{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_60314/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_60314","id":"gutenberg_60314","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60314","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"[Illustration: FEBRUARY, 1883.\n\nVOL. XXXVII.\n\nNO. 2.\n\nThe American Missionary]\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\n PAGE.\n EDITORIAL.\n\n AMERICAN MISSIONARY\u2014SOUTHERN M. E. CHURCH 33\n WOMAN\u2019S OPPORTUNITY THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE AGE 34\n FINANCIAL 36\n NATIONAL LEGISLATURE AND NATIONAL ILLITERACY.\n BY PROF. C. C. PAINTER 37\n CONNECTICUT CONVENTIONS 38\n BENEFACTIONS 39\n ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 40\n LIST OF MISSIONARIES AND TEACHERS 41\n EDUCATIONAL WORK FOR FREEDMEN. BY SECRETARY STRIEBY 47\n\n\n THE SOUTH.\n\n THE HEMENWAY FARM. BY GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG 49\n CUT OF HEMENWAY FARM 51\n REVIVAL IN CENTRAL CHURCH, NEW ORLEANS 52\n WORK AT FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. 53\n\n\n THE CHINESE.\n\n MISSION WORK\u2014GOOD RESULTS 54\n\n\n CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n MISSIONARY MUSIC 56\n\n\n RECEIPTS 57\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\n THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n PRESIDENT.\n\n HON. WM. B. WASHBURN, LL.D., 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\n FORM 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 * * * * *\n\n WANTED\n $375,000,\n Efficiently to prosecute the work in hand.\n\n\n CO-OPERATION\n\nOf every Congregational minister, and of every office bearer in\nour Congregational churches to secure (_a_) an annual presentation\nof the work, and claims of the A. M. A. in every Congregational\nchurch; and (_b_) an annual contribution from every Congregational\nchurch in the country for this great work.\n\n\n HELP\n\nOf every Congregational Sunday-school superintendent to secure from\nhis school a contribution to our \u201cStudent Aid Fund.\u201d\n\n\n AID\n\nOf every Ladies\u2019 Missionary Society to sustain our work among the\ncolored women and girls.\n\n\n ENDOWMENTS\n\nFor Professorships and Scholarships in our schools. The time has\ncome when in our larger institutions the chairs of instruction\nshould be endowed, that the Association may be left to enlarge its\nmissionary work in other directions.\n\n\n GIFTS\n\nFor the improvement of schools and churches already built, and the\nerection of additional buildings, imperatively needed.\n\n\n A SUBSCRIBER\n\nIn every family for our monthly magazine,\n\n THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n Subscription Price, 50c. per annum.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\n THE\n\n AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n * * * * *\n\n VOL. XXXVII. FEBRUARY, 1883. NO. 2.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nWe are encouraged by the request for the renewal of the AMERICAN\nMISSIONARY for 1883, and by the subscriptions already received.\nThe price is 50 cents. We aim to secure subscriptions sufficient\nto meet the cost of the magazine, and this is a reminder to such\nof our readers as desire to assist us in this object. We do what\nwe can to make it worth the price asked. Nearly all the articles\nit contains are written expressly for the MISSIONARY, and pains is\ntaken to give variety and freshness to each number.\n\nUpon annual application, the following persons are entitled to\nreceive the AMERICAN MISSIONARY free: life members, ministers\nwhose churches take an annual collection for the Association,\nSuperintendents of Sabbath Schools, and donors who contribute in a\nyear not less than five dollars.\n\n * * * * *\n\nWe wish to congratulate the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church\non her growing helpfulness to the colored people. A recent and\nmost timely gift in this direction was that of Dr. Haygood, as the\nagent for the disbursing of the John F. Slater Fund. His broad\nliberality, his intimate knowledge of the Southern field, and\nhis honest impartiality make him just the man for that place. We\nanticipate a most effective administration of the Slater Fund under\nhis care. Another event in the history of the Methodist Episcopal\nChurch South was the inauguration, in May last, at the General\nConference, of a plan for founding a school of high grade for the\ntraining of teachers and preachers among the colored people. A new\nand crowning impulse to this was given at the recent meeting of the\nNorth Georgia Conference, in the appointment of Dr. Morgan Galloway\nas the President of the new institution, which is to be located in\nAugusta, Ga., and named \u201cPaine College.\u201d All honor to our Southern\nMethodist friends for these movements in so important a matter, and\nall success to them in these and every other like endeavor, which\ntheir hearts may prompt them to plan and their hands to execute.\n\nREVIVALS HOW AND WHEN, is the title of a very timely and useful\nvolume by Rev. Wm. W. Newell, D.D. The following subjects with\nothers are discussed: Why use the word revival, Evangelistic\nmeetings, Household revivals, Bible class and Sabbath-school\nrevivals, Revival preaching, Fixed laws for the promotion of\nrevivals, Temperance revivals, When should we have revivals. Dr.\nNewell speaks from a rich experience of many years and enforces\nhis views with copious incidents and pertinent quotations from the\nwords of eminent men. The whole subject is discussed in a clear,\ncomprehensive and interesting manner. The book was prepared to\nhelp ministers and laymen, and contains an abundance of suggestive\nand available information. There is no work more dear to this\nAssociation than revival work, and no volume has recently come to\nour knowledge apparently more fitted to promote it.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nWOMAN\u2019S OPPORTUNITY THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE AGE.\n\nThere is nothing like it in any land\u2014the opportunity of the\nChristian women of America to labor for the uplift of womanhood the\nworld over. The call, however, for woman\u2019s work in America during\nthe past twenty years seems to us to have been peculiarly urgent,\nand yet we think the majority of the noble Christian women in our\nchurches have, up to this time, seen only dimly the demands upon\nthem in this regard. How loving, pitying woman, whose labors and\nsacrifices are so abounding in behalf of women, should have seen\nwith so little responsive interest the necessities for work among\nthe colored women of this land, is among the marvels of Christian\nethics.\n\nIf women, anywhere, are under obligation to help women, it seems to\nus the women in our churches are indebted, beyond words to tell,\nto the negro women in the South. Their condition is what we have\n_made_ it, and remains what we _will_ it.\n\nBut let us not convey the impression that Christian women have been\nwholly indifferent to the wants of their colored sisters. On the\nother hand, we affirm that there is not a brighter page in modern\nmissions, than that which records the labors and sacrifices of\nNorthern women for the lowly dwellers in the cabins of the South.\nWe only speak, comparatively, of the great body, who need to be\nstirred and mastered, as have been the few who have hurried with\nthe medicine of light and love to relieve the stricken and the\ndespairing. These have sacrificed youth and beauty, and the hope of\nfamily love and joy, in the attempt to serve a race. With a calm\nand reverent step they have gone into the darkest homes of poverty\nand suffering to clothe the naked, to minister to the sick, to\ncomfort the dying, and to save the perishing.\n\nTwenty-one years ago, when this Association called for teachers\nand missionaries to submit to reproach, and obloquy, and ostracism\nfor the sake of these needy ones, these _rare_ women, in numbers\nbeyond our ability to send, answered the call. And during all the\nyears they have stood at our doors, as they stand to-day, saying\n\u201cSend me.\u201d\n\nThe work they have done in school building, in church building,\nin home building and in character building, cannot be matched in\nthe history of this generation, certainly, and probably not in the\nhistory of the world.\n\nWhen it is remembered, that in 1863 the slaves in the South did not\nown an acre of ground and had not a cent of taxable property\u2014that\nthey had no right to know a letter of the alphabet, and that there\nwas not a legal marriage among them: but that in 1880 they were\ntaxed for a hundred millions of dollars\u2014that some 800,000 of them\nhad learned to read, and that purer churches were teaching purer\nand better morals, one can but exclaim, \u201cWhat hath God wrought!\u201d\n\nThis is, largely, due to the Christian teachers and missionaries of\nthe American Missionary Association. No society has sent so many\nof them to the field, or has so signally demonstrated the quality\nand the value of their work. If the history of many of the most\npromising and useful of our graduates could be written up the story\nwould read like romance.\n\nThe draught upon mind, and heart, and body has been heavy and\nexhausting. Not a few have left the service broken in health for\nlife, and others have paid the penalty of overwork in early graves.\nAll this they have not complained of; but their keenest anguish has\ncome from lack of that fullness and warmness of sympathy which they\nhad a right to expect from the whole Christian sisterhood of the\nNorth. They ask for it now, and we ask for it in their name!\n\nWill not our Christian women re-examine this question of their duty\nwith reference to the elevation of the colored race, and especially\nof the women of that race? There can be no sure and lasting\nelevation of that people without refined and intelligent homes; and\nthere can be no such homes without pure and intelligent colored\nwomen to build them. Such women can be brought forward, only as\nthey have pure models to imitate, and refined teachers to instruct\nand guide them.\n\nFortunately, Northern homes are full of such models and of such\nteachers; and they only need the supporting word and hand of their\nsisters to go forth in larger numbers, and to lay, more broadly and\ngrandly, the foundations of a regenerated South. They _know_ that\nthe colored woman can be elevated by the gospel of Christ, they\n_know_ that she can take on culture like a garment, and be made a\npower in redeeming her race.\n\nMay we not, then, once more call the attention of Christian women\nto this work, so peculiarly theirs, and laid upon them by so many\nprovidential tokens?\n\nIt will be of interest to a large circle of friends on both sides\nof the water to learn of the marriage at Prof. Geo. L. White\u2019s\nresidence, Fredonia, N.Y., of Miss Ella Sheppard, pianist of the\noriginal Jubilee Singer Company, to Rev. Geo. W. Moore, of Oberlin.\nMr. Moore is a graduate of Fisk University and acted as pastor of\nthe Howard Chapel at Nashville for some time, where his labors\nwere much appreciated. He has recently been connected with the\ntheological department of Oberlin College and has preached with\nacceptance to churches in Ohio.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nA FALLING OFF OF 17 PER CENT. IN DONATIONS FROM THE LIVING.\n\nThe receipts from living donors for the first three months of our\nfiscal year amounted to $39,528.77, against $48,174.97 for the\ncorresponding months of the previous year, showing a falling off\nof more than 17 per cent. The receipts from legacies, however,\namounted to $15,486.65, against $7,029.65 of the year before. The\ntotal receipts for the three months ending Dec. 31st amounted to\n$55,015.42, against $55,204.62 for the previous year.\n\nThe Committee on Finance at Cleveland estimated that for this\nyear $375,000 would be wanted, against $300,000 for the year then\nclosed, an increase of 25 per cent. If this gain had been realized,\nwe should have received for the first quarter $93,750 instead\nof $55,015.42, a difference of $38,734.58. The friends of this\nAssociation will see from these figures that if the plans suggested\nat our Annual Meeting are carried out, not only must the smaller\nsources of contributions be augmented, but the churches having the\nmeans to give must contribute more largely. With this in view we\ntake the liberty of making the following suggestions:\n\n1. That in localities where money is raised by solicitation from\na few old friends who have already taken a deep interest in the\nNegroes, efforts for collecting funds be made immediately.\n\n2. In parishes where the benevolent organizations connected with\nthe church give no assistance to the Freedmen, we suggest that\nspecial efforts be made in Sabbath-schools, the monthly concert\nand at the annual collection, so that the amount raised for this\nAssociation may be in due proportion to that given to the other\nmissionary societies supported by the Congregational churches.\n\n3. In churches that do not follow a fixed system as to time for\ntaking collections, we suggest that the claims of our work be\nexplained and urged at least once a year, and that contributions be\nforwarded to us at the earliest date possible.\n\nWe commend these suggestions to that thoughtful and prayerful\nconsideration which we believe is justified and demanded by the\nnecessities of the great work in which we are engaged.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTHE NATIONAL LEGISLATURE AND NATIONAL ILLITERACY.\n\nBY PROF. C. C. PAINTER.\n\nBroad questions of Statesmen receive tardy attention from the\naverage legislator because they receive but little from his\nconstituents, while such matters as the imposition or removal of a\ntax upon cigars is to him of pressing interest, because it concerns\nthe \u201cboys\u201d who run the caucases. This is perhaps well, as questions\nof policy are tentatively settled and affect only passing and\nlimited interests; issues that are fundamental and vital, which are\nto be settled for all time, come to a full recognition slowly.