{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_60298/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_60298","id":"gutenberg_60298","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60298","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Journals","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Sociology","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"[Illustration: JANUARY, 1883.\n\nVOL. XXXVII.\n\nNO. 1.\n\nThe American Missionary]\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\n                                                         PAGE.\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    ANOTHER YEAR                                            1\n    PARAGRAPHS                                              2\n    RETIREMENT OF REV. DR. LADD\u2014MENDI MISSION, JOHN\n      BROWN STEAMER                                         3\n    PARAGRAPHS\u2014HOW LONG IS THIS THING GOING ON?             4\n    BENEFACTIONS\u2014GENERAL NOTES                              5\n    GROUP OF MONGOLIANS (CUT)                               7\n    TRAINING COLORED GIRLS. MISS ANNA M. CAHILL             8\n    INDUSTRIAL WORK AT MEMPHIS. MISS ELLA HAMILTON         12\n\n\n  THE SOUTH.\n\n    AVERY NORMAL INSTITUTE, CHARLESTON, S.C.               13\n    NEW BUILDING AT ATHENS, ALA.                           14\n    TRINITY SCHOOL BUILDING (CUT)                          15\n    THE GEORGIA ASSOCIATION                                16\n    THE CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION                          17\n    WYTHEVILLE, VA.\u2014DEATH OF REV. W. H. ASH                18\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n  STATEMENTS RESPECTING INDIANS AND THEIR NECESSITIES:\n    BY GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG                                19\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    HUMBLINGS: BY REV. W. C. POND                          22\n    WASHEE WASHEE                                          24\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    THE LITTLE DINING-ROOM                                 24\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                 25\n\n\n  FORM OF BEQUEST\u2014AIM AND WORK\u2014STATISTICS\u2014WANTS            28\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                             NEW YORK.\n         PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\n                      Rooms, 56 Reade Street.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                Price 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.\n          Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y.,\n                      as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\nPUBLICATIONS OF EUGENE R. SMITH, NEW YORK.\n\n\nGOSPEL IN ALL LANDS.\n\nTHE GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS was commenced in February, 1880, and was\ncontinued during 1880 and 1881 as a 48 page monthly. The only\nnumbers of these years that can now be furnished are as follows:\n\n\n1880.\n\n  _August_\u2014Palestine, Syria, and Jewish Missions.\n  _Nov._\u2014Australasia and Malaysia.\n  _Dec._\u2014Siam and Burmah.\n\n\n1881.\n\n  _January_\u2014American Indians.\n  _February_\u2014Papal Europe.\n  _March_\u2014Africa and Africans.\n  _April_\u2014Papal America.\n  _May_\u2014China and the Chinese.\n  _June_\u2014The Oriental Churches.\n  _July_\u2014Japan and the Japanese.\n  _August_\u2014The Jews.\n  _September_\u2014India.\n  _October_\u2014The Mohammedans.\n  _November_\u2014The Malays.\n  _December_\u2014Unoccupied Mission Fields.\n\nSingle numbers, 25 cents. Twelve numbers, $2.00. There are two\nvolumes a year. The twelve numbers of 1881 bound in cloth, $3.00.\nBy mail, $3.50.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n1882.\n\n_Sixteen pages a week._\n\n  Jan.   5\u2014Christian Work in Cities.\n  Jan.  12\u2014Home Missions.\n  Jan.  19\u2014Missions among Freedmen.\n  Jan.  26\u2014China.\n  Feb.   2\u2014Woman\u2019s Missionary Societies.\n  Feb.   9\u2014The West Indies.\n  Feb.  16\u2014Mexico.\n  Feb.  23\u2014Central America.\n  Mar.   2\u2014American Missionary Societies.\n  Mar.   9\u2014Missionary Concerts.\n  Mar.  16\u2014The Progress of Missions.\n  Mar.  23\u2014People and Religions of India.\n  Mar.  30\u2014Christian Work in India.\n  April  6\u2014English Missionary Societies.\n  April 13\u2014Medical Missions.\n  April 20\u2014Siam and Laos.\n  April 27\u2014Burmah.\n  May    4\u2014Northern Africa.\n  May   11\u2014Eastern & Central Africa.\n  May   18\u2014Southern Africa.\n  May   25\u2014Western Africa.\n  June   1\u2014Bible Work.\n  June   8\u2014Greenland.\n  June  15\u2014Canada.\n  June  22\u2014Indians of the Northwest.\n  June  29\u2014Indians of the U.S.\n  July   6\u2014Continental Missionary Societies.\n  July  13\u2014Roman Catholic Missions.\n  July  20\u2014Brazil.\n  July  27\u2014South America.\n  Aug.   3\u2014Missions and the Sunday School.\n  Aug.  10\u2014Independent Mission Work.\n  Aug.  17\u2014Missionary Methods.\n  Aug.  24\u2014Japan.\n  Aug.  31\u2014False Religions.\n  Sept.  7\u2014Money in relation to Missions.\n  Sept. 14\u2014Russia, Greece, and Bulgaria.\n  Sept. 21\u2014Persia & adjacent regions.\n  Sept. 28\u2014Turkey.\n  Oct.   5\u2014Missionary Literature.\n  Oct.  12\u2014Protestant Europe.\n  Oct.  19\u2014Roman Catholic Europe.\n  Oct.  26\u2014General Missions.\n  Nov.   2\u2014Polynesia.\n  Nov.   9\u2014Liberty.\n  Nov.  14\u2014Resources of Missions.\n  Nov.  23\u2014Syria and Palestine.\n  Nov.  30\u2014The Jews.\n  Dec.   7\u2014Educational Mission Work.\n  Dec.  16\u2014Malaysia and Australasia.\n  Dec.  21\u2014The Sandwich Islands.\n  Dec.  28\u2014The Missionary World.\n\nSingle numbers, six cents. The 52 numbers of the year, $2.00. The\n52 numbers bound in cloth, $3.00. By mail. $3.50.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n1883 Gospel in All Lands.\n\n_Sixteen pages a week._\n\n  Jan.   4. Monthly Review of Missions.\n  Jan.  11. Missionaries.\n  Jan.  18. China.\n  Jan.  25. American Episcopal Missions.\n  Feb.   1. Monthly Review of Missions.\n  Feb.   8. Children and Missions.\n  Feb.  15. Mexico & Central America.\n  Feb.  22. American Lutheran Missions.\n  Mar.   1. Monthly Review of Missions.\n  Mar.   8. Woman and Missions.\n  Mar.  15. Incident and Narrative.\n  Mar.  22. India.\n  Mar.  29. Ceylon.\n  Apr.   5. Monthly Review of Missions.\n  Apr.  12. Missionary Concert Exercises.\n  Apr.  19. Siam and Laos.\n  Apr.  26. Christianity in Relation to Other Religions.\n  May    3. Monthly Review of Missions.\n  May   10. Giving and Missions.\n  May   17. People of Africa.\n  May   24. Missions in Africa.\n  May   31. American Methodist Missions.\n  Jun.   7. Monthly Review of Missions.\n  Jun.  14. Missions in North America.\n  Jun.  21. The American Indians.\n  Jun.  28. Missions in the United States.\n  July   5. Monthly Review of Missions.\n  July  12. The Bible and Missions.\n  July  19. Missions in South America.\n  July  26. American Presbyterian Missions.\n  Aug    2. Monthly Review of Missions.\n  Aug    9. Missionary Obligation.\n  Aug   16. Burmah.\n  Aug   23. Japan.\n  Aug   30. American Baptist Missions.\n  Sept.  6. Monthly Review of Missions.\n  Sept. 13. Mohammedanism.\n  Sept. 20. Persia.\n  Sept. 27. Missions in Asia.\n  Oct.   4. Monthly Review of Missions.\n  Oct.  11. Missions in Europe.\n  Oct.  18. Catholicism.\n  Oct.  25. The American Board.\n  Nov.   1. Monthly Review of Missions.\n  Nov.   8. Armenians and Nestorians.\n  Nov.  15. Turkey.\n  Nov.  22. Syria and Palestine.\n  Nov.  29. Missionary Literature.\n  Dec.   6. Monthly Review of Missions.\n  Dec.  13. Missions in Oceanica.\n  Dec.  20. Missionary Societies.\n  Dec.  27. Progress of Missions.\n\nSingle numbers, six cents. One year, two dollars.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n=THE LITTLE MISSIONARY= is the Children\u2019s Missionary Paper. Four\npages a month, filled with pictures, stories about heathen lands\nand people, and stories that will increase the interest of the\nchildren in missions.\n\nThe principal part of each number is devoted to pictures and\nstories on the following:\n\n  _January_: General Missions.\n  _February_: The People of China.\n  _March_: The People of Mexico.\n  _April_: The People of India.\n  _May_: Siam and Burmah.\n  _June_: The People of Africa.\n  _July_: The American Indians.\n  _August_: South America.\n  _September_: The People of Japan.\n  _October_: Persia and Turkey.\n  _November_: Syria and Palestine.\n  _December_: Oceanica.\n\nOne copy, 25 cents. Six copies to one address, 50 cents. Twenty\ncopies and over to one address, each six cents a year.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n=MAP OF CHINA.= It is on paper, 17 by 18 inches, showing each\nof the 18 provinces colored, and giving the names of mountains,\nrivers, and more than 5,000 cities and towns. The most complete map\nof China published. Price, twenty cents, postage paid.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE MISSIONARY WORLD,\n\na missionary monthly for young people. Sixteen pages a month,\nprofusely illustrated, containing interesting and instructive\nreading concerning all lands and all people, and stories that will\nawaken and develop the missionary spirit. It can be made a local\npaper by removing the four outside pages, and putting on it a cover\ncontaining local name, news, etc. One copy, 50 cents a year. Twenty\ncopies and over, each 30 cents a year.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n1883 MISSIONARY ALMANAC.\n\nIt contains a list of missionary books, missionary periodicals,\nmissionary societies, with names and address of their secretaries,\nnames and stations of all the foreign missionaries from the United\nStates, maps, and other valuable information relating to missions.\n\nPrice, 25 cents.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n=SUNSHINE= is a beautiful little eight page monthly paper,\ncontaining little pictures, little lessons, and little stories for\nlittle children. \u201cA little treasure.\u201d One copy, 25 cents a year.\nSix copies to one address, 50 cents. Twenty copies and over to one\naddress, each six cents a year.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n=Inter-Seminary Missionary Alliance.= A pamphlet of 64 pages,\ncontaining the proceedings and the addresses made before the first\nInter-Seminary Missionary Convention (1880). Price, 25 cents.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nINTERNATIONAL LESSONS.\n\n=My Picture Lesson=, a beautiful four page weekly, (mailed\nmonthly), containing pictures, lessons, and stories about the\nInternational Lessons for the children. \u201cThe Best for Primary\nClasses.\u201d One copy, 25 cents a year. Ten copies, $1.50 a year.\nTwenty copies $2.60. One hundred copies, $13.00 a year.\n\n=International Lesson Quarterly=, 16 pages a quarter, containing\nScripture Text, Questions, Reviews, Hymns, Brief Notes, Opening\nExercises, etc. Three cents a quarter; twelve cents a year. Twenty\ncopies and over, each seven cents a year.\n\n=Light on the Lesson Quarterly=, 33 pages a quarter, containing\nScripture Text, Revised Text, Questions, Reviews, Hymns,\nExplanatory and Devotional Notes, Opening Exercises, Illustrations,\netc. Five cents a quarter; 20 cents a year. Twenty copies and over,\neach fourteen cents a year.\n\n=Lesson Helper Quarterly=, 48 pages a quarter, containing\nScripture Text, Revised Version, Questions, Reviews, Hymns, Maps,\nIllustrations, Opening Exercises, Explanatory, Illustrative, and\nDevotional Notes, Opinions of the Best Commentators on the Lesson,\netc. Eight cents a quarter; 30 cents a year. Twenty copies and\nover, each twenty cents a year.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAll Lesson Helps are stopped at close of time paid for.\nSubscriptions amounting to fractions of a dollar can be paid in one\ncent U.S. postage stamps. Canadian stamps cannot be used. Address\norders to Eugene R. Smith, Publisher,\n\n                                     74 Bible House, New York.\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n           VOL. XXXVII.      JANUARY, 1883.      NO. 1.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nANOTHER YEAR.\n\nWith this issue THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY greets its readers the\nthirty-seventh time on the threshold of a new year. For more than a\ngeneration it has participated in mighty struggles for the welfare\nof the church and the nation.\n\nThere is no more lofty tower of observation than that builded\non the foundations of righteousness. From this eminence, the\nMISSIONARY has cast its eye to the end of the earth and recorded\nthe progress and change in events that have brought about this glad\nday.\n\nThe horrors of the slave trade, now happily passing away, have\nbeen unceasingly exposed and deplored. American slavery, so\nrecently abolished, has been opposed with righteous and relentless\nwarfare, and the elevation of the Freedman has been urged by every\npatriotic and Christian consideration. The rights of the Indians,\nnow so generally recognized, have always been advocated; and the\nHeaven-given opportunity to evangelize the persecuted Chinaman on\nthe Pacific coast, has been set forth without stint or abatement,\nwhile all along the line of the work which this periodical\nrepresents, the yoke of prejudice has been lifted from the necks of\nmillions, and the curse threatened by national injustice, beaten\nback that it blast not the life of our free institutions.\n\nThe furrow of time is rapidly burying beneath the sod what is left\nof \u201cunconquerable will, the study of revenge, immortal hate, and\nwhat is else not to be overcome.\u201d The new generation, forgetful of\nthe past, is concerned for its future. The flood of misjudgment and\ndistrust that ingulfed the Southland is rapidly subsiding, and the\npeaks and hill tops are tipped with the effulgence of the Sun of\nRighteousness.\n\nSurely those who wait on the Lord have reason to renew their\nstrength and double their diligence for the toil, the sacrifices,\nand the rewards of another year.\n\nWe would respectfully call the special attention of our readers to\nthe statement on the fourth page of cover, relating to our monthly\nmagazine. Subscription price, 50 cents a year.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIN common with other benevolent societies, we find many people\nquite ready to vote and to give sentiment for missions who are not\nwilling to pay a cent for their support.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWE are happy to make room in this number of the MISSIONARY for\ncopious extracts from two valuable papers read before the Woman\u2019s\nMeeting in connection with our annual meeting at Cleveland. The\ngathering of ladies was so large as to fill the chapel where they\nassembled to overflowing, and the interest manifested such that the\ntime allotted for the service was extended to occupy nearly all\nthe forenoon. We commend the papers as worthy of the most careful\nconsideration.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIn an appeal sent to the churches from our office in Boston,\nSecretary Woodworth calls attention to the following facts, which\nare timely and suggestive:\n\n\u201cAn average of one dollar each by the members of our churches would\namount to more than $350,000. But when it is remembered that a\nlarge percentage of our churches are not annual contributors to our\ntreasury, it will be seen that the ratio of giving, on the part of\nthose which _do_ contribute, must be considerably increased.\n\n\u201cThat this matter be brought under the eye at a single glance, we\ntabulate below the number of _giving_ and _non-giving_ churches for\nthe year closing September 30, 1882, for the New England Department:\n\n      GIVING CHURCHES.               NON-GIVING CHURCHES.\n  Maine                  62      Maine                 176\n  New Hampshire          87      New Hampshire         101\n  Vermont               113      Vermont                84\n  Massachusetts         310      Massachusetts         218\n  Rhode Island           12      Rhode Island           15\n                        ---                            ---\n                        584                            594\n\n\u201cIt will be seen, therefore, that less than one-half of these\nchurches are on the giving list for the year. If this shall prove\na surprise to the pastors, we are sure they will bear with us\nif we earnestly ask them to see that their people do not fail\nto contribute through lack of opportunity to do so. May we not\nreasonably ask two things? 