{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_60697/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_60697","id":"gutenberg_60697","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60697","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: APRIL, 1883.\n\nVOL. XXXVII.\n\nNO. 4.\n\nThe American Missionary]\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\n                                                         PAGE.\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    THIS NUMBER\u2014FINANCIAL                                   97\n    PARAGRAPHS                                              98\n    DEATH OF MRS. G. S. POPE\u2014PARAGRAPHS                     99\n    COLOR PREJUDICE\u2014BENEFACTIONS                           100\n    GENERAL NOTES\u2014AFRICA\u2014THE CHINESE                       101\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    WORK TRANSFERRED BY THE AM. BOARD                      102\n    SUGGESTIONS OF ENLARGEMENT                             103\n    SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL (cut)                    104\n    ASPECTS OF THE INDIAN PROBLEM, BY HON. CARL SCHURZ     105\n    WORK AT CARLISLE, BY CAPT. R. H. PRATT                 108\n    MANDAN HUT, DAKOTA (cut)                               111\n    HISTORY AND OUTLOOK OF THE INDIAN WORK TRANSFERRED\n      TO THE A. M. A., PROF. ALFRED L. RIGGS               111\n    SISSETON GIRLS, WITH TEACHER (cut)                     114\n    INDIAN INDUSTRIES AT HAMPTON, GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG     115\n    REVIVAL WORK AMONG INDIANS AT HAMPTON, MISS ISABEL\n      B. EUSTIS                                            117\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    INDIAN HUT (cut)                                       118\n    THE LITTLE INDIAN OF CLEAR LAKE                        118\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                 120\n\n\n  AIM AND WORK\u2014STATISTICS\u2014WANTS                            123\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\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPRESIDENT.\n\n  HON. WM. B. WASHBURN, LL.D., Mass.\n\n\nCORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n  Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\nTREASURER.\n\n  H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\nAUDITORS.\n\n  M. F. READING.\n  WM. A. NASH.\n\n\nEXECUTIVE 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\nDISTRICT SECRETARIES\n\n  Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.\n  Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_.\n  Rev. JAMES POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields,\nto the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the\n\u201cAmerican Missionary,\u201d to Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New York\nOffice.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,\nor, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 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\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\u201cI BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of \u2014\u2014 dollars, in\ntrust, to pay the same in \u2014\u2014 days after my decease to the person\nwho, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the\n\u2018American Missionary Association\u2019 of New York City, to be applied,\nunder the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association,\nto its charitable uses and purposes.\u201d The Will should be attested\nby three witnesses.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\u201cI THINK I\u2019D LIKE TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS WHEN I\u2019M SIXTY.\u201d\n\nThe gentleman who made the above remark carries a $10,000 endowment\npolicy in the STATE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, of Worcester,\nMass. That sum will be paid to _him_ at \u201csixty,\u201d or to his family\nif he dies before reaching that age.\n\nThousands of men now living will _need_ $10,000 when they become\n\u201csixty\u201d\u2014and their families will need it should they die before\nattaining that age. Both of these objects can be secured by the\npayment of a small sum each year to\n\nTHE STATE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE CO., OF WORCESTER, MASS.,\n\nWhich is one of the OLDEST, STRONGEST and BEST companies in the\nUnited States.\n\nThis Company guarantees a CASH-SURRENDER value of every policy it\nissues after the second annual payment.\n\n\nEXAMPLE.\n\n1. An ordinary life policy, issued at the age of 30 for $10,000,\nannual premium $226.30. (The second and all subsequent premiums\nwill be reduced by dividends.) After ten annual premiums have been\npaid, the guaranteed cash-surrender value is $909.80; the paid-up\nvalue $2,387.70, or more than gross premiums paid. The _net_ cost\nfor the past ten years of all similar policies has been $1,692.77,\nwhich reduced the cost of the insurance to $7.83 per $1,000 for\neach year.\n\nThis Company never disputes, or resists, an honest claim. It has\nbeen a party to only four suits in thirty-eight years\u2014and in _no\ncase_ have the courts held a claim, resisted by the company, _to be\nvalid_.\n\nFor full explanations, please call on or address\n\n                  C. W. ANDERSON, General Agent,\n                                            145 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n            Vol. XXXVII.      APRIL, 1883.      No. 4.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe devote the greater part of this number of the MISSIONARY to the\nIndian problem. Communications will be found from Capt. Pratt,\nGen. Armstrong, Hon. Carl Schurz and Prof. Riggs. These gentlemen\nhave made the condition of the Indian a study for some years, and,\nby experience in public service, in the army, and by educational\nand religious endeavors, have had rare opportunities to test\ntheir theories and principles by practical efforts in behalf of\nthe Indians. We know of no men more competent to speak on the\nsubject or more worthy of the confidence of the public. Statistics\nrelating to our Indian work, including that recently transferred\nto us by the American Board, are given. As we now are charged with\nthe entire work done by the Congregationalists for the American\naborigines, we trust we shall have the prayers and help needful for\ndoing it efficiently.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFINANCIAL.\n\nOur _receipts_ show a falling off. Five months of the fiscal year\nare ended, and the receipts from donations are $20,774.39 less\nthan for the corresponding months of last year; from legacies\nonly $17,471.44 more. The decrease is in the contributions of\nliving donors, and upon these rather than upon legacies, which\nare fluctuating and uncertain, must the Association rely for its\nregular support. Its _work_ was never more successful or needed.\nThe kind of schools and churches it establishes, and the preachers\nand teachers it sends forth, are becoming more fully appreciated.\nWe are urgently invited to enter new and unusually promising\nopenings for an enlarged church work. The valuable service rendered\nby our increased corps of lady missionaries makes a strong demand\nfor large additions to their number. The Indian work received by\nthe Association from the American Board will add about $20,000\nto the expenditures of the year, without the enlargement which\nit so greatly needs. The Chinese work makes a strong appeal for\nadditional accommodations for the increasing number of pupils in\nthe schools.\n\nWithout an increase of receipts, or the creation of a debt,\nthe Association cannot enlarge its work, or even sustain it in\nits present condition. Our Executive Committee feel themselves\npledged against a debt by their promises to the public and by\ntheir own deep convictions of duty. But they confidently believe\nthat the conscientious donors who have stood by the Association\nso faithfully in the past will promptly render such efficient\nassistance as will not only save it from debt or curtailment, but\nwill authorize enlargement.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMUST HAVES.\n\nThe following \u201cmust haves\u201d sent us in a private letter from\nPresident Ware, of Atlanta, illustrate the urgency of the appeals\nthat constantly come to us from our different workers South.\nMr. Ware says: \u201cWe must have buildings; we must have endowments\nfor running expenses; we must or go to the wall; we must have\nbuilding for grade B; for model school building, $8,000; we must\nhave cottage in girls\u2019 lot for housekeeping instruction, $5,000;\nwe must have new hall for girls, $25,000, that will give room for\n100 girls; we must have shop for industries, carpenter, etc., and\nendowment for support of man in that department, about $50,000 for\nboth;\u201d a batch, it will be seen, of $88,000, with no estimate of\nthe amount needed for general endowment. We believe that it has\nbeen found so far by those who have put their money into Atlanta\nUniversity that it has yielded \u201csome thirty, some sixty, and some\nan hundred fold.\u201d The stock is not all taken. We invite investors\nto examine the \u201cpoints\u201d in this venture, and trust that the merits\nof the security will warrant a speedy absorption of the entire\namount called for.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe are cheered by many kind words relating to the AMERICAN\nMISSIONARY, and believe that those interested in the nation\u2019s\nwelfare, and especially in the redemption of the South, find in\nit much to encourage them to hope and to give in behalf of the\npeople for whom we labor. Nothing, however, gives more evidence\nof appreciation than the steady response to our appeals for paid\nsubscriptions. So far this year these have been very gratifying.\nThe price is fifty cents, and we hope there will be no abatement\nof interest on the part of our friends in helping us place the\nmagazine on a paying basis.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIn the list of the teachers at Hampton, as reported in the February\n_Missionary_, the name of Miss Waldron should have been put as Miss\nM. M. Waldron, M.D., School Physician.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDEATH OF MRS. G. S. POPE.\n\nAfter an illness of ten days, terminating in malarial pneumonia,\nMrs. Pope died Feb. 2, at Tougaloo University, Tougaloo, Miss. For\nthe past fifteen years she had been engaged in missionary work\nunder the A. M. A., laboring in Montgomery, Louisville, Selma,\nTalladega and Tougaloo. Mrs. Pope brought into her work rare\nqualities of mind and heart. Her good judgment, her readiness in\nemergencies and her kindly interest in every one was an inspiration\nto all. Her death will be sorely felt, not only by her husband and\ntwo little boys, but by the large corps of workers, and the pupils\nwith whom she has been associated for so many years.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe conventions held in Connecticut by the Congregational\nbenevolent societies during February were well attended. One\nhundred and eleven churches were invited and eighty-eight\nrepresented. The meetings for April will be held in the following\norder: Tuesday, the 3d, Thomaston, morning and afternoon;\nWednesday, the 4th, Waterbury, 2d church, morning and afternoon;\nThursday, the 5th, New Britain, afternoon and evening; Tuesday,\nthe 10th, New Haven, Davenport Church, afternoon and evening;\nWednesday, the 11th, Rockville, 1st church, morning and afternoon;\nThursday, the 12th, Putnam, morning and afternoon; Tuesday,\nthe 17th, Norfolk, morning and afternoon; Wednesday, the 18th,\nTorrington, 3d church, morning and afternoon; Thursday, the\n19th, West Winsted, morning and afternoon; Tuesday, the 24th,\nDanielsonville, morning and afternoon; Wednesday, the 25th,\nNorwich, 2d church, morning and afternoon; Thursday, the 26th, New\nLondon, 1st church, morning and afternoon; Friday, the 27th, New\nHaven, Fair Haven, 1st church, morning and afternoon.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u201cSERMONS AND SPEECHES,\u201d by Rev. Atticus G. Haygood, D.D., is the\ntitle of a neat volume issued by the Southern Methodist Publishing\nHouse, Nashville. It contains 428 pages, and is offered at the low\nprice of $1.25. The sermon likely to attract the most attention is\non \u201cThe New South, Gratitude, Amendment, Hope.\u201d It was preached\non Thanksgiving Day, 1880, and circulated extensively in pamphlet\nform. \u201cA Christian Citizen,\u201d another sermon, is perhaps of equal\nmerit, and especially pertinent to the condition of affairs South.\nThe addresses of special interest to the general reader relate\nto \u201cThe Negro\u2014A Citizen\u201d and \u201cThe New South from a Southern\nStandpoint.\u201d These addresses are comprehensive, catholic and kindly\nin spirit. Dr. Haygood convinces his readers of his sincerity, and\ncharms them by the vigor and freshness of his style. Every word he\nutters indicates his purpose to do good. The circulation of these\nsermons and speeches will do much to create better feeling between\nwell-disposed people North and South. We wish the book the success\nit merits.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPursuant to the action taken at our last Annual Meeting relating\nto a petition requesting a report on the policy of the Association\nin regard to race or color prejudice in the support of schools or\nchurches, our Executive Committee, to whom the matter was referred,\nhave passed the following minutes.\n\nI. That in accordance with the New Testament doctrine upon which\nthe Association was founded, and by which it has from the beginning\nbeen governed, that God has made of one blood all the nations of\nmen, we reiterate the rule, which we believe that fidelity to\nChrist requires, that all our churches and schools shall open their\ndoors impartially to persons of every class, race and color.