\n\nStatutes are enacted as average intellects may decide, or the\nbalance of selfishness allow, but laws are not made, but discovered\nas God has enacted, and related them to permanent interests. The\nmaking or unmaking of the one is the facile work of charlatans\nwhen by some mysterious providence they find their way into our\nlegislative halls; the discovery of the other is work for seers and\nstatesmen which once done is done forever.\n\nThe Revised Statutes of this Congress make obsolete those of the\nlast, not necessarily because superior wisdom has devised better,\nwhich must prove a permanent gain; but when a law of human society\nhas been recognized and so enunciated that it becomes a regulating\nforce, civilization has taken a forward step. The race is not\nsimply less disturbed and more comfortable because temporary\nadjustments have been made of conflicting interests, but it is\nricher and stronger because of an enduring possession, and we can\nafford to labor and wait for such.\n\nEach new application of an old principle calls for a fresh\nstatement of the principle. That man\u2019s personal rights are\nmodified by the fact of his social relations, is a truth old as\nthe beginning of civilized life, but that he may not suffer his\nchildren to grow up in ignorance, is a proposition startling to\nmany, and practically asserted by but few of our State governments,\nthough it is well-known that our government itself as well as all\nour social interests are put in jeopardy by the ignorant citizen\nwho becomes a voter.\n\nThat the constitutional duty of the President to execute the laws,\nand of Congress to provide for the safety of the Republic involved\nthe right to levy war against states, to blockade their harbors, to\nemancipate their slaves, to dictate the Constitutions under which\nthey could resume their autonomy as States in the union, this was\nrecognized only in face of fearful dangers and admitted only when\nestablished on many bloody fields of a desolating war, but is now\nso familiar, so axiomatic that no one doubts the nation\u2019s right to\ndefend its own life by all means which do not of themselves subvert\nthat life.\n\nThat the safety of the Republic requires a general diffusion of\nintelligence no sane man will deny, and yet some assert that it\nwill subvert the fundamental principles of this government if it\npractically secured this prime condition of its own life\u2014that it\nmust delegate to other hands the control of conditions and facts\nvital to its life, with no power or right to enforce attention to\nthem. The right and capacity of self-government are found only\nin the virtue and intelligence of the people. If this be so, the\nobligation of a free government to enforce the education of its\ncitizens is involved in its right to live.\n\nThis obligation is recognized, or should be, in the constitutional\nguarantee of a Republican form of government to each State, for\nthe guarantee of such a form of government carries with it the\nconditions essential to it, one of which, and a prime one, is the\nintelligence of the citizen. This cannot be secured by the military\narm of the nation, but by the school-master alone, who thus becomes\na constitutional officer of the republic. The proposition that a\nrepublican form of government may be maintained by force over a\npeople too ignorant to maintain it for themselves is too absurd for\nserious debate.\n\nThe right of the national government to interfere in case a State\nneglects the education of its children, seems clear on the ground\nof self-protection. The duty to aid the States struggling to\naccomplish this work, but unable to do it, because of its vastness,\nand of its own poverty, seems also clear, and has now become urgent\nin view of the appalling facts revealed in the last census.\n\nOur national Congress is constrained to hear the cry that is coming\nup from all parts of the country calling attention to this duty.\nLet not those who feel an interest in this, relax effort or lose\nheart. It is not a measure to be adopted in a moment. It means\nmuch; it involves much. It will bring with it new and seemingly\nrevolutionary conceptions of the functions of the government when\nit reaches out its strong arms to defend its life, not in the sad\nwork of shooting down ignorant and brutalized parricides, but in\nthe better work of helping to qualify for their children, who are\nto be charged with duties, the gravest which fall to men, and for\npositions the highest to which ambition can impel them\u2014the duties\nand position of a citizen of this free republic.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nArrangements have been made by the Missionary Society of\nConnecticut to hold thirty conventions in the State, at which the\nfollowing benevolent societies supported by the Congregationalists\nwill be represented; American Board, American Congregational Union,\nAmerican Home Missionary Society, American Missionary Association,\nAmerican College and Education Society, New West Education\nCommission, Congregational Publishing Society. The meetings for the\nfirst month will be held as follows: Tuesday, Feb. 6, Stamford,\nmorning and afternoon; Wed. the 7th, Danbury, 1st Church, morning\nand afternoon; Thursday the 8th, Hartford, Park Church, afternoon\nand evening; Tuesday the 13th, Bridgeport, 1st Church, morning and\nafternoon; Wednesday the 14th, New Milford, morning and afternoon;\nThursday, the 15th, Bridgeport, Park st. Church, morning and\nafternoon; Tuesday the 20th, New Haven, 1st Church, afternoon\nand evening; Wednesday the 21st, Ansonia, morning and afternoon;\nThursday the 22d, Hartford, South Church, afternoon and evening;\nTuesday the 27th, Middletown, 1st Church, morning and afternoon;\nWednesday the 28th, New Haven, College st. Church, morning and\nafternoon.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nLiberty E. Holden has given $150,000 to Western Reserve University,\nCleveland, Ohio.\n\nMr. John I. Blair has given $15,000 to Iowa College for building\npurposes.\n\nAtlanta University and Berea College have received $5,000 each for\nendowment purposes from Mr. Tuthill King, of Chicago.\n\nThe University of Pennsylvania has received $20,000 towards the\nendowment of a veterinary school in connection with the University.\n\nJohn R. Buchtel has sold $200,000 worth of stock in the Buckeye\nWorks to Lewis Miller and his three sons, in order to make an\nadditional gift of $100,000 to Buchtel College.\n\nJames McLaren, a brother of Professor McLaren, of Toronto, Canada,\nhas subscribed $50,000 to endow a chair of Systematic Theology in\nKnox College, Toronto.\n\nMrs. L. A. Messenger has given $25,000 in addition to her previous\nlarge gifts to Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio.\n\nWilliams College is to receive $50,000 from the estate of J. B.\nJermain, as a memorial to his son, Barclay Jermain.\n\nThe gift of $10,000 from the late Tracy R. Edson, which his\ntrustees are now ready to pay, to the General Theological Seminary\nfor \u201cThe Tracy R. Edson Foundation,\u201d makes over $160,000 received\nby the Seminary in the last three years. The interest of Mr.\nEdson\u2019s gift is to be used in instructing students in the church\nservice.\n\n_The number of persons over ten years of age among the colored\npeople who could not write, in the sixteen old slave states,\naccording to the census report of November, 1882, was upwards of\nthree millions; the number of native-born whites who were equally\nilliterate was upwards of one and a half millions. We believe there\nis no more imperative necessity than endowments for educational\ninstitutions sustained for the purpose of ridding the country of\nthis illiteracy._\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nPARIS, Texas.\u2014Rev. Byron Gunner is about to make his paper \u201cThe\nInformer\u201d a weekly.\n\nFLORENCE, Ala.\u2014Rev. S. G. Norcross, of North Conway, N.H., desiring\nto spend five months in the South, is to take the place of the\nlamented pastor, Rev. W. H. Ash, and Mrs. Norcross will have charge\nof the school.\n\nNEW ORLEANS, La.\u2014In the Central Church, (Dr. Alexander\u2019s) a series\nof meetings held by the pastor, has resulted in some thirty hopeful\nconversions. A friend from the North, who fell in upon them,\nreports a quiet and deeply impressive service.\n\nHELENA, Texas.\u2014Pastor Mitchell Thompson rejoices with his people\nin a revival of unusual seriousness and spirituality. Eight or ten\npersons were joined to the company of believers. That the people\nshould attend through freezing weather was a thing almost unknown\nbefore. They commonly hold such meetings in midsummer. The church\nhas been painted, the pastor doing the work.\n\nSODDY, Tenn.\u2014At the recent meeting of the Central South Conference\nat Florence, Rev. W. H. Thomas and his Welsh Church at Soddy were\nreceived, upon application, into the fellowship of the body. Rev.\nRobert D. Thomas, of the Welsh Church at Knoxville, has been a\nmember for some time. He is now retiring from his charge and a\npastor will be sought who can preach in English a part of the time.\n\nATLANTA, GA.\u2014Miss Ella W. Moore, a teacher in the Atlanta\nUniversity, has, by the special aid of friends, been able to\nemploy a teacher in a private school opened under her auspices. In\naddition to the receipts in money, she has recently received (for\nwhich she makes grateful acknowledgment) from Mrs. John B. Gough,\nWorcester, Mass., patchwork, pictures, cards, tracts, etc.; from\nMrs. J. B. Shaw, Paxton, Ill., and Miss Amy Blatchford, Chicago,\nvaluable Sabbath-school papers and periodicals.\n\nMERIDIAN, Miss.\u2014By a council on the 15th of Dec., Mr. J. L. Grice,\na graduate of the college and theological department in Howard\nUniversity, a member of Dr. J. E. Rankin\u2019s church, was ordained as\npastor after a most satisfactory examination. Sermon and right-hand\nof fellowship, by Superintendent Roy; charge to the candidate, by\nRev. E. C. Stickel; address to the church, by Rev. C. B. Curtis;\nand prayer of ordination, by Bishop Turner of the African M. E.\nChurch, the members of the council joining him in laying on of\nhands. As the Bishop was holding a Conference in the city, he\nattended both the afternoon and evening services of the Council,\nafter the members of that body had waited upon the Conference in\nthe morning. The Bishop stated that in attending a great many\nexaminations, he had never come upon a better one.\n\nOwing to the space occupied by the list of our appointments for the\nyear we have been obliged to omit the publication of General Notes\nand to hold over other matters of interest.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nNEW APPOINTMENTS.\n\n1882-1883.\n\nThe following list presents the names and post-office addresses of\nthose who are under appointment in the Churches, Institutions and\nSchools aided by the American Missionary Association, among the\nFreedmen in the South, and the Chinese on the Pacific Coast. The\nBerea College and Hampton Institute are under the care of their\nown Boards of Trustees, but being either founded or fostered in\nthe past by this Association, and representing the general work in\nwhich it is engaged their teachers are included in this list.\n\n\nTHE SOUTHERN FIELD.\n\n REV. J. E. ROY, D.D., Field Superintendent.\n PROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, Supt. of Education.\n\n DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.\n WASHINGTON.\n _Theological Department, Howard University._\n Rev. W. W. Patton, D.D., Washington, D.C.\n Rev. J. G. Craighead, D.D., Washington, D.C.\n Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D., Washington, D.C.\n Rev. John G. Butler, D.D., Washington, D.C.\n LINCOLN MEMORIAL CHURCH.\n _Pastor._\n Rev. S. P. Smith, Chicago, Ill.\n _Special Missionary._\n Mrs. C. B. Babcock, Newburyport, Mass.\n\n * * * * *\n\n VIRGINIA.\n\n HAMPTON.\n _Minister._\n Rev. H. B. Frissell, New York City.\n NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE.\n _Instructors and Managers._\n Gen. S. C. Armstrong, Hampton, Va.\n Gen. J. F. B. Marshall,\n Treasurer, Hampton, Va.\n Mr. Albert Howe, Farm Manager, Hampton, Va.\n Mr. F. C. Briggs, Business Agent, Hampton, Va.\n Mr. J. B. H. Goff, Engineer, Hampton, Va.\n Mr. C. W. Betts, Printing Office, Wilmington, Del.\n Lieut. G. Le R. Brown, Com., Hampton, Va.\n Miss Mary F. Mackie, Newburgh, N.Y.\n Miss Charlotte L. Mackie, Newburgh, N.Y.\n Miss Mary T. Galpin, Stockbridge, Mass.\n Miss Helen W. Ludlow, New York City.\n Mrs. Edwin F. Coolidge, Boston, Mass.\n Miss Jane E. Davis, Troy, N.Y.\n Miss Myrtilla J. Sherman, Brookfield, Mass.\n Miss Phebe C. Davenport, Quaker Street, N.Y.\n Miss Sophia L. Brewster, Brookfield, Mass.\n Miss Margaret Kenwell, Mechanicsville, N.Y.\n Miss Anna E. Kemble, Camden, N.Y.\n Miss Emma H. Lothrop, Pittsfield, Mass.\n Miss Mary F. Dibble, Seymour, Ct.\n Miss Martha M. Waldron, South Otselie, N.Y.\n Miss Caroline Alfred, Ellington, Ct.\n Miss Belle F. Small, Amherst, N.Y.\n Miss Emma F. Marsh, Worcester, Mass.\n Miss Mary W. Clock, Islip, N.Y.\n Miss Margaret A. Guillon, Petersburg, Va.\n Miss Mary A. Wheeler, Boston, Mass.\n Mr. R. H. Hamilton, Hampton, Va.\n Mr. Dudley Talbot, Boston, Mass.\n INDIAN DEPARTMENT.\n Mr. J. H. McDowell, Chg. Workshop, Hampton, Va.\n Mr. Edwin F. Coolidge, Boston, Mass.\n Mrs. L. A. Seymour, Hampton, Va.\n Miss Isabel B. Eustis, Springfield, Mass.\n Miss Laura E. Tileston, Boston, Mass.\n Miss Josephine E. Richards, Philadelphia, Pa.\n Mr. Geo. W. Brandom, Clarksville, Va.\n Miss Lovey A. Mayo, Raleigh, N.C.\n Miss Cora A. Folsom, Boston, Mass.\n Mr. Geo. J. Davis, Hampton, Va.\n Miss Jacobina Koch, Natick, Mass.\n Miss Mary E. Merritt, Hampton, Va.