{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_60476/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_60476","id":"gutenberg_60476","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60476","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: MARCH, 1883.\n\nVOL. XXXVII.\n\nNO. 3.\n\nThe American Missionary]\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\n                                                         PAGE.\n\n    FINANCIAL\u2014COST OF LADY MISSIONARIES                     65\n    PARAGRAPHS                                              66\n    A PERMANENT NECESSITY                                   67\n    GENERAL NOTES                                           68\n    BENEFACTIONS                                            70\n    CONNECTICUT CONVENTIONS\u2014ITEMS FROM THE FIELD            71\n\n\n  THE SOUTH.\n\n    LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL (with cut)                        72\n    A WEEK\u2019S WORK BY LADY MISSIONARIES                      73\n      Selma, Ala.; Savannah, Ga.; Atlanta,\n      Ga.; Raleigh, N.C.; Montgomery, Ala.;\n      New Orleans, La., Washington, D.C.\n    VANTAGE GROUND NEEDED BY STUDENTS                       80\n    CUT OF LADIES\u2019 HALL, TOUGALOO, MISS.                    81\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    WORK AT S\u2019KOKOMISH, W.T.                                83\n    INDIANS WATCHING A TRAIN (cut)                          85\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    COMITY                                                  86\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    LADY AGNES HAMILTON                                     88\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                  89\n\n\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,\nin trust, to pay the same in \u2014\u2014 days after my decease to the\nperson who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the\n\u2018American Missionary Association\u2019 of New York City, to be applied,\nunder the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association,\nto its charitable uses and purposes.\u201d The Will should be attested\nby three witnesses.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\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\nor 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.      MARCH, 1883.      No. 3.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOur receipts for the first four months of the present fiscal year,\nending Jan. 31, 1883, amounted to $85,555.11, an increase of\n$1,661.72 over the amount received for the corresponding months of\nthe previous year. The legacies, however, this year, have amounted\nto $25,141.83, against $9,191.72 for the year before, showing a\nfalling off in collections and donations of $14,288.39. We desire,\ntherefore, to remind our readers that the enlargement so greatly\nneeded and so deeply felt by the friends who attended our last\nannual meeting and reviewed the work of the Association cannot be\naccomplished unless the receipts are greatly increased.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe devote considerable space in this issue to a report of a week\u2019s\nwork by our lady missionaries. We believe that what they are doing\nis vital to the welfare of the families from which many of our\nstudents come, and wish to commend the work and workers to the\nprayers and sympathies of the patrons of this Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCOST OF LADY MISSIONARIES.\n\nWe sincerely hope that those who read the record of a Week\u2019s Work\nby our lady missionaries will carefully consider the value of these\nlabors, and the importance of the question as to their duty in\naiding to supply the vast want that exists at the South for this\nkind of Christian service. It takes four hundred and fifty dollars\nto provide for a lady missionary for one year, including traveling\nexpenses, board and a moderate salary.\n\nAre there not some societies of ladies who will pledge us the\namount needful, and by so doing have a missionary of their own\nin the field? Are there not individuals who will promise as much\nfor the same purpose? We shall be most happy to answer inquiries\nrelating to details.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe pastor at Hampton writes: \u201cEvery night for the last two weeks\nwe have been having meetings for prayer, and the whole school has\nbeen deeply moved. Many have already confessed their love for\nChrist, and there are many now seeking Him. General Armstrong and\nall the teachers are thoroughly in earnest in the matter. The\nGeneral made a most earnest appeal to the students last evening, in\nwhich he said that nothing like it had been known in the history of\nthe school.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe have received intelligence from Rev. D. K. Flickinger, D.D., who\nhas made in Liverpool, London and Glasgow preliminary inquiries\nrelating to the John Brown steamer. It was his purpose on reaching\nSierra Leone to learn definitely as to the necessary capacity of\nthe boat for the use of the mission. He hoped also to be able to\nconclude contract with the Governor of Sierra Leone for carrying\nmails and for doing other business which would be a source of\nincome to the mission without interfering with its special work.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nRev. J. M. Hall writes from the Good Hope Station of a prosperous\nyear\u2019s work among the Mendi and Sherbro people. He says: \u201cOne year\nago yesterday I took charge of the spiritual work at this station.\nWe have had 48 eleven o\u2019clock Sabbath services, 48 Sabbath night\nservices, 40 Wednesday night services, 360 early morning six\no\u2019clock services, not including the class and children\u2019s Friday\nafternoon services. I have received eight persons into the church,\nfive on profession of faith in Christ, have baptized 25 children,\nand married one couple. I have traveled two thousand miles in\nsearch of medical treatment and in the interest of the mission,\nnotwithstanding that I have been confined to my bed and room\ntwenty-two times with this most dreadful fever. We trust that we\nshall by the grace of God be enabled to do more the next year if\npermitted to live. Our schools, both Sabbath and day, have been\nwell attended. The work is certainly a great one and I like it more\nand more every day.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe _Baptist Home Mission Monthly_ makes its appearance with\nenlarged form and new dress. Its first cover page is tastefully\nembellished to indicate the scope of work carried on by the\nBaptist Home Mission Society. Its twenty-four pages are packed\nwith pertinent paragraphs, passages of Scripture, personals,\npictures, poetry, there being over one hundred separate articles,\nitems, etc., etc. It is edited with the pen, quotation marks being\nparticularly scarce. Care, literary skill and discernment have been\nused in the selection and arrangement of topics, and wide range\nhas been given in the discussion of matters relating to the world\nof missions. The work expended on this publication will stimulate\nother societies in providing missionary literature abreast with\nthe demands of the age. We extend to our Baptist brethren our\ngratulations.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA PERMANENT NECESSITY.\n\nTemporary evils call for temporary agencies and remedies, but\npermanent conditions of society require permanent and adequate\nprovisions to meet these demands. The confident prediction that the\nfreedman would rapidly fade away before the superior white races,\nsuggested to the humane that he should be made comfortable in\nsome sort of field hospital while he lingered, and made ready, if\npossible, for a speedy departure to a more congenial world, where\nperhaps the conditions of life would not be so unfavorable for his\ncontinued existence.\n\nThe figures given by the unsentimental census-taker showing that\nduring the past decade there has been an increase of about 34 per\ncent. of this race in our population does not indicate that the\nblack belt stretching along our Southern horizon is likely to\nfade away. The negro is here to stay, and in adjusting him to our\nnatural life we are faced by a permanent, not a temporary problem.\n\nWe must either take counsel of the Egyptians and \u201cdeal wisely\u201d\nwith this people and so prevent their increase, or broadly and\ncomprehensively deal with the question of fitting them for a\nlarge and permanent place as an integral part and most important\nfactor of our Republic. If we deal wisely with them we must bear\nin mind first of all that they are here and will remain here, and\ntheir character and condition will enter largely into that of our\nnational life and character.\n\nIt is not beyond the limits of modest truth to say that the victory\nwhich has been gained over Southern prejudices against the free\ncommon school systems was gained, not by the political conventions\nwhich established them by constitutional provisions, but by the\nmissionary training-schools and the teachers sent out by them; but\nthe fact that these are established does not supersede a necessity\nfor the schools which gained this victory. An intelligent gentleman\nwho was appealed to for aid in the endowment of one of these\nsaid: \u201cPrivate charity has demonstrated the possibility and value\nof negro education, but it is a work for which it is altogether\ninadequate. It must be done in the South as in the North by the\nStates themselves. These rapidly increasing millions must be, and\ncan be, cared for alone in schools sustained by government. Your\nmissionary, pioneer, experimental work has been done so wisely\nand so well that its success has superseded the necessity of its\ncontinuance.\u201d\n\nThe answer to this is of course not far to seek. Yale and Harvard\ndid not grow out of the common school systems of Massachusetts and\nConnecticut, but made these possible and efficient by supplying the\nprime conditions of a good school-trained teachers. These colleges\nwere founded not by the State, but by private philanthropy, as all\nsuch schools have been, for on no theory which has been accepted\nas to the functions of government can such be built by the State.\nThe primary and preparatory work which has been done by the schools\nof the A. M. A. will indeed be remitted, more and more, to the\ncommon schools of the States, but there will always be a demand\nand a necessity for fully endowed colleges and universities for\nthe higher education of the teachers and leaders of this people;\nand neither the highest efficiency of the public school, nor the\nfullest development of such universities as Vanderbilt and similar\nschools for the white race, will lessen the need of such schools as\nFisk and Atlanta Universities. If the day shall ever come, as come\nit certainly will, when these schools for whites shall strike out\nthe word white, and admit all who seek their advantages, it will\ncome as the result of a work which they are not doing now.\n\nThe prejudice which now excludes the negro will yield only to\nestablished facts, but will not, from the nature of the case,\ncreate these facts. When educated negroes in all the public\ncallings of life shall have proved \u201cthat a man is a man for all\nthat,\u201d that what entitles him to respect and honor lies deeper\nthan the color of his skin, and is not to be determined at all by\nits peculiar shade, so that separate schools will not be demanded\nfor him, he will come in such numbers that those now established\nfor him will be urgently needed for the accommodation of students,\nregardless of color. Thus are we led by our just and reasonable\nviews to the conclusion that the schools for higher training of\nthe negro, established by the A. M. A. and kindred societies, are\ndemanded for a permanent work most vitally related to all that\nis dear to us as Christians and patriots, and that permanent and\nadequate endowments for them must be made if these interests are to\nbe conserved.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n\u2014On Nov. 12th, Bishop Crowther, while at Sierra Leone, on his way\nback to the Niger, admitted three Africans to deacon\u2019s orders. Gov.\nHavelock and other Europeans were present, and more than eighteen\nhundred native Christians.\n\n\u2014The C.M.S. Committee has presented a memorial to Lord Granville\non the question of slavery and the slave-trade in Egypt. Pressure\nis brought to bear upon the Government not to miss the present\nopportunity of using the influence and power of England to abolish\nslavery itself, and so put a stop to the slave-trade.\n\n\u2014The River Gambia Trading Company has been incorporated in London\nwith a capital of $750,000.\n\n\u2014A new station has been founded among the Angoni by Dr. Laws and\nMr. Koyi, of the Livingstonia Mission.\n\n\u2014The gross weight of diamonds passed through the post-office of\nKimberley, South Africa, in 1880, was 1,440 pounds, estimated at\n$16,839,485.\n\n\u2014Captain Burton and Commander Cameron, on their return from the\nWest African Gold Fields, reported that the wealth of the land was\nprodigious. \u201cGold dust is found by native women from the sands of\nthe seashore. Gold spangles glitter after showers in the streets\nof Azim. Gold is yielded by the lumps of yellow swish that rivet\nthe wattle walls of hut and hovel. Our washings range from half an\nounce to four ounces per ton.\u201d\n\n\u2014In 1880, the number of Protestant communicants in Africa,\naccording to Dr. Behm, was 122,470. The number composing the\ncommunities in the midst of which these were found was 506,966.\nThirty-four religious societies were prosecuting the work\nrepresented in these communities.\n\n\u2014Dr. Blyden, President of Liberia College, reports increasing\nprosperity among the immigrants who have gone from this country.\nThe commercial interests of Liberia are indicated by the fact that\none vessel, the bark Monrovia, brought 150,000 pounds of coffee to\nNew York on a recent trip.\n\n\u2014The last report from the missionaries of Tabora marks great\nprogress in the transportation of letters. The mails have become\nmore regular, nothing is lost on the route, and the roads are\nsafer. The Wanyamouesis mounted guides are very capable, and there\nis this advantage in employing them that on the return trip, going\nback to their homes, they delay less than the other natives. The\nstation of Ouyoug has met with great misfortune in the loss of Dr.\nSouthon, who, while filling the place of missionary, has rendered\ngreat service as a physician to the population.\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\u2014Red Cloud has paid a visit to Hampton, where he has several\nchildren at school.\n\n\u2014Sec. Teller has set apart a portion of the Turtle Mountain\nreservation for the Chippewa Indians.\n\n\u2014It is reported that ex-Congressman Phillips, of Kansas, is paid\n$4,000 a year by the Cherokee Indians to look after their interests\nin Washington.\n\n\u2014The Commissioner of Indian Affairs reports that, exclusive of the\nfive civilized tribes, there are 101 day schools for Indians, five\nless than last year.\n\n\u2014In the report of Dr. Means, at Portland, he asserts that, \u201cIn\nproportion to the aid and means employed, no missions to the\nheathen since the Apostolic age have been more successful than\nthose to the American Aborigines.\u201d\n\n\u2014A Quaker and his wife who have labored for seven years among\nthe Modoc Indians, are reported to have transformed them into\nwell-mannered and well-dressed people. They own nice farms, and,\nfor the most part, have connected themselves with the Society of\nFriends.\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u2014A Baptist preacher in Portland, Oregon, named Fung Chak, reports\na church of 65 Chinese converts.\n\n\u2014During the first three months after the anti-Chinese law went\ninto operation, 3,849 Chinese departed from the Pacific coast, and\nonly 169 arrived.\n\n\u2014The Presbyterian Board has purchased a large and valuable\nbuilding, in San Francisco, at a cost of $22,500, for a Chinese\nMission.\n\n\u2014Mr. Yung Wing, so well known for his efforts in establishing a\nschool for the Chinese in Hartford, Conn., has been appointed chief\nmagistrate of the city of Shanghai.\n\n\u2014The British and Foreign Bible Society entered China in 1843, and\nhas agents at Shanghai, operating chiefly through the missionaries\nof the different societies.\n\n\u2014A Chinese Sunday-school was opened in Farwell Hall, Chicago,\nin 1878. The number of regular attendants at the present time is\nbetween fifty and sixty. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings,\nsecular instruction is given them. The school is under the auspices\nof the Y. M. C. A.\n\n\n\u2014Soon after the American Board, in response to the suggestion\nof the A. M. A., decided to open a mission at Hong Kong, a\nThanksgiving offering, amounting to $114, was made by Miss Harriet\nCarter\u2019s Chinese Sunday-school, Mount Vernon Church, Boston. The\nmoney was paid over to the treasury of the Am. Board.