{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_61012/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_61012","id":"gutenberg_61012","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61012","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Journals","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"[Illustration: JUNE, 1883.\n\nVOL. XXXVII.\n\nNO. 6.\n\nThe American Missionary]\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\n                                                         PAGE.\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    BUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK                                 161\n    HON. J. J. H. GREGORY\u2014JOHN F. SLATER EDUCATIONAL\n      FUND                                                 164\n    OUR FINANCES\u2014PARAGRAPHS                                165\n    PARAGRAPHS\u2014VALUABLE BOOK ON INDIAN MISSIONS            166\n    BENEFACTIONS                                           167\n    GENERAL NOTES                                          168\n\n\n  THE SOUTH.\n\n    A REMARKABLE TRIBUTE                                   171\n    REVIVAL WORK AT FISK UNIVERSITY\u2014EMERSON INSTITUTE      172\n    EMERSON INSTITUTE, MOBILE, ALA. (cut)                  173\n    INDUSTRIAL WORK AT ATLANTA UNIVERSITY                  174\n    AFRICA AT ATLANTA\u2014ONE DAY                              175\n    A JUBILATE                                             176\n    GREEN COVE SPRINGS (cut). COLOR LINE IN FLORIDA        177\n    WOMAN\u2019S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION                         178\n    NOTES FROM THE FIELD                                   179\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    THE NEW MISSION IN SOUTH CHINA                         180\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    THE COMING OF THE ORGAN                                181\n    MOUNTAIN FAMILY SINGING PSALMS                         182\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                 183\n\n  COPY AND MAIL                                            188\n\n  PROPOSED CONSTITUTION                                    189\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., as\n                       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\n\n[Illustration: Estey\n\nOrgan\n\nThe excellences of the ESTEY ORGAN may not be told in an ordinary\nadvertisement. Our Illustrated Catalogue, sent free, containing\nengravings from photographs of elegant styles, with full\ndescription, is more satisfactory\n\nJ: ESTEY & Co BRATTLEBORO VT.]\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n             VOL. XXXVII.      JUNE, 1883.      NO. 6.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\nAPPOINTMENT OF SECRETARY.\n\nIt gives us pleasure to announce that in following out the\narrangements fore-shadowed in the May \u201cMissionary,\u201d the Executive\nCommittee of the A. M. A. has made choice of Miss D. E. Emerson as\nSecretary of its Bureau of Woman\u2019s Work. Miss Emerson is well known\nin the mission fields of the Association, having been a teacher, a\nlady missionary and also at the New York Office doing service in\nconnection with the correspondence for the Southern work. In the\nlatter position, covering a period of several years, she has had\noccasion to visit localities occupied by our lady missionaries, and\nin these and many other ways has gained a very extensive knowledge\nof the wants and the methods of help needful for the elevation of\nthe colored people. Her ability for her new position has already\nbeen tested, and the Association has great confidence in her\ncapacity to meet the requirements of all interested in the great\nwork that lies before her. Correspondence relating to the Bureau\nshould be addressed to Miss D. E. Emerson, at the office of the A.\nM. A., 56 Reade St., New York.\n\n\nMETHODS OF WORK.\n\nOur Bureau inaugurates no new woman\u2019s missionary society. It is\nsimply a plan for giving more efficiency to the work already in\nhand. We leave the mode of co-operation on the part of the ladies\nof the North entirely to themselves, and we can think of no better\nplan for such co-operation than that given on the next page in the\nletter of Miss M. E. Smith of Gorham, Me., which describes the\nmethods in use the past year in that State.\n\nNeither are the means for promoting the objects of our Bureau new;\nthey are based on twenty years\u2019 experience and extend to all the\nbranches of home, school and church life. We can aid directly in\nthe elevation of women and children through the varied work of\nthe ladies engaged in our different mission fields. Our method of\ngiving information to the Christian women of the North will be not\nonly by correspondence through the Secretary of the Bureau, but\nalso by direct information from the lady missionaries and teachers,\nwho will attend the meetings of ladies at the conferences,\nassociations, and, as far as practicable, local societies in\nconnection with the churches.\n\n\nMETHOD OF CO-OPERATION.\n\nFROM MISS MARY E. SMITH, MAINE.\n\nIn answer to your inquiry as to the mode of collecting, I would say\nthat we have _no_ organization. The ladies talked the matter over\nand decided that as there are so many organizations already as to\nbe almost bewildering, we would carry on this work with as little\n\u201cred tape\u201d as possible. At each annual conference a meeting of all\nladies interested is held, a report read of the amount collected\nthe past year and a committee of three chosen to carry on the work\nfor the following year. This committee appoints a collector for\neach conference, and each conference collector engages a collector\nin each church in her conference. The collectors of the several\nchurches report progress and send money obtained to the conference\ncollector, and she forwards it to the chairman of the State\nCommittee, who keeps the bank account and forwards the money in due\ntime to the A. M. A.\n\nBy so simple an arrangement we also save in expense. With the\nexception of a very slight amount for printing of circulars for\ndistribution through the States, the only expense is that of\npostage, etc., which being divided among so many is borne by the\nseveral collectors and does not take from the sum collected. So\nfar the working of our plan has been, I think, as successful as we\ncould reasonably expect.\n\n\nLETTERS OF SYMPATHY.\n\nFROM MRS. HENRY L. CHASE, IOWA.\n\nIt is with great satisfaction that I learn that a \u201cBureau of\nWoman\u2019s Work\u201d has been organized in connection with the A. M. A. It\nseems to me that such an organization is not merely a valuable help\nbut a manifest necessity in the effective prosecution of \u201cWoman\u2019s\nWork for Woman\u201d in the South\u2014a work which lies upon the hearts of\nvery many of the Christian women of the North and which ought to\nlie upon the consciences of all.\n\nA very limited experience teaches that in every kind of benevolent\nwork _information_ is the root from which interest and action\ngrow. Probably in no other way can the facts which will quicken\nthe interest of the ladies of our churches in work among the\nFreedpeople be so thoroughly and influentially presented as by\nmeans of this Bureau. Specific objects of effort, concerning\nwhich details may be furnished, will often win the practical\nattention of those who are comparatively indifferent to the idea\nof general needs. And the sanction of the A. M. A. being implied\nin any appeals made thorough the Bureau for definite objects, will\ngive assurance that our gifts and our labors are to be applied\nin the wisest way and where the need is most urgent. But perhaps\nnothing accomplished by this organization will be more gratefully\nappreciated or more productive of the desired results than the\nvisits of missionaries to the churches which support them, and\ntheir statements by word of mouth in regard to the appalling needs\nand encouraging successes in their various fields. This new branch\nof work has my warmest good wishes and my earnest prayers for its\nfullest success.\n\n\nBRIEF RESPONSES.\n\nMiss A. W. Johnson of North Brookfield, Mass., writes: I am very\nglad that a \u201cBureau of Woman\u2019s Work\u201d has been organized, and\nbelieve it will open up new avenues for work among our ladies. I\nrespond at once, hoping I can do something to interest them in this\ndirection.\n\nRev. S. E. Lathrop of Macon, Ga., writes: I rejoice in the new\n\u201cBureau of Woman\u2019s Work.\u201d It is a necessary and hopeful acquisition.\n\n\nBUREAU REPRESENTED IN OHIO.\n\nAT the Ohio State Association which convened at Akron, May 8,\nDist. Sec. Pike in his address set forth the plans of our Bureau\nof Woman\u2019s Work, referring especially to the methods proposed for\nbringing the condition of the colored people more fully before the\nChristian women of the North. He was accompanied by Miss Rose M.\nKinney, who had just returned from her field of labor at McIntosh,\nLiberty County, Ga., and who, in behalf of our Bureau of Woman\u2019s\nWork, gave an interesting account of her mission services, which\nhad included that of organizing a Woman\u2019s Missionary Society among\nthe colored women. Miss Kinney also addressed the Woman\u2019s meeting\nheld during the sessions of the Association. Arrangements have\nbeen made, as far as practicable, with other States for a like\npresentation of the varied work carried on by this Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIn the next and future numbers of the MISSIONARY, the details of\nthe \u201cBureau of Woman\u2019s Work\u201d will appear in a separate department\nunder the above heading.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE LORD\u2019S BLESSED ONES.\u2014A recent visitor to the Teachers\u2019 Home,\nStorrs School, Atlanta, writes that on his arrival, about nine in\nthe evening, he was met by the lady teachers, who were returning,\ntwo by two, from attending cottage prayer meetings in the parish,\nof which there had been six that night. \u201cComing in,\u201d he says,\n\u201cfrom such work in the lowly homes of a despised people, cheerful\nand delighted with the meetings, they made a profound impression\nupon me as the Lord\u2019s blessed ones. If He hasn\u2019t got any mansions\nup there quite worthy of them He\u2019ll go to work and fix up some\nespecially for their use.\u201d\n\nTHE readers of the MISSIONARY are not ignorant of the benefactions\nof Mr. J. J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass., to this Association.\nThe following extract from a Wilmington paper indicates the\nappreciation in which he is held not only by the colored people,\nbut also by leading citizens South.\n\n\u201cThe reception of Mr. Gregory took place in the Mayor\u2019s office in\nthe City Hall yesterday at noon. There was quite a large attendance\nof our prominent citizens, including a few colored men, all of\nwhom gave evidence of the esteem entertained for the distinguished\nvisitor and their pleasure at the opportunity thus afforded them\nof forming the acquaintance of one who has devoted so much of\nhis fortune to the advancement of the educational facilities and\ninterests of Wilmington. Mr. Gregory was introduced to those\npresent by Mayor Hall in a few brief and appropriate remarks, which\nwere responded to by Mr. G. in fitting terms. Short speeches were\nalso delivered by Rev. Drs. Taylor and Wilson, in the order named,\nand at the conclusion of their remarks, Mayor Hall again spoke,\nand at more length. The meeting was a very pleasant one, and we\nhave reason to believe that Mr. Gregory was much pleased at the\nheartiness of his reception.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE Trustees of the John F. Slater Educational Fund met in New\nYork April 25 and 26. It was voted to appropriate $20,000 during\nthe coming year to such schools as are best fitted to help young\ncolored people to become useful to their race, preference being\ngiven to those institutions which furnish industrial education.\nOver seventy institutions have already reported to Rev. Dr. A. G.\nHaygood, the Secretary. It is not conclusive from the reports that\nhave reached us that the sum named above is the entire amount that\nwill be applied the coming year for educational purposes, or that\nthe income of the fund will be principally used for industrial\neducation. We believe the plans of the Trustees are as broad as\nthe necessities of the colored people for education in every\ndepartment. The meeting of the Board was fully attended, and the\nplace made vacant by the death of Wm. E. Dodge was filled by the\nelection of his son. We commend the Trustees for their careful and\nconscientious endeavors to provide for the uplifting of the colored\npeople and the welfare of the nation.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE average attendance at the 30 conventions of the Co-operative\nSocieties in Connecticut was 136. The number of churches\nrepresented was 230, of the 297 in the State. The average\nattendance of similar meetings in 1872 was 104. On the whole the\nrecent meetings were of marked interest, and of much encouragement\nto the missionary work done by Congregationalists.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOUR FINANCES.\u2014During the seven months of the fiscal year closing\nApril 30, our receipts from collections and donations have amounted\nto $109,275.73. The collections and donations for the same months\nlast year were $138,094.35, a decrease of $28,818.62. The legacies\nfor these months last year were $23,447.81, while for this year\nthey have been $42,121.18, an increase of $18,673.37. The total\nreceipts thus far this year in collections, donations and legacies\nhave been $151,396.91 against $161,542.16 for the same period last\nyear, a decrease of $10,145.25. We earnestly urge the friends of\nthis Association to study these figures. Our last annual meeting,\nin view of the pressing work before us, recommended the increase\nof our receipts 25 per cent. for the present fiscal year. The\nadded expenses of our Indian work and the pressing calls for\nenlargement of our school and church work South, make this increase\nimperative\u2014and especially as the openings before us in these lines\nof effort are exceedingly auspicious and encouraging. If the\nincrease named is received, we can go forward; if not, we must\nleave undone what ought to be done. Under these circumstances, we\nask individual donors whom God hath blessed with the means and the\nheart to help, to give special attention to the facts we present,\nand we also respectfully request pastors to bring before their\npeople our financial necessities, so that during the next five\nmonths we may be able to go forward without debt or diminution of\nwork.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE CHURCH BOOK, Hymns and Tunes, for the Uses of Christian\nWorship, prepared by Leonard Woolsey Bacon. New York: D. Appleton\n& Co. Several novelties are presented by this book. The more\nprominent of these are (1) the typographical arrangement, which\nallows the hymns to go in without the usual limitations of space,\n(2) the number of hymns, which is less than half that usually found\nin books of the kind, (3) a combination of the standard tunes\nwith the best of the English lyrical compositions. We believe\nthere is common sense in Dr. Bacon\u2019s idea that the church will be\nbetter served with a smaller number of the choicest hymns. As both\nthe standard and (so called) classical tunes are selected with\nexcellent judgment, we see no reason why the Church Book may not\nprove a valuable addition to the hymn-and-tune-ology of the day.\nThe typography and binding of the book are of the best.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nGENERAL LITURGY AND BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, prepared by Prof.\nHopkins, is the title of an attractive volume of 137 pages,\npublished by A. S. Barnes & Co. A feature of especial interest\nis the \u201cTable for Scripture Readings for Divine Service on every\nLord\u2019s Day throughout the year,\u201d embracing a period of two years.\nThe volume is tastefully prepared and printed in red and black,\nthus assisting the eye in selecting the different parts of the\nservice. We believe it will be found helpful in the pulpit, in\nfamilies and in mission work at home and abroad.