1. A regular _place_ and _time_ for the\nAmerican Missionary Association on the benevolent programme. 2. One\nannual contribution to its treasury. Grant us these _two_ things,\nand we will have a reliable basis for our income, and an amount\nsufficient to meet the present and prospective needs of our work.\u201d\n\nOUR annual report for 1882 will soon be ready for distribution. We\nshall be happy to forward it to any of our friends who will send us\ntheir name and address, signifying their wish to have it.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nRETIREMENT OF REV. DR. LADD.\n\nEXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\nThe Executive Committee of the American Missionary Association, in\naccepting the resignation of the Rev. Henry M. Ladd, D.D., wish\nto express and place on record their high sense of his worth as a\nman, his intrepid courage and perseverance as an explorer, and his\nskill and accuracy in reporting the details of his observations.\nHis success as an explorer gave the strongest assurance that he\nwould have been eminently fitted as Superintendent of Missions,\nhad Providence permitted the Association to enter upon the work in\nEastern Africa, and to continue that on the Western coast. But, as\nit now seems the call of God to the Committee to retire from the\nforeign field, it commends Dr. Ladd most warmly to the churches for\nany work in their service to which the Master may call him.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMENDI MISSION.\u2014JOHN BROWN STEAMER.\n\nPursuant to the instructions given at the Annual Meeting, this\nAssociation has made arrangements with the United Brethren to\nconduct the Mendi Mission, giving them the income of the Avery\nfund for a term of five years. Mr. Flickinger, the Secretary, and\nMr. Billheimer, the Treasurer of the Society, were at one time\nmissionaries of the American Missionary Association in the Mendi\ncountry, and thoroughly understand the necessities of the mission.\n\nMr. Flickinger sailed Dec. 9th for Glasgow, to provide for the\nconstruction of the John Brown Steamer. After the contract for\nthe steamer is given out, it is the purpose of Mr. Flickinger to\nproceed to Shengay, on the West coast of Africa, where the United\nBrethren have a mission. When the steamer is ready, this point\nwill be within easy distance of the principal stations of the\nMendi Mission. During Mr. Flickinger\u2019s visit to the Coast, he will\ncomplete arrangements for the continuance of our work under the\nauspices of his society.\n\nWe shall place at the disposal of the United Brethren the money\ncontributed for the steamer. We hope the funds we have on hand,\nwith what has been pledged, will be sufficient to pay for the\nboat. We request, therefore, that those who have made pledges or\ncollected money through Sabbath-schools or otherwise for this\npurpose, will forward their gifts to us as early as possible, in\norder that there may be no uncertainty as to the amount that can be\nrelied upon.\n\nTHE GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS has completed its first year as an\nillustrated missionary weekly. As a power for good we believe it\nhas been of great value. Its editorial department, which not only\ncanvasses the missionary fields at home and abroad, but gives\nattention to principles underlying the work, and current events\nand questions of interest, has been much improved. Persons seeking\ninformation concerning the work of Protestant missions throughout\nthe world can readily find what is wanted in its files. May it have\nthe encouragement it so richly deserves.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u201cHOME LIFE IN THE BIBLE,\u201d by Henrietta Lee Palmer, is the title of\na large and attractive book of 401 octavo pages, illustrated with\ntwo hundred wood cuts, and printed on good paper, with handsome\ntype.\n\nThe book is full of the family.\n\nWhat is known of the habitations of the ancient Hebrews is brought\nout by the author\u2014their mode of life, their food, their cookery,\ntheir dress, their amusements, their customs in marriage and in\nmourning, their education and their religious worship. We believe\nthe book is worthy of study in every American household, and\nespecially among the colored people of the South.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHOW LONG IS THIS THING GOING ON?\n\nIn a New England village, not many years ago, the custom prevailed\nof making personal solicitation from the members of the church\nthere located, for contributions to the several benevolent\nsocieties in regular order and at stated times. To this end certain\npersons were designated in each of several districts to visit all\nthe resident members. A visitor in one of these districts relates\nthat, after a strong presentation of the claims of the heathen\nworld had been made from the pulpit, he was encouraged to visit a\nmember of the church who had not been noted for his liberality,\nand to solicit funds in behalf of the work of evangelizing the\ndark parts of the earth. In response he received a donation of\ntwenty-five cents. No other call was made on the individual\nreferred to during the remainder of the year; but when the usual\nseason for soliciting aid for foreign missions recurred, the\nvisitor called again upon him asking for a contribution. He was\nmet by the inquiry: \u201cDidn\u2019t I give you twenty-five cents for this\nlast year!\u201d Answer was made in the affirmative, when the rejoinder\ncame, \u201cWell, how long is this thing going on?\u201d Of course, there was\nbut one answer to make, and that to the effect that so long as men\nare born with depraved hearts, this process of the more favored\nchildren of the Highest contributing funds and efforts for the\nelevation and conversion of less privileged ones should not cease\n\u201cgoing on.\u201d Deut. xv., 11: \u201cFor the poor shal never cease out of\nthe land. Therefore I command thee, saying, thou shalt open thine\nhand wide unto thy brother; to thy poor and to thy needy in the\nland.\u201d * * *\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nThe late Hannah G. Russell, of Boston, willed $2,000 to the Boston\nUniversity, to be used in clothing poor students of theology.\n\nMrs. Sarah B. Jacobs, of Boston, has given $5,000 to the University\nof Vermont, for the endowment of five scholarships.\n\nColumbia College gets $500,000 from the estate of Stephen Whitney\nPhenix, making its aggregate endowment $5,300,000.\n\nRoanoke College, Va., is to receive $1,000 from the estate of Rev.\nAndrew Bigelow, D.D., of Southboro, Mass.\n\nThe University of Vermont is to receive the valuable library of the\nlate Hon. George P. Marsh, of Italy, a gift purchased by the Hon.\nFrederick Billings, of Woodstock, an alumnus of the University.\n\nThe late Edward Clark, of Cooperstown, N.Y., left $50,000 to\nWilliams College, his alma mater.\n\nHoward University has received $5,000 from the estate of the late\nF. P. Schoals, Esq., of New York.\n\nMr. Thomas Beaver, of Danville, Pa., has given $30,000 to the\nendowment fund of Dickinson College, as a memorial of his father.\n\nThe Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., will receive $125,000\nfrom the estate of the late Mrs. Sarah E. Atkinson, of Memphis,\nTenn., of which it is the residuary legatee.\n\nMcGill University is to receive $40,000 from the estate of Miss\nBarbara Scott.\n\nMrs. William E. Dodge has given $2,000 to found scholarships for\nthe daughters of clergymen in the Mills Seminary of California.\n\n_The emancipation proclamation was issued January, 1863\u2014twenty\nyears ago. Since then 800,000 colored children have been enrolled\nduring a single year in the schools of the South. The demand for\na higher education for some of these, in order that they may be\ncompetent teachers and leaders in society, is not only urgent but\nimperative. The institutions founded by the A. M. A. to promote\nHigher Education, however, are almost entirely without endowment._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n\u2014An official journal of Tripoli reports, from a letter received\nfrom Fezzan, a large repository of minerals of different sorts.\nLead, tin, zinc, iron, copper, silver and gold have been discovered\nbetween Tripoli and Fezzan, and even diamonds.\n\n\u2014The new steamer, Henry Wright, destined to the mission at Mombas,\nhas been finished and will soon commence its trips between Mombas\nand Zanzibar.\n\n\u2014Late letters from Freretown say that fear reigns in that station\non account of the near approach of a rebel named Mbaruk, who has\nestablished his camp near Rabai. He declares that he is not hostile\nto the mission, but his friendship would be much more dangerous for\nit than his hostility, in exciting the suspicion of the people of\nMombas.\n\n\u2014The British Association has made a grant of 500 livres sterling\nto a naturalist, Mr. Atchinson, to take part in the expedition of\nMr. J. Thomson, to the Victoria Nyanza by the country of the Masai.\nMr. Atchinson will remain at Kilimandjaro to make botanical and\nzoological collections, while Mr. Thomson will proceed to Victoria\nNyanza.\n\n\u2014Mr. Farler, missionary at Magila, has sent to the London\nGeographical Society an original map made by him from data\nfurnished by the natives, and indicating the routes as far as known\nfrom the Pangani to the southeast side of Victoria Nyanza, across\nthe country of the Masai.\n\n\u2014Dr. James Petrie, a graduate of the University of Aberdeen, has\nbeen sent to Magila, as medical missionary for Eastern Equatorial\nAfrica.\n\n\u2014The missionaries sent out to reinforce the stations at Victoria\nNyanza and Tanganyika have arrived safely at Zanzibar. Mr. Stecker\nhad everything prepared for them to continue their journey without\ndelay. The Sultan, Said Bargasch, has given safe conduct and\nletters of recommendation to Mtesa to those who go to Roubaga.\nThey will go as far as Mamboya, the first station of the Church\nof England missions, with the missionaries of the London Society\ndestined to Tanganyika under the conduct of Mr. Hore, accompanied\nby his wife and young child, who will probably remain in this\nhealthy station while Mr. Hore will return with Mr. Swann to\nZanzibar, to receive the steel steamer sent from England.\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u2014The steamship Coptic sailed for Hong Kong in November with nearly\nfive hundred Chinese passengers, three hundred and seventy-five of\nwhom had secured return certificates.\n\n\u2014The Japanese government has determined to establish 53,760 primary\nschools. The empire is divided into eight departments, with one\ncollege to each. Children are to be compelled to attend the primary\nschool.\n\n\u2014Although Mongolian is the term usually applied to all people\nliving in the Chinese Empire, yet the Mongolians proper live in a\nterritory bounded on the north by Siberia and number only about\n2,000,000. But few, if any of these, it is said, have emigrated to\nAmerica.\n\n[Illustration: GROUP OF NATIVES IN MONGOLIA.]\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\u2014Thirty-one Indians, five of them girls, were returned to their\nhomes in Dakota from the Hampton Institute last year. They are\nemployed at different agencies at salaries of fifteen or twenty\ndollars per month. Of these, seven are farmers and herders, nine\ncarpenters, three teachers, two office boys.\n\n\u2014The number of acres cultivated (not including the civilized\ntribes) by Indians in 1879 was 157,056; in 1881 it was 205,367.\nIn 1879 they cut 48,333 tons of hay; in 1881, 76,763 tons. There\nhas been from year to year a steady gain of products of all kinds\namong this class. Indians who are so inclined can earn money by\nfreighting and as drovers.\n\n\u2014Private charity has already given $55,529.14 to buildings for, and\nexpenses of, Indian education at Hampton. Meanwhile, the Government\nhas furnished $33,128.04.\n\n\u2014The Indian Office cannot give a decided opinion as to whether\nIndians are increasing or decreasing, but think that they are about\nholding their own.\n\n\u2014The number of Indians at boarding schools, not including those in\nthe Indian Territory, who attended one month or more in 1881, was\n3,888. The number who attended day school one month or more, was\n4,221.\n\n\u2014Rev. John P. Williamson, of Yankton, Dak., writes: \u201cGive Indians\nprotection of law. There is no earthly court having any authority\nto punish our Yankton Indians for murder, rape, arson or any\nother crime committed against the person or property of another\nYankton Indian. And with a few exceptions this is the case with all\nthese nations. This is a matter of immense importance, demanding\nimmediate action, even more than education.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTRAINING COLORED GIRLS.\n\nMISS ANNA M. CAHILL, FISK UNIVERSITY.\n\nIf an astronomer wishes to show to any one through his glass the\ncelestial visitor whose presence brightens our morning sky, he must\narrange the instrument from his point of vision. Then, stepping\naside, his friend will see the object nearly as he sees it. If now\nI am to bring nearer to you the work for the women of the South,\nwhose interests are uppermost in our hearts to-day, I must adjust\nthe glass from my own standpoint, at the risk of touching upon\npoints that have been presented at other meetings, and without\nshowing you some of the features which you are, perhaps, anxious to\nsee.\n\nWere I a physician among the people for whom I speak, I should urge\nupon you the physical wants, many and terrible, of that people, for\nwhich the ignorance of the women is so largely responsible, and\nfrom which they especially suffer.\n\nWere it my mission to carry help and counsel to the lowly homes\nof our city, I might tell you such tales of the wretchedness and\ndiscomfort of many of these homes as would fill your hearts with\npity\u2014a wretchedness growing out of an utter lack of comprehension\nof the meaning of home, and showing the need of instruction in the\nsimplest facts of household economy.\n\nTo carry so much of light and knowledge into these homes as would\nmake them abodes of health and thrift is a work worthy the noblest\neffort of any Christian woman.\n\nBut I come from no such special work among the women of our people.\nOnly a few hours ago I stepped from the platform of my school-room,\nwhere were gathered before me a room full of upturned faces, some\nof them familiar from years of acquaintance, some just stamping\nthemselves upon my memory by the interest they are awakening as I\nmeet them in these first days of their stay among us. To an unusual\nextent this year the numbers on the boys\u2019 side and on the girls\u2019\nside are the same, the one side gaining, then the other, as new\npupils are added to the school. September\u2019s report showed exactly\nthe same total for each. I like this; it looks as if our girls are\nto stand side by side with their brothers in life\u2019s battle; as if\nboth were stretching out their hands for the same weapons to help\nthem in the strife.\n\nMy interest and work are thus divided; justice to the school\ndemands that I consider the good of the whole; that I assign\nlessons not for one side nor for the other; that I chide or commend\nwithout special reference to sex\u2014in short, that I consider all as\nmembers of a common society, and plan for them as having common\nrights and responsibilities.\n\nWhen, therefore, I bring this subject to you, it is that you may\nlook at it from the teacher\u2019s standpoint, that you may consider\nthe colored woman of the future\u2014the colored girl of to-day\u2014in her\nrelations as a part of the social organization of the new South.\n\nThat the South is new no one who even passes through her great\ncentres can doubt. New railroads are opening up her resources and\ncarrying her trade; the flames of her furnace light up the darkness\nof many a mountain valley; even her fields are blooming with new\nabundance under the improved husbandry and greater diligence of her\nsons. As the morning sunlight strikes the brick walls of factories\nin view from my window, and nearly all of which have grown up\nwithin a few months, I can almost imagine myself in a New England\ntown.\n\nWoman\u2019s place in Southern society (I use the term _society_ in\nits wider sense) has always been quite different from that which\nshe holds in the North. Accustomed to be protected, and taught to\nconsider a limited social life as her only sphere of activity, she\nwas often beautifully womanly, but lacking in self-reliance; having\nno confidence in her own mental powers, and not considered as being\nable to plan or execute any important measures. This feeling is, I\nthink, gradually giving way before a more just appreciation of her\nown power, and as that power is developed, to a change in public\nsentiment as to her capacity and her duty.