\n Miss Georgia Washington, Norfolk, Va.\n BUTLER SCHOOL.\n Miss Elizabeth Hyde, Brooklyn, N.Y.\n Mr. Benj. F. Jones, Hampton, Va.\n Miss Mary A. Boner, Salem, N.C.\n Miss Louise K. Day, Elizabeth, N.J.\n Miss Lucy J. Boulding, Burkeville, Va.\n Mr. Boswell S. White, Matthews C. H., Va.\n Mr. Orpheus M. McAdoo, Greensboro, N.C.\n CLERKS.\n Mr. F. B. Banks, Hampton, Va.\n Mr. Wm. M. Reid, Hampton, Va.\n Mr. W. H. Daggs, Hampton, Va.\n Miss Jessie P. Morgan, Hamburg, Ct.\n Miss Emily Kimball, Boston, Mass.\n Mr. Fred N. Gilman, Hampton, Va.\n Mr. Geo. A. Blackmore, Hampton, Va.\n Miss Ruth G. Tileston, Boston, Mass.\n\n * * * * *\n\n NORTH CAROLINA.\n\n WILMINGTON (P. O. Box 207).\n _Minister._\n Rev. D. D. Dodge, Nashua, N.H.\n NORMAL SCHOOL.\n _Principal._\n Rev. W. H. Thrall, Derby, Ct.\n _Assistants._\n Miss H. L. Fitts, Candia, N.H.\n Miss E. A. Warner, Lowell, Mass.\n Miss Ella F. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.\n Miss Ernestine Patterson, Providence, R.I.\n Miss Mary D. Hyde, Zumbrota, Minn.\n Miss Kate A. Shepard, New York City.\n Mrs. Janet Dodge, Nashua, N.H.\n _Special Missionary._\n Miss A. E. Farrington, Portland, Me.\n\n * * * * *\n\n RALEIGH.\n _Minister._\n Rev. Geo. S. Smith, Raleigh, N.C.\n _Special Missionary._\n Miss E. P. Hayes, Limerick, Me.\n\n * * * * *\n\n DUDLEY.\n _Minister and Teacher._\n Rev. J. E. B. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.\n Mrs. J. E. B. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.\n\n * * * * *\n\n McLEANSVILLE.\n _Minister and Teacher._\n Rev. Alfred Connet, Solsberry, Ind.\n\n * * * * *\n\n CEDAR CLIFF.\n _Minister._\n Rev. J. N. Ray, Cedar Cliff, N.C.\n\n * * * * *\n\n WOODBRIDGE.\n _Teacher._\n Mrs. G. A. Rumbley, Phila., Pa.\n\n * * * * *\n\n BEAUFORT.\n _Minister and Teacher._\n Rev. Michael Jerkins, Beaufort, N.C.\n _Assistant._\n Miss Lydia Hatch, Beaufort, N.C.\n\n * * * * *\n\n LASSITER\u2019S MILLS.\n _Minister and Teacher._\n Rev. Islay Walden, Lassiter\u2019s Mills, N.C.\n Mrs. Islay Walden, Lassiter\u2019s Mills, N.C.\n\n * * * * *\n\n TROY AND PEKIN.\n _Minister and Teacher._\n Rev. Wm. H. Ellis, Southfield, Mass.\n\n * * * * *\n\n DRY CREEK.\n _Teacher._\n Miss C. E. Smitherman, High Pt., N.C.\n\n * * * * *\n\n SOUTH CAROLINA.\n\n CHARLESTON.\n _Minister._\n Rev. E. T. Hooker, Castleton, Vt.\n AVERY INSTITUTE.\n _Principal._\n Prof. A. W. Farnham, Hannibal, N.Y.\n _Assistants._\n Miss Hattie E. Dowd, Oswego, N.Y.\n Miss E. A. Huntoon, Wallingford, Vt.\n Miss Addie M. Phelps, Moravia, N.Y.\n Miss Lizzie S. Hayward, Red Bank, N.J.\n Mr. J. C. Whittaker, Charleston, S.C.\n Mr. E. A. Lawrence, Charleston, S.C.\n Miss Etta E. Abbey, Hamlet, N.Y.\n Miss M. H. McKinley, Charleston, S.C.\n Miss H. E. Wells, Middletown, N.Y.\n Mrs. E. T. Hooker, Castleton, Vt.\n Mrs. A. W. Farnham, Hannibal, N.Y.\n\n * * * * *\n\n ORANGEBURG.\n _Minister._\n Rev. T. T. Benson, Orangeburg, S.C.\n\n * * * * *\n\n GREENWOOD.\n BREWER NORMAL SCHOOL.\n Mr. J. D. Backenstose, Geneva, N.Y.\n Mr. Wm. Clark, Greenwood, S.C.\n\n * * * * *\n\n LADIES\u2019 ISLAND.\n Miss M. H. Clary, Conway, Mass.\n\n * * * * *\n\n GEORGIA.\n\n ATLANTA.\n _Ministers._\n Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga.\n Rev. Evarts Kent, Chicago, Ill.\n ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.\n _Instructors and Managers._\n Rev. E. A. Ware, Atlanta, Ga.\n Prof. T. N. Chase, Atlanta, Ga.\n Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga.\n Rev. Horace Bumstead, D.D., Atlanta, Ga.\n Mr. H. M. Sessions, Hampden, Mass.\n Mr. Chas. P. Sinnott, Marshfield, Mass.\n Prof. Wm. M. Aber, Newark, N.J.\n Miss Emma C. Ware, Norfolk, Mass.\n Miss Mary E. Sands, Saco, Me.\n Miss Carrie H. Loomis, Hartford, Conn.\n Miss Ella W. Moore, Chicago, Ill.\n Mrs. Lucy E. Case, Millbury, Mass.\n Miss Mary L. Santley, Wellington, Ohio.\n Miss Rebecca Massey, Oberlin, Ohio.\n Miss Sarah E. Marsh, Lake Forest, Ill.\n Miss Margaret Neel, Livonia, N.Y.\n Mrs. Lucinda F. Vache, Harrisburg, Pa.\n Miss Jessie E. Smith, Northfield, Mass.\n Miss Virginia F. Smith, Northfield, Mass.\n Mrs. A. S. Newman, Deerfield, Mass.\n STORRS SCHOOL (104 Houston St.).\n _Principal._\n Miss Amy Williams, Livonia Sta., N.Y.\n _Assistants._\n Miss Julia A. Goodwin, Mason, N.H.\n Miss Amelia L. Ferris, Oneida, Ill.\n Mrs. C. G. Ball, Palermo, N.Y.\n Miss Alice M. Field, Bachellorville, N.Y.\n Miss Nellie L. Cloudman, South Windham, Me.\n Miss Carrie J. Parrey, Chicago, Ill.\n _Special Missionary._\n Miss Lizzie Stevenson, Bellefontaine, O.\n\n * * * * *\n\n MACON.\n _Minister._\n Rev. S. E. Lathrop, New London, Wis.\n LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL.\n _Principal._\n Mr. W. A. Hodge, W. Rosendale, Wis.\n _Assistants._\n Mrs. W. A. Hodge, W. Rosendale, Wis.\n Miss Alice W. Lindsley, Avondale, Ill.\n Miss Jennie M. Woodworth, Clyde, O.\n Miss Ella B. Pickett, Norwalk, O.\n Miss Emma L. Sprague, Fitchville, O.\n Mrs. S. E. Lathrop, New London, Wis.\n\n * * * * *\n\n MARIETTA.\n _Minister and Teacher._\n Rev. E. J. Penney, Marietta, Ga.\n\n * * * * *\n\n FORSYTH.\n _Teacher._\n Mr. O. A. Combs, Atlanta, Ga.\n\n * * * * *\n\n AUGUSTA.\n _Teacher._\n Miss S. A. Hosmer, Ashley, Mass.\n\n * * * * *\n\n THOMASVILLE.\n _Teacher._\n Mr. W. H. Harris, Savannah, Ga.\n\n * * * * *\n\n ALBANY.\n _Teacher._\n Mr. W. C. Greene, Albany, Ga.\n\n * * * * *\n\n HAWKINSVILLE.\n _Teacher._\n Mr. E. P. Johnson, Hawkinsville, Ga.\n\n * * * * *\n\n WASHINGTON.\n _Teacher._\n Mr. E. J. Stewart, Washington, Ga.\n\n * * * * *\n\n CUTHBERT.\n _Teacher._\n Mr. F. H. Henderson, Cuthbert, Ga.\n\n * * * * *\n\n STONE MOUNTAIN.\n _Teacher._\n Mr. Eugene Martin, Atlanta, Ga.\n\n * * * * *\n\n BAINBRIDGE.\n _Teacher._\n Mr. H. H. Williams, Atlanta, Ga.\n\n * * * * *\n\n ATHENS.\n _Minister._\n Rev. Geo. V. Clark, Atlanta, Ga.\n _Teacher._\n Mr. P. E. Spratlin, Athens, Ga.\n\n * * * * *\n\n BYRON.\n _Minister._\n Rev. N. B. James, New Orleans, La.\n\n * * * * *\n\n SAVANNAH.\n _Minister and Sup\u2019t of Missions._\n Rev. Dana Sherrill, Forrest, Ill.\n BEACH INSTITUTE.\n _Principal._\n Mr. H. H. Wright, Oberlin, O.\n _Assistants._\n Miss Ida M. Beach, Vernon, Ct.\n Miss Edna F. Connor, Henniker, N.H.\n Miss A. F. Daily, Fredonia, N.Y.\n Miss Georgiana Hunter, Brooklyn, N.Y.,\n Miss Mary F. Lord, Fredonia, N.Y.\n Mrs. Dana Sherrill, Forrest, Ill.\n _Special Missionary._\n Miss J. S. Hardy, Shelburne, Mass.\n\n * * * * *\n\n WOODVILLE.\n _Minister and Teacher._\n Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke, Savannah, Ga.\n _Assistant._\n Miss E. A. Thompson, Savannah, Ga.\n\n * * * * *\n\n MILLER\u2019S STATION.\n _Minister and Teacher._\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n\n * * * * *\n\n LOUISVILLE AND BELMONT.\n _Minister._\n Rev. Wilson Callen, Selma, Ala.\n\n * * * * *\n\n EAST SAVANNAH.\n _Minister._\n Rev. J. H. Stephens, East Savannah, Ga.\n\n * * * * *\n\n McINTOSH, LIBERTY CO.\n THE GROVE.\n _Minister._\n Rev. Floyd Snelson, McIntosh, Ga.\n _Teachers._\n Miss Rose M. Kinney, Oberlin, O.\n Miss Carrie I. Gibson, Boston, Mass.\n\n CYPRESS SLASH.\n _Minister and Teacher._\n Rev. A. J. Headen, Talladega, Ala.\n\n * * * * *\n\n FLORIDA.\n\n FERNANDINA.\n Rev. George Henry, Brooklyn, N.Y.\n\n * * * * *\n\n ALABAMA.\n\n TALLADEGA.\n _Minister._\n Rev. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill.\n TALLADEGA COLLEGE.\n _Instructors and Managers._\n Rev. H. S. De Forest, D.D., Muscatine, Ia.\n Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.\n Rev. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill.\n Mr. Geo. H. Howe, Orwell, Pa.\n Mr. Geo. N. Ellis, Olivet, Mich.\n Mr. C. B. Rice, W. Brattleboro, Vt.\n Mr. W. L. Hunter, Elizabeth, N.J.\n Miss L. F. Partridge, Holliston, Mass.\n Miss M. E. Carey, Huntsburg, O.\n Mrs. Clara S. Rindge, Homer, N.Y.\n Miss F. M. Andrews, Milltown, N.B.\n Miss J. C. Andrews, Milltown, N.B.\n Miss Frances Yeomans, Danville, Ill.\n Mrs. H. S. De Forest, Muscatine, Ia.\n Mrs. H. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.\n Mrs. Geo. N. Ellis, Olivet, Mich.\n Mrs. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill.\n Mrs. Geo. H. Howe, Orwell, Pa.\n\n * * * * *\n\n KYMULGA.\n _Minister._\n Rev. Spencer Snell, Talladega, Ala.\n\n * * * * *\n\n SHELBY IRON WORKS.\n Rev. J. R. Sims, Talladega, Ala.\n\n * * * * *\n\n CHILDERSBURG.\n _Minister._\n Rev. Alfred Jones, Talladega, Ala.\n\n * * * * *\n\n ANNISTON.\n _Minister and Teacher._\n Rev. H. W. Conley, Talladega, Ala.\n _Assistant._\n Mrs. H. W. Conley, Talladega, Ala.\n\n * * * * *\n\n LAWSONVILLE AND COVE.\n _Minister._\n Rev. Peter J. McEntosh, Talladega, Ala.\n\n * * * * *\n\n ALABAMA FURNACE.\n _Minister._\n Rev. J. B. Grant, Talladega, Ala.\n\n * * * * *\n\n TECUMSEH.\n _Minister and Teacher._\n Rev. Milus Harris, Talladega, Ala.\n\n * * * * *\n\n MOBILE.\n _Minister._\n Rev. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N.Y.\n EMERSON INSTITUTE.\n _Principal._\n Miss Emma R. Caughey, Kingsville, O.\n _Assistants._\n Miss Josie Miller, S. Saginaw, Mich.\n Miss Isadore M. Caughey, Kingsville, O.\n Miss Carrie E. Ferris, Passaic, N.J.\n Miss Ruby A. Smith, Belmont, N.Y.\n Miss Helen D. Barton, Terre Haute, Ind.\n Miss Mary F. Felt, Temple, N.H.\n Mrs. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N.Y.\n _Special Missionary._\n Miss Eunice M. Clark, Elgin, Ill.\n\n * * * * *\n\n MONTGOMERY (P. O. Box 62).\n _Minister._\n Rev. R. C. Bedford, Watertown, Wis.\n _Special Missionary._\n Miss R. G. Jillson, Providence, R.I.\n\n * * * * *\n\n SELMA.\n _Minister._\n Rev. C. B. Curtis, Burlington, Wis.\n _Special Missionary._\n Miss Mary K. Lunt, New Gloucester, Me.\n\n * * * * *\n\n MARION.\n _Minister._\n Rev. A. W. Curtis, Crete, Nebraska.\n _Teacher._\n Miss Elizabeth Plimpton, Walpole, Mass.\n\n * * * * *\n\n ATHENS.\n _Minister._\n Rev. H. S. Williams, Wetumpka, Ala.\n TRINITY SCHOOL.\n _Teachers._\n Miss M. F. Wells, Ann Arbor, Mich.\n Miss Helen M. Woodward, Albion, N.Y.\n Miss Mary E. Wolverton, Easton, Pa.\n\n * * * * *\n\n FLORENCE.\n _Minister and Teacher._\n [A]Rev. W. H. Ash, Florence, Ala.\n Rev. S. G. Norcross, North Conway, N.H.\n Mrs. S. G. Norcross, North Conway, N.H.\n\n * * * * *\n\n TENNESSEE.\n\n NASHVILLE.\n _Minister._\n Rev. Henry S. Bennett, Nashville, Tenn.\n FISK UNIVERSITY.\n _Instructors and Managers._\n Rev. E. M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn.\n Rev. A. K. Spence, Nashville, Tenn.\n Rev. H. S. Bennett, Nashville, Tenn.\n Rev. F. A. Chase, Nashville, Tenn.\n Prof. J. M. McPherron, Nashville, Tenn.\n Rev. C. W. Hawley, Amherst, Mass.\n Miss Helen C. Morgan, Cleveland, O.\n Miss Anna M. Cahill, Binghamton, N.Y.\n Mrs. L. A. Shaw, Owego, N.Y.\n Miss Laura A. Parmelee, Toledo, Ohio.\n Miss Juliet B. Smith, Scotland, Mass.\n Miss Mary E. Edwards, Westhampton, Mass.\n Miss Hattie Curtis, Vermontville, Mich.\n Miss Henrietta Matson, N. Bloomfield, Ohio.\n Miss Martha A. Perry, Holden, Mass.\n Miss Margaret M. Foote, Norwich, N.Y.\n Miss Addie L. Clark, Amherst, Mass.\n Miss Fanny Gleason, Brooklyn, N.Y.\n Mrs. A. K. Spence, Nashville, Tenn.\n Mrs. E. M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn.\n HOWARD MISSION.\n _Minister._\n Rev. Wm. A. Sinclair, Washington, D.C.\n\n * * * * *\n\n CHATTANOOGA.\n _Minister._\n Rev. Jos. E. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.\n _Special Missionary._\n Mrs. A. S. Steele, Revere, Mass.\n\n * * * * *\n\n MEMPHIS.\n _Minister._\n Rev. B. A. Imes, Oberlin, O.\n LE MOYNE SCHOOL.\n _Principal._\n Prof. A. J. Steele, Whitewater, Wis.\n _Assistants._\n Rev. B. A. Imes, Oberlin, O.\n Miss Frances D. McNair, Brodhead, Wis.\n Miss Ruth E. Stinson, Woolwich, Me.\n Miss L. Ada Lyman, Oconomowoc, Wis.\n Miss M. M. Miller, Madison, Wis.\n Miss Mary A. Cornes, Medina, N.Y.\n Miss Minnie A. Fowle, Milwaukee, Wis.\n Mrs. B. A. Imes, Oberlin, Ohio.\n\n * * * * *\n\n WHITESIDE.\n _Teacher._\n Mr. G. W. Jackson, Tougaloo, Miss.\n\n * * * * *\n\n KENTUCKY.\n\n BEREA.\n _Minister._\n Rev. John G. Fee, Berea, Ky.\n BEREA COLLEGE.\n _Instructors and Managers._\n Rev. E. H. Fairchild, D.D., Berea, Ky.\n Rev. John G. Fee, Berea, Ky.\n Prof. L. V. Dodge, Berea, Ky.\n Prof. Walter E. C. Wright, Berea, Ky.\n Prof. P. D. Dodge, Berea, Ky.\n Rev. B. S. Hunting, Sublet, Ill.\n Miss L. A. Darling, Akron, O.\n Miss Kate Gilbert, W. Brookfield, Mass.\n Mrs. H. F. Woodruff, Grand Rapids, Mich.\n Miss E. F. Moore, Wattsburg, Pa.\n Miss Annie M. Johnston, East Trumbull, O.\n Miss Jennie Lester, Berea, Ky.\n Miss Ida M. Clark, Berea, Ky.\n Miss Eurie J. Hamilton, Berea, Ky.\n Miss Maria A. Muzzy, Romeo, Mich.\n\n * * * * *\n\n LEXINGTON.\n NORMAL SCHOOL.\n _Instructors._\n Prof. Geo. F. Jewett, Peperell, Mass.\n Mr. Charles H. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.\n Miss Hettie C. Minton, Bowling Green, O.\n Mrs. G. F. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.\n\n * * * * *\n\n CAMP NELSON.\n _Teacher._\n Miss Juan R. Kumler, Oberlin, O.\n\n * * * * *\n\n LOUISVILLE.\n _Minister._\n Rev. J. D. Smith, Louisville, Ky.\n\n * * * * *\n\n WILLIAMSBURG.\n _Minister._\n Rev. A. A. Myers, Williamsburg, Ky.\n _Teachers._\n Mr. W. E. Wheeler, Marshfield, Wis.\n Mrs. W. E. Wheeler, Marshfield, Wis.\n\n * * * * *\n\n CLOVER BOTTOM.\n _Teacher._\n Miss M. R. Barton, \u2014\u2014, Ohio.\n\n * * * * *\n\n BEATTYVILLE.\n _Teacher._\n Mr. A. W. Titus, Berea, Ky.\n\n * * * * *\n\n KANSAS.\n\n TOPEKA.\n _Minister._\n Rev. R. F. Markham, Twelve Mile, Kan.\n _Missionary._\n Miss Alice Braman, Wayland, Mass.\n\n * * * * *\n\n LAWRENCE.\n _Minister._\n Rev. H. R. Pinckney, Lawrence, Kan.\n\n * * * * *\n\n EUREKA.\n _Minister._\n Rev. W. W. Weir, Eureka, Kan.\n\n * * * * *\n\n ARKANSAS.\n\n LITTLE ROCK.\n _Minister._\n Rev. Y. B. Sims, Talladega, Ala.\n _Special Missionary._\n Miss Elizabeth M. Keyes, Unionville, Ct.\n\n * * * * *\n\n FAYETTEVILLE.\n _Minister and Teacher._\n Rev. B. F. Foster, Fayetteville, Ark.\n Mrs. B. F. Foster, Fayetteville, Ark.\n\n * * * * *\n\n MISSISSIPPI.\n\n TOUGALOO.