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE _Home Missionary_ for May appears with new cover and\nan addition of eight pages, four of which are devoted to\nadvertisements. The reading matter, embraces a wide range of\ndiscussion on the different interests of home missionary work, and\nas usual was prepared especially for this excellent organ of the\nHome Missionary Society. It gives evidence of an advance along the\nline, and will be welcome in its approved appearance among its\nnumerous readers.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE _Church Building Quarterly_, No. 2, is out, and gives to its\nreaders a hundred pages of excellent reading relating to the\ninterests of the Congregational Union. Plans, specifications and\ncuts of 26 varieties of church edifices are given with suggestions\nas to cost, materials, conveniences, title to property and other\ninformation of value. Cuts and specifications for three varieties\nof parsonages are also given. The Quarterly is attractive and we\ncongratulate the brethren who manage the affairs of the Society on\ntheir enterprise and success.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA VALUABLE BOOK ON INDIAN MISSIONS.\n\nINDIAN MISSIONS is a volume of 270 pages, published by the Am. S.\nS. Union, from the pen of Rev. Myron Eells, missionary of the A.\nM. A. among the Indians in Washington Territory. Mr. Eells is the\nson of a missionary, who gave himself to the work on the Pacific\nCoast in 1838. He grew up in that country, and is perhaps as well\nqualified as any man living to write the history and results of the\nwork of different benevolent societies among the Indian tribes of\nthat section. In the book before us he gives in order the history\nof the early missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church and those\nof the American Board, making mention of the development of the\nwork in ten localities among as many different tribes. The progress\nof civilizing agencies is recorded with a fidelity and minuteness\nthat adds much to the value of the volume. It appears that most of\nthe missionaries believed that the Bible and the plow should go\nhand in hand, and that through their influence the Indians were\nstimulated to cultivate lands, build houses, abandon polygamy,\nbecome temperate, connect themselves with churches, and place\ntheir children in schools. The author expresses the fear that his\nstatistics relating to such matters may be considered too large,\nbut affirms that they have been taken from official reports. He\ncomforts himself, also, in the words of another, to the effect\nthat \u201cif one-fourth of all that is reported has been accomplished,\na great work has been done.\u201d\n\nPart II. of Mr. Eells\u2019 book treats of the reflex influence of the\nmission upon the whites. His claims are no less interesting than\nsurprising. He says: \u201cIndian missions brought the first white\nwoman overland to Oregon, opened the first emigrant wagon road to\nthe Columbia River, furnished Oregon with the first United States\nofficer, gave the first governor to the Territory, established the\nfirst permanent American settlement here, so that without this aid\nthe Provisional Government would, without doubt, never have been\norganized, brought the first American cattle to the Willamette\nValley, and saved the country, or, at least, an important portion\nof it, to the United States.\u201d\n\nIndeed, when he tells the story of Dr. Whitman\u2019s winter journey\nto Washington, pursuant to the vote of the missionaries, \u201cto make\na desperate effort to save the country to the United States,\u201d\nhe is not only graphic but eloquent. His description of the\nhardships of the winter\u2019s campaign and of the grand success of the\nreturn journey with scores of emigrants, who illustrated beyond\nquestion that women and wagons could cross the mountains, and that\nmissionaries at least had the enterprise needful to provide the\nagency for establishing a provisional government at the focal point\nin the history of our western territories, is full of interest.\n\nIt is impossible, however, in our limited space, even to allude to\nall the topics touched upon. We must ask our readers to purchase\nthe volume. It is well suited for Sabbath-school libraries, and\nwill be welcomed by good men everywhere who love mission work. As\na testimony in behalf of the far-reaching influences of missionary\nendeavors, it is of rare excellence. We hope its circulation will\nbe swift and extensive.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nHon. Peter Cooper left by will $100,000 to the Cooper Institute,\nNew York.\n\nSenator Joseph E. Brown, of Atlanta, has donated $50,000 in bonds\nto the University of Georgia.\n\nThe late Jos. J. Cook, Esq., of Providence, left to Trinity College\n$5,000 for the purchase of books.\n\nCarleton College, Minn., has received a gift of $12,000 from Mr. E.\nH. Williams, of Philadelphia.\n\nMrs. Jonathan Adams, of Concord, N.H., bequeathed $5,000 to\nHolderness Academy as a scholarship fund.\n\nMiddlebury College, Vt., has come into possession of $1,500 by the\ndeath of the widow of Rev. T. A. Merrill, D.D., by which it offers\nthree prizes to the sophomore class.\n\nThe will of the late Hon. J. N. Hungerford, of Corning, N.Y.\nbequeaths $25,000 to Hamilton College, in addition to $15,000\ngiven by him to that institution a year or more ago.\n\nA gentleman in New York State has recently contributed $5,000 to\nthe Atlanta University to be used as a fund, the interest of which\ncan be applied for annual scholarships.\n\nMr. Moody\u2019s Mount Hermon School for Boys is to receive the entire\ncabinet of fossil footprints, shells and minerals belonging to the\nlate Roswell Field, of Gill, Mass., and also the sum of $1,600 to\nprovide for its preservation and enlargement.\n\nThe Vermont Academy at Saxton\u2019s River, Vt., has just received a\ngift of $12,000 from four prominent Vermonters\u2014$3,000 each from\nLawrence Barnes, Julius J. Estey, Jacob Estey and Levi K. Fuller.\n\nThe widow of John Evans, of South Meriden, has given $2,000 to\nWesleyan University to found the John Evans scholarship, open to\ncandidates for the ministry in junior or senior classes.\n\n_It has been estimated at Washington that the annual profit to the\ncountry by the conversion of illiterate into educated labor cannot\nbe less than $400,000,000. If so, money given for the endowment of\neducational institutions at the South, like those of the A. M. A.,\nwould yield a hundred fold in half a generation._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n\u2014The caravan of English missionaries conducted by Mr. Stokes has\nreached the extreme south of Victoria Nyanza, a little to the west\nof Kaghei.\n\n\u2014Mr. Resteau has established at Ambrisette the first factory of the\nBelgian Company for African commerce. He has sent the plans for\nanother establishment that the company will found in the region\nsouth of the Congo.\n\n\u2014The Committee of English missions has accepted for its stations on\nthe Niger the services of Dr. Percy Brown, who offers himself for\nwork in any part of the mission field.\n\n\u2014The new king of Cayor has made a visit to the Governor of St.\nLouis, promising to aid with all his power the construction of the\nrailroad. In two or three weeks the section from Dakar to Rufisque\nwill be finished.\n\n\u2014The British and African Steam Navigation Company, which has\nalready 20 ships for service on the west side of Africa, has\nconstructed two others of less draught that they may leap the sand\nbanks of the lower rivers. They will be named the Lagos and the\nCalabar.\n\n\u2014Unwilling to yield to any one the territory of Liberia, the Senate\nof Monrovia is prepared to place the question of the southern\nlimits of this State, a subject on which it disagrees with England,\nto the arbitration of the United States.\n\n\u2014Mr. Piazzi Smythe has communicated to the English journal\n_Nature_, from a correspondent at Santa Cruz, capital of Teneriffe,\nthat the peak of Teyde, which has not had an eruption since 1798,\nhas broken out again since the commencement of 1883. A river of\nlava descends from its summit, still covered with snow.\n\n\u2014The Baptist missionaries settled at Manyanga and Stanley Pool,\nwhere their stations have taken the names of Wathen and Arthington,\nin honor of the two principal supporters of their work, have felt\nmore and more obliged to free themselves from the protection of the\narmed Zanzibarites of the Belgian expeditions. Since the attack in\nwhich M. Peschuel Locsche was wounded they have felt that the route\nalong the northern side of the river from Manyanga to Stanley Pool\nwas safe only for strong caravans well armed, and they have sought\none upon the southern side. There the Belgians, after having burned\nNgombi, whose chief was disposed to attack the caravans, have\nmade a new route to Stanley Pool, and Lieut. Valcke has founded a\nstation at Ngombi and organized a service of caravans between that\npoint and Stanley Pool. The missionaries have one independent of\nthe Belgians, so that caravans pass every four or five days. The\nsecurity of transport is greater, but the price of everything is\ngreatly increased.\n\n\u2014The combats between the people of Stanley and the natives have\narrested the advance of the missionaries of the Livingstone Inland\nmission. After having gone 50 kilometres beyond their station,\nthey were obliged to found a new station upon the Loukounga in\nthe midst of a population always well disposed toward them. Also\nthe missionaries of this mission have decided not to establish\nthemselves at Stanley Pool, and have actually gone to work in\nthe region near their stations, 50 or 60 kilometres apart, over\nan extent of 170 kilometres. During the five years in which they\nhave lived there they have never had a quarrel with the natives,\nwho respect them and confide their children to them. They have\nlearned the language of the country, prepared many pupils to become\nteachers, and found the natives eager to furnish them the products\nof the country and at their service for porters along the route\nfrom one station to the other.\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\u2014The last session of Congress appropriated $300,000 to the\nCherokees as payment for the lands now occupied by the Nez Perces,\nPoncas, Pawnees and Otoes.\n\n\u2014The Indian Homestead Colony at Flandreau, D.T., reports that\nninety-four homesteads have been taken by the Indians to be held at\nleast five years by them.\n\n\u2014Four hundred thousand dollars have been appropriated by the\ngeneral government for the support of Indian day and industrial\nschools and for other educational purposes.\n\n\u2014Capt. R. H. Pratt is to receive $68,500 for the support of the\nIndian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pa. This amount is to cover\nall expenditures for transportation of Indians, and for the salary\nand support of teachers and students.\n\n\u2014A new Industrial School for Indian girls has been started by the\nGovernment at West Branch, Iowa. Mr. Benjamin Miles is to have\ncharge of the enterprise. The school has capacity for fifty pupils,\nand by the terms of the appropriation, none can be received who are\nunder fourteen years of age.\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u2014According to Missionary Butler, of China, as Buddhism has no\nheaven for women, the Chinese damsels labor with might and main to\nlay up merits that they may prevail with the judges of the lower\nworld to let them be born again as men, so that they may have a\nchance to get there.\n\n\u2014More than 280 Christian women are banded together in England,\ndaily praying for blessing to rest upon the work among the poor,\ndegraded and down-trodden women of China. Three of the members of\nthis Woman\u2019s Prayer Union for the Women of China have been accepted\nby the China Inland Mission, and are hoping soon to leave for their\nfuture sphere of work.\n\n\u2014A happy thought for a Christian wedding party found expression at\nNorwich, England, on the occasion of the marriage of Rev. J. O.\nHoare, son of Canon Hoare and Principal of the C. M. S. College,\nat Ningpo. After breakfast it was proposed to make a special\ncollection for the China mission, which resulted in subscriptions\namounting to about $2,200.\n\n\u2014The edict against Christianity in Japan has never been repealed.\nAt first, only teaching was permitted, and that was to be secular;\nthen preaching in private was tolerated; then followed assembles\nfor Christian worship, and the organization of Christian churches;\nand in October, 1880, the natives held a meeting in the open air on\nthe grounds of a hotel in the public park at Uyeno; some four or\nfive thousand people were present, and the meeting lasted two days.\nIt was openly advertised in the native newspapers and publicly\nannounced by large post-bills which met the eye in all parts of the\ncity, and one of which was on the very spot where the old edict\nboard used to stand. And yet the government does not interfere.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT.\n\nPROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA REMARKABLE TRIBUTE.\n\nHOW IT PAYS TO EDUCATE COLORED MINISTERS.\n\nREV. W. W. PATTON, D.D., WASHINGTON.\n\nFacts are worth more than abstract theories. Let the people\nhave the facts. Howard University has for a number of years\nbeen carrying on a theological department, which has educated\nmany colored ministers for all the evangelical denominations in\nthis country, besides sending several missionaries to Africa.\nThis department is mainly supported by the American Missionary\nAssociation, and its principal professorship has been partially\nendowed by Mrs. Stone. From this institution went forth a few years\nsince, a young man (Rev. A. J. Henry) of unmixed African blood,\nwho took as his field of labor a benighted county in Virginia. As\nthe result of his patient, self-denying toil, several churches and\nschools have been established, and a new character has been given\nto the whole community. In proof of this, I am permitted to quote\nthe following letter, voluntarily sent by the Prosecuting Attorney\nof the county to Mr. Henry:\n\n                      \u201cAMELIA COURT HOUSE, Va., Jan. 31, 1883.\n\n  DEAR SIR: There has been such a marked improvement in the\n  conduct, character, morals and intelligence of the colored\n  population of this county, and crime has diminished to such\n  an extent with the past several years, that it is natural\n  that an observing man should at once consider the cause or\n  reason for such a changed state of affairs. In doing so, I am\n  at once constrained to believe and to attribute it to your\n  untiring zeal in the laudable effort to do good to that race\n  whose training has been so long neglected. Your boldness in\n  condemning the wrong and asserting and approving the right,\n  has not only impressed the colored people and influenced their\n  conduct in the right direction, but it has at the same time won\n  for you the confidence and esteem of all the thinking portion\n  of the white race who are interested in good government, and a\n  well-ordered and law-abiding community. It is not surprising to\n  thinking men that an immense amount of crime should have been\n  the result of liberating the vast number of colored people of\n  the South, and throwing them suddenly upon their own resources,\n  with their wants unprovided for and with no training, when it\n  had not been their habit to think or provide for themselves.\n  Consequently, the sad result was that crime was prevalent\n  throughout this whole Southern country. It therefore became\n  sensible men to undertake to provide a remedy; and the remedy\n  is, to educate and Christianize the race; and I am glad\u2014indeed,\n  happy\u2014to be able to say that you have contributed your full\n  share toward bringing about that happy result, for which this\n  community ought to be profoundly grateful.