\n\nII. That in obedience to the same New Testament doctrine, we shall\nrequire that all churches aided by us shall unite with neighboring\nchurches of the same faith and order in Christian fellowship in\nthe same conferences or associations, and in other usual means of\nfraternity and fellowship, making no distinctions on account of\nrace or color.\n\nIII. That this Association will not enter upon any new church work\nin any city or town where the American Home Missionary Society has\nalready established a church work, without previous conference with\nthe officers of its sister Society.\n\nMinutes similar in purport to the above have been passed by the\nHome Missionary Society.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nMr. William Backnell, of Philadelphia, has given $60,000 to the\nUniversity of Lewisburg, Pa., for endowment purposes.\n\nWestminster College is to receive $2,000 from the estate of Miss\nJane A. Thompson, of Missouri.\n\nThe late Mr. Samuel Willets gave $100,000 to Swarthmore College, a\nQuaker institution, near Philadelphia.\n\nDartmouth College is to receive $50,000 from the estate of the late\nGeorge T. Wilson, of Providence, R.I.\n\nIt is reported that Wm. H. Vanderbilt has recently given $100,000\nto Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn.\n\nMrs. Mary Young has given $500,000 to Fall River, Mass., for the\nestablishment of a school of high rank. The gift is made in memory\nof an only son.\n\nWashburn College received a Christmas gift of $1,000 from Mrs.\nEmily G. Williston, of East Hampton, Mass., and a New Year\u2019s\noffering of $1,000 from Hon. Wm. Hyde, of Ware, Mass.\n\nBy the will of the late Wm. E. Dodge, of New York, the Syrian\nProtestant College is to receive $20,000; Lincoln University,\n$10,000; Howard University, Atlanta University and Hampton\nInstitute, $5,000 each.\n\nMiss Baxter has given $50,000 to provide a laboratory for a college\nat Dundee, Scotland, which was founded by herself and her cousin,\nDr. Baxter, some years ago, at an expense of $750,000.\n\nMrs. Adeline Smith, of Oak Park, Ill., recently gave $11,000 for\nthe founding of a Philander Smith chair in the University of Little\nRock, Ark., to be a perpetual memorial of her husband, who died\nabout a year ago.\n\n_Permanent endowments are needed in order that the institutions of\nthe American Missionary Association may achieve that larger success\nwhich is rightly expected of them. Every consideration of the past,\nof the present and of the future, enforces the demand that these\nendowments should be provided at once._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n\u2014The German Reichstag has voted an appropriation of one million\nmarks to defray the expenses of an expedition now being fitted out\nfor the exploration of Central Africa.\n\n\u2014The Church Missionary Society have received tidings from their\nUganda Mission at Mtesa\u2019s capital that five young men have been\nbaptized, the first fruits of the mission.\n\n\u2014Notwithstanding the presence of General Matthews with the troops\nof the Sultan of Zanzibar, a brisk trade in slaves is going on at\nMombassa. General Matthews is now fighting with a rebel chieftain\nwho has a settlement not far from Mombassa where he receives\nrunaway slaves.\n\n\u2014The Church Missionary Society of England is about to begin\nmissionary operations in Egypt. It is to be under the care of Rev.\nF. A. Klein, an able Arabic scholar. The same society had a station\nat Cairo in the beginning of this century, but abandoned it in 1824.\n\n\u2014The English Baptists have established a station at Stanley Pool.\nThe new missionary ship \u201cPeace\u201d is now ready to be shipped to the\nCongo. Mr. Stanley is about to publish an account of the results of\nhis explorations. The French government has recently appropriated\nabout $300,000 to defray the expenses of De Brassa\u2019s expedition.\n\n\u2014The famous work of Miss Whately, daughter of Archbishop Whately,\nwho for years carried on her work at Cairo, at her own charges,\nis a very interesting branch of Egyptian missions. The Khedive\npresented Miss Whately with land for her buildings, and her Cairo\nschools number 300 boys and 200 girls, more than two-thirds of the\ngirls and half the boys being Moslems. She has a branch school of\nninety pupils at Damietta.\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u2014There are now between three and four hundred Christian schools in\nChina, containing over six thousand pupils.\n\n\u2014It is pointed out as a significant fact that the missions\nin Japan, which have been so prosperous, were started by a\ncontribution sent by Christian converts of the Hawaiian Islands.\n\n\u2014There are in New York City and vicinity 500 Chinese laundries,\nmanaged by about 2,000 Chinamen. No foreigners are more\nindustrious, more peaceable, or more anxious to conform to the laws\nof the land. None are so reliable in their business arrangements or\nso desirous for instruction in mission schools.\n\n\u2014There are at present in connection with Protestant missions in\nChina more than 600 stations and out stations; more than 300\norganized churches, a goodly number of them self-supporting, and\nsome 20,000 communicants.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWORK TRANSFERRED BY THE AMERICAN BOARD.\n\nBy vote of the Prudential Committee of the American Board, the\nentire Dakota Mission was transferred to the American Missionary\nAssociation, to take effect Jan. 1, 1883. We give the statistics\nof the Mission as published in the last Annual Report of the\nBoard. But some of the churches in the list (especially those at\nthe Sisseton Agency) are reported as having transferred themselves\nto the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, prior to Jan. 1,\n1883. When the Prudential Committee of the American Board and the\nofficers of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions have decided\nthe questions on this subject, which seem to be at issue between\nthem, we will correct the list accordingly, if any change shall be\nfound necessary.\n\nFort Berthold (Dakota Territory).\u2014Chas. L. Hall, _Missionary_; Miss\nEda L. Ward, Miss Sophronia B. Pike, _Assistant Missionaries_. One\nchurch at Devil\u2019s Lake, sixteen members.\n\nFort Sully (Dakota Territory). Peoria Bottom.\u2014Thomas L. Riggs,\n_Missionary_; Miss Mary C. Collins, Miss Louisa M. Irvine,\n_Assistant Missionaries_. One church, twenty-four members.\n\nCheyenne River.\u2014Isaac Renville, Stephen Yellow Hawk, David Lee,\n_Native Pastors_; Mrs. Renville, Samuel Hopkins, Mrs. Hopkins, Mrs.\nElizabeth Winyan, _Native Teachers_.\n\nSantee Agency (Nebraska).\u2014Alfred L. Riggs, _Missionary_; James C.\nRobbins, Joseph H. Steer, Mrs. Mary B. Riggs, Mrs. Maria L. Steer,\nMiss Martha M. Paddock, Miss Susan Webb, Miss Sarah L. Voorhees,\nMiss Harriet B. Ilsley, _Assistant Missionaries_; Miss Harriet A.\nBrown, Miss Lizzie Glisan, Miss \u2014\u2014, _Teachers_; Artemas Ehnamini,\n_Native Pastor_; Eli Abraham. _Native Teacher_; John Cetanmani,\nDennis Mazaadidi, James Brown, James Redwing, _Catechists_. One\nchurch, one hundred and seventy members.\n\nSisseton Agency (Dakota Territory).\u2014Stephen R. Riggs, LL.D.,\n_Missionary_; W. K. Morris, Mrs. Annie B. Riggs, Mrs. Martha Riggs\nMorris, _Assistant Missionaries_; Miss Thompson, Mrs. John B.\nRenville, _Teachers_; John B. Renville, Daniel Renville, Louis\nMazawakinyanna, David Greycloud, Joseph Iron Door, Charles R.\nCrawford, _Native Pastors_. Six churches, four hundred and ten\nmembers.\n\n4 stations; 9 out-stations; 9 churches; 4 missionaries; 3 American\nmale assistant missionaries; 12 female assistant missionaries; 5\nother teachers; 10 native pastors; 9 native teachers and catechists.\n\nWe add the statistics of the Indian work as sustained by the\nAssociation during the past year.\n\nS\u2019Kokomish Agency (Washington Territory).\u2014Rev. Myron Eells,\n_Missionary_.\n\nSpokan Falls (Washington Territory).\u2014Rev. H. T. Cowley,\n_Missionary_.\n\nLeech Lake Agency (Minnesota).\u2014Rev. S. G. Wright, _Teacher_.\n\nHampton (Virginia).\u2014Miss Isabel B. Eustis, _Teacher_; and\nappropriation in aid of Indian students.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSUGGESTIONS OF ENLARGEMENT.\n\nWe believe that those who read in this number of the Missionary the\ncommunications from Capt. Pratt, Gen. Armstrong and Prof. Riggs\nmay ask with good reason, Why not develop at Santee an industrial\nschool for the Indians, of like character to those at Hampton\nand Carlisle? Already fair beginnings have been made. As will be\nseen by a cut published herewith, we have good grounds, several\nattractive and suitable buildings, with other improvements. By\nan examination of a map with reference to the location of the\ndifferent Indian tribes, it will be found that Santee is accessible\nto seven tribes, numbering over twenty thousand souls. The railroad\nsystems of the vicinity are such that no great difficulty or\nexpense would be experienced in bringing students together. The\ntribes speaking the Dakota language number more than those speaking\nany other Indian dialect on the continent. The churches already\nestablished among them, with a membership of 847, are in full\nsympathy with the Santee school. No difficulty is likely to come\nfrom a lack of students, as already the institution has during the\npresent year been obliged to turn them away for want of room.\n\n[Illustration: SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL.]\n\nMr. Thomas L. Riggs, who collected a company of Indian youth for\nGen. Armstrong\u2019s school last autumn, reports that he could have\nsecured several times as many, if he had been seeking students for\nSantee. The variety of industries that it would be desirable to\npromote would be limited only by the wants of the people in a new\ncountry. Carpentering, blacksmithing, shoemaking, broommaking and\nbasketmaking, are trades that well might receive early attention.\nIt would be no part of the plan to interfere with the religious or\nnormal school work by the more general introduction of industrial\ntraining. We believe that Christian nurture is promoted rather\nthan retarded by attention to industrial pursuits among students,\nwhen wise oversight is given for the sake of useful achievements.\nThe plan of locating the students in cottages, so that each home\nmay have a quiet and healthful influence upon the untutored youth\nfrom wigwam life, is already inaugurated, and can be extended to\nmeet all emergencies. The land at the agency is controlled by the\ngovernment, but no difficulty is anticipated in securing all that\nmay be needed for the use of the school. Scholarships may also be\nhad in numbers and amount sufficient to warrant preparations on a\nlarge scale for a first grade normal and industrial institute. It\nis the purpose of this Association to weigh carefully the above\nconsiderations, and if found practicable, to develop at an early\nday a training school in Nebraska that shall be equal in its\nfacilities and enterprises to the demands of the new era in the\nprogress of Indian civilization.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nASPECTS OF THE INDIAN PROBLEM.\n\nBY HON. CARL SCHURZ.\n\nThe increased interest of public-spirited citizens in the education\nof Indian children is one of the best, if not the best result,\nof recent discussions of the Indian question. The success of the\nschools at Hampton, in Virginia, Carlisle, in Pennsylvania, and\nForest Grove, in Oregon, have amply demonstrated what can be\naccomplished if such schools be organized on the right principle\nand conducted with ability and energy. That this is more and more\ngenerally appreciated is all the more fortunate, as the Indian\nquestion is no longer one the solution of which can be trusted to\ntime.\n\nAs the progress of settlement and enterprise in the far western\nregions, or, as it is called in a general way, \u201cthe development\nof the country,\u201d advances, the old methods of providing for the\nIndians become obsolete. Large reservations of wild land, on\nwhich the Indian can freely roam and support himself, partly by\nhunting, will soon be things of the past. Even now an \u201cIndian\nfrontier\u201d does no longer exist. The abiding places of the\nIndians are almost everywhere surrounded by rapidly increasing\npopulations of white men eagerly pressing upon the Indian lands.\nOne reservation after another is broken up to make room for new\nlines of communication and for agricultural and mining enterprises.\nHowever conscientious the government may be in its intention and\nendeavor to protect the rights of the Indians at all points, it\nis evident that the Indians will soon, in every part of the\ncountry, be interspersed with an aggressive force, constantly\ngrowing in volume and power, which will threaten to overwhelm them\nlike a rising flood. Their circumstances are essentially changed.\nThe alternative of civilization or extermination is immediately\nbefore them\u2014civilization enabling them to become in all important\nrespects a part of the population among which they are to live; or\nextermination in a vain struggle to maintain the habits of savage\nlife against the progress of superior forces, or rapid decay as\nmiserable paupers and outcasts by the failure of self-sustaining\nability. This alternative presents itself not as a question looming\nup in the distant future, to be solved by coming generations, but\nas a question involving the existence of the young generation of\nIndians now living. It is, in one word, a question of immediate\nurgency.\n\nIf the Indians are to live at all, they must learn to live like\nwhite men. They can no longer stand in the way of the development\nof the country, but they must be enabled to become part of that\ndevelopment, and thus to be benefited by it. The \u201cwhite man\u2019s\nway\u201d of which they are in the habit of speaking, must not, as\nheretofore, remain to them a mere vague, shadowy idea, but they\nmust acquire a practical conception of what the white man\u2019s way\nreally is, what its objects are, and by what means those objects\nare attained. They must acquire that conception soon, for they will\nneed it soon. The education of the young generation of Indians\nis therefore an immediately pressing necessity. And it must be\nan education that takes them out of their traditional ways of\nthinking, out of their old ambitions and habits of life. They must\nnot only learn some reading and writing, but they must learn what\nreading and writing is for in the practical competitions of human\nexistence. They must learn how to work and how to make their work\nuseful. They must learn to love work by seeing and appreciating the\nfruits of it. Industrial training of a thoroughly practical kind\nmust therefore go hand-in-hand with the ordinary rudimentary school\neducation. The two things must be carried on with constant regard\nto the unity of aim.