize with our endeavor to lift up the lowly of their sex,\nand to bring into their homes the refining and elevating influences\nof the Gospel. Whether this aid shall be rendered by individual\ngifts or by united efforts on the part of ladies of given churches\nor localities, we most cheerfully leave to their good judgment\nto decide. The work we know is promising, the opportunities are\nabundant, and the blessings two-fold to those who give.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLADY MISSIONARIES\n\nAs we intend to increase the number of our lady missionaries in\nthe South, it is fitting that we explain our aim in sending them\nand the methods of their work. Their services are mainly in the\nhome with the mothers and the children. We regard the home, the\nschool and the church as the pivots of the Christian life, each\nmost effective when working with the others. A home that is not\nneat, attractive and pure, cripples the efforts of the school and\nthe church. If a child spends six hours in a school and eighteen\nhours in a disorderly and immoral home, or if a man attends service\nin a church on Sunday and spends all the rest of the week in that\nsame home, the progress of both boy and man in the Christian life\nwill be slow indeed. We aim to build up _character_, and if the\nschool, the church and the home, co-operate in harmony \u201caccording\nto the effectual working in the measure of every part,\u201d the product\nwill, under God, be men and women of intelligent minds and pure\nhearts, happy themselves, useful to their race and the nation, and\nornaments to the church of Christ.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLADY MISSIONARY IN NEW ORLEANS.\n\nWe have appointed Miss A. D. Gerrish as lady missionary in New\nOrleans, and she entered upon her work there Oct. 1. She will\ndevote her energies with special reference to aiding our work in\nStraight University and in Central Church, in accordance with\nthe principles laid down in the foregoing article. There is much\nbenevolent and Christian work to be done in that great city, and\nthe A. M. A., unable, of course, to do it all, must make choice.\nFor the Chinamen in America, we are doing our great work on the\nPacific Coast, and those who float into Eastern and Southern\ncities seem to have been brought providentially to the doors of\nthe large and wealthy local churches, whose duty and privilege it\nis to lead these strangers to the Saviour. As to the maintaining\nof orphanages, our experiment, thoroughly tried in the opening of\nour work in the South, when such asylums were more needed than\nnow, proved to us that our broadest and best work for the colored\npeople could not be done in them. We are persuaded that a given sum\nof money will do more for the effectual elevation of the colored\npeople in connection with our regular work in church, school and\nhome than in any other way. The lady missionary, aiding to make the\nhome of the pupil and parishioner neat, intelligent and pure, will\nnot only brighten that spot, but will render the school and the\nchurch more effectual.\n\nMiss Gerrish is no stranger to our work. She has been eminently\nsuccessful as missionary in Topeka, Kansas, where her remarkable\nmusical gifts, her magnetic enthusiasm, and her earnest Christian\ncharacter, have won all hearts within her influence. We bespeak for\nher a share in the sympathies and prayers of the faithful Christian\nwomen of the North and West, who toil for the elevation of women\nwho are depressed by poverty and ignorance.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWE publish in consecutive pages in this number of the MISSIONARY\nthe Constitution of the A. M. A. as it now stands, and the Proposed\nConstitution as it will be reported at our Annual Meeting for\naction. They will be convenient for reference and comparison.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHAT missionary campaign in Central and Western New York became a\nsuccess. Meetings, of three sessions each, were held in eighteen\nplaces: Penn Yan, (Pa.), Norwich, Walton, Utica, Antwerp, Norwood,\nSandy Creek, Oswego, Elmira, Ithaca, Canandaigua, Fairport,\nLockport, Homer, Binghamtom, Schenectady, Poughkeepsie. Secretary\nC. C. Creegan, the manager, represented the work of the A. H. M.\nS. in all the country, as well as in his own State, using his huge\nmap of the United States. His experience as former Superintendent\nof Colorado and adjacent mountain country, fits him well for\nthis service, in which he is enthusiastic. Dr. L. H. Cobb, out\nof his ten years\u2019 experience as Superintendent in Minnesota, and\nbrief work in the New West as Missionary Secretary of the A. H.\nM. S., was able to say, we speak what we do know in pleading for\nthe housing of the new churches on the frontier. He also makes\na forceful appeal for helping them to parsonages as a piece of\npolicy in the economy and efficiency of home mission work. Dr.\nH. C. Hayden, of the American Board, with singular felicity,\nearnestness and variation, poured out his soul in behalf of the\noutlying regions. He, too, had maps; they were of China, Japan\nand Africa, and right eloquent were they in their appeals to the\nhead and heart through the eye. Dr. O. H. White, Secretary of the\nBritish Freedmen\u2019s Aid Society, co-operative with the A. M. A., in\nbehalf of Africa, for the first half of the tour represented our\ncause, portraying the interest of English Christians in this work,\ndelineating from his ample study the country, the people, and the\nprospect of missions in Africa, and also reporting the condition\nand progress of our schools and churches in the South. For the\nlast part of the course our Field Superintendent, as a \u201creturned\nmissionary\u201d made report of his field, representing also our work\namong the Indians, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast, and the Mendi\npeople in Africa. It was interesting to observe the harmony and\ninter-play of all the addresses, and so of the several causes. At\neach meeting there were representatives from neighboring churches,\nup to seven or eight in number, so that, in all, the words of the\nbrethren were heard by messengers from one hundred churches, by\none hundred of our own ministers, by thirty-five pastors in other\ndenominations, and, through an estimate, by seven or eight thousand\npeople. These, too, were representative people; they would report\nwhat they had heard; and when they told the non-attendants how much\nthey had lost, this, too, would be a valuable testimony. Pastors\nnot unfrequently announced a quickened interest, and promised to\nbe yet more diligent in presenting these related interests of all\nthe churches; they found that the calling in of these brethren was\nof the nature of using experts in behalf of the respective modes\nof Christian propagandism. The men of the corps were delighted\nwith the heartiness of their reception everywhere, and came back\nwith an increased love for the Lord\u2019s dear people whom they had\nmet and tried to serve. Doubtless good was done in sowing seed,\nwhich will appear in future fruitfulness in prayer and sympathy\nand contributions for these several causes, which are one. As the\nhuntsman looks for his game after the fire, we shall be looking\nfor the A. M. A. bagging out in that country, which one of our\nrepresentatives says is the finest part of the United States.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CHRISTIANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD.\n\nThat is the loftiest argument for home missions. God evidently\nintended that this should be made a great missionary nation. If\nit had been discovered and settled much earlier we should have\nhad simply a transference of the old world civilization, with all\nof its spiritual despotism. As it was, South America and Mexico\ndid receive that inheritance, and our territory, once claimed by\nthe Pope, and actually recognized as belonging to the Catholic\ncountries France and Spain, as appears from old maps and globes,\nhas barely escaped by the overruling of Providence, which has given\nit to the English-speaking Protestantism, and by the evangelism\ndeveloped through American Christianity.\n\nProf. Phelps was right when he wrote: \u201cWere I a missionary in\nCanton, my first prayer every morning would be for America in\nbehalf of Canton.\u201d This idea gives a grandeur to the march of the\nAmerican Home Missionary Society across the continent. The course\nof missionaries is now largely changed. Once they set sail from our\nshores eastward, now they cross our national domain to go westward.\nWe cry, all hail, to that right wing of Immanuel\u2019s army that is\nsweeping the land from ocean to ocean. Already our own American\nBoard is finding the West its best hunting-ground for missionaries\nto go abroad. It is even going into the cabins of the frontiersmen,\nas well as to the Western Theological Seminaries, to find its\nconsecrated men and women. And this is proving to be choice\nmaterial to make our Lord\u2019s world-conquerors out of. Men who have\nlifted up axes upon the thick trees, and have come into contact\nwith affairs, have the hardy stuff needed in the work abroad.\n\nSo the American Missionary Association is the left wing of the\nCongregational corps that is seeking to subdue this realm to our\nKing, the Christ. To this end was its former work at the West,\nwhere it had its seventy-nine home missionaries. To this end is its\nscheme for helping in the evangelizing of the Aborigines, who have\nmade way for us to build up our nation. To this end is our movement\nin behalf of the six millions of our colored fellow-citizens; a\nmovement which, as we are humbly grateful to be able to say, God\nhas made great. To this end is our mission among the Chinese, whom\nGod has wondrously brought to our door to receive the Gospel.\n\nNow, all of this, primarily for the sake of our country, is\nclearly, in the divine purpose, also for the sake of the world.\nWhy did God just now make such a junction as that of the marvelous\nopening of Africa to science, commerce and the Gospel, along with\nthe emancipation of the African slaves in our country? Everybody\nsays, it must have been that these Christianized Africo-Americans\nmight have an open way for carrying back to their native land,\nas pilgrims, the same blessings which the original pilgrims had\nbrought to this new world from the old. Nothing could be grander\nthan this process of helping our brethren of the South on to a\ndegree of attainment that will fit them to become the Puritan\nelement that may yet leaven that dark continent. Not simply may we\nsend over there the cultivated professional men and helping women,\nbut who knows but that, by and by, as Ireland has been emptied\nseveral times into this country\u2014live freight being easier of\nshipment than dead\u2014so may masses of our \u201cAmericans falsely called\nAfricans,\u201d as Lewis Tappan used to say, go over with intelligent\npurpose to take Africa for their home, almost transporting\ncivilization in bulk.\n\nSo our whole work on the California coast is a grand training\nschool to fit native missionaries for China, not simply to raise up\nnominal preachers and teachers to go back to father land, but to\nmake Christians of the many, who, by virtue of their discipleship,\nshall be commissioned of the Lord to go forth bearing the Gospel,\neven as the early Christians went forth everywhere preaching the\nWord. Such an infusion of Gospel leaven will be one of the most\nhopeful features of the Christian propaganda in the Celestial\nEmpire.\n\nAnd so here we find the confirmation of the field and the work of\nthis Association. We are put in trust with the care of these three\ndepressed races dwelling by our side\u2014in trust for their good, for\nour country\u2019s welfare\u2014in trust for the sake of Africa and China and\nall the world. As these three peoples are here to stay, and as they\nwill ever need the foster care of their more favored brothers of\nthe common family, we find herein the justification and the demand\nfor far-sighted and long-continuous plans on the part of this body\nfor the lifting up of all these three classes of lowly poor, in\norder to their own elevation, in order to the evangelization of our\ncountry, in order to the salvation of the world.\n\nEqually clear providential indications may yet point the way to\na work among the Southern white people, as soon as the caste\nprejudice shall melt away under the benign influence of Gospel\nlight and love. And thus all the races\u2014as in Christ Jesus there\nis neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free\u2014shall be\nunited not only in Christian sympathy and fellowship at home, but\nin the blessed work of carrying the pure Gospel of Christ to all\nthe lands and peoples of the world.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nA GENTLEMAN, who for a dozen years has been a member of the Senate\nof Maryland, drops in at our rooms occasionally from interest in\nour work. The last time he was in he spoke of a colored young\nCatholic, who was among the number of those who were taken over\nto London to be educated for the priesthood and to be returned to\nlabor among the freedmen in that office. The Doctor said that the\nyoung man had returned with a fine education, but had abandoned the\nidea of taking orders. He was now teaching school, but his highest\nambition was to become a porter in a large library. As this is the\nfirst and only one of those young men, of whom so much was said at\none time, to be identified by us, we are glad to hear from him. Of\ncourse, this one case does not carry the whole, but surely it does\nnot augur much for a Romish propagandism among our colored fellow\ncitizens.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nJohn Francis Clapp of the firm of Simpson, Clapp & Co., of New\nYork, remembered his native town, Belchertown, Mass., in his will\nby the gift of $40,000 for a public library and a building for the\nsame.\n\nMr. George I. Seney has presented $25,000 to the Wesleyan Female\nCollege, to finish the college buildings.\n\nMrs. Shaw, of Boston, the daughter of the late Professor Agassiz,\nsupports 33 kindergartens in that city and vicinity, at an expense\nof $25,000 per annum.\n\nPresident Peter McVicar has lately received a gift of $10,000 for\nWashburn College from a friend in Massachusetts.\n\nNot only has Rev. H. O. Ladd\u2019s University of New Mexico at Santa Fe\nreceived $5,000 from the estate of the late Deacon J. C. Whitin,\nbut other gifts are promised for the building now going up.\n\nBowdoin College has received $1,000 from Dr. Goodwin to found a\ncommencement prize, $4,000 from the estate of Mrs. Noah Woods,\nof Bangor, to establish the Blake Scholarship, $1,000 from John\nC. Dodge, of Cambridge, for library purposes. $3,500 was pledged\ntowards a new gymnasium and $1,000 for a new laboratory.\n\n_The man who gave the $20,000 named at this place in our last\nissue, calls it \u201cstewardship.\u201d The man who gave the $10,000 there\nindicated calls it not a donation, but an \u201cinvestment.\u201d We have\nsome such investments to offer, with this indorsement, \u201cHe that\nhath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord\u201d\u2014an investment of\n$1,000 for a scholarship, $10,000 for a library, or $25,000 for a\nprofessorship in any of our chartered institutions._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\u2014The Italian government will shortly send a messenger to the king\nof Abyssinia, charged with giving him presents from King Humbert,\nand renewing at the same time friendly relations between the two\ncountries.\n\n\u2014M. Antoine, who has been some time in Abyssinia, reports that the\nnatives endure with impunity the malaria of the lower regions,\npernicious to Europeans, and attributes their freedom from sickness\nto the daily use of fumigations of sulphur.\n\n\u2014At the request of M. Price, founder of the establishment at Frere\nTown for the freed slaves, the Committee of the Church of England\nMissions has decided to send two new missionaries, a teacher, and,\nif possible, a physician. The agents of the society will endeavor\nto extend the work to the interior.\n\n\u2014The Universities\u2019 Mission to Africa has now three great centres\nof operation\u2014Zanzibar, the Usambara country north of Zanzibar, and\nthe Rovuma District. It has about 1,000 natives under its care, has\ntransformed the old slave-market of Zanzibar, where formerly 30,000\nslaves were sold annually, into mission premises, with a church,\nmission-house and school, and established a chain of stations from\nthe coast to Lake Nyassa. The income for 1881 was \u00a311,000 and the\nmission has 34 European missionaries and 26 native evangelists. The\nmission was started in 1859 at the suggestion of Dr. Livingstone,\nand looks to the universities for its supply of clergy.