\n\n   \u201cNow, for a moment, let us contrast the present state of\n  things with the past, which is vivid in our recollection\n  because of its sadness. I qualified as Prosecuting Attorney\n  for this county at the April Term of the County Court 1870,\n  and have held that office (with the exception of one term of\n  four years) from that time to the present. It was no uncommon\n  thing\u2014indeed it was a common thing\u2014to prosecute from two to\n  four cases of felony at every term of the court, and I have\n  prosecuted as many as seven felonies at one term of our Circuit\n  Court, and the jail was full or crowded with those awaiting\n  trial. But for the last four or five years crime has gradually\n  diminished, until now it is a rare occurrence that we have a\n  prisoner in jail awaiting trial or a felony to prosecute; and\n  the jail is nearly all the time without an inmate. The present\n  state of things is so different that it is a subject of remark.\n  May He who directeth all things spare you long in the good work\n  in which you have accomplished so much. Very respectfully and\n  truly your friend,\n\n                                               T. K. WEISIGER.\u201d\n\nThis statement speaks loudly, not only as regards the particular\ncase mentioned, but as regards the system which we are pursuing to\nelevate the colored people. Mr. Henry, during his studies in Howard\nUniversity, was aided by funds contributed in Great Britain for the\nassistance of needy colored students, and it will be cheering to\nthose benefactors to hear of the good which is being accomplished\nby this beneficiary. Will not other benefactors come to our help by\nfurnishing other endowments and scholarships?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREVIVAL WORK AT FISK UNIVERSITY.\n\nREV. H. S. BENNETT.\n\nThe religious history of Fisk University divides itself into two\nportions, that before New Year and after. Before the New Year, the\nweek given to the Young Men\u2019s Christian Association passed, and\nthe work of holding nightly prayer meetings was taken in hand by\nthe students. Several conversions resulted. After the new year had\nset in and I had returned from my Northern trip, I felt that the\ntime had come for direct effort for the conversion of the students.\nI, therefore, directed my preaching to that end and held nightly\nmeetings for inquirers. As a result two or three of the students\nwere converted. At length, being convinced that I could do little\nmore, I made no appointment for other meetings. At this point the\nyoung men in Livingstone Hall came forward and offered to carry\non the meetings in their own way. I was glad to give them the\nopportunity to go forward. This they did, visiting from room to\nroom and inviting the unconverted out. The result was that there\nwas a large increase in the interest. The inquiry meetings were\nfull, and from ten to fifteen were seeking Christ every night. This\nwork went on for several weeks and resulted in the conversion of\nfifteen or more\u2014twenty-two for the whole year. There is still some\ninterest, although other things have interfered to divert the minds\nof the students from the direct effort for the salvation of souls.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nEMERSON INSTITUTE.\n\nBY MISS EMMA CAUGHEY, MOBILE, ALA.\n\nThe accompanying cut of Emerson Institute presents it in its\nnew and enlarged proportions. Oct 3d, 1882, with much joy and\nthanksgiving, we dedicated its new walls, \u201cPro Christo et\nHumanitate.\u201d It is a fine substantial building, well adapted to\nour school work. A basement play-room under the entire building\nfurnishes protection to the children on rainy days. The first floor\ncontains three pleasant school-rooms, four halls and a library.\nFour stair-ways lead to the play-room, and the same number lead up\nto the second floor, where are three more cheery, well ventilated\nschool-rooms, separated from each other by uplifting sash doors,\nby which the entire upper story may be thrown into one large hall.\nHere we assemble for morning devotions, hold our public rhetoricals\nand evening socials. Contributions from friends at the North have\nenabled us to place a reading table in one corner of the normal\nroom, furnished with the best weeklies and monthlies, a handsome\nclock and some tasteful mottoes on the wall, each of which we may\nhope is a little rill flowing into that stream of silent influences\nwhich serves not only to brighten the lives of the pupils but\nto help them to a nobler manhood and a purer womanhood. We have\nenrolled during the year three hundred and twenty-one different\npupils under the care of six teachers. We have an industrial\ndepartment connected with our school, in which sewing and fancy\nwork are taught. We meet for two hours each Friday evening at the\nclose of the regular session of school. This evening hour is a\nhappy climax to the week for the girls, but is a great tension upon\nthe nervous force of the teachers at the end of the week\u2019s wear and\ntear. We close this department of our school with a fair, where the\narticles made by the girls are offered for sale, the proceeds of\nwhich are to be divided between foreign missions and our own worthy\npoor.\n\n[Illustration: EMERSON INSTITUTE, MOBILE, ALA.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nINDUSTRIAL WORK AT ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.\n\nMR. H. M. SESSIONS.\n\nHaving been connected with this institution more than a year,\nwe have learned from the boys in school from all parts of the\nSouth, as well as from our own observation in the State, of the\nlimited scope of the agricultural products in this section. Most\nof the boys have been accustomed to farm work, and in answer to\nthe question, \u201cWhat kind of crops have you been used to raising?\u201d\nthey reply invariably, \u201ccorn and cotton.\u201d It has been the custom\nof the planters here to use their means, men, teams and credit to\nraise cotton. While they are raising crops they run in debt for\nprovisions, and at the end of the year frequently fail to realize\nenough from the crops to pay the bills. Some are learning the\nbetter way of raising a variety of crops for the family, and a few\nacres of cotton for a money crop. The great want of successful\nfarming is fertilizers. The land is so impoverished that there is\nno use in trying to raise a crop without. With plenty of manure,\nwe can secure as good crops as can be raised anywhere. Our tables\nwere supplied last summer with a great variety of vegetables and\nour barns filled with fodder. Twelve acres only out of the sixty\nowned by the Institution have been under cultivation, our own table\nwith 240 boarders making a market. The advantages of climate enable\nus to raise two or three crops a year on the same land. The soil\nis capable of producing any and every variety of crops that can be\nraised elsewhere in the United States.\n\nWhatever possibilities may be attained in literary pursuits for\ngenerations to come, most of the manual labor at the South will\nbe performed by the colored man. The great want at the present\ntime is skilled laborers. The abundant resources are awaiting men\nas well as means for their development\u2014men skilled in all the\nuseful trades, educated in both muscle and brain, such as can\nplan as well as execute. There is a surplus of ignorant laborers\nSouth who cannot set themselves to work at anything but the most\nmenial service. If the present generation can be instructed by\nskilled labor how to get a good living and earn money to educate\ntheir children, then the next generation can take a step higher.\nThe opportunities offered the boys here to learn the useful arts\nwill be enlarged. At the present time we are only developing the\nagricultural department in a small way for want of means. We are\ntrying to utilize the labor of the boys for their advantage, as\nwell as profit to the Institution. With a fair supply of mulberry\ntrees, we propose to commence the culture of silk. This spring we\nhave twenty-five boys competing for the premiums offered for the\nlargest product of early garden vegetables grown on the square rod.\nThe work is to be done during play hours and the crop harvested\nbefore the close of the term, the 15th of June. Monthly lectures\non important farm topics are given to the students. We need an\nendowment of $30,000 for a school of agriculture, and the same\namount for the mechanic arts.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAFRICA AT ATLANTA.\n\nIn a private letter Mrs. Chase writes about a young man from the\nwest coast of Africa as follows: I must tell you about Philip. We\nhad very interesting meetings last week. Thursday the topic was for\nthe church. Philip who had not had courage to speak in meetings\nbefore this year, got up and said he was ashamed of having been so\nafraid of being laughed at by the boys; he expected in a few years\nto teach about Jesus in his own country\u2014and it is your country,\ntoo. He then went on with his intense earnestness and broken\nEnglish to tell of his home\u2014how dear it was to him and how dear\nhis people were\u2014how sad it was that they did not know about Jesus,\ntill I do not think there was a dry eye in the room. The meeting\nthe next night was a larger one, as we have no study hours Friday\nnight. We saw the effect of Philip\u2019s thrilling words. More than\none referred to them. A young woman who decided to be a missionary\nto Africa last year, said every word Philip spoke seemed meant for\nher. \u201cTo think that boy, who was a heathen such a little while ago,\ncould justly say such things to us with our privileges, made me\nfeel condemned. I want to preach the gospel to the heathen. I pray\nthat I may be fitted for the blessed work. I don\u2019t want money, I\ndon\u2019t want fame, but I do want such a spirit that it shall be my\nmeat and drink to do my Father\u2019s will.\u201d Philip\u2019s Bible, which he\nbrought with him, is very fine print, and has no references. He\nwanted a new one, so as he had earned some money in summer, one of\nthe teachers purchased him one. He is so pleased with it he takes\nit to bed with him. One day he asked his teacher if he could not\nbuy some silk to cover it with. When she suggested covering it with\npaper, he did not like it at all. I am so glad he is with us, he is\na great power.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nONE DAY.\n\nBY MISS ADELE BREWER, RALEIGH, N.C.\n\nWould you like to spend Sunday with us among the colored people\nat the South? The bell for Sunday School sounded at nine o\u2019clock.\nAt three, we answered the call for church. We saluted the sexton,\na pretty girl, who was ringing the bell as we entered. The neat\nlittle church still had its Christmas trimmings. We were delighted\nwith everything, the earnest minister, the good organ, the\nwell-trained choir. Every word of the responsive reading was so\nclearly enunciated that it was a pleasure to listen. The pastor\u2019s\nwife came in with her manly son and her wee baby. That smallest\nauditor behaved well. The missionary was there with the orphan she\nis training. Notices for the week were given out\u2014Lyceum, Church\nprayer meeting, and the Women\u2019s prayer meeting.\n\nAfter the benediction, before we had hardly thought of turning in\nour places, we felt the pressure of a baby\u2019s hand. Little Clara,\naged five, had hastened to us. She had come to church alone. It was\nsweet to look at her and know what an angel of light she is. Her\nmother, though an invalid, takes in washing. She hires some one\nto carry the clothes. Clara wishes to grow. \u201cWhy?\u201d \u201cSo I can tote\nde clothes.\u201d In former days, long before she came to earth, her\nparents were prosperous. They bought land and built two houses, one\nfor themselves and one to rent. Her father, still in the prime of\nlife, is paralyzed and blind. Day after day he sits by the fire,\nunable to read, or work, or move. We have seen his blind, twitching\nface light tenderly at the touch of his only child. Clara led us\nalong slowly, and we chatted with the missionary and her friends.\nOne young lady has bought land, built a house for herself and\nfurnished it well with carpet and organ. She is helping her sisters\nin their education. We met many whose friends were at school. We\nshook hands with the good deacons.\n\nSome young girls were waiting at home for us. They wished to talk\nabout \u201cgoing North.\u201d As soon as they had left, a friend sent by\nus an orange to Mrs. Knowles. In her one dark room, over a smoky\nfireplace, she was sitting, paralyzed, rheumatic and very \u201cpainy,\u201d\nwithout kith or kin to help her, dependent on neighbors for food,\nwood and water; her lot did not seem an enviable one. \u201cThe children\nare mighty kind to me.\u201d Boys come in and cut a stick of wood at a\ntime. She cooks meal, her chief article of food, in three different\nways, \u201cso as to have a little variety, you know.\u201d Often suffers for\n\u201csuthing t\u2019eat;\u201d seldom knows whence the next dinner will come.\n\nAs we left the room we heard crying. Leaning by the fence, alone\nand screaming, was a little girl. \u201cWhat is it?\u201d \u201cA boy threw a rock\nand hit me here,\u201d showing her side. \u201cWhere is your home?\u201d \u201cRight\nover yonder.\u201d \u201cShall I take you there?\u201d \u201cNo; mother is not there.\u201d\nIt proved that her sister and friend were frolicking and helping\n(?) Mrs. Knowles. Her sister answered the appeal for help. \u201cHush,\nQueen; quit making such a fuss.\u201d The friend explained: \u201cShe never\ndid like to be hit by a rock, nohow.\u201d We noticed the feet of the\nfriend. A piece of leather tied around them, showing the bare toes.\nMany children can not go to Sunday-school because they have no\nshoes.\n\nAfter tea we went to the S. S. Concert. In giving out the subject,\nthe teacher said she did not want to call it a Lying Concert,\nthough the verses were about lying, so she called it a Truth\nConcert. The room was full. Little Clara\u2019s mother could not go,\nso the wee maiden invited a young lady to be her escort. The\nconcert was excellent. The texts were well recited and the pastor\u2019s\nremarks summed up the matter. At the close an appeal was made in\nbehalf of a poor and sick scholar. A member of her class carried\naround the basket, and a dollar and seventy-nine cents was given\nin response. This little church takes up three collections a day,\nyet its members are very poor and the winter has been hard on all.\nOne family stayed in bed till late in the afternoon to save wood\nto cook supper. A young man, sick with consumption, had nothing\nprovided for him but bacon and cornmeal, which his delicate\nappetite loathed. It is hard to earn much, receiving thirty cents\na week for a washing. We asked a widow if she was comfortable when\nher husband was alive. \u201cOh yes; I had plenty to eat, plenty to\neat. He was cross sometimes, as men are, but I always had plenty\nto eat.\u201d We lay down to rest that night with new feelings of\ngratitude and shame. \u201cWhat shall we render unto the Lord for all\nHis benefits?\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA JUBILATE.\n\n(Composed for the Commencement Exercises of Tillotson Institute.)\n\nBY MISS ANGIE FULLER.\n\n  A song, a song of joyous exultation,\n    That where but late was darkness and despair,\n  Harps upon the willows, hopeless lamentation,\n  Sighing and moans, and foolish superstitions,\n    The cringing fear and terror stricken wail,\n  With all the miserable, the pitiful conditions\n    Gross ignorance and bondage can entail,\n\n  There now is light that promises to brighten,\n    There now is thankful prayer and notes of praise,\n  There now is hope, sweet hope, to cheer and lighten,\n    A race oppressed and wronged in many ways;\n  There now are minds aspiring and expanding\n    And daily demonstrating they are strong,\n  To answer to Progression\u2019s stern demanding\n    And take a place among the cultured throng.\n\n  God-speed to those who lead this van of progress,\n    Who work as pioneers in Wisdom\u2019s fields;\n  Proving to all the wondering, doubting people\n    What grand results, fair mental culture yields.\n  Still may they press undaunted onward, upward\n    Greater achievements and successes win,\n  While hopeful millions in their footsteps follow,\n    And Heaven smiles approval most benign.\n\n[Illustration: GREEN COVE SPRINGS, ST. JOHNS RIVER, FLA.]\n\n\nCOLOR LINE IN FLORIDA.\n\nBY REV. ALBERT P. MILLER.