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nDickinson College has received $10,000 from Rev. D. H. Carroll, D.D.\n\nMrs. Elizabeth Hazzard, of Newport, R.I., left a legacy of $1,000\nto the Carlisle Indian School.\n\nThe Pope of Rome has subscribed $600 to the College of Propaganda,\nat Alexandria, Egypt.\n\nThe class of \u201947 has given $500 to the Mount Holyoke Female\nSeminary for the adornment of the chapel of that institution.\n\nA wealthy American of St. Petersburg is reported to have given\n$250,000 to found a college for his countrymen at Erzroom, Turkey.\n\nJohn Wells Hallenhock, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., has given $50,000 to\nLafayette College to endow the chair of the President.\n\nThe late S. R. Bearce left $2,000 to the Maine Wesleyan Seminary,\nthe income to be expended in assisting worthy young men in studying\nfor the ministry.\n\nJames Langlin, of Pittsburgh, Pa., gave by will $15,000 to the\nPennsylvania Female College; $10,000 to the Western Theological\nSeminary, and $5,000 to the Western University.\n\n_The increase of the illiteracy at the South during the last decade\nwas appalling. Every teacher educated in our institutions, however,\nlabored to overcome it. If a sufficient number of such were\nprepared for the work, the illiteracy would virtually disappear in\na generation. Where else is there greater claims for endowments\nthan in the collegiate and normal schools established by this\nAssociation for this object?_\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Connecticut Conventions mentioned in our last issue will be\ncontinued in March at the following places: Tuesday, the 6th,\n1st Church, Guilford, morning and afternoon; Wednesday, the\n7th, 1st Church, Meriden, afternoon and evening; Thursday, the\n8th, Hartford, 4th Church, afternoon and evening; Tuesday, the\n27th, East Hartford, morning and afternoon; Wednesday, the 28th,\nWillimantic, morning and afternoon; Thursday, the 29th, Plainville,\nmorning and afternoon.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\nAUGUSTA, Ga.\u2014On the 23d of February a council was to be convened\nat this city to organize a church.\n\nTECUMSEH, Ala.\u2014Rev. Milus Harris has taken up the work of teacher\nand preacher at this place; the Tecumseh Iron Co., by the manager,\nGen. Willard Warner, having built a home for the mission and for\nthe minister, is also paying one-half of the salary.\n\nGOLIAD, Texas.\u2014Rev. J. J. Benson, of Orangeburg, S.C., has been\ntransferred to the church of this place, Rev. B. C. Church having\nretired from the pastorate.\n\nLOUISVILLE, Ky.\u2014The Association having helped the Plymouth\nChurch\u2014Rev. J. D. Smith, pastor\u2014to purchase the house of worship\nof the East Baptist Church (white), it was to be re-opened with\ndedicatory services on Sabbath, the 18th of February, Rev. B. A.\nImes and W. A. Sinclair and the Field Superintendent assisting and\nremaining over for additional service.\n\nBIRMINGHAM, Ala.\u2014Following two preliminary visits of the Field\nSuperintendent, a council, on the 2d of February, organized a\nchurch of a dozen members, with more to follow. Prof. G. W. Andrews\nwas Moderator, and Rev. C. B. Curtis, Scribe. Sermon by Rev. J.\nR. Sims, right hand by Rev. H. P. Williams, address by Rev. A. W.\nCurtis, prayer by Rev. S. G. Norcross. Rev. A. J. Headen, who had\nbeen chosen pastor by the church and the A. M. A. was present, and\nhe and Mr. Sims and the Superintendent remained over the Sabbath to\npreach.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT. PROF. ALBERT\nSALISBURY, SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\nLEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL.\n\nBY PROF. GEO. F. JEWETT.\n\nNearly every one knows of the far-famed blue grass region of\nKentucky. It is seventy miles south of Cincinnati, and fifty miles\neast of Louisville. Lexington is in the very heart of this fertile\ncountry, eighty miles south of Cincinnati, on the Cincinnati\nSouthern R.R. The country excels in the production of corn,\npotatoes and thorough-bred stock, and it is said that the finest\nhorses in the United States are raised in this region. Lexington is\none of the oldest towns of Kentucky and has a population of 16,500,\nof which one half is colored. Although Kentucky did not take a\nvery active part in the late war, yet at its close the provisions\nfor the education of the colored people were as meagre as in other\nStates.\n\nLast June the Association decided to re-open the school, and\naccordingly the building was repaired. The cut given herewith\nrepresents the house in its present shape. On the first floor there\nare two large school-rooms capable of seating fifty pupils each,\ntwo large entries and two coat rooms. On the second floor there are\ntwo large school-rooms which may be thrown into one by means of\nfolding-doors, thus forming our chapel. There are also two small\nrecitation-rooms. In the front of the building there is a hall and\nstairway. The house is also provided with a large bell, which is\na great help in securing punctuality. Our school numbers 133, 38\nmales and 95 females. There are 31 above 16 years of age. None are\nadmitted below the fourth reader. The school is divided into three\ngrades\u2014high school, first and second grammar grades. Miss H. C.\nMinton is teacher of the first grammar grade, and Mr. C. H. Jewett\nof the second. Our scholars are not far advanced, because of the\nvery poor advantages which they have had; yet they are a class of\nwell-behaved and earnest pupils.\n\nThe discipline of the school is very easy. The scholars respect\ntheir teachers and seem to consider the school a means by which\nthey are to rise. Our school-house is far superior to any building\nin the city for colored schools. This gives us a great advantage.\nWe are obliged to turn away many from the lower grades. The State\nhas just passed a law making the salary of white and colored\npublic-school teachers equal. This makes it important that the\ncolored teachers should fit themselves better for their work. Our\nschool is intended to offer them opportunities for doing this work.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA WEEK\u2019S WORK BY LADY MISSIONARIES.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, SELMA, ALA.\n\n_By Miss Mary K. Lunt._\n\n_Sunday, Jan. 14._\u2014A bright, crisp morning, and as we prepare\nfor Sunday-school, we think that many of the little ones will be\nnecessarily detained from their accustomed places, or at least,\nbe obliged to see their cards with unclipped figures upon them.\nBut no, one hundred and nineteen are present, a good average,\nand but few are tardy, notwithstanding that many have walked\na long distance, and perhaps without having taken breakfast.\nAt 9:30 A.M. the opening exercises commence\u2014singing, prayer,\nchanting the Lord\u2019s Prayer, and responsive reading\u2014after which\nthe weekly offerings are collected in envelopes, and the amount\nsubsequently reported, also the number of pupils present, reported\nby the Secretary. The contributions are appropriated as follows:\nFirst Sunday of the month, for needy Sunday-schools; second\nand third, our own needs; fourth, our church; fifth, foreign\nmissions. Several schools have been aided by this method, and the\npupils bring their papers carefully folded, to be sent to other\nSunday-schools. Collections last year amounted to $50, revealing\nthe fact that scarcity of nickels does not keep them from helping\nothers less favored. After the re-assembling of the classes,\ntwo of which, the infants, the girls named \u201cBuds of Promise,\u201d\nthe boys, \u201cLittle Soldiers,\u201d are taught in the rooms below, the\nmain school comprising eight classes and one Bible class; their\nattention is directed to illustrations and lesson topics on the\nboard by the superintendent, supplemented by remarks on the\nlesson from the pastor. Some of our teachers and pupils have read\noriginal papers on the subject of the lesson for the morning, this\nbeing an incentive to a more thorough study of the lesson. At 11\nA.M. we are seated for the morning service, and after the usual\nopening exercises and responsive reading we listen to an earnest\ndiscourse, founded on the closing passages of that wonderful Sermon\non the Mount, contrasting the builders, showing the foolishness\nof building religious characters on false pretenses, and the\nimportance of building on the solid rock Christ Jesus.\n\nAt 3 P.M. is the children\u2019s meeting known as the \u201cLook Up Legion,\u201d\nbut called by some the \u201cLook Up \u2019ligion,\u201d composed of members of\nour own and other Sunday-schools of the city, ages ranging from two\nand a half to twelve years. Their regular and prompt attendance\nattests their interest and zeal. One of the members of the choir\nassists in leading the singing, which is a prominent feature of the\nhour. Our principal readings and talks are taken from the book,\n\u201cTalks to Boys and Girls about Jesus.\u201d Always when available we\ngive them a short juvenile temperance story, and distribute books\nand papers when we have them. Our motto is \u201cLend a Helping Hand,\u201d\nand the aim to teach to become children of the Great King, to help\nothers to become such by inducing them to come to Sunday-school and\nto these meetings, where they can hear about Jesus. One little girl\nsaid to us to-day, \u201cI am glad you have these meetings, for I get\ntired reading, and mamma won\u2019t let me play.\u201d One of the larger boys\nis anxious to know if we are to continue them during the year. At\n7 P.M., with a good and attentive congregation, we listen to one\nof a series of illustrated sermons, which has been our privilege\nsince Christmas, an earnest and solemn appeal to the unconverted\nfrom the passage in Rev. vi., 13-17, plainly proving that the fear\nand confusion of those who cried \u201cFall on us and hide us,\u201d resulted\nfrom the sinner\u2019s own carelessness and indifference, and it is\nhoped that the truth found lodgment in the hearts of the hearers,\nand will bring forth fruits meet for repentance. Our day closes\nfull, and if in after years we see the young filling honorably\nresponsible positions, we shall not regret that we were \u201csent.\u201d\n\n\nMISSIONARY WORK, SAVANNAH, GA.\n\n_By Miss Jane S. Hardy._\n\n_Monday, Jan, 15._\u2014Early dawn found me wide awake, and planning\nthe work of the day. Soon the accustomed \u201cding dong\u201d caused a\ngeneral stir in the Home, and the second call brought us all\ninto the dining-room, where we soon satisfied our bodily wants,\nand on bended knee sought \u201csupplies of grace\u201d for our spiritual\nneeds. Soon another bell announced the approach of school-time,\nand nearly two hundred pupils gathered, as was their wont, in the\nchapel of Beach Institute. There God\u2019s blessing was again invoked,\nboth in song and prayer, a few words of counsel were given by the\nSuperintendent, and the scholars were dismissed to their respective\nschool-rooms.\n\nI would fain have lingered there; for it brought to my mind\nthe many years of happy toil spent among _my_ pupils in the\nschool-room. Yet I am content\u2014yea, happy, in doing the work that\ncomes to my hand in visiting from house to house.\n\nMy first call this morning was upon the Deacon\u2019s wife, who greeted\nme in her usual lady-like manner. Although often bending over\nwash-tub or ironing-board, she leaves all to be taught her reading\nand Bible lesson. She is not a Christian, but the truth brought\nbefore her in repeated Scripture readings is evidently making deep\nimpressions.\n\nMy next call was at the house of a church member, but a\nwanderer\u2014bitterness in her heart, \u201ccares of this life and the lust\nof other things entering in have choked the word and made her life\nunfruitful.\u201d She cannot read; but I have resolved to carry the word\nto her. May God lead her back to her Father\u2019s house!\n\nMrs. K\u2014\u2014 is a cripple. For her diseased feet I carried a pair of\nsoft shoes, sent by some good friend in the North.\n\nI found her with a company of children gathered about her whom she\nwas teaching to read, thereby earning five or six dollars a month.\nShe is an intelligent Christian woman, and has lately been reading\n\u201cPrince of the House of David,\u201d for which she expresses great\nadmiration.\n\nHastening home, I met a class of young men\u2014hotel-waiters\u2014who are\noff duty in the middle of the day, and desire to improve their\nleisure time in studying the three R.\u2019s and the Bible.\n\nAt two o\u2019clock, I went into the school building to attend a prayer\nmeeting held daily among the pupils since the opening of the Week\nof Prayer. There are indications of the Spirit\u2019s presence among us,\nand we are anxiously hoping that some of these dear young people\nmay be turned to the service of Christ.\n\nAfter dinner I went to a distant part of the city to meet a regular\nappointment for a ladies\u2019 prayer meeting. This week the meeting\nwas held at the house of a good sister, who kindly opened her\nwell-furnished parlor. A good number gathered to hear the word\nand to mingle their petitions at the throne of grace. Among those\npresent was Mrs. S\u2014\u2014, who, so lately, came into the kingdom.\nHer great desire is to work for the Master. Thus passed an hour,\nhelpful, I trust, to us all. Returning home, I felt called upon,\nere night should close in, to visit a family much afflicted by\nsickness. Both father and mother weak and feeble, no ready cash\nin hand, and seven small children to care for. No wonder the\ndays look dark to them. We are glad to give them a helping hand.\nA few articles of clothing, a little money, and words of cheer\nare the things they most need just now. In the evening a Sunday\nschool scholar came for instruction, giving me another opportunity\nto sow seeds of truth in a darkened mind. How precious are the\nopportunities that come to us day by day!\n\n\nMISSION WORK AT ATLANTA, GA.\n\n_By Miss Lizzie Stevenson._\n\n_Tuesday, Jan. 16._\u2014The heavy rains since my return from the\nNorth, Jan. 3, have kept me much at home. This morning, however,\nI started out, and soon found myself at Aunt Judy\u2019s door, but she\nhad gone to a neighbor\u2019s to get warm. When she saw me, she said,\n\u201cMissus I\u2019s so glad you\u2019se come back. I was just talkin\u2019 about\nyou. We folks don\u2019t have nobody to come roun\u2019 and see and talk to\nus since you\u2019se gone.\u201d She has been a cripple for years, but this\nwinter is unable to work, on account of rheumatism. She has always\nbeen contented and happy, and \u201cproud\u201d that she could pay her rent,\nfifty cents a week. But to-day it made my heart ache when she\nsaid that it took all that \u201cWes,\u201d a grandson ten years old, could\nmake by picking up rags and papers to get something to eat and a\nlittle coal. The landlady had just been there for rent, but she\ndid not know where she could get the money. After reading a few of\nthe Saviour\u2019s words, and commending her to the Father\u2019s care, I\ngave her a little toward the rent and left her. I next found two\nchildren about two and four years old hovering around a handful of\ncoals; talked with them a few minutes, gave them a picture paper\nand passed on. I then stopped at Aunt Gracie\u2019s and knocked, but no\nanswer; so I pushed open the door and went in, and spoke several\ntimes before I could rouse her. Then with great effort she told\nme that she had been in bed several days with rheumatism. Her\nmiserable shanty is but poor protection from the rain. Every thing\nin the room was damp, and not a stick of wood or a mouthful of any\nthing to eat. I carried her a little food and sent to the wood-yard\nfor wood. But the streets, which are not paved, were so muddy they\nwould not deliver nor sell even an _armful_.\n\nNext I find Mrs. Williams, who has been sick for two months. She\nis very old, and has for years supported herself and two orphan\nchildren by picking up rags. As soon as it was light she could be\nseen with her sack on her shoulder going to her work. She is quite\nsick, but fortunately she belongs to a society, which provides for\nher. From here I go to see an Auntie who is over one hundred years\nold. She is unable to lie down on account of asthma. As she sees\nwho it is she exclaims \u201cBless the Lord, honey, I knowed the good\nLord would send you back, kase we old folks haint got no one to\ncome round and read to us when you\u2019se gone! \u2019Pears like the rest\nare so busy. I prayed the Lord would send you back, and I felt it\nin my bones you\u2019d come;\u201d and she thanked the Lord again and again\nfor sending me back. And at so many places their first exclamation\nwas to thank the Lord for sending me back to read to them. Another\npoor woman, who has not walked for years, and whose husband has\ndeserted her, is entirely dependent on the neighbors for her\nsupport; and no doubt she goes hungry many days. She said to me\nas I was leaving, \u201cMiss Lizzie, I didn\u2019t get no Christmas \u2019cause\nyou\u2019se gone.