\n\nIt was my privilege to count among my friends a young Southern\ngirl, who not content with the average boarding-school of the\nSouth, has already partly finished a thorough course of study in a\nNorthern school with the expressed intention of becoming a teacher\nat her own home.\n\nIn an Eastern city during the past summer I found several young\nladies who were spending the three hot months at the North, and\nwhile there were hard at work on music and other branches of study.\nThey were taking care of themselves, and with eyes aglow with\nenthusiasm were apparently enjoying their new experience.\n\nSuch cases, multiplied as they will be, show that a new leaven is\nworking out an ambition on the part of the Southern lady to win her\nway by an intelligent and self-reliant womanhood, not simply to\ncharm by her helplessness and amiability.\n\nBut all this has reference to white society; you are ready to ask\nwhat is its bearing on the colored girls? The humbler life in\nthe old days reflected the ideas of the superior, as the second\nrainbow reflects the coloring of the first. It will tend to do so\nnow. When, by a sudden revolution the cords of the colored woman\u2019s\nbondage were broken, and a new society of her own people sprang up\naround her, especially in the cities, the impress of old ideas was\nplainly seen. How quickly she copied the more artificial part of\nher white mistress\u2019 life, exaggerating her elegance into display\nand her intellectual languor into utter indifference.\n\nIn the colored society of to-day, so largely an image of the old\norder of things, the colored woman does not realize what she has\na right to expect or what she ought to require from the other\nsex among her own people. She has no knowledge of her womanly\npower or worth; why should she object to the outside gallantry\nwhich addresses her with flattering nonsense while it covers an\nunderlying lack of genuine respect, and a sense of superiority that\npractically leaves her to do all the hard work and regards her as\nof lower intellectual grade?\n\nThus, from the impulse to imitate, the colored girl has a source of\nhope in the advanced position held by her white sister. But her new\npower of independent self-direction, unshielded by the safeguards\nthat the white girl has, unguided by the intellectual culture that\nthe other can obtain, may work incalculable harm.\n\nWhat the colored woman\u2019s place was under the old dispensation\nyou know too well. Body and soul the slave of her owners; while\nher delicate mistress was shielded by all possible safeguards\nfrom evil, she was left exposed to all the storms of passion and\nsin, daring not to have any sense of her own value, her will for\nresistance growing weaker with each generation. What an element of\nmoral weakness to both races this state of things was, neither race\nhad any conception.\n\nWith the changing character and views of the South the colored\nwoman\u2019s position must change also, and she is an important agent in\nthe change. She is no longer a captive, bound to the wheel, obliged\nto advance or retrograde with the chariot of her master. The place\nwhich she will take in the new civilization; the light in which she\nwill be regarded by the white man, and her position among her own\npeople, will be the result of her own choice\u2014a choice which she, in\nthe person of her best and most intelligent representatives, shall\nmake within the next fifty years.\n\nWhat choice she will make is a question of breathless interest. How\nto help her make the choice wisely and in time is the problem upon\nwhich we are at work. That she labors under great disadvantages in\nthis decision of her destiny is plain. The vain and foolish life\nof a shallow society has all the ignorance of her nature to work\non, to lead her to a life of the most empty frivolity. The door to\ngreater evil is wide open at her feet. The tempter can no longer\ncommand, but he may allure\u2014allure with deadly certainty, because\ninherited tendencies and customs of the past aid him to gain an\neasy victory. Over many a poor girl who comes to my thought now I\ncould raise the prophet\u2019s lament: \u201cOh, that my head were waters and\nmine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for\nthe slain of the daughters of my people!\u201d\n\nSometimes it seems that the colored woman is willingly\u2014or under\nthe irresistible pressure of circumstances\u2014making her choice so\nrapidly and so fatally that the slow processes which are her only\nsafety cannot reach the surface in time to save her. But the final\ndecision in this matter does not rest with the present generation;\nthe young girls who are now in our schools, and the children whose\nideas they will mold, shall make the choice of her moral standing\nin the South in relation to both races, and of her intellectual and\nsocial standing among her own people.\n\nOur question is how to help her most toward the end we wish.\n\nRealizing that the foundation of a strong moral nature must be laid\nfirst of all, as the basis of true womanhood, shall we concentrate\nour work upon giving her religious instruction, and seek to bind\nher by bonds of Christian duty? Let me not seem for a moment to\nquestion the power of God\u2019s grace to illuminate the heart and\nchange the will; but until she better understands the force of\nBible truth and has a nature more sensitive to receive it than is\nthe case with many who come to us, religion, as she comprehends it,\nwill do her no good. So divorced is it from morality, so satisfied\nas to the future, and so reckless as to the present are many who\nsuppose they possess it, that I dare not present this last great\nmotive of Christian principle until I see the moral sense working\nunder direct and pointed Bible teaching, so that the Christian\nlife may be grasped in its true meaning. Even then it will not do\nsimply to see her converted and then to send her out to battle with\nevil, any more than Christian could have met Apollyon without the\narmor that was added to him after he had entered the wicket gate.\nThe conscience, now in shattered ruins, must be built up that it\nmay again perform its office in distinguishing right from wrong.\nA sense of her own worth\u2014a genuine self-respect which recognizes\ndegradation and flees from it; that will not even listen to evil,\nmust arise as she comes gradually to know the duty and dignity\nto which God created her. But if we bring our girls to the point\nwhere they are inclined to choose honor and uprightness, we must\nmake this choice possible by putting into their hands the means of\nsupporting themselves; we must train them to habits of industry and\nto right ideas of labor.\n\nThe practical question is, \u201cHow shall we produce the results we\nseek?\u201d Whatever of experience and knowledge I have of any one of\nour girls bids me answer, \u201cDo with her just what you would do for\nsome young girl in the North whom you wanted to save from the most\ncorrupting influences. Take her early away from the home that\noftentimes is no protection to her, and as there are no proper\nhomes open to her, transplant her to as good a Christian home as\nour schools will afford; furnish her work to do when she has not\nmoney to meet the expense, and supplement this work by aid in money\nwhen necessary. Make her life in these homes as simple and true and\nelevating as genuine Christian culture will make it; throw around\nher the refinements of taste, that her own tastes may be improved;\ngive her reading-rooms with wisely-chosen reading matter, music\nto refine and inspire; treat her with the courtesy and deference\nwhich she must learn to consider her due; give her training under\nsuitable instructors in the industrial arts; and keep her through\nit all to a strict adherence to duty and a close and accurate\ncourse of study. Patiently and perseveringly hold her to this life\nuntil there begins to dawn upon her a vision of the noble and\nbeautiful womanhood to which she may attain, and then help her to\nstrive after it, through years of discouragement on the part of\nteacher and pupil, until a strong and true Christian character is\nbuilt up to withstand the temptations and resist the tendencies\nthat beset her.\u201d\n\nIf you are tempted to say this is asking too much for our girls,\nthat we ought to be content with less, at less expenditure of time\nand money, remember that the girls for whom I speak are the best\namong their people\u2014the few who will ever have a chance to attain\nto higher things. Look just behind them and see the throngs, who,\nin ignorance and woe and sin, are turning their eyes toward you.\nListen to them mutely pleading, \u201cDo not set your standard too low,\nlest we who can only get a small part of our sister\u2019s share of\nhelp, should be left to perish in our degradation.\u201d\n\nThe objection is sometimes made that such training unfits our girls\nfor their homes and surroundings. This is too often true. I used to\nthink any education which placed them out of sympathy with their\nown lowly homes was false and wrong, but more extended knowledge\nof some of these homes leads me to the belief that in the struggle\nwhich must go on to save these people, the Scripture shall again\nbe fulfilled\u2014the mother shall be divided against the daughter, and\nthe daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against her\ndaughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.\n\nMuch misunderstanding and suffering must result, perhaps to\nboth sides, from this clash of the old and the new. In heathen\ncountries, we find it unwise to change the customs which are\nforeign, unless some principle is involved; in our work, the\ndifferences that arise are wholly matters of knowledge or\nprinciple. The English civilization exists throughout our country,\nand what our girl finds as she goes to her home, that is contrary\nto her improved ideas of home, is the result of ignorance, or\nindolence, or sin. These, in a quiet, modest way, she must change.\nGod grant her grace to be patient, true and firm through it all.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nINDUSTRIAL WORK AT MEMPHIS.\n\nBY MISS ELLA HAMILTON.\n\nTwo years ago, through the kindness of friends in the North, two\nrooms were fitted up in our building, at Memphis, for use in the\nindustrial work among the girls. Will you visit these rooms with\nme this morning and see what is being done there? As we enter,\nwe find ourselves in the midst of a dozen girls between the ages\nof 12 and 16, whose eyes and fingers are busy with their work,\nwhile their tongues are making sweet music as they sing some\nsimple Sabbath-school hymn. Let us walk about among them, and\nsee what it is that so engrosses their attention. Here, at our\nside, is a bright-eyed, pretty girl, who is patiently working\non the long over-and-over seam, which, it may be, was quite as\ngreat a bug-bear to some of us in our childhood days as it is to\nthis little one. Near her is another, busy with a child\u2019s apron,\ndestined, perhaps, for her own little sister. Another still is\ndarning a stocking, while here, at the long table, stands a girl\nwho is taking her first lessons in cutting. There is very little\nrest for the pleasant-faced teacher during this hour. She must\nstraighten the gathered seams, show the awkward fingers how to\ntake the tiny stitches, give the word of advice or encouragement\nwhere it is needed, and see that each one of these active girls is\nbusy upon the task assigned her, and doing that task just as it\nought to be done. This work has its place in the course and upon\nthe programme of the school, just as any other school work. The\nclass receives instruction forty minutes each day, for at least one\nschool term. They are taught how to do plain cutting and sewing,\nand usually become quite expert with the needle. The materials for\nwork have been obtained for the most part from the boxes sent our\nlady missionary. I had word, however, just before I left home, that\nthese supplies were exhausted, and that they were very much in need\nof calicoes, needles and threads. Perhaps there are those who can\nhelp them in this need.\n\nAdjoining the sewing-room is a kitchen, furnished with a range, a\nsink, a table and such other articles as are needed by the young\nladies who are being initiated into the mysteries of cooking.\nThis class meets four days of the week, two of which are used by\nthe teachers in familiar talks on various subjects, such as the\nnature of the different foods, their adaptation to the wants of\nthe body, the choice of meats, vegetables, etc. The other two days\nare used by the girls in actual experiments in the preparation\nof foods, of course under the supervision of the teachers. They\nlearn how to prepare soups, to cook meats and vegetables, and to\nmake bread, cakes and pies. Better still, they learn how to do\nthis work neatly and economically. Whenever any cooking has to be\ndone, the two girls who have had that in charge are expected to\nwash the dishes, sweep, dust and air the rooms, and have everything\nin order for the next day. Sometimes the class gives lunches at\nnoon to their schoolmates or supper in the evening, inviting in\ntheir friends. In this way they have raised money enough to pay\nfor all materials used. At one of these entertainments they gave\nus sandwiches, coffee, chicken salad, cake and strawberries. The\nbread made by one of the girls was as light and sweet as any I\never ate. To make such bread is an accomplishment of which any\none might be proud. Besides the cooking and sewing, we teach our\ngirls how to care for the sick. They have books, and prepare their\nlessons in this subject as in any other. They learn how to care for\nthe room, and person of their patient, how to prepare such light\nfoods as may be used without harm, the simple home remedies to be\nadministered for ordinary diseases, and the preventatives for such\ndiseases. About all this industrial work the girls themselves are\nvery enthusiastic, seeming to enjoy it quite as well as any other\nschool work. The mothers, too, are very glad that their daughters\nare having an opportunity to learn how to do these necessary things\nwhich they have not the time, or ability, to teach them. In the\nhomes of their parents the girls try to put into practice that\nwhich they learn in the school, and as they come to have homes of\ntheir own we are sure that they will be better in many ways than\nthey could have been, but for the work they are doing now.\n\nNo people can be made very much better except as we reach that\ncenter of power and influence, the home. The schools can do\nsomething in this direction, and we believe that out from the\nhomes, touched by our A. M. A. schools, will go an influence which\nwill elevate and purify to some extent this whole mass of society.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. ROY, FIELD SUPERINTENDENT.\n\nPROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAVERY NORMAL INSTITUTE, CHARLESTON, S.C.\n\nBY A. W. FARNHAM, PRINCIPAL.\n\nWith us the second of October dawned warm and bright. Before the\nlast tardy risers were awakened, our school flag was hoisted over\nthe building to beckon children and youth Averyward. And how they\nresponded! Soon after the first stroke of the bell which announced\nthat the gates were to be opened, more than three hundred children\neither walked, ran, or crowded, into the school yards. How they\ntalked! Four months of vacation had dissipated all regard for\nestablished rules and usages. And who could scold the first day?\nIt is true that many had been in summer schools during the greater\npart of vacation, but in many instances they were sent \u201cjust to\nkeep them off the street, you know, sir.\u201d Then the private houses\nin which these schools are \u201ckept\u201d have not school dignity nor\nschool atmosphere, because they are not school buildings; hence\nthey lack molding influence.\n\nAnother reason why the children _talked_ was that a new principal\n(new and yet old) and five new teachers were to be met, measured,\nand, if possible, mastered. Every boy wants to know just how strong\nhis teachers are; and as their strength is, so his respect will be.