\n\nThe schools at Hampton, Carlisle and Forest Grove are conducted\nupon this principle, and the results attained there prove that\nIndian youths can be taught the things required to provide for the\nnecessities of life and to lift the Indian above the state of the\npauper as well as of the savage. Of course we must not expect too\nmuch of them. We must not expect that they will issue from these\nschools as model men and model women in every respect. We must not\nexpect that on the average they will be better than the average of\nwhite boys and girls, raised under the same circumstances and with\nthe same advantages or disadvantages, would be. In point of fact,\nthe reports about the young men and women who, after having gone\nthrough their three years\u2019 term at Hampton or Carlisle, returned\nto their people in the western country, have been as different as\nreports would be about white boys and girls similarly situated.\nSome were bright, active and industrious, others dull and indolent.\nBut a large majority of them have been doing well and showed a\nmarked superiority in character, ambition and conduct over other\nyoung Indians who had not enjoyed the same kind of education. There\nis no doubt that their presence among their people as teachers\nand examples and as a moving force generally will exercise a most\nhealthy and elevating influence, provided the number of Indians so\neducated be large enough to make them among the rising generation\nthe rule, instead of their remaining exceptional cases, as they now\nare. It is, therefore, essential that such schools and the number\nof pupils in them be multiplied as much as possible.\n\nThe schools at Hampton and Carlisle are mentioned here in\npreference to the schools established at the different agencies,\npartly because the former are superior as to the force of teachers\nemployed there, as well as to their equipment in other respects,\nand partly because they offer to their Indian pupils the peculiar\nadvantage of withdrawing them entirely from the savage influences\nof the Indian camps and placing them under the immediate influence\nof civilized surroundings, where they can learn the \u201cwhite\nman\u2019s way,\u201d by seeing civilization at work. But as this method\nof educating young Indians is expensive, and Congress rather\nparsimonious as to appropriations for such purposes, the number of\nIndians profiting from it is necessarily very small in proportion\nto the whole population, while it ought to be very large. The\nestablishment of an Indian school on the same plan near the Santee\nagency in Nebraska, as contemplated by the American Missionary\nAssociation, is therefore all the more to be welcomed. Although the\nsurroundings of that school will not be quite as civilized as those\nof Hampton and Carlisle, yet the Santee reservation is at least on\nall sides easily accessible to civilized influences. It is a small\ntract, encircled by settlements of white people. At the same time,\na school established there will be able to draw its pupils from the\ngreat Sioux reserve in Dakota at small cost, the distance being\ninconsiderable and the means of communication cheap and convenient.\nThe American Missionary Association could scarcely render a more\nvaluable service to the Indian race or do more credit to its own\ngood judgment and benevolent impulses than by making so valuable an\naddition to the educational forces among the red men.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\u2014A difficulty in prosecuting the work among the Indians in British\nColumbia is found in the fact that the tribes speak distinct\nlanguages. Not less than seven different dialects are used in the\nrange of country embraced by missionary effort.\n\n\nORIGIN AND HISTORY OF WORK AT CARLISLE.\n\nBY CAPT. R. H. PRATT.\n\nIn compliance with your request I herewith furnish you with a brief\nhistory of the Carlisle School, and some account of its industrial\nfeatures. It originated in the sending to Florida from the Indian\nTerritory of 74 Indian prisoners in the spring of 1875. At the\ninstance of General Sheridan I was selected by the War Department\nand placed in charge of those prisoners, they having been under my\ncare at Fort Sill. They were from the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Kiowa\nand Comanche tribes and were selected for this banishment because\nof well-known offenses against the peace of the frontier. Some\nof them were guilty of the most outrageous crimes. Years of army\nservice among the Indians and observation of their treatment had\nled me to change my views for opinions in favor of giving to the\nIndian a broader chance and a desire that he might be brought more\nin contact with the peaceful and industrious side of civilized\nlife, and so before the prisoners were started from Fort Sill I\nwrote to my superiors urging that they be educated and trained\nindustrially during their imprisonment. Soon after reaching St.\nAugustine I wrote repeatedly to the War Department urging that\nsome locality with more industrial surroundings be selected and\nthe prisoners be transferred. This was denied, and I then set\nto work to make the best use of the elements to be found in the\nsleepy old Spanish town. With no means, I was forced to seek the\nco-operation of charitable and missionary folks. Miss S. A. Mather,\nMiss Perit, Mrs. King Gibbs, Mrs. Couper Gibbs, of St. Augustine,\nand Mrs. Dr. Caruthers of Tarrytown, N.Y., winter resident of St.\nAugustine, volunteered to teach and did teach the classes of those\ngrown Indian men for two years and a half, giving them about one\nhour\u2019s instruction daily. Industrially there was little practical\nopportunity, but numbers were placed for different periods to work\non saw mills, at picking oranges, as hostlers, grubbing the land,\nboating and whatever could be found in connection with their own\nnecessities and comfort in the old fort. Twice we boated pine\nlogs from a distance and constructed log houses within the fort,\nriving the clap-boards, building stick chimneys, chinking and\ndaubing that they might learn to construct their own homes. Some\nof them advanced rapidly in acquiring literary, English speaking\nand industrial knowledge. Others were very stupid. The greatest\nsuccess in the labor line was in placing five men to grub five\nacres that had intimidated other laborers both white and black.\nThe undergrowth and roots to be removed were of the most dense and\nappalling kind, and yet the Indians stuck to it until they had made\na complete success of it.\n\nAnother of the best evidences of the success of our labor efforts\nwas a petition signed by a very considerable number of laborers and\nothers of the community asking that I be estopped in the putting\nof the Indians out to labor in competition with other classes, as\nI was taking bread from the mouths of those who were dependent\nupon such labor for their living, etc. In the spring of 1878 the\nauthorities at Washington determined to release the prisoners and\npermit them to return to their homes. There were 22 of them who\npreferred to remain East and get a better knowledge of civilized\nlife and more education before going home. The expenses of these\n22 young men were undertaken by different charitable people. Gen.\nS. C. Armstrong, of the Hampton Normal Institute, received 17 into\nhis institution, while four went to Paris Hill, near Utica, N.Y.,\nunder the immediate charge of Rev. J. B. Wickes, an Episcopal\nclergyman, encouraged by Bishop Huntington, all the expenses being\nundertaken by Mrs. Burnham. One was taken to Tarrytown, N.Y., in\nDr. Caruther\u2019s own family. Hampton Institute being an industrial\nschool, furnished the most seasonable and practical education of\nany institution I was able to find. The remainder of the party were\nreturned to their respective agencies, and such was the effect of\ntheir training in Florida during their three years\u2019 absence, that\nthey at once became the best element for progress in their tribes.\nAt this time, while a few have gone back to the blanket condition,\nmost likely from necessity, because no other way was open to them,\nthere is abundant testimony in the reports of their respective\nagents during the past four years that they are still a useful and\nleading industrious element among their people.\n\nA few weeks after the arrival of the party at Hampton Institute,\nGeneral Armstrong was so favorably impressed by the conduct and\nprogress of the 17 he had undertaken, that he was willing to\nincrease the number by adding 50 more, and including girls. Mr.\nSchurz and Mr. McCrary, then Secretaries of the Interior and War\nDepartments, accepted the proposition, and I was sent, in the fall\nof 1878, to Dakota, and brought away 49 children from six different\nagencies of the Sioux, Gros Ventre, Mandan and Arickeree tribes.\nThese, together with the former Florida prisoners, were placed\nunder training in all the varied systems of literary and industrial\npursuits. Hampton Institute provides liberally for its colored\nstudents, and side by side with those colored pupils the Indian\nboys and girls, in perfect harmony with the new life, demonstrated\ntheir capacity to hold their own in improving the best of chances.\nIt was very much desired by the friends of this new movement, and\nparticularly General Armstrong, that I should remain with it, and a\nclause was introduced in the army appropriation bill, which passed\nCongress in the spring of 1879, for the detail of one officer,\nnot above the rank of captain, for duty with reference to Indian\neducation.\n\nIt was a plan which I had urged for several years that to get the\nbest results in our educational work among Indian children as\nmany as possible should be removed from reservation and tribal\ninfluences and placed in the atmosphere of civilized life, and\nto this end I had urged the use of vacant military posts and\nbarracks as furnishing, without much cost in changing and improving\nbuildings, places to make a beginning, and I proposed to the\nInterior and War Departments that I would undertake the education\nof 250 or 300 children at the old military buildings at Carlisle.\nThis proposition was accepted, and after many preliminaries I was\nsent in September, 1879, to the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Agencies in\nDakota and brought away 84 children, and immediately after went to\nthe Indian Territory and from the Kiowa, Cheyenne, Pawnee and other\ntribes brought 52 more. To these were added 11 from the Hampton\nInstitute of the young men who had been with me in Florida. The\nschool was opened on the first of November with 147 students. To\nthese were added from time to time children from various Western\ntribes, and at the end of July, 1880, we numbered 239 children,\nabout one-third of whom were girls. At the end of the second\nyear, October, 1881, we had increased to 295. At the present\nwriting we number 379\u2014132 girls and 247 boys. From the beginning\nour principle has been to place the most emphasis on industrial\ntraining, next English speaking and then literary training.\nTo accomplish the first we very early in the work established\nshops for mechanical instruction in carpentry, blacksmithing,\nwagon-making, harness-making, tailoring, tinsmithing, shoemaking,\nprinting, baking and on our farm of 115 acres gave some scope for\nagricultural training. We have avoided theory in our industries and\nadhered to practice, being governed to a great extent by the old\napprentice system. We have at the head of each branch a skilled\nmechanic as practical instructor, and as nearly as possible we\npursue the methods of trades people in their instructions to\napprentices. We give half of each day to work and the other half to\nschool, and have found that our progress is proportionately greater\nin each than it would be if the attention was directed to either\nthe one or the other for the whole time. Under this system we have\nin training as carpenters 13 boys; as wagon-makers and blacksmiths,\n15; as harness-makers, 15; as shoemakers, 19; as tailors, 12;\nas turners, 11; as printers, 5; as bakers, 3; and every boy not\nengaged at some trade is required to work during the season upon\nthe farm. Such products of our labors as we are not able to make\nuse of for the school are purchased by the Indian Department and\nshipped to agencies. We think our boys as forward in capacity\nfor receiving instruction on each of the several branches as the\naverage white boy. In the blacksmith shop our apprentice boys after\ntwo years\u2019 instruction, are able to iron a wagon, repair a plow,\nshoe a horse, etc. In the wood-working department able to get out\nall the different wood parts of the wagon ready for the blacksmith.\nIn the tin-smithing to construct coffee pots, buckets, pails,\npans, cups, etc. In the harness-making to cut out and manufacture\nharness. In the tailoring to cut out and manufacture clothing. In\nshoemaking to repair and manufacture boots and shoes. In printing\nto set up and distribute type and make up forms. In baking we have\nno other help than Indians. We give to our girls instruction in the\nvarious industries of the sex and find no general lack. In cooking,\nsewing, house work, laundry work, etc., they are apt pupils.