\n _Minister._\n Rev. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, O.\n TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.\n _Instructors and Managers._\n Rev. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, O.\n Rev. E. C. Stickel, Oberlin, O.\n Rev. Azel Hatch, Oberlin, O.\n Miss Kate K. Koons, Sulphur Springs, O.\n Miss Mary H. Scott, Amherst, Mass.\n Miss Fannie J. Webster, Berlin, Wis.\n Miss H. M. Hegeman, Island City, N.Y.\n Miss Josephine Kellogg, Clyde, O.\n Miss Jennie L. Hollegreen, Fredonia, N.Y.\n Mrs. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, O.\n Mrs. E. C. Stickel, Oberlin, O.\n Mrs. Azel Hatch, Oberlin, O.\n Miss S. L. Emerson, Hallowell, Me.\n Miss Anna Coffin, Haverhill, Mass.\n\n * * * * *\n\n CALEDONIA.\n _Minister._\n Rev. M. J. Witherspoon, Caledonia, Miss.\n\n * * * * *\n\n MERIDIAN.\n _Minister._\n Rev. J. L. Grice, Washington, D.C.\n _Teacher._\n Miss Rosa McCutcheon, Tougaloo, Miss.\n\n * * * * *\n\n LOUISIANA.\n\n NEW ORLEANS.\n _Ministers._\n Rev. W. S. Alexander, D.D., Pomfret, Ct.\n Rev. Isaac H. Hall, New Orleans, La.\n Rev. Henry Ruffin, New Orleans, La.\n STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.\n _Instructors and Managers._\n Rev. W. S. Alexander, D.D., Pomfret, Ct.\n Mr. R. C. Hitchcock, Thompsonville, Ct.\n Mr. W. J. McMurtry, Wayne, Mich.\n Mr. J. B. Cannon, West Suffield, Ct.\n Miss Florence L. Sperry, Topeka, Kan.\n Miss Katherine T. Plant, Minneapolis, Minn.\n Miss Thirza J. Miller, Pepperell, Mass.\n Miss M. M. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.\n Miss Flora A. Austin, Nashua, N.H.\n Mrs. Hannah A. Lord, Centre Lebanon, Me.\n Mrs. R. C. Hitchcock, Thompsonville, Ct.\n _Special Missionary._\n Miss A. D. Gerrish, Leetonia, O.\n\n * * * * *\n\n NEW IBERIA.\n _Minister._\n Rev. W. R. Polk, New Iberia, La.\n\n * * * * *\n\n FAUSSE POINT.\n _Minister._\n Rev. William Butler, New Iberia, La.\n\n * * * * *\n\n TEXAS.\n\n AUSTIN.\n TILLOTSON INSTITUTE.\n _Instructors and Managers._\n Rev. W. E. Brooks, W. Haven, Ct.\n Mr. W. L. Gordon, Austin, Tex.\n Mrs. W. L. Gordon, Austin, Tex.\n Miss Helen C. Montague, Kalamazoo, Mich.\n Miss Adelia Hunt, Elkhorn, Wis.\n Miss Alice F. Topping, Olivet, Mich.\n Mrs. M. E. Garland, Austin, Tex.\n Mrs. W. E. Brooks, W. Haven, Ct.\n\n * * * * *\n\n GOLIAD.\n _Minister._\n Rev. B. C. Church, Goliad, Texas.\n _Teacher._\n Mr. J. R. S. Hallowell, New Orleans, La.\n\n * * * * *\n\n HELENA.\n _Minister._\n Rev. Mitchell Thompson, Helena, Tex.\n\n * * * * *\n\n CORPUS CHRISTI.\n _Minister._\n Rev. J. W. Strong, Talladega, Ala.\n\n * * * * *\n\n FLATONIA AND LULING.\n _Minister._\n Rev. Thos. E. Hillson, New Orleans, La.\n _Teachers._\n Miss M. E. Green, Flatonia, Tex.\n Miss H. Cunningham, Tougaloo, Miss.\n\n * * * * *\n\n PARIS.\n _Minister._\n Rev. J. W. Roberts, Savannah, Ga.\n _Teacher._\n Rev. Byron Gunner, Talladega, Ala.\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] Deceased.\n\n * * * * *\n\nAMONG THE CHINESE.\n\n Berkeley\u2014 Miss A. M. Fulton\n Marysville\u2014 Miss M. A. Flint. Joe Jet.\n Oakland\u2014 Miss Clara M. Fisher.\n Miss Mattie L. Sanford.\n Miss Margie L. Brewer.\n Petaluma\u2014 Mrs. Carrie L. Ross.\n Wong Ock.\n Sacramento\u2014 Mrs. S. E. Carrington.\n Lem Chung.\n San Francisco Central, No. 1\u2014 Mr. D. F. Sheldon.\n Jee Gam.\n Miss J. S. Worley.\n Miss Anna L. Snook.\n San Francisco, Central, No. 2\u2014 Miss M. C. Waterbury.\n Miss E. D. Worley.\n Lee Sam. Yong Jin.\n San Francisco. Barnes\u2014 Mrs. C. A. Sheldon.\n Miss J. M. Sheldon.\n Lu D. Luce.\n San Francisco. Bethany\u2014 Mrs. J. C. Snook.\n Hong Sing.\n San Francisco. West\u2014 Miss F. A. Worley.\n Lon Quong.\n San Francisco. North\u2014 Mr. J. J. Mason.\n Chung Won.\n Santa Barbara\u2014 Mrs. H. C. Hough.\n Woo Young.\n Santa Cruz\u2014 Mrs. M. Willett.\n Stockton\u2014 Mrs. M. B. Langdon.\n Him Wong.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nRESUM\u00c9 OF EDUCATIONAL WORK BY BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATIONS FOR FREEDMEN.\n\nEXTRACT FROM AN ARTICLE OF SECRETARY STRIEBY IN THE FORTHCOMING\nVOLUME OF THE SCHAFF-HERZOG ENCYCLOP\u00c6DIA OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE.\n\nWORK OF A. M. A.\n\nThe first school for the Freedmen was established by the American\nMissionary Association. On the 17th of September, 1861, only five\nmonths after the beginning of the war, that school was opened at\nHampton, Va., where many fugitive slaves had congregated under the\nprotection of the guns of Fortress Monroe. The spot overlooked\nthe waters on which the first slave ship entered the American\nContinent. The Association steadily extended its work, until\nit had founded chartered institutions in every large Southern\nState;\u2014Berea College, Berea, Ky.; Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.;\nAtlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.; Fisk University, Nashville,\nTenn.; Talladega College, Talladega, Ala.; Tougaloo University,\nTougaloo, Miss.; Straight University, New Orleans, La.; Tillotson\nCollegiate and Normal Institute, Austin, Texas. Land has also been\npurchased for the Edward Smith College, in Little Rock, Arkansas.\nIt has 49 other schools of different grades. Connected with some\nof its chartered institutions are Theological, Law and Industrial\nDepartments. Those at Hampton, Talladega and Tougaloo, have large\nfarms. Chartered Institutions, 8; Normal and High Schools, 11;\nCommon Schools, 38; Total, 57; Teachers, 241; Students, 9,608.\nHoward University, Washington, D.C., established by the Freedmen\u2019s\nBureau, in 1882 had 29 teachers and 349 students. The theological\ndepartment is sustained mainly by the A. M. A.\n\n\nFREEDMEN\u2019S AID SOCIETIES.\n\nThe \u201cFreedmen\u2019s Aid Societies\u201d were early organized. The first\nwas formed in Boston, Feb. 7th, a second in New York, Feb. 23d,\n1863. Others followed rapidly\u2014in Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland,\nand elsewhere throughout the North, and in 1865 the teachers\nemployed by all the societies numbered 634. With a view to economy\nand efficiency they were consolidated in 1866, in the \u201cAmerican\nFreedmen\u2019s Union Commission.\u201d These societies devoted themselves\nin large part at first to physical relief and the organization\nof labor. But ere long, the education of the Freedmen became\ntheir chief endeavor and they accomplished much good in the line\nof secular education. But the several branches were at length\nabandoned or became absorbed in the societies of the religious\norganizations. The Commission itself closed in 1869.\n\n\nTHE BAPTISTS.\n\nThe Baptists, who conduct their work, both educational and church,\namong the Freedmen, through their Home Missionary Society, entered\nearly into the establishment of schools; beginning in the Spring of\n1862 with schools at St. Helena and Beaufort, S.C., and afterwards\nadding others at Fortress Monroe, Washington, Knoxville and New\nOrleans. Missionaries were appointed to preach, and to teach\nday-schools, and assistants, both male and female, were sent out;\nfrom 3,000 to 5,000 pupils were taught yearly, until about 1872,\nwhen the secular or day-school system was given up, and efforts\nconcentrated on permanent or higher institutions, some of which\nhad been planted in 1865. In 1882, the Society has under its\ncare 12 schools as follows: Wayland Seminary, Washington, D.C.;\nRichmond Institute, Richmond, Va.; Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C.;\nBenedict Institute, Columbia, S.C.; Atlanta Seminary, Atlanta,\nGa.; Nashville Institute, Nashville, Tenn.; Leland University, New\nOrleans, La.; Natchez Seminary, Natchez, Miss.; Alabama Normal\nand Theological School at Selma, Ala.; Florida Institute, Live\nOak, Fla.; Bishop College, Marshall, Tex.; Louisville Normal and\nTheological School, Louisville, Kentucky. Normal instruction is\ngiven in most of the schools; industrial education in several; and\nBiblical instruction in all. In four institutions a collegiate\ncourse is pursued. Five are chartered institutions. In 1882,\nSchools, 12; Teachers, 79; Pupils, 2,397. The Free Will Baptists\nhave an excellent institution, Storer College, at Harper\u2019s Ferry,\nW. Va., with 5 Teachers and 245 Students.\n\n\nTHE FRIENDS.\n\nThe Friends, true to the principles of the founder of their\ndenomination, George Fox, entered at once the opened door for\nrelieving the physical necessities of the Freedmen, and at length\nestablished schools among them; but when the public schools\nfurnished the education, they gradually withdrew. They now maintain\nSouthland College, Helena, Ark., with 277 Pupils, a school in\nMaryville, Tenn., with 13 Instructors and 211 Pupils, and one in\nPhiladelphia with 291 Pupils, with the supervision of 22 other\nschools in the South sustained for several months in the year. The\nFriends (Hicksite), entered the work in 1862, furnishing supplies\nat first, afterwards sustaining schools numbering at one time 25.\nThey now have one school with 150 scholars.\n\n\nTHE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.\n\nThe Methodist Episcopal Church had from the first co-operated with\nthe undenominational Aid Societies in the care of the Freedmen, in\nrelieving physical suffering and in giving instruction in primary\neducation. But it concentrated its efforts by the organization, in\nCincinnati, Aug. 6, 1866, of \u201cThe Freedmen\u2019s Aid Society of the\nMethodist Episcopal Church.\u201d This Society now reports six chartered\ninstitutions, viz.: Central Tennessee College, Nashville, Tenn.;\nClark University, Atlanta, Ga.; Claflin University, Orangeburg,\nS.C.; New Orleans University, New Orleans, La.; Rust University,\nHolly Springs, Miss.; Wiley University, Marshall, Texas. Four\ntheological schools, viz.: Centenary Biblical Institute, Baltimore,\nMd.; Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga.; Baker Institute,\nOrangeburg, S.C., and Thomson Biblical Institute, New Orleans, La.\nOne medical college, viz., Meharry Medical College, Nashville,\nTenn.; and 14 institutions not chartered. Total number of\ninstitutions, 35; teachers, 95; pupils, 3,506. It gives special\nattention to Biblical instruction, and at Clark University a\nDepartment of Industry is established. The African Methodist\nEpiscopal Church founded and sustained Wilberforce University at\nXenia, Ohio, with 13 teachers and 170 students.\n\n\nTHE PRESBYTERIANS.\n\nThe \u201cPresbyterian Committee of Missions for Freedmen,\u201d was\norganized by the General Assembly in 1865 and began its work\nat once, by sending preachers and teachers to the South. Its\nefforts thus far are confined to the two Carolinas, Virginia and\nTennessee, with a few missions and schools in Georgia, Kentucky\nand Florida. It has under its care three chartered institutions:\nBiddle University, Charlotte, N.C. (with a Theological Department),\nWallingford Academy, Charleston, S.C., and Scotia Seminary,\nConcord, N.C.; 2 normal schools; 3 graded schools, and 50 parochial\nschools. Total number of schools, 58; teachers, 108; scholars,\n6,088. Lincoln University (Lincoln University P. O.), Oxford, Pa.,\nhas an able corps of 13 professors and 200 students\u201418 theological,\n100 collegiate, 82 preparatory. The United Presbyterians have two\nschools, one in Abbyville, Va., with 4 teachers and 245 students,\nthe other in Chase City, Va., with 3 teachers and 251 students.\n\n\nTHE EPISCOPALIANS.\n\nThe \u201cProtestant Episcopal Freedmen\u2019s Commission\u201d was organized\nOctober, 1865, and in a few months it opened schools in Petersburg,\nVa., Wilmington and Raleigh, N.C. The first year the teachers\nnumbered 23, and the scholars, day and night, 1,600. The Committee\nfor Domestic Missions (under whose care this work now is), reported\nin 1882, 2 normal schools with 8 teachers each, and 11 schools with\none teacher each. The normal schools are at Raleigh, N.C., and at\nPetersburg, Va.\n\n\nTHE ROMAN CATHOLICS.\n\nThe Catholic Directory for 1882 reports for the Archdiocese of\nBaltimore 1 academy for colored girls, with 60 pupils, and 4 other\nschools with 693 pupils; total, 753; Archdiocese of New Orleans,\n7 schools, 330 pupils; Archdiocese of St. Louis, 1 school, 120\npupils; Diocese of Louisville, 6 schools, 332 pupils; Diocese of\nNatchez, 3 schools, 80 pupils; Diocese of Natchitoches, 2 schools,\n40 pupils; Diocese of Savannah, 2 schools, 75 pupils; Diocese\nof St. Augustine, 6 schools, number of pupils not given. Total\nschools, 30; pupils reported, 1,730.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT.\n\nPROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nTHE HEMENWAY FARM.\n\nBY GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG.\n\nIn 1878, when the 150 acres of arable land of the Hampton Institute\ncould offer no more farm work to the increasing number of negro\nand Indian students, a generous lady, of Boston, Mass., gave,\nprincipally for the benefit of the Indians, the sum of nine\nthousand dollars, to purchase a fine grass and grain farm of 350\nacres, five miles from the school, to which was added, by purchase,\n250 acres more, and to it has been given the name \u201cHemenway Farm,\u201d\nas a memorial to the husband of the giver.\n\nIt was placed in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Vanison, both\ngraduates of Hampton, but has been under the general control of Mr.\nAlbert Howe, formerly of Dorchester, Mass., manager of the Normal\nSchool farm.\n\nDuring the three and a half summer (vacation) months, the sixty\nIndian boys, excepting about one-third who go to Berkshire Co.,\nMass., to work with the farmers, spend by turns, in squads of\ntwelve or fifteen, two weeks at a time at this farm, taking part\nin the stock and farming operations, which are carried on on\na larger and simpler scale than at the school. They thus get\na wholesome change from life in the workshops, besides useful,\npractical knowledge. A general knowledge of agriculture and stock\nis important for those who are learning trades.