\n\nAgain the bell sounded, this time to announce the hour for\ndevotions. As the pupils filed into the chapel their eyes fell\nupon a new crayon likeness of Prof. M. A. Warren, a former\nprincipal. This work of art, costing about $50, was presented to\nthe school by the Alumni at their last annual meeting, July 4th. It\nis a generous expression of their love for a faithful teacher and a\ntrue man.\n\nWith the children came a large number of patrons \u201cto start them,\u201d\nof course, but little was done the first day but to exchange\ngreetings, hold chapel exercises, take names and addresses of\npupils, assign former pupils to the classes which the previous\nprincipal had named for them, and to examine and grade a part of\nthe new ones. Other examinations and grading, with the selling of\nbooks, and the collection of tuitions for the month, hindered our\nprogramme of work from being fully taken up before the second week.\n\nIt is now four weeks since our opening. In the time we have\nregistered three hundred and thirty-six pupils, collected $332.85\nfor tuition, sold $462.64 worth of books, organized in addition\nto the common-school branches, classes in physics, chemistry,\nmineralogy, botany, zoology, physiology, school economy, political\neconomy, history (U.S. and ancient), algebra, geometry, rhetoric,\nGreek, Latin, French, German, music, gymnastics, sewing,\nstenography, and Bible study. We have also had our monthly written\nreviews. A good number of pupils are fitting for college, some\nof whom will be ready to enter next October. Other pupils are\npreparing for teaching, and will enter upon their work after\nleaving us. Others still are intending to follow trades, and are\nstudying that they may become intelligent tradesmen.\n\nIn response to our circular of information which we have sent out\nto friends, we have already received a box of chemical apparatus, a\nscroll saw with lathe attachment and a book of patents, a quantity\nof basted patch-work, fifty magnifying glasses, and a box of\nminerals. In addition to these gifts from abroad, our pupils are\ndaily contributing to start natural history cabinets. Among our\npupils\u2019 contributions are many fossils, some of which we would like\nto exchange with other schools. We need several more scroll saws,\nand more work for our sewing class.\n\nIn the senior class, one of the incentives to study is the Alumni\nPrize of $50, which is to be given to the student who makes the\nbest record this year, and intends to pursue his studies at some\nhigher institution of learning.\n\nThe morning of the 25th (October), we met to join in the concert\nof prayer for the A. M. A. As a part of the exercises twelve\nmembers of the senior class gave brief recitations, in which much\ninformation of the Association was given. The recitations, each of\nwhich was closed with an appropriate Bible text, were in answer to\nthe following questions: What occasion do we observe this morning?\nWhat is the object of this observance? When was the American\nMissionary Association organized? What led to its organization?\nWhat is the character of its work? What is the extent of its work?\nName some of the results of its work. What relation do we bear to\nthe A. M. A.?\n\nA more quiet, earnest spirit pervades our higher classes than I\nhave ever seen so early in the term. With the sympathy and prayers\nof friends, and honest persistent effort on our part, we hope to be\nsignally blessed in the work of the year.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNEW BUILDING AT ATHENS, ALA.\n\n[Illustration: TRINITY SCHOOL BUILDING, ATHENS, ALA.]\n\nTrinity school building at Athens, Ala., a cut of which is given\nherewith, has accommodations for 200 day scholars, and the family\nof missionaries who have charge of A. M. A. work at Athens. Its\nhistory is somewhat unique and altogether encouraging. The old\nbuilding, where Miss Wells, the principal, had managed the school\nsince 1866, was insufficient and scarcely tenable. The debt of\nthe Association and the claims of larger institutions were such\nthat for a time it seemed almost inevitable that the school must\nbe given up. Miss Wells, however, and the brave people whom she\nhad been serving, determined to rally their forces and save the\nenterprise at all reasonable hazards.\n\nPreparations were made for furnishing bricks; volunteers offered\nthemselves for all sorts of needful work; some labored in clay\npits, some in kiln, some went to the woods for the fuel required to\nburn the brick, while the women and girls contributed their dimes,\nnickels and half-dollars to raise a fund to have the wood hauled.\nIn this way the colored people made two hundred thousand bricks,\n\u201cmixing the clay by the tramp of their one small steer.\u201d Meanwhile,\nMiss Wells spared no effort in interesting friends at the north to\ncome to her relief. As a result the building was completed last\nspring at a cost of only $8,000 to the Association, in addition\nto what was furnished by the colored people. From the time the\ncorner-stone was laid till the opening of the building, a good\nnumber of prominent towns\u2019 people manifested their interest in and\napproval of the work.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE GEORGIA ASSOCIATION.\n\nWe drop down from Savannah, thirty-one miles on the Florida\nrailroad, to McIntosh, in Liberty County. Then it is four miles\neast over the old Yankee high-way to Midway and its \u201cLost Church\nFound,\u201d and the brethren are on hand with their buggies to take us\nout. Pastor Snelson\u2019s house and the teacher\u2019s home are filled up,\nand the two rooms of the Academy furnish space for beds and cots\nfor the lodging of eight persons.\n\nQuite a village it is that has grown up there; the large church,\nthe Dorchester Academy, and half a dozen houses and two or three\nsmall stores. Heretofore, the two teachers, Misses Kinney and\nGibson, have been quartered in a cabin. Now, a new house is under\nprocess of construction for them.\n\nAll but one of the fifteen churches are represented. Pastor\nKent, of Atlanta, preaches the opening sermon upon the Growth of\nChristian Character, a discourse which proved its fitness to the\noccasion by the fact that its truths were constantly bubbling up\nthrough the course of the meeting. The body changed its name from\nthat of \u201cConference\u201d to that of \u201cAssociation,\u201d elected Revs. A. J.\nHeaden and J. E. Roy, with Revs. E. Kent and J. H. H. Sengstacke as\nalternates to the next National Council, made deliverance against\nputting churches on the color line, and had the full measure of\nessays, discussions, sermons, etc. During the Lansing temperance\nmeeting, Rev. George V. Clark, of Athens, thrilled us all as he\ntold of his being a saloon tumbler boy, of his going, full of\nliquor, to the Storrs School temperance meeting, and of his signing\nthe temperance pledge at the solicitation of Miss Rose M. Kinney,\nwho was at that time a teacher there, and who was then before\nhim. Such a result was a reward of her fifteen years of service.\nThe talks upon the converting power of the Sunday-school were\nstimulating indeed. The Association received the new Church at\nAthens, also Revs. George V. Clark and N. B. James.\n\nOn the Sabbath the fine large church, 50\u00d760, which had been used\nseveral years as simply inclosed, and which had been brought to\ncompletion, was re-dedicated. The sermon by Superintendent Roy was\nupon the Glory of the Sanctuary as the place of Spiritual Nativity:\n\u201cThis and that man was born there.\u201d The prayer of dedication\nwas offered by Rev. E. T. Hooker, of Charleston, S.C. In the\nafternoon a grand missionary meeting was held in behalf of the\nAmerican Board, the A. H. M. S., the Congregational Union, and the\nA. M. A., with addresses made by Revs. E. Kent, S. E. Lathrop, E.\nT. Hooker, and J. E. Roy, all of them using Mr. Kent\u2019s two big\nmaps, one of the world, and one of our country. Miss Kinney read\na paper written by Miss Hardy upon that whole missionary scheme.\nThe ladies appointed the wives of Revs. E. Kent, S. E. Lathrop and\nDana Sherrill as a Provisional Committee to prepare the way for\norganizing a State Woman\u2019s Missionary Society at the next meeting\nof the Association, to be held at Athens. Meantime the ladies\npropose to organize in each of several of the churches an auxiliary\nsociety, and these will unite in the State Society. Between the two\nservices of Lord\u2019s Day I went out and counted the vehicles and the\nanimals that had brought the great assembly to church; I counted 68\nvehicles, of which 38 were buggies, 95 horses and 30 ox teams, 40\noxen in all, as some of the carts were drawn by a single ox. There\nwere two other important gatherings in that region on that day, or,\nas some of the brethren said, you could not have seen the ground,\nfor the animals and the carryalls that would have been there. As\nit was, we had, by fair estimate, six hundred people present, and\ntheir\u2019s was truly, as they call it, \u201cA Big Meeting.\u201d\n\n                                                      J. E. R.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION.\n\nThat is now the name, changed from that of Central South\nConference, at the meeting held in Rev. William H. Ash\u2019s church at\nFlorence, Ala., Nov. 2 to 5. This change is in order to uniformity\nof title in the state ecclesiastical bodies. Georgia, Alabama and\nNorth Carolina yet retain the name \u201cConference.\u201d The Central South,\nwhich was the original Congregational body at the South, having\nsent off two daughters, the Alabama and the Georgia, still holds\ngood her title to the name, as she yet represents the central\nStates of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and a part of Alabama.\n\nThe older members said that this last was the best meeting ever\nheld by the Association. Papers were read by B. F. Foster on\npastoral work; by William A. Sinclair on the need of cultivating\nthe missionary spirit; by B. A. Imes on Congregationalism; by Mr.\nSingleton on school work; and the reading was followed in each case\nby full and animated discussion. President Pope led in a discussion\nupon the subject of revivals, and also reported the industrial\ndepartments of Tougaloo University. Superintendent Roy reported the\nrecent annual meeting of the A. M. A., at Cleveland. One evening\nwas given to a rousing temperance meeting. The preachings were\nfrequent. Revivals were reported at Fisk and Tougaloo Universities,\nat Memphis and Chattanooga. Two churches were received, one at\nMeridian, Miss., Rev. J. L. Grice, pastor, and the Welsh church at\nSoddy, East Tennessee, Rev. W. H. Thomas, where the Welsh are the\ncolliers. Rev. H. S. Bennett, B. A. Imes and William A. Sinclair\nwere elected to the next National Council. Pastor W. H. Ash, who\nhad made ample provision for the entertainment of the Conference,\nwas laid aside through all of the sessions by a severe illness; but\nthe results of his work were manifest to all. A neat gothic church,\na pleasant parsonage, and the whole within a tasteful white fence,\nwere the other signs of the work, while the growing membership and\nSunday-school, and the day-school of seventy, taught by Mr. Ash\nand his estimable wife, were the symbol of the intellectual and\nmoral process going on. At the dedication, two years ago, more than\nfifty of the prominent white citizens were present, among them\nEx-Gov. Patton, three or four pastors and as many lawyers. On the\nSabbath the pulpits of the colored churches were supplied, and\nMessrs. Bennett and Roy preached at the Presbyterian church, where\nGov. Patton is the S. S. Superintendent, an office which he has\nmagnified for many years. The week before, the Memphis Synod had\nmet in this church, when the appeal of Mr. Long from the Memphis\nPresbytery came up. By a technicality the appeal did not stand,\nand Mr. Long was permitted to withdraw from the denomination, to\ncontinue his service as pastor of the First Congregational Church\nof Memphis. The next meeting of the Association is to be with Rev.\nJoseph E. Smith, at Chattanooga.\n\n                                                      J. E. R.\n\n\n[Illustration: WYTHEVILLE, VA.]\n\nWytheville, Va., is a representative mountain town, situated amidst\na rich farming and mining region. Already Northern capital and\nenterprise have found their way to like portions of the South,\nwhere the climate is salubrious, the winters mild, and the rewards\nof labor immediate and sufficient for the wants of an industrious\npopulation. Very much, however, remains to be done for the vast\nareas of the mountain districts of the South. The school privileges\nof blacks and whites are as yet quite limited. The people, however,\nhave been distinguished for their loyalty to the Government, and in\nsome portions of the mountain country for their readiness to accept\nmissionary endeavors, regardless of the color line. Prof. C. C.\nPainter, of Fisk University, and Rev. I. P. Dickerson, one of the\noriginal Jubilee Singers, now a missionary in the south of France,\nwere born at Wytheville.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Rev. W. H. Ash, pastor of our church, and teacher of our school\nat Florence, Alabama, died on the 13th of November. A proteg\u00e9\nof Hon. A. C. Barstow, and a graduate of the Boston University,\nhe began work for us at Mobile, Ala. He was then transferred\nto Florence, which was in need of such a man as he. Mr. Ash was\nmarried to Miss Sarah Hale, of Montgomery, an accomplished lady,\nwho was his helpmeet, not only as a wife, but as a teacher in the\nschool, which they had developed to the great delight of their\npeople, and to the approbation of all the citizens. Mr. Ash, on\nbehalf of the church and of the A. M. A., had built a tasteful\nchurch edifice which was also used for the school, and a parsonage.\nHe had commanded the high appreciation of all the best people in\nthe community. During his sickness, the Central South Association\nhad its annual session in his church. His wife took his remains to\nMontgomery for burial. As writes the stricken companion: \u201cIt was\nonly going home to receive the reward of the faithful servant.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSTATEMENTS RESPECTING INDIANS AND THEIR NECESSITIES.\n\nBY GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG.\n\nBesides the 59,000 Indians in the Indian Territory, there are about\n200,000, of whom 55,000 are wholly supported by the government;\n45,000 are partially maintained, and 100,000 receive little or no\naid. They occupy 250,000 square miles of land, nine-tenths of it\ngrazing land, the rest suitable for agriculture. The constantly\nincreasing value of this domain from its mineral wealth and the\nbuilding of railroads presses hard upon its thriftless occupants,\nwho stand right in the line of progress, and must either change\nor perish. Meanwhile their source of subsistence, game, is\ndisappearing, and, more and more, they will depend either on public\ncharity or on stealing their food unless taught to take care of\nthemselves.\n\nThe Indian question is upon us as never before. Those in the Indian\nTerritory and the few thousands in Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York,\nNorth Carolina and other States, say 75,000 in all, are remnants\nof tribes who formerly lived east of the Mississippi River, are\ninclined to agriculture and domestic life, and have been considered\nsuperior to the nomadic tribes of the West. They long since ceased\nto trouble us, and are, at some places making commendable progress\nin education, stock raising and crops, besides generally holding\ntheir own in numbers. Still, to a large extent, they seem fixed in\na half civilized, half pagan state, lacking their earlier manliness\nfor the want of hardship and discipline in their lives, keeping\nup their heathen rites and dances, living in poverty, without\nlaw, demoralized more or less by annuities and destitute of the\nconditions that create character and self reliance.\n\nThey need practical education. A few are already at Hampton and\nCarlisle; five hundred should have such an opportunity.\n\nMore than this, their tribal relations should be broken up,\nhomesteads inalienable for at least twenty-five years should be\nassigned, and they should be left as citizens of the several states\nin which they are, to vote and be voted on.\n\nReservations are merely places for herding Indians; temporary,\nnecessary experiments, that, after a given time, may become growing\nevils. Herding negroes in like manner would have been a curse to\nboth white and black races. There has been more sentiment than\nsense in treating the Indian as a separate people. It was kindly\nmeant but a cruel plan in its results. This part of the red race\nhas suffered most from the whites; their comfortable eastern homes\nhave been broken up, their thrifty farms and fruitful orchards\nabandoned for a western wilderness where thousands have died from\nexposure. Their record has been the saddest part of the \u201cCentury of\nDishonor.