\n\nWhile the \u201ccolor-line\u201d is being freely discussed in the leading\nChristian journals of the day, as to so-called \u201cmixed churches,\u201d\nthe following incident may show to the Christian world the attitude\ntaken by the African Methodist Episcopal Church\u2014400,000 strong\u2014with\nwhose work I was very pleasantly connected last year. One of our\npreachers, a Rev. C. J. Croom, having charge of the Hamburg circuit\nin the East Florida Conference, was last year holding a series of\nrevival meetings. The spirit waxed hot, and large numbers came\nrolling in from every quarter night after night. Conversions began\nto crown the efforts of the pastor, among the colored members of\nthe congregation. As is very often the case several white friends\nwere in attendance. One night after a soul-stirring sermon the\npreacher called on all who wanted to be prayed for to come and bow\nat the front seats. A great many came, and among these a white\nwoman, who that night was deeply convicted. Her mother, brother\nand sister were terribly enraged, that she should be out so late\nat a \u201cnigger meeting,\u201d and came down on her very heavily. The\nnext night, however, found her, more anxious than ever, at the\n\u201cnigger revival.\u201d The mother, who would not go herself, sent her\nson and daughter to bring their sister home. On arriving they\nbecame so much interested in what was going on that they decided\nto remain. They began to feel \u201cfunny.\u201d Still they sat and looked\non and saw their sister again press forward for prayer. They\nstill felt \u201cfunny,\u201d but couldn\u2019t go. By and by the sister, who\nsat in the audience, went to get her anxious sister, and take her\nhome. No sooner had she put her hands on her than she herself\nfell under conviction, and both that night were happily converted\nto God. Their brother at once became deeply concerned, and was\nsoon rejoicing with his sisters and the Negroes in the \u201cliberty\nwherewith Christ doth make his children free.\u201d\n\n\u201cBig Sunday\u201d came, day for communion and reception of members.\nCandidates received on profession were to be baptized, either by\nsprinkling or immersion. Our white brother and his two dear sisters\nhaving been received into full membership chose to go down under\nthe water, which they did with several others, being baptized by\nBro. Croom. Some of the white neighbors were a little offended at\nthe conduct of both the colored preacher and his white brother\nand sisters in the Lord, and asked him to leave. But he told them\nfrankly that he didn\u2019t convert the candidates, and that if the same\nGod who had changed their hearts, led them also to seek admission\ninto his church, there was nothing, either in his Bible or his\ndiscipline, that would prohibit their becoming regular members of\nhis church. Bro. Croom tells me that these three converts are among\nthe most faithful of his members, and that he \u201cwould be glad to\nreceive many more such members into the African Methodist Episcopal\nChurch, for God is no respecter of persons,\u201d and why should we be?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWOMAN\u2019S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nBY MISS M. K. LUNT, SELMA.\n\nThe Alabama Branch of the Woman\u2019s Missionary Association held its\nannual meeting in the Normal room of Talladega College, March\n27. The attendance was good, and the reports from the local\nsocieties very encouraging. The officers, with but two exceptions,\nwere re-elected to serve for the coming year. After devotional\nexercises, Mrs. De Forest gave an address of welcome, in which\nshe reminded us of the important work God had put in our hands to\ncarry on, and that _our_ part is to be _doers_, leaving results\nto Him. The local societies have given considerable time to\nindustrial work, disposing of clothing, quilts, and fancy articles,\naggregating the sum of $175, disbursing for Foreign Missions and\nhome interests $116.85, leaving a balance for further distribution.\nMothers\u2019 meetings, children\u2019s meetings, and sewing classes have\nreceived their share of attention. At the public meeting in March,\nin Selma, Mrs. McDougal, correspondent of the New York _Weekly\nWitness_, was present, and all enjoyed her fresh, practical and\ninspiring words.\n\nSeveral papers were listened to with interest, the first read by\nMiss Jillson, on \u201cOur Duty to Foreign Missions and the means by\nwhich an interest may be Promoted.\u201d Miss Plimpton and Mrs. A. W.\nCurtis followed in discussion on the subject. Mrs. Curtis spoke\nof the joy her husband\u2019s mother felt in giving three sons to the\nmissionary fields; how this love had been awakened in her children\nby reading to them from the _Missionary Herald_. Mrs. Andrews read\nletters of greeting from the President and Secretary of the Boston\nAssociation. Miss Chafin sent a paper, on \u201cDo we owe a Tenth to the\nLord?\u201d\n\nA poem was read by Miss Partridge, \u201cSo Much to do at Home.\u201d In\nthis an African Chief is begging for some Christian teachers to go\nwith him to lead his people to the Saviour, but is denied because\nthere is so much at home to be done. Mrs. Fay gave a talk on \u201cHow\nto organize Missionary Societies,\u201d urging the members of those\nchurches who have no such organization to form one at once.\n\nMiss Mickle presented another paper on \u201cHath She Done what She\nCould?\u201d Mrs. Steele of Chattanooga, Tenn., was present and offered\nthe closing prayer. Singing was interspersed, and we felt that the\nhours had brought to us an encouragement and strength which will\nmake us more hopeful for the future.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNOTES FROM THE FIELD.\n\n\u2014A Welsh Cong. Church has been organized at Rock Creek, Tenn., with\n22 members, by the Rev. Wm. H. Thomas.\n\n\u2014Rev. L. C. Joell, a recent graduate of the Theol. Dept. of Howard\nUniversity, has been appointed for church work at Greenwood, S.C.\n\n\u2014More than two score souls are reported to have been converted at a\nseries of meetings conducted by Revs. Imes and Fields at Memphis,\nTenn.\n\n\u2014A revival is reported in connection with the labors of Rev. B. F.\nFoster at Fayetteville, Ark.\n\n\u2014Rev. Milus Harris, of Talladega, is conducting school and church\nservices at Tecumseh, Ala., in the building erected by the Tecumseh\nIron Co.\n\n\u2014A church of fourteen members has been recognized by Council at\nJackson, Miss. The sermon was by Supt. Roy. Most of the members had\nbeen students at Tougaloo University.\n\n\u2014The Mississippi Association of Cong. Churches and ministers was\norganized at Tougaloo, Miss., March 31. Pres. Pope and Rev. C.\nL. Harris were elected as delegates to the National Council. A\nmissionary committee was appointed to take charge of two missions\nalready established.\n\n\u2014Supt. Roy has organized a church of ten members at Knoxville,\nTenn., which was recognized by Council April 22. Rev. Simon Peter\nSmith, from Washington, has been assigned to this charge. A church\nedifice has been secured.\n\n\u2014The Central Church, New Orleans, under the ministration of Rev.\nDr. Alexander, has received forty new members during the year. The\nchurch pays $50 a month towards the pastor\u2019s salary.\n\n\u2014Miss Gerrish, who has been sustained by the ladies of Iowa, as\nmissionary, in connection with the Central Church, New Orleans, has\nbeen greatly blessed in her work done in the mothers\u2019 meeting and\nthe sewing class. Twelve hundred calls were made by her during the\nfirst six months of her service.\n\n\u2014A church was organized at Fayetteville, Ark., with nine members,\nApril 15. Supt. Roy and Rev. B. F. Foster, the pastor of the\nchurch, were in attendance. At the first communion season the\nchurch was made happy in the use of a new communion set and an\noutfit of chapel lamps from Rev. Geo. M. Boynton\u2019s people, Jamaica\nPlain, Mass.\n\n\u2014The Spirit of God has been poured out upon both church and school\nat the Le Moyne Institute. In the normal department of the school\nthere are but six or eight who do not profess Christ. Eighty per\ncent. of all the students are reported to be seeking to lead\nChristian lives. Over fifty souls have recently professed faith in\nChrist, about twenty of whom will soon be added to the church.\n\n\u2014Prof. Hitchcock, of Straight University, New Orleans, has\ninterested parties on the ground to provide for orange and other\nfruit trees to be planted on the square in connection with the\nUniversity buildings. He is anxious, however, to secure additional\nfunds in order that the planting may be sufficient and immediate.\n\n\u2014A new church has been organized at Birmingham, Ala., under the\nguidance of Supt. Roy. Rev. Andrew J. Headen has been chosen\npastor, and the work is now being carried on with good success.\n\n\u2014Rev. C. W. Francis, of Atlanta, reports the conversion of eighteen\nstudents in connection with the University. One is a member of the\ngraduating class and another has been a Roman Catholic.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE NEW MISSION IN SOUTH CHINA.\n\nBY REV. W. C. POND.\n\nThe memorable event of the month of February\u2014so far as our work is\nconcerned\u2014is the inauguration of the mission of the American Board\nto Hong Kong, and through Hong Kong to those districts of South\nChina from which most of our Chinese have come. Rev. C. R. Hager, a\nrecent graduate of our Pacific Theological Seminary, and for more\nthan a year past a very successful and greatly beloved pastor at\nAntioch, in this State, having offered himself to the Board as a\nForeign Missionary, was at our own suggestion and request appointed\nto take charge of this new work, and was ordained as a Missionary\nat Bethany Church, on Friday, Feb. 16. One of the exercises at the\nordination service was an address by Jee Gam, a portion of which,\nI trust, can be crowded into the space allotted in the MISSIONARY\nto our work. It will scarcely be necessary for me to add anything,\nunless it be to say that to my faith this work thus begun looms up\nin grand proportions, as fraught with most beneficent results. I\nam prepared in spirit patiently to wait\u2014prepared, if such be God\u2019s\nwill, utterly to fail\u2014but my faith feels so strong, my hopes are so\nhigh, so bright, so confident, that I seem to myself already to be\nentering on the harvest, and the joy of harvest fills my heart.\n\n\nJEE GAM\u2019S ADDRESS.\n\nIt was ten years ago when our Chinese brethren first felt the\nneed of a mission in China at or near the districts from which\nmost of our brethren came. They grew more and more anxious for\nthis mission, when they heard of the aid and refuge given to the\npersecuted Christians by the other mission in Canton city.\n\nThe first three years we often expressed our great desire among\nourselves for this mission, but never thought of telling our\nsuperintendent, Rev. W. C. Pond. Not a word was said to him\nuntil at our usual Wednesday afternoon Bible class, about seven\nyears ago, when the subject of foreign missions was accidentally\nmentioned. We then told Rev. W. C. Pond what we so much desired.\nHe at once approved of it. Hong Kong was chosen for the seat of\nthis mission, and Mr. Pond requested that those who were able to\nwrite a letter should do so, explaining why this mission was so\nmuch needed. He accordingly forwarded these letters to the American\nMissionary Association. Though the Association sympathized with\nus in our want, yet how this mission could be established looked\nvery doubtful. The matter was left to stand; but we remembered\nthat James tells us to ask in faith, nothing wavering, and we knew\nthat God was able to supply all our needs; so we kept on praying.\nIn the first part of October, 1879, I was greatly surprised by the\nvery generous invitation which the American Missionary Association\ntendered me to attend its annual meeting at Chicago. I started for\nthe East, but thought nothing of this Hong Kong mission until at\nthe annual meeting, when I felt moved by the Holy Spirit to make\nan earnest plea for it. I also spoke for it at all the meetings I\nattended while East.\n\nOn the evening of the 4th of August, 1882 (the same day the Chinese\nRestriction bill went into effect), the good news came through our\nsuperintendent that the American Board had consented to establish\nthe Hong Kong Mission. Oh, how my heart, filled to overflowing,\nwent out to God in thanksgiving and praise! Immediately we called\nthe brethren to tell them the good news. Christ has told us to\nask and we shall receive; yet, when this ten years\u2019 prayer was\nanswered, it seemed almost too much to believe, and we are here\nthis evening to praise God once more for his love to us and our\nbenighted countrymen in China. * * *\n\nHaving Hong Kong for headquarters, missionaries and teachers can\nbe sent from there to preach and teach in the villages from which\nour young men come. Besides this, the English language is used\nmore in Hong Kong than in any other part of China, and the Chinese\nliving there, or those visiting that place, could not be reached\nin a more efficient manner than by opening the same kind of free\nschools for them that you have opened for us here. They need to\nknow the English language. Of course there are public schools,\nwhere both the English and Chinese languages are taught by the\nBritish Government, but all have their sessions in the daytime:\nconsequently, the children are the only ones benefited by these\nschools. There remains the laboring class unreached. If a free\nevening school is opened, I have no doubt that much good could\nbe done among them. Moreover, Hong Kong is a great highway to\nall foreign ports, especially San Francisco. Through Hong Kong\nnearly all the Chinese in the United States have come and will\nreturn. If a general mission could be established at this port,\nmuch co-operating work could be accomplished between our missions\nhere and that at Hong Kong. Christian Chinese returning home would\nreceive letters of introduction to the superintendent of the Hong\nKong mission. This superintendent would have pastoral care over\nthem, and would be a very great help in time of persecution.\nConverts would be made firmer in faith, and more earnest in leading\nothers to Christ.\n\nThe Congregational Association of Christian Chinese, at its last\nannual meeting, voted to give $500 toward the establishing of this\nHong Kong mission, and do all in its power to help in the future.\nGod be praised, for he has shown his wonderful love to China. He\nis to be praised for this beloved brother, who so kindly offers\nhimself for the Master\u2019s service. He is to be praised for the\nAmerican Board which sends him. May the Lord raise up many more\nlike workers, who shall devote their lives to China.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nLet me add that besides this gift of money, our mission sends with\nMr. Hager one of our very best helpers, Lee Sam. We shall miss him\ngreatly, but we have plead for this new work, expecting that it\nwould draw upon us in that way largely. To raise up and train men\nfor Gospel work among the millions beyond the sea, will now be one\nof the chief ends to be kept in view in our work in California. And\nbecause of this, we ask with an intensity of desire scarcely known\nto us before, a place in the prayers of God\u2019s people throughout our\nwhole land.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n\nTHE COMING OF THE ORGAN.\n\nBY MRS. WALTER E. C. WRIGHT, BEREA, KY.\n\n\u201cPine Grove College,\u201d as it is called in Jackson County, needed\nan organ; there was no doubt about that. But the likelihood of\nobtaining it seemed small. Away up there in the mountains of\nKentucky, there were few who had ever seen an organ, and only\nthe teacher knew how much it would help in the day school, the\nSunday-school and the preaching services. So Miss Barton sang\nherself hoarse trying to teach the children to sing by rote, and on\nSunday the minister had to line the hymns for want of books. (Your\ngrandmamma can tell you what I mean by \u201c_lining_ the hymn.\u201d) In all\nthe mountain churches, both colored and white, the people always\nsing in that way, and having no organ to keep them together, they\ncome out at the end one behind the other, like the \u201crounds\u201d you\nsing at school.\n\n[Illustration: MOUNTAIN FAMILY SINGING PSALMS.]\n\nOne day a teacher from Berea went up to visit the school, and when\nshe saw the bright, eager faces of the children, and the effort\nthe teacher was making to have them learn to sing, she said, \u201cWhy,\nhow much you need an organ here. It would lift these children\ninto a whole new world of ideas.