\n\nOne of the most useful features of our work has been the placing of\nour boys and girls in private families, principally among farmers,\nwhere they perform the same kind of labor and are subjected to the\nsame home and labor influences that white children of their own\nages receive. This has the most beneficial results. The children\ntake on English speaking and the industries of civilized life very\nspeedily. During vacation we place out all we can spare from our\nown work, and during the winter we allow a considerable number to\nremain and attend the public schools in the several neighborhoods,\nthey being required to do such work mornings and evenings as they\nare capable of and so pay for their board and clothes. By this\ncourse we are enabled to carry a very considerable number more\npupils than we are allowed appropriation for. It is plain that the\nreal hindrance to Indian progress is found in their being kept\nentirely separated from the other masses of our population, and\nby every act of our government and every sentiment of its people,\nsocieties, missionary and others, made to feel that they are a\nseparate people and must so remain forever. Through their education\nin separate schools, their home life upon prison reservations with\ntheir liberty of coming and going abridged to these reservations,\nwith all their aspirations and ambitions so limited, there can be\nno healthy growth. To overcome these difficulties the Indian mind\nand the mind of the public as well as Congress must be educated to\ngrant to them the enlarged privileges accorded to all other races.\nThe boy will never learn to swim until he goes into the water,\nand the experiences of industrial life and civilized life through\nits associations and competitions will determine for the Indian\nand white the true status. We have had quite enough of the Sioux,\nCheyenne, Comanche, etc., as Sioux, Cheyenne, Comanche, etc. We can\nend their existence among us as such separate people by a broad\nand generous system of English education and training, which will\nreach all the 50,000 children and in a very few years remove all\nour trouble from them as a separate people and as separate tribes\namong us, and instead of feeding clothing and caring for them from\nyear to year, put them in condition to feed clothe and care for\nthemselves. Our experiences in many individual cases in the last\nfew years make it very evident that not only may we fit the Indian\nto take care of himself in his own home, but may fit him to go and\ncome and abide in the land wherever he may choose, and so lose his\nidentity.\n\n[Illustration: MANDAN HUT, DAKOTA.]\n\n\nTHE HISTORY AND OUTLOOK OF THE INDIAN WORK TRANSFERRED TO THE A. M.\nA.\n\nPROF. ALFRED L. RIGGS.\n\nJust fifty years ago two Congregational young men from Connecticut,\nthe Messrs. Samuel and Gideon Pond, pressed on into the heart\nof the then unknown continent to see what they could do for the\nIndian. They landed at Fort Snelling, in what is now Minnesota, and\nbegan their volunteer mission among an Eastern branch of the Dakota\nor Sioux nation.\n\nOne year later the American Board sent out the Rev. Dr. Williamson\non a tour of exploration, and the next year after that a mission\nwas regularly established. The organized work gathered in the\nvolunteers, and, moreover, according to the fashion of the times,\nCongregational relations disappeared and work was started on the\nPresbyterian basis.\n\nFor years it was a slow, hard lift against the weight of heathenism\nand pride of race. Nowhere is race pride stronger than among the\nIndians. As is often the case, those who have least to be proud of\nvaunt themselves the most. So, while the Indian has to acknowledge\nthat the white man is possessor of gifts that class him with the\ngods (the Dakota name for white man being the same as that he\napplies to his gods), and thus for the sake of his mysterious power\nhe fears him, yet personally he despises him as different from\nhimself and effeminate.\n\nAnd heathenism! Some would have us believe that it did not exist;\nthat the Indian naturally was as good a Christian as need be. The\ncourtesy of the Indian perhaps leads to this deceptive view. He\nwill assent to everything you say rather than be so impolite as\nto contradict you. Then, too, his pantheism easily makes room for\nanother god. So the white man\u2019s god soon had his banner set up at\ntheir sacred rites together with the Stone god, the Day god, the\nNight god, the Thunder god, and the god of the North.\n\nBut when Christ claims the whole of their worship, and belief\nin him is seen to require the giving up of their other faiths,\nand the casting away of their charms and incantations, then the\nantagonism of the unregenerate heart breaks out here as everywhere.\nAnd the magicians and \u201cmedicine men\u201d are stirred up to bitter and\nunremitting warfare as soon as they discover that their craft is in\ndanger.\n\nAs if here were not enough obstacles to meet, there comes in\nthe opposition begotten of the selfishness and dissoluteness of\nunprincipled white men. For years the fur trade was almost as\nmuch the enemy of missions as was the slave trade. The agents of\nthis great enterprise were bound to keep the Indians hunters and\ntrappers in order that their warehouses might be filled with furs.\nThe fur trade also controlled the government, and even to-day its\npower is felt through laws made then for its benefit and that yet\nremain on the statute book. Hence in its day the fur trade was\na foe to be dreaded, for it could exert its power in a thousand\nsecret ways. It could break up schools, scare people away from\nreligious meetings, and put a ban on the Christian teacher, if\ncontent to leave him alive.\n\nAfter thirty years of patient labor the reward seemed about\nto come. Christianity was proving its power to disintegrate\nheathenism, break down prejudice and survive the enmity of\nunprincipled white men.\n\nThen the outbreak and massacres of 1862 occurred, seemingly\nsweeping everything away. It was the death-struggle of heathenism,\nalarmed at the steady advance of Christianity. Other political\ncauses and conditions merely made this outbreak possible. And yet\nwhat seemed annihilation was only multiplication and dissemination.\nAgain was fulfilled the Scripture: \u201cThey that were scattered abroad\nwent preaching the word.\u201d And the conversion in the military\nprisons of hundreds as it were in a day, is one of the notable\ninstances of the power of God\u2019s spirit.\n\nTwenty years ago the field of Christian missions among the Dakotas\nwas confined to a small section of the nation then dwelling in\na corner of Minnesota. But now the field extends over the great\nMissouri valley and on northward toward the Saskatchawan in the\nBritish Possessions.\n\nThe work whose beginnings we have noted, originally one under the\nAmerican Board, has since been divided. In 1871, at the time of\nthe general division of the missions of the American Board, that\npart of the Dakota Mission immediately under the charge of the\nvenerable Dr. Williamson and his son, Rev. John P. Williamson,\nwas transferred to the care of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign\nMissions. But the larger portion remained with the other veteran\nof the mission, Rev. Stephen B. Riggs, under the care of the\nAmerican Board. And now with the year 1883 another transfer is\nmade to the American Missionary Association. But the five native\nchurches, with a membership of 340, that had meanwhile grown up\nabout Sisseton Agency are graduated from foreign missions into a\nhome mission connection, and so naturally pass under the care of\nthe Presbyterian Home Mission Board. It is not within the scope\nof this short article to speak of the work accomplished by the\nEpiscopal Mission in the same field, which had its beginning\nabout thirty years later than the original Dakota Mission, and in\nrecent years has had very considerable success. Nor can we speak\nparticularly of the portion of our great field lying across the\nBritish line, for though we have furnished the native laborers it\nis not organically connected with us. But as for the rest of the\noriginal mission, even though divided, it works as one. It has one\nGeneral Conference, and in all its publications and matters of\ncommon concern acts as one mission still.\n\nThe statistics of the Dakota Mission, as thus defined, show 7\nstations, 6 ordained missionaries, 26 assistant missionaries, 13\nchurches, 12 native pastors and preachers, 9 native teachers, and\n847 church members, contributing during the past year $779.83 for\ntheir own missions among the heathen Indians, and $1,080.58 for\npastoral support and church expenses.\n\nOf this there now passes directly to the care of the American\nMissionary Association 5 stations, with also an interest in the\nNative Missionary field at Devil\u2019s Lake, 4 ordained missionaries,\n21 assistant missionaries, 2 churches, Pilgrim Church at Santee\nand Shiloh Church at the Sully Station, with 8 native preachers, 5\nnative teachers, and a church membership of 194.\n\nAs has been noticed, the organization of the work from the first\nhas been on the Presbyterian model, and thus the fruits of the\nmission have mostly gone into the Presbyterian connection. The\nchurch at the Fort Sully Station was an exception. It was organized\nas a Congregational church. Nevertheless, this Presbyterian cast,\nthis whole native force, is to be considered as one, and will be\nused by whichever denomination is ready to prosecute the work\nmost vigorously, for the denominationalism of these churches is\nnot of a radical type, as is instanced by the recent change of\necclesiastical relations on the part of the Pilgrim Church at\nSantee. This is the original mother church, but in order to come\ninto closer and more sympathetic relations with the churches that\nsupport the Santee Training School, it voted cheerfully and almost\nunanimously to leave Presbytery and become Congregational. Indeed\nthis is not hard for them to do, for Indians are naturally very\ndemocratic.\n\nIn the work that may now be done for this people, SANTEE NORMAL\nTRAINING SCHOOL must be an important factor. It has vital relation\nto all these native churches, and it has a name among the heathen\ncommunities. Its growth has been slow, for it has taken time and\nwork to instil the idea of a higher education into the minds of\nthe people. Henceforth its growth might be rapid. It now has one\nhundred and one pupils in attendance, with seventeen instructors,\nincluding those in charge of the industrial and boarding\ndepartments. This winter a number of pupils have been turned away\nfor lack of room. If accommodations could be provided, the number\nof pupils might soon be doubled.\n\nWhile giving great attention to industrial training, it affords\nunparalleled advantages for that training which is needed to make\nteachers suited to Indian schools.\n\nThe school is the basis of evangelizing the Indian. There will be\nno large audiences to preach to, except on exceptional occasions,\nuntil the school has gathered a company of disciples. Certain\npersons not understanding the nature of missionary work, or unable\nto take more than a superficial view, have recently represented our\nschools as of low grade, and unnecessary to real missionary work.\nBut this is contradicted by the grand progress of the work.\n\nWe have spoken of five mission stations as now passing under\nthe care of the A. M. A. But of these Standing Rock is hardly\nopened, and Berthold and Sully stations are sadly in need of\nreinforcements. And there are the large Indian Agencies of Spotted\nTail\u2019s and Red Cloud\u2019s tribes, numbering about 7,000 each, which\nwe ought to occupy. Then there is the Crow country in Montana,\nnext door to our Berthold Mission. We should have at once six\nordained missionaries and their wives, with as many more assistant\nmissionaries, all picked men. This would enable us to manage a yet\nlarger number of native missionary teachers working along with\nthem.\n\n[Illustration: SISSETON GIRLS, WITH TEACHER.]\n\nThe tribes speaking the Dakota language are the most numerous of\nany Indian people upon the continent. They are now universally\nopen to Christianity and Christian civilization. They now look to\nChristian people for their future. Within the last ten or twelve\nyears the whole temper of their mind has changed. The noted chief,\nSitting Bull, is an illustration. Only a few years ago he hated the\nvery wind that blew from the direction of the white man\u2019s country.\nWhen the wind blew from the east he would send out the town crier\nto say, \u201cGet you all into your teepees. This is bad air from the\nwhite man\u2019s country.\u201d But when it blew from the north his crier\nwould proclaim, \u201cCome out and breathe the healthy air.\u201d And once\nwhen a woman of the tribe brought home a \u201crooster\u201d from a distant\ntrading post to enliven the tedium of her labor, Sitting Bull heard\nit crow and instantly dispatched his chief soldier to \u201csoldier\nkill\u201d the woman, that is, cut up her tent and kill her horses, for\nthe crime of having that white man\u2019s bird in the sacred precincts\nof a Dakota camp. But now the same Sitting Bull is petitioning for\nChristian teachers, and land, and domestic animals, and undoubtedly\nwould also welcome \u201cthe-bird-that-crows-in-the-morning.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nINDIAN INDUSTRIES AT HAMPTON.\n\nBY GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG.\n\nEvery Indian boy who comes to Hampton is allowed his choice to\nlearn farming or a trade, and to select the trade he prefers, to\nwhich he is expected to stick. They often wish to change after some\nmonths, for they are a fickle people. While this is by no means\ndone as a matter of course, it has sometimes been found wise to do\nso. A boy who could do nothing at blacksmithing made remarkable\nprogress in the wheelwright\u2019s shop; one who is poor on the farm may\nbe good in the shoe-shop, and _vice versa_; but it does not do to\nencourage shifting trades. The girls go through the same routine of\nhousework, cooking, cutting and making and mending clothes.