\u201d After making several other calls and distributing\nquite a number of Sunday-school papers, I came home with a sad\nheart to think how little I could do to relieve these poor needy\nones. Sometimes I feel that it is mockery to offer to read to them,\nwhen they are so cold and hungry. If I only had the _means_ to make\ntheir bodies comfortable, they could enjoy so much more the food\nfor the soul.\n\n\nDAY\u2019S WORK FOR JESUS\u2014RALEIGH, N.C.\n\n_By Miss E. P. Hayes._\n\n_Wednesday, Jan. 17._\u2014As this is the day for our woman\u2019s prayer\nmeeting, I had taken that day to call on the members of our church.\nAfter breakfast, I was preparing to start, when Georgia came in to\ninquire if I had heard from the ladies who were coming from the\nNorth. Then Mr. Smith, our pastor, called to decide upon articles\nto be read at the concert the next Sabbath evening on the work of\nthe A. M. A. I wrote a postal to thank the lady who sent a nice\nsilk hood to an old, sick auntie, and started.\n\nIt was raining a little, but I determined to proceed. I made the\nfirst call at Mr. Young\u2019s, close by. Mr. Y. is blind and paralyzed.\nThey were eating breakfast. It was then 10 o\u2019clock. Mrs. Y. said\nthey had nothing to eat till she went out and hunted up something.\nOne day during the snow, as they had no wood, they were obliged to\nremain in bed till three in the afternoon, and the Saturday night\nbefore they had no wood, and nothing to eat. I furnished them\nwith enough to last over the Sabbath. As Mrs. Young is a reader\nI gave her a paper, and went on to Mrs. Hills. Mrs. H. has two\nlittle children, and cannot get out to church, but is very fond\nof reading. I found her with a good coal fire, and looking very\ncomfortable. I left a paper, and stepped into Mrs. Smith\u2019s to see\nif her children were as destitute as she had represented and to\nrequest her to send her boy to the wood-yard to order some wood\nfor me. I met her husband coming out half drunk, and talking in\nvery loud tones. The boy was stretching a line around the room in\nwhich they lived for his mother to dry the washing she took in.\nSome wet wood in the fire-place was making a feeble effort to burn.\nI couldn\u2019t see how clothes could dry in such a place as that, and\nsaid so to Mrs. S. She replied that she was compelled to dry them.\nWhen I came out, the rain was pouring down, but I was obliged to go\nto the Bank to get a check cashed, as I was out of money, and was\nexpecting a barrel of clothing with a freight bill to be paid.\n\nAfter going to the Bank, drug store and post-office, the rain and\nmud conquered and I turned my face homeward, feeling thankful when\nI entered my door that I had so good a shelter. I built a fire,\nor tried to, with wet wood, as all our wood is soaked with rain\nwhen we buy it, and spent an hour in selecting Bible verses for a\nSunday-school class coming in the evening to study for a concert\nthe last Sabbath in the month, partly wrote a letter to thank the\nladies of Hopkinton for a barrel of clothing, and to interest them\nfurther in the work.\n\nAfter lunch, Dea. Jones called to inquire about his part for\nconcert. As the rain had slackened, I went to prayer meeting at\nthree o\u2019clock, at Dea. Dunston\u2019s. We meet with the different\nmembers of the church. Dea. D. is our oldest member, seventy-three,\nin feeble health, and enjoys having us meet with them. But five\nwere there, and three of those members of the family. All took\npart in the meeting, and after its close, I assisted the daughter,\nin selecting an article to read at the concert. She chose for her\nsubject the Indians.\n\nWhen I came home I looked over the mail, and went to inform Mrs.\nBembry, with whom I had engaged board for the Northern ladies, that\nthey would arrive Friday morning. On my way I stepped in to see\nan old lady who is paralyzed, and called to tell Georgia when the\nladies would arrive. In the evening a Sunday-school class came to\nstudy verses, and get temperance cards. Then I finished my letter,\nwrote another and retired, feeling that I had accomplished but\nlittle.\n\n\nONE DAY\u2019S WEAVING\u2014MONTGOMERY, ALA.\n\n_By Miss Rebecca G. Jillson._\n\n_Thursday, Jan. 18._\u2014The Swayne School for the colored children\nof Montgomery, with its four hundred scholars, is just opposite\nthe \u201cTeachers\u2019 Home.\u201d The day began with a call at the school; a\nbundle of Sunday-school papers was soon distributed among the boys.\nNear the school-house lives a good woman, from whose home two girls\nhave just gone to Talladega to school. I stop and talk with her\nabout their going and read a letter for her. A neighbor needs help,\nthe mother and seven children are all sick. Although dependent on\nfriends for care, these are the sick woman\u2019s words: \u201cWe\u2019re all\ndown, but old Marsa knows what He\u2019s doing.\u201d\n\nOn the porch of the next house stands an old grandmother, children\nof all ages around her. A girl of eighteen promises to come to the\nHome twice a week for lessons. Across the way lives a kind-hearted\nwoman; her neighbor, a sick woman, has only her little son and\nthis friend to care for her. She needs much the comfort of God\u2019s\nword and his assuring promises of help. Another is waiting for\nsympathy; she is alone though not widowed, and tells how, when the\nhuman help on which she leaned failed, she found support in God\nalone. A young woman whose husband\u2019s health has failed is trying to\nhelp him by keeping a little store; she is brave though sometimes\ndiscouraged. The next call is on a woman just recovering from\nillness. Her friends have been kind to her in her sickness; this\ninterest in one another is especially noticeable among the colored\npeople. Stopping to speak to a group of children, \u201cthis one, they\nsay, has no father or mother, so we have taken her in.\u201d Two other\ncalls in this neighborhood are made; an invitation given to a young\nman to attend the Singing School and to a young girl to renew her\ninterest in music; and now the house of a faithful church member\nis reached. The Ladies\u2019 Missionary Society and what work it may do\nis discussed, and questions from the article on Missions in LIFE\nAND LIGHT are left to be prepared for the next meeting. Two calls\nnear by are made. One lady is interested in music and is glad to\nhear of the cantata we are to learn. The next is a scene of labor.\nThis good woman washes for a large restaurant and has in this way\nearned enough money to build a substantial house. Every day piles\nof table-linen must be washed and ironed, and when it rains, every\ncorner in-doors is made use of to dry the hundreds of napkins and\ntowels.\n\nThe first call in the afternoon was on an old lady, a faithful\nChristian, who finds that her pilgrim journey has had in it many\npassages and experiences like that of the pilgrim of old, in\nwhose story she is much interested. The Celestial City is for her\nalmost in view, and her entrance there will be triumphant. \u201cI\u2019se\nonly waiting,\u201d she says, \u201cfor the Lord to say: \u2018Elsie, come up to\nglory.\u2019\u201d\n\nSeveral girls come to the Home in the afternoon, two to learn to\nmake worsted hoods, two others to take lessons in music. There is\nalso time to fold the Sunday-school papers for distribution next\nSunday. Late in the afternoon I called on a mother whose little\nchild God had taken home to himself. Our next neighbor is a man of\nintemperate habits. I had a talk with him. At nightfall a young\nwoman came in and sang some of the old plantation melodies. In the\nevening a young girl came for lessons, and with her, two boys, who\nspent the hour with pencil and drawing cards. With God\u2019s blessing\nmay the day\u2019s work not be in vain.\n\n\nA DAY IN NEW ORLEANS.\n\n_By Miss A. D. Gerrish._\n\n_Friday, Jan. 19._\u2014Having attended morning devotions at the\nUniversity chapel, equipped with my satchel and a few gifts to be\ndistributed here and there, I wend my way to Mrs. R.\u2019s to hold a\npromised meeting. There are six of us altogether. At the close\nof the brief hour spent with Jesus I stop to speak with a young\nCatholic girl. The mother is evidently surprised. She \u201cdidn\u2019t\nknow as I\u2019d talk to such as she.\u201d I reply, \u201cI came to speak to\nall.\u201d My next call is at what I term the half-way house. A few\nlate flowers still bloom in the pretty garden and the oranges seem\nturning a deeper gold, touched by the warm sunshine. Aunt Comfort\nis \u201conly just about so so.\u201d We talk of household affairs and the\nrevival. An offered prayer for us both and I bid the dear old lady\ngood morning. On the street a sad-hearted mother delays me for a\nmoment to ask that I will please pray for her son, who is dying and\nwithout hope in Christ. With a few kindly words of sympathy and a\npromise to remember the young man, I pass on. The door of Mrs. A.\u2019s\npleasant room stands open and I pause long enough on the threshold\nto receive her cheery \u201cGood morning\u201d and the injunction to \u201cbe\nsure and stop next time.\u201d As I reach the top of a winding flight\nof stairs a voice full of childish eagerness asks, \u201cDid you bring\nmy little Testament?\u201d The Testament, a tiny book, and some picture\npapers are taken from my satchel and three little hearts for the\ntime made happy. The mother is very grateful for the garments given\nher for the children. An urgent invitation is left with her to come\nto the evening meeting. Another call made and the city bells ring\nout the noontide hour. I stop for lunch and rest at Sister W.\u2019s.\n\nMrs. M. lives at a distance, so I take the street cars. A rap at\nthe outside gate, a careful climbing up the rickety stairway and I\nam warmly greeted by the little woman. Would that I had space to\ndescribe to you her one bit of a room. She says: \u201cYou must excuse\nit; \u2019tisn\u2019t alus possible to keep things lookin jus so.\u201d She has\nreceived no pay for her last three months\u2019 washing, so for want\nof car fare her Sabbaths have been spent at home. I must tell her\nall about the meetings, the New Year\u2019s tree, how many have joined\nthe church, and affairs generally. With a prayer and a substantial\nproof that the \u201cLord will provide\u201d her heart is comforted. I find\nAunt Sally \u201cjus tolable, thank\u2019e, but powerful busy.\u201d She tells me\nonce again, \u201c\u2019Twill be a glorious time, shur nuff, chile, when I\ncan leave this ere washtub for a manshun in de hebens.\u201d I seek out\na delinquent Sabbath-school scholar and call upon two interesting\nlittle girls, who promise to come to the sewing school. A picture\npaper given to each and I hasten homeward.\n\nAfter dinner I find a little time for writing. Promptly at 7\no\u2019clock the church prayer meeting begins. The passage selected\nfor the evening lesson is Jer. 8:20. The large audience listen\nattentively to the pastor\u2019s words. In the hush of this tender\ninterest nine come forward for prayers. The voice of petition\nrises in their behalf. Two tell us that they have found Jesus. We\nsing \u201cPraise God from whom all blessings flow.\u201d Benediction is\npronounced and the meeting closes. Another day, with its joys and\nsorrows, its failure and success, is ended. Its record is with Him\nwho sees and understands. In the quiet of my room I kneel to humbly\nask that it may be accepted as \u201cone more day\u2019s work for Jesus,\u201d\nknowing that it is \u201cone less of life\u201d for us all.\n\n\nLINCOLN MISSION, WASHINGTON, D.C.\n\n_By Mrs. C. B. Babcock._\n\n_Saturday, Jan. 20._\u2014Be sure and find us when you take your\npleasure trip to Washington, and we will show you better than we\ncan write, the need of missionary work among its 60,000 colored\npeople. This is one of our winter\u2019s worst days. It rains fast, and\nthe streets are full of snow and water. Breakfast over, I hastened\nto market for meat to make broth for the sick, and to the grocery\nfor bread. While picking my way over the slippery pavements, a\ngrandmother calls after me with a request that must be heeded. On\nentering my room in the Mission, a barrel from Brooklyn awaits\nunpacking. God bless the dear friends of the North who so nobly\nrespond to my appeal for help. They never will know how much good\nthe old clothes do. Before I\u2019m half through, knock number one\nbrings old Auntie Bennett, afflicted with a disease so offensive\nthat she cannot attend our gatherings. When leaving with her bundle\nof warm garments, in steps Auntie Harris, always so trustful in the\nLord, and yet she says, \u201cI sat all yesterday without any fire\u201d;\nher husband and crippled son unable to provide. Thankful for a\nlittle relief, she goes out to carry a big bundle to another poor\ncreature, who, with her old man, have scarcely a crust, and nothing\nbut a leaky shanty for shelter. Caller No. 3 is a young woman,\nbringing a note from the police station and a certificate from her\ndoctor, that tells of serious sickness, one two-year-old child,\nand nothing wherewith to help herself. I send her to see our Day\nNursery, and tell her to bring her baby on Monday, and I will see\nwhat more can be done. Her dull, wan face brightens as she leaves.\nTom C. comes next\u2014my boy, who draws our Temperance blackboard\nillustrations, paints our signs, puts up Christmas decorations,\n&c. I\u2019ve just received his fit in a suit; so, with a patch to mend\nthe sleeves, and more work under his arm, he goes. Pinkie T. has\nframed some mottoes, and I ask her to hang them in the school room,\npaying her with a pair of nice boots. Annie C., our missionary girl\nfrom Howard U., comes to assist, and, as a member of the Doing-Good\nSociety of the school, this P.M. brings a report from sick Mr.\nGreen. After preparations for the afternoon, and a peep into the\nnursery, where the floors are being scrubbed and the children\nare taking their bath (for, though the Associated Charities have\nadopted this, my pet project of last year, and have appointed a\ncommittee of ladies, I have the daily supervision). I leave for\nlunch at 12\u00bd. The girl\u2019s industrial school opens at 1\u00bd; 61 out of\n130 scholars are present. We are divided into 15 classes, each with\na teacher, if enough ladies are present. I appoint a girl to attend\nto callers. We open with singing, and sew until 3 o\u2019clock. Some\nare making bags for their work, some patch-work, some, fancy-work,\nwhile others are mending or making garments and learning to cut\nthem. We intersperse sewing-songs. They help the pupils to remember\ninstructions. From three to four we have various exercises, such as\ntalks on health or manners; Bible lessons, repeating the Child\u2019s\nCreed or the Commandments, with responsive chant or a Psalm and the\nLord\u2019s prayer. To-day, we have an object lesson in house-keeping. A\ntable is placed on the platform and Annie C. is asked to prepare it\nfor tea. She arranges the cloth, dishes and food, with criticisms\nfrom the scholars. Then, she invites four girls to sit and eat\nwhile she acts as waitress. After eating she removes the dishes for\nwashing and folds the cloth. A few more callers and the busy week\ncloses. Thank God for the sunlight it has brought to us during our\nrevival meetings in the conversion of two of our dear girls.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nVANTAGE GROUND NEEDED BY STUDENTS.\n\nBY MISS JOSEPHINE KELLOGG, TOUGALOO, MISS.\n\nWe long for the time when these people shall obtain a little\nvantage-ground by industry and\u2014still more essential\u2014by economy\nand a prudent use of earnings, so that the children may begin\nthe work of getting an education betimes and continue it until a\nrespectable course of study is thoroughly mastered. We have some\nsuch, and we hope much from the earlier training and the favorable\ncircumstance of their having parents interested in educating them\nand able to do it.\n\nIn the cases of a majority, they come to us already grown-up,\nsomething having given them an ambition for better things than\nthey had known. They have their own way to make and can be in\nschool only a part of each year, many of them working nights and\nmornings and one day of each week besides, to pay their board in\nwhole or in part. As the time approaches when exhausted funds and\nworn-out clothing must compel them to go out and seek employment,\nthoughts will wander and there will be a relaxation in the matter\nof preparation and recitation of lessons in spite of themselves\nand the exertions of their teachers. No doubt there is a blessing\nconnected with their struggles against adverse circumstances, and a\nmanly and womanly self-dependence is fostered in this way, but it\nis not to be expected that a great number will complete the course\nin the face of such discouragements.\n\nAs year after year passes, and they get education enough to help\nthem on somewhat in life and a knowledge that fits them to be\nuseful in church, society and home, and they yet seem almost as\nfar as ever from the goal of graduation which they once placed\nbefore themselves, they begin to be anxious to settle down to the\nreal business of life, and they relinquish the hope of a completed\nnormal course with, perhaps, a subsequent complete collegiate\ncourse.