\n\nThe steady working force of the farm is composed of from eight to\nten colored boys, who begin October 1st each year, working till the\nnext October, ten hours a day, studying every night from seven till\nnine o\u2019clock, under the direction of Mrs. Vanison. They receive,\nbesides their board, from $8 to $10 a month, which, excepting $3 a\nmonth for clothing, they are expected to save to pay future school\nexpenses. They are an ignorant, destitute class, but, as a rule,\nare most willing, earnest and deserving students. After working all\nday, they study harder at night than any others in the school. Ten\nhours of handling lumber at the saw-mill, or steady work on the\nfarm, or in the machine shop, is no trifling duty, but they are\neager for their night lessons.\n\nThe ten at the Hemenway Farm are a part of 130 \u201cwork students,\u201d\nthirty of them girls, employed in the various industrial\ndepartments, constituting about one-third of the colored pupils\nat Hampton. They devote a preliminary year to day labor and night\nstudy, to fit themselves to enter the junior class of this year\u2019s\ncourse, and to accumulate a small fund, averaging $75 for the year,\nto help meet cost of board, ten dollars a month, besides clothing\nand books. This is done in part by working two days each week of\nthe regular course. With strict economy and working all vacations,\nthey maintain themselves through the entire course graduating\nwithout receiving a dollar in charity, some, however, need help the\nlast year and none are more worthy of it.\n\nThe effect on their characters is excellent. Good as it is, that\nthey shall earn and learn in this way, it is even better for the\nhabits, ideas and manliness it promotes. The entire class is\nmature, averaging 19 years of age. Mr. Vanison is as excellent a\nmanager as we care to have; his wife keeps house, sees to the boys\u2019\nmeals, rooms and washing, and teaches them nights, besides raising\nsome 500 chickens, at which she has a wonderful \u201cknack.\u201d\n\nThe farm was cultivated last year as follows; 75 acres in wheat,\n80 acres in oats, 112 in corn, 35 in clover and orchard grass,\nthe rest in pasture, a few acres being devoted to vegetables and\nan orchard. Much was done in clearing old ditch banks. The stock\nconsists of 50 hogs and pigs, 110 sheep and lambs, 6 colts, and\nfrom 10 to 20 beef cattle, which are bought in the neighborhood,\nfattened on the pasture and killed at the school, two or three a\nweek being required there.\n\nThe Hemenway farm, of 600 acres, some 60 acres of it marshy, is\nsituated in Elizabeth City County, on Bach River, which is an\nestuary half a mile in width. The house is a famous, but plain,\nold Southern mansion, in which Gen. Washington once dined. Until\n1878 it had been for many generations in the hands of an old\naristocratic family, whom the war impoverished, and their place\nwas sold for debt. The location is a beautiful one; the region is\nquite Englishlike in appearance, with its rich, level fields and\nits hedge-rows. In summer, delicious breezes blow up the river from\nChesapeake Bay, four miles distant.\n\nOysters and fish abound in its water front; a handsome lawn and\nfine old trees surround the house, all of which are a delight to\nthe boys, especially to the Indians, who have long summer mornings.\n\nThe past season a plain but pretty cottage was added to the old\nhouse, which was too small, containing a dining-room, kitchen,\nlaundry, and bedrooms for the boys upstairs. This leaves rooms, as\nwas intended by the giver, for tired teachers to come and rest for\na night from the cares and din of the institute, to whom the quiet\nand beauty of \u201cShellbanks,\u201d its former name, is a great comfort.\nI must not forget to mention the ample barn, stable, cow-shed,\ntool-house, corn-crib, extensive stacks of straw, and wind-mill for\npumping water for the stock.\n\n[Illustration: HEMENWAY FARM.]\n\nThis is entirely a negro affair; no white person lives on the\nplace. Its Christian character and influence are earnest and\nemphatic. Nothing in the Hampton system is more satisfactory\nthan this farm. I hope others like it will be provided for other\ninstitutions, but to fit up an old Southern farm after buying it,\ncosts about as much as the land costs.\n\nAn unexpected advantage of the farm is its being an excellent place\nfor a badly-behaved Indian boy, when only one is sent there. He\nis punished by being separated from his old friends, but the ten\ncolored fellows carry him along in their daily routine of work and\nstudy; he has no one to \u201ccut up\u201d with; he improves in spite of\nhimself; the plan has never failed to work well; he finally likes\nit and returns changed for the better.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nREVIVAL IN CENTRAL CHURCH, NEW ORLEANS.\n\nW. S. ALEXANDER, D.D.\n\nIt has been our custom in previous years to begin our special\nreligious meetings the first of January in connection with the\n\u201cWeek of Prayer.\u201d But this year the Church seemed in readiness at\nan earlier date, and we felt that we were obeying the call of the\nLord to \u201cgo forward\u201d when we began our special effort to reach the\nimpenitent, on the night of December 1st. The Friday preceding had\nbeen observed as a day of fasting and prayer. For many days the\nspirit of prayer and consecration had been evidently deepening upon\nthe part of the great majority of the Lord\u2019s people. People who,\nfor some trivial reason, had been alienated, came together in the\nspirit of forgiveness. A great desire was expressed, and I have no\ndoubt felt, to prepare the way for the coming of the Lord. Our lady\nmissionary with unsurpassed devotion, visited all the families of\nthe congregation, making in the short space of ten weeks some 600\nvisits. The effort was made to reach every one who sustained even\na nominal relation to our church, as a member or casual attendant,\nand invite him to our revival services.\n\nThe result was all and more than we anticipated. The church was\nthronged every night. The very first night several presented\nthemselves for prayer. The number of inquirers increased till we\ncounted more than fifty. One by one, with a quietness and depth\nof feeling that impressed every heart, these earnest inquirers\ncame into the light, and were made to \u201crejoice in hope of the\nglory of God.\u201d The two manly and dearly beloved sons of the Dean\nof our Faculty, were among the first to share in the blessings of\nthe revival. God only knows our joy when they came forward with\nthe rest, and bowed before God as suppliants for His mercy and\nforgiveness. Never did the words of Holy Writ, which have fallen\nfrom the lips of so many believers, sound sweeter than when one of\nthese young men recited as his verse at the breakfast table, the\nmorning after his conversion, \u201cI know that my Redeemer liveth.\u201d\n\nA pleasant and somewhat unusual feature of this revival has been\nits influence upon the men. On more than one occasion we counted\ntwelve men on the \u201cMourners\u2019 seats.\u201d Thirty-four professed\nconversion. We hope and believe they have been \u201cborn again.\u201d A\nclass of 35 are waiting in joyful anticipation of taking the vows\nof God upon them in the Church, and of receiving their \u201cfirst\ncommunion.\u201d\n\nI should do injustice to my own feelings did I not speak of the\nearnest sympathy and hearty co-operation of all the teachers in the\nUniversity in this religious movement. We moved in this matter as a\nunited body, with but one object in view: the glory of God, and the\nupbuilding of the Kingdom of His Son.\n\n\nADDITIONAL REPORT OF THE REVIVAL.\n\nPROF. R. C. HITCHCOCK.\n\nThe revival which has been in progress for several weeks at Central\nChurch has been to me a constant wonder. Even in sedate old\nConnecticut a revival season is usually a scene of much emotional\nexcitement, and it is often impossible to tell how much is sincere\nand permanent; but this revival has been all through marked by a\nquiet, deep and reverential character. It was my first opportunity\nfor observation of such meetings among the colored people. I had\nheard and read a great deal of the tumultuous excitement on such\noccasions, and each night I looked to see, when they should be\nfairly \u201cwarmed up,\u201d such scenes as I had had pictured. What I\nactually did see was this. Each night the pastor preached a short,\npractical gospel sermon, packed full with reasons why religion\nshould be chosen and chosen now, to an earnest, attentive audience.\nThen he stepped down in front, and in kind but strong words invited\nall who felt the truth of what had been said and wished to become\nChristians, to come forward for conversation and the prayers of\nthe church. Most of those who accepted the invitation were men of\nmiddle age and young men; a few were young ladies.\n\nNight after night this went on; while the pastor and others were\ntalking with those who came forward, the audience engaged in\nsinging. No general invitation was given to speak or pray, a few\nonly being called on each night to take part. Each night some\nsouls found peace and joy. It was my good fortune to talk with\nnearly every one of the converts, and I found all, so far as I\ncould judge, thoroughly in earnest; no one scared or urged into\nconfessions, but each, as the new hope was born in his soul,\nrising, generally with streaming eyes, to tell what God had done\nfor him and ask for fellowship and prayerful help.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nSCHOOL AND CHURCH WORK AT FAYETTEVILLE, ARK.\n\nBY REV. B. F. FOSTER.\n\nWe began work here on the 5th of September, and opened school\nunder very favorable auspices. We have had 92 pupils enrolled.\nOur school is the only one for colored children within a radius\nof 65 miles. We are giving some attention to church work, and are\nusing our school-house as a place of worship. We have service\nevery Sabbath morning at eleven o\u2019clock\u2014the audiences are large.\nWe are gratified to say that the influence of the teachers takes\nfast hold upon both parent and pupil. We have Sunday-school\nevery afternoon at three o\u2019clock, and these services are largely\nattended. Thanksgiving day was appropriately commemorated. A\nsermon was preached in the morning by the missionary pastor. All\nwho were present seemed deeply impressed with the word. The chapel\nwas beautifully and tastefully festooned with autumn leaves and\nberries, and the walls were embellished with appropriate mottoes\nof the sacred Scriptures. At seven o\u2019clock in the evening a very\nlarge number of patrons and friends of the school gathered, and\npartook of a repast prepared as a thanksgiving token for them by\nthe teachers and pupils. Toasts were responded to by the several\npastors of the town and teachers. I said we had service in our\nchapel at 11 A.M. every Sunday. We could induce as many to come\nin the evening if we had lamps to light up our chapel. Equally as\ngood results would come from a weekly prayer-meeting, if we had\nsufficient lights. We heartily accept this opportunity of asking\nthe friends of some of our Northern churches to give us of their\nold ones\u2014chandelier lamps. The Lord\u2019s Supper was celebrated the\nfirst time, since beginning our work here, last Sunday. Truly,\nthe Lord was with his people on that solemn occasion. At this\nservice the missionary pastor\u2019s first and only little daughter was\nbaptized, which increased the interest of the meeting. To carry\nthis blessed Supper to Christ\u2019s brethren and sisters, Mrs. Foster\u2019s\npie-pans were used for the emblems of his body, and two borrowed\nmugs for the emblem of his blood. From this the friends of God\u2019s\npoor will see we would thank them very much to assist us in getting\na communion set. The people among whom we are working are very\npoor. Few of them have homes.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\nREV. W. C. POND, SUPERINTENDENT.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\nMISSION WORK\u2014GOOD RESULTS.\n\nSACRAMENTO MISSION.\u2014Mrs. Rilla Carrington, who for the last three\nyears has most faithfully and successfully conducted the Sacramento\nMission, is required by the state of her health to take a vacation.\nIt will be only a vacation, and I hope and expect that two or\nthree months of recuperation will bring her back fresh and strong,\nand good for another three years of steady and faithful service.\nDuring her absence, her sister will take her place, and will fill\nit well. In communicating her desire for this respite, she indulges\nin some reminiscences which, I am sure, will interest our readers.\n\u201cDuring the past three years and a quarter, more than 450 have, for\na longer or shorter period, been members of our Sacramento school.\nI would that all who come with us in the school could remain until\nthey are converted and ready to work for the salvation of their\npeople. We know of the good service of many who have gone out from\nus to visit their homes. For instance, Fong Get Roy, who wrote you\nsomething of his work while in China: he has not ceased to labor\nfor Christ since his return; Fong Gee, whose father, now dead, was\na heathen priest, was always zealous while here with us; sometimes\nspeaking to his country-men for an hour or more at a time, showing\nthem, in the most ridiculous light, the folly of idol and ancestral\nworship, and holding up Christ as the only hope of salvation. His\nhealth gave out, and he was compelled to return to China\u2014being\nhelped by the brethren of San Francisco and Sacramento to do so.