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\u2014Five new Indian students have arrived at the Hampton\nInstitute\u2014one, whose position in the school is not yet defined, as\nit is difficult to find a class for him. This is Hampton\u2019s first\nexperience in training married people in homes. Miss Fletcher\nbrought from Omaha two families, in one of which there is a\nfine-looking baby of 18 months.\n\n\u2014At Hampton, in the tin shop, over 7,000 pieces of tinware have\nbeen made for the Indian Department since the 20th of June, in\naddition to the tin work done on school grounds. All the contracts\nfor the Interior Department are completed, and 55 cases nicely\npacked have been shipped to the different agencies.\n\n\u2014Mr. Cowley writes from Spokan Falls that he returned recently from\nsession of District Court, having been summoned as interpreter in\nan action of the U.S. Marshal against four white men for selling\nwhiskey to Indians. Two were sentenced to penitentiary, one broke\njail before trial, and the other cannot yet be found. It will break\nup the traffic for a time. The jury in the last case brought in a\nunanimous verdict of guilty, on the testimony of one Indian, which\ngives a hint as to the intelligence and absence of race prejudice\non the part of the whites, and of the reputation of the Indians in\nthat region for veracity.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FREEDMEN.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLIVINGSTONE MISSIONARY HALL\n\nWas so far completed that it was ready for occupation at the\nbeginning of the scholastic year, Sept. 4. The dedication has been\nfixed for Monday, Oct. 30, so that persons in attendance upon the\nannual meeting of the A. M. A. the previous week in Cleveland can\ngo on to Nashville and spend the Sabbath and be present at the\ndedicatory exercises.\n\nThe Hall is 203 feet in length and 52 feet in width. The central\npart is ten feet wider, and the whole building is four stories,\nwith a basement. The building contains a chapel, a large library\nroom, museum, scientific lecture room 40 by 30, Treasurer\u2019s office,\nPresident\u2019s room, thirteen class and lecture rooms and sixty-six\ndormitory and living rooms. It is heated by steam.\n\nThe completion of this new Hall nearly doubles the capacity of\nFisk University. The movement for the erection of this building\nwas begun in England in 1876, and its final success is due to\nthe munificence of Mrs. Stone, who gave, for the erection and\nfurnishing of the Hall, $60,000. It is expected that the exercises\nconnected with the dedication will be of great interest, and a\ncordial invitation is extended to the friends of our Southern work\nto be present.\n\n[Illustration: LIVINGSTONE MISSIONARY HALL, NASHVILLE, TENN.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHYGIENIC DEPARTMENT AT FISK UNIVERSITY.\n\nBY MRS. JULIET B. SMITH\n\nThe hygienic classes were to have begun this week, but are of\nnecessity postponed that I may help in the model school until the\nnew teacher arrives. Small-pox being in the city, I have examined\nthe students in all grades and vaccinated all who were unprotected.\nI have had much pleasure and profit in talking over the matter of\nthe hygienic classes with Miss Parmelee, and she has given me many\nvaluable hints from her work at Memphis. We have fitted up a sick\nward to be used in case of severe or infectious disease. It is at\nthe top of the house, with perfect ventilation, and I feel quite\nhappy over its capabilities. Mr. Hawley has been prompt to answer\nmy calls for disinfectants, and I hope to make them tell on the\nhealth rates for the coming year.\n\nIn the hygienic classes, as full notes as possible are to be taken\nby the pupils. The magnitude of the task of teaching healthful\nliving grows upon me, but I am glad and grateful to have the chance\nto go to work in the old field and to be better equipped than years\nago. Miss Parmelee and I have it close at our hearts to get strong\nhold of our city girls, and through them of their mothers with a\nview toward mother\u2019s meetings sometime and somehow. The health of\nthe school is fair, the most serious ailments being among those who\nhave taught in the swamp lands.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSTUDENT TEACHING\n\n(BY THE STUDENTS OF FISK UNIVERSITY DURING THE SUMMER VACATION.)\n\nREV. H. S. BENNETT.\n\nA meeting of great interest was held in Fisk University on the\nnight of the 15th of September. The occasion was to furnish an\nopportunity to those students who had been engaged in teaching\nduring the summer to give the details of experience in their work.\n\nPres. Cravath presided. Rev. Geo. W. Moore was introduced as one\nwho during the past year had been studying theology and preaching\nin Ohio. Mr. Moore paid a grateful tribute to Fisk University as\nthe place where he had studied. He thought that colored students\nwould do better to study in the South. He had been preaching to a\nwhite church, or to white churches. As a colored man he would make\nno apologies nor explanations. He had a message to carry to the\npeople. He got their confidence and love before they knew who he\nwas. He had three regular stations and preached to eight churches\nin all. Last Sunday he was called to Sullivan, and was told that\nthey would oppose him on account of his race identity; but he\nwas cordially received, and the result was a unanimous call with\nincrease of salary.\n\nBrethren Anderson and Ously have been highly esteemed in Oberlin.\nThey have been hard students and have won the commendations of\ntheir teachers.\n\nH. C. Gray taught school in Shelby County, Tenn. \u201cMy school did not\nhave more than thirty on the roll. I tried to give satisfaction\nbecause four or five teachers before me had failed and left before\ntheir time was out. During the last two months my school was much\nlarger than at first, but the pupils were kept out by chills and\nfever. I had fifteen or twenty pupils without any books.\u201d\n\nH. F. Mitchell, near Fernanda, Miss. \u201cI enrolled 104 and had two\nassistants. I was quite successful. I introduced the tonic sol-fa\nmethod of teaching music and succeeded well in it. My health was\ngood all summer. I was taken with a chill the last day of school.\u201d\n\nW. H. Ross, who had been helping in holding an institute gave an\naccount of his work. He had attended institutes before, but they\nwere not so much of the nature of a school. \u201cWe had a course of\nlectures, which was a main feature in the work. We tried to inspire\nthe young people with a desire to pursue a course of study. All who\nattended were pleased with the work done. The colored people of\nGibson Co. are far behind in the scale of intelligence. After the\ninstitute closed I opened my school the next Monday. The attendance\nwas about thirty. The people have a great desire to go forward.\u201d\n\nHumphrey Jones taught school in Georgia, near Dalton. \u201cI opened\nschool on the 10th of July with nine scholars. They wanted to\nknow whether I was Methodist or Baptist. I told them I was\nCongregationalist. They shook their heads; they did not know\nanything about that. They did not think it was anything. My school\nwas very small, because the people would not pay twenty-five cents\nper month. The people are further behind there than in any place I\nhave been.\u201d\n\nG. A. T. Robinson: \u201cI taught in Georgia near Mr. Jones. The people\nare very poor and ignorant. They are not interested in education. A\nstrong prejudice exists against the public schools. The most of the\npeople are servants and are content to be such. A teacher is looked\nupon as a bad man. I taught in a Baptist Church and they would not\nlet me teach in the Sunday school. They want me to come back there.\u201d\n\nElla Jones, from Texas: \u201cI had charge of the girls in the place\nwhere I taught, Huntsville. I made up my mind to live a Christian\nlife. I taught eight months. I also taught in the Sabbath School.\nThey wanted me to teach the next year, but I felt that I must\ncontinue my course. I tried to do whatever I did as a Christian.\nThere were some conversions in my school. How much of this is due\nto my influence I do not know.\u201d\n\nAlice Vasser only taught five weeks at Booneville, Tenn. \u201cWhen I\narrived they had no school-house for me to begin to teach in. They\nput a floor in an old house and a roof on it, and I began to teach.\nI walked two miles every day. I had fifteen scholars. I feel that\nI did some good. The children wanted to learn very much. They were\nvery anxious to have me come back.\u201d\n\nG. A. McLelland taught at Tiptonville, Tenn. \u201cMy school numbered\nabout sixty. The children were not so far advanced in their books,\nbut they were more easily managed. I taught in the Sunday-school.\nThe older people were harder to interest. I got them in night\nschool. I sang Jubilee songs and told them stories, and thus got\nthem interested. Fisk University stands very high in the estimation\nof the people.\u201d\n\nHenrietta Bailey taught in Mississippi for three months; had a\npleasant school, but did not get her money till after Christmas.\nAfterward taught in Lincoln school; had an attendance of\nforty-five, an average attendance of thirty-one.\n\nThus closed a very interesting exercise. Most of the students are\nstill out teaching. The record of the evening is a fair statement\nof the work done by the students of the institution.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPERMANENT TEMPERANCE WORK.\n\nMISS LYDIA P. AULD.\n\nThe first of April, 1869, by the advice of our friends in\nSt. Augustine, Fla., and by express command from the State\nSuperintendent, who said we were working too hard, we gave up our\nnight school, relying more upon their judgment than upon our own\nview of the case.\n\nThe young men in the night class of Miss Bowker (now Mrs. Clift),\nexpressed a strong desire to meet at least one evening in the week\nfor instruction. The idea of forming themselves into a temperance\nsociety was suggested to them, and they decided upon a speedy\norganization.\n\nAccordingly, on the evening of April 6th, about a dozen young men\nmet in our little school room, and proceeded to organize the first\ntemperance society in St. Augustine. After the election of the\nvarious officers, the evening was devoted to music. Miss Bowker had\npreviously taught them several temperance melodies. Mrs. Mayhew, of\nOrange, N.J., who was boarding in town and greatly interested in\nthe welfare of the colored people, was present. She was a sweet\nsinger, and drilled them in two or three new pieces.\n\nOn the 13th, there was an increase of numbers. Mr. Berrian, from\nNew York, was invited to address the young men. He gave them\nexcellent counsel, and read the simple pledge he had prepared,\nexplaining its binding obligations. We did not wish any to sign\nthat night, as we desired them to give the subject careful\nconsideration.\n\nA week later, on the 20th, there was a large attendance. The good\nfriend who was with them the previous week plainly stated the object\nof the meeting. He exhorted them not to do anything rashly; and\nread the Constitution he had drawn up for the Society, with the\nfollowing simple pledge attached:\n\n\u201cWe hereby solemnly pledge ourselves to abstain from the use of all\nintoxicating liquors, or drinks, as a beverage.\u201d\n\nA few moments of solemn silence followed the announcement, \u201cWe\nare now ready for signatures to this pledge,\u201d which was broken by\none after another rising and stating, in a clear and intelligent\nmanner, his reasons for signing the pledge. Many of their remarks\nwere truly affecting. One young man said, \u201cA gentleman, who went\nNorth to-day, offered me a bottle of whisky. I said, \u2018I thank you,\nsir; but I have joined a temperance society, and am going to-night\nto sign the pledge, so please excuse me for not accepting it.\u2019\u201d\nAnother referred to his beastly intoxication on the Christmas day\nbefore, and resolved that the return of that day should find him a\ndifferent man.\n\nThe first to sign was the President, who is even to this day their\nleader. I think no word was uttered during the signing of the\npledge. The firm, manly footstep and scratch of the pen were the\nonly sounds heard. Sixteen names were affixed, and the signatures\nceased for that time. Then the organization was completed. The\nname Lincoln Temperance Society (since changed to Independent\nLincoln Temperance Society) was adopted. Some temperance songs were\nsung, and those young men went quietly and thoughtfully to their\nhomes\u2014nobler, indeed, for the onward step they had taken.\n\nOn our return in the fall, we found that the young Society had\nsteadily grown in strength and numbers. Not one of the \u201csixteen\u201d\nhad violated his pledge, though often and sorely tempted to do\nso. Such abstinence was very praise-worthy in a community where\ndrinking was the universal custom. The Freedmen\u2019s Bureau had\nerected for us a new school building, in one of the rooms of which\nthe Society held its meetings every Monday evening.\n\nApril 20, 1870, the Lincoln Temperance Society celebrated its first\nanniversary. The membership had rolled up to 54. Female members\nhad been admitted during the year, and the good the Society had\naccomplished was clearly perceptible in the elevated tone and\nmanners of the young people. Several white friends were present on\nthis occasion to listen to the speeches of the members. Miss Bowker\nwas referred to in one of these as the \u201cMother of Temperance.\u201d\n\nA few weeks later, in May, we left St. Augustine, not to return.\nYears passed, and only incidentally was the Society heard from.\nIn September, 1878, I was rejoiced to receive a letter from the\nPresident, D. M. Pappy, giving an account of the nourishing\ncondition of the Society, from which I will make a few extracts.\n\n\u201cOur Temperance Society, that Mrs. Clift and yourself assisted us\nin organizing, numbers now about one hundred and seventy-five. I\nhave remained President since you left, with an interval of two\nyears. Our struggle was hard, and we had much to encounter. St.\nAugustine has considerably changed by so many young men abstaining\nfrom that great evil, the intoxicating drink. Our Society has also\npurchased a lot, and built a fine hall of two stories. The meeting\nroom is on the upper floor, and a public reading room and library\non the lower floor. The building is nicely lathed and plastered,\nand painted. The young men of the Society are using every means to\nelevate our people to respectability and intelligence: but, like\neverything else, it takes time. Already our Society has achieved\nmuch good, and we do tender many thanks to you and to Mrs. Clift\nfor your influence.\n\n\u201cAll the young men that were in the Society when you were here are\nstill with us, except one. The young men, including myself, have\nnever regretted signing the pledge, and we promise forever to keep\nit, because we have found much good in it.\u201d\n\nIn 1881, they celebrated their twelfth anniversary, and Mr. Pappy\nwrites:\n\n\u201cOur celebration went off very nicely. We had the hall handsomely\ndecorated with flags, flowers and evergreens. Over the President\u2019s\nstand was a large anchor, with \u20181869\u2019 above and \u20181881\u2019 below it. On\nthe right was your name, and on the left that of Mrs. Clift. In the\ncentre of the hall was a mound of flowers.\n\n\u201cThe exercises consisted of a grand reception, speeches, singing,\nreading, essays, with excellent music by the brass band, an\nexhibition of fire-works and a balloon ascension. These were\npresented to us by some white friends. The celebration was a grand\nsuccess, and has had a deep effect on those outside. Last Monday\nevening we received five new members, and shall on next Monday\nreceive a few more.\n\n\u201cI think we are just as strong and firm in the progressive spirit\nas ever we were, if not more so. We number nearly 200 members now.\nOur building is not quite finished yet, as everything costs so\nmuch. It has cost us already nearly fifteen hundred dollars.