\u201d \u201cYes, I know it,\u201d answered Miss\nBarton, \u201cbut where is it to come from?\u201d Well, Miss D. went home and\nthought it over, and then wrote to Miss Barton that if the people\nthere would raise thirty dollars, she would see that they had an\norgan. Miss Barton did not feel much encouraged, for the people in\nthat region are not rich, and one dollar looks very large to them.\nHowever, she read Miss D.\u2019s letter to them at Sabbath school, and\nexplained what an advantage it would be to have the instrument to\nuse. To her great surprise they pledged the amount at once, though\nmany of them cannot afford sugar in their coffee, or butter on the\ncorn bread, which, with bacon, is the staple of their living. I\nhave not time to tell how Miss D. raised the rest of the money,\nhow she found a dealer who had a very fine organ to sell at second\nhand, and who threw off fifteen dollars when he found for what\nshe wanted it\u2014nor how one friend in Tallmadge and another in Akron\nhelped on, and at last the organ was ordered and sent. It was\nexpected on a certain Saturday, and on Sunday morning you might\nhave seen the people gathering in unusually large numbers. All who\ndid not walk came on horseback. There a mother with her baby on\nher arm, and a little girl behind her on the family horse. Here\nthe father, with a three-year-old boy behind him on the colt, and\nyonder three older children on another horse, all sitting with that\neasy security they express when they say \u201cI was born on a horse,\u201d\nand thinking no more about it than you do when you ride in a street\ncar.\n\nBut when the people reached the school-house their faces fell as\nthey came in one after another and saw there was no organ on the\nplatform. The wagon had broken down bringing it over the almost\nimpassable roads from the station twenty miles away, and at last\nSunday-school was commenced with a feeling of disappointment in all\nhearts. Even brave Miss Barton felt a lump in her throat, for she\nhad counted on it like the meeting of an old friend in a strange\nland. But just in the middle of the lesson the creaking of wheels\nwas heard and some men came in with _something_ still encased in\nthe box in which it was packed. No more lesson that day. Every boy\nand girl, colored and white, was as eager and curious as if this\nwas a stray cage from some menagerie. Finally, with some little\ntrouble, the packing-case was removed, and there was a plain, quiet\nlittle walnut thing, looking some like a small cupboard, and now\nthe question arose on which side was it made to stand? The teacher,\nseeing the dilemma, suggested the proper base, on which it was\nfirmly placed. Then a chair was brought, some books piled on it\u2014and\n_then_ they found there was no key. But somebody produced a nail,\nthe cover was lifted, and there was their organ smiling at them\nand showing every one of its pretty white teeth. And oh, when the\nwonderful thing began to sing, how pleased they were! The children\nforgot that they too could sing\n\n  \u201cPraise God from whom all blessings flow,\u201d\n\nwhile listening to the beautiful, strange voice. Presently they\ngained courage and joined in the Gospel hymns (which the common\npeople _do_ sing gladly), and sang, and sang, and sang, all through\nthe time for Sabbath school and all through the time for preaching.\n\nI think the angels hearing the sounds must have rejoiced that day\nwith great hope for the souls that might be won to repentance\nthrough the Coming of the Organ.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR APRIL, 1883.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $215.13.\n\n    Bath. Central Ch. and Soc., 45; Winter St.\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc., 35.15                              $80.15\n    Bethel. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          10.24\n    Brewer. Cong. Ch.                                          9.50\n    Buxton. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           4.00\n    East Orrington. Cong. Sab. Sch.                            2.04\n    East Otisfield. Mrs. Susan Lovell, 5; Mrs.\n      Sarah P. Morton, 2; Rev. J Loring, 1.75;\n      Mrs. A. Lovewell, 1; Mrs. M. H. Jennings, 25c           10.00\n    Gorham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                22.78\n    Gorham. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Needmore Chapel,\n      Talladega C._                                           19.17\n    Newport. Mrs. M. S. Nickerson                              0.50\n    South Paris. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            6.25\n    Norway. Mrs. M. K. Frost                                   0.50\n    Waldoborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    10.00\n    Wells. Barak Maxwell                                      20.00\n    Winthrop. Cong. Ch.                                       17.00\n    York. \u201cA Friend,\u201d by Rev. D. B. Sewall                     3.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $430.07.\n\n    Amherst. Cong. Ch.                                        15.70\n    Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               8.00\n    Colebrook. \u201cE. C. W.\u201d                                      2.00\n    Concord. North Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      10.00\n    Exeter. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        122.08\n    Exeter. Cong. Ch. 2 Bbls of C., _for Tillotson\n      C. & N. Inst._ Mrs. Odlin _for Freight_                  3.00\n    East Alstead. Rev G. A. Beckwith, Box Books,\n      _for Library, Macon, Ga._\n    Great Falls. Mission Fund, Cong. Soc. 11.25\n      and Bbl. of C. _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                     11.25\n    Hillsborough Bridge. Cong. Ch.                             3.00\n    Keene. First Cong. Sab. Sch., 32.55; George\n      Cooke, 5                                                37.55\n    Lisbon. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          14.00\n    Mason. Cong. Ch.                                           9.00\n    Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          16.74\n    New Boston. \u201cA Friend\u201d (of which 50 _for\n      Chinese and 25 for Indian M._)                         100.00\n    New Ipswich. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        20.00\n    North Hampton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Savannah, Ga._                              21.00\n    Orford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 16; \u201cH. H. C.,\u201d 1.\n      \u201cF. B.\u201d 25c                                             17.25\n    Orfordville. D. T Hale                                     5.00\n    Piermont. Cong. Sab. Sch., 5; E. Ford, 5                  10.00\n    Portsmouth. Rev. W. W. Dow                                 2.00\n    Shelburne. Mrs. Mary C. Ingalls                            2.50\n    Wilton. Rev. A. E. Tracy, Bbl. C., _for Macon,\n      Ga._\n\n\n  VERMONT, $530.68.\n\n    Brattleborough. Helen J. Preston, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           25.00\n    Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     10.35\n    Cambridge. Mr. and Mrs. M. Safford                        38.52\n    Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              9.27\n    Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     2.00\n    Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               11.65\n    Norwich. Mrs. H. Burton                                    2.00\n    Manchester. Cong. Ch., 122.68; A. Hemenway, 5            127.68\n    Rochester. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Two bbls. C.\n      _for Talladega C._\n    Rutland. Cong. Ch.                                       243.74\n    Saxton\u2019s River. Rev. William Sewall, Pkg. of\n      C., _for Atlanta U._\n    Thetford. Cong. and Soc.                                  12.14\n    Townshend. \u201cMiss E. M. B.\u201d                                 5.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cL. G.\u201d                                                5.00\n    West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch., and Soc. to\n      const. MRS. MARY W. CLARK L. M.                         31.53\n    West Brattleborough. Ladies of Cong. Soc., 2\n      Bbls. of C. _for Talladega. C., 5 for\n      Freight_                                                 5.00\n    West Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad\u2019l)                   2.00\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $13,166.38.\n\n    Andover. West Parish Juv. Soc., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           25.00\n    Andover. Mrs. Sophia Tufts, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            5 00\n    Andover. The late Mrs. Caroline T. Jackson                17.00\n    Amesbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              10.75\n    Amherst. First Cong. Ch.                                  25.00\n    Amherst. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n      U._                                                      1.00\n    Ashburnham. Marshall Wetherbee                             2.00\n    Attleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     8.86\n    Auburn. Cong. Sab. Sch. (of which 11.66 for\n      Indian and Chinese M.)                                  17.50\n    Beverly. Ladies\u2019 M. C. of Cong. Ch., 20 pair\n      of sheets, _for Fisk U._\n    Billerica. Trinitarian Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      14.97; Sab. Sch., 8.35, bal. to const. REV.\n      FREDERICK. A. WILSON L. M.                              23.32\n    Boston. Central Ch. and Soc., 1,008.64; Chas.\n      C. Barry, 25; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 5; M. A. Willard, 1        1,039.64\n    Boston. N. B. Goodnow, 5; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 1; Lee &\n      Shepard, books, val. 17, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            6.00\n    Boston and vicinity. Ladies, Seven boxes\n      Bedding, _for Fisk U._\n    Boxborough. Mary Stone                                    10.00\n    Boxford. Miss Mary Sawyer, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            1.00\n    Brocton. Porter Evan. Ch.                                 51.78\n    Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc.                           87.83\n    Cambridgeport. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., 30, to\n      const. MRS. CAROLINE F. BRADSHAW, L. M.;\n      Pilgrim Ch., 13.42                                      43.42\n    Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc.                        74.47\n    Chelsea. \u201cLadies Union Home Miss. Band,\u201d _for\n      Lady Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._                    40 00\n    Coleraine. Rev. D. A. Strong                               0.50\n    Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         19.26\n    Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          17 04\n    Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc.                          38.37\n    Dracut. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      JAMES THOMPSON, L. M.                                   40.00\n    Dunstable. Evan. Ch. and Soc.                             20.00\n    Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               55.00\n    Essex. \u201cHelping Hand Soc.\u201d of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Dakota M._                                 50.00\n    Essex. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 26.00\n    Essex Co. \u201cA Friend,\u201d                                     15.00\n    East Charlemont. Dea. Phineas Field                        2.00\n    East Hampton. Ladies Benev. Soc. Payson Cong.\n      Ch. Two Bbls. of C., 5 _for Freight, for\n      Talladega C._                                            5.00\n    Fall River. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    44.80\n    Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        16.00\n    Florence. Florence Cong. Ch.                              27.78\n    Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              33.09\n    Granby. Mrs. A. Bliss, _for Atlanta, Ga._                  5.00\n    Granville. C. Holcomb and wife                            10.00\n    Globe Village. B. U. Bugbee, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                 2.50\n    Gloucester. Addie W. Proctor, _for John Brown\n      Steamer_                                                 1.00\n    Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch. ($30 of which\n      from Ladies to const. MISS MARY D. WILLIAMS,\n      L. M.)                                                  68.09\n    Holbrook. Ladies Sew. Circle, Bbl. and Box C.,\n      _for Macon, Ga., 6 for Freight_                          6.00\n    Holliston. \u201cFriends.\u201d 13.50; Primary Class\n      Cong. Sab. Sch., 5, _for Student Aid_;\n      \u201cFriend,\u201d Carpet (Val. 22.50), _for teachers\n      room, Stone Hall_. Ladies Benev. Soc., of\n      Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Talladega C._               18.50\n    Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch.                                 14.84\n    Ipswich. \u201cFriends of the Cause\u201d                            4.00\n    Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch., Box S. S.\n      Books _for McIntosh, Ga._\n    Lincoln. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Chinese M._                      1.00\n    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          81.35\n    Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                             500.00\n    Medford. \u201cA Friend,\u201d Bickford Knitting\n      Machine, _for Atlanta U._\n    Milford. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Hampton N. and\n      A. Inst_                                                40.00\n    Milford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         93.16\n    Monson. Cong. Ch.                                         43.04\n    Montague. First Cong. Ch.                                 14.41\n    Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          25.00\n    Natick. Cong Ch., 15; \u201cFriends,\u201d 10; Harrison\n      Harwood, 5; S. E. Howard, 5, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      35.00\n    Newton. Freedman\u2019s Aid Sew. Cir., Bbl. of C.,\n      _for Macon, Ga._\n    Newton Centre. Ladies Benev. Soc. _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        50.00\n    Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. & Soc.                     55.48\n    Newtonville. Ladies of Cong. Ch. & Soc. Bbl.\n      and Box of C, _for Raleigh, N.C._\n    North Adams. First Cong. Ch.                              25.71\n    Northampton. A. L. Williston 525; First Cong.\n      Ch., 254.82; \u201cA Friend\u201d 100                            879.82\n    Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          24.00\n    Peabody. South Ch. and Soc.                              130.00\n    Peabody. Mrs. W. G. Sperry, _for Atlanta, Ga._             1.00\n    Pittsfield. Ladies of Free Will Soc. First\n      Cong Ch., Bbl. of C. (Val. 56), _for\n      Atlanta. U._\n    Reading. Coll. by Mrs. Temple _for Freight_                4.00\n    Reading. Ladies of Bethesda Ch. and Soc., Bbl.\n      of C. (Val. 25), _for Fisk U._\n    Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.                                       31.48\n    Royalston. Mrs. E. B. Ripley, Box Bedding,\n      _for Talladega C._\n    Salem. Young Ladies\u2019 Mission Circle of Tab.\n      Ch., _for Dakota M._                                    50.00\n    Salem. Tabernacle Ch. Sab. Sch., Primary\n      class, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                  20.00\n    Somerville. Franklin St. Ch. & Soc.                       95.68\n    South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         10.39\n    South Deerfield. Mrs. M. C. Tilton                         2.00\n    South Framingham. Young Peoples\u2019 Benev. Soc.,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         50.00\n    South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    30.00\n    Springfield. \u201cH. M.