\n\nWhile it is the few of those who enter that go on to the end of the\ncourse and the many drop out as I have described, yet we do not\nconsider our labor in vain, but rather hope to claim the assurance\n\u201cBlessed are ye who sow beside all waters.\u201d If the teaching were\nonly in the ordinary elementary branches we might think it of\nlittle avail unless carried on continuously to a more satisfactory\nissue, but much of it is more fundamental than even arithmetic. The\nentire mode of life is a lesson and a much needed one to most of\nthose who come to us. The regularity of meals with the laws of the\ndining-room, the regularity of retiring and rising, the neatness\nand order of the rooms, the care of clothing, the personal habits,\nthe sanitary regulations, the study and exercise, and the propriety\nof deportment required, not to speak of the regular work belonging\nto the industrial training, seem to new scholars to form a complete\nhedge, if not a bewildering labyrinth; but a very bright feature of\nour work is the spirit of subordination and respect for constituted\nauthority, which greatly simplifies and lightens the enforcement of\nall necessary rules. This is an excellent and much-to-be commended\ntrait in our students. I have asked some of those who go out to\nteach if the children in the public schools are easy to govern. Oh,\nyes, the answer has been, _they expect to mind_.\n\n[Illustration: LADIES\u2019 HALL, TOUGALOO, MISS.]\n\nIt is very edifying to note how those who come without any taste\nor neatness in their personal appearance, with sorry attempts at\nfinery and painfully-laced waists, improve under the tuition of\nthe lady principal and the influence of those who have been here\nlonger, the expression of the countenance often changing more\nrapidly and noticeably than even the manner of dress. But, O! the\npatience and the faculty required for this most important work of\ntraining the girls in womanly virtues and housewifely ways!\n\nWith all the patience and with all the faculty possible, it is a\ngreat and constant strain to have the care of such a household,\nand the matrons and lady principals need the uplifting prayers and\nsympathy of the warm Christian hearts interested in these schools,\nin a special degree.\n\nAnd then the instruction in the Bible, as \u201cthe only and the\nsufficient rule both of faith and practice\u201d\u2014the value of this work\ncannot be over-estimated. The case of a young man who came into\nschool for the first time this fall, comes to mind. Living far\nback from the railroad, in the country, he had had no advantages\nof any schooling but a few brief sessions of the public school. He\nwas entered in the Third-reader grade and was to all appearance\na most unpromising specimen, although a professed Christian, and\napparently a sincere one, with a real experience of trust in God,\nbut wofully untaught as to Christian character and duty. As the\nScripture was from time to time plainly and searchingly expounded,\nand the vices which are sometimes permitted under the garb of\nreligion were exposed, it was plain to see that he was listening\nas to a new revelation. In school-room work there was a marked\nimprovement, especially in the expressiveness of his reading, but\nthe great benefit that came in his term of school was in the way of\nmoral enlightenment. A month ago he joined the temperance society.\nThe last prayer-meeting was taken up largely with speaking of the\ntemptations that would be met at Christmas-time to violate the\npledge, and one young man said that, in view of these temptations\nhe would rather spend Christmas at Tougaloo than anywhere else.\nThis young man then \u201cspoke in meeting\u201d for the first time, I think,\nand said he did not feel that way. It seemed to him that the\nprincipal thing he wanted to go home for, was to tell his people he\nhad become a temperance man. He had been a good deal of a drinker,\na member of church, too, and his people were all in the same way,\nand didn\u2019t know any better, but now he would tell them that he had\nfound a better way, and that they, too, must forsake the old bad\nway, or they would surely go down. He said, \u201cIf I can\u2019t keep my\npledge, I may as well find it out first as last, but _I do believe\nI can_. I does feel as if temperance _is grafted in here_,\u201d laying\nhis hand upon his breast. He hopes to return and bring a sister\nwith him, but if he cannot get the means and never comes, is there\nnot here a little bread cast on the waters?\n\nThe evening before school closed there was a beautiful Christmas\nexercise, consisting of recitations, Scripture and music, lighted\nby a large star of evergreen filled with burning candles. No doubt\nmany a new idea concerning the universal holiday was imbibed. This\nwas followed by an exhibition by the temperance society.\n\nThanksgiving day was a blessed occasion with us. Rev. Mr. Stickel\npreached on Tests of Character, dwelling upon the test of faith\nand the test of gratitude, basing his sermon upon the story of the\nten lepers. An opportunity has usually been given, in connection\nwith the morning service, for personal testimonies, and so many had\ngiven themselves to the service of the Lord and so many had been\nled into a fuller Christian experience since last Thanksgiving that\nthere was a real eagerness for this service, and a somewhat wistful\nlook on a good many faces when the meeting was closed without it.\nAt the end of dinner, however, President Pope rose and said such an\nopportunity would be given then and there; that we could not spend\na portion of the afternoon more profitably nor have a pleasanter\nsort of after-dinner speeches than in recounting the good dealings\nof God with us. Notwithstanding the fact that a Thanksgiving dinner\nis about as well calculated to promote a spirit of thankfulness as\nanything that can be mentioned, it was a little harder to rise from\nthe table and speak in the dining-room than in the chapel. Yet,\nafter the first momentary hesitation, the testimonies came, briefly\nbut freely, of gratitude for health, for success in work, for the\nprivilege of being at school, for the pardon of sins, and many\nother things.\n\nOne young man said he had felt all the year, as never before, that\nall his blessings came right from the hand of God. He had felt\nit in his teaching, and had thanked God for all his success. He\nthanked God for this school, and for those friends in the North\nwho had established it, and for all the benefits it is conferring\nupon the people of this State. One youth said he was thankful he\nhad learned the true object of man\u2019s life\u2014what he was made for. He\nused to think a man could serve God or let it alone\u2014that his time\nand faculties were his own, and he could do as he pleased. But now\nhe had learned that a man\u2019s true calling is to serve the Lord. He\nwas glad to know that the great God has something for every one to\ndo, and has His eye upon the way he does it, and that his reward is\naccording to his faithfulness, and not according to the greatness\nof the work. It seemed to make life worth living.\n\nProf. Salisbury was with us three days of the last week, in the\ntour of the schools which he is making to get his work in hand.\nHe gave us a helpful talk in chapel one morning, and again gave\nan account of the other schools he had visited, and we trust his\nsubsequent visits will aid in promoting the symmetry and efficiency\nof the work of this school.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCHURCH AND SABBATH-SCHOOL WORK AT S\u2019KOKOMISH, W.T.\n\nBY REV. MYRON EELLS.\n\nJune 22d and 23d, 1874, this church was organized with eleven\nmembers, only one of whom was an Indian. But while there was only\none Indian, it was hoped that God would bless the work so that\nothers would be induced to come in, and we have not been wholly\ndisappointed. Since that time twenty-eight Indians and half-breeds\nhave joined it and our new church at Jamestown, near Dunginess,\nbesides thirteen whites who have joined on profession, and thirteen\nmore by letter, making seventy-five in all, including the first\nmembers. Forty-five Indian marriages have taken place here in a\nChristian way, and twenty-seven funerals. All of those married,\nwho are alive, are still living together, owing mainly to the\nAgent. Christian services at funerals are something about which\nthe Indians at first cared very little, and often have the dead\nbeen hurried off to burial without even letting me know that any\none was dead; and their burying-ground with its small houses and\nclothes, cloth and other things, was a curiosity to visitors. But\nafter a time, having made some slow improvements, they opened a new\nburying-ground, and when the first grave was made the chief said\nto me: \u201cTo-day we become white people. We do not like the idea of\nhaving cloth and other things around our graves, and we expect that\nthere will be none of it here.\u201d That was nearly four years ago, and\nthere are now no such things visible. At a later day I was absent\nwhen one person died, and no white man was present at the funeral;\nbut when I returned, the Indians asked me to make arrangements so\nthat if I should necessarily be absent some Christian white man\nshould go and help them bury their dead in a Christian manner.\n\nA prayer-meeting was begun here as soon as the present Agent came\n(before there was a church or minister), which has been constantly\nmaintained, and its influence has gone into all the Christian work\nhere. But it has been too old for some of the children, and too far\naway and in a wrong language for many of the Indians; hence it has\nbeen supplemented by children\u2019s, ladies\u2019 and Indian prayer-meetings.\n\nIt has been my custom, as I have been able, to hold such meetings\nwith the Indians at their logging camps. The following incidents\nshow a change. About six years ago they said they did not know how\nto pray or what to say. So to help them we would say a sentence and\nlet one whom we supposed to be the most suitable in heart repeat\nover the prayer, line after line. One evening something comical\nstruck one, and he burst out laughing in the midst of his prayer.\nAt another time a hunter came home during a prayer-meeting, and,\nwithout any regard to it, came in, throwing down his saddle and\nthings, and talking very much as if there were no prayer-meeting\nthere. That Indian of late has been one of the leading ones to\npray. Another evening, when I was through and was leaving I said\n\u201cGood night,\u201d and the reply came, \u201cGood night,\u201d but as I was\noutside the door and shutting it, the words were added in a not\nvery complimentary way, in a lower tone and yet so that I heard\nthem, \u201cold man.\u201d That Indian, after going to great lengths in\ngambling, has been one during the past few months to try to induce\nhis relations to enter the right road.\n\nI have been reminded of these incidents lately by way of contrast,\nbecause of the earnest requests that have come to me, during the\npast few months, to go to the same place, and the earnest and\napparently hearty thanks which have come from the same persons and\nthe same camp for the same work.\n\nAbout eight years ago an Indian was wandering around during\nSabbath-school time, and was asked why he was not inside the\nchurch. His reply was, that the services were so much in English\nthat they were dry to him. Only when the time came for singing the\nChinook song was he interested. There was only one song, then,\nbut the necessity for them seemed to grow until there were enough\nto make our little book, in 1878, \u201cHymns in the Chinook Jargon\nLanguage.\u201d Indians living away from the Reservation have learned\nto sing them who have learned but little else about the Gospel,\nbecause they could not sing them without learning them. They have\ncarried and sung them down the straits to Cape Flattery and across\nthe straits to British Columbia, to Indians I probably never shall\nsee, and some Gospel truths have gone with them. The Indians of\nboth tribes, however, Twanas and Clallams, felt that another\nimportant step had been taken when last spring they could sing in\ntheir own native language.\n\nIn our Sabbath-school we have always followed the plan of having\nthe scholars commit five or six verses a week to memory, and most\nof those who have done the best in this respect have come into the\nchurch. Eight out of ten of the highest on the list for 1878 are\nnow members, and the same proportion holds good for some other\nyears. In all, twenty-seven have come in on profession of faith\nfrom the Sabbath-school.\n\n[Illustration: INDIANS WATCHING A TRAIN.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCOMITY.\n\nREV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nFrom the first I have conducted the operations of our mission\non principles of denominational comity. There are five distinct\nmissions at work for the Chinese of California, besides our own.\nThe Presbyterian has schools in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento,\nSan Jos\u00e9, and, perhaps, I may add, at Napa and Santa Rosa, though\nI am not aware that the work done in these two places is directly\nconnected with their Board; the Methodist mission has schools\nalso in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, and San Jos\u00e9, and one\nbesides, at Chico; the Baptist and Episcopal missions conduct\neach one school in this city; the United Presbyterian mission has\nschools in Oakland and Los Angeles. The total number of schools\nsustained by all these missions\u2014so far as I am informed\u2014is\nthus 15. Our mission has six schools in San Francisco, and ten\nelsewhere. Sacramento and Oakland are the only points outside\nthis city occupied by us and by other missions also. At each of\nthese points our schools were first established, and we have not\nfelt it due to comity to abandon our work begun and carried on\nfor years because others came in to divide it with us. But we\nhave never yet planted a school in any field already occupied,\nunless San Francisco be an exception, where the occupation was so\nincomplete, that we, ourselves, having one school, have established\nfive others. I am led to these remarks partly because the facts,\nit seems to me, are worth reporting, and partly because, just\nnow, questions of comity have been and are still before us to be\nanswered. Thus, in accordance with a purpose expressed at the\nclose of our last fiscal year, to do something this year for the\nlarge colony of Chinese that has established itself in the town\nof Chico, I visited that town last month. I heard of a school as\nalready established\u2014though its existence had been before unknown\nto the pastor with whom I had corresponded. I visited the school;\nfound four pupils present, and learned that it was sustained by\nthe Methodist Mission. There was room for so much more to be\ndone that I made conditional arrangements for planting a school\nthere. The condition was that the Methodist Mission should give us\ncordial welcome and divide the field with us territorially. But our\nMethodist brethren say that they would prefer to occupy the whole\nterritory, and promise to do so in adequate force, and therefore we\nhave withdrawn. The large town of Vallejo has a Chinese population\nsomewhat exceeding 200, and no one was caring for their souls. I\ndetermined to put into that field the work which I had intended\nto do at Chico. I have made arrangements accordingly\u2014renting a\nmission-house, engaging a teacher, and arranging for a helper to\ngo there as soon as the building can be made ready. But the school\nwill be in special relation with the Presbyterian Church, there\nbeing no Congregational Church, except at South Vallejo, nearly\ntwo miles distant. I have accordingly said to our Presbyterian\nfriends that I would establish and carry on the school, subject to\ntransfer at any time when their Board will assume the care of it,\nand will reimburse our treasury for expenses incurred up to the\ntime of the transfer. At Los Angeles we had sustained a school for\ntwo or three years, and several of our pupils had been brought so\nclearly into Christian light and life that almost immediately after\nthe establishment of a Presbyterian mission there and the transfer\nof our work to its care, they were baptized and received into the\nPresbyterian church. But the brother to whose care the work was\ncommitted removed, after about two years, to Oakland, and left it\nin other hands. This field has now become so large that it need\ninvolve no criticism upon the mission already existing there to say\nthat there is room for another, and that souls in large numbers\nare walking in darkness that might be led into light, if we should\nresume the work we unwisely (I now think) laid down. I propose,\ntherefore, to do this as soon as I can command the time necessary\nto visit Los Angeles, unless I should then find that the facts have\nbeen incorrectly represented to me.\n\nTwo principles of denominational comity suggest themselves as the\noutcome of my thought on these questions and these fields. The\nfirst is _no crowding_; the mission already at work in a field, to\nbe left in sole possession, provided it will render the service\nneeded there; the second is, _no possession without occupation_; no\nleaving of souls to perish because somebody\u2019s dog is in the manger,\nand a field has been entered but not worked. Am I right?