\n\n\u201cThe members of the Society, for the past month, have been holding\ntemperance revival meetings every Monday evening, for the benefit\nof the young men. The exercises consist of speaking, singing and\nprayers by the members of the various churches. It has revived the\nhearts, not only of the members of the Society, but also of many\nothers.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWORK IN TOPEKA.\n\nMISS A. D. GERRISH.\n\nThe younger class of people\u2014the boys and girls\u2014seem to gather\naround us rather than the older ones; but to win the children\ngenerally in the end secures the parents. Through music, especially\nthe singing of the Gospel hymns, of which all are very fond, I\nfeel that I am reaching a larger number than I perhaps could\nin any other way. A class of some twenty-five little folks, a\nsecond class of between thirty and forty boys and girls, a band\nof twenty or more young ladies, also the \u201cDaniel\u2019s Band,\u201d of nine\nmembers,\u2014these, besides others, are daily being brought under\nour influence and control. Their improvement in singing is very\nmarked. Before I left (an excellent teacher having been secured)\na goodly number of the young ladies accepted my invitation to\nattend Sunday-school. A few months, or even weeks ago, a similar\ninvitation would have met with no response from them. In the night\nschool a number of the older ones, who began last January with A\nB C, now read quite well out of the Bible. In a Bible reading,\nin which over fifty took part, I thought that the \u201cUncles\u201d and\n\u201cAunties\u201d read quite as well as some of the young people. The\nreligious interest is not as great as we could wish to see; still,\nthe weekly meetings and Sabbath services are quite well attended.\nWe have now a small church organization, eight members. Three have\nunited on profession of their faith; two are promising young men,\nmembers of the Band. I look for an increase of numbers in our\nSunday-school next season, and we have the promise of several new\nteachers. July 30th we had a Sunday-school concert, using the A.\nM. A. concert exercise. At the close, a white gentleman, one of\nTopeka\u2019s best men, said: \u201cIn looking over the crowded audience\nthis evening, I can but say, with many others, that a change has\nalready been wrought in Tennessee town. Improvement is stamping\nitself upon place and people.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nJOURNAL\n\nOF THE ARTHINGTON EXPEDITION, KEPT BY REV. HENRY M. LADD, D.D.\n\n  The time from Feb. 23d to March 31st was spent by the\n  explorers in Khartoum. During their stay Raouf Pasha, Governor\n  General of the Soudan, was deposed for not taking more active\n  measures against the \u201cFalse Prophet,\u201d and Abdel Kadir Pasha\n  was appointed in his place, with a residence at Cairo, while\n  the Soudan was divided into four provinces, and Khartoum was\n  reduced from the capital to a Mudirieh. During this time also\n  they witnessed the gathering of Giegler Pasha\u2019s army and its\n  embarkation. Owing to the disturbances they experienced great\n  difficulty in getting transport to Berber. The troubles in\n  Egypt were also rapidly culminating, and gave them serious\n  anxiety as to the possibility of returning through that\n  country. They suffered from poor food. Their dragoman was ill\n  with fever. The time, however, was well improved in studying\n  the people, and the language with which they became quite\n  familiar, in selecting and photographing sites for buildings,\n  and in learning from Emin Bey, Governor of the Equatorial\n  Provinces, certain important particulars in regard to that\n  country.\u2014ED.\n\n_Friday, March 31st._\u2014After lunch we called at Emin Bey\u2019s, and\nthen walked down to our boat and little steamer. We went first to\na previously appointed rendezvous at Marquet\u2019s. All the \u201c\u00e9lite\u201d\nof the city were present to see the party off. We felt that we\nhad some friends in this far-off place. There were present H. E.\nGiegler Pasha, Marcopoli Bey, Emin Bey, Georgius Bey, the American\nConsular Agent, English Consular Agent, and other Consuls; there\nwere priests and merchants, and altogether a large crowd. It was\nsomething like a first-class funeral. Finally everything was ready,\nand at 5 o\u2019clock we went on board, amid much hand-shaking, and\neven kissing, after the oriental fashion, and the waving of hats\nand handkerchiefs. As we had the French Consul with us, the French\nand American flags were hoisted. Soon the tug rope of the little\nsteamer tightened, our boat moved, we were off, and before long\nwe had turned the point, entered the Nile proper, and were headed\nnorth-ward and homeward. Our quarters were fairly comfortable. We\nhad a covering of mats over our heads, and the room under it was\ntaken up with our cots. There were four of us here, and the rest\nwere on the steamer that towed us. We made good time. Stopped for\nthe night at a sandy bank. Dinner was served on the sand, and then\nwe went to bed in the moonlight.\n\n_Saturday, April 1st._\u2014No sleep! Too novel a position. Off at\nsunrise. The Frenchman remarked classic beauty in the cook of the\nboat! Stopped for wood at the cataract. Very hot! Off again. Passed\nthe cataract safely, though the water was very low, and many of the\npassages dangerous. We noted several wrecks of boats about us. One\nwas a ship belonging to Moussalli, who is with us. Had to throw\noff the line from the steamer in some places, and row ourselves\nthrough. Struck the rocks many times, hard enough to sink ordinary\nboats. Things were thrown into a little confusion by it, but no\nleak sprung. Passed the wild gorge \u201cSebeloga.\u201d Camped at sunset.\nSeveral of the party ill. Took dinner on the bank. Went to bed on\nthe sand in the open air and the glorious moonlight.\n\n_Monday, April 3d._\u2014Up early; waked Ibrahim, plunged into the river\nwith Moussalli, to get the sand out of eyes and ears. The sick ones\nare very poorly to-day. Stopped at Damer about 2:30 P.M. Had some\ndifficulty to get wood. Moussalli is ill. Midani, his bookkeeper,\nhas a high fever. I turn doctor, and nurse the crowd as well as\nI can. A gale of wind has been blowing, increasing to a tempest.\nSlept out in it all. We have not left Khartoum any too soon for the\nhealth of the crowd.\n\n_Tuesday, April 4th._\u2014Blowing a gale. Start at sunrise. All are\nill to-day except myself. The waves are high, and the spray goes\nover us. Arrived at the rocks, but it was blowing so hard that the\ncaptain dared not try to pass them. We tied up at the bank. Tried\nthe pass once more, and tied up again. Finally, we made another\nattempt; had a very exciting time, but got through part way very\nwell. Sent a boat ahead to pick out the channel. Expected every\nmoment to strike, and perhaps be wrecked. We did strike at last,\nand were nearly capsized, but, thanks to the strength of the boat,\nwe came out all right. When we were finally clear of the rocks the\nmen cheered and praised Allah, and we gave them a backshish. A\nlittle further on we went fast aground on a sand bank, and spent\nabout two hours getting off. At last Berber came into sight, and at\n5 P.M. we tied up at the bank, which is now very high, as the river\nis many feet lower than when we were here before. Went on shore,\nselected a good site for the tents; put one of ours up, and got\ninto shape for the night.\n\n_Wednesday, April 5th._\u2014Up early, and worked hard in the hot sun.\nPut up the other tent. Our tents, together with the Consul\u2019s\nand Moussalli\u2019s and the cook\u2019s make quite a little village by\nthemselves. Made arrangements for camels amid much noise and\ndiscussion and haggling of prices. There have been some wordy\ndisagreements in camp among our friends. It is finally settled\nthat we are to start on Friday. The doctor is better, and has good\ncourage. To-day the Consul\u2019s cook was stung by a scorpion, and\nunder the doctor\u2019s directions I painted the wound with iodine. The\npoor fellow suffered severely for a time. A guard of four soldiers\nhas been sent to act as sentry for us during the night. They will\nprobably be sound asleep as soon as we turn in. The river has risen\na few inches to-day, owing probably to heavy rains at the South,\nbut will doubtless fall again to-morrow.\n\n_Friday, April 7th._\u2014This has been a day of trials. There has\nbeen no end of them! Everything was made ready this morning for\nthe start, but we could not get away till afternoon, so we paid a\nvisit in the meantime to Hassan Halifa\u2019s father, the royal old Arab\nwho treated us so handsomely when we first came here. He kindly\nconsented to have his photograph taken. After the delay we thought\nwe should surely get off in good season, or about 3 P.M., but it\nwas not so foreordained. Difficulties seemed to multiply at every\nmove. Everything went wrong. Patience was nearly gone. It was 9\no\u2019clock at night before we fairly started! Rode up and down the\nline on my camel to see that everything was at last right. There\nwas a delay among the rear camels. Went back to see what the matter\nwas. Some of the camels had run away and smashed up their loads,\nand others had fallen down, and altogether there were five loads\nstrewn upon the ground. The camels were a bad lot, and the men were\nas bad a lot. Things were getting rather serious. A free fight was\nimminent. Moussalli was on the point of returning to Berber and\nentering a complaint. The rest of the party, however, had gone on,\nand I thought it was better to patch up the loads the best way we\ncould, go on until we reached the advance party, and then hold a\ncouncil. A return to Berber would do but little good, and would\nresult in great delay. So on we went the best way we could in the\ndark, and found the rest at the well. It was 1:30 A.M. when we took\ndinner! I put up a tent for the doctor, and the rest of us took a\nnap in the open air.\n\n_Saturday, April 8th._\u2014At 3 A.M. Moussalli\u2019s agent and the sheik\nof the camel drivers arrived. They had heard of our troubles and\nbrought a fresh lot of camels. After much loud talking several\nchanges were made. Some of the camels with their drivers were sent\nback to Berber, and others substituted. We have 53 camels now. We\ntried to be gay and rise above our troubles. The heat is intense.\nThere is one well at this point about 50 feet deep, but the water\nis bad. Started the caravan at 4 P.M., and went on till 10 o\u2019clock.\nHad dinner at 12:30 A.M. Put up the tent for doctor; the rest of us\nwent to bed with the stars looking down upon us.\n\n_Sunday, April 9th._\u2014This is the holy Sabbath and we would be\nglad to rest to-day, but necessity is upon us and we must move on.\nOn a journey like this we cannot do as we would like, and have on\nseveral such occasions been obliged to keep going when we have\nlonged for the sacred quiet of the day. I was so tired last night\nthat an odd thing happened. I was _struck_ by sleep, as one might\nbe struck by lightning, only the results were not so disastrous. I\nhad tumbled into my cot, and was conscious of putting my hand out\nto draw the sheet over me, but before I had time to do it I was\nsound asleep, and awoke in the morning with the intention still\nunfulfilled. After a hasty cup of coffee we were off this morning\nat 6:30, and marched till 10:30. The sirocco has been blowing all\nday, and the heat is something terrible. Worked hard in the hot sun\nto get a tent up for our nooning. We are on an immense sandy plain,\nthe ideal desert, and the heat reflected from the sand burns like a\nfurnace.\n\n_Monday, April 10th._\u2014We must press on to reach water. Midani is\ntoo ill to sit on his camel, so we have improvised a bed and placed\nhim on it, and in this way go slowly on. Started at 6:30 A.M. We\nare still on a sandy undulating plain which seems endless, and the\nmarch is very wearisome. The Consul and Mourgan have both suffered\nfrom bleeding at the nose this morning. Camped for our nooning at\n11:30. Poor Midani suffers exceedingly. We put up the tents, as\nthe heat is terrible. Started again at 4:30 P.M. From here till\none reaches the vicinity of Souakim the road is considered unsafe.\nWe met some rather wild-looking parties, who, the guides told us,\nwere brigands, but we were numerous and well armed, and they kept\na respectful distance from us. Even the camel drivers do not dare\nto travel in this region without being armed with swords and spears\nand pistols. Met several caravans. Came to some very steep sand\nhills. The pass over the highest was so narrow and precipitous\nthat I thought the camels could not possibly get safely over it,\nbut they did. Reached the wells of _Aubak_ about 8:30 P.M. Found\nmany wells and excellent water, but the water is easily riled. Took\na good deep drink. Such a drink is worth a mine of gold on the\ndesert. There are a number of caravans here.\n\n_Tuesday, April 11th._\u2014The men did not want to leave the well\nbefore the P.M. Had to force them. Almost a revolt. Quite a\nlittle misunderstanding has sprung up between our friends. Left\nat 7:30. Traversed a high plain. Fearfully hot. Camped at 11:30.\nWere treated to a whirlwind of sand. Tried to amuse ourselves at\nrevolver practice to pass away the hours of intense mid-day heat.\nStarted again about 5 P.M. Passed on from plain to plain between\nbare, black, rocky mountains. Camped at 10:30 in a sandy spot. Had\ndinner at 12:30 A.M. We are all tired, but in pretty good spirits.\n\n_Wednesday, April 12th._\u2014Started at 7:30. Marched till 11:30. Found\na few bare thorn bushes and tried to spread our blankets over them\nin such a way as to afford us a little shade till the caravan with\nthe tents came up. Even the poor little donkey that the guide\nrides, and our camels, also, asked to share our scanty shade with\nus. The thermometer stands at 111\u00b0 in the shade. Cooked an egg in\nthe sand. Started again at 5 P.M. The latter part of the evening\njourney I make on foot. The rest of the crowd is generally used\nup. At last, Midani is able to go no further, and, on his account,\nwe are obliged to halt for the night. The camel drivers protest,\nsaying that the water is all gone, and that we shall suffer before\nwe reach the next well. We make a personal inspection and find\nthat there are five skins half full. One of these is given to the\ndrivers, one to the cooks, and three for our own use are placed at\nthe foot of my cot for safe keeping. Went to bed at 1:30 A.M.\n\n_Thursday, April 13th._\u2014Up at 4 A.M. Started at 5:45. We have had\na long tramp over plain after plain, on and on to the mountains\nand through a high mountain pass till, at length, we have reached\nthe wells of Arieb. It is very hot. Crowds of camels, cattle and\ndonkeys are around the principal well, all drinking. The water is\nnot very good, but we drink it and try to imagine that it is. The\ntents are up, and after a good bath we tumble into our cots, glad\nof a little rest.\n\n_Friday, April 14th._\u2014Up early, and left at 6:30 A.M. Followed the\nwady, which is full of rocks and stunted trees, and then traversed\nan immense plateau. We camped for noon in a sandy spot, just before\nentering another pass. At 5 P.M. we were off again, and passed\nsome very picturesque and really wonderful granite formations.\nTraversing a fine hard gravel plain, which gave us an extensive\nview, we passed the half-way mark, a huge pile of granite boulders.\nWe then came into a mountain region, said to be infested with\nrobbers. It is true that here, not very long ago, a caravan was\nattacked in the night and robbed, and some of the parties killed.\nWe had come a long journey, the place was convenient for camping,\nand some one proposed that we should spend the night here; but the\nguides manifested great fear, and would not give their consent.\nThey said it was bad enough at the wady Kokreb, but under no\ncircumstances would they stop this side of the wady. Some of us\nwere ahead of the caravan, and we took the advice of the guides,\nand pushed on for the wady. Soon after arriving and selecting the\nspot for our camp, and while waiting for the caravan to come up, we\nwere visited by a couple of suspicious-looking men, who asked a few\nquestions, and after looking us well over disappeared in the bush.\nThe guides said they were spies of the robbers, and advised us to\nfire off our guns and revolvers, to let them know that we were well\narmed, which we did. In about half an hour the rest of the party\nand the caravan came up. They reported having met twelve mounted\nmen, who acted suspiciously in the dark. Mr. Moussalli called to\nthem in Arabic, and demanded who they were and what they wanted.