\n\nThe boys are assigned to work as follows: carpenters, 15; painters,\n1; tinsmiths, 6; shoe-makers, 13; harness-makers, 3; farmers, 13;\nblacksmiths, 3; wheelwrights, 3; tailors, 1. A generous lady in New\nYork City has recently given $5,000 for an Indian workshop, which\nwill be completed and occupied by the first of April next, and be a\nmost satisfactory change from the shed in which they have for four\nyears uncomfortably worked at their trades.\n\nConsidering the past of the Indian, the disposition of our boys\nand girls to work is remarkable. The general rule is to work from\nseven to twelve o\u2019clock, A.M., or from one to six o\u2019clock, P.M.,\nSaturday being holiday. Those who work mornings study afternoons,\nand _vice versa_. All are paid, girls as well as boys, usually at\nthe rate of $2.50 per month, for to expect Indians to take a real\ninterest in their work without some compensation is absurd. It is\nweak and foolish to reason that the skill they attain is enough\ncompensation. Human nature requires something more. On the other\nhand they purchase all their underclothing and shoes with their\nearnings, and are thus taught the use of money and the true value\nof garments, and become quite skillful in buying. A school uniform\nis provided for each one, made in our tailoring department.\n\nTheir appreciation of work is a direct contradiction to the\nstatement that an Indian hates to labor. Frequently boys who are\nworking a half-day at some trade will ask to be allowed to work the\nentire day, including Saturday, so as to earn more and be better\nable to take care of themselves when they go home. Their wages are\nthen increased and they go to night school. Every such application\nis encouraging.\n\nEspecially those who make extra time in the shops are inclined to\nsave. They generally agree to draw but one-half of extra earnings,\nthe other half being saved to buy them tools and other outfit when\nthey shall finally leave school. We allow ten per cent. interest\non all such savings; they are quick to see the advantage of laying\nup money. They seem to have no marked aptitude for special trades,\nunless it be for work in leather, shoe and harness-making. Their\nancestors have dealt in this commodity more than in any other. They\ntake to all handiwork remarkably; while quick to learn, they are\nslow to execute. They seldom bungle or \u201cbotch\u201d a job. The first\npair of shoes made by an apprentice is always serviceable. An\nIndian carpenter will make as good a mortise as a white one, but\nwill take three times as long. Our expert harness-maker says he can\ndo no better work than some of his boys, but they are very slow\nabout it. We are constantly making and selling carts made by Sioux\nboys. They have made all our school benches, desks, wardrobes and\nwash-stands, besides window-frames, etc., for the outside market.\n\nWe would be only too glad to make buggy or plow harness, single\nor double, tin-ware of all kinds and brogan shoes for individuals\nor institutions in the North or South, solely on the ground of\nthe merit and cheapness of the work done. A neat carriage harness\nwas made last summer for a lady in Newport, R.I. Of the 500 dozen\narticles of tinware, 75 sets of double plow harness, and 2,000\npairs of men\u2019s shoes made last year by our Indian boys for the\nuse of the Western tribes (ordered by the Indian Department at\nthe lowest contract prices of the previous year) the New York\ninspectors reported: \u201cThey are as well and as strongly made, and\nfor actual service fully equal to any purchased by the Department.\u201d\n\nThis year we are making an even larger amount of material for the\nIndian Department, but at prices which little more than cover cost\nof material. An outside private trade would be much more desirable.\nWe were paid for men\u2019s brogans \u201cextra\u201d good leather, $1.22\u00bd per\npair, boxed and delivered in New York City. Carlisle does even more\nthan Hampton in supplying Indians, and with excellent success.\n\nOwing to bodily ailments, Indian labor is more unsteady than that\nof Negroes. While in their own life they have endurance, a steady\nroutine of industry is new to them, and they are for our purposes\na rather feeble race: they find digging exhausting, but on the\nhunter\u2019s trail or on the warpath they are tireless when we would\nsoon be weary.\n\nUnless every Indian child is educated to some occupation, teaching\nis of little account. Hard work rather than the higher studies\ngives them the best drill. As for all, so for Indians, home\ninfluence is a great thing. After the best practical education they\nare not fit for the loose, idle, dirty life of Indian camps any\nmore than any other children. What is to be done? The best success\nwith the thirty Sioux children who returned in October, 1881, to\ntheir agencies (five of them girls) has been with those to whom the\nagents gave separate rooms near the agencies, having their food\ncooked and their life led separately. An efficient agent will, by\nthe care he takes, save four-fifths of our Indian graduates to\ndecent lives; a careless, weak agent (and not a third of the sixty\nU.S. Indian Agents are first-class men) will lose four-fifths of\nthem. We cannot make men of them in three years, but can give them\na start in that time that a good agent can keep up, and lead them\nto true success.\n\nHere, more and more, we find the real trouble; not with the Indian,\nbut in our miserable system of paying so small salaries to Indian\nagents that a competent one is the exception. The boy or girl\nwho goes home finds no strong, kind friend to advise and help;\nthe current of influence is against a Christian life. Here the\nmissionary is needed; never more than now.\n\nHampton, Carlisle and the many schools that are educating Indians\nneed to be supplemented by good agents and wise missionaries who\nwill help them to stand against the odds that would make the\nnew life they have chosen nest to impossible. Here is the point\nof chief anxiety. Public sentiment must be felt at Washington\nbefore it shall remove the chief stumbling-block to Indian\nprogress\u2014poor agents. As Secretary Teller says in his last Report,\nthe Indians are chiefly on reservations, and must for the present\nbe treated there; to be gradually pushed upon lands of their own,\nindividually, by the efforts of wise men and the influence of\nChristian education.\n\n\nREVIVAL WORK AMONG INDIANS AT HAMPTON.\n\nMiss Isabel B. Eustis, in giving an account of the revival meetings\nat Hampton, writes as follows of the Indians:\n\nMeanwhile at one end of the chapel there sat a company of one\nhundred who took no part in the service. The Indian students\nwatched with wondering and wistful eyes the scenes around them.\n\u201cPass me not, O Gentle Saviour,\u201d they sang often in their own\nservices during these days, and the Lord heard their cry and turned\naside and called them too. Stago, our fiery little Apache boy,\nheard his voice, and set hard to work to conquer his temper and\nself-will. The quick-witted, ambitious, head-strong girl, whose\ninfluence over the other scholars we dreaded, listened, and her\nhard expression softened, and the stubborn will yielded, and with\ngentleness and humility she met the daily requirements which had\noften roused her rebellious spirit before. Shallow natures grew\nearnest and proud, and we knew that there was one walking with the\nIndian students too who could purify and inspire and help.\n\nOn Wednesday evening our senior Indian boy, of his own accord, left\nhis class and took his seat with the other Indian scholars. Waiting\nhis opportunity, he rose and called the attention of the school to\nthose who sat behind him. He reminded me of the darkness out of\nwhich they had come, and of the dangers to which they must return.\nHe told us that they longed for a share in the blessing God was\ngiving the school, and asked our patience while they prayed to the\nFather, and spoke of Him in a language we could not understand.\n\nKamnach rose first. Kamnach came to the school four years ago,\ndirectly from his wild Indian life. His hair was uncut; he wore\nIndian clothes; he had been always familiar with scenes of\nbloodshed, and placed little value on human life. After three years\nhe went back to his home, a changed man we thought in appearance\nand heart. But it was hard to stand among his savage comrades. He\nplead to come back to school. He was a happy boy, when, less than\na year ago, he placed his foot again on Hampton soil. Poor boy! he\nhad yet to learn that always his worst temptations would come from\nhis own distorted heart. Some misunderstanding of his position as a\nreturned student, some distrust of those who were over him, and he\nfell into passionate hatred, and was ready to commit a deliberate\nand deadly crime. We thought his repentance would be quick and\ndeep, but not so. The first Sunday of the new year, the anniversary\nof the day on which he confessed Christ, he had no heart to meet\nthe Lord, whose first command was to love and forgive. But the\npassing Saviour\u2019s voice reached him now. He stood before the\ncrowded school, and with the help of an interpreter acknowledged\nhis sin, and renewed his allegiance to the Saviour, and begged the\nIndian students to follow the Lord Jesus, though they would find\nmany things in His religion hard to understand and difficult to do.\n\nAfter Kamnach\u2019s confession a Sioux boy made a prayer. He spoke in\nanother tongue, but more than one felt his heart was lifted to the\nFather\u2019s heart by the earnestness and pathos of the stranger\u2019s\nvoice. Another tried to speak in broken English. Missing the\nwords he wanted to say, waiting and struggling for confession,\nhe acknowledged Jesus Christ as the Saviour of his soul. Our\nhearts were knit together in love. We knew that we belonged to one\ncommon family and nothing could separate from the love of Christ.\nEvidently the son of God who came to save the lost finds nothing in\nthe Indian nature he cannot soften and subdue. Evidently the Indian\nis able to place his confidence in such a Saviour and yield himself\nin glad obedience to Him.\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration: INDIAN HUT.]\n\n\nTHE LITTLE INDIAN OF CLEAR LAKE.\n\nABRIDGED FROM GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS.\n\nDid you ever see an Indian\u2014a real, live Indian\u2014in bead-embroidered\nbuck-skin coat and breeches, girded with a curiously wrought\nwampum belt, shod with moccasins, his face painted black and red,\nhis hair bristling, like a porcupine\u2019s back, with a gay forest of\nfeathers\u2014as he dashed through the woods or over the prairie, on a\nwild horse, or strode along proudly on foot, with bow and arrows in\nhis hands, and a large tomahawk and scalping-knife in his girdle?\n\nYou have seen him in the pictures, at least, and thought him a fine\nsight; and perhaps you felt in your heart that it must be fine to\nlive such a wild, daring life, hunting, fishing and roaming in the\nwoods and over the fields.\n\nBut all Indians are not like him. Tribes differ very much in their\ncharacter and habits. Besides, they are never quite so brave and\nfine in real life as they are in pictures. Most of them are poor\nmiserable creatures; and if you should go into one of their wigwams\nof sticks and barks, and see their naked bodies, filthy faces and\ntangled hair, as they squat in the smoke and stench around a little\nfire, on the bare earth, in the middle of the shanty, snatching at\npoor food with dirty fingers, like a pack of ravenous wolves. I do\nnot believe you would think it very fine, ever after have the least\ndesire to live like an Indian.\n\nThe little boy of our story was born and lived on the shores of\nClear Lake, a fine sheet of water among the mountains, thirty or\nforty miles north of Napo Valley.\n\nLike all his mates, he was so short and thick that he seemed to\nbe about as broad as he was long. His skin was not copper-colored\nlike that of most other Indians, but black. His face was broad and\nround, his lips thick and pouting, and his nose wide and flat.\nHis long coarse hair, all tangled and matted, dangled around his\nhigh cheek-bones and above his naked shoulders, like the shaggy\nmane of a Canadian pony, and half hid his coarse, brutal features:\na pair of small, round, dull eyes, like leaden bullets, made the\ntreacherous expression that slept in every line of his features\nseem ten-fold more revolting.\n\nHis wigwam, or lodge, was nothing but a rude screen of bushes or\nskins to break the force of the wind. You would not think it very\nnice or comfortable, but he did, and could sleep just as well\nthere, or on the ground beside a large stone, or behind the stump\nof a fallen tree as you do on the softest feathers. But he never\nslept two nights in the same place, for fear of being discovered by\nan enemy and murdered.\n\nIt is a hard and cheerless life which those little Indian children\nlead, as you can easily see, but the life of this little Indian was\nespecially so; for his father and mother had both been murdered,\nand he had no friends to care for him any more kindly than they\nwould care for a dog; and even the _Hias Tyee_, or Big Chief of the\ntribe, whose duty it was to see that this little waif on the stormy\nsea of Indian life was provided for, thought only to get some\nadvantage out of him; and so, when he saw a white man camping one\nday on the shores of the lake, he brought down the boy and offered\nto sell him for ten dollars. It proved to be a kind, good-hearted\nman, who saw that the little fellow was friendless and forlorn,\nand so the bargain was soon closed, and he became servant to the\n\u201cpale-face\u201d till he was twenty-one years old, on condition of\nreceiving his food and clothing.\n\nOn reaching home, the first thing, of course, was to clip off his\ndangling locks, give him a thorough scrubbing with soap and brush,\nand cover his black nakedness with decent clothing.\n\nThat afternoon, when the pigs were fed, he was found with his nose\nin the trough eating sour milk with the animals as if he had been\none of them. At night nothing could persuade him to sleep in a room\nor on a bed; and after dark, when the family had retired to rest,\nhe stole out of the house as slyly as a cat, and hid himself away\nin the tall weeds beside the fence. Every night for many weeks he\ndid the same, and was so fearful of being murdered in his sleep\nthat he changed his nest every night, never daring to sleep twice\nin the same spot.