\nThere he is working at his trade for a mere pittance, and giving\nwhat time he can for the conversion of his country-men. Wong Loung\nvisited his home a year ago, and was married, in accordance with\nChinese customs, to one to whom he had been betrothed in childhood\nby his parents. Because he had renounced the religion of his\nfathers, he suffered much indignity from members of his family\u2014the\npersecutions becoming so great he was obliged to leave home. But\nthe result was that he returned to America more determined than\never to hold fast to Christ. Louis Sing, too, was under great\npressure while in China to take part in worship with his relations,\nbut could not, he said, because he knew the uselessness of such\nworship. We hear of Gwan Lee, our organist, as standing firm amidst\nthe powers of darkness\u2014holding fast to the living faith. He is one\nof those whom the present law prohibits from returning to this\ncountry. We all feel as though we could not give him up, and that\nsome way must be found by which he may come back.\n\n\u201cWe are not only made glad by work done far away, but workers are\nhere with us\u2014true hearts that love to do something for Jesus\nevery day. Several have joined the Association this year; among\nthem, Fong Bow, who is one of the class for whom I requested your\nprayers several months ago. He seemed to have much to hold him\nback; outside influence made it hard for him to decide. He has been\na member of the school so long that we feel more than usually happy\nin his coming. May we not hope and still pray, in faith, for the\nother members of the class? This mission work is ever a source of\ncomfort and pleasure to me, and I know I cannot remain away from it\nif blessed with health.\u201d\n\n\nLOU QUONG, ON HEATHEN PRAYERS AND REAL PRAYER.\n\nEach Wednesday afternoon I meet the Chinese helpers in the schools\nof this city for a drill in Bible study, and to receive and remark\nupon the sketches of sermons, which they have prepared during the\nweek. Here is one which Lou Quong brought in yesterday. James 5:16.\n\n\u201cThe effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.\u201d\n\nMy subject is all on prayer to-day, and it is very needful to all\nChristians, especially to those who really mean to be the followers\nof the Lord Jesus, and to be workers in the Master\u2019s field. I\nwill mention a few things of the heathen prayers, which were\noccasionally offered to the heathen gods in China as well as in\nthis city. So far as I can judge there is no true prayer which was\never offered to their gods, and I, having been born in a heathen\nnation, therefore know them well. Each certain prayer belongs to a\ncertain god. You cannot take one god\u2019s prayer to pray to others; if\nyou do, you will get no blessing, because you got the wrong prayer,\ntheir prayers not having to come from the heart, but being learned\nonly from the history of a certain god, so they mostly repeat the\nwords as near as they can remember. There is not a single prayer\nthat really comes from the heart. They come only from the lips;\nand besides this, when they pray, they do not, like our Christian\npeople, pray for bad and good, and even for our enemies, and for\nall nations; their prayers are only for a certain thing, a certain\nmatter, for riches, for honors, and for glory, and to have more\nsons born than girls; for their father and mother, brothers and\nsisters, that they might have a long life. If they have any one\nwhich they do not like, they would pray their God to destroy his\nwhole family. By this we know that such a prayer our true God will\nnot hear, but rather punish them. I have a great deal more to say\nabout the heathen prayer, but I have no time for it just now. So I\nmust go on to the true prayer, which our Lord Jesus Christ taught\nhis disciples to say. Yet even such a true and short prayer as\nthat, which we have repeated every evening in our schools, many of\nus would forget before we go to bed at night. This won\u2019t do, my\nChristian brethren. We must give all our hearts to God before we\nshut our eyes. We cannot pray to God for a certain thing that must\nbe done while our hearts are on something else, or are doubting\nwhether God could hear us or not. Suppose to-morrow you intend to\ngo out and look for a place, so you would pray to God to help you\nand to give you one, and you believe he will do it, and then when\nto-morrow comes you would lie in bed until afternoon. Then you got\nup, thinking that was too late, and would not go. This, indeed,\nwould make you think that God did not hear your prayer last night.\nThis is the whole trouble that sometimes God don\u2019t answer our\nprayer; but I am very sure that God has heard all my prayers and\nhas answered all which are for good. When we have a certain matter\nthat we cannot manage at all, and when we would bring it to God, we\nmust first make our hearts ready to pray and then without doubting\ndraw out the true thoughts of our hearts and feel that God is above\nus and Jesus is on one side. Then comes the Holy Spirit into our\nhearts to teach us how to pray. After we got up from prayer I am\nsure we can feel that we were heard, and if we are not answered\non a certain hour we must wait and pray without ceasing until it\ncomes, for God not, like man, would fail you sometime. This is the\nkind of prayer that God does hear. So James says, \u201cThe effectual,\nfervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much;\u201d that is, God does\nalways hear and answer the true prayer.\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\nMISSIONARY MUSIC.\n\n Have you ever brought a penny to the missionary box\u2014\n A penny which you might have spent like other little folks?\n And when it falls among the rest, have you ever heard a ring,\n Like a pleasant sound of welcome which the other pennies sing?\n\n This is missionary music, and it has a pleasant sound,\n For pennies make a shilling, and shillings make a pound;\n And many pounds together the gospel news will send,\n Which tell the distant heathen that the Saviour is their Friend.\n\n And oh! what joyous music is the missionary song,\n When it seems to come from every heart and sounds from every\n tongue\u2014\n When happy Christian little ones all sing with one accord\n Of the time when realms of darkness shall be kingdoms of the Lord!\n\n But sweeter far than all, which Jesus loves to hear,\n Are children\u2019s voices when they breathe a missionary prayer\u2014\n When they bring the heart-petition to the great Redeemer\u2019s throne,\n That He will choose the heathen out, and take them for His own.\n\n This is the music Jesus taught when he was here below;\n This is the music Jesus loves to hear in glory now;\n And many a one from, distant lands will reach His heavenly home,\n In answer to the children\u2019s prayer, \u201cO Lord, Thy kingdom come!\u201d\n\n Then, missionary children, let this music never cease;\n Work on, work on in earnest, for the Lord, the Prince of Peace;\n There is praying work and paying work for every heart and hand,\n Till the missionary chorus shall go forth through all the land.\n\n \u2014_Selected._\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR DECEMBER, 1882.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n MAINE, $524.18.\n\n Alfred. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $19.00\n Augusta. Miss E. F., 1; Mrs. F. L., 1, _for\n Tillotson C. and N. Inst. (Land)_ 2.00\n Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 150.00\n Brewer. First Cong. Ch., 8, and Sab. Sch., 5 13.00\n Brunswick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 45.03\n Cumberland. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. JOHN\n BLANCHARD L. M. 45.00\n Ellsworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 82.45\n Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00\n Gorham. Cong. Ch. bal. to const. MRS. RUFUS\n FOGG and DANIEL BILLINGS L. M\u2019s 25.95\n Limerick. Bbl. of C., _for Raleigh N.C._\n Paris. Mrs. K., _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst.\n (Land)_ 1.00\n Portland. Williston Ch. and Soc., 30; T. B.\n Percy, 5 35.00\n Searsport. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00\n Skowhegan. Eddie A. Hussey, 5; Mary Steward,\n 2; L. P. W., 1; Mrs. L. T. H., 1; _for\n Tillotson C. and N. Inst. (Land)_ 9.00\n South Bridgeton. Cong. Ch. 35.00\n South Paris. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n Tillotson C. and N. Inst._ 20.00\n Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.70\n\n\n NEW HAMPSHIRE, $324.31.\n\n Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l), _for\n Student Aid Atlanta U._ and to const. GEO.\n P. DOW L. M. 15.00\n Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.63\n Claremont. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.37\n Concord. \u201cFriends.\u201d 3.00\n Gorham. Cong. Ch. 2.48\n Greenfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.30\n Greenland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.25\n Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.45\n Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.03\n Keene. Ladies Benev. Soc. of Second Ch., Bbl.\n of C. and $2.50 _for Freight, for McIntosh,\n Ga._ 2.50\n Keene. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch. 127.78\n Northampton. E. Gove 10.00\n Pittsfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., _for\n Marion, Ala._\n Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.38\n Rochester. Cong. Ch., _for Straight U._ 21.00\n Seabrook and Hampton Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n _for John Brown Steamer_ 7.50\n Swanzey. Mrs. R. Williams 2.00\n Temple. Mr. and Mrs. Goodyear 2.00\n Walpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.51\n Warner. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.11\n West Campton. T. J. Sanborn 5.00\n West Lebanon. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. C.,\n _for Marietta, Ga._\n Wilton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. Christmas\n Gifts, _for Savannah, Ga._\n Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.78\n Wolfborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.24\n\n\n VERMONT, $557.28.\n\n Alburgh. Cong. Ch. 10.00\n Ascutneyville. Dea. N. Gage 5.00\n Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.50\n Bellows Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 56.44\n Benson. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n Storrs Sch._ 5.00\n Benson. Ezra Strong, 10; Mrs. Annie Howard, 5;\n Mrs. L. B., 1; _for Kindergarten, Atlanta,\n Ga._ 16.00\n Burlington. \u201cA Friend\u201d 7.00\n Cabot. Cong. Ch. 10.00\n Cambridge. \u201cDaughters of Mrs. Nancy Howe,\n deceased\u201d 5.00\n Clarendon. Mrs. Wm. D. Marsh, to const. MRS.\n GEO. H. MORSS L. M. 30.00\n Dorset. Ladies, Cask of C., _for Raleigh\n N.C._, 3, _for Freight_ 3.00\n East Berkshire. E. W. Hatch and Others, 1 ea.,\n _for John Brown Steamer_ 5.00\n East Poultney. A. D. Wilcox 5.00\n Essex. \u201cCash\u201d 0.50\n Greensborough. Hattie Cutler (a dying girl\u2019s\n gift), 5; Mrs. K., 1; Mrs. S., 50c., _for\n Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._ 6.50\n Hartford. Ephraim Morris, 100; Second Cong.\n Ch., 26.16 126.16\n Montpelier. Bethany Sab. Sch. 11.95\n New Haven. A. M. Roscoe, 5; Miss A. W. Kent\u2019s\n S. S. Class, 2.05, _for Kindergarten,\n Atlanta, Ga._ 7.05\n Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00\n Peacham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 34.86\n Pittsford. Mrs. Nancy P. Humphrey 10.00\n Royalton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. _for\n Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.85\n Royalton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 16.53; A. W.\n Kenney, 14 30.53\n Saxton\u2019s River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.04\n Vergennes. \u2014\u2014, 2; 2 Bbls. C., _for Washington,\n D.C._ 2.00\n Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 15; Rev. J.\n L. S., 50c. 15.50\n West Randolph. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.25\n West Townsend. A. R. Pierce. 4.00\n Windham. Cong. Ch., 24.50, and Sab. Sch., 4.50 29.00\n -------\n $514.13\n\n LEGACIES.\n\n Jericho. Estate of Hosea Spaulding, C. M.\n Spaulding, 10; A. C. Spaulding, 5; Nellie M.\n Spaulding, 3; E. J. Spaulding, 3 21.00\n North Ferrisburgh. Estate of Sylvia Dean, by\n J. M. and Wm. L. Dean, Ex\u2019s. 22.15\n -------\n $557.28\n\n\n MASSACHUSETTS, $6,118.07.\n\n Andover. Old South Ch. and Soc. 100.00\n Andover. Free Ch., _for Straight U._ 40.00\n Amherst. First Cong. Ch. 25.00\n Amherst. Miss Mary H. Scott, _for Student Aid,\n Tougaloo U._ 3.00\n Ashfield. H. Taylor and family 10.00\n Ashland. New Year\u2019s Offering 2.00\n Auburn. Cong. Ch. 44.59\n Auburndale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 176.30\n Beverly. \u201cA Friend\u201d 4.00\n Boston. Union Ch. and Soc., _for Howard U.,\n Washington, D.C._ 120.26\n Boston. Miss Elizabeth Peabody, _for\n Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._ 20.00\n Bradford. Ladies of Adamville, Two Bbls. of\n C., _for Wilmington, N.C._\n Brighton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 91.00\n Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. Mon. Con. 6.03\n Charlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00\n Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Lady\n Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._ 54.89\n Chelsea. Miss Annie P. James, _for Student\n Aid, Atlanta U._ 30.00\n Chelsea. Ladies Union Home M. Band, _for Lady\n Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._ 25.24\n Chelsea. \u201cTithe\u201d 1.50\n Chelsea. Ladies\u2019 Union H. M. Band, Box C.,\n val. 30, _for Glendower, Va._\n Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. 46.54\n Clinton. First Evan. Cong Ch. and Soc. 105.00\n Cohasset. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.48\n Conway. \u201cConway,\u201d _for John Brown Steamer_ 1.00\n Cotuit. Union Ch. and Soc. 14.66\n Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc. 34.51\n Duxbury. \u201cDuxbury\u201d 1.00\n Easthampton. Payson Cong. Ch., 398.20; First\n Cong. Sab. Sch., 13.10 411.30\n East Hampton. E. L. W., _for John Brown\n Steamer_ 1.00\n East Longmeadow. E. M. 0.50\n Framingham. Plym. Ch. and Soc., 2 Bbls. C.