\nThey admitted that they were robbers. They were then told that our\nparty was all armed, and that if they came near the caravan they\nwould get into trouble. We formed our camp in a circle, spreading\nour baggage around us for a protection as best we could, and\nthen went to sleep with our hands on our revolvers, trusting for\nour safety, now that we had done what we could, in Him who never\nslumbers.\n\n_Saturday, April 15._\u2014Examined the wady Kokreb to ascertain whether\nthere was water to be found here, which I suspected, but which the\nguides denied. Found that there was a well a little way up the\nwady, which we passed soon after starting. The guides seem to find\nit easier to tell a barefaced falsehood than to speak the truth.\nFor some reason or other they are determined to deny the existence\nof water at various points along the route, where we know it is to\nbe found. Left at 6:30 A.M., and followed the wady, which is quite\nfull of trees and rather a pleasant part of the journey. Towards\nnoon we arrived at Kokreb, where there is a well and a station. We\nspread the fly of our tent over some old posts for a protection\nfrom the sun. The sheik of the station kindly (for a consideration)\nprocured us a good drink of milk. Here we met a number of caravans.\nThere were many pilgrims among them returning from Mecca. One\nwoman, who was supposed to be irresistible, was sent among us to\nbeg. We offered her some food, which she indignantly refused.\nThe well here is shallow, and is emptied as fast as it fills. We\nleft at 4:20 P.M., passing through a wild, narrow defile in the\nmountains. The scenery here is extremely wild and picturesque. We\nascended now very rapidly, and the sight of the mountains in the\npurple glow of sunset was magnificent. As night came on it began\nto grow intensely cold. We camped at a great height. The cold was\nextreme. We got out our tent-flies and crawled under them.\n\n_Sunday, April 16._\u2014This morning we killed a scorpion that was\nfound under the Consul\u2019s saddlebags. Saw several gazelles. Again\nwe are obliged to travel much against our wishes. There are trees\nalong the wadys all the way, now. Met many long caravans carrying\nAmerican oil to Berber and Khartoum. Camped at 10:30. At 4:30 we\nwere obliged to start again. The mountain scenery here is grand!\nToward night we entered a narrow gorge, running North and South,\nbetween two high mountains. Here we had to keep a sharp lookout\nin the dark, lest we should be left, like Absalom, hanging from a\ntree. These overhanging thorn trees did, in fact, rather mar Mr.\nMoussalli\u2019s beauty, but the rest of us dodged and preserved ours.\nWe found several wells in between these two mountains, and here we\ncamped for the night. This is also a dangerous locality, on account\nof robbers. The nights are very cold in these mountain heights.\n\n_Monday, April 17._\u2014Up early and examined the so-called wells of\nHaratree. They consist of places scooped out in the gravel of the\ndry bed of the river, and are only from two to five feet deep.\nThere is also a pond near a large rock, where one may bathe. There\nare many aloes in this valley, and doves in great numbers, and in\nat least three varieties. On quitting this gorge the rise is very\nrapid till a pass is reached at an elevation of 3,000 feet. I am\nthe only one who is not ill to-day. Camped at 11 o\u2019clock in a large\nplain under a huge mimosa tree in the bed of a small river, now\ndry. When we started in the afternoon there was a little trouble\nwith a Hadendoah Arab, who had \u201cappropriated\u201d one of our camels,\nbut his claim was soon settled, and he was glad to slink out of\nsight. Off at 4 P.M., and traveled through quite a park, where\nrabbits and gazelles abound. Camped at night at \u201cDurse,\u201d or \u201cThe\nMountain of the Molar Tooth.\u201d\n\n_Tuesday, April 18th._\u2014Left at 6:30 A.M., and arrived at the Wells\nof Disibil, where we found a rude shelter from the sun. I walked\nthe whole distance. Saw several gazelles. The wells are in the dry\nbed of a river in a mountain valley. Only one is used now, the\nother having filled up. After lunch went hunting after gazelles,\nand when, later in the afternoon, we at last reached the rest of\nthe caravan, we found them camped earlier than usual. We are now in\nthe valley of Sinkaat. We know that we are nearing the sea, for the\nnight air is very damp, and our clothes are wet through.\n\n_Wednesday, April 19th._\u2014Had a good laugh this morning at the\nConsul, who roused us during the night by loudly challenging some\nparties who were prowling around the camp. They proved to be a\ncouple of innocent donkeys. Off as usual at 6:30, and followed the\nvalley and the river-bed. Camped at 10:30 at the well of _Hambouk_.\nThe water was not good. Left at 4 P.M. Came into a fine plain full\nof green trees, and singing birds, and flocks of goats. Passed the\nwells of Otaou (water bad) without stopping. At last we emerged\nfrom the mountains, and came to the spot where we ought to have a\nfine view of the sea, but it was dark. We camped finally on a broad\nplain, though the drivers protested that we ought to go on beyond;\nbut they were informed that we intended to stop there, and that was\nthe end of the controversy. It is damp and warm to-night. Ibrahim,\nour dragoman, is ill.\n\n_Thursday, April 20th._\u2014Midani and an Arab started this morning\nat an early hour ahead of the caravan for Souakim, to inform our\nfriends of our arrival, and to prepare a place for us. We started\nat 5:30 A.M. The first object to attract our attention was the sea,\nthe beautiful blue sea! What a thrill of joy that first sight of\nthe sea sends through one coming from Central Africa! It is a bond\nof connection with the outer world. It is the highroad of commerce\nand civilization. It is the avenue of hope, and love, and life! As\nwe approached Souakim we had fine views of the white, shining,\ncoral city. It was not long before we discovered with our glasses\na steamer lying in the harbor and another coming in. We took off\nour hats and hurrahed like school-boys. Soon a delegation of\nfriends came out to meet us, among whom were M. Marquet\u2019s son and\nMr. Midani\u2019s brother. At last we entered the city. Doctor\u2019s camel\nwas afraid, and had to be led in. We passed through the bazaars,\nand over the causeway, and through the big gate into the city\nproper, which is built on an island. The appearance of the town is\nquite dazzling, as every portion of it is built of white coral.\nWe noticed some fine specimens in the walls as we passed. We went\ndirectly to M. Marquet\u2019s new house, not yet finished, where camping\nroom had been assigned us in the open yard, and here we sat down by\nthe sea waiting for the caravan to arrive. Finally we retired into\nthe entry of the unfinished house, where, as soon as our baggage\narrived, we spread our cots, and took up our quarters, and paid\noff the camel drivers, who, for a wonder, went away contented.\nThere has been rather a serious misunderstanding between some of\nour friends. It takes considerable self-control to keep quiet and\ncalm and cool amid the discomforts and annoyances of a journey\nlike this. Our first and great want was a bath, and this was soon\narranged in one of the upper rooms of the new building. Then we\nput on some clean clothes, and felt as if we had been born again.\nWe made several calls, and finally went, by invitation, to dinner\nat M. Marquet\u2019s (brother of the gentleman of the same name at\nKhartoum), where we spent a very pleasant evening. A small steamer\ncoming in to-day ran into our steamer of the Rubattino Line and\nbroke her mast. There are three steamers now in harbor, an unusual\nthing for Souakim. We cannot sail before Saturday....\n\n_Saturday, April 22._\u2014Up and on deck early; friends off to say\nfarewell; started at 9 A.M.; had breakfast on deck. All our meals\nare to be on deck, as it is so warm below. Had a fine view of\nthe town as we steamed slowly out of the harbor. The channel is\na tortuous and difficult one. Coral reefs abound on every side.\nBut after a little careful turning and twisting we were out on\nthe sea\u2014the boundless sea. Oh! what a delight to be at sea again,\nand breathe the refreshing salt air, after our experience during\nthe last few months! We have pleasant companions, and the voyage\npromises to be an enjoyable one. At dinner conversation is carried\non, and jokes are cracked in French, English, Greek, Arabic, and\nItalian. The captain is a pleasant, jovial, able man, and our\nsteamer is good and comfortable.\n\n_Tuesday, April 25th._\u2014A number of islands and the mainland on\nboth sides are in sight. Asia on one side; Africa on the other;\nArabia and Egypt, both full of historical interest. Here, towering\nabove others, is the peak pointed out as Mt. Sinai. We accept the\nstatement and fall to musing on the wonderful events that once\noccurred in this vicinity. The Gulf is here from 15 to 17 miles\nwide. There are great quantities of sea-weed floating about. The\nshore on both sides is a desert. We are this evening only 50 miles\nfrom Suez, and we expect to arrive about 4 o\u2019clock in the morning.\n\n_Wednesday, April 26th._\u2014Arrived at Suez at 4 A.M. Cast anchor, and\nwaited for the Health Officer. Fourteen steamers were lying in the\nroadstead, while others were entering and coming out of the canal.\nSomewhere about here it was, probably, that the children of Israel\npassed through the sea on dry land. The Health Officer did not take\nlong to give us clean papers, and we steamed slowly into dock. We\nsent for a cart to take our baggage up to town, while the Consul\ntook a boat, then leaving Ibrahim, with Mourgan to assist him to\nget the things through the custom-house, we went ashore. We were\nimmediately surrounded by a most importunate crowd of donkey boys\nand men who in their eagerness to secure us as their legitimate\nprey fought and pulled and pushed till we were nearly crowded into\nthe water. Seeing the necessity of immediate action, we struck\nright and left with our sticks, till we had cleared a space around\nus, then leaping on to the donkeys we had already selected, we\nstarted off on a smart trot for the town; true, the donkeys had\nlost their bridles in the muss, but that made no difference. We\narrived at the Suez (Eng.) Hotel with a good appetite for our\nbreakfast, and some time before the Consul and his party. After\nbreakfast we took a walk about the town. Returned and read the\npapers till dinner. A mule cart with our baggage, has run away,\nand smashed up some of our belongings, but we are getting above\ncaring much for such accidents now. At 5 P.M. we took another walk,\nand then went by invitation to a dinner party at the Belgian and\nBrazilian consuls. It was an extensive dinner, and the evening, till\na late hour, was passed most pleasantly.\n\n_Thursday, April 27th._\u2014Took the train for Cairo at 8:45. A number\nof friends came to see us off. Fine views of the canal and the\ndesert, and then of the fertile land of Goshen. Took dinner at\nZagazig, where we changed cars and started again for Cairo at 3\nP.M. At a station near Cairo Mr. Moussalli\u2019s beautiful children\ncame to meet their papa, whom they had not seen for over a year.\nThey reminded me forcibly of my own little ones at home. Soon we\nreached Cairo, and were greeted by the familiar faces of the hotel\nporters and others. I started off at once to the American Consulate\nfor our letters, and found 27 waiting for me. What a feast for a\nhungry soul! It seemed almost like getting home to get back to this\nfamiliar hotel. Had a call from Dr. Lansing and Dr. Watson, of the\nAmerican Mission, who gave us a hearty welcome back after our long\nand perilous journey. We truly have great reason to be thankful\nfor the way in which we have been preserved amid dangers seen and\nunseen.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  While in Cairo the news was received of the defeat of the army\n  sent against the \u201cFalse Prophet,\u201d and the fall of Senaar, and\n  of general anarchy in the Soudan. The insurrection under Arabi\n  Pasha was also every day becoming more serious. People were\n  already beginning to leave the country. The explorers were\n  advised by Gen. Stone and others not to broach the subject of\n  the proposed mission to the government in the present crisis.\n  They rapidly settled up the affairs of the expedition and\n  left the country none too soon for their good. They sailed\n  from Alexandria May 10th. They met the English and French\n  fleets, called at Malta and Gibraltar on their way and arrived\n  in Liverpool May 24th. While in England they consulted Mr.\n  Arthington, laid the results of the expedition before him, and\n  agreed that they would have to wait for a more settled state\n  of the country before the proposed plans for the mission could\n  be carried out. They sailed from England June 6th, arriving in\n  New York June 17th, having been gone from home nine months.\n  The long journey was ended. The objects of the expedition\n  had been fully accomplished in the face of many dangers and\n  great difficulties. A detailed report, with maps and plans and\n  photographs, is in course of preparation.\u2014_Ed._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFARMING AT FORT BERTHOLD.\n\nBY AGENT KAUFFMAN.\n\nThe number of Indian men engaged in doing farm work is constantly\nincreasing. In issuing wagons to Indians last fall, I required\nthat each man receiving a wagon should farm at least five acres of\nland for himself, or forfeit his wagon. All, with one exception,\ncomplied with this condition. Agency Indians farmed this year 832\nacres; they prepared the ground in the spring under the direction\nof my farmer in excellent manner, and sowed 146 acres of wheat,\nfrom which I estimate a yield, from two days\u2019 threshing now in\nprogress, of 2,600 bushels of very good quality. This is the first\neffort of my Indians in raising wheat, and they are greatly elated\nwith their success, and many are already asking for more land for\nnext spring sowing. This improvement in farming by the Indians is\ngratifying to myself, as two years ago an Indian rarely cultivated\nto exceed from one-half to three-quarters of an acre; now some have\ncultivated this year 20 acres, others from four to twelve, and ask\nfor more land for next year. Twenty Indian men, heads of families,\nhave consented to go this fall 22 miles west of the agency, build\nhouses and remain to farm 133 acres of land which I have had broken\nthis summer.\n\nThese Indians are peaceable and friendly; many would assume the\nposition of citizens and compare favorably with the average white\nman if they could have lands in severalty and the protection of\nthe law. During May and June last I had flouring gearing put in\nposition in the agency mill for grinding wheat raised at this\nagency last year, and manufactured 44,000 pounds of flour of\ngood quality; there were also sawn during the year at the agency\nsaw-mill 20,812 feet of lumber.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nRELIGIOUS INTEREST AT S\u2019KOKOMISH.\n\nBY REV. MYRON EELLS.\n\nThere has been considerable religious interest among the Indians.\nThe Indians on other reservations have been more interested than\nusual, and intercourse with these has caused a similar interest\nhere. Then the most severe sickness which has visited the\nreservation since my residence here came upon us last winter and\nawakened serious attention in the minds of many. This additional\ninterest has caused increased work, so that I now hold prayer\nmeetings at two logging camps regularly. Some of our young people\nare taking hold of the work, and at times conduct meetings with the\nIndians during my necessary absence.\n\nNew hymns have been made in the Twana and Clallam languages, the\nnative languages of the Indians. Hitherto we have used hymns in\nthe Chinook language, which is generally understood by most of\nthe Indians, yet it is by no means so good a language to convey\nreligious truth as the native languages.\n\nThe average attendance at Sabbath-school at S\u2019kokomish is 47, on\nchurch prayer meetings 30, on other prayer meetings among the\nIndians 36, on public worship 67. Families under pastoral care 52.\nTotal contributions for benevolence $451.05.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSCHOOL AT LEECH LAKE.\n\nBY REV S. G. WRIGHT.\n\nTwenty-seven children were boarded and clothed about eight months\nof the year, and fifteen attended very regularly as day scholars.