\n\nHis tongue was constantly telling lies, and he would steal\neverything he fancied that came in his way. He seemed to have no\nidea of right and wrong. He could not comprehend what such words as\nlove and duty and kindness meant. Fear was the only motive which\nhad the least influence in controlling him. Even the difference\nbetween cleanliness and dirt was a thought too sublime and profound\nfor his understanding.\n\nBut he could believe in ghosts and haunting spirits of dead men,\nlike most other ignorant and barbarous people; and he thought they\nlingered around every stump and tree, and followed him wherever he\nwent. He could hear them fluttering in the leaves, or rapping on\nthe limbs and trunks of the trees, or whispering in the wind. He\nsupposed they took possession of the bodies of men and animals, and\ncaused them to sing and dance, and do all sorts of silly tricks,\nby a kind of inspiration. He had some notions of the Great Spirit,\nit is true, but they were confused and indistinct, and had little\npower over him, while a slavish fear of the inferior spirits and\nother such ghostly nonsense tormented him night and day, and made\nhim a timid, miserable, degraded, creature.\n\nHad you seen him in that condition you would have thought it\nimpossible to make anything good out of such a stupid little\nanimal. You would have said it was of no use to try to teach a\ncreature so brutal and superstitious anything about God and heaven,\nand a higher life, or even about the decencies of civilized society.\n\nBut a kind lady took him under her care. She taught him to read and\nwrite. She showed him the folly of believing in ghosts, and talking\nwith the spirits. She told him the story of Jesus, and made him\nlearn the ten commandments, and the precious words of the Saviour,\nand explained to him how God made him, and fed, and clothed, and\nkept him, day by day, and that he ought to love Him, and do right\nin return for His kindness. She impressed him with the thought that\nGod is angry with wicked boys and girls every day, and that only\nthe pure in heart, whose lives are good, can be happy on earth, or\ngo to heaven when they die.\n\nAt first he was stupid and stubborn, and unwilling to learn; but\nafter a little while his stolid face began to brighten, his dull\neyes sparkled with unusual interest, and he was more and more\nattentive, till his coarse, animal features wore an entirely new\nexpression. One day he came in with a very serious look, and said\nin an earnest tone:\n\n\u201cMistress, oh me got bad heart! Ask Great Spirit to give me better\nheart.\u201d\n\nHe was told to ask for himself; and then the poor little child of\nthe Great Father went into his own room alone and shut the door,\nand kneeled down beside the bed and prayed, oh! so earnestly, that\nGod would forgive his sins for Jesus\u2019 sake, and take away his\nwicked feelings, and show him how to be good. From that moment he\nwas a changed boy. His bad habits were all laid aside. He ceased\nto be stupid and stubborn and inattentive. He told no more lies,\nand pilfered no more. His face glowed with kindly feeling, as if a\nray from heaven were sleeping on it. His coarse features lost their\nrepulsive expression and became rather pleasant to see. I am sure\nthere was rejoicing in heaven that day over this little stray lamb\nfrom the wilderness; and I do not doubt that when God gathers up\nhis jewels from the earth the poor Indian boy will be a precious\ngem in the Saviour\u2019s crown of glory.\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1883.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $261.26.\n\n    Augusta. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., 55 (30 of\n      which from Barrett E. Potter to const. REV.\n      HENRY V. EMMONS L. M.); \u201cA Friend,\u201d 5                  $60.00\n    Blue Hill. Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._\n    Brownsville. Cong. Ch.                                    18.00\n    Brunswick. Bbl. of C., val. 20, and 2.56 for\n      freight, _for Selma, Ala._                               2.56\n    Camden. E. D. Mansfield, 6; A. Howe and Wife,\n      3; J. H., 1                                             10.00\n    Gardiner. Two Bbls. of C., and 4.25 for\n      freight, _for Selma, Ala._                               4.25\n    New Sharon. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00\n    Portland. Rev. I. P. Warren, D.D., 50, to\n      const. MISS E. A. STANWOOD L. M.; Plymouth\n      Ch., 43, to const. C. S. D. GRIFFEN L. M.               93.00\n    Scarborough. \u201cFriend in Cong. Ch.\u201d                        50.00\n    Skowhegan. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Mrs. L. W. Weston,\n      _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                            8.00\n    South Berwick. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._\n    Union. Bbl of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n    West Falmouth. Bbl. of C. and 2.25 _for\n      Freight, for Selma, Ala._                                2.25\n    Woolwich. \u201cMorning Glories\u201d                                3.20\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                            5.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $419.05.\n\n    Claremont. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Miss L. D. Fairbank,\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                           16.00\n    Concord. North Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. _for\n      Tougaloo U._\n    Exeter. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        30.00\n    Fisherville. \u201cFriends,\u201d to const. JOHN C.\n      PEARSON L.M.                                            30.00\n    Francestown. Cong. Ch., 20; Aaron Fisher, 5               25.00\n    Goffstown. Cong. Ch., Box of C. _for Marion,\n      Ala._\n    Lancaster. Cong. Ch.                                      10.13\n    Littleton. Mrs. B. W. Kilborn                              5.00\n    Londonderry. C. S. P.                                      1.00\n    Lyme. \u2014\u2014                                                  11.00\n    Manchester. First Cong. Ch., to const. GEO. W.\n      O. TEBBITTS L. M.                                       58.16\n    Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch.                                    6.72\n    Newport. Cong. Ch.                                        77.11\n    Pittsfield. Cong. Ch., 20.93; Dr. John Wheeler\n      and Wife, 10                                            30.93\n    Sanbornton. Cong. Ch.                                     15.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                             3.00\n                                                            -------\n                                                            $319.05\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Londonderry. Estate of Josiah Sleeper, by\n      James C. Taylor, Admr.                                 100.00\n                                                            -------\n                                                            $419.05\n\n\n  VERMONT, $289.64.\n\n    Barnet. Sab. Sch. Scholars                                 5.00\n    Bennington. Second Cong. Ch.                              73.67\n    East Corinth. Cong. Sab. Sch.                              5.18\n    Essex Center. Mrs. L. C. B.                                0.50\n    Greensborough. Cong. Ch.                                  17.00\n    Hubbardton. Mrs. James Flagg, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 5.00\n    McIndoes Falls. Cong. Ch.                                 13.00\n    Morgan. L. L.                                              0.50\n    Pittsford. Cong. Ch.                                      48.50\n    Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch.                             65.25\n    Strafford. Cong. Ch.                                      25.00\n    Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of C.,\n      1.65, _for Freight, for Tougaloo, Miss._                 1.65\n    West Hartford. Cong. Ch.                                   6.22\n    Wilton. Cong. Ch.                                          2.50\n    Windham. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   4.20\n    Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             16.47\n    Ladies of Benson, Greensborough, New Haven,\n      Rochester and West Townshend, Basted\n      patchwork, _for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga._\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $1,842.51\n\n    Adams. Sab. Sch. Class, Cong. Ch., by W. B.\n      Green                                                   12.00\n    Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Evan. Ch. and\n      Soc.                                                     4.07\n    Amherst. \u201cA Friend,\u201d by Miss E. W. Beaman,\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                           20.00\n    Andover. Free Ch., _for furnishing, Straight\n      U._                                                     40.00\n    Auburndale. Rev. Calvin Cutter, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Bernardston. Ladies, Patchwork, _for Storrs\n      Sch., Atlanta. Ga._\n    Billerica. Orthodox Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                 4.50\n    Boston. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtiss, 200; \u201cBoston,\u201d 1          201.00\n    Boston. Cong. Pub. Soc., Pkg. Singing Books,\n      _for Macon, Ga._\n    Curtisville. Mrs. Frances M. Clarke                        2.00\n    Dalton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             50.00\n    Dracut. Center Cong. Ch.                                  10.00\n    East Somerville. Mrs. Buswell\u2019s S. S. Class,\n      Franklin St. Ch., _for Santee Agency, Dakota\n      M._                                                     10.00\n    East Somerville. Young Ladies\u2019 Mission Circle,\n      Franklin St. Ch., _for Student Aid, Dakota\n      M._                                                     50.00\n    Fall River. Third Cong. Ch.                               21.80\n    Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch., Bbl. Stores, _for\n      furnishing room, Straight U._\n    Gilbertville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           10.00\n    Great Barrington. E. P.                                    0.50\n    Hadley. First Ch. Sab. Sch., 15.62; Mrs. D. H.\n      Dickinson, 4.50                                         20.12\n    Harwich. \u201cReady and Willing Band,\u201d 2 Bbls. of\n      C., one Val., 25, _for Atlanta, Ga._; one\n      Val. 35, _for Marietta, Ga._\n    Haverhill. West Cong. Ch.                                  7.56\n    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. C, _for Atlanta\n      U._\n    Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. (_Special_)              50.00\n    Leverett. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                        5.00\n    Littleton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     50.00\n    Littleton. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             10.00\n    Lowell. Eliot Ch., 60; L. Kimball, 50                    110.00\n    Maplewood. Ladies\u2019 Social Union, Bbl. of C.\n      and 1 for freight, _for Wilmington, N.C._                1.00\n    Maynard. Pkg. Papers\n    Millbury. M. D. Garfield                                   5.00\n    Newburyport. Miss Tyler, 5; S. S. Class, 1,\n      _for Washington, D.C._                                   6.00\n    Newton Highlands. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2.95,\n      and Eleven Comforters, _for Fisk U._                     2.95\n    New Salem. Cong. Ch.                                      10.02\n    Northampton. A. L. Williston                             500.00\n    Northfield. W. S. E. Shaw, Box C. and 1, _for\n      Macon, Ga._                                              1.00\n    North Beverly. Second Cong. Sab. Sch.                      6.00\n    Peru. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                      6.00\n    Princeton. Cong. Ch.                                       7.00\n    Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 10.79;\n      Rev. G. A. P., 1                                        11.79\n    Southborough. Pilgrim Evan. Ch.                           13.09\n    South Boston. E. St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    6.00\n    South Braintree. A. P. W.                                  1.00\n    South Royalston. Second Cong. Ch.                         12.12\n    South Wellfleet. Second Cong. Ch.                          2.00\n    Springfield. Memorial Ch., 44; Mrs. R. K., 50c            44.50\n    Sterling. Cong. Ch.                                        3.15\n    Tewksbury. Cong. Ch.                                      11.00\n    Townsend. Cong. Ch.                                        8.72\n    Upton. A. W. Aldrich                                       4.70\n    Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch.                                  44.34\n    Watertown. \u201cFriends\u201d                                       5.00\n    Westborough. Evan. Cong. Ch.                              84.75\n    Wellesley Hills. Ladies Charitable Soc. of\n      Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., Val. 54, _for\n      Talladega C._\n    Westminster. \u2014\u2014                                           10.00\n    Worcester. M. Wheeler, Pkg. Pamphlets\n    Westborough. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Freedmen\u2019s Aid\n      Soc., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                     20.00\n    West Boxford. Cong. Ch.                                    6.00\n    Westfield. \u201cGirls\u2019 Guild\u201d of Second Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Dakota Home_                                       31.50\n    West Springfield. First Cong. Ch., 31; Park\n      St. Ch., 15                                             46.