\n\n\nSOUND DOCTRINE.\n\nThe following sermon-sketch was read for criticism by our helper,\nLee Sam, at our regular exercise last Wednesday afternoon. I\nventured to ask him whether he found what he had written in some\ncommentary, or whether it came from his own study of the text and\nof related passages. He told me that it was what he himself had\nthought out in Bible study. It may be interesting to see what\nviews of human depravity a thoughtful man unschooled in theology,\nunbiassed by ancient traditions, untrammeled by any standards or\nany creeds, has drawn forth for himself from the Word of God. The\ntext was in Romans, 5:21.\n\n  \u201cThat as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign\n  through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our\n  Lord.\u201d\n\n1. What is meant by reigning unto death and reigning unto eternal\nlife? It means the work of Christ and the work of Adam. What was\nthe work of Adam? What is the work of Christ? The work of Adam\nwas the work of death. The sin of Adam brought death upon all our\nrace. In the 17th verse of this chapter \u201cBy one man\u2019s offence\ndeath reigned by one,\u201d because Adam transgressed God\u2019s command by\neating the forbidden fruit, so God turned him out of the Garden of\nEden. But we are of the race of Adam. He transgressed God\u2019s will\nand brought sin upon us all. But some say our hearts are full of\ngood when we are born, but, by and by, we learn the evil from the\nothers. But we don\u2019t believe that; we see sometimes the little\nbaby when he begins to talk, then he tell lies; when he begins\nto walk then he fight with others; when he know his parents then\nhe disobeys them; when he grow to be a man then he walks his own\nway, it may be \u201ccommitting adultery, fornication, uncleanness,\nlasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations,\nwrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness,\nrevelings.\u201d So we know the evil is not learned from the others, we\nhave it when we are born. By getting away from God and doing those\nwicked things we cause the death of both soul and body.\n\n2. What is the work of Christ?\n\n\u201cIn Christ shall all be made alive.\u201d It is said, John, 5:21, \u201cFor\nas the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them, even so the\nSon quickeneth whom he will.\u201d In Adam all die, but in Christ shall\nall be made alive.\n\nHow can we reign unto eternal life? If we want to obtain eternal\nlife we must come to Jesus and trust in Him. Jesus says, \u201cAll power\nis given unto me in heaven and in earth.\u201d In 1st John, 2:1, \u201cIf\nany man sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the\nrighteous.\u201d Though we are sinners, and far from God He can bring us\nback. But our God hates sin, he loves us, and would save us from\nour sin, and bring us near to Him. \u201cFor God so loved the world\nthat he gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him\nmight not perish but have everlasting life.\u201d Jesus came into the\nworld to save us. His whole life was spent in doing good, and at\nlast he died on the cross to give his life a ransom for many, for\nall who will come to him and be saved. He is able to save us. We\nare commanded to love the Lord with all our hearts and with all our\nminds and with all our souls. Adam loved God with all his heart,\nbut lost God\u2019s love. The Lord Jesus, by his holy spirit, restores\nthis love in our hearts, so that we do love him with all our hearts\nand souls, and through Christ we can do all things. Without Jesus\nwe can do nothing. Christ gives us victory over death. In 1st Cor.,\n15:55, 56, 57, \u201cO death where is thy sting! O grave where is thy\nvictory! The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the\nlaw. But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our\nLord Jesus Christ.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLADY AGNES HAMILTON.\n\nBY MISS HENRIETTA MATSON, NASHVILLE.\n\nThe teacher was passing from one to another of her pupils, taking\ntheir names. \u201cMissie, Capitola, Viola, Colly, Prudy, Vic,\u201d were\nsome of the names already recorded, but here was a little mite of a\ngirl, who gravely gave her name as Lady Agnes Hamilton. The teacher\nsmiled, but kindly said, \u201cAgnes, is it not?\u201d \u201cNo, Lady Agnes,\u201d\npersisted the child, in a decided manner, that accorded well with\nthe name.\n\nThe little lady is, perhaps, seven years of age, but not larger\nthan an ordinary child of four. Her face is of a rich olive tint,\nand now the scarlet mingles with the brown, as she becomes confused\nand excited under the teacher\u2019s questioning. Her eyes and hair are\nbrown, the latter with a golden tinge, falling in short, crisp\ncurls around her neck and face. The small, sensitive mouth, with\nits childish bloom and sweetness, tempts the teacher to stoop down\nand kiss her to atone for disturbing her with doubts in regard to\nher title and rank.\n\nAfterward, the teacher, becoming acquainted with the little Lady\u2019s\nmother, asked if that was her real name. \u201cHer sure nuff name,\nMiss,\u201d was the reply. \u201cYoung Miss, she done names de chile. I was\nstayin\u2019 dar on de ole place, after de war, da _pays_ me an\u2019 my ole\nman, kase we\u2019se free, an\u2019 we stays wid \u2019em a long spell. My little\ngal was born dar, an\u2019 young Miss Sue, she say she so little an\nfrail her name should allus be Lady. We calls her Lady most times,\nbut her sure nuff name is Lady Agnes Hamilton. Miss Sue done writ\nit down. Lady feel mighty bad kase de teacher reckon her name\nsomefin else. Nary odder name Miss, an\u2019 dats de truff.\u201d Her right\nand title thus established, the teacher no longer questioned the\nsweet-faced little Lady, and indeed, soon came to believe that the\nchild belonged to nature\u2019s true nobility. She was always, in school\nand out, a veritable little lady. Mingling with the dusky children,\nwho were her playmates, some of them dirty and ragged, while her\nown garments were always daintily neat she never manifested any\nconscious superiority, but was always sweet and gentle and happy,\nwhether the rain fell or the sun shone. The secret of her wonderful\nsweetness and gentleness was not in that her name was Lady, nor\nbecause she was a lady, but because very soon after the school\nbegan, this little girl, only seven years old, gave her heart to\nJesus, and became as truly one of his children, as though she had\nwaited until she was twenty.\n\nJesus, her Saviour, was a real presence to her\u2014a wonderful Friend,\never near to help her, and she was careful in what she said and\ndid, because she was anxious to please Him in everything.\n\nOften the little brown head dropped on the desk before her, and for\na few moments she was very still\u2014then, when she lifted her face,\nthe soft eyes always sought her teacher\u2019s face, and a loving look\nwas exchanged. The teacher knew that little Lady had been given a\nvictory over some temptation that had beset her childish heart. At\nsuch moments she was very beautiful, perhaps it was the beauty of\nHeaven shining in her small, dark face.\n\nBut she did not die because she was so good, as is sometimes said\nof good children. It is a blessed truth that many good children\n_live_ long lives of usefulness, in which they are able to do\ngreater things for the Master, because they began to love and serve\nHim when they were little children. Lady Agnes Hamilton was for\nmany years a student in one of the institutions of the South, and\nis now the wife of a minister of the gospel, leading a happy and\nuseful life.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR. JANUARY, 1883.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $562.66.\n\n    Andover. Mrs. E. Poor                                     $5.00\n    Bangor. Cen. Cong. Ch., _for Dakota M._                    5.50\n    Brewer. M. Hardy to const DANIEL S. TIBBETS,\n      L. M.                                                   50.00\n    Castine. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          5.00\n    Cornish. Cong. Ch.                                        12.41\n    Cumberland Mills. Warren Ch. to const. WILLIAM\n      L. LONGLEY and ERVIN B. NEWCOMB L. Ms                   76.50\n    Dennysville. Cong. Ch.                                    10.90\n    Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch.                                 7.70\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                      4.75\n    Gardiner. Bbl. C., _for Selma, Ala._\n    Norridgewock. Cong. Ch.                                   40.00\n    North Yarmouth. Cong. Ch.                                  6.95\n    North Yarmouth. \u201cCash,\u201d _for Selma, Ala._                  3.00\n    Orland. Mrs. S. T. Buck and daughters, 35;\n      Mrs. O. B. Trott, 7                                     42.00\n    Portland. State St. Cong. Ch., 150; High St.\n      Ch., 112.45                                            262.45\n    Portland. Brown Thurston\u2019s Sab. Sch. Class,\n      High St. Ch., _for Student Aid, Hampton N. &\n      A. Inst._                                               25.00\n    Skowhegan. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc.                             3.00\n    South Bridgton. Mrs. J. O. K., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 1.00\n    Union. Cong. Ch., for freight, _for Selma,\n      Ala._                                                    1.50\n    Woolwich. Cong. Ch., 4 Bbls. C., _for Memphis,\n      Tenn._\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE $562.69.\n\n    Alstead Centre. Cong. Ch.                                 11.67\n    Amherst. Cong. Ch.                                        13.48\n    Amherst. Ladies\u2019 Soc., Box of C., _for\n      Raleigh, N.C._\n    Antrim. \u201cFriends\u201d                                         26.00\n    Concord. South Cong. Ch.                                  56.00\n    Concord. W. H. Pitman, _for Mendi M._                      2.00\n    Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.00\n    Dover. John Mack, _for Dakota M._                          2.00\n    East Alstead. Cong. Ch.                                   13.86\n    Epping. S. T. Billson, _for maps for Athens,\n      Ala._                                                   10.00\n    Exeter. First Cong. Ch.                                   34.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                     15.00\n    Fitzwilliam. L. Hill                                      10.00\n    Harrisville. Mrs. L. B. Richardson                        10.00\n    Hillsborough Center. Cong. Ch.                             5.00\n    Hollis. Cong. Ch.                                          9.56\n    Keene. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      47.04\n    Lebanon. First Cong. Ch.                                  40.00\n    Manchester. Franklin St. Ch.                              30.00\n    Marlborough. Ladies\u2019 Freedmen\u2019s Aid Soc., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              10.00\n    Mason. Ladies, _for Memorial Inst.,\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                        5.00\n    Milford. Cong. Ch.                                        14.30\n    Nashua. Cong. Ch.                                         74.92\n    New Boston. Presb. Ch.                                    22.00\n    New Ipswich. Cong. Ch.                                     9.16\n    Northwood. Cong. Soc.                                     12.00\n    Orford. Mrs. Myra B. Pratt, 10; John Pratt, 5             15.00\n    Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson                           12.00\n    Peterborough. Ladies\u2019 Circle, _for Freight,\n      for Tougaloo U._                                         3.20\n    Portsmouth. Rev. W. W. Dow                                 3.00\n    South Weare. Cong. Ch.                                    10.00\n    Stratham. Cong. Ch., 21.50, and Sab. Sch., 5              26.50\n\n\n  VERMONT $2,027.86\n\n    Bennington Center. Cong. Ch.                              19.00\n    Brattleborough. Dr. C. S. Clark, _for\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Cabot. Mrs. S. S. H.                                       1.00\n    Chester. Cong. Sab. Sch., Penny Contributions\n      for 1882, 52; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 8                             60.00\n    Craftsbury. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., Bbl. of C.\n      and Bedding, _for Atlanta U._\n    Danville. Cong. Ch.                                       26.00\n    East Hardwick. Cong. Sab. Sch., 32.58 to\n      const. ANCIL BABBIT BUNT L. M.; A. H.\n      Jordan, 5; O. P., 50c.; C. M. B., 1                     39.08\n    Enosburgh. \u201cThe Widow of Enosburgh\u201d                        2.00\n    Essex Center. Cong. Ch.                                   10.00\n    Essex Junction. Cong. Ch.                                 21.00\n    Hartland. Cong. Ch.                                        5.25\n    Holland. Cong. Ch., 4; Rev. J. Fraser, 4                   8.00\n    Jericho. Second Cong. Ch.                                  6.22\n    Jeffersonville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                25.00\n    Milton. Cong. Ch.                                          2.36\n    Newbury. Hon. P. W. Ladd                                   5.00\n    North Thetford. Cong. Ch.                                  8.50\n    Pittsford. \u201cD.\u201d                                            1.00\n    Saint Albans. A. O. Brainerd to const. MRS.\n      FIDELIA G. B. HATCH, L. M.                              30.00\n    Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch., $211.62;\n      South Cong. Ch., $52.94                                264.56\n    Sharon. Cong. Ch., $16.60; Miss S. P. F. and\n      Mrs. A. F., $1 each                                     18.60\n    Springfield. \u201cA Friend of Missions,\u201d to const.\n      AUGUSTA G. HAYWOOD L. M.                                33.81\n    Stowe. Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. W. S.\n      ANDERSON L. M.                                          48.48\n    West Westminster. \u201cMission Band\u201d                          18.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                            $677.86\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Grafton. Estate of Caroline B. Akin, by\n      William Hastings, Ex.                                1,350.00\n                                                        -----------\n                                                          $2,027.86\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $11,656,72.\n\n    Acton. Cong. Ch. to const. C. A. HARRINGTON L. M.         30.00\n    Amherst. Miss I. G Jewett                                  1.50\n    Andover. Calvin E. Goodell, 26; \u201cA Friend,\u201d\n      10; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 4                                       40.00\n    Andover. Mrs. Sophia K Tuffts, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       5.00\n    Ashby. Cong. Ch.                                          11.15\n    Ashburnham. First Cong. Ch. to const. AUGUSTUS\n      A. CHAMBERLAIN L. M.                                    33.17\n     Ashfield. Ladles of Cong. Ch. Bbl. C. and 2,\n      _for Freight, for Chattanooga, Tenn._                    2.00\n    Auburn. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                                   2.00\n    Barre. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch.                              17.90\n    Beverly. Washington St. Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00\n    Beverley. Dane St. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Bolton. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n      U._                                                     10.00\n    Boston. Mount Vernon Cong. Ch., 287.85;\n      Charles Nichols 30, to const. MRS. SARAH J.\n      BIGGS L. M.; Union Ch. 20                              337.85\n    Boston. Cong. Pub. Soc., Pkg. Books, _for\n      Macon, Ga._\n    Boston. Hon. T. W. Bicknell, Books and\n      Pictures; Hon. Hiram Orcutt, Books; _for\n      Library, Straight U._\n    Braintree. First Cong. Ch. bal. to const. REV.\n      THOMAS A. EMERSON L. M.                                  8.54\n    Brimfield. Benev. Soc., First Cong. Ch.                   34.04\n    Brookline. Harvard Ch.                                   118.65\n    Brockton. Mrs. B. Sanford, Bbl. C., _for\n      Tougaloo, Miss._\n    Cambridgeport. Prospect St. Ch.                           80.38\n    Canton. Elijah A. Morse                                  200.00\n    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch.                                   5.00\n    Chicopee. Third Cong. Ch.                                 23.37\n    Conway. Mrs. Wm. Tilton                                    2.00\n    Cummington. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Mrs. C. E. Porter                6.25\n    Curtisville. Rev. A. G. Beebe, _for Tillotson,\n      C. & N. Inst._                                           5.00\n    Dalton. Hon. Z. M. Crane, 100; Mrs. James B.\n      Crane, 100                                             200.00\n    Easthampton. Payson Sab. Sch.                             50.00\n    East Longmeadow. Cong. Ch.                                24.00\n    East Weymouth. Cong. Ch.                                  51.00\n    Enfield. Cong. Ch.                                        44.29\n    Fairhaven. First Cong. Ch.                                10.00\n    Fall River. First Cong Ch.                                85.35\n    Fitchburg. Ladies of Rollstone Ch., _for\n      Furnishing Room, Straight U._                           28.00\n    Framingham. Plymouth Ch. and Soc.                        110.40\n    Freetown. Cong. Ch. and \u201cA Friend.\u201d                       20.00\n    Gardner. J. B. Drury to const. Mrs. L. M.\n      DRURY L. M.                                             30.00\n    Georgetown. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                         14.07\n    Gloucester. Evan Cong. Ch. to const. Mrs.\n      ELIZA G. KING, D. O. MARSHALL and WILLIAM T.\n      FISHER L. Ms.                                          110.00\n    Grafton. Sewing Circle of Cong. Ch., Bbl.\n      Bedding, _for Atlanta U._\n    Granby. Cong Sab. Sch.                                    25.83\n    Great Barrington. First Cong. Ch. (24 of which\n      _for Hampton N. & A. Inst._)                           124.00\n    Great Barrington. Mrs. L. M. Chapin                        5.00\n    Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.                              47.33\n    Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch., 25 and Sab.\n      Sch., 25, _for Memorial Window_; Miss E. F.\n      Osgood\u2019s Class, 25, _for a Door, Tillotson\n      C. & N. Inst. (Building)_                               75.00\n    Greenfield. Miss Jeanette Thompson, in memory\n      of Jennie Thompson, deceased, _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                         100.00\n    Groton. Miss Elizabeth Farnsworth                         20.00\n    Groton. \u201cMother and Daughter,\u201d (10 of which\n      _for Chinese, and 10 for Indian M._)                    30.00\n    Hardwick. First Cal. Ch.                                  11.00\n    Harwich. Cong. Ch.                                        16.66\n    Harwichport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                            20.00\n    Haverhill. North Ch. and Soc., 50; Fourth\n      Cong. Ch., 5                                            55.00\n    Hopkinton. First Cong. Ch., 50.46, and Sab\n      Sch., 69.96                                            120.42\n    Ipswich. Linebrook Cong. Ch.                               5.27\n    Ipswich. South Cong. Ch.                                  35.00\n    Lawrence. Lawrence St. Ch., 147.16; \u201cE. F. E.,\u201d 2        149.16\n    Leeds. \u201cE. L. C.\u201d                                          5.00\n    Leominster. Bible Class, by Rev. G. H. De\n      Bevoise, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                     25.00\n    Lexington. Hancock Ch.                                    25.11\n    Lowell. First Cong. Ch., to const. EDWARD W.\n      FLETCHER, JACOB MURPHY and LEONARD H.\n      HARTLEY L. Ms.                                          97.86\n    Ludlow. Mrs. M. E. Jones, Box C. and 4, _for\n      Macon, Ga._                                              4.00\n    Melrose. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       6.25\n    Millbury. First Cong. Ch.                                 60.01\n    Millbury. Ladies\u2019 Soc., Case C. and Bedding\n      _for Atlanta U._\n    Monson. Cong. Ch., 20; Mrs. Dewey\u2019s S. S.\n      Class, 8                                                28.00\n    Monson. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          10.00\n    New Braintree. \u201cH. D. R.\u201d                                  1.00\n    Newton. Eliot Ch.                                        210.73\n    Newton. W. H. Wardwell, _for Student Aid,\n      Theo. Dept., Talladega C._                              36.00\n    Newton. Ellen D. Jackson, Bbl. C. and Books,\n      _for Macon, Ga._\n    Newton Center. First Cong. Ch.                            61.10\n    Newburyport. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Dakota M._                  25.00\n    Newburyport. Miss T., 1; Freedmen\u2019s Aid, Bbl.\n      of C., _for Washington, D.C._                            1.00\n    Northbridge Center. Cong. Ch.                              5.00\n    Northfield. Trin. Cong. Ch.                                5.00\n    Norfolk. Cong. Ch.                                        11.50\n    Norfolk. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             12.00\n    Northampton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        48.39\n    Northampton. Wm. K. Wright                                30.00\n    North Adams. Cong. Ch.                                    65.52\n    North Brookfield. Union Cong. Ch.                          9.50\n    North Brookfield. By S. F. Fairbanks, Bbl. C.\n    North Falmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        25.00\n    North Rellionse. Mrs. E. R. Gould, _for Macon, Ga._        3.00\n    Oxford. First Cong. Ch., 21.50, and Sab Sch., 16.66       38.16\n    Palmer. Second Cong. Ch.                                  13.15\n    Paxton. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                           22.28\n    Prescott. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                            6.25\n    Pittsfield. James H. Dunham                              100.00\n    Pittsfield. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Mrs. Mary B. Davis.\n      Box C. and Bedding, Val. 70, _for Atlanta U._\n    Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch.                                   75.00\n    Reading. Bethesda Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                50.00\n    Revere. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                        1.00\n    Rockland. Elijah Shaw, to const. WARREN LANE L. M.        50.00\n    Salem. Henry D. Sullivan. _for Ind. Dept.\n      Atlanta U._                                             20.00\n    Salem. \u2014\u2014, Box C. and Toys, _for Washington, D.C._\n    Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               110.00\n    Sherborn. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                      3.00\n    Somerville. E. Stone, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._          50.00\n    Southbridge. Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls. C., _for\n      Talladega C._\n    Spencer. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              195.33\n    Spencer. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Library,\n      McIntosh, Ga._                                          10.05\n    Spencer. Primary Dept. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               7.00\n    Springfield. First Cong. Ch., 139.73; South\n      Cong. Ch., 76.40                                       216.13\n    Springfield. Morgan Envelope Co., 5000\n      Envelopes, Val. 4.50, _for Atlanta U._\n    Stoughton. Mrs. B. E. C.                                   1.00\n    Sunderland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which 13.58\n      _for Memphis, Tenn._)                                   37.13\n    Sutton. \u201cFriends\u201d in Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. and\n      Bedding, 1 _for Freight, for Atlanta U._                 1.00\n    Swampscott. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      BARNETT W. REDFERN L. M.                                30.00\n    South Amherst. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                        33.45\n    South Braintree. Rev. J. B. Sewall                         9.50\n    South Framingham. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                20.00\n    South Sudbury. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., Bbl. C.,\n      _for Atlanta U._\n    South Weymouth. Miss Grover\u2019s S. S. Class,\n      Second Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                6.00\n    Taunton. Union Cong. Ch.                                  12.92\n    Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             55.16\n    Watertown. Collected by Mrs. C. L. Woodworth,\n      4 Bbls. C., _for Savannah, Ga._\n    Watertown. Phillips Mission Band, _for\n      McIntosh, Ga._                                           1.00\n    Wellesley. Cong. Ch.                                      78.00\n    Wellesley Hills. Grantville Ch. and Soc.                  36.00\n    West Boylston. Cong. Ch.                                  51.00\n    West Brookfield. First Cong. Ch.                           7.62\n    West Cummington. J. B. B.                                  0.50\n    West Dennis. Mrs. S. S. C.                                 1.00\n    West Newbury. First Cong. Sab. Sch., 6, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._; First Cong. Ch.,\n      Bbl. C., val. 25, and 1 _for Freight, for\n      Atlanta, Ga._                                            7.00\n    West Springfield. Second Cong. Ch.                        11.88\n    Westport. Pacific Un. Ch. and Soc., 7, and\n      Sab. Sch., 2                                             9.00\n    Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         92.00\n    Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.                             19.02\n    Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             4.10\n    Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 144.20; H.\n      Whitford, 5; Wm. Temple, 5                             154.20\n    Worcester. Union Ch., 301.24, to const.\n      FRANCIS E. KIMBALL, MISS HARRIET T.\n      BOARDMAN, JOHN W. FOLLETT, FRANCIS A.\n      GARDNER, ORANGE S. GORDON, EDWARD B. J.\n      NORMAN, EDWARD W. VAILL, CHARLES A. VAUGHAN,\n      WARREN WILLIAMS and MRS. HENRIETTA A.\n      WAKEFIELD, L. Ms.; Central Ch., 70.16; Old\n      South Ch., 40; Salem St. Ch., 6; \u201cA Friend,\u201d\n      2.50                                                   419.90\n    Worcester. Central Ch. (80c. of which from 4\n      little children for two bricks each) _for\n      Tillotson C. & N. Inst. (Building)_                      2.80\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $5,540.08\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Acton. Estate of Mrs. Harriet Davis, by Moses\n      Taylor, Ex.                                            112.60\n    Holbrook. Estate of Mrs. Prudence D. Holbrook\n      ($800 of which _for support of two teachers_)        1,000.00\n    Lancaster. Estate of Miss Sophia Stearns, by\n      Wm. W. Wyman, Ex.                                        4.04\n    Salem. Estate of John Bertram, by James B.\n      Curwen                                               5,000.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                         $11,656.72\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $598.30.\n\n    Providence. Union Cong. Ch.                              574.30\n    Little Compton. Union Ch.                                 24.00\n    Westerly. Women\u2019s Benev. Soc., Box of C. _for\n      Raleigh, N.C._\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $4,556.37.\n\n    Ansonia. William Terry                                    10.00\n    Ashford. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        5.00\n    Bethel. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00\n    Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                   9.98\n    Black Rock. Cong. Ch.                                     17.75\n    Branford. First Cong. Ch. to const. DEA. A. M.\n      BABCOCK L. M.                                           30.00\n    Bridgeport. Second Cong. Soc.                             50.54\n    Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                20.00\n    Bristol. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       15.00\n    Broad Brook. Cong. Ch.                                    18.65\n    Brookfield Center. Cong. Ch.                              14.84\n    Canton Center. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Talladega C._        25.00\n    Cornwall. First Cong. Ch.                                  9.40\n    Cromwell. Cong. Ch.                                       55.10\n    Danielsonville. _For Washington, D.C._                     5.61\n    East Wallingford. Mrs. Benj. Hall, _for\n      Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                                 5.00\n    Essex. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             33.00\n    Essex. First Cong. Ch.                                    13.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch. (175 of which from Henry\n      D. Hawley)                                             236.95\n    Georgetown. E. Gilbert, _for Library Building,\n      Macon, Ga._                                             25.00\n    Greenville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Furnishing a\n      Room, Straight U._                                      32.73\n    Guilford. First Cong. Ch.                                 24.00\n    Hadlyme. Richard E. Hungerford                           150.00\n    Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., 410.54;\n      Windsor Av. Cong. Ch., 60; to const. TIMOTHY\n      E. STEEL and EDGAR A. BELDEN L. Ms.; Mrs.\n      Mary C. Bemis 25                                       495.54\n    Hebron. Geo. H. Lord                                       8.50\n    Higganum. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, McIntosh, Ga._                              35.17\n    Jewett City. Cong. Ch.                                    26.00\n    Kensington. Cong. Ch.                                      9.37\n    Lyme. First Cong. Ch.                                     21.00\n    Meriden. E. K. Breckenridge, 5; R. P. Rand, 2              7.00\n    Milford. First Cong. Ch.                                   2.74\n    Montville. First Cong. Ch.                                 4.40\n    Moodus. Amasa Day Chaffee                                  3.00\n    New Britain. Mrs. E. W. Welles, 25; Mrs. J. A. K., 1;\n      _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. (Building)_                26.00\n    New Britain. South Cong. Ch. ($5 of which _for\n      John Brown Steamer_)                                   130.07\n    New Haven. \u201cS. S. T., Centre Ch.,\u201d $5; E. A. P., $1        6.00\n    Newington. Cong. Ch., 2 bbls. C. and $2 _for\n      Freight, for Talladega C._                               2.00\n    New London. Second Cong. Ch.                             596.00\n    New London. O. Woodworth, _for furnishing\n      room, Straight U._                                      40.11\n    North Branford. J. A. Palmer                               2.00\n    Northford. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n    North Greenwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      SYLVESTER D. HUSTED L. M                                55.15\n    Norwich. Mrs. Chas. Lee, $30; Buckingham Sab.\n      Sch., $20; Miss S. S. Coit, pkg. Pamphlets              50.00\n    Norwich Town. \u201c*, First Ch.\u201d                              35.00\n    Orange. Cong. Ch.                                          1.00\n    Oxford. Mrs. J. C., _for Tillotson C. and N.\n      Inst._                                                   1.00\n    Plymouth. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           30.00\n    Prospect. Cong. Ch.                                       20.00\n    Redding. Mrs. C. D. S.                                     2.00\n    Rockville. White, Corbin & Co., 13,250\n      Envelopes, value $16.04, _for Atlanta U._\n    Somers. Cong. Ch.                                         21.50\n    Stafford. Mrs. Thomas H. Thresher                          5.00\n    Staffordville. Cong. Ch.                                   5.00\n    Stamford. Thomas Davenport                                 2.00\n    Stonington. \u201cRising Sons and Daughters of\n      Abraham,\u201d by A. Morrison                                 5.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      56.27\n    Thompsonville. D. P.                                       0.50\n    Washington. Mrs. O.S. Brinsmade                            1.50\n    Washington Depot. O. B. Gibson                             5.00\n    Wapping. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               25.08\n    Watertown. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. HELEN\n      GERTRUDE DAYTON and LUCIEN R. HITCHCOCK L.\n      Ms.                                                     66.00\n    Watertown. Dr. John De Forest, 100; Sab. Sch.