\nThe text books used were elementary speller, model reader, first,\nsecond and third readers, mental arithmetic. Several of the most\nadvanced pupils are also familiar with the four ground principles\nof written arithmetic. Nearly all made good progress in their\nstudies. There is no lack of ability in the Indian child to\ncomprehend any branch of learning. The only obstacle in his way is\nthat all his knowledge of books must be acquired through a strange\nlanguage. The lessons must be explained all through the second\nand third years of his schooling in his own tongue; otherwise he\ngets no new ideas from his books, though he may read and spell\nand write ever so well. I explain the meaning of the words they\nspell, and translate the lessons read in the different readers.\nMuch religious instruction is given in the school-room and in the\nmorning and evening worship. I returned to this place a year ago,\nafter being absent about two years, and was very happy to find the\nlittle company of earnest, devoted Christians whom we left still\nfaithfully pursuing their work for God. I meet with them every week\non Thursday afternoon for prayer. They are truly the salt of the\nearth, burning lights in this great darkness.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREVIEW OF THE YEAR.\n\nREV. WM. C. POND.\n\nOur fiscal year closed Aug. 31. I will state in the briefest way\nthe main facts as to our last year\u2019s work. I group them under three\nheads: the field, the fruit, the finances.\n\nI. The field. This is larger than ever before in the fact that we\nhave one-fourth more Chinese in our country to-day than we had\na year ago. And the work\u2014though far from covering the field and\nfar from being equal to the opportunity\u2014has increased at a per\ncent. equal to more than twice that of the increase of Chinese\npopulation. Fifteen schools have been sustained, eleven of them\nthroughout the entire year. Thirty-one workers are employed, eleven\nof them being Chinese. The total number of months of service is\n356, exceeding that of last year by 70 and of any year preceding\nthe last by 110, that is, by more than _nine years_. During the\nyear no less than 2,567 Chinese were enrolled as pupils, an\nincrease upon the previous year of 935, or more than 57 per cent.\nLet it not be understood that we had this number at any _one_\ntime; but for longer or shorter periods in the course of the\nyear, this number have come under the influence of our schools,\nand have heard something about a Saviour from sin. The _average_\nmembership month by month was 728, and the average attendance 401.\nBut the membership increased steadily through the year. In August\nit was 1,022, and the average attendance 459. This represents our\nopportunity, our special _field_.\n\nII. The fruits. I am not able yet to state accurately the results\nin hopeful conversions, but I feel safe in saying that about 30\nhave given evidence to our Chinese brethren that they have passed\nfrom death to life. This would make the total number of whom we\nhave cherished this hope, from the beginning of the mission,\nabout 355. I dare not say that in all cases this hope has proved\nto be well founded. Some have gone back to idolatry and taken to\nthemselves, I fear, seven devils worse than the one that seemed\nto be exorcised. Some seem to have left their first love, though\nmaintaining still a reputable exterior. Of many we have lost sight\naltogether. They are in China, or in the Hawaiian Islands, or on\nthe frontiers in our own country, or in the Eastern or interior\ncities. It is simply impossible, at least with our present working\nforce, to maintain our hold upon them by correspondence. We leave\nthem to the care of the Great Shepherd, Who is not compassed with\nour infirmities and Who knows His sheep and is known by them. But,\nallowing for all these drawbacks, I feel it safe to say that no\nevangelizing agency in California with which I am acquainted has\nbeen fraught, on the whole, with larger or better results than our\nChinese mission.\n\nIII. The finances. This large increase in the work accomplished\nhas involved inevitably some increase of expenditure. Our total\nresources\u2014on current expense account\u2014have been $10,043.70, of which\n$3,623.70 were contributed directly to our work and $6,420 came\nthrough drafts on the treasury in New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLETTER FROM AN INDIAN BOY.\n\n  MY DEAR FRIEND:\n\n  I can tell how I get along. I was working in the shop, and I\n  try to work very good, but sometimes I too late go in workshop.\n  I am the wheel-wright. I come from Dakota Territory, and I\n  have been school at Saint Paul\u2019s school at Yankton Agency,\n  and I try to learn how to read English. And so many Indian\n  boys school over there, and to many Indian boys are like to\n  study, and some boys are don\u2019t like to go to school. And same\n  is the Indian, too. They did not work at all, but when they\n  want something, then go into the agent\u2019s and ask for food. But\n  some Indians are work very hard, like a white people, and they\n  did not live in the reservation. I like to work in the field\n  much. And few Indians work very hard, and listen the agent\u2019s\n  what he says to them; but some Indian won\u2019t\u2014but dancing all the\n  time, but eating and sleep, that all they can do. And there is\n  another tribe come back from northwest; they came back into\n  Yankton Agency in Fort Randall, those Indian whole tribe are\n  call Sitting Bull. I think those people are very wild. Sitting\n  Bull is a great many children and big tribe, and cannot get\n  any food, so the Yankton Indians try to help them, and carry\n  some corn or potatoes gave to them. And that time I stay at my\n  home. And that time the Hampton boys come back from Virginia\n  to this school, and we are all glad to see them. And I came\n  from Yankton Agency, and now I stay here at Virginia. I am\n  stay here for three years, then I go back my home again. I\n  receive a letter from my friend; he says the governor school\n  was finished, everything inside or outside. And when I heard\n  that the ten boys get from Sitting Bull I am very glad. I think\n  those people going to learn how to work. So many of them do not\n  know anything at all, I sometimes think those people all the\n  time wild and poor; but now I think the Sitting Bull learn how\n  to work, and even the other places just the same. When I came\n  from Dakota, I saw a great many things, cars, and steam-boat,\n  and every wonderful thing. I saw those things, I don\u2019t know\n  how to go and stop. I did not see how to make, and I never saw\n  the cars before. When I go back to my home I going tell all\n  this are. A great many Indian boys are here; we are all try to\n  learn how to work the white men way, and sometimes we have a\n  prayer-meeting in every Saturday night, and all the Indian boys\n  are doing very well. I think the Indian try to do how to work;\n  when they know how to work, then they cannot stop. That is all\n  I am going to say. We are all well here, and I think you are\n  well, too. Some boys has going to work, and those boys going to\n  school this afternoon. I thank you very much.\n\n                                Yours respectfully,\n\n                                              DAVID STRICKER.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR. SEPTEMBER, 1882.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $468.57.\n\n    Alfred. Mrs. NATHAN DANE, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._, and to const. herself L. M.               $30.00\n    Bethel. Second Ch. and Soc.                               10.00\n    Brewer. Cong. Ch., 10, and Sab. Sch., 6.20                16.20\n    Calais. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                25.00\n    Castine. Rev. A. E. Ives                                   5.00\n    Eastport. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., 5; G. A.\n      P., 50c.                                                 5.50\n    Falmouth. First Cong. Ch.                                 20.00\n    Hallowell. M. E. W.                                        1.00\n    Litchfield Corners. Cong. Ch.                             10.00\n    Machias. Centre St. Ch. and Soc.                           9.34\n    Portland. Second Parish Ch.                              129.03\n    Union. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 5.00\n    Winthrop. SILAS BLANCHARD to const. himself L.\n      M.                                                      30.00\n    Woolwich. \u201cThank Offering,\u201d 5; J. C. S., 50c.              5.50\n    York. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            7.00\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $308.57\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Hallowell. Estate of Miss Susan Parsons, by\n      Justin E. Smith. Exr.                                  160.00\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $468.57\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $273.60.\n\n    Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              17.00\n    Bennington. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 5.00\n    Brookline. W. J. R.                                        0.50\n    Campton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               16.00\n    Colebrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              6.63\n    Epsom. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                         5.00\n    Hancock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               25.00\n    Hanover. Dart. College Ch., 89.46; \u201cA Thank\n      Offering,\u201d 1.                                           90.46\n    Hanover. Rev. S. P. Leeds, _for Chinese M. in\n      Cal._                                                   10.00\n    Hebron. Rev J. B. Cook and family                          5.00\n    Hillsborough Centre. Rev. A. B. P., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                           1.00\n    Littleton. Cong. Ch.                                       6.96\n    Lyme. T. L. Gilbert                                        2.00\n    Milford. Cong. Ch., 25.29; Nathan Jewett, 5;\n      D. S. Burnham, 5, to const. D. MILTON HEALD\n      L. M.; R. M., 1                                         36.29\n    Milton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                10.36\n    New Ipswich. Leavitt Lincoln                              20.00\n    Peterborough. Cong. Sab. Sch.                              6.40\n    Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  5.00\n    Wentworth. Ephraim Cook                                    5.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $902.06.\n\n    Bakersfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            9.58\n    Brattleborough. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                 1.67\n    Burlington. Miss Sarah Parker                              2.00\n    Cambridge. M. and G. Safford, 38.52; O. W.\n      Reynolds, 5; Mrs. Nancy Howe, 5; S. M.\n      Safford, 5; B. R. Holmes, 5; Others, 11.75              70.27\n    Cambridge. Mrs. M. Safford, 5; J. K., 1, _for\n      John Brown Steamer_                                      6.00\n    Charlotte. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             43.21\n    Chester. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                12.00\n    Dummerston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             8.32\n    East Saint Johnsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   3.25\n    Enosburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             23.00\n    Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     2.00\n    Island Pond. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           11.50\n    Londonderry. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            5.00\n    Ludlow. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Middlebury. Hon. John W. Stewart, 10; A\n      Friend, 4; Miss Susan Parker, 2; Rev. C. H.,\n      51c.                                                    16.51\n    Newbury. Mrs. D. J.                                        1.00\n    Newfane. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                3.06\n    Putney. Rev. and Mrs. Foster                               5.00\n    Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    34.52\n    Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Parsonage Building_                                     20.00\n    Springfield. F. V. A. Townsend, to const.\n      AURELIA K. TOWNSEND L. M.                               30.00\n    Springfield. \u201cMember Cong. Ch.,\u201d _for Avery\n      Inst., Charleston S.C._                                 15.00\n    West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to\n      const. HIRAM WEATHERHEAD L. M.                          31.05\n    West Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             5.63\n    West Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 17.40;\n      \u201cA Friend,\u201d 15                                          32.40\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             6.10\n    Windham. Cong. Sab. Sch., 5.20; \u201cA Friend of\n      the Colored Man,\u201d 10                                    15.20\n    Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 75.50; Mrs. John\n      Freeman, \u201cthank offering,\u201d 25; G. F. H., 1             101.50\n    Woodstock. Frederick Billings                            100.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $624.77\n\n    LEGACIES\n\n    Royalton. Estate Mrs. Welthia D. Skinner, by\n      Geo. M. Dewey                                          200.00\n    Wilmington. Estate of Mary Ray, by Israel\n      Haynes                                                  77.29\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $902.06\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $5,826.17.\n\n    Abington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        50.58\n    Andover. South Ch. and Soc.                              100.00\n    Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  100.00\n    Bernardston. Cong. Soc.                                    2.00\n    Boston. REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, 30, to const\n      himself L. M.; Mrs. H. H. Hyde, 20; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d 5                                              55.00\n    Boston. Mrs. E. B. Hooker, books _for\n      Freedmen\u2019s Library, Macon, Ga._\n    Buckland. Dea. S. Trowbridge, 10; C. W.\n      Thayer, 5; \u201cA Friend.\u201d 5                                20.00\n    Braintree. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l), to\n      const. REV. THOMAS A. EMERSON L. M.                      5.00\n    Braintree. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       21.46\n    Brimfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              8.00\n    Brockton. Mrs. Mary E. Perkins                             5.00\n    Cambridge. Mrs. J. D. S.                                   1.00\n    Campello. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             100.00\n    Centreville. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               5.00\n    Charlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l), to const.\n      H. W. WAKEFIELD L. M.                                   20.00\n    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._                         50.00\n    Chelsea. T. E. G.                                          1.00\n    Concord. Trinity Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       28.85\n    Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 848.55;\n      and Sab. Sch., 51.85                                   900.70\n    Dunstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             15.00\n    Duxbury. Mrs. R. R. Holmes                                 2.00\n    East Bridgewater. Union Ch. and Soc.                       6.89\n    East Charlemont. Cong. Ch.                                23.82\n    Everett. Mrs. C. K. Farrington                             2.00\n    Falmouth. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             10.00\n    Fall River. Central Ch.                                   10.25\n    Fitchburgh. Rollstone Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 100.00\n    Foxborough. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   30.02\n    Grafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         62.13\n    Granville Corners. Mr. and Mrs. C. Holcomb                10.00\n    Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.                              49.56\n    Greenfield. Miss E. F. Osgood\u2019s S. S. Class,\n      _for Ind. Dept., Atlanta U._                            10.00\n    Hatchville. V. N. H.                                       1.00\n    Hatfield. Rev. R. M. Woods, Trustee                       25.00\n    Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      200.00\n    Holland. \u201cFriends\u201d                                         5.00\n    Hyde Park. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             10.00\n    Hyde Park. Mrs. L. S. Sanderson, _for Chinese\n      M., Cal._                                                5.00\n    Jamaica Plain. R. W. Wood, M.D.                          100.00\n    Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       25.33\n    Lawrence. E. F. E.                                         0.50\n    Littleton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     20.00\n    Lowell. Juvenile Dept. of High St. Sab. Sch.,\n      _for John Brown Steamer_                                10.00\n    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          53.98\n    Malden. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n      U._                                                      5.00\n    Middleborough. Central Ch. and Soc., 53.63;\n      First Cong. Ch., 12.67                                  66.30\n    Millbury. Tyler Waters                                     5.00\n    Miller\u2019s Falls. The Langdon Mitre Box Co., one\n      new Langdon mitre box, with saw and joiner\n      gauge, _for Atlanta U._\n    North Amherst. North Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      MRS. S. A. LAMB and MISS PRISCILLA COOLEY L.\n      Ms.                                                     60.00\n    North Brookfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                    7.52\n    Northborough. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    30.80\n    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      100; Union Ch. and Soc., 75                            175.00\n    North Chelmsford. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.               42.00\n    Northfield. Miss. M. L. H.                                 0.50\n    Northampton. A. L. Williston, 500; Edwards\n      Church, 54.34; Dea. Jerry Clark, 10                    564.34\n    North Weymouth. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc.                      17.00\n    Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           5.50\n    Newton. Eliot Ch. and Soc.                               185.00\n    Newton Centre. \u201cL. R. T.,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             50.00\n    Phillipston. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., Bundle of C.\n    Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          25.00\n    Revere. Collected by Mrs. Steele _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._, and to const. MISS KATE B.\n      DAVIS, MISS LIZZIE ELKINS, DANIEL DAVIS and\n      REV. JOSEPH E. SMITH L. Ms.                            120.00\n    Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              83.47\n    Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. and Soc.                             3.00\n    Sandwich. Miss H. H. N., 1; \u201cA Friend\u201d 1                   2.00\n    Saundersville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          8.00\n    Shelburne Falls. E. Maynard                                5.00\n    Somerville Falls. Franklin St. Cong. Ch. and\n      Soc.                                                    50.00\n    South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          8.17\n    Southbridge. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Parsonage,\n      Talladega C._, and to const. EDWIN S. SWIFT,\n      SAMUEL L. MORSE and EZRA B. WELD L. M\u2019s.               100.00\n    South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    30.00\n    Southville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             8.00\n    South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 51\n      (16 of which from Ladies\u2019 Mission Soc.), to\n      const. FRANK BLANCHARD and HORACE SPEAR L. Ms.;\n      Union Ch. and Soc., 50, to const. MRS.\n      JOSIAH REED L. M.                                      101.00\n    Springfield. \u201cH. M.,\u201d 500; A. C. Hunt. 10;\n      Mrs. Edward Clarke. 5                                  515.00\n    Springfield. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                              1.00\n    Stockbridge. Miss Alice Byington, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        50.00\n    Sunderland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            75.00\n    Taunton. Winslow Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       44.09\n    Topsfield. Charles Herrick                                20.00\n    Upton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           48.26\n    Upton. Cong. Sab. Sch. (ad\u2019l.), _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                           5.00\n    Warren. Mrs. Joseph Randall (5 of which _for\n      Chinese M., Cal_)                                        6.00\n    Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 12; G. W. F., 1.             13.00\n    Wellfleet. First Ch. and Soc.                             40.00\n    Wenham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 5.00\n    Whately. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               15.39\n    West Barnstable. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                           3.75\n    West Boxford. First Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Macon, Ga._                                         9.07\n    West Boylston. Polly W. Ames, 3; Geo. W. Ames,\n      3                                                        6.00\n    West Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 35.00\n    Westfield. Mrs. C. W. Fowler                               2.00\n    Westford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              18.00\n    West Medford. D. H. B.                                     0.50\n    Westport. Pacific Union Sab. Sch.                          1.93\n    Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                         32.00\n    Worcester. Union Ch. and Soc., 179.25; Hiram\n      Smith and Family, 30; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 1                    210.25\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $5,174.91\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Boston. Estate of Rev. Dr. H. B. Hooker, by A.\n      W. Tufts.                                              200.00\n    Woburn. Estate of Dea. Thomas Richardson, by\n      L. G. Richardson, Agt.                                 451.26\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $5,826.17\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $1,423.21.\n\n    Bristol. Mrs. M. De W. Rogers, 250; Miss. C.\n      De Wolf, 250; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 2                            502.00\n    Central Falls. Cong. Ch.                                  89.50\n    Providence. Central Cong. Ch., 800; North\n      Cong. Ch., 10; \u201cA Friend in Camp St.,\u201d 10.             820.00\n    Westerly. Pawcatuck Cong. Ch.                             11.71\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $4,779.21.\n\n    Birmingham. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Bridgeport. D. H. Terry, _for Tillotson C. and\n      N. Inst._                                               25.00\n    Bristol. G. L. Goodrich (10 of which _for John\n      Brown Steamer_)                                         20.00\n    Brooklyn. First Trin. Ch., 29.50; M. W. C., 50c           30.00\n    Canaan. First Cong. Ch.                                    2.92\n    Cheshire. \u201cA Friend,\u201d 20; Cong. Ch., 14.38                34.38\n    Chester. Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. HIRAM CLARK\n      L. M.                                                   40.00\n    Clinton. Geo. W. Hull, _for Tillotson C. and\n      N. Inst._                                              100.00\n    Danielsonville. Westfield Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      to const. FREDERICK W. FRANKLIN, MISS ALICE\n      G. PATTEN and MISS ELIZABETH DARLING L. Ms.             90.00\n    East Haddam. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     64.90\n    East Hartford. First Ch.                                  20.00\n    East Windsor Hill. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.               30.00\n    Falls Village. Cong. Ch.                                   2.80\n    Gilead. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Brown                       5.00\n    Green\u2019s Farms. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         60.50\n    Griswold. First Cong. Ch.                                 35.52\n    Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   12.00\n    Guilford. First. Cong. Ch., 22; Third Cong.\n      Ch., 20                                                 42.00\n    Haddam. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00\n    Hartford. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       5.00\n    Hebron. \u201cAn Old Friend\u201d                                    5.00\n    Kensington. Edward Cowles                                  5.00\n    Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       9.28\n    Meriden. Edmund Tuttle, to const. LOTTIE M.\n      LUCAS L. M.                                             30.00\n    Meriden. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson C.\n      and N. Inst._                                           25.00\n    New Britain. First Church of Christ                      210.64\n    Nepaug. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                        5.00\n    New Haven. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Land, Tillotson C.\n      and N. Inst._                                           50.00\n    New Haven. \u201cA Friend,\u201d 5; \u201cR. E. R.\u201d 5; \u201cA\n      Friend in Central Ch.,\u201d 3                               13.00\n    New Haven. George Watkinson, 10 cases of\n      rubbers, _for Talladega, Ala._\n    New London. First Ch. of Christ (of which 25\n      _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst. and 25 for\n      John Brown Steamer_)                                    83.98\n    Newington. Cong. Ch.                                      27.64\n    Norfolk. Rev. John F. Gleason                             50.00\n    Northford. Cong. Ch.                                      35.00\n    North Stonington. Dudley R. Wheeler                       10.00\n    Norwich. \u201cA Friend,\u201d (1,000 of which _for\n      Land, Tillotson C. and N. Inst._)                    1,500.00\n    Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch., 200; First Cong.\n      Ch., 90                                                290.00\n    Oxford. Cong. Ch.                                         26.00\n    Pequabuck. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Plantsville. Henry D. Smith, _for Atlanta U._            100.00\n    Plantsville. Henry D. Smith, _for Land,\n      Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                              50.00\n    Putnam. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian\n      Student Aid, Hampton N. and A. Inst._                   30.00\n    Preston City. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          30.00\n    Rockville. Second Cong. Ch.                              100.25\n    Rockville. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n      John Brown Steamer_                                     17.50\n    Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                                       13.59\n    Seymour. \u201cA few Friends,\u201d by Rev. F. S. Root,\n      _for John Brown Steamer_                                14.25\n    South Killingly. Cong. Ch.                                 7.00\n    Terryville. Cong. Ch., to const. LAURA H.\n      HARE, JULIA E. HEMINGWAY, HATTIE T. COOK,\n      HATTIE L. ELLS, ALICE M. HOTCHKISS and\n      ROLLIN J. PLUMB L. Ms.                                 274.17\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      31.45\n    Torrington. L. Wetmore, 100; Third Cong. Ch.,\n      20.27                                                  120.27\n    Vernon Center. Cong. Ch. (10 _of which for\n      Fisk U_)                                                36.56\n    Voluntown and Sterling. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.           16.00\n    Washington. \u201cZ\u201d _for Indian M._                            2.00\n    Watertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             56.00\n    Waterbury. C. D. Kingsbury, _for Tillotson C.\n      and N. Inst._                                           10.00\n    Weatogue. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                      2.00\n    Westbrook. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Westford. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n    West Hartford. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            23.38\n    Wethersfield. First Ch. of Christ                         57.23\n    Windham. Cong. Ch.                                         9.00\n    Windsor. Cong. Ch., 135, and Sab. Sch., 27\n      (_of which 87 for John Brown Steamer_)                 162.00\n    Windsor. Mrs. Mary E. Pierson, _for Student\n      Aid, Hampton N. and A. Inst._                           70.00\n    Windsor Locks. Cong. Sab. Sch., 50; Geo. P.\n      Clark, 5; Miss C. B., 1; E. A. Holt, 5, _for\n      John Brown Steamer_                                     61.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                            200.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                             20.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $4,579.21\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    New London. Trust Estate of H. P. Haven, _for\n      Land, Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                       200.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $4,779.21\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $1,093.12.\n\n    Albany. C. A. Beach                                       25.00\n    Albany. Nelson Lyon, _for Talladega C._                    5.00\n    Amsterdam. C. Bartlett                                    10.00\n    Beaver Brook. Samuel West                                  2.00\n    Black Creek. Cong. Ch.                                     3.00\n    Brooklyn. John Erhardt                                     5.00\n    Cambria. Soc. of Willing Workers, _for Emerson\n      Inst., Mobile, Ala._                                    10.00\n    Champion. Cong. Ch. and S. S., Bundle of Books.\n    Chenango Forks. Cong. Ch., 5.90; Rev. E. B.\n      Turner and Wife, 5.                                     10.90\n    Dansville. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Learned, _for\n      John Brown Steamer_                                     10.00\n    Dansville. Mrs. D. W. N.                                   0.50\n    East Wilson. H. Halsey, 20; C. M. Clark, 3                23.00\n    Elmira. Miss C. Thurston                                   5.00\n    Franklin. Sab. Sch. Concert Coll.                          6.13\n    Harlem. Cong. Ch.                                         26.27\n    Homer. Mrs. E. B. Dean (2 of which _for John\n      Brown Steamer_)                                          7.00\n    Jamestown. Rev. W. D. Henry                               10.00\n    Lebanon. Thomas Hitchcock, Marvin Day and\n      Alfred Seymour, 5 ea.; J. A. H., J. F. and\n      J. H. W., 1 ea.; Coll., 2; M. Day, T.\n      Hitchcock and Alfred Seymour, 10, to const.\n      S. W. SEYMOUR L. M.                                     30.00\n    Livonia. Mrs. William Calvert                              5.00\n    Mexico. Geo. G. French, 25; Dea. S. Smith, 2;\n      Mrs. M. F. Eddy, 2; Miss C. W., 1; A. W., 1             31.00\n    New York. Z. Stiles Ely, 250; \u201cX. Y. Z.,\u201d 100;\n      Dr. A. S. Ball, 5                                      355.00\n    New York. C. R. Agnew, M.D., _for Memorial\n      Scholarship, Talladega C._                             100.00\n    New York. A. S Barnes, _for Land, Tillotson C.