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $1,649.18\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Woburn. Estate of Sarah H. Holden, by Geo. H.\n      Holden, Adm.                                           193.33\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $1,842.51\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $72.56.\n\n    Central Falls. Cong. Ch.                                  66.56\n    Newport. D. B. Fitts                                       5.00\n    Providence.\u2014\u2014-, _for Washington, D.C._                     1.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $1,394.10.\n\n    Andover. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                      11.50\n    Berlin. \u201cJ. W.\u201d                                           10.00\n    Canton Center. Wm. G. Hallock                              5.00\n    Colchester. \u201cA Sister in First Cong. Ch.,\u201d\n      _for John Brown Steamer_                                 3.00\n    Durham. Dea. Gaylord Newton, 5; H. N. Fowler, 5           10.00\n    Enfield. First Cong. Ch., _for Library,\n      Straight U._                                            25.00\n    Glenville. \u201cA Widow.\u201d                                      0.50\n    Hartford. Mrs. E. Hills                                  400.00\n    Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Atlanta U._                                             25.00\n    Hebron. \u201cA. H. P.,\u201d _for Student Aid, Tougaloo\n      U._                                                     10.00\n    Ledyard. Cong. Ch.                                        15.30\n    Meriden. Ida Pinks\u2019 Class. First Cong. Ch.\n      Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                 1.00\n    Meriden. Homer Curtiss, 1 Doz. Table Forks,\n      _for Atlanta U._\n    Middle Haddam. Second Cong. Ch.                           21.20\n    New Fairfield. Cong. Ch.                                  12.60\n    New London. \u201cP. O. H.\u201d                                     2.00\n    Newtown. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00\n    Northville. Miss E. R., _for Lady Missionary,\n      Atlanta, Ga._                                            1.00\n    Norwich. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. Miss\u2019y\n      Soc., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                     50.00\n    Norwich. First Cong. Ch.                                   5.05\n    Plantsville. Dea. T. Higgins, _for Atlanta U._           100.00\n    Plantsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson\n      C. and N. Inst._                                        15.00\n    Pomfret. First Cong. Ch.                                  53.00\n    Salisbury. Cong. Ch.                                      53.97\n    Terryville. A. G. Gaylord, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                50.00\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      36.88\n    Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              15.60\n    Tompsonville. T. I. Pease, _for Library\n      Straight U._                                            33.50\n    Unionville. First Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._           27.98\n    Warren. First Cong. Ch.                                   40.25\n    Waterbury. First Cong. Ch.                               206.40\n    West Brook. Cong. Ch., to const. ERNEST E.\n      SPENCER L. M.                                           37.37\n    West Suffield. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for S. S.,\n      Straight U._                                             5.00\n    Woodbury. Mrs. J. E. B. S., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                 1.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $1,294.10\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    New London. Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven,\n      _for Furniture, Straight U._                           100.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $1,394.10\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $2,836.72.\n\n    Auburn. John F. Hemenway                                   2.00\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Missionaries at Fernandina, Fla., and\n      Ladies\u2019 Island, S.C._                                  175.00\n    Brooklyn. \u201cAn Oberlin Student of 1835,\u201d _for\n      Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._                          10.00\n    Brooklyn. \u201cA Lady, by Aunt Patience,\u201d 5 and\n      bundle of patchwork, _for Lady Missionary,\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                        5.00\n    Canandaigua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     57.28\n    Clarkson. Oliver Babcock                                   5.00\n    Clifton Springs. Mrs. H. L. C                              1.00\n    Comstock\u2019s. Russell Ranney                                 5.00\n    Greenville. F. H. W.                                       0.50\n    Hamilton. Second Cong. Ch.                                17.48\n    Homer. Cong. Ch., 153.10; Cong. Sab. Sch., 10            163.10\n    Honeoye. Cong. Ch., 42.40; Sab Sch., 10                   52.40\n    Lockport. First Cong. Ch., 7; and Sab. Sch.,\n      75, to const. MRS. L. A. DIETRICKS and MISS\n      JENNIE DUQUETTE L. Ms                                   82.00\n    Maine. Cong. Ch., 11.35; Sab. Sch., 4.50;\n      \u201cPastor,\u201d 4.15                                          20.00\n    Mexico. G. W. French, _for Student Aid, Lewis\n      High Sch._                                               2.00\n    Morristown. Cong. Ch.                                      4.27\n    Munnsville. T. B. Rockwell                                 5.00\n    New York. F. P. Shumway                                    5.00\n    New York. D. Appleton & Co., 75 Copies Fourth Reader\n    Ovid. David W. Kinne                                       4.50\n    Parma. Mrs. Anna Hathaway, _for Lady\n      Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._                                3.00\n    Union Falls. Mrs. Fanny D. Duncan, 10.,\n      Francis E. Duncan, 10                                   20.00\n    Volney. First Cong. Ch.                                   18.00\n    Walton. First Cong. Ch.                                   61.33\n    Warsaw. Cong. Soc., 24.77, and Sab. Sch., 33.14           57.91\n    Waterville. Ladies Benev. Soc., 19.35 and Box\n      of C., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                       19.35\n    West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       37.60\n    West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. Bbl. of C., _for Fisk U._\n    West Chazy. Daniel Bassett                                 3.00\n                                                             ------\n                                                            $836.72\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    New York. Estate of Francis P. Schoals, by\n      Trustees                                             2,000.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $2,836.72\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $46.00.\n\n    Newark. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         5.00\n    Newark. Benev. Assn. of Park Presb. Ch., _for\n      furnishing Room, Straight U._                           35.00\n    Newark. Mrs. M. G. B., _for John Brown Steamer_            1.00\n    New Brunswick. Mrs. S. L. Chester                          5.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $25.50.\n\n    Coudersport. \u201cFriends\u201d                                     5.00\n    East Springfield. Mrs. C. J. Cowles                        1.50\n    Hermitage. W. F. Stewart                                   5.00\n    Summersville. Horace Summers                              11.00\n    Wurtemburgh. Mrs. M. Lacey, 2; Mrs. D. U. L., 1            3.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $131.50.\n\n    Atwater. Ladies, by Mrs. J. M. White, _for\n      Books, Straight U._                                      6.50\n    Bellefontaine. Mrs. J. L., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._                                1.00\n    Chagrin Falls. \u201cEarnest Workers\u201d _for Student\n      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                       10.00\n    Cincinnati. F. W. C. Crane                                 2.00\n    Columbus. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc. of First Cong.\n      Ch., 15; Mrs. James L. Bates, 5                         20.00\n    Columbus. C. Coit, _for Library, Macon Ga._                5.00\n    Harrison. Dr. John D. Bowles                               5.00\n    Newark. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Jones                           4.50\n    Norwalk. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       15.00\n    Oberlin. Harris Lewis                                      5.00\n    Pittsford. \u201cD.\u201d                                            1.00\n    South Salem. Daniel S. Pricer                              5.00\n    Tallmadge. Rev. L. Shaw, Pkg. Bibles and\n      Testaments\n    Toledo. Edson Allen, _for Lady Missionary,\n      Raleigh, N.C._                                           5.00\n    Wakeman. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   38.50\n    West Farmington. Cong. Sab. Sch.                           7.00\n    Youngstown. J. D. W.                                       1.00\n\n\n  INDIANA, $1.00.\n\n    Michigan City. \u201cGolden Links of Cong. Ch.\u201d\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta, U._                           1.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $653.54.\n\n    Aurora. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Avon. Mrs. C. W.                                           1.00\n    Batavia. C. N. Cooper                                      5.00\n    Belvidere. M. C. Foote                                     2.50\n    Camp Point. Mrs. Anna Reynolds                            50.00\n    Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 142.06; New Eng.\n      Ch., 62.55; Mrs. E. F. Rice, 5                         209.61\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                            7.75\n    Freeport. L. A. Warner                                    25.00\n    Galesburg. First Ch. of Christ                            26.70\n    Knoxville. W. A.                                           1.00\n    Millburn. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                                5.00\n    Moline. Thomas Jewett, 50 _for Agricultural\n      Implements_, 50 _for Student Aid, Tougaloo\n      U._                                                    100.00\n    Morris. Cong. Ch., 18; Sab. Sch., 2.25                    20.25\n    Nora. G. W. Warner                                         5.00\n    Oak Park. Boys\u2019 Class in Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              19.10\n    Paxton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                        25.00\n    Paxton. Cong. Sab. Sch., 1.50; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 9,\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                           10.50\n    Quincy. Joshua Perry                                      10.00\n    Sheffield. A. W. Boyden (New Year\u2019s Offering)            100.00\n    Sheffield. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                             5.13\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $271.82.\n\n    Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch.                                77.12\n    Detroit. Woodward Av. Sab. Sch.                           67.00\n    Grand Rapids. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rev. J. H.\n      H. Sengstacke_                                          10.00\n    Hubbardston. Cong. Ch.                                     4.00\n    Kalamazoo. J. W. S., _for John Brown Steamer_              1.00\n    Lansing. Prof. R. C. Kedzie                               10.00\n    Muskegon. Cong. Ch.                                       30.00\n    Olivet. Cong. Ch., 25.35; Mrs. M. R., 50c                 25.85\n    Parma. Mrs. M. B. Tanner                                   2.00\n    Plymouth. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n    Portland. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           10.00\n    Saint Johns. First Cong. Ch.                              18.85\n    Utica. \u201cMember of First Cong. Ch.\u201d                        10.00\n    Vermontville. Mrs. H., _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._       1.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $253.97.\n\n    Cedar Rapids. Mrs. R. D. Stephens, _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           25.00\n    Clinton. First Cong. Ch.                                  40.00\n    Denmark. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  46.93\n    Dubuque. First Cong. Ch.                                  60.50\n    Grinnell. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc. of Plym. Ch.,\n      _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._                 30.00\n    Lansing. Lizzie H. Avery                                   5.00\n    Magnolia. Cong. Ch., 20; Sab. Sch., 5                     25.00\n    Marion. \u201cWilling Workers,\u201d _for Straight U._              12.00\n    Montour. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc.                               5.75\n    Wittenbergh. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               3.79\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $222.77.