\u201d 500; South Cong. Ch.\n      28.62; First Cong. Ch., 20.85                          549.47\n    Springfield. Mrs. P. Burnham, _for Indian M._              0.50\n    Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              36.00\n    Sunderland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            60.00\n    Taunton. Dr. J. S. Andrews, 17, _for Student\n      Aid_; Ladies Soc. of Broadway Ch., Bbl. of\n      C., _for Atlanta U._                                    17.00\n    Townsend. Cong. Sab. Sch., 5, \u201cL. H. S.\u201d 5                10.00\n    Townsend Harbor. Box Mission Goods, by Mrs.\n      Ralph Ball, _for Ladies\u2019 Island, S.C._\n    Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             49.03\n    Walpole. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      32.00\n    Ware. East Cong. Ch. and Soc, to const.\n      FREDERICK C. BLOOD, F. D. WINSLOW, MISS\n      CARRIE GIBBS, MISS BELLE NAYLOR, L. Ms.                403.45\n    Watertown. Phillips Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      50.00\n    West Berlin. Miss S. C. Larkin, _for Atlanta,\n      Ga._                                                     1.00\n    West Boylston. \u201cWilling Workers\u201d of Cong. Ch.,\n      15 _for furnishing Stone Hall_, 10 _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                25.00\n    West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       24.00\n    Westfield. First Cong. Ch., 70; Second Cong.\n      Ch., 23.91; Mrs. Charlotte W. Fowler, 5                 98.91\n    West Gloucester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        8.62\n    Westhampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., by Wm. J.\n      Edwards, \u201cS. S.\u201d and S. A. Phelps, 31; Cong.\n      Sab. Sch., 13.52; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 25                        69.52\n    West Townsend. Mrs. Samuel Jenkins, deceased,\n      by Julia A. Cumings                                      5.00\n    Wellesley Hills. B. F. Parker, 5 _for Student\n      Aid_; Ladies of Cong. Soc., Bbl. of C., 1.65\n      _for Freight, for Talladega C._                          6.65\n    Wilmington. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Mrs. H. G. Noyes,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         25.00\n    Winchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., ad\u2019l.              119.85\n    Worcester. Union Ch. and Soc.                            114.00\n    Worcester. Ladies of Piedmont Ch., _Box of C.,\n      for Talladega C._\n    Yarmouth. Bbl of C., by Rev. J. W. Dodge, _for\n      Wilmington, N.C._\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                            10.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $6,036.86\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Danvers. Estate of Benjamin Hutchinson, by\n      Elijah Hutchinson, Ex.                                  25.00\n    Taunton. Estate of Mary Ide, by Stephen\n      Pierce, Ex.                                          7,104.52\n                                                          ---------\n                                                         $13,166.38\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $52.52.\n\n    Kingston. H. J. Wells                                     15.00\n    Little Compton. Sab. Sch. of United Cong. Ch.,\n      15.62; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 5; \u201cThank Offering,\u201d 1.38            22.00\n    Providence. Miss N. Marsh, 3 pkgs. Papers,\n      _for Little Rock, Ark._\n    Slatersville. Cong. Church.                               15.52\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $2,308.58.\n\n    Bethlehem. Cong. Ch., 12.26; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 10               22.26\n    Birmingham. Cong. Ch., 65.02; George W.\n      Shelton, 10                                             75.02\n    Bolton. Cong. Ch.                                         11.00\n    Branford. \u201cH. G. H.\u201d                                       5.00\n    Bridgeport. Park St. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                   60.00\n    Bristol. Cong. Ch.                                        93.88\n    Clinton. Cong. Ch., _for Tillotson C. & N.\n      Inst._                                                  10.12\n    Colchester. Josiah Gillette                                5.00\n    Collinsville. M. McNary Spencer                            2.00\n    Essex. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             30.50\n    East Hampton. Cong. Ch.                                   25.86\n    East Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         20.00\n    East Haven. Cong. Ch.                                      8.05\n    East Windsor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    10.00\n    Darien. Cong. Ch.                                         50.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                     60.98\n    Franklin. Cong. Ch.                                        9.00\n    Guilford. First Cong. Ch.                                 12.00\n    Hartford. Mrs. C. R. Hillyer, to const. LYMAN\n      BEECHER STOWE L. M.                                     30.00\n    Hartford. W. J. Wood _for Theo. Dept.\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Jewett City. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      MRS. FRANCES C. CARPENTER L. M.                         20.00\n    Lakeville. Mrs. M. H. Williams                            10.00\n    Ledyard. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   6.31\n    Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      10.82\n    Mansfield Center. First Cong. Ch.                         10.00\n    Meriden. Center Church                                    29.00\n    Milford. Rev. G. H. Griffin, 25 Books, _for\n      prizes, Macon, Ga._\n    New Britain. South Cong. Ch., 177.40; Members\n      South Cong. Ch. (special) 15; to const. J.\n      N. CARLETON, J. WARREN TUCK, JOHN N.\n      BARTLETT, GEORGE A. CONKLING, WILLIAM E.\n      LATHAM and WM. H. HART L. Ms                           192.40\n    New Haven. First Ch., 195.65; Church of the\n      Redeemer, 100; Edwin Shelley, 2                        297.65\n    New Haven. Miss McAllister\u2019s Class, North Ch.\n      Sab. Sch., _for John Brown, Steamer_                     5.00\n    Newington. Cong. Sab. Sch., Box of Toys, _for\n      Talladega C._, 1, _for Freight_                          1.00\n    North Coventry. Cong. Ch.                                 42.00\n    Plantsville. Cong. Ch.                                   255.20\n    Plantsville. \u201cFriends\u201d by L. C. Clark, _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                75.00\n    Putnam. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                            25.00\n    Rockville. First Cong. Ch., $30 of which to\n      const. GEORGE N. BRIGHAM L. M.                         133.50\n    Seymour. Cong. Ch.                                        14.00\n    Sherman. Cong. Ch.                                        17.00\n    Terryville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           35.00\n    Unionville. 2 Bbls C., Mrs. James A. Smith 5,\n      _for Little Rock Ark._                                   5.00\n    Waterbury. Mrs. Chas. Benedict, Clock, _for\n      Macon, Ga._\n    Westminster. Rev. & Mrs. S. B. Carter                      5.00\n    West Stafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         11.00\n    Whitneyville. Cong. Ch.                                   25.00\n    Windsor Locks. Young Ladies\u2019 Soc., Bbl. of\n      Bedding, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._\n    Woodbridge. Cong. Ch.                                      8.03\n    Woodbury. Class No. 13, North Ch. Sab. Sch., 5\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._, and 5 _for ed.\n      Indian Girls, Hampton N. & A. Inst._                    10.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                           500.00\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $3,789.14.\n\n    Baldwinsville. Howard Cutler                              25.00\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Missionaries at Fernandina, Fla. and Ladies\u2019\n      Island, S.C._                                          175.00\n    Brooklyn. H. M. Wiggins, 50c.; REV. S. B.\n      Halliday, Pkg. Books                                     0.50\n    Bristol. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           13.00\n    Buffalo. First Cong. Ch.                                  70.00\n    Buffalo. Mrs. W. G. Bancroft, _for Tillotson\n      C. and N. Inst._                                        50.00\n    Cooperstown. C. Stoddard, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            5.00\n    Crown Point. First Cong. Ch., 34.02; Second\n      Cong Ch. 3                                              37.02\n    Gilbertsville. A. Wood, A.M.                               5.00\n    Homer. Four Classes in Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               8.00\n    Jamesport. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n    Little Falls. Young Ladies Circle, Presb. Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         10.00\n    New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch.                        749.49\n    New York. Broadway Tabernacle Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   50.00\n    New York. S. T. Gordon, 51 copies \u201cSong\n      Garner.\u201d\n    Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. MRS.\n      HANNAH M. TIFFINY, L. M.                                38.83\n    Oneida. Edward Loomis                                      5.00\n    Penn Yan. W. M. Taylor                                     2.50\n    Spenceport. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                           17.50\n    Syracuse. Mrs. Clara C. Clarke, 7.30; Miss F.\n      Amelia Clarke, 1                                         8.30\n    Troy. John H. Kellogg, Pkg. Books, _for\n      Library, Macon, Ga._\n    Westmoreland. First Cong. Ch.                              9.00\n    West Yaphank. Mrs. Hannah M. Overton                       5.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $1,289.14\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Waverly. Estate of Phebe Hepburne by Howard\n      Elmer. Ex.                                           2,500.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $3,789.14\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $396.00.\n\n    Highlands. Rev. R. R. Proudfit                            10.00\n    Jersey City. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   10.00\n    Montclair. First Cong. Ch.                               345.00\n    Orange Valley. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                            5.00\n    Paterson. Auburn St. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                10.00\n    Raritan. Miss Sarah Provost, Box of Papers,\n      etc.\n    Waverly. Mission Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           16.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $62.75.\n\n    Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch., adl.                     17.75\n    Sewickley. Lucy F. Bittinger, _for Dakota M._             10.00\n    West Alexander. Rural Mite Soc., 25.00; Thomas\n      McCleery, 10.00                                         35.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $1,855.00.\n\n    Aurora. Cong. Ch.                                         20.00\n    Bellevue. Young People\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc. of Cong.\n      Ch.                                                     10.00\n    Belpre. Cong. Ch.                                         30.63\n    Bryan. S. E. Blakeslee, _for Indian M._                    5.00\n    Castalia. Cong. Ch. 3.85 and Sab. Sch. 1.21                5.06\n    Cleveland. Jennings Ave. Cong. Ch. 96.75.\n      First Cong. Ch. 19.51                                  116.26\n    Cleveland. Daniel P. Eells, 50; Young People\u2019s\n      Miss\u2019y Soc., 25; Dea. S. H. Sheldon, 10; S.\n      C. Smith, 10; Henry M. Brooks, 3, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              98.00\n    Columbus. First Cong. Ch., to const. DEA. B.\n      D. HILLS, DEA. I. W. CHAMBERLAIN, REV. BENJ.\n      TALBOT, GEO. W. BRIGHT, DR. HENRY S.\n      BABBITT, MRS. HARRIET E. IDE, MRS. JOHN B.\n      HALL, MRS. B. F. REES and DEA. JEROME C.\n      BRIGGS, L. Ms.                                         264.00\n    Conneut. H. E. Pond                                        5.00\n    Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch.                            9.84\n    Galion. Mrs. Campbell and E. C. Lindlay, _for\n      Atlanta, Ga._                                            2.00\n    Mechanicsburg. Mrs. M. K. Howard                           1.00\n    Napoleon. Mrs. N. B. Palmer                                1.00\n    North Bloomfield. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           35.00\n    Oberlin. J. W. Merrill                                    90.00\n    Oberlin. Ladies\u2019 Soc. of Second Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._                     75.00\n    Paddy\u2019s Run. Cong. Ch.                                    22.30\n    Sandusky. First Cong. Ch., to const. ADOLPH M.\n      LEVE L. M.                                              40.91\n    Springfield. Miss Anna Rice, _for Little Rock,\n      Ark._                                                    2.00\n    Tallmadge. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                 7.00\n    Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed                                10.00\n    Unionville. Mrs. A. S. Hardy, S. S. Papers,\n      _for Little Rock, Ark._\n    West Williamsfield. Cong. Ch.                              4.00\n    Youngstown. \u201cMrs. J. D. W.\u201d _for Lady\n      Missionary, Savannah, Ga._                               1.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                            $855.00\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Bellevue. Estate of Mrs. Elvira Boise, by\n      Spencer W. Boise, Ex.                                1,000.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $1,855.00\n\n\n  INDIANA, $5.00.\n\n    New Corydon. Geo. Stolz                                    5.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $1,475.46.\n\n    Batavia. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           18.24\n    Bunker Hill. Cong. Ch.                                    26.10\n    Chesterfield. Miss L. M. Lawson, basted\n      patchwork, _for Little Rock, Ark._\n    Chicago. Plymouth Cong. Ch., 160.72; New\n      England Cong. Ch., 33.33; Leavitt St. Cong\n      Ch., 30.24; Theo. Sem. Missionary Soc, 7.10            231.39\n    Chicago. Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc. of Plymouth Ch.,\n      _for Lady Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                     50.00\n    Chicago. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   50.00\n    Chicago. W. W. Catlin. _for Atlanta, Ga._                  4.35\n    Danville. Friends, 10 _for Student Aid_;\n      Ladies Soc. of Presb. Ch., Bbl. of C. _for\n      Talladega C._, 1.30 _for Freight_                       11.30\n    Galesburg. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Avery Inst.,\n      Charleston S.C._                                        25.00\n    Griggsville. Mrs. James McWilliams                         2.00\n    Fairview. Cong. Ch.                                        1.56\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. LILLIAN\n      STERNBERG L. M.                                         89.42\n    Ivanhoe. \u201cThe Gleaners.\u201d                                  25.00\n    Kewanee. Missy. Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                               20.00\n    Oak Park. S. W. Packard, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                50.00\n    Oak Park. O. Packard\u2019s Boys\u2019 Class, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              17.00\n    Oswego. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                    7.47\n    Providence. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           14.65\n    Rockton. Cong. Ch.                                        16.72\n    Victoria. Cong. Ch.                                        2.37\n    Wilmette. Cong. Ch.                                       54.50\n    Woodstock. Cong. Ch.                                       7.39\n    Wyanet. J. R. Phelps                                       1.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend of A. M. A.\u201d                               500.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Talladega C._                       250.00\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $530.09.\n\n    Alamo. Julius Hackley                                     10.00\n    Allegan. Cong. Ch.                                        26.10\n    Alpena. Miss Farwell, Pkg. of C., _for Atlanta\n      U._\n    Ann Arbor. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Matron\u2019s room,\n      Straight U._                                            11.00\n    Benzonia. \u201cFriends,\u201d 4.13; S. F. Judson, 4.50              8.63\n    Bridgman. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n      U._                                                      5.00\n    Calumet. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid.\n      Talladega C._                                           37.16\n    Charlotte. First Cong. Ch.                                20.00\n    Detroit. Hon. John S. Newbury, 100; Jas. A.\n      McMillan, 100, _for Pastor\u2019s Residence,\n      Talladega C._                                          200.00\n    Fremont. Cong. Ch.                                         4.25\n    Grand Rapids. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rev. J. H.\n      H. Sengstacke_                                          20.00\n    Hancock. \u2014\u2014, _for Talladega C._                           20.00\n    Manistee. Cong. Ch.                                       34.79\n    Marble. Mrs. Josephine Barnes                              2.00\n    Northport. First Cong. Ch.                                 7.41\n    Old Mission. Cong. Ch.                                     6.22\n    Olivet. Cong. Ch.                                          5.58\n    Pinckney. First Cong. Ch.                                  7.00\n    Traverse City. Samuel Anderson                             5.00\n    Union City. Dea. Israel W. Clark, _for\n      Teacher\u2019s Residence, Talladega C._                     100.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $419.87.\n\n    Algona. Ladies, _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                            4.00\n    Atlantic. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Needmore\n      Chapel, Talladega C._                                   13.35\n    Bowen\u2019s Prairie. Cong. Ch.                                 3.15\n    Cedar Falls. \u201cBusy Bees\u201d Cong. Ch., _for\n      Needmore Chapel, Talladega C._                          12.00\n    Charles City. Ladies of Cong. Ch. _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           10.00\n    Danville. Mrs. Harriet Huntington                          6.00\n    Davenport. Ladies of Edwards Cong. Ch., _for\n      Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._                      13.45\n    Des Moines. Young People of Cong. Ch., by\n      Jennie Otis, 57.25; By Mrs. S. G. Otis,\n      7.25; Plymouth Cong. Ch., 12; S. J. Otis, 5;\n      \u201cFriends,\u201d 5 Bbls. C., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           81.50\n    Dubuque. Young People\u2019s Benev. Soc., 25; Young\n      Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., 25, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           50.00\n    Fontanelle. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           10.00\n    Grinnell. Ladies, _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                           60.35\n    Grinnell. Mrs. J. B. Grinnell, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      10.00\n    Keokuk. Cong. Ch.                                         48.35\n    Lansing. Ladies _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                            3.50\n    McGregor. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc.                              9.58\n    McGregor. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            8.90\n    Miles. Rev. Oliver Emerson                                 2.00\n    Muscatine. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid.\n      Talladega C._                                           10.00\n    Osage. Cong. Ch.                                          10.44\n    Riceville. Ladles, _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                            3.00\n    Stuart. Mrs. Alice S. F. Kinsey, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      10.75\n    Tabor. W. H. M. Soc., _for Lady Missionary,\n      New Orleans, La._                                       15.00\n    Tabor. Rev. J. Todd                                        0.50\n    Waterloo. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           10.00\n    Watertown. Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. _for Talladega\n      C._, 2.05 _for freight_                                  2.05\n    West Liberty. Mrs. L. K. Sisson, Box Books,\n      _for Library, Macon, Ga._\n    Winterset. Mrs. S. J. Dinsmore                            12.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $184.46.\n\n    Columbus. Calvin Baker                                     5.00\n    Elkhorn. Mrs. Harrison, _for Tillotson C. & N.\n      Inst._                                                   1.00\n    Emerald Grove. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       9.53\n    Fort Atkinson. Mrs. C. B. Snell                           10.00\n    Genesee. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          7.08\n    Kaukauna. Cong. Ch.                                        7.00\n    Kenosha. Thos. Gillespie, M.D.                             5.00\n    Madison. First Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. E. H.\n      DUDLEY, MRS. FANNY BOWMAN and MRS. L.\n      GOODNOW, L. Ms.                                        100.00\n    Milwaukee. Grand Ave. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   15.00\n    Milwaukee. Mrs. J. M. Sewell and Friends, Box\n      Books, etc., _for Macon, Ga._\n    Ripon. Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls C., _for Macon, Ga._\n    Rosendale. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                15.75\n    Viroqua. Cong. Ch.                                         9.10\n    Watertown. Rev. G. S. Hubbs, Temperance Chart,\n      _for Macon, Ga._\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $267.15.\n\n    Detroit. Cong. Ch.                                         2.00\n    Freeborn. Cong. Ch.                                        2.00\n    Glyndon. Mrs. S. N. Millard, _for Atlanta, Ga._            0.25\n    Marshall. Cong. Ch.                                       12.15\n    Medford. First Cong. Ch.                                   3.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., 25.81; Second Cong.\n      Ch., 1.44                                               27.25\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Straight U._                               60.00\n    Minneapolis. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Rushford. Cong Ch.                                         4.00\n    Saint Paul. Miss Anna Baker, _for Atlanta, Ga._            2.00\n    Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                         3.50\n    Tivoli. L. Humiston                                        1.00\n    Winona. First Cong. Ch., to const. JAS. M.\n      HOLZINGER, L. CORA, DOUD and LOUISA M.\n      BASSEY, L. Ms.                                          75.00\n    \u2014\u2014. *M.,* _for Talladega C._                              25.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $25.00.\n\n    Cameron. \u201cFriends.\u201d                                        2.00\n    Holden. Mrs. S. E. Howe, _for Indian M._                   2.00\n    Index. W. B. Wills, 10; P. M. Wills, 5; F. P.\n      Moreland, 1                                             16.00\n    New Cambria. Cong. Ch.                                     2.00\n    Sharon. Cong. Ch.                                          3.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $12.00.\n\n    Topeka. Oliver H. Hay, _for Ground, Straight U._          12.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $219.90.\n\n    Bradshaw. Cong. Ch.                                        2.00\n    Buda Flat. German Cong. Ch.                                2.40\n    Clarks. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n    Lincoln. \u201cA Friend of the Colored Race,\u201d _for\n      Students preparing for the Ministry_                   200.00\n    Lincoln. \u201cK. and C.\u201d                                       6.00\n    Wayland. Miss S. P. Locke                                  4.50\n\n\n  UTAH, $5.00.\n\n    White Rocks. Miss Eliza C. Ayer                            5.00\n\n\n  MONTANA, $3.00.\n\n    \u2014\u2014 \u201cA Friend\u201d by L. N. B.                                  3.00\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $148.00.\n\n    Washington. First Cong. Ch.                              148.00\n\n\n  KENTUCKY, $84.00.\n\n    Lexington. Tuition                                        55.50\n    Williamsburg. Tuition                                     28.50\n\n\n  TENNESSEE. $381.15.\n\n    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition                          221.90\n    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition                              159.25\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $207.05.\n\n    Wilmington. Williston Sch., Tuition                      202.00\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                      5.05\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $315.35.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition, $305.35\n      Plymouth Ch., 10                                       315.35\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $582.26.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $212.71; Rent.\n      $3; First Cong. Ch., $30                               245.71\n    Atlanta. H. Franklin, Coal oil stove, _for\n      Atlanta U._\n    Hawkinsville. Rev. E. P. Johnson, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        10.00\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch. Tuition, 162.30; Cong.\n      Ch., 10                                                172.30\n    McIntosh. Tuition                                         18.65\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 120.25 Rent, 11          131.25\n    Woodville. Cong. Ch, 3.35; Rev. J. H. H.\n      Sengstacke, 1                                            4.35\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $354.00.\n\n    Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition                             49.90\n    Marion. Rev. A. W. Curtis, 5.; Cong. Ch. 5;\n      Tuition, 8.25                                           18.25\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, 161.40; Cong.\n      Ch., 1                                                 162.40\n    Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     10.00\n    Selma. Cong. Ch.                                           6.95\n    Montgomery. Judge John Bruce, _for Student Aid\n      Talladega C._                                           10.00\n    Selma. Miss Lunt, _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                      1.50\n    Talladega. Cong. Ch.                                      60.00\n    Talladega. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16., Woman\u2019s\n      Miss\u2019y. Soc., 15.; Capt. R. H. Isbell, 2.50;\n      Wm. Kidd, 1.50, _for Needmore Chapel,\n      Talladega C._                                           35.00\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $145.23.\n\n    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, 127.98; Rent,\n      10.25; Cong. Ch. 5                                     143.23\n    Tougaloo. Miss\u2019y Soc. of Tougaloo U., _for\n      Chinese M._                                              2.00\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $194.00.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                        169.00\n    New Orleans. Prof. W. J. McMurtry, _for\n      Student Aid, Straight U._                               25.00\n\n\n  TEXAS, $333.32.\n\n    Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst., Tuition                 331.30\n    Paris. Cong. Ch.                                           2.02\n\n\n  INCOMES, $77.53.\n\n    John Brown Steamer Fund                                   32.65\n    Tuthill King Fund, _for Berea C._                         19.33\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                                16.92\n    C. F. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._                         4.48\n    Luke Memorial Scholarship Fund                             1.93\n    Theological Fund, _for Fisk U._                            1.24\n    Yale Library Fund, _for Talladega C._                      0.98\n                                                         ----------\n      Total for April                                    $28,775.27\n      Total from Oct. 1 to April 30                     $151,396.91\n                                                        ===========\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n    FOR ARTHINGTON MISSION.\n\n    Income Fund                                              102.95\n    Previously acknowledged                                  347.58\n                                                         ----------\n      Total                                                 $450.53\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n    FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n    Subscriptions                                             53.81\n    Previously acknowledged                                  537.74\n                                                         ----------\n      Total                                                 $591.55\n                                                         ==========\n\n                                      H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,\n                                                 56 Reade St., N.Y.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                PLEASE COPY THIS FORM AND MAIL IT.\n\n                                             _June 1st, 1883._\n\n  _H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., Treasurer,_\n\n                   _56 Reade Street, New York:_\n\n_Enclosed, please find Fifty Cents, subscription for_ THE AMERICAN\nMISSIONARY _for the year 1883_.\n\n    _Send the same to the following address:_\n\n        _Sign with your NAME_,\n\n            _Your TOWN_,\n\n                _Your COUNTY_,\n\n                    _And STATE [in full]_.\n\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\n\nWANTS.\n\n1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the\ngrowing work. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and\n_larger_ contributions from the churches, the feeble as well as the\nstrong.\n\n2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to\naccommodate the increasing number of students; MEETING HOUSES for\nthe new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and\npious, for these churches.\n\n3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and\nmissionaries to Africa\u2014a pressing want.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nPROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n\nART. I. This society shall be called the American Missionary\nAssociation.\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct\nChristian missionary and educational operations and diffuse a\nknowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries\nwhich are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent\nfields of effort.