\n      and N. Inst._                                          100.00\n    New York. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Hampton N. and A.\n      Inst._                                                 100.00\n    New York. S. T. Gordon, _for Chinese M. in\n      Cal._                                                   25.00\n    Nunda. \u201cA Friend,\u201d (5 of which _for Chinese M.\n      in Cal._)                                               15.00\n    Onondaga Valley. A. L. G.                                  1.00\n    Owasco. A. S.                                              1.00\n    Portland. J. S. Coon and wife, 20; Mrs. C. R.,\n      1                                                       21.00\n    Reed\u2019s Corners. Cong. Ch.                                 12.00\n    Sag Harbor. G. B. B.                                       1.00\n    Schenectady. Evang. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega\n      C._                                                     20.00\n    Sherburne. F. L. Rexford, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 5.00\n    Silver Creek. Mrs. S. Howe, 10: W. Chapin, 5              15.00\n    Smyrna. First. Cong. Ch., Mission School                  10.00\n    Tarrytown. S. M. MINASIAN, to const. himself\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel                                10.00\n    Utica. Mrs. Sarah H. Mudge                                10.00\n    Verona. Presb. Ch.                                        20.00\n    West Groton. Cong. Ch.                                    12.32\n    West Groton. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                           5.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $180.05.\n\n    Chester. First Ch. and Sab. Sch.                          25.71\n    Chester. \u201cA Friend of Missions\u201d                           25.00\n    Jersey City. Mrs. Henry O. Ames                            2.00\n    Manchester. G. P., _for John Brown Steamer_                1.00\n    Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch., 59.84; M. F.\n      P., 50c.                                                60.34\n    Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Sab. Sch., 25; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d 1, _for John Brown Steamer_                    26.00\n    Parsippany. Mrs. Jane Ford                                10.00\n    Paterson. P. Van Houten                                    5.00\n    Salem. W. G. Tyler                                        25.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $1,283.49.\n\n    Allegheny City. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                        12.75\n    Cambridgeborough. Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc. of Cong.\n      Ch.                                                      5.00\n    Canton. H. Sheldon                                        10.00\n    Coultersville. A. G.                                       0.50\n    East Smithfield. Miss Polly M. Tracy, 14; Rev.\n      C. H. Phelps, 5                                         19.00\n    Guy\u2019s Mills. Randolph Ch. 11.66; Children\u2019s\n      Miss\u2019y Soc., of Randolph Cong. Ch., 15.                 26.66\n    Philadelphia. Mrs. S. P. Fairbanks                         2.00\n    Riceville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 1.50\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                             $77.41\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Avery Estate. Sale of Land in Iowa                     1,206.08\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $1,283.49\n\n\n  OHIO, $501.53.\n\n    Bellevue. Cong. Ch., 11.50, and Sab. Sch., 4              15.50\n    Berlin Heights. Cong. Ch.                                  6.76\n    Brownhelm. O. H. Perry                                    10.00\n    Claridon. Cong. Ch.                                       20.00\n    Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Sab. Sch., 20;\n      John Jay Low, 10; Individuals, 6, _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          36.00\n    Four Corners. Cong. Ch.                                    7.75\n    Gomer. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                    51.38\n    Greensburgh. Mrs. H. B Harrington, _for Indian\n      M._                                                      5.00\n    Huntsburgh. Cong. Ch.                                     25.50\n    Lindsville. D. H., _for Theo. Dept., Talladega\n      C._                                                      1.00\n    Mantua. Cong. Ch.                                          8.00\n    Medina. C. King                                            5.00\n    Middlefield. Mrs. Lois S. Buel                             5.00\n    Mount Vernon. James Martin, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 5.00\n    Mount Vernon. J. W. F. Singer                              5.00\n    Newark. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                                 8.00\n    North Kingsville. Rev. E. J. Comings                      10.00\n    North Ridgefield. Cong. Ch.                                3.40\n    Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          20.00\n    Oberlin. First Cong. Ch., 61.89; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 5            66.89\n    Salem. David A. Allen, _for Tillotson C. and\n      N. Inst._                                               25.00\n    Steuben. Levi Platt                                        2.00\n    Twinsburgh. L. W. and R. F. Green, 5; J. R.\n      Parmelee, 2.                                             7.00\n    Unionville. Mrs. H. B. Fraser, _for Chinese M.\n      in Cal._                                                25.00\n    Wadsworth. Cong. Sab. Sch., 2.65; \u201cBusy Bees,\u201d\n      1.17, _for John Brown Steamer_                           3.82\n    Willoughby. Miss Mary P. Hastings                         10.00\n    Windham. First Cong. Ch.                                  26.08\n    York. Cong. Ch., 23.50; Lafayette Cong. Ch.,\n      7.50, to const. Dea. REUBEN GARDNER L. M.               31.00\n    Youngstown. \u201cA Congregationalist\u201d                          2.50\n    Zanesville. Mrs. M. A. Dunlap, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 2.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d                                             40.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $489.58\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Cleveland. Estate of Brewster Pelton                      11.95\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $501.53\n\n  ILLINOIS, $498.75.\n\n    Bowensburgh. Edward D. Weage                               5.00\n    Brimfield. Cong. Ch.                                      17.00\n    Buda. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Sundries, Val., $61.\n    Byron. Mrs. T. H. Read                                     5.00\n    Chenoa. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc.                                3.70\n    Chicago. Lincoln Park Cong. Ch.                           23.90\n    Chicago. \u201cH. E. De L.,\u201d _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 5.00\n    Clifton. Cong. Ch.                                         3.00\n    Collinsville. J. F. Wadsworth                             10.00\n    Danvers. Cong. Ch.                                        16.50\n    Earlville. Charlie E. and L. Parker Murray,\n      _for Indian M._                                          2.00\n    Evanston. First Cong. Ch.                                 45.01\n    Fairview. Cong. Ch.                                        0.60\n    Greenville. Cong. Sab. Sch., 5; Infant Class,\n      1. _for John Brown Steamer_                              6.00\n    Gridley. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc.                              17.00\n    Hennepin. Cong. Ch.                                        4.25\n    Homer. Cong. Ch., _for John Brown Steamer_                 6.00\n    Hutsonville. C. V. Newton                                 10.00\n    Kewanee. Cong. Ch.                                        31.34\n    La Prairie Centre. John Crawford, _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    La Salle. Cong. Ch.                                       18.00\n    Maple Park. J. I. Snow                                     5.00\n    Mendon. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   26.00\n    Oak Park. Mr. Packard\u2019s Sab. Sch. Class, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              12.00\n    Paxton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        30.00\n    Peru. First Cong. Ch.                                     11.36\n    Port Byron. Mission Circle                                 6.00\n    Princeton. Mrs. Polly B. Corss. 15; Mrs.\n      Amelia R. Clapp, 10; Mrs. C. C., 1                      26.00\n    Roscoe. Mrs. A. A. Tuttle                                  2.50\n    Sandwich. E. G. Coe                                        5.00\n    Shabbona. Cong. Ch. (30 of which to const.\n      REV. SAMUEL SHEPARD L. M.)                              73.29\n    Sycamore. Cong. Cab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Victoria. Cong. Ch.                                        3.25\n    Waukegan. Cong. Ch.                                       15.05\n    Wauponsie. Ladies\u2019 Soc. of Cong. Ch., 14, and\n      Bbl. of C. _for Mobile, Ala._                           14.00\n    Wythe. Cong. Ch.                                           5.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $598.34.\n\n    Almont. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                26.72\n    Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch.                                21.80\n    Benzonia. Amasa Waters, to const. MISS GRACIE\n      H. GRIDLEY L. M.                                        30.00\n    Bradley. First Cong. Ch.                                   3.22\n    Calumet. \u201cA Friend,\u201d 100; Miss Lucy Dobbie,\n      10; Mrs. Margaret Dobbie, 6, _for Theo.\n      Dept., Talladega C._                                   116.00\n    Canandaigua. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 5.00\n    Clinton. Cong. Ch.                                         4.90\n    Clio. Cong. Ch.                                            5.50\n    Grand Rapids. South Cong. Ch.                              6.81\n    Grand Rapids. E. G. Furness (1 of which _for\n      John Brown Steamer_)                                     5.00\n    Grass Lake. Cong. Ch.                                     14.00\n    Hersey. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n    Hillsdale. John W. Ford                                    2.00\n    Homestead. Morris Case                                     5.00\n    Hopkins. Second Cong. Ch., 8.75; First Cong.\n      Ch. 2.39                                                11.14\n    Jackson. First Cong. Ch.                                 300.00\n    Ludington. Cong. Ch., 10; H. B. B., 1.                    11.00\n    Morenci. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Saint Johns. A. J. B.                                      1.00\n    Sheridan. Cong. Ch.                                        2.75\n    Wayne. Cong. Ch.                                          11.50\n\n\n  IOWA, $176.02.\n\n    Alden. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 5.00\n    Clear Lake. Cong. Ch.                                     10.00\n    Clinton. C. B.                                             1.00\n    Denmark. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  25.00\n    Des Moines. Plymouth Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          15.00\n    De Witt. First Cong. Ch.                                  40.66\n    Exira. Rev. Lyman Bush                                    10.00\n    New Hampton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 5.50\n    Quasqueton. W. S. Potwire, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Red Oak. Cong. Ch., 13.03; Rev. J. A., 50c.               13.53\n    Waterloo. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc. of First Cong.\n      Ch., 10; Rev. Moses K. Cross, 5                         15.00\n    Winterset. Mrs. S. J. Dinsmore, 5; Mrs. H. F.\n      Parlin, 2                                                7.00\n    Winthrop. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 3.33\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $503.19.\n\n    Appleton. Cong. Ch.                                       72.90\n    Arena. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc.                                 2.16\n    Beloit. \u201cO. W. H.\u201d                                         5.00\n    Brandon. First Cong. Ch.                                  17.20\n    Chippewa Falls. J. E. Lee                                  1.60\n    Delavan. Cong. Ch.                                        35.00\n    East Troy. Cong. Ch.                                      10.00\n    Elkhorn. Mrs. D. L. F.                                     1.00\n    Emerald Grove. Mrs. O. F. Curtiss, _for\n      Chinese M. in Cal._                                      5.00\n    Fox Lake. First Cong. Ch.                                  4.33\n    Geneva. E. S. Warner                                      10.00\n    Hartford. Cong. Ch.                                       12.50\n    Ironton. Cong. Ch.                                         5.00\n    Madison. First Cong. Ch., to const. Mrs. R. R.\n      SMITH, Mrs. M. A. MUNNS and Mrs. BYRON PAINE\n      L. Ms.                                                 100.00\n    Madison. Primary Sab. Sch. for \u201cTed\u2019s\u201d\n      _temperance work, Atlanta, Ga._                          5.00\n    Mondovi. Cong. Ch.                                         3.26\n    Muscoda. Pleasant Hill Ch.                                 2.27\n    Mukwanago. Cong. Ch.                                       3.50\n    Pewaukee. Cong. Ch.                                        4.00\n    Racine. Presb. Ch., 40.42; First Cong. Ch., 30\n      to const. JOHN LANE VAN ORNUM, L. M.                    70.42\n    Rio. Cong. Ch.                                             5.25\n    Ripon. Cong. Ch.                                         100.00\n    River Falls. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc.                           4.00\n    Salem. Munson & Bailey                                     6.00\n    Shullsburgh. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               4.10\n    Stoughton. Miss A. B. S.                                   0.50\n    Wauwatosa. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             9.75\n    Wyocena. Cong. Ch.                                         3.75\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $98.50.\n\n    North Springfield. First Cong. Ch. (60 of\n      which from Chas E. Harwood, to const. ISABEL\n      HOWE HARWOOD and AURELIA L. HARWOOD L. Ms)              98.50\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $159.62.\n\n    Clear Water. Cong. Ch.                                     3.07\n    Freeborn. Cong. Ch.                                        1.45\n    High Forest. Cong. Ch.                                     5.00\n    Lake City. J. P.                                           1.00\n    Medford. Cary Memorial Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                           8.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., 16.92; Second Cong.\n      Ch. 4.                                                  20.92\n    Minneapolis. Pilgrim Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        45.00\n    Minneapolis. E. D. First Cong. Ch.                         5.43\n    Sauk Rapids. Cong. Ch.                                     3.00\n    Sleepy Eye. Cong. Ch.                                      5.65\n    South Minneapolis. Mrs. A. V. S. F.                        9.10\n    Stewartville. Cong. Ch.                                    2.00\n    Winona. Cong. Ch., to const. W. P. LAIRD L. M.            50.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $64.25.\n\n    Bavaria. Dea. A. M.                                         .50\n    Brookville. Rev. S. G. Wright, 4; Mrs. E. E.