\n\n    Beloit. Second Cong. Ch., 25.67; \u201cSale of\n      Beads,\u201d 5                                               30.67\n    Brandon. \u201cBusy Bees,\u201d 9.40; Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n      7.10, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                    16.50\n    Columbus. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._                            8.50\n    Cooksville. Edward Gilley                                  5.00\n    Eau Claire. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                     25.00\n    Fox Lake. Cong. Ch.                                       10.88\n    Green Bay. First Presb. Ch.                               20.47\n    Kenosha. R. M.                                             0.50\n    Menasha. Cong. Ch.                                        30.00\n    Menomonee. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   12.75\n    Milwaukee. Sixth St. Cong. Sab. Sch.                      10.00\n    Sheboygan. \u201cFriends,\u201d Box Books and Papers,\n      and 2, _for Macon, Ga._                                  2.00\n    Stoughton. Mrs. E. B. S.                                   0.50\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._             50.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $142.65.\n\n    Leech Lake. Henry J. King to const. MRS. SARAH\n      L. KING L. M.                                           30.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 22.65\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., _for Straight U._              59.00\n    Minneapolis. Pilgrim Ch. Sab. Sch. _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   30.00\n    St. Paul. Miss A. B., _for Lady Missionary,\n      Atlanta, Ga._                                            1.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $1.00.\n\n    St. Louis. Rev. C. L. G.                                   1.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $40.40.\n\n    Burlington. Cong. Ch.                                     15.00\n    Garden City. Cong. Ch.                                     2.75\n    Great Bend. Second Cong. Ch.                               5.25\n    Manhattan. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                      17.40\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $7.72.\n\n    Ashland. Cong. Ch.                                         5.72\n    Maniland. Cong. Ch.                                        2.00\n\n\n  OREGON, $10.00.\n\n    The Dalles. First. Cong. Ch.                              10.00\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $13.00.\n\n    Washington. Mrs. A. N. Bailey, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                10.00\n    Washington. \u201cLittle Rills of Llensmary,\u201d by\n      Rev. M. Porter Snell                                     2.00\n    Washington. \u201cFriend,\u201d _for Washington, D.C._               1.00\n\n\n  KENTUCKY, $95.80.\n\n    Berea. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown Steamer_                 7.05\n    Williamsburgh. Tuition                                    88.75\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $468.30.\n\n    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.                                   212.50\n    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition                              255.80\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $216.30.\n\n    Raleigh. Tuition                                           0.80\n    Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition, 210.50;\n      Cong. Ch., 5                                           215.50\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $10.00.\n\n    Charleston. Cong. Ch.                                     10.00\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $719.10.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, 192.84; Rent, 3           195.84\n    Atlanta. First Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                    52.50\n    Atlanta. First. Cong. Ch., 55 _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._, and 10.50 _for Student\n      Aid, Storrs Sch._                                       65.50\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition 153.86; Rent,\n      8; Cong. Ch., 5                                        166.86\n    McIntosh. Dorchester Academy, Tuition                     32.45\n    Marietta. First. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                10.60\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., 145.35; Rent, 10; Cong.\n      Ch. 20                                                 175.35\n    Savannah. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             20.00\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $37.40.\n\n    Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     10.00\n    Selma. Cong. Ch.                                          18.20\n    Selma. Tuition                                             9.50\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $183.00.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition                           183.00\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $125.00.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                        125.00\n\n\n  TEXAS, $281.50.\n\n    Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst., Tuition                 281.50\n\n\n  INCOMES, $60.00.\n\n    Gen. C. B. Fisk Fund, _for Fisk U._                       30.00\n    Belden Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._               30.00\n\n\n  CANADA, $1.00.\n\n    Caledonia. A. C. B.                                        1.00\n\n\n  ENGLAND, $53.50.\n\n    London, Stratford. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._, \u00a310                              48.50\n    York. Mrs. L. H. R. Clark, _for Cottage,\n      Atlanta U._                                              5.00\n                                                          ---------\n          Total                                          $11,187.91\n    Total from Oct. 1 to Feb 28                           96,743.02\n                                                         ==========\n\n\n  FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n    Subscriptions                                           $105.73\n    Previously acknowledged                                  336.86\n                                                             ------\n          Total                                             $442.59\n\n                                         H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.\n                                                 56 Reade St., N.Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\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, 1;\nNorth Carolina, 9; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 14; Kentucky, 7;\nTennessee, 4; Alabama, 14; Kansas, 2; Arkansas, 1; Louisiana, 17;\nMississippi, 5; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 3. _Among the Indians_, 2.\nTotal, 88.\n\nINSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE\nSOUTH.\u2014_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.;\nAtlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans,\nLa., and Austin, Tex.\u20148. _Graded or Normal Schools_: Wilmington,\nN.C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S.C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.;\nMontgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.\u201411. _Other\nSchools_, 38. Total, 57.\n\nTEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.\u2014Among the Freedmen, 336;\namong the Chinese, 31; among the Indians, 6; in Africa, 16. Total,\n389. STUDENTS.\u2014In theology, 72; law, 38; 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 numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for\nthe new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and\npious, for these churches.\n\n3. 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There are no arguments\nso convincing as well-known facts. If a man or a woman who has been\nsuffering for years from an exhausting disease, which no physician\nhad been able to cure, tries a newly-discovered remedy and is\nbrought back to health, the fact stands as an unanswerable argument\nin favor of that remedy, so far, at least, as this particular case\nis concerned. A resort to the same remedy in another case, regarded\nas incurable, and with a like result, adds a new and stronger\nargument in its favor. Accumulate similar results to the number\nof hundreds and thousands, and in the widest range of chronic and\n\u201cdesperate\u201d diseases and abandoned cases, and you have a weight\nof evidence that is irresistible. On this weight of indisputable\nevidence we rest the claims of Compound Oxygen.\n\nIt is frequently urged against this treatment by persons who have\nnot made themselves acquainted with the natural laws governing its\naction, that the same agent is administered for all diseases\u2014for\nneuralgia or catarrh; for rheumatism or consumption; for heart\ndisease or bronchitis; that we offer it as a universal specific. In\nour _Treatise on Compound Oxygen_, which will be _mailed free_ to\nany one who will write to us for it, we have fully explained the\nnature and action of this remedy, and shown that it is not specific\nto any disease or class of diseases; but that it acts directly upon\nthe nervous system and vital organs, and thence universally in\nthe whole body. It gives new force and a more vigorous action to\nall the life-centres, thus restoring to nature the dominant power\nand healthy action which had been lost. This being the case, no\nmatter what the disease, or where located, it must be gradually\nameliorated, and, if the central healthy action can be maintained,\nfinally cured. Every intelligent and unprejudiced person will at\nonce see that if the law of action which we claim for Compound\nOxygen be the true one, its operation must be universal, and not\nlocal or specific; and that all forms of disease may be reached\nby this agent. And the fact that they are reached, and in so\nlarge a number of cases relieved, verifies the theory of cure and\nsubstantiates the claims which are made for this new substance as\n_being the most remarkable in its action of any therapeutic agent\nyet discovered_.\n\nIf we contrast the violence which is so often done to the delicate\norganisms of the human body through the administration of drugs,\ngiven to break the force of a disease, and which sometimes\nkeep the patient lingering for months in slow convalescence,\nneeding all the while the physician\u2019s care, with the revitalized\ncondition of compound oxygen patients, the advantage on the side\nof the latter, as compared with those treated under most of the\nprevailing systems, becomes strikingly apparent. Under the new\ntreatment, which is by inhalation, there is no weakening of the\ntone of the stomach by drugs, and no violent assaults upon any\nnerve or fibre in the body, _but a gentle and subtly penetrating\ninfluence, reaching to the very centre of all the life forces, and\nrestoring them to a healthier action_. The natural result under\nthis treatment must be that, when a patient recovers he is in a\nfar better condition to resist the causes which produce disease\nthan the patient who has had the life forces weakened through drug\nmedication.\n\n_As a restorer of vital force_, it can be largely shown from the\nresults obtained during the past twelve years, that _Compound\nOxygen is the most efficient agent yet discovered by the medical\nprofession. 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Many of these order the Treatment,\nand if helped or cured, as rarely fails to be the case, become in\nturn the friends and advocates of this new method of cure. So the\nknowledge is spreading, and the use of Compound Oxygen growing,\nwith a rapidity of which few outside of our establishment have any\ncomprehension.\n\nTo those who wish to inform themselves in regard to this new\nTreatment, we will send, _free of cost_, our \u201c_Treatise on Compound\nOxygen_,\u201d and our pamphlet, containing over fifty \u201c_Unsolicited\nTestimonials_;\u201d also \u201c_Health and Life_,\u201d our Quarterly Record of\nCases and Cures, under the Compound Oxygen Treatment, in which\nwill be found, as reported by patients themselves, _and open for\nverification, more remarkable results in a single period of three\nmonths than all the medical journals in the United States can show\nin a year_!\n\nDEPOSITORY ON PACIFIC COAST.\u2014H. E. 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DWIGHT. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.\n\n\u201cThis book is the most vivid and faithful sketch of Turkish\ncharacter that we have ever seen.... It is mainly a series of\ninteresting notes and sketches, giving those little details of life\nand thought from day to day, in a time of great excitement, which\nare so essential in order to gain an accurate knowledge of any\npeople.\u201d\u2014_The Nation._\n\n\n[Illustration: stars]\n\n_These books are for sale by all Booksellers, or will be\nsent, post-paid, on receipt of the price, by_\n\n\n                     CHARLES SCRIBNER\u2019S SONS,\n\n                                 743 and 745 Broadway, New York.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n        ATKIN & 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\nMissing \u201ct\u201d added in \u201ctherefore\u201d on page 106 (therefore an\nimmediately pressing necessity).\n\nRemoved extra \u201cs\u201d introduced in line-break hyphenation on page 107\n(no doubt that their presence).\n\nChanged \u201cFragance\u201d to \u201cFragrance\u201d on page 125 (Beauty and Fragrance).\n\nInserted missing \u201cn\u201d in \u201cgoverning\u201d on inside back cover (natural\nlaws governing its action).\n\nDuplicate \u201cthem\u201d removed from the inside back cover (restoring\nthem to a healthier action).","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 37, No. 4, April, 1883","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":19547}