\n\nART. III. Members may be constituted for life by the payment of\nthirty dollars into the treasury of the Association, with the\nwritten declaration at the time or times of payment that the sum is\nto be applied to constitute a designated person a life member; and\nsuch membership shall begin sixty days after the payment shall have\nbeen completed.\n\nEvery church which has within a year contributed to the funds of\nthe Association and every State Conference or Association of such\nchurches may appoint two delegates to the Annual Meeting of the\nAssociation; such delegates, duly attested by credentials, shall be\nmembers of the Association for the year for which they were thus\nappointed.\n\nART. IV. The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held in\nthe month of October or November, at such time and place as may be\ndesignated by the Executive Committee, by notice printed in the\nofficial publication of the Association for the preceding month.\n\nART. V. The officers of the Association shall be a President,\nfive Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary or Secretaries,\na Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive\nCommittee of fifteen members, all of whom shall be elected by\nballot.\n\nAt the first Annual Meeting after the adoption of this\nConstitution, five members of the Executive Committee shall be\nelected for the term of one year, five for two years and five for\nthree years, and at each subsequent Annual Meeting, five members\nshall be elected for the full term of three years, and such others\nas shall be required to fill vacancies.\n\nART. VI. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting\nand disbursing of funds, the appointing, counseling, sustaining\nand dismissing of missionaries and agents, and the selection of\nmissionary fields. They shall have authority to fill all vacancies\nin office occurring between the Annual Meetings; to apply to any\nLegislature for acts of incorporation, or conferring corporate\npower; to make provision when necessary for disabled missionaries\nand for the widows and children of deceased missionaries, and in\ngeneral to transact all such business as usually appertains to the\nExecutive Committees of missionary and other benevolent societies.\nThe acts of the Committee shall be subject to the revision of the\nAnnual Meeting.\n\nFive members of the Committee constitute a quorum for transacting\nbusiness.\n\nART. VII. No person shall be made an officer of this Association\nwho is not a member of some evangelical church.\n\nART. VIII. Missionary bodies and churches or individuals may\nappoint and sustain missionaries of their own, through the agency\nof the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART. IX. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution except by\nthe vote of two-thirds of the members present at an Annual Meeting,\nthe amendment having been approved by the vote of a majority at the\nprevious Annual Meeting.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                  [Illustration: COUNT RUMFORD.]\n\n                   HORSFORD\u2019S =ACID PHOSPHATE=.\n\n                             (LIQUID.)\n\n                FOR DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL\n                     EXHAUSTION, NERVOUSNESS,\n                   DIMINISHED VITALITY, URINARY\n                        DIFFICULTIES, ETC.\n\n              PREPARED ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTION OF\n\n             Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass.\n\nThere seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical\nauthority of the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has\never been offered to the public which seems to so happily meet the\ngeneral want as this.\n\nIt is not nauseous, but agreeable to the taste.\n\nNo danger can attend its use.\n\nIts action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to\ntake.\n\nIt makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only.\n\nPrices reasonable. Pamphlet giving further particulars mailed free\non application.\n\n                        MANUFACTURED BY THE\n\n                      RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS,\n\n                         Providence, R.I.,\n\n                  AND FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                           J. & R. LAMB,\n\n                        59 Carmine Street.\n\n                  Sixth Ave. cars pass the door.\n\n                          [Illustration]\n\n                              BANNERS\n\n                             IN SILK,\n\n                           NEW DESIGNS.\n\n                         CHURCH FURNITURE.\n\n                    SEND FOR HAND BOOK BY MAIL.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                   PEARLS      IN THE      MOUTH\n\n                          [Illustration]\n\n                       Beauty and Fragrance\n\n                 Are communicated to the mouth by\n\n                             SOZODONT\n\nwhich renders the _teeth pearly white_, the gums rosy, and the\n_breath sweet_. By those who have used it, it is regarded as an\nindispensable adjunct of the toilet. It thoroughly _removes tartar_\nfrom the teeth, without injuring the enamel.\n\n                        SOLD BY DRUGGISTS\n\n                            EVERYWHERE.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                          VIOLIN OUTFITS\n\n                          [Illustration]\n\n                         Biggest Bargains\n                            ever known.\n\n                               From\n                               $1.75\n                                to\n                               $25.\n\n                        \u261e SPECIAL BARGAIN.\n\n                         PAGANINI VIOLIN,\n\nCelebrated for fine tone, finish. Italian strings, fine pegs,\ninlaid pearl tail-piece, fine long bow, with ivory and silvered\nfrog, in violin box. Book of Instruction, with 558 pieces music, by\nexpress for $3.50. Satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded. A\nbetter outfit cannot be purchased elsewhere for $10. Send stamp for\nlarge Catalogue. G. H. W. BATES & CO., Importers and Manufacturers,\n106 Sudbury St., Boston, Mass.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                    7 PER CENT. to 8 PER CENT.\n\n                     Interest Net to Investors\n\n                    In First Mortgage Bonds ON\n\n                         IMPROVED FARMS in\n\n                         Iowa, Minnesota\n\n                            and Dakota,\n\n                            SECURED BY\n\n                        ORMSBY BROS. & CO.,\n\n                  BANKERS, LOAN AND LAND BROKERS,\n\n                         EMMETSBURG, IOWA.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n          _11 Years\u2019 Experience. Loans Absolutely Safe._\n\n        References and Circulars forwarded on Application.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n            _BRANCH BANKS AT MITCHELL AND HURON, D.T._\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             PAYSON\u2019S\n\n                          INDELIBLE INK,\n\n                  FOR MARKING ANY FABRIC WITH A\n                      COMMON PEN, WITHOUT A\n                           PREPARATION.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n          It still stands unrivaled after 50 years\u2019 test.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                      THE SIMPLEST AND BEST.\n\nSales now greater than ever before.\n\nThis Ink received the Diploma and Medal at Centennial over all\nrivals.\n\nReport of Judges: \u201cFor simplicity of application and indelibility.\u201d\n\n                            INQUIRE FOR\n\n                      PAYSON\u2019S COMBINATION!!!\n\nSold by all Druggists, Stationers and News Agents, and by many\nFancy Goods and Furnishing Houses.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  SMITH\n  AMERICAN\n  ORGANS]\n\n  ARE THE BEST.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                 _Catalogues Free on Application._\n\nAddress the Company either at\n\n  BOSTON, MASS., 531 Tremont Street;\n  LONDON, ENG., 57 Holborn Viaduct;\n  KANSAS CITY, Mo., 817 Main Street;\n  ATLANTA, GA., 27 Whitehall Street;\n  Or, DEFIANCE, O.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                         OVER 95,000 SOLD.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration: THE RISING SUN STOVE POLISH]\n\n  For beauty of gloss, for saving of toil,\n  For freeness from dust and slowness to soil,\n  And also for cheapness \u2019tis yet unsurpassed,\n  And thousands of merchants are selling it fast.\n\n  Of all imitations \u2019tis well to beware;\n  The half risen sun every package should bear;\n  For this is the \u201ctrade mark\u201d the MORSE BROS. use,\n  And none are permitted the mark to abuse.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             MANHATTAN\n\n                    LIFE INS. CO. OF NEW YORK,\n\n                      _156 and 158 Broadway_.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                        THIRTY-THIRD YEAR.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n  DESCRIPTION\u2014One of the oldest, strongest, best.\n\n  POLICIES\u2014Incontestable, non-forfeitable, definite cash\n  surrender values.\n\n  RATES\u2014Safe, low, and participating or not, as desired.\n\n  RISKS carefully selected.\n\n  PROMPT, liberal dealing.\n\nGENERAL AGENTS AND CANVASSERS WANTED in desirable territory, to\nwhom permanent employment and liberal compensation will be given.\n\nAddress\n\n  H. STOKES, President.\n  H. Y. WEMPLE, Sec\u2019y.\n  S. N. STEBBINS, Act\u2019y.\n  J. L. HALSEY, 1st V.-P.\n  H. B. STOKES, 2d V.-P.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     A TYPE WRITER FOR $1.00.\n\n                          [Illustration]\n\n            FOR FAMILIES, STOREKEEPERS, BOYS AND GIRLS.\n\nThis is one of the most ingenious inventions of modern times,\ninvented and patented by =MR. INGERSOLL=. For =writing letters=,\n=addressing envelopes=, =lettering show cards=, =tickets=,\n=printing labels= and =circulars=, it has no equal. It will last\na lifetime and is the most useful and fascinating machine ever\ninvented. Children learn their letters, the arrangement of letters\ninto words, and words into sentences by its use. As you will see by\nthe illustration this is no =cheap fraud= with metal type, but is a\nwell made machine with patent rubber-faced type. It is impossible\nto lose the letters or soil your fingers. The ink fountains will\nlast for months, and can be replenished in one moment with ink\nfurnished for the purpose. Great taste may be displayed in using\nthe two colors of ink, as all letters can be inked from either pad.\nA letter can be written as perfectly as with a =$50 Type Writer=,\nand with little practise =very rapidly=. =Only $1.00= buys this\nMachine all complete. Agents wanted to sell it in all parts of the\nU.S. Send for sample and terms. Address =E. G. RIDEOUT & CO.=, 10\nBarclay St., New York.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n=GOLD=EN opportunity for readers of this paper, BOYS AND GIRLS, to\nobtain _Pianos_, _Gold Watches_, _Organs_, _etc._, by getting up\nclubs for\n\n                        THE GOLDEN ARGOSY,\n\nthe great youth\u2019s paper of America. _All the best authors write\nfor it._ PUBLISHED WEEKLY, =only $1.75 a year=. Trial month\u2019s\nsubscription, 15 cents; _three months, 45 cents_. Specimen copies\nand terms FREE. For particulars address\n\n                       THE GOLDEN ARGOSY, 14 Barclay Street, N.Y.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  A HANDSOME PRESENT _FOR_\n  =$10=.\n  AN AMATEUR PHOTO. OUTFIT.\n  SEND FOR CIRCULAR TO\n  SCOVILL MFG. Co.\n  W. IRVING ADAMS      419 Broome St.\n  AGENT.                N.Y.\n\n  EDDIE\n  &\n  CLARA\n  AMATEUR\n  PHOTOGRAPHERS\n\nGRANDFATHER SITTING FOR HIS PICTURE.]\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  MASON & HAMLIN\n  BEST\n  ORGANS\n\n  PARIS      VIENNA\n  1867        1873\n\n  MATCHLESS UNRIVALED. FRANZ LISZT\n\n  A WONDER TO ALL WHO SEE AND TEST IT.\n\n  PHILAD      MILAN      SANTo\n  1876        1881       1875\n\n  THE\n  FINER\n  DRAWING ROOM\n  STYLES\n  ARE UNRIVALED.\n  ONE TO THREE\n  MANUALS;\n  TEN TO THIRTY-TWO\n  STOPS.\n  $200. to $600.\n  AND UP.\n\n  POPULAR\n  STYLES\n  NO 109; SUFFICIENT\n  COMPASS FOR FULL PARTS\n  OF POPULAR MUSIC\n  $22.\n  OTHER STYLES:\n  $30. $57. $72.\n  $78. $93. $108.\n  $114. $117. $120 UP\n  FOR CASH.\n  EASY PAYMENTS\n  OR RENTED.\n\n  MUSICIANS GENERALLY REGARD THEM AS\n  UNEQUALED. THEO. THOMAS\n\n  CATALOGUES      FREE\n\n  PARIS      PARIS\n  1878       1878\n\n  HIGHEST HONORS\n  AT ALL THE GREAT WORLD\u2019S EXPOSITIONS\n  FOR\n  SIXTEEN\n  YEARS\n\n  THE TONES COMBINE SO WELL\n  WITH THE VOICE. CH. GOUNOUD.\n\n  NO INSTRUMENT SO ENRAPTURES\n  THE PLAYER. XAVER SCHARWENKA.\n\n  NORWAY      ONE          SWEDEN\n  1878        HUNDRED       1878\n              STYLES\n\n  MASON & HAMLIN \u00b7 ORGAN & PIANO Co\n  BOSTON 154 TREMONT ST. NEW YORK, 46 E 14TH ST. CHICAGO, 149 WABASH AVE.]\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                         BRADBURY PIANOS.\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  BISHOP PECK.          BISHOP HURST.\n  REV. J. E. COOKMAN.   DR. JOSEPH CUMMINGS.   CHAPLAIN M. CABE.\n  REV. L. HITCHCOCK.    BISHOP SIMPSON.        REV. J. M. WALDEN.\n  BISHOP MERRILL.       BISHOP AMES.\n\n\u201c_The Sweetest and Best Toned Piano Made is the Bradbury._\u201d\n\nDr. TALMAGE says:\n\n\u201c_Friend Smith is a Methodist, but his pianos are all orthodox; you\nought to hear mine talk and sing. It is adapted to morning prayers\nor the gayest parties. Should have no faith in sense of a person\nwho does not like the Bradbury pianos._\u201d\n\nBISHOP SIMPSON says:\n\n\u201c_After a trial in my family for years, for beauty of finish and\nworkmanship, and splendid quality of tone, your Bradbury piano\ncannot be equaled. We are delighted with it._\u201d\n\n=PRESIDENT ARTHUR= _has just ordered two new scale full grand\nBradbury upright pianos, one for the Red Room in Executive Mansion,\nwhere he receives and entertains his friends, and the other for his\nhouse at Soldiers\u2019 Home, Washington, D.C._\n\n  \u201c=Friend Smith=: _Why will you persist in making the\n  best piano in the market? Send me one to my home in\n  Plainfield. Yours truly_,      =J. H. VINCENT=.\u201d\n\n=Lead the World!= OVER 17,000 IN USE. RECEIVED SEVEN PREMIUMS AND\nMEDALS IN FOUR WEEKS.\n\nThe best manufactured; warranted for six years. Pianos to let, rent\napplied if purchased. Monthly installments received for the same.\nOld pianos taken in exchange; cash paid for the same.\n\nThe peculiar charm of this piano is its adaptation to the human\nvoice as an accompaniment, owing to its sympathetic, mellow, yet\nrich and powerful singing tones.\n\nDR. C. H. FOWLER, Missionary Secretary, says:\n\n\u201c_I believe you make the best piano in the United States, and\nhope you will always win. We are all delighted with ours, and can\ncheerfully recommend them._\u201d\n\n_Please send for Price List._\n\n  9 Charles St.,\n  Baltimore, Md.\n\n  1103 Penn. Ave.,\n  Washington,\n  D.C.\n\n  Broadway,\n  Saratoga\n  Springs,\n  N.Y.\n\n  43 Montgomery\n  St.,\n  Jersey\n  City, N.J.\n\n  FREEBORN G. SMITH, 95 Fifth Ave., N.Y.\n  FACTORY, Raymond St., Brooklyn.]\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes\n\n\nObvious printer\u2019s punctuation errors and omissions silently\ncorrected. Period spellings and authors\u2019 grammar have been\nretained. Inconsistent hyphenation retained due to the multiplicity\nof authors. The following printer\u2019s errors were corrected.\n\nImages have been moved outside of paragraphs, causing page numbers\nfor cuts to be slightly off.\n\nRestored missing \u201co\u201d in \u201cto\u201d on page 176 (so as to).\n\nRestored missing \u201cf\u201d in \u201cof\u201d on page 181 (any other part of).\n\nCorrected \u201cgrmer\u201d to \u201cfirmer\u201d on page 181 (firmer in faith).\n\nRestored missing \u201c0\u201d in the Memphis entry on page 187.\n\nRestored missing \u201c5\u201d in the second Wilmington entry on page 187.\n\nChanged \u201cFragance\u201d to \u201cFragrance\u201d on page 190 (Beauty and\nFragrance).","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 37, No. 6, June 1883","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":18157}