\u201d\n\n\nTHE WILD TRIBES.\n\nThe destruction of the buffalo has been more trying to the Indian\nthan sudden emancipation was to the Negro. The latter changed\nthe relations rather than the realities of life; the former the\nrealities rather than their relations. The one remained on its\nold foundation of land and of labor\u2014any shifting was voluntary.\nGame, the support of the other, has gradually failed and they have\nbeen roughly pushed from place to place till pauperism seems the\nonly fixed fact of their life. The human machine after running\nfor centuries does not readily reverse itself; the strain on the\nIndian is tremendous. Was greater ever put upon men?\u2014force to\ncontrol them, charity to weaken them. Justice demanded help, but\nwisdom demanded self-help as its condition. Exigency is man\u2019s best\nteacher. \u201cNecessity is the mother of invention;\u201d it makes men\ncreative. The facts of human nature, and of experience, have been\nignored in our treaties with the Indians, probably because we never\nreally conquered them, but purchased peace on the best terms we\ncould make.\n\nCarrying the Indian from helplessness to self support is the most\ndifficult administrative problem of our country. The Negro has\ntaken care of himself. \u201cThe forty acres and a mule\u201d method would\nhave ruined the race. He was thrown on himself and given a vote;\ndangerous as it once seemed, who would now have it otherwise? He\nstruggled, suffered and succeeded.\n\nThe Indian is fed \u201ctill he shall become self-supporting,\u201d which\ngives him a motive for not becoming so. He alone of all men on the\nearth, finds in industry not reward but a penalty. The Shoshone\nfarmers, when a reduction of rations was suggested, threatened to\nstop cultivating their fields. A few may go to work, but the whole\nline will not move forward while rations and other gratuities are\nissued, as now, to lines of ragged, wretched-looking mendicants who\nare helped for the asking.\n\nTreaties must be kept, but the treaties contemplate ultimate\nself-support and the necessity of education to that end. It is, I\nbelieve, quite within their spirit to withhold supplies from the\nlazy and intractable.\n\nAt Yankton, Devil\u2019s Lake, Cheyenne River and at other points,\nefficient agents kept the schools full, and the Indians busy by\nthe argument to the stomach, which is their weak point. It is, I\nbelieve, the starting point of Indian civilization. The plan is as\nexcellent as it is unusual.\n\nOn the Fort Hall reservation, in Idaho, I recently saw fields\nof wheat, oats and potatoes; two-thirds of the tribe had become\nfarmers, besides owning herds of cattle, because a former agent\nhad issued the coffee and sugar rations, which the red man dearly\nloves, only as each one successively staked out, plowed and planted\nhis allotted little farm. The nation\u2019s gratuities may do the Indian\nas much good as they are doing him harm, if wisely administered,\nespecially the luxuries, which afford the best leverage. He is\nmanaged now by a class of men whose title, in spite of shining\nexceptions among them, is a byword and a reproach. Decayed\nclergymen, hungry politicians, and the broken of every profession,\nare not the ones to make citizens of the red man. Fifteen hundred\nor two thousand dollars a year will not secure first-class men, who\nmust travel far with their families, at their own expense, and be\nliable at any day to discharge and disgrace. By refusing adequate\nsalaries, Congress (and Congress means the people) decides that the\nIndian\u2019s greatest need shall be unsupplied, for lack of a trifling\ncomparative cost. Millions for fuel and dry goods, but not one\nor two hundred thousand dollars more that men of repute and of\ncapacity may go to the Agencies. Good beef and flour and shoes,\nbut second-rate men, whose average official life is less than two\nyears, is the present provision for them.\n\nThe tender mercies of the Government to the Indian are cruel;\nthe much-talked-of treatment of the slave owner was tender by\ncomparison. The self-interest of the Southern barons was humanity\nitself, in contrast with the course of men sent in the name of a\nhigh duty, many of whom have been tempted, if not forced, into\ncorruption. I would throw no slur on the better class among them,\nof whom the country is not worthy.\n\nThe Indian is a child and needs a Father; physically mature, he\nis mentally an infant. He stands proud but helpless on the track\nof a locomotive. He will not heed the advice of whites inferior\nin natural force to himself, and such, as a rule, he has to deal\nwith. No wonder the young prefer their own leaders. In the school\nof civilization only object lessons are good for anything. What\nlessons we have given the Indians!\n\nRecent agitation has chiefly concerned the education, lands and\nrights of the race, and progress has been made in the way of\nopportunities offered, but the Indian has not moved. He must be\ntouched; the high and low must come together. Virtue will go out of\nthe one into the other as it entered into her who touched the hem\nof a sacred garment. There is no salvation in acts of Congress; it\nis from the springs of action within. To awake these in the bosom\nof the Indian and consummate it in Christian character is the work\nof individual men by their contact and by their personal influence.\n\nThe Indian question is, first, one of organization, second, one\nof executive duty; of conditions and of action. In the former, of\nlate years, there has been much progress. Respecting the latter\nthere has been little. Crops and herds have somewhat increased and\neducation has advanced, especially in the East; but the executive\nwork drags, because there is nobody to do it. Men are the need of\nthe hour, and money to provide for their wants.\n\nAt the northern frontier outposts, this summer, for the first time,\nthe soldiers remained in their barracks. At the forts in Montana\nand Dakota which I visited, there was general respect for Indian\nprowess, and belief in his capacity and in his wrongs. \u201cWere I an\nIndian I would fight\u201d seemed the feeling of all.\n\nSo far as army officers are gentlemen of character, force and\nexperience, and of humane ideas (for there are opposing views),\nI believe they are better fitted than any others to settle the\nIndian question. Their destructive work is nearly over: it has\nfitted them for the constructive work to be done. As officers they\nhave peculiar advantages over civilians of the same capacity and\nworth, far less temptation and far stronger standing ground for the\ncontrol of Indians. One-half of the sixty agencies might well be\nput at once under selected officers; not that it is strict military\nduty, but it is not an \u201cold woman\u2019s work,\u201d as one of high rank said\nof Capt. Pratt\u2019s effort. The latter is doing, indirectly, more than\nany two regiments for the pacification of the Indians\u2014the army\u2019s\nspecial business.\n\nRailroads are doing the work of pioneers and of soldiers, peace is\nnot far off. There will soon be need of the army only as a national\npolice, and half of the 15,000 troops at the West may be dispensed\nwith. What better service can a few of its accomplished officers\nundertake than building up a civilization at its weakest point?\n\nThe Indian can be rescued from a sad fate only by personal\ndevotion; that has, under God, created the great results of\nmissionary work throughout the world in recent years. The labors of\nthe Riggses, Williamsons and of Bishop Whipple and others during\nthe past half century, in the western wilderness, has been a\nseed-sowing of which the results are now appearing. The men they\nhave touched and taught are those who are now breaking from the\nold superstitions and asking for light, while official dealings\nhave scarcely a moral result to show for armies of agents and vast\nannuities. Only the light of Christian truth and example steadily\nshining can lift men up. Mission work among the Cherokees and\nothers, and for the Sioux at Sisseton and Fort Sully and Santee\nagencies in Dakota, where wild Indians are settled on so peaceful\nprosperous homes that \u201ca stranger traveling through the country\nwould not believe that he was on an Indian Reservation,\u201d attest\nthe complete success of the Congregational, Episcopalian, and\nPresbyterian societies. Peoria Bottom, which I visited in 1881,\nis a charming village of twenty Christian families, on thrifty\nhomes, the result of the efforts of the Rev. Thos. L. Riggs. \u201cIn\nproportion to the aid and means employed no missions since the\napostolic age have been more successful than those to the American\nAborigines,\u201d declares one of these bodies. There have been,\nhowever, weak and disappointing missions.\n\nSuch work cannot be inspired from Washington, though it may supply\nmany of the conditions of it. A purified civil service would do\nmore for the Indian than for any class in the country. Good agents\nwould create a _morale_, like a favoring tide, for the Christian\nteacher.\n\nThe \u201cgist\u201d of the Indian question I believe to be honesty and\ncapacity in dealing with them. Given these and the rest will work\nitself out.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\nREV. W. C. POND, SUPERINTENDENT.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHUMBLINGS.\n\nBY REV. W. C. POND.\n\nI had finished the preparation of the last annual report of our\nMission. I had read it at the annual meeting. It was ready for the\nprinter, and had even been placed in his hands. It was a report\ninstinct throughout with good cheer. It could not be otherwise. It\nrecorded the work of a prosperous year. No previous year of our\nwhole history had approached this one, as to the numbers gathered\ninto our schools and brought within reach of the invitations of the\nGospel. Perhaps I was in danger of being \u201cexalted above measure.\u201d\nAnd, so, humblings were prepared for me.\n\nIt may be the dictate of expediency, but certainly it is not that\nof frankness and honesty, to speak to our benefactors only smooth\nthings. There _are_ shades as well as lights in missionary work.\nThe tide is not always rising. The sun is not always at noon. And\nif possible, those who sustain the work ought to be made able to\nsee the shadows and to understand the disappointments; ought to be\nadmitted to acquaintanceship with even the mistakes which we, the\nworkers, make. Daylight throughout our operations is essential.\nWithout this, there are bred \u201cbureau distempers,\u201d petty falsities,\nself-seekings and the whole brood of faults into which even renewed\nnatures get sometimes betrayed. One of the chief beauties and\nglories of the statements presented this year, both at Portland\nand at Cleveland, was their manifest frankness\u2014the pains evidently\ntaken to set before the people _all_ the facts so far as the\nopportunity allowed.\n\nBut I am making a long preface. \u201cWhat humblings have been prepared\nfor you?\u201d my readers are asking. One of our Chinese brethren,\nconverted as we believed, and baptised some years ago\u2014a young man\nin some respects specially capable and specially pleasing, who\nknows the way of life well, and can explain it clearly to his less\ninstructed countrymen, is found to have been gambling on (for\nthem) a large scale, and, at first, with rare success. Rumor has\nit that not less than $3,000 had flowed from the depleted purses\nof his countrymen into his own; but that blind to the fact that\nthe tide might turn, he had continued his sin until it left him\nstranded and wrecked. Inquiry shows this rumor to be founded on\nfacts. We are made to blush at the congratulations the heathen\nChinese have been proffering over the good-luck of the gambling\nChristian. We get the heart-ache as we see how sin breeds sin, how\nfalsehood and profanity follow in the train of these dishonest\ngains. The heart-ache deepens as we see some others of our brethren\nswept away by sympathy or friendship, or possibly by some less\namiable consideration into partial complicity with his wrong. It\ntranspires that with several others as with this brother, there has\nbeen a forgetfulness of the assembling of themselves together, a\nself-assertion and self-trust, a disposition to debate but not to\npray, a cooling of brotherly love and Christian zeal, all of which\nfore-shadowed like dishonors to be heaped upon the name of Christ,\nunless a breath of God\u2019s dear spirit should soon inspire in them a\nfreshened life.\n\nThank God, these humblings have not come alone. If the great body\nof our Chinese Christians had been insensible to them, if there\nhad been no movement, or if only a ripple on the surface of an\notherwise stagnant sentiment, I should have been discouraged\nindeed. But there was an immediate movement, a deep sense of shame,\nan almost too speedy discipline. And now, taking counsel together,\nwe have undertaken, with the help of God, to withstand more\nfaithfully those beginnings of evil; to make the first symptoms of\ncoldness and inattention and wandering the signal for more earnest\nprayer and for kindly and cautious, but effective, watch and care.\n\nIn connection with this our schools in San Francisco propose to\nundertake something more general and more generous in the way\nof giving. Certainly the sum total of expenditures made by our\nChinese brethren, in connection with their Christian work, is\ncreditable already. When we consider their circumstances it is not\na little thing that in this last year their offerings, one way\nand another, should reach a total of $2,000. But a scrutiny of\nthe sources from which this amount had come showed that in some\nquarters the grace of giving had not been as generally cultivated\nor as fruitful in results as it might have been. And a recovery of\nlost ground in this regard, an advance beyond anything heretofore\nattempted is fully resolved upon. Plans are being laid, the mutual\nexhortations have begun, and it is believed that by the 1st of\nDecember they will show us definite and practical returns. One of\nthe helpers writes me as follows: \u201cLast night I have been spoken\nto the scholars and brethren about the gifts of the money for\nthe missionary work and about the gas that you are going to put\nup instead of the oil lamps. They were so pleased to help. I can\nhardly know how to tell you how glad they feel to pay the gas and\nwater bills and to help you pay the rent. I was surprised that I\nshould receive a large sum of gifts last evening so soon as when\nI get through my sayings, and I expect another sum this evening,\nbecause great many have not any money with them last evening.\u201d This\nsame good spirit seems to pervade all the schools and I am greatly\ncomforted by it.\n\nOther encouragements are not wanting. Even now I am awaiting in\nmy study the arrival of five Chinese who, with the approval and\nrecommendation of our brethren, offer themselves as candidates for\nbaptism and reception to our Bethany Church. Scarcely a month has\npassed without tidings of some one turning to the light and avowing\nhimself a disciple of Christ. But I have been made specially glad\nthis month by the news from two of our youngest and smallest\nschools. Mrs. Willett, of Santa Cruz, reporting for the first time\ntwo of her pupils as giving evidence of conversion, adds: \u201cI am\nvery hopeful concerning the spiritual interests of four of my boys.\nEight of them already own and study the New Testament. I give them\nBible instruction two whole evenings each week, and they enjoy it.\u201d\nAnd Miss Fulton, of Berkeley says: \u201cIn reporting that two of the\npupils give evidence of conversion, I do not say that they have\nconfessed it by word; but they attend so regularly to school, and\nto Sunday school, listen to all religious instruction so earnestly,\nand join in the Lord\u2019s Prayer so heartily, that I feel assured they\nare earnestly seeking the truth.\u201d\n\nAnd so God has mingled encouragements with humblings, and not\nsuffered us to be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWASHEE WASHEE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBY JOAQUIN MILLER.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n    Brown John he bends above his tub\n    In cellar, alley, anywhere\n    Where dirt is found, why John is there;\n    And rub and rub and rub and rub.