\n      Classes, 8.15; Rev. B. D. Conkling and wife,\n      6.85, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                  115.00\n    West Chester. Cong. Ch., _for Tillotson C. and\n      N. Inst._                                               15.48\n    West Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          9.14\n    Wilton. Cong. Ch.                                         70.00\n    Windsor Locks. \u201cA Friends.\u201d                               10.00\n    Winsted. Mrs. M.A. Mitchell, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           20.00\n    Winsted. Elias E. Gilman, 10; Mrs. Emily W.\n      Case, 10                                                20.00\n    Wolcott. Cong. Ch.                                        10.80\n    Woodbury. Mrs. E. L. Curtiss, 10; Mrs. C. P.\n      Churchill, 1.50                                         11.50\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $2,905.37\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Avon. Estate of Harry Chidsey, by L. H. Chidsey          400.00\n    Ellington. Estate of Maria Pitkin, by Edwin\n      Talcott, Ex.                                           251.00\n    Farmington. Estate of Asahel Thomson, by\n      Julius Gay, Admr.                                    1,000.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $4,556.37\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $2,318.74.\n\n    Adams Basin. Mrs. Ezekiel Clark                            5.00\n    Albany. First Cong. Ch.                                  100.00\n    Ashville. Cong. Ch.                                        2.00\n    Brooklyn. Clinton Av. Cong. Ch., $871.95, (100\n      of which from A. S. Barnes, _for Tillotson\n      C. and N. Inst._); Mrs. Mary E. Whiton, 20;\n      Mrs. Geo. Hollis, 3                                    894.95\n    Brooklyn. \u201cFriends,\u201d Bbl. C., Mrs. F., 2, _for\n      Washington, D.C._                                        2.00\n    Brooklyn. Freedman\u2019s Helpers, Bbl., C., _for\n      Macon. Ga._\n    Canastota. Enoch B. Northrup, 5; Mr. and Mrs.\n      R. H. Child, 5                                          10.00\n    Cohoes. Mrs. I. Terry                                      5.00\n    Felt\u2019s Mills. Joel A. Hubbard                             30.00\n    Fredonia. Miss Jeannie Kinsman, _for Student\n      Aid, Athens. Ala._                                       8.50\n    Granby Center. J. C. Harrington                           10.00\n    Hudson. Mrs. D. A. Jones                                  15.00\n    Ilion. Mrs. Sophia Miller                                  7.00\n    Kingsborough. J. W.                                        0.50\n    Lockport. By Mrs. G. M. Day, _for Industrial\n      Work, Memphis, Tenn._                                    8.00\n    Marcellus. Mrs. L. Hemenway                                2.00\n    Middlesex. L. Adams and wife                              10.00\n    Millville. Henry L. Hommedieu                              2.25\n    New York. Dr. A. S. Ball                                   5.00\n    New York. Century Co., Papers and magazines;\n      Harper & Bros., pkg. books; E. B. Treat,\n      pkg. books, _for Library, Macon, Ga._\n    New York. A. S. Barnes, 12 vols.; Clark &\n      Maynard, 12 vols.; _for Library, Straight U._\n    New York. Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D. Empress Range,\n      val. 30, _for Housekeeping School, Atlanta U._\n    Napoli. First Cong. Ch.                                   18.10\n    North Walton. Cong. Ch., 14.47 and Sab. Sch.\n      13.16                                                   27.63\n    Oswego. Cong. Ch.                                         43.91\n    Phelps. Mrs. G. C. Prichard, _for Mobile, Ala._           10.00\n    Plattsburgh. G. W. Dodds                                   5.00\n    Perry Center. Ladies Benev. Soc., _for\n      Raleigh, N.C._                                          13.40\n    Rochester. A. Hubregtse                                    1.50\n    Rome. Rev. Wm. B. Hammond                                  5.00\n    Sag Harbor. Geo. B. Brown                                  5.00\n    Smyrna. MARTHA H. NORTHUP, to const. herself\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Troy. Mrs. E. C. Stewart                                   5.00\n    Waterville. Mrs. William F. Winchell, 5; Mrs.\n      J. Candee. 5, _for Student Aid_                         10.00\n    Wellsville. First Cong. Sab. Sch., Box Books\n      and Papers, _for Macon, Ga._\n    West Chazy. Rev. L. Prindle                                2.00\n    Whitesborough. James Symonds                               5.00\n    \u201cA Lady in Broome Co.\u201d                                 1,000.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $50.\n\n    Salem. W. G. Tyler                                        50.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $17.25.\n\n    Canton. H. Sheldon, Map Palestine, _for Macon, Ga._\n    Centre Road. J. A. Scoville                                5.00\n    Guy\u2019s Mills. S. O. F.                                      0.50\n    Hyde Park. Plymouth Cong. Ch. (1 of which _for\n      John Brown Steamer_)                                     1.25\n    Le Raysville. \u201cH. G.\u201d                                      7.00\n    Neath. Cong. Ch.                                           3.50\n    Philadelphia. Rev. E. W. Rice, 20 Copies\n      Books, _for Macon. Ga._\n\n\n  OHIO, $1,219.25.\n\n    Andover. Cong. Ch.                                         3.86\n    Berea. James S. Smedley (5 of which _for John\n      Brown Steamer_)                                         10.00\n    Chardon. Cong. Ch. (5 of which from Rev. A. T.\n      Reed)                                                   13.82\n    Cincinnati. Mrs. Betsey E. Aydelott                        5.00\n    Claridon. D. B. Ladd                                       2.00\n    Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., 50 to const. MRS. R. O.\n      BESWICK L. M.; Franklin Ave. Cong. Ch., 9.41            59.41\n    Cleveland. S. C. Ruggles, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Delaware. Wm. Bevan                                        5.00\n    Elyria. First Cong. Sab. Sch. to const. LESTER\n      F. MCLEAN L. M.                                         40.00\n    Gambier. James S. Sower                                    5.00\n    Harmar. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. _for Talladega C._            21.94\n    Huntsburgh. Capt. A. E. Millard, M. E. Millard            15.00\n    Huntsburgh. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           15.00\n    Kingsville. Myron Whiting                                 20.00\n    Lyme. Cong. Ch.                                           22.77\n    Madison. One and a half Bbl. C., 4 _for\n      Freight, for Selma, Ala._                                4.00\n    Martinsburgh. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                  0.50\n    Medina. Woman\u2019s Missionary Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      10.00\n    Monroeville. Hoyt Children, _for new Building,\n      Mobile, Ala._                                            0.10\n    Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch.                                  107.71\n    North Bloomfield. E. A. Brown, _for Talladega C._         50.00\n    Oberlin. Ladies Aid Soc., First Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Lady Missionary Atlanta, Ga._                      75.00\n    Painesville. First Ch. to const. ALBERT C.\n      PEPOON, HARRY C. BEARDSLEE, HERBERT G.\n      HOUSE, GEO. W. VIESEY, JAMES RIVERS, WM.\n      CLAYTON, LUCIUS E. JUDSON, W. H. LUDLUM, J.\n      S. WERNER, HENRY P. BATEHAM, LOUIS G. SEARS,\n      C. O.  HIGGINS, H. C. CAMP, CLARENCE A.\n      HINE, FRED. W. LITTLEJOHN, HEBER LITTLE, W.\n      C. TISDEL and T. S. BALDWIN L. Ms.                     588.35\n    Peru. \u201cFriends.\u201d _for Student Aid, Talladega C._          16.00\n    Springfield. First Cong. Ch., 25.80; Miss\n      Lizzie Wright\u2019s S. S. Class, 4.45; Mattie\n      Berry\u2019s Class, 4.73; Infants\u2019 Class, 3                  37.98\n    South Toledo. Mrs. J. H. N.                                1.00\n    Strongsville. Elijah Lyman                                10.00\n    Tallmadge. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                20.35\n    Wakeman. Second Cong. Ch.                                 21.69\n    Windham. Wm. A. Perkins                                    5.00\n    Weymouth. Miss F. J. Webster, 2.60, Ladies\u2019\n      Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Reading Room 2.02, for\n      Tougaloo U._                                             4.62\n    Weymouth. Rev. G. J. Webster, _for Freight,\n      for Macon, Ga._                                          1.60\n    West Andover. Cong Ch.                                     1.55\n\n\n  INDIANA, $35.00.\n\n    Fort Wayne. Plym. Cong. Ch.                               25.00\n    South Bend. R. Burroughs                                  10.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $692.04.\n\n    Albion. Mrs. M. Skeavington, 4.50; Dea. James\n      Green, 1.50                                              6.00\n    Batavia. Cong. Ch.                                        34.50\n    Belvidere. Miss Elizabeth Smith                            3.00\n    Beecher. Cong. Ch.                                        12.90\n    Cambridge. First Cong. Ch.                                13.55\n    Chebansee. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                            10.00\n    Chicago. N. E. Cong. Ch., 93.55, and Sab.\n      Sch., 74.61; Mrs. J. H. McArthur, 5; Mrs. C. R., 1     174.16\n    Chicago. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                               30.90\n    Chicago. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Chattanooga, Tenn._                                     25.00\n    Chicago. A. H. Andrews & Co., 8 in. Globe,\n      _for Macon, Ga._\n    Cobden. E. W. Towne                                        6.50\n    Danville. Miss Anna Swan, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            5.00\n    Elgin. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Evanston. Mrs. J. M. Williams, Bdl. Sheets, _for\n      Fisk U._\n    Genesee. Cong. Ch.                                        30.86\n    Hamlet. L. C.                                              0.50\n    Hinsdale. J. W. Bushnell                                   5.00\n    Kewanee. Cong. Ch.                                        50.00\n    Lyndon. Mrs. O. Hubbard, 1.50; Mrs. M. A. W.,\n      50c.; J. W. H., 50c                                      2.50\n    Millburn. \u2014\u2014                                              10.00\n    Millburn. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                               15.00\n    Oak Park. First Cong. Ch.                                 93.52\n    Payson. Cong. Ch.                                         15.00\n    Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss                               15.00\n    Rochelle. Mrs. Holcombe, Box Bedding, _for\n      Fisk U._\n    Rockport. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   25.00\n    Roscoe. Cong. Ch.                                         15.11\n    Shirland. Mrs. J. G. L.                                    0.50\n    Sycamore. Mrs. Henry Wood, 2.50; David West,\n      2; \u201cAnon,\u201d 50c                                           5.00\n    Wethersfield. A. B. Kellogg                                5.00\n    Winetka. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           20.00\n    Winnebago. Ladies\u2019 Soc., Box Bedding, _for\n      Fisk U._\n                                                            -------\n                                                            $654.50\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Galesburgh. Estate of W. C. Willard, by Prof.\n      T. R. Willard                                           37.54\n                                                            -------\n                                                            $692.04\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $310.81.\n\n    Calumet. \u201cCalumet\u201d                                        25.00\n    Calumet. Mrs. F. M. Wright\u2019s S. S. Class, 5;\n      Ruth, Louisa and Winifred Cole, 1.50, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               6.50\n    Chelsea. John C. Winans                                  200.00\n    Columbus. Cong. Ch.                                        8.60\n    Deep River. N. H. Culver                                  10.00\n    Dexter. Dennis Warner                                     10.00\n    Excelsior. Cong. Ch.                                      10.00\n    Greenville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           22.02\n    Lansing. Rebecca S. Brown                                  2.00\n    Richmond. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  1.50\n    Summit. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc.                                 3.59\n    White Lake. Robert Garner                                 10.00\n    Walton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                    1.60\n\n\n  IOWA $190.23.\n\n    Burlington. Cong. Ch.                                     51.35\n    Clay. Cong. Ch., 8, and Sab. Sch., 4                      12.00\n    Corning. Cong. Ch.                                         7.25\n    Council Bluffs. Ladies\u2019 H. M. Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           15.00\n    Decorah. Cong. Ch., 19.90; G. C. Winship, 10              29.90\n    Garner. C. Wells                                           5.00\n    Genoa Bluffs. Cong. Ch.                                   11.00\n    Grinnell. Cong. Ch, 39.04; Prof. F. P. B., 1              40.04\n    McGregor. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc.                              9.24\n    Nashua and Bradford. Ladies, _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 2.25\n    New Hampton. Woman\u2019s Cent. Soc.                            2.20\n    Sherrill\u2019s Mound. Rev. Jacob Reuth                         2.00\n    Stacyville. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc. _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans_                                 3.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $510.62.\n\n    Appleton. First Cong. Ch., ad\u2019l                            5.09\n    Arena. Ladies\u2019 Missy Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._                            3.39\n    Beloit. First Cong. Ch.                                    3.96\n    Fond du Lac. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._                           10.00\n    La Crosse. First Cong. Ch.                                50.75\n    La Crosse. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Lake Geneva. Presb. Ch.                                   30.22\n    Madison. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                50.00\n    Madison. Wm. J. Park & Co., Books, val. 10\n    Milwaukee. Grand Av. Cong. Ch., 60; Ladies\u2019\n      Miss\u2019y Soc. Grand Av. Ch., 25                           85.00\n    Ripon. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._        13.00\n    Rosendale. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Library,\n      Macon, Ga._                                              5.00\n    Salem. Wm. Munson                                         50.00\n    Sheboygan. D. B.                                           1.00\n    Union Grove. Cong. Ch.                                    20.00\n    Whitewater. First Cong. Ch.                              100.84\n    Whitewater. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Mrs. Coburn, _for\n      Memphis, Tenn._                                          7.37\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cFriend,\u201d _for Student Aid, Straight U._               50.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $214.92.\n\n    Alexandria. Sophronia H. Childs, deceased, by\n      Marian Childs                                            3.50\n    Armada. First. Cong. Ch.                                  26.03\n    Austin. Cong. Ch.                                         22.22\n    Faribault. Cong. Ch.                                      26.42\n    Glyndon. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. and 3 _for\n      Freight, for Talladega C._                               3.00\n    Hamilton. S. H. Gaylord                                    5.00\n    Hutchinson. Cong. Ch.                                      4.26\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., 60.22; Pilgrim Ch., 4.76       64.98\n    Minneapolis. Second Cong. Ch., _for Furnishing\n      Treasurer\u2019s Office, Stone Hall, Atlanta U._             50.00\n    Minneapolis. E. T. First Cong. Ch.                         5.51\n    Plainview. Cong. Ch.                                       4.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $20.00.