\n Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 75.00\n Goshen. Cong Ch. and Soc. 10.15\n Grafton. Ladies Sew. Circle of Cong. Ch., Bbl.\n Comforters, _for Atlanta U._\n Greenfield. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 16.63\n Greenfield. \u201cM. O. F.,\u201d _for Tillotson C. & N.\n Inst._ 2.00\n Greenwich Village. Daniel Parker 2.00\n Hadley. First Ch. 9.21\n Hardwick. E. B. Foster 5.00\n Harvard. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.50\n Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 200.00\n Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.32\n Holliston. \u201cBible Christians,\u201d of Dist. No. 4 25.00\n Hyde Park. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 34.14\n Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.35\n Lakeville. Cong. Sab. Sch., 7.23; \u201cK,\u201d 4.50 11.73\n Lancaster. Evan. Sab. Sch. 10.00\n Lawrence. Central Cong. Ch. 22.60\n Lee. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 75.00\n Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 60.20\n Lexington. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., _for\n McIntosh, Ga._\n Lincoln. \u201cFriends.\u201d by Frank W. Smith, 11\n Bbls. Apples, _for Atlanta U._\n Lowell. M. E. Bartlett, _for Student Aid,\n Wilmington, N.C._ 20.00\n Lowell. George F. Willey 10.40\n Ludlow. Cong. Ch. 28.78\n Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.87\n Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 54.11\n Marblehead. J. J. H. Gregory, 35; Young\n Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., 20, _for Student Aid,\n Fisk U._ 55.00\n Middleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00\n Millbury. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n Atlanta U._ 15.00\n Monson. Cong. Ch. 15.00\n Montville. Sylvester Jones 2.00\n Natick. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 50.00\n New Bedford. \u201cFriend\u201d 10.00\n Newbury. Ladies of First Parish, 50c.; Bbl.\n C., val. 20, _for Tougaloo, Miss._ 0.50\n Newbury. \u201cJ. D.\u201d Bbl. and Box C., _for\n Tougaloo, Miss._\n Newburyport. Whitefield Cong. Ch. and Soc. 117.11\n Newburyport. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Washington, D.C._ 1.00\n Newton. J. W. Davis, _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n U._ 50.00\n North Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 60.00\n North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to\n const. DANA J. PRATT and MRS. JAMES N.\n JENCKS, L. M.\u2019s 90.00\n North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student\n Aid, Atlanta U._ 6.21\n Northampton. \u2014\u2014, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 10.00\n North Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.34\n Palmer. Thorndike Cong. Ch. 1.37\n Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 58.41;\n First Cong. Ch., 50.; South Cong. Ch. and\n Soc., 38.09; Second Cong. Sab. Sch., 6 152.50\n Raynham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.16\n Reading. Bethesda Ch. and Soc. 52.50\n Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 42.00\n Royalston. Mrs. E. B. Ripley, Box of C. and 3,\n _for freight, for Talladega C._ 3.00\n Salem. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 76.09\n Salem. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Washington, D.C._ 1.00\n Shrewsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.00\n South Boston. Phillips Ch. and Soc. 160.00\n South Braintree. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl. of C., _for\n Atlanta U._\n South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.00\n South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. to const.\n JOSEPH DYER, L. M. 48.00\n Springfield. \u201cE. M. P.\u201d (10 of which _for John\n Brown Steamer_), to const. MRS. E. B. JONES,\n L. M. 30.00\n Springfield. Charles H. Barrows 5.00\n Sterling. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00\n Stockbridge. Cong. Ch. 67.23\n Suffolk Co. \u201cS. H.\u201d 500.00\n Sutton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00\n Warren. Cong. Ch. 60.00\n Watertown. Phillip\u2019s Ch. Sewing Circle, _for\n Freight_ 2.00\n Watertown. Phillip\u2019s Mission Band, 2 Bbls. C.,\n _for McIntosh, Ga._\n Waverly. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.23\n Wayland. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00\n Wellesley Hills. Grantville Cong. Ch. and Soc. 72.00\n Westfield. Second Con. Sab. Sch, _for\n Washington, D.C._ 31 00\n Westborough. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.09\n West Medford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.45\n West Newton. Cong. Ch. and So., 65.58 J. C. C., 1 66.58\n West Springfield. Park St. Cong. Ch. 19.52\n Whitinsville. Village Cong. Ch. and Soc. 867.90\n Worcester. Mrs. Eliza A. H. Grosvenor, _for\n Student Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00\n Worcester. C. E. S. 1.00\n --------\n $5,076.57\n\n LEGACIES.\n\n Malden. Estate of Delcina E. Bailey 29.00\n North Brookfield. Estate of Miss Lydia C.\n Dodge, by Wm. P. Haskell, Ex. 515.00\n Saxonville. Estate of Henrietta M. Fuller 250.00\n Westborough. Estate of Jabez G. Fisher, by J.\n A. Fayerweather, Ex. 200.00\n Woburn. Estate of Dea. Thomas Richardson 47.50\n --------\n $6,118.07\n\n\n RHODE ISLAND. $111.52.\n\n Barrington. Cong. Ch. 64.93, and Sab. Sch.\n 22.43 87.36\n Kingston. Cong. Ch. 24.16\n\n\n CONNECTICUT, $2,531.88.\n\n Ansonia. J. H. Bartholomew, 25, \u201cFriends,\u201d by\n Rev. E. P. Payson, 13., _for Tillotson C. &\n N. Inst. Building_ 38.00\n Barkhamsted. Rev. J. B. Clarke 2.00\n Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. 15.20\n Bridgeport. Park St. Ch. and Soc. bal. to\n const. MISS MARY SWINERTON, L. M. 10.35\n Bridgeport. Edward Sterling, 5; \u201cTwo Friends,\u201d\n 2, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. Building_ 7.00\n Bristol. Ladies H. M. Soc. Bbl. of C., _for\n Tillotson C. & N. Inst._, 3, _for freight_ 3.00\n Canaan. Mrs. Mason Noble 7.00\n Clinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS.\n WILLIAM BUMPUS, L. M. 43.33\n Clinton. Miss E. C. Hull, 2., Mrs. W. D. H.,\n 1, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. (Land)_ 3.00\n Colchester. C. B. McCall 5.00\n Cornwall Bridge. Geo. H. Swift 10.00\n Danielsonville. 2 casks and 1 barrel of C.,\n _for Washington, D.C._\n Deep River. Cong. Ch. to const. JOSEPH B.\n BANNING, L. M. 30.35\n Eastford. Cong. Ch. 10.38\n East Hampton. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bell, val, 75; _for\n Tillotson, C. & N. Inst._\n East Hartford. First Ch. 21.24\n East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00\n East Woodstock. Mrs. H. L., 1.; Miss E. L., 1 2.00\n Falls Village. First Cong. Ch. 14.08\n Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 166.69\n Goshen. Mrs. Moses Lyman 5.00\n Greenwich. T. H. Delano 5.00\n Guilford. Daniel Hand 101.00\n Guilford. \u201cA Friend in Third Ch,\u201d _for Student\n Aid, Tillotson C & N. Inst._ 6.00\n Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00\n Hartford. \u201cA Friend,\u201d 300; Mrs. H. A. Perkins,\n 200; _for Tillotson, C. & N. Inst.\n (Building)_ 500.00\n Higganum. \u201cFriend\u201d 5.00\n Kensington. Cong. Ch. 12.00\n Litchfield. \u201cC. J.\u201d 8.00\n Long Ridge. Cong. Ch. 3.00\n Madison. Cong. Ch. 24.50\n Meriden. Center Cong. Ch. 71.00\n Meriden. Homer Curtis, 7 Doz. Knives, _for\n Tillotson C. & N. Inst._\n Milford. First Cong. Ch. 40.00\n Millington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00\n Milton. Cong. Ch. 6.00\n Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch. 19.73\n New Britain. First Ch. of Christ 51.62\n New Britain. A. N. Lewis, 10, _for Building_,\n \u201cFriends,\u201d 2, Miss Bush and \u201cFriend,\u201d 1.50,\n _for Land_, Mrs. I. N. Carleton, 2, _for\n Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 15.50\n New Hartford. North Cong. Ch. 22.33, Samuel\n Couch, 10 32.33\n New Hartford. Rev. F. H. Adams\u2019 Bible Class,\n _for Student Aid Fisk U._ 12.00\n New Haven. I. C. Benedict, 10; H. H. Strong,\n 10; Herbert Barnes, 10; Miss B., 1; Mrs. J. B.,\n 20c. _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.\n (Land)_, Miss Lucy Murray, 3, _for Tillotson\n C. & N. Inst. (Building)_ 34.20\n New Haven. Third Cong. Ch., 22, Mrs. Eunice M.\n Crane, 10 32.00\n New London. First Ch. 49.35\n New Milford. First Cong. Ch. 95.89\n Newington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.73\n North Guilford. A. E. Bartlett 11.75\n Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch. 100.00\n Norwich. Broadway Sab. Sch., 25 _for Student\n Aid, Atlanta U._, and 25 _for Tillotson C. &\n N. Inst. (Building)_ 50.00\n Norwalk. First Cong. Ch. 100.00\n North Stamford. E. S. Waterbury 2.00\n Poquonock. Cong. Ch. to const. REV. CHAS. H.\n PETTIBONE L. M. 50.00\n Putnam. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl. of goods, _for\n Woodville. Ga._\n Rockville. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. adl. _for\n John Brown Steamer_ 4.50\n Saybrook. Cong. Ch. 11.58\n Southport. Cong. Ch. 28.12\n Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.06\n Torringford. \u201cTwo Friends.\u201d 25.00\n Torrington. Young Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., Bbl of\n C. and 2 _for freight, for Talladega, Ala._ 2.00\n Washington. F. A. F. 1.00\n Washington. \u201cZ,\u201d _for Indian M._ 1.00\n Wauregan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.50\n Westport. Saugatuck Cong. Ch. 25.00\n Westport. E. W. Taylor, 50; Cong. Ch., 10;\n Jas. C. Hubbell, 10; Horace Staples, 6;\n Capt. Francis Sherwood, 5; S. B. Wakeman, 5;\n Mrs. M. R. R., 1; E. W., 1, _for Tillotson\n C. & N. Inst. Building_ 88.00\n West Haven. Mrs. Clarence E. Thompson, 5; Mrs.\n Emeline Smith, 10, _for Tillotson C. & N.\n Inst. Building_ 15.00\n Wethersfield. Ladies, _for Tillotson C. & N.\n Inst._ 28.50\n Windsor Locks. Young Ladies\u2019 Social Circle,\n 100; Cong. Sab. Sch., 100; Geo. P. Clark, 5,\n _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. Building_ 205.00\n Winsted. First Cong. Ch. 35.15\n Woodbridge. First Cong. Ch. 14.00\n Woodstock. First Cong. Ch., bal. to const.\n Prof. WILLIAM E. BUNTEN, L. M. 20.25\n\n\n NEW YORK, $838.69.\n\n Alfred Centre. Mrs. J. F. Kenyon 5.00\n Aquebogue. Cong. Ch. 17.25\n Brooklyn. Plymouth Ch., 381.34; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 10 391.34\n Brooklyn. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Washington, D.C._ 5.00\n Brooklyn. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch., Box of\n Christmas Gifts, _for Marion, Ala._\n Camden. \u201cA Friend\u201d 1.00\n Chateaugay. Joseph Shaw 5.00\n Chesterfield. Mrs. M. A. Higby 1.50\n Cincinnatus. Union Service Coll. 15.00\n Coxsackie. Rev. M. Lusk 5.00\n Durham. Hannah Ingraham 2.50\n Ellenville. Mrs. M. B. Holt 6.00\n Ellington. Mrs. H. B. Rice, 10; Mrs. E. Rice, 4 14.00\n Elizabethtown. Rev. W. T. Herrick 5.00\n Fairport. First Cong. Ch. 100.00\n Galway. Delia C. Davis, _for Atlanta U._ 5.00\n Hartford. Miss H. E. Bacon 1.00\n Homer. Mrs. Augusta Arnold, 2.50; F. F. Pratt,\n 2 4.50\n Locust Valley. Mrs. Sarah Palmer (1. of which\n _for Lady Missionary, Savannah, Ga._) 6.00\n McGrawville. \u201cA Friend\u201d 5.00\n New Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00\n New York. \u201cCarrie T.,\u201d _for Straight U._ 50.00\n New York. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, to const. ANNA\n M. CAHILL L. M. 30.00\n New York. \u201cA Friend.\u201d Assortment of\n Carpenter\u2019s Tools, val. 200, _for Sch. of\n Carpentry, Atlanta U._; Dewey Mfg. Co.,\n Combination Saw with Lathe, val. 8, _for\n Ind. Dept., Atlanta U._\n Oriskany. Albert Halsey, 10; Mrs. E. D.\n Porter, 2 12.00\n Pekin. Abigail Peck 10 00\n Prattham. Edward Halsey 2.00\n Rome. John B. Jervis 25.00\n Sag Harbor. Chas. N. Brown, to const. MISS\n ELLA W. BROWN L. M. 30.00\n Saratoga Springs. Nathan Hickok 1.50\n Smyrna. Sab. Sch. Miss\u2019y Soc. of First Cong.\n Ch., to const. COURTNEY E. FERRIS and LYNN\n D. WILLCOX L. Ms. 60.00\n Tarrytown. Dr. A. Smith 5.00\n Ticonderoga. Rev. Henry P. Bake 5.00\n Tompkinsville. Mrs. Maria Snyder 2.00\n Troy. Mary F. Cushman, 1.50; Margaret J.\n Cushman, 1.50 3.00\n West Camden. N. C. 0.50\n West Winfield. Cong. Ch., 31, incorrectly ack.\n in the December number from Richfield\n Springs.\n Westmoreland. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.60\n\n\n NEW JERSEY, $163.59.\n\n Bernardsville. Jos. L. Roberts 40.00\n Colt\u2019s Neck. Reformed Ch. 6.17\n East Orange. Trin. Cong. Ch. 132.17\n Jersey City. First Cong. Ch. 59.25\n Lakewood. Rev. Geo. L. Hovey 5.00\n Newfield. Rev. Chas. Willey 15.00\n Paterson. Mrs. A. C. W. 1.00\n Raritan. Miss S. Provost 5.00\n\n\n PENNSYLVANIA, $1,111.00.\n\n Espyville. Mrs. Theodate Linn 2.00\n Hyde Park. Plymouth Cong. Ch., Sab. Sch. and\n Band of Hope, 1 ea., _for John Brown Steamer_ 3.00\n Lynn. Mrs. S. W. Smith 2.00\n Pittsburgh. B. Preston 50.00\n Troy. Chas. C. Paine 1,050.00\n West Alexander. John McCoy 4.00\n\n\n OHIO, $565.71.\n\n Ashland. Mrs. Eliza Thompson 2.28\n Bellefontaine. John Lindsay, _for John Brown\n Steamer_ 5.00\n Brownhelm. Cong. Ch. 7.00\n Castalia. Mrs. I. W. S. 1.00\n Chagrin Falls. First Cong. Ch. 21.30\n Cincinnati. Sab. Sch. of Vine St. Cong. Ch.,\n _for John Brown Steamer_ 5.40\n Cincinnati. Columbia Cong. Ch., _for Tillotson\n C. and N. Inst._ 13.00\n Claridon. L. T. Wilmot 10.00\n Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Ch., 124.33, to\n const. MRS. JULIA A. WELLMAN, MRS. EMMA L.