\n    The hoodlum hisses in his ear:\n    \u201cGit out of here, you yeller scrub!\u201d\n    He is at work, he cannot hear;\n    He smiles that smile that knows no fear;\n    And rub and rub and rub and rub,\n    He calmly keeps on washing.\n\n    The politicians bawl and crow\n    To every idle chiv. and blood,\n    And hurl their two hands full of mud:\n    \u201cThe dirty Chinaman must go!\u201d\n    But John still bends above his tub,\n    And rub and rub and rub and rub;\n    He wrestles in his snowy suds\n    These dirty politicians\u2019 duds;\n    He calmly keeps on washing.\n\n    \u201cGit out o\u2019 here! ye haythin, git!\n    Me Frinch ancisthors fought an\u2019 blid\n    Fur this same freedom, so they did,\n    An\u2019 I\u2019ll presarve it, ye can bit!\n    Phwat honest man can boss a town?\n    Or burn anither Pittsburgh down?\n    Or beg? Or sthrike? Or labor shirk\n    Phwile yez are here an\u2019 want ter work?\n    Git out, I say! ye haythin git!\u201d\n    And Silver Jimmy shied a brick\n    That should have made that heathen sick;\n    But John, he kept on washing.\n\n    Then mighty Congress shook with fear\n    At this queer, silent little man,\n    And cried as only Congress can:\n    \u201cStop washing and git out of here!\u201d\n    The small brown man, he ceased to rub,\n    And raised his little shaven head\n    Above the steaming, sudsy tub,\n    And unto this great Congress said,\n    Straightforward, business-like, and true:\n    \u201cTwo bittee dozen washee _you_!\u201d\n    Then calmly went on washing.\n\n    Oh! honest, faithful little John,\n    If you will lay aside your duds\n    And take a sea of soap and suds\n    And wash out dirty Washington;\n    If you will be the Hercules\n    To cleanse our stables clean of these\n    That all such follies fatten on,\n    There\u2019s fifty million souls to-day\n    To bid you welcome, bid you stay\n    And calmly keep on washing.\n\n                                           \u2014_The Independent._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE LITTLE DINING-ROOM.\n\nBY MRS. T. N. CHASE.\n\nOften just before breakfast I hear a tripping step in our hall,\nthen a light tap at the door, and our little John exclaims, \u201cYou\u2019re\n\u2019vited, mamma.\u201d As I answer the knock, happy Hennie\u2019s voice rings\nout the welcome words, \u201cYou and Mr. Chase are invited to breakfast\nin the little dining-room.\u201d Now, as the \u201cbig dining-room\u201d is filled\nwith about 150 students and teachers, and as board is eight dollars\nper month, the little dining room offers the most quiet, to say\nnothing of the superior variety and quality of the food.\n\nWell, now, there has of late been rapidly growing what some of us\nstaid teachers think is an industrial craze. I suppose any day the\ngirls at the North may have to give up one of their studies for the\nold-fashioned patchwork. Oh! I don\u2019t mean _old_-fashioned. Isn\u2019t\nit funny that old-fashioned things are the newest-fashioned things?\nI suppose, too, any day our grandmother\u2019s beautiful samplers\nmay again take their \u00e6sthetic places in the schoolroom to teach\n\u201cmarking stitch\u201d from \u201csure enough\u201d antique letters, and the boys\nmay march into a recitation room, where they will learn to drive\nnails and shoe pegs. Well, this is a great question, and none but\na parent can be more interested than the faithful teacher that the\nbest methods should be used in developing their precious charge.\n\nAbout two years ago the matron of Atlanta University selected two\nlittle dormitory rooms that opened into each other, and turned them\ninto dining-room and kitchen. An old Stewart cook stove used in\nthe big kitchen long ago, before the range was a necessity, was a\nlarge part of the little kitchen\u2019s outfit. The clothes press was\neasily changed to cupboard, and an old flower stand was made into a\ntidy closet for pots and kettles. In the dining-room the floor was\nstained in alternate strips of dark and light color; a fly screen\nput in the window, a few pictures and a rough shelf covered with\na pretty lambrequin brightened the walls; and, best of all, while\nthis revolution was going on, an old friend happened to drop in,\non her way to Florida. She was so delighted with the matron\u2019s idea\nthat she filled the China closet of the little dining-room with\nsuch pretty things that the dainty tea table at once put on airs\nin its new home. Well, in these two little rooms the two highest\nclasses of girls are honored with practice in household arts, with\nthe matron for their teacher. At first gatherings in the little\ndining-room were quite rare. The birthdays of the senior class were\ncelebrated there, and guests sometimes entertained, but the girls\nare so proud of their housekeeping that now they are allowed all\nthe practice they have time for. Absent graduates must remember the\nroom with pleasure, as they send beautiful bouquets for the table.\nThe senior girls take turns in being responsible for the breakfasts\nand teas, and in presiding at table. In addition to the two girls\nwho preside, there is room for about a third of the teachers. So,\nas we cannot all go, there can be no general invitations, but\neach visit there has all the charm of a special invitation out to\nbreakfast or tea. But the best of it all is the encouragement it\ngives the girls to practice the too often neglected art of good\ncooking.\n\nSo now you see why we are proud of the little dining-room, and why\nHennie trips through the halls so merrily as she carries from door\nto door the coveted invitation.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1882.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $71.05.\n\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           $26.19\n    Foxcroft. Mrs. D. Blanchard                                5.00\n    Machias. Mrs. C. F. Stone, two bbls. of C.,\n      _for Lady Missionary, Wilmington, N.C._\n    North Bridgton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         5.00\n    South Paris. W. D. B., _for Tillotson C. and\n      N. Inst. (Building)_                                     1.00\n    Waterville. _For Tillotson C. and N. Inst.\n      (Building)_                                              0.10\n    Woolwich. Cong. Ch., 11.50; \u201cFamily Gift,\u201d 2;\n      J. P. T., 1; T. M., 1.                                  15.50\n    York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            18.26\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $260.49.\n\n    Amherst. Mr. and Mrs. Melendy, 25; Ladies\u2019\n      Union Miss\u2019y Soc., 25, _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                            50.00\n    Amherst. Cong. Ch., 10.98; Miss L. W. B., 50c.            11.48\n    Auburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                12.00\n    Boscawen. Mrs. E. G. W., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                 1.00\n    Chester. Mrs. Mary E. Hidden                              10.00\n    Dover. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             40.00\n    Dunbarton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             12.00\n    East Jaffrey. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          21.05\n    Francestown. Joseph Kingsbury                             30.00\n    Kensington. \u201cFriend,\u201d _for Wilmington, N.C._               2.50\n    Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                   8.00\n    Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      27.46\n    New Ipswich. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        25.00\n    Short Falls. J. W. C.                                      1.00\n    Temple. Mrs. W. K.                                         1.00\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cFriends\u201d                                               8.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $479.14.\n\n    Barton Landing and Brownington. Cong. Ch. and\n      Soc.                                                    22.56\n    Bellows Falls. Vermont Farm Machine Co.,\n      Champion Creamery, Val. 52, Swing Churn,\n      Val. 12. _for Atlanta U._ Danville. Sab.\n      Sch. Cong. Ch.                                          10.00\n    Grand Isle. Mrs. Rev. Chas. Fay                            5.00\n    Plainfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             5.75\n    Randolph. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         4.00\n    Rochester. Cong Ch. and Soc.                              20.00\n    Rutland. Mrs. J. B. Paige, _for Freight_                   1.20\n    Salisbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             17.44\n    Saint Johnsbury. \u201cColored Man\u201d                             2.00\n    Wallingford. Miss L. H. A.                                 0.50\n    West Randolph. Susan E. Albin and Sarah J.\n      Washburn                                                 7.00\n    Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       39.26\n    Worcester. Cong. Ch.                                       4.43\n                                                             ------\n                                                            $139.14\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Bratleborough. Estate of Mrs. H. M. Linsley,\n      by C. F. Thompson                                       70.00\n    Cabot. Estate of Fanny Putnam, by Rev. H. A.\n      Russell                                                 50.00\n    Chelsea. Estate of Dea. Samuel Douglass, by\n      Edward Douglass, Ex.                                   220.00\n                                                             ------\n                                                            $479.14\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $2,447.79.\n\n    Alston. H. R.                                              1.00\n    Amesbury. Cong. Ch.                                       16.28\n    Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Evan. Ch. and\n      Soc.                                                    16.60\n    Amherst. First Cong. Ch.                                  25.00\n    Andover. Ladies\u2019 Union Home M. Soc. (70 of\n      which _for Student Aid Talladega C._)                   73.75\n    Andover. G. W. W. Dove, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             50.00\n    Auburndale. Mrs. Lathrop, Bundle of Papers.\n    Boston. Mrs. E. P. Eayrs, 5; Mrs. L. R. H. 50c             5.50\n    Bridgewater. Central Sq. Ch. and Soc.                     24.62\n    Brimfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      10.63\n    Brimfield. Ladies Charitable Union of Second\n      Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. and 2, _for freight,\n      for McIntosh, Ga._                                       2.00\n    Brockton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      20.00\n    Canton. E. R. E.                                           0.50\n    Chelsea. Central Ch. and Soc. 21.19; Third\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.35.                                29.54\n    Chelsea. ARTHUR C. STONE, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._, and to const. himself L. M.                30.00\n    Chelsea. Ladies Union Home M. Band, 20, _for\n      Lady Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._, also 5\n      Boxes Papers, etc., _for General work_                  20.00\n    Chicopee. J. T. C.                                         0.51\n    Clinton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      100.00\n    Conway. D. L., _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.\n      (Building)_                                              1.00\n    Dana. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                   3.00\n    Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         167.00\n    Dorchester. Mrs. R. W. Prouty, 5; Sab. Sch. of\n      Second Ch. (ad\u2019l), 1.70; Miss E. T., 60c.                7.30\n    Fitchburgh. Cal. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      204.98\n    Florence. Florence Cong. Ch.                              20.77\n    Gilbertville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   50.00\n    Greenfield. T. H.                                          0.50\n    Hatfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              67.50\n    Hawley. H. S., _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.\n      (Building)_                                              1.00\n    Haverhill. Mrs. Mary B. Jones                             10.00\n    Holden. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                10.00\n    Holliston. \u201cE. A.,\u201d _for Student Aid, Fisk U._             1.00\n    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of C.,\n      Val. 32.\n    Jamaica Plain. Central. Cong. Ch., in part               343.29\n    Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      90.00\n    Marshfield. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. of First Cong.\n      Ch., Two Bbls. of C., Val. 88.\n    Mattapoisett. A. C.                                        1.00\n    Matfield. Mrs. S. D. Shaw (1.50 of which _for\n      John Brown Steamer_)                                     2.00\n    Merrimac. John K. Sargent                                  2.00\n    Natick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                40.00\n    Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 27.33;\n      Prospect St. Ch. and Soc., 25.                          52.33\n    Newton. Freedmen\u2019s Aid Soc., Books, etc., _for\n      Library, Macon, Ga._\n    Northampton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   98.00\n    North Leominster. Cong. Ch. of Christ, 13;\n      Mrs. S. F. Houghton, 5.                                 18.00\n    Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          17.93\n    Oxford. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Savannah, Ga._                              20.00\n    Oxford. Woman\u2019s Mission Soc., Bbl of C.\n    Pawtucketville. J. M. H.                                   0.50\n    Randolph. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (10 of which from\n      Sab. Sch.)                                             105.25\n    Rockport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              35.42\n    Rockport. \u201cA Lady,\u201d _for Tillotson C. & N.\n      Inst. (Land.)_                                           1.00\n    Royalston. Ladies of First Ch., Bbl. of C.,\n      Val. 45, _for Talladega C._\n    Shelburne. Ladies Sew. Circle of First Cong.\n      Ch., Bundle of C., _for Tougaloo U._\n    Shirley Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        6.32\n    South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        75.00\n    Southampton. Cong. Ch.                                    38.46\n    Southbridge, Globe Village. Ev. Free Ch. and\n      Soc.                                                    35.00\n    Southborough. Sab. Sch. of Pilgrim Evan. Ch.,\n      _for John Brown Steamer_                                30.00\n    South Deerfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        9.81\n    Sutton. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n      U._                                                      5.00\n    Templeton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                         10.00\n    Townsend. Ladies Benev. Soc., Bbl of C., Val.\n      20.75.\n    Waltham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               26.00\n    Westborough. Ladies\u2019 Freedmen\u2019s Soc., Bbl. of\n      C. and 1, _for Freight_                                  1.00\n    West Medford. Henry Newcomb                                2.00\n    West Medway. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                     10.00\n    Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. and Soc., 74.50;\n      Salem St. Cong. Ch., 75; Samuel R. Heywood, 32,\n      to const. FRANK E. HEYWOOD L. M.; \u201cE. C. C.\u201d 20.       201.50\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.\n      (Building)_                                              1.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $2,247.79\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Athol. Estate of J. Sumner Parmenter, (60 of\n      which to const. MRS. J. S. PARMENTER and\n      MRS. F. S. PARMENTER, L. Ms.), by F. S.