\n      S., 50c.                                                 4.50\n    Kinsley. Cong. Ch.                                         2.00\n    Lawrence. Plymouth Cong. Ch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Manhattan. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          19.00\n    Osawatomie. Cong. Ch.                                      7.00\n    Osawatomie. Mrs. Emma F., and Sarah F.\n      Remington, 1 each; Rev. S. L., C. S., Addie\n      and Grace Adair, 1 each, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 6.00\n    Ottawa. Mrs. Lucy B. Perry                                10.00\n    Wabaunsee. First Church                                    5.25\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $80.10.\n\n    Camp Creek. Cong. Ch.                                      4.00\n    Crete. Cong. Ch.                                          10.35\n    Fairmont. Cong. Ch.                                       43.00\n    Harvard. Cong. Ch.                                         9.50\n    Steele City. Cong. Ch.                                     5.25\n    Sutton. Cong. Ch.                                          3.00\n    West Point. Rev. and Mrs. James Oakey                      5.00\n\n\n  COLORADO, $9.50.\n\n    Colorado Springs. Cong. Ch.                                9.50\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $1,368.30.\n\n    Santa Barbara. Mrs. Mary B. Van Winkle                     5.00\n    San Francisco. Receipts of the California\n      Chinese Mission                                      1,362.30\n    Covello. Rev. W. E. R.                                     1.00\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TER., $10.\n\n    Cheney. Rev. Cushing Eells                                10.00\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $25.00.\n\n    Washington. Gen. E. Whittlesey                            25.00\n\n\n  DELAWARE, $1.00.\n\n    Wilmington. Mrs. N. T. J.                                  1.00\n\n\n  MARYLAND, $100.00.\n\n    Baltimore. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    100.00\n\n\n  VIRGINIA, $15.00.\n\n    Herndon. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                15.00\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $15.00.\n\n    McLeansville. Cong. Ch.                                    5.00\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                     10.00\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $56.50.\n\n    Atlanta. First Cong. Ch.                                  30.00\n    Macon. Cong. Ch., 5; Rent, 1.50                            6.50\n    Savannah. Rent                                            20.00\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $69.05.\n\n    Mobile. Stone St. Bap. Ch., 10.50; Hon.\n      Gustavus Horton, 10; J. K. Randall, 5; W.\n      Wing, 1.20; D. F., 1; F. T., 50c.; A Pupil,\n      5c., _for rebuilding Emerson Inst._                     28.25\n    Mobile. Cong. Ch.                                          2.00\n    Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     30.00\n    Selma. Cong. Ch. (1.50 _of which for John\n      Brown Steamer_)                                          8.80\n\n\n  INCOMES, $3,241.66.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                             2,370.00\n    Le Moyne Fund, _for Le Moyne Sch., Memphis,\n      Tenn._                                                 520.00\n    Dike Fund, _for Straight U._                              50.00\n    Hammond Fund, _for Straight U._                           46.88\n    De Forest Fund, _for President\u2019s Chair_,\n      77.62; Scholarship Fund, 37.50; Luke\n      Memorial Scholarship Fund, 4.48; Yale\n      Library Fund, 2.06, _for Talladega C._                 121.66\n    Scholarship Fund, _for Fisk U._                           23.75\n    Theological Fund, _for Howard U._                         31.51\n    Scholarship Fund, _for Straight U._                       27.86\n    General Endowment Fund                                    50.00\n\n\n  SANDWICH ISLANDS, $250.00.\n\n    Kohala, Hawaii. \u201cA Friend\u201d                               250.00\n\n\n  AFRICA, $10.00.\n\n    Mendi Mission. Rev. J. M. Hall, _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n                                                          \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total for September                              $24,080.79\n        Total from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30                    297,584.45\n                                                         ==========\n\n\n\n\n    RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION, E.\n      Palache, Treas., from June 16 to Sept. 19,\n      1882.\n    FROM AUXILIARY MISSIONS: Marysville, Chinese\n      Monthly Offerings, 23.05; Eleven Annual\n      Members, 22; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 50c.\u2014Petaluma,\n      Chinese Monthlies, 2.70.\u2014Sacramento, Chinese\n      Monthlies, 21; Twenty-three Annual Members,\n      46; Chinese Pupils, 25, to const. their\n      teacher, Mrs. S. E. CARRINGTON, L. M.\u2014Santa\n      Barbara, Chinese Monthlies, 20; Chinese\n      Annual Members, 4; Mrs. Bates, 4; Mrs.\n      Jennings, 1.\u2014Santa Cruz, Chinese Monthlies,\n      10.50; Thirteen Annual Members,\n      26.\u2014Stockton, Chinese Monthlies, 9; Annual\n      Meeting coll, 4; Ten Annual Members, 20.               238.75\n    FROM CHURCHES: Benicia. Cong. Ch.,\n      4.65.\u2014Berkeley, Cong. Ch., 11.45.\u2014Ferndale,\n      Rev. P. Coombe, 5.\u2014Oakland, First Cong. Ch.,\n      13.95; Four Annual Members, 8; Sixteen\n      Chinese Members, 32; Plymouth Av. Ch., coll.\n      (in part), 20; Annual Member, 2.\u2014Rio Vista\n      Cong. Ch., Mrs. Gardner, 1.50; Chinese,\n      1.\u2014Riverside. Cong. Ch., 7.\u2014San Francisco,\n      Cong. Ch., 106.50; Plymouth Ch., Annual\n      Member, 2.\u2014Bethany Ch., Seventy-seven Annual\n      Members, 154; Chinese Offerings, 25, to\n      const. Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH L. M.;\n      Americans, 34.50 to const. Dea. JOHN A.\n      SNOOK L. M.\u2014San Jose, Cong. Ch., 5; Suison,\n      Cong. Ch. 4.                                           437.55\n    FROM INDIVIDUAL DONORS: Parrott & Co., 100;\n      Taber, Harker & Co., 25; Williams, Dimond &\n      Co., 25; Macondray & Co., 25; C. Adolph Low\n      & Co., 25; M. C. Hawley & Co., 25; E. Ransom\n      & Co., 25; Rogers, Meyer & Co., 25; Hon. F.\n      F. Low, 25; W. T. Coleman, 25; J. J. Felt,\n      25; Cal. Fum. Mfg. Co., 25; \u201cFriend,\u201d 25; O.\n      W. Merriam, 20; John F. Merrill, 20; E. W.\n      Playter, 10; I. W. Knox, 10.                           460.00\n    FROM EASTERN HELPERS: Bangor, Me., \u201cAlmost\n      Home.\u201d 25.\u2014Amherst, Mass., Mrs. Rhoda A.\n      Lester, 100.\u2014New York, N.Y., A. S. Barnes,\n      100.\u2014Grinnell, Iowa. Prof. F. B. Brewer, 1.            226.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                              $1362.30\n                                                           ========\n\n\n  FOR ENDOWMENT FUND.\n\n    New York. Note of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, _for\n      Scholarship, Fisk U._                                  500.00\n\n\n  FOR ARTHINGTON MISSION.\n\n    Income Fund                                              550.00\n      Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1 to Aug.\n      31                                                   4,622.92\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n        Total                                              5,172.92\n                                                           ========\n\n                                     H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.\n                                          56 Reade St., New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nINCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.\n\n\nART. 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, and diffuse a\nknowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries\nwhich are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent\nfields of effort.\n\nART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes\nfaith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the\npractice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds,\nmay become a member of the Society; and, by the payment of thirty\ndollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have\nnot professed their faith may be constituted life members without\nthe privilege of voting.\n\nART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of\nSeptember, October or November, for the election of officers and\nthe transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall\nbe designated by the Executive Committee.\n\nART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular\nofficers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,\nand of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,\nand other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one\nrepresentative.\n\nART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President,\nVice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,\nTreasurer, two Auditors and an Executive Committee of not less than\ntwelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory\nand the Treasurer ex-officio members.\n\nART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting\nand disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining\nand dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and\nagents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the\ntransaction of all such business as usually appertains to the\nexecutive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies;\nthe Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the\nmissionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision\nof the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually\nchosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or\nmissionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.\n\nThe Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies\noccurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;\nto apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of\nincorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all\nofficers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the\nSociety; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and\nfor the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call,\nin all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and\ngeneral conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the\ndiffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous\npromotion of the missionary work.\n\nFive members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for\ntransacting business.\n\nART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing\nofficers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields\nof labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor\nparticularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the\nknown fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment\nthose who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.\n\nART. IX. 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. X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without\nthe concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular\nannual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been\nsubmitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in\nseason to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if\nso submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a\nbelief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a\nSaviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice\nof Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity\nof regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy\nobedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and\nthe retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the\nwicked, and salvation of the righteous.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\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 the\nprinciples 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\n           Physicians have Prescribed 500,000 Packages.\n\n              For sale by Druggists, or by Mail, $1.\n\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\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,\n                               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                    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\n                             BROKERS,\n\n                         EMMETSBURG, IOWA.\n\n        References and Circulars forwarded on Application.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.\n\n[Illustration: SMITH\n\nAMERICAN\n\nORGANS]\n\n                           ARE THE BEST.\n\n\n                 _Catalogues Free on Application._\n\nAddress the Company either at:\n\n  BOSTON, MASS., 531 Tremont Street;\n  LONDON, ENG., 57 Holborn Viaduct;\n  KANSAS CITY, Mo., 817 Main Street;\n  ATLANTA, GA., 27 Whitehall Street;\n  Or, DEFIANCE, O.\n\n\n                         OVER 95,000 SOLD.\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[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                             PAYSON\u2019S\n\n                          INDELIBLE INK,\n\n                  FOR MARKING ANY FABRIC WITH A\n                      COMMON PEN, WITHOUT A\n                           PREPARATION.\n\n\n          It still stands unrivaled after 50 years\u2019 test.\n\n\n                      THE SIMPLEST AND BEST.\n\nSales now greater than ever before.\n\nThis Ink received the Diploma and Medal at Centennial over all\nrivals.\n\nReport of Judges: \u201cFor simplicity of application and indelibility.\u201d\n\n\n                            INQUIRE FOR\n\n                      PAYSON\u2019S COMBINATION!!!\n\nSold by all Druggists, Stationers and News Agents, and by many\nFancy Goods and Furnishing Houses.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n              Circulation Now 80,000, and Increasing.\n\n          Advocating Evangelical Religion and Temperance.\n\n           Liberty, Education and Equal Rights for all.\n\n                         NEW YORK WITNESS\n\n                       PUBLICATIONS for 1882\n\n=New York Weekly Witness.=\u2014Now in its 11th year; circulation,\n80,000; ONE DOLLAR a year. 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 of the Liquor Traffic.\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\n                  SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             WEBSTER\u2019S\n\n                            UNABRIDGED.\n\n=Latest Edition has 118,000 Words=, (=3000= more than any other\nEnglish Dictionary,) =Four Pages Colored Plates, 3000 Engravings=,\n(nearly three times the number in any other Dict\u2019y,) also contains\na =Biographical Dictionary= giving brief important facts concerning\n=9700 noted persons=.\n\n[Illustration: Ancient Castle.]\n\n          On page =203=, see the above picture and names\n             of the =24= parts,\u2014showing the value of\n                        Webster\u2019s numerous\n\n                     Illustrated Definitions.\n\n\n           It is the best practical English Dictionary\n                extant.\u2014_London Quarterly Review._\n\n             The Book is an ever-present and reliable\n                    school master to the whole\n                  family.\u2014_Sunday School Herald._\n\n        =G. & C. MERRIAM & CO.=, Pub\u2019rs, Springfield, Mass.\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\nFencing. Can 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\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes\n\n\nObvious printer\u2019s punctuation errors and omissions corrected. Ditto\nmarks replaced by text they represent.\n\nCorrected table of Contents, which incorrectly included the monthly\nsection The Freedmen on the line for the General Notes article.\n\n\u201cSteet\u201d changed to \u201cStreet\u201d on the inside cover in the\nCORRESPONDING SECRETARY listing.\n\n\u201cbrethern\u201d changed to \u201cbrethren\u201d on page 324. (the calling in of\nthese brethern)\n\n\u201cevenning\u201d changed to \u201cevening\u201d on page 340. (the evening, till a\nlate hour)\n\nThe amount in the Mukwanago entry on page 347 is not printed\nclearly. Best estimate used.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 36, No. 11, November, 1882","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":21432}