\n KILBOURN and MRS. J. E. SWIFT L. Ms.; Chas\n E. Webster, 9 133.33\n Eaton. M. O. 0.50\n Freedom. Cong. Ch. 8.00\n Greenfield. Wm. Smith 4.00\n Huntington. Joseph T. Haskell 10.00\n Huntsburgh. Quartus Phelps, 3; Mrs. R. S., 1;\n Miss V. R. P., _for Indian M._ 5.00\n Medina. First Cong. Ch. 4.00\n North Benton. Margaret J. Hartzell 1.50\n Painesville. Miss L. P. Bentley, 10; C. C. J.,\n 1, _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst. (Land)_ 11.00\n Pittsfield. Cong. Ch. 6.30\n Ruggles. Cong. Ch. 19.50\n Saybrook. Wm. C. Sexton 1.50\n South Ridge. U. H. 0.50\n Thomastown. Welsh Cong. Ch. 10.00\n Toledo. Central Cong. Ch. 35.60\n -------\n $315.71\n\n LEGACY.\n\n Cleveland. Estate of Brewster Pelton. 250.00\n -------\n $565.71\n\n\n ILLINOIS. $1,882.90.\n\n Alton. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l) 1.00\n Chicago. First Cong. Ch. (in part) 113.43\n Chicago. H. M. Hooper, 25: Mr. and Mrs. Frank\n Hayes, 12.50; John Dole, 12.50; _for Student\n Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00\n Chicago. \u201cFriend,\u201d 3; Mrs. W. C. K., 1; _for\n Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._ 4.00\n Chicago. South Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls. of C., _for\n Washington, D.C._\n Cobden. E. W. T. 0.50\n Dover. Cong. Ch. 42.00\n Elgin. Cong. Ch. 28.06\n Evanston. J. M. Williams, _for Student Aid,\n Fisk U._ 100.00\n Farmington. Phineas Chapman 50.00\n Farm Ridge. Rev. J. P. Hiester, _for the\n Chinese_ 5.00\n Geneseo. First Cong. Ch. 110.00\n Greenville. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n Aid, Fisk U._ 22.10\n Highland Park. L. S. Bingham 5.00\n Jacksonville. Cong. Ch. 37.05\n Lockport. First Cong. Ch. 13.20\n Malden. Cong. Ch. 10.70\n Millburn. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n Missionary, Mobile, Ala._ 30.00\n Ottawa. Cong. Ch. 60.00\n Payson. J. K. Scarborough, 62, to const. MISS\n NORA HAMPTON and MISS ELLEN MARIA GRUBB, L.\n Ms.; Cong. Sab. Sch., 20; Cong. Ch. 15 97.00\n Peru. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00\n Paxton. \u201cFriends,\u201d 8.51; Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n 1.49, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00\n Rochelle. W. H. Holcomb. Jr., 30; W. H.\n Holcomb, Sr., 1.50 31.50\n Rosemond. Cong. Ch. 19.00\n Tonica. \u201cV. G. L.\u201d 5.00\n Toulon. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid.\n Fisk U._ 12.50\n Turner. Mrs. Currier 2.50\n Waukegan. Young Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc. 10.00\n Woodstock. Cong. Ch. 3.36\n -------\n $882.90\n LEGACY.\n\n Hinsdale. Estate of Alanson P. Kennedy, by\n Mrs. Sarah S. Kennedy, Executrix, _for\n Orphan Students_ $1,000.00\n --------\n $1,822.90\n\n\n INDIANA, $1.00.\n\n Michigan City. \u201cGolden Links Soc.,\u201d First\n Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 1.00\n\n\n MICHIGAN, $501.10.\n\n Battle Creek. \u201cA Friend,\u201d 5; Miss S. A. G., 1 6.00\n Church\u2019s Corners. A. W. Douglass, 5; C.\n Clement, 5; Jas. Robbins, 2; T. R., 1; Dea.\n W., 1: Mrs. J. W., 1; Others, 1 16.00\n Clio. Cong. Ch. 4.68\n Detroit. Mrs. C. H. Ladd 10.00\n Dowagiac. Cong. Ch. 14.42\n Greenville. Cong. Ch. 50.00\n Homer. Mrs. C. C. Evarts 3.00\n Jackson. Mrs. R. M. Bennett 1.50\n Kalamazoo. First Cong. Ch., to const. MISS\n MARY A. DEAN, MRS. H. E. MONTAGUE, DEA.\n DAVID TURNBULL, MISS ALICE EVERETT and MISS\n ALICE L. SABIN L. Ms. 166.56\n Milford. Ansley A. Arms and Others, 30, to\n const. MRS. MARY B. ARMS L. M.; Mrs. E. G., 1 31.00\n Olivet. Cong. Ch. 95.70\n Pontiac. Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.45\n Romeo. Miss E. B. Dickinson 50.00\n Saint Clair. Cong. Ch. 35.54\n Shelby. Cong. Ch. 13.25\n Warren. C. S. B. 1.00\n\n\n IOWA, $114.99.\n\n Creston. Pilgrim Parish, Ladies\u2019 Miss. Soc.,\n _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 25.00\n Denmark. Cong. Ch. 40.00\n Grinnell. \u201cH. L.,\u201d _for destitute colored\n people, Mobile, Ala._ 5.00\n Lewis. Cong. Ch. 16.69\n McGregor. Young Ladies\u2019 Mission Band of Cong.\n Ch. _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst.\n (Building)_ 10.00\n Shenandoah. Cong. Ch. 8.30\n Winthrop. Cong. Ch. 10.00\n\n\n WISCONSIN, $205.17.\n\n Appleton. Mrs. O. Smith, _for Student Aid,\n Fisk U._ 10.00\n Beloit. Second Cong. Ch., 39.36 \u201cA Friend,\u201d 10 49.36\n Depere. Cong. Ch. 16.89\n Fond du Lac. Cong. Ch. 25.00\n Fort Howard. Rev. L. C. C., _for Student Aid,\n Fisk U._ 1.00\n New London. Cong. Ch., Thanksgiving Col. _for\n Tillotson C. and N. Inst._ 2.30\n Milwaukee. Grand Av. Cong. Ch. 46.39\n Racine. Welch Cong. Ch. 5.19\n Ripon. Cong. Ch. ad\u2019l 9.04\n Ripon. Dea. Harwood, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00\n Waupun. Cong. Ch., 20; Cong. Sab. Sch., 15 35.00\n\n\n KANSAS, $31.00.\n\n Manhattan. Mrs. Mary Parker 10.00\n Meriden. J. Rutty and Family 10.00\n Topeka. Miss Sue Stephenson, 5; Miss S., 1;\n Miss M. C., 1; Mrs. B., 1, _for Student Aid,\n Straight U._ 8.00\n Wellsville. Cong. Ch. 3.00\n\n\n MISSOURI, $14.50.\n\n Sedalia. Cong. Ch. 14.50\n\n\n MINNESOTA, $408.90.\n\n Austin. Mrs. S. C. Bacon 10.00\n Faribault. \u201cHelping Hands,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n Tougaloo U._ 25.00\n Mantorville. First Cong. Ch. 18.31\n Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., 52.57; Second Cong.\n Ch. 4.50 57.07\n Minneapolis. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 32.76\n Northfield. First Cong. Ch. (_special_) 150.00\n Northfield. Cong. Ch. 102.46\n Zumbrota. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n Wilmington, N.C._ 9.40\n Zumbrota. \u201cFriends,\u201d 2 Bbls. C., 3.99 _for\n Freight, for Wilmington, N.C._ 3.90\n\n\n NEBRASKA, $21.00.\n\n Crete. Rev. D. B. P., _for Tillotson C. & N.\n Inst. (Land)_ 1.00\n Exeter. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc. 15.00\n Exeter. \u201cThe Cheerful Givers,\u201d by Austin P.\n Dean, Treas., _for John Brown Steamer_ 5.00\n\n\n DAKOTA, $14.50.\n\n Chamberlain. Cong. Ch. 5.00\n Jamestown. Mrs. M. S. Wells 9.50\n\n\n COLORADO, $41.00.\n\n Denver. First Cong. Ch. 40.00\n South Pueblo. Cong. Ch. 1.00\n\n\n CALIFORNIA, $10.00.\n\n Santa Cruz. Pliny Fay 10.00\n\n\n WASHINGTON TER., $5.40.\n\n S\u2019kokomish. Cong. Ch. 5.40\n\n\n MARYLAND, $5.00.\n\n Federalsburgh. Sarah A. Beals 5.00\n\n\n DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $3.25.\n\n Washington. Lincoln Memorial Ch. 2.25\n Washington. \u201cWilling Workers of Lincoln\n Mission,\u201d _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 1.00\n\n\n KENTUCKY, $178.25.\n\n Lexington. Tuition 178.25\n\n\n TENNESSEE, $651.25.\n\n Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition 234.15\n Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition 407.10\n Nashville. Rev. F. A. Chase 10.00\n\n\n NORTH CAROLINA, $253.85.\n\n Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition 248.85\n Wilmington. Cong. Ch., _for Tillotson C. & N.\n Inst. Building_ 5.00\n\n\n SOUTH CAROLINA, $354.75.\n\n Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition 344.75\n Charleston. Plymouth Ch. 10.00\n\n\n GEORGIA, $890.53.\n\n Atlanta. Storr\u2019s Sch., Tuition, 470.26; Rent, 6 476.26\n Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition, 190.45; Rent, 3;\n First Cong. Ch., 30 223.45\n Macon. Cong. Ch. 10.00\n Marietta. \u201cThe Penny Babies,\u201d by Papa Penny 1.00\n McIntosh. Tuition 8.34\n Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 129.40; Rent,\n 17; Cong. Ch., 25.08 171.48\n\n\n ALABAMA, $59.75.\n\n Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition 47.00\n Marion. Cong. Ch., 7; Tuition, 5.75 12.75\n\n\n FLORIDA, $10.20.\n\n Daytona. Cong. Ch. 10.20\n\n\n MISSISSIPPI, $418.24.\n\n Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, 273.14; Rent,\n 145.10 418.24\n\n\n LOUISIANA, $242.50.\n\n New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition 242.50\n\n\n TEXAS, $199.35.\n\n Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst. Tuition,\n 190.85; Rent, 2.50 193.35\n Corpus Christi. Cong. Ch. 4.00\n Luling. Quinton B. Neale, M.D. 2.00\n\n\n INCOMES, $1,096.50.\n\n Theological Fund, _for Howard U._ 500.00\n Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 261.50\n Graves\u2019 Library Fund, _for Atlanta U._ 150.00\n General Endowment Fund 50.00\n Dike Fund, _for Straight U._ 50.00\n Plumb Scholarship Fund, _for Fisk U._ 50.00\n Town Bonds, Greenwich, N.Y., _for Straight U._ 35.00\n\n\n CANADA, $10.00.\n\n Yorkville. Rev. Edward Ebbs 10.00\n ----------\n Total $20,471.06\n Total from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 $55,015.42\n ==========\n\n * * * * *\n\n FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n Subscriptions 141.55\n\n * * * * *\n\n FOR ENDOWMENT FUND.\n\n Chicago, Ill. Tuthill King, _for Atlanta U._ 5,000.00\n\n H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,\n 56 Reade St., N.Y.\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n\n\n BRAIN AND NERVE FOOD. 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Impassable by man or beast.\n\nNo other Fence Material so easily handled by small proprietors and\ntenants, or large planters in the South.\n\nShipped on spools containing 100 pounds, or eighty rods of Fencing.\nCan be kept on the Reel for transient uses.\n\n CHEAPEST, BEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE OF FENCES.\n\nSend for Illustrative Pamphlets and Circulars, as above.\n\n\n * * * * *\n\n\n COMPARATIVE WORTH OF BAKING POWDERS.\n\n\n =ROYAL= (Absolutely Pure) XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\n =GRANT\u2019S= (Alum Powder)[A] XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\n =RUMFORD\u2019S= (Phosphate), when fresh XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\n =HANFORD\u2019S=, when fresh XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\n =REDHEAD\u2019S= XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\n =CHARM= (Alum Powder)[A] XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\n =AMAZON= (Alum Powder)[A] XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\n =CLEVELAND\u2019S= (Short weight, \u00be oz.) XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\n =PIONEER= (San Francisco) XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\n =CZAR= XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\n =DR. PRICE\u2019S= XXXXXXXXXXXXXX\n =SNOW FLAKE= (Groff\u2019s, St. Paul) XXXXXXXXXXXX\n =LEWIS\u2019= XXXXXXXXXX\n =CONGRESS= XXXXXXXXX\n =HECKER\u2019S= XXXXXXX\n =GILLET\u2019S= XXXXX\n =HANFORD\u2019S=, when not fresh XXXXX\n =C. E. ANDREWS & CO.= (Contains alum) XXX\n (Milwaukee.) \u201cRegal.\u201d[A]\n =BULK= (Powder sold loose) XXX\n =RUMFORD\u2019S=, when not fresh XX\n\n\n Reports of Government Chemists as to Purity and Wholesomeness of\n the Royal Baking Powder.\n\n \u201cI have tested a package of Royal Baking Powder, which I\n purchased in the open market, and find it composed of pure\n and wholesome ingredients. It is a cream of tartar powder of\n a high degree of merit, and does not contain either alum or\n phosphates, or other injurious substances.\n\n \u201cE. G. LOVE, Ph.D.\u201d\n\n \u201cIt is a scientific fact that the Royal Baking Powder is\n absolutely pure.\n\n \u201cH. A. MOTT, Ph.D.\u201d\n\n \u201cI have examined a package of Royal Baking Powder, purchased by\n myself in the market. I find it entirely free from alum, terra\n alba, or any other injurious substance.\n\n \u201cHENRY MORTON, Ph.D.,\n President of Stevens Institute of Technology.\u201d\n\n \u201cI have analyzed a package of Royal Baking Powder. The\n materials of which it is composed are pure and wholesome.\n\n \u201cS. DANA HAYES, State Assayer, Mass.\u201d\n\n \u201cJune 23, 1882.\u2014We have made a careful analytical test of Royal\n Baking Powder, purchased by ourselves in the open market here,\n and in the original package. We find it to be a cream of tartar\n powder of the highest degree of strength, containing nothing\n but pure, wholesome, and useful ingredients.\n\n \u201cJUAN H. WRIGHT, M.D.,} Analytical Chemists, St. Louis.\n ALBERT MERRELL, M.D.,}\u201d\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe Royal Baking Powder received the highest award over all\ncompetitors at the Vienna World\u2019s Exposition, 1873; at the\nCentennial, Philadelphia, 1876; at the American Institute, and at\nState Fairs throughout the country.\n\nNo other article of human food has ever received such high,\nemphatic, and universal indorsement from eminent chemists,\nphysicians, scientists, and Boards of Health all over the world.\n\nNOTE.\u2014The above DIAGRAM illustrates the comparative worth of\nvarious Baking Powders, as shown by Chemical Analysis and\nexperiments made by Professor Schedler. A one pound can of each\npowder was taken, the total leavening power or volume in each can\ncalculated, the result being as indicated in the above diagram.\nThis practical test for worth by Professor Schedler only proves\nwhat every observant consumer of the Royal Baking Powder knows\nby experience, that, while it costs a few cents per pound more\nthan the ordinary kinds, it is far more economical, and, besides,\naffords the advantage of better work.\n\nA single trial of the Royal Baking Powder will convince any\nfair-minded person of these facts.\n\nFOOTNOTE:\n\n[A] While the diagram shows some of the alum powders to be of a\nhigher degree of strength than other powders ranked below them, it\nis not to be taken as indicating that they have any value. All alum\npowders, no matter how high their strength, are to be avoided as\ndangerous.\n\n\nATKIN & PROUT, Printers, 12 Barclay St., New York.\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. Arithmetic errors in the receipts have\nbeen retained as printed.\n\nDitto marks replaced with the text they represent to facilitate\neBook alignment.\n\nImages have been moved outside of paragraphs, resulting in page\nnumbers that are slightly off.\n\nCorrected \u201cneigborhood\u201d to \u201cneighborhood\u201d on page 50. (bought in\nthe neighborhood)\n\n\u201cTilotson\u201d changed to \u201cTillotson\u201d in the Guilford entry on page 59.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 37, No. 2, February, 1883","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":18373}