\n      Parmenter, Ex.                                         160.00\n    Sandwich. Estate of Tryphosa French by\n      Fletcher Clark, Ex.                                    100.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $2,447.79\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $3,614.73.\n\n    Bethlehem. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                                10.00\n    Bridgeport. \u201cCash,\u201d _for Tillotson C. & N.\n      Inst. (Building)_                                        5.00\n    Buckingham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             2.39\n    Canterbury. Westminster Cong. Ch.                          9.50\n    Durham. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc. of North Cong.\n      Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                    13.00\n    East Avon. Cong. Ch.                                      62.30\n    East Hampton. Cong. Ch.                                   27.33\n    Granby. First Cong. Ch.                                   11.30\n    Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    95.20\n    Hebron. Jasper Porter                                     10.00\n    Higganum. Cong. Ch.                                       16.00\n    Hockanum. South Cong. Ch. (5 of which from\n      Mrs. E. M. Roberts)                                     13.00\n    Mansfield. B. F. K.                                        0.51\n    Meriden. First Cong. Ch., to const. N. L.\n      BRADLEY, J. C. TWICHELL, GEO. ATKINSON, GEO.\n      E SAVAGE, EDWARD C. ALLEN, J. P. PARKER,\n      MRS. F. A. OTIS, F. J. WHEELER, S. C.\n      PIERSON and A. H. GARDNER L. Ms.                       300.00\n    Milford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ and to const.\n      ALBERT NETTLETON L. M.                                  30.00\n    Naugatuck. Cong. Ch., 105.80; Andrew Hills, 25           130.80\n    New Canaan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            25.00\n    New Haven. Amos Townsend                                  10.00\n    New Haven. Sab. Sch. of Ch. of the Redeemer,\n      _for John Brown Steamer_                                10.00\n    New Preston. \u201cMrs. B. A.,\u201d _for Lady\n      Missionary, Raleigh, N.C._                              10.00\n    Orange. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Tillotson\n      C. & N. Inst. (Building)_                               10.00\n    Plainville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Tillotson C. & N. Inst. (Land)_                          2.00\n    Plymouth. Cong. Ch.                                       55.00\n    Portland. First Cong. Ch.                                  7.49\n    Stamford. Cong. Ch.                                       47.30\n    Stratford. Cong. Ch.                                      25.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      56.72\n    Torrington. Young Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., Bbl. of\n      C., val. 50, and 4, _for Freight, for\n      Talladega C._                                            4.00\n    Washington. \u201cZ.\u201d _for Indian M._                           1.00\n    Willimantic. I. E. S.                                      1.00\n    Winchester. Cong. Ch.                                      8.89\n    Woodbury. North Cong. Ch.                                 23.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $1,032.73\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Ellington. Estate of Maria Pitkin, by Edwin\n      Talcott, Ex.                                         2,200.00\n    New Haven. Estate of Mrs. Phebe Browning, by\n      Henry E. Pardee, Ex.                                   382.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $3,614.73\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $10,861.41.\n\n    Albany. Clinton Sq. Bible Sch., _for Needmore\n      Chapel, Talladega, Ala._                                25.00\n    Albany. H. A. Homes                                        3.00\n    Brasher Falls. Elijah Wood, 15; Eliza A. Bell,\n      2                                                       17.00\n    Brooklyn. Tompkins Av. Cong. Ch.                         216.15\n    Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., _for\n      Missionaries at Fernandina, Fla., and\n      Ladies\u2019 Island, S.C._                                  175.00\n    Champion. Cong. Ch.                                        8.30\n    Columbus. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.                     5.00\n    Harlem. Cong. Ch. adl.                                     0.75\n    Hobart. J. W. Blish and wife                               3.00\n    Marcellus. Presb. Ch.                                      4.75\n    Newark Valley. Cong. Ch.                                  39.27\n    New York. HENRY C. HOUGHTON, M.D., to const.\n      himself L. M.                                           30.00\n    New York. Sheldon & Co., 56 vols., _for\n      Library, Macon, Ga._\n    Penn Yan. Chas. C. Sheppard                              150.00\n    Poughkeepsie. First Reformed Ch.                          22.83\n    Ransomville. John Powley                                   5.00\n    Rodman. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    Sherburne. First Cong. Ch. (15 of which _for\n      Talladega C._)                                          78.33\n    Syracuse. Mrs S. J. White, to const. MRS. H.\n      J. GOUDY L. M.                                          30.00\n    Volney. Ludington Sab. Sch.                                3.03\n    West Bloomfield. Miss Vidie Taft, 25.\n      \u201cFriends,\u201d 10, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._               35.00\n                                                             ------\n                                                            $861.41\n    LEGACY.\n\n    New York. Estate of Francis P. Schoals                10,000.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                         $10,861.41\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $10.50.\n\n    Newfield. Rev. Chas. Willey                                5.00\n    Stanley. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        5.00\n    Woodbridge. Rev. C. N.                                     0.50\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $10.00.\n\n    Washington. Mrs. M. H. McFarland                          10.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $448.19.\n\n    Brooklyn. Cong. Ch.                                       12.00\n    Brownhelm. \u201cR. A. B.\u201d                                      2.50\n    Chardon. Rev. A. T. Reed                                   3.00\n    Cleveland. Plymouth Ch.                                  107.79\n    Elyria. \u201cM. L. W.,\u201d 1.50; W. J. N., 50c.                   2.00\n    Geneva. W. M. A.                                           1.00\n    Grafton. Mrs. Sally Tuttle                                 5.00\n    Guilford. Trustees of First Cong. Ch., to\n      const. MRS. MARY GRAY, MRS. AMANDA BIGHAM\n      and MRS. A. C. DOWD, L. M.\u2019s                           100.00\n    Hudson. Cong. Ch.                                         40.00\n    Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                 30.80\n    Oberlin. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                30.00\n    Pittsfield. Rev. W. W. F.                                  1.00\n    Ruggles. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   7.60\n    Strongsville. First Cong. Ch.                             10.00\n    Wellington. First Cong. Ch.                               50.00\n    Willoughby. Florence Page, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 5.00\n    Wilseyville. E. M. Ensign                                 10.00\n    Zanesville. Mrs. M. T.                                     0.50\n                                                             ------\n                                                            $418.19\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Pittsfield. Estate of Mrs. A. C. Morley, to\n      const., Prof. EDWARD W. MORLEY, L. M.                   30.00\n                                                            -------\n                                                            $448.19\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $595.82.\n\n    Altona. Rev. E. H. B.                                      0.50\n    Aurora. New England Cong. Ch.                             35.70\n    Bone Gap. Cyrus Rice, deceased, by Mrs. Martha\n      Rice                                                     5.00\n    Champaign. Mrs. A. O. H.                                   1.00\n    Chicago. Plymouth Cong. Ch., 100; First Cong.\n      Ch., 87.02                                             187.02\n    Chicago. A. H. Andrews & Co., Folding\n      bedstead, val. 27, _for Atlanta U._\n    Evanston. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n    Galesburgh. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    20.00\n    Geneseo. First Cong. Ch., H. Nourse                       50.00\n    Hampton. Cong. Ch.                                         6.22\n    Jacksonville. H. L. &. M. C. Melendy                      10.00\n    Mendon. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                           5.00\n    Oak Park. Girl\u2019s Mission Circle, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Ottawa. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   50.00\n    Rockford. Mrs. C. L. Robinson, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           25.00\n    Rochelle. W. H. Holcomb, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                50.00\n    Sheffield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Savannah, Ga._                               6.71\n    South Chicago. Cong. Ch.                                  12.04\n    Stillman Valley. Cong. Ch.                                51.91\n    Waverly. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                           12.22\n    Wilmette. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           12.50\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $1,444.63.\n\n    Alpena. Mrs. T. E. H.                                      0.50\n    Armanda. Sab. Sch. of Cong Ch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           15.00\n    Detroit. First Cong. Ch., 213; Rev. Jeremiah\n      Porter, 25                                             238.00\n    Four Towns. Rev. E. C. Herrington                          5.00\n    Galesburgh. Cong. Ch.                                     12.00\n    Grand Rapids. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke_                          20.00\n    Kalamazoo. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Tougaloo U._                                       10.00\n    Litchfield. First Cong. Ch. to const. MRS.\n      MARY J. MEADE L. M.                                     30.00\n    Ludington. Cong. Ch.                                      30.00\n    Northport. Cong. Ch.                                       9.13\n    Quincy. Samuel F. Porter and Wife                         50.00\n    Saint Johns. G. B.                                         1.00\n    Salem. Rev. James Vincent                                 10.00\n    South Haven. Clark Pierce                                 10.00\n    Union City. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                 1,000.00\n    Warren. \u201cC. S. B.\u201d                                         1.00\n    Ypsilanti. Gertrude F. Milton                              3.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $217.79.\n\n    Alden. Cong. Ch., 8; Mrs. E. Rogers, 2                    10.00\n    Bellevue. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc.                              3.60\n    Council Bluffs. Cong. Ch.                                 50.00\n    Chester Center. Cong. Ch.                                 32.00\n    Des Moines. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc.                           25.00\n    Eldora. Cong. Ch., 10.10; Mrs. G. S., 50c.                10.60\n    Glenwood. Cong. Ch.                                       11.59\n    Holland. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        4.00\n    Iowa Falls. Cong. Ch.                                      8.55\n    Long Creek. Mrs. Sarah E. Evans                            5.00\n    Marion. \u201cWilling Workers,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                            30.00\n    McGregor. Daisy Club, _for little girls in New\n      Orleans, La._                                            5.00\n    Montour. Cong. Ch.                                        22.45\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $109.81.\n\n    Beloit. Y. M. C. A. of Beloit College                      1.25\n    Bloomington. Cong. Ch.                                     3.30\n    Cumberland. W. B. Hopkins, M.D.                           10.00\n    Eau Claire. D. Bresee, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._         50.00\n    Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch.                                  13.70\n    Madison. Hon. W. H. Chandler                               3.06\n    Menominee. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   12.50\n    Milwaukee. Hanover St. Cong. Ch.                          15.00\n    Racine. Rev. C. N.                                         1.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $124.42.\n\n    Alexandria. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Mendi M._                    11.00\n    Glyndon. The Church at Glyndon                             9.00\n    Hastings. D. B. Truax                                      5.00\n    Lake City. Cong. Ch.                                      10.25\n    Mantorville. Rev. Henry Willard                           25.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., 50.17; Second Cong.\n      Ch., 4                                                  54.17\n    Northfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $52.85.\n\n    Fremont. Cong. Ch., 26.10, and Sab. Sch., 15              41.10\n    Lincoln. \u201cK. and C.\u201d                                       8.00\n    Nebraska City. Cong. Ch.                                   3.75\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TER., $5.00.\n\n    New Tacoma. Mrs. Eliza Taylor                              5.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $50.50.\n\n    Jefferson City. E. L. A.                                   0.50\n    St. Louis. Rev. and Mrs. C. L. Goodell                    50.00\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $48.00.\n\n    Washington. First Cong. Ch.                               48.00\n\n\n  VIRGINIA, $6.62.\n\n    Herndon. Cong. Ch.                                         6.62\n\n\n  KENTUCKY, $64.75.\n\n    Lexington. Tuition                                        47.00\n    Whitley. Tuition                                          17.75\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $489.00.\n\n    Memphis. Tuition                                         207.70\n    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition                              279.30\n    Nashville. \u201cCash\u201d _for Freight_                            2.00\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $253.25.\n\n    Wilmington. Tuition                                      248.25\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $349.35.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition                         339.35\n    Charleston. Cong. Ch.                                     10.00\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $525.17.\n\n    Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition                             161.22\n    Atlanta. First Cong. Ch.                                  30.00\n    Macon. Lewis High School, Tuition, 177; Rent, 8          185.00\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 138.95; Rent,\n      10                                                     148.95\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $96.43.\n\n    Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition                             63.00\n    Marion. Cong. Ch.                                         10.33\n    Marion. Tuition                                            4.75\n    Shelby Iron Works. Mrs. P. F. H.                           0.50\n    Selma. Cong. Ch.                                          17.85\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $159.25.