\n\n    St. Louis. First Cong. Ch.                                20.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $517.65.\n\n    Atchison. Cong. Ch.                                       17.65\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Lawrence. Estate of Sarah C. Adams, by E.\n      Corning Cowles, Ex.                                    500.00\n                                                            -------\n                                                            $517.65\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $41.00.\n\n    Indianola. Cong. Ch.                                       9.00\n    Lincoln. \u201cR. and C\u201d                                        6.00\n    Nebraska City. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                 15.00\n    Silver. Melinda Bowen                                     10.00\n    Wayne. Rev. G. S.                                          1.00\n\n\n  DAKOTA, $3.00.\n\n    Mitchell. J. J. Gray, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                              3.00\n    Vermillion. Rev. G. S. Bascom, Pkg. Books,\n      _for Macon, Ga._\n\n\n  ARIZONA, $1.50.\n\n    Fort Whipple. Mrs. D. R. Clendenin                         1.50\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TER., $10.00.\n\n    Skokomish. Cong. Ch.                                      10.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $437.45.\n\n    Colton. Chas. A. Birchard                                 10.00\n    San Francisco. Receipts of \u201cThe California\n      Chinese Mission\u201d                                       427.45\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $4.10.\n\n    Washington. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Washington, D.C._              2.10\n    Washington. Lincoln Memorial Ch.                           2.00\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $766.35.\n\n    Chattanooga. Rent                                        175.00\n    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition                          230.10\n    Memphis. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                           7.50\n    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition                              353.75\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $213.00.\n\n    Raleigh. Cong. Ch.                                         1.40\n    Wilmington. Normal School, Tuition, $206.60;\n      Cong. Ch., $5                                          211.60\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $327.65.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition                         327.65\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $752.09.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $210.35; Rent, $3         213.35\n    Atlanta. First Cong. Ch.                                  30.00\n    Atlanta. Chamberlain & Boynton, M. Rich &\n      Bro., John Keeley, Wm. Bolman & Bro.,\n      _Articles for Furnishing Housekeeping\n      School, Atlanta U._\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $280.28;\n      Rent, $16; Cong. Ch., $5                               301.28\n    McIntosh. Tuition, $41.68: Cong. Ch., $10.37              52.05\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $145.41; Rent, $10       155.41\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $859.02.\n\n    Athens. Tuition                                           43.00\n    Marion. Cong. Ch., 60.37; Tuition, 6.25                   66.62\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, 568.85; Cong.\n      Ch. 60c                                                569.45\n    Mobile. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for School Mottoes_, 13;\n      Geo. R. Dunham, 13.30; Wm Otis, 10.; Neander\n      Crane, 5.; Others 60c. _for new Building\n      Mobile, Ala._                                           41.90\n    Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     37.00\n    Selma. Cong. Ch.                                          18.00\n    Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition                          83.05\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $61.40.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition                            61.40\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $188.50.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                        188.50\n\n\n  TEXAS, $189.60.\n\n    Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst., Tuition                 189.60\n\n\n  INCOMES, $618.92.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               608.50\n    Tuthill King Endowment Fund, _for Atlanta U._             10.42\n\n\n  CANADA, $5.00.\n\n    Sherbrooke. Rev. Archibald Duff                            5.00\n                                                         ----------\n      Total                                              $30,539.69\n    Total from Oct. 1, to Jan. 31                        $85,555.11\n                                                         ==========\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n    RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION, E.\n      Palache, Treasurer, from Sept. 20, 1882, to\n      Jan. 20, 1883:\n    FROM AUXILIARY MISSIONS: Marysville,\n      Anniversary Col., 15.40; Annual Members, 10;\n      Chinese Monthly Offerings, 32.20.\u2014Petaluma,\n      Chinese Monthly Offerings, 6.95\u2014Sacramento,\n      First Cong. Ch., 12.50; Chinese Monthly\n      Offerings, 35.\u2014Santa Barbara, Chinese\n      Monthly Offerings, 21.\u2014Santa Cruz, First\n      Cong. Ch., 10; Chinese Monthly Offerings,\n      8.50.\u2014Stockton, Annual Members, 6: Chinese\n      Monthly Offerings, 12.85                               170.40\n    FROM CHURCHES: Calahan\u2019s, Cong. Ch.,\n      4.75\u2014Etna, Cong. Ch., 1.50.\u2014Fort Jones,\n      Cong. Ch., 2.35.\u2014Grass Valley, Cong. Ch.,\n      Mrs. H. Scott, 2.\u2014Oakland, First Cong. Ch.,\n      11.40; Chin Fung, 50c.\u2014Oakland, Plym. Av.\n      Ch., Annual Members, 4.\u2014Oro Fino, Cong.\n      Ch., 2.25\u2014Rio Vista, Cong. Ch., Annual\n      Members, 6.\u2014Saratoga, Cong. Ch., Rev. W. H.\n      Cross, 2.\u2014San Francisco, First Cong. Ch.,\n      18.75; Annual Members, 2; Third Cong. Ch.,\n      Collected at Annual Meeting of the Mission,\n      $14.20.\u2014Bethany Ch., Annual Members, 2;\n      Hong Sing, 50c.\u2014Chinese Monthly Offerings,\n      Central No. 7, 19: Central No. 2, 15.90;\n      Barnes, 14.85; Bethany, 7.85; West, 22.25              154.05\n    FROM INDIVIDUAL DONORS: Oakland, Mrs. N. Gray,\n      1; Rev. F. J. Culver, 2.\u2014San Francisco, W.\n      F. & Co., 5                                              8.00\n    FROM EASTERN FRIENDS: Bangor, Me., Hon. J. B.\n      Foster, 50; \u201cAlmost Home,\u201d 25; \u201cFriends,\u201d\n      10.\u2014Wilmington, Mass., Rev. D. P. Noyes,\n      5.\u2014Mitchellville, Ia., M. B. 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Pamphlet giving further particulars mailed free\non application.\n\n                        MANUFACTURED BY THE\n\n                      RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS,\n\n                         Providence, R.I.,\n\n                  AND FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration: THE\n\nRISING SUN STOVE POLISH]\n\n    For beauty of gloss, for saving of toil,\n    For freeness from dust and slowness to soil,\n    And also for cheapness \u2019tis yet unsurpassed,\n    And thousands of merchants are selling it fast.\n\n    Of all imitations \u2019tis well to beware;\n    The half risen sun every package should bear;\n    For this is the \u201ctrade mark\u201d the MORSE BROS. use,\n    And none are permitted the mark to abuse.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  Smith\n  AMERICAN\n  ORGANS]\n\n                           ARE THE BEST.\n\n\n                 _Catalogues Free on Application._\n\nAddress the Company either at\n\n  BOSTON, MASS., 531 Tremont Street;\n  LONDON, ENG., 57 Holborn Viaduct;\n  KANSAS CITY, Mo., 817 Main Street;\n  ATLANTA, GA., 27 Whitehall Street;\n  Or, DEFIANCE, O.\n\n\n                         OVER 95,000 SOLD.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                    7 PER CENT. TO 8 PER CENT.\n\n                     Interest Net to Investors\n\n                      In First Mortgage Bonds\n\n                         ON IMPROVED FARMS\n\n                  In Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota,\n\n                            SECURED BY\n\n                        ORMSBY BROS. & CO.,\n\n                  BANKERS, LOAN AND LAND BROKERS,\n\n                         EMMETSBURG, IOWA.\n\n        References and Circulars forwarded on Application.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  Home\n  Estey\n  Chapel]\n\n                          THE ESTEY ORGAN\n\nwill deserve the reputation of former years by the continued\naddition of all the embellishments and improvements that costly and\nskilled artisans can produce.\n\nIllustrated Catalogues, with elegant and varied styles, sent free\nto all applicants.\n\nJ. ESTEY & CO., Brattleboro, Vt.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             MANHATTAN\n\n                    LIFE INS. CO. OF NEW YORK,\n\n                      _156 and 158 Broadway_.\n\n\n                        THIRTY-THIRD YEAR.\n\n\n  DESCRIPTION\u2014One of the oldest, strongest, best.\n\n  POLICIES\u2014Incontestable, non-forfeitable, definite cash\n    surrender values.\n\n  RATES\u2014Safe, low, and participating or not, as desired.\n\n  RISKS carefully selected.\n\n  PROMPT, liberal dealing.\n\nGENERAL AGENTS AND CANVASSERS WANTED in desirable territory, to\nwhom permanent employment and liberal compensation will be given.\n\nAddress\n\n                                          H. STOKES, President.\n\n  H. Y. WEMPLE, Sec\u2019y.\n  S. N. STEBBINS, Act\u2019y.\n  J. L. HALSEY, 1st V.-P.\n  H. B. STOKES, 2d V.-P.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                        LILIPUTIAN BAZAAR.\n\n[Illustration: Perfect]\n\nEVERY CHILD should wear our =\u201cPerfect\u201d Waists=. They support the\nclothing directly from the shoulders, and far surpass all others\nin comfort, perfection in fit and beauty of shape. _We furnish\neverything for children\u2019s wear_, =Boys\u2019=, =Girls\u2019= and =Babies\u2019\nClothing=, including every article required for complete outfits\nfor all ages up to 16 years. =Better styles better made, better\nfitting=, than can be had elsewhere, and lower prices. _Mail orders\nhave careful attention._ Catalogues free.\n\n  BEST & CO.\n  60 W. 23d ST.,\n  Bet. 5th & 6th Aves.\n  N.Y.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                          FRANK LESLIE\u2019S\n\n                         SUNDAY MAGAZINE.\n\n                    T. DE WITT TALMAGE, Editor.\n\n                       SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.\n\nWith 1883 the SUNDAY MAGAZINE entered on a new series, with\nthe distinctive purpose of providing such a variety of reading\nmatter of the highest literary merit (entertaining, chaste and\ninstructive) as shall commend it to Christian parents and those\nengaged in the instruction of the young. Its purpose is to provide\nthe healthiest, yet most sparkling literature, for young and old.\nDR. TALMAGE is the real editor, and intends to put his best work\ninto it. Writers of the greatest acknowledged excellence contribute\nto its pages, and THE ILLUSTRATIONS are of a higher grade than any\nthat have hitherto appeared in the Magazine.\n\nAmong other unique attractions are the following twelve questions\nanswered by the leaders of each denomination:\n\n  WHAT IS METHODISM?\n  WHAT IS MORAVIANISM?\n  WHAT IS LUTHERANISM?\n  WHAT IS EPISCOPALIANISM?\n  WHAT IS PRESBYTERIANISM?\n  WHAT IS SWEDENBORGIANISM?\n  WHAT IS CONGREGATIONALISM?\n  WHAT IS ROMAN CATHOLICISM?\n  WHAT IS THE BAPTIST CHURCH?\n  WHAT IS THE CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES?\n  WHAT IS THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH?\n  WHAT IS THE REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH?\n\nRev. Moses D. Hoge, D.D., Richmond, Va.; Rev. Charles H. Hall,\nD.D., Brooklyn, N.Y.; Rev. Chauncey Giles, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa.;\nRev. Isaac Errett, D.D., Cincinnati, O.; Rev. Daniel Curry, D.D.,\nN.Y.; Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, D.D., N.Y.; Rev. F. C. Ewer, D.D.,\nN.Y.; Bishop Charles E. Cheney, Chicago, Ill., and others will\nanswer the above questions.\n\n  SUNDAY MAGAZINE is $3 per Year, Postage Free; 4 Copies, $9; 6\n    Copies, $12.\n\nLiberal terms to agents. Specimen Copy to any address for 10 cents.\nRemit by Money Order or Registered Letter to\n\n                  FRANK LESLIE\u2019S SUNDAY MAGAZINE,\n                    53, 55, 57 Park Place, N.Y.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNo Christian family can afford to be without missionary\nintelligence, and no missionary society can afford to be without\nreaders of its publications; it had better give them to the readers\nwithout pay than to have no readers. Missionary zeal will die in\nthe churches without missionary intelligence.\n\nBut it would be far better for both the societies and the readers\nif missionary news were paid for. This would give the magazine\nattentive perusal and the society relief from the reproach of a\nlarge expense for publication. Missionary publications should be\nput on a _paying basis_. Aside from a free list to life members,\nministers, etc., the cost of publication should be made up by\npaying subscribers and advertisements.\n\nWe are anxious to put the AMERICAN MISSIONARY on this basis. We\nintend to make it worth its price, and we ask our patrons to aid us:\n\n1. More of our readers can take pains to send us either the\nmoderate subscription price (50 cents), or $1.00, naming a friend\nto whom we may send a second copy.\n\n2. A special friend in each church can secure subscribers at\nclub-rates (12 copies for $5 or 25 copies for $10).\n\n3. Business men can benefit themselves by advertising in a\nperiodical that has a circulation of over 20,000 copies monthly and\nthat goes to many of the best men and families in the land. Will\nnot our friends aid us to make this plan a success?\n\nSubscriptions should be sent to H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer, 56 Reade\nst., New York, N.Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with\nthe almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its\nmain efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens\nand Christians in America, and as missionaries in Africa. As\nclosely related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted\nCHINESE in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its\nhumane and Christian policy toward the INDIANS.\n\n\nSTATISTICS FOR 1882.\n\nCHURCHES: _In the South_\u2014In District of Columbia, 1; Virginia,\n1; North Carolina, 9; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 14; Kentucky,\n7; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 14; Kansas, 2; Arkansas, 1; Louisiana,\n17; Mississippi, 5; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 3. _Among the Indians_, 2.\nTotal, 88.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE\nSOUTH.\u2014_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.;\nAtlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans,\nLa., and Austin, Tex.\u20148. _Graded or Normal Schools_: Wilmington,\nN.C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S.C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.;\nMontgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.\u201411. _Other\nSchools_, 38. Total, 57.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014Among the Freedmen, 336:\namong the Chinese, 31; among the Indians, 6; in Africa, 16. Total,\n389. STUDENTS.\u2014In theology, 72; law, 28; in college course, 104;\nin other studies, 9,404. Total, 9,608. Scholars taught by former\npupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. Indians under the care\nof the Association, 13,000.\n\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the\ngrowing work. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and\n_larger_ contributions from the churches, the feeble as well as the\nstrong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccommodate the increasing number of students; MEETING HOUSES for\nthe new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and\npious, for these churches.\n\n3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and\nmissionaries to Africa\u2014a pressing want.\n\n\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\nImages have been moved outside of paragraphs, resulting in page\nnumbers that are slightly off.\n\nChanged \u201ccarrried\u201d to \u201ccarried\u201d on page 86. (our work begun and\ncarried)\n\nMissing \u201ca\u201d inserted in \u201cand\u201d on the back cover (humane and\nChristian policy)","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 37, No. 3, March, 1883","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":20304}