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                        159.25\n\n\n  TEXAS, $171.25.\n\n    Austin. Tillotson C. and N. Inst., Tuition               163.25\n    Corpus Christi. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for\n      Mendi M._                                                3.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend\u201d by Prof. Anderson, _for\n      Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                               5.00\n\n\n  INCOMES, $687.45.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                                83.15\n    De Forest Fund, _for President\u2019s Chair,\n      Talladega C._                                          344.13\n    Graves Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._               72.78\n    Haley Scholarship Fund, _for Fisk U._                     30.83\n    Hammond Fund, _for Straight U._                           22.10\n    Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._                       61.67\n    Theo. Endowment Fund, _for Howard U._                     72.79\n                                                          ---------\n      Total for November                                 $23,654.64\n      Total from Oct. 1, to Nov. 30                      $34,544.36\n                                                          =========\n\n                                     H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,\n                                        56 Reade St., New York.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\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\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.\n\n\nSTATISTICS FOR 1882.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014In District of Columbia, 1; Virginia, 1;\nNorth Carolina, 9; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 14; Kentucky, 7;\nTennessee, 4; Alabama, 14; Kansas, 2; Arkansas, 1; Louisiana, 17;\nMississippi, 5; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 3. _Among the Indians_, 2.\nTotal, 88.\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_, 38. Total, 57.\n\nTEACHERS MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014Among the Freedmen, 336;\namong the Chinese, 31; among the Indians, 6; in Africa, 16. Total,\n389. STUDENTS.\u2014In theology, 72; law, 28; in college course, 104;\nin other studies, 9,404. Total, 9,608. 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 number 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\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n           BRAIN AND NERVE FOOD. VITALIZED PHOS-PHITES.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\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\n                  of the Ox-Brain and Wheat-Germ.\n           Physicians have Prescribed 500,000 Packages.\n              For sale by Druggists, or by Mail, $1.\n        F. CROSBY CO., 664 and 666 Sixth Avenue, New York.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration: COUNT RUMFORD.]\n\n                            HORSFORD\u2019S\n\n                          ACID PHOSPHATE.\n\n                             (LIQUID.)\n\n                FOR DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL\n                     EXHAUSTION, NERVOUSNESS,\n                   DIMINISHED VITALITY, URINARY\n                        DIFFICULTIES, ETC.\n\n              PREPARED ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTION OF\n\n             Prof. E. N. Hereford, of Cambridge, Mass.\n\nThere seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical\nauthority of the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has\never been offered to the public which seems to so happily meet the\ngeneral want as this.\n\nIt is not nauseous, but agreeable to the taste.\n\nNo danger can attend its use.\n\nIts action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to\ntake.\n\nIt makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only.\n\nPrices reasonable. Pamphlet giving further particulars mailed free\non application.\n\n                        MANUFACTURED BY THE\n                      RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS,\n                         Providence, R.I.,\n                  AND FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  SMITH\n  AMERICAN\n  ORGANS\n  ARE THE BEST.]\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\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\n                         OVER 95,000 SOLD.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                            THE CENTURY\n\n                                AND\n\n                           ST. NICHOLAS.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\nA little more than a year ago the magazine which is now known\nas THE CENTURY passed a critical point in its history. Three\nimportant things happened to it: a change in its own name, a\nchange in the name of the corporation publishing it, and the\ndeath of the editor-in-chief, Dr. J. G. Holland. Probably no such\ncombination of circumstances had ever come to any periodical, and\npeople watched with no little interest to see what would be the\nresult. The change in name began with the November number, and the\ndeath of Dr. Holland came just before its issue. By reason of the\ngreat excellence of this number and its broad, popular features,\nits sale reached 137,500 copies, the average edition during the\npreceding twelve months having been 120,000. The following number,\nDecember, was a memorial issue to President Garfield and Dr.\nHolland; its sale was almost as great, and the increased demand\nhas largely continued through the year. The November number (1882)\njust issued has an edition of 140,000 copies. The reasons of this\ngrowth are various; but they may be, for the most part, ascribed\nto the fact that the resources of literature and art have been\nconstantly augmenting and that a gradual improvement has been\ngoing on, which has resulted in the issue of what the _Providence\nJournal_, speaking of THE CENTURY MAGAZINE, calls \u201cthe most able\nand valuable publication ever put forth in magazine form.\u201d Among\nits special features for 1883, \u201cThe History of Life in the Thirteen\nColonies,\u201d a series of separate papers by Dr. Edward Eggleston,\njust begun, to be richly and accurately illustrated, is alone worth\nthe subscription price. Washington Gladden\u2019s realistic serial,\nentitled \u201cThe Christian League of Connecticut,\u201d is attracting wide\nattention among business men interested in Christian work. Henry\nJames, Jr., Alphonse Daudet, Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles\nDudley Warner, \u201cH. H.,\u201d T. W. Higginson and Frank R. Stockton are\namong the contributors, and from them and from other distinguished\nwriters will come the material for another brilliant year of THE\nCENTURY. Mr. W. D. Howell\u2019s new novel, \u201cA Woman\u2019s Reason,\u201d will\nbegin in the February number.\n\nThere is another magazine published by THE CENTURY CO., which in\nthe field of children\u2019s literature occupies the same place that THE\nCENTURY fills in the grown-up world. It is ST. NICHOLAS, now just\nbeginning its tenth year, a magazine of which the _London Times_\nsaid a year ago: \u201cIt is above anything _we_ produce in the same\nline.\u201d It is a theory of the editor, Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, that\nthere is nothing too good for children, and the boys and girls who\nread ST. NICHOLAS are really getting the very best writing and the\nfinest pictures that can be had. Its circulation is worldwide.\nIn England, where it has had a large monthly sale for several\nyears, six copies are said to be taken in the household of the\nPrince of Wales. The Queen of Italy reads it every month to her\nchildren. A book was recently issued in the Arabic language, and\nprinted at Beirut, Syria, made up of poems and stories translated\nfrom ST. NICHOLAS, enriched with the original pictures, loaned\nby the publishers for that purpose. This year the magazine is to\nhave a serial story by J. T. Trowbridge, one of the most popular\nwriters for boys in the world, and another by Frank R. Stockton\u2014a\nhistorical novelette of boy and girl life in the thirteenth\ncentury\u2014which the _Springfield Republican_ has already predicted\n\u201cwill prove easily the best story of the year for the young.\u201d ST.\nNICHOLAS contains eighty or more pages every month, with from fifty\nto a hundred pictures; the best writers of two continents are\neducating the young folks who read it.\n\nTHE CENTURY costs $4.00 a year, and ST. NICHOLAS $3.00. Special\noffers are made to new subscribers beginning with the November\nnumbers. For further information and a handsomely illustrated\n24-page pamphlet describing the magazines and their new home (sent\nfree to persons mentioning this magazine), address the publishers.\n\n\n                  THE CENTURY CO., NEW YORK, N.Y.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                  [Illustration: THE ILLUSTRATED\n\n                        CHRISTIAN WEEKLY.]\n\nAmong the many family papers of the land, we do not believe one can\nbe found better suited for general reading than this. It has twelve\npages weekly, filled with the finest cuts and most attractive\nreading matter, printed on nice paper.\n\nIn a single year it makes a volume of over 600 pages, with 400\ncuts, giving able editorials on current topics, best original\nmatter, notes on the Sunday School Lessons, together with stories\nfrom the best English and American authors.\n\n                     $2 50 PER YEAR, POSTPAID.\n         Send for Sample Copy free, if you wish to see it.\n\n  [Illustration]    Illustrated Christian Weekly,     [Illustration]\n\n  [Illustration]     150 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK      [Illustration]\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                         New S. S. Cards.\n\n_PICTURES FROM PALESTINE._\n\nA series of six views from the Holy Land, with floral border, text,\nand verses of hymns. Six cards, 6\u00bd by 4\u00bc in. 30 cts.\n\n_=WORDS OF THE WISE.=_ Packet of elegant roses in vases, with texts\nfrom the wise men of the Bible. Order No. 40. 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L. HALSEY, Secretary.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  THE\n  RISING SUN\n  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\n          It still stands unrivaled after 50 years\u2019 test.\n\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\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                    7 PER CENT. TO 8 PER CENT.\n\n                     Interest Net to Investors\n\n                      In First Mortgage Bonds\n\n                         ON IMPROVED FARMS\n\n                  In Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota,\n\n                            SECURED BY\n\n                        ORMSBY BROS. & CO.,\n\n                  BANKERS, LOAN AND LAND BROKERS,\n\n                         EMMETSBURG, IOWA.\n\n        References and Circulars forwarded on Application.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration: ESTEY ORGAN\n\n  J. Estey & Co\n    Brattleboro Vt.]\n\nAs musical culture increases it demands in musical instruments for\nhome, church, or school, excellence in tone, tasteful workmanship,\nand durability.\n\n                  SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                  Carpets, Rugs, Mattings, etc.,\n\n                             FOR CASH.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n               $3.50\u2014ELEGANT STYLES, LIGHT AND DARK\n                   PATTERNS, AXMINSTER, MOQUETTE\n                   AND HEARTH RUGS, 27 \u00d7 64 in.\n\nThese goods are very serviceable and are suitable for parlor or\ndrawing room, and are sold elsewhere for $5 to $7 each.\n\n                REVERSIBLE, SMYRNA AND VELVET RUGS\n                    AND MATS, large assortment.\n\nREVERSIBLE MATS, 75c., 90c., $1; EXTRA QUALITY, $1.50; REVERSIBLE\nRUGS, $1.60, $2.50, $3, $3.75, $4.50; EXTRA LARGE, $6, $6.50, $9\nand $10.\n\n               INDIA BODY BRUSSELS CARPETS, 45 and\n                          55c. per yard.\n\n                        TAPESTRY BRUSSELS,\n                   60c., 65c., 75c. and upwards.\n\n                  VELVET CARPETS (fine quality),\n                      $1.25, $1.35 per yard.\n\n                  MATTINGS, OIL CLOTHS, DRUGGETS,\n           in numerous designs and worthy the attention\n                     of consumers and dealers.\n\n            Mail orders will receive prompt attention.\n\n                       ANDREW LESTER & CO.,\n\n                          511 Broadway,\n\n          St. Nicholas Hotel Block.       NEW YORK, N.Y.\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\nand tenants, 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\n\n               THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                            PRESIDENT,\n\n                    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                             AUDITORS.\n\n                M. F. READING.        WM. A. NASH.\n\n\n                       EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\nJOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman; A. P. FOSTER, Secretary; LYMAN\nABBOTT, ALONZO S. BALL, A. S. BARNES, C. T. CHRISTENSEN, FRANKLIN\nFAIRBANKS, CLINTON B. FISK, S. B. HALLIDAY, SAMUEL HOLMES, CHARLES\nA. HULL, SAMUEL S. MARPLES, CHARLES L. MEAD, WM. H. WARD, A. L.\nWILLISTON.\n\n\n                       DISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n                  Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n                Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_.\n                   Rev. JAMES POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n\n                          COMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields,\nto the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the\n\u201cAmerican Missionary,\u201d to Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New York\nOffice.\n\n\n                    DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,\nor, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21\nCongregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\n\nNo Christian family can afford to be without missionary\nintelligence, and no missionary society can afford to be without\nreaders of its publications; it had better give them to the readers\nwithout pay than to have no readers. Missionary zeal will die in\nthe churches without missionary intelligence.\n\nBut it would be far better for both the societies and the readers\nif missionary news were paid for. This would give the magazine\nattentive perusal and the society relief from the reproach of a\nlarge expense for publication. Missionary publications should be\nput on a _paying basis_. Aside from a free list to life members,\nministers, etc., the cost of publication should be made up by\npaying subscribers and advertisements.\n\nWe are anxious to put the AMERICAN MISSIONARY on this basis. We\nintend to make it worth its price, and we ask our patrons to aid us:\n\n1. More of our readers can take pains to send us 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 over 20,000 copies monthly and\nthat goes to many of the best men and families in the land. Will\nnot our friends aid us to make this plan a success?\n\nSubscriptions and advertisements should be sent to H. W. HUBBARD,\nTreasurer, 56 Reade st., New York, N.Y.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n           ATKIN & PROUT, PRINTERS, 12 BARCLAY ST., N.Y.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n\nObvious printer\u2019s punctuation errors and omissions silently\ncorrected. Inconsistent hyphenation retained due to the\nmultiplicity of authors.\n\nDitto marks replaced with the text they represent to facilitate\neBook alignment.\n\n\u201cGoverment\u201d changed to \u201cGovernment\u201d on page 21. (The tender mercies\nof the Government)\n\nMissing \u201cs\u201d inserted in \u201craised\u201d on page 24. (And raised his little\nshaven head)\n\nMissing \u201cs\u201d inserted in \u201cBoscawen\u201d on page 25.\n\nMissing \u201cl\u201d inserted in \u201cWallingford\u201d entry on page 26.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 37, No. 1, January, 1883","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":19883}